Deaths in February 1999
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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
February 1999
1
- Marion Boyars, 71, British book publisher, pancreatic cancer.[1]
- Paul Calvert, 81, Canadian baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, Detroit Tigers).[2]
- Alejandro Galindo, 93, Mexican screenwriter and film director.[3]
- Hank Harris, 75, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins).[4]
- Rudolf Kárpáti, 78, Hungarian fencer and Olympic champion (1948, 1952, 1956, 1960).[5]
- Barış Manço, 56, Turkish rock musician, actor, and show host, heart attack.[6]
- Paul Mellon, 91, American philanthropist.[7]
- Robin Nedwell, 52, British actor, heart attack.[8]
- St. Clair Pinckney, 68, American saxophonist.
- Harold E. Shear, 80, United States Navy admiral.[9]
- Benjamin Elazari Volcani, 84, Israeli microbiologist.[10]
- Julius Wechter, 63, American musician and composer, cancer.[11]
2
- Marie Van Brittan Brown, 76, American nurse and inventor.
- Pat Dannaher, 86, South African Olympic sprinter (1936).[12]
- Deborah Makepeace, 41, British television, theatre and voiceover actress, cancer.
- Michel Mathiot, 72, French Olympic gymnast (1948, 1952, 1956, 1960).[13]
- David McComb, 36, Australian rock musician, heart failure.[14]
- Jerry Nagel, 70, American basketball player (Fort Wayne Pistons).[15]
- August Neuburger, 96, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
- Vladimír Petlák, 52, Czech volleyball player and Olympic medalist (1968, 1972, 1976).[16]
- Vilmos Tátrai, 86, Hungarian classical violinist .[17]
- Tunku Puan Besar Kurshiah, 87, Malayan queen of Negeri Sembilan.
3
- Norman Bluhm, 77, American painter, heart failure.[18]
- Luc Borrelli, 33, French football player, traffic collision.[19]
- William C. Brown, 82, American electrical engineer.[20]
- Jim Cope, 91, Australian politician.[21]
- Alexei Gorokhov, 71, Soviet violinist.
- Gwen Guthrie, 48, American singer-songwriter and pianist, uterine cancer.[22]
- Mikko Hietanen, 87, Finnish long-distance runner, European Champion, world record holder and Olympian (1948, 1952).[23]
- Alfred Janes, 87, Welsh artist.
- Herbert Klynn, 81, American animator.[24]
- Ann-Margret Nirling, 81, Swedish diver and Olympian (1936).[25]
- Yu Qiuli, 84, Chinese Army general and politician.
- Leo Schrall, 91, American baseball player and manager.[26]
- John S. Service, 89, American diplomat.[27]
- Vin Sullivan, 87, American comic book editor, artist and publisher.
4
- Luigi Bernabò Brea, 88, Italian archaeologist.[28]
- Erich Hartmann, 76, German-American photographer.[29]
- Joe Hayes, 63, English football player.[30]
- Arthur Mann, 51, Scottish football player.
- Vittorio Marzotto, 76, Italian racing driver.
- Sean Sellers, 29, American juvenile convict, execution by lethal injection.[31]
- Ivan Stevović, 88, Yugoslav footballer and manager.[32]
5
- Neville Bonner, 76, Australian politician, first indigenous Member of Parliament.[33]
- John L. Cotter, 87, American archaeologist, cancer.[34]
- Rembert Delden, 81, German politician member of the Bundestag.
- Leo Echegaray, 38, Filipino convict, execution by lethal injection.
- Nicholas Krushenick, 69, American abstract painter, liver cancer.[35]
- Wassily Leontief, 93, Russian economist and Nobel Prize laureate.[36]
- Mariya Osipova, 90, Soviet partisan during World War II.
- Indrani Rahman, 68, Indian classical dancer.[37]
- Linda Sini, 74, Italian film actress.
6
- Thomas Banyacya, 89, American Native American traditional leader.[38]
- Erwin Blask, 88, German athlete and Olympian (1936).[39]
- Henry S. Clark, 95, American horse trainer.
