Deaths in February 2000

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

  February 2000

1

• Pablito Calvo, 51, Spanish actor, brain aneurysm.
• Pina Cei, 95, Italian actress.
• Frederick Vanderbilt Field, 94, American political activist.
• James Harrell, 81, American actor, heart attack.
• Erik Holmberg, 91, Swedish astronomer and cosmologist.
• Art Hoppe, 74, American newspaper columnist, lung cancer.
• Hans Hügi, 73, Swiss football player.
• Khunkar-Pasha Israpilov, 32, Chechen separatist, killed in action.
• Anker Kihle, 82, Norwegian footballer.
• Peter Levi, 68, British poet, jesuit priest and scholar.
• Henry Mann, 94, American professor of mathematics and statistics.
• Thomas J. McHugh, 80, American Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps.
• James V. Neel, 84, American geneticist.
• Dick Rathmann, 74, American racecar driver.

  2

• Harry K. Cull, 88, American politician.
• Magda Foy, 94, American child actress.
• Sheikh Abdul Latif, 71, Indian footballer.
• Teruki Miyamoto, 59, Japanese football player and manager, heart failure.
• Francis Stuart, 97, Irish writer.
• Li Zhun, 71, Chinese novelist.

  3

• Florența Albu, 65, Romanian poet.
• Guillermo Estévez Boero, 69, Argentine student activist, lawyer and politician, leukemia.
• Bonnie Cashin, 91, American pioneer designer of sportswear.
• Don Gallinger, 74, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Richard Kleindienst, 76, American politician and U.S. Attorney General during the Watergate scandal, lung cancer.
• Yuriy Lituyev, 74, Soviet athlete and Olympic medalist.
• Pierre Plantard, 79, French draughtsman and impostor.
• Alla Rakha, 80, Indian tabla player, heart attack.

  4

• Carl Albert, 91, American lawyer, politician and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
• Victor Ivanovich Alyabyev, 78, Soviet Russian scientist.
• Joachim-Ernst Berendt, 77, German music journalist.
• Edgar Bowers, 75, American poet.
• Rodrigo Hernan Lloreda Caicedo, 57, Colombian lawyer and politician.
• Doris Coley, 58, American singer of The Shirelles, breast cancer.
• James C. Green, 78, American politician.
• Peter Rajniak, 46, Slovak basketball player.
• Ronald Robertson, 62, American figure skater, AIDS-related complications.
• Roy Stephenson, 67, English football player.
• Johnny Vincent, 72, American record producer.

  5

• Claude Autant-Lara, 98, French film director and politician.
• Ward Cornell, 75, Canadian radio/TV broadcaster & educator, pulmonary emphysema.
• G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, 89, British ancient historian.
• Pablo Elvira, 62, Puerto Rican baritone.
• José García Hernández, 84, Spanish jurist and politician.
• Todd Karns, 79, American actor, cancer.
• George Koltanowski, 96, Belgian-American chess master, promoter, and writer.
• T. G. Lingappa, 72, Indian film score composer.
• Barbara Pentland, 88, Canadian composer.
• Hidetoki Takahashi, 83, Japanese football player and manager, pneumonia.
• Tuffy Thompson, 85, American gridiron football player.
• Göran Tunström, 62, Swedish author, lung cancer.
• Gwendolyn Watts, 62, English actress, heart attack.

  6

• Derroll Adams, 74, American folk musician.
• Sven Aspling, 87, Swedish social democrat politician.
• Sándor Balogh, 79, Hungarian football player and coach.
• Gus Johnson, 86, American swing drummer.
• Klaus Wagner, 89, German mathematician.
• Steve Waller, 48, American musician, liver problems.
• Phil Walters, 83, American racing driver.

  7

• Big Pun, 28, American rapper, heart attack.
• Pavle Bulatović, 51, Yugoslav politician.
• Stewart Farrar, 83, English screenwriter, novelist and Wiccan priest.
• Doug Henning, 52, Canadian magician, illusionist and escape artist, cancer.
• Muhammad Munawwar Mirza, 77, Pakistani writer, historian and intellectual.
• Shiho Niiyama, 29, Japanese voice actress, leukemia.
• Dave Peverett, 56, English singer and musician of Foghat, cancer.
• Wilfred Cantwell Smith, 83, Canadian Islamicist and Presbyterian minister.
• Mildred Wiley, 98, American high jumper and Olympic medalist.

  8

• Sid Abel, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Aryanandi, 92, Indian Jain monk.
• Mario Capio, 75, Italian Olympic sailor.
• Bob Collins, 57, American broadcaster.
• Carlos Cores, 76, Argentine film actor, and film director, heart attack.
• Edna Griffin, 90, American civil rights pioneer and activist.
• Sidney Hayers, 78, British film and television director, writer and producer, cancer.
• Ion Gheorghe Maurer, 97, Romanian politician, Prime Minister of Romania.
• Derrick Thomas, 33, American football player and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, pulmonary embolism.

  9

• Yevgeni Andreyev, 73, Soviet Air Force colonel and balloonist.
• Steve Furness, 49, American football player, heart attack.
• Beau Jack, 78, American boxer, Parkinson's disease.
• Lenore Kight, 88, American swimmer and Olympian.
• Shobhna Samarth, 83, Indian film actress, director and producer, cancer.
• Buck Young, 79, American actor.

