Deaths in December 1999
The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.
December 1999
1
- Gene Baker, 74, American baseball player.
- Stephen Brooks, 57, American film and television actor, heart attack.
- Fritz Fischer, 91, German historian.[1]
- Santidev Ghosh, 89, Indian author, singer, actor and dancer.
- Marilyn Harris, 75, American child actress.
- Jaakko Jalas, 79, Finnish botanist.
- Victor Perlo, 87, American Marxist economist.[2]
- Alexander Tatarenko, 74, Soviet Russian painter and art teacher.
2
- Joey Adams, 88, American comedian, vaudevillian, radio host, nightclub performer and author.[3]
- Mike Budnick, 80, American baseball player.
- Charlie Byrd, 74, American jazz guitarist, lung cancer.[4]
- Matt Cohen, 56, Canadian writer, lung cancer.
- Daniel J. Elazar, 65, American professor of political science.
- Richard Latter, 76, American theoretical physicist.
3
- Eckart Afheldt, 78, German general in the Bundeswehr.
- John Archer, 84, American film and television actor, lung cancer.[5]
- Anne Francine, 82, American actress and cabaret singer.
- Conrad Hunte, 67, Barbadian cricketer.
- Scatman John, 57, American jazz musician and poet, lung cancer.[6]
- Gordon Jones, 86, Australian rules footballer.
- Madeline Kahn, 57, American Tony Award-winning film, television and stage actress (Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Clue), ovarian cancer.[7]
- Rokanuzzaman Khan, 74, Bangladeshi journalist and literature.
- Edmond Safra, 67, Lebanese Brazilian banker.
- Jarl Wahlström, 81, Finnish salvationist, 12th General of the Salvation Army.
- Irina Zhdanovich, 93, Belarusian actress and theatre director.
4
- Rose Bird, 63, American first female justice, breast cancer.[8]
- Sylvester Clarke, 44, West Indian cricketer, heart attack.
- Alonzo Hanagan, 87, American photographer.
- Bert Hoffmeister, 92, Canadian Army officer, businessman, and conservationist.
- Nilde Iotti, 79, Italian politician of the Communist Party.
- Barry Mahon, 78, American film director, cinematographer and producer.[9]
- Daishōhō Masami, 32, Japanese sumo wrestler, pancreatic cancer.
- Luděk Pešek, 80, Swiss artist and novelist.
- John Douglas Pringle, 87, Australian journalist.[10]
- Leighton Durham Reynolds, 69, British academic.
- Nélida Roca, 70, Argentinian showbusiness diva and sex symbol, heart attack.
- John Olubi Sodipo, 64, Nigerian philosopher.
- Edward Vesala, 54, Finnish avant-garde jazz drummer, congestive heart failure.
5
- Ellwood Madill, 84, Canadian politician.
- Edvin Biuković, 30, Croatian comics artist, brain tumor.
- Ted Cooper, 79, American television scenic designer.
- Nathan Jacobson, 89, Polish-born American mathematician.[11]
- Bobby Marchan, 69, American singer-songwriter, liver cancer.[12]
- Masaru Sato, 71, Japanese composer of film scores.
- Kendall Taylor, 94, British pianist.
6
- Alexander Baron, 82, British author and screenwriter.
- Sender Garlin, 97, American journalist pamphleteer, and writer.
- Gwyn Jones, 92, Welsh novelist and story writer.
- Martha Sharp, 94, American Unitarian.
- Robert A. Swanson, American venture capitalist.[13]
7
- Kenny Baker, 78, British jazz musician.[14]
- Darling Légitimus, 92, French actress.
- William Wiley, 68, South African cricket player.
8
- Ronnie Clayton, 76, British boxer.
- Rupert Hart-Davis, 92, English publisher.
- Wally Hebert, 92, American baseball player.
- Everett Carll Ladd, 62, American political scientist, heart failure.[15]
- David Martin Long, 46, American murderer, executed by lethal injection.[16]
- Pupella Maggio, 89, Italian film actress.
- Hossein Makki, Iranian politician, orator and historian.
- Kjell Moe, 90, Norwegian footballer.
- B. R. Patton, 79, American politician.
9
- Whitey Kurowski, 81, American baseball player.
- Yakov Rylsky, 71, Soviet sabre fencer and Olympic champion.
- Shinkichi Takemura, 67, Japanese Olympic speed skater.
- Cecil Williamson, 90, British screenwriter, editor and film director.
10
- Antonio Blanco, 87, Spanish and American painter, heart and kidney disease.
- Rick Danko, 56, Canadian musician, member of The Band, heart failure.[17]
- Lex Goudsmit, 86, Dutch actor, stroke.
- Shirley Hemphill, 52, American stand-up comedian and actress, renal failure.
- Cornelia James, 82, British glovemaker and businesswoman.[18]
- Mike Randall, 80, British journalist and editor.
