List of notable deaths in a month
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.
Happy Hairston , 58, American basketball player (Cincinnati Royals , Detroit Pistons , Los Angeles Lakers ), prostate cancer .[ 1]
Waldemar Kikolski , 33, Polish paralympic athlete, road accident.
Ernie Pomfret , 60, British middle-distance runner.[ 2]
Elsa Prawitz , 69, Swedish film and stage actress.
Ernie Wheelwright , 61, American football player.[ 3]
Enrico Bovone , 55, Italian basketball player, suicide by gunshot.[ 4]
Poul Dalsager , 72, Danish politician.
Georges Dard , 82, French football player.[ 5]
Vlasta Foltová , 88, Czechoslovak gymnast and Olympic silver medalist.[ 6]
Dick Jamieson , 63, American football player (Baltimore Colts , New York Titans ) and coach.[ 7]
Howard Kahane , 73, American professor of philosophy.[ 8]
Gina Mastrogiacomo , 39, American actress (Goodfellas , Harry and the Hendersons , Jungle Fever ), myocarditis .
Abdul Sattar Khan Niazi , 85, Pakistani religious and political leader.
Ted Rogers , 65, British comedian, complications after open-heart surgery.[ 9]
Theodore Roosevelt III , 86, American banker and government official.[ 10]
Klement Steinmetz , 86, Austrian football (soccer) player.[ 11]
Philip George Houthem Gell , 86, British immunologist .[ 12]
Jim Godman , 55, American professional bowler .[ 13]
Billy Higgins , 64, American jazz drummer, hepatitis .[ 14]
Karel Kalaš , 90, Czech operatic bass and actor.
Princess Rosemary of Salm-Salm , 97, German noblewoman.
Robert Millner Shackleton , 91, British field geologist.
Hank Schmulbach , 76, American baseball player.[ 15]
Anne Anastasi , 92, American psychologist.[ 16]
Bonny Lee Bakley , 44, American socialite, shot.[ 17]
Gene Grabosky , 64, American professional football player (Syracuse University , Buffalo Bills ).[ 18]
Vaska Ilieva , 78, Macedonian folk singer from Yugoslavia and North Macedonia.
Arne Sucksdorff , 84, Swedish film director, pneumonia.[ 19]
Charles Black , 85, American constitutional scholar.[ 20]
Boozoo Chavis , 70, American accordion player, singer, songwriter and bandleader (Zydeco ).[ 21]
Morris Graves , 90, American expressionist painter, stroke.[ 22]
Cliff Hillegass , 83, American creator of CliffsNotes , stroke.[ 23]
Bill Homeier , 82, American racecar driver (three Indianapolis 500s ).[ 24]
David Jamieson , 80, British Army officer, recipient of the Victoria Cross .[ 25]
Aleksandr Petrov , 61, Soviet/Russian basketball player.[ 26]
Hans Rampf , 70, German ice hockey player.[ 27]
Terry Ryan , 78, American screenwriter, congestive heart failure.[ 28]
Wang Yinglai , 93, Chinese biochemist.
René Bondoux , 95, French fencer and Olympic champion.[ 29]
Mike Hazlewood , 59, English singer, composer and songwriter, heart attack.
Karl Wilhelm Krause , 90, German Waffen-SS officer during World War II.[ 30]
Zoltán Nemere , 59, Hungarian fencer, traffic collision.[ 31]
Cecil Price , 63, American deputy sheriff and Ku Klux Klan member, fall.[ 32]
Malati Bedekar , 96, Indian writer.
Jacques de Bourbon-Busset , 89, French novelist, essayist and politician.[ 33]
Prem Dhawan , 77, Indian lyricist, music composer, and actor of Bollywood , cardiac arrest.
