Deaths in 1999

The following is a list of notable deaths in 1999. Names are listed under the date of death, not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name.

A typical entry appears in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

January 1999

• 4 – Iron Eyes Cody, 94, American actor.
• 8 – Dobie Gillis Williams, 37 or 38, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Louisiana.
• 11 – Fabrizio De André, 58, Italian singer-songwriter, lung cancer
• 11 – Brian Moore, 77, British-born Canadian novelist, respiratory failure.
• 12 – Betty Lou Gerson, 84, American actress, massive stroke.
• 14 – Jerzy Grotowski, 65, Polish theatre director, after long illness.
• 14 – Muslimgauze, 37, British electronic musician, fungal infection.
• 15 – John Baker Saunders, 44, American Musician, Heroin Overdose
• 17 – Theodore Major, 90, British artist.^[1]
• 21 – Susan Strasberg, 60, American actress, breast cancer.
• 22 – Graham Staines, Australian Christian missionary, murdered.
• 23 – Terence Lewin, Baron Lewin, 78, British admiral.
• 23 – Lincoln Thompson, 49, Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, cancer.^[2]
• 25 – Ted Mallie, 74, American radio and television announcer.
• 25 – Robert Shaw, 82, American conductor, stroke.
• 26 – Settimio Ferrazzetta, 74, Italian-born Bissauan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bissau (since 1977).^[3]
• 28 – Markey Robinson, 80, Irish painter.
• 30
  • Huntz Hall, 79, American film, theatre and radio actor, heart failure.
  • Svetlana Savyolova, 57, Soviet Russian film and stage actress.
• 31 – Bill Luders, 89, American naval architect and yacht designer
• 31 – Norm Zauchin, 69, American baseball player, after long illness.

February 1999

• 1 – Paul Mellon, 92, American philanthropist.
• 4 – Amadou Diallo, 23, West African immigrant.
• 5 – Neville Bonner, 76, Australian politician, first indigenous Member of Parliament.
• 5 – Wassily Leontief, 93, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 6 – Jimmy Roberts, 74, American singer and featured performer on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1955 to 1982, bone cancer.
• 7 – Hussein of Jordan, 63, Jordanian monarch, King of Jordan (1952–1999), lymphoma.^[4]
• 8 – Dame Iris Murdoch, 79, Irish-born British novelist, poet and philosopher, Alzheimer's disease.^[5]
• 9 – Bryan Mosley, 67, British television and film actor, (Coronation Street), heart attack.^[6]
• 14 – Big L, 24, American Freestyle rapper (D.I.T.C.), murder.^[7]
• 16 – Henry Way Kendall, 72, drowned.
• 17 – Michael Larson, 49, throat cancer.
• 19 – Wilford Berry, Jr., 36, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Ohio.
• 20 – Gene Siskel, 53, American film critic and television journalist, brain cancer.^[8]
• 20 – Sarah Kane, 28, English playwright, suicide.
• 24 – Derek Nimmo, 68, English actor.
• 25 – Glenn T. Seaborg, 86, American nuclear chemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1951), complications of a stroke.^[9]
• 27 – Christine Glanville, 74, British puppeteer.

March 1999

• 2 – David Ackles, 62, American singer-songwriter, lung cancer.
• 2 – Dusty Springfield, 59, British traditional pop singer and entertainer, breast cancer.^[10]
• 2 – Francisco Nunes Teixeira, 89, Mozambican Roman Catholic bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Quelimane (1955−1975).^[11]
• 4 – Del Close, 64, American comedian, actor and theatre director, emphysema.^[12]
• 4 – Eddie Dean, 91, American country singer-songwriter and actor in Western films, heart and lung disease.^[13]
• 5 – Richard Kiley, 76, American Emmy Award-winning film, television and stage actor, unspecified bone marrow disease.^[14]
• 7 – Stanley Kubrick, 70, American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and photographer, heart attack.^[15]
• 8 – Joe DiMaggio, 84, American baseball player (New York Yankees), lung cancer.^[16]
• 9 – Hermann Merkin 91, Philanthropist, Heart Failure.
• 9 – Harry Somers, 73, Canadian composer.
• 10 – Valentino Mazzia 77, forensic anesthesiologist, cirrhosis.^[17]
• 12 – Sir William Jackson, 81, British army general.^[18]
• 17 – Rod Hull, 63, British entertainer and comedian, injuries sustained from fall.^[19]
• 19 – Brock Speer, 79, American gospel singer (Speer Family).^[20]
• 20 – Roy L. Johnson, 93, American admiral.^[21]
• 21 – Ernie Wise, 73, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise), heart failure.^[22]Gary Morton aged 74

