The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
February 1999
1 Marion Boyars, 71, British book publisher, pancreatic cancer.Peter Owen, "Marion Boyars obituary", The Guardian, 2 February 1999, Retrieved 18 May 2019 Paul Calvert, 81, Canadian baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, Detroit Tigers). Alejandro Galindo, 93, Mexican screenwriter and film director. Hank Harris, 75, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins). Rudolf Kárpáti, 78, Hungarian fencer and Olympic champion (1948, 1952, 1956, 1960). Barış Manço, 56, Turkish rock musician, actor, and show host, heart attack. Paul Mellon, 91, American philanthropist. Robin Nedwell, 52, British actor, heart attack.Anthony Hayward Obituary: Robin Nedwell, The Independent, 4 February 1999, Retrieved 18 May 2019 St. Clair Pinckney, 68, American saxophonist. Harold E. Shear, 80, United States Navy admiral. Benjamin Elazari Volcani, 84, Israeli microbiologist. Julius Wechter, 63, American musician and composer, cancer.
2 Marie Van Brittan Brown, 76, American nurse and inventor. Pat Dannaher, 86, South African Olympic sprinter (1936). Deborah Makepeace, 41, British television, theatre and voiceover actress, cancer. Michel Mathiot, 72, French Olympic gymnast (1948, 1952, 1956, 1960). David McComb, 36, Australian rock musician, heart failure. Jerry Nagel, 70, American basketball player (Fort Wayne Pistons). August Neuburger, 96, German politician and member of the Bundestag. Vladimír Petlák, 52, Czech volleyball player and Olympic medalist (1968, 1972, 1976). Vilmos Tátrai, 86, Hungarian classical violinist . Tunku Puan Besar Kurshiah, 87, Malayan queen of Negeri Sembilan.
3 Norman Bluhm, 77, American painter, heart failure. Luc Borrelli, 33, French football player, traffic collision. William C. Brown, 82, American electrical engineer. Jim Cope, 91, Australian politician. Alexei Gorokhov, 71, Soviet violinist. Gwen Guthrie, 48, American singer-songwriter and pianist, uterine cancer. Mikko Hietanen, 87, Finnish long-distance runner, European Champion, world record holder and Olympian (1948, 1952). Alfred Janes, 87, Welsh artist. Herbert Klynn, 81, American animator. Ann-Margret Nirling, 81, Swedish diver and Olympian (1936). Yu Qiuli, 84, Chinese Army general and politician. Leo Schrall, 91, American baseball player and manager. John S. Service, 89, American diplomat. Vin Sullivan, 87, American comic book editor, artist and publisher.
4 Luigi Bernabò Brea, 88, Italian archaeologist. Erich Hartmann, 76, German-American photographer. Joe Hayes, 63, English football player. Arthur Mann, 51, Scottish football player. Vittorio Marzotto, 76, Italian racing driver. Sean Sellers, 29, American juvenile convict, execution by lethal injection. Ivan Stevović, 88, Yugoslav footballer and manager.
5 Neville Bonner, 76, Australian politician, first indigenous Member of Parliament. John L. Cotter, 87, American archaeologist, cancer. Rembert Delden, 81, German politician member of the Bundestag. Leo Echegaray, 38, Filipino convict, execution by lethal injection. Nicholas Krushenick, 69, American abstract painter, liver cancer. Wassily Leontief, 93, Russian economist and Nobel Prize laureate. Mariya Osipova, 90, Soviet partisan during World War II. Indrani Rahman, 68, Indian classical dancer. Linda Sini, 74, Italian film actress.
6 Thomas Banyacya, 89, American Native American traditional leader. Erwin Blask, 88, German athlete and Olympian (1936). Henry S. Clark, 95, American horse trainer. Danny Dayton, 75, American actor (All in the Family, Guys and Dolls, Ed Wood), emphysema. Kyra Downton, 85, Russian-born American equestrian and Olympian (1968). Don Dunstan, 72, Australian politician, lung cancer. Robert Eger, 75-76, Swiss Olympic field hockey player (1948). Yuriy Istomin, 54, Soviet Ukrainian footballer and Olympian (1972). Jalal Keshmiri, 60, Iranian athlete and Olympian (1964, 1968). Jimmy Roberts, 75, American singer and performer, bone cancer. Hans Zikeli, 88, Romanian Olympic handball player (1936).
