Deaths in July 1999

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.
• Edward Dmytryk, 90, Canadian-born Canadian film director, heart and kidney failure.
• Forrest Mars, 95, American businessman and candy magnate.
• Guy Mitchell, 72, American traditional pop singer and actor, complications of surgery.
• Jack Moroney, 81, Australian cricket player.
• Ernst Nievergelt, 89, Swiss cyclist and Olympic medalist.
• Joshua Nkomo, 82, Zimbabwean politician, prostate cancer.
• Sylvia Sidney, 88, American film actress (Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, Beetlejuice, An Early Frost), oesophageal cancer.
• Roman Tmetuchl, 73, Palauan political leader.
• Stig Westerberg, 80, Swedish conductor and pianist.
• Willie Whitelaw, 81, British politician.

2

• Viktor Chebrikov, 76, Soviet head of the KGB (1982–1988).
• George Deiderich, 63, American football player.
• George Druxman, 69, Canadian football player.
• Xavier Gélin, 53, French actor and film producer, cancer.
• Jack Plumley, 88, British Anglican priest, egyptologist and academic.
• Mario Puzo, 78, American novelist (The Godfather) and screenwriter (Superman, The Cotton Club), Oscar winner (1973, 1975), heart failure.
• 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.
• Yueh Feng, 90, Chinese film director and screenwriter.
• Ibragim Gasanbekov, 29, Azerbaijani football player, traffic collision.
• 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.
• Jack Vincent, 95, English ornithologist.

4

• Ronny Graham, 79, American actor, theater director, and writer, liver disease.
• Ruby Johnson, 63, American soul singer.
• Mark O'Brien, 49, American journalist, poet, and advocate for the disabled.
• Jack Watson, 84, English actor, leukemia.

5

• Len Butterfield, 85, New Zealand cricket player.
• Jean-Pierre Darras, 71, French actor, cancer.
• Joan Kemp-Welch, 92, British stage and film actress.
• C. Walton Lillehei, 80, American surgeon and open-heart surgery pioneer.
• Harald Philipp, 78, German film director, screenwriter and actor.
• Roberta Sherwood, 86, American singer.
• Thea Tewi, 97, German-American sculptor and lingerie designer.

6

• Bernardo Gandulla, 83, Argentine football player and coach.
• Gary M. Heidnik, 55, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• M. L. Jaisimha, 60, Indian cricket player, lung cancer.
• Pisith Pilika, 34, Cambodian ballet dancer and actress, shot.
• Joaquín Rodrigo, 97, Spanish composer and pianist.
• Sherley Anne Williams, 54, American novelist, poet and professor.
• Barry Winchell, 21, United States Army infantry soldier, murdered.

7

• Emilio Sánchez Font, 78, Cuban-American artist.
• James Gahagan, American abstract expressionist painter.
• Brima Kamara, 27, Sierra Leonean football player.
• Ryu Mitsuse, 71, Japanese novelist, science fiction writer, and essayist.
• 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.
• Mavis Thorpe Clark, 90, Australian novelist and writer for children.
• Pete Conrad, 69, American astronaut, motorcycle accident.
• Allen Lee Davis, 54, American murderer, execution by electric chair.
• Frank Lubin, 89, Lithuanian-American basketball player.
• Malcolm Mackay, 79, Australian politician, traffic collision.
• Robert Morrison, 90, American attorney and politician.
• Elemér Terták, 80, Hungarian figure skater and Olympian.
• Shafik Wazzan, 74, Lebanese politician.
• Mehdi Haeri Yazdi, 76, Iranian philosopher and Shia Islamic cleric.

9

• Karl Adam, 75, German football player.
• Robert de Cotret, 55, Canadian politician.
• James L. Farmer, Jr., 79, American civil rights activist, complications from diabetes.
• 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.

10

• John Scott-Ellis, 9th Baron Howard de Walden, 86, British peer and thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder.
• Walter R. Evans, 79, American control theorist.
• Gil Johnson, 75, American gridiron football player.
• Ulla Lindström, 89, Swedish journalist and politician.

11

• Burton Dreben, 71, American philosopher.
• 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.
• Everett Greenbaum, 79, American television and film writer and actor.
• Henry Kimbro, 87, American Negro league baseball player.
• 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.
• Alex Gordon, 82, Welsh architect.
• Harvey Jackins, 83, American founder and principal theorist of Re-evaluation Counseling.
• 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.
• 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.
• Muhammetnazar Gapurow, 77, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR (1969 – 1985).
• Yevgeny Goryansky, 70, Russian football player and football coach.
• 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.
• Hugh Gallarneau, 82, American gridiron football player (Chicago Bears).
• Gene Hart, 68, American sportscaster for the Philadelphia Flyers, kidney and liver failure.
• Władysław Hasior, 71, Polish sculptor.
• Abdul Ahad Karzai, 77, Afghan politician, homicide.
• Umyar Mavlikhanov, 61, Soviet fencer and Olympic champion.
• Gar Samuelson, 41, American drummer (Megadeth), liver failure.
• Trudi Schoop, 95, Swiss-American dance therapy pioneer.
• John R. Steelman, 99, American academic and first White House Chief of Staff.
• Pietro Tarchini, 77, Swiss professional cyclist.
• 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.
• Simon Ramsay, 16th Earl of Dalhousie, 84, British land owner, politician and colonial governor.
• Horacio Podestá, 87, Argentine rower and Olympic medalist.
• 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.
• John F. Kennedy Jr., 38, American journalist, lawyer, and son of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, plane crash.
• Alan Macnaughton, 95, Canadian parliamentarian and Speaker of the House.
• André Martinet, 91, French linguist.
• Franco Montoro, 83, Brazilian politician and lawyer.
• Hamid Nitgi, 78, Iranian poet, writer and author.
• Alfred Raoul, 60, Congolese politician, Prime Minister (1968-1969).
• Whit Wyatt, 91, American baseball player, pneumonia.
• 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.
• Donal McCann, 56, Irish actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Kevin Newman, 65, Australian soldier and politician, systemic lupus erythematosus.
• Kevin Wilkinson, 41, English drummer, suicide.
• Patricia Zipprodt, 74, American costume designer, cancer.

