Deaths in October 1999
The following is a list of notable deaths in October 1999.
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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.
October 1999
1
- Kuei Chih-Hung, 61, Hong Kong filmmaker, liver cancer.[1]
- Noel Johnson, 82, English actor, died 1 October 1999.
- Borys Oliynyk, 65, Ukrainian political figure, murder.
- Wim Polak, 75, Dutch politician, Mayor of Amsterdam.
- Lena Zavaroni, 35, Scottish singer and a television show host, pneumonia.[2]
2
- Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Albanian Islamic scholar.
- Claude Bessy, 54, French writer, singer, video producer and painter, lung cancer.[3]
- Kim Hyun-jun, 39, South Korean basketball player, car accident.
- Tosio Kato, 82, Japanese mathematician.
- R. S. Krishnan, 88, Indian experimental physicist and scientist.
- Lee Lozano, 68, American painter and visual artist.[4]
- Danny Mayo, 49, American songwriter, heart attack.
- Georg Tintner, 82, Canadian conductor.
3
- Paul Burris, 76, American baseball player.
- Samuel Grashio, 81, US Army Air Forces pilot.
- Alastair Hetherington, 79, British journalist and editor of The Guardian.[5]
- Akio Morita, 78, Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony along with Masaru Ibuka, pneumonia.[6]
- Deirdre O'Connor, 48, Irish architect, cancer.
4
- Walter Bor, Austrian-born British town planner and architect.
- Bernard Buffet, 71, French painter, suicide.[7]
- Art Farmer, 71, American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player.[8]
- De Villiers Graaff, 85, South African politician.[9]
- Nikkyō Niwano, 92, Japanese Buddhist leader.
- Emil Schumacher, 87, German painter.
- Leonard Shoen, 83, American entrepreneur, suicide by car crash.[10]
- Ross Whitehead, 65, English professional golfer.
5
- Fernand Dubé, 70, Canadian lawyer and politician, heart attack.
- Alex Lowe, 40, American mountaineer, avalanche.[11]
- Frank K. Richardson, 85, American attorney and Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court, Parkinson's disease.
6
- Dick Bedesem, 68, American football player and coach, congestive heart failure.
- Rea Leakey, 83, Officer in the British Army.
- Gorilla Monsoon, 62, American wrestler and commentator, complications of diabetes.[12]
- Paul Petzoldt, 91, American mountaineer.
- Amália Rodrigues, 79, Portuguese singer known worldwide as the "Queen of Fado".[13]
7
- Deryck Guyler, 85, English actor.[14]
- David A. Huffman, 74, American computer scientist, cancer.[15]
- Doug Mattocks, 55, English cricketer.
- George Norton, 79, Irish rugby player.
- Dimitri Tsafendas, 81, Greek-Mozambican political militant, pneumonia.
- Helen Vinson, 92, American film actress.
- Dave Whitsell, 63, American football player, cancer.
8
- Manfredo Fest, 63, Brazilian bossa nova and jazz pianist and keyboardist.[16]
- John McLendon, 84, American basketball coach.
- Alfred Merriweather, 81, Scottish missionary in Botswana.
9
- Dutch Dotterer, 67, American baseball player.
- Milt Jackson, 76, American jazz vibraphonist, liver cancer.[17]
- Akhtar Hameed Khan, 85, Pakistani social scientist.
- James M. Logan, 78, American soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.[18]
- João Cabral de Melo Neto, 79, Brazilian poet and diplomat.
- Morris West, 83, Australian novelist and playwright.[19]
10
- George Forrest, 84, American writer of music and lyrics for musicals.[20]
- Ahmed Ibragimov, Chechen mass murderer.
- Dading Kalbuadi, 68, Indonesian Army Officer.
- Gul Hassan Khan, Pakistani Army general.
- Hajime Nakamura, 86, Japanese Orientalist, Indologist, philosopher and academic.
- Ted White, 86, Australian cricketer.
11
- Adriano Bassetto, 74, Italian footballer.
- Fakir Baykurt, 70, Turkish author and trade unionist.
- Galina Bystrova, 65, Soviet athlete.
- Ross Hall, 74, Canadian politician.
- James Franklin Hyde, 96, American chemist and inventor.
- Leo Lionni, 89, Italian-American author and illustrator of children's books.[21]
- Oscar Valicelli, 84, Argentine actor.
