Deaths in April 1999

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 1999.

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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.

April 1999

1

• Ellis Yarnal Berry, 96, American attorney, newspaper publisher and politician.
• Tony Frasca, 71, American ice hockey player and coach, stomach cancer.[1]
• Paul Freiherr von Hauser, 87, German officer in the Wehrmacht during World War II.
• Alfred Jahn, 83, Polish geographer, geomorphologist and polar explorer.
• Tadahito Mochinaga, 80, Japanese stop-motion animator.
• Madhurantakam Rajaram, 68, Indian author.
• Wilson Riles, 81, American educator and politician.
• Jesse Stone, 97, American R&B musician and songwriter.[2]

2

• Andrew Gardner, 66, British newscaster, heart attack.[3]
• Julio Alberto Hernández, 98, Dominican composer and pianist.
• Sophie Kanza, 59, Congolese politician and sociologist, cardiac arrest.
• Hayk Mirzayans, 78/79, Iranian Armenian entomologist.
• Josip Pokupec, 85, Yugoslav Olympic cyclist.

3

• Lionel Bart, 68, British music writer, composer and lyricist (Oliver!, Living Doll), cancer.[4]
• John B. Daly, 69, American politician.
• Luis M. Farías, 78, Mexican politician.
• Herman Foster, 70, American bebop jazz pianist.

4

• Jumabek Ibraimov, 55, Kyrgyz politician, stomach cancer.
• Vane Ivanović, 85, Yugoslav-British athlete, political activist, diplomat and writer.
• Lucille Lortel, 98, American actress, artistic director and theatrical producer.[5]
• Bob Peck, 53, British actor (Jurassic Park), cancer.[6]
• Irvine Phillips, 93, American football player.
• Ambroise Roux, 77, French businessman and political advisor, heart attack.
• Early Wynn, 79, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.

5

• Paul David, 79, Canadian cardiologist and politician.
• Wally A. Forsberg, 90, American football and basketball coach.
• Chester E. McCarty, 93, American officer and pilot in the US Air Force[7]
• John Wiles, 73, South African novelist, television writer and producer (Doctor Who).

6

• Gene Benson, 85, American baseball player (Negro league baseball).
• Robert D. Lindsay, 79, Canadian politician.
• William Pleeth, 83, British cellist.

7

• Jim Copp, American musician and producer.
• Heinz Lehmann, 87, German-born Canadian psychiatrist known as the "father of modern psychopharmacology".
• Sir Angus Paton, 93, British civil engineer.[8]
• Bob Tough, 78, American basketball player.

8

• Vic Fisher, 74, Australian rules footballer.
• Luis Castro Leiva, 56, Venezuelan academic, writer and columnist, brain haemorrhage.[9]
• Fritz Tegtmeier, 81, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.

9

• Jones Chilengi, 44, Zambian footballer and coach, haemorrhagic shock.
• Bert Firman, 93, English bandleader.
• Raúl Silva Henríquez, 91, Chilean prelate of the Catholic Church.[10]
• Emiko Kado, 23, Japanese female wrestler, intracerebral bleeding.
• Marcel Lihau, 67, Congolese politician, jurist, and law professor.
• Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, 49, Niger military officer, murdered.
• Albert Popwell, 72, American actor, complications following open heart surgery.

10

• Brownie Mary, 76, American medical cannabis rights activist.[11]
• James D. McCawley, 61, Scottish-American linguist.
• Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, 86, Indian novelist and short story writer.
• Jean Vander Pyl, 79, American actress and voice actress.[12]
• Ali Sayad Shirazi, 54, Iranian army officer, assassinated.
• Thornton Wilson, 78, Chairman and CEO of Boeing corporation.

11

• William H. Armstrong, 87, American children's writer.
• Slavko Ćuruvija, 49, Serbian journalist and newspaper publisher, murdered.
• Alan Evans, 49, Welsh darts player.[13]
• Pete Milne, 74, American baseball player.
• Agim Ramadani, 35, Kosovar Albanian commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, killed in action.

12

• Carlos Jaschek, 73, German-born Argentine astrophysicist.[14]
• Marion Albert Pruett, 49, American spree killer, execution by lethal injection.
• Gordon Stott, Lord Stott, 89, Scottish advocate, sheriff and Lord Advocate.
• Boxcar Willie, 67, American country music singer-songwriter.

