Deaths in July 1999

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 1999

1

*Dennis Brown, 42, Jamaican reggae singer, pneumothorax.
*Edward Dmytryk, 90, Canadian-born Canadian film director, heart and kidney failure.
* Forrest Mars, 95, American businessman and candy magnate.
*Guy Mitchell, 72, American traditional pop singer and actor, complications of surgery.
* Jack Moroney, 81, Australian cricket player.
*Ernst Nievergelt, 89, Swiss cyclist and Olympic medalist.
*Joshua Nkomo, 82, Zimbabwean politician, prostate cancer.
* Sylvia Sidney, 88, American film actress ('' Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams'', ''Beetlejuice'', ''An Early Frost''), oesophageal cancer.
*Roman Tmetuchl, 73, Palauan political leader.
* Stig Westerberg, 80, Swedish conductor and pianist.
*Willie Whitelaw, 81, British politician.

2

*Viktor Chebrikov, 76, Soviet head of the KGB (1982–1988).
* George Deiderich, 63, American football player.
* George Druxman, 69, Canadian football player.
*Xavier Gélin, 53, French actor and film producer, cancer.
*Jack Plumley, 88, British Anglican priest, egyptologist and academic.
*Mario Puzo, 78, American novelist (''The Godfather'') and screenwriter ('' Superman'', '' The Cotton Club''), Oscar winner (1973, 1975), heart failure.
*Asoka Weeraratna, 80, Sri Lankan (Sinhala) Buddhist missionary.

3

*Reg Bishop, 86, Australian politician.
*Ricky Byrdsong, 43, American basketball coach and killing spree victim, shot.
*Yueh Feng, 90, Chinese film director and screenwriter.
* Ibragim Gasanbekov, 29, Azerbaijani football player, traffic collision.
*Mimi Nelson, 76, Swedish film actress.
* Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina, 100, Soviet and Russian mathematician.
*Paulo Porto, 81, Brazilian actor, film producer, director and screenwriter.
*Mark Sandman, 46, American musician (''Morphine''), heart attack.
*Jack Vincent, 95, English ornithologist.

4

*Ronny Graham, 79, American actor, theater director, and writer, liver disease.
*Ruby Johnson, 63, American soul singer.
* Mark O'Brien, 49, American journalist, poet, and advocate for the disabled.
* Jack Watson, 84, English actor, leukemia.

5

*Len Butterfield, 85, New Zealand cricket player.
*Jean-Pierre Darras, 71, French actor, cancer.
*Joan Kemp-Welch, 92, British stage and film actress.
* C. Walton Lillehei, 80, American surgeon and open-heart surgery pioneer.
*Harald Philipp, 78, German film director, screenwriter and actor.
* Roberta Sherwood, 86, American singer.
* Thea Tewi, 97, German-American sculptor and lingerie designer.

6

*Bernardo Gandulla, 83, Argentine football player and coach.
*Gary M. Heidnik, 55, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* M. L. Jaisimha, 60, Indian cricket player, lung cancer.
* Pisith Pilika, 34, Cambodian ballet dancer and actress, shot.
*Joaquín Rodrigo, 97, Spanish composer and pianist.
*Sherley Anne Williams, 54, American novelist, poet and professor.
*Murder of Barry Winchell, Barry Winchell, 21, United States Army infantry soldier, murdered.

7

*Emilio Sanchez (artist), Emilio Sánchez Font, 78, Cuban-American artist.
*James Gahagan, American abstract expressionist painter.
*Brima Kamara (footballer), Brima Kamara, 27, Sierra Leonean football player.
*Ryu Mitsuse, 71, Japanese novelist, science fiction writer, and essayist.
*Richard Müller (chemist), Richard Müller, 95, German chemist.
*Julie Campbell Tatham, 91, American writer of children's novels.

8

*Ángel Lulio Cabrera, 90, Argentinian botanist.
*Adolf Christian, 65, Austrian bicycle racer.
*Mavis Thorpe Clark, 90, Australian novelist and writer for children.
*Pete Conrad, 69, American astronaut, motorcycle accident.
*Allen Lee Davis, 54, American murderer, execution by electric chair.
*Frank Lubin, 89, Lithuanian-American basketball player.
*Malcolm Mackay (Australian politician), Malcolm Mackay, 79, Australian politician, traffic collision.
*Robert Morrison (politician), Robert Morrison, 90, American attorney and politician.
*Elemér Terták, 80, Hungarian figure skater and Olympian.
*Shafik Wazzan, 74, Lebanese politician.
*Mehdi Haeri Yazdi, 76, Iranian philosopher and Shia Islamic cleric.

