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

## July 1999
### 1

* Dennis Brown, 42, Jamaican reggae singer, pneumothorax.
* Edward Dmytryk, 90, Canadian-American film director, heart and kidney failure.
* Forrest Mars, 95, American businessman and candy magnate.
* Guy Mitchell, 72, American traditional pop singer and actor, complications from surgery.
* Jack Moroney, 81, Australian cricket player.
* Ernst Nievergelt, 89, Swiss cyclist and Olympic medalist.
* Joshua Nkomo, 82, Zimbabwean politician, prostate cancer.
* Sylvia Sidney, 88, American film actress (Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, Beetlejuice, An Early Frost), oesophageal cancer.
* Roman Tmetuchl, 73, Palauan political leader.
* Stig Westerberg, 80, Swedish conductor and pianist.
* Willie Whitelaw, 81, British politician.

### 2

* Viktor Chebrikov, 76, Soviet head of the KGB (1982–1988).
* George Deiderich, 63, American football player.
* George Druxman, 69, Canadian football player.
* Xavier Gélin, 53, French actor and film producer, cancer.
* Jack Plumley, 88, British Anglican priest, egyptologist and academic.
* Mario Puzo, 78, American novelist (The Godfather) and screenwriter (Superman, The Cotton Club), Oscar winner (1973, 1975), heart failure.
* Asoka Weeraratna, 80, Sri Lankan (Sinhala) Buddhist missionary.

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* Reg Bishop, 86, Australian politician.
* Ricky Byrdsong, 43, American basketball coach and killing spree victim, shot.
* Yueh Feng, 90, Chinese film director and screenwriter.
* Ibragim Gasanbekov, 29, Azerbaijani football player, traffic collision.
* Mimi Nelson, 76, Swedish film actress.
* Manoj Kumar Pandey, 24, Indian military officer.
* Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina, 100, Soviet and Russian mathematician.
* Paulo Porto, 81, Brazilian actor, film producer, director and screenwriter.
* Mark Sandman, 46, American musician (Morphine), heart attack.
* Jack Vincent, 95, English ornithologist.

### 4

* Ronny Graham, 79, American actor, theater director, and writer, liver disease.
* Ruby Johnson, 63, American soul singer.
* Mark O'Brien, 49, American journalist, poet, and advocate for the disabled.
* Jack Watson, 84, English actor, leukemia.

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* Len Butterfield, 85, New Zealand cricket player.
* Jean-Pierre Darras, 71, French actor, cancer.
* Joan Kemp-Welch, 92, British stage and film actress.
* Karnal Sher Khan, 29, Pakistani military officer.
* C. Walton Lillehei, 80, American surgeon and open-heart surgery pioneer.
* Harald Philipp, 78, German film director, screenwriter and actor.
* Roberta Sherwood, 86, American singer.
* Thea Tewi, 97, German-American sculptor and lingerie designer.

### 6

* Bernardo Gandulla, 83, Argentine football player and coach.
* Gary M. Heidnik, 55, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* M. L. Jaisimha, 60, Indian cricket player, lung cancer.
* Pisith Pilika, 34, Cambodian ballet dancer and actress, shot.
* Joaquín Rodrigo, 97, Spanish composer and pianist.
* Sherley Anne Williams, 54, American novelist, poet and professor.
* Barry Winchell, 21, United States Army infantry soldier, bludgeoned.

### 7

* Vikram Batra, 24, Indian Army officer.
* Emilio Sánchez Font, 78, Cuban-American artist.
* James Gahagan, American abstract expressionist painter.
* Brima Kamara, 27, Sierra Leonean football player.
* Ryu Mitsuse, 71, Japanese novelist, science fiction writer, and essayist.
* Richard Müller, 95, German chemist.
* Anuj Nayyar, 23, Indian Army officer.
* Julie Campbell Tatham, 91, American writer of children's novels.

