Deaths in July 1999

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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.[1]
  • Edward Dmytryk, 90, Canadian-born Canadian film director, heart and kidney failure.[2]
  • Forrest Mars Sr., 95, American businessman and candy magnate.[3]
  • Guy Mitchell, 72, American traditional pop singer and actor, complications of surgery.[4]
  • Joshua Nkomo, 82, Zimbabwean politician, prostate cancer.[5]
  • Sylvia Sidney, 88, American film actress, oesophageal cancer.[6]
  • Roman Tmetuchl, 73, Palauan political leader.
  • Yaakov Weinberg, American Orthodox Jewish rabbi and Talmudist.
  • William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, 81, British politician.[7]

2[]

  • Viktor Chebrikov, 76, Soviet head of the KGB (1982–1988).
  • Jack Plumley, 88, British Anglican priest, Egyptologist and academic.
  • Mario Puzo, 78, American novelist (The Godfather), heart failure.[8]
  • Noel Farnie Robertson, Scottish botanist and agriculturist.
  • Akira Tohei, 69, Japanese aikido teacher.
  • Asoka Weeraratna, 80, Sri Lankan (Sinhala) Buddhist missionary.

3[]

  • Reg Bishop, 86, Australian politician.
  • Ricky Byrdsong, 43, American college basketball coach and killing spree victim, shot.[9]
  • Yueh Feng, 90, Chinese film director and screenwriter.
  • Manoj Kumar Pandey, 24, Indian Army officer, killed in action.
  • Mark Sandman, 46, American musician (Morphine), heart attack.[10]

4[]

  • Esprit Barthet, 79, Maltese artist.
  • Ronny Graham, 79, American actor, theater director, composer and writer, liver disease.[11]
  • Ruby Johnson, 63, American soul singer.[12]
  • Mark O'Brien, 49, American journalist, poet, and advocate for the disabled.[13]
  • Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, 21, American spree killer and neo-Nazi, suicide.

5[]

  • Len Butterfield, 85, New Zealand cricketer.
  • Joan Kemp-Welch, 92, British stage and film actress.[14]
  • C. Walton Lillehei, 80, American surgeon and open-heart surgery pioneer.[15]
  • Roberta Sherwood, 86, American singer.
  • Thea Tewi, 97, German-born American sculptor.

6[]

  • Johnny Campbell, 89, Scottish footballer.
  • Ralph E. Comstock, 86, American statistician and geneticist.[16]
  • Carl Gunter Jr., 60, American politician, cancer.
  • Gary M. Heidnik, 55, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[17]
  • 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.[18]
  • Barry Winchell, 21, United States Army infantry soldier, murdered.

7[]

  • Vikram Batra, 24, Indian Army officer, posthumously awarded with the Param Vir Chakra.[19]
  • James Gahagan, American abstract expressionist painter.
  • Bernardo Gandulla, 83, Argentine football player and coach, respiratory problems.
  • Richard Müller, 95, German chemist.
  • Julie Campbell Tatham, 91, American writer of children's novels.

8[]

  • Santiago Almeida, 87, American musician and pioneer of the musical genres of tejano and conjunto.
  • Chaino, American bongo player.
  • Mavis Thorpe Clark, 90, Australian novelist and writer for children.
  • Pete Conrad, 69, American astronaut, motorcycle accident.[20]
  • Allen Lee Davis, 54, American murderer, execution by electric chair.[21]
  • Ted James, 92, American football player and coach.
  • Frank Lubin, 89, Lithuanian American basketball player.
  • Malcolm Mackay, 79, Australian politician.

9[]

  • Karl Adam, 75, German footballer.
  • George Deiderich, 63, American football player.
  • James Farmer, 79, American civil rights activist, complications from diabetes.[22]

10[]

  • Walter R. Evans, 79, American control theorist.
  • Gil Johnson, 75, American gridiron football player.[23]
  • Ulla Lindström, 89, Swedish journalist and politician.

11[]

  • Burton Dreben, 71, American philosopher.[24]
  • 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.[25]
  • Everett Greenbaum, 79, American television and film writer and actor.[26]
  • Lasse Lindroth, 26, Iranian-Swedish comedian, actor and writer, car accident.
  • Roaring Lion, 91, Calypso singer and composer from Trinidad and Tobago.
  • Leslie A. Marchand, 99, American scholar of English literature.
  • Willard Munger, 88, American politician, liver cancer.
  • Bettina Steinke, 86, American painter and muralist.

