Deaths in May 2000

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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

## May 2000

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### 1

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* Cláudio Christovam de Pinho, 77, Brazilian footballer.
* John Emery, 84, British paediatric pathologist.
* Gil Fates, 85, American television producer.[1]
* David J. Mahoney, 76, American businessman and philanthropist, heart disease.[2]
* Gibby Mbasela, 37, Zambian footballer.
* Steve Reeves, 74, American actor, lymphoma.[3]
* Nora Swinburne, 97, British actress.[4]
* Jukka Tapanimäki, 38, Finnish game programmer, heart failure.
* Gérard Théberge, 69, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player, bronze medalist (1956)[5]

### 2

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* Gretel Ammann, 53, Spanish philosopher.[6]
* Laurie Calvin Battle, 87, American politician.[7]
* Belva Cottier, 79, American Sioux activist and social worker.
* Bob Homme, 81, American-Canadian television actor, known for his role as The Friendly Giant, prostate cancer.[8]
* Bobbi Martin, 60, American country and pop music singer, songwriter, and guitarist, cancer.[9]
* Billy Munn, 88, British jazz pianist.[10]
* Harry Newman, 90, American football player.[11]
* Sundar Popo, 56, Trinidadian and Tobagonian musician.
* Christina Marie Riggs, 28, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[12]
* Teri Thornton, 65, American jazz singer, bladder cancer.[13]
* Norman Wainwright, 85, English competition swimmer and Olympian.[14]

### 3

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* Ibrahim Akasha, Kenyan drug lord, shot.[15]
* Lewis Allen, 94, British film and television director.[16]
* Richard Friederich Arens, 81, American mathematician.[17]
* Obie Baizley, 82, Canadian politician (Manitoba).
* Júlia Báthory, 98, Hungarian glass designer.[18]
* Ed Chapman, 94, American baseball player.[19]
* William Keys, 77, Australian Army officer.
* Mamuka Kikaleishvili, 39, Georgian actor and film director.
* Bryan Lobb, 69, English cricket player.[20]
* Yoshinao Nakada, 76, Japanese composer, colorectal cancer.[21]
* John Joseph O'Connor, 80, American Roman Catholic prelate, brain cancer.[22]
* Shakuntala Paranjpye, 94, Indian writer, actress, and social worker.
* Jon Vincent, 38, American pornographic actor, heroin overdose.
* Edward J. Sponga, 82, American Jesuit priest in the Society of Jesus.

### 4

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* Aleksandr Akhiezer, 88, Soviet Ukrainian physicist.[23]
* Sir Derick Ashe, 81, British diplomat.
* Hendrik Casimir, 90, Dutch physicist known for the Casimir effect.[24]
* Humberto Donoso, 61, Chilean football player.
* Jacques Gerschwiler, 101, Swiss figure skater and coach.
* Alwyn Kurts, 84, Australian drama and comedy actor, liver failure.
* Kieran Nugent, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer, cardiovascular disease.[25]
* Diana Ross, 89, English children's author.[26]
* Sugi Sito, 73, Mexican wrestler known as El Orgullo de Oriente.

### 5

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* Edward Ashley-Cooper, 93, Australian actor, congestive heart failure.[27]
* Gino Bartali, 85, Italian racing cyclist.[28]
* Jan Firbas, 79, Czech linguist.
* Don Kindt, 74, American football player.[29]
* Rolf Magener, 89, German escapee from India during World War II.[30]
* Bill Musselman, 59, American basketball coach, stroke.[31]

### 6

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* Benoy Choudhury, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
* Eleazar Jiménez, 71, Cuban chess master.
* Gordon McClymont, 79, Australian agricultural scientist and ecologist.[32]
* Lee Moore, 61, Saint Kitts and Nevis politician.
* Roger von Norman, 91, Hungarian-born German film editor and director.[33]
* John Clive Ward, 75, British-Australian physicist, respiratory illness.
* Sir Peter William Youens, 84, British diplomat and colonial administrator, pneumonia.[34]

### 7

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* Dov Bar-Nir, 88, Belgium-Israeli politician.
* Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 90, American actor and the son of Douglas Fairbanks, heart attack.[35]
* Hideo Hamamura, 71, Japanese marathon runner and Olympian.[36]
* Ferrel Harris, 59, American NASCAR racecar driver.[37]
* Henry Laskau, 83, American Olympic racewalker.[38]
* José Luis López de Lacalle, Spanish journalist and trade unionist, killed by the ETA.
* Homer Thompson, 93, Canadian classical archaeologist.[39]
* Timmy Payungka Tjapangati, 58, Aboriginal Australian artist.
* Masaru Shintani, 72, Japanese-Canadian master of karate, heart attack.

### 8

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* Pita Amor, 81, Mexican poet.[40]
* Stanley Boxer, 73, American abstract artist.[41]
* X Brands, 72, German-American actor.
* Glen Bredon, 67, American mathematician.
* William C. Brennan, 81, American lawyer and politician.
* Dédé Fortin, 37, Canadian musician, suicide.
* Hubert Maga, 83, Dahomey politician.
* Henry Nicols, 26, American HIV/AIDS activist, car accident.[42]

### 9

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* György Csordás, 71, Freestyle swimmer from Hungary.[43]
* Arthur Davis, 94, American animator (Looney Tunes, The Jetsons, Challenge of the GoBots).
* Chris Evans, 53, Canadian ice hockey player.[44]
* William Fairchild, 82, English author, playwright, director and screenwriter.[45]
* Todor Nikolov, 54, Bulgarian football player.[46]
* John Nucatola, 92, American basketball player, coach and referee.
* Carmen Romano, 74, First Lady of Mexico (1976-1982).
* Zheng Weishan, 84, Chinese general and politician.

### 10

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* Raymond Eddé, 87, Lebanese statesman.[47]
* Martin Farndale, 71, British army general.[48]
* Carden Gillenwater, 82, American baseball player.[49]
* Margaret Harris, 95, British costume designer.[50]
* Kiyoshi Kuromiya, 57, Japanese-American author and civil rights activist, cancer.[51]
* Virgil W. Raines, 89, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer.
* Kaneto Shiozawa, 46, Japanese voice actor, cerebral contusion.[52]
* Dick Sprang, 84, American comic book artist (Batman).
* Craig Stevens, 81, American actor, cancer.[53]

### 11

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* Verna Aardema, 88, American writer.[54]
* Shariful Haq Amjadi, 79, Indian Islamic scholar.[55]
* David Bretherton, 76, American film editor (Cabaret, The Diary of Anne Frank, Clue), Oscar winner (1973), pneumonia.[56]
* Dale Jennings, 82, American LGBT rights activist, playwright and author.[57]
* René Muñoz, 62, Cuban actor and screenwriter, cancer.
* Albert Roberts, 91, British politician.
* Hanny Thalmann, 83, Swiss women's rights activist and politician.
* Paula Wessely, 93, Austrian actress, bronchitis.[58]

### 12

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* Pete Abele, 83, American politician (U.S. Representative for Ohio's 10th congressional district), Alzheimer's disease.[59]
* Dave Crowe, 66, New Zealand cricket player.[60]
* Dong Kingman, 89, Chinese American artist and watercolor master.[61]
* Adam Petty, 19, American race car driver, car crash.[62]

### 13

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* Paul Bartel, 61, American actor, writer and director, liver cancer, heart attack.[63]
* Olivier Greif, 50, French composer.[64]
* Stanley Korchinski, 71, Canadian politician.
* Boško Perošević, 43, Serbian politician.[65]
* Jumbo Tsuruta, 49, Japanese professional wrestler known as Jumbo Tsuruta, complications from liver transplant.
* Cesare Valletti, 77, Italian operatic tenor.[66]

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* Urda Arneberg, 71, Norwegian actress.
* Johnny Cook, 51, American gospel singer formerly of the Happy Goodman Family.[67]
* Garrett Eckbo, 89, American landscape architect.[68]
* C. Eric Lincoln, 75, American scholar, diabetes.[69]
* Bob Maza, 60, Australian actor and playwright.[70]
* Keizō Obuchi, 62, Japanese politician and Prime Minister, stroke.[71]
* Rodman Rockefeller, 68, American businessman and philanthropist.[72]
* Karl Shapiro, 86, American poet.[73]

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* Roberto Benedicto, 83, Filipino lawyer, diplomat and banker.
* Geoff Goddard, 62, English songwriter, singer and instrumentalist, heart attack.
* Robert Lee Knous, 82, American politician.
* Alfred Kuchevsky, 68, Soviet ice hockey defenceman.[74]
* George Marshall, 96, American conservationist and political activist.[75]
* Gösta Prüzelius, 77, Swedish actor, leukemia.
* Anthony Squire, 86, British screenwriter and director.[76]

