Deaths In October 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

• Ted Arison, 75, Israeli businessman, heart attack.
• Pietro Maria Bardi, 99, Italian writer, curator and collector.
• Kuei Chih-hung, 61, Hong Kong filmmaker, liver cancer.
• Glen Foster, 69, American sailor and Olympic medalist, esophageal cancer.
• Norbert Felix Gaughan, 78, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Noel Johnson, 82, English actor.
• Gunnar Ljungström, 94, Swedish aerodynamics and automobile engineer.
• Wim Polak, 75, Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam (1977-1983), cancer.
• Lena Zavaroni, 35, Scottish singer and a television show host, pneumonia.

2

• Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Albanian Islamic scholar.
• Kim Hyun-jun, 39, South Korean basketball player, car accident.
• Tosio Katō, 82, Japanese mathematician.
• Heinz G. Konsalik, 78, German novelist.
• R. S. Krishnan, 88, Indian experimental physicist and scientist.
• Lee Lozano, 68, American painter and visual artist.
• Danny Mayo, 49, American songwriter, heart attack.
• Lee Richardson, 73, American actor (Prizzi's Honor, Brubaker, Network).
• Wayne Sevier, 58, American gridiron football coach, heart attack.
• Georg Tintner, 82, Austrian conductor, suicide.

3

• Paul Burris, 76, American baseball player.
• Alastair Hetherington, 79, British journalist and editor of The Guardian.
• N. Mohanan, 66, Indian Malayalam -language short story writer and novelist.
• Akio Morita, 78, Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony, pneumonia.

4

• Bernard Buffet, 71, French painter, suicide.
• Art Farmer, 71, American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player.
• De Villiers Graaff, 85, South African politician.
• Nikkyō Niwano, 92, Japanese Buddhist leader.
• Emil Schumacher, 87, German painter.
• Rod Shoate, 46, American gridiron football player.
• Leonard Shoen, 83, American entrepreneur, suicide by car crash.
• Robert G. L. Waite, 80, Canadian historian, psychohistorian, and academic.

5

• Fernand Dubé, 70, Canadian lawyer and politician, heart attack.
• Earl Evans, 89, American biochemist.
• Alex Lowe, 40, American mountaineer, avalanche.
• Frank K. Richardson, 85, American attorney and judge, Parkinson's disease.
• Jack Somerville, 89, New Zealand presbyterian leader.

6

• Larry Floyd, 91, Australian politician.
• Randi Kolstad, 74, Norwegian theater and screen actress.
• Gorilla Monsoon, 62, American wrestler and commentator, complications of diabetes.
• Patrick Reilly, 90, British diplomat and ambassador.
• Amália Rodrigues, 79, Portuguese singer known as the "Queen of Fado", heart attack.
• Tatevik Sazandaryan, 83, Soviet and Armenian operatic mezzo-soprano.
• Maris Wrixon, 82, American film and television actress, heart failure.

7

• Deryck Guyler, 85, English actor.
• David A. Huffman, 74, American computer scientist, cancer.
• Bruce Ritter, 72, American catholic priest and Franciscan friar, cancer.
• Genrikh Sapgir, 70, Russian poet and fiction writer, heart attack.
• Lucien Thèze, 86, French basketball player.
• Dimitri Tsafendas, 81, Greek-Mozambican political militant, pneumonia.
• Helen Vinson, 92, American film actress.
• Dave Whitsell, 63, American football player, cancer.

8

• Manfredo Fest, 63, Brazilian bossa nova and jazz pianist and keyboardist.
• Henri Koch-Kent, 94, Luxembourgian publicist, author, and historian.
• Zezé Macedo, 83, Brazilian comedienne and actress.
• John McLendon, 84, American basketball coach.
• Reinis Zusters, 81, Latvian-Australian artist.

