The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.
August 2000
1 Angèle Albrecht, 57, German ballerina. Maxie Berger, 83, Canadian boxer. Martin Bílek, 27, Czech shot putter, suicide. Robert A. Brooks, 68, American entrepreneur, complications after surgery. Joanna Constantinidis, 72, English potter and ceramic artist. Hugh Hood, 72, Canadian novelist, essayist and university professor. Ali Sardar Jafri, 86, Indian urdu writer. Aldis Kļaviņš, 25, Latvian Olympic canoeist (1996). Louis-Henry Lemirre, 71, French Olympic archer (1972). Nanjil K. Manoharan, 71, Indian politician, cardiac arrest. Steve McCrory, 36, American boxer and Olympian (1984). Arnulf Pilhatsch, 75, Austrian Olympic high jumper (1948). Benedetto Pola, 85, Italian Olympic cyclist (1936). Joseph Robert Sealy, 93, English botanist. Galina Sergeyeva, 86, Soviet and Russian actress.
2 John Caldwell, 65, Australian farmer and politician.John Norman Caldwell, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 10 September 2016. William Rossa Cole, 80, American anthologist, columnist, and writer. Shlomo Halberstam, 92, American rabbi. Trevor Leggett, 85, British author and translator, stroke. Howie McCarty, 81, American basketball player. Jan Mertens, 84, Dutch politician. Patricia Moyes, 77, British mystery writer. Simon Stefani, 71, Albanian communist politician.
3 Isolina Ferré, 85, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic religious sister. Joann Lõssov, 78, Soviet Estonian basketball player and Olympian (1952). Michael Meyer, 79, English translator and writer. Geoffrey Page, 80, British flying ace during World War II. Mirian Tsalkalamanidze, 73, Georgian flyweight freestyle wrestler and Olympic champion (1956).
4 Thomas F. Allgood, 71, American politician, plane crash. David Blee, 83, American CIA employee.Stanford Magazine, ¶ 6 (last ¶). Jimmy Bowie, 75, Scottish football player. Pete Corey, 70, American racing driver. John Joseph Graham, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate. Fred W. Hooper, 102, American racehorse owner and breeder. Julio Rodolfo Moctezuma, 73, Mexican lawyer. Michael Szwarc, 91, British and American polymer chemist. Halyna Zubchenko, 71, Ukrainian painter, muralist, and social activist.
5 Lala Amarnath, 88, Indian cricketer. Otto Buchsbaum, 80, Austrian politician. Afrânio Coutinho, 89, Brazilian literary critic and essayist. Tullio Crali, 89, Italian artist associated with Futurism. Renée Devillers, 97, French stage and film actress. Sir Alec Guinness, 86, English actor (The Bridge on the River Kwai, Star Wars, Lawrence of Arabia), Oscar winner (1958), liver cancer. Murray Krieger, 76, American literary critic and theorist. Arturo Durazo Moreno, 76, Mexican Chief of police and drug trafficker. Dudley Randall, 86, American poet and poetry publisher. Edgardo Sogno, 84, Italian diplomat, partisan and political figure. Otto Wiener, 89, Austrian baritone. Pascal Zilliox, 38, French Olympic long-distance runner (1992).
6 Raymond J. Broderick, 86, American jurist and politician, cancer. Lillian Chestney, 86, American painter.Lillian Chestney Sir Robin Day, 76, British political broadcaster, heart complications. Marv Felderman, 84, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs). George Merry, 71, Canadian Olympic alpine skier (1952). Ernesto Montemayor Jr., 72, Mexican Olympic sports shooter (1960, 1972). Max Phipps, 60, Australian actor, cancer. Raúl Sanguineti, 67, Argentine chess Grandmaster. Arthur Harold Stone, 83, British mathematician. Joan Trimble, 85, Irish composer and pianist.
7 Samuel Akpabot, 67, Nigerian music composer, ethnomusicologist and author. Georges Matheron, 69, French mathematician and geologist. Mona-Lisa Pursiainen, 49, Finnish sprinter and Olympian (1972, 1976), breast cancer. Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, 88, American philanthropist and mother of Donald Trump.
