Deaths in July 2000
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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 2000
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- Burt Douglas, 69, American film, stage and television actor.
- Raymond Robert Forster, 78, New Zealand arachnologist and museum director.
- John Albert Axel Gibson, 83, British flying ace during World War II.{{cite news|url=http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C121340|title=John Albert Axel Gibson|work=Auckland War Memorial Museum|access-date=2018-12-27}}
- Steve Hokuf, 89, American football player and coach, stroke.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Steve Hokuf Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Steve+Hokuf |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=22 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan, 94, fourth wife of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13193473n |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=22 April 2023 |language=French |date=}}
- Cub Koda, 51, American rock and roll musician and record compiler, kidney failure.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Cub Koda |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb140327013 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=22 April 2023 |language=French |date=}}
- Ganju Lama, 75, Sikkimese Gurkha and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
- Walter Matthau, 79, American actor (The Odd Couple, The Fortune Cookie, The Sunshine Boys), Oscar winner (1967), heart attack.{{cite news |author1=Mel Gussow |author-link1=Mel Gussow |title=Walter Matthau, 79, Rumpled Star and Comic Icon, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/02/nyregion/walter-matthau-79-rumpled-star-and-comic-icon-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=27 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=2 July 2000 |page=1 26}}
- Pierre Petit, 78, French composer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=matchID - Pierre Petit |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/u7EKHmRGGL5G |website=Fichier des décès |publisher= |access-date=22 April 2023 |language=fr |date=}}
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- Mina Aoe, 59, Japanese female enka singer, pancreatic cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Mina Aoe |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16713908c |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=22 April 2023 |language=French |date=}}
- Joey Dunlop, 48, Northern Irish motorcycle racer, traffic collision.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jul/04/guardianobituaries.nigelfountain|last=Fountain|first=Nigel|title=Joey Dunlop|work=The Guardian|date=2000-07-03|access-date=2018-12-27}}
- Constance Howard, 89, English textile artist and embroiderer.
- Paul McLaughlin, 80, Canadian sailor and Olympian.{{cite web |title=Olympedia - Paul McLaughlin |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/62967 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=22 April 2023}}
- Karl Sweetan, 57, American gridiron football player, complications following surgery.{{cite news |author1=Richard Goldstein |author-link1=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) |title=Karl Sweetan, 57, Quarterback Accused in Playbook Theft |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/11/sports/karl-sweetan-57-quarterback-accused-in-playbook-theft.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=4 March 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=11 July 2000 |page=B 7}}
- Georgi Tringov, 63, Bulgarian chess grandmaster.
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- Walter Cassel, 90, American operatic baritone and actor.{{cite news |author1=Anthony Tommasini |author-link1=Anthony Tommasini |title=Walter Cassel, 90, Commanding Met Baritone |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/08/arts/walter-cassel-90-commanding-met-baritone.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=5 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=8 July 2000 |page=A 13}}
- Nancy Cato, 83, Australian writer and poet.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Nancy Cato - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w67s80wm |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=22 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- James Grogan, 68, American figure skater and Olympian, multiple organ failure.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – James Grogan |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/86240 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=22 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- André Guinier, 88, French physicist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=André Guinier - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w68k7d0s |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=22 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Michael Hamilton, 81, British politician.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jul/12/guardianobituaries|last=Roth|first=Andrew|title=Sir Michael Hamilton: Promising Tory MP whose career floundered in a pit of China clay|work=The Guardian|date=2000-07-11|access-date=2018-12-27}}
- Paul G. Hatfield, 72, American attorney and politician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Paul G. Hatfield - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6wd885m |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=22 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- John Hejduk, 70, Czech-American architect, artist and educator.{{cite news |author1=Herbert Muschamp |author-link1=Herbert Muschamp |title=John Hejduk, an Architect And Educator, Dies at 71 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/06/arts/john-hejduk-an-architect-and-educator-dies-at-71.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=5 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=6 July 2000 |page=A 22}}
- Leonard Hilton, 52, American long-distance runner.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Leonard Hilton |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78557 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=22 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- János Kamara, 73, Hungarian communist politician.
- Enric Miralles, 45, Spanish architect, brain tumor, brain cancer.{{cite news |author1=Sarah Lyall |author-link1=Sarah Lyall |title=Enric Miralles, 45, Who Designed Scottish Parliament's New Home |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/07/arts/enric-miralles-45-who-designed-scottish-parliament-s-new-home.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=5 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=7 July 2000 |page=C 17}}
- Harold Nicholas, 79, American dancer (Nicholas Brothers), heart attack.{{cite news |author1=Jennifer Dunning |author-link1=Jennifer Dunning |title=Harold Nicholas, Dazzling Hoofer, Is Dead at 79 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/04/arts/harold-nicholas-dazzling-hoofer-is-dead-at-79.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=4 July 2000 |page=B 7}}
- Fiorentino Sullo, 79, Italian politician.{{cite encyclopedia|author=Anna Lucia Denitto |title=Sullo, Fiorentino|volume=94 |language=it|year=2019 | url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/fiorentino-sullo_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/|encyclopedia=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani}}
- Kemal Sunal, 55, Turkish actor, heart attack.{{cite news |author1=Stephen Kinzer |author-link1=Stephen Kinzer |title=Kemal Sunal, 55, Popular Turkish Comic Star |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/05/arts/kemal-sunal-55-popular-turkish-comic-star.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=5 July 2000 |page=B 11}}
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- Donald Blessing, 94, American rower and Olympic champion.{{cite web |title=Olympedia - Don Blessing |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/40558 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=22 April 2023}}
- Jack T. Bradley, 82, US Army Air Force fighter ace during World War II.{{cite news |url=http://www.americanairmuseum.com/person/240663 |title=Jack Tarleton Bradley |work=American Air Museum in Britain |publisher=Imperial War Museums |date=2017-10-22 |access-date=2019-02-26 }}
- Allan Fakir, 68, Pakistani folk singer.
- Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, 81, Polish writer and political dissident.{{cite news |author1=Michael T. Kaufman |author-link1=Michael T. Kaufman |title=Gustaw Herling, Polish Exile Who Wrote of Life and Death in the Gulag, Is Dead at 81 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/06/books/gustaw-herling-polish-exile-who-wrote-life-death-gulag-dead-81.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=6 July 2000 |page=A 23}}
- Yuri Klinskikh, 35, Russian singer, songwriter and arranger, heart failure.
- Marina Kroschina, 47, Ukrainian tennis player, suicide.
- Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme, 85, British aristocrat.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jul/11/guardianobituaries2|title=Lord Leverhulme: Soap fortune heir devoted to horseracing and animal health|work=The Guardian|date=2000-07-10|access-date=2018-12-27}}
- Vladimír Ráž, 77, Czechoslovak film actor.
- Shōji Ueda, 87, Japanese photographer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Shōji Ueda |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12660907m |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=22 April 2023 |language=French |date=}}
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- Syed Abdus Sobhan, 67, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician.{{cite news|title=ভাষাসৈনিক সৈয়দ আব্দুস সোবহানের মৃত্যুবার্ষিকীতে গভীর শ্রদ্ধা|language=bn|date=4 July 2019|work=Banglar Chithi}}
- Blanca Álvarez Mantilla, 68, Spanish journalist.
- Mary Nicol Neill Armour, 98, Scottish painter.{{cite book|author=Frances Spalding|author-link=Frances Spalding|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1990|title=20th Century Painters and Sculptors|isbn=1-85149-106-6}}
- Franta Belsky, 79, Czech sculptor, prostate cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Franta Belsky - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6k108q5 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=22 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Giovanni Bettinelli, 65, Italian racing cyclist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Giovanni Bettinelli |url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/giovanni-bettinelli |website=procyclingstats.com |publisher= |access-date=22 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Edgar Cardoso, 87, Portuguese civil engineer and university professor.
- Mehrangiz Manoochehrian, 94, Iranian lawyer, musician and feminist.
- Peter Bullfrog Moore, 68, Australian rugby league administrator, esophageal cancer.{{cite news|url=http://thebulldogs.com.au/sportal.php?page=person&id=29|title=Peter Moore|work=Canterbury Bulldogs, Canterbury-Bankstown, Australia|access-date=2018-12-27|archive-date=May 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517170334/https://thebulldogs.com.au/sportal.php?page=person&id=29|url-status=dead}}
- Dorino Serafini, 90, Italian motorcycle road racer and racing driver.
- Gloria Williams, 57, American singer, diabetes.{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/687935-Gloria-Jean-Williamson|title=Gloria Jean Williamson Discography at Discogs|website=www.discogs.com |access-date=2023-04-22}}
- Jos Wohlfart, 80, Luxembourgish politician.
- Lord Woodbine, 71, Trinidadian calypsonian and music promoter, house fire.
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- Alix André, 91, French novelist.{{cite web |title=matchID - Moteur de recherche des décès |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/CfCRCUcOkJOQ |website=deces.matchid.io |access-date=18 January 2022 |language=fr}}
- Roderic Coote, 85, British Anglican prelate.
- Eric Fraser, 69, English rugby player.
- Lazar Koliševski, 86, Yugoslav communist political leader.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Lazar Koliševski |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12979132h |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=22 April 2023 |language=French |date=}}
- Fred Lane, 24, American football player, shot.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/07/sports/pro-football-colts-lane-killed-by-wife-police-say.html|last=Freeman|first=Mike|title=PRO FOOTBALL; Colts' Lane Killed By Wife, Police Say|work=The New York Times|date=2000-07-07|access-date=2018-12-27}}
- Akira Miyazawa, 72, Japanese jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist.
- Ľudovít Rajter, 93, Slovakian-Hungarian composer and conductor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ľudovít Rajter |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13998227h |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=22 April 2023 |language=French |date=}}
- Władysław Szpilman, 88, Jewish-Polish pianist and Holocaust survivor portrayed in the 2002 film The Pianist.{{cite web |title='The Pianist' hero Władyslaw Szpilman died 18 years ago this week. |url=https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/the-pianist-hero-wladyslaw-szpilman-died-18-years-ago-this-week-the-first-news-talks-to-his-wife-halina-and-son-andrzej-1025 |website=thefirstnews.com |access-date=26 February 2019}}
- Marcella Comès Winslow, 95, American photographer and portrait painter.
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- Dame Stella Casey, 76, New Zealand social activist.{{cite news|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=145212|last=Clarke|first=Josie|title=Obituary: Stella Casey|work=The New Zealand Herald|date=2000-07-07|access-date=2018-12-27}}
- Kenny Irwin, 30, American stock car racing driver, racing accident.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/08/sports/auto-racing-kenny-irwin-is-killed-during-a-practice-run.html|last=The Associated Press|title=AUTO RACING; Kenny Irwin Is Killed During a Practice Run|work=The New York Times|date=2000-07-08|access-date=2018-12-27}}
- Ursula Kuczynski, 93, German communist activist and spy.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Frauendatenbank fembio.org |url=https://www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/frauendatenbank?fem_id=28613 |website=fembio.org |publisher= |access-date=22 April 2023 |language=de |date=}}
- James C. Quayle, 79, American newspaper publisher.{{cite news |author1=Edward Wong |author-link1=Edward Wong |title=James Quayle, 79, Chairman Of Indiana Newspaper Group |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/10/us/james-quayle-79-chairman-of-indiana-newspaper-group.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=27 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=10 July 2000 |page=B 7}}
- William J. Randall, 90, American politician.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |title=W. J. Randall of Missouri, 90; Lawmaker Led Immigration Inquiry |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/12/us/w-j-randall-of-missouri-90-lawmaker-led-immigration-inquiry.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=5 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=12 July 2000 |page=B 9}}
- Johann Urbanek, 89, Austrian football player.{{cite web |title=Johann Urbanek (Player) |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/22167/Hans_Urbanek.html |website=national-football-teams.com |access-date=22 April 2023}}
- Charles Alan Wright, 72, American constitutional lawyer.{{cite news |author1=John H. Cushman Jr. |title=Charles A. Wright, 72, Legal Consultant to Nixon, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/09/us/charles-a-wright-72-legal-consultant-to-nixon-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=27 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=9 July 2000 |page=1 31}}
- Dmitry Alexandrovich Zavadsky, 27, Belarusian journalist, homicide.
