Deaths in January 2001
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
- Sir Michael Hanley, 82, British intelligence officer, Director-General of MI5.[1]
- Constantin Rădulescu, 76, Romanian doctor, footballer and manager.
- Ray Walston, 86, American actor.[2]
2
- Sir Ewart Bell, 76, Northern Irish rugby player and civil servant.[3]
- George Carman, 71, English barrister, prostate cancer.
- Sylvia Hahn, 89, Canadian artist.
- George Ludford, 85, English professional footballer.
- William P. Rogers, 87, American politician, diplomat and lawyer. (United States Attorney General, United States Secretary of State), congestive heart failure.[4]
- Jimmy Zámbó, 42, Hungarian pop singer, accidental suicide by gunshot.
3
- Jack Fleming, 77, American sports announcer (Pittsburgh Steelers, Chicago Bulls, West Virginia Mountaineers).[5]
- Marty Glickman, 83, American radio announcer.
- John F. Hayes, 85, American politician (Brooklyn Borough President).[6]
- Kung Fu, 49, Mexican Luchador, arterial hyper tension.
- Orlando Pantera, 33, Cape Verdean singer and composer, acute pancreatitis.
- Alex Sabo, 90, American baseball player.[7]
- Daddy Zemus, 32, Zambian musician and songwriter.
4
- Les Brown, 88, American swing bandleader ("Sentimental Journey") (Les Brown and His Band of Renown), lung cancer.[8]
- H. Ross Hume, 78, American distance runner.
- Pierre Leyris, 93, French translator.
- Clementino Ocampos, 87, Paraguayan composer and poet.
- John Rhoden, 82, American sculptor.
- Bob Snyder, 87, American football player and coach.
- Hilda Stevenson-Delhomme, 88, Seychellois politician and doctor.[9]
- André Thirion, 93, French writer and political activist.
- Villano I, 50, Mexican professional wrestler, heart attack following a cerebral haemorrhage.
- Yoshika Yuhnagi, 17, Japanese fashion model, hypothermia.
5
- G. E. M. Anscombe, 81, British analytic philosopher.[10]
- Milan Hlavsa, 49, Czech songwriter and bass guitarist (Plastic People of the Universe).[11]
- Nancy Parsons, 58, American actress (Porky's).[12]
6
- John Denison, 84, Canadian ice road engineer.[13]
- Peter Lovell-Davis, Baron Lovell-Davis, 76, British publisher and politician.[14]
- Scott Marlowe, 68, American actor (Executive Suite, Murder, She Wrote).[15]
- Tom Poholsky, 71, American baseball player.[16]
- Tot Pressnell, 94, American baseball player.[17]
- Gene Taylor, 53, American media personality.
7
- Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr., 90, American bibliophile.
- Charles Cameron, 73, Scottish magician.
- James Carr, 58, American rhythm and blues singer.[18]
- Ken Durrett, 52, American professional basketball player (Cincinnati Royals / Kansas City-Omaha Kings, Philadelphia 76ers).[19]
- František Hájek, 85, Czechoslovakian Olympic basketball player (men's basketball at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[20]
- Johan van der Keuken, 62, Dutch documentary filmmaker, author, and photographer.
8
- Don Brodie, 96, American actor and director.
- Edwin Etherington, 76, American writer, lawyer, civil rights advocate, and president of the American Stock Exchange.[21]
- Chris Evert, 30, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
- Bert Hodges, 83, American baseball player.[22]
- Néstor Scotta, 52, Argentine football striker, car accident.
- Catherine Storr, 87, English children's writer.
9
- Paul Vanden Boeynants, 81, Belgian politician, Prime Minister (1978–1979), pneumonia.[23]
- 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.[24]
10
- Jalal Chandio, 57, Indian folk singer, kidney failure.
- Necati Cumalı, 79, Turkish writer and poet, died on 10 January 2001 in Istanbul.
- Bryan Gregory, 49, American rock musician, heart failure.
