Deaths in December 2001
The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2001.
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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.
December 2001
1
- Danilo Donati, 75, Italian costume designer and production designer (two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Costume Design).[1]
- Ellis R. Dungan, 92, American film director.
- Lin Haiyin, 83, Taiwanese writer.
- Baltasar Rebelo de Sousa, 80, Portuguese politician.
- Chris Rees, 70, Welsh politician.
- Johnny Stearns, 85, American actor, producer and director.
- Thomas D. Tannenbaum, 69, American producer.
2
- John W. Collins, 89, American chess master, author and teacher.[2]
- Chase Craig, 91, American comic strip and comic book writer and cartoonist.[3]
- Bruce Halford, 70, British racing driver.
- Valorie Jones, The Jones Girls.
3
- Sir John Allen Clark, 75, British businessman.
- Anthony Gigliotti, 79, American clarinetist and music teacher (Philadelphia Orchestra).[4]
- Grady Martin, 72, American country music guitarist (The Nashville A-Team).[5]
- Warren J. Winstead, 74, American academic.
- Harry Winter, 87, Austrian singer.
4
- William Jovanovich, 81, Serbian-American publisher, author and businessman (Harcourt, Brace & World, SeaWorld).[6]
- Eddie Popowski, 88, American baseball coach and manager.
- John Townsend, 85, American basketball player.
- Ed Whalen, 74, Canadian television personality and journalist, heart attack.
5
- Anton Benya, 89, Austrian politician and trade unionist.
- Sir Peter Blake, 53, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist, shot by pirates on the Amazon River.[7]
- Franco Rasetti, 100, Italian physicist.
- Bill Roberts, 89, British athlete.
6
- Thomas William Gould, 86, English Royal Navy submariner and World War II hero (Victoria Cross).[8]
- Clarita Hunsberger, 95, American Olympic diver (women's 10-metre platform diving at the 1928 Summer Olympics).[9]
- Muhamed Kreševljaković, 62, Bosnian politician, Mayor of Sarajevo.
- Charles McClendon, 78, American football player (University of Kentucky) and coach (Louisiana State University).[10]
7
- David Astor, 89, British newspaper proprietor.
- Peter Elias, 78, American information theorist.
- Faith Hubley, 77, American animator (Moonbird, The Hole, Sesame Street, A Doonesbury Special).[11]
- Pauline Moore, 87, American actress (Heidi, The Three Musketeers, Young Mr. Lincoln, Charlie Chan at Treasure Island).[12]
- Sir Raymond Powell, 73, British politician.
8
- Betty Holberton, 84, American computer programmer, one of six original programmers of the first general-purpose electronic digital computer (ENIAC).[13]
- Don Tennant, 79, American advertising executive, inventor of Tony the Tiger and the Marlboro Man.
- George Young, 71, American football executive.
9
- Michael Carver, Baron Carver, 86, British Field Marshal.
- Marina Koshetz, 89, American opera soprano and actress.
- Sir Frederick Stewart, 85, British geologist.
- George Young, 71, American football player, coach and executive.
10
- Mikhail Budyko, 81, Russian climatologist.
- Wilma Z. Davis, 89, American codebreaker during World War II.
- Gus Doerner, 79, American basketball player.
- Ashok Kumar, 90, Indian film actor.
11
- Beverly Hope Atkinson, 66, American actress, cancer.
- Bert Axell, 86, British naturalist and conservationist.
- Clayton Hare, 92, Canadian violinist, teacher, conductor.[14]
- Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar, 92, Indian Indologist and scholar.
- Teguh Karya, 64, Indonesian film director, complications from a stroke.
- Clark Mills, 86, American boatbuilder and designer.
- Sewall Pettingill, 94, American naturalist, author and filmmaker.
- Robert B. Pinter, 64, biomedical engineer.
12
- Berit Granquist, 92, Swedish Olympic fencer (women's foil at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[15]
- Armando Theodoro Hunziker, 82, Argentine botanist (Botanical Museum of the National University of Córdoba).[16]
- Farnham Johnson, 77, American professional football player (Chicago Rockets).[17]
- Jean Richard, 80, French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur.[18]
- Raymond Smith, 67, English cricketer (Leicestershire).
- William Stobie, 51, Northern Irish paramilitary.
13
- Yvan Craipeau, 90, French Trotskyist.
