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 medalist.
- Willard J. Smith, 89, United States Coast Guard admiral.
2
- Fred Kwasi Apaloo, 79, Ghanaian judge.
- Synnøve Anker Aurdal, 91, Norwegian textile artist.
- Bunney Brooke, 80, Australian actress and casting director, (Round the Twist, Number 96, E Street), bowel and liver cancer.
- Tommaso Buscetta, 71, Italian Mafia informant, cancer.
- Greta Gynt, 83, Norwegian singer, dancer and actress.
- Robert Sainsbury, 93, British businessman and art benefactor.
3
- Milko Bobotsov, 68, Bulgarian chess grandmaster.
- Jean Dominique, 69, Haitian journalist and, 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.
- Terence McKenna, 53, American ethnobotanist, mystic, psychonaut and author, brain cancer.
- James Sanfey, 1999, Irish Fine Gael politician.
4
- Brandãozinho, 74, Brazilian footballer.
- Diamond Teeth Mary, 97, American singer and vaudeville entertainer.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Irina Sebrova, 85, Soviet Air Forces pilot and officer.
- Chino 'Fats' Williams, 66, American actor.
- Rolando Zanni, 86, Italian alpine skier and Olympian.
- Janusz Ziółkowski, 75, Polish sociologist and politician.
6
- Habib Bourguiba, 96, President of Tunisia.
- Mohammad-Ali Fardin, 69, Iranian actor and wrestler, cardiac arrest.
- Bertram Forer, 85, American psychologist.
- Don Johnson, 88, American baseball player.
- Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz, 87, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic cardinal.
7
- Bjarte Birkeland, 79, Norwegian literary researcher.
- 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.
- Bernie Grant, 56, British politician, heart attack.
- Claire Trevor, 90, American actress, respiratory failure.
- Harry Williamson, 86, American middle-distance runner.
- František Šťastný, 72, Czech Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
9
- Alan Betrock, American music publisher, author and record producer, cancer.
- Hansi Brand, 87, Hungarian-Israeli zionist activist and rescue worker during World War II.
- Tony Cliff, 82, British Trotskyist writer and journalist.
- Catherine Crook de Camp, 92, American science fiction and fantasy author.
- 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.
- Angela Yu Chien, 57, Chinese-Hong Kong actress, cancer.
- Arnold Johnson, 78, American actor.
- Peter Jones, 79, British actor.
- Larry Linville, 60, American actor (M*A*S*H), lung cancer.
- Olappamanna, 77, Indian poet, heart attack.
- Kirsten Rolffes, 71, Danish actress, breast cancer.
11
- George Barr, 84, Scottish-American soccer player.
- 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 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.
12
- Ingemund Bengtsson, 81, Swedish politician, and Speaker of the Riksdag.
- David Crighton, 57, British mathematician and physicist.
- Carmen Dillon, 91, English film art director and production designer.
- Max Hofmeister, 87, Austrian football player.
- 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.
- Giles Shaw, 68, British politician, stroke.
- James Vorenberg, 72, American legal scholar, heart attack.
13
- Giorgio Bassani, 84, Italian writer.
- Frenchy Bordagaray, 90, American baseball player.
- Aivars Gipslis, 63, Latvian chess grandmaster.
- Inglis Gundry, 94, English composer, novelist, and musicologist.
- Pete Minger, 57, American trumpeter and flugelhornist.
- Albert Turner, 64, American civil rights activist, abdominal bleeding.
14
- Ludwig Durek, 79, Austrian football player.
- Sebastián Fleitas, 53, Paraguay football player, stroke.
- Ted Grouya, 89, Romanian-American composer.
- Donald Gullick, 75, Welsh rugby player.
- 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 and coach.
- George E. Taylor, 94, American sinologist.
15
- Edward Gorey, 75, American writer and illustrator, heart failure.
- Irina Gubanova, 60, Russian ballerina and film actress, pneumonia.
- Ba Kyi, 87, Burmese artist.
- Ernest Nègre, 92, French toponymist.
- Todd Webb, 94, American photographer.
16
- 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.
- Ann Mui, 40, Hong Kong singer and sister of Anita Mui, cervical cancer.
- Syed Putra of Perlis, 79, Malayasian monarch.
- Sherwood Washburn, 88, American physical anthropologist.
17
- Pyotr Glebov, 85, Russian actor.
- Normand Hamel, 44, Canadian outlaw biker and gangster.
- Alice Marriott, 92, American philanthropist.
- Volodymyr Panteley, 54, Ukrainian middle-distance runner and Olympian.
- Paula Salomon-Lindberg, 102, German classical contralto.
- Megan Williams, 43, Australian actress and singer, breast cancer.
18
- Isaac Berenblum, 96, Polish-Israeli biochemist.
- Tony Frank, 56, American actor.
- Maxwell Khobe, 50, Nigerian Army general, encephalitis.
- Irja Lipasti, 94, Finnish sprinter and Olympian.
- Martin Mailman, 67, American composer.
- Erzsi Pártos, 93, Hungarian actress.
19
- Louis Applebaum, 82, Canadian film score composer and conductor.
- Masakazu Fukuda, 27, Japanese professional wrestler, brain hemorrhage.
- Kyung-Chik Han, 97, Korean pastor.
