List of Famous people who died in 1999

Anna Ivanovna Shchetinina was a Soviet merchant marine sailor who became the world's first woman to serve as a captain of an ocean-going vessel.

Frederick William John Augustus Hervey, 7th Marquess of Bristol, also known as John Jermyn and John Bristol, was a British hereditary peer, aristocrat and businessman. Although he inherited a large fortune, he died almost penniless from funding a chronic and persistent drug addiction.

Sheldon Allan Silverstein was an American writer, poet, cartoonist, songwriter and playwright. He is known for his cartoons, songs, and children's books. He styled himself as Uncle Shelby in some works. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold more than 20 million copies. He was the recipient of two Grammy Awards as well as Golden Globe Award and Academy Award nominations.

Quentin Crisp was an English writer, raconteur and actor.

Sergey Borisovich Nagovitsyn was a Russian singer, composer and author of Russian chanson style songs.

Rodney Stephen Hull was an English comedian and popular entertainer on British television in the 1970s and 1980s. He rarely appeared without Emu, a mute, highly aggressive arm-length puppet modelled on the Australian flightless emu bird.

Martha Ingham Dickie Sharp Cogan was an American Unitarian who was involved in humanitarian and social justice work with her first husband, a Unitarian minister, Waitstill Sharp, and others of her denomination, and so helped hundreds of Jews to escape Nazi persecution, through relocation and other efforts. On September 2005, Martha and Waitstill Sharp were named by the Yad Vashem organization as "Righteous Among the Nations", the second and third of five Americans to receive this honor. The subsequent ceremony involved the presentation of a medal and certificate of honor to the Sharps' daughter, Martha Sharp Joukowsky, amidst a large audience that included one of the children that her parents had helped get out of France, Eva Esther Feigl.

Colonel Yury Zacharanka was the Belarusian minister of internal affairs and oppositional politician abducted and probably killed in 1999.

Ruth Roman was an American actress of film, stage, and television.

Brion Howard James was an American character actor. He portrayed Leon Kowalski in Blade Runner, and appeared in Southern Comfort, 48 Hrs., Another 48 Hrs., Silverado, Tango & Cash, Red Heat, The Player, and The Fifth Element. James was frequently cast as an antagonist, appearing more frequently in lower-budget horror and action films and TV shows throughout the 1980s and 1990s. James appeared in more than 100 films before he died of a heart attack at the age of 54.