Deaths in October 2000

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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

 * Robert Allen, 73, American composer ("(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays", "Everybody Loves a Lover", "Chances Are").
 * Charlie Brewster, 83, American baseball player.
 * René Coicaud, 73, French fencer.
 * Rosie Douglas, 58, Prime Minister of Dominica and human rights activist.
 * Aristeidis Kollias, 56, Greek lawyer, publicist, and folklorist, leukemia.
 * Luciano Storero, 74, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Reginald Kray, 66, British criminal, bladder cancer.

2

 * Nikolai Fedorenko, 87, Soviet philologist, orientalist, and diplomat.
 * Amadou Karim Gaye, 86, Senegalese politician.
 * Richard Liberty, 68, American actor, heart attack.
 * Elek Schwartz, 91, Romanian football player and coach.
 * David Tonkin, 71, Australian politician, Premier of South Australia (1979-1982).

3

 * Klondike Bill, 68, Canadian professional wrestler, neuromuscular disorder.
 * Wojciech Jerzy Has, 75, Polish film director, screenwriter and film producer.
 * Udo Klug, 72, German football player and manager.
 * M. M. Mustapha, 76, Ceylonese lawyer and politician.
 * Benjamin Orr, 53, American bassist and singer (The Cars), pancreatic cancer.
 * John Worsley, 81, British artist and illustrator.

4

 * Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, 71, Moroccan long-distance runner and Olympic silver medalist, arteriosclerotic heart disease.
 * Tofig Guliyev, 82, Azerbaijani composer, pianist, and conductor.
 * Teruo Itokawa, 59, Japanese shot putter and Olympian.
 * Aleksey Ivanovich Kandinsky, 82, Soviet musicologist.
 * Yu Kuo-hwa, 86, Chinese politician, Premier (1984–1989), complications from leukemia.
 * Tin Maung, 92, Burmese film actor, director and producer.
 * Chuck Oertel, 69, American baseball player.
 * Egano Righi-Lambertini, 94, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Ludvík Ráža, 71, Czechoslovak film director.
 * Michael Smith, 68, English-Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

5

 * Leopold Barschandt, 75, Austrian football player.
 * Johanna Döbereiner, 75, Brazilian agronomist.
 * Ruth Ellis, 101, American LGBT rights activist.
 * Cătălin Hîldan, 24, Romanian football player, heart attack.
 * Keith Roberts, 65, English science fiction author, multiple sclerosis.
 * Cuco Sánchez, 79, Mexican singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor, kidney failure.
 * Sidney R. Yates, 91, American politician (member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Illinois).

6

 * William Bundy, 83, American attorney and CIA operative.
 * José Cabanis, 78, French novelist, historian and magistrate.
 * John T. Connor, 85, American government official and businessman, leukemia.
 * Richard Farnsworth, 80, American actor and stuntman, suicide by gunshot.
 * Bernardo González, 31, Spanish cyclist and Olympian, traffic collision.
 * John Keller, 71, American basketball player.
 * Per-Olov Löwdin, 83, Swedish physicist.
 * K. Gunn McKay, 75, American politician, complications of mesothelioma.
 * George Huntston Williams, 86, American theologian.

7

 * Tony Adamle, 76, American professional football player, cancer.
 * Peter Emil Becker, 91, German neurologist, psychiatrist and geneticist.
 * Leslie Kish, 90, Hungarian-American statistician.
 * Walter Krupinski, 79, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
 * Edith Robinson, 94, Australian track and field athlete and Olympian.

8

 * Charlotte Lamb, 62, British novelist.
 * Vsevolod Larionov, 72, Soviet and Russian stage and film actor.
 * Robert M. Leeds, 79, American film editor and television director.
 * Clarence Myerscough, 69, British violinist.
 * Mihai Pop, 92, Romanian ethnologist.
 * Timothy P. Sheehan, 91, American politician.
 * E. S. Johnny Walker, 89, American politician, leukemia.

9

 * Robert Frederick Bennett, 73, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Kansas, lung cancer.
 * David Dukes, 55, American character actor, heart attack.
 * James V. Hartinger, 75, United States Air Force general.
 * Charles Hartshorne, 103, American philosopher.
 * Lajos Kocsis, 53, Hungarian football player.
 * H. R. Loyn, 78, British historian.
 * Patrick Anthony Porteous, 82, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross.
 * John Joseph Thomas Ryan, 86, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

10

 * Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 84, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, heart attack.
 * Ferenc Farkas, 94, Hungarian composer.
 * Joe Grady, 82, American radio personality.
 * Dick Klein, 80, American businessman and founder of the Chicago Bulls.
 * Emile Kuri, 93, Mexican-American set decorator.
 * Nikolai Lyashchenko, 90, Soviet Army general and war hero.
 * Ambrogio Morelli, 94, Italian road bicycle racer.
 * Bruce Palmer, Jr., 87, American Army general.
 * Bruce Vento, 60, American politician, lung cancer caused by asbestos.

