Deaths in September 1999

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.

September 1999

1

• Boots Poffenberger, 84, American Major League Baseball pitcher.[1]
• S. Srinivasan, 58, Indian aeronautical engineer.
• W. Richard Stevens, 48, American author of computer science books.
• Doreen Valiente, 77, English wiccan, pancreatic cancer[2]

2

• Mona-Lisa Englund, 66, Swedish athlete.
• Graham Lovett, 63, Australian tennis player and sports administrator, cancer.
• Philip Francis Murphy, 66, American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, cancer.
• Lajos Szűcs, 53, Hungarian Olympic weightlifter.

3

• Ronald Brockman, 90, British officer of the Royal Navy.
• Paul Lucien Dessau, 89, British artist.
• Alexander Dudoladov, 46, Soviet and Russian writer, screenwriter and film director.

4

• Emilio Aldecoa, 76, Spanish professional footballer.
• Erma Keyes, 73, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).[3]
• Charles Lee, 75, English cricketer.
• Shlomo Morag, 73, Israeli professor of Hebrew.

5

• Alan Clark, 71, British Conservative politician, Member of Parliament (1974–1999), military historian and animal rights activist, brain cancer.[4]
• Allen Funt, 84, American television personality (Candid Camera), stroke.[5]
• Bryce Mackasey, 78, Canadian politician and Ambassador to Portugal.
• Geraldo de Proença Sigaud, 89, Brazilian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Katie Webster, 63, American boogie-woogie pianist, heart failure.[6]

6

• Arnold Fishkind, 80, American jazz bassist.
• René Lecavalier, 81, Canadian French-language radio show host and sportscaster.
• Steve Little, 43, American football player.[7]
• John H. Mulroy, 74, American politician.

7

• Thierry Claveyrolat, 40, French road bicycle racer, suicide.[8]
• Ian Doyle, 67, Australian professional rugby league footballer.
• Bill Ordway, 82, American football player and sports coach, pseudomonas.

8

• Aleksandar Aranđelović, 78, Yugoslavian football player and coach.
• Lagumot Harris, 60, President of the Republic of Nauru.
• Brian Hildebrand, 37, American professional wrestler, wrestling manager and referee, stomach and bowel cancer.
• William B. Meeks Jr., 78, American producer and composer of radio jingles, cancer.
• Moondog, 83, American musician, composer, theoretician and poet, heart failure.[9]
• Lev Razgon, 91, Soviet and Russian journalist, writer and human rights activist.[10]
• Vladimir Samoilov, 75, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.
• Herbert Stein, 83, American economist.

9

• Abdel Latif Boghdadi, 81, Egyptian politician air force officer and judge.
• Chili Bouchier, 89, English film actress.
• Jogesh Das, 72, Indian short-story writer and novelist.
• Tony Duquette, 85, American artist, Parkinson's disease.[11]
• Jim "Catfish" Hunter, 53, American baseball player and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[12]
• Mahmoud Karim, 83, Egyptian squash player.
• Ruth Roman, 76, American actress.[13]
• Fons van der Stee, 71, Dutch politician.
• Helen Waterhouse, 86, British archaeologist and classical scholar.

10

• Michèle Fabien, 54, Michèle Fabien, Belgian writer and playwright, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Beau Jocque, 45, Louisiana French Creole zydeco musician and songwriter.[14]
• Alfredo Kraus, 71, Spanish tenor.[15]
• Kerubino Kuanyin, 50/51, Sudanese revolutionary, shot.
• Jean Messagier, 79, French painter, sculptor, printmaker and poet.
• Cleveland Williams, 66, American heavyweight boxer, killed in a hit and run accident.[16]

11

• Belkis Ayón, 32, Cuban printmaker, suicide.
• Momčilo Đujić, 92, Serbian Orthodox priest and Chetnik commander during World War II.[17]
• Mohammed Aly Fahmy, 78, Egyptian field marshal,.
• Tulsidas Jadhav, 94, Indian freedom fighter, political activist and social worker.
• Bobby Limb, 74, Australian entertainer and radio personality, cancer.
• Alton Wayne Roberts, 61, American Klansman and convicted accomplice in the Freedom Summer murders.
• Gonzalo Rodríguez, 28, Uruguayan racing driver, racing accident.
• Janet Adam Smith, 93, Scottish writer, editor and literary journalist.

12

• Laurette Luez, 71, American actress and model.
• Bill Quackenbush, 77, Canadian ice hockey player, pneumonia and complications from Alzheimer's disease.[18]
• Allen Stack, 71, American swimmer and Olympic champion.[19]

13

• Joyce Sparer Adler, 83, American critic, playwright, and teacher.
• Alfred W. Bethea, 83, American farmer and politician.
• Roland Blanche, 55, French actor.
• Harry Crane, 85, American comedy writer.[20]
• Miriam Davenport, 84, American painter and sculptor.[21]
• Vladimir Pogačić, 79, Yugoslav film director.

14

• Enrique Alférez, 98, Mexican-American artist.
• Joel Beck, 56, American artist and cartoonist, complications from alcoholism.
• Jehan Buhan, 87, French fencer, Olympic champion.
• Charles Crichton, 89, English film director and editor.[22]
• Miguel Ángel Cuello, 53, Argentinian boxer.
• Chuck Higgins, 75, American saxophonist, lung cancer.[23]
• Art Renner, 76, American football player.
• Antulio Segarra, 93, United States Army officer.

