# Deaths in January 1999
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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.

## January 1999
### 1

* Myslym Alla, 79, Albanian football player and manager.
* Vítor Baptista, 50, Portuguese footballer.
* Besim Fagu, 73, Albanian football player.
* Rafael Iglesias, 74, Argentine heavyweight boxer.
* Les Yewdale, 70, Australian politician.

### 2

* Amin al-Majaj, 77, Palestinian politician, Mayor of Jerusalem (1994–1998).
* Margot Cottens, 76, Uruguayan actress.
* Jean Galbraith, 92, Australian botanist, children's writer, and poet.
* Sebastian Haffner, 91, German journalist and author.
* Rolf Liebermann, 88, Swiss composer and music administrator.
* Aase Lionæs, 91, Norwegian politician and feminist.
* Joan Long, 73, Australian producer and writer.
* Shepard Menken, 77, American voice actor.
* Trevor J. Rees, 85, American football player and coach.
* Horst Seeger, 72, German musicologist, librettist and opera director.
* George Tobin, 77, American football player.
* Louis Jolyon West, 74, American psychiatrist, cancer.

### 3

* Elsa Burnett, 96, Swedish actress.
* Diana Dei, 84, Italian film actress.
* Neil Gibson, 36, New Zealand rower and Olympian, cancer.
* Otto Königsberger, 90, German architect.
* Violet Rose Olney, 87, English athlete and Olympic medalist.
* Chuck Parsons, 74, American sports car racing driver.
* Stanley Proffitt, 88, English cricketer.
* Jerry Quarry, 53, American heavyweight boxer, pneumonia.
* Jack C. K. Teng, 86, Chinese educator, writer and politician.
* Gorō Yamaguchi, 65, Japanese shakuhachi player.

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* Maqsood Ahmed, 73, Pakistani cricketer.
* Iron Eyes Cody, 94, American actor.
* Diane Foster, 70, Canadian track and field athlete and Olympian.
* Fredrik Mellbye, 81, Norwegian physician.
* Charles Manners, 10th Duke of Rutland, 79, British peer and landowner.
* Kisshomaru Ueshiba, 77, Japanese master of aikido, respiratory failure.
* José Vela Zanetti, 85, Spanish painter and muralist.

### 5

* Charles Francis Adams IV, 88, American electronics industrialist.
* Paul Wallace Gates, 97, American historian and academic.
* Michael Hirschfeld, 54, New Zealand businessman and politician, diabetes complications.
* Jarmila Nygrýnová, 45, Czech long jumper, cancer.
* Ralph Pasquariello, 72, American football player.
* Clare Potter, 95, American fashion designer.
* Basuki Resobowo, 82–83, Indonesian painter.
* Paul Zoll, 87, American cardiologist.

### 6

* David W. Dennis, 86, American politician, Representative from Indiana (1969–1975).
* Jim Dunn, 67, American baseball player.
* Joseph Malta, 80, American executioner during the Nuremberg executions.
* Ntsu Mokhehle, 80, Lesotho politician, Prime Minister (1993–1994, 1994–1998).
* Henrietta Moraes, 67, British artists' model and memoirist.
* Hélène Ouvrard, 60, Canadian French writer.
* Michel Petrucciani, 36, French jazz pianist, pulmonary infection.
* Antonio Pierfederici, 79, Italian actor.
* Lajos Tichy, 63, Hungarian footballer.
* Leo Weilenmann, 76, Swiss racing cyclist.

### 7

* Phil Cutchin, 78, American football player and coach.
* James Hammerstein, 67, American theatre director and producer, heart failure.
* Fred Hopkins, 51, American jazz double bassist.
* Aulis Manninen, 81, American long-distance runner and Olympian.
* Viktor Sobolev, 83, Soviet/Russian scientist.

