Deaths in August 2000

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2000.

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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.

August 2000

Unknown

• Augustin Bizimana, 45-46, Rwandan politician and alleged war criminal.[1]

1

• Maxie Berger, 83, Canadian boxer.
• Robert A. Brooks, 68, American telecommunications entrepreneur, cancer.
• Joanna Constantinidis, 72, English potter and ceramic artist.
• Nanjil K. Manoharan, 71, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
• Stan Seltzer, 72, American jazz pianist.
• Anatoly Zinevich, 67, Soviet, and later Armenian General-Lieutenant.

2

• John Caldwell, 65, Australian politician.[2]
• William Rossa Cole, 80, American anthologist, columnist, and writer of light verse.
• Trevor Leggett, 85, British author, translator, and head of the BBC's Japanese Service, stroke.
• Patricia Moyes, 77, British mystery writer.
• Floyd Swink, 79, American botanist and author.

3

• Joann Lõssov, 78, Estonian basketball player.[3]
• Michael Meyer, 79, English translator and writer.[4]
• Geoffrey Page, 80, British World War II flying ace.[5]

4

• Jimmy Bowie, 75, Scottish footballer.
• John Joseph Graham, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate.[6]
• Fred W. Hooper, 102, American racehorse owner and breeder.
• Halyna Zubchenko, 71, Ukrainian painter, muralist, and social activist.

5

• Otto Buchsbaum, 80, Austrian-Brazilian writer and ecological activist.
• Sir Alec Guinness, 86, English actor and writer, Star Wars: Original Trilogy, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, liver cancer.[7]
• Dudley Randall, 86, African-American poet.[8]

6

• Raymond J. Broderick, 86, jurist and politician from Pennsylvania, cancer.
• Lillian Chestney, 86, American illustrator and painter.
• Sir Robin Day, 76, British political broadcaster, heart complications.[9]
• Marv Felderman, 84, American baseball player.[10]
• Don A. Jones, 87, officer in the US Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps.

7

• Samuel Akpabot, 63, Nigerian music composer, ethnomusicologist and author.
• Georges Matheron, 69, French mathematician and geologist.
• Mona-Lisa Pursiainen, 49, Finnish female sprinter, breast cancer.
• Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, 88, mother of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States.[11]

8

• Katherine Butler, 86, nun, writer, and aviator.
• Walter Chappell, 75, American photographer and poet, lung cancer.
• Ernie Hefferle, 85, American football player and coach.
• Sir Peter Hudson, 76, British army general.
• Jaap Marais, 77, Afrikaner nationalist thinker, author and politician.
• S. Nijalingappa, 97, Indian politician.
• Anatoli Romashin, 69, Soviet and Russian actor and director, accidental impalement.
• Thomas B. Warren, 80, American professor of philosophy of religion and apologetics.

9

• Sir Josias Cunningham, 66, Northern Irish politician.[12]
• John Harsanyi, 80, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate.[13]
• Bob Lido, 85, American musician (The Lawrence Welk Show).
• Herb Thomas, 77, American NASCAR driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.[14]

10

• Robert Manuel Cook, 91, British classical scholar.
• Milt Mead, 68, American track athlete and basketball player.
• Gilbert Parkhouse, 74, Welsh cricketer.[15]
• Hatto Ständer, 71, German church musician, academic, concert organist and composer.

11

• Paidi Jairaj, 90, Indian film actor, director and producer.
• Talal Maddah, 60, Saudi musician and composer, heart attack.
• Usha Mehta, 80, India Gandhian and freedom fighter.
• Jean Papineau-Couture, 83, Canadian composer.[16]
• Constantin Zureiq, Syrian Arab intellectual.

12

• Alberto Pedro Cabrera, 54, Argentine basketball player, leukemia.
• Dave Edwards, 59, American big band-style musician, cardiac arrest.
• Gennady Lyachin, 45, Russian commanding officer of the sank submarine Kursk.
• Jeanne Rhéaume, 85, Canadian artist.
• Loretta Young, 87, American actress (The Farmer's Daughter, Come to the Stable).[17]

13

• Sir Antony Duff, 80, British diplomat, Director-General of MI5 (1985-1988).[18]
• Terence Feely, 72, British screenwriter, playwright and author.
• Nazia Hassan, 35, Pakistani pop singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist, lung cancer.[19]

14

• John Boland, 55, Irish politician.
• Ken Heintzelman, 84, American baseball player.[20]
• John Milford, 70, American actor.[21]

15

• Ena Begović, 40, Croatian actress, traffic accident.
• Vasilis Efraimidis, 84, Greek journalist and politician.
• Edward Craven Walker, 82, British inventor who invented the lava lamp.
• Lancelot Ware, 85, British founder of Mensa.[22]
• John Whitehead, 74, English cricketer.[23]

16

• Alan Caddy, 60, English guitarist (The Tornados).[24]
• S. C. C. Anthony Pillai, 86, Indian trade unionist and politician, cardiac arrest.
• Renu Saluja, 48, Indian film editor, stomach cancer.

