Deaths in March 1999

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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

 * Ann Corio, 89, American burlesque stripper and actress, pneumonia.
 * Christine Glanville, 74, British puppeteer.
 * Enneüs Heerma, 54, Dutch politician, lung cancer.
 * Digger Kettle, 76, English footballer.
 * Harry Mather, 78, English football player and manager.
 * Jozo Matošić, 86, Yugoslav football player and coach.
 * Steve Sinko, 89, American football player and coach.

2

 * David Ackles, 62, American singer-songwriter and child actor, lung cancer.
 * Leslie Edward Wostall Codd, 90, South African plant taxonomist.
 * Kaushal Kishore, 56, Indian polymer chemist, cardiac arrest.
 * Stuart Mossman, 56, American guitar maker and entertainer, heart attack.
 * Tommy Pearson, 85, Scottish football player and manager.
 * Dusty Springfield, 59, British traditional pop singer and entertainer, breast cancer.
 * Francisco Nunes Teixeira, 89, Mozambican Roman Catholic bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Quelimane (1955−1975).
 * Jack Webster, 80, Canadian journalist and radio / television personality.

3

 * Glennon Engleman, 72, United States Army veteran and hitman, diabetes.
 * Jackson C. Frank, 56, American folk musician, pneumonia and cardiac arrest.
 * John Frawley, 98, Australian actor.
 * Gerhard Herzberg, 94, German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist.
 * William McGonagle, 73, American naval officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
 * Gian Vincenzo Moreni, 67, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
 * Lee Philips, 72, American actor and film / television director, PSP.
 * Ling Zifeng, 81, Chinese film director.

4

 * Harry Blackmun, 90, American lawyer, jurist and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
 * Del Close, 64, American comedian and actor (The Blob, Next of Kin, The Untouchables), emphysema.
 * Richard Joseph Davis, 78, American politician.
 * Eddie Dean, 91, American country singer-songwriter and actor, heart and lung disease.
 * Fritz Honegger, 81, Swiss politician.
 * Miłosz Magin, 69, Polish composer and pianist, heart attack.
 * Teddy McRae, 91, American jazz tenor saxophonist and arranger.
 * Hawley Pratt, 87, American film director, animator and illustrator.
 * Karel van het Reve, 77, Dutch writer and literary historian and brother of writer Gerard Reve.

5

 * Avery Alexander, 88, American civil rights leader and politician.
 * William Allis, 97, American theoretical physicist.
 * John Leland Atwood, 94, American engineer and aerospace executive.
 * Alfred Denning, Baron Denning, 100, English lawyer and judge.
 * Walter Diggelmann, 83, Swiss road bicycle racer.
 * John Figueroa, 78, Jamaican poet.
 * John Harkins, 66, American actor (Being There, Absence of Malice, Birdy).
 * Bob Hendren, 75, American gridiron football player.
 * Maurice Jouvet, 76, French-Argentine actor.
 * Richard Kiley, 76, American Emmy Award-winning film, television and stage actor, bone marrow disease.

6

 * Graham Armitage, 62, English actor.
 * Rafael Celestino Benítez, 81, American submarine commander and admiral.
 * Klaus Gysi, 87, German communist journalist, publisher, and resistance member during World War II.
 * Hiroshi Hamaya, 83, Japanese photographer.
 * Loni Heuser, 91, German film actress.
 * Branka Jurca, Slovene writer.
 * Ferenc Kardos, 61, Hungarian film director, producer and screenwriter, heart attack.
 * Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, 67, emir of Bahrain (1961-1999), heart attack.
 * Venâncio da Silva Moura, 59, Angolan politician and diplomat.
 * János Parti, 66, Hungarian sprint canoeist and Olympic champion.
 * Dennis Viollet, 65, English footballer.
 * Olof Widgren, 91, Swedish stage and film actor.
 * Eric Wolf, 76, Austrian-American anthropologist and activist, liver cancer.

