Deaths in October 2001
The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.
October 2001
1
- Guy Beaulne, 79, French-Canadian actor and theatre director.[1]
- Anna McClean Bidder, 98, British zoologist and academic.
- Surendranath Dwivedy, 88, Indian politician, journalist and social worker.
- Kenny Greene, 32, American singer-songwriter, AIDS.
- Gregory Hemingway, 69, American physician and son of Ernest Hemingway, hypertension and cardiovascular disease.
- Mickey Trotman, 26, Trinidad and Tobago football player, car crash.
2
- Manny Albam, 79, American jazz baritone saxophone player, composer, arranger and producer.
- Pat Ast, 59, American actress and model.
- Franz Biebl, 95, German classical music composer.[2]
- Seymour Milstein, 81, American real estate developer and philanthropist.
3
- Ricky Belmonte, 54, Filipino actor, cerebral hemorrhage caused by a stroke.
- Homer Elias, 46, American professional football player (Detroit Lions).[3]
- Philip Goldson, 78, Belizean newspaper editor, activist and politician.
- Gregorio Peralta, 66, Argentine boxer.
4
- Blaise Alexander, 25, American race car driver, race crash.[4]
- Patsy Burt, 73, British racing driver.
- John Collins, 88, American jazz guitarist.
- Arthur Daniels, 79, Welsh rugby league player.
- Floyd Robert Gibson, 91, American judge (United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit).[5]
- Ahron Soloveichik, 84, American Torah scholar and rabbi.[6]
5
- Peter Burge, 69, Australian cricketer.
- Brian Edgar, 65, British rugby league player.
- Woody Jensen, 94, American baseball player.[7]
- Mike Mansfield, 98, American politician and diplomat (U.S. Representative from Montana, U.S. Senator from Montana, Senate Majority Leader).[8]
- Robert Stevens, 63, American photo editor and anthrax attack victim.
6
- Arne Harris, 67, American television producer-director (WGN-TV broadcasts of Chicago Cubs).[9]
- Milton A. Rothman, 81, American nuclear physicist, complications due to diabetes.
- Miguel del Toro, 29, Mexican baseball player.[10]
7
- Christopher Adams, 46, English wrestler and judoka, brother of Olympic Judo star Neil Adams.
- Herblock, 91, American editorial cartoonist (The Washington Post).[11]
- Polly Rowles, 87, American actress (The Defenders, Sweet Liberty, Power).[12]
8
- Kenneth L. Hale, 67, American linguist, known for study and preservation of endangered aboriginal languages.[13]
- Seymour Heller, 87, American talent agent and manager (represented Liberace).[14]
- Javed Iqbal, 45, Pakistani serial killer.
9
- Roberto Campos, 84, Brazilian economist, writer, diplomat, and politician, heart attack.
- Dagmar, 79, American actress, model, and television personality.
- Herbert Ross, 74, American stage choreographer, and film director and producer (Funny Lady, The Turning Point).[15]
- Károly Simonyi, 84, Hungarian physicist and writer.
10
- Eddie Futch, 90, American boxing trainer (Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes, Trevor Berbick).[16]
- Luis Antonio García Navarro, 60, Spanish conductor (Music Director of the Teatro Real).[17]
- Cal Gardner, 76, Canadian professional ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins).[18]
- Dave Gerard, 65, American baseball player.[19]
- Vasily Mishin, 84, Soviet rocket designer.[20]
11
- Tommy Harris, 76, English footballer.
- Nada Mamula, 74, Yugoslavian sevdalinka singer.
- Beni Montresor, 75, Italian artist, illustrator and set designer.
- Thomas C. Wales, 49, American prosecutor and gun control advocate, murdered.
12
- Richard Buckle, 85, British ballet critic.
- Ruth Goetz, 89, American playwright (The Heiress) and screenwriter.[21]
- Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone (Quintin Hogg), 94, British lawyer and politician.[22]
- John T. Robinson, 78, South African palaeontologist.
- Eddie Rodriguez, 69, Filipino film actor and director.
- Hikmet Şimşek, Turkish orchestra conductor.
- Otis Young, 69, American actor (The Outcasts, The Last Detail).[23]
13
- Peter Doyle, 52, Australian pop singer (The New Seekers).[24]
- Ubi Dwyer, 68, Irish anarchist.
- Fritz Fromm, 88, German Olympic field handball player (gold medal winner of the men's team handball competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[25]
- B. L. Graham, 87, American college basketball player and coach (Ole Miss).[26]
- Glenn Johnson, 79, American professional football player (New York Yankees, Green Bay Packers, Winnipeg Blue Bombers).[27]
- David Neil MacKenzie, 75, British linguist.
14
- Sir Philip Adams, 85, British diplomat.
- Willam Christensen, 99, American ballet dancer, choreographer and founder of the San Francisco Ballet and Ballet West in Salt Lake City, Utah.[28]
- Eugene Grebenik, 82, British academic and demographer.[29]
- Vernon Harrison, 89, British photographer and parapsychologist.
- David Lewis, 60, American philosopher.
- Ben Sankey, 94, American baseball player.[30]
15
- Jamie Cann, 55, British Labour Party politician, liver disease.
- Justus Cornelias Dirks, 90, South African author.
- Anne Ridler, 89, British poet and editor.
- Zhang Xueliang, 100, Chinese warlord and military figure.[31]
16
- Gotthold Gloger, 77, German writer and painter.
- Etta Jones, 72, American jazz singer, cancer.[32]
- Yuri Ozerov, 80, Soviet film director and screenwriter.
