Deaths in January 1999

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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

 * Myslym Alla, 79, Albanian football player and manager.
 * Vítor Baptista, 50, Portuguese footballer.
 * Besim Fagu, 73, Albanian football player.
 * Rafael Iglesias, 74, Argentine heavyweight boxer.
 * Les Yewdale, 70, Australian politician.

2

 * Amin al-Majaj, 77, Palestinian politician, Mayor of Jerusalem (1994–1998).
 * Margot Cottens, 76, Uruguayan actress.
 * Jean Galbraith, 92, Australian botanist, children's writer, and poet.
 * Sebastian Haffner, 91, German journalist and author.
 * Rolf Liebermann, 88, Swiss composer and music administrator.
 * Aase Lionæs, 91, Norwegian politician and feminist.
 * Joan Long, 73, Australian producer and writer.
 * Shepard Menken, 77, American voice actor.
 * Trevor J. Rees, 85, American football player and coach.
 * Horst Seeger, 72, German musicologist, librettist and opera director.
 * George Tobin, 77, American football player.
 * Louis Jolyon West, 74, American psychiatrist, cancer.

3

 * Elsa Burnett, 96, Swedish actress.
 * Diana Dei, 84, Italian film actress.
 * Neil Gibson, 36, New Zealand rower and Olympian, cancer.
 * Otto Königsberger, 90, German architect.
 * Violet Rose Olney, 87, English athlete and Olympic medalist.
 * Chuck Parsons, 74, American sports car racing driver.
 * Stanley Proffitt, 88, English cricketer.
 * Jerry Quarry, 53, American heavyweight boxer, pneumonia.
 * Jack C. K. Teng, 86, Chinese educator, writer and politician.
 * Gorō Yamaguchi, 65, Japanese shakuhachi player.

4

 * Maqsood Ahmed, 73, Pakistani cricketer.
 * Iron Eyes Cody, 94, American actor.
 * Diane Foster, 70, Canadian track and field athlete and Olympian.
 * Fredrik Mellbye, 81, Norwegian physician.
 * Charles Manners, 10th Duke of Rutland, 79, British peer and landowner.
 * Kisshomaru Ueshiba, 77, Japanese master of aikido, respiratory failure.
 * José Vela Zanetti, 85, Spanish painter and muralist.

5

 * Charles Francis Adams IV, 88, American electronics industrialist.
 * Paul Wallace Gates, 97, American historian and academic.
 * Michael Hirschfeld, 54, New Zealand businessman and politician, diabetes complications.
 * Jarmila Nygrýnová, 45, Czech long jumper, cancer.
 * Ralph Pasquariello, 72, American football player.
 * Clare Potter, 95, American fashion designer.
 * Basuki Resobowo, 82–83, Indonesian painter.
 * Paul Zoll, 87, American cardiologist.

6

 * David W. Dennis, 86, American politician, Representative from Indiana (1969–1975).
 * Jim Dunn, 67, American baseball player.
 * Joseph Malta, 80, American executioner during the Nuremberg executions.
 * Ntsu Mokhehle, 80, Lesotho politician, Prime Minister (1993–1994, 1994–1998).
 * Henrietta Moraes, 67, British artists' model and memoirist.
 * Hélène Ouvrard, 60, Canadian French writer.
 * Michel Petrucciani, 36, French jazz pianist, pulmonary infection.
 * Antonio Pierfederici, 79, Italian actor.
 * Lajos Tichy, 63, Hungarian footballer.
 * Leo Weilenmann, 76, Swiss racing cyclist.

7

 * Phil Cutchin, 78, American football player and coach.
 * James Hammerstein, 67, American theatre director and producer, heart failure.
 * Fred Hopkins, 51, American jazz double bassist.
 * Aulis Manninen, 81, American long-distance runner and Olympian.
 * Viktor Sobolev, 83, Soviet/Russian scientist.

