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 Howard P. Anderson, 85, American politician.Member bios state.va.us George Armstrong, 56, English football player and coach, brain haemorrhage, cerebral hemorrhage. 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. Kjell Holler, 75, Norwegian economist and politician. Oleksandr Mantsevych, 40, Soviet Ukrainian Olympic rower (1980). Sir Steven Runciman, 97, English historian. Richard K. Webel, 100, American landscape architect.1900 - 2000 Richard Webel
2 Teofils Biķis, 48, Latvian pianist. Eddie Collins, Jr., 83, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). Robert Cormier, 75, American author and journalist, complications from a blood clot. Anders Gernandt, 80, Swedish army officer and Olympic equestrian (1956, 1960). Michael Herman, 57, French American mathematician. Eva Morris, 114, second oldest living person (1999 - 2000). Sue Ryder, 76, British baroness and charity founder. Simeon Simeonov, 54, Bulgarian football goalkeeper. Avatus Stone, 69, American gridiron football player (Baltimore Colts), cancer.
3 Aga Syed Mehdi, 41, Indian cleric and politician, blast. Leonardo Benvenuti, 77, Italian screenwriter. Doris L. Berryman, 74, American college professor, pancreatic cancer. Vincent Birchler, 88, American educator and politician.Vincent Birchler-obituary Bengt Brunskog, 80, Swedish stage, film and television actor.Wright p.137 Bob Bryant, 82, American gridiron football player (San Francisco 49ers). Eugene A. Burdick, 88, American judge. Michael Stapleton-Cotton, 5th Viscount Combermere, 71, British academic. Frank Frazier, 40, American football player (Washington Redskins). Jerry Hennessy, 74, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Washington Redskins). Charles F. Hockett, 84, American linguist. Robert Sherlaw Johnson, 68, British composer and musicologist. Betty Slade, 79, British diver and Olympian (1936). George Vandeman, 84, American evangelist and broadcaster. Allen Whitehill Clowes, 83, American philanthropist.
4 Carl Biddiscombe, 76, Canadian-American set decorator. 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. Kevin Borland, 74, Australian architect. David Brower, 88, American environmentalist. Jim Brutz, 81, American football player (Chicago Rockets). 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. Maria Oberbreyer, 78, Austrian Olympic sprinter (1948). 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. Dave Sheppard, 68, American Olympic weightlifter (1956). Mary Sinclair, 77, American actress. Harry Taylor, 81, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Red Sox). Per-Owe Trollsås, 67, Swedish sprinter and Olympian (1960).
6 Torgny Anderberg, 81, Swedish actor and film director. Joseph Marie Armer, 93, American Roman Catholic sister. John Birch, 78, English luthier. Emmet Birk, 86, American basketball player. Eddy Bruma, 75, Surinamese politician, lawyer and writer, injuries sustained during robbery. Herbert Brün, 82, German composer and pioneer of electronic and computer music. Bob Burns, 79, American football player and coach. L. Sprague de Camp, 92, American writer. Enrico Castiglioni, 86, Italian writer, engineer, and architect. John McPhail, 76, Scottish football player. Ioannis Nembidis, 72, Greek footballer. Stefaniya Stanyuta, 95, Soviet and Belarus theater and movie actress. Vasiliy Yershov, 51, Ukrainian javelin thrower and Olympian (1976).
7 Edulji Aibara, 86, Indian cricketer. Tara Cherian, 87, Indian social activist and politician. Derman Christopherson, 85, British engineering science academic. 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 Maria Bentel, 72, American architect, bone marrow cancer. Einar Örn Birgisson, 27, Icelandic footballer and businessman, homicide. Brian Boydell, 83, Irish composer. Bill Burton, 78, New Zealand cricketer. Angeline Caruso, 78, American educator and administrator, complications from heart disease. Elio Crovetto, 73, Italian actor and comedian. Herberts Dāboliņš, 92, Latvian Olympic cross-country skier (1936). 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. Andrzej Salamon, 64, Polish Olympic swimmer (1960). Jan van der Vaart, 69, Dutch ceramist.
9 Hussein Abayat, Palestinian military commander, missile strike. Chiyonosuke Azuma, 74, Japanese actor and dancer, heart failure. Henri Baillot, 75, French football player. Mario Cantu, 63, American Maoist. Ernest J. Cole, 83-84, Canadian engineer and politician. Vasantrao S. Dempo, 84, Indian industrialist and philanthropist. Avedis Donabedian, 81, Lebanese-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 (New York Giants). 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. Joseph Comiti, 80, French physician, surgeon and politician. Alfred H. Corbett, 85, American attorney."Alfred Corbett, 85, Key player in Legal Services for Poor, Dies", The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, November 16, 2000. Jorge Fernández-Maldonado, 78, Peruvian politician, Prime Minister (1976). Art Jackes, 76, Canadian high jumper and Olympian (1948). Bob Matthewson, 70, English footballer and referee. Walter P. McConaughy, 92, American diplomat and ambassador. Big Moose Meyer, 90, American basketball player. Alan Tyson, 74, British musicologist. Dawn-Marie Wesley, 14, Canadian bullying victim, suicide by hanging.
11 Rayford Barnes, 80, American actor. Harivallabh Bhayani, 83, Gujarati-language Indian writer. 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 and Olympian (1998).
12 Halvar Björk, 72, Swedish actor, lung cancer. John Bury, 75, British set designer, costume designer and lighting designer. Goingback Chiltoskey, 93, Cherokee woodcarver and model maker. Christo Coetzee, 71, South African assemblage, colorectal cancer. 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. Frank Testa, 97, American Olympic cyclist (1932).
13 Menachem Ashkenazi, 66, Israeli international football referee. Ramón Campbell, 89, Chilean medical doctor, ethnomusicologist, and composer. Ralph Bingham Cloward, 92, American neurosurgeon. Gheorghe Ghimpu, 63, Romanian politician and political prisoner, traffic collision. Vilhelm Møller, 78, Danish Olympic gymnast (1948). Audrey Stubbart, 105, American centenarian and oldest known full-time employee. Jim Wise, 81, American musical composer.
14 Len Gabrielson, 85, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). Altaf Gauhar, 77, Pakistani writer, journalist, and poet, cancer. Wiesław Gawłowski, 50, Polish volleyball player, coach, and Olympian (1972, 1976, 1980), traffic collision. Bob Kitterman, 77, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals). Gérard Laprise, 75, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1962-1979). Otto Przywara, 86, German Olympic swimmer (1936). 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) Max Archimowitz, 80, German politician. Ju-Chin Chu, 80, Chinese-American chemical engineer. Bobby Collier, 70, American gridiron football player (Los Angeles Rams). Barry Francis Collins, 62, Australian Roman Catholic prelate.Bishop Barry Francis Collins † 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 Iosif Andriasov, 67, Soviet composer. 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 Mikael Björnberg, 35, Finnish physicist, plane crash.Lahjakas tutkija keskittyi ydinjätekysymyksiin 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, Soviet Russian football player and Olympian (1952). Jaap van der Leck, 89, Dutch football manager.