17
- Jay Livingston, 86, American composer (Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Buttons and Bows", "Mona Lisa" and "Que Sera, Sera").[33]
- Micheline Ostermeyer, 78, French Olympic athlete (two gold and one bronze medal winner at the 1948 Summer Olympics) and concert pianist.[34]
- Jack Smith, 77, American NASCAR driver, congestive heart failure.
- Neil Tillotson, 102, American inventor.
- Rehavam Ze'evi, 75, Israeli army general and politician.[35]
18
- Emily Couric, 54, Virginia Democratic state senator, pancreatic cancer.
- Ferris Fain, 80, American baseball player, complications from leukemia and diabetes.[36]
- János Kulka, 80, Hungarian conductor and composer.
19
- Kay Dick, 86, English journalist, novelist and autobiographer.[37]
- Jagernath Lachmon, 85, Surinamese politician.[38]
- Hugh Mulcahy, 88, American baseball player.[39]
- Joe Murray, 80, American baseball player.[40]
- Yang Jingren, 82/83, Chinese politician.
20
- Frank Hodgkinson, 82, Australian painter and graphic artist.
- Patricia Locke, 73, Native American educator-activist, heart-failure.
- Kaviyoor Murali, Indian activist.
- Nebojša Popović, 78, Serbian basketball player and coach.
- John H. Terry, 76, American lawyer and politician.
- Andrew Waterhouse, 42, English poet and musician, suicide.
21
- George Feyer, 92, Hungarian-American cafe pianist and entertainer.[41]
- Margaret Hope MacPherson, 93, Scottish crofter, politician, author, and activist.
- Sir John Plumb, 90, British historian.
22
- Howard Finster, 84, American artist and Baptist minister.
- Ernest Hilgard, 97, American psychologist and professor at Stanford University.[42]
- Bertie Mee, 82, English footballer.
- Ed Vijent, 38, Dutch footballer, stabbed.
- Georgy Vitsin, 84, Soviet and Russian actor.
23
- Ken Aston, 86, British football referee.
- Josh Kirby, 72, British artist.[43]
- Linden Travers, 88, British actress (The Lady Vanishes, No Orchids for Miss Blandish).[44]
- Daniel Wildenstein, 84, French art dealer (Wildenstein & Co.), historian and owner-breeder of thoroughbred race horses.[45]
24
- Kathleen Ankers, 82, American theatrical and television set and costume designer (Late Night with David Letterman, The Rosie O'Donnell Show).[46]
- Kim Gardner, 53, English musician (Badger, Ashton, Gardner & Dyke, The Birds, The Creation).[47]
- Eugenio Granell, 88, Spanish painter (often described as "the last Spanish surrealist painter").[48]
- Jaromil Jireš, 65, Czechoslovak filmmaker.[49]
- Eamon Kelly, 87, Irish actor.
- Bill Mueller, 80, American baseball player.[50]
25
- Jack Blackwell, 91, English footballer.
- Marvin Harris, 74, American anthropologist.
- Yoritsune Matsudaira, 94, Japanese composer.
26
- Charlie van Gelderen, 88, South African journalist and Trotskyist, and the last surviving participant of Leon Trotsky's 4th International in 1938.[51]
- Laszlo Halasz, 96, Hungarian-American music director (New York City Opera).[52]
- Abdul Haq, 43, Afghan mujahideen commander, executed by the Taliban.[53]
- Eugene Jackson, 84, American child actor who was a regular of the Our Gang series (The Big Town, Shootin' Injuns, Little Annie Rooney, The Addams Family).[54]
- Elizabeth Jennings, 75, English poet.[55]
- John Platts-Mills, 95, British politician and lawyer.
27
- Fr. Abel, 81, Indian Catholic CMI priest, cardiac arrest.
- Maragatham Chandrasekar, 84, Indian politician and Member of Parliament.
- Dirk Willem van Krevelen, 86, Dutch chemical engineer.
- Pradeep Kumar, 76, Indian actor.
- John P. Roberts, 56, American businessman, promoter of the Woodstock Festival.
28
- Jallouli Fares, 92, Tunisian politician.
- Gerard Hengeveld, 90, Dutch pianist, composer and educator.[56]
- Hans Hohenester, 84, German Olympic bobsledder (two-man bobsleigh at the 1956 Winter Olympics).[57]
- Sir John Mogg, 88, British army general.
- Richard Halsey Best, 91, World War two bomber pilot
29
- Maura Fay, 43, Australian casting director.
- Angelo Ippolito, 78, Italian-American painter (Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art).[58]
- Freddie Silva, 63, Sri Lankan actor, singer.
30
- David Cochran, 86, American bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alaska.
- Marga Legal, 93, German actress.
- Johnny Lucadello, 82, American baseball player.[59]
- William R. Smallwood, 73, Canadian politician.
31
- Colin Campbell, 59, Canadian video artist.
- Régine Cavagnoud, 31, French Olympic and World Cup alpine ski racer (2001 World Champion in Super G).[60]
- Yutaka Fujimoto, 50, Japanese Olympic basketball player (men's basketball at the 1976 Summer Olympics).[61]
- Warren Elliot Henry, 92, American physicist, made significant contributions to radar technology and the physical properties of materials.[62]
- Angus MacVicar, 93, British author.
- Braj Kumar Nehru, 90, Indian diplomat and ambassador.
- Art Wall Jr., 77, American professional golfer (1959 winner of the Masters Tournament).[63]
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