The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 1999
1
- Dennis Brown, 42, Jamaican reggae singer, pneumothorax.[1]
- Edward Dmytryk, 90, Canadian-born Canadian film director, heart and kidney failure.[2]
- Forrest Mars, 95, American businessman and candy magnate.[3]
- Guy Mitchell, 72, American traditional pop singer and actor, complications of surgery.[4]
- Jack Moroney, 81, Australian cricket player.[5]
- Ernst Nievergelt, 89, Swiss cyclist and Olympic medalist.[6]
- Joshua Nkomo, 82, Zimbabwean politician, prostate cancer.[7]
- Sylvia Sidney, 88, American film actress (Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, Beetlejuice, An Early Frost), oesophageal cancer.[8]
- Roman Tmetuchl, 73, Palauan political leader.
- Stig Westerberg, 80, Swedish conductor and pianist.[9]
- Willie Whitelaw, 81, British politician.[10]
2
- Viktor Chebrikov, 76, Soviet head of the KGB (1982–1988).[11]
- George Deiderich, 63, American football player.
- George Druxman, 69, Canadian football player.
- Xavier Gélin, 53, French actor and film producer, cancer.[12]
- Jack Plumley, 88, British Anglican priest, egyptologist and academic.[13]
- Mario Puzo, 78, American novelist (The Godfather) and screenwriter (Superman, The Cotton Club), Oscar winner (1973, 1975), heart failure.[14]
- Asoka Weeraratna, 80, Sri Lankan (Sinhala) Buddhist missionary.
3
- Reg Bishop, 86, Australian politician.
- Ricky Byrdsong, 43, American basketball coach and killing spree victim, shot.[15]
- Yueh Feng, 90, Chinese film director and screenwriter.
- Ibragim Gasanbekov, 29, Azerbaijani football player, traffic collision.[16]
- Mimi Nelson, 76, Swedish film actress.
- Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina, 100, Soviet and Russian mathematician.
- Paulo Porto, 81, Brazilian actor, film producer, director and screenwriter.
- Mark Sandman, 46, American musician (Morphine), heart attack.[17]
- Jack Vincent, 95, English ornithologist.
4
- Ronny Graham, 79, American actor, theater director, and writer, liver disease.[18]
- Ruby Johnson, 63, American soul singer.[19]
- Mark O'Brien, 49, American journalist, poet, and advocate for the disabled.[20]
- Jack Watson, 84, English actor, leukemia.[21]
5
- Len Butterfield, 85, New Zealand cricket player.[22]
- Jean-Pierre Darras, 71, French actor, cancer.[23]
- Joan Kemp-Welch, 92, British stage and film actress.[24]
- C. Walton Lillehei, 80, American surgeon and open-heart surgery pioneer.[25]
- Harald Philipp, 78, German film director, screenwriter and actor.[26]
- Roberta Sherwood, 86, American singer.[27]
- Thea Tewi, 97, German-American sculptor and lingerie designer.
6
- Bernardo Gandulla, 83, Argentine football player and coach.[28]
- Gary M. Heidnik, 55, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[29]
- M. L. Jaisimha, 60, Indian cricket player, lung cancer.[30]
- Pisith Pilika, 34, Cambodian ballet dancer and actress, shot.
- Joaquín Rodrigo, 97, Spanish composer and pianist.[31]
- Sherley Anne Williams, 54, American novelist, poet and professor.[32]
- Barry Winchell, 21, United States Army infantry soldier, murdered.
7
- Emilio Sánchez Font, 78, Cuban-American artist.[33]
- James Gahagan, American abstract expressionist painter.[34]
- Brima Kamara, 27, Sierra Leonean football player.[35]
- Ryu Mitsuse, 71, Japanese novelist, science fiction writer, and essayist.[36]
- Richard Müller, 95, German chemist.
- Julie Campbell Tatham, 91, American writer of children's novels.
8
- Ángel Lulio Cabrera, 90, Argentinian botanist.
- Adolf Christian, 65, Austrian bicycle racer.[37]
- Mavis Thorpe Clark, 90, Australian novelist and writer for children.
