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

## February 1999
### 1

* Marion Boyars, 71, British book publisher, pancreatic cancer.
* Paul Calvert, 81, Canadian baseball player.
* Alejandro Galindo, 93, Mexican screenwriter and film director.
* Hank Harris, 75, American gridiron football player.
* Rudolf Kárpáti, 78, Hungarian fencer and Olympic champion.
* Barış Manço, 56, Turkish rock musician, actor, and show host, heart attack.
* Paul Mellon, 91, American philanthropist.
* Robin Nedwell, 52, British actor, heart attack.
* St. Clair Pinckney, 68, American saxophonist.
* Harold E. Shear, 80, United States Navy admiral.
* Benjamin Elazari Volcani, 84, Israeli microbiologist.
* Julius Wechter, 63, American musician and composer, cancer.

### 2

* Marie Van Brittan Brown, 76, American nurse and inventor.
* Michel Mathiot, 72, French gymnast and Olympian.
* David McComb, 36, Australian rock musician, heart failure.
* August Neuburger, 96, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
* Vladimír Petlák, 52, Czech volleyball player and Olympic medalist.
* Vilmos Tátrai, 86, Hungarian classical violinist .
* Tunku Puan Besar Kurshiah, 87, Malayan queen of Negeri Sembilan.

### 3

* Norman Bluhm, 77, American painter, heart failure.
* Luc Borrelli, 33, French football player, traffic collision.
* William C. Brown, 82, American electrical engineer.
* Jim Cope, 91, Australian politician.
* Alexei Gorokhov, 71, Soviet violinist.
* Gwen Guthrie, 48, American singer-songwriter and pianist, uterine cancer.
* Mikko Hietanen, 87, Finnish long-distance runner, European Champion and world record holder.
* Alfred Janes, 87, Welsh artist.
* Herbert Klynn, 81, American animator.
* Yu Qiuli, 84, Chinese Army general and politician.
* John S. Service, 89, American diplomat.
* Vin Sullivan, 87, American comic book editor, artist and publisher.

### 4

* Luigi Bernabò Brea, 88, Italian archaeologist.
* Erich Hartmann, 76, German-American photographer.
* Joe Hayes, 63, English football player.
* Arthur Mann, 51, Scottish football player.
* Vittorio Marzotto, 76, Italian racing driver.
* Sean Sellers, 29, American juvenile convict, execution by lethal injection.

### 5

* Neville Bonner, 76, Australian politician, first indigenous Member of Parliament.
* John L. Cotter, 87, American archaeologist, cancer.
* Rembert Delden, 81, German politician member of the Bundestag.
* Leo Echegaray, 38, Filipino convict, execution by lethal injection.
* Nicholas Krushenick, 69, American abstract painter, liver cancer.
* Wassily Leontief, 93, Russian economist and Nobel Prize laureate.
* Mariya Osipova, 90, Soviet partisan during World War II.
* Indrani Rahman, 68, Indian classical dancer.
* Linda Sini, 74, Italian film actress.

### 6

* Thomas Banyacya, 89, American Native American traditional leader.
* Erwin Blask, 88, German athlete.
* Henry S. Clark, 95, American horse trainer.
* Danny Dayton, 75, American actor (All in the Family, Guys and Dolls, Ed Wood), emphysema.
* Don Dunstan, 72, Australian politician, lung cancer.
* Yuriy Istomin, 54, Ukrainian footballer.
* Jimmy Roberts, 74, American singer and performer, bone cancer.

### 7

* Hussein I of Jordan, 63, Jordanian monarch, King of Jordan (1952–1999), lymphoma.
* Andrew Keller, 73, British scientist.
* William Ludwig, 86, American screenwriter (Interrupted Melody, Oklahoma!, Athena), Oscar winner (1956), Parkinson's disease.
* Umberto Maglioli, 70, Italian racing driver.
* Antonio Pacenza, 70, Argentine boxer.
* George E. Shambaugh Jr., 95, American otolaryngologist and pioneer in deafness treatments.
* Bobby Troup, 80, American actor (Emergency!, M*A*S*H) and songwriter ("(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66").

