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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
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February 2001
1
- Vinnie Burke, 79, American jazz bassist.
- Nikolay Devyatkov, 93, Soviet and Russian scientist and inventor.
- Sam Harshaney, 90, American baseball player.[1]
- Harry How, 81, Canadian politician.
- John Jarrard, 47, American country music songwriter, respiratory failure.
- Amryl Johnson, 56, Trinidadian poet and writer.[2]
- Harold Maguire, 88, British air marshal and Director-General of Intelligence.[3]
- Rafael Lapesa Melgar, 92, Spanish philologist and literature historian.[4]
- John Pierrakos, 79, Greek-American physician and psychiatrist.
- Leslie Vincent, 91, American actor (Forever Amber, Destry Rides Again, Paris Underground).[5]
2
- June Lazenby Green, 87, American district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.[6]
- Carol Anne Letheren, 58, Canadian Olympic Association official, brain aneurysm.[7]
- Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer, 75, French classical pianist.[8]
- Freddy Wittop, 89, Dutch costume designer (winner of Tony Award for Best Costume Design for Hello Dolly!).[9]
3
- Helmut Gude, 75, German Olympic middle-distance runner (men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[10]
- Frederick Lawton, 89, British judge.
- Teiichi Nishi, 93, Japanese sprinter and Olympian.[11]
- Gerald Suster, 49, British revisionist historian, occult writer, and novelist.
4
- Wilhelm Altvater, 80, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
- Sonia Arova, 73, Bulgarian ballerina, pancreatic cancer.[12]
- Jean Ausseil, 75, Monegasque politician, Minister of State (1985 and 1991).
- David Beattie, 76, New Zealand jurist and Governor-General.[13]
- Barry Cockcroft, 68, British television documentary director and filmmaker (Too Long a Winter).[14]
- Alyaksandar Dubko, 63, Belarusian politician.
- Larry Fisher, 93, American real estate developer and philanthropist.[15]
- J. J. Johnson, 77, American jazz trombonist, suicide by gunshot.[16]
- Raimo Kangro, 51, Estonian composer.[17]
- Alois Lipburger, 44, Austrian ski jumper, traffic collision.
- Dragan Maksimović, 51, Serbian actor, beaten.
- Allan Mansley, 54, English football player, heart attack.
- Ernie McCoy, 79, American racecar driver.
- Natalia Melmann, 15, Argentinian murder victim.
- Pankaj Roy, 72, Indian cricketer.[18]
- Tony Steedman, 73, English actor.
- Iannis Xenakis, 78, Greek-French composer.[19]
5
- Jean Davy, 89, French actor.[20]
- Mark Joseph Hurley, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate, aneurysm.
- David Iftody, 44, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons for Provencher, Manitoba), snowmobile accident.[21]
- Elsa Irigoyen, 81, Argentine Olympic fencer (women's fencing foil at the 1948 Summer Olympics and the 1952 Summer Olympics).[22]
- Jack Shapiro, 93, American gridiron football player.[23]
- Fernando Viola, 49, Italian football player, traffic collision.[24]
- Jean Denton, Baroness Denton of Wakefield, 65, British politician and racing driver.[25]
- Inna Zubkovskaya, 77, Russian ballerina.[26]
6
- Geoffrey Bibby, 83, English-Danish archaeologist.[27]
- Kojo Botsio, 84, Ghanaian diplomat and politician.
- Gus Boulis, 51, Greek-born American businessman and murder victim, homicide.[28]
- Fulgence Charpentier, 103, French Canadian journalist, editor and publisher, pneumonia.
- Stephen Halaiko, 92, American Olympic boxer (silver medal winner in lightweight boxing at the 1928 Summer Olympics).[29]
- Agha Hilaly, 90, Pakistani diplomat.
- Arthur W. Hummel, 80, American diplomat.[30]
- Jack Hyles, 74, American Baptist megachurch pastor, heart failure.[31]
- Filemon Lagman, 47, Filipino revolutionary socialist and workers' leader, homicide.[32]
- Folke Lind, 87, Swedish football player.
- R. W. Southern, 88, British medieval historian.[33]
- Charles Tran Van Lam, 87, South Vietnamese diplomat and politician.[34]
- Emily Vermeule, 72, American classical scholar and archaeologist, heart disease.[35]
7
- Jean-Paul Beugnot, 69, French basketball player and coach.[36]
- Marianne Breslauer, 91, German photographer and photojournalist.[37]
- Dieter Dengler, 62, German-American aviator and Vietnam War prisoner-of-war escapee (Little Dieter Needs to Fly), suicide by gunshot.[38]
- Dale Evans, 88, American actress, singer and wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers, heart failure.[39]
- Michael Grylls, 66, British politician.[40]
- Helmut Hentrich, 95, German architect.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 94, American author, aviator, and wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh, stroke, pneumonia.[41]
- Stanley Lingar, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[42]
- King Moody, 71, American actor (Get Smart) and comedian.
