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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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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May 2000
1
- Cláudio Christovam de Pinho, 77, Brazilian footballer.
- John Emery, 84, British paediatric pathologist.
- Gil Fates, 85, American television producer.[1]
- David J. Mahoney, 76, American businessman and philanthropist, heart disease.[2]
- Gibby Mbasela, 37, Zambian footballer.
- Steve Reeves, 74, American actor, lymphoma.[3]
- Nora Swinburne, 97, British actress.[4]
- Jukka Tapanimäki, 38, Finnish game programmer, heart failure.
- Gérard Théberge, 69, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player, bronze medalist (1956)[5]
2
- Gretel Ammann, 53, Spanish philosopher.[6]
- Laurie Calvin Battle, 87, American politician.[7]
- Belva Cottier, 79, American Sioux activist and social worker.
- Bob Homme, 81, American-Canadian television actor, known for his role as The Friendly Giant, prostate cancer.[8]
- Bobbi Martin, 60, American country and pop music singer, songwriter, and guitarist, cancer.[9]
- Billy Munn, 88, British jazz pianist.[10]
- Harry Newman, 90, American football player.[11]
- Sundar Popo, 56, Trinidadian and Tobagonian musician.
- Christina Marie Riggs, 28, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[12]
- Teri Thornton, 65, American jazz singer, bladder cancer.[13]
- Norman Wainwright, 85, English competition swimmer and Olympian.[14]
3
- Ibrahim Akasha, Kenyan drug lord, shot.[15]
- Lewis Allen, 94, British film and television director.[16]
- Richard Friederich Arens, 81, American mathematician.[17]
- Obie Baizley, 82, Canadian politician (Manitoba).
- Júlia Báthory, 98, Hungarian glass designer.[18]
- Ed Chapman, 94, American baseball player.[19]
- William Keys, 77, Australian Army officer.
- Mamuka Kikaleishvili, 39, Georgian actor and film director.
- Bryan Lobb, 69, English cricket player.[20]
- Yoshinao Nakada, 76, Japanese composer, colorectal cancer.[21]
- John Joseph O'Connor, 80, American Roman Catholic prelate, brain cancer.[22]
- Shakuntala Paranjpye, 94, Indian writer, actress, and social worker.
- Jon Vincent, 38, American pornographic actor, heroin overdose.
- Edward J. Sponga, 82, American Jesuit priest in the Society of Jesus.
4
- Aleksandr Akhiezer, 88, Soviet Ukrainian physicist.[23]
- Sir Derick Ashe, 81, British diplomat.
- Hendrik Casimir, 90, Dutch physicist known for the Casimir effect.[24]
- Humberto Donoso, 61, Chilean football player.
- Jacques Gerschwiler, 101, Swiss figure skater and coach.
- Alwyn Kurts, 84, Australian drama and comedy actor, liver failure.
- Kieran Nugent, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer, cardiovascular disease.[25]
- Diana Ross, 89, English children's author.[26]
- Sugi Sito, 73, Mexican wrestler known as El Orgullo de Oriente.
5
- Edward Ashley-Cooper, 93, Australian actor, congestive heart failure.[27]
- Gino Bartali, 85, Italian racing cyclist.[28]
- Jan Firbas, 79, Czech linguist.
- Don Kindt, 74, American football player.[29]
- Rolf Magener, 89, German escapee from India during World War II.[30]
- Bill Musselman, 59, American basketball coach, stroke.[31]
6
- Benoy Choudhury, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
- Eleazar Jiménez, 71, Cuban chess master.
- Gordon McClymont, 79, Australian agricultural scientist and ecologist.[32]
- Lee Moore, 61, Saint Kitts and Nevis politician.
- Roger von Norman, 91, Hungarian-born German film editor and director.[33]
- John Clive Ward, 75, British-Australian physicist, respiratory illness.
- Sir Peter William Youens, 84, British diplomat and colonial administrator, pneumonia.[34]
7
- Dov Bar-Nir, 88, Belgium-Israeli politician.
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 90, American actor and the son of Douglas Fairbanks, heart attack.[35]
- Hideo Hamamura, 71, Japanese marathon runner and Olympian.[36]
- Ferrel Harris, 59, American NASCAR racecar driver.[37]
- Henry Laskau, 83, American Olympic racewalker.[38]
- José Luis López de Lacalle, Spanish journalist and trade unionist, killed by the ETA.
