Deaths in June 1999
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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.
June 1999
1
- Lloyd L. Burke, 74, United States Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
- Sir Christopher Cockerell, 88, English engineer and inventor of the hovercraft.[1]
- Olivier Debré, 79, French abstract painter.[2]
- Mr. Prospector, 29, American thoroughbred racehorse, complications from colic.
- Gert Ledig, 77, German writer.[3]
- Cris Miró, 33, Argentine entertainer and media personality, lymphoma.
- Bjørn Spiro, 90, Danish film actor.
2
- Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf, 47, Yemeni human rights activist and journalist, traffic collision.[4]
- Václav Benda, 52, Czech Roman Catholic activist and mathematician.[5]
- Junior Braithwaite, 50, Jamaican reggae musician, shot.
- Keith Gledhill, 88, American tennis player.
- Yevhen Ivchenko, 60, Soviet Belarusian athlete and Olympic medalist (1972, 1980).[6]
- Blagoje Jovovic, Montenegrin Serb World War II Partisan and Chetnik.
- Ron Reynolds, 71, English football goalkeeper.[7]
- Andy Simpkins, 67, American jazz bassist, stomach cancer.[8]
- Robert Sobel, 68, American writer and academic.[9]
3
- Italo Allodi, 71, Italian football player and manager.[10]
- Helge Bronée, 77, Danish footballer.
- Peter Brough, 83, English radio ventriloquist.[11]
- Bernardin Mungul Diaka, 65, Congolese/Zairean diplomat and politician.
- Ralph Foster, 81, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).[12]
- J. Edward Lumbard, 97, American circuit judge (United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit).[13]
- Romolo Marcellini, 88, Italian film director and screenwriter.[14]
- Charlene Pryer, 77, American baseball player.[15]
- Myron Weiner, 68, American political scientist and scholar.[16]
4
- Ann Brown, 56, British psychologist.[17]
- Petro Chevhun, 73, Soviet Ukrainian Olympic middle-distance runner (1952).[18]
- Zachary Fisher, 88, American philanthropist and businessman.[19]
- G. S. Maddala, 66, Indian-American economist and mathematician.
- John McKeithen, 81, American lawyer, politician and governor of Louisiana.[20]
- Mike Mikulak, 86, American gridiron football player (Chicago Cardinals).[21]
- Dick Stovall, 77, American football player (Detroit Lions, Washington Redskins).[22]
- Yury Vasilyev, 59, Soviet and Russian stage and film actor.
- Guillermo Weller, 86, Argentine Olympic racewalker (1952, 1960).[23]
5
- Magne Kleiven, 77, Norwegian Olympic gymnast (1952).[24]
- Menil Mavraides, 67, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles).[25]
- Robert Merritt, Nova Scotia playwright and film critic.
- Mel Tormé, 73, American singer and musician, stroke.[26]
- Ernie Wilkins, 76, American jazz saxophonist, conductor and arranger, stroke.[27]
6
- Hans-Georg Fehn, 55, German Olympic water polo player (1968).[28]
- Lisy Fischer, 98, Swiss pianist, child prodigy.[29]
- Anne Haddy, 68, Australian actress, renal failure.[30]
- Ilya Musin, 95, Soviet conductor and a theorist of conducting.
- Fred Provo, 77, American football player (Green Bay Packers).[31]
- Manuel Ramos, 56, Mexican boxer, heart attack.[32]
- Eddie Stanky, 83, American baseball player and manager, heart attack.[33]
7
- Bob Garber, 70, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).[34]
- Lady June, 68, English painter, poet and musician, heart attack.[35]
- Paul Oskar Kristeller, 94, German-American scholar of renaissance humanism.[36]
- Victor Otiev, 64, Soviet / Russian painter and graphic artist.
- Charles D. Palmer, 97, United States Army general, cardiac arrest.[37]
- Paco Stanley, 56, Mexican television entertainer, shot.