9

• Dutch Dotterer, 67, American baseball player.
• Milt Jackson, 76, American jazz vibraphonist, liver cancer.
• Akhtar Hameed Khan, 85, Pakistani social scientist, heart attack.
• James M. Logan, 78, American soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• João Cabral de Melo Neto, 79, Brazilian poet and diplomat.
• Rolf Stein, 88, German-French sinologist and tibetologist.
• Morris West, 83, Australian novelist and playwright.
• Franz Wolf, 92, German nazi SS-Oberscharführer and Holocaust perpetrator during World War II.

10

• Patrick Campbell, 22, Northern Irish republican and volunteer, stabbed.
• George Forrest, 84, American writer of music and lyrics for musicals.
• Alfredo Gil, 84, Mexican singer (Trio Los Panchos).
• Gul Hassan Khan, Pakistani Army general.
• Hajime Nakamura, 86, Japanese indologist, philosopher and academic.
• Ted White, 86, Australian cricketer.

11

• Adriano Bassetto, 74, Italian football player.
• Fakir Baykurt, 70, Turkish author and trade unionist.
• Galina Bystrova, 65, Soviet athlete.
• John Foot, Baron Foot, 90, British politician and Life Peer.
• Leo Lionni, 89, Italian-American author and illustrator of children's books, Parkinson's disease.
• Colette Picard, 85, French archaeologist and historian.
• Oscar Valicelli, 84, Argentine film actor.

12

• Carlos Barreto, 23, Venezuelan bantamweight boxer and Olympian, brian trauma sustained during match.
• Wilt Chamberlain, 63, American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers, Philadelphia 76ers) and actor (Conan the Destroyer), heart failure.
• Frank Frost, 63, American blues harmonica player, cardiac arrest, heart attack.
• Ayako Miura, 77, Japanese novelist, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• Clément Perron, 70, Canadian film director and screenwriter.

13

• Geoffrey Burke, 86, English Roman Catholic bishop.
• Ingrid Englund, 73, Swedish alpine skier and Olympian.
• Michael Hartnett, 58, Irish poet, alcoholic liver disease.
• James E. Williams, 68, American Cherokee indian and Medal of Honor recipient.
• Qasem-Ali Zahirnejad, Iranian Army general, stroke.

14

• Franca Dominici, 92, Italian actress and voice actress.
• Diethard Hellmann, 70, German Kantor and an academic.
• Julius Nyerere, 77, Tanzanian anti-colonial activist and politician, leukemia.
• Richard B. Shull, 70, American actor, heart attack.
• Jerry Walter McFadden, 51, American serial killer and sex offender, execution by lethal injection.

15

• Yosef Burg, 90, German-born Israeli politician.
• Durgawati Devi, 92, Indian revolutionary and a freedom fighter.
• Terry Gilkyson, 83, American folk singer, composer, and lyricist.
• Eddie Jones, 64, British science fiction illustrator.
• Torsten Lilliecrona, 78, Swedish actor.
• Josef Locke, 82, Irish tenor.
• Steve Ramsey, 51, American gridiron football player, traffic accident.

16

• Bobbie Beard, 69, American child actor.
• Bruce Cameron, 43, American guitarist, suicide.
• Bill Dodgin, 90, English football player, manager and coach.
• Ella Mae Morse, 75, American popular singer, respiratory failure.
• Jean Shepherd, 78, American raconteur, radio and TV personality, writer and actor.

17

• Hugh Bolton, 70, Canadian ice hockey player.
• William Gould Dow, 104, American scientist, educator and inventor.
• Tommy Durden, 79, American guitarist and songwriter.
• Richard John Harrison, 79, British academic.
• Rick Lapointe, 44, Canadian ice hockey player, heart attack.
• Nicholas Metropolis, 84, Greek-American physicist.
• Ralph Grey, Baron Grey of Naunton, 89, New Zealand peer and last Governor of Northern Ireland.
• Charles Wanstall, 87, Australian politician.
• Franz Peter Wirth, 80, German film director and screenwriter.

18

• Dallas Bower, 92, British director and producer.
• Mahanambrata Brahmachari, 94, Hindu monk.
• John Cannon, 66, sports car racer, aircraft crash.
• Tony Crombie, 74, English jazz drummer, pianist, bandleader and composer.
• Paddi Edwards, 68, British-American actress, respiratory failure.
• Ross Parmenter, 87, Canadian music critic, editor, and author.

