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January 2001
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February 2001
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March 2001
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April 2001
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May 2001
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June 2001
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July 2001
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August 2001
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September 2001
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October 2001
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November 2001
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December 2001
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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
27 -
Mordecai Richler
, 69,
Canadian
author
:
Jacob Two-Two
30 -
Jean-Pierre Aumont
, 90,
French
actor, heart attack
30 -
Joseph Ransohoff
, 85,
American
neurosurgeon
30 -
John Vernon Taylor
, 86,
British
Anglican
bishop
31 -
Gordon R. Dickson
, 77,
American
science fiction
writer,
asthma
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
7 - Sir
Michael Grylls
, 66,
British
politician
.
8 -
Leslie Edwards
, 84,
British
ballet dancer
.
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
, 69,
American
baseball player
, member of the
Baseball Hall of Fame
,
pneumonia
18 -
Dale Earnhardt
, 49,
American
NASCAR
race car driver
,
crash
during
race
19 -
Stanley Kramer
, 87,
American
film director
and
producer
,
pneumonia
19 -
Priscilla Davis
, 67, former
Fort Worth, Texas
socialite
,
breast cancer
19 -
Charles Trenet
, 87,
French
singer
22 -
Les Medley
, 80, England international footballer, natural causes
24 -
Claude Elwood Shannon
, 84,
American
electrical engineer
and
mathematician
25 - Sir
Donald Bradman
, 92,
Australian
cricketer
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
25
Willie Horne
, 79,
British
rugby league
player.
28
Moe Koffman
, 72,
Canadian
flautist and saxophonist, cancer
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,
Welsh
actor, comedian, member of
The Goon Show
, prostate cancer
12
Harvey Ball
, 79, American inventor of the
smiley
15
Joey Ramone
(b. Jeffry Hyman), 49, American musician, lead singer for
The Ramones
, lymphoma
16
Alec Stock
, 84,
English
footballer and football manager
24
Peter Nugent
, 63,
Australian
politician
25
Michele Alboreto
, 44, Italian racing driver
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
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
(prostate cancer)
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
21
Souad Hosni
, 59, Egyptian
actress
27
Tove Jansson
, 86, Finnish
author
27
Jack Lemmon
, 76, American
actor
and film director (bladder and colorectal cancer)
28
Joan Sims
, 71, British
actress
30
Chet Atkins
, 77, American
country musician
July 2001
3
Delia Derbyshire
, 64,
British
musician
(renal failure)
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
31
A. G. Dickens
, 91,
British
historian
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
9
Humphry Bowen
, 72, British botanist and chemist
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 R&B singer and actress
29
Graham "Shirley" Strachan
, 50, Australian singer and television presenter
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
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September 11 attacks
11
Mohamed Atta
, 33, Egyptian terrorist
11
David Angell
, 55, American television producer
11
Garnet Bailey
, 53, Canadian ice hockey player and scout
11
Todd Beamer
, 32, American airline passenger
11
Berry Berenson
, 53, American actress and photographer
11
Mark Bingham
, 31, American airline passenger
11
Tom Burnett
, 38, American airline passenger
11
Jeremy Glick
, 31, American airline passenger
11
Barbara Olson
, 45, American television commentator
11
Alice Stewart Trillin
, 63, American author and film producer
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
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
26
John Platts-Mills
, 95,
British
politician
and
lawyer
31
Angus MacVicar
, 93,
British
author
.
November 2001
10
Ken Kesey
, 66, American author, counter-cultural figure
12
Tony Miles
, 46,
English
chess player
18
Malcolm McFee
, 52, Actor
22
Mary Kay Ash
, 83, American businesswoman, founder of
Mary Kay Cosmetics
24
Melanie Thornton
, 34, singer, plane crash near
Zürich
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
December 2001
2
Valorie Jones
, The Jones Girls
4
Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj
, 75,
Sultan
of
Selangor
and
Yang di-Pertuan Agong
of
Malaysia
5 Sir
Peter Blake
, 53,
New Zealand
sailor and
environmentalist
, shot by
pirates
on the
Amazon River
5
Franco Rasetti
, 100,
Italian
physicist
7
Sir Raymond Powell
, 73,
British
politician
8
Don Tennant
, 79, American advertising executive, inventor of
Tony the Tiger
and the
Marlboro Man
13
Yvan Craipeau
, 90,
French
Trotskyist
13
Chuck Schuldiner
, 33,
death metal
guitarist and vocalist
15
Rufus Thomas
, 84,
R&B
/
soul
singer
20
Léopold Senghor
, 95, first
President
of
Senegal
; also a world-renowned
poet
and
writer
27
Ian Hamilton
, 63, British critic, poet, magazine publisher
29
Takashi Asahina
, 93, Japanese conductor
30
Eileen Heckart
, 82,
Oscar
-winning American actor
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