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

* Ann Corio, 89, American burlesque stripper and actress, pneumonia.
*Christine Glanville, 74, British puppeteer.
*Enneüs Heerma, 54, Dutch politician, lung cancer.
*Digger Kettle, 76, English footballer.
* Harry Mather, 78, English football player and manager.
*Jozo Matošić, 86, Yugoslav football player and coach.
*Steve Sinko, 89, American football player and coach.

2

* David Ackles, 62, American singer-songwriter and child actor, lung cancer.
*Leslie Edward Wostall Codd, 90, South African plant taxonomist.
* Kaushal Kishore, 56, Indian polymer chemist, cardiac arrest.
*Stuart Mossman, 56, American guitar maker and entertainer, heart attack.
*Tommy Pearson, 85, Scottish football player and manager.
* Dusty Springfield, 59, British traditional pop singer and entertainer, breast cancer.
* Francisco Nunes Teixeira, 89, Mozambican Roman Catholic bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Quelimane (1955−1975).
* Jack Webster, 80, Canadian journalist and radio / television personality.

3

* Glennon Engleman, 72, United States Army veteran and hitman, diabetes.
*Jackson C. Frank, 56, American folk musician, pneumonia and cardiac arrest.
* John Frawley, 98, Australian actor.
* Gerhard Herzberg, 94, German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist.
*William McGonagle, 73, American naval officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
*Gian Vincenzo Moreni, 67, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
* Lee Philips, 72, American actor and film / television director, PSP.
* Ling Zifeng, 81, Chinese film director.

4

*Harry Blackmun, 90, American lawyer, jurist and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
* Del Close, 64, American comedian and actor (''The Blob'', ''Next of Kin'', '' The Untouchables''), emphysema.
* Richard Joseph Davis, 78, American politician.
* Eddie Dean, 91, American country singer-songwriter and actor, heart and lung disease.
*Fritz Honegger, 81, Swiss politician.
* Miłosz Magin, 69, Polish composer and pianist, heart attack.
*Teddy McRae, 91, American jazz tenor saxophonist and arranger.
* Hawley Pratt, 87, American film director, animator and illustrator.
*Karel van het Reve, 77, Dutch writer and literary historian and brother of writer Gerard Reve.

5

* Avery Alexander, 88, American civil rights leader and politician.
* William Allis, 97, American theoretical physicist.
*John Leland Atwood, 94, American engineer and aerospace executive.
* Tom Denning, Baron Denning, 100, English lawyer and judge.
*Walter Diggelmann, 83, Swiss road bicycle racer.
*John Figueroa, 78, Jamaican poet.
* John Harkins, 66, American actor ('' Being There'', ''Absence of Malice'', '' Birdy'').
*Bob Hendren, 75, American gridiron football player.
*Maurice Jouvet, 76, American Emmy Award-winning film, television and stage actor, bone marrow disease.

6

* Graham Armitage, 62, English actor.
* Rafael Celestino Benítez, 81, American submarine commander and admiral.
*Klaus Gysi, 87, German communist journalist, publisher, and resistance member during World War II.
* Hiroshi Hamaya, 83, Japanese photographer.
*Loni Heuser, 91, German film actress.
*Branka Jurca, Slovene writer.
*Ferenc Kardos, 61, Hungarian film director, producer and screenwriter, heart attack.
*Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, 67, emir of Bahrain (1961-1999), heart attack.
*Venâncio da Silva Moura, 59, Angolan politician and diplomat.
*János Parti, 66, Hungarian sprint canoeist and Olympic champion.
* Dennis Viollet, 65, English footballer.
*Olof Widgren, 91, Swedish stage and film actor.
* Eric Wolf, 76, Austrian-American anthropologist and activist, liver cancer.

