Deaths in April 1998

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 1998.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

April 1998

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Theodore Bloomfield, 74, American conductor, heart attack.
Gene Evans, 75, American actor, heart failure.The Associated Press (1998). [https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/04/arts/gene-evans-actor-75.html "Gene Evans, Actor, 75"], obituary. The New York Times, April 4, 1998. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
Anne Gullestad, 72, Norwegian actress and theatre director.
Janusz Nasfeter, 77, Polish film director, screenwriter and writer.
Lucille Norman, 76, American actress, mezzo-soprano and radio personality.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Lucille Norman - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6sg0t9r |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Robert Ogle, 69, Canadian Roman Catholic priest and politician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Robert Ogle - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6718547 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Mary Wynne Warner, 65, Welsh mathematician.{{cite web |title=WARNER, MARY WYNNE (1932 - 1998), mathematician |url=https://biography.wales/article/s12-WARN-WYN-1932 |website=biography.wales |access-date=16 May 2022}}
Rozz Williams, 34, American singer, poet and artist, suicide by hanging.{{cite news |author1=Neil Strauss |author-link1=Neil Strauss |title=Rozz Williams, 34, Songwriter And Gothic Rock Band Leader |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/14/arts/rozz-williams-34-songwriter-and-gothic-rock-band-leader.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=1 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=14 April 1998 |page=A 17}}

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Joan Austin, 95, British tennis player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Joan Austin |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb169988983 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=French |date=}}
Dai Davies, 88, Welsh trade unionist.
Ronnie Dix, 85, English football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ronnie Dix |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/ronnie-dix/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Hans Eberle, 72, German football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Hans Eberle |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/25398 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Jock Gaynor, 68, American television actor and producer.
Eberhard Rees, 89, German-American rocketry pioneer and NASA executive.{{cite news |author1=Ford Burkhart |title=Eberhard Rees, Rocketry Pioneer, Dies at 89 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/04/us/eberhard-rees-rocketry-pioneer-dies-at-89.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 October 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=4 April 1998 |page=A 14}}
Jackie Sardou, 78, French actress.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jackie Sardou |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb119237060 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=French |date=}}

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Mary Cartwright, 97, British mathematician.{{Cite news|title=Obituary: Mary Cartwright|journal=The Times|year=1998|url=http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Obits/Cartwright.html|access-date=15 October 2019|archive-date=May 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170512113259/http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Obits/Cartwright.html|url-status=dead}}
Elmer Iseler, 70, Canadian choir conductor and choral editor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Elmer Iseler - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6s48bvq |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Givi Kartozia, 69, Georgian middleweight Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion.{{cite web |title=Olympedia - Givi K'art'ozia |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/60484 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=16 May 2022}}
Charles Lang, 96, American cinematographer (Some Like It Hot, A Farewell to Arms, Sabrina), Oscar winner (1934), pneumonia.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Charles Lang |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14031008b |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=French |date=}}
Harkisan Mehta, 69, Indian author and journalist, heart attack.
Rolf Olsen, 78, Austrian actor, screenwriter and film director, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Rolf Olsen - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/447cdb4b9c5442e983b057604b1c6e17 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=German |date=}}
Rob Pilatus, 33, German model, dancer and singer (Milli Vanilli), accidental overdose.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/07/arts/robert-pilatus-32-performer-in-disgraced-band-milli-vanilli.html|title= Robert Pilatus, 33, Performer in Disgraced Band Milli Vanilli|last=Strauss|first=Neil|date=7 April 1998|work=The New York Times|access-date=15 October 2019 |url-access=subscription }}
Herbert B. Powell, 94, United States Army general and diplomat.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |title=Gen. Herbert B. Powell, 94, Ambassador and Army Leader |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/07/us/gen-herbert-b-powell-94-ambassador-and-army-leader.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=7 April 1998 |page=A 25}}
John W. Sweeterman, 91, American newspaperman.{{cite news |author1=Eric Pace |author-link1=List of The New York Times employees |title=John Sweeterman Dies at 91; A Washington Post Publisher |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/06/us/john-sweeterman-dies-at-91-a-washington-post-publisher.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=6 April 1998 |page=A 21}}
Alvin Tyler, 72, American R&B and jazz musician.[http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/red_tyler.htm "Alvin 'Red' Tyler"], rockabilly.nl, Retrieved 15 October 2019
Wolf Vostell, 65, German painter and sculptor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Wolf Vostell - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/bc6e0671e6864d4da33e5f10e0316e87 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=German |date=}}

