Deaths in December 2000
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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.
December 2000
1
- Moses Abramovitz, 88, American economist.[1]
- Robert V. Barron, 67, American TV and film director.[2]
- Issy Bloomberg, 70, South African weightlifter and Olympian (1948, 1952).[3]
- Neal Creque, 60, American organist and jazz composer.[4]
- Peter Denton, 74, Australian pole vaulter and Olympian (1956).[5]
- Jack Hemingway, 77, Canadian-American fly fisherman, writer and son of novelist Ernest Hemingway.[6]
- Jim Olsen, 79, American basketball player.[7]
- Elmer E. Rasmuson, 91, American banker, philanthropist and politician, heart failure.[8]
- Jack Rooney, 76, Australian rugby league footballer.[9]
- Erik Simonsen, 85, Danish Olympic long-distance runner (1952).[10]
- Terry Wilshusen, 51, American baseball player (California Angels).[11]
2
- Chris Antley, 34, American jockey (Racing Hall of Fame) (winner of Kentucky Derby 1991, 1999), drug overdose.[12]
- Gail Fisher, 65, American actress (Mannix), renal failure.[13]
- Rosemarie Frankland, 57, Welsh actress, model and beauty queen, drug overdose.
- Alfonso Barrantes Lingán, 73, Peruvian politician.
- Pete "El Conde" Rodríguez, 67, American salsa singer, heart attack.
- Theodore Ropp, 89, American historian.[14]
- Kurt Schmid, 68, Swiss rower and Olympic medalist (1952, 1960).[15]
- Michael Schumann, 54, (East) German philosophy professor and politician, traffic accident.
- Daniel Singer, 74, Polish-American socialist writer and journalist, lung cancer.[16]
- Emily Wilkens, 83, American fashion designer.[17]
- Ray Young, 62, Australian politician.
- Bibiano Zapirain, 81, Uruguayan football player.[18]
- Bian Zhilin, 89, Chinese poet and literature researcher.[19]
3
- Gwendolyn Brooks, 83, American poet, cancer.[20]
- Hoyt Curtin, 78, American composer and music producer.[21]
- Cletus Fischer, 75, American gridiron football player (New York Giants).[22]
- Jun Fukuda, 77, Japanese film director, cancer.
- Bobby Kottarakkara, 48, Indian actor, heart attack.
- Red Nonnenkamp, 89, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox).[23]
- Hugh Edward Richardson, 94, British diplomat and Tibetologist.[24]
- Miklós Szabó, 91, Hungarian middle-distance runner and Olympian (1936).[25]
4
- Henck Arron, 64, Suriname politician and Prime Minister, cardiac arrest.[26]
- H. C. Artmann, 79, Austrian poet and writer, heart attack.[27]
- Tito Arévalo, 89, Filipino actor and musician.
- Horia Bernea, 62, Romanian painter.[28]
- Miguel Caldés Luis, 30, Cuban baseball player and Olympian (1996, 2000).[29]
- Ram Bahadur Chettri, 63, Indian football player and Olympian (1960).[30]
- Colin Cowdrey, 67, English cricket player.[31]
- Austin Davis, 78, American baseball player.[32]
- Vincent M. Fennelly, 80, American film and television producer.
- Gisela Kahn Gresser, 94, American chess player.[33]
- Manuel Licea, 79, Cuban singer, diabetes.
- Joe Nanini, 45, American rock drummer, intracranial aneurysm.
5
- Ahmad Zaidi Adruce, 74, Malaysian governor.
- Ghulam Dastagir Alam, Pakistani theoretical physicist.
- Rupert Charles Barneby, 89, American botanist.[34]
- Dieter Bogatzki, 58, German Olympic middle-distance runner (1964).[35]
- Árpád Glatz, 61, Hungarian Olympic basketball player (1960, 1964).[36]
- Matthew Lukwiya, 43, Ugandan physician, ebola virus disease.
- Antonio Sbordone, 68, Italian Olympic diver (1960).[37]
- O. W. Wolters, 85, British academic, historian and author.
6
- Peter Aird, 79, Scottish footballer.[38]
- Donald Angelini, 74, American mobster.
- Thomas Babe, 59, American playwright, lung cancer.[39]
- Walter Grauman, 85, American basketball player.[40]
- Daniel Hittle, 50, American serial killer and mass murderer, execution by lethal injection.[41]
- Enrique Anderson Imbert, 90, Argentine novelist and short-story writer.[42]
- Werner Klemperer, 80, German actor (Hogan's Heroes, Judgment at Nuremberg, Houseboat), Emmy winner (1968, 1969), cancer.[43]
- Chrystabel Leighton-Porter, 87, British model.
