Deaths in December 2000

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

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Moses Abramovitz, 88, American economist.{{cite news |author1=Michael M. Weinstein |title=Moses Abramovitz, 88; Led U.S. Economic Association |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/16/business/moses-abramovitz-88-led-us-economic-association.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=7 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=16 December 2000 |page=B 9}}
Robert V. Barron, 67, American TV and film director.{{Cite web |date=2000-12-19 |title=Robert Barron Obituary - Death Notice and Service Information |url=https://www.legacy.com/link.asp?i=ls000000034230 |access-date=2023-05-08 |website=Legacy.com |language=en}}
Neal Creque, 60, American organist and jazz composer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Neal Creque |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14017165g |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=8 May 2023 |language=French |date=}}
Jack Hemingway, 77, Canadian-American fly fisherman, writer and son of novelist Ernest Hemingway.{{cite news |author1=Douglas Martin |title=Jack Hemingway Dies at 77; Embraced Father's Legacy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/03/nyregion/jack-hemingway-dies-at-77-embraced-father-s-legacy.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=3 December 2000 |page=1 61}}
Elmer E. Rasmuson, 91, American banker, philanthropist and politician, heart failure.{{cite web |title=Passing |url=https://rasmuson.org/about/history/passing/ |website=rasmuson.org |publisher=Rasmuson Foundation |access-date=8 May 2023}}
Terry Wilshusen, 51, American baseball player.{{cite news|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wilshte01.shtml|title=Terry Wilshusen|work=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=2018-12-29}}

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Chris Antley, 34, American jockey (Racing Hall of Fame) (winner of Kentucky Derby 1991, 1999), drug overdose.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/04/sports/horse-racing-chris-antley-is-found-dead-at-his-home.html|last=Gurnick|first=Ken|title=HORSE RACING; Chris Antley Is Found Dead At His Home|work=The New York Times|date=2000-12-04|access-date=2018-12-20}}
Gail Fisher, 65, American actress (Mannix), renal failure.{{cite news |author1=Lawrence Van Gelder |author-link1=Lawrence Van Gelder |title=Gail Fisher, 65, TV Actress Who Won Emmy for 'Mannix' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/20/arts/gail-fisher-65-tv-actress-who-won-emmy-for-mannix.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=20 February 2001 |page=B 9}}
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.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Theodore Ropp - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6xd2bp6 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=8 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
Kurt Schmid, 68, Swiss rower and Olympic medalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Kurt Schmid |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/39797 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=8 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
Michael Schumann, 54, (East) German philosophy professor and politician, traffic accident.
Daniel Singer, 74, Polish-American socialist writer and journalist, lung cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Daniel Singer |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12394218d |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=8 May 2023 |language=French |date=}}
Emily Wilkens, 83, American fashion designer.{{cite news |author1=Ginia Bellafante |author-link1=Ginia Bellafante |title=Emily Wilkens, 83, Designer Who Dressed Girls Like Girls |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/nyregion/emily-wilkens-83-designer-who-dressed-girls-like-girls.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=6 December 2000 |page=C 19}}
Ray Young, 62, Australian politician.
Bibiano Zapirain, 81, Uruguayan football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bibiano Zapirain |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/bibiano-zapirain/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=8 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
Bian Zhilin, 89, Chinese poet and literature researcher.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bian Zhilin |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bian-Zhilin |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=8 May 2023 |language= |date=}}

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Gwendolyn Brooks, 83, American poet, cancer.{{cite news |author1=Mel Watkins |title=Gwendolyn Brooks, 83, Passionate Poet, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/05/books/gwendolyn-brooks-83-passionate-poet-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=5 December 2000 |page=C 22}}
Hoyt Curtin, 78, American composer and music producer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Hoyt Curtin |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13987774z |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=8 May 2023 |language=French |date=}}
Peter Denton, 74, Australian pole vaulter and Olympian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Peter Denton |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/64659 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=8 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
Cletus Fischer, 75, American gridiron football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Cletus Fischer Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Cletus+Fischer |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=8 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
Jun Fukuda, 77, Japanese film director, cancer.
Bobby Kottarakkara, 48, Indian actor, heart attack.
Red Nonnenkamp, 89, American baseball player.{{cite news|url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/efe1a35f|last=Nowlin|first=Bill|title=Red Nonnenkamp|work=Society for American Baseball Research|access-date=2018-12-29}}
Hugh Edward Richardson, 94, British diplomat and Tibetologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Hugh Edward Richardson - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6z90w8z |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=8 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
Miklós Szabó, 91, Hungarian middle-distance runner and Olympian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Miklós Szabó |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/71291 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=8 May 2023 |language= |date=}}

