Deaths in December 2001

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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.

## December 2001

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### 1

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* Danilo Donati, 75, Italian costume designer and production designer (two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Costume Design).[1]
* Ellis R. Dungan, 92, American film director.
* Michael Gallanagh, 82, Irish Fianna Fáil politician and Army captain.
* Cor de Jager, 76, Dutch army officer, Chief of Defence (1980-1983).
* Lin Haiyin, 83, Taiwanese writer, organ dysfunction.
* Celia M. Hunter, 82, American environmentalist and conservationist.[2]
* Chris Rees, 70, Welsh politician.
* Pavel Sadyrin, 59, Soviet and Russian football player and manager, cancer.[3]

### 2

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* John W. Collins, 89, American chess master, author and teacher.[4]
* Chase Craig, 91, American comic strip and comic book writer and cartoonist, fall.[5]
* Bruce Halford, 70, British racing driver.
* Martha Kneale, 92, British philosopher.
* Roger McDonough, 92, American librarian.
* Amir Abdullah Khan Rokhri, 85, Pakistani politician.
* Max Rood, 74, Dutch jurist and politician.[6]
* Naomi Schor, 58, American literary critic and theorist, brain hemorrhage.[7]
* Manuel Velasco Suárez, 86, Mexican neurologist, scientist and humanist.
* Dmitri Voskoboynikov, 60, Russian Olympic volleyball player.[8]
* Willie Woodburn, 82, Scottish footballer.[9]

### 3

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* Juan José Arreola, 83, Mexican writer, academic, and actor.[10]
* Dee Barton, 64, American jazz trombonist, big band drummer and composer.[11]
* Marike de Klerk, 64, First Lady of South Africa, as wife of President Frederik Willem de Klerk, murdered.
* Anthony Gigliotti, 79, American clarinetist and music teacher (Philadelphia Orchestra).[12]
* Nebojša M. Krstić, 37, Serbian theologian and sociologist, car accident.
* Grady Martin, 72, American country music guitarist (The Nashville A-Team), heart attack.[13]
* Gerhart M Riegner, 90, German philosopher, and the secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress from 1965 to 1983.[14]
* Harry Winter, 87, Austrian singer.[15]

### 4

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* Silvio Clementelli, 75, Italian film producer.
* Pierre de Bénouville, 87, French Army officer, member of the Resistance during World War II, and politician.[16]
* Mercedes Matter, 87/88, American painter, draughtswoman, and writer.[17]
* Eddie Popowski, 88, American baseball coach and manager.
* Princess Maria Francesca of Savoy, 86, Italian royal and daughter of Victor Emmanuel III of Italy.[18]
* John Townsend, 85, American basketball player.
* Ed Whalen, 74, Canadian television personality and journalist, heart attack.

### 5

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* Anton Benya, 89, Austrian politician and trade unionist.
* Peter Blake, 53, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist, shot.[19]
* Muhamed Kreševljaković, 62, Bosnian politician and Mayor of Sarajevo.
* Franco Rasetti, 100, Italian-American physicist.[20]
* Bill Roberts, 89, British athlete.[21]
* Dharam Singh, 82, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.[22]
* Tomás Vio, 80, Argentine basketball player.

### 6

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* Colin Buchanan, 94, Scottish town planner.[23]
* Robert W. Camac, 61, American thoroughbred horse racing trainer and breeder, murdered.
* Thomas William Gould, 86, English Royal Navy submariner and World War II hero (Victoria Cross).[24]
* Charles McClendon, 78, American football player (University of Kentucky) and coach (Louisiana State University).[25]
* Walt Mulconery, 69, American film editor (Flashdance, The Karate Kid, Touch and Go).[26]

