The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.
December 2000
1
Moses Abramovitz, 88, American economist. Robert V. Barron, 67, American TV and film director. Neal Creque, 60, American organist and jazz composer. Jack Hemingway, 77, Canadian-American fly fisherman, writer and son of novelist Ernest Hemingway. Elmer E. Rasmuson, 91, American banker, philanthropist and politician, heart failure. Terry Wilshusen, 51, American baseball player.
2
Chris Antley, 34, American jockey (Racing Hall of Fame) (winner of Kentucky Derby 1991, 1999), drug overdose. Gail Fisher, 65, American actress (Mannix), renal failure. Rosemarie Frankland, 57, Welsh actress, model and beauty queen, drug overdose. Alfonso Barrantes Lingán, 73, Peruvian politician. Pete "El Conde" Rodríguez, 67, American salsa singer, heart attack. Theodore Ropp, 89, American historian. Kurt Schmid, 68, Swiss rower and Olympic medalist. Michael Schumann, 54, (East) German philosophy professor and politician, traffic accident. Daniel Singer, 74, Polish-American socialist writer and journalist, lung cancer. Emily Wilkens, 83, American fashion designer. Ray Young, 62, Australian politician. Bibiano Zapirain, 81, Uruguayan football player. Bian Zhilin, 89, Chinese poet and literature researcher.
3
Gwendolyn Brooks, 83, American poet, cancer. Hoyt Curtin, 78, American composer and music producer. Peter Denton, 74, Australian pole vaulter and Olympian. Cletus Fischer, 75, American gridiron football player. Jun Fukuda, 77, Japanese film director, cancer. Bobby Kottarakkara, 48, Indian actor, heart attack. Red Nonnenkamp, 89, American baseball player. Hugh Edward Richardson, 94, British diplomat and Tibetologist. Miklós Szabó, 91, Hungarian middle-distance runner and Olympian.
4
Henck Arron, 64, Suriname politician and Prime Minister, cardiac arrest. H. C. Artmann, 79, Austrian poet and writer, heart attack. Tito Arévalo, 89, Filipino actor and musician. Horia Bernea, 62, Romanian painter. Ram Bahadur Chettri, 63, Indian football player. Colin Cowdrey, 67, English cricket player. Vincent M. Fennelly, 80, American film and television producer. Gisela Kahn Gresser, 94, American chess player. Manuel Licea, 79, Cuban singer, diabetes. Joe Nanini, 45, American rock drummer, intracranial aneurysm.
5
Ahmad Zaidi Adruce, 74, Malaysian governor. Ghulam Dastagir Alam, Pakistani theoretical physicist. Rupert Charles Barneby, 89, American botanist. Árpád Glatz, 61, Hungarian basketball player. Matthew Lukwiya, 43, Ugandan physician, ebola virus disease. O. W. Wolters, 85, British academic, historian and author.
6
Thomas Babe, 59, American playwright, lung cancer. Daniel Hittle, 50, American serial killer and mass murderer, execution by lethal injection. Enrique Anderson Imbert, 90, Argentine novelist and short-story writer. Werner Klemperer, 80, German actor, singer and musician, cancer. Chrystabel Leighton-Porter, 87, British model. Aziz Mian, 58, Pakistani qawwali, complications of hepatitis. Umasashi, 85, Indian Bengali film actress. Svetozar Vukmanović, 88, Yugosla and Montenegrin communist politician.
7
Toby Low, 1st Baron Aldington, 86, British politician. Edward Castro, 50, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Vlado Gotovac, 70, Croatian poet and politician, liver cancer. Levi Jackson, 74, American football player, first African-American to captain Yale University. Leszek Podhorodecki, Polish historian.
8
Gary Bergman, 62, Canadian ice hockey player. Ann T. Bowling, 57, American geneticist, stroke. Julian C. Dixon, 66, American politician, heart attack. Ionatana Ionatana, 62, Prime Minister of Tuvalu (1999 – 2000), heart attack. Charles Issawi, 84, Egyptian-American economist and historian. Marvin Leath, 69, American politician. Milić od Mačve, 66, Serbian painter and artist. Lionel Rogosin, 76, American filmmaker. Neil Staebler, 95, American politician, Alzheimer's disease.
9
Eugenio Galvalisi, 85, Uruguayan football player. John Hock, 72, American football player, lung cancer. Marina Koshetz, 88, American opera singer and actress. Tyrone McGriff, 42, American football player, heart attack. Sachindra Lal Singh, 93, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Tripura. Billie Yorke, 89, British tennis player.