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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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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May 1999
1
- Eddie Chamblee, 79, American tenor, alto saxophonist and vocalist.[1]
- Alish Lambaranski, 84, Soviet and Azerbaijani statesman.
- Jos LeDuc, 54, Canadian professional wrestler, lung infection.[2]
- Osman Ahmed Osman, 82, Egyptian engineer, entrepreneur, and politician.
- Jack Sepkoski, 50, American paleontologist.[3]
- Brian Shawe-Taylor, 84, British racing driver.
2
- Thomas C. Cochran, 97, American economic historian and author.[4]
- Bill Davidson, 64, American football player and coach and college athletics administrator.
- Igor M. Diakonoff, 84, Russian historian, linguist and translator.[5]
- Ernest A. Gross, 92, American diplomat and lawyer.[6]
- Douglas Harkness, 96, Canadian politician, teacher and farmer.
- Robert Arthur Humphreys, 91, British historian and professor of Latin American studies.
- Tibor Kalman, 49, American graphic designer, non-Hodgkins lymphoma.[7]
- Oliver Reed, 61, British actor (The Devils, Oliver!, The Three Musketeers), alcohol intoxication, heart attack.[8]
- Włodzimierz Sokorski, 90, Polish communist politician, writer, and brigadier general.
- Anahit Tsitsikian, 72, Armenian female violinist.
3
- Joe Adcock, 71, American baseball player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.[9]
- Steve Chiasson, 32, Canadian ice hockey player, (Detroit Red Wings, Calgary Flames, Carolina Hurricanes), drunk driving crash.[10]
- Godfrey Evans, 78, English cricketer.[11]
- Giulio Fioravanti, 75, Italian operatic baritone.[12]
- Princess Urraca of the Two Sicilies, 85, German noblewoman and member of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.
- Josef Zeman, 84, Czech football player.[13]
4
- Manny Babbitt, 50, U.S. Marine veteran of the Vietnam War and convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[14]
- Albert Fearnley, 75, English rugby league football player, and coach.
- Wilfried Geeroms, 57, Belgian Olympic hurdler, cancer.[15]
- Jean Marius René Guibé, 89, French naturalist.[16]
- Mahendra Narayan Nidhi, 77, Nepali politician and Gandhian leader.
- Milenko Pavlović, 39, Yugoslavian Air Force pilot, shot down.[17]
- John Salmon, 88, New Zealand photographer, conservationist, and author.
- Henry Tiller, 84, Norwegian boxer and Olympic medalist.[18]
5
- Vasilis Diamantopoulos, 78, Greek actor, heart attack.
- John Howard, 86, British Army officer during World War II.[19]
- Américo Paredes, 83, American author.[20]
- Rodrigo Ruiz, 76, Mexican football player.[21]
6
- Fehmi Agani, 67, Kosovan sociologist and politician.
- Keizo Hasegawa, 76, Japanese track and field athlete and Olympian.[22]
- Kaii Higashiyama, 90, Japanese writer and artist.
- Sven Meyer, 21, German figure skater, suicide by gunshot.
- Johnny Morris, 82, British television presenter.[23]
- Maria Laura Rocca, 81, Italian actress and writer.
- Mark Tuinei, 39, American football player, drug overdose.[24]
7
- Randi Anda, 100, Norwegian politician.[25]
- Chen Yanyan, 83, Chinese actress and film producer.
- Andrew Gray, 43, British anthropologist and activist for the rights of indigenous peoples, plane crash.[26]
- Joseph Gray, 79, Irish-born English Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Shrewsbury.[27]
- Leon Hess, 85, American businessman and owner of the New York Jets.[28]
- Elliot Pinhey, 88, British entomologist.[29]
- Yury Zakharanka, 47, Belarusian minister and oppositional politician, murdered by the Lukashenko regime.[30]
8
- Edward Abraham, 85, English biochemist, stroke.[31]
- Dirk Bogarde, 78, British actor (Doctor in the House, The Servant, A Bridge Too Far), heart attack.[32]
- Ed Gilbert, 67, American voice actor (The Transformers, TaleSpin, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero), lung cancer.[33]
- Soeman Hs, 95, Indonesian author.
