# Deaths in July 2000
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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

* Burt Douglas, 69, American film, stage and television actor.
* Raymond Robert Forster, 78, New Zealand arachnologist and museum director.
* John Albert Axel Gibson, 83, British flying ace during World War II.
* Steve Hokuf, 89, American football player and coach, stroke.
* Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan, 94, fourth wife of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah.
* Cub Koda, 51, American rock and roll musician and record compiler, kidney failure.
* Ganju Lama, 75, Sikkimese Gurkha and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
* Walter Matthau, 79, American actor (The Odd Couple, The Fortune Cookie, The Sunshine Boys), Oscar winner (1967), heart attack.
* Pierre Petit, 78, French composer.

### 2

* Mina Aoe, 59, Japanese female enka singer, pancreatic cancer.
* Joey Dunlop, 48, Northern Irish motorcycle racer, traffic collision.
* Constance Howard, 89, English textile artist and embroiderer.
* Paul McLaughlin, 80, Canadian sailor and Olympian.
* Karl Sweetan, 57, American gridiron football player, 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.

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* Syed Abdus Sobhan, 67, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician.
* Blanca Álvarez Mantilla, 68, Spanish journalist.
* Mary Nicol Neill Armour, 98, Scottish painter.
* 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, Luxembourgish politician.
* Lord Woodbine, 71, Trinidadian calypsonian and music promoter, house fire.

### 6

* Alix André, 91, French novelist.
* 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, 58, 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, fall.
* 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 by hanging.
* Apostolos Vakalopoulos, 90, Greek historian.
* Norma Wilson, 90, New Zealand athlete and Olympian.

### 11

* Begum Akbar Jehan Abdullah, 84, Indian politician.
* 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 collision.

### 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

* Matt Anthony, 79, Canadian football player, cancer.
* 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

* Emanuel Araújo, 57, Brazilian historian and editor.
* 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

* Franciszek Adamczak, 73, Polish–Swedish palaeontologist.
* Fay Alexander, 75, American circus performer.
* Igor Domnikov, 41, Russian journalist and editor, bludgeoned.
* 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

* Abdul Malek, 64, Bangladeshi politician.
* 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 (Porky's, Days of Our Lives, Air Bud).
* 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

* Basil Acres, 73, English footballer.
* 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

* Ignacio Alfaro Arregui, 82, Spanish military officer.
* Alvin L. Alm, 63, American politician, heart failure.
* Anatoli Firsov, 59, Russian ice hockey player, heart attack.
* Pierre Hardy, 92, French sport shooter and Olympic medalist.
* Jim Kremer, 81, Luxembourgish football player.
* Dharmasiri Senanayake, 67, Sri Lankan politician.
* Oscar Shumsky, 83, American violinist and conductor.
* G. Wood, 80, American actor (M*A*S*H, Harold and Maude, Brewster McCloud), 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:
** Rudi Faßnacht, 65, German football manager.
** Christian Götz, 60, German trade unionist and politician.
** Christian Marty, 54, French windsurfer and captain of Flight 4590.

### 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, shot.
* John Tukey, 85, American mathematician.
* 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 (Malcolm & Eddie, House Party, Deep Cover), 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), bulldozing accident.
* Chic Stone, 77, American comic book artist (Fantastic Four).
* 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.
* 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, 83, American actor (Niagara, Sixteen Candles, 10), 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, traffic collision.