18

• Meir Ariel, 57, Israeli singer-songwriter, boutonneuse fever.
• 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.
• Tody Smith, 50, American gridiron football player.

19

• Donna Allen, 78, American pioneer feminist, civil rights activist, historian and economist.
• Jesús Codina, 60, Spanish basketball player and coach.
• Cavernario Galindo, 75, Mexican luchador and film actor.
• Ludwik Gross, 94, Polish-American virologist, stomach cancer.
• 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.
• Jean-Jacques Lamboley, 78, French cyclist.
• James Muirhead, 74, Australian judge and Royal Commissioner.

21

• Kurt Burris, 67, American gridiron football player.
• Peter Carter, 69, British children's author.
• Jun Etō, 66, Japanese literary critic, suicide.
• David Ogilvy, 88, British advertising tycoon, the "Father of Advertising".
• Kim Pyong-sik, 80, North Korean politician.

22

• Gennadiy Agapov, 65, Soviet and Russian race walker and Olympian.
• Abelardo Díaz Alfaro, 82, Puerto Rican author.
• Howard Arkley, 48, Australian artist, accidental overdose.
• Claudio Rodríguez García, 65, Spanish poet.
• 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.
• Josef Holub, 69, Czech botanist and pteridologist, heart attack.
• Frank Minis Johnson, 80, United States district judge, pneumonia.
• Kelvin Lancaster, 74, Australian mathematical economist.
• Paul Lucier, 68, Canadian businessman and politician, bone cancer.
• Emma Tenayuca, 82, Mexican American labor leader, and educator, Alzheimer's disease.
• Dmitri Tertyshny, 22, Russian ice hockey defenseman, boating accident.
• Stanley Tretick, 78, American photojournalist.

24

• Alexander Abian, 76, Iranian-born Armenian-American mathematician.
• Le Quang Dao, 77, Vietnamese politician.
• Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch, 89, French scientist, translator and writer.
• Demetrius DuBose, 28, American football player, shot by police.
• Albert Leake, 69, English footballer.
• Bijaya Malla, 74, Nepalese poet, novelist and playwright.
• Don Martin, 79, American basketball player and coach.
• Rona McKenzie, 76, New Zealand cricket player.
• Henk Pellikaan, 88, Dutch football player.

25

• Martin Agronsky, 84, American journalist and television host, congestive heart failure.
• Princess Iskander, 82, last member of the Russian House of Romanov.
• Pentti Lammio, 79, Finnish speed skater and Olympic medalsit.
• Raul Manglapus, 80, Filipino politician, throat cancer.

26

• Walter Jackson Bate, 81, American literary critic and biographer.
• Béla Bay, 92, Hungarian Olympic épée and foil fencer.
• Philippa Gail, 56, British actress, cancer.
• Phedon Gizikis, 82, Greek army general and president under the Junta.
• Alan Karcher, 56, American politician.
• Qian Linzhao, 92, Chinese physicist.
• Joseph Morvan, 74, French road bicycle racer.
• Paul Rickards, 73, American gridiron football player.
• John W. N. Watkins, 74, English philosopher and professor of Economics, heart attack.

27

• Aleksandr Aleksandrov, 86, Soviet/Russian mathematician, physicist and philosopher.
• Ronald Backus, 77, British sailor and Olympic medalist.
• Matjaž Cvikl, 32, Slovenian football player, cancer.
• Louis Déprez, 78, French racing cyclist.
• Harry Edison, 83, American jazz trumpeter.
• Amaryllis Fleming, 73, British cello performer and teacher.
• Elías Jácome, 53, Ecuadorian football referee.
• Armand Le Moal, 85, French racing cyclist.
• Mahlathini, 61, South African mbaqanga singer, complications of diabetes.
• Malachi Martin, 78, Irish-American Catholic priest and novelist, fall.
• Michael Winkelman, 53, American child actor (The Real McCoys).

28

• Doris Carter, 87, Australian military officer, public servant, and Olympic athlete.
• Trygve Haavelmo, 87, Norwegian economist.
• Maxim Munzuk, 89, Tuvan actor.
• Francisco Risiglione, 82, Argentine boxer and Olympic medalist.
• Carlos Romero, 71, Uruguayan football player.
• Gerd Springer, 72, Austrian football player and coach.
• Puey Ungpakorn, 83, Thai economist.
• S. Howard Woodson, 83, American pastor, civil rights leader and politician.

29

• Anita Carter, 66, American singer and member of the Carter family, complications of rheumatoid arthritis.
• Martti Kosma, 72, Finnish football player and manager.
• Anatoliy Solovyanenko, 66, Soviet operatic tenor, heart attack.
• André Soubiran, 89, French physician and novelist.
• 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.
• George Moorse, 63, American-German film director, heart attack.
• Hermann Panzo, 41, French athlete, stroke.
• Linus Suryadi AG, 48, Indonesian writer and poet.

31

• Mirza Adeeb, 85, Pakistani writer of drama and short stories.
• Marinus Kok, 83, Dutch prelate of the Catholic Church.
• Rex Pilbeam, 91, Australian politician.
• Henry W. Sawyer, 80, American lawyer, civil rights activist and politician, lung cancer.
• Elena Zareschi, 83, Italian actress.

References

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