Deaths in December 1999


Deaths in December 1999


The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.

December 1999

1

  • Gene Baker, 74, American baseball player.
  • Ctirad Benáček, 75, Czech basketball player.
  • Stephen Brooks, 57, American actor (The F.B.I., Days of Our Lives, The Interns), heart attack.
  • Fritz Fischer, 91, German historian.
  • Pop Gates, 82, American basketball player.
  • Santidev Ghosh, 89, Indian author, singer, actor and dancer.
  • Luigi Granelli, 70, Italian politician.
  • Marilyn Harris, 75, American child actress (Frankenstein), cancer.
  • Jaakko Jalas, 79, Finnish botanist.
  • Tomás Pablo, 78, Chilean politician and architect.
  • Victor Perlo, 87, American Marxist economist.
  • Massimo Pupillo, 70, Italian film director.
  • Alexander Tatarenko, 74, Soviet Russian painter and art teacher.

2

  • Joey Adams, 88, American comedian, vaudevillian, radio host, and author.
  • Charlie Byrd, 74, American jazz guitarist, lung cancer.
  • Matt Cohen, 56, Canadian writer, lung cancer.
  • Giorgio Cristallini, 78, Italian screenwriter and film director.
  • Daniel J. Elazar, 65, American professor of political science.
  • Vladimir Kravtsov, 50, Soviet and Russian handball player and Olympic champion.
  • Ethelmary Oakland, 90, American child actress.
  • Mike Ockrent, 53, British stage director.

3

  • John Archer, 84, American actor (White Heat, Blue Hawaii, Lassie), lung cancer.
  • Enrique Cadícamo, 99, Argentine tango lyricist, poet and novelist, heart failure.
  • Anne Francine, 82, American actress (Harper Valley PTA, Crocodile Dundee, All My Children) and cabaret singer, stroke.
  • Conrad Hunte, 67, Barbadian cricketer, heart attack.
  • Scatman John, 57, American jazz musician ("Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)", "Scatman's World") and poet, lung cancer.
  • Madeline Kahn, 57, American actress (Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Clue), Tony winner (1993), ovarian cancer.
  • Boris Kuznetsov, 71, Russian and Soviet football player.
  • Tami Mauriello, 76, American boxer and actor (On the Waterfront).
  • Edmond Safra, 67, Lebanese Brazilian banker, smoke inhalation injury.
  • Walter Schleger, 70, Austrian football player.
  • Jarl Wahlström, 81, Finnish salvationist, 12th General of the Salvation Army.

4

  • Heinrich C. Berann, 84, Austrian painter and cartographer.
  • Rose Bird, 63, American first female justice, breast cancer.
  • Charlotte H. Bruner, 82, American scholar.
  • Sylvester Clarke, 44, West Indian cricketer, heart attack.
  • Slobodan Dimitrijević, 58, Serbian television and film actor.
  • Bert Hoffmeister, 92, Canadian Army officer, businessman, and conservationist.
  • Nilde Iotti, 79, Italian politician of the Communist Party, heart attack.
  • Barry Mahon, 78, American film director, cinematographer and producer.
  • Daishōhō Masami, 32, Japanese sumo wrestler, pancreatic cancer.
  • Sue Partridge, 69, British tennis player.
  • John Douglas Pringle, 87, Australian journalist.
  • Nélida Roca, 70, Argentinian showbusiness diva and sex symbol, heart attack.
  • Edward Vesala, 54, Finnish avant-garde jazz drummer, congestive heart failure.
  • Alick Walker, 74, British palaeontologist.

5

  • Claude Ballot-Léna, 63, French racing driver, cancer.
  • Edvin Biuković, 30, Croatian comics artist, brain tumor.
  • Joseph Andorfer Ewan, 90, American botanist, naturalist, and historian of botany and natural history.
  • Lajos Faluvégi, 75, Hungarian politician.
  • Nathan Jacobson, 89, Polish-American mathematician.
  • Bobby Marchan, 69, American R&B singer-songwriter, liver cancer.
  • Edoardo Martino, 89, Italian politician.
  • Bohumil Musil, 77, Czech football player and manager.
  • Masaru Sato, 71, Japanese film composer (The Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, Yojimbo).
  • Kendall Taylor, 94, British pianist.

6

  • Paul Bacon, 92, French politician.
  • Alexander Baron, 82, British author and screenwriter.
  • Gwyn Jones, 92, Welsh novelist and story writer.
  • Martha Sharp, 94, American unitarian.
  • Robert A. Swanson, American venture capitalist, brain cancer.
  • Stan Wallace, 68, American gridiron football player (Chicago Bears).

