Deaths in February 1999

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

February 1999

1

• Marion Boyars, 71, British book publisher, pancreatic cancer.
• Paul Calvert, 81, Canadian baseball player.
• Alejandro Galindo, 93, Mexican screenwriter and film director.
• Hank Harris, 75, American gridiron football player.
• Rudolf Kárpáti, 78, Hungarian fencer and Olympic champion.
• Barış Manço, 56, Turkish rock musician, actor, and show host, heart attack.
• Paul Mellon, 91, American philanthropist.
• Robin Nedwell, 52, British actor, heart attack.
• St. Clair Pinckney, 68, American saxophonist.
• Harold E. Shear, 80, United States Navy admiral.
• Benjamin Elazari Volcani, 84, Israeli microbiologist.
• Julius Wechter, 63, American musician and composer, cancer.

2

• Marie Van Brittan Brown, 76, American nurse and inventor.
• Deborah Makepeace, 41, British television, theatre and voiceover actress, cancer.
• Michel Mathiot, 72, French gymnast and Olympian.
• David McComb, 36, Australian rock musician, heart failure.
• August Neuburger, 96, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
• Vladimír Petlák, 52, Czech volleyball player and Olympic medalist.
• Vilmos Tátrai, 86, Hungarian classical violinist.
• Tunku Puan Besar Kurshiah, 87, Malayan queen of Negeri Sembilan.

3

• Norman Bluhm, 77, American painter, heart failure.
• Luc Borrelli, 33, French football player, traffic collision.
• William C. Brown, 82, American electrical engineer.
• Jim Cope, 91, Australian politician.
• Alexei Gorokhov, 71, Soviet violinist.
• Gwen Guthrie, 48, American singer-songwriter and pianist, uterine cancer.
• Mikko Hietanen, 87, Finnish long-distance runner, European Champion and world record holder.
• Alfred Janes, 87, Welsh artist.
• Herbert Klynn, 81, American animator.
• Yu Qiuli, 84, Chinese Army general and politician.
• John S. Service, 89, American diplomat.
• Vin Sullivan, 87, American comic book editor, artist and publisher.

4

• Luigi Bernabò Brea, 88, Italian archaeologist.
• Erich Hartmann, 76, German-American photographer.
• Joe Hayes, 63, English football player.
• Arthur Mann, 51, Scottish football player.
• Vittorio Marzotto, 76, Italian racing driver.
• Sean Sellers, 29, American juvenile convict, execution by lethal injection.

5

• Neville Bonner, 76, Australian politician, first indigenous Member of Parliament.
• John L. Cotter, 87, American archaeologist, cancer.
• Rembert Delden, 81, German politician member of the Bundestag.
• Leo Echegaray, 38, Filipino convict, execution by lethal injection.
• Nicholas Krushenick, 69, American abstract painter, liver cancer.
• Wassily Leontief, 93, Russian economist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• Mariya Osipova, 90, Soviet partisan during World War II.
• Indrani Rahman, 68, Indian classical dancer.
• Linda Sini, 74, Italian film actress.

6

• Thomas Banyacya, 89, American Native American traditional leader.
• Erwin Blask, 88, German athlete.
• Henry S. Clark, 95, American horse trainer.
• Danny Dayton, 75, American actor, emphysema.
• Don Dunstan, 72, Australian politician, lung cancer.
• Yuriy Istomin, 54, Ukrainian footballer.
• Jimmy Roberts, 75, American singer and performer, bone cancer.

7

• Hussein I of Jordan, 63, Jordanian monarch, King of Jordan, lymphoma.
• Andrew Keller, 73, British scientist.
• William Ludwig, 86, American screenwriter, Oscar winner, Parkinson's disease.
• Umberto Maglioli, 70, Italian racing driver.
• Antonio Pacenza, 70, Argentine boxer.
• George E. Shambaugh Jr., 95, American otolaryngologist and pioneer in deafness treatments.
• Bobby Troup, 80, American actor and songwriter.

