List of Famous people who died in 1998

Henry Gahagen "Hank" Saperstein was an American film producer and distributor. Saperstein inherited his father's cinema chain in Chicago before moving into television distribution. In 1955, he moved to Hollywood and purchased United Productions of America in 1960. At UPA, Saperstein produced the Mister Magoo television series and its spinoff television specials. He co-produced three Toho kaiju films from 1965 to 1966 and arranged for American actors Nick Adams and Russ Tamblyn to appear in the films. Saperstein would go on to work with Toho in the 1970s and 1980s and attempt to put together several Godzilla projects which never materialized. During the early 1990s, Saperstein was involved in negotiations with Hollywood studios for the production of a Hollywood Godzilla film. At the age of 80, he died of cancer in Beverly Hills on June 24, 1998.

Rose Pauline Peltesohn was an Israeli mathematician of German origin.

Robert Todd Duncan was an American baritone opera singer and actor. One of the first African-Americans to sing with a major opera company, Duncan is also noted for appearing as Porgy in the premier production of Porgy and Bess (1935).