Deaths in March 1999
The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.
March 1999
1
- Ann Corio, 89, American burlesque stripper and actress, pneumonia.
- Christine Glanville, 74, British puppeteer.
- Enneüs Heerma, 54, Dutch politician, lung cancer.
- Digger Kettle, 76, English footballer.
- Harry Mather, 78, English football player and manager.
- Jozo Matošić, 86, Yugoslav football player and coach.
- Steve Sinko, 89, American football player and coach.
2
- David Ackles, 62, American singer-songwriter and child actor, lung cancer.
- Leslie Edward Wostall Codd, 90, South African plant taxonomist.
- Kaushal Kishore, 56, Indian polymer chemist, cardiac arrest.
- Stuart Mossman, 56, American guitar maker and entertainer, heart attack.
- Tommy Pearson, 85, Scottish football player and manager.
- Dusty Springfield, 59, British traditional pop singer and entertainer, breast cancer.
- Francisco Nunes Teixeira, 89, Mozambican Roman Catholic bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Quelimane (1955−1975).
- Jack Webster, 80, Canadian journalist and radio / television personality.
3
- Glennon Engleman, 72, United States Army veteran and hitman, diabetes.
- Jackson C. Frank, 56, American folk musician, pneumonia and cardiac arrest.
- John Frawley, 98, Australian actor.
- Gerhard Herzberg, 94, German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist.
- William McGonagle, 73, American naval officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
- Gian Vincenzo Moreni, 67, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
- Lee Philips, 72, American actor and film / television director, PSP.
- Ling Zifeng, 81, Chinese film director.
4
- Harry Blackmun, 90, American lawyer, jurist and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
- Del Close, 64, American comedian and actor (The Blob, Next of Kin, The Untouchables), emphysema.
- Richard Joseph Davis, 78, American politician.
- Eddie Dean, 91, American country singer-songwriter and actor, heart and lung disease.
- Fritz Honegger, 81, Swiss politician.
- Miłosz Magin, 69, Polish composer and pianist, heart attack.
- Teddy McRae, 91, American jazz tenor saxophonist and arranger.
- Hawley Pratt, 87, American film director, animator and illustrator.
- Karel van het Reve, 77, Dutch writer and literary historian and brother of writer Gerard Reve.
5
- Avery Alexander, 88, American civil rights leader and politician.
- William Allis, 97, American theoretical physicist.
- John Leland Atwood, 94, American engineer and aerospace executive.
- Alfred Denning, Baron Denning, 100, English lawyer and judge.
- Walter Diggelmann, 83, Swiss road bicycle racer.
- John Figueroa, 78, Jamaican poet.
- John Harkins, 66, American actor (Being There, Absence of Malice, Birdy).
- Bob Hendren, 75, American gridiron football player.
- Maurice Jouvet, 76, French-Argentine actor.
- Richard Kiley, 76, American Emmy Award-winning film, television and stage actor, bone marrow disease.
6
- Graham Armitage, 62, English actor.
- Rafael Celestino Benítez, 81, American submarine commander and admiral.
- Klaus Gysi, 87, German communist journalist, publisher, and resistance member during World War II.
- Hiroshi Hamaya, 83, Japanese photographer.
- Loni Heuser, 91, German film actress.
- Branka Jurca, Slovene writer.
- Ferenc Kardos, 61, Hungarian film director, producer and screenwriter, heart attack.
- Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, 67, emir of Bahrain (1961-1999), heart attack.
- Venâncio da Silva Moura, 59, Angolan politician and diplomat.
- János Parti, 66, Hungarian sprint canoeist and Olympic champion.
- Dennis Viollet, 65, English footballer.
- Olof Widgren, 91, Swedish stage and film actor.
- Eric Wolf, 76, Austrian-American anthropologist and activist, liver cancer.
7
- Friedrich Asinger, 91, Austrian chemist and academic.
- Lowell Fulson, 77, American blues guitarist and songwriter.
- Sidney Gottlieb, 80, American chemist and spymaster.
