Deaths in June 2000
The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.
June 2000
1
- Oskar Czerwenka, 75, Austrian operatic bass and academic teacher.
- Sir Raymond Ferrall, 94, Australian businessman and author.
- Edgar Z. Friedenberg, 79, American scholar of gender studies.
2
- Ellis Clary, 83, American baseball player.[1]
- Svyatoslav Fyodorov, 72, Russian ophthalmologist (a pioneer of refractive surgery) and politician.[2]
- Mikhail Schweitzer, 80, Soviet film director.
- Lepo Sumera, 50, Estonian composer.[3]
- Gerald James Whitrow, 87, British mathematician, cosmologist and science historian.[4]
3
- T. K. Ann, 87, Hong Kong industrialist and legislator.[5]
- Leonard Baskin, 77, American sculptor, visual artist and writer.
- Ted Graber, American interior designer.
- Jack K. Horton, American lawyer and business executive.
- Jaishankar, 61, Indian actor, heart attack.
- Merton Miller, 77, American Nobel Prize-winning economist.[6]
- Bob Rogers, 78, South African Air Force officer.
- William E. Simon, 72, American politician and businessman.
4
- Clarence Holbrook Carter, 96, American artist.
- Sir James Glover, 71, British army general.[7]
- Takashi Kano, 79, Japanese football player, heart failure.
- Richard A. Peterson, 77, United States Army Air Forces flying ace.
- Hiroji Satoh, 75, Japan table tennis player.
- Augusta H. Teller, 91, American scientist and computer programmer.
- Paul Zoungrana, 82, Burkinabé Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
5
- Carl-Erik Creutz, 88, Finnish radio announcer.
- Don Liddle, 75, American baseball player, threw pitch that produced Willie Mays' sensational "The Catch" in 1954 World Series.[8]
- Eugene M. Zuckert, 88, US Secretary of the Air Force, pneumonia complicated by a heart ailment.
6
- Frédéric Dard, 78, French writer.[9]
- Arnie Johnson, 80, American professional basketball player.[10]
- Håkan Lidman, 85, Swedish athlete.[11]
- Joan Tate, 77, English translator.[12]
7
- Willard Somers Elliot, 73, American bassoonist and composer.
- Lady Mary Grosvenor, 89, British motor racing and rally driver.
- Göran Magnusson, 58, Swedish chemist.
- James Moore, 44, American gospel musician, colon cancer.
- Ljubiša Savić, 41, Bosnian Serb paramilitary commander and post-war politician, murdered.[13]
- Rose Whelan Sedgewick, 96, American mathematician.
8
- Hart Amos, 83, Australian comic strip writer and artist.
- Jack Gaud, 42, Indian actor, heart attack.
- Geoffrey Hunter, 74, British professor and logician.
- Donald Kalish, 80, American logician and anti-war activist.
- Jeff MacNelly, 52, American editorial cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip Shoe.[14]
- Horace Elmo Nichols, 87, American jurist.
- Kermit Roosevelt Jr., 84, American intelligence officer.
- Stephen Saunders, 52, British Army officer, assassinated.
- Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu, 24, Indo-Canadian beautician, honour killing.
- Norman Erbe, 80, Iowan governor from 1961 to 1963
9
- John Abramovic, 81, Croatian-American professional basketball player.[15]
- Shay Brennan, 63, Irish footballer.
- Ernst Jandl, 74, Austrian writer.[16]
- Jacob Lawrence, 82, American painter and educator.[17]
- George Segal, 75, American painter and sculptor.[18]
10
- Hafez al-Assad, 69, President of Syria.[19]
- Frank Patterson, 61, Irish tenor.[20]
- Brian Statham, 69, English professional cricketer.[21]
11
- Lew Gallo, 71, American character actor and television producer (Twelve O'Clock High, The Twilight Zone).[22]
- Elizabeth Lawrence, 77, American actress, cancer.
- Claus Westermann, 90, German Protestant Old Testament scholar.
12
- Leonard Appelbee, 85, English painter and printmaker.
- Yun Bulong, 62, Chinese politician, Chairman of Inner Mongolia, train-car collision.[23]
- Edwin R. Chess, 87, American major general and Chief of Chaplains of the US Air Force.
- Sir Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce, 88, British jurist.
- Dave Russell, 86, Scottish football player and manager.
13
- Robert Dienst, 72, Austrian football player.[24]
- Yefim Gamburg, 75, Soviet and Russian animation director.
- Mitchell Olenski, 80, American football player and coach.
- Ágnes Ságvári, 71, Hungarian historian.
