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

## September 2000
### 1

* Olavi Ahonen, 77, Finnish film actor and comedian.
* Barbara Brooke, Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte, 92, British politician.
* P. P. Ummer Koya, 78, Indian politician, Gandhian, freedom fighter and educationist.
* Franklin P. Peterson, 70, American mathematician, stroke.
* Gerry Sullivan, 57, Australian politician.

### 2

* Vicente Asensi, 81, Spanish football player.
* Ishaq Bux, 83, Indian actor.
* Heinz Harmel, 94, German SS general during World War II.
* Jean Speegle Howard, 73, American actress (Apollo 13, Scrooged, Matilda), respiratory disease and cardiomyopathy.
* Elvera Sanchez, 95, American dancer.
* Curt Siodmak, 98, German-American novelist and screenwriter (The Wolf Man, Donovan's Brain), cancer.
* Gennady Smirnov, 45, Russian footballer.
* Audrey Wise, 68, British politician.

### 3

* Asaf Abdrakhmanov, 81, Soviet naval officer and war hero during World War II.
* Edward Anhalt, 86, American screenwriter (Panic in the Streets), Oscar winner (1951), cancer.
* Clodomiro Cortoni, 77, Argentine cyclist.
* Oldřich Daněk, 73, Czech dramatist, writer, director and screenwriter.
* R. H. Harris, 84, American gospel singer (Soul Stirrers).
* Jack Simmons, 85, British transport historian.
* Clyde Sukeforth, 98, American baseball player.
* Indriði Guðmundur Þorsteinsson, 74, Icelandic writer.
* Walt Stanchfield, 81, American animator (The Jungle Book, The Fox and the Hound, The Great Mouse Detective).

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* Augusto Vargas Alzamora, 77, Peruvian prelate in the Roman Catholic Church.
* Sir John Beith, 86, British diplomat.
* David Brown, 53, American bass guitarist (Santana), kidney failure.
* Jack Fjeldstad, 85, Norwegian actor and stage producer.
* Pinky May, 89, American baseball player.
* Mihály Mayer, 66, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic champion (1964).
* Mukri, 78, Indian film actor, heart attack.
* Gilles Potvin, 76, Canadian music critic and music historian.
* Antonio Ruberti, 73, Italian politician and engineer.
* Mary Shepard, 90, English illustrator of children's books.

### 5

* Margaret Andrew, 92, American experimental engineer.
* Carlo M. Cipolla, 78, Italian economic historian.
* Roy Fredericks, 57, West Indian cricketer, cancer.
* George Musso, 90, American football player (Chicago Bears) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
* Palle Nielsen, 80, Danish illustrator and graphic artist.

### 6

* David E. Bell, 81, American public servant, director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (1961–1962).
* Robert Lindsay, 95, English-born Australian politician.
* Abdul Haris Nasution, 81, Indonesian general and politician, cerebrovascular disease.
* Nino Ramishvili, 90, Soviet and Georgian ballet dancer and choreographer.
* Fritz Ruchay, 90, German football player and manager.
* Jürgen Schütze, 49, East German racing cyclist.
* Jiří Sovák, 79, Czech actor.
* Kees van Aelst, 83, Dutch water polo player and Olympian (1936 Summer Olympics).
* Roger Verey, 88, Polish rower.
* Desmond Wilcox, 69, British journalist and television producer, heart attack.

### 7

* Hyginus Anugo, 22, Nigerian sprinter, car accident.
* Bruce Gyngell, 71, Australian television executive, cancer-related illness.
* Eigil Nielsen, 81, Danish amateur football goalkeeper and Olympic medalist.
* Gian Luigi Polidoro, 73, Italian film director and screenwriter.
* Vitaliy Popovich, 37, Ukrainian racewalker, suicide.
* Aleksander Skiba, 55, Polish volleyball player and coach.
* Nick Tremark, 87, American baseball player.

### 8

* Enrique Alessio, 82, Argentine musician.
* Yves Gaucher, 66, Canadian abstract painter and printmaker.
* Otto Katharus Lind, 79, Danish resistance fighter and general.
* Carlos Castillo Peraza, 53, Mexican politician, heart attack.
* Raul Roulien, 94, Brazilian actor, singer, and film director.

### 9

* Julian Critchley, 69, British politician.
* Herbert Friedman, 84, American physicist and astronomer, cancer.
* Chuck Holmes, 55, American adult film producer, businessman and philanthropist, AIDS-related complications.
* Veerasamy Ringadoo, 79, Mauritian politician, minister and Governor-General of Mauritius.
* Peter Robinson, 78, English football player.
* Robert S. Stevens, American politician and jurist.
* Bill Waddington, 84, English music hall performer, actor, and comedian, Parkinson's disease.