### 8

* Richard Boone, 68, American jazz trombonist and scat singer.
* Meredith Edwards, 81, Welsh actor and writer.
* Madeleine Frieden-Kinnen, 83, Luxembourgish politician.
* Per Knudsen, 73, Danish football player.
* Iris Murdoch, 79, Irish-born British novelist, poet and philosopher, Alzheimer's disease.
* Caroline Robbins, 95, British historian.
* Krishnaswamy Sundarji, 70, British Indian Army officer.
* Giuseppe Tatarella, 63, Italian politician, heart attack.

### 9

* Richard Allen, 66, British abstract artist and printmaker, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Benjamin Bwalya, 37, Zambian footballer and coach, cerebral malaria.
* Enzo Forcella, 77, Italian essayist, historian and journalist.
* Aleksander Gieysztor, 82, Polish medievalist historian.
* Mary LaRoche, 78, American actress and singer.
* Len Levy, 77, American athlete.
* Bryan Mosley, 67, British television and film actor, (Coronation Street), heart attack.
* Bernhard Paus, 88, Norwegian orthopedic surgeon.
* Jaturun Siripongs, 47, Thai murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Inga-Stina Robson, 79, Anglo-Swedish political activist.

### 10

* Yuri Borienko, 66, Polish actor and wrestler. (On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film))
* Ashley Bramall, 83, British politician.
* Robert Clothier, 77, Canadian actor.
* Hernán Santa Cruz, 93, Chilean diplomat and United Nations delegate.
* Joan Curran, 82, Welsh scientist, cancer.
* Ann-Marie Gyllenspetz, 66, Swedish actress.
* Billy Houliston, 77, Scottish footballer.
* Joe M. Kilgore, 80, American combat pilot during World War II and politician.
* Herb Krautblatt, 72, American basketball player.
* Jean Levavasseur, 74, French fencer.
* Y. B. Mangunwijaya, 69, Indonesian architect, writer and Catholic religious leader.
* Joseph Marie Nguyễn Tùng Cương, 79, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Hải Phòng (1979–1999).
* Gideon Rafael, 86, Israeli diplomat.

### 11

* William Alonso, 66, Argentinian-American planner and economist.
* Leonard J. Arrington, 81, American Mormon historian, heart failure.
* Danny Barber, 43, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
* John Brack, 78, Australian painter.
* Jaki Byard, 76, American jazz musician, composer and arranger, shot.
* Toni Fisher, 74, American pop singer, heart attack.
* Stoyan Gadev, 67, Bulgarian actor.
* Werner Korff, 87, German ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.
* Dragan Kovačić, 59, Yugoslav-Croatian basketball player.
* Rose Mbowa, 56, Ugandan writer, actress, academic and feminist.
* Hugh McCullough, 82, American gridiron football player.
* Brian Parsons, 65, English cricket player.
* Xiao Qian, 89, Chinese essayist, editor and journalist.
* Nikolai Sergeyev, 89, Soviet admiral.
* Whitney Tower, 75, American Thoroughbred horse racing journalist, complications from a stroke.

### 12

* Paul Bairoch, 68, Belgian-Swiss economic historian.
* André Devigny, 82, French soldier and member of the Résistance.
* Jimmy Dudley, 89, American baseball player and sportscaster.
* Rexhep Krasniqi, 92, Albanian-American historian, nationalist, anti-communist politician and activist.
* Grace Panvini, 91, American soprano and voice teacher
* Heinz Schubert, 73, German actor, drama teacher and photographer, pneumonia.
* Michel Seuphor, 97, Belgian painter.

### 13

* Peko Dapčević, 85, Yugoslav communist.
* Michael Higgins, 90, American glass artist.
* Kåre Hovda, 55, Norwegian biathlete and Olympian.
* Gary Jennings, 70, American author, heart failure.
* Ron McLean, 60, Australian politician, asbestos-related lung condition.
* Carles Sabater, 36, Catalan singer and actor, respiratory arrest.

### 14

* Sam Bartholomew, 81, American gridiron football player.
* John Ehrlichman, 73, United States Domestic Policy Council and Watergate scandal conspirator, diabetes.
* Buddy Knox, 65, American singer and songwriter, lung cancer.
* Hillel Seidel, 78, Israeli politician.
* Joseph Francis Shea, 73, American aerospace engineer and NASA manager.
* Raymond Thompson, 87, American competition swimmer and Olympian.
* Majken Åberg, 80, Swedish discus thrower and Olympian.

