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

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:[2]
    • 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.[3]
  • 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.[4]
  • 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
  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
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