Deaths in September 2000

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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

 * Olavi Ahonen, 77, Finnish film actor and comedian.
 * Barbara Brooke, Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte, 92, British politician.
 * P. P. Ummer Koya, 78, Indian politician, Gandhian, freedom fighter and educationist.
 * Franklin P. Peterson, 70, American mathematician, stroke.
 * Gerry Sullivan, 57, Australian politician.

2

 * Vicente Asensi, 81, Spanish football player.
 * Ishaq Bux, 83, Indian actor.
 * Heinz Harmel, 94, German SS general during World War II.
 * Jean Speegle Howard, 73, American actress, respiratory disease, cardiomyopathy.
 * Elvera Sanchez, 95, American dancer.
 * Curt Siodmak, 98, German-American novelist and screenwriter (The Wolf Man, Donovan's Brain), cancer.
 * Gennady Smirnov, 45, Russian footballer.
 * Audrey Wise, 68, British politician.

3

 * Asaf Abdrakhmanov, 81, Soviet naval officer and war hero during World War II.
 * Edward Anhalt, 86, American screenwriter (Panic in the Streets), Oscar winner (1951), cancer.
 * Clodomiro Cortoni, 77, Argentine cyclist.
 * Oldřich Daněk, 73, Czech dramatist, writer, director and screenwriter.
 * R. H. Harris, 84, American gospel singer (Soul Stirrers).
 * Jack Simmons, 85, British transport historian.
 * Clyde Sukeforth, 98, American baseball player.
 * Indriði Guðmundur Þorsteinsson, 74, Icelandic writer.
 * Walt Stanchfield, 81, American animator (The Jungle Book, The Fox and the Hound, The Great Mouse Detective).

4

 * Augusto Vargas Alzamora, 77, Peruvian prelate in the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Sir John Beith, 86, British diplomat.
 * David Brown, 53, American bass guitarist (Santana), kidney failure.
 * Jack Fjeldstad, 85, Norwegian actor and stage producer.
 * Pinky May, 89, American baseball player.
 * Mihály Mayer, 66, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic champion (1964).
 * Mukri, 78, Indian film actor, heart attack.
 * Gilles Potvin, 76, Canadian music critic and music historian.
 * Antonio Ruberti, 73, Italian politician and engineer.
 * Mary Shepard, 90, English illustrator of children's books.

5

 * Margaret Andrew, 92, American experimental engineer.
 * Carlo M. Cipolla, 78, Italian economic historian.
 * Roy Fredericks, 57, West Indian cricketer, cancer.
 * George Musso, 90, American football player (Chicago Bears) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
 * Palle Nielsen, 80, Danish illustrator and graphic artist.

6

 * David E. Bell, 81, American public servant, director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (1961–1962).
 * Robert Lindsay, 95, English-born Australian politician.
 * Abdul Haris Nasution, 81, Indonesian general and politician, cerebrovascular disease.
 * Nino Ramishvili, 90, Soviet and Georgian ballet dancer and choreographer.
 * Fritz Ruchay, 90, German football player and manager.
 * Jürgen Schütze, 49, East German racing cyclist.
 * Jiří Sovák, 79, Czech actor.
 * Kees van Aelst, 83, Dutch water polo player and Olympian (1936 Summer Olympics).
 * Roger Verey, 88, Polish rower.
 * Desmond Wilcox, 69, British journalist and television producer, heart attack.

7

 * Bruce Gyngell, 71, Australian television executive, cancer-related illness.
 * Eigil Nielsen, 81, Danish amateur football goalkeeper and Olympic medalist.
 * Gian Luigi Polidoro, 73, Italian film director and screenwriter.
 * Vitaliy Popovich, 37, Ukrainian racewalker, suicide.
 * Aleksander Skiba, 55, Polish volleyball player and coach.
 * Nick Tremark, 87, American baseball player.

8

 * Yves Gaucher, 66, Canadian abstract painter and printmaker.
 * Otto Katharus Lind, 79, Danish resistance fighter and general.
 * Carlos Castillo Peraza, 53, Mexican politician, heart attack.
 * Raul Roulien, 94, Brazilian actor, singer, and film director.

9

 * Julian Critchley, 69, British politician.
 * Herbert Friedman, 84, American physicist and astronomer, cancer.
 * Chuck Holmes, 55, American adult film producer, businessman and philanthropist, AIDS-related complications.
 * Veerasamy Ringadoo, 79, Mauritian politician, minister and Governor-General of Mauritius.
 * Peter Robinson, 78, English football player.
 * Robert S. Stevens, American politician and jurist.
 * Bill Waddington, 84, English music hall performer, actor, and comedian, Parkinson's disease.

