page_title: 1998
section_title: July
hierarchical_section_title: 1998 / Deaths / July
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr.
context_page_description: 1998 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1998th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 998th year of the 2nd millennium, the 98th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1990s decade.
  1998 was designated as the International Year of the Ocean.
context_section_description: July 3 – Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
  July 6 – Roy Rogers, American singer and actor (b. 1911)
  July 8 – Lilí Álvarez, Spanish tennis player, author, and feminist (b. 1905)
  July 14 – Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, South Vietnamese general (b. 1930)
  July 17 – Joseph Maher, Irish-born American actor (b. 1933)
  July 21
  Alan Shepard, American astronaut (b. 1923)
  Robert Young, American actor (b. 1907)
  July 22 – Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)
  July 27 – Binnie Barnes, British-born American actress (b. 1903)
  July 29 – Jerome Robbins, American choreographer and director (b. 1918)
  July 30 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American children's television host (b. 1917)
caption: Alan Shepard
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