1998 deaths

Rwandan politician executed (1947-1998)

English footballer (1910-1998)

Sweden's first female professor of archeology

Spanish artist (1929-1998)

Brazilian footballer (1930–1998)

actress (1901-1998)

Danish actor and opera singer (1922–1998)

Olympic gymnast (1926-1998)

Indian sprinter (1936–1998)

romanian saint, former archimandrite and abbot at Sihăstria Monastery

German football player (1929-1998)

American actor (1928-1998)

American racecar driver (1924–1998)

U.S. botanist & paleoecologist (1910-1998)

Kosovar soldier (1950–1998)

American whistleblower and investigative journalist (1946–1998)

Jewish singer from Algeria

Armenian composer (1930–1998)

American actress (1919–1998)

American comic book writer, editor and artist (1937–1998)

American mathematician (1918–1998)

French cyclist (1910–1998)

Jamaican musician (1927–1998)

WHO official (1947-1998)

American politician (1912-1998)

American writer (1915–1998)

American actor (1902-1998)

Austrian actor (1938-1998)

American physicist and administrator (1906–1998)

German mathematician (1909–1998)

American baseball player (1921-1998)

Italian artist (1910-1998)

Cuban-American cartoonist

American basketball player (1926-1998)

Iranian novelist (1916-1998)

American actor

Indian writer

American arachnologist (1906–1998)

Sir Lankan architect

sailor (1906-1998)

Argentine journalist and writer (1920–1998)

Danish architect (1913-1998)

American musician (1914–1998)

Chinese artist (1907-1998)

American cellist and composer (1953–1998)

American artist (1923–1998)

South Korean lawyer and judge (1914-1998)

Indian writer who moved to the UK in the 1940s

French bicycle racer and track cyclist (1922–1998)

Dutch rally driver and inventor (1911-1998)

Estonian cyclist (1964–1998)

American actor (1925–1998)

American songwriter and record producer (1933–1998)

French botanist (1902–1998)

Norwegian wrestler (1917-1998)

Colombian drug trafficker (1951-1998)

Canadian ice hockey player (1914–1998)

French intelligence officer (1911–1998)

Russian physicist (1910–1998)

Twenty year old Nigerian woman killed in Belgium.