Deaths in June 1999

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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

 * Lloyd L. Burke, 74, United States Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
 * Christopher Cockerell, 88, English engineer and inventor of the hovercraft.
 * Olivier Debré, 79, French abstract painter.
 * Mr. Prospector, 29, American thoroughbred racehorse, complications from colic.
 * Gert Ledig, 77, German writer.
 * Cris Miró, 33, Argentine entertainer and media personality, lymphoma.
 * Bjørn Spiro, 90, Danish film actor.

2

 * Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf, 47, Yemeni human rights activist and journalist, (orchestrated) car accident.
 * Václav Benda, 52, Czech Roman Catholic activist and mathematician.
 * Junior Braithwaite, 50, Jamaican reggae musician, homicide.
 * Keith Gledhill, 88, American tennis player.
 * Yevhen Ivchenko, 60, Soviet athlete and Olympic medalist.
 * Blagoje Jovovic, Montenegrin Serb World War II Partisan and Chetnik.
 * Ron Reynolds, 71, English football goalkeeper.
 * Andy Simpkins, 67, American jazz bassist, stomach cancer.
 * Robert Sobel, 68, American writer and academic.

3

 * Italo Allodi, 71, Italian football player and manager.
 * Helge Bronée, 77, Danish footballer.
 * Peter Brough, 83, English radio ventriloquist.
 * Bernardin Mungul Diaka, 65, Congolese/Zairean diplomat and politician.
 * Romolo Marcellini, 88, Italian film director and screenwriter.
 * Myron Weiner, 68, American political scientist and scholar.

4

 * Ann Brown, 56, British psychologist.
 * Zachary Fisher, 88, American philanthropist and businessman.
 * G. S. Maddala, 66, Indian-American economist and mathematician.
 * John McKeithen, 81, American lawyer, politician and governor of Louisiana.
 * Mike Mikulak, 86, American gridiron football player.
 * Yury Vasilyev, 59, Soviet and Russian stage and film actor.

5

 * Magne Kleiven, 77, Norwegian gymnast and Olympian.
 * Robert Merritt, Nova Scotia playwright and film critic.
 * Mel Tormé, 73, American singer and musician, stroke.
 * Ernie Wilkins, 79, American jazz saxophonist, conductor and arranger, stroke.

6

 * Anne Haddy, 68, Australian actress, renal failure.
 * Ilya Musin, 95, Soviet conductor and a theorist of conducting.
 * Manuel Ramos, 56, Mexican boxer, heart attack.
 * Eddie Stanky, 83, American baseball player and manager, heart attack.

7

 * Bob Garber, 70, American baseball player.
 * Lady June, 68, English painter, poet and musician, heart attack.
 * Paul Oskar Kristeller, 92, German-American scholar of renaissance humanism.
 * Victor Otiev, 64, Soviet / Russian painter and graphic artist.
 * Charles D. Palmer, 97, United States Army general, cardiac arrest.
 * Paco Stanley, 56, Mexican television entertainer, shot.
 * Joseph Vandernoot, 84, British conductor.

8

 * Piet Blom, 65, Dutch architect.
 * Ted James, 92, American football player and coach.
 * Zofia Kuratowska, 67, Polish physician and politician.
 * Corrado Mantoni, 74, Italian actor and radio and television host, lung cancer.
 * Rosy McHargue, 97, American jazz clarinetist.
 * Karl Z. Morgan, 91, American physicist and radiation health physics pioneer.
 * Francis Shorland, 89, New Zealand organic chemist.
 * Emiliano Tardif, 71, Canadian missionary, heart complications.
 * Gordon Towers, 79, Canadian politician and lieutenant governor of Alberta.
 * Fred Wampler, 89, American politician.

