Deaths in May 2000
The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.
May 2000
1
- Gil Fates, 85, American television producer.[1]
- Steve Reeves, 74, American actor.[2]
- Nora Swinburne, 97, British actress.[3]
2
- Bob Homme, 81, American-born Canadian television actor, known for his role as The Friendly Giant.[4]
- Billy Munn, 88, British jazz pianist.[5]
- Harry Newman, 90, American football player.[6]
3
- Lewis Allen, 94, British film and television director.[7]
- Ed Chapman, 94, American baseball player.[8]
- John Joseph O'Connor, 80, American Roman Catholic prelate.[9]
4
- Sir Derick Ashe, 81, British diplomat.
- Kieran Nugent, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer.
- Sugi Sito, 73, Mexican wrestler.
5
- Edward Ashley-Cooper, 93, Australian actor, congestive heart failure.
- Gino Bartali, 85, Italian racing cyclist.[10]
- Don Kindt, 74, American football player.
- Rolf Magener, 89, German escapee from India during World War II.
- Bill Musselman, 59, American basketball coach, stroke.
6
- Benoy Choudhury, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
- Juan de Dios Guevara, 90, Peruvian chemist.
- Mary Percy Jackson, 95, British-born Canadian medical practitioner.[11]
- Gordon McClymont, 79, Australian agricultural scientist and ecologist.
- John Clive Ward, 75, British-Australian physicist, respiratory illness.
- Sir Peter William Youens, 84, British diplomat and colonial administrator, pneumonia.[12]
7
- Dov Bar-Nir, 88, Belgium-born Israeli politician.
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 90, American actor and the son of Douglas Fairbanks.[13]
- Henry Laskau, 83, American Olympic racewalker.[14]
- José Luis López de Lacalle, Spanish journalist and trade unionist, killed by the ETA.
- Masaru Shintani, 72, Japanese-Canadian master of karate, heart attack.
8
- Pita Amor, 81, Mexican poet.[15]
- X Brands, 72, German-American actor.
- Dédé Fortin, 37, Canadian musician, suicide.
- Hubert Maga, 83, Dahomey politician.
- Henry Nicols, 26, American HIV/AIDS activist.[16]
9
- Arthur Davis, 94, American animator and a director.
- Chris Evans, 53, Canadian ice hockey player.[17]
- Leland S. McClung, 89, American bacteriologist.
- Carmen Romano, 74, First Lady of Mexico (1976-1982).
10
- Sir Martin Farndale, 71, British army general.[18]
- Bill Foster, 68, American entertainer.[19]
- Carden Gillenwater, 82, American baseball player.[20]
- Margaret Harris, 95, British costume designer.[21]
- Kaneto Shiozawa, 46, Japanese voice actor.[22]
- Craig Stevens, 81, American actor.[23]
11
- Verna Aardema, 88, American writer.[24]
- René Muñoz, 62, Cuban actor, screenwriter of telenovelas and the cinema of Mexico.
- Hanny Thalmann, 83, Swiss women's rights activist and politician.
- Paula Wessely, 93, Austrian actress.[25]
12
- Pete Abele, 83, American politician (U.S. Representative for Ohio's 10th congressional district, judge on Ohio's Fourth District Court of Appeals), Alzheimer's disease.[26]
- Steve Belko, 84, American college basketball coach.
- Dymphna Clark, 83, Australian linguist and educator.
- Adam Petty, 19, American race car driver, car crash.[27]
13
- Paul Bartel, 61, American actor, writer and director.[28]
- Olivier Greif, 50, French composer.
- Boško Perošević, 43, Serbian politician.[29]
14
- Sarah Mavis Dabbs, 78, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player.[30]
- Keizō Obuchi, 62, Prime Minister of Japan.[31]
- Johnny Cook, 51, American gospel singer formerly of the Happy Goodman Family.[32]
15
- Roberto Benedicto, 83, Filipino lawyer, diplomat and banker.
- Geoff Goddard, 62, English songwriter, singer and instrumentalist, heart attack.
- George Marshall, 96, American conservationist and political activist.[33]
- Anthony Squire, 86, British screenwriter and director.
16
- Bodacious, "World's Most Dangerous Bull" World Champion title holder.
- Alexander Nadas, 86, Hungarian-American pediatric cardiologist.
- Ghulam Ali Okarvi, 80, Pakistani Islamic scholar and jurist.
- Andrzej Szczypiorski, 72, Polish novelist and politician.
