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

## April 1999
### 1

* Ellis Yarnal Berry, 96, American attorney, newspaper publisher and politician.
* Gladys Hasty Carroll, 94, American novelist.
* Stipe Delić, 73, Croatian film director.
* Tony Frasca, 71, American ice hockey player and coach, stomach cancer.
* Alfred Jahn, 83, Polish geographer, geomorphologist and polar explorer.
* Tadahito Mochinaga, 80, Japanese stop-motion animator.
* Madhurantakam Rajaram, 68, Indian author.
* George Rapée, 83, American bridge player.
* Wilson Riles, 81, American educator and politician.
* Jesse Stone, 97, American R&B musician and songwriter.

### 2

* Andrew Gardner, 66, British newscaster, heart attack.
* Julio Alberto Hernández, 98, Dominican composer and pianist.
* Sophie Lihau-Kanza, 59, Congolese politician and sociologist, cardiac arrest.
* Charlie Mitchell, 78, American gridiron football player.
* Josip Pokupec, 85, Yugoslav Olympic cyclist.

### 3

* Lionel Bart, 68, British music writer, composer and lyricist (Oliver!, Living Doll), cancer.
* John B. Daly, 69, American politician.
* Herman Foster, 70, American bebop jazz pianist.
* Traian Iordache, 87, Romanian football player and coach.
* Evelyn Lambart, 84, Canadian animator and director.
* Aldona Nenėnienė, 49, Soviet/Lithuanian handball and Olympic champion.
* Geoffrey Walsh, 89, Canadian general.

### 4

* Manuel Bernardo Aguirre, 90, Mexican politician.
* Karl Barufka, 77, German footballer.
* Faith Domergue, 74, American actress, cancer.
* Jumabek Ibraimov, 55, Kyrgyz politician, stomach cancer.
* Vane Ivanović, 85, Yugoslav-British athlete, political activist, diplomat and writer.
* Lucille Lortel, 98, American actress, artistic director and theatrical producer.
* Frank Charles McGee, 73, Canadian businessman and politician.
* Vladimir Orlov, 77, Soviet politician.
* Bob Peck, 53, British actor (Jurassic Park, Edge of Darkness, Lord of the Flies), cancer.
* Eric Ramsay, 82, Australian politician.
* Ambroise Roux, 77, French businessman and political advisor, heart attack.
* Early Wynn, 79, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.

### 5

* Paul David, 79, Canadian cardiologist and politician.
* Oleksiy Demyanyuk, 40, Soviet high jumper and Olympian.
* Giulio Einaudi, 87, Italian book publisher.
* Chester E. McCarty, 93, American officer and pilot in the US Air Force.
* John Wiles, 73, South African novelist, television writer and producer (Doctor Who).

### 6

* Hienadz Karpienka, 49, Belarusian scientist and politician opposing president Alexander Lukashenko, stroke.
* Robert D. Lindsay, 79, Canadian politician.
* Red Norvo, 91, American jazz musician known as "Mr. Swing".
* William Pleeth, 83, British cellist.
* Angus Ellis Taylor, 87, American mathematician and academic.

### 7

* Ivan Diviš, 74, Czech poet and essayist, fall.
* Heinz Lehmann, 87, German-born Canadian psychiatrist known as the "father of modern psychopharmacology".
* Angus Paton, 93, British civil engineer.
* Bob Tough, 78, American basketball player.

### 8

* Pipaluk Freuchen, 81, Danish-Greenlandic-Swedish writer.
* Vic Fisher, 74, Australian rules footballer.
* Luis Castro Leiva, 56, Venezuelan academic, writer and columnist, brain haemorrhage.
* Fritz Tegtmeier, 81, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.

### 9

* George Sidney Bishop, 85, British civil servant and businessman.
* Clay Bryant, 87, American Major League Baseball player.
* Bert Firman, 93, English bandleader.
* Raúl Silva Henríquez, 91, Chilean prelate of the Catholic Church.
* Jerold Hoffberger, 80, American businessman.
* Marcel Lihau, 67, Congolese politician, jurist, and law professor.
* Mary Lutyens, 90, British author.
* Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, 49, Nigerien military officer, shot.
* Albert Popwell, 72, American actor (Dirty Harry, Cleopatra Jones, Search), complications following open heart surgery.

