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

## February 2000
### 1

* Pablito Calvo, 51, Spanish actor (Miracle of Marcelino), brain aneurysm.
* Pina Cei, 95, Italian actress.
* Frederick Vanderbilt Field, 94, American political activist.
* James Harrell, 81, American actor (The Sugarland Express, Paper Moon, JFK), heart attack.
* Erik Holmberg, 91, Swedish astronomer and cosmologist.
* Art Hoppe, 74, American newspaper columnist, lung cancer.
* Hans Hügi, 73, Swiss football player.
* Khunkar-Pasha Israpilov, 32, Chechen separatist, killed in action.
* Anker Kihle, 82, Norwegian footballer.
* Peter Levi, 68, British poet, jesuit priest and scholar.
* Henry Mann, 94, American professor of mathematics and statistics.
* Thomas J. McHugh, 80, American Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps (1962-1965).
* James V. Neel, 84, American geneticist.
* Dick Rathmann, 74, American racecar driver.

### 2

* Harry K. Cull, 88, American politician.
* Sheikh Abdul Latif, 71, Indian football player.
* Teruki Miyamoto, 59, Japanese football player and manager, heart failure.
* Francis Stuart, 97, Irish writer.
* Li Zhun, 71, Chinese novelist.

### 3

* Florența Albu, 65, Romanian poet.
* Guillermo Estévez Boero, 69, Argentine student activist, lawyer and politician, leukemia.
* Bonnie Cashin, 91, American pioneer designer of sportswear.
* Don Gallinger, 74, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Richard Kleindienst, 76, American politician and U.S. Attorney General during the Watergate scandal, lung cancer.
* Yuriy Lituyev, 74, Soviet athlete and Olympic medalist.
* Pierre Plantard, 79, French draughtsman and impostor.
* Alla Rakha, 80, Indian tabla player, heart attack.

### 4

* Carl Albert, 91, American lawyer, politician and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
* Victor Ivanovich Alyabyev, 78, Soviet Russian scientist.
* Joachim-Ernst Berendt, 77, German music journalist.
* Edgar Bowers, 75, American poet.
* Rodrigo Hernan Lloreda Caicedo, 57, Colombian lawyer and politician.
* Doris Coley, 58, American singer of The Shirelles, breast cancer.
* James C. Green, 78, American politician.
* Peter Rajniak, 46, Slovak basketball player.
* Ronald Robertson, 62, American figure skater, AIDS-related complications.
* Roy Stephenson, 67, English football player.
* Johnny Vincent, 72, American record producer.

### 5

* Claude Autant-Lara, 98, French film director and politician.
* Ward Cornell, 75, Canadian radio/TV broadcaster & educator, pulmonary emphysema.
* G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, 89, British ancient historian.
* Pablo Elvira, 62, Puerto Rican baritone.
* José García Hernández, 84, Spanish jurist and politician.
* Todd Karns, 79, American actor (It's a Wonderful Life), cancer.
* George Koltanowski, 96, Belgian-American chess master, promoter, and writer.
* T. G. Lingappa, 72, Indian film score composer.
* Barbara Pentland, 88, Canadian composer.
* Hidetoki Takahashi, 83, Japanese football player and manager, pneumonia.
* Tuffy Thompson, 85, American gridiron football player.
* Göran Tunström, 62, Swedish author, lung cancer.
* Gwendolyn Watts, 67, English actress, heart attack.

### 6

* Derroll Adams, 74, American folk musician.
* Sven Aspling, 87, Swedish social democrat politician.
* Sándor Balogh, 79, Hungarian football player and coach.
* Gus Johnson, 86, American swing drummer.
* Klaus Wagner, 89, German mathematician.
* Steve Waller, 48, American musician, liver problems.
* Phil Walters, 83, American racing driver.

### 7

* Big Pun, 28, American rapper, heart attack.
* Pavle Bulatović, 51, Yugoslav politician.
* Stewart Farrar, 83, English screenwriter, novelist and Wiccan priest.
* Doug Henning, 52, Canadian magician, illusionist and escape artist, cancer.
* Muhammad Munawwar Mirza, 77, Pakistani writer, historian and intellectual.
* Shiho Niiyama, 29, Japanese voice actress, leukemia.
* Dave Peverett, 56, English singer and musician of Foghat, cancer.
* Wilfred Cantwell Smith, 83, Canadian Islamicist and Presbyterian minister.
* Mildred Wiley, 98, American high jumper and Olympic medalist.