- Joseph Vandernoot, 84, British conductor.[38]
8
- Piet Blom, 65, Dutch architect.[39]
- Ted James, 92, American football player (Frankford Yellow Jackets), and coach.[40]
- Zofia Kuratowska, 67, Polish physician and politician.
- Corrado Mantoni, 74, Italian actor and radio and television host, lung cancer.
- Rosy McHargue, 97, American jazz clarinetist.[41]
- Karl Z. Morgan, 91, American physicist and radiation health physics pioneer.[42]
- Brian Shorland, 89, New Zealand organic chemist.
- Emiliano Tardif, 71, Canadian missionary, heart complications.
- Gordon Towers, 79, Canadian politician and lieutenant governor of Alberta.
- Fred Wampler, 89, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1959-1961).[43]
9
- Al Bates, 94, American Olympic athlete (1928).[44]
- Ernesto Calindri, 90, Italian theater and film actor, stroke.[45]
- Heimo Haitto, 74, Finnish-American classical violinist.
- Maurice Journeau, 100, French composer.[46]
- Saurabh Kalia, 22, Indian Army officer.
- Giles Sutherland Rich, 95, American judge and influential patent attorney, lymphoma.[47]
- Andrew L. Stone, 96, American screenwriter, film director and producer.[48]
- Ray Yagiello, 75, American football coach.[49]
10
- Manlio Busoni, 92, Italian film and television actor.
- Kenneth S. Davis, 86, American historian.[50]
- Béla Egresi, 77, Hungarian football player.
- Henry Grunfeld, 95, German-British merchant banker.[51]
- Sid Levine, 80, American basketball player.[52]
- Grete Natzler, 92, Austrian actress and operatic soprano.[53]
- Jerry Elizalde Navarro, 75, Filipino artist.
- Joe Smyth, 70, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Baltimore Bullets).[54]
- Leonard Thornton, 82, New Zealand Army officer.
- Oswald Tippo, 87, American botanist and educator.[55]
- Jiří Vršťala, 78, Czech film actor.[56]
- J. E. Caerwyn Williams, 87, Welsh scholar.[57]
- Chen Xilian, 84, Chinese Army general and politician.
11
- Gene Anderson, 81, American basketball player.[58]
- Gilles Châtelet, 55, French philosopher and mathematician, suicide.[59]
- DeForest Kelley, 79, American actor (Star Trek, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Apache Uprising), stomach cancer.[60]
- Arnie Kullman, 71, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).[61]
- Viljo Nousiainen, 55, Finnish high jumping coach.
- Gordon Stirling, 74, Australian politician.
12
- Ola Bauer, 55, Norwegian novelist and playwright, cancer.
- Jean Capdouze, 56, French rugby player.[62]
- Sergey Khlebnikov, 43, Russian Olympic speed skater (1980, 1984), drowned.[63]
- Jah Lloyd, 51, Jamaican reggae singer, deejay and record producer, asthma.[64]
- J. F. Powers, 81, American novelist and short-story writer.[65]
- Jalagam Vengala Rao, 78, Indian politician.
- Bib Stillwell, 71, Australian racing driver.
- Gerd Tellenbach, 95, German historian and scholar.
- Aleksandras Štromas, 68, Lithuanian political scientist, dissident and author.
13
- Gabriel Grüner, 35, Italian photojournalist, shot by Yugoslavian soldiers.[66]
- Volker Krämer, 56, German journalist, shot by Yugoslavian soldiers.[66]
- Carlos Kroeber, 64, Brazilian actor.
- Igor Ksenofontov, 60, Soviet and Russian figure skating coach, heart failure.
