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

## August 2000
### 1

* Angèle Albrecht, 57, German ballerina.
* Maxie Berger, 83, Canadian boxer.
* Hugh Hood, 72, Canadian novelist, essayist and university professor.
* Ali Sardar Jafri, 86, Indian urdu writer.
* Nanjil K. Manoharan, 71, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
* Steve McCrory, 36, American boxer.
* Benedetto Pola, 85, Italian cyclist.
* Joseph Robert Sealy, 93, English botanist.
* Galina Sergeyeva, 86, Soviet and Russian actress.

### 2

* William Rossa Cole, 80, American anthologist, columnist, and writer.
* Shlomo Halberstam, 92, American rabbi.
* Trevor Leggett, 85, British author and translator, stroke.
* Jan Mertens, 84, Dutch politician.
* Patricia Moyes, 77, British mystery writer.
* Simon Stefani, 71, Albanian communist politician.

### 3

* Isolina Ferréro, 85, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic religious sister.
* Joann Lõssov, 78, Estonian basketball player.
* Michael Meyer, 79, English translator and writer.
* Geoffrey Page, 80, British flying ace during World War II.
* Mirian Tsalkalamanidze, 73, Georgian flyweight freestyle wrestler and Olympic champion.

### 4

* Thomas F. Allgood, 71, American politician, plane crash.
* Jimmy Bowie, 75, Scottish football player.
* John Joseph Graham, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate.
* Fred W. Hooper, 102, American racehorse owner and breeder.
* Julio Rodolfo Moctezuma, 73, Mexican lawyer.
* Michael Szwarc, 91, British and American polymer chemist.
* Halyna Zubchenko, 71, Ukrainian painter, muralist, and social activist.

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* Lala Amarnath, 88, Indian cricketer.
* Afrânio Coutinho, 89, Brazilian literary critic and essayist.
* Tullio Crali, 89, Italian artist associated with Futurism.
* Renée Devillers, 97, French stage and film actress.
* Alec Guinness, 86, English actor (The Bridge on the River Kwai, Star Wars, Lawrence of Arabia), Oscar winner (1958), liver cancer.
* Murray Krieger, 76, American literary critic and theorist.
* Arturo Durazo Moreno, 76, Mexican Chief of police and drug trafficker.
* Dudley Randall, 86, American poet and poetry publisher.
* Edgardo Sogno, 84, Italian diplomat, partisan and political figure.
* Otto Wiener, 89, Austrian baritone.

### 6

* Raymond J. Broderick, 86, American jurist and politician, cancer.
* Robin Day, 76, British political broadcaster, heart complications.
* Marv Felderman, 84, American baseball player.
* Max Phipps, 60, Australian actor, cancer.
* Raúl Sanguineti, 67, Argentine chess Grandmaster.
* Arthur Harold Stone, 83, British mathematician.
* Joan Trimble, 85, Irish composer and pianist.

### 7

* Samuel Akpabot, 63, Nigerian music composer, ethnomusicologist and author.
* Georges Matheron, 69, French mathematician and geologist.
* Mona-Lisa Pursiainen, 49, Finnish female sprinter, breast cancer.
* Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, 88, American philanthropist and mother of Donald Trump.

### 8

* Ruth Abrahams, 69, British artist.
* Jaime Annexy, 72, Puerto Rican hammer thrower.
* Jess Barker, 88, American actor, liver cirrhosis.
* Luigi Bonos, 90, Italian comedian and actor.
* Walter Chappell, 75, American photographer and poet, lung cancer.
* Ernie Hefferle, 85, American football player and coach.
* Živorad Jevtić, 56, Serbian football player.
* Jaap Marais, 77, Afrikaner nationalist thinker, author and politician.
* Mario Migliardi, 81, Italian television and film score composer.
* S. Nijalingappa, 97, Indian politician.
* Anatoliy Romashin, 69, Soviet and Russian actor and director, accidental impalement.
* Banja Tejan-Sie, 83, Sierra Leonean politician and Governor General.
* Harry D. Thiers, 81, American mycologist.
* John F. Warren, 91, American cinematographer.

