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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.
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July 2000
1
- Burt Douglas, 69, American film, stage and television actor.
- Raymond Robert Forster, 78, New Zealand arachnologist and museum director.
- John Albert Axel Gibson, 83, British flying ace during World War II.[1]
- Steve Hokuf, 89, American football player and coach, stroke.[2]
- Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan, 94, fourth wife of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah.[3]
- Cub Koda, 51, American rock and roll musician and record compiler, kidney failure.[4]
- Ganju Lama, 75, Sikkimese Gurkha and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
- Walter Matthau, 79, American actor (The Odd Couple, The Fortune Cookie, The Sunshine Boys), Oscar winner (1967), heart attack.[5]
- Pierre Petit, 78, French composer.[6]
2
- Mina Aoe, 59, Japanese female enka singer, pancreatic cancer.[7]
- Joey Dunlop, 48, Northern Irish motorcycle racer, traffic collision.[8]
- Constance Howard, 89, English textile artist and embroiderer.
- Paul McLaughlin, 80, Canadian sailor and Olympian.[9]
- Karl Sweetan, 57, American gridiron football player, complications following surgery.[10]
- Georgi Tringov, 63, Bulgarian chess grandmaster.
3
- Walter Cassel, 90, American operatic baritone and actor.[11]
- Nancy Cato, 83, Australian writer and poet.[12]
- James Grogan, 68, American figure skater and Olympian, multiple organ failure.[13]
- André Guinier, 88, French physicist.[14]
- Michael Hamilton, 81, British politician.[15]
- Paul G. Hatfield, 72, American attorney and politician.[16]
- John Hejduk, 70, Czech-American architect, artist and educator.[17]
- Leonard Hilton, 52, American long-distance runner.[18]
- János Kamara, 73, Hungarian communist politician.
- Enric Miralles, 45, Spanish architect, brain tumor, brain cancer.[19]
- Harold Nicholas, 79, American dancer (Nicholas Brothers), heart attack.[20]
- Fiorentino Sullo, 79, Italian politician.[21]
- Kemal Sunal, 55, Turkish actor, heart attack.[22]
4
- Donald Blessing, 94, American rower and Olympic champion.[23]
- Jack T. Bradley, 82, US Army Air Force fighter ace during World War II.[24]
- Allan Fakir, 68, Pakistani folk singer.
- Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, 81, Polish writer and political dissident.[25]
- Yuri Klinskikh, 35, Russian singer, songwriter and arranger, heart failure.
- Marina Kroschina, 47, Ukrainian tennis player, suicide.
- Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme, 85, British aristocrat.[26]
- Vladimír Ráž, 77, Czechoslovak film actor.
- Shōji Ueda, 87, Japanese photographer.[27]
5
- Syed Abdus Sobhan, 67, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician.[28]
- Blanca Álvarez Mantilla, 68, Spanish journalist.
- Mary Nicol Neill Armour, 98, Scottish painter.[29]
- Franta Belsky, 79, Czech sculptor, prostate cancer.[30]
- Giovanni Bettinelli, 65, Italian racing cyclist.[31]
- Edgar Cardoso, 87, Portuguese civil engineer and university professor.
- Mehrangiz Manoochehrian, 94, Iranian lawyer, musician and feminist.
- Peter Bullfrog Moore, 68, Australian rugby league administrator, esophageal cancer.[32]
- Dorino Serafini, 90, Italian motorcycle road racer and racing driver.
- Gloria Williams, 57, American singer, diabetes.[33]
- Jos Wohlfart, 80, Luxembourgish politician.
- Lord Woodbine, 71, Trinidadian calypsonian and music promoter, house fire.
6
- Alix André, 91, French novelist.[34]
- Roderic Coote, 85, British Anglican prelate.
- Eric Fraser, 69, English rugby player.
- Lazar Koliševski, 86, Yugoslav communist political leader.[35]
- Fred Lane, 24, American football player, shot.[36]
- Akira Miyazawa, 72, Japanese jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist.
- Ľudovít Rajter, 93, Slovakian-Hungarian composer and conductor.[37]
- Władysław Szpilman, 88, Jewish-Polish pianist and Holocaust survivor portrayed in the 2002 film The Pianist.[38]
- Marcella Comès Winslow, 95, American photographer and portrait painter.
