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

## January 2000
### 1

* Larry Bearnarth, 59, American Major League Baseball player, heart attack.
* Maurice Hallam, 68, English cricket player.
* Dick Pabich, 44, American gay rights activist, AIDS.
* Stan Patrick, 77, American NBA basketball player.
* Gerda Paumgarten, 92, Austrian alpine skier and world champion.
* Colin Vaughan, 68, Australian-Canadian television journalist, architect, and urban activist, heart attack.

### 2

* Gary Adams, 56, American salesman.
* Nat Adderley, 68, American jazz musician, stroke.
* Bill Armstrong, 67, American television game show announcer.
* Princess María, 89, Spanish royal and grandmother of King Felipe VI, heart attack.
* Ed Doherty, 81, American football player and coach.
* Henri René Guieu, 73, French science fiction writer, cancer.
* Patrick O'Brian, 85, English author (Master and Commander).
* Ullin Place, 75, British philosopher and psychologist.
* Anna Maria Martínez Sagi, 92, Spanish poet, trade unionist, journalist, and feminist.
* Elmo Zumwalt, 79, United States Navy officer, cancer.

### 3

* Anita Aarons, 87, Australian-Canadian artist.
* Gabriela Brimmer, 52, Mexican writer and activist, heart attack.
* Harmonica Fats, 72, American blues harmonica player.
* Henry H. Fowler, 91, American lawyer and politician, Secretary of the Treasury, pneumonia.
* Viktor Kolotov, 50, Soviet/Ukrainian football player.
* Frank Miller, 83, Irish cricket player.

### 4

* Charles M. Allen, 83, American judge.
* Alfred Bohrmann, 95, German astronomer.
* Tom Fears, 77, Mexican-American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
* Diether Krebs, 52, German actor, cabaret artist and comedian, lung cancer.
* Spiridon Markezinis, 90, Greek politician and Prime Minister.
* John Milner, 50, American baseball player, lung cancer.
* Louis Mucci, 90, American jazz trumpeter.
* Henry Pleasants, 89, American music critic and intelligence officer, ruptured aorta.

### 5

* Turid Balke, 78, Norwegian actress, playwright and artist.
* Xie Bingying, 93, Chinese soldier and writer.
* Bernard Braine, 85, British politician.
* Goseki Kojima, 71, Japanese manga artist.
* Kumar Ponnambalam, 61, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician, assassinated.
* Hopper Read, 89, English cricketer.
* Vic Schoen, 83, American bandleader, arranger and composer.
* K. L. Shrimali, 90, Indian politician and educationist.
* Bernhard Wicki, 80, Austrian actor and film director.

### 6

* Leonard F. Chapman, Jr., 86, United States Marine Corps general, cancer.
* Michael Rex Horne, 78, English structural engineer, scientist and academic.
* Byron L. Johnson, 82, American economist and politician.
* Thomas Jamison MacBride, 85, American jurist.
* Don Martin, 68, American cartoonist (MAD Magazine), cancer.
* Edward Pain, 74, Australian Olympic rower.
* Malvina Polo, 96, American film actress.
* Horst Seemann, 62, German film director and screenwriter.
* Ajit Pratap Singh, 82, Indian politician.
* Robert McG. Thomas, Jr., 60, American journalist and obituarist, abdominal cancer.
* Alexey Vyzmanavin, 40, Russian chess Grandmaster, heart attack.

### 7

* Zainal Abidin, 71, Indonesian actor.
* Gary Albright, 36, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
* Robert B. Crosby, 88, American politician.
* Makhmud Esambayev, 75, Soviet and Russian actor and dancer.
* Ken Keyworth, 65, English football player.
* Bob McFadden, 76, American voice actor, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Bernice Petkere, 98, American songwriter.
* Dorian Shainin, 85, American quality consultant, aeronautics engineer, and author.
* Rodica Simion, 44, Romanian-American mathematician.
* Klaus Wennemann, 59, German television and film actor, lung cancer.

### 8

* Karl Adamek, 89, Austrian football player and manager.
* Ephraim Akpata, 72, Nigerian lawyer.
* Bill Domm, 69, Canadian politician.
* Henry Eriksson, 79, Swedish middle-distance runner and Olympic champion.
* Ray Huang, 81, Chinese historian and philosopher, heart attack.
* Hilary Smart, 74, American sailor and Olympic champion.
* Jack Stokes, 76, Canadian politician, lung cancer.
* Fritz Thiedemann, 81, German equestrian.
* Warren H. Wagner, 79, American botanist.

