Deaths in January 2001
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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.
January 2001
1
- Madeleine Barbulée, 90, French actress.
- Sir Michael Hanley, 82, British intelligence officer, Director-General of MI5.[1]
- Fabijan Šovagović, 68, Croatian actor and writer.
- John Steadman, 73, American sportswriter.[2]
- Heriberto Urán, 46, Colombian racing cyclist.[3]
- Ray Walston, 86, American actor (My Favorite Martian, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Picket Fences), Emmy winner (1995, 1996).[4]
2
- Sir Ewart Bell, 76, Northern Irish rugby player and civil servant.[5]
- George Carman, 71, English barrister, prostate cancer.[6]
- Ali Sayed Darwish, 23, Emirati cyclist and Olympian (1996).[7]
- William P. Rogers, 87, American politician, diplomat and lawyer, congestive heart failure.[8]
- Alison de Vere, 73, British animator, director.[9]
- Jimmy Zámbó, 42, Hungarian pop singer, accidental gunshot.
3
- George H. Brown, 87, British film producer.
- Kwang-chih Chang, 69–70, Taiwanese-American archaeologist and sinologist, Parkinson's disease.[10]
- Jack Fleming, 77, American sports announcer (Pittsburgh Steelers, Chicago Bulls, West Virginia Mountaineers).[11]
- Kung Fu, 49, Mexican Luchador, arterial hypertension.
- Marty Glickman, 83, American radio announcer.[12]
- John F. Hayes, 85, American politician (Brooklyn Borough President).[13]
- Sushila Nayyar, 86, Indian politician and physician.
- Alex Sabo, 90, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[14]
4
- Alexandra Adler, 99, Austrian neurologist, daughter of psychoanalyst Alfred Adler.[15]
- Les Brown, 88, American swing bandleader ("Sentimental Journey"), lung cancer.[16]
- Pierre Leyris, 93, French translator.[17]
- Tadeusz Olechowski, 74, Polish communist politician and diplomat.
- John Rhoden, 82, American sculptor.[18]
- Perry Schwartz, 85, American gridiron football player (Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Yankees).[19]
- Bob Snyder, 87, American football player (Cleveland Rams, Chicago Bears), and coach.[20]
- André Thirion, 93, French writer and political activist.[21]
- Villaño I, 50, Mexican professional wrestler, heart attack following a cerebral haemorrhage.
5
- G. E. M. Anscombe, 81, British analytic philosopher.[22]
- Milan Hlavsa, 49, Czech songwriter and bass guitarist (Plastic People of the Universe), lung cancer.[23]
- Phelbert Lawson, 81, American baseball player.[24]
- Raj Kumar Mehra, 82, Indian racing cyclist and Olympian (1948, 1952).[25]
- Nancy Parsons, 58, American actress (Porky's), congestive heart failure.[26]
- James Phiri, 32, Zambian footballer, cancer.[27]
- Geoffrey Virgo, 82, Australian politician.
6
- Victor Braun, 65, Canadian baritone, Shy–Drager syndrome, multiple system atrophy.[28]
- Tokio Fukuda, 85, Japanese Olympic hurdler (1936).[29]
- Nadezhda Grigoryevna Grekova, 90, Soviet/Belarusian politician.
- Peter Lovell-Davis, Baron Lovell-Davis, 76, British publisher and politician.[30]
- Scott Marlowe, 68, American actor (Executive Suite, Murder, She Wrote), heart attack.[31]
- Leo Nowak, 93, American illustrator (Superman).[32]
- Tom Poholsky, 71, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs).[33]
- Bob Pratt, 88, Australian rules footballer.
- Tot Pressnell, 94, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Cubs).[34]
- Pretaap Radhakishun, 66, Surinamese politician.
7
- James Carr, 58, American rhythm and blues singer, lung cancer.[35]
- Jenő Csaknády, 76, Hungarian football manager.[36]
- Ken Durrett, 52, American basketball player (Cincinnati Royals / Kansas City-Omaha Kings, Philadelphia 76ers).[37]
- Quin Epperly, 87, American racing car constructor.
