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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

1

• Cláudio Christovam de Pinho, 77, Nicknamed “Manager”.
• 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

• Laurie Calvin Battle, 87, American politician. ^[6]
• 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. ^[7]
• Bobbi Martin, 60, American country and pop music singer, songwriter, and guitarist, cancer. ^[8]
• Billy Munn, 88, British jazz pianist. ^[9]
• Harry Newman, 90, American football player. ^[10]
• Sundar Popo, 56, Trinidadian and Tobagonian musician.
• Christina Marie Riggs, 28, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. ^[11]
• Teri Thornton, 65, American jazz singer, bladder cancer. ^[12]
• Norman Wainwright, 85, English competition swimmer and Olympian. ^[13]

3

• Lewis Allen, 94, British film and television director. ^[14]
• Richard Friederich Arens, 81, American mathematician. ^[15]
• Obie Baizley, 82, Politician in Manitoba, Canada.
• Ed Chapman, 94, American baseball player. ^[16]
• William Keys, 77, Australian Army officer.
• Mamuka Kikaleishvili, 39, Georgian actor and film director.
• Bryan Lobb, 69, English cricket player. ^[17]
• Yoshinao Nakada, 76, Japanese composer, colorectal cancer. ^[18]
• John Joseph O'Connor, 80, American Roman Catholic prelate, brain cancer. ^[19]
• 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

• Sir Derick Ashe, 81, British diplomat.
• Hendrik Casimir, 90, Dutch physicist known for the Casimir effect. ^[20]
• 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. ^[21]
• Diana Ross, 89, English children's author. ^[22]
• Sugi Sito, 73, Mexican wrestler known as El Orgullo de Oriente.

5

• Edward Ashley-Cooper, 93, Australian actor, congestive heart failure. ^[23]
• Gino Bartali, 85, Italian racing cyclist. ^[24]
• Jan Firbas, 79, Czech linguist.
• Don Kindt, 74, American football player. ^[25]
• Rolf Magener, 89, German escapee from India during World War II. ^[26]
• Bill Musselman, 59, American basketball coach, stroke. ^[27]

6

• Benoy Choudhury, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
• Eleazar Jiménez, 71, Cuban chess master.
• Gordon McClymont, 79, Australian agricultural scientist and ecologist. ^[28]
• Lee Moore, 61, Saint Kitts and Nevis politician.
• Roger von Norman, 91, Hungarian-born German film editor and director. ^[29]
• John Clive Ward, 75, British-Australian physicist, respiratory illness.
• Sir Peter William Youens, 84, British diplomat and colonial administrator, pneumonia. ^[30]

7

• Dov Bar-Nir, 88, Belgium-Israeli politician.
• Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 90, American actor and the son of Douglas Fairbanks, heart attack. ^[31]
• Hideo Hamamura, 71, Japanese marathon runner and Olympian. ^[32]
• Ferrel Harris, 59, American NASCAR racecar driver. ^[33]
• Henry Laskau, 83, American Olympic racewalker. ^[34]
• José Luis López de Lacalle, Spanish journalist and trade unionist, killed by the ETA.
• Homer Thompson, 93, Canadian classical archaeologist. ^[35]
• Timmy Payungka Tjapangati, 58, Aboriginal Australian artist.
• Masaru Shintani, 72, Japanese-Canadian master of karate, heart attack.

8

• Pita Amor, 81, Mexican poet. ^[36]
• Stanley Boxer, 73, American abstract artist. ^[37]
• 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. ^[38]

9

• György Csordás, 71, Freestyle swimmer from Hungary. ^[39]
• Arthur Davis, 94, American animator ( Looney Tunes , The Jetsons , Challenge of the GoBots ).
• Chris Evans, 53, Canadian ice hockey player. ^[40]
• William Fairchild, 82, English author, playwright, director and screenwriter. ^[41]
• Todor Nikolov, 54, Bulgarian football player. ^[42]
• 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

• Raymond Eddé, 87, Lebanese statesman. ^[43]
• Martin Farndale, 71, British army general. ^[44]
• Carden Gillenwater, 82, American baseball player. ^[45]
• Margaret Harris, 95, British costume designer. ^[46]
• Kiyoshi Kuromiya, 57, Japanese-American author and civil rights activist, cancer. ^[47]
• Virgil W. Raines, 89, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer.
• Kaneto Shiozawa, 46, Japanese voice actor, cerebral contusion. ^[48]
• Dick Sprang, 84, American comic book artist ( Batman ).
• Craig Stevens, 81, American actor, cancer. ^[49]

