Deaths in February 1999
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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
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- Marion Boyars, 71, British book publisher, pancreatic cancer.Peter Owen, [https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/feb/02/guardianobituaries2 "Marion Boyars obituary"], The Guardian, 2 February 1999, Retrieved 18 May 2019
- Paul Calvert, 81, Canadian baseball player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Paul Calvert Stats - Baseball-Reference.com |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Paul+Calvert |website=baseball-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Alejandro Galindo, 93, Mexican screenwriter and film director.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Alejandro Galindo |url=https://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16206898j |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- Hank Harris, 75, American gridiron football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Hank Harris Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Hank+Harris |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Rudolf Kárpáti, 78, Hungarian fencer and Olympic champion.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Rudolf Kárpáti |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/22475 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Barış Manço, 56, Turkish rock musician, actor, and show host, heart attack.{{cite news |first1=Stephen |last1=Kinzer |author-link1=Stephen Kinzer |title=Baris Manco, Turkish Pop Star And Television Personality, 56 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/07/nyregion/baris-manco-turkish-pop-star-and-television-personality-56.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 August 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=7 February 1999 |page=1 51}}
- Paul Mellon, 91, American philanthropist.{{cite web |title=Obituary: Paul Mellon |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-paul-mellon-1068350.html |website=The Independent |access-date=18 May 2019 |date=3 February 1999}}
- Robin Nedwell, 52, British actor, heart attack.Anthony Hayward [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-robin-nedwell-1068561.html#Scene_1 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.{{cite news |first1=Wolfgang |last1=Saxon |title=Adm. Harold Shear, 80, a Leading Submariner |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/04/us/adm-harold-shear-80-a-leading-submariner.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 May 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=4 February 1999 |page=B 10}}
- Benjamin Elazari Volcani, 84, Israeli microbiologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Benjamin Elazari Volcani - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6dv4s8s |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Julius Wechter, 63, American musician and composer, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Julius Wechter |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb148390226 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=French |date=}}
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- Marie Van Brittan Brown, 76, American nurse and inventor.
- Michel Mathiot, 72, French gymnast and Olympian.{{cite web |title=Olympedia - Michel Mathiot |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/28397 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 August 2022}}
- David McComb, 36, Australian rock musician, heart failure.{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/longway/artist_index/triffids.htm |title=Long Way To The Top |publisher=Abc.net.au |date=1999-02-02 |access-date=2019-05-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090202125519/http://www.abc.net.au/longway/artist_index/triffids.htm |archive-date=2 February 2009 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}
- August Neuburger, 96, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
- Vladimír Petlák, 52, Czech volleyball player and Olympic medalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Vladimír Petlák |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/53038 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Vilmos Tátrai, 86, Hungarian classical violinist .{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Vilmos Tátrai |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb139284268 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- Tunku Puan Besar Kurshiah, 87, Malayan queen of Negeri Sembilan.
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- Norman Bluhm, 77, American painter, heart failure.{{cite web |last1=Dannatt |first1=Asrian |title=Obituary: Norman Bluhm |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-norman-bluhm-1071937.html |website=The Independent |access-date=18 May 2019 |date=20 February 1999}}
- Luc Borrelli, 33, French football player, traffic collision.
- William C. Brown, 82, American electrical engineer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=William C. Brown - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6zk8n42 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Jim Cope, 91, Australian politician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jim Cope - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w60g4hf6 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Alexei Gorokhov, 71, Soviet violinist.
- Gwen Guthrie, 48, American singer-songwriter and pianist, uterine cancer.{{cite web|first1=Pierre|last1=Perrone|title=Obituary: Gwen Guthrie|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-gwen-guthrie-1071018.html|website=www.independent.co.uk|access-date=18 May 2019|date=14 February 1999}}
- Mikko Hietanen, 87, Finnish long-distance runner, European Champion and world record holder.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Mikko Hietanen |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/67583 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Alfred Janes, 87, Welsh artist.
- Herbert Klynn, 81, American animator.{{cite news |author1= |title=Herbert Klynn, 81, Pioneer in Film Animation |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/11/arts/herbert-klynn-81-pioneer-in-film-animation.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 August 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=11 February 1999 |page=C 22}}
- Yu Qiuli, 84, Chinese Army general and politician.
- John S. Service, 89, American diplomat.{{cite news |first1=John |last1=Kifner |author-link1=John Kifner |title=John Service, a Purged 'China Hand,' Dies at 89 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/04/world/john-service-a-purged-china-hand-dies-at-89.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 May 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=4 February 1999 |page=B 11}}
- Vin Sullivan, 87, American comic book editor, artist and publisher.
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- Luigi Bernabò Brea, 88, Italian archaeologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Luigi Bernabò Brea |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12020239f |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- Erich Hartmann, 76, German-American photographer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Erich Hartmann - Library of Congress |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr95021972 |website=id.loc.gov |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Joe Hayes, 63, English football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Joe Hayes |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/joe-hayes/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Arthur Mann, 51, Scottish football player.