### 8

* Ángel Lulio Cabrera, 90, Argentinian botanist.
* Adolf Christian, 65, Austrian bicycle racer.
* Mavis Thorpe Clark, 90, Australian novelist and writer for children.
* Pete Conrad, 69, American astronaut, traffic collision.
* Allen Lee Davis, 54, American murderer, execution by electric chair.
* Frank Lubin, 89, Lithuanian-American basketball player.
* Malcolm Mackay, 79, Australian politician, traffic collision.
* Robert Morrison, 90, American attorney and politician.
* Elemér Terták, 80, Hungarian figure skater and Olympian.
* Shafik Wazzan, 74, Lebanese politician.
* Mehdi Haeri Yazdi, 76, Iranian philosopher and Shia Islamic cleric.

### 9

* Karl Adam, 75, German football player.
* Robert de Cotret, 55, Canadian politician.
* James L. Farmer, Jr., 79, American civil rights activist, complications from diabetes.
* Bill Hindman, 76, American actor (Porky's).
* Esme Mackinnon, 85, British alpine skier and world champion downhill and slalom.
* Samuel Sanders, 62, American classical pianist.

### 10

* John Scott-Ellis, 9th Baron Howard de Walden, 86, British peer and thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder.
* Walter R. Evans, 79, American control theorist.
* Gil Johnson, 75, American gridiron football player.
* Ulla Lindström, 89, Swedish journalist and politician.

### 11

* Burton Dreben, 71, American philosopher.
* Marcelo Fernan, 72, Filipino lawyer and politician, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
* Helen Forrest, 82, American singer of traditional pop and swing music, heart failure.
* Everett Greenbaum, 79, American television and film writer and actor.
* Henry Kimbro, 87, American Negro league baseball player.
* Lasse Lindroth, 26, Iranian-Swedish comedian, actor and writer, traffic collision.
* Roaring Lion, 91, Trinidad and Tobago calypso singer and composer.
* John Henry Sharpe, 77, Bermudian politician, Premier (1975-1975).

### 12

* Bill Flett, 55, Canadian hockey player, liver failure.
* Alex Gordon, 82, Welsh architect.
* Harvey Jackins, 83, American founder and principal theorist of Re-evaluation Counseling.
* Rajendra Kumar, 69, Indian film actor, cancer.
* Mircea Nedelciu, 48, Romanian short-story writer, novelist and essayist, Hodgkin's disease.
* Kazimierz Ostrowski, 82, Polish painter.
* Bill Owen, 85, British actor and songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
* Jan Panenka, 77, Czech pianist.
* Zita Szeleczky, 84, Hungarian actress.
* Cornelius Wiebe, 106, Canadian physician and politician.

### 13

* Donald D. Engen, 75, American naval officer, administrator of the FAA, and museum director, gliding accident.
* Muhammetnazar Gapurow, 77, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR (1969 – 1985).
* Yevgeny Goryansky, 70, Russian football player and football coach.
* Herta Heuwer, 86, German chef and inventor of the currywurst.
* Josef Moc, 91, Czechoslovak basketball player.

### 14

* Maria Banuș, 85, Romanian poet, essayist, and prose writer.
* Hugh Gallarneau, 82, American gridiron football player (Chicago Bears).
* Gene Hart, 68, American sportscaster for the Philadelphia Flyers, kidney and liver failure.
* Władysław Hasior, 71, Polish sculptor.
* Abdul Ahad Karzai, 77, Afghan politician, assassination.
* Umyar Mavlikhanov, 61, Soviet fencer and Olympic champion.
* Gar Samuelson, 41, American drummer (Megadeth), liver failure.
* Trudi Schoop, 95, Swiss-American dance therapy pioneer.
* John R. Steelman, 99, American academic and first White House Chief of Staff.
* Pietro Tarchini, 77, Swiss professional cyclist.
* Sal Trapani, 72, American comic-book artist.
* Sadao Yamahana, 63, Japanese politician.

### 15

* Sir Richard Thompson, 1st Baronet, 86, British politician.
* George Brown, 79, American politician, complications following heart surgery.
* Simon Ramsay, 16th Earl of Dalhousie, 84, British land owner, politician and colonial governor.
* Horacio Podestá, 87, Argentine rower and Olympic medalist.
* Dick Richardson, 65, Welsh heavyweight boxer, cancer.
* Kamalendumati Shah, Indian politician and social worker, brain cancer.

