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

## May 1999
### 1

* Eddie Chamblee, 79, American tenor, alto saxophonist and vocalist.
* Alish Lambaranski, 84, Soviet and Azerbaijani statesman.
* Jos LeDuc, 54, Canadian professional wrestler, lung infection.
* Osman Ahmed Osman, 82, Egyptian engineer, entrepreneur, and politician.
* Jack Sepkoski, 50, American paleontologist.
* Brian Shawe-Taylor, 84, British racing driver.

### 2

* Thomas C. Cochran, 97, American economic historian and author.
* Bill Davidson, 64, American football player and coach and college athletics administrator.
* Igor M. Diakonoff, 84, Russian historian, linguist and translator.
* Ernest A. Gross, 92, American diplomat and lawyer.
* Douglas Harkness, 96, Canadian politician, teacher and farmer.
* Robert Arthur Humphreys, 91, British historian and professor of Latin American studies.
* Tibor Kalman, 49, American graphic designer, non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
* Oliver Reed, 61, British actor (The Devils, Oliver!, The Three Musketeers), alcohol intoxication, heart attack.
* Włodzimierz Sokorski, 90, Polish communist politician, writer, and brigadier general.
* Anahit Tsitsikian, 72, Armenian female violinist.

### 3

* Joe Adcock, 71, American baseball player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
* Steve Chiasson, 32, Canadian ice hockey player, (Detroit Red Wings, Calgary Flames, Carolina Hurricanes), drunk driving crash.
* Godfrey Evans, 78, English cricketer.
* Giulio Fioravanti, 75, Italian operatic baritone.
* Princess Urraca of the Two Sicilies, 85, German noblewoman and member of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.
* Josef Zeman, 84, Czech football player.

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* Manny Babbitt, 50, U.S. Marine veteran of the Vietnam War and convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Albert Fearnley, 75, English rugby league football player, and coach.
* Wilfried Geeroms, 57, Belgian Olympic hurdler, cancer.
* Jean Marius René Guibé, 89, French naturalist.
* Mahendra Narayan Nidhi, 77, Nepali politician and Gandhian leader.
* John Salmon, 88, New Zealand photographer, conservationist, and author.
* Henry Tiller, 84, Norwegian boxer and Olympic medalist.

### 5

* Vasilis Diamantopoulos, 78, Greek actor, heart attack.
* John Howard, 86, British Army officer during World War II.
* Américo Paredes, 83, American author.
* Rodrigo Ruiz, 76, Mexican football player.

### 6

* Fehmi Agani, 67, Kosovan sociologist and politician.
* Keizo Hasegawa, 76, Japanese track and field athlete and Olympian.
* Kaii Higashiyama, 90, Japanese writer and artist.
* Sven Meyer, 21, German figure skater, suicide by gunshot.
* Johnny Morris, 82, British television presenter.
* Maria Laura Rocca, 81, Italian actress and writer.
* Mark Tuinei, 39, American football player, drug overdose.

### 7

* Randi Anda, 100, Norwegian politician.
* Chen Yanyan, 83, Chinese actress and film producer.
* Joseph Gray, 79, Irish-born English Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Shrewsbury.
* Leon Hess, 85, American businessman and owner of the New York Jets.
* Elliot Pinhey, 88, British entomologist.
* Yury Zakharanka, 47, Belarusian minister and oppositional politician, murdered by the Lukashenko regime.

### 8

* Edward Abraham, 85, English biochemist, stroke.
* Dirk Bogarde, 78, British actor (Doctor in the House, The Servant, A Bridge Too Far), heart attack.
* Ed Gilbert, 67, American voice actor (The Transformers, TaleSpin, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero), lung cancer.
* Soeman Hs, 95, Indonesian author.
* John Kotz, 80, American collegiate basketball player and early professional.
* Michael Nightingale, 76, English actor.
* Alan Paterson, 70, English high jumper and Olympian.
* Sally Payne, 86, American actress, stroke.
* Dana Plato, 34, American actress (Diff'rent Strokes), suicide by drug overdose.
* Leon Thomas, 61, American jazz and blues vocalist, heart failure.

### 9

* Harry Blech, 89, British violinist and conductor.
* Shirley Dinsdale, 72, American ventriloquist and television and radio personality, cancer.
* Derek Fatchett, 53, British politician, heart attack.
* Jürgen Fuchs, 48, East German writer and dissident, leukemia.
* Jim Hunt, 95, American athletic trainer.
* Božidar Kantušer, 77, Slovene composer of classical music, cerebral infarct, stroke.
* Wynona Lipman, 75–76, American politician, cancer.
* Ivan M. Niven, 83, Canadian-American mathematician.
* George T. Raymond, 84, American civil rights leader.
* Karamshi Jethabhai Somaiya, 96, Indian educationist.
* Ole Søltoft, 58, Danish actor.