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Harry Wesley Bass Jr., 71, American businessman, coin collector and philanthropist.{{cite news |title=Paid Notice: Deaths BASS, HARRY WESLEY, JR. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/06/classified/paid-notice-deaths-bass-harry-wesley-jr.html |access-date=15 October 2019 |date=6 April 1998}}
George Berry, 84, Australian politician.[http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/library/MPHistoricalData.nsf/(Lookup)/780830A59122C3B3482577E50028A520?OpenDocument George William Berry] – Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
Kate Bosse-Griffiths, 87, German-British egyptologist.
Marshall Fredericks, 90, American sculptor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Marshall Fredericks - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6b85x0r |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Kay Hughes, 84, American actress.
Pierre Lantier, 87, French composer and pianist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Pierre Lantier |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb147961982 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=French |date=}}
Predrag Milinković, 64, Serbian actor.{{cite web |title=Predrag Milinkovič |url=https://www.csfd.cz/tvurce/393381-predrag-milinkovic/biografie/ |website=csfd.cz |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=cs}}
Ian Percival, 76, British politician.
Ganesh Prasad Rijal, 77, Nepali politician, heart attack.

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Charles Frank, 87, British theoretical physicist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Sir Charles Frank |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Frank |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Mick Miller, 61, Australian Aboriginal activist and politician, heart seizure.[http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/ILB/1998/50.html Natasha Case et al (1998) "Recent Happenings" Aboriginal Law Bulletin 50], Retrieved 15 October 2019
Elizabeth Mitchell, 79, New Zealand fencer.
Cozy Powell, 50, English rock drummer (Rainbow, Whitesnake, Emerson, Lake & Powell, Black Sabbath), traffic collision.{{cite news|title=Girlfriend hears rock star die|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/158199.stm|date=25 August 1998|website=bbc.co.uk|access-date=15 October 2019}}

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Edgar Ablowich, 84, American athlete and Olympian.{{cite web |title=Olympedia - Ed Ablowich |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78024 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=16 May 2022}}
Reuben Berry, 63, American gridiron football coach.
Rudy Dhaenens, 36, Belgian road bicycle racer, traffic collision.{{cite web|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/09/sports/09iht-bike.t_1.html |title= Dhaenens:A Modest, Unselfish Cyclist|author= Samuel Abt|date= 9 April 1998|access-date=18 October 2019 |url-access=subscription |work=The New York Times}}
Helen Craig McCullough, 80, American academic, translator and japanologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Helen Craig McCullough - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6t73grg |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Heinz Neuhaus, 71, German boxer and heavyweight champion.
Dewey Soriano, 78, American baseball executive.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Dewey Soriano Stats - Baseball-Reference.com |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Dewey+Soriano |website=baseball-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Wendy O. Williams, 48, American singer, songwriter, and actress, suicide by gunshot.{{cite news |author1=Neil Strauss |author-link1=Neil Strauss |title=Wendy O. Williams, 48, Star Of Explosive Punk Rock Act |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/09/arts/wendy-o-williams-48-star-of-explosive-punk-rock-act.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 October 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=9 April 1998 |page=B 10}}
John Wyatt, 63, American baseball player, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=John Wyatt Stats - Baseball-Reference.com |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wyattjo02.shtml |website=baseball-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Tammy Wynette, 55, American country music singer-songwriter, heart arrhythmia, heart attack.{{cite news |author1=Jon Pareles |author-link1=Jon Pareles |title=Tammy Wynette, Country Singer Known For 'Stand by Your Man,' Is Dead at 55 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/08/arts/tammy-wynette-country-singer-known-for-stand-by-your-man-is-dead-at-55.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=16 May 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=8 April 1998 |page=B 11}}

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Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari, 79, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
Modesta Bor, 71, Venezuelan composer.
Luis Díez del Corral, 86, Spanish jurist, writer and political scientist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Luis Díez del Corral - DB~e |url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/6012/luis-diez-del-corral-y-pedruzo |website=dbe.rah.es |publisher=Real Academia de la Historia |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=Spanish |date=}}
Vitaly Galkov, 58, Soviet and Russian sprint canoer and Olympian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Vitaly Galkov |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/10959 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Sirous Ghayeghran, 36, Iranian football player and, traffic collision.
John Kasper, 69, American Ku Klux Klan member and segregationist, boating accident.
Ronald William John Keay, 77, British botanist, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ronald William John Keay |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb166455442 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=French |date=}}
Pancho Magalona, 76, Filipino actor, emphysema.
Nick Auf der Maur, 55, Canadian journalist and politician, esophageal cancer.
James McIntosh Patrick, 91, Scottish painter.{{cite news| title = James McIntosh Patrick| newspaper = The Times| location = London, England| date = 11 April 1998| page = 25}}
Paul Sarringhaus, 77, American gridiron football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Paul Sarringhaus Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Paul+Sarringhaus |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Alex Schomburg, 92, Puerto Rican comic-book artist and painter.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Alex Schomburg |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb17716371b |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=French |date=}}
Carlos Vega, 41, Cuban-American session drummer, suicide by gunshot.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Carlos Vega |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14023721r |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=French |date=}}
S. V. Venkatraman, 86, Indian actor, singer and music director.