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Henck Arron, 64, Suriname politician and Prime Minister, cardiac arrest.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Henck Arron |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henck-Arron |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=21 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
H. C. Artmann, 79, Austrian poet and writer, heart attack.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |title=H. C. Artmann, Austrian Poet, Author and Literary Rebel, 79 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/09/books/h-c-artmann-austrian-poet-author-and-literary-rebel-79.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=9 December 2000 |page=C 15}}
Tito Arévalo, 89, Filipino actor and musician.
Horia Bernea, 62, Romanian painter.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Horia Bernea |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13570278c |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=21 June 2023 |language=French |date=}}
Ram Bahadur Chettri, 63, Indian football player.{{cite web |title=Olympedia - Bahadur ChettriRam |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/25825 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=21 June 2023}}
Colin Cowdrey, 67, English cricket player.{{cite news|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/10846.html|title=Colin Cowdrey|work=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=2019-01-04}}
Vincent M. Fennelly, 80, American film and television producer.
Gisela Kahn Gresser, 94, American chess player.{{cite news |author1=Eun Lee Koh |title=Gisela Kahn Gresser, 94, Champion Chess Player |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/11/nyregion/gisela-kahn-gresser-94-champion-chess-player.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=11 December 2000 |page=B 9}}
Manuel Licea, 79, Cuban singer, diabetes.
Joe Nanini, 45, American rock drummer, intracranial aneurysm.

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Ahmad Zaidi Adruce, 74, Malaysian governor.
Ghulam Dastagir Alam, Pakistani theoretical physicist.
Rupert Charles Barneby, 89, American botanist.{{cite news |author1=Douglas Martin |title=Rupert C. Barneby, 89, Botanical Garden Curator and Expert on Beans, Is Dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/10/nyregion/rupert-c-barneby-89-botanical-garden-curator-and-expert-on-beans-is-dead.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=10 December 2000 |page=1 67}}
Árpád Glatz, 61, Hungarian basketball player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Árpád Glatz |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/6185 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=21 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Matthew Lukwiya, 43, Ugandan physician, ebola virus disease.
O. W. Wolters, 85, British academic, historian and author.

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Peter Aird, 79, Scottish footballer.{{cite news|title=Peter Aird|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12161852.Peter_Aird/|accessdate=17 August 2017|work=The Herald|date=15 December 2000|language=en}}
Donald Angelini, 74, American mobster.
Thomas Babe, 59, American playwright, lung cancer.{{cite news |author1=Mel Gussow |author-link1=Mel Gussow |title=Thomas Babe, 59, Playwright For Papp's Public Theater |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/15/arts/thomas-babe-59-playwright-for-papp-s-public-theater.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=15 December 2000 |page=C 15}}
Daniel Hittle, 50, American serial killer and mass murderer, execution by lethal injection.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55317676/tyler-morning-telegraph/|title=Convicted Cop Killer Put To Death Wednesday|publisher=Tyler Morning Telegraph|date=December 7, 2000|via=Newspapers.com}}
Enrique Anderson Imbert, 90, Argentine novelist and short-story writer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Enrique Anderson Imbert - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6962mhm |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=21 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Werner Klemperer, 80, German actor (Hogan's Heroes, Judgment at Nuremberg, Houseboat), Emmy winner (1968, 1969), cancer.{{cite news |author1=Bernard Weinraub |author-link1=Bernard Weinraub |title=Werner Klemperer, Klink in 'Hogan's Heroes,' Dies at 80 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/08/arts/werner-klemperer-klink-in-hogan-s-heroes-dies-at-80.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=24 June 2012 |work=The New York Times |date=8 December 2000 |page=C 15}}
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.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Svetozar Vukmanović |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb120229929 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=21 June 2023 |language=French |date=}}

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Toby Low, 1st Baron Aldington, 86, British politician.{{cite news |last1=Roth |first1=Andrew |title=Lord Aldington |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/dec/09/guardianobituaries.obituaries |access-date=21 June 2023 |work=The Guardian |date=9 December 2000}}
Edward Castro, 50, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
Vlado Gotovac, 70, Croatian poet and politician, liver cancer.{{cite news |author1=Chris Hedges |author-link1=Chris Hedges |title=Vlado Gotovac, a Voice of Freedom in Croatia, Dies at 70 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/11/world/vlado-gotovac-a-voice-of-freedom-in-croatia-dies-at-70.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=11 December 2000 |page=B 9}}
Levi Jackson, 74, American football player, first African-American to captain Yale University.{{cite news |author1=Richard Goldstein |author-link1=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) |title=Levi Jackson, a Pioneer at Yale, Is Dead at 74 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/29/sports/levi-jackson-a-pioneer-at-yale-is-dead-at-74.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=29 December 2000 |page=C 10}}
Leszek Podhorodecki, Polish historian.

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Gary Bergman, 62, Canadian ice hockey player.
Ann T. Bowling, 57, American geneticist, stroke.
Julian C. Dixon, 66, American politician, heart attack.{{cite news |author1=David Stout |author-link1=David Stout |title=Julian C. Dixon Is Dead at 66; Longtime Member of Congress |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/09/us/julian-c-dixon-is-dead-at-66-longtime-member-of-congress.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=9 December 2000 |page=C 15}}
Ionatana Ionatana, 62, Prime Minister of Tuvalu (1999 – 2000), heart attack.
Charles Issawi, 84, Egyptian-American economist and historian.{{cite news |author1=Eric Pace |author-link1=List of The New York Times employees |title=Charles P. Issawi, 84, Dies; Studied Mideast Economics |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/18/world/charles-p-issawi-84-dies-studied-mideast-economics.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=22 June 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=18 December 2000 |page=A 25}}
Marvin Leath, 69, American politician.{{cite news |author1=Eric Pace |author-link1=List of The New York Times employees |title=Marvin Leath, 69, Ex-Congressman |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/12/us/marvin-leath-69-ex-congressman.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=22 June 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=12 December 2000 |page=B 11}}
Milić od Mačve, 66, Serbian painter and artist.
Lionel Rogosin, 76, American filmmaker.{{cite news |author1= |title=Lionel Rogosin, 76, Documentary Maker |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/17/nyregion/lionel-rogosin-76-documentary-maker.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=17 December 2000 |page=1 63}}
Neil Staebler, 95, American politician, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Neil Staebler - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w64f1t6j |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=21 June 2023 |language= |date=}}

