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

## May 2000
### 1

* Cláudio Christovam de Pinho, 77, Brazilian footballer.
* John Emery, 84, British paediatric pathologist.
* Gil Fates, 85, American television producer.
* David J. Mahoney, 76, American businessman and philanthropist, heart disease.
* Gibby Mbasela, 37, Zambian footballer.
* Steve Reeves, 74, American actor, lymphoma.
* Nora Swinburne, 97, British actress.
* Jukka Tapanimäki, 38, Finnish game programmer, heart failure.
* Gérard Théberge, 69, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player, bronze medalist (1956)

### 2

* Gretel Ammann, 53, Spanish philosopher.
* Laurie Calvin Battle, 87, American politician.
* Belva Cottier, 79, American Sioux activist and social worker.
* Bob Homme, 81, American-Canadian television actor, known for his role as The Friendly Giant, prostate cancer.
* Bobbi Martin, 60, American country and pop music singer, songwriter, and guitarist, cancer.
* Billy Munn, 88, British jazz pianist.
* Harry Newman, 90, American football player.
* Sundar Popo, 56, Trinidadian and Tobagonian musician.
* Christina Marie Riggs, 28, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Teri Thornton, 65, American jazz singer, bladder cancer.
* Norman Wainwright, 85, English competition swimmer and Olympian.

### 3

* Ibrahim Akasha, Kenyan drug lord, shot.
* Lewis Allen, 94, British film and television director.
* Richard Friederich Arens, 81, American mathematician.
* Obie Baizley, 82, Politician in Manitoba, Canada.
* Ed Chapman, 94, American baseball player.
* William Keys, 77, Australian Army officer.
* Mamuka Kikaleishvili, 39, Georgian actor and film director.
* Bryan Lobb, 69, English cricket player.
* Yoshinao Nakada, 76, Japanese composer, colorectal cancer.
* John Joseph O'Connor, 80, American Roman Catholic prelate, brain cancer.
* Shakuntala Paranjpye, 94, Indian writer, actress, and social worker.
* Jon Vincent, 38, American pornographic actor, heroin overdose.
* Edward J. Sponga, 82, American Jesuit priest in the Society of Jesus.

### 4

* Aleksandr Akhiezer, 88, Soviet Ukrainian physicist.
* Sir Derick Ashe, 81, British diplomat.
* Hendrik Casimir, 90, Dutch physicist known for the Casimir effect.
* Humberto Donoso, 61, Chilean football player.
* Jacques Gerschwiler, 101, Swiss figure skater and coach.
* Alwyn Kurts, 84, Australian drama and comedy actor, liver failure.
* Kieran Nugent, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer, cardiovascular disease.
* Diana Ross, 89, English children's author.
* Sugi Sito, 73, Mexican wrestler known as El Orgullo de Oriente.

### 5

* Edward Ashley-Cooper, 93, Australian actor, congestive heart failure.
* Gino Bartali, 85, Italian racing cyclist.
* Jan Firbas, 79, Czech linguist.
* Don Kindt, 74, American football player.
* Rolf Magener, 89, German escapee from India during World War II.
* Bill Musselman, 59, American basketball coach, stroke.

### 6

* Benoy Choudhury, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
* Eleazar Jiménez, 71, Cuban chess master.
* Gordon McClymont, 79, Australian agricultural scientist and ecologist.
* Lee Moore, 61, Saint Kitts and Nevis politician.
* Roger von Norman, 91, Hungarian-born German film editor and director.
* John Clive Ward, 75, British-Australian physicist, respiratory illness.
* Sir Peter William Youens, 84, British diplomat and colonial administrator, pneumonia.

### 7

* Dov Bar-Nir, 88, Belgium-Israeli politician.
* Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 90, American actor and the son of Douglas Fairbanks, heart attack.
* Hideo Hamamura, 71, Japanese marathon runner and Olympian.
* Ferrel Harris, 59, American NASCAR racecar driver.
* Henry Laskau, 83, American Olympic racewalker.
* José Luis López de Lacalle, Spanish journalist and trade unionist, killed by the ETA.
* Homer Thompson, 93, Canadian classical archaeologist.
* Timmy Payungka Tjapangati, 58, Aboriginal Australian artist.
* Masaru Shintani, 72, Japanese-Canadian master of karate, heart attack.

