Deaths in September 1999

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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

 * Hubert Bobo, 65, American gridiron football player.
 * Boots Poffenberger, 84, American Major League Baseball player.
 * S. Srinivasan, 58, Indian aeronautical engineer.
 * W. Richard Stevens, 48, American author of computer science books.
 * Doreen Valiente, 77, English wiccan, pancreatic cancer.

2

 * Romolo Carboni, 88, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
 * Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda, 77, Colombian anthropologist.
 * Margherita Guarducci, 96, Italian archaeologist, classical scholar, and epigrapher.
 * Philip Francis Murphy, 66, American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, cancer.
 * Lajos Szűcs, 53, Hungarian Olympic weightlifter.

3

 * Frans Cools, 81, Belgian cyclist.
 * Paul Lucien Dessau, 89, British painter.
 * Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed, 72, Sri Lankan diplomat and political figure.
 * George Hunt, 83, American rower and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Franz Pleyer, 88, Austrian-French football player.

4

 * Emilio Aldecoa, 76, Spanish football player.
 * Georg Gawliczek, 80, German football manager and player.
 * Charles Lee, 75, English cricket player.
 * Shlomo Morag, 73, Israeli professor of Hebrew.
 * Orlando Pereira, 50, Brazilian football player and manager.
 * Klement Slavický, 88, Czech composer of modern classical music.

5

 * Alan Clark, 71, British Conservative politician, Member of Parliament (1974–1999), and military historian, brain cancer.
 * Allen Funt, 84, American television personality (Candid Camera), stroke.
 * Bryce Mackasey, 78, Canadian politician and ambassador to Portugal.
 * Charles Onyeama, 82, Nigerian jurist and judge.
 * Walther Reyer, 77, Austrian actor.
 * Ivor Roberts, 74, British actor and a television continuity announcer.
 * Leonid Sedov, 91, Soviet and Russian mathematician.
 * Geraldo de Proença Sigaud, 89, Brazilian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Katie Webster, 63, American boogie-woogie pianist, heart failure.

6

 * Arnold Fishkind, 80, American jazz bassist.
 * René Lecavalier, 81, Canadian French-language radio show host and sportscaster.
 * Steve Little, 43, American football player, accident.
 * Tamás Mendelényi, 63, Hungarian fencer and Olympic champion.

7

 * Thierry Claveyrolat, 40, French road bicycle racer, suicide.
 * Hugo del Vecchio, 71, Argentine basketball player.
 * Bjarne Iversen, 86, Norwegian cross-country skier.
 * Robert Simon, 45, American outlaw biker and convicted murderer, homicide.
 * E.G. van de Stadt, 89, Dutch yacht designer.

8

 * Birgit Cullberg, 91, Swedish choreographer.
 * Mark Gardner, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Lagumot Harris, 60, President of the Republic of Nauru.
 * Brian Hildebrand, 37, American professional wrestler, wrestling manager and referee, stomach and bowel cancer.
 * Moondog, 83, American musician, composer, theoretician and poet, heart failure.
 * Lev Razgon, 91, Soviet and Russian journalist, writer and human rights activist.
 * Vladimir Samoylov, 75, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.
 * Herbert Stein, 83, American economist.
 * Alan Willett, 52, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

9

 * Abdel Latif Boghdadi, 81, Egyptian politician, air force officer and judge, cancer.
 * Chili Bouchier, 89, English film actress.
 * Jogesh Das, 72, Indian short-story writer and novelist.
 * Arie de Vroet, 80, Dutch football player and manager.
 * Tony Duquette, 85, American artist, Parkinson's disease.
 * Catfish Hunter, 53, American baseball player and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, ALS.
 * Mahmoud Karim, 83, Egyptian squash player.
 * Marco Papa, 41, Italian motorcycle racer, traffic collision.
 * Chan Parker, 74, American writer and wife of jazz musician Charlie Parker.
 * Ruth Roman, 76, American actress.
 * Fons van der Stee, 71, Dutch politician.

10

 * Michèle Fabien, 54, Belgian writer and playwright, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Beau Jocque, 45, Louisiana French Creole zydeco musician and songwriter, heart failure.
 * Alfredo Kraus, 71, Spanish tenor.
 * Jean Messagier, 79, French painter, sculptor, printmaker and poet.
 * M. C. Richards, 83, American poet, potter, and writer.
 * Margaret Stuart, 65, New Zealand sprinter and Olympian.
 * Cleveland Williams, 66, American heavyweight boxer, killed in a hit and run accident.