7

* Friedrich Asinger, 91, Austrian chemist and academic.
* Lowell Fulson, 77, American blues guitarist and songwriter.
*Sidney Gottlieb, 80, American chemist and spymaster.
*Kurt Hasse, 82, German cinematographer.
* Antônio Houaiss, 83, Brazilian writer and lexicographer.
*Stanley Kubrick, 70, American film director and screenwriter ('' 2001: A Space Odyssey'', '' The Shining'', ''Dr. Strangelove''), heart attack.
*Ladislav Vodička, 68, Czech country music singer and songwriter.

8

*António Campos, 76, Portuguese film director.
* Giovan Battista Carpi, 71, Italian comics artist.
* Adolfo Bioy Casares, 84, Argentine writer and journalist.
*Peggy Cass, 74, American actress, comedian, and announcer, heart failure.
*Hans Eklund, 71, Swedish composer
* Joe DiMaggio, 84, American baseball player ( New York Yankees), lung cancer.
* Anne T. Hill, 82, American fashion designer, heart failure.
*Walter Kolm-Veltée, 88, Austrian film director.

9

*Marcellino Gavilán, 89, Spanish equestrian and Olympic medalist.
*Arnold Machin, 87, British artist and sculptor.
*Hermann Merkin, 91, American businessman and philanthropist, heart failure.
*Éliane Richepin, 88, French classical pianist.
*Harry Somers, 73, Canadian composer.

10

*Zvi Fuchs, 81, Israeli football player.
*Oswaldo Guayasamín, 79, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor, heart attack.
*Kusumagraj, 87, Indian poet, playwright and novelist.
*Adrian Love, 54, British radio presenter.
*Valentino Mazzia, 77, American forensic anesthesiologist, cirrhosis.

11

*Howell Conant, 82, American fashion photographer.
*Peter Franken, 70, American physicist.
*Herbert Jasper, 92, Canadian psychologist, neurologist, and epileptologist.
*Jack Jones, 83, Scottish football player.
* Camille Laurin, 76, Canadian psychiatrist and politician, liver cancer.
*Erich Natusch, 87, German sailor and Olympic medalist.
*Stefan Schnabel, 87, German-American actor, heart attack.
* Kaoru Tada, 38, Japanese manga artist, cerebral hemorrhage.

12

* John Archer, 75, British Army officer and Commander in Chief.
*Miloslav Holub, 84, Czech actor.
* William Jackson, 81, British Army general, military historian and author.
*Sydney Lewis, 79, American businessman, philanthropist, and art collector.
* Yehudi Menuhin, 82, American violinist and conductor, bronchitis.
*Alf Murray, 83, Irish Gaelic footballer.
*Bidu Sayão, 96, Brazilian operatic soprano.

13

*Lucienne Bloch, 90, Swiss-American artist.
*Emmy Bridgwater, 92, English artist and poet.
*Isidore de Souza, 64, Beninese priest, heart attack.
* Lee Falk, 88, American cartoonist ('' The Phantom'', ''Mandrake the Magician'').
*Seán Fortune, 45, Irish Catholic priest, and child molester, suicide by drug overdose.
*Bob Hollway, 73, American football player and coach.
* Garson Kanin, 86, American writer and director of plays and films.
*Anton Raadik, 82, Estonian-American boxer.
* Kurt Von Hess, 56, Canadian wrestler known as ''Kurt Von Hess'', heart attack.
* Christopher York, 89, British politician.

14

*Kirk Alyn, 88, American actor (''Superman'', '' Blackhawk'', '' Call of the Rockies''), Alzheimer's disease.
*Tex Blaisdell, 78, American cartoonist (''Little Orphan Annie'').
* John Broome, 85, American comic book writer for DC Comics.
* Gregg Diamond, 49, American pianist, drummer, songwriter, and producer, gastrointestinal bleeding.
*Kjell Holmström, 82, Swedish bobsledder and Olympian.
*Abraham Kurland, 86, Danish wrestler and Olympic silver medalist.
* Robert Q. Marston, 76, American physician and research scientist.
* Marius Müller, 40, Norwegian musician, television host and record producer, traffic collision.

