Deaths in October 2000
The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.
October 2000
1
- Robert Allen, 73, American composer ("(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays", "Everybody Loves a Lover", "Chances Are").[1]
- Charlie Brewster, 83, American baseball player.[2]
- Rosie Douglas, 58, Prime Minister of Dominica and human rights activist.[3]
- Wiktor Eckhaus, 70, Polish–Dutch mathematician.
- Aristeidis Kollias, 56, Greek lawyer, publicist, and folklorist, leukemia.
- Reginald Kray, 66, British criminal.,[4] bladder cancer
2
- Dung Hà, 34/35, Vietnam female gangster, homicide.
- Amadou Karim Gaye, 86, Senegalese politician.
- Richard Liberty, 68, American actor.
- Justus Mühlenpfordt, 89, German nuclear physicist.
- Elek Schwartz, 91, Romanian football player and coach.[5]
- Tom Troman, 86, English cricketer.
3
- Peter Baker, 55, English cricketer.
- Wojciech Has, 75, Polish film director, screenwriter and film producer.[6]
- Klondike Bill, 68, Canadian professional wrestler, neuromuscular disorder.
- M. M. Mustapha, 76, Ceylonese lawyer and politician.
- Benjamin Orr, 53, The Cars bassist and singer, pancreatic cancer.[7]
- John Worsley, 81, British artist and illustrator.[8]
4
- Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, Moroccan long-distance runner.
- Tofig Guliyev, 82, Azerbaijani composer, pianist, and conductor.
- Alfred Lammer, 90, Austrian-born World War II Royal Air Force pilot.
- Tin Maung, 92, Burmese film actor, director and producer.
- Chuck Oertel, 69, American baseball player.[9]
- Michael Smith, 68, English-born Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.[10]
- Yu Kuo-hwa, 86, Chinese politician, Premier (1984–1989), complications from leukemia.
5
- Leopold Barschandt, 75, Austrian footballer.
- Johanna Döbereiner, 75, Brazilian agronomist.
- Ruth Ellis, 101, African-American LGBT rights activist.
- Cătălin Hîldan, 24, Romanian football player, cardiac arrest.[11]
- Bankson T. Holcomb Jr., 92, brigadier general in the US Marine Corps.
- Stan Montgomery, 80, English footballer and cricketer.
- Keith Roberts, 65, English science fiction author.[12]
- Cuco Sánchez, 79, Mexican singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor, kidney failure.
- Sidney R. Yates, 91, American politician (member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Illinois).[13]
6
- William Bundy, 83, American attorney and intelligence expert (CIA).[14]
- José Cabanis, 78, French novelist, historian and magistrate.
- John T. Connor, 85, American government official and businessman, leukemia.[15]
- Richard Farnsworth, 80, American actor and stuntman, suicide by gunshot.
- George Huntston Williams, 86, American theologian.
- Per-Olov Löwdin, 83, Swedish physicist.
- K. Gunn McKay, 75, American politician, complications of mesothelioma.
7
- Tony Adamle, 76, American professional football player, cancer.[16]
- Wilford S. Bailey, 79, American academic.[17]
- Ed Beisser, 81, American basketball player.
- Leslie Kish, 90, Hungarian-American statistician.[18]
- Walter Krupinski, 79, German Luftwaffe fighter ace in World War II.
- Vittorio Sardelli, 82, Italian footballer.
8
- Hilde Eisler, 88, East German political activist and journalist.
- Charlotte Lamb, 62, British novelist.
- Clarence Myerscough, 69, British violinist.
- Mihai Pop, 92, Romanian ethnologist.
- Kaare Reitan, 97, Norwegian orthodontic researcher.
- E. S. Johnny Walker, 89, American politician, leukemia.
9
- Robert Frederick Bennett, 73, American lawyer and Governor of Kansas.
- David Dukes, 55, American character actor, heart attack.[19]
- James V. Hartinger, 75, US Air Force general.
- Charles Hartshorne, 103, American philosopher.
- Patrick Anthony Porteous, 82, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross.
- Joseph T. Ryan, 86, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.[20]
- Fred Williams, 71, American football player, stroke.
10
- Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 84, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.[21]
- Ferenc Farkas, 94, Hungarian composer.
- Dick Klein, 80, American athlete and businessman.