Edwin Finckel , 83, American jazz pianist, composer (George White's Scandals ) and music educator.[ 34]
Joseph Greenberg , 85, American linguist, pancreatic cancer .[ 35]
Dick Kimble , 85, American baseball player.[ 36]
Margaretha Krook , 75, Swedish actress, lung cancer .[ 37]
Boris Ryzhy , 26, Russian poet and geologist, suicide by hanging.[ 38]
Simon Slåttvik , 83, Norwegian Olympic skier (gold medal winner of the Nordic combined at the 1952 Winter Olympics ).[ 39]
Al Tucker , 58, American basketball player.[ 40]
Arthur Christopher Watson , 74, British diplomat.
Larry Hornung , 55, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.[ 41]
John McMahon , 83, Australian-English cricket player.[ 42]
Piero Natoli , 53, Italian actor and film director, intracranial aneurysm.[ 43]
Luis Rijo , 73, Uruguayan football player.
Clay King Smith , 30, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
Marie Cardinal , 72, French novelist.[ 44]
Antoinette Downing , 96, American architectural historian and preservationist .
Saul Elkins , 93, American film producer, writer and director.[ 45]
Andrés Framini , 86, Argentine labor leader and politician.
Miroslav Kárný , 81, Czech historian and writer.
Nikos Sampson , 65, Cypriot politician, de facto President of Cyprus (1974), cancer.
Werner Schuster , 62, German politician.
William T. Stearn , 90, British botanist .[ 46]
Kauko Wahlsten , 77, Finnish rower and Olympic medalist.[ 47]
Smokey Yunick , 77, American mechanic and car designer, leukemia .[ 48]
Turi Ferro , 80, Italian actor (Liolà , The Seduction of Mimi , Malizia ), heart attack.[ 49]
James E. Myers , 81, American songwriter ("Rock Around the Clock "), actor and director.[ 50]
Sudhakarrao Naik , 66, Indian politician.
M. Krishnan Nair , 74, Indian film director.
Frank Newby , 75, English structural engineer.
Arthur Tange , 86, Australian public servant.[ 51]
Dorothy Burr Thompson , 100, American classical archaeologist and art historian .[ 52]
Deborah Walley , 57, American actress (Gidget Goes Hawaiian , Beach Blanket Bingo , Spinout ) and voice-over artist, esophageal cancer .[ 53]
Douglas Adams , 49, British author (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , Doctor Who ), heart attack.[ 54]
Jesús Aguirre , 66, Spanish intellectual, Jesuit priest, and aristocrat, pulmonary embolism .[ 55]
Michael J. Bird , 72, British writer.[ 56]
Guy Carlton , 47, American Olympic weightlifter (bronze medal winner in heavyweight weightlifting at the 1984 Summer Olympics ), suicide by gunshot.[ 57]
Alan William James Cousins , 97, South African astronomer .
Nick Lalich , 85, Serbian American basketball player, esophageal cancer .
Emmett Watson , 82, American newspaper columnist.
Wolfgang Winkler , 60, West German luger and Olympic medalist.[ 58]
John Cliff , 82, American film and television actor.
Ollie Cline , 75, American gridiron football player.[ 59]
Perry Como , 88, American singer, actor and television personality, Alzheimer's disease .[ 60]
Didi , 72, Brazilian footballer, pneumonia .[ 61]
Willy Gysi , 83, Swiss field handball player.[ 62]
Norman Kay , 72, British composer and writer, ALS .
Paul Morgan , 52, British engineer, plane crash.
Jonathan Niva , 58, Kenyan football player.[ 63]
Mel Payton , 74, American basketball player.
Fritz Pfenninger , 66, Swiss cyclist.[ 64]
Simon Raven , 73, British writer.[ 65]
Eleanor Sayre , 85, American curator and art historian.[ 66]
Alexei Tupolev , 75, Soviet aircraft designer.[ 67]
Georgie Woodgate , 77, British tennis player.
Corissa Yasen , 27, American basketball player, suicide by drug overdose.[ 68]
Sergey Afanasyev , 82, Russian engineer and politician.
