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

## February 2001
### 1

* Vinnie Burke, 79, American jazz bassist.
* Nikolay Devyatkov, 93, Soviet and Russian scientist and inventor.
* Sam Harshaney, 90, American baseball player.
* Harry How, 81, Canadian politician.
* John Jarrard, 47, American country music songwriter, respiratory failure.
* Amryl Johnson, 56, Trinidadian poet and writer.
* Harold Maguire, 88, British air marshal and Director-General of Intelligence.
* Rafael Lapesa Melgar, 92, Spanish philologist and literature historian.
* John Pierrakos, 79, Greek-American physician and psychiatrist.
* Leslie Vincent, 91, American actor (Forever Amber, Destry Rides Again, Paris Underground).

### 2

* June Lazenby Green, 87, American district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
* Carol Anne Letheren, 58, Canadian Olympic Association official, brain aneurysm.
* Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer, 75, French classical pianist.
* Freddy Wittop, 89, Dutch costume designer (winner of Tony Award for Best Costume Design for Hello Dolly!).

### 3

* Helmut Gude, 75, German Olympic middle-distance runner (men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
* Frederick Lawton, 89, British judge.
* Teiichi Nishi, 93, Japanese sprinter and Olympian.
* Gerald Suster, 49, British revisionist historian, occult writer, and novelist.

### 4

* Wilhelm Altvater, 80, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
* Sonia Arova, 73, Bulgarian ballerina, pancreatic cancer.
* Jean Ausseil, 75, Monegasque politician, Minister of State (1985 and 1991).
* David Beattie, 76, New Zealand jurist and Governor-General.
* Barry Cockcroft, 68, British television documentary director and filmmaker (Too Long a Winter).
* Alyaksandar Dubko, 63, Belarusian politician.
* Larry Fisher, 93, American real estate developer and philanthropist.
* J. J. Johnson, 77, American jazz trombonist, suicide by gunshot.
* Raimo Kangro, 51, Estonian composer.
* Alois Lipburger, 44, Austrian ski jumper, traffic collision.
* Dragan Maksimović, 51, Serbian actor, beaten.
* Allan Mansley, 54, English football player, heart attack.
* Ernie McCoy, 79, American racecar driver.
* Natalia Melmann, 15, Argentinian murder victim.
* Pankaj Roy, 72, Indian cricketer.
* Tony Steedman, 73, English actor.
* Iannis Xenakis, 78, Greek-French composer.

### 5

* Jean Davy, 89, French actor.
* Mark Joseph Hurley, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate, aneurysm.
* David Iftody, 44, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons for Provencher, Manitoba), snowmobile accident.
* Elsa Irigoyen, 81, Argentine Olympic fencer (women's fencing foil at the 1948 Summer Olympics and the 1952 Summer Olympics).
* Jack Shapiro, 93, American gridiron football player.
* Fernando Viola, 49, Italian football player, traffic collision.
* Jean Denton, Baroness Denton of Wakefield, 65, British politician and racing driver.
* Inna Zubkovskaya, 77, Russian ballerina.

### 6

* Geoffrey Bibby, 83, English-Danish archaeologist.
* Kojo Botsio, 84, Ghanaian diplomat and politician.
* Gus Boulis, 51, Greek-born American businessman and murder victim, homicide.
* Fulgence Charpentier, 103, French Canadian journalist, editor and publisher, pneumonia.
* Stephen Halaiko, 92, American Olympic boxer (silver medal winner in lightweight boxing at the 1928 Summer Olympics).
* Agha Hilaly, 90, Pakistani diplomat.
* Arthur W. Hummel, 80, American diplomat.
* Jack Hyles, 74, American Baptist megachurch pastor, heart failure.
* Filemon Lagman, 47, Filipino revolutionary socialist and workers' leader, homicide.
* Folke Lind, 87, Swedish football player.
* R. W. Southern, 88, British medieval historian.
* Charles Tran Van Lam, 87, South Vietnamese diplomat and politician.
* Emily Vermeule, 72, American classical scholar and archaeologist, heart disease.

