Deaths in August 2000

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

  August 2000

1

• Angèle Albrecht, 57, German ballerina.
• Maxie Berger, 83, Canadian boxer.
• Hugh Hood, 72, Canadian novelist, essayist and university professor.
• Ali Sardar Jafri, 86, Indian urdu writer.
• Nanjil K. Manoharan, 71, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
• Steve McCrory, 36, American boxer.
• Benedetto Pola, 85, Italian cyclist.
• Joseph Robert Sealy, 93, English botanist.
• Galina Sergeyeva, 86, Soviet and Russian actress.

  2

• William Rossa Cole, 80, American anthologist, columnist, and writer.
• Shlomo Halberstam, 92, American rabbi.
• Trevor Leggett, 85, British author and translator, stroke.
• Jan Mertens, 84, Dutch politician.
• Patricia Moyes, 77, British mystery writer.
• Simon Stefani, 71, Albanian communist politician.

  3

• Isolina Ferréro, 85, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic religious sister.
• Joann Lõssov, 78, Estonian basketball player.
• Michael Meyer, 79, English translator and writer.
• Geoffrey Page, 80, British flying ace during World War II.
• Mirian Tsalkalamanidze, 73, Georgian flyweight freestyle wrestler and Olympic champion.

  4

• Thomas F. Allgood, 71, American politician, plane crash.
• Jimmy Bowie, 75, Scottish football player.
• John Joseph Graham, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Fred W. Hooper, 102, American racehorse owner and breeder.
• Julio Rodolfo Moctezuma, 73, Mexican lawyer.
• Michael Szwarc, 91, British and American polymer chemist.
• Halyna Zubchenko, 71, Ukrainian painter, muralist, and social activist.

  5

• Lala Amarnath, 88, Indian cricketer.
• Afrânio Coutinho, 89, Brazilian literary critic and essayist.
• Tullio Crali, 89, Italian artist associated with Futurism.
• Renée Devillers, 97, French stage and film actress.
• Alec Guinness, 86, English actor, Oscar winner, liver cancer.
• Murray Krieger, 76, American literary critic and theorist.
• Arturo Durazo Moreno, 76, Mexican Chief of police and drug trafficker.
• Dudley Randall, 86, American poet and poetry publisher.
• Edgardo Sogno, 84, Italian diplomat, partisan and political figure.
• Otto Wiener, 89, Austrian baritone.

  6

• Raymond J. Broderick, 86, American jurist and politician, cancer.
• Robin Day, 76, British political broadcaster, heart complications.
• Marv Felderman, 84, American baseball player.
• Max Phipps, 60, Australian actor, cancer.
• Raúl Sanguineti, 67, Argentine chess Grandmaster.
• Arthur Harold Stone, 83, British mathematician.
• Joan Trimble, 85, Irish composer and pianist.

  7

• Samuel Akpabot, 63, Nigerian music composer, ethnomusicologist and author.
• Georges Matheron, 69, French mathematician and geologist.
• Mona-Lisa Pursiainen, 49, Finnish female sprinter, breast cancer.
• Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, 88, American philanthropist and mother of Donald Trump.

  8

• Ruth Abrahams, 69, British artist.
• Jaime Annexy, 72, Puerto Rican hammer thrower.
• Jess Barker, 88, American actor, liver cirrhosis.
• Luigi Bonos, 90, Italian comedian and actor.
• Walter Chappell, 75, American photographer and poet, lung cancer.
• Ernie Hefferle, 85, American football player and coach.
• Živorad Jevtić, 56, Serbian football player.
• Jaap Marais, 77, Afrikaner nationalist thinker, author and politician.
• Mario Migliardi, 81, Italian television and film score composer.
• S. Nijalingappa, 97, Indian politician.
• Anatoliy Romashin, 69, Soviet and Russian actor and director, accidental impalement.
• Banja Tejan-Sie, 83, Sierra Leonean politician and Governor General.
• Harry D. Thiers, 81, American mycologist.
• John F. Warren, 91, American cinematographer.

  9

• Josias Cunningham, 66, Northern Irish politician.
• John Harsanyi, 80, Hungarian-American economist, Nobel Prize laureate, heart attack.
• Nicholas Markowitz, 15, American kidnapping victim.
• Louis Nucera, 72, French writer, traffic accident.
• Fouad Serageddin, 88, Egyptian politician, Minister of Finance.
• Vitaliy Starukhin, 51, Ukrainian football player, pneumonia.
• Herb Thomas, 77, American NASCAR driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, heart attack.
• Lewis Wilson, 80, American actor.

  10

• Robert Manuel Cook, 91, British classical scholar.
• Suzanne Danco, 89, Belgian soprano.
• Joan Marsh, 87, American child actress in silent films.
• Tibor Mezőfi, 74, Hungarian basketball player.
• Gilbert Parkhouse, 74, Welsh cricket player.
• Rita Trapanese, 49, Italian figure skater and Olympian, traffic collision.

  11

• Les Dye, 84, American gridiron football player.
• Paidi Jairaj, 90, Indian film actor, director and producer.
• Talal Maddah, 60, Saudi musician and composer, heart attack.
• Usha Mehta, 80, India Gandhian and freedom fighter.
• Jean Papineau-Couture, 83, Canadian composer.
• Ric Roman, 83, American actor.
• Constantin Zureiq, Syrian Arab intellectual.

