Deaths in August 2001
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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2001.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
August 2001
1
- Zuzana Chalupová, 76, Serbian/Yugoslavian naïve painter.[1]
- Jay Chamberlain, 75, American racing driver.
- Dwight Eddleman, 78, American basketball player and Olympic athlete, heart ailment.
- Joe Lynch, 75, Irish actor.
- Begum Aizaz Rasul, 92, Indian politician.
- Robert Rimmer, 84, American writer.[2]
- Korey Stringer, 27, American football player (Ohio State, Minnesota Vikings), complications following a heat stroke.[3]
- Dan Towler, 73, American gridiron football player.[4]
- Nicolae Tătaru, 69, Romanian football player.[5]
- Charlie Ward, 89, English golfer.
2
- Mario Alesini, 69, Italian basketball player.[6]
- Valerie Davies, 89, British Olympic swimmer, bronze medalist (1932).[7]
- Edward Gardner, 89, British politician.[8]
- Lawrence Minard, 51, American journalist and editor, heart attack.[9]
- Ronald Townson, 68, American vocalist (The 5th Dimension), kidney failure.[10]
3
- Franz-Josef Bach, 84, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
- Louis Chevalier, 90, French historian and academic.[11]
- Christopher Hewett, 80, British actor (Mr. Belvedere, The Producers, Fantasy Island), diabetes.[12]
- Hans Holt, 91, Austrian film actor.[13]
- Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, 95, British politician and social reformer.[14]
- Jeanne Loriod, 73, French musician, drowned.[15]
- Mario Perazzolo, 90, Italian footballer.
- Eduardo Toba, 78, Spanish football manager.[16]
- Lars Johan Werle, 75, Swedish composer.
4
- S. K. Bhatnagar, 71, Indian politician and diplomat.
- Claude Bloodgood, 64, American chess player and convicted murderer, cancer.[17]
- Sir Paterson Fraser, 94, British air marshal.[18]
- Jack Maple, 48, American police officer and author, cancer.
- Lorenzo Music, 64, American voice actor (Garfield and Friends, The Real Ghostbusters) and television producer (The Bob Newhart Show), lung and bone cancer.[19]
- Dan Zehr, 85, American Olympic swimmer.[20]
5
- Otema Allimadi, 72, Ugandan Foreign Minister (1979–1980) and Prime Minister of Uganda (1980–1985).[21]
- Iskra Babich, 69, Soviet film director and screenwriter, cancer.
- Mykhailo Bilyi, 78, Soviet and Ukrainian politician.
- Miloš Bojović, 63, Serbian basketball player, sports journalist, and politician.
- Caro Crawford Brown, 93, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner.[22]
- Roy Dikeman Chapin, Jr., 85, American business executive (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American Motors Corporation).[23]
- Aaron Flahavan, 25, English football goalkeeper, car accident.[24]
- Bahne Rabe, 37, German rower and Olympic champion, Olympic champion (1988), anorexia nervosa.[25]
- Christopher Skase, 52, Australian businessman and fraudster, stomach cancer.
6
- Larry Adler, 87, American harmonica player, pneumonia.[26]
- Jorge Amado, 88, Brazilian writer, heart attack.[27]
- Wina Born, 80, Dutch journalist and cooking books author.[28]
- Adhar Kumar Chatterji, 86, Indian navy admiral.
- Robert Dunham, 70, American actor, writer, and racecar driver.
- Vasili Kuznetsov, 69, Russian decathlete.
- Kenneth MacDonald, 50, English actor, heart attack.
- Jim Mallory, 82, American baseball player and football coach.[29]
- Wilhelm Mohnke, 90, German SS general during World War II.
- Ian Ousby, 54, British historian, author and editor, cancer.
- Alan Rafkin, 73, American film and television director (One Day at a Time, Coach, The Shakiest Gun in the West).[30]
- Dorothy Tutin, 71, British actress (The Importance of Being Earnest, The Beggar's Opera, A Tale of Two Cities, The Shooting Party), leukemia.[31]
- Duong Van Minh, 85, South Vietnamese politician and ARVN general.
