Deaths in 2000

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2000. Names are listed under the date of death, not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name.

A typical entry appears in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

January 2000

• January 2 – Colin Vaughan, Canadian/Australian political journalist (born 1931)^[1]
• January 2 – Nat Adderley, 68, American jazz musician (born 1931).^[2]
• January 2 – Jimmy Guieu, French science fiction writer (born 1926).
• January 2 – Patrick O'Brian, English writer (born 1914).^[3]
• January 3 – Henry H. Fowler, American lawyer and politician, Secretary of the Treasury (born 1908).
• January 3 – Bernhard Wicki, Austrian actor and film director (born 1919).
• January 4 – Tom Fears, Mexican-American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (born 1923).
• January 4 – Michael Gershman, American writer and music producer (born 1941).
• January 4 – John Milner, American baseball player (born 1949).
• January 5 – Arthur Nash, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1914).
• January 5 – Hopper Read, English cricketer (born 1910).
• January 6 – Don Martin, American cartoonist (born 1931).^[4]
• January 7 – Makhmud Esambayev, Russian actor and dancer (born 1924).^[5]
• January 7 – Robert McG. Thomas, Jr., American journalist (born 1939).^[6]
• January 8 – Jack Stokes, Canadian politician (born 1923).
• January 9 – Nigel Tranter, Scottish writer (born 1909).
• January 11 – Dan Kemp, American actor (born 1927).
• January 11 – Bob Lemon, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (born 1920).
• January 11 – William Andrew McDonald, American archaeologist (born 1913).^[7]
• January 12 – Marc Davis, American animator (born 1913).^[8]
• January 13 – Eric Dodson, British actor (born 1920).
• January 13 – Peter Henderson, Baron Henderson of Brompton, British public servant, Clerk of the Parliaments (born 1922).
• January 14 – Alain Poiré, French film producer (born 1917).
• January 14 – Clifford Truesdell, American mathematician (born 1919).
• January 15 – Vernon Caryle Holloway, Sr., American businessman and politician (born 1919).
• January 15 – Marie Kazmierczak, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player (born 1920).^[9]
• January 15 – Arthur Henry King, British poet and writer (born 1910).
• January 15 – Željko Ražnatović, Serbian mobster and paramilitary leader (born 1952).^[10]
• January 15 – Fran Ryan, American actress (born 1916).^[11]
• January 16 – Harry Cavan, Northern Irish football administrator (born 1915).
• January 17 – Philip Jones, British trumpeter (born 1928).^[12]
• January 18 – Geoffrey Perry, British schoolteacher, deduced existence of the Plesetsk Cosmodrome (born 1927).^[13]
• January 19 – Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (born 1934).^[14]
• January 19 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (born 1913).^[15]
• January 19 – Manny Montejo, 64, Cuban baseball player (Detroit Tigers).^[16]
• January 19 – G. Ledyard Stebbins, 94, American botanist, cancer.^[17]
• January 19 – Rex Willis, Welsh rugby union player (born 1924).^[18]
• January 22 – Craig Claiborne, American restaurant critic (born 1920).
• January 22 – Ed Clark, American photographer (born 1911).
• January 22 – E. W. Swanton, British cricket commentator (born 1907).^[19]
• January 24 – Rex Nelon, American gospel singer (born 1932)
• January 25 – Herta Freitag, Austrian-born American mathematician (born 1908)^[20]
• January 26 – Don Budge, American tennis player (born 1915)
• January 26 – Willie Hamilton, British politician (born 1917).^[21]
• January 26 – Sir James Haughton, British police officer (born 1914).
• January 26 – Don Ralke, American music arranger (born 1920).
• January 26 – Bill Strickland, American baseball player (born 1908).
• January 26 – A. E. van Vogt, Canadian science fiction writer (born 1912).
• January 28 – Sarah Caudwell, British detective story writer and barrister (born 1939)
• January 28 – Gad Rausing, Swedish industrialist (born 1922).
• January 28 – Kenneth Waller, British actor (born 1927).
• January 29 – Harry Thompson, English football player and manager (born 1915).
• January 30 – Steve Little, American boxer (born 1965).

