- Source: Deaths in August 2000
The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.
August 2000
= 1
=Maxie Berger, 83, Canadian boxer.
Hugh Hood, 72, Canadian novelist, essayist and university professor.
Ali Sardar Jafri, 86, Indian urdu writer.
Nanjil K. Manoharan, 71, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
Steve McCrory, 36, American boxer.
Benedetto Pola, 85, Italian cyclist.
Joseph Robert Sealy, 93, English botanist.
Galina Sergeyeva, 86, Soviet and Russian actress.
= 2
=William Rossa Cole, 80, American anthologist, columnist, and writer.
Shlomo Halberstam, 92, American rabbi.
Trevor Leggett, 85, British author and translator, stroke.
Jan Mertens, 84, Dutch politician.
Patricia Moyes, 77, British mystery writer.
Simon Stefani, 71, Albanian communist politician.
= 3
=Isolina Ferréro, 85, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic religious sister.
Joann Lõssov, 78, Estonian basketball player.
Michael Meyer, 79, English translator and writer.
Geoffrey Page, 80, British flying ace during World War II.
Mirian Tsalkalamanidze, 73, Georgian flyweight freestyle wrestler and Olympic champion.
= 4
=Jimmy Bowie, 75, Scottish football player.
John Joseph Graham, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate.
Fred W. Hooper, 102, American racehorse owner and breeder.
Julio Rodolfo Moctezuma, 73, Mexican lawyer.
Michael Szwarc, 91, British and American polymer chemist.
Halyna Zubchenko, 71, Ukrainian painter, muralist, and social activist.
= 5
=Lala Amarnath, 88, Indian cricketer.
Afrânio Coutinho, 89, Brazilian literary critic and essayist.
Tullio Crali, 89, Italian artist associated with Futurism.
Renée Devillers, 97, French stage and film actress.
Alec Guinness, 86, English actor (The Bridge on the River Kwai, Star Wars, Lawrence of Arabia), Oscar winner (1958), liver cancer.
Murray Krieger, 76, American literary critic and theorist.
Arturo Durazo Moreno, 76, Mexican Chief of police and drug trafficker.
Dudley Randall, 86, American poet and poetry publisher.
Edgardo Sogno, 84, Italian diplomat, partisan and political figure.
Otto Wiener, 89, Austrian baritone.
= 6
=Raymond J. Broderick, 86, American jurist and politician, cancer.
Robin Day, 76, British political broadcaster, heart complications.
Marv Felderman, 84, American baseball player.
Max Phipps, 60, Australian actor, cancer.
Raúl Sanguineti, 67, Argentine chess Grandmaster.
Arthur Harold Stone, 83, British mathematician.
Joan Trimble, 85, Irish composer and pianist.
= 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, American philanthropist and mother of Donald Trump.
= 8
=Jess Barker, 88, American actor, liver cirrhosis.
Luigi Bonos, 90, Italian comedian and actor.
Walter Chappell, 75, American photographer and poet, lung cancer.
Ernie Hefferle, 85, American football player and coach.
Živorad Jevtić, 56, Serbian football player.
Jaap Marais, 77, Afrikaner nationalist thinker, author and politician.
Mario Migliardi, 81, Italian television and film score composer.
S. Nijalingappa, 97, Indian politician.
Anatoliy Romashin, 69, Soviet and Russian actor and director, accidental impalement.
Banja Tejan-Sie, 83, Sierra Leonean politician and Governor General.
Harry D. Thiers, 81, American mycologist.
John F. Warren, 91, American cinematographer.
= 9
=Josias Cunningham, 66, Northern Irish politician.
John Harsanyi, 80, Hungarian-American economist, Nobel Prize laureate, heart attack.
Nicholas Markowitz, 15, American kidnapping victim.
Louis Nucera, 72, French writer, traffic accident.
Fouad Serageddin, 88, Egyptian politician, Minister of Finance.
Vitaliy Starukhin, 51, Ukrainian football player, pneumonia.
Herb Thomas, 77, American NASCAR driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, heart attack.
Lewis Wilson, 80, American actor (Batman).
= 10
=Robert Manuel Cook, 91, British classical scholar.
Suzanne Danco, 89, Belgian soprano.
Joan Marsh, 87, American child actress in silent films.
Tibor Mezőfi, 74, Hungarian basketball player.
Gilbert Parkhouse, 74, Welsh cricket player.
Rita Trapanese, 49, Italian figure skater and Olympian, traffic collision.
= 11
=Les Dye, 84, American gridiron football player.
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.
Ric Roman, 83, American actor.
Constantin Zureiq, Syrian Arab intellectual.
= 12
=Noboru Akiyama, 66, Japanese baseball player.
