Deaths in November 2000

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

1

• George Armstrong, 56, English football player and coach, brain haemorrhage, cerebral hemorrhage.
• David Crook, 90, British-Chinese communist activist and spy.
• Bernard Erhard, 66, American actor.
• Steve Evans, 58, American motorsports broadcaster.
• Kjell Holler, 75, Norwegian economist and politician.
• Steven Runciman, 97, English historian.

2

• Eddie Collins, Jr., 83, American baseball player.
• Robert Cormier, 75, American author and journalist, complications from a blood clot.
• Michael Herman, 57, French American mathematician.
• Sue Ryder, 76, British baroness and charity founder.
• Simeon Simeonov, 54, Bulgarian football goalkeeper.
• Avatus Stone, 69, American gridiron football player, cancer.

3

• Leonardo Benvenuti, 77, Italian screenwriter.
• Bob Bryant, 82, American gridiron football player.
• Charles F. Hockett, 84, American linguist.
• Robert Sherlaw Johnson, 68, British composer and musicologist.
• George Vandeman, 84, American evangelist and broadcaster.

4

• Vernel Fournier, 72, American jazz drummer, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Stephanie Lawrence, 50, British singer and actress, liver disease.
• Amalia Hernández, 83, Mexican ballet choreographer.
• John Reynolds, 77, American physicist.
• Ian Sneddon, 80, Scottish mathematician.

5

• Etienne Aigner, 95, Austrian-American fashion designer.
• Dionisio Arce, 73, Paraguayan football player.
• David Brower, 88, American environmentalist.
• Jimmie Davis, 101, American singer, songwriter and politician (Governor of Louisiana).
• Victor Grinich, 75, American pioneer in the semiconductor industry, prostate cancer.
• Henrik Lange, 92, Swedish Coastal Artillery officer.
• Frances Lee, 94, American film actress.
• Willard Marshall, 79, American baseball player.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• L. Sprague de Camp, 92, American writer.
• John McPhail, 76, Scottish football player.
• Stefaniya Stanyuta, 95, Soviet and Belarus theater and movie actress.
• Vasiliy Yershov, 51, Ukrainian javelin thrower and Olympian.

7

• Tara Cherian, 87, Indian social activist and politician.
• Hal Fowler, 73, American poker player, diabetes.
• Julius Hatry, 93, German aircraft designer and builder.
• Jim Hutchinson, 103, English cricketer and centenarian.
• Nimalan Soundaranayagam, 50, Sri Lankan Tamil teacher and politician, assassinated.
• Chidambaram Subramaniam, 90, Indian politician and independence activist.
• Ingrid of Sweden, 90, Queen consort of Frederik IX of Denmark.
• Kōzaburō Yoshimura, 89, Japanese film director, heart failure.
• Boris Zakhoder, 82, Russian poet and children's writer.

8

• Brian Boydell, 83, Irish composer.
• Elio Crovetto, 73, Italian actor and comedian.
• Dupa, 55, Belgian comics artist, cerebral hemorrhage.
• John Levitow, 55, US Air Force loadmaster and recipient of the Medal of Honor, cancer.
• 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, heart failure.
• Henri Baillot, 75, French football player.
• Vasantrao S. Dempo, 84, Indian industrialist and philanthropist.
• Avedis Donabedian, 81, Lebanse-American physician.
• Sherwood Johnston, 73, American racing driver.
• Kurt Koch, 81, German football manager.
• Ferenc Mayer, 92, Hungarian football player.
• Eddie Miller, 84, American gridiron football player.
• Eric Morley, 82, British TV host.
• Hugh Paddick, 85, English actor (BBC radio show Round the Horne).

10

• 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.
• Jorge Fernández-Maldonado, 78, Peruvian politician, Prime Minister (1976).
• Bob Matthewson, 70, English footballer and referee.
• Walter P. McConaughy, 92, American diplomat and ambassador.
• Alan Tyson, 74, British musicologist.
• Dawn-Marie Wesley, 14, Canadian bullying victim, suicide by hanging.

