The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 2001
1 Nikolay Basov, 78, Soviet physicist and co-winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964. Bob Cifers, 80, American professional football player (Detroit Lions, Pittsburgh Steelers, Green Bay Packers). Halina Czerny-Stefańska, 78, Polish pianist. Hélène de Beauvoir, 91, French painter and sister of Simone de Beauvoir. Tony Leswick, 78, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks), cancer.
2 Ron Forwick, 57, Canadian football player, cancer. Jack Gwillim, 91, English character actor (My Fair Lady, Lawrence of Arabia, A Man for All Seasons, Patton). Israel Shahak, 68, Israeli organic chemist and civil rights activist, diabetes. James P. Vreeland, 91, American Republican Party politician.
3 Delia Derbyshire, 64, British musician and composer of electronic music (BBC Radiophonic Workshop), renal failure. Gerald L. Geison, 58, American historian, enlarged heart. Lelord Kordel, 92, Polish-American nutritionist and author of books on healthy living. Billy Liddell, 79, Scottish footballer. Baharuddin Lopa, 65, Indonesian attorney general, heart failure. John Marriott, 78, British philatelist. Roy Nichols, 68, American guitarist (lead guitarist for Merle Haggard's band), heart attack. Mordecai Richler, 70, Canadian author, (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Barney's Version, Jacob Two-Two), kidney cancer. Johnny Russell, 61, American country singer ("Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer") and songwriter ("Act Naturally"). Paolo Silveri, 87, Italian baritone. Ivan Slamnig, 71, Croatian poet, novelist, and literary theorist.
4 Roberto Cabrejas, 48, Spanish Olympic high jumper (1980), traffic collision. Omar Ali Juma, 60, Chief Minister of Zanzibar from 25 January 1988 to October 1995. Serafim Pinto Ribeiro Júnior, 85, Brazilian football player. Charles Neider, 86, American writer. Charles Saxton, 88, New Zealand cricketer, rugby player and coach, emphysema. Anthony Synnot, 79, officer in the Royal Australian Navy. Joan-Josep Tharrats, 83, Spanish painter, art theorist and publisher. Anne Yeats, 82, Irish painter, costume and stage designer.
5 Ely Callaway Jr., 82, American entrepreneur and golf club maker. George Dawson, 103, American author. A. D. Flowers, 84, American film special effects artist (Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Poseidon Adventure, Apocalypse Now), Oscar winner (1971, 1973), pneumonia. Bela Imre, 81, Romanian Olympic alpine skier (1948). Ernie K-Doe, 68, African-American rhythm-and-blues singer ("Mother-in-Law"), liver cirrhosis. Hannelore Kohl, 68, wife of former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, suicide. Keenan Milton, 26, American professional skateboarder, drowned.
6 Jack Francis, 93, Australian sportsman. Derek Freeman, 84, New Zealand anthropologist. Enrique Mateos, 66, Spanish footballer. Harry Rhodes, 78, American baseball player. Viktor Yakushev, 63, Soviet ice hockey player and Olympian (1960, 1964).
7 Dempsey Barron, 79, American politician, President of the Florida Senate. Sjoerd Joustra, 85, Dutch architect. Arthur Kristiansen, 77, Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player (1952). Molly Lamont, 91, British film actress. Surender Kumar Malik, 58, Indian mathematician. Fred Neil, 65, American folk singer and songwriter ("Everybody's Talkin'"). Toni Pagot, 79, Italian comics artist and animator. Joseph Stulac, 66, Canadian Olympic basketball player (1964). John Roland Sweeney, 70, Canadian politician, heart attack. Tim Temerario, 95, American football coach and executive, heart failure.
8 Rolim Amaro, 58, Brazilian pilot and airline owner, helicopter crash. Ernst Baier, 95, German Olympic figure skater (1932, 1936). Big Ed, 29, American rapper, throat cancer. Walter Good, 93, American Olympic weightlifter (1936). Christl Haas, 57, Austrian skier and Olympic champion (1964, 1968), heart attack. William Kuhlemeier, 92, American Olympic gymnast (1932). Jia Lanpo, 92, Chinese palaeoanthropologist. Amiya Bhushan Majumdar, 83, Indian writer. Neil Midgley, 58, English football referee, cancer. John O'Shea, 81, New Zealand film director (Broken Barrier, Runaway, Don't Let It Get You). Irma Seikkula, 87, Finnish actress.
