Deaths in November 2000


The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

    November 2000

1

  • Howard P. Anderson, 85, American politician.
  • George Armstrong, 56, English football player and coach, brain haemorrhage, cerebral hemorrhage.
  • David Crook, 90, British-Chinese communist activist and spy.
  • Bernard Erhard, 66, American actor.
  • Steve Evans, 58, American motorsports broadcaster.
  • Kjell Holler, 75, Norwegian economist and politician.
  • Sir Steven Runciman, 97, English historian.
  • Richard K. Webel, 100, American landscape architect.

    2

  • Eddie Collins, Jr., 83, American baseball player.
  • Robert Cormier, 75, American author and journalist, complications from a blood clot.
  • Michael Herman, 57, French American mathematician.
  • Eva Morris, 114, second oldest living person.
  • Sue Ryder, 76, British baroness and charity founder.
  • Simeon Simeonov, 54, Bulgarian football goalkeeper.
  • Avatus Stone, 69, American gridiron football player, cancer.

    3

  • Aga Syed Mehdi, 41, Indian cleric and politician, blast.
  • Leonardo Benvenuti, 77, Italian screenwriter.
  • Bob Bryant, 82, American gridiron football player.
  • Charles F. Hockett, 84, American linguist.
  • Robert Sherlaw Johnson, 68, British composer and musicologist.
  • George Vandeman, 84, American evangelist and broadcaster.

    4

  • Vernel Fournier, 72, American jazz drummer, cerebral hemorrhage.
  • Stephanie Lawrence, 50, British singer and actress, liver disease.
  • Amalia Hernández, 83, Mexican ballet choreographer.
  • John Reynolds, 77, American physicist.
  • Ian Sneddon, 80, Scottish mathematician.

    5

  • Etienne Aigner, 95, Austrian-American fashion designer.
  • Dionisio Arce, 73, Paraguayan football player.
  • David Brower, 88, American environmentalist.
  • Jimmie Davis, 101, American singer, songwriter and politician.
  • Victor Grinich, 75, American pioneer in the semiconductor industry, prostate cancer.
  • Henrik Lange, 92, Swedish Coastal Artillery officer.
  • Frances Lee, 94, American film actress.
  • Willard Marshall, 79, American baseball player.
  • Bibi Titi Mohamed, 74, Tanzanian politician and activist.
  • Jack O'Brian, 86, American entertainment journalist.
  • Roger Peyrefitte, 93, French writer and diplomat, Parkinson's disease.
  • Frances C. Roberts, 83, American historian.
  • Gleb Savinov, 85, Soviet and Russian painter and art teacher.
  • Hu Sheng, 82, Chinese marxist theorist and historian.
  • Mary Sinclair, 77, American actress.

    6

  • Torgny Anderberg, 81, Swedish actor and film director.
  • Joseph Marie Armer, 93, American Roman Catholic sister.
  • Eddy Bruma, 75, Surinamese politician, lawyer and writer, injuries sustained during robbery.
  • Herbert Brün, 82, German composer and pioneer of electronic and computer music.
  • L. Sprague de Camp, 92, American writer.
  • John McPhail, 76, Scottish football player.
  • Stefaniya Stanyuta, 95, Soviet and Belarus theater and movie actress.
  • Vasiliy Yershov, 51, Ukrainian javelin thrower and Olympian.

    7

  • Edulji Aibara, 86, Indian cricketer.
  • Tara Cherian, 87, Indian social activist and politician.
  • Hal Fowler, 73, American poker player, diabetes.
  • Julius Hatry, 93, German aircraft designer and builder.
  • Jim Hutchinson, 103, English cricketer and centenarian.
  • Nimalan Soundaranayagam, 50, Sri Lankan Tamil teacher and politician, assassinated.
  • Chidambaram Subramaniam, 90, Indian politician and independence activist.
  • Ingrid of Sweden, 90, Queen consort of Frederik IX of Denmark.
  • Kōzaburō Yoshimura, 89, Japanese film director, heart failure.
  • Boris Zakhoder, 82, Russian poet and children's writer.

    8

  • Brian Boydell, 83, Irish composer.
  • Elio Crovetto, 73, Italian actor and comedian.
  • Dupa, 55, Belgian comics artist, cerebral hemorrhage.
  • John Levitow, 55, US Air Force loadmaster and recipient of the Medal of Honor, cancer.
  • Dick Morrissey, 60, British jazz musician and composer, cancer.
  • Faris Odeh, 14, Palestinian boy demonstrator, shot by the Israel Defense Forces.
  • Józef Pińkowski, 71, Prime Minister of Poland.
  • Svetlana Kana Radević, 62, Montenegrin architect.
  • Jan van der Vaart, 69, Dutch ceramist.

    9

  • Hussein Abayat, Palestinian military commander, missile strike.
  • Chiyonosuke Azuma, 74, Japanese actor and dancer, heart failure.
  • Henri Baillot, 75, French football player.
  • Vasantrao S. Dempo, 84, Indian industrialist and philanthropist.
  • Avedis Donabedian, 81, Lebanese-American physician.
  • Sherwood Johnston, 73, American racing driver.
  • Kurt Koch, 81, German football manager.
  • Ferenc Mayer, 92, Hungarian football player.
  • Eddie Miller, 84, American gridiron football player.
  • Eric Morley, 82, British TV host.
  • Hugh Paddick, 85, English actor.

