Deaths in April 2000

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

April 2000

1 Eric Bishop, 74, Canadian sports journalist and broadcaster. Dorothy Whitson Freed, 81, New Zealand composer. Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, 75, British judge. Graham Mann, 75, British competitive sailor and Olympic medallist (1956, 1960). Willard J. Smith, 89, United States Coast Guard admiral.

2 Zekeriya Aknazarov, 75, Soviet statesman. Fred Kwasi Apaloo, 79, Ghanaian judge. Synnøve Anker Aurdal, 91, Norwegian textile artist. Rod Bonella, 62, Australian long-distance runner and horse trainer, cancer. Bunney Brooke, 80, Australian actress and casting director, (Round the Twist, Number 96, E Street), bowel and liver cancer.Dolan, Sarah. The Last Hooroo. Who Weekly Magazine: April 17, 2000, pages 34 & 35 Photo Clippings Magazine Image . (Retrieved July 22, 2014. Tommaso Buscetta, 71, Italian Mafia informant, cancer. Piet Coetser, 56, South African general. Eli Coppola, 38, American poet, heart attack. Greta Gynt, 83, Norwegian singer, dancer and actress. Robert Sainsbury, 93, British businessman and art benefactor. Carl Günther Weiss, 84, Danish Olympic field hockey player (1936). Slava Zupančič, 68, Slovenian Olympic alpine skier (1956).

3 Arne Aas, 68, Norwegian actor, director, and screenwriter. Dina Abramowicz, 90-91, American historian. Milko Bobotsov, 68, Bulgarian chess grandmaster. Jean Dominique, 69, Haitian journalist and activist, homicide. Mahpeyker Hanımsultan, 82, Ottoman princess. Marta Hoepffner, 88, German artist and photographer. Eri Irianto, 26, Indonesian football player, heart attack. Evelyn Irons, 99, Scottish journalist and war correspondent. Egil Jevanord, 81, Norwegian footballer. Terence McKenna, 53, American ethnobotanist, mystic, psychonaut and author, brain cancer. Gail O'Rourke, 57, American Olympic volleyball player (1964). James Sanfey, 77, Irish Fine Gael politician.

4 Brandãozinho, 74, Brazilian footballer. Diamond Teeth Mary, 97, American singer and vaudeville entertainer. Charlie Kray, 72, English boxer and convicted criminal. Rolf Pingel, 86, German Luftwaffe flying ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II. John W. Rollins, 84, American businessman and politician. Mirko Šarić, 21, Argentine footballer, suicide by hanging. Carl L. Sitter, 77, US Marine Corps officer and Medal of Honor recipient. William Stokoe, 80, American linguist. Sy Weintraub, 76, American film and television producer.

5 Kanika Banerjee, 75, Indian singer. Elisa Breton, 93, French artist and writer. Nematollah Gorji, 74, Iranian theatre and film actor. Albert Ivanov, 68, Soviet Estonian Olympic long-distance runner (1956). Heinrich Müller, 90, Austrian football player and coach. Lee Petty, 86, American race car driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, abdominal aortic aneurysm. Louis Rupprecht, 74, American Olympic speed skater (1948). Irina Sebrova, 85, Soviet Air Forces pilot and officer. Chino 'Fats' Williams, 66, American actor. Rolando Zanni, 86, Italian alpine skier and Olympian (1936). Janusz Ziółkowski, 75, Polish sociologist and politician.

6 John deKoven Alsop, 84, American politician. Carlos Pineda Alvarado, 63, Ecuadorian footballer. Maria Arndt, 70, Polish Olympic sprinter (1952). Habib Bourguiba, 96, president of Tunisia. Lofty Brits, 73, South African cricketer. Dennis Cambell, 92, British pilot. Eugene C. Cashman, 78, American policeman and businessman.April 8, 2000 Chicago Sun Times obituary for Eugene Cashman James A. Conlon, 79, American civil servant.Profile from Bureau of Engraving and Printing Mohammad-Ali Fardin, 69, Iranian actor and wrestler, cardiac arrest. Bertram Forer, 85, American psychologist. John Heap, 92, British sprinter and Olympian (1928). Don Johnson, 88, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs). Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz, 87, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic cardinal.

