February 2000
1
- Pablito Calvo, 51, Spanish actor (Miracle of Marcelino), brain aneurysm.[1]
- Pina Cei, 95, Italian actress.
- Frederick Vanderbilt Field, 94, American political activist.[2]
- James Harrell, 81, American actor (The Sugarland Express, Paper Moon, JFK), heart attack.
- Erik Holmberg, 91, Swedish astronomer and cosmologist.
- Art Hoppe, 74, American newspaper columnist, lung cancer.[3]
- Hans Hügi, 70, Swiss football player.
- Khunkar-Pasha Israpilov, 32, Chechen separatist, killed in action.
- Anker Kihle, 82, Norwegian footballer.[4]
- Peter Levi, 68, British poet, jesuit priest and scholar.[5]
- Henry Mann, 94, American professor of mathematics and statistics.[6]
- Thomas J. McHugh, 80, American Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps (1962-1965).
- James V. Neel, 84, American geneticist.[7]
- Dick Rathmann, 74, American racecar driver.
2
- Harry K. Cull, 88, American politician.
- Sheikh Abdul Latif, 71, Indian football player.[8]
- Teruki Miyamoto, 59, Japanese football player and manager, heart failure.[9]
- Francis Stuart, 97, Irish writer.[10]
- Li Zhun, 71, Chinese novelist.
3
- Guillermo Estévez Boero, 69, Argentine student activist, lawyer and politician, leukemia.
- Bonnie Cashin, 91, American pioneer designer of sportswear.[11]
- Don Gallinger, 74, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Richard Kleindienst, 76, American politician and U.S. Attorney General during the Watergate scandal, lung cancer.[12]
- Yuriy Lituyev, 74, Soviet athlete and Olympic medalist.
- Pierre Plantard, 79, French draughtsman and impostor.[13]
- Alla Rakha, 80, Indian tabla player, heart attack.[14]
4
- Carl Albert, 91, American lawyer, politician and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.[15]
- Joachim-Ernst Berendt, 77, German music journalist.[16]
- Edgar Bowers, 75, American poet.[17]
- Rodrigo Hernan Lloreda Caicedo, 57, Colombian lawyer and politician.
- Doris Coley, 58, American singer of The Shirelles, breast cancer.[18]
- James C. Green, 78, American politician.
- Peter Rajniak, 46, Slovak basketball player.[19]
- Ronald Robertson, 62, American figure skater, AIDS-related complications.[20]
- Roy Stephenson, 67, English football player.[21]
- Johnny Vincent, 72, American record producer.
5
- Claude Autant-Lara, 98, French film director and politician.[22]
- Ward Cornell, 75, Canadian radio/TV broadcaster & educator, pulmonary emphysema.[23]
- G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, 89, British ancient historian.[24]
- Pablo Elvira, 62, Puerto Rican baritone.[25]
- José García Hernández, 84, Spanish jurist and politician.
- Todd Karns, 79, American actor (It's a Wonderful Life), cancer.[26]
- George Koltanowski, 96, Belgian-American chess master, promoter, and writer.[27]
- T. G. Lingappa, 72, Indian film score composer.
- Barbara Pentland, 88, Canadian composer.
- Hidetoki Takahashi, 83, Japanese football player and manager, pneumonia.
- Tuffy Thompson, 85, American gridiron football player.[28]
- Göran Tunström, 62, Swedish author, lung cancer.[29]
- Gwendolyn Watts, 67, English actress, heart attack.
6
- Derroll Adams, 74, American folk musician.[30]
- Sven Aspling, 87, Swedish social democrat politician.
- Sándor Balogh, 79, Hungarian football player and coach.
- Gus Johnson, 86, American swing drummer.[31]
- Klaus Wagner, 89, German mathematician.
- Steve Waller, 48, American musician, liver problems.
- Phil Walters, 83, American racing driver.
7
- Big Pun, 28, American rapper, heart attack.[32]
- Pavle Bulatović, 51, Yugoslav politician.
- Stewart Farrar, 83, English screenwriter, novelist and Wiccan priest.
- Doug Henning, 52, Canadian magician, illusionist and escape artist, cancer.[33]
- Muhammad Munawwar Mirza, 77, Pakistani writer, historian and intellectual.
