Deaths in August 1999

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. Francisco Cascante, 71, Cuban Olympic gymnast (1952). Nirad C. Chaudhuri, 101, Indian English-language writer. Dudley Coulson, 70, British-Kenyan Olympic field hockey player (1956). Robert S. Gawthrop III, 56, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania). 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 (Baltimore Bullets). 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. Ramón Lavín, 37, Spanish Olympic swimmer (1980). Ramón Martínez, 73, Spanish fencer and Olympian (1960). Bob Mollohan, 89, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1953-1957, 1969-1983). 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. Willem Jens, 90, Dutch Olympic rower (1936). Liselott Linsenhoff, 71, German equestrian and Olympic champion (1956, 1968, 1972). 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. Leo Sanders, 85, American baseball player. Derrick Shepard, 35, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins, New Orleans Saints, Dallas Cowboys), heart attack. Carl Toms, 72, British set and costume designer, emphysema.

5 Charles Anthony Boyd, 39, American serial killer. Friedhelm Dick, 55, German footballer. 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.David Boardman Obituary: David Munro, The Independent, 12 August 1999, retrieved 11 November 2019 Rimma Zhukova, 74, Soviet and Russian speed skater.

6 Mihai Băcescu, 91, Romanian zoologist. Ilse Pausin, 80, Austrian pair skater and Olympic medalist (1936). 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. Cec Waters, 77, Australian rugby league footballer. 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. Mustafa Hukić, 48, Bosnian footballer. 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 (Temple Owls). Desmond Marquette, 90, American film editor. Kazuo Miyagawa, 91, Japanese cinematographer. Ted Natt, 58, American newspaper publisher (The Daily News), helicopter crash. 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. Sonny Cullen, 65, Irish Olympic cyclist (1960). 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 (Boston/Washington Redskins). Roger Stott, 56, Britishpolitician, liver cancer. Willard Swihart, 84, American basketball player. 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 (1952, 1956, 1960, 1964). 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 Lajos Baranyai, 60, Hungarian Olympic boxer (1960). Dickie Davis, 77, English footballer. Robert Dorfmann, 87, French film producer. James Otto Earhart, 56, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. Paul Gibson, 74, American football player (Buffalo Bills). 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. Josh Johnson, 85, American baseball player. Wilfrid Kalaugher, 94, New Zealand athlete, scholar, and Olympian (1928). Georges Roux, 84, French writer and historian. Bob Wilson, 83, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1953-1981). 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. Jean-Claude Lefebvre, 62, French basketball player. Argentina Díaz Lozano, 86, Honduran journalist and novelist. Sulo Nurmela, 91, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympic champion (1936). 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 (Detroit Tigers). John Pingel, 82, American football player (Detroit Lions). Pee Wee Reese, 81, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers) 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. Stan Kemp, 75, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs). Vladimir Loshchilov, 67, Soviet Olympic shot putter (1956). Mark McPhee, 35, Australian cricketer, traffic collision. Olga Orozco, 79, Argentine poet, cardiovascular disease. Pierre Ranzoni, 78, French footballer 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. Carlos Cachaça, 97, Brazilian samba songwriter. Roy Edwards, 62, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins). 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 (Boston Red Sox). Charles Samuel Joelson, 83, American lawyer and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1961-1969). Reiner Klimke, 63, German equestrian and Olympic champion (1960, 1964, 1968, 1976, 1984, 1988), 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 Giuseppe Beviacqua, 84, Italian long-distance runner and Olympian (1936). Irene Falcón, 91, Spanish journalist, feminist and activist, respiratory condition. Dee Fondy, 74, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds). Ian Orr-Ewing, Baron Orr-Ewing, 87, British politician. Kim Perrot, 32, American basketball player (Houston Comets), lung cancer. Arthur Pinajian, 85, Armenian-American comic book writer. 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. Carlos Couto, 69, Brazilian Olympic fencer (1968). Albert von Einsiedel, 82, Filipino sports shooter and Olympian (1948). Bob Gallion, 75, American country music singer. Héctor García, 73, Uruguayan Olympic basketball player (1948, 1952, 1956). Joseph Hasenfus, 86, American Olympic canoeist (1936). Josef Herink, 83, Czech medical doctor 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.

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