Deaths in July 2000

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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

 * Burt Douglas, 69, American film, stage and television actor.
 * Raymond Robert Forster, 78, New Zealand arachnologist and museum director.
 * John Albert Axel Gibson, 83, British flying ace during World War II.
 * Steve Hokuf, 89, American football player and coach, stroke.
 * Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan, 94, fourth wife of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah.
 * Cub Koda, 51, American rock and roll musician and record compiler, kidney failure.
 * Ganju Lama, 75, Sikkimese Gurkha and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
 * Walter Matthau, 79, American actor (winner of Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony awards), heart attack.
 * Pierre Petit, 78, French composer.

2

 * Mina Aoe, 59, Japanese female enka singer, pancreatic cancer.
 * Joey Dunlop, 48, Northern Irish motorcycle racer, motorcycle accident.
 * Constance Howard, 89, English textile artist and embroiderer.
 * Paul McLaughlin, 80, Canadian sailor and Olympian.
 * Karl Sweetan, 57, American gridiron footballplayer, complications following surgery.
 * Georgi Tringov, 63, Bulgarian chess grandmaster.

3

 * Walter Cassel, 90, American operatic baritone and actor.
 * Nancy Cato, 83, Australian writer and poet.
 * James Grogan, 68, American figure skater and Olympian, multiple organ failure.
 * André Guinier, 88, French physicist.
 * Michael Hamilton, 81, British politician.
 * Paul G. Hatfield, 72, American attorney and politician.
 * John Hejduk, 70, Czech-American architect, artist and educator.
 * Leonard Hilton, 52, American long-distance runner.
 * János Kamara, 73, Hungarian communist politician.
 * Enric Miralles, 45, Spanish architect, brain tumor, brain cancer.
 * Harold Nicholas, 79, American dancer (Nicholas Brothers), heart attack.
 * Fiorentino Sullo, 79, Italian politician.
 * Kemal Sunal, 55, Turkish actor, heart attack.

4

 * Donald Blessing, 94, American rower and Olympic champion.
 * Jack T. Bradley, 82, US Army Air Force fighter ace during World War II.
 * Allan Fakir, 68, Pakistani folk singer.
 * Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, 81, Polish writer and political dissident.
 * Yuri Klinskikh, 35, Russian singer, songwriter and arranger, heart failure.
 * Marina Kroschina, 47, Ukrainian tennis player, suicide.
 * Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme, 85, British aristocrat.
 * Vladimír Ráž, 77, Czechoslovak film actor.
 * Shōji Ueda, 87, Japanese photographer.

5

 * Franta Belsky, 79, Czech sculptor, prostate cancer.
 * Giovanni Bettinelli, 65, Italian racing cyclist.
 * Edgar Cardoso, 87, Portuguese civil engineer and university professor.
 * Mehrangiz Manoochehrian, 94, Iranian lawyer, musician and feminist.
 * Peter Bullfrog Moore, 68, Australian rugby league administrator, esophageal cancer.
 * Dorino Serafini, 90, Italian motorcycle road racer and racing driver.
 * Gloria Williams, 57, American singer, diabetes.
 * Joseph Wohlfart, 80, Luxembourgian politician.
 * Lord Woodbine, 71, Trinidadian calypsonian and music promoter, house fire.

6

 * Roderic Coote, 85, British Anglican prelate.
 * Eric Fraser, 69, English rugby player.
 * Lazar Koliševski, 86, Yugoslav communist political leader.
 * Fred Lane, 24, American football player, shot.
 * Akira Miyazawa, 72, Japanese jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist.
 * Ľudovít Rajter, 93, Slovakian-Hungarian composer and conductor.
 * Władysław Szpilman, 88, Jewish-Polish pianist and Holocaust survivor portrayed in the 2002 film The Pianist.
 * Marcella Comès Winslow, 95, American photographer and portrait painter.

