Deaths in November 2000

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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 (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

November 2000

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  • Howard P. Anderson, 85, American politician.[http://dela.state.va.us/dela/Membios.nsf/94f6e9b9c9b5678f85256b1b00732227/58b8278187c1ccd085256b35005fcf99?OpenDocument Member bios] state.va.us
  • George Armstrong, 56, English football player and coach, brain haemorrhage, cerebral hemorrhage.{{cite news |title=Arsenal legend Armstrong dies |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/1001900.stm |access-date=6 May 2023 |work=BBC News |date=1 November 2000}}
  • David Crook, 90, British-Chinese communist activist and spy.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=David Crook |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb133217716 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=French |date=}}
  • Bernard Erhard, 66, American actor.
  • Steve Evans, 58, American motorsports broadcaster.{{cite web |title=Steve Evans passes away |url=https://www.motorsport.com/nhra/news/steve-evans-passes-away/55321/ |website=motorsport.com |access-date=17 December 2020 |date=6 November 2000 |archive-date=November 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201121165846/https://www.motorsport.com/nhra/news/steve-evans-passes-away/55321/ |url-status=dead }}
  • Kjell Holler, 75, Norwegian economist and politician.{{cite web |title=Kjell Torbjørn Holler – Store norske leksikon |url=https://snl.no/Kjell_Torbj%C3%B8rn_Holler |website=snl.no |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=no}}
  • Sir Steven Runciman, 97, English historian.{{cite news |author1=Eric Pace |author-link1=List of The New York Times employees |title=Sir Steven Runciman, 97, British Historian and Author |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/03/nyregion/sir-steven-runciman-97-british-historian-and-author.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=3 November 2000 |page=B 13}}
  • Richard K. Webel, 100, American landscape architect.[https://www.tclf.org/pioneer/richard-webel 1900 - 2000

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  • Eddie Collins, Jr., 83, American baseball player.{{cite news|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/collied02.shtml|title=Eddie Collins|work=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=2018-12-29}}
  • Robert Cormier, 75, American author and journalist, complications from a blood clot.{{cite news |author1=William H. Honan |author-link1=William Honan |title=Robert E. Cormier, 75, Author Of Enduring Books for Teenagers |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/05/nyregion/robert-e-cormier-75-author-of-enduring-books-for-teenagers.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=5 November 2000 |page=1 64}}
  • Michael Herman, 57, French American mathematician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Michael Herman |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb126127541 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=French |date=}}
  • Eva Morris, 114, second oldest living person (1999 - 2000).{{Cite web |date=2006-01-28 |title=CNN.com - World's oldest woman dies in Britain - November 2, 2000 |url=http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/UK/11/02/oldest.woman/index.html |access-date=2025-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060128031929/http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/UK/11/02/oldest.woman/index.html |archive-date=January 28, 2006 }}
  • Sue Ryder, 76, British baroness and charity founder.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Frauendatenbank fembio.org |url=https://www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/frauendatenbank?fem_id=31650 |website=fembio.org |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=de |date=}}
  • Simeon Simeonov, 54, Bulgarian football goalkeeper.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Simeon Simeonov |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/simeon-simeonov/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Avatus Stone, 69, American gridiron football player, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Avatus Stone Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Avatus+Stone |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}

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  • Aga Syed Mehdi, 41, Indian cleric and politician, blast.{{Cite news |url=http://www.jammu-kashmir.com/archives/archives2000/kashmir20001104a.html|title=3 Violence mars Shia Leaders funeral |work=The Hindu |access-date=2019-12-04 |language=en-US}}
  • Leonardo Benvenuti, 77, Italian screenwriter.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Leonardo Benvenuti - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/26f8ad5050b84d408436152bf97f9ac8 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=de |date=}}
  • Bob Bryant, 82, American gridiron football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bob Bryant Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BryaBo20.htm |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Charles F. Hockett, 84, American linguist.{{cite news |author1=Margalit Fox |author-link1=Margalit Fox |title=Charles Hockett, 84, Linguist With an Anthropological View |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/13/arts/charles-hockett-84-linguist-with-an-anthropological-view.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=13 November 2000 |page=B 7}}
  • Robert Sherlaw Johnson, 68, British composer and musicologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Robert Sherlaw Johnson - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6j1817q |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • George Vandeman, 84, American evangelist and broadcaster.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=George Vandeman - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6vm5mgd |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}

