The following is a list of notable deaths in August 1999.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
August 1999
1
- Rudy Burckhardt, 85, Swiss-American filmmaker and photographer, suicide by drowning.[1]
- Nirad C. Chaudhuri, 101, Indian English-language writer.[2]
- Tommy Hinnershitz, 87, American race car driver.
- Kalyan Kumar, 71, Indian film actor and producer.
- Naseer Malik, 49, Pakistani cricket player.[3]
- Paris Pişmiş, 88, Armenian-Mexican astronomer.[4]
- İrfan Özaydınlı, 75, Turkish soldier and politician.
2
- Alberto Gironella, 69, Mexican painter.[5]
- Gregorio Cárdenas Hernández, Mexican serial killer.
- Sunthorn Kongsompong, 68, Thai military commander and politician, Prime Minister (1991-1992), lung cancer.[6]
- Alf Miller, 82, English football player and coach.
- Willie Morris, 64, American writer and editor.[7]
- Bernhard Quandt, 96, German politician.
- Jim Slaughter, 71, American basketball player.[8]
- Peter Vanneck, 77, British Royal Navy officer, fighter pilot and politician.
3
- Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayati, 72, Iraqi poet.[9]
- Rodney Ansell, 44, Australian cattle grazier, buffalo hunter and inspiration for Crocodile Dundee, killed in a police shootout.[10]
- Byron Farwell, 78, American military historian, biographer, and politician.[11]
- Myung Jae-nam, 61, Korean Hapkido practitioner, stomach cancer.
- Dick Latvala, 56, American musician and tape archivist for rock band the Grateful Dead.[12]
- Bob Mollohan, 89, American politician.
- Yitzhak Rafael, 85, Israeli politician.[13]
- Leroy Vinnegar, 71, American jazz bassist, heart attack.[14]
- Roy Wiggins, 73, American steel guitarist.
4
- Akhlaq Ahmed, 49, Pakistani playback singer, blood cancer.
- Liselott Linsenhoff, 71, German equestrian and Olympic champion.[15]
- Victor Mature, 86, American film actor (One Million B.C., Samson and Delilah, Kiss of Death), leukemia.[16]
- Lucrecia Reyes-Urtula, 70, Filipina choreographer, theater director and author.
- Derrick Shepard, 35, American gridiron football player, heart attack.[17]
- Carl Toms, 72, British set and costume designer, emphysema.[18]
5
- James Failla, 80, American mobster (Gambino crime family).
- Henry Holloway, 68, Australian rugby player and coach.
- John Kacere, 79, American visual artist.[19]
- David Munro, 55, English documentary filmmaker, cancer.[20]
- Rimma Zhukova, 74, Soviet and Russian speed skater.
6
- Mihai Băcescu, 91, Romanian zoologist.
- Ilse Pausin, 80, Austrian pair skater and Olympic medalist.[21]
- Kalpnath Rai, 58, Indian politician, heart attack.
- Rita Sakellariou, 64, Greek singer, cancer.
- Muhammad Shariff, 78, Pakistani Army general.[22]
- Claudette Sorel, 66, American pianist and educator, cancer.[23]
- Jerry Yulsman, 75, American novelist and a photographer, lung cancer.[24]
7
- Wally Albright, 73, American former child actor.
- Jonathan Boyd, 54, Australian professional wrestler, heart attack.[25]
- Herbert Hagen, 85, German SS-Sturmbannführer and war criminal during World War II.
- Brion James, 54, American actor (Blade Runner, The Fifth Element, 48 Hrs.), heart attack.[26]
- J. Andrew Keith, 40, American role-playing game designer.
- Harry Litwack, 91, American college basketball coach.[27]
- Desmond Marquette, 90, American film editor.
- Kazuo Miyagawa, 91, Japanese cinematographer.
- Tsou Tang, 80, Chinese-American political scientist.[28]
- John Van Ryn, 94, American tennis player.
8
- Virginia Allan, 82, American educator and women's employment advocate.