- Pete Conrad, 69, American astronaut, motorcycle accident.[38]
- Allen Lee Davis, 54, American murderer, execution by electric chair.[39]
- Frank Lubin, 89, Lithuanian-American basketball player.[40]
- Malcolm Mackay, 79, Australian politician, traffic collision.
- Robert Morrison, 90, American attorney and politician.
- Elemér Terták, 80, Hungarian figure skater and Olympian.[41]
- Shafik Wazzan, 74, Lebanese politician.
- Mehdi Haeri Yazdi, 76, Iranian philosopher and Shia Islamic cleric.[42]
9
- Karl Adam, 75, German football player.[43]
- Robert de Cotret, 55, Canadian politician.
- James L. Farmer, Jr., 79, American civil rights activist, complications from diabetes.[44]
- Bill Hindman, 76, American actor (Porky's).
- Esme Mackinnon, 85, British alpine skier and world champion downhill and slalom.
- Samuel Sanders, 62, American classical pianist.[45]
10
- John Scott-Ellis, 9th Baron Howard de Walden, 86, British peer and thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder.[46]
- Walter R. Evans, 79, American control theorist.
- Gil Johnson, 75, American gridiron football player.[47]
- Ulla Lindström, 89, Swedish journalist and politician.
11
- Burton Dreben, 71, American philosopher.[48]
- Marcelo Fernan, 72, Filipino lawyer and politician, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
- Helen Forrest, 82, American singer of traditional pop and swing music, heart failure.[49]
- Everett Greenbaum, 79, American television and film writer and actor.[50]
- Henry Kimbro, 87, American Negro league baseball player.[51]
- Lasse Lindroth, 26, Iranian-Swedish comedian, actor and writer, car accident.
- Roaring Lion, 91, Trinidad and Tobago calypso singer and composer.
- John Henry Sharpe, 77, Bermudian politician, Premier (1975-1975).
12
- Bill Flett, 55, Canadian hockey player, liver failure.[52]
- Alex Gordon, 82, Welsh architect.
- Harvey Jackins, 83, American founder and principal theorist of Re-evaluation Counseling.[53]
- Rajendra Kumar, 69, Indian film actor, cancer.
- Mircea Nedelciu, 48, Romanian short-story writer, novelist and essayist, Hodgkin's disease.
- Kazimierz Ostrowski, 82, Polish painter.
- Bill Owen, 85, British actor and songwriter, pancreatic cancer.[54]
- Jan Panenka, 77, Czech pianist.
- Zita Szeleczky, 84, Hungarian actress.
- Cornelius Wiebe, 106, Canadian physician and politician.
13
- Donald D. Engen, 75, American naval officer, administrator of the FAA, and museum director, aviation accident.[55]
- Muhammetnazar Gapurow, 77, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR (1969 – 1985).
- Yevgeny Goryansky, 70, Russian football player and football coach.[56]
- Herta Heuwer, 86, German chef and inventor of the currywurst.
- Josef Moc, 91, Czechoslovak basketball player.
14
- Maria Banuș, 85, Romanian poet, essayist, and prose writer.[57]
- Hugh Gallarneau, 82, American gridiron football player (Chicago Bears).[58]
- Gene Hart, 68, American sportscaster for the Philadelphia Flyers, kidney and liver failure.
- Władysław Hasior, 71, Polish sculptor.[59]
- Abdul Ahad Karzai, 77, Afghan politician, homicide.
- Umyar Mavlikhanov, 61, Soviet fencer and Olympic champion.[60]
- Gar Samuelson, 41, American drummer (Megadeth), liver failure.
- Trudi Schoop, 95, Swiss-American dance therapy pioneer.[61]
- John R. Steelman, 99, American academic and first White House Chief of Staff.[62]
- Pietro Tarchini, 77, Swiss professional cyclist.[63]
- Sal Trapani, 72, American comic-book artist.
- Sadao Yamahana, 63, Japanese politician.
15
- Sir Richard Thompson, 1st Baronet, 86, British politician.
- George Brown, 79, American politician, complications following heart surgery.[64]
- Simon Ramsay, 16th Earl of Dalhousie, 84, British land owner, politician and colonial governor.[65]
- Horacio Podestá, 87, Argentine rower and Olympic medalist.[66]
- Dick Richardson, 65, Welsh heavyweight boxer, cancer.
