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

## October 2001
### 1

* Guy Beaulne, 79, French-Canadian actor and theatre director.
* Lee Cronbach, 85, American educational psychologist.
* Surendranath Dwivedy, 88, Indian politician, journalist and social worker.
* Kenny Greene, 32, American singer-songwriter, AIDS.
* Gloria Hemingway, 69, American physician and daughter of Ernest Hemingway, hypertension and cardiovascular disease.
* Mickey Trotman, 26, Trinidad and Tobago football player, traffic collision.

### 2

* Manny Albam, 79, American jazz baritone saxophone player, composer, and producer.
* Franz Biebl, 95, German classical music composer.
* Donald J. Cohen, 61, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, melanoma.
* Fernando Mendes, 55, Portuguese cyclist, traffic accident.

### 3

* Alfie Almario, 38, Filipino basketball player, heart attack.
* Pat Ast, 59, American actress and model.
* Ricky Belmonte, 54, Filipino actor, stroke.
* Kostas Chatzichristos, 80, Greek actor, cancer.
* Homer Elias, 46, American gridiron football player (Detroit Lions), heart attack.
* Alessandro Fersen, 89, Polish-Italian dramatist, actor, and theater director.
* Phillip Goldson, 78, Belizean newspaper editor, activist and politician.
* Tullio Pane, 71, Italian singer.
* Gregorio Peralta, 66, Argentine boxer.

### 4

* Blaise Alexander, 25, American race car driver, racing crash.
* Irmgard Farden Aluli, 90, Hawaiian composer.
* George Claydon, 68, British actor and mascot of the England Football Team in 1966.
* John Collins, 88, American jazz guitarist, cancer.
* Arthur Daniels, 79, Welsh rugby league player.
* Al Ham, 76, American composer and jingle writer.
* Antonín Máša, 66, Czech film director and screenwriter.
* Ahron Soloveichik, 84, American torah scholar and rabbi.

### 5

* Peter Burge, 69, Australian cricketer.
* Jim Cain, 74, American gridiron football player.
* Clyde L. Choate, 81, American politician and decorated soldier.
* Brian Edgar, 65, British rugby league player.
* Woody Jensen, 94, American baseball player.
* Jan Lenica, 73, Polish graphic designer and cartoonist.
* Mike Mansfield, 98, American politician and diplomat (U.S. Representative from Montana, U.S. Senator from Montana, Senate Majority Leader).
* Egbert van 't Oever, 74, Dutch speed skater, colon cancer.
* Emilie Schindler, 93, German wife of Oskar Schindler who helped save the lives of 1,200 Jews during World War II.
* Zoltán Székely, 97, Hungarian violinist and composer.

### 6

* Jacqueline Babbin, 75, American television and theatre writer and producer, cancer.
* Miguel del Toro, 29, Mexican baseball player, traffic collision.
* Axel Düberg, 73, Swedish film actor.
* Arne Harris, 67, American television producer-director (WGN-TV broadcasts of Chicago Cubs).
* Yuriy Meshcheryakov, 55, Soviet and Ukrainian animator.
* Milton A. Rothman, 81, American nuclear physicist, complications due to diabetes.

### 7

* Chris Adams, 46, English wrestler and judoka, brother of Olympic Judo star Neil Adams, shot.
* Gaby Basset, 99, French film actress.
* Roger Gaudry, 87, Canadian chemist, businessman, and university rector.
* Alf Gover, 93, English test cricketer.
* Herblock, 91, American editorial cartoonist (The Washington Post).
* Stewart Imlach, 69, Scottish football player.
* Jimmie Logsdon, 79, American country and rockabilly singer, songwriter and radio DJ.
* Reg Matthews, 68, English football player.
* Polly Rowles, 87, American actress (The Defenders, Sweet Liberty, Power).
* Joann Lee Tiesler, 30, American murder victim.

### 8

* Mongo Beti, 69, Cameroonian writer.
* Alfred Fyodorov, 66, Soviet football player and coach.
* Kenneth L. Hale, 67, American linguist.
* Caryl Parker Haskins, 93, American scientist, author, inventor, philanthropist, and entomologist.
* Seymour Heller, 87, American talent agent and manager (represented Liberace).
* Javed Iqbal, 45, Pakistani serial killer, intoxication.
* Dmitry Polyansky, 83, Soviet statesman.
* Sankaradi, 77, Indian actor.
* Angelo Varetto, 90, Italian cyclist.