11

• Verna Aardema, 88, American writer. ^[50]
• David Bretherton, 76, American film editor ( Cabaret , The Diary of Anne Frank , Clue ), Oscar winner (1973), pneumonia. ^[51]
• Dale Jennings, 82, American LGBT rights activist, playwright and author. ^[52]
• 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. ^[53]

12

• Pete Abele, 83, American politician (U.S. Representative for Ohio's 10th congressional district, Alzheimer's disease. ^[54]
• Dave Crowe, 66, New Zealand cricket player. ^[55]
• Dong Kingman, 89, Chinese American artist and watercolor master. ^[56]
• Adam Petty, 19, American race car driver, car crash. ^[57]

13

• Paul Bartel, 61, American actor, writer and director, liver cancer, heart attack. ^[58]
• Olivier Greif, 50, French composer. ^[59]
• Stanley Korchinski, 71, Canadian politician.
• Boško Perošević, 43, Serbian politician. ^[60]
• Jumbo Tsuruta, 49, Japanese professional wrestler known as Jumbo Tsuruta, complications from liver transplant.
• Cesare Valletti, 77, Italian operatic tenor. ^[61]

14

• Urda Arneberg, 71, Norwegian actress.
• Johnny Cook, 51, American gospel singer formerly of the Happy Goodman Family. ^[62]
• Garrett Eckbo, 89, American landscape architect. ^[63]
• C. Eric Lincoln, 75, American scholar, diabetes. ^[64]
• Bob Maza, 60, Australian actor and playwright. ^[65]
• Keizō Obuchi, 62, Japanese politician and Prime Minister, stroke. ^[66]
• Rodman Rockefeller, 68, American businessman and philanthropist. ^[67]
• Karl Shapiro, 86, American poet. ^[68]

15

• 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. ^[69]
• George Marshall, 96, American conservationist and political activist. ^[70]
• Gösta Prüzelius, 77, Swedish actor, leukemia.
• Anthony Squire, 86, British screenwriter and director. ^[71]

16

• Bodacious, "World's Most Dangerous Bull" World Champion title holder.
• Frido Frey, 78, German basketball player. ^[72]
• 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. ^[73]
• Ronald Jay Williams, 72, Trinidadian businessman and politician.

17

• Donald Coggan, 90, English Anglican and 101st Archbishop of Canterbury. ^[74]
• Hümeyra Hanımsultan, 82, Ottoman princess. ^[75]
• Elsie Lessa, 86, Brazilian journalist and writer of American descent.
• William H. Poteat, 81, American philosopher, scholar and professor. ^[76]
• Sajjan, 79, Indian actor.
• Angelina Stepanova, 94, Soviet and Russian stage and film actress, teacher. ^[77]

18

• Domingos da Guia, 87, Brazilian football player and manager, stroke. ^[78]
• Bruno Fait, 75, Italian racewalker and Olympian. ^[79]
• Denis Gifford, 72, British writer, broadcaster and journalist.
• Doyle Lade, 79, American baseball player. ^[80]
• Yusuf Ludhianvi, 67/68, Pakistani Muslim scholar, author and muhaddith, murdered.

19

• Lee Brewster, 57, American drag queen and transvestite activist, cancer. ^[81]
• John Grigas, 79, American gridiron football player. ^[82]
• Evgeniy Vasilievich Khrunov, 66, Soviet cosmonaut, heart attack. ^[83]
• Larry Lamb, 70, British newspaper editor. ^[84]

20

• Adelaide Aglietta, 59, Italian politician. ^[85]
• Charles Antenen, 70, Swiss football player. ^[86]
• Edward Bernds, 94, American director. ^[87]
• Dick Brown, 74, Canadian football player.
• Loyd Jowers, 73, American restaurateur, heart attack. ^[88]
• David Pearce, 41, Welsh heavyweight boxing champion.
• Jean-Pierre Rampal, 78, French flautist, heart failure. ^[89]
• Malik Sealy, 30, American basketball player, traffic collision. ^[90]

21

• Jules Alfonse, 88, American gridiron football player. ^[91]
• Barbara Cartland, 98, English novelist. ^[92]
• Buzzy Drootin, 80, American jazz drummer. ^[93]
• Sir John Gielgud, 96, English actor ( Arthur , Becket , Julius Caesar ), Oscar winner (1982). ^[94]
• Dulcie Holland, 87, Australian composer and music educator. ^[95]
• Mark R. Hughes, 44, American entrepreneur and founder of Herbalife, accidental overdose. ^[96]
• Erich Mielke, 92, German communist official. ^[97]
• Zhao Puchu, 92, Chinese religious leader and calligrapher. ^[98]
• Mahmoud Zuabi, Syrian politician and Prime Minister, suicide by gunshot.

