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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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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July 2001
1
- Nikolay Basov, 78, Soviet physicist and co-winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964.[1]
- Bob Cifers, 80, American professional football player (Detroit Lions, Pittsburgh Steelers, Green Bay Packers).[2]
- Halina Czerny-Stefańska, 78, Polish pianist.[3]
- Hélène de Beauvoir, 91, French painter and sister of Simone de Beauvoir.[4]
- Tony Leswick, 78, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.[5]
2
- Ron Forwick, 57, Canadian football player, cancer.
- Jack Gwillim, 91, English character actor (My Fair Lady, Lawrence of Arabia, A Man for All Seasons, Patton).[6]
- Israel Shahak, 68, Israeli organic chemist and civil rights activist, diabetes.[7]
- James P. Vreeland, 91, American Republican Party politician.
3
- Delia Derbyshire, 64, British musician and composer of electronic music (BBC Radiophonic Workshop), renal failure.[8]
- Gerald L. Geison, 58, American historian, enlarged heart.[9]
- Lelord Kordel, 92, Polish-American nutritionist and author of books on healthy living.
- Billy Liddell, 79, Scottish footballer.[10]
- Baharuddin Lopa, 65, Indonesian attorney general, heart failure.[11]
- John Marriott, 78, British philatelist.[12]
- Roy Nichols, 68, American guitarist (lead guitarist for Merle Haggard's band), heart attack.[13]
- Mordecai Richler, 69, Canadian author, (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Barney's Version, Jacob Two-Two), kidney cancer.[14]
- Johnny Russell, 61, American country singer ("Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer") and songwriter ("Act Naturally").[15]
- Paolo Silveri, 87, Italian baritone.[16]
- Ivan Slamnig, 71, Croatian poet, novelist, and literary theorist.
4
- Roberto Cabrejas, 48, Spanish Olympic high jumper, traffic collision.[17]
- Omar Ali Juma, 60, Chief Minister of Zanzibar from 25 January 1988 to October 1995.
- Serafim Pinto Ribeiro Júnior, 85, Brazilian football player.
- Charles Neider, 86, American writer.[18]
- Charles Saxton, 88, New Zealand cricketer, rugby player and coach, emphysema.[19]
- Anthony Synnot, 79, officer in the Royal Australian Navy.
- Joan-Josep Tharrats, 83, Spanish painter, art theorist and publisher.[20]
- Anne Yeats, 82, Irish painter, costume and stage designer.[21]
5
- Ely Callaway Jr., 82, American entrepreneur and golf club maker.[22]
- George Dawson, 103, American author.[23]
- A. D. Flowers, 84, American film special effects artist (Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Poseidon Adventure, Apocalypse Now), Oscar winner (1971, 1973), pneumonia.[24]
- Ernie K-Doe, 68, African-American rhythm-and-blues singer ("Mother-in-Law"), liver cirrhosis.[25]
- Hannelore Kohl, 68, wife of former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, suicide.[26]
- Keenan Milton, 26, American professional skateboarder, drowned.
6
- Jack Francis, 93, Australian sportsman.
- Derek Freeman, 84, New Zealand anthropologist.[27]
- Enrique Mateos, 66, Spanish footballer.[28]
- Viktor Yakushev, 63, Soviet ice hockey player.[29]
7
- Dempsey J. Barron, 79, American politician, President of the Florida Senate.
- Molly Lamont, 91, British film actress.
- Surender Kumar Malik, 58, Indian mathematician.
- Fred Neil, 65, American folk singer and songwriter ("Everybody's Talkin'").[30]
- Toni Pagot, 79, Italian comics artist and animator.[31]
- Joseph Stulac, 66, Canadian basketball player.[32]
- John Roland Sweeney, 70, Canadian politician, heart attack.
- Tim Temerario, 95, American football coach and executive, heart failure.
8
- Rolim Amaro, 58, Brazilian pilot and airline owner, helicopter crash.[33]
- Ernst Baier, 95, German Olympic figure skater (gold medal winner in pairs and silver medal winner in men's singles at the 1936 Winter Olympics).[34]
- Big Ed, 29, American rapper, throat cancer.[35]
- Christl Haas, 57, Austrian skier and Olympic champion, heart attack.[36]
- William Kuhlemeier, 92, American gymnast and 1932 Olympic bronze medalist in Los Angeles.[37]
- Jia Lanpo, 92, Chinese palaeoanthropologist.[38]
- Amiya Bhushan Majumdar, 83, Indian writer.