- Vittorio Marzotto, 76, Italian racing driver.
- Sean Sellers, 29, American juvenile convict, execution by lethal injection.{{cite news|title=Sellers Executed For 3 Murders|date=1999-02-04|last1=Clay|first1=Nolan|last2=Thornton|first2=Anthony|work=The Daily Oklahoman|url=http://newsok.com/article/2641662|access-date=2019-05-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180413030313/http://newsok.com/article/2641662|archive-date=2018-04-13|url-status=live}}
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- Neville Bonner, 76, Australian politician, first indigenous Member of Parliament.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Neville Bonner - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w60z73mf |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- John L. Cotter, 87, American archaeologist, cancer.{{cite web |title=Death of Dr. John Cotter, Noted Archaeologist |url=https://almanac.upenn.edu/archive/v45/n21/death.html |website=almanac.upenn.edu |access-date=18 May 2019}}
- 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.{{cite news |first1=Roberta |last1=Smith |author-link1=Roberta Smith |title=Nicholas Krushenick, 70, Abstract and Pop Artist |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/07/nyregion/nicholas-krushenick-70-abstract-and-pop-artist.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 May 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=7 February 1999 |page=1 50}}
- Wassily Leontief, 93, Russian economist and Nobel Prize laureate.{{cite web |last1=Dalyell |first1=Tam |title=Obituary: Wassily Leontief |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-wassily-leontief-1070037.html |website=The Independent |access-date=18 May 2019 |date=11 February 1999}}
- Mariya Osipova, 90, Soviet partisan during World War II.
- Indrani Rahman, 68, Indian classical dancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Indrani Rahman - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6xh0ndm |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Linda Sini, 74, Italian film actress.
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- Thomas Banyacya, 89, American Native American traditional leader.{{cite news |author1=Robert McG. Thomas Jr. |author-link1=Robert McG. Thomas Jr. |title=Thomas Banyacya, 89, Teller Of Hopi Prophecy to World |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/15/us/thomas-banyacya-89-teller-of-hopi-prophecy-to-world.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 August 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=15 February 1999 |page=B 8}}
- Erwin Blask, 88, German athlete.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Erwin Blask |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/70161 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Henry S. Clark, 95, American horse trainer.
- Danny Dayton, 75, American actor (All in the Family, Guys and Dolls, Ed Wood), emphysema.{{cite news |author1= |title=Danny Dayton, 75, Actor and Director |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/12/arts/danny-dayton-75-actor-and-director.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=1 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=12 February 1999 |page=B 11}}
- Don Dunstan, 72, Australian politician, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-don-dunstan-1071332.html|title=Obituary: Don Dunstan |newspaper=The Independent |date=17 February 1999 |author=Milliken, Robert |access-date=18 May 2019 | location=London}}
- Yuriy Istomin, 54, Ukrainian footballer.
- Jimmy Roberts, 75, American singer and performer, bone cancer.
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- Hussein I of Jordan, 63, Jordanian monarch, King of Jordan (1952–1999), lymphoma.{{cite web |url=http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/ |title=A Living Tribute to the Legacy of King Hussein I |website=Kinghussein.gov.jo |access-date=17 June 2012}}
- Andrew Keller, 73, British scientist.
- William Ludwig, 86, American screenwriter (Interrupted Melody, Oklahoma!, Athena), Oscar winner (1956), Parkinson's disease.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=William Ludwig - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/07fcd3ba3827461182c4ae49a42e45c4 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=de |date=}}
- Umberto Maglioli, 70, Italian racing driver.
- Antonio Pacenza, 70, Argentine boxer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Antonio Pacenza |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/4983 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- George E. Shambaugh Jr., 95, American otolaryngologist and pioneer in deafness treatments.{{cite news |first1=Holcomb B. |last1=Noble |title=Dr. G. E. Shambaugh Jr., 95, Authority on Ear Disorders |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/17/us/dr-g-e-shambaugh-jr-95-authority-on-ear-disorders.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 May 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=17 February 1999 |page=C 22}}
- Bobby Troup, 80, American actor (Emergency!, M*A*S*H) and songwriter ("(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66").{{cite news|last=Heckman|first=Don|title=Bobby Troup, Writer of Classic Song 'Route 66', Dies|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-feb-09-me-6313-story.html|url-access=subscription|access-date=18 May 2019|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=February 9, 1999}}
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- Richard Boone, 68, American jazz trombonist and scat singer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Richard Boone |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb139470072 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- Meredith Edwards, 81, Welsh actor and writer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Meredith Edwards |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16735153w |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- Madeleine Frieden-Kinnen, 83, Luxembourgish politician.
- Per Knudsen, 73, Danish football player.
- Iris Murdoch, 79, Irish-born British novelist, poet and philosopher, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |last=Bayley |first=John |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/feb/09/7 |title=Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch |newspaper=The Guardian |date=9 February 1999 |access-date=17 June 2012 |location=London}}
- Caroline Robbins, 95, British historian.
