Deaths in June 2000

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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

 * Oskar Czerwenka, 75, Austrian operatic bass and academic teacher.
 * Sir Raymond Ferrall, 94, Australian businessman and author.
 * Edgar Z. Friedenberg, 79, American scholar of gender studies.
 * Ralph Jones, 79, American drummer.
 * Jim Shorter, 61, American gridiron football player.

2

 * Ellis Clary, 83, American baseball player.
 * Svyatoslav Fyodorov, 72, Russian ophthalmologist (a pioneer of refractive surgery) and politician, aircraft crash.
 * Adolph Hofner, 83, American swing bandleader and singer.
 * Werner Panitzki, 89, German Air Force general.
 * Mikhail Schweitzer, 80, Soviet film director, traffic collision.
 * Lepo Sumera, 50, Estonian composer.
 * Gerald James Whitrow, 87, British mathematician, cosmologist and science historian.

3

 * Leonard Baskin, 77, American sculptor, visual artist and writer.
 * Ted Graber, 79-80, American interior designer.
 * Jaishankar, 61, Indian actor, heart attack.
 * Nevena Kokanova, 61, Bulgarian film actress, cancer.
 * Merton Miller, 77, American Nobel Prize-winning economist.
 * William E. Simon, 72, American politician and businessman, respiratory disease.
 * Ann Tse-kai, 87, Hong Kong industrialist and legislator.

4

 * Clarence Carter, 96, American artist.
 * Sir James Glover, 71, British army general.
 * Takashi Kano, 79, Japanese football player, heart failure.
 * Richard A. Peterson, 77, United States Army Air Forces flying ace and architect, cancer.
 * Mark Samaranayake, 86, Sri Lankan actor.
 * Hiroji Satoh, 75, Japanese table tennis player.
 * Augusta H. Teller, 91, American scientist and computer programmer.
 * Paul Zoungrana, 82, Burkinabé cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

5

 * Carl-Erik Creutz, 88, Finnish radio announcer.
 * Houshang Golshiri, 62, Iranian writer and critic, meningitis.
 * Jeanne Hersch, 89, Swiss philosopher.
 * Don Liddle, 75, American baseball player.
 * João Nogueira, 58, Brazilian samba singer and composer.
 * Anna Birgitta Rooth, 81, Swedish academic.
 * Franco Rossi, 81, Italian film screenwriter and director.
 * Eugene M. Zuckert, 88, US Secretary of the Air Force, pneumonia complicated by a heart ailment.

6

 * Blair Clark, 82, American journalist and political activist.
 * Frédéric Dard, 78, French writer.
 * Arnie Johnson, 80, American professional basketball player.
 * Seiroku Kajiyama, 74, Japanese politician.
 * Alexander Evert Kawilarang, 80, Indonesian freedom fighter and military commander.
 * Håkan Lidman, 85, Swedish athlete.
 * Maria Laura Mainetti, 60, Italian Catholic sister, stabbed.
 * William McMillan, 71, World-class American sport shooter and Olympic champion.
 * Joan Tate, 77, English translator.
 * Feltus Taylor, 38, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

7

 * Clint Houston, 53, American jazz double-bassist.
 * Don Klosterman, 70, American gridiron football player and executive.
 * James Moore, 44, American gospel musician, colon cancer.
 * Ljubiša Savić, 41, Bosnian Serb paramilitary commander and post-war politician, murdered.
 * Barbara Jo Walker, 74, American model and Miss America in 1947.

8

 * Lucy May Cranwell, 92, New Zealand botanist.
 * Norman A. Erbe, 80, American politician, Iowa governor from 1961 to 1963.
 * Georges Fages, 66, French rugby player and coach.
 * Jack Gaud, 42, Indian actor, heart attack.
 * Donald Kalish, 80, American logician and anti-war activist.
 * Jack Kroll, 74, American journalist and film critic.
 * Jeff MacNelly, 52, American editorial cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip Shoe, lymphoma.
 * Larry Nuber, 51, American auto racing announcer.
 * Kermit Roosevelt Jr., 84, American intelligence officer.
 * Stephen Saunders, 52, British Army officer, drive-by shooting.
 * Teuvo Tulio, 87, Finnish film director and actor.