- Danny Dayton, 75, American actor (All in the Family, Guys and Dolls, Ed Wood), emphysema.[40]
- Kyra Downton, 85, Russian-born American equestrian and Olympian (1968).[41]
- Don Dunstan, 72, Australian politician, lung cancer.[42]
- Robert Eger, 75-76, Swiss Olympic field hockey player (1948).[43]
- Yuriy Istomin, 54, Soviet Ukrainian footballer and Olympian (1972).[44]
- Jalal Keshmiri, 60, Iranian athlete and Olympian (1964, 1968).[45]
- Jimmy Roberts, 75, American singer and performer, bone cancer.
- Hans Zikeli, 88, Romanian Olympic handball player (1936).[46]
7
- Hussein I of Jordan, 63, Jordanian monarch, King of Jordan (1952–1999), lymphoma.[47]
- Andrew Keller, 73, British scientist.
- William Ludwig, 86, American screenwriter (Interrupted Melody, Oklahoma!, Athena), Oscar winner (1956), Parkinson's disease.[48]
- Umberto Maglioli, 70, Italian racing driver.
- Antonio Pacenza, 70, Argentine boxer and Olympian (1952).[49]
- George E. Shambaugh Jr., 95, American otolaryngologist and pioneer in deafness treatments.[50]
- Bobby Troup, 80, American actor (Emergency!, M*A*S*H) and songwriter ("(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66").[51]
8
- Fred Bohannon, 40, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).[52]
- Richard Boone, 68, American jazz trombonist and scat singer.[53]
- Meredith Edwards, 81, Welsh actor and writer.[54]
- Madeleine Frieden-Kinnen, 83, Luxembourgish politician.
- Per Knudsen, 73, Danish football player and Olympian (1948, 1952).[55]
- Iris Murdoch, 79, Irish-born British novelist, poet and philosopher, Alzheimer's disease.[56]
- Caroline Robbins, 95, British historian.
- Carl Sumner, 90, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).[57]
- Krishnaswamy Sundarji, 70, British Indian Army officer.[58]
- Giuseppe Tatarella, 63, Italian politician, heart attack.
- Rudolf Troppert, 89, Austrian Olympic weightlifter (1936).[59]
9
- Richard Allen, 66, British abstract artist and printmaker, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[60]
- Benjamin Bwalya, 37, Zambian footballer and coach, cerebral malaria.
- Enzo Forcella, 77, Italian essayist, historian and journalist.[61]
- Aleksander Gieysztor, 82, Polish medievalist historian.[62]
- Mary LaRoche, 78, American actress and singer.[63]
- Len Levy, 77, American athlete (Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams, Los Angeles Dons).[64]
- Wilhelm Mahlow, 85, German rower and Olympian (1936).[65]
- Bryan Mosley, 67, British television and film actor, (Coronation Street), heart attack.[66]
- Bernhard Paus, 88, Norwegian orthopedic surgeon.
- Jaturun Siripongs, 47, Thai murderer, execution by lethal injection.[67]
- Inga-Stina Robson, 79, Anglo-Swedish political activist.
10
- Yuri Borienko, 66, Polish actor and wrestler. (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)[68]
- Ashley Bramall, 83, British politician.
- Robert Clothier, 77, Canadian actor.
- Hernán Santa Cruz, 93, Chilean diplomat and United Nations delegate.
- Joan Curran, 82, Welsh scientist, cancer.[69]
- Ann-Marie Gyllenspetz, 66, Swedish actress.[70]
- Billy Houliston, 77, Scottish footballer.[71]
- Joe M. Kilgore, 80, American combat pilot during World War II and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1955-1965).[72]
- Herb Krautblatt, 72, American basketball player.[73]
- Birger Leirud, 74, Norwegian high jumper and Olympian (1948, 1952).[74]
- Jean Levavasseur, 74, French fencer and Olympian (1948, 1952).[75]
- Y. B. Mangunwijaya, 69, Indonesian architect, writer and Catholic religious leader.[76]
- Joseph Marie Nguyễn Tùng Cương, 79, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Hải Phòng (1979–1999).[77]
- Gideon Rafael, 86, Israeli diplomat.[78]
11
- William Alonso, 66, Argentinian-American planner and economist.[79]
- Leonard J. Arrington, 81, American Mormon historian, heart failure.[80]
- Danny Barber, 43, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
- John Brack, 78, Australian painter.[81]
- Philip Brownstein, 92, American basketball coach (Chicago Stags).[82]
- Jaki Byard, 76, American jazz musician, composer and arranger, shot.[83]
- Toni Fisher, 74, American pop singer, heart attack.
