Deaths in July 2000
The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2000.
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, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.
July 2000
1
- Burt Douglas, 69, American film, stage and television actor.
- Raymond Robert Forster, 78, New Zealand arachnologist and museum director.
- John Albert Axel Gibson, 83, British flying ace during World War II.
- Steve Hokuf, 89, American football player and coach, stroke.
- Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan, 94, fourth wife of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah.
- Cub Koda, 51, American rock and roll musician and record compiler, kidney failure.
- Ganju Lama, 75, Sikkimese Gurkha and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
- Walter Matthau, 79, American actor, Oscar winner, heart attack.
- Pierre Petit, 78, French composer.
2
- Mina Aoe, 59, Japanese female enka singer, pancreatic cancer.
- Joey Dunlop, 48, Northern Irish motorcycle racer, traffic collision.
- Constance Howard, 89, English textile artist and embroiderer.
- Paul McLaughlin, 80, Canadian sailor and Olympian.
- Karl Sweetan, 57, American gridiron football player, complications following surgery.
- Georgi Tringov, 63, Bulgarian chess grandmaster.
3
- Walter Cassel, 90, American operatic baritone and actor.
- Nancy Cato, 83, Australian writer and poet.
- James Grogan, 68, American figure skater and Olympian, multiple organ failure.
- André Guinier, 88, French physicist.
- Michael Hamilton, 81, British politician.
- Paul G. Hatfield, 72, American attorney and politician, member of the U.S. Senate.
- John Hejduk, 70, Czech-American architect, artist and educator.
- Leonard Hilton, 52, American long-distance runner.
- János Kamara, 73, Hungarian communist politician.
- Enric Miralles, 45, Spanish architect, brain tumor, brain cancer.
- Harold Nicholas, 79, American dancer, heart attack.
- Fiorentino Sullo, 79, Italian politician.
- Kemal Sunal, 55, Turkish actor, heart attack.
4
- Donald Blessing, 94, American rower and Olympic champion.
- Jack T. Bradley, 82, US Army Air Force fighter ace during World War II.
- Allan Fakir, 68, Pakistani folk singer.
- Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, 81, Polish writer and political dissident.
- Yuri Klinskikh, 35, Russian singer, songwriter and arranger, heart failure.
- Marina Kroschina, 47, Ukrainian tennis player, suicide.
- Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme, 85, British aristocrat.
- Vladimír Ráž, 77, Czechoslovak film actor.
- Shōji Ueda, 87, Japanese photographer.
5
- Syed Abdus Sobhan, 67, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician.
- Blanca Álvarez Mantilla, 68, Spanish journalist.
- Mary Nicol Neill Armour, 98, Scottish painter.
- Franta Belsky, 79, Czech sculptor, prostate cancer.
- Giovanni Bettinelli, 65, Italian racing cyclist.
- Edgar Cardoso, 87, Portuguese civil engineer and university professor.
- Leon deValinger Jr., 95, American archivist and historian.
- Mehrangiz Manoochehrian, 94, Iranian lawyer, musician and feminist.
- Peter Bullfrog Moore, 68, Australian rugby league administrator, esophageal cancer.
- Dorino Serafini, 90, Italian motorcycle road racer and racing driver.
- Gloria Williams, 57, American singer, diabetes.
- Jos Wohlfart, 80, Luxembourgish politician.
- Lord Woodbine, 71, Trinidadian calypsonian and music promoter, house fire.
6
- Alix André, 91, French novelist.
- 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, shot.
- Akira Miyazawa, 72, Japanese jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist.
- Ľudovít Rajter, 93, Slovakian-Hungarian composer and conductor.
- Władysław Szpilman, 88, Jewish-Polish pianist and Holocaust survivor portrayed in the 2002 film The Pianist.
- Marcella Comès Winslow, 95, American photographer and portrait painter.
7
- Dame Stella Casey, 76, New Zealand social activist.
- Kenny Irwin, 30, American stock car racing driver, racing accident.
- Ursula Kuczynski, 93, German communist activist and spy.
- James C. Quayle, 79, American newspaper publisher.
- William J. Randall, 90, American politician.
- Johann Urbanek, 89, Austrian football player.
- Charles Alan Wright, 72, American constitutional lawyer.
- Dmitry Alexandrovich Zavadsky, 27, Belarusian journalist, homicide.
8
- FM-2030, 69, Iranian-American author, transhumanist philosopher and futurist, pancreatic cancer.
- Pieter Goemans, 75, Dutch composer .
- Anne Mueller, 69, British civil servant and academic, Parkinson's disease.
- Maurice Owen, 76, English footballer.
- Cliff Sear, 63, Welsh footballer, heart attack.
9
- Doug Fisher, 58, English actor, heart attack.
- Henri Gault, 70, French food journalist, heart attack.
- Herbert Hunger, 85, Austrian byzantinist.
- Erkki Koiso, 66, Finnish ice hockey player.
- John Morgan, 41, British etiquette expert, fall.
- Joe Sostilio, 85, American racing driver.
- John Vitale, 34, American football player, cancer.
10
- Gertrud Arndt, 96, German photographer and designer.
