The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.
March 1999
1
- Ann Corio, 89, American burlesque stripper and actress, pneumonia.[1]
- Christine Glanville, 74, British puppeteer.[2]
- Enneüs Heerma, 54, Dutch politician, lung cancer.[3]
- Digger Kettle, 76, English footballer.[4]
- Harry Mather, 78, English football player and manager.[5]
- Jozo Matošić, 86, Yugoslav football player and coach.
- Steve Sinko, 89, American football player and coach.[6]
2
- David Ackles, 62, American singer-songwriter and child actor, lung cancer.[7]
- Leslie Edward Wostall Codd, 90, South African plant taxonomist.
- Kaushal Kishore, 56, Indian polymer chemist, cardiac arrest.
- Stuart Mossman, 56, American guitar maker and entertainer, heart attack.[8]
- Tommy Pearson, 85, Scottish football player and manager.[9]
- Dusty Springfield, 59, British traditional pop singer and entertainer, breast cancer.[10]
- Francisco Nunes Teixeira, 89, Mozambican Roman Catholic bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Quelimane (1955−1975).[11]
- Jack Webster, 80, Canadian journalist and radio / television personality.[12]
3
- Glennon Engleman, 72, United States Army veteran and hitman, diabetes.[13]
- Jackson C. Frank, 56, American folk musician, pneumonia and cardiac arrest.
- John Frawley, 98, Australian actor.
- Gerhard Herzberg, 94, German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist.[14]
- William McGonagle, 73, American naval officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.[15]
- Gian Vincenzo Moreni, 67, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
- Lee Philips, 72, American actor and film / television director, PSP.[16]
- Ling Zifeng, 81, Chinese film director.
4
- Harry Blackmun, 90, American lawyer, jurist and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.[17]
- Del Close, 64, American comedian and actor (The Blob, Next of Kin, The Untouchables), emphysema.[18]
- Richard Joseph Davis, 78, American politician.
- Eddie Dean, 91, American country singer-songwriter and actor, heart and lung disease.[19]
- Fritz Honegger, 81, Swiss politician.
- Miłosz Magin, 69, Polish composer and pianist, heart attack.[20]
- Teddy McRae, 91, American jazz tenor saxophonist and arranger.[21]
- Hawley Pratt, 87, American film director, animator and illustrator.[22]
- Karel van het Reve, 77, Dutch writer and literary historian and brother of writer Gerard Reve.[23]
5
- Avery Alexander, 88, American civil rights leader and politician.
- William Allis, 97, American theoretical physicist.[24]
- John Leland Atwood, 94, American engineer and aerospace executive.[25]
- Alfred Denning, Baron Denning, 100, English lawyer and judge.[26]
- Walter Diggelmann, 83, Swiss road bicycle racer.[27]
- John Figueroa, 78, Jamaican poet.[28]
- John Harkins, 66, American actor (Being There, Absence of Malice, Birdy).[29]
- Bob Hendren, 75, American gridiron football player.
- Maurice Jouvet, 76, French-Argentine actor.
- Richard Kiley, 76, American Emmy Award-winning film, television and stage actor, bone marrow disease.[30]
6
- Graham Armitage, 62, English actor.
- Rafael Celestino Benítez, 81, American submarine commander and admiral.[31]
- Klaus Gysi, 87, German communist journalist, publisher, and resistance member during World War II.
- Hiroshi Hamaya, 83, Japanese photographer.
- Loni Heuser, 91, German film actress.
- Branka Jurca, Slovene writer.
- Ferenc Kardos, 61, Hungarian film director, producer and screenwriter, heart attack.[32]
- Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, 67, emir of Bahrain (1961-1999), heart attack.[33]
- Venâncio da Silva Moura, 59, Angolan politician and diplomat.
- János Parti, 66, Hungarian sprint canoeist and Olympic champion.[34]
- Dennis Viollet, 65, English footballer.[35]
- Olof Widgren, 91, Swedish stage and film actor.
- Eric Wolf, 76, Austrian-American anthropologist and activist, liver cancer.[36]
7
- Friedrich Asinger, 91, Austrian chemist and academic.[37]
- Lowell Fulson, 77, American blues guitarist and songwriter.[38]
- Sidney Gottlieb, 80, American chemist and spymaster.[39]
- Kurt Hasse, 82, German cinematographer.[40]
- Antônio Houaiss, 83, Brazilian writer and lexicographer.