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Anatole Dauman, 73, French film producer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Anatole Dauman - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/7cd4c159f53f43b493e7009d7481c957 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=German |date=}}
Charlie Drinkwater, 83, English football player and manager.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Charlie Drinkwater |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/charlie-drinkwater/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Lee Elias, 77, British-American comics artist.
Florence Virginia Foose Wilson Mayberry, 91, American writer and Baháʼí Faith convert.[http://bahai-library.com/uhj_messages_1986_2001#Passing_of_Florence_Mayberry,_Former_Counselor_and_Member_of_the_International_Teaching_Center Passing of Florence Mayberry, Former Counselor and Member of the International Teaching Center], Messages from the Universal House of Justice: 1986-2001, by Universal House of Justice, Wilmette, IL: Baháʼí Publishing Trust, 2009, Retrieved 18 October 2019
René Pellos, 98, French artist, cartoonist and writer.
Kurt Weinreich, 89, German football manager.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Kurt Weinreich |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/kurt-weinreich/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}

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Tom Cora, 44, American cellist and composer, malignant melanoma.{{cite news |author1= |title=Tom Cora, 44, New-Music Cellist With Flair for the Avant-Garde |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/14/arts/tom-cora-44-new-music-cellist-with-flair-for-the-avant-garde.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=16 May 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=14 April 1998 |page=A 17}}
Mihai Grecu, 81, Moldovan painter.
Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte, 89, Indian writer.
Lü Shuxiang, 93, Chinese linguist, lexicographer and educator.
Ronald Vernon Southcott, 79, Australian medical zoologist.
Aleksey Spiridonov, 46, Soviet athlete and Olympic medalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Aleksey Spiridonov |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/77667 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
John Tate, 43, American heavyweight boxer, traffic collision.{{cite news|author=Frank Litsky |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/11/sports/john-tate-43-troubled-heavyweight-champ.html |title=John Tate, 43, Troubled Heavyweight Champ |date=1998-04-11 | access-date=18 October 2019 |url-access=subscription |work=The New York Times}}
David Vigor, 58, Australian politician, heart attack.

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Archbishop Serafim of Athens, 84, Greek archbishop.
Alan Burgess, 83, English RAF pilot and author.Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 1998, Harris M. Lentz, III, McFarland & Co., 1999.
Jean Chapot, 67, French screenwriter and film director.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jean Chapot - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/6bd0cf4ec26d4a46bf6a19da2b76f392 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=German |date=}}
Campos de Carvalho, 81, Brazilian writer.
Dieter Erler, 58, German footballer.{{cite web | url = http://www.worldfootball.net/spieler_profil/dieter-erler/ | title = Dieter Erler | publisher = worldfootball.net | access-date = 18 October 2019}}
Basil James, 77, American jockey.
Zezé Moreira, 90, Brazilian footballer and coach.
Nguyen Co Thach, 76, Vietnamese revolutionary, diplomat, and politician.{{cite news |author1=Seth Mydans |title=Nguyen Co Thach, Hanoi Foreign Minister, 75 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/12/world/nguyen-co-thach-hanoi-foreign-minister-75.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=16 May 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=12 April 1998 |page=1 34}}

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Lillian Briggs, 65, American rock 'n roll musician, lung cancer.
Francis Durbridge, 85, English playwright and author.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-francis-durbridge-1156142.html|title=Obituary: Francis Durbridge |date=13 April 1998|work=The Independent|access-date=18 October 2019}}
Tex Geddes, 78, Scottish author and adventurer.{{cite news |last1=McLean |first1=Charles |title=Obituary: Tex Geddes |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-tex-geddes-1157542.html |access-date=18 October 2019 |date=27 May 1998}}
Rodney Harvey, 30, American actor, model and dancer, drug overdose.{{cite news |title=Rodney Harvey, 30; Model, Actor in 'My Own Private Idaho' |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-apr-22-mn-41870-story.html |access-date=18 October 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=22 April 1998}}
Kristaq Rama, 66, Albanian sculptor, art educator and politician.
Ivan Tcherepnin, 55, French-American composer.{{cite news |author1=Anthony Tommasini |author-link1=Anthony Tommasini |title=Ivan Tcherepnin, 55, Composer Who Embraced the Avant-Garde |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/16/arts/ivan-tcherepnin-55-composer-who-embraced-the-avant-garde.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=16 May 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=16 April 1998 |page=D 23}}
Rover Thomas, 72, Aboriginal Australian artist.

