List of Famous people who died in 1998

Rose Blumkin was a renowned businesswoman who founded the Nebraska Furniture Mart in 1937. Warren Buffett said of her, "One question I always ask myself in appraising a business is how I would like, assuming I had ample capital and skilled personnel, to compete with it. I’d rather wrestle grizzlies than compete with Mrs. B and her progeny. They buy brilliantly, they operate at expense ratios competitors don’t even dream about, and they then pass on to their customers much of the savings.

L.G. (Ret) Tjokropranolo was an Indonesian politician and former military officer who was the 8th Governor of Jakarta, serving between 1977 and 1982. During the Indonesian National Revolution, he was the assistant to Sudirman, and later wrote a biography of the commander.

Dr Hilana Sedarous (1904–1998) was an Egyptian physician. She was the first Egyptian woman to become a doctor in modern Egypt.

Vida Tomšič née Bernot was a Slovenian communist before World War II, a Partisan fighter during the War, and a prominent communist politician, women’s activist, and people's hero in post-war Yugoslavia. She was born and died in Ljubljana, and held many government positions in Slovenia and Yugoslavia during her long career. Tomšič was a Marxist feminist who "saw women’s rights as strictly dependent on the social and economic development of the country as a whole."

Liang Xiang was a politician of the People's Republic of China. He was originally from the city of Kaiping, in Guangdong province. He graduated from Beijing Normal University, and was a representative in the fifth, sixth, and seventh National People's Congresses.

Chung-Yao Chao was a Chinese physicist. He studied the scattering of gamma rays in lead by pair production in 1930, without knowing that positrons were involved in the anomalously high scattering cross-section. When the positron was discovered by Carl David Anderson in 1932, confirming the existence of Paul Dirac's "antimatter", it became clear that positrons could explain Chung-Yao Chao's earlier experiments, with the gamma rays being emitted from electron-positron annihilation.