The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

October 2000

1

• Robert Allen, 73, American composer ("(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays", "Everybody Loves a Lover", "Chances Are").^[1]
• Charlie Brewster, 83, American baseball player.^[2]
• René Coicaud, 73, French fencer.^[3]
• Rosie Douglas, 58, Prime Minister of Dominica and human rights activist.^[4]
• Aristeidis Kollias, 56, Greek lawyer, publicist, and folklorist, leukemia.
• Luciano Storero, 74, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Reginald Kray, 66, British criminal, bladder cancer.^[5]

2

• Nikolai Fedorenko, 87, Soviet philologist, orientalist, and diplomat.^[6]
• Amadou Karim Gaye, 86, Senegalese politician.
• Richard Liberty, 68, American actor, heart attack.
• Elek Schwartz, 91, Romanian football player and coach.^[7]
• David Tonkin, 71, Australian politician, Premier of South Australia (1979-1982).^[8]

3

• Klondike Bill, 68, Canadian professional wrestler, neuromuscular disorder.
• Wojciech Jerzy Has, 75, Polish film director, screenwriter and film producer.^[9]
• Udo Klug, 72, German football player and manager.^[10]
• M. M. Mustapha, 76, Ceylonese lawyer and politician.
• Benjamin Orr, 53, American bassist and singer (The Cars), pancreatic cancer.^[11]
• John Worsley, 81, British artist and illustrator.^[12]

4

• Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, 71, Moroccan long-distance runner and Olympic silver medalist, arteriosclerotic heart disease.^[13]
• Tofig Guliyev, 82, Azerbaijani composer, pianist, and conductor.^[14]
• Teruo Itokawa, 59, Japanese shot putter and Olympian.^[15]
• Aleksey Ivanovich Kandinsky, 82, Soviet musicologist.
• Yu Kuo-hwa, 86, Chinese politician, Premier (1984–1989), complications from leukemia.
• Tin Maung, 92, Burmese film actor, director and producer.
• Chuck Oertel, 69, American baseball player.^[16]
• Egano Righi-Lambertini, 94, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Ludvík Ráža, 71, Czechoslovak film director.
• Michael Smith, 68, English-Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.^[17]

5

• Leopold Barschandt, 75, Austrian football player.^[18]
• Johanna Döbereiner, 75, Brazilian agronomist.
• Ruth Ellis, 101, American LGBT rights activist.^[19]
• Cătălin Hîldan, 24, Romanian football player, heart attack.^[20]
• Keith Roberts, 65, English science fiction author, multiple sclerosis.^[21]
• Cuco Sánchez, 79, Mexican singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor, kidney failure.^[22]
• Sidney R. Yates, 91, American politician (member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Illinois).^[23]

6

• William Bundy, 83, American attorney and CIA operative.^[24]
• José Cabanis, 78, French novelist, historian and magistrate.^[25]
• John T. Connor, 85, American government official and businessman, leukemia.^[26]
• Richard Farnsworth, 80, American actor and stuntman, suicide by gunshot.^[27]
• Bernardo González, 31, Spanish cyclist and Olympian, traffic collision.^[28]
• John Keller, 71, American basketball player.^[29]
• Per-Olov Löwdin, 83, Swedish physicist.^[30]
• K. Gunn McKay, 75, American politician, complications of mesothelioma.
• George Huntston Williams, 86, American theologian.^[31]

7

• Tony Adamle, 76, American professional football player, cancer.^[32]
• Peter Emil Becker, 91, German neurologist, psychiatrist and geneticist.^[33]
• Leslie Kish, 90, Hungarian-American statistician.^[34]
• Walter Krupinski, 79, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
• Edith Robinson, 94, Australian track and field athlete and Olympian.^[35]

8

• Charlotte Lamb, 62, British novelist.^[36]
• Vsevolod Larionov, 72, Soviet and Russian stage and film actor.^[37]
• Robert M. Leeds, 79, American film editor and television director.
• Clarence Myerscough, 69, British violinist.
• Mihai Pop, 92, Romanian ethnologist.^[38]
• Timothy P. Sheehan, 91, American politician.
• E. S. Johnny Walker, 89, American politician, leukemia.

