Deaths in January 2000

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

  January 2000

1

• Larry Bearnarth, 59, American Major League Baseball player, heart attack.
• Maurice Hallam, 68, English cricket player.
• Dick Pabich, 44, American gay rights activist, AIDS.
• Stan Patrick, 77, American NBA basketball player.
• Gerda Paumgarten, 92, Austrian alpine skier and world champion.
• Colin Vaughan, 68, Australian-Canadian television journalist, architect, and urban activist, heart attack.

  2

• Gary Adams, 56, American salesman.
• Nat Adderley, 68, American jazz musician, stroke.
• Bill Armstrong, 67, American television game show announcer.
• Princess María, 89, Spanish royal and grandmother of King Felipe VI, heart attack.
• Ed Doherty, 81, American football player and coach.
• Henri René Guieu, 73, French science fiction writer, cancer.
• Patrick O'Brian, 85, English author.
• Ullin Place, 75, British philosopher and psychologist.
• Anna Maria Martínez Sagi, 92, Spanish poet, trade unionist, journalist, and feminist.
• Elmo Zumwalt, 79, United States Navy officer, cancer.

  3

• Anita Aarons, 87, Australian-Canadian artist.
• Gabriela Brimmer, 52, Mexican writer and activist, heart attack.
• Harmonica Fats, 72, American blues harmonica player.
• Henry H. Fowler, 91, American lawyer and politician, Secretary of the Treasury, pneumonia.
• Viktor Kolotov, 50, Soviet/Ukrainian football player.
• Frank Miller, 83, Irish cricket player.

  4

• Charles M. Allen, 83, American judge.
• Alfred Bohrmann, 95, German astronomer.
• Tom Fears, 77, Mexican-American football player and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
• Diether Krebs, 52, German actor, cabaret artist and comedian, lung cancer.
• Spyros Markezinis, 90, Greek politician, Prime Minister.
• John Milner, 50, American baseball player, lung cancer.
• Louis Mucci, 90, American jazz trumpeter.
• Henry Pleasants, 89, American music critic and intelligence officer, ruptured aorta.

  5

• Turid Balke, 78, Norwegian actress, playwright and artist.
• Xie Bingying, 93, Chinese soldier and writer.
• Bernard Braine, 85, British politician.
• Goseki Kojima, 71, Japanese manga artist.
• Kumar Ponnambalam, 61, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician, assassinated.
• Hopper Read, 89, English cricketer.
• Vic Schoen, 83, American bandleader, arranger and composer.
• K. L. Shrimali, 90, Indian politician and educationist.
• Bernhard Wicki, 80, Austrian actor and film director.

  6

• Leonard F. Chapman, Jr., 86, United States Marine Corps general, cancer.
• Michael Rex Horne, 78, English structural engineer, scientist and academic.
• Byron L. Johnson, 82, American economist and politician.
• Thomas Jamison MacBride, 85, American jurist.
• Don Martin, 68, American cartoonist, cancer.
• Edward Pain, 74, Australian Olympic rower.
• Malvina Polo, 96, American film actress.
• Horst Seemann, 62, German film director and screenwriter.
• Ajit Pratap Singh, 82, Indian politician.
• Robert McG. Thomas, Jr., 60, American journalist and obituarist, abdominal cancer.
• Alexey Vyzmanavin, 40, Russian chess Grandmaster, heart attack.

  7

• Zainal Abidin, 71, Indonesian actor.
• Gary Albright, 36, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Robert B. Crosby, 88, American politician.
• Makhmud Esambayev, 75, Soviet and Russian actor and dancer.
• Ken Keyworth, 65, English football player.
• Bob McFadden, 76, American voice actor, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Bernice Petkere, 98, American songwriter.
• Dorian Shainin, 85, American quality consultant, aeronautics engineer, and author.
• Rodica Simion, 44, Romanian-American mathematician.
• Klaus Wennemann, 59, German television and film actor, lung cancer.

  8

• Karl Adamek, 89, Austrian football player and manager.
• Ephraim Akpata, 72, Nigerian lawyer.
• Bill Domm, 69, Canadian politician.
• Henry Eriksson, 79, Swedish middle-distance runner and Olympic champion.
• Ray Huang, 81, Chinese historian and philosopher, heart attack.
• Hilary Smart, 74, American sailor and Olympic champion.
• Jack Stokes, 76, Canadian politician, lung cancer.
• Fritz Thiedemann, 81, German equestrian.
• Warren H. Wagner, 79, American botanist.

  9

• Marguerite Churchill, 89, American film actress.
• Edward R. Cony, 76, American journalist and newspaper executive, pneumonia and complications from Alzheimer's.
• Arnold Alexander Hall, 84, British aeronautical engineer, scientist and industrialist.
• Poul Mejer, 68, Danish football player.
• Nigel Tranter, 90, Scottish writer.
• Bruno Zevi, 81, Italian architect, historian, curator and author.

  10

• Arthur Batanides, 76, American actor.
• Maxine Elliott Hicks, 95, American actress.
• Sam Jaffe, 98, American motion picture agent, producer, studio executive.
• Gibson Jalo, 60, Nigerian army general.
• Richard Jameson, 47, Northern Irish loyalist and paramilitary commander, shot.
• Cliff Lloyd, 83, Welsh football player.
• John Newland, 82, American director and actor, stroke.

