Deaths in June 1999
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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[edit]
1[edit]
- Lloyd L. Burke, 74, United States Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
- Christopher Cockerell, 88, English engineer and inventor of the hovercraft.[1]
- Alvin Ingram, 85, American orthopaedic surgeon and pioneer combatting polio using penicillin.
- Mr. Prospector, 29, American thoroughbred racehorse, complications from colic.
2[edit]
- Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf, 47, Yemeni human-rights activist and journalist, (orchestrated) car accident.[2]
- Keith Gledhill, 88, American tennis player.
- Blagoje Jovović, Montenegrin Serb World War II Partisan and Chetnik.
- Ron Reynolds, 71, English football goalkeeper.
- Andy Simpkins, 67, American jazz bassist, stomach cancer.
3[edit]
- Charlie Bradshaw, 75, American football player and coach.
- Helge Bronée, 77, Danish footballer.
- Peter Brough, 83, English radio ventriloquist.[3]
- Charlene Pryer, 77, American baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
4[edit]
- Zachary Fisher, 88, American philanthropist and businessman.[4]
- G. S. Maddala, 66, Indian American economist and mathematician.
- John McKeithen, 81, American lawyer, politician and governor of Louisiana.
- Mike Mikulak, 86, American football player.
5[edit]
- Kenneth Claiborne Royall Jr., 80, American politician and businessman.
- Robert Merritt, Nova Scotia playwright and film critic.
- Mel Tormé, 73, American singer and musician, stroke.[5]
- Ernie Wilkins, 79, American jazz saxophonist, conductor and arranger, stroke.[6]
6[edit]
- Lisy Fischer, 98, Swiss pianist.
- Anne Haddy, 68, Australian actress, renal failure.
- Freddy Nagel, 91, American bandleader.[7]
- Manuel Ramos, 56, Mexican boxer.
- Eddie Stanky, 83, American baseball player and manager, heart attack.[8]
7[edit]
- Bob Garber, 70, American baseball player.
- Lady June, 68, English painter, poet and musician, heart attack.[9]
- Paul Oskar Kristeller, 92, German-American scholar of renaissance humanism.[10]
- Niatross, American champion race horse.
- Victor Otiev, 64, Soviet / Russian painter and graphic artist.
- Charles D. Palmer, 97, United States Army general, cardiac arrest.[11]
- Joseph Vandernoot, 84, British conductor.[12]
8[edit]
- Zofia Kuratowska, 67, Polish doctor and politician.
- Karl Z. Morgan, 91, American physicist and radiation health physics pioneer.[13]
- Brian Shorland, 89, New Zealand organic chemist.
- Emiliano Tardif, 71, Canadian missionary, heart complications.
9[edit]
- Al Bates, 94, American Olympic athlete.
- Sumbat Der Kiureghian, 85, Iranian-Armenian watercolor artist.
- Giles Rich, 95, American judge and influential patent attorney.[14]
- Andrew L. Stone, 96, American screenwriter, film director and producer.
- Ray Yagiello, 75, American football coach.
10[edit]
- Kenneth S. Davis, 86, American historian.
- Jerry Navarro Elizalde, 75, Philippine artist.
- Edith Emerald Johns, 84, American nurse and community leader.[15]
- Kazi Mobin-Uddin, 68, American surgeon and vascular surgery pioneer.
- Leonard Thornton, 82, New Zealand Army officer.
11[edit]
- Gilles Châtelet, 55, French philosopher and mathematician.[16]
- DeForest Kelley, 79, American film and television actor (Star Trek), stomach cancer.[17]
- Jacek Sawaszkiewicz, 51, Polish science fiction writer and satirist.
- Gordon Stirling, 74, Australian politician.
12[edit]
- Ola Bauer, 55, Norwegian novelist and playwright, cancer.
- Sunil Ganguly, 61, Indian instrumentalist.[18]
- Sergey Khlebnikov, 43, Russian Olympic speed skater, drowned.
