Deaths in January 2000

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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

 * Larry Bearnarth, 58, American Major League Baseball player, heart attack.
 * Maurice Hallam, 68, English cricket player.
 * Dick Pabich, 44, American gay rights activist, AIDS.
 * Stan Patrick, 77, American NBA basketball player.
 * Gerda Paumgarten, 92, Austrian alpine skier and world champion.
 * Colin Vaughan, 68, Australian-Canadian television journalist, architect, and urban activist, heart attack.

2

 * Nat Adderley, 68, American jazz musician, stroke.
 * Princess María, 89, Spanish royal and grandmother of King Felipe VI, heart attack.
 * Ed Doherty, 81, American football player and coach.
 * Henri René Guieu, 73, French science fiction writer, cancer.
 * Patrick O'Brian, 85, English author (Master and Commander).
 * Ullin Place, 75, British philosopher and psychologist.
 * Anna Maria Martínez Sagi, 92, Spanish poet, trade unionist, journalist, and feminist.
 * Elmo Zumwalt, 79, United States Navy officer, cancer.

3

 * Gabriela Brimmer, 52, Mexican writer and activist, heart attack.
 * Henry H. Fowler, 91, American lawyer and politician, Secretary of the Treasury, pneumonia.
 * Viktor Kolotov, 50, Soviet/Ukrainian football player.
 * Frank Miller, 83, Irish cricket player.

4

 * Alfred Bohrmann, 95, German astronomer.
 * Tom Fears, 77, Mexican-American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
 * Marta Hoepffner, 88, German artist and photographer.
 * Diether Krebs, 52, German actor, cabaret artist and comedian, lung cancer.
 * Spiridon Markezinis, 90, Greek politician and Prime Minister.
 * John Milner, 50, American baseball player, lung cancer.
 * Louis Mucci, 90, American jazz trumpeter.
 * Henry Pleasants, 89, American music critic and intelligence officer, ruptured aorta.

5

 * Turid Balke, 78, Norwegian actress, playwright and artist.
 * Xie Bingying, 93, Chinese soldier and writer.
 * Bernard Braine, 85, British politician.
 * Goseki Kojima, 71, Japanese manga artist.
 * Kumar Ponnambalam, 61, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician, assassinated.
 * Hopper Read, 89, English cricketer.
 * Vic Schoen, 83, American bandleader, arranger and composer.
 * K. L. Shrimali, 90, Indian politician and educationist.
 * Bernhard Wicki, 80, Austrian actor and film director.

6

 * Leonard F. Chapman, Jr., 86, United States Marine Corps general, cancer.
 * Michael Rex Horne, 78, English structural engineer, scientist and academic.
 * Byron L. Johnson, 82, American economist and politician.
 * Thomas Jamison MacBride, 85, American jurist.
 * Don Martin, 68, American cartoonist (MAD Magazine), cancer.
 * Edward Pain, 74, Australian Olympic rower.
 * Malvina Polo, 96, American film actress.
 * Horst Seemann, 62, German film director and screenwriter.
 * Ajit Pratap Singh, 82, Indian politician.
 * Robert McG. Thomas, Jr., 60, American journalist and obituarist, abdominal cancer.
 * Alexey Vyzmanavin, 40, Russian chess Grandmaster, heart attack.

7

 * Zainal Abidin, 71, Indonesian actor.
 * Gary Albright, 36, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
 * Robert B. Crosby, 88, American politician.
 * Makhmud Esambayev, 75, Soviet and Russian actor and dancer.
 * Ken Keyworth, 65, English football player.
 * Bob McFadden, 76, American voice actor, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Robert McG. Thomas Jr., 60, American journalist.
 * Bernice Petkere, 98, American songwriter.
 * Dorian Shainin, 85, American quality consultant, aeronautics engineer, and author.
 * Rodica Simion, 44, Romanian-American mathematician.
 * Klaus Wennemann, 59, German television and film actor, lung cancer.

8

 * Karl Adamek, 89, Austrian football player and manager.
 * Bill Domm, 69, Canadian politician.
 * Henry Eriksson, 79, Swedish middle-distance runner and Olympic champion.
 * Ray Huang, 81, Chinese historian and philosopher, heart attack.
 * Hilary Smart, 74, American sailor and Olympic champion.
 * Jack Stokes, 76, Canadian politician, lung cancer.
 * Fritz Thiedemann, 81, German equestrian,.
 * Warren H. Wagner, 79, American botanist.