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* Ross H. Arnett, Jr., 80, American entomologist.
* Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, 33, American socialite and wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., plane crash.
* John F. Kennedy Jr., 38, American journalist, lawyer, and son of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, plane crash.
* Yoshikage Kira, 33, Japanese Kame Yu department store employee (b. 1966)
* Alan Macnaughton, 95, Canadian parliamentarian and Speaker of the House.
* André Martinet, 91, French linguist.
* Franco Montoro, 83, Brazilian politician and lawyer.
* Hamid Nitgi, 78, Iranian poet, writer and author.
* Alfred Raoul, 60, Congolese politician, Prime Minister (1968-1969).
* Whit Wyatt, 91, American baseball player, pneumonia.
* Hiromi Yanagihara, 19, Japanese singer and actress, heart failure.

### 17

* Rajendra Kumari Bajpai, 74, Indian politician.
* Arthur Hoag, 78, American astronomer.
* Daniel H. H. Ingalls, Sr., 83, American professor of Sanskrit.
* Donal McCann, 56, Irish actor, pancreatic cancer.
* Kevin Newman, 65, Australian soldier and politician, systemic lupus erythematosus.
* Kevin Wilkinson, 41, English drummer, suicide by hanging.
* Patricia Zipprodt, 74, American costume designer, cancer.

### 18

* Meir Ariel, 57, Israeli singer-songwriter, boutonneuse fever.
* Rubén Bernuncio, 23, Argentine football player, renal failure following traffic collision.
* Donald Eugene Chambers, 68, American marine and founder of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club.
* Jatin Kanakia, 46, Indian actor.
* Pandi Raidhi, 68, Albanian film and theatre actor.
* Laurie Scott, 82, English footballer.
* Tody Smith, 50, American gridiron football player.

### 19

* Donna Allen, 78, American pioneer feminist, civil rights activist, historian and economist.
* Jesús Codina, 60, Spanish basketball player and coach.
* Cavernario Galindo, 75, Mexican luchador and film actor.
* Ludwik Gross, 94, Polish-American virologist, stomach cancer.
* José Luis Madrid, 66, Spanish screenwriter, producer and film director.
* Hans Maldonado, 41, Ecuadorian football player.
* Jerold Wells, 90, English actor.
* Doreen Yarwood, 81, English historian and architecture critic.

### 20

* Emil Andres, 88, American racecar driver.
* Sandra Gould, 82, American film and television actor (Bewitched) and writer, complications from surgery.
* Peggy Johnson, 23, American murder victim.
* Jean-Jacques Lamboley, 78, French cyclist.
* James Muirhead, 74, Australian judge and Royal Commissioner.

### 21

* Kurt Burris, 67, American gridiron football player.
* Peter Carter, 69, British children's author.
* Jun Etō, 66, Japanese literary critic, suicide by exsanguination.
* David Ogilvy, 88, British advertising tycoon, the "Father of Advertising".
* Kim Pyong-sik, 80, North Korean politician.

### 22

* Gennadiy Agapov, 65, Soviet and Russian race walker and Olympian.
* Abelardo Díaz Alfaro, 82, Puerto Rican author.
* Howard Arkley, 48, Australian artist, accidental overdose.
* Claudio Rodríguez García, 65, Spanish poet.
* Hakim Abdul Hameed, 90, Indian physician and university chancellor.
* Mary Kerridge, 85, English actress and theatre director.
* Lauro Ortega Martínez, 89, Mexican politician and veterinarian.
* Ladislav Slovák, 79, Slovak conductor.
* Arun Thapa, Nepali singer and songwriter, lung and liver ailment.

### 23

* Hassan II, 70, Moroccan monarch, King of Morocco (since 1961), heart attack.
* Josef Holub, 69, Czech botanist and pteridologist, heart attack.
* Frank Minis Johnson, 80, United States district judge, pneumonia.
* Kelvin Lancaster, 74, Australian mathematical economist.
* Paul Lucier, 68, Canadian businessman and politician, bone cancer.
* Emma Tenayuca, 82, Mexican American labor leader, and educator, Alzheimer's disease.
* Dmitri Tertyshny, 22, Russian ice hockey defenseman, boating accident.
* Stanley Tretick, 78, American photojournalist.

