Deaths in February 1999
The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
February 1999
1
- Marion Boyars, 71, British book publisher, pancreatic cancer.[1]
- Paul Calvert, 81, Canadian baseball player.
- Rudolf Kárpáti, 78, Hungarian fencer.
- Barış Manço, 56, Turkish rock musician, singer, songwriter, composer, actor and show host, heart attack.[2]
- Paul Mellon, 91, American philanthropist.[3]
- Robin Nedwell, 52, British actor, heart attack.[4]
- St. Clair Pinckney, 68, American saxophonist.
- Harold E. Shear, 80, United States Navy admiral.[5]
- Benjamin Elazari Volcani, 84, Israeli microbiologist.
2
- Marie Van Brittan Brown, 76, American inventor.
- Tunku Puan Besar Kurshiah, 87, Malayan queen of Negeri Sembilan.
- David McComb, 36, Australian rock musician, heart failure.[6]
- Marvin H. Scilken, 72, American librarian and library science pioneer.
3
- Norman Bluhm, 77, American painter.[7]
- Jim Cope, 91, Australian politician.
- Gwen Guthrie, 48, American singer-songwriter and pianist, uterine cancer.[8]
- Mikko Hietanen, 87, Finnish long-distance runner, European Champion and world record holder.
- Doyle Kenady, 50, American world champion powerlifter.
- Arthur Mann, 51, Scottish footballer, industrial accident.
- Sir David Muirhead, 80, British diplomat.
- John S. Service, 89, American diplomat.[9]
4
- Amadou Diallo, 23, West African immigrant and victim, shot by police.[10]
- Joe Hayes, 63, English football player.
- Ashok Kumar Jain, 64, Indian industrialist and philanthropist, complications following a heart transplant.
- Sean Sellers, 29, American juvenile convict, execution by lethal injection.[11]
5
- Neville Bonner, 76, Australian politician, first indigenous Member of Parliament.
- John L. Cotter, 87, American archaeologist, cancer.[12]
- Leo Echegaray, 38, Filipino convict, execution by lethal injection.
- Nicholas Krushenick, 69, American abstract painter, liver cancer.[13]
- Wassily Leontief, 93, Russian economist and Nobel Prize laureate.[14]
- Mariya Osipova, 90, Soviet partisan during World War II.
- Indrani Rahman, 68, Indian classical dancer.
- Robert S. Scott, 85, United States Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
6
- Danny Dayton, 75, American actor and television director, emphysema.[15]
- Don Dunstan, 72, Australian politician, lung cancer.[16]
- Yuriy Istomin, 54, Ukrainian footballer.
- Jalal Keshmiri, 59, Iranian shot putter and discus thrower, cancer.
- Jimmy Roberts, 74, American singer and featured performer on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1955 to 1982, bone cancer.
- Fred Trosko, 81, American football player and coach.
- William Stewart Walker, 84, United States Army officer and World War II veteran.
7
- Alexandro Martínez Camberos, 82, Mexican poet, writer, lawyer and judge.
- Hussein of Jordan, 63, Jordanian monarch, King of Jordan (1952–1999), lymphoma.[17]
- Andrew Keller, 73, British scientist.
- Al Phillips, 79, English featherweight/lightweight boxer.
- George E. Shambaugh Jr., 95, American otolaryngologist and a pioneer in treatments for deafness.[18]
- Bobby Troup, 80, American actor, jazz pianist, singer and songwriter.[19]
8
- Fred Bohannon, 40, American football player.[20]
- Meredith Edwards, 81, Welsh actor and writer.
- Ellen Kettle, 76, Australian nurse and midwife.
- Dame Iris Murdoch, 79, Irish-born British novelist, poet and philosopher, Alzheimer's disease.[21]
- Caroline Robbins, 95, British historian.
- Ralph H. Spanjer, 78, United States Marine Corps general, cancer.
- Krishnaswamy Sundarji, 70, British Indian Army officer.[22]
- Giuseppe Tatarella, 63, Italian politician, heart attack.
9
- Richard Allen, 66, British abstract artist and printmaker.[23]
- John Barrett, 85, British conservationist.
- Dorothy A. Bennett, 89, American anthropologist, astronomer, curator, publisher, and author.
- Benjamin Bwalya, 37, Zambian footballer and coach, cerebral malaria.