Eliyahu Ben-Elissar, 68, Israeli politician and diplomat.
Alberto Pedro Cabrera, 54, Argentine basketball player, leukemia.
Jean Carzou, 93, French-Armenian artist, painter, and illustrator.
Dave Edwards, 59, American big band-style musician, cardiac arrest.
Loretta Young, 87, American actress (The Farmer's Daughter, Come to the Stable, The Loretta Young Show), Oscar winner (1948), ovarian cancer.
= 13
=Antony Duff, 80, British diplomat, Director-General of MI5 (1985-1988).
Terence Feely, 72, British screenwriter, playwright and author.
Nazia Hassan, 35, Pakistani pop singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist, lung cancer.
Bob Wente, 67, American racing driver.
= 14
=Walter Benton, 69, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
John Boland, 55, Irish politician, cancer.
Alain Fournier, 56, French computer graphics researcher, lymphoma.
Ken Heintzelman, 84, American baseball player.
Cuan McCarthy, 71, South African cricket player.
John Milford, 70, American actor, skin cancer.
Alfred Rieck, 86, German rower and Olympic medalist.
Bernice Giduz Schubert, 86, American botanist & scholar.
Hawa Singh, 62, Indian heavyweight boxer.
Rostislav Vovkushevsky, 83, Soviet and Russian painter.
Mary K. Wells, 79, American television writer and actress.
= 15
=Ulla Barding-Poulsen, 88, Danish fencer and Olympian.
Ena Begović, 40, Croatian actress, traffic accident.
Helmut Coing, 88, German legal historian.
Eduardo Luján Manera, 55, Argentine football player and manager.
Robert Swink, 82, American film editor (Roman Holiday, Funny Girl, The Boys from Brazil), heart attack.
Edward Craven Walker, 82, British inventor who invented the lava lamp, cancer.
Lancelot Ware, 85, British founder of Mensa.
= 16
=Alan Caddy, 60, English guitarist (The Tornados).
Grace Halsell, 77, American journalist and writer, multiple myeloma.
Chanoch Dov Padwa, 91, British rabbi.
S. C. C. Anthony Pillai, 86, Indian trade unionist and politician, cardiac arrest.
Renu Saluja, 48, Indian film editor, stomach cancer.
Thomas Ypsilantis, 72, Greek-American, heart attack.
= 17
=Erich Borchmeyer, 95, German athlete and Olympian medalist.
Lawrence H. Cooke, 85, American lawyer and politician.
Franco Donatoni, 73, Italian composer.
Robert R. Gilruth, 86, American aerospace engineer.
Stephan Körner, 86, Czech-born British philosopher, suicide.
Evert Nyberg, 75, Swedish long-distance runner and Olympian.
Emil Petaja, 85, American science fiction and fantasy writer, heart failure.
Leslie Rees, 94, Australian children's author and writer.
Hans-Dietrich von Tiesenhausen, 87, Baltic German Kapitänleutnant during World War II.
Jack Walker, 71, British industrialist and businessman, cancer.
= 18
=César Calvo, 60, Peruvian poet, journalist and author.
Lakshyadhar Choudhury, 85, Indian actor, playwright, film-director and politician.
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, Parkinson's disease.
= 19
=D. G. Champernowne, 88, English economist and mathematician.
David Norton Edelstein, 90, American judge.
Luce Fabbri, 92, Italian anarchist writer, publisher and daughter of Luigi Fabbri.
Harry Oppenheimer, 91, South African businessman, industrialist and philanthropist, cancer.
Antonio Pugliese, 59, Italian-Canadian professional wrestler known as Tony Parisi, aneurysm.
Lee Sholem, 87, American television and film director.
= 20
=Jackie Coulter, 46, Northern Irish loyalist, shot.
Nancy Evans, 85, British mezzo-soprano opera singer.
Giovanni Gaddoni, 85, Italian football player.
Mitch Halpern, 33, American boxing referee, suicide by gunshot.
Bill Simon, 80, American songwriter, musician and music critic.
Henri Theil, 75, Dutch econometrician.
= 21
=Sir Campbell Adamson, 78, British industrialist.
Chuck Britz, 72, American recording engineer, brain cancer.
Tom Day, 65, American football player.
John Hayes, 70, American film director, cancer.
Russ Kerns, 79, American baseball player.
Daniel Lisulo, 69, Zambian politician.
Giuseppe Medici, 92, Italian politician.
Doris Petrie, 82, Canadian film and television actress.
Gustav Scholz, 70, German boxer.
Andrzej Zawada, 72, Polish mountaineer.
= 22
=Bill Bradford, 78, American baseball player.
