Deaths in 2001

The following deaths of people with Wikipedia articles occurred in 2001. Names are listed under the date of death, not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name.

A typical entry appears in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship, what subject was noted for, established cause of death, reference.

January 2001

1

• Sir Michael Hanley, 82, British intelligence officer, Director-General of MI5.
• Ray Walston, 86, American actor.

2

• Sir Ewart Bell, 76, Northern Irish rugby player and civil servant.

4

• Hilda Stevenson-Delhomme, 88, Seychellois politician.

5

• G. E. M. Anscombe, 81, British philosopher.
• Nancy Parsons, American actress (Porky's).

6

• Peter Lovell-Davis, Baron Lovell-Davis, 76, British publisher and politician.
• Gene Taylor, 53, American media personality.

7

• Charles Cameron, 73, Scottish magician.
• James Carr, 58, American rhythm and blues singer.
• Johan van der Keuken, 62, Dutch documentary filmmaker, author, and photographer.

8

• Chris Evert, 30, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.

9

• Ninian Smart, 73, Scottish religious scholar.
• Paul Vanden Boeynants, 81, Belgian politician and Prime Minister.

10

• Carol Voges, 75, Dutch illustrator and comics artist.

11

• Oliver Gurney, 89, British Assyriologist.
• Dorothy M. Horstmann, 89, American virologist who made important discoveries about polio, Alzheimer's disease.
• Sir Denys Lasdun, 86, British architect.
• Michael Williams, 65, British actor.

12

• Affirmed, 25, American racehorse, euthanasia after contracting laminitis.
• William Hewlett, 87, American co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, heart failure.
• Thomas Wilson, 73, American-born British composer.

13

• Michael Cuccione, 16, Canadian actor and musician, respiratory failure.

14

• Luigi Broglio, 89, Italian aerospace engineer.
• John S. Hunt, II, 72, American politician.

15

• Leo Marks, 80, British World War II cryptographer, cancer.

16

• Laurent-Désiré Kabila, 61, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1997–2001), shot.
• Leonard Woodcock, 89, American trade unionist and diplomat.

17

• Tom Kilburn, 79, British computer scientist.

19

• Leonard Ashton, 86, British Anglican prelate.
• Sir Roderick Macdonald, 79, British admiral.
• Maxine Mesinger, 75, American newspaper columnist, complications of multiple sclerosis.
• Ian Taylor, 56, British sociologist.

21

• Sir Alistair Grant, 63, British businessman.

22

• Tommie Agee, 58, American baseball player.
• Tuomas Anhava, 73, Finnish writer.
• Roy Brown, 68, American clown.

23

• Clayton Fritchey, 96, American journalist.

25

• Don Morrison, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.

26

• Murray Edelman, 81, American political scientist.

27

• Mordecai Richler, 69, Canadian author, (Jacob Two-Two).
• Marie José of Belgium, 94, the last Queen of Italy.
• Sir Colin Woods, 80, British police officer.

28

• Curt Blefary, 57, American baseball player.
• Sally Mansfield, 80, American actress.

30

• Jean-Pierre Aumont, 90, French actor, heart attack.
• Johnnie Johnson, 85, British World War II fighter pilot.
• Rodolfo Morales 75, Mexican painter.
• Joseph Ransohoff, 85, American neurosurgeon.
• John Vernon Taylor, 86, British Anglican bishop.

31

• Gordon R. Dickson, 77, American science fiction writer, asthma.

February 2001

1

• Sir Harold Maguire, 88, British air marshal and Director-General of Intelligence.
• Leslie Vincent, 91, American actor.

2

• Freddy Wittop, 89, Dutch costume designer.

4

• Sir David Beattie, 76, New Zealand jurist and Governor-General.
• J. J. Johnson, 77, American jazz trombonist, suicide.
• Pankaj Roy, 72, Indian cricketer.
• Iannis Xenakis, 78, Greek-French composer.

5

• Jean Davy, 89, French actor.
• Jean Denton, Baroness Denton of Wakefield, 65, British businesswoman and politician.

6

• Gus Boulis, 51, Greek-born American businessman and murder victim.
• Arthur W. Hummel Jr., 80, American diplomat.
• Sir Richard Southern, 88, British medieval historian.

7

• Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 94, American author, aviator.
• Dale Evans, 88, American actress and singer.
• Sir Michael Grylls, 66, British politician.

8

• Leslie Edwards, 84, British ballet dancer.
• Luis Piñerúa Ordaz, 76, Venezuelan politician.

9

• Herbert A. Simon, 85, American Economist

10

• Lewis Arquette, 65, American actor.
• Abraham Beame, 94, Mayor of New York City.
• Robert H. Lounsberry, 82, American politician.

12

• Ellen MacKinnon, 74, Canadian politician.
• Herbert Robbins, 86, American mathematician.
• Kristina Söderbaum, 88, German film actress, producer and photographer.

13

• Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington, 83, British politician.

14

• Richard Laymon, 54, American horror author, heart attack.
• Maurice Levitas, 84, Irish-born British sociologist.
• Alan Ross, 78, British poet and editor.
• Jim Winkler, 73, American football player.

15

• Boris Goldovsky, 92, Russian-born American conductor and broadcaster.
• Edwin Plowden, Baron Plowden, 94, British industrialist and public servant.

16

• William H. Masters, 85, American gynaecologist.
• Ronald Watkins, 96, British drama teacher and director.

17

• Christian O'Brien, 87, British geologist.

18

• Balthus, 92, French painter.
• Claude Davey, 92, Welsh rugby union player.
• Eddie Mathews, 69, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, pneumonia.
• Dale Earnhardt, 49, American NASCAR race car driver, crash during 2001 Daytona 500 race.

19

• Priscilla Davis, 67, American socialite, breast cancer.
• Stanley Kramer, 87, American film director and producer, pneumonia.
• Guy Rodgers, 65, American basketball player.
• Roland Stoltz, 69, Swedish ice hockey player.
• Charles Trenet, 87, French singer.

