Deaths in September 1999

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

September 1999

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, and military historian, brain cancer.
• Allen Funt, 84, American television personality, 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.
• Tamás Mendelényi, 63, Hungarian fencer and Olympic champion.

7

• Thierry Claveyrolat, 40, French road bicycle racer, suicide by gunshot.
• Hugo del Vecchio, 71, Argentine basketball player.
• Bjarne Iversen, 86, Norwegian cross-country skier.
• Robert Simon, 49, American outlaw biker and convicted murderer, beaten.
• 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, traffic collision.

11

• Mohammed Aly Fahmy, 78, Egyptian field marshal.
• Belkis Ayón, 32, Cuban printmaker, suicide by gunshot.
• Gonzalo Rodríguez Bongoll, 28, Uruguayan racing driver, racing accident.
• Johny Jaminet, 69, Luxembourgish 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, 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.
• Miguel Angel Cuello, 53, Argentinian boxer.
• Chuck Higgins, 75, American saxophonist, lung cancer.
• Giannos Kranidiotis, 51, Greek diplomat and politician, twice Deputy Foreign Minister of Greece, aviation accident.

15

• Larry Gene Ashbrook, 47, American mass murderer, suicide by gunshot.
• 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, Luxembourgish 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, Oscar winner, 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.
• Ri Jong-ok, 83, Premier of North Korea.
• 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..
• 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.
• Jesse Dirkhising, 13, American teenager, drugging and positional asphyxia.
• 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, Austrian-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 by gunshot.
• 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.