### 8

* James William Baskin, 79, Canadian politician and businessman.
* Punch Coomaraswamy, 74, Malaysian–Singaporean judge, diplomat and politician, pulmonary disease.
* Harvey Miller, 63, American actor, director, and screenwriter.
* Vahid Musayev, 51, Azerbaijani politician, Deputy Minister, killed.
* Lyusyena Ovchinnikova, 67, Soviet-born Russian film actress.
* John W. Roberts, 78, American General in the United States Air Force.
* Rövşən Rzayev, 29, Azerbaijani officer and war hero, murdered.
* Peter Seeberg, 73, Danish modernist novelist and playwright.
* Dobie Gillis Williams, 38, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

### 9

* Rick Bennewitz, 62, American television director, heart failure.
* Hans Candrian, 60, Swiss bobsledder and Olympic medalist.
* Joyce Chiang, 28, American attorney.
* Cleveland Cram, 81, American historian and intelligence official in the Central Intelligence Agency.
* Carl Elliott, 85, American politician, Representative from Alabama (1949–1963, 1963–1965).
* Mel Pearson, 60, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Jim Peters, 80, English long-distance runner.
* Mien Ruys, 94, Dutch landscape and garden architect.

### 10

* Shinsuke Ashida, 84, Japanese actor, liver cancer.
* John Hervey, 7th Marquess of Bristol, 44, British peer, aristocrat and businessman, multiple organ failure.
* Walter Edward Harris, 94, Canadian politician and lawyer.
* Esteban Marino, 84, Uruguayan football referee.
* Frank Parker, 95, American singer and actor.
* Primož Ramovš, 77, Slovenian composer and librarian.
* Gavin Relly, 72, South African businessman, Chairman of Anglo American.
* Edward Williams, 77, Australian judge on the Supreme Court of Queensland.
* Juliusz Żuławski, 88, Polish poet, literary critic and translator.

### 11

* Teuvo Aura, 86, Finnish politician.
* Fabrizio De André, 58, Italian singer-songwriter, lung cancer.
* Robert Douglas, 89, American film actor, television director and producer.
* Ján Ducký, 54, Slovak politician, shot.
* Jim Dyck, 76, American baseball player.
* Nathalie Lind, 80, Danish jurist and politician.
* Naomi Mitchison, 101, Scottish novelist and poet.
* Brian Moore, 77, Northern Irish-born Canadian screenwriter and novelist, pulmonary fibrosis.
* Josefina Plá, 95, Spanish poet, playwright and art critic.
* K. A. Rahman, 59, Indian political activist.
* Öztürk Serengil, 68, Turkish actor and comedian.
* Bobby Specht, 77, American figure skater.
* François Spoerry, 86, French architect and urban planner.
* Mark Warren, 60, American television director (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, What's Happening!!, Sanford and Son), cancer.

### 12

* Leo Cherne, 86, American economist and public servant.
* Betty Lou Gerson, 84, American actress (One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Fly, Cats Don't Dance), stroke.
* David Logan, 42, American gridiron football player, respiratory failure.
* Gerda Ring, 107, Norwegian stage actress and producer.
* Maria Sander, 74, German sprinter.
* William H. Whyte, 81, American urbanist, organizational analyst and journalist.
* Doug Wickenheiser, 37, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, St. Louis Blues, Washington Capitals), cancer.

### 13

* Maurice A. Donahue, 80, American politician.
* Buzz Kulik, 76, American film director and producer.
* Karl Lieffen, 72, German film actor, brain cancer.
* Kelvin Malone, 38, American spree killer, execution by lethal injection.
* John Frederick Nims, 85, American poet and academic.
* Lawrence Harold Welsh, 63, American bishop in the Roman Catholic Church.

### 14

* Robin Bailey, 79, English actor, respiratory failure.
* Tom Binford, 74, American entrepreneur and philanthropist.
* Jerzy Grotowski, 65, Polish theatre director and theorist, leukaemia.
* Janus Hellemons, 86, Dutch racing cyclist.
* Brett King, 78, American actor, leukaemia, leukemia.
* Muslimgauze, 37, British electronic musician, fungal infection.
* Fred Myrow, 59, American composer, heart failure.
* Sabina Olmos, 85, Argentine film actress.
* Raymond Peynet, 90, French cartoonist.
* Granville Rodrigo, 41, Sri Lankan actor, singer, and art director.
* Barat Shakinskaya, 84, Soviet-Azerbaijani actress.
* Lincoln Thompson, 49, Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, cancer.
* Aldo van Eyck, 80, Dutch architect.