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Robert Armitage, 45, South African cricketer, cancer.{{cite news|url=https://www.iol.co.za/sport/cricket/farewell-rob-armitage-491347 |title=Farewell Rob Armitage |date=2000-12-16 |work=Independent Online |accessdate=2019-07-22}}
Eugenio Galvalisi, 85, Uruguayan football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Eugenio Galvalisi |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/eugenio-galvalisi/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=21 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
John Hock, 72, American football player, lung cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=John Hock Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=John+Hock |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=21 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Marina Koshetz, 88, American opera singer and actress.
Tyrone McGriff, 42, American football player, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Tyrone McGriff Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Tyrone+McGriff |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=21 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Sachindra Lal Singh, 93, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Tripura.
Billie Yorke, 89, British tennis player.

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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.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Marius B. Jansen |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12096523s |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=21 June 2023 |language=French |date=}}
James T. McHugh, 68, American Roman Catholic prelate.
Andreas Mouratis, 74, Greek football player.{{cite web |title=Andreas Mouratis |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/andreas-mouratis/ |website=worldfootball.net |access-date=21 June 2023}}
Tony Mulvihill, 83, Australian politician.
Willard Nixon, 72, American baseball player.{{cite news |author1=Richard Goldstein |author-link1=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) |title=Willard Nixon, 72, a Pitcher Known for Beating the Yankees |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/14/nyregion/willard-nixon-72-a-pitcher-known-for-beating-the-yankees.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=29 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=14 December 2000 |page=B 12}}
Teresa Sterne, 73, American concert pianist and record producer, Lou Gehrig's disease.{{cite news |author1=Anthony Tommasini |author-link1=Anthony Tommasini |title=Teresa Sterne, 73, Pioneer In Making Classical Records |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/12/arts/teresa-sterne-73-pioneer-in-making-classical-records.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=12 December 2000 |page=B 11}}
Marie Windsor, 80, American actress.{{cite news| last1=Bernstein| first1=Adam| title=Prolific B-Movie Star Marie Windsor Dies| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/12/14/prolific-b-movie-star-marie-windsor-dies/16a20d11-276e-4d91-9fc2-d2efc25d10b5/| access-date=2018-12-15| newspaper=The Washington Post| date=December 14, 2000}}
José Águas, 70, Portuguese football player.

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Pauline Curley, 96, American vaudeville and silent film actress, pneumonia.
Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, 85, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author.
David Lewis, 84, American actor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=David Lewis - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/49674 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=21 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Jack Liebowitz, 100, American book publisher (DC Comics).{{cite news |author1=Eric P. Nash |title=Jack Liebowitz, Comics Publisher, Dies at 100 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/13/nyregion/jack-liebowitz-comics-publisher-dies-at-100.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=13 December 2000 |page=B 10}}
N. Richard Nash, 87, American dramatist.{{cite news |author1=Jesse McKinley |author-link1=Jesse McKinley |title=N. Richard Nash Dies at 87; Author of 'The Rainmaker' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/19/arts/n-richard-nash-dies-at-87-author-of-the-rainmaker.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=24 June 2012 |work=The New York Times |date=19 December 2000 |page=A 32}}
Johannes Virolainen, 86, Finnish politician.{{cite web|url=http://www2.hs.fi/english/archive/news.asp?id=20001212IE10|title=Prominent Finnish politician Johannes Virolainen dead at 86|work=Helsingin Sanomat|date=2000-12-12|access-date=2012-06-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061140/http://www2.hs.fi/english/archive/news.asp?id=20001212IE10|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead}}
René Wheeler, 88, French screenwriter and film director.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=René Wheeler |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11929121p |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=21 June 2023 |language=French |date=}}

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Red Barkley, 88, American baseball player.{{cite news|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/barklre01.shtml|title=Red Barkley|work=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=2018-12-29}}
Götz Friedrich, 70, German opera and theatre director.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Götz Friedrich |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12401750v |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=21 June 2023 |language=French |date=}}
Knud W. Jensen, 84, Danish businessman and art collector.{{cite news |author1=Eric Pace |author-link1=List of The New York Times employees |title=Knud W. Jensen, 84, Who Founded Danish Museum of Contemporary Art |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/18/arts/knud-w-jensen-84-who-founded-danish-museum-of-contemporary-art.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=22 June 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=18 December 2000 |page=A 25}}
Rosa King, 61, American jazz and blues musician.
Dorothy Kirby, 80, American golfer.
Libertad Lamarque, 92, Argentine-Mexican actress and singer, pneumonia.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Libertad Lamarque |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb140361691 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=21 June 2023 |language=French |date=}}
George Montgomery, 84, American actor, heart attack.{{cite news |author1=Rick Lyman |title=George Montgomery, Dashing Cowboy, Is Dead at 84 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/15/arts/george-montgomery-dashing-cowboy-is-dead-at-84.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=15 December 2000 |page=C 15}}
J. H. Patel, 70, Indian politician and Chief Minister of Karnataka.
Jimmy Scarth, 74, English football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jimmy Scarth |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/jimmy-scarth/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=21 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Ndabaningi Sithole, 80, Zimbabwean politician and rival of Robert Mugabe.{{cite news |author1=Henri E. Cauvin |title=Ndabaningi Sithole, 80, Fighter for Zimbabwe |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/15/world/ndabaningi-sithole-80-fighter-for-zimbabwe.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=15 December 2000 |page=C 15}}

