List of Famous people who died in 1999

Tamara Lees, born as, Diana Helena Tamara Mapplebeck was an Austrian-born English film actress. She appeared in 48 films between 1947 and 1961.

Jonathan Joseph "Candy" Candido was an American radio performer, bass player, vocalist and animation voice actor best remembered for his famous line "I'm feeling mighty low."

Dina Dreyfus, also known as Dina Levi-Strauss, was a French ethnologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher, who conducted cultural research in South America. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and had also became an agrégé. She taught at the University of São Paulo in Brazil and later founded the first ethnological society in the country.

André Martinet was a French linguist, influential due to his work on structural linguistics.

Bernhard Quandt was a German politician.

Franz Peter Wirth was a German film director and screenwriter. His film Helden was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1958.

Giuseppe Petrilli was an Italian professor and European Commissioner.

Leonard Petrosyan was the second President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic for almost 6 months. He also served as Prime Minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic from December 1994 to June 1998. He was killed in the 1999 Armenian parliament shooting while serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia.

Robert Dorfmann was a French film producer who worked from the 1950s to the 1970s. He is the father of French film producer Jacques Dorfmann. His notable films include Luis Buñuel's Tristana (1970), Jean-Pierre Melville's Le cercle rouge (1970), Jacques Tati's Trafic (1971) and Papillon (1973). He was awarded an Honorary César in 1978. He was involved with the French production and distribution company Les Films Corona.