Deaths in February 2000
The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2000.
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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.
February 2000
1
- Frederick Vanderbilt Field, 94, American political activist.[1]
- Art Hoppe, 74, American newspaper columnist, lung cancer.
- Anker Kihle, 82, Norwegian footballer.
- Peter Levi, 68, British poet, Jesuit priest and scholar.[2]
- Thomas J. McHugh, 80, Sergeant Major in the US Marine Corps.
- James V. Neel, 84, American geneticist.[3]
- Dick Rathmann, 74, American racecar driver.
2
- Harry K. Cull, 88, American politician.
- Mary Docherty, 91, British activist and communist.
- Teruki Miyamoto, 59, Japanese football player and manager, heart failure.
- Francis Stuart, 97, Irish writer.
- Li Zhun, 71, Chinese novelist.
3
- Bonnie Cashin, American pioneer designer of sportswear.[4]
- Don Gallinger, 74, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Richard Kleindienst, 76, American lawyer, politician, and U.S. Attorney General during the Watergate, lung cancer.[5]
- John Leovich, 81, American baseball player.[6]
- Susumu Nikaidō, 90, Japanese politician, heart failure.
- Pierre Plantard, 79, French draughtsman and impostor.
- Alla Rakha, 80, Indian tabla player.[7]
- Ken Stroud, 91, British mathematician.
4
- Carl Albert, 91, American lawyer, politician and 46th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.[8]
- Joachim-Ernst Berendt, 77, German music journalist.[9]
- Edgar Bowers, 75, American poet.[10]
- Doris Coley, 58, American singer of The Shirelles.[11]
- James C. Green, 78, American politician.
- Ronald Robertson, 62, American figure skater.[12]
- Phil Tonken, 80, American radio and television announcer.
5
- Claude Autant-Lara, 98, French film director and politician.[13]
- Ward Cornell, 75, Canadian radio/TV broadcaster & educator.[14]
- Todd Karns, 79, American actor (It's a Wonderful Life), cancer[15]
- George Koltanowski, 96, Belgian-American chess master, promoter, and writer.[16]
- T. G. Lingappa, 72, Indian film score composer.
- G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, 89, British ancient historian.[17]
- Göran Tunström, 62, Swedish author.
6
- Derroll Adams, 74, American folk musician.[18]
- Thomas Armstrong, 90, English cricketer.
- Gus Johnson, 86, American swing drummer.[19]
- Reginald Lenna, 87, American businessman and Philanthropist.
- Colin Moodie, 86, Australian public servant and diplomat.
- Steve Waller, 48, American musician, liver problems.
- Phil Walters, 83, American racing driver.
7
- Big Pun, 28, American rapper.[20]
- Wilfred Cantwell Smith, 83, Canadian Islamicist and Presbyterian minister.[21]
- Stewart Farrar, 83, English screenwriter, novelist and Wiccan priest.
- Doug Henning, 52, Canadian magician, illusionist and escape artist.[22]
- Dorothy McFadden Hoover, 81, American physicist and mathematician.
- Shiho Niiyama, 29, Japanese voice actress.
- Dave Peverett, 56, English singer and musician of Foghat.[23]
8
- Sid Abel, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.[24]
- Aryanandi, 92, Indian Jain monk.
- Mario Capio, 75, Italian Olympic sailor.
- Bob Collins, 57, American broadcaster.[25]
- Ion Gheorghe Maurer, 97, Prime Minister of Romania.[26]
- Edna Griffin, 90, American civil rights pioneer and activist.
- Muboraksho Mirzoshoyev, 38, Tajikistani musician and Tajik rock music pioneer, tuberculosis.
- Frank E. Rodgers, 90, American politician.
- Derrick Thomas, 33, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, pulmonary embolism.[27]
9
- Steve Furness, 49, American football player, heart attack.[28]
- Beau Jack, 78, American boxer.[29]
- Lenore Kight, 88, American swimmer and Olympian.
- Maria Lúcia Vassalo Namorado, 90, Portuguese writer, poet, and journalist.
- Shobhna Samarth, 83, Indian film actress, director and producer.
- Buck Young, 79, American actor.
10
- John Garlington, 53, American football player, drowned.