### 9

* Roberto de Oliveira Campos, 84, Brazilian economist, writer, diplomat, and politician, heart attack.
* Dagmar, 79, American actress, model, and television personality.
* Vladimir Danilevich, 77, Soviet and Russian animator.
* Norris Houghton, 91, American theatre manager and producer.
* Herbert Ross, 74, American film director (The Turning Point, Footloose) and choreographer (Anyone Can Whistle), heart failure.
* William A. Ryan, 82, American politician.
* Károly Simonyi, 84, Hungarian physicist and writer.
* Judita Čeřovská, 72, Czech pop and chanson singer.

### 10

* Pelegrino Adelmo Begliomini, 86, Brazilian football player.
* Eddie Futch, 90, American boxing trainer (Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes, Trevor Berbick).
* Cal Gardner, 76, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins).
* Dave Gerard, 65, American baseball player.
* Evgeni Kharadze, 93, Georgian astronomer, public figure and statesman.
* Vasily Mishin, 84, Soviet rocket designer.
* Luis Antonio García Navarro, 60, Spanish conductor (music director of the Teatro Real).
* Samuel Ndhlovu, 64, Zambian footballer and coach.
* Anna Amelia Obermeyer, 94, South African botanist.
* Chet Ostrowski, 71, American gridiron football player.

### 11

* Krzysztof Chamiec, 71, Polish actor, lung cancer.
* Franco Committeri, 77, Italian film producer.
* Nada Mamula, 74, Yugoslavian singer.
* Billy Maxted, 84, American jazz pianist.
* Beni Montresor, 75, Italian artist, illustrator and set designer, pancreatic cancer.

### 12

* Richard Buckle, 85, British ballet critic.
* Ruth Goetz, 89, American playwright (The Heiress) and screenwriter.
* Quintin Hogg, 94, British lawyer and politician.
* John T. Robinson, 78, South African palaeontologist.
* Eddie Rodriguez, 69, Filipino film actor and director, heart attack.
* Branko Stinčić, 78, Croatian football player.
* Witold Szalonek, 74, Polish composer.
* Otis Young, 69, American actor (The Outcasts, The Last Detail), stroke.
* Hikmet Şimşek, Turkish orchestra conductor.

### 13

* José Capmany, 40, Costa Rican songwriter and guitarist, traffic collision.
* Jean Daninos, 94, Greek-French constructor of luxury cars Facel Vega.
* Peter Doyle, 52, Australian pop singer (The New Seekers), esophageal cancer.
* Ubi Dwyer, 68, Irish anarchist, complications following bicycle accident.
* Fritz Fromm, 88, German Olympic field handball player (gold medal winner of the men's team handball competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
* B. L. Graham, 87, American college basketball player and coach (Ole Miss).
* Glenn Johnson, 79, American gridiron football player (New York Yankees, Green Bay Packers, Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
* Raoul Kraushaar, 93, American composer.
* David Neil MacKenzie, 75, British linguist.
* Jal Minocher Mehta, 100, Indian surgeon, social worker and philanthropist.
* Pal Mirashi, 75, Albanian football player.
* Mwanza Mukombo, 55, Congolese football player.
* Olga Arsenievna Oleinik, 76, Soviet and Russian mathematician.

### 14

* Giorgio Cavedon, 70, Italian publisher, cartoonist and screenwriter.
* Willam Christensen, 99, American ballet dancer, choreographer and founder of the San Francisco Ballet and Ballet West in Salt Lake City, Utah.
* David V. Erdman, 89, American literary critic, editor, and academic..
* Eugene Grebenik, 82, British academic and demographer.
* Vernon Harrison, 89, British photographer and parapsychologist.
* David Lewis, 60, American philosopher.
* Bert Rose, 82, American gridiron football player.
* Ben Sankey, 94, American baseball player.
* Joseph Allen Stein, 89, American architect.

### 15

* Jamie Cann, 55, British Labour Party politician, liver disease.
* Zhang Xueliang, 100, Chinese warlord and military figure, pneumonia.
* Ralph Levy, 80, American producer, film and television director.
* Anne Ridler, 89, British poet and editor.
* Robert Rutledge, 53, American sound engineer (Back to the Future, Star Wars, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Oscar winner (1986), heart attack.
* Janet Shaw, 82, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
* Bent Tomtum, 52, Norwegian ski jumper and Olympian.

