Deaths in June 2000

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 2000

1

• Oskar Czerwenka, 75, Austrian operatic bass and academic teacher.
• Sir Raymond Ferrall, 94, Australian businessman and author.
• Edgar Z. Friedenberg, 79, American scholar of gender studies.

2

• Ellis Clary, 83, American baseball player.[1]
• Svyatoslav Fyodorov, 72, Russian ophthalmologist (a pioneer of refractive surgery) and politician.[2]
• Mikhail Schweitzer, 80, Soviet film director.
• Lepo Sumera, 50, Estonian composer.[3]
• Gerald James Whitrow, 87, British mathematician, cosmologist and science historian.[4]

3

• T. K. Ann, 87, Hong Kong industrialist and legislator.[5]
• Leonard Baskin, 77, American sculptor, visual artist and writer.
• Ted Graber, American interior designer.
• Jack K. Horton, American lawyer and business executive.
• Jaishankar, 61, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Merton Miller, 77, American Nobel Prize-winning economist.[6]
• Bob Rogers, 78, South African Air Force officer.
• William E. Simon, 72, American politician and businessman.

4

• Clarence Holbrook Carter, 96, American artist.
• Sir James Glover, 71, British army general.[7]
• Takashi Kano, 79, Japanese football player, heart failure.
• Richard A. Peterson, 77, United States Army Air Forces flying ace.
• Hiroji Satoh, 75, Japan table tennis player.
• Augusta H. Teller, 91, American scientist and computer programmer.
• Paul Zoungrana, 82, Burkinabé Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

5

• Carl-Erik Creutz, 88, Finnish radio announcer.
• Don Liddle, 75, American baseball player, threw pitch that produced Willie Mays' sensational "The Catch" in 1954 World Series.[8]
• Eugene M. Zuckert, 88, US Secretary of the Air Force, pneumonia complicated by a heart ailment.

6

• Frédéric Dard, 78, French writer.[9]
• Arnie Johnson, 80, American professional basketball player.[10]
• Håkan Lidman, 85, Swedish athlete.[11]
• Joan Tate, 77, English translator.[12]

7

• Willard Somers Elliot, 73, American bassoonist and composer.
• Lady Mary Grosvenor, 89, British motor racing and rally driver.
• Göran Magnusson, 58, Swedish chemist.
• James Moore, 44, American gospel musician, colon cancer.
• Ljubiša Savić, 41, Bosnian Serb paramilitary commander and post-war politician, murdered.[13]
• Rose Whelan Sedgewick, 96, American mathematician.

8

• Hart Amos, 83, Australian comic strip writer and artist.
• Jack Gaud, 42, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Geoffrey Hunter, 74, British professor and logician.
• Donald Kalish, 80, American logician and anti-war activist.
• Jeff MacNelly, 52, American editorial cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip Shoe.[14]
• Horace Elmo Nichols, 87, American jurist.
• Kermit Roosevelt Jr., 84, American intelligence officer.
• Stephen Saunders, 52, British Army officer, assassinated.
• Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu, 24, Indo-Canadian beautician, honour killing.
• Norman Erbe, 80, Iowan governor from 1961 to 1963

9

• John Abramovic, 81, Croatian-American professional basketball player.[15]
• Shay Brennan, 63, Irish footballer.
• Ernst Jandl, 74, Austrian writer.[16]
• Jacob Lawrence, 82, American painter and educator.[17]
• George Segal, 75, American painter and sculptor.[18]

10

• Hafez al-Assad, 69, President of Syria.[19]
• Frank Patterson, 61, Irish tenor.[20]
• Brian Statham, 69, English professional cricketer.[21]

11

• Lew Gallo, 71, American character actor and television producer (Twelve O'Clock High, The Twilight Zone).[22]
• Elizabeth Lawrence, 77, American actress, cancer.
• Claus Westermann, 90, German Protestant Old Testament scholar.

12

• Leonard Appelbee, 85, English painter and printmaker.
• Yun Bulong, 62, Chinese politician, Chairman of Inner Mongolia, train-car collision.[23]
• Edwin R. Chess, 87, American major general and Chief of Chaplains of the US Air Force.
• Sir Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce, 88, British jurist.
• Dave Russell, 86, Scottish football player and manager.