- František Hájek, 85, Czech Olympic basketball player (1936).[38]
- Charles Helou, 87, Lebanese politician, president (1964-1970), heart attack.[39]
- Johan van der Keuken, 62, Dutch documentary filmmaker, author, and photographer.[40]
- Joseph L. Melnick, 86, American epidemiologist and virologist.[41]
- Lowell Perry, 69, American gridiron football player and coach, businessman, and broadcaster.[42]
- Admiral Walker, 102, American baseball player.[43]
8
- Philip A. Barker, 80, British archaeologist.
- Art Brandau, 78, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).[44]
- Don Brodie, 96, American actor and director.
- Edwin Etherington, 76, American writer, lawyer, civil rights advocate, and president of the American Stock Exchange.[45]
- Chris Evert, 30, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
- Bert Hodges, 83, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[46]
- Alfred Neumann, 91, East German politician.
- Jake Schuehle, 83, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles).[47]
- Néstor Scotta, 52, Argentine football striker, car accident.
- Catherine Storr, 87, English children's writer, suicide.[48]
- Paul Winterton, 92, English journalist and crime novelist.[49]
9
- Paul Vanden Boeynants, 81, Belgian politician, Prime Minister (1966-1968, 1978–1979), pneumonia.[50]
- Peter Düttmann, 77, German World War II Luftwaffe flying ace.
- Judith Trim, 57, English studio potter, breast cancer.
- Carol Voges, 75, Dutch illustrator and comics artist.[51]
10
- Necati Cumalı, 79, Turkish writer and poet, liver cancer.[52]
- John Ditlev-Simonsen, 102, Norwegian sailor and Olympic silver medalist (1936).[53]
- Matthias Duan, 92, Chinese Roman Catholic bishop.
- Bryan Gregory, 49, American rock musician, heart failure.
- G. Lakshmanan, 76, Indian politician.
- Jacques Marin, 81, French actor, heart attack.[54]
- John G. Schmitz, 70, American politician, prostate cancer.[55]
- Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymin, 75, Saudi Salafi scholar.
- Esteban Vicente, 97, American painter.[56]
11
- Wanda Jean Allen, 41, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
- Ken Brown, 55, American professional football player (Cleveland Browns: 1970–1975).[57]
- Emilio Foriscot, 96, Spanish cinematographer.[58]
- Gerald Glatzmayer, 32, Austrian football player, traffic collision.[59]
- Oliver Gurney, 89, British Assyriologist.[60]
- James Hill, 84, American film producer and screenwriter.
- Dorothy M. Horstmann, 89, American epidemiologist, virologist and pediatrician, Alzheimer's disease.[61]
- Álvaro Jordan, 39, Colombian tennis player, severe shock.[62]
- Louis Krages, 51, German racing driver and businessman, suicide by gunshot.[63]
- Denys Lasdun, 86, British architect.[64]
- Ignacy Machowski, 80, Polish actor.[65]
- Claude V. Palisca, 79, American musicologist.[66]
- Victor Pickard, 97, Canadian track and field athlete and Olympian (1924, 1928).[67]
- Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia, 94, Russian noblewoman and monarchist.
- Lorna Sage, 57, British literary critic and writer, pulmonary emphysema.[68]
- Michael Williams, 65, British actor, lung cancer.[69]
12
- Affirmed, 25, American racehorse, euthanasia after contracting laminitis.
- Gianluigi Bonelli, 92, Italian comic book author and publisher.[70]
- Luiz Bonfá, 78, Brazilian guitarist and composer, prostate cancer.[71]
- József Csermák, 68, Hungarian hammer thrower and Olympic champion (1952, 1956, 1960).[72]
- Adhemar da Silva, 73, Brazilian triple jumper and Olympic champion (1948, 1952, 1956, 1960).[73]
- Bill Hewlett, 87, American co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, heart failure.[74]
- Mariano Juaristi, 96, Spanish Basque pelota player.
- Vladimir Semichastny, 76, Soviet politician, stroke.
- Elizabeth Sewell, 81, British-American critic, poet, and novelist.[75]
- Ibnu Sutowo, 86, Indonesian army officer, politician and businessman.
- Charles Malcolm Watkins, 89, American historian, archaeologist, and curator.[76]
13
- Michael Cuccione, 16, Canadian actor and musician, respiratory failure.[77]
- Bill Fraser, 76, New Zealand politician.[78]
- Stan Freeman, 80, American musician, pulmonary emphysema.[79]
- Arnoldo Pekelharing, 64, Argentine Olympic sailor (1956, 1964).[80]
- Amando de Ossorio Rodríguez, 82, Spanish film director.
