Deaths in September 2000

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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.

September 2000[]

1[]

  • Olavi Ahonen, 77, Finnish film actor and comedian.
  • Barbara Brooke, Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte, 92, British politician.
  • Dee Caperton Kessel, 57, American politician and Miss West Virginia.
  • Alexander Rhea, 81, American industrialist.

2[]

3[]

  • Richard W. Abbe, 74, American jurist (Associate Justice of the California Second District Court of Appeal, Division Six).[6]
  • Edward Anhalt, 86, American screenwriter and filmmaker (winner of 1950 Academy Award for Best Story for Panic in the Streets).[7]
  • R. H. Harris, 84, American gospel singer (Soul Stirrers).[8]
  • Jack Simmons, 85, British transport historian.[9]
  • Walt Stanchfield, 81, American animator (Walt Disney Studios).
  • Clyde Sukeforth, 98, American baseball player.[10]

4[]

  • Sir John Beith, 86, British diplomat.[11]
  • David Brown, 53, American bass guitarist (Santana).
  • Pinky May, 89, American baseball player.[12]
  • Mihály Mayer, 66, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic champion (1964).
  • Mukri, 78, Indian film actor.
  • Mary Shepard, 90, English illustrator of children's books.[13]

5[]

  • Carlo M. Cipolla, 78, Italian economic historian.
  • Roy Fredericks, 57, West Indian cricketer, cancer.
  • George Musso, 90, American football player (Chicago Bears) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[14]
  • Abdul Haris Nasution, 81, Indonesian general.[15]

6[]

  • Kees van Aelst, 83, Dutch water polo player and Olympian (1936 Summer Olympics).[16]
  • Richard Baum, 98, German musicologist.
  • David E. Bell, 81, American public servant, director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (1961–1962).[17]
  • Jiří Sovák, 79, Czech actor.
  • Desmond Wilcox, 69, British journalist and television producer.

7[]

  • Bruce Gyngell, 71, Australian television executive, cancer-related illness.
  • Gian Luigi Polidoro, 73, Italian film director and screenwriter.
  • Nick Tremark, 87, American baseball player.[18]
  • George Wright, 70, English footballer.

8[]

  • Carlos Castillo Peraza, 53, Mexican politician.[19]
  • Yves Gaucher, 66, Canadian abstract painter and printmaker.
  • Otto K. Lind, 79, Danish resistance fighter and general.
  • István Moldován, 88, Hungarian painter and graphic artist.
  • R.L. Peteni, 84, Xhosa South African novelist, academic, and author.
  • Raul Roulien, 94, Brazilian actor, singer, and film director.

9[]

  • Sir Julian Critchley, 69, British politician.[20]dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=5 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=13 September 2000 |page=B 10}}</ref>
  • Takashi Fukutani, 48, Japanese manga artist, pulmonary edema.
  • Veerasamy Ringadoo, 79, Mauritian politician, minister and Governor-General of Mauritius.
  • Peter Robinson, 78, English footballer.
  • Robert S. Stevens, American politician and jurist.[21]
  • Bill Waddington, 84, English music hall performer, actor, and comedian.

10[]

  • Jakie Astor, 82, English politician and sportsman.
  • Paolo Gislimberti, 33, Italian volunteer firefighter and youth coach, racing accident.
  • Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, 81, Pakistani writer and journalist.[22]
  • Chandra Khonnokyoong, 91, Thai Maechi.
  • William Nierenberg, 81, American physicist and member of the Manhattan Project.[23]
  • Ben Wicks, 73, British-Canadian cartoonist, illustrator, journalist, and author, cancer.

11[]

  • Peter Browne, 76, Australian politician.
  • Joe Dale, 79, English footballer.
  • Willard A. Downes, 91, American artist and illustrator.
  • Philipp Fehl, 80, Austrian artist and art historian.
  • Harry Gould, 86, Welsh professional golfer.
  • Martin James Monti, 78, US Army Air Force pilot.
  • William Wilson Quinn, 92, US Army officer.[24]
  • Myron Spaulding, 94, American sailor, yacht designer and concert violinist.