19

• Auður Auðuns, 88, Icelandic lawyer and politician.
• Harry Bannink, 70, Dutch composer, arranger and pianist.
• Robert Black, 93, British colonial administrator, Governor of Singapore (1955-1957).
• Hayes Gordon, 79, American actor, stage director and acting teacher, heart disease.
• Ray Katt, 72, American baseball player and coach, lymphoma.
• Zeng Liansong, 81, Chinese economist and designer of the nation's flag.
• Penelope Mortimer, 81, English journalist, biographer and novelist, cancer.
• James C. Murray, 82, American politician.
• Nathalie Sarraute, 99, French writer and lawyer..
• E. J. Scovell, 92, English poet and translator.

20

• Hans Georg Amsel, 94, German entomologist.
• Loukas Barlos, 79, Greek businessman, lung cancer.
• Agim Çavdarbasha, 55, Kosovo-Albanian sculptor.
• Calvin Griffith, 87, American Major League Baseball team owner.
• Mae Street Kidd, 95, American businesswoman, civic leader and politician.
• Jack Lynch, 82, Irish Fianna Fáil politician and fourth Taoiseach (1966–1973, 1977–1979), cerebrovascular disease.
• Willi Schröder, 70, German football player.
• Abdullah Sungkar, 62, Indonesian islamist and founder of terror group Jemaah Islamiyah.

21

• Queenie Ashton, 95, Australian actress.
• Lars Bo, 75, Danish artist and writer.
• John Bromwich, 80, Australian tennis player.
• Esther Fernández, 84, Mexican film and television actress, lung infarction.
• H. Stuart Hughes, 83, American historian, professor, and activist.
• LaMont Johnson, 58, American jazz pianist, heart failure.
• Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, 60, Turkish politician, intellectual, lawyer, columnist, and academic.
• Horst Krüger, 80, German novelist.
• Fran O'Brien, 63, American football player, heart attack.
• Heinz Renneberg, 72, West German rower and Olympic champion.
• Gennady Vasilyev, 59, Russian film director, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Eric Wauters, 48, Belgian equestrian and Olympic medalist.

22

• Alphonse Anger, 84, French gymnast.
• Martin Donnelly, 82, New Zealand cricketer and England rugby player.
• Ed Mikan, 74, American basketball player.
• István Nagy, 60, Hungarian football player.
• Gordon Smith, 91, American ice hockey player.
• Irv Spencer, 61, Canadian ice hockey player.

23

• Jean Dauger, 79, French rugby player.
• András Hegedüs, 76, Hungarian communist politician.
• Neriman Köksal, 71, Turkish actress, breast cancer.
• Trudi Meyer, 85, German gymnast.
• Eric Reece, 90, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania (1958-1969).
• Luciano Soprani, Italian fashion designer, throat cancer.
• Cyril James Stubblefield, 98, British geologist.
• Albert Tucker, 84, Australian artist.
• Francis Whitaker, 93, American artist and blacksmith.
• Bobby Willis, 57, British songwriter, lung and liver cancer.

24

• John Chafee, 77, American politician and senator, congestive heart failure.
• Lucien De Muynck, 68, Belgian middle-distance runner and Olympian.
• Georges Gandil, 73, French sprint canoeist.
• Ginette Harrison, 41, British climber, climbing accident.
• Berthe Qvistgaard, 89, Danish stage and film actress.
• Philip Sansom, 83, British anarchist writer and activist.
• Marc Simenon, 60, French director and screenwriter, fall.

