Deaths in 2001

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2001. Names are listed under the date of death, not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name.

A typical entry appears in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

January 2001

• 1 – Ray Walston, 86, American actor, lupus.
• 5 - G. E. M. Anscombe, 81, British philosopher.
• 5 - Nancy Parsons, American actress (Porky's).
• 6 - Peter Lovell-Davis, Baron Lovell-Davis, 76, British publisher and politician.
• 6 - Gene Taylor, 53, American media personality.
• 7 - Charles Cameron, 73, Scottish magician.
• 7 - Johan van der Keuken, 62, Dutch documentary filmmaker, author, and photographer.
• 9 - Ninian Smart, 73, Scottish religious scholar.
• 9 - Paul Vanden Boeynants, 81, Belgian politician and Prime Minister.
• 11 - Oliver Gurney, 89, British Assyriologist.
• 11 – Dorothy M. Horstmann, 89, American virologist who made important discoveries about polio, Alzheimer's disease.
• 11 – Sir Denys Lasdun, 86, British architect.
• 11 – Michael Williams, 65, British actor.
• 12 – Affirmed, 25, American race horse, euthanasia after contracting laminitis.
• 12 – William Hewlett, 87, American co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, heart failure.
• 13 – Michael Cuccione, 16, Canadian actor and musician, respiratory failure.
• 14 – John S. Hunt, II, 72, American politician.
• 16 – Laurent-Désiré Kabila, 61, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1997–2001), assassination.
• 16 – Leonard Woodcock, 89, American trade unionist and diplomat.
• 17 - Tom Kilburn, 79, British computer scientist.
• 19 – Sir Roderick Macdonald, 79, British admiral.
• 19 - Maxine Mesinger, 75, American newspaper columnist, complications of multiple sclerosis.
• 19 - Ian Taylor, 56, British sociologist.
• 22 - Roy Brown, 68, American clown.
• 25 - Don Morrison, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.
• 26 – Murray Edelman, 81, American political scientist.
• 27 – Mordecai Richler, 69, Canadian author: Jacob Two-Two.
• 27 - Marie José of Belgium, 94, the last Queen of Italy.
• 27 - Sir Colin Woods, 80, British police officer.
• 30 – Jean-Pierre Aumont, 90, French actor, heart attack.
• 30 - Johnnie Johnson, 85, British World War II fighter pilot.
• 30 - Rodolfo Morales 75, Mexican painter.
• 30 – Joseph Ransohoff, 85, American neurosurgeon.
• 30 – John Vernon Taylor, 86, British Anglican bishop.
• 31 – Gordon R. Dickson, 77, American science fiction writer, asthma.

February 2001

• 1 - Sir Harold Maguire, 88, British air marshal and Director-General of Intelligence.
• 1 - Leslie Vincent, 91, American actor.
• 4 - Sir David Beattie, 76, New Zealand jurist and Governor-General.
• 4 - Pankaj Roy, 72, Indian cricketer.
• 4 – Iannis Xenakis, 78, Greek-French composer.
• 4 – J. J. Johnson, 77, American jazz trombonist, suicide.
• 5 - Jean Davy, 89, French actor.
• 7 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 94, American author, aviator.
• 7 – Dale Evans, 88, American actress and singer.
• 7 – Sir Michael Grylls, 66, British politician.
• 8 – Leslie Edwards, 84, British ballet dancer.
• 12 – Kristina Söderbaum, 88, German film actress, producer and photographer.
• 14 – Richard Laymon, 54, American horror author, heart attack.
• 14 – Maurice Levitas, 84, Irish sociologist.
• 14 – Alan Ross, 78, British poet and editor.
• 16 – William H. Masters, 85, American gynaecologist.
• 18 – Balthus, 92, French painter.
• 18 - Claude Davey, 92, Welsh rugby union player.
• 18 – Eddie Mathews, 69, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, pneumonia.
• 18 – Dale Earnhardt, 49, American NASCAR race car driver, crash during 2001 Daytona 500 race.
• 19 – Priscilla Davis, 67, former Fort Worth, Texas socialite, breast cancer.
• 19 – Stanley Kramer, 87, American film director and producer, pneumonia.
• 19 – Sir Roderick Macdonald, 79, British admiral.
• 19 – Charles Trenet, 87, French singer.
• 20 – Sir Colin Cole, 78, British officer of arms.
• 20 - Rosemary DeCamp, 90 American actor, pneumonia.
• 21 – John MacKay, Baron MacKay of Ardbrecknish, 62, British politician.
• 22 – Dennis Cox, 75, British cricketer.
• 22 – Les Medley, 80, England international footballer, natural causes.
• 24 – Claude Elwood Shannon, 84, American electrical engineer and mathematician.
• 25 – Sir Donald Bradman, 92, Australian cricketer.

