Deaths in November 1999

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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.

November 1999

1 Minoru Chiaki, 82, Japanese actor. Jean Coutu, 74, Canadian actor. Edmund Dell, 78, British politician and businessman. Bhekimpi Dlamini, 74, Southern African politician, Prime Minister of Swaziland (1983–1986). Theodore Hall, 74, American physicist and spy for the Soviet Union, renal cancer. Thomas H. Jukes, 93, British-American biologist. Pat McLaughlin, 89, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Athletics). Ted Migdal, 85, American basketball player. Walter Payton, 46, American Hall of Fame gridiron football player (Chicago Bears), cholangiocarcinoma. Héctor Pellegrini, 68, Argentine film actor. Franca Scagnetti, 75, Italian film actress. John Sears, 63, American NASCAR racing driver. William Sheldon, 92, Irish politician and farmer. Aubrey Webster, 89, Canadian ice hockey player (Philadelphia Quakers, Montreal Maroons).

2 Milan Antal, 64, Slovak astronomer. Jackie Davis, 78, American soul jazz singer, organist and bandleader, stroke. Demetrio B. Lakas, 74, Panamanian politician, president (1969–1978), heart disease. Atputharajah Nadarajah, 36, Sri Lankan journalist and politician, shot. Billy Nicks, 94, American college football player and coach. Hans-Joachim Preil, 76, East German comedian. Hardie Scott, 92, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1947-1953). Mitar Subotić, 38, Serbian-Brazilian musician and composer, fire. William van Straubenzee, 75, British politician. Richard Voliva, 87, American wrestler, coach, and Olympian (1936).

3 Ian Bannen, 71, Scottish actor, car accident. Robert C. Belloni, 80, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Oregon). Jack Bionda, 66, Canadian ice hockey and lacrosse player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins). William J. Brown, 59, American lawyer and politician. Alan Heusaff, 78, Breton nationalist, linguist, and journalist. Vilen Kalyuta, 69, Soviet and Ukrainian cinematographer. Keizo Saji, 80, Japanese businessman and art patron.

4 Daisy Bates, 84, American civil rights activist, publisher and journalist. Alvin Coox, 75, American military historian and author. Zvi Griliches, 69, American economist and holocaust survivor. Ernest J. Kump, 87, American architect, author and inventor. Malcolm Marshall, 41, West Indian cricketer, colon cancer. Giovanni De Martin, 71, Italian Olympic bobsledder (1956). Cornel Popa, 64, Romanian football player. Maybelle Reichardt, 92, American discus thrower and Olympian (1928). David Shaber, 70, American screenwriter (The Warriors, Nighthawks, Flight of the Intruder), aneurysm. Henri Van Kerckhove, 73, Belgian road cyclist. Wakasugiyama Toyoichi, 66, Japanese sumo wrestler. Fred Wallner, 71, American gridiron football player (Chicago Cardinals, Houston Oilers). Charles Wintour, 82, British newspaper editor. Zainuddin, 47, Indian actor and comedian, respiratory complications.

5 Antonio Fraguas Fraguas, 93, Spanish historian, ethnographer, anthropologist, and geographer. James Goldstone, 68, American film and television director. Willie Halpern, 92, American football player. Noureddin Kianouri, 94, Iranian architect and political leader. Richard Marius, 66, American academic and writer, pancreatic cancer. Colin Rowe, 79, British-American architectural historian.

6 Sleim Ammar, 72, Tunisian neuropsychiatrist and poet. José María Caffarel, 79, Spanish film actor. Laurence Decore, 59, Canadian lawyer and politician, cancer. Regina Ghazaryan, 84, Armenian painter and public figure. George V. Higgins, 59, American author, lawyer, newspaper columnist, and raconteur, heart attack. Rob Hoeke, 60, Dutch singer, pianist, composer and songwriter. Anthony "Sooty" Jones, 46, American rock bassist ("Humble Pie"). Charles Mason, 91, American Olympic rower (1928). Hank Messick, American investigative journalist and author.

