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

• George Armstrong, 56, English football player and coach, brain haemorrhage.[1]
• Sally Elizabeth Carlson, 104, American mathematician.
• David Crook, 90, British-Chinese communist activist and spy.
• Bernard Erhard, 66, American actor.
• Steve Evans, 58, American motorsports broadcaster.[2]
• Platon Kornyljak, 80, Ukrainian-born German Greek-Catholic hierarch.
• Ruth I. Michler, 33, American-born German mathematician, traffic accident.
• Steven Runciman, 97, English historian.[3]

2

• Eddie Collins Jr., 83, American baseball player.[4]
• Robert Cormier, 75, American author and journalist,, complications from a blood clot.[5]
• Michael Herman, 57, French American mathematician.
• 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.[6]
• 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.[7]

4

• Vernel Fournier, 72, American jazz drummer, cerebral hemorrhage.[8]
• John Reynolds, 77, American physicist.[9]
• Ian Sneddon, 80, Scottish mathematician.
• Stephanie Lawrence, 50, British singer and actress

5

• Etienne Aigner, 95, Austrian-born American fashion designer.
• David Brower, 88, American environmentalist.[10]
• Jimmie Davis, 101, American singer, songwriter and politician (Governor of Louisiana).[11]
• Petar Dertliev, 84, Bulgarian politician.
• Victor Grinich, 75, American pioneer in the semiconductor industry, prostate cancer.[12]
• Amalia Hernández, 83, Mexican ballet choreographer.[13]
• Willard Marshall, 79, American baseball player.[14]
• Roger Peyrefitte, 93, French writer and diplomat.[15]
• Mary Sinclair, 77, American actress.[16]
• Harry Taylor, 81, American baseball player.[17]

6

• Torgny Anderberg, 81, Swedish actor and film director.
• Eddy Bruma, 75, Surinamese politician, lawyer and writer, injuries sustained during robbery.
• Herbert Brün, 82, German composer and pioneer of electronic and computer music.[18]
• L. Sprague de Camp, 92, American writer.[19]
• John McPhail, 76, Scottish football player.
• Stefaniya Stanyuta, 95, Belarus/Soviet theater and movie actress.

7

• Hal Fowler, 73, American poker player, hemorrhagic shock.
• George W. Gibbs Jr., 84, American civil rights leader.
• Jim Hutchinson, 103, English cricketer and centenarian.[20]
• Ingrid of Sweden, 90, Queen consort of Frederick IX of Denmark.
• Nimalan Soundaranayagam, 50, Sri Lankan Tamil teacher and politician, assassinated.
• Chidambaram Subramaniam, 90, Indian politician and independence activist.[21]
• Kōzaburō Yoshimura, 89, Japanese film director.
• Boris Zakhoder, 82, Russian poet and children's writer.

8

• Elio Crovetto, 73, Italian actor and comedian.
• John Levitow, 55, US Air Force loadmaster and recipient of the Medal of Honor, cancer.[22]
• Marc Lifschey, 74, American oboist, bone marrow disorder.
• Dick Morrissey, 60, British jazz musician and composer, cancer.
• 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.

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.[23]
• Eddy Nawgu, Nigerian self-proclaimed "prophet of God" and occult practitioner.
• Hugh Paddick, 85, English actor (BBC radio show Round the Horne).[24]
• 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 and Prime Minister of France.[25]
• Bob Matthewson, 70, English footballer and referee.
• Walter P. McConaughy, 92, American diplomat and ambassador.
• Alan Tyson, 74, British musicologist.[26]
• Dawn-Marie Wesley, 14, Canadian bullying victim, suicide by hanging.

11

• Rayford Barnes, 80, American actor.
• Sir Alun Davies, 87, Welsh public servant.
• William Harris, 6th Earl of Malmesbury, 92, British aristocrat and Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire.
• Hugo Pos, 86, Surinamese judge, writer, and poet.
• Notable people killed in the Kaprun disaster[27]
  • Michael Goodridge, 36, United States Army Major, [28]
  • Josef Schaupper, 37, Austrian deaf alpine skier.[29]
  • Sandra Schmitt, 19, German freestyle skier.[30]

12

• John Bury, 75, British set designer, costume designer and lighting designer.[31]
• Christo Coetzee, 71, South African avant-garde artist.
• Wim Cohen, 77, Dutch mathematician.
• Eugene Antonio Marino, 66, American Roman Catholic prelate.[32]
• Franck Pourcel, 87, French composer, arranger, and conductor.
• Leah Rabin, 72, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.[33]
• Harold Walker, 82, English cricketer.
• Sigi Ziering, 72, German-American scientist, playwright and philanthropist.

