Deaths in December 2000

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, 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 , drug overdose.
• Gail Fisher, 65, American actress, 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, 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, Emmy winner, 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, 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.
• 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.
• 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, 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.