11

 * Mohammed Aly Fahmy, 78, Egyptian field marshal,.
 * Belkis Ayón, 32, Cuban printmaker, suicide.
 * Gonzalo Rodríguez Bongoll, 28, Uruguayan racing driver, racing accident.
 * Johny Jaminet, 69, Luxembourgian football player.
 * David Karp, 77, American novelist and television writer, pulmonary emphysema.
 * Bobby Limb, 74, Australian entertainer and radio personality, cancer.
 * Francisco José Pérez, 79, Spanish-Cuban chess player.
 * Jacob Rabinow, 89, Engineer and inventor.
 * Janet Adam Smith, 93, Scottish writer, editor and literary journalist.
 * Momčilo Đujić, 92, Serbian Orthodox priest and Chetnik commander during World War II.

12

 * Alfred Leo Abramowicz, 80, American prelate in the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Laurette Luez, 71, American actress and model.
 * Bill Quackenbush, 77, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins), pneumonia.
 * Allen Stack, 71, American swimmer and Olympic champion.

13

 * Goro Adachi, 86, Japanese ski jumper and Olympian.
 * Roland Blanche, 55, French actor, heart attack.
 * Benjamin Bloom, 86, American educational psychologist.
 * Harry Crane, 85, American comedy writer.
 * Miriam Davenport, 84, American painter and sculptor, cancer.
 * Erik Diesen, 76, Norwegian revue writer and radio and television personality.
 * Bill Lohrman, 86, American baseball player.
 * Vladimir Pogačić, 79, Yugoslav film director.

14

 * Joel Beck, 56, American artist and cartoonist, complications from alcoholism.
 * Jehan Buhan, 87, French fencer, Olympic champion.
 * Charles Crichton, 89, English film and television director (A Fish Called Wanda, The Lavender Hill Mob, Space: 1999).
 * Miguel Angel Cuello, 53, Argentinian boxer.
 * Chuck Higgins, 75, American saxophonist, lung cancer.

15

 * Larry Gene Ashbrook, 47, American mass murderer, suicide.
 * Stewart Bovell, 92, Australian politician.
 * Renato Constantino, 80, Filipino historian.
 * Lila Leeds, 71, American film actress, heart attack.
 * Michel Pinseau, 73, French architect.
 * Jack Hardiman Scott, 79, British journalist and broadcaster.
 * Petr Shelokhonov, 70, Russian actor, director, filmmaker and socialite.
 * Bill Westwood, 73, British Anglican bishop.
 * Abdolhossein Zarrinkoob, 76, Iranian scholar.

16

 * Paul Gregory, 91, American baseball player.
 * Viktar Hanchar, 42, Belarusian politician, kidnapped and murdered by the Lukashenko regime.
 * Endre Rozsda, 85, Hungarian-French painter.
 * Utaemon Ichikawa, 92, Japanese film actor.

17

 * Leonard Carlitz, 91, American mathematician.
 * Riccardo Cucciolla, 75, Italian actor and voice actor.
 * Rajeshwar Dayal, 90, Indian diplomat and writer, stroke.
 * Liane Collot d’Herbois, 91, British painter and painting therapist.
 * Ellen Frank, 95, German film and television actress.
 * Joan Gardner, 84, British actress.
 * Hasrat Jaipuri, 77, Indian poet.
 * Harold Johnson, 79, American basketball player.
 * Gary Koshnitsky, 91, Australian chess master.
 * François Müller, 72, Luxembourgian football player.
 * Henri Storck, 92, Belgian author, filmmaker and documentarist.
 * Rathvon M. Tompkins, 87, United States Marine Corps major general, stroke.
 * Frankie Vaughan, 71, British singer, heart failure.

18

 * Leo Amberg, 87, Swiss professional road bicycle racer.
 * Philip N. Krasne, 94, American motion picture and television producer.
 * Harold F. Kress, 86, American film editor.
 * Gérard Landry, Argentinian actor.
 * Noel Pope, 91, New Zealand rower and Olympian.
 * Viktor Safronov, 81, Soviet astronomer.
 * Leo Valiani, 90, Italian historian, politician and journalist.
 * Leszek Wodzyński, 53, Polish hurdler and Olympian.

19

 * Ed Cobb, 61, American musician, songwriter, and record producer, leukemia.
 * Livio Isotti, 72, Italian road bicycle racer.
 * Pavle Ivić, 74, Serbian Slavic dialectologist and phonologist.
 * Bua Kitiyakara, 89, Thai actress and wife of prince Nakkhatra Mangala.
 * Kjell Kristiansen, 74, Norwegian football player.

20

 * Erland Almqvist, 87, Swedish sailor and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Raisa Gorbacheva, 67, Russian activist, leukemia.
 * Taheyya Kariokka, 84, Egyptian belly dancer and film actress, pneumonia.
 * Robert Lebel, 93, Canadian ice hockey administrator.
 * Karl Heinrich Menges, 91, German linguist.
 * Willy Millowitsch, 90, German actor and director, heart failure.
 * T. R. Rajakumari, 77, Indian film actress, singer and dancer.

