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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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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October 2001
1
- Guy Beaulne, 79, French-Canadian actor and theatre director.[1]
- Lee Cronbach, 85, American educational psychologist.[2]
- Surendranath Dwivedy, 88, Indian politician, journalist and social worker.
- Kenny Greene, 32, American singer-songwriter, AIDS.
- Gloria Hemingway, 69, American physician and daughter of Ernest Hemingway, hypertension and cardiovascular disease.[3]
- Mickey Trotman, 26, Trinidad and Tobago football player, traffic collision.[4]
2
- Manny Albam, 79, American jazz baritone saxophone player, composer, and producer.[5]
- Franz Biebl, 95, German classical music composer.[6]
- Donald J. Cohen, 61, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, melanoma.[7]
- Fernando Mendes, 55, Portuguese cyclist, traffic accident.[8]
3
- Alfie Almario, 38, Filipino basketball player, heart attack.
- Pat Ast, 59, American actress and model.[9]
- Ricky Belmonte, 54, Filipino actor, stroke.
- Kostas Chatzichristos, 80, Greek actor, cancer.
- Homer Elias, 46, American gridiron football player (Detroit Lions), heart attack.[10]
- Alessandro Fersen, 89, Polish-Italian dramatist, actor, and theater director.[11]
- Phillip Goldson, 78, Belizean newspaper editor, activist and politician.
- Tullio Pane, 71, Italian singer.
- Gregorio Peralta, 66, Argentine boxer.
4
- Blaise Alexander, 25, American race car driver, racing crash.[12]
- Irmgard Farden Aluli, 90, Hawaiian composer.
- George Claydon, 68, British actor and mascot of the England Football Team in 1966.
- John Collins, 88, American jazz guitarist, cancer.[13]
- Arthur Daniels, 79, Welsh rugby league player.
- Al Ham, 76, American composer and jingle writer.
- Antonín Máša, 66, Czech film director and screenwriter.[14]
- Ahron Soloveichik, 84, American torah scholar and rabbi.[15]
5
- Peter Burge, 69, Australian cricketer.[16]
- Jim Cain, 74, American gridiron football player.[17]
- Clyde L. Choate, 81, American politician and decorated soldier.[18]
- Brian Edgar, 65, British rugby league player.
- Woody Jensen, 94, American baseball player.[19]
- Jan Lenica, 73, Polish graphic designer and cartoonist.[20]
- Mike Mansfield, 98, American politician and diplomat (U.S. Representative from Montana, U.S. Senator from Montana, Senate Majority Leader).[21]
- Egbert van 't Oever, 74, Dutch speed skater, colon cancer.[22]
- Emilie Schindler, 93, German wife of Oskar Schindler who helped save the lives of 1,200 Jews during World War II.[23]
- Zoltán Székely, 97, Hungarian violinist and composer.[24]
6
- Jacqueline Babbin, 75, American television and theatre writer and producer, cancer.[25]
- Miguel del Toro, 29, Mexican baseball player, traffic collision.[26]
- Axel Düberg, 73, Swedish film actor.
- Arne Harris, 67, American television producer-director (WGN-TV broadcasts of Chicago Cubs).[27]
- Yuriy Meshcheryakov, 55, Soviet and Ukrainian animator.
- Milton A. Rothman, 81, American nuclear physicist, complications due to diabetes.[28]
7
- Chris Adams, 46, English wrestler and judoka, brother of Olympic Judo star Neil Adams, shot.
- Gaby Basset, 99, French film actress.[29]
- Roger Gaudry, 87, Canadian chemist, businessman, and university rector.
- Alf Gover, 93, English test cricketer.
- Herblock, 91, American editorial cartoonist (The Washington Post).[30]
- Stewart Imlach, 69, Scottish football player.[31]
- Jimmie Logsdon, 79, American country and rockabilly singer, songwriter and radio DJ.[32]
- Reg Matthews, 68, English football player.[33]
- Polly Rowles, 87, American actress (The Defenders, Sweet Liberty, Power).[34]
- Joann Lee Tiesler, 30, American murder victim.
8
- Mongo Beti, 69, Cameroonian writer.[35]
- Alfred Fyodorov, 66, Soviet football player and coach.
- Kenneth L. Hale, 67, American linguist.[36]
- Caryl Parker Haskins, 93, American scientist, author, inventor, philanthropist, and entomologist.[37]
- Seymour Heller, 87, American talent agent and manager (represented Liberace).[38]
- Javed Iqbal, 45, Pakistani serial killer, intoxication.
- Dmitry Polyansky, 83, Soviet statesman.