### 9

* Josias Cunningham, 66, Northern Irish politician.
* John Harsanyi, 80, Hungarian-American economist, Nobel Prize laureate, heart attack.
* Nicholas Markowitz, 15, American kidnapping victim.
* Louis Nucera, 72, French writer, traffic accident.
* Fouad Serageddin, 88, Egyptian politician, Minister of Finance.
* Vitaliy Starukhin, 51, Ukrainian football player, pneumonia.
* Herb Thomas, 77, American NASCAR driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, heart attack.
* Lewis Wilson, 80, American actor (Batman).

### 10

* Robert Manuel Cook, 91, British classical scholar.
* Suzanne Danco, 89, Belgian soprano.
* Joan Marsh, 87, American child actress in silent films.
* Tibor Mezőfi, 74, Hungarian basketball player.
* Gilbert Parkhouse, 74, Welsh cricket player.
* Rita Trapanese, 49, Italian figure skater and Olympian, traffic collision.

### 11

* Les Dye, 84, American gridiron football player.
* Paidi Jairaj, 90, Indian film actor, director and producer.
* Talal Maddah, 60, Saudi musician and composer, heart attack.
* Usha Mehta, 80, India Gandhian and freedom fighter.
* Jean Papineau-Couture, 83, Canadian composer.
* Ric Roman, 83, American actor.
* Constantin Zureiq, Syrian Arab intellectual.

### 12

* Noboru Akiyama, 66, Japanese baseball player.
* Eliyahu Ben-Elissar, 68, Israeli politician and diplomat.
* Alberto Pedro Cabrera, 54, Argentine basketball player, leukemia.
* Jean Carzou, 93, French-Armenian artist, painter, and illustrator.
* Dave Edwards, 59, American big band-style musician, cardiac arrest.
* Loretta Young, 87, American actress (The Farmer's Daughter, Come to the Stable, The Loretta Young Show), Oscar winner (1948), ovarian cancer.

### 13

* Antony Duff, 80, British diplomat, Director-General of MI5 (1985-1988).
* Terence Feely, 72, British screenwriter, playwright and author.
* Nazia Hassan, 35, Pakistani pop singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist, lung cancer.
* Bob Wente, 67, American racing driver.

### 14

* Walter Benton, 69, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
* John Boland, 55, Irish politician, cancer.
* Alain Fournier, 56, French computer graphics researcher, lymphoma.
* Ken Heintzelman, 84, American baseball player.
* Cuan McCarthy, 71, South African cricket player.
* John Milford, 70, American actor, skin cancer.
* Alfred Rieck, 86, German rower and Olympic medalist.
* Bernice Giduz Schubert, 86, American botanist & scholar.
* Hawa Singh, 62, Indian heavyweight boxer.
* Rostislav Vovkushevsky, 83, Soviet and Russian painter.
* Mary K. Wells, 79, American television writer and actress.

### 15

* Zurab Achba, 50, Abkhazian politician, shot.
* T. A. Sarasvati Amma, 81, Indian mathematician.
* Ulla Barding-Poulsen, 88, Danish fencer and Olympian.
* Ena Begović, 40, Croatian actress, traffic accident.
* Helmut Coing, 88, German legal historian.
* Eduardo Luján Manera, 55, Argentine football player and manager.
* Robert Swink, 82, American film editor (Roman Holiday, Funny Girl, The Boys from Brazil), heart attack.
* Edward Craven Walker, 82, British inventor who invented the lava lamp, cancer.
* Lancelot Ware, 85, British founder of Mensa.

### 16

* Alan Caddy, 60, English guitarist (The Tornados).
* Grace Halsell, 77, American journalist and writer, multiple myeloma.
* Chanoch Dov Padwa, 91, British rabbi.
* S. C. C. Anthony Pillai, 86, Indian trade unionist and politician, cardiac arrest.
* Renu Saluja, 48, Indian film editor, stomach cancer.
* Thomas Ypsilantis, 72, Greek-American physicist, heart attack.

