Deaths in November 1999

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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

 * Minoru Chiaki, 82, Japanese actor.
 * Jean Coutu, 74, Canadian actor.
 * Edmund Dell, 78, British politician and businessman.
 * Bhekimpi Dlamini, 74, Southern African politician, Prime Minister of Swaziland (1983–1986).
 * Theodore Hall, 74, American physicist and spy for the Soviet Union, renal cancer.
 * Thomas H. Jukes, 93, British-American biologist.
 * Walter Payton, 45, American gridiron football player, cholangiocarcinoma.
 * Héctor Pellegrini, 68, Argentine film actor.
 * Franca Scagnetti, 75, Italian film actress.
 * John Sears, 63, American NASCAR racing driver.
 * William Sheldon, 92, Irish politician and farmer.

2

 * Milan Antal, 64, Slovak astronomer.
 * Jackie Davis, 78, American soul jazz singer, organist and bandleader, stroke.
 * Demetrio B. Lakas, 74, Panamase politician, president (1969–1978), heart disease.
 * Atputharajah Nadarajah, 36, Sri Lankan journalist and politician, shot.
 * Hans-Joachim Preil, 76, East German comedian.
 * Hardie Scott, 92, American politician.
 * Mitar Subotić, 38, Serbian-Brazilian musician and composer, fire.
 * William van Straubenzee, 75, British politician.
 * Richard Voliva, 87, American wrestler and coach.

3

 * Ian Bannen, 71, Scottish actor, car accident.
 * William J. Brown, 59, American lawyer and politician.
 * Alan Heusaff, 78, Breton nationalist, linguist, and journalist.
 * Vilen Kalyuta, 69, Soviet and Ukrainian cinematographer.
 * Keizo Saji, 80, Japanese businessman and art patron.

4

 * Daisy Bates, 84, American civil rights activist, publisher and journalist.
 * Alvin Coox, 75, American military historian and author.
 * Zvi Griliches, 69, American economist and holocaust survivor.
 * Ernest J. Kump, 87, American architect, author and inventor.
 * Malcolm Marshall, 41, West Indian cricketer, colon cancer.
 * Cornel Popa, 64, Romanian football player.
 * Maybelle Reichardt, 92, American discus thrower and Olympian.
 * David Shaber, 70, American screenwriter (The Warriors, Nighthawks, Flight of the Intruder), aneurysm.
 * Henri Van Kerckhove, 73, Belgian road cyclist.
 * Fred Wallner, 71, American gridiron football player.
 * Charles Wintour, 82, British newspaper editor.
 * Zainuddin, 47, Indian actor and comedian, respiratory complications.

5

 * Antonio Fraguas Fraguas, 93, Spanish historian, ethnographer, anthropologist, and geographer.
 * James Goldstone, 68, American film and television director.
 * Noureddin Kianouri, 94, Iranian architect and political leader.
 * Richard Marius, 66, American academic and writer, pancreatic cancer.
 * Colin Rowe, 79, British-American architectural historian.

6

 * Sleim Ammar, 72, Tunisian neuropsychiatrist and poet.
 * José María Caffarel, 79, Spanish film actor.
 * Laurence Decore, 59, Canadian lawyer and politician, cancer.
 * Regina Ghazaryan, 84, Armenian painter and public figure.
 * George V. Higgins, 59, American author, lawyer, newspaper columnist, and raconteur, heart attack.
 * Rob Hoeke, 60, Dutch singer, pianist, composer and songwriter.
 * Anthony "Sooty" Jones, 46, American rock bassist ("Humble Pie").

7

 * Tom Briggs, 80, English football player.
 * Allan Felder, 56, American songwriter.
 * Joe Lang Kershaw, 88, American politician and civics teacher, congestive heart failure.
 * Walter McDonald, 96, Canadian politician.
 * Primo Nebiolo, 76, Italian sports official and IAAF president, heart attack.

8

 * Lester Bowie, 58, American jazz trumpet player and composer, liver cancer.
 * Gwen Gordy Fuqua, 71, American songwriter and composer, cancer.
 * Jerry Kerr, 87, Scottish football player and manager.
 * Yury Vasilyevich Malyshev, 58, Soviet cosmonaut.
 * Richard Martin, 51, American academic, curator, and art and fashion historian, melanoma.
 * Rob Nieuwenhuys, 91, Dutch writer.
 * Harry Riebauer, 78, German film and television actor.
 * Leon Štukelj, 100, Yugoslav gymnast and Olympic gold medalist, heart attack.