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Pierre Demargne, 97, French historian and archaeologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Pierre Demargne |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11899495b |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=21 June 2023 |language=French |date=}}
Clarence Dybvig, 81, American politician.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53846276/argus-leader/|title=Farmer Clarence Dybvig, 81, had a passion for flowers|work=Argus-Leader|location=Sioux Falls, South Dakota|date=December 16, 2000|access-date=April 14, 2023|page=16|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}
Aharon Harel, 68, Israeli politician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Aharon Harel |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15014531p |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=21 June 2023 |language=French |date=}}
Jake Jones, 80, American baseball player.{{cite news|url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/0859d68b|last=Thompson|first=Dick|title=Jake Jones|work=Society for American Baseball Research|access-date=2018-12-29}}
Erhard Krack, 69, German politician and mayor of East Berlin.
Chen Zhen, 45, Chinese-French conceptual artist, cancer.{{cite news |author1=Holland Cotter |author-link1=Holland Cotter |title=Chen Zhen, 45, Whose Artwork Explored Complexities of China |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/24/nyregion/chen-zhen-45-whose-artwork-explored-complexities-of-china.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=24 December 2000 |page=1 31}}

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Ventura Alonzo, 95, Mexican-born American musician.{{cite web |url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/houpub/00170/hpub-00170.html |title=Frank and Ventura Alonzo Collection |work=Texas Archival Resources Online}}
Enoch Dumbutshena, 80, Zimbabwean judge, liver cancer.
Allan Howe, 73, American politician.
Roger Judrin, 91, French writer and literary critic.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Roger Judrin |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11909179k |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=21 June 2023 |language=French |date=}}
Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, 82, Ukrainian Catholic bishop.
John Mahnken, 78, American basketball player.{{cite web |title=John Mahnken Stats |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/mahnkjo01.html |website=basketball-reference.com |access-date=21 June 2023}}
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.{{cite web |title=Al Vincent Minor Leagues Statistics |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=vincen001alb |website=baseball-reference.com |access-date=21 June 2023}}

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Trevor Adams, 54, British actor, cancer.{{cite web|url=http://www.leonardrossiter.com/reginaldperrin/BiogsMain.html#ADAMS|title=LeonardRossiter.com: Reggie Online – Biographies of Main Cast|work=leonardrossiter.com|accessdate=17 January 2015}}
George Alcock, 88, English astronomer.
Z. W. Birnbaum, 97, Polish-American mathematician and statistician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Z. W. Birnbaum - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6h44zng |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=21 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Jozef Boons, 57, Belgian racing cyclist, traffic accident.{{cite web |title=Jozef Boons |url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider.php?id=173449 |website=procyclingstats.com |access-date=21 June 2023}}
Haris Brkić, 26, Yugoslav basketball player, shot.
Bubba Floyd, 83, American baseball player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bubba Floyd Stats - Baseball-Reference.com |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Bubba+Floyd |website=baseball-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=21 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
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.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jacques Goddet |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb122156554 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=21 June 2023 |language=French |date=}}
Chiang Peng-chien, 60, Taiwanese politician, pancreatic cancer.

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Saad Dahlab, Algerian politician.{{cite web |title=Saad Dahlab (1918-2000) |url=https://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb124668946 |website=bnf.fr |access-date=3 November 2024}}
Blue Demon, 78, Mexican masked wrestler and actor, myocardial infarction.
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, 89, German physicist.
Alain-Philippe Malagnac, 49, French actor, smoke inhalation.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=matchID - Alain-Philippe Malagnac |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/dVGSrMyOint1 |website=Fichier des décès |publisher= |access-date=21 June 2023 |language=fr |date=}}
Victor Owusu, 76, Ghanaian politician and lawyer.
Hugh W. Pinnock, 66, American Mormon leader, pulmonary fibrosis.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Hugh W. Pinnock - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6b56ts5 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=21 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Chuck Pratt, 61, American rock climber, heart attack.
Theo Saevecke, 89, Nazi German SS officer and holocaust perpetrator.

