Deaths in 2001

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This is a list of famous people dead in 2001. The entries are made within each data alphabetically. Animals found in the obituary for animals.

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Deaths in 1997 Deaths in 1998 Deaths in 1999 Deaths in 2000 Deaths in 2002 Deaths in 2003 Lists of deaths by year#2011 2001 in film 2001 in literature 2001 in sports William P. Rogers Alexandra Adler Alfred Neumann (East Germany) Perry Schwartz Pretaap Radhakishun Catherine Storr Charles Helou Johan van der Keuken Jacques Marin John G. Schmitz Gerald Glatzmayer Oliver Gurney James Hill (film producer) Louis Krages Denys Lasdun Victor Pickard Michael Williams (actor) Amando de Ossorio Luigi Broglio Burkhard Heim Vic Wilson (racing driver) Alex Blignaut Archie Fire Lame Deer Jules Vuillemin Leonard Woodcock Gregory Corso Tom Kilburn Norris Turney Morris Lapidus Harry Oster Sandy Baron Byron De La Beckwith John Arthur Love Philip Goodrich Albert David Baumhart, Jr. Jack McDuff Umar Mustafa al-Muntasir Les Brown (bandleader) Robert Alexander Rankin Ninian Smart Stephen Malcolm Ivan Prasko Jean-Pierre Aumont G. V. Belyi Joseph Giunta Simon Phipps (bishop) Max Weiler (artist) Johnnie Johnson (RAF officer) O. Winston Link Hartmut Reck John Taylor (Bishop of Winchester) Gordon R. Dickson Albin Nyamoya Frederick Scott (designer) Heinz Starke Vinnie Burke J. J. Johnson Alois Lipburger Tony Steedman Gilbert Trigano Iannis Xenakis Geoffrey Bibby Emily Vermeule Marianne Breslauer Dieter Dengler Dale Evans Giuseppe Casoria Jean Guillaume Leonard Mandel Herbert A. Simon Abraham Beame Buddy Tate Sy Gomberg John Joseph Sullivan (clergyman) Maurice Zermatten Tiberio Mitri Ugo Fano George T. Simon Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington Guy Grosso Piero Umiliani Helmut Wielandt Burt Kennedy Khalid Abdul Muhammad Edwin Plowden, Baron Plowden of Plowden February 16 Howard W. Koch Richard Wurmbrand Dale Earnhardt Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. Franso Hariri Eddie Mathews Panos Papadopulos Theophilus Beckford Roland Stoltz (ice hockey b. 1931) Charles Trenet Ileana Espinel Malcolm Yelvington John Fahey (musician) Evelyn Holt Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos Robert Enrico Sergio Mantovani Marcus Sieff, Baron Sieff of Brimpton A. R. Ammons L. R. Wright Duke Nalon Arturo Uslar Pietri Jean-Louis Ricci February 28 Mario Ludovico Bergara Charles Pozzi Colin Webster George F. D. Duff Louis Faurer Fred Lasswell Maija Isola Eugene Sledge Gerardo Barbero Harold Stassen Frans De Mulder Mário Covas David Astor Frankie Carle Frances Adaskin Edward Winter (actor) Vincent Alo Henry Jonsson Poldek Pfefferberg Giancarlo Prete Nicholas Georgiadis Massimo Morsello Michael Woodruff John A. Alonzo Bill Bland Henry Lee Lucas Durward Gorham Hall Ann Sothern Bob Wollek Arthur Covington Ralph Thomas Dora Alonso Jay Cameron Tenho Saurén Basilea Schlink Anthony Steel (actor) William Hanna Karlis Ozols Tambi Larsen Mattheus Pronk Fredy Reyna George Connor (racing driver) Helge Ingstad Constantin von Liechtenstein John Lewis (Pianist) Norman Sisisky David Rocastle Arthur Geoffrey Walker April 1 Max Kohler Ted McCarty Leslie J. Workman April 2 April 3 Martin Christoffel Big Daddy Kinsey Jason Massey Butch Moore L. Richardson Preyer April 4 Liisi Oterma Ed Roth April 5 Kingsley Charles Dunham Aldo Olivieri Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd Brother Theodore April 6 April 7 David Graf April 8 Frank Annunzio Elsie Locke April 9 Emil Carlebach Graziella Sciutti April 10 Richard Evans Schultes April 11 John