Deaths in April 2000
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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2000.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
April 2000
1
- Eric Bishop, 74, Canadian sports journalist and broadcaster.
- Dorothy Whitson Freed, 81, New Zealand composer.[1]
- Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, 75, British judge.[2]
- Graham Mann, 75, British competitive sailor and Olympic medallist (1956, 1960).[3]
- Willard J. Smith, 89, United States Coast Guard admiral.[4]
2
- Zekeriya Aknazarov, 75, Soviet statesman.[5]
- Fred Kwasi Apaloo, 79, Ghanaian judge.[6]
- Synnøve Anker Aurdal, 91, Norwegian textile artist.
- Bunney Brooke, 80, Australian actress and casting director, (Round the Twist, Number 96, E Street), bowel and liver cancer.[7]
- Tommaso Buscetta, 71, Italian Mafia informant, cancer.[8]
- Greta Gynt, 83, Norwegian singer, dancer and actress.[9]
- Robert Sainsbury, 93, British businessman and art benefactor.[10]
- Carl Günther Weiss, 84, Danish Olympic field hockey player (1936).[11]
- Slava Zupančič, 68, Slovenian Olympic alpine skier (1956).[12]
3
- Arne Aas, 68, Norwegian actor, director, and screenwriter.[13]
- Dina Abramowicz, 90-91, American historian.[14]
- Milko Bobotsov, 68, Bulgarian chess grandmaster.
- Jean Dominique, 69, Haitian journalist and activist, homicide.[15]
- Mahpeyker Hanımsultan, 82, Ottoman princess.
- Marta Hoepffner, 88, German artist and photographer.
- Eri Irianto, 26, Indonesian football player, heart attack.[16]
- Evelyn Irons, 99, Scottish journalist and war correspondent.[17]
- Egil Jevanord, 81, Norwegian footballer.[18]
- Terence McKenna, 53, American ethnobotanist, mystic, psychonaut and author, brain cancer.[19]
- Gail O'Rourke, 57, American Olympic volleyball player (1964).[20]
- James Sanfey, 77, Irish Fine Gael politician.
4
- Brandãozinho, 74, Brazilian footballer.[21]
- Diamond Teeth Mary, 97, American singer and vaudeville entertainer.
- Charlie Kray, 72, English boxer and convicted criminal.
- Rolf Pingel, 86, German Luftwaffe flying ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II.
- John W. Rollins, 84, American businessman and politician.[22]
- Mirko Šarić, 21, Argentine footballer, suicide by hanging.
- Carl L. Sitter, 77, US Marine Corps officer and Medal of Honor recipient.[23]
- William Stokoe, 80, American linguist.[24]
- Sy Weintraub, 76, American film and television producer.[25]
5
- Kanika Banerjee, 75, Indian singer.
- Elisa Breton, 93, French artist and writer.
- Nematollah Gorji, 74, Iranian theatre and film actor.
- Albert Ivanov, 68, Soviet Estonian Olympic long-distance runner (1956).[26]
- Heinrich Müller, 90, Austrian football player and coach.
- Lee Petty, 86, American race car driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, abdominal aortic aneurysm.[27]
- Louis Rupprecht, 74, American Olympic speed skater (1948).[28]
- Irina Sebrova, 85, Soviet Air Forces pilot and officer.
- Chino 'Fats' Williams, 66, American actor.
- Rolando Zanni, 86, Italian alpine skier and Olympian (1936).[29]
- Janusz Ziółkowski, 75, Polish sociologist and politician.[30]
6
- John deKoven Alsop, 84, American politician.[31]
- Carlos Pineda Alvarado, 63, Ecuadorian footballer.[32]
- Maria Arndt, 70, Polish Olympic sprinter (1952).[33]
- Habib Bourguiba, 96, president of Tunisia.[34]
- Mohammad-Ali Fardin, 69, Iranian actor and wrestler, cardiac arrest.[35]
- Bertram Forer, 85, American psychologist.
- John Heap, 92, British sprinter and Olympian (1928).[36]
- Don Johnson, 88, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).[37]
- Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz, 87, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic cardinal.
7
- Bjarte Birkeland, 79, Norwegian literary researcher.
- Broery, 51, Indonesian singer, stroke.
- Meriel Forbes, 86, English actress.[38]
- Heinz, 57, German-British bassist and singer, stroke.[39]
- Masayuki Minami, 58, Japanese Olympic volleyball player.[40]
- Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, 79, Brazilian football goalkeeper, heart attack.
- Werner Rauh, 86, German biologist, botanist and author.
8
- Ibrahim Ahmad, 86, Kurdish writer, novelist and judge.
