Deaths in September 1999
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
- Emilio Aldecoa, 76, Spanish professional footballer.
- Erma Keyes, 73, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).[3]
- Charles Lee, 75, English cricketer.
- Shlomo Morag, 73, Israeli professor of Hebrew.
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
- Arnold Fishkind, 80, American jazz bassist.
- René Lecavalier, 81, Canadian French-language radio show host and sportscaster.
- Steve Little, 43, American football player.[7]
- John H. Mulroy, 74, American politician.
7
- Thierry Claveyrolat, 40, French road bicycle racer, suicide.[8]
- Ian Doyle, 67, Australian professional rugby league footballer.
- Bill Ordway, 82, American football player and sports coach, pseudomonas.
8
- Aleksandar Aranđelović, 78, Yugoslavian football player and coach.
- 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.[9]
- Lev Razgon, 91, Soviet and Russian journalist, writer and human rights activist.[10]
- Vladimir Samoilov, 75, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.
- Herbert Stein, 83, American economist.
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.[11]
- Jim "Catfish" Hunter, 53, American baseball player and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[12]
- Mahmoud Karim, 83, Egyptian squash player.
- Ruth Roman, 76, American actress.[13]
- 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.[14]
- Alfredo Kraus, 71, Spanish tenor.[15]
- 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.[16]
11
- Belkis Ayón, 32, Cuban printmaker, suicide.
- Momčilo Đujić, 92, Serbian Orthodox priest and Chetnik commander during World War II.[17]
- 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.[18]
- Allen Stack, 71, American swimmer and Olympic champion.[19]
13
- Joyce Sparer Adler, 83, American critic, playwright, and teacher.
- Alfred W. Bethea, 83, American farmer and politician.
- Roland Blanche, 55, French actor.
- Harry Crane, 85, American comedy writer.[20]
- Miriam Davenport, 84, American painter and sculptor.[21]
- 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.[22]
- Miguel Ángel Cuello, 53, Argentinian boxer.
- Chuck Higgins, 75, American saxophonist, lung cancer.[23]
- 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.[24]
- 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.[25][26]
- Abdolhossein Zarrinkoob, 76, Iranian scholar.
16
- Paul Gregory, 91, American baseball player.[27]
- Viktar Hanchar, 42, Belarusian politician, kidnapped and murdered by the Lukashenko regime.[28]
- Utaemon Ichikawa, 92, Japanese film actor.
- Naděžda Plíšková, 64, Czech graphic artist and sculptor.
- Endre Rozsda, 85, Hungarian-French painter.[29]
- John Parsons Shillingford, 85, British physician and cardiologist.
17
- Frederick Babson, 69, American politician.[30]
- Leonard Carlitz, 91, American mathematician.
- Riccardo Cucciolla, 75, Italian actor and voice actor.[31]
- 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.[32]
- Frankie Vaughan, 71, British singer, heart failure.[33]
- 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.[34]
- Gérard Landry, Argentinian actor.
- Rory Jack Thompson, 57, Australian scientist and convicted murderer, suicide by hanging.
- Leo Valiani, 90, Italian historian, politician and journalist.[35]
- Leszek Wodzyński, 53, Polish hurdler.
19
- Livio Isotti, 72, Italian road bicycle racer.
- Pavle Ivić, 74, Serbian Slavic dialectologist and phonologist.
- Bua Kitiyakara, 89, Thai actress and wife of prince Nakkhatra Mangala.[36]
- Tim Lawry, 88, American professional basketball player.
20
- Raisa Gorbacheva, 67, Russian activist, leukemia.
- Taheyya Kariokka, 84, Egyptian belly dancer and film actress.[37]
- Robert Lebel, 93, Canadian ice hockey administrator.[38]
- Willy Millowitsch, 90, German actor and director.
- T. R. Rajakumari, 77, Indian film actress, singer and dancer.
21
- Robert Galbraith Heath, 84, American psychiatrist.[39]
- Benny Kalama, 83, American singer and arranger.
- Joe Stanowicz, 77, American football player.
- Sander Thoenes, 30, Dutch journalist, shot in East Timor.[40]
22
- Noriko Awaya, 92, Japanese soprano chanteuse and ryūkōka singer.
- Clive Jenkins, 73, British trade union leader.[41]
- Tomoo Kudaka, 36, Japanese football player, stomach cancer.
- George C. Scott, 71, American film actor, abdominal aortic aneurysm.[42]
23
- Ivan Goff, 89, Australian screenwriter, Alzheimer's disease.[43]
- 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.[44]
- Jack Kiefer, 59, American professional golfer, cancer.
- Anneli Cahn Lax, 77, American mathematician.[45]
- 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
- Marion Zimmer Bradley, 69, American author of fantasy and science fiction, heart attack.[46]
- John R. Crews, 76, American soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.[47]
- Sir Des O'Neil, 78, Australian politician, Deputy Premier of Western Australia. (1975 – 1980).
- Guido Pontecorvo, 91, Italian-born Scottish geneticist.
26
- Jesse Dirkhising, 13, American murder victim, respiratory failure.[48]
- 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.[49]
- Escott Reid, 94, Canadian diplomat.
- Jeanne Sheehy, 60, Irish art historian.
- Imre Zichy, 90, Hungarian count and tennis player.
29
- Gé Korsten, 71, South African opera tenor and actor.
- Gustavo Leigh, 79, Chilean general, cardiovascular ailments.[50]
- Edward William O'Rourke, 81, American Roman Catholic bishop.
30
- Edward C. Banfield, 82, American political scientist.[51]
- Bruce K. Holloway, 87, American Air Force general, heart failure.
- Dmitry Likhachov, 92, Russian medievalist, linguist and concentration camp survivor.[52]
- Anna Mae Winburn, 86, American vocalist and jazz bandleader.
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