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Deaths in June 2001
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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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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June 2001
1
- Peter Corr, 77, Irish footballer, Alzheimer's disease.[1]
- Nkosi Johnson, 12, South African AIDS awareness campaigner, AIDS.[2]
- Hank Ketcham, 81, American cartoonist (Dennis the Menace), prostate cancer.[3]
- Abe Silverstein, 92, American aerospace engineer.[4]
- Victims of the Nepalese royal massacre[5]
- King Birendra, 55, King of Nepal
- Queen Aishwarya, 51, Queen of Nepal
- Prince Nirajan, 22, son of Birendra and Aishwarya
- Princess Shruti, 24, daughter of Birendra and Aishwarya
- Prince Dhirendra, 51, brother of King Birendra
- Princess Shanti, 60, sister of King Birendra
- Princess Sharada, 59, sister of King Birendra
- Princess Jayanti, 54, cousin of King Birendra
2
- Jim Bragan, 72, American baseball player, manager, and scout.[6]
- Imogene Coca, 92, American actress (Your Show of Shows), Alzheimer's disease.[7]
- John T. Fesperman, 76, American conductor, organist and author.[8]
- Kenneth Hayr, 66, British air marshal.
- Joey Maxim, 79, American light heavyweight boxing champion.[9]
- Viktor Popkov, 54, Russian dissident, human rights activist and journalist, shot.
- Pilar Seurat, 62, Filipino American film and television actress, lung cancer.
- Frank Stagg, 89, American Southern Baptist theologian and author.[10]
- Adolf Thiel, 86, Austrian-German rocket scientist.
- Gene Woodling, 78, American baseball player.[11]
3
- Humayun Abdulali, 87, Indian ornithologist and biologist.
- Nicholas Albery, 52, British social inventor and author, car accident.
- J. C. Furnas, 95, American writer and social historian.[12]
- Otto Hemele, 75, Czech football player.
- Jamake Highwater, 70, American writer and journalist, heart attack.[13]
- Andrea Prader, 81, Swiss scientist, physician, and pediatric endocrinologist.
- Anthony Quinn, 86, Mexican-American actor (The Guns of Navarone, Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia), Oscar winner (1953, 1957), pneumonia.[14]
- Friedl Rinder, 95, German chess master.
- Nino Valdez, 76, Cuban heavyweight boxing champion.
4
- Simone Benmussa, 69, French-Algerian author and theatre director, cancer.[15]
- John Corriden, 83, American baseball player.[16]
- John Hartford, 63, American musician and composer ("Gentle on My Mind"), lymphoma.[17]
- Chenjerai Hunzvi, 51, Zimbabwean politician, AIDS.[18]
- Dinos Iliopoulos, 85, Greek actor.
- Lu Jiaxi, 85, Chinese physical chemist.
- Felicitas Kukuck, 86, German music educator and composer of opera and other works.[19]
- Dipendra of Nepal, 29, Nepalese monarch and mass murderer, King of Nepal, perpetrator of the Nepalese royal massacre, suicide by gunshot.[20]
- Darshan Ranganathan, 60, Indian organic chemist, breast cancer.
- Ruth Sanger, 82, Australian immunogeneticist, haematologist and serologist.
- Horst Tüller, 70, German road and track cyclist.[21]
- Joan Vohs, 73, American model and actress (Fort Ti, Fireside Theater, Maverick, Perry Mason, Family Affair).[22]
5
- Pedro Laín Entralgo, 93, Spanish medical historian.[23]
- Dennis Gillespie, 65, Scottish footballer.[24]
- Aaron Green, 84, American architect.[25]
- Howard Earl Johnston, 72, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons).[26]
- L. Fletcher Prouty, 84, American Chief of Special Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.[27]
6
- Alfonso Brescia, 71, Italian film director.[28]
- Marie Brémont, 115, French supercentenarian and the oldest recognized person in the world.
- José Manuel Castañón, 81, Spanish writer.
- Ford Garrison, 85, American baseball player.[29]
- Douglas Lilburn, 85, New Zealand composer.[30]
- Ami Priyono, 61, Indonesian film director and actor.
- Suzanne Schiffman, 71, French film director and screenwriter, cancer.
- Lyubov Sokolova, 79, Soviet/Russian film actress, heart attack.[31]
7
- Franco Balducci, 78, Italian film actor.
- Víctor Paz Estenssoro, 93, Bolivian politician and four-term President of Bolivia.[32]
- Carole Fredericks, 49, American singer, heart attack.[33]
- Ken Green, 77, English footballer.
- Boris Lavrenko, 81, Russian painter.
