The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 2000
1 Lucie Blackman, 21, English bar hostess, murdered. Burt Douglas, 69, American film, stage and television actor. Raymond Robert Forster, 78, New Zealand arachnologist and museum director. John Albert Axel Gibson, 83, British flying ace during World War II. Irene Hirst, 69, British Olympic gymanst (1948, 1952). Steve Hokuf, 89, American football player (Boston Redskins), and coach, stroke. Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan, 94, fourth wife of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah. Cub Koda, 51, American rock and roll musician and record compiler, kidney failure. Ganju Lama, 75, Sikkimese Gurkha and recipient of the Victoria Cross. Walter Matthau, 79, American actor (The Odd Couple, The Fortune Cookie, The Sunshine Boys), Oscar winner (1967), heart attack. Pierre Petit, 78, French composer.
2 Mina Aoe, 59, Japanese female enka singer, pancreatic cancer. Joey Dunlop, 48, Northern Irish motorcycle racer, traffic collision. Constance Howard, 89, English textile artist and embroiderer. Paul McLaughlin, 80, Canadian sailor and Olympian (1948, 1952). Karl Sweetan, 57, American gridiron football player (Detroit Lions, New Orleans Saints, Los Angeles Rams), complications following surgery. Georgi Tringov, 63, Bulgarian chess grandmaster.
3 Vivian Bullwinkel, 84, Australian nurse, heart attack. Walter Cassel, 90, American operatic baritone and actor. Nancy Cato, 83, Australian writer and poet. Samuel Chandanappally, 60, Indian writer, college professor and orator. Eddie Craddock, 72, Australian rules footballer. James Grogan, 68, American figure skater and Olympian (1948, 1952), multiple organ failure. André Guinier, 88, French physicist. Michael Hamilton, 81, British politician. Paul G. Hatfield, 72, American attorney and politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1978). John Hejduk, 70, Czech-American architect, artist and educator. Leonard Hilton, 52, American long-distance runner and Olympian (1972). János Kamara, 73, Hungarian communist politician. Enric Miralles, 45, Spanish architect, brain tumor, brain cancer. Harold Nicholas, 79, American dancer (Nicholas Brothers), heart attack. Fiorentino Sullo, 79, Italian politician. Kemal Sunal, 55, Turkish actor, heart attack.
4 Donald Blessing, 94, American rower and Olympic champion (1928). Jack T. Bradley, 82, US Army Air Force fighter ace during World War II. Chuck Briggs, 40, American guitarist, HIV. Chiquet Mawet, 63, Belgian poet. Allan Fakir, 68, Pakistani folk singer. Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, 81, Polish writer and political dissident. Halil Kaya, 79-80, Turkish Olympic wrestler (1948). Yuri Klinskikh, 35, Russian singer, songwriter and arranger, heart failure. Marina Kroschina, 47, Ukrainian tennis player, suicide. Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme, 85, British aristocrat. Vladimír Ráž, 77, Czechoslovak film actor. Shōji Ueda, 87, Japanese photographer.
5 Syed Abdus Sobhan, 67, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician. Blanca Álvarez Mantilla, 68, Spanish journalist. Mary Nicol Neill Armour, 98, Scottish painter. Franta Belsky, 79, Czech sculptor, prostate cancer. Giovanni Bettinelli, 65, Italian racing cyclist. Edgar Cardoso, 87, Portuguese civil engineer and university professor. Yodelin' Slim Clark, 82, American musician. Leon deValinger Jr., 95, American archivist and historian. Mehrangiz Manoochehrian, 94, Iranian lawyer, musician and feminist. Peter Bullfrog Moore, 68, Australian rugby league administrator, esophageal cancer. Dorino Serafini, 90, Italian motorcycle road racer and racing driver. Gloria Williams, 57, American singer, diabetes. Jos Wohlfart, 80, Luxembourgish politician. Lord Woodbine, 71, Trinidadian calypsonian and music promoter, house fire.
