Deaths in March 1999

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.

March 1999

1

• Christine Glanville, 74, British puppeteer.[1]
• Enneüs Heerma, 54, Dutch politician, lung cancer.[2]
• Digger Kettle, 76, English footballer.[3]
• Jozo Matošić, 86, Yugoslav football player and coach.
• Gema Ramkeesoon, Indo-Trinidadian/Afro-Trinidadian social worker and women's rights activist.
• Steve Sinko, 89, American football player and coach.

2

• David Ackles, 62, American singer-songwriter and child actor, lung cancer.[4]
• Charles Askins, 91, American lawman, US Army officer, and writer.
• Kaushal Kishore, 56, Indian polymer chemist, cardiac arrest.
• Stuart Mossman, 56, American guitar maker and entertainer, heart attack.[5]
• Tommy Pearson, 85, Scottish football player and manager.
• Hawley Pratt, 87, American film director, animator and illustrator.
• Kamel Sajid, Iraqi general of the Republican Guard, executed.
• Dusty Springfield, 59, British traditional pop singer and entertainer, breast cancer.[6]
• Francisco Nunes Teixeira, 89, Mozambican Roman Catholic bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Quelimane (1955−1975).[7]
• Jack Webster, 80, Canadian journalist and radio / television personality.

3

• Glennon Engleman, 72, United States Army veteran and hitman, diabetes.[8]
• Jackson C. Frank, 56, American folk musician, pneumonia and cardiac arrest.
• Gerhard Herzberg, 94, German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist.
• William McGonagle, 73, United States Naval officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.[9]
• Lee Philips, 72, American actor and film / television director, progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP).

4

• Harry Blackmun, 90, American lawyer, jurist and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• Del Close, 64, American comedian, actor and theatre director, emphysema.[10]
• Eddie Dean, 91, American country singer-songwriter and actor, heart and lung disease.[11]
• Karel van het Reve, 77, Dutch writer and literary historian and brother of writer Gerard Reve.

5

• John Leland Atwood, 94, American engineer and aerospace executive.
• Tom Denning, Baron Denning, 100, English lawyer and judge.[12]
• John Figueroa, 78, Jamaican poet.
• John Harkins, 66, American actor.
• Richard Kiley, 76, American Emmy Award-winning film, television and stage actor, bone marrow disease.[13]
• Ray Russell, 74, American writer of short stories, novels and screenplays, complications from a stroke.

6

• Graham Armitage, 62, English actor.
• Rafael Celestino Benítez, 81, American submarine commander.
• Hiroshi Hamaya, 83, Japanese photographer.
• Branka Jurca, Slovene writer.
• Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, 67, emir of Bahrain (1961-1999), heart attack.[14]
• Dennis Viollet, 65, English footballer.
• Eric Wolf, 76, Austrian-born American anthropologist and activist, liver cancer.[15]

7

• Paul Bouts, 99, Belgian phrenologist and pedagogue.
• Lowell Fulson, 77, American blues guitarist and songwriter.[16]
• Antônio Houaiss, 83, Brazilian writer and lexicographer.
• Stanley Kubrick, 70, American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and photographer, heart attack.[17]
• Harris Lamb, American football, basketball and track coach.
• Linda Hodge McLaughlin, 57, American jurist and district judge.
• Ladislav Vodička, 68, Czech country music singer and songwriter.

8

• António Campos, 76, Portuguse film director.
• Giovan Battista Carpi, 71, Italian comics artist.
• Adolfo Bioy Casares, 84, Argentine writer and journalist.
• Joe DiMaggio, 84, American baseball player (New York Yankees), lung cancer.[18]
• Anne T. Hill, 82, American fashion designer.

9

• Arnold Machin, 87, British artist and sculptor.[19]
• Hermann Merkin 91, American businessman and philanthropist, heart failure.
• Harry Somers, 73, Canadian composer.