February 2000

• February 1 – Peter Levi, British poet and scholar (born 1931).^[22]
• February 3 – Ken Stroud, British mathematician (born 1908).
• February 4 – Joachim-Ernst Berendt, German music journalist (born 1922).
• February 4 – Edgar Bowers, American poet (born 1924).
• February 4 – James C. Green, American politician (born 1921).
• February 4 – Ronald Robertson, American figure skater (born 1937).^[23]
• February 4 – Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (born 1919).
• February 5 – Ward Cornell, Canadian radio/TV broadcaster & educator (born 1924).
• February 7 – Big Pun, American rapper (born 1971).^[24]
• February 7 – Doug Henning, Canadian magician, illusionist and escape artist (born 1947).^[25]
• February 7 – Bob Collins, American broadcaster (born 1942).
• February 7 – Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1918).^[26]
• February 7 – Shiho Niiyama, Japanese voice actress (born 1970).
• February 7 – Mario Capio, Italian Olympic sailor (born 1924).
• February 8 – Derrick Thomas, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (born 1967).^[27]
• February 9 – Steve Furness, American football player (born 1950).
• February 9 – Beau Jack, American boxer (born 1921).^[28]
• February 10 – George Jackson, American movie producer (born 1958).
• February 10 – Ji Pengfei, Chinese politician (born 1910).
• February 10 – Jim Varney, American actor noted for his character, Ernest P. Worrell (born 1949).^[29]
• February 11 – Gordon Lockhart Bennett, 87, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island (born 1912).
• February 11 – Roger Vadim, French film director (born 1928).^[30]
• February 12 – Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American musician (born 1929).^[31]
• February 12 – Tom Landry, American football coach (Dallas Cowboys) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (born 1924).^[32]
• February 12 – Andy Lewis, Australian bass guitarist (born 1966).
• February 12 – John London, American musician and songwriter (born 1942).
• February 12 – Charles M. Schulz, American comic strip artist (Peanuts) (born 1922).
• February 13 – F. X. Martin, Irish priest and historian (born 1922).
• February 13 – Oliver, American pop singer (born 1945).
• February 13 – Theodore Rinaldo, American charismatic religious leader, businessman, and convicted child sex offender (born 1944).
• February 16 – B. S. Kesavan, Indian National Librarian (born 1908).
• February 19 – Marin Goleminov, Bulgarian musician (born 1908).
• February 19 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (born 1928).
• February 19 – Kenneth L. Maddy, American politician (born 1934).
• February 19 – George Roussos, American comic book artist (born 1915).
• February 21 – Noel Annan, Baron Annan, British military intelligence officer and academic (born 1916).
• February 22 – V. J. P. Saldanha, Indian Konkani language litterateur, dramatist, musician, and poet (born 1925).
• February 23 – John Nevill, 5th Marquess of Abergavenny, British aristocrat (born 1914).
• February 23 – Dennis Evans, English footballer (born 1930).
• February 23 – Albrecht Goes, German writer and theologian (born 1908).
• February 23 – Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (born 1957).
• February 23 – Sir Stanley Matthews, English footballer (born 1915).
• February 23 – Joseph V. Perry, American actor (born 1931).
• February 29 – Dennis Danell, American musician (Social Distortion) (born 1961).

March 2000

• March 1 – Joseph Lawson Hodges, Jr., American statistician (born 1922).
• March 2 – Sandra Schmirler, Canadian curling champion, cancer (born 1963).
• March 3 – Joseph Kayll, British World War II flying ace (born 1914).
• March 3 – Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (born 1904).
• March 5 – Lolo Ferrari, French dancer, sex star, pornographic actress, actress and singer (born 1963).
• March 5 – Bill Kendall, British trade unionist (born 1923).
• March 5 – Dame Roma Mitchell, Australian lawyer and Governor of South Australia (born 1913).
• March 5 – Eddie Mae Steward, American civil rights activist (born 1938).
• March 6 – John Colicos, Canadian actor (Star Trek: The Original Series, Battlestar Galactica) (born 1928).
• March 7 – John Foster, British Anglican priest (born 1921).
• March 7 – W. D. Hamilton, British evolutionary biologist (born 1936).
• March 7 – Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter (born 1914).
• March 7 – Edward H. Levi, American lawyer and politician, Attorney General (1975–1977) (born 1911).
• March 7 – Jack Sanford, American baseball player (born 1929).
• March 10 – Barbara Cooney, American author and illustrator (born 1917).
• March 10 – William Porter, American Olympic athlete (born 1926).
• March 11 – Will Roberts, Welsh painter (born 1907).
• March 11 – Alfred Schwarzmann, German Olympic gymnast (born 1912).
• March 12 – Sir John Jardine Paterson, Scottish businessman (born 1920).
• March 13 – Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam, Indian army general (born 1913).
• March 14 – Tommy Collins, American country musician (born 1930).
• March 14 – C. Jérôme, French singer (born 1946).
• March 15 – Robert Welch, British designer (born 1929).
• March 16 – Roy Henderson, British opera singer (born 1899).
• March 16 – Michael Starr, Canadian politician (born 1910).
• March 17 – Jack Davis, Australian playwright (born 1917).
• March 17 – Edward F. Knipling, American entomologist (born 1909).
• March 19 – Joanne Weaver, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player (born 1935).^[33]
• March 20 – Gerald Kingsland, British journalist and adventurer (born 1930).
• March 21 – Seumas McNally, Computer programmer and founder of DX Ball 2 (born 1979).
• March 22 – John Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil, British diplomat (born 1926).
• March 24 – Bles Bridges, South African singer (born 1947).
• March 24 – Al Grey, American jazz trombonist (born 1925).
• March 24 – George Kirby, British footballer (born 1933).
• March 25 – Morton A. Brody, American jurist (born 1933).
• March 27 – Ian Dury, British rock and roll singer (born 1942).
• March 28 – John Hosier, British musical educator (born 1928).
• March 28 – Anthony Powell, British author (born 1905).
• March 30 – George Batchelor, Australian mathematician (born 1920).
• March 30 – Rudolf Kirchschläger, Austrian politician (born 1915).