20

• Harry Boykoff, 78, American basketball player.
• Sir Colin Cole, 78, British officer of arms.
• Rosemary DeCamp, 90, American actor, pneumonia.
• Bill Rigney, 83, American baseball player and manager.

21

• Anna Gabriella Ceccatelli, 73. Italian politician.
• John MacKay, Baron MacKay of Ardbrecknish, 62, British politician.

22

• Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos, 84, British politician.
• Dennis Cox, 75, British cricketer.
• Les Medley, 80, England international footballer, natural causes.
• John Fahey, 61, American guitarist and composer.

24

• Sir Charles Fletcher-Cooke, 86, British politician.
• Claude Shannon, 84, American electrical engineer and mathematician.

25

• Sir Donald Bradman, 92, Australian cricketer.

27

• Ralf D. Bode, 59, German-American cinematographer (Coal Miner's Daughter, Saturday Night Fever)

March 2001

1

• Hannie Termeulen, 72, Dutch freestyle swimmer.
• John Painter, 112, world's oldest man.
• Colin Webster, 68, Welsh international footballer.

2

• John Diamond, 48, British Journalist

3

• Eugene Sledge, 77, American Marine and professor.
• Ronald Smith, 75, English cricketer.

4

• Glenn Hughes, 50, leather dude of the pop group The Village People, lung cancer.
• Brian Jones, 72, British motorcycle designer.
• Harold Stassen, 93, American politician.

5

• Ian McHarg, 80, Scottish architect.

6

• Jim Taylor, 83, English footballer.

8

• Dame Ninette de Valois, 102, British ballet dancer and teacher.
• Bent Hansen, 67, Danish football player.

9

• Vincent Alo, 96, American mobster.
• Henry Jonsson, 88, Swedish runner.
• Leopold Page, 87, Polish-American Holocaust survivor.
• Richard Stone, 47, American composer and songwriter.

10

• Nicholas Georgiadis, 77, Greek-born British ballet designer.

12

• Morton Downey, Jr., 67, American television personality, lung cancer.
• Robert Ludlum, 73, American author of spy novels.
• Sidney Dillon Ripley, 87, American ornithologist and conservationist.
• Victor Westhoff, 84, Dutch botanist.

13

• Bill Bland, 84, British communist.
• Vincent Dantzer, 77, Canadian politician.
• Henry Lee Lucas, 64, American convicted criminal, natural causes.
• Cranley Onslow, Baron Onslow of Woking, 74, British politician.

15

• Fern Battaglia, 70, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
• Ann Sothern, 92, American actress, stroke.

16

• Dame Marjorie Bean, 91, Bermudian politician.

17

• Michiyo Aratama, 71, Japanese actress.

18

• John Phillips, 65, American singer, co-founder of The Mamas & the Papas, heart failure.
• Dirk Polder, 81, Dutch physicist.

19

• Gordon Brown, 53, Scottish rugby union player.
• Ian Johnston, 71, Australian pioneer of reproductive medicine.

21

• Dora Alonso, 90, Cuban journalist and writer.
• Chung Ju-yung, 86, Founder of the Hyundai Group, natural causes.
• Norma MacMillan, 79, Canadian cartoon voice actress.
• Leonard Rotherham, 87, British metallurgist.
• Billy Ray Smith, Sr., 66, American football player.

22

• Stepas Butautas, 75, Lithuanian basketball player.
• Sabiha Gökçen, 88, the first Turkish female aviator and the first female combat pilot of the world.
• William Hanna, 90, American animator, co-founder (with Joseph Barbera) of the Hanna-Barbera animation studio, throat cancer.
• Barry Maxwell, 12th Baron Farnham, 69, British aristocrat.
• Edward Samuel Smith, 81, American federal judge.

23

• Anthony Bevins, 58, British journalist.

24

• Debabrata Basu, 76, Indian statistician.
• N. G. L. Hammond, 93, British classical scholar.

25

• Willie Horne, 79, British rugby league player.
• Brian Trubshaw, 77, British test pilot.

26

• Antoni Adamski, 68, Polish field hockey player.
• Michael Cocks, Baron Cocks of Hartcliffe, 71, British politician.

28

• Moe Koffman, 72, Canadian flautist and saxophonist, cancer.

29

• John Lewis, 80, American jazz pianist, cancer.

30

• Cyrus H. Gordon, 92, American scholar.

31

• Arthur Geoffrey Walker, 91, British mathematician.

April 2001

1

• Robert Aagaard, 68, British youth movement founder and furniture maker.
• Olivia Barclay, 81, British astrologer.
• Jayant Kothari, 71, Indian literary critic.

2

• Gary Gearhart, 77, American baseball player.

3

• Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell, 89, British newspaper proprietor.

4

• Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, 69, American car designer.

5

• Benjy Dial, 57, American football player.
• Sir Kingsley Dunham, 91, British geologist.
• David Lloyd Owen, 83, British army general.
• John Long Wilson, 87, American physician and academic.

6

• George Bull, 71, British journalist and writer.
• Danny Gaither, 62, American gospel singer (Bill Gaither Trio).
• Esperanza la del Maera, 79, Spanish flamenco singer.
• Charles Pettigrew, 37, American singer, half of R&B duo Charles & Eddie.

7

• David Graf, 50, American actor (Police Academy)
• Sir Derek Lang, 87, British army general.
• Beatrice Straight, 86, Academy Award-winning actress (Network, Poltergeist)

9

• J. Paul Emerson, 58, American radio personality.
• Shakoor Rana, 65, Pakistani cricket umpire.
• Ken Rattenbury, 80, English jazz trumpeter.
• Willie Stargell, 61, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

10

• John M. Edmond, 67, British geochemist.
• Nyree Dawn Porter, 65, New Zealand actress.
• Richard Evans Schultes, 86, American ethnobotanist.

