Deaths in July 2000

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.
Steve Hokuf, 89, American football player and coach, stroke.
Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan, 94, fourth wife of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah.
Cub Koda, 51, American rock and roll musician and record compiler, kidney failure.
Ganju Lama, 75, Sikkimese Gurkha and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
Walter Matthau, 79, American actor (winner of Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony awards), heart attack.
Pierre Petit, 78, French composer.

2

Mina Aoe, 59, Japanese female enka singer, pancreatic cancer.
Joey Dunlop, 48, Northern Irish motorcycle racer, motorcycle accident.
Constance Howard, 89, English textile artist and embroiderer.
Paul McLaughlin, 80, Canadian sailor and Olympian.
Karl Sweetan, 57, American gridiron footballplayer, complications following surgery.
Georgi Tringov, 63, Bulgarian chess grandmaster.

3

Walter Cassel, 90, American operatic baritone and actor.
Nancy Cato, 83, Australian writer and poet.
James Grogan, 68, American figure skater and Olympian, multiple organ failure.
André Guinier, 88, French physicist.
Michael Hamilton, 81, British politician.
Paul G. Hatfield, 72, American attorney and politician.
John Hejduk, 70, Czech-American architect, artist and educator.
Leonard Hilton, 52, American long-distance runner.
János Kamara, 73, Hungarian communist politician.
Enric Miralles, 45, Spanish architect, brain tumor, brain cancer.
Harold Nicholas, 79, American dancer (Nicholas Brothers), heart attack.
Fiorentino Sullo, 79, Italian politician.
Kemal Sunal, 55, Turkish actor, heart attack.

4

Donald Blessing, 94, American rower and Olympic champion.
Jack T. Bradley, 82, US Army Air Force fighter ace during World War II.
Allan Fakir, 68, Pakistani folk singer.
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, 81, Polish writer and political dissident.
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.
Vladimír Ráž, 77, Czechoslovak film actor.
Shōji Ueda, 87, Japanese photographer.

5

Franta Belsky, 79, Czech sculptor, prostate cancer.
Giovanni Bettinelli, 65, Italian racing cyclist.
Edgar Cardoso, 87, Portuguese civil engineer and university professor.
Mehrangiz Manoochehrian, 94, Iranian lawyer, musician and feminist.
Peter Bullfrog Moore, 68, Australian rugby league administrator, esophageal cancer.
Dorino Serafini, 90, Italian motorcycle road racer and racing driver.
Gloria Williams, 57, American singer, diabetes.
Joseph Wohlfart, 80, Luxembourgian politician.
Lord Woodbine, 71, Trinidadian calypsonian and music promoter, house fire.

6

Roderic Coote, 85, British Anglican prelate.
Eric Fraser, 69, English rugby player.
Lazar Koliševski, 86, Yugoslav communist political leader.
Fred Lane, 24, American football player, shot.
Akira Miyazawa, 72, Japanese jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist.
Ľudovít Rajter, 93, Slovakian-Hungarian composer and conductor.
Władysław Szpilman, 88, Jewish-Polish pianist and Holocaust survivor portrayed in the 2002 film The Pianist.
Marcella Comès Winslow, 95, American photographer and portrait painter.

7

Dame Stella Casey, 76, New Zealand social activist.
Kenny Irwin, 30, American stock car racing driver, racing accident.
Ursula Kuczynski, 93, German communist activist and spy.
James C. Quayle, 79, American newspaper publisher.
William J. Randall, 90, American politician.
Johann Urbanek, 89, Austrian football player.
Charles Alan Wright, 72, American constitutional lawyer.
Dmitry Alexandrovich Zavadsky, 27, Belarusian journalist, homicide.

8

FM-2030, 69, Iranian-American author, transhumanist philosopher and futurist, pancreatic cancer.
Pieter Goemans, 75, Dutch composer ("Aan de Amsterdamse grachten").
Anne Mueller, 69, British civil servant and academic, Parkinson's disease.
Maurice Owen, 76, English footballer.
Cliff Sear, 63, Welsh footballer, heart attack.

9

Doug Fisher, 59, English actor, heart attack.
Henri Gault, 70, French food journalist, heart attack.
Herbert Hunger, 85, Austrian byzantinist.
Erkki Koiso, 66, Finnish ice hockey player.
John Morgan, 41, British etiquette expert, domestic accident.
Joe Sostilio, 85, American racing driver.
John Vitale, 34, American football player, cancer.

10

Gertrud Arndt, 96, German photographer and designer.
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.
Ursule Molinaro, French-American writer.
Bill Munson, 58, American gridiron football player, drowned.
Francisco Matos Paoli, 85, Puerto Rican poet, critic, and essayist.
Justin Pierce, 25, British skateboarder and actor (Kids, Next Friday), suicide.
Apostolos Vakalopoulos, 90, Greek historian.
Norma Wilson, 90, New Zealand athlete and Olympian.