- Alfredo Alcala, 74, Filipino comics artist, cancer.[41]
- Bernie Grant, 56, British politician, heart attack.[42]
- Gunnar Landelius, 82, Swedish sportsman and Olympian (1948).[43]
- Claire Trevor, 90, American actress, respiratory failure.[44]
- Harry Williamson, 86, American middle-distance runner and Olympian (1936).[45]
- František Šťastný, 72, Czech Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
- Peter Willmott, 76, British sociologist.[46]
9
- Alan Betrock, 49, American music publisher, author and record producer, cancer.[47]
- Hansi Brand, 87, Hungarian-Israeli zionist activist and rescue worker during World War II.
- Tony Cliff, 82, British Trotskyist writer and journalist.[48]
- Catherine Crook de Camp, 92, American science fiction and fantasy author.[49]
- Nick Frascella, 85, American basketball player.[50]
- Robert Komer, 78, American diplomat.[51]
- W. Bruce Lincoln, 61, American scholar and author.[52]
- James William Malone, 80, American prelate of the Catholic Church.
10
- Rabah Bitat, 74, Algerian politician.
- Walter Blattmann, 79, American Olympic gymnast (1952).[53]
- Angela Yu Chien, 57, Chinese-Hong Kong actress, cancer.[54]
- Arnold Johnson, 78, American actor (Putney Swope, Shaft, Menace II Society).
- Peter Jones, 79, British actor.[55]
- Larry Linville, 60, American actor (M*A*S*H, Mannix, Earth Girls Are Easy), lung cancer.[56]
- Olappamanna, 77, Indian poet, heart attack.
- Kirsten Rolffes, 71, Danish actress, breast cancer.[57]
- Horacio Siburu, 78, Argentine Olympic modern pentathlete (1948).[58]
11
- George Barr, 84, Scottish-American soccer player.
- Diana Darvey, 54, English actress, singer and dancer, fall.
- André Deutsch, 82, Hungarian-British publisher.[59]
- Lucia Dlugoszewski, 74, Polish-American composer, poet, and inventor.[60]
- Dewayne Douglas, 68, American football player (New York Giants), and coach.[61]
- Salvador Lazo Lazo, 81, Filipino prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Flaminio Piccoli, 84, Italian politician.[62]
- Olav Økern, 88, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympic medalist (1948, 1952).[63]
12
- Niaz Ahmed, 54, Pakistani cricketer.[64]
- Ingemund Bengtsson, 81, Swedish politician, and Speaker of the Riksdag.
- Leonard F. Bersani, 67, American politician.[65]
- Helen Blane, 86, British Olympic alpine skier (1936).[66]
- David Crighton, 57, British mathematician and physicist.
- Carmen Dillon, 91, English film art director and production designer.[67]
- Pierre Dondelinger, 87, French sprinter and Olympian (1936).[68]
- Max Hofmeister, 87, Austrian football player and Olympian (1936).[69]
- Ronald Lockley, 96, Welsh ornithologist and naturalist.[70]
- Gerald Francis O'Keefe, 82, American bishop of the Catholic Church, heart attack.
- Christopher Pettiet, 24, American actor, drug overdose.[71]
- John Read, 74, British Olympic bobsledder (1956).[72]
- Giles Shaw, 68, British politician, stroke.[73]
- James Vorenberg, 72, American legal scholar, heart attack.[74]
13
- Peter Archer, 51, Australian martial artist, cancer.[75]
- Giorgio Bassani, 84, Italian writer.[76]
- Frenchy Bordagaray, 90, American baseball player.[77]
- Aivars Gipslis, 63, Latvian chess grandmaster.[78]
- Inglis Gundry, 94, English composer, novelist, and musicologist.
- Pete Minger, 57, American trumpeter and flugelhornist.
- Carlos Pacheco, 74, Costa Rican Olympic sports shooter (1968).[79]
- Daniel Holcombe Thomas, 93, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama).[80]
- Albert Turner, 64, American civil rights activist, abdominal bleeding.
14
- Bob Barthelson, 75, American baseball player (New York Giants).[81]
- Ludwig Durek, 79, Austrian football player and Olympian (1948).[82]
- Sebastián Fleitas, 53, Paraguayan football player, stroke.
- Ted Grouya, 89, Romanian-American composer.[83]
- Donald Gullick, 75, Welsh rugby player.
- Devereaux Jennings, 75, American Olympic alpine skier (1948).[84]
- Phil Katz, 37, American computer programmer (zip file format), pancreatitis.[85]
- August R. Lindt, 94, Swiss lawyer and diplomat.[86]
- Wilf Mannion, 81, English professional footballer.[87]
- Charlie O'Rourke, 82, American football player (Chicago Bears, Los Angeles Dons, Baltimore Colts), and coach.[88]
- George E. Taylor, 94, American sinologist.[89]
- Bo Wallace, 71, American baseball player.[90]
15
- Guillermo Clavero, 78, Chilean footballer.[91]
- Edward Gorey, 75, American writer and illustrator, heart failure.[92]
- Irina Gubanova, 60, Russian ballerina and film actress, pneumonia.
