Deaths in September 1999

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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.

September 1999[]

1[]

  • Boots Poffenberger, 84, American Major League Baseball pitcher.[1]
  • S. Srinivasan, 58, Indian aeronautical engineer.
  • W. Richard Stevens, 48, American author of computer science books.
  • Doreen Valiente, 77, English wiccan, pancreatic cancer[2]

2[]

  • Mona-Lisa Englund, 66, Swedish athlete.
  • Graham Lovett, 63, Australian tennis player and sports administrator, cancer.
  • Philip Francis Murphy, 66, American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, cancer.
  • Lajos Szűcs, 53, Hungarian Olympic weightlifter.

3[]

  • Ronald Brockman, 90, British officer of the Royal Navy.
  • Paul Lucien Dessau, 89, British artist.
  • Alexander Dudoladov, 46, Soviet and Russian writer, screenwriter and film director.

4[]

5[]

  • Alan Clark, 71, British Conservative politician, Member of Parliament (1974–1999), military historian and animal rights activist, brain cancer.[4]
  • Allen Funt, 84, American television personality (Candid Camera), stroke.[5]
  • Bryce Mackasey, 78, Canadian politician and Ambassador to Portugal.
  • Geraldo de Proença Sigaud, 89, Brazilian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • Katie Webster, 63, American boogie-woogie pianist, heart failure.[6]

6[]

7[]

8[]

  • Aleksandar Aranđelović, 78, Yugoslavian football player and coach.
  • Mark Gardner, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[9]
  • Lagumot Harris, 60, President of the Republic of Nauru.
  • Brian Hildebrand, 37, American professional wrestler, wrestling manager and referee, stomach and bowel cancer.
  • William B. Meeks Jr., 78, American producer and composer of radio jingles, cancer.
  • Moondog, 83, American musician, composer, theoretician and poet, heart failure.[10]
  • Lev Razgon, 91, Soviet and Russian journalist, writer and human rights activist.[11]
  • Vladimir Samoilov, 75, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.
  • Herbert Stein, 83, American economist.
  • Alan Willett, 52, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[9]

9[]

  • Abdel Latif Boghdadi, 81, Egyptian politician air force officer and judge.
  • Chili Bouchier, 89, English film actress.
  • Jogesh Das, 72, Indian short-story writer and novelist.
  • Tony Duquette, 85, American artist, Parkinson's disease.[12]
  • Jim "Catfish" Hunter, 53, American baseball player and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[13]
  • Mahmoud Karim, 83, Egyptian squash player.
  • Ruth Roman, 76, American actress.[14]
  • Fons van der Stee, 71, Dutch politician.
  • Helen Waterhouse, 86, British archaeologist and classical scholar.

10[]

  • Michèle Fabien, 54, Michèle Fabien, Belgian writer and playwright, cerebral hemorrhage.
  • Beau Jocque, 45, Louisiana French Creole zydeco musician and songwriter.[15]
  • Alfredo Kraus, 71, Spanish tenor.[16]
  • Kerubino Kuanyin, 50/51, Sudanese revolutionary, shot.
  • Jean Messagier, 79, French painter, sculptor, printmaker and poet.
  • Cleveland Williams, 66, American heavyweight boxer, killed in a hit and run accident.[17]

11[]

  • Belkis Ayón, 32, Cuban printmaker, suicide.
  • Momčilo Đujić, 92, Serbian Orthodox priest and Chetnik commander during World War II.[18]
  • Mohammed Aly Fahmy, 78, Egyptian field marshal,.
  • Tulsidas Jadhav, 94, Indian freedom fighter, political activist and social worker.
  • Bobby Limb, 74, Australian entertainer and radio personality, cancer.
  • Alton Wayne Roberts, 61, American Klansman and convicted accomplice in the Freedom Summer murders.
  • Gonzalo Rodríguez, 28, Uruguayan racing driver, racing accident.
  • Janet Adam Smith, 93, Scottish writer, editor and literary journalist.

12[]

  • Laurette Luez, 71, American actress and model.
  • Bill Quackenbush, 77, Canadian ice hockey player, pneumonia and complications from Alzheimer's disease.[19]
  • Allen Stack, 71, American swimmer and Olympic champion.[20]

13[]

  • Joyce Sparer Adler, 83, American critic, playwright, and teacher.
  • Roland Blanche, 55, French actor.
  • Harry Crane, 85, American comedy writer.[21]
  • Miriam Davenport, 84, American painter and sculptor.[22]
  • Vladimir Pogačić, 79, Yugoslav film director.

14[]

  • Enrique Alférez, 98, Mexican-American artist.
  • Joel Beck, 56, American artist and cartoonist, complications from alcoholism.
  • Jehan Buhan, 87, French fencer, Olympic champion.
  • Charles Crichton, 89, English film director and editor.[23]
  • Miguel Ángel Cuello, 53, Argentinian boxer.
  • Chuck Higgins, 75, American saxophonist, lung cancer.[24]
  • Art Renner, 76, American football player.
  • Antulio Segarra, 93, United States Army officer.