11

• John Harris, Baron Harris of Greenwich, 71, British politician.
• Sir Thaddeus McCarthy, 93, New Zealand jurist.
• Graciela Naranjo, 84, Venezuelan singer and actress; a radio, cinema and television pioneer in her homeland.
• Sir Harry Secombe, 79, Welsh actor, comedian, member of The Goon Show, prostate cancer.
• Jack Wilson, 83, American footballer.

12

• Harvey Ball, 79, American inventor of the smiley.

13

• Jimmy Logan, 73, Scottish entertainer.
• Stephen C. O'Connell, 85, American jurist.
• Ken Weston, 53, British sound engineer.

14

• Jim Baxter, 61, Scottish football player.
• Bryan Ranft, 83, British historian.
• Hideo Takubo, 73, Japanese writer.

15

• Joey Ramone (b. Jeffry Hyman), 49, American musician, lead singer for The Ramones, lymphoma.

16

• Alfred Horn, 83, American mathematician.
• Henry Lloyd, 89, British Anglican priest, Dean of Truro (1960–1981).
• Michael Ritchie, 62, American film director.
• Alec Stock, 84, English footballer and football manager.

17

• Sri Sadiq Ali, Indian freedom fighter and politician.

19

• Egor Popov, 88, Russian-born American civil engineer.
• Meldrim Thomson, Jr., 89, American politician, Governor of New Hampshire (1973–1979).

20

• Maria Karnilova, 80, American actress and dancer.
• Bert Sutcliffe, 77, New Zealand cricketer.

21

• Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll, 63, British aristocrat.

22

• John F. Allen, 92, Canadian physicist.
• Sir Paul Holder, 89, British air marshal.

23

• Guglielmo Biraghi, 73, Italian film festival director.
• Robert J. Huber, 78, American politician.
• Sir Charles Madden, 94, British admiral.
• David M. Walker, 56, American astronaut.

24

• Peter Nugent, 63, Australian politician.

4

• Josef Peters, 87 Racing driver.

25

• Michele Alboreto, 44, Italian racing driver.
• Kow Nkensen Arkaah, 73, Ghanaian politician, Vice-President (1993–1997)
• Majda Potokar, 71, Slovenian actress.

26

• Marjorie Arnfield, 70, British artist.
• John Howe, 81, Scottish Anglican prelate, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane (1955–1969).

29

• Gordon Watson, 87, English football player.

May 2001

1

• Ernie Wheelwright, 61, American football player.

4

• Anne Anastasi, 92, American psychologist.

5

• Charles Black, 85, American constitutional scholar.
• Morris Graves, 90, American expressionist painter.
• Cliff Hillegass, 83, American creator of CliffsNotes, stroke.
• David Jamieson, 80, British army officer, recipient of the Victoria Cross.
• Wang Yinglai, 93, Chinese biochemist, total chemical synthesis of insulin and tRNA.

6

• Weldon B. Gibson, 84, American economist.

7

• Arthur Christopher Watson, 74, British diplomat.

8

• Larry Hornung, 55, Canadian ice hockey player.
• 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

• Arthur Tange, 86, Australian public servant
• Deborah Walley, 57, American actress and voice-over artist. esophageal cancer

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.
• Michael J. Bird, 72, British writer.

12

• Perry Como, 88, American singer.
• Fritz Pfenninger, 66, Swiss racing cyclist.
• Simon Raven, 73, British writer.
• Alexei Tupolev, 75, Soviet aircraft designer.
• Corissa Yasen, 27, professional basketball player, suicide.

13

• Jason Miller, 62, American playwright and actor.

14

• Peter Griffith, 67, American child actor.
• Gil Langley, 81, Australian Test cricketer and politician.

16

• Loren C. Dunn, 70, American Morman general authority.

17

• Ike Brown, 59, American baseball player.
• Jacques-Louis Lions, 73, French mathemician.

18

• 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.
• Barry Morris, 66, Australian politician.
• John Warner, 78, British actor.

21

• Tony Ashton, 55, English rock pianist.
• Erkin Bairam, 43, Cypriot-born New Zealand economist.
• Bob Johnson, 65, Australian rules footballer.
• Graham Webster, 87, British archaeologist.

22

• Whitman Mayo, 70, American actor, heart attack.

23

• Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, 72, Palestinian-born American academic.
• Tommy Eyre, 51, British keyboardist.
• Douglas Gardiner, 96, Australian architect.
• Harry Townes, 86, American actor.

24

• Paul Kor, 74, Israeli painter and children's writer.

25

• Arturo Maly, 61, Argentine actor.
• Sir Harold Ridley. 94, British ophthalmologist.
• Paladine Roye, 54, Native American painter.

26

• Anne Haney, 67, actress, heart failure.

27

• Ralph Nichols, 90, English badminton player.
• Jack Scowen, 65, Canadian politician.

28

• Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, 79, Indian medical scientist.
• Elizabeth S. Russell, 88, American geneticist.
• Francisco Varela, 54, Chilean biologist and philosopher.

30

• Terry Gathercole, 65, Australian Olympic swimmer.
• Adrian Hastings, 71, British Roman Catholic priest and historian.
• Renée Schuurman, 61, South African tennis player.

31

• Rosemary Verey, 82, English garden designer.

June 2001

1

• King Birendra, 55, King of Nepal.
• Queen Aiswarya, 51, Queen of Nepal.
• Hank Ketcham, 81, American cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace, prostate cancer.
• Marie Brémont, 115, oldest person in the world and last known person documented as born in 1886.

2

• Imogene Coca, 92, American actress.
• Sir Kenneth Hayr, 66, British air marshal.

3

• Jamake Highwater, American writer.
• Anthony Quinn, 86, Mexican-American actor.

4

• John Hartford, 63, American musician.
• Pierre Lamaison, 52, French anthropologist.
• Lu Jiaxi, 85, Chinese physical chemist.
• Joey Maxim, 79, American world Light Heavyweight champion boxer.
• King Dipendra of Nepal, 29.

6

• Douglas Lilburn, 85, New Zealand composer.