- Franjo Tuđman, 77, Croatian politician, President of Croatia (since 1990), cancer.[19]
- Pietro De Vico, 88, Italian film actor.
11
- Ed Jones, 87, American politician.
- Eiichi Miyazato, 77, Japanese master of Goju-ryu karate.
- Jack Oldfield, 100, British landowner and politician.
- Joseph Roos, 91, American journalist, publicist and Hollywood story editor.[20]
- Hans K. Ziegler, 88, German American communication satellites engineer.
12
- Huelet Benner, 82, American multi-discipline pistol shooter.[21]
- Paul Cadmus, 94, American artist.
- Gordon Chater, 77, English Australian comedian and actor.
- Joseph Heller, 76, American novelist (Catch-22), heart attack.[22]
- John W. R. Taylor, 77, British aviation expert.
13
- Peter Adams, 61, New Zealand-born Australian actor.
- Jill Craigie, 88, English documentary film director, screenwriter and feminist, heart failure.[23]
- Stane Dolanc, 74, Yugoslav communist politician, cerebral stroke.
- Nina Graboi, 81, Austrian-American artist, writer and philosopher.[24]
- Tarmo Uusivirta, 42, Finnish professional boxer, suicide.
- Robert Wagenhoffer, 39, American figure skater, complications of AIDS.
- Lady Mary Whitley, 75, British noblewoman.
14
- Sven Berlin, 88, English painter, writer and sculptor.[25]
- Allan La Fontaine, 88, Australian rules footballer.
- Douglas Leigh, 92, American advertising executive.
- Walt Levinsky, 70, American big band and orchestral player, composer, arranger and bandleader, brain tumour.
- J. W. Lockett, 62, American football player.
- Héctor Martínez, 60, Cuban baseball player.[26]
- Joseph K. Taussig Jr., 79, United States Navy officer during and after World War II, embolism.
15
- Rune Andréasson, 74, Swedish comic creator, cancer.
- Eddie Kazak, 79, American baseball player.
- Louis J. Schneider Jr., 78, American lawyer and politician.
16
- Henry Helstoski, 74, American politician.[27]
- Dorit Kreysler, 90, Austrian film actress.
- Jorge Tuero, Venezuelan television actor and comedian, killed during the Vargas tragedy.
17
- Rex Allen, 78, American actor and singer-songwriter, road accident.[28]
- Jürgen Moser, 71, German-American mathematician.
- Văn Phụng, Vietnamese songwriter.
- Tyron Silvapulle, Sri Lankan pilot, killed in action.
- Grover Washington Jr., 56, American jazz saxophonist, heart attack.[29]
- C. Vann Woodward, 91, American historian and Pulitzer prize winner.
18
- Þór Beck, 59, Icelandic footballer.
- Ken W. Clawson, 63, American journalist.
- Robert Dougall, 86, English broadcaster and ornithologist.[30]
- Joe Higgs, 59, Jamaican reggae musician, cancer.[31]
- Bertha Swirles, 96, British physicist.
- Logan Wright, 66, American pediatric psychologist, heart attack.
19
- Francis Greenlief, 78, major general in the United States Army, cancer.
- Brendan Hansen, 77, Australian politician.
- Ross Hutchinson, 85, Australian rules footballer, coach and politician.
- Desmond Llewelyn, 85, British film actor, played Q in the James Bond film series, road accident.[32]
20
- Bob Banham, 87, New Zealand rugby footballer.
- Dick Bertell, 64, American baseball player.[33]
- Riccardo Freda, 90, Italian film director.
- Manuel Antonio Rueda González, 78, Dominican writer and pianist.
- Jack Hawley, 79, American politician.
- Mario Carreño Morales, 86, Cuban painter.
- Irving Rapper, 101, American film director.
- Hank Snow, 85, Canadian country musician.[34]
- James Wainwright, 61, American actor.
21
- John Arnatt, 82, British actor.
- Nancy Atkinson, 89, Australian bacteriologist.
- Michael P. Malone, 59, American historian, cardiomyopathy.[35]
- Eddie McGirt, 79, American football coach.
- Sergey Nagovitsyn, 31, Russian singer and composer, brain haemorrhage.
- Bernard Smith, 92, American literary editor, film producer and literary critic.[36]
- Frank Stanley, 77, American cinematographer.
- Jalil Ziapour, 79, Iranian painter and academic.
22
- Per Aabel, 97, Norwegian actor, artist, dancer and choreographer.
- Howard H. Cooksey, 78, United States Army Lieutenant General, heart disease.[37]
- Monette Cummings, 85, American writer of pulp fiction.
- Hans Frankenthal, 73, German Holocaust survivor.
- Suvi Raj Grubb, 82, Indian record producer.
- Tamara Lees, 75, English film actress.