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  • Vernel Fournier, 72, American jazz drummer, cerebral hemorrhage.{{cite news |author1=Ben Ratliff |author-link1=Ben Ratliff |title=Vernel Fournier, 72, Jazz Drummer Revered for Precision and Understatement |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/10/arts/vernel-fournier-72-jazz-drummer-revered-for-precision-and-understatement.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=10 November 2000 |page=B 11}}
  • Stephanie Lawrence, 50, British singer and actress, liver disease.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Stephanie Lawrence - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/74844 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Amalia Hernández, 83, Mexican ballet choreographer.{{cite news |author1=Jack Anderson |author-link1= |title=Amalia Hernandez, 83; Led Ballet Folklorico de Mexico |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/07/arts/amalia-hernandez-83-led-ballet-folklorico-de-mexico.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=7 May 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=7 November 2000 |page=C 23}}
  • John Reynolds, 77, American physicist.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/20/us/john-hamilton-reynolds-77-improved-study-of-cosmic-ages.html|last=Saxon|first=Wolfgang|title=John Hamilton Reynolds, 77; Improved Study of Cosmic Ages|work=The New York Times|date=2000-11-20|access-date=2018-12-21}}
  • Ian Sneddon, 80, Scottish mathematician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ian Sneddon - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6k50xtr |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}

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  • Etienne Aigner, 95, Austrian-American fashion designer.
  • Dionisio Arce, 73, Paraguayan football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Dionisio Arce |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/dionisio-arce/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • David Brower, 88, American environmentalist.{{cite news |author1=Richard Severo |author-link1= |title=David Brower, an Aggressive Champion Of U.S. Environmentalism, Is Dead at 88 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/07/us/david-brower-an-aggressive-champion-of-us-environmentalism-is-dead-at-88.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=7 November 2000 |page=C 22}}
  • Jimmie Davis, 101, American singer, songwriter and politician (Governor of Louisiana).{{cite news |author1=Richard Severo |author-link1= |title=Jimmie Davis, Louisiana's Singing Governor, Is Dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/06/us/jimmie-davis-louisiana-s-singing-governor-is-dead.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=6 November 2000 |page=A 37}}
  • Victor Grinich, 75, American pioneer in the semiconductor industry, prostate cancer.{{cite news |author1=Chris Gaither |author-link1= |title=Victor Grinich, 75, Co-Founder Of Upstart Electronics Company |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/11/business/victor-grinich-75-co-founder-of-upstart-electronics-company.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=11 November 2000 |page=C 16}}
  • Henrik Lange, 92, Swedish Coastal Artillery officer.
  • Frances Lee, 94, American film actress.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Frances Lee |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14687774k |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=French |date=}}
  • Willard Marshall, 79, American baseball player.{{cite news|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/marshwi01.shtml|title=Willard Marshall|work=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=2018-12-29}}
  • 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.{{cite news |author1=Alan Riding |author-link1=Alan Riding |title=Roger Peyrefitte, French Writer, Dies at 93 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/08/arts/roger-peyrefitte-french-writer-dies-at-93.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=8 November 2000 |page=A 25}}
  • 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.{{cite news |author1=Eric Pace |author-link1=List of The New York Times employees |title=Mary Sinclair, 78, Television Actress of the 50's |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/14/arts/mary-sinclair-78-television-actress-of-the-50-s.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=14 November 2000 |page=B 15}}

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  • Torgny Anderberg, 81, Swedish actor and film director.
  • Joseph Marie Armer, 93, American Roman Catholic sister.{{Cite web |title=About Us – ARASE |url=https://arase.org/home/index.php/about-us/ |access-date=2024-11-24 |language=en-US}}
  • Eddy Bruma, 75, Surinamese politician, lawyer and writer, injuries sustained during robbery.
  • Herbert Brün, 82, German composer and pioneer of electronic and computer music.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |author-link1= |title=Herbert Brun, 82, Composer; Melded Electronics With Music |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/16/arts/herbert-brun-82-composer-melded-electronics-with-music.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=16 November 2000 |page=B 14}}
  • L. Sprague de Camp, 92, American writer.{{cite news |author1=Eric Pace |author-link1=List of The New York Times employees |title=L. S. de Camp, 92, Author Of Over 100 Fantasy Novels |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/11/arts/l-s-de-camp-92-author-of-over-100-fantasy-novels.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=11 November 2000 |page=C 16}}
  • John McPhail, 76, Scottish football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=John McPhail |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/john-mcphail/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Stefaniya Stanyuta, 95, Soviet and Belarus theater and movie actress.
  • Vasiliy Yershov, 51, Ukrainian javelin thrower and Olympian.{{cite web |title=Olympedia - Vasily Yershov |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/77472 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=7 May 2023}}

