Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1998

Elvis Jacob Stahr Jr. was an American government official and college president and administrator. After graduating from the University of Kentucky in 1936 as a member of Sigma Chi and Pershing Rifles, he attended Merton College at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. He served as lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II. He returned to the University of Kentucky and became a professor and then dean of the College of Law, before becoming president of West Virginia University. He served as the United States Secretary of the Army between 1961 and 1962 and served as president of Indiana University from 1962 to 1968. He was the president of the National Audubon Society from 1968 until 1981.

Luis Díez del Corral y Pedruzo fue un jurista, escritor y politólogo español, procurador en las Cortes franquistas entre 1943 y 1949.

David Cannon Evans was the founder of the computer science department at the University of Utah and co-founder of Evans & Sutherland, a pioneering firm in computer graphics hardware.

Wladyslaw Komar fue un atleta polaco, especializado en la prueba de lanzamiento de peso en la que llegó a ser campeón olímpico en 1972.

Gerald Eugene Stano fue un asesino en serie estadounidense al que se le imputaron más de cuarenta víctimas.

Otto Haxel fue un físico alemán que se dedicó principalmente a la física nuclear.

Olin Jeuck Eggen fue un astrónomo estadounidense. Algunas fuentes dan incorrectamente su nombre como Olin Jenck Eggen.

Ralph Saul Phillips was an American mathematician and academic known for his contributions to functional analysis, scattering theory, and servomechanisms. He served as a Professor of mathematics at Stanford University. He made major contributions to acoustical scattering theory in collaboration with Peter Lax, proving remarkable results on local energy decay and the connections between poles of the scattering matrix and the analytic properties of the resolvent. With Lax, he coauthored the widely referred book on scattering theory titled Scattering Theory for Automorphic Functions. Phillips received the 1997 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement.