Deaths in January 1999

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

January 1999

1

• Myslym Alla, 79, Albanian football player and manager.
• Vítor Baptista, 50, Portuguese footballer.
• Besim Fagu, 73, Albanian football player.
• Rafael Iglesias, 74, Argentine heavyweight boxer.
• Les Yewdale, 70, Australian politician.

2

• Amin al-Majaj, 77, Palestinian politician, Mayor of Jerusalem.
• Margot Cottens, 76, Uruguayan actress.
• Jean Galbraith, 92, Australian botanist, children's writer, and poet.
• Sebastian Haffner, 91, German journalist and author.
• Rolf Liebermann, 88, Swiss composer and music administrator.
• Aase Lionæs, 91, Norwegian politician and feminist.
• Joan Long, 73, Australian producer and writer.
• Shepard Menken, 77, American voice actor.
• Trevor J. Rees, 85, American football player and coach.
• Horst Seeger, 72, German musicologist, librettist and opera director.
• George Tobin, 77, American football player.
• Louis Jolyon West, 74, American psychiatrist, cancer.

3

• Elsa Burnett, 96, Swedish actress.
• Diana Dei, 84, Italian film actress.
• Neil Gibson, 36, New Zealand rower and Olympian, cancer.
• Otto Königsberger, 90, German architect.
• Violet Rose Olney, 87, English athlete and Olympic medalist.
• Chuck Parsons, 74, American sports car racing driver.
• Stanley Proffitt, 88, English cricketer.
• Jerry Quarry, 53, American heavyweight boxer, pneumonia.
• Jack C. K. Teng, 86, Chinese educator, writer and politician.
• Gorō Yamaguchi, 65, Japanese shakuhachi player.

4

• Maqsood Ahmed, 73, Pakistani cricketer.
• Iron Eyes Cody, 94, American actor.
• Diane Foster, 70, Canadian track and field athlete and Olympian.
• Fredrik Mellbye, 81, Norwegian physician.
• Charles Manners, 10th Duke of Rutland, 79, British peer and landowner.
• Kisshomaru Ueshiba, 77, Japanese master of aikido, respiratory failure.
• José Vela Zanetti, 85, Spanish painter and muralist.

5

• Charles Francis Adams IV, 88, American electronics industrialist.
• Paul Wallace Gates, 97, American historian and academic.
• Michael Hirschfeld, 54, New Zealand businessman and politician, diabetes complications.
• Jarmila Nygrýnová, 45, Czech long jumper, cancer.
• Ralph Pasquariello, 72, American football player.
• Clare Potter, 95, American fashion designer.
• Basuki Resobowo, 82–83, Indonesian painter.
• Paul Zoll, 87, American cardiologist.

6

• David W. Dennis, 86, American politician, Representative from Indiana.
• Jim Dunn, 67, American baseball player.
• Joseph Malta, 80, American executioner during the Nuremberg executions.
• Ntsu Mokhehle, 80, Lesotho politician, Prime Minister.
• Henrietta Moraes, 67, British artists' model and memoirist.
• Hélène Ouvrard, 60, Canadian French writer.
• Michel Petrucciani, 36, French jazz pianist, pulmonary infection.
• Antonio Pierfederici, 79, Italian actor.
• Lajos Tichy, 63, Hungarian footballer.
• Leo Weilenmann, 76, Swiss racing cyclist.

7

• Phil Cutchin, 78, American football player and coach.
• James Hammerstein, 67, American theatre director and producer, heart failure.
• Fred Hopkins, 51, American jazz double bassist.
• Aulis Manninen, 81, American long-distance runner and Olympian.
• Viktor Sobolev, 83, Soviet/Russian scientist.

