Deaths in November 1999

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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.

November 1999

1

*Minoru Chiaki, 82, Japanese actor.
* Jean Coutu, 74, Canadian actor.
*Edmund Dell, 78, British politician and businessman.
*Bhekimpi Dlamini, 74, Southern African politician, Prime Minister of Swaziland (1983–1986).
*Theodore Hall, 74, American physicist and spy for the Soviet Union, renal cancer.
*Thomas H. Jukes, 93, British-American biologist.
*Walter Payton, 45, American gridiron football player, cholangiocarcinoma.
*Héctor Pellegrini, 68, Argentine film actor.
*Franca Scagnetti, 75, Italian film actress.
* John Sears, 63, American NASCAR racing driver.
* William Sheldon, 92, Irish politician and farmer.

2

*Milan Antal, 64, Slovak astronomer.
*Jackie Davis, 78, American soul jazz singer, organist and bandleader, stroke.
*Demetrio B. Lakas, 74, Panamase politician, President of Panama, president (1969–1978), heart disease.
*Atputharajah Nadarajah, 36, Sri Lankan journalist and politician, shot.
*Hans-Joachim Preil, 76, East German comedian.
*Hardie Scott, 92, American politician.
*Mitar Subotić, 38, Serbian-Brazilian musician and composer, fire.
*William van Straubenzee, 75, British politician.
*Richard Voliva, 87, American wrestler and coach.

3

*Ian Bannen, 71, Scottish actor, car accident.
*William J. Brown (Ohio politician), William J. Brown, 59, American lawyer and politician.
*Alan Heusaff, 78, Breton nationalist, linguist, and journalist.
*Vilen Kalyuta, 69, Soviet and Ukrainian cinematographer.
*Keizo Saji, 80, Japanese businessman and art patron.

4

*Daisy Bates (activist), Daisy Bates, 84, American civil rights activist, publisher and journalist.
*Alvin Coox, 75, American military historian and author.
*Zvi Griliches, 69, American economist and holocaust survivor.
*Ernest J. Kump, 87, American architect, author and inventor.
*Malcolm Marshall, 41, West Indian cricketer, colon cancer.
*Cornel Popa (footballer), Cornel Popa, 64, Romanian football player.
*Maybelle Reichardt, 92, American discus thrower and Olympian.
*David Shaber, 70, American screenwriter (''The Warriors (film), The Warriors'', ''Nighthawks (1981 film), Nighthawks'', ''Flight of the Intruder''), aneurysm.
*Henri Van Kerckhove, 73, Belgian road cyclist.
*Fred Wallner, 71, American gridiron football player.
*Charles Wintour, 82, British newspaper editor.
*Zainuddin (actor), Zainuddin, 47, Indian actor and comedian, respiratory complications.

5

*Antón Fraguas, Antonio Fraguas Fraguas, 93, Spanish historian, ethnographer, anthropologist, and geographer.
*James Goldstone, 68, American film and television director.
*Noureddin Kianouri, 94, Iranian architect and political leader.
*Richard Marius, 66, American academic and writer, pancreatic cancer.
*Colin Rowe, 79, British-American architectural historian.

6

* Sleim Ammar, 72, Tunisian neuropsychiatrist and poet.
*José María Caffarel, 79, Spanish film actor.
*Laurence Decore, 59, Canadian lawyer and politician, cancer.
*Regina Ghazaryan, 84, Armenian painter and public figure.
*George V. Higgins, 59, American author, lawyer, newspaper columnist, and raconteur, heart attack.
*Rob Hoeke, 60, Dutch singer, pianist, composer and songwriter.
*Anthony "Sooty" Jones, 46, American rock bassist ("Humble Pie").

7

*Tom Briggs (footballer), Tom Briggs, 80, English football player.
*Allan Felder, 56, American songwriter.
*Joe Lang Kershaw, 88, American politician and civics teacher, congestive heart failure.
*Walter McDonald (politician), Walter McDonald, 96, Canadian politician.
*Primo Nebiolo, 76, Italian sports official and IAAF president, heart attack.

8

*Lester Bowie, 58, American jazz trumpet player and composer, liver cancer.
*Gwen Gordy Fuqua, 71, American songwriter and composer, cancer.
*Jerry Kerr, 87, Scottish football player and manager.
*Yuri Malyshev (cosmonaut), Yury Vasilyevich Malyshev, 58, Soviet cosmonaut.
*Richard Martin (curator), Richard Martin, 51, American academic, curator, and art and fashion historian, melanoma.
*Rob Nieuwenhuys, 91, Dutch writer.
*Harry Riebauer, 78, German film and television actor.
*Leon Štukelj, 100, Yugoslav gymnast and Olympic gold medalist, heart attack.