- Kurt Hasse, 82, German cinematographer.
- Antônio Houaiss, 83, Brazilian writer and lexicographer.
- Stanley Kubrick, 70, American film director and screenwriter (2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Dr. Strangelove), heart attack.
- Ladislav Vodička, 68, Czech country music singer and songwriter.
8
- António Campos, 76, Portuguese film director.
- Giovan Battista Carpi, 71, Italian comics artist.
- Adolfo Bioy Casares, 84, Argentine writer and journalist.
- Peggy Cass, 74, American actress, comedian, and announcer, heart failure.
- Joe DiMaggio, 84, American baseball player (New York Yankees), lung cancer.
- Anne T. Hill, 82, American fashion designer, heart failure.
- Walter Kolm-Veltée, 88, Austrian film director.
9
- Marcellino Gavilán, 89, Spanish equestrian and Olympic medalist.
- Arnold Machin, 87, British artist and sculptor.
- Hermann Merkin, 91, American businessman and philanthropist, heart failure.
- Éliane Richepin, 88, French classical pianist.
- Harry Somers, 73, Canadian composer.
10
- Zvi Fuchs, 81, Israeli football player.
- Oswaldo Guayasamín, 79, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor, heart attack.
- Kusumagraj, 87, Indian poet, playwright and novelist.
- Adrian Love, 54, British radio presenter.
- Valentino Mazzia, 77, American forensic anesthesiologist, cirrhosis.
11
- Howell Conant, 82, American fashion photographer.
- Peter Franken, 70, American physicist.
- Herbert Jasper, 92, Canadian psychologist, neurologist, and epileptologist.
- Jack Jones, 83, Scottish football player.
- Camille Laurin, 76, Canadian psychiatrist and politician, liver cancer.
- Erich Natusch, 87, German sailor and Olympic medalist.
- Stefan Schnabel, 87, German-American actor, heart attack.
- Kaoru Tada, 38, Japanese manga artist, cerebral hemorrhage.
12
- John Archer, 75, British Army officer and Commander in Chief.
- Miloslav Holub, 84, Czech actor.
- William Jackson, 81, British Army general, military historian and author.
- Sydney Lewis, 79, American businessman, philanthropist, and art collector.
- Yehudi Menuhin, 82, American violinist and conductor, bronchitis.
- Alf Murray, 83, Irish Gaelic footballer.
- Bidu Sayão, 96, Brazilian operatic soprano.
13
- Lucienne Bloch, 90, Swiss-American artist.
- Emmy Bridgwater, 92, English artist and poet.
- Isidore de Souza, 64, Beninese priest, heart attack.
- Lee Falk, 88, American cartoonist (The Phantom, Mandrake the Magician).
- Seán Fortune, 45, Irish Catholic priest, and child molester, suicide.
- Bob Hollway, 73, American football player and coach.
- Garson Kanin, 86, American writer and director of plays and films.
- Anton Raadik, 82, Estonian-American boxer.
- Kurt Von Hess, 56, Canadian wrestler known as Kurt Von Hess, heart attack.
- Christopher York, 89, British politician.
14
- Kirk Alyn, 88, American actor (Superman, Blackhawk, Call of the Rockies), Alzheimer's disease.
- Tex Blaisdell, 78, American cartoonist (Little Orphan Annie).
- John Broome, 85, American comic book writer for DC Comics.
- Gregg Diamond, 49, American pianist, drummer, songwriter, and producer, gastrointestinal bleeding.
- Kjell Holmström, 82, Swedish bobsledder and Olympian.
- Abraham Kurland, 86, Danish wrestler and Olympic silver medalist.
- Robert Q. Marston, 76, American physician and research scientist.
- Marius Müller, 40, Norwegian musician, television host and record producer, traffic collision.
15
- Guy D'Artois, 81, Canadian army officer and SOE agent.
- Harry Callahan, 86, American photographer.
- Rosemary Nelson, 40, Northern Irish human rights solicitor, killed by Ulster loyalists.
