Deaths in April 1999

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

1

 * Ellis Yarnal Berry, 96, American attorney, newspaper publisher and politician.
 * Gladys Hasty Carroll, 94, American novelist.
 * Stipe Delić, 73, Croatian film director.
 * Tony Frasca, 71, American ice hockey player and coach, stomach cancer.
 * Alfred Jahn, 83, Polish geographer, geomorphologist and polar explorer.
 * Tadahito Mochinaga, 80, Japanese stop-motion animator.
 * Madhurantakam Rajaram, 68, Indian author.
 * George Rapée, 83, American bridge player.
 * Wilson Riles, 81, American educator and politician.
 * Jesse Stone, 97, American R&B musician and songwriter.

2

 * Andrew Gardner, 66, British newscaster, heart attack.
 * Julio Alberto Hernández, 98, Dominican composer and pianist.
 * Sophie Lihau-Kanza, 59, Congolese politician and sociologist, cardiac arrest.
 * Charlie Mitchell, 78, American gridiron football player.
 * Josip Pokupec, 85, Yugoslav Olympic cyclist.

3

 * Lionel Bart, 68, British music writer, composer and lyricist (Oliver!, Living Doll), cancer.
 * John B. Daly, 69, American politician.
 * Herman Foster, 70, American bebop jazz pianist.
 * Traian Iordache, 87, Romanian football player and coach.
 * Evelyn Lambart, 84, Canadian animator and director.
 * Aldona Nenėnienė, 49, Soviet/Lithuanian handball and Olympic champion.
 * Geoffrey Walsh, 89, Canadian general.

4

 * Manuel Bernardo Aguirre, 90, Mexican politician.
 * Karl Barufka, 77, German footballer.
 * Faith Domergue, 74, American actress, cancer.
 * Jumabek Ibraimov, 55, Kyrgyz politician, stomach cancer.
 * Vane Ivanović, 85, Yugoslav-British athlete, political activist, diplomat and writer.
 * Lucille Lortel, 98, American actress, artistic director and theatrical producer.
 * Frank Charles McGee, 73, Canadian businessman and politician.
 * Vladimir Orlov, 77, Soviet politician.
 * Bob Peck, 53, British actor (Jurassic Park, Edge of Darkness, Lord of the Flies), cancer.
 * Eric Ramsay, 82, Australian politician.
 * Ambroise Roux, 77, French businessman and political advisor, heart attack.
 * Early Wynn, 79, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.

5

 * Paul David, 79, Canadian cardiologist and politician.
 * Oleksiy Demyanyuk, 40, Soviet high jumper and Olympian.
 * Giulio Einaudi, 87, Italian book publisher.
 * Chester E. McCarty, 93, American officer and pilot in the US Air Force.
 * John Wiles, 73, South African novelist, television writer and producer (Doctor Who).

6

 * Hienadz Karpienka, 49, Belarusian scientist and politician opposing president Alexander Lukashenko, stroke.
 * Robert D. Lindsay, 79, Canadian politician.
 * Red Norvo, 91, American jazz musician known as "Mr. Swing".
 * William Pleeth, 83, British cellist.
 * Angus Ellis Taylor, 87, American mathematician and academic.

7

 * Ivan Diviš, 74, Czech poet and essayist, fall.
 * Heinz Lehmann, 87, German-born Canadian psychiatrist known as the "father of modern psychopharmacology".
 * Angus Paton, 93, British civil engineer.
 * Bob Tough, 78, American basketball player.

8

 * Pipaluk Freuchen, 81, Danish-Greenlandic-Swedish writer.
 * Vic Fisher, 74, Australian rules footballer.
 * Luis Castro Leiva, 56, Venezuelan academic, writer and columnist, brain haemorrhage.
 * Fritz Tegtmeier, 81, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.

9

 * George Sidney Bishop, 85, British civil servant and businessman.
 * Clay Bryant, 87, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Bert Firman, 93, English bandleader.
 * Raúl Silva Henríquez, 91, Chilean prelate of the Catholic Church.
 * Jerold Hoffberger, 80, American businessman.
 * Marcel Lihau, 67, Congolese politician, jurist, and law professor.
 * Mary Lutyens, 90, British author.
 * Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, 49, Niger military officer, murdered.
 * Albert Popwell, 72, American actor (Dirty Harry, Cleopatra Jones, Search), complications following open heart surgery.

