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Alice Sheets Marriott (October 19, 1907 – April 17, 2000) was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. She was married to J. Willard Marriott, founder of the hospitality company Marriott Corp.

Melvin Alonzo Cook (October 10, 1911 – October 12, 2000) was an American chemist, most known from his work in explosives, including the development of shaped charges and slurry explosives. Cook was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Ralph Bingham Cloward (September 24, 1908 — November 13, 2000) was an American neurosurgeon, best known for his innovations in spinal neurosurgery. Cloward is known for the development of the Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion and Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion. Cloward moved from Chicago to Hawaii in 1938, becoming the state's lone neurosurgeon. He is well known for his work treating victims of brain injuries after the Pearl Harbour attack in 1941.

Bernard Park Brockbank, Sr. (May 24, 1909 – October 11, 2000) was a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1962 to his death. Brockbank was an Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve from 1962 to 1976 and a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy from 1976 to 1980. One of his major contributions was heading the Mormon Pavilion at the New York World's Fair in 1964 and 1965.

Silvio Noto (25 December 1926 – 24 October 2000) was an Italian TV and radio presenter, actor and voice actor.
Born in Bari, graduated in law, Noto became first known as radio-host after the first World War. He became popular as the host of several successful RAI television programs, starting from Casa serena (1950). He touched the peak of his fame in the second half of the 1950s, when he hosted together with Enzo Tortora the shows Primo applauso, Telematch and Voci e volti della fortuna.Noto also appeared in a dozen films, mostly in supporting roles. On the small screen he was among the interpreters of the series E le stelle stanno a guardare.

Christian Norberg-Schulz (23 May 1926 – 28 March 2000) was a Norwegian architect, author, educator and architectural theorist. Norberg-Schulz was part of the Modernist Movement in architecture and associated with architectural phenomenology.

Salvador Abascal Infante (18 May 1910 – 30 March 2000) was a Mexican politician and leading exponent of Mexican synarchism. For a time, he was the leader of the National Synarchist Union (UNS). Abascal represented the orthodox Catholic tendency within the movement.

Joaquín Gutiérrez Mangel (30 March 1918 – 16 October 2000) was a Costa Rican writer who won multiple awards, and whose children's book Cocorí has been translated into ten languages. In addition to writing children's books, Gutiérrez was a chess champion, war correspondent, journalist, story-teller, translator, professor, and communist activist.

Christine "Chris" Bruusgaard (14 January 1910 – 22 September 2000) was a Norwegian midwife.
She was born in Kristiania to naval officer, later admiral Elias Corneliussen and Dagny Ree, and was married to physician Arne Bruusgaard. After studies in Scotland, England, France and Oslo, she graduated as midwife in Bergen in 1934. She worked at Mødrehygienekontoret in Oslo, which she chaired from 1945. Also, inspired by the pioneer Katti Anker Møller, she toured giving lectures on birth control, at a time when the subjects of sex information and contraception still were more or less taboo.She was awarded the Medal of St. Hallvard in 1974.

Elvira Gascón Vera (May 17, 1911 – February 10, 2000) was a Spanish painter, drafter, and engraver who participated in the Mexican muralism movement and is known for synthesizing Spanish and Mexican styles. Gascón also illustrated hundreds of books and periodicals, originating the drawing style known as helenismo picassiano.