Deaths in October 1999


Deaths in October 1999


The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

October 1999

1

  • Ted Arison, 75, Israeli businessman, heart attack.
  • Pietro Maria Bardi, 99, Italian writer, curator and collector.
  • Kuei Chih-hung, 61, Hong Kong filmmaker, liver cancer.
  • Glen Foster, 69, American sailor and Olympic medalist, esophageal cancer.
  • Norbert Felix Gaughan, 78, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • Noel Johnson, 82, English actor.
  • Gunnar Ljungström, 94, Swedish aerodynamics and automobile engineer.
  • Wim Polak, 75, Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam (1977–1983), cancer.
  • Lena Zavaroni, 35, Scottish singer and a television show host, pneumonia.

2

  • Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Albanian Islamic scholar.
  • Kim Hyun-jun, 39, South Korean basketball player, car accident.
  • Tosio Katō, 82, Japanese mathematician.
  • Heinz G. Konsalik, 78, German novelist.
  • R. S. Krishnan, 88, Indian experimental physicist and scientist.
  • Lee Lozano, 68, American painter and visual artist.
  • Danny Mayo, 49, American songwriter, heart attack.
  • Lee Richardson, 73, American actor (Prizzi's Honor, Brubaker, Network).
  • Wayne Sevier, 58, American gridiron football coach, heart attack.
  • Georg Tintner, 82, Austrian conductor, suicide.

3

  • Paul Burris, 76, American baseball player.
  • Alastair Hetherington, 79, British journalist and editor of The Guardian.
  • N. Mohanan, 66, Indian Malayalam -language short story writer and novelist.
  • Akio Morita, 78, Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony, pneumonia.

4

  • Bernard Buffet, 71, French painter, suicide.
  • Art Farmer, 71, American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player.
  • De Villiers Graaff, 85, South African politician.
  • Nikkyō Niwano, 92, Japanese Buddhist leader.
  • Emil Schumacher, 87, German painter.
  • Rod Shoate, 46, American gridiron football player.
  • Leonard Shoen, 83, American entrepreneur, suicide by car crash.
  • Robert G. L. Waite, 80, Canadian historian, psychohistorian, and academic.

5

  • Fernand Dubé, 70, Canadian lawyer and politician, heart attack.
  • Earl Evans, 89, American biochemist.
  • Alex Lowe, 40, American mountaineer, avalanche.
  • Frank K. Richardson, 85, American attorney and judge, Parkinson's disease.
  • Jack Somerville, 89, New Zealand presbyterian leader.

6

  • Larry Floyd, 91, Australian politician.
  • Randi Kolstad, 74, Norwegian theater and screen actress.
  • Gorilla Monsoon, 62, American wrestler and commentator, complications of diabetes.
  • Patrick Reilly, 90, British diplomat and ambassador.
  • Amália Rodrigues, 79, Portuguese singer known as the "Queen of Fado", heart attack.
  • Tatevik Sazandaryan, 83, Soviet and Armenian operatic mezzo-soprano.
  • Maris Wrixon, 82, American film and television actress, heart failure.

7

  • Deryck Guyler, 85, English actor.
  • David A. Huffman, 74, American computer scientist, cancer.
  • Bruce Ritter, 72, American catholic priest and Franciscan friar, cancer.
  • Genrikh Sapgir, 70, Russian poet and fiction writer, heart attack.
  • Lucien Thèze, 86, French basketball player.
  • Dimitri Tsafendas, 81, Greek-Mozambican political militant, pneumonia.
  • Helen Vinson, 92, American film actress.
  • Dave Whitsell, 63, American football player, cancer.

8

  • Manfredo Fest, 63, Brazilian bossa nova and jazz pianist and keyboardist.
  • Henri Koch-Kent, 94, Luxembourgian publicist, author, and historian.
  • Zezé Macedo, 83, Brazilian comedienne and actress.
  • John McLendon, 84, American basketball coach.
  • Reinis Zusters, 81, Latvian-Australian artist.