- Kamalendumati Shah, Indian politician and social worker, brain cancer.
16
- Ross H. Arnett, Jr., 80, American entomologist.
- Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, 33, American socialite and wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., plane crash.[67]
- John F. Kennedy Jr., 38, American journalist, lawyer, and son of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, plane crash.[68]
- Alan Macnaughton, 95, Canadian parliamentarian and Speaker of the House.
- André Martinet, 91, French linguist.[69]
- Franco Montoro, 83, Brazilian politician and lawyer.[70]
- Hamid Nitgi, 78, Iranian poet, writer and author.
- Alfred Raoul, 60, Congolese politician, Prime Minister (1968-1969).[71]
- Whit Wyatt, 91, American baseball player, pneumonia.[72]
- Hiromi Yanagihara, 19, Japanese singer and actress, heart failure.
17
- Rajendra Kumari Bajpai, 74, Indian politician.
- Arthur Hoag, 78, American astronomer.
- Daniel H. H. Ingalls, Sr., 83, American professor of Sanskrit.[73]
- Donal McCann, 56, Irish actor, pancreatic cancer.[74]
- Kevin Newman, 65, Australian soldier and politician, systemic lupus erythematosus.[75]
- Kevin Wilkinson, 41, English drummer, suicide.
- Patricia Zipprodt, 74, American costume designer, cancer.[76]
18
- Meir Ariel, 57, Israeli singer-songwriter, boutonneuse fever.[77]
- Rubén Bernuncio, 23, Argentine football player, renal failure following motorcycle accident.
- Donald Eugene Chambers, 68, American marine and founder of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club.
- Jatin Kanakia, 46, Indian actor.
- Pandi Raidhi, 68, Albanian film and theatre actor.
- Laurie Scott, 82, English footballer.[78]
- Tody Smith, 50, American gridiron football player.[79]
19
- Donna Allen, 78, American pioneer feminist, civil rights activist, historian and economist.[80]
- Jesús Codina, 60, Spanish basketball player and coach.[81]
- Cavernario Galindo, 75, Mexican luchador and film actor.
- Ludwik Gross, 94, Polish-American virologist, stomach cancer.[82]
- José Luis Madrid, 66, Spanish screenwriter, producer and film director.
- Hans Maldonado, 41, Ecuadorian football player.
- Jerold Wells, 90, English actor.
- Doreen Yarwood, 81, English historian and architecture critic.
20
- Emil Andres, 88, American racecar driver.
- Sandra Gould, 82, American film and television actor (Bewitched) and writer, complications of surgery.[83]
- Jean-Jacques Lamboley, 78, French cyclist.[84]
- James Muirhead, 74, Australian judge and Royal Commissioner.
21
- Kurt Burris, 67, American gridiron football player.
- Peter Carter, 69, British children's author.[85]
- Jun Etō, 66, Japanese literary critic, suicide.[86]
- David Ogilvy, 88, British advertising tycoon, the "Father of Advertising".[87]
- Kim Pyong-sik, 80, North Korean politician.
22
- Gennadiy Agapov, 65, Soviet and Russian race walker and Olympian.[88]
- Abelardo Díaz Alfaro, 82, Puerto Rican author.[89]
- Howard Arkley, 48, Australian artist, accidental overdose.[90]
- Claudio Rodríguez García, 65, Spanish poet.[91]
- Hakim Abdul Hameed, 90, Indian physician and university chancellor.
- Mary Kerridge, 85, English actress and theatre director.
- Lauro Ortega Martínez, 89, Mexican politician and veterinarian.
- Ladislav Slovák, 79, Slovak conductor.
- Arun Thapa, Nepali singer and songwriter, lung and liver ailment.
23
- Hassan II, 70, Moroccan monarch, King of Morocco (since 1961), heart attack.[92]
- Josef Holub, 69, Czech botanist and pteridologist, heart attack.
- Frank Minis Johnson, 80, United States district judge, pneumonia.[93]
- Kelvin Lancaster, 74, Australian mathematical economist.[94]
- Paul Lucier, 68, Canadian businessman and politician, bone cancer.