14
- Luigi Broglio, 89, Italian aerospace engineer.
- Jim Coleman, 89, Canadian sports journalist and writer.
- Dennis Fitzgerald, 64, American freestyle wrestler and football player and coach.[81]
- Burkhard Heim, 75, German theoretical physicist.
- George McCabe, 78, English football referee.
- Kostas Rigopoulos, 70, Greek actor, stroke.[82]
- Simone Ruas, 81, French Olympic high jumper (1948).[83]
- Vic Wilson, 69, British racing driver, traffic collision.
- Joe Zapustas, 93, Latvian-American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[84]
15
- Alex Blignaut, 68, South African racing driver and racing team owner, domestic accident.
- Bob Braun, 71, American local television personality and actor (Die Hard 2, Defending Your Life).[85]
- Bert Corona, 82, American labor and civil rights leader.[86]
- David Lapsley, 76, Scottish footballer.
- Ted Mann, 84, American businessman (Mann Theatres) and film producer (Brubaker, Krull).[87]
- Leo Marks, 80, British World War II cryptographer, cancer.[88]
- Margit Nagy-Sándor, 79, Hungarian gymnast and Olympic silver medalist (1936, 1948).[89]
- Kaija Siren, 80, Finnish architect.[90]
- Riaz ud-Din, 58, Pakistani field hockey player and Olympic champion (1968).[91]
16
- Laurent-Désiré Kabila, 61, Congolese politician and President, shot.[92]
- Richard MacNeish, 82, American archaeologist.[93]
- Melvin McQuaid, 89, Canadian politician.[94]
- Virginia O'Brien, 81, American actress (Lady Be Good, Ship Ahoy, Ziegfeld Follies).[95]
- Wanda Piłsudska, 82, Polish psychiatrist.
- Jitendra Prasada, 62, Indian politician and Vice-President of the Indian National Congress, cerebral haemorrhage.
- Ibrahim Shams, 84, Egyptian weightlifter and Olympic champion (1936, 1948).[96]
- Jules Vuillemin, 80, French philosopher.[97]
- Auberon Waugh, 61, British journalist and author, heart failure.[98]
- Leonard Woodcock, 89, American trade unionist and diplomat (U.S. ambassador to the People's Republic of China).[99]
17
- Lucius Desha Bunton III, 76, American district judge (United States District Court for the Western District of Texas).[100]
- Gregory Corso, 70, American poet (Beat Generation), prostate cancer.[101]
- Homero Cárpena, 90, Argentine film actor.
- John B. Hayes, 76, American coast guard admiral, traffic collision.
- Tom Kilburn, 79, British computer scientist.[102]
- Sergej Kraigher, 86, Yugoslav politician, President of Slovenia.
- Garland O'Shields, 79, American basketball player.[103]
- Robert Robertson, 70, British actor (Taggart, Breaking the Waves, Doctor Who), heart failure.
- Rito Romero, 73, Mexican professional wrestler, heart attack.
- Wakabayama Sadao, 78, Japanese sumo wrestler, cerebral thrombosis.
- Norris Turney, 79, American jazz flautist and saxophonist, kidney failure.[104]
- Sigurd Vestad, 93, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympian (1932).[105]
18
- Mordechai Gifter, 85, American orthodox rabbi.
- Sigurd Grønli, 73, Norwegian Olympic rower (1948).[106]
- Peter Haigh, 75, English BBC Television announcer.
- Zip Hanna, 84, American football player (Washington Redskins).[107]
- Abdul Rahim Ishak, 75, Singaporean politician and journalist.