    10

  • Adamantios Androutsopoulos, 81, Greek lawyer and politician, Prime Minister.
  • Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 85, French Gaullist politician and Prime Minister of France, heart attack.
  • Jorge Fernández-Maldonado, 78, Peruvian politician, Prime Minister.
  • Bob Matthewson, 70, English footballer and referee.
  • Walter P. McConaughy, 92, American diplomat and ambassador.
  • Alan Tyson, 74, British musicologist.
  • Dawn-Marie Wesley, 14, Canadian bullying victim, suicide by hanging.

    11

  • Rayford Barnes, 80, American actor.
  • James Morris Blaut, 73, American anthropologist and geographer.
  • Hugo Pos, 86, Surinamese judge, writer, and poet.
  • Notable individuals killed during the Kaprun disaster:
  • *Josef Schaupper, 37, Austrian deaf alpine skier.
  • *Sandra Schmitt, 19, German freestyle skier.

    12

  • Halvar Björk, 72, Swedish actor, lung cancer.
  • John Bury, 75, British set designer, costume designer and lighting designer.
  • Wim Cohen, 77, Dutch mathematician.
  • Eugene Antonio Marino, 66, American Roman Catholic prelate, heart attack.
  • Frances Mercer, 85, American film actress.
  • Franck Pourcel, 87, French composer, arranger, and conductor, Parkinson's disease.
  • Leah Rabin, 72, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, lung cancer.

    13

  • Menachem Ashkenazi, 66, Israeli international football referee.
  • Gheorghe Ghimpu, 63, Romanian politician and political prisoner, traffic collision.
  • Audrey Stubbart, 105, American centenarian and oldest known full-time employee.
  • Jim Wise, 81, American musical composer.

    14

  • Len Gabrielson, 85, American baseball player.
  • Altaf Gauhar, 77, Pakistani writer, journalist, and poet, cancer.
  • Wiesław Gawłowski, 50, Polish volleyball player and coach, traffic collision.
  • Earl W. Renfroe, 93, American dentist and orthodontics pioneer.
  • Pietro Rimoldi, 89, Italian cyclist.
  • Robert Trout, 91, American broadcast news reporter.

    15

  • Edoardo Agnelli, 46, Italian football club director and son of industrialist Gianni Agnelli, suicide by jumping.
  • Max Archimowitz, 80, German politician.
  • Bobby Collier, 70, American gridiron football player.
  • G. V. Desani, 91, British-Indian novelist, poet, and social commentator.
  • Bernard Gadney, 91, English rugby player.
  • Mushtaq Gazdar, 60, Pakistani cinematographer.
  • Václav Horák, 88, Czech football player and manager.
  • Rinaldo Martino, 79, Italian-Argentine soccer player.
  • Pietro Pasinati, 90, Italian football player and manager.
  • Joseph Robert Shoenfield, 73, American mathematical logician.
  • Jens Jørgen Thorsen, 68, Danish artist, director, and jazz musician.
  • Harry Webb, 92, Australian politician.
  • Simon Wigg, 40, English speedway rider, brain tumour.

    16

  • Iosif Andriasov, 67, Soviet composer.
  • Joe C., 26, American rapper, musician and hype man, complications from celiac disease.
  • Russ Conway, 75, English popular music pianist.
  • Josef Ertl, 75, German politician, complications from burn injuries.
  • Ahmet Kaya, 43, Turkish folk singer, heart attack.
  • DJ Screw, 29, American DJ and rapper, codeine overdose.
  • Irmantas Stumbrys, 28, Lithuanian football player, suicide by gunshot.
  • Athanasius, Metropolitan of Beni Suef, 77, Egyptian Coptic Orthodox bishop.
  • Hosea Williams, 74, American civil rights leader, scientist, and politician, cancer.

    17

  • Mikael Björnberg, 35, Finnish physicist, plane crash.
  • Paul W. Brown, 85, American lawyer.
  • Francis Jennings, 82, American historian.
  • William J. Murnane, 55, American egyptologist and author.
  • Louis Néel, 95, French physicist.
  • Hans Scherenberg, 90, German automobile engineer and executive.
  • Bim Sherman, 50, Jamaican musician.
  • Aleksandar Zorić, 75, Yugoslav and Serbian racing cyclist.

    18

  • Konstantin Krizhevsky, 74, Russian football player.
  • Jaap van der Leck, 89, Dutch football manager.
  • Hubert Miller, 82, American bobsledder.
  • Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh, 67, Irish physicist in the field of theoretical particle physics.
  • Emin Sabitoglu, 63, Azerbaijani film music composer.
  • Kim Spalding, 84, American film, television and theatre actor.
  • Ilya Starinov, 100, Soviet military officer.
  • Torstein Tynning, 68, Norwegian politician.

    19

  • George Cosmas Adyebo, 53, Ugandan politician and economist, cancer.
  • Robert Escarpit, 82, French academic, writer and journalist.
  • Charles Ruff, 61, American lawyer, heart attack.
  • James Russell Wiggins, 96, United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

    20

  • Morris Barry, 82, British television producer.
  • Gaylord Carter, 95, American organist and film score composer.
  • Nikolay Dollezhal, 101, Czech-Soviet nuclear physicist.
  • Barbara Janiszewska, 63, Polish middle-distance runner and Olympic medalist.
  • Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin, 73, Soviet/Russian animation director, animator and artist.
  • Mike Muuss, 42, American computer programmer, traffic collision.
  • Kalle Päätalo, 81, Finnish novelist, lung cancer.