Deaths in 2001

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Contents 1 January 2001 2 February 2001 3 March 2001 4 April 2001 5 May 2001 6 June 2001 7 July 2001 8 August 2001 9 September 2001 10 October 2001 11 November 2001 12 December 2001

[edit] January 2001

• 1 Ray Walston, 86, actor, lupus.
• 12 Affirmed, 25, race horse, euthanasia after contracting laminitis.
• 12 William Hewlett, 87, American co-founder of Hewlett-Packard.
• 13 Michael Cuccione, 16, Canadian actor and musician, Hodgkins disease.
• 16 Laurent-Désiré Kabila, 61, president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, assassination.
• 23 Moy Yat, 62, Chinese sealmaker and martial artist.
• 30 Jean-Pierre Aumont, 90, French actor, heart attack.
• 31 Gordon R. Dickson, 77, science fiction writer.

[edit] February 2001

• 4 Iannis Xenakis, 78, Greek-French composer.
• 7 Dale Evans, 88, actress, singer
• 7 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 94, American author, aviator.
• 12 Kristina Söderbaum, 88, German actress and photographer.
• 14 Alan Ross, 78, Anglo-Indian poet and editor
• 18 Dale Earnhardt, 49, American NASCAR race car driver.
• 18 Eddie Mathews, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
• 18 Balthus, 92, French painter.
• 19 Charles Trenet, 87, popular French singer.
• 19 Priscilla Davis, 67, former Fort Worth, Texas socialite.
• 19 Stanley Kramer, 87, American movie director.
• 24 Claude Elwood Shannon, 84, mathematician.
• 25 Sir Donald Bradman, 92, cricketer

[edit] March 2001

• 4 Harold Stassen, 93, American politician.
• 4 Glenn Hughes, 50, leather dude of the Popular Music group The Village People
• 12 Robert Ludlum, 73, author of spy novels.
• 12 Morton Downey, Jr., 67, American television personality, lung cancer
• 15 Ann Sothern, 92, actress, former wife of the actor Robert Sterling, stroke
• 18 John Phillips, 65, American singer, co-founder of Popular Music group The Mamas and the Papas.
• 21 Norma Macmillan, 80, American cartoon voice actress.
• 22 William Hanna, 90, American animator, co-founder (with Joseph Barbera) of the Hanna-Barbera animation studio.
• 22 Sabiha Gökçen, 88, the first Turkish female aviator and the first female combat pilot of the world.

[edit] April 2001

• 7 Beatrice Straight, 86, Academy Award-winning actress (Network, Poltergeist)
• 10 Willie Stargell, 61, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
• 11 Graciela Naranjo, 84, Venezuelan singer and actress; a radio, cinema and television pioneer in her homeland
• 11 Sir Harry Secombe, 79, (heart attack), Welsh actor, comedian, member of The Goon Show
• 12 Harvey Ball, 79, American inventor of the smiley
• 15 Joey Ramone (b. Jeffry Hyman), 49, cause of death: lymphoma. American musician, lead singer for The Ramones
• 16 Alec Stock, 84, English footballer and football manager
• 25 Michele Alboreto, 44, Italian racing driver

[edit] May 2001

• 1? Chandra Levy, 24, intern at the Bureau of Prisons in Washington, DC. (unconfirmed).
• 5 Charles Black, 85, noted constitutional scholar.
• 5 Cliff Hillegass, 83, American creator of CliffsNotes (stroke).
• 11 Douglas Adams, 49, British author, works included The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the two Dirk Gently novels and serials in the series Doctor Who, heart attack.
• 12 Perry Como, 87, American singer.
• 12 Corissa Yasen, 27, professional basketball player (suicide)
• 26 Anne Haney, 67, actress, heart failure.
• 28 Francisco Varela, 54, Chilean biologist and philosopher

[edit] June 2001

• 1 King Birendra, 55, King of Nepal
• June 1 Queen Aiswarya, 51, Queen of Nepal
• June 1 Hank Ketcham, 81, American cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace.
• 1 Marie Brémont, 115, Oldest Person in the World
• 3 Anthony Quinn, 86, Mexican-American actor.
• 4 Joey Maxim, 79, world Light Heavyweight champion boxer.
• 4 King Dipendra of Nepal, 29
• 10 Princess Leila of Iran, 31
• 11 Timothy McVeigh, 33, American terrorist (executed by the Government of the United States).
• 15 Henri Alekan, 92, French cinematographer
• 20 Bob Keegan, 80, baseball player
• 21 Carroll O'Connor, 76 American actor.
• 21 John Lee Hooker, 83, American Blues musician
• 27 Tove Jansson, 86, Finnish author
• 27 Jack Lemmon, 76, American actor and film director.
• 28 Joan Sims, 71, British actress
• 30 Chet Atkins, 77, American country musician

