Deaths in May 2000

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 2000

1

• John Emery, 84, British paediatric pathologist.
• Gil Fates, 85, American television producer.[1]
• Gibby Mbasela, 37, Zambian footballer.
• Steve Reeves, 74, American actor.[2]
• Nora Swinburne, 97, British actress.[3]
• Jukka Tapanimäki, 38, Finnish game programmer, heart failure.
• Gérard Théberge, 69, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player, bronze medalist (1956)

2

• Belva Cottier, 79, American Sioux activist and social worker.
• Bob Homme, 81, American-Canadian television actor, known for his role as The Friendly Giant.[4]
• Bobbi Martin, 56, American country and pop music singer, songwriter, and guitarist, cancer.
• Billy Munn, 88, British jazz pianist.[5]
• Harry Newman, 90, American football player.[6]
• Sundar Popo, 56, Trinidadian and Tobagonian musician.
• Teri Thornton, 65, American jazz singer, bladder cancer.[7]

3

• Lewis Allen, 94, British film and television director.[8]
• Ed Chapman, 94, American baseball player.[9]
• Claudio Forrosuelo, Philippine Army trooper and posthumous recipient of the Medal of Valor, K.I.A..
• William Keys, 77, Australian Army officer.
• Bryan Lobb, 69, first-class cricketer.
• John Joseph O'Connor, 80, American Roman Catholic prelate.[10]
• Edward J. Sponga, 82, American Jesuit priest in the Society of Jesus.

4

• Sir Derick Ashe, 81, British diplomat.
• Hendrik Casimir, 90, Dutch physicist known for the Casimir effect.
• Alwyn Kurts, 84, Australian drama and comedy actor, liver failure.
• Kieran Nugent, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer.
• Sugi Sito, 73, Mexican wrestler known as El Orgullo de Oriente.

5

• Edward Ashley-Cooper, 93, Australian actor, congestive heart failure.
• Gino Bartali, 85, Italian racing cyclist.[11]
• Don Kindt, 74, American football player.
• Rolf Magener, 89, German escapee from India during World War II.
• Bill Musselman, 59, American basketball coach, stroke.[12]

6

• Benoy Choudhury, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
• Juan de Dios Guevara, 90, Peruvian chemist.
• Mary Percy Jackson, 95, British-born Canadian medical practitioner.[13]
• Gordon McClymont, 79, Australian agricultural scientist and ecologist.
• John Clive Ward, 75, British-Australian physicist, respiratory illness.
• Sir Peter William Youens, 84, British diplomat and colonial administrator, pneumonia.[14]

7

• Dov Bar-Nir, 88, Belgium-born Israeli politician.
• Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 90, American actor and the son of Douglas Fairbanks.[15]
• Henry Laskau, 83, American Olympic racewalker.[16]
• José Luis López de Lacalle, Spanish journalist and trade unionist, killed by the ETA.
• Masaru Shintani, 72, Japanese-Canadian master of karate, heart attack.

8

• Pita Amor, 81, Mexican poet.[17]
• Stanley Boxer, 73, American abstact artist.[18]
• X Brands, 72, German-American actor.
• Dédé Fortin, 37, Canadian musician, suicide.
• Hubert Maga, 83, Dahomey politician.
• Henry Nicols, 26, American HIV/AIDS activist.[19]

9

• Arthur Davis, 94, American animator and a director.
• Chris Evans, 53, Canadian ice hockey player.[20]
• Leland S. McClung, 89, American bacteriologist.
• Carmen Romano, 74, First Lady of Mexico (1976-1982).