### 15

* John Bloom, 54, American actor, heart failure.
* Betty Box, 83, British film producer, cancer.
* Lars Glassér, 73, Swedish sprint canoeist.
* Monroe Karmin, 69, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner.
* Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry, 79, Irish judge and life peer, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland (1971–1988).
* Marion Ryan, 67, English pop singer.
* John Baker Saunders, 44, American musician (Mad Season), heroin overdose.
* Mi. Pa. Somasundaram, 77, Indian Tamil journalist, poet and writer.

### 16

* Oscar Cullmann, 96, French Lutheran theologian.
* Đoàn Khuê, 75, Vietnamese army general and Minister of Defence (1992-1997).
* Jim McClelland, 83, Australian jurist and politician, Senator for New South Wales (1971–1978).
* Dadie Rylands, 96, British literary scholar and theatre director.

### 17

* Cay von Brockdorff, 83, German sculptor and art historian.
* Maurice Byers, 81, Australian jurist and constitutional expert.
* Nicholas J. Corea, 55, American television writer (Walker, Texas Ranger, The Incredible Hulk, Outlaws), cancer.
* Theodore Major, 90, English artist.

### 18

* Horace Cumner, 80, Welsh footballer.
* Ciril Cvetko, 79, Slovene composer and conductor.
* Frances Gershwin, 92, American singer and violinist.
* Lucille Kallen, 76, American screenwriter and playwright, cancer.
* Pat Morton, 88, Australian businessman and politician, Leader of the Opposition of New South Wales (1955–1959).
* Henri Romagnesi, 86, French mycologist.
* Günter Strack, 69, German television actor, heart failure.
* Virginia Verrill, 82, American big band singer.

### 19

* Roderick Chisholm, 82, American philosopher.
* Ivan Francescato, 31, Italian rugby player, heart failure.
* Mario Gentili, 85, Italian cyclist and Olympic medalist.
* Jacques Lecoq, 77, French actor and mime, cerebral haemorrhage.
* Warren Schrage, 78, American basketball player.

### 20

* Stella Bloch, 101, American artist, dancer and journalist.
* Cleaver Bunton, 96, Australian politician, mayor of Albury (NSW).
* Martyn Finlay, 87, New Zealand lawyer and politician.
* John Golding, 67, British trade unionist and politician, Member of Parliament (1969–1986), complications following surgery.
* Frances Lander Spain, 95, American children's librarian.

### 21

* Alfonso Corona Blake, 80, Mexican film director and screenwriter.
* Charles Brown, 76, American blues singer and pianist, heart failure.
* Berkeley L. Bunker, 92, American politician, Senator (1940–1942) from Nevada and Representative (1945–1947).
* Jacques Chailley, 88, French musicologist and composer.
* Leslie French, 94, British actor.
* Paul Metcalf, 81, American writer.
* Lloyd M. Mustin, 87, American admiral during World War II, complications following a stroke.
* Marvin Rick, 97, American middle-distance runner and Olympian.
* Cecil Smith, 94, American polo player.
* Susan Strasberg, 60, American actress, breast cancer.

### 22

* Paul Cammermans, 77, Belgian film director.
* Gabor Carelli, 83, Hungarian classical tenor.
* Piero Gadda Conti, 96, Italian novelist and film critic.
* George Mosse, 80, German writer and historian.
* Graciela Quan, 87/88, Guatemalan lawyer and women's rights activist.
* Maxwell Rosenlicht, 74, American mathematician.
* Steven Sykes, 84, British artist.

### 23

* Bernard Budiansky, 73, American engineer and academic.
* Joe D'Amato, 62, Italian film director, heart failure.
* Jaroslav Foglar, 91, Czech author.
* Pavle Grubješić, 45, Serbian football player.
* Terence Lewin, Baron Lewin, 78, British Royal Navy officer, First Sea Lord (1977–1979).
* Thomas C. Mann, 86, American diplomat and ambassador.
* Paul McKee, 75, American football player.
* John Osteen, 77, American evangelical pastor, heart failure.
* Suceso Portales, 94, Spanish anarcho-feminist writer.
* Jay Pritzker, 76, American entrepreneur.
* Frederick Sommer, 93, Italian-American artist.
* Graham Staines, 58, Australian Christian missionary, burned.

