Deaths in July 2000
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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 2000
1
- Burt Douglas, 69, American film, stage and television actor.
- Raymond Robert Forster, 78, New Zealand arachnologist and museum director.
- John Albert Axel Gibson, 83, British flying ace during World War II.[1]
- Irene Hirst, 69, British Olympic gymanst (1948, 1952).[2]
- Steve Hokuf, 89, American football player (Boston Redskins), and coach, stroke.[3]
- Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan, 94, fourth wife of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah.[4]
- Cub Koda, 51, American rock and roll musician and record compiler, kidney failure.[5]
- Ganju Lama, 75, Sikkimese Gurkha and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
- Walter Matthau, 79, American actor (The Odd Couple, The Fortune Cookie, The Sunshine Boys), Oscar winner (1967), heart attack.[6]
- Pierre Petit, 78, French composer.[7]
2
- Mina Aoe, 59, Japanese female enka singer, pancreatic cancer.[8]
- Joey Dunlop, 48, Northern Irish motorcycle racer, traffic collision.[9]
- Constance Howard, 89, English textile artist and embroiderer.
- Paul McLaughlin, 80, Canadian sailor and Olympian (1948, 1952).[10]
- Karl Sweetan, 57, American gridiron football player (Detroit Lions, New Orleans Saints, Los Angeles Rams), complications following surgery.[11]
- Georgi Tringov, 63, Bulgarian chess grandmaster.
3
- Walter Cassel, 90, American operatic baritone and actor.[12]
- Nancy Cato, 83, Australian writer and poet.[13]
- James Grogan, 68, American figure skater and Olympian (1948, 1952), multiple organ failure.[14]
- André Guinier, 88, French physicist.[15]
- Michael Hamilton, 81, British politician.[16]
- Paul G. Hatfield, 72, American attorney and politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1978).[17]
- John Hejduk, 70, Czech-American architect, artist and educator.[18]
- Leonard Hilton, 52, American long-distance runner and Olympian (1972).[19]
- János Kamara, 73, Hungarian communist politician.
- Enric Miralles, 45, Spanish architect, brain tumor, brain cancer.[20]
- Harold Nicholas, 79, American dancer (Nicholas Brothers), heart attack.[21]
- Fiorentino Sullo, 79, Italian politician.[22]
- Kemal Sunal, 55, Turkish actor, heart attack.[23]
4
- Donald Blessing, 94, American rower and Olympic champion (1928).[24]
- Jack T. Bradley, 82, US Army Air Force fighter ace during World War II.[25]
- Allan Fakir, 68, Pakistani folk singer.
- Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, 81, Polish writer and political dissident.[26]
- Halil Kaya, 79-80, Turkish Olympic wrestler (1948).[27]
- Yuri Klinskikh, 35, Russian singer, songwriter and arranger, heart failure.
- Marina Kroschina, 47, Ukrainian tennis player, suicide.
- Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme, 85, British aristocrat.[28]
- Vladimír Ráž, 77, Czechoslovak film actor.
- Shōji Ueda, 87, Japanese photographer.[29]
5
- Syed Abdus Sobhan, 67, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician.[30]
- Blanca Álvarez Mantilla, 68, Spanish journalist.
- Mary Nicol Neill Armour, 98, Scottish painter.[31]
- Franta Belsky, 79, Czech sculptor, prostate cancer.[32]
- Giovanni Bettinelli, 65, Italian racing cyclist.[33]
- Edgar Cardoso, 87, Portuguese civil engineer and university professor.
- Leon deValinger Jr., 95, American archivist and historian.
- Mehrangiz Manoochehrian, 94, Iranian lawyer, musician and feminist.
- Peter Bullfrog Moore, 68, Australian rugby league administrator, esophageal cancer.[34]
- Dorino Serafini, 90, Italian motorcycle road racer and racing driver.
- Gloria Williams, 57, American singer, diabetes.
- Jos Wohlfart, 80, Luxembourgish politician.
- Lord Woodbine, 71, Trinidadian calypsonian and music promoter, house fire.