### 15

* Agnes Bernelle, 75, Berlin-born expatriate actress and singer.
* Jeffery Cohelan, 84, American politician and political activist.
* Billy Garrett, 65, American racecar driver.
* Henry Way Kendall, 72, American physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, drowned.
* Aigars Kriķis, 44, Soviet and Latvian luger.
* Big L, 24, American Freestyle rapper (D.I.T.C.), shot.
* Gordon Neil Stewart, 86, Australian writer.
* Ferenc Vozar, 53, Hungarian ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.

### 16

* Björn Afzelius, 52, Swedish progg singer and guitarist, lung cancer.
* Necil Kazım Akses, 90, Turkish classical composer.
* Guillermo Arellano, 90, Chilean football player.
* Fritzi Burger, 88, Austrian figure skater.
* Petre Crowder, 79, British barrister and politician.
* Ugo Grappasonni, 76, Italian professional golfer.
* Herbert S. Green, 78, British–Australian physicist.
* James Hill, 74, British politician.
* Henk Hofstra, 94, Dutch politician.
* Johan Kvandal, 79, Norwegian composer.
* Michael Larson, 49, American game show contestant, throat cancer.
* Alexandre-Athenase Noghès, 82, Monegasque tennis player and husband of Princess Antoinette of Monaco.
* Bailey Olter, 66, Micronesian political figure.
* Betty Roché, 81, American blues singer.

### 17

* Thomas James Carr, 89, British artist.
* Kurt Robert Eissler, 90, Austrian psychoanalyst.
* Jaime Hurtado, 62, Ecuadorian politician, shot.
* William D. McElroy, 82, American biochemist and academic.
* Sunshine Parker, 71, American actor (Tremors, Road House, Pee-wee's Big Adventure), pneumonia.
* Shirley Stoler, 69, American actress, heart failure.
* Tania, 90, Spanish tango singer known as "Tania".
* R.S. Unni, 73, Indian politician and trade unionist.

### 18

* Felipe Alfau, 96, Spanish-American novelist and poet.
* Andreas Feininger, 92, American photographer.
* Tibor Házi, 87, Hungarian table tennis player.
* Nikolay Latyshev, 85, Soviet and Russian football player and referee.
* Olle Nordemar, 84, Swedish cinematographer, screenwriter, film director and producer.
* Noam Pitlik, 66, American actor and television director, lung cancer.

### 19

* Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, 55, Iraqi Shia marja', shot.
* Khumar Barabankvi, 79, Indian Urdu poet and lyricist.
* Wilford Berry, Jr., 36, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Robert Coulson, 70, American science fiction writer and bookseller.
* Trudy Desmond, 53, Canadian jazz singer.
* Richard E. Dutrow, Sr., 61, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer.
* Lloyd La Beach, 76, Panamanian sprinter, 100 meters world record holder (1948) and Olympian.
* Lady Pansy Lamb, 94, English writer also known as "Pansy Pakenham".
* Georg Meier, 88, German motorcycle racer.
* Primo Miller, 83, American gridiron football player.
* Constantin Oțet, 58, Romanian football coach.
* Paul Schmidt, 65, American actor, poet, playwright and essayist.

### 20

* Howard Boatwright, 80, American composer, violinist and musicologist.
* Willard R. Espy, 88, American philologist, writer and poet.
* Lotti van der Gaag, 75, Dutch sculptor and painter.
* Frans Grootjans, 77, Belgian politician and minister.
* Molly Harrower, 93, American clinical psychologist.
* Sarah Kane, 28, English playwright, suicide by hanging.
* Al Krueger, 79, American gridiron football player.
* Michael Sgan-Cohen, 54, Israeli artist, art historian, curator and critic.
* Gene Siskel, 53, American film critic (Chicago Tribune) and television journalist (At the Movies), brain cancer.

