The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.
June 1999
1 Lloyd L. Burke, 74, United States Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor. Sir Christopher Cockerell, 88, English engineer and inventor of the hovercraft. Olivier Debré, 79, French abstract painter. Mr. Prospector, 29, American thoroughbred racehorse, complications from colic. Gert Ledig, 77, German writer. Cris Miró, 33, Argentine entertainer and media personality, lymphoma. Bjørn Spiro, 90, Danish film actor.
2 Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf, 47, Yemeni human rights activist and journalist, traffic collision. Václav Benda, 52, Czech Roman Catholic activist and mathematician. Junior Braithwaite, 50, Jamaican reggae musician, shot. Keith Gledhill, 88, American tennis player. Yevhen Ivchenko, 60, Soviet Belarusian athlete and Olympic medalist (1972, 1980). Blagoje Jovovic, Montenegrin Serb World War II Partisan and Chetnik. Ron Reynolds, 71, English football goalkeeper. Andy Simpkins, 67, American jazz bassist, stomach cancer. Robert Sobel, 68, American writer and academic.
3 Italo Allodi, 71, Italian football player and manager. Helge Bronée, 77, Danish footballer. Peter Brough, 83, English radio ventriloquist. Bernardin Mungul Diaka, 65, Congolese/Zairean diplomat and politician. Ralph Foster, 81, American football player (Chicago Cardinals). J. Edward Lumbard, 97, American circuit judge (United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit). Romolo Marcellini, 88, Italian film director and screenwriter. Charlene Pryer, 77, American baseball player. Myron Weiner, 68, American political scientist and scholar.
4 Ann Brown, 56, British psychologist. Petro Chevhun, 73, Soviet Ukrainian Olympic middle-distance runner (1952). Zachary Fisher, 88, American philanthropist and businessman. G. S. Maddala, 66, Indian-American economist and mathematician. John McKeithen, 81, American lawyer, politician and governor of Louisiana. Mike Mikulak, 86, American gridiron football player (Chicago Cardinals). Dick Stovall, 77, American football player (Detroit Lions, Washington Redskins). Yury Vasilyev, 59, Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. Guillermo Weller, 86, Argentine Olympic racewalker (1952, 1960).
5 Magne Kleiven, 77, Norwegian Olympic gymnast (1952). Menil Mavraides, 67, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles). Robert Merritt, Nova Scotia playwright and film critic. Mel Tormé, 73, American singer and musician, stroke. Ernie Wilkins, 76, American jazz saxophonist, conductor and arranger, stroke.
6 Hans-Georg Fehn, 55, German Olympic water polo player (1968). Lisy Fischer, 98, Swiss pianist, child prodigy.Certified Archival Documents with birth and marriage dates (Charlottenberg, Berlin), birth certificate of daughter (Amsterdam) and death certificate for Lisy Fischer (UK) Anne Haddy, 68, Australian actress, renal failure. Ilya Musin, 95, Soviet conductor and a theorist of conducting. Fred Provo, 77, American football player (Green Bay Packers). Manuel Ramos, 56, Mexican boxer, heart attack. Eddie Stanky, 83, American baseball player and manager, heart attack.
7 Bob Garber, 70, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates). Lady June, 68, English painter, poet and musician, heart attack. Paul Oskar Kristeller, 94, German-American scholar of renaissance humanism. Victor Otiev, 64, Soviet / Russian painter and graphic artist. Charles D. Palmer, 97, United States Army general, cardiac arrest. Paco Stanley, 56, Mexican television entertainer, shot. Joseph Vandernoot, 84, British conductor.
8 Piet Blom, 65, Dutch architect. Ted James, 92, American football player (Frankford Yellow Jackets), and coach. Zofia Kuratowska, 67, Polish physician and politician. Corrado Mantoni, 74, Italian actor and radio and television host, lung cancer. Rosy McHargue, 97, American jazz clarinetist. Karl Z. Morgan, 91, American physicist and radiation health physics pioneer. Brian Shorland, 89, New Zealand organic chemist. Emiliano Tardif, 71, Canadian missionary, heart complications. Gordon Towers, 79, Canadian politician and lieutenant governor of Alberta. Fred Wampler, 89, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1959–1961).