- Sankaradi, 77, Indian actor.
- Angelo Varetto, 90, Italian cyclist.[39]
9
- Roberto de Oliveira Campos, 84, Brazilian economist, writer, diplomat, and politician, heart attack.[40]
- Dagmar, 79, American actress, model, and television personality.[41]
- Vladimir Danilevich, 77, Soviet and Russian animator.
- Norris Houghton, 91, American theatre manager and producer.[42]
- Herbert Ross, 74, American film director (The Turning Point, Footloose) and choreographer (Anyone Can Whistle), heart failure.[43]
- William A. Ryan, 82, American politician.[44]
- Károly Simonyi, 84, Hungarian physicist and writer.[45]
- Judita Čeřovská, 72, Czech pop and chanson singer.
10
- Pelegrino Adelmo Begliomini, 86, Brazilian football player.
- Eddie Futch, 90, American boxing trainer (Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes, Trevor Berbick).[46]
- Cal Gardner, 76, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins).[47]
- Dave Gerard, 65, American baseball player.[48]
- Evgeni Kharadze, 93, Georgian astronomer, public figure and statesman.
- Vasily Mishin, 84, Soviet rocket designer.[49]
- Luis Antonio García Navarro, 60, Spanish conductor (music director of the Teatro Real).[50]
- Samuel Ndhlovu, 64, Zambian footballer and coach.
- Anna Amelia Obermeyer, 94, South African botanist.
- Chet Ostrowski, 71, American gridiron football player.[51]
11
- Krzysztof Chamiec, 71, Polish actor, lung cancer.[52]
- Franco Committeri, 77, Italian film producer.
- Nada Mamula, 74, Yugoslavian singer.[53]
- Billy Maxted, 84, American jazz pianist.[54]
- Beni Montresor, 75, Italian artist, illustrator and set designer, pancreatic cancer.[55]
12
- Richard Buckle, 85, British ballet critic.[56]
- Ruth Goetz, 89, American playwright (The Heiress) and screenwriter.[57]
- Quintin Hogg, 94, British lawyer and politician.[58]
- John T. Robinson, 78, South African palaeontologist.
- Eddie Rodriguez, 69, Filipino film actor and director, heart attack.
- Branko Stinčić, 78, Croatian football player.
- Witold Szalonek, 74, Polish composer.
- Otis Young, 69, American actor (The Outcasts, The Last Detail), stroke.[59]
- Hikmet Şimşek, Turkish orchestra conductor.
13
- José Capmany, 40, Costa Rican songwriter and guitarist, traffic collision.
- Jean Daninos, 94, Greek-French constructor of luxury cars Facel Vega.[60]
- Peter Doyle, 52, Australian pop singer (The New Seekers), esophageal cancer.[61]
- Ubi Dwyer, 68, Irish anarchist, complications following bicycle accident.
- Fritz Fromm, 88, German Olympic field handball player (gold medal winner of the men's team handball competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[62]
- B. L. Graham, 87, American college basketball player and coach (Ole Miss).[63]
- Glenn Johnson, 79, American gridiron football player (New York Yankees, Green Bay Packers, Winnipeg Blue Bombers).[64]
- Raoul Kraushaar, 93, American composer.
- David Neil MacKenzie, 75, British linguist.[65]
- Jal Minocher Mehta, 100, Indian surgeon, social worker and philanthropist.
- Pal Mirashi, 75, Albanian football player.[66]
- Mwanza Mukombo, 55, Congolese football player.
- Olga Arsenievna Oleinik, 76, Soviet and Russian mathematician.
14
- Giorgio Cavedon, 70, Italian publisher, cartoonist and screenwriter.[67]
- Willam Christensen, 99, American ballet dancer, choreographer and founder of the San Francisco Ballet and Ballet West in Salt Lake City, Utah.[68]
- David V. Erdman, 89, American literary critic, editor, and academic..[69]
- Eugene Grebenik, 82, British academic and demographer.[70]
- Vernon Harrison, 89, British photographer and parapsychologist.
- David Lewis, 60, American philosopher.[71]
- Bert Rose, 82, American gridiron football player.
- Ben Sankey, 94, American baseball player.[72]
- Joseph Allen Stein, 89, American architect.[73]
15
- Jamie Cann, 55, British Labour Party politician, liver disease.