- Krishnaswamy Sundarji, 70, British Indian Army officer.{{cite web | url=http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/LAND-FORCES/Personnel/Chiefs/156-K-Sundarji.html | title=General Krishnaswamy Sundarji | access-date=18 May 2019 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527183522/http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/LAND-FORCES/Personnel/Chiefs/156-K-Sundarji.html | archive-date=27 May 2013 | df=dmy-all }}
- Giuseppe Tatarella, 63, Italian politician, heart attack.
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- Richard Allen, 66, British abstract artist and printmaker, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.{{cite web |last1=Tilling |first1=Robert |title=Obituary: Richard Allen |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-richard-allen-1084148.html |website=The Independent |access-date=18 May 2019 |date=31 March 1999}}
- Benjamin Bwalya, 37, Zambian footballer and coach, cerebral malaria.
- Enzo Forcella, 77, Italian essayist, historian and journalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Enzo Forcella |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb155991032 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- Aleksander Gieysztor, 82, Polish medievalist historian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Aleksander Gieysztor |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb120527702 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- Mary LaRoche, 78, American actress and singer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Mary LaRoche |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb170611764 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- Len Levy, 77, American athlete.{{cite news|url=http://m.startribune.com/obituaries/11600316.html |title=Butch Levy, 78, 'U' football star |work=Star Tribune |date=February 11, 1999 |access-date=May 18, 2019 |author=Her, Lucy Y. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150726165642/http://m.startribune.com/obituaries/11600316.html |archive-date=July 26, 2015}}
- Bryan Mosley, 67, British television and film actor, (Coronation Street), heart attack.{{cite news |last=Dodd |first=Vikram |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/feb/10/vikramdodd |title=Cast of The Street mourns death of actor Bryan Mosley |newspaper=The Guardian |date=10 February 1999 |access-date=17 June 2012 |location=London}}
- Bernhard Paus, 88, Norwegian orthopedic surgeon.
- Jaturun Siripongs, 47, Thai murderer, execution by lethal injection.{{cite news|date=February 10, 1999|title=National News Briefs; California Executes A Remorseful Killer|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/10/us/national-news-briefs-california-executes-a-remorseful-killer.html|access-date=December 19, 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20211219211841/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/10/us/national-news-briefs-california-executes-a-remorseful-killer.html|archive-date=December 19, 2021|url-status=live}}
- Inga-Stina Robson, 79, Anglo-Swedish political activist.
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- Yuri Borienko, 66, Polish actor and wrestler. (On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film))https://wrestlingheritage.co.uk/yuri-borienko/
- 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.{{cite news |date=19 February 1999 |newspaper=The Independent |first=Tam |last=Dalyell |title=Obituary: Joan Curran |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-joan-curran-1071704.html |access-date= 18 May 2019 }}
- Ann-Marie Gyllenspetz, 66, Swedish actress.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ann-Marie Gyllenspetz - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/0bed1b5a5ee649d394b2a6bebc6f1bcb |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=de |date=}}
- Billy Houliston, 77, Scottish footballer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Billy Houliston |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/billy-houliston/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Joe M. Kilgore, 80, American combat pilot during World War II and politician.{{cite news |first1=Eric |last1=Pace |author-link1=List of The New York Times employees |title=Joe M. Kilgore, 80, Congressman From Texas Who Aided Johnson |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/15/us/joe-m-kilgore-80-congressman-from-texas-who-aided-johnson.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 August 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=15 February 1999 |page=B 8}}
- Herb Krautblatt, 72, American basketball player.[https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/k/krauthe01.html Herb Krautblatt]. basketball-reference.com. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- Jean Levavasseur, 74, French fencer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=matchID - Jean Levavasseur |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/JsjA11-huSVv |website=Fichier des décès |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=fr |date=}}
- Y. B. Mangunwijaya, 69, Indonesian architect, writer and Catholic religious leader.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Y. B. Mangunwijaya - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6pk2rxv |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Joseph Marie Nguyễn Tùng Cương, 79, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Hải Phòng (1979–1999).[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bngtc.html Bishop Joseph Nguyễn Tùng Cương †]
- Gideon Rafael, 86, Israeli diplomat.{{cite news |first1=Joel |last1=Greenberg |title=Gideon Rafael, 85, a Founder of the Israeli Foreign Ministry |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/12/world/gideon-rafael-85-a-founder-of-the-israeli-foreign-ministry.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 August 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=12 February 1999 |page=B 11}}
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- William Alonso, 66, Argentinian-American planner and economist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=William Alonso - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6kw66rp |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Leonard J. Arrington, 81, American Mormon historian, heart failure.[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/13/us/leonard-j-arrington-81-mormon-historian.html Leonard J. Arrington, 81, Mormon Historian]
- Danny Barber, 43, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
- John Brack, 78, Australian painter.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=John Brack - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w60293wt |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Jaki Byard, 76, American jazz musician, composer and arranger, shot.{{cite news |first1=Peter |last1=Watrous |title=Jaki Byard, a Jazz Musician And Teacher, Is Dead at 76 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/15/arts/jaki-byard-a-jazz-musician-and-teacher-is-dead-at-76.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=1 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=15 February 1999 |page=B 8}}
- Toni Fisher, 74, American pop singer, heart attack.