7
- Paul Averitt, 78, American soldier and Holocaust photographer.
- Dan Edwards, 75, American gridiron football player (1948–1957) and coach (1958–1961).[32]
- Jack James, 80, American rocket engineer.[33]
- Algirdas Lauritėnas, 68, Lithuanian basketball player.[34]
- José Tomás, 66, Spanish classical guitarist and teacher.[35]
8
- Jean Dorst, 77, French ornithologist, former director of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.[36]
- Harry Julian Fink, 78, American television and film writer.
- Jean-Louis Flandrin, 70, French historian.[37]
- George Mann, 83, English cricket player.[38]
- Maureen Reagan, 60, American political activist and daughter of Ronald Reagan, melanoma.[39]
- Nora Sayre, 68, American film critic and essayist.[40]
- Peter Sinclair, 62, New Zealand radio personality.
- Paul Vaessen, 39, English footballer, accidental drug overdose.[41]
- Noud van Melis, 77, Dutch football player.
- Patrick D. Wall, 76, British neuroscientist.[42]
9
- Abe Bonnema, 74, Dutch architect.[43]
- Humphry Bowen, 72, British botanist and chemist.[44]
- Jacky Boxberger, French athlete, killed by an elephant.[45]
- L. G. Dupree, 68, American gridiron football player, cancer.
- Elmer Knutson, 86, Canadian businessman, activist and politician.
- Alec Skempton, 87, British scientist.[46]
10
- Lou Boudreau, 84, American baseball player and manager, seven-time All-Star and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.[47]
- Vladimir Bougrine, 63, Russian painter.
- Álvaro Carolino, 50, Portuguese football player and manager, pulmonary complications.
- Elsa Cavelti, 94, Swiss operatic contralto and mezzo-soprano.[48]
- Jerry DeFuccio, 76, American comic book writer and editor.
- Manfred Eglin, 65, German footballer.
- Vasudeo S. Gaitonde, Indian painter.[49]
- Gianfranco Miglio, 83, Italian jurist, political scientist and politician.
- Ramón Monzant, 68, Venezuelan baseball player.[50]
- Dietrich Peltz, 87, German Luftwaffe bomber and Wehrmacht general during World War II.
- Werner Pirchner, 61, Austrian composer and jazz musician.
- Louis Purnell, 81, American curator at the National Air and Space Museum.
- Stanislav Rostotsky, 79, Soviet/Russian film director and screenwriter.[51]
- Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, 63, Australian Indigenous artist.
11
- Paul Cunniffe, 40, British-Irish singer-songwriter, fall from balcony.
- Carlos Hank González, 73, Mexican politician and businessman.
- Edward Thomas Hall, 77, British scientist, known for exposing the Piltdown Man as a fraud.[52]
- Bob Harris, 57, American jazz pianist and arranger, drug overdose.
- Isidoro Malmierca, 70, Cuban politician, lung cancer.
- Percy Stallard, 92, British racing cyclist.[53]
12
- Irene Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever, 81, English noblewoman and philanthropist.[54]
- Pierre Klossowski, 96, French writer, translator and artist.[55]
- Julian Pitt-Rivers, 82, British social anthropologist and ethnographer.[56]
- Walter Walker, 88, British army general.[57]
13
- Manuel Alvar, 78, Spanish linguist, historian, and university professor.[58]
- René Berthier, 89, French actor.
- Stephanus du Plessis, 71, South African Olympic discus thrower and shot putter.
- John C. Elliott, 82, American politician and 39th Governor of American Samoa.
- Jim Hughes, 78, American baseball player.[59]
- Jimmy Knapp, 60, British trades unionist, cancer.
- Gabor Peterdi, 85, Hungarian-American painter and printmaker.[60]
- Miguel Rodriguez Rodriguez, 70, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic] bishop.
- Richard Shorr, 58, American sound engineer (Die Hard, Predator, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles).