### 10

* Hans Granlid, 72, Swedish novelist and literary researcher.
* Anésia Pinheiro Machado, Brazilian female pilot.
* John Munonye, 70, Nigerian writer.
* Carl Powis, 71, American baseball player.
* Shel Silverstein, 68, American poet, playwright, and cartoonist, heart attack.
* Eric Willis, 77, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales (1976).

### 11

* José Fernández Aguayo, Spanish photography director.
* Eqbal Ahmad, 65, Pakistani political scientist, writer and pacifist, heart failure.
* Josef Dostál, 95, Czech botanist, pteridologist, conservationist and climber.
* Elaine Fifield, 68, Australian ballerina.
* Werner Fuchs, 50, German football player, heart attack.
* George Hunter, 60, Scottish motorcycle speedway rider.
* Birdy Sweeney, 67, Irish actor and comedian.
* Robert Thomas, 72, Welsh sculptor.

### 12

* William James Morgan, 84, Northern Irish unionist politician.
* Robert Rose, 47, Australian sportsman and quadriplegic, complications following surgery.
* Penny Santon, 82, American actress (Matt Houston, Funny Girl, Fletch).
* Saul Steinberg, 84, Romanian-American cartoonist and illustrator.
* Jerzy Stroba, 79, Polish Roman Catholic bishop.
* Daniel Frank Walls, 56, New Zealand theoretical physicist, cancer.

### 13

* Abd al-Aziz Ibn Baz, 88, Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar.
* Roy Crowson, 84, English biologist.
* Meg Greenfield, 68, American editorial writer, cancer.
* Motohiko Hino, 53, Japanese jazz drummer, liver failure.
* Giuseppe Petrilli, 86, Italian professor and European Commissioner.
* Gene Sarazen, 97, American golf player, complications of pneumonia.
* John Whiting, 90, American sociologist and anthropologist.

### 14

* Manuel del Cabral, 92, Dominican poet, writer, and diplomat.
* Buck Houghton, 84, American television producer and writer, pulmonary emphysema.
* Tang Pao-yun, 55, Taiwanese actress.
* Joseph F. Smith, 79, American politician.
* William Tucker, 38, American guitarist, suicide by drug overdose and throat-cutting.
* Grete Weil, 92, German writer.
* Asrat Woldeyes, 70, Ethiopian surgeon, heart ailment.
* Jerry Wunderlich, 73, American set decorator (The Exorcist, The Last Tycoon, WarGames).
* Nitya Chaitanya Yati, 74, Indian philosopher, psychologist, author and poet.

### 15

* Valeh Barshadly, 71, Azerbaijani Minister of Defense.
* Lily Fayol, 84, French singer.
* Rob Gretton, 46, British band manager (Joy Division, New Order), heart attack.
* Ernst Mosch, 73, German musician, composer and conductor.
* Kenneth Riches, 90, British Anglican bishop.
* Bob Wilson, 85, American gridiron football player.

### 16

* Guy Cudell, 82, Belgian politician, mayor of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode (1953–1999), cancer.
* Minder Coleman, 95, American artist.
* Cam Fraser, 67, Canadian football player.
* Bobby Goldman, 60, American bridge player, writer, and official.
* George Hill Hodel, 91, American physician and suspect in several murders.
* Andy Norval, 87, Australian rugby player.
* Lembit Oll, 33, Estonian chess grandmaster, suicide by jumping.

### 17

* James Broughton, 85, American poet, playwright and filmmaker, heart failure.
* Bruce Fairbairn, 49, Canadian musician and record producer.
* Božidar Finka, 73, Croatian linguist and lexicographer.
* Henry Jones, 86, American actor, complications from a fall.
* Thelma Kalama, 68, American Olympic swimmer.
* Ed Rimkus, 85, American of Lithuanian descent bobsledder.

### 18

* Juan Manuel Couder, 64, Spanish tennis player.
* Hayrettin Erkmen, 84, Turkish politician.
* Dias Gomes, 76, Brazilian playwright, traffic collision.
* Hank Herring, 76, American boxer.
* Miguel Pedro Mundo, 61, American bishop of the Catholic Church.
* Augustus Pablo, 44, Jamaican record producer and musician, respiratory failure.
* Freddy Randall, 78, English jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
* Betty Robinson, 87, American athlete and winner of the first Olympic 100 m, Alzheimer's disease.

### 19

* James Blades, 97, English percussionist.
* Candy Candido, 85, American radio performer, bass player and voice actor.
* Rebecca Elson, 39, Canadian–American astronomer and writer, cancer.
* Larry Markes, 77, American comedian, singer and screenwriter.
* John McSweeney, Jr., 83, American film editor.
* Vera Scarth-Johnson, 87, British-Australian botanist and botanical illustrator.
* Xhafer Spahiu, 75, Albanian politician.
* Alister Williamson, 80, Australian-British actor.

### 20

* William Alfred, 76, American playwright, poet, and academic.
* Renato Gei, 78, Italian football player and manager.
* James E. Hill, 77, United States Air Force general and World War II flying ace, cancer.
* Robert Rhodes James, 66, British politician.
* Carlos Quirino, 89, Filipino biographer and historian.
* Colette Ripert, 69, French actress.

