Deaths in October 1999

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 1999.

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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.

October 1999

1

• Kuei Chih-Hung, 61, Hong Kong filmmaker, liver cancer.[1]
• Noel Johnson, 82, English actor, died 1 October 1999.
• Borys Oliynyk, 65, Ukrainian political figure, murder.
• Wim Polak, 75, Dutch politician, Mayor of Amsterdam.
• Lena Zavaroni, 35, Scottish singer and a television show host, pneumonia.[2]

2

• Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Albanian Islamic scholar.
• Claude Bessy, 54, French writer, singer, video producer and painter, lung cancer.[3]
• Kim Hyun-jun, 39, South Korean basketball player, car accident.
• Tosio Kato, 82, Japanese mathematician.
• R. S. Krishnan, 88, Indian experimental physicist and scientist.
• Lee Lozano, 68, American painter and visual artist.[4]
• Danny Mayo, 49, American songwriter, heart attack.
• Georg Tintner, 82, Canadian conductor.

3

• Paul Burris, 76, American baseball player.
• Samuel Grashio, 81, US Army Air Forces pilot.
• Alastair Hetherington, 79, British journalist and editor of The Guardian.[5]
• Akio Morita, 78, Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony along with Masaru Ibuka, pneumonia.[6]
• Deirdre O'Connor, 48, Irish architect, cancer.

4

• Walter Bor, Austrian-born British town planner and architect.
• Bernard Buffet, 71, French painter, suicide.[7]
• Art Farmer, 71, American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player.[8]
• De Villiers Graaff, 85, South African politician.[9]
• Nikkyō Niwano, 92, Japanese Buddhist leader.
• Emil Schumacher, 87, German painter.
• Leonard Shoen, 83, American entrepreneur, suicide by car crash.[10]
• Ross Whitehead, 65, English professional golfer.

5

• Fernand Dubé, 70, Canadian lawyer and politician, heart attack.
• Alex Lowe, 40, American mountaineer, avalanche.[11]
• Frank K. Richardson, 85, American attorney and Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court, Parkinson's disease.

6

• Dick Bedesem, 68, American football player and coach, congestive heart failure.
• Rea Leakey, 83, Officer in the British Army.
• Gorilla Monsoon, 62, American wrestler and commentator, complications of diabetes.[12]
• Paul Petzoldt, 91, American mountaineer.
• Amália Rodrigues, 79, Portuguese singer known worldwide as the "Queen of Fado".[13]

7

• Deryck Guyler, 85, English actor.[14]
• David A. Huffman, 74, American computer scientist, cancer.[15]
• Doug Mattocks, 55, English cricketer.
• George Norton, 79, Irish rugby player.
• Dimitri Tsafendas, 81, Greek-Mozambican political militant, pneumonia.
• Helen Vinson, 92, American film actress.
• Dave Whitsell, 63, American football player, cancer.

8

• Manfredo Fest, 63, Brazilian bossa nova and jazz pianist and keyboardist.[16]
• John McLendon, 84, American basketball coach.
• Alfred Merriweather, 81, Scottish missionary in Botswana.

9

• Dutch Dotterer, 67, American baseball player.
• Milt Jackson, 76, American jazz vibraphonist, liver cancer.[17]
• Akhtar Hameed Khan, 85, Pakistani social scientist.
• James M. Logan, 78, American soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.[18]
• João Cabral de Melo Neto, 79, Brazilian poet and diplomat.
• Morris West, 83, Australian novelist and playwright.[19]

10

• George Forrest, 84, American writer of music and lyrics for musicals.[20]
• Ahmed Ibragimov, Chechen mass murderer.
• Dading Kalbuadi, 68, Indonesian Army Officer.
• Gul Hassan Khan, Pakistani Army general.
• Hajime Nakamura, 86, Japanese Orientalist, Indologist, philosopher and academic.
• Ted White, 86, Australian cricketer.

11

• Adriano Bassetto, 74, Italian footballer.
• Fakir Baykurt, 70, Turkish author and trade unionist.
• Galina Bystrova, 65, Soviet athlete.
• Ross Hall, 74, Canadian politician.
• James Franklin Hyde, 96, American chemist and inventor.
• Leo Lionni, 89, Italian-American author and illustrator of children's books.[21]
• Oscar Valicelli, 84, Argentine actor.

