Deaths in November 1999

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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.

November 1999

1

• Dave Bickles, 55, professional footballer, kidney cancer.
• Minoru Chiaki, 82, Japanese actor.
• Edmund Dell, 78, British politician and businessman.[1]
• Theodore Hall, 74, American physicist and spy for the Soviet Union, renal cancer.[2]
• Walter Payton, 45, American football player, cholangiocarcinoma.
• William van Straubenzee, 75, British politician.

2

• Jackie Davis, 78, American soul jazz singer, organist and bandleader, stroke.[3]
• Demetrio B. Lakas, 74, 27th President of Panama (1969 - 1978), heart disease.
• Billy Nicks, 94, American football player and coach.
• Hans-Joachim Preil, 76, East German comedian.
• Mitar Subotić, 38, Serbian-born musician and composer, fire.

3

• Ian Bannen, 71, Scottish actor, car accident.[4]
• Jack Bionda, 66, Canadian lacrosse and ice hockey player.
• Oliver Forster, 74, British diplomat.
• Arrigo Pola, 80, Italian tenor.

4

• Daisy Bates, 84, American civil rights activist, publisher and journalist.[5]
• Zvi Griliches, 69, American economist and holocaust survivor.[6]
• Ernest J. Kump, 87, American architect, author and inventor.
• Malcolm Marshall, 41, West Indian cricketer, colon cancer.
• Wakasugiyama Toyoichi, 66, Japanese sumo wrestler.
• Charles Wintour, 82, British newspaper editor.
• Zainuddin, 47, Indian actor and comedian, respiratory complications.

5

• James Goldstone, 68, American film and television director.[7]
• Noureddin Kianouri, 94, Iranian architect and political leader.
• Michael Montague, Baron Montague of Oxford, 67, British businessman and politician.
• Colin Rowe, 79, British-born American architectural historian.

6

• Laurence Decore, 59, Canadian lawyer and politician, cancer.
• George V. Higgins, 59, American author, lawyer, newspaper columnist, raconteur and college professor, heart attack.[8]
• Rob Hoeke, 60, Dutch singer, pianist, composer and songwriter.

7

• Karrar Hussain, 88, Pakistani educator, writer and literary critic.
• Joe Lang Kershaw, 88, American politician and civics teacher, congestive heart failure.
• Joe Serna Jr., 60, American educator and civil rights activist, kidney cancer.
• Brian Duncan Shaw, 101, British chemistry lecturer.[9]

8

• Lester Bowie, 58, American jazz trumpet player and composer, liver cancer.[10]
• C. Eugene Farnam, 82, American politician.
• Gwen Gordy Fuqua, 71, American songwriter and composer.[11]
• Jerry Kerr, 87, Scottish football player and manager.
• Yury Malyshev, 58, Soviet cosmonaut.
• Rob Nieuwenhuys, 91, Dutch writer.
• Harry Riebauer, 78, German film and television actor.
• Leon Štukelj, 100, Yugoslav gymnast and Olympic gold medalist.
• Gayle Thornbrough, 85, American historian.

9

• Herb Abramson, 82, American record producer and executive.[12]
• Claude Ballot-Léna, 63, French race driver, cancer.
• Marjorie Gladman, 91, American tennis player.
• Mabel King, 66, American actress and singer, diabetes.[13]
• Lois K. Miller, 54, American geneticist and academic, melanoma.
• Wolf Ruvinskis, 78, Mexican actor and professional wrestler.

10

• Robert Kramer, 60, American film director, screenwriter and actor, meningitis.
• Tom McKinney, 72, Northern Irish rugby player.
• Jean Potts, 88, American mystery novelist.[14]

11

• Mary Kay Bergman, 38, American voice actress (South Park), suicide by gunshot.[15]
• Frank Bowyer, 77, English footballer.
• Little Miss Cornshucks, 76, American rhythm and blues and jazz singer and songwriter.
• Sir Vivian Fuchs, 91, British explorer.
• Choi Moo-ryong, 71, South Korean actor.
• Sathyavani Muthu, 76, Indian politician.
• Jack Plimsoll, 82, South African cricketer.
• Jacobo Timerman, 76, Soviet-born Argentine publisher, journalist, and author.[16]
• Bob Walls, 72, New Zealand painter.

12

• Eulalie Minfred Banks, 104, American illustrator of children's books.
• Margaret Casson, 86, South African architect, designer and photographer, and the wife of Sir Hugh Casson.
• Mohammad Mohammadullah, 78, President of Bangladesh (1973 - 1975).
• Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr., 87, member of the Vanderbilt family.[17]

13

• Austin Shofner, 83, United States Marine Corps officer.
• John Stapp, 89, American U.S. Air Force officer, flight surgeon and physician.
• Barbara Jean Wong, 75, American actress.[18]

14

• Orazio Costa, 88, Italian theatre pedagogist and director.
• Lucile Fairbanks, 82, American actress.
• Benjamin I. Schwartz, 82, American academic, author and sinologist.[19]
• Jimmy Sidle, 57, American football player, heart failure.

15

• Jean-Marie Adiaffi, 58, Ivorian writer, screenwriter and filmmaker.
• P. K. van der Byl, 76, Rhodesian politician.
• Gene Levitt, 79, American television writer, producer and director.[20]
• Sir Harry Llewellyn, 88, British equestrian, Olympic champion (1952).
• Maynard Lyndon, 92, American architect.[21]
• Giovanni Pintori, 87, Italian graphic designer.

16

• Bill Burgoyne, 52, New Zealand rugby league player.
• Reginald Marr, 82, Australian lawyer and military officer.
• Jay Moloney, 35, American Hollywood talent agent, suicide by hanging.[22]
• Daniel Nathans, 71, American microbiologist.[23]

17

• Leif Anderson, 74, Swedish jazz expert, journalist and radio personality.
• Sally Ann Forrester, 76, American musician ("The first woman in bluegrass").
• Cowboy Jimmy Moore, 89, American pocket billiards (pool) player.