9

  • Dutch Dotterer, 67, American baseball player.
  • Milt Jackson, 76, American jazz vibraphonist, liver cancer.
  • Akhtar Hameed Khan, 85, Pakistani social scientist, heart attack.
  • James M. Logan, 78, American soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
  • João Cabral de Melo Neto, 79, Brazilian poet and diplomat.
  • Rolf Stein, 88, German-French sinologist and tibetologist.
  • Morris West, 83, Australian novelist and playwright.
  • Franz Wolf, 92, German nazi SS-Oberscharführer and Holocaust perpetrator during World War II.

10

  • Patrick Campbell, 22, Northern Irish republican and volunteer, stabbed.
  • George Forrest, 84, American writer of music and lyrics for musicals.
  • Alfredo Gil, 84, Mexican singer (Trio Los Panchos).
  • Gul Hassan Khan, Pakistani Army general.
  • Hajime Nakamura, 86, Japanese indologist, philosopher and academic.
  • Ted White, 86, Australian cricketer.

11

  • Adriano Bassetto, 74, Italian football player.
  • Fakir Baykurt, 70, Turkish author and trade unionist.
  • Galina Bystrova, 65, Soviet athlete.
  • John Foot, Baron Foot, 90, British politician and Life Peer.
  • Leo Lionni, 89, Italian-American author and illustrator of children's books, Parkinson's disease.
  • Colette Picard, 85, French archaeologist and historian.
  • Oscar Valicelli, 84, Argentine film actor.

12

  • Carlos Barreto, 23, Venezuelan bantamweight boxer and Olympian, brian trauma sustained during match.
  • Wilt Chamberlain, 63, American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers, Philadelphia 76ers) and actor (Conan the Destroyer), heart failure.
  • Frank Frost, 63, American blues harmonica player, cardiac arrest, heart attack.
  • Ayako Miura, 77, Japanese novelist, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
  • Clément Perron, 70, Canadian film director and screenwriter.

13

  • Geoffrey Burke, 86, English Roman Catholic bishop.
  • Ingrid Englund, 73, Swedish alpine skier and Olympian.
  • Michael Hartnett, 58, Irish poet, alcoholic liver disease.
  • James E. Williams, 68, American Cherokee indian and Medal of Honor recipient.
  • Qasem-Ali Zahirnejad, Iranian Army general, stroke.

14

  • Franca Dominici, 92, Italian actress and voice actress.
  • Diethard Hellmann, 70, German Kantor and an academic.
  • Julius Nyerere, 77, Tanzanian anti-colonial activist and politician, leukemia.
  • Richard B. Shull, 70, American actor, heart attack.
  • Jerry Walter McFadden, 51, American serial killer and sex offender, execution by lethal injection.

15

  • Yosef Burg, 90, German-born Israeli politician.
  • Durgawati Devi, 92, Indian revolutionary and a freedom fighter.
  • Terry Gilkyson, 83, American folk singer, composer, and lyricist.
  • Eddie Jones, 64, British science fiction illustrator.
  • Torsten Lilliecrona, 78, Swedish actor.
  • Josef Locke, 82, Irish tenor.
  • Steve Ramsey, 51, American gridiron football player, traffic accident.

16

  • Bobbie Beard, 69, American child actor.
  • Bruce Cameron, 43, American guitarist, suicide.
  • Bill Dodgin, 90, English football player, manager and coach.
  • Ella Mae Morse, 75, American popular singer, respiratory failure.
  • Jean Shepherd, 78, American raconteur, radio and TV personality, writer and actor.

17

  • Hugh Bolton, 70, Canadian ice hockey player.
  • William Gould Dow, 104, American scientist, educator and inventor.
  • Tommy Durden, 79, American guitarist and songwriter.
  • Richard John Harrison, 79, British academic.
  • Rick Lapointe, 44, Canadian ice hockey player, heart attack.
  • Nicholas Metropolis, 84, Greek-American physicist.
  • Ralph Grey, Baron Grey of Naunton, 89, New Zealand peer and last Governor of Northern Ireland.
  • Charles Wanstall, 87, Australian politician.
  • Franz Peter Wirth, 80, German film director and screenwriter.

18

  • Dallas Bower, 92, British director and producer.
  • Mahanambrata Brahmachari, 94, Hindu monk.
  • John Cannon, 66, sports car racer, aircraft crash.
  • Tony Crombie, 74, English jazz drummer, pianist, bandleader and composer.
  • Paddi Edwards, 68, British-American actress, respiratory failure.
  • Ross Parmenter, 87, Canadian music critic, editor, and author.

