The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.
September 1999
1 Hubert Bobo, 65, American gridiron football player (Los Angeles Chargers, New York Titans). Doc Marshall, 93, American baseball player (New York Giants). Boots Poffenberger, 84, American Major League Baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Brooklyn Dodgers). S. Srinivasan, 58, Indian aeronautical engineer. W. Richard Stevens, 48, American author of computer science books. Doreen Valiente, 77, English wiccan, pancreatic cancer.. Stanley Alexander Weigel, 93, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of California). Edward Żuławnik, 66, Polish Olympic wrestler (1960).
2 Romolo Carboni, 88, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda, 77, Colombian anthropologist. Margherita Guarducci, 96, Italian archaeologist, classical scholar, and epigrapher. Philip Francis Murphy, 66, American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, cancer. Lajos Szűcs, 53, Hungarian Olympic weightlifter (1972, 1976).
3 Frans Cools, 81, Belgian Olympic cyclist (1936). Paul Lucien Dessau, 89, British painter. Fred Gardner, 89, Australian rugby league footballer. Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed, 72, Sri Lankan diplomat and political figure. George Hunt, 83, American rower and Olympic gold medalist (1936). Franz Pleyer, 88, Austrian-French football player. Hugh Wiley, 72, American equestrian and Olympian (1956, 1960).
4 Emilio Aldecoa, 76, Spanish football player. Charlie Depthios, 59, Indonesian Olympic weightlifter (1968, 1972). Georg Gawliczek, 80, German football manager and player. Erma Keyes, 73, American baseball player. Charles Lee, 75, English cricket player. Orlando Lelé, 50, Brazilian footballer. Shlomo Morag, 73, Israeli professor of Hebrew. Orlando Pereira, 50, Brazilian football player and manager. Klement Slavický, 88, Czech composer of modern classical music. Lucjan Sosnowski, 65, Polish Olympic wrestler (1960, 1964).
5 Alan Clark, 71, British Conservative politician, Member of Parliament (1974–1999), and military historian, brain cancer. Allen Funt, 84, American television personality (Candid Camera), stroke. William Keith, 73, South African Olympic long distance runner (1952). Bryce Mackasey, 78, Canadian politician and ambassador to Portugal. Charles Onyeama, 82, Nigerian jurist and judge. Walther Reyer, 77, Austrian actor. Ivor Roberts, 74, British actor and a television continuity announcer. Leonid Sedov, 91, Soviet and Russian mathematician. Geraldo de Proença Sigaud, 89, Brazilian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Katie Webster, 63, American boogie-woogie pianist, heart failure.
6 Arnold Fishkind, 80, American jazz bassist. René Lecavalier, 81, Canadian French-language radio show host and sportscaster. Steve Little, 43, American football player (St. Louis Cardinals). Tamás Mendelényi, 63, Hungarian fencer and Olympic champion (1960).
7 Thierry Claveyrolat, 40, French road bicycle racer, suicide by gunshot. Hugo del Vecchio, 71, Argentine Olympic basketball player (1952). Ian Doyle, 67, Australian rugby league footballer. Bjarne Iversen, 86, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympian (1936). Robert Simon, 49, American outlaw biker and convicted murderer, beaten. Rubén Soberón, 90, Guatemalan Olympic fencer (1952). E.G. van de Stadt, 89, Dutch yacht designer.
8 Birgit Cullberg, 91, Swedish choreographer. Mark Gardner, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Lagumot Harris, 60, President of the Republic of Nauru. Brian Hildebrand, 37, American professional wrestler, wrestling manager and referee, stomach and bowel cancer. Moondog, 83, American musician, composer, theoretician and poet, heart failure. Lev Razgon, 91, Soviet and Russian journalist, writer and human rights activist. Vladimir Samoylov, 75, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. Herbert Stein, 83, American economist. Alan Willett, 52, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
9 Abdel Latif Boghdadi, 81, Egyptian politician, air force officer and judge, cancer. Chili Bouchier, 89, English film actress. Jogesh Das, 72, Indian short-story writer and novelist. Arie de Vroet, 80, Dutch football player, manager, and Olympian (1948). Tony Duquette, 85, American artist, Parkinson's disease. Catfish Hunter, 53, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Kansas City/Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees), ALS. Mahmoud Karim, 83, Egyptian squash player. Marco Papa, 41, Italian motorcycle racer, traffic collision. Chan Parker, 74, American writer and wife of jazz musician Charlie Parker. Ruth Roman, 76, American actress. Fons van der Stee, 71, Dutch politician.