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  • Edulji Aibara, 86, Indian cricketer.{{cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2000/11/08/stories/0708096c.htm|work=The Hindu| title=Eddie Aibara passes away|date = 8 November 2000}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
  • Tara Cherian, 87, Indian social activist and politician.
  • Hal Fowler, 73, American poker player, diabetes.
  • Julius Hatry, 93, German aircraft designer and builder.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Julius Hatry - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/ac311eeba47c4ea3a53f084dcdc90eaa |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=de |date=}}
  • Jim Hutchinson, 103, English cricketer and centenarian.{{cite news|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/14397.html|last=Williamson|first=Martin|title=Jim Hutchinson|work=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=2019-01-04}}
  • Nimalan Soundaranayagam, 50, Sri Lankan Tamil teacher and politician, assassinated.
  • Chidambaram Subramaniam, 90, Indian politician and independence activist.{{cite news |author1=Celia W. Dugger |author-link1=Celia W. Dugger |title=Chidambaram Subramaniam, India's 'Green' Rebel, 90, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/10/world/chidambaram-subramaniam-india-s-green-rebel-90-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=10 November 2000 |page=B 11}}
  • Ingrid of Sweden, 90, Queen consort of Frederik IX of Denmark.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Frauendatenbank fembio.org |url=https://www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/frauendatenbank?fem_id=14289 |website=fembio.org |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=de |date=}}
  • Kōzaburō Yoshimura, 89, Japanese film director, heart failure.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Kōzaburō Yoshimura - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6w528rj |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Boris Zakhoder, 82, Russian poet and children's writer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Boris Zakhoder |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb162859491 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=French |date=}}

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  • Brian Boydell, 83, Irish composer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Brian Boydell - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w69p6hbg |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Elio Crovetto, 73, Italian actor and comedian.
  • Dupa, 55, Belgian comics artist, cerebral hemorrhage.{{cite web |title=Dupa (Luc Dupanloup) - Lambiek Comiclopedia |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/dupa.htm |website=lambiek.net |access-date=7 May 2023}}
  • John Levitow, 55, US Air Force loadmaster and recipient of the Medal of Honor, cancer.{{cite news |author1=Richard Goldstein |author-link1=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) |title=John Levitow, 55, Airman Honored for Bravery, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/24/nyregion/john-levitow-55-airman-honored-for-bravery-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=24 November 2000 |page=B 15}}
  • Dick Morrissey, 60, British jazz musician and composer, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Dick Morrissey |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb139361296 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=French |date=}}
  • 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.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jan van der Vaart |url=http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/90713517 |website=biografischportaal.nl |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=nl |date=}}

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  • Hussein Abayat, Palestinian military commander, missile strike.{{cite news |last1=Philps |first1=Alan |title=Israeli rocket kills Fatah militant |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/1373950/Israeli-rocket-kills-Fatah-militant.html |access-date=7 December 2023 |work=The Telegraph |date=2000-11-10}}
  • 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, Lebanse-American physician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Avedis Donabedian - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6gb2v4h |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Sherwood Johnston, 73, American racing driver.
  • Kurt Koch, 81, German football manager.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Kurt Koch |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/kurt-koch/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Ferenc Mayer, 92, Hungarian football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=matchID - Ferenc Mayer |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/pyEuW_s2u-Xg |website=Fichier des décès |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Eddie Miller, 84, American gridiron football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Eddie Miller Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/MillEd20.htm |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Eric Morley, 82, British TV host.{{cite news |author1=Paul Lewis |author-link1= |title=Eric Morley, 82, 'Miss World' Promoter, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/11/world/eric-morley-82-miss-world-promoter-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=11 November 2000 |page=C 16}}
  • Hugh Paddick, 85, English actor (BBC radio show Round the Horne).{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/nov/13/guardianobituaries1|last=Dixon|first=Stephen|title=Hugh Paddick: Versatile actor with a repertory from radio comedy to Brecht|work=The Guardian|date=2000-11-12|access-date=2018-12-19}}

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  • Adamantios Androutsopoulos, 81, Greek lawyer and politician, Prime Minister (1973-1974).
  • Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 85, French Gaullist politician and Prime Minister of France, heart attack.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/13/world/jacques-chaban-delmas-85-a-left-wing-gaullist-dies.html|last=Daley|first=Suzanne|title=Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 85, a Left-Wing Gaullist, Dies|work=The New York Times|date=2000-11-13|access-date=2018-12-20}}
  • Jorge Fernández-Maldonado, 78, Peruvian politician, Prime Minister (1976).
  • Bob Matthewson, 70, English footballer and referee.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bob Matthewson |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/bob-matthewson/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Walter P. McConaughy, 92, American diplomat and ambassador.
  • Alan Tyson, 74, British musicologist.{{cite news |author1=Allan Kozinn |author-link1=Allan Kozinn |title=Alan Tyson, 74, Psychiatrist Noted for Musical Scholarship |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/24/nyregion/alan-tyson-74-psychiatrist-noted-for-musical-scholarship.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=24 December 2000 |page=1 31}}
  • Dawn-Marie Wesley, 14, Canadian bullying victim, suicide by hanging.