8
- Ivo Caprino, 80, Norwegian film director and writer, cancer.[43]
- Roger Delage, 78, French musicologist and conductor.[44]
- Leslie Edwards, 84, British ballet dancer.[45]
- Arlene Eisenberg, 66, American family and parenting writer (What to Expect When You're Expecting), breast cancer.[46]
- Walter Generati, 87, Italian road bicycle racer.[47]
- Pauline Koner, 88, American dancer and choreographer.[48]
- Chen Lifu, 100, Chinese politician and anti-communist of the Republic of China.
- Muboraksho Mirzoshoyev, 39, Tajikistani musician and Tajik rock music pioneer, tuberculosis.
- Brian Nissen, 73, British actor and television announcer.
- Rousas John Rushdoony, 84, American historian, theologian and father of Christian Reconstructionism.[49]
9
- Agustín Cárdenas, 73, Cuban sculptor.[50]
- Vicente Dauder, 76, Spanish football goalkeeper and manager.
- William Epstein, 88, Canadian civil servant and United Nations disarmament official.[51]
- Leonard Mandel, 73, American physicist.[52]
- Reginald Marsh, 74, English actor.
- Gunnar Seidenfaden, 92, Danish diplomat and botanist].
- Herbert Simon, 84, American economist (Nobel Prize in Economics, Turing Award).[53]
- Dilbagh Singh, 74, Indian air marshal.
10
- Ramzan Akhmadov, 31, Chechen general, killed in action.
- Lewis Arquette, 65, American actor (The Waltons, Tango & Cash, Scream 2), heart failure.[54]
- Abraham Beame, 94, American politician, 104th Mayor of New York City (1974–1977).[55]
- Kenneth E. BeLieu, 87, American government official.[56]
- Helge Bengtsson, 84, Swedish football player.[57]
- K. Thavamani Devi, Sri Lankan actress.
- Niccolò Galli, 17, Italian promising footballer, traffic accident.
- Johnny Hatley, 70, American football player (Chicago Bears, Chicago Cardinals, Denver Broncos), coach, executive, and rodeo performer.[58]
- Mogubai Kurdikar, 96, Indian classical vocalist.
- Robert H. Lounsberry, 82, American politician.[59]
- Miné Okubo, 88, American artist and writer.[60]
- Buddy Tate, 87, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (Count Basie Orchestra).[61]
11
- José Luis Borbolla, 81, Mexican footballer.
- Edward E. Fitzgerald, 81, American sports author and editor (Book of the Month Club).[62]
- Sy Gomberg, 82, American screenwriter (When Willie Comes Marching Home), heart attack.
- Olle Håkansson, 73, Swedish football player.
- Jaiganesh, Indian Tamil film actor, cancer.
- Raymond Lewis, 48, American basketball and streetball player, complications following leg amputation.[63]
- Masao Ono, 77, Japanese football player.
- Charles C. Price, 87, American chemist.
- Jordan Lovett, 19, ARCA race car driver.
- Donald Sellers, 26, American gridiron football player, traffic accident.
- Judita Vaičiūnaitė, 63, Lithuanian writer.[64]
- Maurice Zermatten, 90, French-speaking Swiss writer.[65]
12
- Bhakti Barve, 52, Indian actress, traffic collision.
- Rosalie Gwathmey, 92, American painter and photographer.[66]
- Tiberio Mitri, 74, Italian boxer, railway accident.
- Franco Pedroni, 74, Italian football player and manager.[67]
- Herbert Robbins, 86, American mathematician, statistician and co-author of What is Mathematics?.[68]
- Ralph Smart, 92, Australian film and television producer.[69]
- Kristina Söderbaum, 88, Swedish-German film actress, producer and photographer.[70]
13
- Ugo Fano, 88, Italian-American physicist, Alzheimer's disease.[71]
- Manuela, 57, German singer, cancer.[72]
- Moses Taiwa Molelekwa, 27, South African jazz pianist, murdered.
- George T. Simon, 88, American jazz writer and drummer.[73]
- Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington, 83, British politician.[74]
- Owen Torrey, 75, American sailor and Olympic medalist.[75]
- Victor Veysey, 85, American politician.[76]
14
- Charles B. Fitzsimons, 76, Irish-American actor, film producer and director, liver disease.[77]
- Guy Grosso, 67, French actor and humorist.[78]
- Richard Laymon, 54, American horror author, heart attack.
