Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1999

Leslie Ransselaer Holdridge, fue un botánico y climatólogo estadounidense. Su aportación más conocida es un sistema de clasificación de zonas biogeográficas, llamado sistema de clasificación de zonas de vida de Holdridge, que habitualmente es aplicado y explicado mediante un diagrama triangular muy característico.

Harold F. Kress was an American film editor with more than fifty feature film credits; he also directed several feature films in the early 1950s. He won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for How the West Was Won (1962) and again for The Towering Inferno (1974), and was nominated for four additional films; he is among the film editors most recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. He also worked publicly to increase the recognition of editing as a component of Hollywood filmmaking.

Sir John Rigby Hale was a British historian and translator, best known for his Renaissance studies.

Heinz Edgar Lehmann, was a German-born Canadian psychiatrist best known for his use of chlorpromazine for the treatment of schizophrenia in 1950s and "truly the father of modern psychopharmacology."

Herbert Gruber was an Austrian film producer.