Deaths in July 2000

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.

### 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 (winner of Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony awards), heart attack.
- Pierre Petit, 78, French composer.

### 2

- Mina Aoe, 59, Japanese female _enka_ singer, pancreatic cancer.
- Joey Dunlop, 48, Northern Irish motorcycle racer, motorcycle accident.
- Constance Howard, 89, English textile artist and embroiderer.
- Paul McLaughlin, 80, Canadian sailor and Olympian.
- Karl Sweetan, 57, American gridiron footballplayer, 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.

### 5

- 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, Luxembourgian politician.
- Lord Woodbine, 71, Trinidadian calypsonian and music promoter, house fire.

### 6

- 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, 59, 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, domestic accident.
- 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.
- Apostolos Vakalopoulos, 90, Greek historian.
- Norma Wilson, 90, New Zealand athlete and Olympian.

### 11

- 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 accident.

### 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

- 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

- 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

- Igor Domnikov, 41, Russian journalist and editor, murdered.
- 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

- 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.
- 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

- 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

- Anatoli Firsov, 59, Russian ice hockey player, heart attack.
- Pierre Hardy, 92, French sport shooter and Olympic medalist.
- Jim Kremer, 81, Luxembourgian football player.
- Dharmasiri Senanayake, 67, Sri Lankan politician.
- Oscar Shumsky, 83, American violinist and conductor.
- G. Wood, 80, American film and television actor, 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.
    - Jean Marcot, 50, French first officer of Flight 4590.
    - Christian Marty, 54, French windsurfer and captain of Flight 4590.
    - Andreas Schranner, 64, German property magnate.

### 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, murdered.
- John Tukey, 85, American mathematician, infarction.
- 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, 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), accident.
- Chic Stone, 77, American comic book artist.
- 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, (aka Casey Adams), 83, American actor, composer, pianist, singer, 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, car accident.