- Enzo Forcella, 77, Italian essayist, historian and journalist.
- Mary LaRoche, 78, American actress and singer.
- Butch Levy, 77, American athlete.[24]
- Bryan Mosley, 67, British television and film actor, (Coronation Street), heart attack.[25]
- Inga-Stina Robson, Baroness Robson of Kiddington, 79, Anglo-Swedish political activist.
10
- Joan Curran, 82, Welsh scientist.[26]
- Ann-Marie Gyllenspetz, 66, Swedish actress.
- Billy Houliston, 77, Scottish footballer.
- Herb Krautblatt, 72, American basketball player.[27]
- Jean Levavasseur, 74, French fencer.
- Y. B. Mangunwijaya, 69, Indonesian architect, writer and Catholic religious leader.
11
- Leonard J. Arrington, 81, American Mormon historian, heart failure.[28]
- Danny Barber, 43, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
- John Brack, 78, Australian painter.
- Jaki Byard, 76, American jazz musician, composer and arranger, homicide by gunshot.[29]
- Stoyan Gadev, 67, Bulgarian actor.
- Rose Mbowa, 56, Ugandan writer, actress, academic and feminist.
- Brian Parsons, 65, English cricketer.
- Xiao Qian, 89, Chinese essayist, editor and journalist.
- Nikolai Sergeyev, 89, Soviet admiral.
- Whitney Tower, 75, American Thoroughbred horse racing journalist, complications from a stroke.[30]
12
- André Devigny, 82, French soldier and member of the Résistance.[31]
- Peter Johnson, 90, British RAF officer and author.
- Rexhep Krasniqi, 92, Albanian-American historian, nationalist, anti-communist politician and activist.
13
- Iqbal Assegaf, 41, Indonesian political activist, traffic collision.
- Gary Jennings, 70, American author, heart failure.[32]
- Ron McLean, 60, Australian politician, asbestos-related lung condition.[33]
- Carles Sabater, 36, Catalan singer and actor.[34]
14
- Majken Åberg, 80, Swedish discus thrower.
- John Ehrlichman, 73, United States Domestic Policy Council and conspiritor in the Watergate scandal.[35]
- Jimmy Florian, 75, American stock car racing driver, cancer.
- William Melton Halsey, 83, American abstract artist.
- Buddy Knox, 65, American singer and songwriter, lung cancer.
- Herb Sawatzky, 65, Australian rules footballer.
- Hillel Seidel, 78, Israeli politician.
- Joseph Francis Shea, 73, American aerospace engineer and NASA manager.[36]
15
- Big L, 24, American Freestyle rapper (D.I.T.C.), murdered.[37]
- Henry Way Kendall, 72, American physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, drowned.[38]
- Clarence Larson, 89, American chemist and nuclear physicist.
- Barbara Quaile, 92, Scottish nurse, midwife and matron of Glasgow Victoria Infirmary.
- Gordon Neil Stewart, 86, Australian writer.
16
- Necil Kazım Akses, 90, Turkish classical composer.[39]
- Fritzi Burger, 88, Austrian figure skater.
- Ugo Grappasonni, 76, Italian professional golfer.
- Don Hayward, 73, Welsh rugby player.
- Sir James Hill, 74, British politician.
- Michael Larson, 49, American game show contestant, throat cancer.
- John Lomakoski, 58, American football player.[40]
- Alexandre-Athenase Noghès, 82, Monegasque tennis player and husband of Princess Antoinette of Monaco.
- Betty Roché, 81, American blues singer.[41]
17
- Thomas Carr, 89, British artist.[42]
- Jaime Hurtado, 62, Ecuadorian politician, murdered.
- Shirley Stoler, 69, American actress, heart failure.[43]
- Ana Luciano Divis, 105, Spanish tango singer known as "Tania".[44]
18
- Felipe Alfau, 96, Spanish-born American novelist and poet.
- Olle Nordemar, 84, Swedish cinematographer, screenwriter, film director and producer.
- Noam Pitlik, 66, American actor and television director.[45]
19
- Wilford Berry, Jr., 36, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
- Lloyd La Beach, 76, Panamanian sprinter, 100 meters world record holder (1948).
- Lauderic Caton, 88, Trinidadian guitarist.
- Richard E. Dutrow Sr., 61, American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.
- Percy Janes, 76, Canadian writer and novelist.
