# 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.
* Christopher Cockerell, 88, English engineer and inventor of the hovercraft.
* Olivier Debré, 79, French abstract painter.
* Mr. Prospector, 29, American thoroughbred racehorse, complications from colic.
* Gert Ledig, 77, German writer.
* 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.
* Václav Benda, 52, Czech Roman Catholic activist and mathematician.
* Junior Braithwaite, 50, Jamaican reggae musician, shot.
* Keith Gledhill, 88, American tennis player.
* Yevhen Ivchenko, 60, Soviet athlete and Olympic medalist.
* Blagoje Jovovic, Montenegrin Serb World War II Partisan and Chetnik.
* Ron Reynolds, 71, English football goalkeeper.
* Andy Simpkins, 67, American jazz bassist, stomach cancer.
* Robert Sobel, 68, American writer and academic.

### 3

* Italo Allodi, 71, Italian football player and manager.
* Helge Bronée, 77, Danish footballer.
* Peter Brough, 83, English radio ventriloquist.
* Bernardin Mungul Diaka, 65, Congolese/Zairean diplomat and politician.
* Romolo Marcellini, 88, Italian film director and screenwriter.
* Myron Weiner, 68, American political scientist and scholar.

### 4

* Ann Brown, 56, British psychologist.
* Zachary Fisher, 88, American philanthropist and businessman.
* G. S. Maddala, 66, Indian-American economist and mathematician.
* John McKeithen, 81, American lawyer, politician and governor of Louisiana.
* Mike Mikulak, 86, American gridiron football player.
* Yury Vasilyev, 59, Soviet and Russian stage and film actor.

### 5

* Magne Kleiven, 77, Norwegian gymnast and Olympian.
* Robert Merritt, Nova Scotia playwright and film critic.
* Mel Tormé, 73, American singer and musician, stroke.
* Ernie Wilkins, 76, American jazz saxophonist, conductor and arranger, stroke.

### 6

* Lisy Fischer, 98, Swiss pianist, child prodigy.
* Anne Haddy, 68, Australian actress, renal failure.
* Ilya Musin, 95, Soviet conductor and a theorist of conducting.
* Manuel Ramos, 56, Mexican boxer, heart attack.
* Eddie Stanky, 83, American baseball player and manager, heart attack.

### 7

* Bob Garber, 70, American baseball player.
* Lady June, 68, English painter, poet and musician, heart attack.
* Paul Oskar Kristeller, 94, German-American scholar of renaissance humanism.
* Victor Otiev, 64, Soviet / Russian painter and graphic artist.
* Charles D. Palmer, 97, United States Army general, cardiac arrest.
* Paco Stanley, 56, Mexican television entertainer, shot.
* Joseph Vandernoot, 84, British conductor.

### 8

* Piet Blom, 65, Dutch architect.
* Ted James, 92, American football player and coach.
* 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.
* Karl Z. Morgan, 91, American physicist and radiation health physics pioneer.
* Francis 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.

### 9

* Al Bates, 94, American Olympic athlete.
* Ernesto Calindri, 90, Italian theater and film actor, stroke.
* Heimo Haitto, 74, Finnish-American classical violinist.
* Maurice Journeau, 100, French composer.
* Saurabh Kalia, 22, Indian Army officer.
* Giles Sutherland Rich, 95, American judge and influential patent attorney, lymphoma.
* Andrew L. Stone, 96, American screenwriter, film director and producer.
* Ray Yagiello, 75, American football coach.

### 10

* Manlio Busoni, 92, Italian film and television actor.
* Kenneth S. Davis, 86, American historian.
* Béla Egresi, 77, Hungarian football player.
* Henry Grunfeld, 95, German-British merchant banker.
* Grete Natzler, 92, Austrian actress and operatic soprano.
* Jerry Elizalde Navarro, 75, Filipino artist.
* Leonard Thornton, 82, New Zealand Army officer.
* Oswald Tippo, 87, American botanist and educator.
* Jiří Vršťala, 78, Czech film actor.
* J. E. Caerwyn Williams, 87, Welsh scholar.
* Chen Xilian, 84, Chinese Army general and politician.