8

• Richard Boone, 68, American jazz trombonist and scat singer.
• Meredith Edwards, 81, Welsh actor and writer.
• Madeleine Frieden-Kinnen, 83, Luxembourgish politician.
• Per Knudsen, 73, Danish football player.
• Iris Murdoch, 79, Irish-born British novelist, poet and philosopher, Alzheimer's disease.
• Caroline Robbins, 95, British historian.
• Krishnaswamy Sundarji, 70, British Indian Army officer.
• Giuseppe Tatarella, 63, Italian politician, heart attack.

9

• Richard Allen, 66, British abstract artist and printmaker, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Benjamin Bwalya, 37, Zambian footballer and coach, cerebral malaria.
• Enzo Forcella, 77, Italian essayist, historian and journalist.
• Aleksander Gieysztor, 82, Polish medievalist historian.
• Mary LaRoche, 78, American actress and singer.
• Len Levy, 77, American athlete.
• Bryan Mosley, 67, British television and film actor,, heart attack.
• Bernhard Paus, 88, Norwegian orthopedic surgeon.
• Jaturun Siripongs, 47, Thai murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Inga-Stina Robson, 79, Anglo-Swedish political activist.

10

• Yuri Borienko, 66, Polish actor and wrestler.
• Ashley Bramall, 83, British politician.
• Robert Clothier, 77, Canadian actor.
• Hernán Santa Cruz, 93, Chilean diplomat and United Nations delegate.
• Joan Curran, 82, Welsh scientist, cancer.
• Ann-Marie Gyllenspetz, 66, Swedish actress.
• Billy Houliston, 77, Scottish footballer.
• Joe M. Kilgore, 80, American combat pilot during World War II and politician.
• Herb Krautblatt, 72, American basketball player.
• Jean Levavasseur, 74, French fencer.
• Y. B. Mangunwijaya, 69, Indonesian architect, writer and Catholic religious leader.
• Joseph Marie Nguyễn Tùng Cương, 79, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Hải Phòng.
• Gideon Rafael, 86, Israeli diplomat.

11

• William Alonso, 66, Argentinian-American planner and economist.
• Leonard J. Arrington, 81, American Mormon historian, heart failure.
• Danny Barber, 43, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
• John Brack, 78, Australian painter.
• Jaki Byard, 76, American jazz musician, composer and arranger, shot.
• Toni Fisher, 74, American pop singer, heart attack.
• Stoyan Gadev, 67, Bulgarian actor.
• Werner Korff, 87, German ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.
• Dragan Kovačić, 59, Yugoslav-Croatian basketball player.
• Rose Mbowa, 56, Ugandan writer, actress, academic and feminist.
• Hugh McCullough, 82, American gridiron football player.
• Brian Parsons, 65, English cricket player.
• Xiao Qian, 89, Chinese essayist, editor and journalist.
• Nikolai Sergeyev, 89, Soviet admiral.
• Whitney Tower, 75, American Thoroughbred horse racing journalist, complications from a stroke.

12

• Paul Bairoch, 68, Belgian-Swiss economic historian.
• André Devigny, 82, French soldier and member of the Résistance.
• Jimmy Dudley, 89, American baseball player and sportscaster.
• Rexhep Krasniqi, 92, Albanian-American historian, nationalist, anti-communist politician and activist.
• Grace Panvini, 91, American soprano and voice teacher
• Heinz Schubert, 73, German actor, drama teacher and photographer, pneumonia.
• Michel Seuphor, 97, Belgian painter.

13

• Peko Dapčević, 85, Yugoslav communist.
• Michael Higgins, 90, American glass artist.
• Kåre Hovda, 55, Norwegian biathlete and Olympian.
• Gary Jennings, 70, American author, heart failure.
• Ron McLean, 60, Australian politician, asbestos-related lung condition.
• Carles Sabater, 36, Catalan singer and actor, respiratory arrest.

14

• Sam Bartholomew, 81, American gridiron football player.
• John Ehrlichman, 73, United States Domestic Policy Council and Watergate scandal conspirator, diabetes.
• Buddy Knox, 65, American singer and songwriter, lung cancer.
• Hillel Seidel, 78, Israeli politician.
• Joseph Francis Shea, 73, American aerospace engineer and NASA manager.
• Raymond Thompson, 87, American competition swimmer and Olympian.
• Majken Åberg, 80, Swedish discus thrower and Olympian.