7

• Víctor Paz Estenssoro, 93, President of Bolivia.
• Charles Templeton, 85, Canadian cartoonist, broadcaster and writer.
• Leonard Tepper, 61, American actor and comedian.

8

• Nathaniel Rochester, 82, American computer scientist.

10

• Princess Leila of Iran, 31.
• John McKay, 77, American football player and coach.

11

• Timothy McVeigh, 33, American convicted terrorist.

12

• W. D. Davies, 89/90, Welsh congregationalist minister and theologian.
• Viktor Hamburger, 100, German embryologist.
• Thomas Wilson, 73, British composer.

13

• Gordon Christie, 86, New Zealand politician.

14

• Jay D. Scott, 48, American convicted murderer.

15

• Henri Alekan, 92, French cinematographer, leukemia.
• Mikhail Gluzsky, 82, Russian actor.
• John Harper, 71, American politician, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives.

16

• Wally Hood, 75, American baseball player.

17

• Ninfa Laurenzo, 77, Houston restaurateur, bone cancer.
• Mohammad Yunus, 84, Indian diplomat.

18

• Dame Rosamund Holland-Martin, 86, head of the NSPCC.
• Sam Jethroe, 83, American baseball player.

19

• Lindsay L. Cooper, 61, Scottish musician.
• Jerry Cornes, 91, British athlete.
• Col Maxwell, 83, Australian rugby league player.

20

• Bob Keegan, 80, American baseball player.
• Delbert Leroy True, 77, American architect.
• Bert Kramer, 66, American actor.

21

• John Lee Hooker, 83, American Blues musician.
• Souad Hosni, 59, Egyptian actress.
• Carroll O'Connor, 76, American actor (All in the Family).
• Vernon Sewell, 97, British film director.

24

• William H. Sewell, 91, American sociologist.

26

• Oluf C. Müller, 80, Norwegian civil servant.
• Robert Smith, 88, American actor.
• Soccer, 13, American dog actor

27

• Darrell Huff, 86, American statistician.
• Tove Jansson, 86, Finnish author.
• Jack Lemmon, 76, American actor (Days of Wine and Roses, The Odd Couple) and film director, bladder and colorectal cancer.
• Joan Sims, 71, British actress.

28

• Mortimer J. Adler, 98, American philosopher.
• Jim Ellis, 45, American computer scientist.
• Caroline R. Jones, 59, American advertising pioneer.

29

• Maximos V Hakim, 93, Egyptian patriarch.
• Silvio Oddi, 90, Italian cardinal and Vatican diplomat.

30

• Chet Atkins, 77, American country musician.
• Joe Fagan, 80, English football manager.

July 2001

1

• John Maurice Scott, 53, Director General of the Fiji Red Cross.

3

• Delia Derbyshire, 64, British musician, renal failure.
• Sir John Marriott, 78, British philatelist.
• Roy Nichols, 68, American guitarist.
• Johnny Russell, 61, American country singer.

4

• Fumio Toyoda, 53, Japanese aikido teacher.

5

• Hannelore Kohl, 68, wife of former German chancellor Helmut Kohl.

6

• Cecil R. Blair, 85, American businessman and politician.

7

• Molly Lamont, 91, South African actress.
• Fred Neil, 65, American folk singer-songwriter ("Everybody's Talkin'")

8

• Ernst Baier, 95, German figure skater.
• John Brown, 64, Australian rules footballer.
• Andrew E. Gibson, 79, American shipping executive and politician.
• Amiya Bhushan Majumdar, 83, Indian writer.
• John O'Shea, 81, New Zealand film director.

9

• Arie van Vliet, 85, Dutch Olympic sprint cyclist.

10

• Humayun Rashid Choudhury, 72, Bangladeshi diplomat and politician.
• Geoffrey Clarkson, 57, English rugby player.
• Álvaro Magaña, 75, Salvadorean politician, President (1982–1984).

11

• Herman Brood, 54, Dutch rock musician.

12

• John H. Holdridge, 76, American diplomat.
• Paul Magloire, 93, Haitian politician, President (1950–1956).
• Evan Williams, 89, Welsh jockey.
• Johnny Wright, 72, British boxer.

13

• David Noyes Jackson, 78, American writer and artist.
• Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gryfe, 89, British politician.

16

• Terry Gordy, 40, pro wrestler (Fabulous Freebirds).

17

• Katharine Graham, 84, American publisher.
• Erik Welle-Strand, Norwegian World War II Resistance member and engineer.

18

• Fabio Taglioni, 80, automotive engineer.

19

• Neil Carmichael, Baron Carmichael of Kelvingrove, 79, British politician.
• Charles King, 89, British Olympic cyclist.
• Howard Taylor, 82, Australian painter.

21

• Sivaji Ganesan, 74, Indian actor.
• John Hughes, 93, British Anglican prelate.
• Hiroshi Tsuburaya, 37, Japanese actor.

22

• Maria Gorokhovskaya, 79, Soviet gymnast.
• William Llewellyn, 93, British Anglican prelate.
• Indro Montanelli, 92, Italian journalist and historian.

23

• Eudora Welty, 92, American writer.

24

• May Hyman Lesser, American medical illustrator.

25

• Phoolan Devi, 37, Indian dacoit and politician.

27

• Sir Harold Beeley, 92, British diplomat.
• Thomas Pitt Cholmondeley-Tapper, 90, first New Zealand auto racing driver.
• Leon Wilkeson, 49, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd).

28

• Eric Bedford, 91, British architect.
• Futaro Yamada, 79, Japanese author.

29

• Edward Gierek, 88, Polish politician.
• Wau Holland, 49, German hacker, founder of the Chaos Computer Club.
• Edward Roberts, 93, British prelate.

30

• Ervín Černý, 87, Czech doctor and scientist.
• Wilford Gibson, 76, British police officer.
• Anton Schwarzkopf, 76, German roller coaster manufacturer.

31

• A. G. Dickens, 91, British historian.

1

• Ernie K-Doe, 68, R&B singer.

