Deaths in January 2000
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.
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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- ^ Lt-Gen Sir David Young
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{{cite web}}:|last=has numeric name (help) - ^ The Associated Press (January 18, 2000). "By Saam, 85, Hall-of-Fame Broadcaster". The New York Times. Retrieved December 20, 2018.
- ^ 2000-02-07. "Philip Jones, 71, Trumpeter And Music Educator in Britain". The New York Times. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
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- ^ Geoff Morton
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