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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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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June 2000
1
- Angela Annabell, 71, New Zealand musicologist.[1]
- Oskar Czerwenka, 75, Austrian operatic bass and academic teacher.[2]
- Sir Raymond Ferrall, 94, Australian businessman and author.
- Edgar Z. Friedenberg, 79, American scholar of gender studies.
- Ralph Jones, 79, American drummer.
- Jim Shorter, 61, American gridiron football player.[3]
2
- Ali Akbar Aboutorabi Fard, 60-61, Iranian revolutionary, car crash.[4]
- Ellis Clary, 83, American baseball player.[5]
- Svyatoslav Fyodorov, 72, Russian ophthalmologist (a pioneer of refractive surgery) and politician, plane crash.[6]
- Adolph Hofner, 83, American swing bandleader and singer.
- Werner Panitzki, 89, German Air Force general.
- Mikhail Schweitzer, 80, Soviet film director, traffic collision.[7]
- Lepo Sumera, 50, Estonian composer.[8]
- Gerald James Whitrow, 87, British mathematician, cosmologist and science historian.[9]
3
- Leonard Baskin, 77, American sculptor, visual artist and writer.[10]
- Ted Graber, 79-80, American interior designer.[11]
- Jaishankar, 61, Indian actor, heart attack.
- Nevena Kokanova, 61, Bulgarian film actress, cancer.[12]
- Merton Miller, 77, American Nobel Prize-winning economist.[13]
- William E. Simon, 72, American politician and businessman, respiratory disease.[14]
- Ann Tse-kai, 87, Hong Kong industrialist and legislator.[15]
4
- Clarence Carter, 96, American artist.[16]
- Sir James Glover, 71, British army general.[17]
- Takashi Kano, 79, Japanese football player, heart failure.
- Richard A. Peterson, 77, United States Army Air Forces flying ace and architect, cancer.[18]
- Mark Samaranayake, 86, Sri Lankan actor.
- Hiroji Satoh, 75, Japanese table tennis player.
- Augusta H. Teller, 91, American scientist and computer programmer.[19]
- Paul Zoungrana, 82, Burkinabé cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
5
- Carl-Erik Creutz, 88, Finnish radio announcer.
- Houshang Golshiri, 62, Iranian writer and critic, meningitis.[20]
- Jeanne Hersch, 89, Swiss philosopher.[21]
- Don Liddle, 75, American baseball player.[22]
- João Nogueira, 58, Brazilian samba singer and composer.[23]
- Anna Birgitta Rooth, 81, Swedish academic.[24]
- Franco Rossi, 81, Italian film screenwriter and director.[25]
- Eugene M. Zuckert, 88, American Secretary of the Air Force, pneumonia[26]
6
- Blair Clark, 82, American journalist and political activist.[27]
- Frédéric Dard, 78, French writer.[28]
- Arnie Johnson, 80, American professional basketball player.[29]
- Seiroku Kajiyama, 74, Japanese politician.
- Alexander Evert Kawilarang, 80, Indonesian freedom fighter and military commander.
- Håkan Lidman, 85, Swedish athlete.[30]
- Maria Laura Mainetti, 60, Italian Catholic sister, stabbed.[31]
- William McMillan, 71, World-class American sport shooter and Olympic champion.[32]
- Joan Tate, 77, English translator.[33]
- Feltus Taylor, 38, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
7
- Clint Houston, 53, American jazz double-bassist.
- Don Klosterman, 70, American gridiron football player and executive.[34]
- James Moore, 44, American gospel musician, colon cancer.
- Ljubiša Savić, 41, Bosnian Serb paramilitary commander and post-war politician, murdered.[35]
- Barbara Jo Walker, 74, American model and Miss America in 1947.
8
- Andy Aitken, 80, Scottish footballer.[36]
- Hart Amos, 83, Australian comic strip writer and artist.[37]
- Lucy May Cranwell, 92, New Zealand botanist.[38]
- Norman A. Erbe, 80, American politician, Iowa governor from 1961 to 1963.
- Georges Fages, 66, French rugby player and coach.[39]
- Jack Gaud, 42, Indian actor, heart attack.
- Donald Kalish, 80, American logician and anti-war activist.[40]
- Jack Kroll, 74, American journalist and film critic.[41]
- Jeff MacNelly, 52, American editorial cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip Shoe, lymphoma.[42]
- Larry Nuber, 51, American auto racing announcer.
