Deaths in October 2000

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

October 2000

1

• Robert Allen, 73, American composer ("(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays", "Everybody Loves a Lover", "Chances Are").[1]
• Charlie Brewster, 83, American baseball player.[2]
• Rosie Douglas, 58, Prime Minister of Dominica and human rights activist.[3]
• Wiktor Eckhaus, 70, Polish–Dutch mathematician.
• Aristeidis Kollias, 56, Greek lawyer, publicist, and folklorist, leukemia.
• Reginald Kray, 66, British criminal.,[4] bladder cancer

2

• Dung Hà, 34/35, Vietnam female gangster, homicide.
• Amadou Karim Gaye, 86, Senegalese politician.
• Richard Liberty, 68, American actor.
• Justus Mühlenpfordt, 89, German nuclear physicist.
• Elek Schwartz, 91, Romanian football player and coach.
• Tom Troman, 86, English cricketer.

3

• Peter Baker, 55, English cricketer.
• Wojciech Has, 75, Polish film director, screenwriter and film producer.[5]
• Klondike Bill, 68, Canadian professional wrestler, neuromuscular disorder.
• M. M. Mustapha, 76, Ceylonese lawyer and politician.
• Benjamin Orr, 53, The Cars bassist and singer, pancreatic cancer.[6]
• John Worsley, 81, British artist and illustrator.[7]

4

• Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, Moroccan long-distance runner.
• Tofig Guliyev, 82, Azerbaijani composer, pianist, and conductor.
• Alfred Lammer, 90, Austrian-born World War II Royal Air Force pilot.
• Tin Maung, 92, Burmese film actor, director and producer.
• Chuck Oertel, 69, American baseball player.[8]
• Michael Smith, 68, English-born Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.[9]
• Yu Kuo-hwa, 86, Chinese politician, Premier (1984–1989), complications from leukemia.

5

• Leopold Barschandt, 75, Austrian footballer.
• Johanna Döbereiner, 75, Brazilian agronomist.
• Ruth Ellis, 101, African-American LGBT rights activist.
• Cătălin Hîldan, 24, Romanian football player, cardiac arrest.
• Bankson T. Holcomb Jr., 92, brigadier general in the US Marine Corps.
• Stan Montgomery, 80, English footballer and cricketer.
• Keith Roberts, 65, English science fiction author.[10]
• Cuco Sánchez, 79, Mexican singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor, kidney failure.
• Sidney R. Yates, 91, American politician (member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Illinois).[11]

6

• William Bundy, 83, American attorney and intelligence expert (CIA).[12]
• José Cabanis, 78, French novelist, historian and magistrate.
• John T. Connor, 85, American government official and businessman, leukemia.[13]
• Richard Farnsworth, 80, American actor and stuntman.
• George Huntston Williams, 86, American theologian.
• Per-Olov Löwdin, 83, Swedish physicist.
• K. Gunn McKay, 75, American politician, complications of mesothelioma.

7

• Tony Adamle, 76, American professional football player, cancer.[14]
• Wilford S. Bailey, 79, American academic.[15]
• Ed Beisser, 81, American basketball player.
• Leslie Kish, 90, Hungarian-American statistician.[16]
• Walter Krupinski, 79, German Luftwaffe fighter ace in World War II.
• Vittorio Sardelli, 82, Italian footballer.

8

• Hilde Eisler, 88, East German political activist and journalist.
• Charlotte Lamb, 62, British novelist.
• Clarence Myerscough, 69, British violinist.
• Mihai Pop, 92, Romanian ethnologist.
• Kaare Reitan, 97, Norwegian orthodontic researcher.
• E. S. Johnny Walker, 89, American politician, leukemia.

9

• Robert Frederick Bennett, 73, American lawyer and Governor of Kansas.
• David Dukes, 55, American character actor, heart attack.[17]
• James V. Hartinger, 75, US Air Force general.
• Charles Hartshorne, 103, American philosopher.
• Patrick Anthony Porteous, 82, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross.
• Joseph T. Ryan, 86, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.[18]
• Fred Williams, 71, American football player, stroke.