March 2001

• 1 - Hannie Termeulen, 72, Dutch freestyle swimmer.
• 3 - Ronald Smith, 75, English cricketer.
• 4 - Brian Jones, 72, British motorcycle designer.
• 4 – Harold Stassen, 93, American politician.
• 4 – Glenn Hughes, 50, leather dude of the pop group The Village People, lung cancer.
• 8 – Dame Ninette de Valois, 101, British ballet cancer and teacher.
• 9 – Leopold Page, 87, Polish-American Holocaust survivor.
• 10 – Nicholas Georgiadis, 77, Greek-born British ballet designer.
• 12 – Robert Ludlum, 73, author of spy novels.
• 12 – Morton Downey, Jr., 67, American television personality, lung cancer.
• 12 - Victor Westhoff, 84, Dutch botanist.
• 13 - Bill Bland, 84, British communist.
• 13 - Henry Lee Lucas, 64, American convicted criminal, natural causes.
• 15 - Fern Battaglia, 70, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
• 15 – Ann Sothern, 92, actress, former wife of actor Robert Sterling, stroke.
• 16 – Dame Marjorie Bean, 91, Bermudian politician.
• 18 – John Phillips, 65, American singer, co-founder of The Mamas & the Papas, heart failure.
• 18 – Dirk Polder, 81, Dutch physicist.
• 19 – Ian Johnston, 71, Australian pioneer of reproductive medicine.
• 21 – Chung Ju-yung, 86, Founder of the Hyundai Group, natural causes.
• 21 – Norma MacMillan, 79, Canadian cartoon voice actress.
• 21 – Leonard Rotherham, 87, British metallurgist.
• 21 – Billy Ray Smith, Sr., 66, American football player.
• 22 – Stepas Butautas, 75, Lithuanian basketball player.
• 22 – Sabiha Gökçen, 88, the first Turkish female aviator and the first female combat pilot of the world.
• 22 – William Hanna, 90, American animator, co-founder (with Joseph Barbera) of the Hanna-Barbera animation studio, throat cancer.
• 22 – Edward Samuel Smith, 81, American federal judge.
• 23 – Anthony Bevins, 58, British journalist.
• 23 – Tommy Eyre, 51, British keyboardist.
• 24 – N. G. L. Hammond, 93, British classical scholar.
• 25 – Willie Horne, 79, British rugby league player.
• 25 – Brian Trubshaw, 77, British test pilot.
• 28 – Moe Koffman, 72, Canadian flautist and saxophonist, cancer.
• 30 – Cyrus H. Gordon, 92, American scholar.