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  • Rayford Barnes, 80, American actor.
  • James Morris Blaut, 73, American anthropologist and geographer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=James Morris Blaut - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6626z6x |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Hugo Pos, 86, Surinamese judge, writer, and poet.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Hugo Pos |url=http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/98683750 |website=biografischportaal.nl |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=nl |date=}}
  • Notable individuals killed during the Kaprun disaster:
  • Josef Schaupper, 37, Austrian deaf alpine skier.{{cite news |last1=Hooper |first1=John |title=World champion among victims |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/13/johnhooper |access-date=17 December 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=13 November 2000}}
  • Sandra Schmitt, 19, German freestyle skier.{{cite news |last1=Samuel |first1=John |title=Sandra Schmitt - Freestyle skiing champion cheated of Olympic chance |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/nov/17/guardianobituaries.johnsamuel |access-date=17 December 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=17 November 2000}}

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  • Halvar Björk, 72, Swedish actor, lung cancer.
  • John Bury, 75, British set designer, costume designer and lighting designer.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/nov/15/guardianobituaries|last=O'Brien|first=Timothy|title=John Bury: Set designer whose energy brought flamboyance and originality to the theatre |work=The Guardian|date=2000-11-14|access-date=2018-12-20}}
  • Wim Cohen, 77, Dutch mathematician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Wim Cohen - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w63x885n |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Eugene Antonio Marino, 66, American Roman Catholic prelate, heart attack.{{cite news |author1=Douglas Martin |author-link1= |title=Eugene Marino, Black Archbishop, Dies at 66 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/16/us/eugene-marino-black-archbishop-dies-at-66.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=16 November 2000 |page=B 14}}
  • Frances Mercer, 85, American film actress.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Frances Mercer - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/102318 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Franck Pourcel, 87, French composer, arranger, and conductor, Parkinson's disease.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Franck Pourcel - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6r81k8d |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Leah Rabin, 72, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, lung cancer.{{cite news |author1=Joel Greenberg |author-link1= |title=Leah Rabin, Israeli First Lady and Peace Advocate, Dies at 72 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/13/world/leah-rabin-israeli-first-lady-and-peace-advocate-dies-at-72.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=13 November 2000 |page=B 6}}

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  • Menachem Ashkenazi, 66, Israeli international football referee.
  • Gheorghe Ghimpu, 63, Romanian politician and political prisoner, traffic collision.{{Cite web |url=http://azi.md/news?ID=45393 |title=New volume by the late Gheorghe Ghimpu will appear by yearend (azi.md) |access-date=September 4, 2022 |archive-date=October 8, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008233428/http://azi.md/news?ID=45393 |url-status=dead }}
  • Audrey Stubbart, 105, American centenarian and oldest known full-time employee.
  • Jim Wise, 81, American musical composer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jim Wise - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/75591 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}

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  • Len Gabrielson, 85, American baseball player.{{cite news|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gabrile01.shtml|title=Len Gabrielson|work=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=2018-12-29}}
  • Altaf Gauhar, 77, Pakistani writer, journalist, and poet, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Altaf Gauhar - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6j52zs5 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Wiesław Gawłowski, 50, Polish volleyball player and coach, traffic collision.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Wiesław Gawłowski |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/52880 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Earl W. Renfroe, 93, American dentist and orthodontics pioneer.
  • Pietro Rimoldi, 89, Italian cyclist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Pietro Rimoldi |url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/pietro-rimoldi |website=procyclingstats.com |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Robert Trout, 91, American broadcast news reporter.{{cite news |author1=Richard Severo |author-link1= |title=Robert Trout, Known as the 'Iron Man' of Broadcast Journalism, Dies at 91 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/15/nyregion/robert-trout-known-as-the-iron-man-of-broadcast-journalism-dies-at-91.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=14 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=15 November 2000 |page=B 14}}