6 Alix André, 91, French novelist. Miervaldis Birze, 79, Latvian writer, publicist, and physician. Roderic Coote, 85, British Anglican prelate. Eric Fraser, 69, English rugby player. Lazar Koliševski, 86, Yugoslav communist political leader. Fred Lane, 24, American football player (Carolina Panthers), shot. Akira Miyazawa, 72, Japanese jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist. Ľudovít Rajter, 93, Slovak composer and conductor. Władysław Szpilman, 88, Jewish-Polish pianist and Holocaust survivor portrayed in the 2002 film The Pianist. Marcella Comès Winslow, 95, American photographer and portrait painter.
7 István Bodor, 73, Hungarian canoeist and Olympian (1952). Jim Brown, 90, Canadian sprinter and Olympian (1932). Dame Stella Casey, 76, New Zealand social activist. Kenny Irwin, 30, American stock car racing driver, racing accident. Charles Johnson, 87, British Olympic diver (1948). Achim Krause-Wichmann, 70, German Olympic rower (1952). Ursula Kuczynski, 93, German communist activist and spy. James C. Quayle, 79, American newspaper publisher. William J. Randall, 90, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1959-1977). Johann Urbanek, 89, Austrian football player. Charles Alan Wright, 72, American constitutional lawyer. Dmitry Alexandrovich Zavadsky, 27, Belarusian journalist, homicide.
8 FM-2030, 69, Iranian-American author, transhumanist philosopher, futurist and Olympian (1948), pancreatic cancer. Patricia Carpenter, 77, American music theorist.Dineen, et al., 2000. Pieter Goemans, 75, Dutch composer ("Aan de Amsterdamse grachten"). Judit Kéri-Novák, 50, Hungarian Olympic rower (1976, 1980). Anne Mueller, 69, British civil servant and academic, Parkinson's disease. Maurice Owen, 76, English footballer. Cliff Sear, 63, Welsh footballer, heart attack.
9 Bianca Bianchi, 85, Italian teacher, socialist politician, feminist, and writer. Doug Fisher, 58, English actor, heart attack. Henri Gault, 70, French food journalist, heart attack. Herbert Hunger, 85, Austrian byzantinist. Erkki Koiso, 66, Finnish ice hockey player and Olympian (1960). John Morgan, 41, British etiquette expert, fall. Joe Sostilio, 85, American racing driver. John Vitale, 34, American football player, cancer.
10 Gertrud Arndt, 96, German photographer and designer. Frank Berni, 96, Italian-born British restaurateur. Henri Bol, 55, Dutch painter.Het Blaauw Laaken Kunstkabinet website Denis O'Conor Don, 87, English noble and hereditary Chief of the Name O'Conor. Dick Glasser, 65, American singer, songwriter, and record producer, lung cancer. Vakkom Majeed, 90, Indian politician. Conrad McRae, 29, American basketball player. Ursule Molinaro, French-American writer. Bill Munson, 58, American gridiron football player, drowned. Francisco Matos Paoli, 85, Puerto Rican poet, critic, and essayist. Justin Pierce, 25, British skateboarder and actor (Kids, Next Friday), suicide by hanging. Apostolos Vakalopoulos, 90, Greek historian. Norma Wilson, 90, New Zealand athlete and Olympian (1928).
11 Begum Akbar Jehan Abdullah, 84, Indian politician. Bill Alexander, 90, British political activist. Dick Caldwell, 91, British admiral.N. Baldock, "Eric Dick (Surgeon Vice Admiral) Caldwell", in Leon G. Fine, Sarah J. Gillam and W. Ian McDonald (eds), Munk's Roll: Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London Continued to 2004, vol. 11 (London: Royal College of Physicians, 2006), p. 91. Jaroslav Filip, 51, Slovak musician, composer, dramaturge, and actor, heart attack. Pedro Mir, 87, Dominican poet and writer (Poet Laureate). Robert Runcie, 78, British Archbishop of Canterbury, cancer. Barry Tabobondung, 39, Canadian ice hockey player, traffic collision.
12 Merrill Bradshaw, 71, American composer and professor. Al Butler, 62, American basketball player (Boston Celtics, New York Knicks, Baltimore Bullets), cancer. Tom Galley, 84, English football player. Charles Merritt, 91, Canadian war hero and recipient of the Victoria Cross. Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, 72, Yugoslav prince.
