Deaths in March 1999
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
- Christine Glanville, 74, British puppeteer.[1]
- Enneüs Heerma, 54, Dutch politician, lung cancer.[2]
- Digger Kettle, 76, English footballer.[3]
- Jozo Matošić, 86, Yugoslav football player and coach.
- Gema Ramkeesoon, Indo-Trinidadian/Afro-Trinidadian social worker and women's rights activist.
- Steve Sinko, 89, American football player and coach.
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.
- Hawley Pratt, 87, American film director, animator and illustrator.
- 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.
- William McGonagle, 73, United States Naval officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.[9]
- 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.
- Del Close, 64, American comedian, actor and theatre director, emphysema.[10]
- Eddie Dean, 91, American country singer-songwriter and actor, heart and lung disease.[11]
- 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.
- Tom Denning, Baron Denning, 100, English lawyer and judge.[12]
- John Figueroa, 78, Jamaican poet.
- John Harkins, 66, American actor.
- Richard Kiley, 76, American Emmy Award-winning film, television and stage actor, bone marrow disease.[13]
- 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.
- Hiroshi Hamaya, 83, Japanese photographer.
- Branka Jurca, Slovene writer.
- Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, 67, emir of Bahrain (1961-1999), heart attack.[14]
- Dennis Viollet, 65, English footballer.
- Eric Wolf, 76, Austrian-born American anthropologist and activist, liver cancer.[15]
7
- Paul Bouts, 99, Belgian phrenologist and pedagogue.
- Lowell Fulson, 77, American blues guitarist and songwriter.[16]
- Antônio Houaiss, 83, Brazilian writer and lexicographer.
- Stanley Kubrick, 70, American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and photographer, heart attack.[17]
- 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, Portuguse film director.
- Giovan Battista Carpi, 71, Italian comics artist.
- Adolfo Bioy Casares, 84, Argentine writer and journalist.
- Joe DiMaggio, 84, American baseball player (New York Yankees), lung cancer.[18]
- Anne T. Hill, 82, American fashion designer.
9
- Arnold Machin, 87, British artist and sculptor.[19]
- Hermann Merkin 91, American businessman and philanthropist, heart failure.
- Harry Somers, 73, Canadian composer.
10
- Oswaldo Guayasamín, 79, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor.
- Kusumagraj, 87, Indian poet, playwright and novelist.
- Valentino Mazzia 77, American forensic anesthesiologist, cirrhosis.[20]
11
- Howell Conant, 82, American fashion photographer.
- Stefan Schnabel, 87, German-born American actor, heart attack.[21]
- 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.[22]
- Alf Murray, 83, Irish Gaelic footballer.
- George Robinson, 78, Australian cricketer.
13
- Lucienne Bloch, 90, Swiss-born American artist.[23]
- Lee Falk, 88, American writer, theater director and producer.[24]
- Kurt Von Hess, 56, Canadian wrestler known as Kurt Von Hess, heart attack.[25]
- Bob Hollway, 73, American football player and coach.
- Irfan Hussain, 35, Indian cartoonist, murdered.
- 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.[26]
- 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.[27]
- 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.[28]
- Hiroshi Hamaya, 83, Japanese photographer.
- Rosemary Nelson, 40, Northern Irish human rights solicitor, killed by Ulster loyalists.[29]
- 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.[30]
17
- Boleslaw Barlog, 92, German stage, film, and opera director.[31]
- Frankie Curry, Northern Irish Ulster loyalist, shot.
- Nicolae Dumitrescu, 77, Romanian footballer and manager.
- Ernest Gold, 77, Austrian-born American composer, complications following a stroke.
- Rod Hull, 63, British entertainer and comedian, injuries sustained from fall.[32]
- Tom McGarrity, 76, Scottish footballer.
- Humberto Fernández Morán, 75, Venezuelan research scientist.
- Gilbert Noël, 72, French politician, Deputy (1966–1968), and mayor of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (1959–1977).[33]
- Hildegard Peplau, 89, American nursing theorist.
- Eric Stanton, 72, American underground cartoonist and fetish art pioneer.[34]
18
- William J. Crockett, 84, American diplomat.
- George Hinterhoeller, 71, Canadian boat designer and builder, heart attack.
- Sir William Pillar, 75, British admiral.
- Gilbert Ralston, 87, British-American screenwriter, congestive heart failure.
- Russell Ross, 69, American professor of pathology.
- Gerlando Sciascia, 65, American mobster and member of the Bonanno crime family, shot.[35]
19
- Tofilau Eti Alesana, 74, Samoan politician.
- William F. Bringle, 85, American four-star admiral and World War II aviator, pneumonia.[36]
- Joseph DePietro, 84, American weightlifter, 1948 Olympic champion.[37]
- Jaime Sabines, 72, Mexican contemporary poet.
- 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.
- Roy L. Johnson, 93, American admiral.[38]
- 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.[39]
- Henry V. Graham, 82, American Army general.
- Jean Guitton, 97, French Catholic philosopher and theologian.
- George Reedy, 81, White House Press Secretary under President Lyndon B. Johnson (1964-1965).
- Ernie Wise, 73, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise), heart failure.[40]
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.[41]
23
- Scott D. Anderson, 33, American pilot, engineer, inventor, musician and author, plane crash.[42]
- 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.[43]
- 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.
- Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, 97, German leader of the nazi National Socialist Women's League.
- Birdie Tebbetts, 86, American baseball player, manager and scout.[44]
- 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.[45]
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.[46]
- 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.[47]
- 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.[48]
- Freaky Tah, 27, MC, hype man and hip hop promoter, shot.
29
- Elisabeth Benjamin, 90, English architect.[49]
- Sir Dayendranath Burrenchobay, 80, Mauritian politician, Governor-General.
- Jean Clark, 96, British artist.
- Brock Speer, 79, American gospel singer (Speer Family).[50]
- Joe Williams, 80, American jazz singer.[51]
- 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.[52]
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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