12[]

  • Bill Flett, 55, Canadian hockey player, liver failure.
  • Alex Gordon, 82, Welsh architect.
  • Guy Griffiths, 84, Welsh Royal Marine pilot.
  • Harvey Jackins, 83, American founder and principal theorist of Re-evaluation Counseling.[27]
  • Rajendra Kumar, 69, Indian film actor.
  • Mungo Ballardie MacCallum, 85, Australian journalist, broadcaster and poet.
  • Mircea Nedelciu, 48, Romanian short-story writer, novelist and essayist, Hodgkin's disease.
  • Bill Owen, 85, British actor and songwriter, pancreatic cancer.[28]
  • Zita Szeleczky, 84, Hungarian actress.
  • Cornelius Wiebe, 106, Canadian physician and politician.

13[]

  • Bert Burry, 93, Canadian ice hockey player.
  • Louise Caselotti, 88, American opera singer.
  • Donald D. Engen, 75, United States Navy vice admiral, Administrator of the FAA and Director of the National Air and Space Museum.[29]
  • Muhammetnazar Gapurow, 77, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR (1969 – 1985).
  • Yevgeny Goryansky, 70, Russian football player and football coach.

14[]

  • Gene Hart, 68, American sportscaster for the Philadelphia Flyers, kidney and liver failure.
  • Władysław Hasior, 71, Polish sculptor.
  • Radha Laha, 68, Indian probabilist, statistician and mathematician.
  • Gar Samuelson, 41, American musician, drummer of thrash metal band Megadeth, liver failure.
  • Trudi Schoop, 95, Swiss-born American dance therapy pioneer.[30]
  • John R. Steelman, 99, American academic and first White House Chief of Staff.[31]
  • Pietro Tarchini, 77, Swiss professional cyclist.
  • Ernst Wynder, 77, American epidemiology and public health researcher, thyroid cancer.[32]

15[]

  • George Brown Jr., 79, American politician, infection following heart valve replacement surgery.[33]
  • Ali Haidar, 85, Pakistani Pashtun recipient of the Victoria Cross.
  • Dick Richardson, 65, Welsh heavyweight boxer, cancer.
  • Kamalendumati Shah, Indian politician and social worker, brain cancer.

16[]

  • Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, 33, American socialite and wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., plane crash.[34]
  • John F. Kennedy Jr., 38, American journalist, lawyer, socialite and son of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, plane crash.[35]
  • Yoshikage Kira, Kame-Yu Employee, died when head was crushed under an Ambulance.
  • Andrey Korolev, 55, Soviet and Russian philologist.
  • Alan Macnaughton, 95, Canadian parliamentarian and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada.
  • Hamid Notghi, 78, Iranian poet, writer and author.
  • Alfred Raoul, 60, President of the Republic of Congo.
  • Whit Wyatt, 91, American baseball player, pneumonia.[36]

17[]

  • Arthur Hoag, 78, American astronomer.
  • Daniel H. H. Ingalls Sr., 83, American Professor of Sanskrit.
  • Donal McCann, 56, Irish stage, film, and television actor, pancreatic cancer.[37]
  • Kevin Newman, 65, Australian soldier and politician.
  • Kevin Wilkinson, 41, English drummer.
  • Patricia Zipprodt, 74, American costume designer, cancer.[38]

18[]

  • Meir Ariel, 57, Israeli singer-songwriter, boutonneuse fever.
  • Rubén Bernuncio, 23, Argentine football player, renal failure following a motorcycle accident.
  • Donald Eugene Chambers, 68, American Marine and founder of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club.
  • Pandi Raidhi, 68, Albanian actor.
  • Laurie Scott, 82, English footballer.
  • Tody Smith, 50, American football player.[39]

19[]

  • Donna Allen, 78, American pioneer feminist, civil rights activist, historian and economist.[40]
  • Cavernario Galindo, 75, Mexican luchador and film actor.
  • Ludwik Gross, 94, Polish-American virologist, stomach cancer.[41]

20[]

  • Emil Andres, 88, American racecar driver.
  • Sandra Gould, 82, American film and television actor (Bewitched) and writer, complications of surgery.[42]
  • Excilia Saldaña, 52, Afro-Cuban juvenile literature writer, poet and academic.

