List of Famous people who died at 98

Vicente Bianchi Alarcón was a Chilean composer, pianist, conductor, and orchestra and choir director. He received the Premio Nacional de Artes Musicales de Chile in 2016. He is remembered for composing music to accompany the poems of Pablo Neruda, and for his liturgical music, including the Chilean Mass and the Te Deum (1970–2000).

Sayyida Fatimah el-Sharif ; after marriage, Fatimah as-Senussi, ca. 1911 – 3 October 2009), was queen consort of King Idris of the Kingdom of Libya until the 1969 Libyan coup d'état.

Hans Albrecht Bethe was a German-American nuclear physicist who made important contributions to astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics, and solid-state physics, and who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. For most of his career, Bethe was a professor at Cornell University.

Patriarch Maxim (Maximus) was the head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church from 1971 until his death.

Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell was a British physicist and radio astronomer. He was the first Director of Jodrell Bank Observatory, from 1945 to 1980.