The following is a list ofnotable deaths in September 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.

• Hubert Bobo, 65, American gridiron football player.^[1]
• Boots Poffenberger, 84, AmericanMajor League Baseball player.^[2]
• S. Srinivasan, 58, Indian aeronautical engineer.
• W. Richard Stevens, 48, American author ofcomputer science books.
• Doreen Valiente, 77, Englishwiccan, pancreatic cancer.^[3]

• Romolo Carboni, 88, Italian prelate of theCatholic Church.
• Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda, 77, Colombiananthropologist.^[4]
• Margherita Guarducci, 96, Italian archaeologist, classical scholar, andepigrapher.
• Philip Francis Murphy, 66, American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, cancer.
• Lajos Szűcs, 53, Hungarian Olympic weightlifter.^[5]

• Frans Cools, 81, Belgian cyclist.^[6]
• Paul Lucien Dessau, 89, British painter.
• Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed, 72, Sri Lankan diplomat and political figure.
• George Hunt, 83, American rower and Olympic gold medalist.^[7]
• Franz Pleyer, 88, Austrian-French football player.

• Emilio Aldecoa, 76, Spanish football player.
• Georg Gawliczek, 80, German football manager and player.^[8]
• Charles Lee, 75, English cricket player.^[9]
• Shlomo Morag, 73, Israeli professor ofHebrew.^[10]
• Orlando Pereira, 50, Brazilian football player and manager.
• Klement Slavický, 88, Czech composer of modern classical music.^[11]

• Alan Clark, 71, BritishConservative politician,Member of Parliament (1974–1999), and military historian, brain cancer.^[12]
• Allen Funt, 84, American television personality (Candid Camera), stroke.^[13]
• Bryce Mackasey, 78, Canadian politician and ambassador to Portugal.
• Charles Onyeama, 82, Nigerian jurist and judge.
• Walther Reyer, 77, Austrian actor.^[14]
• Ivor Roberts, 74, British actor and a television continuity announcer.
• Leonid Sedov, 91, Soviet and Russian mathematician.^[15]
• Geraldo de Proença Sigaud, 89, Brazilian prelate of theRoman Catholic Church.
• Katie Webster, 63, Americanboogie-woogie pianist, heart failure.^[16]

• Arnold Fishkind, 80, Americanjazz bassist.
• René Lecavalier, 81, Canadian French-language radio show host and sportscaster.
• Steve Little, 43, American football player.^[17]
• Tamás Mendelényi, 63, Hungarian fencer and Olympic champion.^[18]

• Thierry Claveyrolat, 40, French road bicycle racer, suicide by gunshot.^[19]
• Hugo del Vecchio, 71, Argentine basketball player.^[20]
• Bjarne Iversen, 86, Norwegian cross-country skier.^[21]
• Robert Simon, 49, American outlaw biker and convicted murderer, beaten.
• E.G. van de Stadt, 89, Dutch yacht designer.

• Birgit Cullberg, 91, Swedish choreographer.^[22]
• Mark Gardner, 43, American convicted murderer,execution by lethal injection.^[23]
• Lagumot Harris, 60, President of the Republic ofNauru.
• Brian Hildebrand, 37, American professional wrestler, wrestling manager and referee, stomach and bowel cancer.
• Moondog, 83, American musician, composer, theoretician and poet, heart failure.^[24]
• Lev Razgon, 91, Soviet and Russian journalist, writer and human rights activist.^[25]
• Vladimir Samoylov, 75, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.^[26]
• Herbert Stein, 83, American economist.
• Alan Willett, 52, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[27]

• Abdel Latif Boghdadi, 81, Egyptian politician, air force officer and judge, cancer.
• Chili Bouchier, 89, English film actress.^[28]
• Jogesh Das, 72, Indian short-story writer and novelist.
• Arie de Vroet, 80, Dutch football player and manager.^[29]
• Tony Duquette, 85, American artist,Parkinson's disease.^[30]
• Catfish Hunter, 53, American baseball player and member of theMLB Hall of Fame,ALS.^[31]
• Mahmoud Karim, 83, Egyptian squash player.
• Marco Papa, 41, Italian motorcycle racer, traffic collision.
• Chan Parker, 74, American writer and wife ofjazz musicianCharlie Parker.^[32]
• Ruth Roman, 76, American actress.^[33]
• Fons van der Stee, 71, Dutch politician.^[34]

• Michèle Fabien, 54, Belgian writer and playwright,cerebral hemorrhage.^[35]
• Beau Jocque, 45, Louisiana French Creolezydeco musician and songwriter, heart failure.^[36]
• Alfredo Kraus, 71, Spanishtenor.^[37]
• Jean Messagier, 79, French painter, sculptor, printmaker and poet.^[38]
• M. C. Richards, 83, American poet, potter, and writer.^[39]
• Margaret Stuart, 65, New Zealand sprinter and Olympian.^[40]
• Cleveland Williams, 66, American heavyweight boxer, traffic collision.^[41]