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  • Edoardo Agnelli, 46, Italian football club director and son of industrialist Gianni Agnelli, suicide by jumping.{{cite news|last=Whittaker|first=Malcolm|date=16 November 2000|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/fiat-magnate-agnelli-s-only-son-found-dead-at-bridge-of-suicides-622932.html|title=Fiat magnate Agnelli's only son found dead at Bridge of Suicides|work=The Independent|location=London|issn=1741-9743|access-date=18 February 2023}} (body discovered on this date)
  • Max Archimowitz, 80, German politician.{{cite web|title=Profile at the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia website|url=http://www.landtag.nrw.de/portal/WWW/Webmaster/GB_I/I.1/Abgeordnete/Ehemalige_Abgeordnete/details.jsp?k=00224|accessdate=10 May 2014}}
  • Bobby Collier, 70, American gridiron football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bobby Collier Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Bobby+Collier |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • G. V. Desani, 91, British-Indian novelist, poet, and social commentator.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=G. V. Desani - Library of Congress |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50001753 |website=id.loc.gov |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Bernard Gadney, 91, English rugby player.
  • Mushtaq Gazdar, 60, Pakistani cinematographer.
  • Václav Horák, 88, Czech football player and manager.{{cite web |title=Václav Horák |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/vaclav-horak/ |website=worldfootball.net |access-date=7 May 2023}}
  • Rinaldo Martino, 79, Italian-Argentine soccer player.{{cite web |title=Rinaldo Martino |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/rinaldo-martino/ |website=worldfootball.net |access-date=7 May 2023}}
  • Pietro Pasinati, 90, Italian football player and manager.{{cite web |title=Piero Pasinati |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/piero-pasinati/ |website=worldfootball.net |access-date=7 May 2023}}
  • Joseph Robert Shoenfield, 73, American mathematical logician.
  • Jens Jørgen Thorsen, 68, Danish artist, director, and jazz musician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jens Jørgen Thorsen - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/a088b2e178ea4c47b50d8a973d9f5dc6 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=de |date=}}
  • Harry Webb, 92, Australian politician.
  • Simon Wigg, 40, English speedway rider, brain tumour.

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  • 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.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Russ Conway |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14166223s |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=French |date=}}
  • 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.{{cite news |first=Geoffrey |last=Vasiliauskas |title=Gangland murders in 'Twin Peaks' draw government's attention |url=http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/3424/ |website= Baltic Times |date=23 November 2000 |access-date=18 August 2024}}
  • Athanasius, Metropolitan of Beni Suef, 77, Egyptian Coptic Orthodox bishop.{{cite web |title=Bishop Athanasius (1923–2000), the Late Bishop of Beni Suef |url=https://accot.stcyrils.edu.au/bishop-athanasius-maged-kamel/ |website=stcyrils.edu.au |date=July 19, 2020 |access-date=7 May 2023}}
  • Hosea Williams, 74, American civil rights leader, scientist, and politician, cancer.{{cite news |author1=Daniel Lewis |author-link1= |title=Hosea Williams, 74, Rights Crusader, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/17/us/hosea-williams-74-rights-crusader-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=17 November 2000 |page=B 10}}

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  • Paul W. Brown, 85, American lawyer.
  • Francis Jennings, 82, American historian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Francis Jennings - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6fr273f |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • William J. Murnane, 55, American egyptologist and author.{{cite news |last1=Strudwick |first1=Nigel |title=William Murnane |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jan/23/guardianobituaries2 |access-date=7 May 2023 |work=The Guardian |date=23 January 2001}}
  • Louis Néel, 95, French physicist.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |author-link1= |title=Dr. Louis Neel, 95, Physicist; Studied Aspects of Magnetism |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/24/world/dr-louis-neel-95-physicist-studied-aspects-of-magnetism.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=24 November 2000 |page=B 15}}
  • Hans Scherenberg, 90, German automobile engineer and executive (Daimler Benz).
  • Bim Sherman, 50, Jamaican musician.
  • Aleksandar Zorić, 75, Yugoslav and Serbian racing cyclist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Aleksandar Zorić |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/17281 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}

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  • Konstantin Krizhevsky, 74, Russian football player.
  • Jaap van der Leck, 89, Dutch football manager.{{cite web |title=Jaap van der Leck |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/jaap-van-der-leck/ |website=worldfootball.net |access-date=7 May 2023}}
  • Hubert Miller, 82, American bobsledder.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Hubert Miller |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/95458 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • 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.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Kim Spalding - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/60630 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Ilya Starinov, 100, Soviet military officer.
  • Torstein Tynning, 68, Norwegian politician.

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  • George Cosmas Adyebo, 53, Ugandan politician and economist, cancer.
  • Robert Escarpit, 82, French academic, writer and journalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Robert Escarpit |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11901877w |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=fr|date=}}
  • Charles Ruff, 61, American lawyer, heart attack.
  • James Russell Wiggins, 96, United States Ambassador to the United Nations.{{cite news |author1=Douglas Martin |author-link1= |title=J. Russell Wiggins, 96, Editor, Statesman, Then Editor Again |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/21/nyregion/j-russell-wiggins-96-editor-statesman-then-editor-again.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=21 November 2000 |page=B 10}}