- Aziz Mian, 58, Pakistani qawwali, complications of hepatitis.
- Umasashi, 85, Indian Bengali film actress.
- Svetozar Vukmanović, 88, Yugoslav and Montenegrin communist politician.[44]
7
- Toby Low, 1st Baron Aldington, 86, British politician.[45]
- Edward Castro, 50, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
- Vlado Gotovac, 70, Croatian poet and politician, liver cancer.[46]
- Levi Jackson, 74, American football player, first African-American to captain Yale University.[47]
- Leszek Podhorodecki, Polish historian.
8
- Gary Bergman, 62, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Minnesota North Stars, Kansas City Scouts).[48]
- Ann T. Bowling, 57, American geneticist, stroke.
- Julian C. Dixon, 66, American politician, heart attack.[49]
- Ionatana Ionatana, 62, Prime Minister of Tuvalu (1999 – 2000), heart attack.
- Charles Issawi, 84, Egyptian-American economist and historian.[50]
- Marvin Leath, 69, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1979-1991).[51]
- Milić od Mačve, 66, Serbian painter and artist.
- Tyrone McGriff, 42, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).[52]
- Lionel Rogosin, 76, American filmmaker.[53]
- Neil Staebler, 95, American politician, Alzheimer's disease.[54]
9
- Robert Armitage, 45, South African cricketer, cancer.[55]
- William Bagonza, 40, Ugandan Olympic boxer (1984).[56]
- Eugenio Galvalisi, 85, Uruguayan football player.[57]
- John Hock, 72, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Los Angeles Rams), lung cancer.[58]
- Marina Koshetz, 88, American opera singer and actress.
- Tyrone McGriff, 42, American football player, heart attack.[59]
- Sachindra Lal Singh, 93, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Tripura.
- Billie Yorke, 89, British tennis player.
10
- José Águas, 70, Portuguese football player.[60]
- Paul Avery, 66, American journalist, pulmonary emphysema.
- Jack Cowan, 73, Canadian football player.
- Dick Healey, 77, Australian politician and sports broadcaster.
- Marius B. Jansen, 78, American academic and historian.[61]
- James T. McHugh, 68, American Roman Catholic prelate.
- Andreas Mouratis, 74, Greek football player and Olympian (1952).[62]
- Tony Mulvihill, 83, Australian politician.
- Willard Nixon, 72, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).[63]
- Teresa Sterne, 73, American concert pianist and record producer, Lou Gehrig's disease.[64]
- Riley Stewart, 81, American baseball player.[65]
- Marie Windsor, 80, American actress.[66]
11
- Pauline Curley, 96, American vaudeville and silent film actress, pneumonia.
- Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, 85, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author.
- David Lewis, 84, American actor.[67]
- Jack Liebowitz, 100, American book publisher (DC Comics).[68]
- N. Richard Nash, 87, American dramatist.[69]
- Johannes Virolainen, 86, Finnish politician.[70]
- René Wheeler, 88, French screenwriter and film director.[71]
12
- Red Barkley, 88, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, Boston Bees, Brooklyn Dodgers).[72]
- Michael D'Asaro Sr., 62, American fencer and Olympian (1960).[73]
- Götz Friedrich, 70, German opera and theatre director.[74]
- Knud W. Jensen, 84, Danish businessman and art collector.[75]
- Rosa King, 61, American jazz and blues musician.
- Dorothy Kirby, 80, American golfer.
- Libertad Lamarque, 92, Argentine-Mexican actress and singer, pneumonia.[76]
- George Montgomery, 84, American actor, heart attack.[77]
- J. H. Patel, 70, Indian politician and Chief Minister of Karnataka.
- Doug Peace, 81, Canadian Olympic cyclist (1936).[78]
- Jimmy Scarth, 74, English football player.[79]
- Ndabaningi Sithole, 80, Zimbabwean politician and rival of Robert Mugabe.[80]
- Marius Zwiller, 95, French Olympic swimmer (1924).[81]
13
- Roy Anthony Bridge, 79, Jamaican Olympic sports shooter (1960, 1964).[82]
- Pierre Demargne, 97, French historian and archaeologist.[83]
- Clarence Dybvig, 81, American politician.[84]
- Aharon Harel, 68, Israeli politician.[85]
- Jake Jones, 80, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox).[86]
- Erhard Krack, 69, German politician and mayor of East Berlin.
- Chen Zhen, 45, Chinese-French conceptual artist, cancer.[87]
14
- Ventura Alonzo, 95, Mexican-born American musician.[88]
- Johan Asker, 85, Swedish Olympic equestrian (1956).[89]
- Enoch Dumbutshena, 80, Zimbabwean judge, liver cancer.
