Deaths in September 2000
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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.
September 2000
1
- Olavi Ahonen, 77, Finnish film actor and comedian.[1]
- Barbara Brooke, Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte, 92, British politician.[2]
- P. P. Ummer Koya, 78, Indian politician, Gandhian, freedom fighter and educationist.
- Franklin P. Peterson, 70, American mathematician, stroke.
- Gerry Sullivan, 57, Australian politician.[3]
2
- Vicente Asensi, 81, Spanish football player.[4]
- Ishaq Bux, 83, Indian actor.
- Heinz Harmel, 94, German SS general during World War II.
- Jean Speegle Howard, 73, American actress (Apollo 13, Scrooged, Matilda), respiratory disease and cardiomyopathy.[5]
- Elvera Sanchez, 95, American dancer.[6]
- Bianca Schenk, 82, Austrian Olympic figure skater (1936).[7]
- Curt Siodmak, 98, German-American novelist and screenwriter (The Wolf Man, Donovan's Brain), cancer.[8]
- Gennady Smirnov, 45, Russian footballer.[9]
- Audrey Wise, 68, British politician.[10]
3
- Asaf Abdrakhmanov, 81, Soviet naval officer and war hero during World War II.
- Edward Anhalt, 86, American screenwriter (Panic in the Streets), Oscar winner (1951), cancer.[11]
- Clodomiro Cortoni, 77, Argentine Olympic cyclist (1948, 1952).[12]
- Oldřich Daněk, 73, Czech dramatist, writer, director and screenwriter.[13]
- R. H. Harris, 84, American gospel singer (Soul Stirrers).[14]
- Carlos Isaack, 76, Argentine Olympic sprinter (1948).[15]
- Elvera Sanchez, 95, Puerto Rican dancer.[16]
- Jack Simmons, 85, British transport historian.[17]
- Clyde Sukeforth, 98, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers).[18]
- Indriði Guðmundur Þorsteinsson, 74, Icelandic writer.
- Walt Stanchfield, 81, American animator (The Jungle Book, The Fox and the Hound, The Great Mouse Detective).
4
- Augusto Vargas Alzamora, 77, Peruvian prelate in the Roman Catholic Church.[19]
- James Atuti, 46, Kenyan Olympic sprinter (1984).[20]
- Sir John Beith, 86, British diplomat.[21]
- David Brown, 53, American bass guitarist (Santana), kidney failure.
- Jack Fjeldstad, 85, Norwegian actor and stage producer.
- Pinky May, 89, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[22]
- Mihály Mayer, 66, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic champion (1956, 1960, 1964, 1968).[23]
- Mukri, 78, Indian film actor, heart attack.
- Gilles Potvin, 76, Canadian music critic and music historian.[24]
- Antonio Ruberti, 73, Italian politician and engineer.[25]
- Mary Shepard, 90, English illustrator of children's books.[26]
5
- Margaret Andrew, 92, American experimental engineer.[27]
- Carlo M. Cipolla, 78, Italian economic historian.[28]
- Roy Fredericks, 57, West Indian cricketer, cancer.[29]
- George Musso, 90, American football player (Chicago Bears) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[30]
- Palle Nielsen, 80, Danish illustrator and graphic artist.[31]
6
- David E. Bell, 81, American public servant, director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (1961–1962).[32]
- Marion T. Bennett, 86, American politician and judge.[33]
- Rudy Fernández, 89, Cuban baseball player.[34]
- Robert Lindsay, 95, English-born Australian politician.
- Abdul Haris Nasution, 81, Indonesian general and politician, cerebrovascular disease.[35]
- Nino Ramishvili, 90, Soviet and Georgian ballet dancer and choreographer.
- Fritz Ruchay, 90, German football player and manager.[36]
- Jürgen Schütze, 49, East German racing cyclist and Olympian (1972).[37]
- Aleksander Skiba, 55, Polish volleyball player and Olympian (1968).[38]
- Jiří Sovák, 79, Czech actor.[39]
- Kees van Aelst, 83, Dutch water polo player and Olympian (1936).[40]
- Roger Verey, 88, Polish rower and Olympian (1936).[41]
- Desmond Wilcox, 69, British journalist and television producer, heart attack.
7
- Hyginus Anugo, 22, Nigerian sprinter, car accident.[42]
- Bruce Gyngell, 71, Australian television executive, cancer-related illness.[43]
- Eigil Nielsen, 81, Danish amateur football goalkeeper and Olympic medalist (1948).[44]
- Gian Luigi Polidoro, 73, Italian film director and screenwriter.
- Vitaliy Popovich, 37, Ukrainian racewalker and Olympian (1988, 1996), suicide.[45]
- Aleksander Skiba, 55, Polish volleyball player and coach.
- Nick Tremark, 87, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).[46]
8
- Enrique Alessio, 82, Argentine musician.