15

*Guy D'Artois, 81, Canadian army officer and SOE agent.
* Harry Callahan, 86, American photographer.
*Rosemary Nelson, 40, Northern Irish human rights solicitor, killed by Ulster loyalists.
* Ray Russell, 74, American writer of short stories, novels and screenplays, complications from a stroke.

16

* Trygve Bull, 93, Norwegian lecturer and politician.
*Harry Colville, 75, Scottish football player and manager.
*Hendrik de Wit, 89, Dutch botanist.
* Peter Farrell, 76, Irish footballer.
* Ignazio Gardella, 93, Italian architect and designer.
* 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.
* John Liddell, 65, Scottish football player.
* Gustav Lohse, 87, German film editor.
*Willie Toner, 69, Scottish football player and manager.

17

*Lloyd Appleton, 93, American wrestler.
* Boleslaw Barlog, 92, German stage, film, and opera director.
* Paul Campbell, 76, American film actor.
* Frankie Curry, Northern Irish Ulster loyalist, shot.
* Nicolae Dumitrescu, 77, Romanian footballer and manager.
* Ernest Gold, 77, Austrian-American film composer (''Exodus'', ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'', ''Judgment at Nuremberg''), stroke.
* Herbert Earl Grier, 87, American electrical engineer and business executive.
* Rod Hull, 63, British entertainer and comedian, fall.
*Humberto Fernández Morán, 75, Venezuelan research scientist.
*Hildegard Peplau, 89, American nursing theorist.
*Jean Pierre-Bloch, 93, French politician and resistance member during World War II.
* Eric Stanton, 72, American underground cartoonist and fetish art pioneer.

18

*Patricia Bowman, 90, American ballerina, musical theatre actress, and television personality.
* Werner Danz, 75, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
* George Hinterhoeller, 71, Canadian boat designer and builder, heart attack.
*Karl Litschi, 86, Swiss road bicycle racer.
*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.

19

*Tofilau Eti Alesana, 74, Samoan politician.
*William F. Bringle, 85, American four-star admiral and World War II aviator, pneumonia.
*Bob Cato, 76, American photographer and graphic designer, Alzheimer's disease.
*Joseph DePietro, 84, American weightlifter, 1948 Olympic champion.
*José Agustín Goytisolo, 70, Spanish poet, scholar and essayist, suicide by jumping.
*Peppermint Harris, 73, American blues singer and guitarist.
*Juanita Reina, 73, Spanish actress and copla singer.
* Jaime Sabines, 72, Mexican contemporary poet.

20

*Elsa Barraine, 89, French composer.
* Patrick Heron, 79, British artist, critic, writer, and polemicist.
*Roy L. Johnson, 93, American admiral.
* David Anthony Klarner, 58, American mathematician and author.
*Mickey S. Michaels, 67, American set decorator ('' Airport'', ''The Hunt for Red October'', '' Crimson Tide'').
* Paul Toth, 63, American baseball player, heart attack.
*Igor Vladimirov, 80, Soviet film and theater actor and director.

21

* Mary Ainsworth, 85, American-Canadian developmental psychologist, stroke.
*Henry V. Graham, 82, American Army general.
*Jean Guitton, 97, French Catholic philosopher and theologian.
*John Linus Paschang, 103, American Roman Catholic bishop.
*George Reedy, 81, American White House Press Secretary under President Lyndon B. Johnson (1964-1965).
* Ernie Wise, 73, British comedian ( Morecambe and Wise), heart failure.

22

*Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, 85, British historian.
* C. Gregg Singer, 89, American historian and theologian.
*Sandy Singleton, 84, English cricket player.
*David Strickland, 29, American actor, suicide by hanging.