10

• Oswaldo Guayasamín, 79, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor.
• Kusumagraj, 87, Indian poet, playwright and novelist.
• Valentino Mazzia 77, American forensic anesthesiologist, cirrhosis.[20]

11

• Howell Conant, 82, American fashion photographer.
• Stefan Schnabel, 87, German-born American actor, heart attack.[21]
• Kaoru Tada, 38, Japanese manga artist, cerebral hemorrhage.

12

• Sir John Archer, 75, British Army officer and Commander in Chief.
• Sir Peter Hope, 86, British intelligence officer and diplomat, Ambassador to Mexico.
• Sir William Jackson, 81, British army general, military historian and author.[22]
• Alf Murray, 83, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• George Robinson, 78, Australian cricketer.

13

• Lucienne Bloch, 90, Swiss-born American artist.[23]
• Lee Falk, 88, American writer, theater director and producer.[24]
• Kurt Von Hess, 56, Canadian wrestler known as Kurt Von Hess, heart attack.[25]
• Bob Hollway, 73, American football player and coach.
• Irfan Hussain, 35, Indian cartoonist, murdered.
• Anton Raadik, 82, Estonian-born American boxer.

14

• Kirk Alyn, 88, American actor, Alzheimer's disease.
• Tex Blaisdell, 78, American comic strip artist and editor.
• John Broome, 85, American comic book writer for DC Comics.[26]
• Gregg Diamond, 49, American pianist, drummer, songwriter, and producer, gastrointestinal bleeding.
• Abraham Kurland, 86, Danish wrestler.
• Robert Q. Marston, 76, American physician and research scientist.[27]
• Maud Morgan, 99, American modern artist and teacher, complications following pneumonia.

15

• Guy D'Artois, 81, Canadian army officer and SOE agent.
• Harry D. Boivin, 95, American lawyer and politician.
• Harry Callahan, 86, American photographer.[28]
• Hiroshi Hamaya, 83, Japanese photographer.
• Rosemary Nelson, 40, Northern Irish human rights solicitor, killed by Ulster loyalists.[29]
• Norman Sutton, 91, English golfer.
• Alex Wright, 73, Scottish footballer.

16

• Hampden Alpass, 92, English cricketer.
• Peter Farrell, 76, Irish footballer.
• Gratien Gélinas, 89, Canadian author, playwright, actor and producer.
• Åsta Holth, 95, Norwegian novelist, poet and short story writer.
• Vijay Kumar Kapahi, 55, Indian astrophysicist.[30]

17

• Boleslaw Barlog, 92, German stage, film, and opera director.[31]
• Frankie Curry, Northern Irish Ulster loyalist, shot.
• Nicolae Dumitrescu, 77, Romanian footballer and manager.
• Ernest Gold, 77, Austrian-born American composer, complications following a stroke.
• Rod Hull, 63, British entertainer and comedian, injuries sustained from fall.[32]
• Tom McGarrity, 76, Scottish footballer.
• Humberto Fernández Morán, 75, Venezuelan research scientist.
• Gilbert Noël, 72, French politician, Deputy (1966–1968), and mayor of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (1959–1977).[33]
• Hildegard Peplau, 89, American nursing theorist.
• Eric Stanton, 72, American underground cartoonist and fetish art pioneer.[34]

18

• William J. Crockett, 84, American diplomat.
• George Hinterhoeller, 71, Canadian boat designer and builder, heart attack.
• Sir William Pillar, 75, British admiral.
• Gilbert Ralston, 87, British-American screenwriter, congestive heart failure.
• Russell Ross, 69, American professor of pathology.
• Gerlando Sciascia, 65, American mobster and member of the Bonanno crime family, shot.[35]

19

• Tofilau Eti Alesana, 74, Samoan politician.
• William F. Bringle, 85, American four-star admiral and World War II aviator, pneumonia.[36]
• Joseph DePietro, 84, American weightlifter, 1948 Olympic champion.[37]
• Jaime Sabines, 72, Mexican contemporary poet.
• Freda Stark, 88, New Zealand dancer.