8

• James William Baskin, 79, Canadian politician and businessman.
• Punch Coomaraswamy, 74, Malaysian–Singaporean judge, diplomat and politician, pulmonary disease.
• Harvey Miller, 63, American actor, director, and screenwriter.
• Vahid Musayev, 51, Azerbaijani politician, Deputy Minister, killed.
• Lyusyena Ovchinnikova, 67, Soviet-born Russian film actress.
• John W. Roberts, 78, American General in the United States Air Force.
• Rövşən Rzayev, 29, Azerbaijani officer and war hero, murdered.
• Peter Seeberg, 73, Danish modernist novelist and playwright.
• Dobie Gillis Williams, 38, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

9

• Rick Bennewitz, 62, American television director, heart failure.
• Hans Candrian, 60, Swiss bobsledder and Olympic medalist.
• Joyce Chiang, 28, American attorney.
• Cleveland Cram, 81, American historian and intelligence official in the Central Intelligence Agency.
• Carl Elliott, 85, American politician, Representative from Alabama.
• Mel Pearson, 60, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Jim Peters, 80, English long-distance runner.
• Mien Ruys, 94, Dutch landscape and garden architect.

10

• Shinsuke Ashida, 84, Japanese actor, liver cancer.
• John Hervey, 7th Marquess of Bristol, 44, British peer, aristocrat and businessman, multiple organ failure.
• Walter Edward Harris, 94, Canadian politician and lawyer.
• Esteban Marino, 84, Uruguayan football referee.
• Frank Parker, 95, American singer and actor.
• Primož Ramovš, 77, Slovenian composer and librarian.
• Gavin Relly, 72, South African businessman, Chairman of Anglo American.
• Edward Williams, 77, Australian judge on the Supreme Court of Queensland.
• Juliusz Żuławski, 88, Polish poet, literary critic and translator.

11

• Teuvo Aura, 86, Finnish politician.
• Fabrizio De André, 58, Italian singer-songwriter, lung cancer.
• Robert Douglas, 89, American film actor, television director and producer.
• Ján Ducký, 54, Slovak politician, shot.
• Jim Dyck, 76, American baseball player.
• Nathalie Lind, 80, Danish jurist and politician.
• Naomi Mitchison, 101, Scottish novelist and poet.
• Brian Moore, 77, Northern Irish-born Canadian screenwriter and novelist, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Josefina Plá, 95, Spanish poet, playwright and art critic.
• K. A. Rahman, 59, Indian political activist.
• Öztürk Serengil, 68, Turkish actor and comedian.
• Bobby Specht, 77, American figure skater.
• François Spoerry, 86, French architect and urban planner.
• Mark Warren, 60, American television director, cancer.

12

• Leo Cherne, 86, American economist and public servant.
• Betty Lou Gerson, 84, American actress, stroke.
• David Logan, 42, American gridiron football player, respiratory failure.
• Gerda Ring, 107, Norwegian stage actress and producer.
• Maria Sander, 74, German sprinter.
• William H. Whyte, 81, American urbanist, organizational analyst and journalist.
• Doug Wickenheiser, 37, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.

13

• Maurice A. Donahue, 80, American politician.
• Buzz Kulik, 76, American film director and producer.
• Karl Lieffen, 72, German film actor, brain cancer.
• Kelvin Malone, 38, American spree killer, execution by lethal injection.
• John Frederick Nims, 85, American poet and academic.
• Lawrence Harold Welsh, 63, American bishop in the Roman Catholic Church.

14

• Robin Bailey, 79, English actor, respiratory failure.
• Tom Binford, 74, American entrepreneur and philanthropist.
• Jerzy Grotowski, 65, Polish theatre director and theorist, leukaemia.
• Janus Hellemons, 86, Dutch racing cyclist.
• Brett King, 78, American actor, leukaemia, leukemia.
• Muslimgauze, 37, British electronic musician, fungal infection.
• Fred Myrow, 59, American composer, heart failure.
• Sabina Olmos, 85, Argentine film actress.
• Raymond Peynet, 90, French cartoonist.
• Granville Rodrigo, 41, Sri Lankan actor, singer, and art director.
• Barat Shakinskaya, 84, Soviet-Azerbaijani actress.
• Lincoln Thompson, 49, Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, cancer.
• Aldo van Eyck, 80, Dutch architect.

