# Deaths in October 2000
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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

## October 2000
### 1

* Robert Allen, 73, American composer ("(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays", "Everybody Loves a Lover", "Chances Are").
* Charlie Brewster, 83, American baseball player.
* René Coicaud, 73, French fencer.
* Rosie Douglas, 58, Prime Minister of Dominica and human rights activist.
* Aristeidis Kollias, 56, Greek lawyer, publicist, and folklorist, leukemia.
* Luciano Storero, 74, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Reginald Kray, 66, British criminal, bladder cancer.

### 2

* Kerstin Ahlqvist, 73, Swedish alpine skier.
* Nikolai Fedorenko, 87, Soviet philologist, orientalist, and diplomat.
* Amadou Karim Gaye, 86, Senegalese politician.
* Richard Liberty, 68, American actor, heart attack.
* Elek Schwartz, 91, Romanian football player and coach.
* David Tonkin, 71, Australian politician, Premier of South Australia (1979-1982).

### 3

* Klondike Bill, 68, Canadian professional wrestler, neuromuscular disorder.
* Wojciech Jerzy Has, 75, Polish film director, screenwriter and film producer.
* Udo Klug, 72, German football player and manager.
* M. M. Mustapha, 76, Ceylonese lawyer and politician.
* Benjamin Orr, 53, American bassist and singer (The Cars), pancreatic cancer.
* John Worsley, 81, British artist and illustrator.

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* Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, 71, Moroccan long-distance runner and Olympic silver medalist, arteriosclerotic heart disease.
* Tofig Guliyev, 82, Azerbaijani composer, pianist, and conductor.
* Teruo Itokawa, 59, Japanese shot putter and Olympian.
* Aleksey Ivanovich Kandinsky, 82, Soviet musicologist.
* Yu Kuo-hwa, 86, Chinese politician, Premier (1984–1989), complications from leukemia.
* Tin Maung, 92, Burmese film actor, director and producer.
* Chuck Oertel, 69, American baseball player.
* Egano Righi-Lambertini, 94, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Ludvík Ráža, 71, Czechoslovak film director.
* Michael Smith, 68, English-Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

### 5

* Leopold Barschandt, 75, Austrian football player.
* Johanna Döbereiner, 75, Brazilian agronomist.
* Ruth Ellis, 101, American LGBT rights activist.
* Cătălin Hîldan, 24, Romanian football player, heart attack.
* Keith Roberts, 65, English science fiction author, multiple sclerosis.
* Cuco Sánchez, 79, Mexican singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor, kidney failure.
* Sidney R. Yates, 91, American politician (member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Illinois).

### 6

* William Bundy, 83, American attorney and CIA operative.
* José Cabanis, 78, French novelist, historian and magistrate.
* John T. Connor, 85, American government official and businessman, leukemia.
* Richard Farnsworth, 80, American actor (The Straight Story, Comes a Horseman, Misery) and stuntman, suicide by gunshot.
* Bernardo González, 31, Spanish cyclist and Olympian, traffic collision.
* John Keller, 71, American basketball player.
* Per-Olov Löwdin, 83, Swedish physicist.
* K. Gunn McKay, 75, American politician, complications of mesothelioma.
* George Huntston Williams, 86, American theologian.

### 7

* Tony Adamle, 76, American professional football player, cancer.
* Peter Emil Becker, 91, German neurologist, psychiatrist and geneticist.
* Leslie Kish, 90, Hungarian-American statistician.
* Walter Krupinski, 79, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
* Noor Suzaily Mukhtar, 24, Malaysian software engineer.
* Edith Robinson, 94, Australian track and field athlete and Olympian.

### 8

* Hanson Matthew Adjei-Sarpong, 75, Ghanaian politician.
* Charlotte Lamb, 62, British novelist.
* Vsevolod Larionov, 72, Soviet and Russian stage and film actor.
* Robert M. Leeds, 79, American film editor and television director.
* Clarence Myerscough, 69, British violinist.
* Mihai Pop, 92, Romanian ethnologist.
* Timothy P. Sheehan, 91, American politician.
* E. S. Johnny Walker, 89, American politician, leukemia.