- John Kotz, 80, American collegiate basketball player and early professional.
- Michael Nightingale, 76, English actor.
- Alan Paterson, 70, English high jumper and Olympian.[34]
- Sally Payne, 86, American actress, stroke.
- Dana Plato, 34, American actress (Diff'rent Strokes), suicide by drug overdose.[35]
- Leon Thomas, 61, American jazz and blues vocalist, heart failure.[36]
9
- Harry Blech, 89, British violinist and conductor.[37]
- Shirley Dinsdale, 72, American ventriloquist and television and radio personality, cancer.[38]
- Derek Fatchett, 53, British politician, heart attack.
- Jürgen Fuchs, 48, East German writer and dissident, leukemia.[39]
- Jim Hunt, 95, American athletic trainer.
- Božidar Kantušer, 77, Slovene composer of classical music, cerebral infarct, stroke.[40]
- Wynona Lipman, 75–76, American politician, cancer.[41]
- Ivan M. Niven, 83, Canadian-American mathematician.[42]
- George T. Raymond, 84, American civil rights leader.
- Karamshi Jethabhai Somaiya, 96, Indian educationist.
- Ole Søltoft, 58, Danish actor.
10
- Hans Granlid, 72, Swedish novelist and literary researcher.
- Anésia Pinheiro Machado, Brazilian female pilot.
- John Munonye, 70, Nigerian writer.[43]
- Carl Powis, 71, American baseball player.[44]
- Shel Silverstein, 68, American poet, playwright, and cartoonist, heart attack.[45]
- Eric Willis, 77, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales (1976).[46]
11
- José Fernández Aguayo, Spanish photography director.[47]
- Eqbal Ahmad, 65, Pakistani political scientist, writer and pacifist, heart failure.[48]
- Josef Dostál, 95, Czech botanist, pteridologist, conservationist and climber.
- Elaine Fifield, 68, Australian ballerina.[49]
- Werner Fuchs, 50, German football player, heart attack.[50]
- George Hunter, 60, Scottish motorcycle speedway rider.
- Birdy Sweeney, 67, Irish actor and comedian.
- Robert Thomas, 72, Welsh sculptor.
12
- William James Morgan, 84, Northern Irish unionist politician.
- Robert Rose, 47, Australian sportsman and quadriplegic, complications following surgery.[51]
- Penny Santon, 82, American actress (Matt Houston, Funny Girl, Fletch).[52]
- Saul Steinberg, 84, Romanian-American cartoonist and illustrator.[53]
- Jerzy Stroba, 79, Polish Roman Catholic bishop.
- Daniel Frank Walls, 56, New Zealand theoretical physicist, cancer.
13
- Abd al-Aziz Ibn Baz, 88, Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar.[54]
- Roy Crowson, 84, English biologist.
- Meg Greenfield, 68, American editorial writer, cancer.[55]
- Motohiko Hino, 53, Japanese jazz drummer, liver failure.
- Giuseppe Petrilli, 86, Italian professor and European Commissioner.
- Gene Sarazen, 97, American golf player, complications of pneumonia.[56]
- John Whiting, 90, American sociologist and anthropologist.[57]
14
- Manuel del Cabral, 92, Dominican poet, writer, and diplomat.[58]
- Buck Houghton, 84, American television producer and writer, pulmonary emphysema.[59]
- Tang Pao-yun, 55, Taiwanese actress.[60]
- Joseph F. Smith, 79, American politician.
- William Tucker, 38, American guitarist, suicide by drug overdose and throat-cutting.
- Grete Weil, 92, German writer.
- Asrat Woldeyes, 70, Ethiopian surgeon, heart ailment.[61]
- Jerry Wunderlich, 73, American set decorator (The Exorcist, The Last Tycoon, WarGames).
- Nitya Chaitanya Yati, 74, Indian philosopher, psychologist, author and poet.[62]
15
- Valeh Barshadly, 71, Azerbaijani Minister of Defense.
