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 1 - Colin Vaughan, Canadian/Australian political journalist (born 1931)
• January 2 - Patrick O'Brian, English writer (born 1914).
• January 2 - Jimmy Guieu, French science fiction writer (born 1926).
• January 3 - Henry H. Fowler, American lawyer and politician, Secretary of the Treasury (born 1908).
• January 4 - Michael Gershman, American writer and music producer (born 1941).
• January 6 - Don Martin, American cartoonist (born 1931).
• January 7 - Makhmud Esambayev, Chechen dancer (born 1924).
• January 7 - Robert McG. Thomas, Jr., American journalist (born 1939).
• January 8 - Jack Stokes, Canadian politician (born 1923).
• January 11 - William Andrew McDonald, American archaeologist (born 1913).
• January 12 - Marc Davis, American animator (born 1913).
• 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 15 - Vernon Caryle Holloway, Sr., American businessman and politician (born 1919).
• January 15 - Marie Kazmierczak, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player (born 1920).
• January 15 - Željko Ražnatović, Serbian mobster and paramilitary leader (born 1952).
• January 15 - Fran Ryan, American actress (born 1916).
• January 19 - Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (born 1934).
• January 19 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (born 1913).
• January 19 - Rex Willis, Welsh rugby union player (born 1924).
• January 22 - E.W. Swanton, British cricket commentator (born 1907).
• January 25 - Herta Freitag, Austrian-born American mathematician (born 1908)
• January 26 - Willie Hamilton, British politician (born 1917).
• January 26 - Don Ralke, American music arranger (born 1920).
• 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 - Syed Mahmood Quadri, Indian Judge & Philanthropist (born 1911).
• January 28 - Gad Rausing, Swedish industrialist (born 1922).
• January 29 - Harry Thompson, English football player and manager (born 1915).

February 2000

• February 1 - Peter Levi, British poet and scholar (born 1931).
• February 3 - Ken Stroud, British mathematician (born 1908).
• February 4 - Edgar Bowers, American poet (born 1924).
• February 4 - Ronald Robertson, American figure skater (born 1937).
• 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).
• February 7 - Doug Henning, Canadian magician, illusionist and escape artist (born 1947).
• February 7 - Bob Collins, American broadcaster (born 1942).
• February 7 - Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1918).
• February 7 - Shiho Niiyama, Japanese voice actress (born 1970)
• February 8 - Derrick Thomas, American football player (born 1967).
• February 9 - Steve Furness, American football player (born 1950).
• February 9 - Beau Jack, American boxer (born 1921).
• 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).
• February 11 - Roger Vadim, French film director (born 1928).
• February 12 - Jalacy "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins, American musician (born 1929).
• February 12 - Tom Landry, American football coach (born 1924).
• 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 - 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 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, artist (born 1928).
• February 22 - V.J.P. Saldanha, Indian Konkani language litterateur, dramatist, musician, and poet. (born 1925).
• February 23 - Dennis Evans, English footballer (born 1930).
• February 23 - Sir Stanley Matthews, English footballer (born 1915).
• February 23 - Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (born 1957).
• February 29 - Dennis Danell, American musician (Social Distortion) (born 1961).

March 2000

• 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 - Dame Roma Mitchell, Australian lawyer and Governor of South Australia. (born 1913).
• March 5 - Eddie Mae Steward, American civil rights activist (born 1938).
• March 5 - Lolo Ferrari, French dancer, sex star, pornographic actress, actress and singer (born 1963).
• 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 10 - Barbara Cooney, American author and illustrator (born 1917).
• March 11 - Will Roberts, Welsh painter (born 1907).
• March 13 - Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam, Indian army general (born 1913).
• March 15 - Robert Welch, British designer (born 1929).
• March 17 - Jack Davis, Australian playwright (born 1917).
• March 19 - Joanne Weaver, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player (born 1935).
• March 20 - Gerald Kingsland, British journalist and adventurer (born 1930).
• March 22 - John Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil, British diplomat (born 1926).
• March 24 - Al Grey, American jazz trombonist (born 1924).
• March 24 - George Kirby, British footballer. (born 1933).
• March 27 - Ian Dury, British rock and roll singer (born 1942).
• March 28 - Anthony Powell, British author (born 1905).
• March 30 - George Batchelor, Australian mathematician (born 1920).
• March 30 - Rudolf Kirchschlaeger, Austrian politician (born 1915).

