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

## January 2001
### 1

* Madeleine Barbulée, 90, French actress.
* Sir Michael Hanley, 82, British intelligence officer, Director-General of MI5.
* Fabijan Šovagović, 68, Croatian actor and writer.
* John Steadman, 73, American sportswriter.
* Heriberto Urán, 46, Colombian racing cyclist.
* Ray Walston, 86, American actor (My Favorite Martian, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Picket Fences), Emmy winner (1995, 1996).

### 2

* Sir Ewart Bell, 76, Northern Irish rugby player and civil servant.
* George Carman, 71, English barrister, prostate cancer.
* William P. Rogers, 87, American politician, diplomat and lawyer, congestive heart failure.
* Alison de Vere, 73, British animator, director.
* Jimmy Zámbó, 42, Hungarian pop singer, accidental gunshot.

### 3

* George H. Brown, 87, British film producer.
* Kwang-chih Chang, 69–70, Taiwanese-American archaeologist and sinologist, Parkinson's disease.
* Jack Fleming, 77, American sports announcer (Pittsburgh Steelers, Chicago Bulls, West Virginia Mountaineers).
* Kung Fu, 49, Mexican Luchador, arterial hypertension.
* Marty Glickman, 83, American radio announcer.
* John F. Hayes, 85, American politician (Brooklyn Borough President).
* Sushila Nayyar, 86, Indian politician and physician.

### 4

* Alexandra Adler, 99, Austrian neurologist, daughter of psychoanalyst Alfred Adler.
* Les Brown, 88, American swing bandleader ("Sentimental Journey"), lung cancer.
* Pierre Leyris, 93, French translator.
* Tadeusz Olechowski, 74, Polish communist politician and diplomat.
* John Rhoden, 82, American sculptor.
* Perry Schwartz, 85, American gridiron football player.
* Bob Snyder, 87, American football player and coach.
* André Thirion, 93, French writer and political activist.
* Villaño I, 50, Mexican professional wrestler, heart attack following a cerebral haemorrhage.

### 5

* G. E. M. Anscombe, 81, British analytic philosopher.
* Milan Hlavsa, 49, Czech songwriter and bass guitarist (Plastic People of the Universe), lung cancer.
* Raj Kumar Mehra, 82, Indian racing cyclist and Olympian.
* Nancy Parsons, 58, American actress (Porky's), congestive heart failure.
* James Phiri, 32, Zambian footballer, cancer.
* Geoffrey Virgo, 82, Australian politician.

### 6

* Victor Braun, 65, Canadian baritone, Shy–Drager syndrome, multiple system atrophy.
* Nadezhda Grigoryevna Grekova, 90, Soviet/Belarusian politician.
* Peter Lovell-Davis, Baron Lovell-Davis, 76, British publisher and politician.
* Scott Marlowe, 68, American actor (Executive Suite, Murder, She Wrote), heart attack.
* Tom Poholsky, 71, American baseball player.
* Bob Pratt, 88, Australian rules footballer.
* Tot Pressnell, 94, American baseball player.
* Pretaap Radhakishun, 66, Surinamese politician.

### 7

* James Carr, 58, American rhythm and blues singer, lung cancer.
* Jenő Csaknády, 76, Hungarian football manager.
* Ken Durrett, 52, American basketball player (Cincinnati Royals / Kansas City-Omaha Kings, Philadelphia 76ers).
* Quin Epperly, 87, American racing car constructor.
* Charles Helou, 87, Lebanese politician, President (1964-1970), heart attack.
* František Hájek, 85, Czechoslovakian Olympic basketball player (men's basketball at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
* Johan van der Keuken, 62, Dutch documentary filmmaker, author, and photographer.
* Joseph L. Melnick, 86, American epidemiologist and virologist.
* Lowell Perry, 69, American gridiron football player and coach, businessman, and broadcaster.

### 8

* Philip A. Barker, 80, British archaeologist.
* Don Brodie, 96, American actor and director.
* Edwin Etherington, 76, American writer, lawyer, civil rights advocate, and president of the American Stock Exchange.
* Chris Evert, 30, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
* Alfred Neumann, 91, East German politician.
* Néstor Scotta, 52, Argentine football striker, car accident.
* Catherine Storr, 87, English children's writer, suicide.
* Paul Winterton, 92, English journalist and crime novelist.

