Deaths in February 1999

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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

 * Marion Boyars, 71, British book publisher, pancreatic cancer.
 * Paul Calvert, 81, Canadian baseball player.
 * Alejandro Galindo, 93, Mexican screenwriter and film director.
 * Hank Harris, 75, American gridiron football player.
 * Rudolf Kárpáti, 78, Hungarian fencer and Olympic champion.
 * Barış Manço, 56, Turkish rock musician, actor, and show host, heart attack.
 * Paul Mellon, 91, American philanthropist.
 * Robin Nedwell, 52, British actor, heart attack.
 * St. Clair Pinckney, 68, American saxophonist.
 * Harold E. Shear, 80, United States Navy admiral.
 * Benjamin Elazari Volcani, 84, Israeli microbiologist.
 * Julius Wechter, 63, American musician and composer, cancer.

2

 * Marie Van Brittan Brown, 76, American nurse and inventor.
 * Michel Mathiot, 72, French gymnast and Olympian.
 * David McComb, 36, Australian rock musician, heart failure.
 * August Neuburger, 96, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
 * Vladimír Petlák, 52, Czech volleyball player and Olympic medalist.
 * Vilmos Tátrai, 86, Hungarian classical violinist.
 * Tunku Puan Besar Kurshiah, 87, Malayan queen of Negeri Sembilan.

3

 * Norman Bluhm, 77, American painter, heart failure.
 * Luc Borrelli, 33, French football player, traffic collision.
 * William C. Brown, 82, American electrical engineer.
 * Jim Cope, 91, Australian politician.
 * Alexei Gorokhov, 71, Soviet violinist.
 * Gwen Guthrie, 48, American singer-songwriter and pianist, uterine cancer.
 * Mikko Hietanen, 87, Finnish long-distance runner, European Champion and world record holder.
 * Alfred Janes, 87, Welsh artist.
 * Herbert Klynn, 81, American animator.
 * Yu Qiuli, 84, Chinese Army general and politician.
 * John S. Service, 89, American diplomat.
 * Vin Sullivan, 87, American comic book editor, artist and publisher.

4

 * Luigi Bernabò Brea, 88, Italian archaeologist.
 * Erich Hartmann, 76, German-American photographer.
 * Joe Hayes, 63, English football player.
 * Arthur Mann, 51, Scottish football player.
 * Vittorio Marzotto, 76, Italian racing driver.
 * Sean Sellers, 29, American juvenile convict, execution by lethal injection.

5

 * Neville Bonner, 76, Australian politician, first indigenous Member of Parliament.
 * John L. Cotter, 87, American archaeologist, cancer.
 * Rembert Delden, 81, German politician member of the Bundestag.
 * Leo Echegaray, 38, Filipino convict, execution by lethal injection.
 * Nicholas Krushenick, 69, American abstract painter, liver cancer.
 * Wassily Leontief, 93, Russian economist and Nobel Prize laureate.
 * Mariya Osipova, 90, Soviet partisan during World War II.
 * Indrani Rahman, 68, Indian classical dancer.
 * Linda Sini, 74, Italian film actress.

6

 * Thomas Banyacya, 89, American Native American traditional leader.
 * Erwin Blask, 88, German athlete.
 * Henry S. Clark, 95, American horse trainer.
 * Danny Dayton, 75, American actor (All in the Family, Guys and Dolls, Ed Wood), emphysema.
 * Don Dunstan, 72, Australian politician, lung cancer.
 * Yuriy Istomin, 54, Ukrainian footballer.
 * Jimmy Roberts, 74, American singer and performer, bone cancer.

7

 * Hussein I of Jordan, 63, Jordanian monarch, King of Jordan (1952–1999), lymphoma.
 * Andrew Keller, 73, British scientist.
 * William Ludwig, 86, American screenwriter (Interrupted Melody, Oklahoma!, Athena), Oscar winner (1956), Parkinson's disease.
 * Umberto Maglioli, 70, Italian racing driver.
 * Antonio Pacenza, 70, Argentine boxer.
 * George E. Shambaugh Jr., 95, American otolaryngologist and pioneer in deafness treatments.
 * Bobby Troup, 80, American actor (Emergency!, M*A*S*H) and songwriter ("(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66").

