Deaths in June 2000

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 2000

1

• Angela Annabell, 71, New Zealand musicologist.
• 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.
• Ralph Jones, 79, American drummer.
• Jim Shorter, 61, American gridiron football player.

2

• Ali Akbar Aboutorabi Fard, 60-61, Iranian revolutionary, car crash.
• Ellis Clary, 83, American baseball player.
• Svyatoslav Fyodorov, 72, Russian ophthalmologist (a pioneer of refractive surgery) and politician, plane crash.
• Adolph Hofner, 83, American swing bandleader and singer.
• Werner Panitzki, 89, German Air Force general.
• Mikhail Schweitzer, 80, Soviet film director, traffic collision.
• Lepo Sumera, 50, Estonian composer.
• Gerald James Whitrow, 87, British mathematician, cosmologist and science historian.

3

• Leonard Baskin, 77, American sculptor, visual artist and writer.
• Ted Graber, 79-80, American interior designer.
• Jaishankar, 61, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Nevena Kokanova, 61, Bulgarian film actress, cancer.
• Merton Miller, 77, American Nobel Prize-winning economist.
• William E. Simon, 72, American politician and businessman, respiratory disease.
• Ann Tse-kai, 87, Hong Kong industrialist and legislator.

4

• Clarence Carter, 96, American artist.
• Sir James Glover, 71, British army general.
• Takashi Kano, 79, Japanese football player, heart failure.
• Richard A. Peterson, 77, United States Army Air Forces flying ace and architect, cancer.
• Mark Samaranayake, 86, Sri Lankan actor.
• Hiroji Satoh, 75, Japanese 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.
• Houshang Golshiri, 62, Iranian writer and critic, meningitis.
• Jeanne Hersch, 89, Swiss philosopher.
• Don Liddle, 75, American baseball player.
• João Nogueira, 58, Brazilian samba singer and composer.
• Anna Birgitta Rooth, 81, Swedish academic.
• Franco Rossi, 81, Italian film screenwriter and director.
• Eugene M. Zuckert, 88, American Secretary of the Air Force, pneumonia

6

• Blair Clark, 82, American journalist and political activist.
• Frédéric Dard, 78, French writer.
• Arnie Johnson, 80, American professional basketball player.
• Seiroku Kajiyama, 74, Japanese politician.
• Alexander Evert Kawilarang, 80, Indonesian freedom fighter and military commander.
• Håkan Lidman, 85, Swedish athlete.
• Maria Laura Mainetti, 60, Italian Catholic sister, stabbed.
• William McMillan, 71, World-class American sport shooter and Olympic champion.
• Joan Tate, 77, English translator.
• Feltus Taylor, 38, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

7

• Clint Houston, 53, American jazz double-bassist.
• Don Klosterman, 70, American gridiron football player and executive.
• James Moore, 44, American gospel musician, colon cancer.
• Ljubiša Savić, 41, Bosnian Serb paramilitary commander and post-war politician, murdered.
• Barbara Jo Walker, 74, American model and Miss America in 1947.

8

• Andy Aitken, 80, Scottish footballer.
• Hart Amos, 83, Australian comic strip writer and artist.
• Lucy May Cranwell, 92, New Zealand botanist.
• Norman A. Erbe, 80, American politician, Iowa governor from 1961 to 1963.
• Georges Fages, 66, French rugby player and coach.
• Jack Gaud, 42, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Donald Kalish, 80, American logician and anti-war activist.
• Jack Kroll, 74, American journalist and film critic.
• Jeff MacNelly, 52, American editorial cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip Shoe, lymphoma.
• Larry Nuber, 51, American auto racing announcer.
• Kermit Roosevelt Jr., 84, American intelligence officer.
• Stephen Saunders, 52, British Army officer, drive-by shooting.
• Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu, 24, Indo-Canadian beautician, murder by slashing.
• Teuvo Tulio, 87, Finnish film director and actor.