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Xin Fengxia, Chinese pingju opera performer, cerebral hemorrhage.
Robert Ford, 83, Canadian poet and diplomat.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Robert Ford - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6hk1pnh |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Dorothea Jameson, 77, American cognitive psychologist, lung cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Dorothea Jameson - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6pt35mk |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Frederick Lenz, 48, American businessman and spiritual teacher, suicide by drowning.
Felicitas Mendez, Puerto Rican-American civil right activist, heart failure.{{cite news |title=Felicitas Mendez; Filed Key School Desegregation Suit |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-apr-16-mn-39917-story.html |access-date=18 October 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=April 16, 1998}}
Bruno Rodzik, 62, French football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bruno Rodzik |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/bruno-rodzik/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Charles Sibley, 80, American ornithologist and molecular biologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Charles Sibley |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12391644b |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=French |date=}}
Marvin Wolfgang, 73, American sociologist and criminologist.{{cite news |author1=Michael T. Kaufman |author-link1=Michael T. Kaufman |title=Marvin E. Wolfgang, 73, Dies; Leading Figure in Criminology |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/18/us/marvin-e-wolfgang-73-dies-leading-figure-in-criminology.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 October 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=18 April 1998 |page=D 16}}

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Alec Albiston, 80, Australian rules footballer and coach.
Patrick de Gayardon, 38, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer, skydiving accident.
Nyta Dover, 70, Swiss actress.
Bahi Ladgham, 85, Tunisian politician and Prime minister.{{cite news |author1=Eric Pace |author-link1=List of The New York Times employees |title=Bahi Ladgham, 85, Ex-Premier of Tunisia |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/15/world/bahi-ladgham-85-ex-premier-of-tunisia.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=15 April 1998 |page=D 23}}
Ian MacGregor, 85, Scottish-American metallurgist and industrialist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ian MacGregor - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6k79psh |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Pat Rainey, 72, American singer and actress.Blues: A Regional Experience, By Bob L. Eagle, Eric S. LeBlanc - [https://books.google.com/books?id=6ZNfAQAAQBAJ&dq=Pat+Rainey+April+13%2C+1998&pg=PA258 Page 258 New England Glaciated Coast (Northeastern Coastal Zone)-Massachusetts]

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Jake Colhouer, 76, American gridiron football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jake Colhouer Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Jake+Colhouer |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Weldon Humble, 76, American gridiron football player.{{cite news|title=S.A. sports star Humble, 76, dies|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SAEC&p_theme=saec&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAFE8359A155BE2&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|access-date=19 October 2019|newspaper=San Antonio Express-News|date=April 17, 1998}}
Harry Lee, 90, British tennis player.
Dorothy Squires, 83, Welsh singer, lung cancer.{{Cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/obituaries/78140.stm |title=BBC, April 14, 1998, Obituaries, Dorothy Squires dies at 83 |access-date=19 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021203032743/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/obituaries/78140.stm |archive-date=3 December 2002 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}
Maurice Stans, 90, American civil servant and politician, congestive heart failure.{{cite news |author1=David Rohde |author-link1=David S. Rohde |title=Maurice Stans Dies at 90; Led Nixon Commerce Dept. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/15/us/maurice-stans-dies-at-90-led-nixon-commerce-dept.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=15 April 1998 |page=D 23}}

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William Congdon, 86, American painter.{{cite news |author1=Roberta Smith |author-link1=Roberta Smith |title=William G. Congdon, 86, Abstract Painter |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/19/nyregion/william-g-congdon-86-abstract-painter.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=19 April 1998 |page=1 44}}
Pompeo D'Ambrosio, 81, Italian-Venezuelan businessman.
Kenny Duckett, 38, American football player (New Orleans Saints, Dallas Cowboys), renal failure.{{cite web| url=https://www.apnews.com/11f6ae6d8b9a1b2a9489e7f700cadbbc | title=Obituaries in the News | work=The Associated Press | date=April 16, 1998 | access-date=19 October 2019}}
William K. Jones, 81, United States Marine Corps lieutenant general.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=William K. Jones - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w69s4bwv |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Rose Maddox, 72, American country singer-songwriter.{{cite news |author1=Ben Ratliff |author-link1=Ben Ratliff |title=Rose Maddox, 72, Country Singer of the 40's |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/18/arts/rose-maddox-72-country-singer-of-the-40-s.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 October 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=18 April 1998 |page=D 16}}
Pol Pot, 72, Cambodian politician. General secretary of the CPK{{cite news |author1=Seth Mydans |title=Pol Pot, Brutal Dictator Who Forced Cambodians to Killing Fields, Dies at 73 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/17/world/death-pol-pot-pol-pot-brutal-dictator-who-forced-cambodians-killing-fields-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=17 April 1998 |page=A 14}}

