Deaths in 2000

For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994 ...

For later deaths, see Deaths in 2001, 2002, 2003 ...

Contents 1 January 2 February 3 March 4 April 5 May 6 June 7 July 8 August 9 September 10 October 11 November 12 December

January

• January 1 - Colin Vaughan, Canadian/Australian political journalist (b. 1931)
• January 2 - Patrick O'Brian, English writer (b. 1914)
• January 7 - Makhmud Esambayev, Chechen dancer (b. 1924)
• January 15 - Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916)
• January 15 - Željko Ražnatović, Serbian mobster and paramilitary leader (b. 1952)
• January 19 - Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
• January 19 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (b. 1913)
• January 26 - Don Ralke, American music arranger (b. 1920)
• January 26 - A. E. van Vogt, Canadian science fiction writer (b. 1912)
• January 28 - Syed Mahmood Quadri, Indian Judge & Philanthropist (b. 1911)

February

• February 4 - Ronald Robertson, American figure skater (b. 1937)
• February 4 - Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (b. 1919)
• February 5 - Ward Cornell, Canadian radio/TV broadcaster & educator (b. 1924)
• February 7 - Big Pun, American rapper (b. 1971)
• February 8 - Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967)
• February 9 - Beau Jack, American boxer (b. 1921)
• February 10 - Jim Varney, American actor noted for his character, Ernest P. Worrell. (b. 1949)
• February 11 - Roger Vadim, French film director (b. 1928)
• February 12 - Jalacy "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins, American musician (b. 1929)
• February 12 - Tom Landry, American football coach (b. 1924)
• February 12 - Charles M. Schulz, American comic strip artist (Peanuts) (b. 1922)
• February 16 - B. S. Kesavan, Indian National Librarian (b. 1908)
• February 19 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, artist (b. 1928)
• February 22 - V.J.P. Saldanha, Indian Konkani language litterateur, dramatist, musician, and poet. (b. 1925)
• February 23 - Dennis Evans, English footballer (b. 1930)
• February 23 - Sir Stanley Matthews, English footballer (b. 1915)
• February 23 - Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (b. 1957)
• February 29 - Dennis Danell, American musician (Social Distortion) (b. 1961)

March

• March 3 - Joseph Kayll, British World War II flying ace (b.1914)
• March 3 - Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (b. 1904)
• March 5 - Dame Roma Mitchell, Australian lawyer and Governor of South Australia. (b. 1913)
• March 10 - Barbara Cooney, American author and illustrator (b. 1917)
• March 13 - Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam, Indian army general (b. 1913)
• March 15 - Robert Welch, British designer (b. 1929)
• March 19 - Joanne Weaver, American baseball player (b. 1935)
• March 27 - Ian Dury, British rock and roll singer (b. 1942)
• March 28 - Anthony Powell, British author (b. 1905)
• March 30 - Rudolf Kirchschlaeger, Austrian politician (b. 1915)

April

• April 1 - Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, British judge (b. 1924)
• April 2 - Bunney Brooke, Australian actor, acted in Round the Twist (well known children's TV show 1989) (b. 1921)
• April 3 - Terence McKenna, writer, philosopher (b. 1946)
• April 4 - Derek Allhusen, British equestrian (b. 1914)
• April 5 - Lee Petty, American race car driver (b. 1914)
• April 6 - Habib Bourguiba, President of Tunisia (b. 1903)
• April 11 - Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (b. 1945)
• April 13 - Arthur Owen, British racing driver (b. 1915)
• April 13 - Marlene Goldsmith, Australian politician (b. 1942)
• April 16 - Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah, King of Malaysia (b. 1920)
• April 22 - Jack Best, British RAF pilot, attempted escapee from Colditz (b. 1912)
• April 24 - Barkin' Bill Smith, American blues singer (b. 1928)
• April 25 - David Merrick, American stage producer (b. 1911)
• April 27 - C. R. Boxer, British historian (b. 1904)
• April 29 - Phạm Văn Ðồng, Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1906)

