1. October 2000
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2. References

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").^[2]
• Charlie Brewster, 83, American baseball player.^[3]
• Rosie Douglas, 58, Prime Minister of Dominica.^[4]
• Reginald Kray, British murderer.^[5]

2

• Amadou Karim Gaye, 86, Senegalese politician.
• Elek Schwartz, 91, Romanian football player and coach.
• Tom Troman, 86, English cricketer.
• Halbert Owen Woodward, American district judge.

3

• Peter Baker, 55, English cricketer.
• Benjamin Orr, 53, The Cars bassist and singer.
• John Worsley, 81, British artist.

4

• Alfred Lammer, 90, Austrian-born World War II Royal Air Force pilot.
• Chuck Oertel, 69, American baseball player.^[6]
• Michael Smith, 68, English-born Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• Yu Kuo-hwa, 86, Chinese politician, Premier (1984–1989).

5

• Johanna Döbereiner, 75, Brazilian agronomist.
• Ruth Ellis, 101, African-American woman.
• Cătălin Hîldan, 24, Romanian football player, cardiac arrest.
• Bankson T. Holcomb Jr., 92, brigadier general in the US Marine Corps.
• Stan Montgomery, 80, English footballer and cricketer.
• Keith Roberts, 65, English science fiction author.^[7]
• Cuco Sánchez, 79, Mexican singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor, kidney failure.
• Sidney R. Yates, 91, American politician (member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Illinois).^[8]

6

• William Bundy, 83, American attorney and intelligence expert (CIA).^[9]
• Richard Farnsworth, 80, American actor.
• George Huntston Williams, 86, American theologian.

7

• Tony Adamle, 76, American professional football player, cancer.^[10]
• Wilford S. Bailey, 79, American academic.^[11]
• Ed Beisser, 81, American basketball player.
• Walter Krupinski, 79, German Luftwaffe fighter ace in World War II.

8

• Mihai Pop, 92, Romanian ethnologist.
• Timothy P. Sheehan, 91, American politician.
• Jinzaburo Takagi, 62, Japanese chemist and anti-nuclear activist.

9

• Robert Frederick Bennett, 73, American lawyer and governor.
• David Dukes, 55, American character actor, heart attack.^[12]
• James V. Hartinger, 75, US Air Force general.
• Charles Hartshorne, 103, American philosopher.
• Patrick Anthony Porteous, 82, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross.
• Joseph T. Ryan, 86, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Fred Williams, 71, American football player, stroke.

10

• Ferenc Farkas, 94, Hungarian composer.
• Sirimavo Bandaranaike, 84, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.
• Bruce Palmer Jr., 87, American army general.
• Gene Palumbo, 54, American television producer and writer.

11

• Donald Dewar, 63, Scottish politician, cerebral haemorrhage.
• Brian Foley, 80, British Roman Catholic priest and hymnist.
• Hiroshi Inose, 73, Japanese electrical engineer, heart attack.
• Matija Ljubek, 46, Croatian sprint canoeist, shot.
• Rollee McGill, 68, American R&B singer and saxophonist.
• Sam O'Steen, 76, American film editor and director.
• Pietro Palazzini, 88, Italian Cardinal.
• Thomas Leonard Wells, 70, Canadian politician, cancer.

12

• Gordon Stulberg, 76, Canadian-born film executive and lawyer, complications related to diabetes.
• Melvin A. Cook, 89, American chemist.
• Justo Arosemena Lacayo, 70, Colombian sculptor.
• Mary K. Meany, 103, American politician and educator, pneumonia.

13

• Gus Hall, 90, labor leader and chairman of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).^[13]
• Jean Peters, 73, American actress.^[14]
• Tony Roper, 35, NASCAR driver.^[15]

14

• Adriana Benitez, 24, Colombian student leader, murdered by the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia.
• Art Coulter, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Dino Dibra, 25, Australian suspected murderer and victim, shot.
• Jim Eaglestone, 77, English cricketer.
• Tony Roper, 35, American stock car racing driver, racing accident.

15

• George Gray Bell, 80, Canadian soldier.
• Konrad Emil Bloch, 88, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• Vincent Canby, 76, American film and theatre critic (The New York Times).^[16]
• John Perceval, 77, Australian artist.

16

• Mel Carnahan, 66, American lawyer and politician (51st Governor of Missouri).^[17]
• Rick Jason, 77, American actor.
• Lu Xiaopeng, 80, Chinese aircraft designer, designed the Nanchang Q-5 and the Nanchang J-12.^[18]
• Joseph Scott, 78, American bobsledder.

17

• Harry Cooper, 96, English-American PGA Tour golfer.
• 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.
• Ivan Owen, 73, British voice actor, cancer.
• John Douglas Swales, 64, English cardiologist and expert on hypertension.