### 9

* Paul Vanden Boeynants, 81, Belgian politician, Prime Minister (1978–1979), pneumonia.
* Peter Düttmann, 77, German World War II Luftwaffe flying ace.
* Judith Trim, 57, English studio potter, breast cancer.
* Carol Voges, 75, Dutch illustrator and comics artist.

### 10

* Necati Cumalı, 79, Turkish writer and poet, liver cancer.
* John Ditlev-Simonsen, 102, Norwegian sailor and Olympic silver medalist.
* Matthias Duan, 92, Chinese Roman Catholic bishop.
* Bryan Gregory, 49, American rock musician, heart failure.
* G. Lakshmanan, 76, Indian politician.
* Jacques Marin, 81, French actor, heart attack.
* John G. Schmitz, 70, American politician, prostate cancer.
* Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymin, 75, Saudi Salafi scholar.
* Esteban Vicente, 97, American painter.

### 11

* Wanda Jean Allen, 41, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Ken Brown, 55, American professional football player (Cleveland Browns: 1970–1975).
* Emilio Foriscot, 96, Spanish cinematographer.
* Gerald Glatzmayer, 32, Austrian football player, traffic collision.
* Oliver Gurney, 89, British Assyriologist.
* James Hill, 84, American film producer and screenwriter.
* Dorothy M. Horstmann, 89, American epidemiologist, virologist and pediatrician, Alzheimer's disease.
* Álvaro Jordan, 39, Colombian tennis player, severe shock.
* Louis Krages, 51, German racing driver and businessman, suicide by gunshot.
* Denys Lasdun, 86, British architect.
* Ignacy Machowski, 80, Polish actor.
* Claude V. Palisca, 79, American musicologist.
* Victor Pickard, 97, Canadian track and field athlete and Olympian.
* Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia, 94, Russian noblewoman and monarchist.
* Lorna Sage, 57, British literary critic and writer, pulmonary emphysema.
* Michael Williams, 65, British actor, lung cancer.

### 12

* Affirmed, 25, American racehorse, euthanasia after contracting laminitis.
* Gianluigi Bonelli, 92, Italian comic book author and publisher.
* Luiz Bonfá, 78, Brazilian guitarist and composer, prostate cancer.
* József Csermák, 68, Hungarian hammer thrower and Olympic champion.
* Adhemar da Silva, 73, Brazilian triple jumper and Olympic champion.
* William Redington Hewlett, 87, American co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, heart failure.
* Mariano Juaristi, 96, Spanish Basque pelota player.
* Vladimir Semichastny, 76, Soviet politician, stroke.
* Elizabeth Sewell, 81, British-American critic, poet, and novelist.
* Ibnu Sutowo, 86, Indonesian army officer, politician and businessman.
* Charles Malcolm Watkins, 89, American historian, archaeologist, and curator.

### 13

* Michael Cuccione, 16, Canadian actor and musician, respiratory failure.
* Bill Fraser, 76, New Zealand politician.
* Stan Freeman, 80, American musician, pulmonary emphysema.
* Amando de Ossorio Rodríguez, 82, Spanish film director.

### 14

* Luigi Broglio, 89, Italian aerospace engineer.
* Jim Coleman, 89, Canadian sports journalist and writer.
* Dennis Fitzgerald, 64, American freestyle wrestler and football player and coach.
* Burkhard Heim, 75, German theoretical physicist.
* George McCabe, 78, English football referee.
* Kostas Rigopoulos, 70, Greek actor, stroke.
* Vic Wilson, 69, British racing driver, traffic collision.
* Joe Zapustas, 93, Latvian-American baseball player.

### 15

* Alex Blignaut, 68, South African racing driver and racing team owner, domestic accident.
* Bob Braun, 71, American local television personality and actor (Die Hard 2, Defending Your Life).
* Bert Corona, 82, American labor and civil rights leader.
* David Lapsley, 76, Scottish footballer.
* Ted Mann, 84, American businessman (Mann Theatres) and film producer (Brubaker, Krull).
* Leo Marks, 80, British World War II cryptographer, cancer.
* Margit Nagy-Sándor, 79, Hungarian gymnast and Olympic silver medalist.
* Kaija Siren, 80, Finnish architect.
* Riaz ud-Din, 58, Pakistani field hockey player and Olympic champion.

