List of Famous people who died in 1998

Galina Leonidovna Brezhneva was the daughter of Soviet politician and longtime General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and Viktoria Brezhneva.

Ernst Jünger was a highly decorated Imperial German soldier, author, and entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir Storm of Steel.

Felicitas Gómez Martínez de Mendez was a Puerto Rican activist in the American civil rights movement. In 1946, Mendez and her husband Gonzalo led an educational civil rights battle that changed California and set an important legal precedent for ending de jure segregation in the United States. Their landmark desegregation case, known as Mendez v. Westminster, paved the way for meaningful integration and public school reform.

Valerie Hobson was an Irish-born actress who appeared in a number of films during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Her second husband was John Profumo, a government minister who became the subject of a sensational sex scandal in 1963.

Lloyd Vernet Bridges Jr. was an American film, stage and television actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. He was the father of four children, including the actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges.

Major General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan was a South Vietnamese general and chief of the South Vietnamese National Police.

Igor Vladimirovich Sorin, was a Russian poet, musician and artist. He was part of the Russian boy band Ivanushki International, which he left in 1998, striving for a solo career. He died in September 1998 when he committed suicide by jumping out of his high-rise apartment building, dying three days later.

Nino Agostino Arturo Maria Ferrari, known as Nino Ferrer, was an Italian-born French singer-songwriter and author.

Benjamin Hoskins Paddock Jr. was an American bank robber and con man who was on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list from 1969 to 1977.

Ernst-Günther Schenck was a German doctor and member of the SS in Nazi Germany. Because of a chance encounter with Adolf Hitler during the closing days of World War II, his memoirs proved historically valuable. His accounts of this period are prominent in the works of Joachim Fest and James P. O'Donnell regarding the end of Hitler's life, and were included in the film Downfall (2004).