Deaths in March 1999

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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.

March 1999[]

1[]

2[]

  • David Ackles, 62, American singer-songwriter and child actor, lung cancer.[4]
  • Charles Askins, 91, American lawman, US Army officer, and writer.
  • Kaushal Kishore, 56, Indian polymer chemist, cardiac arrest.
  • Stuart Mossman, 56, American guitar maker and entertainer, heart attack.[5]
  • Tommy Pearson, 85, Scottish football player and manager.
  • Kamel Sajid, Iraqi general of the Republican Guard, executed.
  • Dusty Springfield, 59, British traditional pop singer and entertainer, breast cancer.[6]
  • Francisco Nunes Teixeira, 89, Mozambican Roman Catholic bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Quelimane (1955−1975).[7]
  • Jack Webster, 80, Canadian journalist and radio / television personality.

3[]

  • Glennon Engleman, 72, United States Army veteran and hitman, diabetes.[8]
  • Jackson C. Frank, 56, American folk musician, pneumonia and cardiac arrest.
  • Gerhard Herzberg, 94, German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist.[9]
  • William McGonagle, 73, United States Naval officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.[10]
  • Lee Philips, 72, American actor and film / television director, progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP).

4[]

  • Harry Blackmun, 90, American lawyer, jurist and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.[11]
  • Del Close, 64, American comedian, actor and theatre director, emphysema.[12]
  • Eddie Dean, 91, American country singer-songwriter and actor, heart and lung disease.[13]
  • Hawley Pratt, 87, American film director, animator and illustrator.
  • Karel van het Reve, 77, Dutch writer and literary historian and brother of writer Gerard Reve.

5[]

  • John Leland Atwood, 94, American engineer and aerospace executive.[14]
  • Tom Denning, Baron Denning, 100, English lawyer and judge.[15]
  • John Figueroa, 78, Jamaican poet.
  • John Harkins, 66, American actor.
  • Alma Hunt, 88, Bermudian cricketer.
  • Richard Kiley, 76, American Emmy Award-winning film, television and stage actor, bone marrow disease.[16]
  • Ray Russell, 74, American writer of short stories, novels and screenplays, complications from a stroke.

6[]

  • Graham Armitage, 62, English actor.
  • Rafael Celestino Benítez, 81, American submarine commander.[17]
  • Hiroshi Hamaya, 83, Japanese photographer.
  • Branka Jurca, Slovene writer.
  • Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, 67, emir of Bahrain (1961-1999), heart attack.[18]
  • Dennis Viollet, 65, English footballer.
  • Eric Wolf, 76, Austrian-American anthropologist and activist, liver cancer.[19]

7[]

  • Paul Bouts, 99, Belgian phrenologist and pedagogue.
  • Lowell Fulson, 77, American blues guitarist and songwriter.[20]
  • Sidney Gottlieb, 80, American chemist and spymaster.[21]
  • Antônio Houaiss, 83, Brazilian writer and lexicographer.
  • Stanley Kubrick, 70, American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and photographer, heart attack.[22]
  • Harris Lamb, American football, basketball and track coach.
  • Linda Hodge McLaughlin, 57, American jurist and district judge.
  • Ladislav Vodička, 68, Czech country music singer and songwriter.

8[]

  • António Campos, 76, Portuguese film director.
  • Giovan Battista Carpi, 71, Italian comics artist.
  • Adolfo Bioy Casares, 84, Argentine writer and journalist.
  • Peggy Cass, 74, American actress, comedian, and announcer, heart failure.[23]
  • Joe DiMaggio, 84, American baseball player (New York Yankees), lung cancer.[24]
  • Anne T. Hill, 82, American fashion designer.

9[]

  • Ivone Guimarães, 90, Brazilian professor, suffragist and activist.
  • Arnold Machin, 87, British artist and sculptor.[25]
  • Hermann Merkin, 91, American businessman and philanthropist, heart failure.[26]
  • Harry Somers, 73, Canadian composer.

10[]

11[]

  • Howell Conant, 82, American fashion photographer.[28]
  • Camille Laurin, 76, Canadian psychiatrist and politician.
  • Stefan Schnabel, 87, German-born American actor, heart attack.[29]
  • Kaoru Tada, 38, Japanese manga artist, cerebral hemorrhage.

12[]

  • Sir John Archer, 75, British Army officer and Commander in Chief.
  • Sir Peter Hope, 86, British intelligence officer and diplomat, Ambassador to Mexico.
  • Sir William Jackson, 81, British army general, military historian and author.[30]
  • Yehudi Menuhin, 82, American violinist and conductor.[31]
  • Alf Murray, 83, Irish Gaelic footballer.
  • George Robinson, 78, Australian cricketer.
  • Bidu Sayão, 93, Brazilian opera soprano.[32]

13[]

  • Lucienne Bloch, 90, Swiss-born American artist.[33]
  • Lee Falk, 88, American writer, theater director and producer.[34]
  • Kurt Von Hess, 56, Canadian wrestler known as Kurt Von Hess, heart attack.[35]
  • Bob Hollway, 73, American football player and coach.
  • Irfan Hussain, 35, Indian cartoonist, murdered.
  • Garson Kanin, 86, American writer and director of plays and films.[36]
  • Anton Raadik, 82, Estonian-born American boxer.

14[]

  • Kirk Alyn, 88, American actor, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Tex Blaisdell, 78, American comic strip artist and editor.
  • John Broome, 85, American comic book writer for DC Comics.[37]
  • Gregg Diamond, 49, American pianist, drummer, songwriter, and producer, gastrointestinal bleeding.
  • Abraham Kurland, 86, Danish wrestler.
  • Robert Q. Marston, 76, American physician and research scientist.[38][39]
  • Maud Morgan, 99, American modern artist and teacher, complications following pneumonia.