12

• Sir Richard Bradshaw, 79, British Army officer and doctor.
• Wilt Chamberlain, 63, NBA basketball player, congestive heart failure.[22]
• Frank Frost, 63, American blues harmonica player, cardiac arrest.[23]
• Allan Leal, 82, Canadian civil servant and academic.
• Glen Payne, 72, American gospel music singer, cancer.
• Clément Perron, 70, Canadian film director and screenwriter.
• Thakur Ramapati Singh, Indian freedom fighter and politician.

13

• Leslie Aulds, 78, American baseball player.
• James E. Williams, 68, Cherokee indian and Medal of Honor recipient.[24]
• Qasem-Ali Zahirnejad, Iranian Army general, stroke.

14

• Kenneth Benton, 90, English MI6 officer and diplomat.
• Rut Bryk, 82, Finnish ceramist.
• Franca Dominici, 92, Italian actress and voice actress.
• Diethard Hellmann, 70, German Kantor and an academic.
• Julius Nyerere, 77, Tanzanian anti-colonial activist and politician.[25]
• Richard B. Shull, 70, American actor, heart attack.[26]

15

• Yosef Burg, 90, German-born Israeli politician.[27]
• Durgawati Devi, 92, Indian revolutionary and a freedom fighter.
• Terry Gilkyson, 83, American folk singer, composer, and lyricist.
• Josef Locke, 82, Irish tenor.[28]
• Joseph Mitchell Parsons, 35, American murderer and convict, execution by lethal injection.
• Glen Payne, 72, American gospel singer (Cathedral Quartet), liver cancer.

16

• Bobbie Beard, 69, American child actor.
• Bill Dodgin Sr., 90, English football player, manager and coach.
• Jim Jensen, 72, American anchor and reporter.
• Ella Mae Morse, 75, American popular singer, respiratory failure.[29]
• Jean Shepherd, 78, American raconteur, radio and TV personality, writer and actor.[30]
• Maris Wrixon, 82, American film and television actress, heart failure.

17

• William Gould Dow, 104, American scientist, educator and inventor.[31]
• Ralph Grey, Baron Grey of Naunton, 89, last Governor of Northern Ireland.
• Tommy Durden, 79, American guitarist and songwriter.
• Rick Lapointe, 44, Canadian ice hockey player, heart attack.
• Dimitre Mehandjiysky, 84, Bulgarian artist and designer, kidney failure.
• Nicholas Metropolis, 84, Greek-American physicist.[32]
• Sir James Redmond, 80, British engineer and broadcasting pioneer.
• Tere Ríos, 81, Puerto Rican-American author.
• Franz Peter Wirth, 80, German film director and screenwriter.

18

• Mahanambrata Brahmachari, 94, Hindu monk.[33]
• John Cannon, 66, sports car racer, aircraft crash.[34]
• Tony Crombie, 74, English jazz drummer, pianist, bandleader and composer.
• Dick Hammer, 69, American athlete, firefighter and actor, prostate cancer.

19

• Hayes Gordon, 79, American actor, stage director and acting teacher, heart disease.
• Ray Katt, 72, American baseball player and coach, lymphoma.
• Penelope Mortimer, 81, English journalist, biographer and novelist, cancer.[35]
• Pedro Rodríguez, 87, American decorated veteran of the Korean War.
• Nathalie Sarraute, 99, French writer and lawyer..[36]

20

• Calvin Griffith, 87, American Major League Baseball team owner.[37]
• Mae Street Kidd, 95, American businesswoman, civic leader and politician.[38]
• Jack Lynch, 82, Irish Fianna Fáil politician, fourth Taoiseach of Ireland (1966–1973, 1977–1979).[39]
• Rudi Weissenstein, 89, Israeli photographer.

21

• John Bromwich, 80, Australian tennis player.[40]
• Esther Fernández, 84, Mexican film and television actress.
• H. Stuart Hughes, 83, American historian, professor, and activist.[41]
• LaMont Johnson, 58, American jazz pianist, heart failure.
• Fran O'Brien, 63, American football player, heart attack.

22

• Martin Donnelly, 82, New Zealand Test cricketer and England rugby player.
• Ed Mikan, 74, American basketball player.
• Mitsugi Ohno, 73, Japanese glassblower.