15

• John Bloom, 54, American actor, heart failure.
• Betty Box, 83, British film producer, cancer.
• Lars Glassér, 73, Swedish sprint canoeist.
• Monroe Karmin, 69, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner.
• Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry, 79, Irish judge and life peer, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.
• Marion Ryan, 67, English pop singer.
• John Baker Saunders, 44, American musician, heroin overdose.
• Mi. Pa. Somasundaram, 77, Indian Tamil journalist, poet and writer.

16

• Oscar Cullmann, 96, French Lutheran theologian.
• Đoàn Khuê, 75, Vietnamese army general and Minister of Defence.
• Jim McClelland, 83, Australian jurist and politician, Senator for New South Wales.
• Dadie Rylands, 96, British literary scholar and theatre director.

17

• Cay von Brockdorff, 83, German sculptor and art historian.
• Maurice Byers, 81, Australian jurist and constitutional expert.
• Nicholas J. Corea, 55, American television writer, cancer.
• Theodore Major, 90, English artist.

18

• Horace Cumner, 80, Welsh footballer.
• Ciril Cvetko, 79, Slovene composer and conductor.
• Frances Gershwin, 92, American singer and violinist.
• Lucille Kallen, 76, American screenwriter and playwright, cancer.
• Pat Morton, 88, Australian businessman and politician, Leader of the Opposition of New South Wales.
• Henri Romagnesi, 86, French mycologist.
• Günter Strack, 69, German television actor, heart failure.
• Virginia Verrill, 82, American big band singer.

19

• Robert Eugene Brashers, 40, American serial killer, suicide by gunshot.
• Roderick Chisholm, 82, American philosopher.
• Ivan Francescato, 31, Italian rugby player, heart failure.
• Mario Gentili, 85, Italian cyclist and Olympic medalist.
• Jacques Lecoq, 77, French actor and mime, cerebral haemorrhage.
• Warren Schrage, 78, American basketball player.

20

• Stella Bloch, 101, American artist, dancer and journalist.
• Cleaver Bunton, 96, Australian politician, mayor of Albury (NSW).
• Martyn Finlay, 87, New Zealand lawyer and politician.
• John Golding, 67, British trade unionist and politician, Member of Parliament, complications following surgery.
• Frances Lander Spain, 95, American children's librarian.

21

• Alfonso Corona Blake, 80, Mexican film director and screenwriter.
• Charles Brown, 76, American blues singer and pianist, heart failure.
• Berkeley L. Bunker, 92, American politician, Senator from Nevada and Representative.
• Jacques Chailley, 88, French musicologist and composer.
• Leslie French, 94, British actor.
• Paul Metcalf, 81, American writer.
• Lloyd M. Mustin, 87, American admiral during World War II, complications following a stroke.
• Marvin Rick, 97, American middle-distance runner and Olympian.
• Cecil Smith, 94, American polo player.
• Susan Strasberg, 60, American actress, breast cancer.

22

• Paul Cammermans, 77, Belgian film director.
• Gabor Carelli, 83, Hungarian classical tenor.
• Piero Gadda Conti, 96, Italian novelist and film critic.
• George Mosse, 80, German writer and historian.
• Graciela Quan, 87/88, Guatemalan lawyer and women's rights activist.
• Maxwell Rosenlicht, 74, American mathematician.
• Steven Sykes, 84, British artist.

23

• Bernard Budiansky, 73, American engineer and academic.
• Joe D'Amato, 62, Italian film director, heart failure.
• Jaroslav Foglar, 91, Czech author.
• Pavle Grubješić, 45, Serbian football player.
• Terence Lewin, Baron Lewin, 78, British Royal Navy officer, First Sea Lord.
• Thomas C. Mann, 86, American diplomat and ambassador.
• Paul McKee, 75, American football player.
• John Osteen, 77, American evangelical pastor, heart failure.
• Suceso Portales, 94, Spanish anarcho-feminist writer.
• Jay Pritzker, 76, American entrepreneur and member of the Pritzker family.
• Frederick Sommer, 93, Italian-American artist.
• Graham Staines, 58, Australian Christian missionary, burned.