7

  • Kenny Baker, 78, British jazz musician.
  • Darling Légitimus, 92, French actress.
  • Alfons Moog, 84, German football player.
  • William Wiley, 68, South African cricket player.

8

  • Ernst Günther, 66, Swedish actor and director, diabetes.
  • Rupert Hart-Davis, 92, English publisher.
  • Wally Hebert, 92, American baseball player.
  • František Ipser, 72, Czech football manager and player.
  • Péter Kuczka, 76, Hungarian writer, poet and science fiction editor.
  • Everett Carll Ladd, 62, American political scientist, heart failure.
  • Ange Le Strat, 81, French racing cyclist.
  • Pupella Maggio, 89, Italian film actress, cerebral hemorrhage.
  • Richard P. Powell, 91, American novelist.
  • Antônio Dias dos Santos, 51, Brazilian football player.
  • Néstor Togneri, 57, Argentine football player.

9

  • Oudom Khattigna, 69, Laotian communist politician, Vice President (1998-1999).
  • Whitey Kurowski, 81, American baseball player.
  • Yakov Rylsky, 71, Soviet sabre fencer and Olympic champion, liver cirrhosis.
  • Shinkichi Takemura, 67, Japanese Olympic speed skater.
  • Cecil H. Williamson, 90, British screenwriter, editor and film director.

10

  • Charles Assalé, 88, Cameroonian politician.
  • Antonio Blanco, 87, Spanish and American painter, heart and kidney disease.
  • Rick Danko, 56, Canadian musician (The Band), heart failure.
  • Pietro De Vico, 88, Italian film actor, stroke.
  • Ed Dorn, 70, American poet, pancreatic cancer.
  • Lex Goudsmit, 86, Dutch actor, stroke.
  • Shirley Hemphill, 52, American comedian and actress (What's Happening!!), renal failure.
  • Jean-Claude Michel, 74, French actor and voice actor.
  • Mike Randall, 80, British journalist and editor.
  • Niccolò Tucci, 91, Short story writer and novelist.
  • Franjo Tuđman, 77, Croatian politician, President of Croatia (since 1990), cancer.

11

  • Charles Earland, 58, American jazz organist, heart failure.
  • Enrica Follieri, 73, Italian philologist and paleographer.
  • Ed Jones, 87, American politician.
  • Jack Oldfield, 100, British landowner and politician.
  • Harry Wüstenhagen, 71, German film actor.
  • Hans K. Ziegler, 88, German-American satellite engineer.

12

  • James Balfour, 71, Canadian politician.
  • Huelet Benner, 82, American multi-discipline pistol shooter and Olympic champion.
  • Paul Cadmus, 94, American artist.
  • Gordon Chater, 77, English Australian comedian and actor.
  • Gaston Diehl, 87, French professor of art history and an art critic.
  • Joseph Heller, 76, American novelist (Catch-22), heart attack.
  • Ladislav Józsa, 51, Slovak football player.
  • Matty Kemp, 92, American film actor.
  • Luz Oliveros-Belardo, 93, Filipina pharmaceutical chemist.
  • Ignacio Quirós, 68, Argentine actor, cancer.
  • Leo Smit, 78, American composer and pianist, heart failure.
  • John W. R. Taylor, 77, British aviation expert.
  • Claes Thelander, 83, Swedish actor.

13

  • Peter Adams, 61, New Zealand-Australian actor, cancer.
  • Jill Craigie, 88, English documentary film director, screenwriter and feminist, heart failure.
  • Stane Dolanc, 74, Yugoslav communist politician, cerebral stroke.
  • Maury Gertsman, 92, American cinematographer.
  • Tarmo Uusivirta, 42, Finnish professional boxer, suicide.
  • Robert Wagenhoffer, 39, American figure skater, complications of AIDS.
  • Ian Watt, 82, English literary critic and academic.
  • Lady Mary Whitley, 75, British noblewoman.

14

  • Sven Berlin, 88, English painter, writer and sculptor.
  • Sándor Holczreiter, 53, Hungarian weightlifter and Olympic medalist.
  • Douglas Leigh, 92, American advertising executive.
  • Walt Levinsky, 70, American big band player, composer, arranger and bandleader, brain cancer.
  • J. W. Lockett, 62, American football player.

