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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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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January 1999
1
- Myslym Alla, 79, Albanian football player and manager.
- Vítor Baptista, 50, Portuguese footballer.[1]
- Besim Fagu, 73, Albanian football player.
- Rafael Iglesias, 74, Argentine heavyweight boxer.[2]
- Les Yewdale, 70, Australian politician.[3]
2
- Amin al-Majaj, 77, Palestinian politician, Mayor of Jerusalem (1994–1998).[4]
- Margot Cottens, 76, Uruguayan actress.
- Jean Galbraith, 92, Australian botanist, children's writer, and poet.
- Sebastian Haffner, 91, German journalist and author.[5]
- Rolf Liebermann, 88, Swiss composer and music administrator.[6]
- Aase Lionæs, 91, Norwegian politician and feminist.
- Joan Long, 73, Australian producer and writer.[7]
- Shepard Menken, 77, American voice actor.[8]
- Trevor J. Rees, 85, American football player and coach.[9]
- Horst Seeger, 72, German musicologist, librettist and opera director.
- George Tobin, 77, American football player.[10]
- Louis Jolyon West, 74, American psychiatrist, cancer.[11]
3
- Elsa Burnett, 96, Swedish actress.[12]
- Diana Dei, 84, Italian film actress.
- Neil Gibson, 36, New Zealand rower and Olympian, cancer.[13]
- Otto Königsberger, 90, German architect.[14]
- Violet Rose Olney, 87, English athlete and Olympic medalist.[15]
- Chuck Parsons, 74, American sports car racing driver.[16]
- Stanley Proffitt, 88, English cricketer.[17]
- Jerry Quarry, 53, American heavyweight boxer, pneumonia.[18]
- Jack C. K. Teng, 86, Chinese educator, writer and politician.[19]
- Gorō Yamaguchi, 65, Japanese shakuhachi player.[20]
4
- Maqsood Ahmed, 73, Pakistani cricketer.[21]
- Iron Eyes Cody, 94, American actor.[22]
- Diane Foster, 70, Canadian track and field athlete and Olympian.[23]
- Fredrik Mellbye, 81, Norwegian physician.[24]
- Charles Manners, 10th Duke of Rutland, 79, British peer and landowner.[25]
- Kisshomaru Ueshiba, 77, Japanese master of aikido, respiratory failure.[26]
- José Vela Zanetti, 85, Spanish painter and muralist.[27]
5
- Charles Francis Adams IV, 88, American electronics industrialist.[28]
- Paul Wallace Gates, 97, American historian and academic.[29]
- Michael Hirschfeld, 54, New Zealand businessman and politician, diabetes complications.[30]
- Jarmila Nygrýnová, 45, Czech long jumper, cancer.[31]
- Ralph Pasquariello, 72, American football player.[32]
- Clare Potter, 95, American fashion designer.[33]
- Basuki Resobowo, 82–83, Indonesian painter.[34]
- Paul Zoll, 87, American cardiologist.[35]
6
- David W. Dennis, 86, American politician, Representative from Indiana (1969–1975).[36]
- Jim Dunn, 67, American baseball player.[37]
- Joseph Malta, 80, American executioner during the Nuremberg executions.
- Ntsu Mokhehle, 80, Lesotho politician, Prime Minister (1993–1994, 1994–1998).[38]
- Henrietta Moraes, 67, British artists' model and memoirist.[39]
- Hélène Ouvrard, 60, Canadian French writer.
- Michel Petrucciani, 36, French jazz pianist, pulmonary infection.[40]
- Antonio Pierfederici, 79, Italian actor.[41]
- Lajos Tichy, 63, Hungarian footballer.[42]
- Leo Weilenmann, 76, Swiss racing cyclist.[43]
7
- Phil Cutchin, 78, American football player and coach.
- James Hammerstein, 67, American theatre director and producer, heart failure.[44]
- Fred Hopkins, 51, American jazz double bassist.[45]
- Aulis Manninen, 81, American long-distance runner and Olympian.[46]
- Viktor Sobolev, 83, Soviet/Russian scientist.[47]
8
- James William Baskin, 79, Canadian politician and businessman.[48]
- Punch Coomaraswamy, 74, Malaysian–Singaporean judge, diplomat and politician, pulmonary disease.
- Harvey Miller, 63, American actor, director, and screenwriter.
- Vahid Musayev, 51, Azerbaijani politician, Deputy Minister, killed.
- Lyusyena Ovchinnikova, 67, Soviet-born Russian film actress.[49]
- John W. Roberts, 78, American General in the United States Air Force.[50]
- Rövşən Rzayev, 29, Azerbaijani officer and war hero, murdered.
