1998 deaths

Danish supercentenarian and second-longest-lived man (1882–1998)

American actor (1920-1998)

Businessman, politician, publisher (1937-1998)

athletics competitor (1910-1998)

Italian singer-songwriter (1943-1998)

Indian actress (1948-1998)

Japanese violinist and pioneer of musical pedagogy (1898-1998)

Spanish footballer (1909–1998)

Spanish euthanesia activist (1943–1998)

Belgian racecar driver (1924-1998)

Vietnamese police chief (1930–1998)

Israeli Krav Maga practitioner (1910–1998)

Polish pole vaulter (1950–1998)

German SS surgeon; Inspector for troop food supply in OKH and SS; Police Food Inspector (Nazi Germany)

British engineer, helped to design Colossus during World War II (1905–1998)

British actress (1917–1998)

Czech member of Czech National Council, politician, academic, chemical engineer, professor and inventor (1913-1998)

Spanish writer (1917–1998)

Danish furniture designer (1926–1998)

American activist (1935–1998)

American actress (1911–1998)

American politician (1912–1998)

American comedian and actor (1906-1998)

Soviet scientist (1916-1998)

Danish singer (1915–1998)

athletics competitor (1910-1998)

French actress (1907–1998)

Uruguayan footballer (1926-1998)

American actress (1908–1998)

American ornithologist and molecular biologist (1917-1998)

French racing cyclist (1914–1998)

Algerian musician (1956–1998)

English linguist and classical scholar (1920-1998)

astronomer (1908–1993)

Canadian supercentenarian (1880–1998)

Argentine mathematician (1920–1998)

Spanish artist (1919–1998)

German politician (1916-1998)

Film director, screenwriter, film producer (1912–1998)

American basketball player (1921–1998)

American swimmer (1909–1998)

American economist (1932–1998)

racecar driver

English snooker and billiards player (1913–1998)

English actress (1903–1998)

Swedish cyclist and olympic speed skater (1919–1998)

Italian artist and designer (1907-1998)

Argentine cardinal (1923–1998)

Armenian poet, essayist, and translator (1919-1998)

American opera singer of Ukrainian descent (1953–1998)

American director (1921–1998)

English snooker player (1923–1998)

Italian musicologist, composer and biographer (1910–1998)

Swiss football referee (1919-1998)

American activist (1927-1998)

Swedish association football player and manager (1917–1998)

Dutch tennis player (1903-1998)

American physicist (1922-1998)

German footballer (1909-1998)

Indian model and dancer (1948-1998)