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.[1]
- Barbara Brooke, Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte, 92, British politician.[2]
- P. P. Ummer Koya, 78, Indian politician, Gandhian, freedom fighter and educationist.
- Franklin P. Peterson, 70, American mathematician, stroke.
- Gerry Sullivan, 57, Australian politician.[3]
2
- Vicente Asensi, 81, Spanish football player.[4]
- Ishaq Bux, 83, Indian actor.
- Heinz Harmel, 94, German SS general during World War II.
- Jean Speegle Howard, 73, American actress (Apollo 13, Scrooged, Matilda), respiratory disease and cardiomyopathy.[5]
- Elvera Sanchez, 95, American dancer.[6]
- Curt Siodmak, 98, German-American novelist and screenwriter (The Wolf Man, Donovan's Brain), cancer.[7]
- Gennady Smirnov, 45, Russian footballer.[8]
- Audrey Wise, 68, British politician.[9]
3
- Asaf Abdrakhmanov, 81, Soviet naval officer and war hero during World War II.
- Edward Anhalt, 86, American screenwriter (Panic in the Streets), Oscar winner (1951), cancer.[10]
- Clodomiro Cortoni, 77, Argentine cyclist.[11]
- Oldřich Daněk, 73, Czech dramatist, writer, director and screenwriter.[12]
- R. H. Harris, 84, American gospel singer (Soul Stirrers).[13]
- Jack Simmons, 85, British transport historian.[14]
- Clyde Sukeforth, 98, American baseball player.[15]
- Indriði Guðmundur Þorsteinsson, 74, Icelandic writer.
- Walt Stanchfield, 81, American animator (The Jungle Book, The Fox and the Hound, The Great Mouse Detective).
4
- Augusto Vargas Alzamora, 77, Peruvian prelate in the Roman Catholic Church.[16]
- Sir John Beith, 86, British diplomat.[17]
- David Brown, 53, American bass guitarist (Santana), kidney failure.
- Jack Fjeldstad, 85, Norwegian actor and stage producer.
- Pinky May, 89, American baseball player.[18]
- Mihály Mayer, 66, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic champion (1964).[19]
- Mukri, 78, Indian film actor, heart attack.
- Gilles Potvin, 76, Canadian music critic and music historian.[20]
- Antonio Ruberti, 73, Italian politician and engineer.[21]
- Mary Shepard, 90, English illustrator of children's books.[22]
5
- Margaret Andrew, 92, American experimental engineer.[23]
- Carlo M. Cipolla, 78, Italian economic historian.[24]
- Roy Fredericks, 57, West Indian cricketer, cancer.[25]
- George Musso, 90, American football player (Chicago Bears) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[26]
- Palle Nielsen, 80, Danish illustrator and graphic artist.[27]
6
- David E. Bell, 81, American public servant, director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (1961–1962).[28]
- Robert Lindsay, 95, English-born Australian politician.
- Abdul Haris Nasution, 81, Indonesian general and politician, cerebrovascular disease.[29]
- Nino Ramishvili, 90, Soviet and Georgian ballet dancer and choreographer.
- Fritz Ruchay, 90, German football player and manager.[30]
- Jürgen Schütze, 49, East German racing cyclist.[31]
- Jiří Sovák, 79, Czech actor.[32]
- Kees van Aelst, 83, Dutch water polo player and Olympian (1936 Summer Olympics).[33]
- Roger Verey, 88, Polish rower.[34]
- Desmond Wilcox, 69, British journalist and television producer, heart attack.
7
- Hyginus Anugo, 22, Nigerian sprinter, car accident.[35]
- Bruce Gyngell, 71, Australian television executive, cancer-related illness.[36]
- Eigil Nielsen, 81, Danish amateur football goalkeeper and Olympic medalist.[37]
- Gian Luigi Polidoro, 73, Italian film director and screenwriter.
- Vitaliy Popovich, 37, Ukrainian racewalker, suicide.
