Deaths in June 2001
The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.
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.[2]
- Nkosi Johnson, 12, South African AIDS awareness campaigner, AIDS.[3]
2
- Imogene Coca, 92, American actress (Your Show of Shows).[4]
- John T. Fesperman, 76, American conductor, organist and author (Division of Musical Instruments at the National Museum of History and Technology).[5]
- Sir Kenneth Hayr, 66, British air marshal.
- Joey Maxim, 79, American professional boxer (World Light Heavyweight Champion).[6]
- Frank Stagg, 89, American Southern Baptist theologian and author.[7]
- Gene Woodling, 78, American baseball player.[8]
3
- J. C. Furnas, 95, American writer and social historian.[9]
- Jamake Highwater, 70, American writer.[10]
- Anthony Quinn, 86, Mexican-American actor (The Guns of Navarone, Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia) (two-time winner of Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor).[11]
4
- John Corriden, 83, American baseball player.[12]
- Dipendra, King of Nepal, 29, suicide.[13]
- John Hartford, 63, American musician and composer ("Gentle on My Mind").[14]
- Chenjerai Hunzvi, 51, Zimbabwean politician.[15]
- Pierre Lamaison, 52, French anthropologist.
- Lu Jiaxi, 85, Chinese physical chemist.
- Joan Vohs, 73, American model and actress (Fort Ti, Fireside Theater, Maverick, Perry Mason, Family Affair).[16]
5
- Pedro Laín Entralgo, 93, Spanish medical historian.[17]
- Aaron Green, 84, American architect and protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright.[18]
- Howard Earl Johnston, 72, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Okanagan—Kootenay and Okanagan—Revelstoke, British Columbia).[19]
6
- Joe Darion, 84, American musical theatre lyricist (two-time Tony Award winner for Man of La Mancha: Tony Award for Best Musical, Tony Award for Best Original Score).[20]
- Ford Garrison, 85, American baseball player.[21]
- Douglas Lilburn, 85, New Zealand composer.
7
- Víctor Paz Estenssoro, 93, Bolivian politician and four-term President of Bolivia.[22]
- Boris Lavrenko, 81, Russian painter.
- Charles Templeton, 85, Canadian cartoonist, broadcaster and writer.
- Leonard Tepper, 61, American actor and comedian.
8
- Aviva Gileadi, 83, Israeli nuclear scientist.
- Duncan MacIntyre, 85, New Zealand politician.
- Kotayya Pratyagatma, 75, Indian film journalist, director and producer.
- Nathaniel Rochester, 82, American computer scientist.
- Don Roper, 78, English footballer.
- Lanette Scheeline, 90, American artist and designer.
9
- Carol Bernstein Ferry, 76, American social change philanthropist.[23]
- Richard T. Hanna, 87, American politician (U.S. Representative for California's 34th congressional district), convicted of receiving illegals payments (Koreagate).[24]
- Harold A. Jerry Jr., 81, American lawyer and politician, known for environmental preservation of the Adirondacks.[25]
10
- Joyce King, 80, Australian Olympic sprinter.
- John McKay, 77, American football assistant coach (Oregon Ducks) and head coach (USC Trojans, Tampa Bay Buccaneers).[26]
- Mike Mentzer, 49, American bodybuilder.[27]
- Princess Leila Pahlavi of Iran, 31, Iranian Princess and daughter of the Shah of Iran.[28]
11
- Lou Fant, 69, American teacher, author, expert on American Sign Language, and actor (Ace Hardware's "helpful hardware man").[29]
- Lou Lombardo, 72, American baseball player.[30]
- Timothy McVeigh, 33, American convicted terrorist (Oklahoma City bombing).[31]
- Amalia Mendoza, 77, Mexican singer ("Échame a mi la culpa", "Amarga navidad").[32]
12
- W. D. Davies, 89/90, Welsh congregationalist minister and theologian.
- Viktor Hamburger, 100, German embryologist.[33]
- Thomas Wilson, 73, Scottish composer.[34]
13
- Gordon Christie, 86, New Zealand politician.
- Marcelo Fromer, 39, Brazilian rock musician, traffic accident.
- Robert Heyssel, 72, American health-service executive (President of Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1982 to 1992).[35]
- Digish Mehta, 66, Indian essayist, novelist and critic.
- Rajzel Żychlińsky, 90, Polish poet.
14
- Paul Carey, 38, American civil servant, endocrine cancer.
- Oleg Fedoseyev, 65, Soviet Olympic long jump and triple jump athlete (silver medal winner in men's triple jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics).[36]
- Miroslav Marcovich, 82, Serbian-American philologist.
- Jay D. Scott, 48, American convicted murderer.
- Horace M. Wade, 85, general in the US Air Force.
15
- Henri Alekan, 92, French cinematographer, leukemia.[37]
- Mikhail Gluzsky, 82, Russian actor.
- John Harper, 71, American politician, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives.
- Marcelino Solis, 70, Mexican baseball player.[38]
16
- Alessandro Faedo, 87, Italian mathematician and politician.
- Wally Hood, 75, American baseball player.[39]
- Sam Jethroe, 84, American baseball player, heart attack.[40]
- Ragheb Moftah, 102, Egyptian Coptic musicologist.
- Duchess Altburg of Oldenburg, 98, German noblewoman.
- Jay Rabinowitz, 74, American lawyer and jurist, complications of leukemia.