- Stanley Kubrick, 70, American film director and screenwriter (2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Dr. Strangelove), heart attack.[41]
- Ladislav Vodička, 68, Czech country music singer and songwriter.
8
- António Campos, 76, Portuguese film director.[42]
- Giovan Battista Carpi, 71, Italian comics artist.
- Adolfo Bioy Casares, 84, Argentine writer and journalist.[43]
- Peggy Cass, 74, American actress, comedian, and announcer, heart failure.[44]
- Joe DiMaggio, 84, American baseball player (New York Yankees), lung cancer.[45]
- Anne T. Hill, 82, American fashion designer, heart failure.
- Walter Kolm-Veltée, 88, Austrian film director.[46]
9
- Marcellino Gavilán, 89, Spanish equestrian and Olympic medalist.[47]
- Arnold Machin, 87, British artist and sculptor.[48]
- Hermann Merkin, 91, American businessman and philanthropist, heart failure.[49]
- Éliane Richepin, 88, French classical pianist.
- Harry Somers, 73, Canadian composer.[50]
10
- Zvi Fuchs, 81, Israeli football player.
- Oswaldo Guayasamín, 79, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor, heart attack.[51]
- Kusumagraj, 87, Indian poet, playwright and novelist.
- Adrian Love, 54, British radio presenter.[52]
- Valentino Mazzia, 77, American forensic anesthesiologist, cirrhosis.[53]
11
- Howell Conant, 82, American fashion photographer.[54]
- Peter Franken, 70, American physicist.
- Herbert Jasper, 92, Canadian psychologist, neurologist, and epileptologist.
- Jack Jones, 83, Scottish football player.
- Camille Laurin, 76, Canadian psychiatrist and politician, liver cancer.[55]
- Erich Natusch, 87, German sailor and Olympic medalist.[56]
- Stefan Schnabel, 87, German-American actor, heart attack.[57]
- Kaoru Tada, 38, Japanese manga artist, cerebral hemorrhage.
12
- John Archer, 75, British Army officer and Commander in Chief.
- Miloslav Holub, 84, Czech actor.
- William Jackson, 81, British Army general, military historian and author.[58]
- Sydney Lewis, 79, American businessman, philanthropist, and art collector.[59]
- Yehudi Menuhin, 82, American violinist and conductor, bronchitis.[60]
- Alf Murray, 83, Irish Gaelic footballer.
- Bidu Sayão, 96, Brazilian operatic soprano.[61]
13
- Lucienne Bloch, 90, Swiss-American artist.[62]
- Emmy Bridgwater, 92, English artist and poet.[63]
- Isidore de Souza, 64, Beninese priest, heart attack.[64]
- Lee Falk, 88, American cartoonist (The Phantom, Mandrake the Magician).[65]
- Seán Fortune, 45, Irish Catholic priest, and child molester, suicide.
- Bob Hollway, 73, American football player and coach.[66]
- Garson Kanin, 86, American writer and director of plays and films.[67]
- Anton Raadik, 82, Estonian-American boxer.[68]
- Kurt Von Hess, 56, Canadian wrestler known as Kurt Von Hess, heart attack.[69]
- Christopher York, 89, British politician.
14
- Kirk Alyn, 88, American actor (Superman, Blackhawk, Call of the Rockies), Alzheimer's disease.[70]
- Tex Blaisdell, 78, American cartoonist (Little Orphan Annie).[71]
- John Broome, 85, American comic book writer for DC Comics.[72]
- Gregg Diamond, 49, American pianist, drummer, songwriter, and producer, gastrointestinal bleeding.
- Kjell Holmström, 82, Swedish bobsledder and Olympian.[73]
- Abraham Kurland, 86, Danish wrestler and Olympic silver medalist.[74]
- Robert Q. Marston, 76, American physician and research scientist.[75]
- Marius Müller, 40, Norwegian musician, television host and record producer, traffic collision.
15
- Guy D'Artois, 81, Canadian army officer and SOE agent.
- Harry Callahan, 86, American photographer.[76]
- Rosemary Nelson, 40, Northern Irish human rights solicitor, killed by Ulster loyalists.[77]
- Ray Russell, 74, American writer of short stories, novels and screenplays, complications from a stroke.[78]
16
- Trygve Bull, 93, Norwegian lecturer and politician.
