List of Famous people who died in 2000

Louis Applebaum was a Canadian film score composer, administrator, and conductor.

Nathan Richard Nusbaum, known as N. Richard Nash, was a writer and dramatist best known for writing Broadway shows, including The Rainmaker.

Lester Novros was an American artist, animator and teacher.

Enrico Cuccia was an Italian banker, who was the first and long-term president of Mediobanca SpA, the Milan-based investment bank, and a significant figure in the history of capitalism in Italy.

Generalleutnant Werner Panitzki was a German Air Force general. He was Inspector of the Air Force, the senior air force appointment, from 1962 to 1966.

Isaac Berenblum, was an Israeli biochemist.

Phillip Walter Katz was a computer programmer best known as the co-creator of the Zip file format for data compression, and the author of PKZIP, a program for creating zip files that ran under DOS. A copyright lawsuit between System Enhancement Associates (SEA) and Katz's company, PKWARE, Inc., was widely publicized in the BBS community in the late 1980s. Phil Katz's software business was very successful, but he struggled with social isolation and chronic alcoholism in the last years of his life.