10

 * Jakie Astor, 82, English politician and sportsman.
 * Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, 81, Pakistani writer and journalist.
 * Chandra Khonnokyoong, 91, Thai Maechi.
 * William Nierenberg, 81, American physicist and member of the Manhattan Project, cancer.
 * Lester Novros, 91, American artist and animator.
 * Ben Wicks, 73, British-Canadian cartoonist, illustrator, and author, cancer.

11

 * Herbert H. Bateman, 72, American politician, cancer.
 * Peter Browne, 76, Australian politician.
 * Joe Dale, 79, English footballer.
 * Philipp Fehl, 80, Austrian artist and art historian.
 * Ham Heung-chul, 69, South Korean football player and manager.
 * Martin James Monti, 78, US Army Air Force pilot.
 * William Wilson Quinn, 92, US Army officer.
 * Joe Skubitz, 94, American politician.

12

 * Juan Ibáñez Díez-Gutiérrez, 62, Mexican actor, film director, producer and writer.
 * Konrad Kujau, 62, German illustrator and forger, cancer.
 * Gary Olsen, 42, English actor (2point4 Children, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The Bill), cancer.
 * Alfredo Pasotti, 75, Italian road bicycle racer.
 * Stanley Turrentine, 66, American jazz tenor saxophonist.

13

 * Jānis Gilis, 57, Soviet and Latvian football player.
 * Betty Jeffrey, 92, Australian writer.
 * Howard Johnson, 89, British politician.
 * Rolf Kauka, 83, German comic artist.
 * Jerzy Lipiński, 91, Polish racing cyclist.
 * Duane Swanson, 87, American basketball player.
 * Pedro Morales Torres, 68, Chilean football manager.

14

 * George Christopher, 92, Greek-American politician.
 * Jerzy Giedroyc, 94, Polish writer and political activist.
 * Jean Halain, 80, French film screenwriter.
 * Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale, 86, British politician.
 * Cheng Kejie, 66, Chinese government official, execution by lethal injection.
 * Igor Luzhkovsky, 62, Russian swimmer and Olympian.
 * George Myatt, 86, American baseball player.
 * Beah Richards, 80, American actress (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night, ER), pulmonary emphysema.
 * Hwang Sun-won, 85, Korean short story writer, novelist, and poet.

15

 * David Flusser, 83, Israeli professor of Early Christianity.
 * Jennifer Gan, 62, American actress.
 * George Kanahele, 70, American native Hawaiian activist, historian and author.
 * Frank John Kerr, 82, Australian astronomer and physicist.
 * Harmar Nicholls, 87, British politician.
 * Jean Yancey, 86, American entrepreneur and motivational speaker, heart failure.

16

 * Ioan Alexandru, 58, Romanian poet, essayist and politician.
 * M. H. M. Ashraff, 51, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, helicopter crash.
 * Dori Brenner, 53, American actress.
 * John Perkovich, 76, American baseball player.
 * Alexandra Petrova, 19, Russian model and beauty pageant contestant, murdered.
 * Dharma Vira, 94, Indian politician.

17

 * Hester Burton, 86, English children's writer.
 * Cruz Martínez Esteruelas, 68, Spanish politician.
 * Heorhii Gongadze, 31, Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and film director, homicide.
 * Armand Mestral, 82, French actor and singer.
 * Nicole Reinhart, 24, American cyclist, cycling accident.
 * Dem Rădulescu, 68, Romanian actor, heart attack.
 * Chico Salmon, 59, Panamanian baseball player.
 * Henry T. Weinstein, 76, American film producer.
 * Paula Yates, 41, British television presenter and journalist, drug overdose.

18

 * Glyde Butler, 68, Australian politician.
 * Gilbert Carpentier, 80, French television show producer.
 * Tony Graboski, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Dawn Langley Simmons, 77, English author and biographer, Parkinson's disease.
 * Chen Yuefang, 37, Chinese basketball player and Olympic medalist.

19

 * Joseph Epes Brown, 80, American scholar of Native American traditions.
 * Ann Doran, 89, American character actress.
 * Fulvio Mingozzi, 74, Italian actor.
 * Karl Robatsch, 70, Austrian chess player and botanist, cancer.
 * Gloria Talbott, 69, American actress, kidney failure.

20

 * Dorothy Emmet, 95, British philosopher and academic.
 * Mona Moore, 83, British painter and illustrator.
 * Jeanloup Sieff, 66, French photographer, cancer.
 * Stanislav Stratiev, 59, Bulgarian playwright.
 * Gherman Titov, 65, Soviet cosmonaut, heart failure.

21

 * Robert Wright Campbell, 73, American author and scriptwriter.
 * Jacques Flynn, 85, Canadian lawyer and politician.
 * Bengt Hambraeus, 72, Swedish-Canadian organist, composer and musicologist.
 * Iskandar Khatloni, 45, Tajikistani writer and journalist, murdered.
 * Ognjen Petrović, 52, Serbian goalkeeper.
 * Frederic Seaman, 94, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.
 * John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, 85, British aristocrat.