10

• Sir Martin Farndale, 71, British army general.[21]
• Bill Foster, 68, American entertainer.[22]
• Carden Gillenwater, 82, American baseball player.[23]
• Margaret Harris, 95, British costume designer.[24]
• Kiyoshi Kuromiya, 57, Japanese-American author and civil rights activist, cancer.[25]
• Kaneto Shiozawa, 46, Japanese voice actor.[26]
• Craig Stevens, 81, American actor.[27]

11

• Verna Aardema, 88, American writer.[28]
• Dale Jennings, 82, American LGBT rights activist, playwright and author.[29]
• René Muñoz, 62, Cuban actor, screenwriter of telenovelas and the cinema of Mexico.
• Hanny Thalmann, 83, Swiss women's rights activist and politician.
• Paula Wessely, 93, Austrian actress.[30]

12

• Pete Abele, 83, American politician (U.S. Representative for Ohio's 10th congressional district, Alzheimer's disease.[31]
• Steve Belko, 84, American college basketball coach.
• Dymphna Clark, 83, Australian linguist and educator.
• Dong Kingman, 89, Chinese American artist and watercolor master.[32]
• Adam Petty, 19, American race car driver, car crash.[33]

13

• Paul Bartel, 61, American actor, writer and director.[34]
• Olivier Greif, 50, French composer.
• Boško Perošević, 43, Serbian politician.[35]
• Jumbo Tsuruta, 49, Japanese professional wrestler known as Jumbo Tsuruta, complications from liver transplant.
• Cesare Valletti, 77, Italian operatic tenor.[36]

14

• Garrett Eckbo, 89, American landscape architect.[37]
• Abbas Gharabaghi, 81, Iranian Army officer and Chief of Staff.
• Johnny Cook, 51, American gospel singer formerly of the Happy Goodman Family.[38]
• Sarah Mavis Dabbs, 78, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player.[39]
• Abbas Gharabaghi, 81, Iranian Army officer and Chief of Staff.
• Bob Maza, 60, Australian actor and playwright.
• Keizō Obuchi, 62, Japanese politician and Prime Minister.[40]
• Karl Shapiro, 86, American poet.[41]
• Nina Howell Starr, 97, American photographer, art historian, and art dealer.
• Alex Stuart-Menteth, 87, British Royal Navy officer.

15

• Roberto Benedicto, 83, Filipino lawyer, diplomat and banker.
• Geoff Goddard, 62, English songwriter, singer and instrumentalist, heart attack.
• George Marshall, 96, American conservationist and political activist.[42]
• Gösta Prüzelius, 77, Swedish actor.
• Anthony Squire, 86, British screenwriter and director.

16

• Bodacious, "World's Most Dangerous Bull" World Champion title holder.
• Alexander Nadas, 86, Hungarian-American pediatric cardiologist.
• Ghulam Ali Okarvi, 80, Pakistani Islamic scholar and jurist.
• Andrzej Szczypiorski, 72, Polish novelist and politician.
• Jack "Basher" Williams, 82, Australian rules footballer.
• Ronald Jay Williams, 72, Trinidadian businessman and politician.

17

• Yola Cain, Jamaican pilot and flight instructor, breast cancer.
• Kanwar Durga Chand, Indian politician.
• Donald Coggan, 90, English Anglican and 101st Archbishop of Canterbury.[43]
• William H. Poteat, 81, American philosopher, scholar and professor.
• Sajjan, 79, Indian actor.

18

• Julie Dawn, 79, English singer and radio broadcaster.
• Denis Gifford, 72, British writer, broadcaster and journalist.
• Alfred L. Jenkins, 83, American diplomat, lecturer and author.
• Doyle Lade, 79, American baseball player.[44]
• Muhammad Yusuf Ludhianvi, 67/68, Pakistani Muslim scholar, author and muhaddith, murdered.

19

• Lee Brewster, 57, American drag queen and transvestite activist, cancer.[45]
• John Grigas, 79, American football player.
• Yevgeny Khrunov, 66, Soviet cosmonaut, heart attack.[46]
• Sir Larry Lamb, 70, British newspaper editor.[47]
• Emily Wheelock Reed, American librarian and civil rights activist.