12[]

  • Konrad Kujau, 62, German illustrator and forger, cancer.[25]
  • Gary Olsen, 42, English actor, cancer.[26]
  • Stanley Turrentine, 66, American jazz tenor saxophonist.[27]

13[]

14[]

15[]

  • David Flusser, 83, Israeli professor of Early Christianity.
  • Jennifer Gan, 62, American actress.
  • Zanvyl Krieger, 94, American businessman and philanthropist.
  • Jean Yancey, 86, American entrepreneur and motivational speaker, heart failure.

16[]

17[]

18[]

19[]

20[]

  • Sururi Gümen, 80, Turkish-born American illustrator.
  • Kimweri Mputa Magogo, Tanzania traditional leader.
  • Mona Moore, 83, British painter and illustrator.
  • Stanislav Stratiev, 59, Bulgarian playwright.
  • Gherman Titov, 65, Soviet cosmonaut.[41]

21[]

22[]

23[]

  • Janice Biala, 97, Polish-born American painter.
  • John Laffin, 78, Australian military historian.
  • Václav Migas, 56, Czech international footballer.[47]
  • Aurelio Rodríguez, 52, Mexican Major League Baseball player, traffic accident.[48]
  • Carl Rowan, 75, American government official, journalist and author.[49]
  • Kenny Smith, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.[50]
  • Ursula Wendorff-Weidt, 81, German artist and illustrator.

24[]

  • Dorr Bothwell, 98, American artist anddesigner.
  • Jerry Claiborne, 72, American football player and coach.
  • Marcel Lambert, 81, Canadian politician.
  • Jean Malléjac, 71, French bicycle racer.
  • Stephen McKeag, 30, Northern Irish loyalist, murdered.
  • Horacio Rivero Jr., 90, Puerto Rican four-star admiral.[51]
  • Dean C. Strother, 92, US Air Force four-star general.

25[]

  • Tom Baker, 79, British Anglican priest.[52]
  • Helmut Beck-Broichsitter, 86, German military police officer during World War II and neo-nazi.
  • Kayalakakam M. George, 77, Indian banker.
  • Tommy Reilly, 81, English musician.
  • Heberto Padilla, 68, Cuban poet.[53]
  • R. S. Thomas, 87, Welsh poet.[54]

26[]

  • Neva Abelson, 89, American research physician (co-discovered the blood test for the Rh blood factor).[55]
  • Nick Fatool, 85, American jazz drummer.[56]
  • Nat Fein, 86, American newspaper photographer.
  • Robert Lax, 84, American poet.[57]
  • Richard Mulligan, 67, American actor (Soap, Empty Nest), cancer.[58]
  • Baden Powell, 63, Brazilian guitarist.[59]
  • Carl Sigman, 91, American songwriter.[60]

27[]

  • Mario Arillo, 88, Italian naval officer during World War II.
  • Joshua Russell Chandran, 82, Indian Christian theologian.
  • David Jennens, 71, English rower.
  • Sammy Luftspring, 84, Canadian boxer.[61]
  • Isaac Oceja, 85, Spanish football player and coach.
  • Eileen O'Connell, 53, Canadian politician, breast cancer.
  • Frank Wills, 52, American security, discovered Watergate break-in.[62]

28[]

  • Peter Gennaro, 80, American dancer and choreographer (Annie).[63]
  • V. E. Howard, 88, American minister and radio evangelist.
  • Manuel Martín Jr., 65, Cuban theatre director.
  • Roger Nott, 91, Australian politician.
  • Carlos Revilla, 67, Spanish voice actor, heart attack.[64]
  • Pote Sarasin, 95, Thai diplomat and politician.
  • Pierre Trudeau, 80, Prime Minister of Canada.[65]

29[]

30[]

  • Zoran Gopčević, 45, Yugoslav water polo player (silver medal winner in 1980 Summer Olympics).[68]
  • Erno Paasilinna, 65, Finnish writer and journalist.
  • Sir Fred Pontin, 93, English businessman.[69]
  • Joseph Weber, 81, American physicist.[70]
  • Howard Winstone, 61, Welsh boxer.[71]

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