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

## June 2000
### 1

* Angela Annabell, 71, New Zealand musicologist.
* Oskar Czerwenka, 75, Austrian operatic bass and academic teacher.
* Sir Raymond Ferrall, 94, Australian businessman and author.
* Edgar Z. Friedenberg, 79, American scholar of gender studies.
* Ralph Jones, 79, American drummer.
* Jim Shorter, 61, American gridiron football player.

### 2

* Ali Akbar Aboutorabi Fard, 60-61, Iranian revolutionary, car crash.
* Ellis Clary, 83, American baseball player.
* Svyatoslav Fyodorov, 72, Russian ophthalmologist (a pioneer of refractive surgery) and politician, plane crash.
* Adolph Hofner, 83, American swing bandleader and singer.
* Werner Panitzki, 89, German Air Force general.
* Mikhail Schweitzer, 80, Soviet film director, traffic collision.
* Lepo Sumera, 50, Estonian composer.
* Gerald James Whitrow, 87, British mathematician, cosmologist and science historian.

### 3

* Leonard Baskin, 77, American sculptor, visual artist and writer.
* Ted Graber, 79-80, American interior designer.
* Jaishankar, 61, Indian actor, heart attack.
* Nevena Kokanova, 61, Bulgarian film actress, cancer.
* Merton Miller, 77, American Nobel Prize-winning economist.
* William E. Simon, 72, American politician and businessman, respiratory disease.
* Ann Tse-kai, 87, Hong Kong industrialist and legislator.

### 4

* Clarence Carter, 96, American artist.
* Sir James Glover, 71, British army general.
* Takashi Kano, 79, Japanese football player, heart failure.
* Richard A. Peterson, 77, United States Army Air Forces flying ace and architect, cancer.
* Mark Samaranayake, 86, Sri Lankan actor.
* Hiroji Satoh, 75, Japanese table tennis player.
* Augusta H. Teller, 91, American scientist and computer programmer.
* Paul Zoungrana, 82, Burkinabé cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

### 5

* Carl-Erik Creutz, 88, Finnish radio announcer.
* Houshang Golshiri, 62, Iranian writer and critic, meningitis.
* Jeanne Hersch, 89, Swiss philosopher.
* Don Liddle, 75, American baseball player.
* João Nogueira, 58, Brazilian samba singer and composer.
* Anna Birgitta Rooth, 81, Swedish academic.
* Franco Rossi, 81, Italian film screenwriter and director.
* Eugene M. Zuckert, 88, American Secretary of the Air Force, pneumonia

### 6

* Blair Clark, 82, American journalist and political activist.
* Frédéric Dard, 78, French writer.
* Arnie Johnson, 80, American professional basketball player.
* Seiroku Kajiyama, 74, Japanese politician.
* Alexander Evert Kawilarang, 80, Indonesian freedom fighter and military commander.
* Håkan Lidman, 85, Swedish athlete.
* Maria Laura Mainetti, 60, Italian Catholic sister, stabbed.
* William McMillan, 71, World-class American sport shooter and Olympic champion.
* Joan Tate, 77, English translator.
* Feltus Taylor, 38, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

### 7

* Clint Houston, 53, American jazz double-bassist.
* Don Klosterman, 70, American gridiron football player and executive.
* James Moore, 44, American gospel musician, colon cancer.
* Ljubiša Savić, 41, Bosnian Serb paramilitary commander and post-war politician, murdered.
* Barbara Jo Walker, 74, American model and Miss America in 1947.

### 8

* Andy Aitken, 80, Scottish footballer.
* Hart Amos, 83, Australian comic strip writer and artist.
* Lucy May Cranwell, 92, New Zealand botanist.
* Norman A. Erbe, 80, American politician, Iowa governor from 1961 to 1963.
* Georges Fages, 66, French rugby player and coach.
* Jack Gaud, 42, Indian actor, heart attack.
* Donald Kalish, 80, American logician and anti-war activist.
* Jack Kroll, 74, American journalist and film critic.
* Jeff MacNelly, 52, American editorial cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip Shoe, lymphoma.
* Larry Nuber, 51, American auto racing announcer.
* Kermit Roosevelt Jr., 84, American intelligence officer.
* Stephen Saunders, 52, British Army officer, drive-by shooting.
* Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu, 24, Indo-Canadian beautician, murder by slashing.
* Teuvo Tulio, 87, Finnish film director and actor.

