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

## August 2001
### 1

* Zuzana Chalupová, 76, Serbian/Yugoslavian naïve painter.
* Jay Chamberlain, 75, American racing driver.
* Dwight Eddleman, 78, American basketball player and Olympic athlete, heart ailment.
* Joe Lynch, 76, Irish actor.
* Begum Aizaz Rasul, 92, Indian politician.
* Robert Rimmer, 84, American writer.
* Korey Stringer, 27, American football player (Ohio State, Minnesota Vikings), complications following a heat stroke.
* Dan Towler, 73, American gridiron football player.
* Nicolae Tătaru, 69, Romanian football player.
* Charlie Ward, 89, English golfer.

### 2

* Mario Alesini, 69, Italian basketball player.
* Valerie Davies, 89, British Olympic swimmer, bronze medalist (1932).
* Edward Gardner, 89, British politician.
* Lawrence Minard, 51, American journalist and editor, heart attack.
* Ronald Townson, 68, American vocalist (The 5th Dimension), kidney failure.

### 3

* Franz-Josef Bach, 84, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
* Louis Chevalier, 90, French historian and academic.
* Christopher Hewett, 80, British actor (Mr. Belvedere, The Producers, Fantasy Island), diabetes.
* Hans Holt, 91, Austrian film actor.
* Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, 95, British politician and social reformer.
* Jeanne Loriod, 73, French musician, drowned.
* Mario Perazzolo, 90, Italian footballer.
* Eduardo Toba, 78, Spanish football manager.
* Lars Johan Werle, 75, Swedish composer.

### 4

* S. K. Bhatnagar, 71, Indian politician and diplomat.
* Claude Bloodgood, 64, American chess player and convicted murderer, cancer.
* Jack Maple, 48, American police officer and author, cancer.
* Lorenzo Music, 64, American voice actor (Garfield and Friends, The Real Ghostbusters) and television producer (The Bob Newhart Show), lung and bone cancer.
* Dan Zehr, 85, American swimmer and Olympian.

### 5

* Otema Allimadi, 72, Ugandan Foreign Minister (1979–1980) and Prime Minister of Uganda (1980–1985).
* Iskra Babich, 69, Soviet film director and screenwriter, cancer.
* Mykhailo Bilyi, 78, Soviet and Ukrainian politician.
* Miloš Bojović, 63, Serbian basketball player, sports journalist, and politician.
* Caro Crawford Brown, 93, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner.
* Roy Dikeman Chapin, Jr., 85, American business executive (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American Motors Corporation).
* Aaron Flahavan, 25, English football goalkeeper, car accident.
* Bahne Rabe, 37, German rower and Olympic champion, Olympic champion (1988), anorexia nervosa.
* Christopher Skase, 52, Australian businessman and fraudster, stomach cancer.

### 6

* Jorge Amado, 88, Brazilian writer, heart attack.
* Wina Born, 80, Dutch journalist and cooking books author.
* Adhar Kumar Chatterji, 86, Indian navy admiral.
* Robert Dunham, 70, American actor, writer, and racecar driver.
* Vasili Kuznetsov, 69, Russian decathlete.
* Kenneth MacDonald, 50, English actor, heart attack.
* Jim Mallory, 82, American baseball player and football coach.
* Wilhelm Mohnke, 90, German SS general during World War II.
* Ian Ousby, 54, British historian, author and editor, cancer.
* Alan Rafkin, 73, American film and television director (One Day at a Time, Coach, The Shakiest Gun in the West).
* Dorothy Tutin, 71, British actress (The Importance of Being Earnest, The Beggar's Opera, A Tale of Two Cities, The Shooting Party), leukemia.
* Duong Van Minh, 85, South Vietnamese politician and ARVN general.

### 7

* Larry Adler, 87, American harmonica player, pneumonia.
* Paul Averitt, 78, American soldier and Holocaust photographer.
* Dan Edwards, 75, American gridiron football player (1948–1957) and coach (1958–1961).
* Jack James, 80, American rocket engineer.
* Algirdas Lauritėnas, 68, Lithuanian basketball player.
* José Tomás, 66, Spanish classical guitarist and teacher.

### 8

* Patrick D. Wall (scientist), 76, British neuroscientist.
* Jean Dorst, 77, French ornithologist, former director of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.
* Harry Julian Fink, 78, American television and film writer.
* Jean-Louis Flandrin, 70, French historian.
* George Mann, 83, English cricket player.
* Maureen Reagan, 60, American political activist and daughter of Ronald Reagan, melanoma.
* Nora Sayre, 68, American film critic and essayist.
* Peter Sinclair, 62, New Zealand radio personality.
* Paul Vaessen, 39, English footballer, accidental drug overdose.
* Noud van Melis, 77, Dutch football player.