21[]

  • Peter Carter, 69, British children's author.[43]
  • Jun Etō, 66, Japanese literary critic.
  • David Ogilvy, 88, British advertising tycoon, the "Father of Advertising".

22[]

  • Abelardo Díaz Alfaro, 82, Puerto Rican author.[44]
  • Howard Arkley, 48, Australian artist, accidental overdose.[45]
  • Syd Jensen, 76, New Zealand motorcycle and auto racer.
  • Mary Kerridge, 85, English actress and theatre director.
  • Marianne Schech, 85, German operatic soprano and academic.
  • Arun Thapa, Nepali singer and songwriter.

23[]

  • Horst-Gregorio Canellas, 78, Spanish-German entrepreneur and football official, lung cancer.
  • Frank Minis Johnson, 80, United States District- and Circuit Judge, pneumonia.[46]
  • Kelvin Lancaster, 74, Australian mathematical economist.
  • Hassan II of Morocco, 70, Moroccan monarch, King of Morocco (since 1961), heart attack.[47]
  • Thyrsa Frazier Svager, 69, American academic.
  • Emma Tenayuca, 82, Mexican American labor leader, union organizer and educator.
  • Dmitri Tertyshny, 22, professional ice hockey defenseman, boating accident.
  • Stanley Tretick, 78, American photojournalist.[48]

24[]

  • Alexander Abian, 76, Iranian-born Armenian-American mathematician.[49]
  • Vladimir Alexeyev, 86, Soviet admiral.
  • Demetrius DuBose, 28, American football player, shot by police.
  • Albert Leake, 69, English footballer.
  • Dino Martin, 79, American basketball player and coach, died in Bonita Springs, Florida, in 1999.
  • P. J. Thomas, Parackanal, 85, Indian pastor.
  • Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch, 89, French scientist, translator and writer.

25[]

  • Martin Agronsky, 84, American journalist and television host, congestive heart failure.[50]
  • Princess Iskander, 82, last member of the Russian House of Romanov.
  • Tex Banwell, 81, soldier in the British Army in the Second World War.
  • Catherine Hollingworth, Scottish speech therapist and a pioneer of child drama.
  • Raul Manglapus, 80, Filipino politician, throat cancer.[51]

26[]

  • Walter Jackson Bate, 81, American literary critic and biographer.[52]
  • Philippa Gail, 56, British actress, cancer.[53]
  • Phaedon Gizikis, 82, Greek army general and President of Greece during The Junta.[54]
  • Trygve Haavelmo, 87, Norwegian economist.
  • Jatin Kanakia, 47, Indian actor, pancreatic cancer.
  • Alan Karcher, 56, American politician.[55]
  • Qian Linzhao, 92, Chinese physicist.
  • John W. N. Watkins, 74, English philosopher and professor of Economics, heart attack.

27[]

  • Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, 86, Soviet/Russian mathematician, physicist and philosopher.
  • Carlfred Broderick, 67, American psychologist family therapist and author, cancer.
  • Harry Edison, 83, American jazz trumpeter.[56]
  • Mahlathini, 61, South African mbaqanga singer, complications of diabetes.
  • Malachi Martin, 78, Irish-American Catholic priest and novelist.[57]
  • Alma Wilson, 82, American attorney and one of the first female District Judges.

28[]

  • Rafael Manzanares Aguilar, 81, Honduran folklorist author and musical composer.[58]
  • Tamara Konstantinova, 79, pilot in the Soviet Air Force during WWII.
  • Sarah Ratner, 96, American biochemist.
  • Grigorii Skiruta, 86, Red Army officer during the Second World War.
  • Puey Ungphakorn, 83, Thai economist.
  • S. Howard Woodson, 83, American pastor, civil rights leader and politician.[59]

29[]

  • Anita Carter, 66, American singer and member of the Carter family, complications of rheumatoid arthritis.[60]
  • Yuan Jing, Chinese writer.
  • Anatoliy Solovianenko, 66, Soviet operatic tenor, heart attack.
  • Neelan Tiruchelvam, 55, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, academic and politician, assassinated.

30[]

  • George Moorse, 63, American-German film director, heart attack.
  • Hermann Panzo, 41, French athlete, stroke.
  • Linus Suryadi AG, 48, Indonesian writer.

31[]

  • Mirza Adeeb, 85, Pakistani writer of drama and short stories.
  • Rex Pilbeam, 91, Australian politician.
  • Elena Zareschi, 83, Italian actress.

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