- Yolanda Sofia Vargas Pereira Dulché, 73, Mexican writer.[29]
- Paavo Rintala, 68, Finnish novelist and theologian.
- Dora Schaul, 85, German resistance activist during World War II.
- Harry Walker, 82, American baseball player, manager and coach.[30]
9
- Ira Baldwin, 103, American academic and administrator.[31]
- John Hallett, 81, Australian politician.
- Cliff Hanley, 76, Scottish journalist, novelist, playwright and broadcaster .[32]
- William Arthur Irwin, 101, Canadian journalist and diplomat, asthma.[33]
- Georg Marischka, 77, Austrian actor, screen writer, and film producer.[34]
- John O'Neill, 56, Australian rugby player, cancer.
- Helen Rollason, 43, British sports journalist and television presenter, colorectal cancer.[35]
- Jackie Sato, 41, professional wrestler from Yokohama, Japan, stomach cancer.
- Riley Smith, 88, American football player.[36]
- Roger Stott, 56, Britishpolitician, liver cancer.
- Abraham H. Taub, 88, American mathematician and physicist.[37]
- Yury Volyntsev, 67, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.
10
- Ernesto Melo Antunes, 65, Portuguese military officer.[38]
- Ernst Bader, 85, German actor, composer and songwriter (lyricist).[39]
- Giuseppe Delfino, 77, Italian fencer and Olympic champion.[40]
- Lenko Grčić, 74, Croatian football player and coach.
- Jens Hoyer Hansen, 59, Danish-born New Zealand jeweller, cancer.
- Jennifer Paterson, 71, British chef and television personality (Two Fat Ladies), lung cancer.[41]
- Anthony Stanislas Radziwill, 40, American television executive and filmmaker, cancer.
- Kari Suomalainen, 78, Finnish political cartoonist.
- Baldev Upadhyaya, 99, Indian literary historian, essayist and critic.[42]
11
- Dickie Davis, 77, English footballer.[43]
- Robert Dorfmann, 87, French film producer.[44]
- James Otto Earhart, 56, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.[45]
- Robert Thomas Jones, 89, American engineer.[46]
- Ernst Kaether, 95, German Wehrmacht general during World War II.
- Luz Machado, 83, Venezuelan political activist, journalist and poet.[47]
- Ramnath Parkar, 52, Indian cricket player.[48]
- Mimi Pollak, 96, Swedish actress and theatre director.[49]
- Byron Randall, 80, American West Coast artist, emphysema.[50]
- Tommy Ridgley, 73, American R&B singer and bandleader, lung cancer.[51]
- Henk Chin A Sen, 65, Surinamese politician.
- A. G. Ram Singh, 89, Indian first-class cricket player.[52]
12
- Pavel Arsyonov, 63, Soviet and Russian film actor, screenwriter and film director.
- Jean Drapeau, 83, Canadian lawyer and politician.[53]
- Ross Elliott, 82, American television and film character actor, cancer.
- Albert E. Green, 86, British applied mathematician and research scientist.
- John Rigby Hale, 75, British historian.[54]
- Wilfrid Kalaugher, 94, New Zealand athlete and scholar.
- Georges Roux, 84, French writer and historian.
- Bob Wilson, 83, American politician.[55]
- Martin Wong, 53, Chinese-American painter, AIDS related illness.[56]
- Can Yücel, 72, Turkish poet, throat cancer.
13
- Susana Ferrari Billinghurst, 85, Argentine aviator.
- Ignatz Bubis, 72, German Jewish leader.[57]
- Jaime Garzon Forero., 38, Colombian comedian, journalist, politician, and peace activist, murdered.
- John Geering, 58, British cartoonist.
- Frederick Hart, 55, American sculptor, cancer.[58]
- Nathaniel Kleitman, 104, American physiologist and sleep researcher.[59]
- Maria Krüger, 94, Polish children's literature writer and journalist.
- Argentina Díaz Lozano, 86, Honduran journalist and novelist.