7 Tom Briggs, 80, English football player. Allan Felder, 56, American songwriter. Joe Lang Kershaw, 88, American politician and civics teacher, congestive heart failure. Walter McDonald, 96, Canadian politician. Primo Nebiolo, 76, Italian sports official and IAAF president, heart attack.

8 Lester Bowie, 58, American jazz trumpet player and composer, liver cancer. Tom Domres, 53, American football player (Houston Oilers, Denver Broncos). Gwen Gordy Fuqua, 71, American songwriter and composer, cancer. Jerry Kerr, 87, Scottish football player and manager. Coley Logan, 87, American baseball player. Yury Vasilyevich Malyshev, 58, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz T-2, Soyuz T-11). Yvon Mariolle, 53, French boxer and Olympian (1968). Richard Martin, 51, American academic, curator, and art and fashion historian, melanoma. Rob Nieuwenhuys, 91, Dutch writer. Harry Riebauer, 78, German film and television actor. Heinz Schmitz, 71, German Olympic field hockey player (1952). Leon Štukelj, 100, Yugoslav gymnast and Olympic gold medalist (1924, 1928, 1936), heart attack. Jean Verhaert, 91, Belgian Olympic sprinter (1936).

9 Herb Abramson, 82, American record producer and executive. Marjorie Gladman, 91, American tennis player. Huang Huoqing, 98, Chinese politician. Mabel King, 66, American actress and singer, diabetes. Wolf Ruvinskis, 78, Mexican actor and professional wrestler, cardiovascular disease. Dick Todd, 85, American NFL football player (Washington Redskins), and coach.

10 Stasys Antanas Bačkis, 93, Lithuanian diplomat and civil servant. Felix Galimir, 89, Austrian-American violinist. Robert Kramer, 60, American film director, screenwriter and actor, meningitis. Eric Langton, 92, English motorcycle speedway rider. José Martins, 68, Brazilian boxer and Olympian (1960). Thomas McKinney, 72, Northern Irish rugby player. Jean Potts, 88, American mystery novelist.

11 Mary Kay Bergman, 38, American voice actress (South Park, Scooby-Doo, The New Adventures of Zorro), suicide by gunshot. Frank Bowyer, 77, English footballer. Maurice Dugowson, 61, French film director and screenwriter. Sir Vivian Fuchs, 91, British explorer. Gabriel Gonsum Ganaka, 62, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate. Daniel Ivernel, 79, French film actor, suicide. Choi Moo-ryong, 71, South Korean actor. Sathyavani Muthu, 76, Indian politician. Thomas Pitfield, 96, British composer, poet, artist, engraver, and calligrapher. Jack Plimsoll, 82, South African cricketer. Lodewijk Prins, 86, Dutch chess player and chess referee. Jacobo Timerman, 76, Soviet-Argentine publisher, journalist, and author, heart attack.

12 Eulalie Minfred Banks, 104, American illustrator of children's books. Gaby Casadesus, 98, French classical pianist and teacher. Pituka de Foronda, 81, Spanish actress. Engelbert Haider, 77, Austrian Olympic alpine skier (1948). Sven Hjertsson, 75, Swedish football player and Olympian (1952). Aang Kunaefi, 76, Indonesian military officer and diplomat. Mohammad Mohammadullah, 78, Bangladeshi politician, President (1973–1975). Konrad Petzold, 69, German film director, writer and actor. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt II, 87, British-American racehorse owner and member of the Vanderbilt family.

13 John Benson Brooks, 82, American jazz pianist, songwriter, arranger, and composer. Richard Chopping, 70, Canadian field hockey player and Olympian (1964). Germaine Dieterlen, 96, French anthropologist. Ray Goolsby, 80, American baseball player (Washington Senators). Marianne Gustafsson, 86, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1928). Donald Mills, 84, American singer (The Mills Brothers), pneumonia. Tony Rumble, 43, American professional wrestler and manager, heart attack. John Stapp, 89, United States Army Air Forces officer, flight surgeon and physician. Barbara Jean Wong, 75, American actress.