15[]

  • Guy D'Artois, 81, Canadian army officer and SOE agent.
  • Harry D. Boivin, 95, American lawyer and politician.
  • Harry Callahan, 86, American photographer.[40]
  • Hiroshi Hamaya, 83, Japanese photographer.
  • Rosemary Nelson, 40, Northern Irish human rights solicitor, killed by Ulster loyalists.[41]
  • Norman Sutton, 91, English golfer.
  • Alex Wright, 73, Scottish footballer.

16[]

  • Hampden Alpass, 92, English cricketer.
  • Peter Farrell, 76, Irish footballer.
  • Gratien Gélinas, 89, Canadian author, playwright, actor and producer.
  • Åsta Holth, 95, Norwegian novelist, poet and short story writer.
  • Vijay Kumar Kapahi, 55, Indian astrophysicist.[42]

17[]

18[]

19[]

  • Tofilau Eti Alesana, 74, Samoan politician.
  • William F. Bringle, 85, American four-star admiral and World War II aviator, pneumonia.[50]
  • Joseph DePietro, 84, American weightlifter, 1948 Olympic champion.[51]
  • Jaime Sabines, 72, Mexican contemporary poet.[52]
  • Freda Stark, 88, New Zealand dancer.

20[]

  • David Gillmore, Baron Gillmore of Thamesfield, 64, British diplomat.
  • Patrick Heron, 79, British artist, critic, writer, and polemicist.[53]
  • Roy L. Johnson, 93, American admiral.[54]
  • David A. Klarner, 58, American mathematician and author.
  • Charles Sawtelle, 52, American bluegrass musician, leukaemia.
  • Paul Toth, 63, American professional baseball player, heart attack.

21[]

  • Mary Ainsworth, 85, American-Canadian developmental psychologist, stroke.[55]
  • Henry V. Graham, 82, American Army general.[56]
  • Jean Guitton, 97, French Catholic philosopher and theologian.[57]
  • George Reedy, 81, White House Press Secretary under President Lyndon B. Johnson (1964-1965).[58]
  • Ernie Wise, 73, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise), heart failure.[59]

22[]

  • Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, 85, British historian.
  • Bill Holford, 79, American recording engineer and record producer.
  • Charlie Martin, 72, British physicist known as "the father of Pulsed Power".
  • David Strickland, 29, American actor, suicide by hanging.[60]

23[]

  • Scott D. Anderson, 33, American pilot, engineer, inventor, musician and author, plane crash.[61]
  • Luis María Argaña, 66, Paraguayan politician and Supreme Court judge, murdered.
  • Osmond Borradaile, 100, Canadian cameraman, cinematographer and veteran of World War I and II.
  • Robert M. Crunden, 58, American historian, heart attack.[62]
  • Koentjaraningrat, Indonesian anthropologist.
  • Percy Samaraweera, 70, Sri Lankan politician.
  • Kazue Takahashi, 70, Japanese voice actress.

24[]

  • Agim Hajrizi, 38, Albanian activist for human rights and trade union leader, murdered.
  • Tunde Idiagbon, 56, Nigerian Army general.
  • Osman Örek, 73, Turkish Cypriot politician, prime minister (1978).[63]
  • Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, 97, German leader of the nazi National Socialist Women's League.
  • Birdie Tebbetts, 86, American baseball player, manager and scout.[64]
  • Mighty Joe Young, 71, American Chicago blues guitarist, pneumonia.

25[]

  • Viacheslav Chornovil, 61, Ukrainian politician, automobile crash.
  • Ronald Dutton, 96, English cricketer.
  • Hans Robert Müller, 87, Austrian mathematician and professor.
  • John Linus Paschang, 103, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • Cal Ripken Sr., 63, American baseball coach and manager, lung cancer.[65]

26[]

  • David Holliday, 61, American Broadway actor and television voice actor, cancer.
  • Eva Kolstad, 80, Norwegian politician and gender equality activist.
  • Andrzej Konopka, 64, Polish Olympic gymnast.
  • Evelyn Lett, 102, Canadian women's rights pioneer.[66]
  • Margaret Mason, 58, American actress, heart attack.
  • Wilfried Senoner, 54, Italian artist.
  • Ananda Shankar, 56, Bengali musician, heart attack.

27[]

  • Michael Aris, 53, English historian, prostate cancer.[67]
  • Oskar Øksnes, 77, Norwegian politician.
  • Nahum Stelmach, 62, Israeli footballer and manager.
  • Leroy Vail, 58, American specialist in African studies and educator, lymphoma.

28[]

  • Franco Gasparri, 50, Italian actor, respiratory failure.
  • Eric James, 76, Australian cricketer.[68]
  • Freaky Tah, 27, MC, hype man and hip hop promoter, shot.

29[]

  • Elisabeth Benjamin, 90, English architect.[69]
  • Sir Dayendranath Burrenchobay, 80, Mauritian politician, Governor-General.
  • Marty Christiansen, 82, American football player.[70]
  • Jean Clark, 96, British artist.
  • Brock Speer, 79, American gospel singer (Speer Family).[71]
  • Joe Williams, 80, American jazz singer.[72][73]
  • Gyula Zsengellér, 83, Hungarian footballer.

30[]

  • Albert Coppé, 87, Belgian and European politician and economist.
  • Gary Morton, 74, American stand-up comedian, lung cancer.
  • Igor Netto, 69, Soviet–Russian footballer.
  • Terry Wilson, 75, American actor.[74]

31[]

  • David Brooks, 83, American actor, singer, director, and producer.
  • Patricia A. Goodrich, 66, American politician and homemaker.
  • Yuri Knorozov, 76, Soviet linguist, pneumonia.

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