April 2001

• 1 – Olivia Barclay, 81, British astrologer.
• 3 – Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell, 89, British newspaper proprietor.
• 5 – Sir Kingsley Charles Dunham, 91, British geologist.
• 5 – David Lloyd Owen, 83, British army general.
• 6 – George Bull, 71, British journalist and writer.
• 7 - David Graf, 50, American actor (Police Academy)
• 7 – Sir Derek Lang, 87, British army general.
• 7 – Beatrice Straight, 86, Academy Award-winning actress (Network, Poltergeist)
• 9 – Ken Rattenbury, 80, English jazz trumpeter.
• 10 – John M. Edmond, 67, British geochemist.
• 10 – Nyree Dawn Porter, 65, New Zealand actress.
• 10 – Richard Evans Schultes, 86, American ethnobotanist.
• 10 – Willie Stargell, 61, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• 11 – John Harris, Baron Harris of Greenwich, 71, British politician.
• 11 – Graciela Naranjo, 84, Venezuelan singer and actress; a radio, cinema and television pioneer in her homeland.
• 11 – Sir Harry Secombe, 79, Welsh actor, comedian, member of The Goon Show, prostate cancer.
• 11 – Jack Wilson, 83, American footballer.
• 12 – Harvey Ball, 79, American inventor of the smiley.
• 13 – Jimmy Logan, 73, Scottish entertainer.
• 13 – Stephen C. O'Connell, 85, American jurist.
• 13 – Ken Weston, 53, British sound engineer.
• 14 – Jim Baxter, 61, Scottish football player.
• 14 – Bryan Ranft, 83, British historian.
• 15 – Joey Ramone (b. Jeffry Hyman), 49, American musician, lead singer for The Ramones, lymphoma.
• 16 – Henry Lloyd, 89, British Anglican priest, Dean of Truro (1960–1981).
• 16 – Alec Stock, 84, English footballer and football manager.
• 19 – Egor Popov, 88, Russian-born American civil engineer.
• 19 – Meldrim Thomson, Jr., 89, American politician, Governor of New Hampshire (1973–1979).
• 20 - Bert Sutcliffe, 77, New Zealand cricketer.
• 21 - Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll, 63, British aristocrat.
• 22 - John F. Allen, 92, Canadian physicist.
• 22 - Sir Paul Holder, 89, British air marshal.
• 23 - Anthony Bevins, 58, British journalist.
• 23 - Guglielmo Biraghi, 73, Italian film festival director.
• 23 - Sir Charles Madden, 94, British admiral.
• 23 - David M. Walker, 56, American astronaut.
• 24 – Peter Nugent, 63, Australian politician.
• 25 – Michele Alboreto, 44, Italian racing driver.
• 26 – Marjorie Arnfield, 70, British artist.

May 2001

• 1? – Chandra Levy, 24, intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C..
• 5 – Charles Black, 85, American constitutional scholar.
• 5 – Cliff Hillegass, 83, American creator of CliffsNotes, stroke.
• 6 – Weldon B. Gibson, 84, American economist.
• 7 – Arthur Christopher Watson, 74, British diplomat.
• 8 – Larry Hornung, 55, Canadian ice hockey player.
• 9 - Nikos Sampson, 65, Cypriot politician, de facto President of Cyprus (1974).
• 9 - Leslie Sands, 79, British actor.
• 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.
• 11 – Michael J. Bird, 72, British writer.
• 12 – Perry Como, 88, American singer.
• 12 – Simon Raven, 73, British writer.
• 12 – Corissa Yasen, 27, professional basketball player, suicide.
• 14 – Peter Griffith, 67, American child actor.
• 16 – Loren C. Dunn, 70, American Morman general authority.
• 17 – Ike Brown, 59, American baseball player.
• 19 – Barry Morris, 66, Australian politician.
• 21 – Erkin Bairam, 43, Cypriot-born New Zealand economist.
• 21 – Bob B. Johnson, 65, Australian Rules footballer.
• 22 – Whitman Mayo, 70, actor, heart attack.
• 24 – Paul Kor, 74, Israeli painter and children's writer.
• 25 – Arturo Maly, 61, Argentine actor.
• 26 – Anne Haney, 67, actress, heart failure.
• 27 - Jack Scowen, 65, Canadian politician.
• 28 – Francisco Varela, 54, Chilean biologist and philosopher.