- Yves Gaucher, 66, Canadian abstract painter and printmaker.[47]
- Otto Katharus Lind, 79, Danish resistance fighter and general.[48]
- August Lütke-Westhüs, 74, German equestrian and Olympian (1956).[49]
- Carlos Castillo Peraza, 53, Mexican politician, heart attack.[50]
- Raul Roulien, 94, Brazilian actor, singer, and film director.
9
- Julian Critchley, 69, British politician.[51]
- Herbert Friedman, 84, American physicist and astronomer, cancer.[52]
- Chuck Holmes, 55, American adult film producer, businessman and philanthropist, AIDS-related complications.
- Chuck Leonowicz, 42, American Olympic bobsledder (1992).[53]
- Veerasamy Ringadoo, 79, Mauritian politician, minister and Governor-General of Mauritius.
- Peter Robinson, 78, English football player.
- Robert S. Stevens, American politician and jurist.[54]
- Bill Waddington, 84, English music hall performer, actor, and comedian, Parkinson's disease.
10
- Jakie Astor, 82, English politician and sportsman.[55]
- Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, 81, Pakistani writer and journalist.[56]
- Chandra Khonnokyoong, 91, Thai Maechi.
- Seybourn Harris Lynne, 93, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama).[57]
- Émilien Méresse, 85, French footballer.[58]
- William Nierenberg, 81, American physicist and member of the Manhattan Project, cancer.[59]
- Lester Novros, 91, American artist and animator.
- José Gil Solé, 71, Spanish cyclist.[60]
- Cesare Valle, 98, Italian architect.[61]
- Ben Wicks, 73, British-Canadian cartoonist, illustrator, and author, cancer.[62]
11
- Herbert H. Bateman, 72, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1983), cancer.[63]
- Peter Browne, 76, Australian politician.
- Joe Dale, 79, English footballer.
- Philipp Fehl, 80, Austrian artist and art historian.[64]
- Ham Heung-chul, 69, South Korean football player, manager and Olympian (1964).[65]
- Martin James Monti, 78, US Army Air Force pilot.
- William Wilson Quinn, 92, US Army officer.[66]
- Joe Skubitz, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. House Of Representatives (1963-1978).[67]
- Bob Thurbon, 82, American football player (Steagles, Card-Pitt, Buffalo Bisons).[68]
12
- Leonard Alufurai, 74-75, Solomon Island bishop.[69]
- Juan Ibáñez Díez-Gutiérrez, 62, Mexican actor, film director, producer and writer.
- Konrad Kujau, 62, German illustrator and forger, cancer.[70]
- Gary Olsen, 42, English actor (2point4 Children, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The Bill), cancer.[71]
- Alfredo Pasotti, 75, Italian road bicycle racer.[72]
- Hubert Shurtz, 77, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).[73]
- Stanley Turrentine, 66, American jazz tenor saxophonist.[74]
13
- Lloyd Anderson, 98, American business executive.[75]
- Jānis Gilis, 57, Soviet and Latvian football player.
- Betty Jeffrey, 92, Australian writer.
- Howard Johnson, 89, British politician.[76]
- Rolf Kauka, 83, German comic artist.[77]
- Jerzy Lipiński, 91, Polish racing cyclist.[78]
- Thurman "Fum" McGraw, 73, American football player (Detroit Lions).[79]
- Ian Stephen, 83, South African rower and Olympian (1948, 1952).[80]
- Duane Swanson, 87, American basketball player and Olympian (1936).[81]
- Pedro Morales Torres, 68, Chilean football manager.
14
- Peter Barker, 45, British Virgin Islander Olympic sailor (1984).[82]
- Lazăr Baroga, 63, Romanian Olympic weightlifter (1960, 1964).[83]
- George Christopher, 92, Greek-American politician.[84]
- William Perry Copple, 83, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Arizona).[85]
- Leroy Cromartie, 77, American baseball player.[86]
- Jerzy Giedroyc, 94, Polish writer and political activist.[87]
- Jean Halain, 80, French film screenwriter.
- Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale, 86, British politician.[88]
- Cheng Kejie, 66, Chinese government official, execution by lethal injection.
- Gyula Lengyel, 68, Hungarian Olympic rower (1960).[89]
- Igor Luzhkovsky, 62, Russian swimmer and Olympian (1960).[90]
- George Myatt, 86, American baseball player (New York Giants, Washington Senators).[91]
- Beah Richards, 80, American actress (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night, ER), Emmy winner (1988, 2000), pulmonary emphysema.[92]
- Hwang Sun-won, 85, Korean short story writer, novelist, and poet.
15
- David Flusser, 83, Israeli professor of Early Christianity.[93]
- Jennifer Gan, 62, American actress.
- George Kanahele, 70, American native Hawaiian activist, historian and author.[94]
- Frank John Kerr, 82, Australian astronomer and physicist.
