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.