Deaths in December 2000

Template:Short description Template:Deaths in month TOC 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.
• 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.

2

• 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.

3

• 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.

4

• 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.

5

• 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.

6

• Peter Aird, 79, Scottish footballer.
• Donald Angelini, 74, American mobster.
• 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, Yugoslav and Montenegrin communist politician.

7

• 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.

8

• 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.

9

• Robert Armitage, 45, South African cricketer, cancer.
• 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.

10

• 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.

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.
• 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.

12

• 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.

13

• 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.

14

• Ventura Alonzo, 95, Mexican-born American musician.
• 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.

15

• Trevor Adams, 54, British actor, cancer.
• 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.

16

• 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.

17

• 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.

18

• 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.

19

• 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.

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.
• 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.

21

• 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.

22

• 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.

23

• Esther B. Aresty, 92, American cookbook writer.
• 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.

24

• 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, American bass singer and bass guitarist for The Four Seasons, cancer.
• Helena Pajović, 21, Serbian figure skater, traffic collision.
• Dan Turk, 38, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Oakland Raiders), testicular cancer.
• Howard Yerges, 76, American gridiron football player.
• Laurence Chisholm Young, 95, American mathematician.

25

• 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, 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.
• 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.

27

• Erwin Ammann, 84, German politician.
• 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.

28

• 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.

29

• Julio Aguilar Azañón, 66, Spanish politician.
• 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.

30

• 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.

31

• Alan Cranston, 86, American politician, U.S. Senator from California (1969-1993).
• Sebastian de Grazia, 83, American philosopher.
• Louis-René des Forêts, 84, 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.

External links

• List of December 2000 deaths at IMDb