1998 deaths

editor of l'Independent in Burkina Faso

American actor (1928-1998)

Olympic gymnast (1926-1998)

Danish actor and opera singer (1922–1998)

politician and former finance minister of Ghana (1913-1998)

American actress (1919–1998)

Jewish singer from Algeria

German mathematician (1911-1998)

American physicist and administrator (1906–1998)

Austrian actor, screenwriter and film director (1919–1998)

Italian artist (1910-1998)

French cyclist (1910–1998)

filmmaker (1944–1998)

Japanese aikidoka (1929–1998)

Swedish actor (1916–1998)

Politician, agricultural engineer (1936-1998)

Patriarch of Constantinople

American mesoamericanist

Puzanov was ambassador to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) in the late 1950s.

Elli Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari (; 3 November 1899 – 8 August 1998), better known as '''Nelly's''', was a Greek female photographer whose pictures of ancient Greek temples set against sea and sky backgrounds helped shaped the visual image of Greece in the Western mind (or, in a critical reading, the West's visual image of Greece in the Greek mind). There has been some confusion over how exactly she should be referred to. She adopted the diminutive "Nelly" for her professional society portrait work, and its genitive, "Nelly's", was incorporated in her decorative studio stamp, but at no time did

President of Airbus (1906–1998)

American composer born in France of Russian-Chinese parentage, son of Alexander Tcherepnin

Greek archbishop (1913-1998)

Dutch poet and psychiatrist

American songwriter, theatrical composer, lyricist, and screenwriter (1921-1998)

Soviet diplomat and defector to the West (1930–1998)

singer (1907-1998)

Swedish actor (1925-1998)

French actor (1923-1998)

Slovenian-American musician (1915-1998)

Danish musician (1908–1998)

Finnish writer (1909–1998)

Member of the Punjab Assembly (1915-1998)

actor (1923-1998)

Olympic sailer

Colombian writer (1923–1998)

American singer (1953-1998)

Christian missionary (1909–1998)

American jurist and politician (1906-1998)

Indian singer (1945–1998)

American historian (1902–1998)

American politician (1902–1998)

Hong Kong film producer (1925–1997)

Bulgarian film director (1911–1998)

Polish-British economist

French mountaineer (1964-1998)

Croatian Serb politician (1949-1998)

Polish politician and sociologist (1923-1998)

Paraguayan musician (1913–1998)

British media proprietor and impresario (1906–1998)

American musician (1946–1998)

American accountant, civil servant (1908–1998)

German politician (1910-1998)

Sultan of Terengganu (1930-1998)

American musician (1948-1998)

Bharathan Parameshwara Menon Palissery (14 November 1946 – 30 July 1998), known mononymously as Bharathan, was an Indian film maker, artist, and art director. Bharathan is noted for being the founder of a new school of film making in Malayalam cinema, along with Padmarajan and K. G. George, in the 1980s, which created films that were widely received while also being critically acclaimed. A train of directors, and screenwriters followed this school onto the 1990s including Sibi Malayil, Kamal, Lohithadas and Jayaraj.

English actor (1942–1998)

American politician (1922-1998)

Afghan politician (1917-1998)

American actor (1911-1998)