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In the year 2000
650 Notable deaths
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński
Polish writer, world war ii underground fighter, and political dissident.
Born May 20th, 1919 in Kielce. [ref]
Died July 4th, 2000 at 81 years old in Naples. [ref]
Jun Fukuda
Japanese film director.
Born February 17th, 1923 in Manchuria. [ref]
Died December 3rd, 2000 at 77 years old in Setagaya-ku (cancer).
Hüseyin Velioğlu
Kurdish islamic activist.
Born January 1st, 1952 in Bağözü.
Died January 17th, 2000 at 48 years old in Beykoz (gunshot wound).
David Flusser
Israeli academic (1917-2000).
Born September 15th, 1917 in Vienna.
Died September 15th, 2000 at 83 years old in Jerusalem.
Théodore Monod
French naturalist and explorer (1902-2000).
Born April 9th, 1902 in Rouen. [ref]
Died November 22nd, 2000 at 98 years old in Versailles. [ref]
Muriel Evans
Actress, radio personality (1910-2000).
Born July 20th, 1910 in Minneapolis. [ref]
Died October 26th, 2000 at 90 years old in Woodland Hills (colorectal cancer). [ref]
Carl Thomas Curtis
American politician (1905-2000).
Born March 15th, 1905 in Minden.
Died January 24th, 2000 at 94 years old in Lincoln.
Jean-Claude Izzo
French writer (1945-2000).
Born June 20th, 1945 in Marseille. [ref]
Died January 26th, 2000 at 54 years old in 9th arrondissement of Marseille (cancer). [ref]
Elsie Widdowson
British nutritionist (1906–2000).
Born October 21st, 1906 in Wallington.
Died June 14th, 2000 at 93 years old in Marseille (disease).
Eladio Dieste
Uruguayan architect (1917-2000).
Born December 1st, 1917 in Artigas.
Died July 19th, 2000 at 82 years old in Montevideo.
Deaths 341 to 350 of 650
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. John Muir