page_title: 2001
section_title: June
hierarchical_section_title: 2001 / Deaths / June
caption_attribution_description: English: His Majesty King, Birendra Bir Bikram Shah
context_page_description: 2001 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2001st year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 1st year of the 3rd millennium, the 1st year of the 21st century, and the 2nd year of the 2000s decade.
  2001 was designated as International Year of Volunteers.
context_section_description: June 1
  Nepalese royal massacre:
  King Birendra of Nepal (b. 1944)
  Queen Aishwarya of Nepal (b. 1949)
  Dhirendra of Nepal (b. 1950)
  Prince Nirajan of Nepal (b. 1978)
  Princess Shruti of Nepal (b. 1976)
  Nkosi Johnson, South African AIDS awareness campaigner (b. 1989)
  June 2 – Imogene Coca, American actress (b. 1908)
  June 3 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor (b. 1915)
  June 4
  King Dipendra of Nepal (b. 1971)
  John Hartford, American musician and composer (b. 1937)
  June 7 – Víctor Paz Estenssoro, 52nd President of Bolivia (b. 1907)
  June 10
  Mike Mentzer, American bodybuilder (b. 1951)
  Leila Pahlavi, Iranian princess (b. 1970)
  June 11 – Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (b. 1968)
  June 15 – Henri Alekan, French cinematographer (b. 1909)
  June 17 – Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
  June 21
  John Lee Hooker, American musician (b. 1917)
  Soad Hosny, Egyptian actress (b. 1942)
  Carroll O'Connor, American actor (b. 1924)
  June 22 – Luis Carniglia, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1917)
  June 23 – Corinne Calvet, French actress (b. 1925)
  June 27
  Tove Jansson, Finnish author and illustrator (b. 1914)
  Jack Lemmon, American actor and director (b. 1925)
  Joan Sims, English actress (b. 1930)
  June 28 – Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher (b. 1902)
  June 29 – Maximos V Hakim, Egyptian patriarch (b. 1908)
  June 30
  Chet Atkins, American guitarist and record producer (b. 1924)
  Joe Fagan, English footballer and manager (b. 1921)
  Joe Henderson, American jazz tenor saxophonist (b. 1937)
caption: Birendra of Nepal
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