### 21

* Gertrude B. Elion, 81, American biochemist, pharmacologist and Nobel Prize recipient .
* Hideo Itokawa, 86, Japanese aircraft designer and rocketry pioneer.
* Ilmari Juutilainen, 85, Finnish flying ace during World War II.
* Kaya, 38, Mauritian musician and creator of the seggae genre.
* Walter Lini, 57, Prime Minister of Vanuatu.
* Wilmer Mizell, 68, American athlete and politician.
* Jørgen Leschly Sørensen, 76, Danish footballer.
* Leyla Vakilova, 72, Azerbaijani ballerina and ballet teacher.

### 22

* Bitto Albertini, 74, Italian film director and screenwriter.
* William Bronk, 81, American poet.
* Charles Gerhardt, 72, American conductor, record producer, and arranger.
* Howie Haak, 87, American baseball scout.
* Carlos Hathcock, 56, United States Marine Corps sniper, multiple sclerosis.
* Menno Oosting, 34, Dutch tennis player, traffic collision.
* Pat Upton, 54, Irish politician and veterinarian, heart attack.

### 23

* Sir Anthony Nutting, 3rd Baronet, 79, British diplomat and politician, heart failure.
* Stanley Dance, 88, British jazz writer and record producer, pneumonia.
* Ruth Gipps, 78, English composer, oboist, pianist, and conductor.
* Hughie Lee-Smith, 83, American artist, cancer.
* Gershon Legman, 81, American cultural critic and folklorist, complications following a stroke.
* Chip Myers, 53, American football player, heart attack.
* David Chilton Phillips, 74, British biologist, prostate cancer.
* Heinrich Schmid, 77, Swiss linguist.
* Rick Wilson, 33, American professional wrestler, suicide by gunshot.

### 24

* David Daube, 90, German scholar of ancient law.
* Andre Dubus, 62, American short story writer and essayist, heart attack.
* Virginia Foster Durr, 95, American white civil rights activist and lobbyist.
* David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, 94, English politician.
* Fathy Ghanem, 74, Egyptian writer.
* Enzo Menegotti, 73, Italian football player.
* Derek Nimmo, 68, English actor and author, fall.
* Catharina Roodzant, 102, Dutch female chess master.
* Ahmed Sharif, 78, Bangladeshi philosopher, writer and academic.
* Frank Leslie Walcott, 82, Barbadian politician, diplomat and umpire.
* Vann "Piano Man" Walls, 80, American R&B musician, cancer.
* Johnnie Wittig, 84, American baseball player.

### 25

* Dina Dreyfus, 88, French anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher.
* Murad Ozdoev, 76, Ingush flying ace during World War II.
* Sol Schoenbach, 84, American bassoonist and teacher.
* Glenn T. Seaborg, 86, American nuclear chemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1951), complications of a stroke.
* Štěpán Zavřel, 66, Czech painter, graphic artist and writer.

### 26

* Michael Avallone, 74, American author.
* Jean Coulomb, 94, French geophysicist and mathematician.
* Annibale Frossi, 87, Italian football player and manager.
* Elbridge T. Gerry, 90, American banker and polo player.
* John L. Goldwater, 83, American comic book editor and publisher.
* János Péter, 88, Hungarian politician.
* José Quintero, 74, Panamanian theatre director and pedagogue, esophageal cancer.
* Opoku Ware II, 79, 15th Emperor-King of the Ashanti people.
* Bjørn Wiik, 62, Norwegian physicist, domestic accident.

### 27

* George Hughley, 59, American football player and coach, traffic collision.
* Bob McNeish, 86, American football player and coach.
* Vida Steinert, 96, New Zealand painter.
* Horace Tapscott, 64, American jazz pianist and composer.
* Luis Vidal, 82, Chilean football player.

### 28

* Anthea Askey, 65, English actress.
* Dave Bedwell, 70, British racing cyclist.
* Ara Harutyunyan, 70, Armenian sculptor and graphic artist.
* Clarence Henry, 72, American boxer.
* Lionel Berry, 2nd Viscount Kemsley, 89, British politician, peer and newspaper editor.
* Kenny Robinson, 29, American baseball player, traffic collision.
* Bill Talbert, 80, American tennis player.
* Bing Xin, 98, Chinese writer.