Deaths in April 2000

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

  April 2000

1

• Eric Bishop, 74, Canadian sports journalist and broadcaster.
• Dorothy Whitson Freed, 81, New Zealand composer.
• Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, 75, British judge.
• Graham Mann, 75, British competitive sailor and Olympic medallist.
• Willard J. Smith, 89, United States Coast Guard admiral.

  2

• Zekeriya Aknazarov, 100, Soviet statesman.
• Fred Kwasi Apaloo, 79, Ghanaian judge.
• Synnøve Anker Aurdal, 91, Norwegian textile artist.
• Bunney Brooke, 80, Australian actress and casting director,, bowel and liver cancer.
• Tommaso Buscetta, 71, Italian Mafia informant, cancer.
• Greta Gynt, 83, Norwegian singer, dancer and actress.
• Robert Sainsbury, 93, British businessman and art benefactor.

  3

• Arne Aas, 68, Norwegian actor, director, and screenwriter.
• Dina Abramowicz, 90-91, American historian.
• Milko Bobotsov, 68, Bulgarian chess grandmaster.
• Jean Dominique, 69, Haitian journalist and activist, homicide.
• Mahpeyker Hanımsultan, 82, Ottoman princess.
• Marta Hoepffner, 88, German artist and photographer.
• Eri Irianto, 26, Indonesian football player, heart attack.
• Evelyn Irons, 99, Scottish journalist and war correspondent.
• Terence McKenna, 53, American ethnobotanist, mystic, psychonaut and author, brain cancer.
• James Sanfey, 77, Irish Fine Gael politician.

  4

• Brandãozinho, 74, Brazilian footballer.
• Diamond Teeth Mary, 97, American singer and vaudeville entertainer.
• Rolf Pingel, 86, German Luftwaffe flying ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II.
• John W. Rollins, 84, American businessman and politician.
• Mirko Šarić, 21, Argentine footballer, suicide by hanging.
• Carl L. Sitter, 77, US Marine Corps officer and Medal of Honor recipient.
• William Stokoe, 80, American linguist.
• Sy Weintraub, 76, American film and television producer.

  5

• Kanika Banerjee, 75, Indian singer.
• Elisa Breton, 93, French artist and writer.
• Nematollah Gorji, 74, Iranian theatre and film actor.
• Heinrich Müller, 90, Austrian football player and coach.
• Lee Petty, 86, American race car driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, abdominal aortic aneurysm.
• Irina Sebrova, 85, Soviet Air Forces pilot and officer.
• Chino 'Fats' Williams, 66, American actor.
• Rolando Zanni, 86, Italian alpine skier and Olympian.
• Janusz Ziółkowski, 75, Polish sociologist and politician.

  6

• John deKoven Alsop, 84, American politician.
• Carlos Pineda Alvarado, 63, Ecuadorian footballer.
• Habib Bourguiba, 96, president of Tunisia.
• Mohammad-Ali Fardin, 69, Iranian actor and wrestler, cardiac arrest.
• Bertram Forer, 85, American psychologist.
• Don Johnson, 88, American baseball player.
• Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz, 87, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic cardinal.

  7

• Bjarte Birkeland, 79, Norwegian literary researcher.
• Broery, 51, Indonesian singer, stroke.
• Meriel Forbes, 86, English actress.
• Heinz, 57, German-British bassist and singer, stroke.
• Masayuki Minami, 58, Japanese Olympic volleyball player.
• Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, 79, Brazilian football goalkeeper, heart attack.
• Werner Rauh, 86, German biologist, botanist and author.

  8

• Ibrahim Ahmad, 86, Kurdish writer, novelist and judge.
• Alfredo Alcala, 74, Filipino comics artist, cancer.
• Bernie Grant, 56, British politician, heart attack.
• Claire Trevor, 90, American actress, respiratory failure.
• Harry Williamson, 86, American middle-distance runner.
• František Šťastný, 72, Czech Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

  9

• Alan Betrock, 49, American music publisher, author and record producer, cancer.
• Hansi Brand, 87, Hungarian-Israeli zionist activist and rescue worker during World War II.
• Tony Cliff, 82, British Trotskyist writer and journalist.
• Catherine Crook de Camp, 92, American science fiction and fantasy author.
• Robert Komer, 78, American diplomat.
• W. Bruce Lincoln, 61, American scholar and author.
• James William Malone, 80, American prelate of the Catholic Church.

  10

• Rabah Bitat, 74, Algerian politician.
• Angela Yu Chien, 57, Chinese-Hong Kong actress, cancer.
• Arnold Johnson, 78, American actor.
• Peter Jones, 79, British actor.
• Larry Linville, 60, American actor, lung cancer.
• Olappamanna, 77, Indian poet, heart attack.
• Kirsten Rolffes, 71, Danish actress, breast cancer.

  11

• George Barr, 84, Scottish-American soccer player.
• Diana Darvey, 54, English actress, singer and dancer, fall.
• André Deutsch, 82, Hungarian-British publisher.
• Lucia Dlugoszewski, 74, Polish-American composer, poet, and inventor.
• Dewayne Douglas, 68, American football player and coach.
• Salvador Lazo Lazo, 81, Filipino prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Flaminio Piccoli, 84, Italian politician.
• Olav Økern, 88, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympic medalist.