- Bobby Tiefenauer, 70, American baseball player.[25]
14
- Paul Griffin, 62, American musician.[26]
- Robert Trent Jones, 93, English-born golf course designer.[27]
- Peter McWilliams, 50, American author.[28]
- Reg Preston, 83, Australian potter.
- Elsie Widdowson, 93, British chemist, dietitian and nutritionist.[29]
15
- Neville Ford, 93, English cricketer.
- Hattie Littles, 63, American soul singer, heart attack.
- Barbara Macdonald, 86, American social worker and activist, Alzheimer's disease.
- Grant MacEwan, 97, Canadian farmer and politician.
- Jules Roy, 92, Algerian-born French writer.[30]
- Kalle Svensson, 74, Swedish football goalkeeper.
- Mina Urgan, 84, Turkish academic, author and politician.
16
- Elvin A. Kabat, 85, American microbiologist.[31]
- Empress Kōjun, 97, Empress of Japan.[32]
- Peter Moore, 76, British Anglican priest.
17
- Joe Albanese, 66, American baseball player.[33]
- Ismail Mahomed, 68, South African lawyer (Chief Justice of South Africa), pancreatic cancer.[34]
- Floyd Millet, 88, American sportsman and college athletics administrator.
18
- Ekrem Alican, Turkish politician, Deputy Prime Minister.
- Nancy Marchand, 71, American actress (Lou Grant, The Sopranos).[35]
- Boris Vasilyev, 63, Russian cyclist.
19
- Mary Benson, 80, South African civil rights activist, died on 19 June 2000.
- Anton Gorchev, 60, Bulgarian actor born in 1939.
- Christiane Herzog, 63, wife of Roman Herzog, the former President of Germany, cancer.
- Harry Riccobene, 90, American crime figure.
- Noboru Takeshita, 76, Japanese politician and the 74th Prime Minister of Japan (1987–1989), stroke.[36]
20
- Basanta Choudhury, 72, Indian actor.
- Ron Lamb, 56, American football player.
- Alan Basil de Lastic, 70, Burmese clergyman in India, car crash.
- Chanchal Kumar Majumdar, 61, Indian physicist.
- Carlota O'Neill, 95, Spanish feminist writer and journalist.
21
- Jim Hensley, 80, American businessman.
- Alan Hovhaness, 89, American composer.[37]
- Bud Stewart, 84, American baseball player.[38]
22
- Kedarnath Agarwal, 89, Indian poet and writer.
- Thomas Barfett, 83, British Anglican priest.
- Philippe Chatrier, 74, French tennis player.
- Shaka Sankofa, 36, American death-row inmate, execution by lethal injection.
- John Smith, 66, British Anglican priest.
- Al Ulmer, 83, American intelligence officer.
- Harry Usher, 61, American attorney, heart attack.
23
- Scott Baker, 43, American racing driver.[39]
- Geng Biao, 90, Chinese politician.
- Jim Roper, 83, American NASCAR driver.[40]
- Bob Tillman, 63, American baseball player.[41]
24
- Duncan Kyle, 70, British novelist.
- Charles Andrew MacGillivary, 83, American Medal of Honor recipient.
- Rodrigo, 27, Argentine singer.
- David Tomlinson, 83, English actor (Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Love Bug).[42]
25
- Barbara Christian, 56, American author and professor of African-American Studies, complications from lung cancer.[43]
- Wilson Simonal, 62, Brazilian singer.
- Judith Wright, 85, Australian poet, environmentalist and Aboriginal rights activist.
26
- Ken Bell, 85, Canadian war photographer.[44]
- Lucien Laurin, 88, French-Canadian jockey and horse trainer.
- Corneliu Mănescu, 84, Romanian diplomat.
- Logan Ramsey, 79, American character actor.[45]
27
- Larry Kelley, 85, American football player, suicide.
- David Neal, 68, English actor.
- Pierre Pflimlin, 93, French politician.
- Harry Prowell, 63, Guyanese long distance runner.
- Krishna Riboud, 73, Indian historian and art collector.
- Tobin Rote, 72, American football player, heart attack.
28
- Jane Birdwood, 87, British far right politician.[46]
- John Terence Coppock, 79, British geographer.[47]
- Sir William Glock, 92, British arts administrator and music critic.[48]
- Dick James, 66, American football player.[49]
- Anton Tamarut, 67, Croatian Roman Catholic prelate
29
- John Aspinall, 74, British zoo owner.[50]
- Vittorio Gassman, 77, Italian actor.[51]
- Arnie Weinmeister, 77, American football player (New York Giants) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[52]
30
- Franklin D. Miller, 55, US Army Special Forces staff sergeant during the Vietnam War, cancer.
- Willis Tucker, 77, American politician and newspaper editor.
- Nikolai Yeremenko Sr., 74, Belarusian/Soviet actor.
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