- Ray Russell, 74, American writer of short stories, novels and screenplays, complications from a stroke.
16
- Trygve Bull, 93, Norwegian lecturer and politician.
- Harry Colville, 75, Scottish football player and manager.
- Hendrik de Wit, 89, Dutch botanist.
- Peter Farrell, 76, Irish footballer.
- Ignazio Gardella, 93, Italian architect and designer.
- Gratien Gélinas, 89, Canadian author, playwright, actor and producer.
- Åsta Holth, 95, Norwegian novelist, poet and short story writer.
- Vijay Kumar Kapahi, 55, Indian astrophysicist.
- John Liddell, 65, Scottish football player.
- Gustav Lohse, 87, German film editor.
- Willie Toner, 69, Scottish football player and manager.
17
- Lloyd Appleton, 93, American wrestler.
- Boleslaw Barlog, 92, German stage, film, and opera director.
- Paul Campbell, 76, American film actor.
- Frankie Curry, Northern Irish Ulster loyalist, shot.
- Nicolae Dumitrescu, 77, Romanian footballer and manager.
- Ernest Gold, 77, Austrian-American film composer (Exodus, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Judgment at Nuremberg), stroke.
- Herbert Earl Grier, 87, American electrical engineer and business executive.
- Rod Hull, 63, British entertainer and comedian, fall.
- Humberto Fernández Morán, 75, Venezuelan research scientist.
- Hildegard Peplau, 89, American nursing theorist.
- Jean Pierre-Bloch, 93, French politician and resistance member during World War II.
- Eric Stanton, 72, American underground cartoonist and fetish art pioneer.
18
- Patricia Bowman, 90, American ballerina, musical theatre actress, and television personality.
- Werner Danz, 75, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
- George Hinterhoeller, 71, Canadian boat designer and builder, heart attack.
- Karl Litschi, 86, Swiss road bicycle racer.
- Gilbert Ralston, 87, British-American screenwriter, congestive heart failure.
- Russell Ross, 69, American professor of pathology.
- Gerlando Sciascia, 65, American mobster and member of the Bonanno crime family, shot.
19
- Tofilau Eti Alesana, 74, Samoan politician.
- William F. Bringle, 85, American four-star admiral and World War II aviator, pneumonia.
- Bob Cato, 76, American photographer and graphic designer, Alzheimer's disease.
- Joseph DePietro, 84, American weightlifter, 1948 Olympic champion.
- José Agustín Goytisolo, 70, Spanish poet, scholar and essayist, suicide.
- Peppermint Harris, 73, American blues singer and guitarist.
- Juanita Reina, 73, Spanish actress and copla singer.
- Jaime Sabines, 72, Mexican contemporary poet.
20
- Elsa Barraine, 89, French composer.
- Patrick Heron, 79, British artist, critic, writer, and polemicist.
- Roy L. Johnson, 93, American admiral.
- David Anthony Klarner, 58, American mathematician and author.
- Mickey S. Michaels, 67, American set decorator (Airport, The Hunt for Red October, Crimson Tide).
- Paul Toth, 63, American baseball player, heart attack.
- Igor Vladimirov, 80, Soviet film and theater actor and director.
21
- Mary Ainsworth, 85, American-Canadian developmental psychologist, stroke.
- Henry V. Graham, 82, American Army general.
- Jean Guitton, 97, French Catholic philosopher and theologian.
- John Linus Paschang, 103, American Roman Catholic bishop.
- George Reedy, 81, American White House Press Secretary under President Lyndon B. Johnson (1964-1965).
- Ernie Wise, 73, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise), heart failure.
22
- Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, 85, British historian.
- C. Gregg Singer, 89, American historian and theologian.
- Sandy Singleton, 84, English cricket player.
- David Strickland, 29, American actor, suicide by hanging.
23
- Scott D. Anderson, 33, American pilot, inventor, and author, plane crash.
- Luis María Argaña, 66, Paraguayan politician and Supreme Court judge, murdered.