9

 * Marguerite Churchill, 89, American film actress.
 * Edward R. Cony, 76, American journalist and newspaper executive, pneumonia and complications from Alzheimer's.
 * Arnold Alexander Hall, 84, British aeronautical engineer, scientist and industrialist.
 * Poul Mejer, 68, Danish football player.
 * Nigel Tranter, 90, Scottish writer.
 * Bruno Zevi, 81, Italian architect, historian, curator and author.

10

 * Arthur Batanides, 76, American actor (Police Academy, Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers, Johnny Midnight).
 * Maxine Elliott Hicks, 95, American actress.
 * Sam Jaffe, 98, American motion picture agent, producer, studio executive.
 * Gibson Jalo, 60, Nigerian army general.
 * Richard Jameson, 47, Northern Irish loyalist and paramilitary commander, shot.
 * Cliff Lloyd, 83, Welsh football player.
 * John Newland, 82, American director and actor, stroke.

11

 * Betty Archdale, 92, English-Australian sportswoman and educationalist.
 * Phil Carrick, 47, English cricketer, leukemia.
 * Helena Carter, 76, American actress.
 * Barney Childs, 73, American composer and teacher, Parkinson's disease.
 * Wilhelm Grewe, 88, German diplomat and professor of international law.
 * Bob Lemon, 79, American baseball player and manager.
 * Solomon Mamaloni, 56, Solomon Islands politician and Prime Minister, kidney disease.
 * William Andrew McDonald, 86, American archaeologist.
 * Ralph Purchase, 83, American competition rower and Olympic champion.
 * Gordon Wright, 87, American historian.
 * Pavao Žanić, 81, Yugoslav prelate of the Catholic Church.

12

 * Marc Davis, 86, American animator (Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Bambi).
 * Dan Duchaine, 47, American bodybuilder, author, and convicted felon, polycystic kidney disease.
 * V. R. Nedunchezhiyan, 79, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, heart failure.
 * Bobby Phills, 30, American basketball player, car accident.
 * Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau, 89, American chemical engineer.
 * Alex Wright, 69, Scottish football player and manager.

13

 * Peter Henderson, Baron Henderson of Brompton, 77, British public servant, Clerk of the Parliaments.
 * Eric Dodson, 79, British actor.
 * Herbert S. Gutowsky, 80, American chemist.
 * Antti Hyvärinen, 67, Finnish ski jumper, coach and Olympic champion.
 * Elizabeth Kerr, 87, American actress (Mork & Mindy).
 * Alvin Liberman, 82, American psychologist, complications during heart surgery.
 * John Ljunggren, 80, Swedish race walker and Olympic champion.
 * Alfred Nzo, 74, South African political activist.
 * Susumu Ohno, 71, Japanese-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist.
 * Enric Valor i Vives, 88, Spanish writer and grammarian.

14

 * Meche Barba, 77, American-Mexican film actress and dancer, heart attack.
 * Alphonse Boudard, 74, French novelist and playwright.
 * Pat Boyette, 76, American broadcaster and comic book artist (Peacemaker), esophagus cancer.
 * Giusi Raspani Dandolo, 83, Italian stage, film, television and radio actress.
 * Guadalupe Huerta, 79, American hispanic activist and lobbyist.
 * Bijan Jalali, 72, Iranian poet and writer.
 * Hans-Joachim Kahler, 91, German general during World War II.
 * Alain Poiré, 82, French film producer, cancer.
 * Clifford Truesdell, 80, American mathematician.
 * M. V. Venkatram, 79, Indian writer from Tamil Nadu.
 * Leonard Weisgard, 83, American children's writer and illustrator.
 * Tomislav Zografski, 65, Macedonian composer.

15

 * Beryl Clark, 82, American gridiron football player.
 * Georges-Henri Lévesque, 96, Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist.
 * Yves Mariot, 51, French football player, aneurysm.
 * Annie Palmen, 73, Dutch singer.
 * Arkan, 47, Serbian mobster and paramilitary commander, homicide.
 * Alf Ringstead, 72, Irish football player.
 * Fran Ryan, 83, American actress (Pale Rider, Days of Our Lives, The Wizard).

16

 * Wolf Ackva, 88, German actor.
 * Gene Harris, 66, American jazz pianist.
 * Will "Dub" Jones, 71, American R&B singer, diabetes.
 * T. N. Kaul, 87, Indian diplomat.
 * By Saam, 85, American sportscaster.
 * Robert R. Wilson, 85, American physicist and team member of the Manhattan Project.

