Deaths in August 2000

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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

 * Maxie Berger, 83, Canadian boxer.
 * Hugh Hood, 72, Canadian novelist, essayist and university professor.
 * Ali Sardar Jafri, 86, Indian urdu writer.
 * Nanjil K. Manoharan, 71, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
 * Steve McCrory, 36, American boxer.
 * Benedetto Pola, 85, Italian cyclist.
 * Joseph Robert Sealy, 93, English botanist.
 * Galina Sergeyeva, 86, Soviet and Russian actress.

2

 * William Rossa Cole, 80, American anthologist, columnist, and writer.
 * Shlomo Halberstam, 92, American rabbi.
 * Trevor Leggett, 85, British author and translator, stroke.
 * Jan Mertens, 84, Dutch politician.
 * Patricia Moyes, 77, British mystery writer.
 * Simon Stefani, 71, Albanian communist politician.

3

 * Isolina Ferréro, 85, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic religious sister.
 * Joann Lõssov, 78, Estonian basketball player.
 * Michael Meyer, 79, English translator and writer.
 * Geoffrey Page, 80, British flying ace during World War II.
 * Mirian Tsalkalamanidze, 73, Georgian flyweight freestyle wrestler and Olympic champion.

4

 * Jimmy Bowie, 75, Scottish football player.
 * John Joseph Graham, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Fred W. Hooper, 102, American racehorse owner and breeder.
 * Julio Rodolfo Moctezuma, 73, Mexican lawyer.
 * Michael Szwarc, 91, British and American polymer chemist.
 * Halyna Zubchenko, 71, Ukrainian painter, muralist, and social activist.

5

 * Lala Amarnath, 88, Indian cricketer.
 * Afrânio Coutinho, 89, Brazilian literary critic and essayist.
 * Tullio Crali, 89, Italian artist associated with Futurism.
 * Renée Devillers, 97, French stage and film actress.
 * Alec Guinness, 86, English actor (The Bridge on the River Kwai, Star Wars, Lawrence of Arabia), Oscar winner (1958), liver cancer.
 * Murray Krieger, 76, American literary critic and theorist.
 * Arturo Durazo Moreno, 76, Mexican Chief of police and drug trafficker.
 * Dudley Randall, 86, American poet and poetry publisher.
 * Edgardo Sogno, 84, Italian diplomat, partisan and political figure.
 * Otto Wiener, 89, Austrian baritone.

6

 * Raymond J. Broderick, 86, American jurist and politician, cancer.
 * Robin Day, 76, British political broadcaster, heart complications.
 * Marv Felderman, 84, American baseball player.
 * Max Phipps, 60, Australian actor, cancer.
 * Raúl Sanguineti, 67, Argentine chess Grandmaster.
 * Arthur Harold Stone, 83, British mathematician.
 * Joan Trimble, 85, Irish composer and pianist.

7

 * Samuel Akpabot, 63, Nigerian music composer, ethnomusicologist and author.
 * Georges Matheron, 69, French mathematician and geologist.
 * Mona-Lisa Pursiainen, 49, Finnish female sprinter, breast cancer.
 * Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, 88, American philanthropist and mother of Donald Trump.

8

 * Jess Barker, 88, American actor, liver cirrhosis.
 * Luigi Bonos, 90, Italian comedian and actor.
 * Walter Chappell, 75, American photographer and poet, lung cancer.
 * Ernie Hefferle, 85, American football player and coach.
 * Živorad Jevtić, 56, Serbian football player.
 * Jaap Marais, 77, Afrikaner nationalist thinker, author and politician.
 * Mario Migliardi, 81, Italian television and film score composer.
 * S. Nijalingappa, 97, Indian politician.
 * Anatoliy Romashin, 69, Soviet and Russian actor and director, accidental impalement.
 * Banja Tejan-Sie, 83, Sierra Leonean politician and Governor General.
 * Harry D. Thiers, 81, American mycologist.
 * John F. Warren, 91, American cinematographer.

9

 * Josias Cunningham, 66, Northern Irish politician.
 * John Harsanyi, 80, Hungarian-American economist, Nobel Prize laureate, heart attack.
 * Louis Nucera, 72, French writer, traffic accident.
 * Fouad Serageddin, 88, Egyptian politician, Minister of Finance.
 * Vitaliy Starukhin, 51, Ukrainian football player, pneumonia.
 * Herb Thomas, 77, American NASCAR driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, heart attack.
 * Lewis Wilson, 80, American actor (Batman).

10

 * Robert Manuel Cook, 91, British classical scholar.
 * Suzanne Danco, 89, Belgian soprano.
 * Joan Marsh, 87, American child actress in silent films.
 * Tibor Mezőfi, 74, Hungarian basketball player.
 * Gilbert Parkhouse, 74, Welsh cricket player.
 * Rita Trapanese, 49, Italian figure skater and Olympian, traffic collision.

11

 * Les Dye, 84, American gridiron football player.
 * Paidi Jairaj, 90, Indian film actor, director and producer.
 * Talal Maddah, 60, Saudi musician and composer, heart attack.
 * Usha Mehta, 80, India Gandhian and freedom fighter.
 * Jean Papineau-Couture, 83, Canadian composer.
 * Ric Roman, 83, American actor.
 * Constantin Zureiq, Syrian Arab intellectual.