9

*Herb Abramson, 82, American record producer and executive.
*Marjorie Gladman, 91, American tennis player.
*Huang Huoqing, 98, Chinese politician.
*Mabel King, 66, American actress and singer, diabetes.
*Wolf Ruvinskis, 78, Mexican actor and professional wrestler, cardiovascular disease.
*Dick Todd (American football), Dick Todd, 85, American NFL football player and coach.

10

*Stasys Antanas Bačkis, 93, Lithuanian diplomat and civil servant.
*Felix Galimir, 89, Austrian-American violinist.
*Robert Kramer, 60, American film director, screenwriter and actor, meningitis.
*Eric Langton, 92, English motorcycle speedway rider.
*Tom McKinney, Thomas McKinney, 72, Northern Irish rugby player.
*Jean Potts, 88, American mystery novelist.

11

*Mary Kay Bergman, 38, American voice actress (''South Park'', ''Scooby-Doo'', ''The New Adventures of Zorro (1997 TV series), The New Adventures of Zorro''), suicide by gunshot.
*Frank Bowyer, 77, English footballer.
*Maurice Dugowson, 61, French film director and screenwriter.
*Vivian Fuchs, 91, British explorer.
*Gabriel Gonsum Ganaka, 62, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate.
*Daniel Ivernel, 79, French film actor, suicide.
*Choi Moo-ryong, 71, South Korean actor.
*Sathyavani Muthu, 76, Indian politician.
*Thomas Pitfield, 96, British composer, poet, artist, engraver, and calligrapher.
*Jack Plimsoll, 82, South African cricketer.
*Lodewijk Prins, 86, Dutch chess player and chess referee.
*Jacobo Timerman, 76, Soviet-Argentine publisher, journalist, and author, heart attack.

12

*Eulalie Minfred Banks, 104, American illustrator of children's books.
*Gaby Casadesus, 98, French classical pianist and teacher.
*Pituka de Foronda, 81, Spanish actress.
*Sven Hjertsson, 75, Swedish football player.
*Aang Kunaefi, 76, Indonesian military officer and diplomat.
*Mohammad Mohammadullah, 78, Bangladeshi politician, President of Bangladesh, President (1973–1975).
*Konrad Petzold, 69, German film director, writer and actor.
*Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr., Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt II, 87, British-American racehorse owner and member of the Vanderbilt family.

13

*John Benson Brooks, 82, American jazz pianist, songwriter, arranger, and composer.
*Germaine Dieterlen, 96, French anthropologist.
*The Mills Brothers, Donald Mills, 84, American singer (The Mills Brothers), pneumonia.
*Tony Rumble, 43, American professional wrestler and manager, heart attack.
*John Stapp, 89, United States Army Air Forces officer, flight surgeon and physician.
*Barbara Jean Wong, 75, American actress.

14

*Rut Bryk, 83, Finnish ceramist.
*Orazio Costa, 88, Italian theatre pedagogist and director.
*Brian Ó Cuív, 83, Irish historian and Celtic languages, Celtic scholar.
*Lucile Fairbanks, 82, American actress.
*Bert Jacobs, 58, Dutch football manager, cancer.
*Minna Keal, 90, British composer.
*Benjamin I. Schwartz, 82, American academic, author and sinologist.
*György Sebők, 77, Hungarian-American pianist and academic.
*Jimmy Sidle, 57, American gridiron football player, heart failure.
*Harbaksh Singh, 86, Indian Army senior officer.
*Peter Wildeblood, 76, Anglo-Canadian journalist, novelist, playwright and gay rights campaigner.

15

*Jean-Marie Adiaffi, 58, Ivorian writer, screenwriter and filmmaker.
*Harry Llewellyn, Sir Harry Llewellyn, 3rd Baronet, 88, British equestrian, Olympic champion (Equestrian at the 1952 Summer Olympics, 1952).
*P. K. van der Byl, 76, Rhodesian politician.
*Fikri Elma, 65, Turkish football player.
*Lucien Jasseron, 85, French football player.
*Gene Levitt, 79, American television writer, producer and director, prostate cancer.
*Maynard Lyndon, 92, American architect.
*Norio Taniguchi, 87, Japanese academic who coined the term ''nanotechnology , nano-technology''.

16

*Bill Burgoyne, 52, New Zealand rugby league player.
*Harry Gibbs (referee), Harry Gibbs, 79, British boxing referee.
*H. Clay Earles, 86, American NASCAR team owner.
*Desmond Domnique Jennings, 28, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
*Jay Moloney, 35, American Hollywood talent agent, suicide by hanging.
*Daniel Nathans, 71, American microbiologist.

