Deaths in May 2001
The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.
May 2001
1
- Happy Hairston, 58, American professional basketball player (Cincinnati Royals, Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Lakers).[1]
- Richardson Pratt Jr, 78, American businessman, pancreatic cancer.
- Ernie Wheelwright, 61, American football player.
2
- Dick Jamieson, 63, American minor league baseball player, professional football player (Baltimore Colts, New York Titans) and football coach (Indiana State University).[2]
- Howard Kahane, 73, American professor of philosophy.
- Ted Rogers, 65, British comedian, complications after open-heart surgery.[3]
- Theodore Roosevelt III, 86, American banker and government official.
- Henry Zolinsky, 97, American poet.
3
- Byrd Brown, 71, American civil rights leader, activist and lawyer.[4]
- Philip George Houthem Gell, 86, British immunologist.[5]
- Billy Higgins, 64, American jazz drummer.[6]
- Hank Schmulbach, 76, American baseball player.[7]
4
- Anne Anastasi, 92, American psychologist.
- Bonnie Lee Bakley, 44, American socialite, shot.
- Gene Grabosky, 64, American professional football player (Syracuse University, Buffalo Bills).[8]
- Rita Lawrence, 90, British pianist and singer.
- Stan Newsham, 69, English footballer.
- Arne Sucksdorff, 84, Swedish film director, pneumonia.
5
- Charles Black, 85, American constitutional scholar.[9]
- Boozoo Chavis, 70, American accordion player, singer, songwriter and bandleader (Zydeco).[10]
- Morris Graves, 90, American expressionist painter.
- Cliff Hillegass, 83, American creator of CliffsNotes, stroke.[11]
- Bill Homeier, 82, American racecar driver (three Indianapolis 500s).[12]
- David Jamieson, 80, British army officer, recipient of the Victoria Cross.[13]
- Wang Yinglai, 93, Chinese biochemist, total chemical synthesis of insulin and tRNA.
6
- Weldon B. Gibson, 84, American economist and an executive at SRI International.[14]
- Mike Hazlewood, 59, English singer, composer and songwriter, heart attack.
- Laïty Kama, 62, Senegalese lawyer and president of the ICTR.
- Karl Wilhelm Krause, 90, German Waffen-SS officer.
- Cecil Price, 63, American deputy sheriff and Ku Klux Klan member, fall from a piece of equipment.
7
- Edwin Finckel, 83, American jazz pianist, composer (George White's Scandals) and music educator.[15]
- Joseph Greenberg, 85, American linguist, known for his work on linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages.[16]
- Dick Kimble, 85, American baseball player.[17]
- Simon Slåttvik, 83, Norwegian Olympic skier (gold medal winner of the Nordic combined at the 1952 Winter Olympics).[18]
- Arthur Christopher Watson, 74, British diplomat.
8
- Paul Dekker, 70, American professional football player (Washington Redskins, Hamilton Tiger-Cats).[19]
- Larry Hornung, 55, Canadian ice hockey player.[20]
- Wilhelm Meentzen, 86, German naval officer.
- Piero Natoli, 53, Italian actor and film director.
9
- Jay Bailey, American chemical engineer.
- Nikos Sampson, 65, Cypriot politician, de facto President of Cyprus (1974).
- Leslie Sands, 79, British actor.
- William T. Stearn, 90, British botanist.
10
- Turi Ferro, 80, Italian actor (Liolà, The Seduction of Mimi, Malizia).[21]
- James E. Myers, 81, American songwriter ("Rock Around the Clock"), actor and director.[22]
- Arthur Tange, 86, Australian public servant.
- Deborah Walley, 57, American actress (Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Beach Blanket Bingo, Spinout) and voice-over artist, esophageal cancer.[23]
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.[24]
- Michael J. Bird, 72, British writer.
- Guy Carlton, 47, American Olympic weightlifter (bronze medal winner in heavyweight weightlifting at the 1984 Summer Olympics).[25]
12
- Perry Como, 88, American singer, actor and television personality.[26]
- Didi, 72, Brazilian footballer.[27]
- Fritz Pfenninger, 66, Swiss racing cyclist.
- Simon Raven, 73, British writer.
- Alexei Tupolev, 75, Soviet aircraft designer.[28]
- Corissa Yasen, 27, professional basketball player, suicide.
13
- Eddra Gale, 79, American actress (8½, What's New Pussycat?, The Graduate, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, Somewhere in Time).[29]
- Peter Garthwaite, 91, English forester.[30]
- Jason Miller, 62, American playwright and actor.[31]
- R. K. Narayan, 94, Indian writer.[32]
14
- Alex Glasgow, 65, English singer-songwriter (On Your Way, Riley!, When the Boat Comes In).[33]
- Peter Griffith, 67, American child actor.
- Gil Langley, 81, Australian Test cricketer and politician.
15
- Ralph Miller, 82, American college basketball coach.
- Bobby Murdoch, 56, Scottish professional footballer, stroke.
- William Oates, 71, English first-class cricketer.
- Georgy Shakhnazarov, 76, Soviet-Armenian politician and political scientist.
16
- Charles Coe, 77, American amateur golfer.
- Loren C. Dunn, 70, American Mormon general authority.
- Prince Ital Joe, 38, Dominican-American reggae artist, car accident.