- Jørgen Olesen, 75, Danish football player and Olympian (1952).[67]
- Kjell Rosén, 78, Swedish football player and Olympian (1948).[68]
- Douglas Seale, 85, English actor (Aladdin, Ernest Saves Christmas, Amadeus).[69]
- Diablo Velasco, 80, Mexican professional wrestler
14
- Henri Baruk, 101, French neuropsychiatrist.[70]
- Kurt Blaukopf, 85, Austrian music sociologist.[71]
- Américo Bonetti, 71, Argentine Olympic boxer (1952).[72]
- Jack M. Campbell, 82, American politician.[73]
- Louis Diamond, 97, American pediatrician, known as the "father of pediatric hematology".[74]
- Osvaldo Dragún, 70, Argentine playwright.[75]
- Bernie Faloney, 66, Canadian football player, colorectal cancer.
- Anna McCune Harper, 96, American tennis player.[76]
- Mauricio de la Lama, 79, Mexican Olympic sailor (1960, 1964).[77]
- Henry "Junjo" Lawes, 51, Jamaican record producer, drive-by shooting.[78]
- Cecil Morgan, 100, American politician.[79]
- Ray Peterson, 85, American football player (Green Bay Packers).[80]
- Hann Trier, 83, German artist.[81]
15
- Alan Cathcart, 6th Earl Cathcart, 79, British Army officer.
- Sigrid Hunke, 86, German SS-member during World War II, author, and neopagan.
- Igor Kholin, 79, Russian poet and fiction writer, liver cancer.[82]
- Gene Markland, 79, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[83]
- Sherman A. Minton, 80, American physician, herpetologist and toxinologist.[84]
- Leszek Molenda, 45, Polish Olympic volleyball player (1980).[85]
- Fausto Papetti, 76, Italian alto saxophone player.[86]
- Fred Tiedt, 63, Irish boxer and Olympic silver medalist (1956).[87]
16
- Svend Aage Frederiksen, 79, Danish Olympic hammer thrower (1948).[88]
- Lennart Geijer, 89, Swedish politician and lawyer.
- James Ottaway, 90, British film, television and stage actor.
- Lawrence Stone, 79, English historian of early modern Britain, Parkinson's disease.[89]
- Screaming Lord Sutch, 58, English musician and serial parliamentary candidate, suicide by hanging.[90]
- Marshall Wayne, 87, American diver and Olympic champion (1936).[91]
17
- Albert Bailey, 84, Australian politician.
- Stanley Faulder, 61, Canadian convict, execution by lethal injection.
- Basil Hume, 76, English Roman Catholic bishop, cancer.[92]
- A. W. Kuchler, 91, German-American geographer and naturalist.[93]
- Bertino de Souza, 66, Brazilian Olympic sports shooter (1972, 1976).[94]
- Paul-Émile de Souza, 68, Beninese army officer and political figure.
- Lynn E. Stalbaum, 79, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1965-1967).[95]
18
- Loyd Arms, 79, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).[96]
- Kim Bærentzen, 93, Danish Olympic fencer (1928, 1936).[97]
- Ross Baillie, 21, Scottish track and field athlete, complications from anaphylaxis.[98]
- Dircinha Batista, 77, Brazilian actress and singer.[99]
- Bob Bullock, 69, American politician from Texas, cancer.[100]
- Martin Hansen, 73, Danish Olympic boxer (1948).[101]
- Robert G. Neumann, 83, American politician and diplomat.[102]
- Lothar Ulsaß, 58, German football player, stroke.[103]
- ʻAlī Ṭanṭāwī, 90, Syrian Salafi jurist, writer, and broadcaster.
19
- Henri, Count of Paris, 90, French nobleman, Orleanist pretender to the throne, prostate cancer.[104]
- Saeed Emami, 41, Iranian deputy minister of intelligence, suicide by poisoning.
- Oton Gliha, 85, Croatian artist.
- Heloísa Helena, 81, Brazilian actress and singer.
- Leslie Holdridge, 91, American botanist and climatologist.[105]
- Kamal el-Din Hussein, 78, Egyptian military officer and politician, liver cancer.
