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

## April 2001
### 1

* Jean Anderson, 93, English actress (The Brothers, Tenko).
* Eugênio German, 70, Brazilian chess master and Brazilian chess champion (1951, 1972).
* Jayant Kothari, 71, Indian literary critic.
* Ted McCarty, 91, American businessman.
* Jo-Jo Moore, 92, American baseball player.
* Brendan O'Reilly, 71, Irish broadcaster.
* Aleksandar Obradović, 73, Serbian composer and academic.
* Jim Proudfoot, 67, Canadian sports journalist.
* Valerie Scott, 83, English tennis player.
* Russ Smith, 56, American gridiron football player.
* Trinh Cong Son, 62, Vietnamese musician and composer.
* Zellio Toppazzini, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Larry Tucker, 66, American screenwriter (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice), multiple sclerosis.
* Jalil Zandi, 49, Iranian flying ace, car accident.

### 2

* Charles Daudelin, 80, French-Canadian sculptor and painter.
* Gary Gearhart, 77, American baseball player.
* François Gelhausen, 70, Luxembourgish racing cyclist.
* Andy Guest, 61, American politician.
* Carlos Carnes Ogden, Sr., 83, US Army officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
* Jennifer Syme, 28, American actress and record executive, traffic collision.

### 3

* Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell, 89, British newspaper proprietor.
* Big Daddy Kinsey, 74, American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, prostate cancer.
* Jason Massey, 28, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Kersten Meier, 47, German swimmer, suicide by jumping.
* Butch Moore, 63, Irish singer and a showband icon, heart attack.
* Paul Peek, 63, American rockabilly pioneer.
* Adela Reta, 79, Uruguayan lawyer and politician.

### 4

* Beryl Gilroy, 76, British pioneering teacher and novelist, heart attack.
* Wim van der Linden, 60, Dutch photographer and film and television director.
* Ramón Mendoza, 73, Spanish lawyer and businessman.
* Mitra Mitrović, 88, Serbian politician, feminist and writer.
* José M. Dávila Monsanto, 95, Puerto Rican politician and lawyer.
* Liisi Oterma, 86, Finnish astronomer.
* Ed Roth, 69, American artist, cartoonist, and custom car designer and builder.

### 5

* Benjy Dial, 57, American football player.
* Kingsley Charles Dunham, 91, British geologist.
* Sonya Hedenbratt, 70, Swedish singer and actress.
* Jay Miller, 57, American basketball player, heart attack.
* John Bertram Oakes, 87, American journalist.
* Aldo Olivieri, 90, Italian football goalkeeper and manager.
* David Lloyd Owen, 83, British army general and writer.
* Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd, 82, British politician who served as Leader of the House of Lords.
* Brother Theodore, 94, German-American actor and comedian.

### 6

* George Bull, 71, British journalist and writer.
* Danny Gaither, 62, American gospel singer (Bill Gaither Trio).
* Chaudhary Devi Lal, 85, Indian politician and Deputy Prime Minister of India.
* Yevgeny Malinin, 70, Soviet and Russian pianist.
* Charles Pettigrew, 37, American singer, half of R&B duo Charles & Eddie, cancer.

### 7

* David Graf, 50, American actor (Police Academy, The West Wing, Rules of Engagement), heart attack.
* Kurt Hohenemser, 95, German-born American aerospace engineer and a pioneer in helicopter design.
* Derek Lang, 87, British Army general.
* G. N. Ramachandran, 78, Indian physicist.
* Beatrice Straight, 86, American actress (Network, The Crucible, The Nun's Story), Oscar winner (1980), pneumonia.

### 8

* Kurt Almqvist, 89, Swedish poet, intellectual and spiritual figure.
* Frank Annunzio, 86, American politician, Parkinson's disease.
* Arthur Cantor, 81, American theatrical producer.
* Vladislav Krishchishin, 54, Ukrainian flyweight weightlifter.
* Nello Lauredi, 76, French road bicycle racer.
* Elsie Locke, 88, New Zealand writer, historian, and feminist.
* Bob Sohl, 73, American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist.
* Van Stephenson, 47, American singer-songwriter, melanoma.
* Marguerite Viby, 91, Danish actress.