9 Maria Chabot, 87, American advocate of Native American arts and rancher. Al Lary, 72, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs), drowned. Jorge Novak, 73, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, stomach cancer. Thomas F. Schweigert, 83, American politician. Tauno Sipilä, 79, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympian (1952). Willy Sommer, 76, Swiss football striker and manager. İbrahim Tusder, 86, Turkish Olympic footballer (1936). Arie van Vliet, 85, Dutch Olympic sprint cyclist (1936).
10 Vyacheslav Bezukladnikov, 32, Russian ice hockey player and Olympian (1994). Humayun Rashid Choudhury, 72, Bangladeshi diplomat and politician. Geoffrey Clarkson, 57, English rugby player. Tony Criscola, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, Cincinnati Reds). Giulio Gerardi, 88, Italian Olympic cross-country skier (1936). Jean-Claude Grèt, 70, Swiss racing cyclist. Álvaro Magaña, 75, Salvadoran politician, President (1982–1984). Danny O'Brien, 62, Irish Olympic boxer (1960). Friedel Overwien, 78, German Olympic gymnast (1952). Jack Piana, 82, American basketball player.
11 Herman Brood, 54, Dutch rock musician and painter, suicide by jumping. Joseph Crockett, 96, American Olympic sports shooter (1924). Cândida Branca Flor, 51, Portuguese entertainer and singer, suicide. Salamat Ali Khan, 66, Pakistani vocalist and artist, kidney failure. Oto Rebula, 79, Yugoslavian Olympic decathlete (1948, 1952). Qateel Shifai, 81, Pakistani poet. Marco Zanuso, 85, Italian architect and designer.
12 James Bernard, 75, English film composer (The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula) and screenwriter (Seven Days to Noon), Oscar winner (1952).James Bernard Bill Crabtree, 86, Australian politician. Juan Nepomuceno Guerra Cárdenas, 85, Mexican crime lord, bootlegger, and smuggler, respiratory disease. Vlado Dapčević, 84, Yugoslav-Montenegrin communist and revolutionary. Mirvarid Dilbazi, 88, Azerbaijani poet. John H. Holdridge, 76, American diplomat, pulmonary fibrosis. Ron Kroon, 58, Dutch Olympic freestyle swimmer (1960, 1964). Paul Magloire, 93, Haitian politician, President (1950–1956). Fred Marcellino, 61, American illustrator and children's author, colorectal cancer. Alioune Sarr, 92, Senegalese historian, author and politician. Chris Saunders-Griffiths, 72, British Olympic field hockey player (1960). Charleszetta Waddles, 88, American activist and church minister. Johnny Wright, 72, British boxer and Olympic silver medalist (1948).
13 Miguel Gila Cuesta, 82, Spanish comedian and actor, respiratory disease. Bill Fogarty, 79, Australian politician. César López Fretes, 78, Paraguayan football player. Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gryfe, 89, British politician. David Noyes Jackson, 78, American writer and artist. Åse-Marie Nesse, 67, Norwegian philologist, translator and poet, cancer. Eleanor Summerfield, 80, English actress (Laughter in Paradise, Odongo, Dentist in the Chair, On the Fiddle, The Running Man). Juan José Timón, 63, Uruguayan Olympic cyclist (1960, 1964). Mohamed Zafzaf, 56, Moroccan novelist and poet, cancer.
14 John Lax, 89, American Olympic ice hockey player (1936). Agustín Navarro, Spanish film director, respiratory disease. Jack Sheppard, 92, British cave diver. Karen-Sofie Styrmoe, 70, Norwegian Olympic alpine skier (1952).
