List of Famous people who died in 1998
Judith Mary Jephson
Marcelle Hertzog-Cachin
Ernst Käsemann
Ernst Käsemann was a German Lutheran theologian and professor of New Testament in Mainz (1946–1951), Göttingen (1951–1959) and Tübingen (1959–1971).
Walter Wunderlich
James Lighthill
Sir Michael James Lighthill was a British applied mathematician, known for his pioneering work in the field of aeroacoustics and for writing the Lighthill report on artificial intelligence.
Antonio Quarracino
Antonio Quarracino was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church of Argentina and the Archbishop of Buenos Aires between 1990 and 1998.
Bjørn Watt-Boolsen
Bjørn Watt-Boolsen was a Danish film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1943 and 1998. He was born in Rudkøbing, Denmark and died in Denmark. He was married to actress Lis Løwert. They married on 20 July 1947 and remained married until his death.
Lev Dyomin
Lev Stepanovich Dyomin was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 15 spaceflight in 1974. This spaceflight was intended to dock with the space station Salyut 3, but the docking failed.
Attila Zoller
Attila Cornelius Zoller was a jazz guitarist born in Hungary. After World War II, he escaped the Soviet takeover of Hungary by fleeing through the mountains on foot into Austria. In 1959, he moved to the U.S., where he spent the rest of his life as a musician and teacher.
Yury Artyukhin
Yuri Petrovich Artyukhin was a Soviet Russian cosmonaut and engineer who made a single flight into space.