- Homer Thompson, 93, Canadian classical archaeologist.[39]
- Timmy Payungka Tjapangati, 58, Aboriginal Australian artist.
- Masaru Shintani, 72, Japanese-Canadian master of karate, heart attack.
8
- Pita Amor, 81, Mexican poet.[40]
- Stanley Boxer, 73, American abstract artist.[41]
- X Brands, 72, German-American actor.
- Glen Bredon, 67, American mathematician.
- William C. Brennan, 81, American lawyer and politician.
- Dédé Fortin, 37, Canadian musician, suicide.
- Hubert Maga, 83, Dahomey politician.
- Henry Nicols, 26, American HIV/AIDS activist, car accident.[42]
9
- György Csordás, 71, Freestyle swimmer from Hungary.[43]
- Arthur Davis, 94, American animator (Looney Tunes, The Jetsons, Challenge of the GoBots).
- Chris Evans, 53, Canadian ice hockey player.[44]
- William Fairchild, 82, English author, playwright, director and screenwriter.[45]
- Todor Nikolov, 54, Bulgarian football player.[46]
- John Nucatola, 92, American basketball player, coach and referee.
- Carmen Romano, 74, First Lady of Mexico (1976-1982).
- Zheng Weishan, 84, Chinese general and politician.
10
- Raymond Eddé, 87, Lebanese statesman.[47]
- Martin Farndale, 71, British army general.[48]
- Carden Gillenwater, 82, American baseball player.[49]
- Margaret Harris, 95, British costume designer.[50]
- Kiyoshi Kuromiya, 57, Japanese-American author and civil rights activist, cancer.[51]
- Virgil W. Raines, 89, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer.
- Kaneto Shiozawa, 46, Japanese voice actor, cerebral contusion.[52]
- Dick Sprang, 84, American comic book artist (Batman).
- Craig Stevens, 81, American actor, cancer.[53]
11
- Verna Aardema, 88, American writer.[54]
- Shariful Haq Amjadi, 79, Indian Islamic scholar.[55]
- David Bretherton, 76, American film editor (Cabaret, The Diary of Anne Frank, Clue), Oscar winner (1973), pneumonia.[56]
- Dale Jennings, 82, American LGBT rights activist, playwright and author.[57]
- René Muñoz, 62, Cuban actor and screenwriter, cancer.
- Albert Roberts, 91, British politician.
- Hanny Thalmann, 83, Swiss women's rights activist and politician.
- Paula Wessely, 93, Austrian actress, bronchitis.[58]
12
- Pete Abele, 83, American politician (U.S. Representative for Ohio's 10th congressional district), Alzheimer's disease.[59]
- Dave Crowe, 66, New Zealand cricket player.[60]
- Dong Kingman, 89, Chinese American artist and watercolor master.[61]
- Adam Petty, 19, American race car driver, car crash.[62]
13
- Paul Bartel, 61, American actor, writer and director, liver cancer, heart attack.[63]
- Olivier Greif, 50, French composer.[64]
- Stanley Korchinski, 71, Canadian politician.
- Boško Perošević, 43, Serbian politician.[65]
- Jumbo Tsuruta, 49, Japanese professional wrestler known as Jumbo Tsuruta, complications from liver transplant.
- Cesare Valletti, 77, Italian operatic tenor.[66]
14
- Urda Arneberg, 71, Norwegian actress.
- Johnny Cook, 51, American gospel singer formerly of the Happy Goodman Family.[67]
- Garrett Eckbo, 89, American landscape architect.[68]
- C. Eric Lincoln, 75, American scholar, diabetes.[69]
- Bob Maza, 60, Australian actor and playwright.[70]
- Keizō Obuchi, 62, Japanese politician and Prime Minister, stroke.[71]
- Rodman Rockefeller, 68, American businessman and philanthropist.[72]
- Karl Shapiro, 86, American poet.[73]
15
- Roberto Benedicto, 83, Filipino lawyer, diplomat and banker.
- Geoff Goddard, 62, English songwriter, singer and instrumentalist, heart attack.
- Robert Lee Knous, 82, American politician.
