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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.
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December 1999
1
- Gene Baker, 74, American baseball player.[1]
- Ctirad Benáček, 75, Czech basketball player.
- Stephen Brooks, 57, American actor (The F.B.I., Days of Our Lives, The Interns), heart attack.
- Fritz Fischer, 91, German historian.[2]
- Pop Gates, 82, American basketball player.[3]
- Santidev Ghosh, 89, Indian author, singer, actor and dancer.
- Luigi Granelli, 70, Italian politician.
- Marilyn Harris, 75, American child actress (Frankenstein), cancer.
- Jaakko Jalas, 79, Finnish botanist.[4]
- Tomás Pablo, 78, Chilean politician and architect.
- Victor Perlo, 87, American Marxist economist.[5]
- Massimo Pupillo, 70, Italian film director.
- Alexander Tatarenko, 74, Soviet Russian painter and art teacher.
2
- Joey Adams, 88, American comedian, vaudevillian, radio host, and author.[6]
- Charlie Byrd, 74, American jazz guitarist, lung cancer.[7]
- Matt Cohen, 56, Canadian writer, lung cancer.[8]
- Giorgio Cristallini, 78, Italian screenwriter and film director.[9]
- Daniel J. Elazar, 65, American professor of political science.
- Vladimir Kravtsov, 50, Soviet and Russian handball player and Olympic champion (1976).[10]
- Ethelmary Oakland, 90, American child actress.
- Mike Ockrent, 53, British stage director.[11]
3
- John Archer, 84, American actor (White Heat, Blue Hawaii, Lassie), lung cancer.[12]
- Enrique Cadícamo, 99, Argentine tango lyricist, poet and novelist, heart failure.[13]
- Anne Francine, 82, American actress (Harper Valley PTA, Crocodile Dundee, All My Children) and cabaret singer, stroke.[14]
- Conrad Hunte, 67, Barbadian cricketer, heart attack.[15]
- Scatman John, 57, American jazz musician ("Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)", "Scatman's World") and poet, lung cancer.[16]
- Madeline Kahn, 57, American actress (Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Clue), Tony winner (1993), ovarian cancer.[17]
- Boris Kuznetsov, 71, Russian and Soviet football player.[18]
- Tami Mauriello, 76, American boxer and actor (On the Waterfront).
- Edmond Safra, 67, Lebanese Brazilian banker, smoke inhalation injury.[19]
- Walter Schleger, 70, Austrian football player.[20]
- Jarl Wahlström, 81, Finnish salvationist, 12th General of the Salvation Army.
4
- Heinrich C. Berann, 84, Austrian painter and cartographer.
- Rose Bird, 63, American first female justice, breast cancer.[21]
- Charlotte H. Bruner, 82, American scholar.
- Sylvester Clarke, 44, West Indian cricketer, heart attack.[22]
- Slobodan Dimitrijević, 58, Serbian television and film actor.[23]
- Bert Hoffmeister, 92, Canadian Army officer, businessman, and conservationist.
- Nilde Iotti, 79, Italian politician of the Communist Party, heart attack.[24]
- Barry Mahon, 78, American film director, cinematographer and producer.[25]
- Daishōhō Masami, 32, Japanese sumo wrestler, pancreatic cancer.
- Susan Partridge, 69, British tennis player.
- John Douglas Pringle, 87, Australian journalist.[26]
- Nélida Roca, 70, Argentinian showbusiness diva and sex symbol, heart attack.
- Edward Vesala, 54, Finnish avant-garde jazz drummer, congestive heart failure.[27]
- Alick Walker, 74, British palaeontologist.
5
- Claude Ballot-Léna, 63, French racing driver, cancer.[28]
- Edvin Biuković, 30, Croatian comics artist, brain tumor.
- Joseph Andorfer Ewan, 90, American botanist, naturalist, and historian of botany and natural history.[29]
- Lajos Faluvégi, 75, Hungarian politician.
- Nathan Jacobson, 89, Polish-American mathematician.[30]
- Bobby Marchan, 69, American R&B singer-songwriter, liver cancer.[31]
- Edoardo Martino, 89, Italian politician.
- Bohumil Musil, 77, Czech football player and manager.[32]
- Masaru Sato, 71, Japanese film composer (The Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, Yojimbo).[33]
- Kendall Taylor, 94, British pianist.[34]
6
- Paul Bacon, 92, French politician.[35]
- Alexander Baron, 82, British author and screenwriter.
- Gwyn Jones, 92, Welsh novelist and story writer.
- Martha Sharp, 94, American unitarian.
