The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.
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]
- René Coicaud, 73, French fencer.[3]
- Rosie Douglas, 58, Prime Minister of Dominica and human rights activist.[4]
- Aristeidis Kollias, 56, Greek lawyer, publicist, and folklorist, leukemia.
- Luciano Storero, 74, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Reginald Kray, 66, British criminal, bladder cancer.[5]
2
- Nikolai Fedorenko, 87, Soviet philologist, orientalist, and diplomat.[6]
- Amadou Karim Gaye, 86, Senegalese politician.
- Richard Liberty, 68, American actor, heart attack.
- Elek Schwartz, 91, Romanian football player and coach.[7]
- David Tonkin, 71, Australian politician, Premier of South Australia (1979-1982).[8]
3
- Klondike Bill, 68, Canadian professional wrestler, neuromuscular disorder.
- Wojciech Jerzy Has, 75, Polish film director, screenwriter and film producer.[9]
- Udo Klug, 72, German football player and manager.[10]
- M. M. Mustapha, 76, Ceylonese lawyer and politician.
- Benjamin Orr, 53, American bassist and singer (The Cars), pancreatic cancer.[11]
- John Worsley, 81, British artist and illustrator.[12]
4
- Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, 71, Moroccan long-distance runner and Olympic silver medalist, arteriosclerotic heart disease.[13]
- Tofig Guliyev, 82, Azerbaijani composer, pianist, and conductor.[14]
- Teruo Itokawa, 59, Japanese shot putter and Olympian.[15]
- Aleksey Ivanovich Kandinsky, 82, Soviet musicologist.
- Yu Kuo-hwa, 86, Chinese politician, Premier (1984–1989), complications from leukemia.
- Tin Maung, 92, Burmese film actor, director and producer.
- Chuck Oertel, 69, American baseball player.[16]
- Egano Righi-Lambertini, 94, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Ludvík Ráža, 71, Czechoslovak film director.
- Michael Smith, 68, English-Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.[17]
5
- Leopold Barschandt, 75, Austrian football player.[18]
- Johanna Döbereiner, 75, Brazilian agronomist.
- Ruth Ellis, 101, American LGBT rights activist.[19]
- Cătălin Hîldan, 24, Romanian football player, heart attack.[20]
- Keith Roberts, 65, English science fiction author, multiple sclerosis.[21]
- Cuco Sánchez, 79, Mexican singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor, kidney failure.[22]
- Sidney R. Yates, 91, American politician (member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Illinois).[23]
6
- William Bundy, 83, American attorney and CIA operative.[24]
- José Cabanis, 78, French novelist, historian and magistrate.[25]
- John T. Connor, 85, American government official and businessman, leukemia.[26]
- Richard Farnsworth, 80, American actor and stuntman, suicide by gunshot.[27]
- Bernardo González, 31, Spanish cyclist and Olympian, traffic collision.[28]
- John Keller, 71, American basketball player.[29]
- Per-Olov Löwdin, 83, Swedish physicist.[30]
- K. Gunn McKay, 75, American politician, complications of mesothelioma.
- George Huntston Williams, 86, American theologian.[31]
7
- Tony Adamle, 76, American professional football player, cancer.[32]
- Peter Emil Becker, 91, German neurologist, psychiatrist and geneticist.[33]
- Leslie Kish, 90, Hungarian-American statistician.[34]
- Walter Krupinski, 79, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
- Edith Robinson, 94, Australian track and field athlete and Olympian.[35]
8
- Charlotte Lamb, 62, British novelist.[36]
- Vsevolod Larionov, 72, Soviet and Russian stage and film actor.[37]
- Robert M. Leeds, 79, American film editor and television director.
- Clarence Myerscough, 69, British violinist.
- Mihai Pop, 92, Romanian ethnologist.[38]
- Timothy P. Sheehan, 91, American politician.
- E. S. Johnny Walker, 89, American politician, leukemia.
9
- Robert Frederick Bennett, 73, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Kansas, lung cancer.[39]
- David Dukes, 55, American character actor, heart attack.[40]
- James V. Hartinger, 75, United States Air Force general.
- Charles Hartshorne, 103, American philosopher.[41]
- Lajos Kocsis, 53, Hungarian football player.[42]
- H. R. Loyn, 78, British historian.[43]
- Patrick Anthony Porteous, 82, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross.
- John Joseph Thomas Ryan, 86, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.[44]
10
- Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 84, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, heart attack.[45]
- Ferenc Farkas, 94, Hungarian composer.[46]
- Joe Grady, 82, American radio personality.
- Dick Klein, 80, American businessman and founder of the Chicago Bulls.
- Emile Kuri, 93, Mexican-American set decorator.[47]
- Nikolai Lyashchenko, 90, Soviet Army general and war hero.
- Ambrogio Morelli, 94, Italian road bicycle racer.[48]
- Bruce Palmer, Jr., 87, American Army general.[49]
- Bruce Vento, 60, American politician, lung cancer caused by asbestos.[50]
11
- Donald Dewar, 63, Scottish politician, cerebral haemorrhage, cerebral hemorrhage.[51]
- Hiroshi Inose, 73, Japanese electrical engineer, heart attack.[52]
- Matija Ljubek, 46, Croatian sprint canoeist and Olympic champion, shot.[53]
- Sam O'Steen, 76, American film editor and director.