13

• Ralph Bingham Cloward, 92, American neurosurgeon.
• Gheorghe Ghimpu, 63, Romanian politician and political prisoner, traffic accident.
• Audrey Stubbart, 105, American centenarian.
• Jim Wise, 81, American musical composer.

14

• Len Gabrielson, 85, American baseball player.[34]
• Pietro Rimoldi, 89, Italian cyclist.
• Libby Scheier, 54, Canadian poet and short story writer, breast cancer.
• Robert Trout, 91, American broadcast news reporter.[35]

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 and charity worker 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 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, cancer.[36]

17

• Paul W. Brown, 85, American lawyer.
• Edith DeVoe, 79, American nurse, lung cancer.
• Francis Jennings, American historian.
• Louis Néel, 95, French physicist.[37]
• Bim Sherman, 50, Jamaican musician.

18

• Jaap van der Leck, 89, Dutch football manager.
• Hubert Miller, 82, American bobsledder.
• Emin Sabitoglu, 63, Azerbaijani film music composer.
• Kim Spalding, 84, American actor.
• Ilya Starinov, 100, Soviet military officer.

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.[38]
• Jane Shaw, 89, Scottish children's author.

20

• Morris Barry, 82, British television producer.
• Carolyn Craven, 55, American journalist.
• Nikolay Dollezhal, 101, Czech-Soviet nuclear physicist.
• Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin, 73, Soviet/Russian animation director, animator and artist.
• Mike Muuss, 42, American computer programmer (computer network administration software utility Ping).[39]
• Bryce Poe II, 76, American Air Force general, stroke.

21

• Sir Cyril Clarke, 93, British physician, geneticist and entomologist.[40]
• Zygmunt Gadecki, 62, Polish footballer.
• Joe Gasparella, 73, American football player.
• Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke, 86, German zoologist, ornithologist, and herpetologist.
• Ernest Lluch, 63, Spanish economist and politician, assassinated by ETA.

22

• Carlos Cardoso, Mozambican journalist.
• Jack Dyson, 66, British cricketer and footballer.[41]
• Alick Jeffrey, 61, English footballer.
• Christian Marquand, 73, French director, actor and screenwriter.[42]
• Naresh Mehta, 78, Indian writer.
• Théodore Monod, 98, French naturalist, explorer, and humanist.[43]
• Emil Zátopek, 78, Czechoslovakian runner and Olympic champion.[44]

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.[45]
• Bernard Vorhaus, 95, American film director.[46]
• 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 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.[47]
• Canito, 44, Spanish footballer.
• Frederick Cass, 87, Canadian politician.
• James Deetz, 70, American anthropologist.[48]
• Mario Giacomelli, 75, Italian photographer and photojournalist.[49]
• Sir Florizel Glasspole, 91, Jamaican Governor-General.
• Austin Rawlinson, 98, British swimmer.
• Gerd Vespermann, 74, German actor.
• Montse Watkins, 45, Spanish fiction writer and essayist, and journalist, cancer.

26

• James Murdoch Austin, 85, New Zealand-American meteorologist.
• Ralph Bates, 101, British novelist.
• Gianfranco Ciaurro, 71, Italian politician.
• Doug Domokos, 44, American stunt motorcyclist, ultralight aircraft accident.
• Paddy Donegan, 77, Irish politician.
• Zentaro Kosaka, 88, Japanese politician, renal failure.
• Carlo Simi, 76, Italian set-/costume designer and architect.

27

• Anne Barton, 76, American actress.[50]
• Sir Malcolm Bradbury, 68, British author and literary critic.[51]
• Clara Chiano, 79, American professional baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).[52]
• Willie Cunningham, 75, Scottish footballer.
• Len Shackleton, 78, English footballer ("Clown Prince of Soccer").[53]
• Dorothy Woolfolk, 87, American comic-book editor.[54]

28

• Gregg Barton, 88, American actor.
• Robert Bentley, 93, American animator.
• Carol Bolt, 59, Canadian playwright, liver cancer.
• Henry B. González, 84, American Democratic politician (House of Representatives member from Texas from 1961 to 1999).[55]
• Liane Haid, 105, Austrian actress.
• René Maltête, 70, French photographer and poet.
• Heinrich Schmidt, 88, German nazi physician.
• Anatole Boris Volkov, 76, American physicist and spy, cancer.

29

• Marvel Cooke, 97, American journalist, writer, and civil rights activist, leukemia.
• Margaret Early, 80, American film actress.
• 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.[56]
• Sir William Henderson, 87, Scottish veterinarian.[57]
• Gwen Grant Mellon, 89, American medical missionary.
• Ilmar Laaban, 78, Estonian poet and publicist.

30

• Lady Elizabeth Basset, 92, English author and courtier.
• 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.[58]

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