Deaths in November 1999

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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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.

November 1999[]

1[]

  • Dave Bickles, 55, professional footballer, kidney cancer.
  • Minoru Chiaki, 82, Japanese actor.
  • Edmund Dell, 78, British politician and businessman.[1]
  • Theodore Hall, 74, American physicist and spy for the Soviet Union, renal cancer.[2]
  • Walter Payton, 45, American football player, cholangiocarcinoma.[3]
  • William van Straubenzee, 75, British politician.

2[]

  • Jackie Davis, 78, American soul jazz singer, organist and bandleader, stroke.[4]
  • Demetrio B. Lakas, 74, 27th President of Panama (1969 - 1978), heart disease.
  • Billy Nicks, 94, American football player and coach.
  • Hans-Joachim Preil, 76, East German comedian.
  • Mitar Subotić, 38, Serbian-born musician and composer, fire.

3[]

  • Ian Bannen, 71, Scottish actor, car accident.[5]
  • Jack Bionda, 66, Canadian lacrosse and ice hockey player.
  • Oliver Forster, 74, British diplomat.
  • Arrigo Pola, 80, Italian tenor.

4[]

  • Daisy Bates, 84, American civil rights activist, publisher and journalist.[6]
  • Zvi Griliches, 69, American economist and holocaust survivor.[7]
  • Ernest J. Kump, 87, American architect, author and inventor.
  • Malcolm Marshall, 41, West Indian cricketer, colon cancer.[8]
  • Wakasugiyama Toyoichi, 66, Japanese sumo wrestler.
  • Charles Wintour, 82, British newspaper editor.
  • Zainuddin, 47, Indian actor and comedian, respiratory complications.

5[]

  • James Goldstone, 68, American film and television director.[9]
  • Noureddin Kianouri, 94, Iranian architect and political leader.
  • Richard Marius, 66, American academic and writer, pancreatic cancer.[10]
  • Michael Montague, Baron Montague of Oxford, 67, British businessman and politician.
  • Colin Rowe, 79, British-born American architectural historian.[11]

6[]

  • Laurence Decore, 59, Canadian lawyer and politician, cancer.
  • George V. Higgins, 59, American author, lawyer, newspaper columnist, and raconteur, heart attack.[12]
  • Rob Hoeke, 60, Dutch singer, pianist, composer and songwriter.

7[]

8[]

  • Lester Bowie, 58, American jazz trumpet player and composer, liver cancer.[14]
  • C. Eugene Farnam, 82, American politician.
  • Gwen Gordy Fuqua, 71, American songwriter and composer.[15]
  • Jerry Kerr, 87, Scottish football player and manager.
  • Yury Malyshev, 58, Soviet cosmonaut.
  • Rob Nieuwenhuys, 91, Dutch writer.
  • Harry Riebauer, 78, German film and television actor.
  • Leon Štukelj, 100, Yugoslav gymnast and Olympic gold medalist.
  • Gayle Thornbrough, 85, American historian.

9[]

  • Herb Abramson, 82, American record producer and executive.[16]
  • Claude Ballot-Léna, 63, French race driver, cancer.
  • Marjorie Gladman, 91, American tennis player.
  • Mabel King, 66, American actress and singer, diabetes.[17]
  • Lois K. Miller, 54, American geneticist and academic, melanoma.
  • Wolf Ruvinskis, 78, Mexican actor and professional wrestler.

10[]

  • Robert Kramer, 60, American film director, screenwriter and actor, meningitis.[18]
  • Tom McKinney, 72, Northern Irish rugby player.
  • Jean Potts, 88, American mystery novelist.[19]

11[]

  • Mary Kay Bergman, 38, American voice actress (South Park), suicide by gunshot.[20]
  • Frank Bowyer, 77, English footballer.
  • Little Miss Cornshucks, 76, American rhythm and blues and jazz singer and songwriter.
  • Sir Vivian Fuchs, 91, British explorer.[21]
  • Choi Moo-ryong, 71, South Korean actor.
  • Sathyavani Muthu, 76, Indian politician.
  • Jack Plimsoll, 82, South African cricketer.
  • Jacobo Timerman, 76, Soviet-born Argentine publisher, journalist, and author, heart attack.[22]
  • Bob Walls, 72, New Zealand painter.