14 Rut Bryk, 83, Finnish ceramist. Orazio Costa, 88, Italian theatre pedagogist and director. Brian Ó Cuív, 83, Irish historian and Celtic scholar. George Fahoum, 90, Egyptian Olympic sprinter (1936). Lucile Fairbanks, 82, American actress. Bert Jacobs, 58, Dutch football manager, cancer. Minna Keal, 90, British composer. Robert Perew, 76, American rower and Olympian (1948). Benjamin I. Schwartz, 82, American academic, author and sinologist. György Sebők, 77, Hungarian-American pianist and academic. Jimmy Sidle, 57, American gridiron football player (Atlanta Falcons), heart failure. Harbaksh Singh, 86, Indian Army senior officer. Peter Wildeblood, 76, Anglo-Canadian journalist, novelist, playwright and gay rights campaigner.

15 Jean-Marie Adiaffi, 58, Ivorian writer, screenwriter and filmmaker. Sir Harry Llewellyn, 3rd Baronet, 88, British equestrian, Olympic champion (1948, 1952). P. K. van der Byl, 76, Rhodesian politician. Fikri Elma, 65, Turkish football player. Lucien Jasseron, 85, French football player. Gene Levitt, 79, American television writer, producer and director, prostate cancer. Maynard Lyndon, 92, American architect. Norio Taniguchi, 87, Japanese academic who coined the term nano-technology.

16 Allen Benson, 94, American baseball player (Washington Senators). Bill Burgoyne, 52, New Zealand rugby league player. Harry Gibbs, 79, British boxing referee.Obituary: Harry Gibbs H. Clay Earles, 86, American NASCAR team owner. Desmond Domnique Jennings, 28, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection. Jay Moloney, 35, American Hollywood talent agent, suicide by hanging. Daniel Nathans, 71, American microbiologist. Henri Padou Jr., 71, French Olympic swimmer (1948).

17 Leif Anderson, 74, Swedish jazz expert, journalist and radio personality. Faubion Bowers, 82, American academic and writer. Edmund Fryde, 76, Polish-British historian. Cowboy Jimmy Moore, 89, American pocket billiards (pool) player. Enrique Urkijo, 39, Spanish singer, songwriter, and guitarist, drug overdose.

18 Evgeny Belosheikin, 33, Russian ice hockey player, suicide. Paul Bowles, 88, American migrant composer, author, and translator, heart failure. Beatrice Colen, 51, American actress (Happy Days, Wonder Woman, Lifeguard), lung cancer. Sarath Dassanayake, 57, Sri Lankan composer, film producer and a musician. Stephen Greene, 82, American artist. Jay Heard, 79, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles). Horst P. Horst, 93, German-born American fashion photographer. Vittorio Miele, 72, Italian painter. Prince Heinrich of Hesse and by Rhine, 72, German noble. Doug Sahm, 58, American musician and singer-songwriter, heart attack. James Tinn, 77, British politician. Gladys Yang, 80, British translator of Chinese literature.

19 Yvette Cauchois, 90, French physicist, infectious disease. Alexander Liberman, 87, Russian-American publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. Plínio Marcos, 64, Brazilian writer, actor, journalist and playwright, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. John McCue, 77, English footballer. Antonis Migiakis, 88, Greek football player and coach. Arthur W. Saha, 76, American speculative fiction editor and anthologist, cancer.

20 Yuri Chesnokov, 47, Soviet football player. Amintore Fanfani, 91, Italian politician and statesman, prime minister (1954, 1958-1959, 1960-1963, 1982-1983, 1987).Obituary Amintore Fanfani, The Guardian, 22 November 1999 Ludwig Hamm, 77, German politician and member of the Bundestag. Sadao Hasegawa, 54, Japanese graphic artist, suicide by hanging. Arthur Hewson, 84, Australian politician. Sufia Kamal, 88, Bangladeshi poet and political activist. Germaine Ribière, 82, French Resistance member during World War II. Fred Thurier, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (New York/Brooklyn Americans, New York Rangers).

21 Alphonse Antoine, 84, French road bicycle racer. Margaret E. Chisholm, 78, American librarian and educator.