  10

• Androniqi Zengo Antoniu, 86, Albanian painter.
• Igor Bensen, 82, Russian-American engineer, Parkinson's disease.
• John Garlington, 53, American football player, drowned.
• Elvira Gascón, 88, Spanish painter, drafter, and engraver.
• George Jackson, 42, American movie producer, stroke.
• Gene Lambert, 78, American baseball player.
• Ji Pengfei, 90, Chinese politician, suicide.
• Jim Varney, 50, American actor, lung cancer.
• Andrzej Zakrzewski, 58, Polish historian, politician, and journalist.

  11

• Jacqueline Auriol, 82, French aviator who set several world speed records.
• Gordon Lockhart Bennett, 87, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island.
• Bernat Capó, 80, Spanish racing cyclist.
• Ruth Volkl Cardoso, 66, Brazilian chess player.
• Lord Kitchener, 77, Trinidadian calypsonian, multiple myeloma.
• Martin Theodore Orne, 72, Austrian-American professor of psychiatry and psychology.
• Louis Pelletier, 93, American dramatist, screenwriter, and playwright.
• Elangbam Nilakanta Singh, 72, Indian poet and critic.
• Roger Vadim, 72, French film director, lymphoma.
• Bernardino Zapponi, 72, Italian novelist and screenwriter.

  12

• Gordon Aiken, 81, Canadian lawyer and politician.
• Newt Arnold, 77, American film director, leukemia.
• Dominic Bruce, 84, British Royal Air Force officer and Colditz Castle escapee during World War II.
• Screamin' Jay Hawkins, 70, American musician, surgical complications.
• Tom Landry, 75, American football coach and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, leukemia.
• Andy Lewis, 33, Australian bass guitarist, suicide.
• John London, 58, American musician and songwriter.
• August Meuleman, 93, Belgian cyclist.
• Oliver, 54, American pop singer.
• Charles M. Schulz, 77, American cartoonist.
• Juan Carlos Thorry, 91, Argentine film actor, tango musician and director.

  13

• Anders Aalborg, 85, Canadian politician.
• Ian Allan, 84, Australian politician.
• John Wesley Blassingame, 59, American historian specializing in American slavery.
• James Cooke Brown, 78, American sociologist and science fiction author.
• John Cameron, 85, Jamaican cricket player.
• J. Robert Harris, 74, American composer.
• F. X. Martin, 77, Irish priest and historian.
• Thelma Parr, 93, American actress.

  14

• Tony Bettenhausen, Jr., 48, American car racing driver and team owner, plane crash.
• Tertius Bosch, 33, South African cricketer, Guillain–Barré syndrome.
• Erika Dunkelmann, 86, German film and television actress.
• Jimmy Martin, 75, Irish professional golfer.
• Antun Nalis, 89, Croatian actor.
• Vitamin Smith, 76, American gridiron football player.
• Walter Zinn, 93, Canadian-American nuclear physicist who worked at the Manhattan Project.

  15

• Dick Aboud, 58, Canadian football player.
• Shamsul Huda Chaudhury, 79, Bangladeshi politician.
• Dilip Dhawan, 45, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Angus MacLean, 85, Canadian politician and farmer.
• Bob Ramazzotti, 83, American baseball player.
• Vladimir Utkin, 76, Soviet and Russian engineer and rocket scientist.

  16

• Wayne Blackburn, 85, American baseball coach.
• Soup Campbell, 84, American baseball player.
• Veronica Cooper, 86, American actress.
• Marceline Day, 91, American actress.
• Mohammed Fawzi, 84, Egyptian general and politician.
• Carlos Chagas Filho, 89, Brazilian physician, biologist and scientist.
• Fung Fung, 83, Hong Kong actor.
• Lila Kedrova, 90, Russian-French actress, Oscar winner, pneumonia.
• B. S. Kesavan, 90, Indian librarian.
• Louis-Georges Niels, 80, Belgian bobsledder and Olympic silver medalist.
• Bill Riley, 78, American ice hockey player.
• Karsten Solheim, 88, Norwegian-American golf club designer and businessman, Parkinson's disease.

  17

• Iffat Al-Thunayan, Saudi princess and wife of King Faisal.
• William Anderson, 84, Canadian officer.
• Selina Chönz, 89, Swiss children's author.
• Turkey Tyson, 85, American baseball player.
• Miles White, 85, American costume designer of Broadway musicals.

  18

• Henry Åkervall, 62, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Yalavarthi Naveen Babu, 35, Indian revolutionary group leader, killed in firefight with police.
• Lefty Hoerst, 82, American baseball player.
• Nader Naderpour, 70, Iranian-American poet.
• Will, 72, Belgian comics artist.

  19

• Douglas Alexandra, 78, Australian architect.
• Marin Goleminov, 91, Bulgarian musician.
• Josef Herman, 89, Polish-British painter.
• Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 71, Austrian artist, heart attack.
• Amanda Ledesma, 88, Argentine film actress and singer.
• George Lenczowski, 85, Russian-American lawyer, diplomat, and academic.
• Kenneth L. Maddy, 65, American politician.
• Djidingar Dono Ngardoum, 72, Chadian politician, Prime Minister.
• George Roussos, 84, American comic book artist.
• Anatoly Sobchak, 62, Russian politician and mentor of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, heart attack.
• Jim Wulff, 63, American gridiron football player.