April 2000

• April 1 – Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, British judge (born 1924).
• April 2 – Fred Kwasi Apaloo, Ghanaian judge (born 1921).
• April 2 – Bunney Brooke, Australian actress and casting director, Round the Twist, Number 96, E Street, cancer (born 1920). ^[34]
• April 2 – Sir Robert Sainsbury, British businessman and art benefactor (born 1906).
• April 3 – Terence McKenna, writer, philosopher (born 1946).
• April 3 – David Treffry, British colonial servant and financier (born 1926).
• April 4 – Diamond Teeth Mary, American singer (born 1902).
• April 5 – Chino 'Fats' Williams, American actor (born 1933).
• April 5 – Lee Petty, American race car driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame (born 1914).
• April 6 – Habib Bourguiba, President of Tunisia (born 1903).
• April 6 – Don Johnson, American baseball player (born 1911).
• April 6 – William Stobbs, British illustrator (born 1914).
• April 8 – Bernie Grant, British politician (born 1944).
• April 9 – Tony Cliff, British Trotskyist writer and journalist (born 1917).
• April 9 – William McHardy, Scottish biblical scholar (born 1911).
• April 10 – Peter Jones, British actor (born 1920)
• April 10 – Larry Linville, American actor (M*A*S*H) (born 1939).
• April 11 – Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (born 1945).
• April 11 – André Deutsch, Hungarian-born British publisher (born 1917).
• April 13 – Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (born 1916).
• April 13 – Marlene Goldsmith, Australian politician (born 1942).
• April 13 – Arthur Owen, British racing driver (born 1915).
• April 14 – Sir Humphrey Cripps, British businessman and philanthropist (born 1915).
• April 14 – George E. Taylor, American sinologist (born 1905).
• April 16 – Henry Daniels, British statistician (born 1912).
• April 18 – Isaac Berenblum, Polish-born Israeli biochemist (born 1903).
• April 19 – Kyung-Chik Han, 97, Korean pastor.
• April 21 – Gunther Gerzso, Mexican painter and screenwriter (born 1915).
• April 22 – Jack Best, British RAF pilot, attempted escapee from Colditz (born 1912).
• April 23 – Sir David Thorne, British army general (born 1933).
• April 24 – Derek Allhusen, British Olympic equestrian (born 1914).
• April 24 – Chic Brodie, Scottish footballer (born 1937).
• April 24 – Barkin' Bill Smith, American blues singer (born 1928).
• April 25 – David Merrick, American stage producer (born 1911).
• April 25 – Edna Scheer, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player (born 1926).^[35]
• April 27 – C. R. Boxer, British historian (born 1904).
• April 28 – Penelope Fitzgerald, British writer (born 1916).
• April 29 – Phạm Văn Đồng, Prime Minister of Vietnam (born 1906).
• April 30 – Poul Hartling, Prime Minister of Denmark (1973–1975) (born 1914)