9

• John Abramovic, 81, Croatian-American professional basketball player.
• Sir John Balcombe, 74, British jurist, Lord Justice of Appeal.
• Shay Brennan, 63, Irish footballer.
• Ernst Jandl, 74, Austrian writer.
• Jacob Lawrence, 82, American painter and educator.
• Muhammad Noor, 75, Indian football player.
• Amédée Rolland, 86, French racing cyclist.
• George Segal, 75, American painter and sculptor.
• Alfred Weidenmann, 84, German film director, screenwriter, and children's author.

10

• Hafez al-Assad, 69, President of Syria, heart attack.
• Rômulo Arantes, 42, Brazilian swimmer and actor, plane crash.
• Terry Forrestal, 52, English actor (Titanic) and stuntman (Braveheart, Batman), BASE jumping accident.
• Jack Hoobin, 72, Australian cyclist and Olympian.
• Frank Patterson, 61, Irish tenor.
• Brian Statham, 69, English professional cricketer, leukemia.
• J. Watson Webb, Jr., 84, American film editor.

11

• Aud Alvær, 78, Norwegian politician.
• Geneviève Amyot, 55, Canadian poet and novelist.
• Michel Besnier, 71, French heir and businessman.
• Henry Davis, 57, American gridiron football player.
• Lew Gallo, 71, American actor and television producer (Twelve O'Clock High, The Twilight Zone).
• Karl-Heinz Holze, 69, German football player.
• Elizabeth Lawrence, 77, American actress, cancer.
• Rajesh Pilot, 55, Indian Air Force officer and politician, traffic collision.
• Ruth Rubin, 93, Canadian-American Yiddish folklorist and singer.
• Earl Shinhoster, 49, American civil rights activist, traffic collision.
• Claus Westermann, 90, German theologian.

12

• Irving Anker, 88, American educator, natural causes.
• Leonard Appelbee, 85, English painter.
• Yun Bulong, 62, Chinese politician, Chairman of Inner Mongolia, traffic collision.
• Sir Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce, 88, British jurist.
• Edwin R. Chess, 87, American major general and Chief of Chaplains of the US Air Force.
• Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, 80, Indian writer, actor, and humorist.
• Bruno Martino, 74, Italian composer, singer, and pianist.
• Dave Russell, 86, Scottish football player and manager.

13

• Alberto Adriano, 38-39, Mozambican emigrant, beaten to death.
• Gustavo Albella, 74, Argentine football player.
• Mona Bruns, 100, American actress.
• Robert Dienst, 72, Austrian football player.
• Yefim Gamburg, 75, Soviet and Russian animation director.
• Ruth Harrison, 79, English animal welfare activist and writer.
• Mitchell Olenski, 80, American football player and coach.
• Jock Shaw, 87, Scottish football player.
• Duane Thomas, 39, American welterweight boxer, murdered.
• Bobby Tiefenauer, 70, American baseball player.

14

• Attilio Bertolucci, 88, Italian poet and writer.
• Kurt Böwe, 71, German actor.
• Frederic G. Cassidy, 92, Jamaican-American linguist and lexicographer.
• Paul Griffin, 62, American musician.
• Robert Trent Jones, 93, British–American golf course designer.
• Gianmatteo Matteotti, 79, Italian politician.
• Peter McWilliams, 50, American author, AIDS-related complications.
• Harry Melville, 92, British chemist and academic.
• Elsie Widdowson, 93, British chemist, dietitian and nutritionist.
• Greg Wilton, 44, Australian politician, suicide.

15

• Heinrich Fichtenau, 87, Austrian medievalist.
• Neville Ford, 93, English cricket player.
• Grigori Gorin, 60, Soviet and Russian playwright and writer, heart attack.
• Grant MacEwan, 97, Canadian farmer and politician.
• Jules Roy, 92, Algerian-born French writer.
• Mîna Urgan, 84, Turkish academic, author and politician.