10 Gabrielle Bertrand, 76, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1984-1993). Simonne Caillère, 94, French mineralogist and geologist. Michèle Fabien, 54, Belgian writer and playwright, cerebral hemorrhage. Beau Jocque, 45, Louisiana French Creole zydeco musician and songwriter, heart failure. Alfredo Kraus, 71, Spanish tenor. Jean Messagier, 79, French painter, sculptor, printmaker and poet. M. C. Richards, 83, American poet, potter, and writer. Margaret Stuart, 65, New Zealand sprinter and Olympian (1956). Vladimir Ulanov, 48, Soviet Russian volleyball player and Olympian (1976). Cleveland Williams, 66, American heavyweight boxer, traffic collision.
11 Mohammed Aly Fahmy, 78, Egyptian field marshal. Belkis Ayón, 32, Cuban printmaker, suicide by gunshot. Gonzalo Rodríguez Bongoll, 28, Uruguayan racing driver, racing accident. Ray Cazaux, 82, English wrestler and Olympian (1936, 1948). Johny Jaminet, 69, Luxembourgish Olympic football player (1952). David Karp, 77, American novelist and television writer, pulmonary emphysema. Bobby Limb, 74, Australian entertainer and radio personality, cancer. Francisco José Pérez, 79, Spanish-Cuban chess player. Jacob Rabinow, 89, Engineer and inventor. Janet Adam Smith, 93, Scottish writer, editor and literary journalist. Momčilo Đujić, 92, Serbian Orthodox priest and Chetnik commander during World War II.
12 Alfred Leo Abramowicz, 80, American prelate in the Roman Catholic Church. Laurette Luez, 71, American actress and model. Bill Quackenbush, 77, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins), pneumonia. Allen Stack, 71, American swimmer and Olympic champion (1948, 1952).
13 Goro Adachi, 86, Japanese Olympic ski jumper (1932, 1936). Roland Blanche, 55, French actor, heart attack. Benjamin Bloom, 86, American educational psychologist. Harry Crane, 85, American comedy writer. Miriam Davenport, 84, American painter and sculptor, cancer.Miriam Davenport Ebel. Varian Fry Institute. Retrieved March 31, 2019 Erik Diesen, 76, Norwegian revue writer and radio and television personality. Don Hamilton, 69, American sports shooter (1968). Bill Lohrman, 86, American baseball player. George Morris, 80, American football player (Cleveland Rams). Vladimir Pogačić, 79, Yugoslav film director. Ragnar Rygel, 69, Norwegian ice hockey player and Olympian (1952).
14 Joel Beck, 56, American artist and cartoonist, complications from alcoholism. Jehan Buhan, 87, French fencer, Olympic champion (1948, 1952). Charles Crichton, 89, English film and television director (A Fish Called Wanda, The Lavender Hill Mob, Space: 1999). Miguel Angel Cuello, 53, Argentinian boxer and Olympian (1972). Chuck Higgins, 75, American saxophonist, lung cancer. Giannos Kranidiotis, 51, Greek diplomat and politician, twice Deputy Foreign Minister of Greece, aviation accident. Ian Wahn, 83, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1962-1972).