20

• Edward Bernds, 94, American director.[48]
• Dick Brown, 74, Canadian football player.
• Jean-Pierre Rampal, 78, French flautist.[49]
• Malik Sealy, 30, American basketball player.[50]

21

• Dame Barbara Cartland, 98, English novelist.[51]
• Sir John Gielgud, 96, English actor.[52]
• Dulcie Holland, 87, Australian composer and music educator.
• Mark R. Hughes, 44, American entrepreneur and founder of Herbalife, accidental overdose.[53]
• Erich Mielke, 92, German communist official.[54]
• Zhao Puchu, 92, Chinese religious leader and calligrapher.[55]
• Mahmoud Zuabi, Syrian politician and Prime Minister, suicide (disputed).

22

• Bahadoor, Indian actor.
• Krzysztof Boruń, 76, Polish physicist, journalist and science fiction writer.
• Eldridge Dickey, 54, American football player, stroke.
• Davie Fulton, 84, Canadian politician and judge.[56]
• Richard P. Keirn, 75, United States Air Force Colonel and fighter pilot.
• Gary Kerkorian, 70, American football player.[57]
• Bennie Lee Sinclair, 61, American poet, novelist, and short story writer, heart attack.
• David Chadwick Smith, 68, Canadian economist.[58]

23

• Eddy Blondeel, 94, Belgian commander of the SAS during WWII.
• Roger Garrett, 59, American actor.
• Mishari bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince as member of the House of Saud.

24

• Kevin Lyons, 77, Australian politician.
• Kurt Schork, 53, American reporter and war correspondent.[59]
• Majrooh Sultanpuri, 80, Indian poet.
• Cliff Sutter, 89, American tennis player.
• Oleg Yefremov, 72, Soviet/Russian actor and theatre producer.[60]

25

• Ken Bousfield, 80, British golfer.
• Nicholas Clay, 53, British actor.[61]
• Seymour S. Kety, 84, American neuroscientist.[62]
• Francis Lederer, 100, Austrian-born actor in Europe and United States.[63]
• Jaya Pathirana, 79, Sri Lankan Supreme Court justice.

26

• Hamp Pool, 85, American football player, coach and scout, heart failure.
• Samuel A. Taylor, 87, American playwright and screenwriter, heart failure.[64]
• Vernon Crompton Woodward, 83, Canadian fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II.
• So Yamamura, 90, Japanese actor and film director.

27

• Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine, 62, Spanish aristocrat,.
• Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch, 82, British diplomat, Governor of Hong Kong.[65]
• Maurice Richard, 78, Canadian hockey player.[66]
• Kazimierz Leski, 87, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, and (counter-)intelligence officer.
• Jane Stoll, 71, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player.[67]

28

• George Irving Bell, 73, American scientist and mountaineer.[68]
• Donald Davies, 75, Welsh computer scientist.[69]
• Maraden Panggabean, 77, Indonesian Army general and Defense Minister.
• Vincentas Sladkevičius, 79, Lithuanian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Eric Turner, 31, American football player, stomach cancer.[70]

29

• Clement Isong, 80, Nigerian banker and politician.
• Robert T. Oliver, 90, American author and lecturer.
• Aubrey Richards, 79, British actor.
• John Westhead, 34, English rugby footballer, blood loss after smashing window.

30

• Tex Beneke, 86, American bandleader and musician (Glenn Miller Orchestra).[71]
• Iko Carreira, 66, Angolan army general and politician.[72]
• Bob Casey Sr., 68, American lawyer and politician, viral infection.[73]
• Doris Hare, 95, Welsh actress.[74]

31

• John Coolidge, 93, son of American President Calvin Coolidge.[75]
• Petar Mladenov, 63, Bulgarian communist diplomat and politician.[76]
• Nikolaos Oikonomides, 66, Greek Byzantantist.
• Tito Puente, 77, American musician, songwriter ("Oye Como Va") and record producer.[77]
• Hank Ruszkowski, 74, American baseball player.[78]
• Johnnie Taylor, 66, American singer.[79]

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