7 Bjarte Birkeland, 79, Norwegian literary researcher. Dick Blakeslee, 78, American professor. John P. Blewett, 89, Canadian-American physicist. Broery, 51, Indonesian singer, stroke. Meriel Forbes, 86, English actress. Heinz, 57, German-British bassist and singer, stroke. Masayuki Minami, 58, Japanese Olympic volleyball player. Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, 79, Brazilian football goalkeeper, heart attack. Werner Rauh, 86, German biologist, botanist and author.

8 Ibrahim Ahmad, 86, Kurdish writer, novelist and judge. Alfredo Alcala, 74, Filipino comics artist, cancer. Morris Cargill, 85, Jamaican politician. Bernie Grant, 56, British politician, heart attack. Gunnar Landelius, 82, Swedish sportsman and Olympian (1948). Claire Trevor, 90, American actress, respiratory failure. Harry Williamson, 86, American middle-distance runner and Olympian (1936). František Šťastný, 72, Czech Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. Peter Willmott, 76, British sociologist.

9 Alan Betrock, 49, American music publisher, author and record producer, cancer. Hansi Brand, 87, Hungarian-Israeli zionist activist and rescue worker during World War II. John Brown, 65, Scottish footballer. Tony Cliff, 82, British Trotskyist writer and journalist. Catherine Crook de Camp, 92, American science fiction and fantasy author. Nick Frascella, 85, American basketball player. Robert Komer, 78, American diplomat. W. Bruce Lincoln, 61, American scholar and author. James William Malone, 80, American prelate of the Catholic Church.

10 Rabah Bitat, 74, Algerian politician. Walter Blattmann, 79, American Olympic gymnast (1952). Angela Yu Chien, 57, Chinese-Hong Kong actress, cancer. Arnold Johnson, 78, American actor (Putney Swope, Shaft, Menace II Society). Peter Jones, 79, British actor. Larry Linville, 60, American actor (M*A*S*H, Mannix, Earth Girls Are Easy), lung cancer. Olappamanna, 77, Indian poet, heart attack. Kirsten Rolffes, 71, Danish actress, breast cancer. Horacio Siburu, 78, Argentine Olympic modern pentathlete (1948).

11 George Barr, 84, Scottish-American soccer player. Tomas Campo Jr., Philippine Marine Corps soldier, killed in action. Diana Darvey, 54, English actress, singer and dancer, fall. André Deutsch, 82, Hungarian-British publisher. Lucia Dlugoszewski, 74, Polish-American composer, poet, and inventor. Dewayne Douglas, 68, American football player (New York Giants), and coach. Salvador Lazo Lazo, 81, Filipino prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Flaminio Piccoli, 84, Italian politician. Olav Økern, 88, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympic medalist (1948, 1952).

12 Niaz Ahmed, 54, Pakistani cricketer. Ingemund Bengtsson, 81, Swedish politician, and Speaker of the Riksdag. Leonard F. Bersani, 67, American politician. (via Newspaperarchive.com)- (via Newspaperarchive.com) Helen Blane, 86, British Olympic alpine skier (1936). David Crighton, 57, British mathematician and physicist. Carmen Dillon, 91, English film art director and production designer. Pierre Dondelinger, 87, French sprinter and Olympian (1936). Max Hofmeister, 87, Austrian football player and Olympian (1936). Ronald Lockley, 96, Welsh ornithologist and naturalist. Gerald Francis O'Keefe, 82, American bishop of the Catholic Church, heart attack. Christopher Pettiet, 24, American actor, drug overdose.Screen World 2001 By John Willis, Barry Monush. Hal Leonard Corporation. p.45 John Read, 74, British Olympic bobsledder (1956). Giles Shaw, 68, British politician, stroke. James Vorenberg, 72, American legal scholar, heart attack.

13 Peter Archer, 51, Australian martial artist, cancer. Giorgio Bassani, 84, Italian writer. Frenchy Bordagaray, 90, American baseball player. Philippe Brood, 35, Dutch politician, heart attack. Philippe Gérard Brood, Biografischportaal.nl, May 25, 2010 Aivars Gipslis, 63, Latvian chess grandmaster. Inglis Gundry, 94, English composer, novelist, and musicologist. Pete Minger, 57, American trumpeter and flugelhornist. Carlos Pacheco, 74, Costa Rican Olympic sports shooter (1968). Daniel Holcombe Thomas, 93, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama). Albert Turner, 64, American civil rights activist, abdominal bleeding.