June 2001

• 1 – King Birendra, 55, King of Nepal.
• 1 – Queen Aiswarya, 51, Queen of Nepal.
• 1 – Hank Ketcham, 81, American cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace, prostate cancer.
• 1 – Marie Brémont, 115, oldest person in the world and last known person documented as born in 1886.
• 2 - Imogene Coca, 92, American actress.
• 3 – Anthony Quinn, 86, Mexican-American actor.
• 4 - John Hartford, 63, American musician.
• 4 – Joey Maxim, 79, world Light Heavyweight champion boxer.
• 4 – King Dipendra of Nepal, 29.
• 6 – Douglas Lilburn, 85, New Zealand composer.
• 10 - Geoffrey Clarkson, 57, English rugby league player.
• 10 – Princess Leila of Iran, 31.
• 10 - John McKay, 77, American football player and coach.
• 11 – Timothy McVeigh, 33, American convicted terrorist.
• 12 – Thomas Wilson, 73, British composer.
• 13 – Gordon Christie, 86, New Zealand politician.
• 15 – Henri Alekan, 92, French cinematographer, leukemia.
• 15 – John Harper, 71, American politician, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives.
• 17 - Ninfa Laurenzo, 77, Houston restaurateur, bone cancer.
• 17 - Mohammad Yunus, 84, Indian diplomat.
• 18 – Dame Rosamund Holland-Martin, 86, head of the NSPCC.
• 19 – Lindsay L. Cooper, 61, Scottish musician.
• 19 – Jerry Cornes, 91, British athlete.
• 19 – Col Maxwell, 83, Australian rugby league player.
• 20 – Bob Keegan, 80, baseball player.
• 20 – Delbert Leroy True, 77, American architect.
• 21 – Carroll O'Connor, 76, American actor (All in the Family).
• 21 – John Lee Hooker, 83, American Blues musician.
• 21 – Souad Hosni, 59, Egyptian actress.
• 21 - Vernon Sewell, 97, British film director.
• 24 - William H. Sewell, 91, American sociologist.
• 25 - Matthew Ansara, 35, American actor and bodybuilder
• 26 - Robert Smith, 88, American actor.
• 27 - Darrell Huff, 86, American statistician.
• 27 – Tove Jansson, 86, Finnish author.
• 27 – Jack Lemmon, 76, American actor (Grumpy Old Men, The Odd Couple) and film director, bladder and colorectal cancer.
• 27 – Joan Sims, 71, British actress.
• 28 – Mortimer J. Adler, 98, American philosopher.
• 28 - Jim Ellis, 45, American computer scientist .
• 29 - Maximos V Hakim, 93, Egyptian patriarch.
• 30 – Chet Atkins, 77, American country musician.
• 30 – Joe Fagan, 80, English football manager.

July 2001

• 1 – John Maurice Scott, 53, Director General of the Fiji Red Cross, murdered.
• 3 – Delia Derbyshire, 64, British musician, renal failure.
• 3 – Roy Nichols, 68, American guitarist.
• 4 – Fumio Toyoda, 53, Japanese aikido teacher.
• 5 – Hannelore Kohl, 68, wife of ex-chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl, suicide.
• 8 – Andrew E. Gibson, 79, American shipping executive and politician.
• 8 – John O'Shea, 81, New Zealand film director.
• 10 – Geoffrey Clarkson, 57, English rugby player.
• 11 – Herman Brood, 54, Dutch rock musician, suicide.
• 12 – Johnny Wright, 72, British boxer.
• 13 - David Noyes Jackson, 78, American writer and artist.
• 16 – Terry Gordy, 40, pro wrestler; founding member of the Fabulous Freebirds, heart attack.
• 17 – Katharine Graham, 84, American publisher.
• 18 – Fabio Taglioni, 80, automotive engineer.
• 19 – Neil Carmichael, Baron Carmichael of Kelvingrove, 79, British politician.
• 19 – Howard Taylor, 82, Australian painter.
• 20 – Carlo Giuliani, 23, Italian anarchist, murder.
• 21 – Sivaji Ganesan, 74, famous Indian actor, respiratory problems.
• 21 – John Hughes, 93, British Anglican prelate.
• 21 – Hiroshi Tsuburaya, 37, famous Japanese actor, liver cancer.
• 22 - William Llewellyn, 93, British Anglican prelate.
• 25 - Phoolan Devi, 37, Indian dacoit and politician.
• 27 - Sir Harold Beeley, 92, British diplomat.
• 27 – Thomas Pitt Cholmondeley-Tapper, 90, first New Zealand auto racing driver.
• 27 – Leon Wilkeson, 49, American musician, bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd.
• 28 – Futaro Yamada, 79, Japanese author.
• 29 – Wau Holland, 49, German hacker, founder of the CCC, heart attack.
• 29 – Edward Gierek, 88, Polish politician.
• 29 – Edward Roberts, 93, British prelate.
• 30 - Ervín Černý, 87, Czech doctor and scientist.
• 30 - Wilford Gibson, 76, British police officer.
• 30 - Anton Schwarzkopf, 76, German roller-coaster manufacturer, Parkinson's disease.
• 31 – A. G. Dickens, 91, British historian.