8 Ruth Abrahams, 69, British artist. Jaime Annexy, 72, Puerto Rican Olympic hammer thrower (1952). Jess Barker, 88, American actor, liver cirrhosis. Sholom Noach Berezovsky, 88, Israeli Hasidic rebbe.Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein: Nesivos Shalom, torah.org Luigi Bonos, 90, Italian comedian and actor. Katherine Butler, 86, Irish nun. Mauro Calligaris, 48, Italian Olympic swimmer and swimming coach (1972). Alvin Cassel, 86, American lawyer. Ralph Chapin, 85, American businessman and Zen pracitioner.ABOUT RALPH CHAPIN Walter Chappell, 75, American photographer and poet, lung cancer. Abdel Galil Hamza, 76, Egyptian Olympic footballer (1952). Ernie Hefferle, 85, American football player and coach. Živorad Jevtić, 56, Serbian football player and Olympian (1964). Murdo MacKay, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens). Jaap Marais, 77, Afrikaner nationalist thinker, author and politician. Mario Migliardi, 81, Italian television and film score composer. S. Nijalingappa, 97, Indian politician. Anatoliy Romashin, 69, Soviet and Russian actor and director, accidental impalement. Sir Banja Tejan-Sie, 83, Sierra Leonean politician and Governor General. Harry D. Thiers, 81, American mycologist. John F. Warren, 91, American cinematographer.
9 Marcel Bouyer, 80, French politician. Eliot Chapple, 91, American anthropologist. Josias Cunningham, 66, Northern Irish politician. John Harsanyi, 80, Hungarian-American economist, Nobel Prize laureate, heart attack. Arie van Leeuwen, 90, Dutch Olympic hurdler (1928). Nicholas Markowitz, 15, American kidnapping victim. Louis Nucera, 72, French writer, traffic accident. Fouad Serageddin, 88, Egyptian politician, Minister of Finance. Vitaliy Starukhin, 51, Ukrainian football player, pneumonia. Herb Thomas, 77, American NASCAR driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, heart attack. Lewis Wilson, 80, American actor (Batman).
10 Johan Camitz, 38, Swedish director of music videos and advertisements, road incident. Robert Manuel Cook, 91, British classical scholar. Suzanne Danco, 89, Belgian soprano. Joan Marsh, 87, American child actress in silent films. Tibor Mezőfi, 74, Hungarian basketball player and Olympian (1948, 1952). Gilbert Parkhouse, 74, Welsh cricket player. Charles Ribordy, 70, Swiss Olympic fencer (1960). Rita Trapanese, 49, Italian figure skater and Olympian (1968, 1972), traffic collision.
11 Pat Gerrard Cooke, 65, English painter."Lowry's protege Pat Cooke dies", Manchester Evening News, 22 January 2013 Les Dye, 84, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins). Paidi Jairaj, 90, Indian film actor, director and producer. Talal Maddah, 60, Saudi musician and composer, heart attack. Usha Mehta, 80, India Gandhian and freedom fighter. Jean Papineau-Couture, 83, Canadian composer. Ric Roman, 83, American actor. Constantin Zureiq, Syrian Arab intellectual.
12 Noboru Akiyama, 66, Japanese baseball player. Eliyahu Ben-Elissar, 68, Israeli politician and diplomat. Alberto Pedro Cabrera, 54, Argentine basketball player, leukemia. Jean Carzou, 93, French-Armenian artist, painter, and illustrator. Dave Edwards, 59, American big band-style musician, cardiac arrest. Loretta Young, 87, American actress (The Farmer's Daughter, Come to the Stable, The Loretta Young Show), Oscar winner (1948), ovarian cancer.
13 Edgar Claxton, 90, English rail engineer. Antony Duff, 80, British diplomat, Director-General of MI5 (1985-1988). Terence Feely, 72, British screenwriter, playwright and author. Nazia Hassan, 35, Pakistani pop singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist, lung cancer. Lefty Turner, 88, American baseball player. Bob Wente, 67, American racing driver.