- Arvid Pardo, 85, Maltese-Swedish diplomat and academic.
- Ronald Robinson, 78, British historian.
- Mario Soldati, 92, Italian writer and film director.[106]
- Leonard P. Stavisky, 73, American politician and academic, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage.[107]
- Cesáreo Victorino, 52, Mexican football player and Olympian (1968), traffic collision.[108]
20
- Gautam Chattopadhyay, 51, Indian Bengali singer, songwriter and composer.
- Clifton Fadiman, 95, American author, and radio and television personality, pancreatic cancer.[109]
- T. A. Goudge, 89, Canadian philosopher and university professor.[110]
- Barbara Jeppe, 78, South African botanical artist, pneumonia.
- Iulian Mihu, 72, Romanian film director.[111]
- Bill Smith, 87, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).[112]
21
- Chandrakala, Indian film actress, cancer.
- Edwin Hewitt, 79, American mathematician.[113]
- Danie Jacobs, 95, South African Olympic runner (1928).[114]
- Tuure Junnila, 88, Finnish economist and politician.
- Kami, 27, Japanese rock musician, drummer (Malice Mizer), cerebral haemorrhage.[115]
- Karl Krolow, 84, German poet and translator.[116]
- Joe Spudic, 86, American basketball player.[117]
- Ted Wolf, 76, American writer.[118]
22
- Wassila Ben Ammar, 87, First Lady of Tunisia (1962 - 1986).
- Mark Anthony Bracegirdle, 86, British-Australian marxist revolutionary.
- Michael Bredl, 83, German Volksmusik musician, -collector, and -publisher.
- Luboš Fišer, 63, Czech composer.[119]
- Eugenio Florit, 95, Cuban writer, essayist, radio actor and diplomat.[120]
- Guy Tunmer, 50, South African racing driver, traffic collision.
23
- Francisco Rovira Beleta, 85/86, Spanish screenwriter and film director.[121]
- Ondřej Bureš, 32, Czech Olympic swimmer (1988).[122]
- Bert Haas, 85, American baseball player.[123]
- Aziz Ishak, 85, Malaysian freedom fighter, politician and journalist.
- Carl Lange, 89, German film actor.[124]
- Buster Merryfield, 78, British actor (Only Fools and Horses), brain cancer.[125]
- Pierre Perrault, 71, Canadian documentary film director.[126]
- Bill Puddy, 82, Canadian swimmer and Olympian (1936).[127]
- Grels Teir, 83, Finnish lawyer and politician.
24
- Jim Allen, 72, English playwright.[128]
- Pela Atroshi, 19, Kurdish murder victim, murder by firearm.
- Takehiko Bessho, 76, Japanese baseball player.[129]
- Hugh Carter, 78, American politician and businessman.
- Geoff Lawson, 54, British car designer, stroke.[130]
- Dorothy Lee, 88, American actress and comedian, respiratory failure.[131]
- Jack Mullin, 85, American sound engineer.[132]
- Joe Redington, 82, American dog musher and co-founder of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, cancer.[133]
- Bob Regh, 86, American basketball player.[134]
- Seán Thomas, 98, Irish football manager.
25
- Peter Abeles, 75, Austrian-Australian businessman.[135]
- Rawilja Agletdinowa, 39, Soviet middle-distance runner, traffic collision.
- Vincent Deeney, 84, American Olympic rower (1948).[136]
- Charlie English, 89, American Major League Baseball player (Chicago White Sox, New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds).[137]
- Fred Feast, 69, British actor (Coronation Street), cancer.
- Tommy Ivan, 88, Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager, complications of a kidney ailment.
- Angus MacDonald, 60, Scottish bagpiper and composer.[138]
- Yevgeny Morgunov, 72, Soviet and Russian actor, film director, and script writer, stroke.
- Kōzō Murashita, 46, Japanese singer-songwriter, brain hemorrhage.