August 2001

• 1 – Joe Lynch, 76, Irish actor.
• 1 – Korey Stringer, 26, American football player, complications brought on by heat stroke.
• 1 – Poul Anderson, 74, American fantasy and science fiction author, cancer.
• 2 – James A. Corbett, 67, American rancher and philosopher.
• 3 – Henriette Bie Lorentzen, 90, Norwegian activist.
• 3 – Christopher Hewett, 80, British actor.
• 4 - Joseph Cooper, 88, British pianist and broadcaster.
• 4 – Lorenzo Music, 64, American voice actor known for the voice of the cartoon cat Garfield, complications related to lung and bone cancer.
• 6 – Jorge Amado, 88, Brazilian writer.
• 6 – Dame Dorothy Tutin, 71, British actress.
• 7 – Robert Kraus, 76, American children's author and cartoonist.
• 8 - John A. Hostetler, 82, American scholar.
• 9 – Humphry Bowen, 72, British botanist and chemist.
• 9 – Sir Alec Skempton, 87, British scientist.
• 10 – Manfred Eglin, 65, German footballer.
• 10 – Bob Johnson, 60, British businessman.
• 11 – Edward Thomas Hall, British scientist.
• 12 – Jim Hughes, 78, American baseball player.
• 13 – John C. Elliott, 82, American politician and 39th Governor of American Samoa.
• 14 – Earl Anthony, 63, American bowler.
• 14 - Missy Cleveland, 41, Playboy Playmate.
• 15 – Jim Russell, 92, Australian cartoonist.
• 15 – Sir Roderick Sarell, 88, British diplomat.
• 16 - Kenneth Reese Cole, Jr., 63, American political aide to Richard Nixon.
• 19 – Donald Woods, 67, South African journalist, newspaper editor, and anti-apartheid activist, made famous by exposing the killing of his friend, Steve Biko, by South African security forces.
• 20 – Sir Fred Hoyle, 86, British astronomer and science fiction writer.
• 20 - Walter Reed, 85, American actor.
• 20 - Kim Stanley, 76, American actress.
• 22 – William S. Donaldson, 56, American Navy pilot.
• 22 – Bobby Johnstone, 71, Scottish footballer (Hibernian, Manchester City, Oldham Athletic, Scotland).
• 24 – Hank Sauer, 84, American baseball player.
• 25 – Aaliyah, 22, American R&B singer and actress (plane crash).
• 25 – John Chambers, 78, American make-up artist.
• 25 – Ginzō Matsuo, 50, Japanese voice actor.
• 25 – John L. Nelson, 85, American jazz musician.
• 25 – Ken Tyrrell, 75, British motor racing driver and team leader.
• 26 – Al Pittman, 61, Canadian poet and playwright.
• 28 - James Homer Elledge, 58, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Washington.
• 28 - Sir Reo Stakis, 88, Cypriot-born British hotelier.
• 28 - Serhiy Perkhun, 23, Ukrainian footballer.
• 29 – Graeme "Shirley" Strachan, 50, Australian singer and television presenter.
• 30 – Julie Bishop, 87, American actress.
• 31 – Sir Eric Bullus, 94, British politician.