May 2000

• May 1 – Nora Swinburne, British actress (born 1902).^[36]
• May 2 – Bob Homme, actor, known for his role as The Friendly Giant (born 1919).^[37]
• May 2 – Billy Munn, British jazz pianist (born 1911).
• May 2 – Harry Newman, American football player (born 1909).
• May 3 – Lewis Allen, British film and television director (born 1905).
• May 3 – John Joseph O'Connor, American Roman Catholic prelate (born 1920).
• May 4 – Sir Derick Ashe, British diplomat (born 1919).
• May 5 – Gino Bartali, Italian racing cyclist (born 1914).
• May 6 – Sir Peter Youens, British colonial administrator (born 1916).
• May 7 - Douglas Fairbanks Jr., American actor and the son of Douglas Fairbanks (born 1909).
• May 9 – Chris Evans, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1946).
• May 10 – Sir Martin Farndale, British army general (born 1929).
• May 10 – Bill Foster, American entertainer (born 1932).
• May 10 – Margaret Harris, British costume designer (born 1904).
• May 10 – Kaneto Shiozawa, Japanese voice actor (born 1954).
• May 10 – Craig Stevens, American actor (born 1918).^[38]
• May 11 – René Muñoz, Cuban actor, screenwriter of telenovelas and the cinema of Mexico (born 1938).
• May 11 – Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (born 1907).^[39]
• May 12 – Adam Petty, American race car driver (born 1980).^[40]
• May 13 – Boško Perošević, Serbian politician (born 1956).^[41]
• May 14 – Sarah Mavis Dabbs, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player (born 1922).^[42]
• May 14 – Keizō Obuchi, Prime Minister of Japan (born 1937).
• May 14 – Johnny Cook, American gospel singer formerly of the Happy Goodman Family (born 1949)
• May 15 – George Marshall, American conservationist (born 1904).
• May 16 – Bodacious, "World's Most Dangerous Bull" World Champion title holder (born 1988).^[43]
• May 17 – Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1909).
• May 19 – Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (born 1933).
• May 19 – Sir Larry Lamb, British newspaper editor (born 1929).
• May 20 – Edward Bernds, American director (born 1905).
• May 20 – Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist (born 1922).
• May 20 – Malik Sealy, Minnesota Timberwolves basketball player (born 1970).
• May 21 – Dame Barbara Cartland, English novelist (born 1901).
• May 21 – Sir John Gielgud, English actor (born 1904).
• May 21 – Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur and founder of Herbalife (born 1956).
• May 21 – Zhao Puchu, Chinese religious leader (born 1907).
• May 22 – Bahadoor, Indian actor (born 1930).
• May 22 – Davie Fulton, Canadian politician and judge (born 1916).
• May 22 – Gary Kerkorian, American football player (born 1930).
• May 22 – David Chadwick Smith, Canadian economist (born 1931).
• May 25 – Ken Bousfield, British golfer (born 1919).
• May 25 – Nicholas Clay, British actor (born 1946).
• May 27 – Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine, Spanish aristocrat, (born 1937).
• May 27 – Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch, British diplomat, Governor of Hong Kong (born 1917).
• May 27 – Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (born 1921).
• May 27 – Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, and Home Army's intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (born 1912).
• May 27 – Jane Stoll, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player (born 1928).^[44]
• May 28 – George Irving Bell, American scientist and mountaineer (born 1926).
• May 28 – Eric Turner, American football player (born 1968).
• May 30 – Doris Hare, Welsh actress (born 1905).
• May 31 – John Coolidge, son of American President Calvin Coolidge (born 1906).
• May 31 – Johnnie Taylor, American singer (born 1934).

June 2000

• June 1 – Sir Raymond Ferrall, Australian businessman and author (born 1906).
• June 2 – Trevor Leggett, British judoka, author and broadcaster (born 1914).
• June 2 – Lepo Sumera, Estonian composer (born 1950).
• June 3 – T. K. Ann, Hong Kong industrialist and legislator (born 1912).
• June 3 – Merton Miller, American Nobel Prize-winning economist (born 1923).
• June 4 – Clarence Holbrook Carter, American artist (born 1904).
• June 6 – Håkan Lidman, Swedish athlete (born 1915).
• June 6 – Joan Tate, English translator (born 1922).
• June 7 – Barbara Jo Walker, winner of Miss America (1947) (born 1926).
• June 9 – Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (born 1925).
• June 10 – Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (born 1930).
• June 10 – Frank Patterson, Irish tenor (born 1938).
• June 12 – Sir Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce, British jurist (born 1912).
• June 12 – Yun Bulong, Chinese politician, Chairman of Inner Mongolia, train-car collision (born 1937).
• June 14 – Paul Griffin, American musician (born 1937).
• June 14 – Robert Trent Jones, English-born golf course designer (born 1906).
• June 14 – Peter McWilliams, American author (born 1949).
• June 14 – Reg Preston, Australian potter (born 1917).
• June 14 – Elsie Widdowson, British scientist (born 1906).
• June 16 – Empress Kōjun of Japan (born 1903).
• June 17 – Brian Statham, English cricketer (born 1930).
• June 18 – Ekrem Alican, Turkish politician, Deputy Prime Minister (born 1916).
• June 18 – Nancy Marchand, American actress (born 1928).
• June 19 – Noboru Takeshita, Japanese politician, Prime Minister (1987–1989) (born 1924).
• June 21 – Jim Hensley, American businessman (born 1920)
• June 21 – Alan Hovhaness, American composer (born 1911).
• June 22 – Manoranjan Dhar, Bangladeshi politician and diplomat (born 1904).
• June 22 – John Smith, British Anglican priest (born 1933).
• June 23 – Scott Baker, American racing driver (born 1957).
• June 23 – Jim Roper, American NASCAR driver (born 1916).
• June 24 – Rodrigo, Argentine singer (born 1973).
• June 24 – Duncan Kyle, British novelist (born 1930).
• June 24 – David Tomlinson, English actor (born 1917).
• June 27 – David Neal, English actor (born 1932).
• June 26 – Ken Bell, Canadian war photographer (born 1914).
• June 28 – Jane Birdwood, British far right politician (born 1913).
• June 28 – John Terence Coppock, British geographer (born 1921).
• June 28 – Dick James, American football player (born 1934).
• June 28 – Arnie Weinmeister, American football player (New York Giants) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (born 1923)
• June 29 – John Aspinall, British zoo owner (born 1926).
• June 29 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (born 1922).