April 1999

• 3 – Lionel Bart, 68, British composer and lyricist, cancer.^[23]
• 4 – Bob Peck, 53, British actor (Jurassic Park), cancer.
• 4 – Early Wynn, 79, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.
• 14 – Anthony Newley, 67, British singer-songwriter and actor, kidney cancer.^[24]
• 16 – Skip Spence, 52, American singer-songwriter (Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape), lung cancer.^[25]
• 18 – Ye Fei, 84, Filipino-Chinese general and politician.
• 20 – Eric Harris, 18, American perpetrator of the Columbine High School Massacre, suicide by gunshot.^[26]
• 20 – Dylan Klebold, 17, American perpetrator of the Columbine High School Massacre, suicide by gunshot.^[26]
• 20 – Rachel Joy Scott, 17, the first victim of the Columbine High School Massacre, murdered
• 20 – Rick Rude, 40, professional wrestler, suffered heart failure.
• 21 – Charles Rogers, 94, American actor and jazz musician, natural causes.^[27]
• 22 – Bert Remsen, 74, Actor.
• 25 – Roger Troutman, 47,from the group (Zapp and Roger)
• 25 – Lord Killanin, 85, Irish journalist and Olympic official.
• 26 – Adrian Borland, 41, British musician and producer, suicide.
• 26 – Jill Dando, 37, British journalist and television presenter (Crimewatch), murder by gunshot.^[28]
• 28 – Sir Alf Ramsey, 79, British football player and manager (Ipswich Town, England), Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer.^[29]
• 29 – Denzo Ishizaki, 112, Japan's oldest man.

May 1999

• 2 – Oliver Reed, 61, British actor (The Devils, Oliver, The Three Musketeers), heart failure.^[30]
• 8 – Dana Plato, 34, American actress (Diff'rent Strokes), suicide by overdose.^[31]
• 8 – Sir Dirk Bogarde, 78, British actor and writer, (Doctor in the House, Victim, The Servant, Death in Venice, A Bridge Too Far), heart attack.^[32]
• 9 – Shel Silverstein, 67, American poet, playwright, and cartoonist, heart attack.^[33]
• 17 – James Broughton, 85, American poet, memoirist, playwright and filmmaker, heart failure.^[34]
• 17 – Henry Jones, 86, American actor.
• 21 – Vanessa Brown, 71, Austrian-born American actress, breast cancer.
• 23 – Owen Hart, 34, Canadian professional wrestler (WWF), injuries sustained from fall.^[35]

June 1999

• 5 – Mel Torme, 73, American singer, stroke.
• 11 – Gilles Châtelet, 55, French philosopher and mathematician.^[36]
• 11 – DeForest Kelley, 79, American film and television actor, played Leonard McCoy in Star Trek, stomach cancer.^[37]
• 17 – Stanley Faulder, 61, Canadian executed by lethal injection for murder in the U.S. state of Texas.
• 21 – Kami, 26, Japanese rock musician, drummer (Malice Mizer), cerebral haemorrhage.^[38]
• 23 – Buster Merryfield, 78, British television actor, played Uncle Albert in Only Fools and Horses, brain cancer.^[39]
• 27 – Marion Motley, 79, American football player (Cleveland Browns) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
• 27 – Georgios Papadopoulos, 80, Greek soldier, politician, Prime Minister (1967–1973) and dictator
• 28 – Anatoliy Zheglanov, 56, Ukrainian ski-jumper who competed for USSR.^[40]
• 29 – Allan Carr, 62, American film, television and theatre producer (La Cage aux Folles), liver cancer.^[41]

July 1999

• 1 – Edward Dmytryk, 90, Canadian-born American film director
• 1 – Guy Mitchell, 72, American traditional pop singer, complications of surgery.^[42]
• 1 – Sylvia Sidney, 88, American film actress
• 2 – Mario Puzo, 78, American novelist (The Godfather), heart failure.
• 6 – Gary M. Heidnik, 55, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Pennsylvania.
• 6 – Joaquín Rodrigo, 97, Spanish composer.
• 8 – Pete Conrad, 69, American astronaut, road accident.
• 12 – Bill Flett, 55, retired Canadian hockey player, liver failure.
• 12 – Bill Owen, 85, British actor and songwriter, pancreatic cancer.^[43]
• 12 – Zita Szeleczky, 84, Hungarian actress.
• 14 – Gene Hart, 68, American sportscaster for the Philadelphia Flyers, kidney and liver failure.
• 16 – Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, 33, American socialite and wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr., plane crash.^[44]
• 16 – John F. Kennedy, Jr., 38, American journalist, lawyer, socialite and son of John F. Kennedy, plane crash.^[45]
• 20 – Sandra Gould, 82 United States film and television actor (Bewitched) and writer, complications of surgery.^[46]
• 23 – Dmitri Tertyshny, 22, professional ice hockey defenseman, boating accident.
• 23 – Hassan II of Morocco, 70, Moroccan monarch, King of Morocco (since 1961), heart attack.^[47]
• 29 – Anita Carter, 66, American singer and member of the Carter family, complications of rheumatoid arthritis.^[48]