### 7

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* David Astor, 89, British newspaper proprietor.[27]
* Eva Calvo, 80, Mexican actress.
* Wally Cruice, 88, American NFL football player, assistant coach, and scout.
* James Crutchfield, 89, American blues singer, piano player and songwriter, heart disease.[28]
* Peter Elias, 78, American information theorist, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.[29]
* Faith Hubley, 77, American animator (Moonbird, The Hole, Sesame Street, A Doonesbury Special), breast cancer.[30]
* Billie Matthews, 71, American gridiron football coach.[31]
* Subrata Mitra, 70, Indian cinematographer.
* Pauline Moore, 87, American actress (Heidi, The Three Musketeers, Young Mr. Lincoln, Charlie Chan at Treasure Island), ALS.[32]
* Ray Powell, 73, British politician.[33]

### 8

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* Agha Shahid Ali, 52, Kashmiri-American poet, brain cancer.[34]
* Mirza Delibašić, 47, Bosnian and Yugoslav basketball player and coach.[35]
* Maurice Gross, 67, French linguist and scholar.[36]
* Betty Holberton, 84, American computer programmer, one of six original programmers of the ENIAC computer.[37]
* Pete Perreault, 62, American gridiron football player.[38]
* Sergei Suponev, 38, Soviet/Russian television director and children's television presenter, snowmobile accident.
* Miroslav Vlach, 66, Czech ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.[39]
* George Young, 71, American football executive.[40]

### 9

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* Cesina Bermudes, 93, Portuguese obstetrician and feminist.
* Michael Carver, Baron Carver, 86, British Field Marshal.[41]
* Joseph Mees, 78, Belgian prelate of the Catholic Church.[42]
* Frederick Stewart, 85, British geologist.[43]
* Lisa Welander, 92, Swedish neurologist.

### 10

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* Mikhail Budyko, 81, Russian climatologist.
* Gus Doerner, 79, American basketball player.
* Alan Fennell, 65, British writer and editor.
* Knut Fægri, 92, Norwegian botanist and palaeoecologist.[44]
* Ashok Kumar, 90, Indian film actor, heart failure.[45]
* Vernon Richards, 86, Anglo-Italian anarchist, author, and photographer.[46]
* Heinz Rögner, 72, German conductor.[47]

### 11

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* Beverly Hope Atkinson, 66, American actress, cancer.
* Andrei Bantikov, 87, Russian and Soviet painter.[48]
* Graham Billing, 65, New Zealand novelist, journalist and poet.
* Mainza Chona, 71, Zambian politician and diplomat, kidney failure.
* Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar, 92, Indian indologist and scholar.[49]
* Zdeněk Dítě, 81, Czechoslovak film actor.
* Teguh Karya, 64, Indonesian film director, complications from a stroke.
* Clark Mills, 86, American boatbuilder and designer.
* John Wilkinson Taylor, 95, American academic and UNESCO director-general.[50]

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* Friedel Apelt, 99, German political activist and trades union official.
* Josef Bican, 88, Austrian-Czech footballer.
* Ardito Desio, 104, Italian explorer, geologist, and cartographer.[51]
* Berit Granquist, 92, Swedish Olympic fencer (women's foil at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[52]
* Armando Theodoro Hunziker, 82, Argentine botanist (Botanical Museum of the National University of Córdoba), cancer.[53]
* Farnham Johnson, 77, American gridiron football player (Chicago Rockets).[54]
* Lê Phổ, 94, Vietnamese painter.
* Giuseppe Prisco, 80, Italian lawyer and sporting director.
* Jean Richard, 80, French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur, cancer.[55]
* Roger Scotti, 76, French football player.[56]
* U. S. Grant Sharp, Jr., 95, United States Navy admiral.[57]
* William Stobie, 51, Northern Irish paramilitary, shot.

### 13

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* Michael Bradshaw, 68, English actor.[58]
* Larry Costello, 70, American basketball player and coach, cancer.[59]
* Yvan Craipeau, 90, French Trotskyist.[60]
* Jack Hoffman, 71, American gridiron football player (Xavier University, Chicago Bears).[61]
* György Kőszegi, 51, Hungarian weightlifter and Olympic silver medalist.[62]
* Nigel Lovell, 85, Australian actor and opera director.
* Beatrice Macola, 36, Italian actress, cerebral infarction.
* Vidadi Narimanbekov, 75, Azerbaijani painter.
* Chuck Schuldiner, 34, American death metal guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, brain cancer.
* Dušan Slobodník, 74, Slovak literary theoretician, translator and politician.

