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

Preceded by Deaths in 1999

Deaths by year

Succeeded by Deaths in 2001