- Alan Skene, 68, South African rugby player.
- Otto Stuppacher, 54, Austrian race car driver.[61]
- Antonio Zumel, 69, Filipino journalist, activist, and revolutionary.
14
- Earl Anthony, 63, American professional bowler, domestic accident.[62]
- Oscar Janiger, 83, American experimental psychiatrist, known for his LSD research.[63]
- Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins, 63, American child actor.
- Ridgway B. Knight, 90, American diplomat and ambassador.
- Pavel Schmidt, 71, Slovak rower and Olympic champion.[64]
15
- Richard Chelimo, 29, Kenyan Olympic long-distance runner (silver medal winner of the men's 10,000 metres at the 1992 Summer Olympics), brain cancer.[65]
- Sheldon Datz, 74, American chemist.[66]
- Raymond Edward Johnson, 90, American radio and stage actor (Inner Sanctum Mysteries).[67]
- Peter Mazur, 78, Austrian-Dutch physicist.
- Renato Panciera, 66, Italian sprinter.[68]
- Jim Russell, 92, Australian cartoonist.
- Kateryna Yushchenko, 81, Ukrainian computer and information research scientist.
- Yavuz Çetin, 30, Turkish musician, suicide.
16
- Dave Barry, 82, American actor and comedian.
- Kenneth Reese Cole, Jr., 63, American political aide to Richard Nixon.[69]
- Ruperto Donoso, 86, Chilean jockey.
- Fred Glover, 73, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings, Cleveland Barons) and coach (Oakland Seals, Los Angeles Kings).[70]
- Anna Mani, 82, Indian physicist and meteorologist, stroke.
- Sizwe Motaung, 31, South African football player, AIDS-related complications.[71]
- Floyd Spence, 73, American attorney and a politician, cerebral thrombosis.[72]
- Sidney Tillim, 76, American artist and art critic.[73]
- Klaus Wagner, 79, German equestrian and Olympic medalist.[74]
17
- William G. Clark, 77, American politician and jurist.[75]
- Josef Fried, 87, Polish-American organic chemist.[76]
- Herman Goffberg, 80, American Olympic long-distance runner (men's 10,000 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[77]
- Emil Gorovets, 78, Soviet and Ukrainian singer.
- Živko Nikolić, 59, Yugoslav and Montenegrin film director.[78]
- Charles Palmer, 71, British martial artist.
- Flip Phillips, 86, American jazz tenor saxophone and clarinet player.[79]
18
- Edmund Cambridge, 80, American actor and director, complications from a fall.[80]
- Roland Cardon, 72, Belgian composer, music teacher, and multi-instrumentalist.
- Philip B. Crosby, 75, American businessman and author.
- Jack Elliott, 74, American film and television music composer (Charlie's Angels, Night Court, The Jerk).[81]
- Hillel Kook, 86, Russian/American Revisionist Zionist activist and politician.[82]
- David Peakall, 70, British environmental toxicologist and ornithologist.[83]
- Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan, 88, Indian plant pathologist.
- Tom Watson, 69, Scottish actor.
19
- Betty Everett, 61, American soul singer and pianist ("The Shoop Shoop Song", "Let It Be Me").[84]
- Felicisimo Fajardo, 87, Filipino basketball player.
- Junichiro Itani, 75, Japanese anthropologist and academic.[85]
- Dean Roper, 62, American stock car racer, heart attack.
- Les Sealey, 43, English footballer, heart attack.[86]
- Inder Singh, 57, Indian Olympic hockey player.[87]
- Willy Vannitsen, 66, Belgian racing cyclist.[88]
- Donald Woods, 67, South African journalist, newspaper editor, and anti-apartheid activist, cancer.[89]
20
- Richard Cloward, 74, American sociologist and activist (National Voter Registration Act of 1993).[90]
- Neal Colzie, 48, American gridiron football player (Oakland Raiders, Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), heart attack.
