Deaths in April 2000

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

1

 * Eric Bishop, 74, Canadian sports journalist and -broadcaster.
 * Dorothy Whitson Freed, 81, New Zealand composer.
 * Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, 75, British judge.
 * Graham Mann, 75, British competitive sailor and Olympic medalist.
 * Willard J. Smith, 89, United States Coast Guard admiral.

2

 * Fred Kwasi Apaloo, 79, Ghanaian judge.
 * Synnøve Anker Aurdal, 91, Norwegian textile artist.
 * Bunney Brooke, 80, Australian actress and casting director, (Round the Twist, Number 96, E Street), bowel and liver cancer.
 * Tommaso Buscetta, 71, Italian Mafia informant, cancer.
 * Greta Gynt, 83, Norwegian singer, dancer and actress.
 * Robert Sainsbury, 93, British businessman and art benefactor.

3

 * Milko Bobotsov, 68, Bulgarian chess grandmaster.
 * Jean Dominique, 69, Haitian journalist and, homicide.
 * Mahpeyker Hanımsultan, 82, Ottoman princess.
 * Marta Hoepffner, 88, German artist and photographer.
 * Eri Irianto, 26, Indonesian football player, heart attack.
 * Evelyn Irons, 99, Scottish journalist and war correspondent.
 * Terence McKenna, 53, American ethnobotanist, mystic, psychonaut and author, brain cancer.
 * James Sanfey, 1999, Irish Fine Gael politician.

4

 * Brandãozinho, 74, Brazilian footballer.
 * Diamond Teeth Mary, 97, American singer and vaudeville entertainer.
 * Rolf Pingel, 86, German Luftwaffe flying ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II.
 * John W. Rollins, 84, American businessman and politician.
 * Carl L. Sitter, 77, US Marine Corps officer and Medal of Honor recipient.
 * William Stokoe, 80, American linguist.
 * Sy Weintraub, 76, American film and television producer.

5

 * Kanika Banerjee, 75, Indian singer.
 * Elisa Breton, 93, French artist and writer.
 * Nematollah Gorji, 74, Iranian theatre and film actor.
 * Heinrich Müller, 90, Austrian football player and coach.
 * Lee Petty, 86, American race car driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, abdominal aortic aneurysm.
 * Irina Sebrova, 85, Soviet Air Forces pilot and officer.
 * Chino 'Fats' Williams, 66, American actor.
 * Rolando Zanni, 86, Italian alpine skier and Olympian.
 * Janusz Ziółkowski, 75, Polish sociologist and politician.

6

 * Habib Bourguiba, 96, President of Tunisia.
 * Mohammad-Ali Fardin, 69, Iranian actor and wrestler, cardiac arrest.
 * Bertram Forer, 85, American psychologist.
 * Don Johnson, 88, American baseball player.
 * Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz, 87, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic cardinal.

7

 * Bjarte Birkeland, 79, Norwegian literary researcher.
 * Broery, 51, Indonesian singer, stroke.
 * Meriel Forbes, 86, English actress.
 * Heinz, 57, German-British bassist and singer, stroke.
 * Masayuki Minami, 58, Japanese Olympic volleyball player.
 * Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, 79, Brazilian football goalkeeper, heart attack.
 * Werner Rauh, 86, German biologist, botanist and author.

8

 * Ibrahim Ahmad, 86, Kurdish writer, novelist, and judge.
 * Alfredo Alcala, 74, Filipino comics artist, cancer.
 * Bernie Grant, 56, British politician, heart attack.
 * Claire Trevor, 90, American actress, respiratory failure.
 * Harry Williamson, 86, American middle-distance runner.
 * František Šťastný, 72, Czech Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

9

 * Alan Betrock, 49, American music publisher, author and record producer, cancer.
 * Hansi Brand, 87, Hungarian-Israeli zionist activist and rescue worker during World War II.
 * Tony Cliff, 82, British Trotskyist writer and journalist.
 * Catherine Crook de Camp, 92, American science fiction and fantasy author.
 * Robert Komer, 78, American diplomat.
 * W. Bruce Lincoln, 61, American scholar and author.
 * James William Malone, 80, American prelate of the Catholic Church.

10

 * Rabah Bitat, 74, Algerian politician.
 * Angela Yu Chien, 57, Chinese-Hong Kong actress, cancer.
 * Arnold Johnson, 78, American actor.
 * Peter Jones, 79, British actor.
 * Larry Linville, 60, American actor (M*A*S*H), lung cancer.
 * Olappamanna, 77, Indian poet, heart attack.
 * Kirsten Rolffes, 71, Danish actress, breast cancer.

