Deaths in December 2000

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2000.

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Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

December 2000

1

• Moses Abramovitz, 88, American economist.[1]
• Robert V. Barron, 67, American TV and film director.
• George Finola, 55, American jazz cornetist.
• Barbara Gates, 66, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[2]
• Elmer E. Rasmuson, 91, American banker, philanthropist and politician.
• Terry Wilshusen, 51, American baseball player.[3]

2

• Chris Antley, 34, American jockey (Racing Hall of Fame) (winner of Kentucky Derby 1991, 1999), drug overdose.[4]
• Gail Fisher, 65, American actress (Mannix), renal failure.
• Rosemarie Frankland, 57, Welsh actress, model and beauty queen, drug overdose.
• Arthur Oglesby, 76, British writer, photographer, filmmaker, broadcaster and fisherman, infection after heart surgery.
• Pete "El Conde" Rodríguez, 67, American salsa singer, heart attack.
• Michael Schumann, 54, (East) German philosophy professor and politician, traffic accident.
• Daniel Singer, 74, Polish-American socialist writer and journalist, lung cancer.
• Bian Zhilin, 89, Chinese poet and literature researcher.

3

• Gwendolyn Brooks, 83, American poet.
• Hoyt Curtin, 78, composer.
• Jun Fukuda, 77, Japanese film director.
• Red Nonnenkamp, 89, American baseball player.[5]
• Hugh Edward Richardson, 94, British diplomat and Tibetologist.

4

• H. C. Artmann, 79, Austrian poet and writer.[6]
• Shyam Sundar Baishnab, Bangladeshi folk singer.
• Colin Cowdrey, Baron Cowdrey of Tonbridge, 67, English cricketer.[7]
• Puntillita, 79, Cuban singer.

5

• Ahmad Zaidi Adruce, 74, Malaysian governor.
• Ghulam Dastagir Alam, Pakistani theoretical physicist.
• Rupert Charles Barneby, 89, American botanist.
• Clarence Gracey, 89, American football player.
• Matthew Lukwiya, 43, Ugandan physician, ebola virus disease.
• O. W. Wolters, 85, British academic, historian and author.

6

• Thomas Babe, 59, American playwright, lung cancer.
• Thomas F. Darcy, 67, American political cartoonist.
• Rijk Gispen, 90, Dutch virologist.
• Enrique Anderson Imbert, 90, Argentine novelist and short-story writer.
• Werner Klemperer, 80, German actor, singer and musician.[8]
• Chrystabel Leighton-Porter, 87, British model.
• Aziz Mian, 58, Pakistani qawwali, complications of hepatitis.
• Izzat Traboulsi, 87, Syrian politician, economist, banker, and writer.

7

• Vlado Gotovac, 70, Croatian poet and politician.[9]
• Levi Jackson, 74, American football player, first African-American to captain Yale University.
• Toby Low, 1st Baron Aldington, 86, British politician.
• Leszek Podhorodecki, Polish historian.
• Bob Voigts, 84, American sports player and coach.

8

• Ann T. Bowling, 57, American geneticist, stroke.
• Julian Dixon, 66, American politician, heart attack.
• Ionatana Ionatana, 62, Prime Minister of Tuvalu (1999 – 2000).
• Lionel Rogosin, 76, American filmmaker.
• Tad Tadlock, 69, American dancer and choreographer.
• Al Timothy, 85, Trinidad and Tobago jazz and calypso musician and songwriter, complications of a stroke.

9

• John Hock, 72, American football player, lung cancer.
• Sachindra Lal Singh, 93, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Tripura.
• Tyrone McGriff, 42, American football player, heart attack.
• Billie Yorke, 89, British tennis player.

10

• Jack Cowan, 73, Canadian football player.
• James T. McHugh, 68, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Willard Nixon, 72, American baseball player.[10]
• Marie Windsor, 80, American actress)[11]

11

• David Lewis, 84, American actor.
• N. Richard Nash, 87, American dramatist.[12]
• Johannes Virolainen, 86, Finnish politician.[13]

12

• Red Barkley, 88, American baseball player.[14]
• William J. Evans, 76, American air force general.
• Rosa King, 61, American jazz and blues musician.
• Dorothy Kirby, 80, American golfer.
• Libertad Lamarque, 92, Argentine-Mexican actress and singer.
• George Montgomery, 84, American actor.[15]

13

• Geoffrey Beyts, 92, British Indian Army officer and colonial official in Kenya.
• Pierre Demargne, 97, French historian and archaeologist.
• Aharon Harel, 68, Israeli politician.
• Sandy Johnstone, 84, Scottish Royal Air Force air marshall.
• Jake Jones, 80, American baseball player.[16]
• Gene Schoor, 86, Anerican sportswriter, journalist and restaurateur.

14

• Roger Judrin, 91, French writer and literary critic.
• Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, 82, Ukrainian Catholic bishop.
• Pavel Plotnikov, 80, Soviet air force general.