### 10

* John Ngu Foncha, 82, Cameroonian politician.
* Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, 88, Polish-American biochemist, lung failure.
* Charles Green, 85, South African-British RAF fighter pilot during World War II and Olympic medalist in bobsledding.
* Brownie Mary, 76, American medical cannabis rights activist, heart attack.
* James D. McCawley, 61, Scottish-American linguist.
* Tu'i Pelehake, 77, Tonga royal and politician, Prime Minister.
* Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, 86, Indian novelist and short story writer.
* Jean Vander Pyl, 79, American voice actress (The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Top Cat), lung cancer.
* Ali Sayad Shirazi, 54, Iranian army officer, assassinated.
* Thornton Wilson, 78, American chairman and CEO of Boeing corporation.

### 11

* William H. Armstrong, 87, American children's writer.
* Tom Bane, 85, American politician.
* Pete Milne, 74, American baseball player.
* Agim Ramadani, 35, Kosovar Albanian commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, killed in action.
* Slavko Ćuruvija, 49, Serbian journalist and newspaper publisher, shot.

### 12

* Ricardo Barreiro, 49, Argentine comic book writer, esophageal cancer.
* José Francisco de Morais, 49, Brazilian football player.
* Alan Evans, 49, Welsh darts player.
* Hugo Fernando, 86, Sri Lankan actor and composer.
* Carlos Jaschek, 73, German-Argentine astrophysicist.
* Marion Albert Pruett, 49, American spree killer, execution by lethal injection.
* Boxcar Willie, 67, American country music singer-songwriter, leukemia.
* Dr.Rajkumar, 80, Indian film actor.

### 13

* Edith Anderson, 83, American journalist, writer and translator.
* James M. Clarke, 81, American farmer and politician.
* Knut Hauge, 87, Norwegian writer.
* Masaji Kiyokawa, 86, Japanese sports administrator and Olympic medalist, pancreatic cancer.
* Don McGuire, 80, American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer.
* Walter H. Moeller, 89, American politician.
* Sheik Chinna Moulana, 74, Indian nadhaswaram player.
* Ortvin Sarapu, 75, Estonian-New Zealand chess player.
* Willi Stoph, 84, East German politician.
* Visakha Wijeyeratne, 64, Sri Lankan painter, sculptor, writer and social worker.

### 14

* Ellen Corby, 87, American actress (The Waltons, Vertigo, Shane), Emmy winner (1973), stroke.
* Anthony Newley, 67, British singer-songwriter and actor, kidney cancer.
* Robert G. Sachs, 82, American theoretical physicist.
* Aubrey Schenck, 90, American film producer.
* Brigitte Steden, 50, German badminton player and Olympian.
* Werner Stumm, 74, Swiss chemist.
* Nicola Trussardi, 56, Italian fashion designer, traffic collision.
* Bill Wendell, 75, American television announcer, complications from cancer.

### 15

* Hermann Biechele, 81, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
* Roy Chiao, 72, British Hong Kong-era Chinese actor, heart failure.
* Aaron Esterson, 75, British psychiatrist.
* K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, 90, Indian writer in English.
* F. Burton Jones, 88, American mathematician.
* Harvey Postlethwaite, 55, British Formula One team technical director, heart attack.

### 16

* Kaoru Betto, 78, Japanese baseball player.
* Regis Cordic, 72, American radio personality and actor.
* Vincent J. Dellay, 91, American politician.
* Osmund Faremo, 77, Norwegian politician.
* Rudi Fehr, 87, German-born American film editor (Dial M for Murder, Prizzi's Honor, Key Largo), heart attack.
* Zoë Lund, 37, American musician, model, actress, producer and screenwriter, cocaine-induced heart failure.
* Charles McKimson, 84, American animator.
* Abbott Lawrence Pattison, 82, American sculptor and abstract artist.
* Karl Schefold, 94, Swiss archaeologist.
* Skip Spence, 52, American singer-songwriter (Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape), lung cancer.
* Margaret Tait, 80, Scottish film maker and poet.
* Gordon Watson, 78, Australian classical pianist.