### 9

* Behram Contractor, 71, Indian journalist and humorist.
* Roque Ditro, 64, Argentine football player.
* Shakoor Rana, 65, Pakistani cricket umpire.
* Graziella Sciutti, 73, Italian soprano opera singer and producer.
* Willie Stargell, 61, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, stroke.
* Hsieh Tung-min, 93, Taiwanese politician and Vice President of the Republic of China.

### 10

* Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, 65, French film director.
* Tadeusz Chciuk-Celt, 84, Polish special forces operative during World War II, journalist and author.
* Nora Eddington, 77, American actress and socialite, kidney failure.
* John Marmion Edmond, 57, Scottish-American MIT professor of marine geochemistry and oceanography.
* Andy Farkas, 84, American footballer.
* Charles L. Freeman, 92, American sound editor and film editor.
* Michel Fribourg, 87, Belgian-American billionaire businessman.
* Derek Lambert, 71, English author.
* Nyree Dawn Porter, 65, New Zealand actress, leukemia.
* Richard Evans Schultes, 86, American ethnobotanist.
* Roger Vale, 58, Australian politician.

### 11

* Sandy Bull, 60, American folk musician and composer, lung cancer.
* John Harris, Baron Harris of Greenwich, 71, British political aide and politician (Chief Whip in the House of Lords from 1994 to 2001).
* Jerzy Krasówka, 76, Polish football player.
* Thaddeus McCarthy, 93, New Zealand jurist.
* Graciela Naranjo, 84, Venezuelan singer and actress.
* Carolyn R. Payton, 75, American director of the Peace Corps (1977-1978).
* Harry Secombe, 79, Welsh actor (The Goon Show, Oliver!, The Bed Sitting Room), prostate cancer.
* Jack Wilson, 83, American footballer.

### 12

* Harvey Ball, 79, American inventor of the smiley.
* Edmund W. Barker, 80, Singaporean politician and lawyer, colon surgery.
* Nelson Burbrink, 79, American baseball player, cancer.
* Wang Enmao, 88, Chinese lieutenant general and politician.
* Harry Hinkel, 97, American racewalker and Olympian.
* Reidar Hirsti, 76, Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour Party.
* Ljiljana Krstić, 81, Serbian actress.
* Shimshon Dovid Pincus, 57, American-Israeli orthodox rabbi, traffic collision.

### 13

* Mario David, 70, Argentine film director and screenwriter.
* Jimmy Logan, 73, Scottish comedian, actor, producer and director, cancer.
* Stephen C. O'Connell, 85, American jurist.
* Josephine Premice, 74, Haitian-American actress and singer.
* Ken Weston, 53, English sound engineer (Gladiator, Evita, Flash Gordon), Oscar winner (2001), kidney cancer.

### 14

* Jim Baxter, 61, Scottish football player, pancreatic cancer.
* Dorothee Metlitzki, 86, German-American author, professor of English and zionist.
* Haruo Minami, 77, Japanese enka singer and rōkyoku performer, prostate cancer.
* Bryan Ranft, 83, British historian.
* Ngan Shing-kwan, 98, Hong Kong transport and property tycoon.
* Hiroshi Teshigahara, 74, Japanese avant-garde filmmaker (Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another), leukemia.

### 15

* Donald Dorfman, 67, American mathematical psychologist and radiologist.
* Jack Elway, 69, American college football player and coach (Washington State, San Jose State, Stanford), heart attack.
* Joey Ramone, 49, American musician, lead singer for The Ramones, lymphoma.
* Bo Roberson, 65, American track and field athlete, football player and Olympian.
* John Verrall, 92, American composer of contemporary classical music.

### 16

* Emanuele Clarizio, 89, Italian prelate and diplomat of the Catholic Church.
* Giacomo Gentilomo, 92, Italian film director and painter.
* Horace Gwynne, 88, Canadian boxer and Olympic champion.
* Alfred Horn, 83, American mathematician.
* Paul Kuroda, 84, Japanese-American chemist and nuclear scientist.
* Peter Maag, 81, Swiss conductor.
* John R. McNamara, 73, American naval officer and bishop.
* Robert Osterloh, 82, American actor.
* Mohammad Rabbani, Afghani politician and one of the founders of the Taliban, liver cancer.
* Hank Riebe, 79, American baseball player.
* Michael Ritchie, 62, American film director (The Bad News Bears, Fletch, Downhill Racer), prostate cancer.
* Thomas H. Stix, 76, American physicist.
* Alec Stock, 84, English footballer and football manager.

