1999

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1960s 1970s 1980s – 1990s – 2000s 2010s 2020s
Years:	1996 1997 1998 – 1999 – 2000 2001 2002

1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar, the 1999th year of the Common Era (CE) and the Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 999th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1990s decade.

Events

January

Susan Strasberg

January 4 – Iron Eyes Cody, American actor (b. 1904)
January 11 – Fabrizio De André, Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
January 11 – Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (b. 1921)
January 14 – Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933)
January 21 – Susan Strasberg, American actress (b. 1938)
January 22 – Graham Staines, Australian missionary (b. 1941)
January 25 – Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (b. 1924)
January 25 – Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
January 28 – Markey Robinson, Irish painter (b. 1918)
January 30 – Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)
January 31 – Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (b. 1929)

February

Hussein of Jordan

Gene Siskel

Glenn Seaborg

February 1 – Paul Mellon, American philanthropist (b. 1907)
February 1 – Barış Manço, Turkish singer and television personality (b. 1943)
February 5 – Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
February 6 – Jimmy Roberts, American singer (b. 1924)
February 6 – Don Dunstan, Australian politician (b. 1926)
February 6 - Danny Dayton, American actor (b. 1923)
February 7 – King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
February 8 – Iris Murdoch, Irish writer (b. 1919)
February 12 – Toni Fisher, American pop singer (b. 1931)
February 14 – John Ehrlichman, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1925)
February 14 – Buddy Knox, American singer (b. 1933)
February 15 – Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
February 15 – Big L, American rapper (b. 1974)
February 17 – Sunshine Parker, American actor (b. 1927)
February 18 – Noam Pitlik, American actor and director (b. 1932)
February 18 – Michael Larson, American game show celebrity (b. 1949)
February 20 – Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971)
February 20 – Gene Siskel, American movie critic (b. 1946)
February 21 – Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1918)
February 22 – William Bronk, American poet (b. 1918)
February 24 – Andre Dubus, American short-story writer (b. 1936)
February 24 – Virginia Foster Durr, American civil rights activist (b. 1903)
February 24 – Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (b. 1916)
February 25 – Glenn Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
February 26 – José Quintero, Panamanian director (b. 1924)
February 28 – Bill Talbert, American tennis player (b. 1918)

March

Dusty Springfield

Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa

Stanley Kubrick

Joe DiMaggio

March 1 – Ann Corio, American dancer and actress (b. 1914)
March 2 – Dusty Springfield, English singer (b. 1939)
March 3 – Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
March 4 – Harry Blackmun, American judge (b. 1908)
March 4 – Del Close, American actor, writer, and teacher (b. 1934)
March 5 – Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
March 6 – Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Emir of Bahrain (b. 1933)
March 7 – Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Agency official (b. 1918)
March 7 – Stanley Kubrick, American movie director and producer (b. 1928)
March 8 – Peggy Cass, American actress (b. 1924)
March 8 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1914)
March 12 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (b. 1916)
March 13 – Garson Kanin, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1912)
March 17 – Ernest Gold, Austrian-born composer (b. 1921)
March 18 – Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (b. 1914)
March 18 – Rod Hull, British entertainer (b. 1935)
March 21 – Ernie Wise, British comedian (b. 1925)
March 24 – Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
March 25 – Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball player and manager (b. 1935)
March 29 – Joe Williams, American singer (b. 1918)
March 31 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist and epigrapher (b. 1922)

April

Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin

Arthur Leonard Schawlow

Alf Ramsey

April 3 – Lionel Bart, English composer (b. 1930)
April 4 – Faith Domergue, American actress (b. 1924)
April 10 – Jean Vander Pyl, American television actress (b. 1919)
April 12 – Boxcar Willie, American country music singer (b. 1931)
April 14 – Ellen Corby, American actress (b. 1911)
April 14 – Anthony Newley, English actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1931)
April 20 – Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
April 20 – Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist (b. 1896)
April 21 – Charles Rogers, American actor (b. 1904)
April 25 – Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, 6th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1914)
April 25 – Herman Miller, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1919)
April 27 – Al Hirt, American trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1922)
April 27 – Cyril Washbrook, English cricketer (b. 1914)
April 28 – Rory Calhoun, American television and movie actor (b. 1922)
April 28 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
April 30 – Alf Ramsey, English football manager (b. 1920)

May

Owen Hart

May 2 – Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938)
May 8 – Dirk Bogarde, English actor (b. 1921)
May 10 – Shel Silverstein, American writer and poet (b. 1930)
May 10 – Eric Willis, Australian politician, former Premier of New South Wales (b. 1922)
May 12 – Saul Steinberg, Romanian-born cartoonist (b. 1914)
May 13 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
May 17 – Henry Jones, American actor (b. 1912)
May 18 – Betty Robinson, American athlete (b. 1911)
May 23 – Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1965)
May 26 – Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906)