17

 * Carl Forberg, 88, American racecar driver.
 * Stephen Fuchs, 91, Austrian Catholic priest, missionary, and anthropologist.
 * Andrej Hieng, 74, Slovene writer, playwright and theatre director.
 * Philip Jones, 71, British trumpeter.
 * Ralph Ambrose Kekwick, 91, British biochemist.
 * Ion Rațiu, 82, Romanian diplomat, journalist, writer, and politician.
 * Arthur Sager, 95, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
 * Hüseyin Velioğlu, 48, Kurdish Hezbollah leader, shot.

18

 * Alfred Nash Beadleston, Jr., 87, American politician.
 * Gordon Chalmers, 88, American swimmer, swimming coach, and Olympian.
 * Nancy Coleman, 87, American actress.
 * Frances Drake, 87, American actress.
 * Jester Hairston, 98, American actor and composer.
 * Francis Haskell, 71, English art historian.
 * Raymond Brendan Manning, 65, American carcinologist.
 * Gordon J. McCann, 92, Canadian thoroughbred horse trainer.
 * Arthur Nash, 85, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympian.
 * Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, 102, Austrian communist resistance member during World War II.

19

 * Victor Brooks, 81, English film and television actor.
 * M. A. Chidambaram, 81, Indian industrialist and cricket administrator.
 * Luigi Chinazzo, 67, Italian wrestler and Olympian.
 * Bettino Craxi, 65, Italian politician, Prime Minister (1983-1987), diabetes.
 * Billy Dewell, 83, American gridiron football player.
 * Anselmo Fernandez, 81, Portuguese architect and football manager.
 * Victoria Fromkin, 76, American linguist, colorectal cancer.
 * Frederick Irving Herzberg, 76, American psychologist.
 * Hedy Lamarr, 85, Austrian actress (Samson and Delilah, Algiers, White Cargo), cardiovascular disease.
 * Manny Montejo, 64, Cuban baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
 * Lynn Myers, 85, American baseball player.
 * Alan North, 79, American actor (Serpico, Highlander, Glory), kidney cancer, lung cancer.
 * Irra Petina, 91, Russian-American actress, singer, and contralto.
 * Heinrich Schroeteler, 84, German sculptor and U-boat commander during World War II.
 * George Ledyard Stebbins, 94, American botanist, cancer.
 * Chhean Vam, 83, Cambodian politician and nationalist.
 * Stanley Weston, 76, British basketball player.
 * Rex Willis, 75, Welsh rugby union player.

20

 * Chuck Courtney, 69, American actor and stuntman, suicide.
 * Robert J. Henle, 90, American Catholic priest, jesuit, and philosopher.
 * Ron Herbel, 62, American baseball player.
 * Slavko Janevski, 80, Macedonian poet, prose and script writer.
 * Don Samuelson, 86, American politician, Governor of Idaho, heart attack.
 * Izabella Yurieva, 100, Soviet Russian romance singer.

21

 * Kristian Asdahl, 79, Norwegian politician.
 * John A. Calhoun, 81, American diplomat.
 * Dagmar Edqvist, 96, Swedish writer and screenwriter.
 * Saeb Salam, 95, Lebanese politician and Prime Minister, heart attack.
 * Bernard Unett, 63, British racing driver, cancer.

22

 * Victor Cavallo, 52, Italian actor and underground writer, hepatitis C.
 * Craig Claiborne, 79, American restaurant critic.
 * Ed Clark, 88, American photographer.
 * Carlo Cossutta, 67, Italian opera singer, liver cancer.
 * Al Costello, 80, Italian-Australian professional wrestler, pneumonia.
 * Peter Gould, 67, American geographer and academic.
 * Masao Harada, 87, Japanese athlete and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Anne Hébert, 83, French Canadian author and poet, bone cancer.
 * Alan Pryce-Jones, 91, British book critic, writer, journalist and politician.
 * Dai Suli, 80, Chinese politician.
 * Ernest William Swanton, 92, British cricket commentator.
 * Balaupasakage Yasodis Tudawe, 84, Sri Lankan politician.

23

 * Willie Hamilton, 82, British politician.
 * George Hoskins, 71, New Zealand runner and Olympian.
 * Nicholas Nagy-Talavera, 70, Hungarian-American dissident, historian and writer.
 * Roderick O'Connor, 90, Northern Irish politician.
 * William Alexander Sutton, 82, New Zealand painter.