  12

• Niaz Ahmed, 54, Pakistani cricketer.
• Ingemund Bengtsson, 81, Swedish politician, and Speaker of the Riksdag.
• David Crighton, 57, British mathematician and physicist.
• Carmen Dillon, 91, English film art director and production designer.
• Max Hofmeister, 87, Austrian football player.
• Ronald Lockley, 96, Welsh ornithologist and naturalist.
• Gerald Francis O'Keefe, 82, American bishop of the Catholic Church, heart attack.
• Christopher Pettiet, 24, American actor, drug overdose.
• Giles Shaw, 68, British politician, stroke.
• James Vorenberg, 72, American legal scholar, heart attack.

  13

• Peter Archer, 51, Australian martial artist, cancer.
• Giorgio Bassani, 84, Italian writer.
• Frenchy Bordagaray, 90, American baseball player.
• Aivars Gipslis, 63, Latvian chess grandmaster.
• Inglis Gundry, 94, English composer, novelist, and musicologist.
• Pete Minger, 57, American trumpeter and flugelhornist.
• Albert Turner, 64, American civil rights activist, abdominal bleeding.

  14

• Ludwig Durek, 79, Austrian football player.
• Sebastián Fleitas, 53, Paraguayan football player, stroke.
• Ted Grouya, 89, Romanian-American composer.
• Donald Gullick, 75, Welsh rugby player.
• Phil Katz, 37, American computer programmer, pancreatitis.
• August R. Lindt, 94, Swiss lawyer and diplomat.
• Wilf Mannion, 81, English professional footballer.
• Charlie O'Rourke, 82, American football player and coach.
• George E. Taylor, 94, American sinologist.

  15

• Edward Gorey, 75, American writer and illustrator, heart failure.
• Irina Gubanova, 60, Russian ballerina and film actress, pneumonia.
• Ba Kyi, 87, Burmese artist.
• Thomas Joseph Lobsinger, 73, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Whitehorse, plane crash.
• Ernest Nègre, 92, French toponymist.
• Todd Webb, 94, American photographer.

  16

• Abram Chayes, 77, American legal scholar associated with the administration of John F. Kennedy, pancreatic cancer.
• Harry Clarke, 77, English football player.
• Henry Daniels, 87, British statistician.
• Domingo Federico, 83, Argentine bandoneon player, songwriter and actor.
• Policarpo Paz García, 67, Honduran military leader, kidney failure.
• Hayati Hamzaoğlu, 67, Turkish actor.
• Ossi Kauppi, 70, Finnish ice hockey player.
• Ann Mui, 40, Hong Kong singer and sister of Anita Mui, cervical cancer.
• Syed Putra of Perlis, 79, Malaysian monarch.
• Sherwood Washburn, 88, American physical anthropologist.

  17

• Pyotr Glebov, 85, Russian actor.
• Normand Hamel, 44, Canadian outlaw biker and gangster.
• Alice Marriott, 92, American philanthropist.
• Volodymyr Panteley, 54, Ukrainian middle-distance runner and Olympian.
• Paula Salomon-Lindberg, 102, German classical contralto.
• Megan Williams, 43, Australian actress and singer, breast cancer.

  18

• Isaac Berenblum, 96, Polish-Israeli biochemist.
• Tony Frank, 56, American actor.
• Maxwell Khobe, 50, Nigerian Army general, encephalitis.
• Irja Lipasti, 94, Finnish sprinter and Olympian.
• Martin Mailman, 67, American composer.
• Erzsi Pártos, 93, Hungarian actress.

  19

• Louis Applebaum, 82, Canadian film score composer and conductor.
• Masakazu Fukuda, 27, Japanese professional wrestler, brain hemorrhage.
• Kyung-Chik Han, 97, Korean pastor.
• Grigor Khanjyan, 73, Soviet-Armenian artist, painter, and illustrator.
• Chang Kyou-chul, 53, South Korean boxer and Olympic bronze medalist.
• Krum Milev, 84, Bulgarian football player and manager.
• Candace Newmaker, 10, American victim of child abuse, suffocation.
• Sergey Zalygin, 86, Soviet writer and environmentalist.

  20

• Fred Boensch, 79, American gridiron football player.
• Bill Dean, 78, British actor.
• Willy Harlander, 68, German actor, heart attack.
• Philip Childs Keenan, 92, American astronomer.

  21

• Gunther Gerzs, 84, Hungarian-Mexican painter, director and screenwriter.
• Al Purdy, 81, Canadian poet.
• Robert H. Robins, 78, British linguist.
• Susan Stephen, 68, English film actress.
• Nigar Sultana, 67, Indian actress.

  22

• Rohitha Neil Akmeemana, Sri Lankan brigadier, dehydration.
• Fritz W. Alexander II, 73, American judge, cancer.
• Alexander H. Cohen, 79, American theatrical producer.
• Arnt Eliassen, 84, Norwegian meteorologist.
• Toon Hermans, 83, Dutch comedian, singer and writer.
• Edwin O'Donovan, 85, American art director, Oscar winner.
• Robert W. Porter, Jr., 91, United States Army general, heart attack.
• Margaret Singana, 62, South African musician.