August 2001

1

• Poul Anderson, 75, American fantasy and science fiction author, cancer.
• Jay Chamberlain, 77, American racing driver.
• Dwight Eddleman, 78, American basketball player and Olympic athlete.
• Joe Lynch, 76, Irish actor.
• Korey Stringer, 26, American football player, complications brought on by heat stroke.

2

• James A. Corbett, 67, American rancher and philosopher.
• Sir Edward Gardner, 89, British politician.
• Ronald Townson, 68, American vocalist.

3

• Henriette Bie Lorentzen, 90, Norwegian activist.
• Christopher Hewett, 80, British actor.
• Lars Johan Werle, 75, Swedish composer.

4

• S. K. Bhatnagar, 71, Indian politician and diplomat.
• Joseph Cooper, 88, British pianist and broadcaster.
• 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.
• Kenneth MacDonald, 50, English actor.
• Alan Rafkin, 73, American actor, director and producer.
• Dame Dorothy Tutin, 71, British actress.

7

• Robert Kraus, 76, American children's author and cartoonist.

8

• John Deacon, British motorcycle racer.
• John A. Hostetler, 82, American scholar.
• George Mann, 83, English cricketer.
• Peter Sinclair, 62, New Zealand radio personality.

9

• Humphry Bowen, 72, British botanist and chemist.
• Sir Alec Skempton, 87, British scientist.

10

• Lou Boudreau, 84, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• Manfred Eglin, 65, German footballer.
• Edward Gaskin, 83, Panamanian educator and labor leader.
• Bob Johnson, 60, British businessman.

11

• Edward Thomas Hall, 77, British scientist.

12

• Sir Walter Walker, 88, British army general.

13

• John C. Elliott, 82, American politician and 39th Governor of American Samoa.
• Sir John Hoddinott, British police officer.
• Jim Hughes, 78, American baseball player.

14

• Earl Anthony, 63, American bowler.
• Missy Cleveland, 41, Playboy Playmate.

15

• Jim Russell, 92, Australian cartoonist.
• Sir Roderick Sarell, 88, British diplomat.

16

• Kenneth Reese Cole Jr., 63, American political aide to Richard Nixon.

18

• Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan, 88 Indian plant pathologist.

19

• Les Sealey, 43, English footballer, heart attack.
• Willy Vannitsen, 66, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Donald Woods, 67, South African journalist, newspaper editor, and anti-apartheid activist, made famous by exposing the killing of his friend, Steve Biko, by South African security forces.

20

• S. K. Balakrishnan, 66, Indian politician, Mayor of Madurai.
• Sir Fred Hoyle, 86, British astronomer and science fiction writer.
• Walter Reed, 85, American actor.
• Kim Stanley, 76, American actress.

21

• Beryl Cooke, 94, British actress.

22

• Bernard Heuvelmans, 84, French scientist.
• Bobby Johnstone, 71, Scottish footballer (Hibernian, Manchester City, Oldham Athletic, Scotland).

23

• Eric Allandale, 65, British jazz musician.
• Gordon Ogden, 92, Australian rules footballer.

24

• Hank Sauer, 84, American baseball player.

25

• Aaliyah, 22, American R&B singer and actress, plane crash.
• John Chambers, 78, American make-up artist.
• Ginzō Matsuo, 50, Japanese voice actor.
• John L. Nelson, 85, American jazz musician.
• Ken Tyrrell, 75, British motor racing driver and team leader.

26

• Al Pittman, 61, Canadian poet and playwright.

27

• Juan Lechín Oquendo, 87, Bolivian politician, Vice President (1960–1964).

28

• James Homer Elledge, 58, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Washington.
• Juan Muñoz, 48, Spanish sculptor.
• Serhiy Perkhun, 23, Ukrainian footballer.
• Sir Reo Stakis, 88, Cypriot-born British hotelier.

29

• Francisco Rabal, 75, Spanish actor.
• Graeme "Shirley" Strachan, 50, Australian singer and television presenter.
• Dame Olga Uvarov, 91, Russian-born British veterinarian.

30

• A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury, 86, 9th President of Bangladesh.
• Julie Bishop, 87, American actress.
• Stan Harland, 61, English football player.
• Govan Mbeki, 91, South African politician, leader of the ANC and SACP.

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• Sir Eric Bullus, 94, British politician.
• James Petrie, 59, British pharmacologist.

September 2001

1

• Bobby Evans, 74, Scottish football player.
• Ted Mulry, 53, English born Australian singer/songwriter.
• Sir John Robertson, 76, Chief Ombudsman of New Zealand.

2

• Christiaan Barnard. 78, South African heart surgeon, first to perform a human-to-human heart transplant.
• Troy Donahue, 65, American actor, (A Summer Place, Rome Adventure).
• Sir Arthur Gilbert, 88, British-born American real estate developer and philanthropist.
• Horace A. Jones, 94, American horse trainer.
• James Lopez Watson, 79, American jurist.

3

• Hilary Corke, 80, British writer, composer and mineralogist.
• Pauline Kael, 82, American movie critic.
• Thuy Trang, 27, Vietnamese American actress, played a role as Trini Kwan from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

5

• Heywood Hale Broun, 81, American sports writer and broadcaster.
• David Peter Lafayette Hunter, 81, British Royal Marines officer.
• Hemish Shah, 33, British poker player.
• Justin Wilson, 87, Cajun chef and humorist.

6

• Megan Connolly, 27, Australian actress, heroin overdose.
• Carl Crack, 30, German musician.

7

• Spede Pasanen, 71, Finnish television star.

8

• Eleanor Cullis-Hill, 87, Australian architect.

9

• Ahmed Shah Massoud, 48, Afghan Northern Alliance military commander.
• William Sefton, Baron Sefton of Garston, 86, British politician.

10

• Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon, 77, British racing manager to Queen Elizabeth II.
• Samar Chowdhury, 71, Indian politician.
• Antonio da Costa Santos, Brazilian architect and politician.
• Alexey Suetin, 74, Soviet Russian chess player and chess writer.

