Deaths in July 2000
The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 2000
1
- Victor E. Engstrom, 86, American philatelist.
- John Albert Axel Gibson, 83, British World War II air ace.[1]
- Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan, 94, fourth and last wife of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah.
- Ganju Lama, 75, Sikkimese Gurkha and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
- Walter Matthau, 79, American actor (winner of Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony awards).[2]
2
- Joey Dunlop, 48, Northern Irish motorcycle racer, motorcycle accident.[3]
- Gerry E. Hinton, 70, American chiropractor and politician.
- Constance Howard, 89, English textile artist and embroiderer.
- Paul McLaughlin, 80, Canadian sailor and Olympian.
3
- Sir Michael Hamilton, 81, British politician.[4]
- Harold Nicholas, 79, American dancer (Nicholas Brothers).[5]
- Kemal Sunal, 55, Turkish actor.[6]
4
- Jack T. Bradley, 82, US Army Air Force fighter ace.[7]
- Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, 81, Polish writer and political dissident.[8]
- Yuri Klinskikh, 35, Russian singer, songwriter and arranger.
- Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme, 85, British aristocrat.[9]
5
- Peter "Bullfrog" Moore, 68, Australian rugby league administrator.[10]
- Leon deValinger Jr., 95, American archivist and historian.
- Lord Woodbine, 71, Trinidadian calypsonian and music promoter, house fire.
6
- Miervaldis Birze, 79, Latvian writer, publicist and physician.
- Roderic Coote, 85, British Anglican prelate.
- Eric Fraser, 69, English rugby player.
- Lazar Koliševski, 86, Yugoslav communist political leader.
- Fred Lane, 24, American football player.[11]
- Władysław Szpilman, 88, Jewish-Polish pianist portrayed in the 2002 film The Pianist.[12]
- Marcella Comès Winslow, 95, American photographer and portrait painter.
7
- Dame Stella Casey, 76, New Zealand social activist.[13]
- Kenny Irwin, 30, NASCAR driver.[14]
- James C. Quayle, 79, American newspaper publisher.[15]
- Charles Alan Wright, 72, American constitutional lawyer.[16]
8
- FM-2030, 69, Iranian-American author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher and futurist, pancreatic cancer.
- W. David Kingery, 73, American material scientist, heart attack.
- Dame Anne Mueller, 69, British civil servant and academic.[17]
- Maurice Owen, 76, English footballer.
- Cliff Sear, 63, Welsh footballer, heart attack.
9
- Doug Fisher, 59, English actor, heart attack.
- John Morgan, 41, British etiquette expert.[18]
- John Vitale, 34, American football player, cancer.
10
- Leo Egan, 86, American broadcaster.
- Vakkom Majeed, 90, Indian politician.
- Ursule Molinaro, French-born American writer.[19]
- Denis O'Conor Don, O'Conor Don, hereditary Chief of the Name O'Conor.
- Justin Pierce, 25, British skateboarder and actor (Kids, Next Friday).[20]
11
- Bill Alexander, 90, British political activist.[21]
- Pedro Mir, 87, Dominican poet and writer (Poet Laureate).[22]
- Robert Runcie, 78, Archbishop of Canterbury.[23]
12
- Tom Galley, 84, English footballer.
- Charles Merritt, 91, Canadian war hero and recipient of the Victoria Cross.[24]
- Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, 72, Yugoslav prince.[25]
13
- James Ferguson, 86, American Air Force general.[26]
- A. D. Hope, 92, Australian poet.[27]
- Jan Karski, 86, Polish resistance fighter and academic.[28]
14
- Meredith MacRae, 56, American actress (My Three Sons, Petticoat Junction).[29]
- Georges Maranda, 68, Canadian baseball player.[30]
- Sir Mark Oliphant, 98, Australian physicist, Governor of South Australia.[31]
15
- Johnny Duncan, 67, American bluegrass musician.[32]
- Louis Quilico, 75, Canadian opera singer.[33]
- Kalle Svensson, 74, Swedish footballer.[34]
- Paul Young, 53, British singer and songwriter (Sad Café, Mike + The Mechanics).[35]
16
- Igor Domnikov, 41, Russian journalist and editor, murdered.
- György Petri, 56, Hungarian poet, cancer.
- Jean Vercoutter, 89, French Egyptologist.
- Bernie Whitebear, 62, American Indian activist, colon cancer.
17
- Zhao Lirong, 72, Chinese singer and film actress, cancer.
- Aligi Sassu, 88, Italian painter and sculptor.