### 10

* Jakie Astor, 82, English politician and sportsman.
* Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, 81, Pakistani writer and journalist.
* Chandra Khonnokyoong, 91, Thai Maechi.
* William Nierenberg, 81, American physicist and member of the Manhattan Project, cancer.
* Lester Novros, 91, American artist and animator.
* Ben Wicks, 73, British-Canadian cartoonist, illustrator, and author, cancer.

### 11

* Herbert H. Bateman, 72, American politician, cancer.
* Peter Browne, 76, Australian politician.
* Joe Dale, 79, English footballer.
* Philipp Fehl, 80, Austrian artist and art historian.
* Ham Heung-chul, 69, South Korean football player and manager.
* Martin James Monti, 78, US Army Air Force pilot.
* William Wilson Quinn, 92, US Army officer.
* Joe Skubitz, 94, American politician.

### 12

* Leonard Alufurai, 74-75, Solomon Island bishop.
* Juan Ibáñez Díez-Gutiérrez, 62, Mexican actor, film director, producer and writer.
* Konrad Kujau, 62, German illustrator and forger, cancer.
* Gary Olsen, 42, English actor (2point4 Children, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The Bill), cancer.
* Alfredo Pasotti, 75, Italian road bicycle racer.
* Stanley Turrentine, 66, American jazz tenor saxophonist.

### 13

* Lloyd Anderson, 98, American business executive.
* Jānis Gilis, 57, Soviet and Latvian football player.
* Betty Jeffrey, 92, Australian writer.
* Howard Johnson, 89, British politician.
* Rolf Kauka, 83, German comic artist.
* Jerzy Lipiński, 91, Polish racing cyclist.
* Duane Swanson, 87, American basketball player.
* Pedro Morales Torres, 68, Chilean football manager.

### 14

* George Christopher, 92, Greek-American politician.
* Jerzy Giedroyc, 94, Polish writer and political activist.
* Jean Halain, 80, French film screenwriter.
* Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale, 86, British politician.
* Cheng Kejie, 66, Chinese government official, execution by lethal injection.
* Igor Luzhkovsky, 62, Russian swimmer and Olympian.
* George Myatt, 86, American baseball player.
* Beah Richards, 80, American actress (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night, ER), Emmy winner (1988, 2000), pulmonary emphysema.
* Hwang Sun-won, 85, Korean short story writer, novelist, and poet.

### 15

* David Flusser, 83, Israeli professor of Early Christianity.
* Jennifer Gan, 62, American actress.
* George Kanahele, 70, American native Hawaiian activist, historian and author.
* Frank John Kerr, 82, Australian astronomer and physicist.
* Harmar Nicholls, 87, British politician.
* Jean Yancey, 86, American entrepreneur and motivational speaker, heart failure.

### 16

* Nadina Abarth-Žerjav, 88, Slovene-Italian businesswoman.
* Ioan Alexandru, 58, Romanian poet, essayist and politician.
* M. H. M. Ashraff, 51, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, helicopter crash.
* Dori Brenner, 53, American actress (Altered States, The Charmings, Ned and Stacey), complications from cancer.
* John Perkovich, 76, American baseball player.
* Alexandra Petrova, 19, Russian model and beauty pageant contestant, murdered.
* Dharma Vira, 94, Indian politician.

### 17

* Hester Burton, 86, English children's writer.
* Cruz Martínez Esteruelas, 68, Spanish politician.
* Heorhii Gongadze, 31, Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and film director, homicide.
* Armand Mestral, 82, French actor and singer.
* Nicole Reinhart, 24, American cyclist, cycling accident.
* Dem Rădulescu, 68, Romanian actor, heart attack.
* Chico Salmon, 59, Panamanian baseball player.
* Henry T. Weinstein, 76, American film producer.
* Paula Yates, 41, British television presenter and journalist, drug overdose.

### 18

* Glyde Butler, 68, Australian politician.
* Gilbert Carpentier, 80, French television show producer.
* Tony Graboski, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Dawn Langley Simmons, 77, English author and biographer, Parkinson's disease.
* Chen Yuefang, 37, Chinese basketball player and Olympic medalist.

### 19

* Joseph Epes Brown, 80, American scholar of Native American traditions.
* Ann Doran, 89, American character actress.
* Fulvio Mingozzi, 74, Italian actor.
* Karl Robatsch, 70, Austrian chess player and botanist, cancer.
* Gloria Talbott, 69, American actress, kidney failure.

### 20

* Theresa Ahearn, 49, Irish politician, cancer.
* Dorothy Emmet, 95, British philosopher and academic.
* Mona Moore, 83, British painter and illustrator.
* Jeanloup Sieff, 66, French photographer, cancer.
* Stanislav Stratiev, 59, Bulgarian playwright.
* Gherman Titov, 65, Soviet cosmonaut, heart failure.

### 21

* Robert Wright Campbell, 73, American author and scriptwriter.
* Jacques Flynn, 85, Canadian lawyer and politician.
* Bengt Hambraeus, 72, Swedish-Canadian organist, composer and musicologist.
* Iskandar Khatloni, 45, Tajikistani writer and journalist, murdered.
* Ognjen Petrović, 52, Serbian goalkeeper.
* Frederic Seaman, 94, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.
* John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, 85, British aristocrat.

