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

• Larry Bearnarth, 58, American Major League Baseball player, heart attack.
• Maurice Hallam, 68, English cricket player.
• Dick Pabich, 44, American gay rights activist, AIDS.
• Stan Patrick, 77, American NBA basketball player.
• Gerda Paumgarten, 92, Austrian alpine skier and world champion.
• Colin Vaughan, 68, Australian-Canadian television journalist, architect, and urban activist, heart attack.

2

• Nat Adderley, 68, American jazz musician, stroke.
• Princess María, 89, Spanish royal and grandmother of King Felipe VI, heart attack.
• Ed Doherty, 81, American football player and coach.
• Henri René Guieu, 73, French science fiction writer, cancer.
• Patrick O'Brian, 85, English author (Master and Commander).
• Ullin Place, 75, British philosopher and psychologist.
• Anna Maria Martínez Sagi, 92, Spanish poet, trade unionist, journalist, and feminist.
• Elmo Zumwalt, 79, United States Navy officer, cancer.

3

• Gabriela Brimmer, 52, Mexican writer and activist, heart attack.
• Henry H. Fowler, 91, American lawyer and politician, Secretary of the Treasury, pneumonia.
• Viktor Kolotov, 50, Soviet/Ukrainian football player.
• Frank Miller, 83, Irish cricket player.

4

• Alfred Bohrmann, 95, German astronomer.
• Tom Fears, 77, Mexican-American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
• Diether Krebs, 52, German actor, cabaret artist and comedian, lung cancer.
• Spiridon Markezinis, 90, Greek politician and Prime Minister.
• John Milner, 50, American baseball player, lung cancer.
• Louis Mucci, 90, American jazz trumpeter.
• Henry Pleasants, 89, American music critic and intelligence officer, ruptured aorta.

5

• Turid Balke, 78, Norwegian actress, playwright and artist.
• Xie Bingying, 93, Chinese soldier and writer.
• Bernard Braine, 85, British politician.
• Goseki Kojima, 71, Japanese manga artist.
• Kumar Ponnambalam, 61, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician, assassinated.
• Hopper Read, 89, English cricketer.
• Vic Schoen, 83, American bandleader, arranger and composer.
• K. L. Shrimali, 90, Indian politician and educationist.
• Bernhard Wicki, 80, Austrian actor and film director.

6

• Leonard F. Chapman, Jr., 86, United States Marine Corps general, cancer.
• Michael Rex Horne, 78, English structural engineer, scientist and academic.
• Byron L. Johnson, 82, American economist and politician.
• Thomas Jamison MacBride, 85, American jurist.
• Don Martin, 68, American cartoonist (MAD Magazine), cancer.
• Edward Pain, 74, Australian Olympic rower.
• Malvina Polo, 96, American film actress.
• Horst Seemann, 62, German film director and screenwriter.
• Ajit Pratap Singh, 82, Indian politician.
• Robert McG. Thomas, Jr., 60, American journalist and obituarist, abdominal cancer.
• Alexey Vyzmanavin, 40, Russian chess Grandmaster, heart attack.

7

• Zainal Abidin, 71, Indonesian actor.
• Gary Albright, 36, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Robert B. Crosby, 88, American politician.
• Makhmud Esambayev, 75, Soviet and Russian actor and dancer.
• Ken Keyworth, 65, English football player.
• Bob McFadden, 76, American voice actor, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Bernice Petkere, 98, American songwriter.
• Dorian Shainin, 85, American quality consultant, aeronautics engineer, and author.
• Rodica Simion, 44, Romanian-American mathematician.
• Klaus Wennemann, 59, German television and film actor, lung cancer.

8

• Karl Adamek, 89, Austrian football player and manager.
• Bill Domm, 69, Canadian politician.
• Henry Eriksson, 79, Swedish middle-distance runner and Olympic champion.
• 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,.
• Warren H. Wagner, 79, American botanist.

9

• Marguerite Churchill, 89, American film actress.
• Edward R. Cony, 76, American journalist and newspaper executive, pneumonia and complications from Alzheimer's.
• Arnold Alexander Hall, 84, British aeronautical engineer, scientist and industrialist.
• Poul Mejer, 68, Danish football player.
• Nigel Tranter, 90, Scottish writer.
• Bruno Zevi, 81, Italian architect, historian, curator and author.

