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o Ilse Hellman Noach (28 September 1908 - 3 December 1998)
psychoanalyst
o Nicholas Kurti (14 May 1908 - 24 November 1998)
low temperature physicist and gourmet
o Louis Dumont (1911 - 19 Nov 1998)
anthropologist
o Susan Caroline Bellmann (27 April 1947 - 9 November 1998)
Audiological physician
o Norman Stuart Sutherland (27 March 1927 - 8 November 1998)
psychologist and neuroscientist
o Niklas Luhmann (18 December 1927 - 6 November 1998)
sociologist
o Paul Leyton (1 June 1914 - 4 November 1998)
rocket engineer, restaurateur
o Chris Chapman (16 July 1942 - 4 November 1998)
scientist
o Thomas Harold (Tommy) Flowers (22 December 1905 - 28 October 1998)
engineer
o Victor Sydney Griffiths (17 August 1919 - 27 October 1998)
teacher and electrochemist
o Jon Postel ( - 17 Oct 1998)
Internet pioneer
o André Weil (6 May 1906 - 6 Aug 1998)
Mathematician
o Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (18 Nov 1923 - 21 Jul 1998)
Astronaut
o Michael James Lighthill (23 Jan 1924 - 17 Jul 1998)
Mathematician
o Miroslav Holub (23 Sep 1923 - 14 Jul 1998)
Poet and scientist
o Rachel Rosser (9 Oct 1941 - 10 Jul 1998)
Psychiatrist
o Katherine "Kit" Russell (6 Apr 1909 - 9 Jul 1998)
Social Scientist
o Robert Lang Lickley (19 Jan 1912 - 7 Jul 1998)
Aeronautical engineer
o James Edward Gordon (9 Aug 1913 - 26 Jun 1998)
Scientist and engineer
o Shiela Patterson (30 Mar 1918 - 21 Jun 1998)
Social anthropologist
o Arthur Paul Stirling (13 Oct 1920 - 17 Jun 1998)
Social anthropologist
o Peter Arundell Jewell (16 Jun 1925 - 23 May 1998)
Zoologist
o Donald Cardwell (4 Aug 1919 - 8 May 1998)
Scientist
o Harry McGurk (23 Feb 1936 - 17 Apr 1998)
Psychologist
o Alberto Calderòn (14 Sep 1920 - 16 Apr 1998)
Mathematician
o Ian Alexander McGregor (6 Jun 1921 - 13 Apr 1998)
Plastic Surgeon
o Frederick James Gordon Jeffriss (4 Feb 1910 - 6 Apr 1998)
Physician and venerologist
o Colin Patterson (13 Oct 1933 - 9 Mar 1998)
Scientist
o James Tait (13 Jun 1912 - 18 Feb 1998)
Electrical Engineer
o Adam John (Jack) Aitken (19 Jun 1921 - 11 Feb 1998)
Philologist and lexicographer
o Haroun Tazieff (11 May 1914 - 2 Feb 1998)
Volcanologist
o Verna Wright (31 Dec 1928 - 31 Jan 1998)
Physician, research scientist and evangelist
o Luisa Guterres (1947 - 28 Jan 1998)
Psychoanalyst
o William Gordon East (19 Nov 1902 - 27 Jan 1998)
Geographer
o Roger Opie (23 Feb 1927 - 22 Jan 1998)
Economist
o Henry Barcroft (18 Oct 1904 - 11 Jan 1998)
Physiologist
o Kenichi Fukui (4 Oct 1918 - 9 Jan 1998)
Chemist
o Vladimir Prelog (23 Jul 1906 - 7 Jan 1998)
Chemist
o Stanley Rivlin (24 Feb 1923 - 2 Jan 1998)
Surgeon and bon-viveur
o Tom Kitwood (16 February 1937 - 1 November 1988)
dementia expert


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