Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 2000

Marie Schnür, or Marie Marc-Schnür, was a German painter, illustrator and silhouette maker. From 1907 to 1908, she was married to the painter Franz Marc.

Marta Hoepffner fue una fotógrafa alemana, representante de la generación vanguardista de posguerra.

Max Himmelheber was a German inventor and Luftwaffe fighter pilot.

William Vasilyevich Pokhlyobkin was the foremost expert on the history of Russian cuisine and the author of numerous culinary books. His A History of Vodka has been translated into a number of languages, including English. Pokhlyobkin was also an expert in the history of the diplomacy and international relations of Russia, as well as a geographer and a journalist.

Hans Ertl was a German mountaineer and Nazi propagandist. He is most known for being the father of Monika Ertl, the Communist guerrilla who assassinated Roberto Quintanilla Pereira, the man responsible for chopping off Che Guevara's hands.

Max Gordon Showalter, sometimes credited as Casey Adams, was an American film, television, and stage actor, as well as a composer, pianist, and singer. He appeared on more than 1,000 television programs. One of Showalter's most memorable roles was as the husband of Jean Peters' character in the 1953 film Niagara.

Yūto Yoshida was a Japanese novelist and member of the Japanese Communist Party. He has published under a variety of pen names, including Seiji Yoshida , Tōji Yoshida , and Eiji Yoshida . He wrote "My war crimes", which is the origin of a dispute over comfort women 30 years after World War II; he admitted it was fictional in an interview with Shūkan Shinchō on May 29, 1996. Later, his fictional work was used by George Hicks in his "The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War". Naoki Inose sighed over Japan's misfortune suffered by Yoshida's fake book, and he expressed as below; "Due to the influence of only one scammer, the issue of Japan and South Korea was exacerbated, Japanese textbooks were rewritten, and the United Nations even made a report. In a sense, a man named Seiji Yoshida who played with lies can be said to be another Shoko Asahara."

Sergey Alexandrovich Maduev was one of the famous Soviet brigands, as well as a serial killer. He had the nickname "Chervonets", but he called himself "Thief-outside-the-law". Despite beginning his criminal activity in the 1970s, his most high-profile crimes occurred at the very end of the 1980s, which is why Maduev today is regarded as one of the last criminals of the Soviet era.

Jeanne Hersch fue una filósofa suiza de origen judío polaco, internacionalmente reconocida, cuya obra tiene como eje central el concepto de libertad. Fue profesora de filosofía en la Universidad de Ginebra, directora de la división filosófica de la Unesco, y representante de Suiza en el consejo ejecutivo de esta misma organización. Fue compañera sentimental del político y profesor de universidad André Oltramare.

Åke Senning was a pioneering Swedish cardiac surgeon, who implanted the first human implantable cardiac pacemaker in 1958, invented the Senning operation, and contributed to many other advances.