The following is a list of notable 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.
October 1999
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 (1972), 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. Rod Webb, 89, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1959-1968). Lena Zavaroni, 35, Scottish singer and a television show host, pneumonia.
2 Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Albanian Islamic scholar. John Bugeja, 66, Maltese Olympic cyclist (1960). Frank Duncan, 79, American baseball player. Kim Hyun-jun, 39, South Korean basketball player and Olympian (1988), traffic collision. 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. Pascual Pistarini, 83, Argentine general and Olympian equestrian (1948). 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 by jumping.
3 Paul Burris, 76, American baseball player (Boston/Milwaukee Braves). 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 by asphyxiation. Art Farmer, 71, American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player.Heckman, Don & Thurber, Jon (October 7, 1999) "Art Farmer: Eloquent Jazz Master of the Trumpet and Fluegelhorn". Los Angeles Times. 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 (New England Patriots). Leonard Shoen, 83, American entrepreneur, suicide by traffic collision. Ted Strain, 82, American basketball player. Robert G. L. Waite, 80, Canadian historian, psychohistorian, and academic.
5 Tom Bienemann, 71, American football player (Chicago Cardinals). Fernand Dubé, 70, Canadian lawyer and politician, heart attack. Earl Evans, 89, American biochemist. Alex Lowe, 40, American mountaineer, avalanche."Climber Remembers the Legendary Alex Lowe", May 2, 2016, nationalgeographic.com. Frank K. Richardson, 85, American attorney and judge, Parkinson's disease. Jack Somerville, 89, New Zealand presbyterian leader.
6 Ken Campbell, 73, American basketball player. Larry Floyd, 91, Australian politician. Randi Kolstad, 74, Norwegian theater and screen actress. Gorilla Monsoon, 62, American wrestler and commentator, complications of diabetes. Bob Patrick, 81, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). 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 Olympic basketball player (1936). Dimitri Tsafendas, 81, Greek-Mozambican political militant, pneumonia. Helen Vinson, 92, American film actress. Dave Whitsell, 63, American football player (Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears, New Orleans Saints), cancer.
8 Manfredo Fest, 63, Brazilian bossa nova and jazz pianist and keyboardist. Henri Koch-Kent, 94, Luxembourgish 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 (Cincinnati Redlegs/Reds, Washington Senators). 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 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. Pinhas Scheinman, 87, Israeli politician.Notable people who died on Sunday 10th October 1999 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 and Olympian (1956, 1960, 1964). 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 (1996), brain trauma sustained during match. Wilt Chamberlain, 63, American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers, Philadelphia 76ers) and actor (Conan the Destroyer), heart failure. Olle Danielsson, 87, Swedish Olympic sprinter (1936). 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. Norman Reddaway, 81, British civil servant and diplomat. Siegbert Wirth, 69, American Olympic soccer player (1956).
13 Leslie Aulds, 78, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox). Geoffrey Burke, 86, English Roman Catholic bishop. Ingrid Englund, 73, Swedish Olympic alpine skier (1952, 1956). Michael Hartnett, 58, Irish poet, alcoholic liver disease. Rik Matthys, 74, Belgian footballer. James E. Williams, 68, American Cherokee indian and Medal of Honor recipient. Qasem-Ali Zahirnejad, Iranian Army general, stroke.
14 Lage Andersson, 79, Swedish weightlifter and Olympian (1952). 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 (New Orleans Saints, Denver Broncos), traffic collision. Bill Rieth, 83, American football player (Cleveland Rams).
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 (Toronto Maple Leafs). 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. Francisco Uva, 95, Portuguese Olympic fencer (1952). 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, Canadian sports car racer, aircraft crash. Tony Crombie, 74, English jazz drummer, pianist, bandleader and composer. Paddi Edwards, 68, British-American actress, respiratory failure. Dick Hammer, 69, American athlete, actor, and Olympian (1964). John James, 88, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1949-1957). Ross Parmenter, 87, Canadian music critic, editor, and author.
19 Carrie Abramovitz, 86, American sculptor, collagist, and economist 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 (New York Giants, St. Louis Cardinals), 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, member of the United States House of Representatives (1955-1957). 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. Pertti Laine, 60, Finnish Olympic rower (1960). Jack Lynch, 82, Irish Fianna Fáil politician and fourth Taoiseach (1966–1973, 1977–1979), cerebrovascular disease. Willi Schröder, 70, German football player and Olympian (1952). Abdullah Sungkar, 62, Indonesian islamist and founder of terror group Jemaah Islamiyah. Earl Turner, 76, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
21 Queenie Ashton, 95, Australian actress. Ludwig Beisiegel, 87, German Olympic field hockey player (1936). 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 (Cleveland Browns, Washington Redskins, Pittsburgh Steelers), heart attack. Heinz Renneberg, 72, West German rower and Olympic champion (1952, 1960). Gennady Vasilyev, 59, Russian film director, cerebral hemorrhage. Eric Wauters, 48, Belgian equestrian and Olympic medalist (1972, 1976, 1996).
22 Alphonse Anger, 84, French gymnast and Olympian (1948). Martin Donnelly, 82, New Zealand cricketer and England rugby player. Frank Jardine, 75, British ice hockey player and Olympian (1948). Laure Koster, 97, Luxembourgian Olympic swimmer (1924). Tibor Mamusich, 87, Hungarian rower and Olympian (1936). Ed Mikan, 74, American basketball player.