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In the year 1998
656 Notable deaths
Buddy Jeannette
American basketball player and coach (1917-1998).
Born September 15th, 1917 in New Kensington.
Died March 11th, 1998 at 80 years old in Nashua (stroke).
Ernst-Hugo Järegård
Swedish actor (1928–1998).
Born December 12th, 1928 in Ystad church parish. [ref]
Died September 6th, 1998 at 69 years old in Lidingö (disease, multiple myeloma).
Anatoly Rybakov
Soviet and russian writer (1911–1998).
Born January 14th, 1911 in Derzhanivka.
Died December 23rd, 1998 at 87 years old in New York City.
Raimund Harmstorf
German actor (1939-1998).
Born October 7th, 1939 in Hamburg.
Died May 3rd, 1998 at 58 years old in Marktoberdorf (hanging).
Attia Hosain
Indian writer who moved to the uk in the 1940s.
Born October 20th, 1913 in Lucknow.
Died January 25th, 1998 at 84 years old
Kenkichi Iwasawa
Japanese mathematician (1917-1998).
Born September 11th, 1917 in Kiryū.
Died October 26th, 1998 at 81 years old in Tokyo (pneumonia).
Oswald Rufeisen
Jewish resistance figther and israeli discalced carmelite friar (1922–1998).
Born January 29th, 1922 in Żywiec.
Died July 30th, 1998 at 76 years old in Haifa.
Frank Brimsek
American ice hockey goaltender.
Born September 26th, 1915 in Eveleth.
Died November 11th, 1998 at 83 years old in Virginia.
Malati Choudhury
Indian activist.
Born July 26th, 1904 in Bihar.
Died March 15th, 1998 at 93 years old
Jorge Pacheco Areco
Uruguayan politician (1920-1998).
Born April 9th, 1920 in Montevideo.
Died July 29th, 1998 at 78 years old in Montevideo.
Deaths 321 to 330 of 656
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. George Eliot