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 hyper tension, 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.
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.

16
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, 74, 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.
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.

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