Deaths in June 1999

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 1999

1

• Lloyd L. Burke, 74, United States Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Christopher Cockerell, 88, English engineer and inventor of the hovercraft.[1]
• Alvin Ingram, 85, American orthopaedic surgeon and pioneer combatting polio using penicillin.
• Mr. Prospector, 29, American thoroughbred racehorse, complications from colic.

2

• Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf, 47, Yemeni human-rights activist and journalist, (orchestrated) car accident.[2]
• Keith Gledhill, 88, American tennis player.
• Blagoje Jovović, Montenegrin Serb World War II Partisan and Chetnik.
• Ron Reynolds, 71, English football goalkeeper.
• Andy Simpkins, 67, American jazz bassist, stomach cancer.

3

• Charlie Bradshaw, 75, American football player and coach.
• Helge Bronée, 77, Danish footballer.
• Peter Brough, 83, English radio ventriloquist.[3]
• Charlene Pryer, 77, American baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

4

• Zachary Fisher, 88, American philanthropist and businessman.[4]
• G. S. Maddala, 66, Indian American economist and mathematician.
• John McKeithen, 81, American lawyer, politician and governor of Louisiana.
• Mike Mikulak, 86, American football player.

5

• Kenneth Claiborne Royall Jr., 80, American politician and businessman.
• Robert Merritt, Nova Scotia playwright and film critic.
• Mel Tormé, 73, American singer and musician, stroke.[5]
• Ernie Wilkins, 79, American jazz saxophonist, conductor and arranger, stroke.[6]

6

• Lisy Fischer, 98, Swiss pianist.
• Anne Haddy, 68, Australian actress, renal failure.
• Freddy Nagel, 91, American bandleader.[7]
• Manuel Ramos, 56, Mexican boxer.
• Eddie Stanky, 83, American baseball player and manager, heart attack.[8]

7

• Bob Garber, 70, American baseball player.
• Lady June, 68, English painter, poet and musician, heart attack.[9]
• Paul Oskar Kristeller, 92, German-American scholar of renaissance humanism.[10]
• Niatross, American champion race horse.
• Victor Otiev, 64, Soviet / Russian painter and graphic artist.
• Charles D. Palmer, 97, United States Army general, cardiac arrest.[11]
• Joseph Vandernoot, 84, British conductor.[12]

8

• Zofia Kuratowska, 67, Polish doctor and politician.
• Karl Z. Morgan, 91, American physicist and radiation health physics pioneer.[13]
• Brian Shorland, 89, New Zealand organic chemist.
• Emiliano Tardif, 71, Canadian missionary, heart complications.

9

• Al Bates, 94, American Olympic athlete.
• Sumbat Der Kiureghian, 85, Iranian-Armenian watercolor artist.
• Giles Rich, 95, American judge and influential patent attorney.[14]
• Andrew L. Stone, 96, American screenwriter, film director and producer.
• Ray Yagiello, 75, American football coach.

10

• Kenneth S. Davis, 86, American historian.
• Jerry Navarro Elizalde, 75, Philippine artist.
• Edith Emerald Johns, 84, American nurse and community leader.[15]
• Kazi Mobin-Uddin, 68, American surgeon and vascular surgery pioneer.
• Leonard Thornton, 82, New Zealand Army officer.

11

• Gilles Châtelet, 55, French philosopher and mathematician.[16]
• DeForest Kelley, 79, American film and television actor (Star Trek), stomach cancer.[17]
• Jacek Sawaszkiewicz, 51, Polish science fiction writer and satirist.
• Gordon Stirling, 74, Australian politician.

12

• Ola Bauer, 55, Norwegian novelist and playwright, cancer.
• Sunil Ganguly, 61, Indian instrumentalist.[18]
• Sergey Khlebnikov, 43, Russian Olympic speed skater, drowned.
• Jah Lloyd, 51, Jamaican reggae singer, deejay and record producer.
• J. F. Powers, 81, American novelist and short-story writer.[19]
• Bib Stillwell, 71, Australian racing driver.
• Aleksandras Štromas, 68, Lithuanian political scientist, dissident and author.

13

• Gabriel Grüner, 35, Italian photojournalist, shot by Yugoslavian soldiers.[20]
• Volker Krämer, 56, German journalist, shot by Yugoslavian soldiers.[20]
• Igor Ksenofontov, 60, Soviet and Russian figure skating coach, heart failure.
• Henry "Junjo" Lawes, 39, Jamaican record producer, drive-by shooting.
• Douglas Seale, 85, English actor, producer, and director.[21]

14

• Henri Baruk, 101, French neuropsychiatrist.
• Jack M. Campbell, 82, American politician.[22]
• Louis Diamond, 97, American pediatrician, known as the "father of pediatric hematology".[23]
• Bernie Faloney, 66, Canadian football player.
• Anna McCune Harper, 96, American tennis player.[24]
• Sir George Labouchère, 93, British diplomat and art collector.

15

• Alan Cathcart, 6th Earl Cathcart, 79, British Army officer.
• Igor Kholin, 79, Russian poet and fiction writer.
• Alexander Komin, 46, Russian slave-owner and serial killer, suicide.
• Gene Markland, 79, American baseball player.

16

• Lennart Geijer, 89, Swedish politician and lawyer.
• Lawrence Stone, 79, English historian of early modern Britain.[25]
• Screaming Lord Sutch, 58, English musician and serial parliamentary candidate, suicide by hanging.[26]
• Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega, 70, Mexican Naval officer and politician.
• Marshall Wayne, 87, American Olympic diver, gold medalist (1936).[27]

17

• Stanley Faulder, 61, Canadian convict, executed by lethal injection in the U.S.
• Basil Hume, 76, English Roman Catholic bishop.[28]
• Paul-Émile de Souza, 68, Beninese army officer and political figure.