- Ba Kyi, 87, Burmese artist.
- Thomas Joseph Lobsinger, 73, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Whitehorse (since 1987), plane crash.[93]
- Ernest Nègre, 92, French toponymist.[94]
- Todd Webb, 94, American photographer.[95]
16
- Abram Chayes, 77, American legal scholar associated with the administration of John F. Kennedy, pancreatic cancer.[96]
- Harry Clarke, 77, English football player.[97]
- Henry Daniels, 87, British statistician.[98]
- Domingo Federico, 83, Argentine bandoneon player, songwriter and actor.
- Policarpo Paz García, 67, Honduran military leader, kidney failure.
- Hayati Hamzaoğlu, 67, Turkish actor.
- Ossi Kauppi, 70, Finnish ice hockey player and Olympian (1952).[99]
- Johnny Malokas, 83, American basketball player.[100]
- Ann Mui, 40, Hong Kong singer and sister of Anita Mui, cervical cancer.
- Syed Putra of Perlis, 79, Malaysian monarch.
- Sherwood Washburn, 88, American physical anthropologist.[101]
17
- Pyotr Glebov, 85, Russian actor.[102]
- Normand Hamel, 44, Canadian outlaw biker and gangster.
- Alice Marriott, 92, American philanthropist.[103]
- Volodymyr Panteley, 54, Soviet Ukrainian Olympic middle-distance runner (1972).[104]
- Paula Salomon-Lindberg, 102, German classical contralto.
- Megan Williams, 43, Australian actress and singer, breast cancer.
18
- Herb Ball, 81, American basketball player.[105]
- Isaac Berenblum, 96, Polish-Israeli biochemist.[106]
- Tony Frank, 56, American actor (North and South, UHF, A Perfect World).
- Maxwell Khobe, 50, Nigerian Army general, encephalitis.
- Irja Lipasti, 94, Finnish sprinter and Olympian (1936).[107]
- Martin Mailman, 67, American composer.[108]
- Erzsi Pártos, 93, Hungarian actress.[109]
19
- Louis Applebaum, 82, Canadian film score composer and conductor.[110]
- Masakazu Fukuda, 27, Japanese professional wrestler, brain hemorrhage.
- Kyung-Chik Han, 97, Korean pastor.
- Buster Haywood, 90, American baseball player.[111]
- Grigor Khanjyan, 73, Soviet-Armenian artist, painter, and illustrator.
- Chang Kyou-chul, 53, South Korean boxer and Olympic bronze medalist (1968).[112]
- Krum Milev, 84, Bulgarian football player and manager.
- Candace Newmaker, 10, American victim of child abuse, suffocation.[113]
- Sergey Zalygin, 86, Soviet writer and environmentalist.
20
- Fred Boensch, 79, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins).[114]
- Bill Dean, 78, British actor.
- Willy Harlander, 68, German actor, heart attack.[115]
- Philip Childs Keenan, 92, American astronomer.[116]
21
- Gunther Gerzs, 84, Hungarian-Mexican painter, director and screenwriter.[117]
- Richard Menapace, 85, Austrian-Italian cyclist.[118]
- Al Purdy, 81, Canadian poet.[119]
- Robert H. Robins, 78, British linguist.[120]
- Susan Stephen, 68, English film actress.
- Nigar Sultana, 67, Indian actress.
22
- Rohitha Neil Akmeemana, Sri Lankan brigadier, dehydration.[121]
- Fritz W. Alexander II, 73, American judge, cancer.[122]
- Alexander H. Cohen, 79, American theatrical producer.[123]
- Arnt Eliassen, 84, Norwegian meteorologist.
- Toon Hermans, 83, Dutch comedian, singer and writer.[124]
- Edwin O'Donovan, 85, American art director (Heaven Can Wait, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Hardcore), Oscar winner (1979).
- Robert W. Porter, Jr., 91, United States Army general, heart attack.
- Margaret Singana, 62, South African musician.
23
- Jerry Catena, 98, American mobster (Genovese crime family), heart attack.
- Erle Cocke Jr., 74, American businessman and war veteran, pancreatic cancer.[125]
- Clarence Hollimon, 62, American guitarist.[126]
- Pearl Padamsee, 69, Indian actress, director and producer.
- Shigeru Sugiura, 92, Japanese manga artist.
