page_title: 1999
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 1999 / Deaths / October
caption_attribution_description: Norsk bokmål: Julius Nyerere som leder av Tanganyikas lovgivende forsamling. English: Julius Nyerere as leader of the Legislative Council of Tanganyika.
context_page_description: 1999 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1999th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 999th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1990s decade.
  1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons.
context_section_description: October 2 – Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Albanian Islamic scholar (b. 1914)
  October 3 – Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (b. 1921)
  October 4
  Bernard Buffet, French painter (b. 1928)
  Art Farmer, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1928)
  October 6
  Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler and announcer (b. 1937)
  Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer and actress (b. 1920)
  October 9
  Milt Jackson, American musician (b. 1923)
  Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani businessman (b. 1914)
  October 11 – Galina Bystrova, Soviet athlete (b. 1934)
  October 12 – Wilt Chamberlain, American professional basketball player (b. 1936)
  October 14 – Julius Nyerere, 1st President of Tanzania (b. 1922)
  October 17 – Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American physicist (b. 1915)
  October 19 – Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born Francophone lawyer and writer (b. 1900)
  October 20 – Jack Lynch, Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1917)
  October 21 – John Bromwich, Australian tennis player (b. 1918)
  October 23 – András Hegedüs, Hungarian politician, 45th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1922)
  October 24 – John Chafee, American politician (b. 1922)
  October 25 – Payne Stewart, American golfer (b. 1957)
  October 26
  Hoyt Axton, American singer and actor (b. 1938)
  Abraham Polonsky, American screenwriter and director (b. 1910)
  October 27
  Frank De Vol, American arranger, composer, and actor (b. 1911)
  Karen Demirchyan, Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia (b. 1932)
  Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927)
  Leonard Petrosyan, 3rd Prime Minister of Artsakh (b. 1953)
  Vazgen Sargsyan, Armenian military commander and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Armenia (assassinated) (b. 1959)
  October 28 – Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet (b. 1902)
  October 31 – Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (b. 1975)
caption: Julius Nyerere
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