Deaths in September 2000

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.

September 2000

1

• Olavi Ahonen, 77, Finnish film actor and comedian.
• Barbara Brooke, Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte, 92, British politician.
• Dee Caperton Kessel, 57, American politician and Miss West Virginia.
• Alexander Rhea, 81, American industrialist.

2

• Ishaq Bux, 83, Indian actor.
• Heinz Harmel, 94, German SS commander during World War II.
• Jean Speegle Howard, 73, American actress.[1]
• Elvera Sanchez, 95, American dancer.[2]
• Jafar Shafaghat, Iranian Army officer and Minister of Defense.
• Curt Siodmak, 98, German-American novelist and screenwriter (The Wolf Man, Donovan's Brain).[3]
• Gennady Smirnov, 45, Russian footballer.[4]
• Audrey Wise, 68, British politician.[5]

3

• Richard W. Abbe, 74, American jurist (Associate Justice of the California Second District Court of Appeal, Division Six).[6]
• Edward Anhalt, 86, American screenwriter and filmmaker (winner of 1950 Academy Award for Best Story for Panic in the Streets).[7]
• R. H. Harris, 84, American gospel singer (Soul Stirrers).[8]
• Jack Simmons, 85, British transport historian.[9]
• Walt Stanchfield, 81, American animator (Walt Disney Studios).
• Clyde Sukeforth, 98, American baseball player.[10]

4

• Sir John Beith, 86, British diplomat.[11]
• David Brown, 53, American bass guitarist (Santana).
• Pinky May, 89, American baseball player.[12]
• Mihály Mayer, 66, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic champion (1964).
• Mukri, 78, Indian film actor.
• Mary Shepard, 90, English illustrator of children's books.[13]

5

• Carlo M. Cipolla, 78, Italian economic historian.
• Roy Fredericks, 57, West Indian cricketer, cancer.
• George Musso, 90, American football player (Chicago Bears) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[14]
• Abdul Haris Nasution, 81, Indonesian general.[15]

6

• Kees van Aelst, 83, Dutch water polo player and Olympian (1936 Summer Olympics).[16]
• Richard Baum, 98, German musicologist.
• David E. Bell, 81, American public servant, director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (1961–1962).[17]
• Jiří Sovák, 79, Czech actor.
• Desmond Wilcox, 69, British journalist and television producer.

7

• Bruce Gyngell, 71, Australian television executive, cancer-related illness.
• Gian Luigi Polidoro, 73, Italian film director and screenwriter.
• Nick Tremark, 87, American baseball player.[18]
• George Wright, 70, English footballer.

8

• Carlos Castillo Peraza, 53, Mexican politician.[19]
• Yves Gaucher, 66, Canadian abstract painter and printmaker.
• Otto K. Lind, 79, Danish resistance fighter and general.
• István Moldován, 88, Hungarian painter and graphic artist.
• R.L. Peteni, 84, Xhosa South African novelist, academic, and author.
• Raul Roulien, 94, Brazilian actor, singer, and film director.

9

• Sir Julian Critchley, 69, British politician.[20]
• Herbert Friedman, 84, American engineer, cancer.[21]
• Takashi Fukutani, 48, Japanese manga artist, pulmonary edema.
• Veerasamy Ringadoo, 79, Mauritian politician, minister and Governor-General of Mauritius.
• Peter Robinson, 78, English footballer.
• Robert S. Stevens, American politician and jurist.[22]
• Bill Waddington, 84, English music hall performer, actor, and comedian.

10

• Jakie Astor, 82, English politician and sportsman.
• Paolo Gislimberti, 33, Italian volunteer firefighter and youth coach, racing accident.
• Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, 81, Pakistani writer and journalist.[23]
• Chandra Khonnokyoong, 91, Thai Maechi.
• William Nierenberg, 81, American physicist and member of the Manhattan Project.[24]
• Ben Wicks, 73, British-Canadian cartoonist, illustrator, journalist, and author, cancer.

11

• Peter Browne, 76, Australian politician.
• Joe Dale, 79, English footballer.
• Willard A. Downes, 91, American artist and illustrator.
• Philipp Fehl, 80, Austrian artist and art historian.
• Harry Gould, 86, Welsh professional golfer.
• Martin James Monti, 78, US Army Air Force pilot.
• William Wilson Quinn, 92, US Army officer.[25]
• Myron Spaulding, 94, American sailor, yacht designer and concert violinist.

12

• Konrad Kujau, 62, German illustrator and forger, cancer.[26]
• Gary Olsen, 42, English actor, cancer.[27]
• Stanley Turrentine, 66, American jazz tenor saxophonist.[28]

13

• Betty Jeffrey, 92, Australian writer.
• Duane Swanson, 87, American basketball player.
• Thurman "Fum" McGraw, 73, American football player.
• Howard Johnson, 89, British politician.

14

• Hamad Al-Jassir, Saudi Arabian journalist and historian.
• Françoise Brauner, 89, Austrian-French pediatrician, child psychiatrist and resistance member during World War II.
• George Christopher, 92, Greek-American politician.[29]
• Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale, 86, British politician.[30]
• Jerzy Giedroyc, 94, Polish writer and political activist.[31]
• Cheng Kejie, 66, Chinese government official, executed.
• George Myatt, 86, American baseball player.[32]
• Beah Richards, 80, American actress (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner).[33]

15

• David Flusser, 83, Israeli professor of Early Christianity.
• Jennifer Gan, 62, American actress.
• Zanvyl Krieger, 94, American businessman and philanthropist.
• Jean Yancey, 86, American entrepreneur and motivational speaker, heart failure.