August 1999

• 4 – Victor Mature, 86, American film actor, leukaemia.^[49]
• 7 – Brion James, 54, American film actor, heart attack.
• 7 – J. Andrew Keith, 40, role-playing game designer.
• 9 – Helen Rollason, MBE, 43, British sports journalist and television presenter, colorectal cancer.
• 10 – Jennifer Paterson, 71, British chef and television personality (Two Fat Ladies), lung cancer.^[50]
• 14 – Pee Wee Reese, 81, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.
• 25 – Rob Fisher, 42, British songwriter and musician (Naked Eyes, Climie Fisher).^[51]

September 1999

• 5 – Allen Funt, 84, American television personality (Candid Camera), stroke.
• 9 – Alan Clark, 71, British Conservative politician, Member of Parliament (1974–1999), military historian and animal rights activist, brain cancer.^[52]
• 9 – Jim "Catfish" Hunter, 53, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.
• 17 – Frankie Vaughan, 71, British singer, heart failure.
• 22 – Clive Jenkins, 73, British trade union leader.^[53]
• 22 – George C. Scott, 71 American film actor, abdominal aortic aneurysm.
• 28 – Jesse Dirkhising, 13, American murder victim, respiratory failure.^[54]
• 30 – Bruce K. Holloway, 87, American Air Force general.

October 1999

• 2 – Kim Hyun-jun, 39, South Korean basketball player, car accident.
• 3 – Alastair Hetherington, 79, British journalist, editor of The Guardian.
• 4 – Bernard Buffet, 71, French painter, committed suicide.
• 6 – Amália Rodrigues, 79, Portuguese singer known worldwide as the "Queen of Fado".
• 12 – Wilt Chamberlain, 63, NBA basketball player, congestive heart failure.
• 15 – Glen Payne, 72, American gospel singer (Cathedral Quartet), liver cancer
• 17 – Dimitre Mehandjiysky, 84, (Bulgarian Димитър Механджийски) artist and designer, kidney failure.
• 20 – Jack Lynch, 82, Irish Fianna Fáil politician, fourth Taoiseach of Ireland (1966–1973, 1977–1979).^[55]
• 25 – Hoyt Axton, 61, American actor and singer/songwriter.
• 25 – Payne Stewart, 42, American professional golfer, plane crash.
• 27 – Xie Fei, 66, Chinese politician, Politburo member.
• 30 – Maigonis Valdmanis, 66, Latvian basketball player
• 31 – Greg Moore, 24, Canadian racecar driver, collision.^[56][57]

November 1999

• 1 – Walter Payton, 45, American football player, primary sclerosing cholangitis.
• 8 – Yury Malyshev, 58, Soviet cosmonaut.
• 11 – Mary Kay Bergman, 38, American voice actress (South Park), suicide by gunshot.^[58]
• 20 – Annie Jennings, 115, British supercentenarian and verified second oldest person in the world.^[59]
• 21 – Quentin Crisp, 90, British writer, illustrator, actor and socialite, natural causes.^[60]
• 25 – Richard M. Eakin, 89, American zoologist and professor.
• 29 – Gene Rayburn, 81, American radio personality and game show host, heart failure.^[61]
• 30 – Charlie Byrd, 74, American jazz and classical guitarist, lung cancer.^[62]

December 1999

• 3 – Scatman John, 57, American jazz musician and poet, lung cancer.^[63]
• 3 – Madeline Kahn, 57, American Tony Award-winning film, television and stage actress, ovarian cancer.^[64]
• 5 – John Archer, 84, American film and television actor, lung cancer.^[65]
• 7 – Kenny Baker, 78, British jazz musician.^[66]
• 10 – Rick Danko, 56, Canadian musician, member of The Band, heart failure.
• 12 – Joseph Heller, 76, American novelist (Catch-22).
• 17 – Rex Allen, 78, American actor and singer-songwriter, road accident.^[67]
• 19 – Desmond Llewelyn, 85, British film actor, played Q in the James Bond film series, road accident.^[68]
• 20 – Hank Snow, 85, Canadian country musician.^[69]
• 24 – Jiang Hua, 92, President of the Supreme Court of China.
• 26 – Curtis Mayfield, 57, American R&B, soul and funk singer-songwriter and record producer, diabetes complications.^[70]
• 30 – Sarah Knauss, 119, American supercentenarian, verified oldest person in the world.^[71]
• 31 – Elliot Richardson, 79, American politician and diplomat.^[72]

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