Deaths in 2001

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For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2000, 1999, 1998,1997,1996,1995, 1994 ...

For later deaths, see Deaths in 2002 and Deaths in 2003.

See also: other events of 2001 and Recent deaths.

[edit] January 2001

1 - Ray Walston, 86, American actor, lupus
12 - Affirmed, 25, American race horse, euthanasia after contracting laminitis.
12 - William Hewlett, 87, American co-founder of Hewlett-Packard.
13 - Michael Cuccione, 16, Canadian actor and musician, respiratory failure
16 - Laurent-Désiré Kabila, 61, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1997-2001), assassination
23 - Moy Yat, 62, Chinese sealmaker and martial artist
30 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, 90, French actor, heart attack
30 - Joseph Ransohoff, 85, American neurosurgeon
31 - Gordon R. Dickson, 77, American science fiction writer, asthma

[edit] February 2001

4 - Iannis Xenakis, 78, Greek-French composer
4 - J. J. Johnson, 77, American jazz trombonist, suicide
7 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 94, American author, aviator
7 - Dale Evans, 88, actress, singer
12 - Kristina Söderbaum, 88, German film actress, producer and photographer
14 - Richard Laymon, 54, American horror author
14 - Alan Ross, 78, British poet and editor
18 - Balthus, 92, French painter
18 - Eddie Mathews, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, pneumonia
18 - Dale Earnhardt, 49, American NASCAR race car driver, car accident during car racing
19 - Stanley Kramer, 87, American film director nad producer, pneumonia
19 - Priscilla Davis, 67, former Fort Worth, Texas socialite, breast cancer
19 - Charles Trenet, 87, French singer
24 - Claude Elwood Shannon, 84, American electrical engineer and mathematician
25 - Sir Donald Bradman, 92, Australian cricketer

[edit] March 2001

4 Harold Stassen, 93, American politician.
4 Glenn Hughes, 50, leather dude of the pop group The Village People
9 Leopold Page, 87, Polish-American Holocaust survivor
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 The Mamas & the Papas.
21 Norma Macmillan, 80, American cartoon voice actress.
21 Chung Ju-yung,86, Founder of the Hyundai Group.
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.
28 Moe Koffman, 72, Canadian flautist and saxophonist, cancer

[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
24 Peter Nugent, 63, Australian politician
25 Michele Alboreto, 44, Italian racing driver

[edit] May 2001

1? Chandra Levy, 24, intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C.
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, 88, American singer.
12 Corissa Yasen, 27, professional basketball player, suicide
22 Whitman Mayo, 70, actor, heart attack
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
1 Queen Aiswarya, 51, Queen of Nepal
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 convicted murderer
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).
16 Jackson Maddog, 35, karate master, dojo leader.
18 Fabio Taglioni, 80, automotive engineer.
20 Carlo Giuliani, 19, Italian anarchist (murder).
21 Sivaji Ganesan, 74, famous Indian actor (respiratory problems).
21 Hiroshi Tsuburaya, 37, famous Japanese actor (liver cancer).
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, complications brought on by heat stroke
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, complications related to lung and bone cancer
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.
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, Vietnamese American actress, played a role as Trini Kwan from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
3 Pauline Kael. 82, American movie critic
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
11 David Angell, American television producer (b. 1946)
11 Mohamed Atta, Egyptian-born airline hijacker (b. 1968)
11 Garnet Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player and scout (b. 1948)
11 Todd Beamer, American airline passenger (b. 1968)
11 Berry Berenson, American actress and photographer (b. 1948)
11 Mark Bingham, American airline passenger (b. 1970)
11 Tom Burnett, American airline passenger (b. 1963)
11 Jeremy Glick, American airline passenger (b. 1970)
11 Ziad Jarrah, Lebanese-born airline hijacker (b. 1975)
11 Barbara Olson, American television commentator (b. 1955)
11 Alice Stewart Trillin, American author and film producer (b. 1938)
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 Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, 78, former President of South Vietnam
22 Isaac Stern, 81, Ukrainian violinist

[edit] October 2001

4 Blaise Alexander, 25, American race car driver, race crash
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