11

 * Donald Dewar, 63, Scottish politician, cerebral haemorrhage, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Hiroshi Inose, 73, Japanese electrical engineer, heart attack.
 * Matija Ljubek, 46, Croatian sprint canoeist and Olympic champion, shot.
 * Sam O'Steen, 76, American film editor and director.
 * Pietro Palazzini, 88, Italian Cardinal.
 * Thomas Leonard Wells, 70, Canadian politician, cancer.
 * Fred Williams, 71, American gridiron football player.

12

 * Justo Arosemena Lacayo, 70, Colombian sculptor.
 * Melvin A. Cook, 89, American chemist.
 * Mark Saxelby, 31, English cricket player, suicide.
 * Gordon Stulberg, 76, Canadian-American film executive and lawyer, complications related to diabetes.

13

 * Masao Fujii, 31, Japanese baseball player.
 * Gus Hall, 90, American labor leader and chairman of the Communist Party USA.
 * Jean Peters, 73, American actress, leukemia.
 * Jarnail Singh, 64, Indian football player.
 * Britt Woodman, 80, American jazz trombonist.

14

 * Art Coulter, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Dino Dibra, 25, Australian organized crime figure, shot.
 * Abbas Gharabaghi, 81, Iranian Army officer and Chief of Staff, cancer.
 * David Guiney, 79, Irish Olympic athlete, sports journalist and historian.
 * Tony Roper, 35, American stock car racing driver, racing accident.
 * Vic Schwall, 75, American gridiron football player.

15

 * Manuel da Luz Afonso, 83, Portuguese football manager.
 * Konrad Emil Bloch, 88, German-American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, heart failure.
 * Vincent Canby, 76, American film and theatre critic (The New York Times), cancer.
 * John Perceval, 77, Australian artist.
 * Rodolfo Sonego, 79, Italian screenwriter.

16

 * Emil Berna, 93, Swiss cinematographer.
 * Mel Carnahan, 66, American lawyer and politician (51st Governor of Missouri).
 * Antonio Ferrandis, 79, Spanish actor, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
 * David Golub, 50, American pianist and conductor, lung cancer.
 * Tito Gómez, 80, Cuban singer.
 * Rick Jason, 77, American actor, suicide.
 * Pierre-Michel Le Conte, 79, French conductor.
 * Joaquín Gutiérrez Mangel, 82, Costa Rican writer, heart failure.
 * Antonio Russo, 40, Italian journalist, murdered.
 * Lu Xiaopeng, 80, Chinese aircraft designer.

17

 * G. Arthur Cooper, 98, American paleobiologist.
 * Harry Cooper, 96, English-American PGA Tour golfer.
 * Joachim Nielsen, 36, Norwegian rock musician and poet, drug overdose.
 * Leo Nomellini, 76, Italian-American football player (San Francisco 49ers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, stroke.
 * Ivan Owen, 73, British voice actor, cancer.
 * Walter Shenson, 81, American film producer, director and writer.

18

 * Bruce Biggs, 79, New Zealand linguist.
 * Inga Gill, 75, Swedish film actress, thrombosis.
 * Julie London, 74, American singer and actress, cardiac arrest, stroke.
 * Sidney Salkow, 89, American screenwriter and film/television director.
 * Gwen Verdon, 75, American actress, heart attack.

19

 * Don Black, 72, Rhodesian tennis player, complications from bowel cancer surgery.
 * Mahir Domi, 85, Albanian linguist and academic.
 * Hortense Ellis, 59, Jamaican reggae musician, infectious disease.
 * Kay Fanning, 73, American journalist and publisher.
 * Shirley Gorelick, 76, American artist.
 * Kati Horna, 88, Hungarian-Mexican photojournalist and photographer.
 * Antonio Maspes, 68, Italian sprinter cyclist and Olympic medalist.
 * Charles Perkins, 64, Australian Aboriginal activist, and soccer player, renal failure.
 * Leopoldo Savona, 87, Italian actor, director, choreographer, and screenwriter.
 * Karl Stein, 87, German mathematician.

20

 * Johannes Abraham Dimara, 84, Indonesian revolutionary and National Hero.
 * Elisa Galvé, 78, Argentine actress.
 * Jenny Kastein, 87, Dutch competition swimmer and Olympian.
 * Kalfie Martin, 90, South African military commander.
 * Boris Seidenberg, 71, Soviet actor.

21

 * Frankie Crocker, 62, American disc jockey, pancreatic cancer.
 * Alan Rowe, 73, New Zealand-born British actor.
 * Dirk Jan Struik, 106, Dutch-American mathematician and historian of mathematics.
 * Ralph A. Vaughn, 93, American academic, architect and film set designer.

22

 * Anthony Chinn, 70, Guyanese actor based in England.
 * Fred Pratt Green, 97, British Methodist minister and hymn writer.
 * Jean-Luc Mandaba, 57, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, heart attack.
 * Princess Xenia Andreevna Romanovsky, 81, Russian noblewoman.
 * Dick Spiers, 62, English football player.
 * Hank Wyse, 82, American baseball player.