Abulfaz Elchibey, 62, Azerbaijani political figure and a Soviet dissident, prostate cancer.
Charles Kalani, 70, American actor and professional wrestler, heart failure.
Arun Mitra, 90, Indian poet of Bengali.
Annie Bell Robinson Devine, 88, American activist in the civil rights movement.
= 23
=Betty Blue, 69, American model and actress.
Anthony Corallo, 87, American mobster and boss of the Lucchese crime family.
Patricia Jones, 69, Canadian athlete and Olympic medalist.
John Anthony Kaiser, 67, American priest, assassinated.
Rangarajan Kumaramangalam, 48, Indian politician, acute myeloid leukaemia, cancer.
Milivoje Tomić, 80, Serbian actor.
Marjorie Woodworth, 81, American actress.
Dindo Yogo, 44, Congolese singer and musician.
= 24
=Andy Hug, 35, Swiss kickboxer, leukemia.
Bob McPhail, 94, Scottish footballer.
Tatiana Riabouchinska, 83, Russian American prima ballerina.
Kalyanji Virji Shah, 72, Indian film score composer.
= 25
=Carl Barks, 99, American cartoonist (Scrooge McDuck), leukemia.
Leo Barnhorst, 76, American basketball player, lymphoma.
Bernard Becaas, 45, French cyclist, traffic collision.
Frederick C. Bock, 82, American bomber during World War II, cancer.
Cliff Bruner, 85, American musician and bandleader, cancer.
John Florea, 84, American television director and a photographer.
Michel Haguenauer, 84, French table tennis player.
Jack Nitzsche, 63, American musician and film composer (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Exorcist, An Officer and a Gentleman), Oscar winner (1983), infectious disease.
Valeriy Priyomykhov, 56, Soviet and Russian actor, film director, and author, brain cancer.
Ginetta Sagan, 75, Italian-American human rights activist.
Ivan Stambolić, 63, Serbian politician, homicide.
Peter Swerling, 71, American scientist and radar pioneer.
Ramón Torres, 68, American professional wrestler.
= 26
=Bunny Austin, 94, English tennis player.
Odette Joyeux, 85, French actress, playwright and novelist, stroke.
Balan K. Nair, 67, Indian actor, bone cancer.
Lynden Pindling, 70, Bahamian politician and Prime Minister, prostate cancer.
Ed Rakow, 65, American baseball player.
Allen Woody, 44, American bass guitarist (the Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule), heroin overdose.
Wojciech Żukrowski, 84, Polish poet, writer, and literary critic.
= 27
=Gilbert de Botton, 65, Israeli financial pioneer.
Denny Chronopoulos, 32, Canadian football player, heart attack.
Deister, 29, German show jumping horse and European Champion.
Joseph Lloyd Hogan, 84, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
Bob Mahoney, 72, American baseball player.
= 28
=Knut Holmqvist, 82, Swedish sport shooter and Olympic silver medalist.
Khaya Majola, 47, South African cricket player, colon cancer.
Léa Roback, 96, Canadian trade union organizer, social activist, and feminist, accident.
Mickey Sullivan, 84, American football player and coach.
Liao Zhigao, 87, Chinese politician.
= 29
=Fern Bell, 87, American baseball player.
Shelagh Fraser, 79, British actress (best known for playing Aunt Beru in Star Wars).
Mohamed Hamri, 68, Moroccan painter and writer.
Rose Hobart, 94, American actress and Screen Actors Guild official.
Per Olof Håkansson, 59, American politician.
Willie Maddren, 49, English football player and manager, ALS.
Conrad Marca-Relli, 87, American artist.
Marko Todorović, 71, Serbian character actor.
= 30
=David R. Altman, 85, American advertising executive, lymphoma.
David Haskell, 52, American actor and singer, brain cancer.
Joseph H. Lewis, 93, American B-movie film director.
Hideo Sasaki, 80, American landscape architect.
Gürdal Tosun, 33, Turkish actor (Bir Demet Tiyatro), kidney failure.
= 31
=Britta Brunius, 88, Swedish film actress.
Joseph Lennox Federal, 90, American Roman Catholic prelate.
Lucille Fletcher, 88, American screenwriter, stroke.
Joan Hartigan, 88, Australian tennis player.
Les Johnson, 84, Australian public servant and diplomat.
Saunders King, 91, American guitarist and singer.
Patricia Owens, 75, Canadian-born American actress.
Yisha'ayahu Schwager, 54, Israeli footballer, heart attack.
Mahavir Shah, 40, Indian actor, accident.
John Alexander Simpson, 83, American physicist and science educator, pneumonia.
Francis Skeat, 91, English glass painter.
Euan Uglow, 68, British painter, cancer.
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