Eddra Gale , 79, American actress (8½ , What's New Pussycat? , The Graduate , I Love You, Alice B. Toklas , Somewhere in Time ).[ 69]
Salvador Garmendia Graterón , 72, Venezuelan author,.[ 70]
Frank Millar , 76, Northern Irish unionist politician.
Jason Miller , 62, American actor (The Exorcist , Rudy ) and playwright (That Championship Season ), Tony winner (1973 ), heart attack.[ 71]
Harold Minter , 98, American film editor.
R. K. Narayan , 94, Indian writer.[ 72]
Ray Straw , 67, English footballer.[ 73]
Ralph Tabakin , 79, American actor.
Susumu Takahashi , 80, Japanese Olympic middle-distance runner.[ 74]
Mauro Bolognini , 78, Italian film and stage director.[ 75]
Eric Bradbury , 80, British comic artist.
Paul Bénichou , 92, French-Algerian writer, intellectual, and literary historian.[ 76]
Alex Glasgow , 65, English singer-songwriter (On Your Way, Riley! , When the Boat Comes In ).[ 77]
Gil Langley , 81, Australian cricketer and politician.[ 78]
Elisabeth Lennartz , 98, German stage actress.
Loften Mitchell , 82, American playwright and theatre historian.[ 79]
Armando Nannuzzi , 75, Italian cinematographer and camera operator.
Ettore Puricelli , 84, Uruguayan-Italian football player and manager.[ 80]
Juan Verdaguer , 85, Uruguayan actor, cardiovascular disease .
Jean-Philippe Lauer , 99, French architect and Egyptologist .[ 81]
Juracy Magalhães , 95, Brazilian military officer and politician.
Ralph Miller , 82, American college basketball coach.[ 82]
Bobby Murdoch , 56, Scottish footballer, stroke.[ 83]
William Oates , 71, English first-class cricketer.[ 84]
Georgy Shakhnazarov , 76, Soviet-Armenian politician and political scientist.
Sacha Vierny , 81, French cinematographer.
Antonio Flores , 77, Mexican football player.
Prince Ital Joe , 38, Dominican-American reggae artist, car accident.
Brian Pendleton , 57, British guitarist (The Pretty Things ), lung cancer .[ 85]
Witold Stachurski , 54, Polish boxer.[ 86]
Robert Elton Brooker , 95, American business executive at Sears, Roebuck & Co .
Ike Brown , 59, American baseball player, cancer.[ 87]
Gerd Buchdahl , 86, German-English philosopher of science.
Ikuma Dan , 77, Japanese composer.[ 88]
Enid Hattersley , 96, English politician and Lord Mayor of Sheffield .[ 89]
Robert Knapp , 77, American actor (Days of Our Lives , Dragnet , Gunsmoke , The F.B.I. ).[ 90]
Jacques-Louis Lions , 73, French mathematician.[ 91]
Murray Murdoch , 96, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.[ 92]
Frank G. Slaughter , 93, American novelist and physician.[ 93]
Rosa Beddington , 45, British biologist , cancer.[ 94]
Ralph Enckell , 88, Finnish diplomat.
Irene Hunt , 99, American children's writer.
Alexey Maresyev , 84, Russian military pilot, infarction.[ 95]
Stella Mary Newton , 100, British fashion designer and dress historian.[ 96]
Maurice Noble , 90, American animation artist and designer.[ 97]
Seán Mac Stíofáin , 73, English-Irish chief of staff of the Provisional IRA , stroke.
Robert F. Woodward , 92, American diplomat.[ 98]
Fred Derby , 61, Surinamese politician and trade unionist.
John Joseph Egan , 84, American Roman Catholic priest and social activist.[ 99]
Joe Graydon , 82, American big band vocalist, television host, personal manager and concert producer.[ 100]
Josef Haunzwickel , 86, Austrian Olympic athlete (men's pole vault at the 1936 Summer Olympics ).[ 101]
Patricia Hilliard , 85, British stage and film actress.
Vidkunn Hveding , 80, Norwegian politician.