### 21

* Vanessa Brown, 71, Austrian-American actress, breast cancer.
* Jozef Cleber, 82, Dutch trombonist, violinist, and composer.
* Colin Hayes, 75, Australian trainer of thoroughbred racehorses.
* Norman Rossington, 70, English actor.
* Mario Tagliaferri, 71, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
* Fulvio Tomizza, 64, Italian writer.

### 22

* Milton Banana, 64, Brazilian bossa nova and jazz drummer.
* Loleh Bellon, 74, French stage and film actress and playwright.
* Mark Edward Bradley, 92, United States Air Force general and aviator pioneer.
* Rubén W. Cavallotti, 74, Uruguayan-Argentine film director.
* Duilio Coletti, 92, Italian film director and screenwriter, heart attack.
* Alfred Kubel, 90, American politician.

### 23

* Arthur Edward Ellis, 84, English football referee, cancer.
* Owen Hart, 34, Canadian professional wrestler (WWF), injuries sustained from fall.
* John T. Hayward, 90, American naval aviator during World War II, cancer.
* Asa Singh Mastana, 71, Indian musician and singer.
* John Prentice, 78, American cartoonist (Rip Kirby).
* Albert Charles Smith, 93, American botanist.

### 24

* Irene Bache, 98, British artist.
* Guru Hanuman, 98, Indian wrestling coach, car crash.
* T. N. Gopinathan Nair, 81, Indian dramatist, novelist, poet and screenwriter.
* Ramón Rubial, 92, Spanish socialist leader.
* Arnaldo Silva, 55, Portuguese football player.

### 25

* Fredda Brilliant, 96, Polish sculptor and actress.
* Hillary Brooke, 84, American film actress, pulmonary embolism.
* Horst Frank, 69, German film actor, stroke.
* René Gallice, 80, French football player.
* Paul Moss, 90, American gridiron football player.
* Bal Dattatreya Tilak, 80, Indian chemical engineer.

### 26

* William Cutolo, 49, American mobster (Colombo crime family), murdered.
* Sir Hugh Fish, 76, English chemist.
* Belli Lalitha, 25, Indian folk singer, homicide.
* Felipe Rodríguez, 73, Puerto Rican singer of boleros, fall.
* Paul Sacher, 93, Swiss conductor, patron and impresario.
* Waldo Semon, 100, American inventor.
* Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, 89, Austrian political scientist and journalist.
* Jack Wells, 88, Canadian radio and television broadcaster.

### 27

* Alice Adams, 72, American short story writer and novelist.
* Zach de Beer, 70, South African politician and businessman, stroke.
* Francine Everett, 84, American actress and singer.
* Timo Lampén, 64, Finnish basketball player.
* William T. Moore, 81, American attorney and politician.
* Leah Ray, 84, American singer and actress.
* James Rowland, 76, Australian air chief marshal.
* Violet Webb, 84, English track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.

### 28

* Michael Barkai, 64, Israeli Navy general, suicide by gunshot.
* Peter Bostock, 87, British Anglican priest.
* Henry Carlsson, 81, Swedish football player and manager.
* Florence MacMichael, 80, American character actress.
* Raphael Recanati, 75, Israeli-American shipping magnate, banker, and philanthropist, heart failure.
* Lady Rowlands, 95, American film actress.
* Petrus Van Theemsche, 83, Belgian racing cyclist.
* B. Vittalacharya, 79, Indian film director and producer.

### 29

* Joe Busch, 91, Australian rugby player.
* João Carlos de Oliveira, 45, Brazilian athlete, complications of alcoholism.
* Bernard Lajarrige, 87, French film and television actor.
* Mattia Moreni, 78, Italian sculptor and painter.
* Richard Ray, 72, American politician.

### 30

* Rajesh Singh Adhikari, 28, Indian Army officer.
* Don Harper, 78, Australian composer.
* Sonia Chadwick Hawkes, 65, English archaeologist, cancer.
* William R. Lawley Jr., 78, United States Army Air Forces officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
* Kalju Lepik, 78, Estonian poet.
* Paul S. Newman, 75, American writer of comic books and strips, heart attack.

### 31

* Emilio Baldonedo, 82, Argentine football player and manager.
* Inayat Hussain Bhatti, 71, Pakistani actor, script writer, social worker and columnist.
* Don Biederman, 59, Canadian stock car racer, brain aneurysm.
* Nicolas Bréhal, 46, French novelist and literary critic.
* Davor Dujmović, 29, Bosnian Serb actor, suicide by hanging.
* Willibald Hahn, 89, Austrian football player and manager.
* Anatoli Ivanov, 71, Soviet and Russian writer.
* Auguste Le Breton, 86, French novelist, lung cancer.
* Radomir Lukić, 84, Serbian jurist and academic.
* Charles Pierce, 72, American female impersonator.
* Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha, 69, Indian politician.