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- FM-2030, 69, Iranian-American author, transhumanist philosopher and futurist, pancreatic cancer.
- Pieter Goemans, 75, Dutch composer ("Aan de Amsterdamse grachten").{{cite news |title=Pieter Goemans (75) overleden |url=https://www.trouw.nl/nieuws/pieter-goemans-75-overleden~b68a9fb7/ |access-date=22 April 2023 |work=Trouw |url-access=subscription |date=10 July 2000 |language=nl}}
- Anne Mueller, 69, British civil servant and academic, Parkinson's disease.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/aug/01/guardianobituaries2|last=Bowe|first=Colette|title=Dame Anne Mueller: Brilliant mandarin at the centre of Whitehall power, she was the most successful woman civil servant of her generation|work=The Guardian|date=2000-07-31|access-date=2018-12-27}}
- Maurice Owen, 76, English footballer.
- Cliff Sear, 63, Welsh footballer, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Cliff Sear |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/cliff-sear/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=22 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
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- Doug Fisher, 58, English actor, heart attack.
- Henri Gault, 70, French food journalist, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Henri Gault |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11904352w |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=22 April 2023 |language=French |date=}}
- Herbert Hunger, 85, Austrian byzantinist.{{cite web |title=Herbert Hunger (1914 - 2000) |url=http://www.univie.ac.at/byzneo/NHunger.html |website=univie.ac.at |access-date=22 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051023161132/http://www.univie.ac.at/byzneo/NHunger.html |archive-date=23 October 2005}}
- Erkki Koiso, 66, Finnish ice hockey player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Erkki Koiso |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/88103 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=22 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- John Morgan, 41, British etiquette expert, fall.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/16/world/john-morgan-etiquette-maven-for-the-british-is-dead-at-41.html|last=Martin|first=Douglas|title=John Morgan, Etiquette Maven For the British, Is Dead at 41|work=The New York Times|date=2000-07-16|access-date=2018-12-27}}
- Joe Sostilio, 85, American racing driver.
- John Vitale, 34, American football player, cancer.
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- Gertrud Arndt, 96, German photographer and designer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Frauendatenbank fembio.org |url=https://www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/frauendatenbank?fem_id=1231 |website=fembio.org |publisher= |access-date=22 April 2023 |language=de |date=}}
- Denis O'Conor Don, 87, English noble and hereditary Chief of the Name O'Conor.
- Dick Glasser, 65, American singer, songwriter, and record producer, lung cancer.
- Vakkom Majeed, 90, Indian politician.
- Ursule Molinaro, French-American writer.{{cite news |author1= |title=Ursule Molinaro; Wrote Novels and Plays |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/16/nyregion/ursule-molinaro-wrote-novels-and-plays.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=27 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=16 July 2000 |page=1 31}}
- Bill Munson, 58, American gridiron football player, drowned.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bill Munson Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Bill+Munson |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=22 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Francisco Matos Paoli, 85, Puerto Rican poet, critic, and essayist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Francisco Matos Paoli - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6hd8c8s |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=22 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Justin Pierce, 25, British skateboarder and actor (Kids, Next Friday), suicide by hanging.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/13/arts/justin-pierce-25-starred-in-kids.html|last=The Associated Press|title=Justin Pierce, 25; Starred in 'Kids'|work=The New York Times|date=2000-07-13|access-date=2018-12-18}}
- Apostolos Vakalopoulos, 90, Greek historian.
- Norma Wilson, 90, New Zealand athlete and Olympian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Norma Wilson |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/74290 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=22 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
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- Begum Akbar Jehan Abdullah, 84, Indian politician.{{cite news |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000712/main1.htm |title=Vajpayee invites CM for talks, Farooq's mother laid to rest |date=11 July 2000 |work=The Tribune (Chandigarh)}}
- Bill Alexander, 90, British political activist.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jul/14/guardianobituaries1|last=Baxell|first=Richard|title=Bill Alexander: British commander in the international brigades whose concern for his fellow veterans outlived the Spanish civil war|work=The Guardian|date=2000-07-13|access-date=2018-12-27}}
- Jaroslav Filip, 51, Slovak musician, composer, dramaturge, and actor, heart attack.
- Pedro Mir, 87, Dominican poet and writer (Poet Laureate).{{cite news |author1=Eric Pace |author-link1=List of The New York Times employees |title=Pedro Mir, Whose Poems Spoke To Latin Workers, Dies at 87 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/14/arts/pedro-mir-whose-poems-spoke-to-latin-workers-dies-at-87.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=14 July 2000 |page=B 10}}
- Robert Runcie, 78, British Archbishop of Canterbury, cancer.{{cite news |author1=Warren Hoge |author-link1=Warren Hoge |title=Lord Runcie, Outspoken Anglican Leader, Is Dead at 78 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/13/world/lord-runcie-outspoken-anglican-leader-is-dead-at-78.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=27 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=13 July 2000 |page=A 27}}
- Barry Tabobondung, 39, Canadian ice hockey player, traffic collision.