May

• May 2 - Bob Homme, actor, known for his role as The Friendly Giant (b. 1919)
• May 11 - René Muñoz, Cuban actor, screenwriter of telenovelas and the cinema of Mexico (b. 1938)
• May 11 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (b. 1907)
• May 12 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
• May 14 - Keizo Obuchi, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
• May 17 - Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1909)
• May 18 - William S. Miller, Eagle Scout and Scout Master (b. 1926)
• May 19 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)
• May 19 - Sir Larry Lamb, British newspaper editor (b.1929)
• May 20 - Edward Bernds, American director (b. 1905)
• May 20 - Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (b. 1922)
• May 20 - Malik Sealy, Minnesota Timberwolves basketball player (b. 1970)
• May 21 - Dame Barbara Cartland, English novelist (b. 1901)
• May 21 - Sir John Gielgud, English actor (b. 1904)
• May 21 - Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur and founder of Herbalife (b. 1956)
• May 27 - Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine, Spanish aristocrat, (b. 1937)
• May 27 - Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921)
• May 27 - Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, and Home Army's intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (b. 1912)
• May 31 - John Coolidge, son of American President Calvin Coolidge (b. 1906)

June

• June 2 - Lepo Sumera, Estonian composer (b. 1950)
• June 10 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (b. 1930)
• June 14 - Robert Trent Jones, English-born golf course designer (b. 1906)
• June 16 - Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903)
• June 17 - Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930)
• June 18 - Nancy Marchand, American actress who starred in The Sopranos (b. 1928)
• June 21 - Alan Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911)
• June 24 - Rodrigo Bueno, Argentine singer (b. 1973)
• June 24 - David Tomlinson, English actor (b. 1917)
• June 27 - David Neal, English actor (b. 1932)
• June 28 - Jane Birdwood, British far right politician (b. 1913)
• June 29 - John Aspinall (zoo owner) (b. 1926)

July

• July 1 - Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920)
• July 2 - Joey Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1952)
• July 7 - James C. Quayle, American newspaper publisher (b. 1921)
• July 7 - Kenny Irwin, NASCAR driver (b. 1969)
• July 10 - Vakkom Majeed, Indian politician (b. 1909)
• July 10 - Denis O'Conor Don, O'Conor Don (b. 1912)
• July 10 - Justin Pierce, British skateboarder and actor (b. 1975)
• July 11 - Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
• July 12 - Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav prince (b. 1928)
• July 14 - Meredith MacRae, American actress (b. 1944)
• July 15 - Johnny Duncan, American musician (b. 1932)
• July 20 - James H. Morrison, American politician (b. 1908)
• July 27 - Bruce Douglas-Mann, British politician (b. 1927)
• July 27 - Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (b. 1929)
• July 28 - Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist (b. 1918)
• July 29 - René Favaloro, Argentine cardiologist who created the technique for coronary bypass surgery (b. 1923)

August

• August 3 - Joann Lõssov, Estonian basketball player (b. 1921)
• August 5 - Sir Alec Guinness, English actor and writer (b. 1914)
• August 5 - Otto Buchsbaum, writer and ecological activist (b. 1920)
• August 6 - Sir Robin Day, British political broadcaster (b. 1923)
• August 6 - John Joseph Graham, American Roman Catholic prelate (b.1913)
• August 9 - John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
• August 9 - Bob Lido, American musician (b. 1914)
• August 12 - Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)
• August 12 - Dave Edwards, American musician (b. 1941)
• August 13 - Nazia Hassan, first South Asian pop singer (b.1965)
• August 13 - Tom Troman, English cricketer (b. 1914)
• August 17 - Hans-Dietrich von Tiesenhausen, Baltic German Kapitänleutnant during World War II (b. 1913)
• August 19 - Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo activist and leader (b. 1946)
• August 19 - Theodore Trautwein, American judge (b. 1920)
• August 20 - Sir Peter Compston, British admiral (b. 1915)
• August 21 - Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politician (b. 1930)
• August 24 - Bob McPhail, Scottish footballer (b. 1905)
• August 25 - Carl Barks, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
• August 25 - Ian Stephenson, British artist (b.1934)
• August 27 - Dolores Moore, American baseball player (b. 1932)
• August 28 - Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Wied, German prince (b. 1931)

