List of Famous people who died in 1998

René Acht was a Swiss painter and graphic artist.

Horst Korsching was a German physicist. He was arrested by the allied British and American Armed Forces and incarcerated at Farm Hall for six months in 1945 under Operation Epsilon.

Kurt Schütte was a German mathematician who worked on proof theory and ordinal analysis. The Feferman–Schütte ordinal, which he showed to be the precise ordinal bound for predicativity, is named after him. He was the doctoral advisor of 16 students, including Wolfgang Bibel, Wolfgang Maaß, Wolfram Pohlers, and Martin Wirsing.

Gigi Reder was an Italian actor and voice actor. He was best known for the role of Filini in the Fantozzi film series.

Jacques Ménager (1912–1998), was a French Prelate the Roman Catholic church, 107th Archbishop of Reims and before that (1961–1973), Bishop of Meaux.

Léon-Arthur Elchinger was the Bishop of Strasbourg from 1967 to 1984.

Sidney Henry Cole was a British film and television producer. Earlier in his career he worked as a film editor.

Abdul Rahman Yahya Al-Eryani was the President of the Yemen Arab Republic from 5 November 1967 to 13 June 1974. Originally a leader of the Free Yemeni Movement (Al-Ahrar) opposition group during the time of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen, al-Eryani served as Minister of Religious Endowments under North Yemen's first republican government and later became the only civilian politician to have led Northern Yemen. He was eventually overthrown by Ibrahim al-Hamdi and died in exile.