- Lady Pansy Lamb, 94, English writer also known as "Pansy Pakenham".[46]
- Georg Meier, 88, German motorcycle racer.[47]
- Constantin Oțet, 58, Romanian football coach.
- Paul Schmidt, American actor, poet, playwright and essayist.[48]
- Joseph John "Tym" Tymczyszyn, 80, American test pilot and World War II veteran.
20
- Willard R. Espy, 88, American philologist, writer and poet.
- Molly Harrower, 93, American clinical psychologist.[49]
- Sarah Kane, 28, English playwright, suicide by hanging.
- Michael Sgan-Cohen, 54, Israeli artist, art historian, curator and critic.
- Gene Siskel, 53, American film critic and television journalist, brain cancer.[50]
21
- Gertrude B. Elion, 81, American biochemist and pharmacologist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[51]
- Talim Hossain, 80, Bangladeshi poet.
- Hideo Itokawa, 86, Japanese aircraft designer and rocketry pioneer.[52]
- Ilmari Juutilainen, 85, Finnish flying ace during World War II.
- Kaya, 38, Mauritian musician and creator of the seggae genre.
- Jørgen Leschly Sørensen, 76, Danish footballer.
22
- Bitto Albertini, 74, Italian film director and screenwriter.
- William Bronk, 81, American poet.
- Howie Haak, 87, American baseball scout.[53]
- William D. McElroy, 82, American biochemist.
- Menno Oosting, 34, Dutch tennis player, car accident.[54]
23
- Stanley Dance, 88, British jazz writer and record producer, pneumonia.[55]
- Carlos Hathcock, 56, United States Marine Corps sniper, multiple sclerosis.
- Hughie Lee-Smith, 83, American artist, cancer.
- Gershon Legman, 81, American cultural critic and folklorist, complications following a stroke.[56]
- Chip Myers, 53, American football player, heart attack.
- David Chilton Phillips, Baron Phillips of Ellesmere, 74, British biologist.
- The Renegade, 33, American professional wrestler, suicide.
- George Sweigert, 79, American World War II veteran and inventor of the cordless telephone.
24
- Elvira Leonardi Bouyeure, 92, Italian fashion designer and couturier.
- David Daube, 90, German scholar of ancient law.
- Andre Dubus, 62, American short story writer and essayist, heart attack.[57]
- Virginia Foster Durr, 95, American white civil rights activist and lobbyist.
- David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, 94, English politician.
- Giles Rolls Loder, 84, English aristocrat, World War II veteran and horticulturalist.
- Derek Nimmo, 68, English actor and author, fall.[58]
- Ahmed Sharif, 78, Bangladeshi philosopher, writer and scholar of medieval Bengali literature.
- Vann "Piano Man" Walls, 80, American R&B musician, cancer.[59]
25
- Margaret Meagher, 88, Canadian diplomat.
- Murad Ozdoev, 76, Ingush flying ace during World War II.
- Glenn T. Seaborg, 86, American nuclear chemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1951), complications of a stroke.[60]
- Štěpán Zavřel, 66, Czech painter, graphic artist and writer.
26
- Jean Coulomb, 94, French geophysicist and mathematician.
- Annibale Frossi, 87, Italian football player and manager.
- Elbridge T. Gerry Sr., 90, American banker and polo player.[61]
- John L. Goldwater, 83, American comic book editor and publisher.[62]
- José Quintero, 74, Panamanian theatre director and pedagogue.
- Opoku Ware II, 79, 15th Emperor-King of the Ashanti people.
- Bjørn Wiik, 62, Norwegian physicist, accident.[63]
27
- George Hughley, 59, American football player and coach, traffic accident.
- Robert McNeish, 86, American football player and coach.[64]
- Vida Steinert, 96, New Zealand painter.
- Horace Tapscott, 64, American jazz pianist and composer.
28
- Una Stella Abrahamson, 76, Canadian artist and writer.
- Dave Bedwell, 70, British racing cyclist.
- Ara Harutyunyan, 70, Armenian sculptor and graphic artist.
- Clarence Henry, 72, American boxer.
- Robert H. Hume, 76, American track and field athlete.
- Kenny Robinson, 29, American baseball player, traffic collision.[65]
- Bill Talbert, 80, American tennis player.[66]
- Bing Xin, 98, Chinese writer.
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