- Stoyan Gadev, 67, Bulgarian actor.
- Werner Korff, 87, German ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Werner Korff |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/88528 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Dragan Kovačić, 59, Yugoslav-Croatian basketball player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Dragan Kovačić |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/6439 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Rose Mbowa, 56, Ugandan writer, actress, academic and feminist.
- Hugh McCullough, 82, American gridiron football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Hugh McCullough Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Hugh+McCullough |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Brian Parsons, 65, English cricket player.{{cite web |title=Brian Parsons profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/brian-parsons-18779 |website=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=18 August 2022}}
- 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.{{cite news |first1=Joseph |last1=Durso |title=Whitney Tower, 75, Writer And Leader in Horse Racing |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/12/sports/whitney-tower-75-writer-and-leader-in-horse-racing.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 May 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=12 February 1999 |page=B 11}}
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- Paul Bairoch, 68, Belgian-Swiss economic historian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Paul Bairoch |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11889920m |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- André Devigny, 82, French soldier and member of the Résistance.{{cite news|last1=Johnson|first1=Douglas|title=Obituary: General Andre Devigny|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-general-andre-devigny-1073031.html|work=The Independent|date=25 February 1999|access-date=18 May 2019}}
- Jimmy Dudley, 89, American baseball player and sportscaster.{{cite news |first1=Richard |last1=Goldstein |author-link1=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) |title=Jimmy Dudley, 89; Broadcast 20 Years of Indians Baseball |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/17/sports/jimmy-dudley-89-broadcast-20-years-of-indians-baseball.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 August 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=17 February 1999 |page=C 23}}
- Rexhep Krasniqi, 92, Albanian-American historian, nationalist, anti-communist politician and activist.
- Grace Panvini, 91, American soprano and voice teacher{{cite news|title=Grace Panvini Rice, Opera Singer, Teacher|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1999/02/13/grace-panvini-riceopera-singerteacher/|date=February 13, 1999|work=South Florida Sun Sentinel}}
- Heinz Schubert, 73, German actor, drama teacher and photographer, pneumonia.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Heinz Schubert - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/75dadcc0380c4377bf7d5de838df8358 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=de |date=}}
- Michel Seuphor, 97, Belgian painter.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Michel Seuphor - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6sb4rg9 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
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- Peko Dapčević, 85, Yugoslav communist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Peko Dapčević |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12959783n |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- Michael Higgins, 90, American glass artist.{{cite news |first1=Julie V. |last1=Iovine |title=Michael Higgins, an Innovator In Glass Design, Is Dead at 90 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/07/nyregion/michael-higgins-an-innovator-in-glass-design-is-dead-at-90.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 August 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=7 March 1999 |page=1 49}}
- Kåre Hovda, 55, Norwegian biathlete and Olympian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Kåre Hovda |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/87176 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Gary Jennings, 70, American author, heart failure.{{cite news |first1=Dinitia |last1=Smith |author-link1=Dinitia Smith |title=Gary Jennings Is Dead at 70; Author of the Best Seller 'Aztec' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/18/arts/gary-jennings-is-dead-at-70-author-of-the-best-seller-aztec.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 May 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=18 February 1999 |page=C 23}}
- Ron McLean, 60, Australian politician, asbestos-related lung condition.{{cite web|title=McLean, Ronald Thomas (Ron)|publisher=Parliament of Queensland|year=2015| url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=2025279900|access-date= 18 May 2019}}
- Carles Sabater, 36, Catalan singer and actor, respiratory arrest.{{cite news|url=http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/SABATER/_CARLES/SAU_/MUSICA/Muere/36/anos/Carles/Sabater/lider/grupo/pop/rock/Sau/elpepicul/19990214elpepicul_9/Tes|newspaper=El País|title=Muere a los 36 años Carles Sabater, líder del grupo de pop rock Sau (Carles Sabater, leader of the pop rock group Sau, dies at 36)|date=14 February 1999|access-date=18 May 2019|language=es}}
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- Sam Bartholomew, 81, American gridiron football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Sam Bartholomew Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Sam+Bartholomew |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- John Ehrlichman, 73, United States Domestic Policy Council and Watergate scandal conspirator, diabetes.Rubin, Alissa J., [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-feb-16-mn-8502-story.html "Nixon Loyalist Ehrlichman Is Dead at 73"], LA Times, February 16, 1999.