- Robert A. Swanson, American venture capitalist, brain cancer.[36]
- Stan Wallace, 68, American gridiron football player (Chicago Bears).[37]
7
- Kenny Baker, 78, British jazz musician.[38]
- Darling Légitimus, 92, French actress.[39]
- Alfons Moog, 84, German football player.
- William Wiley, 68, South African cricket player.[40]
8
- Ernst Günther, 66, Swedish actor and director, diabetes.
- Rupert Hart-Davis, 92, English publisher.[41]
- Wally Hebert, 92, American baseball player.[42]
- František Ipser, 72, Czech football manager and player.
- Péter Kuczka, 76, Hungarian writer, poet and science fiction editor.
- Everett Carll Ladd, 62, American political scientist, heart failure.[43]
- Ange Le Strat, 81, French racing cyclist.[44]
- Pupella Maggio, 89, Italian film actress, cerebral hemorrhage.[45]
- Richard P. Powell, 91, American novelist.[46]
- Antônio Dias dos Santos, 51, Brazilian football player.[47]
- Néstor Togneri, 57, Argentine football player.
9
- Oudom Khattigna, 68, Laotian communist politician, Vice President (1998-1999).
- Whitey Kurowski, 81, American baseball player.[48]
- Yakov Rylsky, 71, Soviet sabre fencer and Olympic champion (1964), liver cirrhosis.[49]
- Shinkichi Takemura, 67, Japanese Olympic speed skater (1956, 1960).[50]
- Cecil H. Williamson, 90, British screenwriter, editor and film director.
10
- Charles Assalé, 88, Cameroonian politician.
- Antonio Blanco, 87, Spanish and American painter, heart and kidney disease.
- Rick Danko, 55, Canadian musician (The Band), heart failure.[51]
- Pietro De Vico, 88, Italian film actor, stroke.
- Ed Dorn, 70, American poet, pancreatic cancer.[52]
- Lex Goudsmit, 86, Dutch actor, stroke.[53]
- Shirley Hemphill, 52, American comedian and actress (What's Happening!!), renal failure.
- Jean-Claude Michel, 74, French actor and voice actor.[54]
- Mike Randall, 80, British journalist and editor.[55]
- Niccolò Tucci, 91, Short story writer and novelist.[56]
- Franjo Tuđman, 77, Croatian politician, President of Croatia (since 1990), cancer.[57]
11
- Charles Earland, 58, American jazz organist, heart failure.[58]
- Enrica Follieri, 73, Italian philologist and paleographer.[59]
- Ed Jones, 87, American politician.
- Jack Oldfield, 100, British landowner and politician.[60]
- Harry Wüstenhagen, 71, German film actor.
- Hans K. Ziegler, 88, German-American satellite engineer.
12
- James Balfour, 71, Canadian politician.
- Huelet Benner, 82, American multi-discipline pistol shooter and Olympic champion (1952).[61]
- Paul Cadmus, 94, American artist.[62]
- Gordon Chater, 77, English Australian comedian and actor.[63]
- Gaston Diehl, 87, French professor of art history and an art critic.[64]
- Joseph Heller, 76, American novelist (Catch-22), heart attack.[65]
- Ladislav Józsa, 51, Slovak football player.
- Matty Kemp, 92, American film actor.
- Luz Oliveros-Belardo, 93, Filipina pharmaceutical chemist.
- Ignacio Quirós, 68, Argentine actor, cancer.
- Leo Smit, 78, American composer and pianist, heart failure.[66]
- John W. R. Taylor, 77, British aviation expert.[67]
- Claes Thelander, 83, Swedish actor.
13
- Peter Adams, 61, New Zealand-Australian actor, cancer.
- Jill Craigie, 88, English documentary film director, screenwriter and feminist, heart failure.[68]
- Stane Dolanc, 74, Yugoslav communist politician, cerebral stroke.[69]
- Maury Gertsman, 92, American cinematographer.
- Tarmo Uusivirta, 42, Finnish professional boxer, suicide.[70]
- Robert Wagenhoffer, 39, American figure skater, complications of AIDS.
- Ian Watt, 82, English literary critic and academic.[71]
- Lady Mary Whitley, 75, British noblewoman.
14
- Sven Berlin, 88, English painter, writer and sculptor.[72]
- Sándor Holczreiter, 53, Hungarian weightlifter and Olympic medalist (1972).[73]
- Douglas Leigh, 92, American advertising executive.[74]
- Walt Levinsky, 70, American big band player, composer, arranger and bandleader, brain cancer.[75]
- J. W. Lockett, 62, American football player.[76]
15
- Georges Aeby, 86, Swiss football player.
- Rune Andréasson, 74, Swedish comic creator, cancer.