16

• Elvin A. Kabat, 85, American microbiologist.
• Empress Nagako, 97, Japanese consort of Emperor Hirohito.
• Nosrat Rahmani, 72, Iranian poet and writer.
• Mike Silliman, 56, American basketball player, heart attack.
• Jiang Weiqing, 89, Chinese politician.

17

• Joe Albanese, 66, American baseball player.
• Bill Dodgin, Jr., 68, English football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
• Juozas Jagelavičius, 61, Lithuanian rower and Olympian medalist.
• Jack Lindwall, 81, Australian rugby player.
• Ismail Mahomed, 68, South African lawyer (Chief Justice of South Africa), pancreatic cancer.
• Alex Moir, 80, New Zealand cricket player.
• André Vacheresse, 72, French basketball player and coach.
• Clive Westlake, 67, British songwriter.

18

• Robert Abeles, 74, American biochemist.
• Ekrem Alican, Turkish politician, Deputy Prime Minister.
• Jane Bowers, 79, American folk singer and songwriter.
• Nancy Marchand, 71, American actress (Lou Grant, The Sopranos, Sabrina), four-time Emmy winner, lung cancer.
• Boris Vasilyev, 63, Russian cyclist and Olympian.

19

• Mary Benson, 80, South African civil rights activist.
• Ron Casey, 72, Australian sporting commentator and radio and television pioneer.
• Anton Gorchev, 60, Bulgarian actor.
• Christiane Herzog, 63, wife of Roman Herzog, former President of Germany, cancer.
• Tokuji Iida, 76, Japanese baseball player.
• William Papas, 72, South African-born British political cartoonist and caricaturist.
• Harry Riccobene, 90, American mobster (Philadelphia crime family).
• Noboru Takeshita, 76, Japanese politician and the 74th Prime Minister of Japan (1987–1989), stroke.

20

• Basanta Choudhury, 72, Indian actor.
• Alan Basil de Lastic, 70, Burmese Roman Catholic archbishop, traffic collision.
• Ron Lamb, 56, American football player.
• Chanchal Kumar Majumdar, 61, Indian physicist.
• Karl Mickel, 64, German writer.
• Carlota O'Neill, 95, Spanish feminist writer and journalist.

21

• Ion Alecsandrescu, 71, Romanian footballer and executive.
• Claude Bissell, 84, Canadian author and educator.
• Ronny Coutteure, 48, Belgian actor, director, author, TV presenter and restaurateur, suicide by hanging.
• Ezequiel Ataucusi Gamonal, 82, Peruvian politician and self-proclaimed prophet, kidney failure.
• Alan Hovhaness, 89, American composer.
• C. Stanley Ogilvy, 87, American mathematician, sailor, and author.
• Thomas Harrison Provenzano, 51, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Günther Sabetzki, 85, German ice hockey player and executive.
• Billy Sperrin, 78, English football player and coach.
• Bud Stewart, 84, American baseball player.

22

• Kedarnath Agarwal, 89, Indian poet and writer.
• Michel Droit, 77, French novelist and journalist.
• Svein Finnerud, 54, Norwegian jazz pianist, painter and graphic artist.
• Shaka Sankofa, 36, American death-row inmate, execution by lethal injection.
• Osamu Takizawa, 93, Japanese actor, pneumonia.
• Harry Usher, 61, American attorney, heart attack.

23

• Shawkat Akbar, 63, Bangladeshi film actor.
• Geng Biao, 90, Chinese politician.
• Philippe Chatrier, 72, French tennis player and executive.
• Enrico Cuccia, 92, Italian banker.
• Peter Dubovský, 28, Slovak footballer, fall from cliff.
• Leesa Gray, 16, American murder victim.
• Ed Hughes, 72, American football player and coach.
• Yehuda Kalmen Marlow, 68, German-American rabbi.
• Keith Reemtsma, 74, American transplant surgeon, liver cancer.
• Jerome Richardson, 79, American jazz musician, heart failure.
• Jim Roper, 83, American NASCAR driver, heart and liver failure caused by cancer.
• Bob Tillman, 63, American baseball player.

