Deaths in February 2000

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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

 * Pablito Calvo, 51, Spanish actor (Miracle of Marcelino), brain aneurysm.
 * Pina Cei, 95, Italian actress.
 * Frederick Vanderbilt Field, 94, American political activist.
 * James Harrell, 81, American actor (The Sugarland Express, Paper Moon, JFK), heart attack.
 * Erik Holmberg, 91, Swedish astronomer and cosmologist.
 * Art Hoppe, 74, American newspaper columnist, lung cancer.
 * Hans Hügi, 70, Swiss football player.
 * Khunkar-Pasha Israpilov, 32, Chechen separatist, killed in action.
 * Anker Kihle, 82, Norwegian footballer.
 * Peter Levi, 68, British poet, jesuit priest and scholar.
 * Henry Mann, 94, American professor of mathematics and statistics.
 * Thomas J. McHugh, 80, American Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps (1962-1965).
 * James V. Neel, 84, American geneticist.
 * Dick Rathmann, 74, American racecar driver.

2

 * Harry K. Cull, 88, American politician.
 * Sheikh Abdul Latif, 71, Indian football player.
 * Teruki Miyamoto, 59, Japanese football player and manager, heart failure.
 * Francis Stuart, 97, Irish writer.
 * Li Zhun, 71, Chinese novelist.

3

 * Guillermo Estévez Boero, 69, Argentine student activist, lawyer and politician, leukemia.
 * Bonnie Cashin, 91, American pioneer designer of sportswear.
 * Don Gallinger, 74, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Richard Kleindienst, 76, American politician and U.S. Attorney General during the Watergate scandal, lung cancer.
 * Yuriy Lituyev, 74, Soviet athlete and Olympic medalist.
 * Pierre Plantard, 79, French draughtsman and impostor.
 * Alla Rakha, 80, Indian tabla player, heart attack.

4

 * Carl Albert, 91, American lawyer, politician and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
 * Joachim-Ernst Berendt, 77, German music journalist.
 * Edgar Bowers, 75, American poet.
 * Rodrigo Hernan Lloreda Caicedo, 57, Colombian lawyer and politician.
 * Doris Coley, 58, American singer of The Shirelles, breast cancer.
 * James C. Green, 78, American politician.
 * Peter Rajniak, 46, Slovak basketball player.
 * Ronald Robertson, 62, American figure skater, AIDS-related complications.
 * Roy Stephenson, 67, English football player.
 * Johnny Vincent, 72, American record producer.

5

 * Claude Autant-Lara, 98, French film director and politician.
 * Ward Cornell, 75, Canadian radio/TV broadcaster & educator, pulmonary emphysema.
 * G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, 89, British ancient historian.
 * Pablo Elvira, 62, Puerto Rican baritone.
 * José García Hernández, 84, Spanish jurist and politician.
 * Todd Karns, 79, American actor (It's a Wonderful Life), cancer.
 * George Koltanowski, 96, Belgian-American chess master, promoter, and writer.
 * T. G. Lingappa, 72, Indian film score composer.
 * Barbara Pentland, 88, Canadian composer.
 * Hidetoki Takahashi, 83, Japanese football player and manager, pneumonia.
 * Tuffy Thompson, 85, American gridiron football player.
 * Göran Tunström, 62, Swedish author, lung cancer.
 * Gwendolyn Watts, 67, English actress, heart attack.

6

 * Derroll Adams, 74, American folk musician.
 * Sven Aspling, 87, Swedish social democrat politician.
 * Sándor Balogh, 79, Hungarian football player and coach.
 * Gus Johnson, 86, American swing drummer.
 * Klaus Wagner, 89, German mathematician.
 * Steve Waller, 48, American musician, liver problems.
 * Phil Walters, 83, American racing driver.