10

• Arthur Batanides, 76, American actor (Police Academy, Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers, Johnny Midnight).
• Maxine Elliott Hicks, 95, American actress.
• Sam Jaffe, 98, American motion picture agent, producer, studio executive.
• Gibson Jalo, 60, Nigerian army general.
• Richard Jameson, 47, Northern Irish loyalist and paramilitary commander, shot.
• Cliff Lloyd, 83, Welsh football player.
• John Newland, 82, American director and actor, stroke.

11

• Betty Archdale, 92, English-Australian sportswoman and educationalist.
• Phil Carrick, 47, English cricketer, leukemia.
• Helena Carter, 76, American actress.
• Barney Childs, 73, American composer and teacher, Parkinson's disease.
• Wilhelm Grewe, 88, German diplomat and professor of international law.
• Bob Lemon, 79, American baseball player and manager.
• Solomon Mamaloni, 56, Solomon Islands politician and Prime Minister, kidney disease.
• William Andrew McDonald, 86, American archaeologist.
• Ralph Purchase, 83, American competition rower and Olympic champion.
• Gordon Wright, 87, American historian.
• Pavao Žanić, 81, Yugoslav prelate of the Catholic Church.

12

• Marc Davis, 86, American animator (Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Bambi).
• Dan Duchaine, 47, American bodybuilder, author, and convicted felon, polycystic kidney disease.
• V. R. Nedunchezhiyan, 79, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, heart failure.
• Bobby Phills, 30, American basketball player, car accident.
• Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau, 89, American chemical engineer.
• Alex Wright, 69, Scottish football player and manager.

13

• Peter Henderson, Baron Henderson of Brompton, 77, British public servant, Clerk of the Parliaments.
• Eric Dodson, 79, British actor.
• Herbert S. Gutowsky, 80, American chemist.
• Antti Hyvärinen, 67, Finnish ski jumper, coach and Olympic champion.
• Elizabeth Kerr, 87, American actress (Mork & Mindy).
• Alvin Liberman, 82, American psychologist, complications during heart surgery.
• John Ljunggren, 80, Swedish race walker and Olympic champion.
• Alfred Nzo, 74, South African political activist.
• Susumu Ohno, 71, Japanese-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist.
• Enric Valor i Vives, 88, Spanish writer and grammarian.

14

• Meche Barba, 77, American-Mexican film actress and dancer, heart attack.
• Alphonse Boudard, 74, French novelist and playwright.
• Pat Boyette, 76, American broadcaster and comic book artist (Peacemaker), esophagus cancer.
• Giusi Raspani Dandolo, 83, Italian stage, film, television and radio actress.
• Guadalupe Huerta, 79, American hispanic activist and lobbyist.
• Bijan Jalali, 72, Iranian poet and writer.
• Hans-Joachim Kahler, 91, German general during World War II.
• Alain Poiré, 82, French film producer, cancer.
• Clifford Truesdell, 80, American mathematician.
• M. V. Venkatram, 79, Indian writer from Tamil Nadu.
• Leonard Weisgard, 83, American children's writer and illustrator.
• Tomislav Zografski, 65, Macedonian composer.

15

• Beryl Clark, 82, American gridiron football player.
• Georges-Henri Lévesque, 96, Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist.
• Yves Mariot, 51, French football player, aneurysm.
• Annie Palmen, 73, Dutch singer.
• Arkan, 47, Serbian mobster and paramilitary commander, homicide.
• Alf Ringstead, 72, Irish football player.
• Fran Ryan, 83, American actress (Pale Rider, Days of Our Lives, The Wizard).

16

• Wolf Ackva, 88, German actor.
• Gene Harris, 66, American jazz pianist.
• Will "Dub" Jones, 71, American R&B singer, diabetes.
• T. N. Kaul, 87, Indian diplomat.
• By Saam, 85, American sportscaster.
• Robert R. Wilson, 85, American physicist and team member of the Manhattan Project.

