Deaths In April 1999

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.

1

• Ellis Yarnal Berry, 96, American attorney, newspaper publisher and politician.
• Gladys Hasty Carroll, 94, American novelist.
• Stipe Delić, 73, Croatian film director.
• Tony Frasca, 71, American ice hockey player and coach, stomach cancer.
• Alfred Jahn, 83, Polish geographer, geomorphologist and polar explorer.
• Tadahito Mochinaga, 80, Japanese stop-motion animator.
• Madhurantakam Rajaram, 68, Indian author.
• George Rapée, 83, American bridge player.
• Wilson Riles, 81, American educator and politician.
• Jesse Stone, 97, American R&B musician and songwriter.

2

• Andrew Gardner, 66, British newscaster, heart attack.
• Julio Alberto Hernández, 98, Dominican composer and pianist.
• Sophie Lihau-Kanza, 59, Congolese politician and sociologist, cardiac arrest.
• Charlie Mitchell, 78, American gridiron football player.
• Josip Pokupec, 85, Yugoslav Olympic cyclist.

3

• Lionel Bart, 68, British music writer, composer and lyricist (Oliver!, Living Doll), cancer.
• John B. Daly, 69, American politician.
• Herman Foster, 70, American bebop jazz pianist.
• Traian Iordache, 87, Romanian football player and coach.
• Evelyn Lambart, 84, Canadian animator and director.
• Aldona Nenėnienė, 49, Soviet/Lithuanian handball and Olympic champion.
• Geoffrey Walsh, 89, Canadian general.

4

• Manuel Bernardo Aguirre, 90, Mexican politician.
• Karl Barufka, 77, German footballer.
• Faith Domergue, 74, American actress, cancer.
• 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.
• Frank Charles McGee, 73, Canadian businessman and politician.
• Vladimir Orlov, 77, Soviet politician.
• Bob Peck, 53, British actor (Jurassic Park, Edge of Darkness, Lord of the Flies), cancer.
• Eric Ramsay, 82, Australian politician.
• 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.
• Oleksiy Demyanyuk, 40, Soviet high jumper and Olympian.
• Giulio Einaudi, 87, Italian book publisher.
• Chester E. McCarty, 93, American officer and pilot in the US Air Force.
• John Wiles, 73, South African novelist, television writer and producer (Doctor Who).

6

• Hienadz Karpienka, 49, Belarusian scientist and politician opposing president Alexander Lukashenko, stroke.
• Robert D. Lindsay, 79, Canadian politician.
• Red Norvo, 91, American jazz musician known as "Mr. Swing".
• William Pleeth, 83, British cellist.
• Angus Ellis Taylor, 87, American mathematician and academic.

7

• Ivan Diviš, 74, Czech poet and essayist, fall.
• Heinz Lehmann, 87, German-born Canadian psychiatrist known as the "father of modern psychopharmacology".
• Angus Paton, 93, British civil engineer.
• Bob Tough, 78, American basketball player.

8

• Pipaluk Freuchen, 81, Danish-Greenlandic-Swedish writer.
• Vic Fisher, 74, Australian rules footballer.
• Luis Castro Leiva, 56, Venezuelan academic, writer and columnist, brain haemorrhage.
• Fritz Tegtmeier, 81, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.

9

• George Sidney Bishop, 85, British civil servant and businessman.
• Clay Bryant, 87, American Major League Baseball player.
• Bert Firman, 93, English bandleader.
• Raúl Silva Henríquez, 91, Chilean prelate of the Catholic Church.
• Jerold Hoffberger, 80, American businessman.
• Marcel Lihau, 67, Congolese politician, jurist, and law professor.
• Mary Lutyens, 90, British author.
• Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, 49, Niger military officer, murdered.
• Albert Popwell, 72, American actor (Dirty Harry, Cleopatra Jones, Search), complications following open heart surgery.