### 11

* Gilles Châtelet, 55, French philosopher and mathematician, suicide.
* DeForest Kelley, 79, American actor (Star Trek, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Apache Uprising), stomach cancer.
* 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.
* Sergey Khlebnikov, 43, Russian Olympic speed skater, drowned.
* Jah Lloyd, 51, Jamaican reggae singer, deejay and record producer, asthma.
* J. F. Powers, 81, American novelist and short-story writer.
* 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.
* Volker Krämer, 56, German journalist, shot by Yugoslavian soldiers.
* Carlos Kroeber, 64, Brazilian actor.
* Igor Ksenofontov, 60, Soviet and Russian figure skating coach, heart failure.
* Jørgen Olesen, 75, Danish football player.
* Kjell Rosén, 78, Swedish football player.
* Douglas Seale, 85, English actor (Aladdin, Ernest Saves Christmas, Amadeus).
* Diablo Velasco, 80, Mexican professional wrestler

### 14

* Henri Baruk, 101, French neuropsychiatrist.
* Kurt Blaukopf, 85, Austrian music sociologist.
* Jack M. Campbell, 82, American politician.
* Louis Diamond, 97, American pediatrician, known as the "father of pediatric hematology".
* Osvaldo Dragún, 70, Argentine playwright.
* Bernie Faloney, 66, Canadian football player, colorectal cancer.
* Anna McCune Harper, 96, American tennis player.
* Henry "Junjo" Lawes, 51, Jamaican record producer, drive-by shooting.
* Cecil Morgan, 100, American politician.
* Hann Trier, 83, German artist.

### 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.
* Sherman A. Minton, 80, American physician, herpetologist and toxinologist.
* Fausto Papetti, 76, Italian alto saxophone player.
* Fred Tiedt, 63, Irish boxer and Olympic silver medalist.

### 16

* 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.
* Screaming Lord Sutch, 58, English musician and serial parliamentary candidate, suicide by hanging.
* Marshall Wayne, 87, American diver and Olympic champion (1936).

### 17

* Albert Bailey, 84, Australian politician.
* Stanley Faulder, 61, Canadian convict, execution by lethal injection.
* Basil Hume, 76, English Roman Catholic bishop, cancer.
* A. W. Kuchler, 91, German-American geographer and naturalist.
* Paul-Émile de Souza, 68, Beninese army officer and political figure.
* Lynn E. Stalbaum, 79, American politician.

### 18

* Loyd Arms, 79, American football player.
* Ross Baillie, 21, Scottish track and field athlete, complications from anaphylaxis.
* Dircinha Batista, 77, Brazilian actress and singer.
* Bob Bullock, 69, American politician from Texas, cancer.
* Robert G. Neumann, 83, American politician and diplomat.
* Lothar Ulsaß, 58, German football player, stroke.
* ʻAlī Ṭanṭāwī, 90, Syrian Salafi jurist, writer, and broadcaster.

### 19

* Henri d’Orléans, 90, French nobleman, Orleanist pretender to the throne, prostate cancer.
* 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.
* 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.
* Leonard P. Stavisky, 73, American politician and academic, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage.
* Cesáreo Victorino, 52, Mexican football player, traffic collision.

### 20

* Gautam Chattopadhyay, 51, Indian Bengali singer, songwriter and composer.
* Clifton Fadiman, 95, American author, and radio and television personality, pancreatic cancer.
* T. A. Goudge, 89, Canadian philosopher and university professor.
* Barbara Jeppe, 78, South African botanical artist, pneumonia.
* Iulian Mihu, 72, Romanian film director.

### 21

* Chandrakala, Indian film actress, cancer.
* Edwin Hewitt, 79, American mathematician.
* Tuure Junnila, 88, Finnish economist and politician.
* Kami, 27, Japanese rock musician, drummer (Malice Mizer), cerebral haemorrhage.
* Karl Krolow, 84, German poet and translator.
* Ted Wolf, 76, American writer.

### 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.
* Eugenio Florit, 95, Cuban writer, essayist, radio actor and diplomat.
* Guy Tunmer, 50, South African racing driver, traffic collision.

