Deaths in July 2000

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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 (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

July 2000[]

1[]

  • Victor E. Engstrom, 86, American philatelist.
  • John Albert Axel Gibson, 83, British World War II air ace.[1]
  • Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan, 94, fourth and last wife of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah.
  • Ganju Lama, 75, Sikkimese Gurkha and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
  • Walter Matthau, 79, American actor (winner of Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony awards).[2]

2[]

  • Joey Dunlop, 48, Northern Irish motorcycle racer, motorcycle accident.[3]
  • Constance Howard, 89, English textile artist and embroiderer.
  • Paul McLaughlin, 80, Canadian sailor and Olympian.

3[]

  • Walter Cassel, 90, American operatic baritone and actor.[4]
  • Nancy Cato, 83, Australian writer and poet.
  • James Grogan, 68, American figure skater and Olympian, multiple organ failure.
  • André Guinier, 88, French physicist.
  • Sir Michael Hamilton, 81, British politician.[5]
  • Paul G. Hatfield, 72, American attorney and politician.
  • John Hejduk, 70, Czech-American architect, artist and educator.[6]
  • Enric Miralles, 45, Spanish architect, brain tumor.[7]
  • Harold Nicholas, 79, American dancer (Nicholas Brothers), heart attack.[8]
  • Kemal Sunal, 55, Turkish actor, heart attack.[9]

4[]

5[]

6[]

  • Miervaldis Birze, 79, Latvian writer, publicist and physician.
  • 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.[14]
  • Władysław Szpilman, 88, Jewish-Polish pianist portrayed in the 2002 film The Pianist.[15]
  • Marcella Comès Winslow, 95, American photographer and portrait painter.

7[]

  • Dame Stella Casey, 76, New Zealand social activist.[16]
  • Kenny Irwin Jr., 30, American stock car racing driver, racing accident.[17]
  • Jip de Jager, 87, South African politician.
  • Ursula Kuczynski, 93, German communist activist and spy.
  • James C. Quayle, 79, American newspaper publisher.[18]
  • William J. Randall, 90, American politician.[19]
  • George T. Rockrise, 83, American architect and urban planner.
  • Charles Alan Wright, 72, American constitutional lawyer.[20]

8[]

  • FM-2030, 69, Iranian-American author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher and futurist, pancreatic cancer.
  • Dame Anne Mueller, 69, British civil servant and academic.[21]
  • Maurice Owen, 76, English footballer.
  • Cliff Sear, 63, Welsh footballer, heart attack.

9[]

  • Doug Fisher, 59, English actor, heart attack.
  • John Morgan, 41, British etiquette expert.[22]
  • John Vitale, 34, American football player, cancer.

10[]

11[]

  • Bill Alexander, 90, British political activist.[25]
  • Jaroslav Filip, 51, Slovak musician, composer, dramaturge and actor, heart attack.
  • Pedro Mir, 87, Dominican poet and writer (Poet Laureate).[26]
  • Robert Runcie, 78, British Archbishop of Canterbury, cancer.[27]
  • Barry Tabobondung, 39, Canadian ice hockey player, vehicular accident.

12[]

  • Tom Galley, 84, English footballer.
  • Charles Merritt, 91, Canadian war hero and recipient of the Victoria Cross.[28]
  • Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, 72, Yugoslav prince.[29]

13[]

  • James Ferguson, 86, U.S. Air Force general.
  • Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso, 86, Argentine historian and researcher.
  • A. D. Hope, 92, Australian poet.[30]
  • Masha Ivashintsova, 58, Russian photographer.
  • Jan Karski, 86, Polish resistance fighter and academic.[31]

14[]

  • Bill Barth, 57, American blues guitarist, heart attack.
  • Alvin Hollingsworth, 72, American painter and comics artist.
  • Eric Edward Khasakhala, 74, Kenyan politician and independence activist.
  • Robert B. Landry, 90, United States Air Force major general.
  • Meredith MacRae, 56, American actress (My Three Sons, Petticoat Junction), complications of brain cancer.[32]
  • Georges Maranda, 68, Canadian baseball player.[33]
  • Sir Mark Oliphant, 98, Australian physicist, Governor of South Australia.[34]

15[]

  • Paul Bühlmann, 73, Swiss comedian, radio personality, and actor.
  • Johnny Duncan, 67, American bluegrass musician.[35]
  • Jocko Henderson, 82, American radio disc jockey, and hip hop music pioneer, cancer.
  • Leo Hoegh, 92, U.S. Army officer, lawyer, and politician.[36]
  • Owen Maynard, 75, Canadian engineer and co-designer of NASA's Apollo Lunar Module (LM).
  • John Pastore, 93, American lawyer and politician.[37]
  • Louis Quilico, 75, Canadian opera singer.[38]
  • Kalle Svensson, 74, Swedish footballer.[39]
  • Paul Young, 53, British singer and songwriter (Sad Café, Mike + The Mechanics).[40]

16[]

  • Igor Domnikov, 41, Russian journalist and editor, murdered.
  • György Petri, 56, Hungarian poet, cancer.
  • Jean Vercoutter, 89, French Egyptologist.
  • Bernie Whitebear, 62, American Indian activist, colon cancer.
  • William Foote Whyte, 86, American sociologist.[41]

17[]

  • Zhao Lirong, 72, Chinese singer and film actress, cancer.
  • Aligi Sassu, 88, Italian painter and sculptor.
  • Thomas Quinn Curtiss, 85, American writer, and film and theater critic.[42]
  • Warren P. Waters, 77, American physicist, inventor and WWII US Air Force pilot, kidney failure.