### 8

* Pita Amor, 81, Mexican poet.
* Stanley Boxer, 73, American abstract artist.
* X Brands, 72, German-American actor.
* Glen Bredon, 67, American mathematician.
* William C. Brennan, 81, American lawyer and politician.
* Dédé Fortin, 37, Canadian musician, suicide.
* Hubert Maga, 83, Dahomey politician.
* Henry Nicols, 26, American HIV/AIDS activist, car accident.

### 9

* György Csordás, 71, Freestyle swimmer from Hungary.
* Arthur Davis, 94, American animator (Looney Tunes, The Jetsons, Challenge of the GoBots).
* Chris Evans, 53, Canadian ice hockey player.
* William Fairchild, 82, English author, playwright, director and screenwriter.
* Todor Nikolov, 54, Bulgarian football player.
* John Nucatola, 92, American basketball player, coach and referee.
* Carmen Romano, 74, First Lady of Mexico (1976-1982).
* Zheng Weishan, 84, Chinese general and politician.

### 10

* Raymond Eddé, 87, Lebanese statesman.
* Martin Farndale, 71, British army general.
* Carden Gillenwater, 82, American baseball player.
* Margaret Harris, 95, British costume designer.
* Kiyoshi Kuromiya, 57, Japanese-American author and civil rights activist, cancer.
* Virgil W. Raines, 89, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer.
* Kaneto Shiozawa, 46, Japanese voice actor, cerebral contusion.
* Dick Sprang, 84, American comic book artist (Batman).
* Craig Stevens, 81, American actor, cancer.

### 11

* Verna Aardema, 88, American writer.
* Shariful Haq Amjadi, 79, Indian Islamic scholar.
* David Bretherton, 76, American film editor (Cabaret, The Diary of Anne Frank, Clue), Oscar winner (1973), pneumonia.
* Dale Jennings, 82, American LGBT rights activist, playwright and author.
* René Muñoz, 62, Cuban actor and screenwriter, cancer.
* Albert Roberts, 91, British politician.
* Hanny Thalmann, 83, Swiss women's rights activist and politician.
* Paula Wessely, 93, Austrian actress, bronchitis.

### 12

* Pete Abele, 83, American politician (U.S. Representative for Ohio's 10th congressional district), Alzheimer's disease.
* Dave Crowe, 66, New Zealand cricket player.
* Dong Kingman, 89, Chinese American artist and watercolor master.
* Adam Petty, 19, American race car driver, car crash.

### 13

* Paul Bartel, 61, American actor, writer and director, liver cancer, heart attack.
* Olivier Greif, 50, French composer.
* Stanley Korchinski, 71, Canadian politician.
* Boško Perošević, 43, Serbian politician.
* Jumbo Tsuruta, 49, Japanese professional wrestler known as Jumbo Tsuruta, complications from liver transplant.
* Cesare Valletti, 77, Italian operatic tenor.

### 14

* Urda Arneberg, 71, Norwegian actress.
* Johnny Cook, 51, American gospel singer formerly of the Happy Goodman Family.
* Garrett Eckbo, 89, American landscape architect.
* C. Eric Lincoln, 75, American scholar, diabetes.
* Bob Maza, 60, Australian actor and playwright.
* Keizō Obuchi, 62, Japanese politician and Prime Minister, stroke.
* Rodman Rockefeller, 68, American businessman and philanthropist.
* Karl Shapiro, 86, American poet.

### 15

* Roberto Benedicto, 83, Filipino lawyer, diplomat and banker.
* Geoff Goddard, 62, English songwriter, singer and instrumentalist, heart attack.
* Robert Lee Knous, 82, American politician.
* Alfred Kuchevsky, 68, Soviet ice hockey defenceman.
* George Marshall, 96, American conservationist and political activist.
* Gösta Prüzelius, 77, Swedish actor, leukemia.
* Anthony Squire, 86, British screenwriter and director.