  12

• Noboru Akiyama, 66, Japanese baseball player.
• Eliyahu Ben-Elissar, 68, Israeli politician and diplomat.
• Alberto Pedro Cabrera, 54, Argentine basketball player, leukemia.
• Jean Carzou, 93, French-Armenian artist, painter, and illustrator.
• Dave Edwards, 59, American big band-style musician, cardiac arrest.
• Loretta Young, 87, American actress, Oscar winner, ovarian cancer.

  13

• Antony Duff, 80, British diplomat, Director-General of MI5.
• Terence Feely, 72, British screenwriter, playwright and author.
• Nazia Hassan, 35, Pakistani pop singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist, lung cancer.
• Bob Wente, 67, American racing driver.

  14

• Walter Benton, 69, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
• John Boland, 55, Irish politician, cancer.
• Alain Fournier, 56, French computer graphics researcher, lymphoma.
• Ken Heintzelman, 84, American baseball player.
• Cuan McCarthy, 71, South African cricket player.
• John Milford, 70, American actor, skin cancer.
• Alfred Rieck, 86, German rower and Olympic medalist.
• Bernice Giduz Schubert, 86, American botanist & scholar.
• Hawa Singh, 62, Indian heavyweight boxer.
• Rostislav Vovkushevsky, 83, Soviet and Russian painter.
• Mary K. Wells, 79, American television writer and actress.

  15

• Zurab Achba, 50, Abkhazian politician, shot.
• T. A. Sarasvati Amma, 81, Indian mathematician.
• Ulla Barding-Poulsen, 88, Danish fencer and Olympian.
• Ena Begović, 40, Croatian actress, traffic accident.
• Helmut Coing, 88, German legal historian.
• Eduardo Luján Manera, 55, Argentine football player and manager.
• Robert Swink, 82, American film editor, heart attack.
• Edward Craven Walker, 82, British inventor who invented the lava lamp, cancer.
• Lancelot Ware, 85, British founder of Mensa.

  16

• Alan Caddy, 60, English guitarist.
• Grace Halsell, 77, American journalist and writer, multiple myeloma.
• Chanoch Dov Padwa, 91, British rabbi.
• S. C. C. Anthony Pillai, 86, Indian trade unionist and politician, cardiac arrest.
• Renu Saluja, 48, Indian film editor, stomach cancer.
• Thomas Ypsilantis, 72, Greek-American physicist, heart attack.

  17

• Puangroi Apaiwong, 85, Thai composer.
• Jane Ardmore, 88, American writer, complications following hip surgery.
• Erich Borchmeyer, 95, German athlete and Olympian medalist.
• Lawrence H. Cooke, 85, American lawyer and politician.
• Franco Donatoni, 73, Italian composer.
• Robert R. Gilruth, 86, American aerospace engineer.
• Stephan Körner, 86, Czech-born British philosopher, suicide.
• Evert Nyberg, 75, Swedish long-distance runner and Olympian.
• Emil Petaja, 85, American science fiction and fantasy writer, heart failure.
• Leslie Rees, 94, Australian children's author and writer.
• Hans-Dietrich von Tiesenhausen, 87, Baltic German Kapitänleutnant during World War II.
• Jack Walker, 71, British industrialist and businessman, cancer.

  18

• César Calvo, 60, Peruvian poet, journalist and author.
• Lakshyadhar Choudhury, 85, Indian actor, playwright, film-director and politician.
• Maurice Evans, 63, English football player and manager, heart attack.
• Bernard Krainis, 75, American musician.
• Ola Rotimi, 62, Nigerian playwright and theatre director.
• Morton Shulman, 75, Canadian politician, businessman and physician, Parkinson's disease.

  19

• D. G. Champernowne, 88, English economist and mathematician.
• David Norton Edelstein, 90, American judge.
• Luce Fabbri, 92, Italian anarchist writer, publisher and daughter of Luigi Fabbri.
• Harry Oppenheimer, 91, South African businessman, industrialist and philanthropist, cancer.
• Antonio Pugliese, 59, Italian-Canadian professional wrestler known as Tony Parisi, aneurysm.
• Lee Sholem, 87, American television and film director.

  20

• Jackie Coulter, 46, Northern Irish loyalist, shot.
• Nancy Evans, 85, British mezzo-soprano opera singer.
• Giovanni Gaddoni, 85, Italian football player.
• Mitch Halpern, 33, American boxing referee, suicide by gunshot.
• Bill Simon, 80, American songwriter, musician and music critic.
• Henri Theil, 75, Dutch econometrician.

  21

• Sir Campbell Adamson, 78, British industrialist.
• Chuck Britz, 72, American recording engineer, brain cancer.
• Tom Day, 65, American football player.
• John Hayes, 70, American film director, cancer.
• Russ Kerns, 79, American baseball player.
• Daniel Lisulo, 69, Zambian politician.
• Giuseppe Medici, 92, Italian politician.
• Doris Petrie, 82, Canadian film and television actress.
• Gustav Scholz, 70, German boxer.
• Andrzej Zawada, 72, Polish mountaineer.