9

 * Herb Abramson, 82, American record producer and executive.
 * Marjorie Gladman, 91, American tennis player.
 * Huang Huoqing, 98, Chinese politician.
 * Mabel King, 66, American actress and singer, diabetes.
 * Wolf Ruvinskis, 78, Mexican actor and professional wrestler, cardiovascular disease.
 * Dick Todd, 85, American NFL football player and coach.

10

 * Stasys Antanas Bačkis, 93, Lithuanian diplomat and civil servant.
 * Felix Galimir, 89, Austrian-American violinist.
 * Robert Kramer, 60, American film director, screenwriter and actor, meningitis.
 * Eric Langton, 92, English motorcycle speedway rider.
 * Thomas McKinney, 72, Northern Irish rugby player.
 * Jean Potts, 88, American mystery novelist.

11

 * Mary Kay Bergman, 38, American voice actress (South Park, Scooby-Doo, The New Adventures of Zorro), suicide by gunshot.
 * Frank Bowyer, 77, English footballer.
 * Maurice Dugowson, 61, French film director and screenwriter.
 * Vivian Fuchs, 91, British explorer.
 * Gabriel Gonsum Ganaka, 62, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Daniel Ivernel, 79, French film actor, suicide.
 * Choi Moo-ryong, 71, South Korean actor.
 * Sathyavani Muthu, 76, Indian politician.
 * Thomas Pitfield, 96, British composer, poet, artist, engraver, and calligrapher.
 * Jack Plimsoll, 82, South African cricketer.
 * Lodewijk Prins, 86, Dutch chess player and chess referee.
 * Jacobo Timerman, 76, Soviet-Argentine publisher, journalist, and author, heart attack.

12

 * Eulalie Minfred Banks, 104, American illustrator of children's books.
 * Gaby Casadesus, 98, French classical pianist and teacher.
 * Pituka de Foronda, 81, Spanish actress.
 * Sven Hjertsson, 75, Swedish football player.
 * Aang Kunaefi, 76, Indonesian military officer and diplomat.
 * Mohammad Mohammadullah, 78, Bangladeshi politician, President (1973–1975).
 * Konrad Petzold, 69, German film director, writer and actor.
 * Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt II, 87, British-American racehorse owner and member of the Vanderbilt family.

13

 * John Benson Brooks, 82, American jazz pianist, songwriter, arranger, and composer.
 * Germaine Dieterlen, 96, French anthropologist.
 * Donald Mills, 84, American singer (The Mills Brothers), pneumonia.
 * Tony Rumble, 43, American professional wrestler and manager, heart attack.
 * John Stapp, 89, United States Army Air Forces officer, flight surgeon and physician.
 * Barbara Jean Wong, 75, American actress.

14

 * Rut Bryk, 83, Finnish ceramist.
 * Orazio Costa, 88, Italian theatre pedagogist and director.
 * Brian Ó Cuív, 83, Irish historian and Celtic scholar.
 * Lucile Fairbanks, 82, American actress.
 * Bert Jacobs, 58, Dutch football manager, cancer.
 * Minna Keal, 90, British composer.
 * Benjamin I. Schwartz, 82, American academic, author and sinologist.
 * György Sebők, 77, Hungarian-American pianist and academic.
 * Jimmy Sidle, 57, American gridiron football player, heart failure.
 * Harbaksh Singh, 86, Indian Army senior officer.
 * Peter Wildeblood, 76, Anglo-Canadian journalist, novelist, playwright and gay rights campaigner.

15

 * Jean-Marie Adiaffi, 58, Ivorian writer, screenwriter and filmmaker.
 * Sir Harry Llewellyn, 3rd Baronet, 88, British equestrian, Olympic champion (1952).
 * P. K. van der Byl, 76, Rhodesian politician.
 * Fikri Elma, 65, Turkish football player.
 * Lucien Jasseron, 85, French football player.
 * Gene Levitt, 79, American television writer, producer and director, prostate cancer.
 * Maynard Lyndon, 92, American architect.
 * Norio Taniguchi, 87, Japanese academic who coined the term  nano-technology.