Harris, Baron Harris of Greenwich April 12 Harvey Ball Alberto Erede Mahmoud Tounsi April 13 April 14 Jim Baxter Hiroshi Teshigahara April 15 Bo Roberson Werner Ziegler (soldier) April 16 Giacomo Gentilomo Horace Gwynne Alfred Horn Michael Ritchie (film director) Thomas H. Stix April 17 Merton Davies Alfred M. Moen April 18 Billy Mitchell (jazz musician) April 19 Kurt Ott Edith Picht-Axenfeld Meldrim Thomson, Jr. April 20 Cino Cinelli David Gilbarg Floyd Schmoe Giuseppe Sinopoli April 21 Isaac Kobina Abban Edmund Malecki April 22 Fadil Hoxha Wesley C. Salmon Robert Starer April 23 Robert J. Huber David M. Walker (astronaut) April 24 Al Hibbler Josef Peters (racing driver) Paul Thieme April 25 April 26 Ruth Hellberg April 27 Meyer Friedman April 28 April 29 Barend Biesheuvel Andy Phillip April 30 Andreas Kupfer Brian Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris Hilda Cameron May 1 May 2 Klement Steinmetz May 3 Philip George Houthem Gell Billy Higgins May 4 Vaska Ilieva Arne Sucksdorff May 5 Boozoo Chavis Morris Graves Bill Homeier Hans Rampf May 6 May 7 Jacques de Bourbon Busset Joseph Greenberg May 8 May 9 Nikos Sampson William T. Stearn May 10 Werner Schuster (politician) May 11 May 12 Perry Como Didi (footballer) Fritz Pfenninger May 13 Jason Miller (playwright) R. K. Narayan May 14 Mauro Bolognini Armando Nannuzzi Ettore Puricelli May 15 Jean-Philippe Lauer Bobby Murdoch Sacha Vierny May 16 Prince Ital Joe May 17 Jacques-Louis Lions May 18 May 19 Erwin Georg Keilholz Hans Mayer Susannah McCorkle May 20 May 21 Tad Szulc Fritz Uhl May 22 Lorez Alexandria May 23 Leamon King Alessandro Natta Arseniy Vorozheykin May 24 Jo Ann Greer May 25 Luis Munive Escobar Harold Ridley (ophthalmologist) May 26 Roman Codreanu Anne Haney William Molloy, Baron Molloy May 27 Ramon Bieri Helen Oakley Dance Robert H. Scanlan May 28 Tony Ashton Francis Bebey Joe Moakley May 29 Vytautas Sakalauskas May 30 Werner Fricker May 31 Arlene Francis Faisal Husseini Walter E. Rogers Rosemary Verey June 1 Birendra of Nepal Hank Ketcham June 2 Imogene Coca Joey Maxim Pilar Seurat Adolf Thiel June 3 Andrea Prader Anthony Quinn June 4 Dipendra of Nepal John Hartford Felicitas Kukuck Ruth Sanger June 5 June 6 Douglas Lilburn Suzanne Schiffman June 7 Carole Fredericks June 8 Nathaniel Rochester (computer scientist) Don Roper June 9 Ronnie Allen Malcolm Cooper Richard T. Hanna June 10 Joyce King Jochen Liedtke Ruth Montgomery June 11 Marco Zanuso June 12 Viktor Hamburger Paula Wiesinger June 13 Makanda Ken McIntyre David Spedding June 14 Miroslav Marcovich June 15 Joe Carter (guitarist) Jay Moriarity June 16 Marta Hillers June 17 Thomas Winning June 18 Paolo Emilio Taviani June 19 Lindsay L. Cooper Jerry Cornes Robert Klippel David Sylvester June 20 Ernest Bour Tom Burns (sociologist) June 21 John Lee Hooker June 22 George Evans (cartoonist) June 23 Corinne Calvet June 24 Milton Santos June 25 Hasan Gemici Kurt Hoffmann June 26 Paul Berry (animator) Gina Cigna June 27 Tove Jansson Jack Lemmon Udo Proksch Horst Heinrich Streckenbach June 28 Mortimer J. Adler June 29 Mary Barnes Maximos V. Hakim June 30 Stephen Ailes Chet Atkins Giancarlo Brusati Joe Fagan Joe Henderson Ali Hassan Kuban July 1 July 2 Israel Shahak July 3 Delia Derbyshire Billy Liddell Roy Nichols Mordecai Richler Ivan Slamnig July 4 July 5 Willi Billmann A. D. Flowers Ernie K-Doe Hannelore Kohl July 6 Enrique Mateos July 7 Hellmuth Kleinsorge Molly Lamont Fred Neil July 8 Ernst Baier Christl Haas Jia Lanpo July 9 Arie van Vliet July 10 Humayun Rashid Choudhury Friedel Overwien July 11 Samuel Brawand July 12 James Bernard (composer) Johnny Wright (boxer) July 13 