# Deaths in December 2000
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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.