Deaths in July 1999

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 1999.

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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.

July 1999

1

• Dennis Brown, 42, Jamaican reggae singer.[1]
• Edward Dmytryk, 90, Canadian-born Canadian film director, heart and kidney failure.[2]
• Forrest Mars Sr., 95, American businessman and candy magnate.[3]
• Guy Mitchell, 72, American traditional pop singer and actor, complications of surgery.[4]
• Joshua Nkomo, 82, Zimbabwean politician, prostate cancer.[5]
• Sylvia Sidney, 88, American film actress, oesophageal cancer.[6]
• Roman Tmetuchl, 73, Palauan political leader.
• Yaakov Weinberg, American Orthodox Jewish rabbi and Talmudist.
• William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, 81, British politician.[7]

2

• Viktor Chebrikov, 76, Soviet head of the KGB (1982-1988).
• Jack Plumley, 88, British Anglican priest, Egyptologist and academic.
• Mario Puzo, 78, American novelist (The Godfather), heart failure.[8]
• Noel Farnie Robertson, Scottish botanist and agriculturist.
• Akira Tohei, 69, Japanese aikido teacher.
• Asoka Weeraratna, 80, Sri Lankan (Sinhala) Buddhist missionary.

3

• Reg Bishop, 86, Australian politician.
• Ricky Byrdsong, 43, American college basketball coach and killing spree victim, shot.[9]
• Yueh Feng, 90, Chinese film director and screenwriter.
• Manoj Kumar Pandey, 24, Indian Army officer, killed in action.
• Mark Sandman, 46, American musician (Morphine), heart attack.[10]

4

• Esprit Barthet, 79, Maltese artist.
• Ronny Graham, 79, American actor, theater director, composer and writer, liver disease.[11]
• Ruby Johnson, 63, American soul singer.[12]
• Mark O'Brien, 49, American journalist, poet, and advocate for the disabled.[13]
• Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, 21, American spree killer and neo-Nazi, suicide.

5

• Len Butterfield, 85, New Zealand cricketer.
• Joan Kemp-Welch, 92, British stage and film actress.[14]
• C. Walton Lillehei, 80, American surgeon and open-heart surgery pioneer.[15]
• Roberta Sherwood, 86, American singer.
• Thea Tewi, 97, German-born American sculptor.

6

• Johnny Campbell, 89, Scottish footballer.
• Ralph E. Comstock, 86, American statistician and geneticist.[16]
• Carl Gunter Jr., 60, American politician, cancer.
• Gary M. Heidnik, 55, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[17]
• Pisith Pilika, 34, Cambodian ballet dancer and actress, shot.
• Joaquín Rodrigo, 97, Spanish composer and pianist.
• Sherley Anne Williams, 54, American novelist, poet and professor.[18]
• Barry Winchell, 21, United States Army infantry soldier, murdered.

7

• Vikram Batra, 24, Indian Army officer, posthumously awarded with the Param Vir Chakra.[19]
• James Gahagan, American abstract expressionist painter.
• Bernardo Gandulla, 83, Argentine football player and coach, respiratory problems.
• Richard Müller, 95, German chemist.
• Julie Campbell Tatham, 91, American writer of children's novels.

8

• Santiago Almeida, 87, American musician and pioneer of the musical genres of tejano and conjunto.
• Chaino, American bongo player.
• Mavis Thorpe Clark, 90, Australian novelist and writer for children.
• Pete Conrad, 69, American astronaut, motorcycle accident.[20]
• Allen Lee Davis, 54, American mass murderer, execution by electrocution.[21]
• Ted James, 92, American football player and coach.
• Frank Lubin, 89, Lithuanian American basketball player.
• Malcolm Mackay, 79, Australian politician.

9

• Karl Adam, 75, German footballer.
• George Deiderich, 63, American football player.
• James Farmer, 79, American civil rights activist, complications from diabetes.[22]

10

• Walter R. Evans, 79, American control theorist.
• Gil Johnson, 75, American gridiron football player.[23]
• Ulla Lindström, 89, Swedish journalist and politician.