12

 * Noboru Akiyama, 66, Japanese baseball player.
 * Eliyahu Ben-Elissar, 68, Israeli politician and diplomat.
 * Alberto Pedro Cabrera, 54, Argentine basketball player, leukemia.
 * Jean Carzou, 93, French-Armenian artist, painter, and illustrator.
 * Dave Edwards, 59, American big band-style musician, cardiac arrest.
 * Loretta Young, 87, American actress (The Farmer's Daughter, Come to the Stable, The Loretta Young Show), Oscar winner (1948), ovarian cancer.

13

 * Antony Duff, 80, British diplomat, Director-General of MI5 (1985-1988).
 * Terence Feely, 72, British screenwriter, playwright and author.
 * Nazia Hassan, 35, Pakistani pop singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist, lung cancer.
 * Bob Wente, 67, American racing driver.

14

 * Walter Benton, 69, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
 * John Boland, 55, Irish politician, cancer.
 * Alain Fournier, 56, French computer graphics researcher, lymphoma.
 * Ken Heintzelman, 84, American baseball player.
 * Cuan McCarthy, 71, South African cricket player.
 * John Milford, 70, American actor, skin cancer.
 * Alfred Rieck, 86, German rower and Olympic medalist.
 * Bernice Giduz Schubert, 86, American botanist & scholar.
 * Hawa Singh, 62, Indian heavyweight boxer.
 * Rostislav Vovkushevsky, 83, Soviet and Russian painter.
 * Mary K. Wells, 79, American television writer and actress.

15

 * Ulla Barding-Poulsen, 88, Danish fencer and Olympian.
 * Ena Begović, 40, Croatian actress, traffic accident.
 * Helmut Coing, 88, German legal historian.
 * Eduardo Luján Manera, 55, Argentine football player and manager.
 * Robert Swink, 82, American film editor, heart attack.
 * Edward Craven Walker, 82, British inventor who invented the lava lamp, cancer.
 * Lancelot Ware, 85, British founder of Mensa.

16

 * Alan Caddy, 60, English guitarist (The Tornados).
 * Grace Halsell, 77, American journalist and writer, multiple myeloma.
 * Chanoch Dov Padwa, 91, British rabbi.
 * S. C. C. Anthony Pillai, 86, Indian trade unionist and politician, cardiac arrest.
 * Renu Saluja, 48, Indian film editor, stomach cancer.
 * Thomas Ypsilantis, 72, Greek-American, heart attack.

17

 * Erich Borchmeyer, 95, German athlete and Olympian medalist.
 * Lawrence H. Cooke, 85, American lawyer and politician.
 * Franco Donatoni, 73, Italian composer.
 * Robert R. Gilruth, 86, American aerospace engineer.
 * Stephan Körner, 86, Czech-born British philosopher, suicide.
 * Evert Nyberg, 75, Swedish long-distance runner and Olympian.
 * Emil Petaja, 85, American science fiction and fantasy writer, heart failure.
 * Leslie Rees, 94, Australian children's author and writer.
 * Hans-Dietrich von Tiesenhausen, 87, Baltic German Kapitänleutnant during World War II.
 * Jack Walker, 71, British industrialist and businessman, cancer.

18

 * César Calvo, 60, Peruvian poet, journalist and author.
 * Lakshyadhar Choudhury, 85, Indian actor, playwright, film-director and politician.
 * Maurice Evans, 63, English football player and manager, heart attack.
 * Bernard Krainis, 75, American musician.
 * Ola Rotimi, 62, Nigerian playwright and theatre director.
 * Morton Shulman, 75, Canadian politician, businessman and physician, Parkinson's disease.

19

 * D. G. Champernowne, 88, English economist and mathematician.
 * David Norton Edelstein, 90, American judge.
 * Luce Fabbri, 92, Italian anarchist writer, publisher and daughter of Luigi Fabbri.
 * Harry Oppenheimer, 91, South African businessman, industrialist and philanthropist, cancer.
 * Antonio Pugliese, 59, Italian-Canadian professional wrestler known as Tony Parisi, aneurysm.
 * Lee Sholem, 87, American television and film director.

20

 * Jackie Coulter, 46, Northern Irish loyalist, murdered.
 * Nancy Evans, 85, British mezzo-soprano opera singer.
 * Giovanni Gaddoni, 85, Italian football player.
 * Mitch Halpern, 33, American boxing referee, self-inflicted gunshot to the head.
 * Bill Simon, 80, American songwriter, musician and music critic.
 * Henri Theil, 75, Dutch econometrician.

21

 * Sir Campbell Adamson, 78, British industrialist.
 * Chuck Britz, 72, American recording engineer, brain cancer.
 * Tom Day, 65, American football player.
 * John Hayes, 70, American film director, cancer.
 * Russ Kerns, 79, American baseball player.
 * Daniel Lisulo, 69, Zambian politician.
 * Giuseppe Medici, 92, Italian politician.
 * Doris Petrie, 82, Canadian film and television actress.
 * Gustav Scholz, 70, German boxer.
 * Andrzej Zawada, 72, Polish mountaineer.