16

 * Bill Burgoyne, 52, New Zealand rugby league player.
 * Harry Gibbs, 79, British boxing referee.
 * H. Clay Earles, 86, American NASCAR team owner.
 * Desmond Domnique Jennings, 28, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Jay Moloney, 35, American Hollywood talent agent, suicide by hanging.
 * Daniel Nathans, 71, American microbiologist.

17

 * Leif Anderson, 74, Swedish jazz expert, journalist and radio personality.
 * Faubion Bowers, 82, American academic and writer.
 * Edmund Fryde, 76, Polish-British historian.
 * Cowboy Jimmy Moore, 89, American pocket billiards (pool) player.
 * Enrique Urkijo, 39, Spanish singer, songwriter, and guitarist, drug overdose.

18

 * Evgeny Belosheikin, 33, Russian ice hockey player, suicide.
 * Paul Bowles, 88, American migrant composer, author, and translator, heart failure.
 * Beatrice Colen, 51, American actress (Happy Days, Wonder Woman, Lifeguard), lung cancer.
 * Sarath Dassanayake, 57, Sri Lankan composer, film producer and a musician.
 * Stephen Greene, 82, American artist.
 * Jay Heard, 79, American baseball player.
 * Horst P. Horst, 93, German-American fashion photographer.
 * Vittorio Miele, 72, Italian painter.
 * Prince Heinrich of Hesse and by Rhine, 72, German noble.
 * Doug Sahm, 58, American musician and singer-songwriter, heart attack.
 * James Tinn, 77, British politician.
 * Gladys Yang, 80, British translator of Chinese literature.

19

 * Yvette Cauchois, 90, French physicist, infectious disease.
 * Alexander Liberman, 87, Russian-American publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor.
 * Plínio Marcos, 64, Brazilian writer, actor, journalist and playwright, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
 * John McCue, 77, English footballer.
 * Antonis Migiakis, 88, Greek football player.
 * Arthur W. Saha, 76, American speculative fiction editor and anthologist, cancer.

20

 * Yuri Chesnokov, 47, Soviet football player.
 * Amintore Fanfani, 91, Italian politician and statesman, prime minister (1954, 1958-1959, 1960-1963, 1982-1983, 1987).
 * Ludwig Hamm, 77, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
 * Sadao Hasegawa, 54, Japanese graphic artist, suicide by hanging.
 * Arthur Hewson, 84, Australian politician.
 * Sufia Kamal, 88, Bangladeshi poet and political activist.
 * Germaine Ribière, 82, French Resistance member during World War II.

21

 * Alphonse Antoine, 84, French road bicycle racer.
 * Margaret E. Chisholm, 78, American librarian and educator.
 * Quentin Crisp, 90, British writer (The Naked Civil Servant), illustrator, actor and socialite, heart attack.
 * Ralph Foody, 71, American actor (Home Alone), cancer.
 * Marie Kraja, 88, Albanian opera singer.
 * Serge Lang, 79, French journalist and skiing executive, heart attack.
 * Josef Lux, 43, Czech politician, pneumonia.
 * Horacio Gómez Bolaños prieto, 69, Mexican actor and brother of Chespirito, heart attack.
 * Toshio Sakai, 59, Japanese news photographer and Pulitzer Prize winner, heart attack.

22

 * Ibrahim Böhme, 55, East German politician and Stasi informer.
 * Flávio Costa, 93, Brazilian football player and manager.
 * Moira Dunbar, 81, Scottish-Canadian glaciologist.
 * Efim Etkind, 81, Soviet philologist and translation theorist.
 * Abdelkader Hachani, 42, Algerian Islamic leader, murdered.
 * Patrick Moten, 42, American songwriter and musician, cancer.

23

 * Oddmund Andersen, 83, Norwegian football player.
 * Leyla Badirbeyli, 79, Soviet and Azerbaijani actress.
 * Micheál Cranitch, 86, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
 * Baldur Möller, 85, Icelandic chess master.
 * Patrick Palmer, 66, British Army officer.
 * Phoebe Snetsinger, 68, American birder, road traffic accident.

24

 * Howard Biggs, 83, American pianist, songwriter and arranger.
 * Joseph Farrell, 94, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
 * Fernando Fernández, 83, Mexican actor, singer and director.
 * Sarah Gainham, 84, British novelist and journalist.
 * Gregor Höll, 88, Austrian skier and Olympian.
 * David Kessler, 93, British publisher and author.
 * Mario Mathieu, 82, Argentine cyclist.
 * Matéo Maximoff, 82, French writer and evangelical pastor.
 * Hilary Minster, 55, English character actor, cancer.
 * Christian Pedersen, 79, Danish cyclist.
 * Ambrose Rayappan, 98, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop.
 * Howie Young, 62, Canadian ice hockey player and actor.