9 Al Bates, 94, American Olympic athlete (1928). Ernesto Calindri, 90, Italian theater and film actor, stroke. Heimo Haitto, 74, Finnish-American classical violinist. Maurice Journeau, 100, French composer. Saurabh Kalia, 22, Indian Army officer. Giles Sutherland Rich, 95, American judge and influential patent attorney, lymphoma. Andrew L. Stone, 96, American screenwriter, film director and producer. Ray Yagiello, 75, American football coach.
10 Manlio Busoni, 92, Italian film and television actor. Kenneth S. Davis, 86, American historian. Béla Egresi, 77, Hungarian football player. Henry Grunfeld, 95, German-British merchant banker. Sid Levine, 80, American basketball player. Grete Natzler, 92, Austrian actress and operatic soprano. Jerry Elizalde Navarro, 75, Filipino artist. Joe Smyth, 70, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Baltimore Bullets). Leonard Thornton, 82, New Zealand Army officer. Oswald Tippo, 87, American botanist and educator. Jiří Vršťala, 78, Czech film actor. J. E. Caerwyn Williams, 87, Welsh scholar. Chen Xilian, 84, Chinese Army general and politician.
11 Gene Anderson, 81, American basketball player. Gilles Châtelet, 55, French philosopher and mathematician, suicide. DeForest Kelley, 79, American actor (Star Trek, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Apache Uprising), stomach cancer. Arnie Kullman, 71, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins). Viljo Nousiainen, 55, Finnish high jumping coach. Gordon Stirling, 74, Australian politician.
12 Ola Bauer, 55, Norwegian novelist and playwright, cancer. Jean Capdouze, 56, French rugby player. Sergey Khlebnikov, 43, Russian Olympic speed skater (1980, 1984), drowned. Jah Lloyd, 51, Jamaican reggae singer, deejay and record producer, asthma. Joseph Marcello, 75, mobster from Louisiana, United States.Joseph Marcello dies Daily World (June 15, 1999) J. F. Powers, 81, American novelist and short-story writer. Jalagam Vengala Rao, 78, Indian politician. Bib Stillwell, 71, Australian racing driver. Gerd Tellenbach, 95, German historian and scholar. Aleksandras Štromas, 68, Lithuanian political scientist, dissident and author.
13 Gabriel Grüner, 35, Italian photojournalist, shot by Yugoslavian soldiers. Volker Krämer, 56, German journalist, shot by Yugoslavian soldiers. Carlos Kroeber, 64, Brazilian actor. Igor Ksenofontov, 60, Soviet and Russian figure skating coach, heart failure. Jørgen Olesen, 75, Danish football player and Olympian (1952). Kjell Rosén, 78, Swedish football player and Olympian (1948). Douglas Seale, 85, English actor (Aladdin, Ernest Saves Christmas, Amadeus). Diablo Velasco, 80, Mexican professional wrestler
14 Henri Baruk, 101, French neuropsychiatrist. Kurt Blaukopf, 85, Austrian music sociologist. Américo Bonetti, 71, Argentine Olympic boxer (1952). Jack M. Campbell, 82, American politician. Louis Diamond, 97, American pediatrician, known as the "father of pediatric hematology". Osvaldo Dragún, 70, Argentine playwright. Bernie Faloney, 66, Canadian football player, colorectal cancer. Anna McCune Harper, 96, American tennis player. Mauricio de la Lama, 79, Mexican Olympic sailor (1960, 1964). Henry "Junjo" Lawes, 51, Jamaican record producer, drive-by shooting. Cecil Morgan, 100, American politician. Ray Peterson, 85, American football player (Green Bay Packers). Hann Trier, 83, German artist.
15 Alan Cathcart, 6th Earl Cathcart, 79, British Army officer. Sigrid Hunke, 86, German SS-member during World War II, author, and neopagan. Igor Kholin, 79, Russian poet and fiction writer, liver cancer. Gene Markland, 79, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). Sherman A. Minton, 80, American physician, herpetologist and toxinologist. Leszek Molenda, 45, Polish Olympic volleyball player (1980). Fausto Papetti, 76, Italian alto saxophone player. Fred Tiedt, 63, Irish boxer and Olympic silver medalist (1956).