- Allan Howe, 73, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1975-1977).[90]
- Roger Judrin, 91, French writer and literary critic.[91]
- Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, 82, Ukrainian Catholic bishop.
- John Mahnken, 78, American basketball player.[92]
- Pavel Plotnikov, 80, Soviet air force general.
- Uldis Pūcītis, 63, Latvian actor, scriptwriter and film director, pulmonary embolism.
- Al Vincent, 93, American baseball player, manager, coach and scout.[93]
15
- Trevor Adams, 54, British actor, cancer.[94]
- George Alcock, 88, English astronomer.
- Z. W. Birnbaum, 97, Polish-American mathematician and statistician.[95]
- Jozef Boons, 57, Belgian racing cyclist and Olympian (1964), traffic accident.[96]
- Haris Brkić, 26, Yugoslav basketball player, shot.
- Derwin Brown, 46, American police officer and sheriff-elect of DeKalb County, shot.[97]
- Bubba Floyd, 83, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[98]
- Inigo Gallo, 68, Swiss comedian, radio personality, and actor, liver cancer.
- Gour Kishore Ghosh, 77, Bengali writer and journalist.
- Jacques Goddet, 95, French sports journalist and director of the Tour de France.[99]
- Valery Nikolin, 61, Soviet Russian Olympic sailor (1964).[100]
- Chiang Peng-chien, 60, Taiwanese politician, pancreatic cancer.
16
- Saad Dahlab, Algerian politician.[101]
- Blue Demon, 78, Mexican masked wrestler and actor, myocardial infarction.
- Grigory Kiselyov, 63, Soviet Russian Olympic swimmer (1960).[102]
- Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, 89, German physicist.
- Alain-Philippe Malagnac, 49, French actor, smoke inhalation.[103]
- Victor Owusu, 76, Ghanaian politician and lawyer.
- Hugh W. Pinnock, 66, American Mormon leader, pulmonary fibrosis.[104]
- Chuck Pratt, 61, American rock climber, heart attack.
- Theo Saevecke, 89, Nazi German SS officer and holocaust perpetrator.
17
- Gerald Aylmer, 74, British historian.[105]
- Peter Barrett, 65, American sailor and Olympic champion (1960, 1964, 1968).[106]
- Gérard Blain, 70, French actor and film director, cancer.[107]
- Harold Rhodes, 89, American music inventor, pneumonia.[108]
- Jeroom Riske, 81, Belgian Olympic gymnast (1952).[109]
- Erich Schmid, 93, Swiss conductor.[110]
18
- Paddy Barry, 72, Irish hurler.
- Hal Call, 83, American LGBT rights activist, and U.S. Army veteran, congestive heart failure.
- Pedro Consuegra, 70, Argentine Olympic water polo player (1960).[111]
- José D'Andrea, 85, Argentine Olympic fencer (1948, 1952).[112]
- Harry DeWolf, 97, Canadian naval officer during World War II.
- Lajos Dunai, 58, Hungarian football player and Olympian (1968).[113]
- Stan Fox, 48, American race car driver, traffic collision.[114]
- Randolph Apperson Hearst, 85, American newspaper publisher (Hearst Corporation).[115]
- Norman Humphries, 83, English cricket player.[116]
- Kirsty MacColl, 41, British singer-songwriter, boating accident.[117]
- Madhavapeddi Satyam, 78, Indian actor and singer.
- Giorgio Saviane, 84, Italian author.[118]
- Nick Stewart, 90, American television and film actor.[119]
19
- Pierre Allain, 96, French alpinist.[120]
- Mahmud Baksi, 56, Kurdish writer and journalist, kidney failure.[121]
- Reginald Bennett, 89, English politician, psychiatrist and painter.
- Rob Buck, 42, American musician (10,000 Maniacs), liver disease.[122]
- Michel Dens, 89, French baritone.[123]
- György Györffy, 83, Hungarian historian.[124]
- Milt Hinton, 90, American double bassist and photographer.[125]
- Lars Kirkebjerg, 78, Danish Olympic equestrian (1956).[126]
- John Lindsay, 79, 103rd Mayor of New York City, Parkinson's disease.[127]
- William L. Moran, 79, American assyriologist.[128]
- Lou Polli, 99, Italian-American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, New York Giants).[129]
- Son Sann, 89, Cambodian politician and resistance leader.
- Pops Staples, 85, patriarch of The Staple Singers, fall.[130]
- Lou Thuman, 84, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[131]
- Laurence Whistler, 88, British poet and artist.[132]
20
- Bill Clarke, 68, Canadian football player, Parkinson's disease.