### 24

* Alexander Abian, 76, Iranian-born Armenian-American mathematician.
* Le Quang Dao, 77, Vietnamese politician.
* Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch, 89, French scientist, translator and writer.
* Demetrius DuBose, 28, American football player, shot by police.
* Albert Leake, 69, English footballer.
* Bijaya Malla, 74, Nepalese poet, novelist and playwright.
* Don Martin, 79, American basketball player and coach.
* Rona McKenzie, 76, New Zealand cricket player.
* Henk Pellikaan, 88, Dutch football player.

### 25

* Martin Agronsky, 84, American journalist and television host, congestive heart failure.
* Princess Iskander, 82, last member of the Russian House of Romanov.
* Pentti Lammio, 79, Finnish speed skater and Olympic medalist.
* Raul Manglapus, 80, Filipino politician, throat cancer.

### 26

* Walter Jackson Bate, 81, American literary critic and biographer.
* Béla Bay, 92, Hungarian Olympic épée and foil fencer.
* Philippa Gail, 56, British actress, cancer.
* Phedon Gizikis, 82, Greek army general and president under the Junta.
* Alan Karcher, 56, American politician.
* Qian Linzhao, 92, Chinese physicist.
* Joseph Morvan, 74, French road bicycle racer.
* Paul Rickards, 73, American gridiron football player.
* John W. N. Watkins, 74, English philosopher and professor of Economics, heart attack.

### 27

* Aleksandr Aleksandrov, 86, Soviet/Russian mathematician, physicist and philosopher.
* Ronald Backus, 77, British sailor and Olympic medalist.
* Matjaž Cvikl, 32, Slovenian football player, cancer.
* Louis Déprez, 78, French racing cyclist.
* Harry Edison, 83, American jazz trumpeter.
* Amaryllis Fleming, 73, British cello performer and teacher.
* Elías Jácome, 53, Ecuadorian football referee.
* Armand Le Moal, 85, French racing cyclist.
* Mahlathini, 61, South African mbaqanga singer, complications of diabetes.
* Malachi Martin, 78, Irish-American Catholic priest and novelist, fall.
* Michael Winkelman, 53, American child actor (The Real McCoys).

### 28

* Doris Carter, 87, Australian military officer, public servant, and Olympic athlete.
* Trygve Haavelmo, 87, Norwegian economist.
* Maxim Munzuk, 89, Tuvan actor.
* Francisco Risiglione, 82, Argentine boxer and Olympic medalist.
* Carlos Romero, 71, Uruguayan football player.
* Gerd Springer, 72, Austrian football player and coach.
* Puey Ungpakorn, 83, Thai economist.
* S. Howard Woodson, 83, American pastor, civil rights leader and politician.

### 29

* Anita Carter, 66, American singer and member of the Carter family, complications of rheumatoid arthritis.
* Martti Kosma, 72, Finnish football player and manager.
* Anatoliy Solovyanenko, 66, Soviet operatic tenor, heart attack.
* André Soubiran, 89, French physician and novelist.
* Neelan Tiruchelvam, 55, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, academic and politician, assassinated.
* Kunio Tsuji, 73, Japanese author, novelist, and scholar.

### 30

* Ko Tai Chuen, 74, Singaporean basketball player and Olympian.
* George Moorse, 63, American-German film director, heart attack.
* Hermann Panzo, 41, French athlete, stroke.
* Linus Suryadi AG, 48, Indonesian writer and poet.

### 31

* Mirza Adeeb, 85, Pakistani writer of drama and short stories.
* Marinus Kok, 83, Dutch prelate of the Catholic Church.
* Rex Pilbeam, 91, Australian politician.
* Henry W. Sawyer, 80, American lawyer, civil rights activist and politician, lung cancer.
* Elena Zareschi, 83, Italian actress.