7

 * Friedrich Asinger, 91, Austrian chemist and academic.
 * Lowell Fulson, 77, American blues guitarist and songwriter.
 * Sidney Gottlieb, 80, American chemist and spymaster.
 * Kurt Hasse, 82, German cinematographer.
 * Antônio Houaiss, 83, Brazilian writer and lexicographer.
 * Stanley Kubrick, 70, American film director and screenwriter (2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Dr. Strangelove), heart attack.
 * Ladislav Vodička, 68, Czech country music singer and songwriter.

8

 * António Campos, 76, Portuguese film director.
 * Giovan Battista Carpi, 71, Italian comics artist.
 * Adolfo Bioy Casares, 84, Argentine writer and journalist.
 * Peggy Cass, 74, American actress, comedian, and announcer, heart failure.
 * Joe DiMaggio, 84, American baseball player (New York Yankees), lung cancer.
 * Anne T. Hill, 82, American fashion designer, heart failure.
 * Walter Kolm-Veltée, 88, Austrian film director.

9

 * Marcellino Gavilán, 89, Spanish equestrian and Olympic medalist.
 * Arnold Machin, 87, British artist and sculptor.
 * Hermann Merkin, 91, American businessman and philanthropist, heart failure.
 * Éliane Richepin, 88, French classical pianist.
 * Harry Somers, 73, Canadian composer.

10

 * Zvi Fuchs, 81, Israeli football player.
 * Oswaldo Guayasamín, 79, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor, heart attack.
 * Kusumagraj, 87, Indian poet, playwright and novelist.
 * Adrian Love, 54, British radio presenter.
 * Valentino Mazzia, 77, American forensic anesthesiologist, cirrhosis.

11

 * Howell Conant, 82, American fashion photographer.
 * Peter Franken, 70, American physicist.
 * Herbert Jasper, 92, Canadian psychologist, neurologist, and epileptologist.
 * Jack Jones, 83, Scottish football player.
 * Camille Laurin, 76, Canadian psychiatrist and politician, liver cancer.
 * Erich Natusch, 87, German sailor and Olympic medalist.
 * Stefan Schnabel, 87, German-American actor, heart attack.
 * Kaoru Tada, 38, Japanese manga artist, cerebral hemorrhage.

12

 * John Archer, 75, British Army officer and Commander in Chief.
 * Miloslav Holub, 84, Czech actor.
 * William Jackson, 81, British Army general, military historian and author.
 * Sydney Lewis, 79, American businessman, philanthropist, and art collector.
 * Yehudi Menuhin, 82, American violinist and conductor, bronchitis.
 * Alf Murray, 83, Irish Gaelic footballer.
 * Bidu Sayão, 96, Brazilian operatic soprano.

13

 * Lucienne Bloch, 90, Swiss-American artist.
 * Emmy Bridgwater, 92, English artist and poet.
 * Isidore de Souza, 64, Beninese priest, heart attack.
 * Lee Falk, 88, American cartoonist (The Phantom, Mandrake the Magician).
 * Seán Fortune, 45, Irish Catholic priest, and child molester, suicide.
 * Bob Hollway, 73, American football player and coach.
 * Garson Kanin, 86, American writer and director of plays and films.
 * Anton Raadik, 82, Estonian-American boxer.
 * Kurt Von Hess, 56, Canadian wrestler known as Kurt Von Hess, heart attack.
 * Christopher York, 89, British politician.

14

 * Kirk Alyn, 88, American actor (Superman, Blackhawk, Call of the Rockies), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Tex Blaisdell, 78, American cartoonist (Little Orphan Annie).
 * John Broome, 85, American comic book writer for DC Comics.
 * Gregg Diamond, 49, American pianist, drummer, songwriter, and producer, gastrointestinal bleeding.
 * Kjell Holmström, 82, Swedish bobsledder and Olympian.
 * Abraham Kurland, 86, Danish wrestler and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Robert Q. Marston, 76, American physician and research scientist.
 * Marius Müller, 40, Norwegian musician, television host and record producer, traffic collision.

15

 * Guy D'Artois, 81, Canadian army officer and SOE agent.
 * Harry Callahan, 86, American photographer.
 * Rosemary Nelson, 40, Northern Irish human rights solicitor, killed by Ulster loyalists.
 * Ray Russell, 74, American writer of short stories, novels and screenplays, complications from a stroke.