  11

• Raymond Ameijide, 75, American illustrator.
• Betty Archdale, 92, English-Australian sportswoman and educationalist.
• Phil Carrick, 47, English cricketer, leukemia.
• Helena Carter, 76, American actress.
• Barney Childs, 73, American composer and teacher, Parkinson's disease.
• Wilhelm Grewe, 88, German diplomat and professor of international law.
• Bob Lemon, 79, American baseball player and manager.
• Solomon Mamaloni, 56, Solomon Islands politician and Prime Minister, kidney disease.
• William Andrew McDonald, 86, American archaeologist.
• Ralph Purchase, 83, American competition rower and Olympic champion.
• Gordon Wright, 87, American historian.
• Pavao Žanić, 81, Yugoslav prelate of the Catholic Church.

  12

• Marc Davis, 86, American animator.
• Dan Duchaine, 47, American bodybuilder, author, and convicted felon, polycystic kidney disease.
• V. R. Nedunchezhiyan, 79, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, heart failure.
• Bobby Phills, 30, American basketball player, car accident.
• Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau, 89, American chemical engineer.
• Alex Wright, 69, Scottish football player and manager.

  13

• Toivo Ahjopalo, 86, Finnish sprinter.
• Peter Henderson, Baron Henderson of Brompton, 77, British public servant, Clerk of the Parliaments.
• Eric Dodson, 79, British actor.
• Herbert S. Gutowsky, 80, American chemist.
• Antti Hyvärinen, 67, Finnish ski jumper, coach and Olympic champion.
• Elizabeth Kerr, 87, American actress.
• Alvin Liberman, 82, American psychologist, complications during heart surgery.
• John Ljunggren, 80, Swedish race walker and Olympic champion.
• Alfred Nzo, 74, South African political activist.
• Susumu Ohno, 71, Japanese-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist.
• Enric Valor i Vives, 88, Spanish writer and grammarian.

  14

• Meche Barba, 77, American-Mexican film actress and dancer, heart attack.
• Alphonse Boudard, 74, French novelist and playwright.
• Pat Boyette, 76, American broadcaster and comic book artist, esophagus cancer.
• Giusi Raspani Dandolo, 83, Italian stage, film, television and radio actress.
• Guadalupe Huerta, 79, American hispanic activist and lobbyist.
• Bijan Jalali, 72, Iranian poet and writer.
• Hans-Joachim Kahler, 91, German general during World War II.
• Alain Poiré, 82, French film producer, cancer.
• Clifford Truesdell, 80, American mathematician.
• M. V. Venkatram, 79, Indian writer from Tamil Nadu.
• Leonard Weisgard, 83, American children's writer and illustrator.
• Tomislav Zografski, 65, Macedonian composer.

  15

• Beryl Clark, 82, American gridiron football player.
• Georges-Henri Lévesque, 96, Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist.
• Yves Mariot, 51, French football player, aneurysm.
• Annie Palmen, 73, Dutch singer.
• Arkan, 47, Serbian mobster and paramilitary commander, homicide.
• Alf Ringstead, 72, Irish football player.
• Fran Ryan, 83, American actress.

  16

• Wolf Ackva, 88, German actor.
• Gene Harris, 66, American jazz pianist.
• Will "Dub" Jones, 71, American R&B singer, diabetes.
• T. N. Kaul, 87, Indian diplomat.
• By Saam, 85, American sportscaster.
• Robert R. Wilson, 85, American physicist and team member of the Manhattan Project.

  17

• Carl Forberg, 88, American racecar driver.
• Stephen Fuchs, 91, Austrian Catholic priest, missionary, and anthropologist.
• Andrej Hieng, 74, Slovene writer, playwright and theatre director.
• Philip Jones, 71, British trumpeter.
• Ralph Ambrose Kekwick, 91, British biochemist.
• Ion Rațiu, 82, Romanian diplomat, journalist, writer, and politician.
• Arthur Sager, 95, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
• Hüseyin Velioğlu, 48, Kurdish Hezbollah leader, shot.

  18

• Alfred Nash Beadleston, Jr., 87, American politician.
• Gordon Chalmers, 88, American swimmer, swimming coach, and Olympian.
• Nancy Coleman, 87, American actress.
• Frances Drake, 87, American actress.
• Jester Hairston, 98, American actor and composer.
• Francis Haskell, 71, English art historian.
• Raymond Brendan Manning, 65, American carcinologist.
• Gordon J. McCann, 92, Canadian thoroughbred horse trainer.
• Arthur Nash, 85, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympian.
• Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, 102, Austrian communist resistance member during World War II.

  19

• Victor Brooks, 81, English film and television actor.
• M. A. Chidambaram, 81, Indian industrialist and cricket administrator.
• Luigi Chinazzo, 67, Italian wrestler and Olympian.
• Bettino Craxi, 65, Italian politician, Prime Minister, diabetes.
• Billy Dewell, 83, American gridiron football player.
• Anselmo Fernandez, 81, Portuguese architect and football manager.
• Victoria Fromkin, 76, American linguist, colorectal cancer.
• Frederick Irving Herzberg, 76, American psychologist.
• Hedy Lamarr, 85, Austrian actress, cardiovascular disease.
• Manny Montejo, 64, Cuban baseball player.
• Lynn Myers, 85, American baseball player.
• Alan North, 79, American actor, kidney cancer, lung cancer.
• Irra Petina, 91, Russian-American actress, singer, and contralto.
• Heinrich Schroeteler, 84, German sculptor and U-boat commander during World War II.
• George Ledyard Stebbins, 94, American botanist, cancer.
• Chhean Vam, 83, Cambodian politician and nationalist.
• Stanley Weston, 76, British basketball player.
• Rex Willis, 75, Welsh rugby union player.