9

• Robert Frederick Bennett, 73, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Kansas, lung cancer.^[39]
• David Dukes, 55, American character actor, heart attack.^[40]
• James V. Hartinger, 75, United States Air Force general.
• Charles Hartshorne, 103, American philosopher.^[41]
• Lajos Kocsis, 53, Hungarian football player.^[42]
• H. R. Loyn, 78, British historian.^[43]
• Patrick Anthony Porteous, 82, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross.
• John Joseph Thomas Ryan, 86, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.^[44]

10

• Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 84, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, heart attack.^[45]
• Ferenc Farkas, 94, Hungarian composer.^[46]
• Joe Grady, 82, American radio personality.
• Dick Klein, 80, American businessman and founder of the Chicago Bulls.
• Emile Kuri, 93, Mexican-American set decorator.^[47]
• Nikolai Lyashchenko, 90, Soviet Army general and war hero.
• Ambrogio Morelli, 94, Italian road bicycle racer.^[48]
• Bruce Palmer, Jr., 87, American Army general.^[49]
• Bruce Vento, 60, American politician, lung cancer caused by asbestos.^[50]

11

• Donald Dewar, 63, Scottish politician, cerebral haemorrhage, cerebral hemorrhage.^[51]
• Hiroshi Inose, 73, Japanese electrical engineer, heart attack.^[52]
• Matija Ljubek, 46, Croatian sprint canoeist and Olympic champion, shot.^[53]
• Sam O'Steen, 76, American film editor and director.
• Pietro Palazzini, 88, Italian Cardinal.^[54]
• Thomas Leonard Wells, 70, Canadian politician, cancer.
• Fred Williams, 71, American gridiron football player.^[55]

12

• Justo Arosemena Lacayo, 70, Colombian sculptor.
• Melvin A. Cook, 89, American chemist.^[56]
• Mark Saxelby, 31, English cricket player, suicide.^[57]
• Gordon Stulberg, 76, Canadian-American film executive and lawyer, complications related to diabetes.

13

• Masao Fujii, 31, Japanese baseball player.^[58]
• Gus Hall, 90, American labor leader and chairman of the Communist Party USA.^[59]
• Jean Peters, 73, American actress, leukemia.^[60]
• Jarnail Singh, 64, Indian football player.
• Britt Woodman, 80, American jazz trombonist.^[61]

14

• Art Coulter, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.^[62]
• Dino Dibra, 25, Australian organized crime figure, shot.
• Abbas Gharabaghi, 81, Iranian Army officer and Chief of Staff, cancer.
• David Guiney, 79, Irish Olympic athlete, sports journalist and historian.^[63]
• Tony Roper, 35, American stock car racing driver, racing accident.
• Vic Schwall, 75, American gridiron football player.^[64]

15

• Manuel da Luz Afonso, 83, Portuguese football manager.
• Konrad Emil Bloch, 88, German-American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, heart failure.^[65]
• Vincent Canby, 76, American film and theatre critic (The New York Times), cancer.^[66]
• John Perceval, 77, Australian artist.^[67]
• Rodolfo Sonego, 79, Italian screenwriter.^[68]

16

• Emil Berna, 93, Swiss cinematographer.
• Mel Carnahan, 66, American lawyer and politician (51st Governor of Missouri).^[69]
• Antonio Ferrandis, 79, Spanish actor, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.^[70]
• David Golub, 50, American pianist and conductor, lung cancer.^[71]
• Tito Gómez, 80, Cuban singer.^[72]
• Rick Jason, 77, American actor, suicide.
• Pierre-Michel Le Conte, 79, French conductor.^[73]
• Joaquín Gutiérrez Mangel, 82, Costa Rican writer, heart failure.^[74]
• Antonio Russo, 40, Italian journalist, murdered.
• Lu Xiaopeng, 80, Chinese aircraft designer.^[75]

