List of Famous people who died in 1998

Sergei Vasilyevich Vonsovsky was a prominent Soviet and Russian physicist.

Hermine Freed was an American painter and video artist. She is noted for being among the first generation of artists to explore video art in the late 1960s.

Doris Nolan was an American actress best known for her Broadway roles and her appearance in the 1938 movie Holiday. She appeared in plays and films during the 1930s and 1940s. Later she moved to the UK, where she made guest appearances on British television shows.

Kamala Sohonie was a pioneering Indian biochemist who in 1939 became the first Indian woman to receive a PhD in a scientific discipline. Her acceptance into and work at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, paved the way for women to be accepted into the institution for the first time in it its history.

Dorothy West was an American storyteller and short story writer during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. She is best known for her 1948 novel The Living Is Easy, as well as many other short stories and essays, about the life of an upper-class black family.

Leopoldina Bălănuţă was a Romanian actress.