16

• M. H. M. Ashraff, 51, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, helicopter crash.
• Şükriye Dikmen, Turkish painter.
• Georgiy Gongadze, 31, Ukrainian journalist.[34]
• Joseph C. Howard Sr., 77, American judge.
• John Perkovich, 76, American baseball player.[35]
• Alexandra Petrova, 19, Russian model and beauty pageant contestant, murdered.
• Dharma Vira, 94, Indian politician.

17

• Dem Rădulescu, 68, Romanian actor.
• Nicole Reinhart, 24, American cyclist.[36]
• Chico Salmon, 59, Panamanian baseball player.[37]
• Sir Philip Woodfield, 77, British civil servant.
• Paula Yates, 41, British television presenter and journalist, drug overdose.[38]

18

• Glyde Butler, 68, Australian politician.
• Gilbert Carpentier, 80, French television show producer.
• Dawn Langley Simmons, 77, English author and biographer, Parkinson's disease.[39]
• Chen Yuefang, 37, Chinese basketball player.

19

• Ann Doran, 89, American character actress.[40]
• Humphrey Gould, 73, New Zealand rower.
• Anthony Robert Klitz, 83, British artist.
• Karl Robatsch, 70, Austrian chess player and botanist, cancer.
• Gloria Talbott, 69, American actress, kidney failure.[41]

20

• Sururi Gümen, 80, Turkish-born American illustrator.
• Kimweri Mputa Magogo, Tanzania traditional leader.
• Mona Moore, 83, British painter and illustrator.
• Stanislav Stratiev, 59, Bulgarian playwright.
• Gherman Titov, 65, Soviet cosmonaut.[42]

21

• Robert Wright Campbell, 73, American author and scriptwriter.[43]
• Robert Peterson, 76, American poet.
• John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, 85, British aristocrat.[44]

22

• Yehuda Amichai, 76, Israeli poet.[45]
• Sir Antony Read, 87, British Army general.
• Saburō Sakai, 84, Japanese flying ace during World War II.[46]
• Bill Sommers, 77, American baseball player.[47]

23

• Janice Biala, 97, Polish-born American painter.
• John Laffin, 78, Australian military historian.
• Václav Migas, 56, Czech international footballer.[48]
• Aurelio Rodríguez, 52, Mexican Major League Baseball player, traffic accident.[49]
• Carl Rowan, 75, American government official, journalist and author.[50]
• Kenny Smith, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.[51]
• Ursula Wendorff-Weidt, 81, German artist and illustrator.

24

• Dorr Bothwell, 98, American artist anddesigner.
• Jerry Claiborne, 72, American football player and coach.
• Marcel Lambert, 81, Canadian politician.
• Jean Malléjac, 71, French bicycle racer.
• Stephen McKeag, 30, Northern Irish loyalist, murdered.
• Horacio Rivero Jr., 90, Puerto Rican four-star admiral.[52]
• Dean C. Strother, 92, US Air Force four-star general.

25

• Tom Baker, 79, British Anglican priest.[53]
• Helmut Beck-Broichsitter, 86, German military police officer during World War II and neo-nazi.
• Kayalakakam M. George, 77, Indian banker.
• Tommy Reilly, 81, English musician.
• Heberto Padilla, 68, Cuban poet.[54]
• R. S. Thomas, 87, Welsh poet.[55]

26

• Neva Abelson, 89, American research physician (co-discovered the blood test for the Rh blood factor).[56]
• Nick Fatool, 85, American jazz drummer.[57]
• Nat Fein, 86, American newspaper photographer.
• Robert Lax, 84, American poet.[58]
• Richard Mulligan, 67, American actor (Soap, Empty Nest), cancer.[59]
• Baden Powell, 63, Brazilian guitarist.[60]
• Carl Sigman, 91, American songwriter.[61]

27

• Mario Arillo, 88, Italian naval officer during World War II.
• Joshua Russell Chandran, 82, Indian Christian theologian.
• David Jennens, 71, English rower.
• Sammy Luftspring, 84, Canadian boxer.[62]
• Isaac Oceja, 85, Spanish football player and coach.
• Eileen O'Connell, 53, Canadian politician, breast cancer.
• Frank Wills, 52, American security, discovered Watergate break-in.[63]

28

• Peter Gennaro, 80, American dancer and choreographer (Annie).[64]
• V. E. Howard, 88, American minister and radio evangelist.
• Manuel Martín Jr., 65, Cuban theatre director.
• Roger Nott, 91, Australian politician.
• Carlos Revilla, 67, Spanish voice actor, heart attack.[65]
• Pote Sarasin, 95, Thai diplomat and politician.
• Pierre Trudeau, 80, Prime Minister of Canada.[66]

29

• Sir William Fry, 91, Australian politician.
• John Grant, 67, British politician.[67]
• Lynn Lovenguth, 77, American baseball player.[68]
• Maningning Miclat, 28, Filipino poet and painter.
• Bridget Plowden, Lady Plowden, 90, British educationalist.

30

• Zoran Gopčević, 45, Yugoslav water polo player (silver medal winner in 1980 Summer Olympics).[69]
• Erno Paasilinna, 65, Finnish writer and journalist.
• Sir Fred Pontin, 93, English businessman.[70]
• Joseph Weber, 81, American physicist.[71]
• Howard Winstone, 61, Welsh boxer.[72]

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