- Pietro Palazzini, 88, Italian Cardinal.[54]
- Thomas Leonard Wells, 70, Canadian politician, cancer.
- Fred Williams, 71, American gridiron football player.[55]
12
- Justo Arosemena Lacayo, 70, Colombian sculptor.
- Melvin A. Cook, 89, American chemist.[56]
- Mark Saxelby, 31, English cricket player, suicide.[57]
- Gordon Stulberg, 76, Canadian-American film executive and lawyer, complications related to diabetes.
13
- Masao Fujii, 31, Japanese baseball player.[58]
- Gus Hall, 90, American labor leader and chairman of the Communist Party USA.[59]
- Jean Peters, 73, American actress, leukemia.[60]
- Jarnail Singh, 64, Indian football player.
- Britt Woodman, 80, American jazz trombonist.[61]
14
- Art Coulter, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.[62]
- Dino Dibra, 25, Australian organized crime figure, shot.
- Abbas Gharabaghi, 81, Iranian Army officer and Chief of Staff, cancer.
- David Guiney, 79, Irish Olympic athlete, sports journalist and historian.[63]
- Tony Roper, 35, American stock car racing driver, racing accident.
- Vic Schwall, 75, American gridiron football player.[64]
15
- Manuel da Luz Afonso, 83, Portuguese football manager.
- Konrad Emil Bloch, 88, German-American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, heart failure.[65]
- Vincent Canby, 76, American film and theatre critic (The New York Times), cancer.[66]
- John Perceval, 77, Australian artist.[67]
- Rodolfo Sonego, 79, Italian screenwriter.[68]
16
- Emil Berna, 93, Swiss cinematographer.
- Mel Carnahan, 66, American lawyer and politician (51st Governor of Missouri).[69]
- Antonio Ferrandis, 79, Spanish actor, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.[70]
- David Golub, 50, American pianist and conductor, lung cancer.[71]
- Tito Gómez, 80, Cuban singer.[72]
- Rick Jason, 77, American actor, suicide.
- Pierre-Michel Le Conte, 79, French conductor.[73]
- Joaquín Gutiérrez Mangel, 82, Costa Rican writer, heart failure.[74]
- Antonio Russo, 40, Italian journalist, murdered.
- Lu Xiaopeng, 80, Chinese aircraft designer.[75]
17
- G. Arthur Cooper, 98, American paleobiologist.
- Harry Cooper, 96, English-American PGA Tour golfer.[76]
- 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.[77]
- Ivan Owen, 73, British voice actor, cancer.[78]
- Walter Shenson, 81, American film producer, director and writer.[79]
18
- Bruce Biggs, 79, New Zealand linguist.
- Inga Gill, 75, Swedish film actress, thrombosis.
- Julie London, 74, American singer and actress, cardiac arrest, stroke.[80]
- Sidney Salkow, 89, American screenwriter and film/television director.[81]
- Gwen Verdon, 75, American actress, heart attack.[82]
19
- Don Black, 72, Rhodesian tennis player, complications from bowel cancer surgery.
- Mahir Domi, 85, Albanian linguist and academic.
- Hortense Ellis, 59, Jamaican reggae musician, infectious disease.
- Kay Fanning, 73, American journalist and publisher.[83]
- Shirley Gorelick, 76, American artist.[84]
- Kati Horna, 88, Hungarian-Mexican photojournalist and photographer.
- Antonio Maspes, 68, Italian sprinter cyclist and Olympic medalist.[85]
- Charles Perkins, 64, Australian Aboriginal activist, and soccer player, renal failure.[86]
- Leopoldo Savona, 87, Italian actor, director, choreographer, and screenwriter.
- Karl Stein, 87, German mathematician.
20
- Johannes Abraham Dimara, 84, Indonesian revolutionary and National Hero.
- Elisa Galvé, 78, Argentine actress.[87]
- Jenny Kastein, 87, Dutch competition swimmer and Olympian.[88]
- Kalfie Martin, 90, South African military commander.
- Boris Seidenberg, 71, Soviet actor.[89]
21
- Frankie Crocker, 62, American disc jockey, pancreatic cancer.[90]
- Alan Rowe, 73, New Zealand-born British actor.
- Dirk Jan Struik, 106, Dutch-American mathematician and historian of mathematics.[91]
- Ralph A. Vaughn, 93, American academic, architect and film set designer.[92]
22
- Anthony Chinn, 70, Guyanese actor based in England.[93]
- Fred Pratt Green, 97, British Methodist minister and hymn writer.[94]
- Jean-Luc Mandaba, 57, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, heart attack.
- Princess Xenia Andreevna Romanovsky, 81, Russian noblewoman.
- Dick Spiers, 62, English football player.