10

• John Ngu Foncha, 82, Cameroonian politician.
• Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, 88, Polish-American biochemist, lung failure.
• Charles Green, 85, South African-British RAF fighter pilot during World War II and Olympic medalist in bobsledding.
• Brownie Mary, 76, American medical cannabis rights activist, heart attack.
• James D. McCawley, 61, Scottish-American linguist.
• Tu'i Pelehake, 77, Tonga royal and politician, Prime Minister.
• Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, 86, Indian novelist and short story writer.
• Jean Vander Pyl, 79, American voice actress (The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Top Cat), lung cancer.
• Ali Sayad Shirazi, 54, Iranian army officer, assassinated, homicide.
• Thornton Wilson, 78, American chairman and CEO of Boeing corporation.

11

• William H. Armstrong, 87, American children's writer.
• Tom Bane, 85, American politician.
• Pete Milne, 74, American baseball player.
• Agim Ramadani, 35, Kosovar Albanian commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, killed in action.
• Slavko Ćuruvija, 49, Serbian journalist and newspaper publisher, murdered.

12

• Ricardo Barreiro, 49, Argentine comic book writer, esophageal cancer.
• José Francisco de Morais, 49, Brazilian football player.
• Alan Evans, 49, Welsh darts player.
• Hugo Fernando, 86, Sri Lankan actor and composer.
• Carlos Jaschek, 73, German-Argentine astrophysicist.
• Marion Albert Pruett, 49, American spree killer, execution by lethal injection.
• Boxcar Willie, 67, American country music singer-songwriter, leukemia.
• Dr.Rajkumar, 80, kannada film actor ,

13

• Edith Anderson, 83, American journalist, writer and translator.
• James M. Clarke, 81, American farmer and politician.
• Knut Hauge, 87, Norwegian writer.
• Masaji Kiyokawa, 86, Japanese sports administrator and Olympic medalist, pancreatic cancer.
• Don McGuire, 80, American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer.
• Walter H. Moeller, 89, American politician.
• Sheik Chinna Moulana, 74, Indian nadhaswaram player.
• Ortvin Sarapu, 75, Estonian-New Zealand chess player.
• Willi Stoph, 84, East German politician.
• Visakha Wijeyeratne, 64, Sri Lankan painter, sculptor, writer and social worker.

14

• Ellen Corby, 87, American actress (The Waltons, Vertigo, Shane), Emmy winner (1973), stroke.
• Anthony Newley, 67, British singer-songwriter and actor, kidney cancer.
• Robert G. Sachs, 82, American theoretical physicist.
• Aubrey Schenck, 90, American film producer.
• Brigitte Steden, 50, German badminton player and Olympian.
• Werner Stumm, 74, Swiss chemist.
• Nicola Trussardi, 56, Italian fashion designer, car accident.
• Bill Wendell, 75, American television announcer, complications from cancer.

15

• Hermann Biechele, 81, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
• Roy Chiao, 72, British Hong Kong-era Chinese actor, heart failure.
• Aaron Esterson, 75, British psychiatrist.
• K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, 90, Indian writer in English.
• F. Burton Jones, 88, American mathematician.
• Harvey Postlethwaite, 55, British Formula One team technical director, heart attack.

16

• Kaoru Betto, 78, Japanese baseball player.
• Regis Cordic, 72, American radio personality and actor.
• Vincent J. Dellay, 91, American politician.
• Osmund Faremo, 77, Norwegian politician.
• Rudi Fehr, 87, German-born American film editor (Dial M for Murder, Prizzi's Honor, Key Largo), heart attack.
• Zoë Lund, 37, American musician, model, actress, producer and screenwriter, cocaine-induced heart failure.
• Charles McKimson, 84, American animator.
• Abbott Lawrence Pattison, 82, American sculptor and abstract artist.
• Karl Schefold, 94, Swiss archaeologist.
• Skip Spence, 52, American singer-songwriter (Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape), lung cancer.
• Margaret Tait, 80, Scottish film maker and poet.
• Gordon Watson, 78, Australian classical pianist.