- Jack "Basher" Williams, 82, Australian rules footballer.
- Ronald Jay Williams, 72, Trinidadian businessman and politician.
17
- Yola Cain, Jamaican pilot and flight instructor, breast cancer.
- Kanwar Durga Chand, Indian politician.
- Donald Coggan, 90, 101st Archbishop of Canterbury.[34]
- William H. Poteat, 81, American philosopher, scholar and professor.
- Sajjan, 79, Indian actor.
18
- Denis Gifford, 72, British writer, broadcaster and journalist.
- Alfred L. Jenkins, 83, American diplomat, lecturer and author.
- Doyle Lade, 79, American baseball player.[35]
19
- Lee Brewster, 57, American drag queen and transvestite activist, cancer.
- John Grigas, 79, American football player.
- Yevgeny Khrunov, 66, Soviet cosmonaut, heart attack.[36]
- Sir Larry Lamb, 70, British newspaper editor.[37]
- Emily Wheelock Reed, American librarian and civil rights activist.
20
- Edward Bernds, 94, American director.[38]
- Dick Brown, 74, Canadian football player.
- Jean-Pierre Rampal, 78, French flautist.[39]
- Malik Sealy, 30, American basketball player.[40]
21
- Dame Barbara Cartland, 98, English novelist.[41]
- Sir John Gielgud, 96, English actor.[42]
- Mark R. Hughes, 44, American entrepreneur and founder of Herbalife.[43]
- Zhao Puchu, 92, Chinese religious leader and calligrapher.[44]
22
- Bahadoor, Indian actor.
- Davie Fulton, 84, Canadian politician and judge.[45]
- Gary Kerkorian, 70, American football player.[46]
- David Chadwick Smith, 68, Canadian economist.[47]
23
- Eddy Blondeel, 94, Belgian commander of the SAS during WWII.
- Roger Garrett, 59, American actor.
- Mishari bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince as member of the House of Saud.
24
- Kevin Lyons, 77, Australian politician.
- Kurt Schork, 53, American reporter and war correspondent.[48]
- Majrooh Sultanpuri, 80, Indian poet.
- Cliff Sutter, 89, American tennis player.
- Oleg Yefremov, 72, Soviet/Russian actor and theatre producer.
25
- Ken Bousfield, 80, British golfer.
- Nicholas Clay, 53, British actor.[49]
- Francis Lederer, 100, Austrian-born actor in Europe and United States.[50]
- Jaya Pathirana, 79, Sri Lankan Supreme Court justice.
26
- Hamp Pool, 85, American football player, coach and scout, heart failure.
- Samuel A. Taylor, 87, American playwright and screenwriter, heart failure.
- Vernon Crompton Woodward, 83, Canadian fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II.
- So Yamamura, 90, Japanese actor and film director.
27
- Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine, 62, Spanish aristocrat,.
- Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch, 82, British diplomat, Governor of Hong Kong.[51]
- Maurice Richard, 78, Canadian hockey player.[52]
- Kazimierz Leski, 87, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, and Home Army's intelligence and counter-intelligence officer.
- Jane Stoll, 71, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player.[53]
28
- George Irving Bell, 73, American scientist and mountaineer.[54]
- Donald Davies, 75, Welsh computer scientist.[55]
- Eric Turner, 31, American football player.[56]
29
- Clement Isong, 80, Nigerian banker and politician.
- Robert T. Oliver, 90, American author and lecturer.
- Aubrey Richards, 79, British actor.
- John Westhead, 34, English rugby footballer, blood loss after smashing window.
30
- Tex Beneke, 86, American bandleader and musician (Glenn Miller Orchestra).[57]
- Iko Carreira, 66, Angolan army general and politician.[58]
- Doris Hare, 95, Welsh actress.[59]
31
- John Coolidge, 93, son of American President Calvin Coolidge.[60]
- Nikolaos Oikonomides, 66, Greek Byzantantist.
- Tito Puente, 77, American musician, songwriter ("Oye Como Va") and record producer.[61]
- Hank Ruszkowski, 74, American baseball player.[62]
- Johnnie Taylor, 66, American singer.[63]
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- ^ Shorter, Eric (May 5, 2000). "Nora Swinburne Obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved July 8, 2012.
- ^ Clark, Andrew (May 15, 2000). "Robert Homme, "The Friendly Giant" (Obituary)". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved July 8, 2012.
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