9

 * Al Bates, 94, American Olympic athlete.
 * Ernesto Calindri, 90, Italian theater and film actor, stroke.
 * Heimo Haitto, 74, Finnish-American classical violinist.
 * Maurice Journeau, 100, French composer.
 * Giles Sutherland Rich, 95, American judge and influential patent attorney, lymphoma.
 * Andrew L. Stone, 96, American screenwriter, film director and producer.
 * Ray Yagiello, 75, American football coach.

10

 * Manlio Busoni, 92, Italian film and television actor.
 * Kenneth S. Davis, 86, American historian.
 * Béla Egresi, 77, Hungarian football player.
 * Henry Grunfeld, 95, German-British merchant banker.
 * Grete Natzler, 92, Austrian actress and operatic soprano.
 * Jerry Elizalde Navarro, 75, Filipino artist.
 * Leonard Thornton, 82, New Zealand Army officer.
 * Oswald Tippo, 87, American botanist and educator.
 * Jiří Vršťala, 78, Czech film actor.
 * J. E. Caerwyn Williams, 87, Welsh scholar.
 * Chen Xilian, 84, Chinese Army general and politician.

11

 * Gilles Châtelet, 55, French philosopher and mathematician, suicide.
 * DeForest Kelley, 79, American actor (Star Trek, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Apache Uprising), stomach cancer.
 * Viljo Nousiainen, 55, Finnish high jumping coach.
 * Gordon Stirling, 74, Australian politician.

12

 * Ola Bauer, 55, Norwegian novelist and playwright, cancer.
 * Jean Capdouze, 56, French rugby player.
 * Sergey Khlebnikov, 43, Russian Olympic speed skater, drowned.
 * Jah Lloyd, 51, Jamaican reggae singer, deejay and record producer, asthma.
 * J. F. Powers, 81, American novelist and short-story writer.
 * Jalagam Vengala Rao, 78, Indian politician.
 * Bib Stillwell, 71, Australian racing driver.
 * Gerd Tellenbach, 95, German historian and scholar.
 * Aleksandras Štromas, 68, Lithuanian political scientist, dissident and author.

13

 * Gabriel Grüner, 35, Italian photojournalist, shot by Yugoslavian soldiers.
 * Volker Krämer, 56, German journalist, shot by Yugoslavian soldiers.
 * Carlos Kroeber, 64, Brazilian actor.
 * Igor Ksenofontov, 60, Soviet and Russian figure skating coach, heart failure.
 * Jørgen Olesen, 75, Danish footballer player.
 * Kjell Rosén, 78, Swedish footballer player.
 * Douglas Seale, 85, English actor (Aladdin, Ernest Saves Christmas, Amadeus).
 * Diablo Velasco, 80, Mexican professional wrestler

14

 * Henri Baruk, 101, French neuropsychiatrist.
 * Kurt Blaukopf, 85, Austrian music sociologist.
 * Jack M. Campbell, 82, American politician.
 * Louis Diamond, 97, American pediatrician, known as the "father of pediatric hematology".
 * Osvaldo Dragún, 70, Argentine playwright.
 * Bernie Faloney, 66, Canadian football player, colorectal cancer.
 * Anna McCune Harper, 96, American tennis player.
 * Henry "Junjo" Lawes, 51, Jamaican record producer, drive-by shooting.
 * Cecil Morgan, 100, American politician.
 * Hann Trier, 83, German artist.

15

 * Alan Cathcart, 6th Earl Cathcart, 79, British Army officer.
 * Sigrid Hunke, 86, German SS-member during World War II, author, and neopagan.
 * Igor Kholin, 79, Russian poet and fiction writer, liver cancer.
 * Sherman A. Minton, 80, American physician, herpetologist and toxinologist.
 * Fausto Papetti, 76, Italian alto saxophone player.
 * Fred Tiedt, 63, Irish boxer and Olympic silver medalist.

16

 * Lennart Geijer, 89, Swedish politician and lawyer.
 * James Ottaway, 90, British film, television and stage actor.
 * Lawrence Stone, 79, English historian of early modern Britain, Parkinson's disease.
 * Screaming Lord Sutch, 58, English musician and serial parliamentary candidate, suicide by hanging.
 * Marshall Wayne, 87, American diver and Olympic champion (1936).