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.
• 2 – Horace A. Jones, 94, American horse trainer.
• 2 - James Lopez Watson, 79, American jurist.
• 3 – Frank Billinge, 107, World War I pilot.
• 3 – Thuy Trang, 27, Vietnamese American actress, played a role as Trini Kwan from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
• 3 – Pauline Kael. 82, American movie critic.
• 5 – Heywood Hale Broun, 83, American sports writer and broadcaster.
• 5 – Hemish Shah, 33, British poker player.
• 5 – Justin Wilson, 87, Cajun chef and humorist.
• 6 – Megan Connolly, 27, Australian actress, heroin overdose.
• 7 – Spede Pasanen, 71, Finnish television star.
• 9 – Ahmed Shah Massoud, 48, Afghan Northern Alliance military commander.
• 10 – Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon, 77, British racing manager to Queen Elizabeth II.
• 10 – Antonio da Costa Santos, Brazilian architect and politician.
• 10 - Alexey Suetin, 74, Soviet Russian chess player and chess writer.
• 11 - Alice Stewart Trillin, 63, American author and film producer (heart failure).
• 11 – Nearly 3,000 people are killed in the September 11 attacks, including:
  • David Angell, 55, American television producer.
  • Mohamed Atta, 33, Egyptian, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
  • Garnet Bailey, 53, Canadian ice hockey player and scout.
  • Fayez Banihammad, 24, Emirati, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
  • Todd Beamer, 32, American airline passenger.
  • Berry Berenson, 53, American actress and photographer.
  • Carolyn Beug, 48, American filmmaker and video producer.
  • Bill Biggart, 54, American photojournalist.
  • Mark Bingham, 31, American airline passenger.
  • Ronald Paul Bucca, 47, American fire marshal.
  • Charles Burlingame, 51, American airline pilot.
  • Tom Burnett, 38, American airline passenger.
  • William E. Caswell, 54, American physicist.
  • Kevin Cosgrove, 46, American business executive.
  • Welles Crowther, 24, American investment banker.
  • William M. Feehan, 72, American deputy fire commissioner.
  • Wilson Flagg, 62, former Rear Admiral.
  • Peter J. Ganci, Jr., 54, Chief of the Fire Department of New York.
  • Ahmed al-Ghamdi, 22, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
  • Hamza al-Ghamdi, 20, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
  • Saeed al-Ghamdi, 21, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93.
  • Jeremy Glick, 31, American airline passenger.
  • Lauren Grandcolas, 38, American author.
  • Nezam Hafiz, 32, American cricketer.
  • Mohammad Salman Hamdani, 23, American research technician.
  • Hani Hanjour, 29, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
  • Nawaf al-Hazmi, 25, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
  • Salem al-Hazmi, 20, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
  • Ahmed al-Haznawi, 20, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93.
  • LeRoy Homer, Jr., 36, American airline pilot.
  • Ziad Jarrah, 26, Lebanese, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93.
  • Charles Edward Jones, 48, American astronaut.
  • Mychal Judge, 67, Chaplain of the Fire Department of New York.
  • Neil David Levin, 46, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
  • Daniel M. Lewin, 31, co-founder of Akamai Technologies.
  • Eamon McEneaney, 46, American lacrosse player.
  • Timothy Maude, 63, Lieutenant General U.S. Army.
  • Khalid al-Mihdhar, 26, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
  • Majed Moqed, 24, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
  • Ahmed al-Nami, 23, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93.
  • John Ogonowski, 52, American pilot.
  • Barbara Olson, 45, American television commentator.
  • Abdulaziz al-Omari, 22, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
  • John P. O'Neill, 49, American Counterterrorism expert.
  • Betty Ong, 45, American flight attendant.
  • Orio Palmer, 45, American firefighter.
  • Dominick Pezzulo, 36, American police officer.
  • Sneha Anne Philip, 31, American physician, presumed to have been a victim of the attacks.
  • Rick Rescorla, 62, World Trade Center security chief for Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter.
  • Michael Richards, 38, Jamaican-born American sculptor.
  • Marwan al-Shehhi, 23, Emirati, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
  • Mohand al-Shehri, 22, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
  • Wail al-Shehri, 28, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
  • Waleed al-Shehri, 22, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
  • Satam al-Suqami, 25, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
  • Amy Sweeney, 34, American flight attendant.
  • Abraham Zelmanowitz, 55, American computer programmer.
• 12 – Victor Wong, 74, American movie actor and artist.
• 13 – Johnny Craig, 75, American comic book artist.
• 14 – Barbara Ansell, 78, British rheumatologist.
• 15 – June Salter, 69, Australian actor.
• 15 – Paul "Tank" Younger, 73, American football player.
• 16 – Patrick Cosgrave, 59, Irish journalist and writer.
• 18 – Ernie Coombs, 73, American born actor. Longtime host of Canadian children's show Mr. Dressup on CBC.
• 18 – Jane du Pont Lunger, 87, American heiress and philanthropist.
• 19 – Cosmo Nevill, 94, British army general.
• 19 – David Thomas, 89, Welsh cricketer.
• 20 – Billy "Hinky" Harris, 66, Canadian ice hockey player.
• 20 – Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 87, former President of Venezuela.
• 20 – Eberhard Wenzel, 51, German public health researcher.
• 22 – Isaac Stern, 81, Ukrainian violinist, congestive heart failure.
• 23 – Spencer Barrett, 87, British classical scholar.
• 25 – Herbert Klein, 78, German swimmer.
• 26 – Ritter Collett, 80, American sports editor.
• 28 – Martin O'Hagan, 51, Irish investigative journalist, murdered.
• 29 – Bernt Heiberg, 92, Norwegian architect.
• 29 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, 78, former President of South Vietnam.
• 30 – Madhavrao Scindia, 56, Prominent Indian politician and minister,a royal family member, Maharaja of Gwalior.

