In the year 1999
601 Notable deaths
Mimi Pollak
Swedish actor and theatre director.
Born June 9th, 1903 in Karlstad church parish. [ref]
Died August 11th, 1999 at 96 years old in Stockholm.
Clifton Fadiman
American editor (1904-1999).
Born May 15th, 1904 in Brooklyn.
Died June 20th, 1999 at 95 years old in Florida (pancreatic cancer).
Brian Moore
Novelist and screenwriter from northern ireland (1921-1999).
Born August 25th, 1921 in Belfast. [ref]
Died January 11th, 1999 at 77 years old in Malibu (disease). [ref]
Horst P. Horst
German-american photographer.
Born August 14th, 1906 in Weißenfels. [ref]
Died November 18th, 1999 at 93 years old in Palm Beach Gardens. [ref]
Christopher Cockerell
English engineer.
Born June 4th, 1910 in Cambridge.
Died June 1st, 1999 at 88 years old in Sutton Scotney.
Mark Weiser
American computer scientist (1952-1999).
Born July 23rd, 1952 in Harvey.
Died April 27th, 1999 at 46 years old
Arthur Leonard Schawlow
American physicist.
Born May 5th, 1921 in Mount Vernon. [ref]
Died April 28th, 1999 at 77 years old in Palo Alto. [ref]
Rafael Alberti Merollo
Spanish poet (1902–1999).
Born December 16th, 1902 in El Puerto de Santa María.
Died October 28th, 1999 at 96 years old in Cádiz, El Puerto de Santa María.
Harvey Postlethwaite
British engineer and technical director.
Born March 4th, 1944 in Barnet.
Died April 15th, 1999 at 55 years old in Barcelona (myocardial infarction).
Joseph Francis Shea
Aerospace engineer (1926-1999).
Born September 5th, 1926 in The Bronx. [ref]
Died February 14th, 1999 at 72 years old in Weston.
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Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. Henry David Thoreau