The following is a list ofnotable deaths in March 1999.

Entries for each day are listedalphabetically 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.

• Ann Corio, 89, Americanburlesque stripper and actress,pneumonia.^[1]
• Christine Glanville, 74, British puppeteer.^[2]
• Enneüs Heerma, 54, Dutch politician, lung cancer.^[3]
• Digger Kettle, 76, English footballer.^[4]
• Harry Mather, 78, English football player and manager.^[5]
• Jozo Matošić, 86, Yugoslav football player and coach.
• Steve Sinko, 89, American football player and coach.^[6]

• David Ackles, 62, American singer-songwriter and child actor, lung cancer.^[7]
• Leslie Edward Wostall Codd, 90, South Africanplant taxonomist.
• Kaushal Kishore, 56, Indian polymer chemist, cardiac arrest.
• Stuart Mossman, 56, American guitar maker and entertainer, heart attack.^[8]
• Tommy Pearson, 85, Scottish football player and manager.^[9]
• Dusty Springfield, 59, British traditional pop singer and entertainer, breast cancer.^[10]
• Francisco Nunes Teixeira, 89, MozambicanRoman Catholic bishop,Roman Catholic Diocese of Quelimane (1955−1975).^[11]
• Jack Webster, 80, Canadian journalist and radio / television personality.^[12]

• Glennon Engleman, 72,United States Army veteran andhitman, diabetes.^[13]
• Jackson C. Frank, 56, American folk musician, pneumonia and cardiac arrest.
• John Frawley, 98, Australian actor.
• Gerhard Herzberg, 94, German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist.^[14]
• William McGonagle, 73, American naval officer and recipient of theMedal of Honor.^[15]
• Gian Vincenzo Moreni, 67, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
• Lee Philips, 72, American actor and film / television director,PSP.^[16]
• Ling Zifeng, 81, Chinese film director.

• Harry Blackmun, 90, American lawyer, jurist andAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court.^[17]
• Del Close, 64, American comedian and actor (The Blob,Next of Kin,The Untouchables), emphysema.^[18]
• Richard Joseph Davis, 78, American politician.
• Eddie Dean, 91, American country singer-songwriter and actor, heart and lung disease.^[19]
• Fritz Honegger, 81, Swiss politician.
• Miłosz Magin, 69, Polish composer and pianist, heart attack.^[20]
• Teddy McRae, 91, Americanjazztenor saxophonist and arranger.^[21]
• Hawley Pratt, 87, American film director, animator and illustrator.^[22]
• Karel van het Reve, 77, Dutch writer and literary historian and brother of writerGerard Reve.^[23]

• Avery Alexander, 88, Americancivil rights leader and politician.
• William Allis, 97, American theoretical physicist.^[24]
• John Leland Atwood, 94, American engineer and aerospace executive.^[25]
• Tom Denning, Baron Denning, 100, English lawyer and judge.^[26]
• Walter Diggelmann, 83, Swiss road bicycle racer.^[27]
• John Figueroa, 78, Jamaican poet.^[28]
• John Harkins, 66, American actor (Being There,Absence of Malice,Birdy).^[29]
• Bob Hendren, 75, American gridiron football player.
• Maurice Jouvet, 76, French-Argentine actor.
• Richard Kiley, 76, AmericanEmmy Award-winning film, television and stage actor, bone marrow disease.^[30]

• Graham Armitage, 62, English actor.
• Rafael Celestino Benítez, 81, American submarine commander and admiral.^[31]
• Klaus Gysi, 87, Germancommunist journalist, publisher, and resistance member during World War II.
• Hiroshi Hamaya, 83, Japanese photographer.
• Loni Heuser, 91, German film actress.
• Branka Jurca, Slovene writer.
• Ferenc Kardos, 61, Hungarian film director, producer and screenwriter, heart attack.^[32]
• Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, 67,emir ofBahrain (1961–1999), heart attack.^[33]
• Venâncio da Silva Moura, 59, Angolan politician and diplomat.
• János Parti, 66, Hungarian sprint canoeist and Olympic champion.^[34]
• Dennis Viollet, 65, English footballer.^[35]
• Olof Widgren, 91, Swedish stage and film actor.
• Eric Wolf, 76, Austrian-American anthropologist and activist, liver cancer.^[36]

• Friedrich Asinger, 91, Austrian chemist and academic.^[37]
• Lowell Fulson, 77, American blues guitarist and songwriter.^[38]
• Sidney Gottlieb, 80, American chemist andspymaster.^[39]
• Kurt Hasse, 82, German cinematographer.^[40]
• Antônio Houaiss, 83, Brazilian writer and lexicographer.
• Stanley Kubrick, 70, American film director and screenwriter (2001: A Space Odyssey,The Shining,Dr. Strangelove), heart attack.^[41]
• Ladislav Vodička, 68, Czech country music singer and songwriter.

