Deaths in October 2000

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

  October 2000

1

• Robert Allen, 73, American composer.
• Charlie Brewster, 83, American baseball player.
• René Coicaud, 73, French fencer.
• Rosie Douglas, 58, Prime Minister of Dominica and human rights activist.
• Aristeidis Kollias, 56, Greek lawyer, publicist, and folklorist, leukemia.
• Luciano Storero, 74, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Reginald Kray, 66, British criminal, bladder cancer.

  2

• Kerstin Ahlqvist, 73, Swedish alpine skier.
• Nikolai Fedorenko, 87, Soviet philologist, orientalist, and diplomat.
• Amadou Karim Gaye, 86, Senegalese politician.
• Richard Liberty, 68, American actor, heart attack.
• Elek Schwartz, 91, Romanian football player and coach.
• David Tonkin, 71, Australian politician, Premier of South Australia.

  3

• Klondike Bill, 68, Canadian professional wrestler, neuromuscular disorder.
• Wojciech Jerzy Has, 75, Polish film director, screenwriter and film producer.
• Udo Klug, 72, German football player and manager.
• M. M. Mustapha, 76, Ceylonese lawyer and politician.
• Benjamin Orr, 53, American bassist and singer, pancreatic cancer.
• John Worsley, 81, British artist and illustrator.

  4

• Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, 71, Moroccan long-distance runner and Olympic silver medalist, arteriosclerotic heart disease.
• Tofig Guliyev, 82, Azerbaijani composer, pianist, and conductor.
• Teruo Itokawa, 59, Japanese shot putter and Olympian.
• Aleksey Ivanovich Kandinsky, 82, Soviet musicologist.
• Yu Kuo-hwa, 86, Chinese politician, Premier, complications from leukemia.
• Tin Maung, 92, Burmese film actor, director and producer.
• Chuck Oertel, 69, American baseball player.
• Egano Righi-Lambertini, 94, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Ludvík Ráža, 71, Czechoslovak film director.
• Michael Smith, 68, English-Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

  5

• Leopold Barschandt, 75, Austrian football player.
• Johanna Döbereiner, 75, Brazilian agronomist.
• Ruth Ellis, 101, American LGBT rights activist.
• Cătălin Hîldan, 24, Romanian football player, heart attack.
• Keith Roberts, 65, English science fiction author, multiple sclerosis.
• Cuco Sánchez, 79, Mexican singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor, kidney failure.
• Sidney R. Yates, 91, American politician.

  6

• William Bundy, 83, American attorney and CIA operative.
• José Cabanis, 78, French novelist, historian and magistrate.
• John T. Connor, 85, American government official and businessman, leukemia.
• Richard Farnsworth, 80, American actor and stuntman, suicide by gunshot.
• Bernardo González, 31, Spanish cyclist and Olympian, traffic collision.
• John Keller, 71, American basketball player.
• Per-Olov Löwdin, 83, Swedish physicist.
• K. Gunn McKay, 75, American politician, complications of mesothelioma.
• George Huntston Williams, 86, American theologian.
• Charles B. Yates, 61, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly and Senate, plane crash.

  7

• Tony Adamle, 76, American professional football player, cancer.
• Peter Emil Becker, 91, German neurologist, psychiatrist and geneticist.
• Leslie Kish, 90, Hungarian-American statistician.
• Walter Krupinski, 79, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
• Noor Suzaily Mukhtar, 24, Malaysian software engineer.
• Edith Robinson, 94, Australian track and field athlete and Olympian.

  8

• Hanson Matthew Adjei-Sarpong, 75, Ghanaian politician.
• Charlotte Lamb, 62, British novelist.
• Vsevolod Larionov, 72, Soviet and Russian stage and film actor.
• Robert M. Leeds, 79, American film editor and television director.
• Clarence Myerscough, 69, British violinist.
• Mihai Pop, 92, Romanian ethnologist.
• Timothy P. Sheehan, 91, American politician.
• E. S. Johnny Walker, 89, American politician, leukemia.

  9

• Gilberto Andrade, 62, Brazilian footballer.
• Robert Frederick Bennett, 73, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Kansas, lung cancer.
• David Dukes, 55, American character actor, heart attack.
• James V. Hartinger, 75, United States Air Force general.
• Charles Hartshorne, 103, American philosopher.
• Lajos Kocsis, 53, Hungarian footballer.
• H. R. Loyn, 78, British historian.
• Patrick Anthony Porteous, 82, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross.
• Leonid Potapov, 95, Russian ethnographer.
• John Joseph Thomas Ryan, 86, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

  10

• Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 84, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, heart attack.
• Ferenc Farkas, 94, Hungarian composer.
• Joe Grady, 82, American radio personality.
• Dick Klein, 80, American businessman and founder of the Chicago Bulls.
• Emile Kuri, 93, Mexican-American set decorator.
• Nikolai Lyashchenko, 90, Soviet Army general and war hero.
• Ambrogio Morelli, 94, Italian road bicycle racer.
• Bruce Palmer, Jr., 87, American Army general.
• Bruce Vento, 60, American politician, lung cancer caused by asbestos.

