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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.
1
- Maxie Berger, 83, Canadian boxer.
- Hugh Hood, 72, Canadian novelist, essayist and university professor.[1]
- Ali Sardar Jafri, 86, Indian urdu writer.[2]
- Nanjil K. Manoharan, 71, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
- Steve McCrory, 36, American boxer.[3]
- Benedetto Pola, 85, Italian cyclist.[4]
- Joseph Robert Sealy, 93, English botanist.
- Galina Sergeyeva, 86, Soviet and Russian actress.
2
- William Rossa Cole, 80, American anthologist, columnist, and writer.[5]
- Shlomo Halberstam, 92, American rabbi.[6]
- Trevor Leggett, 85, British author and translator, stroke.[7]
- Jan Mertens, 84, Dutch politician.[8]
- Patricia Moyes, 77, British mystery writer.[9]
- Simon Stefani, 71, Albanian communist politician.
3
- Isolina Ferréro, 85, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic religious sister.
- Joann Lõssov, 78, Estonian basketball player.[10]
- Michael Meyer, 79, English translator and writer.[11]
- Geoffrey Page, 80, British flying ace during World War II.[12]
- Mirian Tsalkalamanidze, 73, Georgian flyweight freestyle wrestler and Olympic champion.[13]
4
- Jimmy Bowie, 75, Scottish football player.[14]
- John Joseph Graham, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate.[15]
- Fred W. Hooper, 102, American racehorse owner and breeder.[16]
- Julio Rodolfo Moctezuma, 73, Mexican lawyer.
- Michael Szwarc, 91, British and American polymer chemist.
- Halyna Zubchenko, 71, Ukrainian painter, muralist, and social activist.
5
- Lala Amarnath, 88, Indian cricketer.[17]
- Afrânio Coutinho, 89, Brazilian literary critic and essayist.[18]
- Tullio Crali, 89, Italian artist associated with Futurism.[19]
- Renée Devillers, 97, French stage and film actress.[20]
- Alec Guinness, 86, English actor (The Bridge on the River Kwai, Star Wars, Lawrence of Arabia), Oscar winner (1958), liver cancer.[21]
- Murray Krieger, 76, American literary critic and theorist.[22]
- Arturo Durazo Moreno, 76, Mexican Chief of police and drug trafficker.
- Dudley Randall, 86, American poet and poetry publisher.[23]
- Edgardo Sogno, 84, Italian diplomat, partisan and political figure.
- Otto Wiener, 89, Austrian baritone.[24]
6
- Raymond J. Broderick, 86, American jurist and politician, cancer.[25]
- Robin Day, 76, British political broadcaster, heart complications.[26]
- Marv Felderman, 84, American baseball player.[27]
- Max Phipps, 60, Australian actor, cancer.
- Raúl Sanguineti, 67, Argentine chess Grandmaster.
- Arthur Harold Stone, 83, British mathematician.
- Joan Trimble, 85, Irish composer and pianist.[28]
7
- Samuel Akpabot, 63, Nigerian music composer, ethnomusicologist and author.
- Georges Matheron, 69, French mathematician and geologist.[29]
- Mona-Lisa Pursiainen, 49, Finnish female sprinter, breast cancer.
- Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, 88, American philanthropist and mother of Donald Trump.[30]
8
- Jess Barker, 88, American actor, liver cirrhosis.[31]
- Luigi Bonos, 90, Italian comedian and actor.
- Walter Chappell, 75, American photographer and poet, lung cancer.[32]
- Ernie Hefferle, 85, American football player and coach.[33]
- Živorad Jevtić, 56, Serbian football player.[34]
- Jaap Marais, 77, Afrikaner nationalist thinker, author and politician.[35]
- Mario Migliardi, 81, Italian television and film score composer.
- S. Nijalingappa, 97, Indian politician.
- Anatoliy Romashin, 69, Soviet and Russian actor and director, accidental impalement.[36]
- Banja Tejan-Sie, 83, Sierra Leonean politician and Governor General.
- Harry D. Thiers, 81, American mycologist.