- Harry Colville, 75, Scottish football player and manager.
- Hendrik de Wit, 89, Dutch botanist.[79]
- Peter Farrell, 76, Irish footballer.[80]
- Ignazio Gardella, 93, Italian architect and designer.
- Gratien Gélinas, 89, Canadian author, playwright, actor and producer.[81]
- Åsta Holth, 95, Norwegian novelist, poet and short story writer.
- Vijay Kumar Kapahi, 55, Indian astrophysicist.[82]
- John Liddell, 65, Scottish football player.
- Gustav Lohse, 87, German film editor.[83]
- Willie Toner, 69, Scottish football player and manager.
17
- Lloyd Appleton, 93, American wrestler.[84]
- Boleslaw Barlog, 92, German stage, film, and opera director.[85]
- Paul Campbell, 76, American film actor.
- Frankie Curry, Northern Irish Ulster loyalist, shot.
- Nicolae Dumitrescu, 77, Romanian footballer and manager.[86]
- Ernest Gold, 77, Austrian-American film composer (Exodus, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Judgment at Nuremberg), stroke.[87]
- Herbert Earl Grier, 87, American electrical engineer and business executive.
- Rod Hull, 63, British entertainer and comedian, fall.[88]
- Humberto Fernández Morán, 75, Venezuelan research scientist.[89]
- Hildegard Peplau, 89, American nursing theorist.[90]
- Jean Pierre-Bloch, 93, French politician and resistance member during World War II.[91]
- Eric Stanton, 72, American underground cartoonist and fetish art pioneer.[92]
18
- Patricia Bowman, 90, American ballerina, musical theatre actress, and television personality.
- Werner Danz, 75, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
- George Hinterhoeller, 71, Canadian boat designer and builder, heart attack.
- Karl Litschi, 86, Swiss road bicycle racer.[93]
- Gilbert Ralston, 87, British-American screenwriter, congestive heart failure.[94]
- Russell Ross, 69, American professor of pathology.[95]
- Gerlando Sciascia, 65, American mobster and member of the Bonanno crime family, shot.[96]
19
- Tofilau Eti Alesana, 74, Samoan politician.
- William F. Bringle, 85, American four-star admiral and World War II aviator, pneumonia.[97]
- Bob Cato, 76, American photographer and graphic designer, Alzheimer's disease.[98]
- Joseph DePietro, 84, American weightlifter, 1948 Olympic champion.[99]
- José Agustín Goytisolo, 70, Spanish poet, scholar and essayist, suicide.
- Peppermint Harris, 73, American blues singer and guitarist.[100]
- Juanita Reina, 73, Spanish actress and copla singer.[101]
- Jaime Sabines, 72, Mexican contemporary poet.[102]
20
- Elsa Barraine, 89, French composer.[103]
- Patrick Heron, 79, British artist, critic, writer, and polemicist.[104]
- Roy L. Johnson, 93, American admiral.[105]
- David Anthony Klarner, 58, American mathematician and author.
- Mickey S. Michaels, 67, American set decorator (Airport, The Hunt for Red October, Crimson Tide).
- Paul Toth, 63, American baseball player, heart attack.[106]
- Igor Vladimirov, 80, Soviet film and theater actor and director.
21
- Mary Ainsworth, 85, American-Canadian developmental psychologist, stroke.[107]
- Henry V. Graham, 82, American Army general.[108]
- Jean Guitton, 97, French Catholic philosopher and theologian.[109]
- John Linus Paschang, 103, American Roman Catholic bishop.
- George Reedy, 81, American White House Press Secretary under President Lyndon B. Johnson (1964-1965).[110]
- Ernie Wise, 73, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise), heart failure.[111]
22
- Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, 85, British historian.[112]
- C. Gregg Singer, 89, American historian and theologian.
- Sandy Singleton, 84, English cricket player.[113]
- David Strickland, 29, American actor, suicide by hanging.[114]
23
- Scott D. Anderson, 33, American pilot, inventor, and author, plane crash.[115]
- Luis María Argaña, 66, Paraguayan politician and Supreme Court judge, murdered.