• António Campos, 76, Portuguese film director.^[42]
• Giovan Battista Carpi, 71, Italian comics artist, he worked mainly forDisney comics, mostly on books featuringDonald Duck andScrooge McDuck, although he occasionally drewMickey Mouse as well, he was a co-creator ofPaperinik and the creator of several characters forEdizioni Bianconi [it], such asGeppo,Nonna Abelarda, andSoldino [it].^[43][44][45]
• Adolfo Bioy Casares, 84, Argentine writer and journalist.^[46]
• Peggy Cass, 74, American actress, comedian, and announcer, heart failure.^[47]
• Hans Eklund, 71, Swedish composer^[48]
• Joe DiMaggio, 84, American baseball player (New York Yankees), lung cancer.^[49]
• Anne T. Hill, 82, American fashion designer andyoga teacher, she designed dresses for her own line,Taffy, from 1937 until March 1958, her products were featured as "outstanding" in a Palm Springs Tennis Club fashion luncheon in 1948,^[50]Vogue andHarper's Bazaar carried full page ads forTaffy fashions during the 1950s,^[51][52] heart failure.
• Walter Kolm-Veltée, 88, Austrian film director.^[53]

• Marcellino Gavilán, 89, Spanishequestrian and Olympic medalist.^[54]
• Arnold Machin, 87, British artist and sculptor.^[55]
• Hermann Merkin, 91, American businessman and philanthropist, heart failure.^[56]
• Éliane Richepin, 88, French classical pianist.
• Harry Somers, 73, Canadian composer.^[57]

• Zvi Fuchs, 81, Israeli football player.
• Oswaldo Guayasamín, 79, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor, heart attack.^[58]
• Kusumagraj, 87, Indian poet, playwright and novelist.
• Adrian Love, 54, British radio presenter.^[59]
• Valentino Mazzia, 77, American forensic anesthesiologist,cirrhosis.^[60]

• Howell Conant, 82, American fashion photographer.^[61]
• Peter Franken, 70, American physicist.
• Herbert Jasper, 92, Canadian psychologist, neurologist, andepileptologist.
• Jack Jones, 83, Scottish football player.
• Camille Laurin, 76, Canadian psychiatrist and politician, liver cancer.^[62]
• Erich Natusch, 87, German sailor and Olympic medalist.^[63]
• Stefan Schnabel, 87, German-American actor, heart attack.^[64]
• Kaoru Tada, 38, Japanese manga artist, cerebral hemorrhage.

• John Archer, 75,British Army officer andCommander in Chief.
• Miloslav Holub, 84, Czech actor.
• William Jackson, 81,British Army general, military historian and author.^[65]
• Sydney Lewis, 79, American businessman, philanthropist, and art collector.^[66]
• Yehudi Menuhin, 82, American violinist and conductor, bronchitis.^[67]
• Alf Murray, 83, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Bidu Sayão, 96, Brazilianoperatic soprano.^[68]

• Lucienne Bloch, 90, Swiss-American artist.^[69]
• Emmy Bridgwater, 92, English artist and poet.^[70]
• Isidore de Souza, 64, Beninese priest, heart attack.^[71]
• Lee Falk, 88, American cartoonist (The Phantom,Mandrake the Magician).^[72]
• Seán Fortune, 45, IrishCatholic priest, and child molester, suicide by drug overdose.
• Bob Hollway, 73, American football player and coach.^[73]
• Garson Kanin, 86, American writer and director of plays and films.^[74]
• Anton Raadik, 82, Estonian-American boxer.^[75]
• Kurt Von Hess, 56, Canadian wrestler known asKurt Von Hess, heart attack.^[76]
• Christopher York, 89, British politician.

• Kirk Alyn, 88, American actor (Superman,Blackhawk,Call of the Rockies), Alzheimer's disease.^[77]
• Tex Blaisdell, 78, American cartoonist (Little Orphan Annie).^[78]
• John Broome, 85, American comic book writer forDC Comics.^[79]
• Gregg Diamond, 49, American pianist, drummer, songwriter, and producer,gastrointestinal bleeding.
• Kjell Holmström, 82, Swedish bobsledder and Olympian.^[80]
• Abraham Kurland, 86, Danish wrestler and Olympic silver medalist.^[81]
• Robert Q. Marston, 76, American physician and research scientist.^[82]
• Marius Müller, 40, Norwegian musician, television host and record producer, traffic collision.

