Deaths in July 1999

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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

 * Dennis Brown, 42, Jamaican reggae singer, pneumothorax.
 * Edward Dmytryk, 90, Canadian-born Canadian film director, heart and kidney failure.
 * Forrest Mars, 95, American businessman and candy magnate.
 * Guy Mitchell, 72, American traditional pop singer and actor, complications of surgery.
 * Jack Moroney, 81, Australian cricket player.
 * Ernst Nievergelt, 89, Swiss cyclist and Olympic medalist.
 * Joshua Nkomo, 82, Zimbabwean politician, prostate cancer.
 * Sylvia Sidney, 88, American film actress (Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, Beetlejuice, An Early Frost), oesophageal cancer.
 * Roman Tmetuchl, 73, Palauan political leader.
 * Stig Westerberg, 80, Swedish conductor and pianist.
 * Willie Whitelaw, 81, British politician.

2

 * Viktor Chebrikov, 76, Soviet head of the KGB (1982–1988).
 * George Deiderich, 63, American football player.
 * George Druxman, 69, Canadian football player.
 * Xavier Gélin, 53, French actor and film producer, cancer.
 * Jack Plumley, 88, British Anglican priest, egyptologist and academic.
 * Mario Puzo, 78, American novelist (The Godfather) and screenwriter (Superman, The Cotton Club), Oscar winner (1973, 1975), heart failure.
 * Asoka Weeraratna, 80, Sri Lankan (Sinhala) Buddhist missionary.

3

 * Reg Bishop, 86, Australian politician.
 * Ricky Byrdsong, 43, American basketball coach and killing spree victim, shot.
 * Yueh Feng, 90, Chinese film director and screenwriter.
 * Ibragim Gasanbekov, 29, Azerbaijani football player, traffic collision.
 * Mimi Nelson, 76, Swedish film actress.
 * Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina, 100, Soviet and Russian mathematician.
 * Paulo Porto, 81, Brazilian actor, film producer, director and screenwriter.
 * Mark Sandman, 46, American musician (Morphine), heart attack.
 * Jack Vincent, 95, English ornithologist.

4

 * Ronny Graham, 79, American actor, theater director, and writer, liver disease.
 * Ruby Johnson, 63, American soul singer.
 * Mark O'Brien, 49, American journalist, poet, and advocate for the disabled.
 * Jack Watson, 84, English actor, leukemia.

5

 * Len Butterfield, 85, New Zealand cricket player.
 * Jean-Pierre Darras, 71, French actor, cancer.
 * Joan Kemp-Welch, 92, British stage and film actress.
 * C. Walton Lillehei, 80, American surgeon and open-heart surgery pioneer.
 * Harald Philipp, 78, German film director, screenwriter and actor.
 * Roberta Sherwood, 86, American singer.
 * Thea Tewi, 97, German-American sculptor and lingerie designer.

6

 * Bernardo Gandulla, 83, Argentine football player and coach.
 * Gary M. Heidnik, 55, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * M. L. Jaisimha, 60, Indian cricket player, lung cancer.
 * Pisith Pilika, 34, Cambodian ballet dancer and actress, shot.
 * Joaquín Rodrigo, 97, Spanish composer and pianist.
 * Sherley Anne Williams, 54, American novelist, poet and professor.
 * Barry Winchell, 21, United States Army infantry soldier, murdered.

7

 * Emilio Sánchez Font, 78, Cuban-American artist.
 * James Gahagan, American abstract expressionist painter.
 * Brima Kamara, 27, Sierra Leonean football player.
 * Ryu Mitsuse, 71, Japanese novelist, science fiction writer, and essayist.
 * Richard Müller, 95, German chemist.
 * Julie Campbell Tatham, 91, American writer of children's novels.

