Deaths in September 2000

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

  September 2000

1

• Olavi Ahonen, 77, Finnish film actor and comedian.
• Barbara Brooke, Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte, 92, British politician.
• P. P. Ummer Koya, 78, Indian politician, Gandhian, freedom fighter and educationist.
• Franklin P. Peterson, 70, American mathematician, stroke.
• Gerry Sullivan, 57, Australian politician.

  2

• Vicente Asensi, 81, Spanish football player.
• Ishaq Bux, 83, Indian actor.
• Heinz Harmel, 94, German SS general during World War II.
• Jean Speegle Howard, 73, American actress, respiratory disease and cardiomyopathy.
• Elvera Sanchez, 95, American dancer.
• Curt Siodmak, 98, German-American novelist and screenwriter, cancer.
• Gennady Smirnov, 45, Russian footballer.
• Audrey Wise, 68, British politician.

  3

• Asaf Abdrakhmanov, 81, Soviet naval officer and war hero during World War II.
• Edward Anhalt, 86, American screenwriter, Oscar winner, cancer.
• Clodomiro Cortoni, 77, Argentine cyclist.
• Oldřich Daněk, 73, Czech dramatist, writer, director and screenwriter.
• R. H. Harris, 84, American gospel singer.
• Elvera Sanchez, 95, Puerto Rican dancer.
• Jack Simmons, 85, British transport historian.
• Clyde Sukeforth, 98, American baseball player.
• Indriði Guðmundur Þorsteinsson, 74, Icelandic writer.
• Walt Stanchfield, 81, American animator.

  4

• Augusto Vargas Alzamora, 77, Peruvian prelate in the Roman Catholic Church.
• Sir John Beith, 86, British diplomat.
• David Brown, 53, American bass guitarist, kidney failure.
• Jack Fjeldstad, 85, Norwegian actor and stage producer.
• Pinky May, 89, American baseball player.
• Mihály Mayer, 66, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic champion.
• Mukri, 78, Indian film actor, heart attack.
• Gilles Potvin, 76, Canadian music critic and music historian.
• Antonio Ruberti, 73, Italian politician and engineer.
• Mary Shepard, 90, English illustrator of children's books.

  5

• Margaret Andrew, 92, American experimental engineer.
• Carlo M. Cipolla, 78, Italian economic historian.
• Roy Fredericks, 57, West Indian cricketer, cancer.
• George Musso, 90, American football player and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
• Palle Nielsen, 80, Danish illustrator and graphic artist.

  6

• David E. Bell, 81, American public servant, director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.
• Robert Lindsay, 95, English-born Australian politician.
• Abdul Haris Nasution, 81, Indonesian general and politician, cerebrovascular disease.
• Nino Ramishvili, 90, Soviet and Georgian ballet dancer and choreographer.
• Fritz Ruchay, 90, German football player and manager.
• Jürgen Schütze, 49, East German racing cyclist.
• Jiří Sovák, 79, Czech actor.
• Kees van Aelst, 83, Dutch water polo player and Olympian.
• Roger Verey, 88, Polish rower.
• Desmond Wilcox, 69, British journalist and television producer, heart attack.

  7

• Hyginus Anugo, 22, Nigerian sprinter, car accident.
• Bruce Gyngell, 71, Australian television executive, cancer-related illness.
• Eigil Nielsen, 81, Danish amateur football goalkeeper and Olympic medalist.
• Gian Luigi Polidoro, 73, Italian film director and screenwriter.
• Vitaliy Popovich, 37, Ukrainian racewalker, suicide.
• Aleksander Skiba, 55, Polish volleyball player and coach.
• Nick Tremark, 87, American baseball player.

  8

• Enrique Alessio, 82, Argentine musician.
• Yves Gaucher, 66, Canadian abstract painter and printmaker.
• Otto Katharus Lind, 79, Danish resistance fighter and general.
• Carlos Castillo Peraza, 53, Mexican politician, heart attack.
• Raul Roulien, 94, Brazilian actor, singer, and film director.

  9

• Julian Critchley, 69, British politician.
• Herbert Friedman, 84, American physicist and astronomer, cancer.
• Chuck Holmes, 55, American adult film producer, businessman and philanthropist, AIDS-related complications.
• Veerasamy Ringadoo, 79, Mauritian politician, minister and Governor-General of Mauritius.
• Peter Robinson, 78, English football player.
• Robert S. Stevens, American politician and jurist.
• Bill Waddington, 84, English music hall performer, actor, and comedian, Parkinson's disease.

  10

• Jakie Astor, 82, English politician and sportsman.
• Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, 81, Pakistani writer and journalist.
• Chandra Khonnokyoong, 91, Thai Maechi.
• William Nierenberg, 81, American physicist and member of the Manhattan Project, cancer.
• Lester Novros, 91, American artist and animator.
• Ben Wicks, 73, British-Canadian cartoonist, illustrator, and author, cancer.

  11

• Herbert H. Bateman, 72, American politician, cancer.
• Peter Browne, 76, Australian politician.
• Joe Dale, 79, English footballer.
• Philipp Fehl, 80, Austrian artist and art historian.
• Ham Heung-chul, 69, South Korean football player and manager.
• Martin James Monti, 78, US Army Air Force pilot.
• William Wilson Quinn, 92, US Army officer.
• Joe Skubitz, 94, American politician.