7

 * Dame Stella Casey, 76, New Zealand social activist.
 * Kenny Irwin, 30, American stock car racing driver, racing accident.
 * Ursula Kuczynski, 93, German communist activist and spy.
 * James C. Quayle, 79, American newspaper publisher.
 * William J. Randall, 90, American politician.
 * Johann Urbanek, 89, Austrian football player.
 * Charles Alan Wright, 72, American constitutional lawyer.
 * Dmitry Alexandrovich Zavadsky, 27, Belarusian journalist, homicide.

8

 * FM-2030, 69, Iranian-American author, transhumanist philosopher and futurist, pancreatic cancer.
 * Pieter Goemans, 75, Dutch composer ("Aan de Amsterdamse grachten").
 * Anne Mueller, 69, British civil servant and academic, Parkinson's disease.
 * Maurice Owen, 76, English footballer.
 * Cliff Sear, 63, Welsh footballer, heart attack.

9

 * Doug Fisher, 59, English actor, heart attack.
 * Henri Gault, 70, French food journalist, heart attack.
 * Herbert Hunger, 85, Austrian byzantinist.
 * Erkki Koiso, 66, Finnish ice hockey player.
 * John Morgan, 41, British etiquette expert, domestic accident.
 * Joe Sostilio, 85, American racing driver.
 * John Vitale, 34, American football player, cancer.

10

 * Gertrud Arndt, 96, German photographer and designer.
 * Denis O'Conor Don, 87, English noble and hereditary Chief of the Name O'Conor.
 * Dick Glasser, 65, American singer, songwriter, and record producer, lung cancer.
 * Vakkom Majeed, 90, Indian politician.
 * Ursule Molinaro, French-American writer.
 * Bill Munson, 58, American gridiron football player, drowned.
 * Francisco Matos Paoli, 85, Puerto Rican poet, critic, and essayist.
 * Justin Pierce, 25, British skateboarder and actor (Kids, Next Friday), suicide.
 * Apostolos Vakalopoulos, 90, Greek historian.
 * Norma Wilson, 90, New Zealand athlete and Olympian.

11

 * Bill Alexander, 90, British political activist.
 * Jaroslav Filip, 51, Slovak musician, composer, dramaturge, and actor, heart attack.
 * Pedro Mir, 87, Dominican poet and writer (Poet Laureate).
 * Robert Runcie, 78, British Archbishop of Canterbury, cancer.
 * Barry Tabobondung, 39, Canadian ice hockey player, traffic accident.

12

 * Al Butler, 62, American basketball player, cancer.
 * Tom Galley, 84, English football player.
 * Charles Merritt, 91, Canadian war hero and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
 * Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, 72, Yugoslav prince.

13

 * A. D. Hope, 92, Australian poet.
 * Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso, 86, Argentine historian and researcher.
 * Jan Karski, 86, Polish resistance fighter and academic.
 * Mauno Rintanen, 75, Finnish football player and basketball player.
 * Indira Sant, 86, Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India.

14

 * Bill Barth, 57, American blues guitarist, heart attack.
 * Finn-Egil Eckblad, 76, Norwegian mycologist.
 * Alvin Hollingsworth, 72, American painter and comics artist.
 * Meredith MacRae, 56, American actress (My Three Sons, Petticoat Junction), complications of brain cancer.
 * Georges Maranda, 68, Canadian baseball player, cancer.
 * Mark Oliphant, 98, Australian physicist, Governor of South Australia.
 * Pepo, 88, Chilean cartoonist.

15

 * Paul Bühlmann, 73, Swiss comedian, radio personality, and actor.
 * Johnny Duncan, 67, American bluegrass musician.
 * Juan Filloy, 105, Argentine writer.
 * Jocko Henderson, 82, American radio disc jockey, and hip hop music pioneer, cancer.
 * Leo Hoegh, 92, U.S. Army officer, lawyer, and politician.
 * John O. Pastore, 93, American lawyer and politician, kidney failure.
 * Louis Quilico, 75, Canadian opera singer.
 * Kalle Svensson, 74, Swedish footballer.
 * Paul Young, 53, British singer and songwriter (Sad Café, Mike + The Mechanics), heart attack.