- Zhang Xueliang, 100, Chinese warlord and military figure, pneumonia.[74]
- Ralph Levy, 80, American producer, film and television director.[75]
- Anne Ridler, 89, British poet and editor.[76]
- Robert Rutledge, 53, American sound engineer (Back to the Future, Star Wars, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Oscar winner (1986), heart attack.[77]
- Janet Shaw, 82, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
- Bent Tomtum, 52, Norwegian ski jumper and Olympian.[78]
16
- Jean Danet, 77, French actor.[79]
- Gotthold Gloger, 77, German writer and painter.
- Etta Jones, 72, American jazz singer, cancer.[80]
- Yuri Ozerov, 80, Soviet film director and screenwriter.
- Reid Smith, 52, American film and television actor.
17
- Frank Anscombe, 83, English statistician.[81]
- Frances Claudet, 90, Canadian Olympic pair skater.[82]
- Jay Livingston, 86, American composer (Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Buttons and Bows", "Mona Lisa" and "Que Sera, Sera").[83]
- Micheline Ostermeyer, 78, French Olympic champion at the 1948 Summer Olympics and concert pianist.[84]
- Jack Smith, 77, American NASCAR driver, congestive heart failure.
- Gyula Szilágyi, 78, Hungarian football player.
- Rehavam Ze'evi, 75, Israeli army general and politician, shot.[85]
18
- Ferris Fain, 80, American baseball player, complications from leukemia and diabetes.[86]
- János Kulka, 71, Hungarian conductor and composer.
- Ray Lovejoy, 62, British film editor (2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Aliens), heart attack.
- Dan Nugent, 48, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins), leukemia.[87]
- A. T. Ummer, 68, Indian music composer.
19
- Araquem de Melo, 57, Brazilian football player, suicide.
- Kay Dick, 86, English journalist, novelist and autobiographer.[88]
- Woody Dumart, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).
- Yang Jingren, 83, Chinese politician.
- Leslie Johnston, 81, Scottish football player.[89]
- Niaz Khan, 84, Pakistani Olympic field hockey player.[90]
- Jagernath Lachmon, 85, Surinamese politician.[91]
- Hugh Mulcahy, 88, American baseball player.[92]
- Joe Murray, 80, American baseball player.[93]
- Digna Ochoa, 37, Mexican human rights lawyer, shot.
20
- Philippe Agostini, 91, French cinematographer, director and screenwriter.[94]
- Marko Hirsma, 36, Finnish musician, outlaw biker and gangster, shot.
- Frank Hodgkinson, 82, Australian painter and graphic artist.[95]
- Patricia Locke, 73, Native American educator-activist, heart failure.[96]
- Henri Pellizza, 81, French badminton and tennis player.[97]
- Nebojša Popović, 78, Serbian basketball player and coach.
- John H. Terry, 76, American lawyer and politician.
21
- Thomas G. Barnes, 90, American creationist.
- George Feyer, 92, Hungarian-American cafe pianist and entertainer.[98]
- William J. Healy, 62, American politician.[99]
- Bertie Mee, 82, English footballer.
- John H. Plumb, 90, British historian.[100]
- David Lowell Rich, 81, American film director and producer.
22
- Roger Coggio, 67, French actor, film director and screenwriter, cancer.[101]
- Howard Finster, 84, American artist and baptist minister.[102]
- Ernest Hilgard, 97, American psychologist and professor at Stanford University.[103]
- Bill James, 75, New Zealand rower.
- Samuel Khachikian, 78, Iranian film director, author, and film editor.
- Norman Lessing, 90, American television screenwriter, playwright, and chess master, Parkinson's disease.[104]
- Katsuo Nishida, 72, Japanese long-distance runner.[105]
- Ramakrishna, 62, Indian actor.
- Jan Glastra van Loon, 81, Dutch politician.
- Ed Vijent, 38, Dutch football player, stabbed.[106]
- Georgy Vitsin, 84, Soviet and Russian actor, cardiovascular disease.
- Diana Van der Vlis, 66, Canadian-American actress, cardiac arrest.[107]
23
- Ken Aston, 86, British football referee.[108]
- Thomas N. Downing, 82, American lawyer and politician.[109]
- Josh Kirby, 72, British artist.[110]
- Ismat T. Kittani, 72, Iraqi politician.[111]
- Kenneth P. MacLeod, 78, American politician.
- Linden Travers, 88, British actress (The Lady Vanishes, No Orchids for Miss Blandish).[112]
- Stanisław Urbańczyk, 92, Polish linguist and academic.[113]
- Daniel Wildenstein, 84, French art dealer, historian and owner of thoroughbred race horses.[114]
24
- Kathleen Ankers, 82, American theatrical and television set and costume designer (Late Night with David Letterman, The Rosie O'Donnell Show).[115]
- Kim Gardner, 53, English musician (Badger, Ashton, Gardner & Dyke, The Birds, The Creation), cancer.[116]
- Eugenio Granell, 88, Spanish painter (often described as "the last Spanish surrealist painter").[117]
- Jaromil Jireš, 65, Czechoslovak filmmaker.[118]
- Bill Mueller, 80, American baseball player.[119]
- Seishiro Shimatani, 62, Japanese football player and manager, cirrhosis.