12
- Sir Richard Bradshaw, 79, British Army officer and doctor.
- Wilt Chamberlain, 63, NBA basketball player, congestive heart failure.[22]
- Frank Frost, 63, American blues harmonica player, cardiac arrest.[23]
- Allan Leal, 82, Canadian civil servant and academic.
- Glen Payne, 72, American gospel music singer, cancer.
- Clément Perron, 70, Canadian film director and screenwriter.
- Thakur Ramapati Singh, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
13
- Leslie Aulds, 78, American baseball player.
- James E. Williams, 68, Cherokee indian and Medal of Honor recipient.[24]
- Qasem-Ali Zahirnejad, Iranian Army general, stroke.
14
- Kenneth Benton, 90, English MI6 officer and diplomat.
- Rut Bryk, 82, Finnish ceramist.
- Franca Dominici, 92, Italian actress and voice actress.
- Diethard Hellmann, 70, German Kantor and an academic.
- Julius Nyerere, 77, Tanzanian anti-colonial activist and politician.[25]
- Richard B. Shull, 70, American actor, heart attack.[26]
15
- Yosef Burg, 90, German-born Israeli politician.[27]
- Durgawati Devi, 92, Indian revolutionary and a freedom fighter.
- Terry Gilkyson, 83, American folk singer, composer, and lyricist.
- Josef Locke, 82, Irish tenor.[28]
- Joseph Mitchell Parsons, 35, American murderer and convict, execution by lethal injection.
- Glen Payne, 72, American gospel singer (Cathedral Quartet), liver cancer.
16
- Bobbie Beard, 69, American child actor.
- Bill Dodgin Sr., 90, English football player, manager and coach.
- Jim Jensen, 72, American anchor and reporter.
- Ella Mae Morse, 75, American popular singer, respiratory failure.[29]
- Jean Shepherd, 78, American raconteur, radio and TV personality, writer and actor.[30]
- Maris Wrixon, 82, American film and television actress, heart failure.
17
- William Gould Dow, 104, American scientist, educator and inventor.[31]
- Ralph Grey, Baron Grey of Naunton, 89, last Governor of Northern Ireland.
- Tommy Durden, 79, American guitarist and songwriter.
- Rick Lapointe, 44, Canadian ice hockey player, heart attack.
- Dimitre Mehandjiysky, 84, Bulgarian artist and designer, kidney failure.
- Nicholas Metropolis, 84, Greek-American physicist.[32]
- Sir James Redmond, 80, British engineer and broadcasting pioneer.
- Tere Ríos, 81, Puerto Rican-American author.
- Franz Peter Wirth, 80, German film director and screenwriter.
18
- Mahanambrata Brahmachari, 94, Hindu monk.[33]
- John Cannon, 66, sports car racer, aircraft crash.[34]
- Tony Crombie, 74, English jazz drummer, pianist, bandleader and composer.
- Dick Hammer, 69, American athlete, firefighter and actor, prostate cancer.
19
- Hayes Gordon, 79, American actor, stage director and acting teacher, heart disease.
- Ray Katt, 72, American baseball player and coach, lymphoma.
- Penelope Mortimer, 81, English journalist, biographer and novelist, cancer.[35]
- Pedro Rodríguez, 87, American decorated veteran of the Korean War.
- Nathalie Sarraute, 99, French writer and lawyer..[36]
20
- Calvin Griffith, 87, American Major League Baseball team owner.[37]
- Mae Street Kidd, 95, American businesswoman, civic leader and politician.[38]
- Jack Lynch, 82, Irish Fianna Fáil politician, fourth Taoiseach of Ireland (1966–1973, 1977–1979).[39]
- Rudi Weissenstein, 89, Israeli photographer.
21
- John Bromwich, 80, Australian tennis player.[40]
- Esther Fernández, 84, Mexican film and television actress.
- H. Stuart Hughes, 83, American historian, professor, and activist.[41]
- LaMont Johnson, 58, American jazz pianist, heart failure.
- Fran O'Brien, 63, American football player, heart attack.
22
- Martin Donnelly, 82, New Zealand Test cricketer and England rugby player.
- Ed Mikan, 74, American basketball player.
- Mitsugi Ohno, 73, Japanese glassblower.
23
- Rosalie Gascoigne, 82, New Zealand-born Australian sculptor.[42]
- Muhammad Khan, Pakistan Army officer.