16

 * Igor Domnikov, 41, Russian journalist and editor, murdered.
 * György Petri, 56, Hungarian poet, cancer.
 * Barbosa Lima Sobrinho, 103, Brazilian lawyer, writer, journalist and politician.
 * Jean Vercoutter, 89, French Egyptologist.
 * Bernie Whitebear, 62, American Indian activist, colon cancer.
 * William Foote Whyte, 86, American sociologist.

17

 * Pascale Audret, 64, French actress, traffic collision.
 * Thomas Quinn Curtiss, 85, American writer, and film and theater critic.
 * Zhao Lirong, 72, Chinese singer and film actress, cancer.
 * Aligi Sassu, 88, Italian painter and sculptor.
 * Jean Swain, 76, American singer.
 * Berthe Villancher, 91, French gymnastics judge and official.

18

 * René Chocat, 79, French basketball player.
 * Roberto Contreras, 71, American actor.
 * Paul Coverdell, 61, American politician, Senator from Georgia, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * John F. Davis, 93, American lawyer and law professor.
 * Enrique de Gandía, 94, Argentine historian and author.
 * Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza, 81, Spanish architect.
 * José Ángel Valente, 71, Spanish poet and essayist.

19

 * James B. Clark, 92, American film and television director.
 * Stephen Gendin, 34, American AIDS activist, AIDS-induced lymphoma.
 * Kamala Das Gupta, 93, Indian freedom fighter.
 * Hananiah Harari, 87, American painter and illustrator.
 * Owen Maddock, 74, British engineer and racing car designer.
 * Tommy O'Boyle, 82, American football coach.
 * Allen Paulson, 78, American businessman.

20

 * Eyvind Earle, 84, American artist, author and illustrator, esophageal cancer.
 * Joseph F. Enright, 89, American submarine commander.
 * James Hobson Morrison, 91, American politician (member of the United States House of Representatives), heart attack.
 * Béla Rajki, 91, Hungarian swimming coach and water polo coach.
 * Murray G. Ross, 90, Canadian sociologist, author, and academic administrator.
 * Mabel Scott, 85, American gospel music and R&B vocalist.
 * Jim Suchecki, 72, American baseball player.
 * Alexis P. Vlasto, 84, British historian and philologist.
 * Malaclypse the Younger, 59, American author.

21

 * Vladimir Bagirov, 63, Soviet-Latvian grandmaster of chess, chess author, and trainer, heart attack.
 * Constanze Engelbrecht, 50, German actress, cancer.
 * Iain Hamilton, 78, Scottish composer.
 * Maria Kleschar-Samokhvalova, 84, Soviet Russian painter and graphic artist.
 * Frank Miller, 73, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario.
 * Vladimir Novikov, 92, Soviet-Russian politician and statesman.
 * Eddie Pequenino, 72, Argentine film actor.
 * Yosef Qafih, 82, Yemenite-Israeli zionist orthodox rabbi.
 * Oliver Henry Radkey, 91, American historian of Russian and Soviet history.
 * Stanojlo Rajičić, 89, Serbian composer and musicologist.
 * Marc Reisner, 51, American environmentalist and writer, colon cancer.
 * Åke Senning, 84, Swedish cardiac surgeon.
 * Yoshio Watanabe, 93, Japanese photographer.

22

 * John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield, 80, British medical researcher and academic administrator.
 * Eric Christmas, 84, British actor.
 * Alexander Dallin, 76, American historian and political scientist.
 * Raymond Lemieux, 80, Canadian organic chemist.
 * Staffan Burenstam Linder, 68, Swedish economist and politician, lung cancer.
 * Claude Sautet, 76, French film director and screenwriter, liver cancer.
 * Archie W. Straiton, 92, American physicist.
 * Teleco, 86, Brazilian football player.