8

 * James William Baskin, 79, Canadian politician and businessman.
 * Punch Coomaraswamy, 74, Malaysian–Singaporean judge, diplomat and politician, pulmonary disease.
 * Harvey Miller, 63, American actor, director, and screenwriter.
 * Vahid Musayev, 51, Azerbaijani politician, Deputy Minister, killed.
 * Lyusyena Ovchinnikova, 67, Soviet-born Russian film actress.
 * John W. Roberts, 78, American General in the United States Air Force.
 * Rövşən Rzayev, 29, Azerbaijani officer and war hero, murdered.
 * Peter Seeberg, 73, Danish modernist novelist and playwright.
 * Dobie Gillis Williams, 38, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

9

 * Rick Bennewitz, 62, American television director, heart failure.
 * Hans Candrian, 60, Swiss bobsledder and Olympic medalist.
 * Cleveland Cram, 81, American historian and intelligence official in the Central Intelligence Agency.
 * Carl Elliott, 85, American politician, Representative from Alabama (1949–1963, 1963–1965).
 * Mel Pearson, 60, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Jim Peters, 80, English long-distance runner.
 * Mien Ruys, 94, Dutch landscape and garden architect.

10

 * Shinsuke Ashida, 84, Japanese actor, liver cancer.
 * John Hervey, 7th Marquess of Bristol, 44, British peer, aristocrat and businessman, multiple organ failure.
 * Walter Edward Harris, 94, Canadian politician and lawyer.
 * Esteban Marino, 84, Uruguayan football referee.
 * Frank Parker, 95, American singer and actor.
 * Primož Ramovš, 77, Slovenian composer and librarian.
 * Gavin Relly, 72, South African businessman, Chairman of Anglo American.
 * Edward Williams, 77, Australian judge on the Supreme Court of Queensland.
 * Juliusz Żuławski, 88, Polish poet, literary critic and translator.

11

 * Teuvo Aura, 86, Finnish politician.
 * Fabrizio De André, 58, Italian singer-songwriter, lung cancer.
 * Robert Douglas, 89, American film actor, television director and producer.
 * Ján Ducký, 54, Slovak politician, murdered.
 * Jim Dyck, 76, American baseball player.
 * Nathalie Lind, 80, Danish jurist and politician.
 * Naomi Mitchison, 101, Scottish novelist and poet.
 * Brian Moore, 77, Northern Irish-born Canadian screenwriter and novelist, pulmonary fibrosis.
 * Josefina Plá, 95, Spanish poet, playwright and art critic.
 * K. A. Rahman, 59, Indian political activist.
 * Öztürk Serengil, 68, Turkish actor and comedian.
 * Bobby Specht, 77, American figure skater.
 * François Spoerry, 86, French architect and urban planner.
 * Mark Warren, 60, American television director (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, What's Happening!!, Sanford and Son), cancer.

12

 * Leo Cherne, 86, American economist and public servant.
 * Betty Lou Gerson, 84, American actress (One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Fly, Cats Don't Dance), stroke.
 * David Logan, 42, American gridiron football player, respiratory failure.
 * Gerda Ring, 107, Norwegian stage actress and producer.
 * Maria Sander, 74, German sprinter.
 * William H. Whyte, 81, American urbanist, organizational analyst and journalist.
 * Doug Wickenheiser, 37, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, St. Louis Blues, Washington Capitals), cancer.

13

 * Maurice A. Donahue, 80, American politician.
 * Buzz Kulik, 76, American film director and producer.
 * Karl Lieffen, 72, German film actor, brain cancer.
 * Kelvin Malone, 38, American spree killer, execution by lethal injection.
 * John Frederick Nims, 85, American poet and academic.
 * Lawrence Harold Welsh, 63, American bishop in the Roman Catholic Church.

14

 * Robin Bailey, 79, English actor, respiratory failure.
 * Tom Binford, 74, American entrepreneur and philanthropist.
 * Jerzy Grotowski, 65, Polish theatre director and theorist, leukaemia.
 * Janus Hellemons, 86, Dutch racing cyclist.
 * Brett King, 78, American actor, leukaemia, leukemia.
 * Muslimgauze, 37, British electronic musician, fungal infection.
 * Fred Myrow, 59, American composer, heart failure.
 * Sabina Olmos, 85, Argentine film actress.
 * Raymond Peynet, 90, French cartoonist.
 * Granville Rodrigo, 41, Sri Lankan actor, singer, and art director.
 * Barat Shakinskaya, 84, Soviet-Azerbaijani actress.
 * Lincoln Thompson, 49, Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, cancer.
 * Aldo van Eyck, 80, Dutch architect.