### 17

* Julian Cole, 74, American mathematician.
* Ahmad Mohamed Ibrahim, 82, Singaporean lawyer and law professor.
* Georges Miez, 94, Swiss gymnast, cerebrovascular disease.
* Richard Negri, 71, British theatre director and designer.
* Nicky Virachkul, 50, American darts player, cancer.

### 18

* Alan Brazier, 74, English cricket player.
* Vicente Escrivá, 85, Spanish film director, producer and screenwriter.
* Ye Fei, 84, Filipino-Chinese general and politician.
* Enrique Hormazábal, 68, Chilean football player.
* Robert Irving, 51, English rugby player, heart attack.
* Gert Jeschonnek, 86, German naval officer.
* Setsuko Migishi, 94, Japanese Yōga painter.
* Herman Miller, 79, American film writer and producer.
* Gian-Carlo Rota, 66, Italian-American mathematician and philosopher.
* Raghubir Singh, 56, Indian photographer, heart attack.

### 19

* Stanley T. Adams, 76, United States Army officer, Alzheimer's disease.
* Hermine Braunsteiner, 79, German Nazi concentration camp guard.
* Margaret Campbell, 86, Politician in Ontario, Canada.
* Flora Carabella, 73, Italian actress, bone cancer.
* Shay Gorman, 76, Irish actor.
* Helen Lundeberg, 90, American painter, pneumonia.
* Arthur Morton, 84, American football player and coach.
* Yoko Tani, 70, Japanese actress and nightclub entertainer, cancer.

### 20

* Flash Hollett, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.
* James Cullen Martin, 71, American chemist.
* Reginald O'Brien, 73, Australian politician.
* Nikos Rizos, 74, Greek actor, edema, heart attack.
* Bethsabée de Rothschild, 84, French philanthropist and member of the Rothschild family.
* Rick Rude, 40, professional wrestler, heart failure following accidental overdose.
* Señor Wences, 103, Spanish ventriloquist.
* Charles E. Whittingham, 86, American racehorse trainer.
* Students killed in the Columbine High School massacre:
** Cassie Bernall, 17, victim.
** Eric Harris, 18, perpetrator.
** Dylan Klebold, 17, perpetrator.
** Rachel Scott, 17, victim.

### 21

* Tim Forster, 65, British racehorse trainer.
* Phillip Omondi, 42, Ugandan football player and manager.
* Ralph Perk, 85, American politician.
* Charles Rogers, 94, American actor and jazz musician.
* Mandayani Jeersannidhi Thirumalachar, 84, Indian mycologist, microbiologist and plant pathologist.
* Liz Tilberis, 51, British fashion magazine editor, ovarian cancer.
* Su Xuelin, 102, Chinese author and scholar.

### 22

* Ida Anak Agung Gde Agung, 77, Indonesian politician.
* Bill Bowen, 70, American politician.
* Joseph W.S. deGraft-Johnson, 65, Ghanaian engineer, academic and politician.
* Munir Ahmad Khan, 72, Pakistani nuclear engineer and physicist, complications following heart surgery.
* Jean-Claude Molinari, 67, French tennis player.
* Apostolos Nikolaidis, 60, Greek singer, cancer.
* Bert Remsen, 74, American actor (McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Nashville, It's a Living).
* Z. A. Suleri, Pakistani political journalist, author and activist, heart failure.
* Anne Szumigalski, 77, Canadian poet.

### 23

* Maria Àngels Anglada, 69, Catalan poet and novelist.
* Dana Childs, 76, American politician, lawyer and jurist, heart attack.
* Melba Liston, 73, American jazz trombonist, arranger and composer.
* Aleksandr Prokofyevich Markevich, 94, Ukrainian zoologist, helminthologist and copepodologist.
* Tullio Pandolfini, 84, Italian water polo player and Olympic champion.
* Francis J. Pettijohn, 94, American geologist.
* M. V. Rajamma, 78, Indian actress, singer and movie producer.
* Roger Rio, 86, French football player.
* Philip Stratford, 71, Canadian translator, professor and poet.
* Celso Torrelio, 65, Bolivian military general and member of the Junta.