22

 * Bill Bradford, 78, American baseball player.
 * Abulfaz Elchibey, 62, Azerbaijani political figure and a Soviet dissident, prostate cancer.
 * Charles Kalani, 70, American actor and professional wrestler, heart failure.
 * Arun Mitra, 90, Indian poet of Bengali.
 * Annie Bell Robinson Devine, 88, American activist in the civil rights movement.

23

 * Betty Blue, 69, American model and actress.
 * Anthony Corallo, 87, American mobster and boss of the Lucchese crime family.
 * Patricia Jones, 69, Canadian athlete and Olympic medalist.
 * John Anthony Kaiser, 67, American priest, assassinated.
 * Rangarajan Kumaramangalam, 48, Indian politician, acute myeloid leukaemia, cancer.
 * Milivoje Tomić, 80, Serbian actor.
 * Marjorie Woodworth, 81, American actress.
 * Dindo Yogo, 44, Congolese singer and musician.

24

 * Andy Hug, 35, Swiss kickboxer, leukemia.
 * Bob McPhail, 94, Scottish footballer.
 * Tatiana Riabouchinska, 83, Russian American prima ballerina.
 * Kalyanji Virji Shah, 72, Indian film score composer.

25

 * Carl Barks, 99, American cartoonist (Scrooge McDuck), leukemia.
 * Leo Barnhorst, 76, American basketball player, lymphoma.
 * Bernard Becaas, 45, French cyclist, traffic collision.
 * Frederick C. Bock, 82, American bomber during World War II, cancer.
 * Cliff Bruner, 85, American musician and bandleader, cancer.
 * John Florea, 84, American television director and a photographer.
 * Michel Haguenauer, 84, French table tennis player.
 * Jack Nitzsche, 63, American musician, arranger and songwriter, infectious disease.
 * Valeriy Priyomykhov, 56, Soviet and Russian actor, film director, and author, brain cancer.
 * Ginetta Sagan, 75, Italian-American human rights activist.
 * Ivan Stambolić, 63, Serbian politician, homicide.
 * Peter Swerling, 71, American scientist and radar pioneer.
 * Ramón Torres, 68, American professional wrestler.

26

 * Bunny Austin, 94, English tennis player.
 * Odette Joyeux, 85, French actress, playwright and novelist, stroke.
 * Balan K. Nair, 67, Indian actor, bone cancer.
 * Lynden Pindling, 70, Bahamian politician and Prime Minister, prostate cancer.
 * Ed Rakow, 65, American baseball player.
 * Allen Woody, 44, American bass guitarist (the Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule), heroin overdose.
 * Wojciech Żukrowski, 84, Polish poet, writer, and literary critic.

27

 * Gilbert de Botton, 65, Israeli financial pioneer.
 * Denny Chronopoulos, 32, Canadian football player, heart attack.
 * Deister, 29, German show jumping horse and European Champion.
 * Joseph Lloyd Hogan, 84, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Bob Mahoney, 72, American baseball player.

28

 * Knut Holmqvist, 82, Swedish sport shooter and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Khaya Majola, 47, South African cricket player, colon cancer.
 * Léa Roback, 96, Canadian trade union organizer, social activist, and feminist, accident.
 * Mickey Sullivan, 84, American football player and coach.
 * Liao Zhigao, 87, Chinese politician.

29

 * Fern Bell, 87, American baseball player.
 * Shelagh Fraser, 79, British actress (best known for playing Aunt Beru in Star Wars).
 * Mohamed Hamri, 68, Moroccan painter and writer.
 * Rose Hobart, 94, American actress and Screen Actors Guild official.
 * Per Olof Håkansson, 59, American politician.
 * Willie Maddren, 49, English football player and manager, ALS.
 * Conrad Marca-Relli, 87, American artist.
 * Marko Todorović, 71, Serbian character actor.

30

 * David R. Altman, 85, American advertising executive, lymphoma.
 * David Haskell, 52, American actor and singer, brain cancer.
 * Joseph H. Lewis, 93, American B-movie film director.
 * Hideo Sasaki, 80, American landscape architect.
 * Gürdal Tosun, 33, Turkish actor (Bir Demet Tiyatro), kidney failure.

31

 * Britta Brunius, 88, Swedish film actress.
 * Joseph Lennox Federal, 90, American Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Lucille Fletcher, 88, American screenwriter, stroke.
 * Joan Hartigan, 88, Australian tennis player.
 * Les Johnson, 84, Australian public servant and diplomat.
 * Saunders King, 91, American guitarist and singer.
 * Patricia Owens, 75, Canadian-born American actress.
 * Yisha'ayahu Schwager, 54, Israeli footballer, heart attack.
 * Mahavir Shah, 40, Indian actor, accident.
 * John Alexander Simpson, 83, American physicist and science educator, pneumonia.
 * Francis Skeat, 91, English glass painter.
 * Euan Uglow, 68, British painter, cancer.