- Kermit Roosevelt Jr., 84, American intelligence officer.[43]
- Stephen Saunders, 52, British Army officer, drive-by shooting.
- Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu, 24, Indo-Canadian beautician, murder by slashing.
- Teuvo Tulio, 87, Finnish film director and actor.[44]
9
- John Abramovic, 81, Croatian-American professional basketball player.[45]
- Sir John Balcombe, 74, British jurist, Lord Justice of Appeal.[46]
- Shay Brennan, 63, Irish footballer.[47]
- Ernst Jandl, 74, Austrian writer.[48]
- Jacob Lawrence, 82, American painter and educator.[49]
- Muhammad Noor, 75, Indian football player.[50]
- Amédée Rolland, 86, French racing cyclist.[51]
- George Segal, 75, American painter and sculptor.[52]
- Alfred Weidenmann, 84, German film director, screenwriter, and children's author.[53]
10
- Hafez al-Assad, 69, President of Syria, heart attack.[54]
- Rômulo Arantes, 42, Brazilian swimmer and actor, plane crash.[55]
- Terry Forrestal, 52, English actor (Titanic) and stuntman (Braveheart, Batman), BASE jumping accident.[56]
- Jack Hoobin, 72, Australian cyclist and Olympian.[57]
- Frank Patterson, 61, Irish tenor.[58]
- Brian Statham, 69, English professional cricketer, leukemia.[59]
- J. Watson Webb, Jr., 84, American film editor.[60]
11
- Aud Alvær, 78, Norwegian politician.
- Geneviève Amyot, 55, Canadian poet and novelist.
- Michel Besnier, 71, French heir and businessman.
- Henry Davis, 57, American gridiron football player.[61]
- Lew Gallo, 71, American actor and television producer (Twelve O'Clock High, The Twilight Zone).[62]
- Karl-Heinz Holze, 69, German football player.[63]
- Elizabeth Lawrence, 77, American actress, cancer.
- Rajesh Pilot, 55, Indian Air Force officer and politician, traffic collision.[64]
- Ruth Rubin, 93, Canadian-American Yiddish folklorist and singer.[65]
- Earl Shinhoster, 49, American civil rights activist, traffic collision.[66]
- Claus Westermann, 90, German theologian.[67]
12
- Irving Anker, 88, American educator, natural causes.[68]
- Leonard Appelbee, 85, English painter.[69]
- Yun Bulong, 62, Chinese politician, Chairman of Inner Mongolia, traffic collision.[70]
- Sir Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce, 88, British jurist.[71]
- Edwin R. Chess, 87, American major general and Chief of Chaplains of the US Air Force.[72]
- Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, 80, Indian writer, actor, and humorist.
- Bruno Martino, 74, Italian composer, singer, and pianist.[73]
- Dave Russell, 86, Scottish football player and manager.
13
- Alberto Adriano, 38-39, Mozambican emigrant, beaten to death.[74]
- Gustavo Albella, 74, Argentine football player.
- Mona Bruns, 100, American actress.[75]
- Robert Dienst, 72, Austrian football player.[76]
- Yefim Gamburg, 75, Soviet and Russian animation director.
- Ruth Harrison, 79, English animal welfare activist and writer.
- Mitchell Olenski, 80, American football player and coach.[77]
- Jock Shaw, 87, Scottish football player.
- Duane Thomas, 39, American welterweight boxer, murdered.
- Bobby Tiefenauer, 70, American baseball player.[78]
14
- Attilio Bertolucci, 88, Italian poet and writer.[79]
- Kurt Böwe, 71, German actor.[80]
- Frederic G. Cassidy, 92, Jamaican-American linguist and lexicographer.[81]
- Paul Griffin, 62, American musician.[82]
- Robert Trent Jones, 93, British–American golf course designer.[83]
- Gianmatteo Matteotti, 79, Italian politician.
- Peter McWilliams, 50, American author, AIDS-related complications.[84]
- Harry Melville, 92, British chemist and academic.[85]
- Elsie Widdowson, 93, British chemist, dietitian and nutritionist.[86]
- Greg Wilton, 44, Australian politician, suicide.
