Deaths in August 1999

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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

August 1999[]

1[]

  • Rudy Burckhardt, 85, Swiss-American filmmaker and photographer, suicide by drowning.[1]
  • Nirad C. Chaudhuri, 101, Indian English-language writer.[2]
  • Tommy Hinnershitz, 87, American race car driver.
  • Kalyan Kumar, 71, Indian film actor and producer.
  • İrfan Özaydınlı, 75, Turkish soldier and politician.
  • Paris Pişmiş, 88, Armenian-Mexican astronomer.[3]

2[]

3[]

  • Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayati, 72, Iraqi poet.
  • Rod Ansell, 44, Australian cattle grazier, buffalo hunter and inspiration for the movie character Crocodile Dundee, killed in a police shootout.[6]
  • Yitzhak Rafael, 85, Israeli politician.
  • Naomi Sim, 85, English actress and writer.[7]
  • Leroy Vinnegar, 71, American jazz bassist, heart attack.
  • Roy Wiggins, 73, American steel guitarist.

4[]

  • Akhlaq Ahmed, 49, Pakistani playback singer, blood cancer.
  • Victor Mature, 86, American film actor (Samson and Delilah, Kiss of Death), leukemia.[8]
  • Chuck Sweeney, 85, American football player.
  • Carl Toms, 72, British set and costume designer, emphysema.[9]

5[]

6[]

  • Mihai Băcescu, 91, Romanian zoologist.
  • Raymond Hart, 86, British seaman and a Royal Navy officer.[11]
  • Ilse Pausin, 80, Austrian pair skater.
  • Kalpnath Rai, 58, Indian politician, heart attack.
  • Rita Sakellariou, 64, Greek singer, cancer.
  • Muhammad Shariff, 78, Pakistani army general.[12]
  • Claudette Sorel, 66, American pianist and educator, cancer.[13]
  • Doug Witcomb, 81, Welsh football player.

7[]

  • Wally Albright, 73, American former child actor.
  • Frances Baldwin, 91, American painter.
  • Jonathan Boyd, 54, Australian professional wrestler, heart attack.[14]
  • Brion James, 54, American film actor, heart attack.
  • J. Andrew Keith, 40, American role-playing game designer.
  • Harry Litwack, 91, American college basketball coach.[15]
  • Tsou Tang, 80, Chinese-born American political scientist.[16]
  • John Van Ryn, 94, American tennis player.

8[]

  • Dora Davidsohn, 89, German activist.
  • Paavo Rintala, 68, Finnish novelist and theologian.
  • Dora Schaul, 85, German resistance activist during World War II.
  • Harry Walker, 82, American baseball player, manager and coach.[17]

9[]

  • Ira Baldwin, 103, American academic and administrator.
  • Bill Bradbury, 66, English footballer, heart attack.
  • Bob Herbert, 57, English talent manager, traffic collision.
  • William Arthur Irwin, 101, Canadian journalist and diplomat, asthma.[18]
  • Brandon Moss, 90, British police officer and recipient of the George Cross.
  • John O'Neill, 56, Australian rugby player, cancer.
  • Helen Rollason, 43, British sports journalist and television presenter, colorectal cancer.[19]
  • Jackie Sato, 41, professional wrestler from Yokohama, Japan, stomach cancer.
  • Riley Smith, 88, American football player.
  • Abraham H. Taub, 88, American mathematician and physicist.
  • Yuri Volyntsev, 67, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.

10[]

  • Lee Baggett Jr., 72, four star admiral in the United States Navy, heart disease.
  • Paweł Czartoryski, 75, Polish historian.
  • Giuseppe Delfino, 77, Italian fencer and Olympic champion.
  • Jens Hoyer Hansen, 59, Danish-born New Zealand jeweller, cancer.
  • Ernesto Melo Antunes, 65, Portuguese military officer.[20]
  • Jennifer Paterson, 71, British chef and television personality (Two Fat Ladies), lung cancer.[21]
  • Anthony Radziwiłł, 40, American television executive and filmmaker, cancer.
  • Baldev Upadhyaya, 99, Indian literary historian, essayist and critic.

11[]

  • Dickie Davis, 77, English footballer.
  • Robert Dorfmann, 87, French film producer.
  • James Otto Earhart, 56, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.[22]
  • Robert Thomas Jones, 89, American engineer.
  • Ernst Kaether, 95, German Wehrmacht general during World War II.
  • Mimi Pollak, 96, Swedish actress and theatre director.
  • Byron Randall, 80, American West Coast artist, emphysema.[23]
  • Tommy Ridgley, 73, American R&B singer and bandleader, lung cancer.
  • Henk Chin A Sen, 65, Surinamese politician.

12[]

  • Pavel Arsenov, 63, Soviet and Russian film actor, screenwriter and film director.
  • Jean Drapeau, 83, Canadian lawyer and politician.[24]
  • Ross Elliott, 82, American television and film character actor, cancer.
  • Sir John Hale, 75, British historian.
  • Wilfrid Kalaugher, 94, New Zealand athlete and scholar.
  • Martin Wong, 53, Chinese-American painter, AIDS related illness.[25]
  • Can Yücel, 72, Turkish poet, throat cancer.