21

 * Georgia Louise Harris Brown, 81, American architect.
 * Robert Galbraith Heath, 84, American psychiatrist.
 * Benny Kalama, 83, American singer and arranger.
 * Sander Thoenes, 30, Dutch journalist, shot in East Timor.

22

 * Doris Allen, 63, American politician, colorectal cancer.
 * Noriko Awaya, 92, Japanese soprano chanteuse and ryūkōka singer.
 * Clive Jenkins, 73, British trade union leader.
 * Tomoo Kudaka, 36, Japanese football player, stomach cancer.
 * Paul Magès, 91, French inventor.
 * Jeanine Rueff, 77, French composer and music educator.
 * Sal Salvador, 73, American bebop jazz guitarist.
 * George C. Scott, 71, American actor (Patton, Dr. Strangelove, The Hustler), Oscar winner (1971), abdominal aortic aneurysm.
 * Chester Starr, 84, American historian.
 * Vasili Trofimov, 80, Soviet football player.

23

 * Ivan Goff, 89, Australian screenwriter, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Sir Piers Jacob, 63, Financial Secretary of Hong Kong (1986 – 1991).
 * Ri Jong-ok, 83, Premier of North Korea ( 1977 – 1984).
 * Werner Vycichl, 90, Austro-Hungarian philologist, linguist, and academic.

24

 * Robert Bend, 85, Canadian politician.
 * Ester Boserup, 89, Danish and French economist.
 * Rowena Mary Bruce, 80, English chess player.
 * Judith Exner, 65, American socialite and mistress of John F. Kennedy, breast cancer.
 * Jack Kiefer, 59, American golfer, cancer.
 * Anneli Cahn Lax, 77, American mathematician.
 * Tarmo Manni, 78, Finnish actor.
 * Billy Pricer, 65, American gridiron football player.

25

 * Marion Zimmer Bradley, 69, American author of fantasy and science fiction, heart attack.
 * Teodor Kocerka, 72, Polish rower and Olympic medalist.
 * Des O'Neil, 78, Australian politician, Deputy Premier of Western Australia. (1975 – 1980).
 * Guido Pontecorvo, 91, Italian-Scottish geneticist.
 * Anna Shchetinina, 91, Soviet merchant marine sailor.
 * Ding Sheng, 85, Chinese general and politician.

26

 * Enzo Carli, 89, Italian art historian and art critic.
 * Malky McDonald, 85, Scottish football player and manager.
 * Bernadette O'Farrell, 75, Irish actress.
 * Donald Sanders, 69, American lawyer and a key figure in the Watergate investigation, cancer.

27

 * Philip Haddon-Cave, 74, British colonial administrator, heart attack.
 * Herbert Heilpern, 80, Austria-American association football executive.
 * Billy Mould, 79, English footballer.
 * Monique Rolland, 85, French film actress.
 * Krishna Pal Singh, 77, Indian activist and politician.
 * Grant Warwick, 77, professional ice hockey player.

28

 * Franco Caracciolo, 79, Italian conductor.
 * Arumugam Ponnu Rajah, 88, Singaporean judge, diplomat and politician.
 * Escott Reid, 94, Canadian diplomat.
 * Marilyn Silverstone, 70, English photojournalist and ordained buddhist nun, cancer.

29

 * Arnold Earley, 66, American baseball player.
 * Walter Joyce, 62, English football player and manager.
 * Gé Korsten, 71, South African opera tenor and actor, suicide.
 * Yevhen Lapinsky, 57, Ukrainian volleyball player and Olympic champion.
 * Gustavo Leigh, 79, Chilean general, cardiovascular ailments.
 * Jean-Louis Millette, 64, Canadian French-speaking actor and writer.
 * Edward William O'Rourke, 81, American Roman Catholic bishop.
 * Armando Velasco, 81, Ecuadorian-Mexican actor.

30

 * Avni Akyol, 68, Turkish politician, heart attack.
 * Nikolay Annenkov, 100, Soviet and Russian actor.
 * Edward C. Banfield, 82, American political scientist.
 * Osvaldo Alfredo da Silva, 75, Brazilian football player.
 * Tommy Gale, 65, American NASCAR race car driver.
 * Thomas Holland, 91, English prelate of the Catholic Church.
 * Bruce K. Holloway, 87, American Air Force general, heart failure.
 * Dmitry Likhachov, 92, Russian medievalist, linguist and concentration camp survivor.
 * John Merriman, 63, British long-distance runner and Olympian.
 * Anna Mae Winburn, 86, American vocalist and jazz bandleader.