17

 * Albert Bailey, 84, Australian politician.
 * Stanley Faulder, 61, Canadian convict, execution by lethal injection.
 * Basil Hume, 76, English Roman Catholic bishop, cancer.
 * A. W. Kuchler, 91, German-American geographer and naturalist.
 * Paul-Émile de Souza, 68, Beninese army officer and political figure.
 * Lynn E. Stalbaum, 79, American politician.

18

 * Loyd Arms, 79, American football player.
 * Ross Baillie, 21, Scottish track and field athlete, complications from anaphylaxis.
 * Dircinha Batista, 77, Brazilian actress and singer.
 * Bob Bullock, 69, American politician from Texas, cancer.
 * Robert G. Neumann, 83, American politician and diplomat.
 * Lothar Ulsaß, 58, German football player, stroke.
 * ʻAlī Ṭanṭāwī, 90, Syrian Salafi jurist, writer, and broadcaster.

19

 * Henri d’Orléans, 90, French nobleman, Orleanist pretender to the throne, prostate cancer.
 * Saeed Emami, 41, Iranian deputy minister of intelligence, suicide.
 * Oton Gliha, 85, Croatian artist.
 * Heloísa Helena, 81, Brazilian actress and singer.
 * Leslie Holdridge, 91, American botanist and climatologist.
 * Kamal el-Din Hussein, 78, Egyptian military officer and politician, liver cancer.
 * Arvid Pardo, 85, Maltese-Swedish diplomat and academic.
 * Ronald Robinson, 78, British historian.
 * Mario Soldati, 92, Italian writer and film director.
 * Leonard P. Stavisky, 73, American politician and academic, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Cesáreo Victorino, 52, Mexican football player, traffic accident.

20

 * Gautam Chattopadhyay, 51, Indian Bengali singer, songwriter and composer.
 * Clifton Fadiman, 95, American author, and radio and television personality, pancreatic cancer.
 * T. A. Goudge, 89, Canadian philosopher and university professor.
 * Barbara Jeppe, 78, South African botanical artist, pneumonia.
 * Iulian Mihu, 72, Romanian film director.

21

 * Chandrakala, Indian film actress, cancer.
 * Edwin Hewitt, 79, American mathematician.
 * Tuure Junnila, 88, Finnish economist and politician.
 * Kami, 26, Japanese rock musician, drummer (Malice Mizer), cerebral haemorrhage.
 * Karl Krolow, 84, German poet and translator.
 * Ted Wolf, 76, American writer.

22

 * Wassila Ben Ammar, 87, First Lady of Tunisia (1962 - 1986).
 * Mark Anthony Bracegirdle, 86, British-Australian marxist revolutionary.
 * Michael Bredl, 83, German Volksmusik musician, -collector, and -publisher.
 * Luboš Fišer, 63, Czech composer.
 * Eugenio Florit, 95, Cuban writer, essayist, radio actor and diplomat.
 * Guy Tunmer, 50, South African racing driver, motorcycle accident.

23

 * Francisco Rovira Beleta, 85/86, Spanish screenwriter and film director.
 * Bert Haas, 85, American baseball player.
 * Aziz Ishak, 85, Malaysian freedom fighter, politician and journalist.
 * Carl Lange, 89, German film actor.
 * Buster Merryfield, 78, British actor (Only Fools and Horses), brain cancer.
 * Pierre Perrault, 71, Canadian documentary film director.
 * Bill Puddy, 82, Canadian swimmer and Olympian.
 * Grels Teir, 83, Finnish lawyer and politician.