- Oliver Ocasek, 73, American politician, liver cancer, colorectal cancer.
- Jorge Góngora Ojeda, 92, Peruvian football player.
- Józef Oźmin, 96, Polish painter.[139]
- Walter Pilling, 64, British wrestler and Olympian (1960, 1964).[140]
- Lars Svensson, 72, Swedish ice hockey goaltender and Olympic medalist (1952, 1956).[141]
- Frank Tarloff, 83, American screenwriter who was blacklisted, cancer.[142]
- Fred Trump, 93, American real estate developer and father of Donald Trump, pneumonia.[143]
26
- Angelo Bertelli, 78, American gridiron football player, brain cancer.[144]
- Charles Collins, 95, American singer and actor, pneumonia.[145]
- Muza Krepkogorskaya, 74, Soviet and Russian theater and film actress.
- Tim Layana, 35, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, San Francisco Giants), traffic collision.[146]
- Jiří Pelikán, 76, Czech journalist and politician, cancer.[147]
- John R. Philip, 72, Australian physicist and hydrologist.[148]
- Bobs Watson, 68, American actor and methodist minister, prostate cancer.[149]
27
- Fernando Alvarez, 61, American thoroughbred horse racing jockey and trainer.
- Harriet P. Dustan, American physician.
- Einar Englund, 83, Finnish composer.[150]
- Kōji Horaguchi, 45, Japanese rugby player, traffic collision.
- Wilhelm Höttl, 84, Austrian Nazi and holocaust perpetrator during World War II.[151]
- Isaac C. Kidd, Jr., 79, American admiral, cancer.[152]
- John Langridge, 89, English cricket player.[153]
- Siegfried Lowitz, 84, German actor.[154]
- Marion Motley, 79, American football player (Cleveland Browns), prostate cancer.[155]
- George Papadopoulos, 80, Greek politician, Prime Minister (1967–1973) and dictator, cancer.[156]
- Truus van Aalten, 88, Dutch actress.[157]
- Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham, 88, English trade unionist, politician and industrialist.
28
- Padmapani Acharya, 30, Indian Army officer.
- Vere Bird, 88, first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda.[158]
- Louis Ducatel, 97, French politician and businessman.[159]
- Neikezhakuo Kengurüse, 24, Indian Army officer.
- Hilde Krahl, 82, Austrian film actress.[160]
- Eugenio Lopez, Jr., 70, Filipino businessman, cancer.
- Liubomir Petrov, 86, Bulgarian footballer.[161]
- Sir John Woolf, 86, British film producer.
- Anatoliy Zheglanov, 56, Soviet Ukrainian ski-jumper and Olympian (1968, 1972).[162]
29
- Bob Bryant, 62, American football player (Dallas Texans).[163]
- Allan Carr, 62, American film, television and theatre producer (La Cage aux Folles), liver cancer.[164]
- Michael Hooker, 53, American academic, complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.[165]
- Nils Johansson, 79, Swedish Olympic cyclist (1948).[166]
- Karekin I, 66, Syrian Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church, cancer.[167]
- Declan Mulholland, 66, Northern Irish actor, heart attack.
- Constance Shacklock, 86, English contralto.[168]
- Bert Shefter, 97, Russian-American film composer.[169]
30
- Bob Backus, 72, American track and field athlete, hammer throw world record holder and Olympian (1952).[170]
- Édouard Boubat, 75, French photojournalist and art photographer, leukemia.[171]
- Clifford Charles Butler, 77, English physicist.[172]
- Dean Fredericks, 75, American film and television actor, cancer.[173]
- Jintu Gogoi, 28, Indian Army officer.
- Jon Jenkins, 73, American football player (Baltimore Colts, New York Yanks).[174]
- Walter Johnson, 56, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals).[175]
- Marta Labarr, 87, French-American singer and actress.[176]
- Beveridge Webster, 91, American pianist and educator.[177]