15

• Agnes Bernelle, 75, Berlin-born expatriate actress and singer.
• Jeffery Cohelan, 84, American politician and political activist.
• Billy Garrett, 65, American racecar driver.
• Henry Way Kendall, 72, American physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, drowned.
• Aigars Kriķis, 44, Soviet and Latvian luger.
• Big L, 24, American Freestyle rapper, shot.
• Gordon Neil Stewart, 86, Australian writer.
• Ferenc Vozar, 53, Hungarian ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.

16

• Björn Afzelius, 52, Swedish progg singer and guitarist, lung cancer.
• Necil Kazım Akses, 90, Turkish classical composer.
• Guillermo Arellano, 90, Chilean football player.
• Fritzi Burger, 88, Austrian figure skater.
• Petre Crowder, 79, British barrister and politician.
• Ugo Grappasonni, 76, Italian professional golfer.
• Herbert S. Green, 78, British–Australian physicist.
• James Hill, 72, British politician.
• Henk Hofstra, 94, Dutch politician.
• Johan Kvandal, 79, Norwegian composer.
• Michael Larson, 49, American game show contestant, throat cancer.
• Alexandre-Athenase Noghès, 82, Monegasque tennis player and husband of Princess Antoinette of Monaco.
• Bailey Olter, 66, Micronesian political figure.
• Betty Roché, 81, American blues singer.

17

• Thomas James Carr, 89, British artist.
• Kurt Robert Eissler, 90, Austrian psychoanalyst.
• Jaime Hurtado, 62, Ecuadorian politician, shot.
• William D. McElroy, 82, American biochemist and academic.
• Sunshine Parker, 71, American actor, pneumonia.
• Shirley Stoler, 69, American actress, heart failure.
• Tania, 90, Spanish tango singer known as "Tania".
• R.S. Unni, 73, Indian politician and trade unionist.

18

• Felipe Alfau, 96, Spanish-American novelist and poet.
• Andreas Feininger, 92, American photographer.
• Tibor Házi, 87, Hungarian table tennis player.
• Nikolay Latyshev, 85, Soviet and Russian football player and referee.
• Olle Nordemar, 84, Swedish cinematographer, screenwriter, film director and producer.
• Noam Pitlik, 66, American actor and television director, lung cancer.

19

• Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, 55, Iraqi Shia marja', shot.
• Khumar Barabankvi, 79, Indian Urdu poet and lyricist.
• Wilford Berry, Jr., 36, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Robert Coulson, 70, American science fiction writer and bookseller.
• Trudy Desmond, 53, Canadian jazz singer.
• Richard E. Dutrow, Sr., 61, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer.
• Lloyd La Beach, 76, Panamanian sprinter, 100 meters world record holder and Olympian.
• Lady Pansy Lamb, 94, English writer also known as "Pansy Pakenham".
• Georg Meier, 88, German motorcycle racer.
• Primo Miller, 83, American gridiron football player.
• Constantin Oțet, 58, Romanian football coach.
• Paul Schmidt, 65, American actor, poet, playwright and essayist.

20

• Howard Boatwright, 80, American composer, violinist and musicologist.
• Willard R. Espy, 88, American philologist, writer and poet.
• Lotti van der Gaag, 75, Dutch sculptor and painter.
• Frans Grootjans, 77, Belgian politician and minister.
• Molly Harrower, 93, American clinical psychologist.
• Sarah Kane, 28, English playwright, suicide by hanging.
• Al Krueger, 79, American gridiron football player.
• Michael Sgan-Cohen, 54, Israeli artist, art historian, curator and critic.
• Gene Siskel, 53, American film critic and television journalist, brain cancer.