- Peter Seeberg, 73, Danish modernist novelist and playwright.[51]
- Dobie Gillis Williams, 38, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[52]
9
- Rick Bennewitz, 62, American television director, heart failure.[53]
- Hans Candrian, 60, Swiss bobsledder and Olympic medalist.[54]
- Joyce Chiang, 28, American attorney.
- Cleveland Cram, 81, American historian and intelligence official in the Central Intelligence Agency.[55]
- Carl Elliott, 85, American politician, Representative from Alabama (1949–1963, 1963–1965).[56]
- Mel Pearson, 60, Canadian ice hockey player.[57]
- Jim Peters, 80, English long-distance runner.[58]
- Mien Ruys, 94, Dutch landscape and garden architect.
10
- Shinsuke Ashida, 84, Japanese actor, liver cancer.[59]
- John Hervey, 7th Marquess of Bristol, 44, British peer, aristocrat and businessman, multiple organ failure.[60]
- Walter Edward Harris, 94, Canadian politician and lawyer.[61]
- Esteban Marino, 84, Uruguayan football referee.
- Frank Parker, 95, American singer and actor.[62]
- Primož Ramovš, 77, Slovenian composer and librarian.[63]
- Gavin Relly, 72, South African businessman, Chairman of Anglo American.[64]
- Edward Williams, 77, Australian judge on the Supreme Court of Queensland.[65]
- Juliusz Żuławski, 88, Polish poet, literary critic and translator.[66]
11
- Teuvo Aura, 86, Finnish politician.
- Fabrizio De André, 58, Italian singer-songwriter, lung cancer.[67]
- Robert Douglas, 89, American film actor, television director and producer.[68]
- Ján Ducký, 54, Slovak politician, shot.
- Jim Dyck, 76, American baseball player.[69]
- Nathalie Lind, 80, Danish jurist and politician.
- Naomi Mitchison, 101, Scottish novelist and poet.[70]
- Brian Moore, 77, Northern Irish-born Canadian screenwriter and novelist, pulmonary fibrosis.[71]
- Josefina Plá, 95, Spanish poet, playwright and art critic.[72]
- K. A. Rahman, 59, Indian political activist.[73]
- Öztürk Serengil, 68, Turkish actor and comedian.
- Bobby Specht, 77, American figure skater.[74]
- François Spoerry, 86, French architect and urban planner.[75]
- Mark Warren, 60, American television director (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, What's Happening!!, Sanford and Son), cancer.[76]
12
- Leo Cherne, 86, American economist and public servant.[77]
- Betty Lou Gerson, 84, American actress (One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Fly, Cats Don't Dance), stroke.[78]
- David Logan, 42, American gridiron football player, respiratory failure.[79]
- Gerda Ring, 107, Norwegian stage actress and producer.[80]
- Maria Sander, 74, German sprinter.[81]
- William H. Whyte, 81, American urbanist, organizational analyst and journalist.[82]
- Doug Wickenheiser, 37, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, St. Louis Blues, Washington Capitals), cancer.[83]
13
- Maurice A. Donahue, 80, American politician.
- Buzz Kulik, 76, American film director and producer.[84]
- Karl Lieffen, 72, German film actor, brain cancer.[85]
- Kelvin Malone, 38, American spree killer, execution by lethal injection.[86]
- John Frederick Nims, 85, American poet and academic.[87]
- Lawrence Harold Welsh, 63, American bishop in the Roman Catholic Church.[88]
14
- Robin Bailey, 79, English actor, respiratory failure.[89]
- Tom Binford, 74, American entrepreneur and philanthropist.[90]
- Jerzy Grotowski, 65, Polish theatre director and theorist, leukaemia.[91]
- Janus Hellemons, 86, Dutch racing cyclist.[92]
- Brett King, 78, American actor, leukaemia, leukemia.[93]
- Muslimgauze, 37, British electronic musician, fungal infection.[94]
- Fred Myrow, 59, American composer, heart failure.[95]
- Sabina Olmos, 85, Argentine film actress.[96]
- Raymond Peynet, 90, French cartoonist.[97]
- Granville Rodrigo, 41, Sri Lankan actor, singer, and art director.
