Deaths in May 1999

The following is a list ofnotable deaths in May 1999.

Entries for each day are listedAlpha beticallyby 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.

May 1999

1

• Eddie Chamblee,79, American tenor, alto saxophonist and vocalist.
• Alish Lambaranski,84, Soviet and Azerbaijani statesman.
• Jos LeDuc,54, Canadian professional wrestler, lung infection.
• Osman Ahmed Osman,82, Egyptian engineer, entrepreneur, and politician.
• Jack Sepkoski,50, Americanpaleontologist.
• Brian Shawe-Taylor,84, British racing driver.

2

• Thomas C. Cochran,97, American economic historian and author.
• Bill Davidson,64, American football player and coach and college athletics administrator.
• Igor M. Diakonoff,84, Russian historian, linguist and translator.
• Ernest A. Gross,92, American diplomat and lawyer.
• Douglas Harkness,96, Canadian politician, teacher and farmer.
• Robert Arthur Humphreys,91, British historian and professor of Latin American studies.
• Tibor Kalman,49, American graphic designer,non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
• Oliver Reed,61, British actor (The Devils,Oliver!,The Three Musketeers), alcohol intoxication, heart attack.
• Włodzimierz Sokorski,90, Polish communist politician, writer, and brigadier general.
• Anahit Tsitsikian,72, Armenian female violinist.

3

• Joe Adcock,71, American baseball player and manager,Alzheimer's disease.
• Steve Chiasson,32, Canadian ice hockey player, (Detroit Red Wings,Calgary Flames,Carolina Hurricanes),drunk driving crash.
• Godfrey Evans,78, English cricketer.
• Giulio Fioravanti,75, Italian operatic baritone.
• Princess Urraca of the Two Sicilies,85, German noblewoman and member of theHouse of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.
• Josef Zeman,84, Czech football player.

4

• Manny Babbitt,50,U.S. Marineveteran of theVietnam Warand convicted murderer,execution by lethal injection.
• Albert Fearnley,75, English rugby league football player, and coach.
• Wilfried Geeroms,57, Belgian Olympic hurdler, cancer.
• Jean Marius René Guibé,89, Frenchnaturalist.
• Mahendra Narayan Nidhi,77, Nepali politician andGandhianleader.
• John Salmon,88, New Zealand photographer, conservationist, and author.
• Henry Tiller,84, Norwegian boxer and Olympic medalist.

5

• Vasilis Diamantopoulos,78, Greek actor, heart attack.
• John Howard,86, British Army officer during World War II.
• Américo Paredes,83, American author.
• Rodrigo Ruiz,76, Mexican football player.

6

• Fehmi Agani,67,Kosovansociologist and politician.
• Keizo Hasegawa,76, Japanese track and field athlete and Olympian.
• Kaii Higashiyama,90, Japanese writer and artist.
• Sven Meyer,21, German figure skater, suicide by gunshot.
• Johnny Morris,82, British television presenter.
• Maria Laura Rocca,81, Italian actress and writer.
• Mark Tuinei,39, American football player, drug overdose.

7

• Randi Anda,100, Norwegian politician.
• Chen Yanyan,83, Chinese actress and film producer.
• Joseph Gray,79, Irish-born English Roman Catholic prelate,Bishop of Shrewsbury.
• Leon Hess,85, American businessman and owner of theNew York Jets.
• Elliot Pinhey,88, British entomologist.
• Yury Zakharanka,47, Belarusian minister and oppositional politician, murdered by theLukashenko regime.

8

• Edward Abraham,85, English biochemist, stroke.
• Dirk Bogarde,78, British actor (Doctor in the House,The Servant,A Bridge Too Far), heart attack.
• Ed Gilbert,67, American voice actor (The Transformers,TaleSpin,G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero), lung cancer.
• Soeman Hs,95, Indonesian author.
• John Kotz,80, American collegiate basketball player and early professional.
• Michael Nightingale,76, English actor.
• Alan Paterson,70, English high jumper and Olympian.
• Sally Payne,86, American actress, stroke.
• Dana Plato,34, American actress (Diff'rent Strokes), suicide by drug overdose.
• Leon Thomas,61, American jazz and blues vocalist, heart failure.

9

• Harry Blech,89, British violinist and conductor.
• Shirley Dinsdale,72, American ventriloquist and television and radio personality, cancer.
• Derek Fatchett,53, British politician, heart attack.
• Jürgen Fuchs,48, East German writer and dissident,leukemia.
• Jim Hunt,95, American athletic trainer.
• Božidar Kantušer,77, Slovene composer of classical music, cerebral infarct, stroke.
• Wynona Lipman,American politician, cancer.
• Ivan M. Niven,83, Canadian-American mathematician.
• George T. Raymond,84, Americancivil rightsleader.
• Karamshi Jethabhai Somaiya,96, Indian educationist.
• Ole Søltoft,58, Danish actor.

