question: The American who owned Taprobane Island died in what year? 
answer: 1999
context: Title: William Manatt House
  Passage: The William Manatt House, also known as the Brooklyn Historical Museum, is a historic dwelling located in Brooklyn, Iowa, United States.  It is associated with the settlement of the town.  Manatt and his father Robert moved from Holmes County, Ohio and settled in Poweshiek County in 1848.  The farmstead they developed eventually became the city of Brooklyn.  His father laid out most of the town in 1855.  William sold property to the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad for a $1, and it reached Brooklyn in 1862.  He granted land to the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad in 1869.  Manatt owned several businesses in town, which were run by various family members, and he owned an estate that grew to 1500 acre of land.  He had this house built in 1869 on property that included a large barn, carriage house and pasture land.  Manatt died in the house in 1906.  His widow Roxann and two of his daughters, Thursia and Nellie, lived here until they died or moved out late in life.  His youngest son Coe bought the house in the mid-1950s when Nellie moved out, and donated it to the city of Brooklyn before he died in 1962.  It housed the Brooklyn Public Library until 1999, and since then the Brooklyn Historical Museum.  The two-story frame structure features Italianate elements, especially the tall, segmentally arched windows and hooded crowns.  Dental molding is found on the cornice.  The porch that encircles half of the house is not original.  The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
  Title: East Cape Lighthouse
  Passage: East Cape Lighthouse is a lighthouse sited on Otiki Hill above East Cape, the easternmost point on the North Island of New Zealand.  It is owned and operated by Maritime New Zealand.  The lighthouse was originally constructed on nearby East Island.  However the island was difficult to access (four men died during tower construction when their boat capsized) and proved to be susceptible to earthquakes and subsequent landslips.  In 1920 a decision was made to relocate the light to the mainland and in April 1922, the light was extinguished and then relit at its current location in December of that year.  Originally manned by three lighthouse keepers, the light's staffing was progressively reduced until it was fully automated in 1985.  It is now controlled from the Maritime New Zealand headquarters in Wellington.  While the area around the light is accessible by foot, the lighthouse itself is not open to the public.
  Title: Jude–Crutcher House
  Passage: The Jude–Crutcher House (also known as the George Jude House and the David and Lucy Crutcher House) is a historic plantation house in Huntsville, Alabama.  The house was built circa 1812 on land deeded that year to Samuel Echols.  Echols sold 54 acres and the house to George Jude, Sr., in 1817.  Jude died two years later, leaving the land to his son, George Jr.  The younger Jude eventually acquired 800 acres (325 ha) and owned 31 slaves.  Upon his death in 1873, the land stayed in the family until 1883.  In 1906 David Crutcher, who had been born a slave on an adjacent plantation in 1851, purchased the house and 154 acres (62 ha) along with two other African-American men.  The Crutchers operated a successful farm on their portion of the land, which was an extension farm for Alabama A&M University until the 1940s.  Only 7% of African-American farmers in Madison County in 1910 owned their own farms.  David died in 1924, and his wife, Lucy, died in 1943, although the house and land is still in the family.
  Title: Count de Mauny
  Passage: Maurice Talvande, Count de Mauny Talvande (self styled), (1866–1941) was a French-born naturalised British landscaper, furniture-maker, and self-inventor, who is best known as the owner and recreator of Taprobane Island, in Sri Lanka.
  Title: Bruce MacCombie
  Passage: Bruce MacCombie (born 1943 in Providence, Rhode Island died May 2, 2012 in Amherst, Massachusetts) was an American composer.
  Title: Taprobane Island
  Passage: Taprobane Island, originally called "Galduwa" ("Rock Island" in Sinhalese), is a private island with one villa, located just off the southern coast of Sri Lanka opposite the village of Weligama.  The island was renamed after the old Greek word for Sri Lanka, by its most famous owner, the self-titled Count de Mauny Talvande (born Maurice Talvande), who sighted it around 1925 after a long search for an earthly paradise.  He built its villa and replanted the island to create a private eden.  The islet passed on to the American author and composer Paul Bowles and then the Sri Lankan born former UN Chief Prosecutor Sir Desmond Lorenz de Silva before it came to the ownership of the Australian businessman Geoffrey Dobbs.
  Title: Kakawaie Island
  Passage: Kakawaie Island is the largest of the privately owned islands on Lake Kagawong, itself located on Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Canada.  There is a sandy beach on the northwest side of the island.  The island is currently uninhabited by humans.  Kakawaie Island is home to many massive 300 year old Maple trees, some of the oldest trees remaining on the Island.  The island is also scattered with wild raspberries.
  Title: Paul Bowles
  Passage: Paul Frederic Bowles ( ; December 30, 1910November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator.  He became associated with Tangier, Morocco, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life.
  Title: Great Captain Island
  Passage: Great Captain Island, also known more familiarly as "Great Captain's Island," is an island off the coast of Greenwich, Connecticut.  The 17.2 acre island is the largest of a three-island group that also includes Little Captain and Wee Captain.  The island is a remnant of a glacial moraine and has a large glacial erratic on the southern side, the island's east and west sides are connected by a tombolo.  The island has had several owners, but has been owned in whole by the Town of Greenwich since 1973.  The island is home to the Great Captain Island Light, a 19th-century lighthouse that was restored in 2009 and relit as a non-navigational aid in 2012.  The actual navigation aid is a skeletal tower erected in 1970.  Great Captain Island is one of the state's 26 "important bird areas" according to the Connecticut Audubon Society.  The town operates a ferry service to and from the island from about the second week in June through the second week of September.  Trails have been laid out for visitors, and the western part of the island has picnic tables, grills, restrooms, and posted swimming areas.  The island is open year round, with a ferry running during the summer.  No public tours of the lighthouse or island are available.
  Title: Svetac
  Passage: Sveti Andrija (] , meaning Saint Andrew), often called Svetac (] , meaning saint) is an island in the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea.  It is situated 14 nmi from Komiža (a town on the island of Vis).  It is uninhabited, although it used to have permanent residents.  Remains of Byzantine origin can be found on the island.  The population census on Svetac from 1951 was around 60, most of these people are now deceased.  All were members of Zanki family who came on the island 260 years ago (in the mid-18th century).  The last one of the group who lived there all year round was Antonija Zanki, an elderly woman who died in 2000.  Now members of Zanki family effectively live there four to six months a year, still keeping up the houses of their grandfathers, fishing, making famous red wine and olive oil.  Most of members of Zanki family who own this, biggest private island in Adriatic, live in Komiža now (14 nm east).  Taking the fact that island is in open seas, without any natural protected bay, gives even greater respect to members of this family who managed to survive there for centuries, and furthermore created a special kind of living, especially today.
citations: Taprobane Island Paul Bowles