15 Larry Gene Ashbrook, 47, American mass murderer (Wedgwood Baptist Church shooting), suicide by gunshot. Stewart Bovell, 92, Australian politician. Renato Constantino, 80, Filipino historian. Lila Leeds, 71, American film actress, heart attack. Michel Pinseau, 73, French architect. Jack Hardiman Scott, 79, British journalist and broadcaster. Petr Shelokhonov, 70, Russian actor, director, filmmaker and socialite.Book "My best friend Petr Shelokhonov" (2009, Russian) by actor Ivan I. Krasko - Saint Petersburg, Russia: SOLO Publishing, 2009. Kiichiro Toyama, 89, Japanese Olympic gymnast (1936). Bill Westwood, 73, British Anglican bishop. Abdolhossein Zarrinkoob, 76, Iranian scholar.
16 W. Arthur Garrity Jr., 79, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts). Paul Gregory, 91, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox). Viktar Hanchar, 42, Belarusian politician, kidnapped and murdered by the Lukashenko regime. Doug Hansen, 70, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians). Endre Rozsda, 85, Hungarian-French painter. Utaemon Ichikawa, 92, Japanese film actor. Ace Williams, 82, American baseball player (Boston Bees/Braves).
17 Leonard Carlitz, 91, American mathematician. Riccardo Cucciolla, 75, Italian actor and voice actor. Rajeshwar Dayal, 90, Indian diplomat and writer, stroke. Liane Collot d’Herbois, 91, British painter and painting therapist. Ellen Frank, 95, German film and television actress. Joan Gardner, 84, British actress. Hasrat Jaipuri, 77, Indian poet. Harold Johnson, 79, American basketball player. Gary Koshnitsky, 91, Australian chess master. François Müller, 72, Luxembourgish football player and Olympian (1952). Udo Springsklee, 60, German Olympic sailor (1968). Henri Storck, 92, Belgian author, filmmaker and documentarist. Rathvon M. Tompkins, 87, United States Marine Corps major general, stroke. Frankie Vaughan, 71, British singer, heart failure.
18 Leo Amberg, 87, Swiss professional road bicycle racer. Samuel James Ervin III, 73, American circuit judge (United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit). Edna Gross, 88, British Olympic gymnast (1936). József Gyönyörű, 74, Hungarian Olympic sports shooter (1960). Philip N. Krasne, 94, American motion picture and television producer. Harold F. Kress, 86, American film editor. Gérard Landry, Argentinian actor. Noel Pope, 91, New Zealand rower and Olympian (1932). Viktor Safronov, 81, Soviet astronomer. Nic Scheitler, 89, Luxembourgian Olympic weightlifter (1928, 1936). Leo Valiani, 90, Italian historian, politician and journalist. Leszek Wodzyński, 53, Polish hurdler and Olympian (1972).
19 Ed Cobb, 61, American musician, songwriter, and record producer, leukemia. Livio Isotti, 72, Italian road bicycle racer and Olympian (1948). Pavle Ivić, 74, Serbian Slavic dialectologist and phonologist. Bua Kitiyakara, 89, Thai actress and wife of prince Nakkhatra Mangala. Kjell Kristiansen, 74, Norwegian football player and Olympian (1952). Tim Lawry, 88, American basketball player.
20 Erland Almqvist, 87, Swedish sailor and Olympic silver medalist (1952). Raisa Gorbacheva, 67, Russian activist, leukemia. Taheyya Kariokka, 84, Egyptian belly dancer and film actress, pneumonia. Robert Lebel, 93, Canadian ice hockey administrator. Karl Heinrich Menges, 91, German linguist. Willy Millowitsch, 90, German actor and director, heart failure. T. R. Rajakumari, 77, Indian film actress, singer and dancer.
21 Georgia Louise Harris Brown, 81, American architect. Juan Carlos Colmán, 76, Argentine footballer. Robert Galbraith Heath, 84, American psychiatrist. Benny Kalama, 83, American singer and arranger. Mária Saáry, 71, Hungarian Olympic figure skater (1948). Sander Thoenes, 30, Dutch journalist, shot in East Timor.
22 Doris Allen, 63, American politician, colorectal cancer. Noriko Awaya, 92, Japanese soprano chanteuse and ryūkōka singer. René Geeraert, 90, Belgian Olympic middle-distance runner (1936). Clive Jenkins, 73, British trade union leader. Tomoo Kudaka, 36, Japanese football player, stomach cancer.