Deaths in October 2000

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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

October 2000[]

1[]

  • Robert Allen, 73, American composer ("(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays", "Everybody Loves a Lover", "Chances Are").[1]
  • Charlie Brewster, 83, American baseball player.[2]
  • Rosie Douglas, 58, Prime Minister of Dominica and human rights activist.[3]
  • Wiktor Eckhaus, 70, Polish–Dutch mathematician.
  • Aristeidis Kollias, 56, Greek lawyer, publicist, and folklorist, leukemia.
  • Reginald Kray, 66, British criminal.,[4] bladder cancer

2[]

  • Dung Hà, 34/35, Vietnam female gangster, homicide.
  • Amadou Karim Gaye, 86, Senegalese politician.
  • Richard Liberty, 68, American actor.
  • Justus Mühlenpfordt, 89, German nuclear physicist.
  • Elek Schwartz, 91, Romanian football player and coach.
  • Tom Troman, 86, English cricketer.

3[]

  • Peter Baker, 55, English cricketer.
  • Wojciech Has, 75, Polish film director, screenwriter and film producer.[5]
  • Klondike Bill, 68, Canadian professional wrestler, neuromuscular disorder.
  • M. M. Mustapha, 76, Ceylonese lawyer and politician.
  • Benjamin Orr, 53, The Cars bassist and singer, pancreatic cancer.[6]
  • John Worsley, 81, British artist and illustrator.[7]

4[]

  • Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, Moroccan long-distance runner.
  • Tofig Guliyev, 82, Azerbaijani composer, pianist, and conductor.
  • Alfred Lammer, 90, Austrian-born World War II Royal Air Force pilot.
  • Tin Maung, 92, Burmese film actor, director and producer.
  • Chuck Oertel, 69, American baseball player.[8]
  • Michael Smith, 68, English-born Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.[9]
  • Yu Kuo-hwa, 86, Chinese politician, Premier (1984–1989), complications from leukemia.

5[]

  • Leopold Barschandt, 75, Austrian footballer.
  • Johanna Döbereiner, 75, Brazilian agronomist.
  • Ruth Ellis, 101, African-American LGBT rights activist.
  • Cătălin Hîldan, 24, Romanian football player, cardiac arrest.
  • Bankson T. Holcomb Jr., 92, brigadier general in the US Marine Corps.
  • Stan Montgomery, 80, English footballer and cricketer.
  • Keith Roberts, 65, English science fiction author.[10]
  • Cuco Sánchez, 79, Mexican singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor, kidney failure.
  • Sidney R. Yates, 91, American politician (member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Illinois).[11]

6[]

  • William Bundy, 83, American attorney and intelligence expert (CIA).[12]
  • José Cabanis, 78, French novelist, historian and magistrate.
  • John T. Connor, 85, American government official and businessman, leukemia.[13]
  • Richard Farnsworth, 80, American actor and stuntman.
  • George Huntston Williams, 86, American theologian.
  • Per-Olov Löwdin, 83, Swedish physicist.
  • K. Gunn McKay, 75, American politician, complications of mesothelioma.

7[]

  • Tony Adamle, 76, American professional football player, cancer.[14]
  • Wilford S. Bailey, 79, American academic.[15]
  • Ed Beisser, 81, American basketball player.
  • Leslie Kish, 90, Hungarian-American statistician.[16]
  • Walter Krupinski, 79, German Luftwaffe fighter ace in World War II.
  • Vittorio Sardelli, 82, Italian footballer.

8[]

  • Hilde Eisler, 88, East German political activist and journalist.
  • Charlotte Lamb, 62, British novelist.
  • Clarence Myerscough, 69, British violinist.
  • Mihai Pop, 92, Romanian ethnologist.
  • Kaare Reitan, 97, Norwegian orthodontic researcher.
  • E. S. Johnny Walker, 89, American politician, leukemia.

9[]

  • Robert Frederick Bennett, 73, American lawyer and Governor of Kansas.
  • David Dukes, 55, American character actor, heart attack.[17]
  • James V. Hartinger, 75, US Air Force general.
  • Charles Hartshorne, 103, American philosopher.
  • Patrick Anthony Porteous, 82, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross.
  • Joseph T. Ryan, 86, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.[18]
  • Fred Williams, 71, American football player, stroke.

