Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1999
David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles
David McAdam Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, was an English Conservative politician.
George David Chetwode
Mary Rockefeller
Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller was the first wife of Nelson A. Rockefeller, the 49th Governor of New York. She served as the First Lady of New York from 1959 until the Rockefellers' divorce in March 1962. After their divorce, Nelson Rockefeller remained governor and would become the 41st Vice President of the United States under Gerald Ford.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt II
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr. was a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family, a son of the first Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, who died a hero in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. His mother, Margaret Emerson, was one of America's wealthiest women and most sought-after hostesses, operating at least seven large estates around the country. His grandfather, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, had been one of America's most revered businessmen; his great-grandfather, William Henry Vanderbilt had been the richest man in the world. "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt started the family fortune in shipping and railroads as the founder of the New York Central Railroad and builder of Grand Central Depot, the precursor to Grand Central Terminal, built on approximately the same location, and completed by Cornelius II in 1913.
Yuri Tavrov
Yuri Petrovich Tavrov was a Ukrainian actor.
Pierlucio Tinazzi
Pierlucio Tinazzi was an Italian security guard who died while trying to rescue victims of the 1999 Mont Blanc tunnel fire. Tinazzi was on the French side of the tunnel, from where he donned breathing equipment and drove into the tunnel on his BMW K75 motorcycle in an attempt to save people trapped in the tunnel; after finding unconscious truck driver Maurice Lebras, who was too heavy to be loaded on his motorcycle, he dragged him to a refuge station in the tunnel, where both were killed by smoke or flames. Tinazzi was in radio contact with the Italian side for over an hour before succumbing to the intense heat, which caused his motorcycle to melt into the pavement.
Edward Portman, 9th Viscount Portman
Edward Henry Berkeley Portman, 9th Viscount Portman, was a British peer.
Lloyd Appleton
Lloyd Appleton fue un deportista estadounidense especialista en lucha libre olímpica donde llegó a ser subcampeón olímpico en Ámsterdam 1928.
Andreas Feininger
Andreas Feininger fue un fotógrafo norteamericano de origen alemán, que fue alumno y profesor de la prestigiosa Escuela de la Bauhaus de la Alemania de entreguerras. Su padre era Lyonel Feininger, uno de los profesores de dicha escuela y pintor vanguardista relacionado con el expresionismo.
Hidesaburō Shōda
Hidesaburō Shōda was a Japanese businessman. He served as the president and later honorary chairman of Nisshin Seifun Group, the country's largest flour milling company. He was the father of the Empress Michiko and the maternal grandfather of the Emperor of Japan Naruhito. He was the third son of Teiichiro Shōda, the founder of the Nisshin Seifun Group. The Shōda family is prominent in both industrial and academic circles.