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- Al Butler, 62, American basketball player, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Al Butler Stats - Basketball-Reference.com |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/butleal01.html |website=basketball-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=22 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Tom Galley, 84, English football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Tom Galley |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/tom-galley/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=22 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Charles Merritt, 91, Canadian war hero and recipient of the Victoria Cross.{{cite news |author1=Richard Goldstein |author-link1=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) |title=Charles C. I. Merritt, Canadian War Hero, Dies at 91 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/22/world/charles-c-i-merritt-canadian-war-hero-dies-at-91.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=22 July 2000 |page=A 13}}
- Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, 72, Yugoslav prince.{{cite news |author1=Douglas Martin |title=Yugoslavia's Prince Tomislav, Exiled Royalty, Is Dead at 72 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/15/world/yugoslavia-s-prince-tomislav-exiled-royalty-is-dead-at-72.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=27 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=15 July 2000 |page=C 16}}
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- Matt Anthony, 79, Canadian football player, cancer.{{cite news |last1=Cleary |first1=Martin |title=Matt Anthony: Obituary |url=https://www.cflapedia.com/Players/a/anthony_matt_obit.htm |access-date=19 November 2021 |work=Ottawa Citizen |date=15 July 2000 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140908233438/http://www.cflapedia.com/Players/a/anthony_matt_obit.htm|archive-date=8 September 2014 |page=F7}}
- A. D. Hope, 92, Australian poet.{{cite news|url=https://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/hope-a-d/|title=A. D. Hope (1907–2000)|work=Australian Poetry Library|access-date=2018-12-27}}
- Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso, 86, Argentine historian and researcher.
- Jan Karski, 86, Polish resistance fighter and academic.{{cite news |author1=Michael T. Kaufman |author-link1=Michael T. Kaufman |title=Jan Karski Dies at 86; Warned West About Holocaust |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/15/world/jan-karski-dies-at-86-warned-west-about-holocaust.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=27 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=15 July 2000 |page=C 15}}
- Mauno Rintanen, 75, Finnish football player and basketball player.{{cite web |title=Olympedia - Mauno Rintanen |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/1005825 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=22 April 2023}}
- Indira Sant, 86, Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India.
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- Bill Barth, 57, American blues guitarist, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bill Barth - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6wv46cf |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=22 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Finn-Egil Eckblad, 76, Norwegian mycologist.
- Alvin Hollingsworth, 72, American painter and comics artist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Alvin Hollingsworth - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6zk70qf |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=22 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Meredith MacRae, 56, American actress (My Three Sons, Petticoat Junction), complications of brain cancer.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/16/nyregion/meredith-macrae-tv-actress-56.html|last=The Associated Press|title=Meredith MacRae, TV Actress, 56|work=The New York Times|date=2000-07-16|access-date=2018-12-21}}
- Georges Maranda, 68, Canadian baseball player, cancer.{{cite news|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/marange01.shtml|title=Georges Maranda|work=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=2018-12-29}}
- Mark Oliphant, 98, Australian physicist, Governor of South Australia.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jul/18/guardianobituaries|last=Tucker|first=Anthony|title=Sir Mark Oliphant: Physicist who made wartime Britain and America wake up to the possibilities of atomic weapons, and then turned to peace|work=The Guardian|date=2000-07-17|access-date=2018-12-21}}
- Pepo, 88, Chilean cartoonist.
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- Emanuel Araújo, 57, Brazilian historian and editor.[http://www.oexplorador.com.br/emanuel-oliveira-de-araujo-professor-emerito-da-universidade-de-brasilia/ "Emanuel Oliveira de Araújo, Professor Emérito da Universidade de Brasília"], O Explorador, 6 March 2013, retrieved 3 September 2021 {{In lang|pt}}.
- Paul Bühlmann, 73, Swiss comedian, radio personality, and actor.
- Johnny Duncan, 67, American bluegrass musician.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jul/20/guardianobituaries3|last=Pilgrim|first=John|title=Johnny Duncan: Tennessee hillbilly singer who helped pave the way for Britain's rock revolution|work=The Guardian|date=2000-07-19|access-date=2018-12-27}}
- Juan Filloy, 105, Argentine writer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Juan Filloy |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13194996x |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=22 April 2023 |language=French |date=}}
- Jocko Henderson, 82, American radio disc jockey, and hip hop music pioneer, cancer.
- Leo Hoegh, 92, U.S. Army officer, lawyer, and politician.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |title=Leo Hoegh, 92, Civil Defense Chief for Eisenhower |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/24/nyregion/leo-hoegh-92-civil-defense-chief-for-eisenhower.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=5 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=24 July 2000 |page=B 8}}
- John O. Pastore, 93, American lawyer and politician, kidney failure.{{cite news |author1=Richard Goldstein |author-link1=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) |title=John Pastore, Prominent Figure in Rhode Island Politics for Three Decades, Dies at 93 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/17/us/john-pastore-prominent-figure-rhode-island-politics-for-three-decades-dies-93.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=5 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=17 July 2000 |page=B 8}}
- Louis Quilico, 75, Canadian opera singer.{{cite news |author1=Allan Kozinn |author-link1=Allan Kozinn |title=Louis Quilico, 75, Baritone Who Often Played Rigoletto |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/18/arts/louis-quilico-75-baritone-who-often-played-rigoletto.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=18 July 2000 |page=B 7}}
- Kalle Svensson, 74, Swedish footballer.{{cite web|title=Karl Svensson|publisher=Sports-Reference|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sv/karl-svensson-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161204013441/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sv/karl-svensson-1.html|archive-date=2016-12-04|access-date=2018-12-27}}
- Paul Young, 53, British singer and songwriter (Sad Café, Mike + The Mechanics), heart attack.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/20/arts/paul-young-53-of-mike-and-the-mechanics.html|title=Paul Young, 53, of Mike and the Mechanics|work=The New York Times|date=2000-07-20|access-date=2018-12-18}}
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- Franciszek Adamczak, 73, Polish–Swedish palaeontologist.{{Cite journal |last=Becker |first=Gerhard |year=2003 |title=In memoriam Franciszek Adamczak |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen |volume=229 |issue=3 |pages=340–348}}
- Fay Alexander, 75, American circus performer.{{cite web|url=https://www.fold3.com/record/76710635-fay-l-alexander|title=Fay L Alexander|publisher=Social Security Death Index|accessdate=January 19, 2020}}
- Igor Domnikov, 41, Russian journalist and editor, bludgeoned.