• Guy D'Artois, 81, Canadian army officer andSOE agent.
• Harry Callahan, 86, American photographer.^[83]
• Rosemary Nelson, 40, Northern Irish human rights solicitor, killed byUlster loyalists.^[84]
• Ray Russell, 74, American writer of short stories, novels and screenplays, complications from a stroke.^[85]

• Trygve Bull, 93, Norwegian lecturer and politician.
• Harry Colville, 75, Scottish football player and manager.
• Hendrik de Wit, 89, Dutchbotanist.^[86]
• Peter Farrell, 76, Irish footballer.^[87]
• Ignazio Gardella, 93, Italian architect and designer.
• Gratien Gélinas, 89, Canadian author, playwright, actor and producer.^[88]
• Åsta Holth, 95, Norwegian novelist, poet and short story writer.
• Vijay Kumar Kapahi, 55, Indian astrophysicist.^[89]
• John Liddell, 65, Scottish football player.
• Gustav Lohse, 87, German film editor.^[90]
• Willie Toner, 69, Scottish football player and manager.

• Lloyd Appleton, 93, American wrestler.^[91]
• Boleslaw Barlog, 92, German stage, film, and opera director.^[92]
• Paul Campbell, 76, American film actor.
• Frankie Curry, Northern IrishUlster loyalist, shot.
• Nicolae Dumitrescu, 77, Romanian footballer and manager.^[93]
• Ernest Gold, 77, Austrian-American film composer (Exodus,It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,Judgment at Nuremberg), stroke.^[94]
• Herbert Earl Grier, 87, American electrical engineer and business executive.
• Rod Hull, 63, British entertainer and comedian, fall.^[95]
• Humberto Fernández Morán, 75, Venezuelan research scientist.^[96]
• Hildegard Peplau, 89, American nursing theorist.^[97]
• Jean Pierre-Bloch, 93, French politician andresistance member during World War II.^[98]
• Eric Stanton, 72, American underground cartoonist andfetish art pioneer.^[99]

• Patricia Bowman, 90, American ballerina, musical theatre actress, and television personality.
• Werner Danz, 75, German politician and member of theBundestag.
• George Hinterhoeller, 71, Canadian boat designer and builder, heart attack.
• Karl Litschi, 86, Swiss road bicycle racer.^[100]
• Gilbert Ralston, 87, British-American screenwriter,congestive heart failure.^[101]
• Russell Ross, 69, American professor of pathology.^[102]
• Gerlando Sciascia, 65, American mobster and member of theBonanno crime family, shot.^[103]

• Tofilau Eti Alesana, 74, Samoan politician.
• William F. Bringle, 85, American four-star admiral and World War II aviator,pneumonia.^[104]
• Bob Cato, 76, American photographer and graphic designer,Alzheimer's disease.^[105]
• Joseph DePietro, 84, American weightlifter,1948 Olympic champion.^[106]
• José Agustín Goytisolo, 70, Spanish poet, scholar and essayist, suicide by jumping.
• Peppermint Harris, 73, Americanblues singer and guitarist.^[107]
• Juanita Reina, 73, Spanish actress andcopla singer.^[108]
• Jaime Sabines, 72, Mexican contemporary poet.^[109]

• Elsa Barraine, 89, French composer.^[110]
• Patrick Heron, 79, British artist, critic, writer, andpolemicist.^[111]
• Roy L. Johnson, 93, American admiral.^[112]
• David Anthony Klarner, 58, American mathematician and author.
• Mickey S. Michaels, 67, American set decorator (Airport,The Hunt for Red October,Crimson Tide).
• Paul Toth, 63, American baseball player, heart attack.^[113]
• Igor Vladimirov, 80, Soviet film and theater actor and director.

• Mary Ainsworth, 85, American-Canadian developmental psychologist, stroke.^[114]
• Henry V. Graham, 82, American Army general.^[115]
• Jean Guitton, 97, French Catholic philosopher and theologian.^[116]
• John Linus Paschang, 103, AmericanRoman Catholic bishop.
• George Reedy, 81, AmericanWhite House Press Secretary under PresidentLyndon B. Johnson (1964–1965).^[117]
• Ernie Wise, 73, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise), heart failure.^[118]

• Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, 85, British historian.^[119]
• C. Gregg Singer, 89, American historian and theologian.
• Sandy Singleton, 84, English cricket player.^[120]
• David Strickland, 29, American actor, suicide by hanging.^[121]

• Scott D. Anderson, 33, American pilot, inventor, and author, plane crash.^[122]
• Luis María Argaña, 66, Paraguayan politician and Supreme Court judge, shot.
• Osmond Borradaile, 100, Canadian cameraman, cinematographer and veteran of World War I and II.^[123]
• Koentjaraningrat, Indonesiananthropologist.
• Sergio Montanari, 61, Italian film editor.
• Percy Samaraweera, 70, Sri Lankan politician.
• Willi Stadel, 86, German gymnast and Olympic champion.^[124]
• Kazue Takahashi, 70, Japanese voice actress,multiple myeloma.
• Petrus Tun, 63, Micronesian politician.