### 16

* Jean Danet, 77, French actor.
* Gotthold Gloger, 77, German writer and painter.
* Etta Jones, 72, American jazz singer, cancer.
* Yuri Ozerov, 80, Soviet film director and screenwriter.
* Reid Smith, 52, American film and television actor.

### 17

* Frank Anscombe, 83, English statistician.
* Frances Claudet, 90, Canadian Olympic pair skater.
* Jay Livingston, 86, American composer (Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Buttons and Bows", "Mona Lisa" and "Que Sera, Sera").
* Micheline Ostermeyer, 78, French Olympic champion at the 1948 Summer Olympics and concert pianist.
* Jack Smith, 77, American NASCAR driver, congestive heart failure.
* Gyula Szilágyi, 78, Hungarian football player.
* Rehavam Ze'evi, 75, Israeli army general and politician, shot.

### 18

* Ferris Fain, 80, American baseball player, complications from leukemia and diabetes.
* János Kulka, 71, Hungarian conductor and composer.
* Ray Lovejoy, 62, British film editor (2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Aliens), heart attack.
* Dan Nugent, 48, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins), leukemia.
* A. T. Ummer, 68, Indian music composer.

### 19

* Araquem de Melo, 57, Brazilian football player, suicide.
* Kay Dick, 86, English journalist, novelist and autobiographer.
* Woody Dumart, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).
* Yang Jingren, 83, Chinese politician.
* Leslie Johnston, 81, Scottish football player.
* Niaz Khan, 84, Pakistani Olympic field hockey player.
* Jagernath Lachmon, 85, Surinamese politician.
* Hugh Mulcahy, 88, American baseball player.
* Joe Murray, 80, American baseball player.
* Digna Ochoa, 37, Mexican human rights lawyer, shot.

### 20

* Philippe Agostini, 91, French cinematographer, director and screenwriter.
* Marko Hirsma, 36, Finnish musician, outlaw biker and gangster, shot.
* Frank Hodgkinson, 82, Australian painter and graphic artist.
* Patricia Locke, 73, Native American educator-activist, heart failure.
* Henri Pellizza, 81, French badminton and tennis player.
* Nebojša Popović, 78, Serbian basketball player and coach.
* John H. Terry, 76, American lawyer and politician.

### 21

* Thomas G. Barnes, 90, American creationist.
* George Feyer, 92, Hungarian-American cafe pianist and entertainer.
* William J. Healy, 62, American politician.
* Bertie Mee, 82, English footballer.
* John H. Plumb, 90, British historian.
* David Lowell Rich, 81, American film director and producer.

### 22

* Roger Coggio, 67, French actor, film director and screenwriter, cancer.
* Howard Finster, 84, American artist and baptist minister.
* Ernest Hilgard, 97, American psychologist and professor at Stanford University.
* Bill James, 75, New Zealand rower.
* Samuel Khachikian, 78, Iranian film director, author, and film editor.
* Norman Lessing, 90, American television screenwriter, playwright, and chess master, Parkinson's disease.
* Katsuo Nishida, 72, Japanese long-distance runner.
* Ramakrishna, 62, Indian actor.
* Jan Glastra van Loon, 81, Dutch politician.
* Ed Vijent, 38, Dutch football player, stabbed.
* Georgy Vitsin, 84, Soviet and Russian actor, cardiovascular disease.
* Diana Van der Vlis, 66, Canadian-American actress, cardiac arrest.

### 23

* Ken Aston, 86, British football referee.
* Thomas N. Downing, 82, American lawyer and politician.
* Josh Kirby, 72, British artist.
* Ismat T. Kittani, 72, Iraqi politician.
* Kenneth P. MacLeod, 78, American politician.
* Linden Travers, 88, British actress (The Lady Vanishes, No Orchids for Miss Blandish).
* Stanisław Urbańczyk, 92, Polish linguist and academic.
* Daniel Wildenstein, 84, French art dealer, historian and owner of thoroughbred race horses.