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  • Morris Barry, 82, British television producer.
  • Gaylord Carter, 95, American organist and film score composer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Gaylord Carter |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14085443z |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=French |date=}}
  • Nikolay Dollezhal, 101, Czech-Soviet nuclear physicist.
  • Barbara Janiszewska, 63, Polish middle-distance runner and Olympic medalist.{{cite web |title=Olympedia - Barbara Lerczak-Janiszewska-Sobotta |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/74629 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=7 May 2023}}
  • Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin, 73, Soviet/Russian animation director, animator and artist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16059576t |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=French |date=}}
  • Mike Muuss, 42, American computer programmer (software utility Ping), traffic collision.{{cite news|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2000-11-25-0011250218-story.html|last=Stroh|first=Michael|title=Michael John Muuss, 42, computer expert whose software had key role in Internet|work=The Baltimore Sun|date=2000-11-25|access-date=2018-12-20}}
  • Kalle Päätalo, 81, Finnish novelist, lung cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Kalle Päätalo |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12185479v |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=fr|date=}}

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  • Cyril Clarke, 93, British physician, geneticist and entomologist.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |author-link1= |title=Dr. Cyril Clarke, 93, British Rh Disease Geneticist, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/05/world/dr-cyril-clarke-93-british-rh-disease-geneticist-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=5 December 2000 |page=C 23}}
  • Cliff Foenander, 99, Sri Lankan musician.
  • Zygmunt Gadecki, 62, Polish football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Zygmunt Gadecki |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/26928 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Joe Gasparella, 73, American football player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Joe Gasparella Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Joe+Gasparella |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke, 86, German zoologist, ornithologist, and herpetologist.
  • Harald Leipnitz, 74, German actor, lung cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Harald Leipnitz - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/2cbe176a144c40e5ab16ec52cefd892c |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=de |date=}}
  • Ernest Lluch, 63, Spanish economist and politician, shot.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ernest Lluch - DB~e |url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/12219/ernest-lluch-i-martin |website=dbe.rah.es |publisher=Real Academia de la Historia |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=es |date=}}
  • Åke Pettersson, 74, Finnish football player.
  • Emil Zátopek, 78, Czechoslovakian runner and Olympic champion, stroke.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Emil Zátopek |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/76736 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}

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  • Mammadali Abbasov, 93, Azerbaijani-Soviet statesman.{{cite encyclopedia |title=Abbasov Məmmədəli Məmməd oğlu |encyclopedia=Azərbaycan Tikinti Kompleksinin Ensiklopediyası (ATKE) |editor1-last=İbrahimov |editor1-first=B. |editor2-last=Allahverdiyev |editor2-first=Z. |year=2011 |last= |first= |publisher=Yeni Poliqrafist |location=Bakı |id= |volume=I cild |url= |page=5 |access-date= }}
  • Caroline Benn, 74, American educationalist and writer, breast cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Caroline Benn |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12986840j |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=French |date=}}
  • Carlos Cardoso, Mozambican journalist, shot.
  • Jack Dyson, 66, British cricketer and footballer.{{cite news|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/12292.html|title=Jack Dyson|work=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=2019-01-04}}
  • Fritz Fend, 80, German aeronautical engineer.
  • Doug Hepburn, 74, Canadian strongman and weightlifter, perforated ulcer.
  • David Hermelin, 63, American diplomat, ambassador to Norway.
  • Alick Jeffrey, 61, English football player.
  • Christian Marquand, 73, French director, actor and screenwriter, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/dec/02/guardianobituaries1|last=Bergan|first=Ronald|title=Christian Marquand: Multilingual actor famed for screen frolic with Brigitte Bardot|work=The Guardian|date=2000-12-01|access-date=2018-12-20}}
  • Naresh Mehta, 78, Indian writer.
  • Yoshihiro Momota, 54, Japanese professional wrestler and ring announcer, liver failure.
  • Théodore Monod, 98, French naturalist, explorer, and humanist.{{cite news |author1=Paul Lewis |author-link1= |title=Theodore Monod, Sahara-Loving Naturalist, Dies at 98 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/25/world/theodore-monod-sahara-loving-naturalist-dies-at-98.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=25 November 2000 |page=A 17}}
  • Kenneth Peacock, 78, Canadian ethnomusicologist, composer, and pianist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Kenneth Peacock - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6qw5w1d |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Gerald Soffen, 74, American NASA scientist and educator.{{cite web |title=Soffen, Gerald Alan |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/soffen-gerald-alan |website=encyclopedia.com |access-date=7 May 2023}}

