# Deaths in May 2001
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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

## May 2001
### 1

* Happy Hairston, 58, American basketball player (Cincinnati Royals, Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Lakers), prostate cancer.
* Waldemar Kikolski, 33, Polish paralympic athlete, road accident.
* Ernie Pomfret, 60, British middle-distance runner.
* Elsa Prawitz, 69, Swedish film and stage actress.
* Ernie Wheelwright, 61, American football player.

### 2

* Enrico Bovone, 55, Italian basketball player, suicide by gunshot.
* Poul Dalsager, 72, Danish politician.
* Georges Dard, 82, French football player.
* Vlasta Foltová, 88, Czechoslovak gymnast and Olympic silver medalist.
* Dick Jamieson, 63, American football player (Baltimore Colts, New York Titans) and coach.
* Howard Kahane, 73, American professor of philosophy.
* Gina Mastrogiacomo, 39, American actress (Goodfellas, Harry and the Hendersons, Jungle Fever), myocarditis.
* Abdul Sattar Khan Niazi, 85, Pakistani religious and political leader.
* Ted Rogers, 65, British comedian, complications after open-heart surgery.
* Theodore Roosevelt III, 86, American banker and government official.
* Klement Steinmetz, 86, Austrian football (soccer) player.

### 3

* Philip George Houthem Gell, 86, British immunologist.
* Jim Godman, 55, American professional bowler.
* Billy Higgins, 64, American jazz drummer, hepatitis.
* Karel Kalaš, 90, Czech operatic bass and actor.
* Princess Rosemary of Salm-Salm, 97, German noblewoman.
* Robert Millner Shackleton, 91, British field geologist.
* Hank Schmulbach, 76, American baseball player.

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* Anne Anastasi, 92, American psychologist.
* Bonny Lee Bakley, 44, American socialite, shot.
* Gene Grabosky, 64, American professional football player (Syracuse University, Buffalo Bills).
* Vaska Ilieva, 78, Macedonian folk singer from Yugoslavia and North Macedonia.
* Arne Sucksdorff, 84, Swedish film director, pneumonia.
* Stan Newsham, 69, English footballer, (AFC Bournemouth,Notts County)

### 5

* Charles Black, 85, American constitutional scholar.
* Boozoo Chavis, 70, American accordion player, singer, songwriter and bandleader (Zydeco).
* Morris Graves, 90, American expressionist painter, stroke.
* Cliff Hillegass, 83, American creator of CliffsNotes, stroke.
* Bill Homeier, 82, American racecar driver (three Indianapolis 500s).
* David Jamieson, 80, British Army officer, recipient of the Victoria Cross.
* Aleksandr Petrov, 61, Soviet/Russian basketball player.
* Hans Rampf, 70, German ice hockey player.
* Terry Ryan, 78, American screenwriter, congestive heart failure.
* Wang Yinglai, 93, Chinese biochemist.

### 6

* René Bondoux, 95, French fencer and Olympic champion.
* Mike Hazlewood, 59, English singer, composer and songwriter, heart attack.
* Karl Wilhelm Krause, 90, German Waffen-SS officer during World War II.
* Zoltán Nemere, 59, Hungarian fencer, traffic collision.
* Cecil Price, 63, American deputy sheriff and Ku Klux Klan member, fall.

### 7

* Malati Bedekar, 96, Indian writer.
* Jacques de Bourbon-Busset, 89, French novelist, essayist and politician.
* Prem Dhawan, 77, Indian lyricist, music composer, and actor of Bollywood, cardiac arrest.
* Edwin Finckel, 83, American jazz pianist, composer (George White's Scandals) and music educator.
* Joseph Greenberg, 85, American linguist, pancreatic cancer.
* Dick Kimble, 85, American baseball player.
* Margaretha Krook, 75, Swedish actress, lung cancer.
* Boris Ryzhy, 26, Russian poet and geologist, suicide by hanging.
* Simon Slåttvik, 83, Norwegian Olympic skier (gold medal winner of the Nordic combined at the 1952 Winter Olympics).
* Al Tucker, 58, American basketball player.
* Arthur Christopher Watson, 74, British diplomat.