22

• Bahadoor, Indian actor.
• Krzysztof Boruń, 76, Polish physicist, journalist and science fiction writer.
• David Brookman, 83, Australian politician, traffic collision. ^[99]
• Eldridge Dickey, 54, American gridiron football player, stroke. ^[100]
• Davie Fulton, 84, Canadian politician and judge. ^[101]
• Gary Kerkorian, 70, American football player. ^[102]
• Bennie Lee Sinclair, 61, American poet, novelist, and short story writer, heart attack. ^[103]
• David Chadwick Smith, 68, Canadian economist. ^[104]
• José Rafael Molina Ureña, 79, President of the Dominican Republic.

23

• Eddy Blondeel, 94, Belgian commander of the SAS during WWII.
• Roger Garrett, 59, American actor.
• Jack Halliday, 71, American gridiron football player. ^[105]
• Mishari bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince as member of the House of Saud. ^[106]

24

• Kevin Lyons, 77, Australian politician.
• Kurt Schork, 53, American reporter and war correspondent, shot. ^[107]
• 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. ^[108]

25

• Ken Bousfield, 80, British golfer. ^[109]
• Nicholas Clay, 53, British actor ( Excalibur , Zulu Dawn , Evil Under the Sun ), liver cancer. ^[110]
• Elizabeth Durack, 84, Australian artist and writer. ^[111]
• Seymour S. Kety, 84, American neuroscientist. ^[112]
• Francis Lederer, 100, Austrian-American actor. ^[113]
• Jaya Pathirana, 79, Sri Lankan Supreme Court justice.

26

• Sandra Gwyn, 65, Canadian journalist and writer. ^[114]
• 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. ^[115]
• Samuel A. Taylor, 87, American playwright and screenwriter, heart failure. ^[116]
• Vernon Crompton Woodward, 83, Canadian fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II.
• Sō Yamamura, 90, Japanese actor and film director, heart attack. ^[117]

27

• Inga Abel, 53, German actress, cancer. ^[118]
• Prince Gonzalo de Bourbon, 62, Spanish aristocrat, leukemia. ^[119]
• Kazimierz Leski, 87, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, and (counter-)intelligence officer. ^[120]
• Murray MacLehose, 82, British diplomat, Governor of Hong Kong. ^[121]
• Maurice Richard, 78, Canadian hockey player (Montreal Canadiens), cardiovascular disease. ^[122]

28

• George Irving Bell, 73, American scientist and mountaineer. ^[123]
• Donald Davies, 75, Welsh computer scientist. ^[124]
• 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. ^[125]
• Francisco Vestil, 85, Filipino basketball player and Olympian. ^[126]
• Heleen Sancisi Weerdenburg, 56, Dutch historian. ^[127]

29

• Clement Isong, 80, Nigerian banker and politician.
• Robert T. Oliver, 90, American author and lecturer. ^[128]
• Aubrey Richards, 79, British actor.
• Anthony Spinelli, 73, American actor and producer. ^[129]
• Doreen Young Wickremasinghe, 93, British communist politician.

30

• Tex Beneke, 86, American bandleader and musician (Glenn Miller Orchestra). ^[130]
• Iko Carreira, 66, Angolan army general and politician. ^[131]
• Robert P. Casey, 68, American lawyer and politician, amyloidosis. ^[132]
• Doris Hare, 95, Welsh actress. ^[133]
• Daisuke Inoue, 58, Japanese singer and composer, suicide by hanging.
• Ram Vilas Sharma, 87, Indian academic, poet and writer. ^[134]
• Bill Thomas, 78, American costume designer.

31

• John Coolidge, 93, American businessman and son of President Calvin Coolidge. ^[135]
• Andrew Faulds, 77, British actor and Lpolitician. ^[136]
• Erich Kähler, 94, German mathematician. ^[137]
• Petar Mladenov, 63, Bulgarian communist diplomat and politician. ^[138]
• Nikolaos Oikonomides, 66, Greek byzantinist. ^[139]
• Rodolfo Pini, 73, Uruguayan football player. ^[140]
• Tito Puente, 77, American musician, songwriter ("Oye Como Va") and record producer, cardiac surgery. ^[141]
• Joe Puma, 72, American jazz guitarist. ^[142]
• Hank Ruszkowski, 74, American baseball player. ^[143]
• Walter Sparrow, 73, English actor ( Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves , Ever After , The Secret Garden ).
• Johnnie Taylor, 66, American singer, heart attack. ^[144]
• A. Jeyaratnam Wilson, 72, Sri Lankan Tamil academic, historian and author.

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