6
- Alix André, 91, French novelist.[35]
- Roderic Coote, 85, British Anglican prelate.
- Eric Fraser, 69, English rugby player.
- Lazar Koliševski, 86, Yugoslav communist political leader.[36]
- Fred Lane, 24, American football player (Carolina Panthers), shot.[37]
- Akira Miyazawa, 72, Japanese jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist.
- Ľudovít Rajter, 93, Slovak composer and conductor.[38]
- Władysław Szpilman, 88, Jewish-Polish pianist and Holocaust survivor portrayed in the 2002 film The Pianist.[39]
- Marcella Comès Winslow, 95, American photographer and portrait painter.
7
- István Bodor, 73, Hungarian canoeist and Olympian (1952).[40]
- Jim Brown, 90, Canadian sprinter and Olympian (1932).[41]
- Dame Stella Casey, 76, New Zealand social activist.[42]
- Kenny Irwin, 30, American stock car racing driver, racing accident.[43]
- Charles Johnson, 87, British Olympic diver (1948).[44]
- Achim Krause-Wichmann, 70, German Olympic rower (1952).[45]
- Ursula Kuczynski, 93, German communist activist and spy.[46]
- James C. Quayle, 79, American newspaper publisher.[47]
- William J. Randall, 90, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1959-1977).[48]
- Johann Urbanek, 89, Austrian football player.[49]
- Charles Alan Wright, 72, American constitutional lawyer.[50]
- Dmitry Alexandrovich Zavadsky, 27, Belarusian journalist, homicide.
8
- FM-2030, 69, Iranian-American author, transhumanist philosopher, futurist and Olympian (1948), pancreatic cancer.[51]
- Pieter Goemans, 75, Dutch composer ("Aan de Amsterdamse grachten").[52]
- Judit Kéri-Novák, 50, Hungarian Olympic rower (1976, 1980).[53]
- Anne Mueller, 69, British civil servant and academic, Parkinson's disease.[54]
- Maurice Owen, 76, English footballer.
- Cliff Sear, 63, Welsh footballer, heart attack.[55]
9
- Doug Fisher, 58, English actor, heart attack.
- Henri Gault, 70, French food journalist, heart attack.[56]
- Herbert Hunger, 85, Austrian byzantinist.[57]
- Erkki Koiso, 66, Finnish ice hockey player and Olympian (1960).[58]
- John Morgan, 41, British etiquette expert, fall.[59]
- Joe Sostilio, 85, American racing driver.
- John Vitale, 34, American football player, cancer.
10
- Gertrud Arndt, 96, German photographer and designer.[60]
- Denis O'Conor Don, 87, English noble and hereditary Chief of the Name O'Conor.
- Dick Glasser, 65, American singer, songwriter, and record producer, lung cancer.
- Vakkom Majeed, 90, Indian politician.
- Conrad McRae, 29, American basketball player.[61]
- Ursule Molinaro, French-American writer.[62]
- Bill Munson, 58, American gridiron football player, drowned.[63]
- Francisco Matos Paoli, 85, Puerto Rican poet, critic, and essayist.[64]
- Justin Pierce, 25, British skateboarder and actor (Kids, Next Friday), suicide by hanging.[65]
- Apostolos Vakalopoulos, 90, Greek historian.
- Norma Wilson, 90, New Zealand athlete and Olympian (1928).[66]
11
- Begum Akbar Jehan Abdullah, 84, Indian politician.[67]
- Bill Alexander, 90, British political activist.[68]
- Jaroslav Filip, 51, Slovak musician, composer, dramaturge, and actor, heart attack.
- Pedro Mir, 87, Dominican poet and writer (Poet Laureate).[69]
- Robert Runcie, 78, British Archbishop of Canterbury, cancer.[70]
- Barry Tabobondung, 39, Canadian ice hockey player, traffic collision.
12
- Al Butler, 62, American basketball player (Boston Celtics, New York Knicks, Baltimore Bullets), cancer.[71]
- Tom Galley, 84, English football player.[72]
- Charles Merritt, 91, Canadian war hero and recipient of the Victoria Cross.[73]
- Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, 72, Yugoslav prince.[74]
13
- Matt Anthony, 79, Canadian football player, cancer.[75]
- A. D. Hope, 92, Australian poet.[76]
- Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso, 86, Argentine historian and researcher.
