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

## December 1999
### 1

* Gene Baker, 74, American baseball player.
* Ctirad Benáček, 75, Czech basketball player.
* Stephen Brooks, 57, American actor (The F.B.I., Days of Our Lives, The Interns), heart attack.
* Fritz Fischer, 91, German historian.
* Pop Gates, 82, American basketball player.
* Santidev Ghosh, 89, Indian author, singer, actor and dancer.
* Luigi Granelli, 70, Italian politician.
* Marilyn Harris, 75, American child actress (Frankenstein), cancer.
* Jaakko Jalas, 79, Finnish botanist.
* Tomás Pablo, 78, Chilean politician and architect.
* Victor Perlo, 87, American Marxist economist.
* Massimo Pupillo, 70, Italian film director.
* Alexander Tatarenko, 74, Soviet Russian painter and art teacher.

### 2

* Joey Adams, 88, American comedian, vaudevillian, radio host, and author.
* Charlie Byrd, 74, American jazz guitarist, lung cancer.
* Matt Cohen, 56, Canadian writer, lung cancer.
* Giorgio Cristallini, 78, Italian screenwriter and film director.
* Daniel J. Elazar, 65, American professor of political science.
* Vladimir Kravtsov, 50, Soviet and Russian handball player and Olympic champion.
* Ethelmary Oakland, 90, American child actress.
* Mike Ockrent, 53, British stage director.

### 3

* John Archer, 84, American actor (White Heat, Blue Hawaii, Lassie), lung cancer.
* Enrique Cadícamo, 99, Argentine tango lyricist, poet and novelist, heart failure.
* Anne Francine, 82, American actress (Harper Valley PTA, Crocodile Dundee, All My Children) and cabaret singer, stroke.
* Conrad Hunte, 67, Barbadian cricketer, heart attack.
* Scatman John, 57, American jazz musician ("Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)", "Scatman's World") and poet, lung cancer.
* Madeline Kahn, 57, American actress (Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Clue), Tony winner (1993), ovarian cancer.
* Boris Kuznetsov, 71, Russian and Soviet football player.
* Tami Mauriello, 76, American boxer and actor (On the Waterfront).
* Edmond Safra, 67, Lebanese Brazilian banker, smoke inhalation injury.
* Walter Schleger, 70, Austrian football player.
* Jarl Wahlström, 81, Finnish salvationist, 12th General of the Salvation Army.

### 4

* Heinrich C. Berann, 84, Austrian painter and cartographer.
* Rose Bird, 63, American first female justice, breast cancer.
* Charlotte H. Bruner, 82, American scholar.
* Sylvester Clarke, 44, West Indian cricketer, heart attack.
* Slobodan Dimitrijević, 58, Serbian television and film actor.
* Bert Hoffmeister, 92, Canadian Army officer, businessman, and conservationist.
* Nilde Iotti, 79, Italian politician of the Communist Party, heart attack.
* Barry Mahon, 78, American film director, cinematographer and producer.
* Daishōhō Masami, 32, Japanese sumo wrestler, pancreatic cancer.
* Sue Partridge, 69, British tennis player.
* John Douglas Pringle, 87, Australian journalist.
* Nélida Roca, 70, Argentinian showbusiness diva and sex symbol, heart attack.
* Edward Vesala, 54, Finnish avant-garde jazz drummer, congestive heart failure.
* Alick Walker, 74, British palaeontologist.

### 5

* Claude Ballot-Léna, 63, French racing driver, cancer.
* Edvin Biuković, 30, Croatian comics artist, brain tumor.
* Joseph Andorfer Ewan, 90, American botanist, naturalist, and historian of botany and natural history.
* Lajos Faluvégi, 75, Hungarian politician.
* Nathan Jacobson, 89, Polish-American mathematician.
* Bobby Marchan, 69, American R&B singer-songwriter, liver cancer.
* Edoardo Martino, 89, Italian politician.
* Bohumil Musil, 77, Czech football player and manager.
* Masaru Sato, 71, Japanese film composer (The Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, Yojimbo).
* Kendall Taylor, 94, British pianist.

### 6

* Paul Bacon, 92, French politician.
* Alexander Baron, 82, British author and screenwriter.
* Gwyn Jones, 92, Welsh novelist and story writer.
* Martha Sharp, 94, American unitarian.
* Robert A. Swanson, American venture capitalist, brain cancer.
* Stan Wallace, 68, American gridiron football player (Chicago Bears).