July 2000

• July 1 – John Albert Axel Gibson, British World War II air ace (born 1916).
• July 1 – Walter Matthau, American actor (born 1920).
• July 2 – Joey Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (born 1952).
• July 3 – Sir Michael Hamilton, British politician (born 1918).
• July 3 – Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (born 1944).
• July 4 – Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme, British aristocrat (born 1915).
• July 5 – Peter Bullfrog Moore, Australian rugby league administrator (born 1932).
• July 6 – Roderic Coote, Anglican prelate (born 1915).
• July 6 – Fred Lane, American football player (born 1975).
• July 7 – Dame Stella Casey, New Zealand social activist (born 1924).
• July 7 – Kenny Irwin, NASCAR driver (born 1969).
• July 7 – James C. Quayle, American newspaper publisher (born 1921).
• July 7 – Charles Alan Wright, American constitutional lawyer (born 1927).
• July 8 – Dame Anne Mueller, British civil servant and academic (born 1930).
• July 9 – John Morgan, British etiquette expert (born 1959).
• July 10 – Leo Egan, American broadcaster (born 1914).
• July 10 – Vakkom Majeed, Indian politician (born 1909).
• July 10 – Pedro Mir, Dominican poet (born 1913).
• July 10 – Ursule Molinaro, French-born American writer (born 1916).
• July 10 – Denis O'Conor Don, O'Conor Don (born 1912).
• July 10 – Justin Pierce, British skateboarder and actor (born 1975).
• July 11 – Bill Alexander, British political activist (born 1910).
• July 11 – Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1921).
• July 12 – Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav prince (born 1928).
• July 13 – James Ferguson, American Air Force general (born 1913).
• July 13 – A. D. Hope, Australian poet (born 1907).
• July 14 – Meredith MacRae, American actress (born 1944).
• July 14 – Sir Mark Oliphant, Australian physicist, Governor of South Australia (born 1901).
• July 15 – Johnny Duncan, American musician (born 1932).
• July 15 – Kalle Svensson, Swedish footballer (born 1925).
• July 18 – John F. Davis, American lawyer (born 1907).
• July 19 – Tommy O'Boyle, American football coach. (born 1917).
• July 20 – James H. Morrison, American politician (born 1908).
• July 22 – John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield, British medical researcher and academic administrator (born 1920).
• July 22 – Raymond Lemieux, Canadian organic chemist (born 1920).
• July 23 – Ahmad Shamloo, Iranian poet and writer (born 1925).
• July 24 – Anatoli Firsov, Russian ice hockey player (born 1941).
• July 27 – Bruce Douglas-Mann, British politician (born 1927).
• July 27 – Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (born 1929).
• July 28 – Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist (born 1918).
• July 28 – Walter Schmidt, German SS officer (born 1917).
• July 28 – John Wells, British artist (born 1907).
• July 29 – René Favaloro, Argentine cardiologist who created the technique for coronary bypass surgery (born 1923).
• July 29 – Benny Fenton, English football player and manager (born 1918).
• July 29 – Hendrik C. van de Hulst, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (born 1918).

August 2000

• August 2 – John Caldwell, Australian politician (born 1934).
• August 3 – Joann Lõssov, Estonian basketball player (born 1921).
• August 3 – Geoffrey Page, British World War II flying ace (born 1920).
• August 4 – John Joseph Graham, American Roman Catholic prelate (born 1913).
• August 5 – Otto Buchsbaum, writer and ecological activist (born 1920).
• August 5 – Sir Alec Guinness, English actor and writer, Star Wars: Original Trilogy, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, liver cancer (born 1914).
• August 5 – Dudley Randall, African-American poet (born 1914).
• August 6 – Sir Robin Day, British political broadcaster (born 1923).
• August 6 – John Joseph Graham, American Roman Catholic prelate (born 1913).
• August 9 – Sir Josias Cunningham, Northern Irish politician (born 1934).
• August 9 – John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1920).
• August 9 – Bob Lido, American musician (born 1914).
• August 9 – Herb Thomas, American NASCAR driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame (born 1923).
• August 10 – Robert Manuel Cook, British classical scholar (born 1909).
• August 11 – Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer (born 1916).
• August 11 – Eddie Powell, British stuntman (born 1927).
• August 12 – Loretta Young, American actress (born 1913).
• August 12 – Dave Edwards, American musician (born 1941).
• August 13 – Sir Antony Duff, British diplomat, Director-General of MI5 (1985-1988) (born 1920).
• August 13 – Nazia Hassan, first South Asian pop singer (born 1965).
• August 13 – Tom Troman, English cricketer (born 1914).
• August 14 – John Boland, Irish politician (born 1944).
• August 15 – Lancelot Ware, British founder of MENSA (born 1915).
• August 15 – John Whitehead, English cricketer (born 1925).
• August 17 – Edith Körner, Czech-born British health reformer (born 1921).
• August 17 – Stephan Körner, Czech-born British philosopher (born 1913).
• August 17 – Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen, Baltic German Kapitänleutnant during World War II (born 1913).
• August 18 – Maurice Evans, English football player and manager (born 1936).
• August 19 – Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo activist and leader (born 1946).
• August 19 – David Norton Edelstein, American judge (born 1910).
• August 19 – Theodore Trautwein, American judge (born 1920).
• August 20 – Sir Peter Compston, British admiral (born 1915).
• August 20 – Nancy Evans, British opera singer (born 1915).
• August 21 – Sir Campbell Adamson, British industrialist (born 1922).
• August 21 – Tom Day, American football player (born 1935)
• August 21 – John Hayes, American film director (born 1930).
• August 21 – Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politician (born 1930).
• August 21 – Giuseppe Medici, Italian politician (born 1907).
• August 22 – Bill Bradford, American baseball player (born 1921).
• August 23 – Betty Blue, American model and actress (born 1931).
• August 24 – Andy Hug, Swiss kickboxer (born 1964).
• August 24 – Bob McPhail, Scottish footballer (born 1905).
• August 25 – Carl Barks, American cartoonist (born 1901).
• August 25 – Ian Stephenson, British artist (born 1934).
• August 28 – Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Wied, German prince (born 1931).
• August 29 – Mohamed Hamri, Moroccan painter and writer (born 1932).
• August 29 – Conrad Marca-Relli, American artist (born 1913).
• August 31 – Brian Murphy, Irish victim of unlawful killing (born 1981).
• August 31 – Dolores Moore, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player (born 1932).^[45]

