Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1998

Ian William Geddes Johnson, was an Australian cricketer who played 45 Test matches as a slow off-break bowler between 1946 and 1956. Johnson captured 109 Test wickets at an average of 29.19 runs per wicket and as a lower order batsman made 1,000 runs at an average of 22.92 runs per dismissal. He captained the Australian team in 17 Tests, winning seven and losing five, with a further five drawn. Despite this record, he is better known as the captain who lost consecutive Ashes series against England. Urbane, well-spoken and popular with his opponents and the public, he was seen by his teammates as a disciplinarian and his natural optimism was often seen as naive.

Hacı Sabancı was a Turkish businessman and philanthropist, and a member of the second generation of the renowned Sabancı family.

Frank Herbert Muir fue un guionista de comedias, actor y humorista radiofónico y televisivo inglés.

Coleen Shirley Perry Smith AM MBE, better known as Mum Shirl, was a prominent Wiradjuri woman, social worker and humanitarian activist committed to justice and welfare of Aboriginal Australians. She was a founding member of the Aboriginal Legal Service, the Aboriginal Medical Service, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, the Aboriginal Children’s Service and the Aboriginal Housing Company in Redfern, a suburb of Sydney. During her lifetime she was recognised as an Australian National Living Treasure.

Simon de La Brosse was a French actor from Suresnes. He started his acting career in the role of Sylvain in Éric Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach in 1983. He committed suicide in 1998, shortly after completing the TV film Louise et les Marchés.

Talimeren Ao was an Indian footballer and physician. He is best known as the captain of Indian team in their first ever match. He was born on 28 January 1918 in Assam, Naga hills to the Rev. Subongwati Ningdangri Ao and his wife Maongsangla Changkilari, in the village of Changki, in the then Naga Hills District of Assam. He was the fourth of twelve children.

Sevim Tanürek was a Turkish classical music artist.

Xin Fengxia was a Chinese pingju opera performer, known as the "Queen of Pingju". She was also a film actress, writer, and painter. She starred in the highly popular films Liu Qiao'er (1956) and Flowers as Matchmakers (1964), both adapted from her operas.

Tetsuya Theodore “Ted” Fujita fue un investigador de tormentas severas del siglo XX. Nació en Kitakyūshū, en la prefectura de Fukuoka (Japón), estudió en el Instituto Tecnológico de Kyūshū y fue profesor asociado allí hasta 1953 en que le invitaron a la Universidad de Chicago una vez que un profesor de dicha universidad mostró interés por su investigación. En la Universidad de Chicago realizó investigaciones sobre tormentas eléctricas, tornados, huracanes y tifones severos, revolucionando el conocimiento que hasta entonces se tenía de estos fenómenos.

Ida Krottendorf fue una actriz austriaca.