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Kazimieras Antanavičius, 60, Lithuanian economist and politician.
Djibo Bakary, 76, Nigerian nationalist and politician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Djibo Bakary |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12300408t |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=French |date=}}
Alberto Calderón, 77, Argentinian mathematician.{{cite news |author1=Holcomb B. Noble |title=Alberto Calderon, 77, Pioneer Of Mathematical Analysis |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/20/us/alberto-calderon-77-pioneer-of-mathematical-analysis.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=20 April 1998 |page=B 11}}
Fernande Caroen, 77, Belgian freestyle swimmer and Olympian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Fernande Caroen |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/45444 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Fred Davis, 84, English snooker and billiards player.{{cite news |author1=Robert McG. Thomas Jr. |author-link1=Robert McG. Thomas Jr. |title=Fred Davis, a Grand Master Of British Snooker, Dies at 84 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/23/sports/fred-davis-a-grand-master-of-british-snooker-dies-at-84.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=23 April 1998 |page=A 22}}
Marie-Louise Meilleur, 117, Canadian supercentenarian, oldest living person at the time of her death.{{cite web|last1=Thomas|first1=Robert McG. Jr.|title=Marie-Louise Meilleur, 117, And Felicie Cormier, 118|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/18/us/marie-louise-meilleur-117-and-felicie-cormier-118.html|website=The New York Times|access-date=19 October 2019 |date=18 April 1998}}
Ronald Millar, 78, English actor, scriptwriter, and dramatist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ronald Millar - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/8479 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}

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Michael Ashikodi Agbamuche, 77, Nigerian Attorney General and politician.
Alberto Bovone, 75, Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church.
Frances Clark, 93, American pianist, pedagogue, and academic.{{cite news |author1= |title=Frances Clark, Piano Instructor, 93 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/27/arts/frances-clark-piano-instructor-93.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=27 April 1998 |page=B 7}}
Geraldo de Barros, 75, Brazilian painter and photographer.{{cite news|last1=Carvalho|first1=Mario Cesar|title=Morre aos 75 o artista Geraldo de Barros|url=http://www.geraldodebarros.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/1998_04_18_FSP.pdf|work=Fõlha de São Paulo|date=18 April 1998| access-date=19 October 2019 |language=pt}}
Linda McCartney, 56, American musician, photographer and animal rights activist, breast cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/linda-mccartney-dies-at-56-181082/ |last1=Skanse |first1=Richard |title=Linda McCartney Dies at 56 |website=rollingstone.com |access-date=19 October 2019}}
William C. Scott, 76, Canadian politician.

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Stoffel Botha, 69, South African politician, heart attack.
Ferenc Deák, 76, Hungarian football player.
William Edmondson, 91, American sound engineer.
Nelson Gonçalves, 78, Brazilian singer and songwriter, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Nelson Gonçalves |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb140423821 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=French |date=}}
Johan Richter, 73, Danish architect and engineer.
Terry Sanford, 80, American university administrator and politician, esophageal cancer.{{cite news |author1=David Stout |author-link1=David Stout |title=Terry Sanford, Early Foe of Bias as Governor, Dies at 80 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/20/us/terry-sanford-early-foe-of-bias-as-governor-dies-at-80.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 October 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=20 April 1998 |page=B 11}}
Linda Schele, 55, American Mesoamerican archaeologist, pancreatic cancer.{{cite news |author1=Robert McG. Thomas Jr. |author-link1=Robert McG. Thomas Jr. |title=Linda Schele, Pioneer in the Study of Mayans, Dies at 55 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/22/us/linda-schele-pioneer-in-the-study-of-mayans-dies-at-55.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=22 April 1998 |page=A 25}}

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Gardner Dickinson, 70, American golfer.{{cite news |author1=Clifton Brown |title=Gardner Dickinson, 70, Golfer And a Founder of Senior Tour |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/22/sports/gardner-dickinson-70-golfer-and-a-founder-of-senior-tour.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=22 April 1998 |page=A 25}}
J.C. Harrington, 96, American historical archaeologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=J. C. Harrington - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6tb2kgs |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Denis Howell, Baron Howell, 74, British politician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Denis Howell - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w67988h5 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Octavio Paz, 84, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate, cancer.{{cite journal |last1=Kandell |first1=Jonathan |title=Octavio Paz, Mexico's Man of Letters, Dies at 84 |journal=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/21/books/octavio-paz-mexico-s-man-of-letters-dies-at-84.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |access-date=19 October 2019 |url-access=subscription | date=21 April 1998 }}
Vladimir Sokolov, 70, Russian scientist.
Liam Sullivan, 74, American actor and singer, heart attack.[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-apr-25-mn-42858-story.html LA Times obituary: "Liam Sullivan; Actor Best Known for Many TV Roles"], 25 April 1998. Retrieved 19 October 2019

