List of Famous people who died in 1999

John Bloom was an American actor.

Gastone Pescucci was an Italian actor and voice actor.

Maurice Journeau was a French composer born in Biarritz. He composed from 1921 to 1984. He died in Versailles.

Charles Gorrie Wynne FRS was an English optics designer, a significant figure in optical lens design.

Joseph Heller was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is the 1961 novel Catch-22, a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice.

Robert "Bob" Swanson (1947–1999) was an American venture capitalist who cofounded the biotechnology giant Genentech in 1976 with Herbert Boyer. Genentech is a pioneer in the field, and it remains one of the leading biotechnology companies in the world. He served as CEO of Genentech from 1976 to 1990, and as chairman from 1990 to 1996.

This name uses Portuguese naming customs. the first or maternal family name is Saúde and the second or paternal family name is Maria.

Kurt Hasse (1916–1999) was a German cinematographer. Having started out as an assistant cameraman during the Nazi era, he was mainly active in postwar West German cinema and later in television.