- Morris Lapidus, 98, Russian-American architect, heart failure.[108]
- Evald Mahl, 85, Estonian basketball player and Olympian (1936).[109]
- Sammy Odom, 59, American football player (Houston Oilers).[110]
- Reg Prentice, Baron Prentice, 77, British politician and government minister.[111]
- Imre Sinkovits, 72, Hungarian actor.[112]
- Boris Stenin, 66, Soviet speed skater, coach, and Olympian (1960).[113]
- Al Waxman, 65, Canadian actor (King of Kensington, Cagney & Lacey, Atlantic City).[114]
19
- Johnny Babich, 87, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Bees, Philadelphia Athletics).[115]
- Andy Dudish, 82, American football player (Buffalo Bisons, Baltimore Colts, Detroit Lions).[116]
- Alberto Gallardo, 60, Peruvian football player, manager, and Olympian (1960).[117]
- Guillermo Giribaldi, 71, Curaçaoan footballer and Olympian (1952).[118]
- Bill Hempel, 80, American football player (Chicago Bears).[119]
- Maxine Mesinger, 75, American newspaper columnist (Houston Chronicle), complications of multiple sclerosis.[120]
- Paul Olum, 82, American mathematician.[121]
- Harry Oster, 77, American folklorist and musicologist.[122]
- Mubarak Shah, 70, Pakistani long-distance runner and Olympian (1960).[123]
- Gustave Thibon, 97, French philosopher and author.[124]
20
- Rønnaug Alten, 90, Norwegian actress and stage instructor.
- Nico Assumpção, 46, Brazilian bass player, cancer.
- Santiago E. Campos, 74, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of New Mexico).[125]
- Eddie Donovan, 78, American professional basketball coach and executive (New York Knicks).[126]
- Beverley Peck Johnson, 96, American voice teacher, soprano, and pianist.[127]
- Crispin Nash-Williams, 68, British mathematician.
- Michael Reinartz, 72, German Olympic rower (1952).[128]
- Herb Scheffler, 83, American basketball player.[129]
- Zdeněk Sobotka, 84, Czech Olympic high jumper (1936).[130]
21
- Sasidharan Arattuvazhi, 45, Indian playwright and screenwriter, cirrhosis.
- Sandy Baron, 64, American stand-up comic, actor (Seinfeld) and songwriter, emphysema.[131]
- Birger Bühring-Andersen, 93, Norwegian Olympic sports shooter (1948).[132]
- Pier Giorgio Cazzola, 63, Italian sprinter and Olympian (1960).[133]
- Byron De La Beckwith, 80, American white supremacist and klansman, cardiovascular disease.[134]
- Walt Miller, 85, American basketball player.[135]
- Joseph O'Conor, 84, Irish actor and playwright.[136]
- Ricardo Castro Ríos, 80, Spanish-Argentine film actor.
- Nedžad Verlašević, 45, Yugoslav and Bosnian football manager and player, heart attack.[137]
22
- Tommie Agee, 58, American baseball player, heart attack.[138]
- Tuomas Anhava, 73, Finnish writer.
- Roy Brown, 68, American television personality, puppeteer and clown (The Bozo Show).[139]
- Anne Burns, 85, British aeronautical engineer and glider pilot.
- Zuehl Conoly, 80, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).[140]
- Sir Alistair Grant, 63, British businessman.[141]
23
- Umar Mustafa al-Muntasir, 62, Libyan politician, Prime Minister.
- Albert David Baumhart, Jr., 92, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1941-1942, 1955-1961).[142]
- Vladimir Belyayev, 67, Soviet football player.
- Clayton Fritchey, 96, American journalist.[143]
- Heinz Hopf, 66, Swedish actor, laryngeal cancer.
- Lou Levy, 72, American jazz pianist, heart attack.[144]
- Jack McDuff, 74, American jazz organist, heart failure.[145]
- Nedko Nedev, 80, Bulgarian football player.
- Fred Ray, 80, American comic book artist (Superman, Tomahawk).[146]
- Mikael Sundström, 43, Finnish rally driver.
- Moy Yat, 62, Hong Kong martial artist, painter, and author.
24
- Michael Chowdry, 46, Pakistani-American businessman, founder of Atlas Air, plane crash.[147]
- Steve Dowden, 71, American gridiron football player (Baylor University, Green Bay Packers).[148]
- Frans Pauwels, 82, Dutch racing cyclist.[149]
- Leif Thybo, 78, Danish organist and composer.
- Osman Türkay, 73, Turkish Cypriot poet.
- Dick Whittinghill, 87, American film and television actor, and radio DJ.
25
- Alice Ambrose, 94, American philosopher, logician, and author.[150]
- John T. Biggers, 76, American muralist.[151]
- Aleksandr Chudakov, 79, Soviet and Russian physicist.