- Barat Shakinskaya, 84, Soviet-Azerbaijani actress.[98]
- Lincoln Thompson, 49, Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, cancer.[99]
- Aldo van Eyck, 80, Dutch architect.[100]
15
- John Bloom, 54, American actor, heart failure.[101]
- Betty Box, 83, British film producer, cancer.[102]
- Lars Glassér, 73, Swedish sprint canoeist.[103]
- Monroe Karmin, 69, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner.[104]
- Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry, 79, Irish judge and life peer, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland (1971–1988).[105]
- Marion Ryan, 67, English pop singer.[106]
- John Baker Saunders, 44, American musician (Mad Season), heroin overdose.[107]
- Mi. Pa. Somasundaram, 77, Indian Tamil journalist, poet and writer.[108]
16
- Oscar Cullmann, 96, French Lutheran theologian.[109]
- Đoàn Khuê, 75, Vietnamese army general and Minister of Defence (1992-1997).
- Jim McClelland, 83, Australian jurist and politician, Senator for New South Wales (1971–1978).[110]
- Dadie Rylands, 96, British literary scholar and theatre director.[111]
17
- Cay von Brockdorff, 83, German sculptor and art historian.
- Maurice Byers, 81, Australian jurist and constitutional expert.
- Nicholas J. Corea, 55, American television writer (Walker, Texas Ranger, The Incredible Hulk, Outlaws), cancer.[112]
- Theodore Major, 90, English artist.[113]
18
- Horace Cumner, 80, Welsh footballer.[114]
- Ciril Cvetko, 79, Slovene composer and conductor.[115]
- Frances Gershwin, 92, American singer and violinist.[116]
- Lucille Kallen, 76, American screenwriter and playwright, cancer.[117]
- Pat Morton, 88, Australian businessman and politician, Leader of the Opposition of New South Wales (1955–1959).[118]
- Henri Romagnesi, 86, French mycologist.[119]
- Günter Strack, 69, German television actor, heart failure.[120]
- Virginia Verrill, 82, American big band singer.[121]
19
- Roderick Chisholm, 82, American philosopher.[122]
- Ivan Francescato, 31, Italian rugby player, heart failure.[123]
- Mario Gentili, 85, Italian cyclist and Olympic medalist.[124]
- Jacques Lecoq, 77, French actor and mime, cerebral haemorrhage.[125]
- Warren Schrage, 78, American basketball player.
20
- Stella Bloch, 101, American artist, dancer and journalist.
- Cleaver Bunton, 96, Australian politician, mayor of Albury (NSW).
- Martyn Finlay, 87, New Zealand lawyer and politician.[126]
- John Golding, 67, British trade unionist and politician, Member of Parliament (1969–1986), complications following surgery.[127]
- Frances Lander Spain, 95, American children's librarian.[128]
21
- Alfonso Corona Blake, 80, Mexican film director and screenwriter.[129]
- Charles Brown, 76, American blues singer and pianist, heart failure.[130]
- Berkeley L. Bunker, 92, American politician, Senator (1940–1942) from Nevada and Representative (1945–1947).[131]
- Jacques Chailley, 88, French musicologist and composer.[132]
- Leslie French, 94, British actor.[133]
- Paul Metcalf, 81, American writer.[134]
- Lloyd M. Mustin, 87, American admiral during World War II, complications following a stroke.[135]
- Marvin Rick, 97, American middle-distance runner and Olympian.[136]
- Cecil Smith, 94, American polo player.[137]
- Susan Strasberg, 60, American actress, breast cancer.[138]
22
- Paul Cammermans, 77, Belgian film director.[139]
- Gabor Carelli, 83, Hungarian classical tenor.[140]
- Piero Gadda Conti, 96, Italian novelist and film critic.
- George Mosse, 80, German writer and historian.[141]
- Graciela Quan, 87/88, Guatemalan lawyer and women's rights activist.[142]
- Maxwell Rosenlicht, 74, American mathematician.[143]
- Steven Sykes, 84, British artist.[144]
23
- Bernard Budiansky, 73, American engineer and academic.
- Joe D'Amato, 62, Italian film director, heart failure.[145]
- Jaroslav Foglar, 91, Czech author.[146]
- Pavle Grubješić, 45, Serbian football player.
- Terence Lewin, Baron Lewin, 78, British Royal Navy officer, First Sea Lord (1977–1979).[147]
- Thomas C. Mann, 86, American diplomat and ambassador.[148]
- Paul McKee, 75, American football player.[149]
- John Osteen, 77, American evangelical pastor, heart failure.
- Suceso Portales, 94, Spanish anarcho-feminist writer.
- Jay Pritzker, 76, American entrepreneur and member of the Pritzker family.[150]
- Frederick Sommer, 93, Italian-American artist.[151]
- Graham Staines, 58, Australian Christian missionary, burned.[152]
24
- Andrée Debar, 78, French actress and producer of stage and screen, Alzheimer's disease.[153]
- Elena Dobronravova, 66, Soviet and Russian actress.