15[]

  • Larry Gene Ashbrook, 47, American mass murderer, suicide.
  • Thomas E. Atkins, 78, United States Army private and recipient of the Medal of Honor.[25]
  • Stewart Bovell, 92, Australian politician.
  • Lila Leeds, 71, American film actress, heart attack.
  • Hardiman Scott, 79, British journalist and broadcaster.
  • Petr Shelokhonov, 70, Russian actor, director, filmmaker and socialite.[26][27]
  • Abdolhossein Zarrinkoob, 76, Iranian scholar.

16[]

  • Paul Gregory, 91, American baseball player.[28]
  • Viktar Hanchar, 42, Belarusian politician, kidnapped and murdered by the Lukashenko regime.[29]
  • Utaemon Ichikawa, 92, Japanese film actor.
  • Naděžda Plíšková, 64, Czech graphic artist and sculptor.
  • Endre Rozsda, 85, Hungarian-French painter.[30]
  • John Parsons Shillingford, 85, British physician and cardiologist.

17[]

  • Frederick Babson, 69, American politician.[31]
  • Leonard Carlitz, 91, American mathematician.
  • Riccardo Cucciolla, 75, Italian actor and voice actor.[32]
  • Rajeshwar Dayal, 90, Indian diplomat and writer, stroke.
  • Frank Gillis, 85, American jazz pianist, ethnomusicologist and bibliographer.
  • Hasrat Jaipuri, 77, Indian poet.
  • Artur Pastor, 77, Portuguese photographer.
  • Henri Storck, 92, Belgian author, filmmaker and documentarist.
  • Rathvon M. Tompkins, 87, United States Marine Corps major general, stroke.[33]
  • Frankie Vaughan, 71, British singer, heart failure.[34]
  • Victor Vuyachich, 65, Belarusian singer.

18[]

  • Leo Amberg, 87, Swiss professional road bicycle racer.
  • Philip N. Krasne, 94, American motion picture and television producer.
  • Harold F. Kress, 86, American film editor.[35]
  • Gérard Landry, Argentinian actor.
  • Rory Jack Thompson, 57, Australian scientist and convicted murderer, suicide by hanging.
  • Leo Valiani, 90, Italian historian, politician and journalist.[36]
  • Leszek Wodzyński, 53, Polish hurdler.

19[]

20[]

  • Raisa Gorbacheva, 67, Russian activist, leukemia.
  • Taheyya Kariokka, 84, Egyptian belly dancer and film actress.[38]
  • Robert Lebel, 93, Canadian ice hockey administrator.[39]
  • Willy Millowitsch, 90, German actor and director.
  • T. R. Rajakumari, 77, Indian film actress, singer and dancer.

21[]

  • Robert Galbraith Heath, 84, American psychiatrist.[40]
  • Benny Kalama, 83, American singer and arranger.
  • Joe Stanowicz, 77, American football player.
  • Sander Thoenes, 30, Dutch journalist, shot in East Timor.[41]

22[]

23[]

  • Ivan Goff, 89, Australian screenwriter, Alzheimer's disease.[44]
  • Sir Piers Jacob, 63, Financial Secretary of Hong Kong (1986 – 1991).
  • Ri Jong-ok, 83, Premier of North Korea ( 1977 – 1984).

24[]

  • Ester Boserup, 89, Danish and French economist.
  • Rowena Mary Bruce, 80, English chess player.
  • Judith Exner, 65, American socialite and mistress of John F. Kennedy.[45]
  • Jack Kiefer, 59, American professional golfer, cancer.
  • Anneli Cahn Lax, 77, American mathematician.[46]
  • Raymond R. Wright, 53, United States Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
  • Zelma Wyche, 81, American civil rights activist and politician.

25[]

26[]

  • Jesse Dirkhising, 13, American murder victim, respiratory failure.[49]
  • Malky MacDonald, 85, Scottish football player and manager.
  • Bernadette O'Farrell, 75, Irish actress.
  • Donald Sanders, 69, American lawyer and a key figure in the Watergate investigation, cancer.

27[]

  • Sir Philip Haddon-Cave, 74, British colonial administrator.
  • Billy Mould, 79, English footballer.
  • Krishna Pal Singh, 77, Indian activist and politician.
  • Grant Warwick, 77, professional ice hockey right winger.

28[]

  • Philip Haddon-Cave, 74, British colonial administrator, heart attack.[50]
  • Escott Reid, 94, Canadian diplomat.
  • Jeanne Sheehy, 60, Irish art historian.
  • Imre Zichy, 90, Hungarian count and tennis player.

29[]

30[]

  • Edward C. Banfield, 82, American political scientist.[52]
  • Bruce K. Holloway, 87, American Air Force general, heart failure.
  • Dmitry Likhachov, 92, Russian medievalist, linguist and concentration camp survivor.[53]
  • Anna Mae Winburn, 86, American vocalist and jazz bandleader.

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