- Aleksander Skiba, 55, Polish volleyball player and coach.
- Nick Tremark, 87, American baseball player.[38]
8
- Enrique Alessio, 82, Argentine musician.
- Yves Gaucher, 66, Canadian abstract painter and printmaker.[39]
- Otto Katharus Lind, 79, Danish resistance fighter and general.[40]
- Carlos Castillo Peraza, 53, Mexican politician, heart attack.[41]
- Raul Roulien, 94, Brazilian actor, singer, and film director.
9
- Julian Critchley, 69, British politician.[42]
- Herbert Friedman, 84, American physicist and astronomer, cancer.[43]
- Chuck Holmes, 55, American adult film producer, businessman and philanthropist, AIDS-related complications.
- Veerasamy Ringadoo, 79, Mauritian politician, minister and Governor-General of Mauritius.
- Peter Robinson, 78, English football player.
- Robert S. Stevens, American politician and jurist.[44]
- Bill Waddington, 84, English music hall performer, actor, and comedian, Parkinson's disease.
10
- Jakie Astor, 82, English politician and sportsman.[45]
- Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, 81, Pakistani writer and journalist.[46]
- Chandra Khonnokyoong, 91, Thai Maechi.
- William Nierenberg, 81, American physicist and member of the Manhattan Project, cancer.[47]
- Lester Novros, 91, American artist and animator.
- Ben Wicks, 73, British-Canadian cartoonist, illustrator, and author, cancer.[48]
11
- Herbert H. Bateman, 72, American politician, cancer.[49]
- Peter Browne, 76, Australian politician.
- Joe Dale, 79, English footballer.
- Philipp Fehl, 80, Austrian artist and art historian.[50]
- Ham Heung-chul, 69, South Korean football player and manager.
- Martin James Monti, 78, US Army Air Force pilot.
- William Wilson Quinn, 92, US Army officer.[51]
- Joe Skubitz, 94, American politician.[52]
12
- Leonard Alufurai, 74-75, Solomon Island bishop.[53]
- Juan Ibáñez Díez-Gutiérrez, 62, Mexican actor, film director, producer and writer.
- Konrad Kujau, 62, German illustrator and forger, cancer.[54]
- Gary Olsen, 42, English actor (2point4 Children, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The Bill), cancer.[55]
- Alfredo Pasotti, 75, Italian road bicycle racer.[56]
- Stanley Turrentine, 66, American jazz tenor saxophonist.[57]
13
- Lloyd Anderson, 98, American business executive.[58]
- Jānis Gilis, 57, Soviet and Latvian football player.
- Betty Jeffrey, 92, Australian writer.
- Howard Johnson, 89, British politician.[59]
- Rolf Kauka, 83, German comic artist.[60]
- Jerzy Lipiński, 91, Polish racing cyclist.[61]
- Duane Swanson, 87, American basketball player.[62]
- Pedro Morales Torres, 68, Chilean football manager.
14
- George Christopher, 92, Greek-American politician.[63]
- Jerzy Giedroyc, 94, Polish writer and political activist.[64]
- Jean Halain, 80, French film screenwriter.
- Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale, 86, British politician.[65]
- Cheng Kejie, 66, Chinese government official, execution by lethal injection.
- Igor Luzhkovsky, 62, Russian swimmer and Olympian.
- George Myatt, 86, American baseball player.[66]
- Beah Richards, 80, American actress (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night, ER), Emmy winner (1988, 2000), pulmonary emphysema.[67]
- Hwang Sun-won, 85, Korean short story writer, novelist, and poet.
15
- David Flusser, 83, Israeli professor of Early Christianity.[68]
- Jennifer Gan, 62, American actress.
- George Kanahele, 70, American native Hawaiian activist, historian and author.[69]
- Frank John Kerr, 82, Australian astronomer and physicist.
- Harmar Nicholls, 87, British politician.[70]
- Jean Yancey, 86, American entrepreneur and motivational speaker, heart failure.
