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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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
- Larry Bearnarth, 58, American Major League Baseball player, heart attack.[1]
- Maurice Hallam, 68, English cricket player.[2]
- Dick Pabich, 44, American gay rights activist, AIDS.[3]
- Stan Patrick, 77, American NBA basketball player.[4]
- Gerda Paumgarten, 92, Austrian alpine skier and world champion.
- Colin Vaughan, 68, Australian-Canadian television journalist, architect, and urban activist, heart attack.
2
- Nat Adderley, 68, American jazz musician, stroke.[5]
- Princess María, 89, Spanish royal and grandmother of King Felipe VI, heart attack.[6]
- Ed Doherty, 81, American football player and coach.
- Henri René Guieu, 73, French science fiction writer, cancer.[7]
- Patrick O'Brian, 85, English author (Master and Commander).[8]
- Ullin Place, 75, British philosopher and psychologist.[9]
- Anna Maria Martínez Sagi, 92, Spanish poet, trade unionist, journalist, and feminist.[10]
- Elmo Zumwalt, 79, United States Navy officer, cancer.[11]
3
- Gabriela Brimmer, 52, Mexican writer and activist, heart attack.[12]
- Henry H. Fowler, 91, American lawyer and politician, Secretary of the Treasury, pneumonia.[13]
- Viktor Kolotov, 50, Soviet/Ukrainian football player.[14]
- Frank Miller, 83, Irish cricket player.[15]
4
- Alfred Bohrmann, 95, German astronomer.
- Tom Fears, 77, Mexican-American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[16]
- Diether Krebs, 52, German actor, cabaret artist and comedian, lung cancer.[17]
- Spiridon Markezinis, 90, Greek politician and Prime Minister.
- John Milner, 50, American baseball player, lung cancer.[18]
- Louis Mucci, 90, American jazz trumpeter.
- Henry Pleasants, 89, American music critic and intelligence officer, ruptured aorta.[19]
5
- Turid Balke, 78, Norwegian actress, playwright and artist.
- Xie Bingying, 93, Chinese soldier and writer.[20]
- Bernard Braine, 85, British politician.[21]
- Goseki Kojima, 71, Japanese manga artist.[22]
- Kumar Ponnambalam, 61, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician, assassinated.
- Hopper Read, 89, English cricketer.[23]
- Vic Schoen, 83, American bandleader, arranger and composer.[24]
- K. L. Shrimali, 90, Indian politician and educationist.
- Bernhard Wicki, 80, Austrian actor and film director.[25]
6
- Leonard F. Chapman, Jr., 86, United States Marine Corps general, cancer.
- Michael Rex Horne, 78, English structural engineer, scientist and academic.
- Byron L. Johnson, 82, American economist and politician.[26]
- Thomas Jamison MacBride, 85, American jurist.[27]
- Don Martin, 68, American cartoonist (MAD Magazine), cancer.[28]
- Edward Pain, 74, Australian Olympic rower.[29]
- Malvina Polo, 96, American film actress.
- Horst Seemann, 62, German film director and screenwriter.[30]
- Ajit Pratap Singh, 82, Indian politician.
- Robert McG. Thomas, Jr., 60, American journalist and obituarist, abdominal cancer.[31]
- Alexey Vyzmanavin, 40, Russian chess Grandmaster, heart attack.
7
- Zainal Abidin, 71, Indonesian actor.
- Gary Albright, 36, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
- Robert B. Crosby, 88, American politician.
- Makhmud Esambayev, 75, Soviet and Russian actor and dancer.[32]
- Ken Keyworth, 65, English football player.[33]
- Bob McFadden, 76, American voice actor, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[34]
- Bernice Petkere, 98, American songwriter.[35]
- Dorian Shainin, 85, American quality consultant, aeronautics engineer, and author.
- Rodica Simion, 44, Romanian-American mathematician.
- Klaus Wennemann, 59, German television and film actor, lung cancer.[36]
8
- Karl Adamek, 89, Austrian football player and manager.[37]
- Bill Domm, 69, Canadian politician.[38]
- Henry Eriksson, 79, Swedish middle-distance runner and Olympic champion.[39]
- Ray Huang, 81, Chinese historian and philosopher, heart attack.[40]
- Hilary Smart, 74, American sailor and Olympic champion.[41]
- Jack Stokes, 76, Canadian politician, lung cancer.
- Fritz Thiedemann, 81, German equestrian,.[42]
- Warren H. Wagner, 79, American botanist.
