Deaths in April 2000
The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.
April 2000
1
- Dorothy Freed, 81, New Zealand composer.
- Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, 75, British judge.[1]
- Herschel K. Mitchell, 86, American professor of biochemistry, stroke.
- Willard J. Smith, 89, Commandant of US Coast Guard.[2]
2
- Fred Kwasi Apaloo, 79, Ghanaian judge.[3]
- Synnøve Anker Aurdal, 91, Norwegian textile artist.
- Bunney Brooke, 80, Australian actress and casting director, (Round the Twist, Number 96, E Street), bowel and liver cancer.[4]
- Tommaso Buscetta, 71, Italian Mafia informant.[5]
- Greta Gynt, 83, Norwegian singer, dancer and actress.
- Sir Robert Sainsbury, 93, British businessman and art benefactor.[6]
3
- Larry Finley, 86, American late-night broadcast pioneer.
- Evelyn Irons, 99, Scottish journalist and war correspondent.[7]
- Ernesto Layaguin, hospital corpsman of the Philippine Marine Corps and posthumous recipient of the Medal of Valor.
- Terence McKenna, 53, American ethnobotanist, mystic, psychonaut and author.[8]
- Laurence Narag Sr., Marine of the Philippine Marine Corps and posthumous recipient of the Medal of Valor.
- David Treffry, 73, British colonial servant and financier.
4
- Bridget Jones, 64, British literary academic.
- Diamond Teeth Mary, 97, American singer and vaudeville entertainer.
- Rolf Pingel, 86, German Luftwaffe flying ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II.
- John W. Rollins, 84, American businessman and politician.[9]
- Carl L. Sitter, 77, US Marine Corps officer and Medal of Honor recipient.[10]
- William Stokoe, 80, American linguist.[11]
5
- Kanika Banerjee, 75, Indian singer.
- Lee Petty, 86, American race car driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, abdominal aortic aneurysm.[12]
- Irina Sebrova, 85, Soviet Air Forces pilot and officer.
- Derrick Walters, 67, British Anglican priest, Dean of Liverpool.
- Chino 'Fats' Williams, 66, American actor.
6
- Habib Bourguiba, 96, President of Tunisia.[13]
- Mohammad Ali Fardin, 69, Iranian actor and wrestler, cardiac arrest.[14]
- Azam Ghauri, Indian Islamist terrorist, killed in a police shoot out.
- Don Johnson, 88, American baseball player.[15]
- William Stobbs, 85, British illustrator.
- Richard Trice, 82, American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.
7
- Michael Bear, 66, British cricket player, heart failure.
- Broery, 51, Indonesian singer, stroke.
- Heinz Burt, 57, British German-born bassist and singer, stroke.
- Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, 79, Brazilian football goalkeeper, heart attack.
- Masayuki Minami, 58, Japanese Olympic volleyball player.
- Walter Vickery, 90, Welsh rugby player.
8
- Alfredo Alcala, 74, Filipino comics artist, cancer.
- Bernie Grant, 56, British politician, heart attack.[16]
- Claire Trevor, 90, American actress, respiratory failure.[17]
- Bernie Witucki, 89, American football player and coach.
9
- Alan Betrock, American music publisher, author and record producer, cancer.[18]
- Tony Cliff, 82, British Trotskyist writer and journalist.[19]
- Catherine Crook de Camp, 92, American science fiction and fantasy author.
- Pablo Pineda Gaucín, Mexican crime reporter and photographer, shot execution-style.
- Robert Komer, 78, American staff member during the Vietnam War.[20]
- W. Bruce Lincoln, 61, American scholar and author.[21]
- James William Malone, 80, American prelate of the Catholic Church.
- William McHardy, 88, Scottish biblical scholar.[22]
10
- John Fforde, 78, British economist.
- Arnold Johnson, 78, American actor.
- Peter Jones, 79, British actor.[23]
- Larry Linville, 60, American actor ([[M.[24]
- Olappamanna, 77, Indian poet, heart attack.
- Aleksandr Sergeyevich Trofimov, 73, Soviet/Russian painter, art critic, and art historian.
