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.

## July 2000
### 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.

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