- Osmond Borradaile, 100, Canadian cameraman, cinematographer and veteran of World War I and II.[116]
- Koentjaraningrat, Indonesian anthropologist.
- Sergio Montanari, 61, Italian film editor.
- Percy Samaraweera, 70, Sri Lankan politician.
- Willi Stadel, 86, German gymnast and Olympic champion.[117]
- Kazue Takahashi, 70, Japanese voice actress, multiple myeloma.
- Petrus Tun, 63, Micronesian politician.
24
- Pierre H. Dubois, 81, Dutch writer and critic.[118]
- Ellen Hall, 75, American actress.
- Tunde Idiagbon, 56, Nigerian Army general.
- Henry Brandon, Baron Brandon of Oakbrook, 78, British judge.
- Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, 97, German leader of the nazi National Socialist Women's League.[119]
- Birdie Tebbetts, 86, American baseball player, manager and scout.[120]
- Val Valentin, 79, American recording engineer.
- Mighty Joe Young, 71, American chicago blues guitarist, pneumonia.
- Osman Örek, 73, Turkish Cypriot politician, prime minister (1978).[121]
25
- Ryszard Bakst, 72, Polish pianist and piano teacher.[122]
- Viacheslav Chornovil, 61, Ukrainian politician, car crash.
- Cal Ripken Sr., 63, American baseball coach and manager, lung cancer.[123]
- Doug Sherrington, 84, Australian politician.
26
- Harry Hodson, 92, English economist and editor.[124]
- David Holliday, 61, American actor (Thunderbirds), cancer.
- Reşit Kaynak, 46, Turkish football player.
- Eva Kolstad, 80, Norwegian politician and gender equality activist.
- Andrzej Konopka, 64, Polish Olympic gymnast.[125]
- Margaret Mason, 58, American actress, heart attack.[126]
- Ananda Shankar, 56, Bengali musician, heart attack.[127]
27
- Michael Aris, 53, English historian, prostate cancer.[128]
- Ernestina de Champourcín, 93, Spanish poet.[129]
- Rolf Ludwig, 73, German actor and voice actor.[130]
- Nahum Stelmach, 62, Israeli footballer and manager.
- Oskar Øksnes, 77, Norwegian politician.
28
- Jens Book-Jenssen, 88, Norwegian pop singer , songwriter, revue artist and theatre director.
- Eva Franco, 92, Argentine actress, pneumonia.
- Franco Gasparri, 50, Italian actor, respiratory failure.[131]
- Angelo J. LaPietra, 79, Chicago mobster and member of the Chicago Outfit.
- Gil Perkins, 91, Australian actor.
- Freaky Tah, 27, MC, hype man and hip hop promoter, shot.
- Bill Touhey, 93, Canadian ice hockey player.[132]
- Doody Townley, 73, New Zealand harness racer.
- Jim Turner, 54, American editor and publisher.
29
- Lucien Aigner, 97, Hungarian photojournalist.[133]
- Dayendranath Burrenchobay, 80, Mauritian politician, Governor-General.
- Helmer Dahl, 90, Norwegian electrical engineer and researcher.
- Raimo Kuuluvainen, 43, Finnish football player.[134]
- James Penberthy, 81, Australian composer and journalist.[135]
- Brock Speer, 79, American gospel singer (Speer Family).[136]
- Joe Williams, 80, American jazz singer.[137]
- Gyula Zsengellér, 83, Hungarian footballer.
30
- Albert Coppé, 87, Belgian politician and economist.[138]
- Michel Crépeau, 68, French politician, heart attack.[139]
- Marcel de Wolf, 79, French gymnast.[140]
- Michel Etcheverry, 79, French actor.[141]
- Gary Morton, 74, American stand-up comedian, lung cancer.[142]
- Jens Müller, 81, Norwegian fighter pilot and POW during World War II and author.
- Igor Netto, 69, Soviet–Russian footballer.[143]
- Terry Wilson, 75, American actor.[144]
31
- David Brooks, 83, American actor, singer, director, and producer.[145]
- Aleksandr Filatov, 71, Soviet alpine skier.[146]
- Yuri Knorozov, 76, Soviet linguist, pneumonia.
- Herbert H. Rowen, 82, American historian.[147]
- Jerry Toth, 70, Canadian musician, composer, and record producer.
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