- Alfred Kuchevsky, 68, Soviet ice hockey defenceman.[74]
- George Marshall, 96, American conservationist and political activist.[75]
- Gösta Prüzelius, 77, Swedish actor, leukemia.
- Anthony Squire, 86, British screenwriter and director.[76]
16
- Bodacious, 11–12, American bucking bull and ProRodeo Hall of Fame inductee.
- Frido Frey, 78, German basketball player.[77]
- Evald Hermaküla, 58, Estonian actor and director, suicide by hanging.
- Ghulam Ali Okarvi, 80, Pakistani Islamic scholar and jurist.
- Andrzej Szczypiorski, 72, Polish novelist and politician.[78]
- Ronald Jay Williams, 72, Trinidadian businessman and politician.
17
- Donald Coggan, 90, English Anglican and 101st Archbishop of Canterbury.[79]
- Hümeyra Hanımsultan, 82, Ottoman princess.[80]
- Elsie Lessa, 86, Brazilian journalist and writer of American descent.
- William H. Poteat, 81, American philosopher, scholar and professor.[81]
- Sajjan, 79, Indian actor.
- Angelina Stepanova, 94, Soviet and Russian stage and film actress, teacher.[82]
18
- Domingos da Guia, 87, Brazilian football player and manager, stroke.[83]
- Bruno Fait, 75, Italian racewalker and Olympian.[84]
- Denis Gifford, 72, British writer, broadcaster and journalist.
- Doyle Lade, 79, American baseball player.[85]
- Yusuf Ludhianvi, 67/68, Pakistani Muslim scholar, author and muhaddith, murdered.
19
- James Verne Adams, 86, American politician.[86]
- Tony Arefin, 38, Bangladeshi art director, heart attack.[87]
- Lee Brewster, 57, American drag queen and transvestite activist, cancer.[88]
- John Grigas, 79, American gridiron football player.[89]
- Evgeniy Vasilievich Khrunov, 66, Soviet cosmonaut, heart attack.[90]
- Larry Lamb, 70, British newspaper editor.[91]
20
- Adelaide Aglietta, 59, Italian politician.[92]
- Charles Antenen, 70, Swiss football player.[93]
- Edward Bernds, 94, American director.[94]
- Dick Brown, 74, Canadian football player.
- Loyd Jowers, 73, American restaurateur, heart attack.[95]
- David Pearce, 41, Welsh heavyweight boxing champion.
- Jean-Pierre Rampal, 78, French flautist, heart failure.[96]
- Malik Sealy, 30, American basketball player, traffic collision.[97]
21
- Jules Alfonse, 88, American gridiron football player.[98]
- Dame Barbara Cartland, 98, English novelist.[99]
- Buzzy Drootin, 80, American jazz drummer.[100]
- Sir John Gielgud, 96, English actor (Arthur, Becket, Julius Caesar), Oscar winner (1982).[101]
- Dulcie Holland, 87, Australian composer and music educator.[102]
- Mark R. Hughes, 44, American entrepreneur and founder of Herbalife, accidental overdose.[103]
- Erich Mielke, 92, German communist official.[104]
- Zhao Puchu, 92, Chinese religious leader and calligrapher.[105]
- Mahmoud Zuabi, Syrian politician and Prime Minister, suicide by gunshot.
22
- William G. Akridge, 93, American judge.[106]
- Bahadoor, Indian actor.
- Krzysztof Boruń, 76, Polish physicist, journalist and science fiction writer.
- David Brookman, 83, Australian politician, traffic collision.[107]
- Eldridge Dickey, 54, American gridiron football player, stroke.[108]
- Davie Fulton, 84, Canadian politician and judge.[109]
- Gary Kerkorian, 70, American football player.[110]
- Bennie Lee Sinclair, 61, American poet, novelist, and short story writer, heart attack.[111]
- David Chadwick Smith, 68, Canadian economist.[112]
- José Rafael Molina Ureña, 79, President of the Dominican Republic.
23
- Eddy Blondeel, 94, Belgian commander of the SAS during WWII.
- Roger Garrett, 59, American actor.
- Jack Halliday, 71, American gridiron football player.[113]
- Mishari bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince as member of the House of Saud.[114]
24
- Kevin Lyons, 77, Australian politician.
- Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora, 32, Spanish cameraman and war correspondent, shot.[115]
- Kurt Schork, 53, American reporter and war correspondent, shot.[116]
- Majrooh Sultanpuri, 80, Indian Urdu poet and lyricist.
- Cliff Sutter, 89, American tennis player.
- Oleg Yefremov, 72, Soviet/Russian actor and theatre producer, lung disease.[117]
25
- Pegaret Anthony, 84, English artist.[118]
- Ken Bousfield, 80, British golfer.[119]
- Nicholas Clay, 53, British actor (Excalibur, Zulu Dawn, Evil Under the Sun), liver cancer.[120]
- Elizabeth Durack, 84, Australian artist and writer.[121]
- Seymour S. Kety, 84, American neuroscientist.[122]
- Francis Lederer, 100, Austrian-American actor.[123]
- Jaya Pathirana, 79, Sri Lankan Supreme Court justice.
26
- Robert Cockrell, 50, South African rugby union player (Western Province, national team).
- Sandra Gwyn, 65, Canadian journalist and writer.[124]
- William McCaughey, 70, American sound engineer (The Deer Hunter, Rocky, King Kong), Oscar winner (1979).
- Hamp Pool, 85, American football player, coach and scout, heart failure.
- Max Schellenberg, 72, Swiss racing cyclist.[125]
- Samuel A. Taylor, 87, American playwright and screenwriter, heart failure.[126]
- Vernon Crompton Woodward, 83, Canadian fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II.
- Sō Yamamura, 90, Japanese actor and film director, heart attack.[127]
27
- Inga Abel, 53, German actress, cancer.[128]
- Prince Gonzalo de Bourbon, 62, Spanish aristocrat, leukemia.[129]
- Kazimierz Leski, 87, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, and (counter-)intelligence officer.[130]
- Murray MacLehose, 82, British diplomat, Governor of Hong Kong.[131]
- Maurice Richard, 78, Canadian hockey player (Montreal Canadiens), cardiovascular disease.[132]
28
- Keith William Allan, 53, Australian solicitor, murdered.[133]
- George Irving Bell, 73, American scientist and mountaineer.[134]
- Donald Davies, 75, Welsh computer scientist.[135]
- Maraden Panggabean, 77, Indonesian Army general and Defense Minister, cerebrovascular disease.
- Vincentas Sladkevičius, 79, Lithuanian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Eric Turner, 31, American gridiron football player, stomach cancer.[136]
- Francisco Vestil, 85, Filipino basketball player and Olympian.[137]
- Heleen Sancisi Weerdenburg, 56, Dutch historian.[138]
29
- Clement Isong, 80, Nigerian banker and politician.
- Robert T. Oliver, 90, American author and lecturer.[139]
- Aubrey Richards, 79, British actor.
- Anthony Spinelli, 73, American actor and producer.[140]
- Doreen Young Wickremasinghe, 93, British communist politician.
30
- Tex Beneke, 86, American bandleader and musician (Glenn Miller Orchestra).[141]
- Iko Carreira, 66, Angolan army general and politician.[142]
- Robert P. Casey, 68, American lawyer and politician, amyloidosis.[143]
- Doris Hare, 95, Welsh actress.[144]
- Daisuke Inoue, 58, Japanese singer and composer, suicide by hanging.
- Ram Vilas Sharma, 87, Indian academic, poet and writer.[145]
- Bill Thomas, 78, American costume designer.
31
- John Coolidge, 93, American businessman and son of President Calvin Coolidge.[146]
- Andrew Faulds, 77, British actor and Lpolitician.[147]
- Erich Kähler, 94, German mathematician.[148]
- Petar Mladenov, 63, Bulgarian communist diplomat and politician.[149]
- Nikolaos Oikonomides, 66, Greek byzantinist.[150]
- Rodolfo Pini, 73, Uruguayan football player.[151]
- Tito Puente, 77, American musician, songwriter ("Oye Como Va") and record producer, cardiac surgery.[152]
- Joe Puma, 72, American jazz guitarist.[153]
- Hank Ruszkowski, 74, American baseball player.[154]
- Walter Sparrow, 73, English actor (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Ever After, The Secret Garden).
- Johnnie Taylor, 66, American singer, heart attack.[155]
- A. Jeyaratnam Wilson, 72, Sri Lankan Tamil academic, historian and author.
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