7

 * Big Pun, 28, American rapper, heart attack.
 * Pavle Bulatović, 51, Yugoslav politician.
 * Stewart Farrar, 83, English screenwriter, novelist and Wiccan priest.
 * Doug Henning, 52, Canadian magician, illusionist and escape artist, cancer.
 * Muhammad Munawwar Mirza, 77, Pakistani writer, historian and intellectual.
 * Shiho Niiyama, 29, Japanese voice actress, leukemia.
 * Dave Peverett, 56, English singer and musician of Foghat, cancer.
 * Wilfred Cantwell Smith, 83, Canadian Islamicist and Presbyterian minister.
 * Mildred Wiley, 98, American high jumper and Olympic medalist.

8

 * Sid Abel, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Aryanandi, 92, Indian Jain monk.
 * Mario Capio, 75, Italian Olympic sailor.
 * Bob Collins, 57, American broadcaster.
 * Carlos Cores, 76, Argentine film actor, and film director, heart attack.
 * Edna Griffin, 90, American civil rights pioneer and activist.
 * Sidney Hayers, 78, British film and television director, writer and producer, cancer.
 * Ion Gheorghe Maurer, 97, Pomanian politician, Prime Minister of Romania (1958-1961).
 * Derrick Thomas, 33, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, pulmonary embolism.

9

 * Yevgeni Andreyev, 73, Soviet Air Force colonel and balloonist.
 * Steve Furness, 49, American football player, heart attack.
 * Beau Jack, 78, American boxer, Parkinson's disease.
 * Lenore Kight, 88, American swimmer and Olympian.
 * Shobhna Samarth, 83, Indian film actress, director and producer, cancer.
 * Buck Young, 79, American actor.

10

 * Androniqi Zengo Antoniu, 86, Albanian painter.
 * Igor Bensen, 82, Russian-American engineer, Parkinson's disease.
 * John Garlington, 53, American football player, drowned.
 * Elvira Gascón, 88, Spanish painter, drafter, and engraver.
 * George Jackson, 42, American movie producer, stroke.
 * Gene Lambert, 78, American baseball player.
 * Ji Pengfei, 90, Chinese politician, suicide.
 * Jim Varney, 50, American actor (Ernest Saves Christmas, Toy Story, The Beverly Hillbillies), lung cancer.
 * Andrzej Zakrzewski, 58, Polish historian, politician, and journalist.

11

 * Jacqueline Auriol, 82, French aviator who set several world speed records.
 * Gordon Lockhart Bennett, 87, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island.
 * Bernat Capó, 80, Spanish racing cyclist.
 * Ruth Volkl Cardoso, 66, Brazilian chess player.
 * Lord Kitchener, 77, Trinidadian calypsonian, multiple myeloma.
 * Martin Theodore Orne, 72, Austrian-American professor of psychiatry and psychology.
 * Louis Pelletier, 93, American dramatist, screenwriter, and playwright.
 * Elangbam Nilakanta Singh, 72, Indian poet and critic.
 * Roger Vadim, 72, French film director, lymphoma.
 * Bernardino Zapponi, 72, Italian novelist and screenwriter.

12

 * Newt Arnold, 77, American film director (Bloodsport), leukemia.
 * Dominic Bruce, 84, British Royal Air Force officer and Colditz Castle escapee during World War II.
 * Screamin' Jay Hawkins, 70, American musician, surgical complications.
 * Tom Landry, 75, American football coach (Dallas Cowboys) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, leukemia.
 * Andy Lewis, 33, Australian bass guitarist, suicide.
 * John London, 58, American musician and songwriter.
 * August Meuleman, 93, Belgian cyclist.
 * Oliver, 54, American pop singer.
 * Charles Schulz crop 1993.jpg[[Charles M. Schulz]], 77, American comic strip artist (Peanuts), colon cancer.
 * Juan Carlos Thorry, 91, Argentine film actor, tango musician and director.

13

 * John Wesley Blassingame, 59, American historian specializing in American slavery.
 * James Cooke Brown, 78, American sociologist and science fiction author.
 * John Cameron, 85, Jamaican cricket player.
 * J. Robert Harris, 74, American composer.
 * F. X. Martin, 77, Irish priest and historian.
 * Thelma Parr, 93, American actress.