April 2000

• April 1 - Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, British judge. (born 1924)
• April 2 - Bunney Brooke, Australian actor, acted in Round the Twist (well known children's TV show 1989). (born 1921)
• April 3 - Terence McKenna, writer, philosopher. (born 1946)
• April 3 - David Treffry, British colonial servant and financier. (born 1926)
• April 4 - Derek Allhusen, British equestrian. (born 1914)
• April 5 - Chino 'Fats' Williams, American actor (born 1933)
• April 5 - Lee Petty, American race car driver. (born 1914)
• April 6 - Habib Bourguiba, President of Tunisia. (born 1903)
• April 9 - Tony Cliff, British Trotskyist writer and journalist. (born 1917)
• April 11 - Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer. (born 1945)
• April 13 - Arthur Owen, British racing driver. (born 1915)
• April 13 - Marlene Goldsmith, Australian politician. (born 1942)
• April 14 - George E. Taylor, American sinologist. (born 1905)
• April 16 - Henry Daniels, British statistician. (born 1912)
• April 16 - Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah, King of Malaysia. (born 1920)
• April 22 - Jack Best, British RAF pilot, attempted escapee from Colditz. (born 1912)
• 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).
• April 27 - C. R. Boxer, British historian. (born 1904)
• April 29 - Phạm Văn Ðồng, Prime Minister of Vietnam. (born 1906)

May 2000

• May 1 - Nora Swinburne, British actress (b. 1902)
• May 2 - Bob Homme, actor, known for his role as The Friendly Giant (born 1919).
• May 2 - Billy Munn, British jazz pianist (born 1911).
• May 9 - Chris Evans, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1946).
• May 10 - Sir Martin Farndale, British army general (born 1929).
• May 10 - Margaret Harris, British costume designer (born 1904).
• May 10 - Craig Stevens, American actor (born 1918).
• May 10 - Kaneto Shiozawa, Japanese voice actor (born 1954)
• May 11 - René Muñoz, Cuban actor, screenwriter of telenovelas and the cinema of Mexico (born 1938).
• May 11 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (born 1907).
• May 12 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (born 1980).
• May 14 - Sarah Mavis Dabbs, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player (born 1922).
• May 14 - Keizo Obuchi, Prime Minister of Japan (born 1937).
• May 17 - Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1909).
• May 18 - William S. Miller, Eagle Scout and Scout Master (born 1926).
• 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 22 - Bahadoor, Indian actor (born 1930).
• May 22 - David Chadwick Smith, Canadian economist (born 1931).
• 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).
• May 28 - George Irving Bell, American scientist and mountaineer (born 1926).
• 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 2 - Lepo Sumera, Estonian composer (born 1950).
• June 3 - Merton Miller, American Nobel Prize-winning economist (born 1923).
• June 4 - Clarence Holbrook Carter, American artist (born 1904).
• June 7 - Barbara Jo Walker, winner of Miss America (1947) (born 1926).
• 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 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 - Nancy Marchand, American actress who starred in The Sopranos (born 1928).
• June 21 - Alan Hovhaness, American composer (born 1911).
• June 22 - John Smith, British Anglican priest (born 1933).
• June 24 - Rodrigo Bueno, 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 - Dick James, American football player (born 1934).
• June 29 - John Aspinall, British zoo owner (born 1926).

July 2000

• July 1 - Walter Matthau, American actor (born 1920).
• July 2 - Joey Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (born 1952).
• July 6 - Roderic Coote, Anglican prelate (born 1915).
• July 7 - James C. Quayle, American newspaper publisher (born 1921).
• July 7 - Kenny Irwin, NASCAR driver (born 1969).
• July 10 - Vakkom Majeed, Indian politician (born 1909).
• July 10 - Denis O'Conor Don, O'Conor Don (born 1912).
• July 10 - Justin Pierce, British skateboarder and actor (born 1975).
• July 10 - Pedro Mir, Dominican poet (born 1913).
• 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 15 - Johnny Duncan, American musician (born 1932).
• July 18 - John F. Davis, American lawyer (born 1907).
• July 20 - James H. Morrison, American politician (born 1908).
• 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).

August 2000

• August 3 - Joann Lõssov, Estonian basketball player (born 1921).
• August 3 - Geoffrey Page, British World War II flying ace (born 1920).
• August 5 - Sir Alec Guinness, English actor and writer (born 1914).
• August 5 - Otto Buchsbaum, writer and ecological activist (born 1920).
• August 6 - Sir Robin Day, British political broadcaster (born 1923).
• August 6 - John Joseph Graham, American Roman Catholic prelate (born 1913).
• 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 (born 1923).
• August 10 - Robert Manuel Cook, British classical scholar (born 1909).
• August 12 - Loretta Young, American actress (born 1913).
• August 12 - Dave Edwards, American musician (born 1941).
• August 13 - Nazia Hassan, first South Asian pop singer (born 1965).
• August 13 - Tom Troman, English cricketer (born 1914).
• August 15 - John Whitehead, English cricketer (born 1925).
• August 17 - Stephan Körner, Czech-born British philosopher (born 1913).
• August 17 - Hans-Dietrich von Tiesenhausen, Baltic German Kapitänleutnant during World War II (born 1913).
• 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 21 - John Hayes, American film director (born 1930).
• August 21 - Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politician (born 1930).
• 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 31 - Dolores Moore, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player (born 1932).