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* Laurent-Désiré Kabila, 61, Congolese politician and President, shot.
* Richard MacNeish, 82, American archaeologist.
* Melvin McQuaid, 89, Canadian politician.
* Virginia O'Brien, 81, American actress (Lady Be Good, Ship Ahoy, Ziegfeld Follies).
* Wanda Piłsudska, 82, Polish psychiatrist.
* Jitendra Prasada, 62, Indian politician and Vice-President of the Indian National Congress, cerebral haemorrhage.
* Ibrahim Shams, 84, Egyptian weightlifter and Olympic champion.
* Jules Vuillemin, 80, French philosopher.
* Auberon Waugh, 61, British journalist and author, heart failure.
* Leonard Woodcock, 89, American trade unionist and diplomat (U.S. ambassador to the People's Republic of China).

### 17

* Gregory Corso, 70, American poet (Beat Generation), prostate cancer.
* Homero Cárpena, 90, Argentine film actor.
* John B. Hayes, 76, American coast guard admiral, traffic collision.
* Tom Kilburn, 79, British computer scientist.
* Sergej Kraigher, 86, Yugoslav politician, President of Slovenia.
* Robert Robertson, 70, British actor (Taggart, Breaking the Waves, Doctor Who), heart failure.
* Rito Romero, 73, Mexican professional wrestler, heart attack.
* Wakabayama Sadao, 78, Japanese sumo wrestler, cerebral thrombosis.
* Norris Turney, 79, American jazz flautist and saxophonist, kidney failure.
* Sigurd Vestad, 93, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympian.

### 18

* Mordechai Gifter, 85, American orthodox rabbi.
* Peter Haigh, 75, English BBC Television announcer.
* Abdul Rahim Ishak, 75, Singaporean politician and journalist.
* Morris Lapidus, 98, Russian-American architect, heart failure.
* Evald Mahl, 85, Estonian basketball player and Olympian.
* Reg Prentice, Baron Prentice, 77, British politician and government minister.
* Imre Sinkovits, 72, Hungarian actor.
* Boris Stenin, 66, Soviet speed skater and speed skating coach.
* Al Waxman, 65, Canadian actor (King of Kensington, Cagney & Lacey, Atlantic City).

### 19

* Johnny Babich, 87, American baseball player.
* Alberto Gallardo, 60, Peruvian football player and manager.
* Maxine Mesinger, 75, American newspaper columnist (Houston Chronicle), complications of multiple sclerosis.
* Paul Olum, 82, American mathematician.
* Harry Oster, 77, American folklorist and musicologist.
* Mubarak Shah, 70, Pakistani long-distance runner and Olympian.
* Gustave Thibon, 97, French philosopher and author.

### 20

* Rønnaug Alten, 90, Norwegian actress and stage instructor.
* Nico Assumpção, 46, Brazilian bass player, cancer.
* Eddie Donovan, 78, American professional basketball coach and executive (New York Knicks).
* Beverley Peck Johnson, 96, American voice teacher, soprano, and pianist.
* Crispin Nash-Williams, 68, British mathematician.

### 21

* Sasidharan Arattuvazhi, 45, Indian playwright and screenwriter, cirrhosis.
* Sandy Baron, 64, American stand-up comic, actor (Seinfeld) and songwriter, emphysema.
* Pier Giorgio Cazzola, 63, Italian sprinter and Olympian.
* Byron De La Beckwith, 80, American white supremacist and klansman, cardiovascular disease.
* Joseph O'Conor, 84, Irish actor and playwright.
* Ricardo Castro Ríos, 80, Spanish-Argentine film actor.
* Nedžad Verlašević, 45, Yugoslav and Bosnian football manager and player, heart attack.

### 22

* Tommie Agee, 58, American baseball player, heart attack.
* Tuomas Anhava, 73, Finnish writer.
* Roy Brown, 68, American television personality, puppeteer and clown (The Bozo Show).
* Anne Burns, 85, British aeronautical engineer and glider pilot.
* Sir Alistair Grant, 63, British businessman.

