Famous People Who Died in 2001 (Part 2)

Deaths 201 - 400 of 504

• May 28 Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. 1946)
• May 28 Joe Moakley, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts (1973-2001), dies at 74

• May 28 Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian medical scientist, dies at 79
• May 30 Tony Ashton, British musician (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke), dies of cancer at 55
• May 31 Arlene Francis, American actress and radio and television personality (What's My Line?), dies at 93
• Jun 1 Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, King of Nepal (1972-2001), killed by his son Dipendra in the Nepalese Royal Massacre at 55
• Jun 1 Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (Dennis the Menace), dies of prostate cancer at 81
• Jun 1 Queen Aiswarya of Nepal, killed by her son Dipendra in the Nepalese Royal Massacre at 51
• Jun 2 Frank Stagg, American Baptist Theologian (b. 1911)
• Jun 2 Imogene Coca, American comedienne (Your Show of Shows, Grindl), dies at 92
• Jun 2 Joey Maxim, American boxer (World Light Heavyweight Champion 1950-52), dies from effects of a stroke at 79

• Jun 4 Dipendra of Nepal, Nepal prince who shot his parent and seven other family members, dies in a coma while technically King at 29
• Jun 4 Joan Vohs, American model and actress (Fort Ti, Vice Squad, Sabrina), dies at 73
• Jun 4 John Hartford [Harford], American folk and bluegrass fiddler, banjo player, and songwrite ("Gentle On My Mind"), dies at 63
• Jun 5 Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish writer, medical and humanist, dies at 93
• Jun 6 Douglas Lilburn, New Zealand composer (A Song Of Islands) and educator (Victoria University, 1949-80), dies at 85
• Jun 7 Carole Fredericks, American singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones), dies of a heart attack at 49
• Jun 7 Víctor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (b. 1907)

• Jun 9 Ciro Kroon, Curaçao politician (Premier of Dutch Antilles 1968-69), dies at 85
• Jun 9 David Sheinfeld, American violinist and composer, dies at 94
• Jun 10 John McKay, American College Football HOF coach (4 x NCAA C'ship 1962, 67, 72, 74 ; 5 x Rose Bowl USC; NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1976-84), dies at 77
• Jun 10 Mike Mentzer, American bodybuilder (b. 1951)
• Jun 10 Princess Leila Pahlavi of Iran, youngest daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, dies at 31
• Jun 11 Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer (Échame a mi la culpa), dies at 77

• Jun 13 Siegfried Naumann, Swedish conductor (Musica Nova Ensemble, 1962-77), teacher, and composer (Risposte), dies at 81
• Jun 15 Henri Alekan, French cinematographer (b. 1909)
• Jun 15 Julius Juzeliūnas, Lithuanian composer and organist (The Game), dies at 85
• Jun 15 Leif Kayser, Danish composer and organist, dies at 83
• Jun 16 Adam Popovich, Serbian-American musician, director and composer, dies at 91
• Jun 17 Donald J. Cram, American biochemist (development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity - Nobel 1987), dies at 82
• Jun 19 John Heyer, Australian documentary filmmaker (b. 1916)
• Jun 21 Carroll O'Connor, American actor (All in the Family, In the Heat of the Night), dies of a heart attack at 76
• Jun 21 John Lee Hooker, American blues guitarist ("Boom Boom"; "Boogie Chillen"), dies at 83
• Jun 21 Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (b. 1942)
• Jun 23 Corinne Calvet, French actress (Phantom of Hollywood, Apache Uprising), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 76
• Jun 23 Yvonne Dionne, one of the Canadian Dionne quintuplets (b. 1934)
• Jun 25 Yuri Petrovich Sheffer, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 53
• Jun 26 Soccer (dog actor) (b. 1988)

