List of Famous people who died in 2000

Mark Nikolayevich Yevtyukhin was a Russian Lieutenant-Colonel and Commander of the Pskov-based 2nd Battalion, 104th Guards Airborne Regiment, 76th Guards Airborne Division, who was killed in action during the Battle for Height 776.0 near Ulus-Kert, Chechnya. For his actions in that battle, he was posthumously honoured as a Hero of the Russian Federation.

Antonio Buero Vallejo was a Spanish playwright associated with the Generation of '36 movement and considered the most important Spanish dramatist of the Spanish Civil War.

Hans Carl Artmann, also known as Ib Hansen, was an Austrian-born poet and writer, most popular for his early poems written in Viennese, which however, never after were to be the focus of his oeuvre.

Ziya Bazhayev was a prominent Russian businessman of Chechen origin specializing in oil trading. He died in Moscow during a crash of a Yakovlev Yak-40 aircraft shortly after takeoff on March 9, 2000, together with a Russian journalist, Artyom Borovik.

Shizuko Ihara , professionally known as Mina Aoe , was a Japanese female enka singer who had a series of popular hits in the late 1960s and continued charting late into her career.

Hayati Hamzaoğlu was a Turkish actor.

Charles Gray was an English actor who was well known for roles including the arch-villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, Dikko Henderson in a previous Bond film You Only Live Twice, Sherlock Holmes's brother Mycroft Holmes in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and as the Criminologist in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).

Christian Marty was a French aviator who served as the captain of Air France Flight 4590. Prior to the crash, Marty was an athlete in extreme sports.

Trini Alonso (1923–2000) was a Spanish film actress.

Sandra Schmitt was a German freestyle skier. In 1998 she came 9th in the Women's Moguls contest at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. She became the Women's Dual Moguls World Champion in 1999. Schmitt died with her parents in the Kaprun disaster on 11 November 2000.