October 2001

• 4 – Blaise Alexander, 25, American race car driver, race crash.
• 4 – John Collins, 88, American jazz guitarist.
• 5 – Peter Burge, 69, Australian cricketer.
• 5 – Brian Edgar, 65, British rugby league player.
• 6 – Arne Harris, 67, American television producer.
• 7 – Christopher Adams, 46, pro wrestler and judoka, brother of Olympic Judo star Neil Adams.
• 8 – Javed Iqbal, 45, Pakistani serial killer.
• 9 – Herbert Ross, 74, American film director.
• 11 – Nada Mamula, 74, Yugoslavian sevdalinka singer.
• 12 – Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone (Quintin Hogg), 94, British lawyer and politician.
• 13 – Ubi Dwyer, 68, Irish anarchist.
• 13 – David Neil MacKenzie, 75, British linguist.
• 14 - David Lewis, 60, American philosopher.
• 15 – Anne Ridler, 89, British poet and editor.
• 15 – Zhang Xueliang, 100, Chinese warlord and military figure.
• 17 - Jack Smith, 77, American NASCAR driver.
• 19 - Joe Murray, 80, American baseball player.
• 20 - Nebojša Popović, 78, Serbian basketball player.
• 23 - Ken Aston, 86, British football referee.
• 26 – John Platts-Mills, 95, British politician and lawyer.
• 26 – John P. Roberts, 56, American businessman, promoter of the Woodstock Festival.
• 29 – Maura Fay, 43, Australian casting director.
• 31 – Angus MacVicar, 93, British author.
• 31 – B K Nehru, 90, Indian diplomat and ambassador.