### 9

* John Abramovic, 81, Croatian-American professional basketball player.
* Sir John Balcombe, 74, British jurist, Lord Justice of Appeal.
* Shay Brennan, 63, Irish footballer.
* Ernst Jandl, 74, Austrian writer.
* Jacob Lawrence, 82, American painter and educator.
* Muhammad Noor, 75, Indian football player.
* Amédée Rolland, 86, French racing cyclist.
* George Segal, 75, American painter and sculptor.
* Alfred Weidenmann, 84, German film director, screenwriter, and children's author.

### 10

* Hafez al-Assad, 69, President of Syria, heart attack.
* Rômulo Arantes, 42, Brazilian swimmer and actor, plane crash.
* Terry Forrestal, 52, English actor (Titanic) and stuntman (Braveheart, Batman), BASE jumping accident.
* Jack Hoobin, 72, Australian cyclist and Olympian.
* Frank Patterson, 61, Irish tenor.
* Brian Statham, 69, English professional cricketer, leukemia.
* J. Watson Webb, Jr., 84, American film editor.

### 11

* Aud Alvær, 78, Norwegian politician.
* Geneviève Amyot, 55, Canadian poet and novelist.
* Michel Besnier, 71, French heir and businessman.
* Henry Davis, 57, American gridiron football player.
* Lew Gallo, 71, American actor and television producer (Twelve O'Clock High, The Twilight Zone).
* Karl-Heinz Holze, 69, German football player.
* Elizabeth Lawrence, 77, American actress, cancer.
* Rajesh Pilot, 55, Indian Air Force officer and politician, traffic collision.
* Ruth Rubin, 93, Canadian-American Yiddish folklorist and singer.
* Earl Shinhoster, 49, American civil rights activist, traffic collision.
* Claus Westermann, 90, German theologian.

### 12

* Irving Anker, 88, American educator, natural causes.
* Leonard Appelbee, 85, English painter.
* Yun Bulong, 62, Chinese politician, Chairman of Inner Mongolia, traffic collision.
* Sir Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce, 88, British jurist.
* Edwin R. Chess, 87, American major general and Chief of Chaplains of the US Air Force.
* Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, 80, Indian writer, actor, and humorist.
* Bruno Martino, 74, Italian composer, singer, and pianist.
* Dave Russell, 86, Scottish football player and manager.

### 13

* Alberto Adriano, 38-39, Mozambican emigrant, beaten to death.
* Gustavo Albella, 74, Argentine football player.
* Mona Bruns, 100, American actress.
* Robert Dienst, 72, Austrian football player.
* Yefim Gamburg, 75, Soviet and Russian animation director.
* Ruth Harrison, 79, English animal welfare activist and writer.
* Mitchell Olenski, 80, American football player and coach.
* Jock Shaw, 87, Scottish football player.
* Duane Thomas, 39, American welterweight boxer, murdered.
* Bobby Tiefenauer, 70, American baseball player.

### 14

* Attilio Bertolucci, 88, Italian poet and writer.
* Kurt Böwe, 71, German actor.
* Frederic G. Cassidy, 92, Jamaican-American linguist and lexicographer.
* Paul Griffin, 62, American musician.
* Robert Trent Jones, 93, British–American golf course designer.
* Gianmatteo Matteotti, 79, Italian politician.
* Peter McWilliams, 50, American author, AIDS-related complications.
* Harry Melville, 92, British chemist and academic.
* Elsie Widdowson, 93, British chemist, dietitian and nutritionist.
* Greg Wilton, 44, Australian politician, suicide.