18[]

  • Roberto Contreras, 71, American actor.
  • Paul Coverdell, 61, US Senator from Georgia, cerebral hemorrhage.
  • Archie Craig, 88, Scottish racing cyclist.
  • John F. Davis, 93, American lawyer and law professor.[43]
  • Ray Gabelich, 67, Australian rules footballer.

19[]

  • James B. Clark, 92, American film and television director.
  • Stephen Gendin, 34, American AIDS activist, AIDS-induced lymphoma.[44]
  • Hananiah Harari, 87, American painter and illustrator.[45]
  • Owen Maddock, 74, British engineer and racing car designer.
  • Tommy O'Boyle, 82, American football coach.[46]
  • Allen Paulson, 78, American businessman.[47]

20[]

  • Eladio Dieste, 82, Uruguayan engineer and architect.
  • Eyvind Earle, 84, American artist, author and illustrator, esophageal cancer.
  • Joseph F. Enright, 89, submarine captain in the US Navy.[48]
  • James H. Morrison, 91, American politician (member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 6th congressional district).[49]
  • Kao Pao-shu, 68, Chinese actress, producer, writer and film director, died at the age of 68.
  • Murray G. Ross, 90, Canadian sociologist, author, and academic administrator.
  • Jim Suchecki, 72, American baseball player.[50]
  • Alexis P. Vlasto, 84, British historian and philologist.

21[]

  • Vladimir Bagirov, 63, Soviet-Latvian grandmaster of chess, chess author, and trainer, heart attack.
  • Constanze Engelbrecht, 50, German actress, cancer.
  • Iain Hamilton, 78, Scottish composer.[51]
  • Maria Kleschar-Samokhvalova, 84, Soviet Russian painter and graphic artist.
  • Yosef Qafih, 82, Yemenite-Israeli zionist orthodox rabbi.

22[]

  • John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield, 80, British medical researcher and academic administrator.[52]
  • Alexander Dallin, 76, American historian and political scientist.[53]
  • Raymond Lemieux, 80, Canadian organic chemist.[54]
  • Claude Sautet, 76, French film director and screenwriter.[55]
  • Staffan Burenstam Linder, 68, Swedish economist and politician.
  • Pat Turner, 73, British trade unionist.

23[]

24[]

  • Anatoli Firsov, 59, Russian ice hockey player.[57]
  • Dharmasiri Senanayake, 67, Sri Lankan politician.
  • Alvin Tresselt, 83, American children's book author and graphic designer.[58]
  • G. Wood, 80, American film and television actor, congestive heart failure.

25[]

  • Julia Pirotte, 92, Polish photojournalist.
  • Fred C. Sheffey, 71, United States Army major general, lung cancer.
  • Elizabeth Wilson, 86, American screenwriter and playwright.
  • Notable people killed in the crash of Air France Flight 4590:[59]
    • Rudi Faßnacht, 65, German football manager.
    • Christian Götz, 60, German trade unionist and politician.
    • Jean Marcot, 50, French first officer of Flight 4590.
    • Christian Marty, 54, French windsurfer and captain of Flight 4590.
    • , 64, German property magnate.

26[]

  • Abhayadev, 87, Indian poet and lyricist.
  • Albert Fear, 92, Welsh rugby player.
  • U. R. Jeevarathinam, Tamil actress, singer and producer.
  • Dalkhan Khozhaev, 39, Chechen historian, field commander, brigadier general and author, murdered.
  • John Tukey, 85, American mathematician.[60]
  • Don Weis, 78, American film and television director.[61]

27[]

  • Virginia Admiral, 85, American painter and poet.[62]
  • Albert van Dantzig, 63, Dutch historian, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Bruce Douglas-Mann, 73, British politician.[63]
  • Val Dufour, 73, American actor.[64]
  • Paddy Joyce, 77, Irish actor, stroke.
  • Vladimir Lisunov, 60, Russian nonconformist artist, murdered.
  • Gordon Solie, 71, American wrestling commentator, throat cancer.[65]
  • Constance Stuart Larrabee, 85, English photographer and war correspondent.[66]

28[]

  • Jaime Cardriche, 32, American actor, complications during gall bladder surgery.
  • Margaret Chapman, 59, English illustrator and painter.
  • Rokeya Rahman Kabeer, 74, Bangladeshi academic and feminist.
  • Abraham Pais, 82, Dutch-born American physicist.[67]
  • Jonas M. Platt, 80, United States Marine Corps officer.
  • Jerome Smith, 47, American guitarist (KC and the Sunshine Band).[68]
  • Chic Stone, 77, American comic book artist.
  • John Wells, 93, British artist.[69]

29[]

  • Roger Batzel, 78, American nuclear scientist.[70]
  • Kobie Coetsee, 69, South African lawyer and politician, heart attack.
  • René Favaloro, 77, Argentine cardiologist who invented the technique of coronary bypass surgery, suicide by gunshot.[71]
  • Benny Fenton, 81, English football player and manager.[72]
  • Nestor Pirotte, 67, Belgian serial killer, heart attack.
  • Bob Welch, 72, Canadian politician.

30[]

  • Derek Hill, 83, English portrait and landscape painter.
  • Max Showalter, (aka Casey Adams), 83, American actor, composer, pianist, singer, cancer.[73]
  • Jack Smiley, 77, American basketball player.

31[]

  • Constance Babington Smith, 87, British journalist and writer.
  • István Gulyás, 68, Hungarian tennis player.
  • Hendrik C. van de Hulst, 81, Dutch astronomer and mathematician.[74]
  • William Keepers Maxwell Jr., 91, American novelist, short story writer, essayist and children's author.

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