Joe Lovitto , 50, American baseball player, cancer.[ 102]
Hans Mayer , 94, German literary scholar.[ 103]
Susannah McCorkle , 55, American jazz singer, suicide by jumping.[ 104]
Mike Sammes , 73, English musician and vocal session arranger.[ 105]
Pat Falken Smith , 75, American television writer.
Bob Tinning , 75, Australian rower.[ 106]
John Warner , 78, British actor.
Carl Eric Almgren , 88, Swedish Army general.
Renato Carosone , 81, Italian musician.[ 107]
Bob Keely , 91, American baseball coach, scout and player.[ 108]
Art Mergenthal , 80, American gridiron football player.[ 109]
Bud Thomas , 90, American baseball player.[ 110]
Philip W. Buchen , 85, American attorney and White House Counsel .[ 111]
Mel Hoderlein , 77, American baseball player.[ 112]
Mario Martinelli , 95, Italian resistance member during World War II and politician.
Cecil G. Murgatroyd , 42, Australian politician, musician, and comedian, cancer.
Johnny Rainford , 70, English footballer.[ 113]
Gabriele Rumi , 61, Italian Formula One team owner, cancer.
Tad Szulc , 74, Polish-American journalist, cancer.[ 114]
Fritz Uhl , 73, Austrian operatic tenor.
Graham Webster , 87, British archaeologist .
Hu Xieqing , 95, Contemporary Chinese painter.
Lorez Alexandria , 71, American jazz singer.[ 115]
Katharine Bartlett , 93, American physical anthropologist .[ 116]
Jenő Fock , 85, Hungarian communist politician, prime minister (1967-1975).
Ralph Hamner , 84, American baseball player.[ 117]
Jean Hougron , 77, French novelist.[ 118]
Leamon King , 65, American sprinter and Olympic champion.[ 119]
Whitman Mayo , 70, American actor (Sanford and Son , Boyz n the Hood , Hell Town ), heart attack.[ 120]
Jack Watling , 78, British actor (The Plane Makers , The Power Game , Pathfinders ), cancer.[ 121]
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod , 72, Palestinian-American academic.
Liu Anyuan , 73, Chinese lieutenant general.
Harald Bergström , 93, a Swedish mathematician .[ 122]
Jean Champion , 84, French film actor.
Lita Chevret , 92, American actress.
Charles D. Cook , 66, American politician.
Tommy Eyre , 51, British keyboardist, cancer.[ 123]
Walter Eytan , 90, Israeli diplomat.[ 124]
Bob Gaona , 70, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers , Philadelphia Eagles ).[ 125]
Chuck Gelatka , 87, American professional football player (Mississippi State , New York Giants ).[ 126]
Boris Gyuderov , 74, Bulgarian Olympic volleyball player (1964 ).[ 127]
Lee Chiaw Meng , 64, Singaporean politician, cancer.
Arno Mohr , 90, German painter and graphic artist.[ 128]
Alessandro Natta , 83, Italian communist politician.[ 129]
P. Ramachandran , 79, Indian politician, Governor of Kerala .[ 130]
Jamileh Sheykhi , 71, Iranian actress, heart attack.
Harry Townes , 86, American actor (Finian's Rainbow , Gunsmoke , The Twilight Zone , Star Trek ) and an Episcopalian priest.[ 131]
Arseny Vorozheykin , 88, Soviet/Russian fighter ace during World War II.
Lucy Boscana , 85, Puerto Rico actress.
Jo Ann Greer , 74, American singer.[ 132]
Tor Jevne , 72, Norwegian football player.
Paul Kor , 74, Israeli painter and children's writer, lung cancer .[ 133]
Ridvan Qazimi , 37, Kosovar Albanian insurgent nationalist, K.I.A.
Patricia Robertson , 38, American physician and NASA astronaut , plane crash.[ 134]
Javier Urruticoechea , 49, Spanish footballer, car crash.
Delme Bryn-Jones , 67, Welsh baritone .
John W. Holmes , 84, American film editor.