- György Petri, 56, Hungarian poet, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=György Petri |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16198822g |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=23 April 2023 |language=French |date=}}
- Barbosa Lima Sobrinho, 103, Brazilian lawyer, writer, journalist and politician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Barbosa Lima Sobrinho |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb121806765 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=23 April 2023 |language=French |date=}}
- Jean Vercoutter, 89, French Egyptologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jean Vercoutter |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11927915g |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=23 April 2023 |language=French |date=}}
- Bernie Whitebear, 62, American Indian activist, colon cancer.
- William Foote Whyte, 86, American sociologist.{{cite news |author1=Steven Greenhouse |author-link1=Steven Greenhouse |title=William Whyte, a Gang Sociologist, Dies at 86 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/20/us/william-whyte-a-gang-sociologist-dies-at-86.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=5 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=20 July 2000 |page=B 8}}
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- Pascale Audret, 64, French actress, traffic collision.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=matchID - Pascale Audret |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/Mikg7eAXpLHo |website=Fichier des décès |publisher= |access-date=23 April 2023 |language=fr |date=}}
- Thomas Quinn Curtiss, 85, American writer, and film and theater critic.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/19/news/thomas-quinn-curtiss-dies-iht-critic.html|last=International Herald Tribune|title=Thomas Quinn Curtiss Dies, IHT Critic|work=The New York Times|date=2000-07-19|access-date=2018-12-27}}
- Zhao Lirong, 72, Chinese singer and film actress, cancer.
- Aligi Sassu, 88, Italian painter and sculptor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Aligi Sassu - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6t45btf |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=23 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Jean Swain, 76, American singer.{{cite news |title=Paid Notice: Deaths SWAIN, JEAN ADAIR |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/23/classified/paid-notice-deaths-swain-jean-adair.html |access-date=23 April 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=July 23, 2000}}
- Berthe Villancher, 91, French gymnastics judge and official.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=matchID - Berthe Villancher |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/OClPYdK7NMmx |website=Fichier des décès |publisher= |access-date=23 April 2023 |language=fr |date=}}
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- Abdul Malek, 64, Bangladeshi politician.{{Cite news |title=Col Malek's 18th death anniv observed - Countryside |url=https://www.observerbd.com/details.php?id=148617|access-date=2020-11-08|work=The Daily Observer}}
- René Chocat, 79, French basketball player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – René Chocat |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/5874 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=23 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Roberto Contreras, 71, American actor.
- Paul Coverdell, 61, American politician, Senator from Georgia, cerebral hemorrhage.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Paul Coverdell - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6k65578 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=23 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- John F. Davis, 93, American lawyer and law professor.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/07/20/lawyer-john-f-davis-dies-at-93/d0fb111f-583e-493e-b6ba-8fe516d000b4/|last=Bernstein|first=Adam|title=Lawyer John F. Davis Dies at 93|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=2000-07-20|access-date=2018-12-27}}
- Enrique de Gandía, 94, Argentine historian and author.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Enrique de Gandía |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb120971426 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=23 April 2023 |language=French |date=}}
- Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza, 81, Spanish architect.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza - DB~e |url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/5575/francisco-javier-saenz-de-oiza |website=dbe.rah.es |publisher=Real Academia de la Historia |access-date=23 April 2023 |language=es |date=}}
- José Ángel Valente, 71, Spanish poet and essayist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=José Ángel Valente - DB~e |url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/4782/jose-angel-valente-docasar |website=dbe.rah.es |publisher=Real Academia de la Historia |access-date=23 April 2023 |language=es |date=}}
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- James B. Clark, 92, American film and television director.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=James B. Clark - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w61m2svt |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=23 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Stephen Gendin, 34, American AIDS activist, AIDS-induced lymphoma.{{cite news |author1= |title=Stephen Gendin, 34, Advocate And Writer for AIDS Causes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/22/nyregion/stephen-gendin-34-advocate-and-writer-for-aids-causes.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=5 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=22 July 2000 |page=D 13}}
- Kamala Das Gupta, 93, Indian freedom fighter.
- Hananiah Harari, 87, American painter and illustrator.{{cite news |author1=Holland Cotter |author-link1=Holland Cotter |title=Hananiah Harari, 87, Artist Who Championed Modernism |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/25/arts/hananiah-harari-87-artist-who-championed-modernism.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=5 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=25 July 2000 |page=A 23}}
- Owen Maddock, 74, British engineer and racing car designer.
- Tommy O'Boyle, 82, American football coach.{{cite news|last=McIntyre|first=Jason|date=2000-07-19|title=O'Boyle Passes Away at 82|url=http://www.greensboro.com/o-boyle-passes-away-at-tommy-o-boyle-was-anassistant/article_708224da-78b5-5c94-9be2-44f0beeef0e8.html|newspaper=News & Record|location=Greensboro, North Carolina|access-date=2018-12-27}}
- Allen Paulson, 78, American businessman.{{cite news |author1=Joseph Durso |title=Allen Paulson, 78, Owner of the Race Horse Cigar, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/21/sports/allen-paulson-78-owner-of-the-race-horse-cigar-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=5 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=21 July 2000 |page=C 19}}
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- Eyvind Earle, 84, American artist, author and illustrator, esophageal cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Eyvind Earle - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6jw9khx |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=23 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Joseph F. Enright, 89, American submarine commander.{{cite news |author1=Richard Goldstein |author-link1=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) |title=Joseph Enright, 89, Dies; Sank WWII Carrier |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/26/us/joseph-enright-89-dies-sank-wwii-carrier.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=5 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=26 July 2000 |page=B 9}}
- James Hobson Morrison, 91, American politician (member of the United States House of Representatives), heart attack.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/29/us/j-h-morrison-91-louisiana-congressman.html|title=J. H. Morrison, 91, Louisiana Congressman|work=The New York Times|date=2000-07-29|access-date=2018-12-27}}
- Béla Rajki, 91, Hungarian swimming coach and water polo coach.