9

 * John Abramovic, 81, Croatian-American professional basketball player.
 * Sir John Balcombe, 74, British jurist, Lord Justice of Appeal.
 * Shay Brennan, 63, Irish footballer.
 * Ernst Jandl, 74, Austrian writer.
 * Jacob Lawrence, 82, American painter and educator.
 * Muhammad Noor, 75, Indian football player.
 * Amédée Rolland, 86, French racing cyclist.
 * George Segal, 75, American painter and sculptor.
 * Alfred Weidenmann, 84, German film director, screenwriter, and children's author.

10

 * Hafez al-Assad, 69, President of Syria, heart attack.
 * Rômulo Arantes, 42, Brazilian swimmer and actor, airplane crash.
 * Terry Forrestal, 52, English actor, stuntman and BASE jumper, BASE jumping accident.
 * Jack Hoobin, 72, Australian cyclist and Olympian.
 * Frank Patterson, 61, Irish tenor.
 * Brian Statham, 69, English professional cricketer, leukemia.
 * J. Watson Webb, Jr., 84, American film editor.

11

 * Michel Besnier, 71, French heir and businessman.
 * Henry Davis, 57, American gridiron football player.
 * Lew Gallo, 71, American actor and television producer (Twelve O'Clock High, The Twilight Zone).
 * Karl-Heinz Holze, 69, German football player.
 * Elizabeth Lawrence, 77, American actress, cancer.
 * Rajesh Pilot, 55, Indian Air Force officer and politician, traffic accident.
 * Ruth Rubin, 93, Canadian-American Yiddish folklorist and singer.
 * Earl Shinhoster, 49, American civil rights activist, traffic accident.
 * Claus Westermann, 90, German theologian.

12

 * Yun Bulong, 62, Chinese politician, Chairman of Inner Mongolia, train-car collision.
 * Sir Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce, 88, British jurist.
 * Edwin R. Chess, 87, American major general and Chief of Chaplains of the US Air Force.
 * Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, 80, Indian writer, actor, and humorist.
 * Bruno Martino, 74, Italian composer, singer, and pianist.
 * Dave Russell, 86, Scottish football player and manager.

13

 * Gustavo Albella, 74, Argentine football player.
 * Mona Bruns, 100, American actress.
 * Robert Dienst, 72, Austrian football player.
 * Yefim Gamburg, 75, Soviet and Russian animation director.
 * Ruth Harrison, 79, English animal welfare activist and writer.
 * Mitchell Olenski, 80, American football player and coach.
 * Jock Shaw, 87, Scottish football player.
 * Duane Thomas, 39, American welterweight boxer, murdered.
 * Bobby Tiefenauer, 70, American baseball player.

14

 * Attilio Bertolucci, 88, Italian poet and writer.
 * Kurt Böwe, 71, German actor.
 * Frederic G. Cassidy, 92, Jamaican-American linguist and lexicographer.
 * Paul Griffin, 62, American musician.
 * Robert Trent Jones, 93, British–American golf course designer.
 * Gianmatteo Matteotti, 79, Italian politician.
 * Peter McWilliams, 50, American author, AIDS-related complications.
 * Harry Melville, 92, British chemist and academic.
 * Elsie Widdowson, 93, British chemist, dietitian and nutritionist.
 * Greg Wilton, 44, Australian politician, suicide.

15

 * Heinrich Fichtenau, 87, Austrian medievalist.
 * Neville Ford, 93, English cricket player.
 * Grigori Gorin, 60, Soviet and Russian playwright and writer, heart attack.
 * Grant MacEwan, 97, Canadian farmer and politician.
 * Jules Roy, 92, Algerian-born French writer.
 * Mîna Urgan, 84, Turkish academic, author and politician.