17

*Leif Anderson, 74, Swedish jazz expert, journalist and radio personality.
*Faubion Bowers, 82, American academic and writer.
*Edmund Fryde, 76, Polish-British historian.
*Cowboy Jimmy Moore, 89, American pocket billiards (pool) player.
*Enrique Urquijo, Enrique Urkijo, 39, Spanish singer, songwriter, and guitarist, drug overdose.

18

*Yevgeni Belosheikin, Evgeny Belosheikin, 33, Russian ice hockey player, suicide.
*Paul Bowles, 88, American Human migration, migrant composer, author, and translator, heart failure.
*Beatrice Colen, 51, American actress (''Happy Days'', ''Wonder Woman (TV series), Wonder Woman'', ''Lifeguard (film), Lifeguard''), lung cancer.
*Sarath Dassanayake, 57, Sri Lankan composer, film producer and a musician.
*Stephen Greene (artist), Stephen Greene, 82, American artist.
*Jay Heard, 79, American baseball player.
*Horst P. Horst, 93, German-American fashion photographer.
*Vittorio Miele, 72, Italian painter.
*Prince Heinrich of Hesse-Kassel, Prince Heinrich of Hesse and by Rhine, 72, German noble.
*Doug Sahm, 58, American musician and singer-songwriter, heart attack.
*James Tinn, 77, British politician.
*Gladys Yang, 80, British translator of Chinese literature.

19

*Yvette Cauchois, 90, French physicist, infectious disease.
*Alexander Liberman, 87, Russian-American publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor.
*Plínio Marcos, 64, Brazilian writer, actor, journalist and playwright, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
*John McCue (footballer), John McCue, 77, English footballer.
*Antonis Migiakis, 88, Greek football player.
*Arthur W. Saha, 76, American speculative fiction editor and anthologist, cancer.

20

*Yuri Chesnokov (footballer), Yuri Chesnokov, 47, Soviet football player.
*Amintore Fanfani, 91, Italian politician and statesman, Prime Minister of Italy, prime minister (1954, 1958-1959, 1960-1963, 1982-1983, 1987).
*Ludwig Hamm, 77, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
*Sadao Hasegawa, 54, Japanese graphic artist, suicide by hanging.
*Arthur Hewson, 84, Australian politician.
*Sufia Kamal, 88, Bangladeshi poet and political activist.
*Germaine Ribière, 82, French Resistance member during World War II.

21

*Alphonse Antoine, 84, French road bicycle racer.
*Margaret E. Chisholm, 78, American librarian and educator.
*Quentin Crisp, 90, British writer (''The Naked Civil Servant (book), The Naked Civil Servant''), illustrator, actor and socialite, heart attack.
*Ralph Foody, 71, American actor (''Home Alone''), cancer.
*Marie Kraja, 88, Albanian opera singer.
*Serge Lang (skiing), Serge Lang, 79, French journalist and skiing executive, heart attack.
*Josef Lux, 43, Czech politician, pneumonia.
*Horacio Gómez Bolaños, Horacio Gómez Bolaños prieto, 69, Mexican actor and brother of Chespirito, heart attack.
*Toshio Sakai, 59, Japanese news photographer and Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, Pulitzer Prize winner, heart attack.

22

*Ibrahim Böhme, 55, East German politician and Stasi informer.
*Flávio Costa, 93, Brazilian football player and manager.
*Moira Dunbar, 81, Scottish-Canadian glaciologist.
*Efim Etkind, 81, Soviet philologist and translation theorist.
*Abdelkader Hachani, 42, Algerian Islamic leader, murdered.
*Patrick Moten, 42, American songwriter and musician, cancer.

23

*Oddmund Andersen, 83, Norwegian football player.
*Leyla Badirbeyli, 79, Soviet and Azerbaijani actress.
*Micheál Cranitch, 86, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
*Baldur Möller, 85, Icelandic chess master.
*Patrick Palmer (British Army officer), Patrick Palmer, 66, British Army officer.
*Phoebe Snetsinger, 68, American birder, road traffic accident.

24

*Howard Biggs, 83, American pianist, songwriter and arranger.
*Joseph Farrell (politician), Joseph Farrell, 94, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
*Fernando Fernández (actor), Fernando Fernández, 83, Mexican actor, singer and director.
*Sarah Gainham, 84, British novelist and journalist.
*Gregor Höll, 88, Austrian skier and Olympian.
*David F. Kessler, David Kessler, 93, British publisher and author.
*Mario Mathieu, 82, Argentine cyclist.
*Matéo Maximoff, 82, French writer and evangelical pastor.
*Hilary Minster, 55, English character actor, cancer.
*Christian Pedersen (cyclist), Christian Pedersen, 79, Danish cyclist.
*Ambrose Rayappan, 98, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop.
*Howie Young, 62, Canadian ice hockey player and actor.