### 17

* Puangroi Apaiwong, 85, Thai composer.
* Jane Ardmore, 88, American writer, complications following hip surgery.
* Erich Borchmeyer, 95, German athlete and Olympian medalist.
* Lawrence H. Cooke, 85, American lawyer and politician.
* Franco Donatoni, 73, Italian composer.
* Robert R. Gilruth, 86, American aerospace engineer.
* Stephan Körner, 86, Czech-born British philosopher, suicide.
* Evert Nyberg, 75, Swedish long-distance runner and Olympian.
* Emil Petaja, 85, American science fiction and fantasy writer, heart failure.
* Leslie Rees, 94, Australian children's author and writer.
* Hans-Dietrich von Tiesenhausen, 87, Baltic German Kapitänleutnant during World War II.
* Jack Walker, 71, British industrialist and businessman, cancer.

### 18

* César Calvo, 60, Peruvian poet, journalist and author.
* Lakshyadhar Choudhury, 85, Indian actor, playwright, film-director and politician.
* Maurice Evans, 63, English football player and manager, heart attack.
* Bernard Krainis, 75, American musician.
* Ola Rotimi, 62, Nigerian playwright and theatre director.
* Morton Shulman, 75, Canadian politician, businessman and physician, Parkinson's disease.

### 19

* D. G. Champernowne, 88, English economist and mathematician.
* David Norton Edelstein, 90, American judge.
* Luce Fabbri, 92, Italian anarchist writer, publisher and daughter of Luigi Fabbri.
* Harry Oppenheimer, 91, South African businessman, industrialist and philanthropist, cancer.
* Antonio Pugliese, 59, Italian-Canadian professional wrestler known as Tony Parisi, aneurysm.
* Lee Sholem, 87, American television and film director.

### 20

* Jackie Coulter, 46, Northern Irish loyalist, shot.
* Nancy Evans, 85, British mezzo-soprano opera singer.
* Giovanni Gaddoni, 85, Italian football player.
* Mitch Halpern, 33, American boxing referee, suicide by gunshot.
* Bill Simon, 80, American songwriter, musician and music critic.
* Henri Theil, 75, Dutch econometrician.

### 21

* Sir Campbell Adamson, 78, British industrialist.
* Chuck Britz, 72, American recording engineer, brain cancer.
* Tom Day, 65, American football player.
* John Hayes, 70, American film director, cancer.
* Russ Kerns, 79, American baseball player.
* Daniel Lisulo, 69, Zambian politician.
* Giuseppe Medici, 92, Italian politician.
* Doris Petrie, 82, Canadian film and television actress.
* Gustav Scholz, 70, German boxer.
* Andrzej Zawada, 72, Polish mountaineer.

### 22

* Bill Bradford, 78, American baseball player.
* Abulfaz Elchibey, 62, Azerbaijani political figure and a Soviet dissident, prostate cancer.
* Charles Kalani, 70, American actor and professional wrestler, heart failure.
* Arun Mitra, 90, Indian poet of Bengali.
* Annie Bell Robinson Devine, 88, American activist in the civil rights movement.

### 23

* Betty Blue, 69, American model and actress.
* Anthony Corallo, 87, American mobster and boss of the Lucchese crime family.
* Patricia Jones, 69, Canadian athlete and Olympic medalist.
* John Anthony Kaiser, 67, American priest, assassinated.
* Rangarajan Kumaramangalam, 48, Indian politician, acute myeloid leukaemia, cancer.
* Milivoje Tomić, 80, Serbian actor.
* Marjorie Woodworth, 81, American actress.
* Dindo Yogo, 44, Congolese singer and musician.