10[]

  • Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 84, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.[19]
  • Ferenc Farkas, 94, Hungarian composer.
  • Dick Klein, 80, American athlete and businessman.
  • Bruce Palmer Jr., 87, American army general.[20]
  • Gene Palumbo, 54, American television producer and writer.
  • Bruce Vento, 60, American politician, lung cancer caused by asbestos.[21]

11[]

  • Donald Dewar, 63, Scottish politician, cerebral haemorrhage.[22]
  • Brian Foley, 80, British Roman Catholic priest and hymnist.
  • Hiroshi Inose, 73, Japanese electrical engineer, heart attack.
  • Matija Ljubek, 46, Croatian sprint canoeist, shot.
  • Rollee McGill, 68, American R&B singer and saxophonist.
  • Sam O'Steen, 76, American film editor and director.
  • Pietro Palazzini, 88, Italian Cardinal.[23]
  • Thomas Leonard Wells, 70, Canadian politician, cancer.

12[]

  • Gordon Stulberg, 76, Canadian-American film executive and lawyer, complications related to diabetes.
  • Melvin A. Cook, 89, American chemist.[24]
  • Justo Arosemena Lacayo, 70, Colombian sculptor.
  • Mary K. Meany, 103, American politician and educator, pneumonia.

13[]

  • Benny Culp, 86, American baseball player and coach.
  • John Davis, 57, English cricketer.
  • Gus Hall, 90, labor leader and chairman of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).[25]
  • Jean Peters, 73, American actress.[26]
  • Tony Roper, 35, NASCAR driver.[27]
  • Britt Woodman, 80, American jazz trombonist.[28]

14[]

  • Adriana Benitez, 24, Colombian student leader, murdered by the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia.
  • Art Coulter, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.[29]
  • Dino Dibra, 25, Australian suspected murderer and victim, shot.
  • Jim Eaglestone, 77, English cricketer.
  • Tony Roper, 35, American stock car racing driver, racing accident.

15[]

  • George Gray Bell, 80, Canadian soldier.
  • Konrad Emil Bloch, 88, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[30]
  • Vincent Canby, 76, American film and theatre critic (The New York Times).[31]
  • Perry Webster Gilbert, 87, American marine biologist.
  • John Perceval, 77, Australian artist.
  • Rodolfo Sonego, 79, Italian screenwriter.

16[]

  • Mel Carnahan, 66, American lawyer and politician (51st Governor of Missouri).[32]
  • Antonio Ferrandis, 79, Spanish actor.
  • Joaquín Gutiérrez, 82, Costa Rican writer, heart failure.
  • Rick Jason, 77, American actor.
  • Milan Kurepa, 67, Serbian physicist, complications following heart surgery.
  • Antonio Russo, 40, Italian journalist, murdered.
  • Joseph Scott, 78, American bobsledder.
  • Lu Xiaopeng, 80, Chinese aircraft designer, designed the Nanchang Q-5 and the Nanchang J-12.[33]

17[]

  • Harry Cooper, 96, English-American PGA Tour golfer.[34]
  • Donna Jogerst, 68, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[35]
  • Joachim Nielsen, 36, Norwegian rock musician and poet, drug overdose.
  • Leo Nomellini, 76, Italian-American football player (San Francisco 49ers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, stroke.[36]
  • Ivan Owen, 73, British voice actor, cancer.
  • John Douglas Swales, 64, English cardiologist and expert on hypertension.

18[]

  • Bruce Biggs, 79, New Zealand linguist.
  • Lebrecht Wilhelm Fifi Hesse, 65, Ghanaian public servant, cancer.
  • Julie London, 74, American singer and actress, cardiac arrest.[37]
  • Sidney Salkow, 89, American screenwriter and film/television director.
  • Gwen Verdon, 75, American actress, heart attack.[38]

19[]

  • Don Black, 72, Rhodesian tennis player, complications from bowel cancer surgery.
  • Mahir Domi, 85, Albanian linguist, professor, and academic.
  • Hortense Ellis, 59, Jamaican reggae musician.
  • Kay Fanning, 73, American journalist and publisher.[39]
  • Shirley Gorelick, 76, American artist.
  • Kati Horna, 88, Hungarian-born Mexican photojournalist and photographer.
  • Antonio Maspes, 68, Italian sprinter cyclist.
  • Hans Moller, 95, German born American artist.
  • Charles Perkins, 64, Australian Aboriginal activist, and soccer player, renal failure.[40]

20[]

  • Jenny Kastein, 87, Dutch breaststroke swimmer.
  • Kalfie Martin, 90, South African military commander.
  • Boris Seidenberg, 71, Soviet actor.

