Deaths in January 2000

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.

January 2000

1

• Betty Archdale, 92, English-Australian educationalist and cricketer.[1]
• Oliver Bowen, 57, Canadian engineer.
• Dick Pabich, 44, American gay rights activist, AIDS.
• Victor Serebriakoff, 87, British early member of Mensa, prostate cancer.
• Andy Spognardi, 91, American baseball player.[2]
• Colin Vaughan, 68, Australian-born Canadian political journalist, architect and activist, heart attack.[3]

2

• Nat Adderley, 68, American jazz musician.[4]
• Jimmy Guieu, 73, French science fiction writer.
• Patrick O'Brian, 85, English writer.[5]
• Elmo Zumwalt, 79, United States Navy officer.[6]

3

• Anita Aarons, 87, Australian-Canadian artist.[7]
• Henry H. Fowler, 91, American lawyer and politician, Secretary of the Treasury.[8]
• Bernhard Wicki, 80, Austrian actor and film director.[9]

4

• Tom Fears, 77, Mexican-American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[10]
• Michael Gershman, 58, American writer and music producer.
• John Milner, 50, American baseball player.[11]

5

• Bernard Braine, Baron Braine of Wheatley, 85, British politician.[12]
• Elizabeth B. Drewry, 93, American archivist.
• Stanley Golder, 70, American financier and venture capitalist, cancer.
• Ida Goodson, 90, American blues and jazz singer and pianist.
• Kumar Ponnambalam, 61, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician, assassinated.
• Hopper Read, 89, English cricketer.[13]
• Vic Schoen, 83, American bandleader, arranger and composer.
• K. L. Shrimali, 90, Indian politician and educationist.
• Adam Yarmolinsky, 77, American academic, educator and author.

6

• Thomas Jamison MacBride, 85, American jurist.[14]
• Don Martin, 68, American cartoonist (MAD Magazine).[15]
• Edward Pain, 74, Australian Olympic rower.
• Ajit Pratap Singh, 82, Indian politician.
• Alexey Vyzmanavin, 40, Russian chess Grandmaster.

7

• Dorothy Damaschke, 82, American baseball player (AAGPBL)[16]
• Makhmud Esambayev, 75, Soviet and Russian actor and dancer.[17]
• Robert McG. Thomas, Jr., 60, American journalist.[18]
• Gary Albright, 36, professional wrestler.
• Bob McFadden, 76, American voice actor.[19]

8

• Ephraim Akpata, 72, Nigerian Justice of the Supreme Court.
• Bill Domm, 69, Canadian politician.[20]
• Ray Huang, 81, Chinese historian and philosopher, heart attack.
• Hilary Smart, 74, American sailor and Olympic champion.
• Jack Stokes, 76, Canadian politician, lung cancer.
• Fritz Thiedemann, 81, German equestrian,.

9

• Arnold Alexander Hall, 84, British aeronautical engineer, scientist and industrialist.[21]
• Nigel Tranter, 90, Scottish writer.[22]
• Sir David Young, 73, British army general.[23]

10

• Arthur Batanides, 76, American film and television actor.[24]
• Sam Jaffe, 98, American motion picture agent, producer, studio executive.[25]
• Gibson Jalo, 60, Nigerian army general.
• Cliff Lloyd, 83, Welsh footballer.
• John Newland, 82, American director and actor.[26]
• Wade Walton, 76, American blues musician and civil rights leader.

11

• Helena Carter, 76, American actress.[27]
• Dan Kemp, 72, American actor.
• Bob Lemon, 79, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.[28]
• William Andrew McDonald, 86, American archaeologist.
• Paul Sigler, 65, American biophysicist and biochemist.[29]

12

• Marc Davis, 86, American animator.[30]
• V. R. Nedunchezhiyan, 79, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.
• Bobby Phills, 30, American professional basketball player.[31]

13

• Eric Dodson, 79, British actor.
• Peter Henderson, Baron Henderson of Brompton, 77, British public servant, Clerk of the Parliaments.[32]
• Alfred Nzo, 74, South African political activist.[33]

14

• Yoshinotani Akitoshi, 50, Japanese sumo wrestler.
• Meche Barba, 77, American-born Mexican film actress and dancer, heart attack.
• Pat Boyette, 76, American broadcaster and comic book artist, esophagus cancer.
• Hans-Joachim Kahler, 91, German general during World War II.
• Jock Paterson, 73/74, Scottish footballer.
• Alain Poiré, 82, French film producer.[34]
• Clifford Truesdell, 80, American mathematician.[35]
• M. V. Venkatram, 79, Indian writer from Tamil Nadu.
• Julian Vereker, 54, English designer of hi-fi audio equipment, cancer.
• Leonard Weisgard, 83, American children's writer and illustrator.