11

Bill Alexander, 90, British political activist.
Jaroslav Filip, 51, Slovak musician, composer, dramaturge, and actor, heart attack.
Pedro Mir, 87, Dominican poet and writer (Poet Laureate).
Robert Runcie, 78, British Archbishop of Canterbury, cancer.
Barry Tabobondung, 39, Canadian ice hockey player, traffic accident.

12

Al Butler, 62, American basketball player, cancer.
Tom Galley, 84, English football player.
Charles Merritt, 91, Canadian war hero and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, 72, Yugoslav prince.

13

A. D. Hope, 92, Australian poet.
Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso, 86, Argentine historian and researcher.
Jan Karski, 86, Polish resistance fighter and academic.
Mauno Rintanen, 75, Finnish football player and basketball player.
Indira Sant, 86, Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India.

14

Bill Barth, 57, American blues guitarist, heart attack.
Finn-Egil Eckblad, 76, Norwegian mycologist.
Alvin Hollingsworth, 72, American painter and comics artist.
Meredith MacRae, 56, American actress (My Three Sons, Petticoat Junction), complications of brain cancer.
Georges Maranda, 68, Canadian baseball player, cancer.
Mark Oliphant, 98, Australian physicist, Governor of South Australia.
Pepo, 88, Chilean cartoonist.

15

Paul Bühlmann, 73, Swiss comedian, radio personality, and actor.
Johnny Duncan, 67, American bluegrass musician.
Juan Filloy, 105, Argentine writer.
Jocko Henderson, 82, American radio disc jockey, and hip hop music pioneer, cancer.
Leo Hoegh, 92, U.S. Army officer, lawyer, and politician.
John O. Pastore, 93, American lawyer and politician, kidney failure.
Louis Quilico, 75, Canadian opera singer.
Kalle Svensson, 74, Swedish footballer.
Paul Young, 53, British singer and songwriter (Sad Café, Mike + The Mechanics), heart attack.

16

Igor Domnikov, 41, Russian journalist and editor, murdered.
György Petri, 56, Hungarian poet, cancer.
Barbosa Lima Sobrinho, 103, Brazilian lawyer, writer, journalist and politician.
Jean Vercoutter, 89, French Egyptologist.
Bernie Whitebear, 62, American Indian activist, colon cancer.
William Foote Whyte, 86, American sociologist.

17

Pascale Audret, 64, French actress, traffic collision.
Thomas Quinn Curtiss, 85, American writer, and film and theater critic.
Zhao Lirong, 72, Chinese singer and film actress, cancer.
Aligi Sassu, 88, Italian painter and sculptor.
Jean Swain, 76, American singer.
Berthe Villancher, 91, French gymnastics judge and official.

18

René Chocat, 79, French basketball player.
Roberto Contreras, 71, American actor.
Paul Coverdell, 61, American politician, Senator from Georgia, cerebral hemorrhage.
John F. Davis, 93, American lawyer and law professor.
Enrique de Gandía, 94, Argentine historian and author.
Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza, 81, Spanish architect.
José Ángel Valente, 71, Spanish poet and essayist.

19

James B. Clark, 92, American film and television director.
Stephen Gendin, 34, American AIDS activist, AIDS-induced lymphoma.
Kamala Das Gupta, 93, Indian freedom fighter.
Hananiah Harari, 87, American painter and illustrator.
Owen Maddock, 74, British engineer and racing car designer.
Tommy O'Boyle, 82, American football coach.
Allen Paulson, 78, American businessman.

20

Eyvind Earle, 84, American artist, author and illustrator, esophageal cancer.
Joseph F. Enright, 89, American submarine commander.
James Hobson Morrison, 91, American politician (member of the United States House of Representatives), heart attack.
Béla Rajki, 91, Hungarian swimming coach and water polo coach.
Murray G. Ross, 90, Canadian sociologist, author, and academic administrator.
Mabel Scott, 85, American gospel music and R&B vocalist.
Jim Suchecki, 72, American baseball player.
Alexis P. Vlasto, 84, British historian and philologist.
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.
Iain Hamilton, 78, Scottish composer.
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.
Marc Reisner, 51, American environmentalist and writer, colon cancer.
Åke Senning, 84, Swedish cardiac surgeon.
Yoshio Watanabe, 93, Japanese photographer.

22

John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield, 80, British medical researcher and academic administrator.
Eric Christmas, 84, British actor.
Alexander Dallin, 76, American historian and political scientist.
Raymond Lemieux, 80, Canadian organic chemist.
Staffan Burenstam Linder, 68, Swedish economist and politician, lung cancer.
Claude Sautet, 76, French film director and screenwriter, liver cancer.
Archie W. Straiton, 92, American physicist.
Teleco, 86, Brazilian football player.

