Deaths in July 2000

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 2000

1

• Victor E. Engstrom, 86, American philatelist.
• John Albert Axel Gibson, 83, British World War II air ace.[1]
• Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan, 94, fourth and last wife of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah.
• Ganju Lama, 75, Sikkimese Gurkha and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
• Walter Matthau, 79, American actor (winner of Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony awards).[2]

2

• Joey Dunlop, 48, Northern Irish motorcycle racer, motorcycle accident.[3]
• Constance Howard, 89, English textile artist and embroiderer.
• Paul McLaughlin, 80, Canadian sailor and Olympian.

3

• Sir Michael Hamilton, 81, British politician.[4]
• Harold Nicholas, 79, American dancer (Nicholas Brothers).[5]
• Kemal Sunal, 55, Turkish actor.[6]

4

• Jack T. Bradley, 82, US Army Air Force fighter ace.[7]
• Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, 81, Polish writer and political dissident.[8]
• Yuri Klinskikh, 35, Russian singer, songwriter and arranger.
• Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme, 85, British aristocrat.[9]

5

• Peter "Bullfrog" Moore, 68, Australian rugby league administrator.[10]
• Leon deValinger Jr., 95, American archivist and historian.
• Lord Woodbine, 71, Trinidadian calypsonian and music promoter, house fire.

6

• Miervaldis Birze, 79, Latvian writer, publicist and physician.
• Roderic Coote, 85, British Anglican prelate.
• Eric Fraser, 69, English rugby player.
• Lazar Koliševski, 86, Yugoslav communist political leader.
• Fred Lane, 24, American football player.[11]
• Władysław Szpilman, 88, Jewish-Polish pianist portrayed in the 2002 film The Pianist.[12]
• Marcella Comès Winslow, 95, American photographer and portrait painter.

7

• Dame Stella Casey, 76, New Zealand social activist.[13]
• Kenny Irwin, 30, NASCAR driver.[14]
• James C. Quayle, 79, American newspaper publisher.[15]
• Charles Alan Wright, 72, American constitutional lawyer.[16]

8

• FM-2030, 69, Iranian-American author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher and futurist, pancreatic cancer.
• W. David Kingery, 73, American material scientist, heart attack.
• Dame Anne Mueller, 69, British civil servant and academic.[17]
• Maurice Owen, 76, English footballer.
• Cliff Sear, 63, Welsh footballer, heart attack.

9

• Doug Fisher, 59, English actor, heart attack.
• John Morgan, 41, British etiquette expert.[18]
• John Vitale, 34, American football player, cancer.

10

• Leo Egan, 86, American broadcaster.
• Vakkom Majeed, 90, Indian politician.
• Ursule Molinaro, French-born American writer.[19]
• Denis O'Conor Don, O'Conor Don, hereditary Chief of the Name O'Conor.
• Justin Pierce, 25, British skateboarder and actor (Kids, Next Friday).[20]

11

• Bill Alexander, 90, British political activist.[21]
• Pedro Mir, 87, Dominican poet and writer (Poet Laureate).[22]
• Robert Runcie, 78, Archbishop of Canterbury.[23]

12

• Tom Galley, 84, English footballer.
• Charles Merritt, 91, Canadian war hero and recipient of the Victoria Cross.[24]
• Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, 72, Yugoslav prince.[25]

13

• James Ferguson, 86, American Air Force general.[26]
• A. D. Hope, 92, Australian poet.[27]
• Jan Karski, 86, Polish resistance fighter and academic.[28]

14

• Meredith MacRae, 56, American actress (My Three Sons, Petticoat Junction).[29]
• Georges Maranda, 68, Canadian baseball player.[30]
• Sir Mark Oliphant, 98, Australian physicist, Governor of South Australia.[31]

15

• Johnny Duncan, 67, American bluegrass musician.[32]
• Louis Quilico, 75, Canadian opera singer.[33]
• Kalle Svensson, 74, Swedish footballer.[34]
• Paul Young, 53, British singer and songwriter (Sad Café, Mike + The Mechanics).[35]

16

• Igor Domnikov, 41, Russian journalist and editor, murdered.
• György Petri, 56, Hungarian poet, cancer.
• Jean Vercoutter, 89, French Egyptologist.
• Bernie Whitebear, 62, American Indian activist, colon cancer.

17

• Zhao Lirong, 72, Chinese singer and film actress, cancer.
• Aligi Sassu, 88, Italian painter and sculptor.
• Thomas Quinn Curtiss, 85, American writer, and film and theater critic.[36]
• Warren P. Waters, 77, American physicist, inventor and WWII US Air Force pilot, kidney failure.