### 7

* Kenny Baker, 78, British jazz musician.
* Darling Légitimus, 92, French actress.
* Alfons Moog, 84, German football player.
* William Wiley, 68, South African cricket player.

### 8

* Ernst Günther, 66, Swedish actor and director, diabetes.
* Rupert Hart-Davis, 92, English publisher.
* Wally Hebert, 92, American baseball player.
* František Ipser, 72, Czech football manager and player.
* Péter Kuczka, 76, Hungarian writer, poet and science fiction editor.
* Everett Carll Ladd, 62, American political scientist, heart failure.
* Ange Le Strat, 81, French racing cyclist.
* Pupella Maggio, 89, Italian film actress, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Richard P. Powell, 91, American novelist.
* Antônio Dias dos Santos, 51, Brazilian football player.
* Néstor Togneri, 57, Argentine football player.

### 9

* Oudom Khattigna, 68, Laotian communist politician, Vice President (1998-1999).
* Whitey Kurowski, 81, American baseball player.
* Yakov Rylsky, 71, Soviet sabre fencer and Olympic champion, liver cirrhosis.
* Shinkichi Takemura, 67, Japanese Olympic speed skater.
* Cecil H. Williamson, 90, British screenwriter, editor and film director.

### 10

* Charles Assalé, 88, Cameroonian politician.
* Antonio Blanco, 87, Spanish and American painter, heart and kidney disease.
* Rick Danko, 55, Canadian musician (The Band), heart failure.
* Pietro De Vico, 88, Italian film actor, stroke.
* Ed Dorn, 70, American poet, pancreatic cancer.
* Lex Goudsmit, 86, Dutch actor, stroke.
* Shirley Hemphill, 52, American comedian and actress (What's Happening!!), renal failure.
* Jean-Claude Michel, 74, French actor and voice actor.
* Mike Randall, 80, British journalist and editor.
* Niccolò Tucci, 91, Short story writer and novelist.
* Franjo Tuđman, 77, Croatian politician, President of Croatia (since 1990), cancer.

### 11

* Charles Earland, 58, American jazz organist, heart failure.
* Enrica Follieri, 73, Italian philologist and paleographer.
* Ed Jones, 87, American politician.
* Jack Oldfield, 100, British landowner and politician.
* Harry Wüstenhagen, 71, German film actor.
* Hans K. Ziegler, 88, German-American satellite engineer.

### 12

* James Balfour, 71, Canadian politician.
* Huelet Benner, 82, American multi-discipline pistol shooter and Olympic champion.
* Paul Cadmus, 94, American artist.
* Gordon Chater, 77, English Australian comedian and actor.
* Gaston Diehl, 87, French professor of art history and an art critic.
* Joseph Heller, 76, American novelist (Catch-22), heart attack.
* Ladislav Józsa, 51, Slovak football player.
* Matty Kemp, 92, American film actor.
* Luz Oliveros-Belardo, 93, Filipina pharmaceutical chemist.
* Ignacio Quirós, 68, Argentine actor, cancer.
* Leo Smit, 78, American composer and pianist, heart failure.
* John W. R. Taylor, 77, British aviation expert.
* Claes Thelander, 83, Swedish actor.

### 13

* Peter Adams, 61, New Zealand-Australian actor, cancer.
* Jill Craigie, 88, English documentary film director, screenwriter and feminist, heart failure.
* Stane Dolanc, 74, Yugoslav communist politician, cerebral stroke.
* Maury Gertsman, 92, American cinematographer.
* Tarmo Uusivirta, 42, Finnish professional boxer, suicide.
* Robert Wagenhoffer, 39, American figure skater, complications of AIDS.
* Ian Watt, 82, English literary critic and academic.
* Lady Mary Whitley, 75, British noblewoman.

### 14

* Sven Berlin, 88, English painter, writer and sculptor.
* Sándor Holczreiter, 53, Hungarian weightlifter and Olympic medalist.
* Douglas Leigh, 92, American advertising executive.
* Walt Levinsky, 70, American big band player, composer, arranger and bandleader, brain cancer.
* J. W. Lockett, 62, American football player.