- Denis O'Conor Don, 87, English noble and hereditary Chief of the Name O'Conor.
- Dick Glasser, 65, American singer, songwriter, and record producer, lung cancer.
- Vakkom Majeed, 90, Indian politician.
- Ursule Molinaro, French-American writer.
- Bill Munson, 58, American gridiron football player, drowned.
- Francisco Matos Paoli, 85, Puerto Rican poet, critic, and essayist.
- Justin Pierce, 25, British skateboarder and actor, suicide by hanging.
- Apostolos Vakalopoulos, 90, Greek historian.
- Norma Wilson, 90, New Zealand athlete and Olympian.
11
- Begum Akbar Jehan Abdullah, 84, Indian politician.
- Bill Alexander, 90, British political activist.
- Jaroslav Filip, 51, Slovak musician, composer, dramaturge, and actor, heart attack.
- Pedro Mir, 87, Dominican poet and writer.
- Robert Runcie, 78, British Archbishop of Canterbury, cancer.
- Barry Tabobondung, 39, Canadian ice hockey player, traffic collision.
12
- Al Butler, 62, American basketball player, cancer.
- Tom Galley, 84, English football player.
- Charles Merritt, 91, Canadian war hero and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
- Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, 72, Yugoslav prince.
13
- Matt Anthony, 79, Canadian football player, cancer.
- A. D. Hope, 92, Australian poet.
- Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso, 86, Argentine historian and researcher.
- Jan Karski, 86, Polish resistance fighter and academic.
- Mauno Rintanen, 75, Finnish football player and basketball player.
- Indira Sant, 86, Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India.
14
- Bill Barth, 57, American blues guitarist, heart attack.
- Finn-Egil Eckblad, 76, Norwegian mycologist.
- Alvin Hollingsworth, 72, American painter and comics artist.
- Meredith MacRae, 56, American actress, complications of brain cancer.
- Georges Maranda, 68, Canadian baseball player, cancer.
- Mark Oliphant, 98, Australian physicist, Governor of South Australia.
- Pepo, 88, Chilean cartoonist.
15
- Emanuel Araújo, 57, Brazilian historian and editor.
- Paul Bühlmann, 73, Swiss comedian, radio personality, and actor.
- Johnny Duncan, 67, American bluegrass musician.
- Juan Filloy, 105, Argentine writer.
- Jocko Henderson, 82, American radio disc jockey, and hip hop music pioneer, cancer.
- Leo Hoegh, 92, U.S. Army officer, lawyer, and politician, Governor of Iowa.
- John O. Pastore, 93, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Rhode Island and member of the U.S. Senate, kidney failure.
- Louis Quilico, 75, Canadian opera singer.
- Kalle Svensson, 74, Swedish footballer.
- Paul Young, 53, British singer and songwriter, heart attack.
16
- Franciszek Adamczak, 73, Polish–Swedish palaeontologist.
- Fay Alexander, 75, American circus performer.
- Igor Domnikov, 41, Russian journalist and editor, bludgeoned.
- György Petri, 56, Hungarian poet, cancer.
- Barbosa Lima Sobrinho, 103, Brazilian lawyer, writer, journalist and politician.
- Jean Vercoutter, 89, French Egyptologist.
- Bernie Whitebear, 62, American Indian activist, colon cancer.
- William Foote Whyte, 86, American sociologist.
17
- Pascale Audret, 64, French actress, traffic collision.
- Thomas Quinn Curtiss, 85, American writer, and film and theater critic.
- Zhao Lirong, 72, Chinese singer and film actress, cancer.
- Aligi Sassu, 88, Italian painter and sculptor.
- Jean Swain, 76, American singer.
- Berthe Villancher, 91, French gymnastics judge and official.
18
- Abdul Malek, 64, Bangladeshi politician.
- René Chocat, 79, French basketball player.
- Roberto Contreras, 71, American actor.
- Paul Coverdell, 61, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate from Georgia, cerebral hemorrhage.
- John F. Davis, 93, American lawyer and law professor.
- Enrique de Gandía, 94, Argentine historian and author.
- Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza, 81, Spanish architect.
- José Ángel Valente, 71, Spanish poet and essayist.
19
- James B. Clark, 92, American film and television director.
- Stephen Gendin, 34, American AIDS activist, AIDS-induced lymphoma.
- Kamala Das Gupta, 93, Indian freedom fighter.
- Hananiah Harari, 87, American painter and illustrator.
- Owen Maddock, 74, British engineer and racing car designer.
- Tommy O'Boyle, 82, American football coach.
- Allen Paulson, 78, American businessman.
20
- Eyvind Earle, 84, American artist, author and illustrator, esophageal cancer.
- Joseph F. Enright, 89, American submarine commander.
- James Hobson Morrison, 91, American politician, heart attack.
- Béla Rajki, 91, Hungarian swimming coach and water polo coach.
- Murray G. Ross, 90, Canadian sociologist, author, and academic administrator.
- Mabel Scott, 85, American gospel music and R&B vocalist.
- Jim Suchecki, 72, American baseball player.
- Alexis P. Vlasto, 84, British historian and philologist.
- Malaclypse the Younger, 59, American author.