### 15

* Heinrich Fichtenau, 87, Austrian medievalist.
* Neville Ford, 93, English cricket player.
* Grigori Gorin, 60, Soviet and Russian playwright and writer, heart attack.
* Grant MacEwan, 97, Canadian farmer and politician.
* Jules Roy, 92, Algerian-born French writer.
* Mîna Urgan, 84, Turkish academic, author and politician.

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* Elvin A. Kabat, 85, American microbiologist.
* Empress Nagako, 97, Japanese consort of Emperor Hirohito.
* Nosrat Rahmani, 72, Iranian poet and writer.
* Mike Silliman, 56, American basketball player, heart attack.
* Jiang Weiqing, 89, Chinese politician.

### 17

* Joe Albanese, 66, American baseball player.
* Bill Dodgin, Jr., 68, English football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
* Juozas Jagelavičius, 61, Lithuanian rower and Olympian medalist.
* Jack Lindwall, 81, Australian rugby player.
* Ismail Mahomed, 68, South African lawyer (Chief Justice of South Africa), pancreatic cancer.
* Alex Moir, 80, New Zealand cricket player.
* André Vacheresse, 72, French basketball player and coach.
* Clive Westlake, 67, British songwriter.

### 18

* Robert Abeles, 74, American biochemist.
* Ekrem Alican, Turkish politician, Deputy Prime Minister.
* Jane Bowers, 79, American folk singer and songwriter.
* Nancy Marchand, 71, American actress (Lou Grant, The Sopranos, Sabrina), four-time Emmy winner, lung cancer.
* Boris Vasilyev, 63, Russian cyclist and Olympian.

### 19

* Mary Benson, 80, South African civil rights activist.
* Ron Casey, 72, Australian sporting commentator and radio and television pioneer.
* Anton Gorchev, 60, Bulgarian actor.
* Christiane Herzog, 63, wife of Roman Herzog, former President of Germany, cancer.
* Tokuji Iida, 76, Japanese baseball player.
* William Papas, 72, South African-born British political cartoonist and caricaturist.
* Harry Riccobene, 90, American mobster (Philadelphia crime family).
* Noboru Takeshita, 76, Japanese politician and the 74th Prime Minister of Japan (1987–1989), stroke.

### 20

* Basanta Choudhury, 72, Indian actor.
* Alan Basil de Lastic, 70, Burmese Roman Catholic archbishop, traffic collision.
* Ron Lamb, 56, American football player.
* Chanchal Kumar Majumdar, 61, Indian physicist.
* Karl Mickel, 64, German writer.
* Carlota O'Neill, 95, Spanish feminist writer and journalist.

### 21

* Ion Alecsandrescu, 71, Romanian footballer and executive.
* Claude Bissell, 84, Canadian author and educator.
* Ronny Coutteure, 48, Belgian actor, director, author, TV presenter and restaurateur, suicide by hanging.
* Ezequiel Ataucusi Gamonal, 82, Peruvian politician and self-proclaimed prophet, kidney failure.
* Alan Hovhaness, 89, American composer.
* C. Stanley Ogilvy, 87, American mathematician, sailor, and author.
* Thomas Harrison Provenzano, 51, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Günther Sabetzki, 85, German ice hockey player and executive.
* Billy Sperrin, 78, English football player and coach.
* Bud Stewart, 84, American baseball player.

### 22

* Kedarnath Agarwal, 89, Indian poet and writer.
* Michel Droit, 77, French novelist and journalist.
* Svein Finnerud, 54, Norwegian jazz pianist, painter and graphic artist.
* Shaka Sankofa, 36, American death-row inmate, execution by lethal injection.
* Osamu Takizawa, 93, Japanese actor, pneumonia.
* Harry Usher, 61, American attorney, heart attack.

### 23

* Shawkat Akbar, 63, Bangladeshi film actor.
* Geng Biao, 90, Chinese politician.
* Philippe Chatrier, 72, French tennis player and executive.
* Enrico Cuccia, 92, Italian banker.
* Peter Dubovský, 28, Slovak footballer, fall from cliff.
* Leesa Gray, 16, American murder victim.
* Ed Hughes, 72, American football player and coach.
* Yehuda Kalmen Marlow, 68, German-American rabbi.
* Keith Reemtsma, 74, American transplant surgeon, liver cancer.
* Jerome Richardson, 79, American jazz musician, heart failure.
* Jim Roper, 83, American NASCAR driver, heart and liver failure caused by cancer.
* Bob Tillman, 63, American baseball player.