15

• Vernon Holloway, 80, American businessman and politician.
• Marie Kazmierczak, 79, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player.[36]
• Arthur Henry King, 89, British poet and writer.
• Annie Palmen, 73, Dutch singer.
• Željko Ražnatović (aka Arkan), 47, Serbian mobster and paramilitary leader.[37]
• Fran Ryan, 83, American actress.[38]

16

• Harry Cavan, Northern Irish football administrator.
• Dub Jones, 71, American R&B singer.[39]
• Winston O'Reilly, 86, Australian religious minister.
• By Saam, 85, American sportscaster.[40]

17

• Norman Blamey, 85, English painter.
• Elisabeth Collins, 95, British painter and sculptor.
• Andrej Hieng, 74, Slovene writer, playwright and theatre director.
• Philip Jones, 71, British trumpeter.[41]
• Ralph Kekwick, 91, British biochemist.
• Bernard J. Nolker, 87, American member of the Redemptorists, heart failure.

18

• Frances Drake, 87, American actress.[42]
• Jester Hairston, 98, American actor and composer.[43]
• Arnold W. G. Kean, 85, British civil aviation lawyer.
• Arthur Nash, 85, Canadian ice hockey player (silver medal winner of men's Ice hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics).[44]
• Geoffrey Perry, 72, British schoolteacher, deduced existence of the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.[45]

19

• Bettino Craxi, 65, Prime Minister of Italy.[46]
• Hedy Lamarr, 85, Austrian actress.[47]
• Manny Montejo, 64, Cuban baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[48]
• Lynn Myers, 85, American baseball player.[49]
• Alan North, 79, American actor.[50]
• G. Ledyard Stebbins, 94, American botanist, cancer.[51]
• Rex Willis, 75, Welsh rugby union player.[52]

20

• Don Abney, 76, American jazz pianist, complications from kidney dialysis.
• Ron Herbel, 62, American baseball player.[53]
• Don Samuelson, 86, American politician, Governor of Idaho, heart attack.[54]

21

• D. Brook Bartlett, 62, American judge of the US District Court for the Western District of Missouri, multiple myeloma.
• John A. Calhoun, 81, American diplomat.
• Victor Cavallo, 52, Italian actor and underground writer, hepatitis C.

22

• Craig Claiborne, 79, American restaurant critic.[55]
• Ed Clark, 88, American photographer.[56]
• Anne Hébert, 83, French Canadian author and poet.[57]
• E. W. Swanton, 92, British cricket commentator.[58]
• Teddy Boy Locsin, 85, Filipino journalist and publisher, cancer.

23

• Willie Hamilton, 82, British politician.[59]
• Nicholas Nagy-Talavera, 70, Hungarian-American dissident, historian and writer.
• Bill Sutton, 82, New Zealand painter.

24

• Jeffrey Boam, 53, American screenwriter and film producer, heart failure.
• Carl Curtis, 94, American politician.
• Bobby Duncum Jr., 34, American professional wrestler, accidental overdose.
• Rex Nelon, 68, American gospel singer.
• Reynolds Shultz, 78, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Kansas.

25

• Dale Alford, 83, American ophthalmologist and politician, congestive heart failure.
• Herta Freitag, 91, Austrian-born American mathematician)[60]
• P. Lankesh, 64, Indian poet, writer, playwright and journalist, heart attack.
• Floyd M. Riddick, 91, American politician.

26

• Don Budge, 84, American tennis player.[61]
• Kathleen Hale, 101, British author.[62]
• Sir James Haughton, 85, British police officer.
• Frankie Pack, 71, American baseball player.[63]
• Don Ralke, 79, American music arranger.[64]
• Bill Strickland, 91, American baseball player.[65]
• A. E. van Vogt, 87, Canadian science fiction writer.[66]

27

• Mae Faggs, 67, American sprinter.[67]
• Friedrich Gulda, 69, Austrian pianist, heart failure.[68]
• Matateu, 72, Portuguese footballer.
• Abner W. Sibal, 78, American politician.

28

• Sarah Caudwell (aka Sarah Cockburn), 60, British detective story writer and barrister.[69]
• Ted Gullic, 93, American baseball player.[70]
• Geoff Morton, 77, English sportsman.[71]
• Gad Rausing, 77, Swedish industrialist.[72]
• Kenneth Waller, 72, British actor.

29

• Ben Burns, 86, American editor of black publications.
• George McTurnan Kahin, 82, American historian and political scientist.
• Richard Lyons, 79, American poet and Professor of English.
• Harry Thompson, 84, English football player and manager.

30

• Martin Aldridge, 25, English footballer, car crash.
• Isidore Dollinger, 96, American politician.
• Angelo Innocent Fernandes, 86, Indian Roman Catholic Archbishop.
• Joseph Deighton Gibson Jr., 79, American radio DJ and actor.
• Karl-Friedrich Höcker, 88, Nazi war criminal and German commander in the SS.
• Tamara Horowitz, 49, American philosopher, brain tumor.
• Birger Kaada, 81, Norwegian physician.
• Steve Little, 34, American boxer, colon cancer.

31

• June Zimmerman Fullmer, 79, American historian of chemistry.
• Gil Kane, 73, American comics artist.[73]
• Ralph Manza, 78, American character actor.[74]
• K. N. Singh, 91, Indian actor.
• Morris Thompson, 60, American businessman and Alaska Native leader, plane crash.
• Leo VanderKuy, 70, American basketball player.
• Arthur Wilson, 91, English footballer.

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