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Gerald Aylmer, 74, British historian.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/dec/29/guardianobituaries.highereducation|last=Woolrych|first=Austin|title=Gerald Aylmer: Historian who always blended authority with humanity|work=The Guardian|date=2000-12-28|access-date=2018-12-22}}
Peter Barrett, 65, American sailor and Olympic champion.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Peter Barrett |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/61247 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=21 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Gérard Blain, 70, French actor and film director, cancer.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/dec/19/guardianobituaries.filmnews|last=Bergan|first=Ronald|title=Gérard Blain: Actor whose face launched the New Wave of French cinema|work=The Guardian|date=2000-12-19|access-date=2018-12-20}}
Harold Rhodes, 89, American music inventor, pneumonia.{{cite news |author1=Jon Pareles |author-link1=Jon Pareles |title=Harold Rhodes, 89, Inventor of an Electronic Piano |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/04/arts/harold-rhodes-89-inventor-of-an-electronic-piano.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=22 June 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=4 January 2001 |page=B 7}}
Erich Schmid, 93, Swiss conductor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Erich Schmid |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14008824v |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=21 June 2023 |language=French |date=}}

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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.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Lajos Dunai |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/25682 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=21 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Stan Fox, 48, American race car driver, traffic collision.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-20-sp-2416-story.html|last=Associated Press|title=Fox, Who Survived Indy 500 Crash, Dies in Car Wreck|work=Los Angeles Times| date=2000-12-20|access-date=2018-12-20}}
Randolph Apperson Hearst, 85, American newspaper publisher (Hearst Corporation).{{cite news|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2000-12-19-0012180561-story.html|last=The New York Times|title=RANDOLPH A. HEARST, 85, PUBLISHING, TV EXECUTIVE|work=Sun-Sentinel|location=Fort Lauderdale, Florida| date=2000-12-19|access-date=2018-12-20}}
Norman Humphries, 83, English cricket player.[https://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/15054.html Norman Humphries]
Kirsty MacColl, 41, British singer-songwriter, boating accident.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1078192.stm|title=Singer Kirsty MacColl dies|work=BBC News|date=2000-12-19|access-date=2012-06-24}}
Madhavapeddi Satyam, 78, Indian actor and singer.
Giorgio Saviane, 84, Italian author.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Giorgio Saviane |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12167856c |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=21 June 2023 |language=French |date=}}
Nick Stewart, 90, American television and film actor.[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-21-me-2834-story.html Nick Stewart; Co-Founded Ebony Theater to Help Black Actors]

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Pierre Allain, 96, French alpinist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Pierre Allain |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11929812n |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=21 June 2023 |language=French |date=}}
Mahmud Baksi, 56, Kurdish writer and journalist, kidney failure.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Mahmud Baksi |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb135675493 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=21 June 2023 |language=French |date=}}
Reginald Bennett, 89, English politician, psychiatrist and painter.
Rob Buck, 42, American musician (10,000 Maniacs), liver disease.{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=111821&page=1|last=Margolis|first=Lynne|title=10,000 Maniacs Guitarist Robert Buck Dead at 42|work=ABC News|date=2000-12-20|access-date=2018-12-20}}
Michel Dens, 89, French baritone.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Michel Dens - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w61k0p6z |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=21 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
György Györffy, 83, Hungarian historian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=György Györffy |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12022687w |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=21 June 2023 |language=French |date=}}
Milt Hinton, 90, American double bassist and photographer.{{cite news |author1=Peter Keepnews |title=Milt Hinton, Dean of Jazz Bassists, Is Dead at 90 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/21/nyregion/milt-hinton-dean-of-jazz-bassists-is-dead-at-90.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=21 December 2000 |page=B 12}}
John Lindsay, 79, 103rd Mayor of New York City, Parkinson's disease.{{cite news |author1=Robert D. McFadden |author-link1=Robert D. McFadden |title=John V. Lindsay, Mayor and Maverick, Dies at 79 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/21/nyregion/john-v-lindsay-mayor-and-maverick-dies-at-79.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=21 December 2000 |page=A 1}}
William L. Moran, 79, American assyriologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=William L. Moran - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w65r7kk8 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=21 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Lou Polli, 99, Italian-American baseball player.{{cite news|url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/3c4d5c32|last=Simon|first=Tom|title=Lou Polli|work=Society for American Baseball Research|access-date=2018-12-29}}
Son Sann, 89, Cambodian politician and resistance leader.
Pops Staples, 85, patriarch of The Staple Singers, fall.{{cite news |author1=Jon Pareles |author-link1=Jon Pareles |title=Pops Staples, Patriach of the Staple Singers, Dies at 85 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/22/arts/pops-staples-patriach-of-the-staple-singers-dies-at-85.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=29 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=22 December 2000 |page=B 14}}
Laurence Whistler, 88, British poet and artist.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jan/06/guardianobituaries.books|last=Green|first=Janet|title=Sir Laurence Whistler: He singlehandedly revived a great renaissance tradition of glass engraving|work=The Guardian|date=2001-01-05|access-date=2018-12-29}}

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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.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Richard Hazard - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/88849 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=21 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Adrian Henri, 68, British poet and painter (Liverpool Poets).{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1081108.stm|title=Poet Adrian Henri dies|work=BBC|date=2000-12-21|access-date=2018-12-20}}
Patriarch Diodoros of Jerusalem, 77, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem (1980-2000), diabetes.{{cite news |author1=William A. Orme Jr. |title=Diodoros I, 77, Top Patriarch Of Greek Faith in Holy Land |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/21/nyregion/diodoros-i-77-top-patriarch-of-greek-faith-in-holy-land.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=1 April 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=21 December 2000 |page=B 12}}
Syed Abdul Malik, 81, Indian Assamese writer.
Alexander Ramsay of Mar, 80, British aristocrat.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Alexander Ramsay of Mar |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb17743501m |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=21 June 2023 |language=French |date=}}

