Deaths in July 2000
The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 2000
1
- Victor E. Engstrom, 86, American philatelist.
- John Albert Axel Gibson, 83, British World War II air ace.[1]
- Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan, 94, fourth and last wife of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah.
- 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).[2]
2
- Joey Dunlop, 48, Northern Irish motorcycle racer, motorcycle accident.[3]
- Constance Howard, 89, English textile artist and embroiderer.
- Paul McLaughlin, 80, Canadian sailor and Olympian.
3
- Walter Cassel, 90, American operatic baritone and actor.[4]
- Nancy Cato, 83, Australian writer and poet.
- James Grogan, 68, American figure skater and Olympian, multiple organ failure.
- André Guinier, 88, French physicist.
- Sir Michael Hamilton, 81, British politician.[5]
- Paul G. Hatfield, 72, American attorney and politician.
- John Hejduk, 70, Czech-American architect, artist and educator.[6]
- Enric Miralles, 45, Spanish architect, brain tumor.[7]
- Harold Nicholas, 79, American dancer (Nicholas Brothers), heart attack.[8]
- Kemal Sunal, 55, Turkish actor, heart attack.[9]
4
- Ángel Aranda, 65, Spanish actor.
- Jack T. Bradley, 82, US Army Air Force fighter ace.[10]
- Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, 81, Polish writer and political dissident.[11]
- Yuri Klinskikh, 35, Russian singer, songwriter and arranger.
- Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme, 85, British aristocrat.[12]
5
- Franta Belsky, 79, Czech sculptor, prostate cancer.
- Mehrangiz Manouchehrian, 94, Iranian lawyer, musician and feminist.
- Blanca Álvarez Mantilla, 68, Spanish journalist.
- Peter "Bullfrog" Moore, 68, Australian rugby league administrator.[13]
- Dorino Serafini, 90, Italian motorcycle road racer and racing driver.
- Lord Woodbine, 71, Trinidadian calypsonian and music promoter, house fire.
6
- Miervaldis Birze, 79, Latvian writer, publicist and physician.
- 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.[14]
- Władysław Szpilman, 88, Jewish-Polish pianist portrayed in the 2002 film The Pianist.[15]
- Marcella Comès Winslow, 95, American photographer and portrait painter.
7
- Dame Stella Casey, 76, New Zealand social activist.[16]
- Kenny Irwin Jr., 30, American stock car racing driver, racing accident.[17]
- Jip de Jager, 87, South African politician.
- Ursula Kuczynski, 93, German communist activist and spy.
- James C. Quayle, 79, American newspaper publisher.[18]
- William J. Randall, 90, American politician.[19]
- George T. Rockrise, 83, American architect and urban planner.
- Charles Alan Wright, 72, American constitutional lawyer.[20]
8
- FM-2030, 69, Iranian-American author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher and futurist, pancreatic cancer.
- Dame Anne Mueller, 69, British civil servant and academic.[21]
- Maurice Owen, 76, English footballer.
- Cliff Sear, 63, Welsh footballer, heart attack.
9
- Doug Fisher, 59, English actor, heart attack.
- John Morgan, 41, British etiquette expert.[22]
- John Vitale, 34, American football player, cancer.
10
- Leo Egan, 86, American broadcaster.
- Vakkom Majeed, 90, Indian politician.
- Ursule Molinaro, French-born American writer.[23]
- Denis O'Conor Don, O'Conor Don, hereditary Chief of the Name O'Conor.
- Justin Pierce, 25, British skateboarder and actor (Kids, Next Friday).[24]
11
- Bill Alexander, 90, British political activist.[25]
- Jaroslav Filip, 51, Slovak musician, composer, dramaturge and actor, heart attack.
- Pedro Mir, 87, Dominican poet and writer (Poet Laureate).[26]
- Robert Runcie, 78, British Archbishop of Canterbury, cancer.[27]
- Barry Tabobondung, 39, Canadian ice hockey player, vehicular accident.
12
- Tom Galley, 84, English footballer.
- Charles Merritt, 91, Canadian war hero and recipient of the Victoria Cross.[28]
- Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, 72, Yugoslav prince.[29]
13
- James Ferguson, 86, U.S. Air Force general.
- Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso, 86, Argentine historian and researcher.
- A. D. Hope, 92, Australian poet.[30]
- Masha Ivashintsova, 58, Russian photographer.
- Jan Karski, 86, Polish resistance fighter and academic.[31]
14
- Bill Barth, 57, American blues guitarist, heart attack.
- Alvin Hollingsworth, 72, American painter and comics artist.
- Eric Edward Khasakhala, 74, Kenyan politician and independence activist.
- Robert B. Landry, 90, United States Air Force major general.
- Meredith MacRae, 56, American actress (My Three Sons, Petticoat Junction), complications of brain cancer.[32]
- Georges Maranda, 68, Canadian baseball player.[33]
- Sir Mark Oliphant, 98, Australian physicist, Governor of South Australia.[34]
15
- Paul Bühlmann, 73, Swiss comedian, radio personality, and actor.
- Johnny Duncan, 67, American bluegrass musician.[35]
- Jocko Henderson, 82, American radio disc jockey, and hip hop music pioneer, cancer.
- Leo Hoegh, 92, U.S. Army officer, lawyer, and politician.[36]
- Owen Maynard, 75, Canadian engineer and co-designer of NASA's Apollo Lunar Module (LM).