- Mirza Ghulam Hafiz, 80, Bangladeshi statesman, politician, and philanthropist.
- Richard Hazard, 79, American television composer, conductor and songwriter, cancer.[133]
- Adrian Henri, 68, British poet and painter (Liverpool Poets).[134]
- Patriarch Diodoros of Jerusalem, 77, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem (1980-2000), diabetes.[135]
- Syed Abdul Malik, 81, Indian Assamese writer.
- Alexander Ramsay of Mar, 80, British aristocrat.[136]
21
- Rober Eryol, 70, Turkish football player.[137]
- Alfred J. Gross, 82, American inventor and a pioneer in mobile wireless communication.[138]
- Florynce Kennedy, 84, American lawyer, feminist, civil rights advocate, and activist.[139]
- John Lee, 72, Australian actor.
- Edward Miller, 85, British historian (Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge).[140]
- Stephen A. Mitchell, 54, American clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst.[141]
- Norman Morrell, 88, British wrestler and Olympian (1936).[142]
- Gord Reay, 57, Canadian Army officer, road accident.
- Derek Trevis, 58, English football player.
- Renaat Van Elslande, 84, Belgian politician.
22
- Lianella Carell, 73, Italian film actress and screenwriter.[143]
- Giuseppe Colnago, 77, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
- Herman Feshbach, 83, American physicist.[144]
- Vytautas Kulakauskas, 80, Lithuanian basketball player, and coach.
- Stuart Lancaster, 80, American actor.
- Connie McCready, 79, American journalist and politician, complications from a stroke.[145]
- Gottfried von Meiss, 91, Swiss Olympic fencer (1936, 1948).[146]
- Edson Mitchell, 47, American investment banker and executive, plane crash.[147]
- Allan Smethurst, 73, English folk singer, heart attack.[148]
23
- Esther B. Aresty, 92, American cookbook writer.[149]
- Wilfred Arthur, 81, Australian fighter ace of the RAAF during World War II.
- Larry Baker, 63, American gridiron football player (New York Titans).[150]
- Billy Barty, 76, American actor (Willow, Legend, Masters of the Universe), heart failure.[151]
- Susan Berman, 55, American journalist and author, homicide.[152]
- Victor Borge, 91, Danish-American comedian and pianist.[153]
- Vinal G. Good, 94, American politician and lawyer from Maine.
- Aage Haugland, 56, Danish operatic bass, cancer.[154]
- Noor Jehan, 74, Pakistani actress and singer, heart failure.
- Louis Leprince-Ringuet, 99, French physicist, essayist and historian of science.[155]
- Jimmy Shand, 92, Scottish musician.[156]
- Dan Turk, 38, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Oakland Raiders), testicular cancer.[157]
- Marvin Williams, 80, American baseball player.[158]
24
- Horace Barker, 93, American biochemist and microbiologist.[159]
- John Cooper, 77, British automobile designer (Cooper Car Company).[160]
- Sadek Hilal, 70, Egyptian-American radiologist.[161]
- Seo Jeong-ju, 85, Korean poet and academic.
- Sadik Kaceli, 86, Albanian artist.
- Lucienne Laudré-Viel, 93, French athlete and Olympian (1928).[162]
- Nick Massi, 73, American bass singer and bass guitarist for The Four Seasons, cancer.[163]
- Helena Pajović, 21, Serbian figure skater, traffic collision.
- Howard Yerges, 76, American gridiron football player.
- Laurence Chisholm Young, 95, British mathematician.
25
- Truus Baumeister, 93, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympian (1928).[164]
- Décio Esteves, 73, Brazilian football player and coach.
- George Feigenbaum, 71, American basketball player.[165]
- Robert Francis Garner, 80, American Roman Catholic prelate.
- Joe Gilliam, 49, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), cocaine overdose.[166]
- Dheerendra Gopal, 60, Indian film and stage actor, jaundice attack.
- Neil Hawke, 61, Australian cricket player.[167]
- Willard Van Orman Quine, 92, American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition.[168]
- Sam Savitt, 83, American equine artist, author, and book illustrator.[169]
- Vibhuti Narayan Singh, 73, Indian sanskrit scholar and maharaja of Benares.
- Peter W. Staub, 90, Swiss actor and singer.
- Ignacy Tłoczyński, 89, Polish tennis player and coach.
26
- John Coatta, 71, American football player and coach.
- José Hernández Delgadillo, 73, Mexican painter and muralist.
- Mirra Ginsburg, 91, Russian-American translator of Russian literature and children's writer.