### 16

* Bodacious, 11–12, American bucking bull and ProRodeo Hall of Fame inductee.
* Frido Frey, 78, German basketball player.
* Evald Hermaküla, 58, Estonian actor and director, suicide by hanging.
* Ghulam Ali Okarvi, 80, Pakistani Islamic scholar and jurist.
* Andrzej Szczypiorski, 72, Polish novelist and politician.
* Ronald Jay Williams, 72, Trinidadian businessman and politician.

### 17

* Donald Coggan, 90, English Anglican and 101st Archbishop of Canterbury.
* Hümeyra Hanımsultan, 82, Ottoman princess.
* Elsie Lessa, 86, Brazilian journalist and writer of American descent.
* William H. Poteat, 81, American philosopher, scholar and professor.
* Sajjan, 79, Indian actor.
* Angelina Stepanova, 94, Soviet and Russian stage and film actress, teacher.

### 18

* Domingos da Guia, 87, Brazilian football player and manager, stroke.
* Bruno Fait, 75, Italian racewalker and Olympian.
* Denis Gifford, 72, British writer, broadcaster and journalist.
* Doyle Lade, 79, American baseball player.
* Yusuf Ludhianvi, 67/68, Pakistani Muslim scholar, author and muhaddith, murdered.

### 19

* James Verne Adams, 86, American politician.
* Tony Arefin, 38, Bangladeshi art director, heart attack.
* Lee Brewster, 57, American drag queen and transvestite activist, cancer.
* John Grigas, 79, American gridiron football player.
* Evgeniy Vasilievich Khrunov, 66, Soviet cosmonaut, heart attack.
* Larry Lamb, 70, British newspaper editor.

### 20

* Adelaide Aglietta, 59, Italian politician.
* Charles Antenen, 70, Swiss football player.
* Edward Bernds, 94, American director.
* Dick Brown, 74, Canadian football player.
* Loyd Jowers, 73, American restaurateur, heart attack.
* David Pearce, 41, Welsh heavyweight boxing champion.
* Jean-Pierre Rampal, 78, French flautist, heart failure.
* Malik Sealy, 30, American basketball player, traffic collision.

### 21

* Jules Alfonse, 88, American gridiron football player.
* Dame Barbara Cartland, 98, English novelist.
* Buzzy Drootin, 80, American jazz drummer.
* Sir John Gielgud, 96, English actor (Arthur, Becket, Julius Caesar), Oscar winner (1982).
* Dulcie Holland, 87, Australian composer and music educator.
* Mark R. Hughes, 44, American entrepreneur and founder of Herbalife, accidental overdose.
* Erich Mielke, 92, German communist official.
* Zhao Puchu, 92, Chinese religious leader and calligrapher.
* Mahmoud Zuabi, Syrian politician and Prime Minister, suicide by gunshot.

### 22

* William G. Akridge, 93, American judge.
* Bahadoor, Indian actor.
* Krzysztof Boruń, 76, Polish physicist, journalist and science fiction writer.
* David Brookman, 83, Australian politician, traffic collision.
* Eldridge Dickey, 54, American gridiron football player, stroke.
* Davie Fulton, 84, Canadian politician and judge.
* Gary Kerkorian, 70, American football player.
* Bennie Lee Sinclair, 61, American poet, novelist, and short story writer, heart attack.
* David Chadwick Smith, 68, Canadian economist.
* José Rafael Molina Ureña, 79, President of the Dominican Republic.

### 23

* Eddy Blondeel, 94, Belgian commander of the SAS during WWII.
* Roger Garrett, 59, American actor.
* Jack Halliday, 71, American gridiron football player.
* Mishari bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince as member of the House of Saud.