- Neriman Köksal, 71, Turkish actress, breast cancer.
- Eric Reece, 90, Premier of Tasmania.
- Luciano Soprani, Italian fashion designer, throat cancer.[43]
- Albert Tucker, 84, Australian artist.
- Bobby Willis, 57, British songwriter, lung and liver cancer.
24
- John Chafee, 77, American politician, congestive heart failure.[44]
- Ginette Harrison, 41, British climber, climbing accident.[45]
- Marvin Kratter, 83, American real estate developer.[46]
- Louisa Venable Kyle, 96, American historian, author and journalist.
25
- Forddy Anderson, 80, American basketball coach, pneumonia.
- Leonard Boyle, 75, Irish and Canadian scholar in medieval studies and palaeography.[47]
- Vittorio Erspamer, 90, Italian pharmacologist and chemist,.
- Samson Kisekka, 87, Ugandan politician, heart attack.
- Norman Plummer, 75, British Royal Air Force officer and footballer, cancer.
- Bernie Richter, 68, American politician, heart attack.
- Payne Stewart, 42, American professional golfer, plane crash.[48]
- David Thomson, 83, New Zealand politician.
26
- Hoyt Axton, 61, American folk music singer-songwriter and actor, heart attack.[49]
- Eknath Easwaran, 88, Indian-American spiritual teacher and author.[50]
- Maina-Miriam Munsky, 56, German New Realist artist, alcohol abuse.
- Abraham Polonsky, 88, American film director, screenwriter, essayist and novelist.[51]
- S. Rajeswara Rao, 77, Indian composer and musician.
- Albert Whitlock, 84, British motion picture matte artist.
27
- Johnny Byrne, 60, English professional footballer, heart attack.[52]
- Lois Collier, 80, American film actress, Alzheimer's disease.
- Xie Fei, 66, Chinese politician, Politburo member.
- Štěpánka Haničincová, 68, Czechoslovak actress, screenwriter and dramaturge, fall.
- Harry Kadwell, 97, Australian rugby league footballer.
- Robert Mills, 72, American physicist.[53]
- José Aarón Alvarado Nieves, 33, Mexican professional wrestler, infection.
- Charlotte Perriand, 96, French architect and designer.[54]
- Glen Vernon, 76, American actor.[55][56]
- Frank De Vol, 88, American arranger, composer and actor, heart failure.[57]
- Notable victims killed in the Armenian parliament shooting in Yerevan, Armenia:
- Vazgen Sargsyan, 40, Prime Minister
- Karen Demirchyan, 67, National Assembly Speaker
- Yuri Bakhshyan, 52, Deputy National Assembly Speaker
- Leonard Petrosyan, 46, Minister of Urgent Affairs
28
- Rafael Alberti, 96, Spanish poet.[58]
- Howard Browne, 91, American science fiction editor and mystery writer.
- Ralph Crosthwaite, 63, American basketball player.
- H. Justin Davidson, 68, American educator.
- Eamonn O'Doherty, 60, Northern Irish political activist.
29
- Robert Black, 93, British colonial administrator.
- Rosa Furman, 69, Mexican actress, cardiac arrest.
- Greg, 68, Belgian cartoonist.[59]
- Cavan Kendall, 57, British actor, cancer.
- Prince Heinrich Ruzzo Reuss of Plauen, 49, Swiss-born Swedish landscape architect, lymphoma.
30
- Grace McDonald, 81, American actress, pneumonia.[60]
- Max Patkin, 79, American baseball player and clown.[61]
- Gábor Pogány, 84, Hungarian-born Italian cinematographer.
- Nise da Silveira, 94, Brazilian psychiatrist and student of Carl Jung.
- Savumiamoorthy Thondaman, 86, Sri Lankan politician.[62]
- Maigonis Valdmanis, 66, Latvian basketball player.
31
- Gameel Al-Batouti, 59, Egyption pilot, plane crash.
- Denise Bellon, 97, French photographer.
- Charles "Bud" Dant, 92, American musician, arranger and composer.
- John Wainwright Evans, 90, American solar astronomer, murder–suicide.[63]
- Martin Hellberg, 94, German actor, director and writer.
- Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits, 78, British Chief Rabbi.[64]
- Eli Matalon, 75, Jamaican businessman and politician.[65]
- Greg Moore, 24, Canadian racecar driver, racing accident [66][67]
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