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.

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 Garzon Forero., 38, Colombian comedian, journalist, politician, and peace activist, murdered.
 * 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 accident.
 * 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.
 * 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, hit-and-run car accident.
 * 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.