### 8

* Sid Abel, 81, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks).
* Aryanandi, 92, Indian Jain monk.
* Mario Capio, 75, Italian Olympic sailor.
* Bob Collins, 57, American broadcaster.
* Carlos Cores, 76, Argentine film actor, and film director, heart attack.
* Edna Griffin, 90, American civil rights pioneer and activist.
* Sidney Hayers, 78, British film and television director, writer and producer, cancer.
* Ion Gheorghe Maurer, 97, Romanian politician, Prime Minister of Romania (1958-1961).
* Derrick Thomas, 33, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, pulmonary embolism.

### 9

* Yevgeni Andreyev, 73, Soviet Air Force colonel and balloonist.
* Steve Furness, 49, American football player, heart attack.
* Beau Jack, 78, American boxer, Parkinson's disease.
* Lenore Kight, 88, American swimmer and Olympian.
* Shobhna Samarth, 83, Indian film actress, director and producer, cancer.
* Buck Young, 79, American actor.

### 10

* Androniqi Zengo Antoniu, 86, Albanian painter.
* Igor Bensen, 82, Russian-American engineer, Parkinson's disease.
* John Garlington, 53, American football player, drowned.
* Elvira Gascón, 88, Spanish painter, drafter, and engraver.
* George Jackson, 42, American movie producer, stroke.
* Gene Lambert, 78, American baseball player.
* Ji Pengfei, 90, Chinese politician, suicide.
* Jim Varney, 50, American actor (Ernest Saves Christmas, Toy Story, The Beverly Hillbillies), lung cancer.
* Andrzej Zakrzewski, 58, Polish historian, politician, and journalist.

### 11

* Jacqueline Auriol, 82, French aviator who set several world speed records.
* Gordon Lockhart Bennett, 87, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island.
* Bernat Capó, 80, Spanish racing cyclist.
* Ruth Volkl Cardoso, 66, Brazilian chess player.
* Lord Kitchener, 77, Trinidadian calypsonian, multiple myeloma.
* Martin Theodore Orne, 72, Austrian-American professor of psychiatry and psychology.
* Louis Pelletier, 93, American dramatist, screenwriter, and playwright.
* Elangbam Nilakanta Singh, 72, Indian poet and critic.
* Roger Vadim, 72, French film director, lymphoma.
* Bernardino Zapponi, 72, Italian novelist and screenwriter.

### 12

* Gordon Aiken, 81, Canadian lawyer and politician.
* Newt Arnold, 77, American film director (Bloodsport), leukemia.
* Dominic Bruce, 84, British Royal Air Force officer and Colditz Castle escapee during World War II.
* Screamin' Jay Hawkins, 70, American musician, surgical complications.
* Tom Landry, 75, American football coach (Dallas Cowboys) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, leukemia.
* Andy Lewis, 33, Australian bass guitarist, suicide.
* John London, 58, American musician and songwriter.
* August Meuleman, 93, Belgian cyclist.
* Oliver, 54, American pop singer.
* Charles M. Schulz, 77, American cartoonist (Peanuts).
* Juan Carlos Thorry, 91, Argentine film actor, tango musician and director.

### 13

* Anders Aalborg, 85, Canadian politician.
* Ian Allan, 84, Australian politician.
* John Wesley Blassingame, 59, American historian specializing in American slavery.
* James Cooke Brown, 78, American sociologist and science fiction author.
* John Cameron, 85, Jamaican cricket player.
* J. Robert Harris, 74, American composer.
* F. X. Martin, 77, Irish priest and historian.
* Thelma Parr, 93, American actress.