- Francis L. K. Hsu, 90, Chinese-American anthropologist.
- Eddie Kazak, 79, American baseball player.[77]
- León Martinetti, 73, Argentine basketball player.[78]
16
- Henry Helstoski, 74, American politician.[79]
- Dorit Kreysler, 90, Austrian film actress.[80]
- Ruth Welting, 51, American operatic soprano.[81]
- Jorge Tuero, Venezuelan television actor and comedian, killed during the Vargas tragedy.
17
- Rex Allen, 78, American actor and singer-songwriter, traffic accident.[82]
- Leo P. Carlin, 91, American politician.
- Ken W. Clawson, 63, American journalist and spokesman for U.S. President Richard Nixon, heart attack.[83]
- Paolo Dezza, 98, Italian Jesuit cardinal of the Catholic church.[84]
- François Dyrek, 66, French actor, heart attack.[85]
- Rufus Lewis, 80, American baseball pitcher.[86]
- Jürgen Moser, 71, German-American mathematician.[87]
- Grover Washington, Jr., 56, American jazz saxophonist, heart attack.[88]
- C. Vann Woodward, 91, American historian and Pulitzer Prize winner.[89]
18
- Þór Beck, 59, Icelandic footballer.
- Robert Bresson, 98, French film director.[90]
- Robert Dougall, 86, English broadcaster and ornithologist.[91]
- Joe Higgs, 59, Jamaican reggae musician, cancer.[92]
- Dennis W. Sciama, 73, British physicist.[93]
- John Southgate, 73, British Anglican priest.
- Benito Stefanelli, 71, Italian film actor, stuntman and weapons master.
- Bertha Swirles, 96, British physicist.[94]
- Logan Wright, 66, American pediatric psychologist, heart attack.[95]
19
- Bal Dani, 66, Indian cricket player.[96]
- Brendan Hansen, 77, Australian politician.
- Desmond Llewelyn, 85, Welsh actor (From Russia with Love, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Follyfoot), traffic collision.[97]
- Marion Worth, 69, American country music singer, complications of emphysema.[98]
20
- Dick Bertell, 64, American baseball player, influenza.[99]
- Riccardo Freda, 90, Italian film director.[100]
- Mario Carreño Morales, 86, Cuban painter.[101]
- Carin Nilsson, 95, Swedish freestyle swimmer and Olympic medalist (1920).[102]
- Irving Rapper, 101, American film director.[103]
- Hank Snow, 85, Canadian country musician, heart failure.[104]
- James Wainwright, 61, American actor.
21
- John Arnatt, 82, British actor.
- Bill Edwards, 81, American actor, rodeo rider, and artist.
- Michael P. Malone, 59, American historian, cardiomyopathy, heart attack.[105]
- Bernard Smith, 92, American literary editor, film producer and literary critic.[106]
- Frank Stanley, 77, American cinematographer (Magnum Force, 10, Grease 2).
- Jalil Ziapour, 79, Iranian painter and academic.
22
- Per Aabel, 97, Norwegian actor, artist, dancer and choreographer.
- Hans Frankenthal, 73, German Holocaust survivor.[107]
- Tamara Lees, 75, English film actress.
- Ola Oni, 66, Nigerian political economist, socialist and human right activist.
- Louis Pohl, 84, American painter, illustrator, printmaker and cartoonist.
- Benny Quick, 55, German pop and schlager singer, suicide.[108]
23
- Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield, 86, British Army officer and courtier of Queen Elizabeth II.
- John Paton Davies, Jr., 91, American diplomat and Medal of Freedom recipient.[109]
- Wallace Diestelmeyer, 73, Canadian figure skater and Olympic medalist (1948).[110]
- Timur Gaidar, 73, Soviet and Russian rear admiral, writer and journalist.
- Silvio Gava, 98, Italian politician.
- Lois Hamilton, 56, American actress (Summer Rental, The Ropers, The Cannonball Run), suicide by drug overdose.
- Miroslav Ivanov, 70, Popular Czech nonfiction writer.[111]
- Vladimir Kondrashin, 70, Soviet and Russian basketball player and coach.[112]
- Marcel Landowski, 84, French composer, biographer and arts administrator.[113]
- Billy McGlen, 78, English football player.[114]
- Eirene White, Baroness White, 90, British politician and journalist.[115]
24
- Kadathanat Madhavi Amma, 90, Indian Malayalam poet, novelist and short story writer.
- Tomasz Beksiński, 41, Polish radio presenter, suicide.
