Deaths in June 2000
The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.
June 2000
1
- Angela Annabell, 71, New Zealand musicologist.
- Oskar Czerwenka, 75, Austrian operatic bass and academic teacher.
- Sir Raymond Ferrall, 94, Australian businessman and author.
- Edgar Z. Friedenberg, 79, American scholar of gender studies.
- Ralph Jones, 79, American drummer.
- Jim Shorter, 61, American gridiron football player.
2
- Ali Akbar Aboutorabi Fard, 60-61, Iranian revolutionary, car crash.
- Ellis Clary, 83, American baseball player.
- Svyatoslav Fyodorov, 72, Russian ophthalmologist and politician, plane crash.
- Adolph Hofner, 83, American swing bandleader and singer.
- Werner Panitzki, 89, German Air Force general.
- Mikhail Schweitzer, 80, Soviet film director, traffic collision.
- Lepo Sumera, 50, Estonian composer.
- Gerald James Whitrow, 87, British mathematician, cosmologist and science historian.
3
- Leonard Baskin, 77, American sculptor, visual artist and writer.
- Ted Graber, 79-80, American interior designer.
- Jaishankar, 61, Indian actor, heart attack.
- Nevena Kokanova, 61, Bulgarian film actress, cancer.
- Merton Miller, 77, American Nobel Prize-winning economist.
- William E. Simon, 72, American politician and businessman, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, respiratory disease.
- Ann Tse-kai, 87, Hong Kong industrialist and legislator.
4
- Clarence Carter, 96, American artist.
- Sir James Glover, 71, British army general.
- Takashi Kano, 79, Japanese football player, heart failure.
- Richard A. Peterson, 77, United States Army Air Forces flying ace and architect, cancer.
- Mark Samaranayake, 86, Sri Lankan actor.
- Hiroji Satoh, 75, Japanese table tennis player.
- Augusta H. Teller, 91, American scientist and computer programmer.
- Paul Zoungrana, 82, Burkinabé cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
5
- Carl-Erik Creutz, 88, Finnish radio announcer.
- Houshang Golshiri, 62, Iranian writer and critic, meningitis.
- Jeanne Hersch, 89, Swiss philosopher.
- Don Liddle, 75, American baseball player.
- João Nogueira, 58, Brazilian samba singer and composer.
- Anna Birgitta Rooth, 81, Swedish academic.
- Franco Rossi, 81, Italian film screenwriter and director.
- Eugene M. Zuckert, 88, American Secretary of the Air Force, pneumonia
6
- Blair Clark, 82, American journalist and political activist.
- Frédéric Dard, 78, French writer.
- Arnie Johnson, 80, American professional basketball player.
- Seiroku Kajiyama, 74, Japanese politician.
- Alexander Evert Kawilarang, 80, Indonesian freedom fighter and military commander.
- Håkan Lidman, 85, Swedish athlete.
- Maria Laura Mainetti, 60, Italian Catholic sister, stabbed.
- William McMillan, 71, World-class American sport shooter and Olympic champion.
- Joan Tate, 77, English translator.
- Feltus Taylor, 38, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
7
- Clint Houston, 53, American jazz double-bassist.
- Don Klosterman, 70, American gridiron football player and executive.
- James Moore, 44, American gospel musician, colon cancer.
- Ljubiša Savić, 41, Bosnian Serb paramilitary commander and post-war politician, murdered.
- Barbara Jo Walker, 74, American model and Miss America in 1947.
8
- Andy Aitken, 80, Scottish footballer.
- Hart Amos, 83, Australian comic strip writer and artist.
- Lucy May Cranwell, 92, New Zealand botanist.
- Norman A. Erbe, 80, American politician, Iowa governor from 1961 to 1963.
- Georges Fages, 66, French rugby player and coach.
- Jack Gaud, 42, Indian actor, heart attack.
- Donald Kalish, 80, American logician and anti-war activist.
- Jack Kroll, 74, American journalist and film critic.
- Jeff MacNelly, 52, American editorial cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip Shoe, lymphoma.
- Larry Nuber, 51, American auto racing announcer.
- Kermit Roosevelt Jr., 84, American intelligence officer.
- Stephen Saunders, 52, British Army officer, drive-by shooting.
- Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu, 24, Indo-Canadian beautician, murder by slashing.
- Teuvo Tulio, 87, Finnish film director and actor.
9
- John Abramovic, 81, Croatian-American professional basketball player.
- Sir John Balcombe, 74, British jurist, Lord Justice of Appeal.
- Shay Brennan, 63, Irish footballer.
- Ernst Jandl, 74, Austrian writer.
- Jacob Lawrence, 82, American painter and educator.
- Muhammad Noor, 75, Indian football player.
- Amédée Rolland, 86, French racing cyclist.
- George Segal, 75, American painter and sculptor.
- Alfred Weidenmann, 84, German film director, screenwriter, and children's author.
10
- Hafez al-Assad, 69, President of Syria, heart attack.
- Rômulo Arantes, 42, Brazilian swimmer and actor, plane crash.
- Terry Forrestal, 52, English actor and stuntman, BASE jumping accident.