- Neil Midgley, 58, English football referee, cancer.
- John O'Shea, 81, New Zealand film director (Broken Barrier, Runaway, Don't Let It Get You).[39]
- Irma Seikkula, 87, Finnish actress.[40]
9
- Maria Chabot, 87, American advocate of Native American arts and rancher.[41]
- Al Lary, 72, American baseball player, drowned.[42]
- Jorge Novak, 73, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, stomach cancer.[43]
- Thomas F. Schweigert, 83, American politician.[44]
- Willy Sommer, 76, Swiss football striker and manager.[45]
- Arie van Vliet, 85, Dutch Olympic sprint cyclist.[46]
10
- Humayun Rashid Choudhury, 72, Bangladeshi diplomat and politician.
- Tony Criscola, 86, American baseball player.[47]
- Geoffrey Clarkson, 57, English rugby player.
- Giulio Gerardi, 88, Italian Olympic cross-country skier (men's 18 kilometre and men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay at the 1936 Winter Olympics).[48]
- Jean-Claude Grèt, 70, Swiss racing cyclist.[49]
- Álvaro Magaña, 75, Salvadoran politician, President (1982–1984).
11
- Herman Brood, 54, Dutch rock musician and painter, suicide by jumping.[50]
- Cândida Branca Flor, 51, Portuguese entertainer and singer, suicide.[51]
- Salamat Ali Khan, 66, Pakistani vocalist and artist, kidney failure.
- Qateel Shifai, 81, Pakistani poet.
- Marco Zanuso, 85, Italian architect and designer.[52]
12
- James Bernard, 75, English film composer (The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula) and screenwriter (Seven Days to Noon), Oscar winner (1952).[53]
- Bill Crabtree, 86, Australian politician.
- Juan Nepomuceno Guerra Cárdenas, 85, Mexican crime lord, bootlegger, and smuggler, respiratory disease.
- Vlado Dapčević, 84, Yugoslav-Montenegrin communist and revolutionary.
- Mirvarid Dilbazi, 88, Azerbaijani poet.
- John H. Holdridge, 76, American diplomat, pulmonary fibrosis.[54]
- Ron Kroon, 58, Dutch Olympic freestyle swimmer.[55]
- Paul Magloire, 93, Haitian politician, President (1950–1956).[56]
- Fred Marcellino, 61, American illustrator and children's author, colorectal cancer.[57]
- Alioune Sarr, 92, Senegalese historian, author and politician.
- Charleszetta Waddles, 88, American activist and church minister.[58]
- Johnny Wright, 72, British boxer and Olympic silver medalist.[59]
13
- Miguel Gila Cuesta, 82, Spanish comedian and actor, respiratory disease.
- Bill Fogarty, 79, Australian politician.
- César López Fretes, 78, Paraguayan football player.
- Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gryfe, 89, British politician.[60]
- David Noyes Jackson, 78, American writer and artist.
- Åse-Marie Nesse, 67, Norwegian philologist, translator and poet, cancer.[61]
- Eleanor Summerfield, 80, English actress (Laughter in Paradise, Odongo, Dentist in the Chair, On the Fiddle, The Running Man).[62]
- Juan José Timón, 63, Uruguayan cyclist.[63]
- Mohamed Zafzaf, 56, Moroccan novelist and poet, cancer.[64]
14
- John Lax, 89, American ice hockey player.[65]
- Agustín Navarro, Spanish film director, respiratory disease.[66]
- Jack Sheppard, 92, British cave diver.
- Karen-Sofie Styrmoe, 70, Norwegian Olympic alpine skier.[67]
15
- Anthony Ian Berkeley, 36, American rapper and producer, colon cancer.[68]
- Ted Berman, 81, American film director, animator, and screenwriter (Bambi, Fantasia, The Black Cauldron).[69]
- Tom Chantrell, 84, British film poster artist (The King and I, One Million Years B.C., Far From The Madding Crowd).[70]
- Helge Rognlien, 81, Norwegian politician.
