Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1998

James Flora, best known for his distinctive and idiosyncratic album cover art for RCA Victor and Columbia Records during the 1940s and 1950s, was also a prolific commercial illustrator from the 1940s to the 1970s and the author/illustrator of 17 popular children's books. He was a fine artist as well, who created hundreds of paintings, drawings, etchings and sketches over his 84-year lifespan.

Thelma del Río fue una actriz de cine, teatro y televisión y una reconocida vedette argentina.

Zeki Kuneralp was a Turkish diplomat, who was brought up in exile in Switzerland after the murder of his father, Ali Kemal Bey, during the Turkish War of Independence. After his education he returned to Turkey and, with the express approval of President İsmet İnönü, entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At first taking up diplomatic posts throughout Europe, Kuneralp was later appointed Turkish Ambassador to Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Spain, as well as twice serving as Secretary-General of the Foreign Ministry. He survived an assassination attempt which claimed the lives of his wife and her brother in Madrid in 1978. He retired, in part due to ill-health, in 1979, renouncing the world and current affairs, and turning his attention instead to writing and publishing. His autobiography was translated into English in 1992, while others of his books are considered important sources of twentieth century Turkish history. He died in Istanbul in 1998.

Joachim, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau was the nominal successor head of the former mediatised German Counts of Schönburg-Glauchau until 1945. Dispossessed and expelled from his homeland in 1945, he and his family migrated to the Rhineland, where he was an author and journalist. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he returned to his homeland, represented the district in the Bundestag, and served in local government.

Gennady Vasilevich Kolbin was the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR from December 16, 1986 to June 22, 1989.

Arnim Dahl was a German Stuntman.

Manuel Delgado Villegas, conocido como el Arropiero, fue un asesino en serie español. Es considerado el peor asesino de la historia criminal española. Era un psicópata que, cuando hacía su vida normal se comportaba de una manera infantil, pero cuando mataba se convertía en un hombre despiadado, sin escrúpulos y sin preocuparle si quiera que la víctima sufriera.

Kenkichi Iwasawa fue un matemático japonés que se destacó por su influencia sobre la teoría de números algebraicos incluida su Teoría de Iwasawa.

Marie-Louise Fébronie Meilleur fue una supercentenaria francocanadiense que, tras la muerte de la francesa Jeanne Calment, se convirtió en la persona viva más anciana del mundo. Meilleur es la canadiense más longeva verificada y la quinta persona más longeva de la historia, detrás de Jeanne Calment, Sarah Knauss, Kane Tanaka y Nabi Tajima.

Joan Bogle Hickson fue una actriz inglesa de teatro, cine y televisión. Es conocida sobre todo por su papel de miss Marple en la serie de televisión del mismo nombre. También grabó varios audio-libros de este personaje.