14

 * Tony Bettenhausen, Jr., 48, American car racing driver and team owner, plane crash.
 * Tertius Bosch, 33, South African cricketer, Guillain–Barré syndrome.
 * Erika Dunkelmann, 86, German film and television actress.
 * Jimmy Martin, 75, Irish professional golfer.
 * Antun Nalis, 89, Croatian actor.
 * Vitamin Smith, 76, American gridiron football player.
 * Walter Zinn, 93, Canadian-American nuclear physicist who worked at the Manhattan Project.

15

 * Shamsul Huda Chaudhury, 79, Bangladeshi politician.
 * Dilip Dhawan, 45, Indian actor, heart attack.
 * Angus MacLean, 85, Canadian politician and farmer.
 * Bob Ramazzotti, 83, American baseball player.
 * Vladimir Utkin, 76, Soviet and Russian engineer and rocket scientist.

16

 * Wayne Blackburn, 85, American baseball coach.
 * Soup Campbell, 84, American baseball player.
 * Veronica Cooper, 86, American actress.
 * Marceline Day, 91, American actress.
 * Mohammed Fawzi, 84, Egyptian general and politician.
 * Carlos Chagas Filho, 89, Brazilian physician, biologist and scientist.
 * Fung Fung, 83, Hong Kong actor.
 * Lila Kedrova, 90, Russian-French actress (Zorba the Greek, Torn Curtain, A High Wind in Jamaica), Oscar winner (1965), pneumonia.
 * B. S. Kesavan, 90, Indian librarian.
 * Louis-Georges Niels, 80, Belgian bobsledder and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Bill Riley, 78, American ice hockey player.
 * Karsten Solheim, 88, Norwegian-American golf club designer (PING) and businessman, Parkinson's disease.

17

 * Iffat Al-Thunayan, Saudi princess and wife of King Faisal.
 * William Anderson, 84, Canadian officer.
 * Selina Chönz, 89, Swiss children's author.
 * Turkey Tyson, 85, American baseball player.
 * Miles White, 85, American costume designer of Broadway musicals.

18

 * Henry Åkervall, 62, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Yalavarthi Naveen Babu, 35, Indian revolutionary group leader, killed in firefight with police.
 * Lefty Hoerst, 82, American baseball player.
 * Nader Naderpour, 70, Iranian-American poet.
 * Will, 72, Belgian comics artist.

19

 * Marin Goleminov, 91, Bulgarian musician.
 * Josef Herman, 89, Polish-British painter.
 * Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 71, Austrian artist, heart attack.
 * Amanda Ledesma, 88, Argentine film actress and singer.
 * George Lenczowski, 85, Russian-American lawyer, diplomat, and academic.
 * Kenneth L. Maddy, 65, American politician.
 * Djidingar Dono Ngardoum, 72, Chadian politician, Prime Minister (1982).
 * George Roussos, 84, American comic book artist (Fantastic Four, Batman, Avengers).
 * Anatoly Sobchak, 62, Russian politician and mentor of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, heart attack.
 * Jim Wulff, 63, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins).

20

 * Elliot Caplin, 86, American comic strip writer.
 * Jean Dotto, 71, French racing cyclist.
 * Jean-Pierre Grenier, 85, French actor, theatre director and screenwriter.
 * Bernard Hickman, 88, American basketball player and coach.
 * Oswald Lange, 87, German-American aerospace engineer and member of the "von Braun rocket group".
 * Otello Martelli, 97, Italian cinematographer (La Dolce Vita, Bitter Rice, La Strada).
 * Edmund McNamara, 79, American police officer and gridiron football player.

21

 * Noel Annan, Baron Annan, 83, British military intelligence officer and academic.
 * Olena Apanovych, 80, Ukrainian historian.
 * Violet Archer, 86, Canadian musician and composer.
 * Chao Tzee Cheng, 65, Hong Kong-Singaporean forensic pathologist.
 * Clifton Daniel, 87, American newspaper managing editor, stroke.
 * Antonio Díaz-Miguel, 65, Spanish basketball player and coach, cancer.
 * Radhamohan Gadanayak, 88, Indian poet.
 * Constance Cummings John, 82, Sierra Leonean educationist and politician.
 * Kenneth Nichols, 92, United States Army officer and civil engineer, respiratory failure.