### 23

* Umar Mustafa al-Muntasir, 62, Libyan politician, Prime Minister.
* Albert David Baumhart, Jr., 92, American politician.
* Vladimir Belyayev, 67, Soviet football player.
* Clayton Fritchey, 96, American journalist.
* Heinz Hopf, 66, Swedish actor, laryngeal cancer.
* Lou Levy, 72, American jazz pianist, heart attack.
* Jack McDuff, 74, American jazz organist, heart failure.
* Nedko Nedev, 80, Bulgarian football player.
* Fred Ray, 80, American comic book artist (Superman, Tomahawk).
* Mikael Sundström, 43, Finnish rally driver.
* Moy Yat, 62, Hong Kong martial artist, painter, and author.

### 24

* Steve Dowden, 71, American gridiron football player (Baylor University, Green Bay Packers).
* Frans Pauwels, 82, Dutch racing cyclist.
* Leif Thybo, 78, Danish organist and composer.
* Osman Türkay, 73, Turkish Cypriot poet.
* Dick Whittinghill, 87, American film and television actor, and radio DJ.

### 25

* Alice Ambrose, 94, American philosopher, logician, and author.
* John T. Biggers, 76, American muralist.
* Aleksandr Chudakov, 79, Soviet and Russian physicist.
* Ashraf Fahmy, 64, Egyptian film director.
* Vijayaraje Scindia, 81, Indian politician.
* Margaret Scriven, 88, British tennis player.
* Guy Tréjan, 79, French actor.
* Dare Wright, 86, Canadian–American children's author, model, and photographer, respiratory failure.

### 26

* Murray Edelman, 81, American political scientist.
* Al McGuire, 72, American college basketball coach (Marquette University) and television commentator, leukemia.
* Valentino Orsini, 74, Italian film director.
* Fanula Papazoglu, 83, Yugoslav and Serbian classical scholar and epigrapher.

### 27

* Queen Marie-José of Belgium, 94, Italian royal and last queen of Italy, lung cancer.
* Pedro Carrasco, 57, Spanish boxer, heart attack.
* Tommy Luther, 92, American horse racing jockey.
* André Prévost, 66, Canadian music composer and instructor (Order of Canada).
* Robert Alexander Rankin, 85, Scottish mathematician.
* Cal Strong, 93, American water polo player.

### 28

* Curt Blefary, 57, American baseball player, pancreatitis.
* Jill-Lyn Euto, 18, American murder victim.
* Al Fiorentino, 83, American professional football player (Washington Redskins, Boston Yanks).
* Ellen Hammer, 79, American historian.
* Stephen Malcolm, 30, Jamaican international football player, car accident.
* Sally Mansfield, 77, American actress (Rocky Jones, Space Ranger), lung cancer.
* Ranko Marinković, 87, Croatian novelist and dramatist.
* Thikkodiyan, 84, Indian playwright, novelist and lyricist.

### 29

* Frances Bible, 82, American operatic mezzo-soprano (New York City Opera).
* Julia Bodmer, 66, British geneticist.
* Edmund Fuller, 86, American educator, novelist, historian, and literary critic.
* Pablo Hernán, 23, Argentine football player, traffic accident.
* Thomas C. Lea III, 93, American muralist, illustrator, novelist, and historian.
* Pierre Roche, 81, French-Canadian pianist, singer and composer.
* Ninian Smart, 73, Scottish religious scholar.
* Max Weiler, 90, Austrian painter.

### 30

* Jean-Pierre Aumont, 90, French actor, heart attack.
* Jean Coulston, 66, New Zealand cricket player.
* Edmund Fetting, 73, Polish film and theatrical actor and singer.
* David Heneker, 94, British composer and lyricist (Irma La Douce, Half a Sixpence, Charlie Girl).
* Job Dean Jessop, 74, American thoroughbred racing jockey.
* Johnnie Johnson, 85, British World War II fighter ace.
* O. Winston Link, 86, American photographer.
* Rodolfo Morales, 75, Mexican painter, pancreatic cancer.
* Michel Marcel Navratil, 92, French philosophy professor.
* John Prebble, 85, British journalist and historian.
* Joseph Ransohoff, 85, American neurosurgeon.
* Hartmut Reck, 68, German television and film actor.
* John Taylor, 86, British Anglican bishop.

### 31

* Renaat Braem, 90, Belgian architect and urban planner.
* Gordon R. Dickson, 77, American science fiction writer, asthma.
* Albin Nyamoya, 76, Burundian politician, Prime Minister.
* Heinz Starke, 89, German politician.