14 Bob Barthelson, 75, American baseball player (New York Giants). Gurudas Chatterjee, 56, Indian politician, assassinated. Humphrey Cripps, 84, English businessman and a philanthropist. Ludwig Durek, 79, Austrian football player and Olympian (1948). Sebastián Fleitas, 53, Paraguayan football player, stroke. Ted Grouya, 89, Romanian-American composer. Donald Gullick, 75, Welsh rugby player. Devereaux Jennings, 75, American Olympic alpine skier (1948). Phil Katz, 37, American computer programmer (zip file format), pancreatitis. August R. Lindt, 94, Swiss lawyer and diplomat. Wilf Mannion, 81, English professional footballer. Charlie O'Rourke, 82, American football player (Chicago Bears, Los Angeles Dons, Baltimore Colts), and coach. George E. Taylor, 94, American sinologist. Bo Wallace, 71, American baseball player.

15 Rainy Brown, 94, English cricketer. Guillermo Clavero, 78, Chilean footballer. Edward Gorey, 75, American writer and illustrator, heart failure. Irina Gubanova, 60, Russian ballerina and film actress, pneumonia. Ba Kyi, 87, Burmese artist. Thomas Joseph Lobsinger, 73, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Whitehorse (since 1987), plane crash.Bishop of Whitehorse killed in plane crash Ernest Nègre, 92, French toponymist. Todd Webb, 94, American photographer.

16 Henry Bird, 90, English artist.Ian Mayes (11 May 2000), Henry Bird Obituary, The Guardian. Abram Chayes, 77, American legal scholar associated with the administration of John F. Kennedy, pancreatic cancer. Harry Clarke, 77, English football player. Henry Daniels, 87, British statistician. Domingo Federico, 83, Argentine bandoneon player, songwriter and actor. Policarpo Paz García, 67, Honduran military leader, kidney failure. Hayati Hamzaoğlu, 67, Turkish actor. Ossi Kauppi, 70, Finnish ice hockey player and Olympian (1952). Johnny Malokas, 83, American basketball player. Ann Mui, 40, Hong Kong singer and sister of Anita Mui, cervical cancer. Syed Putra of Perlis, 79, Malaysian monarch. Sherwood Washburn, 88, American physical anthropologist.

17 Sabrina Bulleri, 41, Italian Paralympic athlete. Pyotr Glebov, 85, Russian actor. Normand Hamel, 44, Canadian outlaw biker and gangster. Alice Marriott, 92, American philanthropist. Volodymyr Panteley, 54, Soviet Ukrainian Olympic middle-distance runner (1972). Paula Salomon-Lindberg, 102, German classical contralto. Megan Williams, 43, Australian actress and singer, breast cancer.

18 Herb Ball, 81, American basketball player. Isaac Berenblum, 96, Polish-Israeli biochemist. Mary Cannell, 86, English educator and historian. Tony Frank, 56, American actor (North and South, UHF, A Perfect World). Maxwell Khobe, 50, Nigerian Army general, encephalitis. Irja Lipasti, 94, Finnish sprinter and Olympian (1936). Martin Mailman, 67, American composer. Erzsi Pártos, 93, Hungarian actress.

19 Louis Applebaum, 82, Canadian film score composer and conductor. Bill Briggs, 75, Canadian football player."Obituaries", The Edmonton Journal, April 23, 2000, pg. B7 Robert Glen Coe, 44, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. Masakazu Fukuda, 27, Japanese professional wrestler, brain hemorrhage. Kyung-Chik Han, 97, Korean pastor. Buster Haywood, 90, American baseball player. Grigor Khanjyan, 73, Soviet-Armenian artist, painter, and illustrator. Chang Kyou-chul, 53, South Korean boxer and Olympic bronze medalist (1968). Krum Milev, 84, Bulgarian football player and manager. Candace Newmaker, 10, American victim of child abuse, suffocation.Her name was Candace