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Severo Cominelli, 82, Italian football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Severo Cominelli |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/severo-cominelli/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Trevor Huddleston, 84, English Anglican bishop.{{cite news |author1=Eric Pace |author-link1=List of The New York Times employees |title=Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, 84, Dies; Fought Apartheid From Its Earliest Days |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/21/world/archbishop-trevor-huddleston-84-dies-fought-apartheid-from-its-earliest-days.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=16 May 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=21 April 1998 |page=D 23}}
Yoshio Inaba, 77, Japanese actor (Seven Samurai), heart attack.
Alfredo Palacio Moreno, 85, Ecuadorian sculptor and painter.
Othmar Wessely, 75, Austrian musicologist and university teacher.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Othmar Wessely |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12161636r |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=French |date=}}

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Ivan Chtcheglov, 65, French political theorist, activist and poet.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ivan Chtcheglov |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb146229542 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=French |date=}}
Peter Lind Hayes, 82, American vaudeville entertainer, songwriter and actor, vascular problems.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-peter-lind-hayes-1161769.html |title=Obituary: Peter Lind Hayes |first=Dick |last=Vosburgh |author-link=Dick Vosburgh |newspaper=The Independent |date=May 1, 1998 |access-date=19 October 2019}}
Vernon Holland, 49, American gridiron football player (Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions and New York Giants), heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Vernon Holland Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Vernon+Holland |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Egill Jacobsen, 87, Danish painter.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Egill Jacobsen |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb125003600 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=French |date=}}
Jean-François Lyotard, 73, French philosopher and sociologist, leukemia.{{cite web |last1=Wolin |first1=Richard |title=Jean-François Lyotard |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Francois-Lyotard |website=britannica.com |access-date=19 October 2019}}
Gábor Preisich, 88, Hungarian architect.
Bruno Roth, 86, German racing cyclist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bruno Roth |url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/bruno-roth |website=procyclingstats.com |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Irene Vernon, 76, American actress, congestive heart failure and coronary artery disease.
Helen Ward, 84, American jazz singer.{{cite news |author1=Jon Pareles |author-link1=Jon Pareles |title=Helen Ward, 82, Who Sang Hits With Goodman's Band in the 30's |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/30/arts/helen-ward-82-who-sang-hits-with-goodman-s-band-in-the-30-s.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=16 May 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=30 April 1998 |page=B 10}}
Frank Wootton, 86, British aviation artist.[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-frank-wootton-1166670.html Obituary: Frank Wootton]

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Edward Brongersma, 86, Dutch politician and doctor of law, voluntary euthanasia.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Edward Brongersma |url=http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/62990679 |website=biografischportaal.nl |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=Dutch |date=}}
Kitch Christie, 58, South African rugby coach, leukemia.
Alfredo da Motta, 77, Brazilian basketball player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Alfredo da Motta |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/6978 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Carlo Donida, 77, Italian composer and pianist.
Guy Henn, 88, Australian doctor and politician.
Vadym Hetman, 62, Ukrainian statesman and banker, shot.
León Najnudel, 56, Argentine basketball player and basketball coach, leukemia.
Georges Paillard, 94, French cyclist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Georges Paillard |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/15990 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Régine Pernoud, 88, French historian and archivist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Régine Pernoud |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb119191773 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=French |date=}}
Shalimar Seiuli, 21, American-Samoan transgender dancer, accidental fall.{{cite web|url=https://www.eonline.com/news/36344/the-death-of-eddie-murphy-s-infamous-passenger|title=The Death of Eddie Murphy's Infamous Passenger|date=1 May 1998|website=E! Online |access-date=19 October 2019}}
Marvin Worth, 72, American film producer, screenwriter and actor, lung cancer.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-apr-24-mn-42635-story.html|title=Marvin Worth; Producer of 'Lenny,' 'Malcolm X'|last=Oliver|first=Myrna |date=April 24, 1998|newspaper=The L.A. Times|access-date=19 October 2019}}

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Hattie Moseley Austin, 97-98, African-American entrepreneur, restaurateur{{Cite web|url=https://www.saratoga.com/aboutsaratoga/history/hattie-moseley-austin/|title=Meet Hattie Moseley Austin, The Woman Behind Hattie's Famous Fried Chicken|website=saratoga.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-10-21|archive-date=October 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171022061917/https://www.saratoga.com/aboutsaratoga/history/hattie-moseley-austin/|url-status=live}}
Konstantinos Karamanlis, 91, Greek politician, Prime Minister and President.{{cite web |title=Konstantinos Karamanlis |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Konstantinos-Karamanlis |website=britannica.com |access-date=19 October 2019}}
James Earl Ray, 70, American convict and assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., liver failure.{{cite news |author1=Lawrence Van Gelder |author-link1=Lawrence Van Gelder |title=James Earl Ray, 70, Killer of Dr. King, Dies in Nashville |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/24/us/james-earl-ray-70-killer-of-dr-king-dies-in-nashville.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=1 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=24 April 1998 |page=A 1}}
Sartaj Singh, Indian Army general.
Red Stacy, 86, American gridiron football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Red Stacy Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Red+Stacy |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Gregor von Rezzori, 83, Austrian-Romanian journalist, actor, writer and art collector.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Gregor von Rezzori - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/b4949b78b6a24fe7b5c48f7d512e868f |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=German |date=}}