  12

• Leonard Alufurai, 74-75, Solomon Island bishop.
• Juan Ibáñez Díez-Gutiérrez, 62, Mexican actor, film director, producer and writer.
• Konrad Kujau, 62, German illustrator and forger, cancer.
• Gary Olsen, 42, English actor, cancer.
• Alfredo Pasotti, 75, Italian road bicycle racer.
• Stanley Turrentine, 66, American jazz tenor saxophonist.

  13

• Lloyd Anderson, 98, American business executive.
• Jānis Gilis, 57, Soviet and Latvian football player.
• Betty Jeffrey, 92, Australian writer.
• Howard Johnson, 89, British politician.
• Rolf Kauka, 83, German comic artist.
• Jerzy Lipiński, 91, Polish racing cyclist.
• Duane Swanson, 87, American basketball player.
• Pedro Morales Torres, 68, Chilean football manager.

  14

• George Christopher, 92, Greek-American politician.
• Jerzy Giedroyc, 94, Polish writer and political activist.
• Jean Halain, 80, French film screenwriter.
• Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale, 86, British politician.
• Cheng Kejie, 66, Chinese government official, execution by lethal injection.
• Igor Luzhkovsky, 62, Russian swimmer and Olympian.
• George Myatt, 86, American baseball player.
• Beah Richards, 80, American actress, Emmy winner, pulmonary emphysema.
• Hwang Sun-won, 85, Korean short story writer, novelist, and poet.

  15

• David Flusser, 83, Israeli professor of Early Christianity.
• Jennifer Gan, 62, American actress.
• George Kanahele, 70, American native Hawaiian activist, historian and author.
• Frank John Kerr, 82, Australian astronomer and physicist.
• Harmar Nicholls, 87, British politician.
• Jean Yancey, 86, American entrepreneur and motivational speaker, heart failure.

  16

• Nadina Abarth-Žerjav, 88, Slovene-Italian businesswoman.
• Ioan Alexandru, 58, Romanian poet, essayist and politician.
• M. H. M. Ashraff, 51, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, helicopter crash.
• Dori Brenner, 53, American actress, complications from cancer.
• John Perkovich, 76, American baseball player.
• Alexandra Petrova, 19, Russian model and beauty pageant contestant, murdered.
• Dharma Vira, 94, Indian politician.

  17

• Hester Burton, 86, English children's writer.
• Cruz Martínez Esteruelas, 68, Spanish politician.
• Georgiy Gongadze, 31, Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and film director, homicide.
• Armand Mestral, 82, French actor and singer.
• Nicole Reinhart, 24, American cyclist, cycling accident.
• Dem Rădulescu, 68, Romanian actor, heart attack.
• Chico Salmon, 59, Panamanian baseball player.
• Bakht Singh, 97, Indian evangelist, Bible teacher and preacher
• Henry T. Weinstein, 76, American film producer.
• Paula Yates, 41, British television presenter and journalist, drug overdose.

  18

• Glyde Butler, 68, Australian politician.
• Gilbert Carpentier, 80, French television show producer.
• Tony Graboski, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Dawn Langley Simmons, 77, English author and biographer, Parkinson's disease.
• Chen Yuefang, 37, Chinese basketball player and Olympic medalist.

  19

• Joseph Epes Brown, 80, American scholar of Native American traditions.
• Ann Doran, 89, American character actress.
• Fulvio Mingozzi, 74, Italian actor.
• Karl Robatsch, 70, Austrian chess player and botanist, cancer.
• Gloria Talbott, 69, American actress, kidney failure.

  20

• Theresa Ahearn, 49, Irish politician, cancer.
• Dorothy Emmet, 95, British philosopher and academic.
• Mona Moore, 83, British painter and illustrator.
• Jeanloup Sieff, 66, French photographer, cancer.
• Stanislav Stratiev, 59, Bulgarian playwright.
• Gherman Titov, 65, Soviet cosmonaut, heart failure.

  21

• Robert Wright Campbell, 73, American author and scriptwriter.
• Jacques Flynn, 85, Canadian lawyer and politician.
• Bengt Hambraeus, 72, Swedish-Canadian organist, composer and musicologist.
• Iskandar Khatloni, 45, Tajikistani writer and journalist, murdered.
• Ognjen Petrović, 52, Serbian goalkeeper.
• Frederic Seaman, 94, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.
• John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, 85, British aristocrat.

  22

• Yehuda Amichai, 76, Israeli poet, cancer.
• Willie Cook, 76, American jazz trumpeter.
• Vincenzo Fagiolo, 82, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.
• Dov Feigin, 93, Israeli sculptor.
• Alexei Kostrikin, 71, Russian mathematician.
• Mike Nixon, 88, American football player, coach and scout.
• Anthony Read, 87, British Army general.
• Saburō Sakai, 84, Japanese flying ace during World War II, heart attack.
• Bill Sommers, 77, American baseball player.
• Otto Walzhofer, 74, Austrian football player and coach.