17

• Carl Forberg, 88, American racecar driver.
• Stephen Fuchs, 91, Austrian Catholic priest, missionary, and anthropologist.
• Andrej Hieng, 74, Slovene writer, playwright and theatre director.
• Philip Jones, 71, British trumpeter.
• Ralph Ambrose Kekwick, 91, British biochemist.
• Ion Rațiu, 82, Romanian diplomat, journalist, writer, and politician.
• Arthur Sager, 95, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
• Hüseyin Velioğlu, 48, Kurdish Hezbollah leader, shot.

18

• Alfred Nash Beadleston, Jr., 87, American politician.
• Gordon Chalmers, 88, American swimmer, swimming coach, and Olympian.
• Nancy Coleman, 87, American actress.
• Frances Drake, 87, American actress.
• Jester Hairston, 98, American actor and composer.
• Francis Haskell, 71, English art historian.
• Raymond Brendan Manning, 65, American carcinologist.
• Gordon J. McCann, 92, Canadian thoroughbred horse trainer.
• Arthur Nash, 85, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympian.
• Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, 102, Austrian communist resistance member during World War II.

19

• Victor Brooks, 81, English film and television actor.
• M. A. Chidambaram, 81, Indian industrialist and cricket administrator.
• Luigi Chinazzo, 67, Italian wrestler and Olympian.
• Bettino Craxi, 65, Italian politician, Prime Minister (1983-1987), diabetes.
• Billy Dewell, 83, American gridiron football player.
• Anselmo Fernandez, 81, Portuguese architect and football manager.
• Victoria Fromkin, 76, American linguist, colorectal cancer.
• Frederick Irving Herzberg, 76, American psychologist.
• Hedy Lamarr, 85, Austrian actress (Samson and Delilah, Algiers, White Cargo), cardiovascular disease.
• Manny Montejo, 64, Cuban baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
• Lynn Myers, 85, American baseball player.
• Alan North, 79, American actor (Serpico, Highlander, Glory), kidney cancer, lung cancer.
• Irra Petina, 91, Russian-American actress, singer, and contralto.
• Heinrich Schroeteler, 84, German sculptor and U-boat commander during World War II.
• George Ledyard Stebbins, 94, American botanist, cancer.
• Chhean Vam, 83, Cambodian politician and nationalist.
• Stanley Weston, 76, British basketball player.
• Rex Willis, 75, Welsh rugby union player.

20

• Chuck Courtney, 69, American actor and stuntman, suicide by gunshot.
• Robert J. Henle, 90, American Catholic priest, jesuit, and philosopher.
• Ron Herbel, 62, American baseball player.
• Slavko Janevski, 80, Macedonian poet, prose and script writer.
• Don Samuelson, 86, American politician, Governor of Idaho, heart attack.
• Izabella Yurieva, 100, Soviet Russian romance singer.

21

• Kristian Asdahl, 79, Norwegian politician.
• John A. Calhoun, 81, American diplomat.
• Dagmar Edqvist, 96, Swedish writer and screenwriter.
• Saeb Salam, 95, Lebanese politician and Prime Minister, heart attack.
• Bernard Unett, 63, British racing driver, cancer.

22

• Victor Cavallo, 52, Italian actor and underground writer, hepatitis C.
• Craig Claiborne, 79, American restaurant critic.
• Ed Clark, 88, American photographer.
• Carlo Cossutta, 67, Italian opera singer, liver cancer.
• Al Costello, 80, Italian-Australian professional wrestler, pneumonia.
• Peter Gould, 67, American geographer and academic.
• Masao Harada, 87, Japanese athlete and Olympic silver medalist.
• Anne Hébert, 83, French Canadian author and poet, bone cancer.
• Alan Pryce-Jones, 91, British book critic, writer, journalist and politician.
• Dai Suli, 80, Chinese politician.
• Ernest William Swanton, 92, British cricket commentator.
• Balaupasakage Yasodis Tudawe, 84, Sri Lankan politician.

23

• Willie Hamilton, 82, British politician.
• George Hoskins, 71, New Zealand runner and Olympian.
• Nicholas Nagy-Talavera, 70, Hungarian-American dissident, historian and writer.
• Roderick O'Connor, 90, Northern Irish politician.
• William Alexander Sutton, 82, New Zealand painter.