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Froduald Karamira, 50, Rwandan politician, execution by firing squad.
Yakov Malkiel, 83, Russian-American etymologist and philologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Yakov Malkiel |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb120275018 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=French |date=}}
Mel Powell, 75, American composer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, liver cancer.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-apr-25-mn-42853-story.html|title=Mel Powell; Pulitzer Prize winning composer|work=Los Angeles Times|date=25 April 1998|access-date=19 October 2019}}
Christiane Rochefort, 80, French feminist writer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Frauendatenbank fembio.org |url=https://www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/frauendatenbank?fem_id=23420 |website=fembio.org |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=German |date=}}
Leslie Stevens, 74, American producer, writer and director, angioplasty.{{cite news |author1=Lawrence Van Gelder |author-link1=Lawrence Van Gelder |title=Leslie Stevens, 74, Entertainment Producer, Director and Writer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/01/arts/leslie-stevens-74-entertainment-producer-director-and-writer.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=1 May 1998 |page=D 19}}

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Jorge Dominichi, 51, Argentine football player and manager, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jorge Dominichi |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/jorge-dominichi/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Wright Morris, 88, American novelist, photographer and essayist, esophageal cancer.{{cite news |author1=Ralph Blumenthal |title=Wright Morris, a Novelist of the Nebraska Prairie, Dies at 88 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/29/arts/wright-morris-a-novelist-of-the-nebraska-prairie-dies-at-88.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=1 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=29 April 1998 |page=D 23}}
Christian Mortensen, 115, Danish-American supercentenarian, Alzheimer's disease.[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/03/us/christian-mortensen-115-among-oldest.html "Christian Mortensen, 115, Among Oldest"] The New York Times, 1998-05-03. Retrieved 19 October 2019
Don Petersen, 70, American playwright and screenwriter.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Don Petersen - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/5075 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Stanley Brehaut Ryerson, 87, Canadian historian, educator, political activist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Stanley Brehaut Ryerson - Library of Congress |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50022049 |website=id.loc.gov |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}

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Alan Boxer, 81, British Royal Air Force officer.
Theodor Broch, 94, Norwegian lawyer and politician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Theodor Broch - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6vd949t |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=4 November 2024 |language= |date=}}
Juan José Gerardi Conedera, 75, Guatemalan Roman Catholic bishop and human rights activist, bludgeoned.{{cite news|title=Review of The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi?, by Francisco Goldman|last=Stanford|first=Peter|date=16 March 2008|newspaper=The Independent|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-art-of-political-murder-who-killed-bishop-gerardi-by-francisco-goldman-795533.html|access-date=19 October 2019|location=London, UK}}
David Fasold, 59, United States Merchant Marine officer and salvage expert, cancer.
Gamini Jayasuriya, 73, Sri Lankan politician.
Sven Olov Lindholm, 95, Swedish anti-communist and Nazi politician.
Gabe Paul, 88, American Major League Baseball executive.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1291&dat=19980428&id=lRdVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IpQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3867,3819127 Former Yankees Executive Gabe Paul dies], Boca Raton News, 28 April 1998. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
Arif Pašalić, 54, Bosnian military officer, traffic collision.
Ivy May Pearce, 83, Australian aerobatic pilot.
Billy Strachan, 77, British communist, civil rights activist, and pilot.{{Cite book|last1=Meddick|title=Red Lives|last2=Payne|last3=Katz|publisher=|year=2020|isbn=|location=|pages=195}}