- Stoyan Gadev, 67, Bulgarian actor.
- Werner Korff, 87, German ice hockey player and Olympic medalist (1932).[84]
- Dragan Kovačić, 59, Yugoslav-Croatian basketball player and Olympian (1964).[85]
- Reidar Kristiansen, 71, Norwegian footballer.[86]
- Rose Mbowa, 56, Ugandan writer, actress, academic and feminist.
- Hugh McCullough, 82, American gridiron football player.[87]
- Brian Parsons, 65, English cricket player.[88]
- Xiao Qian, 89, Chinese essayist, editor and journalist.
- Nikolai Sergeyev, 89, Soviet admiral.
- Whitney Tower, 75, American Thoroughbred horse racing journalist, complications from a stroke.[89]
12
- Paul Bairoch, 68, Belgian-Swiss economic historian.[90]
- André Devigny, 82, French soldier and member of the Résistance.[91]
- Jimmy Dudley, 89, American baseball player and sportscaster.[92]
- Rexhep Krasniqi, 92, Albanian-American historian, nationalist, anti-communist politician and activist.
- Grace Panvini, 91, American soprano and voice teacher[93]
- Heinz Schubert, 73, German actor, drama teacher and photographer, pneumonia.[94]
- Michel Seuphor, 97, Belgian painter.[95]
13
- Peko Dapčević, 85, Yugoslav communist.[96]
- Michael Higgins, 90, American glass artist.[97]
- Kåre Hovda, 55, Norwegian biathlete and Olympian (1972).[98]
- Gary Jennings, 70, American author, heart failure.[99]
- Ron McLean, 60, Australian politician, asbestos-related lung condition.[100]
- Mats Nyberg, 39, Swedish Olympic sailor (1988, 1992, 1996).[101]
- Carles Sabater, 36, Catalan singer and actor, respiratory arrest.[102]
14
- Sam Bartholomew, 81, American gridiron football player (Philadelphia Eagles).[103]
- John Ehrlichman, 73, United States Domestic Policy Council and Watergate scandal conspirator, diabetes.[104]
- Jimmy Florian, 75, American racing driver.[105]
- Nikolai Khlystov, 66, Soviet Russian ice hockey player and Olympian (1956).[106]
- Buddy Knox, 65, American singer and songwriter, lung cancer.[107]
- Hillel Seidel, 78, Israeli politician.
- Joseph Francis Shea, 73, American aerospace engineer and NASA manager.[108]
- Raymond Thompson, 87, American competition swimmer and Olympian (1932).[109]
- Majken Åberg, 80, Swedish discus thrower and Olympian (1948).[110]
15
- Agnes Bernelle, 75, Berlin-born expatriate actress and singer.[111]
- Keith Carey, 78, American basketball player.[112]
- Jeffery Cohelan, 84, American politician and political activist.[113]
- Billy Garrett, 65, American racecar driver.
- Lloyd Jackson, 87, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Americans).[114]
- Henry Way Kendall, 72, American physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, drowned.[115]
- Aigars Kriķis, 44, Soviet and Latvian luger and Olympian (1976, 1980).[116]
- Big L, 24, American Freestyle rapper (D.I.T.C.), shot.[117]
- Gordon Neil Stewart, 86, Australian writer.[118]
- Ferenc Vozar, 53, Hungarian-born German ice hockey player and Olympic medalist (1976).[119]
16
- Björn Afzelius, 52, Swedish progg singer and guitarist, lung cancer.[120]
- Necil Kazım Akses, 90, Turkish classical composer.[121]
- Guillermo Arellano, 90, Chilean football player.[122]
- Fritzi Burger, 88, Austrian figure skater and Olympian (1928, 1932).[123]
- Petre Crowder, 79, British barrister and politician.
- Ugo Grappasonni, 76, Italian professional golfer.
- Herbert S. Green, 78, British–Australian physicist.[124]
- James Hill, 72, British politician.
- Henk Hofstra, 94, Dutch politician.[125]
- Johan Kvandal, 79, Norwegian composer.
- Michael Larson, 49, American game show contestant, throat cancer.
- John Lomakoski, 58, American football player (Detroit Lions).[126]
- Alexandre-Athenase Noghès, 82, Monegasque tennis player and husband of Princess Antoinette of Monaco.
- Bailey Olter, 66, Micronesian political figure.