24

• Andrée Debar, 78, French actress and producer of stage and screen, Alzheimer's disease.
• Elena Dobronravova, 66, Soviet and Russian actress.
• Werner Jacobs, 89, German film director.
• Shizue Natsukawa, 89, Japanese actress.
• Roger Rondeaux, 78, French cyclo-cross racer.

25

• Sarah Louise Delany, 109, American author and civil rights activist.
• John H. DeWitt, Jr., 92, American radio astronomy and photometry pioneer.
• Rudi Glöckner, 69, German football referee.
• Philip Mason, 92, English civil servant, historian, and author.
• Henri Rochereau, 90, French politician, European Commissioner for Overseas Development.
• Robert Shaw, 82, American conductor, stroke.
• George Gilbert Swell, 75, Indian politician.
• Herman Wedemeyer, 74, American actor, football player and politician, heart failure.

26

• Jeanne-Marie Darré, 93, French classical pianist.
• August Everding, 70, German opera director.
• Sam Jones, 75, Australian politician.
• Simon Karas, 93, Greek musicologist.
• D. C. Kizhakemuri, 85, Indian writer, publisher and activist.
• Matilde Landeta, 88, Mexican filmmaker and screenwriter.
• Heinz Leymann, 66, Swedish psychologists and academic.
• Larry Loughlin, 57, American baseball player.
• Charles Luckman, 89, American businessman and architect.
• Ruby Mercer, 92, American-Canadian writer, broadcaster and soprano.

27

• Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, 88, Spanish writer.
• Eamon Collins, 44-45, Northern Irish former IRA member, beaten.
• Ben Margolis, 88, American attorney, heart failure.
• Satya Saha, 64, Bangladeshi composer.
• Jerzy Turowicz, 86, Polish Catholic journalist and editor, heart failure.
• František Vláčil, 74, Czech film director, painter, and graphic artist.

28

• Ave Daniell, 84, American gridiron football player.
• Josef Doležal, 78, Czechoslovak athlete and Olympic medalist.
• Valery Gavrilin, 59, Soviet-born Russian composer.
• Herbert Gruber, 85, Austrian film producer.
• Pochiah Krishnamurthy, 51, Indian cricket player.
• Roger-Jean Le Nizerhy, 82, French cyclist.
• Leonard C. Lewin, 82, American author.
• Rouiched, 77, Algerian comic actor.
• Torgny T:son Segerstedt, 90, Swedish philosopher and sociologist.
• Radúz Činčera, 75, Czech screenwriter and director.

29

• Willy Bandholz, 86, German field handball player and Olympic champion.
• Lili St. Cyr, 80, American burlesque stripteaser.
• Yves Hervouet, 77, French sinologist.
• Vladimir Kirillin, 86, Soviet physicist.
• Eeva-Kaarina Volanen, 78, Finnish actor.

30

• Branko Fučić, 78, Croatian art historian, archeologist and paleographer.
• Romano Garagnani, 61, Italian skeet shooter and Olympic medalist.
• Mills E. Godwin, 84, American politician, Governor of Virginia, pneumonia.
• Huntz Hall, 78, American actor, heart failure.
• Ed Herlihy, 89, American newsreel narrator.
• Chuck Hinton, 59, American gridiron football player.
• Mirra Komarovsky, 93, American sociologist.
• Dolf van der Linden, 83, Dutch conductor of popular music.
• Mick McGahey, 73, Scottish trade unionist and political activist, Chairman of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
• Warren Miller, 74, American political scientist.
• Svetlana Savyolova, 57, Soviet and Russian actress.

31

• Giant Baba, 61, Japanese wrestler, liver failure.
• Bill Luders, 89, American naval architect.
• Charles M. Murphy, 85, American football, basketball and baseball player and coach.
• Ahmad Azari Qomi, 74, Iranian cleric and ayatollah.
• Fanély Revoil, 92, French opera singer.
• Gabriel Ruiz, 90, Mexican songwriter.
• Ilmari Tapiovaara, 84, Finnish furniture designer.
• Ferdinand Thomas Unger, 84, American Army Lieutenant General.
• Norm Zauchin, 69, American baseball player, prostate cancer.