15

• Larry Gene Ashbrook, 47, American mass murderer, suicide.
• Thomas E. Atkins, 78, United States Army private and recipient of the Medal of Honor.[24]
• Stewart Bovell, 92, Australian politician.
• Lila Leeds, 71, American film actress, heart attack.
• Hardiman Scott, 79, British journalist and broadcaster.
• Petr Shelokhonov, 70, Russian actor, director, filmmaker and socialite.[25][26]
• Abdolhossein Zarrinkoob, 76, Iranian scholar.

16

• Paul Gregory, 91, American baseball player.[27]
• Viktar Hanchar, 42, Belarusian politician, kidnapped and murdered by the Lukashenko regime.[28]
• Utaemon Ichikawa, 92, Japanese film actor.
• Naděžda Plíšková, 64, Czech graphic artist and sculptor.
• Endre Rozsda, 85, Hungarian-French painter.[29]
• John Parsons Shillingford, 85, British physician and cardiologist.

17

• Frederick Babson, 69, American politician.[30]
• Leonard Carlitz, 91, American mathematician.
• Riccardo Cucciolla, 75, Italian actor and voice actor.[31]
• Rajeshwar Dayal, 90, Indian diplomat and writer, stroke.
• Frank Gillis, 85, American jazz pianist, ethnomusicologist and bibliographer.
• Hasrat Jaipuri, 77, Indian poet.
• Artur Pastor, 77, Portuguese photographer.
• Henri Storck, 92, Belgian author, filmmaker and documentarist.
• Rathvon M. Tompkins, 87, United States Marine Corps major general, stroke.[32]
• Frankie Vaughan, 71, British singer, heart failure.[33]
• Victor Vuyachich, 65, Belarusian singer.

18

• Leo Amberg, 87, Swiss professional road bicycle racer.
• Philip N. Krasne, 94, American motion picture and television producer.
• Harold F. Kress, 86, American film editor.[34]
• Gérard Landry, Argentinian actor.
• Rory Jack Thompson, 57, Australian scientist and convicted murderer, suicide by hanging.
• Leo Valiani, 90, Italian historian, politician and journalist.[35]
• Leszek Wodzyński, 53, Polish hurdler.

19

• Livio Isotti, 72, Italian road bicycle racer.
• Pavle Ivić, 74, Serbian Slavic dialectologist and phonologist.
• Bua Kitiyakara, 89, Thai actress and wife of prince Nakkhatra Mangala.[36]
• Tim Lawry, 88, American professional basketball player.

20

• Raisa Gorbacheva, 67, Russian activist, leukemia.
• Taheyya Kariokka, 84, Egyptian belly dancer and film actress.[37]
• Robert Lebel, 93, Canadian ice hockey administrator.[38]
• Willy Millowitsch, 90, German actor and director.
• T. R. Rajakumari, 77, Indian film actress, singer and dancer.

21

• Robert Galbraith Heath, 84, American psychiatrist.[39]
• Benny Kalama, 83, American singer and arranger.
• Joe Stanowicz, 77, American football player.
• Sander Thoenes, 30, Dutch journalist, shot in East Timor.[40]

22

• Noriko Awaya, 92, Japanese soprano chanteuse and ryūkōka singer.
• Clive Jenkins, 73, British trade union leader.[41]
• Tomoo Kudaka, 36, Japanese football player, stomach cancer.
• George C. Scott, 71, American film actor, abdominal aortic aneurysm.[42]

23

• Ivan Goff, 89, Australian screenwriter, Alzheimer's disease.[43]
• Sir Piers Jacob, 63, Financial Secretary of Hong Kong (1986 – 1991).
• Ri Jong-ok, 83, Premier of North Korea ( 1977 – 1984).

24

• Ester Boserup, 89, Danish and French economist.
• Rowena Mary Bruce, 80, English chess player.
• Judith Exner, 65, American socialite and mistress of John F. Kennedy.[44]
• Jack Kiefer, 59, American professional golfer, cancer.
• Anneli Cahn Lax, 77, American mathematician.[45]
• Raymond R. Wright, 53, United States Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Zelma Wyche, 81, American civil rights activist and politician.

25

• Marion Zimmer Bradley, 69, American author of fantasy and science fiction, heart attack.[46]
• John R. Crews, 76, American soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.[47]
• Sir Des O'Neil, 78, Australian politician, Deputy Premier of Western Australia. (1975 – 1980).
• Guido Pontecorvo, 91, Italian-born Scottish geneticist.

26

• Jesse Dirkhising, 13, American murder victim, respiratory failure.[48]
• Malky MacDonald, 85, Scottish football player and manager.
• Bernadette O'Farrell, 75, Irish actress.
• Donald Sanders, 69, American lawyer and a key figure in the Watergate investigation, cancer.

27

• Sir Philip Haddon-Cave, 74, British colonial administrator.
• Billy Mould, 79, English footballer.
• Krishna Pal Singh, 77, Indian activist and politician.
• Grant Warwick, 77, professional ice hockey right winger.

28

• Philip Haddon-Cave, 74, British colonial administrator, heart attack.[49]
• Escott Reid, 94, Canadian diplomat.
• Jeanne Sheehy, 60, Irish art historian.
• Imre Zichy, 90, Hungarian count and tennis player.

29

• Gé Korsten, 71, South African opera tenor and actor.
• Gustavo Leigh, 79, Chilean general, cardiovascular ailments.[50]
• Edward William O'Rourke, 81, American Roman Catholic bishop.

30

• Edward C. Banfield, 82, American political scientist.[51]
• Bruce K. Holloway, 87, American Air Force general, heart failure.
• Dmitry Likhachov, 92, Russian medievalist, linguist and concentration camp survivor.[52]
• Anna Mae Winburn, 86, American vocalist and jazz bandleader.

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