- Fred Hoyle, 86, British astronomer and science fiction writer, stroke.[91]
- Akın Kuloğlu, 29, Georgian-Turkish boxer and Olympian, traffic collision.[92]
- Walter Reed, 85, American stage, film and television actor.[93]
- Sylvia Millecam, 45, Dutch actress and comedian, breast cancer.[94]
- Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala, 85, Indian civil servant and diplomat.
- Eliezer Shostak, 89, Israeli politician.
- Kim Stanley, 76, American actress (Séance on a Wet Afternoon, The Right Stuff, Frances), Emmy winner (1963, 1985), uterine cancer.[95]
- Rolla M. Tryon Jr., 84, American botanist.
21
- Beryl Cooke, 94, British actress.
- Pál Engel, 63, Hungarian historian.[96]
- Steven Izenour, 61, American architect and author (Learning from Las Vegas).[97]
- John Kerins, 39, Irish Gaelic footballer, cancer.
- Calum MacKay, 74, Canadian ice hockey player.[98]
- Norman Rigby, 78, English footballer and manager.[99]
- Juan Antonio Villacañas, 79, Spanish poet, essayist and critic.
22
- Johnny Anderson, 71, Scottish football player.
- Tatyana Averina, 51, Soviet Russian Olympic speed skater (won two gold medals and two bronze medals at the 1976 Winter Olympics), stomach cancer.[100]
- Mauro Bicicli, 66, Italian football player and coach.[101]
- Rose Edgcumbe, 67, British psychologist, psychoanalyst, and academic.[102]
- Bernard Heuvelmans, 84, French scientist.
- Bobby Johnstone, 71, Scottish footballer (Hibernian, Manchester City, Oldham Athletic, Scotland).
- Spiro Koleka, 93, Albanian communist politician and statesman.
- Gita Luka, 79, Israeli actress, comedian and singer, stroke.[103]
- Sharad Talwalkar, 82, Indian actor, heart attack.
- Varro Eugene Tyler, 74, American professor of pharmacognosy and philatelist.[104]
23
- Eric Allendale, 65, British jazz musician.[105]
- Howard Fletcher, 88, American college football player and head coach (Northern Illinois University).[106]
- Frank Emilio Flynn, 80, Cuban pianist.[107]
- Ray Frederick, 72, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks).[108]
- Kathleen Freeman, 78, American actress (Wagon Train, North to Alaska, The Nutty Professor), lung cancer.[109]
- Herbert Haag, 86, German-Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and biblical scholar (known for challenging the Vatican).[110]
- Henriette Bie Lorentzen, 90, Norwegian journalist, peace activist, feminist, and publisher.
- Peter Maas, 72, American journalist and author (Serpico, The Valachi Papers).[111]
- Fukukane Nikaidō, 78, Japanese economist.
- Manolita Saval, 87, Spanish actress and singer, thrombosis.
24
- George Benson, 82, American gridiron football player.[112]
- Jane Greer, 76, American film and television actress (Out of the Past), cancer.[113]
- Milan Kadlec, 42, Czech Olympic pentathlete (team and individual modern pentathlon at the 1980 Summer Olympics and 1988 Summer Olympics), suicide by hanging.[114]
- Roman Matsov, 84, Soviet and Estonian violinist, pianist, and conductor.
- Hank Sauer, 84, American baseball player (1952 Most Valuable Player) ("The Mayor of Wrigley Field").[115]
- Raymond Wilding-White, 78, American composer.[116]
25
- Aaliyah, 22, American alternative R&B singer (Are You That Somebody?, Try Again) and actress (Romeo Must Die, Queen of the Damned), plane crash.[117]
- Madge Adam, 89, English astronomer.
- Mary Barnard, 91, American poet, biographer and translator.[118]
- Carl Brewer, 62, Canadian ice hockey player.[119]
- John Chambers, 78, American make-up artist and first civilian to receive the Intelligence Medal of Merit.
- Üzeyir Garih, 72, Turkish engineer, businessman, writer and investor.
