The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.
September 2000
1 Olavi Ahonen, 77, Finnish film actor and comedian. Barbara Brooke, Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte, 92, British politician. Dee Kessel Caperton, 57, American politician, cancer. P. P. Ummer Koya, 78, Indian politician, Gandhian, freedom fighter and educationist. Franklin P. Peterson, 70, American mathematician, stroke. Gerry Sullivan, 57, Australian politician.
2 Vicente Asensi, 81, Spanish football player. Ishaq Bux, 83, Indian actor. Heinz Harmel, 94, German SS general during World War II. Jean Speegle Howard, 73, American actress (Apollo 13, Scrooged, Matilda), respiratory disease and cardiomyopathy. Elvera Sanchez, 95, American dancer. Bianca Schenk, 82, Austrian Olympic figure skater (1936). Curt Siodmak, 98, German-American novelist and screenwriter (The Wolf Man, Donovan's Brain), cancer. Gennady Smirnov, 45, Russian footballer.Смирнов Геннадий Михайлович Audrey Wise, 68, British politician.
3 Asaf Abdrakhmanov, 81, Soviet naval officer and war hero during World War II. Edward Anhalt, 86, American screenwriter (Panic in the Streets), Oscar winner (1951), cancer. Gordon Burgess, 81, New Zealand cricket player and administrator. Adrian P. Burke, 95, American lawyer and politician. Clodomiro Cortoni, 77, Argentine Olympic cyclist (1948, 1952). Oldřich Daněk, 73, Czech dramatist, writer, director and screenwriter. R. H. Harris, 84, American gospel singer (Soul Stirrers). Carlos Isaack, 76, Argentine Olympic sprinter (1948). Elvera Sanchez, 95, Puerto Rican dancer.Elvera “Baby Sanchez” Davis, dancer and mother of Sammy Davis Jr. Jack Simmons, 85, British transport historian. Clyde Sukeforth, 98, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers). Indriði Guðmundur Þorsteinsson, 74, Icelandic writer. Walt Stanchfield, 81, American animator (The Jungle Book, The Fox and the Hound, The Great Mouse Detective).
4 Augusto Vargas Alzamora, 77, Peruvian prelate in the Roman Catholic Church. James Atuti, 46, Kenyan Olympic sprinter (1984). Sir John Beith, 86, British diplomat. David Brown, 53, American bass guitarist (Santana), kidney failure. Jack Fjeldstad, 85, Norwegian actor and stage producer. Pinky May, 89, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). Mihály Mayer, 66, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic champion (1956, 1960, 1964, 1968). Mukri, 78, Indian film actor, heart attack. Gilles Potvin, 76, Canadian music critic and music historian. Antonio Ruberti, 73, Italian politician and engineer. Mary Shepard, 90, English illustrator of children's books.
5 Margaret Andrew, 92, American experimental engineer.“Margaret J. Andrew, 1908 – 2000". Obituaries, Xenia Daily Gazette. (2000, September 7). Xenia Daily Gazette Newspaper Archives. John Bishop, 69, British poet and publisher.Garry Humphreys. 'John Bishop, obituary', in The Guardian, 11 October 2000 Desmond Bristow, 83, British intelligence officer. 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. Palle Nielsen, 80, Danish illustrator and graphic artist.
6 David E. Bell, 81, American public servant, director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (1961–1962). Marion T. Bennett, 86, American politician and judge. Rudy Fernández, 89, Cuban baseball player. Robert Lindsay, 95, English-born Australian politician. Abdul Haris Nasution, 81, Indonesian general and politician, cerebrovascular disease. Nino Ramishvili, 90, Soviet and Georgian ballet dancer and choreographer. Fritz Ruchay, 90, German football player and manager. Jürgen Schütze, 49, East German racing cyclist and Olympian (1972). Aleksander Skiba, 55, Polish volleyball player and Olympian (1968). Jiří Sovák, 79, Czech actor. Kees van Aelst, 83, Dutch water polo player and Olympian (1936). Roger Verey, 88, Polish rower and Olympian (1936). Desmond Wilcox, 69, British journalist and television producer, heart attack.
