Obituary/1999

2: [Rolf Liebermann]?, aged 88, composer

14: [Aldo van Eyck]?, aged 80, architect

February

5: Hussein?, aged 63, king of Jordan (cancer)

8: [Iris Murdoch]?, aged 79, writer

22: William Bronk, (1918-1999), poet

March

2: [Dusty Springfield]?, aged 59, singer

4: Karel van het Reve, aged 77, Dutch writer

7: Stanley Kubrick, aged 70, movie director

8: [Joe DiMaggio]?, aged 84, baseball player

12: [Yehudi Menuhin]?, aged 82, violin player/director ([heart attack]?)

April

25: [Lord Killanin]?, aged 84, chairman of the IOC

May

8: [Dana Plato]?, age 34, actress

10?: Shel Silverstein, aged 68, childrens poet

June

17: [Basil Hume]?, aged 76, archbishop of Westminster?

27: [Jorgos Papadopoulos]?, aged 80, dictator of Greece

July

1: [Joshua Nkomo]?, aged 83, Zimbabwian politician

2: [Mario Puzo]?], aged 78, writer ([The Godfather]?)

17: [John Kennedy jr.]?, aged 38, publisher, son of John F. Kennedy (airplane crash)

23: [Hassan II]?, aged 70, king of Morocco (heart attack)

August

13: [Ignaz Bubis]?, aged 72, leader German Jewish community

28: [Dom Helder Camera]?, aged 90, Brazilian bishop and human rights activist

September

10: Alfredo Kraus, (1927-1999), Opera tenor singer.

20: Raïsa Gorbachev, aged 67, wife of Soviet president [Mikhail Gorbachev]?

October

3: [Heinz G. Konsalik]?, aged 78, writer

6: [Amalia Rodrigues]?, aged 79, Portuguese singer

14: [Julius Nyerere]?, aged 77, Tanzanian politician

19: [Harry Bannink]?, aged 70, Dutch songwriter

26: [Rex Gildo]?, aged 63, German singer

November

18: Doug Sahm, aged 58, Country and Rock musician

December

10: [Rick Danko]?, aged 56, rock singer (The Band)

11: [Franjo Tudjman]?, aged 77, president of Croatia

12: [Joseph Heller]?, aged 76, writer (Catch-22)

17: [Grover Washington]?, aged 56, saxophone player

19: [Desmond Llewelyn]?, aged 85, actor (Q in the James Bond movies)

26: [Curtis Mayfield]?, aged 57, singer/composer