### 7

* Jean-Paul Beugnot, 69, French basketball player and coach.
* Marianne Breslauer, 91, German photographer and photojournalist.
* Dieter Dengler, 62, German-American aviator and Vietnam War prisoner-of-war escapee (Little Dieter Needs to Fly), suicide by gunshot.
* Dale Evans, 88, American actress, singer and wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers, heart failure.
* Michael Grylls, 66, British politician.
* Helmut Hentrich, 95, German architect.
* Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 94, American author, aviator, and wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh, stroke, pneumonia.
* Stanley Lingar, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* King Moody, 71, American actor (Get Smart) and comedian.

### 8

* Ivo Caprino, 80, Norwegian film director and writer, cancer.
* Roger Delage, 78, French musicologist and conductor.
* Leslie Edwards, 84, British ballet dancer.
* Arlene Eisenberg, 66, American family and parenting writer (What to Expect When You're Expecting), breast cancer.
* Walter Generati, 87, Italian road bicycle racer.
* Pauline Koner, 88, American dancer and choreographer.
* Chen Lifu, 100, Chinese politician and anti-communist of the Republic of China.
* Muboraksho Mirzoshoyev, 39, Tajikistani musician and Tajik rock music pioneer, tuberculosis.
* Brian Nissen, 73, British actor and television announcer.
* Rousas John Rushdoony, 84, American historian, theologian and father of Christian Reconstructionism.

### 9

* Agustín Cárdenas, 73, Cuban sculptor.
* Vicente Dauder, 76, Spanish football goalkeeper and manager.
* William Epstein, 88, Canadian civil servant and United Nations disarmament official.
* Leonard Mandel, 73, American physicist.
* Reginald Marsh, 74, English actor.
* Gunnar Seidenfaden, 92, Danish diplomat and botanist].
* Herbert Simon, 84, American economist (Nobel Prize in Economics, Turing Award).
* Dilbagh Singh, 74, Indian air marshal.

### 10

* Ramzan Akhmadov, 31, Chechen general, killed in action.
* Lewis Arquette, 65, American actor (The Waltons, Tango & Cash, Scream 2), heart failure.
* Abraham Beame, 94, American politician, 104th Mayor of New York City (1974–1977).
* Kenneth E. BeLieu, 87, American government official.
* Helge Bengtsson, 84, Swedish football player.
* K. Thavamani Devi, Sri Lankan actress.
* Niccolò Galli, 17, Italian promising footballer, traffic accident.
* Johnny Hatley, 70, American football player (Chicago Bears, Chicago Cardinals, Denver Broncos), coach, executive, and rodeo performer.
* Mogubai Kurdikar, 96, Indian classical vocalist.
* Robert H. Lounsberry, 82, American politician.
* Miné Okubo, 88, American artist and writer.
* Buddy Tate, 87, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (Count Basie Orchestra).

### 11

* José Luis Borbolla, 81, Mexican footballer.
* Edward E. Fitzgerald, 81, American sports author and editor (Book of the Month Club).
* Sy Gomberg, 82, American screenwriter (When Willie Comes Marching Home), heart attack.
* Olle Håkansson, 73, Swedish football player.
* Jaiganesh, Indian Tamil film actor, cancer.
* Raymond Lewis, 48, American basketball and streetball player, complications following leg amputation.
* Masao Ono, 77, Japanese football player.
* Charles C. Price, 87, American chemist.
* Jordan Lovett, 19, ARCA race car driver.
* Donald Sellers, 26, American gridiron football player, traffic accident.
* Judita Vaičiūnaitė, 63, Lithuanian writer.
* Maurice Zermatten, 90, French-speaking Swiss writer.

### 12

* Bhakti Barve, 52, Indian actress, traffic collision.
* Rosalie Gwathmey, 92, American painter and photographer.
* Tiberio Mitri, 74, Italian boxer, railway accident.
* Franco Pedroni, 74, Italian football player and manager.
* Herbert Robbins, 86, American mathematician, statistician and co-author of What is Mathematics?.
* Ralph Smart, 92, Australian film and television producer.
* Kristina Söderbaum, 88, Swedish-German film actress, producer and photographer.

### 13

* Ugo Fano, 88, Italian-American physicist, Alzheimer's disease.
* Manuela, 57, German singer, cancer.
* Moses Taiwa Molelekwa, 27, South African jazz pianist, murdered.
* George T. Simon, 88, American jazz writer and drummer.
* Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington, 83, British politician.
* Owen Torrey, 75, American sailor and Olympic medalist.
* Victor Veysey, 85, American politician.