- Shiho Niiyama, 29, Japanese voice actress, leukemia.
- Dave Peverett, 56, English singer and musician of Foghat, cancer.[34]
- Wilfred Cantwell Smith, 83, Canadian Islamicist and Presbyterian minister.[35]
- Mildred Wiley, 98, American high jumper and Olympic medalist.[36]
8
- Sid Abel, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.[37]
- Aryanandi, 92, Indian Jain monk.
- Mario Capio, 75, Italian Olympic sailor.[38]
- Bob Collins, 57, American broadcaster.[39]
- Carlos Cores, 76, Argentine film actor, and film director, heart attack.
- Edna Griffin, 90, American civil rights pioneer and activist.
- Sidney Hayers, 78, British film and television director, writer and producer, cancer.[40]
- Ion Gheorghe Maurer, 97, Pomanian politician, Prime Minister of Romania (1958-1961).[41]
- Derrick Thomas, 33, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, pulmonary embolism.[42]
9
- Yevgeni Andreyev, 73, Soviet Air Force colonel and balloonist.[43]
- Steve Furness, 49, American football player, heart attack.[44]
- Beau Jack, 78, American boxer, Parkinson's disease.[45]
- Lenore Kight, 88, American swimmer and Olympian.
- Shobhna Samarth, 83, Indian film actress, director and producer, cancer.
- Buck Young, 79, American actor.
10
- Androniqi Zengo Antoniu, 86, Albanian painter.
- Igor Bensen, 82, Russian-American engineer, Parkinson's disease.
- John Garlington, 53, American football player, drowned.[46]
- Elvira Gascón, 88, Spanish painter, drafter, and engraver.
- George Jackson, 42, American movie producer, stroke.[47]
- Gene Lambert, 78, American baseball player.[48]
- Ji Pengfei, 90, Chinese politician, suicide.[49]
- Jim Varney, 50, American actor (Ernest Saves Christmas, Toy Story, The Beverly Hillbillies), lung cancer.[50]
- Andrzej Zakrzewski, 58, Polish historian, politician, and journalist.
11
- Jacqueline Auriol, 82, French aviator who set several world speed records.[51]
- Gordon Lockhart Bennett, 87, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island.
- Bernat Capó, 80, Spanish racing cyclist.
- Ruth Volkl Cardoso, 66, Brazilian chess player.
- Lord Kitchener, 77, Trinidadian calypsonian, multiple myeloma.[52]
- Martin Theodore Orne, 72, Austrian-American professor of psychiatry and psychology.[53]
- Louis Pelletier, 93, American dramatist, screenwriter, and playwright.[54]
- Elangbam Nilakanta Singh, 72, Indian poet and critic.
- Roger Vadim, 72, French film director, lymphoma.[55]
- Bernardino Zapponi, 72, Italian novelist and screenwriter.[56]
12
- Newt Arnold, 77, American film director (Bloodsport), leukemia.[57]
- Dominic Bruce, 84, British Royal Air Force officer and Colditz Castle escapee during World War II.[58]
- Screamin' Jay Hawkins, 70, American musician, surgical complications.[59]
- Tom Landry, 75, American football coach (Dallas Cowboys) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, leukemia.[60]
- Andy Lewis, 33, Australian bass guitarist, suicide.
- John London, 58, American musician and songwriter.
- August Meuleman, 93, Belgian cyclist.[61]
- Oliver, 54, American pop singer.[62]
Charles M. Schulz, creator of Peanuts - Juan Carlos Thorry, 91, Argentine film actor, tango musician and director.
13
- John Wesley Blassingame, 59, American historian specializing in American slavery.[64]
- James Cooke Brown, 78, American sociologist and science fiction author.
- John Cameron, 85, Jamaican cricket player.[65]
- J. Robert Harris, 74, American composer.
- F. X. Martin, 77, Irish priest and historian.[66]
- Thelma Parr, 93, American actress.
14
- Tony Bettenhausen, Jr., 48, American car racing driver and team owner, plane crash.
- Tertius Bosch, 33, South African cricketer, Guillain–Barré syndrome.[67]
- Erika Dunkelmann, 86, German film and television actress.[68]
- Jimmy Martin, 75, Irish professional golfer.