September 2000

• September 2 – Elvera Sanchez, American dancer (born 1905).
• September 2 – Audrey Wise, British politician (born 1935).
• September 2 – Jean Speegle Howard, American actress (born 1927).
• September 3 – Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter and film maker (born 1914).
• September 3 – R. H. Harris, American gospel singer (born 1916).
• September 3 – Walt Stanchfield, American animator (born 1919).
• September 4 – David Brown, American bass guitarist (Santana) (born 1950).
• September 5 – George Musso, American football player (Chicago Bears) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (born 1910).
• September 5 – Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general (born 1918).^[46]
• September 6 – Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, notable American stillborn baby girl (born 2000).
• September 6 – David E. Bell, American public servant (born 1919).
• September 6 – Jiří Sovák, Czech actor (born 1920).
• September 8 – Carlos Castillo Peraza, Mexican politician (born 1947).
• September 9 – Robert S. Stevens, American politician and jurist (born 1916).
• September 10 – Dem Rădulescu, Romanian actor (born 1931).
• September 11 – Peter Browne, Australian politician (born 1924).
• September 13 – Shelagh Fraser, British actress (best known for playing Aunt Beru in Star Wars) (born 1920).
• September 14 – Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale, British politician (born 1914)
• September 16 – Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (born 1969).
• September 17 – Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (born 1976).
• September 17 – Paula Yates, British television presenter and journalist (born 1959).
• September 19 – Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (born 1917).
• September 20 – Stanislav Stratiev, Bulgarian playwright (born 1941).
• September 20 – Gherman Titov, Soviet cosmonaut (born 1935).
• September 21 – Robert Wright Campbell, American author and scriptwriter (born 1927).
• September 21 – Robert Peterson, American poet (born 1924).
• September 21 – John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, British aristocrat (born 1915).
• September 22 – Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet (born 1924).
• September 22 – Sir Antony Read, British Army general (born 1913).
• September 22 – Saburō Sakai, Japanese World War II flying ace (born 1916).
• September 23 – Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player (born 1947).
• September 23 – Kenny Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1924).
• September 25 – Tom Baker, British Anglican priest (born 1920).
• September 25 – R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (born 1913).
• September 26 – Richard Mulligan, American actor (born 1932).
• September 26 – Carl Sigman, American songwriter (born 1909).
• September 27 – Sammy Luftspring, Canadian boxer (born 1916).
• September 27 – Frank Wills, American security, discovered Watergate break-in (born 1948).
• September 28 – Peter Gennaro, American dancer and choreographer (born 1919).
• September 28 – Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada (born 1919).
• September 29 – John Grant, British politician (born 1932).
• September 29 – Maningning Miclat, Filipino poet and painter (born 1972).
• September 30 – Erno Paasilinna, Finnish writer and journalist (born 1935).
• September 30 – Sir Fred Pontin. English businessman (born 1906).
• September 30 – Howard Winstone, Welsh boxer (born 1939).