21

• Gertrude B. Elion, 81, American biochemist, pharmacologist and Nobel Prize recipient.
• Hideo Itokawa, 86, Japanese aircraft designer and rocketry pioneer.
• Ilmari Juutilainen, 85, Finnish flying ace during World War II.
• Kaya, 38, Mauritian musician and creator of the seggae genre.
• Walter Lini, 57, Prime Minister of Vanuatu.
• Wilmer Mizell, 68, American athlete and politician.
• Jørgen Leschly Sørensen, 76, Danish footballer.
• Leyla Vakilova, 72, Azerbaijani ballerina and ballet teacher.

22

• Bitto Albertini, 74, Italian film director and screenwriter.
• William Bronk, 81, American poet.
• Charles Gerhardt, 72, American conductor, record producer, and arranger.
• Howie Haak, 87, American baseball scout.
• Carlos Hathcock, 56, United States Marine Corps sniper, multiple sclerosis.
• Menno Oosting, 34, Dutch tennis player, traffic collision.
• Pat Upton, 54, Irish politician and veterinarian, heart attack.

23

• Sir Anthony Nutting, 3rd Baronet, 79, British diplomat and politician, heart failure.
• Stanley Dance, 88, British jazz writer and record producer, pneumonia.
• Ruth Gipps, 78, English composer, oboist, pianist, and conductor.
• Hughie Lee-Smith, 83, American artist, cancer.
• Gershon Legman, 81, American cultural critic and folklorist, complications following a stroke.
• Chip Myers, 53, American football player, heart attack.
• David Chilton Phillips, 74, British biologist, prostate cancer.
• Heinrich Schmid, 77, Swiss linguist.
• Rick Wilson, 33, American professional wrestler, suicide by gunshot.

24

• David Daube, 90, German scholar of ancient law.
• Andre Dubus, 62, American short story writer and essayist, heart attack.
• Virginia Foster Durr, 95, American white civil rights activist and lobbyist.
• David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, 94, English politician.
• Fathy Ghanem, 74, Egyptian writer.
• Enzo Menegotti, 73, Italian football player.
• Derek Nimmo, 68, English actor and author, fall.
• Catharina Roodzant, 102, Dutch female chess master.
• Ahmed Sharif, 78, Bangladeshi philosopher, writer and academic.
• Frank Leslie Walcott, 82, Barbadian politician, diplomat and umpire.
• Vann "Piano Man" Walls, 80, American R&B musician, cancer.
• Johnnie Wittig, 84, American baseball player.

25

• Dina Dreyfus, 88, French anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher.
• Murad Ozdoev, 76, Ingush flying ace during World War II.
• Sol Schoenbach, 84, American bassoonist and teacher.
• Glenn T. Seaborg, 86, American nuclear chemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, complications of a stroke.
• Štěpán Zavřel, 66, Czech painter, graphic artist and writer.

26

• Michael Avallone, 74, American author.
• Jean Coulomb, 94, French geophysicist and mathematician.
• Annibale Frossi, 87, Italian football player and manager.
• Elbridge T. Gerry, 90, American banker and polo player.
• John L. Goldwater, 83, American comic book editor and publisher.
• János Péter, 88, Hungarian politician.
• José Quintero, 74, Panamanian theatre director and pedagogue, esophageal cancer.
• Opoku Ware II, 79, 15th Emperor-King of the Ashanti people.
• Bjørn Wiik, 62, Norwegian physicist, domestic accident.

27

• George Hughley, 59, American football player and coach, traffic collision.
• Bob McNeish, 86, American football player and coach.
• Vida Steinert, 96, New Zealand painter.
• Horace Tapscott, 64, American jazz pianist and composer.
• Luis Vidal, 82, Chilean football player.

28

• Anthea Askey, 65, English actress.
• Dave Bedwell, 70, British racing cyclist.
• Ara Harutyunyan, 70, Armenian sculptor and graphic artist.
• Clarence Henry, 72, American boxer.
• Lionel Berry, 2nd Viscount Kemsley, 89, British politician, peer and newspaper editor.
• Kenny Robinson, 29, American baseball player, traffic collision.
• Bill Talbert, 80, American tennis player.
• Bing Xin, 98, Chinese writer.