List of Famous people who died in 2000

George Michael Volkoff, was a Russian-Canadian physicist and academic who helped, with J. Robert Oppenheimer, predict the existence of neutron stars before they were discovered.

Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen was a German naval commander during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany.

Giorgio Bassani was an Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual.

Gil Kane was a Latvian-born American comics artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and virtually every major comics company and character.

Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner Jr. was an American journalist and screenwriter. A member of the "Hollywood Ten", he was blacklisted by the Hollywood film studios during the late 1940s and 1950s after his appearance as an "unfriendly" witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) leading to Lardner's being found guilty of contempt of Congress.

George Wells was an American screenwriter and producer, best known for making light comedies and musicals for MGM.