• Pierre H. Dubois, 81, Dutch writer and critic.^[125]
• Ellen Hall, 75, American actress.
• Tunde Idiagbon, 56, Nigerian Army general.
• Henry Brandon, Baron Brandon of Oakbrook, 78, British judge.
• Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, 97, German leader of thenaziNational Socialist Women's League.^[126]
• Birdie Tebbetts, 86, American baseball player, manager and scout.^[127]
• Val Valentin, 79, Americanrecording engineer.
• Mighty Joe Young, 71, Americanchicago blues guitarist,pneumonia.
• Osman Örek, 73, Turkish Cypriot politician,prime minister (1978).^[128]

• Ryszard Bakst, 72, Polish pianist and piano teacher.^[129]
• Viacheslav Chornovil, 61, Ukrainian politician, car crash.
• Cal Ripken Sr., 63, American baseball coach and manager, lung cancer.^[130]
• Doug Sherrington, 84, Australian politician.

• Harry Hodson, 92, English economist and editor.^[131]
• David Holliday, 61, American actor (Thunderbirds), cancer.
• Reşit Kaynak, 46, Turkish football player.
• Eva Kolstad, 80, Norwegian politician and gender equality activist.
• Andrzej Konopka, 64, Polish Olympic gymnast.^[132]
• Margaret Mason, 58, American actress, heart attack.^[133]
• Zoran Radosavljević, 34, Yugoslav Air Force pilot, shot down.^[134]
• Ananda Shankar, 56, Indian musician, heart attack.^[135]

• Michael Aris, 53, English historian, prostate cancer.^[136]
• Ernestina de Champourcín, 93, Spanish poet.^[137]
• Rolf Ludwig, 73, German actor and voice actor.^[138]
• Nahum Stelmach, 62, Israeli footballer and manager.
• Oskar Øksnes, 77, Norwegian politician.

• Jens Book-Jenssen, 88, Norwegian pop singer, songwriter, revue artist and theatre director.
• Eva Franco, 92, Argentine actress,pneumonia.
• Franco Gasparri, 50, Italian actor, respiratory failure.^[139]
• Angelo J. LaPietra, 79, American mobster and member of theChicago Outfit.^[140]
• Gil Perkins, 91, Australian actor.^[141]
• Freaky Tah, 27, AmericanMC,hype man andhip hop promoter, shot.
• Bill Touhey, 93, Canadian ice hockey player.^[142]
• Doody Townley, 73, New Zealandharness racer.
• Jim Turner, 54, American editor and publisher.

• Lucien Aigner, 97, Hungarian photojournalist.^[143]
• Dayendranath Burrenchobay, 80, Mauritian politician,Governor-General.
• Helmer Dahl, 90, Norwegian electrical engineer and researcher.
• Raimo Kuuluvainen, 43, Finnish football player.^[144]
• James Penberthy, 81, Australian composer and journalist.^[145]
• Brock Speer, 79, American gospel singer (Speer Family).^[146]
• Vera Tolstoy, 95, Russian-Americanémigré, broadcaster and granddaughter of novelistLeo Tolstoy.^[147]
• Joe Williams, 80, Americanjazz singer.^[148]
• Gyula Zsengellér, 83, Hungarian footballer.

• Albert Coppé, 87, Belgian politician and economist.^[149]
• Michel Crépeau, 68, French politician, heart attack.^[150]
• Marcel de Wolf, 79, French gymnast.^[151]
• Michel Etcheverry, 79, French actor.^[152]
• Gary Morton, 74, American stand-up comedian, lung cancer.^[153]
• Jens Müller, 81, Norwegian fighter pilot andPOW during World War II and author.
• Igor Netto, 69, Soviet-Russian footballer.^[154]
• Terry Wilson, 75, American actor.^[155]

• David Brooks, 83, American actor, singer, director, and producer.^[156]
• Aleksandr Filatov, 71, Soviet alpine skier.^[157]
• Yuri Knorozov, 76, Soviet linguist,pneumonia.
• Herbert H. Rowen, 82, American historian.^[158]
• Jerry Toth, 70, Canadian musician, composer, and record producer.

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