- John F. Warren, 91, American cinematographer.
9
- Josias Cunningham, 66, Northern Irish politician.[37]
- John Harsanyi, 80, Hungarian-American economist, Nobel Prize laureate, heart attack.[38]
- Louis Nucera, 72, French writer, traffic accident.[39]
- Fouad Serageddin, 88, Egyptian politician, Minister of Finance.
- Vitaliy Starukhin, 51, Ukrainian football player, pneumonia.[40]
- Herb Thomas, 77, American NASCAR driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, heart attack.[41]
- Lewis Wilson, 80, American actor (Batman).
10
- Robert Manuel Cook, 91, British classical scholar.
- Suzanne Danco, 89, Belgian soprano.[42]
- Joan Marsh, 87, American child actress in silent films.[43]
- Tibor Mezőfi, 74, Hungarian basketball player.[44]
- Gilbert Parkhouse, 74, Welsh cricket player.[45]
- Rita Trapanese, 49, Italian figure skater and Olympian, traffic collision.[46]
11
- Les Dye, 84, American gridiron football player.[47]
- Paidi Jairaj, 90, Indian film actor, director and producer.
- Talal Maddah, 60, Saudi musician and composer, heart attack.[48]
- Usha Mehta, 80, India Gandhian and freedom fighter.
- Jean Papineau-Couture, 83, Canadian composer.[49]
- Ric Roman, 83, American actor.
- Constantin Zureiq, Syrian Arab intellectual.
12
- Noboru Akiyama, 66, Japanese baseball player.[50]
- Eliyahu Ben-Elissar, 68, Israeli politician and diplomat.[51]
- Alberto Pedro Cabrera, 54, Argentine basketball player, leukemia.
- Jean Carzou, 93, French-Armenian artist, painter, and illustrator.[52]
- Dave Edwards, 59, American big band-style musician, cardiac arrest.
- Loretta Young, 87, American actress (The Farmer's Daughter, Come to the Stable, The Loretta Young Show), Oscar winner (1948), ovarian cancer.[53]
13
- Antony Duff, 80, British diplomat, Director-General of MI5 (1985-1988).[54]
- Terence Feely, 72, British screenwriter, playwright and author.[55]
- Nazia Hassan, 35, Pakistani pop singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist, lung cancer.[56]
- Bob Wente, 67, American racing driver.
14
- Walter Benton, 69, American jazz tenor saxophonist.[57]
- John Boland, 55, Irish politician, cancer.
- Alain Fournier, 56, French computer graphics researcher, lymphoma.
- Ken Heintzelman, 84, American baseball player.[58]
- Cuan McCarthy, 71, South African cricket player.[59]
- John Milford, 70, American actor, skin cancer.[60]
- Alfred Rieck, 86, German rower and Olympic medalist.[61]
- Bernice Giduz Schubert, 86, American botanist & scholar.
- Hawa Singh, 62, Indian heavyweight boxer.
- Rostislav Vovkushevsky, 83, Soviet and Russian painter.
- Mary K. Wells, 79, American television writer and actress.[62]
15
- Ulla Barding-Poulsen, 88, Danish fencer and Olympian.[63]
- Ena Begović, 40, Croatian actress, traffic accident.
- Helmut Coing, 88, German legal historian.[64]
- Eduardo Luján Manera, 55, Argentine football player and manager.
- Robert Swink, 82, American film editor (Roman Holiday, Funny Girl, The Boys from Brazil), heart attack.
- Edward Craven Walker, 82, British inventor who invented the lava lamp, cancer.[65]
- Lancelot Ware, 85, British founder of Mensa.[66]
16
- Alan Caddy, 60, English guitarist (The Tornados).[67]
- Grace Halsell, 77, American journalist and writer, multiple myeloma.[68]
- Chanoch Dov Padwa, 91, British rabbi.
- S. C. C. Anthony Pillai, 86, Indian trade unionist and politician, cardiac arrest.
- Renu Saluja, 48, Indian film editor, stomach cancer.