### 9

* Gilberto Andrade, 62, Brazilian footballer.
* Robert Frederick Bennett, 73, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Kansas, lung cancer.
* David Dukes, 55, American character actor, heart attack.
* James V. Hartinger, 75, United States Air Force general.
* Charles Hartshorne, 103, American philosopher.
* Lajos Kocsis, 53, Hungarian football player.
* H. R. Loyn, 78, British historian.
* Patrick Anthony Porteous, 82, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross.
* John Joseph Thomas Ryan, 86, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

### 10

* Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 84, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, heart attack.
* Ferenc Farkas, 94, Hungarian composer.
* Joe Grady, 82, American radio personality.
* Dick Klein, 80, American businessman and founder of the Chicago Bulls.
* Emile Kuri, 93, Mexican-American set decorator.
* Nikolai Lyashchenko, 90, Soviet Army general and war hero.
* Ambrogio Morelli, 94, Italian road bicycle racer.
* Bruce Palmer, Jr., 87, American Army general.
* Bruce Vento, 60, American politician, lung cancer caused by asbestos.

### 11

* Donald Dewar, 63, Scottish politician, cerebral haemorrhage, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Hiroshi Inose, 73, Japanese electrical engineer, heart attack.
* Matija Ljubek, 46, Croatian sprint canoeist and Olympic champion, shot.
* Sam O'Steen, 76, American film editor and director.
* Pietro Palazzini, 88, Italian Cardinal.
* Thomas Leonard Wells, 70, Canadian politician, cancer.
* Fred Williams, 71, American gridiron football player.

### 12

* Justo Arosemena Lacayo, 70, Colombian sculptor.
* Melvin A. Cook, 89, American chemist.
* Mark Saxelby, 31, English cricket player, suicide by herbicide ingestion.
* Gordon Stulberg, 76, Canadian-American film executive and lawyer, complications related to diabetes.

### 13

* Masao Fujii, 31, Japanese baseball player.
* Gus Hall, 90, American labor leader and chairman of the Communist Party USA.
* Jean Peters, 73, American actress, leukemia.
* Jarnail Singh, 64, Indian football player.
* Britt Woodman, 80, American jazz trombonist.

### 14

* Sebastião Alba, 60, Portuguese poet, road incident.
* Art Coulter, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Dino Dibra, 25, Australian organized crime figure, shot.
* Abbas Gharabaghi, 81, Iranian Army officer and Chief of Staff, cancer.
* David Guiney, 79, Irish Olympic athlete, sports journalist and historian.
* Tony Roper, 35, American stock car racing driver, racing accident.
* Vic Schwall, 75, American gridiron football player.

### 15

* Manuel da Luz Afonso, 83, Portuguese football manager.
* Konrad Emil Bloch, 88, German-American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, heart failure.
* Vincent Canby, 76, American film and theatre critic (The New York Times), cancer.
* John Perceval, 77, Australian artist.
* Rodolfo Sonego, 79, Italian screenwriter.

### 16

* Emil Berna, 93, Swiss cinematographer.
* Mel Carnahan, 66, American lawyer and politician (51st Governor of Missouri).
* Antonio Ferrandis, 79, Spanish actor, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
* David Golub, 50, American pianist and conductor, lung cancer.
* Tito Gómez, 80, Cuban singer.
* Rick Jason, 77, American actor, suicide by gunshot.
* Pierre-Michel Le Conte, 79, French conductor.
* Joaquín Gutiérrez Mangel, 82, Costa Rican writer, heart failure.
* Antonio Russo, 40, Italian journalist, tortured.
* Lu Xiaopeng, 80, Chinese aircraft designer.