15
- Heinrich Fichtenau, 87, Austrian medievalist.[87]
- Neville Ford, 93, English cricket player.[88]
- Grigori Gorin, 60, Soviet and Russian playwright and writer, heart attack.[89]
- Grant MacEwan, 97, Canadian farmer and politician.[90]
- Jules Roy, 92, Algerian-born French writer.[91]
- Mîna Urgan, 84, Turkish academic, author and politician.
16
- Elvin A. Kabat, 85, American microbiologist.[92]
- Empress Nagako, 97, Japanese consort of Emperor Hirohito.[93]
- Nosrat Rahmani, 72, Iranian poet and writer.
- Mike Silliman, 56, American basketball player, heart attack.[94]
- Jiang Weiqing, 89, Chinese politician.
17
- Joe Albanese, 66, American baseball player.[95]
- Bill Dodgin, Jr., 68, English football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
- Juozas Jagelavičius, 61, Lithuanian rower and Olympian medalist.[96]
- Jack Lindwall, 81, Australian rugby player.
- Ismail Mahomed, 68, South African lawyer (Chief Justice of South Africa), pancreatic cancer.[97]
- Alex Moir, 80, New Zealand cricket player.[98]
- André Vacheresse, 72, French basketball player and coach.[99]
- Clive Westlake, 67, British songwriter.
18
- Robert Abeles, 74, American biochemist.[100]
- Ekrem Alican, Turkish politician, Deputy Prime Minister.
- Jane Bowers, 79, American folk singer and songwriter.[101]
- Nancy Marchand, 71, American actress (Lou Grant, The Sopranos, Sabrina), four-time Emmy winner, lung cancer.[102]
- Boris Vasilyev, 63, Russian cyclist and Olympian.[103]
19
- Mary Benson, 80, South African civil rights activist.[104]
- Ron Casey, 72, Australian sporting commentator and radio and television pioneer.
- Anton Gorchev, 60, Bulgarian actor.[105]
- Christiane Herzog, 63, wife of Roman Herzog, former President of Germany, cancer.[106]
- Tokuji Iida, 76, Japanese baseball player.
- William Papas, 72, South African-born British political cartoonist and caricaturist.[107]
- Harry Riccobene, 90, American mobster (Philadelphia crime family).
- Noboru Takeshita, 76, Japanese politician and the 74th Prime Minister of Japan (1987–1989), stroke.[108]
20
- Basanta Choudhury, 72, Indian actor.
- Alan Basil de Lastic, 70, Burmese Roman Catholic archbishop, traffic collision.
- Ron Lamb, 56, American football player.[109]
- Chanchal Kumar Majumdar, 61, Indian physicist.
- Karl Mickel, 64, German writer.[110]
- Carlota O'Neill, 95, Spanish feminist writer and journalist.[111]
21
- Ion Alecsandrescu, 71, Romanian footballer and executive.[112]
- Claude Bissell, 84, Canadian author and educator.[113]
- Ronny Coutteure, 48, Belgian actor, director, author, TV presenter and restaurateur, suicide by hanging.[114]
- Ezequiel Ataucusi Gamonal, 82, Peruvian politician and self-proclaimed prophet, kidney failure.
- Alan Hovhaness, 89, American composer.[115]
- C. Stanley Ogilvy, 87, American mathematician, sailor, and author.
- Thomas Harrison Provenzano, 51, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
- Günther Sabetzki, 85, German ice hockey player and executive.
- Billy Sperrin, 78, English football player and coach.
- Bud Stewart, 84, American baseball player.[116]
22
- Kedarnath Agarwal, 89, Indian poet and writer.[117]
- Michel Droit, 77, French novelist and journalist.[118]
- Svein Finnerud, 54, Norwegian jazz pianist, painter and graphic artist.
- Shaka Sankofa, 36, American death-row inmate, execution by lethal injection.
- Osamu Takizawa, 93, Japanese actor, pneumonia.[119]
- Harry Usher, 61, American attorney, heart attack.[120]
23
- Shawkat Akbar, 63, Bangladeshi film actor.
- Geng Biao, 90, Chinese politician.
- Philippe Chatrier, 72, French tennis player and executive.[121]
- Enrico Cuccia, 92, Italian banker.[122]
- Peter Dubovský, 28, Slovak footballer, fall from cliff.
- Leesa Gray, 16, American murder victim.
- Ed Hughes, 72, American football player and coach.[123]
- Yehuda Kalmen Marlow, 68, German-American rabbi.