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John W. H. Bassett, 82, Canadian media proprietor and politician.{{cite news |author1=Kalyani Vittala |title=John Bassett, 82; Controlled Canada TV Network |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/03/business/john-bassett-82-controlled-canada-tv-network.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=3 May 1998 |page=1 53}}
Carlos Castañeda, 72, American author, hepatocellular cancer.{{cite news |last1=Applebome |first1=Peter |title=Mystery Man's Death Can't End the Mystery; Fighting Over Carlos Castaneda's Legacy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/19/arts/mystery-man-s-death-can-t-end-mystery-fighting-over-carlos-castaneda-s-legacy.html |access-date=19 October 2019 |url-access=subscription |work=The New York Times |date=August 19, 1998}}
Anne Desclos, 90, French journalist and novelist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Frauendatenbank fembio.org |url=https://www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/frauendatenbank?fem_id=1501 |website=fembio.org |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=German |date=}}
Edris Eckhardt, 93, American artist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Edris Eckhardt - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6rb7wt8 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Louis S. Peterson, 75, American playwright, actor, screenwriter and professor, lung cancer.{{cite news |author1=Mel Gussow |author-link1=Mel Gussow |title=Louis Peterson, 76, Playwright Who Opened Doors for Blacks |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/01/arts/louis-peterson-76-playwright-who-opened-doors-for-blacks.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=1 May 1998 |page=D 19}}
Ralph Raphael, 77, British organic chemist, ischaemic heart disease.{{cite news |title=Obituary: Professor Ralph Raphael |newspaper=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-professor-ralph-raphael-1160999.html |date=5 May 1998 |last=Williams |first=Dudley |access-date=19 October 2019}}
Browning Ross, 74, American long-distance runner and Olympian.{{cite news |author1=Frank Litsky |author-link1=Frank Litsky |title=Browning Ross, 74, Founder of Road Runners |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/30/sports/browning-ross-74-founder-of-road-runners.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=30 April 1998 |page=B 11}}
Geoffrey Serle, 76, Australian historian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Geoffrey Serle |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb133205288 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=French |date=}}
Nguyen Van Linh, 82, Vietnamese revolutionary and politician, liver cancer.{{cite news |author1=Philip Shenon |title=Nguyen Van Linh, Vietnam's Ex-Party Chief, Dies at 82 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/28/world/nguyen-van-linh-vietnam-s-ex-party-chief-dies-at-82.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 October 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=28 April 1998 |page=B 8}}

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Jerome Bixby, 75, American short story writer and scriptwriter.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jerome Bixby |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11892158m |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=French |date=}}
Ramakant Desai, 58, Indian cricket player, complications following cardiac arrest.
Roger Eason, 79, American gridiron football player.{{cite web |title=Roger Eason Stats – Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/E/EasoRo20.htm |website=pro-football-reference.com |access-date=16 May 2022}}
Dorothy Lovett, 83, American film actress.{{cite web |title=Dorothy Lovett |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f979089 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191019124059/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f979089 |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 19, 2019 |website=bfi.org.uk |access-date=19 October 2019}}
Reed C. Rollins, 86, American botanist and professor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Reed C. Rollins - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6cc1qht |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Mum Shirl, 76, Australian Wiradjuri humanitarian activist.

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Mary Castle, 67, American actress, lung cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Mary Castle |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb146725242 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=16 May 2022 |language=French |date=}}
Charley Cowan, 59, American gridiron football player.{{cite web |title=Charlie Cowan Stats – Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CowaCh00.htm |website=pro-football-reference.com |access-date=16 May 2022}}
Mário de Castro, 92, Brazilian footballer.
Harold Devine, 88, American boxer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Harold Devine |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/8655 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
V. Gopalakrishnan, Indian actor.
Hal Laycoe, 75, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.{{cite news |author1=Richard Goldstein |author-link1=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) |title=Hal Laycoe, 75, N.H.L. Player Whose High Stick Led to Riot |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/02/sports/hal-laycoe-75-nhl-player-whose-high-stick-led-to-riot.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 October 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=2 May 1998 |page=B 8}}

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Guy Anderson, 91, American painter.{{cite news |last=Updike |first=Robin |date=May 2, 1998 |title=Guy Anderson embodied Northwest point of view; painter who rarely left his home state dies at 91 |page=A1 |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19980502/2748395/guy-anderson-embodied-northwest-point-of-view |work=The Seattle Times |access-date=19 October 2019}}
Curly Chalker, 66, American pedal steel guitarist, brain tumor.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-curly-chalker-1168531.html |title=Obituary: Curly Chalker|last=Wadey|first=Paul|date=June 30, 1998|work=The Independent|access-date=19 October 2019}}
Lise Gervais, 64, Canadian abstract painter and sculptor.{{cite web|title=Lise Gervais: Canadian, 1933-1998|url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/lise-gervais|website=National Gallery of Canada|access-date=19 October 2019}}
Edwin Thompson Jaynes, 75, American physicist and statistician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Edwin Thompson Jaynes - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w65q4zb6 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}
Nizar Qabbani, 75, Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher, heart attack.{{cite news |author1=Douglas Jehl |title=Nizar Qabbani, Sensual Arab Poet, Dies at 75 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/01/arts/nizar-qabbani-sensual-arab-poet-dies-at-75.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 April 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=1 May 1998 |page=D 19}}
Jopie Selbach, 79, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Jopie Selbach |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/49383 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=16 May 2022 |language= |date=}}

References

External links

[https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=1998-04-01,1998-04-30&adult=include List of April 1998 deaths] at IMDb

*1998-04