24

• Vera Atkins, 92, Romanian-British intelligence officer and SOE operative during World War II.
• Hanna Batatu, 74, Palestinian marxist historian.
• Rodrigo Bueno, 27, Argentine singer, car collision.
• Vintilă Cossini, 86, Romanian football midfielder.
• Enoch Dogolea, 48, Liberian politician, Vice President of Liberia (1997–2000), illness (disputed).
• Duncan Kyle, 70, British novelist.
• Charles Andrew MacGillivary, 83, American Medal of Honor recipient.
• Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, 72, Pakistani politician.
• Robert Ridder, 80, American media businessman and philanthropist.
• Mike Todorovich, 77, American basketball player and coach.
• David Tomlinson, 83, English actor (Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Love Bug), stroke.

25

• Barbara Christian, 56, American author and professor of African-American Studies, lung cancer.
• Wilson Simonal, 62, Brazilian singer, liver cirrhosis.
• Pascal Themanlys, 90, French-Israeli poet, zionist, and kabbalist.
• Austin Bernard Vaughan, 72, American prelate of the Catholic Church, complications following heart attack.
• Judith Wright, 85, Australian poet, environmentalist and aboriginal rights activist.

26

• Ken Bell, 85, Canadian war photographer.
• Pier Carpi, 60, Italian essayist, novelist, film director and screenwriter.
• Stig Engström, 66, Swedish graphic designer and suspected murderer of Olof Palme, suicide.
• Lucien Laurin, 88, French-Canadian jockey and horse trainer.
• Corneliu Mănescu, 84, Romanian diplomat.
• Arne Thomas Olsen, 90, Norwegian actor, stage producer and theatre director.
• Logan Ramsey, 79, American character actor, heart attack.
• Avraham Yosef Shapira, 79, Israeli politician and businessman.

27

• Larry Kelley, 85, American football player, suicide by gunshot.
• David Neal, 68, English actor.
• Gerhard Pfeiffer, 77, German chess master.
• Pierre Pflimlin, 93, French politician.
• Harry Prowell, 63, Guyanese long distance runner and Olympian.
• Krishna Riboud, 73, Indian historian and art collector.
• Tobin Rote, 72, American football player, heart attack.

28

• Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood, 87, British politician.
• John Terence Coppock, 79, British geographer.
• William Glock, 92, British arts administrator and music critic.
• Dick James, 66, American football player, prostate cancer.
• Nils Poppe, 92, Swedish actor, comedian, director, screenwriter and theatre manager, stroke.
• Michael Ripper, 87, English actor.
• Anton Tamarut, 67, Croatian Roman Catholic prelate.
• Józef Tischner, 69, Polish priest and philosopher, laryngeal cancer.
• Arnie Weinmeister, 77, American football player (New York Giants) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

29

• John Abineri, 72, English actor.
• C. Anbarasan, Indian politician.
• John Aspinall, 74, British zoo owner, cancer.
• Roy Gagnon, 87, American gridiron football player.
• Vittorio Gassman, 77, Italian actor, heart attack.
• Leo Martello, 69, American Wiccan priest, gay rights activist, and author, cancer.
• Germaine Montero, 90, French singer and actress.
• Rodney Nuckey, 71, English racing driver.

30

• Harold Aks, 78, American conductor and music educator.
• W. David Kingery, 73, American material scientist, heart attack.
• Robert L. Manahan, 43, American actor (Power Rangers), aneurysm.
• Franklin D. Miller, 55, American Special Forces staff sergeant during the Vietnam War, cancer.
• Vahé Oshagan, 77, Armenian poet, writer, literary critic.
• Mikalay Yaromenka, 74, Soviet and Belarusian actor.

References

External links

• List of June 2000 deaths at IMDb