25

 * Didier Anzieu, 76, French psychoanalyst and academic.
 * William Benedict, 82, American actor.
 * Oddvar Berrefjord, 81, Norwegian jurist and politician.
 * Pierre Bézier, 89, French engineer, CAD/CAM pioneer and namesake of Bézier curves.
 * Valentín Campa, 95, Mexican railway union leader and politician.
 * Richard M. Eakin, 89, American zoologist and professor.
 * T. V. Kochubava, 43, Indian writer, heart attack.
 * Lucile Petry Leone, 97, American nurse.
 * Dumisani Maraire, 54, Zimbabwean musician, stroke.
 * Antonio Raxel, 77, Mexican actor.
 * Jesse Renick, 82, American basketball player.
 * Ray Timgren, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Gordon Wren, 80, American ski jumper and Olympian.

26

 * Louisette Bertholle, 94, French cooking teacher and writer.
 * George L. Engel, 85, American internist and psychiatrist, heart failure.
 * Angelika Hurwicz, 77, German actress and theatre director.
 * Clifford Jarvis, 58, American hard bop and free jazz drummer.
 * John L. Kelley, 82, American mathematician.
 * Paul Kozlicek, 62, Austrian football player.
 * Ashley Montagu, 94, British-American anthropologist.
 * Henry Nemo, 90, American musician, songwriter, and actor.
 * John Skelton, 76, British letter-cutter and sculptor.

27

 * Jeanne Chall, 78, American psychologist, writer, and educator, heart failure.
 * William Sebastian Heckscher, 94, German art historian and academic.
 * I-Roy, 55, Jamaican DJ, heart failure.
 * Hiro Matsuda, 62, Japanese-American professional wrestler and trainer, prostate cancer.
 * Arturo Fernández Meyzán, 93, Peruvian footballer.
 * Alain Peyrefitte, 74, French scholar and politician, cancer.
 * Robert Theobald, 70, American economist and futurist author, esophageal cancer.
 * Elizabeth Gray Vining, 97, American librarian, tutor and author.
 * Johnny Walker, 72, American blues pianist and organist.

28

 * Robert Bingham, 33, American writer, drugs overdose.
 * Dick Errickson, 87, American baseball player.
 * N. V. M. Gonzalez, 84, Filipino novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet.
 * Peter Karvaš, 79, Slovakian writer.
 * Bethel Leslie, 70, American actress and screenwriter, cancer.
 * Abdur Razzaq, Bangladeshi scholar, academic and intellectual.

29

 * Germán Arciniegas, 98, Colombian historian, author and journalist, pneumonia.
 * John Berry, 82, American film director.
 * Suzy Carrier, 77, French film actress.
 * Herbert Freudenberger, 73, German-American psychologist, kidney disease.
 * Kaoru Iwamoto, 97, Japanese Go player and writer.
 * Bill Jennings, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Curtis Knight, 70, American musician, cancer.
 * Michael O'Halloran, 66, Irish-born British politician.
 * Sid Patterson, 72, Australian track cyclist, liver cancer.
 * Gene Rayburn, 81, American radio personality and game show host, heart failure.
 * Kazuo Sakamaki, 81, Japanese naval officer.
 * Lewis Hastings Sarett, 81, American organic chemist and inventor of cortisone.

30

 * Carlos Hugo Christensen, 84, Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer.
 * Philip Elman, 81, American lawyer at the U.S. Department of Justice.
 * Don Harris, 61, American blues and rock and roll violinist and guitarist, pulmonary disease.
 * Huang Hsin-chieh, 71, Taiwanese politician and legislator, heart attack.
 * Gheorghe Popescu I, 80, Romanian football player and manager.
 * Al Schroll, 67, American baseball player.
 * M. N. Srinivas, 83, Indian sociologist and social anthropologist.
 * Sam Treiman, 74, American theoretical physicist, leukemia.
 * Ulrich Wildgruber, 62, German actor.
 * Vladimir Yashchenko, 40, Soviet high jumper and world record holder, cirrhosis.