Deaths in 1999

The following is a list of notable deaths in 1999. Names are listed under the date of death, not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name.

A typical entry appears in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

December 1999

• 30 Sarah Knauss, 119, American supercentenarian, verified oldest person in the world. [1]
• 26 Curtis Mayfield, 57, American R&B, soul and funk singer-songwriter and record producer, diabetes complications. [2]
• 20 Hank Snow, 85, Canadian country musician. [3]
• 19 Desmond Llewelyn, 85, British film actor, played Q in the James Bond film series, road accident. [4]
• 17 Rex Allen, 78, American actor and singer-songwriter, road accident. [5]
• 5 John Archer, 84, American film and television actor, lung cancer. [6]
• 3 Scatman John, 57, American jazz musician and poet, lung cancer. [7]
• 3 Madeline Kahn, 57, American Tony Award-winning film, television and stage actress, ovarian cancer. [8]

November 1999

• 30 Charlie Byrd, 74, American jazz and classical guitarist, lung cancer. [9]
• 29 Gene Rayburn, 81, American radio personality and game show host, heart failure. [10]
• 21 Quentin Crisp, 90, British writer, illustrator, actor and socialite, natural causes. [11]
• 20 Annie Jennings, 115, British supercentenarian and verified second oldest person in the world. [12]
• 14 Antonio Ramos, 69, American martial artist (Kajukenbo) [13]
• 11 Mary Kay Bergman, 38, American voice actor (South Park), suicide by gunshot. [14]
• 1 Walter Payton, 45, American football player, primary sclerosing cholangitis.

October 1999

• 31 Greg Moore, 24, Canadian racecar driver, collision.
• 30 Maigonis Valdmanis, 66, Latvian basketball player
• 20 Jack Lynch, 82, Irish Fianna Fáil politician, fourth Taoiseach of Ireland (1966–1973, 1977–1979). [15]
• 17 Dimitre Mehandjiysky, 84, (Bulgarian Димитър Механджийски) artist and designer, kidney failure.
• 12 Wilt Chamberlain, 63, NBA basketball player, congestive heart failure.

September

• 26 Jesse Dirkhising, 13, American murder victim, respiratory failure. [16]
• 22 George C. Scott, 71 American film actor, abdominal aortic aneurysm.
• 22 Clive Jenkins, 73, British trade union leader. [17]
• 17 Frankie Vaughan, 71, British singer, heart failure.
• 9 Alan Clark, 71, British Conservative politician, Member of Parliament (1974–1999), military historian and animal rights activist, brain cancer. [18]
• 5 Allen Funt, 84, American television personality, stroke.

August 1999

• 10 Jennifer Paterson, 71, British chef and television personality (Two Fat Ladies), lung cancer. [19]
• 9 Helen Rollason, MBE, 43, British sports journalist and television presenter, colorectal cancer.
• 7 Brion James, 54, American film actor, heart attack.
• 4 Victor Mature, 86, American film actor, leukaemia. [20]

July 1999

• 29 Anita Carter, 66, American singer and member of the Carter family, complications of rheumatoid arthritis. [21]
• 23 Hassan II of Morocco, 70, Moroccan monarch, King of Morocco (since 1961), heart attack. [22]
• 20 Sandra Gould, 82 United States film and television actor (Bewitched) and writer, complications of surgery. [23]
• 16 Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, 33, American socialite and wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr., plane crash. [24]
• 16 John F. Kennedy, Jr., 38, American journalist, lawyer, socialite and son of John F. Kennedy, plane crash. [25]
• 12 Bill Owen, 85, British actor and songwriter, pancreatic cancer. [26]
• 1 Guy Mitchell, 72, American traditional pop singer, complications of surgery. [27]

June 1999

• 29 Allan Carr, 62, American film, television and theatre producer (La Cage aux Folles), liver cancer. [28]
• 28 Anatoliy Zheglanov, 56, Ukrainian ski-jumper who competed for USSR. [29]
• 23 Buster Merryfield, 78, British television actor, played Uncle Albert in Only Fools and Horses, brain cancer. [30]
• 21 Kami, 26, Japanese rock musician, drummer (Malice Mizer), cerebral haemorrhage. [31] (Chinese)
• 17 Stanley Faulder, 61, Canadian executed by lethal injection for murder in the U.S. state of Texas.
• 11 DeForest Kelley, 79, American film and television actor, played Leonard McCoy in Star Trek, stomach cancer. [32]
• 5 Mel Torme, 73, American singer, stroke.