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* Conte Candoli, 74, American jazz trumpeter, prostate cancer.[63]
* Arghiri Emmanuel, 90, French marxian economist.[64]
* Alfred Byrd Graf, 100, German-American botanist, photographer and author.[65]
* John Guedel, 88, American radio and television producer (You Bet Your Life, People Are Funny, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet).[66]
* Pauline Mills McGibbon, 91, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.
* Claude Santelli, 78, French film director and screenwriter.[67]
* W. G. Sebald, 57, German writer, car collision.[68]
* Eoin Ryan, Snr, 81, Irish politician and senator.

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* Wilkie Cooper, 90, British cinematographer (Jason and the Argonaut).[69]
* Russ Haas, 27, American professional wrestler, heart failure.[70]
* Bianca Halstead, 36, American hard rock singer, traffic collision.
* Franciszek Kępka, 61, Polish glider pilot and European champion.
* José O'Callaghan Martínez, 79, Spanish Jesuit priest and biblical scholar.
* Rufus Thomas, 84, American R&B/soul singer, heart failure.[71]

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* Stuart Adamson, 43, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist of Big Country and The Raphaels, suicide by hanging.[72]
* Roy Brocksmith, 56, American actor, diabetes.[73]
* Stefan Heym, 88, German writer, heart failure.[74]
* Martin Isaksson, 80, Finnish politician and diplomat.
* Carwood Lipton, 81, American soldier during World War II and member of the Band of Brothers.[75]
* Lester Persky, 76, American film, television, and theatre producer, complications following heart surgery.[76]
* Villy Sørensen, 72, Danish writer, philosopher and literary critic.[77]
* Lincoln Tate, 67, American actor and marine.

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* Mohammad al-Husayni al-Shirazi, 73, Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja' and political theorist.
* Gerald Ashby, 52, English football referee, heart attack.[78]
* Luigi Bertoldi, 81, Italian socialist politician.
* Fred Chaney, Sr., 87, Australian politician.
* Nelson Chelle, 70, Uruguayan basketball player.[79]
* Frédéric de Pasquale, 70, French actor.[80]
* Martin Glaberman, 83, American marxist writer, historian, and academic.[81]
* Martha Mödl, 89, German soprano, and later mezzo-soprano.[82]
* Wale Ogunyemi, 62, Nigerian dramatist, film actor, and playwright.[83]
* Aleksandr Volodin, 82, Soviet and Russian playwright, screenwriter and poet.
* Alf Wood, 86, English football goalkeeper and manager.

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* Gilbert Bécaud, 74, French singer, composer ("What Now My Love"), pianist and actor, lung cancer.[84]
* Dan DeCarlo, 82, American cartoonist (Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Josie and the Pussycats, Cheryl Blossom), pneumonia.[85]
* Dimitris Dragatakis, 87, Greek classical music composer.[86]
* Mary Hardwick, 88, English tennis player.
* Bill Howerton, 80, American baseball player.[87]
* Kira Ivanova, 38, Soviet Olympic figure skater (bronze medal winner in women's figure skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics), homicide.[88]
* Jim Letherer, 67, American civil rights activist.
* Marcel Mule, 100, French saxophonist.[89]
* Tolomush Okeyev, 66, Kyrgyz screenwriter and film director.
* Amal Kumar Sarkar, 100, Indian judge and Chief Justice.
* Fyodor Shutkov, 77, Russian sailor.[90]
* Marcelle Tassencourt, 87, French actress and theatre director.[91]
* Cecil Waidyaratne, 63, Sri Lankan general.
* Clifford T. Ward, 57, English singer-songwriter, pneumonia.[92]