11

• Alice Stewart Trillin, 63, American author and film producer (heart failure).
• Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the September 11 attacks, including:
  • David Angell, 55, American television producer. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11.
  • Mohamed Atta, 33, Egyptian, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
  • Garnet Bailey, 53, Canadian ice hockey player and scout. Passenger of United Airlines Flight 175.
  • Fayez Banihammad, 24, Emirati, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
  • Todd Beamer, 32, American airline passenger United Airlines Flight 93.
  • Berry Berenson, 53, American actress and photographer. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11.
  • Carolyn Beug, 48, American filmmaker and video producer. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11.
  • Bill Biggart, 54, American photojournalist.
  • Mark Bingham, 31, American airline passenger United Airlines Flight 93.
  • Ronald Paul Bucca, 47, American fire marshal.
  • Charles Burlingame, 51, American airline pilot American Airlines Flight 77.
  • Tom Burnett, 38, American airline passenger United Airlines Flight 93.
  • William E. Caswell, 54, American physicist. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 77.
  • Kevin Cosgrove, 46, American business executive.
  • Welles Crowther, 24, American investment banker.
  • William M. Feehan, 71, American deputy fire commissioner.
  • Wilson Flagg, 62, former Rear Admiral.
  • Peter J. Ganci, Jr., 54, Chief of the Fire Department of New York.
  • Ahmed al-Ghamdi, 22, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
  • Hamza al-Ghamdi, 20, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
  • Saeed al-Ghamdi, 21, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93.
  • Jeremy Glick, 31, American airline passenger United Airlines Flight 93.
  • Lauren Grandcolas, 38, American author. Passenger of United Airlines Flight 93.
  • Nezam Hafiz, 32, American cricketer.
  • Mohammad Salman Hamdani, 23, American research technician.
  • Hani Hanjour, 29, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
  • Leonard Hatton, 45, American FBI agent.
  • Nawaf al-Hazmi, 25, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
  • Salem al-Hazmi, 20, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
  • Ahmed al-Haznawi, 20, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93.
  • LeRoy Homer Jr., 36, American airline pilot United Airlines Flight 93.
  • Ziad Jarrah, 26, Lebanese, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93.
  • Charles Edward Jones, 48, American astronaut. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11.
  • Mychal Judge, 68, Chaplain of the Fire Department of New York.
  • Neil David Levin, 46, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
  • Daniel M. Lewin, 31, co-founder of Akamai Technologies. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11.
  • Eamon McEneaney, 46, American lacrosse player.
  • Timothy Maude, 53, Lieutenant General U.S. Army.
  • Khalid al-Mihdhar, 26, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
  • Majed Moqed, 24, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
  • Ahmed al-Nami, 24, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93.
  • John Ogonowski, 50, American pilot American Airlines Flight 11.
  • Barbara Olson, 45, American television commentator. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 77.
  • Abdulaziz al-Omari, 22, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
  • John P. O'Neill, 49, American Counterterrorism expert.
  • Betty Ong, 45, American flight attendant American Airlines Flight 11.
  • Orio Palmer, 45, American firefighter.
  • Dominick Pezzulo, 36, American police officer.
  • Sneha Anne Philip, 31, American physician, presumed to have been a victim of the attacks.
  • Rick Rescorla, 62, World Trade Center security chief for Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter.
  • Michael Richards, 38, Jamaican-born American sculptor.
  • Marwan al-Shehhi, 23, Emirati, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
  • Mohand al-Shehri, 22, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
  • Wail al-Shehri, 28, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
  • Waleed al-Shehri, 22, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
  • Satam al-Suqami, 25, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
  • Madeline Amy Sweeney, 35, American flight attendant American Airlines Flight 11.
  • Abraham Zelmanowitz, 55, American computer programmer.
• Henryk Siwiak, 46, Polish émigré to New York City, shot in Brooklyn.

12

• Victor Wong, 74, American movie actor and artist.

13

• Johnny Craig, 75, American comic book artist.
• Jaroslav Drobný, 79, Czechoslovakian tennis player.

14

• Barbara Ansell, 78, British rheumatologist.

15

• June Salter, 69, Australian actor.
• Paul "Tank" Younger, 73, American football player.

16

• Patrick Cosgrave, 59, Irish journalist and writer.
• Lyle Stevik, 25, American unnamed motel guest, suicide by hanging.

18

• Ernie Coombs, 73, American born actor. Longtime host of Canadian children's show Mr. Dressup on CBC.
• Jane du Pont Lunger, 87, American heiress and philanthropist.
• Isaiah Harris, 76, American baseball player.
• Sandy Saddler, 75, American boxer.
• Amy Witting, 83, Australian novelist and poet.

19

• Cosmo Nevill, 94, British army general.
• David Thomas, 89, Welsh cricketer.

20

• Billy "Hinky" Harris, 66, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 87, former President of Venezuela.
• Eberhard Wenzel, 51, German public health researcher.

21

• Dwayne O'Steen, 46, American football player.

22

• Sir William Knox, 73, Australian politician.
• Sir Gordon Reece, 71, British journalist and political strategist.
• Isaac Stern, 81, Ukrainian violinist, congestive heart failure.

23

• Spencer Barrett, 87, British classical scholar.
• Ron Hewitt, 73, Welsh footballer.

24

• Sir Ruthven Wade, 81, British air chief marshal.

25

• Herbert Klein, 78, German swimmer.
• Paul Seiler, 55, American football player.

26

• Ritter Collett, 80, American sports editor.
• Shawn Walsh, 46, American ice hockey coach.

27

• Sir James Cable, 80, British diplomat.

28

• Martin O'Hagan, 51, Irish investigative journalist, murdered.

29

• Viktor Belov, 76, Russian football player and manager.
• Bernt Heiberg, 92, Norwegian architect.
• Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, 78, former President of South Vietnam.

30

• Madhavrao Scindia, 56, Prominent Indian politician and minister, a royal family member, Maharaja of Gwalior.