- Harmar Nicholls, 87, British politician.[95]
- Jean Yancey, 86, American entrepreneur and motivational speaker, heart failure.
16
- Nadina Abarth-Žerjav, 88, Slovene-Italian businesswoman.[96]
- Ioan Alexandru, 58, Romanian poet, essayist and politician.
- M. H. M. Ashraff, 51, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, helicopter crash.
- Dori Brenner, 53, American actress (Altered States, The Charmings, Ned and Stacey), complications from cancer.[97]
- Joseph C. Howard Sr., 77, American judge.[98]
- John Perkovich, 76, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).[99]
- Alexandra Petrova, 19, Russian model and beauty pageant contestant, murdered.
- Dharma Vira, 94, Indian politician.[100]
17
- Hester Burton, 86, English children's writer.
- Cruz Martínez Esteruelas, 68, Spanish politician.
- Georgiy Gongadze, 31, Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and film director, homicide.[101]
- Armand Mestral, 82, French actor and singer.[102]
- Nicole Reinhart, 24, American cyclist, cycling accident.[103]
- Dem Rădulescu, 68, Romanian actor, heart attack.[104]
- Chico Salmon, 59, Panamanian baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles).[105]
- Bakht Singh, 97, Indian evangelist, Bible teacher and preacher[106]
- Henry T. Weinstein, 76, American film producer.[107]
- Paula Yates, 41, British television presenter and journalist, drug overdose.[108]
18
- Branko Becić, 76, Croatian Olympic rower (1948).[109]
- Glyde Butler, 68, Australian politician.
- Gilbert Carpentier, 80, French television show producer.
- Tony Graboski, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens).[110]
- Dawn Langley Simmons, 77, English author and biographer, Parkinson's disease.[111]
- Chen Yuefang, 37, Chinese basketball player and Olympic medalist (1984).[112]
19
- John Beaumont, 76, American Olympic sports shooter (1956).[113]
- Joseph Epes Brown, 80, American scholar of Native American traditions.[114]
- Ann Doran, 89, American character actress.[115]
- Fulvio Mingozzi, 74, Italian actor.
- Karl Robatsch, 70, Austrian chess player and botanist, cancer.
- Gloria Talbott, 69, American actress, kidney failure.[116]
20
- Theresa Ahearn, 49, Irish politician, cancer.[117]
- Helmut Berthold, 89, German Olympic handball player (1936).[118]
- Dorothy Emmet, 95, British philosopher and academic.[119]
- Earnest Long, 72, American baseball player.[120]
- Mona Moore, 83, British painter and illustrator.
- Jeanloup Sieff, 66, French photographer, cancer.[121]
- Stanislav Stratiev, 59, Bulgarian playwright.
- Gherman Titov, 65, Soviet cosmonaut, heart failure (Vostok 2).[122]
21
- Robert Wright Campbell, 73, American author and scriptwriter.[123]
- Paul Cerutti, 89, Monegasque Olympic sports shooter (1972, 1976).[124]
- Jacques Flynn, 85, Canadian lawyer and politician.[125]
- Bengt Hambraeus, 72, Swedish-Canadian organist, composer and musicologist.[126]
- Iskandar Khatloni, 45, Tajikistani writer and journalist, murdered.
- Ognjen Petrović, 52, Serbian goalkeeper.[127]
- Frederic Seaman, 94, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion (1928).[128]
- John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, 85, British aristocrat.[129]
22
- Yehuda Amichai, 76, Israeli poet, cancer.[130]
- Willie Cook, 76, American jazz trumpeter.[131]
- Vincenzo Fagiolo, 82, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.[132]
- Dov Feigin, 93, Israeli sculptor.
- Alexei Kostrikin, 71, Russian mathematician.
- Mike Nixon, 88, American football player, coach and scout.[133]
- Anthony Read, 87, British Army general.
- Saburō Sakai, 84, Japanese flying ace during World War II, heart attack.[134]
- Bill Sommers, 77, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).[135]
- Otto Walzhofer, 74, Austrian football player and coach.[136]
- Johan Wiksten, 86, Swedish skier.[137]
23
- Hanson Taylor Dowell, 94, Canadian ice hockey administrator and politician.
- Eiichi Kudo, 71, Japanese film director, cerebral hemorrhage.[138]
- Václav Migas, 56, Czech international footballer.[139]
- Aurelio Rodríguez, 52, Mexican Major League Baseball player, traffic accident.[140]
- Carl Rowan, 75, American government official, journalist and author.[141]
- Kenny Smith, 76, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).[142]
24
- Ken Barfield, 71, American football player (Washington Redskins).[143]
- Basil Bernstein, 75, British sociologist.[144]
- Janice Biala, 97, Polish-American artist.[145]
- Dorr Bothwell, 98, American artist and designer.[146]
- Jerry Claiborne, 72, American college football coach and player.[147]
- Antony Darnborough, 86, British film producer and director.