9

*Karl Adam (footballer), Karl Adam, 75, German football player.
*Robert de Cotret, 55, Canadian politician.
*James Farmer, James L. Farmer, Jr., 79, American civil rights activist, complications from diabetes.
*Bill Hindman, 76, American actor (''Porky's'').
*Esme Mackinnon, 85, British alpine skier and world champion Downhill (ski competition), downhill and slalom skiing, slalom.
*Samuel Sanders, 62, American classical pianist.

10

*John Scott-Ellis, 9th Baron Howard de Walden, 86, British peer and thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder.
*Walter R. Evans, 79, American control theorist.
*Gil Johnson, 75, American gridiron football player.
*Ulla Lindström, 89, Swedish journalist and politician.

11

*Burton Dreben, 71, American philosopher.
*Marcelo Fernan, 72, Filipino lawyer and politician, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
*Helen Forrest, 82, American singer of traditional pop and swing music, heart failure.
*Everett Greenbaum, 79, American television and film writer and actor.
*Henry Kimbro, 87, American Negro league baseball player.
*Lasse Lindroth, 26, Iranian-Swedish comedian, actor and writer, car accident.
*Roaring Lion, 91, Trinidad and Tobago Calypso music, calypso singer and composer.
*John Henry Sharpe, 77, Bermudian politician, List of premiers of Bermuda, Premier (1975-1975).

12

*Bill Flett, 55, Canadian hockey player, liver failure.
*Alex Gordon (architect), Alex Gordon, 82, Welsh architect.
*Harvey Jackins, 83, American founder and principal theorist of Re-evaluation Counseling.
*Rajendra Kumar, 69, Indian film actor, cancer.
*Mircea Nedelciu, 48, Romanian short-story writer, novelist and essayist, Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease.
*Kazimierz Ostrowski, 82, Polish painter.
*Bill Owen (actor), Bill Owen, 85, British actor and songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
*Jan Panenka, 77, Czech pianist.
*Zita Szeleczky, 84, Hungarian actress.
*Cornelius Wiebe, 106, Canadian physician and politician.

13

*Donald D. Engen, 75, American naval officer, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, and museum director, aviation accident.
*Muhammetnazar Gapurow, 77, General Secretary, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR (1969 – 1985).
*Yevgeny Goryansky, 70, Russian football player and football coach.
*Herta Heuwer, 86, German chef and inventor of the currywurst.
*Josef Moc, 91, Czechoslovak basketball player.

14

*Maria Banuș, 85, Romanian poet, essayist, and prose writer.
*Hugh Gallarneau, 82, American gridiron football player (Chicago Bears).
*Gene Hart, 68, American sportscaster for the Philadelphia Flyers, kidney and liver failure.
*Władysław Hasior, 71, Polish sculptor.
*Abdul Ahad Karzai, 77, Afghan politician, homicide.
*Umyar Mavlikhanov, 61, Soviet fencer and Olympic champion.
*Gar Samuelson, 41, American drummer (Megadeth), liver failure.
*Trudi Schoop, 95, Swiss-American dance therapy pioneer.
*John R. Steelman, 99, American academic and first White House Chief of Staff.
*Pietro Tarchini, 77, Swiss professional cyclist.
*Sal Trapani, 72, American comic-book artist.
*Sadao Yamahana, 63, Japanese politician.

15

*Sir Richard Thompson, 1st Baronet, 86, British politician.
*George Brown Jr., George Brown, 79, American politician, complications following heart surgery.
*Simon Ramsay, 16th Earl of Dalhousie, 84, British land owner, politician and colonial governor.
*Horacio Podestá, 87, Argentine rower and Olympic medalist.
*Dick Richardson (boxer), Dick Richardson, 65, Welsh heavyweight boxer, cancer.
*Kamalendumati Shah, Indian politician and social worker, brain cancer.