- Osmond Borradaile, 100, Canadian cameraman, cinematographer and veteran of World War I and II.
- Koentjaraningrat, Indonesian anthropologist.
- Sergio Montanari, 61, Italian film editor.
- Percy Samaraweera, 70, Sri Lankan politician.
- Willi Stadel, 86, German gymnast and Olympic champion.
- Kazue Takahashi, 70, Japanese voice actress, multiple myeloma.
- Petrus Tun, 63, Micronesian politician.
24
- Pierre H. Dubois, 81, Dutch writer and critic.
- Ellen Hall, 75, American actress.
- Tunde Idiagbon, 56, Nigerian Army general.
- Henry Brandon, Baron Brandon of Oakbrook, 78, British judge.
- Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, 97, German leader of the nazi National Socialist Women's League.
- Birdie Tebbetts, 86, American baseball player, manager and scout.
- Val Valentin, 79, American recording engineer.
- Mighty Joe Young, 71, American chicago blues guitarist, pneumonia.
- Osman Örek, 73, Turkish Cypriot politician, prime minister (1978).
25
- Ryszard Bakst, 72, Polish pianist and piano teacher.
- Viacheslav Chornovil, 61, Ukrainian politician, car crash.
- Cal Ripken Sr., 63, American baseball coach and manager, lung cancer.
- Doug Sherrington, 84, Australian politician.
26
- Harry Hodson, 92, English economist and editor.
- David Holliday, 61, American actor (Thunderbirds), cancer.
- Reşit Kaynak, 46, Turkish football player.
- Eva Kolstad, 80, Norwegian politician and gender equality activist.
- Andrzej Konopka, 64, Polish Olympic gymnast.
- Margaret Mason, 58, American actress, heart attack.
- Ananda Shankar, 56, Bengali musician, heart attack.
27
- Michael Aris, 53, English historian, prostate cancer.
- Ernestina de Champourcín, 93, Spanish poet.
- Rolf Ludwig, 73, German actor and voice actor.
- Nahum Stelmach, 62, Israeli footballer and manager.
- Oskar Øksnes, 77, Norwegian politician.
28
- Jens Book-Jenssen, 88, Norwegian pop singer , songwriter, revue artist and theatre director.
- Eva Franco, 92, Argentine actress, pneumonia.
- Franco Gasparri, 50, Italian actor, respiratory failure.
- Angelo J. LaPietra, 79, Chicago mobster and member of the Chicago Outfit.
- Gil Perkins, 91, Australian actor.
- Freaky Tah, 27, MC, hype man and hip hop promoter, shot.
- Bill Touhey, 93, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Doody Townley, 73, New Zealand harness racer.
- Jim Turner, 54, American editor and publisher.
29
- Lucien Aigner, 97, Hungarian photojournalist.
- Dayendranath Burrenchobay, 80, Mauritian politician, Governor-General.
- Helmer Dahl, 90, Norwegian electrical engineer and researcher.
- Raimo Kuuluvainen, 43, Finnish football player.
- James Penberthy, 81, Australian composer and journalist.
- Brock Speer, 79, American gospel singer (Speer Family).
- Joe Williams, 80, American jazz singer.
- Gyula Zsengellér, 83, Hungarian footballer.
30
- Albert Coppé, 87, Belgian politician and economist.
- Michel Crépeau, 68, French politician, heart attack.
- Marcel de Wolf, 79, French gymnast.
- Michel Etcheverry, 79, French actor.
- Gary Morton, 74, American stand-up comedian, lung cancer.
- Jens Müller, 81, Norwegian fighter pilot and POW during World War II and author.
- Igor Netto, 69, Soviet–Russian footballer.
- Terry Wilson, 75, American actor.
31
- David Brooks, 83, American actor, singer, director, and producer.
- Aleksandr Filatov, 71, Soviet alpine skier.
- Yuri Knorozov, 76, Soviet linguist, pneumonia.
- Herbert H. Rowen, 82, American historian.
- Jerry Toth, 70, Canadian musician, composer, and record producer.