### 24

* Andy Hug, 35, Swiss kickboxer, leukemia.
* Bob McPhail, 94, Scottish footballer.
* Tatiana Riabouchinska, 83, Russian American prima ballerina.
* Kalyanji Virji Shah, 72, Indian film score composer.

### 25

* Carl Barks, 99, American cartoonist (Scrooge McDuck), leukemia.
* Leo Barnhorst, 76, American basketball player, lymphoma.
* Bernard Becaas, 45, French cyclist, traffic collision.
* Frederick C. Bock, 82, American bomber during World War II, cancer.
* Cliff Bruner, 85, American musician and bandleader, cancer.
* John Florea, 84, American television director and a photographer.
* Michel Haguenauer, 84, French table tennis player.
* Jack Nitzsche, 63, American musician and film composer (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Exorcist, An Officer and a Gentleman), Oscar winner (1983), infectious disease.
* Valeriy Priyomykhov, 56, Soviet and Russian actor, film director, and author, brain cancer.
* Ginetta Sagan, 75, Italian-American human rights activist.
* Ivan Stambolić, 63, Serbian politician, homicide.
* Peter Swerling, 71, American scientist and radar pioneer.
* Ramón Torres, 68, American professional wrestler.

### 26

* Akbar Adibi, 61, Iranian engineer, heart failure.
* Bunny Austin, 94, English tennis player.
* Odette Joyeux, 85, French actress, playwright and novelist, stroke.
* Balan K. Nair, 67, Indian actor, bone cancer.
* Lynden Pindling, 70, Bahamian politician and Prime Minister, prostate cancer.
* Ed Rakow, 65, American baseball player.
* Allen Woody, 44, American bass guitarist (the Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule), heroin overdose.
* Wojciech Żukrowski, 84, Polish poet, writer, and literary critic.

### 27

* Gilbert de Botton, 65, Israeli financial pioneer.
* Denny Chronopoulos, 32, Canadian football player, heart attack.
* Deister, 29, German show jumping horse and European Champion.
* Joseph Lloyd Hogan, 84, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Bob Mahoney, 72, American baseball player.

### 28

* Knut Holmqvist, 82, Swedish sport shooter and Olympic silver medalist.
* Khaya Majola, 47, South African cricket player, colon cancer.
* Léa Roback, 96, Canadian trade union organizer, social activist, and feminist, accident.
* Mickey Sullivan, 84, American football player and coach.
* Liao Zhigao, 87, Chinese politician.

### 29

* Fern Bell, 87, American baseball player.
* Shelagh Fraser, 79, British actress (best known for playing Aunt Beru in Star Wars).
* Mohamed Hamri, 68, Moroccan painter and writer.
* Rose Hobart, 94, American actress and Screen Actors Guild official.
* Per Olof Håkansson, 59, American politician.
* Willie Maddren, 49, English football player and manager, ALS.
* Conrad Marca-Relli, 87, American artist.
* Marko Todorović, 71, Serbian character actor.

### 30

* David R. Altman, 85, American advertising executive, lymphoma.
* David Haskell, 52, American actor and singer, brain cancer.
* Joseph H. Lewis, 93, American B-movie film director.
* Hideo Sasaki, 80, American landscape architect.
* Gürdal Tosun, 33, Turkish actor (Bir Demet Tiyatro), kidney failure.

### 31

* Britta Brunius, 88, Swedish film actress.
* Joseph Lennox Federal, 90, American Roman Catholic prelate.
* Lucille Fletcher, 88, American screenwriter, stroke.
* Joan Hartigan, 88, Australian tennis player.
* Les Johnson, 84, Australian public servant and diplomat.
* Saunders King, 91, American guitarist and singer.
* Patricia Owens, 75, Canadian-born American actress.
* Yisha'ayahu Schwager, 54, Israeli footballer, heart attack.
* Mahavir Shah, 40, Indian actor, accident.
* John Alexander Simpson, 83, American physicist and science educator, pneumonia.
* Francis Skeat, 91, English glass painter.
* Euan Uglow, 68, British painter, cancer.