- Louis Pohl, 84, American painter, illustrator, art teacher, printmaker and cartoonist.
- Benny Quick, 55, German pop and Schlager singer, suicide.
- Roland Stone, 58, American rhythm and blues and pop singer.[38]
23
- Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield, 86, British Army officer and courtier of Queen Elizabeth II.
- Ronald Strutt, 4th Baron Belper, 87, British hereditary peer, British Army officer, and equestrian.
- Joe Calvert, British footballer.
- John Paton Davies Jr., 91, American diplomat and Medal of Freedom recipient.[39]
- Wallace Diestelmeyer, 73, Canadian figure skater.
- Lois Hamilton, 56, American model, actress and author, suicide.
- Eirene White, Baroness White, 90, British politician and journalist.[40]
24
- Tomasz Beksiński, 41, Polish radio presenter, suicide.
- Bill Bowerman, 88, American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike, Inc..
- Maurice Couve de Murville, 92, French politician, 152nd Prime Minister of France.
- Billy Davenport, 68, American drummer.
- João Figueiredo, 81, 30th President of Brazil.[41]
- Tito Guízar, 91, American singer and actor.
- Jiang Hua, 92, President of the Supreme Court of China.
- Joseph McGahn, 82, American politician.[42]
- William C. Schneider, 76, NASA mission director.
- Grete Stern, 95, German-Argentine photographer.
25
- Andrew Collins, 27, English cricketer.
- Peter Jeffrey, 70, English actor, prostate cancer.[43]
- Michael Bamidele Otiko, 65, Nigerian politician and educator.
- Alfonso Lastras Ramírez, 75, Mexican lawyer and politician.
26
- Ola Skjåk Bræk, 87, Norwegian banker and politician.
- Curtis Mayfield, 57, American R&B, soul and funk singer-songwriter and record producer, diabetes complications.[44]
- Shankar Dayal Sharma, 81, 9th president of India.
27
- Leslie Brown, 87, British Anglican prelate.
- Bernard Chacksfield, 86, British Royal Air Force officer.
- Pierre Clémenti, 57, French actor, liver cancer.
- Leonard Goldenson, 94, American T.V. and radio executive.[45]
- Michael McDowell, 49, American novelist and screenwriter, AIDS-related illness.[46]
- Horst Matthai Quelle, 87, German philosopher.
- George Warwick Smith, 83, Australian public servant.
28
- Josephine Barnes, 87, English obstetrician and gynaecologist.
- Donald Cotton, 71, British writer for radio and television.
- John Geoghegan, American publisher, brain aneurysm.
- Kenneth Hudson, 83, British journalist and broadcaster.
- Larry Dale Lee, 41, American financial and economic journalist, knife wounds.[47]
- Harry Monty, 95, Polish-American actor and stuntperson.
- Clayton Moore, 85, American actor.[48]
- Herbert Reiner Jr., 83, American diplomat.
- J. Stuart Wetmore, 84, American bishop.
29
- Colin Fairservice, 90, English professional cricketer.
- Edward Hollamby, 78, English architect and town planner, heart disease.[49]
- Sir Leon Radzinowicz, 93, Polish-born British criminologist.[50]
- José Cláudio dos Reis, 60, Brazilian sports administrator.
- Charles F. Spalding, 81, American heir, political advisor and investment banker, myeloma.
- Gerard Veringa, 75, Dutch politician.[51]
- Jerzy Waldorff, 89, Polish baron, TV personality and writer.
30
- Tom Aherne, 80, Irish footballer and hurler.
- Clint Albright, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Arthur Bassett, 85, Welsh rugby player.
- Gordon Brown, 67, Scottish footballer.
- Lynne Mapp Drexler, 71, American abstract and representational artist, cancer.[52]
- Sarah Knauss, 119, American supercentenarian, oldest person in the world and oldest-ever US citizen.[53]
- Fritz Leonhardt, 90, German structural engineer.
- Terry Rosen, 60, American jazz guitarist, concert promoter, and radio DJ, accidental suicide.
- Donald Eugene Webb, 68, American criminal, stroke.[54]
- La Vern E. Weber, 76, United States Army officer, domestic accident.
31
- Alexandr Vladimirovich Gussev, 82, Russian helminthologist.
- William Hughes, Baron Hughes, 88, British politician.[55]
- Arthur Humberstone, 87, British animator, artist and director.
- Bob McKeen, 66, American basketball player.
- Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi, 85, Indian Islamic scholar and author.[56]
- Elliot Richardson, 79, American politician and diplomat, cerebral hemorrhage.[57]
- Jack Skidmore, 80, Australian trade unionist and politician.
- Matokie Slaughter, 80, American banjo player.
- Richard "Hock" Walsh, 51, Canadian blues singer, heart attack.
- Hamako Watanabe, 89, Japanese singer.
- Shirley Willer, 77, American feminist and activist.
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