### 9

* Abe Bonnema, 74, Dutch architect.
* Humphry Bowen, 72, British botanist and chemist.
* Jacky Boxberger, French athlete, killed by an elephant.
* L. G. Dupree, 68, American gridiron football player, cancer.
* Elmer Knutson, 86, Canadian businessman, activist and politician.
* Alec Skempton, 87, British scientist.

### 10

* Lou Boudreau, 84, American baseball player and manager, seven-time All-Star and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
* Vladimir Bougrine, 63, Russian painter.
* Álvaro Carolino, 50, Portuguese football player and manager, pulmonary complications.
* Elsa Cavelti, 94, Swiss operatic contralto and mezzo-soprano.
* Jerry DeFuccio, 76, American comic book writer and editor.
* Manfred Eglin, 65, German footballer.
* Vasudeo S. Gaitonde, Indian painter.
* Gianfranco Miglio, 83, Italian jurist, political scientist and politician.
* Ramón Monzant, 68, Venezuelan baseball player.
* Dietrich Peltz, 87, German Luftwaffe bomber and Wehrmacht general during World War II.
* Werner Pirchner, 61, Austrian composer and jazz musician.
* Louis Purnell, 81, American curator at the National Air and Space Museum.
* Stanislav Rostotsky, 79, Soviet/Russian film director and screenwriter.
* Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, 63, Australian Indigenous artist.

### 11

* Paul Cunniffe, 40, British-Irish singer-songwriter, fall from balcony.
* Carlos Hank González, 73, Mexican politician and businessman.
* Edward Thomas Hall, 77, British scientist, known for exposing the Piltdown Man as a fraud.
* Bob Harris, 57, American jazz pianist and arranger, drug overdose.
* Isidoro Malmierca, 70, Cuban politician, lung cancer.
* Percy Stallard, 92, British racing cyclist.

### 12

* Irene Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever, 81, English noblewoman and philanthropist.
* Pierre Klossowski, 96, French writer, translator and artist.
* Julian Pitt-Rivers, 82, British social anthropologist and ethnographer.
* Walter Walker, 88, British army general.

### 13

* Manuel Alvar, 78, Spanish linguist, historian, and university professor.
* René Berthier, 89, French actor.
* Stephanus du Plessis, 71, South African Olympic discus thrower and shot putter.
* John C. Elliott, 82, American politician and 39th Governor of American Samoa.
* Jim Hughes, 78, American baseball player.
* Jimmy Knapp, 60, British trades unionist, cancer.
* Gabor Peterdi, 85, Hungarian-American painter and printmaker.
* Miguel Rodriguez Rodriguez, 70, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic] bishop.
* Richard Shorr, 58, American sound engineer (Die Hard, Predator, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles).
* Alan Skene, 68, South African rugby player.
* Otto Stuppacher, 54, Austrian race car driver.
* Antonio Zumel, 69, Filipino journalist, activist, and revolutionary.

### 14

* Earl Anthony, 63, American professional bowler, domestic accident.
* Oscar Janiger, 83, American experimental psychiatrist, known for his LSD research.
* Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins, 63, American child actor.
* Ridgway B. Knight, 90, American diplomat and ambassador.
* Pavel Schmidt, 71, Slovak rower and Olympic champion.

### 15

* Richard Chelimo, 29, Kenyan Olympic long-distance runner (silver medal winner of the men's 10,000 metres at the 1992 Summer Olympics), brain cancer.
* Sheldon Datz, 74, American chemist.
* Raymond Edward Johnson, 90, American radio and stage actor (Inner Sanctum Mysteries).
* Peter Mazur, 78, Austrian-Dutch physicist.
* Renato Panciera, 66, Italian sprinter.
* Jim Russell, 92, Australian cartoonist.
* Kateryna Yushchenko, 81, Ukrainian computer and information research scientist.
* Yavuz Çetin, 30, Turkish musician, suicide.

### 16

* Dave Barry, 82, American actor and comedian.
* Kenneth Reese Cole, Jr., 63, American political aide to Richard Nixon.
* Ruperto Donoso, 86, Chilean jockey.
* Fred Glover, 73, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings, Cleveland Barons) and coach (Oakland Seals, Los Angeles Kings).
* Anna Mani, 82, Indian physicist and meteorologist, stroke.
* Sizwe Motaung, 31, South African football player, AIDS-related complications.
* Floyd Spence, 73, American attorney and a politician, cerebral thrombosis.
* Sidney Tillim, 76, American artist and art critic.
* Klaus Wagner, 79, German equestrian and Olympic medalist.