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* Susheela Gopalan, 71, Indian communist leader and politician.
* Christine Kittrell, 72, American R&B singer, emphysema.[93]
* Wang Ruowang, 83, Chinese author and dissident, lung cancer.
* Julia Sánchez, 71, Peruvian track and field sprinter.
* Hans Warren, 80, Dutch writer, liver problems.[94]
* Dale Waters, 92, American football player.[95]
* Jakob Weidemann, 78, Norwegian artist.[96]
* Arkie Whiteley, 37, Australian actress (A Town Like Alice, Mad Max 2, Princess Caraboo), adrenal cancer.[97]
* Kiyoji Ōtsuji, 78, Japanese photographer, photography theorist, and educator.[98]

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* Manuhuia Bennett, 85, New Zealand anglican prelate.
* Foster Brooks, 89, American actor and comedian, heart failure.[99]
* Edward Evans, 87, English film and television actor (The Grove Family, Coronation Street, Z-Cars).[100]
* Kōji Nanbara, 74, Japanese actor, heart attack.[101]
* Léopold Sédar Senghor, 95, Senegalese politician and poet, President (1960 -1980).[102]
* Joan Wheeler, 88, American actress.[103]

### 21

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* Heinz Macher, 81, German Waffen-SS member and Nazi official during World War II.
* Kevin Manser, 72, Australian actor, cancer.
* Jacques Mauclair, 82, French film actor.[104]
* Ed Salem, 73, American gridiron football player, complications from diabetes.
* Dick Schaap, 67, American sportswriter, broadcaster, and author.[105]
* Thomas Sebeok, 81, Hungarian-American polymath, semiotician, and linguist.[106]
* Leonid Smirnov, 85, Soviet statesman.
* Namık Kemal Yolga, 87, Turkish diplomat and statesman.
* Vladimir Zherikhin, 56, Soviet/Russian paleoentomologist and coleopterist.

### 22

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* Grzegorz Ciechowski, 44, Polish rock musician (Republika) and film music composer, heart attack after surgery.[107]
* Bob Davis, 68, American baseball player.[108]
* Angèle Durand, 76, Belgian singer and actress.[109]
* Lance Fuller, 73, American actor.[110]
* Jovan Gojković, 26, Serbian football player, traffic collision.
* Shidzue Katō, 104, Japanese feminist and politician.
* Jan Kott, 87, Polish theatre critic and political activist, heart attack.[111]
* Lance Loud, 50, American television personality and magazine columnist, liver failure as a result of hepatitis C.[112]
* Jacques Mayol, 74, French diver and holder of many records in free diving, suicide by hanging.[113]
* Gene Taylor, 72, American jazz double bassist.[114]
* Liu Zihou, 92, Chinese politician, governor of Hubei and Hebei.

### 23

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* Mark Clinton, 86, Irish Fine Gael politician.
* Vicente Gómez, 90, Spanish guitarist and composer.[115]
* Bola Ige, 71, Nigerian lawyer and politician (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Nigeria), shot.[116]
* Dimitri Obolensky, 83, Russian-born British historian.[117]
* Pedro Richards, 45, English footballer, pneumonia.[118]
* Donald C. Spencer, 89, American mathematician.[119]
* Jelle Zijlstra, 83, Dutch politician and economist, Prime Minister (1966-1967), dementia.[120]

### 24

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* Doug Adam, 78, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.[121]
* Hiroshi Kuroki, 94, Japanese politician and governor of Miyazaki Prefecture, pneumonia.
* Robert Leckie, 81, United States Marine and author, Alzheimer's disease.
* Harvey Martin, 51, American gridiron football player, pancreatic cancer.[122]
* Hank Soar, 87, American gridiron football player.[123]
* Gareth Williams, 48, British musician (This Heat), cancer.

