French actor (b. 1913) November 10 Jean Leray, French mathematician (b. 1906) Mary Millar, British actress and singer (b. 1936) November 13 Edwige Feuillère, French actress (b. 1907) Valerie Hobson, English actress (b. 1917) Red Holzman, American basketball coach (b. 1920) Hendrik Timmer, Dutch sportsman (b. 1904) November 15 Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American civil rights activist (b. 1941) Jean Dalrymple, American theatre producer, manager, publicist, and playwright (b. 1902) Ludvík Daněk, Czechoslovak discus thrower (b. 1937) November 17 Efim Geller, Soviet chess player and grandmaster (b. 1925) Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920) November 19 Louis Dumont, French anthropologist (b. 1911) Alan J. Pakula, American film director (b. 1928) November 20 Roland Alphonso, Jamaican musician (b. 1931) Galina Starovoytova, Soviet dissident (b. 1946) November 22 – Stu Ungar, American professional poker player (b. 1953) November 25 – Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (b. 1933) December December 1 – Freddie Young, American cinematographer (b. 1902) December 2 – Mikio Oda, Japanese athlete (b. 1905) December 6 – César Baldaccini, French sculptor (b. 1921) December 7 – Martin Rodbell, American scientist (b. 1925) December 8 – Michael Craze, British actor (b 1942) December 9 – Archie Moore, American professional boxer (b. 1916) December 12 – Lawton Chiles, American politician (b. 1930) December 14 – Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924) December 16 – William Gaddis, American writer (b. 1922) December 18 – Lev Dyomin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1926) December 20 Irene Hervey, American actress (b. 1909) Alan Hodgkin, British scientist (b. 1914) December 23 David Manners, Canadian-American actor (b. 1900) Michelle Thomas, American actress and comedian (b. 1968) December 25 Richard Paul, American actor (b. 1940) John Pulman, English snooker player (b. 1923) December 29 – Don Taylor, American actor and film director (b. 1920) December 30 – Keisuke Kinoshita, Japanese film director (b. 1912) Nobel Prizes Physics – Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel Chee Tsui Chemistry – Walter Kohn, John Pople Medicine – Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad Literature – José Saramago Peace – John Hume and David Trimble Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Amartya Sen Fields Medal Richard Ewen Borcherds, William Timothy Gowers, Maxim Kontsevich, Curtis T. McMullen References External links 1998 Year in Review - CNN/Sports Illustrated