7 Hussein I of Jordan, 63, Jordanian monarch, King of Jordan (1952–1999), lymphoma. Andrew Keller, 73, British scientist. William Ludwig, 86, American screenwriter (Interrupted Melody, Oklahoma!, Athena), Oscar winner (1956), Parkinson's disease. Umberto Maglioli, 70, Italian racing driver. Antonio Pacenza, 70, Argentine boxer and Olympian (1952). George E. Shambaugh Jr., 95, American otolaryngologist and pioneer in deafness treatments. Bobby Troup, 80, American actor (Emergency!, M*A*S*H) and songwriter ("(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66").
8 Fred Bohannon, 40, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers). Richard Boone, 68, American jazz trombonist and scat singer. Meredith Edwards, 81, Welsh actor and writer. Madeleine Frieden-Kinnen, 83, Luxembourgish politician. Per Knudsen, 73, Danish football player and Olympian (1948, 1952). Iris Murdoch, 79, Irish-born British novelist, poet and philosopher, Alzheimer's disease. Caroline Robbins, 95, British historian. Carl Sumner, 90, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox). Krishnaswamy Sundarji, 70, British Indian Army officer. Giuseppe Tatarella, 63, Italian politician, heart attack. Rudolf Troppert, 89, Austrian Olympic weightlifter (1936).
9 Richard Allen, 66, British abstract artist and printmaker, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Benjamin Bwalya, 37, Zambian footballer and coach, cerebral malaria. Enzo Forcella, 77, Italian essayist, historian and journalist. Aleksander Gieysztor, 82, Polish medievalist historian. Mary LaRoche, 78, American actress and singer. Len Levy, 77, American athlete (Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams, Los Angeles Dons). Wilhelm Mahlow, 85, German rower and Olympian (1936). Bryan Mosley, 67, British television and film actor, (Coronation Street), heart attack. Bernhard Paus, 88, Norwegian orthopedic surgeon. Jaturun Siripongs, 47, Thai murderer, execution by lethal injection. Inga-Stina Robson, 79, Anglo-Swedish political activist.
10 Yuri Borienko, 66, Polish actor and wrestler. (On Her Majesty's Secret Service) Ashley Bramall, 83, British politician. Robert Clothier, 77, Canadian actor. Hernán Santa Cruz, 93, Chilean diplomat and United Nations delegate. Joan Curran, 82, Welsh scientist, cancer. Ann-Marie Gyllenspetz, 66, Swedish actress. Billy Houliston, 77, Scottish footballer. Joe M. Kilgore, 80, American combat pilot during World War II and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1955-1965). Herb Krautblatt, 72, American basketball player.Herb Krautblatt. basketball-reference.com. Retrieved 18 May 2019. Birger Leirud, 74, Norwegian high jumper and Olympian (1948, 1952). Jean Levavasseur, 74, French fencer and Olympian (1948, 1952). Y. B. Mangunwijaya, 69, Indonesian architect, writer and Catholic religious leader. Joseph Marie Nguyễn Tùng Cương, 79, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Hải Phòng (1979–1999).Bishop Joseph Nguyễn Tùng Cương † Gideon Rafael, 86, Israeli diplomat.
11 William Alonso, 66, Argentinian-American planner and economist. Leonard J. Arrington, 81, American Mormon historian, heart failure.Leonard J. Arrington, 81, Mormon Historian Danny Barber, 43, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection. John Brack, 78, Australian painter. Philip Brownstein, 92, American basketball coach (Chicago Stags). Jaki Byard, 76, American jazz musician, composer and arranger, shot. Toni Fisher, 74, American pop singer, heart attack. Stoyan Gadev, 67, Bulgarian actor. Werner Korff, 87, German ice hockey player and Olympic medalist (1932). Dragan Kovačić, 59, Yugoslav-Croatian basketball player and Olympian (1964). Reidar Kristiansen, 71, Norwegian footballer. Rose Mbowa, 56, Ugandan writer, actress, academic and feminist. Hugh McCullough, 82, American gridiron football player. Brian Parsons, 65, English cricket player. 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.