10

• Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 84, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.[19]
• Ferenc Farkas, 94, Hungarian composer.
• Dick Klein, 80, American athlete and businessman.
• Bruce Palmer Jr., 87, American army general.[20]
• Gene Palumbo, 54, American television producer and writer.
• Bruce Vento, 60, American politician, lung cancer caused by asbestos.[21]

11

• Donald Dewar, 63, Scottish politician, cerebral haemorrhage.[22]
• Brian Foley, 80, British Roman Catholic priest and hymnist.
• Hiroshi Inose, 73, Japanese electrical engineer, heart attack.
• Matija Ljubek, 46, Croatian sprint canoeist, shot.
• Rollee McGill, 68, American R&B singer and saxophonist.
• Sam O'Steen, 76, American film editor and director.
• Pietro Palazzini, 88, Italian Cardinal.[23]
• Thomas Leonard Wells, 70, Canadian politician, cancer.

12

• Gordon Stulberg, 76, Canadian-American film executive and lawyer, complications related to diabetes.
• Melvin A. Cook, 89, American chemist.[24]
• Justo Arosemena Lacayo, 70, Colombian sculptor.
• Mary K. Meany, 103, American politician and educator, pneumonia.

13

• Benny Culp, 86, American baseball player and coach.
• John Davis, 57, English cricketer.
• Gus Hall, 90, labor leader and chairman of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).[25]
• Jean Peters, 73, American actress.[26]
• Tony Roper, 35, NASCAR driver.[27]
• Britt Woodman, 80, American jazz trombonist.[28]

14

• Adriana Benitez, 24, Colombian student leader, murdered by the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia.
• Art Coulter, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.[29]
• Dino Dibra, 25, Australian suspected murderer and victim, shot.
• Jim Eaglestone, 77, English cricketer.
• Tony Roper, 35, American stock car racing driver, racing accident.

15

• George Gray Bell, 80, Canadian soldier.
• Konrad Emil Bloch, 88, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[30]
• Vincent Canby, 76, American film and theatre critic (The New York Times).[31]
• Perry Webster Gilbert, 87, American marine biologist.
• John Perceval, 77, Australian artist.
• Rodolfo Sonego, 79, Italian screenwriter.

16

• Mel Carnahan, 66, American lawyer and politician (51st Governor of Missouri).[32]
• Antonio Ferrandis, 79, Spanish actor.
• Joaquín Gutiérrez, 82, Costa Rican writer, heart failure.
• Rick Jason, 77, American actor.
• Milan Kurepa, 67, Serbian physicist, complications following heart surgery.
• Antonio Russo, 40, Italian journalist, murdered.
• Joseph Scott, 78, American bobsledder.
• Lu Xiaopeng, 80, Chinese aircraft designer, designed the Nanchang Q-5 and the Nanchang J-12.[33]

17

• Harry Cooper, 96, English-American PGA Tour golfer.[34]
• Donna Jogerst, 68, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[35]
• Joachim Nielsen, 36, Norwegian rock musician and poet, drug overdose.
• Leo Nomellini, 76, Italian-American football player (San Francisco 49ers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, stroke.[36]
• Ivan Owen, 73, British voice actor, cancer.
• John Douglas Swales, 64, English cardiologist and expert on hypertension.

18

• Bruce Biggs, 79, New Zealand linguist.
• Lebrecht Wilhelm Fifi Hesse, 65, Ghanaian public servant, cancer.
• Julie London, 74, American singer and actress, cardiac arrest.[37]
• Sidney Salkow, 89, American screenwriter and film/television director.
• Gwen Verdon, 75, American actress, heart attack.[38]

19

• Don Black, 72, Rhodesian tennis player, complications from bowel cancer surgery.
• Mahir Domi, 85, Albanian linguist, professor, and academic.
• Hortense Ellis, 59, Jamaican reggae musician.
• Kay Fanning, 73, American journalist and publisher.[39]
• Shirley Gorelick, 76, American artist.
• Kati Horna, 88, Hungarian-born Mexican photojournalist and photographer.
• Antonio Maspes, 68, Italian sprinter cyclist.
• Hans Moller, 95, German born American artist.
• Charles Perkins, 64, Australian Aboriginal activist, and soccer player, renal failure.[40]

20

• Jenny Kastein, 87, Dutch breaststroke swimmer.
• Kalfie Martin, 90, South African military commander.
• Boris Seidenberg, 71, Soviet actor.