### 8

* Larry Hornung, 55, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
* John McMahon, 83, Australian-English cricket player.
* Piero Natoli, 53, Italian actor and film director, intracranial aneurysm.
* Luis Rijo, 73, Uruguayan football player.
* Clay King Smith, 30, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

### 9

* Marie Cardinal, 72, French novelist.
* Antoinette Downing, 96, American architectural historian and preservationist.
* Saul Elkins, 93, American film producer, writer and director.
* Andrés Framini, 86, Argentine labor leader and politician.
* Miroslav Kárný, 81, Czech historian and writer.
* Nikos Sampson, 65, Cypriot politician, de facto President of Cyprus (1974), cancer.
* Werner Schuster, 62, German politician.
* William T. Stearn, 90, British botanist.
* Kauko Wahlsten, 77, Finnish rower and Olympic medalist.
* Smokey Yunick, 77, American mechanic and car designer, leukemia.

### 10

* Turi Ferro, 80, Italian actor (Liolà, The Seduction of Mimi, Malizia), heart attack.
* James E. Myers, 81, American songwriter ("Rock Around the Clock"), actor and director.
* Sudhakarrao Naik, 66, Indian politician.
* M. Krishnan Nair, 74, Indian film director.
* Frank Newby, 75, English structural engineer.
* Arthur Tange, 86, Australian public servant.
* Dorothy Burr Thompson, 100, American classical archaeologist and art historian.
* Deborah Walley, 57, American actress (Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Beach Blanket Bingo, Spinout) and voice-over artist, esophageal cancer.

### 11

* Douglas Adams, 49, British author (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Doctor Who), heart attack.
* Jesús Aguirre, 66, Spanish intellectual, Jesuit priest, and aristocrat, pulmonary embolism.
* Michael J. Bird, 72, British writer.
* Guy Carlton, 47, American Olympic weightlifter (bronze medal winner in heavyweight weightlifting at the 1984 Summer Olympics), suicide by gunshot.
* Alan William James Cousins, 97, South African astronomer.
* Nick Lalich, 85, Serbian American basketball player, esophageal cancer.
* Emmett Watson, 82, American newspaper columnist.
* Wolfgang Winkler, 60, West German luger and Olympic medalist.

### 12

* John Cliff, 82, American film and television actor.
* Ollie Cline, 75, American gridiron football player.
* Perry Como, 88, American singer, actor and television personality, Alzheimer's disease.
* Didi, 72, Brazilian footballer, pneumonia.
* Willy Gysi, 83, Swiss field handball player.
* Norman Kay, 72, British composer and writer, ALS.
* Paul Morgan, 52, British engineer, plane crash.
* Jonathan Niva, 58, Kenyan football player.
* Mel Payton, 74, American basketball player.
* Fritz Pfenninger, 66, Swiss cyclist.
* Simon Raven, 73, British writer.
* Eleanor Sayre, 85, American curator and art historian.
* Alexei Tupolev, 75, Soviet aircraft designer.
* Georgie Woodgate, 77, British tennis player.
* Corissa Yasen, 27, American basketball player, suicide by drug overdose.

### 13

* Sergey Afanasyev, 82, Russian engineer and politician.
* Eddra Gale, 79, American actress (8½, What's New Pussycat?, The Graduate, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, Somewhere in Time).
* Salvador Garmendia Graterón, 72, Venezuelan author.
* Frank Millar, 76, Northern Irish unionist politician.
* Jason Miller, 62, American actor (The Exorcist, Rudy) and playwright (That Championship Season), Tony winner (1973), heart attack.
* Harold Minter, 98, American film editor.
* R. K. Narayan, 94, Indian writer.
* Ray Straw, 67, English footballer.
* Ralph Tabakin, 79, American actor.
* Susumu Takahashi, 80, Japanese Olympic middle-distance runner.

### 14

* Mauro Bolognini, 78, Italian film and stage director.
* Eric Bradbury, 80, British comic artist.
* Paul Bénichou, 92, French-Algerian writer, intellectual, and literary historian.
* Alex Glasgow, 65, English singer-songwriter (On Your Way, Riley!, When the Boat Comes In).
* Gil Langley, 81, Australian cricketer and politician.
* Elisabeth Lennartz, 98, German stage actress.
* Loften Mitchell, 82, American playwright and theatre historian.
* Armando Nannuzzi, 75, Italian cinematographer and camera operator.
* Ettore Puricelli, 84, Uruguayan-Italian football player and manager.
* Juan Verdaguer, 85, Uruguayan actor, cardiovascular disease.

### 15

* Jean-Philippe Lauer, 99, French architect and Egyptologist.
* Juracy Magalhães, 95, Brazilian military officer and politician.
* Ralph Miller, 82, American college basketball coach.
* Bobby Murdoch, 56, Scottish footballer, stroke.
* William Oates, 71, English first-class cricketer.
* Georgy Shakhnazarov, 76, Soviet-Armenian politician and political scientist.
* Sacha Vierny, 81, French cinematographer.