### 25

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* Mike Davis, 45, American professional wrestler, heart attack.[124]
* Bryan Drake, 76, New Zealand operatic baritone.[125]
* Andrew J. Evans Jr., 83, American air force officer and flying ace.[126]
* Ramón García, 77, Cuban baseball player.[127]
* Alfred A. Tomatis, 81, French otolaryngologist and inventor.[128]
* Billy Wells, 70, American football player.[129]

### 26

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* Jacques Cauvin, French archaeologist.[130]
* Edward Downes, 90, American musicologist, radio personality, and music critic.[131]
* Nigel Hawthorne, 72, British actor (The Madness of King George, Yes Minister, Tarzan), pancreatic cancer, heart attack.[132]
* Paul Landres, 89, American film and television editor and director, cancer.[133]
* Tom McBride, 87, American baseball player.[134]
* George Rochester, 93, British physicist, heart failure.[135]

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* Momčilo Cemović, 73, Montenegrin politician.
* Pete D'Alonzo, 72, American gridiron football player.[136]
* Robert Fowler, 70, South African cyclist (silver medal winner of the men's cycling team pursuit at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[137]
* Ian Hamilton, 63, British critic, poet, magazine publisher, cancer.[138]
* John Hoffman, 58, American baseball player.[139]
* Paul Hogarth, 84, British artist.[140]
* Boris Rybakov, 83, Russian historian.
* Helen Rodríguez Trías, 72, American pediatrician and women's rights activist, cancer.

### 28

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* Frankie Gaye, 60, American soul musician and brother of Marvin Gaye, heart attack.
* T. R. Govindachari, 86, Indian chemist and academic.
* Hovie Lister, 75, American gospel singer and manager of The Statesmen Quartet.[141]
* Arne Rettedal, 75, Norwegian politician.
* Anthony Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond, 74, British politician and businessman.[142]
* Sam Solon, 70, American politician, malignant melanoma.
* Gerard van Leijenhorst, 73, Dutch politician and chemist.[143]

### 29

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* Tom Bourke, 83, Australian rugby player.
* Cássia Eller, 39, Brazilian singer and musician, heart attack.[144]
* Florian Fricke, 57, German musician, stroke.[145]
* György Kepes, 95, Hungarian-American painter, photographer, designer, and art theorist.[146]
* Anatoly Kubatsky, 93, Soviet/Russian actor.
* Clinton D. McKinnon, 95, American politician and journalist.
* Josef Věntus, 70, Czech rower ad Olympic medalist.[147]
* Louis Waltniel, 76, Belgian politician and industrialist.

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* Eric Cheney, 77, British motorcycle designer.
* Chaim Kreiswirth, 83, Belgian orthodox rabbi.
* Samuel Mockbee, 57, American architect, leukemia.[148]
* Ray Patterson, 90, American animator (The Smurfs, Dumbo, Challenge of the GoBots).[149]
* Sheila Sherlock, 83, British physician, pulmonary fibrosis.[150]
* Ralph Sutton, 79, American jazz pianist, stroke.[151]
* Vladislav Čáp, 75, Czech figure skater.

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* Mathew H. Ahmann, 70, American Catholic layman and civil rights activist, cancer.
* John Grigg, 2nd Baron Altrincham, 77, British writer, historian and politician.[152]
* Guido di Tella, 70, Argentine businessman, academic and diplomat, cerebral hemorrhage.[153]
* Eileen Heckart, 82, American actress (Butterflies Are Free, The Bad Seed, The First Wives Club), Oscar winner (1973), lung cancer.[154]
* Paul Hubschmid, 84, Swiss actor (Funeral in Berlin, My Fair Lady, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms), pulmonary embolism.[155]
* Harshad Mehta, 47, Indian stockbroker and fraudster.
* Bernie Purcell, 73, Australian rugby player and coach.
* T. M. Chidambara Ragunathan, 78, Tamil, writer, journalist and literary critic.
* David Swift, 82, American screenwriter and film director (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Parent Trap, Pollyanna), heart failure.[156]

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