17

• Julian Cole, 74, American mathematician.
• Ahmad Mohamed Ibrahim, 82, Singaporean lawyer and law professor.
• Georges Miez, 94, Swiss gymnast, cerebrovascular disease.
• Richard Negri, 71, British theatre director and designer.
• Nicky Virachkul, 50, American darts player, cancer.

18

• Alan Brazier, 74, English cricket player.
• Vicente Escrivá, 85, Spanish film director, producer and screenwriter.
• Ye Fei, 84, Filipino-Chinese general and politician.
• Enrique Hormazábal, 68, Chilean football player.
• Robert Irving, 51, English rugby player, heart attack.
• Gert Jeschonnek, 86, German naval officer.
• Setsuko Migishi, 94, Japanese Yōga painter.
• Herman Miller, 79, American film writer and producer.
• Gian-Carlo Rota, 66, Italian-American mathematician and philosopher.
• Raghubir Singh, 56, Indian photographer, heart attack.

19

• Stanley T. Adams, 76, United States Army officer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Hermine Braunsteiner, 79, German Nazi concentration camp guard.
• Margaret Campbell, 86, Politician in Ontario, Canada.
• Flora Carabella, 73, Italian actress, bone cancer.
• Shay Gorman, 76, Irish actor.
• Helen Lundeberg, 90, American painter, pneumonia.
• Arthur Morton, 84, American football player and coach.
• Yoko Tani, 70, Japanese actress and nightclub entertainer, cancer.

20

• Flash Hollett, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.
• James Cullen Martin, 71, American chemist.
• Reginald O'Brien, 73, Australian politician.
• Nikos Rizos, 74, Greek actor, edema, heart attack.
• Bethsabée de Rothschild, 84, French philanthropist and member of the Rothschild family.
• Rick Rude, 40, professional wrestler, heart failure following accidental overdose.
• Señor Wences, 103, Spanish ventriloquist.
• Charles E. Whittingham, 86, American racehorse trainer.
• Students killed in the Columbine High School massacre:
  • Cassie Bernall, 17, victim.
  • Eric Harris, 18, perpetrator.
  • Dylan Klebold, 17, perpetrator.
  • Rachel Scott, 17, victim.

21

• Tim Forster, 65, British racehorse trainer.
• Phillip Omondi, 42, Ugandan football player and manager.
• Ralph Perk, 85, American politician.
• Charles Rogers, 94, American actor and jazz musician.
• Mandayani Jeersannidhi Thirumalachar, 84, Indian mycologist, microbiologist and plant pathologist.
• Liz Tilberis, 51, British fashion magazine editor, ovarian cancer.
• Su Xuelin, 102, Chinese author and scholar.

22

• Ida Anak Agung Gde Agung, 77, Indonesian politician.
• Bill Bowen, 70, American politician.
• Joseph W.S. deGraft-Johnson, 65, Ghanaian engineer, academic and politician.
• Munir Ahmad Khan, 72, Pakistani nuclear engineer and physicist, complications following heart surgery.
• Jean-Claude Molinari, 67, French tennis player.
• Apostolos Nikolaidis, 60, Greek singer, cancer.
• Bert Remsen, 74, American actor (McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Nashville, It's a Living).
• Z. A. Suleri, Pakistani political journalist, author and activist, heart failure.
• Anne Szumigalski, 77, Canadian poet.

23

• Maria Àngels Anglada, 69, Catalan poet and novelist.
• Dana Childs, 76, American politician, lawyer and jurist, heart attack.
• Melba Liston, 73, American jazz trombonist, arranger and composer.
• Aleksandr Prokofyevich Markevich, 94, Ukrainian zoologist, helminthologist and copepodologist.
• Tullio Pandolfini, 84, Italian water polo player and Olympic champion.
• Francis J. Pettijohn, 94, American geologist.
• M. V. Rajamma, 78, Indian actress, singer and movie producer.
• Roger Rio, 86, French football player.
• Philip Stratford, 71, Canadian translator, professor and poet.
• Celso Torrelio, 65, Bolivian military general and member of the Junta.