15

  • Georges Aeby, 86, Swiss football player.
  • Rune Andréasson, 74, Swedish comic creator, cancer.
  • Francis L. K. Hsu, 90, Chinese-American anthropologist.
  • Eddie Kazak, 79, American baseball player.
  • León Martinetti, 73, Argentine basketball player.

16

  • Henry Helstoski, 74, American politician.
  • Dorit Kreysler, 90, Austrian film actress.
  • Ruth Welting, 50, American operatic soprano.
  • Jorge Tuero, Venezuelan television actor and comedian, killed during the Vargas tragedy.

17

  • Rex Allen, 78, American actor and singer-songwriter, traffic accident.
  • Leo P. Carlin, 91, American politician.
  • Ken W. Clawson, 63, American journalist and spokesman for U.S. President Richard Nixon, heart attack.
  • Paolo Dezza, 98, Italian Jesuit cardinal of the Catholic church.
  • François Dyrek, 66, French actor, heart attack.
  • Rufus Lewis, 80, American baseball pitcher.
  • Jürgen Moser, 71, German-American mathematician.
  • Grover Washington, Jr., 56, American jazz saxophonist, heart attack.
  • C. Vann Woodward, 91, American historian and Pulitzer prize winner.

18

  • Þór Beck, 59, Icelandic footballer.
  • Robert Bresson, 98, French film director.
  • Robert Dougall, 86, English broadcaster and ornithologist.
  • Joe Higgs, 59, Jamaican reggae musician, cancer.
  • Dennis W. Sciama, 73, British physicist.
  • John Southgate, 73, British Anglican priest.
  • Benito Stefanelli, 71, Italian film actor, stuntman and weapons master.
  • Bertha Swirles, 96, British physicist.
  • Logan Wright, 66, American pediatric psychologist, heart attack.

19

  • Bal Dani, 66, Indian cricket player.
  • Brendan Hansen, 77, Australian politician.
  • Desmond Llewelyn, 85, British actor (From Russia with Love, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Follyfoot), traffic collision.
  • Marion Worth, 69, American country music singer, complications of emphysema.

20

  • Dick Bertell, 64, American baseball player, influenza.
  • Riccardo Freda, 90, Italian film director.
  • Mario Carreño Morales, 86, Cuban painter.
  • Carin Nilsson, 95, Swedish freestyle swimmer and Olympic medalist.
  • Irving Rapper, 101, American film director.
  • Hank Snow, 85, Canadian country musician, heart failure.
  • James Wainwright, 61, American actor.

21

  • John Arnatt, 82, British actor.
  • Bill Edwards, 81, American actor, rodeo rider, and artist.
  • Michael P. Malone, 59, American historian, cardiomyopathy, heart attack.
  • Bernard Smith, 92, American literary editor, film producer and literary critic.
  • Frank Stanley, 77, American cinematographer (Magnum Force, 10, Grease 2).
  • Jalil Ziapour, 79, Iranian painter and academic.

22

  • Per Aabel, 97, Norwegian actor, artist, dancer and choreographer.
  • Hans Frankenthal, 73, German Holocaust survivor.
  • Tamara Lees, 75, English film actress.
  • Ola Oni, 66, Nigerian political economist, socialist and human right activist.
  • Louis Pohl, 84, American painter, illustrator, printmaker and cartoonist.
  • Benny Quick, 55, German pop and schlager singer, suicide.

23

  • Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield, 86, British Army officer and courtier of Queen Elizabeth II.
  • John Paton Davies, Jr., 91, American diplomat and Medal of Freedom recipient.
  • Wallace Diestelmeyer, 73, Canadian figure skater and Olympic medalist.
  • Timur Gaidar, 73, Soviet and Russian rear admiral, writer and journalist.
  • Silvio Gava, 98, Italian politician.
  • Lois Hamilton, 56, American actress (Summer Rental, The Ropers, The Cannonball Run), suicide.
  • Miroslav Ivanov, 70, Popular Czech nonfiction writer.
  • Vladimir Kondrashin, 70, Soviet and Russian basketball player and coach.
  • Marcel Landowski, 84, French composer, biographer and arts administrator.
  • Billy McGlen, 78, English football player.
  • Eirene White, Baroness White, 90, British politician and journalist.