- Betty Neels, 91, British novelist.[34]
- Charles Templeton, 85, Canadian cartoonist, broadcaster and writer, Alzheimer's disease.[35]
- Horace Walker, 64, American NBA Basketball player.[36]
8
- Sam Boyd, 86, American football player and coach.[37]
- Alex de Renzy, 65, American director and producer of pornographic movies, cerebrovascular disease.[38]
- Lucien Lauk, 89, French racing cyclist.[39]
- Duncan MacIntyre, 85, New Zealand politician.
- Kotayya Pratyagatma, 75, Indian film journalist, director and producer.
- Dennis Puleston, 95, British-American environmentalist, adventurer and designer.[40]
- Nathaniel Rochester, 82, American computer scientist.[41]
- Don Roper, 78, English footballer.[42]
- Harry Watson, 79, American child actor and television journalism pioneer.
9
- Ronnie Allen, 72, English football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.[43]
- Malcolm Cooper, 53, British sport shooter, cancer.[44]
- Richard T. Hanna, 87, American politician (U.S. Representative for California's 34th congressional district), (Koreagate).[45]
- Savva Kulish, 64, Soviet film director and screenwriter, cerebrovascular disease.
- Yaltah Menuhin, 79, American-British pianist, artist and poet.[46]
- Deirdre O'Connell, 61, Irish American actress, singer, and theatre director, cancer.
- Branko Pleša, 75, Serbian actor and theatre director.
10
- Joyce King, 80, Australian sprinter and Olympic silver medalist.[47]
- Jochen Liedtke, 48, German computer scientist.
- John McKay, 77, American football assistant coach (Oregon Ducks) and head coach (USC Trojans, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), diabetes.[48]
- Mike Mentzer, 49, American bodybuilder, complications from IgA nephropathy.[49]
- Leila Pahlavi, 31, Iranian Princess and daughter of the Shah of Iran, suicide.[50]
- Alexander Zuyev, 39, Soviet pilot who defected to the US, plane crash.
11
- Lincoln Constance, 92, American botanist.[51]
- Pierre Eyt, 67, French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, cancer.[52]
- Lou Lombardo, 72, American baseball player.[53]
- Trevor Madondo, 24, Zimbabwean cricket player, malaria.[54]
- Timothy McVeigh, 33, American convicted terrorist (Oklahoma City bombing), execution by lethal injection.[55]
- Amalia Mendoza, 77, Mexican singer ("Échame a mi la culpa", "Amarga navidad"), lung disease.[56]
- John Elvin Shaffner, 90, Canadian businessman and political figure.
12
- Carl-Axel Acking, 91, Swedish architect, author and furniture designer.
- Joseph Brady, 72, Scottish actor.
- Owen Bush, 79, American television announcer and actor.
- Peggy Cartwright, 88, Canadian silent film actress.
- W. D. Davies, 89-90, Welsh congregationalist minister and theologian.[57]
- Viktor Hamburger, 100, German embryologist.[58]
- Ray Mentzer, 47, American bodybuilder.[59]
- Nkem Nwankwo, 65, Nigerian novelist and poet.
- Jim Seminoff, 78, American basketball player.[60]
- Joseph W. Twinam, 66, American diplomat.
- Paula Wiesinger, 94, Italian Olympic alpine skier and mountain climber.[61]
- Thomas Wilson, 73, Scottish composer.[62]
13
- Gordon Christie, 86, New Zealand politician.
- Marcelo Fromer, 39, Brazilian rock musician, traffic accident.
- Luise Krüger, 86, German athlete and Olympic silver medalist.[63]
- Makanda Ken McIntyre, 69, American jazz musician and composer.[64]
- Yoshishige Saitō, 97, Japanese visual artist and art educator.
- Rajzel Zychlinski, 90, Polish poet.[65]
14
- Paul Carey, 38, American civil servant, endocrine cancer.[66]
- Oleg Fedoseyev, 65, Soviet Olympic long jump and triple jump athlete (silver medal winner in men's triple jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics).[67]
- Miroslav Marcovich, 82, Serbian-American philologist.
- Gerry Melnyk, 66, Canadian ice hockey player.[68]
- Jay D. Scott, 48, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
- Horace M. Wade, 85, American Air Force general.[69]
15
- Henri Alekan, 92, French cinematographer, leukemia.[70]
- Mikhail Gluzsky, 82, Soviet/Russian actor, heart attack.
- Leif Kayser, 82, Danish composer and organist.
- Jay Moriarity, 22, American surfer, drowned.
- Thomas S. Noonan, 63, American historian and anthropologist, cancer.[71]
- Marcelino Solis, 70, Mexican baseball player.[72]
16
- Joe Darion, 84, American musical theatre lyricist (two-time Tony Award winner for Man of La Mancha: Tony Award for Best Musical, Tony Award for Best Original Score).[73]
- Alessandro Faedo, 87, Italian mathematician and politician.
- Marta Hillers, 90, German journalist and author.