### 14

* Tony Bettenhausen, Jr., 48, American car racing driver and team owner, plane crash.
* Tertius Bosch, 33, South African cricketer, Guillain–Barré syndrome.
* Erika Dunkelmann, 86, German film and television actress.
* Jimmy Martin, 75, Irish professional golfer.
* Antun Nalis, 89, Croatian actor.
* Vitamin Smith, 76, American gridiron football player.
* Walter Zinn, 93, Canadian-American nuclear physicist who worked at the Manhattan Project.

### 15

* Dick Aboud, 58, Canadian football player.
* Shamsul Huda Chaudhury, 79, Bangladeshi politician.
* Dilip Dhawan, 45, Indian actor, heart attack.
* Angus MacLean, 85, Canadian politician and farmer.
* Bob Ramazzotti, 83, American baseball player.
* Vladimir Utkin, 76, Soviet and Russian engineer and rocket scientist.

### 16

* Wayne Blackburn, 85, American baseball coach.
* Soup Campbell, 84, American baseball player.
* Veronica Cooper, 86, American actress.
* Marceline Day, 91, American actress.
* Mohammed Fawzi, 84, Egyptian general and politician.
* Carlos Chagas Filho, 89, Brazilian physician, biologist and scientist.
* Fung Fung, 83, Hong Kong actor.
* Lila Kedrova, 90, Russian-French actress (Zorba the Greek, Torn Curtain, A High Wind in Jamaica), Oscar winner (1965), pneumonia.
* B. S. Kesavan, 90, Indian librarian.
* Louis-Georges Niels, 80, Belgian bobsledder and Olympic silver medalist.
* Bill Riley, 78, American ice hockey player.
* Karsten Solheim, 88, Norwegian-American golf club designer (PING) and businessman, Parkinson's disease.

### 17

* Iffat Al-Thunayan, Saudi princess and wife of King Faisal.
* William Anderson, 84, Canadian officer.
* Selina Chönz, 89, Swiss children's author.
* Turkey Tyson, 85, American baseball player.
* Miles White, 85, American costume designer of Broadway musicals.

### 18

* Henry Åkervall, 62, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Yalavarthi Naveen Babu, 35, Indian revolutionary group leader, killed in firefight with police.
* Lefty Hoerst, 82, American baseball player.
* Nader Naderpour, 70, Iranian-American poet.
* Will, 72, Belgian comics artist.

### 19

* Douglas Alexandra, 78, Australian architect.
* Marin Goleminov, 91, Bulgarian musician.
* Josef Herman, 89, Polish-British painter.
* Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 71, Austrian artist, heart attack.
* Amanda Ledesma, 88, Argentine film actress and singer.
* George Lenczowski, 85, Russian-American lawyer, diplomat, and academic.
* Kenneth L. Maddy, 65, American politician.
* Djidingar Dono Ngardoum, 72, Chadian politician, Prime Minister (1982).
* George Roussos, 84, American comic book artist (Fantastic Four, Batman, Avengers).
* Anatoly Sobchak, 62, Russian politician and mentor of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, heart attack.
* Jim Wulff, 63, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins).

### 20

* Elliot Caplin, 86, American comic strip writer.
* Jean Dotto, 71, French racing cyclist.
* Jean-Pierre Grenier, 85, French actor, theatre director and screenwriter.
* Bernard Hickman, 88, American basketball player and coach.
* Oswald Lange, 87, German-American aerospace engineer and member of the "von Braun rocket group".
* Otello Martelli, 97, Italian cinematographer (La Dolce Vita, Bitter Rice, La Strada).
* Edmund McNamara, 79, American police officer and gridiron football player.

### 21

* Noel Annan, Baron Annan, 83, British military intelligence officer and academic.
* Olena Apanovych, 80, Ukrainian historian.
* Violet Archer, 86, Canadian musician and composer.
* Chao Tzee Cheng, 65, Hong Kong-Singaporean forensic pathologist.
* Clifton Daniel, 87, American newspaper managing editor, stroke.
* Antonio Díaz-Miguel, 65, Spanish basketball player and coach, cancer.
* Radhamohan Gadanayak, 88, Indian poet.
* Constance Cummings John, 82, Sierra Leonean educationist and politician.
* Kenneth Nichols, 92, United States Army officer and civil engineer, respiratory failure.

