Deaths in May 2000

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.

### 1

- Cláudio Christovam de Pinho, 77, Nicknamed “Manager”.
- 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

- 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, 56, 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

- 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 a social worker.
- Jon Vincent, 38, American pornographic actor, suicide.
- Edward J. Sponga, 82, American Jesuit priest in the Society of Jesus.

### 4

- 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.

### 9

- György Csordás, 71, Freestyle swimmer from Hungary.
- Arthur Davis, 94, American animator and a director.
- 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 and penciller.
- Craig Stevens, 81, American actor, cancer.

### 11

- Verna Aardema, 88, American writer.
- David Bretherton, 76, American film editor, 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, "World's Most Dangerous Bull" World Champion title holder.
- Frido Frey, 78, German basketball player.
- Evald Hermaküla, 58, Estonian actor and director, suicide.
- 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

- 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.
- Barbara Cartland, 98, English novelist.
- Buzzy Drootin, 80, American jazz drummer.
- John Gielgud, 96, English actor.
- 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 (disputed).

### 22

- 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.
- Kurt Schork, 53, American reporter and war correspondent, homicide.
- 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

- Ken Bousfield, 80, British golfer.
- Nicholas Clay, 53, British actor, 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.
- 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, cardiovascular disease.

### 28

- 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, 86, 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.
- 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 film and television actor.
- Johnnie Taylor, 66, American singer, heart attack.
- A. Jeyaratnam Wilson, 72, Sri Lankan Tamil academic, historian and author.