Deaths in January 2001

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.Klingaman, Mike. "A Baltimore legend, champion of underdogs," The Baltimore Sun, Tuesday, January 2, 2001. 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. Ali Sayed Darwish, 23, Emirati cyclist and Olympian (1996). 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 hypertension. Marty Glickman, 83, American radio announcer. John F. Hayes, 85, American politician (Brooklyn Borough President). Sushila Nayyar, 86, Indian politician and physician. Alex Sabo, 90, American baseball player (Washington Senators).

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 (Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Yankees). Bob Snyder, 87, American football player (Cleveland Rams, Chicago Bears), 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. Phelbert Lawson, 81, American baseball player. Raj Kumar Mehra, 82, Indian racing cyclist and Olympian (1948, 1952). 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. Tokio Fukuda, 85, Japanese Olympic hurdler (1936). 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. Leo Nowak, 93, American illustrator (Superman). Tom Poholsky, 71, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs). Bob Pratt, 88, Australian rules footballer. Tot Pressnell, 94, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Cubs). 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. František Hájek, 85, Czech Olympic basketball player (1936). Charles Helou, 87, Lebanese politician, president (1964-1970), heart attack. 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. Admiral Walker, 102, American baseball player.

8 Philip A. Barker, 80, British archaeologist. Art Brandau, 78, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers). 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. Bert Hodges, 83, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). Alfred Neumann, 91, East German politician. Jake Schuehle, 83, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles). 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 (1966-1968, 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 (1936). 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 by gunshot. 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 (1924, 1928). Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia, 94, Russian noblewoman and monarchist. Lorna Sage, 57, British literary critic and writer, pulmonary emphysema.Tributes to 'brilliant' Sage 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 (1952, 1956, 1960). Adhemar da Silva, 73, Brazilian triple jumper and Olympic champion (1948, 1952, 1956, 1960). Bill 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. Arnoldo Pekelharing, 64, Argentine Olympic sailor (1956, 1964). 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. Simone Ruas, 81, French Olympic high jumper (1948). Vic Wilson, 69, British racing driver, traffic collision. Joe Zapustas, 93, Latvian-American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).

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 (1936, 1948). Kaija Siren, 80, Finnish architect. Riaz ud-Din, 58, Pakistani field hockey player and Olympic champion (1968).

16 Laurent-Désiré Kabila, 61, Congolese politician and President, shot. Richard MacNeish, 82, American archaeologist. Melvin McQuaid, 89, Canadian politician.Melvin McQuaid dead at 89/ 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 (1936, 1948). 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 Lucius Desha Bunton III, 76, American district judge (United States District Court for the Western District of Texas). 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. Garland O'Shields, 79, American basketball player. 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 (1932).

18 Mordechai Gifter, 85, American orthodox rabbi. Sigurd Grønli, 73, Norwegian Olympic rower (1948). Peter Haigh, 75, English BBC Television announcer. Zip Hanna, 84, American football player (Washington Redskins). Abdul Rahim Ishak, 75, Singaporean politician and journalist. Morris Lapidus, 98, Russian-American architect, heart failure. Evald Mahl, 85, Estonian basketball player and Olympian (1936). Sammy Odom, 59, American football player (Houston Oilers). Reg Prentice, Baron Prentice, 77, British politician and government minister. Imre Sinkovits, 72, Hungarian actor.Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2001: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre Boris Stenin, 66, Soviet speed skater, coach, and Olympian (1960). Al Waxman, 65, Canadian actor (King of Kensington, Cagney & Lacey, Atlantic City).

19 Johnny Babich, 87, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Bees, Philadelphia Athletics). Andy Dudish, 82, American football player (Buffalo Bisons, Baltimore Colts, Detroit Lions). Alberto Gallardo, 60, Peruvian football player, manager, and Olympian (1960). Guillermo Giribaldi, 71, Curaçaoan footballer and Olympian (1952). Bill Hempel, 80, American football player (Chicago Bears). 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 (1960). Gustave Thibon, 97, French philosopher and author.

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