18

• Yevgeni Belosheikin, 33, Russian ice hockey player, suicide.
• Beatrice Colen, 51, American television and film actress, lung cancer.
• Stephen Greene, 82, American artist.[24]
• Jay Heard, 79, American baseball player.
• Prince Heinrich of Hesse-Kassel, 72, German noble.
• Horst P. Horst, 93, German-American fashion photographer.
• Vittorio Miele, 72, Italian painter.
• Doug Sahm, 58, American musician and singer-songwriter, heart attack.[25]
• Gladys Yang, 80, British translator of Chinese literature.[26]

19

• Smokey Joe Baugh, 67, American rockabilly and country singer and pianist.
• Dominic Cortina, 74, American mobster and member of the Chicago Outfit, cancer.[27]
• Alexander Liberman, 87, Russian-American publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor.
• John McCue, 77, English footballer.
• Arthur W. Saha, 76, American speculative fiction editor and anthologist, cancer.

20

• Amintore Fanfani, 91, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy.[28]
• Sadao Hasegawa, 54, Japanese graphic artist, suicide by hanging.
• Arthur Hewson, 84, Australian politician.
• Sufia Kamal, 88, Bangladeshi poet and political activist.
• Orfi, 56, Bulgaria illusionist, stroke.

21

• Horacio Gómez Bolaños, 69, Mexican actor and brother of Chespirito, heart attack.
• Margaret E. Chisholm, 78, American librarian and educator.
• Quentin Crisp, 90, British writer, illustrator, actor and socialite, heart attack.[29]
• Ralph Foody, 71, American actor, cancer.[30]
• Marie Kraja, 88, Albanian opera singer.
• Serge Lang, 79, French journalist and alpine skier, heart attack.

22

• Flávio Costa, 93, Brazilian football (soccer) player and manager.
• Moira Dunbar, 81, Scottish-Canadian glaciologist.[31]
• Efim Etkind, 81, Soviet philologist and translation theorist.
• Abdelkader Hachani, 42, Algerian Islamic leader, murdered.[32]

23

• Leyla Badirbeyli, 79, Soviet and Azerbaijani actress.
• Joyce Barry, 80, Australian cyclist.
• Sir Patrick Palmer, 66, British Army officer.
• Phoebe Snetsinger, 68, American birder, road traffic accident.[33]
• Moeslim Taher, 65, Indonesian educator.

24

• Howard Biggs, 83, American pianist, songwriter and arranger.
• David F. Kessler, 93, British publisher and author.[34]
• Hilary Minster, 55, English character actor, cancer.[35]
• Ambrose Rayappan, 98, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop.

25

• Tanveer Abbasi, 64, Pakistani poet.
• William "Billy" Benedict, 82, American actor.[36]
• Pierre Bézier, 89, French engineer (CAD/CAM systems).
• Richard M. Eakin, 89, American zoologist and professor.[37]
• T. V. Kochubava, 43, Indian writer, heart attack.
• Lucile Petry Leone, 97, American nurse.
• Dumisani Maraire, 54, Zimbabwean musician, stroke.
• John McMillan, 84, Australian public servant and diplomat.

26

• George L. Engel, 85, American internist and psychiatrist, heart failure.
• Paul Kozlicek, 62, Austrian football player.
• Ashley Montagu, 94, British-American anthropologist.[38]
• Thomas Edward Rogers, 86, British diplomat, died on 26 November 1999.

27

• I-Roy, 55, Jamaican DJ, heart failure.[39]
• Hiro Matsuda, 62, Japanese-American professional wrestler and trainer, prostate cancer.
• Arturo Fernández Meyzán, 93, Peruvian footballer.
• Louis W. Menk, 81, American railway worker and executive.
• Alain Peyrefitte, 74, French scholar and politician.
• Robert Theobald, 70, American economist and futurist author, esophageal cancer.
• Elizabeth Gray Vining, 97, American librarian, tutor and author.[40]
• Johnny "Big Moose" Walker, 72, American blues pianist and organist.
• Ernest Zobole, 72, Welsh painter and art teacher.

28

• Eric Bryant, 63, British cricket player.
• N. V. M. Gonzalez, 84, Filipino novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet.
• Bethel Leslie, 70, American actress and screenwriter, cancer.[41]
• Abdur Razzaq, Bangladeshi scholar, academic and intellectual.

29

• John Berry, 82, American film director.[42]
• Herbert Freudenberger, 73, Jewish, German-born American psychologist, kidney disease.
• Curtis Knight, 70, American musician.
• Plínio Marcos, 64, Brazilian writer, actor, journalist and playwright, stroke.
• Michael O'Halloran, 66, Irish-born British politician.
• Sid Patterson, 72, Australian track cyclist, liver cancer.
• Gene Rayburn, 81, American radio personality and game show host, heart failure.[43]
• Kazuo Sakamaki, 81, Japanese naval officer.

30

• Germán Arciniegas, 98, Colombian historian, author and journalist.
• Philip Elman, 81, American lawyer at the U.S. Department of Justice.[44]
• Don "Sugarcane" Harris, 61, American rock and roll violinist and guitarist, pulmonary disease.[45]
• Huang Hsin-chieh, 71, Taiwanese politician and legislator, heart attack.
• Roger Kimpton, 83, Australian cricketer.
• Eli Thomas Reich, 86, American submarine commander during World War II.
• Al Schroll, 67, American baseball player.
• Vladimir Yashchenko, 40, Soviet high jumper and world record holder (233 cm, 234 cm and 235 cm), cirrhosis.

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