List of Famous people who died at 98

Nie Yuanzi was a Chinese academic administrator at Peking University, known for writing a big-character poster criticising the university for being controlled by the bourgeoisie, which is considered to have been the opening shot of the Cultural Revolution. She became a top leader of the Red Guards in Beijing, and was sentenced to 17 years in prison after the end of the Cultural Revolution.

Anita Page was an American film actress who reached stardom in the final years of the silent film era.

Pascal Gnazzo was a French racing cyclist. He rode in the 1947 Tour de France.

David Graham Bowker was a British sailor. He won a silver medal in the 5.5 metre class at the 1956 Summer Olympics. Born the third of five children in Salford, he was a bomber pilot in the Second World War before going on to start a yacht-building business in Bosham with his older brother Robin.

Baron Guy Édouard Alphonse Paul de Rothschild was a French banker and member of the Rothschild family. He owned the bank Rothschild Frères from 1967 to 1979, when it was nationalized by the French government, and maintained possessions in other French and foreign companies including Imerys. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1985.

Dorothea Elizabeth Irving, Lady Brunner, OBE, JP was a British actress, the daughter of actors H. B. Irving and Dorothea Baird, and the granddaughter of Victorian era stage star Henry Irving. Her older brother was the Hollywood set designer and art director Laurence Irving. Elizabeth Irving was the Chairman of the National Federation of Women's Institutes (W.I.) and in 1955 founded the Keep Britain Tidy Group, acting as President of the Group for 19 years from 1966.

Jórunn Viðar was an Icelandic pianist and composer.

Anne Ancelin Schützenberger was a French psychologist and psychotherapist. During the Second World War she was a member of the French Resistance.

Théodore André Monod was a French naturalist, humanist scholar, and explorer.