25

• Leonard Boyle, 75, Irish and Canadian scholar in medieval studies and palaeography.
• Vittorio Erspamer, 90, Italian pharmacologist and chemist.
• Rosalie Gascoigne, 82, New Zealand-Australian sculptor.
• Arturo Herbruger, 87, Guatemalan politician.
• Samson Kisekka, 87, Ugandan politician, heart attack.
• Johannes Käbin, 94, Soviet and Estonian politician.
• Victor Saúde Maria, 60, Bissau-Guinean politician, homicide.
• S. Rajeswara Rao, 77, Indian composer and musician.
• Payne Stewart, 42, American golfer, plane crash.
• David Spence Thomson, 83, New Zealand politician.

26

• Maria Alba, 89, Spanish-American film actress.
• Hoyt Axton, 61, American folk music singer-songwriter and actor, heart attack.
• Eknath Easwaran, 88, Indian-American spiritual teacher and author.
• Rex Gildo, 63, German singer of schlager ballads, suicide.
• Christiane Jaccottet, 62, Swiss harpsichordist and musicologist.
• Abraham Polonsky, 88, American film director, screenwriter, essayist and novelist.
• Albert Whitlock, 84, British motion picture matte artist, Parkinson's disease.

27

• Wes Berggren, 28, American musician and guitarist for rock band Tripping Daisy, drug overdose.
• Johnny Byrne, 60, English footballer, heart attack.
• Lois Collier, 80, American film actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• Frank De Vol, 88, American arranger, composer and actor, heart failure.
• Xie Fei, 66, Chinese politician, Politburo member, leukemia.
• Robert Mills, 72, American physicist.
• José Aarón Alvarado Nieves, 33, Mexican professional wrestler, infection.
• Éamonn O'Doherty, 60, Northern Irish political activist.
• Charlotte Perriand, 96, French architect and designer.
• Glen Vernon, 76, American actor.
• Austin B. Williams, 80, American carcinologist, cancer.
• Notable victims killed in the Armenian parliament shooting in Yerevan, Armenia:
  • Vazgen Sargsyan, 40, Prime Minister
  • Karen Demirchyan, 67, National Assembly Speaker
  • Yuri Bakhshyan, 52, Deputy National Assembly Speaker
  • Leonard Petrosyan, 46, Minister of Urgent Affairs

28

• Howard Browne, 91, American science fiction editor and mystery writer.
• Ralph Crosthwaite, 63, American basketball player.
• Antonis Katinaris, 68, Greek musician.
• Rafael Alberti Merello, 96, Spanish poet.
• Gastone Pescucci, 73, Italian actor and voice actor.

29

• Kamal Adham, 71, Saudi businessman, heart attack.
• Brita Appelgren, 86, Swedish film actress.
• Rosa Furman, 69, Mexican actress, cardiac arrest.
• Greg, 68, Belgian cartoonist, aneurysm.
• Cavan Kendall, 57, British actor, cancer.
• Colin Matthew, 58, British historian and academic, heart attack.
• Aolar Mosely, 87, American artist.
• Borhan Abu Samah, 34, Singaporean football player, liver cancer.

30

• Nise da Silveira, 94, Brazilian psychiatrist and student of Carl Jung, pneumonia.
• Grace McDonald, 81, American actress, pneumonia.
• Uxío Novoneyra, 69, Spanish poet, journalist and children's writer.
• Max Patkin, 79, American baseball player and clown.
• Gábor Pogány, 84, Hungarian-born Italian cinematographer.
• Savumiamoorthy Thondaman, 86, Sri Lankan politician.
• Maigonis Valdmanis, 66, Latvian basketball player.
• Paul Wheatley, 78, British-American historical geographer.
• Ratko Čolić, 81, Serbian football player.

31

• Gameel Al-Batouti, 59, Egyptian aviator; relief first officer on EgyptAir Flight 990
• Denise Bellon, 97, French photographer.
• August Chełkowski, 72, Polish physicist and politician.
• John Wainwright Evans, 90, American astronomer, murder–suicide.
• Howard Ferguson, 91, Irish composer and musicologist.
• Martin Hellberg, 94, German actor, director and writer.
• Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits, 78, British rabbi.
• Greg Moore, 24, Canadian racecar driver, racing accident .
• Wyatt Ruther, 76, American jazz double-bassist.