24

 * Jeffrey Boam, 53, American screenwriter (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Lost Boys, Lethal Weapon 2), heart failure.
 * Theodor Brinek, Jr., 78, Austrian football player.
 * Carl Thomas Curtis, 94, American politician.
 * Bobby Duncum, Jr., 34, American professional wrestler, accidental overdose.
 * Massimo Severo Giannini, 84, Italian lawyer and politician.
 * Tatyana Petrenko-Samusenko, 61, Soviet fencer and Olympic champion.
 * Reynolds Shultz, 78, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Kansas.

25

 * Dale Alford, 83, American ophthalmologist and politician, congestive heart failure.
 * Folke Ekström, 93, Swedish chess master.
 * Herta Freitag, 91, Austrian-American mathematician.
 * Lin Halliday, 63, American saxophonist.
 * Aleksander Illi, 87, Estonian basketball player and basketball coach.
 * P. Lankesh, 64, Indian poet, writer, playwright and journalist, heart attack.
 * Tom Pedigo, 59, American set decorator (Terms of Endearment, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Brainstorm).

26

 * Don Budge, 84, American tennis player, traffic collision.
 * Kathleen Hale, 101, British artist, illustrator, and children's author.
 * Jean-Claude Izzo, 54, French poet, playwright, and novelist, cancer.
 * Adolf Pilch, 85, Polish resistance fighter during World War II.
 * Don Ralke, 79, American music arranger.
 * Bill Strickland, 91, American baseball player.
 * Adib Taherzadeh, 78, Iranian Baháʼí author.
 * A. E. van Vogt, 87, Canadian science fiction writer, pneumonia.

27

 * Don Abney, 76, American jazz pianist, complications from kidney dialysis.
 * Mae Faggs, 67, American sprinter, cancer.
 * Friedrich Gulda, 69, Austrian pianist, heart failure.
 * Matateu, 72, Portuguese footballer.
 * Setsuo Nara, 63, Japanese basketball player.
 * Jerzy Potz, 46, Polish ice hockey player, carcinoma.
 * Abner W. Sibal, 78, American politician.
 * Bert Sproston, 85, English footballer.

28

 * Sarah Caudwell, 60, British detective story writer and barrister, cancer.
 * Tony Doyle, 58, Irish television and film actor.
 * Lauris Edmond, 75, New Zealand poet and writer.
 * Ron Feiereisel, 68, American basketball player and coach.
 * Ted Gullic, 93, American baseball player.
 * Hugh Guthrie, 89, Australian politician.
 * Ed Hirsch, 78, American gridiron football player.
 * Bertel Lauring, 72, Danish film actor.
 * Gad Rausing, 77, Swedish industrialist.
 * Joy Shelton, 77, English actress, pulmonary emphysema.
 * Kenneth Waller, 72, British actor.

29

 * George McTurnan Kahin, 82, American historian and political scientist.
 * Herbert Schiller, 80, American media critic, sociologist, and author.
 * Hannes Schmidhauser, 73, Swiss actor and football player.
 * E. L. Senanayake, 79, Sri Lankan politician.
 * Harry Thompson, 84, English football player and manager.

30

 * Martin Aldridge, 25, English footballer, car crash.
 * Isidore Dollinger, 96, American politician.
 * Sigvard Arne Eklund, 88, Swedish politician.
 * Angelo Innocent Fernandes, 86, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop.
 * Karl-Friedrich Höcker, 88, German war criminal and SS commander during World War II.
 * Steve Little, 34, American boxer, colon cancer.
 * Joseph Rothschild, 68, American historian and political scientist.

31

 * Martin Benrath, 73, German film actor, cancer.
 * Bendt Jørgensen, 75, Danish football player and manager.
 * Gil Kane, 73, American comic book artist (Green Lantern, Spider-Man, Atom), lymphoma.
 * Vasant Shankar Kanetkar, 79, Indian Marathi language playwright and novelist.
 * Ralph Manza, 78, American actor (Get Shorty, The D.A.'s Man, Godzilla).
 * Ross Russell, 90, American jazz producer and writer.
 * Jafar Salmasi, 81, Iranian weightlifter and Olympic medalist.
 * K. N. Singh, 91, Indian actor.
 * Arthur Wilson, 91, English footballer.
 * Si Zentner, 82, American trombonist and jazz big-band leader.