11
- Diana Darvey, 54, English actress, singer and dancer, fall.
- André Deutsch, 82, Hungarian-born British publisher.[25]
- Dewayne Douglas, 68, American football player and coach.
- Lucia Dlugoszewski, 74, Polish-American composer, poet, performer, and inventor.[26]
- Doris Marie Leeper, 71, American sculptor and painter.
- Opaline Deveraux Wadkins, 88, first African American nurse to earn a master's degree.
12
- Giles Shaw, 68, British politician, stroke.
- Niaz Ahmed, 54, Pakistani cricketer.
- David Crighton, 57, British mathematician and physicist.
- Carmen Dillon, 91, English film art director and production designer.[27]
- Ronald Lockley, 96, Welsh ornithologist and naturalist.[28]
- Gerald Francis O'Keefe, 82, American bishop of the Catholic Church, heart attack.
- Christopher Pettiet, 24, American actor, drug overdose[29]
- Giles Shaw, 68, British politician, stroke.
- James Vorenberg, 72, professor of Law and Dean of Harvard Law School, heart attack.[30]
13
- Giorgio Bassani, 84, Italian writer.[31]
- Frenchy Bordagaray, 90, American baseball player.[32]
- Aivars Gipslis, 63, Latvian chess grandmaster.
- Marlene Goldsmith, 57, Australian politician, cancer.[33]
- Inglis Gundry, 94, English composer, novelist, and musicologist.
- Albert Turner, 64, American civil rights activist, abdominal bleeding.
14
- Bob Barthelson, 75, American baseball player.[34]
- Sir Humphrey Cripps, British businessman and philanthropist.
- Sebastián Fleitas, 53, Paraguay football player, stroke.
- Don Gullick, 75, Welsh rugby player.
- Phil Katz, 37, American computer programmer (Zip file format).[35]
- August R. Lindt, 94, Swiss lawyer and diplomat.
- Wilf Mannion, 81, English professional footballer.[36]
- Charlie O'Rourke, 82, American football player and coach.
- Andrei Sârbu, 49, Moldovan painter.
- George E. Taylor, 94, American sinologist.[37]
15
- Edward Gorey, 75, American writer and illustrator.[38]
- Irina Gubanova, 60, Russian ballerina and film actress.
- Zeeshan Haider Jawadi, 61, Indian Islamic scholar and religious leader.
- Hayati Hamzaoğlu, 67, Turkish actor.
- Ba Kyi, 87, Burmese artist.
- Todd Webb, 94, American photographer.[39]
16
- Henry Daniels, 87, British statistician.[40]
- Putra of Perlis, 79, third Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaya.
- Sherwood Washburn, 88, American physical anthropologist.
- Ann Mui, 40, Hong Kong singer and sister of Anita Mui
17
- Wirantha Fernando, 41, Sri Lankan cricketer and politician, murdered by a mob.
- Pyotr Glebov, 85, Russian actor.
- Alice Marriott, 92, American philanthropist.[41]
- Paula Salomon-Lindberg, 102, German classical contralto.
- Megan Williams, 43, Australian actress and singer, breast cancer.
18
- Isaac Berenblum, 96, Polish-born Israeli biochemist.[42]
- Sachay Bhai, Indian poet and hymner.
- Russell Jump, 105, American politician, Mayor of Wichita.[43]
- Candace Newmaker, 10, victim of child abuse, suffocation.[44]
- Jim Taylor, 68, Australian rules footballer.
19
- Louis Applebaum, 82, Canadian film score composer, administrator, and conductor.
- Robert Glen Coe, 44, American criminal, execution by lethal injection.
- Masakazu Fukuda, 27, professional wrestler, brain hemorrhage.
- Kyung-Chik Han, 97, Korean pastor.
- Grigor Khanjyan, 73, Soviet-Armenian artist, painter, and illustrator.
- Michael, 27, first male 'talking' gorilla.
20
- Bill Dean, 78, British actor.
- Willy Harlander, 68, German actor.
- Philip Childs Keenan, 92, American astronomer.[45]
- Pratap Save, 54, Indian Army officer and a social activist, police brutality.
21
- Ray H. French, 80, American artist.