24

• Jeffrey Boam, 53, American screenwriter (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Lost Boys, Lethal Weapon 2), heart failure.
• Theodor Brinek, Jr., 78, Austrian football player.
• Carl Thomas Curtis, 94, American politician.
• Bobby Duncum, Jr., 34, American professional wrestler, accidental overdose.
• Massimo Severo Giannini, 84, Italian lawyer and politician.
• Tatyana Petrenko-Samusenko, 61, Soviet fencer and Olympic champion.
• Reynolds Shultz, 78, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Kansas.

25

• Dale Alford, 83, American ophthalmologist and politician, congestive heart failure.
• Folke Ekström, 93, Swedish chess master.
• Herta Freitag, 91, Austrian-American mathematician.
• Lin Halliday, 63, American saxophonist.
• Aleksander Illi, 87, Estonian basketball player and basketball coach.
• P. Lankesh, 64, Indian poet, writer, playwright and journalist, heart attack.
• Tom Pedigo, 59, American set decorator (Terms of Endearment, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Brainstorm).

26

• Don Budge, 84, American tennis player, traffic collision.
• Kathleen Hale, 101, British artist, illustrator, and children's author.
• Jean-Claude Izzo, 54, French poet, playwright, and novelist, cancer.
• Adolf Pilch, 85, Polish resistance fighter during World War II.
• Don Ralke, 79, American music arranger.
• Bill Strickland, 91, American baseball player.
• Adib Taherzadeh, 78, Iranian Baháʼí author.
• A. E. van Vogt, 87, Canadian science fiction writer, pneumonia.

27

• Don Abney, 76, American jazz pianist, complications from kidney dialysis.
• Mae Faggs, 67, American sprinter, cancer.
• Friedrich Gulda, 69, Austrian pianist, heart failure.
• Matateu, 72, Portuguese footballer.
• Setsuo Nara, 63, Japanese basketball player.
• Jerzy Potz, 46, Polish ice hockey player, carcinoma.
• Abner W. Sibal, 78, American politician.
• Bert Sproston, 85, English footballer.

28

• Sarah Caudwell, 60, British detective story writer and barrister, cancer.
• Tony Doyle, 58, Irish television and film actor.
• Lauris Edmond, 75, New Zealand poet and writer.
• Ron Feiereisel, 68, American basketball player and coach.
• Ted Gullic, 93, American baseball player.
• Hugh Guthrie, 89, Australian politician.
• Ed Hirsch, 78, American gridiron football player.
• Bertel Lauring, 72, Danish film actor.
• Gad Rausing, 77, Swedish industrialist.
• Joy Shelton, 77, English actress, pulmonary emphysema.
• Kenneth Waller, 72, British actor.

29

• George McTurnan Kahin, 82, American historian and political scientist.
• Herbert Schiller, 80, American media critic, sociologist, and author.
• Hannes Schmidhauser, 73, Swiss actor and football player.
• E. L. Senanayake, 79, Sri Lankan politician.
• Harry Thompson, 84, English football player and manager.

30

• Martin Aldridge, 25, English footballer, car crash.
• Isidore Dollinger, 96, American politician.
• Sigvard Arne Eklund, 88, Swedish politician.
• Angelo Innocent Fernandes, 86, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop.
• Karl-Friedrich Höcker, 88, German war criminal and SS commander during World War II.
• Steve Little, 34, American boxer, colon cancer.
• Joseph Rothschild, 68, American historian and political scientist.

31

• Martin Benrath, 73, German film actor, cancer.
• Bendt Jørgensen, 75, Danish football player and manager.
• Gil Kane, 73, American comic book artist (Green Lantern, Spider-Man, Atom), lymphoma.
• Vasant Shankar Kanetkar, 79, Indian Marathi language playwright and novelist.
• Ralph Manza, 78, American actor (Get Shorty, The D.A.'s Man, Godzilla).
• Ross Russell, 90, American jazz producer and writer.
• Jafar Salmasi, 81, Iranian weightlifter and Olympic medalist.
• K. N. Singh, 91, Indian actor.
• Arthur Wilson, 91, English footballer.
• Si Zentner, 82, American trombonist and jazz big-band leader.