May 1999

• 23 Owen Hart, 34, Canadian professional wrestler (WWF), injuries sustained from fall. [33]
• 21 Bugz, 21, American Freestyle rapper (D12), murder. [34]
• 17 James Broughton, 85, American poet, memoirist, playwright and filmmaker, heart failure. [35]
• 9 Shel Silverstein, 67, American poet, playwright, and cartoonist, heart attack. [36]
• 8 Sir Dirk Bogarde, 78, British actor and writer, (Doctor in the House, Victim, The Servant, Death in Venice, A Bridge Too Far), heart attack. [37]
• 8 Dana Plato, 34, American actress (Diff'rent Strokes), suicide by overdose. [38]
• 2 Oliver Reed, 61, British actor (The Devils, Oliver, The Three Musketeers, Gladiator), heart failure. [39]

April 1999

• 29 Denzo Ishizaki, 112, Japan's oldest man.
• 28 Sir Alf Ramsey, 79, British football player and manager (Ipswich Town, England), Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer. [40]
• 26 Jill Dando, 37, British journalist and television presenter (Crimewatch), murder by gunshot. [41]
• 25 Lord Killanin, 85, Irish journalist and Olympic official.
• 21 Charles Rogers, 94, American actor and jazz musician, natural causes. [42]
• 20 Eric Harris, 18, American perpetrator of the Columbine High School Massacre, suicide by gunshot. [43]
• 20 Dylan Klebold, 17, American perpetrator of the Columbine High School Massacre, suicide by gunshot. [44]
• 20 Rachel Joy Scott, 17, the first victim of the Columbine High School Massacre, murdered
• 20 Daniel Lee Rohrbough, 15, victim of Columbine High School Massacre, murdered
• 20 William David "Dave" Sanders, 47, only teacher killed in Columbine High School Massacre, murdered
• 20 Kyle Albert Velasquez, 16, victim of Columbine High School Massacre, murdered
• 20 Steven Robert Curnow, 14, victim of Columbine High School Massacre, murdered
• 20 Cassie Rene Bernall, 17, victim of Columbine High School Massacre, murdered
• 20 Isaiah Eamon Shoels, 18, victim of Columbine High School Massacre, murdered
• 20 Matthew Joseph Kechter, 16, victim of Columbine High School Massacre, murdered
• 20 Lauren Dawn Townsend, 18, victim of Columbine High School Massacre, murdered
• 20 John Robert Tomlin, 16, victim of Columbine High School Massacre, murdered
• 20 Kelly Ann Fleming, 16, victim of Columbine High School Massacre, murdered
• 20 Daniel Connor Mauser, 15, victim of Columbine High School Massacre, murdered
• 20 Corey Tyler DePooter, 17, last victim of Columbine High School Massacre, murdered
• 16 Skip Spence, 52, American singer-songwriter (Jefferson Airplane), lung cancer. [45]
• 14 Anthony Newley, 67, British singer-songwriter and actor, kidney cancer. [46]
• 4 Bob Peck, 53, British actor (Jurassic Park), cancer.
• 3 Lionel Bart, 68, British composer and lyricist, cancer. [47]

March 1999

• 21 Ernie Wise, 73, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise), heart failure. [48]
• 17 Rod Hull, 63, British entertainer and comedian, injuries sustained from fall. [49]
• 10 Valentino Mazzia 77, forensic anesthesiologist, cirrhosis. [50]
• 8 Joe DiMaggio, 84, American baseball player (New York Yankees), lung cancer. [51]
• 7 Stanley Kubrick, 70, American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and photographer, heart attack. [52]
• 5 Richard Kiley, 76, American Emmy Award-winning film, television and stage actor, unspecified bone marrow disease. [53]
• 4 Del Close, 64, American comedian, actor and theatre director, emphysema. [54]
• 4 Eddie Dean, 91, American country singer-songwriter and actor in Western films, heart and lung disease. [55]
• 2 Dusty Springfield, 59, British traditional pop singer and entertainer, breast cancer. [56]

February 1999

• 25 Glenn T. Seaborg, 86, American nuclear chemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1951), complications of a stroke. [57]
• 20 Gene Siskel, 53, American film critic and television journalist, brain cancer. [58]
• 19 Wilford Berry, Jr., 36, convicted of murder by the American state of Ohio, executed by lethal injection
• 14 Big L, 24, American Freestyle rapper (D.I.T.C.), murder. [59]
• 9 Bryan Mosley, 67, British television and film actor, (Coronation Street), myocardial infarction. [60]
• 8 Dame Iris Murdoch, 79, Irish-born British novelist, poet and philosopher, Alzheimer's disease. [61]
• 7 Hussein of Jordan, 63, Jordanian monarch, King of Jordan (1952–1999), lymphoma. [62]
• 6 Jimmy Roberts, 74, American singer and featured performer on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1955 to 1982, bone cancer.
• 5 Wassily Leontief, 93, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1 Paul Mellon, 92, American philanthropist

January 1999

• 31 Norm Zauchin, 69, American baseball player, after long illness.
• 31 Bill Luders, 89, American naval architect and yacht designer
• 30 Huntz Hall, 79, American film, theatre and radio actor, heart failure.
• 28 Markey Robinson, 80, Irish painter.
• 26 Settimio Ferrazzetta, 74, Italian-born Bissauan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bissau (since 1977). [63]
• 25 Robert Shaw, 82, American conductor, stroke.
• 25 Ted Mallie, 74, American radio and television announcer.
• 23 Lincoln Thompson, 49, Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, cancer. [64]
• 22 Graham Staines, Australian Christian missionary, murdered.
• 21 Susan Strasberg, 60, American actress, breast cancer.
• 14 Jerzy Grotowski, 65, Polish theatre director, after long illness.
• 11 Brian Moore, 77, British-born Canadian novelist, respiratory failure.
• 11 Fabrizio De André, 58, Italian singer-songwriter, lung cancer.
• 4 Iron Eyes Cody, 94, American actor.

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