24

  • Kadathanat Madhavi Amma, 90, Indian Malayalam poet, novelist and short story writer.
  • Tomasz Beksiński, 41, Polish radio presenter, suicide.
  • Peter Boroffka, 67, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
  • Bill Bowerman, 88, American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike, Inc.
  • Reggie Carter, 42, American basketball player.
  • Billy Davenport, 68, American drummer.
  • Maurice Couve de Murville, 92, French politician, 152nd Prime Minister of France.
  • João Figueiredo, 81, 30th President of Brazil, cardiovascular disease.
  • Tito Guízar, 91, American singer and actor, pneumonia.
  • Jiang Hua, 92, President of the Supreme Court of China.
  • Joseph McGahn, 82, American politician.
  • William C. Schneider, 76, American aerospace engineer and NASA mission director.
  • Grete Stern, 95, German-Argentine photographer.

25

  • Arne Ileby, 86, Norwegian football player.
  • Peter Jeffrey, 70, English actor, prostate cancer.
  • Zully Moreno, 79, Argentine film actress, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Michael Bamidele Otiko, 65, Nigerian politician and educator.
  • Alfonso Lastras Ramírez, 75, Mexican lawyer and politician.

26

  • Benny Bartlett, 75, American child actor and musician.
  • Vitold Belevitch, 78, Belgian mathematician and electrical engineer.
  • Ola Skjåk Bræk, 87, Norwegian banker and politician.
  • Prunella Clough, 80, British artist, cancer.
  • Fred Draper, 74, American actor (Faces, A Woman Under the Influence, Columbo).
  • David Duncan, 86, American screenwriter and novelist.
  • Leah Leneman, 55, American historian and cookery writer.
  • Curtis Mayfield, 57, American singer-songwriter ("Superfly", "Move On Up", "Freddie's Dead") and record producer, complications from diabetes.
  • Shankar Dayal Sharma, 81, 9th president of India, heart attack.

27

  • Leslie Brown, 87, British Anglican prelate.
  • Pierre Clémenti, 57, French actor, liver cancer.
  • Leonard Goldenson, 94, American TV and radio executive.
  • Michael McDowell, 49, American novelist and screenwriter (Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Thinner), AIDS-related illness.
  • Dick Peabody, 74, American actor, prostate cancer.
  • Horst Matthai Quelle, 87, German philosopher.

28

  • Josephine Barnes, 87, English obstetrician and gynaecologist.
  • Joachim Böhmer, 59, East German rower and Olympic medalist.
  • Franco Castellano, 74, Italian screenwriter and film director.
  • Donald Cotton, 71, British writer for radio and television.
  • Louis Féraud, 78, French fashion designer and artist, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Kenneth Hudson, 83, British journalist and broadcaster.
  • Larry Dale Lee, 41, American financial and economic journalist, stabbed.
  • Clayton Moore, 85, American actor (The Lone Ranger), heart attack.
  • Mike Thresher, 68, English football player.

29

  • Robert Hoffstetter, 91, French taxonomist and herpetologist.
  • Edward Hollamby, 78, English architect and town planner, heart disease.
  • Ferenc Rabár, 70, Hungarian politician.
  • Leon Radzinowicz, 93, Polish-British criminologist.
  • José Cláudio dos Reis, 60, Brazilian sports administrator.
  • Gerard Veringa, 75, Dutch politician.
  • Jerzy Waldorff, 89, Polish baron, TV personality and writer.

30

  • Tom Aherne, 80, Irish footballer and hurler.
  • Clint Albright, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.
  • Arthur Bassett, 85, Welsh rugby player.
  • Kjølv Egeland, 81, Norwegian politician.
  • Anna Fehér, 78, Hungarian gymnast and Olympic silver medallist.
  • Sarah Knauss, 119, American supercentenarian and oldest person in the world.
  • Fritz Leonhardt, 90, German structural engineer.
  • Nicholas Marangello, 98, American mobster (Bonanno crime family).
  • Louis Michel, 76, French mathematical physicist.

31

  • Conrado Balweg, 57, Filipino Roman Catholic priest and communist revolutionary, shot.
  • Dean Elliott, 82, American television and film composer, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Ferdinand Finne, 89, Norwegian author, painter, theater decorator and costume designer.
  • William Hughes, Baron Hughes, 88, British politician.
  • Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi, 85, Indian Islamic scholar and author.
  • Solomiia Pavlychko, 41, Ukrainian literary critic, philosopher, and feminist, carbon monoxide poisoning.
  • Elliot Richardson, 79, American politician and diplomat, cerebral haemorrhage.
  • Hamako Watanabe, 89, Japanese singer, cerebral infarction.

References


Text submitted to CC-BY-SA license. Source: Deaths in December 1999 by Wikipedia (Historical)



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