### 14

* Charles B. Fitzsimons, 76, Irish-American actor, film producer and director, liver disease.
* Guy Grosso, 67, French actor and humorist.
* Richard Laymon, 54, American horror author, heart attack.
* Maurice Levitas, 84, Irish-born British sociologist.
* Alan Ross, 78, Indian-British poet and editor.
* Ploutis Servas, 93, Cypriot politician, journalist, and author.
* Piero Umiliani, 74, Italian composer of film scores.
* Helmut Wielandt, 90, German mathematician.
* Jim Winkler, 73, American football player.

### 15

* Boris Goldovsky, 92, Russian-American conductor and broadcaster.
* Dulal Guha, 72, Indian film director of Bollywood films in the 1960s and '70s.
* Burt Kennedy, 78, American screenwriter and director (The War Wagon, Support Your Local Sheriff!, The Virginian, Combat!).
* Ken Kiff, 65, English figurative artist.
* Ricardo Otxoa, 26, Spanish cyclist, bicycle accident.
* Edwin Plowden, Baron Plowden of Plowden, 94, British industrialist and public servant.
* Folke K. Skoog, 92, Swedish-American plant physiologist.

### 16

* Ali Artuner, 56, Turkish footballer.
* Bob Buhl, 72, American baseball player.
* Jerry Frei, 76, American football player (Wisconsin) and coach (Oregon, Denver Broncos, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Chicago Bears).
* Howard W. Koch, 84, American film and television director and producer (The Manchurian Candidate, Maverick), Alzheimer's disease.
* William H. Masters, 85, American gynaecologist (Masters and Johnson), Parkinson's disease.
* Bobby Scarr, 74, Canadian basketball player.
* Helen Vita, 72, Swiss chanson singer, actress, and comedian, cancer.

### 17

* Debbie Dean, 73, American singer.
* Gilly Flower, 92, English actress and model.
* Bob Geary, 67, Canadian football player and manager in the Canadian Football League (CFL).
* Juan Liscano, 86, Venezuelan poet, folklorist, writer and critic.
* Matild Manukyan, 87, Turkish businesswoman of Armenian descent.
* Khalid Abdul Muhammad, 53, American black nationalist leader (Nation of Islam, New Black Panther Party), brain aneurysm.
* John Sutherland, 90, American film producer.
* Richard Wurmbrand, 91, Romanian Lutheran priest and academic.
* Zvonimir Červenko, 74, Croatian general.

### 18

* Balthus, 92, French painter.
* Roger A. Caras, 72, American wildlife photographer, writer, and television personality, heart attack.
* Sir Colin Cole, 78, British officer of arms.
* Claude Davey, 92, Welsh rugby union player.
* Dale Earnhardt, 49, American NASCAR race car driver, racing accident.
* Francisco Espinosa, 53, Argentine racing driver.
* Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr., 89, American journalist and author (Cheaper by the Dozen, Belles on Their Toes).
* Franso Hariri, 64, Iraqi Kurdish politician.
* Eddie Mathews, 69, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, pneumonia.
* Georgi Minchev, 57, Bulgarian rock musician and TV presenter, cancer.
* Panos Papadopulos, 80, German-Greek actor 1920-2001.
* Butch Wensloff, 85, American baseball player.

### 19

* Theophilus Beckford, 65, Jamaican pianist and vocalist.
* Stanley Kramer, 87, American film director and producer (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Defiant Ones, Judgment at Nuremberg), pneumonia.
* Guy Rodgers, 65, American basketball player, heart attack.
* Roland Stoltz, 69, Swedish ice hockey player.
* Charles Trenet, 87, French singer-songwriter, stroke.

### 20

* Harry Boykoff, 78, American basketball player, lung cancer.
* Irina Bugrimova, 90, Russian lion tamer, heart attack.
* Rob Dawber, 45, British railwayman and writer (The Navigators), lung cancer caused by asbestos.
* Rosemary DeCamp, 90, American actress (Yankee Doodle Dandy, That Girl), pneumonia.
* Indrajit Gupta, 81, Indian politician.
* Donella Meadows, 59, American environmental scientist, and writer, cerebral meningitis.
* Yogi Ramsuratkumar, 82, Indian saint and mystic.
* Bill Rigney, 83, American baseball player and manager.
* Nam Sung-yong, 88, Korean long-distance runner and Olympic medalist.
* Bob Weiskopf, 86, American screenwriter and producer for television.