• Jun 28 Joan Sims, British actress ("Carry on" films, As Time Goes By), dies from liver failure and diverticulitis at 71
• Jun 28 Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher and author (Encyclopedia Brittanica), dies at 98
• Jun 30 Chet Atkins, American guitarist (Me & My Guitar), dies at 77
• Jun 30 Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist, dies at 64
• Jul 1 Nicolay G. Basov, Soviet physicist who specialized in quantum electronics (laser, maser) and 1964 Nobel laureate, dies at 78
• Jul 3 Delia Derbyshire, English musician and composer (Doctor Who theme, White Noise), dies of renal failure at 64
• Jul 3 Johnny Russell, American country songwriter (Act Naturally; Let's Fall To Pieces Together), singer and comedian dies of complications from diabetes at 61
• Jul 3 Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz), dies at 70
• Jul 4 Keenan Milton, Professional Skater (b. 1974)
• Jul 5 Ernie K-Doe [Ernest Kador Jr.], American R&B singer ("Mother-in-Law"), dies of kidney failure and cirrhosis of the liver at 68
• Jul 7 Edward Fiennes-Clinton, Australian-born 18th Earl of Lincoln, dies at 88
• Jul 7 Fred Neil [Morlock], American songwriter, folk singer, guitarist (Everybody's Talkin'; Candy Man), and conservationist (Dolphin Project), dies from skin cancer at 65
• Jul 7 Maria Gorokhovskaya, Russian gymnast (equal record 7 x Olympic medals, Soviet Union 1952; 2 x gold [team, all-round], 5 x silver), dies at 79
• Jul 8 Christl Haas, Austrian downhill skier (Olympic gold 1964), dies at 57
• Jul 8 Ernst Baier, German figure skater (Olympic gold 1936), dies at 95
• Jul 8 John O'Shea, New Zealand film director (b. 1920)
• Jul 11 Herman Brood, Dutch painter and pianist (Sleepin' Bird), dies at 54
• Jul 11 Marco Zanuso, Italian Modernist architect and product designer, dies at 85
• Jul 16 Maurice De Bevere, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1923)
• Jul 16 Terry Gordy, American professional wrestler, dies at 40