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Rober Eryol, 70, Turkish football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Rober Eryol |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/rober-eryol/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=22 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Alfred J. Gross, 82, American inventor and a pioneer in mobile wireless communication.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jan-14-me-12311-story.html|last=Woo|first=Elaine|title=Al Gross; Invented Pager, Walkie-Talkie and Cordless Phone|work=Los Angeles Times| date=2001-01-14|access-date=2018-12-20}}
Florynce Kennedy, 84, American lawyer, feminist, civil rights advocate, and activist.{{cite news |author1=Douglas Martin |title=Flo Kennedy, Feminist, Civil Rights Advocate and Flamboyant Gadfly, Is Dead at 84 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/23/us/flo-kennedy-feminist-civil-rights-advocate-and-flamboyant-gadfly-is-dead-at-84.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=23 December 2000 |page=B 7}}
John Lee, 72, Australian actor.
Edward Miller, 85, British historian (Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge).{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/feb/09/guardianobituaries1|last=Dyer|first=Christopher|title=Edward Miller|work=The Guardian|date=2001-02-08|access-date=2018-12-20}}
Stephen A. Mitchell, 54, American clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst.{{cite news |last1=Goode |first1=Erica |title=Dr. Stephen A. Mitchell, a Theorist in Psychoanalysis, 54 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/23/nyregion/dr-stephen-a-mitchell-a-theorist-in-psychoanalysis-54.html |access-date=22 June 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=23 December 2000}}
Gord Reay, 57, Canadian Army officer, road accident.
Derek Trevis, 58, English football player.
Renaat Van Elslande, 84, Belgian politician.

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Lianella Carell, 73, Italian film actress and screenwriter.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Lianella Carell |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14161761h |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=22 June 2023 |language=French |date=}}
Giuseppe Colnago, 77, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
Herman Feshbach, 83, American physicist.{{cite news |author1=Kenneth Chang |title=Herman Feshbach Dies at 83; Theorized on Nuclei of Atoms |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/28/us/herman-feshbach-dies-at-83-theorized-on-nuclei-of-atoms.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=7 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=28 December 2000 |page=C 12}}
Vytautas Kulakauskas, 80, Lithuanian basketball player, and coach.
Stuart Lancaster, 80, American actor.
Connie McCready, 79, American journalist and politician, complications from a stroke.{{cite news|url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/0EB08CCCEAAF90F8&f=basic|last=Heinz|first=Spencer|title=EX-MAYOR CONNIE MCCREADY DIES|work=The Oregonian|date=2000-12-23|access-date=2018-12-21}}
Allan Smethurst, 73, English folk singer, heart attack.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/dec/27/guardianobituaries1|title=Obituary: Allan Smethurst|first=Dave|last=Laing|date=27 December 2000|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=20 December 2020}}

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Esther B. Aresty, 92, American cookbook writer.{{cite web|title=ESTHER ARESTY (1908-2000)|url=http://www.mocavo.com/Esther-Aresty-1908-2000-Social-Security-Death-Index/08457961992568702054|website=Social Security Death Index |accessdate=November 22, 2014}}
Wilfred Arthur, 81, Australian fighter ace of the RAAF during World War II.
Larry Baker, 63, American gridiron football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Larry Baker - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6w462k0 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=22 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Billy Barty, 76, American actor (Willow, Legend, Masters of the Universe), heart failure.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/27/us/billy-barty-76-diminutive-actor-and-an-advocate-for-dwarfs.html|last=The Associated Press|title=Billy Barty, 76, Diminutive Actor And an Advocate for Dwarfs|work=The New York Times|date=2000-12-27|access-date=2018-12-20}}
Susan Berman, 55, American journalist and author, homicide.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jan-05-me-8637-story.html|last=Streeter|first=Kurt|title=Police Puzzled by Killing of Author of Books on Vegas Mob|work=Los Angeles Times|date=2001-01-05|access-date=2019-01-20}}
Victor Borge, 91, Danish-American comedian and pianist.{{cite news |author1=Stephen Holden |author-link1=Stephen Holden |title=Victor Borge, 91, Comic Piano Virtuoso, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/24/nyregion/victor-borge-91-comic-piano-virtuoso-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=22 June 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=24 December 2000 |page=1 31}}
Vinal G. Good, 94, American politician and lawyer from Maine.
Aage Haugland, 56, Danish operatic bass, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Aage Haugland |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13940228w |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=22 June 2023 |language=French |date=}}
Noor Jehan, 74, Pakistani actress and singer, heart failure.
Louis Leprince-Ringuet, 99, French physicist, essayist and historian of science.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Louis Leprince-Ringuet |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11912541h |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=22 June 2023 |language=French |date=}}
Jimmy Shand, 92, Scottish musician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jimmy Shand - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6781cq3 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=22 June 2023 |language= |date=}}