11

• Burton Dreben, 71, American philosopher.[24]
• Marcelo Fernan, 72, Filipino lawyer and politician, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
• Helen Forrest, 82, American singer of traditional pop and swing music, heart failure.[25]
• Everett Greenbaum, 79, American television and film writer and actor.[26]
• Lasse Lindroth, 26, Iranian-Swedish comedian, actor and writer, car accident.
• Roaring Lion, 91, Calypso singer and composer from Trinidad and Tobago.
• Leslie A. Marchand, 99, American scholar of English literature.
• Willard Munger, 88, American politician, liver cancer.
• Bettina Steinke, 86, American painter and muralist.

12

• Bill Flett, 55, Canadian hockey player, liver failure.
• Alex Gordon, 82, Welsh architect.
• Guy Griffiths, 84, Welsh Royal Marine pilot.
• Harvey Jackins, 83, American founder and principal theorist of Re-evaluation Counseling.[27]
• Rajendra Kumar, 69, Indian film actor.
• Mungo Ballardie MacCallum, 85, Australian journalist, broadcaster and poet.
• Mircea Nedelciu, 48, Romanian short-story writer, novelist and essayist, Hodgkin's disease.
• Bill Owen, 85, British actor and songwriter, pancreatic cancer.[28]
• Zita Szeleczky, 84, Hungarian actress.
• Cornelius Wiebe, 106, Canadian physician and politician.

13

• Bert Burry, 93, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Louise Caselotti, 88, American opera singer.
• Donald D. Engen, 75, United States Navy vice admiral, Administrator of the FAA and Director of the National Air and Space Museum.[29]
• Muhammetnazar Gapurow, 77, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR (1969 – 1985).
• Yevgeny Goryansky, 70, Russian football player and football coach.

14

• Gene Hart, 68, American sportscaster for the Philadelphia Flyers, kidney and liver failure.
• Władysław Hasior, 71, Polish sculptor.
• Radha Laha, 68, Indian probabilist, statistician and mathematician.
• Gar Samuelson, 41, American musician, drummer of thrash metal band Megadeth, liver failure.
• Trudi Schoop, 95, Swiss-born American dance therapy pioneer.[30]
• John R. Steelman, 99, American academic and first White House Chief of Staff.[31]
• Pietro Tarchini, 77, Swiss professional cyclist.
• Ernst Wynder, 77, American epidemiology and public health researcher, thyroid cancer.[32]

15

• George Brown Jr., 79, American politician, infection following heart valve replacement surgery.[33]
• Ali Haidar, 85, Pakistani Pashtun recipient of the Victoria Cross.
• Dick Richardson, 65, Welsh heavyweight boxer, cancer.
• Kamalendumati Shah, Indian politician and social worker, brain cancer.

16

• Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, 33, American socialite and wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., plane crash.[34]
• John F. Kennedy Jr., 38, American journalist, lawyer, socialite and son of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, plane crash.[35]
• Andrey Korolev, 55, Soviet and Russian philologist.
• Alan Macnaughton, 95, Canadian parliamentarian and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Hamid Notghi, 78, Iranian poet, writer and author.
• Alfred Raoul, 60, President of the Republic of Congo.
• Whit Wyatt, 91, American baseball player, pneumonia.[36]

17

• Arthur Hoag, 78, American astronomer.
• Daniel H. H. Ingalls Sr., 83, American Professor of Sanskrit.
• Donal McCann, 56, Irish stage, film, and television actor, pancreatic cancer.[37]
• Kevin Newman, 65, Australian soldier and politician.
• Kevin Wilkinson, 41, English drummer.
• Patricia Zipprodt, 74, American costume designer, cancer.[38]

18

• Rubén Bernuncio, 23, Argentine football player, renal failure following a motorcycle accident.
• Donald Eugene Chambers, 68, American Marine and founder of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club.
• Pandi Raidhi, 68, Albanian actor.
• Laurie Scott, 82, English footballer.
• Tody Smith, 50, American football player.[39]

19

• Donna Allen, 78, American pioneer feminist, civil rights activist, historian and economist.[40]
• Cavernario Galindo, 75, Mexican luchador and film actor.
• Ludwik Gross, 94, Polish-American virologist, stomach cancer.[41]

20

• Emil Andres, 88, American racecar driver.
• Sandra Gould, 82, American film and television actor (Bewitched) and writer, complications of surgery.[42]
• Excilia Saldaña, 52, Afro-Cuban juvenile literature writer, poet and academic.