- David Thorne, 66, British army general.[127]
- Raşit Tolun, 80, Turkish Olympic alpine skier (1948).[128]
24
- Derek Allhusen, 86, British Olympic equestrian (1968).[129]
- Margaret Arlen, 83, American talk show host.[130]
- John Beck, 65, New Zealand cricket player.[131]
- Chic Brodie, 63, Scottish footballer, prostate cancer.[132]
- Pru Chapman, 50, New Zealand competition swimmer and Olympian (1968).[133]
- Ulla Isaksson, 83, Swedish author and screenplay writer.[134]
- William Moore, 84, English character actor.
- Karamana Janardanan Nair, 63, Indian film actor, stroke.[135]
- Barkin' Bill Smith, 71, American blues singer and songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
- George Volkoff, 86, Russian-Canadian physicist and academic.
25
- Ghislaine Alexander, 78, English baroness.
- Jun Aristorenas, 66, Filipino actor.[136]
- Niels Viggo Bentzon, 80, Danish composer and pianist.[137]
- Richard Carr, 89, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion (1932).[138]
- Richard Donahoe, 90, Canadian lawyer and politician.[139]
- Ben Fernandez, 75, American politician and financial consultant.
- Alla Larionova, 69, Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, heart attack.[140]
- Lucien Le Cam, 75, French mathematician.[141]
- David Merrick, 88, American theatre producer and director.[142]
- Franjo Rupnik, 78, Croatian football player.[143]
- Edna Scheer, 73, American baseball player.[144]
- Mukhram Sharma, 90, Indian film lyricist, script, and story writer.
- Rita Vittadini, 86, Italian Olympic gymnast (1928).[145]
26
- Gregory Gillespie, 63, American magic realist painter, suicide by hanging.[146]
- Ernest Victor Siracusa, 81, American diplomat.
- Len Smith, 82, Australian rugby player.
- Herbert Wechsler, 90, American legal scholar.[147]
27
- C. R. Boxer, 96, British historian.[148]
- Ovid S. Crohmălniceanu, 78, Romanian literary critic and science fiction writer.
- Clifford Forsythe, 70, Northern Irish Ulster Unionist Party politician.
- Brooks Lawrence, 75, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Redlegs/Reds).[149]
- William P. Mahoney Jr., 83, American attorney and diplomat.
- Errett Weir McDiarmid, 90, American librarian and academic.
- Yusof Rawa, 76, Malaysian politician, pneumonia.
- Vicki Sue Robinson, 45, American singer ("Turn the Beat Around") and actress, cancer.[150]
28
- Richard Bertram, 84, American boat builder and sailor.[151]
- Kim Borg, 80, Finnish bass, teacher and composer.[152]
- Arthur Dake, 90, American chess player.
- Jerzy Einhorn, 74, Polish-Swedish medical doctor, researcher and politician, leukemia.[153]
- Federico Brito Figueroa, 78, Venezuelan marxist historian and anthropologist.
- Penelope Fitzgerald, 83, British writer.[154]
- Sergey Khristianovich, 91, Soviet/Russian mechanics scientist.
- Jack Merson, 78, American baseball player.[155]
- Doug Phillips, 80, Welsh rugby player.
29
- Jane Cadwell, 85, American competition swimmer and Olympian (1932).[156]
- Chen Fangyun, 84, Chinese electrical engineer.
- Chintamani Panigrahi, 78, Indian independence activist and writer.
- John Patrick, 81, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).[157]
- Harriet Lange Rheingold, 92, American child development psychologist.[158]
- Antonio Buero Vallejo, 83, Spanish playwright, stroke.[159]
- Pham Van Dong, 94, Vietnamese communist politician, Prime Minister (1955–1976).[160]
- Buck Varner, 69, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[161]
- Italo Zingarelli, 70, Italian film producer.[162]
30
- Vasilis Georgiadis, 78, Greek film director and actor.
- Henry Goode, 81, American Olympic field hockey player (1948).[163]
- Poul Hartling, 85, Danish politician, Prime Minister (1973–1975).[164]
- Bernhard Heiden, 89, German-American composer.[165]
- Jonah Jones, 90, American jazz trumpeter.[166]
- Bill Lynn, 78, American baseball player.[167]
- Marjorie Noël, 54, French pop singer, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Edouard Siegrist, 76, Swiss Olympic field hockey player (1948).[168]
- Richard Tsimba, 34, Zimbabwean rugby player, traffic collision.
- Ruth Turner, 86, American marine biologist and malacologist.[169]
- Barry Ulanov, 82, American writer.[170]
- Leon Vandaele, 67, Belgian road bicycle racer.[171]
- Arlette Vassy, 87, French geophysicist, identified a hole in the ozone layer in 1961.[172]