List of Famous people who died in 1998

Paul Misraki was a French composer of popular music and film scores. Over the course of over 60 years, Misraki wrote the music to 130 films, scoring works by directors like Jean Renoir, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Becker, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Orson Welles, Luis Buñuel and Roger Vadim.

James Michael Hyde Villiers was an English character actor and a familiar face on British television. Villiers was particularly memorable for his plummy voice and ripe articulation.

Boris Georgiyevich Tatushin was a Soviet football player and manager.

Dimitris Horn was a Greek - Austrian theatrical and film performer of modern times.

Robert George Young was an American film, television, and radio actor, best known for his leading roles as Jim Anderson, the father character in Father Knows Best, and the physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D. (ABC).

Fernando Abril Martorell was a Valencian Spanish politician and agricultural engineer.

Max Wehrli was a Swiss literary scholar and Germanist. Wehrli studied from 1928 till 1935 Germanic and Greek at the Universities of Zurich and Berlin. Among his teachers were Emil Ermatinger, Ernst Howald and Nicolai Hartmann. 1936 he wrote his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Zurich.

Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the head of the Ducal Family of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and titular Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1954 until his death.

Takayuki Yamasaki is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 8-dan.

Momoko Kōchi , born Momoko Ōkōchi , was a Japanese film, stage and television actress.