- Jack Hoffman, 71, American professional football player (Xavier University, Chicago Bears).[19]
- Chuck Schuldiner, 34, American death metal guitarist, vocalist and songwriter.
14
- Alfred Byrd Graf, 100, German-American botanist, photographer and author.[20]
- John Guedel, 88, American radio and television producer (You Bet Your Life, People Are Funny, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet).[21]
- Pauline Mills McGibbon, 91, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.
- W. G. Sebald, 57, German writer.
15
- Russ Haas, 27, American professional wrestler.
- Bianca Halstead, 36, American hard rock singer.
- José O'Callaghan Martínez, 79, Spanish Jesuit priest and Biblical scholar.
- Rufus Thomas, 84, American R&B/soul singer.
16
- Stuart Adamson, 43, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist of Big Country and The Raphaels.[22]
- Roy Brocksmith, 56, American actor.
- Stefan Heym, 88, German writer.
- Carwood Lipton, 81, American World War II soldier portrayed by Donnie Wahlberg in Band of Brothers.[23]
- Villy Sørensen, 72, Danish writer, philosopher and literary critic.
- Sir Michael Walker, 85, British diplomat.
17
- Gerald Ashby, 52, English football referee.
- Kenneth Bryden, 85, Canadian politician.
- Sir Fred Chaney, 87, Australian politician.
18
- Gilbert Bécaud, 74, French singer, composer ("What Now My Love"), pianist and actor.[24]
- Dan DeCarlo, 82, American cartoonist (Archie Comics, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Josie and the Pussycats).[25]
- Dimitris Dragatakis, 87, Greek classical music composer.[26]
- Bill Howerton, 80, American baseball player.[27]
- Kira Ivanova, 38, Soviet Olympic figure skater (bronze medal winner in women's figure skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics).[28]
- Marcel Mule, 100, French saxophonist.
- Sietske Pasveer, 86, Dutch speed skater.[29]
- Michael Scaife, 53, British development psychologist.[30]
19
- Alfredo Vázquez Carrizosa, 92, Colombian lawyer, politician and diplomat.
- Christine Kittrell, 72, American R&B singer, emphysema.[31]
- A. C. de la Mare, 69, English paleographer.
- Wang Ruowang, 83, Chinese author and dissident.
- Hans Warren, 80, Dutch writer, liver problems.
- Dale Waters, 92, American football player.
- Arkie Whiteley, 37, Australian actress (A Town Like Alice, Mad Max 2, Princess Caraboo), adrenal cancer.[32]
20
- Manuhuia Bennett, 85, New Zealand Anglican prelate.
- Foster Brooks, 89, American actor and comedian.[33]
- Edward Evans, 87, English film and television actor (The Grove Family, Coronation Street, Z-Cars).[34]
- Sir Peter Horsley, 80, British air marshal.
- Léopold Senghor, 95, first President of Senegal; also a world-renowned poet and writer.
- Dame Miraka Szászy, 80. New Zealand Maori leader.[35]
- Joan Wheeler, 88, American actress.[36]
21
- Harry Bain, 80, Canadian pediatrician.
- James M. Burns, 77, American jurist.[37]
- Dick Schaap, 67, American sportswriter, broadcaster, and author.[38]
- George Smith, 82, British footballer.
22
- Grzegorz Ciechowski, 44, Polish rock musician, film music composer, frontman of the band Republika.
- Bob Davis, 68, American baseball player.[39]
- Shidzue Katō, 104, Japanese feminist and politician.
- Liu Zihou, 92, Chinese politician, governor of Hubei and Hebei.
- Edwin F. Russell, 87, American newspaper publisher.[40]
23
- Bola Ige, 71, Nigerian lawyer and politician (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Nigeria).[41]
- Jan Kott, 87, Polish theatre critic and political activist.
- Sir Dimitri Obolensky, 83, Russian-born British historian.
24
- Annie Altschul, 81, Austrian-born British nursing academic.
- Frances Macgregor, 95, American photographer, author, sociologist and anthropologist.[42]
- Harvey Martin, 51, American football player.
- Gareth Williams, 48, British musician (This Heat).
25
- Bryan Drake, 76, New Zealand operatic baritone.
- Ramón García, 77, Cuban baseball player.[43]
- Sir Dennis Mitchell, 83, British Royal Air Force officer.
- Billy Wells, 70, American football player.
26
- Jacques Cauvin, French archaeologist.