- Lily Fayol, 84, French singer.[63]
- Rob Gretton, 46, British band manager (Joy Division, New Order), heart attack.[64]
- Ernst Mosch, 73, German musician, composer and conductor.
- Kenneth Riches, 90, British Anglican bishop.[65]
- Bob Wilson, 85, American gridiron football player.
16
- Guy Cudell, 82, Belgian politician, mayor of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode (1953–1999), cancer.[66]
- Minder Coleman, 95, American artist.
- Cam Fraser, 67, Canadian football player.
- Bobby Goldman, 60, American bridge player, writer, and official.
- George Hill Hodel, 91, American physician and suspect in several murders.[67]
- Andy Norval, 87, Australian rugby player.
- Lembit Oll, 33, Estonian chess grandmaster, suicide by jumping.[68]
17
- James Broughton, 85, American poet, playwright and filmmaker, heart failure.[69]
- Bruce Fairbairn, 49, Canadian musician and record producer.[70]
- Božidar Finka, 73, Croatian linguist and lexicographer.
- Henry Jones, 86, American actor, complications from a fall.[71]
- Thelma Kalama, 68, American Olympic swimmer.[72]
- Ed Rimkus, 85, American of Lithuanian descent bobsledder.[73]
18
- Juan Manuel Couder, 64, Spanish tennis player.
- Hayrettin Erkmen, 84, Turkish politician.
- Dias Gomes, 76, Brazilian playwright, traffic collision.[74]
- Hank Herring, 76, American boxer.[75]
- Miguel Pedro Mundo, 61, American bishop of the Catholic Church.
- Augustus Pablo, 44, Jamaican record producer and musician, respiratory failure.[76]
- Freddy Randall, 78, English jazz trumpeter and bandleader.[77]
- Betty Robinson, 87, American athlete and winner of the first Olympic 100 m, Alzheimer's disease.[78]
19
- James Blades, 97, English percussionist.[79]
- Candy Candido, 85, American radio performer, bass player and voice actor.
- Rebecca Elson, 39, Canadian–American astronomer and writer, cancer.
- Larry Markes, 77, American comedian, singer and screenwriter.[80]
- John McSweeney, Jr., 83, American film editor.[81]
- Vera Scarth-Johnson, 87, British-Australian botanist and botanical illustrator.
- Xhafer Spahiu, 75, Albanian politician.
- Alister Williamson, 80, Australian-British actor.
20
- William Alfred, 76, American playwright, poet, and academic.[82]
- Renato Gei, 78, Italian football player and manager.[83]
- James E. Hill, 77, United States Air Force general and World War II flying ace, cancer.
- Robert Rhodes James, 66, British politician.[84]
- Carlos Quirino, 89, Filipino biographer and historian.[85]
- Colette Ripert, 69, French actress.[86]
21
- Vanessa Brown, 71, Austrian-American actress, breast cancer.[87]
- Jozef Cleber, 82, Dutch trombonist, violinist, and composer.[88]
- Colin Hayes, 75, Australian trainer of thoroughbred racehorses.
- Norman Rossington, 70, English actor.[89]
- Mario Tagliaferri, 71, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
- Fulvio Tomizza, 64, Italian writer.[90]
22
- Milton Banana, 64, Brazilian bossa nova and jazz drummer.[91]
- Loleh Bellon, 74, French stage and film actress and playwright.[92]
- Mark Edward Bradley, 92, United States Air Force general and aviator pioneer.[93]
- Rubén W. Cavallotti, 74, Uruguayan-Argentine film director.
- Duilio Coletti, 92, Italian film director and screenwriter, heart attack.[94]
- Alfred Kubel, 90, American politician.
23
- Arthur Edward Ellis, 84, English football referee, cancer.
- Owen Hart, 34, Canadian professional wrestler (WWF), injuries sustained from fall.[95]
- John T. Hayward, 90, American naval aviator during World War II, cancer.[96]
- Asa Singh Mastana, 71, Indian musician and singer.