21[]

  • Frankie Crocker, 62, American disc jockey, pancreatic cancer.[41]
  • Matti Kannas, 72, Finnish footballer.[42]
  • Alan Rowe, 73, New Zealand-born British actor.
  • Dirk Jan Struik, 106, Dutch-American mathematician and historian of mathematics.[43]
  • Barbara Tribe, 87, Australian-born artist.
  • Ralph A. Vaughn, 93, American academic, architect and film set designer.

22[]

23[]

  • Benny Culp, 86, American baseball player.[45]
  • Martin Rich, 95, German conductor.[46]
  • Nils Täpp, 82, Swedish cross-country skier.
  • Yusuf Tunaoğlu, 54, Turkish footballer, cardiac arrest.
  • Yokozuna, 34, American professional wrestler, pulmonary edema.

24[]

25[]

  • Klaus Bargsten, 88, German U-boat commander of the sunken U-521 during World War II.
  • Mochitsura Hashimoto, 91, Japanese submarine commander during World War II.
  • Wood B. Kyle, 85, US Marine Corps Major General.
  • Jeanne Lee, 61, American jazz singer, poet and composer, cancer.[48]
  • John Sinclair Morrison, 87, English classicist.

26[]

  • Muriel Evans, 90, American actress.
  • Laila Kinnunen, 60, Finnish singer.
  • Donald F. Lach, 83, American historian and author.[49]
  • Jesús Puente, 69, Spanish actor.
  • Gardner Soule, 86, American writer.

27[]

  • Lída Baarová, 86, Czech-Austrian actress and mistress of the Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels.[50]
  • Walter Berry, 71, Austrian bass-baritone.[51]
  • Winston Grennan, 56, Jamaican drummer, cancer.[52]
  • Eugene Lambert, 95, American sports coach.
  • Tim Ralfe, 62, Canadian television journalist, heart attack.
  • Bill Wainwright, 91, British communist activist.
  • Dwight Waldo, 87, American political scientist.
  • Bob Weighill, 80, English rugby player.

28[]

  • Andújar Cedeño, 31, Dominican baseball player, car accident.[53]
  • Josef Felder, 100, German politician.
  • Carlos Guastavino, 88, Argentine composer.[54]
  • Dorothy Hood, 81, American modernist painter.
  • Aare Laanemets, 46, Estonian actor, stroke.[55]
  • Anthony Lee, 39, American actor and playwright, shot by police officer.
  • Jailani Naro, 71, Indonesian politician.
  • Howard Patterson, 73, American Olympic swimmer.[56]
  • Irving Phillips, 95, American cartoonist, illustrator, playwright, and author.
  • Georges Poujouly, 60, French actor, cancer.
  • Robert Sommers, 89, Canadian politician.
  • Kemp Tolley, 92, U.S. Navy officer and author, stroke.

29[]

  • Charles F. Avila, 94, American electrical engineer.
  • Jacqueline Brumaire, 78, French operatic soprano.[57]
  • Carlos Guastavino, 88, Argentine composer.
  • Rolf Hädrich, 69, German film director and screenwriter.

30[]

  • Steve Allen, 78, American comedian, composer, TV host (The Tonight Show, The Steve Allen Show) and author, traffic accident.[58]
  • Elizabeth Bradley, 78, English actress (Maud Grimes in Coronation Street).
  • Howard Odell, 89, American football player and coach.

31[]

  • George Armstrong, 56, English football player and coach, brain haemorrhage.
  • Thomas Gifford, 63, American author, cholangiocarcinoma.
  • Ring Lardner Jr., 85, American journalist and screenwriter, cancer.[59]
  • Samuel Pierce, 78, American politician.
  • Kaj Aage Gunnar Strand, 93, Danish astronomer.
  • Kazuki Watanabe, 19, Japanese musician, sedative overdose.

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  3. ^ The Associated Press (October 2, 2000). "Rosie Douglas, 58, Radical Turned Leader of Dominica". The New York Times. Retrieved January 7, 2019.
  4. ^ Campbell, Duncan (October 1, 2000). "Reggie Kray: Gangland figure who retained a perverse celebrity status despite his crimes". The Guardian. Retrieved January 7, 2019.
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