- Thomas Ypsilantis, 72, Greek-American, heart attack.[69]
17
- Erich Borchmeyer, 95, German athlete and Olympian medalist.[70]
- Lawrence H. Cooke, 85, American lawyer and politician.[71]
- Franco Donatoni, 73, Italian composer.[72]
- Robert R. Gilruth, 86, American aerospace engineer.[73]
- Stephan Körner, 86, Czech-born British philosopher, suicide.[74]
- Evert Nyberg, 75, Swedish long-distance runner and Olympian.[75]
- Emil Petaja, 85, American science fiction and fantasy writer, heart failure.[76]
- Leslie Rees, 94, Australian children's author and writer.
- Hans-Dietrich von Tiesenhausen, 87, Baltic German Kapitänleutnant during World War II.
- Jack Walker, 71, British industrialist and businessman, cancer.
18
- César Calvo, 60, Peruvian poet, journalist and author.[77]
- Lakshyadhar Choudhury, 85, Indian actor, playwright, film-director and politician.
- Maurice Evans, 63, English football player and manager, heart attack.
- Bernard Krainis, 75, American musician.[78]
- Ola Rotimi, 62, Nigerian playwright and theatre director.[79]
- Morton Shulman, 75, Canadian politician, businessman and physician, Parkinson's disease.[80]
19
- D. G. Champernowne, 88, English economist and mathematician.
- David Norton Edelstein, 90, American judge.[81]
- Luce Fabbri, 92, Italian anarchist writer, publisher and daughter of Luigi Fabbri.[82]
- Harry Oppenheimer, 91, South African businessman, industrialist and philanthropist, cancer.[83]
- Antonio Pugliese, 59, Italian-Canadian professional wrestler known as Tony Parisi, aneurysm.[84]
- Lee Sholem, 87, American television and film director.[85]
20
- Jackie Coulter, 46, Northern Irish loyalist, shot.
- Nancy Evans, 85, British mezzo-soprano opera singer.[86]
- Giovanni Gaddoni, 85, Italian football player.[87]
- Mitch Halpern, 33, American boxing referee, suicide by gunshot.[88]
- Bill Simon, 80, American songwriter, musician and music critic.
- Henri Theil, 75, Dutch econometrician.[89]
21
- Sir Campbell Adamson, 78, British industrialist.[90]
- Chuck Britz, 72, American recording engineer, brain cancer.
- Tom Day, 65, American football player.[91]
- John Hayes, 70, American film director, cancer.[92]
- Russ Kerns, 79, American baseball player.[93]
- Daniel Lisulo, 69, Zambian politician.
- Giuseppe Medici, 92, Italian politician.[94]
- Doris Petrie, 82, Canadian film and television actress.
- Gustav Scholz, 70, German boxer.[95]
- Andrzej Zawada, 72, Polish mountaineer.
22
- Bill Bradford, 78, American baseball player.[96]
- Abulfaz Elchibey, 62, Azerbaijani political figure and a Soviet dissident, prostate cancer.[97]
- Charles Kalani, 70, American actor and professional wrestler, heart failure.[98]
- Arun Mitra, 90, Indian poet of Bengali.
- Annie Bell Robinson Devine, 88, American activist in the civil rights movement.[99]
23
- Betty Blue, 69, American model and actress.
- Anthony Corallo, 87, American mobster and boss of the Lucchese crime family.[100]
- Patricia Jones, 69, Canadian athlete and Olympic medalist.[101]
- John Anthony Kaiser, 67, American priest, assassinated.
- Rangarajan Kumaramangalam, 48, Indian politician, acute myeloid leukaemia, cancer.
- Milivoje Tomić, 80, Serbian actor.
- Marjorie Woodworth, 81, American actress.
- Dindo Yogo, 44, Congolese singer and musician.[102]
24
- Andy Hug, 35, Swiss kickboxer, leukemia.[103]
- Bob McPhail, 94, Scottish footballer.[104]
- Tatiana Riabouchinska, 83, Russian American prima ballerina.[105]
- Kalyanji Virji Shah, 72, Indian film score composer.