16

 * Trygve Bull, 93, Norwegian lecturer and politician.
 * Harry Colville, 75, Scottish football player and manager.
 * Hendrik de Wit, 89, Dutch botanist.
 * Peter Farrell, 76, Irish footballer.
 * Ignazio Gardella, 93, Italian architect and designer.
 * Gratien Gélinas, 89, Canadian author, playwright, actor and producer.
 * Åsta Holth, 95, Norwegian novelist, poet and short story writer.
 * Vijay Kumar Kapahi, 55, Indian astrophysicist.
 * John Liddell, 65, Scottish football player.
 * Gustav Lohse, 87, German film editor.
 * Willie Toner, 69, Scottish football player and manager.

17

 * Lloyd Appleton, 93, American wrestler.
 * Boleslaw Barlog, 92, German stage, film, and opera director.
 * Paul Campbell, 76, American film actor.
 * Frankie Curry, Northern Irish Ulster loyalist, shot.
 * Nicolae Dumitrescu, 77, Romanian footballer and manager.
 * Ernest Gold, 77, Austrian-American film composer (Exodus, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Judgment at Nuremberg), stroke.
 * Herbert Earl Grier, 87, American electrical engineer and business executive.
 * Rod Hull, 63, British entertainer and comedian, fall.
 * Humberto Fernández Morán, 75, Venezuelan research scientist.
 * Hildegard Peplau, 89, American nursing theorist.
 * Jean Pierre-Bloch, 93, French politician and resistance member during World War II.
 * Eric Stanton, 72, American underground cartoonist and fetish art pioneer.

18

 * Patricia Bowman, 90, American ballerina, musical theatre actress, and television personality.
 * Werner Danz, 75, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
 * George Hinterhoeller, 71, Canadian boat designer and builder, heart attack.
 * Karl Litschi, 86, Swiss road bicycle racer.
 * Gilbert Ralston, 87, British-American screenwriter, congestive heart failure.
 * Russell Ross, 69, American professor of pathology.
 * Gerlando Sciascia, 65, American mobster and member of the Bonanno crime family, shot.

19

 * Tofilau Eti Alesana, 74, Samoan politician.
 * William F. Bringle, 85, American four-star admiral and World War II aviator, pneumonia.
 * Bob Cato, 76, American photographer and graphic designer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Joseph DePietro, 84, American weightlifter, 1948 Olympic champion.
 * José Agustín Goytisolo, 70, Spanish poet, scholar and essayist, suicide.
 * Peppermint Harris, 73, American blues singer and guitarist.
 * Juanita Reina, 73, Spanish actress and copla singer.
 * Jaime Sabines, 72, Mexican contemporary poet.

20

 * Elsa Barraine, 89, French composer.
 * Patrick Heron, 79, British artist, critic, writer, and polemicist.
 * Roy L. Johnson, 93, American admiral.
 * David Anthony Klarner, 58, American mathematician and author.
 * Mickey S. Michaels, 67, American set decorator (Airport, The Hunt for Red October, Crimson Tide).
 * Paul Toth, 63, American baseball player, heart attack.
 * Igor Vladimirov, 80, Soviet film and theater actor and director.

21

 * Mary Ainsworth, 85, American-Canadian developmental psychologist, stroke.
 * Henry V. Graham, 82, American Army general.
 * Jean Guitton, 97, French Catholic philosopher and theologian.
 * John Linus Paschang, 103, American Roman Catholic bishop.
 * George Reedy, 81, American White House Press Secretary under President Lyndon B. Johnson (1964-1965).
 * Ernie Wise, 73, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise), heart failure.

22

 * Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, 85, British historian.
 * C. Gregg Singer, 89, American historian and theologian.
 * Sandy Singleton, 84, English cricket player.
 * David Strickland, 29, American actor, suicide by hanging.