- Arthur Wheeler (motorcyclist), 85, British motorcyclist
17
- Diana Bellamy, 57, American character actress (Air Force One, Outrageous Fortune, Popular).[41]
- Donald J. Cram, 82, American chemist and co-winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987.[42]
- Ninfa Laurenzo, 77, Houston restaurateur, bone cancer.
- Mohammad Yunus, 84, Indian diplomat.
18
- Dame Rosamund Holland-Martin, 86, British head of the NSPCC.[43]
- Ivan Neill, 88, British Anglican priest and Army officer.
- Davorin Popović, 54, Bosnian singer-songwriter.
- Paolo Emilio Taviani, 88, Italian politician, economist and historian.
- Karl Friedrich Titho, 90, German nazi criminal.
19
- Lindsay L. Cooper, 61, Scottish musician.
- Jerry Cornes, 91, British athlete.
- John Heyer, 84, Australian documentary filmmaker (The Back of Beyond).[44]
- Col Maxwell, 83, Australian rugby league player.
- David Sylvester, 76, British art critic.
20
- Angela Browne, 63, British actress (Ghost Squad, The Avengers, The Prisoner, Upstairs, Downstairs, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes).[45]
- Bob Keegan, 80, American baseball player.[46]
- Bert Kramer, 66, American actor (Kojak, The Bionic Woman, The Rockford Files, Dallas, Dynasty, Matlock).[47]
- Delbert Leroy True, 77, American architect.
21
- John Lee Hooker, 83, American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist (appeared in The Blues Brothers).[48]
- Soad Hosny, 58, Egyptian actress ("Cinderella of Egyptian cinema").[49]
- Carroll O'Connor, 76, American actor (All in the Family).[50]
- Vernon Sewell, 97, British film director.[51]
22
- Arbi Barayev, 27, Chechen warlord, killed during a raid by the Russian military special forces.
- Luis Carniglia, 83, Argentine footballer and manager.
- George Evans, 81, American comic book and comic strip cartoonist and illustrator.[52]
- John Herbert, 74, Canadian playwright (Fortune and Men's Eyes).[53]
- Lika Yanko, 73, Bulgarian artist.
23
- Corinne Calvet, 76, French actress (What Price Glory?, Sailor Beware, So This Is Paris, On the Riviera).[54]
- Panteley Dimitrov, 60, Bulgarian footballer.
- Yvonne Dionne, 67, Canadian quintuplet (first known quintuplets to have survived their infancy).[55]
24
- Sergey Cherny, 24, Russian serial killer, pneumonia.
- Onni Hynninen, 90, Finnish Olympic shooter (men's shooting 50 metre rifle prone at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[56]
- Robinson McIlvaine, 87, US diplomat.
- Avadhanam Sita Raman, 82, Indian writer and journalist.
- Nicola Ann Raphael, 15, Scottish schoolgirl, suicide.
- Milton Santos, 75, Brazilian geographer.
- William H. Sewell, 91, American sociologist.[57]
25
- Ken La Grange, 78, South African Olympic boxer (middleweight boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[58]
- Gabriel Hernández, 27, Dominican Olympic boxer (light heavyweight boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics).[59]
- Kurt Hoffmann, 90, German film director and son of Carl Hoffmann.
- Frederick C. Langone, American politician.
- John LeRoy, 26, American baseball player.[60]
- Paxton Mills, 52, American radio broadcaster and announcer, heart disease.
- George Senesky, 79, American professional basketball player and coach, cancer.
- Charles S. Whitehouse, 79, American career diplomat, cancer.
26
- William Bryant, 77, American character actor (Escape from San Quentin, Experiment in Terror, How to Murder Your Wife, The Great Race).[61]
- Gina Cigna, 101, French-Italian dramatic soprano.[62]
- Oluf C. Müller, 80, Norwegian civil servant.
- Robert Smith, 88, American actor.
- Soccer, 13, American dog actor.
27
- Hal Goldman, 81, American screenwriter, three Primetime Emmy Awards: The Jack Benny Program (1959, 1960), An Evening with Carol Channing (1966).[63]
- Darrell Huff, 86, American statistician.
- Tove Jansson, 86, Finnish author, painter and comic strip artist.[64]
- Jack Lemmon, 76, American actor (Days of Wine and Roses, The Odd Couple) and film director, bladder and colorectal cancer.[65]
- Udo Proksch, 67, Austrian industrialist.
- Joan Sims, 71, British actress (Carry On Nurse, Carry On Cleo, Carry On Camping, On the Up, As Time Goes By).[66]
- Jukka Wuolio, 74, Finnish ice hockey player.
28
- Mortimer J. Adler, 98, American philosopher and author.[67]
- Jim Ellis, 45, American computer scientist (Usenet).[68]
- David G. Freeman, 80, American badminton player (multi-year U.S. Champion).[69]
- Caroline R. Jones, 59, American advertising pioneer.[70]
29
- Mary Barnes, 86, English artist and writer.[71]
- Maximos V Hakim, 93, Egyptian patriarch.
- Silvio Oddi, 90, Italian cardinal and Vatican diplomat.
30
- Chet Atkins, 77, American country musician (14 Grammy Awards, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum).[72]
- Joe Fagan, 80, English football manager.
- Joe Henderson, 64, American jazz tenor saxophonist.[73]
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