2000 deaths

Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)

President of Syria from 1971 to 2000

Prime Minister of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka) from 1960–65, 1970–77, 1994–2000

Prime Minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984 (1919–2000)

British actor (1914–2000)

Tunisian politician (1903–2000)

American actor and comedian (1949–2000)

French physicist (1904-2000)

American actress (1913–2000)

American actor, comedian and director (1920–2000)

Italian politician (1934–2000)

Czech long-distance runner (1922-2000)

American philosopher and logician (1900–2000)

Soviet cosmonaut (1935-2000)

English writer and media personality (1901-2000)

German American biochemist (1912–2000)

British actor and theatre director (1904-2000)

Italian actor and director (1922–2000)

American actor (1922–2000)

Austrian artist (1928–2000)

French filmmaker (1928–2000)

English association football player (1915-2000)

Canadian Nobel laureate in chemistry

Japanese association football player (1940-2000)

Israeli singer (1957–2000)

(1911-2000) Polish pianist, composer, Holocaust survivor

American actress (1910–2000)

Japanese association football player

Japanese association football player and manager (1917–2000)

Italian road cyclist (1914–2000)

President of Azerbaijan from 1992 to 1993

84th Prime Minister of Japan (1937–2000)

American cartoonist, known for creating the comic strip, "Peanuts" (1922-2000)

Hungarian economist (1920-2000)

Japanese association football player (1920–2000)

American cartoonist (1901-2000)

74th Prime Minister of Japan (1924-2000)

American economist (1923–2000)

queen consort of Denmark

Austrian diplomat, politician, judge, and eighth President of Austria (1915–2000)

American tennis player (1915-2000)

' (, ; 17 April 1952 – 15 January 2000), better known as ' (), was a Serbian warlord, mobster and head of the Serb paramilitary force called the Serb Volunteer Guard during the Yugoslav Wars, considered one of the most feared and effective paramilitary forces during the wars. His paramilitary unit was responsible for numerous crimes in Eastern Bosnia, including murder, pillaging, rape and ethnic cleansings. was one of the most feared, celebrated and iconic figures in Serbia during his time.

actress (1909–2000)

first president of Benin (1916-2000)

American writer (1917–2000)

German politician (1907-2000)

Danish comedian and pianist (1909–2000)

82nd Prime Minister of France (1915–2000)

Iranian Persian poet, writer, and journalist (1925-2000)

French film director (1924–2000)

British writer and poet (1916–2000)

American actor (1920–2000)

American ethnobotanist and mystic (1946–2000)

American bodybuilder and actor (1926–2000)

Italian writer

Canadian-American science fiction writer (1912–2000)

former General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party (1936–2000)

Israeli poet (1924-2000)

American actor and United States naval officer (1909–2000)

First Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, diplomat (1906–2000)