page_title: 2001
section_title: February
hierarchical_section_title: 2001 / Deaths / February
caption_attribution_description: NASCAR champion w:Dale Earnhardt, taken by official NASCAR photographer Darryl Moran
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: February 4
  J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist (b. 1924)
  Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer (b. 1922)
  February 7
  Dale Evans, American actress, singer, and songwriter (b. 1912)
  King Moody, American actor (b. 1929)
  February 9 – Herbert A. Simon, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
  February 10 – Lewis Arquette, American film actor, writer and producer (b. 1935)
  February 13 – Ugo Fano, Italian-American physicist (b. 1912)
  February 18
  Balthus, French painter (b. 1908)
  Dale Earnhardt, American auto racing driver (b. 1951)
  February 19 – Stanley Kramer, American film director (b. 1913)
  February 20 – Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (b. 1910)
  February 22 – John Fahey, American guitarist and composer (b. 1939)
  February 24 – Claude Shannon, American mathematician (b. 1916)
  February 25 – Sir Don Bradman, Australian cricketer (b. 1908)
caption: Dale Earnhardt
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