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

## August 1999
### 1

* Rudy Burckhardt, 85, Swiss-American filmmaker and photographer, suicide by drowning.
* Nirad C. Chaudhuri, 101, Indian English-language writer.
* Tommy Hinnershitz, 87, American race car driver.
* Kalyan Kumar, 71, Indian film actor and producer.
* Naseer Malik, 49, Pakistani cricket player.
* Paris Pişmiş, 88, Armenian-Mexican astronomer.
* İrfan Özaydınlı, 75, Turkish soldier and politician.

### 2

* Alberto Gironella, 69, Mexican painter.
* Gregorio Cárdenas Hernández, Mexican serial killer.
* Sunthorn Kongsompong, 68, Thai military commander and politician, Prime Minister (1991–1992), lung cancer.
* Alf Miller, 82, English football player and coach.
* Willie Morris, 64, American writer and editor.
* Bernhard Quandt, 96, German politician.
* Jim Slaughter, 71, American basketball player.
* Peter Vanneck, 77, British Royal Navy officer, fighter pilot and politician.

### 3

* Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayati, 72, Iraqi poet.
* Rodney Ansell, 44, Australian cattle grazier, buffalo hunter and inspiration for Crocodile Dundee, killed in a police shootout.
* Byron Farwell, 78, American military historian, biographer, and politician.
* Myung Jae-nam, 61, Korean Hapkido practitioner, stomach cancer.
* Dick Latvala, 56, American musician and tape archivist for rock band the Grateful Dead.
* Bob Mollohan, 89, American politician.
* Yitzhak Rafael, 85, Israeli politician.
* Leroy Vinnegar, 71, American jazz bassist, heart attack.
* Roy Wiggins, 73, American steel guitarist.

### 4

* Akhlaq Ahmed, 49, Pakistani playback singer, blood cancer.
* Liselott Linsenhoff, 71, German equestrian and Olympic champion.
* Victor Mature, 86, American film actor (One Million B.C., Samson and Delilah, Kiss of Death), leukemia.
* Lucrecia Reyes-Urtula, 70, Filipina choreographer, theater director and author.
* Derrick Shepard, 35, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
* Carl Toms, 72, British set and costume designer, emphysema.

### 5

* Charles Anthony Boyd, 39, American serial killer.
* James Failla, 80, American mobster (Gambino crime family).
* Henry Holloway, 68, Australian rugby player and coach.
* John Kacere, 79, American visual artist.
* David Munro, 55, English documentary filmmaker, cancer.
* Rimma Zhukova, 74, Soviet and Russian speed skater.

### 6

* Mihai Băcescu, 91, Romanian zoologist.
* Ilse Pausin, 80, Austrian pair skater and Olympic medalist.
* Kalpnath Rai, 58, Indian politician, heart attack.
* Rita Sakellariou, 64, Greek singer, cancer.
* Muhammad Shariff, 78, Pakistani Army general.
* Claudette Sorel, 66, American pianist and educator, cancer.
* Jerry Yulsman, 75, American novelist and a photographer, lung cancer.

### 7

* Wally Albright, 73, American former child actor.
* Jonathan Boyd, 54, Australian professional wrestler, heart attack.
* Herbert Hagen, 85, German SS-Sturmbannführer and war criminal during World War II.
* Brion James, 54, American actor (Blade Runner, The Fifth Element, 48 Hrs.), heart attack.
* J. Andrew Keith, 40, American role-playing game designer.
* Harry Litwack, 91, American college basketball coach.
* Desmond Marquette, 90, American film editor.
* Kazuo Miyagawa, 91, Japanese cinematographer.
* Tsou Tang, 80, Chinese-American political scientist.
* John Van Ryn, 94, American tennis player.

### 8

* Virginia Allan, 82, American educator and women's employment advocate.
* Yolanda Sofia Vargas Pereira Dulché, 73, Mexican writer.
* Paavo Rintala, 68, Finnish novelist and theologian.
* Dora Schaul, 85, German resistance activist during World War II.
* Harry Walker, 82, American baseball player, manager and coach.

### 9

* Ira Baldwin, 103, American academic and administrator.
* John Hallett, 81, Australian politician.
* Cliff Hanley, 76, Scottish journalist, novelist, playwright and broadcaster .
* William Arthur Irwin, 101, Canadian journalist and diplomat, asthma.
* Georg Marischka, 77, Austrian actor, screenwriter, and film producer.
* John O'Neill, 56, Australian rugby player, cancer.
* Helen Rollason, 43, British sports journalist and television presenter, colorectal cancer.
* Jackie Sato, 41, professional wrestler from Yokohama, Japan, stomach cancer.
* Riley Smith, 88, American football player.
* Roger Stott, 56, Britishpolitician, liver cancer.
* Abraham H. Taub, 88, American mathematician and physicist.
* Yury Volyntsev, 67, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.