8

 * Ángel Lulio Cabrera, 90, Argentinian botanist.
 * Adolf Christian, 65, Austrian bicycle racer.
 * Mavis Thorpe Clark, 90, Australian novelist and writer for children.
 * Pete Conrad, 69, American astronaut, motorcycle accident.
 * Allen Lee Davis, 54, American murderer, execution by electric chair.
 * Frank Lubin, 89, Lithuanian-American basketball player.
 * Malcolm Mackay, 79, Australian politician, traffic collision.
 * Robert Morrison, 90, American attorney and politician.
 * Elemér Terták, 80, Hungarian figure skater and Olympian.
 * Shafik Wazzan, 74, Lebanese politician.
 * Mehdi Haeri Yazdi, 76, Iranian philosopher and Shia Islamic cleric.

9

 * Karl Adam, 75, German football player.
 * Robert de Cotret, 55, Canadian politician.
 * James L. Farmer, Jr., 79, American civil rights activist, complications from diabetes.
 * Bill Hindman, 76, American actor (Porky's).
 * Esme Mackinnon, 85, British alpine skier and world champion downhill and slalom.
 * Samuel Sanders, 62, American classical pianist.

10

 * John Scott-Ellis, 9th Baron Howard de Walden, 86, British peer and thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder.
 * Walter R. Evans, 79, American control theorist.
 * Gil Johnson, 75, American gridiron football player.
 * Ulla Lindström, 89, Swedish journalist and politician.

11

 * Burton Dreben, 71, American philosopher.
 * Marcelo Fernan, 72, Filipino lawyer and politician, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
 * Helen Forrest, 82, American singer of traditional pop and swing music, heart failure.
 * Everett Greenbaum, 79, American television and film writer and actor.
 * Henry Kimbro, 87, American Negro league baseball player.
 * Lasse Lindroth, 26, Iranian-Swedish comedian, actor and writer, car accident.
 * Roaring Lion, 91, Trinidad and Tobago calypso singer and composer.
 * John Henry Sharpe, 77, Bermudian politician, Premier (1975-1975).

12

 * Bill Flett, 55, Canadian hockey player, liver failure.
 * Alex Gordon, 82, Welsh architect.
 * Harvey Jackins, 83, American founder and principal theorist of Re-evaluation Counseling.
 * Rajendra Kumar, 69, Indian film actor, cancer.
 * Mircea Nedelciu, 48, Romanian short-story writer, novelist and essayist, Hodgkin's disease.
 * Kazimierz Ostrowski, 82, Polish painter.
 * Bill Owen, 85, British actor and songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
 * Jan Panenka, 77, Czech pianist.
 * Zita Szeleczky, 84, Hungarian actress.
 * Cornelius Wiebe, 106, Canadian physician and politician.

13

 * Donald D. Engen, 75, American naval officer, administrator of the FAA, and museum director, aviation accident.
 * Muhammetnazar Gapurow, 77, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR (1969 – 1985).
 * Yevgeny Goryansky, 70, Russian football player and football coach.
 * Herta Heuwer, 86, German chef and inventor of the currywurst.
 * Josef Moc, 91, Czechoslovak basketball player.

14

 * Maria Banuș, 85, Romanian poet, essayist, and prose writer.
 * Hugh Gallarneau, 82, American gridiron football player (Chicago Bears).
 * Gene Hart, 68, American sportscaster for the Philadelphia Flyers, kidney and liver failure.
 * Władysław Hasior, 71, Polish sculptor.
 * Abdul Ahad Karzai, 77, Afghan politician, homicide.
 * Umyar Mavlikhanov, 61, Soviet fencer and Olympic champion.
 * Gar Samuelson, 41, American drummer (Megadeth), liver failure.
 * Trudi Schoop, 95, Swiss-American dance therapy pioneer.
 * John R. Steelman, 99, American academic and first White House Chief of Staff.
 * Pietro Tarchini, 77, Swiss professional cyclist.
 * Sal Trapani, 72, American comic-book artist.
 * Sadao Yamahana, 63, Japanese politician.

15

 * Sir Richard Thompson, 1st Baronet, 86, British politician.
 * George Brown, 79, American politician, complications following heart surgery.
 * Simon Ramsay, 16th Earl of Dalhousie, 84, British land owner, politician and colonial governor.
 * Horacio Podestá, 87, Argentine rower and Olympic medalist.
 * Dick Richardson, 65, Welsh heavyweight boxer, cancer.
 * Kamalendumati Shah, Indian politician and social worker, brain cancer.