17

• G. Arthur Cooper, 98, American paleobiologist.
• Harry Cooper, 96, English-American PGA Tour golfer.^[76]
• Joachim Nielsen, 36, Norwegian rock musician and poet, drug overdose.
• Leo Nomellini, 76, Italian-American football player (San Francisco 49ers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, stroke.^[77]
• Ivan Owen, 73, British voice actor, cancer.^[78]
• Walter Shenson, 81, American film producer, director and writer.^[79]

18

• Bruce Biggs, 79, New Zealand linguist.
• Inga Gill, 75, Swedish film actress, thrombosis.
• Julie London, 74, American singer and actress, cardiac arrest, stroke.^[80]
• Sidney Salkow, 89, American screenwriter and film/television director.^[81]
• Gwen Verdon, 75, American actress, heart attack.^[82]

19

• Don Black, 72, Rhodesian tennis player, complications from bowel cancer surgery.
• Mahir Domi, 85, Albanian linguist and academic.
• Hortense Ellis, 59, Jamaican reggae musician, infectious disease.
• Kay Fanning, 73, American journalist and publisher.^[83]
• Shirley Gorelick, 76, American artist.^[84]
• Kati Horna, 88, Hungarian-Mexican photojournalist and photographer.
• Antonio Maspes, 68, Italian sprinter cyclist and Olympic medalist.^[85]
• Charles Perkins, 64, Australian Aboriginal activist, and soccer player, renal failure.^[86]
• Leopoldo Savona, 87, Italian actor, director, choreographer, and screenwriter.
• Karl Stein, 87, German mathematician.

20

• Johannes Abraham Dimara, 84, Indonesian revolutionary and National Hero.
• Elisa Galvé, 78, Argentine actress.^[87]
• Jenny Kastein, 87, Dutch competition swimmer and Olympian.^[88]
• Kalfie Martin, 90, South African military commander.
• Boris Seidenberg, 71, Soviet actor.^[89]

21

• Frankie Crocker, 62, American disc jockey, pancreatic cancer.^[90]
• Alan Rowe, 73, New Zealand-born British actor.
• Dirk Jan Struik, 106, Dutch-American mathematician and historian of mathematics.^[91]
• Ralph A. Vaughn, 93, American academic, architect and film set designer.^[92]

22

• Anthony Chinn, 70, Guyanese actor based in England.^[93]
• Fred Pratt Green, 97, British Methodist minister and hymn writer.^[94]
• Jean-Luc Mandaba, 57, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, heart attack.
• Princess Xenia Andreevna Romanovsky, 81, Russian noblewoman.
• Dick Spiers, 62, English football player.
• Hank Wyse, 82, American baseball player.^[95]

23

• Benny Culp, 86, American baseball player.^[96]
• Hans Ertl, 92, German mountaineer and Nazi propagandist.^[97]
• Doug Millward, 69, English football player.^[98]
• Martin Rich, 95, German conductor.^[99]
• Nils Täpp, 82, Swedish cross-country skier and Olympic champion.^[100]
• Yokozuna, 34, American professional wrestler, pulmonary edema.^[101]

24

• Terry Haskins, 45, American Republican politician, melanoma.^[102]
• Sitaram Kesri, 80, Indian politician and parliamentarian.
• Fereydoon Moshiri, 74, Iranian poet, leukemia.
• Silvio Noto, 73, Italian TV and radio presenter, and actor.
• Miriam Salpeter, 71, Latvian-American neuroscientist.^[103]
• Daniel E. Sheehan, 83, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Omaha.^[104]
• Little Mack Simmons, 67, American blues musician, colon cancer.