- Keith Reemtsma, 74, American transplant surgeon, liver cancer.[124]
- Jerome Richardson, 79, American jazz musician, heart failure.[125]
- Jim Roper, 83, American NASCAR driver, heart and liver failure caused by cancer.[126]
- Bob Tillman, 63, American baseball player.[127]
24
- Vera Atkins, 92, Romanian-British intelligence officer and SOE operative during World War II.[128]
- Hanna Batatu, 74, Palestinian marxist historian.[129]
- Rodrigo Bueno, 27, Argentine singer, car collision.
- Vintilă Cossini, 86, Romanian football midfielder.[130]
- Enoch Dogolea, 48, Liberian politician, Vice President of Liberia (1997–2000), illness (disputed).[131]
- Duncan Kyle, 70, British novelist.
- Charles Andrew MacGillivary, 83, American Medal of Honor recipient.
- Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, 72, Pakistani politician.
- Robert Ridder, 80, American media businessman and philanthropist.
- Mike Todorovich, 77, American basketball player and coach.[132]
- David Tomlinson, 83, English actor (Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Love Bug), stroke.[133]
25
- Barbara Christian, 56, American author and professor of African-American Studies, lung cancer.[134]
- Wilson Simonal, 62, Brazilian singer, liver cirrhosis.[135]
- Pascal Themanlys, 90, French-Israeli poet, zionist, and kabbalist.
- Austin Bernard Vaughan, 72, American prelate of the Catholic Church, complications following heart attack.[136]
- Judith Wright, 85, Australian poet, environmentalist and aboriginal rights activist.[137]
26
- Ken Bell, 85, Canadian war photographer.[138]
- Pier Carpi, 60, Italian essayist, novelist, film director and screenwriter.[139]
- Stig Engström, 66, Swedish graphic designer and suspected murderer of Olof Palme, suicide.
- Lucien Laurin, 88, French-Canadian jockey and horse trainer.[140]
- Corneliu Mănescu, 84, Romanian diplomat.[141]
- Arne Thomas Olsen, 90, Norwegian actor, stage producer and theatre director.
- Logan Ramsey, 79, American character actor, heart attack.[142]
- Avraham Yosef Shapira, 79, Israeli politician and businessman.[143]
27
- Larry Kelley, 85, American football player, suicide by gunshot.[144]
- David Neal, 68, English actor.
- Gerhard Pfeiffer, 77, German chess master.
- Pierre Pflimlin, 93, French politician.[145]
- Harry Prowell, 63, Guyanese long distance runner and Olympian.[146]
- Krishna Riboud, 73, Indian historian and art collector.[147]
- Tobin Rote, 72, American football player, heart attack.[148]
28
- Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood, 87, British politician.[149]
- John Terence Coppock, 79, British geographer.[150]
- William Glock, 92, British arts administrator and music critic.[151]
- Dick James, 66, American football player, prostate cancer.[152]
- Nils Poppe, 92, Swedish actor, comedian, director, screenwriter and theatre manager, stroke.[153]
- Michael Ripper, 87, English actor.[154]
- Anton Tamarut, 67, Croatian Roman Catholic prelate.[155]
- Józef Tischner, 69, Polish priest and philosopher, laryngeal cancer.[156]
- Arnie Weinmeister, 77, American football player (New York Giants) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[157]
29
- John Abineri, 72, English actor.[158]
- C. Anbarasan, Indian politician.[159]
- John Aspinall, 74, British zoo owner, cancer.[160]
- Roy Gagnon, 87, American gridiron football player.[161]
- Vittorio Gassman, 77, Italian actor, heart attack.[162]
- Leo Martello, 69, American Wiccan priest, gay rights activist, and author, cancer.
- Germaine Montero, 90, French singer and actress.[163]
- Rodney Nuckey, 71, English racing driver.
30
- Harold Aks, 78, American conductor and music educator.[164]
- W. David Kingery, 73, American material scientist, heart attack.[165]
- Robert L. Manahan, 43, American actor (Power Rangers), aneurysm.
- Franklin D. Miller, 55, American Special Forces staff sergeant during the Vietnam War, cancer.[166]
- Vahé Oshagan, 77, Armenian poet, writer, literary critic.[167]
- Mikalay Yaromenka, 74, Soviet and Belarusian actor.
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