18

• Loyd Arms, 79, American football player.
• Ross Baillie, 21, Scottish track and field athlete, complications from anaphylaxis.[29]
• Dircinha Batista, 77, Brazilian actress and singer.
• Bob Bullock, 69, American politician from Texas, cancer.[30]
• Robert G. Neumann, 83, American politician and diplomat.[31]
• Lothar Ulsaß, 58, German football player, stroke.

19

• Saeed Emami, 41, Iranian deputy minister of intelligence.
• Oton Gliha, 85, Croatian artist.
• Henri, Count of Paris, 90, French nobleman, Orleanist pretender to the throne, prostate cancer.
• Mario Soldati, 92, Italian writer and film director.[32]

20

• Gautam Chattopadhyay, 51, Indian Bengali singer, songwriter and composer.
• Clifton Fadiman, 95, American author, and radio and television personality, pancreatic cancer.[33]
• Frank Faubert, 68, Canadian politician.
• Olavi Puro, 80, Finnish Air Force ace.

21

• Chandrakala, Indian film actress, cancer.
• Ebba Lund, 75, Danish member of the Resistance during World War II and scientist.
• Kami, 26, Japanese rock musician, drummer (Malice Mizer), cerebral haemorrhage.[34]

22

• Wassila Ben Ammar, 87, First Lady of Tunisia (1962 - 1986).
• Michael Bredl, 83, German Volksmusik musician and collector.
• Eugenio Florit, 95, Cuban writer, essayist, radio actor and diplomat.[35]
• Mervyn de Silva, 69, Sri Lankan journalist.
• Guy Tunmer, 50, South African racing driver, motorcycle accident.

23

• Bert Haas, 85, American baseball player.
• Carl Lange, 89, German film actor.
• Buster Merryfield, 78, British television actor, played Uncle Albert in Only Fools and Horses, brain cancer.[36]
• Francisco Rovira Beleta, 85/86, Spanish screenwriter and film director.

24

• Jim Allen, 72, English playwright.[37]
• Takehiko Bessho, 76, Japanese baseball player.
• Hugh Carter, 78, American politician and businessman.
• Maurice Ewing, 86, Australia professor of surgery.
• Dorothy Lee, 88, American actress and comedian.[38]
• Jack Mullin, 85, American pioneer in the field of magnetic tape sound recording.[39]
• Pierre Perrault, 71, Québécois documentary film director.
• Rachel Trickett, 75, English novelist, non‑fiction writer and literary scholar.

25

• Sir Peter Abeles, 75, Austrian-born Australian businessman.[40]
• Tommy Ivan, 88, Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager, complications of a kidney ailment.
• Alfredo Layne, 39, Panamanian professional boxer, shot.
• Mary Manning, 93, Irish novelist, playwright and film critic.
• Yevgeny Morgunov, 72, Soviet and Russian actor, film director, and script writer.
• Kōzō Murashita, 46, Japanese singer-songwriter, brain hemorrhage.
• William Sage Rapson, 86, New Zealand and South African chemist.
• Borghild Rud, 89, Norwegian artist and illustrator.
• Frank Tarloff, 83, American screenwriter who was blacklisted.[41]
• Fred Trump, 93, American real estate developer and father of Donald Trump.[42]

26

• Angelo Bertelli, 78, American gridiron football player, brain cancer.[43]
• Charles Collins, 95, American singer and actor.
• Bhante Dharmawara, Cambodian-born Theravada monk and teacher.
• Tim Layana, 35, American baseball pitcher player, car accident.
• Christopher Finch-Hatton, 16th Earl of Winchilsea, 62, British noble and member of the American Vanderbilt family.[44]

27

• Jean Durtal, 94, French poet and novelist.
• Harriet P. Dustan, American physician.
• Khandkar Manwar Hossain, 69, Bangladeshi statistician.
• Isaac C. Kidd Jr., 79, American admiral.[45]
• Marion Motley, 79, American football player (Cleveland Browns), prostate cancer.[46]
• Georgios Papadopoulos, 80, Greek politician, Prime Minister (1967–1973) and dictator.[47]
• Bobs Watson, 68, American actor and Methodist minister, prostate cancer.
• Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham, 88, English trade unionist, politician and industrialist.

28

• Padmapani Acharya, 30, Indian Army officer and recipient of the Maha Vir Chakra, killed in action.
• Vere Bird, 88, first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda.[48]
• Neikezhakuo Kenguruse, 24, Indian Army officer and recipient of the Maha Vir Chakra, killed in action.
• Hilde Krahl, 82, Austrian film actress.
• John Stears, 64, British special effects expert and Academy Award winner.[49]
• Sir John Woolf, 86, British film producer.
• Anatoliy Zheglanov, 56, Ukrainian ski-jumper who competed for USSR.[50]

29

• Hugh Balfour, 66, British Royal Navy officer.
• Allan Carr, 62, American film, television and theatre producer (La Cage aux Folles), liver cancer.[51]
• Michael Hooker, 53, American academic, complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.[52]
• Declan Mulholland, 66, Northern Irish actor, heart attack.
• Bob Shearman, 59, Australian rules footballer.

30

• Bob Backus, 72, American track and field athlete and hammer throw world record holder.[53]
• Édouard Boubat, 75, French photojournalist and art photographer.[54]
• Clifford Charles Butler, 77, English physicist,.[55]
• Marta Labarr, 87, French-American singer and actress.

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