11

 * George Barr, 84, Scottish-American soccer player.
 * Diana Darvey, 54, English actress, singer and dancer, fall.
 * André Deutsch, 82, Hungarian-British publisher.
 * Lucia Dlugoszewski, 74, Polish-American composer, poet, and inventor.
 * Dewayne Douglas, 68, American football player and coach.
 * Salvador Lazo Lazo, 81, Filipino prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Flaminio Piccoli, 84, Italian politician.
 * Olav Økern, 88, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympic medalist.

12

 * Ingemund Bengtsson, 81, Swedish politician, and Speaker of the Riksdag.
 * David Crighton, 57, British mathematician and physicist.
 * Carmen Dillon, 91, English film art director and production designer.
 * Max Hofmeister, 87, Austrian football player.
 * Ronald Lockley, 96, Welsh ornithologist and naturalist.
 * Gerald Francis O'Keefe, 82, American bishop of the Catholic Church, heart attack.
 * Christopher Pettiet, 24, American actor, drug overdose.
 * Giles Shaw, 68, British politician, stroke.
 * James Vorenberg, 72, American legal scholar, heart attack.

13

 * Giorgio Bassani, 84, Italian writer.
 * Frenchy Bordagaray, 90, American baseball player.
 * Aivars Gipslis, 63, Latvian chess grandmaster.
 * Inglis Gundry, 94, English composer, novelist, and musicologist.
 * Pete Minger, 57, American trumpeter and flugelhornist.
 * Albert Turner, 64, American civil rights activist, abdominal bleeding.

14

 * Ludwig Durek, 79, Austrian football player.
 * Sebastián Fleitas, 53, Paraguay football player, stroke.
 * Ted Grouya, 89, Romanian-American composer.
 * Donald Gullick, 75, Welsh rugby player.
 * Phil Katz, 37, American computer programmer (zip file format), pancreatitis.
 * August R. Lindt, 94, Swiss lawyer and diplomat.
 * Wilf Mannion, 81, English professional footballer.
 * Charlie O'Rourke, 82, American football player and coach.
 * George E. Taylor, 94, American sinologist.

15

 * Edward Gorey, 75, American writer and illustrator, heart failure.
 * Irina Gubanova, 60, Russian ballerina and film actress, pneumonia.
 * Ba Kyi, 87, Burmese artist.
 * Ernest Nègre, 92, French toponymist.
 * Todd Webb, 94, American photographer.

16

 * Henry Daniels, 87, British statistician.
 * Domingo Federico, 83, Argentine bandoneon player, songwriter and actor.
 * Policarpo Paz García, 67, Honduran military leader, kidney failure.
 * Hayati Hamzaoğlu, 67, Turkish actor.
 * Ann Mui, 40, Hong Kong singer and sister of Anita Mui, cervical cancer.
 * Syed Putra of Perlis, 79, Malayasian monarch.
 * Sherwood Washburn, 88, American physical anthropologist.

17

 * Pyotr Glebov, 85, Russian actor.
 * Normand Hamel, 44, Canadian outlaw biker and gangster.
 * Alice Marriott, 92, American philanthropist.
 * Volodymyr Panteley, 54, Ukrainian middle-distance runner and Olympian.
 * Paula Salomon-Lindberg, 102, German classical contralto.
 * Megan Williams, 43, Australian actress and singer, breast cancer.

18

 * Isaac Berenblum, 96, Polish-Israeli biochemist.
 * Tony Frank, 56, American actor.
 * Maxwell Khobe, 50, Nigerian Army general, encephalitis.
 * Irja Lipasti, 94, Finnish sprinter and Olympian.
 * Martin Mailman, 67, American composer.
 * Erzsi Pártos, 93, Hungarian actress.

19

 * Louis Applebaum, 82, Canadian film score composer and conductor.
 * Masakazu Fukuda, 27, Japanese professional wrestler, brain hemorrhage.
 * Kyung-Chik Han, 97, Korean pastor.
 * Grigor Khanjyan, 73, Soviet-Armenian artist, painter, and illustrator.
 * Chang Kyou-chul, 53, South Korean boxer and Olympic bronze medalist.
 * Krum Milev, 84, Bulgarian football player and manager.
 * Candace Newmaker, 10, American victim of child abuse, suffocation.
 * Sergey Zalygin, 86, Soviet writer and environmentalist.

20

 * Fred Boensch, 79, American gridiron football player.
 * Bill Dean, 78, British actor.
 * Willy Harlander, 68, German actor, heart attack.
 * Philip Childs Keenan, 92, American astronomer.

21

 * Gunther Gerzs, 84, Hungarian-Mexican painter, director and screenwriter.
 * Al Purdy, 81, Canadian poet.
 * Robert H. Robins, 78, British linguist.
 * Susan Stephen, 68, English film actress.
 * Nigar Sultana, 67, Indian actress.

