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"). Grace Bilger, 93, American painter. John David Blake, 91, Australian trade union organiser. Charlie Brewster, 83, American baseball player. Leon Brogden, 90, American football, basketball and baseball coach. René Coicaud, 73, French fencer and Olympian (1956). Rosie Douglas, 58, Prime Minister of Dominica and human rights activist. Aristeidis Kollias, 56, Greek lawyer, publicist, and folklorist, leukemia. Robert Petersen, 86, American Olympic speed skater (1936). Luciano Storero, 74, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Reginald Kray, 66, British criminal, bladder cancer.
2 Kerstin Ahlqvist, 73, Swedish alpine skier and Olympian (1952). Nikolai Fedorenko, 87, Soviet philologist, orientalist, and diplomat. Amadou Karim Gaye, 86, Senegalese politician. Richard Liberty, 68, American actor, heart attack. Elek Schwartz, 91, Romanian football player and coach. David Tonkin, 71, Australian politician, Premier of South Australia (1979-1982). Halbert Owen Woodward, 82, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas).
3 Klondike Bill, 68, Canadian professional wrestler, neuromuscular disorder. Reg Butcher, 84, English footballer. Stu Calver, 53-54, British musician, cystic fibrosis. Dick Chirgwin, 86, Australian rules footballer.Australian Football: Richard Chirgwin - Player Bio Wojciech Jerzy Has, 75, Polish film director, screenwriter and film producer. Udo Klug, 72, German football player and manager. M. M. Mustapha, 76, Ceylonese lawyer and politician. Benjamin Orr, 53, American bassist and singer (The Cars), pancreatic cancer. John Worsley, 81, British artist and illustrator.
4 Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, 71, Moroccan long-distance runner and Olympic silver medalist (1960), arteriosclerotic heart disease. Tofig Guliyev, 82, Azerbaijani composer, pianist, and conductor. Masaji Iguro, 87, Japanese Olympic ski jumper (1936). Teruo Itokawa, 59, Japanese Olympic shot putter (1964). Aleksey Ivanovich Kandinsky, 82, Soviet musicologist. Tin Maung, 92, Burmese film actor, director and producer. Chuck Oertel, 69, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles). Jerzy Otfinowski, 93, Polish footballer. 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. Yu Kuo-hwa, 86, Chinese politician, Premier (1984–1989), complications from leukemia.
5 David Ananou, 83, Togolese writer, painter and church musician. Leopold Barschandt, 75, Austrian football player. Sonja Bullaty, 76, Czech-American photographer. Johanna Döbereiner, 75, Brazilian agronomist. Ruth Ellis, 101, American LGBT rights activist. Cătălin Hîldan, 24, Romanian football player, heart attack. Keith Roberts, 65, English science fiction author, multiple sclerosis. Cuco Sánchez, 79, Mexican singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor, kidney failure. Sergey Saychik, 43, Soviet Russian Olympic ski jumper (1972). Sidney R. Yates, 91, American politician (member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Illinois).
6 Ronald L. Bonkowski, 62, American politician. Kevin Brown, 67, Australian footballer.Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players. 2005, Alan Whiticker, Glen Hudson. William Bundy, 83, American attorney and CIA operative. José Cabanis, 78, French novelist, historian and magistrate. John T. Connor, 85, American government official and businessman, leukemia. Richard Farnsworth, 80, American actor (The Straight Story, Comes a Horseman, Misery) and stuntman, suicide by gunshot. Bernardo González, 31, Spanish cyclist and Olympian (1988, 1996), traffic collision. John Keller, 71, American basketball player and Olympian (1952). Per-Olov Löwdin, 83, Swedish physicist. K. Gunn McKay, 75, American politician, complications of mesothelioma. George Huntston Williams, 86, American theologian. Charles B. Yates, 61, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (1974-1978) and Senate (1978-1982), plane crash.
7 Tony Adamle, 76, American professional football player (Cleveland Browns), cancer. Peter Emil Becker, 91, German neurologist, psychiatrist and geneticist. Berta Jikeli, 89, Romanian Olympic discus thrower (1928). Bob Johnson, 83, American basketball player. Leslie Kish, 90, Hungarian-American statistician. Walter Krupinski, 79, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II. Noor Suzaily Mukhtar, 24, Malaysian software engineer. Edith Robinson, 94, Australian track and field athlete and Olympian (1928).
8 Hanson Matthew Adjei-Sarpong, 75, Ghanaian politician. Harold Cameron, 87, New Zealand cricketer.Harold Cameron, CricInfo. Retrieved 16 August 2022. Charlotte Lamb, 62, British novelist. Vsevolod Larionov, 72, Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. Robert M. Leeds, 79, American film editor and television director. Clarence Myerscough, 69, British violinist. Mihai Pop, 92, Romanian ethnologist. Timothy P. Sheehan, 91, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1951-1959). E. S. Johnny Walker, 89, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1965-1969), leukemia.