15

• George Alcock, 88, English astronomer.
• Haris Brkić, 26, Yugoslav basketball player, shot.
• Bubba Floyd, 83, American baseball player.
• Inigo Gallo, 68, Swiss comedian, radio personality, and actor.
• Jacques Goddet, 95, French sports journalist and director of the Tour de France.
• Jose Gonzales-Gonzales, 78, American actor and brother of Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, myeloblastic anemia.
• Chiang Peng-chien, 60, Taiwanese politician, pancreatic cancer.

16

• Saad Dahlab, Algerian politician.
• Blue Demon, 78, Mexican masked wrestler and actor, myocardial infarction.
• Margo Moore, 69, American actress and fashion model.
• Hugh W. Pinnock, 66, general authority LDS Church, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Chuck Pratt, 61, American rock climber, heart attack.

17

• Gerald Aylmer, 74, British historian.[17]
• Gérard Blain, 70, French actor and film director.[18]
• Erich Schmid, 93, Swiss conductor.

18

• Stan Fox, 48, American race car driver.[19]
• Randolph Apperson Hearst, 85, American newspaper publisher (Hearst Corporation).[20]
• Norman Humphries, 83, English cricketer.[21]
• Kirsty MacColl, 41, British singer-songwriter.[22]
• Nick Stewart, 90, American television and film actor.[23]

19

• Rob Buck, 42, American musician (10,000 Maniacs).[24]
• David Dewayne Johnson, 37, American murderer.[25]
• Milt Hinton, 90, American double bassist and photographer.[26]
• John Lindsay, 79, 103rd Mayor of New York City.[27]
• Lou Polli, 99, Italian-American baseball player.[28]
• Roebuck "Pops" Staples, 85, patriarch of The Staple Singers.[29]
• Lou Thuman, 84, American baseball player.[30]
• Sir Laurence Whistler, 88, British poet and artist.[31]

20

• Reginald E. Beauchamp, 90, American sculptor.
• Bill Clarke, 68, Canadian footballer.
• Adrian Henri, 68, British poet and painter (Liverpool Poets).[32]
• Alexander Ramsay of Mar, 80, British aristocrat.

21

• Alfred J. Gross, 82, American inventor and a pioneer in mobile wireless communication.[33]
• John Lee, 72, Australian actor.
• Edward Miller, 85, British historian (Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge).[34]

22

• Herman Feshbach, 83, American physicist.[35]
• Connie McCready, 79, American journalist and politician.[36]
• Harry Payne, 93, Welsh rugby union player.
• Kakou Senda, 76, Japanese writer.

23

• Billy Barty, 76, American actor.[37]
• Susan Berman, 55, American journalist, author, and the daughter of Davie "Davie the Jew" Berman.[38]
• Victor Borge, 91, Danish-born comedian and pianist.[39]
• Noor Jehan, 74, Pakistani actress and singer.
• Sir Jimmy Shand, 92, Scottish musician.

24

• John Cooper, 77, British automobile designer (Cooper Car Company).[40]
• Nick Massi, 73, bass singer and bass guitarist for The Four Seasons.[41]
• Laurence Chisholm Young, 95, American mathematician.

25

• Décio Esteves, 73, Brazilian footballer.
• Robert Francis Garner, 80, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Neil Hawke, 61, Australian cricketer.[42]
• Willard Van Orman Quine, 92, American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition.[43]

26

• Leo Gordon, 78, American character actor.[44]
• Sir Alan Harris, 84, British engineer.
• Walter Hayes, British journalist and business executive.
• Magik, 22, Polish rapper.
• Jason Robards, 78, American actor (winner of a Tony Award, two Academy Awards and an Emmy Award).[45]

27

• Harold Bird-Wilson, 81, British Royal Air Force officer.
• Marc Boileau, 68, Canadian ice hockey coach and player.
• Forbes Howie, 80, Scottish businessman.
• Walter Keane, 85, American plagiarist.
• Roy Partee, 83, American Major League Baseball catcher.

28

• Vivian Blake, 79, Jamaican lawyer and politician.
• Arnold Hutschnecker, 102, Austrian-American medical doctor.
• Jacques Laurent, 81, French writer and journalist.
• Jimmie Selph, 85, American country music, rockabilly and bluegrass musician.
• Robert Williams, 83, American baseball player.
• Charlotte Wilson, 27, British volunteer teacher, murdered by a Hutu rebel group.

29

• Adele Stimmel Chase, 83, American artist.
• Herbert Halpert, 89, American anthropologist and folklorist.
• Woodley Lewis, 75, American football player, heart and kidney problems.

30

• James C. Corman, 80, American politician (U.S. Representative for California's 21st and 22nd congressional districts).[46]
• Julius J. Epstein, 91, American screenwriter (co-winner of Academy Award for Casablanca).[47]
• Lionel Hebert, 72, American professional golfer.[48]

31

• Alan Cranston, 86, American politician, served as U.S. Senator from California (1969-1993).[49]
• Harry Dorish, 79, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Browns, Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles).[50]
• José Greco, 82, Italian-American flamenco dancer and choreographer.[51]
• Tanaquil Le Clercq, 71, French ballet dancer (New York City Ballet).[52]
• Anne Macnaghten, 92, British violinist.[53]
• Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, 34, Israeli settler leader.[54]

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