- Diana Golden, 38, American disabled ski racer, cancer.[120]
- Philippe Léotard, 60, French actor and singer, respiratory failure.[121]
- Ginzō Matsuo, 50, Japanese voice actor, subarachnoid hemorrhage.
- John L. Nelson, 85, American jazz musician, songwriter and father of Prince.
- Asit Sen, 78, Bengali Indian film director, cinematographer and screenwriter.
- Ken Tyrrell, 75, British motor racing driver and team leader, pancreatic cancer.[122]
26
- John Horn, 69, British tennis player.
- Louis Muhlstock, 97, Canadian painter.[123]
- Marita Petersen, 60, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands and first female speaker of the House, cancer.
- Al Pittman, 61, Canadian poet and playwright.[124]
27
- Cal Collins, 68, American jazz guitarist.[125]
- Michalis Dertouzos, 64, Greek-American professor and computer scientist.[126]
- John Joe Landers, 94, Irish Gaelic footballer.
- James D. Ford, 70, American clergyman, Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives (1979-2000), suicide by gunshot.[127]
- Abu Ali Mustafa, 63, Palestinian leader and Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), airstrike.[128]
- Juan Lechín Oquendo, 87, Bolivian politician, Vice President (1960–1964).[129]
- Karl Ulrich Schnabel, 92, Austrian pianist.[130]
28
- Bert Gardiner, 88, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins, New York Rangers).[131]
- Käthe Grasegger, 84, German Olympic alpine skier (silver medal winner in women's combined alpine skiing at the 1936 Winter Olympics).[132]
- David P. Harmon, 82, American scenarist and producer.
- Johan Frederik Holleman, 85, Dutch-South African ethnologist and legal scholar.[133]
- Kenneth Maddocks, 94, British colonial official and Governor of Fiji (1958-1963).
- Lawrence B. Marcus, 84, American screenwriter.
- Juan Muñoz, 48, Spanish sculptor, cardiac arrest caused by an aneurysm.[134]
- Serhiy Perkhun, 23, Ukrainian footballer, cerebral hemorrhage.[135]
- Remy Presas, 64, Filipino martial artist and founder of Modern Arnis, brain cancer.
- Ernst Stettler, 80, Swiss racing cyclist.[136]
29
- Harold Chestnut, 83, American electrical engineer at General Electric and author.
- Roger Daley, 58, British meteorologist.[137]
- Victor Jörgensen, 77, Danish Olympic boxer (bronze medal winner in welterweight boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[138]
- Manubhai Pancholi, 86, Indian novelist, author, and politician.
- Francisco Rabal, 75, Spanish actor, pulmonary emphysema.[139]
- Dick Selma, 57, American baseball player, liver cancer.[140]
- Graeme Strachan, 49, Australian singer (Skyhooks) and television presenter.[141]
- Eric Tipton, 86, American baseball player.[142]
- Sabahattin Özbek, 86, Turkish politician and academic.
30
- Juan Acuña, 78, Spanish football goalkeeper.
- Julie Bishop, 87, American actress (Sands of Iwo Jima, Princess O'Rourke, Northern Pursuit, The High and the Mighty), pneumonia.[143]
- A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury, 86, 9th President of Bangladesh.
- Stan Harland, 61, English football player.[144]
- Govan Mbeki, 91, South African politician, leader of the ANC and SACP.[145]
- G. K. Moopanar, 70, Indian politician.[146]
- Dilli Raman Regmi, 87, Nepali historian and politician.
- Kothamangalam Seenu, 91, Indian actor and singer.
- Kwee Kiat Sek, 67, Indonesian football player.
- Agus Wirahadikusumah, 49, Indonesian military officer.
31
- Crash Davis, 82, American baseball player, stomach cancer.[147]
- Julio Antonio Elícegui, 90, Spanish football player.[148]
- Paul Hamlyn, 75, British publisher and philanthropist.[149]
- Odd Steinar Holøs, 79, Norwegian politician.[150]