November 2001

• 3 – Denis Gallagher, 79, Irish politician.
• 3 – Sir Ernst Gombrich, 92, Austrian-born British art historian.
• 3 – Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, 87, European royalty, sister of Prince Philip.
• 6 – Peter Kenneth Newman, 73, British economist.
• 6 – John Simon White, 61, Austrian-born American opera director.
• 7 - Bobby Bass, 65, American stunt performer.
• 9 - Denis Atkinson, 75, Barbadian cricketer, captain of West Indies.
• 9 - Dorothy Dunnett, 78, Scottish historical novelist.
• 9 - Koichi Chiba, 70, Japanese voice actor and sound director.
• 10 – Ken Kesey, 66, American author, counter-cultural figure.
• 11 - John R. Foley, 84, American politician.
• 12 – Tony Miles, 46, English chess player.
• 13 - Karuna Banerjee, 81, Indian actress.
• 13 – Frank Messer, 76, American sportscaster.
• 13 – Peggy Mount, 86, English actress (Oliver!, The Princess and the Goblin).
• 13 – Ray Robinson, 61, English cricketer.
• 16 – Tommy Flanagan, 71, American jazz pianist, brain aneurysm.
• 16 – Edgar Ross, 95, Australian journalist and communist.
• 17 – John M. Dawson, 71, American computational physicist.
• 17 – Harrison A. Williams, 81, American politician.
• 18 – Malcolm McFee, 52, actor.
• 19 – John Farnsworth Wright, 72, British economist.
• 21 – Fritz Herzog, 98, German-born American mathematician.
• 21 - Salahuddin of Selangor, 75, Malaysian head of state.
• 22 – Mary Kay Ash, 83, American businesswoman, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics.
• 23 – Mary Whitehouse, 91, British campaigner against permissiveness.
• 24 – Rachel Gurney, 81, British actress.
• 24 – Melanie Thornton, 34, singer, plane crash near Zürich.
• 25 – Alan Bray, 53, British historian and gay rights activist.
• 28 - Michael Yates, 82, British television designer.
• 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.

December 2001

• 2 – John W. Collins, 89, American chess teacher.
• 2 – Bruce Halford, 70, British racing driver.
• 2 – Valorie Jones, The Jones Girls.
• 3 – Sir John Allen Clark, 75, British businessman.
• 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.
• 4 – John Townsend, 85, American basketball player.
• 5 – Sir Peter Blake, 53, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist, shot by pirates on the Amazon River.
• 5 – Franco Rasetti, 100, Italian physicist.
• 7 – David Astor, 89, British newspaper proprietor.
• 7 – Sir Raymond Powell, 73, British politician.
• 8 – Don Tennant, 79, American advertising executive, inventor of Tony the Tiger and the Marlboro Man.
• 8 - George Young, 71, American football executive.
• 9 – Michael Carver, Baron Carver, 86, British Field Marshal.
• 11 – Clark Mills, 86, American boatbuilder and designer.
• 13 – Yvan Craipeau, 90, French Trotskyist.
• 13 – Chuck Schuldiner, 34, death metal guitarist and vocalist.
• 15 – Rufus Thomas, 84, R&B/soul singer.
• 16 - Stuart Adamson, 43, singer-songwriter and guitarist of Big Country and The Raphaels.
• 16 - Roy Brocksmith, 56, American actor.
• 16 - Carwood Lipton, 81, American soldier.
• 18 - Marcel Mule, 100, French saxophonist.
• 20 - Sir Peter Horsley, 80, British air marshal.
• 20 – Léopold Senghor, 95, first President of Senegal; also a world-renowned poet and writer.
• 20 – Joan Wheeler, 87, American actress.
• 21 – Harry Bain, 80, Canadian pediatrician.
• 21 – James M. Burns, 77, American jurist.
• 21 – George Smith, 82, British footballer.
• 22 – Liu Zihou, 92, Chinese politician, governor of Hubei and Hebei provinces.
• 22 – Edwin F. Russell, 87, American newspaper publisher.
• 24 – Gareth Williams, 48, British musician (This Heat).
• 26 – Tom McBride, 87, American baseball player.
• 26 - Nigel Hawthorne, 72, British actor.
• 27 – Ian Hamilton, 63, British critic, poet, magazine publisher.
• 27 - Paul Hogarth, 84, British artist.
• 28 – William X. Kienzle, 73, author of murder mysteries with Catholic priest detective.
• 28 – Anthony Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond, 74, British politician and businessman.
• 29 – Takashi Asahina, 93, Japanese conductor.
• 30 – Frankie Gaye, 60, American soul musician.
• 30 – Eileen Heckart, 82, Oscar-winning American actor.
• 30 – Dame Sheila Sherlock, 83, British physician.
• 31 - Edward Lee, 87, British scientist and civil servant.