### 15

* Georges Aeby, 86, Swiss football player.
* Rune Andréasson, 74, Swedish comic creator, cancer.
* Francis L. K. Hsu, 90, Chinese-American anthropologist.
* Eddie Kazak, 79, American baseball player.
* León Martinetti, 73, Argentine basketball player.

### 16

* Henry Helstoski, 74, American politician.
* Dorit Kreysler, 90, Austrian film actress.
* Ruth Welting, 50, American operatic soprano.
* Jorge Tuero, Venezuelan television actor and comedian, killed during the Vargas tragedy.

### 17

* Rex Allen, 78, American actor and singer-songwriter, traffic accident.
* Leo P. Carlin, 91, American politician.
* Ken W. Clawson, 63, American journalist and spokesman for U.S. President Richard Nixon, heart attack.
* Paolo Dezza, 98, Italian Jesuit cardinal of the Catholic church.
* François Dyrek, 66, French actor, heart attack.
* Rufus Lewis, 80, American baseball pitcher.
* Jürgen Moser, 71, German-American mathematician.
* Grover Washington, Jr., 56, American jazz saxophonist, heart attack.
* C. Vann Woodward, 91, American historian and Pulitzer Prize winner.

### 18

* Þór Beck, 59, Icelandic footballer.
* Robert Bresson, 98, French film director.
* Robert Dougall, 86, English broadcaster and ornithologist.
* Joe Higgs, 59, Jamaican reggae musician, cancer.
* Dennis W. Sciama, 73, British physicist.
* John Southgate, 73, British Anglican priest.
* Benito Stefanelli, 71, Italian film actor, stuntman and weapons master.
* Bertha Swirles, 96, British physicist.
* Logan Wright, 66, American pediatric psychologist, heart attack.

### 19

* Bal Dani, 66, Indian cricket player.
* Brendan Hansen, 77, Australian politician.
* Desmond Llewelyn, 85, Welsh actor (From Russia with Love, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Follyfoot), traffic collision.
* Marion Worth, 69, American country music singer, complications of emphysema.

### 20

* Dick Bertell, 64, American baseball player, influenza.
* Riccardo Freda, 90, Italian film director.
* Mario Carreño Morales, 86, Cuban painter.
* Carin Nilsson, 95, Swedish freestyle swimmer and Olympic medalist.
* Irving Rapper, 101, American film director.
* Hank Snow, 85, Canadian country musician, heart failure.
* James Wainwright, 61, American actor.

### 21

* John Arnatt, 82, British actor.
* Bill Edwards, 81, American actor, rodeo rider, and artist.
* Michael P. Malone, 59, American historian, cardiomyopathy, heart attack.
* Bernard Smith, 92, American literary editor, film producer and literary critic.
* Frank Stanley, 77, American cinematographer (Magnum Force, 10, Grease 2).
* Jalil Ziapour, 79, Iranian painter and academic.

### 22

* Per Aabel, 97, Norwegian actor, artist, dancer and choreographer.
* Hans Frankenthal, 73, German Holocaust survivor.
* Tamara Lees, 75, English film actress.
* Ola Oni, 66, Nigerian political economist, socialist and human right activist.
* Louis Pohl, 84, American painter, illustrator, printmaker and cartoonist.
* Benny Quick, 55, German pop and schlager singer, suicide.

### 23

* Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield, 86, British Army officer and courtier of Queen Elizabeth II.
* John Paton Davies, Jr., 91, American diplomat and Medal of Freedom recipient.
* Wallace Diestelmeyer, 73, Canadian figure skater and Olympic medalist.
* Timur Gaidar, 73, Soviet and Russian rear admiral, writer and journalist.
* Silvio Gava, 98, Italian politician.
* Lois Hamilton, 56, American actress (Summer Rental, The Ropers, The Cannonball Run), suicide by drug overdose.
* Miroslav Ivanov, 70, Popular Czech nonfiction writer.
* Vladimir Kondrashin, 70, Soviet and Russian basketball player and coach.
* Marcel Landowski, 84, French composer, biographer and arts administrator.
* Billy McGlen, 78, English football player.
* Eirene White, Baroness White, 90, British politician and journalist.