- Murray G. Ross, 90, Canadian sociologist, author, and academic administrator.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Murray G. Ross - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w61z6hvg |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=23 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Mabel Scott, 85, American gospel music and R&B vocalist.{{cite book| first1= Bob| last1= Eagle| first2= Eric S.| last2= LeBlanc| year= 2013| title= Blues – A Regional Experience| publisher= Praeger Publishers| location= Santa Barbara| pages=133 | isbn= 978-0313344237}}
- Jim Suchecki, 72, American baseball player.{{cite news|url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/cbc0a100|last=Nowlin|first=Bill|title=Jim Suchecki|work=Society for American Baseball Research|access-date=2018-12-29}}
- Alexis P. Vlasto, 84, British historian and philologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Alexis P. Vlasto |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb120963802 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=23 April 2023 |language=French |date=}}
- Malaclypse the Younger, 59, American author.
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- Vladimir Bagirov, 63, Soviet-Latvian grandmaster of chess, chess author, and trainer, heart attack.
- Constanze Engelbrecht, 50, German actress, cancer.{{cite news |last=Rafael |first=Simone |url=https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article524556/Constanze-Engelbrecht-Krebstod-mit-45.html |title=Constanze Engelbrecht: Krebstod mit 50 |language=de |work=Die Welt |date=22 July 2000 |access-date=2024-11-03 }}
- Iain Hamilton, 78, Scottish composer.{{cite news |author1=Anthony Tommasini |author-link1=Anthony Tommasini |title=Iain Hamilton, 78, Composer of Vocal Works |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/30/nyregion/iain-hamilton-78-composer-of-vocal-works.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=5 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=30 July 2000 |page=1 35}}
- Maria Kleschar-Samokhvalova, 84, Soviet Russian painter and graphic artist.
- Frank Miller, 73, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario.
- Vladimir Novikov, 92, Soviet-Russian politician and statesman.
- Eddie Pequenino, 72, Argentine film actor.
- Yosef Qafih, 82, Yemenite-Israeli zionist orthodox rabbi.
- Oliver Henry Radkey, 91, American historian of Russian and Soviet history.
- Stanojlo Rajičić, 89, Serbian composer and musicologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Stanojlo Rajičić |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb148136282 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=23 April 2023 |language=French |date=}}
- Marc Reisner, 51, American environmentalist and writer, colon cancer.{{cite news |author1=Eric Pace |author-link1=List of The New York Times employees |title=Marc Reisner, Author on the Environment, Dies at 51 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/25/arts/marc-reisner-author-on-the-environment-dies-at-51.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=1 April 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=25 July 2000 |page=A 23}}
- Åke Senning, 84, Swedish cardiac surgeon.{{cite journal |last1=Cooley |first1=D.A. |title=In memoriam. Tribute to Åke Senning, pioneering cardiovascular surgeon. |journal=Texas Heart Institute Journal |date=2000 |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=234–235 |pmid=11225587 |pmc=101071 }}
- Yoshio Watanabe, 93, Japanese photographer.
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- John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield, 80, British medical researcher and academic administrator.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jul/26/guardianobituaries1|last=Keen|first=Harry|title=Lord Butterfield: Pioneer whose brilliance and administrative flair advanced the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes|work=The Guardian|date=2000-07-25|access-date=2018-12-28}}
- Eric Christmas, 84, British actor (Porky's, Days of Our Lives, Air Bud).{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Eric Christmas - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/97640 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=23 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Alexander Dallin, 76, American historian and political scientist.{{cite news |author1=Paul Lewis |title=Alexander Dallin, 76, Dies; Precise Historian of Russia |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/27/world/alexander-dallin-76-dies-precise-historian-of-russia.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=5 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=27 July 2000 |page=C 23}}
- Raymond Lemieux, 80, Canadian organic chemist.{{cite news|url=http://www.science.ca/scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=193|title=Raymond Lemieux Organic Chemistry: First to synthesize sucrose and many blood chemistry compounds|work=science.ca|date=2015-09-16|access-date=2018-12-28}}
- Staffan Burenstam Linder, 68, Swedish economist and politician, lung cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Staffan Burenstam Linder - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6dk7vr8 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=23 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Claude Sautet, 76, French film director and screenwriter, liver cancer.{{cite news |author1= |title=Claude Sautet, 76, French Film Director, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/28/arts/claude-sautet-76-french-film-director-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=28 July 2000 |page=A 19}}
- Archie W. Straiton, 92, American physicist.
- Teleco, 86, Brazilian football player.
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- Basil Acres, 73, English footballer.{{cite book |editor-first=Barry J. |editor-last=Hugman |title=The PFA Premier & Football League Players' Records 1946–2015 |year=2015 |publisher=G2 Entertainment Ltd |isbn=9781782811671}}
- Ralph Evans, 76, American competitive sailor and Olympic medalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Ralph Evans |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/61953 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=23 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Carmen Martín Gaite, 74, Spanish author.
- Oiva Lommi, 78, Finnish rower and Olympic medalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Oiva Lommi |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/36794 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=23 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Vittorio Mangano, 59, Italian mobster, cancer.