- Marcel Lambert, 81, Canadian politician and Speaker of the House of Commons (1962-1963).[148]
- Jean Malléjac, 71, French bicycle racer.[149]
- Stephen McKeag, 30, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, drug overdose.
- Horacio Rivero, Jr., 90, Puerto Rican four-star admiral.[150]
25
- Tom Baker, 79, British Anglican priest.[151]
- Buster Matheney, 44, American basketball player, shot.[152]
- Heberto Padilla, 68, Cuban poet, heart attack.[153]
- Wilbur Frank Pell Jr., 84, American circuit judge (United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit).[154]
- Tommy Reilly, 81, English musician.[155]
- Edy Schmid, 89, Swiss field handball player and Olympic medalist (1936).[156]
- R. S. Thomas, 87, Welsh poet.[157]
26
- Neva Abelson, 89, American research physician (co-discovered the blood test for the Rh blood factor).[158]
- Nick Fatool, 85, American jazz drummer.[159]
- Paul Gouyon, 89, French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.[160]
- Mohamed Suffian Mohamed Hashim, 82, Malaysian judge.
- Robert Lax, 84, American poet.[161]
- Aleksandras Lileikis, 93, Lithuanian-American Holocaust perpetrator during World War II.
- Richard Mulligan, 67, American actor (Soap, Empty Nest, Little Big Man), Emmy winner (1980, 1989), cancer.[162]
- Baden Powell, 63, Brazilian guitarist, pneumonia.[163]
- Carl Sigman, 91, American songwriter.[164]
27
- Mario Arillo, 88, Italian naval officer.[165]
- Joshua Russell Chandran, 82, Indian Christian theologian.
- David Jennens, 71, English rower and Olympian (1952).[166]
- Sammy Luftspring, 84, Canadian boxer.[167]
- Mickey Masini, 77, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Los Angeles Dons).[168]
- Isaac Oceja, 85, Spanish football player and coach.
- Frank Wills, 52, American security guard, discovered Watergate break-in, brain cancer.[169]
- Oh Yun-kyo, 40, South Korean football player.
28
- Phil Dougherty, 88, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).[170]
- Ted Gehring, 71, American actor.
- Peter Gennaro, 80, American dancer and choreographer (Annie).[171]
- V. E. Howard, 88, American minister and radio evangelist.[172]
- Bob Layden, 80, American football player (Detroit Lions).[173]
- Mike McKevitt, 71, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1971-1973).[174]
- Roger Nott, 91, Australian politician.
- Carlos Revilla, 67, Spanish voice actor, heart attack.[175]
- Phot Sarasin, 95, Thai diplomat and politician.[176]
- Pierre Trudeau, 80, Prime Minister of Canada, prostate cancer and Parkinson's disease.[177]
- Gerd Vogeley, 75, German Olympic rower (1952).[178]
29
- Walter Dieminger, 93, German space scientist.[179]
- Myles Ferguson, 19, Canadian actor, traffic collision.
- Sir William Fry, 91, Australian politician.
- John Grant, 67, British politician.[180]
- Lynn Lovenguth, 77, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals).[181]
- Maningning Miclat, 28, Filipino poet and painter, suicide by jumping.[182]
- Roger Régimbal, 78, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1965-1968).[183]
- Carlos Savage, 81, Mexican film editor and actor.
- Vidoje Žarković, 73, Yoguslav-Montenegrin communist politician.
30
- Sisir Kumar Bose, 80, Indian freedom fighter and writer.
- Lina Bryans, 91, Australian modernist painter.
- Rich Dimler, 44, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Green Bay Packers).[184]
- Iván Esperón, 88, Argentine football player and coach.
- Heikki Flöjt, 56, Finnish Olympic biathlete (1968).[185]
- Zoran Gopčević, 45, Yugoslav water polo player and Olympian (1980).[186]
- Ragnhild Michelsen, 89, Norwegian actress.
- Erno Paasilinna, 65, Finnish writer and journalist, cancer.[187]
- Sir Fred Pontin, 93, English businessman.[188]
- Luis Rubén di Palma, 55, Argentine racing driver, helicopter crash.[189]
- Dennis Sandole, 87, American jazz guitarist, composer, and music educator.[190]
- Joe Schmidt, 73, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).[191]
- Joe Sheridan, 85, Irish politician.
- Mario Valota, 82, Swiss fencer and Olympic medalist (1952).[192]
- Palle Virtanen, 90, Finnish Olympic sprinter (1936).[193]
- Joe Watson, 48, Australian football player, liver cancer.[194]
- Joseph Weber, 81, American physicist, lymphoma.[195]
- Howard Winstone, 61, Welsh boxer.[196]