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Deaths in 2000

January

January 1 - Colin Vaughan, Australian political journalist (b. 1931)
January 2 - Patrick O'Brian, English writer (b. 1914)
January 7 - Makhmud Esambayev, Chechen dancer (b. 1924)
January 15 - Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916)
January 15 - Željko Ražnatović, Serbian mobster and paramilitary leader (b. 1952)
January 19 - Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
January 19 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (b. 1913)
January 26 - Don Ralke, American music arranger (b. 1920)

February 4 - Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (b. 1919)
February 5 - Ward Cornell, Canadian radio/TV broadcaster & educator (b. 1924)
February 7 - Big Pun, American rapper (b. 1971)
February 8 - Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967)
February 9 - Beau Jack, American boxer (b. 1921)
February 10 - Jim Varney, American actor noted for his character, Ernest P. Worrell. (b. 1949)
February 11 - Roger Vadim, French film director (b. 1928)
February 12 - Jalacy "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins, American musician (b. 1929)
February 12 - Tom Landry, American football coach (b. 1924)
February 12 - Charles M. Schulz, American comic strip artist (Peanuts) (b. 1922)
February 19 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, artist (b. 1928)
February 23 - Sir Stanley Matthews, English footballer (b. 1915)
February 23 - Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (b. 1957)
February 29 - Dennis Danell, American musician (Social Distortion) (b. 1961)

May 2 - Bob Homme, actor, known for his role as The Friendly Giant (b. 1919)
May 11 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (b. 1907)
May 12 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
May 14 - Keizo Obuchi, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
May 17 - Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1909)
May 19 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)
May 20 - Edward Bernds, American director (b. 1905)
May 20 - Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (b. 1922)
May 20 - Malik Sealy, Minnesota Timberwolves basketball player (b. 1970)
May 21 - Dame Barbara Cartland, English novelist (b. 1901)
May 21 - Sir John Gielgud, English actor (b. 1904)
May 21 - Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur and founder of Herbalife (b. 1956)
May 27 - Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921)
May 27 - Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, and Home Army's intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (b. 1912)
May 31 - John Coolidge, son of American President Calvin Coolidge (b. 1906)

July 1 - Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920)
July 2 - Joey Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1952)
July 7 - James C. Quayle, American newspaper publisher (b. 1921)
July 7 - Kenny Irwin, NASCAR driver (b. 1969)
July 10 - Vakkom Majeed, Indian Freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative member (b. 1909)
July 10 - Denis O'Conor Don, O'Conor Don (b. 1912)
July 10 - Justin Pierce, British skateboarder and actor (b. 1975)
July 11 - Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
July 14 - Meredith MacRae, American actress (b. 1944)
July 27 - Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (b. 1929)
July 28 - Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist (b. 1918)
July 29 - René Favaloro, Argentinian cardiologist who created the technique for coronary bypass surgery (b. 1923)

August 5 - Sir Alec Guinness, English actor and writer (b. 1914)
August 5 - Otto Buchsbaum, writer and ecological activist (b. 1920)
August 6 - Sir Robin Day, British political broadcaster (b. 1923)
August 9 - John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
August 9 - Bob Lido, American musician (b. 1914)
August 12 - Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)
August 12 - Dave Edwards, American musician (b. 1941)
August 13 - Nazia Hassan First South Asian Pop Singer. (b.1965)
August 19 - Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo activist and leader (b. 1946)
August 21 - Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politician (b. 1930)
August 25 - Carl Barks, American cartoonist (b. 1901)

October 3 - Benjamin Orr, the Cars bassist and singer (b. 1947)
October 4 - Michael Smith, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
October 9 - Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
October 11 - Donald Dewar, Scottish politician (b. 1937)
October 13 - Tony Roper, NASCAR driver (b. 1964)
October 15 - Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
October 21 - Reginald Kray, leading figure in organised crime in London, UK (b. 1933)
October 22 - Rodney Anoa'i, American wrestler known as Yokozuna (b. 1966)
October 27 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929)
October 30 - Steve Allen, American comedian, composer, talk show host, and author (b. 1921)

November 6 - L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (b. 1907)
November 7 - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
November 7 - Ingrid of Sweden, Queen consort of Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1910)
November 11 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915)
November 22 - Sir Cyril Astley Clarke, British physician, geneticist and entomologist, former President of the Royal College of Physicians (b. 1907)
November 27 - Damilola Taylor, murder victim (b. 1989)
November 28 - Liane Haid, Austrian actress (b. 1895)

December 6 - Werner Klemperer, German actor (b. 1920)
December 18 - Kirsty MacColl, British singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
December 19 - Roebuck "Pops" Staples, patriarch of The Staple Singers (b. 1914)
December 23 - Victor Borge, Danish-born comedian and pianist (b. 1909)
December 23 - Noor Jehan, Pakistani actress and singer (b. 1926)
December 24 - Nick Massi, bass singer and bass guitarist for The Four Seasons.(b. 1935)
December 31 - Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, Israeli settler leader (b. 1966)