- Source: Deaths in December 2000
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.
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Moses Abramovitz, 88, American economist.
Robert V. Barron, 67, American TV and film director.
Neal Creque, 60, American organist and jazz composer.
Jack Hemingway, 77, Canadian-American fly fisherman, writer and son of novelist Ernest Hemingway.
Elmer E. Rasmuson, 91, American banker, philanthropist and politician, heart failure.
Terry Wilshusen, 51, American baseball player.
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Chris Antley, 34, American jockey (Racing Hall of Fame) (winner of Kentucky Derby 1991, 1999), drug overdose.
Gail Fisher, 65, American actress (Mannix), renal failure.
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.
Kurt Schmid, 68, Swiss rower and Olympic medalist.
Michael Schumann, 54, (East) German philosophy professor and politician, traffic accident.
Daniel Singer, 74, Polish-American socialist writer and journalist, lung cancer.
Emily Wilkens, 83, American fashion designer.
Ray Young, 62, Australian politician.
Bibiano Zapirain, 81, Uruguayan football player.
Bian Zhilin, 89, Chinese poet and literature researcher.
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Gwendolyn Brooks, 83, American poet, cancer.
Hoyt Curtin, 78, American composer and music producer.
Peter Denton, 74, Australian pole vaulter and Olympian.
Cletus Fischer, 75, American gridiron football player.
Jun Fukuda, 77, Japanese film director, cancer.
Bobby Kottarakkara, 48, Indian actor, heart attack.
Red Nonnenkamp, 89, American baseball player.
Hugh Edward Richardson, 94, British diplomat and Tibetologist.
Miklós Szabó, 91, Hungarian middle-distance runner and Olympian.
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Henck Arron, 64, Suriname politician and Prime Minister, cardiac arrest.
H. C. Artmann, 79, Austrian poet and writer, heart attack.
Tito Arévalo, 89, Filipino actor and musician.
Horia Bernea, 62, Romanian painter.
Ram Bahadur Chettri, 63, Indian football player.
Colin Cowdrey, 67, English cricket player.
Vincent M. Fennelly, 80, American film and television producer.
Gisela Kahn Gresser, 94, American chess player.
Manuel Licea, 79, Cuban singer, diabetes.
Joe Nanini, 45, American rock drummer, intracranial aneurysm.
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Ahmad Zaidi Adruce, 74, Malaysian governor.
Ghulam Dastagir Alam, Pakistani theoretical physicist.
Rupert Charles Barneby, 89, American botanist.
Árpád Glatz, 61, Hungarian basketball player.
Matthew Lukwiya, 43, Ugandan physician, ebola virus disease.
O. W. Wolters, 85, British academic, historian and author.
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Thomas Babe, 59, American playwright, lung cancer.
Daniel Hittle, 50, American serial killer and mass murderer, execution by lethal injection.
Enrique Anderson Imbert, 90, Argentine novelist and short-story writer.
Werner Klemperer, 80, German actor (Hogan's Heroes, Judgment at Nuremberg, Houseboat), Emmy winner (1968, 1969), cancer.
Chrystabel Leighton-Porter, 87, British model.
Aziz Mian, 58, Pakistani qawwali, complications of hepatitis.
Umasashi, 85, Indian Bengali film actress.
Svetozar Vukmanović, 88, Yugosla and Montenegrin communist politician.
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Toby Low, 1st Baron Aldington, 86, British politician.
Edward Castro, 50, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
Vlado Gotovac, 70, Croatian poet and politician, liver cancer.
Levi Jackson, 74, American football player, first African-American to captain Yale University.
Leszek Podhorodecki, Polish historian.
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Gary Bergman, 62, Canadian ice hockey player.
Ann T. Bowling, 57, American geneticist, stroke.
Julian C. Dixon, 66, American politician, heart attack.
Ionatana Ionatana, 62, Prime Minister of Tuvalu (1999 – 2000), heart attack.
Charles Issawi, 84, Egyptian-American economist and historian.
Marvin Leath, 69, American politician.
Milić od Mačve, 66, Serbian painter and artist.
Lionel Rogosin, 76, American filmmaker.
Neil Staebler, 95, American politician, Alzheimer's disease.
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Eugenio Galvalisi, 85, Uruguayan football player.
John Hock, 72, American football player, lung cancer.
Marina Koshetz, 88, American opera singer and actress.
Tyrone McGriff, 42, American football player, heart attack.
Sachindra Lal Singh, 93, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Tripura.
Billie Yorke, 89, British tennis player.
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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.
James T. McHugh, 68, American Roman Catholic prelate.
Andreas Mouratis, 74, Greek football player.
Tony Mulvihill, 83, Australian politician.
Willard Nixon, 72, American baseball player.
Teresa Sterne, 73, American concert pianist and record producer, Lou Gehrig's disease.
Marie Windsor, 80, American actress.
José Águas, 70, Portuguese football player.
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Pauline Curley, 96, American vaudeville and silent film actress, pneumonia.
Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, 85, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author.
David Lewis, 84, American actor.