8

 * Richard Boone, 68, American jazz trombonist and scat singer.
 * Meredith Edwards, 81, Welsh actor and writer.
 * Madeleine Frieden-Kinnen, 83, Luxembourgian politician.
 * Per Knudsen, 73, Danish football player.
 * Iris Murdoch, 79, Irish-born British novelist, poet and philosopher, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Caroline Robbins, 95, British historian.
 * Krishnaswamy Sundarji, 70, British Indian Army officer.
 * Giuseppe Tatarella, 63, Italian politician, heart attack.

9

 * Richard Allen, 66, British abstract artist and printmaker, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Benjamin Bwalya, 37, Zambian footballer and coach, cerebral malaria.
 * Enzo Forcella, 77, Italian essayist, historian and journalist.
 * Aleksander Gieysztor, 82, Polish medievalist historian.
 * Mary LaRoche, 78, American actress and singer.
 * Len Levy, 77, American athlete.
 * Bryan Mosley, 67, British television and film actor, (Coronation Street), heart attack.
 * Bernhard Paus, 88, Norwegian orthopedic surgeon.
 * Jaturun Siripongs, 47, Thai murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Inga-Stina Robson, 79, Anglo-Swedish political activist.

10

 * Ashley Bramall, 83, British politician.
 * Robert Clothier, 77, Canadian actor.
 * Hernán Santa Cruz, 93, Chilean diplomat and United Nations delegate.
 * Joan Curran, 82, Welsh scientist, cancer.
 * Ann-Marie Gyllenspetz, 66, Swedish actress.
 * Billy Houliston, 77, Scottish footballer.
 * Joe M. Kilgore, 80, American combat pilot during World War II and politician.
 * Herb Krautblatt, 72, American basketball player.
 * Jean Levavasseur, 74, French fencer.
 * Y. B. Mangunwijaya, 69, Indonesian architect, writer and Catholic religious leader.
 * Joseph Marie Nguyễn Tùng Cương, 79, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Hải Phòng (1979–1999).
 * Gideon Rafael, 86, Israeli diplomat.

11

 * William Alonso, 66, Argentinian-American planner and economist.
 * Leonard J. Arrington, 81, American Mormon historian, heart failure.
 * Danny Barber, 43, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
 * John Brack, 78, Australian painter.
 * Jaki Byard, 76, American jazz musician, composer and arranger, homicide by gunshot.
 * Toni Fisher, 74, American pop singer, heart attack.
 * Stoyan Gadev, 67, Bulgarian actor.
 * Werner Korff, 87, German ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.
 * Dragan Kovačić, 59, Yugoslav-Croatian basketball player.
 * Rose Mbowa, 56, Ugandan writer, actress, academic and feminist.
 * Hugh McCullough, 82, American gridiron football player.
 * Brian Parsons, 65, English cricket player.
 * Xiao Qian, 89, Chinese essayist, editor and journalist.
 * Nikolai Sergeyev, 89, Soviet admiral.
 * Whitney Tower, 75, American Thoroughbred horse racing journalist, complications from a stroke.

12

 * Paul Bairoch, 68, Belgian-Swiss economic historian.
 * André Devigny, 82, French soldier and member of the Résistance.
 * Jimmy Dudley, 89, American baseball player and sportscaster.
 * Rexhep Krasniqi, 92, Albanian-American historian, nationalist, anti-communist politician and activist.
 * Grace Panvini, 91, American soprano and voice teacher
 * Heinz Schubert, 73, German actor, drama teacher and photographer, pneumonia.
 * Michel Seuphor, 97, Belgian painter.

13

 * Peko Dapčević, 85, Yugoslav communist.
 * Michael Higgins, 90, American glass artist.
 * Kåre Hovda, 55, Norwegian biathlete and Olympian.
 * Gary Jennings, 70, American author, heart failure.
 * Ron McLean, 60, Australian politician, asbestos-related lung condition.
 * Carles Sabater, 36, Catalan singer and actor, respiratory arrest.

14

 * Sam Bartholomew, 81, American gridiron football player.
 * John Ehrlichman, 73, United States Domestic Policy Council and Watergate scandal conspirator, diabetes.
 * Buddy Knox, 65, American singer and songwriter, lung cancer.
 * Hillel Seidel, 78, Israeli politician.
 * Joseph Francis Shea, 73, American aerospace engineer and NASA manager.
 * Raymond Thompson, 87, American competition swimmer and Olympian.
 * Majken Åberg, 80, Swedish discus thrower and Olympian.