9
- Marguerite Churchill, 89, American film actress.[43]
- Edward R. Cony, 76, American journalist and newspaper executive, pneumonia and complications from Alzheimer's.[44]
- Arnold Alexander Hall, 84, British aeronautical engineer, scientist and industrialist.[45]
- Poul Mejer, 68, Danish football player.
- Nigel Tranter, 90, Scottish writer.[46]
- Bruno Zevi, 81, Italian architect, historian, curator and author.[47]
10
- Arthur Batanides, 76, American actor (Police Academy, Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers, Johnny Midnight).[48]
- Maxine Elliott Hicks, 95, American actress.
- Sam Jaffe, 98, American motion picture agent, producer, studio executive.[49]
- Gibson Jalo, 60, Nigerian army general.
- Richard Jameson, 47, Northern Irish loyalist and paramilitary commander, shot.
- Cliff Lloyd, 83, Welsh football player.
- John Newland, 82, American director and actor, stroke.[50]
11
- Betty Archdale, 92, English-Australian sportswoman and educationalist.[51]
- Phil Carrick, 47, English cricketer, leukemia.[52]
- Helena Carter, 76, American actress.[53]
- Barney Childs, 73, American composer and teacher, Parkinson's disease.[54]
- Wilhelm Grewe, 88, German diplomat and professor of international law.[55]
- Bob Lemon, 79, American baseball player and manager.[56]
- Solomon Mamaloni, 56, Solomon Islands politician and Prime Minister, kidney disease.
- William Andrew McDonald, 86, American archaeologist.[57]
- Ralph Purchase, 83, American competition rower and Olympic champion.[58]
- Gordon Wright, 87, American historian.[59]
- Pavao Žanić, 81, Yugoslav prelate of the Catholic Church.
12
- Marc Davis, 86, American animator (Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Bambi).[60]
- Dan Duchaine, 47, American bodybuilder, author, and convicted felon, polycystic kidney disease.
- V. R. Nedunchezhiyan, 79, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, heart failure.
- Bobby Phills, 30, American basketball player, car accident.[61]
- Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau, 89, American chemical engineer.
- Alex Wright, 69, Scottish football player and manager.
13
- Peter Henderson, Baron Henderson of Brompton, 77, British public servant, Clerk of the Parliaments.[62]
- Eric Dodson, 79, British actor.
- Herbert S. Gutowsky, 80, American chemist.[63]
- Antti Hyvärinen, 67, Finnish ski jumper, coach and Olympic champion.[64]
- Elizabeth Kerr, 87, American actress (Mork & Mindy).
- Alvin Liberman, 82, American psychologist, complications during heart surgery.[65]
- John Ljunggren, 80, Swedish race walker and Olympic champion.[66]
- Alfred Nzo, 74, South African political activist.[67]
- Susumu Ohno, 71, Japanese-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist.[68]
- Enric Valor i Vives, 88, Spanish writer and grammarian.[69]
14
- Meche Barba, 77, American-Mexican film actress and dancer, heart attack.[70]
- Alphonse Boudard, 74, French novelist and playwright.[71]
- Pat Boyette, 76, American broadcaster and comic book artist (Peacemaker), esophagus cancer.
- Giusi Raspani Dandolo, 83, Italian stage, film, television and radio actress.
- Guadalupe Huerta, 79, American hispanic activist and lobbyist.
- Bijan Jalali, 72, Iranian poet and writer.[72]
- Hans-Joachim Kahler, 91, German general during World War II.
- Alain Poiré, 82, French film producer, cancer.[73]
- Clifford Truesdell, 80, American mathematician.[74]
- M. V. Venkatram, 79, Indian writer from Tamil Nadu.
- Leonard Weisgard, 83, American children's writer and illustrator.[75]
- Tomislav Zografski, 65, Macedonian composer.
15
- Beryl Clark, 82, American gridiron football player.[76]
- Georges-Henri Lévesque, 96, Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist.[77]
- Yves Mariot, 51, French football player, aneurysm.[78]
- Annie Palmen, 73, Dutch singer.
- Arkan, 47, Serbian mobster and paramilitary commander, homicide.[79]
- Alf Ringstead, 72, Irish football player.[80]
- Fran Ryan, 83, American actress (Pale Rider, Days of Our Lives, The Wizard).[81]
16
- Wolf Ackva, 88, German actor.[82]
- Gene Harris, 66, American jazz pianist.[83]
- Will "Dub" Jones, 71, American R&B singer, diabetes.[84]
- T. N. Kaul, 87, Indian diplomat.[85]
- By Saam, 85, American sportscaster.[86]
- Robert R. Wilson, 85, American physicist and team member of the Manhattan Project.[87]
17
- Carl Forberg, 88, American racecar driver.