10

 * John Ngu Foncha, 82, Cameroonian politician.
 * Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, 88, Polish-American biochemist, lung failure.
 * Charles Green, 85, South African-British RAF fighter pilot during World War II and Olympic medalist in bobsledding.
 * Brownie Mary, 76, American medical cannabis rights activist, heart attack.
 * James D. McCawley, 61, Scottish-American linguist.
 * Tu'i Pelehake, 77, Tonga royal and politician, Prime Minister.
 * Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, 86, Indian novelist and short story writer.
 * Jean Vander Pyl, 79, American voice actress (The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Top Cat), lung cancer.
 * Ali Sayad Shirazi, 54, Iranian army officer, assassinated, homicide.
 * Thornton Wilson, 78, American chairman and CEO of Boeing corporation.

11

 * William H. Armstrong, 87, American children's writer.
 * Tom Bane, 85, American politician.
 * Pete Milne, 74, American baseball player.
 * Agim Ramadani, 35, Kosovar Albanian commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, killed in action.
 * Slavko Ćuruvija, 49, Serbian journalist and newspaper publisher, murdered.

12

 * Ricardo Barreiro, 49, Argentine comic book writer, esophageal cancer.
 * José Francisco de Morais, 49, Brazilian football player.
 * Alan Evans, 49, Welsh darts player.
 * Hugo Fernando, 86, Sri Lankan actor and composer.
 * Carlos Jaschek, 73, German-Argentine astrophysicist.
 * Marion Albert Pruett, 49, American spree killer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Boxcar Willie, 67, American country music singer-songwriter, leukemia.
 * Dr.Rajkumar, 80, kannada film actor ,

13

 * Edith Anderson, 83, American journalist, writer and translator.
 * James M. Clarke, 81, American farmer and politician.
 * Knut Hauge, 87, Norwegian writer.
 * Masaji Kiyokawa, 86, Japanese sports administrator and Olympic medalist, pancreatic cancer.
 * Don McGuire, 80, American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer.
 * Walter H. Moeller, 89, American politician.
 * Sheik Chinna Moulana, 74, Indian nadhaswaram player.
 * Ortvin Sarapu, 75, Estonian-New Zealand chess player.
 * Willi Stoph, 84, East German politician.
 * Visakha Wijeyeratne, 64, Sri Lankan painter, sculptor, writer and social worker.

14

 * Ellen Corby, 87, American actress (The Waltons, Vertigo, Shane), Emmy winner (1973), stroke.
 * Anthony Newley, 67, British singer-songwriter and actor, kidney cancer.
 * Robert G. Sachs, 82, American theoretical physicist.
 * Aubrey Schenck, 90, American film producer.
 * Brigitte Steden, 50, German badminton player and Olympian.
 * Werner Stumm, 74, Swiss chemist.
 * Nicola Trussardi, 56, Italian fashion designer, car accident.
 * Bill Wendell, 75, American television announcer, complications from cancer.

15

 * Hermann Biechele, 81, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
 * Roy Chiao, 72, British Hong Kong-era Chinese actor, heart failure.
 * Aaron Esterson, 75, British psychiatrist.
 * K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, 90, Indian writer in English.
 * F. Burton Jones, 88, American mathematician.
 * Harvey Postlethwaite, 55, British Formula One team technical director, heart attack.

16

 * Kaoru Betto, 78, Japanese baseball player.
 * Regis Cordic, 72, American radio personality and actor.
 * Vincent J. Dellay, 91, American politician.
 * Osmund Faremo, 77, Norwegian politician.
 * Rudi Fehr, 87, German-born American film editor (Dial M for Murder, Prizzi's Honor, Key Largo), heart attack.
 * Zoë Lund, 37, American musician, model, actress, producer and screenwriter, cocaine-induced heart failure.
 * Charles McKimson, 84, American animator.
 * Abbott Lawrence Pattison, 82, American sculptor and abstract artist.
 * Karl Schefold, 94, Swiss archaeologist.
 * Skip Spence, 52, American singer-songwriter (Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape), lung cancer.
 * Margaret Tait, 80, Scottish film maker and poet.
 * Gordon Watson, 78, Australian classical pianist.