October 2001

4

• Blaise Alexander, 25, American race car driver, race crash.
• Patsy Burt, 73, British racing driver.
• John Collins, 88, American jazz guitarist.
• Arthur Daniels, 79, Welsh rugby league player.

5

• Peter Burge, 69, Australian cricketer.
• Brian Edgar, 65, British rugby league player.
• Mike Mansfield, 98, American politician and diplomat.
• Robert Stevens, 63, American photo editor and anthrax attack victim.

6

• Arne Harris, 67, American television producer.

7

• Christopher Adams, 46, English wrestler and judoka, brother of Olympic Judo star Neil Adams.
• Herblock, 91, American cartoonist.

8

• Kenneth L. Hale, 67, American linguist.
• Javed Iqbal, 45, Pakistani serial killer.

9

• Herbert Ross, 74, American film director.

10

• Luis Antonio García Navarro, Spanish conductor.

11

• Nada Mamula, 74, Yugoslavian sevdalinka singer.
• Beni Montresor, 75, Italian artist, illustrator and set designer.

12

• Richard Buckle, 85, British ballet critic.
• Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone (Quintin Hogg), 94, British lawyer and politician.
• John T. Robinson, 78, South African palaeontologist.

2

• Hikmet Şimşek, Turkish orchestra conductor

13

• Peter Doyle, 52, Australian pop singer.
• Ubi Dwyer, 68, Irish anarchist.
• David Neil MacKenzie, 75, British linguist.

14

• Sir Philip Adams, 85, British diplomat.
• David Lewis, 60, American philosopher.

15

• Anne Ridler, 89, British poet and editor.
• Zhang Xueliang, 100, Chinese warlord and military figure.

17

• Jack Smith, 77, American NASCAR driver.
• Rehavam Ze'evi, 75, Israeli army general and politician.

19

• Joe Murray, 80, American baseball player.

20

• Nebojša Popović, 78, Serbian basketball player.
• John H. Terry, 76, American politician.

21

• Sir John Plumb, 90, British historian.

23

• Ken Aston, 86, British football referee.

24

• Jaromil Jireš, 65, Czechoslovak filmmaker.
• Eamon Kelly, 87, Irish actor.

26

• Elizabeth Jennings, 75, English poet.
• John Platts-Mills, 95, British politician and lawyer.
• John P. Roberts, 56, American businessman, promoter of the Woodstock Festival.

28

• Jallouli Fares, 92, Tunisian politician.
• Sir John Mogg, 88, British army general.

29

• Maura Fay, 43, Australian casting director.
• Freddie Silva, 63, Sri Lankan actor, singer.

31

• Colin Campbell, 59, Canadian video artist.
• Angus MacVicar, 93, British author.
• Braj Kumar Nehru, 90, Indian diplomat and ambassador.

November 2001

1

• Solange Chaput-Rolland, 82, Canadian journalist, author, and politician.
• Tom Cheney, 67, American Major League Baseball player.
• Bob Woodruff, 85, American college football player, coach, and sports administrator.

2

• Hank Gremminger, 68, American football player.
• Elazar Shach, 102, Lithuanian Haredi rabbi.
• William Whitlock, 83, British politician.

3

• Evan Adermann, 74, Australian politician.
• Denis Gallagher, 79, Irish politician.
• Sir Ernst Gombrich, 92, Austrian-born British art historian.
• Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, 87, European royalty, sister of Prince Philip.

4

• Arthur Guepe, 86, American football player and coach.
• Ng Eng Teng, 67, Singaporean sculptor.
• Nikolai Vladimirovich Astakhov, 79, Russian scientist.

5

• Milton William Cooper, 87, American conspiracy theorist, radio broadcaster, and author, shot during arrest.
• Barry Horne, 49, English animal rights activist, liver failure after hunger strike.
• Joan Marion, 93, British stage, film and television actress.

6

• Gray Morrow, 67, American comic book artist and book illustrator
• Peter Kenneth Newman, 73, British economist.
• John Simon White, 61, Austrian-born American opera director.

7

• Bobby Bass, 65, American stunt performer.
• Geoffrey Jenkins, 81, South African writer.

8

• Paolo Bertoli, 93, Italian cardinal, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church.
• Peter Laslett, 85, British historian.
• Patrick Quinlan, Irish academic and politician.

9

• Denis Atkinson, 75, Barbadian cricketer, captain of West Indies.
• Dorothy Dunnett, 78, Scottish historical novelist.
• Koichi Chiba, 70, Japanese voice actor and sound director.
• Giovanni Leone, 93, Italian politician, Prime Minister (1963;1968) and President (1971–1978)

10

• Ken Kesey, 66, American author, counter-cultural figure.
• Michael Lucas, 2nd Baron Lucas of Chilworth, 75, British politician.
• Junji Nishime, 80, Japanese politician.

11

• John R. Foley, 84, American politician.
• Sir Denis Spotswood, 85, British Chief of the Air Staff (1971–1974)

12

• Tony Miles, 46, English chess player.
• Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, 74, American Saivite guru

13

• Karuna Banerjee, 81, Indian actress.
• Frank Messer, 76, American sportscaster.
• Peggy Mount, 86, English actress (Oliver!, The Princess and the Goblin).
• Ray Robinson, 61, English cricketer.
• Cornelius Warmerdam, 86, American pole vaulter.

14

• Charlotte Coleman, 33, British actress.
• Nathan M. Pusey, 94, American university educator.

15

• Geoffrey Blodgett, 70, Historian.

16

• Rosemary Brown, 85, British composer and spiritualist.
• Tommy Flanagan, 71, American jazz pianist, brain aneurysm.
• Edgar Ross, 95, Australian journalist and communist.
• Isaac Scott, 56, American guitarist and singer.

17

• John M. Dawson, 71, American computational physicist.
• Harrison A. Williams, 81, American politician.

18

• Malcolm McFee, 52, English actor.

19

• John Farnsworth Wright, 72, British economist.