13

• Robert Dienst, 72, Austrian football player.[24]
• Yefim Gamburg, 75, Soviet and Russian animation director.
• Mitchell Olenski, 80, American football player and coach.
• Ágnes Ságvári, 71, Hungarian historian.
• Bobby Tiefenauer, 70, American baseball player.[25]

14

• Paul Griffin, 62, American musician.[26]
• Robert Trent Jones, 93, English-born golf course designer.[27]
• Peter McWilliams, 50, American author.[28]
• Reg Preston, 83, Australian potter.
• Elsie Widdowson, 93, British chemist, dietitian and nutritionist.[29]

15

• Neville Ford, 93, English cricketer.
• Hattie Littles, 63, American soul singer, heart attack.
• Barbara Macdonald, 86, American social worker and activist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Grant MacEwan, 97, Canadian farmer and politician.
• Jules Roy, 92, Algerian-born French writer.[30]
• Kalle Svensson, 74, Swedish football goalkeeper.
• Mina Urgan, 84, Turkish academic, author and politician.

16

• Elvin A. Kabat, 85, American microbiologist.[31]
• Empress Kōjun, 97, Empress of Japan.[32]
• Peter Moore, 76, British Anglican priest.

17

• Joe Albanese, 66, American baseball player.[33]
• Ismail Mahomed, 68, South African lawyer (Chief Justice of South Africa), pancreatic cancer.[34]
• Floyd Millet, 88, American sportsman and college athletics administrator.

18

• Ekrem Alican, Turkish politician, Deputy Prime Minister.
• Nancy Marchand, 71, American actress (Lou Grant, The Sopranos).[35]
• Boris Vasilyev, 63, Russian cyclist.

19

• Mary Benson, 80, South African civil rights activist, died on 19 June 2000.
• Anton Gorchev, 60, Bulgarian actor born in 1939.
• Christiane Herzog, 63, wife of Roman Herzog, the former President of Germany, cancer.
• Harry Riccobene, 90, American crime figure.
• Noboru Takeshita, 76, Japanese politician and the 74th Prime Minister of Japan (1987–1989), stroke.[36]

20

• Basanta Choudhury, 72, Indian actor.
• Ron Lamb, 56, American football player.
• Alan Basil de Lastic, 70, Burmese clergyman in India, car crash.
• Chanchal Kumar Majumdar, 61, Indian physicist.
• Carlota O'Neill, 95, Spanish feminist writer and journalist.

21

• Jim Hensley, 80, American businessman.
• Alan Hovhaness, 89, American composer.[37]
• Bud Stewart, 84, American baseball player.[38]

22

• Kedarnath Agarwal, 89, Indian poet and writer.
• Thomas Barfett, 83, British Anglican priest.
• Philippe Chatrier, 74, French tennis player.
• Shaka Sankofa, 36, American death-row inmate, execution by lethal injection.
• John Smith, 66, British Anglican priest.
• Al Ulmer, 83, American intelligence officer.
• Harry Usher, 61, American attorney, heart attack.

23

• Scott Baker, 43, American racing driver.[39]
• Geng Biao, 90, Chinese politician.
• Jim Roper, 83, American NASCAR driver.[40]
• Bob Tillman, 63, American baseball player.[41]

24

• Duncan Kyle, 70, British novelist.
• Charles Andrew MacGillivary, 83, American Medal of Honor recipient.
• Rodrigo, 27, Argentine singer.
• David Tomlinson, 83, English actor (Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Love Bug).[42]

25

• Barbara Christian, 56, American author and professor of African-American Studies, complications from lung cancer.[43]
• Wilson Simonal, 62, Brazilian singer.
• Judith Wright, 85, Australian poet, environmentalist and Aboriginal rights activist.

26

• Ken Bell, 85, Canadian war photographer.[44]
• Lucien Laurin, 88, French-Canadian jockey and horse trainer.
• Corneliu Mănescu, 84, Romanian diplomat.
• Logan Ramsey, 79, American character actor.[45]

27

• Larry Kelley, 85, American football player, suicide.
• David Neal, 68, English actor.
• Pierre Pflimlin, 93, French politician.
• Harry Prowell, 63, Guyanese long distance runner.
• Krishna Riboud, 73, Indian historian and art collector.
• Tobin Rote, 72, American football player, heart attack.

28

• Jane Birdwood, 87, British politician.[46]
• John Terence Coppock, 79, British geographer.[47]
• Sir William Glock, 92, British arts administrator and music critic.[48]
• Dick James, 66, American football player.[49]

29

• John Aspinall, 74, British zoo owner.[50]
• Vittorio Gassman, 77, Italian actor.[51]
• Arnie Weinmeister, 77, American football player (New York Giants) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[52]

30

• Franklin D. Miller, 55, US Army Special Forces staff sergeant during the Vietnam War, cancer.
• Willis Tucker, 77, American politician and newspaper editor.
• Nikolai Yeremenko Sr., 74, Belarusian/Soviet actor.

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