16

 * Elvin A. Kabat, 85, American microbiologist.
 * Empress Nagako, 97, Japanese consort of Emperor Hirohito.
 * Nosrat Rahmani, 72, Iranian poet and writer.
 * Mike Silliman, 56, American basketball player, heart attack.
 * Jiang Weiqing, 89, Chinese politician.

17

 * Joe Albanese, 66, American baseball player.
 * Bill Dodgin, Jr., 68, English football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Juozas Jagelavičius, 61, Lithuanian rower and Olympian medalist.
 * Jack Lindwall, 81, Australian rugby player.
 * Ismail Mahomed, 68, South African lawyer (Chief Justice of South Africa), pancreatic cancer.
 * Alex Moir, 80, New Zealand cricket player.
 * André Vacheresse, 72, French basketball player and coach.
 * Clive Westlake, 67, British songwriter.

18

 * Ekrem Alican, Turkish politician, Deputy Prime Minister.
 * Jane Bowers, 79, American folk singer and songwriter.
 * Nancy Marchand, 71, American actress (Lou Grant, The Sopranos), lung cancer.
 * Boris Vasilyev, 63, Russian cyclist and Olympian.

19

 * Mary Benson, 80, South African civil rights activist.
 * Ron Casey, 72, Australian sporting commentator and radio and television pioneer.
 * Anton Gorchev, 60, Bulgarian actor.
 * Christiane Herzog, 63, wife of Roman Herzog, former President of Germany, cancer.
 * Tokuji Iida, 76, Japanese baseball player.
 * William Papas, 72, South African-born British political cartoonist and caricaturist.
 * Harry Riccobene, 90, American mobster (Philadelphia crime family).
 * Noboru Takeshita, 76, Japanese politician and the 74th Prime Minister of Japan (1987–1989), stroke.

20

 * Basanta Choudhury, 72, Indian actor.
 * Alan Basil de Lastic, 70, Burmese Roman Catholic archbishop, car crash.
 * Ron Lamb, 56, American football player.
 * Chanchal Kumar Majumdar, 61, Indian physicist.
 * Karl Mickel, 64, German writer.
 * Carlota O'Neill, 95, Spanish feminist writer and journalist.

21

 * Ion Alecsandrescu, 71, Romanian footballer and executive.
 * Claude Bissell, 84, Canadian author and educator.
 * Ronny Coutteure, 48, Belgian actor, director, author, TV presenter and restaurateur, suicide by hanging.
 * Ezequiel Ataucusi Gamonal, 82, Peruvian politician and self-proclaimed prophet, kidney failure.
 * Alan Hovhaness, 89, American composer.
 * C. Stanley Ogilvy, 87, American mathematician, sailor, and author.
 * Thomas Harrison Provenzano, 51, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Günther Sabetzki, 85, German ice hockey player and executive.
 * Billy Sperrin, 78, English football player and coach.
 * Bud Stewart, 84, American baseball player.

22

 * Kedarnath Agarwal, 89, Indian poet and writer.
 * Michel Droit, 77, French novelist and journalist.
 * Svein Finnerud, 54, Norwegian jazz pianist, painter and graphic artist.
 * Shaka Sankofa, 36, American death-row inmate, execution by lethal injection.
 * Osamu Takizawa, 93, Japanese actor, pneumonia.
 * Harry Usher, 61, American attorney, heart attack.

23

 * Shawkat Akbar, 63, Bangladeshi film actor.
 * Geng Biao, 90, Chinese politician.
 * Philippe Chatrier, 72, French tennis player and executive.
 * Enrico Cuccia, 92, Italian banker.
 * Peter Dubovský, 28, Slovak footballer, fall from cliff.
 * Ed Hughes, 72, American football player and coach.
 * Yehuda Kalmen Marlow, 68, German-American rabbi.
 * Keith Reemtsma, 74, American transplant surgeon, liver cancer.
 * Jerome Richardson, 79, American jazz musician, heart failure.
 * Jim Roper, 83, American NASCAR driver, heart and liver failure caused by cancer.
 * Bob Tillman, 63, American baseball player.