### 22

* Yehuda Amichai, 76, Israeli poet, cancer.
* Willie Cook, 76, American jazz trumpeter.
* Vincenzo Fagiolo, 82, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.
* Dov Feigin, 93, Israeli sculptor.
* Alexei Kostrikin, 71, Russian mathematician.
* Mike Nixon, 88, American football player, coach and scout.
* Anthony Read, 87, British Army general.
* Saburō Sakai, 84, Japanese flying ace during World War II, heart attack.
* Bill Sommers, 77, American baseball player.
* Otto Walzhofer, 74, Austrian football player and coach.

### 23

* Hanson Taylor Dowell, 94, Canadian ice hockey administrator and politician.
* Eiichi Kudo, 71, Japanese film director, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Václav Migas, 56, Czech international footballer.
* Aurelio Rodríguez, 52, Mexican Major League Baseball player, traffic accident.
* Carl Rowan, 75, American government official, journalist and author.
* Kenny Smith, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.

### 24

* Basil Bernstein, 75, British sociologist.
* Janice Biala, 97, Polish-American artist.
* Dorr Bothwell, 98, American artist and designer.
* Antony Darnborough, 86, British film producer and director.
* Marcel Lambert, 81, Canadian politician.
* Jean Malléjac, 71, French bicycle racer.
* Stephen McKeag, 30, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, drug overdose.
* Horacio Rivero, Jr., 90, Puerto Rican four-star admiral.

### 25

* Tom Baker, 79, British Anglican priest.
* Buster Matheney, 44, American basketball player, shot.
* Heberto Padilla, 68, Cuban poet, heart attack.
* Tommy Reilly, 81, English musician.
* Edy Schmid, 89, Swiss field handball player and Olympic medalist.
* R. S. Thomas, 87, Welsh poet.

### 26

* Neva Abelson, 89, American research physician (co-discovered the blood test for the Rh blood factor).
* Nick Fatool, 85, American jazz drummer.
* Paul Gouyon, 89, French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Mohamed Suffian Mohamed Hashim, 82, Malaysian judge.
* Robert Lax, 84, American poet.
* Aleksandras Lileikis, 93, Lithuanian-American Holocaust perpetrator during World War II.
* Richard Mulligan, 67, American actor (Soap, Empty Nest, Little Big Man), Emmy winner (1980, 1989), cancer.
* Baden Powell, 63, Brazilian guitarist, pneumonia.
* Carl Sigman, 91, American songwriter.

### 27

* Mario Arillo, 88, Italian naval officer.
* Joshua Russell Chandran, 82, Indian Christian theologian.
* David Jennens, 71, English rower and Olympian.
* Sammy Luftspring, 84, Canadian boxer.
* Isaac Oceja, 85, Spanish football player and coach.
* Frank Wills, 52, American security guard, discovered Watergate break-in, brain cancer.
* Oh Yun-kyo, 40, South Korean football player.

### 28

* Ted Gehring, 71, American actor.
* Peter Gennaro, 80, American dancer and choreographer (Annie).
* V. E. Howard, 88, American minister and radio evangelist.
* Mike McKevitt, 71, American politician.
* Roger Nott, 91, Australian politician.
* Carlos Revilla, 67, Spanish voice actor, heart attack.
* Phot Sarasin, 95, Thai diplomat and politician.
* Pierre Trudeau, 80, Prime Minister of Canada, prostate cancer.

### 29

* Myles Ferguson, 19, Canadian actor, traffic collision.
* William Fry, 91, Australian politician.
* John Grant, 67, British politician.
* Lynn Lovenguth, 77, American baseball player.
* Maningning Miclat, 28, Filipino poet and painter, suicide by jumping.
* Carlos Savage, 81, Mexican film editor and actor.
* Vidoje Žarković, 73, Yoguslav-Montenegrin communist politician.

### 30

* Sisir Kumar Bose, 80, Indian freedom fighter and writer.
* Lina Bryans, 91, Australian modernist painter.
* Iván Esperón, 88, Argentine football player and coach.
* Zoran Gopčević, 45, Yugoslav water polo player (silver medal winner in 1980 Summer Olympics).
* Ragnhild Michelsen, 89, Norwegian actress.
* Erno Paasilinna, 65, Finnish writer and journalist, cancer.
* Sir Fred Pontin, 93, English businessman.
* Dennis Sandole, 87, American jazz guitarist, composer, and music educator.
* Joe Sheridan, 85, Irish politician.
* Mario Valota, 82, Swiss fencer and Olympic medalist.
* Joe Watson, 48, Australian football player, liver cancer.
* Joseph Weber, 81, American physicist, lymphoma.
* Howard Winstone, 61, Welsh boxer.