### 16

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* Bodacious, 11–12, American bucking bull and ProRodeo Hall of Fame inductee.
* Frido Frey, 78, German basketball player.[77]
* Evald Hermaküla, 58, Estonian actor and director, suicide by hanging.
* Ghulam Ali Okarvi, 80, Pakistani Islamic scholar and jurist.
* Andrzej Szczypiorski, 72, Polish novelist and politician.[78]
* Ronald Jay Williams, 72, Trinidadian businessman and politician.

### 17

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* Donald Coggan, 90, English Anglican and 101st Archbishop of Canterbury.[79]
* Hümeyra Hanımsultan, 82, Ottoman princess.[80]
* Elsie Lessa, 86, Brazilian journalist and writer of American descent.
* William H. Poteat, 81, American philosopher, scholar and professor.[81]
* Sajjan, 79, Indian actor.
* Angelina Stepanova, 94, Soviet and Russian stage and film actress, teacher.[82]

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* Domingos da Guia, 87, Brazilian football player and manager, stroke.[83]
* Bruno Fait, 75, Italian racewalker and Olympian.[84]
* Denis Gifford, 72, British writer, broadcaster and journalist.
* Doyle Lade, 79, American baseball player.[85]
* Yusuf Ludhianvi, 67/68, Pakistani Muslim scholar, author and muhaddith, murdered.

### 19

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* James Verne Adams, 86, American politician.[86]
* Tony Arefin, 38, Bangladeshi art director, heart attack.[87]
* Lee Brewster, 57, American drag queen and transvestite activist, cancer.[88]
* John Grigas, 79, American gridiron football player.[89]
* Evgeniy Vasilievich Khrunov, 66, Soviet cosmonaut, heart attack.[90]
* Larry Lamb, 70, British newspaper editor.[91]

### 20

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* Adelaide Aglietta, 59, Italian politician.[92]
* Charles Antenen, 70, Swiss football player.[93]
* Edward Bernds, 94, American director.[94]
* Dick Brown, 74, Canadian football player.
* Loyd Jowers, 73, American restaurateur, heart attack.[95]
* David Pearce, 41, Welsh heavyweight boxing champion.
* Jean-Pierre Rampal, 78, French flautist, heart failure.[96]
* Malik Sealy, 30, American basketball player, traffic collision.[97]

### 21

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* Jules Alfonse, 88, American gridiron football player.[98]
* Dame Barbara Cartland, 98, English novelist.[99]
* Buzzy Drootin, 80, American jazz drummer.[100]
* Sir John Gielgud, 96, English actor (Arthur, Becket, Julius Caesar), Oscar winner (1982).[101]
* Dulcie Holland, 87, Australian composer and music educator.[102]
* Mark R. Hughes, 44, American entrepreneur and founder of Herbalife, accidental overdose.[103]
* Erich Mielke, 92, German communist official.[104]
* Zhao Puchu, 92, Chinese religious leader and calligrapher.[105]
* Mahmoud Zuabi, Syrian politician and Prime Minister, suicide by gunshot.

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* William G. Akridge, 93, American judge.[106]
* Bahadoor, Indian actor.
* Krzysztof Boruń, 76, Polish physicist, journalist and science fiction writer.
* David Brookman, 83, Australian politician, traffic collision.[107]
* Eldridge Dickey, 54, American gridiron football player, stroke.[108]
* Davie Fulton, 84, Canadian politician and judge.[109]
* Gary Kerkorian, 70, American football player.[110]
* Bennie Lee Sinclair, 61, American poet, novelist, and short story writer, heart attack.[111]
* David Chadwick Smith, 68, Canadian economist.[112]
* José Rafael Molina Ureña, 79, President of the Dominican Republic.

