Deaths in July 1999

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 1999

1 Dennis Brown, 42, Jamaican reggae singer, pneumothorax. Edward Dmytryk, 90, Canadian-American film director, heart and kidney failure. Forrest Mars, 95, American businessman and candy magnate. Guy Mitchell, 72, American traditional pop singer and actor, complications from surgery. Jack Moroney, 81, Australian cricket player. Ernst Nievergelt, 89, Swiss cyclist and Olympic medalist (1936). Joshua Nkomo, 82, Zimbabwean politician, prostate cancer. Sylvia Sidney, 88, American film actress (Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, Beetlejuice, An Early Frost), oesophageal cancer. Roman Tmetuchl, 73, Palauan political leader. Stig Westerberg, 80, Swedish conductor and pianist. Willie Whitelaw, 81, British politician.

2 Andrey Bogdanov, 41, Soviet Russian Olympic swimmer (1976). Viktor Chebrikov, 76, Soviet head of the KGB (1982–1988). George Deiderich, 63, American football player. George Druxman, 69, Canadian football player. Xavier Gélin, 53, French actor and film producer, cancer. Jack Plumley, 88, British Anglican priest, egyptologist and academic. Mario Puzo, 78, American novelist (The Godfather) and screenwriter (Superman, The Cotton Club), Oscar winner (1973, 1975), heart failure.Homberger, Eric (July 5, 1999). "Mario Puzo: The author of the Godfather, the book the Mafia loved", The Guardian. Accessed April 19, 2019. Louis Rosenberg, 100, American district judge (United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania). Howie Ruetz, 71, American football player (Green Bay Packers). Asoka Weeraratna, 80, Sri Lankan (Sinhala) Buddhist missionary.

3 Reg Bishop, 86, Australian politician. Ricky Byrdsong, 43, American basketball coach and killing spree victim, shot. Yueh Feng, 90, Chinese film director and screenwriter. Ibragim Gasanbekov, 29, Azerbaijani football player, traffic collision. Frank Linskey, 85, American basketball player and coach. Mimi Nelson, 76, Swedish film actress. Manoj Kumar Pandey, 24, Indian military officer. Roberto Peper, 86, Argentine Olympic swimmer (1932). Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina, 100, Soviet and Russian mathematician. Paulo Porto, 81, Brazilian actor, film producer, director and screenwriter. Mark Sandman, 46, American musician (Morphine), heart attack. Jack Vincent, 95, English ornithologist.

4 Ronny Graham, 79, American actor, theater director, and writer, liver disease. Georg Johansen, 75, Norwegian Olympic gymnast (1952). Ruby Johnson, 63, American soul singer.Obituary by Pierre Perrone, The Independent, 10 September 1999, Retrieved April 19 2019. Walter Legel, 59, Austrian Olympic weightlifter (1960, 1972, 1976, 1980). Mark O'Brien, 49, American journalist, poet, and disability rights advocate."Mark O'Brien, 49, Journalist And Poet in Iron Lung, Is Dead", The New York Times, July 11, 1999, Retrieved April 19, 2019. Jack Watson, 84, English actor, leukemia.

5 Len Butterfield, 85, New Zealand cricket player. Jean-Pierre Darras, 71, French actor, cancer. Joan Kemp-Welch, 92, British stage and film actress. Karnal Sher Khan, 29, Pakistani military officer. C. Walton Lillehei, 80, American surgeon and open-heart surgery pioneer. Harald Philipp, 78, German film director, screenwriter and actor. Roberta Sherwood, 86, American singer. Thea Tewi, 97, German-American sculptor and lingerie designer.

6 Bernardo Gandulla, 83, Argentine football player and coach. Gary M. Heidnik, 55, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Joe Hyman, 77, British textile entrepreneur. M. L. Jaisimha, 60, Indian cricket player, lung cancer. Pisith Pilika, 34, Cambodian ballet dancer and actress, shot. Joaquín Rodrigo, 97, Spanish composer and pianist. Sherley Anne Williams, 54, American novelist, poet and professor. Barry Winchell, 21, United States Army infantry soldier, bludgeoned.