- Peter Boroffka, 67, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
- Bill Bowerman, 88, American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike, Inc.[116]
- Reggie Carter, 42, American basketball player.[117]
- Billy Davenport, 68, American drummer.[118]
- Maurice Couve de Murville, 92, French politician, 152nd Prime Minister of France.[119]
- João Figueiredo, 81, 30th President of Brazil, cardiovascular disease.[120]
- Tito Guízar, 91, American singer and actor, pneumonia.[121]
- Jiang Hua, 92, President of the Supreme Court of China.
- Joseph McGahn, 82, American politician.[122]
- William C. Schneider, 76, American aerospace engineer and NASA mission director.
- Grete Stern, 95, German-Argentine photographer.[123]
25
- Arne Ileby, 86, Norwegian football player.
- Peter Jeffrey, 70, English actor, prostate cancer.[124]
- Zully Moreno, 79, Argentine film actress, Alzheimer's disease.
- Michael Bamidele Otiko, 65, Nigerian politician and educator.[125]
- Alfonso Lastras Ramírez, 75, Mexican lawyer and politician.[126]
26
- Benny Bartlett, 75, American child actor and musician.
- Vitold Belevitch, 78, Belgian mathematician and electrical engineer.[127]
- Ola Skjåk Bræk, 87, Norwegian banker and politician.
- Prunella Clough, 80, British artist, cancer.[128]
- Fred Draper, 74, American actor (Faces, A Woman Under the Influence, Columbo).[129]
- David Duncan, 86, American screenwriter and novelist.[130]
- Leah Leneman, 55, American historian and cookery writer.
- Curtis Mayfield, 57, American singer-songwriter ("Superfly", "Move On Up", "Freddie's Dead") and record producer, complications from diabetes.[131]
- Shankar Dayal Sharma, 81, 9th president of India, heart attack.[132]
27
- Leslie Brown, 87, British Anglican prelate.[133]
- Pierre Clémenti, 57, French actor, liver cancer.[134]
- Leonard Goldenson, 94, American TV and radio executive.[135]
- Michael McDowell, 49, American novelist and screenwriter (Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Thinner), AIDS-related illness.[136]
- Dick Peabody, 74, American actor, prostate cancer.
- Horst Matthai Quelle, 87, German philosopher.
28
- Josephine Barnes, 87, English obstetrician and gynaecologist.[137]
- Joachim Böhmer, 59, East German rower and Olympic medalist (1972).[138]
- Franco Castellano, 74, Italian screenwriter and film director.[139]
- Donald Cotton, 71, British writer for radio and television.[140]
- Louis Féraud, 78, French fashion designer and artist, Alzheimer's disease.[141]
- Kenneth Hudson, 83, British journalist and broadcaster.
- Larry Dale Lee, 41, American financial and economic journalist, stabbed.[142]
- Clayton Moore, 85, American actor (The Lone Ranger), heart attack.[143]
- Harry Monty, 95, American actor (The Wizard of Oz), old age.
- Mike Thresher, 68, English football player.
29
- Robert Hoffstetter, 91, French taxonomist and herpetologist.[144]
- Edward Hollamby, 78, English architect and town planner, heart disease.[145]
- Ferenc Rabár, 70, Hungarian politician.[146]
- Leon Radzinowicz, 93, Polish-British criminologist.[147]
- José Cláudio dos Reis, 60, Brazilian sports administrator.
- Gerard Veringa, 75, Dutch politician.[148]
- Jerzy Waldorff, 89, Polish baron, TV personality and writer.
30
- Tom Aherne, 80, Irish footballer and hurler.
- Clint Albright, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.[149]
- Arthur Bassett, 85, Welsh rugby player.
- Kjølv Egeland, 81, Norwegian politician.[150]
- Anna Fehér, 78, Hungarian gymnast and Olympic silver medallist (1948).[151]
- Sarah Knauss, 119, American supercentenarian and oldest person in the world.[152]
- Fritz Leonhardt, 90, German structural engineer.[153]
- Nicholas Marangello, 87, American mobster (Bonanno crime family).
- Louis Michel, 76, French mathematical physicist.[154]
31
- Conrado Balweg, 57, Filipino Roman Catholic priest and communist revolutionary, shot.
- Dean Elliott, 82, American television and film composer, Alzheimer's disease.
- Ferdinand Finne, 89, Norwegian author, painter, theater decorator and costume designer.
- William Hughes, Baron Hughes, 88, British politician.[155]
- Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi, 85, Indian Islamic scholar and author.[156]
- Solomiia Pavlychko, 41, Ukrainian literary critic, philosopher, and feminist, carbon monoxide poisoning.
- Elliot Richardson, 79, American politician and diplomat, cerebral haemorrhage.[157]
- Hamako Watanabe, 89, Japanese singer, cerebral infarction.[158]
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