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.