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.
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri, 101, Indian English-language writer.
• 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.
• 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.
• Bob Mollohan, 89, American politician.
• 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.
• Liselott Linsenhoff, 71, German equestrian and Olympic champion.
• 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.
• Derrick Shepard, 35, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
• Carl Toms, 72, British set and costume designer, emphysema.

5

• 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.
• Rimma Zhukova, 74, Soviet and Russian speed skater.

6

• Mihai Băcescu, 91, Romanian zoologist.
• Ilse Pausin, 80, Austrian pair skater and Olympic medalist.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Desmond Marquette, 90, American film editor.
• Kazuo Miyagawa, 91, Japanese cinematographer.
• 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.
• 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, screen writer, 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.
• Roger Stott, 56, Britishpolitician, liver cancer.
• 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.
• 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

• Dickie Davis, 77, English footballer.
• Robert Dorfmann, 87, French film producer.
• James Otto Earhart, 56, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• 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.
• Wilfrid Kalaugher, 94, New Zealand athlete and scholar.
• Georges Roux, 84, French writer and historian.
• Bob Wilson, 83, American politician.
• 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.
• Argentina Díaz Lozano, 86, Honduran journalist and novelist.
• Sulo Nurmela, 91, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympic champion.
• 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.
• John Pingel, 82, American football player.
• Pee Wee Reese, 81, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox) 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.
• Mark McPhee, 35, Australian cricketer, traffic collision.
• Olga Orozco, 79, Argentine poet, cardiovascular disease.
• 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.
• Roy Edwards, 62, Canadian ice hockey player.
• 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.
• Charles Samuel Joelson, 83, American lawyer and politician.
• Reiner Klimke, 63, German equestrian and Olympic champion, 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

• Irene Falcón, 91, Spanish journalist, feminist and activist, respiratory condition.
• Dee Fondy, 74, American baseball player.
• Ian Orr-Ewing, Baron Orr-Ewing, 87, British politician.
• Kim Perrot, 32, American basketball player, lung cancer.
• 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.
• Bob Gallion, 75, American country music singer.
• Josef Herink, 83, Czech physician 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.

21

• Leo Castelli, 91, Italian-American art dealer.
• Faisal bin Fahd, 54/55, Saudi prince, heart attack.
• Cilly Feindt, 90, German circus performer and stage and film actress.
• Jimmy Roe, 90, American soccer player.
• Hans von Herwarth, 95, German diplomat.
• Yevgeni Yeliseyev, 90, Soviet and Russian football player and coach.

22

• Aleksandr Demyanenko, 62, Russian film and theater actor, heart attack.
• Yann Goulet, 85, French sculptor.
• Marguerite Muni, 70, French actress.
• Hide Hyodo Shimizu, 91, Japanese-Canadian educator and activist.

23

• Martha Rountree, 87, American pioneering broadcast journalist.
• Ray F. Smith, 80, American agronomist and entomologist.
• Frank Tredrea, 79, New Zealand racing cyclist.
• Norman Wexler, 73, American screenwriter (Saturday Night Fever, Serpico, Raw Deal), heart attack.
• James White, 71, Northern Irish author of science fiction short stories and novels, stroke.

24

• Georges Boulogne, 82, French football player and manager.
• Roberto Bussinello, 71, Italian racing driver.
• Warren Covington, 78, American big band trombonist.
• Mary Jane Croft, 83, American actress (The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, I Love Lucy, Our Miss Brooks).
• Jo Gullett, 84, Australian soldier, politician, diplomat and journalist.
• Alexandre Lagoya, 70, French classical guitarist.
• William Kaye Lamb, 95, Canadian historian, archivist and librarian.

25

• Rob Fisher, 42, British songwriter and musician (Naked Eyes, Climie Fisher), colorectal cancer.
• Dave Holmes, 75, American football player and coach, heart attack.
• George Petty-Fitzmaurice, 8th Marquess of Lansdowne, 86, British peer and politician.
• George Sugarman, 87, American painter and sculptor.
• Georg Thomalla, 84, German actor.
• Jack Whent, 79, English soccer player.

26

• Louise Bellocq, 90, French writer, poet, and woman of letters.
• Tonči Gulin, 61, Croatian football player.
• Elena Murgoci, 39, Romanian long-distance runner and Olympian, stabbed.
• Raymond Vernon, 85, American economist, cancer.

27

• Elizabeth Blackbourn, English table tennis player.
• Harold Jack Bloom, 75, American television producer and screenwriter, cancer.
• Hélder Câmara, 90, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop, heart attack.
• Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorje, 67, Tibetan lama.
• Bai Guang, 78, Chinese actress and singer, colon cancer.
• Enzo Martinelli, 87, Italian mathematician.
• Louise Thompson Patterson, 97, American social activist and college professor.
• Ralph Riley, 74, British geneticist.

28

• Rafael Manzanares Aguilar, 81, Honduran folklorist, author, and musical composer.
• Stephen Akinmurele, 21, British suspected serial killer, suicide by hanging.
• Harvie M. Conn, 66, Canadian missionary.
• Johnny Gerlach, 82, American Major League Baseball player.
• Dave Pope, 78, American baseball player.

29

• Ann Baker, 84, American jazz singer.
• Jaime Fields, 29, American gridiron football player, traffic collision.
• Paul Horiuchi, 93, American painter and collagist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Claudio Lezcano, 69, Paraguayan football player.
• Willy Rathnov, 62, Danish film actor, neck cancer.
• Emeline Hill Richardson, 89, American classical archaeologist and Etruscan scholar.
• Luca Sportelli, 72, Italian actor.

30

• Abdullah Al-Baradouni, 70, Yemeni writer, poet and critic.
• Reindert Brasser, 86, Dutch athlete and Olympian.
• Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, 80, German musicologist and academic.
• George Golding, 93, Australian runner and hurdler.
• Kristapor Ivanyan, 78, Soviet and Armenian lieutenant general.
• William A. Niering, 75, American botanist.
• Raymond Poïvet, 89, French cartoonist.
• Fritz Shurmur, 67, American football coach, liver cancer.
• Edward Stewart, 84, American set decorator (All That Jazz, The Wiz, Network), Oscar winner (1980).
• István Timár-Geng, 76, Hungarian basketball player.

31

• Marguerite Chapman, 81, American actress.
• Ed Kea, 51, Canadian ice hockey player, drowned.
• Sylvia Potts, 55, New Zealand middle-distance athlete and Olympian, cancer.
• Henry Earl Singleton, 82, American electrical engineer and business executive.