25

*Didier Anzieu, 76, French psychoanalyst and academic.
*William Benedict, 82, American actor.
*Oddvar Berrefjord, 81, Norwegian jurist and politician.
*Pierre Bézier, 89, French engineer, CAD/CAM pioneer and namesake of Bézier curves.
*Valentín Campa, 95, Mexican railway union leader and politician.
*Richard M. Eakin, 89, American zoologist and professor.
*T. V. Kochubava, 43, Indian writer, heart attack.
*Lucile Petry Leone, 97, American nurse.
*Dumisani Maraire, 54, Zimbabwean musician, stroke.
*Antonio Raxel, 77, Mexican actor.
*Jesse Renick, 82, American basketball player.
*Ray Timgren, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.
*Gordon Wren, 80, American ski jumper and Olympian.

26

*Louisette Bertholle, 94, French cooking teacher and writer.
*George L. Engel, 85, American internist and psychiatrist, heart failure.
*Angelika Hurwicz, 77, German actress and theatre director.
*Clifford Jarvis, 58, American hard bop and free jazz drummer.
*John L. Kelley, 82, American mathematician.
*Paul Kozlicek, 62, Austrian football player.
*Ashley Montagu, 94, British-American anthropologist.
*Henry Nemo, 90, American musician, songwriter, and actor.
*John Skelton (sculptor), John Skelton, 76, British letter-cutter and sculptor.

27

*Jeanne Chall, 78, American psychologist, writer, and educator, heart failure.
*William S. Heckscher, William Sebastian Heckscher, 94, German art historian and academic.
*I-Roy, 55, Jamaican DJ, heart failure.
*Hiro Matsuda, 62, Japanese-American professional wrestler and trainer, prostate cancer.
*Arturo Fernández (footballer), Arturo Fernández Meyzán, 93, Peruvian footballer.
*Alain Peyrefitte, 74, French scholar and politician, cancer.
*Robert Theobald, 70, American economist and futurist author, esophageal cancer.
*Elizabeth Gray Vining, 97, American librarian, tutor and author.
*Johnny "Big Moose" Walker, Johnny Walker, 72, American blues pianist and organist.

28

*Robert Bingham (writer), Robert Bingham, 33, American writer, drugs overdose.
*Dick Errickson, 87, American baseball player.
*N. V. M. Gonzalez, 84, Filipino novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet.
*Peter Karvaš, 79, Slovakian writer.
*Bethel Leslie, 70, American actress and screenwriter, cancer.
*Abdur Razzaq (professor), Abdur Razzaq, Bangladeshi scholar, academic and intellectual.

29

*Germán Arciniegas, 98, Colombian historian, author and journalist, pneumonia.
*John Berry (film director), John Berry, 82, American film director.
*Suzy Carrier, 77, French film actress.
*Herbert Freudenberger, 73, German-American psychologist, kidney disease.
*Kaoru Iwamoto, 97, Japanese Go (game), Go player and writer.
*Bill Jennings (ice hockey), Bill Jennings, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.
*Curtis Knight, 70, American musician, cancer.
*Michael O'Halloran (British politician), Michael O'Halloran, 66, Irish-born British politician.
*Sid Patterson, 72, Australian track cyclist, liver cancer.
*Gene Rayburn, 81, American radio personality and game show host, heart failure.
*Kazuo Sakamaki, 81, Japanese naval officer.
*Lewis Hastings Sarett, 81, American organic chemist and inventor of cortisone.

30

*Carlos Hugo Christensen, 84, Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer.
*Philip Elman, 81, American lawyer at the U.S. Department of Justice.
*Don "Sugarcane" Harris, Don Harris, 61, American blues and rock and roll violinist and guitarist, pulmonary disease.
*Huang Hsin-chieh, 71, Taiwanese politician and legislator, heart attack.
*Gheorghe Popescu I, 80, Romanian football player and manager.
*Al Schroll, 67, American baseball player.
*M. N. Srinivas, 83, Indian sociologist and social anthropologist.
*Sam Treiman, 74, American theoretical physicist, leukemia.
*Ulrich Wildgruber, 62, German actor.
*Vladimir Yashchenko, 40, Soviet high jumper and world record holder, cirrhosis.

References

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