22

 * Yehuda Amichai, 76, Israeli poet, cancer.
 * Willie Cook, 76, American jazz trumpeter.
 * Vincenzo Fagiolo, 82, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.
 * Dov Feigin, 93, Israeli sculptor.
 * Alexei Kostrikin, 71, Russian mathematician.
 * Mike Nixon, 88, American football player, coach and scout.
 * Anthony Read, 87, British Army general.
 * Saburō Sakai, 84, Japanese flying ace during World War II, heart attack.
 * Bill Sommers, 77, American baseball player.
 * Otto Walzhofer, 74, Austrian football player and coach.

23

 * Hanson Taylor Dowell, 94, Canadian ice hockey administrator and politician.
 * Eiichi Kudo, 71, Japanese film director, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Václav Migas, 56, Czech international footballer.
 * Aurelio Rodríguez, 52, Mexican Major League Baseball player, traffic accident.
 * Carl Rowan, 75, American government official, journalist and author.
 * Kenny Smith, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.

24

 * Basil Bernstein, 75, British sociologist.
 * Janice Biala, 97, Polish-American artist.
 * Dorr Bothwell, 98, American artist and designer.
 * Antony Darnborough, 86, British film producer and director.
 * Marcel Lambert, 81, Canadian politician.
 * Jean Malléjac, 71, French bicycle racer.
 * Stephen McKeag, 30, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, murdered.
 * Horacio Rivero, Jr., 90, Puerto Rican four-star admiral.

25

 * Tom Baker, 79, British Anglican priest.
 * Buster Matheney, 44, American basketball player, shot.
 * Heberto Padilla, 68, Cuban poet, heart attack.
 * Tommy Reilly, 81, English musician.
 * Edy Schmid, 89, Swiss field handball player and Olympic medalist.
 * R. S. Thomas, 87, Welsh poet.

26

 * Neva Abelson, 89, American research physician (co-discovered the blood test for the Rh blood factor).
 * Nick Fatool, 85, American jazz drummer.
 * Paul Gouyon, 89, French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Mohamed Suffian Mohamed Hashim, 82, Malaysian judge.
 * Robert Lax, 84, American poet.
 * Aleksandras Lileikis, 93, Lithuanian-American Holocaust perpetrator during World War II.
 * Richard Mulligan, 67, American actor (Soap, Empty Nest), cancer.
 * Baden Powell, 63, Brazilian guitarist, pneumonia.
 * Carl Sigman, 91, American songwriter.

27

 * Joshua Russell Chandran, 82, Indian Christian theologian.
 * David Jennens, 71, English rower and Olympian.
 * Sammy Luftspring, 84, Canadian boxer.
 * Isaac Oceja, 85, Spanish football player and coach.
 * Frank Wills, 52, American security guard, discovered Watergate break-in, brain cancer.
 * Oh Yun-kyo, 40, South Korean football player.

28

 * Ted Gehring, 71, American actor.
 * Peter Gennaro, 80, American dancer and choreographer (Annie).
 * V. E. Howard, 88, American minister and radio evangelist.
 * Mike McKevitt, 71, American politician.
 * Roger Nott, 91, Australian politician.
 * Phot Sarasin, 95, Thai diplomat and politician.
 * Pierre Trudeau, 80, Prime Minister of Canada, prostate cancer.

29

 * Myles Ferguson, 19, Canadian actor, traffic collision.
 * William Fry, 91, Australian politician.
 * John Grant, 67, British politician.
 * Lynn Lovenguth, 77, American baseball player.
 * Maningning Miclat, 28, Filipino poet and painter, suicide.
 * Carlos Savage, 81, Mexican film editor and actor.
 * Vidoje Žarković, 73, Yoguslav-Montenegrin communist politician.

30

 * Sisir Kumar Bose, 80, Indian freedom fighter and writer.
 * Lina Bryans, 91, Australian modernist painter.
 * Iván Esperón, 88, Argentine football player and coach.
 * Zoran Gopčević, 45, Yugoslav water polo player (silver medal winner in 1980 Summer Olympics).
 * Ragnhild Michelsen, 89, Norwegian actress.
 * Erno Paasilinna, 65, Finnish writer and journalist, cancer.
 * Sir Fred Pontin, 93, English businessman.
 * Dennis Sandole, 87, American jazz guitarist, composer, and music educator.
 * Joe Sheridan, 85, Irish politician.
 * Mario Valota, 82, Swiss fencer and Olympic medalist.
 * Joe Watson, 48, Australian football player, liver cancer.
 * Joseph Weber, 81, American physicist, lymphoma.
 * Howard Winstone, 61, Welsh boxer.