### 17

* G. Arthur Cooper, 98, American paleobiologist.
* Harry Cooper, 96, English-American PGA Tour golfer.
* Joachim Nielsen, 36, Norwegian rock musician and poet, drug overdose.
* Leo Nomellini, 76, Italian-American football player (San Francisco 49ers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, stroke.
* Ivan Owen, 73, British voice actor, cancer.
* Walter Shenson, 81, American film producer, director and writer.

### 18

* Bruce Biggs, 79, New Zealand linguist.
* Inga Gill, 75, Swedish film actress, thrombosis.
* Julie London, 74, American singer and actress, cardiac arrest, stroke.
* Sidney Salkow, 89, American screenwriter and film/television director.
* Gwen Verdon, 75, American actress (Damn Yankees, Chicago, Cocoon), four-time Tony winner, heart attack.

### 19

* Don Black, 72, Rhodesian tennis player, complications from bowel cancer surgery.
* Mahir Domi, 85, Albanian linguist and academic.
* Hortense Ellis, 59, Jamaican reggae musician, infectious disease.
* Kay Fanning, 73, American journalist and publisher.
* Shirley Gorelick, 76, American artist.
* Kati Horna, 88, Hungarian-Mexican photojournalist and photographer.
* Antonio Maspes, 68, Italian sprinter cyclist and Olympic medalist.
* Charles Perkins, 64, Australian Aboriginal activist, and soccer player, renal failure.
* Leopoldo Savona, 87, Italian actor, director, choreographer, and screenwriter.
* Karl Stein, 87, German mathematician.

### 20

* Johannes Abraham Dimara, 84, Indonesian revolutionary and National Hero.
* Elisa Galvé, 78, Argentine actress.
* Jenny Kastein, 87, Dutch competition swimmer and Olympian.
* Kalfie Martin, 90, South African military commander.
* Boris Seidenberg, 71, Soviet actor.

### 21

* Gunnar Andresen, 76, Norwegian footballer.
* Frankie Crocker, 62, American disc jockey, pancreatic cancer.
* Alan Rowe, 73, New Zealand-born British actor.
* Dirk Jan Struik, 106, Dutch-American mathematician and historian of mathematics.
* Ralph A. Vaughn, 93, American academic, architect and film set designer.

### 22

* Abdur Rehman, 82, Pakistani cricketer.
* Anthony Chinn, 70, Guyanese actor based in England.
* Fred Pratt Green, 97, British Methodist minister and hymn writer.
* Jean-Luc Mandaba, 57, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, heart attack.
* Princess Xenia Andreevna Romanovsky, 81, Russian noblewoman.
* Dick Spiers, 62, English football player.
* Hank Wyse, 82, American baseball player.

### 23

* Benny Culp, 86, American baseball player.
* Hans Ertl, 92, German mountaineer and Nazi propagandist.
* Doug Millward, 69, English football player.
* Martin Rich, 95, German conductor.
* Nils Täpp, 82, Swedish cross-country skier and Olympic champion.
* Yokozuna, 34, American professional wrestler, pulmonary edema.

### 24

* Terry Haskins, 45, American Republican politician, melanoma.
* Sitaram Kesri, 80, Indian politician and parliamentarian.
* Fereydoon Moshiri, 74, Iranian poet, leukemia.
* Silvio Noto, 73, Italian TV and radio presenter, and actor.
* Miriam Salpeter, 71, Latvian-American neuroscientist.
* Daniel E. Sheehan, 83, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Omaha.
* Little Mack Simmons, 67, American blues musician, colon cancer.

