Deaths in August 2000
The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.
August 2000
Unknown
- Augustin Bizimana, 45-46, Rwandan politician and alleged war criminal.[1]
1
- Maxie Berger, 83, Canadian boxer.
- Robert A. Brooks, 68, American telecommunications entrepreneur, cancer.
- Joanna Constantinidis, 72, English potter and ceramic artist.
- Nanjil K. Manoharan, 71, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
- Stan Seltzer, 72, American jazz pianist.
- Anatoly Zinevich, 67, Soviet, and later Armenian General-Lieutenant.
2
- John Caldwell, 65, Australian politician.[2]
- William Rossa Cole, 80, American anthologist, columnist, and writer of light verse.
- Trevor Leggett, 85, British author, translator, and head of the BBC's Japanese Service, stroke.
- Patricia Moyes, 77, British mystery writer.
- Floyd Swink, 79, American botanist and author.
3
- Joann Lõssov, 78, Estonian basketball player.[3]
- Michael Meyer, 79, English translator and writer.[4]
- Geoffrey Page, 80, British World War II flying ace.[5]
4
- Jimmy Bowie, 75, Scottish footballer.
- John Joseph Graham, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate.[6]
- Fred W. Hooper, 102, American racehorse owner and breeder.
- Halyna Zubchenko, 71, Ukrainian painter, muralist, and social activist.
5
- Otto Buchsbaum, 80, Austrian-Brazilian writer and ecological activist.
- Sir Alec Guinness, 86, English actor and writer, Star Wars: Original Trilogy, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, liver cancer.[7]
- Dudley Randall, 86, African-American poet.[8]
6
- Raymond J. Broderick, 86, jurist and politician from Pennsylvania, cancer.
- Lillian Chestney, 86, American illustrator and painter.
- Sir Robin Day, 76, British political broadcaster, heart complications.[9]
- Marv Felderman, 84, American baseball player.[10]
- Don A. Jones, 87, officer in the US Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps.
7
- Samuel Akpabot, 63, Nigerian music composer, ethnomusicologist and author.
- Georges Matheron, 69, French mathematician and geologist.
- Mona-Lisa Pursiainen, 49, Finnish female sprinter, breast cancer.
- Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, 88, mother of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States.[11]
8
- Katherine Butler, 86, nun, writer, and aviator.
- Walter Chappell, 75, American photographer and poet, lung cancer.
- Ernie Hefferle, 85, American football player and coach.
- Sir Peter Hudson, 76, British army general.
- Jaap Marais, 77, Afrikaner nationalist thinker, author and politician.
- S. Nijalingappa, 97, Indian politician.
- Anatoli Romashin, 69, Soviet and Russian actor and director, accidental impalement.
- Thomas B. Warren, 80, American professor of philosophy of religion and apologetics.
9
- Sir Josias Cunningham, 66, Northern Irish politician.[12]
- John Harsanyi, 80, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate.[13]
- Bob Lido, 85, American musician (The Lawrence Welk Show).
- Herb Thomas, 77, American NASCAR driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.[14]
10
- Robert Manuel Cook, 91, British classical scholar.
- Milt Mead, 68, American track athlete and basketball player.
- Gilbert Parkhouse, 74, Welsh cricketer.[15]
- Hatto Ständer, 71, German church musician, academic, concert organist and composer.
11
- Paidi Jairaj, 90, Indian film actor, director and producer.
- Talal Maddah, 60, Saudi musician and composer, heart attack.
- Usha Mehta, 80, India Gandhian and freedom fighter.
- Jean Papineau-Couture, 83, Canadian composer.[16]
- Constantin Zureiq, Syrian Arab intellectual.
12
- Alberto Pedro Cabrera, 54, Argentine basketball player, leukemia.
- Dave Edwards, 59, American big band-style musician, cardiac arrest.
- Gennady Lyachin, 45, Russian commanding officer of the sank submarine Kursk.
- Jeanne Rhéaume, 85, Canadian artist.
- Loretta Young, 87, American actress (The Farmer's Daughter, Come to the Stable).[17]
13
- Sir Antony Duff, 80, British diplomat, Director-General of MI5 (1985-1988).[18]
- Terence Feely, 72, British screenwriter, playwright and author.
- Nazia Hassan, 35, Pakistani pop singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist, lung cancer.[19]
14
- John Boland, 55, Irish politician.
- Ken Heintzelman, 84, American baseball player.[20]
- John Milford, 70, American actor.[21]
15
- Ena Begović, 40, Croatian actress, traffic accident.
- Vasilis Efraimidis, 84, Greek journalist and politician.
- Edward Craven Walker, 82, British inventor who invented the lava lamp.
- Lancelot Ware, 85, British founder of Mensa.[22]
- John Whitehead, 74, English cricketer.[23]
16
- Alan Caddy, 60, English guitarist (The Tornados).[24]
- S. C. C. Anthony Pillai, 86, Indian trade unionist and politician, cardiac arrest.