18

• Paul Coverdell, 61, US Senator from Georgia, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Archie Craig, 88, Scottish racing cyclist.
• John F. Davis, 93, American lawyer and law professor.[37]
• Ray Gabelich, 67, Australian rules footballer.

19

• James B. Clark, 92, American film and television director.
• Stephen Gendin, 34, American AIDS activist, AIDS-induced lymphoma.
• Owen Maddock, 74, British engineer and racing car designer.
• Tommy O'Boyle, 82, American football coach.[38]

20

• Eladio Dieste, 82, Uruguayan engineer and architect.
• Eyvind Earle, 84, American artist, author and illustrator, esophageal cancer.
• Joseph F. Enright, 89, submarine captain in the US Navy.
• James H. Morrison, 91, American politician (member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 6th congressional district).[39]
• Kao Pao-shu, 68, Chinese actress, producer, writer and film director, died at the age of 68.
• Murray G. Ross, 90, Canadian sociologist, author, and academic administrator.
• Jim Suchecki, 72, American baseball player.[40]
• Alexis P. Vlasto, 84, British historian and philologist.

21

• Vladimir Bagirov, 63, Soviet-Latvian grandmaster of chess, chess author, and trainer, heart attack.
• Constanze Engelbrecht, 50, German actress, cancer.
• Maria Kleschar-Samokhvalova, 84, Soviet Russian painter and graphic artist.

22

• John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield, 80, British medical researcher and academic administrator.[41]
• Raymond Lemieux, 80, Canadian organic chemist.[42]
• Claude Sautet, 76, French film director and screenwriter.[43]
• Staffan Burenstam Linder, 68, Swedish economist and politician.
• Pat Turner, 73, British trade unionist.

23

• Vittorio Mangano, 59, member of the Sicilian Mafia, cancer.
• Carmen Martín Gaite, 74, Spanish author.
• Ahmad Shamlou, 74, Iranian poet, writer and journalist.[44]
• Sandor Teszler, 97, Hungarian-American businessman and philanthropist.

24

• Anatoli Firsov, 59, Russian ice hockey player.[45]
• Alvin Tresselt, 83, American children's book author and graphic designer.[46]
• G. Wood, 80, American film and television actor, congestive heart failure.

25

• Daphne Pearson, 89, English Women's Auxiliary Air Force NCO.
• Julia Pirotte, 92, Polish photojournalist.
• Notable people killed in the crash of Air France Flight 4590:[47]
  • Rudi Faßnacht, 65, German football manager.
  • Christian Goetz, 60, German society photographer.
  • Jean Marcot, 50, French first officer of Flight 4590.
  • Christian Marty, 54, French windsurfer and captain of 4590.
  • Andreas Schranner, 64, German property magnate.

26

• Abhayadev, 87, Indian poet and lyricist.
• Albert Fear, 92, Welsh rugby player.
• U. R. Jeevarathinam, Tamil actress, singer and producer.
• John Tukey, 85, American mathematician.[48]

27

• Virginia Admiral, 85, American painter and poet.[49]
• Bruce Douglas-Mann, 73, British politician.[50]
• Val Dufour, 73, American actor.[51]
• Gordon Solie, 71, American wrestling commentator.[52]

28

• Abraham Pais, 82, Dutch-born American physicist.[53]
• Walter Schmidt, German SS officer.
• Jerome Smith, 47, American guitarist (KC and the Sunshine Band).[54]
• John Wells, 93, British artist.[55]

29

• Roger Batzel, 78, American nuclear scientist.
• Kobie Coetsee, 69, South African lawyer and politician, heart attack.
• René Favaloro, 77, Argentine cardiologist who invented the technique of coronary bypass surgery, suicide by gunshot.[56]
• Benny Fenton, 81, English football player and manager.[57]
• Nestor Pirotte, 67, Belgian serial killer, heart attack.
• Bob Welch, 72, Canadian politician.

30

• Derek Hill, 83, English portrait and landscape painter.
• Nan Leslie, 74, American actress of film and television, pneumonia.
• Max Showalter (aka Casey Adams), 83, American actor, composer, pianist, singer, cancer.[58]
• Jack Smiley, 77, American basketball player.

31

• István Gulyás, 68, Hungarian tennis player.
• Hendrik C. van de Hulst, 81, Dutch astronomer and mathematician.[59]
• William Keepers Maxwell Jr., 91, American novelist, short story writer, essayist and children's author.

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