- Bruce Palmer Jr., 87, American army general.[22]
- Gene Palumbo, 54, American television producer and writer.
- Bruce Vento, 60, American politician, lung cancer caused by asbestos.[23]
11
- Donald Dewar, 63, Scottish politician, cerebral haemorrhage.[24]
- Brian Foley, 80, British Roman Catholic priest and hymnist.
- Hiroshi Inose, 73, Japanese electrical engineer, heart attack.
- Matija Ljubek, 46, Croatian sprint canoeist, shot.
- Rollee McGill, 68, American R&B singer and saxophonist.
- Sam O'Steen, 76, American film editor and director.
- Pietro Palazzini, 88, Italian Cardinal.[25]
- Thomas Leonard Wells, 70, Canadian politician, cancer.
12
- Gordon Stulberg, 76, Canadian-American film executive and lawyer, complications related to diabetes.
- Melvin A. Cook, 89, American chemist.[26]
- Justo Arosemena Lacayo, 70, Colombian sculptor.
- Mary K. Meany, 103, American politician and educator, pneumonia.
13
- Benny Culp, 86, American baseball player and coach.
- John Davis, 57, English cricketer.
- Gus Hall, 90, labor leader and chairman of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).[27]
- Jean Peters, 73, American actress.[28]
- Britt Woodman, 80, American jazz trombonist.[29]
14
- Adriana Benitez, 24, Colombian student leader, murdered by the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia.
- Art Coulter, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.[30]
- Dino Dibra, 25, Australian suspected murderer and victim, shot.
- Jim Eaglestone, 77, English cricketer.
- Tony Roper, 35, American stock car racing driver, racing accident.
15
- George Gray Bell, 80, Canadian soldier.
- Konrad Emil Bloch, 88, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[31]
- Vincent Canby, 76, American film and theatre critic (The New York Times).[32]
- Perry Webster Gilbert, 87, American marine biologist.
- John Perceval, 77, Australian artist.
- Rodolfo Sonego, 79, Italian screenwriter.
16
- Mel Carnahan, 66, American lawyer and politician (51st Governor of Missouri).[33]
- Antonio Ferrandis, 79, Spanish actor.
- Joaquín Gutiérrez, 82, Costa Rican writer, heart failure.
- Rick Jason, 77, American actor.
- Milan Kurepa, 67, Serbian physicist, complications following heart surgery.
- Antonio Russo, 40, Italian journalist, murdered.
- Joseph Scott, 78, American bobsledder.
- Lu Xiaopeng, 80, Chinese aircraft designer, designed the Nanchang Q-5 and the Nanchang J-12.[34]
17
- Harry Cooper, 96, English-American PGA Tour golfer.[35]
- Donna Jogerst, 68, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[36]
- Joachim Nielsen, 36, Norwegian rock musician and poet, drug overdose.
- Leo Nomellini, 76, Italian-American football player (San Francisco 49ers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, stroke.[37]
- Ivan Owen, 73, British voice actor, cancer.
- John Douglas Swales, 64, English cardiologist and expert on hypertension.
18
- Bruce Biggs, 79, New Zealand linguist.
- Lebrecht Wilhelm Fifi Hesse, 65, Ghanaian public servant, cancer.
- Julie London, 74, American singer and actress, cardiac arrest.[38]
- Sidney Salkow, 89, American screenwriter and film/television director.
- Gwen Verdon, 75, American actress, heart attack.[39]
19
- Don Black, 72, Rhodesian tennis player, complications from bowel cancer surgery.
- Mahir Domi, 85, Albanian linguist, professor, and academic.
- Hortense Ellis, 59, Jamaican reggae musician.
- Kay Fanning, 73, American journalist and publisher.[40]
- Shirley Gorelick, 76, American artist.
- Kati Horna, 88, Hungarian-born Mexican photojournalist and photographer.
- Antonio Maspes, 68, Italian sprinter cyclist.
- Hans Moller, 95, German born American artist.
- Charles Perkins, 64, Australian Aboriginal activist, and soccer player, renal failure.[41]
20
- Jenny Kastein, 87, Dutch breaststroke swimmer.
- Kalfie Martin, 90, South African military commander.
- Boris Seidenberg, 71, Soviet actor.