[edit] July 2001

• 5 Hannelore Kohl, 68, wife of ex-chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl (suicide).
• 11 Herman Brood, 54, Dutch rock musician (suicide).
• 16 Terry Gordy, 40, pro wrestler; founding member of the Fabulous Freebirds (heart attack).
• 18 Fabio Taglioni, 80, automotive engineer.
• 21 Sivaji Ganesan, 74, famous Indian actor (respiratory problems).
• 27 Leon Wilkeson, 49, American musician, bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd.
• 27 Thomas Pitt Cholmondeley-Tapper, 90, first New Zealand auto racing driver.
• 29 Wau Holland, 49, German hacker, founder of the CCC (heart attack).
• 29 Edward Gierek, 88, Polish politician.

[edit] August 2001

• 1 Korey Stringer, 26, American football player.
• 1 Poul Anderson, 74, American fantasy and Science Fiction author.
• 3 Christopher Hewett, 79, British actor
• 4 Lorenzo Music, 64, American voice actor known for the voice of the cartoon cat Garfield.
• 6 Jorge Amado, 88, Brazilian writer.
• 19 Donald Woods, 67, South African journalist, newspaper editor, and anti-apartheid activist, made famous by exposing the killing of his friend, Steve Biko of the Black Consciousness Movement, by South African security forces.
• 20 Fred Hoyle, 86, British astronomer and science fiction writer.
• 25 Aaliyah, 22, American singer and actress.
• 26 Salvador Surigao, 47, Filipino Seaman killed in Mumbai, India
• 29 Ted Mulray, Australian singer.
• 29 Graham "Shirley" Strachan, 50, Australian singer and television presenter.

[edit] September 2001

• 1 Bobby Evans, 74, Scottish football player
• 2 Christiaan Barnard. 78, South African heart surgeon, first to perform a human-to-human heart transplant
• 3 Thuy Trang, 27, American actress
• 3 Pauline Kael. 82, American movie critic
• 5 Justin Wilson, 87, Cajun chef and humorist
• 6 Megan Connolly, 27, Australian actress.
• 7 Spede Pasanen, 71, Finnish television star.
• 9 Ahmed Shah Massoud, 48, Afghan Northern Alliance military commander
• 11 Casualties from the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack
• 11 Alice Stewart Trillin, 63, American author and film producer
• 13 Victor Wong, 74, American movie actor and artist
• 18 Ernie Coombs, 73, American born actor. Long time host of Canadian children's show Mr. Dressup on CBC
• 29 Nguyen Van Thieu, 78, former President of South Vietnam
• 22 Isaac Stern, 81, Ukrainian violinist

[edit] October 2001

• 7 Christopher Adams, 46, pro wrestler and judoka, brother of Olympic Judo star Neil Adams
• 11 Nada Mamula, 74, Yugoslavian sevdalinka singer
• 12 Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone (Quintin Hogg), 94, British lawyer and politician
• 15 Zhang Xueliang, 100, Chinese warlord and military figure. Important individual in recent Chinese history

[edit] November 2001

• 10 Ken Kesey, 66, American author, counter-cultural figure.
• 12 Tony Miles, 46, English chess player.
• 22 Mary Kay Ash, 83, American businesswoman, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics.
• 24 Melanie Thornton, 34, singer, (plane crash near Zürich)
• November 25 - Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani author, Spiritual Leader and founder of International Spiritual Movement Anjuman Serfaroshan-e-Islam
• 28 William Kienzle, 73, author of murder mysteries with Catholic priest detective
• 29 John Knowles, 75, author, A Separate Peace
• 29 George Harrison, 58, British musician and former member of The Beatles
• 30 Robert Tools, 59, first recipient of a self-contained artificial heart

[edit] December 2001

• 4 Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj, 75, Sultan of Selangor and Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
• 5 Sir Peter Blake, 53, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist, shot by pirates on the Amazon River.
• 5 Franco Rasetti, 100, Italian physicist.
• 8 Don Tennant, 79, US advertising executive, invented Tony the Tiger for Kellogg's and the Marlboro Man
• 13 Yvan Craipeau, 90, French Trotskyist
• 13 Chuck Schuldiner, 33, Death metal guitarist and vocalist
• 15 Rufus Thomas, 84, R&B/soul singer
• 20 Léopold Senghor, 95, first President of Senegal; also a world-renowned poet and writer.
• 21 Peter Chan, 79
• 27 Ian Hamilton, 63, British critic, poet, magazine publisher
• 29 Takashi Asahina, 93, Japanese conductor
• 30 Eileen Heckart, 82, US actor, Oscar winner