15

 * Agnes Bernelle, 75, Berlin-born expatriate actress and singer.
 * Jeffery Cohelan, 84, American politician and political activist.
 * Billy Garrett, 65, American racecar driver.
 * Henry Way Kendall, 72, American physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, drowned.
 * Aigars Kriķis, 44, Soviet and Latvian luger.
 * Big L, 24, American Freestyle rapper (D.I.T.C.), murdered.
 * Gordon Neil Stewart, 86, Australian writer.
 * Ferenc Vozar, 53, Hungarian ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.

16

 * Björn Afzelius, 52, Swedish progg singer and guitarist, lung cancer.
 * Necil Kazım Akses, 90, Turkish classical composer.
 * Guillermo Arellano, 90, Chilean football player.
 * Fritzi Burger, 88, Austrian figure skater.
 * Petre Crowder, 79, British barrister and politician.
 * Ugo Grappasonni, 76, Italian professional golfer.
 * Herbert S. Green, 78, British–Australian physicist.
 * James Hill, 74, British politician.
 * Henk Hofstra, 94, Dutch politician.
 * Johan Kvandal, 79, Norwegian composer.
 * Michael Larson, 49, American game show contestant, throat cancer.
 * Alexandre-Athenase Noghès, 82, Monegasque tennis player and husband of Princess Antoinette of Monaco.
 * Bailey Olter, 66, Micronesian political figure.
 * Betty Roché, 81, American blues singer.

17

 * Thomas James Carr, 89, British artist.
 * Kurt Robert Eissler, 90, Austrian psychoanalyst.
 * Jaime Hurtado, 62, Ecuadorian politician, murdered.
 * William D. McElroy, 82, American biochemist and academic.
 * Sunshine Parker, 71, American actor (Tremors, Road House, Pee-wee's Big Adventure), pneumonia.
 * Shirley Stoler, 69, American actress, heart failure.
 * Tania, 90, Spanish tango singer known as "Tania".
 * R.S. Unni, 73, Indian politician and trade unionist.

18

 * Felipe Alfau, 96, Spanish-American novelist and poet.
 * Andreas Feininger, 92, American photographer.
 * Tibor Házi, 87, Hungarian table tennis player.
 * Nikolay Latyshev, 85, Soviet and Russian football player and referee.
 * Olle Nordemar, 84, Swedish cinematographer, screenwriter, film director and producer.
 * Noam Pitlik, 66, American actor and television director, lung cancer.

19

 * Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, 55, Iraqi Shia marja', murdered.
 * Khumar Barabankvi, 79, Indian Urdu poet and lyricist.
 * Wilford Berry, Jr., 36, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Robert Coulson, 70, American science fiction writer and bookseller.
 * Trudy Desmond, 53, Canadian jazz singer.
 * Richard E. Dutrow, Sr., 61, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer.
 * Lloyd La Beach, 76, Panamanian sprinter, 100 meters world record holder (1948) and Olympian.
 * Lady Pansy Lamb, 94, English writer also known as "Pansy Pakenham".
 * Georg Meier, 88, German motorcycle racer.
 * Primo Miller, 83, American gridiron football player.
 * Constantin Oțet, 58, Romanian football coach.
 * Paul Schmidt, 65, American actor, poet, playwright and essayist.

20

 * Howard Boatwright, 80, American composer, violinist and musicologist.
 * Willard R. Espy, 88, American philologist, writer and poet.
 * Lotti van der Gaag, 75, Dutch sculptor and painter.
 * Frans Grootjans, 77, Belgian politician and minister.
 * Molly Harrower, 93, American clinical psychologist.
 * Sarah Kane, 28, English playwright, suicide by hanging.
 * Al Krueger, 79, American gridiron football player.
 * Michael Sgan-Cohen, 54, Israeli artist, art historian, curator and critic.
 * Gene Siskel, 53, American film critic (Chicago Tribune) and television journalist (At the Movies), brain cancer.