9 Gilberto Andrade, 62, Brazilian footballer. Robert Frederick Bennett, 73, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Kansas, lung cancer. Klaas Beuker, 76, Dutch politician. George W. Clarke, 89, Canadian lawyer. David Dukes, 55, American character actor, heart attack. James V. Hartinger, 75, United States Air Force general. Charles Hartshorne, 103, American philosopher. Lajos Kocsis, 53, Hungarian footballer and Olympian (1968, 1972). H. R. Loyn, 78, British historian. Patrick Anthony Porteous, 82, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross. Leonid Potapov, 95, Russian ethnographer.Potapov Leonid John Joseph Thomas Ryan, 86, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
10 Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 84, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, heart attack. Ken Bloxham, 46, New Zealand rugby union footballer, cancer. Oswaldo Calisto Rivera, 21, Ecuadorian poet and artist.Recordando a Cachibache Ferenc Farkas, 94, Hungarian composer. Joe Grady, 82, American radio personality. Dick Klein, 80, American businessman and founder of the Chicago Bulls. Sam Klepper, 40, Dutch gangster, shot.Moord op Klepper is onschuldverklaring van Holleeder voor dood Van Hout Emile Kuri, 93, Mexican-American set decorator. Nikolai Lyashchenko, 90, Soviet Army general and war hero. Ambrogio Morelli, 94, Italian road bicycle racer. Bruce Palmer, Jr., 87, American Army general. Bruce Vento, 60, American politician, lung cancer caused by asbestos.
11 Bernard P. Brockbank, 91, American Mormon missionary. Bryan Conlon, 57, English footballer. Donald Dewar, 63, Scottish politician, cerebral haemorrhage. Hiroshi Inose, 73, Japanese electrical engineer, heart attack. Matija Ljubek, 46, Croatian sprint canoeist and Olympic champion (1976, 1980, 1984, 1988), shot. Sam O'Steen, 76, American film editor and director. Pietro Palazzini, 88, Italian Cardinal. Thomas Leonard Wells, 70, Canadian politician, cancer. Fred Williams, 71, American gridiron football player (Chicago Bears, Washington Redskins).
12 Justo Arosemena Lacayo, 70, Colombian sculptor. Jim Carter, 71, American baseball player. Melvin A. Cook, 89, American chemist. Mark Saxelby, 31, English cricket player, suicide by herbicide ingestion. Gordon Stulberg, 76, Canadian-American film executive and lawyer, complications related to diabetes.
13 Anderson Carter, 74, American politician. Masao Fujii, 31, Japanese baseball player. Gus Hall, 90, American labor leader and chairman of the Communist Party USA. Robert Klein, 75, German Olympic gymnast (1956). Jean Peters, 73, American actress, leukemia. Duggie Du Preez, 73, South African Olympic boxer (1948). Jarnail Singh, 64, Indian football player and Olympian (1960). Britt Woodman, 80, American jazz trombonist.
14 Sebastião Alba, 60, Portuguese poet, road incident. Art Coulter, 91, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks, New York Rangers). 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 (1948), sports journalist and historian. Giorgio Piccinelli, 70, Italian Olympic canoeist (1952). Tony Roper, 35, American stock car racing driver, racing accident. Vic Schwall, 75, American gridiron football player (Chicago Cardinals).
15 Manuel da Luz Afonso, 83, Portuguese football manager. Ted Berry, 94, American politician. Konrad Emil Bloch, 88, German-American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, heart failure. Vincent Canby, 76, American film and theatre critic (The New York Times), cancer. Mathias Jamtvedt, 78, Norwegian Olympic gymnast (1952). John Perceval, 77, Australian artist. Rodolfo Sonego, 79, Italian screenwriter.
16 Emil Berna, 93, Swiss cinematographer. Eugen Brixel, 61, Austrian composer, musician and musicologist, cancer. Marvin P. Bryant, 75, American microbiologist and bacteriologist.Abstracts, Conference on Rumen Function, Volume 25, 2000 Mel Carnahan, 66, American lawyer and Governor of Missouri (since 1993), plane crash. Antonio Ferrandis, 79, Spanish actor, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. David Golub, 50, American pianist and conductor, lung cancer. Tito Gómez, 80, Cuban singer. Rick Jason, 77, American actor, suicide by gunshot. Pierre-Michel Le Conte, 79, French conductor. Tom Lund, 55, Danish handballer and Olympian (1972). Joaquín Gutiérrez Mangel, 82, Costa Rican writer, heart failure. Antonio Russo, 40, Italian journalist, tortured. Alfred Schoebel, 89, French Olympic swimmer (1932). Joseph Scott, 78, American Olympic bobsledder (1952). Lu Xiaopeng, 80, Chinese aircraft designer.
17 Frederick S. Clarke, 50/51, American magazine publisher and editor, suicide G. Arthur Cooper, 98, American paleobiologist. Harry Cooper, 96, English-American PGA Tour golfer. Donna Jogerst, 68, American baseball player. 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. Ivan Owen, 73, British voice actor, cancer. Walter Shenson, 81, American film producer, director and writer.
18 Bruce Biggs, 79, New Zealand linguist. Inga Gill, 75, Swedish film actress, thrombosis. Julie London, 74, American singer and actress, cardiac arrest, stroke. Sidney Salkow, 89, American screenwriter and film/television director. Gwen Verdon, 75, American actress (Damn Yankees, Chicago, Cocoon), four-time Tony winner, heart attack.
19 Don Black, 72, Rhodesian tennis player, complications from bowel cancer surgery. Wayne Garrison Blair, 70, American clubwoman. Mahir Domi, 85, Albanian linguist and academic. Hortense Ellis, 59, Jamaican reggae musician, infectious disease. Kay Fanning, 73, American journalist and publisher. Shirley Gorelick, 76, American artist. Kati Horna, 88, Hungarian-Mexican photojournalist and photographer. Antonio Maspes, 68, Italian sprinter cyclist and Olympic medalist (1952). Seikan Oki, 93, Japanese Olympic sprinter (1932). Charles Perkins, 64, Australian Aboriginal activist, and soccer player, renal failure. Leopoldo Savona, 87, Italian actor, director, choreographer, and screenwriter. Karl Stein, 87, German mathematician.
20 Guillermo Barbadillo, 75, Peruvian footballer. Jinks Coleman, 55-56, American college sports coach, cancer.