- Sulo Nurmela, 91, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympic champion.[60]
- Herberto Sales, 81, Brazilian journalist and writer.[61]
14
- Evelyn Adams, 75, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[62]
- Lane Kirkland, 77, American labor union leader, cancer.[63]
- Philip Klutznick, 92, American administrator, Secretary of Commerce (1980-1981), Alzheimer's disease.[64]
- Pat Mullin, 81, American baseball player.[65]
- John Pingel, 82, American football player.[66]
- Pee Wee Reese, 81, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, lung cancer.[67]
- Lidia Selkregg, Italian geologist.
15
- Patricia Beer, 79, English poet and critic.[68]
- Hugh Casson, 89, English architect, interior designer, artist and writer.[69]
- Frank Castle, 75, English sprint athlete and rugby player.
- Paddy Devlin, 74, Irish social democrat, labour and civil rights activist.[70]
- Greek George, 86, Catcher in Major League Baseball.[71]
- Mark McPhee, 35, Australian cricketer, traffic accident.[72]
- Olga Orozco, 79, Argentine poet, cardiovascular disease.[73]
- Celestine Sibley, 85, American newspaper reporter.[74]
16
- Anton Alberts, 72, Dutch architect.[75]
- David W. Allen, 54, American film and television stop motion animator, cancer.[76]
- Ron Aspinall, 80, English cricket player.[77]
- Roy Edwards, 62, Canadian ice hockey player.[78]
- Nancy Guild, 73, American film actress, emphysema.[79]
- Regina Kent, 31, Hong Kong actress, brain cancer.
- Rose Leon, 85, Jamaican businesswoman and politician, homicide.
- Bernard Parrish, 80, American politician.
- Hédard Robichaud, 87, Canadian politician.
- Rudolf Sremec, 89, Yugoslav and Croatian film director.
17
- Randy Heflin, 80, American baseball player.[80]
- Charles Samuel Joelson, 83, American lawyer and politician.[81]
- Reiner Klimke, 63, German equestrian and Olympic champion, heart attack.[82]
- Henri Paret, 69, French racing cyclist.[83]
- Bill Tyquin, 80, Australian rugby player.
18
- Alfred Bickel, 81, Swiss football player and coach.[84]
- Albert Frazier, 84, American football and baseball coach.[85]
- Alf Kirchen, 85, English football player.[86]
- Hanoch Levin, 55, Israeli dramatist, author and poet, heart attack.[87]
19
- Irene Falcón, 91, Spanish journalist, feminist and activist, respiratory condition.[88]
- Dee Fondy, 74, American baseball player.[89]
- Ian Orr-Ewing, Baron Orr-Ewing, 87, British politician.[90]
- Kim Perrot, 32, American basketball player, lung cancer.[91]
- Rodrigo Riera, 75, Venezuelan guitarist and composer.
- Shaukat Hussain Rizvi, 85, Pakistani actor, film producer and director.
20
- Arthur Cain, 78, British evolutionary biologist and ecologist.[92]
- Bob Gallion, 75, American country music singer.[93]
- Josef Herink, 83, Czech physician and mycologist.
- Bobby Sheehan, 31, American musician and songwriter, accidental overdose.
- Josane Sigart, 90, Belgian tennis player.
- Abdus Salam Talukder, 62, Bangladeshi politician and lawyer.
21
- Leo Castelli, 91, Italian-American art dealer.[94]
- Faisal bin Fahd, 54/55, Saudi prince, heart attack.[95]
- Cilly Feindt, 90, German circus performer and stage and film actress.
- Jimmy Roe, 90, American soccer player.
- Hans von Herwarth, 95, German diplomat.[96]
- Yevgeni Yeliseyev, 90, Soviet and Russian football player and coach.
22
- Aleksandr Demyanenko, 62, Russian film and theater actor, heart attack.[97]
- Yann Goulet, 85, French sculptor.
- Marguerite Muni, 70, French actress.[98]
- Hide Hyodo Shimizu, 91, Japanese-Canadian educator and activist.
23
- Martha Rountree, 87, American pioneering broadcast journalist.[99]
- Ray F. Smith, 80, American agronomist and entomologist.