20

• David Gillmore, Baron Gillmore of Thamesfield, 64, British diplomat.
• Patrick Heron, 79, British artist, critic, writer, and polemicist.
• Roy L. Johnson, 93, American admiral.[38]
• David A. Klarner, 58, American mathematician and author.
• Charles Sawtelle, 52, American bluegrass musician, leukaemia.
• Paul Toth, 63, American professional baseball player, heart attack.

21

• Mary Ainsworth, 85, American-Canadian developmental psychologist, stroke.[39]
• Henry V. Graham, 82, American Army general.
• Jean Guitton, 97, French Catholic philosopher and theologian.
• George Reedy, 81, White House Press Secretary under President Lyndon B. Johnson (1964-1965).
• Ernie Wise, 73, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise), heart failure.[40]

22

• Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, 85, British historian.
• Bill Holford, 79, American recording engineer and record producer.
• Charlie Martin, 72, British physicist known as "the father of Pulsed Power".
• David Strickland, 29, American actor, suicide by hanging.[41]

23

• Scott D. Anderson, 33, American pilot, engineer, inventor, musician and author, plane crash.[42]
• Luis María Argaña, 66, Paraguayan politician and Supreme Court judge, murdered.
• Osmond Borradaile, 100, Canadian cameraman, cinematographer and veteran of World War I and II.
• Robert M. Crunden, 58, American historian, heart attack.[43]
• Koentjaraningrat, Indonesian anthropologist.
• Percy Samaraweera, 70, Sri Lankan politician.
• Kazue Takahashi, 70, Japanese voice actress.

24

• Agim Hajrizi, 38, Albanian activist for human rights and trade union leader, murdered.
• Tunde Idiagbon, 56, Nigerian Army general.
• Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, 97, German leader of the nazi National Socialist Women's League.
• Birdie Tebbetts, 86, American baseball player, manager and scout.[44]
• Mighty Joe Young, 71, American Chicago blues guitarist, pneumonia.

25

• Viacheslav Chornovil, 61, Ukrainian politician, automobile crash.
• Ronald Dutton, 96, English cricketer.
• Hans Robert Müller, 87, Austrian mathematician and professor.
• John Linus Paschang, 103, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Cal Ripken Sr., 63, American baseball coach and manager, lung cancer.[45]

26

• David Holliday, 61, American Broadway actor and television voice actor, cancer.
• Eva Kolstad, 80, Norwegian politician and gender equality activist.
• Andrzej Konopka, 64, Polish Olympic gymnast.
• Evelyn Lett, 102, Canadian women's rights pioneer.[46]
• Margaret Mason, 58, American actress, heart attack.
• Wilfried Senoner, 54, Italian artist.
• Ananda Shankar, 56, Bengali musician, heart attack.

27

• Michael Aris, 53, English historian, prostate cancer.[47]
• Oskar Øksnes, 77, Norwegian politician.
• Nahum Stelmach, 62, Israeli footballer and manager.
• Leroy Vail, 58, American specialist in African studies and educator, lymphoma.

28

• Franco Gasparri, 50, Italian actor, respiratory failure.
• Eric James, 76, Australian cricketer.[48]
• Freaky Tah, 27, MC, hype man and hip hop promoter, shot.

29

• Elisabeth Benjamin, 90, English architect.[49]
• Sir Dayendranath Burrenchobay, 80, Mauritian politician, Governor-General.
• Jean Clark, 96, British artist.
• Brock Speer, 79, American gospel singer (Speer Family).[50]
• Joe Williams, 80, American jazz singer.[51]
• Gyula Zsengellér, 83, Hungarian footballer.

30

• Albert Coppé, 87, Belgian and European politician and economist.
• Gary Morton, 74, American stand-up comedian, lung cancer.
• Igor Netto, 69, Soviet–Russian footballer.
• Terry Wilson, 75, American actor.[52]

31

• David Brooks, 83, American actor, singer, director, and producer.
• Patricia A. Goodrich, 66, American politician and homemaker.
• Yuri Knorozov, 76, Soviet linguist, pneumonia.

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