Miguel Gila Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gryfe July 14 John Lax July 15 July 16 Terry Gordy Beate Uhse-Rotermund July 17 Abel Carlevaro Katharine Graham July 18 Alexandre Jany Fabio Taglioni July 19 Erik Barnouw July 20 Thomas Fantl Milt Gabler Death of Carlo Giuliani Skeeter Werner Walker July 21 Steve Barton Carlo Bo Einar Schleef July 22 Indro Montanelli July 23 Eudora Welty July 24 July 25 Phoolan Devi Josef Klaus July 26 Helmut Brandt (musician) H. Rex Lee Giorgi Sanaia Giuseppe Sensi Peter von Zahn July 27 Harold Land July 28 Joan Finney July 29 Edward Gierek Alex Nicol July 30 Joseph-Philippe Guay Anton Schwarzkopf July 31 Arthur Geoffrey Dickens August 1 Jay Chamberlain Mario Perazzolo August 2 Otto Weber August 3 Louis Chevalier Christopher Hewett Hans Holt Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford August 4 Claude Bloodgood Lorenzo Music August 5 Aaron Flahavan Bahne Rabe August 6 Jorge Amado Robert Dunham August 7 Larry Adler August 8 Jean Dorst Paul Vaessen August 9 Jacky Boxberger Alec Skempton August 10 Lou Boudreau Gianfranco Miglio Dietrich Peltz Werner Pirchner Otto Schulmeister August 11 Manfred Eglin Edward Thomas Hall Isidoro Malmierca Peoli August 12 Pierre Klossowski Walter Walker (British Army officer) August 13 John C. Elliott Otto Stuppacher August 14 August 15 Richard Chelimo Sheldon Datz Peter Mazur August 16 Dave Barry (actor) Fred Glover (ice hockey) August 17 Flip Phillips August 18 Hillel Kook Philip B. Crosby Jack Elliott (composer) August 19 Betty Everett Donald Woods August 20 Fred Hoyle Eliezer Shostak Kim Stanley August 21 August 22 August 23 Kathleen Freeman Peter Maas August 24 Bernard Heuvelmans August 25 Aaliyah Carl Brewer John Chambers (make-up artist) Bill Pratney Ken Tyrrell August 26 Marita Petersen Abu Ali Mustafa August 28 Bobby Martin (musician) Remy Presas August 29 Francisco Rabal August 30 A.F.M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury Govan Mbeki August 31 Franz Hammerl September 1 Sil Austin Bobby Evans September 2 Christiaan Barnard Troy Donahue Jay Migliori September 3 Ferruccio Amendola Thuy Trang September 4 Kurt Walter Leucht September 5 Akinola Aguda September 6 Carl Crack September 7 September 8 September 9 September 10 Alexey Suetin September 11 Abdulaziz al-Omari Garnet Bailey Todd Beamer Kevin Cosgrove Ziad Jarrah Mychal Judge September 12 Victor Wong (actor born 1927) September 13 Dorothy McGuire Fayga Ostrower Charles Régnier September 14 September 15 Herbert Burdenski Fred de Cordova Murder of Balbir Singh Sodhi Robert Louis Whelan September 16 Neptali Gonzales September 17 Samuel Epstein (geochemist) September 18 Hank Levy Sandy Saddler September 19 Bill Stafford September 20 Billy Harris (ice hockey, born 1935) September 21 David S. Dennison, Jr. September 22 Isaac Stern September 23 Kevin Boland Allen Curnow Elton Hayes Ron Hewitt Henryk Tomaszewski (mime) September 24 Hilde Holger September 25 Herbert Klein (swimmer) September 26 Hannes Nikel September 27 Helen Cherry September 28 September 29 Gloria Foster Gellu Naum Helmut Roloff Gerhard Ebeling Jenny Jugo Madhavrao Scindia Jack Maxsted October 1 October 2 Franz Biebl October 3 Rudolf Witzig October 4 John Collins (jazz guitarist) October 5 Jan Lenica Mike Mansfield October 6 October 7 October 8 Dmitry Polyansky October 9 Herbert Ross October 10 Eddie Futch October 11 Nada Mamula Billy Maxted Beni Montresor October 12 Anton Detlev von Plato October 13 Fritz Fromm Raoul Kraushaar October 14 Walther-Peer Fellgiebel Vernon Harrison October 15 Robert Rutledge Bent Tomtum October 16 Gotthold Gloger Etta Jones Yuri Ozerov (director) October 17 Jack Smith (racing driver) October 18 Micheline Ostermeyer October 19 Jagernath Lachmon Ray Lovejoy October 20 Philippe Agostini John H. Terry October 21 John H. Plumb October 22 Ernest Hilgard Helmut Krackowizer Bertie Mee Cecil J. Nesbitt Georgy Vitsin October 23 Ken Aston Thomas N. Downing Josh Kirby Ismat T. Kittani Linden Travers Daniel Wildenstein October 24 October 25 Alvan Feinstein Marvin Harris October 26 Gerald B. H. Solomon October 27 October 28 October 29 Spike Robinson October 30 Yoritsune Matsudaira October 31 Bill Le Sage Braj Kumar Nehru Richard Martin Stern November 1 Juan Bosch November 2 Elazar Shach Thomas Schleicher Buddy Starcher November 3 Luis Alfredo Arango Thomas Brasch Lucio Colletti Denis Gallagher Ernst Gombrich November 4 Edward Boland November 5 Gholam Reza Azhari Barry Horne November 6 Milton William Cooper Alfred Rieche Anthony Shaffer (writer) Erich Zeller November 7 Bobby Bass November 8 Paolo Bertoli Richard Kim (karate) November 9 Giovanni Leone Nancye Wynne Bolton November 10 Carl-Gustav Esseen Maxwell Hunter Ken Kesey Alan Tyson November 11 Pierre Billaud John R. Foley Johanne Sutton November 12 November 13 Robert C. Eckhardt Panama Francis Babik Reinhardt Cornelius Warmerdam November 14 Juan Carlos Lorenzo Nathan M. Pusey Nicolas Ruwet November 15 November 16 Mohammed Atef Rosemary Brown (spiritualist) Tommy Flanagan November 17 John M. Dawson Jerry Jerome (saxophonist) Michael Karoli Harrison A. Williams November 18 November 19 November 20 November 21 Ralph Burns Seydou Keïta (photographer) Salahuddin of Selangor November 22 Norman Granz November 23 Vendramino Bariviera Kiyoshi Inoue Gerhard Stoltenberg November 24 Robert Helps Donald McPherson (figure skater) Francis Daniels Moore Melanie Thornton November 25 David Gascoyne Erna Steuri November 26 Mathias Clemens Regine Hildebrandt Joe Modise Grete von Zieritz November 27 Monroe Leigh Joe Hin Tjio November 28 Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy Igor Stechkin November 29 Budd Boetticher George Harrison John Mitchum Eva Sandberg Erwin Thaler November 30 Lawrence Coughlin December 1 Danilo Donati December 2 Bruce Halford Martha Kneale December 3 Dee Barton Grady Martin Gerhart M. Riegner December 4 December 5 Anton Benya Bill Roberts (athlete) December 6 Jakob Altaras Peter Blake (yachtsman) December 7 Peter Elias Subrata Mitra December 8 Maurice Gross Betty Holberton December 9 December 10 December 11 Herbert Lichtenfeld John Wilkinson Taylor (educator) December 12 Ardito Desio Armando Theodoro Hunziker Jean Richard Roger Scotti December 13 December 14 Conte Candoli Beatrice Macola December 15 Wilkie Cooper Rufus Thomas December 16 Stuart Adamson December 17 December 18 Marcel Mule December 19 December 20 December 21 December 22 Grzegorz Ciechowski Lance Fuller Jan Kott Lance Loud Jacques Mayol Gene Taylor (Bassist) December 23 Jean-Jacques Archambault Mark Clinton Jelle Zijlstra December 24 Robert Leckie (author) Harvey Martin December 25 Gertrud Haldimann Alfred A. Tomatis December 26 Nigel Hawthorne Paul Landres December 27 Peter Coleman (bishop) Robert Fowler (cyclist) Ian Hamilton (critic) Boris Rybakov December 28 Kim Gu-yong December 29 Florian Fricke Clinton D. McKinnon December 30 Chaim Kreiswirth Ralph Sutton December 31 John Grigg, 2nd Baron Altrincham Eileen Heckart Rahim Bakhsh Helge Bengtsson Louis Dudek Arnold Flammersfeld Jack Hyles Sergej Kraigher Gheorghe Negrea Justin Rakotoniaina Willem Sassen Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova Harry Thumann Kyra Vayne Eric Westwood Mohamed Zafzaf
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