- Jah Lloyd, 51, Jamaican reggae singer, deejay and record producer.
- J. F. Powers, 81, American novelist and short-story writer.[19]
- Bib Stillwell, 71, Australian racing driver.
- Aleksandras Štromas, 68, Lithuanian political scientist, dissident and author.
13[edit]
- Gabriel Grüner, 35, Italian photojournalist, shot by Yugoslavian soldiers.[20]
- Volker Krämer, 56, German journalist, shot by Yugoslavian soldiers.[20]
- Igor Ksenofontov, 60, Soviet and Russian figure skating coach, heart failure.
- Henry "Junjo" Lawes, 39, Jamaican record producer, drive-by shooting.
- Douglas Seale, 85, English actor, producer, and director.[21]
14[edit]
- Henri Baruk, 101, French neuropsychiatrist.
- Jack M. Campbell, 82, American politician.[22]
- Louis Diamond, 97, American pediatrician, known as the "father of pediatric hematology".[23]
- Bernie Faloney, 66, Canadian football player.
- Anna McCune Harper, 96, American tennis player.[24]
- Sir George Labouchère, 93, British diplomat and art collector.
15[edit]
- Alan Cathcart, 6th Earl Cathcart, 79, British Army officer.
- Igor Kholin, 79, Russian poet and fiction writer.
- Alexander Komin, 46, Russian slave-owner and serial killer, suicide.
- Gene Markland, 79, American baseball player.
16[edit]
- Lennart Geijer, 89, Swedish politician and lawyer.
- Lawrence Stone, 79, English historian of early modern Britain.[25]
- Screaming Lord Sutch, 58, English musician and serial parliamentary candidate, suicide by hanging.[26]
- Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega, 70, Mexican Naval officer and politician.
- Marshall Wayne, 87, American Olympic diver, gold medalist (1936).[27]
17[edit]
- Stanley Faulder, 61, Canadian convict, execution by lethal injection in the U.S.
- Basil Hume, 76, English Roman Catholic bishop.[28]
- Paul-Émile de Souza, 68, Beninese army officer and political figure.
18[edit]
- Loyd Arms, 79, American football player.
- Ross Baillie, 21, Scottish track and field athlete, complications from anaphylaxis.[29]
- Brian Baldwin, 40, American man convicted of murder, execution by electric chair.
- Dircinha Batista, 77, Brazilian actress and singer.
- Bob Bullock, 69, American politician from Texas, cancer.[30]
- Robert G. Neumann, 83, American politician and diplomat.[31]
- Lothar Ulsaß, 58, German football player, stroke.
19[edit]
- Saeed Emami, 41, Iranian deputy minister of intelligence.
- Oton Gliha, 85, Croatian artist.
- Henri, Count of Paris, 90, French nobleman, Orleanist pretender to the throne, prostate cancer.
- Mario Soldati, 92, Italian writer and film director.[32]
20[edit]
- Gautam Chattopadhyay, 51, Indian Bengali singer, songwriter and composer.
- Clifton Fadiman, 95, American author, and radio and television personality, pancreatic cancer.[33]
- Frank Faubert, 68, Canadian politician.
- Olavi Puro, 80, Finnish Air Force ace.
21[edit]
- Chandrakala, Indian film actress, cancer.
- Ebba Lund, 75, Danish member of the Resistance during World War II and scientist.
- Kami, 26, Japanese rock musician, drummer (Malice Mizer), cerebral haemorrhage.[34]
22[edit]
- Wassila Ben Ammar, 87, First Lady of Tunisia (1962 - 1986).
- Michael Bredl, 83, German Volksmusik musician and collector.
- Eugenio Florit, 95, Cuban writer, essayist, radio actor and diplomat.[35]
- Mervyn de Silva, 69, Sri Lankan journalist.
- Guy Tunmer, 50, South African racing driver, motorcycle accident.