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  • Conrad Voss Bark, 87, British writer and journalist.{{cite news |last1=Hill |first1=Peter |title=Conrad Voss Bark - Incisive broadcaster of parliament's great debates |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/nov/29/guardianobituaries1 |access-date=7 May 2023 |work=The Guardian |date=29 November 2000}}
  • Florence Bell, 87, British biochemist and academic.
  • Elma Mitchell, 81, British poet.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Elma Mitchell - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6cp7bwk |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Brian Rawlinson, 69, English actor and screenwriter.
  • Rayner Unwin, 74, British publisher, cancer.{{cite news |author1=Doreen Carvajal |author-link1= |title=Rayner S. Unwin, 74, a Publisher And Early Advocate for 'The Hobbit' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/08/arts/rayner-s-unwin-74-a-publisher-and-early-advocate-for-the-hobbit.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=8 December 2000 |page=C 15}}
  • Bernard Vorhaus, 95, American film director.{{cite news |author1= |author-link1= |title=Bernard Vorhaus, 95, Prolific American Director in England |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/02/nyregion/bernard-vorhaus-95-prolific-american-director-in-england.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=2 December 2000 |page=B 9}}

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  • Félix Erviti Barcelona, 90, Spanish Roman Catholic priest.{{cite web | url = http://www.elpais.com/articulo/agenda/Felix/Erviti/ultimo/prefecto/apostolico/Sahara/elpepigen/20001129elpepiage_2/Tes | work=El País | publisher=PRISA | title = Félix Erviti, último prefecto apostólico del Sáhara |language=Spanish |last=Bárbulo |first= Tomás | date=November 29, 2000 | access-date = 2016-11-10}}
  • Slavko Barbarić, 54, Croatian writer, poet, and Catholic priest.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Slavko Barbarić |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13528300m |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=French |date=}}
  • Carla Capponi, 81, Italian partisan and politician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Carla Capponi |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14422097h |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=French |date=}}
  • Paul Lyneham, 55, Australian journalist and television presenter, lung cancer.
  • Wasantha Sandanayake, 83, Sri Lankan singer.
  • Mohammad Aslam Watanjar, Afghan general and politician, cancer.

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  • Hugh Alexander, 83, American professional baseball player and scout.{{cite news |author1=Richard Goldstein |author-link1=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) |title=Hugh Alexander, 83, a Scout For the Next Stars of Baseball |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/29/sports/hugh-alexander-83-a-scout-for-the-next-stars-of-baseball.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=29 November 2000 |page=A 33}}
  • Canito, 44, Spanish football player, drug overdose.{{cite web |title=Canito (Player) |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/28631/Canito_2.html |website=national-football-teams.com |access-date=7 May 2023}}
  • Frederick Cass, 87, Canadian politician.
  • James Deetz, 70, American anthropologist.{{cite news |author1=Wolfgang Saxon |author-link1= |title=James Deetz, 70, Chronicler Of America's Colonial Past |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/28/us/james-deetz-70-chronicler-of-america-s-colonial-past.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=28 November 2000 |page=A 27}}
  • Mario Giacomelli, 75, Italian photographer and photojournalist.{{cite news |author1=Margarett Loke |author-link1= |title=Mario Giacomelli, Poetic Photographer, Is Dead at 91 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/arts/mario-giacomelli-poetic-photographer-is-dead-at-91.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=6 December 2000 |page=C 19}}
  • Florizel Glasspole, 91, Jamaican Governor-General.
  • Raymond Janot, 83, French politician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Raymond Janot |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12260110m |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=French |date=}}
  • Austin Rawlinson, 98, British swimmer and Olympian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Austin Rawlinson |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/47373 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Gerd Vespermann, 74, German actor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Gerd Vespermann - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/79da707d93b3424bada2e491cad845e4 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=de |date=}}

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  • Ray Ainsworth, 76, Australian rugby league player.[http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/ron-ainsworth/summary.html Rugby League Project][http://www.yesterdayshero.com.au/PlayerProfile_Ron-Ainsworth_536.aspx yesterdayshero.com.au]
  • Ralph Bates, 101, British novelist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ralph Bates - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w61g0pjd |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Piet Biesiadecki, 80, American bobsledder and Olympian.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Piet Biesiadecki |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/84117 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Otto Bittelmann, 89, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
  • Paddy Donegan, 77, Irish politician.
  • Zentaro Kosaka, 88, Japanese politician, renal failure.
  • Carlo Simi, 76, Italian set- and costume designer and architect.
  • Leanne Tiernan, 16, English schoolgirl.
  • Sebastiano Timpanaro, 77, Italian classical philologist, essayist, and literary critic.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Sebastiano Timpanaro |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb120199667 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=French |date=}}