16

 * Ross H. Arnett, Jr., 80, American entomologist.
 * Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, 33, American socialite and wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., plane crash.
 * John F. Kennedy Jr., 38, American journalist, lawyer, and son of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, plane crash.
 * Alan Macnaughton, 95, Canadian parliamentarian and Speaker of the House.
 * André Martinet, 91, French linguist.
 * Franco Montoro, 83, Brazilian politician and lawyer.
 * Hamid Nitgi, 78, Iranian poet, writer and author.
 * Alfred Raoul, 60, Congolese politician, Prime Minister (1968-1969).
 * Whit Wyatt, 91, American baseball player, pneumonia.
 * Hiromi Yanagihara, 19, Japanese singer and actress, heart failure.

17

 * Rajendra Kumari Bajpai, 74, Indian politician.
 * Arthur Hoag, 78, American astronomer.
 * Daniel H. H. Ingalls, Sr., 83, American professor of Sanskrit.
 * Donal McCann, 56, Irish actor, pancreatic cancer.
 * Kevin Newman, 65, Australian soldier and politician, systemic lupus erythematosus.
 * Kevin Wilkinson, 41, English drummer, suicide.
 * Patricia Zipprodt, 74, American costume designer, cancer.

18

 * Meir Ariel, 57, Israeli singer-songwriter, boutonneuse fever.
 * Rubén Bernuncio, 23, Argentine football player, renal failure following motorcycle accident.
 * Donald Eugene Chambers, 68, American marine and founder of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club.
 * Jatin Kanakia, 46, Indian actor.
 * Pandi Raidhi, 68, Albanian film and theatre actor.
 * Laurie Scott, 82, English footballer.
 * Tody Smith, 50, American gridiron football player.

19

 * Donna Allen, 78, American pioneer feminist, civil rights activist, historian and economist.
 * Jesús Codina, 60, Spanish basketball player and coach.
 * Cavernario Galindo, 75, Mexican luchador and film actor.
 * Ludwik Gross, 94, Polish-American virologist, stomach cancer.
 * José Luis Madrid, 66, Spanish screenwriter, producer and film director.
 * Hans Maldonado, 41, Ecuadorian football player.
 * Jerold Wells, 90, English actor.
 * Doreen Yarwood, 81, English historian and architecture critic.

20

 * Emil Andres, 88, American racecar driver.
 * Sandra Gould, 82, American film and television actor (Bewitched) and writer, complications of surgery.
 * Jean-Jacques Lamboley, 78, French cyclist.
 * James Muirhead, 74, Australian judge and Royal Commissioner.

21

 * Kurt Burris, 67, American gridiron football player.
 * Peter Carter, 69, British children's author.
 * Jun Etō, 66, Japanese literary critic, suicide.
 * David Ogilvy, 88, British advertising tycoon, the "Father of Advertising".
 * Kim Pyong-sik, 80, North Korean politician.

22

 * Gennadiy Agapov, 65, Soviet and Russian race walker and Olympian.
 * Abelardo Díaz Alfaro, 82, Puerto Rican author.
 * Howard Arkley, 48, Australian artist, accidental overdose.
 * Claudio Rodríguez García, 65, Spanish poet.
 * Hakim Abdul Hameed, 90, Indian physician and university chancellor.
 * Mary Kerridge, 85, English actress and theatre director.
 * Lauro Ortega Martínez, 89, Mexican politician and veterinarian.
 * Ladislav Slovák, 79, Slovak conductor.
 * Arun Thapa, Nepali singer and songwriter, lung and liver ailment.

23

 * Hassan II, 70, Moroccan monarch, King of Morocco (since 1961), heart attack.
 * Josef Holub, 69, Czech botanist and pteridologist, heart attack.
 * Frank Minis Johnson, 80, United States district judge, pneumonia.
 * Kelvin Lancaster, 74, Australian mathematical economist.
 * Paul Lucier, 68, Canadian businessman and politician, bone cancer.
 * Emma Tenayuca, 82, Mexican American labor leader, and educator, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Dmitri Tertyshny, 22, Russian ice hockey defenseman, boating accident.
 * Stanley Tretick, 78, American photojournalist.