13[]

14[]

  • Evelyn Adams, 75, American baseball player (AAGPBL)[29]
  • Allan La Fontaine, 88, Australian rules footballer.
  • Lane Kirkland, 77, American labor union leader, cancer.[30]
  • Pat Mullin, 81, American baseball player.
  • John Pingel, 82, American football player.
  • Pee Wee Reese, 81, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.[31]
  • Lidia Selkregg, Italian geologist.

15[]

  • Patricia Beer, 79, English poet and critic.[32]
  • Hugh Casson, 89, English architect, interior designer, artist and writer.[33]
  • Frank Castle, 75, English sprint athlete, rugby union, and rugby league footballer.
  • Paddy Devlin, 74, Irish social democrat, labour and civil rights activist.[34]
  • Helene Kirsch, 93, German politician.
  • Thomas H. Maren, American professor of medicine, heart failure.
  • Mark McPhee, 35, Australian cricketer, traffic accident.
  • Celestine Sibley, 85, American newspaper reporter.[35]

16[]

  • David W. Allen, 54, American film and television stop motion animator.
  • Laura Andreson, American ceramic artist.
  • Nancy Guild, 73, American film actress, emphysema.[36]
  • Hédard Robichaud, 87, Canadian politician.
  • Rudolf Sremec, 89, Yugoslav and Croatian film director.

17[]

  • Randy Heflin, 80, American baseball player.
  • Charles Samuel Joelson, 83, American lawyer and politician.[37]
  • Reiner Klimke, 63, German equestrian, heart attack.
  • Bill Tyquin, 80, Australian rugby player.

18[]

  • Alfred Bickel, 81, Swiss football player and coach.
  • Alf Kirchen, 85, English footballer.
  • Hanoch Levin, 55, Israeli dramatist, theater director, author and poet, heart attack.[38]

19[]

20[]

  • Bob Gallion, 75, American country music singer.
  • Wes Graham, 67, Canadian professor of Computer Science.
  • Bobby Sheehan, 31, American musician and songwriter, accidental overdose.
  • Josane Sigart, 90, Belgian female tennis player.
  • Abdus Salam Talukder, 62, Bangladeshi politician and lawyer.

21[]

  • Leo Castelli, 91, Italian-American art dealer.[40]
  • Paddy Chew, 39, Singaporean HIV/aids victim, complications of hiv infection.
  • Venya D'rkin, 29, Russian singer-songwriter, poet, artist and painter, cancer (Hodgkin's lymphoma).
  • Faisal bin Fahd, 54/55, Saudi prince, heart attack.[41]
  • Sir Noel Larmour, 82, British diplomat.
  • Maurice Moynihan, 96, Irish civil servant and economist.
  • Jimmy Roe, 90, American soccer player.

22[]

  • Aleksandr Demyanenko, 62, Russian film and theater actor, heart attack.
  • Yann Goulet, 85, French sculptor.
  • Muni, 70, French actress.

23[]

  • Georges Boulogne, 82, French football player and manager.
  • Frederick Earl Emmons, 91, American architect.
  • Martha Rountree, 87, American pioneering broadcast journalist.[42]
  • Ratan Shankar Mishra, 80, Indian mathematician and academic.
  • Norman Wexler, 73, American screenwriter, heart attack.[43]
  • James White, 71, Northern Irish author of science fiction novellas, short stories and novels, stroke.[44]

24[]

  • Helen Burgess, 48, Canadian conservation scientist.
  • Mary Jane Croft, 83, American actress.[45]
  • Jo Gullett, 84, Australian soldier, politician, diplomat and journalist.
  • William Kaye Lamb, 95, Canadian historian, archivist and librarian.
  • Alexandre Lagoya, 70, French classical guitarist.[46]
  • Lucrecia Reyes Urtula, 70, Filipina choreographer, theater director and author.
  • Rom Varshamov, 72, Soviet Armenian mathematician.

25[]

  • Ndyakira Amooti, 43, Ugandan children's writer, journalist and environmentalist, leukemia.
  • Rob Fisher, 42, British songwriter and musician (Naked Eyes, Climie Fisher).[47]
  • Dave Holmes, 75, American football player and coach, heart attack.
  • Mona Salyer Lambird, 61, American lawyer, car accident.
  • Jack Whent, 79, English soccer player.

26[]

  • Andy Boarman, 87, American bluegrass and folk musician.
  • Elena Murgoci, 39, Romanian long-distance runner, stabbed.
  • Raymond Vernon, 85, American economist, cancer[48]

27[]

  • Harold Jack Bloom, 75, American television producer and screenwriter, cancer.
  • Hélder Câmara, 90, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop.
  • Bai Guang, 78, Chinese actress and singer, colon cancer.
  • Enzo Martinelli, 87, Italian mathematician.
  • Louise Thompson Patterson, 97, American social activist and college professor.
  • Paul Saltman, 71, American professor of biology and nutrition expert, prostate cancer.[49]

28[]

29[]

30[]

31[]

  • Marguerite Chapman, 81, American actress.[54]
  • Ed Kea, 51, Canadian ice player, drowned.
  • Sylvia Potts, 55, New Zealand middle-distance athlete, cancer.
  • Henry Earl Singleton, 82, American electrical engineer and business executive.
  • Irina Yanina, 32, Russian nurse, medical sergeant and Hero of the Russian Federation, killed in action.

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