• Mohammed Aly Fahmy, 78, Egyptian field marshal.
• Belkis Ayón, 32, Cuban printmaker, suicide by gunshot.^[42]
• Gonzalo Rodríguez Bongoll, 28, Uruguayan racing driver, racing accident.
• Johny Jaminet, 69, Luxembourgish football player.^[43]
• David Karp, 77, American novelist and television writer, pulmonary emphysema.
• Bobby Limb, 74, Australian entertainer and radio personality, cancer.
• Francisco José Pérez, 79, Spanish-Cubanchess player.
• Jacob Rabinow, 89, Engineer and inventor.
• Janet Adam Smith, 93, Scottish writer, editor and literary journalist.^[44]
• Momčilo Đujić, 92, Serbian Orthodox priest andChetnik commander during World War II.^[45]

• Alfred Leo Abramowicz, 80, American prelate in theRoman Catholic Church.
• Laurette Luez, 71, American actress and model.
• Bill Quackenbush, 77, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings,Boston Bruins), pneumonia.^[46]
• Allen Stack, 71, American swimmer and Olympic champion.^[47]

• Goro Adachi, 86, Japanese ski jumper and Olympian.^[48]
• Roland Blanche, 55, French actor, heart attack.^[49]
• Benjamin Bloom, 86, American educational psychologist.^[50]
• Harry Crane, 85, American comedy writer.^[51]
• Miriam Davenport, 84, American painter and sculptor, cancer.^[52]
• Erik Diesen, 76, Norwegian revue writer and radio and television personality.
• Bill Lohrman, 86, American baseball player.^[53]
• Vladimir Pogačić, 79, Yugoslav film director.^[54]

• Joel Beck, 56, American artist and cartoonist, complications from alcoholism.^[55]
• Jehan Buhan, 87, French fencer, Olympic champion.^[56]
• Charles Crichton, 89, English film and television director (A Fish Called Wanda,The Lavender Hill Mob,Space: 1999).^[57]
• Miguel Angel Cuello, 53, Argentinian boxer.^[58]
• Chuck Higgins, 75, American saxophonist, lung cancer.^[59]
• Giannos Kranidiotis, 51, Greek diplomat and politician, twice Deputy Foreign Minister of Greece,aviation accident.^[60]

• Larry Gene Ashbrook, 47, American mass murderer (Wedgwood Baptist Church shooting), suicide by gunshot.^[61]
• Stewart Bovell, 92, Australian politician.
• Renato Constantino, 80, Filipino historian.
• Lila Leeds, 71, American film actress, heart attack.^[62]
• Michel Pinseau, 73, French architect.
• Jack Hardiman Scott, 79, British journalist and broadcaster.^[63]
• Petr Shelokhonov, 70, Russian actor, director, filmmaker and socialite.^[64]
• Bill Westwood, 73, British Anglican bishop.
• Abdolhossein Zarrinkoob, 76, Iranian scholar.

• Paul Gregory, 91, American baseball player.^[65]
• Viktar Hanchar, 42, Belarusian politician, kidnapped and murdered by theLukashenko regime.^[66]
• Endre Rozsda, 85, Hungarian-French painter.^[67]
• Utaemon Ichikawa, 92, Japanese film actor.

• Leonard Carlitz, 91, American mathematician.^[68]
• Riccardo Cucciolla, 75, Italian actor and voice actor.^[69]
• 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.^[70]
• Joan Gardner, 84, British actress.^[71]
• Hasrat Jaipuri, 77, Indian poet.^[72]
• Harold Johnson, 79, American basketball player.^[73]
• Gary Koshnitsky, 91, Australianchess master.
• François Müller, 72, Luxembourgish football player.
• Henri Storck, 92, Belgian author, filmmaker and documentarist.^[74]
• Rathvon M. Tompkins, 87,United States Marine Corps major general, stroke.^[75]
• Frankie Vaughan, 71, British singer, heart failure.^[76]

• Leo Amberg, 87, Swiss professional road bicycle racer.^[77]
• Philip N. Krasne, 94, American motion picture and television producer.^[78]
• Harold F. Kress, 86, American film editor.^[79]
• Gérard Landry, Argentinian actor.^[80]
• Noel Pope, 91, New Zealand rower and Olympian.^[81]
• Viktor Safronov, 81, Soviet astronomer.
• Leo Valiani, 90, Italian historian, politician and journalist.^[82]
• Leszek Wodzyński, 53, Polish hurdler and Olympian.^[83]

• Ed Cobb, 61, American musician, songwriter, and record producer,leukemia.
• Livio Isotti, 72, Italian road bicycle racer.^[84]
• Pavle Ivić, 74, Serbian Slavicdialectologist andphonologist.^[85]
• Bua Kitiyakara, 89, Thai actress and wife of princeNakkhatra Mangala.^[86]
• Kjell Kristiansen, 74, Norwegian football player.

• Erland Almqvist, 87, Swedish sailor and Olympic silver medalist.^[87]
• Raisa Gorbacheva, 67, Russian activist,leukemia.^[88]
• Taheyya Kariokka, 84, Egyptianbelly dancer and film actress, pneumonia.^[89]
• Robert Lebel, 93, Canadian ice hockey administrator.^[90]
• Karl Heinrich Menges, 91, Germanlinguist.^[91]
• Willy Millowitsch, 90, German actor and director, heart failure.^[92]
• T. R. Rajakumari, 77, Indian film actress, singer and dancer.