7 Hyginus Anugo, 22, Nigerian sprinter, car accident. Bruce Gyngell, 71, Australian television executive, cancer-related illness. Eigil Nielsen, 81, Danish amateur football goalkeeper and Olympic medalist (1948). Gian Luigi Polidoro, 73, Italian film director and screenwriter. Vitaliy Popovich, 37, Ukrainian racewalker and Olympian (1988, 1996), suicide. Aleksander Skiba, 55, Polish volleyball player and coach. Nick Tremark, 87, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
8 Enrique Alessio, 82, Argentine musician. Silvia Bravo, 55, Mexican physicist. Yves Gaucher, 66, Canadian abstract painter and printmaker. Otto Katharus Lind, 79, Danish resistance fighter and general. August Lütke-Westhüs, 74, German equestrian and Olympian (1956). Carlos Castillo Peraza, 53, Mexican politician, heart attack. Raul Roulien, 94, Brazilian actor, singer, and film director.
9 Edgar Andrew Collard, 89, Canadian journalist and historian. Julian Critchley, 69, British politician. Herbert Friedman, 84, American physicist and astronomer, cancer. Chuck Holmes, 55, American adult film producer, businessman and philanthropist, AIDS-related complications. Chuck Leonowicz, 42, American Olympic bobsledder (1992). Branko Mataja, 76, Yugoslav–American folk and blues musician, heart attack. Veerasamy Ringadoo, 79, Mauritian politician, minister and Governor-General of Mauritius. Peter Robinson, 78, English football player. Robert S. Stevens, American politician and jurist. Bill Waddington, 84, English music hall performer, actor, and comedian, Parkinson's disease.
10 Jakie Astor, 82, English politician and sportsman. Viv Cooper, 91, Australian politician. Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, 81, Pakistani writer and journalist. Chandra Khonnokyoong, 91, Thai Maechi. Seybourn Harris Lynne, 93, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama). Émilien Méresse, 85, French footballer. William Nierenberg, 81, American physicist and member of the Manhattan Project, cancer. Lester Novros, 91, American artist and animator. José Gil Solé, 71, Spanish cyclist. Cesare Valle, 98, Italian architect. Ben Wicks, 73, British-Canadian cartoonist, illustrator, and author, cancer.
11 Herbert H. Bateman, 72, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1983), cancer. Peter Browne, 76, Australian politician. Joe Dale, 79, English footballer. Philipp Fehl, 80, Austrian artist and art historian. Ham Heung-chul, 69, South Korean football player, manager and Olympian (1964). Martin James Monti, 78, US Army Air Force pilot. William Wilson Quinn, 92, US Army officer. Joe Skubitz, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. House Of Representatives (1963-1978). Bob Thurbon, 82, American football player (Steagles, Card-Pitt, Buffalo Bisons).
12 Leonard Alufurai, 74-75, Solomon Island bishop. Juan Ibáñez Díez-Gutiérrez, 62, Mexican actor, film director, producer and writer. Konrad Kujau, 62, German illustrator and forger, cancer. Gary Olsen, 42, English actor (2point4 Children, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The Bill), cancer. Alfredo Pasotti, 75, Italian road bicycle racer. Hubert Shurtz, 77, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers). Stanley Turrentine, 66, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
13 Lloyd Anderson, 98, American business executive.Drosendahl, Glenn. "The Mountaineers" (https://historylink.org/ : accessed March 2, 2020) History Link Essay 20547 Posted April 20, 2018 J. Stewart Brooks, 90, Canadian engineer and political figure. Jānis Gilis, 57, Soviet and Latvian football player. Betty Jeffrey, 92, Australian writer. Howard Johnson, 89, British politician. Rolf Kauka, 83, German comic artist. Jerzy Lipiński, 91, Polish racing cyclist. Thurman "Fum" McGraw, 73, American football player (Detroit Lions). Ian Stephen, 83, South African rower and Olympian (1948, 1952). Duane Swanson, 87, American basketball player and Olympian (1936). Pedro Morales Torres, 68, Chilean football manager.