18

• Bruce Biggs, 79, New Zealand linguist.
• Julie London, 74, American actress.
• Gwen Verdon, 75, American actress.^[19]

19

• Don Black, 72, Rhodesian tennis player, complications from bowel cancer surgery.
• Mahir Domi, 85, Albanian linguist, professor, and academic.
• Hortense Ellis, 59, Jamaican reggae musician.
• Kay Fanning, 73, American journalist and publisher.
• Shirley Gorelick, 76, American artist.
• Kati Horna, 88, Hungarian-born Mexican photojournalist and photographer.
• Antonio Maspes, 68, Italian sprinter cyclist.
• Hans Moller, 95, German born American artist.
• Charles Perkins, 64, Australian Aboriginal activist, and soccer player, renal failure.

20

• Jenny Kastein, 87, Dutch breaststroke swimmer.
• Kalfie Martin, 90, South African military commander.
• Boris Seidenberg, 71, Soviet actor.

21

• Frankie Crocker, 62, American disc jockey, pancreatic cancer.
• Alan Rowe, 73, New Zealand-born British actor.
• Dirk Jan Struik, 106, Dutch born American (since 1934) mathematician, historian of mathematics and Marxian theoretician, died October 21, 2000, exactly three weeks after celebrating his 106th birthday.
• Ralph A. Vaughn, 93, African-American academic, architect and film set designer, died two years later, on October 21, 2000.

22

• Richard Harden, 83, Northern Irish politician.
• Fred Pratt Green, 97, British Methodist minister and hymn writer.
• Hank Wyse, 82, American baseball player.^[20]

23

• Benny Culp, 86, American baseball player.^[21]
• Martin Rich, 95, German conductor.
• Yokozuna, 34, American wrestler.

24

• Terry Haskins, 45, American Republican politician, melanoma.
• Sitaram Kesri, 80, Indian politician and parliamentarian.
• Fereydoon Moshiri, 74, Iranian poet.
• Little Mack Simmons, 67, American blues musician, colon cancer.

25

• Klaus Bargsten, 88, Nazi captain and sole survivor of sunken {{GS|U-521||2}}.
• Mochitsura Hashimoto, 91, Japanese submarine commander in the Imperial Japanese Navy during WW II.
• Wood B. Kyle, 85, Major General in the US Marine Corps.
• John Sinclair Morrison, 87, English classicist.

26

• Laila Kinnunen, 60, Finnish singer.
• Ruth Lessing, 75, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player.^[22]
• Muriel Evans, 90, American actress.

27

• Lída Baarová, 86, Czech-Austrian actress and mistress of the Nazi propaganda minister of Germany, Joseph Goebbels.^[23]
• Walter Berry, 71, Austrian bass-baritone.
• Eugene Lambert, 95, American sports coach.
• Bill Wainwright, 91, British communist activist.

28

• Andújar Cedeño, 31, Dominican baseball player.^[24]
• Josef Felder, 100, German politician.
• Carlos Guastavino, 88, Argentine composer.^[25]
• Howard Patterson, 73, American Olympic swimmer.^[26]

29

• Charles F. Avila, 94, American electrical engineer.
• Rolf Hädrich, 69, German film director and screenwriter.
• Ruth Lessing, 75, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player, cancer.

30

• Steve Allen, 78, American comedian, composer, TV host (The Tonight Show, The Steve Allen Show) and author, ruptured blood vessel after traffic accident .^[27]
• Elizabeth Bradley, 78, English actress (Maud Grimes in Coronation Street).
• Howard Odell, 89, American football player and coach.

31

• Thomas Gifford, 63, American author, cholangiocarcinoma.
• Ring Lardner Jr., 85, American journalist and screenwriter, cancer.
• Samuel Pierce, 78, American politician.
• Kaj Aage Gunnar Strand, 93, Danish astronomer.
• Kazuki Watanabe, 19, Japanese musician, sedative overdose.

References

• Apasionada (Jane Rutter album)
• Apasionada (Mexican telenovela)
• Apasionada (telenovela)
• Apasionado
• Apasionado (disambiguation)
• Apasionado Por Ti
• A Passage to India (play)
• A Passenger Disappeared
• A Passion for Art: Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse, and Dr. Barnes
• A Passion For Churches
• A Passport to Hell
• Apastamba
• A Past and Future Secret
• Apastovo Urban Settlement
• Apastovsky Municipal District
• Apas (waters)
• Apata (gastropod)
• Apataidae
• Apatania
• Apatania incerta
• Apataniidae
• Apatawaaing
• A Patch, a Modem, and a Zantac
• A Patch, a Modem, and a Zantac®
• A Patch of Fog