List of Famous people who died in 2000

Patricia Molly Owens was a Canadian-born American actress, working in Hollywood. She appeared in about 40 films and 10 TV episodes in a career lasting from 1943 to 1968.

Sigvard Arne Eklund was Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1961 to 1981.

Rosemarie Frankland was a Welsh actress, model and beauty queen who won Miss World 1961, having previously finished as first runner-up at Miss Universe 1961.

Violet Louise Archer was a Canadian composer, teacher, pianist, organist, and percussionist. Born Violet Balestreri in Montreal, Quebec, in 1913, her family changed their name to Archer in 1940. She died in Ottawa on 21 of February 2000.

John Otto "Buck" Young was an American actor who played the role as Sergeant Whipple on the Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. TV series, and Deputy Joe Watson on The Andy Griffith Show.

Petter Hugsted was a Norwegian ski jumper who won the gold medal in the individual large hill event at the 1948 Olympics.

John Charles Harsanyi was a Hungarian-American Nobel Prize laureate economist.

Laura “Laila” Annikki Kinnunen was a Finnish singer. She was one of the most popular Finnish singers of the 1950s and 1960s, and represented Finland at the 1961 Eurovision Song Contest, the first time Finland participated in the contest.