- Grigor Khanjyan, 73, Soviet-Armenian artist, painter, and illustrator.
- Chang Kyou-chul, 53, South Korean boxer and Olympic bronze medalist.
- Krum Milev, 84, Bulgarian football player and manager.
- Candace Newmaker, 10, American victim of child abuse, suffocation.
- Sergey Zalygin, 86, Soviet writer and environmentalist.
20
- Fred Boensch, 79, American gridiron football player.
- Bill Dean, 78, British actor.
- Willy Harlander, 68, German actor, heart attack.
- Philip Childs Keenan, 92, American astronomer.
21
- Gunther Gerzs, 84, Hungarian-Mexican painter, director and screenwriter.
- Al Purdy, 81, Canadian poet.
- Robert H. Robins, 78, British linguist.
- Susan Stephen, 68, English film actress.
- Nigar Sultana, 67, Indian actress.
22
- Alexander H. Cohen, 79, American theatrical producer.
- Arnt Eliassen, 84, Norwegian meteorologist.
- Toon Hermans, 83, Dutch comedian, singer and writer.
- Edwin O'Donovan, 85, American art director.
- Robert W. Porter, Jr., 91, United States Army general, heart attack.
- Margaret Singana, 62, South African musician.
23
- Jerry Catena, 98, American mobster (Genovese crime family), heart attack.
- Erle Cocke, Jr., 74, American businessman and war veteran, pancreatic cancer.
- Shigeru Sugiura, 92, Japanese manga artist.
- David Thorne, 66, British army general.
- Pearl Padamsee, 69, Indian actress, director and producer.
24
- Derek Allhusen, 86, British Olympic equestrian.
- John Beck, 65, New Zealand cricket player.
- Chic Brodie, 63, Scottish footballer, prostate cancer.
- Pru Chapman, 50, New Zealand competition swimmer and Olympian.
- Ulla Isaksson, 83, Swedish author and screenplay writer.
- William Moore, 84, English character actor.
- Karamana Janardanan Nair, 63, Indian film actor, stroke.
- Barkin' Bill Smith, 71, American blues singer and songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
- George Volkoff, 86, Russian-Canadian physicist and academic.
25
- Niels Viggo Bentzon, 80, Danish composer and pianist.
- Richard Carr, 89, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.
- Richard Donahoe, 90, Canadian lawyer and politician.
- Ben Fernandez, 75, American politician and financial consultant.
- Alla Larionova, 69, Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, heart attack.
- Lucien Le Cam, 75, French mathematician.
- David Merrick, 88, American theatre producer and director.
- Franjo Rupnik, 78, Croatian football player.
- Mukhram Sharma, 90, Indian film lyricist, script, and story writer.
26
- Gregory Gillespie, 63, American magic realist painter, suicide by hanging.
- Ernest Victor Siracusa, 81, American diplomat.
- Len Smith, 82, Australian rugby player.
- Herbert Wechsler, 90, American legal scholar.
27
- Charles Ralph Boxer, 96, British historian.
- Ovid S. Crohmălniceanu, 78, Romanian literary critic and science fiction writer.
- Clifford Forsythe, 70, Northern Irish Ulster Unionist Party politician.
- Brooks Lawrence, 75, American baseball player.
- William P. Mahoney Jr., 83, American attorney and diplomat.
- Errett Weir McDiarmid, 90, American librarian and academic.
- Yusof Rawa, 76, Malaysian politician, pneumonia.
- Vicki Sue Robinson, 45, American singer ("Turn the Beat Around") and actress, cancer.
28
- Kim Borg, 80, Finnish bass, teacher and composer.
- Arthur Dake, 90, American chess player.
- Jerzy Einhorn, 74, Polish-Swedish medical doctor, researcher and politician, leukemia.
- Federico Brito Figueroa, 78, Venezuelan marxist historian and anthropologist.
- Penelope Fitzgerald, 83, British writer.
- Sergey Khristianovich, 91, Soviet/Russian mechanics scientist.
- Jack Merson, 78, American baseball player.
- Doug Phillips, 80, Welsh rugby player.
29
- Jane Cadwell, 85, American competition swimmer and Olympian.
- Chen Fangyun, 84, Chinese electrical engineer.
- Chintamani Panigrahi, 78, Indian independence activist and writer.
- John Patrick, 81, American gridiron football player.
- Harriet Lange Rheingold, 92, American child development psychologist.
- Antonio Buero Vallejo, 83, Spanish playwright, stroke.
- Pham Van Dong, 94, Vietnamese communist politician, Prime Minister (1955-1976).
- Buck Varner, 69, American baseball player.
- Italo Zingarelli, 70, Italian film producer.
30
- Vasilis Georgiadis, 78, Greek film director and actor.
- Henry Goode, 81, American field hockey player and Olympian.
- Poul Hartling, 85, Danish politician, Prime Minister (1973–1975).
- Bernhard Heiden, 89, German-American composer.
- Jonah Jones, 90, American jazz trumpeter.
- Marjorie Noël, 54, French pop singer, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Richard Tsimba, 34, Zimbabwean rugby player, traffic collision.
- Ruth Turner, 86, American marine biologist and malacologist.
- Barry Ulanov, 82, American writer.
- Leon Vandaele, 67, Belgian road bicycle racer.