### 17

* Merton Davies, 83, American astronomer and space exploration pioneer.
* John Ferraro, 76, American politician (Los Angeles City Council) and college football player (USC).
* Alfred M. Moen, 84, American inventor and founder of Moen Incorporated.
* Richard McGee Morse, 78, American Latin Americanist scholar and academic, Alzheimer's disease.
* Leonid Alfonsovich Ostrovski, 65, Soviet football player and manager.
* Terry Scully, 68, British theatre and television actor.
* Danica Seleskovitch, 79, French interpreter and academic writer.

### 18

* Khursheed Bano, 87, Indian singer and actress.
* Tony Bartley, 82, British film and television executive, and fighter pilot during World War II.
* Billy Mitchell, 74, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
* Robert Paparemborde, 52, French rugby player, pancreatic cancer.
* John Yonakor, 79, American football player.

### 19

* Lionel Abel, 90, American playwright ("Absalom"), essayist and theater critic.
* André du Bouchet, 77, French poet.
* Kurt Ott, 88, Swiss cyclist.
* Edith Picht-Axenfeld, 87, German pianist and harpsichordist.
* Egor Popov, 88, Russian-American civil engineer.
* Hal Haig Prieste, 104, Armenian-American athlete.
* Meldrim Thomson, Jr., 89, American politician, Governor of New Hampshire (1973–1979), Parkinson's disease.
* Pierre Versins, 78, French science fiction collector and scholar.

### 20

* Richard H. Austin, 87, American politician, Michigan Secretary of State (1971–1994), Alzheimer's disease.
* Steven Blaisse, 60, Dutch rower and Olympic silver medalist.
* Cino Cinelli, 85, Italian racing cyclist.
* Kenneth Colby, American psychiatrist and computer technology pioneer.
* David Gilbarg, 82, American professor emeritus of mathematics at Stanford University.
* Irène Joachim, 88, French soprano, and vocal teacher.
* Maria Karnilova, 80, American ballet dancer and actress (Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Fiddler on the Roof).
* Va'ai Kolone, 89, Prime Minister of Samoa.
* Maurice Lauré, 83, French civil servant.
* Avigdor Miller, 92, American Haredi rabbi and author.
* Giuseppe Sinopoli, 54, Italian conductor and composer, heart attack.
* Bert Sutcliffe, 77, New Zealand cricketer.

### 21

* Isaac Kobina Abban, 68, Ghanaian judge and Chief Justice.
* Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll, 63, British aristocrat.
* Claude Clark, 85, American painter and printmaker.
* Jack Haley Jr., 67, American film producer, director (That's Entertainment!) and documentarian.
* Edmund Malecki, 86, German international footballer.
* Ulla Poulsen Skou, 96, Danish ballerina and actress.
* Sandy Ullrich, 79, Cuban baseball player.
* Hal White, 82, American baseball player.

### 22

* Habis al-Majali, 87, Jordanian general and politician.
* John F. Allen, 92, Canadian physicist.
* Ike Cole, 73, American jazz pianist and composer, cancer.
* Trevor de Cleene, 68, New Zealand politician and lawyer, cancer.
* George R. Hill III, 79, American chemist, cancer.
* Fadil Hoxha, 85, Kosovar politician.
* Edward Muhl, 94, American motion picture executive.
* Heiko Oberman, 70, Dutch historian and theologian.
* Wesley C. Salmon, 75, American philosopher of science, car crash.
* Robert Starer, 77, Austrian-American composer, pianist and educator.

### 23

* Lennart Atterwall, 90, Swedish Olympic javelin thrower.
* Alfredo Gottardi, 86, Brazilian football player.
* Sir Charles Madden, 2nd Baronet, 94, British admiral.
* Electra Waggoner Biggs, 88, American heiress, socialite and sculptor.
* Guglielmo Biraghi, 73, Italian film critic and film festival director.
* Robert J. Huber, 78, American politician (U.S. Representative for Michigan's 18th congressional district from 1973 to 1975).
* R. A. C. Parker, 73, British historian.
* Jayant Shridhar Tilak, 79, Indian politician and newspaper editor.
* David M. Walker, 56, American astronaut, stroke.