19

  • Auður Auðuns, 88, Icelandic lawyer and politician.
  • Harry Bannink, 70, Dutch composer, arranger and pianist.
  • Robert Black, 93, British colonial administrator, Governor of Singapore (1955–1957).
  • Hayes Gordon, 79, American actor, stage director and acting teacher, heart disease.
  • Ray Katt, 72, American baseball player and coach, lymphoma.
  • Zeng Liansong, 81, Chinese economist and designer of the nation's flag.
  • Penelope Mortimer, 81, English journalist, biographer and novelist, cancer.
  • James C. Murray, 82, American politician.
  • Nathalie Sarraute, 99, French writer and lawyer..
  • E. J. Scovell, 92, English poet and translator.

20

  • Hans Georg Amsel, 94, German entomologist.
  • Loukas Barlos, 79, Greek businessman, lung cancer.
  • Agim Çavdarbasha, 55, Kosovo-Albanian sculptor.
  • Calvin Griffith, 87, American Major League Baseball team owner.
  • Mae Street Kidd, 95, American businesswoman, civic leader and politician.
  • Jack Lynch, 82, Irish Fianna Fáil politician and fourth Taoiseach (1966–1973, 1977–1979), cerebrovascular disease.
  • Willi Schröder, 70, German football player.
  • Abdullah Sungkar, 62, Indonesian islamist and founder of terror group Jemaah Islamiyah.

21

  • Queenie Ashton, 95, Australian actress.
  • Lars Bo, 75, Danish artist and writer.
  • John Bromwich, 80, Australian tennis player.
  • Esther Fernández, 84, Mexican film and television actress, lung infarction.
  • H. Stuart Hughes, 83, American historian, professor, and activist.
  • LaMont Johnson, 58, American jazz pianist, heart failure.
  • Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, 60, Turkish politician, intellectual, lawyer, columnist, and academic.
  • Horst Krüger, 80, German novelist.
  • Fran O'Brien, 63, American football player, heart attack.
  • Heinz Renneberg, 72, West German rower and Olympic champion.
  • Gennady Vasilyev, 59, Russian film director, cerebral hemorrhage.
  • Eric Wauters, 48, Belgian equestrian and Olympic medalist.

22

  • Alphonse Anger, 84, French gymnast.
  • Martin Donnelly, 82, New Zealand cricketer and England rugby player.
  • Ed Mikan, 74, American basketball player.
  • István Nagy, 60, Hungarian football player.
  • Gordon Smith, 91, American ice hockey player.
  • Irv Spencer, 61, Canadian ice hockey player.

23

  • Jean Dauger, 79, French rugby player.
  • András Hegedüs, 76, Hungarian communist politician.
  • Neriman Köksal, 71, Turkish actress, breast cancer.
  • Trudi Meyer, 85, German gymnast.
  • Eric Reece, 90, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania (1958–1969).
  • Luciano Soprani, Italian fashion designer, throat cancer.
  • Cyril James Stubblefield, 98, British geologist.
  • Albert Tucker, 84, Australian artist.
  • Francis Whitaker, 93, American artist and blacksmith.
  • Bobby Willis, 57, British songwriter, lung and liver cancer.

24

  • John Chafee, 77, American politician and senator, congestive heart failure.
  • Lucien De Muynck, 68, Belgian middle-distance runner and Olympian.
  • Georges Gandil, 73, French sprint canoeist.
  • Ginette Harrison, 41, British climber, climbing accident.
  • Berthe Qvistgaard, 89, Danish stage and film actress.
  • Philip Sansom, 83, British anarchist writer and activist.
  • Marc Simenon, 60, French director and screenwriter, fall.

