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.

## May 2000
### 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.

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