16
- Nadina Abarth-Žerjav, 88, Slovene-Italian businesswoman.[71]
- Ioan Alexandru, 58, Romanian poet, essayist and politician.
- M. H. M. Ashraff, 51, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, helicopter crash.
- Dori Brenner, 53, American actress (Altered States, The Charmings, Ned and Stacey), complications from cancer.[72]
- John Perkovich, 76, American baseball player.[73]
- Alexandra Petrova, 19, Russian model and beauty pageant contestant, murdered.
- Dharma Vira, 94, Indian politician.[74]
17
- Hester Burton, 86, English children's writer.
- Cruz Martínez Esteruelas, 68, Spanish politician.
- Heorhii Gongadze, 31, Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and film director, homicide.[75]
- Armand Mestral, 82, French actor and singer.[76]
- Nicole Reinhart, 24, American cyclist, cycling accident.[77]
- Dem Rădulescu, 68, Romanian actor, heart attack.[78]
- Chico Salmon, 59, Panamanian baseball player.[79]
- Henry T. Weinstein, 76, American film producer.[80]
- Paula Yates, 41, British television presenter and journalist, drug overdose.[81]
18
- Glyde Butler, 68, Australian politician.
- Gilbert Carpentier, 80, French television show producer.
- Tony Graboski, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.[82]
- Dawn Langley Simmons, 77, English author and biographer, Parkinson's disease.[83]
- Chen Yuefang, 37, Chinese basketball player and Olympic medalist.[84]
19
- Joseph Epes Brown, 80, American scholar of Native American traditions.[85]
- Ann Doran, 89, American character actress.[86]
- Fulvio Mingozzi, 74, Italian actor.
- Karl Robatsch, 70, Austrian chess player and botanist, cancer.
- Gloria Talbott, 69, American actress, kidney failure.[87]
20
- Theresa Ahearn, 49, Irish politician, cancer.[88]
- Dorothy Emmet, 95, British philosopher and academic.[89]
- Mona Moore, 83, British painter and illustrator.
- Jeanloup Sieff, 66, French photographer, cancer.[90]
- Stanislav Stratiev, 59, Bulgarian playwright.
- Gherman Titov, 65, Soviet cosmonaut, heart failure.[91]
21
- Robert Wright Campbell, 73, American author and scriptwriter.[92]
- Jacques Flynn, 85, Canadian lawyer and politician.
- Bengt Hambraeus, 72, Swedish-Canadian organist, composer and musicologist.[93]
- Iskandar Khatloni, 45, Tajikistani writer and journalist, murdered.
- Ognjen Petrović, 52, Serbian goalkeeper.[94]
- Frederic Seaman, 94, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.[95]
- John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, 85, British aristocrat.[96]
22
- Yehuda Amichai, 76, Israeli poet, cancer.[97]
- Willie Cook, 76, American jazz trumpeter.[98]
- Vincenzo Fagiolo, 82, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.[99]
- Dov Feigin, 93, Israeli sculptor.
- Alexei Kostrikin, 71, Russian mathematician.
- Mike Nixon, 88, American football player, coach and scout.[100]
- Anthony Read, 87, British Army general.
- Saburō Sakai, 84, Japanese flying ace during World War II, heart attack.[101]
- Bill Sommers, 77, American baseball player.[102]
- Otto Walzhofer, 74, Austrian football player and coach.
23
- Hanson Taylor Dowell, 94, Canadian ice hockey administrator and politician.
- Eiichi Kudo, 71, Japanese film director, cerebral hemorrhage.[103]
- Václav Migas, 56, Czech international footballer.[104]
- Aurelio Rodríguez, 52, Mexican Major League Baseball player, traffic accident.[105]
- Carl Rowan, 75, American government official, journalist and author.[106]
- Kenny Smith, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.[107]
24
- Basil Bernstein, 75, British sociologist.[108]
- Janice Biala, 97, Polish-American artist.[109]
- Dorr Bothwell, 98, American artist and designer.[110]
- Antony Darnborough, 86, British film producer and director.