### 24

* Nanabhai Bhatt, 83, Indian Bollywood film director and producer, heart failure.
* Arthur Boyd, 78, Australian painter.
* Ray Evans, 76, American football player.
* Don Nolander, 77, American gridiron football player.
* Charles Rostaing, 94, French linguist.
* Don Schofield, 68, Australian rugby player.

### 25

* Roman Hruska, 94, American politician, complications following a broken hip.
* Rupert Lonsdale, 93, British submarine commander and prisoner of war during World War II.
* Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, 84, Irish journalist, author and Olympic official.
* William McCrea, 94, English astronomer and mathematician.
* Martti Simojoki, 90, Finnish archbishop .
* Roger Troutman, 47, American musician, producer and founder of Zapp and Roger, fratricide, fusillade.
* Michi Weglyn, 72, American author.

### 26

* Man Mohan Adhikari, 78, 31st Prime Minister of Nepal.
* Adrian Borland, 41, British singer (The Sound), suicide by train.
* Jill Dando, 37, British journalist and television presenter (Crimewatch), shot.
* Trilicia Gunawardena, 65, Sri Lankan actress and singer.
* Faye Throneberry, 67, American baseball player.

### 27

* Arbit Blatas, 90, Lithuanian artist and sculptor.
* Dominick L. DiCarlo, 71, American lawyer and politician, heart attack.
* Al Hirt, 76, American trumpeter and bandleader, liver failure.
* Peter Jackson, 87, British cricket player.
* Pavel Klushantsev, 89, Russian cameraman, film director, producer, screenwriter and author.
* Rolf Landauer, 72, German-born American physicist, brain cancer.
* He Luting, 95, Chinese composer.
* Antonio Merayo, 89, Argentine cinematographer.
* Maria Stader, 87, Hungarian-Swiss lyric soprano.
* Cyril Washbrook, 84, English cricketer.
* Mark Weiser, 46, American computer scientist, liver failure.

### 28

* Brandon Burlsworth, 22, American football player, traffic collision.
* Rory Calhoun, 76, American film and television actor, screenwriter and producer, diabetes.
* Jean-Blaise Kololo, 47, Congolese politician and diplomat.
* Osvaldo Civile, 40, Argentine heavy metal guitarist (V8, Horcas).
* Alf Ramsey, 79, British football player and manager (Ipswich Town, England), Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer.
* Arthur Leonard Schawlow, 77, American physicist and co-inventor of the laser with Charles Townes, leukemia.
* John Stears, 64, British special effects artist (Star Wars, Thunderball, The Mask of Zorro), Oscar winner (1966, 1978), stroke.
* Donald E. Stewart, 69, American screenwriter (Missing, The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games), Oscar winner (1983), cancer.
* Roderick Thorp, 62, American novelist (Nothing Lasts Forever), heart attack.
* Arvo Viitanen, 75, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympic medalist.
* Harold Wellman, 90, English-New Zealand geologist.

### 29

* Léon Barzin, 98, Belgian-American conductor.
* Les Bennett, 81, English football player.
* Barbara Bevege, 56, New Zealand cricket player.
* Faustin Birindwa, Prime Minister of Zaire (1993 – 1994), heart attack.
* Bernhard Cuiper, 85, German basketball player.
* Mohan Gokhale, 45, Indian actor, heart attack.
* Lojze Kozar, 88, Slovene Roman Catholic priest, writer, and translator.
* Oscar Ljung, 89, Swedish film actor.
* Elspeth March, 88, English actress.
* Ovídio Martins, 70, Cape Verdean poet and journalist.
* Zabihollah Safa, 87, Iranian scholar.
* Kidar Sharma, 89, Indian film director, producer and screenwriter.
* Yao Xueyin, 88, Chinese novelist.

### 30

* Bruce Jesson, New Zealand journalist, author and political figure, cancer.
* Jessica Lal, 34, Indian model, shot.
* Rikuo Nemoto, 72, Japanese baseball catcher and manager in the Nippon Professional Baseball.
* Jack Schiff, 89, American comic book writer and editor (Batman, Superman, Superboy).
* Darrell Sweet, 51, English drummer (Nazareth), heart attack.