• Jul 18 Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (Ducati), dies at 80
• Jul 18 James Hatfield, American author (b. 1958)
• Jul 18 Mimi Fariña, American folk-rock singer-songwriter ("Reflections In A Crystal Wind"), dies at 56
• Jul 18 Roy Gilchrist, West Indian cricket fast bowler (13 Tests, 57 wickets), dies at 67
• Jul 19 Judy Clay [Guions], American soul and gospel singer, dies from complications from a car accident at 62
• Jul 20 Carlo Giuliani, Italian anarchist (b. 1978)
• Jul 20 Werner Haentjes, German conductor and composer of operas and film scores, dies at 77
• Jul 21 Sivaji Ganesan, South Indian Tamil actor (b. 1927)
• Jul 21 Steve Barton, American actor (b. 1954)
• Jul 22 Bernice Neugarten, American physiologist (work on psychology of aging), dies at 85
• Jul 22 Frances Horwich, American educator and television personality (Ding Dong School), dies at 94
• Jul 22 Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (History of the Greeks), dies at 92
• Jul 23 Eudora Welty, American novelist (Optimist's Daughter-Pulitzer 1973), dies at 92
• Jul 24 Georges Dor, Canadian author, composer, singer and playwright (b. 1931)
• Jul 26 Josef Klaus, Austrian conservative politician (Minister of Finance, 1961-63; Chancellor, 1966-70), dies at 90
• Jul 26 Peter von Zahn, German journalist (b. 1913)
• Jul 26 Rex Barber, American WWII aviator (b. 1917)
• Jul 27 Harold Beeley, British diplomat to the Arab world, dies at 92
• Jul 27 Leon Wilkeson, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies at 49
• Jul 27 Rhonda Singh, professional wrestler (b. 1961)
• Jul 29 Alex Nicol, American actor (The Screaming Skull, Man From Laramie, Air Cadet), dies of natural causes at 85
• Jul 29 Edward Gierek, Polish politician (b. 1913)
• Jul 29 Wau Holland, German computer hacker (b. 1951)
• Jul 31 Fanny Leys, Flemish author (Ontwijding), dies at 95
• Jul 31 Francisco da Costa Gomes, President of Portugal’s ruling military junta (1974-76), dies at 87
• Jul 31 Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1910)
• Jul 31 Poul Anderson, American science-fiction and fantasy author, winner of 7 Hugo and 3 Nebula Awards (The Sharing of Flesh; Mirkheim; After Doomsday), dies of prostate cancer at 74
• Aug 1 Korey Stringer, American NFL football tackle, 1995-2000 (Minnesota Vikings), dies of complications from heat stroke at 27
• Aug 2 Edward Gardner, British barrister and Conservative Party politician (British Nationality Act 1981), dies at 89
• Aug 2 Ron Townson, American singer (The 5th Dimension - "Up, Up and Away"), dies of kidney failure at 68
• Aug 3 Christopher Hewett, British actor (Mr. Belvedere; The Producers) and theater director, dies of complications from diabetes at 80
• Aug 3 Lars Johan Werle, Swedish avant-garde composer (Pentagram; Resan - The Journey), singer, and jazz musician, dies at 75
• Aug 4 Lorenzo Music, American writer, actor and voice actor (Rhoda - "Carlton, the doorman"; Garfield), dies at 64
• Aug 5 Otema Allimadi, Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1929)
• Aug 6 Dorothy Tutin, British actress (Importance of Being Ernest, Cromwell), dies at 71
• Aug 6 Jorge Amado de Faria, Brazilian writer (O Pais do Carnaval), dies at 88
• Aug 6 Larry Adler, American pop and classical harmonica player, and composer, dies of cancer at 87
• Aug 6 Wilhelm Mohnke, one of the original 120 members of the Nazi SS-Staff Guard (b. 1911)
• Aug 10 Lou Boudreau, American Baseball HOF shortstop (8 × MLB All-Star; World Series & AL MVP 1948; AL batting champion 1944; Cleveland Indians) and manager (Cleveland, Boston RS, KC A's, Chicago Cubs), dies at 84
• Aug 11 Percy Stallard, English racing cyclist (b. 1909)
• Aug 13 Jimmy Knapp, British trade unionist (National Union of Railwaymen), dies at 60
• Aug 13 Otto Stuppacher, Austrian racing driver, dies at 54
• Aug 14 Earl Anthony, American professional bowler (PBA money champ 1974-6, 1981-3), dies at 63
• Aug 15 Richard Chelimo, Kenyan athlete (b. 1972)
• Aug 16 Floyd Spence, American attorney and politician (Rep-R-SC, 1971-2001), dies at 73
• Aug 17 Flip Phillips [Joseph Filippelli], American jazz and swing tenor saxophonist and clarinet player (Jazz at the Philharmonic: Woody Herman), dies at 86
• Aug 18 David Peakall, British scientist (b. 1931)
• Aug 19 Betty Everett, American southern soul singer and pianist ("Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)"), dies at 61
• Aug 19 Donald Woods, South African journalist, anti-apartheid activist and author (Biko, Asking for Trouble), dies at 67
• Aug 20 Fred Hoyle, English astronomer (Steady State Theory, coined phrase 'Big Bang') and sci-fi writer, dies at 86
• Aug 20 Kim Stanley [Patricia Reid], American actress (Séance on a Wet Afternoon, The Chase, Right Stuff), dies at 76
• Aug 21 Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
• Aug 22 Tatyana Averina, Russian speed skater 1K, 3K (Olympic gold 1976), dies at 61
• Aug 23 Eric Allandale [Dubuisson], West Indian-British rock and soul trombonist, and songwriter (The Foundations - "Baby Now That I've Found You"), dies at 65
• Aug 23 Kathleen Freeman, American actress (Beverly Hillbillies, 3 Ring Circus), dies of lung cancer at 82
• Aug 23 Peter Maas, American novelist (b. 1929)
• Aug 24 Bettejane "Jane" Greer, American actress (Out of the Past, Prisoner of Zenda, Clown), dies at 76
• Aug 24 Hank Sauer, American baseball left fielder (NL MVP, HR leader, RBI leader 1952; MLB All Star 1950, 52; Chicago Cubs), dies from a heart attack at 84
• Aug 24 Raymond Wilding-White, American composer, dies at 78
• Aug 25 Aaliyah [Haughton], American singer and actress, dies in a plane crash in the Bahamas at 22
• Aug 25 Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
• Aug 25 Ken Tyrrell, English race driver and founder of Tyrrell Racing, dies at 77
• Aug 25 Madge Adam, English solar astronomer (1st solar physicist at Oxford university's observatory), dies at 89
• Aug 25 Philippe Léotard, French actor and singer (b. 1940)
• Aug 26 Louis Muhlstock, Canadian painter, dies at 97
• Aug 27 Abu Ali Mustafa, leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (assassinated) (b. 1938)
• Aug 27 Michael Dertouzos, Greek internet pioneer, Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science (b. 1936)
• Aug 29 (Graeme) "Shirley" Strachan, Australian singer (Skyhooks - "Ego Is Not A Dirty Word"; "Jukebox in Siberia"), TV host (Shirl's Neighbourhood), and carpenter (Our House), dies as pilot in a helicopter crash at 49
• Aug 29 Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (b. 1926)
• Aug 30 Govan Mbeki, South African leader (Head of the ANC, imprisoned with Mandela, father of Thabo Mbeki), dies at 91
• Aug 30 Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor, dies at 94
• Aug 30 Julie Bishop [Jacqueline Wells], American actress (My Hero, Northern Pursuit, Threat), dies of pneumonia at 87
• Sep 1 Brian Moore, British sports commentator (BBC Radio, London Weekend Television 'The Big Match'), dies of heart failure at 69