Jack Liebowitz, 100, American book publisher (DC Comics).
N. Richard Nash, 87, American dramatist.
Johannes Virolainen, 86, Finnish politician.
René Wheeler, 88, French screenwriter and film director.
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Red Barkley, 88, American baseball player.
Götz Friedrich, 70, German opera and theatre director.
Knud W. Jensen, 84, Danish businessman and art collector.
Rosa King, 61, American jazz and blues musician.
Dorothy Kirby, 80, American golfer.
Libertad Lamarque, 92, Argentine-Mexican actress and singer, pneumonia.
George Montgomery, 84, American actor, heart attack.
J. H. Patel, 70, Indian politician and Chief Minister of Karnataka.
Jimmy Scarth, 74, English football player.
Ndabaningi Sithole, 80, Zimbabwean politician and rival of Robert Mugabe.
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Pierre Demargne, 97, French historian and archaeologist.
Clarence Dybvig, 81, American politician.
Aharon Harel, 68, Israeli politician.
Jake Jones, 80, American baseball player.
Erhard Krack, 69, German politician and mayor of East Berlin.
Chen Zhen, 45, Chinese-French conceptual artist, cancer.
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Enoch Dumbutshena, 80, Zimbabwean judge, liver cancer.
Allan Howe, 73, American politician.
Roger Judrin, 91, French writer and literary critic.
Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, 82, Ukrainian Catholic bishop.
John Mahnken, 78, American basketball player.
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.
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George Alcock, 88, English astronomer.
Z. W. Birnbaum, 97, Polish-American mathematician and statistician.
Jozef Boons, 57, Belgian racing cyclist, traffic accident.
Haris Brkić, 26, Yugoslav basketball player, shot.
Bubba Floyd, 83, American baseball player.
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.
Chiang Peng-chien, 60, Taiwanese politician, pancreatic cancer.
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Saad Dahlab, Algerian politician.
Blue Demon, 78, Mexican masked wrestler and actor, myocardial infarction.
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, 89, German physicist.
Alain-Philippe Malagnac, 49, French actor, smoke inhalation.
Victor Owusu, 76, Ghanaian politician and lawyer.
Hugh W. Pinnock, 66, American Mormon leader, pulmonary fibrosis.
Chuck Pratt, 61, American rock climber, heart attack.
Theo Saevecke, 89, Nazi German SS officer and holocaust perpetrator.
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Gerald Aylmer, 74, British historian.
Peter Barrett, 65, American sailor and Olympic champion.
Gérard Blain, 70, French actor and film director, cancer.
Harold Rhodes, 89, American music inventor, pneumonia.
Erich Schmid, 93, Swiss conductor.
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Paddy Barry, 72, Irish hurler.
Hal Call, 83, American LGBT rights activist, and U.S. Army veteran, congestive heart failure.
Harry DeWolf, 97, Canadian naval officer during World War II.
Lajos Dunai, 58, Hungarian football player.
Stan Fox, 48, American race car driver, traffic collision.
Randolph Apperson Hearst, 85, American newspaper publisher (Hearst Corporation).
Norman Humphries, 83, English cricket player.
Kirsty MacColl, 41, British singer-songwriter, boating accident.
Madhavapeddi Satyam, 78, Indian actor and singer.
Giorgio Saviane, 84, Italian author.
Nick Stewart, 90, American television and film actor.
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Pierre Allain, 96, French alpinist.
Mahmud Baksi, 56, Kurdish writer and journalist, kidney failure.
Reginald Bennett, 89, English politician, psychiatrist and painter.
Rob Buck, 42, American musician (10,000 Maniacs), liver disease.
Michel Dens, 89, French baritone.
György Györffy, 83, Hungarian historian.
Milt Hinton, 90, American double bassist and photographer.
John Lindsay, 79, 103rd Mayor of New York City, Parkinson's disease.
William L. Moran, 79, American assyriologist.
Lou Polli, 99, Italian-American baseball player.
Son Sann, 89, Cambodian politician and resistance leader.
Pops Staples, 85, patriarch of The Staple Singers, fall.
Laurence Whistler, 88, British poet and artist.
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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.
Adrian Henri, 68, British poet and painter (Liverpool Poets).
Patriarch Diodoros of Jerusalem, 77, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem (1980-2000), diabetes.
Syed Abdul Malik, 81, Indian Assamese writer.
Alexander Ramsay of Mar, 80, British aristocrat.
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Rober Eryol, 70, Turkish football player.
Alfred J. Gross, 82, American inventor and a pioneer in mobile wireless communication.
Florynce Kennedy, 84, American lawyer, feminist, civil rights advocate, and activist.
John Lee, 72, Australian actor.
Edward Miller, 85, British historian (Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge).
Stephen A. Mitchell, 54, American clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst.
Gord Reay, 57, Canadian Army officer, road accident.
Derek Trevis, 58, English football player.
Renaat Van Elslande, 84, Belgian politician.
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Lianella Carell, 73, Italian film actress and screenwriter.