### 24

* Kadathanat Madhavi Amma, 90, Indian Malayalam poet, novelist and short story writer.
* Tomasz Beksiński, 41, Polish radio presenter, suicide.
* Peter Boroffka, 67, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
* Bill Bowerman, 88, American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike, Inc.
* Reggie Carter, 42, American basketball player.
* Billy Davenport, 68, American drummer.
* Maurice Couve de Murville, 92, French politician, 152nd Prime Minister of France.
* João Figueiredo, 81, 30th President of Brazil, cardiovascular disease.
* Tito Guízar, 91, American singer and actor, pneumonia.
* Jiang Hua, 92, President of the Supreme Court of China.
* Joseph McGahn, 82, American politician.
* William C. Schneider, 76, American aerospace engineer and NASA mission director.
* Grete Stern, 95, German-Argentine photographer.

### 25

* Arne Ileby, 86, Norwegian football player.
* Peter Jeffrey, 70, English actor, prostate cancer.
* Zully Moreno, 79, Argentine film actress, Alzheimer's disease.
* Michael Bamidele Otiko, 65, Nigerian politician and educator.
* Alfonso Lastras Ramírez, 75, Mexican lawyer and politician.

### 26

* Benny Bartlett, 75, American child actor and musician.
* Vitold Belevitch, 78, Belgian mathematician and electrical engineer.
* Ola Skjåk Bræk, 87, Norwegian banker and politician.
* Prunella Clough, 80, British artist, cancer.
* Fred Draper, 74, American actor (Faces, A Woman Under the Influence, Columbo).
* David Duncan, 86, American screenwriter and novelist.
* Leah Leneman, 55, American historian and cookery writer.
* Curtis Mayfield, 57, American singer-songwriter ("Superfly", "Move On Up", "Freddie's Dead") and record producer, complications from diabetes.
* Shankar Dayal Sharma, 81, 9th president of India, heart attack.

### 27

* Leslie Brown, 87, British Anglican prelate.
* Pierre Clémenti, 57, French actor, liver cancer.
* Leonard Goldenson, 94, American TV and radio executive.
* Michael McDowell, 49, American novelist and screenwriter (Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Thinner), AIDS-related illness.
* Dick Peabody, 74, American actor, prostate cancer.
* Horst Matthai Quelle, 87, German philosopher.

### 28

* Josephine Barnes, 87, English obstetrician and gynaecologist.
* Joachim Böhmer, 59, East German rower and Olympic medalist.
* Franco Castellano, 74, Italian screenwriter and film director.
* Donald Cotton, 71, British writer for radio and television.
* Louis Féraud, 78, French fashion designer and artist, Alzheimer's disease.
* Kenneth Hudson, 83, British journalist and broadcaster.
* Larry Dale Lee, 41, American financial and economic journalist, stabbed.
* Clayton Moore, 85, American actor (The Lone Ranger), heart attack.
* Mike Thresher, 68, English football player.

### 29

* Robert Hoffstetter, 91, French taxonomist and herpetologist.
* Edward Hollamby, 78, English architect and town planner, heart disease.
* Ferenc Rabár, 70, Hungarian politician.
* Leon Radzinowicz, 93, Polish-British criminologist.
* José Cláudio dos Reis, 60, Brazilian sports administrator.
* Gerard Veringa, 75, Dutch politician.
* Jerzy Waldorff, 89, Polish baron, TV personality and writer.

### 30

* Tom Aherne, 80, Irish footballer and hurler.
* Clint Albright, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Arthur Bassett, 85, Welsh rugby player.
* Kjølv Egeland, 81, Norwegian politician.
* Anna Fehér, 78, Hungarian gymnast and Olympic silver medallist.
* Sarah Knauss, 119, American supercentenarian and oldest person in the world.
* Fritz Leonhardt, 90, German structural engineer.
* Nicholas Marangello, 98, American mobster (Bonanno crime family).
* Louis Michel, 76, French mathematical physicist.

### 31

* Conrado Balweg, 57, Filipino Roman Catholic priest and communist revolutionary, shot.
* Dean Elliott, 82, American television and film composer, Alzheimer's disease.
* Ferdinand Finne, 89, Norwegian author, painter, theater decorator and costume designer.
* William Hughes, Baron Hughes, 88, British politician.
* Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi, 85, Indian Islamic scholar and author.
* Solomiia Pavlychko, 41, Ukrainian literary critic, philosopher, and feminist, carbon monoxide poisoning.
* Elliot Richardson, 79, American politician and diplomat, cerebral haemorrhage.
* Hamako Watanabe, 89, Japanese singer, cerebral infarction.