24

 * Alexander Abian, 76, Iranian-born Armenian-American mathematician.
 * Le Quang Dao, 77, Vietnamese politician.
 * Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch, 89, French scientist, translator and writer.
 * Demetrius DuBose, 28, American football player, shot by police.
 * Albert Leake, 69, English footballer.
 * Bijaya Malla, 74, Nepalese poet, novelist and playwright.
 * Don Martin, 79, American basketball player and coach.
 * Rona McKenzie, 76, New Zealand cricket player.
 * Henk Pellikaan, 88, Dutch football player.

25

 * Martin Agronsky, 84, American journalist and television host, congestive heart failure.
 * Princess Iskander, 82, last member of the Russian House of Romanov.
 * Pentti Lammio, 79, Finnish speed skater and Olympic medalsit.
 * Raul Manglapus, 80, Filipino politician, throat cancer.

26

 * Walter Jackson Bate, 81, American literary critic and biographer.
 * Béla Bay, 92, Hungarian Olympic épée and foil fencer.
 * Philippa Gail, 56, British actress, cancer.
 * Phedon Gizikis, 82, Greek army general and president under the Junta.
 * Alan Karcher, 56, American politician.
 * Qian Linzhao, 92, Chinese physicist.
 * Joseph Morvan, 74, French road bicycle racer.
 * Paul Rickards, 73, American gridiron football player.
 * John W. N. Watkins, 74, English philosopher and professor of Economics, heart attack.

27

 * Aleksandr Aleksandrov, 86, Soviet/Russian mathematician, physicist and philosopher.
 * Ronald Backus, 77, British sailor and Olympic medalist.
 * Matjaž Cvikl, 32, Slovenian football player, cancer.
 * Louis Déprez, 78, French racing cyclist.
 * Harry Edison, 83, American jazz trumpeter.
 * Amaryllis Fleming, 73, British cello performer and teacher.
 * Elías Jácome, 53, Ecuadorian football referee.
 * Armand Le Moal, 85, French racing cyclist.
 * Mahlathini, 61, South African mbaqanga singer, complications of diabetes.
 * Malachi Martin, 78, Irish-American Catholic priest and novelist, fall.
 * Michael Winkelman, 53, American child actor (The Real McCoys).

28

 * Doris Carter, 87, Australian military officer, public servant, and Olympic athlete.
 * Trygve Haavelmo, 87, Norwegian economist.
 * Maxim Munzuk, 89, Tuvan actor.
 * Francisco Risiglione, 82, Argentine boxer and Olympic medalist.
 * Carlos Romero, 71, Uruguayan football player.
 * Gerd Springer, 72, Austrian football player and coach.
 * Puey Ungpakorn, 83, Thai economist.
 * S. Howard Woodson, 83, American pastor, civil rights leader and politician.

29

 * Anita Carter, 66, American singer and member of the Carter family, complications of rheumatoid arthritis.
 * Martti Kosma, 72, Finnish football player and manager.
 * Anatoliy Solovyanenko, 66, Soviet operatic tenor, heart attack.
 * André Soubiran, 89, French physician and novelist.
 * Neelan Tiruchelvam, 55, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, academic and politician, assassinated.
 * Kunio Tsuji, 73, Japanese author, novelist, and scholar.

30

 * Ko Tai Chuen, 74, Singaporean basketball player and Olympian.
 * George Moorse, 63, American-German film director, heart attack.
 * Hermann Panzo, 41, French athlete, stroke.
 * Linus Suryadi AG, 48, Indonesian writer and poet.

31

 * Mirza Adeeb, 85, Pakistani writer of drama and short stories.
 * Marinus Kok, 83, Dutch prelate of the Catholic Church.
 * Rex Pilbeam, 91, Australian politician.
 * Henry W. Sawyer, 80, American lawyer, civil rights activist and politician, lung cancer.
 * Elena Zareschi, 83, Italian actress.