- Elvira Gascón, 88, Spanish painter, drafter, and engraver.
- George Jackson, 42, American movie producer, stroke.[30]
- Gene Lambert, 78, American baseball player.[31]
- Blas Monaco, 84, American baseball player.[32]
- Ji Pengfei, 90, Chinese politician.[33]
- Jim Varney, 50, American actor noted for his character, Ernest P. Worrell, lung cancer.[34]
11
- Jacqueline Auriol, 82, French aviator who set several world speed records.[35]
- Gordon Lockhart Bennett, 87, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island.
- Lord Kitchener, 77, Trinidadian calypsonian.[36]
- Elangbam Nilakanta Singh, 72, Indian poet and critic.
- Martin Theodore Orne, 72, Austrian-American professor of psychiatry and psychology.[37]
- Roger Vadim, 72, French film director.[38]
- Bernardino Zapponi, 72, Italian novelist and screenwriter.
12
- Newt Arnold, 77, American film director.[39]
- Dominic Bruce, 84, British Royal Air Force officer and Colditz Castle escapee during World War II.[40]
- Screamin' Jay Hawkins, 70, American musician.[41]
- Tom Landry, 75, American football coach (Dallas Cowboys) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[42]
- Andy Lewis, 33, Australian bass guitarist.
- John London, 58, American musician and songwriter.
- Oliver, 54, American pop singer.[43]
- Charles M. Schulz, 77, American comic strip artist (Peanuts).[44]
13
- Anders Aalborg, 85, Candian politician.
- John W. Blassingame, 59, American historian and pioneer in the study of American slavery.[45]
- James Cooke Brown, 78, American sociologist and science fiction author.
- John Leake, 50, British Royal Navy sailor, cancer.
- F. X. Martin, 77, Irish priest and historian.[46]
- Thelma Parr, 93, American actress.
- Theodore Rinaldo, 55, American charismatic religious leader, businessman, and convicted child sex offender.
14
- Henry A. Bamman, 81, American author and professor.
- Tony Bettenhausen Jr., 48, American car racing team owner and driver, plane crash.
- Tertius Bosch, 33, South African cricketer, Guillain–Barré syndrome.
- Jimmy Martin, 75, Irish professional golfer.
- Walter Zinn, 93, Canadian-American nuclear physicist who worked at the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory.[47]
15
- Shamsul Huda Chaudhury, 79, Bangladeshi politician.
- Dilip Dhawan, 45, Indian actor, heart attack.
- Valentina Kravchenko, 83, Russian pilot and squadron navigator during WWII.
- Angus MacLean, 85, Canadian politician and farmer.
- Bob Ramazzotti, 83, American baseball player.[48]
- Igor Sinyavin, 62, Soviet/Russian painter and writer.
- Vladimir Utkin, 76, Soviet/Russian engineer and rocket scientist.
16
- Wayne Blackburn, 85, American baseball coach.
- Soup Campbell, 84, American baseball player.[49]
- Marceline Day, 91, American actress.[50]
- Lila Kedrova, c. 90, Russian-born French actress (Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Zorba the Greek).[51]
- B. S. Kesavan, 90, first Director of the Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre.
- Karsten Solheim, 88, Norwegian-born American golf club designer (PING) and businessman.[52]
17
- William Anderson, 84, Canadian officer.
- Jot D. Carpenter, 61, American landscape architect.
- Selina Chönz, 89, Swiss children's author.
- Iffat Al-Thunayan, Saudi princess and most prominent wife of King Faisal.
- Turkey Tyson, 85, American baseball player.[53]
- Miles White, 85, American costume designer of Broadway musicals.[54]
18
- Henry Åkervall, 62, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Yalavarthi Naveen Babu, 35, Indian leader of Naxalite, a communist revolutionary group, killed in firefight with police.
- Lefty Hoerst, 82, American baseball player.[55]
- Nader Naderpour, 70, Iranian-born American poet.[56]
- Will, 72, Belgian comics artist.
19
- Marin Goleminov, 91, Bulgarian musician.
- Josef Herman, 89, Polish-British painter.
