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.
• Tom 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.
• Hans Eklund, 71, Swedish composer
• 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 by drug overdose.
• 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 by jumping.
• 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, shot.
• 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.

External links

• List of March 1999 deaths at IMDb