- Emma Tenayuca, 82, Mexican American labor leader, and educator, Alzheimer's disease.[95]
- Dmitri Tertyshny, 22, Russian ice hockey defenseman, boating accident.[96]
- Stanley Tretick, 78, American photojournalist.[97]
24
- Alexander Abian, 76, Iranian-born Armenian-American mathematician.[98]
- Le Quang Dao, 77, Vietnamese politician.
- Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch, 89, French scientist, translator and writer.[99]
- Demetrius DuBose, 28, American football player, shot by police.[100]
- Albert Leake, 69, English footballer.
- Bijaya Malla, 74, Nepalese poet, novelist and playwright.
- Don Martin, 79, American basketball player and coach.[101]
- Rona McKenzie, 76, New Zealand cricket player.[102]
- Henk Pellikaan, 88, Dutch football player.[103]
25
- Martin Agronsky, 84, American journalist and television host, congestive heart failure.[104]
- Princess Iskander, 82, last member of the Russian House of Romanov.
- Pentti Lammio, 79, Finnish speed skater and Olympic medalsit.[105]
- Raul Manglapus, 80, Filipino politician, throat cancer.[106]
26
- Walter Jackson Bate, 81, American literary critic and biographer.[107]
- Béla Bay, 92, Hungarian Olympic épée and foil fencer.[108]
- Philippa Gail, 56, British actress, cancer.[109]
- Phedon Gizikis, 82, Greek army general and president under the Junta.[110]
- Alan Karcher, 56, American politician.[111]
- Qian Linzhao, 92, Chinese physicist.
- Joseph Morvan, 74, French road bicycle racer.[112]
- Paul Rickards, 73, American gridiron football player.[113]
- John W. N. Watkins, 74, English philosopher and professor of Economics, heart attack.
27
- Aleksandr Aleksandrov, 86, Soviet/Russian mathematician, physicist and philosopher.[114]
- Ronald Backus, 77, British sailor and Olympic medalist.[115]
- Matjaž Cvikl, 32, Slovenian football player, cancer.
- Louis Déprez, 78, French racing cyclist.[116]
- Harry Edison, 83, American jazz trumpeter.[117]
- Amaryllis Fleming, 73, British cello performer and teacher.[118]
- Elías Jácome, 53, Ecuadorian football referee.
- Armand Le Moal, 85, French racing cyclist.[119]
- Mahlathini, 61, South African mbaqanga singer, complications of diabetes.
- Malachi Martin, 78, Irish-American Catholic priest and novelist, fall.[120]
- Michael Winkelman, 53, American child actor (The Real McCoys).
28
- Doris Carter, 87, Australian military officer, public servant, and Olympic athlete.[121]
- Trygve Haavelmo, 87, Norwegian economist.[122]
- Maxim Munzuk, 89, Tuvan actor.[123]
- Francisco Risiglione, 82, Argentine boxer and Olympic medalist.[124]
- Carlos Romero, 71, Uruguayan football player.[125]
- Gerd Springer, 72, Austrian football player and coach.
- Puey Ungpakorn, 83, Thai economist.[126]
- S. Howard Woodson, 83, American pastor, civil rights leader and politician.[127]
29
- Anita Carter, 66, American singer and member of the Carter family, complications of rheumatoid arthritis.[128]
- Martti Kosma, 72, Finnish football player and manager.[129]
- Anatoliy Solovyanenko, 66, Soviet operatic tenor, heart attack.
- André Soubiran, 89, French physician and novelist.[130]
- Neelan Tiruchelvam, 55, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, academic and politician, assassinated.
- Kunio Tsuji, 73, Japanese author, novelist, and scholar.
30
- Ko Tai Chuen, 74, Singaporean basketball player and Olympian.[131]
- George Moorse, 63, American-German film director, heart attack.[132]
- Hermann Panzo, 41, French athlete, stroke.[133]
- Linus Suryadi AG, 48, Indonesian writer and poet.
31
- Mirza Adeeb, 85, Pakistani writer of drama and short stories.[134]
- Marinus Kok, 83, Dutch prelate of the Catholic Church.[135]
- Rex Pilbeam, 91, Australian politician.
- Henry W. Sawyer, 80, American lawyer, civil rights activist and politician, lung cancer.
- Elena Zareschi, 83, Italian actress.
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