- Leo Gordon, 78, American character actor, cardiac failure.[170]
- Alan Harris, 84, British engineer.
- Walter Hayes, British journalist and business executive, lung cancer.
- Magik, 22, Polish rapper, suicide by jumping.
- John McLeay, Jr., 78, Australian politician.[171]
- Herman Nickerson Jr., 87, United States Marine Corps lieutenant general.
- Jason Robards, 78, American actor (All the President's Men, Julia, Once Upon a Time in the West), Oscar winner (1977, 1978), lung cancer.[172]
- Guy-Pierre Volpert, 84, French Olympic ice hockey player (1936).[173]
- Gust Zarnas, 87, American gridiron football player (Chicago Bears, Brooklyn Dodgers, Green Bay Packers).[174]
27
- Erwin Ammann, 84, German politician.
- William Hanes Ayres, 84, American politician, heart and kidney ailments.[175]
- Marc Boileau, 68, Canadian ice hockey coach (Pittsburgh Penguins), and player (Detroit Red Wings).[176]
- Toshiyasu Ishige, 68, Japanese Olympic sports shooter (1964, 1976).[177]
- Walter Stanley Keane, 85, American plagiarist.[178]
- Jack McVea, 86, American woodwind player and bandleader.[179]
- Francis Sumner Merritt, 87, American painter, and art teacher.
- Roy Partee, 83, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Browns).[180]
- Joe Schaefer, 76, American ice hockey player (New York Rangers).[181]
28
- Eduard Adorno, 80, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
- Aminuddin Dagar, 77, Indian Dhrupad singer.[182]
- João Fragoso, 87, Portuguese painter.[183]
- Sergey Grishchenko, 53, Soviet Olympic alpine skier (1972).[184]
- Arnold Hutschnecker, 102, Austrian-American medical doctor.[185]
- William X. Kienzle, 72, American priest and author (The Rosary Murders, Death Wears a Red Hat), heart attack.
29
- Julio Aguilar Azañón, 66, Spanish politician.[186]
- Renata Carraretto, 77, Italian Olympic alpine skier (1948).[187]
- George Feigenbaum, 71, American basketball player (Baltimore Bullets, Milwaukee Hawks).[188]
- Juan Giménez, 73, Argentine footballer.[189]
- Herbert Halpert, 89, American anthropologist and folklorist.[190]
- Jacques Laurent, 81, French writer and journalist, suicide.[191]
- Woodley Lewis, 75, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Chicago Cardinals, Dallas Cowboys), heart and kidney problems.[192]
- Truett Smith, 76, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).[193]
30
- Tom Blohm, 80, Norwegian football player and Olympian (1952).[194]
- James C. Corman, 80, American politician (U.S. Representative for California's 21st and 22nd congressional districts).[195]
- Julius J. Epstein, 91, American screenwriter (Casablanca, Arsenic and Old Lace, Reuben, Reuben), Oscar winner (1944).[196]
- Brynhild Grasmoen, 71, American Olympic alpine skier (1948).[197]
- John Hardon, 86, American Jesuit priest, writer, and theologian.
- Lionel Hebert, 72, American professional golfer.[198]
- Rudolf Schnyder, 71, Swiss sport shooter and Olympic silver medalist (1948, 1952).[199]
- Oliver Taylor, 62, Australian boxer and Olympian (1960).[200]
- Walter Tomsen, 88, American sport shooter and Olympic silver medalist (1948).[201]
- Isakas Vistaneckis, 90, Lithuanian chess player.
- Bohdan Warchal, 70, Slovak violinist.[202]
31
- Alan Cranston, 86, American politician, U.S. Senator from California (1969-1993).[203]
- Sebastian de Grazia, 83, American philosopher.
- Louis-René des Forêts, 84, French writer.[204]
- Harry Dorish, 79, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles).[205]
- Wayne Glasgow, 74, American basketball player and Olympian (1952).[206]
- José Greco, 82, Italian-American flamenco dancer and choreographer.[207]
- Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, 34, Israeli rabbi and settler, shot.[208]
- Anne Macnaghten, 92, British violinist.[209]
- Tanaquil Le Clercq, 71, French ballet dancer (New York City Ballet), pneumonia.[210]
- Kenneth Lee Pike, 88, American linguist and anthropologist.[211]
- Bekzat Sattarkhanov, 20, Kazakh boxer and Olympian (2000), traffic collision.[212]
- Edna Savage, 64, British pop singer.
- Eddy Shaver, 38, American country-rock musician, heroin overdose.
- Jack Snowden, 77, Singaporean Olympic sailor (1956).[213]
- V. V. K. Valath, 82, Indian writer, poet, and historian of Malayalam language.