- Betty Roché, 81, American blues singer.[127]
17
- Thomas James Carr, 89, British artist.[128]
- Kurt Robert Eissler, 90, Austrian psychoanalyst.[129]
- Jaime Hurtado, 62, Ecuadorian politician, shot.
- Cliff McBride, 90, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).[130]
- William D. McElroy, 82, American biochemist and academic.[131]
- Sunshine Parker, 71, American actor (Tremors, Road House, Pee-wee's Big Adventure), pneumonia.
- Shirley Stoler, 69, American actress, heart failure.[132]
- Tania, 90, Spanish tango singer known as "Tania".[133]
- R.S. Unni, 73, Indian politician and trade unionist.
18
- Felipe Alfau, 96, Spanish-American novelist and poet.[134]
- Andreas Feininger, 92, American photographer.[135]
- Tibor Házi, 87, Hungarian table tennis player.
- Nikolay Latyshev, 85, Soviet and Russian football player and referee.
- Olle Nordemar, 84, Swedish cinematographer, screenwriter, film director and producer.[136]
- Noam Pitlik, 66, American actor and television director, lung cancer.[137]
19
- Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, 55, Iraqi Shia marja', shot.[138]
- Khumar Barabankvi, 79, Indian Urdu poet and lyricist.
- Hermann Baumann, 78, Swiss Olympic wrestler (1948).[139]
- Wilford Berry, Jr., 36, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
- Robert Coulson, 70, American science fiction writer and bookseller.
- Trudy Desmond, 53, Canadian jazz singer.
- Richard E. Dutrow, Sr., 61, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer.
- Lloyd La Beach, 76, Panamanian sprinter, 100 meters world record holder, and Olympian (1948).[140]
- Lady Pansy Lamb, 94, English writer also known as "Pansy Pakenham".[141]
- Georg Meier, 88, German motorcycle racer.[142]
- Primo Miller, 83, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Rams).[143]
- Constantin Oțet, 58, Romanian football coach.
- Paul Schmidt, 65, American actor, poet, playwright and essayist.[144]
- John Styler, 75, American basketball player.[145]
20
- Howard Boatwright, 80, American composer, violinist and musicologist.[146]
- Willard R. Espy, 88, American philologist, writer and poet.[147]
- Lotti van der Gaag, 75, Dutch sculptor and painter.[148]
- Frans Grootjans, 77, Belgian politician and minister.
- Molly Harrower, 93, American clinical psychologist.[149]
- Sarah Kane, 28, English playwright, suicide by hanging.[150]
- Joe Kaylor, 82, American Olympic handball player (1936).[151]
- Al Krueger, 79, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins, Los Angeles Dons).[152]
- Buck Rogers, 86, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[153]
- Joe Rossi, 77, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).[154]
- Michael Sgan-Cohen, 54, Israeli artist, art historian, curator and critic.[155]
- Gene Siskel, 53, American film critic (Chicago Tribune) and television journalist (At the Movies), brain cancer.[156]
21
- Víctor Castellanos, 64, Guatemalan Olympic sports shooter (1968, 1972).[157]
- Gertrude B. Elion, 81, American biochemist, pharmacologist and Nobel Prize recipient .[158]
- George Gill, 90, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns).[159]
- Hideo Itokawa, 86, Japanese aircraft designer and rocketry pioneer.[160]
- Ilmari Juutilainen, 85, Finnish flying ace during World War II.
- Kaya, 38, Mauritian musician and creator of the seggae genre.
- Walter Lini, 57, Prime Minister of Vanuatu.[161]
- Wilmer Mizell, 68, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Mets), and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1969-1975).[162]
- Jørgen Leschly Sørensen, 76, Danish footballer and Olympian (1948).[163]
- Leyla Vakilova, 72, Azerbaijani ballerina and ballet teacher.
22
- Bitto Albertini, 74, Italian film director and screenwriter.[164]
- William Bronk, 81, American poet.[165]
- Shane Devine, 73, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire).[166]
- Charles Gerhardt, 72, American conductor, record producer, and arranger.[167]
- Howie Haak, 87, American baseball scout.[168]
- Carlos Hathcock, 56, United States Marine Corps sniper, multiple sclerosis.
- Menno Oosting, 34, Dutch tennis player, traffic collision.[169]
- Pat Upton, 54, Irish politician and veterinarian, heart attack.