- Jan Karski, 86, Polish resistance fighter and academic.[77]
- Alice Lord, 98, American Olympic diver (1920).[78]
- Mauno Rintanen, 75, Finnish football player, basketball player, and Olympian (1952).[79]
- Indira Sant, 86, Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India.
- Fabio Santamaria, 74, Cuban Olympic wrestler (1948).[80]
14
- Bill Barth, 57, American blues guitarist, heart attack.[81]
- Finn-Egil Eckblad, 76, Norwegian mycologist.
- Alvin Hollingsworth, 72, American painter and comics artist.[82]
- Luís Machado, 74, Portuguese Olympic rower (1948).[83]
- Meredith MacRae, 56, American actress (My Three Sons, Petticoat Junction), complications of brain cancer.[84]
- Georges Maranda, 68, Canadian baseball player (San Francisco Giants, Minnesota Twins), cancer.[85]
- Mark Oliphant, 98, Australian physicist, Governor of South Australia.[86]
- Pepo, 88, Chilean cartoonist.
15
- Emanuel Araújo, 57, Brazilian historian and editor.[87]
- Paul Bühlmann, 73, Swiss comedian, radio personality, and actor.
- Johnny Duncan, 67, American bluegrass musician.[88]
- Juan Filloy, 105, Argentine writer.[89]
- Jocko Henderson, 82, American radio disc jockey, and hip hop music pioneer, cancer.
- Leo Hoegh, 92, U.S. Army officer, lawyer, and politician, Governor of Iowa (1955-1957).[90]
- John O. Pastore, 93, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Rhode Island (1945-1950) and member of the U.S. Senate (1950-1976), kidney failure.[91]
- Louis Quilico, 75, Canadian opera singer.[92]
- Kalle Svensson, 74, Swedish footballer and Olympian (1948, 1952).[93]
- Paul Young, 53, British singer and songwriter (Sad Café, Mike + The Mechanics), heart attack.[94]
16
- Franciszek Adamczak, 73, Polish–Swedish palaeontologist.[95]
- Fay Alexander, 75, American circus performer.[96]
- Igor Domnikov, 41, Russian journalist and editor, bludgeoned.
- György Petri, 56, Hungarian poet, cancer.[97]
- Barbosa Lima Sobrinho, 103, Brazilian lawyer, writer, journalist and politician.[98]
- Jean Vercoutter, 89, French Egyptologist.[99]
- Bernie Whitebear, 62, American Indian activist, colon cancer.
- William Foote Whyte, 86, American sociologist.[100]
17
- Pascale Audret, 64, French actress, traffic collision.[101]
- Thomas Quinn Curtiss, 85, American writer, and film and theater critic.[102]
- Zhao Lirong, 72, Chinese singer and film actress, cancer.
- Hans-Hermann Magnussen, 74, German Olympic sailor (1952).[103]
- Aligi Sassu, 88, Italian painter and sculptor.[104]
- Jean Swain, 76, American singer.[105]
- Berthe Villancher, 91, French gymnastics judge and official.[106]
18
- Abdul Malek, 64, Bangladeshi politician.[107]
- René Chocat, 79, French basketball player and Olympian (1948, 1952).[108]
- Roberto Contreras, 71, American actor.
- Paul Coverdell, 61, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate from Georgia (since 1993), cerebral hemorrhage.[109]
- John F. Davis, 93, American lawyer and law professor.[110]
- Enrique de Gandía, 94, Argentine historian and author.[111]
- Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza, 81, Spanish architect.[112]
- José Ángel Valente, 71, Spanish poet and essayist.[113]
19
- James B. Clark, 92, American film and television director.[114]
- Stephen Gendin, 34, American AIDS activist, AIDS-induced lymphoma.[115]
- Kamala Das Gupta, 93, Indian freedom fighter.