### 16

* Antonio Flores, 77, Mexican football player.
* Prince Ital Joe, 38, Dominican-American reggae artist, car accident.
* Brian Pendleton, 57, British guitarist (The Pretty Things), lung cancer.
* Witold Stachurski, 54, Polish boxer.

### 17

* Robert Elton Brooker, 95, American business executive at Sears, Roebuck & Co.
* Ike Brown, 59, American baseball player, cancer.
* Gerd Buchdahl, 86, German-English philosopher of science.
* Ikuma Dan, 77, Japanese composer.
* Enid Hattersley, 96, English politician and Lord Mayor of Sheffield.
* Robert Knapp, 77, American actor (Days of Our Lives, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, The F.B.I.).
* Jacques-Louis Lions, 73, French mathematician.
* Murray Murdoch, 96, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
* Frank G. Slaughter, 93, American novelist and physician.

### 18

* Rosa Beddington, 45, British biologist, cancer.
* Ralph Enckell, 88, Finnish diplomat.
* Irene Hunt, 99, American children's writer.
* Alexey Maresyev, 84, Russian military pilot, infarction.
* Stella Mary Newton, 100, British fashion designer and dress historian.
* Maurice Noble, 90, American animation artist and designer.
* Seán Mac Stíofáin, 73, English-Irish chief of staff of the Provisional IRA, stroke.
* Robert F. Woodward, 92, American diplomat.

### 19

* Fred Derby, 61, Surinamese politician and trade unionist.
* John Joseph Egan, 84, American Roman Catholic priest and social activist.
* Joe Graydon, 82, American big band vocalist, television host, personal manager and concert producer.
* Josef Haunzwickel, 86, Austrian Olympic athlete (men's pole vault at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
* Patricia Hilliard, 85, British stage and film actress.
* Vidkunn Hveding, 80, Norwegian politician.
* Joe Lovitto, 50, American baseball player, cancer.
* Hans Mayer, 94, German literary scholar.
* Susannah McCorkle, 55, American jazz singer, suicide by jumping.
* Mike Sammes, 73, English musician and vocal session arranger.
* Pat Falken Smith, 75, American television writer.
* Bob Tinning, 75, Australian rower.
* John Warner, 78, British actor.

### 20

* Carl Eric Almgren, 88, Swedish Army general.
* Renato Carosone, 81, Italian musician.
* Bob Keely, 91, American baseball coach, scout and player.
* Art Mergenthal, 80, American gridiron football player.
* Bud Thomas, 90, American baseball player.

### 21

* Philip W. Buchen, 85, American attorney and White House Counsel.
* Mel Hoderlein, 77, American baseball player.
* Mario Martinelli, 95, Italian resistance member during World War II and politician.
* Cecil G. Murgatroyd, 42, Australian politician, musician, and comedian, cancer.
* Johnny Rainford, 70, English footballer.
* Gabriele Rumi, 61, Italian Formula One team owner, cancer.
* Tad Szulc, 74, Polish-American journalist, cancer.
* Fritz Uhl, 73, Austrian operatic tenor.
* Graham Webster, 87, British archaeologist.
* Hu Xieqing, 95, Contemporary Chinese painter.

### 22

* Lorez Alexandria, 71, American jazz singer.
* Katharine Bartlett, 93, American physical anthropologist.
* Jenő Fock, 85, Hungarian communist politician, prime minister (1967-1975).
* Ralph Hamner, 84, American baseball player.
* Jean Hougron, 77, French novelist.
* Leamon King, 65, American sprinter and Olympic champion.
* Whitman Mayo, 70, American actor (Sanford and Son, Boyz n the Hood, Hell Town), heart attack.
* Jack Watling, 78, British actor (The Plane Makers, The Power Game, Pathfinders), cancer.

### 23

* Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, 72, Palestinian-American academic.
* Liu Anyuan, 73, Chinese lieutenant general.
* Harald Bergström, 93, Swedish mathematician.
* Jean Champion, 84, French film actor.
* Lita Chevret, 92, American actress.
* Charles D. Cook, 66, American politician.
* Tommy Eyre, 51, British keyboardist, cancer.
* Walter Eytan, 90, Israeli diplomat.
* Bob Gaona, 70, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles).
* Chuck Gelatka, 87, American professional football player (Mississippi State, New York Giants).
* Boris Gyuderov, 74, Bulgarian Olympic volleyball player (1964).
* Lee Chiaw Meng, 64, Singaporean politician, cancer.
* Arno Mohr, 90, German painter and graphic artist.
* Alessandro Natta, 83, Italian communist politician.
* P. Ramachandran, 79, Indian politician, Governor of Kerala.
* Jamileh Sheykhi, 71, Iranian actress, heart attack.
* Harry Townes, 86, American actor (Finian's Rainbow, Gunsmoke, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek) and an Episcopalian priest.
* Arseny Vorozheykin, 88, Soviet/Russian fighter ace during World War II.