12 Paul Bairoch, 68, Belgian-Swiss economic historian. André Devigny, 82, French soldier and member of the Résistance. Jimmy Dudley, 89, American baseball player and sportscaster. Rexhep Krasniqi, 92, Albanian-American historian, nationalist, anti-communist politician and activist. Grace Panvini, 91, American soprano and voice teacher Heinz Schubert, 73, German actor, drama teacher and photographer, pneumonia. Michel Seuphor, 97, Belgian painter.
13 Peko Dapčević, 85, Yugoslav communist. Michael Higgins, 90, American glass artist. Kåre Hovda, 55, Norwegian biathlete and Olympian (1972). Gary Jennings, 70, American author, heart failure. Ron McLean, 60, Australian politician, asbestos-related lung condition. Mats Nyberg, 39, Swedish Olympic sailor (1988, 1992, 1996). Carles Sabater, 36, Catalan singer and actor, respiratory arrest.
14 Sam Bartholomew, 81, American gridiron football player (Philadelphia Eagles). John Ehrlichman, 73, United States Domestic Policy Council and Watergate scandal conspirator, diabetes.Rubin, Alissa J., "Nixon Loyalist Ehrlichman Is Dead at 73", LA Times, February 16, 1999. Jimmy Florian, 75, American racing driver. Nikolai Khlystov, 66, Soviet Russian ice hockey player and Olympian (1956). Buddy Knox, 65, American singer and songwriter, lung cancer. Hillel Seidel, 78, Israeli politician. Joseph Francis Shea, 73, American aerospace engineer and NASA manager.Mueller, "Joseph F. Shea," in Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering, Volume 10, pp. 211, 214. Raymond Thompson, 87, American competition swimmer and Olympian (1932). Majken Åberg, 80, Swedish discus thrower and Olympian (1948).
15 Agnes Bernelle, 75, Berlin-born expatriate actress and singer. Keith Carey, 78, American basketball player. Jeffery Cohelan, 84, American politician and political activist. Billy Garrett, 65, American racecar driver. Lloyd Jackson, 87, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Americans). Henry Way Kendall, 72, American physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, drowned. Aigars Kriķis, 44, Soviet and Latvian luger and Olympian (1976, 1980). Big L, 24, American Freestyle rapper (D.I.T.C.), shot. Gordon Neil Stewart, 86, Australian writer. Ferenc Vozar, 53, Hungarian-born German ice hockey player and Olympic medalist (1976).
16 Björn Afzelius, 52, Swedish progg singer and guitarist, lung cancer. Necil Kazım Akses, 90, Turkish classical composer. Guillermo Arellano, 90, Chilean football player. Fritzi Burger, 88, Austrian figure skater and Olympian (1928, 1932). Petre Crowder, 79, British barrister and politician. Ugo Grappasonni, 76, Italian professional golfer. Herbert S. Green, 78, British–Australian physicist. James Hill, 72, British politician. Henk Hofstra, 94, Dutch politician. Johan Kvandal, 79, Norwegian composer. Michael Larson, 49, American game show contestant, throat cancer. John Lomakoski, 58, American football player (Detroit Lions). Alexandre-Athenase Noghès, 82, Monegasque tennis player and husband of Princess Antoinette of Monaco. Bailey Olter, 66, Micronesian political figure. Betty Roché, 81, American blues singer.
17 Thomas James Carr, 89, British artist. Kurt Robert Eissler, 90, Austrian psychoanalyst. Jaime Hurtado, 62, Ecuadorian politician, shot. Cliff McBride, 90, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs). William D. McElroy, 82, American biochemist and academic. Sunshine Parker, 71, American actor (Tremors, Road House, Pee-wee's Big Adventure), pneumonia. Shirley Stoler, 69, American actress, heart failure. Tania, 90, Spanish tango singer known as "Tania". R.S. Unni, 73, Indian politician and trade unionist.
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