16

*Ross H. Arnett Jr., Ross H. Arnett, Jr., 80, American entomologist.
*Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, 33, American socialite and wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., John F. Kennedy Jr. plane crash, plane crash.
*John F. Kennedy Jr., 38, American journalist, lawyer, and son of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, plane crash.
*Alan Macnaughton, 95, Canadian parliamentarian and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada, Speaker of the House.
*André Martinet, 91, French linguist.
*Franco Montoro, 83, Brazilian politician and lawyer.
*Hamid Notghi, Hamid Nitgi, 78, Iranian poet, writer and author.
*Alfred Raoul, 60, Congolese politician, List of prime ministers of the Republic of the Congo, Prime Minister (1968-1969).
*Whit Wyatt, 91, American baseball player, pneumonia.
*Hiromi Yanagihara, 19, Japanese singer and actress, heart failure.

17

*Rajendra Kumari Bajpai, 74, Indian politician.
*Arthur Hoag, 78, American astronomer.
*Daniel H. H. Ingalls Sr., Daniel H. H. Ingalls, Sr., 83, American professor of Sanskrit.
*Donal McCann, 56, Irish actor, pancreatic cancer.
*Kevin Newman (politician), Kevin Newman, 65, Australian soldier and politician, systemic lupus erythematosus.
*Kevin Wilkinson, 41, English drummer, suicide.
*Patricia Zipprodt, 74, American costume designer, cancer.

18

*Meir Ariel, 57, Israeli singer-songwriter, boutonneuse fever.
*Rubén Bernuncio, 23, Argentine football player, renal failure following motorcycle accident.
*Donald Eugene Chambers, 68, American United States Marine Corps, marine and founder of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club.
*Jatin Kanakia, 46, Indian actor.
*Pandi Raidhi, 68, Albanian film and theatre actor.
*Laurie Scott (footballer), Laurie Scott, 82, English footballer.
*Tody Smith, 50, American gridiron football player.

19

*Donna Allen (activist), Donna Allen, 78, American pioneer feminist, civil rights activist, historian and economist.
*Jesús Codina, 60, Spanish basketball player and coach.
*Cavernario Galindo, 75, Mexican luchador and film actor.
*Ludwik Gross, 94, Polish-American virologist, stomach cancer.
*José Luis Madrid, 66, Spanish screenwriter, producer and film director.
*Hans Maldonado, 41, Ecuadorian football player.
*Jerold Wells, 90, English actor.
*Doreen Yarwood, 81, English historian and architecture critic.

20

*Emil Andres, 88, American racecar driver.
*Sandra Gould, 82, American film and television actor (''Bewitched'') and writer, complications of surgery.
*Jean-Jacques Lamboley, 78, French cyclist.
*James Muirhead (judge), James Muirhead, 74, Australian judge and Royal Commissioner.

21

*Kurt Burris, 67, American gridiron football player.
*Peter Carter (author), Peter Carter, 69, British children's author.
*Jun Etō, 66, Japanese literary critic, suicide.
*David Ogilvy (businessman), David Ogilvy, 88, British advertising tycoon, the "Father of Advertising".
*Kim Pyong-sik, 80, North Korean politician.

22

*Gennadiy Agapov, 65, Soviet and Russian race walker and Olympian.
*Abelardo Díaz Alfaro, 82, Puerto Rican author.
*Howard Arkley, 48, Australian artist, accidental overdose.
*Claudio Rodríguez (poet), Claudio Rodríguez García, 65, Spanish poet.
*Hakim Abdul Hameed, 90, Indian physician and university chancellor.
*Mary Kerridge, 85, English actress and theatre director.
*Lauro Ortega Martínez, 89, Mexican politician and veterinarian.
*Ladislav Slovák, 79, Slovak conductor.
*Arun Thapa, Nepali singer and songwriter, lung and liver ailment.

23

*Hassan II of Morocco, Hassan II, 70, Moroccan monarch, King of Morocco (since 1961), heart attack.
*Josef Ludwig Holub, Josef Holub, 69, Czech botanist and pteridologist, heart attack.
*Frank Minis Johnson, 80, United States federal judge, United States district judge, pneumonia.
*Kelvin Lancaster, 74, Australian mathematical economist.
*Paul Lucier, 68, Canadian businessman and politician, bone cancer.
*Emma Tenayuca, 82, Mexican American labor leader, and educator, Alzheimer's disease.
*Dmitri Tertyshny, 22, Russian ice hockey defenseman, boating accident.
*Stanley Tretick, 78, American photojournalist.