• Sep 2 Jay Migliori, American saxophonist (Supersax), dies at 70
• Sep 2 Troy Donahue, American actor (Hawaiian Eye), dies at 65
• Sep 3 Pauline Kael, American film critic (NY Times), dies at 82
• Sep 3 Thuy Trang, Vietnamese-American actress (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers), dies at 27
• Sep 4 Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, American radio personality (b. 1962)
• Sep 5 Heywood Hale Broun, American TV commentator and sports correspondent, dies at 83
• Sep 5 Justin Wilson, American Cajun chef (Wise Potato Chips) and humorist, dies at 87
• Sep 5 Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian economist and UN statistician, dies at 89
• Sep 6 Carl Crack, German musician (Atari Teenage Riot) (b. 1971)
• Sep 7 Billie Lou Watt, American actress (b. 1924)
• Sep 7 Igor Buketoff, American conductor (Iceland Symphony Orchestra 1964-65), dies at 86
• Sep 7 Spede Pasanen, Finnish film director and comedian, dies at 71

• Sep 10 DJ Uncle Al [Albert Moss] American DJ, shot and killed at 32
• Sep 11 Alice Stewart Trillin, American author, dies at 63
• Sep 11 Angel L. Juarbe, Jr., American firefighter, dies in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center at 35
• Sep 11 Barbara Olson (née Bracher), American political commentator, dies in terror attack aboard flight 77 flown into the Pentagon at 45
• Sep 11 Berinthia "Berry" Berenson, American photographer, actress, model, and widow of actor Anthony Perkins, dies on American Airlines Flight 11 in the 9/11 attacks at 53
• Sep 11 Daniel M. Lewin, American–Israeli mathematician and founder of Akamai Technologies, dies in the terror attacks aboard flight 11 at 31
• Sep 11 David Angell, American sitcom creator (Frazier), dies aboard a plane in a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center at 55
• Sep 11 Hani Hanjour, Saudi Arabian 9/11 terrorist, dies in Pentagon plane attack at 29
• Sep 11 Henry Herbert, 7th earl of Carnarvon, English peer and racing manager to the Queen, dies of a heart attack at 77
• Sep 11 John Ogonowski, American pilot, dies aboard American Airlines Flight 11 in terror attack on the World Trade Center at 50
• Sep 11 John P. O'Neill, American anti-terrorism expert and FBI agent, dies as Head of Security in the terror attack on the World Trade Center at 49
• Sep 11 Mark Bingham, American passenger on United Airlines Flight 93, dies thwarting terrorist attempts to crash the plane into a Washington monument at 31
• Sep 11 Marwan Al-Shehhi, Emirati 9/11 terrorist, dies piloting a plane into the World Trade Center at 23
• Sep 11 Mohamed Atta, Egyptian 9/11 terrorist and ringleader, dies piloting a plane into the World Trade Center at 33
• Sep 11 Mychal F. Judge, American Chaplain to NY Fire Dept, dies in the World Trade Center attack at 68
• Sep 11 Peter J. Ganci, Jr., American Fire fighter (Chief of Department, FDNY_, dies in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center at 55

