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.