23

 * Ralph Evans, 76, American competitive sailor and Olympic medalist.
 * Carmen Martín Gaite, 74, Spanish author.
 * Oiva Lommi, 78, Finnish rower and Olympic medalist.
 * Vittorio Mangano, 59, Italian mobster, cancer.
 * Kao Pao-shu, 61, Chinese actress, producer, writer and film director.
 * Mars Rafikov, 66, Soviet cosmonaut.
 * Ahmad Shamloo, 74, Iranian poet, writer and journalist.

24

 * Anatoli Firsov, 59, Russian ice hockey player, heart attack.
 * Pierre Hardy, 92, French sport shooter and Olympic medalist.
 * Jim Kremer, 81, Luxembourgian football player.
 * Dharmasiri Senanayake, 67, Sri Lankan politician.
 * Oscar Shumsky, 83, American violinist and conductor.
 * G. Wood, 80, American film and television actor, congestive heart failure.

25

 * Julia Pirotte, 92, Polish photojournalist.
 * Aleksander Rokosa, 64, Polish gymnast.
 * Fred C. Sheffey, 71, United States Army major general, lung cancer.
 * Elizabeth Wilson, 86, American screenwriter and playwright.


 * Notable people killed in the crash of Air France Flight 4590:
 * Rudi Faßnacht, 65, German football manager.
 * Christian Götz, 60, German trade unionist and politician.
 * Jean Marcot, 50, French first officer of Flight 4590.
 * Christian Marty, 54, French windsurfer and captain of Flight 4590.
 * Andreas Schranner, 64, German property magnate.

26

 * Abhayadev, 87, Indian poet and lyricist.
 * U. R. Jeevarathinam, Tamil actress, singer and producer.
 * Dalkhan Khozhaev, 39, Chechen historian, field commander, brigadier general and author, murdered.
 * John Tukey, 85, American mathematician, infarction.
 * Don Weis, 78, American film and television director.

27

 * Virginia Admiral, 85, American painter and poet.
 * Bruce Douglas-Mann, 73, British politician.
 * Val Dufour, 73, American actor, cancer.
 * Paddy Joyce, 77, Irish actor, stroke.
 * Vladimir Lisunov, 60, Russian nonconformist artist, murdered.
 * Constance Stuart Larrabee, 85, English photographer and war correspondent.
 * Gordon Solie, 71, American wrestling commentator, throat cancer.

28

 * Jaime Cardriche, 32, American actor, complications during gall bladder surgery.
 * Leslie Martin, 91, English architect.
 * Abraham Pais, 82, Dutch-American physicist, cardiovascular disease.
 * Jonas M. Platt, 80, United States Marine Corps officer.
 * Jerome Smith, 47, American guitarist (KC and the Sunshine Band), accident.
 * Chic Stone, 77, American comic book artist.
 * John Wells, 93, British artist.

29

 * Kobie Coetsee, 69, South African lawyer and politician, heart attack.
 * Eladio Dieste, 82, Uruguayan engineer.
 * René Gerónimo Favaloro, 77, Argentine cardiologist, suicide by gunshot.
 * Benny Fenton, 81, English football player and manager.
 * Åke Hodell, 81, Swedish fighter pilot, poet, author, text-sound composer, and artist.
 * Richard Kerry, 85, American Foreign Service officer and lawyer, prostate cancer.
 * Bobby Reid, 63, Scottish football player.
 * Bob Welch, 72, Canadian politician.

30

 * Ab Box, 91, Canadian football player.
 * Jim Clark, 71, American gridiron football player..
 * Derek Hill, 83, English portrait and landscape painter.
 * Nan Leslie, 74, American actress, pneumonia.
 * Max Showalter, (aka Casey Adams), 83, American actor, composer, pianist, singer, cancer.
 * Jack Smiley, 77, American basketball player.

31

 * István Gulyás, 68, Hungarian tennis player.
 * Lars Jansson, 73, Finnish author and cartoonist.
 * William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., 91, American novelist, short story writer, essayist and children's author.
 * Constance Babington Smith, 87, British journalist and writer.
 * Armando Trindade, 72, Pakistani prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Hendrik C. van de Hulst, 81, Dutch astronomer and mathematician.
 * Thomas Wolff, 46, American mathematician, car accident.