21

• Peter Carter, 69, British children's author.[43]
• Jun Etō, 66, Japanese literary critic.
• David Ogilvy, 88, British advertising tycoon, the "Father of Advertising".

22

• Abelardo Díaz Alfaro, 82, Puerto Rican author.[44]
• Howard Arkley, 48, Australian artist, accidental overdose.[45]
• Syd Jensen, 76, New Zealand motorcycle and auto racer.
• Mary Kerridge, 85, English actress and theatre director.
• Marianne Schech, 85, German operatic soprano and academic.
• Arun Thapa, Nepali singer and songwriter.

23

• Horst-Gregorio Canellas, 78, Spanish-German entrepreneur and football official, lung cancer.
• Frank Minis Johnson, 80, United States District- and Circuit Judge, pneumonia.[46]
• Kelvin Lancaster, 74, Australian mathematical economist.
• Hassan II of Morocco, 70, Moroccan monarch, King of Morocco (since 1961), heart attack.[47]
• Thyrsa Frazier Svager, 69, American academic.
• Emma Tenayuca, 82, Mexican American labor leader, union organizer and educator.
• Dmitri Tertyshny, 22, professional ice hockey defenseman, boating accident.
• Stanley Tretick, 78, American photojournalist.[48]

24

• Alexander Abian, 76, Iranian-born Armenian-American mathematician.[49]
• Vladimir Alexeyev, 86, Soviet admiral.
• Demetrius DuBose, 28, American football player, shot by police.
• Albert Leake, 69, English footballer.
• Dino Martin, 79, American basketball player and coach, died in Bonita Springs, Florida, in 1999.
• P. J. Thomas, Parackanal, 85, Indian pastor.
• Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch, 89, French scientist, translator and writer.

25

• Martin Agronsky, 84, American journalist and television host, congestive heart failure.[50]
• Princess Iskander, 82, last member of the Russian House of Romanov.
• Tex Banwell, 81, soldier in the British Army in the Second World War.
• Catherine Hollingworth, Scottish speech therapist and a pioneer of child drama.
• Raul Manglapus, 80, Filipino politician, throat cancer.[51]

26

• Walter Jackson Bate, 81, American literary critic and biographer.[52]
• Philippa Gail, 56, British actress, cancer.[53]
• Phaedon Gizikis, 82, Greek army general and President of Greece during The Junta.[54]
• Trygve Haavelmo, 87, Norwegian economist.
• Jatin Kanakia, 47, Indian actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Alan Karcher, 56, American politician.[55]
• Qian Linzhao, 92, Chinese physicist.
• John W. N. Watkins, 74, English philosopher and professor of Economics, heart attack.

27

• Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, 86, Soviet/Russian mathematician, physicist and philosopher.
• Carlfred Broderick, 67, American psychologist family therapist and author, cancer.
• Harry Edison, 83, American jazz trumpeter.[56]
• Mahlathini, 61, South African mbaqanga singer, complications of diabetes.
• Malachi Martin, 78, Irish-American Catholic priest and novelist.[57]
• Alma Wilson, 82, American attorney and one of the first female District Judges.

28

• Rafael Manzanares Aguilar, 81, Honduran folklorist author and musical composer.[58]
• Tamara Konstantinova, 79, pilot in the Soviet Air Force during WWII.
• Sarah Ratner, 96, American biochemist.
• Grigorii Skiruta, 86, Red Army officer during the Second World War.
• Puey Ungphakorn, 83, Thai economist.
• S. Howard Woodson, 83, American pastor, civil rights leader and politician.[59]

29

• Anita Carter, 66, American singer and member of the Carter family, complications of rheumatoid arthritis.[60]
• Yuan Jing, Chinese writer.
• Anatoliy Solovianenko, 66, Soviet operatic tenor, heart attack.
• Neelan Tiruchelvam, 55, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, academic and politician, assassinated.

30

• George Moorse, 63, American-German film director, heart attack.
• Hermann Panzo, 41, French athlete, stroke.
• Linus Suryadi AG, 48, Indonesian writer.

31

• Mirza Adeeb, 85, Pakistani writer of drama and short stories.
• Rex Pilbeam, 91, Australian politician.
• Elena Zareschi, 83, Italian actress.

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