- Wally Hood, 75, American baseball player.[74]
- Sam Jethroe, 84, American baseball player, heart attack.[75]
- Jay Rabinowitz, 74, American lawyer and jurist, complications of leukemia.
- Jean-Maurice Simard, 69, Canadian Chartered Accountant and politician.
- Sava Vuković, 71, Serbian Orthodox bishop.
- Arthur Wheeler, 85, British motorcyclist.
17
- Diana Bellamy, 57, American actress (Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad, Outbreak, Popular), cancer.[76]
- John Broderick, 58, American film director, producer and screenwriter, kidney failure.
- Donald J. Cram, 82, American chemist and co-winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987, cancer.[77]
- Ninfa Laurenzo, 77, American restaurateur, bone cancer.
- Thomas Winning, 76, Scottish Roman Catholic cardinal, heart attack.[78]
- Mohammad Yunus, 84, Indian diplomat.
18
- Allan Burdon, 86, Australian politician.
- Janine Crispin, 89, French film and television actress.[79]
- René Dumont, 97, French engineer, sociologist, and politician.[80]
- Dame Rosamund Holland-Martin, 86, British social welfare official and head of the NSPCC.[81]
- Gao Kelin, 94, Chinese politician.
- Davorin Popović, 54, Bosnian singer-songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
- Paolo Emilio Taviani, 88, Italian politician, economist and historian.[82]
- Karl Friedrich Titho, 90, German SS officer and war criminal during WorldWar II.
19
- Sargis Baghdasaryan, 77, Soviet Armenian sculptor.
- Lindsay L. Cooper, 61, Scottish musician.
- Jerry Cornes, 91, British athlete and Olympic silver medalist.[83]
- William Austin Forsyth, 83, Canadian politician.
- Juan Garza, 44, American murderer and drug trafficker, execution by lethal injection.
- John Heyer, 84, Australian documentary filmmaker (The Back of Beyond).[84]
- Ludwig Hörmann, 82, German cyclist.
- Tom Keane, 74, American gridiron football player.[85]
- Robert Klippel, 81, Australian sculptor.
- Sergio Litvak, 100, Chilean football goalkeeper.
- Col Maxwell, 83, Australian rugby league player.
- Lee Mishkin, 74, American animator and director, heart failure.
- Stanley Mosk, 88, American jurist, politician, and attorney.[86]
- Brian O'Shaughnessy, 70, British-South African film actor.
- C. R. Pattabhiraman, 94, Indian lawyer and politician.
- Jandhyala Subramanya Sastry, 50, Indian screenwriter, director and actor, heart attack.
- David Sylvester, 76, British art critic.[87]
- Eddie Vartan, 63, French musician, bandleader, arranger, and record producer, cerebral hemorrhage.[88]
20
- Ernest Bour, 88, French conductor.[89]
- Geoff Brown, 77, Australian tennis player.
- Angela Browne, 63, British actress (Ghost Squad, The Avengers, The Prisoner, Upstairs, Downstairs, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes).[90]
- Tom Burns, 88, English sociologist and author.[91]
- Bob Keegan, 80, American baseball player.[92]
- Bert Kramer, 66, American actor (Kojak, The Bionic Woman, The Rockford Files, Dallas, Dynasty, Matlock).[93]
- Patrick F. McDonough, Irish-American police officer, attorney, and politician.
- Zygmunt Pawlas, 70, Polish fencer and Olympic silver medalist.[94]
- Massimo Pirri, 55, Italian film director and screenwriter.
- Frederick Russell, 77, Canadian businessman and lieutenant governor of Newfoundland.
21
- John Lee Hooker, 83, American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist ("Boogie Chillen'", "Boom Boom", "Dimples").[95]
- Soad Hosny, 58, Egyptian actress ("Cinderella of Egyptian cinema"), fall.[96]
- Károly Janza, 87, Hungarian military officer and politician.
- François Lesure, 78, French librarian and musicologist.[97]
- K. V. Mahadevan, 83, Indian singer-songwriter, music producer, and musician.
- Carroll O'Connor, 76, American actor (All in the Family, In the Heat of the Night, Cleopatra), five-time Emmy winner, heart attack.[98]
- Vernon Sewell, 97, British film director.[99]
22
- Mario Agüero, 77, Cuban basketball player.[100]
- Arbi Barayev, 27, Chechen warlord and terrorist, killed in action.
- Luis Carniglia, 83, Argentine footballer and manager.[101]
- George Evans, 81, American comic book and comic strip cartoonist and illustrator.[102]
- John Herbert, 74, Canadian playwright (Fortune and Men's Eyes).[103]
- Manuel Ledesma, 80, Chilean basketball player.[104]
- Wendell L. Minckley, 65, American ichthyologist and academic.[105]
- George Westwell, 70, Maltese anglican priest.
- Lika Yanko, 73, Bulgarian artist, pneumonia.