16 Svend Aage Frederiksen, 79, Danish Olympic hammer thrower (1948). Lennart Geijer, 89, Swedish politician and lawyer. James Ottaway, 90, British film, television and stage actor. Lawrence Stone, 79, English historian of early modern Britain, Parkinson's disease. Screaming Lord Sutch, 58, English musician and serial parliamentary candidate, suicide by hanging. Marshall Wayne, 87, American diver and Olympic champion (1936).
17 Albert Bailey, 84, Australian politician. Stanley Faulder, 61, Canadian convict, execution by lethal injection. Basil Hume, 76, English Roman Catholic bishop, cancer. A. W. Kuchler, 91, German-American geographer and naturalist. Bertino de Souza, 66, Brazilian Olympic sports shooter (1972, 1976). Paul-Émile de Souza, 68, Beninese army officer and political figure. Lynn E. Stalbaum, 79, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1965–1967).
18 Loyd Arms, 79, American football player (Chicago Cardinals). Kim Bærentzen, 93, Danish Olympic fencer (1928, 1936). Ross Baillie, 21, Scottish track and field athlete, complications from anaphylaxis. Dircinha Batista, 77, Brazilian actress and singer. Bob Bullock, 69, American politician from Texas, cancer. Martin Hansen, 73, Danish Olympic boxer (1948). Robert G. Neumann, 83, American politician and diplomat. Lothar Ulsaß, 58, German football player, stroke. ʻAlī Ṭanṭāwī, 90, Syrian Salafi jurist, writer, and broadcaster.
19 Henri, Count of Paris, 90, French nobleman, Orleanist pretender to the throne, prostate cancer. Saeed Emami, 41, Iranian deputy minister of intelligence, suicide by poisoning. Oton Gliha, 85, Croatian artist. Heloísa Helena, 81, Brazilian actress and singer. Leslie Holdridge, 91, American botanist and climatologist. Kamal el-Din Hussein, 78, Egyptian military officer and politician, liver cancer. Arvid Pardo, 85, Maltese-Swedish diplomat and academic. Ronald Robinson, 78, British historian. Mario Soldati, 92, Italian writer and film director. Leonard P. Stavisky, 73, American politician and academic, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage. Cesáreo Victorino, 52, Mexican football player and Olympian (1968), traffic collision.
20 Gautam Chattopadhyay, 51, Indian Bengali singer, songwriter and composer. Clifton Fadiman, 95, American author, and radio and television personality, pancreatic cancer. T. A. Goudge, 89, Canadian philosopher and university professor. Barbara Jeppe, 78, South African botanical artist, pneumonia. Iulian Mihu, 72, Romanian film director. Bill Smith, 87, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).
21 Chandrakala, Indian film actress, cancer. Edwin Hewitt, 79, American mathematician. Danie Jacobs, 95, South African Olympic runner (1928). Tuure Junnila, 88, Finnish economist and politician. Kami, 27, Japanese rock musician, drummer (Malice Mizer), subarachnoid haemorrhage. Karl Krolow, 84, German poet and translator. Joe Spudic, 86, American basketball player. Ted Wolf, 76, American writer.
22 Wassila Ben Ammar, 87, First Lady of Tunisia (1962–1986). Mark Anthony Bracegirdle, 86, British-Australian marxist revolutionary. Michael Bredl, 83, German Volksmusik musician, -collector, and -publisher. Luboš Fišer, 63, Czech composer. Eugenio Florit, 95, Cuban writer, essayist, radio actor and diplomat. Guy Tunmer, 50, South African racing driver, traffic collision.
23 Francisco Rovira Beleta, 85/86, Spanish screenwriter and film director. Ondřej Bureš, 32, Czech Olympic swimmer (1988). Bert Haas, 85, American baseball player. Aziz Ishak, 85, Malaysian freedom fighter, politician and journalist. Carl Lange, 89, German film actor.