List of Famous people who died in 1998

John David Gwynn ,) was a civil engineer with a special interest in renewable energy generation. In his youth he was one of Ireland's most distinguished cricketers.

Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin was an English physiologist and biophysicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles.

Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton was an English organic chemist and Nobel Prize laureate for 1969.

Blanche Montel was a French actress. She appeared in 33 films between 1914 and 1943.

Denis Anthony Brian Butler, 9th Earl of Lanesborough, was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat. Lord Lanesborough also held the titles 10th Viscount Lanesborough and 12th Baron Newtown-Butler.

Michael Joel Zaslow was an American actor. He was best known for his role as villain Roger Thorpe on CBS's Guiding Light, a role he played from 1971 to 1980 and again from 1989 to 1997.

Donald Richie Taylor was an American actor and film director. He co-starred in 1940s and 1950s classics, including the 1948 film noir The Naked City, Battleground, Father of the Bride, Father's Little Dividend and Stalag 17. He later turned to directing films such as Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), Tom Sawyer (1973), and Damien: Omen II (1978).