October 2000

• October 1 – Robert Allen, American composer (born 1927).
• October 2 – Amadou Karim Gaye, Senegalese politician (born 1913).
• October 2 – Elek Schwartz, Romanian football player and coach (born 1908).
• October 3 – Peter Baker, English cricketer (born 1945).
• October 3 – Benjamin Orr, the Cars bassist and singer (born 1947).
• October 3 – John Worsley, British artist (born 1919).
• October 4 – Alfred Lammer, 92, Austrian-born World War II Royal Air Force pilot (born 1909).
• October 4 – Michael Smith, English-born Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1932).
• October 4 – George Huntston Williams, American theologian (born 1914).
• October 6 – Richard Farnsworth, American actor (born 1920).
• October 7 – Wilford S. Bailey, American academic (born 1921).
• October 8 – Mihai Pop, Romanian ethnologist (born 1907).
• October 8 – Timothy P. Sheehan, American politician (born 1909).
• October 9 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1918).
• October 10 – Ferenc Farkas, Hungarian composer (born 1905).
• October 10 – Bruce Palmer, Jr., American army general (born 1913).
• October 11 – Donald Dewar, Scottish politician (born 1937).
• October 11 – Brian Foley, British Roman Catholic priest and hymnist.
• October 13 – Tony Roper, NASCAR driver (born 1964).
• October 15 – George Gray Bell, Canadian soldier (born 1920).
• October 15 – Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1912).
• October 15 – John Perceval, Australian artist (born 1923).
• October 16 – Joseph Scott, American bobsledder (born 1922).
• October 17 – Leo Nomellini, Italian-American football player (San Francisco 49ers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (born 1923).
• October 18 – Gwen Verdon, American actress (born 1925).
• October 18 – Julie London, American actress (born 1926)
• October 19 – Hortense Ellis, Jamaican reggae musician (born 1941).
• October 21 – Reginald Kray, British murderer (born 1933).
• October 21 – Alan Rowe, New Zealand-born British actor (born 1926).
• October 22 – Richard Harden, Northern Irish politician (born 1916).
• October 22 – Fred Pratt Green, British Methodist minister and hymn writer (born 1903).
• October 23 – Martin Rich, German conductor (born 1905).
• October 23 – Yokozuna, American wrestler (born 1966).
• October 25 – John Sinclair Morrison, English classicist (born 1913).
• October 26 – Laila Kinnunen, Finnish singer (born 1939).
• October 26 – Ruth Lessing, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player (born 1925).^[47]
• October 27 – Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (born 1929).
• October 27 – Eugene Lambert, American sports coach (born 1905).
• October 28 – Andújar Cedeño, Dominican baseball player (born 1969).
• October 28 – Josef Felder, German politician (born 1900).
• October 28 – Howard Patterson, American Olympic swimmer (born 1927).
• October 29 – Charles F. Avila, American electrical engineer (born 1906).
• October 30 – Steve Allen, American comedian, composer, talk show host, and author (born 1921).
• October 31 – Ring Lardner Jr., American journalist and screenwriter (born 1915).

November 2000

• November 1 – Platon Kornyljak, Ukrainian-born German Greek-Catholic hierarch, Apostolic Exarch in Germany and Scandinavia for the Ukrainians (1959–1996) (born 1920).
• November 2 – Eva Morris, British supercentenarian, oldest person in the world (born 1885).
• November 2 – Sue Ryder, 76, British charity founder (born 1924).
• November 3 – Robert Sherlaw Johnson, British composer and musicologist (born 1932).
• November 3 – Mary Hunter Wolf, American theatre director and producer (born 1905).
• November 4 – John Reynolds, American physicist (born 1923).
• November 4 – Ian Sneddon, Scottish mathematician (born 1919).
• November 5 – Etienne Aigner, Austrian-born American fashion designer (born 1904).
• November 5 – Morris Barry, British television producer (born 1918).
• November 5 – Amalia Hernández, 83, Mexican ballet choreographer.
• November 6 – L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (born 1907).
• November 7 – Jim Hutchinson, English cricketer and centenarian (born 1896)
• November 7 – C. Subramaniam, Indian politician (born 1910).
• November 7 – Ingrid of Sweden, Queen consort of Frederick IX of Denmark (born 1910).
• November 10 – Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Greek lawyer and politician, Prime Minister (1973-1974), (born 1919).
• November 10 – Alan Tyson, British musicologist (born 1926).
• November 11 – Sir Alun Davies, Welsh public servant (born 1913).
• November 11 – William Harris, 6th Earl of Malmesbury, British aristocrat and Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (born 1907).
• November 11 – Hugh Paddick, British actor (born 1915).
• November 12 – Eugene Antonio Marino, American Roman Catholic prelate (born 1934).
• November 12 – Harold Walker, English cricketer (born 1918).
• November 15 – Willie Cunningham, 75, Scottish footballer (born 1925).
• November 15 – Harry Webb, Australian politician (born 1908)
• November 16 – DJ Screw, DJ and rapper (born 1971).
• November 17 – Bim Sherman, Jamaican musician (born 1950).
• November 18 – Hubert Miller, American bobsledder (born 1918).
• November 19 – Jeaffreson Greswell, British Royal Air Force officer (born 1916).
• November 20 – Bryce Poe II, American Air Force general (born 1924).
• November 21 – Sir Cyril Clarke, British physician, geneticist and entomologist, former President of the Royal College of Physicians (born 1907).
• November 21 – Ernest Lluch, Spanish politician killed by ETA (born 1937).
• November 22 – Carlos Cardoso, Mozambican journalist (born 1951).
• November 22 – Jack Dyson, British cricketer and footballer (born 1934).
• November 22 – Emil Zátopek, Czechoslovakian multiple gold medal winning Olympic runner (born 1922).
• November 23 – Marjorie Brown, American owner of the Boston Celtics (born 1911).
• November 23 – William David Knowles, Canadian politician (born 1908).
• November 23 – Conrad Voss Bark, British writer and journalist (born 1913).
• November 23 – Rayner Unwin, British publisher (born 1925).
• November 25 – Austin Rawlinson, British swimmer (born 1902).
• November 26 – Ralph Bates, British novelist (born 1899).
• November 26 – Paddy Donegan, Irish politician (born 1923).
• November 27 – Sir Malcolm Bradbury, British author and literary critic (born 1932).
• November 28 – Robert Bentley, American animator (born 1907).
• November 28 – Henry B. Gonzalez, American politician (born 1916).
• November 28 – Liane Haid, Austrian actress (born 1895).
• November 29 – Lou Groza, American football player (Cleveland Browns) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (born 1924).
• November 29 – Sir William Henderson, Scottish veterinarian (born 1913).
• November 29 – Ilmar Laaban, Estonian poet and publicist (born 1921).
• November 30 – Scott Smith, Canadian bassist (Loverboy) (born 1955).