23

• Rosalie Gascoigne, 82, New Zealand-born Australian sculptor.[42]
• Muhammad Khan, Pakistan Army officer.
• Neriman Köksal, 71, Turkish actress, breast cancer.
• Eric Reece, 90, Premier of Tasmania.
• Luciano Soprani, Italian fashion designer, throat cancer.[43]
• Albert Tucker, 84, Australian artist.
• Bobby Willis, 57, British songwriter, lung and liver cancer.

24

• John Chafee, 77, American politician, congestive heart failure.[44]
• Ginette Harrison, 41, British climber, climbing accident.[45]
• Marvin Kratter, 83, American real estate developer.[46]
• Louisa Venable Kyle, 96, American historian, author and journalist.

25

• Forddy Anderson, 80, American basketball coach, pneumonia.
• Leonard Boyle, 75, Irish and Canadian scholar in medieval studies and palaeography.[47]
• Vittorio Erspamer, 90, Italian pharmacologist and chemist,.
• Samson Kisekka, 87, Ugandan politician, heart attack.
• Norman Plummer, 75, British Royal Air Force officer and footballer, cancer.
• Bernie Richter, 68, American politician, heart attack.
• Payne Stewart, 42, American professional golfer, plane crash.[48]
• David Thomson, 83, New Zealand politician.

26

• Hoyt Axton, 61, American folk music singer-songwriter and actor, heart attack.[49]
• Eknath Easwaran, 88, Indian-American spiritual teacher and author.[50]
• Maina-Miriam Munsky, 56, German New Realist artist, alcohol abuse.
• Abraham Polonsky, 88, American film director, screenwriter, essayist and novelist.[51]
• S. Rajeswara Rao, 77, Indian composer and musician.
• Albert Whitlock, 84, British motion picture matte artist.

27

• Johnny Byrne, 60, English professional footballer, heart attack.[52]
• Lois Collier, 80, American film actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• Xie Fei, 66, Chinese politician, Politburo member.
• Štěpánka Haničincová, 68, Czechoslovak actress, screenwriter and dramaturge, fall.
• Harry Kadwell, 97, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Robert Mills, 72, American physicist.[53]
• José Aarón Alvarado Nieves, 33, Mexican professional wrestler, infection.
• Charlotte Perriand, 96, French architect and designer.[54]
• Glen Vernon, 76, American actor.[55][56]
• Frank De Vol, 88, American arranger, composer and actor, heart failure.[57]
• Notable victims killed in the Armenian parliament shooting in Yerevan, Armenia:
  • Vazgen Sargsyan, 40, Prime Minister
  • Karen Demirchyan, 67, National Assembly Speaker
  • Yuri Bakhshyan, 52, Deputy National Assembly Speaker
  • Leonard Petrosyan, 46, Minister of Urgent Affairs

28

• Rafael Alberti, 96, Spanish poet.[58]
• Howard Browne, 91, American science fiction editor and mystery writer.
• Ralph Crosthwaite, 63, American basketball player.
• H. Justin Davidson, 68, American educator.
• Eamonn O'Doherty, 60, Northern Irish political activist.

29

• Robert Black, 93, British colonial administrator.
• Rosa Furman, 69, Mexican actress, cardiac arrest.
• Greg, 68, Belgian cartoonist.[59]
• Cavan Kendall, 57, British actor, cancer.
• Prince Heinrich Ruzzo Reuss of Plauen, 49, Swiss-born Swedish landscape architect, lymphoma.

30

• Grace McDonald, 81, American actress, pneumonia.[60]
• Max Patkin, 79, American baseball player and clown.[61]
• Gábor Pogány, 84, Hungarian-born Italian cinematographer.
• Nise da Silveira, 94, Brazilian psychiatrist and student of Carl Jung.
• Savumiamoorthy Thondaman, 86, Sri Lankan politician.[62]
• Maigonis Valdmanis, 66, Latvian basketball player.

31

• Gameel Al-Batouti, 59, Egyption pilot, plane crash.
• Denise Bellon, 97, French photographer.
• Charles "Bud" Dant, 92, American musician, arranger and composer.
• John Wainwright Evans, 90, American solar astronomer, murder–suicide.[63]
• Martin Hellberg, 94, German actor, director and writer.
• Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits, 78, British Chief Rabbi.[64]
• Eli Matalon, 75, Jamaican businessman and politician.[65]
• Greg Moore, 24, Canadian racecar driver, racing accident [66][67]

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