- Frank Tredrea, 79, New Zealand racing cyclist.
- Norman Wexler, 73, American screenwriter (Saturday Night Fever, Serpico, Raw Deal), heart attack.[100]
- James White, 71, Northern Irish author of science fiction short stories and novels, stroke.[101]
24
- Georges Boulogne, 82, French football player and manager.[102]
- Roberto Bussinello, 71, Italian racing driver.
- Warren Covington, 78, American big band trombonist.[103]
- Mary Jane Croft, 83, American actress (The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, I Love Lucy, Our Miss Brooks).[104]
- Jo Gullett, 84, Australian soldier, politician, diplomat and journalist.[105]
- Alexandre Lagoya, 70, French classical guitarist.[106]
- William Kaye Lamb, 95, Canadian historian, archivist and librarian.[107]
25
- Rob Fisher, 42, British songwriter and musician (Naked Eyes, Climie Fisher), colorectal cancer.[108]
- Dave Holmes, 75, American football player and coach, heart attack.
- George Petty-Fitzmaurice, 8th Marquess of Lansdowne, 86, British peer and politician.
- George Sugarman, 87, American painter and sculptor.[109]
- Georg Thomalla, 84, German actor.[110]
- Jack Whent, 79, English soccer player.
26
- Louise Bellocq, 90, French writer, poet, and woman of letters.
- Tonči Gulin, 61, Croatian football player.
- Elena Murgoci, 39, Romanian long-distance runner and Olympian, stabbed.[111]
- Raymond Vernon, 85, American economist, cancer.[112]
27
- Elizabeth Blackbourn, English table tennis player.
- Harold Jack Bloom, 75, American television producer and screenwriter, cancer.[113]
- Hélder Câmara, 90, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop, heart attack.
- Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorje, 67, Tibetan lama.
- Bai Guang, 78, Chinese actress and singer, colon cancer.
- Enzo Martinelli, 87, Italian mathematician.
- Louise Thompson Patterson, 97, American social activist and college professor.[114]
- Ralph Riley, 74, British geneticist.[115]
28
- Rafael Manzanares Aguilar, 81, Honduran folklorist, author, and musical composer.
- Stephen Akinmurele, 21, British suspected serial killer, suicide.[116]
- Harvie M. Conn, 66, Canadian missionary.[117]
- Johnny Gerlach, 82, American Major League Baseball player.[118]
- Dave Pope, 78, American baseball player.[119]
29
- Ann Baker, 84, American jazz singer.
- Jaime Fields, 29, American gridiron football player, hit-and-run car accident.[120]
- Paul Horiuchi, 93, American painter and collagist, Alzheimer's disease.[121]
- Claudio Lezcano, 69, Paraguayan football player.[122]
- Willy Rathnov, 62, Danish film actor, neck cancer.
- Emeline Hill Richardson, 89, American classical archaeologist and Etruscan scholar.[123]
- Luca Sportelli, 72, Italian actor.
30
- Abdullah Al-Baradouni, 70, Yemeni writer, poet and critic.
- Reindert Brasser, 86, Dutch athlete and Olympian.[124]
- Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, 80, German musicologist and academic.[125]
- George Golding, 93, Australian runner and hurdler.[126]
- Kristapor Ivanyan, 78, Soviet and Armenian lieutenant general.
- William A. Niering, 75, American botanist.[127]
- Raymond Poïvet, 89, French cartoonist.
- Fritz Shurmur, 67, American football coach, liver cancer.[128]
- Edward Stewart, 84, American set decorator (All That Jazz, The Wiz, Network), Oscar winner (1980).
- István Timár-Geng, 76, Hungarian basketball player.[129]
31
- Marguerite Chapman, 81, American actress.[130]
- Ed Kea, 51, Canadian ice hockey player, drowned.
- Sylvia Potts, 55, New Zealand middle-distance athlete and Olympian, cancer.[131]
- Henry Earl Singleton, 82, American electrical engineer and business executive.[132]
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