- Marina Știrbei, 89, Romanian aviator.[71]
16
- Tom Askwith, 90, British Olympic rower (1932 Summer Olympics, 1936 Summer Olympics) and a colonial administrator.[72]
- Terry Gordy, 40, American professional wrestler (Fabulous Freebirds), heart attack.[73]
- Christina Cruickshank Miller, 101, Scottish chemist.
- Morris, 77, Belgian cartoonist (Lucky Luke), embolism.[74]
- Beate Uhse-Rotermund, 81, German female stunt pilot, Luftwaffe pilot during World War II and sex shop owner, pneumonia.[75]
17
- Timur Apakidze, 47, Russian fighter pilot and navy officer, aviation accident.
- Sara Ashurbeyli, 95, Azerbaijani historian, orientalist and scholar.
- Abel Carlevaro, 84, Uruguayan classical guitar composer, performer and teacher.[76]
- Yehiel De-Nur, 92, Israeli writer and Holocaust survivor, cancer.
- Val Feld, 53, Welsh politician, cancer.
- Katharine Graham, 84, American publisher (The Washington Post), horse fall.[77]
- Elon Hogsett, 97, American baseball player.[78]
- Wilhelm Simetsreiter, 86, German football player.
- Ziya Taner, 77, Macedonian-Turkish football manager.
18
- Roderic Bowen, 87, Welsh lawyer and Liberal Party politician.[79]
- Phillip Alexander Clancey, 83, British ornithologist.[80]
- Mimi Fariña, 56, American singer-songwriter and activist, neuroendocrine cancer.[81]
- Roy Gilchrist, 67, West Indian cricket player, Parkinson's disease.[82]
- Alex Jany, 72, French Olympic swimmer (two-time bronze medal winner in men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle swimming relay at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics).[83]
- Ritchie Johnston, 70, New Zealand Olympic track cyclist (men's 2000 metre tandem sprint cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics).[84]
- Ika Panajotovic, 69, Serbian-American film producer and tennis player, cardiac arrest during surgery, heart attack.
- Barry Shetrone, 63, American baseball player.[85]
- Fabio Taglioni, 80, Italian automotive engineer.[86]
19
- Erik Barnouw, 93, American historian of radio and television broadcasting.[87]
- Paul Beeson, 79, British cinematographer.[88]
- Judy Clay, 62, American soul and gospel singer.[89]
- Gunther Gebel-Williams, 83, Polish-American animal trainer (Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus), cancer.[90]
- Neil Carmichael, Baron Carmichael of Kelvingrove, 79, British politician.[91]
- Charles King, 89, British cyclist and Olympic medalist.[92]
- Peter Lucas, 68, New Zealand Olympic rower.[93]
20
- Oscar Arredondo, 83, Cuban paleontologist and ornithologist.
- Thomas Fantl, 72, German film director and screenwriter.[94]
- Milt Gabler, 90, American record producer.[95]
- Carlo Giuliani, 23, Italian anti-globalization demonstrator, shot.[96]
21
- Muqbil bin Haadi al-Waadi'ee, Yemeni Islamic scholar, liver disease.
- Steve Barton, 47, American actor (The Phantom of the Opera, The Red Shoes), suicide.[97]
- Carlo Bo, 90, Italian poet and literary critic.[98]
- Antal Bánkuti, 78, Hungarian basketball player.[99]
- Krste Crvenkovski, 80, Yugoslav communist politician.
- Sivaji Ganesan, 74, Indian actor.[100]
- Einar Schleef, 57, German dramatist, director, writer, painter, and actor, heart disease.[101]
22
- Bertie Felstead, 106, British World War I soldier and the last witness of the Christmas truce of 1914.[102]
- Fanny Brennan, 80, French-American surrealist artist and painter.[103]
- Bob Ferguson, 73, American country music songwriter and record producer, cancer.[104]
- Maria Gorokhovskaya, 79, Soviet Olympic gymnast (two gold medals and five silver medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[105]
- Frances Horwich, 94, American educator, television personality and television executive, heart failure.[106]
- Herbert L. Ley, Jr., 77, American physician and head of the U.S. F.D.A., cardiovascular disease.
- Indro Montanelli, 92, Italian journalist and historian, urinary tract infection.[107]
- David Nelson, 38, English rugby league footballer, shot.[108]
- Stanley Jedidiah Samartha, 80, Indian theologian.[109]
23
- Douglas Boyle, 77, Canadian navy officer.