14 Peter Barker, 45, British Virgin Islander Olympic sailor (1984). Lazăr Baroga, 63, Romanian Olympic weightlifter (1960, 1964). Françoise Brauner, 89, Austrian-born French pediatrician and child psychiatrist. George Christopher, 92, Greek-American politician. J. C. Coffee, 94, American football coach and player. William Perry Copple, 83, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Arizona). Leroy Cromartie, 77, American baseball player. Jerzy Giedroyc, 94, Polish writer and political activist. Jean Halain, 80, French film screenwriter. Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale, 86, British politician. Cheng Kejie, 66, Chinese government official, execution by lethal injection. Gyula Lengyel, 68, Hungarian Olympic rower (1960). Igor Luzhkovsky, 62, Russian swimmer and Olympian (1960). George Myatt, 86, American baseball player (New York Giants, Washington Senators). Beah Richards, 80, American actress (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night, ER), Emmy winner (1988, 2000), pulmonary emphysema. Hwang Sun-won, 85, Korean short story writer, novelist, and poet.
15 David Flusser, 83, Israeli professor of Early Christianity. Jennifer Gan, 62, American actress. George Kanahele, 70, American native Hawaiian activist, historian and author. Frank John Kerr, 82, Australian astronomer and physicist. Harmar Nicholls, 87, British politician.Lord Harmar-Nicholls. The Daily Telegraph, 16 September 2000. Jean Yancey, 86, American entrepreneur and motivational speaker, heart failure.
16 Nadina Abarth-Žerjav, 88, Slovene-Italian businesswoman. Ioan Alexandru, 58, Romanian poet, essayist and politician. M. H. M. Ashraff, 51, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, helicopter crash. Maurice Black, 84, American politician,complications of Parkinson's disease. Hans Brems, 84, Danish American economist. Dori Brenner, 53, American actress (Altered States, The Charmings, Ned and Stacey), complications from cancer. Joseph C. Howard Sr., 77, American judge. John Perkovich, 76, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox). Alexandra Petrova, 19, Russian model and beauty pageant contestant, murdered. Dharma Vira, 94, Indian politician.
17 Hester Burton, 86, English children's writer. Alejandro Cervantes Delgado, 74, Mexican economist and politician. Ralph Corsel, Italian-American novelist. Cruz Martínez Esteruelas, 68, Spanish politician. Georgiy Gongadze, 31, Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and film director, homicide. Armand Mestral, 82, French actor and singer. Nicole Reinhart, 24, American cyclist, cycling accident. Dem Rădulescu, 68, Romanian actor, heart attack. Chico Salmon, 59, Panamanian baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles). Bakht Singh, 97, Indian evangelist, Bible teacher and preacherBRO. BAKHT SINGH Henry T. Weinstein, 76, American film producer. Paula Yates, 41, British television presenter and journalist, drug overdose.
18 Branko Becić, 76, Croatian Olympic rower (1948). Glyde Butler, 68, Australian politician. Gilbert Carpentier, 80, French television show producer. Tony Graboski, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens). Dawn Langley Simmons, 77, English author and biographer, Parkinson's disease. Chen Yuefang, 37, Chinese basketball player and Olympic medalist (1984).
19 John Beaumont, 76, American Olympic sports shooter (1956). William E. Bradley Jr., 87, American engineer and businessman. Joseph Epes Brown, 80, American scholar of Native American traditions. Pastor Coronel, 81, Paraguayan politician. Ann Doran, 89, American character actress. Fulvio Mingozzi, 74, Italian actor. Karl Robatsch, 70, Austrian chess player and botanist, cancer.