### 9

* Marguerite Churchill, 89, American film actress.
* Edward R. Cony, 76, American journalist and newspaper executive, pneumonia and complications from Alzheimer's.
* Arnold Alexander Hall, 84, British aeronautical engineer, scientist and industrialist.
* Poul Mejer, 68, Danish football player.
* Nigel Tranter, 90, Scottish writer.
* Bruno Zevi, 81, Italian architect, historian, curator and author.

### 10

* Arthur Batanides, 76, American actor (Police Academy, Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers, Johnny Midnight).
* Maxine Elliott Hicks, 95, American actress.
* Sam Jaffe, 98, American motion picture agent, producer, studio executive.
* Gibson Jalo, 60, Nigerian army general.
* Richard Jameson, 47, Northern Irish loyalist and paramilitary commander, shot.
* Cliff Lloyd, 83, Welsh football player.
* John Newland, 82, American director and actor, stroke.

### 11

* Raymond Ameijide, 75, American illustrator.
* Betty Archdale, 92, English-Australian sportswoman and educationalist.
* Phil Carrick, 47, English cricketer, leukemia.
* Helena Carter, 76, American actress.
* Barney Childs, 73, American composer and teacher, Parkinson's disease.
* Wilhelm Grewe, 88, German diplomat and professor of international law.
* Bob Lemon, 79, American baseball player and manager.
* Solomon Mamaloni, 56, Solomon Islands politician and Prime Minister, kidney disease.
* William Andrew McDonald, 86, American archaeologist.
* Ralph Purchase, 83, American competition rower and Olympic champion.
* Gordon Wright, 87, American historian.
* Pavao Žanić, 81, Yugoslav prelate of the Catholic Church.

### 12

* Marc Davis, 86, American animator (Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Bambi).
* Dan Duchaine, 47, American bodybuilder, author, and convicted felon, polycystic kidney disease.
* V. R. Nedunchezhiyan, 79, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, heart failure.
* Bobby Phills, 30, American basketball player, car accident.
* Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau, 89, American chemical engineer.
* Alex Wright, 69, Scottish football player and manager.

### 13

* Toivo Ahjopalo, 86, Finnish sprinter.
* Peter Henderson, Baron Henderson of Brompton, 77, British public servant, Clerk of the Parliaments.
* Eric Dodson, 79, British actor.
* Herbert S. Gutowsky, 80, American chemist.
* Antti Hyvärinen, 67, Finnish ski jumper, coach and Olympic champion.
* Elizabeth Kerr, 87, American actress (Mork & Mindy).
* Alvin Liberman, 82, American psychologist, complications during heart surgery.
* John Ljunggren, 80, Swedish race walker and Olympic champion.
* Alfred Nzo, 74, South African political activist.
* Susumu Ohno, 71, Japanese-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist.
* Enric Valor i Vives, 88, Spanish writer and grammarian.

### 14

* Meche Barba, 77, American-Mexican film actress and dancer, heart attack.
* Alphonse Boudard, 74, French novelist and playwright.
* Pat Boyette, 76, American broadcaster and comic book artist (Peacemaker), esophagus cancer.
* Giusi Raspani Dandolo, 83, Italian stage, film, television and radio actress.
* Guadalupe Huerta, 79, American hispanic activist and lobbyist.
* Bijan Jalali, 72, Iranian poet and writer.
* Hans-Joachim Kahler, 91, German general during World War II.
* Alain Poiré, 82, French film producer, cancer.
* Clifford Truesdell, 80, American mathematician.
* M. V. Venkatram, 79, Indian writer from Tamil Nadu.
* Leonard Weisgard, 83, American children's writer and illustrator.
* Tomislav Zografski, 65, Macedonian composer.

### 15

* Beryl Clark, 82, American gridiron football player.
* Georges-Henri Lévesque, 96, Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist.
* Yves Mariot, 51, French football player, aneurysm.
* Annie Palmen, 73, Dutch singer.
* Arkan, 47, Serbian mobster and paramilitary commander, homicide.
* Alf Ringstead, 72, Irish football player.
* Fran Ryan, 83, American actress (Pale Rider, Days of Our Lives, The Wizard).