15

 * John Bloom, 54, American actor, heart failure.
 * Betty Box, 83, British film producer, cancer.
 * Lars Glassér, 73, Swedish sprint canoeist.
 * Monroe Karmin, 69, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner.
 * Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry, 79, Irish judge and life peer, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland (1971–1988).
 * Marion Ryan, 67, English pop singer.
 * John Baker Saunders, 44, American musician (Mad Season), heroin overdose.
 * Mi. Pa. Somasundaram, 77, Indian Tamil journalist, poet and writer.

16

 * Oscar Cullmann, 96, French Lutheran theologian.
 * Đoàn Khuê, 75, Vietnamese army general and Minister of Defence (1992-1997).
 * Jim McClelland, 83, Australian jurist and politician, Senator for New South Wales (1971–1978).
 * Dadie Rylands, 96, British literary scholar and theatre director.

17

 * Cay von Brockdorff, 83, German sculptor and art historian.
 * Maurice Byers, 81, Australian jurist and constitutional expert.
 * Nicholas J. Corea, 55, American television writer (Walker, Texas Ranger, The Incredible Hulk, Outlaws), cancer.
 * Theodore Major, 90, English artist.

18

 * Horace Cumner, 80, Welsh footballer.
 * Ciril Cvetko, 79, Slovene composer and conductor.
 * Frances Gershwin, 92, American singer and violinist.
 * Lucille Kallen, 76, American screenwriter and playwright, cancer.
 * Pat Morton, 88, Australian businessman and politician, Leader of the Opposition of New South Wales (1955–1959).
 * Henri Romagnesi, 86, French mycologist.
 * Günter Strack, 69, German television actor, heart failure.
 * Virginia Verrill, 82, American big band singer.

19

 * Roderick Chisholm, 82, American philosopher.
 * Ivan Francescato, 31, Italian rugby player, heart failure.
 * Mario Gentili, 85, Italian cyclist and Olympic medalist.
 * Jacques Lecoq, 77, French actor and mime, cerebral haemorrhage.
 * Warren Schrage, 78, American basketball player.

20

 * Stella Bloch, 101, American artist, dancer and journalist.
 * Cleaver Bunton, 96, Australia politician, mayor of Albury (NSW).
 * Martyn Finlay, 87, New Zealand lawyer and politician.
 * John Golding, 67, British trade unionist and politician, Member of Parliament (1969–1986), complications following surgery.
 * Frances Lander Spain, 95, American children's librarian.

21

 * Alfonso Corona Blake, 80, Mexican film director and screenwriter.
 * Charles Brown, 76, American blues singer and pianist, heart failure.
 * Berkeley L. Bunker, 92, American politician, Senator (1940–1942) from Nevada and Representative (1945–1947).
 * Jacques Chailley, 88, French musicologist and composer.
 * Leslie French, 94, British actor.
 * Paul Metcalf, 81, American writer.
 * Lloyd M. Mustin, 87, American admiral during World War II, complications following a stroke.
 * Marvin Rick, 97, American middle-distance runner and Olympian.
 * Cecil Smith, 94, American polo player.
 * Susan Strasberg, 60, American actress, breast cancer.

22

 * Paul Cammermans, 77, Belgian film director.
 * Gabor Carelli, 83, Hungarian classical tenor.
 * Piero Gadda Conti, 96, Italian novelist and film critic.
 * George Mosse, 80, German writer and historian.
 * Graciela Quan, 87/88, Guatemalan lawyer and women's rights activist.
 * Maxwell Rosenlicht, 74, American mathematician.
 * Steven Sykes, 84, British artist.

23

 * Bernard Budiansky, 73, American engineer and academic.
 * Joe D'Amato, 62, Italian film director, heart failure.
 * Jaroslav Foglar, 91, Czech author.
 * Pavle Grubješić, 45, Serbian football player.
 * Terence Lewin, Baron Lewin, 78, British Royal Navy officer, First Sea Lord (1977–1979).
 * Thomas C. Mann, 86, American diplomat and ambassador.
 * Paul McKee, 75, American football player.
 * John Osteen, 77, American evangelical pastor, heart failure.
 * Suceso Portales, 94, Spanish anarcho-feminist writer.
 * Jay Pritzker, 76, American entrepreneur.
 * Frederick Sommer, 93, Italian-American artist.
 * Graham Staines, 58, Australian Christian missionary, murdered.