### 17

* William G. Clark, 77, American politician and jurist.
* Josef Fried, 87, Polish-American organic chemist.
* Herman Goffberg, 80, American Olympic long-distance runner (men's 10,000 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
* Emil Gorovets, 78, Soviet and Ukrainian singer.
* Živko Nikolić, 59, Yugoslav and Montenegrin film director.
* Charles Palmer, 71, British martial artist.
* Flip Phillips, 86, American jazz tenor saxophone and clarinet player.

### 18

* Edmund Cambridge, 80, American actor and director, complications from a fall.
* Roland Cardon, 72, Belgian composer, music teacher, and multi-instrumentalist.
* Philip B. Crosby, 75, American businessman and author.
* Jack Elliott, 74, American film and television music composer (Charlie's Angels, Night Court, The Jerk).
* Hillel Kook, 86, Russian/American Revisionist Zionist activist and politician.
* David Peakall, 70, British environmental toxicologist and ornithologist.
* Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan, 88, Indian plant pathologist.
* Tom Watson, 69, Scottish actor.

### 19

* Betty Everett, 61, American soul singer and pianist ("The Shoop Shoop Song", "Let It Be Me").
* Felicisimo Fajardo, 87, Filipino basketball player.
* Junichiro Itani, 75, Japanese anthropologist and academic.
* Dean Roper, 62, American stock car racer, heart attack.
* Les Sealey, 43, English footballer, heart attack.
* Inder Singh, 57, Indian Olympic hockey player.
* Willy Vannitsen, 66, Belgian racing cyclist.
* Donald Woods, 67, South African journalist, newspaper editor, and anti-apartheid activist, cancer.

### 20

* Richard Cloward, 74, American sociologist and activist (National Voter Registration Act of 1993).
* Neal Colzie, 48, American gridiron football player (Oakland Raiders, Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), heart attack.
* Fred Hoyle, 86, British astronomer and science fiction writer, stroke.
* Akın Kuloğlu, 29, Georgian-Turkish boxer and Olympian, traffic collision.
* Walter Reed, 85, American stage, film and television actor.
* Sylvia Millecam, 45, Dutch actress and comedian, breast cancer.
* Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala, 85, Indian civil servant and diplomat.
* Eliezer Shostak, 89, Israeli politician.
* Kim Stanley, 76, American actress (Séance on a Wet Afternoon, The Right Stuff, Frances), Emmy winner (1963, 1985), uterine cancer.
* Rolla M. Tryon Jr., 84, American botanist.

### 21

* Beryl Cooke, 94, British actress.
* Pál Engel, 63, Hungarian historian.
* Steven Izenour, 61, American architect and author (Learning from Las Vegas).
* John Kerins, 39, Irish Gaelic footballer, cancer.
* Calum MacKay, 74, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Norman Rigby, 78, English footballer and manager.
* Juan Antonio Villacañas, 79, Spanish poet, essayist and critic.

### 22

* Johnny Anderson, 71, Scottish football player.
* Tatyana Averina, 51, Soviet Russian Olympic speed skater (won two gold medals and two bronze medals at the 1976 Winter Olympics), stomach cancer.
* Mauro Bicicli, 66, Italian football player and coach.
* Rose Edgcumbe, 67, British psychologist, psychoanalyst, and academic.
* Bernard Heuvelmans, 84, French scientist.
* Bobby Johnstone, 71, Scottish footballer (Hibernian, Manchester City, Oldham Athletic, Scotland).
* Spiro Koleka, 93, Albanian communist politician and statesman.
* Gita Luka, 79, Israeli actress, comedian and singer, stroke.
* Sharad Talwalkar, 82, Indian actor, heart attack.
* Varro Eugene Tyler, 74, American professor of pharmacognosy and philatelist.

### 23

* Eric Allendale, 65, British jazz musician.
* Howard Fletcher, 88, American college football player and head coach (Northern Illinois University).
* Frank Emilio Flynn, 80, Cuban pianist.
* Ray Frederick, 72, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks).
* Kathleen Freeman, 78, American actress (Wagon Train, North to Alaska, The Nutty Professor), lung cancer.
* Herbert Haag, 86, German-Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and biblical scholar (known for challenging the Vatican).
* Henriette Bie Lorentzen, 90, Norwegian journalist, peace activist, feminist, and publisher.
* Peter Maas, 72, American journalist and author (Serpico, The Valachi Papers).
* Fukukane Nikaidō, 78, Japanese economist.
* Manolita Saval, 87, Spanish actress and singer, thrombosis.

