Deaths in November 2000

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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.

November 2000

1

• Bernard Erhard, 66, American actor.
• Howard P. Anderson, 85, Virginia attorney and Democratic Party politician.
• George Armstrong, 56, English football player and coach, brain haemorrhage.
• Sally Elizabeth Carlson, 104, American mathematician.
• David Crook, 90, British-born Communist activist and spy.
• Bernard Erhard, 66, American actor.
• Steve Evans, 58, American motorsports broadcaster.
• Platon Kornyljak, 80, Ukrainian-born German Greek-Catholic hierarch, Apostolic Exarch in Germany and Scandinavia for the Ukrainians (1959–1996).
• Ruth I. Michler, 33, American-born German mathematician, traffic accident.

2

• Eddie Collins Jr., 83, American baseball player.[1]
• Eva Morris, 114, British supercentenarian, oldest person in the world.
• Sue Ryder, 76, British charity founder.

3

• Bob Bryant, 82, American football player.
• Charles F. Hockett, 84, American linguist.
• Robert Sherlaw Johnson, 68, British composer and musicologist.
• Shaheed Aga Syed Mehdi, 41, Indian Shia leader and social activist, assassinated.
• George Vandeman, 84, American evangelist and broadcaster.
• Mary Hunter Wolf, American theatre director and producer.

4

• Victor Grinich, 75, American businessman and a pioneer in the semiconductor industry.[2]
• John Reynolds, 77, American physicist.[3]
• Ian Sneddon, 80, Scottish mathematician.
• Stephanie Lawrence, 50, British Singer & Actress

5

• Etienne Aigner, 95, Austrian-born American fashion designer.
• David Brower, 88, American environmentalist.[4]
• Jimmie Davis, 101, American singer, songwriter and politician (Governor of Louisiana).[5]
• Petar Dertliev, 84, Bulgarian politician.
• Amalia Hernández, 83, Mexican ballet choreographer.
• Willard Marshall, 79, American baseball player.[6]
• Roger Peyrefitte, 93, French writer and diplomat.[7]
• Harry Taylor, 81, American baseball player.[8]

6

• Eddy Bruma, 75, Surinamese politician, lawyer and writer, injuries sustained during robbery.
• Herbert Brün, 82, German composer and pioneer of electronic and computer music.[9]
• John McPhail, 76, Scottish football player.
• L. Sprague de Camp, 92, American writer.[10]

7

• Jim Hutchinson, 103, English cricketer and centenarian.[11]
• C. Subramaniam, 90, Indian politician.
• Ingrid of Sweden, 90, Queen consort of Frederick IX of Denmark.

8

• John Levitow, 55, US Air Force Loadmaster, cancer.
• Marc Lifschey, 74, American oboist, bone marrow disorder.
• Dick Morrissey, 60, British jazz musician and composer, cancer.
• Faris Odeh, 14, Palestinian boy demonstator, shot by the Israel Defense Forces.
• Józef Pińkowski, 71, Prime Minister of Poland.
• Svetlana Kana Radević, 62, Montenegrin architect.
• Jan van der Vaart, 69, Dutch ceramist.

9

• Chiyonosuke Azuma, 74, Japanese actor and dancer.
• Michel Demaret, 60, Belgian politician.
• Sherwood Johnston, 73, American racing driver.
• James B. Knighten, 80, African-Americans US Army Air Corps pilot.
• Eric Morley, 82, British TV host.
• Eddie Nawgu, Nigerian self-proclaimed "prophet of God" and Occult practitioner.
• Hugh Paddick, 85, English actor (BBC radio show Round the Horne).[12]
• Kevin Shegog, 67, Australian country music singer, complications of a stroke.

10

• Adamantios Androutsopoulos, 81, Greek lawyer and politician, Prime Minister (1973-1974),.
• Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 85, French Gaullist politician (Prime Minister of France).[13]
• Alan Tyson, 74, British musicologist.

11

• Sir Alun Davies, 87, Welsh public servant.
• William Harris, 6th Earl of Malmesbury, 92, British aristocrat and Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire.
• Josef Schaupper, 37, Austrian deaf alpine skier who was killed in the Kaprun disaster.

12

• John Bury, 75, British set designer, costume designer and lighting designer.[14]
• Eugene Antonio Marino, 66, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Leah Rabin, 72, widow of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.[15]
• Harold Walker, 82, English cricketer.

13

• Gheorghe Ghimpu, 63, Romanian politician and a political prisoner, traffic accident.
• Audrey Stubbart, 105, American centenarian.
• Jim Wise, 81, American musical composer.

14

• Len Gabrielson, 85, American baseball player.[16]
• Pietro Rimoldi, 89, Italian cyclist.
• Robert Trout, 91, American broadcast news reporter.[17]

15

• Ju-Chin Chu, 80, Chinese American chemical engineer.
• G. V. Desani, 91, British-Indian novelist, poet, and social commentator.
• Harald Fischer, 68, German chiropractor who worked for a charity in Palestine, Israeli missile attack.
• Bernard Gadney, 91, English rugby player.
• Oscar Kempthorne, 81, British statistician and geneticist.
• Ranjit Maharaj, 87, Indian spiritual teacher.
• Rinaldo Martino, 79, Italian Argentine soccer player.
• Harry Webb, 92, Australian politician).
• Simon Wigg, 40, English speedway, grasstrack and longtrack rider, brain tumour.

16

• Russ Conway, 75, English popular music pianist.
• Josef Ertl, 75, German politician, complications from severe burn injuries.
• Joe C., 26, American rapper, hype man and musician, complications from celiac disease.
• Ahmet Kaya, 43, Turkish folk singer, heart attack.
• DJ Screw, 29, American DJ and rapper, codeine overdose.
• Hosea Williams, 74, American civil rights leader, activist, scientist, and politician.