12[]

  • Eulalie Minfred Banks, 104, American illustrator of children's books.
  • Margaret Casson, 86, South African architect, designer and photographer, and the wife of Sir Hugh Casson.
  • Mohammad Mohammadullah, 78, President of Bangladesh (1973 - 1975).
  • Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr., 87, member of the Vanderbilt family.[23]

13[]

  • Austin Shofner, 83, United States Marine Corps officer.
  • John Stapp, 89, American U.S. Air Force officer, flight surgeon and physician.[24]
  • Barbara Jean Wong, 75, American actress.[25]

14[]

  • Orazio Costa, 88, Italian theatre pedagogist and director.
  • Lucile Fairbanks, 82, American actress.
  • Benjamin I. Schwartz, 82, American academic, author and sinologist.[26]
  • Jimmy Sidle, 57, American football player, heart failure.
  • Peter Wildeblood, 76, Anglo-Canadian journalist, novelist, playwright and gay rights campaigner.

15[]

  • Jean-Marie Adiaffi, 58, Ivorian writer, screenwriter and filmmaker.
  • P. K. van der Byl, 76, Rhodesian politician.
  • Gene Levitt, 79, American television writer, producer and director.[27]
  • Sir Harry Llewellyn, 88, British equestrian, Olympic champion (1952).
  • Maynard Lyndon, 92, American architect.[28]
  • Giovanni Pintori, 87, Italian graphic designer.

16[]

17[]

  • Leif Anderson, 74, Swedish jazz expert, journalist and radio personality.
  • Sally Ann Forrester, 76, American musician ("The first woman in bluegrass").
  • Cowboy Jimmy Moore, 89, American pocket billiards (pool) player.

18[]

  • Yevgeni Belosheikin, 33, Russian ice hockey player, suicide.
  • Paul Bowles, 88, American migrant composer, author, and translator.[32]
  • Beatrice Colen, 51, American television and film actress, lung cancer.
  • Stephen Greene, 82, American artist.[33]
  • Jay Heard, 79, American baseball player.
  • Prince Heinrich of Hesse-Kassel, 72, German noble.
  • Horst P. Horst, 93, German-American fashion photographer.[34]
  • Vittorio Miele, 72, Italian painter.
  • Doug Sahm, 58, American musician and singer-songwriter, heart attack.[35]
  • Gladys Yang, 80, British translator of Chinese literature.[36]

19[]

  • Smokey Joe Baugh, 67, American rockabilly and country singer and pianist.
  • Dominic Cortina, 74, American mobster and member of the Chicago Outfit, cancer.[37]
  • Alexander Liberman, 87, Russian-American publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor.
  • John McCue, 77, English footballer.
  • Arthur W. Saha, 76, American speculative fiction editor and anthologist, cancer.

20[]

  • Amintore Fanfani, 91, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy.[38]
  • Sadao Hasegawa, 54, Japanese graphic artist, suicide by hanging.
  • Arthur Hewson, 84, Australian politician.
  • Sufia Kamal, 88, Bangladeshi poet and political activist.[39]
  • Orfi, 56, Bulgaria illusionist, stroke.

21[]

  • Horacio Gómez Bolaños, 69, Mexican actor and brother of Chespirito, heart attack.
  • Margaret E. Chisholm, 78, American librarian and educator.
  • Quentin Crisp, 90, British writer, illustrator, actor and socialite, heart attack.[40]
  • Ralph Foody, 71, American actor, cancer.[41]
  • Marie Kraja, 88, Albanian opera singer.
  • Serge Lang, 79, French journalist and alpine skier, heart attack.