- Nigel Hawthorne, 72, British actor (The Madness of King George, Yes Minister, Yes Prime Minister).[44]
- Tom McBride, 87, American baseball player.[45]
27
- Robert Fowler, 70, South African Olympic cyclist (silver medal winner of the men's cycling team pursuit at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[46]
- Ian Hamilton, 63, British critic, poet, magazine publisher.
- John Hoffman, 58, American baseball player.[47]
- Paul Hogarth, 84, British artist.
- Boris Rybakov, 83, Russian historian.
28
- Samuel Abraham Goldblith, 82, American food scientist.[48]
- William X. Kienzle, 73, author of murder mysteries with Catholic priest detective.
- Hovie Lister, 75, American gospel singer and manager of The Statesmen Quartet.
- Arne Rettedal, 75, Norwegian politician.
- Anthony Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond, 74, British politician and businessman.
29
- Takashi Asahina, 93, Japanese conductor.
- Brian Bansgrove, 60, New Zealand gaffer.
- Don Boll, 70, American professional football offensive lineman (Washington Redskins, New York Giants).[49]
- Tom Bourke, 83, Australian rugby player.
- Cássia Eller, 39, Brazilian singer and musician, heart attack.[50]
- Thomas S. Estes, 88, American diplomat, congestive heart failure.
- Florian Fricke, 57, German musician, stroke.
- Eldon Arthur Johnson, 82, Canadian politician.
- Anatoly Kubatsky, 93, Sovietactor.
- Clinton D. McKinnon, 95, American politician and journalist.
- Louis Waltniel, 76, Belgian politician and industrialist.
30
- Eric Cheney, 77, British motorcycle designer.
- Frankie Gaye, 60, American soul musician and brother of Marvin Gaye, complications following a heart attack.
- James Melvin Scott, 90, American inventor and Senior Olympian.
- Dame Sheila Sherlock, 83, British physician.[51]
31
- Guido di Tella, 70, Argentine businessman, diplomat and politician.
- John Grigg, 77, British writer, historian and politician.[52]
- Eileen Heckart, 82, American actress (Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Butterflies Are Free).[53]
- Paul Hubschmid, 84, Swiss actor (Funeral in Berlin, My Fair Lady, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms).[54]
- Edward Lee, 87, British scientist and civil servant.
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- McClain, Dylan Loeb (December 4, 2001). "John W. Collins, 89, Dies; Was Fischer's Chess Tutor". The New York Times. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
- "Chase Craig (29 October 1910 – 2 December 2001, USA)". Lambiek. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
- Wakin, Daniel J. (December 19, 2001). "Anthony Gigliotti, 79, Philadelphia Clarinetist and Teacher". The New York Times. Retrieved January 26, 2019.
- "Grady Martin". Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
- Eakin, Emily (December 6, 2001). "William Jovanovich, 81, Longtime Publishing Chief, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
- McCormick, Herb (December 7, 2001). "On Yachting; Peter Carey Legacy Spans the World". The New York Times. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
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- Goldstein, Richard (December 10, 2001). "Charlie McClendon, 78; Hall of Fame Football Coach". The New York Times. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
- "Animation Loses Another Master: Faith Hubley Passes at 77". Animation Magazine. December 10, 2001. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
- The Associated Press (December 15, 2001). "Pauline Moore, 87; Acted With Roy Rogers". The New York Times. Retrieved January 18, 2019.
- Lohr, Steve (December 17, 2001). "Frances E. Holberton, 84, Early Computer Programmer". The New York Times. Retrieved January 30, 2019.
- Searchfield, John; Nygaard King, Betty (February 7, 2006). "Clayton Hare". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
- Berit Granquist, Sports-Reference / Olympic Sports. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
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- Hawley, Janet. "Whiteley, Arkie (1964–2001)". The New York Times. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
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- Purser, Philip (January 12, 2002). "Edward Evans". The Guardian. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
- Dame Miraka Szászy
- "Joan Ankrum, 88; Actress, Influential Art Gallery Owner". Los Angeles Times. December 23, 2001. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
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- Bobby Fowler
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- "Goldblith, MIT professor of food science, Bataan March survivor, dies". MIT News. January 7, 2002. Retrieved January 18, 2019.
- "Don Boll". Fremont Tribune, Fremont, Nebraska. December 31, 2001. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
- "Laudo final do IML diz que Cássia Eller morreu de infarto". Folha de São Paulo. January 31, 2002. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
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