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.

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 gridrion 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.
 * Josef Schaupper, 37, Austrian deaf alpine skier, killed during the Kaprun disaster.
 * Sandra Schmitt, 19, German freestyle skier, killed during the Kaprun disaster.

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 accident.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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, assassinated by ETA.
 * 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, homicide.
 * 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.

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.
 * Scott Smith, 45, Canadian rock bassist (Loverboy), drowned.
 * Skeets Tolbert, 91, American jazz musician and bandleader.