- Stephen Wurm, 79, Hungarian-Australian linguist.[120]
25
- Jack Blackwell, 91, English footballer.[121]
- Alvan Feinstein, 75, American clinician, researcher and an epidemiologist.[122]
- Marvin Harris, 74, American anthropologist.[123]
- Richard Kirby, 97, Australian judge and arbitrator.
- René Philombe, 70, Cameroonian writer, journalist, poet, and playwright.[124]
26
- Larry Aldrich, 95, American fashion designer and art collector.[125]
- Maragatham Chandrasekar, 84, Indian politician and Member of Parliament.
- Soraya Esfandiari-Bakhtiari, 69, queen consort of Iran as wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, stroke.[126]
- Laszlo Halasz, 96, Hungarian-American music director (New York City Opera).[127]
- Abdul Haq, 43, Afghan mujahideen commander, executed by the Taliban, homicide.[128]
- Hüseyin Hilmi Işık, 90, Turkish Sunni Islamic scholar.
- Eugene Jackson, 84, American child actor (Our Gang, The Big Town, Shootin' Injuns, Little Annie Rooney, The Addams Family), heart attack.[129]
- Elizabeth Jennings, 75, English poet.[130]
- Kris Kovick, 50, California-based writer, cartoonist, and printer, breast cancer.[131]
- Olga Lehmann, 89, Chilean-British visual artist.
- John Platts-Mills, 95, British politician and lawyer.
- Richard Seifert, 90, Swiss-British architect.
- Gerald B. H. Solomon, 71, American businessman and politician.[132]
- Barbara Tropp, 53, American orientalist, chef, and food writer, ovarian cancer.[133]
- Audrey Withers, 96, English journalist.
27
- Seán Condon, 78, Irish hurler.
- John P. Roberts, 56, American businessman, promoter of the Woodstock Festival, cancer.[134]
- Sophie Tatischeff, 55, French film editor and director, lung cancer.[135]
- Dirk Willem van Krevelen, 86, Dutch chemical engineer.
28
- Fulvio Balatti, 63, Italian rower.
- Richard Halsey Best, 91, United States Navy dive bomber pilot during World War II.
- Grigori Chukhrai, 80, Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter, heart failure.
- Jallouli Fares, 92, Tunisian politician.[136]
- Gerard Hengeveld, 90, Dutch pianist, composer and educator.[137]
- Leonard Melfi, 69, American playwright and actor, congestive heart failure.
- John Mogg, 88, British army general.[138]
- Czesław Mordowicz, 82, Polish Holocaust survivor during World War II.
29
- Angelo Ippolito, 78, Italian-American painter (Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art).[139]
- Milorad B. Protić, 90, Serbian astronomer.
- Spike Robinson, 71, American jazz tenor saxophonist.[140]
- Freddie Silva, 63, Sri Lankan actor, singer.
- K. P. Ummer, 71, Indian film actor.
30
- Carlos Alberto Zolim Filho, 79, Brazilian football player and manager.
- Marga Legal, 93, German actress, traffic collision.[141]
- Johnny Lucadello, 82, American baseball player.[142]
- Yoritsune Matsudaira, 94, Japanese composer of contemporary classical music.[143]
- Maurice Miller, 81, British politician.
- Jack Scott, 85, New Zealand politician.
31
- Colin Campbell, 59, Canadian video artist, cancer.[144]
- Régine Cavagnoud, 31, French Olympic and World Cup alpine ski racer (2001 World Champion in Super G), fall.[145]
- Yutaka Fujimoto, 50, Japanese Olympic basketball player.[146]
- Warren Elliot Henry, 92, American physicist.[147]
- Jenny Laird, 89, British actress.[148]
- Bill Le Sage, 74, British musician.[149]
- Angus MacVicar, 93, British author.[150]
- Vijaya Narasimha, 74, Indian lyricist.
- Braj Kumar Nehru, 92, Indian diplomat and ambassador.[151]
- Richard Martin Stern, 86, American novelist.[152]
- Art Wall, Jr., 77, American golfer (1959 winner of the Masters Tournament).[153]
- Paul Warnke, 81, American diplomat.[154]
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