- Renu Saluja, 48, Indian film editor, stomach cancer.
17
- Robert R. Gilruth, 86, American aerospace engineer.[25]
- Edith Körner, 79, Czech-born British health reformer.[26]
- Stephan Körner, 86, Czech-born British philosopher.[27]
- Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen, 87, Baltic German Kapitänleutnant during World War II.
18
- Cesar Calvo, 60, Peruvian poet, journalist and author.
- Lakshyadhar Choudhury, 85, Indian actor, playwright, film-director and politician.
- Joseph Comerford, 41, British engineer.
- Claire Epstein, 88, Israeli archaeologist.
- Maurice Evans, 63, English football player and manager, heart attack.
- Bernard Krainis, 75, American musician.
- Ola Rotimi, 62, Nigerian playwright and theatre director.
- Morton Shulman, 75, Canadian politician, businessman and physician.
- Dorothy Mae Taylor, 72, American politician and educator.[28]
- Bill Willesee, 88, Australian politician.
19
- Bineshwar Brahma, 52, Bodo activist and leader.
- David Norton Edelstein, 90, American judge.[29]
- Tony Parisi (aka Antonio Pugliese), 59, Italian-born Canadian professional wrestler.[30]
- Theodore Trautwein, 80, American judge.[31]
20
- Jorge Alberto Ramos Comas, 53, Puerto Rican politician.
- Sir Peter Compston, 84, British admiral.
- Jackie Coulter, 46, Northern Irish loyalist, killed.
- Nancy Evans, 85, British mezzo-soprano opera singer.[32]
- Mitch Halpern, 33, American boxing referee, self-inflicted gunshot to the head.
- Douglas T. Jacobson, 74, United States Marine and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
- Bill Simon, 80, American songwriter, musician and music critic.
- Henri Theil, 75, Dutch econometrician.
21
- Sir Campbell Adamson, 78, British industrialist.[33]
- Tom Day, 65, American football player.[34]
- John Hayes, 70, American film director.
- Russ Kerns, 79, American baseball player.[35]
- Daniel Lisulo, 69, Zambian politician.
- Giuseppe Medici, 92, Italian politician.[36]
22
- Bill Bradford, 78, American baseball player.[37]
- Abulfaz Elchibey, 62, Azerbaijani political figure and a Soviet dissident, prostate cancer.
- Professor Tanaka, 70, American actor and professional wrestler.[38]
23
- Betty Blue, 69, American model and actress.
- Anthony Corallo, 87, American mobster and boss of the Lucchese crime family.
- John Anthony Kaiser, 67, American priest, assassinated.
- Rangarajan Kumaramangalam, 48, Indian politician, acute myeloid leukaemia.
24
- Andy Hug, 35, Swiss kickboxer.[39]
- Bob McPhail, 94, Scottish footballer.[40]
- Tatiana Riabouchinska, 83, Russian American prima ballerina.
25
- Carl Barks, 99, American cartoonist (Scrooge McDuck).[41]
- Amalia de la Vega, 81, Uruguayan singer.
- Jack Nitzsche, 63, American musician, arranger and songwriter (Academy Award for Best Original Song for co-writing "Up Where We Belong").[42]
- Ivan Stambolić, 63, Serbian politician.
- Ian Stephenson, 66, British artist.
26
- Bunny Austin, 94, English tennis player.[43]
- Ed Rakow, 65, American baseball player.[44]
- Daniel Sternberg, 87, Polish musician.
- Allen Woody, 44, American bass guitarist (the Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule).[45]
27
- Deister, 29, German show jumping horse and European Champion.
- Gilbert de Botton, 65, Israeli financial pioneer.[46]
- Denny Chronopoulos, 32, Canadian football player, heart attack.
- Bob Mahoney, 72, American baseball player.[47]
28
- Antoni Janusz, 98, Polish sportsman, soldier and pilot.
- Milan Levar, 45–46, Croatian army officer and whistleblower, murdered.
- Friedrich Wilhelm, 69, German prince.
29
- Fern Bell, 87, American baseball player.[48]
- Shelagh Fraser, 79, British actress (best known for playing Aunt Beru in Star Wars).[49]
- Mohamed Hamri, 68, Moroccan painter and writer.
- Conrad Marca-Relli, 87, American artist.[50]
30
- David R. Altman, 85, American advertising executive, lymphoma.
- Joseph H. Lewis, 93, American B-movie film director.
- Willie Maddren, 49, English professional football player and manager.[51]
- Gürdal Tosun, 33, Turkish actor (Bir Demet Tiyatro), bowel infraction.[52]
31
- Joseph Lennox Federal, 90, American Roman Catholic prelate.[53]
- Joan Hartigan, 88, Australian tennis player.[54]
- Saunders King, 91, American guitarist and singer.[55]
- Brian Murphy, 18, Irish victim of unlawful killing.[56]
- Dolores Moore, 67, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player.[57]
- Patricia Owens, 75, Canadian-born American actress.[58]
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