11

• Rayford Barnes, 80, American actor.
• James Morris Blaut, 73, American anthropologist and geographer.
• Hugo Pos, 86, Surinamese judge, writer, and poet.
• Notable individuals killed during the Kaprun disaster:
  • Josef Schaupper, 37, Austrian deaf alpine skier.
  • Sandra Schmitt, 19, German freestyle skier.

12

• Halvar Björk, 72, Swedish actor, lung cancer.
• John Bury, 75, British set designer, costume designer and lighting designer.
• Wim Cohen, 77, Dutch mathematician.
• Eugene Antonio Marino, 66, American Roman Catholic prelate, heart attack.
• Frances Mercer, 85, American film actress.
• Franck Pourcel, 87, French composer, arranger, and conductor, Parkinson's disease.
• Leah Rabin, 72, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, lung cancer.

13

• Menachem Ashkenazi, 66, Israeli international football referee.
• Gheorghe Ghimpu, 63, Romanian politician and political prisoner, traffic collision.
• Audrey Stubbart, 105, American centenarian and oldest known full-time employee.
• Jim Wise, 81, American musical composer.

14

• Len Gabrielson, 85, American baseball player.
• Altaf Gauhar, 77, Pakistani writer, journalist, and poet, cancer.
• Wiesław Gawłowski, 50, Polish volleyball player and coach, traffic collision.
• Earl W. Renfroe, 93, American dentist and orthodontics pioneer.
• Pietro Rimoldi, 89, Italian cyclist.
• Robert Trout, 91, American broadcast news reporter.

15

• Edoardo Agnelli, 46, Italian football club director and son of industrialist Gianni Agnelli, suicide by jumping. (body discovered on this date)
• Bobby Collier, 70, American gridiron football player.
• G. V. Desani, 91, British-Indian novelist, poet, and social commentator.
• Bernard Gadney, 91, English rugby player.
• Mushtaq Gazdar, 60, Pakistani cinematographer.
• Václav Horák, 88, Czech football player and manager.
• Rinaldo Martino, 79, Italian-Argentine soccer player.
• Pietro Pasinati, 90, Italian football player and manager.
• Joseph Robert Shoenfield, 73, American mathematical logician.
• Jens Jørgen Thorsen, 68, Danish artist, director, and jazz musician.
• Harry Webb, 92, Australian politician.
• Simon Wigg, 40, English speedway rider, brain tumour.

16

• Joe C., 26, American rapper, musician and hype man, complications from celiac disease.
• Russ Conway, 75, English popular music pianist.
• 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.
• Athanasius, Metropolitan of Beni Suef, 77, Egyptian Coptic Orthodox bishop.
• Hosea Williams, 74, American civil rights leader, scientist, and politician, cancer.

17

• Paul W. Brown, 85, American lawyer.
• Francis Jennings, 82, American historian.
• William J. Murnane, 55, American egyptologist and author.
• Louis Néel, 95, French physicist.
• Hans Scherenberg, 90, German automobile engineer and executive (Daimler Benz).
• Bim Sherman, 50, Jamaican musician.
• Aleksandar Zorić, 75, Yugoslav and Serbian racing cyclist.

18

• Konstantin Krizhevsky, 74, Russian football player.
• Jaap van der Leck, 89, Dutch football manager.
• Hubert Miller, 82, American bobsledder.
• 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.
• Ilya Starinov, 100, Soviet military officer.
• Torstein Tynning, 68, Norwegian politician.

19

• George Cosmas Adyebo, 53, Ugandan politician and economist, cancer.
• Robert Escarpit, 82, French academic, writer and journalist.
• 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.
• Gaylord Carter, 95, American organist and film score composer.
• Nikolay Dollezhal, 101, Czech-Soviet nuclear physicist.
• Barbara Janiszewska, 63, Polish middle-distance runner and Olympic medalist.
• Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin, 73, Soviet/Russian animation director, animator and artist.
• Mike Muuss, 42, American computer programmer (software utility Ping), traffic collision.
• Kalle Päätalo, 81, Finnish novelist, lung cancer.