25

  • Leonard Boyle, 75, Irish and Canadian scholar in medieval studies and palaeography.
  • Vittorio Erspamer, 90, Italian pharmacologist and chemist.
  • Rosalie Gascoigne, 82, New Zealand-Australian sculptor.
  • Arturo Herbruger, 87, Guatemalan politician.
  • Samson Kisekka, 87, Ugandan politician, heart attack.
  • Johannes Käbin, 94, Soviet and Estonian politician.
  • Victor Saúde Maria, 60, Bissau-Guinean politician, homicide.
  • S. Rajeswara Rao, 77, Indian composer and musician.
  • Payne Stewart, 42, American golfer, plane crash.
  • David Spence Thomson, 83, New Zealand politician.

26

  • Maria Alba, 89, Spanish-American film actress.
  • Hoyt Axton, 61, American folk music singer-songwriter and actor, heart attack.
  • Eknath Easwaran, 88, Indian-American spiritual teacher and author.
  • Rex Gildo, 63, German singer of schlager ballads, suicide.
  • Christiane Jaccottet, 62, Swiss harpsichordist and musicologist.
  • Abraham Polonsky, 88, American film director, screenwriter, essayist and novelist.
  • Albert Whitlock, 84, British motion picture matte artist, Parkinson's disease.

27

  • Wes Berggren, 28, American musician and guitarist for rock band Tripping Daisy, drug overdose.
  • Johnny Byrne, 60, English footballer, heart attack.
  • Lois Collier, 80, American film actress, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Frank De Vol, 88, American arranger, composer and actor, heart failure.
  • Xie Fei, 66, Chinese politician, Politburo member, leukemia.
  • Robert Mills, 72, American physicist.
  • José Aarón Alvarado Nieves, 33, Mexican professional wrestler, infection.
  • Éamonn O'Doherty, 60, Northern Irish political activist.
  • Charlotte Perriand, 96, French architect and designer.
  • Glen Vernon, 76, American actor.
  • Austin B. Williams, 80, American carcinologist, cancer.
  • Notable victims killed in the Armenian parliament shooting in Yerevan, Armenia:
    • Vazgen Sargsyan, 40, Prime Minister
    • Karen Demirchyan, 67, National Assembly Speaker
    • Yuri Bakhshyan, 52, Deputy National Assembly Speaker
    • Leonard Petrosyan, 46, Minister of Urgent Affairs

28

  • Howard Browne, 91, American science fiction editor and mystery writer.
  • Ralph Crosthwaite, 63, American basketball player.
  • Antonis Katinaris, 68, Greek musician.
  • Rafael Alberti Merello, 96, Spanish poet.
  • Gastone Pescucci, 73, Italian actor and voice actor.

29

  • Kamal Adham, 69-70, Saudi businessman, heart attack.
  • Brita Appelgren, 86, Swedish film actress.
  • Tom Dickinson, 102, American football player.
  • Rosa Furman, 69, Mexican actress, cardiac arrest.
  • Greg, 68, Belgian cartoonist, aneurysm.
  • Cavan Kendall, 57, British actor, cancer.
  • Colin Matthew, 58, British historian and academic, heart attack.
  • Aolar Mosely, 87, American artist.
  • Borhan Abu Samah, 34, Singaporean football player, liver cancer.

30

  • Nise da Silveira, 94, Brazilian psychiatrist and student of Carl Jung, pneumonia.
  • Grace McDonald, 81, American actress, pneumonia.
  • Uxío Novoneyra, 69, Spanish poet, journalist and children's writer.
  • Max Patkin, 79, American baseball player and clown.
  • Gábor Pogány, 84, Hungarian-born Italian cinematographer.
  • Savumiamoorthy Thondaman, 86, Sri Lankan politician.
  • Maigonis Valdmanis, 66, Latvian basketball player.
  • Paul Wheatley, 78, British-American historical geographer.
  • Ratko Čolić, 81, Serbian football player.

31

  • Gameel Al-Batouti, 59, Egyptian aviator; relief first officer on EgyptAir Flight 990
  • Denise Bellon, 97, French photographer.
  • August Chełkowski, 72, Polish physicist and politician.
  • John Wainwright Evans, 90, American astronomer, murder–suicide.
  • Howard Ferguson, 91, Irish composer and musicologist.
  • Martin Hellberg, 94, German actor, director and writer.
  • Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits, 78, British rabbi.
  • Greg Moore, 24, Canadian racecar driver, racing accident .
  • Wyatt Ruther, 76, American jazz double-bassist.

References


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