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 71, Austrian artist.[57]
- Kenneth L. Maddy, 65, American politician.[58]
- George Roussos, 84, American comic book artist.
- Anatoly Sobchak, 62, Russian politician and mentor/teacher of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev.
- Jim Wulff, 63, American football player (Washington Redskins).
20
- Jean Dotto, 71, French racing cyclist.
- Gus Harris, 91, Canadian politician, Parkinson's disease.
- Bernard Hickman, 88, American basketball player and coach.
- Oswald Lange, 87, German-American aerospace engineer and member of the "von Braun rocket group".
- Otello Martelli, 97, Italian cinematographer.
- Edmund McNamara, 79, American law enforcement officer and professional football player.
- Anatoly Sobchak, 62, Russian politician, suspected contract killing by poisoning.[59]
21
- Noel Annan, Baron Annan, 83, British military intelligence officer and academic.[60]
- Violet Archer, 86, Canadian musician and composer.
- Clifton Daniel, 87, managing editor of The New York Times, stroke.[61]
- Radha Mohan Gadanayak, 88, Indian poet.
- Jean-Pierre Grenier, 85, French actor, theatre director and screenwriter.
- Kenneth Nichols, 92, officer in the US Army and civil engineer, respiratory failure.[62]
22
- Sir Joseph Gold, 87, British lawyer.
- John Kellogg, 83, American actor, Alzheimer's disease.
- Ernest Lough, 88, English boy soprano.[63]
- Maurine Neuberger, 93, American politician.
- Michelle O'Keefe, 18, American college student and aspiring actress, gunshot wounds.
- V. J. P. Saldanha, 74, Indian Konkani language litterateur, dramatist, musician, and poet.
23
- John Nevill, 5th Marquess of Abergavenny, 85, British aristocrat.
- Dennis Evans, 69, English footballer.
- Albrecht Goes, 91, German writer and theologian.
- Ofra Haza, 42, Israeli singer, AIDS-related pneumonia.[64]
- Sir Stanley Matthews, 85, English footballer.[65]
- Joseph V. Perry, 69, American actor.[66]
24
- Aleksander Bajt, 78, Yugoslav/Slovenian economist.
- Betty Lou Beets, 62, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
- Michael Colvin, 67, British politician.
- Franciszek Kamiński, 97, Polish politician and military commander during World War II.
- Rosalind Keith, 83, American film actress and singer.
- Bernard Opper, 84, American basketball player.
25
- Victoria Climbié, 8, Ivorian girl, prolonged child abuse.
- Doris Löve, 82, Swedish botanist.
- Kuthiravattam Pappu, 62, India actor, cardiac arrest.
- Culley Rikard, 85, American baseball player.[67]
- Aleksandar Živković, 87, Croatian footballer.
26
- Casimiro Montenegro Filho, 95, Brazilian army and air force officer.
- Franz Fuchs, 50, Austrian terrorist, suicide.
- George L. Street III, 86, United States Navy submarine commander and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II.[68]
- Giovanna of Italy, 92, Italian princess of the House of Savoy, heart failure.
27
- Casimiro Berenguer, 90, Puerto Rican nationalist.
- George Duning, 92, American musician, and film composer.[69]
- Harold M. Mulvey, 85, American Attorney General.[70]
- Aubrey Eugene Robinson Jr., 77, US District Judge, heart attack.[71]
- Hank M. Tavera, 56, 'AIDS activist and archivist, kidney cancer.
28
- Johannes Barge, 93, officer in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany.
- Kariel Gardosh, 78, Israeli cartoonist and illustrator ("Dosh").[72]
- Władysław Gnyś, 89, Polish Air Force pilot and flying ace during World War II.
- John N. Irwin II, 86, American diplomat and attorney.[73]
- Janet Reed, 83, American ballerina and ballet mistress.[74]
- Jean Vallette d'Osia, 101, French officer and member of the French Resistance during WWII.
29
- Dennis Danell, 38, American musician (Social Distortion), cerebral aneurysm.[75]
- Pierre Dumas, French doctor and drug test pioneer.
- Alf Rattigan, 88, Australian Public Service official, prostate cancer.
- Kayla Rolland, 6, American school shooting victim, cardiac arrest from shooting.
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