- Marcel Lambert, 81, Canadian politician.
- Jean Malléjac, 71, French bicycle racer.[111]
- Stephen McKeag, 30, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, drug overdose.
- Horacio Rivero, Jr., 90, Puerto Rican four-star admiral.[112]
25
- Tom Baker, 79, British Anglican priest.[113]
- Buster Matheney, 44, American basketball player, shot.[114]
- Heberto Padilla, 68, Cuban poet, heart attack.[115]
- Tommy Reilly, 81, English musician.[116]
- Edy Schmid, 89, Swiss field handball player and Olympic medalist.[117]
- R. S. Thomas, 87, Welsh poet.[118]
26
- Neva Abelson, 89, American research physician (co-discovered the blood test for the Rh blood factor).[119]
- Nick Fatool, 85, American jazz drummer.[120]
- Paul Gouyon, 89, French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.[121]
- Mohamed Suffian Mohamed Hashim, 82, Malaysian judge.
- Robert Lax, 84, American poet.[122]
- Aleksandras Lileikis, 93, Lithuanian-American Holocaust perpetrator during World War II.
- Richard Mulligan, 67, American actor (Soap, Empty Nest, Little Big Man), Emmy winner (1980, 1989), cancer.[123]
- Baden Powell, 63, Brazilian guitarist, pneumonia.[124]
- Carl Sigman, 91, American songwriter.[125]
27
- Mario Arillo, 88, Italian naval officer.[126]
- Joshua Russell Chandran, 82, Indian Christian theologian.
- David Jennens, 71, English rower and Olympian.[127]
- Sammy Luftspring, 84, Canadian boxer.[128]
- Isaac Oceja, 85, Spanish football player and coach.
- Frank Wills, 52, American security guard, discovered Watergate break-in, brain cancer.[129]
- Oh Yun-kyo, 40, South Korean football player.
28
- Ted Gehring, 71, American actor.
- Peter Gennaro, 80, American dancer and choreographer (Annie).[130]
- V. E. Howard, 88, American minister and radio evangelist.[131]
- Mike McKevitt, 71, American politician.[132]
- Roger Nott, 91, Australian politician.
- Carlos Revilla, 67, Spanish voice actor, heart attack.[133]
- Phot Sarasin, 95, Thai diplomat and politician.[134]
- Pierre Trudeau, 80, Prime Minister of Canada, prostate cancer.[135]
29
- Myles Ferguson, 19, Canadian actor, traffic collision.
- William Fry, 91, Australian politician.
- John Grant, 67, British politician.[136]
- Lynn Lovenguth, 77, American baseball player.[137]
- Maningning Miclat, 28, Filipino poet and painter, suicide by jumping.[138]
- Carlos Savage, 81, Mexican film editor and actor.
- Vidoje Žarković, 73, Yoguslav-Montenegrin communist politician.
30
- Sisir Kumar Bose, 80, Indian freedom fighter and writer.
- Lina Bryans, 91, Australian modernist painter.
- Iván Esperón, 88, Argentine football player and coach.
- Zoran Gopčević, 45, Yugoslav water polo player (silver medal winner in 1980 Summer Olympics).[139]
- Ragnhild Michelsen, 89, Norwegian actress.
- Erno Paasilinna, 65, Finnish writer and journalist, cancer.[140]
- Sir Fred Pontin, 93, English businessman.[141]
- Luis Rubén di Palma, 55, Argentine racing driver, helicopter crash.[142]
- Dennis Sandole, 87, American jazz guitarist, composer, and music educator.[143]
- Joe Sheridan, 85, Irish politician.
- Mario Valota, 82, Swiss fencer and Olympic medalist.[144]
- Joe Watson, 48, Australian football player, liver cancer.
- Joseph Weber, 81, American physicist, lymphoma.[145]
- Howard Winstone, 61, Welsh boxer.[146]
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