23

Ralph Evans, 76, American competitive sailor and Olympic medalist.
Carmen Martín Gaite, 74, Spanish author.
Oiva Lommi, 78, Finnish rower and Olympic medalist.
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.

24

Anatoli Firsov, 59, Russian ice hockey player, heart attack.
Pierre Hardy, 92, French sport shooter and Olympic medalist.
Jim Kremer, 81, Luxembourgian football player.
Dharmasiri Senanayake, 67, Sri Lankan politician.
Oscar Shumsky, 83, American violinist and conductor.
G. Wood, 80, American film and television actor, congestive heart failure.

25

Julia Pirotte, 92, Polish photojournalist.
Aleksander Rokosa, 64, Polish gymnast.
Fred C. Sheffey, 71, United States Army major general, lung cancer.
Elizabeth Wilson, 86, American screenwriter and playwright.
Notable people killed in the crash of Air France Flight 4590:
- Rudi Faßnacht, 65, German football manager.
- Christian Götz, 60, German trade unionist and politician.
- Jean Marcot, 50, French first officer of Flight 4590.
- Christian Marty, 54, French windsurfer and captain of Flight 4590.
- Andreas Schranner, 64, German property magnate.

26

Abhayadev, 87, Indian poet and lyricist.
U. R. Jeevarathinam, Tamil actress, singer and producer.
Dalkhan Khozhaev, 39, Chechen historian, field commander, brigadier general and author, murdered.
John Tukey, 85, American mathematician, infarction.
Don Weis, 78, American film and television director.

27

Virginia Admiral, 85, American painter and poet.
Bruce Douglas-Mann, 73, British politician.
Val Dufour, 73, American actor, cancer.
Paddy Joyce, 77, Irish actor, stroke.
Vladimir Lisunov, 60, Russian nonconformist artist, murdered.
Constance Stuart Larrabee, 85, English photographer and war correspondent.
Gordon Solie, 71, American wrestling commentator, throat cancer.

28

Jaime Cardriche, 32, American actor, complications during gall bladder surgery.
Leslie Martin, 91, English architect.
Abraham Pais, 82, Dutch-American physicist, cardiovascular disease.
Jonas M. Platt, 80, United States Marine Corps officer.
Jerome Smith, 47, American guitarist (KC and the Sunshine Band), accident.
Chic Stone, 77, American comic book artist.
John Wells, 93, British artist.

29

Kobie Coetsee, 69, South African lawyer and politician, heart attack.
Eladio Dieste, 82, Uruguayan engineer.
René gerónimo favaloro, 77, Argentine cardiologist, suicide by gunshot.
Benny Fenton, 81, English football player and manager.
Åke Hodell, 81, Swedish fighter pilot, poet, author, text-sound composer, and artist.
Richard Kerry, 85, American Foreign Service officer and lawyer, prostate cancer.
Bobby Reid, 63, Scottish football player.
Bob Welch, 72, Canadian politician.

30

Ab Box, 91, Canadian football player.
Jim Clark, 71, American gridiron football player.
Derek Hill, 83, English portrait and landscape painter.
Nan Leslie, 74, American actress, pneumonia.
Max Showalter, (aka Casey Adams), 83, American actor, composer, pianist, singer, cancer.
Jack Smiley, 77, American basketball player.

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.
Constance Babington Smith, 87, British journalist and writer.
Armando Trindade, 72, Pakistani prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
Hendrik C. van de Hulst, 81, Dutch astronomer and mathematician.
Thomas Wolff, 46, American mathematician, car accident.

References

↑ Mel Gussow (2 July 2000). "Walter Matthau, 79, Rumpled Star and Comic Icon, Dies". The New York Times. p. 1 26. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
↑ "Families wiped out in crash". BBC News. 31 July 2000. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
↑ "Jerome Smith, 47, of K. C. and the Sunshine Band, the Hit Disco Group". The New York Times. 2000-08-10. Retrieved 2018-12-18.
↑ Associated Press, Richard Kerry, Father of Sen. John Kerry, Dies, Lewiston Sun-Journal, July 31, 2000

Preceded by Deaths in 1999	Deaths by year	Succeeded by Deaths in 2001

[1] Mel Gussow (2 July 2000). "Walter Matthau, 79, Rumpled Star and Comic Icon, Dies". The New York Times. p. 1 26. Retrieved 27 December 2018.

[2] "Families wiped out in crash". BBC News. 31 July 2000. Retrieved 7 July 2019.

[3] "Jerome Smith, 47, of K. C. and the Sunshine Band, the Hit Disco Group". The New York Times. 2000-08-10. Retrieved 2018-12-18.

[4] Associated Press, Richard Kerry, Father of Sen. John Kerry, Dies, Lewiston Sun-Journal, July 31, 2000