### 24

* Hilda Cameron, 88, Canadian sprinter and Olympic medalist.
* Lindsay Daen, 78, New Zealand sculptor and artist.
* Al Hibbler, 85, American singer (Duke Ellington Orchestra).
* Shailesh Matiyani, 69, India hindi writer, poet and essayist.
* Peter Nugent, 63, Australian politician, heart attack.
* Josef Peters, 87, German racing driver.
* Leon Sullivan, 78, American civil rights leader, social activist and Baptist minister, leukemia.
* Paul Thieme, 96, German indologist.
* Johnny Valentine, 72, American professional wrestler.
* Li Yuqin, 72, Chinese noble and fourth wife of emperor Puyi, liver cirrhosis.

### 25

* Michele Alboreto, 44, Italian race car driver, car crash.
* Kow Nkensen Arkaah, 73, Ghanaian politician, Vice-President (1993–1997).
* Viktor Bannikov, 62, Soviet/Ukrainian football player and official.
* Chaya Devi, Indian film actress.
* Gwen Frostic, 94, American artist, entrepreneur and author.
* Majda Potokar, 71, Slovenian actress.

### 26

* Henry Boltinoff, 87, American cartoonist.
* Guy Butler, 83, South African poet, academic and writer.
* Ruth Hellberg, 94, German actress.
* Lili Massaferro, 74, Argentine actress and Montoneros militant, thrombophlebitis.
* Amrit Nahata, 72, Indian politician and film maker.
* André Pascal, 69, French songwriter and composer.
* Sverre Walter Rostoft, 88, Norwegian businessperson and politician.
* Rudolf Trenkel, 83, German fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II.
* Elisabeth Tschermak-Woess, 84, Austrian cytologist and phycologist.
* Renzo Vespignani, 77, Italian painter, engraver and writer.

### 27

* Charlie Applewhite, 68, American singer and radio host.
* Ernie Graham, 54, Northern Irish singer, guitarist and songwriter.
* Jack Murdock, 78, American actor (Rain Man, Altered States, Any Which Way You Can), emphysema.
* Piero Regnoli, 79, Italian screenwriter and film director.
* Richard M. Scammon, 85, American political scientist and author, Alzheimer's disease.
* John Winton, 69, British navy officer and writer.

### 28

* António Araújo, 77, Portuguese football player.
* Paul Daneman, 75, British actor (Not in Front of the Children, The Professionals, How I Won the War).
* Border Gezi, 36, Zimbabwean politician, traffic collision.
* Erica Green, 3, American child abuse victim, murdered.
* Ken Hughes, 79, English film director, writer and producer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang).
* Marie Jahoda, 94, Austrian-British social psychologist.
* Evelyn Künneke, 79, German singer and actress, lung cancer.
* Yoshio Okita, 98, Japanese Olympic track and field athlete.
* James Still, 94, American poet, novelist and folklorist.
* Guy Texereau, 65, French Olympic long-distance runner.
* Bako Touré, 61, Malian football player.

### 29

* Barend Biesheuvel, 81, Dutch politician, Prime Minister (1971-1973), cardiovascular disease.
* Diana Brebner, 44, Canadian poet.
* Babu Chiri Sherpa, 35, Nepalese sherpa mountaineer, fall when climbing Mount Everest.
* Dubai Millennium, 5, British thoroughbred racehorse, grass sickness.
* Walter Hannemann, 88, American film editor.
* Rita Hunter, 67, British operatic dramatic soprano.
* Andy Phillip, 79, American basketball player.
* Allan Sloane, 86, American writer for radio and television.
* Gordon Watson, 87, English football player.

### 30

* Andreas Kupfer, 86, German football player.
* Maladi, 88, Indonesian athlete, songwriter, and politician.
* Brian Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris, 70, British poet, academic and politician, leukemia.
* Frank Stewart, 94, American baseball player.