24

 * Andrée Debar, 78, French actress and producer of stage and screen, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Elena Dobronravova, 66, Soviet and Russian actress.
 * Werner Jacobs, 89, German film director.
 * Shizue Natsukawa, 89, Japanese actress.
 * Roger Rondeaux, 78, French cyclo-cross racer.

25

 * Sarah Louise Delany, 109, American author and civil rights activist.
 * John H. DeWitt, Jr., 92, American radio astronomy and photometry pioneer.
 * Rudi Glöckner, 69, German football referee.
 * Philip Mason, 92, English civil servant, historian, and author.
 * Henri Rochereau, 90, French politician, European Commissioner for Overseas Development.
 * Robert Shaw, 82, American conductor, stroke.
 * George Gilbert Swell, 75, Indian politician.
 * Herman Wedemeyer, 74, American actor, football player and politician, heart failure.

26

 * Jeanne-Marie Darré, 93, French classical pianist.
 * August Everding, 70, German opera director.
 * Sam Jones, 75, Australian politician.
 * Simon Karas, 93, Greek musicologist.
 * D. C. Kizhakemuri, 85, Indian writer, publisher and activist.
 * Matilde Landeta, 88, Mexican filmmaker and screenwriter.
 * Heinz Leymann, 66, Swedish psychologists and academic.
 * Larry Loughlin, 57, American baseball player.
 * Charles Luckman, 89, American businessman and architect.
 * Ruby Mercer, 92, American-Canadian writer, broadcaster and soprano.

27

 * Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, 88, Spanish writer.
 * Eamon Collins, 44-45, Northern Irish former IRA member, murdered.
 * Ben Margolis, 88, American attorney, heart failure.
 * Satya Saha, 64, Bangladeshi composer.
 * Jerzy Turowicz, 86, Polish Catholic journalist and editor, heart failure.
 * František Vláčil, 74, Czech film director, painter, and graphic artist.

28

 * Ave Daniell, 84, American gridiron football player.
 * Josef Doležal, 78, Czechoslovak athlete and Olympic medalist.
 * Valery Gavrilin, 59, Soviet-born Russian composer.
 * Herbert Gruber, 85, Austrian film producer.
 * Pochiah Krishnamurthy, 51, Indian cricket player.
 * Roger-Jean Le Nizerhy, 82, French cyclist.
 * Leonard C. Lewin, 82, American author.
 * Rouiched, 77, Algerian comic actor.
 * Torgny T:son Segerstedt, 90, Swedish philosopher and sociologist.
 * Radúz Činčera, 75, Czech screenwriter and director.

29

 * Willy Bandholz, 86, German field handball player and Olympic champion.
 * Lili St. Cyr, 80, American burlesque stripteaser.
 * Yves Hervouet, 77, French sinologist.
 * Vladimir Kirillin, 86, Soviet physicist.
 * Eeva-Kaarina Volanen, 78, Finnish actor.

30

 * Branko Fučić, 78, Croatian art historian, archeologist and paleographer.
 * Romano Garagnani, 61, Italian skeet shooter and Olympic medalist.
 * Mills E. Godwin, 84, American politician, Governor of Virginia (1966–1970, 1974–1978), pneumonia.
 * Huntz Hall, 78, American actor, heart failure.
 * Ed Herlihy, 89, American newsreel narrator.
 * Chuck Hinton, 59, American gridiron football player.
 * Mirra Komarovsky, 93, American sociologist.
 * Dolf van der Linden, 83, Dutch conductor of popular music.
 * Mick McGahey, 73, Scottish trade unionist and political activist, Chairman of the Communist Party of Great Britain (1974–1978).
 * Warren Miller, 74, American political scientist.
 * Svetlana Savyolova, 57, Soviet and Russian actress.

31

 * Giant Baba, 61, Japanese wrestler, liver failure.
 * Bill Luders, 89, American naval architect.
 * Charles M. Murphy, 85, American football, basketball and baseball player and coach.
 * Ahmad Azari Qomi, 74, Iranian cleric and ayatollah.
 * Fanély Revoil, 92, French opera singer.
 * Gabriel Ruiz, 90, Mexican songwriter.
 * Ilmari Tapiovaara, 84, Finnish furniture designer.
 * Ferdinand Thomas Unger, 84, American Army Lieutenant General.
 * Norm Zauchin, 69, American baseball player, prostate cancer.