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Horace Barker, 93, American biochemist and microbiologist.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |title=Horace Barker, 93, Scientist Who Studied Body Chemistry |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/10/us/horace-barker-93-scientist-who-studied-body-chemistry.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=22 June 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=10 January 2001 |page=C 15}}
John Cooper, 77, British automobile designer (Cooper Car Company).{{cite news |author1=Warren Hoge |author-link1=Warren Hoge |title=John Cooper, 77, Creator of Iconic Mini Cooper in the 60's |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/27/us/john-cooper-77-creator-of-iconic-mini-cooper-in-the-60-s.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=27 December 2000 |page=A 18}}
Sadek Hilal, 70, Egyptian-American radiologist.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |title=Dr. Sadek Hilal, 70, Pioneer In Detecting Brain Diseases |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/08/nyregion/dr-sadek-hilal-70-pioneer-in-detecting-brain-diseases.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=8 January 2001 |page=B 7}}
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/1435462/20001228/four_seasons.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081227082135/http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/1435462/20001228/four_seasons.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 27, 2008|title=Four Seasons' Nick Massi Dies Of Cancer At 73|work=VH1|last=Basham|first=David|date=2000-12-28|access-date=2012-06-24}}
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.

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Truus Baumeister, 93, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Truus Baumeister |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/49297 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=22 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Décio Esteves, 73, Brazilian football player and coach.
George Feigenbaum, 71, American basketball player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=George Feigenbaum Stats - Basketball-Reference.com |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/f/feigege01.html |website=basketball-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=22 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Robert Francis Garner, 80, American Roman Catholic prelate.
Joe Gilliam, 49, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), cocaine overdose.{{cite news |author1=Richard Goldstein |author-link1=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) |title=Joe Gilliam Is Dead at 49; Pioneer Black Quarterback |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/27/us/joe-gilliam-is-dead-at-49-pioneer-black-quarterback.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=27 December 2000 |page=A 19}}
Dheerendra Gopal, 60, Indian film and stage actor, jaundice attack.
Neil Hawke, 61, Australian cricket player.{{cite news|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/5611.html|title=Neil Hawke|work=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=2019-01-04}}
Willard Van Orman Quine, 92, American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition.{{cite news |author1=Christopher Lehmann-Haupt |author-link1=Christopher Lehmann-Haupt |title=W. V. Quine, Philosopher Who Analyzed Language and Reality, Dies at 92 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/29/arts/w-v-quine-philosopher-who-analyzed-language-and-reality-dies-at-92.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=29 December 2000 |page=C 11}}
Sam Savitt, 83, American equine artist, author, and book illustrator.{{cite news |author1=Eric Pace |author-link1=List of The New York Times employees |title=Sam Savitt, 83, Artist and Author Who Specialized in Horses, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/30/arts/sam-savitt-83-artist-and-author-who-specialized-in-horses-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=30 December 2000 |page=C 15}}
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.

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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.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/06/arts/leo-gordon-78-villain-of-westerns-in-films-and-on-tv.html|last=The Associated Press|title=Leo Gordon, 78, Villain of Westerns In Films and on TV|work=The New York Times|date=2001-01-06|access-date=2018-12-20}}
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.{{cite hansard |last=Howard |first=John |author-link=John Howard |title=Condolences McLeay, Hon. John Elden |jurisdiction=Parliament of Australia |house=House of Representatives |date=6 February 2001 |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/chamber/hansardr/2001-02-06/toc_pdf/938-1.pdf |page=23875 |access-date=2024-11-03}}
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.{{cite news |author1= |title=Jason Robards Memorial |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/23/theater/jason-robards-memorial.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=23 February 2001 |page=A 17}}
Gust Zarnas, 87, American gridiron football player.{{cite web |title=Gust Zarnas Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft, College – Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/Z/ZarnGu20.htm |website=pro-football-reference.com |access-date=22 June 2023}}

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Erwin Ammann, 84, German politician.
William Hanes Ayres, 84, American politician, heart and kidney ailments.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=William Hanes Ayres - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6bk1p5p |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=22 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Marc Boileau, 68, Canadian ice hockey coach and player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Marc Boileau Stats - Hockey-Reference.com |url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/b/boilema01.html |website=hockey-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=22 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Walter Stanley Keane, 85, American plagiarist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Walter Keane - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6pc3kv6 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=22 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Jack McVea, 86, American woodwind player and bandleader.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jack McVea - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w61874kt |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=22 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Francis Sumner Merritt, 87, American painter, and art teacher.
Roy Partee, 83, American baseball player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Roy Partee Stats - Baseball-Reference.com |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Roy+Partee |website=baseball-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=22 June 2023 |language= |date=}}

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Eduard Adorno, 80, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
Aminuddin Dagar, 77, Indian Dhrupad singer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Nasir Aminuddin Dagar - Library of Congress |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88110233 |website=id.loc.gov |publisher= |access-date=22 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Sergey Grishchenko, 53, Soviet alpine skier and Olympian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Sergey Grishchenko |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/86235 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=22 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Arnold Hutschnecker, 102, Austrian-American medical doctor.{{cite news |author1=Erica Goode |title=Arnold Hutschnecker, 102, Therapist to Nixon |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/03/us/arnold-hutschnecker-102-therapist-to-nixon.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=3 January 2001 |page=C 15}}
William X. Kienzle, 72, American priest and author (The Rosary Murders, Death Wears a Red Hat), heart attack.