### 24

* George Benson, 82, American gridiron football player.
* Jane Greer, 76, American film and television actress (Out of the Past), cancer.
* Milan Kadlec, 42, Czechoslovakian Olympic pentathlete (team and individual modern pentathlon at the 1980 Summer Olympics and 1988 Summer Olympics), suicide by hanging.
* Roman Matsov, 84, Soviet and Estonian violinist, pianist, and conductor.
* Hank Sauer, 84, American baseball player (1952 Most Valuable Player) ("The Mayor of Wrigley Field").
* Raymond Wilding-White, 78, American composer.

### 25

* Aaliyah, 22, American alternative R&B singer (Are You That Somebody?, Try Again) and actress (Romeo Must Die, Queen of the Damned), plane crash.
* Madge Adam, 89, English astronomer.
* Mary Barnard, 91, American poet, biographer and translator.
* Carl Brewer, 62, Canadian ice hockey player.
* John Chambers, 78, American make-up artist and first civilian to receive the Intelligence Medal of Merit.
* Üzeyir Garih, 72, Turkish engineer, businessman, writer and investor.
* Diana Golden, 38, American disabled ski racer, cancer.
* Philippe Léotard, 60, French actor and singer, respiratory failure.
* Ginzō Matsuo, 50, Japanese voice actor, subarachnoid hemorrhage.
* John L. Nelson, 85, American jazz musician, songwriter and father of Prince.
* Asit Sen, 78, Bengali Indian film director, cinematographer and screenwriter.
* Ken Tyrrell, 75, British motor racing driver and team leader, pancreatic cancer.

### 26

* John Horn, 69, British tennis player.
* Louis Muhlstock, 97, Canadian painter.
* Marita Petersen, 60, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands and first female speaker of the House, cancer.
* Al Pittman, 61, Canadian poet and playwright.

### 27

* Cal Collins, 68, American jazz guitarist.
* Michalis Dertouzos, 64, Greek-American professor and computer scientist.
* John Joe Landers, 94, Irish Gaelic footballer.
* James D. Ford, 70, American clergyman, Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives (1979-2000), suicide by gunshot.
* Abu Ali Mustafa, 63, Palestinian leader and Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), airstrike.
* Juan Lechín Oquendo, 87, Bolivian politician, Vice President (1960–1964).
* Karl Ulrich Schnabel, 92, Austrian pianist.

### 28

* Bert Gardiner, 88, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins, New York Rangers).
* Käthe Grasegger, 84, German Olympic alpine skier (silver medal winner in women's combined alpine skiing at the 1936 Winter Olympics).
* David P. Harmon, 82, American scenarist and producer.
* Johan Frederik Holleman, 85, Dutch-South African ethnologist and legal scholar.
* Kenneth Maddocks, 94, British colonial official and Governor of Fiji (1958-1963).
* Lawrence B. Marcus, 84, American screenwriter.
* Juan Muñoz, 48, Spanish sculptor, cardiac arrest caused by an aneurysm.
* Serhiy Perkhun, 23, Ukrainian footballer, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Remy Presas, 64, Filipino martial artist and founder of Modern Arnis, brain cancer.
* Ernst Stettler, 80, Swiss racing cyclist.

### 29

* Harold Chestnut, 83, American electrical engineer at General Electric and author.
* Roger Daley, 58, British meteorologist.
* Victor Jörgensen, 77, Danish Olympic boxer (bronze medal winner in welterweight boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
* Manubhai Pancholi, 86, Indian novelist, author, and politician.
* Francisco Rabal, 75, Spanish actor, pulmonary emphysema.
* Dick Selma, 57, American baseball player, liver cancer.
* Graeme Strachan, 49, Australian singer (Skyhooks) and television presenter.
* Eric Tipton, 86, American baseball player.
* Sabahattin Özbek, 86, Turkish politician and academic.

### 30

* Juan Acuña, 78, Spanish football goalkeeper.
* Julie Bishop, 87, American actress (Sands of Iwo Jima, Princess O'Rourke, Northern Pursuit, The High and the Mighty), pneumonia.
* A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury, 86, 9th President of Bangladesh.
* Stan Harland, 61, English football player.
* Govan Mbeki, 91, South African politician, leader of the ANC and SACP.
* G. K. Moopanar, 70, Indian politician.
* Dilli Raman Regmi, 87, Nepali historian and politician.
* Kothamangalam Seenu, 91, Tamil actor and singer.
* Kwee Kiat Sek, 67, Indonesian football player.
* Agus Wirahadikusumah, 49, Indonesian military officer.

### 31

* Crash Davis, 82, American baseball player, stomach cancer.
* Julio Antonio Elícegui, 90, Spanish football player.
* Paul Hamlyn, 75, British publisher and philanthropist.
* Odd Steinar Holøs, 79, Norwegian politician.