21

 * Gertrude B. Elion, 81, American biochemist, pharmacologist and Nobel Prize recipient.
 * Hideo Itokawa, 86, Japanese aircraft designer and rocketry pioneer.
 * Ilmari Juutilainen, 85, Finnish flying ace during World War II.
 * Kaya, 38, Mauritian musician and creator of the seggae genre.
 * Walter Lini, 57, Prime Minister of Vanuatu.
 * Wilmer Mizell, 68, American athlete and politician.
 * Jørgen Leschly Sørensen, 76, Danish footballer.
 * Leyla Vakilova, 72, Azerbaijani ballerina and ballet teacher.

22

 * Bitto Albertini, 74, Italian film director and screenwriter.
 * William Bronk, 81, American poet.
 * Charles Gerhardt, 72, American conductor, record producer, and arranger.
 * Howie Haak, 87, American baseball scout.
 * Carlos Hathcock, 56, United States Marine Corps sniper, multiple sclerosis.
 * Menno Oosting, 34, Dutch tennis player, car accident.
 * Pat Upton, 54, Irish politician and veterinarian, heart attack.

23

 * Sir Anthony Nutting, 3rd Baronet, 79, British diplomat and politician, heart failure.
 * Stanley Dance, 88, British jazz writer and record producer, pneumonia.
 * Ruth Gipps, 78, English composer, oboist, pianist, and conductor.
 * Hughie Lee-Smith, 83, American artist, cancer.
 * Gershon Legman, 81, American cultural critic and folklorist, complications following a stroke.
 * Chip Myers, 53, American football player, heart attack.
 * David Chilton Phillips, 74, British biologist, prostate cancer.
 * Heinrich Schmid, 77, Swiss linguist.
 * Rick Wilson, 33, American professional wrestler, suicide.

24

 * David Daube, 90, German scholar of ancient law.
 * Andre Dubus, 62, American short story writer and essayist, heart attack.
 * Virginia Foster Durr, 95, American white civil rights activist and lobbyist.
 * David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, 94, English politician.
 * Fathy Ghanem, 74, Egyptian writer.
 * Enzo Menegotti, 73, Italian football player.
 * Derek Nimmo, 68, English actor and author, fall.
 * Catharina Roodzant, 102, Dutch female chess master.
 * Ahmed Sharif, 78, Bangladeshi philosopher, writer and academic.
 * Frank Leslie Walcott, 82, Barbadian politician, diplomat and umpire.
 * Vann "Piano Man" Walls, 80, American R&B musician, cancer.
 * Johnnie Wittig, 84, American baseball player.

25

 * Dina Dreyfus, 88, French anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher.
 * Murad Ozdoev, 76, Ingush flying ace during World War II.
 * Sol Schoenbach, 84, American bassoonist and teacher.
 * Glenn T. Seaborg, 86, American nuclear chemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1951), complications of a stroke.
 * Štěpán Zavřel, 66, Czech painter, graphic artist and writer.

26

 * Michael Avallone, 74, American author.
 * Jean Coulomb, 94, French geophysicist and mathematician.
 * Annibale Frossi, 87, Italian football player and manager.
 * Elbridge T. Gerry, 90, American banker and polo player.
 * John L. Goldwater, 83, American comic book editor and publisher.
 * János Péter, 88, Hungarian politician.
 * José Quintero, 74, Panamanian theatre director and pedagogue, esophageal cancer.
 * Opoku Ware II, 79, 15th Emperor-King of the Ashanti people.
 * Bjørn Wiik, 62, Norwegian physicist, domestic accident.

27

 * George Hughley, 59, American football player and coach, traffic accident.
 * Bob McNeish, 86, American football player and coach.
 * Vida Steinert, 96, New Zealand painter.
 * Horace Tapscott, 64, American jazz pianist and composer.
 * Luis Vidal, 82, Chilean football player.

28

 * Anthea Askey, 65, English actress.
 * Dave Bedwell, 70, British racing cyclist.
 * Ara Harutyunyan, 70, Armenian sculptor and graphic artist.
 * Clarence Henry, 72, American boxer.
 * Lionel Berry, 2nd Viscount Kemsley, 89, British politician, peer and newspaper editor.
 * Kenny Robinson, 29, American baseball player, traffic collision.
 * Bill Talbert, 80, American tennis player.
 * Bing Xin, 98, Chinese writer.