2000 deaths

American actress (1908–2000)

Soviet chess player (1936-2000)

American politician (1910–2000)

American track and field athlete (1926–2000)

Polish academic (1916-2000)

Russian physician (1927-2000)

Swiss philosopher (1910-2000)

Romanian footballer, football manager (1908-2000)

Uruguayan footballer (1926-2000)

Swiss footballer (1929-2000)

American actor, screenwriter and director (1938-2000)

Argentine rower (1944–2000)

German spy (1907-2000)

American film and theatre critic (1924–2000)

Moroccan long-distance runner (1929–2000)

Estonian composer (1950–2000)

German mathematician (1906–2000)

American aerospace engineer (1913–2000)

American politician (1914–2000)

Canadian curler (1963–2000)

Bulgarian footballer (1946-2000)

American actress (1912-2000)

Australian poet, environmentalist and Indigenous rights campaigner (1915–2000)

American botanist and geneticist (1906-2000)

Iranian weightlifter (1918-2000)

British television presenter and writer (1959–2000)

Indian actress

American software developer, developer of the ZIP file format (1962-2000)

chess master (1903–2000)

athletics competitor (1929–2000)

United States Navy admiral (1920–2000)

Austrian footballer (1928-2000)

Spanish footballer (1919-2000)

Azerbaijani musician (1917–2000)

Czech footballer (1912-2000)

British sociologist (1924–2000)

American actor (1939–2000)

Hungarian water polo player (1933–2000)

American Cardinal, Archbishop of New York (1920–2000)

Governor of Missouri, 2000 U.S. senator-elect (1934–2000)

French writer (1945-2000)

French painter (1907-2000)

Beauty pageant contestant, actress (1943–2000)

German illustrator and forger (1938–2000)

1916-2000 linguist and anthropologist

field hockey player (1928-2000)

basketball player (1913-2000)

Catholic cardinal (1920–2000)

French composer and conductor (1931–2000)

American Sprinter, first female athletic scholarship

Austrian opera singer (1929–2000)

Argentine association football player (1921-2000)

American actor (1920–2000)

Spanish politician and economist (1937-2000)

athletics competitor (1930–2000)

Dutch mathematician (*1894 – †2000)

American entrepreneur, founder and president of Herbalife International, Inc. (1956–2000)

British activist (1917-2000)

Swedish cross-country skier

American politician (1921–2000)