7
- Dame Stella Casey, 76, New Zealand social activist.[39]
- Kenny Irwin, 30, American stock car racing driver, racing accident.[40]
- Ursula Kuczynski, 93, German communist activist and spy.[41]
- James C. Quayle, 79, American newspaper publisher.[42]
- William J. Randall, 90, American politician.[43]
- Johann Urbanek, 89, Austrian football player.[44]
- Charles Alan Wright, 72, American constitutional lawyer.[45]
- Dmitry Alexandrovich Zavadsky, 27, Belarusian journalist, homicide.
8
- FM-2030, 69, Iranian-American author, transhumanist philosopher and futurist, pancreatic cancer.
- Pieter Goemans, 75, Dutch composer ("Aan de Amsterdamse grachten").[46]
- Anne Mueller, 69, British civil servant and academic, Parkinson's disease.[47]
- Maurice Owen, 76, English footballer.
- Cliff Sear, 63, Welsh footballer, heart attack.[48]
9
- Doug Fisher, 58, English actor, heart attack.
- Henri Gault, 70, French food journalist, heart attack.[49]
- Herbert Hunger, 85, Austrian byzantinist.[50]
- Erkki Koiso, 66, Finnish ice hockey player.[51]
- John Morgan, 41, British etiquette expert, fall.[52]
- Joe Sostilio, 85, American racing driver.
- John Vitale, 34, American football player, cancer.
10
- Gertrud Arndt, 96, German photographer and designer.[53]
- Denis O'Conor Don, 87, English noble and hereditary Chief of the Name O'Conor.
- Dick Glasser, 65, American singer, songwriter, and record producer, lung cancer.
- Vakkom Majeed, 90, Indian politician.
- Ursule Molinaro, French-American writer.[54]
- Bill Munson, 58, American gridiron football player, drowned.[55]
- Francisco Matos Paoli, 85, Puerto Rican poet, critic, and essayist.[56]
- Justin Pierce, 25, British skateboarder and actor (Kids, Next Friday), suicide by hanging.[57]
- Apostolos Vakalopoulos, 90, Greek historian.
- Norma Wilson, 90, New Zealand athlete and Olympian.[58]
11
- Begum Akbar Jehan Abdullah, 84, Indian politician.[59]
- Bill Alexander, 90, British political activist.[60]
- Jaroslav Filip, 51, Slovak musician, composer, dramaturge, and actor, heart attack.
- Pedro Mir, 87, Dominican poet and writer (Poet Laureate).[61]
- Robert Runcie, 78, British Archbishop of Canterbury, cancer.[62]
- Barry Tabobondung, 39, Canadian ice hockey player, traffic collision.
12
- Al Butler, 62, American basketball player, cancer.[63]
- Tom Galley, 84, English football player.[64]
- Charles Merritt, 91, Canadian war hero and recipient of the Victoria Cross.[65]
- Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, 72, Yugoslav prince.[66]
13
- Matt Anthony, 79, Canadian football player, cancer.[67]
- A. D. Hope, 92, Australian poet.[68]
- Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso, 86, Argentine historian and researcher.
- Jan Karski, 86, Polish resistance fighter and academic.[69]
- Mauno Rintanen, 75, Finnish football player and basketball player.[70]
- Indira Sant, 86, Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India.
14
- Bill Barth, 57, American blues guitarist, heart attack.[71]
- Finn-Egil Eckblad, 76, Norwegian mycologist.
- Alvin Hollingsworth, 72, American painter and comics artist.[72]
- Meredith MacRae, 56, American actress (My Three Sons, Petticoat Junction), complications of brain cancer.[73]
- Georges Maranda, 68, Canadian baseball player, cancer.[74]
- Mark Oliphant, 98, Australian physicist, Governor of South Australia.[75]
- Pepo, 88, Chilean cartoonist.
15
- Emanuel Araújo, 57, Brazilian historian and editor.[76]
- Paul Bühlmann, 73, Swiss comedian, radio personality, and actor.
- Johnny Duncan, 67, American bluegrass musician.[77]
- Juan Filloy, 105, Argentine writer.[78]
- Jocko Henderson, 82, American radio disc jockey, and hip hop music pioneer, cancer.
- Leo Hoegh, 92, U.S. Army officer, lawyer, and politician.[79]
- John O. Pastore, 93, American lawyer and politician, kidney failure.[80]
- Louis Quilico, 75, Canadian opera singer.[81]
- Kalle Svensson, 74, Swedish footballer.[82]
- Paul Young, 53, British singer and songwriter (Sad Café, Mike + The Mechanics), heart attack.[83]
16
- Franciszek Adamczak, 73, Polish–Swedish palaeontologist.[84]
- Fay Alexander, 75, American circus performer.[85]
- Igor Domnikov, 41, Russian journalist and editor, bludgeoned.
