Approximately 153,195 people died worldwide on June 30, 1998 Approximately 153,195 people died worldwide on June 30, 1998. If you want to share this number, copy and paste the HTML code below to display it on your own website, blog, or profile. 153,195 People * WANT TO HELP US OUT? If you're a fan of OnePlusYou, you can help us out by using the "with extra link" version of the HTML code above. It will create a link from your website to ours and help us get the word out about our website. It's exactly the same as the "without extra link" version, except it contains a small link at the bottom that looks like this: [align=center][quote]Unusual Deaths in 1998 Daniel v. jones was a former hotel maintenance worker in long beach, california who shot himself through the chin on the los angeles expressway on live television. his suicide was apparently caused by his resentment against his hmo for inadequately treating him when he was diagnosed with cancer and hiv. Tom and eileen lonergan were stranded while scuba diving with a group of divers off australia's great barrier reef. the group's boat accidentally abandoned them due to an incorrect head count taken by the dive boat crew. the couple was left to fend for themselves in shark-infested waters. their bodies were never recovered. the incident is depicted in the film open water. Natural disasters in 1998 Hurricane Mitch New York State Labor Day Derechos North American ice storm of 1998 October 1998 South Central Texas floods 1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake 1998 Yangtze River Floods People who died on June 30 (various years) 2007 - Sahib Singh Verma, Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Delhi 2006 - Robert Gernhardt, German satirist 2003 - Robert McCloskey, American children's book writer and illustrator 2003 - Buddy Hackett, American comic 2002 - Chico Xavier, popular medium in Brazil´s spiritism movement 2001 - Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist 2001 - Chet Atkins, American guitarist 1997 - Larry O'Day, wrestler 1995 - Phyllis Hyman, American jazz vocalist 1995 - Georgi Beregovoi, Soviet cosmonaut 1995 - Gale Gordon, American actor 1993 - Wong Ka Kui, Hong Kong singer 1993 - George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor 1984 - Lillian Hellman, American playwright 1976 - Firpo Marberry, baseball player 1974 - Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician Vladislav Volkov Georgi Dobrovolski 1971 - Crew of Soyuz 11 Viktor Patsayev 1971 - Herbert Biberman, Jewish American screenwriter and film director 1966 - Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver 1961 - Lee DeForest, American inventor 1959 - José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician 1953 - Charles William Miller, father of football in Brazil 1934 - Kurt von Schleicher, Chancellor of Germany 1919 - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate 1890 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer 1882 - Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of President James A. Garfield 1857 - Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist 1796 - Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman 1785 - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia 1709 - Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist 1704 - John Quelch, a pirate was hanged 1670 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of England, Scotland, and Ireland 1666 - Alexander Brome, English poet 1660 - William Oughtred, English mathematician 1607 - Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian 1579 - Mehmed Pasha Sokolović, Turkish Janissary 1538 - Charles of Egmond, Duke of Guelders 1364 - Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague 1181 - Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester, English politician 350 - Nepotianus, Roman usurper[/quote] [/align]

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