- Hananiah Harari, 87, American painter and illustrator.[116]
- Alfred Knight, 82, British Olympic weightlifter (1948).[117]
- Owen Maddock, 74, British engineer and racing car designer.
- Carlos Monteverde, 80, Venezuelan Olympic sports shooter (1952, 1956, 1960).[118]
- Tommy O'Boyle, 82, American football coach.[119]
- Allen Paulson, 78, American businessman.[120]
20
- Mickey Colmer, 81, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Yankees).[121]
- Eyvind Earle, 84, American artist (Paul Bunyan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty), author and illustrator, esophageal cancer.[122]
- Joseph F. Enright, 89, American submarine commander.[123]
- József Gulrich, 58, Hungarian Olympic swimmer (1964).[124]
- James Hobson Morrison, 91, American politician (member of the United States House of Representatives), heart attack.[125]
- Béla Rajki, 91, Hungarian swimming coach and water polo coach.
- Murray G. Ross, 90, Canadian sociologist, author, and academic administrator.[126]
- Mabel Scott, 85, American gospel music and R&B vocalist.[127]
- Jim Suchecki, 72, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Browns, Pittsburgh Pirates).[128]
- Alexis P. Vlasto, 84, British historian and philologist.[129]
- Malaclypse the Younger, 59, American author.
21
- Vladimir Bagirov, 63, Soviet-Latvian grandmaster of chess, chess author, and trainer, heart attack.
- Constanze Engelbrecht, 50, German actress, cancer.[130]
- Iain Hamilton, 78, Scottish composer.[131]
- Maria Kleschar-Samokhvalova, 84, Soviet Russian painter and graphic artist.
- Frank Miller, 73, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario.
- Vladimir Novikov, 92, Soviet-Russian politician and statesman.
- Eddie Pequenino, 72, Argentine film actor.
- Yosef Qafih, 82, Yemenite-Israeli zionist orthodox rabbi.
- Oliver Henry Radkey, 91, American historian of Russian and Soviet history.
- Stanojlo Rajičić, 89, Serbian composer and musicologist.[132]
- Marc Reisner, 51, American environmentalist and writer, colon cancer.[133]
- Josef Šenkýř, 44, Czech Olympic sailor (1980).[134]
- Åke Senning, 84, Swedish cardiac surgeon.[135]
- Yoshio Watanabe, 93, Japanese photographer.
22
- John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield, 80, British medical researcher and academic administrator.[136]
- Eric Christmas, 84, British actor (Porky's, Days of Our Lives, Air Bud).[137]
- Alexander Dallin, 76, American historian and political scientist.[138]
- Raymond Lemieux, 80, Canadian organic chemist.[139]
- Staffan Burenstam Linder, 68, Swedish economist and politician, lung cancer.[140]
- Claude Sautet, 76, French film director and screenwriter, liver cancer.[141]
- Archie W. Straiton, 92, American physicist.
- Teleco, 86, Brazilian football player.
- Yusuf Tunaoğlu, 54, Turkish footballer.[142]
- Howie Yeager, 85, American football player (New York Giants).[143]
23
- Basil Acres, 73, English footballer.[144]
- Ralph Evans, 76, American competitive sailor and Olympic medalist (1948).[145]
- Carmen Martín Gaite, 74, Spanish author.
- Oiva Lommi, 78, Finnish Olympic rower (1948, 1952).[146]
- Vittorio Mangano, 59, Italian mobster, cancer.
- Kao Pao-shu, 61, Chinese actress, producer, writer and film director.
- Mars Rafikov, 66, Soviet cosmonaut.
- Ahmad Shamloo, 74, Iranian poet, writer and journalist.[147]
- Rolf Storm, 69, Swedish Olympic boxer (1952).[148]
24
- Ignacio Alfaro Arregui, 82, Spanish military officer.[149]
- Alvin L. Alm, 63, American politician, heart failure.[150]
- George Bailey, 94, British athlete and Olympian (1932).[151]
- Anatoli Firsov, 59, Russian ice hockey player and Olympian (1964, 1968, 1972), heart attack.[152]
- Pierre Hardy, 92, French sport shooter and Olympic medalist (1924).[153]
- Jim Kremer, 81, Luxembourgish football player and Olympian (1948).[154]
- Dharmasiri Senanayake, 67, Sri Lankan politician.