- György Petri, 56, Hungarian poet, cancer.[86]
- Barbosa Lima Sobrinho, 103, Brazilian lawyer, writer, journalist and politician.[87]
- Jean Vercoutter, 89, French Egyptologist.[88]
- Bernie Whitebear, 62, American Indian activist, colon cancer.
- William Foote Whyte, 86, American sociologist.[89]
17
- Pascale Audret, 64, French actress, traffic collision.[90]
- Thomas Quinn Curtiss, 85, American writer, and film and theater critic.[91]
- Zhao Lirong, 72, Chinese singer and film actress, cancer.
- Aligi Sassu, 88, Italian painter and sculptor.[92]
- Jean Swain, 76, American singer.[93]
- Berthe Villancher, 91, French gymnastics judge and official.[94]
18
- Abdul Malek, 64, Bangladeshi politician.[95]
- René Chocat, 79, French basketball player.[96]
- Roberto Contreras, 71, American actor.
- Paul Coverdell, 61, American politician, Senator from Georgia, cerebral hemorrhage.[97]
- John F. Davis, 93, American lawyer and law professor.[98]
- Enrique de Gandía, 94, Argentine historian and author.[99]
- Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza, 81, Spanish architect.[100]
- José Ángel Valente, 71, Spanish poet and essayist.[101]
19
- James B. Clark, 92, American film and television director.[102]
- Stephen Gendin, 34, American AIDS activist, AIDS-induced lymphoma.[103]
- Kamala Das Gupta, 93, Indian freedom fighter.
- Hananiah Harari, 87, American painter and illustrator.[104]
- Owen Maddock, 74, British engineer and racing car designer.
- Tommy O'Boyle, 82, American football coach.[105]
- Allen Paulson, 78, American businessman.[106]
20
- Eyvind Earle, 84, American artist, author and illustrator, esophageal cancer.[107]
- Joseph F. Enright, 89, American submarine commander.[108]
- James Hobson Morrison, 91, American politician (member of the United States House of Representatives), heart attack.[109]
- Béla Rajki, 91, Hungarian swimming coach and water polo coach.
- Murray G. Ross, 90, Canadian sociologist, author, and academic administrator.[110]
- Mabel Scott, 85, American gospel music and R&B vocalist.[111]
- Jim Suchecki, 72, American baseball player.[112]
- Alexis P. Vlasto, 84, British historian and philologist.[113]
- Malaclypse the Younger, 59, American author.
21
- Vladimir Bagirov, 63, Soviet-Latvian grandmaster of chess, chess author, and trainer, heart attack.
- Constanze Engelbrecht, 50, German actress, cancer.[114]
- Iain Hamilton, 78, Scottish composer.[115]
- Maria Kleschar-Samokhvalova, 84, Soviet Russian painter and graphic artist.
- Frank Miller, 73, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario.
- Vladimir Novikov, 92, Soviet-Russian politician and statesman.
- Eddie Pequenino, 72, Argentine film actor.
- Yosef Qafih, 82, Yemenite-Israeli zionist orthodox rabbi.
- Oliver Henry Radkey, 91, American historian of Russian and Soviet history.
- Stanojlo Rajičić, 89, Serbian composer and musicologist.[116]
- Marc Reisner, 51, American environmentalist and writer, colon cancer.[117]
- Åke Senning, 84, Swedish cardiac surgeon.[118]
- Yoshio Watanabe, 93, Japanese photographer.
22
- John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield, 80, British medical researcher and academic administrator.[119]
- Eric Christmas, 84, British actor (Porky's, Days of Our Lives, Air Bud).[120]
- Alexander Dallin, 76, American historian and political scientist.[121]
- Raymond Lemieux, 80, Canadian organic chemist.[122]
- Staffan Burenstam Linder, 68, Swedish economist and politician, lung cancer.[123]
- Claude Sautet, 76, French film director and screenwriter, liver cancer.[124]
- Archie W. Straiton, 92, American physicist.
- Teleco, 86, Brazilian football player.
23
- Basil Acres, 73, English footballer.[125]
- Ralph Evans, 76, American competitive sailor and Olympic medalist.[126]
- Carmen Martín Gaite, 74, Spanish author.