25
- Carl Barks, 99, American cartoonist (Scrooge McDuck), leukemia.[106]
- Leo Barnhorst, 76, American basketball player, lymphoma.
- Bernard Becaas, 45, French cyclist, traffic collision.[107]
- Frederick C. Bock, 82, American bomber during World War II, cancer.[108]
- Cliff Bruner, 85, American musician and bandleader, cancer.[109]
- John Florea, 84, American television director and a photographer.[110]
- Michel Haguenauer, 84, French table tennis player.[111]
- Jack Nitzsche, 63, American musician and film composer (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Exorcist, An Officer and a Gentleman), Oscar winner (1983), infectious disease.[112]
- Valeriy Priyomykhov, 56, Soviet and Russian actor, film director, and author, brain cancer.
- Ginetta Sagan, 75, Italian-American human rights activist.[113]
- Ivan Stambolić, 63, Serbian politician, homicide.[114]
- Peter Swerling, 71, American scientist and radar pioneer.
- Ramón Torres, 68, American professional wrestler.
26
- Bunny Austin, 94, English tennis player.[115]
- Odette Joyeux, 85, French actress, playwright and novelist, stroke.[116]
- Balan K. Nair, 67, Indian actor, bone cancer.
- Lynden Pindling, 70, Bahamian politician and Prime Minister, prostate cancer.[117]
- Ed Rakow, 65, American baseball player.[118]
- Allen Woody, 44, American bass guitarist (the Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule), heroin overdose.[119]
- Wojciech Żukrowski, 84, Polish poet, writer, and literary critic.[120]
27
- Gilbert de Botton, 65, Israeli financial pioneer.[121]
- Denny Chronopoulos, 32, Canadian football player, heart attack.
- Deister, 29, German show jumping horse and European Champion.
- Joseph Lloyd Hogan, 84, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Bob Mahoney, 72, American baseball player.[122]
28
- Knut Holmqvist, 82, Swedish sport shooter and Olympic silver medalist.[123]
- Khaya Majola, 47, South African cricket player, colon cancer.[124]
- Léa Roback, 96, Canadian trade union organizer, social activist, and feminist, accident.
- Mickey Sullivan, 84, American football player and coach.[125]
- Liao Zhigao, 87, Chinese politician.
29
- Fern Bell, 87, American baseball player.[126]
- Shelagh Fraser, 79, British actress (best known for playing Aunt Beru in Star Wars).[127]
- Mohamed Hamri, 68, Moroccan painter and writer.
- Rose Hobart, 94, American actress and Screen Actors Guild official.[128]
- Per Olof Håkansson, 59, American politician.
- Willie Maddren, 49, English football player and manager, ALS.[129]
- Conrad Marca-Relli, 87, American artist.[130]
- Marko Todorović, 71, Serbian character actor.
30
- David R. Altman, 85, American advertising executive, lymphoma.[131]
- David Haskell, 52, American actor and singer, brain cancer.[132]
- Joseph H. Lewis, 93, American B-movie film director.[133]
- Hideo Sasaki, 80, American landscape architect.[134]
- Gürdal Tosun, 33, Turkish actor (Bir Demet Tiyatro), kidney failure.[135]
31
- Britta Brunius, 88, Swedish film actress.
- Joseph Lennox Federal, 90, American Roman Catholic prelate.[136]
- Lucille Fletcher, 88, American screenwriter, stroke.[137]
- Joan Hartigan, 88, Australian tennis player.[138]
- Les Johnson, 84, Australian public servant and diplomat.
- Saunders King, 91, American guitarist and singer.[139]
- Patricia Owens, 75, Canadian-born American actress.[140]
- Yisha'ayahu Schwager, 54, Israeli footballer, heart attack.
- Mahavir Shah, 40, Indian actor, accident.
- John Alexander Simpson, 83, American physicist and science educator, pneumonia.[141]
- Francis Skeat, 91, English glass painter.
- Euan Uglow, 68, British painter, cancer.[142]
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