- Buddy Knox, 65, American singer and songwriter, lung cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Buddy Knox |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14043298c |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- 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.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Raymond Thompson |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/51588 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Majken Åberg, 80, Swedish discus thrower and Olympian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Majken Åberg |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/75975 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
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- Agnes Bernelle, 75, Berlin-born expatriate actress and singer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Agnes Bernelle - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/83cffaf436c14e19a5071172c72ebde5 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=de |date=}}
- Jeffery Cohelan, 84, American politician and political activist.{{cite news |author1= |title=Jeffery Cohelan, 84, Advocate Of Liberal Causes in Congress |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/19/us/jeffery-cohelan-84-advocate-of-liberal-causes-in-congress.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 August 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=19 February 1999 |page=A 19}}
- Billy Garrett, 65, American racecar driver.
- Henry Way Kendall, 72, American physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, drowned.{{cite news |first1=Wolfgang |last1=Saxon |title=H. Kendall, A Nobelist, Dies at 72 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/17/us/h-kendall-a-nobelist-dies-at-72.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 August 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=17 February 1999 |page=C 22}}
- Aigars Kriķis, 44, Soviet and Latvian luger.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Aigars Kriķis |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/88629 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Big L, 24, American Freestyle rapper (D.I.T.C.), shot.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bigl |title=Big L |magazine=Rolling Stone |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090910042925/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bigl |archive-date=10 September 2009}}
- Gordon Neil Stewart, 86, Australian writer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Gordon Neil Stewart - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w69d4cq7 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Ferenc Vozar, 53, Hungarian ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Ferenc Vozar |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/98732 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
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- Björn Afzelius, 52, Swedish progg singer and guitarist, lung cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Björn Afzelius - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w60165vq |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Necil Kazım Akses, 90, Turkish classical composer.{{cite book|editor-last=Randel|editor-first=Don Michael|title=The Harvard biographical dictionary of music|year=1996|publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press|location=Cambridge, Mass.|isbn=0-674-37299-9|pages=[https://archive.org/details/harvardbiographi00rand/page/9 9]|chapter=Akses, Necil Kazim|chapter-url-access=registration|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/harvardbiographi00rand/page/9}}
- Guillermo Arellano, 90, Chilean football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Guillermo Arellano |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/guillermo-arellano/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Fritzi Burger, 88, Austrian figure skater.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Fritzi Burger |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/80755 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Petre Crowder, 79, British barrister and politician.
- Ugo Grappasonni, 76, Italian professional golfer.
- Herbert S. Green, 78, British–Australian physicist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Herbert S. Green |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15528816n |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- James Hill, 72, British politician.
- Henk Hofstra, 94, Dutch politician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Henk Hofstra |url=http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/14136471 |website=biografischportaal.nl |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=nl |date=}}
- Johan Kvandal, 79, Norwegian composer.
- Michael Larson, 49, American game show contestant, throat cancer.
- 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.{{cite news |first1=Ben |last1=Ratliff |author-link1=Ben Ratliff |title=Betty Roche, Singer of Blues And Be-Bop, 81 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/01/arts/betty-roche-singer-of-blues-and-be-bop-81.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=1 March 1999 |page=A 19}}
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- Thomas James Carr, 89, British artist.{{cite web |first=David|last=Buckman|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-tom-carr-1081307.html|title=Obituary: Tom Carr|date=18 March 1999|access-date=18 May 2019|work=The Independent}}
- Kurt Robert Eissler, 90, Austrian psychoanalyst.{{cite news |first1=Sarah |last1=Boxer |title=Kurt Eissler, 90, Director Of Sigmund Freud Archives |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/20/arts/kurt-eissler-90-director-of-sigmund-freud-archives.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 August 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=20 February 1999 |page=A 13}}
- Jaime Hurtado, 62, Ecuadorian politician, shot.
- William D. McElroy, 82, American biochemist and academic.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=William D. McElroy - Library of Congress |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50007373 |website=id.loc.gov |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Sunshine Parker, 71, American actor (Tremors, Road House, Pee-wee's Big Adventure), pneumonia.
- Shirley Stoler, 69, American actress, heart failure.{{cite news |author1= |title=Shirley Stoler, 69, Actress Hailed For Her Role in 'Seven Beauties' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/28/nyregion/shirley-stoler-69-actress-hailed-for-her-role-in-seven-beauties.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 May 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=28 February 1999 |page=1 35}}
- Tania, 90, Spanish tango singer known as "Tania".{{cite news|last1=Graham-Yooll|first1=Andrew|title=Obituary: Tania|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-tania-1080928.html|access-date=18 May 2019|newspaper=The Independent|date=15 March 1999|location=London, England}}
- R.S. Unni, 73, Indian politician and trade unionist.
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- Felipe Alfau, 96, Spanish-American novelist and poet.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Felipe Alfau - DB~e |url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/6272/felipe-alfau |website=dbe.rah.es |publisher=Real Academia de la Historia |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=es |date=}}
- Andreas Feininger, 92, American photographer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Andreas Feininger |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andreas-Feininger |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Tibor Házi, 87, Hungarian table tennis player.
- Nikolay Latyshev, 85, Soviet and Russian football player and referee.