- John Prentice, 78, American cartoonist (Rip Kirby).[97]
- Albert Charles Smith, 93, American botanist.[98]
24
- Irene Bache, 98, British artist.[99]
- Guru Hanuman, 98, Indian wrestling coach, car crash.
- T. N. Gopinathan Nair, 81, Indian dramatist, novelist, poet and screenwriter.
- Ramón Rubial, 92, Spanish socialist leader.[100]
- Arnaldo Silva, 55, Portuguese football player.[101]
25
- Fredda Brilliant, 96, Polish sculptor and actress.[102]
- Hillary Brooke, 84, American film actress, pulmonary embolism.[103]
- Horst Frank, 69, German film actor, stroke.[104]
- René Gallice, 80, French football player.
- Paul Moss, 90, American gridiron football player.[105]
- Bal Dattatreya Tilak, 80, Indian chemical engineer.
26
- William Cutolo, 49, American mobster (Colombo crime family), murdered.[106]
- Sir Hugh Fish, 76, English chemist.[107]
- Belli Lalitha, 25, Indian folk singer, homicide.
- Felipe Rodríguez, 73, Puerto Rican singer of boleros, fall.
- Paul Sacher, 93, Swiss conductor, patron and impresario.[108]
- Waldo Semon, 100, American inventor.[109]
- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, 89, Austrian political scientist and journalist.[110]
- Jack Wells, 88, Canadian radio and television broadcaster.
27
- Alice Adams, 72, American short story writer and novelist.[111]
- Zach de Beer, 70, South African politician and businessman, stroke.
- Francine Everett, 84, American actress and singer.[112]
- Timo Lampén, 64, Finnish basketball player.[113]
- William T. Moore, 81, American attorney and politician.
- Leah Ray, 84, American singer and actress.[114]
- James Rowland, 76, Australian air chief marshal.[115]
- Violet Webb, 84, English track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.[116]
28
- Michael Barkai, 64, Israeli Navy general, suicide by gunshot.
- Peter Bostock, 87, British Anglican priest.[117]
- Henry Carlsson, 81, Swedish football player and manager.[118]
- Florence MacMichael, 80, American character actress.
- Raphael Recanati, 75, Israeli-American shipping magnate, banker, and philanthropist, heart failure.[119]
- Lady Rowlands, 95, American film actress.
- Petrus Van Theemsche, 83, Belgian racing cyclist.[120]
- B. Vittalacharya, 79, Indian film director and producer.
29
- Joe Busch, 91, Australian rugby player.[121]
- João Carlos de Oliveira, 45, Brazilian athlete, complications of alcoholism.
- Bernard Lajarrige, 87, French film and television actor.[122]
- Mattia Moreni, 78, Italian sculptor and painter.[123]
- Richard Ray, 72, American politician.[124]
30
- Rajesh Singh Adhikari, 28, Indian Army officer.
- Don Harper, 78, Australian composer.[125]
- Sonia Chadwick Hawkes, 65, English archaeologist, cancer.[126]
- William R. Lawley Jr., 78, United States Army Air Forces officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.[127]
- Kalju Lepik, 78, Estonian poet.
- Paul S. Newman, 75, American writer of comic books and strips, heart attack.[128]
31
- Emilio Baldonedo, 82, Argentine football player and manager.[129]
- Inayat Hussain Bhatti, 71, Pakistani actor, script writer, social worker and columnist.[130]
- Don Biederman, 59, Canadian stock car racer, brain aneurysm.
- Nicolas Bréhal, 46, French novelist and literary critic.[131]
- Davor Dujmović, 29, Bosnian Serb actor, suicide by hanging.[132]
- Willibald Hahn, 89, Austrian football player and manager.[133]
- Anatoli Ivanov, 71, Soviet and Russian writer.
- Auguste Le Breton, 86, French novelist, lung cancer.[134]
- Radomir Lukić, 84, Serbian jurist and academic.[135]
- Charles Pierce, 72, American female impersonator.[136]
- Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha, 69, Indian politician.
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