- Brian Pendleton, 57, British guitarist (The Pretty Things), lung cancer.[34]
17
- Ike Brown, 59, American baseball player.[35]
- Alexander Cave, 100, British anatomist.[36]
- Enid Hattersley, 96, English Labour Party politician and Lord Mayor of Sheffield.[37]
- Robert Knapp, 77, American actor (Days of Our Lives, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, The F.B.I.).[38]
- Jacques-Louis Lions, 73, French mathematician.
- Frank G. Slaughter, 93, American novelist and physician.[39]
18
- Rosa Beddington, 45, British biologist, cancer.[40]
- Stella Mary Newton, 100, British fashion designer and dress historian.
- Robert F. Woodward, 92, American diplomat.
19
- Freddy Derby, 61, Surinamese politician and trade unionist.
- John Joseph Egan, 84, American Roman Catholic priest and social activist.
- Joe Graydon, 82, American big band vocalist, television host, personal manager and concert producer.[41]
- Josef Haunzwickel, 86, Austrian Olympic athlete (men's pole vault at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[42]
- Joe Lovitto, 50, American baseball player.[43]
- Susannah McCorkle, 55, American jazz singer.[44]
- Barry Morris, 66, Australian politician.
- John Warner, 78, British actor.
20
- Carl Eric Almgren, 88, Swedish Army general.
- Renato Carosone, 81, Italian musician.[45]
- Zhang Jun, 34, Chinese robber and serial killer, executed.
- Bob Keely, 91, American baseball coach, scout and player.[46]
- Carlos Lara, 66, Argentine-Mexican footballer and coach.
- Bud Thomas, 90, American baseball player.[47]
21
- Erkin Bairam, 43, Cypriot-born New Zealand economist.
- Mel Hoderlein, 77, American baseball player.[48]
- Bob Johnson, 65, Australian rules footballer.
- Graham Webster, 87, British archaeologist.
22
- Ralph Hamner, 84, American baseball player.[49]
- Whitman Mayo, 70, American actor (Sanford and Son), heart attack.[50]
- Jack Watling, 78, British actor (The Plane Makers, The Power Game, Pathfinders).[51]
23
- Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, 72, Palestinian-born American academic.
- Tommy Eyre, 51, British keyboardist.
- Bob Gaona, 70, American professional football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles).[52]
- Douglas Gardiner, 96, Australian architect.
- Chuck Gelatka, 87, American professional football player (Mississippi State, New York Giants).[53]
- Boris Gyuderov, 74, Bulgarian Olympic volleyball player (1964).[54]
- P. Ramachandran, 79, Indian politician, Governor of Kerala.[55]
- Harry Townes, 86, American actor (Finian's Rainbow, Gunsmoke, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek) and an Episcopalian priest.[56]
24
- Lucy Boscana, 85, Puerto Rico actress.
- Elvin Hutchison, 88, American football player and official.
- Paul Kor, 74, Israeli painter and children's writer.
- Javier Urruticoechea, 49, Spanish footballer, car crash.
25
- Arturo Maly, 61, Argentine actor.
- Sir Harold Ridley, 94, British ophthalmologist.
- Paladine Roye, 54, Native American painter.
26
- Vittorio Brambilla, 63, Italian Formula One race car driver.[57]
- Anne Haney, 67, American actress (Mrs. Doubtfire, The American President, Liar Liar), heart failure.[58]
- Moven Mahachi, 53, Zimbabwean Minister of Defence of the Republic of Zimbabwe.[59]
27
- Ramon Bieri, 71, American actor (Sarge, Room 222, Daniel Boone, Gunsmoke).[60]
- Victor Kiam, 74, American entrepreneur, TV spokesman (Remington Products) and owner of the New England Patriots football team (1988–1991).[61]
- Ralph Nichols, 90, English badminton player.
- Jack Scowen, 65, Canadian politician.
28
- Tony Ashton, 55, English rock pianist, music producer and artist.[62]
- Joe Moakley, 74, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 9th congressional district (1973 – 2001).[63]
- Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, 79, Indian medical scientist.
- Rockets Redglare, 52, American character actor and comedian (After Hours, Desperately Seeking Susan).[64]
- Elizabeth S. Russell, 88, American geneticist.
- Francisco Varela, 54, Chilean biologist, philosopher and neuroscientist.[65]
29
- John Fleming, 81, British art historian.[66]
- Eddie Forrest, 79, American professional football player (San Francisco 49ers).[67]
- Akira Fujita, 93, Japanese Olympic water polo player (men's water polo at the 1932 Summer Olympics).[68]
- Peter MacLeod, 70, Canadian politician and farmer.
- Charley Pell, 60, American college football player and coach, lung cancer.
- Hédi Temessy, 76, Hungarian actress.
30
- Terry Gathercole, 65, Australian Olympic swimmer (silver medal winner of the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics).[69]
- Adrian Hastings, 71, British Roman Catholic priest and historian.
- Renée Schuurman, 61, South African tennis player.
31
- Arlene Francis, 93, American actress, radio and television talk show host, and game show panelist (What's My Line?), alzheimer's disease and cancer.[70]
- Jagannath Kaushal, 86, Indian politician.
- Nancy Stevenson, 72, American politician.
- Rosemary Verey, 82, English garden designer.
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