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.