### 24

* Vera Atkins, 92, Romanian-British intelligence officer and SOE operative during World War II.
* Hanna Batatu, 74, Palestinian marxist historian.
* Rodrigo Bueno, 27, Argentine singer, car collision.
* Vintilă Cossini, 86, Romanian football midfielder.
* Enoch Dogolea, 48, Liberian politician, Vice President of Liberia (1997–2000), illness (disputed).
* Duncan Kyle, 70, British novelist.
* Charles Andrew MacGillivary, 83, American Medal of Honor recipient.
* Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, 72, Pakistani politician.
* Robert Ridder, 80, American media businessman and philanthropist.
* Mike Todorovich, 77, American basketball player and coach.
* David Tomlinson, 83, English actor (Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Love Bug), stroke.

### 25

* Barbara Christian, 56, American author and professor of African-American Studies, lung cancer.
* Wilson Simonal, 62, Brazilian singer, liver cirrhosis.
* Pascal Themanlys, 90, French-Israeli poet, zionist, and kabbalist.
* Austin Bernard Vaughan, 72, American prelate of the Catholic Church, complications following heart attack.
* Judith Wright, 85, Australian poet, environmentalist and aboriginal rights activist.

### 26

* Ken Bell, 85, Canadian war photographer.
* Pier Carpi, 60, Italian essayist, novelist, film director and screenwriter.
* Stig Engström, 66, Swedish graphic designer and suspected murderer of Olof Palme, suicide.
* Lucien Laurin, 88, French-Canadian jockey and horse trainer.
* Corneliu Mănescu, 84, Romanian diplomat.
* Arne Thomas Olsen, 90, Norwegian actor, stage producer and theatre director.
* Logan Ramsey, 79, American character actor, heart attack.
* Avraham Yosef Shapira, 79, Israeli politician and businessman.

### 27

* Larry Kelley, 85, American football player, suicide by gunshot.
* David Neal, 68, English actor.
* Gerhard Pfeiffer, 77, German chess master.
* Pierre Pflimlin, 93, French politician.
* Harry Prowell, 63, Guyanese long distance runner and Olympian.
* Krishna Riboud, 73, Indian historian and art collector.
* Tobin Rote, 72, American football player, heart attack.

### 28

* Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood, 87, British politician.
* John Terence Coppock, 79, British geographer.
* William Glock, 92, British arts administrator and music critic.
* Dick James, 66, American football player, prostate cancer.
* Nils Poppe, 92, Swedish actor, comedian, director, screenwriter and theatre manager, stroke.
* Michael Ripper, 87, English actor.
* Anton Tamarut, 67, Croatian Roman Catholic prelate.
* Józef Tischner, 69, Polish priest and philosopher, laryngeal cancer.
* Arnie Weinmeister, 77, American football player (New York Giants) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

### 29

* John Abineri, 72, English actor.
* C. Anbarasan, Indian politician.
* John Aspinall, 74, British zoo owner, cancer.
* Roy Gagnon, 87, American gridiron football player.
* Vittorio Gassman, 77, Italian actor, heart attack.
* Leo Martello, 69, American Wiccan priest, gay rights activist, and author, cancer.
* Germaine Montero, 90, French singer and actress.
* Rodney Nuckey, 71, English racing driver.

### 30

* Harold Aks, 78, American conductor and music educator.
* W. David Kingery, 73, American material scientist, heart attack.
* Robert L. Manahan, 43, American actor (Power Rangers), aneurysm.
* Franklin D. Miller, 55, American Special Forces staff sergeant during the Vietnam War, cancer.
* Vahé Oshagan, 77, Armenian poet, writer, literary critic.
* Mikalay Yaromenka, 74, Soviet and Belarusian actor.