21

• Frankie Crocker, 62, American disc jockey, pancreatic cancer.[41]
• Alan Rowe, 73, New Zealand-born British actor.
• Dirk Jan Struik, 106, Dutch-American mathematician and historian of mathematics.[42]
• Barbara Tribe, 87, Australian-born artist.
• Ralph A. Vaughn, 93, American academic, architect and film set designer.

22

• Princess Xenia Andreevna of Russia, 81, Russian noblewoman.
• Richard Harden, 83, Northern Irish politician.
• Jean-Luc Mandaba, 57, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, heart attack.
• Fred Pratt Green, 97, British Methodist minister and hymn writer.
• Hank Wyse, 82, American baseball player.[43]

23

• Benny Culp, 86, American baseball player.[44]
• Martin Rich, 95, German conductor.[45]
• Nils Täpp, 82, Swedish cross-country skier.
• Yusuf Tunaoğlu, 54, Turkish footballer, cardiac arrest.
• Yokozuna, 34, American professional wrestler, pulmonary edema.

24

• Terry Haskins, 45, American Republican politician, melanoma.
• Sitaram Kesri, 80, Indian politician and parliamentarian.
• Fereydoon Moshiri, 74, Iranian poet.
• Miriam Salpeter, 71, Latvian-American neuroscientist.[46]
• Little Mack Simmons, 67, American blues musician, colon cancer.

25

• Klaus Bargsten, 88, German U-boat commander of the sunken U-521 during World War II.
• Mochitsura Hashimoto, 91, Japanese submarine commander during World War II.
• Wood B. Kyle, 85, US Marine Corps Major General.
• Jeanne Lee, 61, American jazz singer, poet and composer, cancer.[47]
• John Sinclair Morrison, 87, English classicist.

26

• Muriel Evans, 90, American actress.
• Laila Kinnunen, 60, Finnish singer.
• Donald F. Lach, 83, American historian and author.[48]
• Jesús Puente, 69, Spanish actor.
• Gardner Soule, 86, American writer.

27

• Lída Baarová, 86, Czech-Austrian actress and mistress of the Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels.[49]
• Walter Berry, 71, Austrian bass-baritone.[50]
• Winston Grennan, 56, Jamaican drummer, cancer.[51]
• Eugene Lambert, 95, American sports coach.
• Tim Ralfe, 62, Canadian television journalist, heart attack.
• Bill Wainwright, 91, British communist activist.
• Dwight Waldo, 87, American political scientist.
• Bob Weighill, 80, English rugby player.

28

• Andújar Cedeño, 31, Dominican baseball player, car accident.[52]
• Josef Felder, 100, German politician.
• Carlos Guastavino, 88, Argentine composer.[53]
• Dorothy Hood, 81, American modernist painter.
• Aare Laanemets, 46, Estonian actor, stroke.[54]
• Anthony Lee, 39, American actor and playwright, shot by police officer.
• Jailani Naro, 71, Indonesian politician.
• Howard Patterson, 73, American Olympic swimmer.[55]
• Irving Phillips, 95, American cartoonist, illustrator, playwright, and author.
• Georges Poujouly, 60, French actor, cancer.
• Robert Sommers, 89, Canadian politician.
• Kemp Tolley, 92, U.S. Navy officer and author, stroke.

29

• Charles F. Avila, 94, American electrical engineer.
• Carlos Guastavino, 88, Argentine composer.
• Rolf Hädrich, 69, German film director and screenwriter.

30

• Steve Allen, 78, American comedian, composer, TV host (The Tonight Show, The Steve Allen Show) and author, traffic accident.[56]
• Elizabeth Bradley, 78, English actress (Maud Grimes in Coronation Street).
• Howard Odell, 89, American football player and coach.

31

• George Armstrong, 56, English football player and coach, brain haemorrhage.
• Thomas Gifford, 63, American author, cholangiocarcinoma.
• Ring Lardner Jr., 85, American journalist and screenwriter, cancer.[57]
• Samuel Pierce, 78, American politician.
• Kaj Aage Gunnar Strand, 93, Danish astronomer.
• Kazuki Watanabe, 19, Japanese musician, sedative overdose.

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