23

* Scott D. Anderson, 33, American pilot, inventor, and author, plane crash.
* Luis María Argaña, 66, Paraguayan politician and Supreme Court judge, shot.
*Osmond Borradaile, 100, Canadian cameraman, cinematographer and veteran of World War I and II.
* Koentjaraningrat, Indonesian anthropologist.
* Sergio Montanari, 61, Italian film editor.
* Percy Samaraweera, 70, Sri Lankan politician.
*Willi Stadel, 86, German gymnast and Olympic champion.
* Kazue Takahashi, 70, Japanese voice actress, multiple myeloma.
*Petrus Tun, 63, Micronesian politician.

24

*Pierre H. Dubois, 81, Dutch writer and critic.
*Ellen Hall, 75, American actress.
* Tunde Idiagbon, 56, Nigerian Army general.
*Henry Brandon, Baron Brandon of Oakbrook, 78, British judge.
* Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, 97, German leader of the nazi National Socialist Women's League.
* Birdie Tebbetts, 86, American baseball player, manager and scout.
*Val Valentin, 79, American recording engineer.
* Mighty Joe Young, 71, American chicago blues guitarist, pneumonia.
*Osman Örek, 73, Turkish Cypriot politician, prime minister (1978).

25

* Ryszard Bakst, 72, Polish pianist and piano teacher.
* Viacheslav Chornovil, 61, Ukrainian politician, car crash.
*Cal Ripken Sr., 63, American baseball coach and manager, lung cancer.
*Doug Sherrington, 84, Australian politician.

26

* Harry Hodson, 92, English economist and editor.
* David Holliday, 61, American actor ('' Thunderbirds''), cancer.
* Reşit Kaynak, 46, Turkish football player.
* Eva Kolstad, 80, Norwegian politician and gender equality activist.
* Andrzej Konopka, 64, Polish Olympic gymnast.
*Margaret Mason, 58, American actress, heart attack.
*Ananda Shankar, 56, Bengali musician, heart attack.

27

* Michael Aris, 53, English historian, prostate cancer.
*Ernestina de Champourcín, 93, Spanish poet.
* Rolf Ludwig, 73, German actor and voice actor.
* Nahum Stelmach, 62, Israeli footballer and manager.
* Oskar Øksnes, 77, Norwegian politician.

28

* Jens Book-Jenssen, 88, Norwegian pop singer , songwriter, revue artist and theatre director.
*Eva Franco, 92, Argentine actress, pneumonia.
* Franco Gasparri, 50, Italian actor, respiratory failure.
*Angelo J. LaPietra, 79, Chicago mobster and member of the Chicago Outfit.
* Gil Perkins, 91, Australian actor.
* Freaky Tah, 27, MC, hype man and hip hop promoter, shot.
* Bill Touhey, 93, Canadian ice hockey player.
*Doody Townley, 73, New Zealand harness racer.
* Jim Turner, 54, American editor and publisher.

29

*Lucien Aigner, 97, Hungarian photojournalist.
*Dayendranath Burrenchobay, 80, Mauritian politician, Governor-General.
*Helmer Dahl, 90, Norwegian electrical engineer and researcher.
* Raimo Kuuluvainen, 43, Finnish football player.
*James Penberthy, 81, Australian composer and journalist.
* Brock Speer, 79, American gospel singer ( Speer Family).
* Joe Williams, 80, American jazz singer.
*Gyula Zsengellér, 83, Hungarian footballer.

30

*Albert Coppé, 87, Belgian politician and economist.
* Michel Crépeau, 68, French politician, heart attack.
*Marcel de Wolf, 79, French gymnast.
*Michel Etcheverry, 79, French actor.
*Gary Morton, 74, American stand-up comedian, lung cancer.
* Jens Müller, 81, Norwegian fighter pilot and POW during World War II and author.
*Igor Netto, 69, Soviet–Russian footballer.
* Terry Wilson, 75, American actor.

31

* David Brooks, 83, American actor, singer, director, and producer.
* Aleksandr Filatov, 71, Soviet alpine skier.
* Yuri Knorozov, 76, Soviet linguist, pneumonia.
*Herbert H. Rowen, 82, American historian.
*Jerry Toth, 70, Canadian musician, composer, and record producer.

References

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