23
- Odd Abrahamsen, 77, Norwegian poet.[106]
- Corinne Calvet, 76, French actress (What Price Glory?, Sailor Beware, So This Is Paris, On the Riviera).[107]
- Panteley Dimitrov, 60, Bulgarian footballer.
- Yvonne Dionne, 67, Canadian quintuplet (first known quintuplets to have survived their infancy).[108]
24
- Muhammad Bashir, 66, Pakistani wrestler.[109]
- Antonio Ber Ciani, 93, Argentine actor and film director.
- Robert M. McKinney, 90, American news editor and diplomat.[110]
- Avadhanam Sita Raman, 82, Indian writer and journalist.[111]
- Nicola Ann Raphael, 15, Scottish schoolgirl and bullying victim, suicide by drug overdose.
- Milton Santos, 75, Brazilian geographer, prostate cancer.
- William H. Sewell, 91, American sociologist.[112]
25
- Hans Dürst, 79, Swiss ice hockey player.[113]
- Hasan Gemici, 74, Turkish sports wrestler and trainer and Olympic champion.[114]
- Gabriel Hernández, 27, Dominican Olympic boxer (light heavyweight boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics), suicide by hanging.[115]
- Kurt Hoffmann, 90, German film director and son of Carl Hoffmann.[116]
- Frederick C. Langone, American politician.
- John LeRoy, 26, American baseball player, brain aneurysm.[117]
- George Senesky, 79, American basketball player and coach, cancer.[118]
- Charles Sheldon Whitehouse, 79, American career diplomat, cancer.[119]
26
- Paul Berry, 40, American animator (The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, Monkeybone), brain tumor.[120]
- William Bryant, 77, American character actor (Escape from San Quentin, Experiment in Terror, How to Murder Your Wife, The Great Race).[121]
- Gina Cigna, 101, French-Italian dramatic soprano.[122]
- Günter Kaslowski, 66, German Olympic cyclist.[123]
- Margaret Kilgallen, 33, American visual artist, complications from breast cancer.[124]
- Louis Klemantaski, 89, British photographer.
- Gopala Ramanujam, 86, Indian politician.
- Lalla Romano, 94, Italian novelist, poet, artist and journalist.[125]
- Robert Smith, 88, American actor.[126]
- Soccer, 13, American dog actor.
- Annika Tammela, 21, Estonian football player, bicycle accident.
27
- Sidney Buckwold, 84, Canadian politician and businessman.
- Hal Goldman, 81, American screenwriter, three Primetime Emmy Awards: The Jack Benny Program (1959, 1960), An Evening with Carol Channing (1966).[127]
- Darrell Huff, 86, American statistician.[128]
- Tove Jansson, 86, Finnish author, painter and comic strip artist, lung cancer.[129]
- Jack Lemmon, 76, American actor (The Apartment, Some Like It Hot, Save the Tiger), Oscar winner (1956, 1974), bladder and colorectal cancer.[130]
- Michael Moynihan, 84, Irish Labour Party politician.
- Chico O'Farrill, 79, Cuban composer, arranger, and conductor.[131]
- Udo Proksch, 67, Austrian industrialist and criminal, complications during heart surgery.
- Joan Sims, 71, British actress (Carry On Nurse, Carry On Cleo, Carry On Camping, On the Up, As Time Goes By), gastrointestinal system disease.[132]
- Jukka Wuolio, 74, Finnish ice hockey player.[133]
28
- Mortimer J. Adler, 98, American philosopher and author.[134]
- Ira Eisenstein, 94, American rabbi.[135]
- Jim Ellis, 45, American computer scientist (Usenet), lymphoma.[136]
- David Freeman, 80, American badminton player (multi-year U.S. Champion).[137]
- Herbert McCabe, 74, English-Irish Dominican priest, theologian and philosopher.
- Thomas Ernst Josef Wiedemann, 51, German-British historian, cancer.[138]
29
- Mary Barnes, 86, English artist and writer.[139]
- Manuel Echauri, 86, Mexican artist.
- Maurice Estève, 97, French painter.
- Maximos V Hakim, 93, Egyptian patriarch.[140]
- Minoru Kawabata, 90, Japanese artist.[141]
- Karen Lamm, 49, American film actress and producer, heart failure.
- Silvio Oddi, 90, Italian cardinal and Vatican diplomat.[142]
- Thomas E. Sparks, 89, American politician.
30
- Stephen Ailes, 89, American lawyer and government official, stroke.[143]
- Chet Atkins, 77, American country musician (14 Grammy Awards, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame), colorectal cancer.[144]
- Giancarlo Brusati, 91, Italian fencer and Olympic champion.[145]
- Joe Fagan, 80, English football manager, cancer.[146]
- Joe Henderson, 64, American jazz tenor saxophonist.[147]
- Lou Kusserow, 73, Canadian football player, complications from prostate cancer.[148]
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