24

 * Vera Atkins, 92, Romanian-British intelligence officer and SOE operative during World War II.
 * Hanna Batatu, 74, Palestinian marxist historian.
 * Rodrigo Bueno, 27, Argentine singer, car collision.
 * Vintilă Cossini, 86, Romanian football midfielder.
 * Enoch Dogolea, 48, Liberian politician, Vice President of Liberia (1997–2000), illness (disputed).
 * Duncan Kyle, 70, British novelist.
 * Charles Andrew MacGillivary, 83, American Medal of Honor recipient.
 * Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, 72, Pakistani politician.
 * Robert Ridder, 80, American media businessman and philanthropist.
 * Mike Todorovich, 77, American basketball player and coach.
 * David Tomlinson, 83, English actor (Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Love Bug), stroke.

25

 * Barbara Christian, 56, American author and professor of African-American Studies, lung cancer.
 * Wilson Simonal, 62, Brazilian singer, liver cirrhosis.
 * Pascal Themanlys, 90, French-Israeli poet, zionist, and kabbalist.
 * Austin Bernard Vaughan, 72, American prelate of the Catholic Church, complications following heart attack.
 * Judith Wright, 85, Australian poet, environmentalist and aboriginal rights activist.

26

 * Ken Bell, 85, Canadian war photographer.
 * Pier Carpi, 60, Italian essayist, novelist, film director and screenwriter.
 * Stig Engström, 66, Swedish graphic designer and suspected murderer of Olof Palme, suicide.
 * Lucien Laurin, 88, French-Canadian jockey and horse trainer.
 * Corneliu Mănescu, 84, Romanian diplomat.
 * Arne Thomas Olsen, 90, Norwegian actor, stage producer and theatre director.
 * Logan Ramsey, 79, American character actor, heart attack.
 * Avraham Yosef Shapira, 79, Israeli politician and businessman.

27

 * Larry Kelley, 85, American football player, suicide.
 * David Neal, 68, English actor.
 * Gerhard Pfeiffer, 77, German chess master.
 * Pierre Pflimlin, 93, French politician.
 * Harry Prowell, 63, Guyanese long distance runner and Olympian.
 * Krishna Riboud, 73, Indian historian and art collector.
 * Tobin Rote, 72, American football player, heart attack.

28

 * Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood, 87, British politician.
 * John Terence Coppock, 79, British geographer.
 * William Glock, 92, British arts administrator and music critic.
 * Dick James, 66, American football player, prostate cancer.
 * Nils Poppe, 92, Swedish actor, comedian, director, screenwriter and theatre manager, stroke.
 * Michael Ripper, 87, English actor.
 * Anton Tamarut, 67, Croatian Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Józef Tischner, 69, Polish priest and philosopher, laryngeal cancer.
 * Arnie Weinmeister, 77, American football player (New York Giants) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

29

 * John Abineri, 72, English actor.
 * John Aspinall, 74, British zoo owner, cancer.
 * Roy Gagnon, 87, American gridiron football player.
 * Vittorio Gassman, 77, Italian actor, heart attack.
 * Leo Martello, 69, American Wiccan priest, gay rights activist, and author, cancer.
 * Germaine Montero, 90, French singer and actress.
 * Rodney Nuckey, 71, English racing driver.

30

 * W. David Kingery, 73, American material scientist, heart attack.
 * Robert L. Manahan, 43, American actor and voice actor, aneurysm.
 * Franklin D. Miller, 55, American Special Forces staff sergeant during the Vietnam War, cancer.
 * Vahé Oshagan, 77, Armenian poet, writer, literary critic.
 * Mikalay Yaromenka, 74, Soviet and Belarusian actor.