September

• September 2 - Elvera Sanchez, American dancer (b. 1905)
• September 6 - Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, notable American stillborn baby girl (b. 2000)
• September 16 - Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969)
• September 17 - Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (b. 1976)
• September 17 - Paula Yates, British television presenter and journalist (b. 1959)
• September 19 - Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (b. 1917)
• September 20 - Stanislav Stratiev, Bulgarian playwright (b. 1941)
• September 20 - Gherman Titov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
• September 23 - Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player (b. 1947)
• September 25 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)
• September 26 - Carl Sigman, American songwriter (b. 1909)
• September 27 - Sammy Luftspring, Canadian boxer (b. 1916)
• September 28 - Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)
• September 30 - Erno Paasilinna, Finnish writer and journalist (b. 1935)

October

• October 3 - Benjamin Orr, the Cars bassist and singer (b. 1947)
• October 4 - Michael Smith, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
• October 9 - Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
• October 11 - Donald Dewar, Scottish politician (b. 1937)
• October 13 - Tony Roper, NASCAR driver (b. 1964)
• October 15 - Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
• October 21 - Reginald Kray, British murderer (b. 1933)
• October 22 - Rodney Anoa'i, American wrestler known as Yokozuna (b. 1966)
• October 27 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929)
• October 28 - Andujar Cedeno, Dominican baseball player (b. 1969)
• October 30 - Steve Allen, American comedian, composer, talk show host, and author (b. 1921)

November

• November 2 - Eva Morris, British supercentenarian, oldest person in the world (b. 1885).
• November 3 - Robert Sherlaw Johnson, British composer and musicologist (b. 1932)
• November 6 - L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (b. 1907)
• November 7 - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
• November 7 - Ingrid of Sweden, Queen consort of Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1910)
• November 11 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915)
• November 12 - Harold Walker, English cricketer (b. 1918)
• November 16 - DJ Screw, DJ and rapper (b. 1971)
• November 18 - Hubert Miller, American bobsledder (b. 1918)
• November 22 - Carlos Cardoso, Mozambican journalist (b. 1951)
• November 22 - Sir Cyril Astley Clarke, British physician, geneticist and entomologist, former President of the Royal College of Physicians (b. 1907)
• November 27 - Damilola Taylor, murder victim (b. 1989)
• November 28 - Liane Haid, Austrian actress (b. 1895)
• November 29 - Ilmar Laaban, Estonian poet and publicist (b. 1921)

December

• December 3 - Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet( born 7 June 1917)
• December 6 - Werner Klemperer, German actor (b. 1920)
• December 7 - Toby Low, 1st Baron Aldington, British politician (b. 1914)
• December 7 - Leszek Podhorodecki, Polish historian (b. 1934)
• December 11 - David Lewis, American actor (b. 1916)
• December 11 - Johannes Virolainen, Finnish politician (b. 1914)
• December 18 - Kirsty MacColl, British singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
• December 19 - Roebuck "Pops" Staples, patriarch of The Staple Singers (b. 1914)
• December 20 - Bill Clarke, Canadian footballer, (b. 1932)
• December 23 - Victor Borge, Danish-born comedian and pianist (b. 1909)
• December 23 - Noor Jehan, Pakistani actress and singer (b. 1926)
• December 24 - Nick Massi, bass singer and bass guitarist for The Four Seasons (b. 1935)
• December 31 - Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, Israeli settler leader (b. 1966)