24

• Nanabhai Bhatt, 83, Indian Bollywood film director and producer, heart failure.
• Arthur Boyd, 78, Australian painter.
• Ray Evans, 76, American football player.
• Don Nolander, 77, American gridiron football player.
• Charles Rostaing, 94, French linguist.
• Don Schofield, 68, Australian rugby player.

25

• Roman Hruska, 94, American politician, complications following a broken hip.
• Rupert Lonsdale, 93, British submarine commander and prisoner of war during World War II.
• Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, 84, Irish journalist, author and Olympic official.
• William McCrea, 94, English astronomer and mathematician.
• Martti Simojoki, 90, Finnish archbishop .
• Roger Troutman, 47, American musician, producer and founder of Zapp and Roger, fratricide, fusillade.
• Michi Weglyn, 72, American author.

26

• Man Mohan Adhikari, 78, 31st Prime Minister of Nepal.
• Adrian Borland, 41, British singer (The Sound), suicide.
• Jill Dando, 37, British journalist and television presenter (Crimewatch), murder by gunshot.
• Trilicia Gunawardena, 65, Sri Lankan actress and singer.
• Faye Throneberry, 67, American baseball player.

27

• Arbit Blatas, 90, Lithuanian artist and sculptor.
• Dominick L. DiCarlo, 71, American lawyer and politician, heart attack.
• Al Hirt, 76, American trumpeter and bandleader, liver failure.
• Peter Jackson, 87, British cricket player.
• Pavel Klushantsev, 89, Russian cameraman, film director, producer, screenwriter and author.
• Rolf Landauer, 72, German-born American physicist, brain cancer.
• He Luting, 95, Chinese composer.
• Antonio Merayo, 89, Argentine cinematographer.
• Maria Stader, 87, Hungarian-Swiss lyric soprano.
• Cyril Washbrook, 84, English cricketer.
• Mark Weiser, 46, American computer scientist, liver failure.

28

• Brandon Burlsworth, 22, American football player, car accident.
• Rory Calhoun, 76, American film and television actor, screenwriter and producer, diabetes.
• Jean-Blaise Kololo, 47, Congolese politician and diplomat.
• Osvaldo Civile, 40, Argentine heavy metal guitarist (V8, Horcas).
• Alf Ramsey, 79, British football player and manager (Ipswich Town, England), Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer.
• Arthur Leonard Schawlow, 77, American physicist and co-inventor of the laser with Charles Townes, leukemia.
• John Stears, 64, British special effects artist (Star Wars, Thunderball, The Mask of Zorro), Oscar winner (1966, 1978), stroke.
• Donald E. Stewart, 69, American screenwriter (Missing, The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games), Oscar winner (1983), cancer.
• Roderick Thorp, 62, American novelist (Nothing Lasts Forever), heart attack.
• Arvo Viitanen, 75, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympic medalist.
• Harold Wellman, 90, English-New Zealand geologist.

29

• Léon Barzin, 98, Belgian-American conductor.
• Les Bennett, 81, English football player.
• Barbara Bevege, 56, New Zealand cricket player.
• Faustin Birindwa, Prime Minister of Zaire (1993 – 1994), heart attack.
• Bernhard Cuiper, 85, German basketball player.
• Mohan Gokhale, 45, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Lojze Kozar, 88, Slovene Roman Catholic priest, writer, and translator.
• Oscar Ljung, 89, Swedish film actor.
• Elspeth March, 88, English actress.
• Ovídio Martins, 70, Cape Verdean poet and journalist.
• Zabihollah Safa, 87, Iranian scholar.
• Kidar Sharma, 89, Indian film director, producer and screenwriter.
• Yao Xueyin, 88, Chinese novelist.

30

• Bruce Jesson, New Zealand journalist, author and political figure, cancer.
• Jessica Lal, 34, Indian model, murdered.
• Rikuo Nemoto, 72, Japanese baseball catcher and manager in the Nippon Professional Baseball.
• Jack Schiff, 89, American comic book writer and editor (Batman, Superman, Superboy).
• Darrell Sweet, 51, English drummer (Nazareth), heart attack.