17

• Paul W. Brown, 85, American lawyer.
• Edith DeVoe, 79, American nurse, lung cancer.
• Francis Jennings, American historian.
• Louis Néel, 95, French physicist.[18]
• Bim Sherman, 50, Jamaican musician.

18

• Hubert Miller, 82, American bobsledder.
• Emin Sabitoglu, 63, Azerbaijani film music composer.
• Kim Spalding, 84, American actor.

19

• George Cosmas Adyebo, 53, Ugandan politician and economist, cancer.
• Jeaffreson Greswell, 84, British Royal Air Force officer.
• Max Hooper, 74, Australian politician.
• Charles Ruff, 61, American lawyer, heart attack.
• James Russell Wiggins, 96, United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

20

• Morris Barry, 82, British television producer.
• Mike Muuss, 42, American computer programmer (computer network administration software utility Ping).[19]
• Bryce Poe II, 76, American Air Force general.

21

• Sir Cyril Clarke, 93, British physician, geneticist and entomologist, former President of the Royal College of Physicians.
• Ernest Lluch, 63, Spanish politician killed by ETA.
• Zygmunt Gadecki, 62, Polish footballer.

22

• Carlos Cardoso, Mozambican journalist.
• Jack Dyson, 66, British cricketer and footballer.[20]
• Alick Jeffrey, 61, English footballer.
• Christian Marquand, 73, French director, actor and screenwriter.[21]
• Emil Zátopek, 78, Czechoslovakian Olympic runner (won three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics and one gold and one silver medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[22]

23

• Florence Bell, 87, British scientist.
• Elma Mitchell, 81, British poet.
• Bobby Sheen, 59, American rhythm and blues singer, pneumonia.
• Rayner Unwin, 74, British publisher.
• Conrad Voss Bark, 87, British writer and journalist.

24

• Félix Erviti Barcelona, 90, Spanish Roman Catholic priest.
• Carla Capponi, 81, Italian partisan and politician.
• Mel Lindquist, 89, American engineer.
• Paul Lyneham, 55, Australian journalist and commentator and television presenter, lung cancer.
• Harley Warrick, 76, American barn painter, aneurysm.
• Mohammad Aslam Watanjar, Afghan general and politician.

25

• Hugh Alexander, 83, American professional baseball player and scout.[23]
• Frederick Cass, 87, Canadian politician.
• Sir Florizel Glasspole, 91, Jamaican Governor-General.
• Austin Rawlinson, 98, British swimmer.

26

• James Murdoch Austin, 85, New Zealand-American meteorologist.
• Ralph Bates, 101, British novelist.
• Paddy Donegan, 77, Irish politician.
• Zentaro Kosaka, 88, Japanese politician, renal failure.

27

• Anne Barton, 76, American actress.[24]
• Sir Malcolm Bradbury, 68, British author and literary critic.
• Clara Chiano, 79, American professional baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).[25]
• Willie Cunningham, 75, Scottish footballer.
• Len Shackleton, 78, English footballer ("Clown Prince of Soccer").[26]
• Dorothy Woolfolk, 87, American comic-book editor.[27]

28

• Robert Bentley, 93, American animator.
• Henry B. González, 84, American Democratic politician (United States House of Representatives member from the state of Texas from 1961 to 1999).[28]
• Liane Haid, 105, Austrian actress.
• Heinrich Schmidt, 88, German nazi physician and member of the SS.

29

• Lou Groza, 76, American football player (Cleveland Browns) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
• Sir William Henderson, 87, Scottish veterinarian.
• Ilmar Laaban, 78, Estonian poet and publicist.

30

• Olga Bogaevskaya, 85, Russian Soviet painter and graphic artist.
• Kiyotaka Katsuta, 52, Japanese serial killer and thief, execution by hanging.
• Ansumane Mané, Bissau-Guinean soldier and rebel, assassinated.
• Eloise Jarvis McGraw, 84, American author.
• Scott Smith, 45, Canadian bassist (Loverboy), drowned.[29]

References

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2. Gaither, Victor (November 11, 2000). "Victor Grinich, 75, Co-Founder Of Upstart Electronics Company". The New York Times. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
3. Saxon, Wolfgang (November 20, 2000). "John Hamilton Reynolds, 77; Improved Study of Cosmic Ages". The New York Times. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
4. Severo, Richard (November 7, 2000). "David Brower, an Aggressive Champion Of U.S. Environmentalism, Is Dead at 88". The New York Times. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
5. Severo, Richard (November 6, 2000). "Jimmie Davis, Louisiana's Singing Governor, Is Dead". The New York Times. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
6. "Willard Marshall". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
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8. Ulrey, Adam. "Harry Taylor". Society for American Baseball Research. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
9. Saxon, Wolfgang (November 16, 2000). "Herbert Brun, 82, Composer; Melded Electronics With Music". The New York Times. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
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11. Williamson, Martin. "Jim Hutchinson". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved January 4, 2019.
12. Dixon, Stephen (November 12, 2000). "Hugh Paddick: Versatile actor with a repertory from radio comedy to Brecht". The Guardian. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
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24. "Anne Barton; Actress in Film, TV and Theater". Los Angeles Times. December 7, 2000. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
25. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Clara Chiano
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27. Tippens, Norman (December 6, 2000). "DOROTHY WOOLFOLK, SUPERMAN EDITOR". Daily Press. Newport News, Virginia. Retrieved December 20, 2018.
28. Marquis, Christopher (November 29, 2000). "Henry Gonzalez, 84; Served 37 Years in House". The New York Times. Retrieved December 20, 2018.
29. Uhelszki, Jaan (December 4, 2000). "Loverboy Bassist Scott Smith Missing, Presumed Dead". Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 20, 2018.