### 22

* Bruce Allsopp, 87, British historian and publisher.
* Fernando Buesa, 53, Spanish politician, terrorist attack.
* John Kellogg, 83, American actor, Alzheimer's disease.
* Arkady Khait, 61, Russian writer, satirist and screenwriter, leukemia.
* Ernest Lough, 88, English boy soprano.
* Alexandre Marc, 96, French writer and philosopher.
* Maurine Brown Neuberger, 93, American politician.
* Michelle O'Keefe, 18, American college student and aspiring actress, gunshot wounds.
* Raphaël Pujazon, 82, French athlete and Olympian.

### 23

* John Nevill, 5th Marquess of Abergavenny, 85, British aristocrat.
* Dennis Evans, 69, English football player.
* Albrecht Goes, 91, German writer and theologian.
* Nikolay Gulyayev, 84, Russian football player and football coach.
* Ofra Haza, 42, Israeli singer, AIDS-related pneumonia.
* Stanley Matthews, 85, English football player.
* Joseph V. Perry, 69, American actor, diabetes.
* B. Rachaiah, 77, Indian politician.
* Terry Melvin Sims, 58, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.

### 24

* Betty Lou Beets, 62, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Michael Colvin, 67, British politician.
* Franciszek Kamiński, 97, Polish politician and military commander during World War II.
* Rosalind Keith, 83, American film actress and singer.
* Bernard Opper, 84, American basketball player.
* Béla Szekeres, 62, Hungarian middle distance runner and Olympian.
* Boris Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, 62, Soviet ice hockey player.

### 25

* Pyotr Breus, 72, Russian water polo player.
* Victoria Climbié, 8, Ivorian girl, prolonged child abuse.
* Elaine Gordon, 69, American politician, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
* Doris Löve, 82, Swedish botanist.
* Tom McEllistrim, 74, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
* Sishayi Nxumalo, 64, Swazi politician, traffic collision.
* Kuthiravattam Pappu, 62, Indian actor, cardiac arrest.
* Culley Rikard, 85, American baseball player.
* Aleksandar Živković, 87, Croatian football player.

### 26

* Md. Alauddin, 75, Bangladeshi politician.
* Casimiro Montenegro Filho, 95, Brazilian Air Force officer.
* Franz Fuchs, 50, Austrian terrorist, suicide by hanging.
* Raosaheb Gogte, 83, Indian industrialist, philanthropist and educationist.
* Louisa Matthíasdóttir, 83, Icelandic-American painter.
* Giovanna of Savoy, 92, Italian princess of the House of Savoy, heart failure.
* George L. Street III, 86, United States Navy submarine commander during World War II and Medal of Honor recipient.

### 27

* Larry Adams, 63, American jockey.
* Jan Adele, 64, Australian actress and vaudeville entertainer.
* Casimiro Berenguer, 90, Puerto Rican nationalist.
* Eduardo Copello, 74, Argentine racing driver.
* George Duning, 92, American musician, and film composer.
* James Stanley Hey, 90, English physicist and radio astronomer.
* Aubrey Eugene Robinson, Jr., 77, American jurist and judge, heart attack.

### 28

* Kariel Gardosh, 78, Israeli cartoonist and illustrator ("Dosh").
* John N. Irwin, II, 86, American diplomat and attorney.
* Dalsukh Dahyabhai Malvania, 89, Indian scholar, writer and philosopher.
* Jean Vallette d'Osia, 101, French officer and French Resistance member during WWII.
* Janet Reed, 83, American ballerina and ballet mistress.
* George Siravo, 83, American composer, arranger, and musician.

### 29

* Dennis Danell, 38, American musician (Social Distortion), cerebral aneurysm.
* Pierre Dumas, French doctor and drug test pioneer.
* Karen Hoff, 78, Danish sprint canoeist and Olympic champion.
* Hidehiko Matsumoto, 73, Japanese jazz saxophonist and bandleader.
* Nikita Moiseyev, 82, Soviet and Russian mathematician and academic.
* Sardar Muhammad Arif Nakai, 70, Pakistani politician.
* Kayla Rolland, 6, American school shooting victim, cardiac arrest from shooting.