- John Pastore, 93, American lawyer and politician.[37]
- Louis Quilico, 75, Canadian opera singer.[38]
- Kalle Svensson, 74, Swedish footballer.[39]
- Paul Young, 53, British singer and songwriter (Sad Café, Mike + The Mechanics).[40]
16
- Igor Domnikov, 41, Russian journalist and editor, murdered.
- György Petri, 56, Hungarian poet, cancer.
- Jean Vercoutter, 89, French Egyptologist.
- Bernie Whitebear, 62, American Indian activist, colon cancer.
- William Foote Whyte, 86, American sociologist.[41]
17
- Zhao Lirong, 72, Chinese singer and film actress, cancer.
- Aligi Sassu, 88, Italian painter and sculptor.
- Thomas Quinn Curtiss, 85, American writer, and film and theater critic.[42]
- Warren P. Waters, 77, American physicist, inventor and WWII US Air Force pilot, kidney failure.
18
- Roberto Contreras, 71, American actor.
- Paul Coverdell, 61, US Senator from Georgia, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Archie Craig, 88, Scottish racing cyclist.
- John F. Davis, 93, American lawyer and law professor.[43]
- Ray Gabelich, 67, Australian rules footballer.
19
- James B. Clark, 92, American film and television director.
- Stephen Gendin, 34, American AIDS activist, AIDS-induced lymphoma.[44]
- Hananiah Harari, 87, American painter and illustrator.[45]
- Owen Maddock, 74, British engineer and racing car designer.
- Tommy O'Boyle, 82, American football coach.[46]
- Allen Paulson, 78, American businessman.[47]
20
- Eladio Dieste, 82, Uruguayan engineer and architect.
- Eyvind Earle, 84, American artist, author and illustrator, esophageal cancer.
- Joseph F. Enright, 89, submarine captain in the US Navy.[48]
- James H. Morrison, 91, American politician (member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 6th congressional district).[49]
- Kao Pao-shu, 68, Chinese actress, producer, writer and film director, died at the age of 68.
- Murray G. Ross, 90, Canadian sociologist, author, and academic administrator.
- Jim Suchecki, 72, American baseball player.[50]
- Alexis P. Vlasto, 84, British historian and philologist.
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.[51]
- Maria Kleschar-Samokhvalova, 84, Soviet Russian painter and graphic artist.
- Yosef Qafih, 82, Yemenite-Israeli zionist orthodox rabbi.
22
- John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield, 80, British medical researcher and academic administrator.[52]
- Alexander Dallin, 76, American historian and political scientist.[53]
- Raymond Lemieux, 80, Canadian organic chemist.[54]
- Claude Sautet, 76, French film director and screenwriter.[55]
- Staffan Burenstam Linder, 68, Swedish economist and politician.
- Pat Turner, 73, British trade unionist.
23
- Vittorio Mangano, 59, member of the Sicilian Mafia, cancer.
- Carmen Martín Gaite, 74, Spanish author.
- Mars Rafikov, 66, Soviet cosmonaut.
- Ahmad Shamlou, 74, Iranian poet, writer and journalist.[56]
- Sandor Teszler, 97, Hungarian-American businessman and philanthropist.
24
- Anatoli Firsov, 59, Russian ice hockey player.[57]
- Dharmasiri Senanayake, 67, Sri Lankan politician.
- Alvin Tresselt, 83, American children's book author and graphic designer.[58]
- G. Wood, 80, American film and television actor, congestive heart failure.
25
- Julia Pirotte, 92, Polish photojournalist.
- 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:[59]
- 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.
- Albert Fear, 92, Welsh rugby player.
- 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.[60]
- Don Weis, 78, American film and television director.[61]
27
- Virginia Admiral, 85, American painter and poet.[62]
- Albert van Dantzig, 63, Dutch historian, Alzheimer's disease.
- Bruce Douglas-Mann, 73, British politician.[63]
- Val Dufour, 73, American actor.[64]
- Paddy Joyce, 77, Irish actor, stroke.
- Vladimir Lisunov, 60, Russian nonconformist artist, murdered.
- Gordon Solie, 71, American wrestling commentator, throat cancer.[65]
- Constance Stuart Larrabee, 85, English photographer and war correspondent.[66]
28
- Jaime Cardriche, 32, American actor, complications during gall bladder surgery.
- Margaret Chapman, 59, English illustrator and painter.
- Rokeya Rahman Kabeer, 74, Bangladeshi academic and feminist.
- Abraham Pais, 82, Dutch-born American physicist.[67]
- Jonas M. Platt, 80, United States Marine Corps officer.
- Jerome Smith, 47, American guitarist (KC and the Sunshine Band).[68]
- Chic Stone, 77, American comic book artist.
- John Wells, 93, British artist.[69]
29
- Roger Batzel, 78, American nuclear scientist.[70]
- Kobie Coetsee, 69, South African lawyer and politician, heart attack.
- René Favaloro, 77, Argentine cardiologist who invented the technique of coronary bypass surgery, suicide by gunshot.[71]
- Benny Fenton, 81, English football player and manager.[72]
- Nestor Pirotte, 67, Belgian serial killer, heart attack.
- Bob Welch, 72, Canadian politician.
30
- Derek Hill, 83, English portrait and landscape painter.
- Max Showalter, (aka Casey Adams), 83, American actor, composer, pianist, singer, cancer.[73]
- Jack Smiley, 77, American basketball player.
31
- Constance Babington Smith, 87, British journalist and writer.
- István Gulyás, 68, Hungarian tennis player.
- Hendrik C. van de Hulst, 81, Dutch astronomer and mathematician.[74]
- William Keepers Maxwell Jr., 91, American novelist, short story writer, essayist and children's author.
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