23[edit]
- Bert Haas, 85, American baseball player.
- Carl Lange, 89, German film actor.
- Buster Merryfield, 78, British television actor, played Uncle Albert in Only Fools and Horses, brain cancer.[36]
- Francisco Rovira Beleta, 85/86, Spanish screenwriter and film director.
24[edit]
- Jim Allen, 72, English playwright.[37]
- Takehiko Bessho, 76, Japanese baseball player.
- Hugh Carter, 78, American politician and businessman.
- Maurice Ewing, 86, Australia professor of surgery.
- Dorothy Lee, 88, American actress and comedian.[38]
- Jack Mullin, 85, American pioneer in the field of magnetic tape sound recording.[39]
- Pierre Perrault, 71, Québécois documentary film director.
- Rachel Trickett, 75, English novelist, non‑fiction writer and literary scholar.
25[edit]
- Sir Peter Abeles, 75, Austrian-born Australian businessman.[40]
- Tommy Ivan, 88, Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager, complications of a kidney ailment.
- Alfredo Layne, 39, Panamanian professional boxer, shot.
- Mary Manning, 93, Irish novelist, playwright and film critic.
- Yevgeny Morgunov, 72, Soviet and Russian actor, film director, and script writer.
- Kōzō Murashita, 46, Japanese singer-songwriter, brain hemorrhage.
- William Sage Rapson, 86, New Zealand and South African chemist.
- Borghild Rud, 89, Norwegian artist and illustrator.
- Frank Tarloff, 83, American screenwriter who was blacklisted.[41]
- Fred Trump, 93, American real estate developer and father of Donald Trump.[42]
26[edit]
- Angelo Bertelli, 78, American gridiron football player, brain cancer.[43]
- Charles Collins, 95, American singer and actor.
- Bhante Dharmawara, Cambodian-born Theravada monk and teacher.
- Tim Layana, 35, American baseball pitcher player, car accident.
- Christopher Finch-Hatton, 16th Earl of Winchilsea, 62, British noble and member of the American Vanderbilt family.[44]
27[edit]
- Jean Durtal, 94, French poet and novelist.
- Harriet P. Dustan, American physician.
- Khandkar Manwar Hossain, 69, Bangladeshi statistician.
- Isaac C. Kidd Jr., 79, American admiral.[45]
- Marion Motley, 79, American football player (Cleveland Browns), prostate cancer.[46]
- Georgios Papadopoulos, 80, Greek politician, Prime Minister (1967–1973) and dictator.[47]
- Bobs Watson, 68, American actor and Methodist minister, prostate cancer.
- Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham, 88, English trade unionist, politician and industrialist.
28[edit]
- Padmapani Acharya, 30, Indian Army officer and recipient of the Maha Vir Chakra, killed in action.
- Vere Bird, 88, first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda.[48]
- Neikezhakuo Kenguruse, 24, Indian Army officer and recipient of the Maha Vir Chakra, killed in action.
- Hilde Krahl, 82, Austrian film actress.
- John Stears, 64, British special effects expert and Academy Award winner.[49]
- Sir John Woolf, 86, British film producer.
- Anatoliy Zheglanov, 56, Ukrainian ski-jumper who competed for USSR.[50]
29[edit]
- Hugh Balfour, 66, British Royal Navy officer.
- Allan Carr, 62, American film, television and theatre producer (La Cage aux Folles), liver cancer.[51]
- Michael Hooker, 53, American academic, complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.[52]
- Declan Mulholland, 66, Northern Irish actor, heart attack.
- Bob Shearman, 59, Australian rules footballer.
30[edit]
- Bob Backus, 72, American track and field athlete and hammer throw world record holder.[53]
- Édouard Boubat, 75, French photojournalist and art photographer.[54]
- Clifford Charles Butler, 77, English physicist,.[55]
- Marta Labarr, 87, French-American singer and actress.
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