Alberto Korda , 72, Cuban photographer, heart attack.[ 135]
Arturo Maly , 61, Argentine actor, heart attack.
Malcom McLean , 87, American businessman and shipper.[ 136]
Harold Ridley , 94, British ophthalmologist .
Vittorio Brambilla , 63, Italian Formula One race car driver, heart attack.[ 137]
Roman Codreanu , 48, Romanian Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic medalist.[ 138]
Johnny Gordon , 69, English football player.[ 139]
Anne Haney , 67, American actress (Mrs. Doubtfire , The American President , Liar Liar ), heart failure.[ 140]
Moven Mahachi , 53, Zimbabwean Minister of Defence of the Republic of Zimbabwe , traffic collision.[ 141]
Hal Moe , 91, American gridiron football player and coach.[ 142]
William Molloy, Baron Molloy , 82, British politician.
Dea Trier Mørch , 59, Danish artist and writer, cancer.
Ramon Bieri , 71, American actor (Sarge , Room 222 , Daniel Boone , Gunsmoke ), cancer.[ 143]
Helen Oakley Dance , 88, Canadian-American jazz journalist, record producer, and music historian.[ 144]
Victor Kiam , 74, American entrepreneur and owner of the New England Patriots football team.[ 145]
Agda Rössel , 90, Swedish politician.
Nikolay Yeryomenko , 52, Soviet/Russian actor and film director, stroke.[ 146]
Tony Ashton , 55, English rock pianist, music producer and artist, cancer.[ 147]
Francis Bebey , 71, Cameroonian writer and composer.[ 148]
Joe Moakley , 74, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives , leukemia .[ 149]
Vulimiri Ramalingaswami , 79, Indian medical scientist.
Rockets Redglare , 52, American character actor and comedian (After Hours , Desperately Seeking Susan ), hepatitis and liver cirrhosis .[ 150]
Elizabeth S. Russell , 88, American geneticist .[ 151]
Francisco Varela , 54, Chilean biologist, philosopher and neuroscientist , heart attack.[ 152]
John Fleming , 81, British art historian.[ 153]
Eddie Forrest , 79, American football player (San Francisco 49ers ).[ 154]
Akira Fujita , 93, Japanese Olympic water polo player (men's water polo at the 1932 Summer Olympics ).[ 155]
Charley Pell , 60, American college football player and coach, lung cancer.[ 156]
Vytautas Sakalauskas , 68, Soviet and Lithuanian politician.
Hédi Temessy , 76, Hungarian actress.[ 157]
Werner Fricker , 65, German-American soccer player and official.
Terry Gathercole , 65, Australian Olympic swimmer (silver medal winner of the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics ).[ 158]
Inderjit Singh Gill , 79, Indian Army officer.
Adrian Hastings , 71, British Roman Catholic priest and historian.[ 159]
Nikolai Korndorf , 54, Russian-Canadian composer and conductor.
John Pickering , 56, English footballer.[ 160]
Jaime Benítez Rexach , 92, Puerto Rican author, academic and politician.[ 161]
Renée Schuurman , 61, South African tennis player.
Rajko Tomović , 81, Serbian and Yugoslav scientist.
Denis Whitaker , 86, Canadian athlete, soldier, and author.[ 162]
Santos Amaro , 93, Cuban baseball player.[ 163]
Arlene Francis , 93, American actress, talk show host, and game show panelist (What's My Line? ), Alzheimer's disease and cancer.[ 164]
Faisal Husseini , 60, Palestinian politician, heart attack.[ 165]
Tony Johnson , 76, Australian politician.
Jagannath Kaushal , 86, Indian politician.
Kwoh-Ting Li , 91, Taiwanese economist and politician.[ 166]
Tex McKenzie , 70, American professional wrestler, abdominal aortic aneurysm .
Walter E. Rogers , 92, American politician.[ 167]
German Ugryumov , 52, Soviet and Russian navy and security services official, heart attack.
Rosemary Verey , 82, English garden designer.[ 168]
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