24

 * Jim Allen, 72, English playwright.
 * Takehiko Bessho, 76, Japanese baseball player.
 * Hugh Carter, 78, American politician and businessman.
 * Geoff Lawson, 54, British car designer, stroke.
 * Dorothy Lee, 88, American actress and comedian, respiratory failure.
 * Jack Mullin, 85, American sound engineer.
 * Joe Redington, 82, American dog musher and co-founder of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, cancer.
 * Seán Thomas, 98, Irish football manager.

25

 * Peter Abeles, 75, Austrian-Australian businessman.
 * Rawilja Agletdinowa, 39, Soviet middle-distance runner, traffic collision.
 * Charlie English, 89, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Fred Feast, 69, British actor (Coronation Street), cancer.
 * Tommy Ivan, 88, Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager, complications of a kidney ailment.
 * Yevgeny Morgunov, 72, Soviet and Russian actor, film director, and script writer, stroke.
 * Kōzō Murashita, 46, Japanese singer-songwriter, brain hemorrhage.
 * Oliver Ocasek, 73, American politician, liver cancer, colorectal cancer.
 * Jorge Góngora Ojeda, 92, Peruvian football player.
 * Lars Svensson, 72, Swedish ice hockey goaltender and Olympic medalist.
 * Frank Tarloff, 83, American screenwriter who was blacklisted, cancer.
 * Fred Trump, 93, American real estate developer and father of Donald Trump, pneumonia.

26

 * Angelo Bertelli, 78, American gridiron football player, brain cancer.
 * Charles Collins, 95, American singer and actor, pneumonia.
 * Muza Krepkogorskaya, 74, Soviet and Russian theater and film actress.
 * Tim Layana, 35, American baseball player, car accident.
 * Jiří Pelikán, 76, Czechoslovakian journalist and politician, cancer.
 * John R. Philip, 72, Australian physicist and hydrologist.
 * Bobs Watson, 68, American actor and methodist minister, prostate cancer.

27

 * Fernando Alvarez, 61, American thoroughbred horse racing jockey and trainer.
 * Harriet P. Dustan, American physician.
 * Einar Englund, 83, Finnish composer.
 * Kōji Horaguchi, 45, Japanese rugby player, traffic collision.
 * Wilhelm Höttl, 84, Austrian Nazi and holocaust perpetrator during World War II.
 * Isaac C. Kidd, Jr., 79, American admiral, cancer.
 * John Langridge, 89, English cricket player.
 * Siegfried Lowitz, 84, German actor.
 * Marion Motley, 79, American football player (Cleveland Browns), prostate cancer.
 * George Papadopoulos, 80, Greek politician, Prime Minister (1967–1973) and dictator, cancer.
 * Truus van Aalten, 88, Dutch actress.
 * Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham, 88, English trade unionist, politician and industrialist.

28

 * Vere Bird, 88, first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda.
 * Louis Ducatel, 97, French politician and businessman.
 * Hilde Krahl, 82, Austrian film actress.
 * Eugenio Lopez, Jr., 70, Filipino businessman, cancer.
 * Sir John Woolf, 86, British film producer.
 * Anatoliy Zheglanov, 56, Soviet and Ukrainian ski-jumper and Olympian.

29

 * Allan Carr, 62, American film, television and theatre producer (La Cage aux Folles), liver cancer.
 * Michael Hooker, 53, American academic, complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
 * Karekin I, 66, Syrian Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church, cancer.
 * Declan Mulholland, 66, Northern Irish actor, heart attack.
 * Constance Shacklock, 86, English contralto.
 * Bert Shefter, 97, Russian-American film composer.

30

 * Bob Backus, 72, American track and field athlete and hammer throw world record holder.
 * Édouard Boubat, 75, French photojournalist and art photographer, leukemia.
 * Clifford Charles Butler, 77, English physicist.
 * Dean Fredericks, 75, American film and television actor, cancer.
 * Walter Johnson, 56, American gridiron football player.
 * Marta Labarr, 87, French-American singer and actress.
 * Beveridge Webster, 91, American pianist and educator.