Deaths in April 2000
# Deaths in April 2000

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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.