22[]

  • Flávio Costa, 93, Brazilian football (soccer) player and manager.
  • Moira Dunbar, 81, Scottish-Canadian glaciologist.[42]
  • Efim Etkind, 81, Soviet philologist and translation theorist.
  • Abdelkader Hachani, 42, Algerian Islamic leader, murdered.[43]

23[]

24[]

  • Howard Biggs, 83, American pianist, songwriter and arranger.
  • David F. Kessler, 93, British publisher and author.[45]
  • Hilary Minster, 55, English character actor, cancer.[46]
  • Ambrose Rayappan, 98, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop.

25[]

  • Tanveer Abbasi, 64, Pakistani poet.
  • William "Billy" Benedict, 82, American actor.[47]
  • Pierre Bézier, 89, French engineer (CAD/CAM systems).
  • Richard M. Eakin, 89, American zoologist and professor.[48]
  • T. V. Kochubava, 43, Indian writer, heart attack.
  • Lucile Petry Leone, 97, American nurse.[49]
  • Dumisani Maraire, 54, Zimbabwean musician, stroke.
  • John McMillan, 84, Australian public servant and diplomat.

26[]

  • George L. Engel, 85, American internist and psychiatrist, heart failure.
  • Paul Kozlicek, 62, Austrian football player.
  • Ashley Montagu, 94, British-American anthropologist.[50]
  • Thomas Edward Rogers, 86, British diplomat, died on 26 November 1999.

27[]

  • I-Roy, 55, Jamaican DJ, heart failure.[51]
  • Hiro Matsuda, 62, Japanese-American professional wrestler and trainer, prostate cancer.
  • Arturo Fernández Meyzán, 93, Peruvian footballer.
  • Louis W. Menk, 81, American railway worker and executive.
  • Alain Peyrefitte, 74, French scholar and politician.[52]
  • Robert Theobald, 70, American economist and futurist author, esophageal cancer.
  • Elizabeth Gray Vining, 97, American librarian, tutor and author.[53]
  • Johnny "Big Moose" Walker, 72, American blues pianist and organist.
  • Ernest Zobole, 72, Welsh painter and art teacher.

28[]

  • Eric Bryant, 63, British cricket player.
  • N. V. M. Gonzalez, 84, Filipino novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet.
  • Bethel Leslie, 70, American actress and screenwriter, cancer.[54]
  • Abdur Razzaq, Bangladeshi scholar, academic and intellectual.

29[]

  • Germán Arciniegas, 98, Colombian historian, author and journalist.[55]
  • John Berry, 82, American film director.[56]
  • Herbert Freudenberger, 73, Jewish, German-born American psychologist, kidney disease.[57]
  • Curtis Knight, 70, American musician.
  • Plínio Marcos, 64, Brazilian writer, actor, journalist and playwright, stroke.
  • Michael O'Halloran, 66, Irish-born British politician.
  • Sid Patterson, 72, Australian track cyclist, liver cancer.
  • Gene Rayburn, 81, American radio personality and game show host, heart failure.[58]
  • Kazuo Sakamaki, 81, Japanese naval officer.[59]

30[]

  • Philip Elman, 81, American lawyer at the U.S. Department of Justice.[60]
  • Don "Sugarcane" Harris, 61, American rock and roll violinist and guitarist, pulmonary disease.[61]
  • Huang Hsin-chieh, 71, Taiwanese politician and legislator, heart attack.
  • Roger Kimpton, 83, Australian cricketer.
  • Eli Thomas Reich, 86, American submarine commander during World War II.
  • Sam Treiman, 74, American theoretical physicist, leukemia.[62]
  • Al Schroll, 67, American baseball player.
  • M. N. Srinivas, 83, Indian sociologist and social anthropologist.[63]
  • Vladimir Yashchenko, 40, Soviet high jumper and world record holder (233 cm, 234 cm and 235 cm), cirrhosis.[64]

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