- Gunther Gerzso, 84, Mexican painter and screenwriter.[46]
- Al Purdy, 81, Canadian poet.[47]
- Nigar Sultana, 67, Indian actress.
22
- Jack Best, 87, British RAF pilot, attempted escapee from Colditz.
- Alexander H. Cohen, 79, American theatrical producer.[48]
- Arnt Eliassen, 84, Norwegian meteorologist.
- Toon Hermans, 83, Dutch comedian, singer and writer.[49]
- Robert W. Porter Jr., 91, United States Army general, died on April 22, 2000 at the Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia after a heart attack.
- P. Indra Reddy, 45, Telugu politician, traffic accident.
- Margaret Singana, 62, South African musician.
- Jane Trahey, 76, American businesswoman and writer.[50]
23
- Erle Cocke Jr., 74, American businessman and war veteran, pancreatic cancer.[51]
- Anna-Liisa Hirviluoto, 71, Finnish archaeologist.
- Shigeru Sugiura, 92, Japanese manga artist.
- Sir David Thorne, 66, British army general.[52]
24
- Derek Allhusen, 86, British Olympic equestrian.[53]
- Chic Brodie, 63, Scottish footballer, prostate cancer.
- Ulla Isaksson, 83, Swedish author and screenplay writer.[54]
- William Moore, 84, English character actor.
- Karamana Janardanan Nair, 63, Indian film actor, stroke.
- Barkin' Bill Smith, 71, American blues singer and songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
- George Volkoff, 86, Russian-Canadian physicist and academic.
25
- Ghislaine Alexander, 78, British heiress and socialite.
- Niels Viggo Bentzon, 80, Danish composer and pianist.[55]
- Lucien le Cam, 75, French mathematician.[56]
- Ben Fernandez, 75, American politician and financial consultant.
- David Merrick, 88, American stage producer.[57]
- Edna Scheer, 73, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player.[58]
- Mukhram Sharma, 90, Indian film lyricist, script, and story writer.
26
- Gregory Gillespie, 63, American magic realist painter, suicide by hanging.[59]
- Len Smith, 82, Australian rugby player.
- Herbert Wechsler, 90, American legal scholar.[60]
27
- C. R. Boxer, 96, British historian.[61]
- André Desjardins, 69, Canadian trade unionista and mobster, murdered.
- Clifford Forsythe, 70, Northern Irish Ulster Unionist Party politician.
- Brooks Lawrence, 75, American baseball player.[62]
- Errett Weir McDiarmid, 90, American librarian and academic.
- Yusof Rawa, 76, Malaysian politician, pneumonia.
- Vicki Sue Robinson, 45, American singer ("Turn the Beat Around") and actress, cancer.[63]
28
- Adriano Bausola, 69, Italian philosopher.
- Richard Bertram, 84, American racing yacht and boat builder.
- Jerzy Einhorn, 74, Polish-born Swedish medical doctor, researcher and politician.[64]
- Penelope Fitzgerald, 83, British writer.[65]
- Sergey Khristianovich, 91, Soviet/Russian mechanics scientist.
- Jack Merson, 78, American baseball player.[66]
- Charles L. Southward, 87, United States Army Major General.
29
- Ke T'ing-sui, 86, Chinese scientist.
- Ireneusz Sekuła, 57, Polish politician, suicide.
- Harriet Lange Rheingold, 92, American child development psychologist.[67]
- Antonio Buero Vallejo, 83, Spanish playwright, stroke.[68]
- Phạm Văn Đồng, 94, Prime Minister of Vietnam.[69]
- Buck Varner, 69, American baseball player.[70]
30
- Domingo Deluana, Philippine Marine Corps marine and posthumous recipient of the Medal of Valor, K.I.A..
- Poul Hartling, 85, Prime Minister of Denmark (1973–1975).[71]
- Jonah Jones, 90, American jazz trumpeter.[72]
- Marjorie Noël, 54, French pop singer, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Gwen Rix, 82, New Zealand diver.
- Lolinato To-ong, Philippine Marine Corps officer and posthumous recipient of the Medal of Valor, K.I.A..
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