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* Wolf Ackva, 88, German actor.
* Gene Harris, 66, American jazz pianist.
* Will "Dub" Jones, 71, American R&B singer, diabetes.
* T. N. Kaul, 87, Indian diplomat.
* By Saam, 85, American sportscaster.
* Robert R. Wilson, 85, American physicist and team member of the Manhattan Project.

### 17

* Carl Forberg, 88, American racecar driver.
* Stephen Fuchs, 91, Austrian Catholic priest, missionary, and anthropologist.
* Andrej Hieng, 74, Slovene writer, playwright and theatre director.
* Philip Jones, 71, British trumpeter.
* Ralph Ambrose Kekwick, 91, British biochemist.
* Ion Rațiu, 82, Romanian diplomat, journalist, writer, and politician.
* Arthur Sager, 95, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
* Hüseyin Velioğlu, 48, Kurdish Hezbollah leader, shot.

### 18

* Alfred Nash Beadleston, Jr., 87, American politician.
* Gordon Chalmers, 88, American swimmer, swimming coach, and Olympian.
* Nancy Coleman, 87, American actress.
* Frances Drake, 87, American actress.
* Jester Hairston, 98, American actor and composer.
* Francis Haskell, 71, English art historian.
* Raymond Brendan Manning, 65, American carcinologist.
* Gordon J. McCann, 92, Canadian thoroughbred horse trainer.
* Arthur Nash, 85, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympian.
* Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, 102, Austrian communist resistance member during World War II.

### 19

* Victor Brooks, 81, English film and television actor.
* M. A. Chidambaram, 81, Indian industrialist and cricket administrator.
* Luigi Chinazzo, 67, Italian wrestler and Olympian.
* Bettino Craxi, 65, Italian politician, Prime Minister (1983-1987), diabetes.
* Billy Dewell, 83, American gridiron football player.
* Anselmo Fernandez, 81, Portuguese architect and football manager.
* Victoria Fromkin, 76, American linguist, colorectal cancer.
* Frederick Irving Herzberg, 76, American psychologist.
* Hedy Lamarr, 85, Austrian actress (Samson and Delilah, Algiers, White Cargo), cardiovascular disease.
* Manny Montejo, 64, Cuban baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
* Lynn Myers, 85, American baseball player.
* Alan North, 79, American actor (Serpico, Highlander, Glory), kidney cancer, lung cancer.
* Irra Petina, 91, Russian-American actress, singer, and contralto.
* Heinrich Schroeteler, 84, German sculptor and U-boat commander during World War II.
* George Ledyard Stebbins, 94, American botanist, cancer.
* Chhean Vam, 83, Cambodian politician and nationalist.
* Stanley Weston, 76, British basketball player.
* Rex Willis, 75, Welsh rugby union player.

### 20

* Trini Alonso, 76, Spanish actress.
* Chuck Courtney, 69, American actor and stuntman, suicide by gunshot.
* Robert J. Henle, 90, American Catholic priest, jesuit, and philosopher.
* Ron Herbel, 62, American baseball player.
* Slavko Janevski, 80, Macedonian poet, prose and script writer.
* Don Samuelson, 86, American politician, Governor of Idaho, heart attack.
* Izabella Yurieva, 100, Soviet Russian romance singer.

### 21

* Kristian Asdahl, 79, Norwegian politician.
* John A. Calhoun, 81, American diplomat.
* Dagmar Edqvist, 96, Swedish writer and screenwriter.
* Saeb Salam, 95, Lebanese politician and Prime Minister, heart attack.
* Bernard Unett, 63, British racing driver, cancer.

### 22

* Victor Cavallo, 52, Italian actor and underground writer, hepatitis C.
* Craig Claiborne, 79, American restaurant critic.
* Ed Clark, 88, American photographer.
* Carlo Cossutta, 67, Italian opera singer, liver cancer.
* Al Costello, 80, Italian-Australian professional wrestler, pneumonia.
* Peter Gould, 67, American geographer and academic.
* Masao Harada, 87, Japanese athlete and Olympic silver medalist.
* Anne Hébert, 83, French Canadian author and poet, bone cancer.
* Alan Pryce-Jones, 91, British book critic, writer, journalist and politician.
* Dai Suli, 80, Chinese politician.
* Ernest William Swanton, 92, British cricket commentator.
* Balaupasakage Yasodis Tudawe, 84, Sri Lankan politician.

### 23

* Willie Hamilton, 82, British politician.
* George Hoskins, 71, New Zealand runner and Olympian.
* Nicholas Nagy-Talavera, 70, Hungarian-American dissident, historian and writer.
* Roderick O'Connor, 90, Northern Irish politician.
* William Alexander Sutton, 82, New Zealand painter.