- Maurice Levitas, 84, Irish-born British sociologist.[79]
- Alan Ross, 78, Indian-British poet and editor.[80]
- Ploutis Servas, 93, Cypriot politician, journalist, and author.
- Piero Umiliani, 74, Italian composer of film scores.
- Helmut Wielandt, 90, German mathematician.
- Jim Winkler, 73, American football player.[81]
15
- Boris Goldovsky, 92, Russian-American conductor and broadcaster.[82]
- Dulal Guha, 72, Indian film director of Bollywood films in the 1960s and '70s.
- Burt Kennedy, 78, American screenwriter and director (The War Wagon, Support Your Local Sheriff!, The Virginian, Combat!).[83]
- Ken Kiff, 65, English figurative artist.[84]
- Ricardo Otxoa, 26, Spanish cyclist, bicycle accident.[85]
- Edwin Plowden, Baron Plowden of Plowden, 94, British industrialist and public servant.[86]
- Folke K. Skoog, 92, Swedish-American plant physiologist.[87]
16
- Ali Artuner, 56, Turkish footballer.
- Bob Buhl, 72, American baseball player.[88]
- Jerry Frei, 76, American football player (Wisconsin) and coach (Oregon, Denver Broncos, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Chicago Bears).[89]
- Howard W. Koch, 84, American film and television director and producer (The Manchurian Candidate, Maverick), Alzheimer's disease.[90]
- William H. Masters, 85, American gynaecologist (Masters and Johnson), Parkinson's disease.[91]
- Bobby Scarr, 74, Canadian basketball player.
- Helen Vita, 72, Swiss chanson singer, actress, and comedian, cancer.[92]
17
- Debbie Dean, 73, American singer.
- Gilly Flower, 92, English actress and model.
- Bob Geary, 67, Canadian football player and manager in the Canadian Football League (CFL).[93]
- Juan Liscano, 86, Venezuelan poet, folklorist, writer and critic.[94]
- Matild Manukyan, 87, Turkish businesswoman of Armenian descent.
- Khalid Abdul Muhammad, 53, American black nationalist leader (Nation of Islam, New Black Panther Party), brain aneurysm.[95]
- John Sutherland, 90, American film producer.
- Richard Wurmbrand, 91, Romanian Lutheran priest and academic.[96]
- Zvonimir Červenko, 74, Croatian general.
18
- Balthus, 92, French painter.[97]
- Roger A. Caras, 72, American wildlife photographer, writer, and television personality, heart attack.[98]
- Sir Colin Cole, 78, British officer of arms.[99]
- Claude Davey, 92, Welsh rugby union player.[100]
- Dale Earnhardt, 49, American NASCAR race car driver, racing accident.[101]
- Francisco Espinosa, 53, Argentine racing driver.
- Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr., 89, American journalist and author (Cheaper by the Dozen, Belles on Their Toes).[102]
- Franso Hariri, 64, Iraqi Kurdish politician.
- Eddie Mathews, 69, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, pneumonia.[103]
- Georgi Minchev, 57, Bulgarian rock musician and TV presenter, cancer.
- Panos Papadopulos, 80, German-Greek actor 1920-2001.
- Butch Wensloff, 85, American baseball player.[104]
19
- Theophilus Beckford, 65, Jamaican pianist and vocalist.[105]
- Stanley Kramer, 87, American film director and producer (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Defiant Ones, Judgment at Nuremberg), pneumonia.[106]
- Guy Rodgers, 65, American basketball player, heart attack.[107]
- Roland Stoltz, 69, Swedish ice hockey player.[108]
- Charles Trenet, 87, French singer-songwriter, stroke.[109]
20
- Harry Boykoff, 78, American basketball player, lung cancer.[110]
- Irina Bugrimova, 90, Russian lion tamer, heart attack.[111]
- Rob Dawber, 45, British railwayman and writer (The Navigators), lung cancer caused by asbestos.[112]
- Rosemary DeCamp, 90, American actress (Yankee Doodle Dandy, That Girl), pneumonia.[113]
- Indrajit Gupta, 81, Indian politician.
- Lun Maung, Burmese army brigadier general, helicopter crash.[114]
- Donella Meadows, 59, American environmental scientist, and writer, cerebral meningitis.
- Yogi Ramsuratkumar, 82, Indian saint and mystic.