- John G. Schmitz, 70, American politician, prostate cancer.
- Esteban Vicente, 97, American painter.
11
- Ken Brown, 55, American professional football player (Cleveland Browns: 1970–1975).[25]
- Oliver Gurney, 89, British Assyriologist.[26]
- Dorothy M. Horstmann, 89, American epidemiologist, virologist and pediatrician, Alzheimer's disease.[27]
- Sir Denys Lasdun, 86, British architect.[28]
- Lorna Sage, 57, British literary critic and writer.[29]
- Michael Williams, 65, British actor.[30]
12
- Affirmed, 25, American racehorse, euthanasia after contracting laminitis.
- Luiz Bonfá, 78, Brazilian guitarist and composer.[31]
- William Hewlett, 87, American co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, heart failure.[32]
- Jack Shearer, 74, Northern Irish priest, Dean of Belfast.
13
- Michael Cuccione, 16, Canadian actor and musician, respiratory failure.
- Bill Fraser, 76, New Zealand politician.
- Amando de Ossorio, 82, Spanish film director.
14
- Luigi Broglio, 89, Italian aerospace engineer.
- József Csermák, 68, Hungarian hammer thrower.
- Dennis Fitzgerald, 64, American freestyle wrestler and football player and coach.
- Kostas Rigopoulos, 70, Greek actor, stroke
- Joe Zapustas, 93, Latvian-American baseball player.[33]
15
- Bob Braun, 71, American local television and radio personality in Cincinnati, Ohio and a film actor (Die Hard 2, Defending Your Life).[34]
- Ted Mann, 84, American businessman (Mann Theatres) and film producer (Brubaker, Krull).[35]
- Leo Marks, 80, British World War II cryptographer, cancer.[36]
16
- Laurent-Désiré Kabila, 61, Congolese politician, President (since 1997), shot.[37]
- Melvin McQuaid, 89, Canadian politician.[38]
- Virginia O'Brien, 81, American actress (Lady Be Good, Ship Ahoy, Ziegfeld Follies).[39]
- Auberon Waugh, 61, British journalist and author.[40]
- Leonard Woodcock, 89, American trade unionist and diplomat (President of the U.A.W., U.S. ambassador to the People's Republic of China).[41]
17
- Gregory Corso, 70, American poet (Beat Generation).[42]
- Luise Ermisch, 84, German political activist and communist.
- John B. Hayes, 76, United States Coast Guard admiral, traffic accident.
- Tom Kilburn, 79, British computer scientist.[43]
- Richard Kraft, 64, South African Anglican Bishop.
- Sergej Kraigher, 86, Yugoslav politician, President of Slovenia.
- P. R. Kurup, 85, Indian socialist leader.
- Robert Robertson, 70, British actor and director, heart attack.
- Rito Romero, 73, Mexican professional wrestler.
- Wakabayama Sadao, 78, Japanese sumo wrestler, cerebral thrombosis.
18
- Allan Percy Fleming, 88, Australian public servant, National Librarian at the National Library of Australia.[44]
- Sigurd Grønli, 73, Norwegian Olympic rower (men's coxed four rowing at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[45]
- Zip Hanna, 84, American professional football player (South Carolina, Washington Redskins).[46]
- Reg Prentice, 77, British politician and government minister.[47]
- Imre Sinkovits, 72, Hungarian actor.[48]
- Al Waxman, 65, Canadian actor (King of Kensington, Cagney & Lacey).[49]
19
- Leonard Ashton, 86, British Anglican prelate.
- Johnny Babich, 87, American baseball player.[50]
- Bill Hempel, 80, American professional football player (Carroll University, Chicago Bears).[51]
- Sir Roderick Macdonald, 79, British admiral.
- Maxine Mesinger, 75, American newspaper columnist (Houston Chronicle), complications of multiple sclerosis.[52]
- Ian Taylor, 56, British sociologist.[53]
20
- Rønnaug Alten, 90, Norwegian actress and stage instructor.