21

• Cyril Clarke, 93, British physician, geneticist and entomologist.
• Cliff Foenander, 99, Sri Lankan musician.
• Zygmunt Gadecki, 62, Polish football player.
• Joe Gasparella, 73, American football player.
• Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke, 86, German zoologist, ornithologist, and herpetologist.
• Harald Leipnitz, 74, German actor, lung cancer.
• Ernest Lluch, 63, Spanish economist and politician, shot.
• Åke Pettersson, 74, Finnish football player.
• Emil Zátopek, 78, Czechoslovakian runner and Olympic champion, stroke.

22

• Caroline Benn, 74, American educationalist and writer, breast cancer.
• Carlos Cardoso, Mozambican journalist, shot.
• Jack Dyson, 66, British cricketer and footballer.
• 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.
• Naresh Mehta, 78, Indian writer.
• Yoshihiro Momota, 54, Japanese professional wrestler and ring announcer, liver failure.
• Théodore Monod, 98, French naturalist, explorer, and humanist.
• Kenneth Peacock, 78, Canadian ethnomusicologist, composer, and pianist.
• Gerald Soffen, 74, American NASA scientist and educator.

23

• Conrad Voss Bark, 87, British writer and journalist.
• Florence Bell, 87, British biochemist and academic.
• Elma Mitchell, 81, British poet.
• Brian Rawlinson, 69, English actor and screenwriter.
• Rayner Unwin, 74, British publisher, cancer.
• Bernard Vorhaus, 95, American film director.

24

• Félix Erviti Barcelona, 90, Spanish Roman Catholic priest.
• Slavko Barbarić, 54, Croatian writer, poet, and Catholic priest.
• Carla Capponi, 81, Italian partisan and politician.
• Paul Lyneham, 55, Australian journalist and television presenter, lung cancer.
• Wasantha Sandanayake, 83, Sri Lankan singer.
• Mohammad Aslam Watanjar, Afghan general and politician, cancer.

25

• Hugh Alexander, 83, American professional baseball player and scout.
• Canito, 44, Spanish football player, drug overdose.
• Frederick Cass, 87, Canadian politician.
• James Deetz, 70, American anthropologist.
• Mario Giacomelli, 75, Italian photographer and photojournalist.
• Florizel Glasspole, 91, Jamaican Governor-General.
• Raymond Janot, 83, French politician.
• Austin Rawlinson, 98, British swimmer and Olympian.
• Gerd Vespermann, 74, German actor.

26

• Ralph Bates, 101, British novelist.
• Piet Biesiadecki, 80, American bobsledder and Olympian.
• 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.
• Sebastiano Timpanaro, 77, Italian classical philologist, essayist, and literary critic.

27

• Anne Barton, 76, American actress.
• Malcolm Bradbury, 68, British author and literary critic.
• Elena Cernei, 76, Romanian operatic mezzo-soprano and musicologist.
• Willie Cunningham, 75, Scottish footballer.
• Viji, 34, Indian actress, suicide.
• George Wells, 91, American screenwriter and producer.
• Dorothy Woolfolk, 87, American comic book editor (Superman).

28

• Gregg Barton, 88, American actor.
• Robert Bentley, 93, American animator.
• Carol Bolt, 59, Canadian playwright, liver cancer.
• Malcolm Bradbury, 68, English author and academic.
• Michael Cramer, 70, German actor.
• Henry B. González, 84, American Democratic politician (House of Representatives member from Texas 1961-1999).
• Liane Haid, 105, Austrian actress.
• Bernard Lutic, 57, French cinematographer.
• Len Shackleton, 78, English footballer ("Clown Prince of Soccer").

29

• Marvel Cooke, 97, American journalist, writer, and civil rights activist, leukemia.
• Margaret Early, 80, American film actress, heart failure.
• 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.
• Liam Hamilton, 72, Irish judge, Chief Justice (1994-2000).
• Ilmar Merkle III, 78, Estonian poet and publicist.

30

• Vladimir Anić, 70, Croatian linguist and lexicographer, prostate cancer.
• 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.
• Gerhard Schedl, 43, Austrian composer, suicide by gunshot.
• Scott Smith, 45, Canadian rock bassist (Loverboy), drowned.
• Skeets Tolbert, 91, American jazz musician and bandleader.