1998 deaths

American criminal, convicted for the murder of civil rights activist and Nobel peace prize laureate Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968

Soviet and Russian composer (1915—1998)

American country singer (1942–1998)

American tennis player (1905–1998)

American actress and singer (1915–1998)

German painter and sculptor (1932–1998)

American activist (1941-1998)

Soviet chess player (1925–1998)

American LGBT student and murder victim

eighth President of the Republic of Ghana (1934–1998)

Briitsh rock drummer (1947–1998)

American psychologist (1917–1998)

Swiss philosopher, poet and painter (1907-1998)

American philosopher (1906–1998)

French journalist and novelist best known for her erotic novel Story of O

Russian-American musician (1911-1998)

Croatian footballer

Catholic cardinal

Uruguayan politician (1920-1998)

Swiss psychologist and scholar (1915-1998)

Chinese literary scholar and writer (1910–1998)

Romanian athletics competitor (1932-1998)

Soviet and Russian writer (1911–1998)

Pakistani economist (1934-1998)

Albanian politician (1913-1998)

French volcanologist, geologist (1914-1998)

American computer scientist (1943–1998)

Polish mathematician (1913-1998)

Soviet cosmonaut (1926–1998)

English composer (1905-1996)

German admiral and U-boat commander during World War II

American actor (1907–1998)

Soviet cosmonaut (1930–1998)

athletics competitor (1940-1998)

French sculptor (1921-1998)

American actor (1943–1998)

American boxer (1913-1998)

English writer (1909–1998)

Commander of Kosovo Liberation Army

British footballer (1961-1998)

American novelist (1922–1998)

Italian racewalker (1926–1998)

German aerospace engineer (1911-1998)

American jazz singer, recording artist, songwriter (1929–1998)

American Chicago blues vocalist, harmonica player, and recording artist (1934–1998)

Egyptian author and professor of literature (1913-1998)

German-Czech essayist and publicist (1928-1998)

French singer (1919–1998)

Soviet and Russian actor, theater and film director, screenwriter (1929–1998)

American musician (1946–1998)

French mathematician (1906-1998)

actress (1920-1998)

British actress (1906–1998)

Soviet inventor and writer (1926–1998)

Thai Army officer and politician (1920-1998)

American athletics competitor

Indian actress

Czechoslovak discus thrower (1937–1998)

Austrian-German automobile designer (1909–1998)

Spanish footballer (1909–1998)