Giuseppe Colnago, 77, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
Herman Feshbach, 83, American physicist.
Vytautas Kulakauskas, 80, Lithuanian basketball player, and coach.
Stuart Lancaster, 80, American actor.
Connie McCready, 79, American journalist and politician, complications from a stroke.
Allan Smethurst, 73, English folk singer, heart attack.
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Wilfred Arthur, 81, Australian fighter ace of the RAAF during World War II.
Larry Baker, 63, American gridiron football player.
Billy Barty, 76, American actor (Willow, Legend, Masters of the Universe), heart failure.
Susan Berman, 55, American journalist and author, homicide.
Victor Borge, 91, Danish-American comedian and pianist.
Vinal G. Good, 94, American politician and lawyer from Maine.
Aage Haugland, 56, Danish operatic bass, cancer.
Noor Jehan, 74, Pakistani actress and singer, heart failure.
Louis Leprince-Ringuet, 99, French physicist, essayist and historian of science.
Jimmy Shand, 92, Scottish musician.
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Horace Barker, 93, American biochemist and microbiologist.
John Cooper, 77, British automobile designer (Cooper Car Company).
Sadek Hilal, 70, Egyptian-American radiologist.
Seo Jeong-ju, 85, Korean poet and academic.
Sadik Kaceli, 86, Albanian artist.
Nick Massi, 73, bass singer and bass guitarist for The Four Seasons, cancer.
Helena Pajović, 21, Serb figure skater, traffic collision.
Dan Turk, 38, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Oakland Raiders), testicular cancer.
Howard Yerges, 75, American gridiron football player.
Laurence Chisholm Young, 95, American mathematician.
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Truus Baumeister, 93, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympian.
Décio Esteves, 73, Brazilian football player and coach.
George Feigenbaum, 71, American basketball player.
Robert Francis Garner, 80, American Roman Catholic prelate.
Joe Gilliam, 49, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), cocaine overdose.
Dheerendra Gopal, 60, Indian film and stage actor, jaundice attack.
Neil Hawke, 61, Australian cricket player.
Willard Van Orman Quine, 92, American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition.
Sam Savitt, 83, American equine artist, author, and book illustrator.
Vibhuti Narayan Singh, 73, Indian sanskrit scholar and maharaja of Benares.
Peter W. Staub, 90, Swish actor and singer.
Ignacy Tłoczyński, 89, Polish tennis player and coach.
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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.
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.
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.
Gust Zarnas, 87, American gridiron football player.
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William Hanes Ayres, 84, American politician, heart and kidney ailments.
Marc Boileau, 68, Canadian ice hockey coach and player.
Walter Stanley Keane, 85, American plagiarist.
Jack McVea, 86, American woodwind player and bandleader.
Francis Sumner Merritt, 87, American painter, and art teacher.
Roy Partee, 83, American baseball player.
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Eduard Adorno, 80, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
Aminuddin Dagar, 77, Indian Dhrupad singer.
Sergey Grishchenko, 53, Soviet alpine skier and Olympian.
Arnold Hutschnecker, 102, Austrian-American medical doctor.
William X. Kienzle, 72, American priest and author (The Rosary Murders, Death Wears a Red Hat), heart attack.
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Renata Carraretto, 77, Italian alpine skier and Olympian.
Herbert Halpert, 89, American anthropologist and folklorist.
Jacques Laurent, 81, French writer and journalist, suicide.
Woodley Lewis, 75, American football player, heart and kidney problems.
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Tom Blohm, 80, Norwegian football player.
James C. Corman, 80, American politician (U.S. Representative for California's 21st and 22nd congressional districts).
Julius J. Epstein, 91, American screenwriter (Casablanca, Arsenic and Old Lace, Reuben, Reuben), Oscar winner (1944).
John Hardon, 86, American Jesuit priest, writer, and theologian.
Lionel Hebert, 72, American professional golfer.
Rudolf Schnyder, 71, Swiss sport shooter and Olympic silver medalist.
Walter Tomsen, 88, American sport shooter and Olympic silver medalist.
Isakas Vistaneckis, 90, Lithuanian chess player.
Bohdan Warchal, 70, Slovak violinist.
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Alan Cranston, 86, American politician, U.S. Senator from California (1969-1993).
Sebastian de Grazia, 83, American philosopher.
Louis-René des Forêts, 82, French writer.
Harry Dorish, 79, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles).
Wayne Glasgow, 74, American basketball player.
José Greco, 82, Italian-American flamenco dancer and choreographer.
Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, 34, Israeli rabbi and settler, shot.
Anne Macnaghten, 92, British violinist.
Tanaquil Le Clercq, 71, French ballet dancer (New York City Ballet), pneumonia.
Kenneth Lee Pike, 88, American linguist and anthropologist.
Bekzat Sattarkhanov, 20, Kazakh boxer and Olympian, traffic collision.
Edna Savage, 64, British pop singer.
Eddy Shaver, 38, American country-rock musician, heroin overdose.
V. V. K. Valath, 82, Indian writer, poet, and historian of Malayalam language.
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