### 23

* Francisco Rovira Beleta, 85/86, Spanish screenwriter and film director.
* Bert Haas, 85, American baseball player.
* Aziz Ishak, 85, Malaysian freedom fighter, politician and journalist.
* Carl Lange, 89, German film actor.
* Buster Merryfield, 78, British actor (Only Fools and Horses), brain cancer.
* Pierre Perrault, 71, Canadian documentary film director.
* Bill Puddy, 82, Canadian swimmer and Olympian.
* Grels Teir, 83, Finnish lawyer and politician.

### 24

* Jim Allen, 72, English playwright.
* Pela Atroshi, 19, Kurdish murder victim, murder by firearm.
* Takehiko Bessho, 76, Japanese baseball player.
* Hugh Carter, 78, American politician and businessman.
* Geoff Lawson, 54, British car designer, stroke.
* Dorothy Lee, 88, American actress and comedian, respiratory failure.
* Jack Mullin, 85, American sound engineer.
* Joe Redington, 82, American dog musher and co-founder of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, cancer.
* Seán Thomas, 98, Irish football manager.

### 25

* Peter Abeles, 75, Austrian-Australian businessman.
* Rawilja Agletdinowa, 39, Soviet middle-distance runner, traffic collision.
* Charlie English, 89, American Major League Baseball player.
* Fred Feast, 69, British actor (Coronation Street), cancer.
* Tommy Ivan, 88, Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager, complications of a kidney ailment.
* 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.
* Lars Svensson, 72, Swedish ice hockey goaltender and Olympic medalist.
* Frank Tarloff, 83, American screenwriter who was blacklisted, cancer.
* Fred Trump, 93, American real estate developer and father of Donald Trump, pneumonia.

### 26

* Angelo Bertelli, 78, American gridiron football player, brain cancer.
* Charles Collins, 95, American singer and actor, pneumonia.
* Muza Krepkogorskaya, 74, Soviet and Russian theater and film actress.
* Tim Layana, 35, American baseball player, traffic collision.
* Jiří Pelikán, 76, Czechoslovakian journalist and politician, cancer.
* John R. Philip, 72, Australian physicist and hydrologist.
* Bobs Watson, 68, American actor and methodist minister, prostate cancer.

### 27

* Fernando Alvarez, 61, American thoroughbred horse racing jockey and trainer.
* Harriet P. Dustan, American physician.
* Einar Englund, 83, Finnish composer.
* Kōji Horaguchi, 45, Japanese rugby player, traffic collision.
* Wilhelm Höttl, 84, Austrian Nazi and holocaust perpetrator during World War II.
* Isaac C. Kidd, Jr., 79, American admiral, cancer.
* John Langridge, 89, English cricket player.
* Siegfried Lowitz, 84, German actor.
* Marion Motley, 79, American football player (Cleveland Browns), prostate cancer.
* George Papadopoulos, 80, Greek politician, Prime Minister (1967–1973) and dictator, cancer.
* Truus van Aalten, 88, Dutch actress.
* 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.
* Louis Ducatel, 97, French politician and businessman.
* Neikezhakuo Kengurüse, 24, Indian Army officer.
* Hilde Krahl, 82, Austrian film actress.
* Eugenio Lopez, Jr., 70, Filipino businessman, cancer.
* Sir John Woolf, 86, British film producer.
* Anatoliy Zheglanov, 56, Soviet and Ukrainian ski-jumper and Olympian.

### 29

* Allan Carr, 62, American film, television and theatre producer (La Cage aux Folles), liver cancer.
* Michael Hooker, 53, American academic, complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
* Karekin I, 66, Syrian Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church, cancer.
* Declan Mulholland, 66, Northern Irish actor, heart attack.
* Constance Shacklock, 86, English contralto.
* Bert Shefter, 97, Russian-American film composer.

### 30

* Bob Backus, 72, American track and field athlete and hammer throw world record holder.
* Édouard Boubat, 75, French photojournalist and art photographer, leukemia.
* Clifford Charles Butler, 77, English physicist.
* Dean Fredericks, 75, American film and television actor, cancer.
* Jintu Gogoi, 28, Indian Army officer.
* Walter Johnson, 56, American gridiron football player.
* Marta Labarr, 87, French-American singer and actress.
* Beveridge Webster, 91, American pianist and educator.