### 24

* Jeffrey Boam, 53, American screenwriter (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Lost Boys, Lethal Weapon 2), heart failure.
* Theodor Brinek, Jr., 78, Austrian football player.
* Carl Thomas Curtis, 94, American politician.
* Bobby Duncum, Jr., 34, American professional wrestler, accidental overdose.
* Massimo Severo Giannini, 84, Italian lawyer and politician.
* Tatyana Petrenko-Samusenko, 61, Soviet fencer and Olympic champion.
* Reynolds Shultz, 78, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Kansas.

### 25

* Dale Alford, 83, American ophthalmologist and politician, congestive heart failure.
* Folke Ekström, 93, Swedish chess master.
* Herta Freitag, 91, Austrian-American mathematician.
* Lin Halliday, 63, American saxophonist.
* Aleksander Illi, 87, Estonian basketball player and basketball coach.
* P. Lankesh, 64, Indian poet, writer, playwright and journalist, heart attack.
* Tom Pedigo, 59, American set decorator (Terms of Endearment, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Brainstorm).

### 26

* Don Budge, 84, American tennis player, traffic collision.
* Kathleen Hale, 101, British artist, illustrator, and children's author.
* Jean-Claude Izzo, 54, French poet, playwright, and novelist, cancer.
* Adolf Pilch, 85, Polish resistance fighter during World War II.
* Don Ralke, 79, American music arranger.
* Bill Strickland, 91, American baseball player.
* Adib Taherzadeh, 78, Iranian Baháʼí author.
* A. E. van Vogt, 87, Canadian science fiction writer, pneumonia.

### 27

* Don Abney, 76, American jazz pianist, complications from kidney dialysis.
* Mae Faggs, 67, American sprinter, cancer.
* Friedrich Gulda, 69, Austrian pianist, heart failure.
* Matateu, 72, Portuguese footballer.
* Setsuo Nara, 63, Japanese basketball player.
* Jerzy Potz, 46, Polish ice hockey player, carcinoma.
* Abner W. Sibal, 78, American politician.
* Bert Sproston, 85, English footballer.

### 28

* Robert B. Aird, 96, American educator.
* Sarah Caudwell, 60, British detective story writer and barrister, cancer.
* Tony Doyle, 58, Irish television and film actor.
* Lauris Edmond, 75, New Zealand poet and writer.
* Ron Feiereisel, 68, American basketball player and coach.
* Ted Gullic, 93, American baseball player.
* Hugh Guthrie, 89, Australian politician.
* Ed Hirsch, 78, American gridiron football player.
* Bertel Lauring, 72, Danish film actor.
* Gad Rausing, 77, Swedish industrialist.
* Joy Shelton, 77, English actress, pulmonary emphysema.
* Kenneth Waller, 72, British actor.

### 29

* George McTurnan Kahin, 82, American historian and political scientist.
* Herbert Schiller, 80, American media critic, sociologist, and author.
* Hannes Schmidhauser, 73, Swiss actor and football player.
* E. L. Senanayake, 79, Sri Lankan politician.
* Harry Thompson, 84, English football player and manager.

### 30

* Martin Aldridge, 25, English footballer, car crash.
* Isidore Dollinger, 96, American politician.
* Sigvard Arne Eklund, 88, Swedish politician.
* Angelo Innocent Fernandes, 86, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop.
* Karl-Friedrich Höcker, 88, German war criminal and SS commander during World War II.
* Steve Little, 34, American boxer, colon cancer.
* Joseph Rothschild, 68, American historian and political scientist.

### 31

* Martin Benrath, 73, German film actor, cancer.
* Bendt Jørgensen, 75, Danish football player and manager.
* Gil Kane, 73, American comic book artist (Green Lantern, Spider-Man, Atom), lymphoma.
* Vasant Shankar Kanetkar, 79, Indian Marathi language playwright and novelist.
* Ralph Manza, 78, American actor (Get Shorty, The D.A.'s Man, Godzilla).
* Ross Russell, 90, American jazz producer and writer.
* Jafar Salmasi, 81, Iranian weightlifter and Olympic medalist.
* K. N. Singh, 91, Indian actor.
* Arthur Wilson, 91, English footballer.
* Si Zentner, 82, American trombonist and jazz big-band leader.