17

 * Julian Cole, 74, American mathematician.
 * Ahmad Mohamed Ibrahim, 82, Singaporean lawyer and law professor.
 * Georges Miez, 94, Swiss gymnast, cerebrovascular disease.
 * Richard Negri, 71, British theatre director and designer.
 * Nicky Virachkul, 50, American darts player, cancer.

18

 * Alan Brazier, 74, English cricket player.
 * Vicente Escrivá, 85, Spanish film director, producer and screenwriter.
 * Ye Fei, 84, Filipino-Chinese general and politician.
 * Enrique Hormazábal, 68, Chilean football player.
 * Robert Irving, 51, English rugby player, heart attack.
 * Gert Jeschonnek, 86, German naval officer.
 * Setsuko Migishi, 94, Japanese Yōga painter.
 * Herman Miller, 79, American film writer and producer.
 * Gian-Carlo Rota, 66, Italian-American mathematician and philosopher.
 * Raghubir Singh, 56, Indian photographer, heart attack.

19

 * Stanley T. Adams, 76, United States Army officer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Hermine Braunsteiner, 79, German Nazi concentration camp guard.
 * Margaret Campbell, 86, Politician in Ontario, Canada.
 * Flora Carabella, 73, Italian actress, bone cancer.
 * Shay Gorman, 76, Irish actor.
 * Helen Lundeberg, 90, American painter, pneumonia.
 * Arthur Morton, 84, American football player and coach.
 * Yoko Tani, 70, Japanese actress and nightclub entertainer, cancer.

20

 * Flash Hollett, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * James Cullen Martin, 71, American chemist.
 * Reginald O'Brien, 73, Australian politician.
 * Nikos Rizos, 74, Greek actor, edema, heart attack.
 * Bethsabée de Rothschild, 84, French philanthropist and member of the Rothschild family.
 * Rick Rude, 40, professional wrestler, heart failure following accidental overdose.
 * Señor Wences, 103, Spanish ventriloquist.
 * Charles E. Whittingham, 86, American racehorse trainer.
 * Students killed in the Columbine High School massacre:
 * Cassie Bernall, 17, victim.
 * Eric Harris, 18, perpetrator.
 * Dylan Klebold, 17, perpetrator.
 * Rachel Scott, 17, victim.

21

 * Tim Forster, 65, British racehorse trainer.
 * Phillip Omondi, 42, Ugandan football player and manager.
 * Ralph Perk, 85, American politician.
 * Charles Rogers, 94, American actor and jazz musician.
 * Mandayani Jeersannidhi Thirumalachar, 84, Indian mycologist, microbiologist and plant pathologist.
 * Liz Tilberis, 51, British fashion magazine editor, ovarian cancer.
 * Su Xuelin, 102, Chinese author and scholar.

22

 * Ida Anak Agung Gde Agung, 77, Indonesian politician.
 * Bill Bowen, 70, American politician.
 * Joseph W.S. deGraft-Johnson, 65, Ghanaian engineer, academic and politician.
 * Munir Ahmad Khan, 72, Pakistani nuclear engineer and physicist, complications following heart surgery.
 * Jean-Claude Molinari, 67, French tennis player.
 * Apostolos Nikolaidis, 60, Greek singer, cancer.
 * Bert Remsen, 74, American actor (McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Nashville, It's a Living).
 * Z. A. Suleri, Pakistani political journalist, author and activist, heart failure.
 * Anne Szumigalski, 77, Canadian poet.

23

 * Maria Àngels Anglada, 69, Catalan poet and novelist.
 * Dana Childs, 76, American politician, lawyer and jurist, heart attack.
 * Melba Liston, 73, American jazz trombonist, arranger and composer.
 * Aleksandr Prokofyevich Markevich, 94, Ukrainian zoologist, helminthologist and copepodologist.
 * Tullio Pandolfini, 84, Italian water polo player and Olympic champion.
 * Francis J. Pettijohn, 94, American geologist.
 * M. V. Rajamma, 78, Indian actress, singer and movie producer.
 * Roger Rio, 86, French football player.
 * Philip Stratford, 71, Canadian translator, professor and poet.
 * Celso Torrelio, 65, Bolivian military general and member of the Junta.