- Bill Rigney, 83, American baseball player and manager.[115]
- Nam Sung-yong, 88, Korean long-distance runner and Olympic medalist.[116]
- Bob Weiskopf, 86, American screenwriter and producer for television.[117]
21
- John MacKay, Baron MacKay of Ardbrecknish, 62, British politician.[118]
- Alfred Embarrato, 91, American mobster (Bonanno crime family).
- Ileana Espinel, 67, Ecuadorian journalist, poet and writer.[119]
- Ronnie Hilton, 75, English singer ("No Other Love", "A Windmill in Old Amsterdam") and radio presenter (Sounds of the Fifties).[120]
- Desmond Leslie, 79, British pilot, film maker, writer, and musician, pulmonary emphysema.
- José Lebrún Moratinos, 81, Venezuelan Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Caracas.
- Fido Purpur, 86, American ice hockey player.[121]
- Philip Sandblom, 97, Swedish academic and sailor.[122]
- Malcolm Yelvington, 82, American rockabilly and country musician.
22
- Dennis Cox, 75, British cricketer.[123]
- John Fahey, 61, American guitarist and composer.[124]
- Radie Harris, 96, American journalist and newspaper columnist (The Hollywood Reporter).[125]
- Evelyn Holt, 92, German actress.[126]
- Les Medley, 80, England international footballer.[127]
- Christopher Mitchell, 53, British actor, liver cancer.
- Michel Oksenberg, 62, Belgian-American political scientist and China watcher, cancer.[128]
- Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos, 84, British politician.[129]
- André Pieters, 78, Belgian racing cyclist.[130]
- Lloyd Roberts, 38, American musician, homicide.
23
- Robert Enrico, 69, French film director and screenwriter, lung cancer.[131]
- Anthony Giacalone, 82, American organized crime figure in Detroit.[132]
- Sergio Mantovani, 71, Italian racing driver.
- Caupolicán Ovalles, 64, Venezuelan avant-garde writer.
- Dame Ruth Railton, 85, British music director and conductor.[133]
- Guy Wood, 89, English musician and songwriter.[134]
- Tincho Zabala, 78, Uruguayan actor.
24
- Phil Collier, 75, American sportswriter (1990 winner of J. G. Taylor Spink Award), prostate cancer.[135]
- Charles Fletcher-Cooke, 86, British politician.[136]
- Hans Holtedahl, 83, Norwegian geologist.[137]
- Andy Mulligan, 65, Irish rugby player.[138]
- Claude Shannon, 84, American electrical engineer and mathematician, Alzheimer's disease.[139]
25
- Archie Randolph Ammons, 75, American poet and professor of English.[140]
- Édouard Artigas, 94, French fencer and Olympic champion.[141]
- Nuhu Bamalli, 84, Nigerian politician.
- Helen Bennett, 89, American actress.
- Don Bradman, 92, Australian cricketer, pneumonia.[142]
- Norbert Glanzberg, 90, French composer.[143]
- Giovanni Grimaldi, 84, Italian screenwriter, journalist and film director.[144]
- Bitsy Mott, 82, American baseball player.[145]
- Sigurd Raschèr, 93, German-American saxophonist.[146]
- John J. Tammaro Jr., 75, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer.
- L. R. Wright, 61, Canadian writer and novelist, breast cancer.
26
- Dragoslav Avramović, 81, Serbian economist.[147]
- Georg Brauer, 92, German chemist.
- Leif Haugen, 83, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier (men's 50 kilometre cross-country skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics).[148]
- Frances Lincoln, 55, English independent publisher, pneumonia.
- Dee Mackey, 66, American gridiron football player, heart attack.[149]
- Duke Nalon, 87, American racing driver.
- Arturo Uslar Pietri, 94, Venezuelan writer, television producer and politician, heart attack.[150]
- Yaakov Rechter, 76, Israeli architect.[151]
- Jean-Louis Ricci, 57, French racing driver.[152]
- Jale İnan, 87, Turkish archaeologist.
27
- Milton Barnes, 69, Canadian composer, conductor, and jazz drummer, heart attack.[153]
- Ralf D. Bode, 59, German-American cinematographer (Coal Miner's Daughter, Saturday Night Fever, Uncle Buck), lung cancer.[154]
- José García Nieto, 86, Spanish poet and writer.[155]
- Doyle Schick, 62, American gridiron football player.[156]
- Selwyn Toogood, 84, New Zealand radio and television personality.
28
- Stan Cullis, 84, British footballer and manager.[157]
- Gildas Molgat, 74, Canadian politician.
- Raúl Planas, 80, Cuban singer and songwriter.
- Charles Pozzi, 91, French racing driver.[158]
- K Sankunni, Indian film editor.
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