13 Matt Anthony, 79, Canadian football player, cancer. Harry Coe, 68, American attorney, suicide.Media's hands are dirty in death of Harry Lee Coe A. D. Hope, 92, Australian poet. Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso, 86, Argentine historian and researcher. Jan Karski, 86, Polish resistance fighter and academic. Alice Lord, 98, American Olympic diver (1920). Mauno Rintanen, 75, Finnish football player, basketball player, and Olympian (1952). Indira Sant, 86, Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India. Fabio Santamaria, 74, Cuban Olympic wrestler (1948).
14 Bill Barth, 57, American blues guitarist, heart attack. Finn-Egil Eckblad, 76, Norwegian mycologist. Alvin Hollingsworth, 72, American painter and comics artist. Luís Machado, 74, Portuguese Olympic rower (1948). Meredith MacRae, 56, American actress (My Three Sons, Petticoat Junction), complications of brain cancer. Georges Maranda, 68, Canadian baseball player (San Francisco Giants, Minnesota Twins), cancer. Mark Oliphant, 98, Australian physicist, Governor of South Australia. Pepo, 88, Chilean cartoonist.
15 Emanuel Araújo, 57, Brazilian historian and editor."Emanuel Oliveira de Araújo, Professor Emérito da Universidade de Brasília", O Explorador, 6 March 2013, retrieved 3 September 2021 . Paul Bühlmann, 73, Swiss comedian, radio personality, and actor. Johnny Duncan, 67, American bluegrass musician. Juan Filloy, 105, Argentine writer. Jocko Henderson, 82, American radio disc jockey, and hip hop music pioneer, cancer. Leo Hoegh, 92, U.S. Army officer, lawyer, and politician, Governor of Iowa (1955-1957). John O. Pastore, 93, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Rhode Island (1945-1950) and member of the U.S. Senate (1950-1976), kidney failure. Louis Quilico, 75, Canadian opera singer. Kalle Svensson, 74, Swedish footballer and Olympian (1948, 1952). Paul Young, 53, British singer and songwriter (Sad Café, Mike + The Mechanics), heart attack.
16 Franciszek Adamczak, 73, Polish–Swedish palaeontologist. Fay Alexander, 75, American circus performer. Igor Domnikov, 41, Russian journalist and editor, bludgeoned. György Petri, 56, Hungarian poet, cancer. Barbosa Lima Sobrinho, 103, Brazilian lawyer, writer, journalist and politician. Jean Vercoutter, 89, French Egyptologist. Bernie Whitebear, 62, American Indian activist, colon cancer. William Foote Whyte, 86, American sociologist.
17 Pascale Audret, 64, French actress, traffic collision. David Brooke-Taylor, 80, English cricketer.David Brooke-Taylor at Cricket Archive William R. Corson, 74, American author and soldier. Thomas Quinn Curtiss, 85, American writer, and film and theater critic. Zhao Lirong, 72, Chinese singer and film actress, cancer. Hans-Hermann Magnussen, 74, German Olympic sailor (1952). Aligi Sassu, 88, Italian painter and sculptor. Jean Swain, 76, American singer. Berthe Villancher, 91, French gymnastics judge and official.
18 Abdul Malek, 64, Bangladeshi politician. Ansuyabai Borkar, 70-71, Indian social activist. René Chocat, 79, French basketball player and Olympian (1948, 1952). Roberto Contreras, 71, American actor. Paul Coverdell, 61, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate from Georgia (since 1993), cerebral hemorrhage. Archie Craig, 88, Scottish racing cyclist.The Scotsman 10 August 2000 Obituary by Alastair Clark John F. Davis, 93, American lawyer and law professor. Enrique de Gandía, 94, Argentine historian and author. Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza, 81, Spanish architect. José Ángel Valente, 71, Spanish poet and essayist.
19 James B. Clark, 92, American film and television director. Stephen Gendin, 34, American AIDS activist, AIDS-induced lymphoma. Kamala Das Gupta, 93, Indian freedom fighter. Hananiah Harari, 87, American painter and illustrator. Alfred Knight, 82, British Olympic weightlifter (1948). Owen Maddock, 74, British engineer and racing car designer.