7 Vikram Batra, 24, Indian Army officer. Riccardo Cerutti, 77, Italian rower and Olympian (1948). Emilio Sánchez Font, 78, Cuban-American artist. James Gahagan, American abstract expressionist painter. Brima Kamara, 27, Sierra Leonean football player. Ryu Mitsuse, 71, Japanese novelist, science fiction writer, and essayist. Richard Müller, 95, German chemist. Anuj Nayyar, 23, Indian Army officer. Julie Campbell Tatham, 91, American writer of children's novels.

8 Ángel Lulio Cabrera, 90, Argentinian botanist. Adolf Christian, 65, Austrian bicycle racer. Mavis Thorpe Clark, 90, Australian novelist and writer for children. Pete Conrad, 69, American astronaut (Gemini 5, Gemini 11, Apollo 12, Skylab 2), traffic collision. Allen Lee Davis, 54, American murderer, execution by electric chair. Atilio Ensunza, 62, Argentine Olympic rower (1964). Oliver Gasch, 93, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Columbia). Kenneth Keller Hall, 81, American judge. Frank Lubin, 89, Lithuanian-American basketball player and Olympian (1936). Malcolm Mackay, 79, Australian politician, traffic collision. Robert Morrison, 90, American attorney and politician. Elemér Terták, 80, Hungarian figure skater and Olympian (1936). Shafik Wazzan, 74, Lebanese politician. Mehdi Haeri Yazdi, 76, Iranian philosopher and Shia Islamic cleric.

9 Karl Adam, 75, German football player. Robert de Cotret, 55, Canadian politician. Ingenuino Dallagio, 89, Italian Olympic skier (1932). James L. Farmer, Jr., 79, American civil rights activist, complications from diabetes. Bill Hindman, 76, American actor (Porky's). Esme Mackinnon, 85, British alpine skier and world champion downhill and slalom. Samuel Sanders, 62, American classical pianist. Donald Shearer, 90, English sportsman and Olympian (1936).

10 Ludwik Czachowski, 55, Polish ice hockey player and Olympian (1972). John Scott-Ellis, 9th Baron Howard de Walden, 86, British peer and thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder. Walter R. Evans, 79, American control theorist. Gil Johnson, 75, American gridiron football player. Ulla Lindström, 89, Swedish journalist and politician.

11 Rie Briejèr, 89, Dutch Olympic sprinter (1928). James Davies, 93, Canadian Olympic cyclist (1928). Burton Dreben, 71, American philosopher. Marcelo Fernan, 72, Filipino lawyer and politician, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Helen Forrest, 82, American singer of traditional pop and swing music, heart failure. Everett Greenbaum, 79, American television and film writer and actor. Henry Kimbro, 87, American Negro league baseball player. Lasse Lindroth, 26, Iranian-Swedish comedian, actor and writer, traffic collision. Roaring Lion, 91, Trinidad and Tobago calypso singer and composer. John Henry Sharpe, 77, Bermudian politician, Premier (1975-1975). Shirley Weierman, 61, American baseball player.

12 Bill Flett, 55, Canadian hockey player, liver failure. Alex Gordon, 82, Welsh architect. Harvey Jackins, 83, American founder and principal theorist of Re-evaluation Counseling.RC web site - Harvey Jackins obituaries Retrieved April 14, 2019 Rajendra Kumar, 69, Indian film actor, cancer. Herbert Frazier Murray, 75, American attorney and judge. Mircea Nedelciu, 48, Romanian short-story writer, novelist and essayist, Hodgkin's disease. Kazimierz Ostrowski, 82, Polish painter. Bill Owen, 85, British actor and songwriter, pancreatic cancer. Jan Panenka, 77, Czech pianist. Zita Szeleczky, 84, Hungarian actress. Cornelius Wiebe, 106, Canadian physician and politician. Édouard Yves, 91, Belgian Olympic fencer (1928, 1948, 1952).