22

 * Fernando Buesa, 53, Spanish politician, terrorist attack.
 * John Kellogg, 83, American actor, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Arkady Khait, 61, Russian writer, satirist and screenwriter, leukemia.
 * Ernest Lough, 88, English boy soprano.
 * Alexandre Marc, 96, French writer and philosopher.
 * Maurine Brown Neuberger, 93, American politician.
 * Michelle O'Keefe, 18, American college student and aspiring actress, gunshot wounds.
 * Raphaël Pujazon, 82, French athlete and Olympian.

23

 * John Nevill, 5th Marquess of Abergavenny, 85, British aristocrat.
 * Dennis Evans, 69, English football player.
 * Albrecht Goes, 91, German writer and theologian.
 * Nikolay Gulyayev, 84, Russian football player and football coach.
 * Ofra Haza, 42, Israeli singer, AIDS-related pneumonia.
 * Stanley Matthews, 85, English football player.
 * Joseph V. Perry, 69, American actor, diabetes.
 * B. Rachaiah, 77, Indian politician.
 * Terry Melvin Sims, 58, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.

24

 * Betty Lou Beets, 62, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Michael Colvin, 67, British politician.
 * Franciszek Kamiński, 97, Polish politician and military commander during World War II.
 * Rosalind Keith, 83, American film actress and singer.
 * Bernard Opper, 84, American basketball player.
 * Béla Szekeres, 62, Hungarian middle distance runner and Olympian.
 * Boris Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, 62, Soviet ice hockey player.

25

 * Pyotr Breus, 72, Russian water polo player.
 * Victoria Climbié, 8, Ivorian girl, prolonged child abuse.
 * Elaine Gordon, 69, American politician, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
 * Doris Löve, 82, Swedish botanist.
 * Tom McEllistrim, 74, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
 * Sishayi Nxumalo, 64, Swazi politician, traffic collision.
 * Kuthiravattam Pappu, 62, Indian actor, cardiac arrest.
 * Culley Rikard, 85, American baseball player.
 * Aleksandar Živković, 87, Croatian football player.

26

 * Casimiro Montenegro Filho, 95, Brazilian Air Force officer.
 * Franz Fuchs, 50, Austrian terrorist, suicide.
 * Raosaheb Gogte, 83, Indian industrialist, philanthropist and educationist.
 * Louisa Matthíasdóttir, 83, Icelandic-American painter.
 * Giovanna of Savoy, 92, Italian princess of the House of Savoy, heart failure.
 * George L. Street III, 86, United States Navy submarine commander during World War II and Medal of Honor recipient.

27

 * Larry Adams, 63, American jockey.
 * Jan Adele, 64, Australian actress and vaudeville entertainer.
 * Casimiro Berenguer, 90, Puerto Rican nationalist.
 * Eduardo Copello, 74, Argentine racing driver.
 * George Duning, 92, American musician, and film composer.
 * James Stanley Hey, 90, English physicist and radio astronomer.
 * Aubrey Eugene Robinson, Jr., 77, American jurist and judge, heart attack.

28

 * Kariel Gardosh, 78, Israeli cartoonist and illustrator ("Dosh").
 * John N. Irwin, II, 86, American diplomat and attorney.
 * Dalsukh Dahyabhai Malvania, 89, Indian scholar, writer and philosopher.
 * Jean Vallette d'Osia, 101, French officer and French Resistance member during WWII.
 * Janet Reed, 83, American ballerina and ballet mistress.
 * George Siravo, 83, American composer, arranger, and musician.

29

 * Dennis Danell, 38, American musician (Social Distortion), cerebral aneurysm.
 * Pierre Dumas, French doctor and drug test pioneer.
 * Karen Hoff, 78, Danish sprint canoeist and Olympic champion.
 * Hidehiko Matsumoto, 73, Japanese jazz saxophonist and bandleader.
 * Nikita Moiseyev, 82, Soviet and Russian mathematician and academic.
 * Sardar Muhammad Arif Nakai, 70, Pakistani politician.
 * Kayla Rolland, 6, American school shooting victim, cardiac arrest from shooting.