• Georgia Louise Harris Brown, 81, American architect.
• Robert Galbraith Heath, 84, American psychiatrist.^[93]
• Benny Kalama, 83, American singer and arranger.
• Sander Thoenes, 30, Dutch journalist, shot inEast Timor.^[94]

• Doris Allen, 63, American politician,colorectal cancer.
• Noriko Awaya, 92, Japanese soprano chanteuse andryūkōka singer.^[95]
• Clive Jenkins, 73, British trade union leader.^[96]
• Tomoo Kudaka, 36, Japanese football player, stomach cancer.^[97]
• Paul Magès, 91, French inventor.
• Jeanine Rueff, 77, French composer and music educator.
• Sal Salvador, 73, Americanbebopjazz guitarist.^[98]
• George C. Scott, 71, American actor (Patton,Dr. Strangelove,The Hustler),Oscar winner (1971),abdominal aortic aneurysm.^[99]
• Chester Starr, 84, American historian.^[100]
• Vasili Trofimov, 80, Soviet football player.

• Ivan Goff, 89, Australian screenwriter, Alzheimer's disease.^[101]
• Sir Piers Jacob, 63,Financial Secretary of Hong Kong (1986 – 1991).
• Ri Jong-ok, 83, Premier of North Korea ( 1977 – 1984).
• Werner Vycichl, 90, Austro-Hungarian philologist, linguist, and academic.^[102]

• Robert Bend, 85, Canadian politician.
• Ester Boserup, 89, Danish and French economist.^[103]
• Rowena Mary Bruce, 80, English chess player.
• Judith Exner, 65, American socialite and mistress ofJohn F. Kennedy,breast cancer.^[104]
• Jack Kiefer, 59, American golfer, cancer.
• Anneli Cahn Lax, 77, American mathematician.^[105]
• Tarmo Manni, 78, Finnish actor.
• Billy Pricer, 65, American gridiron football player.^[106]

• Marion Zimmer Bradley, 69, American author of fantasy and science fiction, heart attack.^[107]
• Teodor Kocerka, 72, Polish rower and Olympic medalist.^[108]
• Des O'Neil, 78, Australian politician,Deputy Premier of Western Australia. (1975 – 1980).
• Guido Pontecorvo, 91, Italian-Scottish geneticist.^[109]
• Anna Shchetinina, 91, Soviet merchant marine sailor.
• Ding Sheng, 85, Chinese general and politician.

• Enzo Carli, 89, Italian art historian and art critic.^[110]
• Jesse Dirkhising, 13, American teenager, drugging and positional asphyxia.
• Malky McDonald, 85, Scottish football player and manager.^[111]
• Bernadette O'Farrell, 75, Irish actress.
• Donald Sanders, 69, American lawyer and a key figure in theWatergate investigation, cancer.

• Philip Haddon-Cave, 74, British colonial administrator, heart attack.^[112]
• Herbert Heilpern, 80, Austrian-Americanassociation football executive.^[113]
• Billy Mould, 79, English footballer.^[114]
• Monique Rolland, 85, French film actress.^[115]
• Krishna Pal Singh, 77, Indian activist and politician.
• Grant Warwick, 77, professional ice hockey player.^[116]

• Franco Caracciolo, 79, Italian conductor.^[117]
• Arumugam Ponnu Rajah, 88, Singaporean judge, diplomat and politician.
• Escott Reid, 94, Canadian diplomat.^[118]
• Marilyn Silverstone, 70, English photojournalist and ordainedbuddhist nun, cancer.^[119]

• Arnold Earley, 66, American baseball player.^[120]
• Walter Joyce, 62, English football player and manager.^[121]
• Gé Korsten, 71, South African opera tenor and actor, suicide by gunshot.
• Yevhen Lapinsky, 57, Ukrainian volleyball player and Olympic champion.^[122]
• Gustavo Leigh, 79, Chilean general, cardiovascular ailments.^[123]
• Jean-Louis Millette, 64, Canadian French-speaking actor and writer.
• Edward William O'Rourke, 81, AmericanRoman Catholic bishop.
• Armando Velasco, 81, Ecuadorian-Mexican actor.

• Avni Akyol, 68, Turkish politician, heart attack.
• Nikolay Annenkov, 100, Soviet and Russian actor.
• Edward C. Banfield, 82, Americanpolitical scientist.^[124]
• Osvaldo Alfredo da Silva, 75, Brazilian football player.
• Tommy Gale, 65, AmericanNASCAR race car driver.
• Thomas Holland, 91, English prelate of theCatholic Church.
• Bruce K. Holloway, 87,American Air Force general, heart failure.
• Dmitry Likhachov, 92, Russian medievalist, linguist andconcentration camp survivor.^[125]
• John Merriman, 63, British long-distance runner and Olympian.^[126]
• Anna Mae Winburn, 86, American vocalist andjazz bandleader.

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