- Olle Nordemar, 84, Swedish cinematographer, screenwriter, film director and producer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olle Nordemar - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/4a7ac691cd184970be341028f43f63f9 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=de |date=}}
- Noam Pitlik, 66, American actor and television director, lung cancer.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hnjGCwAAQBAJ |title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 1999: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture |first=Harris M. |last=Lentz III |date=1 July 2000 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786409198 |via=Google Books}}
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- Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, 55, Iraqi Shia marja', shot.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb155549157 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- Khumar Barabankvi, 79, Indian Urdu poet and lyricist.
- Wilford Berry, Jr., 36, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
- Robert Coulson, 70, American science fiction writer and bookseller.
- Trudy Desmond, 53, Canadian jazz singer.
- Richard E. Dutrow, Sr., 61, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer.
- Lloyd La Beach, 76, Panamanian sprinter, 100 meters world record holder (1948) and Olympian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Lloyd LaBeach |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/74452 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Lady Pansy Lamb, 94, English writer also known as "Pansy Pakenham".{{cite web |last1=Jolliffe |first1=John |title=Obituary: Lady Pansy Lamb |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-lady-pansy-lamb-1073023.html |website=The Independent |access-date=18 May 2019 |date=25 February 1999}}
- Georg Meier, 88, German motorcycle racer.{{cite web |title=THEY CALLED HIM SCHORSCH, THE CAST IRON MAN. |url=https://www.bmwgroup-classic.com/en/classic-heart/classic-heart-pool/classic-heart/Schorsch-Meier.html |website=bmwgroup-classic.com |access-date=18 May 2019 |archive-date=May 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190518133439/https://www.bmwgroup-classic.com/en/classic-heart/classic-heart-pool/classic-heart/Schorsch-Meier.html |url-status=dead }}
- Primo Miller, 83, American gridiron football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Primo Miller Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Primo+Miller |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Constantin Oțet, 58, Romanian football coach.
- Paul Schmidt, 65, American actor, poet, playwright and essayist.{{cite news |first1=Stephen |last1=Holden |author-link1=Stephen Holden |title=Paul Schmidt, 65, Translator, Poet and Actor |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/21/nyregion/paul-schmidt-65-translator-poet-and-actor.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 May 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=21 February 1999 |page=1 47}}
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- Howard Boatwright, 80, American composer, violinist and musicologist.{{cite news |first1=Allan |last1=Kozinn |author-link1=Allan Kozinn |title=Howard Boatwright, Violinist, Composer and Professor, 80 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/24/arts/howard-boatwright-violinist-composer-and-professor-80.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=24 February 1999 |page=C 22}}
- Willard R. Espy, 88, American philologist, writer and poet.{{cite news |author1=Robert McG. Thomas Jr. |author-link1=Robert McG. Thomas Jr. |title=Willard Espy, Who Delighted In Wordplay, Is Dead at 88 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/25/arts/willard-espy-who-delighted-in-wordplay-is-dead-at-88.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=25 February 1999 |page=B 12}}
- Lotti van der Gaag, 75, Dutch sculptor and painter.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Lotti van der Gaag - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w62n6544 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Frans Grootjans, 77, Belgian politician and minister.
- Molly Harrower, 93, American clinical psychologist.{{cite news |first1=Wolfgang |last1=Saxon |title=Molly Harrower, 93, Expert on Rorschach Test |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/28/us/molly-harrower-93-expert-on-rorschach-test.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=28 February 1999 |page=1 34}}
- Sarah Kane, 28, English playwright, suicide by hanging.{{cite news |first1=Warren |last1=Hoge |author-link1=Warren Hoge |title=Sarah Kane, 28, Bleak, Explosive Playwright |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/25/theater/sarah-kane-28-bleak-explosive-playwright.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=25 February 1999 |page=B 12}}
- Al Krueger, 79, American gridiron football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Al Krueger Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/K/KrueAl21.htm |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Michael Sgan-Cohen, 54, Israeli artist, art historian, curator and critic.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Michael Sgan-Cohen |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb130259836 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- Gene Siskel, 53, American film critic (Chicago Tribune) and television journalist (At the Movies), brain cancer.{{cite news |author1=Robert McG. Thomas Jr. |author-link1=Robert McG. Thomas Jr. |title=Gene Siskel, Half of the Noted Movie-Review Team, Dies at 53 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/22/nyregion/gene-siskel-half-of-the-noted-movie-review-team-dies-at-53.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 June 2012 |work=The New York Times |date=22 February 1999 |page=B 8}}
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- Gertrude B. Elion, 81, American biochemist, pharmacologist and Nobel Prize recipient .{{cite journal|last=Avery|first=Mary Ellen|author-link = Mary Ellen Avery| doi = 10.1098/rsbm.2007.0051 | title = Gertrude Belle Elion. 23 January 1918 – 21 February 1999 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 54 | pages = 161–168 | year = 2008| doi-access = free }}
- Hideo Itokawa, 86, Japanese aircraft designer and rocketry pioneer.{{cite news|last1=Kirkup|first1=James|title=Obituary: Hideo Itokawa|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-hideo-itokawa-1081504.html|access-date=18 May 2019|newspaper=The Independent|date=19 March 1999}}
- Ilmari Juutilainen, 85, Finnish flying ace during World War II.