24

 * Nanabhai Bhatt, 83, Indian Bollywood film director and producer, heart failure.
 * Arthur Boyd, 78, Australian painter.
 * Ray Evans, 76, American football player.
 * Don Nolander, 77, American gridiron football player.
 * Charles Rostaing, 94, French linguist.
 * Don Schofield, 68, Australian rugby player.

25

 * Roman Hruska, 94, American politician, complications following a broken hip.
 * Rupert Lonsdale, 93, British submarine commander and prisoner of war during World War II.
 * Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, 84, Irish journalist, author and Olympic official.
 * William McCrea, 94, English astronomer and mathematician.
 * Martti Simojoki, 90, Finnish archbishop.
 * Roger Troutman, 47, American musician, producer and founder of Zapp and Roger, fratricide, fusillade.
 * Michi Weglyn, 72, American author.

26

 * Man Mohan Adhikari, 78, 31st Prime Minister of Nepal.
 * Adrian Borland, 41, British singer (The Sound), suicide.
 * Jill Dando, 37, British journalist and television presenter (Crimewatch), murder by gunshot.
 * Trilicia Gunawardena, 65, Sri Lankan actress and singer.
 * Faye Throneberry, 67, American baseball player.

27

 * Arbit Blatas, 90, Lithuanian artist and sculptor.
 * Dominick L. DiCarlo, 71, American lawyer and politician, heart attack.
 * Al Hirt, 76, American trumpeter and bandleader, liver failure.
 * Peter Jackson, 87, British cricket player.
 * Pavel Klushantsev, 89, Russian cameraman, film director, producer, screenwriter and author.
 * Rolf Landauer, 72, German-born American physicist, brain cancer.
 * He Luting, 95, Chinese composer.
 * Antonio Merayo, 89, Argentine cinematographer.
 * Maria Stader, 87, Hungarian-Swiss lyric soprano.
 * Cyril Washbrook, 84, English cricketer.
 * Mark Weiser, 46, American computer scientist, liver failure.

28

 * Brandon Burlsworth, 22, American football player, car accident.
 * Rory Calhoun, 76, American film and television actor, screenwriter and producer, diabetes.
 * Jean-Blaise Kololo, 47, Congolese politician and diplomat.
 * Osvaldo Civile, 40, Argentine heavy metal guitarist (V8, Horcas).
 * Alf Ramsey, 79, British football player and manager (Ipswich Town, England), Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer.
 * Arthur Leonard Schawlow, 77, American physicist and co-inventor of the laser with Charles Townes, leukemia.
 * John Stears, 64, British special effects artist (Star Wars, Thunderball, The Mask of Zorro), Oscar winner (1966, 1978), stroke.
 * Donald E. Stewart, 69, American screenwriter (Missing, The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games), Oscar winner (1983), cancer.
 * Roderick Thorp, 62, American novelist (Nothing Lasts Forever), heart attack.
 * Arvo Viitanen, 75, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympic medalist.
 * Harold Wellman, 90, English-New Zealand geologist.

29

 * Léon Barzin, 98, Belgian-American conductor.
 * Les Bennett, 81, English football player.
 * Barbara Bevege, 56, New Zealand cricket player.
 * Faustin Birindwa, Prime Minister of Zaire (1993 – 1994), heart attack.
 * Bernhard Cuiper, 85, German basketball player.
 * Mohan Gokhale, 45, Indian actor, heart attack.
 * Lojze Kozar, 88, Slovene Roman Catholic priest, writer, and translator.
 * Oscar Ljung, 89, Swedish film actor.
 * Elspeth March, 88, English actress.
 * Ovídio Martins, 70, Cape Verdean poet and journalist.
 * Zabihollah Safa, 87, Iranian scholar.
 * Kidar Sharma, 89, Indian film director, producer and screenwriter.
 * Yao Xueyin, 88, Chinese novelist.

30

 * Bruce Jesson, New Zealand journalist, author and political figure, cancer.
 * Jessica Lal, 34, Indian model, murdered.
 * Rikuo Nemoto, 72, Japanese baseball catcher and manager in the Nippon Professional Baseball.
 * Jack Schiff, 89, American comic book writer and editor (Batman, Superman, Superboy).
 * Darrell Sweet, 51, English drummer (Nazareth), heart attack.