### 10

* Ernesto Melo Antunes, 65, Portuguese military officer.
* Ernst Bader, 85, German actor, composer and songwriter (lyricist).
* Giuseppe Delfino, 77, Italian fencer and Olympic champion.
* Lenko Grčić, 74, Croatian football player and coach.
* Jens Hoyer Hansen, 59, Danish-born New Zealand jeweller, cancer.
* Jennifer Paterson, 71, British chef and television personality (Two Fat Ladies), lung cancer.
* Anthony Stanislas Radziwill, 40, American television executive and filmmaker, cancer.
* Kari Suomalainen, 78, Finnish political cartoonist.
* Baldev Upadhyaya, 99, Indian literary historian, essayist and critic.

### 11

* Dickie Davis, 77, English footballer.
* Robert Dorfmann, 87, French film producer.
* James Otto Earhart, 56, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Robert Thomas Jones, 89, American engineer.
* Ernst Kaether, 95, German Wehrmacht general during World War II.
* Luz Machado, 83, Venezuelan political activist, journalist and poet.
* Ramnath Parkar, 52, Indian cricket player.
* Mimi Pollak, 96, Swedish actress and theatre director.
* Byron Randall, 80, American West Coast artist, emphysema.
* Tommy Ridgley, 73, American R&B singer and bandleader, lung cancer.
* Henk Chin A Sen, 65, Surinamese politician.
* A. G. Ram Singh, 89, Indian first-class cricket player.

### 12

* Pavel Arsyonov, 63, Soviet and Russian film actor, screenwriter and film director.
* Jean Drapeau, 83, Canadian lawyer and politician.
* Ross Elliott, 82, American television and film character actor, cancer.
* Albert E. Green, 86, British applied mathematician and research scientist.
* John Rigby Hale, 75, British historian.
* Wilfrid Kalaugher, 94, New Zealand athlete and scholar.
* Georges Roux, 84, French writer and historian.
* Bob Wilson, 83, American politician.
* Martin Wong, 53, Chinese-American painter, AIDS related illness.
* Can Yücel, 72, Turkish poet, throat cancer.

### 13

* Susana Ferrari Billinghurst, 85, Argentine aviator.
* Ignatz Bubis, 72, German Jewish leader.
* Jaime Garzón Forero, 38, Colombian comedian, journalist, politician, and peace activist, shot.
* John Geering, 58, British cartoonist.
* Frederick Hart, 55, American sculptor, cancer.
* Nathaniel Kleitman, 104, American physiologist and sleep researcher.
* Maria Krüger, 94, Polish children's literature writer and journalist.
* Argentina Díaz Lozano, 86, Honduran journalist and novelist.
* Sulo Nurmela, 91, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympic champion.
* Herberto Sales, 81, Brazilian journalist and writer.

### 14

* Evelyn Adams, 75, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
* Lane Kirkland, 77, American labor union leader, cancer.
* Philip Klutznick, 92, American administrator, Secretary of Commerce (1980–1981), Alzheimer's disease.
* Pat Mullin, 81, American baseball player.
* John Pingel, 82, American football player.
* Pee Wee Reese, 81, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, lung cancer.
* Lidia Selkregg, Italian geologist.

### 15

* Patricia Beer, 79, English poet and critic.
* Hugh Casson, 89, English architect, interior designer, artist and writer.
* Frank Castle, 75, English sprint athlete and rugby player.
* Paddy Devlin, 74, Irish social democrat, labour and civil rights activist.
* Greek George, 86, Catcher in Major League Baseball.
* Mark McPhee, 35, Australian cricketer, traffic collision.
* Olga Orozco, 79, Argentine poet, cardiovascular disease.
* Celestine Sibley, 85, American newspaper reporter.

### 16

* Anton Alberts, 72, Dutch architect.
* David W. Allen, 54, American film and television stop motion animator, cancer.
* Ron Aspinall, 80, English cricket player.
* Roy Edwards, 62, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Nancy Guild, 73, American film actress, emphysema.
* Regina Kent, 31, Hong Kong actress, brain cancer.
* Rose Leon, 85, Jamaican businesswoman and politician, homicide.
* Bernard Parrish, 80, American politician.
* Hédard Robichaud, 87, Canadian politician.
* Rudolf Sremec, 89, Yugoslav and Croatian film director.

### 17

* Randy Heflin, 80, American baseball player.
* Charles Samuel Joelson, 83, American lawyer and politician.
* Reiner Klimke, 63, German equestrian and Olympic champion, heart attack.
* Henri Paret, 69, French racing cyclist.
* Bill Tyquin, 80, Australian rugby player.

### 18

* Alfred Bickel, 81, Swiss football player and coach.
* Albert Frazier, 84, American football and baseball coach.
* Alf Kirchen, 85, English football player.
* Hanoch Levin, 55, Israeli dramatist, author and poet, heart attack.

### 19

* Irene Falcón, 91, Spanish journalist, feminist and activist, respiratory condition.
* Dee Fondy, 74, American baseball player.
* Ian Orr-Ewing, Baron Orr-Ewing, 87, British politician.
* Kim Perrot, 32, American basketball player, lung cancer.
* Rodrigo Riera, 75, Venezuelan guitarist and composer.
* Shaukat Hussain Rizvi, 85, Pakistani actor, film producer and director.