- Ashraf Fahmy, 64, Egyptian film director.
- Reijo Jalava, 68, Finnish footballer.[152]
- Don Morrison, 77, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks).[153]
- Vijayaraje Scindia, 81, Indian politician.
- Margaret Scriven, 88, British tennis player.
- Guy Tréjan, 79, French actor.[154]
- Dare Wright, 86, Canadian–American children's author, model, and photographer, respiratory failure.[155]
26
- Murray Edelman, 81, American political scientist.[156]
- Al McGuire, 72, American college basketball coach (Marquette University) and television commentator, leukemia.[157]
- Valentino Orsini, 74, Italian film director.[158]
- Fanula Papazoglu, 83, Yugoslav and Serbian classical scholar and epigrapher.
27
- Marie-José of Belgium, 94, Italian royal and last queen of Italy, lung cancer.[159]
- Pedro Carrasco, 57, Spanish boxer, heart attack.[160]
- Tommy Luther, 92, American horse racing jockey.
- Sándor Noszály, 60, Hungarian Olympic high jumper (1960).[161]
- André Prévost, 66, Canadian music composer and instructor (Order of Canada).[162]
- Robert Alexander Rankin, 85, Scottish mathematician.
- Arthur Jehu Stanley Jr., 99, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Kansas).[163]
- Cal Strong, 93, American water polo player and Olympian (1932).[164]
- Hachiya Toshiyuki, 50, Japanese sumo wrestler.[165]
28
- Curt Blefary, 57, American baseball player, pancreatitis.[166]
- Jill-Lyn Euto, 18, American murder victim.
- Al Fiorentino, 83, American professional football player (Washington Redskins, Boston Yanks).[167]
- Earl Ben Gilliam, 69, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of California).[168]
- Ellen Hammer, 79, American historian.[169]
- Stephen Malcolm, 30, Jamaican international football player, car accident.[170]
- Sally Mansfield, 77, American actress (Rocky Jones, Space Ranger), lung cancer.[171]
- Ranko Marinković, 87, Croatian novelist and dramatist.[172]
- Thikkodiyan, 84, Indian playwright, novelist and lyricist.
29
- Frances Bible, 82, American operatic mezzo-soprano (New York City Opera).[173]
- Julia Bodmer, 66, British geneticist.[174]
- Edmund Fuller, 86, American educator, novelist, historian, and literary critic.[175]
- Pablo Hernán, 23, Argentine football player, traffic accident.
- Larry Kimbrough, 77, American baseball player.[176]
- Thomas C. Lea III, 93, American muralist, illustrator, novelist, and historian.[177]
- Pierre Roche, 81, French-Canadian pianist, singer and composer.[178]
- Ninian Smart, 73, Scottish religious scholar.[179]
- Max Weiler, 90, Austrian painter.
30
- Jean-Pierre Aumont, 90, French actor, heart attack.[180]
- Jean Coulston, 66, New Zealand cricket player.[181]
- Edmund Fetting, 73, Polish film and theatrical actor and singer.[182]
- David Heneker, 94, British composer and lyricist (Irma La Douce, Half a Sixpence, Charlie Girl).[183]
- Job Dean Jessop, 74, American thoroughbred racing jockey.
- Johnnie Johnson, 85, British World War II fighter ace.[184]
- O. Winston Link, 86, American photographer.[185]
- Rodolfo Morales, 75, Mexican painter, pancreatic cancer.[186]
- Michel Marcel Navratil, 92, French philosophy professor.
- John Prebble, 85, British journalist and historian.[187]
- Joseph Ransohoff, 85, American neurosurgeon.[188]
- Hartmut Reck, 68, German television and film actor.
- Bernie Semes, 82, American football player (Card-Pitt).[189]
- John Taylor, 86, British Anglican bishop.[190]
31
- Renaat Braem, 90, Belgian architect and urban planner.[191]
- Gordon R. Dickson, 77, American science fiction writer, asthma.[192]
- Adi Havewala, 83-84, Indian Olympic cyclist (1948).[193]
- Albin Nyamoya, 76, Burundian politician, Prime Minister.[194]
- Heinz Starke, 89, German politician.[195]
- Manuel Suárez, 80, Spanish Olympic hurdler (1948).[196]