21
- Frankie Crocker, 62, American disc jockey, pancreatic cancer.[42]
- Matti Kannas, 72, Finnish footballer.[43]
- Alan Rowe, 73, New Zealand-born British actor.
- Dirk Jan Struik, 106, Dutch-American mathematician and historian of mathematics.[44]
- Barbara Tribe, 87, Australian-born artist.
- Ralph A. Vaughn, 93, American academic, architect and film set designer.
22
- Princess Xenia Andreevna of Russia, 81, Russian noblewoman.
- Richard Harden, 83, Northern Irish politician.
- Jean-Luc Mandaba, 57, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, heart attack.
- Fred Pratt Green, 97, British Methodist minister and hymn writer.
- Hank Wyse, 82, American baseball player.[45]
23
- Benny Culp, 86, American baseball player.[46]
- Martin Rich, 95, German conductor.[47]
- Nils Täpp, 82, Swedish cross-country skier.
- Yusuf Tunaoğlu, 54, Turkish footballer, cardiac arrest.
- Yokozuna, 34, American professional wrestler, pulmonary edema.
24
- Terry Haskins, 45, American Republican politician, melanoma.
- Sitaram Kesri, 80, Indian politician and parliamentarian.
- Fereydoon Moshiri, 74, Iranian poet.
- Miriam Salpeter, 71, Latvian-American neuroscientist.[48]
- Little Mack Simmons, 67, American blues musician, colon cancer.
25
- Klaus Bargsten, 88, German U-boat commander of the sunken U-521 during World War II.
- Mochitsura Hashimoto, 91, Japanese submarine commander during World War II.
- Wood B. Kyle, 85, US Marine Corps Major General.
- Jeanne Lee, 61, American jazz singer, poet and composer, cancer.[49]
- John Sinclair Morrison, 87, English classicist.
- Robert E. Waldron, 80, American politician.[50]
26
- Muriel Evans, 90, American actress.
- Laila Kinnunen, 60, Finnish singer.
- Donald F. Lach, 83, American historian and author.[51]
- Jesús Puente, 69, Spanish actor.
- Gardner Soule, 86, American writer.
27
- Lída Baarová, 86, Czech-Austrian actress and mistress of the Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels.[52]
- Walter Berry, 71, Austrian bass-baritone.[53]
- Winston Grennan, 56, Jamaican drummer, cancer.[54]
- Eugene Lambert, 95, American sports coach.
- Tim Ralfe, 62, Canadian television journalist, heart attack.
- Bill Wainwright, 91, British communist activist.
- Dwight Waldo, 87, American political scientist.
- Bob Weighill, 80, English rugby player.
28
- Andújar Cedeño, 31, Dominican baseball player, car accident.[55]
- Josef Felder, 100, German politician.
- Carlos Guastavino, 88, Argentine composer.[56]
- Dorothy Hood, 81, American modernist painter.
- Aare Laanemets, 46, Estonian actor, stroke.[57]
- Anthony Lee, 39, American actor and playwright, shot by police officer.
- Jailani Naro, 71, Indonesian politician.
- Howard Patterson, 73, American Olympic swimmer.[58]
- Irving Phillips, 95, American cartoonist, illustrator, playwright, and author.
- Georges Poujouly, 60, French actor, cancer.
- Robert Sommers, 89, Canadian politician.
- Kemp Tolley, 92, U.S. Navy officer and author, stroke.
29
- Charles F. Avila, 94, American electrical engineer.
- Jacqueline Brumaire, 78, French operatic soprano.[59]
- Carlos Guastavino, 88, Argentine composer.
- Rolf Hädrich, 69, German film director and screenwriter.
30
- Steve Allen, 78, American comedian, composer, TV host (The Tonight Show, The Steve Allen Show) and author, traffic accident.[60]
- Elizabeth Bradley, 78, English actress (Maud Grimes in Coronation Street).
- Howard Odell, 89, American football player and coach.
31
- George Armstrong, 56, English football player and coach, brain haemorrhage.
- Thomas Gifford, 63, American author, cholangiocarcinoma.
- Ring Lardner Jr., 85, American journalist and screenwriter, cancer.[61]
- Samuel Pierce, 78, American politician.
- Kaj Aage Gunnar Strand, 93, Danish astronomer.
- Kazuki Watanabe, 19, Japanese musician, sedative overdose.
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