- Antun Nalis, 89, Croatian actor.[69]
- Vitamin Smith, 76, American gridiron football player.[70]
- Walter Zinn, 93, Canadian-American nuclear physicist who worked at the Manhattan Project.[71]
15
- Shamsul Huda Chaudhury, 79, Bangladeshi politician.
- Dilip Dhawan, 45, Indian actor, heart attack.
- Angus MacLean, 85, Canadian politician and farmer.[72]
- Bob Ramazzotti, 83, American baseball player.[73]
- Vladimir Utkin, 76, Soviet and Russian engineer and rocket scientist.
16
- Wayne Blackburn, 85, American baseball coach.[74]
- Soup Campbell, 84, American baseball player.[75]
- Veronica Cooper, 86, American actress.
- Marceline Day, 91, American actress.[76]
- Mohammed Fawzi, 84, Egyptian general and politician.
- Carlos Chagas Filho, 89, Brazilian physician, biologist and scientist.[77]
- Fung Fung, 83, Hong Kong actor.
- Lila Kedrova, 90, Russian-French actress (Zorba the Greek, Torn Curtain, A High Wind in Jamaica), Oscar winner (1965), pneumonia.[78]
- B. S. Kesavan, 90, Indian librarian.
- Louis-Georges Niels, 80, Belgian bobsledder and Olympic silver medalist.[79]
- Bill Riley, 78, American ice hockey player.
- Karsten Solheim, 88, Norwegian-American golf club designer (PING) and businessman, Parkinson's disease.[80]
17
- Iffat Al-Thunayan, Saudi princess and wife of King Faisal.
- William Anderson, 84, Canadian officer.
- Selina Chönz, 89, Swiss children's author.[81]
- Turkey Tyson, 85, American baseball player.[82]
- Miles White, 85, American costume designer of Broadway musicals.[83]
18
- Henry Åkervall, 62, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Yalavarthi Naveen Babu, 35, Indian revolutionary group leader, killed in firefight with police.
- Lefty Hoerst, 82, American baseball player.[84]
- Nader Naderpour, 70, Iranian-American poet.[85]
- Will, 72, Belgian comics artist.[86]
19
- Marin Goleminov, 91, Bulgarian musician.[87]
- Josef Herman, 89, Polish-British painter.[88]
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 71, Austrian artist, heart attack.[89]
- Amanda Ledesma, 88, Argentine film actress and singer.
- George Lenczowski, 85, Russian-American lawyer, diplomat, and academic.[90]
- Kenneth L. Maddy, 65, American politician.[91]
- Djidingar Dono Ngardoum, 72, Chadian politician, Prime Minister (1982).
- George Roussos, 84, American comic book artist (Fantastic Four, Batman, Avengers).
- Anatoly Sobchak, 62, Russian politician and mentor of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, heart attack.[92]
- Jim Wulff, 63, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins).[93]
20
- Elliot Caplin, 86, American comic strip writer.[94]
- Jean Dotto, 71, French racing cyclist.[95]
- Jean-Pierre Grenier, 85, French actor, theatre director and screenwriter.[96]
- Bernard Hickman, 88, American basketball player and coach.
- Oswald Lange, 87, German-American aerospace engineer and member of the "von Braun rocket group".[97]
- Otello Martelli, 97, Italian cinematographer (La Dolce Vita, Bitter Rice, La Strada).[98]
- Edmund McNamara, 79, American police officer and gridiron football player.[99]
21
- Noel Annan, Baron Annan, 83, British military intelligence officer and academic.[100]
- Olena Apanovych, 80, Ukrainian historian.
- Violet Archer, 86, Canadian musician and composer.[101]
- Chao Tzee Cheng, 65, Hong Kong-Singaporean forensic pathologist.
- Clifton Daniel, 87, American newspaper managing editor, stroke.[102]
- Antonio Díaz-Miguel, 65, Spanish basketball player and coach, cancer.[103]
- Radhamohan Gadanayak, 88, Indian poet.
- Constance Cummings John, 82, Sierra Leonean educationist and politician.
- Kenneth Nichols, 92, United States Army officer and civil engineer, respiratory failure.[104]
22
- Fernando Buesa, 53, Spanish politician, terrorist attack.