24

*Alexander Abian, 76, Iranian-born Armenian-American mathematician.
*Lê Quang Đạo, Le Quang Dao, 77, Vietnamese politician.
*Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch, 89, French scientist, translator and writer.
*Demetrius DuBose, 28, American football player, shot by police.
*Albert Leake, 69, English footballer.
*Bijaya Malla, 74, Nepalese poet, novelist and playwright.
*Dino Martin, Don Martin, 79, American basketball player and coach.
*Rona McKenzie, 76, New Zealand cricket player.
*Henk Pellikaan, 88, Dutch football player.

25

*Martin Agronsky, 84, American journalist and television host, congestive heart failure.
*Natalia Androsova, Princess Iskander, 82, last member of the Russian House of Romanov.
*Pentti Lammio, 79, Finnish speed skater and Olympic medalsit.
*Raul Manglapus, 80, Filipino politician, throat cancer.

26

*Walter Jackson Bate, 81, American literary critic and biographer.
*Béla Bay, 92, Hungarian Olympic épée and foil fencer.
*Philippa Gail, 56, British actress, cancer.
*Phaedon Gizikis, Phedon Gizikis, 82, Greek army general and President of Greece, president under the Greek junta, Junta.
*Alan Karcher, 56, American politician.
*Qian Linzhao, 92, Chinese physicist.
*Joseph Morvan, 74, French road bicycle racer.
*Paul Rickards, 73, American gridiron football player.
*John W. N. Watkins, 74, English philosopher and professor of Economics, heart attack.

27

*Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Aleksandr Aleksandrov, 86, Soviet/Russian mathematician, physicist and philosopher.
*Ronald Backus, 77, British sailor and Olympic medalist.
*Matjaž Cvikl, 32, Slovenian football player, cancer.
*Louis Déprez, 78, French racing cyclist.
*Harry Edison, 83, American jazz trumpeter.
*Amaryllis Fleming, 73, British cello performer and teacher.
*Elías Jácome, 53, Ecuadorian football referee.
*Armand Le Moal, 85, French racing cyclist.
*Mahlathini, 61, South African ''mbaqanga'' singer, complications of diabetes.
*Malachi Martin, 78, Irish-American Catholic priest and novelist, fall.
*Michael Winkelman, 53, American child actor (''The Real McCoys'').

28

*Doris Carter, 87, Australian military officer, public servant, and Olympic athlete.
*Trygve Haavelmo, 87, Norwegian economist.
*Maxim Munzuk, 89, Tuvans, Tuvan actor.
*Francisco Risiglione, 82, Argentine boxer and Olympic medalist.
*Carlos Romero (footballer, born 1927), Carlos Romero, 71, Uruguayan football player.
*Gerd Springer, 72, Austrian football player and coach.
*Puey Ungphakorn, Puey Ungpakorn, 83, Thai economist.
*S. Howard Woodson, 83, American pastor, civil rights leader and politician.

29

*Anita Carter, 66, American singer and member of the Carter family, complications of rheumatoid arthritis.
*Martti Kosma, 72, Finnish football player and manager.
*Anatoliy Solovianenko, Anatoliy Solovyanenko, 66, Soviet operatic tenor, heart attack.
*André Soubiran, 89, French physician and novelist.
*Neelan Tiruchelvam, 55, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, academic and politician, assassinated.
*Kunio Tsuji, 73, Japanese author, novelist, and scholar.

30

*Ko Tai Chuen, 74, Singaporean basketball player and Olympian.
*George Moorse, 63, American-German film director, heart attack.
*Hermann Panzo, 41, French athlete, stroke.
*Linus Suryadi AG, 48, Indonesian writer and poet.

31

*Mirza Adeeb, 85, Pakistani writer of drama and short stories.
*Marinus Kok, 83, Dutch prelate of the Catholic Church.
*Rex Pilbeam, 91, Australian politician.
*Henry W. Sawyer, 80, American lawyer, civil rights activist and politician, lung cancer.
*Elena Zareschi, 83, Italian actress.

References

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