- Eddie Donovan, 78, American professional basketball coach and executive (New York Knicks).[54]
- Crispin Nash-Williams, 68, British mathematician.
21
- Sasidharan Arattuvazhi, 45, Indian playwright and screenwriter, cirrhosis.
- Sandy Baron, 64, American stand-up comic, actor (Seinfeld) and songwriter, emphysema.[55]
- Byron De La Beckwith, 80, American white supremacist and Klansman.
- Bud Dunn, 82, American horse trainer, heart attack.
- Joseph O'Conor, 84, Irish actor and playwright.[56]
- Emlyn Walters, 82, British rugby player.
22
- Tommie Agee, 58, American baseball player.[57]
- Tuomas Anhava, 73, Finnish writer.
- Roy Brown, 68, American television personality, puppeteer and clown (The Bozo Show).[58]
- Sir Alistair Grant, 63, British businessman.[59]
23
- Clayton Fritchey, 96, American journalist.[60]
- Lou Levy, 72, American jazz pianist, heart attack.
- Jack McDuff, 74, American jazz organist, heart failure.[61]
- Fred Ray, 80, American comic book artist.
- Bill Reinhardt, 92, American clarinetist and bandleader.
24
- Steve Dowden, 71, American professional football player (Baylor University, Green Bay Packers).[62]
- Johannes Hörnig, 79, East German politician.
- Gaffar Okkan, 49, Turkish police chief, assassinated.
- Ian Scott, 67, Australian Rotarian.
25
- Alice Ambrose, 94, American philosopher, logician, and author.[63]
- John T. Biggers, 76, African-American muralist.
- Aleksandr Chudakov, 79, Soviet Russian physicist.
- Pamela Cunningham Copeland, 94, American horticulturist.
- Don Morrison, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.[64]
- Vijaya Raje Scindia, 81, Indian political personality.
- Margaret Scriven, 88, British tennis player.
- Dare Wright, 86, Canadian–American children's author, model, and photographer.
26
- Murray Edelman, 81, American political scientist.[65]
- Al McGuire, 74, American college basketball coach (Marquette University) and television commentator.[66]
- Diane Whipple, 33, American lacrosse player and college coach, dog attack.
27
- Marie José of Belgium, 94, the last Queen of Italy.[67]
- André Prévost, 66, Canadian music composer and instructor (Order of Canada).[68]
- Sir Colin Woods, 80, British police officer.
28
- Curt Blefary, 57, American baseball player.[69]
- Al Fiorentino, 83, American professional football player (Washington Redskins, Boston Yanks).[70]
- Earl Ben Gilliam, 69, American judge (United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California).[71]
- Ellen Hammer, 79, American historian.[72]
- Sally Mansfield, 80, American actress.[73]
29
- Frances Bible, 82, American operatic mezzo-soprano (New York City Opera).[74]
- Julia Bodmer, 66, British geneticist.[75]
- Edmund Fuller, 86, American educator, novelist, historian, and literary critic (The Wall Street Journal, Saturday Review, New York Herald Tribune, The New York Times).[76]
- Ninian Smart, 73, Scottish religious scholar.[77]
30
- Jean-Pierre Aumont, 90, French actor, heart attack.[78]
- David Heneker, 94, British composer and lyricist (Irma La Douce, Half a Sixpence, Charlie Girl).[79]
- Johnnie Johnson, 85, British World War II fighter pilot.[80]
- Rodolfo Morales, 75, Mexican painter.[81]
- John Prebble, 85, British journalist and historian.
- Joseph Ransohoff, 85, American neurosurgeon.[82]
- John Vernon Taylor, 86, British Anglican bishop.[83]
31
- Gordon R. Dickson, 77, American science fiction writer, asthma.[84]
- Adi Havewala, 83–84, Indian Olympic cyclist (men's team pursuit cycling at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[85]
- Betty Kenward, 94, British magazine columnist.[86]
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