- Oiva Lommi, 78, Finnish rower and Olympic medalist.[127]
- Vittorio Mangano, 59, Italian mobster, cancer.
- Kao Pao-shu, 61, Chinese actress, producer, writer and film director.
- Mars Rafikov, 66, Soviet cosmonaut.
- Ahmad Shamloo, 74, Iranian poet, writer and journalist.[128]
24
- Ignacio Alfaro Arregui, 82, Spanish military officer.[129]
- Alvin L. Alm, 63, American politician, heart failure.[130]
- Anatoli Firsov, 59, Russian ice hockey player, heart attack.[131]
- Pierre Hardy, 92, French sport shooter and Olympic medalist.[132]
- Jim Kremer, 81, Luxembourgish football player.[133]
- Dharmasiri Senanayake, 67, Sri Lankan politician.
- Oscar Shumsky, 83, American violinist and conductor.[134]
- G. Wood, 80, American actor (M*A*S*H, Harold and Maude, Brewster McCloud), congestive heart failure.[135]
25
- Julia Pirotte, 92, Polish photojournalist.
- Aleksander Rokosa, 64, Polish gymnast.[136]
- Fred C. Sheffey, 71, United States Army major general, lung cancer.
- Elizabeth Wilson, 86, American screenwriter and playwright.[137]
- Notable people killed in the crash of Air France Flight 4590:[138]
- Rudi Faßnacht, 65, German football manager.[139]
- Christian Götz, 60, German trade unionist and politician.
- Christian Marty, 54, French windsurfer and captain of Flight 4590.[140]
26
- Abhayadev, 87, Indian poet and lyricist.
- U. R. Jeevarathinam, Tamil actress, singer and producer.
- Dalkhan Khozhaev, 39, Chechen historian, field commander, brigadier general and author, shot.[141]
- John Tukey, 85, American mathematician.[142]
- Don Weis, 78, American film and television director.[143]
27
- Virginia Admiral, 85, American painter and poet.[144]
- Bruce Douglas-Mann, 73, British politician.[145]
- Val Dufour, 73, American actor, cancer.[146]
- Paddy Joyce, 77, Irish actor, stroke.[147]
- Vladimir Lisunov, 60, Russian nonconformist artist, murdered.
- Constance Stuart Larrabee, 85, English photographer and war correspondent.[148]
- Gordon Solie, 71, American wrestling commentator, throat cancer.[149]
28
- Jaime Cardriche, 32, American actor (Malcolm & Eddie, House Party, Deep Cover), complications during gall bladder surgery.
- Leslie Martin, 91, English architect.[150]
- Abraham Pais, 82, Dutch-American physicist, cardiovascular disease.[151]
- Jonas M. Platt, 80, United States Marine Corps officer.[152]
- Jerome Smith, 47, American guitarist (KC and the Sunshine Band), bulldozing accident.[153]
- Chic Stone, 77, American comic book artist (Fantastic Four).
- John Wells, 93, British artist.[154]
29
- Kobie Coetsee, 69, South African lawyer and politician, heart attack.
- Eladio Dieste, 82, Uruguayan engineer.[155]
- René Gerónimo Favaloro, 77, Argentine cardiologist, suicide by gunshot.[156]
- Benny Fenton, 81, English football player and manager.[157]
- Åke Hodell, 81, Swedish fighter pilot, poet, author, text-sound composer, and artist.[158]
- Richard Kerry, 85, American Foreign Service officer and lawyer, prostate cancer.[159]
- Bobby Reid, 63, Scottish football player.
- Bob Welch, 72, Canadian politician.
30
- Ab Box, 91, Canadian football player.[160]
- Jim Clark, 71, American gridiron football player.[161]
- Derek Hill, 83, English portrait and landscape painter.[162]
- Nan Leslie, 74, American actress, pneumonia.
- Max Showalter, 83, American actor (Niagara, Sixteen Candles, 10), cancer.[163]
- Jack Smiley, 77, American basketball player.[164]
31
- István Gulyás, 68, Hungarian tennis player.
- Lars Jansson, 73, Finnish author and cartoonist.
- William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., 91, American novelist, short story writer, essayist and children's author.[165]
- Constance Babington Smith, 87, British journalist and writer.[166]
- Armando Trindade, 72, Pakistani prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.[167]
- Hendrik C. van de Hulst, 81, Dutch astronomer and mathematician.[168]
- Thomas Wolff, 46, American mathematician, traffic collision.[169]
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