- Werner Jacobs, 89, German film director.[154]
- Shizue Natsukawa, 89, Japanese actress.[155]
- Roger Rondeaux, 78, French cyclo-cross racer.[156]
25
- Sarah Louise Delany, 109, American author and civil rights activist.[157]
- John H. DeWitt, Jr., 92, American radio astronomy and photometry pioneer .[158]
- Rudi Glöckner, 69, German football referee.
- Philip Mason, 92, English civil servant, historian, and author.[159]
- Henri Rochereau, 90, French politician, European Commissioner for Overseas Development.[160]
- Robert Shaw, 82, American conductor, stroke.[161]
- George Gilbert Swell, 75, Indian politician.[162]
- Herman Wedemeyer, 74, American actor, football player and politician, heart failure.[163]
26
- Jeanne-Marie Darré, 93, French classical pianist.[164]
- August Everding, 70, German opera director.[165]
- Sam Jones, 75, Australian politician.
- Simon Karas, 93, Greek musicologist.
- D. C. Kizhakemuri, 85, Indian writer, publisher and activist.[166]
- Matilde Landeta, 88, Mexican filmmaker and screenwriter.[167]
- Heinz Leymann, 66, Swedish psychologists and academic.
- Larry Loughlin, 57, American baseball player.[168]
- Charles Luckman, 89, American businessman and architect.[169]
- Ruby Mercer, 92, American-Canadian writer, broadcaster and soprano.[170]
27
- Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, 88, Spanish writer.[171]
- Eamon Collins, 44-45, Northern Irish former IRA member, beaten.
- Ben Margolis, 88, American attorney, heart failure.[172]
- Satya Saha, 64, Bangladeshi composer.[173]
- Jerzy Turowicz, 86, Polish Catholic journalist and editor, heart failure.[174]
- František Vláčil, 74, Czech film director, painter, and graphic artist.[175]
28
- Ave Daniell, 84, American gridiron football player.[176]
- Josef Doležal, 78, Czechoslovak athlete and Olympic medalist.[177]
- Valery Gavrilin, 59, Soviet-born Russian composer.[178]
- Herbert Gruber, 85, Austrian film producer.
- Pochiah Krishnamurthy, 51, Indian cricket player.[179]
- Roger-Jean Le Nizerhy, 82, French cyclist.[180]
- Leonard C. Lewin, 82, American author.[181]
- Rouiched, 77, Algerian comic actor.[182]
- Torgny T:son Segerstedt, 90, Swedish philosopher and sociologist.[183]
- Radúz Činčera, 75, Czech screenwriter and director.[184]
29
- Willy Bandholz, 86, German field handball player and Olympic champion.[185]
- Lili St. Cyr, 80, American burlesque stripteaser.[186]
- Yves Hervouet, 77, French sinologist.[187]
- Vladimir Kirillin, 86, Soviet physicist.[188]
- Eeva-Kaarina Volanen, 78, Finnish actor.[189]
30
- Branko Fučić, 78, Croatian art historian, archeologist and paleographer.
- Romano Garagnani, 61, Italian skeet shooter and Olympic medalist.[190]
- Mills E. Godwin, 84, American politician, Governor of Virginia (1966–1970, 1974–1978), pneumonia.[191]
- Huntz Hall, 78, American actor, heart failure.[192]
- Ed Herlihy, 89, American newsreel narrator.[193]
- Chuck Hinton, 59, American gridiron football player.[194]
- Mirra Komarovsky, 93, American sociologist.[195]
- Dolf van der Linden, 83, Dutch conductor of popular music.[196]
- Mick McGahey, 73, Scottish trade unionist and political activist, Chairman of the Communist Party of Great Britain (1974–1978).[197]
- Warren Miller, 74, American political scientist.[198]
- Svetlana Savyolova, 57, Soviet and Russian actress.
31
- Giant Baba, 61, Japanese wrestler, liver failure.[199]
- Bill Luders, 89, American naval architect.[200]
- Charles M. Murphy, 85, American football, basketball and baseball player and coach.[201]
- Ahmad Azari Qomi, 74, Iranian cleric and ayatollah.
- Fanély Revoil, 92, French opera singer.[202]
- Gabriel Ruiz, 90, Mexican songwriter.[203]
- Ilmari Tapiovaara, 84, Finnish furniture designer.[204]
- Ferdinand Thomas Unger, 84, American Army Lieutenant General.
- Norm Zauchin, 69, American baseball player, prostate cancer.[205]
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