### 24

* Kathleen Ankers, 82, American theatrical and television set and costume designer (Late Night with David Letterman, The Rosie O'Donnell Show).
* Kim Gardner, 53, English musician (Badger, Ashton, Gardner & Dyke, The Birds, The Creation), cancer.
* Eugenio Granell, 88, Spanish painter (often described as "the last Spanish surrealist painter").
* Jaromil Jireš, 65, Czechoslovak filmmaker.
* Bill Mueller, 80, American baseball player.
* Seishiro Shimatani, 62, Japanese football player and manager, cirrhosis.
* Stephen Wurm, 79, Hungarian-Australian linguist.

### 25

* Jack Blackwell, 91, English footballer.
* Alvan Feinstein, 75, American clinician, researcher and an epidemiologist.
* Marvin Harris, 74, American anthropologist.
* Richard Kirby, 97, Australian judge and arbitrator.
* René Philombe, 70, Cameroonian writer, journalist, poet, and playwright.

### 26

* Larry Aldrich, 95, American fashion designer and art collector.
* Maragatham Chandrasekar, 84, Indian politician and Member of Parliament.
* Soraya Esfandiari-Bakhtiari, 69, queen consort of Iran as wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, stroke.
* Laszlo Halasz, 96, Hungarian-American music director (New York City Opera).
* Abdul Haq, 43, Afghan mujahideen commander, executed by the Taliban, homicide.
* Hüseyin Hilmi Işık, 90, Turkish Sunni Islamic scholar.
* Eugene Jackson, 84, American child actor (Our Gang, The Big Town, Shootin' Injuns, Little Annie Rooney, The Addams Family), heart attack.
* Elizabeth Jennings, 75, English poet.
* Kris Kovick, 50, California-based writer, cartoonist, and printer, breast cancer.
* Olga Lehmann, 89, Chilean-British visual artist.
* John Platts-Mills, 95, British politician and lawyer.
* Richard Seifert, 90, Swiss-British architect.
* Gerald B. H. Solomon, 71, American businessman and politician.
* Barbara Tropp, 53, American orientalist, chef, and food writer, ovarian cancer.
* Audrey Withers, 96, English journalist.

### 27

* Seán Condon, 78, Irish hurler.
* John P. Roberts, 56, American businessman, promoter of the Woodstock Festival, cancer.
* Sophie Tatischeff, 55, French film editor and director, lung cancer.
* Dirk Willem van Krevelen, 86, Dutch chemical engineer.

### 28

* Fulvio Balatti, 63, Italian rower.
* Richard Halsey Best, 91, United States Navy dive bomber pilot during World War II.
* Grigori Chukhrai, 80, Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter, heart failure.
* Jallouli Fares, 92, Tunisian politician.
* Gerard Hengeveld, 90, Dutch pianist, composer and educator.
* Leonard Melfi, 69, American playwright and actor, congestive heart failure.
* John Mogg, 88, British army general.
* Czesław Mordowicz, 82, Polish Holocaust survivor during World War II.

### 29

* Angelo Ippolito, 78, Italian-American painter (Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art).
* Milorad B. Protić, 90, Serbian astronomer.
* Spike Robinson, 71, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
* Freddie Silva, 63, Sri Lankan actor, singer.
* K. P. Ummer, 71, Indian film actor.

### 30

* Carlos Alberto Zolim Filho, 79, Brazilian football player and manager.
* Marga Legal, 93, German actress, traffic collision.
* Johnny Lucadello, 82, American baseball player.
* Yoritsune Matsudaira, 94, Japanese composer of contemporary classical music.
* Maurice Miller, 81, British politician.
* Jack Scott, 85, New Zealand politician.

### 31

* Colin Campbell, 59, Canadian video artist, cancer.
* Régine Cavagnoud, 31, French Olympic and World Cup alpine ski racer (2001 World Champion in Super G), fall.
* Yutaka Fujimoto, 50, Japanese Olympic basketball player.
* Warren Elliot Henry, 92, American physicist.
* Jenny Laird, 89, British actress.
* Bill Le Sage, 74, British musician.
* Angus MacVicar, 93, British author.
* Vijaya Narasimha, 74, Indian lyricist.
* Braj Kumar Nehru, 92, Indian diplomat and ambassador.
* Richard Martin Stern, 86, American novelist.
* Art Wall, Jr., 77, American golfer (1959 winner of the Masters Tournament).
* Paul Warnke, 81, American diplomat.