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Julio Aguilar Azañón, 66, Spanish politician.{{cite web|title=Profile|url=http://www.congreso.es/portal/page/portal/Congreso/Congreso/Diputados/BusqForm?_piref73_1333155_73_1333154_1333154.next_page=/wc/fichaDiputado?idDiputado=26&idLegislatura=1|publisher=Chamber of Deputies website|accessdate=8 November 2013}}
Renata Carraretto, 77, Italian alpine skier and Olympian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Renata Carraretto |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/80797 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=22 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Herbert Halpert, 89, American anthropologist and folklorist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Herbert Halpert - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6c53nbf |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=22 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Jacques Laurent, 81, French writer and journalist, suicide.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=matchID - Jacques Laurent |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/R85jTXhFoiFE |website=Fichier des décès |publisher= |access-date=22 June 2023 |language=fr |date=}}
Woodley Lewis, 75, American football player, heart and kidney problems.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Woodley Lewis Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Woodley+Lewis |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=22 June 2023 |language= |date=}}

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Tom Blohm, 80, Norwegian football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Tom Blohm |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/26802 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=22 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
James C. Corman, 80, American politician (U.S. Representative for California's 21st and 22nd congressional districts).{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/05/us/james-corman-80-lawmaker-who-championed-civil-rights.html|last=Saxon|first=Wolfgang|title=James Corman, 80, Lawmaker Who Championed Civil Rights|work=The New York Times|date=2001-01-05|access-date=2019-01-20}}
Julius J. Epstein, 91, American screenwriter (Casablanca, Arsenic and Old Lace, Reuben, Reuben), Oscar winner (1944).{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1097005.stm|title=Casablanca writer dies|work=BBC News|date=2001-01-02|access-date=2013-04-29}}
John Hardon, 86, American Jesuit priest, writer, and theologian.
Lionel Hebert, 72, American professional golfer.{{cite news |author1=Richard Goldstein |author-link1=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) |title=Lionel Hebert, 72, Pro Golfer, Winner of P.G.A. Championship |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/04/sports/lionel-hebert-72-pro-golfer-winner-of-pga-championship.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=14 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=4 January 2001 |page=B 7}}
Rudolf Schnyder, 71, Swiss sport shooter and Olympic silver medalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Rudolf Schnyder |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/44097 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=22 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Walter Tomsen, 88, American sport shooter and Olympic silver medalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Walter Tomsen |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/44781 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=22 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Isakas Vistaneckis, 90, Lithuanian chess player.
Bohdan Warchal, 70, Slovak violinist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bohdan Warchal - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6dr5hbq |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=22 June 2023 |language= |date=}}

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Alan Cranston, 86, American politician, U.S. Senator from California (1969-1993).{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/01/us/alan-cranston-former-us-senator-is-dead-at-86.html|title=Alan Cranston, Former U.S. Senator, Is Dead at 86|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-12-14}}
Sebastian de Grazia, 83, American philosopher.
Louis-René des Forêts, 84, French writer.{{cite web |title=Louis-René des Forêts |url=https://data.bnf.fr/fr/11899730/louis-rene_des_forets/ |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=22 June 2023 |language=French }}
Harry Dorish, 79, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles).{{cite news|url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/cfa02870|last=Nowlin|first=Bill|title=Fritz Dorish|work=Society for American Baseball Research|access-date=2019-02-23}}
Wayne Glasgow, 74, American basketball player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Wayne Glasgow |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/6184 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=22 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
José Greco, 82, Italian-American flamenco dancer and choreographer.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/04/arts/jose-greco-82-fiery-master-of-spanish-dance-is-dead.html|last=Dunning|first=Jennifer|title=Jose Greco, 82, Fiery Master Of Spanish Dance, Is Dead|work=The New York Times|date=2001-01-04|access-date=2018-12-20}}
Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, 34, Israeli rabbi and settler, shot.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jan/09/guardianobituaries.israel|title=Binyamin Kahane|work=The Guardian|last=Joffe|first=Lawrence|date=2001-02-09|access-date=2012-06-24}}
Anne Macnaghten, 92, British violinist.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jan/23/guardianobituaries|last=Nelson|first=Catherine|title=Anne Macnaghten: Violinist with a passion for taking music to children|work=The Guardian|date=2001-01-22|access-date=2018-12-22}}
Tanaquil Le Clercq, 71, French ballet dancer (New York City Ballet), pneumonia.{{cite news |author1=Anna Kisselgoff |author-link1=Anna Kisselgoff |title=Tanaquil Le Clercq, 71, Ballerina Who Dazzled Dance World |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/01/nyregion/tanaquil-le-clercq-71-ballerina-who-dazzled-dance-world.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 January 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=1 January 2001 |page=B 7}}
Kenneth Lee Pike, 88, American linguist and anthropologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Kenneth Lee Pike - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6ww8f25 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=22 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
Bekzat Sattarkhanov, 20, Kazakh boxer and Olympian, traffic collision.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Bekzat Sattarkhanov |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/89936 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=22 June 2023 |language= |date=}}
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.

References

External links

[https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=2000-12-01,2000-12-31&adult=include List of December 2000 deaths] at IMDb

*2000-12