### 21

* John MacKay, Baron MacKay of Ardbrecknish, 62, British politician.
* Alfred Embarrato, 91, American mobster (Bonanno crime family).
* Ileana Espinel, 67, Ecuadorian journalist, poet and writer.
* Ronnie Hilton, 75, English singer ("No Other Love", "A Windmill in Old Amsterdam") and radio presenter (Sounds of the Fifties).
* Desmond Leslie, 79, British pilot, film maker, writer, and musician, pulmonary emphysema.
* José Lebrún Moratinos, 81, Venezuelan Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Caracas.
* Fido Purpur, 86, American ice hockey player.
* Philip Sandblom, 97, Swedish academic and sailor.
* Malcolm Yelvington, 82, American rockabilly and country musician.

### 22

* Dennis Cox, 75, British cricketer.
* John Fahey, 61, American guitarist and composer.
* Radie Harris, 96, American journalist and newspaper columnist (The Hollywood Reporter).
* Evelyn Holt, 92, German actress.
* Les Medley, 80, England international footballer.
* Christopher Mitchell, 53, British actor, liver cancer.
* Michel Oksenberg, 62, Belgian-American political scientist and China watcher, cancer.
* Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos, 84, British politician.
* André Pieters, 78, Belgian racing cyclist.
* Lloyd Roberts, 38, American musician, homicide.

### 23

* Robert Enrico, 69, French film director and screenwriter, lung cancer.
* Anthony Giacalone, 82, American organized crime figure in Detroit.
* Sergio Mantovani, 71, Italian racing driver.
* Caupolicán Ovalles, 64, Venezuelan avant-garde writer.
* Dame Ruth Railton, 85, British music director and conductor.
* Guy Wood, 89, English musician and songwriter.
* Tincho Zabala, 78, Uruguayan actor.

### 24

* Phil Collier, 75, American sportswriter (1990 winner of J. G. Taylor Spink Award), prostate cancer.
* Charles Fletcher-Cooke, 86, British politician.
* Hans Holtedahl, 83, Norwegian geologist.
* Andy Mulligan, 65, Irish rugby player.
* Claude Shannon, 84, American electrical engineer and mathematician, Alzheimer's disease.

### 25

* Archie Randolph Ammons, 75, American poet and professor of English.
* Édouard Artigas, 94, French fencer and Olympic champion.
* Nuhu Bamalli, 84, Nigerian politician.
* Helen Bennett, 89, American actress.
* Don Bradman, 92, Australian cricketer, pneumonia.
* Norbert Glanzberg, 90, French composer.
* Giovanni Grimaldi, 84, Italian screenwriter, journalist and film director.
* Bitsy Mott, 82, American baseball player.
* Sigurd Raschèr, 93, German-American saxophonist.
* John J. Tammaro Jr., 75, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer.
* L. R. Wright, 61, Canadian writer and novelist, breast cancer.

### 26

* Dragoslav Avramović, 81, Serbian economist.
* Georg Brauer, 92, German chemist.
* Leif Haugen, 83, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier (men's 50 kilometre cross-country skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics).
* Frances Lincoln, 55, English independent publisher, pneumonia.
* Dee Mackey, 66, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
* Duke Nalon, 87, American racing driver.
* Arturo Uslar Pietri, 94, Venezuelan writer, television producer and politician, heart attack.
* Yaakov Rechter, 76, Israeli architect.
* Jean-Louis Ricci, 57, French racing driver.
* Jale İnan, 87, Turkish archaeologist.

### 27

* Milton Barnes, 69, Canadian composer, conductor, and jazz drummer, heart attack.
* Ralf D. Bode, 59, German-American cinematographer (Coal Miner's Daughter, Saturday Night Fever, Uncle Buck), lung cancer.
* José García Nieto, 86, Spanish poet and writer.
* Doyle Schick, 62, American gridiron football player.
* Selwyn Toogood, 84, New Zealand radio and television personality.

### 28

* Stan Cullis, 84, British footballer and manager.
* Gildas Molgat, 74, Canadian politician.
* Raúl Planas, 80, Cuban singer and songwriter.
* Charles Pozzi, 91, French racing driver.
* K Sankunni, Indian film editor.