- Kaya, 38, Mauritian musician and creator of the seggae genre.
- Walter Lini, 57, Prime Minister of Vanuatu.{{cite news |first1=Michael T. |last1=Kaufman |author-link1=Michael T. Kaufman |title=Walter Lini, 57, Clergyman Who Led Nation of Vanuatu |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/23/world/walter-lini-57-clergyman-who-led-nation-of-vanuatu.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 August 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=23 February 1999 |page=A 21}}
- Wilmer Mizell, 68, American athlete and politician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Wilmer Mizell Stats - Baseball-Reference.com |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Wilmer+Mizell |website=baseball-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Jørgen Leschly Sørensen, 76, Danish footballer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Jørgen Leschly Sørensen |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/24698 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Leyla Vakilova, 72, Azerbaijani ballerina and ballet teacher.
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- Bitto Albertini, 74, Italian film director and screenwriter.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bitto Albertini |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14073937q |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- William Bronk, 81, American poet.{{cite news |first1=Peter |last1=Applebome |author-link1=Peter Applebome |title=William M. Bronk, 81, a Poet Of Depth and Haunting Vision |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/25/arts/william-m-bronk-81-a-poet-of-depth-and-haunting-vision.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=25 February 1999 |page=B 12}}
- Charles Gerhardt, 72, American conductor, record producer, and arranger.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Charles Gerhardt |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13894406z |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- Howie Haak, 87, American baseball scout.{{cite news |first1=Richard |last1=Goldstein |author-link1=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) |title=Howie Haak, Baseball Pioneer In Latin America, Dies at 87 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/01/sports/howie-haak-baseball-pioneer-in-latin-america-dies-at-87.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 May 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=1 March 1999 |page=A 18}}
- Carlos Hathcock, 56, United States Marine Corps sniper, multiple sclerosis.
- Menno Oosting, 34, Dutch tennis player, traffic collision.{{cite news|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/menno-oosting-1.300490|title=Menno Oosting|date=March 20, 1999|work=Sunday Herald|access-date=18 May 2019}}
- Pat Upton, 54, Irish politician and veterinarian, heart attack.
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- Sir Anthony Nutting, 3rd Baronet, 79, British diplomat and politician, heart failure.{{cite news |first1=Warren |last1=Hoge |author-link1=Warren Hoge |title=Sir Anthony Nutting, 79, Dies; 'No' on Suez Cost His Career |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/26/world/sir-anthony-nutting-79-dies-no-on-suez-cost-his-career.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=26 February 1999 |page=A 19}}
- Stanley Dance, 88, British jazz writer and record producer, pneumonia.Steve Voce, [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-stanley-dance-1077797.html "Obituary: Stanley Dance"], The Independent, 2 March 1999. Retrieved 18 May 2019
- Ruth Gipps, 78, English composer, oboist, pianist, and conductor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ruth Gipps - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w64n13qn |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Hughie Lee-Smith, 83, American artist, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Hughie Lee-Smith - Library of Congress |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83125289 |website=id.loc.gov |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Gershon Legman, 81, American cultural critic and folklorist, complications following a stroke.{{cite web |last1=Landesman |first1=Jay |title=Obituary: Gershon Legman |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-gershon-legman-1083016.html |website=The Independent |access-date=17 May 2019 |date=26 March 1999}}
- Chip Myers, 53, American football player, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Chip Myers Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Chip+Myers |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- David Chilton Phillips, 74, British biologist, prostate cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=David Chilton Phillips - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6jv4vf3 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Heinrich Schmid, 77, Swiss linguist.
- Rick Wilson, 33, American professional wrestler, suicide by gunshot.
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- David Daube, 90, German scholar of ancient law.{{cite news |first1=Eric |last1=Pace |author-link1=List of The New York Times employees |title=David Daube, 90, an Authority On Talmudic and Roman Law |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/08/us/david-daube-90-an-authority-on-talmudic-and-roman-law.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=8 March 1999 |page=B 7}}
- Andre Dubus, 62, American short story writer and essayist, heart attack.{{cite web |title=Andre Dubus AMERICAN AUTHOR |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andre-Dubus |website=Encyclopaedia Britannica |access-date=13 May 2019}}
- Virginia Foster Durr, 95, American white civil rights activist and lobbyist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Virginia Foster Durr - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6sf3068 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, 94, English politician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6rv0t97 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Fathy Ghanem, 74, Egyptian writer.
- Enzo Menegotti, 73, Italian football player.
- Derek Nimmo, 68, English actor and author, fall.{{cite news |title=Obituary:Derek Nimmo |first=Anthony |last=Hayward |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-derek-nimmo-1073206.html |newspaper=The Independent |date=26 February 1999 |access-date=13 May 2019}}
- Catharina Roodzant, 102, Dutch female chess master.