December 2000

• December 3 – Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (born 7 June 1917).
• December 3 – Hoyt Curtin, composer (born September 9, 1922).
• December 3 – Jun Fukuda, Japanese film director (born 17 February 1923).
• December 3 – Hugh Edward Richardson, British diplomat and Tibetologist (born 22 December 1905)
• December 4 – Colin Cowdrey, Baron Cowdrey of Tonbridge, English cricketer (born 24 December 1932).
• December 6 – Werner Klemperer, German actor (born 1920).^[48]
• December 7 – Levi Jackson, American football player, first African-American to captain Yale University (born 22 August 1926).
• December 7 – Toby Low, 1st Baron Aldington, British politician (born 1914).
• December 7 – Leszek Podhorodecki, Polish historian (born 1934).
• December 7 – Bob Voigts, American sports player and coach (born 1916).
• December 8 – Ann T. Bowling, 57, American geneticist, stroke.
• December 8 – Sachindra Lal Singh, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Tripura (born 1907).
• December 10 – Jack Cowan, Canadian football player (born 1927).
• December 10 – James T. McHugh, American Roman Catholic prelate (born 1932).
• December 11 – David Lewis, American actor (born 1916).
• December 11 – N. Richard Nash, American dramatist (born 1913).^[49]
• December 11 – Johannes Virolainen, Finnish politician (born 1914).^[50]
• December 12 – William J. Evans, American air force general (born 1924).
• December 12 – Dorothy Kirby, American golfer (born 1920).
• December 13 – Chen Zhen, Chinese-French artist (born 1955).
• December 14 – Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, Ukrainian Catholic bishop (born 1918).
• December 15 – Bubba Floyd, American baseball player (born 1917).
• December 17 – Erich Schmid, Swiss conductor (born 1907).
• December 18 – Kirsty MacColl, British singer-songwriter (born 1959).^[51]
• December 19 – David Dewayne Johnson, American murderer (born 1963).
• December 19 – Roebuck "Pops" Staples, patriarch of The Staple Singers (born 1914).^[52]
• December 19 – Sir Laurence Whistler, British poet and artist (born 1912).
• December 20 – Reginald E. Beauchamp, American sculptor (born 1910).
• December 20 – Bill Clarke, Canadian footballer (born 1932).
• December 20 – Alexander Ramsay of Mar, British aristocrat (born 1919).
• December 21 – John Lee, Australian actor (born 1928).
• December 22 – Herman Feshbach, American physicist. (born 1917).
• December 22 – Connie McCready, American journalist and politician (born 1921).
• December 22 – Harry Payne, Welsh rugby union player (born 1903).
• December 23 – Billy Barty, American actor (born 1924).
• December 23 – Victor Borge, Danish-born comedian and pianist (born 1909).^[53]
• December 23 – Noor Jehan, Pakistani actress and singer (born 1926).
• December 23 – Sir Jimmy Shand, Scottish musician (born 1908).
• December 24 – John Cooper, British automobile designer (born 1923).
• December 24 – Nick Massi, bass singer and bass guitarist for The Four Seasons (born 1935).^[54]
• December 24 – Laurence Chisholm Young, American mathematician (born 1905).
• December 25 – Décio Esteves, Brazilian footballer (born 1927).
• December 25 – Robert Francis Garner, American Roman Catholic prelate (born 1920).
• December 26 – Jason Robards, American actor (born 1922).
• December 26 – Magik, Polish rapper (born 1978).
• December 28 – Marc Boileau, Canadian ice hockey coach and player (born 1932).
• December 28 – Jacques Laurent, French writer and journalist (born 1919).
• December 28 – Robert Williams, American baseball player (born 1917).
• December 29 – Adele Stimmel Chase, American artist (born 1917)
• December 30 – Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (born 1909).^[55]
• December 31 – Anne Macnaghten, British violinist (born 1908). ^[56]
• December 31 – Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, Israeli settler leader (born 1966).^[57]

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