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  • Anne Barton, 76, American actress.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-07-me-62374-story.html|title = Anne Barton; Actress in Film, TV and Theater | work=Los Angeles Times| date=2000-12-07|access-date=2018-12-16}}
  • Malcolm Bradbury, 68, British author and literary critic.{{cite news |author1=Sarah Lyall |author-link1=Sarah Lyall |title=Malcolm Bradbury, Author, Critic and Teacher, Dies at 68 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/29/arts/malcolm-bradbury-author-critic-and-teacher-dies-at-68.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=29 November 2000 |page=A 33}}
  • Elena Cernei, 76, Romanian operatic mezzo-soprano and musicologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Elena Cernei - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w62j7j7c |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Willie Cunningham, 75, Scottish footballer.
  • Viji, 34, Indian actress, suicide.
  • George Wells, 91, American screenwriter and producer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=George Wells - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6p294xw |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Dorothy Woolfolk, 87, American comic book editor (Superman).{{cite news|url=https://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-xpm-20001206-2000-12-06-0012060120-story.html|last=Tippens|first=Norman|title=DOROTHY WOOLFOLK, SUPERMAN EDITOR|work=Daily Press|location=Newport News, Virginia|date=2000-12-06|access-date=2018-12-20}}

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  • Gregg Barton, 88, American actor.
  • Robert Bentley, 93, American animator.
  • Carol Bolt, 59, Canadian playwright, liver cancer.
  • Michael Cramer, 70, German actor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Michael Cramer - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/a520d1ab42f14bcdbab87a38f5bb4f81 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=de |date=}}
  • Henry B. González, 84, American Democratic politician (House of Representatives member from Texas 1961-1999).{{cite news |author1=Christopher Marquis |author-link1= |title=Henry Gonzalez, 84; Served 37 Years in House |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/29/us/henry-gonzalez-84-served-37-years-in-house.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 December 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=29 November 2000 |page=A 33}}
  • Liane Haid, 105, Austrian actress.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Frauendatenbank fembio.org |url=https://www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/frauendatenbank?fem_id=12331 |website=fembio.org |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=de |date=}}
  • Bernard Lutic, 57, French cinematographer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Bernard Lutic |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14035920n |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=French |date=}}
  • Len Shackleton, 78, English footballer ("Clown Prince of Soccer").{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/nov/29/guardianobituaries.football|title=Len Shackleton: Gifted inside-forward whose maverick approach limited his England success|work=The Guardian|date=2000-11-28|access-date=2018-12-20}}

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  • Marvel Cooke, 97, American journalist, writer, and civil rights activist, leukemia.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Marvel Cooke - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w69w2cct |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Margaret Early, 80, American film actress, heart failure.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Margaret Early |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb17159440v |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=French |date=}}
  • Lee Fogolin, Sr., 73, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks).
  • Lou Groza, 76, American football player (Cleveland Browns) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.{{cite news |author1=Richard Goldstein |author-link1=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) |title=Lou Groza, 76, Star Kicker For Cleveland Browns, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/01/nyregion/lou-groza-76-star-kicker-for-cleveland-browns-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=17 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=1 December 2000 |page=B 11}}
  • Liam Hamilton, 72, Irish judge, Chief Justice (1994-2000).{{Cite news| title = Former Chief Justice, Mr Justice Liam Hamilton, dies| work = RTE| location = Dublin| date = 30 November 2000| access-date= 7 May 2023 | url = https://www.rte.ie/news/2000/1130/10468-hamilton/}}
  • Ilmar Merkle III, 78, Estonian poet and publicist.

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  • Vladimir Anić, 70, Croatian linguist and lexicographer, prostate cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Vladimir Anić |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12174675k |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Olga Bogaevskaya, 85, Soviet and Russian painter and graphic artist.
  • Vladimir Dedijer, 76, Serbian politician and partisan fighter during World War II.
  • Jānis Kalniņš, 96, Latvian-Canadian composer and conductor.
  • Kiyotaka Katsuta, 52, Japanese serial killer and thief, execution by hanging.
  • Ansumane Mané, Bissau-Guinean soldier and rebel, killed in action.
  • Eloise Jarvis McGraw, 84, American author, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Eloise Jarvis McGraw - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w62k0z1b |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=7 May 2023 |language= |date=}}
  • Gerhard Schedl, 43, Austrian composer, suicide by gunshot.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Gerhard Schedl |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb170892057 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Scott Smith, 45, Canadian rock bassist (Loverboy), drowned.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/loverboy-bassist-scott-smith-missing-presumed-dead-255063/|last=Uhelszki|first=Jaan|title=Loverboy Bassist Scott Smith Missing, Presumed Dead|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=2000-12-04|access-date=2018-12-20}}
  • Skeets Tolbert, 91, American jazz musician and bandleader.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Skeets Tolbert |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb140473827 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=7 May 2023 |language=fr|date=}}

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