### 24

* Andrée Debar, 78, French actress and producer of stage and screen, Alzheimer's disease.
* Elena Dobronravova, 66, Soviet and Russian actress.
* Werner Jacobs, 89, German film director.
* Shizue Natsukawa, 89, Japanese actress.
* Roger Rondeaux, 78, French cyclo-cross racer.

### 25

* Sarah Louise Delany, 109, American author and civil rights activist.
* John H. DeWitt, Jr., 92, American radio astronomy and photometry pioneer .
* Rudi Glöckner, 69, German football referee.
* Philip Mason, 92, English civil servant, historian, and author.
* Henri Rochereau, 90, French politician, European Commissioner for Overseas Development.
* Robert Shaw, 82, American conductor, stroke.
* George Gilbert Swell, 75, Indian politician.
* Herman Wedemeyer, 74, American actor, football player and politician, heart failure.

### 26

* Jeanne-Marie Darré, 93, French classical pianist.
* August Everding, 70, German opera director.
* Sam Jones, 75, Australian politician.
* Simon Karas, 93, Greek musicologist.
* D. C. Kizhakemuri, 85, Indian writer, publisher and activist.
* Matilde Landeta, 88, Mexican filmmaker and screenwriter.
* Heinz Leymann, 66, Swedish psychologists and academic.
* Larry Loughlin, 57, American baseball player.
* Charles Luckman, 89, American businessman and architect.
* Ruby Mercer, 92, American-Canadian writer, broadcaster and soprano.

### 27

* Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, 88, Spanish writer.
* Eamon Collins, 44-45, Northern Irish former IRA member, beaten.
* Ben Margolis, 88, American attorney, heart failure.
* Satya Saha, 64, Bangladeshi composer.
* Jerzy Turowicz, 86, Polish Catholic journalist and editor, heart failure.
* František Vláčil, 74, Czech film director, painter, and graphic artist.

### 28

* Ave Daniell, 84, American gridiron football player.
* Josef Doležal, 78, Czechoslovak athlete and Olympic medalist.
* Valery Gavrilin, 59, Soviet-born Russian composer.
* Herbert Gruber, 85, Austrian film producer.
* Pochiah Krishnamurthy, 51, Indian cricket player.
* Roger-Jean Le Nizerhy, 82, French cyclist.
* Leonard C. Lewin, 82, American author.
* Rouiched, 77, Algerian comic actor.
* Torgny T:son Segerstedt, 90, Swedish philosopher and sociologist.
* Radúz Činčera, 75, Czech screenwriter and director.

### 29

* Willy Bandholz, 86, German field handball player and Olympic champion.
* Lili St. Cyr, 80, American burlesque stripteaser.
* Yves Hervouet, 77, French sinologist.
* Vladimir Kirillin, 86, Soviet physicist.
* Eeva-Kaarina Volanen, 78, Finnish actor.

### 30

* Branko Fučić, 78, Croatian art historian, archeologist and paleographer.
* Romano Garagnani, 61, Italian skeet shooter and Olympic medalist.
* Mills E. Godwin, 84, American politician, Governor of Virginia (1966–1970, 1974–1978), pneumonia.
* Huntz Hall, 78, American actor, heart failure.
* Ed Herlihy, 89, American newsreel narrator.
* Chuck Hinton, 59, American gridiron football player.
* Mirra Komarovsky, 93, American sociologist.
* Dolf van der Linden, 83, Dutch conductor of popular music.
* Mick McGahey, 73, Scottish trade unionist and political activist, Chairman of the Communist Party of Great Britain (1974–1978).
* Warren Miller, 74, American political scientist.
* Svetlana Savyolova, 57, Soviet and Russian actress.

### 31

* Giant Baba, 61, Japanese wrestler, liver failure.
* Bill Luders, 89, American naval architect.
* Charles M. Murphy, 85, American football, basketball and baseball player and coach.
* Ahmad Azari Qomi, 74, Iranian cleric and ayatollah.
* Fanély Revoil, 92, French opera singer.
* Gabriel Ruiz, 90, Mexican songwriter.
* Ilmari Tapiovaara, 84, Finnish furniture designer.
* Ferdinand Thomas Unger, 84, American Army Lieutenant General.
* Norm Zauchin, 69, American baseball player, prostate cancer.