- Thomas Quinn Curtiss, 85, American writer, and film and theater critic.[36]
- Warren P. Waters, 77, American physicist, inventor and WWII US Air Force pilot, kidney failure.
18
- Paul Coverdell, 61, US Senator from Georgia, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Archie Craig, 88, Scottish racing cyclist.
- John F. Davis, 93, American lawyer and law professor.[37]
- Ray Gabelich, 67, Australian rules footballer.
19
- James B. Clark, 92, American film and television director.
- Stephen Gendin, 34, American AIDS activist, AIDS-induced lymphoma.
- Owen Maddock, 74, British engineer and racing car designer.
- Tommy O'Boyle, 82, American football coach..[38]
20
- Eladio Dieste, 82, Uruguayan engineer and architect.
- Eyvind Earle, 84, American artist, author and illustrator, esophageal cancer.
- Joseph F. Enright, 89, submarine captain in the US Navy.
- James H. Morrison, 91, American politician (member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 6th congressional district).[39]
- Kao Pao-shu, 68, Chinese actress, producer, writer and film director, died at the age of 68.
- Murray G. Ross, 90, Canadian sociologist, author, and academic administrator.
- Jim Suchecki, 72, American baseball player.[40]
- Alexis P. Vlasto, 84, British historian and philologist.
21
- Vladimir Bagirov, 63, Soviet-Latvian grandmaster of chess, chess author, and trainer, heart attack.
- Constanze Engelbrecht, 50, German actress, cancer.
- Maria Kleschar-Samokhvalova, 84, Soviet Russian painter and graphic artist.
22
- John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield, 80, British medical researcher and academic administrator.[41]
- Raymond Lemieux, 80, Canadian organic chemist.[42]
- Claude Sautet, 76, French film director and screenwriter.[43]
- Staffan Burenstam Linder, 68, Swedish economist and politician.
- Pat Turner, 73, British trade unionist.
23
- Vittorio Mangano, 59, member of the Sicilian Mafia, cancer.
- Ahmad Shamlou, 74, Iranian poet, writer and journalist.[44]
- Sandor Teszler, 97, Hungarian-American businessman and philanthropist.
24
- Anatoli Firsov, 59, Russian ice hockey player.[45]
- Alvin Tresselt, 83, American children's book author and graphic designer.[46]
- G. Wood, 80, American film and television actor, congestive heart failure.
25
- Daphne Pearson, 89, English Women's Auxiliary Air Force NCO.
- Julia Pirotte, 92, Polish photojournalist.
- Notable people killed in the crash of Air France Flight 4590:[47]
- Rudi Faßnacht, 65, German football manager.
- Christian Goetz, 60, German society photographer.
- Jean Marcot, 50, French first officer of Flight 4590.
- Christian Marty, 54, French windsurfer and captain of 4590.
- Andreas Schranner, 64 , German property magnate.
26
- Abhayadev, 87, Indian poet and lyricist.
- Albert Fear, 92, Welsh rugby player.
- U. R. Jeevarathinam, Tamil actress, singer and producer.
- John Tukey, 85, American mathematician.[48]
27
- Virginia Admiral, 85, American painter and poet.[49]
- Bruce Douglas-Mann, 73, British politician.[50]
- Val Dufour, 73, American actor.[51]
- Gordon Solie, 71, American wrestling commentator.[52]
28
- Abraham Pais, 82, Dutch-born American physicist.[53]
- Walter Schmidt, German SS officer.
- Jerome Smith, 47, American guitarist (KC and the Sunshine Band).[54]
- John Wells, 93, British artist.[55]
29
- Roger Batzel, 78, American nuclear scientist.
- Kobie Coetsee, 69, South African lawyer and politician, heart attack.
- René Favaloro, 77, Argentine cardiologist who invented the technique of coronary bypass surgery, suicide by gunshot.[56]
- Benny Fenton, 81, English football player and manager.[57]
- Nestor Pirotte, 67, Belgian serial killer, heart attack.
- Bob Welch, 72, Canadian politician.
30
- Derek Hill, 83, English portrait and landscape painter.
- Nan Leslie, 74, American actress of film and television, pneumonia.
- Max Showalter (aka Casey Adams), 83, American actor, composer, pianist, singer, cancer.[58]
- Jack Smiley, 77, American basketball player.
31
- István Gulyás, 68, Hungarian tennis player.
- Hendrik C. van de Hulst, 81, Dutch astronomer and mathematician.[59]
- William Keepers Maxwell Jr., 91, American novelist, short story writer, essayist and children's author.
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- "J. H. Morrison, 91, Louisiana Congressman". The New York Times. July 29, 2000. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
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