23

 * Benny Culp, 86, American baseball player.
 * Hans Ertl, 92, German mountaineer and Nazi propagandist.
 * Doug Millward, 69, English football player.
 * Martin Rich, 95, German conductor.
 * Nils Täpp, 82, Swedish cross-country skier and Olympic champion.
 * Yokozuna, 34, American professional wrestler, pulmonary edema.

24

 * Terry Haskins, 45, American Republican politician, melanoma.
 * Sitaram Kesri, 80, Indian politician and parliamentarian.
 * Fereydoon Moshiri, 74, Iranian poet, leukemia.
 * Silvio Noto, 73, Italian TV and radio presenter, and actor.
 * Miriam Salpeter, 71, Latvian-American neuroscientist.
 * Daniel E. Sheehan, 83, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Omaha.
 * Little Mack Simmons, 67, American blues musician, colon cancer.

25

 * Kamran Baghirov, 67, Soviet politician, First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party.
 * Don Frank Brooks, 53, American blues musician, leukemia.
 * Alberto Demiddi, 56, Argentine rower and Olympic medalist.
 * Mochitsura Hashimoto, 91, Japanese submarine commander during World War II.
 * Wood B. Kyle, 85, United States Marine Corps Major General.
 * Jeanne Lee, 61, American jazz singer, poet and composer, cancer.
 * Brian McConnell, Baron McConnell, 77, Northern Irish Unionist politician.
 * John Sinclair Morrison, 87, English classicist.
 * Nejat Saydam, 71, Turkish film director, screenwriter and actor from Istanbul.
 * Robert E. Waldron, 80, American politician.

26

 * Jesús Puente Alzaga, 69, Spanish actor, heart attack.
 * Muriel Evans, 90, American actress, colorectal cancer.
 * Manmath Nath Gupta, 92, Indian Marxist revolutionary writer and author.
 * Laila Kinnunen, 60, Finnish singer.
 * Donald F. Lach, 83, American historian and author.
 * Mike Rawson, 66, English track and field athlete and Olympian.
 * Gardner Soule, 86, American writer.

27

 * Lída Baarová, 86, Czech-Austrian actress and mistress of the Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels, Parkinson's disease.
 * Walter Berry, 71, Austrian bass-baritone.
 * Winston Grennan, 56, Jamaican drummer, cancer.
 * Bill O'Neill, 90, American gridiron football player.
 * Larry Rhine, 90, American producer and screenwriter.
 * Stanislav Sventek, 69, Czech ice hockey player and coach.
 * Bill Wainwright, 91, British communist activist.
 * Clifford Dwight Waldo, 87, American political scientist.
 * Bob Weighill, 80, English rugby player.

28

 * Andújar Cedeño, 31, Dominican baseball player, car accident.
 * Josef Felder, 100, German politician.
 * Dorothy Hood, 81, American modernist painter, breast cancer.
 * Aare Laanemets, 46, Estonian actor, stroke.
 * Anthony Lee, 39, American actor and playwright, shot by police officer.
 * Michael Murphy, 81, Irish politician.
 * Djaelani Naro, 71, Indonesian politician.
 * Fred C. Norton, 72, American judge and politician.
 * Howard Patterson, 73, American Olympic swimmer.
 * Edith Peters, 74, American singer and actress.
 * Irving Phillips, 95, American cartoonist, illustrator, playwright, and author.
 * Georges Poujouly, 60, French actor, cancer.
 * Robert Sommers, 89, Canadian politician.
 * Décio Randazzo Teixeira, 58, Brazilian football player.
 * Mapalagama Wipulasara Maha Thera, 75, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk.
 * Kemp Tolley, 92, U.S. Navy officer and author, stroke.

29

 * Charles F. Avila, 94, American electrical engineer.
 * Jacqueline Brumaire, 78, French operatic soprano.
 * Elisabeth Epp, 90, German actress.
 * Carlos Guastavino, 88, Argentine composer.
 * Rolf Hädrich, 69, German film director and screenwriter.

30

 * Steve Allen, 78, American comedian, TV host (The Tonight Show, The Steve Allen Show) and author, traffic accident.
 * Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios, 73, Mexican politician.
 * Elizabeth Bradley, 78, English actress (Coronation Street).
 * María Elena Galiano, 72, Argentine arachnologist.
 * Henri Pichette, 76, French writer and poet.
 * Louis Stuyt, 86, Dutch politician and physician.

31

 * Bill Carse, 86, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Tommy English, 40, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary and politician, shot.
 * Thomas Gifford, 63, American author, cholangiocarcinoma.
 * Ring Lardner Jr., 85, American journalist and screenwriter, cancer.
 * Robert C. Murphy, 74, American lawyer and jurist, neuromuscular disease.
 * Samuel Pierce, 78, American politician.
 * Kaj Aage Gunnar Strand, 93, Danish astronomer.
 * Mike Turnesa, 93, American golfer and one of seven golfing brothers.
 * Kazuki Watanabe, 19, Japanese musician, sedative overdose.