### 24

* Lucy Boscana, 85, Puerto Rico actress.
* Jo Ann Greer, 74, American singer.
* Tor Jevne, 72, Norwegian football player.
* Paul Kor, 74, Israeli painter and children's writer, lung cancer.
* Ridvan Qazimi, 37, Kosovar Albanian insurgent nationalist, K.I.A.
* Patricia Robertson, 38, American physician and NASA astronaut, plane crash.
* Javier Urruticoechea, 49, Spanish footballer, car crash.

### 25

* Delme Bryn-Jones, 67, Welsh baritone.
* John W. Holmes, 84, American film editor.
* Alberto Korda, 72, Cuban photographer, heart attack.
* Arturo Maly, 61, Argentine actor, heart attack.
* Malcom McLean, 87, American businessman and shipper.
* Harold Ridley, 94, British ophthalmologist.

### 26

* Vittorio Brambilla, 63, Italian Formula One race car driver, heart attack.
* Roman Codreanu, 48, Romanian Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic medalist.
* Johnny Gordon, 69, English football player.
* Anne Haney, 67, American actress (Mrs. Doubtfire, The American President, Liar Liar), heart failure.
* Moven Mahachi, 53, Zimbabwean Minister of Defence of the Republic of Zimbabwe, traffic collision.
* Hal Moe, 91, American gridiron football player and coach.
* William Molloy, Baron Molloy, 82, British politician.
* Dea Trier Mørch, 59, Danish artist and writer, cancer.

### 27

* Ramon Bieri, 71, American actor (Sarge, Room 222, Daniel Boone, Gunsmoke), cancer.
* Helen Oakley Dance, 88, Canadian-American jazz journalist, record producer, and music historian.
* Victor Kiam, 74, American entrepreneur and owner of the New England Patriots football team.
* Agda Rössel, 90, Swedish politician.
* Nikolay Yeryomenko, 52, Soviet/Russian actor and film director, stroke.

### 28

* Tony Ashton, 55, English rock pianist, music producer and artist, cancer.
* Francis Bebey, 71, Cameroonian writer and composer.
* Joe Moakley, 74, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives, leukemia.
* Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, 79, Indian medical scientist.
* Rockets Redglare, 52, American character actor and comedian (After Hours, Desperately Seeking Susan), hepatitis and liver cirrhosis.
* Elizabeth S. Russell, 88, American geneticist.
* Francisco Varela, 54, Chilean biologist, philosopher and neuroscientist, heart attack.

### 29

* John Fleming, 81, British art historian.
* Eddie Forrest, 79, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).
* Akira Fujita, 93, Japanese Olympic water polo player (men's water polo at the 1932 Summer Olympics).
* Charley Pell, 60, American college football player and coach, lung cancer.
* Vytautas Sakalauskas, 68, Soviet and Lithuanian politician.
* Hédi Temessy, 76, Hungarian actress.

### 30

* Werner Fricker, 65, German-American soccer player and official.
* Terry Gathercole, 65, Australian Olympic swimmer (silver medal winner of the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics).
* Inderjit Singh Gill, 79, Indian Army officer.
* Adrian Hastings, 71, British Roman Catholic priest and historian.
* Nikolai Korndorf, 54, Russian-Canadian composer and conductor.
* John Pickering, 56, English footballer.
* Jaime Benítez Rexach, 92, Puerto Rican author, academic and politician.
* Renée Schuurman, 61, South African tennis player.
* Rajko Tomović, 81, Serbian and Yugoslav scientist.
* Denis Whitaker, 86, Canadian athlete, soldier, and author.

### 31

* Santos Amaro, 93, Cuban baseball player.
* Arlene Francis, 93, American actress, talk show host, and game show panelist (What's My Line?), Alzheimer's disease and cancer.
* Faisal Husseini, 60, Palestinian politician, heart attack.
* Tony Johnson, 76, Australian politician.
* Jagannath Kaushal, 86, Indian politician.
* Kwoh-Ting Li, 91, Taiwanese economist and politician.
* Tex McKenzie, 70, American professional wrestler, abdominal aortic aneurysm.
* Walter E. Rogers, 92, American politician.
* German Ugryumov, 52, Soviet and Russian navy and security services official, heart attack.
* Rosemary Verey, 82, English garden designer.