- André Fouché, 92, French actor.[110]
- Zhang Pinghua, 93, Chinese politician.
- Eudora Welty, 92, American short story writer and novelist (Pulitzer Prize for The Optimist's Daughter), pneumonia.[111]
24
- Carrie Best, 98, Canadian journalist and social activist.[112]
- Georges Dor, 70, Canadian singer and songwriter ("Le Manic"), playwright and theatrical producer.[113]
- Nathan Isgur, 54, American-Canadian theoretical physicist, multiple myeloma.
- Hiroshi Tsuburaya, 37, Japanese actor, liver cancer.
25
- Jenner Armour, 68, Dominica politician and barrister.
- Phoolan Devi, 37, Indian dacoit and politician, assassinated.[114]
- Josef Klaus, 90, Austrian politician, chancellor (1964-1970).
- Carmen Portinho, 98, Brazilian civil engineer, urbanist, and feminist.[115]
- Fahd bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 46, member of the House of Saud, heart failure.
26
- Rex T. Barber, 84, American fighter pilot during World War II.[116]
- Jacques Bens, 70, French writer and poet.[117]
- Henry Coston, 90, French far-right journalist, collaborationist and conspiracy theorist.[118]
- H. Rex Lee, 91, American government diplomat and governor.
- Rudolf Nussgruber, 83, Austrian film director.
- Giorgi Sanaia, 26, Georgian television journalist, homicide.
- Giuseppe Sensi, 94, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Peter von Zahn, 88, German author, film maker, and journalist.[119]
27
- Harold Beeley, 92, British diplomat.[120]
- Piet Bromberg, 84, Dutch field hockey player and Olympic medalist.[121]
- Harold Land, 72, American hard bop and post-bop tenor saxophonist, stroke.[122]
- Rhonda Sing, 40, Canadian professional wrestler, heart attack.[123]
- Leon Wilkeson, 49, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd).[124]
28
- Eric Bedford, 91, British architect.[125]
- Joan Finney, 76, American politician and 42nd governor of Kansas (1991–1995), liver cancer.[126]
- Eldon Grier, 84, Canadian poet and artist.
- Siddiq Khan Kanju, 100, Pakistani politician.
- Baby LeRoy, 69, American child actor.
- Ahmed Sofa, 58, Bangladeshi writer, novelist, and poet, cardiac arrest.
- Martin Stern, Jr., 84, American architect.[127]
- Fūtarō Yamada, 79, Japanese author.[128]
29
- Edward Gierek, 88, Polish communist politician, First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party (1970-1980), lung cancer.[129]
- Wau Holland, 49, German computer hacker, stroke.[130]
- Tommy Millar, 62, Scottish football player.[131]
- Alex Nicol, 85, American actor (South Pacific, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits).[132]
- Edward Roberts, 93, British Anglican prelate.
- Elizabeth Yates, 95, American children's author.[133]
30
- Dennis Coralluzzo, 48, American professional wrestling promoter, brain hemorrhage.
- Ekkehard Gries, 64, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
- Joseph-Philippe Guay, 85, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons).[134]
- Bill Schelter, 54, American professor of mathematics and developer of Lisp, heart attack.
- Anton Schwarzkopf, 77, German roller coaster manufacturer, Parkinson's disease.
- Petar B. Vasilev, 83, Bulgarian film director and screenwriter.
- John Walters, 62, British radio producer, presenter and musician, heart attack.[135]
- Irina Zaritskaya, 62, Ukrainian pianist.[136]
31
- Poul Anderson, 74, American science fiction author (seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards), cancer.[137]
- Bill Borthwick, 76, Australian politician.
- Pelageya Danilova, 83, Russian artistic gymnast and Olympian.[138]
- Arthur Geoffrey Dickens, 91, British historian.[139]
- Philip Gaskell, 75, British bibliographer and librarian.[140]
- Francisco da Costa Gomes, 87, Portuguese military officer and politician, president (1974-1976).[141]
- Satur Grech, 87, Spanish football player and manager.[142]
- Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 91, German heir and Waffen-SS officer during World War II.
- Joris Tjebbes, 71, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympian.[143]
- Miklós Vásárhelyi, 83, Hungarian journalist and politician, member of the National Assembly (1990–1994).[144]
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