List of Famous people who died in 1998

Yoshifumi Kondō was a Japanese animator who worked for Studio Ghibli in his last years. He was born in Gosen, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. He worked as an animation director on Anne of Green Gables, Sherlock Hound, Kiki's Delivery Service, Only Yesterday and Princess Mononoke. Kondō directed the animated film Whisper of the Heart, and was expected to become one of the top directors at Studio Ghibli, alongside Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, and to become their eventual successor.

Safiye Ayla was one of the most famous singers of Turkish classical music.

Jenaro Gajardo Vera was a Chilean lawyer, painter and poet. He became famous for his 1953 claim of ownership of the Moon.

Li Tien-lu was a Taiwanese puppeteer. He is best known to the international audience for playing principal characters in several Taiwanese films directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien.

Max Streibl was a German politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) party and the eighth Minister President of Bavaria.

Pauline Julien,, nicknamed "La Renarde", was a singer, songwriter, actress, feminist activist and Quebec sovereigntist.

Tamio Kageyama was a Japanese writer.

Georgi Petrovich Vins was a Russian Baptist pastor persecuted by the Soviet authorities for his involvement in a network of independent Baptist churches. Following an agreement between Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Vins and his family were expelled from the Soviet Union in 1979 with a group of other dissidents in exchange for two convicted spies, Rudolf Chernyaev and Valdik Enger.

Jacques Dumesnil was a French film and television actor.

Boris Floricic, better known by his pseudonym Tron, was a German hacker and phreaker whose death in unclear circumstances has led to various conspiracy theories. He is also known for his Diplom thesis presenting one of the first public implementations of a telephone with built-in voice encryption, the "Cryptophon".