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* Eddy Blondeel, 94, Belgian commander of the SAS during WWII.
* Roger Garrett, 59, American actor.
* Jack Halliday, 71, American gridiron football player.[113]
* Mishari bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince as member of the House of Saud.[114]

### 24

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* Kevin Lyons, 77, Australian politician.
* Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora, 32, Spanish cameraman and war correspondent, shot.[115]
* Kurt Schork, 53, American reporter and war correspondent, shot.[116]
* Majrooh Sultanpuri, 80, Indian Urdu poet and lyricist.
* Cliff Sutter, 89, American tennis player.
* Oleg Yefremov, 72, Soviet/Russian actor and theatre producer, lung disease.[117]

### 25

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* Pegaret Anthony, 84, English artist.[118]
* Ken Bousfield, 80, British golfer.[119]
* Nicholas Clay, 53, British actor (Excalibur, Zulu Dawn, Evil Under the Sun), liver cancer.[120]
* Elizabeth Durack, 84, Australian artist and writer.[121]
* Seymour S. Kety, 84, American neuroscientist.[122]
* Francis Lederer, 100, Austrian-American actor.[123]
* Jaya Pathirana, 79, Sri Lankan Supreme Court justice.

### 26

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* Robert Cockrell, 50, South African rugby union player (Western Province, national team).
* Sandra Gwyn, 65, Canadian journalist and writer.[124]
* William McCaughey, 70, American sound engineer (The Deer Hunter, Rocky, King Kong), Oscar winner (1979).
* Hamp Pool, 85, American football player, coach and scout, heart failure.
* Max Schellenberg, 72, Swiss racing cyclist.[125]
* Samuel A. Taylor, 87, American playwright and screenwriter, heart failure.[126]
* Vernon Crompton Woodward, 83, Canadian fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II.
* Sō Yamamura, 90, Japanese actor and film director, heart attack.[127]

### 27

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* Inga Abel, 53, German actress, cancer.[128]
* Prince Gonzalo de Bourbon, 62, Spanish aristocrat, leukemia.[129]
* Kazimierz Leski, 87, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, and (counter-)intelligence officer.[130]
* Murray MacLehose, 82, British diplomat, Governor of Hong Kong.[131]
* Maurice Richard, 78, Canadian hockey player (Montreal Canadiens), cardiovascular disease.[132]

### 28

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* Keith William Allan, 53, Australian solicitor, murdered.[133]
* George Irving Bell, 73, American scientist and mountaineer.[134]
* Donald Davies, 75, Welsh computer scientist.[135]
* Maraden Panggabean, 77, Indonesian Army general and Defense Minister, cerebrovascular disease.
* Vincentas Sladkevičius, 79, Lithuanian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Eric Turner, 31, American gridiron football player, stomach cancer.[136]
* Francisco Vestil, 85, Filipino basketball player and Olympian.[137]
* Heleen Sancisi Weerdenburg, 56, Dutch historian.[138]

### 29

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* Clement Isong, 80, Nigerian banker and politician.
* Robert T. Oliver, 90, American author and lecturer.[139]
* Aubrey Richards, 79, British actor.
* Anthony Spinelli, 73, American actor and producer.[140]
* Doreen Young Wickremasinghe, 93, British communist politician.

### 30

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* Tex Beneke, 86, American bandleader and musician (Glenn Miller Orchestra).[141]
* Iko Carreira, 66, Angolan army general and politician.[142]
* Robert P. Casey, 68, American lawyer and politician, amyloidosis.[143]
* Doris Hare, 95, Welsh actress.[144]
* Daisuke Inoue, 58, Japanese singer and composer, suicide by hanging.
* Ram Vilas Sharma, 87, Indian academic, poet and writer.[145]
* Bill Thomas, 78, American costume designer.

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* John Coolidge, 93, American businessman and son of President Calvin Coolidge.[146]
* Andrew Faulds, 77, British actor and Lpolitician.[147]
* Erich Kähler, 94, German mathematician.[148]
* Petar Mladenov, 63, Bulgarian communist diplomat and politician.[149]
* Nikolaos Oikonomides, 66, Greek byzantinist.[150]
* Rodolfo Pini, 73, Uruguayan football player.[151]
* Tito Puente, 77, American musician, songwriter ("Oye Como Va") and record producer, cardiac surgery.[152]
* Joe Puma, 72, American jazz guitarist.[153]
* Hank Ruszkowski, 74, American baseball player.[154]
* Walter Sparrow, 73, English actor (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Ever After, The Secret Garden).
* Johnnie Taylor, 66, American singer, heart attack.[155]
* A. Jeyaratnam Wilson, 72, Sri Lankan Tamil academic, historian and author.

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