13 Manuel Aramayo, 43, Bolivian Olympic alpine skier (1988, 1992). Detlow von Braun, 87, Swedish Olympic sailor (1936). Bert Burry, 93, Canadian ice hockey player (Ottawa Senators). Donald D. Engen, 75, American naval officer, administrator of the FAA, and museum director, gliding accident. Muhammetnazar Gapurow, 77, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR (1969 – 1985). Yevgeny Goryansky, 70, Russian football player and football coach. Herta Heuwer, 86, German chef and inventor of the currywurst. Josef Moc, 91, Czechoslovak Olympic basketball player (1936). Irene Ruhnke, 79, American baseball player.

14 Maria Banuș, 85, Romanian poet, essayist, and prose writer. Hugh Gallarneau, 82, American gridiron football player (Chicago Bears). Gene Hart, 68, American sportscaster for the Philadelphia Flyers, kidney and liver failure. Władysław Hasior, 71, Polish sculptor. Abdul Ahad Karzai, 77, Afghan politician, assassination. Vasile Mariuțan, 64, Romanian boxer and Olympian (1960, 1964). Umyar Mavlikhanov, 61, Soviet fencer and Olympic champion (1960, 1964, 1968). Gar Samuelson, 41, American drummer (Megadeth), liver failure. Trudi Schoop, 95, Swiss-American dance therapy pioneer. John R. Steelman, 99, American academic and first White House Chief of Staff. Pietro Tarchini, 77, Swiss professional cyclist. Sal Trapani, 72, American comic-book artist. Sadao Yamahana, 63, Japanese politician.

15 Sir Richard Thompson, 1st Baronet, 86, British politician. George Brown, 79, American politician, Member of the United States House of Representatives (1963-1971, 1973-), complications following heart surgery. Simon Ramsay, 16th Earl of Dalhousie, 84, British land owner, politician and colonial governor. Horacio Podestá, 87, Argentine rower and Olympic medalist (1936). Dick Richardson, 65, Welsh heavyweight boxer, cancer. Kamalendumati Shah, Indian politician and social worker, brain cancer. Hub Wilson, 90, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Americans).

16 Ross H. Arnett, Jr., 80, American entomologist. Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, 33, American socialite and wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., plane crash. John F. Kennedy Jr., 38, American journalist, lawyer, and son of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, plane crash. Alan Macnaughton, 95, Canadian parliamentarian and Speaker of the House. André Martinet, 91, French linguist. Franco Montoro, 83, Brazilian politician and lawyer. Hamid Nitgi, 78, Iranian poet, writer and author. Alfred Raoul, 60, Congolese politician, Prime Minister (1968-1969). Whit Wyatt, 91, American baseball player, pneumonia. Hiromi Yanagihara, 19, Japanese singer and actress, heart failure.

17 Rajendra Kumari Bajpai, 74, Indian politician. Arthur Hoag, 78, American astronomer. Daniel H. H. Ingalls, Sr., 83, American professor of Sanskrit. Donal McCann, 56, Irish actor, pancreatic cancer."Obituary: Donal McCann", The Independent, 20 July 1999. Retrieved 14 April 2019 Kevin Newman, 65, Australian soldier and politician, systemic lupus erythematosus. Kevin Wilkinson, 41, English drummer, suicide by hanging. Patricia Zipprodt, 74, American costume designer, cancer.

18 Meir Ariel, 57, Israeli singer-songwriter, boutonneuse fever. Rubén Bernuncio, 23, Argentine football player, renal failure following traffic collision. Donald Eugene Chambers, 68, American marine and founder of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club. Woody Davis, 86, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). Jatin Kanakia, 46, Indian actor. Pavel Pulda, 50, Czech Olympic sports shooter (1976, 1980). Pandi Raidhi, 68, Albanian film and theatre actor. Laurie Scott, 82, English footballer. Tody Smith, 50, American gridiron football player (Dallas Cowboys, Houston Oilers, Buffalo Bills).

19 Donna Allen, 78, American pioneer feminist, civil rights activist, historian and economist. Jesús Codina, 60, Spanish Olympic basketball player (1960, 1968). Cavernario Galindo, 75, Mexican luchador and film actor. Ludwik Gross, 94, Polish-American virologist, stomach cancer. José Luis Madrid, 66, Spanish screenwriter, producer and film director. Hans Maldonado, 41, Ecuadorian football player. Ingulf Nossek, 55, German Olympic water polo player (1972). Jerold Wells, 90, English actor.