14 Walter Benton, 69, American jazz tenor saxophonist. John Boland, 55, Irish politician, cancer. K. Danner Clouser, 70, American bioethicist, pancreatic cancer.In Memoriam, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Volume 10, Number 4, December 2000, pp. vii-viii | 10.1353/ken.2000.0029 Alain Fournier, 56, French computer graphics researcher, lymphoma. Ken Heintzelman, 84, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies). Cuan McCarthy, 71, South African cricket player. John Milford, 70, American actor, skin cancer. Alfred Rieck, 86, German rower and Olympic medalist (1936). Bernice Giduz Schubert, 86, American botanist & scholar. Hawa Singh, 62, Indian heavyweight boxer. Rostislav Vovkushevsky, 83, Soviet and Russian painter. Mary K. Wells, 79, American television writer and actress.
15 Zurab Achba, 50, Abkhazian politician, shot. T. A. Sarasvati Amma, 81, Indian mathematician. Ulla Barding-Poulsen, 88, Danish Olympic fencer (1936, 1952). Ena Begović, 40, Croatian actress, traffic accident. Helmut Coing, 88, German legal historian. James Flynn, 93, American Olympic fencer (1948). Eduardo Luján Manera, 55, Argentine football player and manager. Victor Pace, 93, Maltese Olympic water polo player (1928). Robert Swink, 82, American film editor (Roman Holiday, Funny Girl, The Boys from Brazil), heart attack. Edward Craven Walker, 82, British inventor who invented the lava lamp, cancer. Lancelot Ware, 85, British founder of Mensa.
16 Harmen Blok, 89, Dutch mechanical engineer. Alan Caddy, 60, English guitarist (The Tornados). Grace Halsell, 77, American journalist and writer, multiple myeloma. Chanoch Dov Padwa, 91, British rabbi. S. C. C. Anthony Pillai, 86, Indian trade unionist and politician, cardiac arrest. Renu Saluja, 48, Indian film editor, stomach cancer. Thomas Ypsilantis, 72, Greek-American physicist, heart attack.
17 Puangroi Apaiwong, 85, Thai composer. Jane Ardmore, 88, American writer, complications following hip surgery.Myrna Oliver, "Jane Kesner Ardmore; Novelist, Biographer" Los Angeles Times (August 22, 2000). Erich Borchmeyer, 95, German athlete and Olympian medalist (1932, 1936). Lawrence H. Cooke, 85, American lawyer and politician. Franco Donatoni, 73, Italian composer. Robert R. Gilruth, 86, American aerospace engineer. Stephan Körner, 86, Czech-born British philosopher, suicide. Evert Nyberg, 75, Swedish long-distance runner and Olympian (1948, 1956, 1960). Emil Petaja, 85, American science fiction and fantasy writer, heart failure. Leslie Rees, 94, Australian children's author and writer. Hans-Dietrich von Tiesenhausen, 87, Baltic German Kapitänleutnant during World War II. Jack Walker, 71, British industrialist and businessman, cancer.
18 Levente Balatoni, 90, Hungarian Olympic alpine skier (1936). César Calvo, 60, Peruvian poet, journalist and author. Lakshyadhar Choudhury, 85, Indian actor, playwright, film-director and politician. Joseph Comerford, 41, British engineer, neck bones trauma. Maurice Evans, 63, English football player and manager, heart attack. Bernard Krainis, 75, American musician. Ola Rotimi, 62, Nigerian playwright and theatre director. Morton Shulman, 75, Canadian politician, businessman and physician, Parkinson's disease.
19 Bineswar Brahma, 52, Indian politician, murdered.Bodo group war to turn bloodier Rediff - 17 January 2001 Bertram Carris, 82, English cricketer. D. G. Champernowne, 88, English economist and mathematician. David Norton Edelstein, 90, American judge. Luce Fabbri, 92, Italian anarchist writer, publisher and daughter of Luigi Fabbri. Harry Oppenheimer, 91, South African businessman, industrialist and philanthropist, cancer. Antonio Pugliese, 59, Italian-Canadian professional wrestler known as Tony Parisi, aneurysm. Lee Sholem, 87, American television and film director.
20 Peter Compston, 84, English officer.Obituary: Vice Admiral Sir Peter Compston Daily Telegraph, 4 September 2000 Nancy Evans, 85, British mezzo-soprano opera singer. Giovanni Gaddoni, 85, Italian football player. Mitch Halpern, 33, American boxing referee, suicide by gunshot. Karl Martitsch, 82, Austrian Olympic skier (1948).