23
- Isaac Alfaro, 79, Mexican Olympic basketball player (1948).[170]
- Sir Anthony Nutting, 3rd Baronet, 79, British diplomat and politician, heart failure.[171]
- Stanley Dance, 88, British jazz writer and record producer, pneumonia.[172]
- Ruth Gipps, 78, English composer, oboist, pianist, and conductor.[173]
- Hughie Lee-Smith, 83, American artist, cancer.[174]
- Gershon Legman, 81, American cultural critic and folklorist, complications following a stroke.[175]
- Joseph Leo McGlynn Jr., 74, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania).[176]
- Chip Myers, 53, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Cincinnati Bengals), heart attack.[177]
- David Chilton Phillips, 74, British biologist, prostate cancer.[178]
- Heinrich Schmid, 77, Swiss linguist.
- Leo Shoals, 82, American baseball player.[179]
- Rick Wilson, 33, American professional wrestler, suicide by gunshot.
24
- David Daube, 90, German scholar of ancient law.[180]
- Andre Dubus, 62, American short story writer and essayist, heart attack.[181]
- Virginia Foster Durr, 95, American white civil rights activist and lobbyist.[182]
- David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, 94, English politician.[183]
- Fathy Ghanem, 74, Egyptian writer.
- Stefan Kostrzewski, 96, Polish Olympic sprinter (1924, 1928).[184]
- Hubert Loisel, 86, Austrian Olympic fencer (1936, 1948, 1952).[185]
- Enzo Menegotti, 73, Italian football player and Olympian (1948).[186]
- Derek Nimmo, 68, English actor and author, fall.[187]
- Catharina Roodzant, 102, Dutch female chess master.
- Ahmed Sharif, 78, Bangladeshi philosopher, writer and academic.
- Frank Leslie Walcott, 82, Barbadian politician, diplomat and umpire.
- Vann "Piano Man" Walls, 80, American R&B musician, cancer.[188]
- Johnnie Wittig, 84, American baseball player (New York Giants, Boston Red Sox).[189]
25
- Louis Bourban, 81, Swiss Olympic cross-country skier (1948).[190]
- Dina Dreyfus, 88, French anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher.
- Earl Huckleberry, 88, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[191]
- Murad Ozdoev, 76, Ingush flying ace during World War II.
- Sol Schoenbach, 84, American bassoonist and teacher.[192]
- Glenn T. Seaborg, 86, American nuclear chemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1951), complications of a stroke.[193]
- Štěpán Zavřel, 66, Czech painter, graphic artist and writer.[194]
26
- Michael Avallone, 74, American author.[195]
- Jean Coulomb, 94, French geophysicist and mathematician.[196]
- Annibale Frossi, 87, Italian football player, manager, and Olympian (1936).[197]
- Elbridge T. Gerry, 90, American banker and polo player.[198]
- John L. Goldwater, 83, American comic book editor and publisher.[199]
- János Péter, 88, Hungarian politician.
- José Quintero, 74, Panamanian theatre director and pedagogue, esophageal cancer.[200]
- Opoku Ware II, 79, 15th Emperor-King of the Ashanti people.
- Bjørn Wiik, 62, Norwegian physicist, domestic accident.[201]
27
- George Hughley, 59, American football player (Washington Redskins), and coach, traffic collision.[202]
- Mary Johnson Lowe, 74, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of New York).[203]
- Bob McNeish, 86, American football player and coach.[204]
- Vida Steinert, 96, New Zealand painter.
- Horace Tapscott, 64, American jazz pianist and composer.[205]
- Jeanne Vidal, 90, French Olympic fencer (1932).[206]
- Luis Vidal, 82, Chilean football player.[207]
28
- Anthea Askey, 65, English actress.
- Dave Bedwell, 70, British racing cyclist.
- Ara Harutyunyan, 70, Armenian sculptor and graphic artist.
- Clarence Henry, 72, American boxer.
- Lionel Berry, 2nd Viscount Kemsley, 89, British politician, peer and newspaper editor.
- Kenny Robinson, 29, American baseball player (Toronto Blue Jays, Kansas City Royals), traffic collision.[208]
- Alfred Sapecky, 86, American Olympic rower (1936).[209]
- Bill Talbert, 80, American tennis player.[210]
- Bing Xin, 98, Chinese writer.[211]