### 24

* Kevin Lyons, 77, Australian politician.
* Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora, 32, Spanish cameraman and war correspondent, shot.
* Kurt Schork, 53, American reporter and war correspondent, shot.
* Majrooh Sultanpuri, 80, Indian Urdu poet and lyricist.
* Cliff Sutter, 89, American tennis player.
* Oleg Yefremov, 72, Soviet/Russian actor and theatre producer, lung disease.

### 25

* Pegaret Anthony, 84, English artist.
* Ken Bousfield, 80, British golfer.
* Nicholas Clay, 53, British actor (Excalibur, Zulu Dawn, Evil Under the Sun), liver cancer.
* Elizabeth Durack, 84, Australian artist and writer.
* Seymour S. Kety, 84, American neuroscientist.
* Francis Lederer, 100, Austrian-American actor.
* Jaya Pathirana, 79, Sri Lankan Supreme Court justice.

### 26

* Sandra Gwyn, 65, Canadian journalist and writer.
* William McCaughey, 70, American sound engineer (The Deer Hunter, Rocky, King Kong), Oscar winner (1979).
* Hamp Pool, 85, American football player, coach and scout, heart failure.
* Max Schellenberg, 72, Swiss racing cyclist.
* Samuel A. Taylor, 87, American playwright and screenwriter, heart failure.
* Vernon Crompton Woodward, 83, Canadian fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II.
* Sō Yamamura, 90, Japanese actor and film director, heart attack.

### 27

* Inga Abel, 53, German actress, cancer.
* Prince Gonzalo de Bourbon, 62, Spanish aristocrat, leukemia.
* Kazimierz Leski, 87, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, and (counter-)intelligence officer.
* Murray MacLehose, 82, British diplomat, Governor of Hong Kong.
* Maurice Richard, 78, Canadian hockey player (Montreal Canadiens), cardiovascular disease.

### 28

* Keith William Allan, 53, Australian solicitor, murdered.
* George Irving Bell, 73, American scientist and mountaineer.
* Donald Davies, 75, Welsh computer scientist.
* Maraden Panggabean, 77, Indonesian Army general and Defense Minister, cerebrovascular disease.
* Vincentas Sladkevičius, 79, Lithuanian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Eric Turner, 31, American gridiron football player, stomach cancer.
* Francisco Vestil, 85, Filipino basketball player and Olympian.
* Heleen Sancisi Weerdenburg, 56, Dutch historian.

### 29

* Clement Isong, 80, Nigerian banker and politician.
* Robert T. Oliver, 90, American author and lecturer.
* Aubrey Richards, 79, British actor.
* Anthony Spinelli, 73, American actor and producer.
* Doreen Young Wickremasinghe, 93, British communist politician.

### 30

* Tex Beneke, 86, American bandleader and musician (Glenn Miller Orchestra).
* Iko Carreira, 66, Angolan army general and politician.
* Robert P. Casey, 68, American lawyer and politician, amyloidosis.
* Doris Hare, 95, Welsh actress.
* Daisuke Inoue, 58, Japanese singer and composer, suicide by hanging.
* Ram Vilas Sharma, 87, Indian academic, poet and writer.
* Bill Thomas, 78, American costume designer.

### 31

* John Coolidge, 93, American businessman and son of President Calvin Coolidge.
* Andrew Faulds, 77, British actor and Lpolitician.
* Erich Kähler, 94, German mathematician.
* Petar Mladenov, 63, Bulgarian communist diplomat and politician.
* Nikolaos Oikonomides, 66, Greek byzantinist.
* Rodolfo Pini, 73, Uruguayan football player.
* Tito Puente, 77, American musician, songwriter ("Oye Como Va") and record producer, cardiac surgery.
* Joe Puma, 72, American jazz guitarist.
* Hank Ruszkowski, 74, American baseball player.
* Walter Sparrow, 73, English actor (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Ever After, The Secret Garden).
* Johnnie Taylor, 66, American singer, heart attack.
* A. Jeyaratnam Wilson, 72, Sri Lankan Tamil academic, historian and author.