10

• Hans Granlid,72, Swedish novelist and literary researcher.
• Anésia Pinheiro Machado,Brazilian female pilot.
• John Munonye,70, Nigerian writer.
• Carl Powis,71, American baseball player.
• Shel Silverstein,68, American poet, playwright, and cartoonist, heart attack.
• Eric Willis,77, Australian politician,Premier of New South Wales(1976).

11

• José Fernández Aguayo,Spanish photography director.
• Eqbal Ahmad,65, Pakistani political scientist, writer and pacifist, heart failure.
• Josef Dostál,95, Czech botanist,pteridologist,conservationist and climber.
• Elaine Fifield,68, Australian ballerina.
• Werner Fuchs,50, German football player, heart attack.
• George Hunter,60, Scottish motorcycle speedway rider.
• Birdy Sweeney,67, Irish actor and comedian.
• Robert Thomas,72, Welsh sculptor.

12

• William James Morgan,84, Northern Irishunionistpolitician.
• Robert Rose,47, Australian sportsman andquadriplegic,complications following surgery.
• Penny Santon,82, American actress (Matt Houston,Funny Girl,Fletch).
• Saul Steinberg,84, Romanian-American cartoonist and illustrator.
• Jerzy Stroba,79, PolishRoman Catholicbishop.
• Daniel Frank Walls,56, New Zealandtheoretical physicist,cancer.

13

• Abd al-Aziz Ibn Baz,88, Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar.
• Roy Crowson,84, English biologist.
• Meg Greenfield,68, American editorial writer, cancer.
• Motohiko Hino,53, Japanesejazzdrummer,liver failure.
• Giuseppe Petrilli,86, Italian professor and European Commissioner.
• Gene Sarazen,97, American golf player, complications ofpneumonia.
• John Whiting,90, American sociologist and anthropologist.

14

• Manuel del Cabral,92, Dominican poet, writer, and diplomat.
• Buck Houghton,84, American television producer and writer,pulmonary emphysema.
• Tang Pao-yun,55, Taiwanese actress.
• Joseph F. Smith,79, American politician.
• William Tucker,38, American guitarist, suicide by drug overdose and throat-cutting.
• Grete Weil,92, German writer.
• Asrat Woldeyes,70, Ethiopian surgeon, heart ailment.
• Jerry Wunderlich,73, American set decorator (The Exorcist,The Last Tycoon,WarGames).
• Nitya Chaitanya Yati,74, Indian philosopher, psychologist, author and poet.

15

• Valeh Barshadly,71, Azerbaijani Minister of Defense.
• Lily Fayol,84, French singer.
• Rob Gretton,46, British band manager (Joy Division,New Order), heart attack.
• Ernst Mosch,73, German musician, composer and conductor.
• Kenneth Riches,90, BritishAnglicanbishop.
• Bob Wilson,85, American gridiron football player.

16

• Guy Cudell,82, Belgian politician, mayor ofSaint-Josse-ten-Noode(1953–1999), cancer.
• Minder Coleman,95, American artist.
• Cam Fraser,67, Canadian football player.
• Bobby Goldman,60, Americanbridgeplayer, writer, and official.
• George Hill Hodel,91, American physician and suspect in severalmurders.
• Andy Norval,87, Australian rugby player.
• Lembit Oll,33, Estonianchessgrandmaster, suicide by jumping.

17

• James Broughton,85, American poet, playwright and filmmaker, heart failure.
• Bruce Fairbairn,49, Canadian musician and record producer.
• Božidar Finka,73, Croatian linguist and lexicographer.
• Henry Jones,86, American actor, complications from a fall.
• Thelma Kalama,68, American Olympic swimmer.
• Ed Rimkus,85, American of Lithuanian descent bobsledder.

18

• Juan Manuel Couder,64, Spanish tennis player.
• Hayrettin Erkmen,84, Turkish politician.
• Dias Gomes,76, Brazilian playwright, traffic collision.
• Hank Herring,76, American boxer.
• Miguel Pedro Mundo,61, American bishop of theCatholic Church.
• Augustus Pablo,44, Jamaican record producer and musician, respiratory failure.
• Freddy Randall,78, Englishjazztrumpeter and bandleader.
• Betty Robinson,87, American athlete and winner of the first Olympic 100 m,Alzheimer's disease.

19

• James Blades,97, Englishpercussionist.
• Candy Candido,85, American radio performer, bass player and voice actor.
• Rebecca Elson,39, Canadian–American astronomer and writer, cancer.
• Larry Markes,77, American comedian, singer and screenwriter.
• John McSweeney, Jr.,83, American film editor.
• Vera Scarth-Johnson,87, British-Australian botanist and botanical illustrator.
• Xhafer Spahiu,75, Albanian politician.
• Alister Williamson,80, Australian-British actor.