13

• Edith Anderson, 83, American journalist, writer and translator.[15]
• Masaji Kiyokawa, 86, Japanese sports administrator and Olympic medalist (backstroke swimming), pancreatic cancer.
• Willi Stoph, 84, East German politician.[16]
• Visakha Wijeyeratne, 64, Sri Lankan painter, sculptor, writer and social worker.

14

• Mujdin Aliu, 25, Macedonian Albanian soldier, killed in action.
• Ellen Corby, 87, American actress.
• Anthony Newley, 67, British singer-songwriter and actor, kidney cancer.[17]
• Robert G. Sachs, 82, American theoretical physicist.
• Nicola Trussardi, 56, Italian fashion designer, car accident.
• Bill Wendell, 75, American television announcer, complications from cancer.[18]

15

• Roy Chiao, 72, British Hong Kong-era Chinese actor, heart failure.[19]
• Odilia Castro Hidalgo, 90, Costa Rican communist and feminist.
• K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, 90, Indian writer in English.
• Harvey Postlethwaite, 55, British Formula One team technical director, heart attack.

16

• Regis Cordic, 72, American radio personality and actor.
• Vincent J. Dellay, 91, American politician.
• Rudi Fehr, 87, American film editor and studio executive, heart attack.[20]
• Zoë Lund, 37, American musician, model, actress, producer and screenwriter, cocaine-induced heart failure.[21]
• Frederick G. Morgan, 59, Australian recorder maker, car accident.[22]
• Abbott Pattison, 82, American sculptor and abstract artist.
• Karl Schefold, 94, Swiss archaeologist.
• Skip Spence, 52, American singer-songwriter (Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape), lung cancer.[23]
• Margaret Tait, 80, Scottish film maker and poet.

17

• Nikolay Dobrev, 51, Bulgarian politician, cancer.
• Ahmad Mohamed Ibrahim, 82, Singaporean lawyer and law professor.
• Georges Miez, 94, Swiss gymnast.
• Richard Negri, 71, British theatre director and designer.[24]
• Milica Rakić, 3, child victim of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
• Nicky Virachkul, 50, American darts player.

18

• Alan Brazier, 74, English cricketer.
• Ye Fei, 84, Filipino-Chinese general and politician.
• Bob Irving, 51, English rugby player, heart attack.
• Migishi Setsuko, 94, Japanese Yōga painter.
• Raghubir Singh, 56, Indian photographer, heart attack.[25]
• István Vincze, 87, Hungarian mathematician,.

19

• Stanley T. Adams, 76, United States Army officer.
• Hermine Braunsteiner, 79, German nazi concentration camp guard.
• Sir James Cobban, 88, British educator.
• Helen Lundeberg, 90, American painter, complications from pneumonia.[26]
• Arthur Morton, 84, American football player and coach.
• Yoko Tani, 70, Japanese actress and nightclub entertainer.

20

• Flora Carabella, 73, Italian film, television and stage actress, bone tumor.
• Flash Hollett, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Nikos Rizos, 74, Greek actor, edema.
• Bethsabée de Rothschild, 84, French philanthropist and member of the Rothschild family.[27]
• Rick Rude, 40, professional wrestler, heart failure following accidental overdose.[28]
• Ric Throssell, 76, Australian diplomat and author.
• Señor Wences, 103, Spanish ventriloquist.
• Charles E. Whittingham, 86, American racehorse trainer.
• Students killed in the Columbine High School massacre:[29][30]
  • Cassie Bernall, 17, victim.
  • Dylan Klebold, 17, perpetrator.
  • Eric Harris, 18, perpetrator.
  • Rachel Joy Scott, 17, victim.
  • Lauren Townsend, 18, victim.

21

• Tim Forster, 65, British racehorse trainer.
• Ralph Perk, 85, American politician.
• Charles Rogers, 94, American actor and jazz musician, natural causes.[31]
• M. J. Thirumalachar, 84, Indian mycologist, microbiologist and plant pathologist.
• Su Xuelin, 102, Chinese author and scholar.