  11

• Donald Dewar, 63, Scottish politician, cerebral haemorrhage, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Hiroshi Inose, 73, Japanese electrical engineer, heart attack.
• Matija Ljubek, 46, Croatian sprint canoeist and Olympic champion, shot.
• Sam O'Steen, 76, American film editor and director.
• Pietro Palazzini, 88, Italian Cardinal.
• Thomas Leonard Wells, 70, Canadian politician, cancer.
• Fred Williams, 71, American gridiron football player.

  12

• Justo Arosemena Lacayo, 70, Colombian sculptor.
• Melvin A. Cook, 89, American chemist.
• Mark Saxelby, 31, English cricket player, suicide by herbicide ingestion.
• Gordon Stulberg, 76, Canadian-American film executive and lawyer, complications related to diabetes.

  13

• Masao Fujii, 31, Japanese baseball player.
• Gus Hall, 90, American labor leader and chairman of the Communist Party USA.
• Jean Peters, 73, American actress, leukemia.
• Jarnail Singh, 64, Indian football player.
• Britt Woodman, 80, American jazz trombonist.

  14

• Sebastião Alba, 60, Portuguese poet, road incident.
• Art Coulter, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Dino Dibra, 25, Australian organized crime figure, shot.
• Abbas Gharabaghi, 81, Iranian Army officer and Chief of Staff, cancer.
• David Guiney, 79, Irish Olympic athlete, sports journalist and historian.
• Ron Marshall, 68, American voice actor and singer.
• Tony Roper, 35, American stock car racing driver, racing accident.
• Vic Schwall, 75, American gridiron football player.

  15

• Manuel da Luz Afonso, 83, Portuguese football manager.
• Konrad Emil Bloch, 88, German-American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, heart failure.
• Vincent Canby, 76, American film and theatre critic, cancer.
• John Perceval, 77, Australian artist.
• Rodolfo Sonego, 79, Italian screenwriter.

  16

• Emil Berna, 93, Swiss cinematographer.
• Mel Carnahan, 66, American lawyer and Governor of Missouri, plane crash.
• Antonio Ferrandis, 79, Spanish actor, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• David Golub, 50, American pianist and conductor, lung cancer.
• Tito Gómez, 80, Cuban singer.
• Rick Jason, 77, American actor, suicide by gunshot.
• Pierre-Michel Le Conte, 79, French conductor.
• Joaquín Gutiérrez Mangel, 82, Costa Rican writer, heart failure.
• Antonio Russo, 40, Italian journalist, tortured.
• Lu Xiaopeng, 80, Chinese aircraft designer.

  17

• Frederick S. Clarke, 50/51, American magazine publisher and editor, suicide
• G. Arthur Cooper, 98, American paleobiologist.
• Harry Cooper, 96, English-American PGA Tour golfer.
• Joachim Nielsen, 36, Norwegian rock musician and poet, drug overdose.
• Leo Nomellini, 76, Italian-American football player and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, stroke.
• Ivan Owen, 73, British voice actor, cancer.
• Walter Shenson, 81, American film producer, director and writer.

  18

• Bruce Biggs, 79, New Zealand linguist.
• Inga Gill, 75, Swedish film actress, thrombosis.
• Julie London, 74, American singer and actress, cardiac arrest, stroke.
• Sidney Salkow, 89, American screenwriter and film/television director.
• Gwen Verdon, 75, American actress, four-time Tony winner, heart attack.

  19

• Don Black, 72, Rhodesian tennis player, complications from bowel cancer surgery.
• Mahir Domi, 85, Albanian linguist and academic.
• Hortense Ellis, 59, Jamaican reggae musician, infectious disease.
• Kay Fanning, 73, American journalist and publisher.
• Shirley Gorelick, 76, American artist.
• Kati Horna, 88, Hungarian-Mexican photojournalist and photographer.
• Antonio Maspes, 68, Italian sprinter cyclist and Olympic medalist.
• Charles Perkins, 64, Australian Aboriginal activist, and soccer player, renal failure.
• Leopoldo Savona, 87, Italian actor, director, choreographer, and screenwriter.
• Karl Stein, 87, German mathematician.

  20

• Johannes Abraham Dimara, 84, Indonesian revolutionary and National Hero.
• Elisa Galvé, 78, Argentine actress.
• Jenny Kastein, 87, Dutch competition swimmer and Olympian.
• Kalfie Martin, 90, South African military commander.
• Boris Seidenberg, 71, Soviet actor.

  21

• Gunnar Andresen, 76, Norwegian footballer.
• Frankie Crocker, 62, American disc jockey, pancreatic cancer.
• Alan Rowe, 73, New Zealand-born British actor.
• Dirk Jan Struik, 106, Dutch-American mathematician and historian of mathematics.
• Ralph A. Vaughn, 93, American academic, architect and film set designer.