25

• Kamran Baghirov, 67, Soviet politician, First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party.
• Don Frank Brooks, 53, American blues musician, leukemia.
• Alberto Demiddi, 56, Argentine rower and Olympic medalist.^[105]
• Mochitsura Hashimoto, 91, Japanese submarine commander during World War II.
• Wood B. Kyle, 85, United States Marine Corps Major General.
• Jeanne Lee, 61, American jazz singer, poet and composer, cancer.^[106]
• Brian McConnell, Baron McConnell, 77, Northern Irish Unionist politician.
• John Sinclair Morrison, 87, English classicist.
• Nejat Saydam, 71, Turkish film director, screenwriter and actor from Istanbul.^[107]
• Robert E. Waldron, 80, American politician.^[108]

26

• Jesús Puente Alzaga, 69, Spanish actor, heart attack.
• Muriel Evans, 90, American actress, colorectal cancer.^[109]
• Manmath Nath Gupta, 92, Indian Marxist revolutionary writer and author.
• Laila Kinnunen, 60, Finnish singer.
• Donald F. Lach, 83, American historian and author.^[110]
• Mike Rawson, 66, English track and field athlete and Olympian.^[111]
• Gardner Soule, 86, American writer.

27

• Lída Baarová, 86, Czech-Austrian actress and mistress of the Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels, Parkinson's disease.^[112]
• Walter Berry, 71, Austrian bass-baritone.^[113]
• Winston Grennan, 56, Jamaican drummer, cancer.^[114]
• Bill O'Neill, 90, American gridiron football player.^[115]
• Larry Rhine, 90, American producer and screenwriter.
• Stanislav Sventek, 69, Czech ice hockey player and coach.^[116]
• Bill Wainwright, 91, British communist activist.
• Clifford Dwight Waldo, 87, American political scientist.^[117]
• Bob Weighill, 80, English rugby player.

28

• Andújar Cedeño, 31, Dominican baseball player, car accident.^[118]
• Josef Felder, 100, German politician.
• Dorothy Hood, 81, American modernist painter, breast cancer.
• Aare Laanemets, 46, Estonian actor, stroke.^[119]
• Anthony Lee, 39, American actor and playwright, shot by police officer.
• Michael Murphy, 81, Irish politician.
• Djaelani Naro, 71, Indonesian politician.
• Fred C. Norton, 72, American judge and politician.
• Howard Patterson, 73, American Olympic swimmer.^[120]
• Edith Peters, 74, American singer and actress.
• Irving Phillips, 95, American cartoonist, illustrator, playwright, and author.^[121]
• Georges Poujouly, 60, French actor, cancer.^[122]
• Robert Sommers, 89, Canadian politician.
• Décio Randazzo Teixeira, 58, Brazilian football player.
• Mapalagama Wipulasara Maha Thera, 75, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk.
• Kemp Tolley, 92, U.S. Navy officer and author, stroke.^[123]

29

• Charles F. Avila, 94, American electrical engineer.
• Jacqueline Brumaire, 78, French operatic soprano.^[124]
• Elisabeth Epp, 90, German actress.^[125]
• Carlos Guastavino, 88, Argentine composer.
• Rolf Hädrich, 69, German film director and screenwriter.^[126]

30

• Steve Allen, 78, American comedian, TV host (The Tonight Show, The Steve Allen Show) and author, traffic accident.^[127]
• Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios, 73, Mexican politician.
• Elizabeth Bradley, 78, English actress (Coronation Street).
• María Elena Galiano, 72, Argentine arachnologist.
• Henri Pichette, 76, French writer and poet.^[128]
• Louis Stuyt, 86, Dutch politician and physician.^[129]

31

• Bill Carse, 86, Canadian ice hockey player.^[130]
• Tommy English, 40, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary and politician, shot.
• Thomas Gifford, 63, American author, cholangiocarcinoma.
• Ring Lardner Jr., 85, American journalist and screenwriter, cancer.^[131]
• Robert C. Murphy, 74, American lawyer and jurist, neuromuscular disease.
• Samuel Pierce, 78, American politician.^[132]
• Kaj Aage Gunnar Strand, 93, Danish astronomer.^[133]
• Mike Turnesa, 93, American golfer and one of seven golfing brothers.^[134]
• Kazuki Watanabe, 19, Japanese musician, sedative overdose.