### 20

* Arthur Cain, 78, British evolutionary biologist and ecologist.
* Bob Gallion, 75, American country music singer.
* Josef Herink, 83, Czech physician and mycologist.
* Bobby Sheehan, 31, American musician and songwriter, accidental overdose.
* Josane Sigart, 90, Belgian tennis player.
* Abdus Salam Talukder, 62, Bangladeshi politician and lawyer.

### 21

* Leo Castelli, 91, Italian-American art dealer.
* Venya D'rkin, 29, Russian language bard, cancer.
* Faisal bin Fahd, 54/55, Saudi prince, heart attack.
* Cilly Feindt, 90, German circus performer and stage and film actress.
* Jimmy Roe, 90, American soccer player.
* Hans von Herwarth, 95, German diplomat.
* Yevgeni Yeliseyev, 90, Soviet and Russian football player and coach.

### 22

* Aleksandr Demyanenko, 62, Russian film and theater actor, heart attack.
* Yann Goulet, 85, French sculptor.
* Marguerite Muni, 70, French actress.
* Hide Hyodo Shimizu, 91, Japanese-Canadian educator and activist.

### 23

* Martha Rountree, 87, American pioneering broadcast journalist.
* Ray F. Smith, 80, American agronomist and entomologist.
* Frank Tredrea, 79, New Zealand racing cyclist.
* Norman Wexler, 73, American screenwriter (Saturday Night Fever, Serpico, Raw Deal), heart attack.
* James White, 71, Northern Irish author of science fiction short stories and novels, stroke.

### 24

* Georges Boulogne, 82, French football player and manager.
* Roberto Bussinello, 71, Italian racing driver.
* Warren Covington, 78, American big band trombonist.
* Mary Jane Croft, 83, American actress (The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, I Love Lucy, Our Miss Brooks).
* Jo Gullett, 84, Australian soldier, politician, diplomat and journalist.
* Alexandre Lagoya, 70, French classical guitarist.
* William Kaye Lamb, 95, Canadian historian, archivist and librarian.

### 25

* Rob Fisher, 42, British songwriter and musician (Naked Eyes, Climie Fisher), colorectal cancer.
* Dave Holmes, 75, American football player and coach, heart attack.
* George Petty-Fitzmaurice, 8th Marquess of Lansdowne, 86, British peer and politician.
* George Sugarman, 87, American painter and sculptor.
* Georg Thomalla, 84, German actor.
* Jack Whent, 79, English soccer player.

### 26

* Louise Bellocq, 90, French writer, poet, and woman of letters.
* Tonči Gulin, 61, Croatian football player.
* Elena Murgoci, 39, Romanian long-distance runner and Olympian, stabbed.
* Raymond Vernon, 85, American economist, cancer.

### 27

* Elizabeth Blackbourn, English table tennis player.
* Harold Jack Bloom, 75, American television producer and screenwriter, cancer.
* Hélder Câmara, 90, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop, heart attack.
* Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorje, 67, Tibetan lama.
* Bai Guang, 78, Chinese actress and singer, colon cancer.
* Enzo Martinelli, 87, Italian mathematician.
* Louise Thompson Patterson, 97, American social activist and college professor.
* Ralph Riley, 74, British geneticist.

### 28

* Rafael Manzanares Aguilar, 81, Honduran folklorist, author, and musical composer.
* Stephen Akinmurele, 21, British suspected serial killer, suicide by hanging.
* Harvie M. Conn, 66, Canadian missionary.
* Johnny Gerlach, 82, American Major League Baseball player.
* Dave Pope, 78, American baseball player.

### 29

* Ann Baker, 84, American jazz singer.
* Jaime Fields, 29, American gridiron football player, traffic collision.
* Paul Horiuchi, 93, American painter and collagist, Alzheimer's disease.
* Claudio Lezcano, 69, Paraguayan football player.
* Willy Rathnov, 62, Danish film actor, neck cancer.
* Emeline Hill Richardson, 89, American classical archaeologist and Etruscan scholar.
* Luca Sportelli, 72, Italian actor.

### 30

* Abdullah Al-Baradouni, 70, Yemeni writer, poet and critic.
* Reindert Brasser, 86, Dutch athlete and Olympian.
* Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, 80, German musicologist and academic.
* George Golding, 93, Australian runner and hurdler.
* Kristapor Ivanyan, 78, Soviet and Armenian lieutenant general.
* William A. Niering, 75, American botanist.
* Raymond Poïvet, 89, French cartoonist.
* Fritz Shurmur, 67, American football coach, liver cancer.
* Edward Stewart, 84, American set decorator (All That Jazz, The Wiz, Network), Oscar winner (1980).
* István Timár-Geng, 76, Hungarian basketball player.

### 31

* Marguerite Chapman, 81, American actress.
* Ed Kea, 51, Canadian ice hockey player, drowned.
* Sylvia Potts, 55, New Zealand middle-distance athlete and Olympian, cancer.
* Henry Earl Singleton, 82, American electrical engineer and business executive.