22

 * Alexander H. Cohen, 79, American theatrical producer.
 * Arnt Eliassen, 84, Norwegian meteorologist.
 * Toon Hermans, 83, Dutch comedian, singer and writer.
 * Edwin O'Donovan, 85, American art director.
 * Robert W. Porter, Jr., 91, United States Army general, heart attack.
 * Margaret Singana, 62, South African musician.

23

 * Jerry Catena, 98, American mobster (Genovese crime family), heart attack.
 * Erle Cocke, Jr., 74, American businessman and war veteran, pancreatic cancer.
 * Shigeru Sugiura, 92, Japanese manga artist.
 * David Thorne, 66, British army general.
 * Pearl Padamsee, 69, Indian actress, director and producer.

24

 * Derek Allhusen, 86, British Olympic equestrian.
 * John Beck, 65, New Zealand cricket player.
 * Chic Brodie, 63, Scottish footballer, prostate cancer.
 * Pru Chapman, 50, New Zealand competition swimmer and Olympian.
 * Ulla Isaksson, 83, Swedish author and screenplay writer.
 * William Moore, 84, English character actor.
 * Karamana Janardanan Nair, 63, Indian film actor, stroke.
 * Barkin' Bill Smith, 71, American blues singer and songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
 * George Volkoff, 86, Russian-Canadian physicist and academic.

25

 * Niels Viggo Bentzon, 80, Danish composer and pianist.
 * Richard Carr, 89, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.
 * Richard Donahoe, 90, Canadian lawyer and politician.
 * Ben Fernandez, 75, American politician and financial consultant.
 * Alla Larionova, 69, Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, heart attack.
 * Lucien Le Cam, 75, French mathematician.
 * David Merrick, 88, American theatre producer and director.
 * Franjo Rupnik, 78, Croatian football player.
 * Mukhram Sharma, 90, Indian film lyricist, script, and story writer.

26

 * Gregory Gillespie, 63, American magic realist painter, suicide by hanging.
 * Ernest Victor Siracusa, 81, American diplomat.
 * Len Smith, 82, Australian rugby player.
 * Herbert Wechsler, 90, American legal scholar.

27

 * Charles Ralph Boxer, 96, British historian.
 * Ovid S. Crohmălniceanu, 78, Romanian literary critic and science fiction writer.
 * Clifford Forsythe, 70, Northern Irish Ulster Unionist Party politician.
 * Brooks Lawrence, 75, American baseball player.
 * William P. Mahoney Jr., 83, American attorney and diplomat.
 * Errett Weir McDiarmid, 90, American librarian and academic.
 * Yusof Rawa, 76, Malaysian politician, pneumonia.
 * Vicki Sue Robinson, 45, American singer ("Turn the Beat Around") and actress, cancer.

28

 * Kim Borg, 80, Finnish bass, teacher and composer.
 * Arthur Dake, 90, American chess player.
 * Jerzy Einhorn, 74, Polish-Swedish medical doctor, researcher and politician, leukemia.
 * Federico Brito Figueroa, 78, Venezuelan marxist historian and anthropologist.
 * Penelope Fitzgerald, 83, British writer.
 * Sergey Khristianovich, 91, Soviet/Russian mechanics scientist.
 * Jack Merson, 78, American baseball player.
 * Doug Phillips, 80, Welsh rugby player.

29

 * Jane Cadwell, 85, American competition swimmer and Olympian.
 * Chen Fangyun, 84, Chinese electrical engineer.
 * Chintamani Panigrahi, 78, Indian independence activist and writer.
 * John Patrick, 81, American gridiron football player.
 * Harriet Lange Rheingold, 92, American child development psychologist.
 * Antonio Buero Vallejo, 83, Spanish playwright, stroke.
 * Pham Van Dong, 94, Vietnamese communist politician, Prime Minister (1955–1976).
 * Buck Varner, 69, American baseball player.
 * Italo Zingarelli, 70, Italian film producer.

30

 * Vasilis Georgiadis, 78, Greek film director and actor.
 * Henry Goode, 81, American field hockey player and Olympian.
 * Poul Hartling, 85, Danish politician, Prime Minister (1973–1975).
 * Bernhard Heiden, 89, German-American composer.
 * Jonah Jones, 90, American jazz trumpeter.
 * Marjorie Noël, 54, French pop singer, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Richard Tsimba, 34, Zimbabwean rugby player, traffic collision.
 * Ruth Turner, 86, American marine biologist and malacologist.
 * Barry Ulanov, 82, American writer.
 * Leon Vandaele, 67, Belgian road bicycle racer.