15 Anthony Ian Berkeley, 36, American rapper and producer, colon cancer. Ted Berman, 81, American film director, animator, and screenwriter (Bambi, Fantasia, The Black Cauldron). Tom Chantrell, 84, British film poster artist (The King and I, One Million Years B.C., Far From The Madding Crowd). Helge Rognlien, 81, Norwegian politician. Marina Știrbei, 89, Romanian aviator. Rudi Valenta, 80, Austrian cyclist and Olympian (1948).
16 Tom Askwith, 90, British Olympic rower (1932, 1936) and a colonial administrator. John Dagenhard, 84, American baseball player (Boston Braves). Terry Gordy, 40, American professional wrestler (Fabulous Freebirds), heart attack. Christina Cruickshank Miller, 101, Scottish chemist. Morris, 77, Belgian cartoonist (Lucky Luke), embolism. Beate Uhse-Rotermund, 81, German female stunt pilot, Luftwaffe pilot during World War II and sex shop owner, pneumonia.
17 Timur Apakidze, 47, Russian fighter pilot and navy officer, aviation accident. Sara Ashurbeyli, 95, Azerbaijani historian, orientalist and scholar. Abel Carlevaro, 84, Uruguayan classical guitar composer, performer and teacher. Yehiel De-Nur, 92, Israeli writer and Holocaust survivor, cancer. Val Feld, 53, Welsh politician, cancer. Katharine Graham, 84, American publisher (The Washington Post), horse fall. Elon Hogsett, 97, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators). Wilhelm Simetsreiter, 86, German football player and Olympian (1936). Ziya Taner, 77, Macedonian-Turkish football manager.
18 Roderic Bowen, 87, Welsh lawyer and Liberal Party politician. Phillip Alexander Clancey, 83, British ornithologist. Mimi Fariña, 56, American singer-songwriter and activist, neuroendocrine cancer. Roy Gilchrist, 67, West Indian cricket player, Parkinson's disease. Alex Jany, 72, French Olympic swimmer and water polo player (1948, 1952, 1956, 1960). Ritchie Johnston, 70, New Zealand Olympic track cyclist (1956). Ika Panajotovic, 69, Serbian-American film producer and tennis player, cardiac arrest during surgery, heart attack. Barry Shetrone, 63, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Washington Senators). Fabio Taglioni, 80, Italian automotive engineer.
19 Erik Barnouw, 93, American historian of radio and television broadcasting. Karl-Heinz Becker, 89, German Olympic long-distance runner (1936). Paul Beeson, 79, British cinematographer. Judy Clay, 62, American soul and gospel singer. Gunther Gebel-Williams, 66, Polish-American animal trainer (Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus), cancer. Neil Carmichael, Baron Carmichael of Kelvingrove, 79, British politician. Charles King, 89, British cyclist and Olympic medalist (1936). Peter Lucas, 68, New Zealand Olympic rower (1956).
20 Charlie Armstrong, 82, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers). Oscar Arredondo, 83, Cuban paleontologist and ornithologist. Thomas Fantl, 72, German film director and screenwriter. Milt Gabler, 90, American record producer. Carlo Giuliani, 23, Italian anti-globalization demonstrator, shot. Skeeter Werner Walker, 67, American alpine skier and Olympian (1956).
21 Muqbil bin Haadi al-Waadi'ee, Yemeni Islamic scholar, liver disease. Antal Bánkuti, 78, Hungarian Olympic basketball player (1948). Steve Barton, 47, American actor (The Phantom of the Opera, The Red Shoes), suicide. Carlo Bo, 90, Italian poet and literary critic. Hans Claussen, 89, German Olympic weightlifter (1952). Krste Crvenkovski, 80, Yugoslav communist politician. Sivaji Ganesan, 74, Indian actor. Charles Perry, 80, American basketball player. Einar Schleef, 57, German dramatist, director, writer, painter, and actor, heart disease.
22 William L. Beatty, 75, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois). Fanny Brennan, 80, French-American surrealist artist and painter. Bertie Felstead, 106, British World War I soldier and the last witness of the Christmas truce of 1914. Bob Ferguson, 73, American country music songwriter and record producer, cancer. Maria Gorokhovskaya, 79, Soviet Olympic gymnast (1952). Frances Horwich, 94, American educator, television personality and television executive, heart failure.