- Jack Hoobin, 72, Australian cyclist and Olympian.
- Frank Patterson, 61, Irish tenor.
- Brian Statham, 69, English professional cricketer, leukemia.
- J. Watson Webb, Jr., 84, American film editor.
11
- Aud Alvær, 78, Norwegian politician.
- Geneviève Amyot, 55, Canadian poet and novelist.
- Michel Besnier, 71, French heir and businessman.
- Henry Davis, 57, American gridiron football player.
- Lew Gallo, 71, American actor and television producer.
- Karl-Heinz Holze, 69, German football player.
- Elizabeth Lawrence, 77, American actress, cancer.
- Rajesh Pilot, 55, Indian Air Force officer and politician, traffic collision.
- Ruth Rubin, 93, Canadian-American Yiddish folklorist and singer.
- Earl Shinhoster, 49, American civil rights activist, traffic collision.
- Claus Westermann, 90, German theologian.
12
- Irving Anker, 88, American educator, natural causes.
- Leonard Appelbee, 85, English painter.
- Yun Bulong, 62, Chinese politician, Chairman of Inner Mongolia, traffic collision.
- Sir Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce, 88, British jurist.
- Edwin R. Chess, 87, American major general and Chief of Chaplains of the US Air Force.
- Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, 80, Indian writer, actor, and humorist.
- Bruno Martino, 74, Italian composer, singer, and pianist.
- Dave Russell, 86, Scottish football player and manager.
13
- Alberto Adriano, 38-39, Mozambican emigrant, beaten to death.
- Gustavo Albella, 74, Argentine football player.
- Mona Bruns, 100, American actress.
- Robert Dienst, 72, Austrian football player.
- Yefim Gamburg, 75, Soviet and Russian animation director.
- Ruth Harrison, 79, English animal welfare activist and writer.
- Mitchell Olenski, 80, American football player and coach.
- Jock Shaw, 87, Scottish football player.
- Duane Thomas, 39, American welterweight boxer, murdered.
- Bobby Tiefenauer, 70, American baseball player.
14
- Attilio Bertolucci, 88, Italian poet and writer.
- Kurt Böwe, 71, German actor.
- Frederic G. Cassidy, 92, Jamaican-American linguist and lexicographer.
- Paul Griffin, 62, American musician.
- Robert Trent Jones, 93, British–American golf course designer.
- Gianmatteo Matteotti, 79, Italian politician.
- Peter McWilliams, 50, American author, AIDS-related complications.
- Harry Melville, 92, British chemist and academic.
- Elsie Widdowson, 93, British chemist, dietitian and nutritionist.
- Greg Wilton, 44, Australian politician, suicide.
15
- Heinrich Fichtenau, 87, Austrian medievalist.
- Neville Ford, 93, English cricket player.
- Grigori Gorin, 60, Soviet and Russian playwright and writer, heart attack.
- Grant MacEwan, 97, Canadian farmer and politician.
- Jules Roy, 92, Algerian-born French writer.
- Mîna Urgan, 84, Turkish academic, author and politician.
16
- Elvin A. Kabat, 85, American microbiologist.
- Empress Nagako, 97, Japanese consort of Emperor Hirohito.
- Nosrat Rahmani, 72, Iranian poet and writer.
- Mike Silliman, 56, American basketball player, heart attack.
- Jiang Weiqing, 89, Chinese politician.
17
- Joe Albanese, 66, American baseball player.
- Bill Dodgin, Jr., 68, English football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
- Juozas Jagelavičius, 61, Lithuanian rower and Olympian medalist.
- Jack Lindwall, 81, Australian rugby player.
- Ismail Mahomed, 68, South African lawyer, pancreatic cancer.
- Alex Moir, 80, New Zealand cricket player.
- André Vacheresse, 72, French basketball player and coach.
- Clive Westlake, 67, British songwriter.
18
- Robert Abeles, 74, American biochemist.
- Ekrem Alican, Turkish politician, Deputy Prime Minister.
- Jane Bowers, 79, American folk singer and songwriter.
- Nancy Marchand, 71, American actress, four-time Emmy winner, lung cancer.
- Boris Vasilyev, 63, Russian cyclist and Olympian.
19
- Mary Benson, 80, South African civil rights activist.
- Ron Casey, 72, Australian sporting commentator and radio and television pioneer.
- Anton Gorchev, 60, Bulgarian actor.
- Christiane Herzog, 63, wife of Roman Herzog, former President of Germany, cancer.
- Tokuji Iida, 76, Japanese baseball player.
- William Papas, 72, South African-born British political cartoonist and caricaturist.
- Harry Riccobene, 90, American mobster.
- Noboru Takeshita, 76, Japanese politician and the 74th Prime Minister of Japan, stroke.
20
- Basanta Choudhury, 72, Indian actor.
- Alan Basil de Lastic, 70, Burmese Roman Catholic archbishop, traffic collision.
- Ron Lamb, 56, American football player.
- Chanchal Kumar Majumdar, 61, Indian physicist.
- Karl Mickel, 64, German writer.
- Carlota O'Neill, 95, Spanish feminist writer and journalist.