- Stephen Fuchs, 91, Austrian Catholic priest, missionary, and anthropologist.
- Andrej Hieng, 74, Slovene writer, playwright and theatre director.
- Philip Jones, 71, British trumpeter.[88]
- Ralph Ambrose Kekwick, 91, British biochemist.
- Ion Rațiu, 82, Romanian diplomat, journalist, writer, and politician.[89]
- Arthur Sager, 95, American track and field athlete and Olympian.[90]
- Hüseyin Velioğlu, 48, Kurdish Hezbollah leader, shot.
18
- Alfred Nash Beadleston, Jr., 87, American politician.
- Gordon Chalmers, 88, American swimmer, swimming coach, and Olympian.[91]
- Nancy Coleman, 87, American actress.[92]
- Frances Drake, 87, American actress.[93]
- Jester Hairston, 98, American actor and composer.[94]
- Francis Haskell, 71, English art historian.[95]
- Raymond Brendan Manning, 65, American carcinologist.[96]
- Gordon J. McCann, 92, Canadian thoroughbred horse trainer.
- Arthur Nash, 85, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympian.[97]
- Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, 102, Austrian communist resistance member during World War II.[98]
19
- Victor Brooks, 81, English film and television actor.
- M. A. Chidambaram, 81, Indian industrialist and cricket administrator.
- Luigi Chinazzo, 67, Italian wrestler and Olympian.[99]
- Bettino Craxi, 65, Italian politician, Prime Minister (1983-1987), diabetes.[100]
- Billy Dewell, 83, American gridiron football player.[101]
- Anselmo Fernandez, 81, Portuguese architect and football manager.
- Victoria Fromkin, 76, American linguist, colorectal cancer.[102]
- Frederick Irving Herzberg, 76, American psychologist.[103]
- Hedy Lamarr, 85, Austrian actress (Samson and Delilah, Algiers, White Cargo), cardiovascular disease.[104]
- Manny Montejo, 64, Cuban baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[105]
- Lynn Myers, 85, American baseball player.[106]
- Alan North, 79, American actor (Serpico, Highlander, Glory), kidney cancer, lung cancer.[107]
- Irra Petina, 91, Russian-American actress, singer, and contralto.[108]
- Heinrich Schroeteler, 84, German sculptor and U-boat commander during World War II.[109]
- George Ledyard Stebbins, 94, American botanist, cancer.[110]
- Chhean Vam, 83, Cambodian politician and nationalist.[111]
- Stanley Weston, 76, British basketball player.[112]
- Rex Willis, 75, Welsh rugby union player.[113]
20
- Chuck Courtney, 69, American actor and stuntman, suicide by gunshot.
- Robert J. Henle, 90, American Catholic priest, jesuit, and philosopher.
- Ron Herbel, 62, American baseball player.[114]
- Slavko Janevski, 80, Macedonian poet, prose and script writer.
- Don Samuelson, 86, American politician, Governor of Idaho, heart attack.[115]
- Izabella Yurieva, 100, Soviet Russian romance singer.
21
- Kristian Asdahl, 79, Norwegian politician.
- John A. Calhoun, 81, American diplomat.[116]
- Dagmar Edqvist, 96, Swedish writer and screenwriter.
- Saeb Salam, 95, Lebanese politician and Prime Minister, heart attack.[117]
- Bernard Unett, 63, British racing driver, cancer.[118]
22
- Victor Cavallo, 52, Italian actor and underground writer, hepatitis C.[119]
- Craig Claiborne, 79, American restaurant critic.[120]
- Ed Clark, 88, American photographer.[121]
- Carlo Cossutta, 67, Italian opera singer, liver cancer.[122]
- Al Costello, 80, Italian-Australian professional wrestler, pneumonia.
- Peter Gould, 67, American geographer and academic.[123]
- Masao Harada, 87, Japanese athlete and Olympic silver medalist.[124]
- Anne Hébert, 83, French Canadian author and poet, bone cancer.[125]
- Alan Pryce-Jones, 91, British book critic, writer, journalist and politician.[126]
- Dai Suli, 80, Chinese politician.
- Ernest William Swanton, 92, British cricket commentator.[127]
- Balaupasakage Yasodis Tudawe, 84, Sri Lankan politician.
23
- Willie Hamilton, 82, British politician.[128]
- George Hoskins, 71, New Zealand runner and Olympian.[129]
- Nicholas Nagy-Talavera, 70, Hungarian-American dissident, historian and writer.
- Roderick O'Connor, 90, Northern Irish politician.