September 2000

• September 2 - Elvera Sanchez, American dancer (born 1905).
• September 2 - Audrey Wise, British politician (born 1935).
• September 6 - Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, notable American stillb baby girl (born 2000).
• September 9 - Robert S. Stevens, American politician and jurist (born 1916).
• 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 - John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, British aristocrat (born 1915).
• September 22 - Sir Antony Read, British Army general (born 1913).
• September 23 - Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player (born 1947).
• September 23 - Kenny Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1924).
• September 25 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (born 1913).
• 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 - Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada (born 1919).
• September 29 - John Grant, British politician (born 1932).
• September 30 - Erno Paasilinna, Finnish writer and journalist (born 1935).

October 2000

• October 3 - Benjamin Orr, the Cars bassist and singer (born 1947).
• October 4 - Michael Smith, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1932).
• October 4 - George Huntston Williams, American theologian (born 1914).
• October 8 - Timothy P. Sheehan, American politician (born 1909).
• October 9 - Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1918).
• October 10 - Bruce Palmer, Jr., American army general (born 1913).
• October 11 - Donald Dewar, Scottish politician (born 1937).
• 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 16 - Joseph Scott, American bobsledder (born 1922).
• 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 - Rodney Anoa'i, American wrestler known as Yokozuna (born 1966).
• October 23 - Martin Rich, German conductor (born 1905).
• October 26 - Ruth Lessing, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player (born 1925).
• October 27 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (born 1929).
• October 28 - Andujar Cedeno, Dominican baseball player (born 1969).
• October 29 - Charles F. Avila, American electrical engineer (born 1906).
• October 30 - Steve Allen, American comedian, composer, talk show host, and author (born 1921).

November 2000

• 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 4 - John Reynolds, American physicist (born 1923).
• November 6 - L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (born 1907).
• November 7 - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (born 1910).
• November 7 - Ingrid of Sweden, Queen consort of Frederick IX of Denmark (born 1910).
• 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 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 22 - Carlos Cardoso, Mozambican journalist (born 1951).
• November 22 - Sir Cyril Astley Clarke, British physician, geneticist and entomologist, former President of the Royal College of Physicians (born 1907).
• November 22 - Jack Dyson, British cricketer and footballer (born 1934).
• November 23 - William David Knowles, Canadian politician (born 1908).
• November 23 - Conrad Voss Bark, British writer and journalist (born 1913).
• November 26 - Ralph Bates, British novelist (born 1899).
• November 27 - Sir Malcolm Bradbury, British author and literary critic (born 1932).
• November 27 - Damilola Taylor, murder victim (born 1989).
• November 28 - Robert Bentley, American animator (born 1907).
• November 28 - Liane Haid, Austrian actress (born 1895).
• November 29 - Ilmar Laaban, Estonian poet and publicist (born 1921).

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).
• December 7 - Toby Low, 1st Baron Aldington, British politician (born 1914).
• December 7 - Leszek Podhorodecki, Polish historian (born 1934).
• 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).
• December 11 - Johannes Virolainen, Finnish politician (born 1914).
• December 12 - William J. Evans, American air force general (born 1924).
• December 12 - Dorothy Kirby, American golfer (born 1920).
• December 15 - Bubba Floyd, American baseball player (born 1917).
• December 18 - Kirsty MacColl, British singer-songwriter (born 1959).
• December 19 - Roebuck "Pops" Staples, patriarch of The Staple Singers (born 1914).
• December 20 - Reginald E. Beauchamp, American sculptor (born 1910).
• December 20 - Bill Clarke, Canadian footballer, (born 1932).
• December 22 - Connie McCready, 79, American journalist and politician (born 1921).
• December 22 - Harry Payne, Welsh rugby union player (born 1903).
• December 23 - Victor Borge, Danish-born comedian and pianist (born 1909).
• December 23 - Noor Jehan, Pakistani actress and singer (born 1926).
• December 23 - Sir Jimmy Shand, Scottish musician (born 1908).
• December 24 - Nick Massi, bass singer and bass guitarist for The Four Seasons (born 1935).
• December 30 - Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (born 1909).
• December 31 - Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, Israeli settler leader (born 1966).