• Sep 11 Tom Burnett, American businessman and passenger aboard United 93, dies thwarting terrorist attempts to crash the plane into a Washington monument at 38
• Sep 11 Ziad Jarrah, Lebanese 9/11 terrorist, dies piloting United Flight 93 at 26
• Sep 12 Victor Wong [Yee Keung Victor Wong], American actor (Big Trouble in Little China), dies of a heart attack at 74
• Sep 13 Dorothy McGuire, American actress (Gentlemen's Agreement, Old Yeller, Summer Magic), dies of cardiac arrest following a short illness at 85

• Sep 14 Barbara Mary Ansell, UK founder of paediatric rheumatology, dies at 78
• Sep 14 Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer, dies at 70
• Sep 15 Fred de Cordova, American film and TV producer (Tonight Show), dies at 90
• Sep 16 Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer and co-founder of American International Pictures, dies at 83
• Sep 17 Barry Shepherd, Australian cricket batsman (9 Tests, 5 x 50s; West Australia CA), dies at 64
• Sep 17 Lou Dog, Sublime mascot.
• Sep 18 Ernie Coombs, American-Canadian children's entertainer (Mr. Dressup), dies at 73
• Sep 19 Jan Koplowitz, German writer, dies at 91
• Sep 20 Marcos Pérez Jiménez, President of Venezuela (1953-58), dies at 87
• Sep 22 Isaac Stern, American-Ukrainian concert violinist (debut San Francisco Symphony), dies at 81
• Sep 23 Ron Hewitt, Welsh footballer (b. 1928)
• Sep 27 Herman Berlinski, Polish-American organist, composer and choral conductor (The Tetragrammaton), dies at 91 [1]
• Sep 29 Frank Gasparro, American chief engraver of the US Mint (1965-81), dies at 92
• Sep 29 Mabel Fairbanks, Seminole-African American figure skater and coach (US Figure Skating Hall of Fame), dies at 85 [1]

• Oct 1 Guy Beaulne, French Canadian actor and theatre director (b. 1921)
• Oct 1 Kathleen Ankers, American scenic designer (b. 1919)
• Oct 2 Franz Biebl, German composer, mostly of choral music, dies at 95
• Oct 4 Ahron Soloveichik, Orthodox Jewish rabbi, dies at 84
• Oct 5 Aldo Jones [Albert Mansis], American rockabilly bassist and singer (Ben Vaughn Combo), dies of leukemia at 41
• Oct 5 Lou Zara, American writer (Stump the Authors), dies at 91
• Oct 5 Mike Mansfield, American politician (b. 1903)
• Oct 5 Peter Burge, Australian cricket batsman (42 Tests, 4 x 100, HS 181; Queensland CA), dies of a heart attack at 69
• Oct 6 Arne Harris, American television sports director, dies at 67
• Oct 7 Alf Gover, English cricket fast bowler (4 Tests; Surrey CCC) and coach (Frank Tyson, Viv Richards, Andy Roberts, Ian Bishop; Surrey), dies at 93
• Oct 7 Christopher Adams, British-born pro wrestler and judoka (b. 1955)
• Oct 7 Herblock [Herbert Lawrence Block], American cartoonist, dies at 91

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