23

 * Scott D. Anderson, 33, American pilot, inventor, and author, plane crash.
 * Luis María Argaña, 66, Paraguayan politician and Supreme Court judge, murdered.
 * Osmond Borradaile, 100, Canadian cameraman, cinematographer and veteran of World War I and II.
 * Koentjaraningrat, Indonesian anthropologist.
 * Sergio Montanari, 61, Italian film editor.
 * Percy Samaraweera, 70, Sri Lankan politician.
 * Willi Stadel, 86, German gymnast and Olympic champion.
 * Kazue Takahashi, 70, Japanese voice actress, multiple myeloma.
 * Petrus Tun, 63, Micronesian politician.

24

 * Pierre H. Dubois, 81, Dutch writer and critic.
 * Ellen Hall, 75, American actress.
 * Tunde Idiagbon, 56, Nigerian Army general.
 * Henry Brandon, Baron Brandon of Oakbrook, 78, British judge.
 * Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, 97, German leader of the nazi National Socialist Women's League.
 * Birdie Tebbetts, 86, American baseball player, manager and scout.
 * Val Valentin, 79, American recording engineer.
 * Mighty Joe Young, 71, American chicago blues guitarist, pneumonia.
 * Osman Örek, 73, Turkish Cypriot politician, prime minister (1978).

25

 * Ryszard Bakst, 72, Polish pianist and piano teacher.
 * Viacheslav Chornovil, 61, Ukrainian politician, car crash.
 * Cal Ripken Sr., 63, American baseball coach and manager, lung cancer.
 * Doug Sherrington, 84, Australian politician.

26

 * Harry Hodson, 92, English economist and editor.
 * David Holliday, 61, American actor (Thunderbirds), cancer.
 * Reşit Kaynak, 46, Turkish football player.
 * Eva Kolstad, 80, Norwegian politician and gender equality activist.
 * Andrzej Konopka, 64, Polish Olympic gymnast.
 * Margaret Mason, 58, American actress, heart attack.
 * Ananda Shankar, 56, Bengali musician, heart attack.

27

 * Michael Aris, 53, English historian, prostate cancer.
 * Ernestina de Champourcín, 93, Spanish poet.
 * Rolf Ludwig, 73, German actor and voice actor.
 * Nahum Stelmach, 62, Israeli footballer and manager.
 * Oskar Øksnes, 77, Norwegian politician.

28

 * Jens Book-Jenssen, 88, Norwegian pop singer, songwriter, revue artist and theatre director.
 * Eva Franco, 92, Argentine actress, pneumonia.
 * Franco Gasparri, 50, Italian actor, respiratory failure.
 * Angelo J. LaPietra, 79, Chicago mobster and member of the Chicago Outfit.
 * Gil Perkins, 91, Australian actor.
 * Freaky Tah, 27, MC, hype man and hip hop promoter, shot.
 * Bill Touhey, 93, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Doody Townley, 73, New Zealand harness racer.
 * Jim Turner, 54, American editor and publisher.

29

 * Lucien Aigner, 97, Hungarian photojournalist.
 * Dayendranath Burrenchobay, 80, Mauritian politician, Governor-General.
 * Helmer Dahl, 90, Norwegian electrical engineer and researcher.
 * Raimo Kuuluvainen, 43, Finnish football player.
 * James Penberthy, 81, Australian composer and journalist.
 * Brock Speer, 79, American gospel singer (Speer Family).
 * Joe Williams, 80, American jazz singer.
 * Gyula Zsengellér, 83, Hungarian footballer.

30

 * Albert Coppé, 87, Belgian politician and economist.
 * Michel Crépeau, 68, French politician, heart attack.
 * Marcel de Wolf, 79, French gymnast.
 * Michel Etcheverry, 79, French actor.
 * Gary Morton, 74, American stand-up comedian, lung cancer.
 * Jens Müller, 81, Norwegian fighter pilot and POW during World War II and author.
 * Igor Netto, 69, Soviet–Russian footballer.
 * Terry Wilson, 75, American actor.

31

 * David Brooks, 83, American actor, singer, director, and producer.
 * Aleksandr Filatov, 71, Soviet alpine skier.
 * Yuri Knorozov, 76, Soviet linguist, pneumonia.
 * Herbert H. Rowen, 82, American historian.
 * Jerry Toth, 70, Canadian musician, composer, and record producer.