22

• Ide Anak Agung Gde Agung, 77, Indonesian politician.
• Munir Ahmad Khan, 72, Pakistani nuclear engineer and physicist, complications following heart surgery.[32]
• Apostolos Nikolaidis, 60, Greek singer, cancer.
• Bert Remsen, 74, American actor.
• Z. A. Suleri, Pakistani political journalist, author and activist, heart failure.
• Anne Szumigalski, 77, Canadian poet.

23

• Henrietta Branford, 53, English author of children's books, breast cancer.
• Wally Hanlon, 79, Scottish football player.
• Melba Liston, 73, American jazz trombonist, arranger and composer.[33]
• Aleksandr Markevich, 94, Ukrainian zoologist, helminthologist and copepodologist.
• M. V. Rajamma, 78, Indian actress, singer and movie producer.

24

• Nanabhai Bhatt, 83, Indian Bollywood film director and producer, heart failure.
• Arthur Boyd, 78, Australian painter.[34]
• Ray Evans, 76, American football player.
• Charles Rostaing, 94, French linguist.
• Don Schofield, Australian rugby player.
• Marie Taylor, New Zealand mycologist, botanist and scientific illustrator.

25

• Robert Cottle, 78, American television host, stroke.
• Roman Hruska, 94, American politician, complications following a broken hip.[35]
• Kemistry, 35, English drum and bass DJ and co-founder of record label Metalheadz, road accident.
• Lord Killanin, 85, Irish journalist, author and Olympic official.[36]
• Rupert Lonsdale, 93, British submarine commander and prisoner of war.
• Roger Troutman, 47, American musician, producer and founder of (Zapp and Roger), fratricide.
• Roberto Tyrrel, 63, Panamanian soccer player, heart attack.
• Michi Weglyn, 72, American author.

26

• Man Mohan Adhikari, 78, 31st Prime Minister of Nepal.[37]
• Adrian Borland, 41, British musician, producer and frontman of The Sound, suicide.[38]
• Jill Dando, 37, British journalist and television presenter (Crimewatch), murder by gunshot.[39]
• Faye Throneberry, 67, American baseball player.

27

• Gunnar Brunvoll, 74, Norwegian impresario and opera administrator.
• Dominick L. DiCarlo, 71, American lawyer and politician, heart attack.
• Al Hirt, 76, American trumpeter and bandleader, liver failure.[40]
• Pavel Klushantsev, 89, Russian cameraman, film director, producer, screenwriter and author.
• Cyril Washbrook, 84, English cricketer.

28

• Brandon Burlsworth, 22, American football player, car accident.[41]
• Rory Calhoun, 76, American film and television actor, screenwriter and producer.[42]
• Osvaldo Civile, 40, Argentine heavy metal guitarist (V8, Horcas).
• Rolf Landauer, 72, German-born American physicist, brain cancer.
• Sir Alf Ramsey, 79, British football player and manager (Ipswich Town, England), Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer.[43]
• Arthur Leonard Schawlow, 77, American physicist and co-inventor of the laser with Charles Townes, leukemia.
• John Stears, 64, British Academy Award-winning special effects expert, stroke.[44]
• Donald E. Stewart, 69, American screenwriter, cancer.
• Roderick Thorp, 62, American novelist, heart attack.
• Harold Wellman, 90, English-born New Zealand geologist.

29

• Faustin Birindwa, Prime Minister of Zaire (1993 – 1994).
• Mohan Gokhale, 45, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Denzo Ishizaki, 112, Japan's oldest man.
• Elspeth March, 88, English actress.[45]
• Ovídio Martins, 70, Cape Verdean poet and journalist.
• Zabihollah Safa, 87, Iranian scholar.
• Kidar Sharma, 89, Indian film director, producer and screenwriter.[46]
• Roosevelt Wardell, American jazz and rhythm musician.
• Yao Xueyin, 88, Chinese novelist.

30

• Bruce Jesson, New Zealand journalist, author and political figure, cancer.[47]
• Jessica Lal, 34, Indian model, murdered.
• Nenad Nikolić, 37, Serbian footballer, killed during bombing.
• Jack Schiff, American comic book writer and editor.[48]
• Charles Speziale, 50, American scientist and professor specialized in turbulence.
• Darrell Sweet, 51, English drummer and member of Nazareth, heart attack.

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