20

• James Broad, 43, American heavyweight boxer
• Borko Temelkovski, 81, Macedonian politician and communist leader.

21

• Fritz Herzog, 98, German-born American mathematician.
• Salahuddin of Selangor, 75, Malaysian head of state.

22

• Mary Kay Ash, 83, American businesswoman, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics.

23

• Vendramino Bariviera, 64, Italian racing cyclist.
• Mary Whitehouse, 91, British campaigner against permissiveness.

24

• Tommy Gallacher, 79, Scottish footballer.
• Rachel Gurney, 81, British actress.
• Melanie Thornton, 34, American singer, plane crash near Zürich.

25

• Alan Bray, 53, British historian and gay rights activist.
• George Mock, 94, American labor leader.

26

• Joe Modise, 72, South African political activist.

27

• Gordon Freeth, 87, Australian politician and diplomat.
• Joe Hin Tjio, 82, American cytogeneticist.
• Jane Welsh, 96, British actress.

28

• Michael Yates, 82, British television designer.

29

• Viktor Astafyev, 77, Russian writer.
• George Harrison, 58, British musician and former member of The Beatles.
• John Knowles, 75, American author, A Separate Peace.
• Erwin Thaler, 71, Austrian Olympic bobsledder.

30

• Robert Tools, 59, first recipient of a self-contained artificial heart.

December 2001

1

• Danilo Donati, 75, Italian costume designer and production designer.

2

• John W. Collins, 89, American chess teacher.
• Bruce Halford, 70, British racing driver.
• Valorie Jones, The Jones Girls.

3

• Sir John Allen Clark, 75, British businessman.
• Warren J. Winstead, 74, American academic.
• Harry Winter, 87, Austrian singer.

4

• John Townsend, 85, American basketball player.

5

• Sir Peter Blake, 53, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist, shot by pirates on the Amazon River.
• Franco Rasetti, 100, Italian physicist.
• Bill Roberts, 89, British athlete.

6

• Muhamed Kreševljaković, 62, Bosnian politician, Mayor of Sarajevo.

7

• David Astor, 89, British newspaper proprietor.
• Peter Elias, 78, American information theorist.
• Sir Raymond Powell, 73, British politician.

8

• Don Tennant, 79, American advertising executive, inventor of Tony the Tiger and the Marlboro Man.
• George Young, 71, American football executive.

9

• Michael Carver, Baron Carver, 86, British Field Marshal.
• Sir Frederick Stewart, 85, British geologist.

10

• Ashok Kumar, 90, Indian film actor.

11

• Clark Mills, 86, American boatbuilder and designer.

12

• Raymond Smith, 67, English cricketer (Leicestershire).

13

• Yvan Craipeau, 90, French Trotskyist.
• Chuck Schuldiner, 34, death metal guitarist and vocalist.

14

• Pauline Mills McGibbon, 91, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.
• W. G. Sebald, 57, German writer.

15

• Russ Haas, 27, Professional Wrestler
• José O'Callaghan Martínez, 79, Spanish Jesuit priest and Biblical scholar.
• Rufus Thomas, 84, R&B/soul singer.

16

• Stuart Adamson, 43, singer-songwriter and guitarist of Big Country and The Raphaels.
• Roy Brocksmith, 56, American actor.
• Stefan Heym, 88, German writer.
• Carwood Lipton, 81, American soldier.
• Villy Sørensen, 72, Danish writer, philosopher and literary critic.
• Sir Michael Walker, 85, British diplomat.

17

• Gerald Ashby, 52, English football referee.
• Kenneth Bryden, 85, Canadian politician.

18

• Marcel Mule, 100, French saxophonist.
• Michael Scaife, 53, British development psychologist.
• A. C. de la Mare, 69, English paleographer.

19

• Christine Kittrell, 72, American R&B singer, emphysema.

20

• Manuhuia Bennett, 85, New Zealand Anglican prelate.
• Sir Peter Horsley, 80, British air marshal.
• Léopold Senghor, 95, first President of Senegal; also a world-renowned poet and writer.
• Joan Wheeler, 87, American actress.

21

• Harry Bain, 80, Canadian pediatrician.
• James M. Burns, 77, American jurist.
• George Smith, 82, British footballer.

22

• Grzegorz Ciechowski, 44, Polish rock musician, film music composer, frontman of the band Republika.
• Shidzue Katō, 104, Japanese feminist and politician.
• Liu Zihou, 92, Chinese politician, governor of Hubei and Hebei provinces.
• Edwin F. Russell, 87, American newspaper publisher.

23

• Jan Kott, 87, Polish theatre critic and political activist.
• Sir Dimitri Obolensky, 83, Russian-born British historian.

24

• Annie Altschul, 81, Austrian-born British nursing academic.
• Harvey Martin, 51, American football player.
• Gareth Williams, 48, British musician (This Heat).

25

• Bryan Drake, 76, New Zealand operatic baritone.
• Sir Dennis Mitchell, 83, British Royal Air Force officer.
• Billy Wells, 70, American football player.

26

• Tom McBride, 87, American baseball player.
• Nigel Hawthorne, 72, British actor.

27

• Ian Hamilton, 63, British critic, poet, magazine publisher.
• Paul Hogarth, 84, British artist.
• Boris Rybakov, 83, Russian historian.

28

• William X. Kienzle, 73, author of murder mysteries with Catholic priest detective.
• Hovie Lister, 75, American gospel singer and manager of The Statesmen Quartet.
• Arne Rettedal, 75, Norwegian politician.
• Anthony Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond, 74, British politician and businessman.

29

• Takashi Asahina, 93, Japanese conductor.
• Eldon Arthur Johnson, 82, Canadian politician.

30

• Eric Cheney, 77, British motorcycle designer.
• Frankie Gaye, 60, American soul musician.
• Eileen Heckart, 82, Oscar-winning American actor.
• James Melvin Scott, 90, American inventor and Senior Olympian.
• Dame Sheila Sherlock, 83, British physician.

31

• Edward Lee, 87, British scientist and civil servant.