- William Alexander Sutton, 82, New Zealand painter.
24
- Jeffrey Boam, 53, American screenwriter (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Lost Boys, Lethal Weapon 2), heart failure.[130]
- Theodor Brinek, Jr., 78, Austrian football player.[131]
- Carl Thomas Curtis, 94, American politician.[132]
- Bobby Duncum, Jr., 34, American professional wrestler, accidental overdose.
- Massimo Severo Giannini, 84, Italian lawyer and politician.
- Tatyana Petrenko-Samusenko, 61, Soviet fencer and Olympic champion.[133]
- Reynolds Shultz, 78, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Kansas.
25
- Dale Alford, 83, American ophthalmologist and politician, congestive heart failure.[134]
- Folke Ekström, 93, Swedish chess master.
- Herta Freitag, 91, Austrian-American mathematician.[135]
- Lin Halliday, 63, American saxophonist.
- Aleksander Illi, 87, Estonian basketball player and basketball coach.[136]
- P. Lankesh, 64, Indian poet, writer, playwright and journalist, heart attack.
- Tom Pedigo, 59, American set decorator (Terms of Endearment, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Brainstorm).
26
- Don Budge, 84, American tennis player, traffic collision.[137]
- Kathleen Hale, 101, British artist, illustrator, and children's author.[138]
- Jean-Claude Izzo, 54, French poet, playwright, and novelist, cancer.[139]
- Adolf Pilch, 85, Polish resistance fighter during World War II.
- Don Ralke, 79, American music arranger.[140]
- Bill Strickland, 91, American baseball player.[141]
- Adib Taherzadeh, 78, Iranian Baháʼí author.[142]
- A. E. van Vogt, 87, Canadian science fiction writer, pneumonia.[143]
27
- Don Abney, 76, American jazz pianist, complications from kidney dialysis.[144]
- Mae Faggs, 67, American sprinter, cancer.[145]
- Friedrich Gulda, 69, Austrian pianist, heart failure.[146]
- Matateu, 72, Portuguese footballer.[147]
- Setsuo Nara, 63, Japanese basketball player.[148]
- Jerzy Potz, 46, Polish ice hockey player, carcinoma.[149]
- Abner W. Sibal, 78, American politician.[150]
- Bert Sproston, 85, English footballer.[151]
28
- Sarah Caudwell, 60, British detective story writer and barrister, cancer.[152]
- Tony Doyle, 58, Irish television and film actor.[153]
- Lauris Edmond, 75, New Zealand poet and writer.
- Ron Feiereisel, 68, American basketball player and coach.[154]
- Ted Gullic, 93, American baseball player.[155]
- Hugh Guthrie, 89, Australian politician.
- Ed Hirsch, 78, American gridiron football player.[156]
- Bertel Lauring, 72, Danish film actor.
- Gad Rausing, 77, Swedish industrialist.[157]
- Joy Shelton, 77, English actress, pulmonary emphysema.
- Kenneth Waller, 72, British actor.
29
- George McTurnan Kahin, 82, American historian and political scientist.[158]
- Herbert Schiller, 80, American media critic, sociologist, and author.[159]
- Hannes Schmidhauser, 73, Swiss actor and football player.[160]
- E. L. Senanayake, 79, Sri Lankan politician.
- Harry Thompson, 84, English football player and manager.[161]
30
- Martin Aldridge, 25, English footballer, car crash.[162]
- Isidore Dollinger, 96, American politician.[163]
- Sigvard Arne Eklund, 88, Swedish politician.[164]
- Angelo Innocent Fernandes, 86, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop.
- Karl-Friedrich Höcker, 88, German war criminal and SS commander during World War II.
- Steve Little, 34, American boxer, colon cancer.
- Joseph Rothschild, 68, American historian and political scientist.[165]
31
- Martin Benrath, 73, German film actor, cancer.[166]
- Bendt Jørgensen, 75, Danish football player and manager.
- Gil Kane, 73, American comic book artist (Green Lantern, Spider-Man, Atom), lymphoma.[167]
- Vasant Shankar Kanetkar, 79, Indian Marathi language playwright and novelist.
- Ralph Manza, 78, American actor (Get Shorty, The D.A.'s Man, Godzilla).[168]
- Ross Russell, 90, American jazz producer and writer.[169]
- Jafar Salmasi, 81, Iranian weightlifter and Olympic medalist.[170]
- K. N. Singh, 91, Indian actor.[171]
- Arthur Wilson, 91, English footballer.
- Si Zentner, 82, American trombonist and jazz big-band leader.[172]
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