- Ahmed Sharif, 78, Bangladeshi philosopher, writer and academic.
- Frank Leslie Walcott, 82, Barbadian politician, diplomat and umpire.
- Vann "Piano Man" Walls, 80, American R&B musician, cancer.{{cite web|title=Harry Van Walls Artist Biography|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/harry-van-walls-mn0000665299/biography|work=Allmusic.com|access-date=13 May 2019}}
- Johnnie Wittig, 84, American baseball player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Johnnie Wittig Stats - Baseball-Reference.com |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Johnnie+Wittig |website=baseball-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
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- Dina Dreyfus, 88, French anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher.
- Murad Ozdoev, 76, Ingush flying ace during World War II.
- Sol Schoenbach, 84, American bassoonist and teacher.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Sol Schoenbach - Library of Congress |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83051517 |website=id.loc.gov |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Glenn T. Seaborg, 86, American nuclear chemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1951), complications of a stroke.{{cite news |first1=Malcolm W. |last1=Browne |title=Glenn Seaborg, Leader of Team That Found Plutonium, Dies at 86 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/27/us/glenn-seaborg-leader-of-team-that-found-plutonium-dies-at-86.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 August 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=27 February 1999 |page=A 1}}
- Štěpán Zavřel, 66, Czech painter, graphic artist and writer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Štěpán Zavřel |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11929617t |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=French |date=}}
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- Michael Avallone, 74, American author.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Michael Avallone |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11889640d |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=19 August 2022 |language=French |date=}}
- Jean Coulomb, 94, French geophysicist and mathematician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jean Coulomb - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w63k690m |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Annibale Frossi, 87, Italian football player and manager.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Annibale Frossi |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/26054 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Elbridge T. Gerry, 90, American banker and polo player.Joseph Durso, [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/06/sports/elbridge-t-gerry-90-polo-star-and-banker-who-bred-trotters.html Elbridge T. Gerry, 90, Polo Star And Banker Who Bred Trotters], The New York Times, March 06, 1999. Retrieved May 13, 2019
- John L. Goldwater, 83, American comic book editor and publisher.{{Cite news| first=Denis | last=Gifford | title=Obituary: John L. Goldwater | date=March 27, 1999 | work=The Independent | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-john-l-goldwater-1083238.html |access-date = May 13, 2019 }}
- János Péter, 88, Hungarian politician.
- José Quintero, 74, Panamanian theatre director and pedagogue, esophageal cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=José Quintero |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-Quintero |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Opoku Ware II, 79, 15th Emperor-King of the Ashanti people.
- Bjørn Wiik, 62, Norwegian physicist, domestic accident.{{cite news |author= |title=DESY director, Bjorn Wiik, dies |url=http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/1999/feb/26/desy-director-bjorn-wiik-dies |work=Physics World|date=February 26, 1999 |access-date=May 13, 2019 }}
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- George Hughley, 59, American football player and coach, traffic collision.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=George Hughley Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=George+Hughley |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
- Bob McNeish, 86, American football player and coach.{{cite news |title=Former defensive half-back, assistant coach dies at 86 |first=Kodi |last=Hirst |url=http://www.usc.edu/student-affairs/dt/V136/N32/03-former.32c.html |newspaper=Daily Trojan |date=March 4, 1999 |access-date=May 13, 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525042529/http://www.usc.edu/student-affairs/dt/V136/N32/03-former.32c.html |archive-date=May 25, 2011 }}
- Vida Steinert, 96, New Zealand painter.
- Horace Tapscott, 64, American jazz pianist and composer.{{cite news |first1=Ben |last1=Ratliff |author-link1=Ben Ratliff |title=Horace Tapscott, Jazz Pianist And Community Advocate, 64 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/03/arts/horace-tapscott-jazz-pianist-and-community-advocate-64.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=3 March 1999 |page=B 9}}
- Luis Vidal, 82, Chilean football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Luis Vidal |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/luis-vidal/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
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- Anthea Askey, 65, English actress.
- Dave Bedwell, 70, British racing cyclist.
- Ara Harutyunyan, 70, Armenian sculptor and graphic artist.
- Clarence Henry, 72, American boxer.
- Lionel Berry, 2nd Viscount Kemsley, 89, British politician, peer and newspaper editor.
- Kenny Robinson, 29, American baseball player, traffic collision.{{cite web |title=Ex-Pitcher Dies In Car Accident |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-pitcher-dies-in-car-accident/ |work=CBS news |access-date=13 May 2019 |date=28 February 1999}}
- Bill Talbert, 80, American tennis player.{{cite news |first1=Robin |last1=Finn |title=Bill Talbert, Tennis Champion, Is Dead at 80 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/02/sports/bill-talbert-tennis-champion-is-dead-at-80.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=13 May 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=2 March 1999 |page=C 21}}
- Bing Xin, 98, Chinese writer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bing Xin |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bingxin |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=19 August 2022 |language= |date=}}
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