1999 deaths
Mikko Hietanen
1911 births | 1999 deaths | athletes at the 1948 summer olympics | athletes at the 1952 summer olympics | finnish athletes | long-distance runners | olympic athletes of finland150px
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Mikko Hietanen (born September 22, 1911 – died February 3, 1999) was a Finnish long-distance runner, who competed for his native country at two consective Summer Olympics, starting in 1948.
Walter Diggelmann
1915 births | 1999 deaths | swiss cyclists | swiss tour de france stage winners height = weight = currentteam = discipline = Road role = Rider ridertype = amateurteams = amateuryears = proyears = proteams = majorwins = Züri-Metzgete (1941)
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1 stage 1952 Tour de France updated = July 4, 2008 }}
Walter Diggelmann (Zürich, 11 August 1915 — Guntalingen, 5 March 1999) was a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. Diggelmann won one stage in the 1952 Tour de France.
John H. Mulroy
1925 births | 1999 deathsJohn Howard Mulroy (February 10, 1925 – September 6, 1999) was a 20th century politician most notable for having served as the first county executive of Onondaga County, New York.
Mulroy was born to Morris, a dairy farmer, and Elizabeth, a former schoolteacher. His father served as the Marcellus supervisor on the Onondaga County Board of Supervisors from 1937 to 1953, when the senior Mulroy died in office.
Frank Frost
1936 births | 1999 deaths | american blues musicians | arkansas musiciansFrank Frost (Born 1936 in Auvergne, Arkansas; Died October 12, 1999 in Helena, Arkansas) was one of the foremost Delta blues harmonica players of his generation.
Life
Frost moved to Saint Louis, Missouri when he was 15 and began his musical career as a guitarist. He toured in 1954 with drummer Sam Carr and Mr. Carr's father, Robert Nighthawk. Soon after, he spent several years touring with Sonny Boy Williamson, who helped teach him to play harmonica. After a hand injury, Frost turned his attention to the harmonica and piano.Edmund Tobin Asselin
1920 births | 1999 deaths | liberal party of canada mps | members of the canadian house of commons from quebec | place of death missing Edmund Tobin Asselin (born September 26, 1920 in Bromptonville, Quebec, Canada-died March 24, 1999) was a Canadian politician, administrator and businessman. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1962 election as a Member of the Liberal Party representing the riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. He was re-elected in 1963.
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Parker McKenzie
1897 births | 1999 deaths | freemasonry | linguists | native american peopleParker Paul McKenzie (15 November 1897 near Rainy Mountain - 5 March 1999 Mountain View) was an American linguist and, at the time of his death, the oldest living Kiowa Indian.
He was born in teepee, and baptised in the Washita River.
Shijaku Katsura
1939 births | 1999 deaths | japanese comedians | people from hyōgo prefecture Crest of the Katsura school of rakugo Katsura Shijaku (August 13, 1939-April 19, 1999) was a Japanese rakugo performer of the late 20th century, who often performed in English. He was born Maeda Tōru in Kobe, the son of a brick-maker. In 1960 he entered the tutelage of the rakugo performer Beichō Katsura III, and upon completion of his study, was given the stage-name Koyone Katsura X. He changed his stage name to Shijaku Katsura (Shijaku Katsura II) in 1974. Studying English in the 1980s, he soon performed English-language rakugo in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere.
Katsura died of heart failure on April 19, 1999, after a failed suicide attempt.http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-23133943.html