- Kao Pao-shu, 61, Chinese actress, producer, writer and film director.
- Mars Rafikov, 66, Soviet cosmonaut.
- Ahmad Shamloo, 74, Iranian poet, writer and journalist.{{cite news |author1=Eric Pace |author-link1=List of The New York Times employees |title=Ahmad Shamlu, 74, Poet and Iranian Dissident |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/29/arts/ahmad-shamlu-74-poet-and-iranian-dissident.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=28 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=29 July 2000 |page=A 11}}
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- Ignacio Alfaro Arregui, 82, Spanish military officer.{{cite web |url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/26372/ignacio-alfaro-arregui |title=Ignacio Alfaro Arregui |language=es |publisher=Real Academia de la Historia |access-date=4 December 2021}}
- Alvin L. Alm, 63, American politician, heart failure.{{cite web | last = | first = | title =Alvin L. Alm; Environmental Official | work =Los Angeles Times | publisher = | date =Jul 31, 2000 | url =https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jul-31-me-62048-story.html | doi = }}
- Anatoli Firsov, 59, Russian ice hockey player, heart attack.{{cite web|title=Anatoly Firsov|publisher=Sports-Reference|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fi/anatoly-firsov-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203043738/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fi/anatoly-firsov-1.html|archive-date=2016-12-03|access-date=2018-12-28}}
- Pierre Hardy, 92, French sport shooter and Olympic medalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Pierre Hardy |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/42165 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=23 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Jim Kremer, 81, Luxembourgish football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Jim Kremer |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/26388 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=23 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Dharmasiri Senanayake, 67, Sri Lankan politician.
- Oscar Shumsky, 83, American violinist and conductor.{{cite news |author1=Allan Kozinn |author-link1=Allan Kozinn |title=Oscar Shumsky, 83, Violinist In the Grand Romantic Tradition |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/27/arts/oscar-shumsky-83-violinist-in-the-grand-romantic-tradition.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 April 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=27 July 2000 |page=C 23}}
- G. Wood, 80, American actor (M*A*S*H, Harold and Maude, Brewster McCloud), congestive heart failure.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=G. Wood - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/89304 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=23 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
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- Julia Pirotte, 92, Polish photojournalist.
- Aleksander Rokosa, 64, Polish gymnast.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Aleksander Rokosa |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/30886 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=23 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Fred C. Sheffey, 71, United States Army major general, lung cancer.
- Elizabeth Wilson, 86, American screenwriter and playwright.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Elizabeth Wilson (1914-2000) |url=https://data.bnf.fr/fr/14239526/elizabeth_wilson/ |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=23 April 2023 |language=French |date=}}
- Notable people killed in the crash of Air France Flight 4590:{{cite news |title=Families wiped out in crash |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/859479.stm |access-date=7 July 2019 |work=BBC News |date=31 July 2000}}
- Rudi Faßnacht, 65, German football manager.{{cite web |title=Rudi Faßnacht |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/rudi-fassnacht/ |website=worldfootball.net |access-date=3 November 2024}}
- Christian Götz, 60, German trade unionist and politician.
- Christian Marty, 54, French windsurfer and captain of Flight 4590.{{Cite news |date=2009-04-18 |title=Pilot was one of few to have windsurfed across the Atlantic |language=en |work=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pilot-was-one-of-few-to-have-windsurfed-across-the-atlantic-707690.html |url-status=live |access-date=2024-11-03 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130901115527/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pilot-was-one-of-few-to-have-windsurfed-across-the-atlantic-707690.html |archive-date=1 September 2013}}
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- Abhayadev, 87, Indian poet and lyricist.
- U. R. Jeevarathinam, Tamil actress, singer and producer.
- Dalkhan Khozhaev, 39, Chechen historian, field commander, brigadier general and author, shot.{{cite web |title=К сожалению, военные к смерти Хожаева отношения не имеют |url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/154535 |website=kommersant.ru |access-date=23 April 2023 |language=ru |date=3 August 2000}}
- John Tukey, 85, American mathematician.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/28/us/john-tukey-85-statistician-coined-the-word-software.html|last=Leonhardt|first=David|title=John Tukey, 85, Statistician; Coined the Word 'Software'|work=The New York Times|date=2000-07-28|access-date=2018-12-18}}
- Don Weis, 78, American film and television director.{{cite news |author1= |title=Don Weis, 78, Film and Television Director |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/04/arts/don-weis-78-film-and-television-director.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=5 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=4 August 2000 |page=C 19}}
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- Virginia Admiral, 85, American painter and poet.{{cite news |author1= |title=Virginia Admiral, 85, Painter and Writer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/15/arts/virginia-admiral-85-painter-and-writer.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=5 January 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=15 August 2000 |page=B 6}}
- Bruce Douglas-Mann, 73, British politician.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jul/31/guardianobituaries.obituaries|last=Pearce|first=Edward|title=Bruce Douglas-Mann: 'Exemplary man in politics': Labour MP who crossed the floor to the Social Democrats|work=The Guardian|date=2000-07-31|access-date=2018-12-28}}
- Val Dufour, 73, American actor, cancer.{{cite news |author1= |title=Val Dufour, 73, Star of TV Soap Operas |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/16/arts/val-dufour-73-star-of-tv-soap-operas.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=16 August 2000 |page=B 7}}
- Paddy Joyce, 77, Irish actor, stroke.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Paddy Joyce |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb17158554k |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=23 April 2023 |language=French |date=}}
- Vladimir Lisunov, 60, Russian nonconformist artist, murdered.