20

• William Alfred,76, American playwright, poet, and academic.
• Renato Gei,78, Italian football player and manager.
• James E. Hill,77, United States Air Force general and World War II flying ace, cancer.
• Robert Rhodes James,66, British politician.
• Carlos Quirino,89, Filipino biographer and historian.
• Colette Ripert,69, French actress.

21

• Vanessa Brown,71, Austrian-American actress,breast cancer.
• Jozef Cleber,82, Dutch trombonist, violinist, and composer.
• Colin Hayes,75, Australian trainer ofthoroughbred racehorses.
• Norman Rossington,70, English actor.
• Mario Tagliaferri,71, Italian prelate of theCatholic Church.
• Fulvio Tomizza,64, Italian writer.

22

• Milton Banana,64, Brazilian Boss a nova and jazz drummer.
• Loleh Bellon,74, French stage and film actress and playwright.
• Mark Edward Bradley,92,United States Air Forcegeneral and aviator pioneer.
• Rubén W. Cavallotti,74, Uruguayan-Argentine film director.
• Duilio Coletti,92, Italian film director and screenwriter, heart attack.
• Alfred Kubel,90, American politician.

23

• Arthur Edward Ellis,84, English football referee, cancer.
• Owen Hart,34, Canadian professional wrestler (WWF), injuries sustained from fall.
• John T. Hayward,90, Americannaval aviatorduring World War II, cancer.
• Asa Singh Mastana,71, Indian musician and singer.
• John Prentice,78, American cartoonist (Rip Kirby).
• Albert Charles Smith,93, American botanist.

24

• Irene Bache,98, British artist.
• Guru Hanuman,98, Indian wrestling coach, car crash.
• T. N. Gopinathan Nair,81, Indian dramatist, novelist, poet and screenwriter.
• Ramón Rubial,92, Spanish socialist leader.
• Arnaldo Silva,55, Portuguese football player.

25

• Fredda Brilliant,96, Polish sculptor and actress.
• Hillary Brooke,84, American film actress,pulmonary embolism.
• Horst Frank,69, German film actor, stroke.
• René Gallice,80, French football player.
• Paul Moss,90, American gridiron football player.
• Bal Dattatreya Tilak,80, Indian chemical engineer.

26

• William Cutolo,49, American mobster (Colombo crime family), murdered.
• Sir Hugh Fish,76, English chemist.
• Belli Lalitha,25, Indian folk singer, homicide.
• Felipe Rodríguez,73, Puerto Rican singer ofboleros,fall.
• Paul Sacher,93, Swiss conductor,patronand impresario.
• Waldo Semon,100, American inventor.
• Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn,89, Austrian political scientist and journalist.
• Jack Wells,88, Canadian radio and television broadcaster.

27

• Alice Adams,72, American short story writer and novelist.
• Zach de Beer,70, South African politician and businessman, stroke.
• Francine Everett,84, American actress and singer.
• Timo Lampén,64, Finnish basketball player.
• William T. Moore,81, American attorney and politician.
• Leah Ray,84, American singer and actress.
• James Rowland,76, Australian air chief marshal.
• Violet Webb,84, Englishtrack and fieldathlete and Olympic medalist.

28

• Michael Barkai,64,Israeli Navygeneral, suicide by gunshot.
• Peter Bostock,87, BritishAnglicanpriest.
• Henry Carlsson,81, Swedish football player and manager.
• Florence MacMichael,80, American character actress.
• Raphael Recanati,75, Israeli-American shipping magnate, banker, and philanthropist, heart failure.
• Lady Rowlands,95, American film actress.
• Petrus Van Theemsche,83, Belgian racing cyclist.
• B. Vittalacharya,79, Indian film director and producer.

29

• Joe Busch,91, Australian rugby player.
• João Carlos de Oliveira,45, Brazilian athlete, complications ofalcoholism.
• Bernard Lajarrige,87, French film and television actor.
• Mattia Moreni,78, Italian sculptor and painter.
• Richard Ray,72, American politician.

30

• Don Harper,78, Australian composer.
• Sonia Chadwick Hawkes,67, English archaeologist, cancer.
• William R. Lawley Jr.,78, United States Army Air Forces officer and recipient of theMedal of Honor.
• Kalju Lepik,78, Estonian poet.
• Paul S. Newman,75, American writer of comic books and strips, heart attack.

31

• Emilio Baldonedo,82, Argentine football player and manager.
• Inayat Hussain Bhatti,71, Pakistani actor, script writer, social worker and columnist.
• Don Biederman,59, Canadian stock car racer,brain aneurysm.
• Nicolas Bréhal,46, French novelist and literary critic.
• Davor Dujmović,29, Bosnian Serb actor, suicide by hanging.
• Willibald Hahn,89, Austrian football player and manager.
• Anatoli Ivanov,71, Soviet and Russian writer.
• Auguste Le Breton,86, French novelist,lung cancer.
• Radomir Lukić,84, Serbian jurist and academic.
• Charles Pierce,72, Americanfemale impersonator.
• Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha,69, Indian politician.