- John Kellogg, 83, American actor, Alzheimer's disease.[105]
- Arkady Khait, 61, Russian writer, satirist and screenwriter, leukemia.
- Ernest Lough, 88, English boy soprano.[106]
- Alexandre Marc, 96, French writer and philosopher.[107]
- Maurine Brown Neuberger, 93, American politician.[108]
- Michelle O'Keefe, 18, American college student and aspiring actress, gunshot wounds.[109]
- Raphaël Pujazon, 82, French athlete and Olympian.[110]
23
- John Nevill, 5th Marquess of Abergavenny, 85, British aristocrat.
- Dennis Evans, 69, English football player.
- Albrecht Goes, 91, German writer and theologian.[111]
- Nikolay Gulyayev, 84, Russian football player and football coach.
- Ofra Haza, 42, Israeli singer, AIDS-related pneumonia.[112]
- Stanley Matthews, 85, English football player.[113]
- Joseph V. Perry, 69, American actor, diabetes.[114]
- B. Rachaiah, 77, Indian politician.
- Terry Melvin Sims, 58, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.[115]
24
- Betty Lou Beets, 62, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.[116]
- Michael Colvin, 67, British politician.[117]
- Franciszek Kamiński, 97, Polish politician and military commander during World War II.
- Rosalind Keith, 83, American film actress and singer.[118]
- Bernard Opper, 84, American basketball player.[119]
- Béla Szekeres, 62, Hungarian middle distance runner and Olympian.
- Boris Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, 62, Soviet ice hockey player.
25
- Pyotr Breus, 72, Russian water polo player.[120]
- Victoria Climbié, 8, Ivorian girl, prolonged child abuse.[121]
- Elaine Gordon, 69, American politician, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
- Doris Löve, 82, Swedish botanist.[122]
- Tom McEllistrim, 74, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
- Sishayi Nxumalo, 64, Swazi politician, traffic collision.
- Kuthiravattam Pappu, 62, Indian actor, cardiac arrest.
- Culley Rikard, 85, American baseball player.[123]
- Aleksandar Živković, 87, Croatian football player.
26
- Casimiro Montenegro Filho, 95, Brazilian Air Force officer.
- Franz Fuchs, 50, Austrian terrorist, suicide.
- Raosaheb Gogte, 83, Indian industrialist, philanthropist and educationist.
- Louisa Matthíasdóttir, 83, Icelandic-American painter.[124]
- Giovanna of Savoy, 92, Italian princess of the House of Savoy, heart failure.
- George L. Street III, 86, United States Navy submarine commander during World War II and Medal of Honor recipient.[125]
27
- Larry Adams, 63, American jockey.
- Jan Adele, 64, Australian actress and vaudeville entertainer.
- Casimiro Berenguer, 90, Puerto Rican nationalist.
- Eduardo Copello, 74, Argentine racing driver.
- George Duning, 92, American musician, and film composer.[126]
- James Stanley Hey, 90, English physicist and radio astronomer.[127]
- Aubrey Eugene Robinson, Jr., 77, American jurist and judge, heart attack.[128]
28
- Kariel Gardosh, 78, Israeli cartoonist and illustrator ("Dosh").[129]
- John N. Irwin, II, 86, American diplomat and attorney.[130]
- Dalsukh Dahyabhai Malvania, 89, Indian scholar, writer and philosopher.[131]
- Jean Vallette d'Osia, 101, French officer and French Resistance member during WWII.[132]
- Janet Reed, 83, American ballerina and ballet mistress.[133]
- George Siravo, 83, American composer, arranger, and musician.[134]
29
- Dennis Danell, 38, American musician (Social Distortion), cerebral aneurysm.[135]
- Pierre Dumas, French doctor and drug test pioneer.
- Karen Hoff, 78, Danish sprint canoeist and Olympic champion.[136]
- Hidehiko Matsumoto, 73, Japanese jazz saxophonist and bandleader.
- Nikita Moiseyev, 82, Soviet and Russian mathematician and academic.
- Sardar Muhammad Arif Nakai, 70, Pakistani politician.
- Kayla Rolland, 6, American school shooting victim, cardiac arrest from shooting.