- Constance Stuart Larrabee, 85, English photographer and war correspondent.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |title=Constance Stuart Larrabee, 85, Photographer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/04/arts/constance-stuart-larrabee-85-photographer.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=5 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=4 August 2000 |page=C 19}}
- Gordon Solie, 71, American wrestling commentator, throat cancer.{{cite news|url=http://www.midsouthwrestling.com/Gordon_Solie.html|last=Associated Press|title=LEGENDARY ANNOUNCER, GORDON SOLIE, 71|work=Mid-South Wrestling, Universal Wrestling Federation|date=2000-07-29|access-date=2018-12-28}}
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- Jaime Cardriche, 32, American actor (Malcolm & Eddie, House Party, Deep Cover), complications during gall bladder surgery.
- Leslie Martin, 91, English architect.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Leslie Martin - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6c53n0z |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=23 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Abraham Pais, 82, Dutch-American physicist, cardiovascular disease.{{cite news |author1=James Glanz |author-link1=James Glanz |title=Dr. Abraham Pais, 82, Physicist and Science Historian, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/31/nyregion/dr-abraham-pais-82-physicist-and-science-historian-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=18 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=31 July 2000 |page=B 7}}
- Jonas M. Platt, 80, United States Marine Corps officer.{{cite news |title=Jonas Platt |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/08/01/jonas-platt/83da0960-acbf-45a1-b565-5db5e1f36d47 |access-date=23 April 2023 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=1 August 2000}}
- Jerome Smith, 47, American guitarist (KC and the Sunshine Band), bulldozing accident.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/10/arts/jerome-smith-47-of-k-c-and-the-sunshine-band-the-hit-disco-group.html|title=Jerome Smith, 47, of K. C. and the Sunshine Band, the Hit Disco Group|work=The New York Times|date=2000-08-10|access-date=2018-12-18}}
- Chic Stone, 77, American comic book artist (Fantastic Four).
- John Wells, 93, British artist.{{cite news|author=Michael McNay |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/aug/02/guardianobituaries|title=John Wells: An artist bewitched by the sea, shore and stones of Cornwall (obituary)|work=The Guardian|date=2000-08-02|access-date=2018-12-18}}
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- Kobie Coetsee, 69, South African lawyer and politician, heart attack.
- Eladio Dieste, 82, Uruguayan engineer.{{cite web |title=Eladio Dieste (1917 - 2000) |url=https://structurae.net/en/persons/eladio-dieste |website=structurae.net |access-date=23 April 2023}}
- René Gerónimo Favaloro, 77, Argentine cardiologist, suicide by gunshot.{{cite news |author1=Eric Nagourney |title=Rene Favaloro, 77, a Leader In Early Heart-Bypass Surgery |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/01/world/rene-favaloro-77-a-leader-in-early-heart-bypass-surgery.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=28 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=1 August 2000 |page=B 9}}
- Benny Fenton, 81, English football player and manager.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/aug/16/guardianobituaries.football|last=Glanville|first=Brian|title=Benny Fenton: Footballer and manager devoted to his London clubs|work=The Guardian|date=2000-08-15|access-date=2018-12-28}}
- Åke Hodell, 81, Swedish fighter pilot, poet, author, text-sound composer, and artist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Åke Hodell |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb150456654 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=23 April 2023 |language=French |date=}}
- Richard Kerry, 85, American Foreign Service officer and lawyer, prostate cancer.Associated Press, [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kiRHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=s_MMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4801,5758839&dq=richard+kerry+died+prostate+cancer&hl=en Richard Kerry, Father of Sen. John Kerry, Dies], Lewiston Sun-Journal, July 31, 2000
- Bobby Reid, 63, Scottish football player.
- Bob Welch, 72, Canadian politician.
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- Ab Box, 91, Canadian football player.{{cite web |title=HALL OF FAMERS - AB BOX |url=https://www.sportshall.ca/hall-of-famers/hall-of-famers-search.html?proID=107&catID=&lang=EN |website=sportshall.ca |access-date=23 April 2023}}
- Jim Clark, 71, American gridiron football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jim Clark Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/ClarJi20.htm |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=23 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Derek Hill, 83, English portrait and landscape painter.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Derek Hill - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6k2137j |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=23 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Nan Leslie, 74, American actress, pneumonia.
- Max Showalter, 83, American actor (Niagara, Sixteen Candles, 10), cancer.{{cite news |author1=Mel Gussow |author-link1=Mel Gussow |title=Max Showalter, 83, Character Actor for Films, Broadway and TV |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/02/arts/max-showalter-83-character-actor-for-films-broadway-and-tv.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=14 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=2 August 2000 |page=C 21}}
- Jack Smiley, 77, American basketball player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jack Smiley Stats - Basketball-Reference.com |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/smileja01.html |website=basketball-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=23 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
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- István Gulyás, 68, Hungarian tennis player.
- Lars Jansson, 73, Finnish author and cartoonist.
- William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., 91, American novelist, short story writer, essayist and children's author.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=William Keepers Maxwell Jr. |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Maxwell |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=23 April 2023 |language= |date=}}
- Constance Babington Smith, 87, British journalist and writer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Constance Babington Smith |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12819281k |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=23 April 2023 |language=French |date=}}
- Armando Trindade, 72, Pakistani prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.{{cite web |title=Archbishop Armando Trindade † |url=https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/btrindade.html |website=catholic-hierarchy.org |access-date=23 April 2023}}
- Hendrik C. van de Hulst, 81, Dutch astronomer and mathematician.{{cite news|url=http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/vdhulst_e.html|title=In memoriam: Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst|work=Leiden Observatory, Leiden University|date=2000-08-01|access-date=2018-12-18|archive-date=February 17, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060217230445/http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/vdhulst_e.html|url-status=dead}}
- Thomas Wolff, 46, American mathematician, traffic collision.{{cite news |author1=Kenneth Chang |title=Thomas Wolff, Math Expert, Dies at 46 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/10/us/thomas-wolff-math-expert-dies-at-46.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 April 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=10 August 2000 |page=C 22}}
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