List of Famous people who died in 1998

Edward Leonard Ginzton was a Ukrainian-American engineer.

Hans Oeschger was the founder of the Division of Climate and Environmental Physics at the Physics Institute of the University of Bern in 1963 and director until his retirement in 1992.

Ludvík Daněk was a Czechoslovak discus thrower, who won the gold medal at the 1972 Olympic Games with a throw of 64.40 m (211'3").

Mikołaj Kozakiewicz was a Polish politician, publicist and sociologist.

Will Tremper was a German journalist and filmmaker. He wrote twelve screenplays between 1956 and 1988. The young and then unknown actor Horst Buchholz starred in his first three films. With only a handful of films to his credit, he established himself quickly as the German answer to the directors of the Nouvelle Vague in France.

Yule Forenorth Kilcher was a Swiss-born American homesteader who was a member of the Alaska state senate from 1963 to 1966.

Robert George Brian Dickson,, commonly known as Brian Dickson, was a Canadian lawyer, military officer and judge. He was appointed a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada on March 26, 1973, and subsequently appointed the 15th Chief Justice of Canada on April 18, 1984. He retired on June 30, 1990.