17

• Robert R. Gilruth, 86, American aerospace engineer.[25]
• Edith Körner, 79, Czech-born British health reformer.[26]
• Stephan Körner, 86, Czech-born British philosopher.[27]
• Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen, 87, Baltic German Kapitänleutnant during World War II.

18

• Cesar Calvo, 60, Peruvian poet, journalist and author.
• Lakshyadhar Choudhury, 85, Indian actor, playwright, film-director and politician.
• Joseph Comerford, 41, British engineer.
• Claire Epstein, 88, Israeli archaeologist.
• Maurice Evans, 63, English football player and manager, heart attack.
• Bernard Krainis, 75, American musician.
• Ola Rotimi, 62, Nigerian playwright and theatre director.
• Morton Shulman, 75, Canadian politician, businessman and physician.
• Dorothy Mae Taylor, 72, American politician and educator.[28]
• Bill Willesee, 88, Australian politician.

19

• Bineshwar Brahma, 52, Bodo activist and leader.
• David Norton Edelstein, 90, American judge.[29]
• Tony Parisi (aka Antonio Pugliese), 59, Italian-born Canadian professional wrestler.[30]
• Theodore Trautwein, 80, American judge.[31]

20

• Jorge Alberto Ramos Comas, 53, Puerto Rican politician.
• Sir Peter Compston, 84, British admiral.
• Jackie Coulter, 46, Northern Irish loyalist, killed.
• Nancy Evans, 85, British mezzo-soprano opera singer.[32]
• Mitch Halpern, 33, American boxing referee, self-inflicted gunshot to the head.
• Douglas T. Jacobson, 74, United States Marine and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Bill Simon, 80, American songwriter, musician and music critic.
• Henri Theil, 75, Dutch econometrician.

21

• Sir Campbell Adamson, 78, British industrialist.[33]
• Tom Day, 65, American football player.[34]
• John Hayes, 70, American film director.
• Russ Kerns, 79, American baseball player.[35]
• Daniel Lisulo, 69, Zambian politician.
• Giuseppe Medici, 92, Italian politician.[36]

22

• Bill Bradford, 78, American baseball player.[37]
• Abulfaz Elchibey, 62, Azerbaijani political figure and a Soviet dissident, prostate cancer.
• Professor Tanaka, 70, American actor and professional wrestler.[38]

23

• Betty Blue, 69, American model and actress.
• Anthony Corallo, 87, American mobster and boss of the Lucchese crime family.
• John Anthony Kaiser, 67, American priest, assassinated.
• Rangarajan Kumaramangalam, 48, Indian politician, acute myeloid leukaemia.

24

• Andy Hug, 35, Swiss kickboxer.[39]
• Bob McPhail, 94, Scottish footballer.[40]
• Tatiana Riabouchinska, 83, Russian American prima ballerina.

25

• Carl Barks, 99, American cartoonist (Scrooge McDuck).[41]
• Amalia de la Vega, 81, Uruguayan singer.
• Jack Nitzsche, 63, American musician, arranger and songwriter (Academy Award for Best Original Song for co-writing "Up Where We Belong").[42]
• Ivan Stambolić, 63, Serbian politician.
• Ian Stephenson, 66, British artist.

26

• Bunny Austin, 94, English tennis player.[43]
• Ed Rakow, 65, American baseball player.[44]
• Daniel Sternberg, 87, Polish musician.
• Allen Woody, 44, American bass guitarist (the Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule).[45]

27

• Deister, 29, German show jumping horse and European Champion.
• Gilbert de Botton, 65, Israeli financial pioneer.[46]
• Denny Chronopoulos, 32, Canadian football player, heart attack.
• Bob Mahoney, 72, American baseball player.[47]

28

• Antoni Janusz, 98, Polish sportsman, soldier and pilot.
• Milan Levar, 45–46, Croatian army officer and whistleblower, murdered.
• Friedrich Wilhelm, 69, German prince.

29

• Fern Bell, 87, American baseball player.[48]
• Shelagh Fraser, 79, British actress (best known for playing Aunt Beru in Star Wars).[49]
• Mohamed Hamri, 68, Moroccan painter and writer.
• Conrad Marca-Relli, 87, American artist.[50]

30

• David R. Altman, 85, American advertising executive, lymphoma.
• Joseph H. Lewis, 93, American B-movie film director.
• Willie Maddren, 49, English professional football player and manager.[51]
• Gürdal Tosun, 33, Turkish actor (Bir Demet Tiyatro), kidney disease.[52]

31

• Joseph Lennox Federal, 90, American Roman Catholic prelate.[53]
• Joan Hartigan, 88, Australian tennis player.[54]
• Saunders King, 91, American guitarist and singer.[55]
• Brian Murphy, 18, Irish victim of unlawful killing.[56]
• Dolores Moore, 67, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player.[57]
• Patricia Owens, 75, Canadian-born American actress.[58]

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