- Hank Wyse, 82, American baseball player.[95]
23
- Benny Culp, 86, American baseball player.[96]
- Hans Ertl, 92, German mountaineer and Nazi propagandist.[97]
- Doug Millward, 69, English football player.[98]
- Martin Rich, 95, German conductor.[99]
- Nils Täpp, 82, Swedish cross-country skier and Olympic champion.[100]
- Yokozuna, 34, American professional wrestler, pulmonary edema.[101]
24
- Terry Haskins, 45, American Republican politician, melanoma.[102]
- Sitaram Kesri, 80, Indian politician and parliamentarian.
- Fereydoon Moshiri, 74, Iranian poet, leukemia.
- Silvio Noto, 73, Italian TV and radio presenter, and actor.
- Miriam Salpeter, 71, Latvian-American neuroscientist.[103]
- Daniel E. Sheehan, 83, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Omaha.[104]
- Little Mack Simmons, 67, American blues musician, colon cancer.
25
- Kamran Baghirov, 67, Soviet politician, First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party.
- Don Frank Brooks, 53, American blues musician, leukemia.
- Alberto Demiddi, 56, Argentine rower and Olympic medalist.[105]
- Mochitsura Hashimoto, 91, Japanese submarine commander during World War II.
- Wood B. Kyle, 85, United States Marine Corps Major General.
- Jeanne Lee, 61, American jazz singer, poet and composer, cancer.[106]
- Brian McConnell, Baron McConnell, 77, Northern Irish Unionist politician.
- John Sinclair Morrison, 87, English classicist.
- Nejat Saydam, 71, Turkish film director, screenwriter and actor from Istanbul.[107]
- Robert E. Waldron, 80, American politician.[108]
26
- Jesús Puente Alzaga, 69, Spanish actor, heart attack.
- Muriel Evans, 90, American actress, colorectal cancer.[109]
- Manmath Nath Gupta, 92, Indian Marxist revolutionary writer and author.
- Laila Kinnunen, 60, Finnish singer.
- Donald F. Lach, 83, American historian and author.[110]
- Mike Rawson, 66, English track and field athlete and Olympian.[111]
- Gardner Soule, 86, American writer.
27
- Lída Baarová, 86, Czech-Austrian actress and mistress of the Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels, Parkinson's disease.[112]
- Walter Berry, 71, Austrian bass-baritone.[113]
- Winston Grennan, 56, Jamaican drummer, cancer.[114]
- Bill O'Neill, 90, American gridiron football player.[115]
- Larry Rhine, 90, American producer and screenwriter.
- Stanislav Sventek, 69, Czech ice hockey player and coach.[116]
- Bill Wainwright, 91, British communist activist.
- Clifford Dwight Waldo, 87, American political scientist.[117]
- Bob Weighill, 80, English rugby player.
28
- Andújar Cedeño, 31, Dominican baseball player, car accident.[118]
- Josef Felder, 100, German politician.
- Dorothy Hood, 81, American modernist painter, breast cancer.
- Aare Laanemets, 46, Estonian actor, stroke.[119]
- Anthony Lee, 39, American actor and playwright, shot by police officer.
- Michael Murphy, 81, Irish politician.
- Djaelani Naro, 71, Indonesian politician.
- Fred C. Norton, 72, American judge and politician.
- Howard Patterson, 73, American Olympic swimmer.[120]
- Edith Peters, 74, American singer and actress.
- Irving Phillips, 95, American cartoonist, illustrator, playwright, and author.[121]
- Georges Poujouly, 60, French actor, cancer.[122]
- Robert Sommers, 89, Canadian politician.
- Décio Randazzo Teixeira, 58, Brazilian football player.
- Mapalagama Wipulasara Maha Thera, 75, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk.
- Kemp Tolley, 92, U.S. Navy officer and author, stroke.[123]
29
- Charles F. Avila, 94, American electrical engineer.
- Jacqueline Brumaire, 78, French operatic soprano.[124]
- Elisabeth Epp, 90, German actress.[125]
- Carlos Guastavino, 88, Argentine composer.
- Rolf Hädrich, 69, German film director and screenwriter.[126]
30
- Steve Allen, 78, American comedian, TV host (The Tonight Show, The Steve Allen Show) and author, traffic accident.[127]
- Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios, 73, Mexican politician.
- Elizabeth Bradley, 78, English actress (Coronation Street).
- María Elena Galiano, 72, Argentine arachnologist.
- Henri Pichette, 76, French writer and poet.[128]
- Louis Stuyt, 86, Dutch politician and physician.[129]
31
- Bill Carse, 86, Canadian ice hockey player.[130]
- Tommy English, 40, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary and politician, shot.
- Thomas Gifford, 63, American author, cholangiocarcinoma.
- Ring Lardner Jr., 85, American journalist and screenwriter, cancer.[131]
- Robert C. Murphy, 74, American lawyer and jurist, neuromuscular disease.
- Samuel Pierce, 78, American politician.[132]
- Kaj Aage Gunnar Strand, 93, Danish astronomer.[133]
- Mike Turnesa, 93, American golfer and one of seven golfing brothers.[134]
- Kazuki Watanabe, 19, Japanese musician, sedative overdose.
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