### 25

* Kamran Baghirov, 67, Soviet politician, First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party.
* Don Frank Brooks, 53, American blues musician, leukemia.
* Alberto Demiddi, 56, Argentine rower and Olympic medalist.
* Mochitsura Hashimoto, 91, Japanese submarine commander during World War II.
* Wood B. Kyle, 85, United States Marine Corps Major General.
* Jeanne Lee, 61, American jazz singer, poet and composer, cancer.
* Brian McConnell, Baron McConnell, 77, Northern Irish Unionist politician.
* John Sinclair Morrison, 87, English classicist.
* Nejat Saydam, 71, Turkish film director, screenwriter and actor from Istanbul.
* Robert E. Waldron, 80, American politician.

### 26

* Jesús Puente Alzaga, 69, Spanish actor, heart attack.
* Muriel Evans, 90, American actress, colorectal cancer.
* Manmath Nath Gupta, 92, Indian Marxist revolutionary writer and author.
* Laila Kinnunen, 60, Finnish singer.
* Donald F. Lach, 83, American historian and author.
* Mike Rawson, 66, English track and field athlete and Olympian.
* Gardner Soule, 86, American writer.

### 27

* Lída Baarová, 86, Czech-Austrian actress and mistress of the Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels, Parkinson's disease.
* Walter Berry, 71, Austrian bass-baritone.
* Winston Grennan, 56, Jamaican drummer, cancer.
* Bill O'Neill, 90, American gridiron football player.
* Larry Rhine, 90, American producer and screenwriter.
* Stanislav Sventek, 69, Czech ice hockey player and coach.
* Bill Wainwright, 91, British communist activist.
* Clifford Dwight Waldo, 87, American political scientist.
* Bob Weighill, 80, English rugby player.

### 28

* Andújar Cedeño, 31, Dominican baseball player, car accident.
* Josef Felder, 100, German politician.
* Dorothy Hood, 81, American modernist painter, breast cancer.
* Aare Laanemets, 46, Estonian actor, stroke.
* Anthony Lee, 39, American actor and playwright, shot by police officer.
* Michael Murphy, 81, Irish politician.
* Djaelani Naro, 71, Indonesian politician.
* Fred C. Norton, 72, American judge and politician.
* Howard Patterson, 73, American Olympic swimmer.
* Edith Peters, 74, American singer and actress.
* Irving Phillips, 95, American cartoonist, illustrator, playwright, and author.
* Georges Poujouly, 60, French actor, cancer.
* Robert Sommers, 89, Canadian politician.
* Décio Randazzo Teixeira, 58, Brazilian football player.
* Mapalagama Wipulasara Maha Thera, 75, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk.
* Kemp Tolley, 92, U.S. Navy officer and author, stroke.

### 29

* Charles F. Avila, 94, American electrical engineer.
* Jacqueline Brumaire, 78, French operatic soprano.
* Elisabeth Epp, 90, German actress.
* Carlos Guastavino, 88, Argentine composer.
* Rolf Hädrich, 69, German film director and screenwriter.

### 30

* Hugo Adriaensens, 73, Belgian politician.
* Steve Allen, 78, American comedian, TV host (The Tonight Show, The Steve Allen Show) and author, traffic accident.
* Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios, 73, Mexican politician.
* Elizabeth Bradley, 78, English actress (Coronation Street).
* María Elena Galiano, 72, Argentine arachnologist.
* Henri Pichette, 76, French writer and poet.
* Louis Stuyt, 86, Dutch politician and physician.

### 31

* Ikram Antaki, 52, Syrian-Mexican writer.
* Bill Carse, 86, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Tommy English, 40, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary and politician, shot.
* Thomas Gifford, 63, American author, cholangiocarcinoma.
* Ring Lardner Jr., 85, American journalist and screenwriter (Woman of the Year, Laura, M*A*S*H), Oscar winner (1943, 1971), cancer.
* Robert C. Murphy, 74, American lawyer and jurist, neuromuscular disease.
* Samuel Pierce, 78, American politician.
* Kaj Aage Gunnar Strand, 93, Danish astronomer.
* Mike Turnesa, 93, American golfer and one of seven golfing brothers.
* Kazuki Watanabe, 19, Japanese musician, sedative overdose.