- Oscar Shumsky, 83, American violinist and conductor.[155]
- G. Wood, 80, American actor (M*A*S*H, Harold and Maude, Brewster McCloud), congestive heart failure.[156]
25
- Julia Pirotte, 92, Polish photojournalist.
- Aleksander Rokosa, 64, Polish Olympic gymnast (1960, 1964, 1968).[157]
- Fred C. Sheffey, 71, United States Army major general, lung cancer.
- Elizabeth Wilson, 86, American screenwriter and playwright.[158]
- Notable people killed in the crash of Air France Flight 4590:[159]
- Rudi Faßnacht, 65, German football manager.[160]
- Christian Götz, 60, German trade unionist and politician.
- Christian Marty, 54, French windsurfer and captain of Flight 4590.[161]
26
- Abhayadev, 87, Indian poet and lyricist.
- Ludwig Bielenberg, 70, German Olympic sailor (1952, 1956).[162]
- U. R. Jeevarathinam, Tamil actress, singer and producer.
- Dalkhan Khozhaev, 39, Chechen historian, field commander, brigadier general and author, shot.[163]
- John Tukey, 85, American mathematician.[164]
- Don Weis, 78, American film and television director.[165]
27
- Virginia Admiral, 85, American painter and poet.[166]
- Bruce Douglas-Mann, 73, British politician.[167]
- Val Dufour, 73, American actor, cancer.[168]
- Paddy Joyce, 77, British actor, stroke.[169]
- Vladimir Lisunov, 60, Russian nonconformist artist, murdered.
- Constance Stuart Larrabee, 85, English photographer and war correspondent.[170]
- Gordon Solie, 71, American wrestling commentator, throat cancer.[171]
28
- Jaime Cardriche, 32, American actor (Malcolm & Eddie, House Party, Deep Cover), complications during gall bladder surgery.
- Depé, 28, French association football supporter.[172]
- Leslie Martin, 91, English architect.[173]
- Abraham Pais, 82, Dutch-American physicist, cardiovascular disease.[174]
- Jonas M. Platt, 80, United States Marine Corps officer.[175]
- Jerome Smith, 47, American guitarist (KC and the Sunshine Band), bulldozing accident.[176]
- Chic Stone, 77, American comic book artist (Fantastic Four).[177]
- John Wells, 93, British artist.[178]
29
- Kobie Coetsee, 69, South African lawyer and politician, heart attack.
- Eladio Dieste, 82, Uruguayan engineer.[179]
- René Gerónimo Favaloro, 77, Argentine cardiologist, suicide by gunshot.[180]
- Benny Fenton, 81, English football player and manager.[181]
- Åke Hodell, 81, Swedish fighter pilot, poet, author, text-sound composer, and artist.[182]
- Richard Kerry, 85, American Foreign Service officer and lawyer, prostate cancer.[183]
- Bobby Reid, 63, Scottish football player.
- Bob Welch, 72, Canadian politician.
30
- Ab Box, 91, Canadian football player.[184]
- Staff Barootes, 81, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada (1984-1993).[185]
- Jim Clark, 71, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins).[186]
- Derek Hill, 83, English portrait and landscape painter.[187]
- Nan Leslie, 74, American actress, pneumonia.
- Max Showalter, 83, American actor (Niagara, Sixteen Candles, 10), cancer.[188]
- Jack Smiley, 77, American basketball player.[189]
31
- István Gulyás, 68, Hungarian tennis player.
- Lars Jansson, 73, Finnish author and cartoonist.
- William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., 91, American novelist, short story writer, essayist and children's author.[190]
- Constance Babington Smith, 87, British journalist and writer.[191]
- Armando Trindade, 72, Pakistani prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.[192]
- Hendrik C. van de Hulst, 81, Dutch astronomer and mathematician.[193]
- Thomas Wolff, 46, American mathematician, traffic collision.[194]