• Source: Deaths in December 2001

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.




December 2001






= 1

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Danilo Donati, 75, Italian costume designer and production designer (two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Costume Design).
Ellis R. Dungan, 92, American film director.
Michael Gallanagh, 82, Irish Fianna Fáil politician and Army captain.
Cor de Jager, 76, Dutch army officer, Chief of Defence (1980-1983).
Lin Haiyin, 83, Taiwanese writer, organ dysfunction.
Celia M. Hunter, 82, American environmentalist and conservationist.
Chris Rees, 70, Welsh politician.
Pavel Sadyrin, 59, Soviet and Russian football player and manager, cancer.




= 2

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John W. Collins, 89, American chess master, author and teacher.
Chase Craig, 91, American comic strip and comic book writer and cartoonist, fall.
Bruce Halford, 70, British racing driver.
Martha Kneale, 92, British philosopher.
Roger McDonough, 92, American librarian.
Amir Abdullah Khan Rokhri, 85, Pakistani politician.
Max Rood, 74, Dutch jurist and politician.
Naomi Schor, 58, American literary critic and theorist, brain hemorrhage.
Manuel Velasco Suárez, 86, Mexican neurologist, scientist and humanist.
Dmitri Voskoboynikov, 60, Russian Olympic volleyball player.
Willie Woodburn, 82, Scottish footballer.




= 3

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Juan José Arreola, 83, Mexican writer, academic, and actor.
Dee Barton, 64, American jazz trombonist, big band drummer and composer.
Marike de Klerk, 64, First Lady of South Africa, as wife of President Frederik Willem de Klerk, murdered.
Anthony Gigliotti, 79, American clarinetist and music teacher (Philadelphia Orchestra).
Nebojša M. Krstić, 37, Serbian theologian and sociologist, car accident.
Grady Martin, 72, American country music guitarist (The Nashville A-Team), heart attack.
Gerhart M Riegner, 90, German philosopher, and the secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress from 1965 to 1983.
Harry Winter, 87, Austrian singer.




= 4

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Silvio Clementelli, 75, Italian film producer.
Pierre de Bénouville, 87, French Army officer, member of the Resistance during World War II, and politician.
Mercedes Matter, 87/88, American painter, draughtswoman, and writer.
Eddie Popowski, 88, American baseball coach and manager.
Princess Maria Francesca of Savoy, 86, Italian royal and daughter of Victor Emmanuel III of Italy.
John Townsend, 85, American basketball player.
Ed Whalen, 74, Canadian television personality and journalist, heart attack.




= 5

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Anton Benya, 89, Austrian politician and trade unionist.
Peter Blake, 53, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist, shot.
Muhamed Kreševljaković, 62, Bosnian politician and Mayor of Sarajevo.
Franco Rasetti, 100, Italian-American physicist.
Bill Roberts, 89, British athlete.
Dharam Singh, 82, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.
Tomás Vio, 80, Argentine basketball player.




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Colin Buchanan, 94, Scottish town planner.
Robert W. Camac, 61, American thoroughbred horse racing trainer and breeder, murdered.
Thomas William Gould, 86, English Royal Navy submariner and World War II hero (Victoria Cross).
Charles McClendon, 78, American football player (University of Kentucky) and coach (Louisiana State University).
Walt Mulconery, 69, American film editor (Flashdance, The Karate Kid, Touch and Go).




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David Astor, 89, British newspaper proprietor.
Eva Calvo, 80, Mexican actress.
Wally Cruice, 88, American NFL football player, assistant coach, and scout.
James Crutchfield, 89, American blues singer, piano player and songwriter, heart disease.
Peter Elias, 78, American information theorist, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
Faith Hubley, 77, American animator (Moonbird, The Hole, Sesame Street, A Doonesbury Special), breast cancer.
Billie Matthews, 71, American gridiron football coach.
Subrata Mitra, 70, Indian cinematographer.
Pauline Moore, 87, American actress (Heidi, The Three Musketeers, Young Mr. Lincoln, Charlie Chan at Treasure Island), ALS.
Ray Powell, 73, British politician.




= 8

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Agha Shahid Ali, 52, Kashmiri-American poet, brain cancer.
Mirza Delibašić, 47, Bosnian and Yugoslav basketball player and coach.
Maurice Gross, 67, French linguist and scholar.
Betty Holberton, 84, American computer programmer, one of six original programmers of the ENIAC computer.
Pete Perreault, 62, American gridiron football player.
Sergei Suponev, 38, Soviet/Russian television director and children's television presenter, snowmobile accident.
Miroslav Vlach, 66, Czech ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.
George Young, 71, American football executive.




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Cesina Bermudes, 93, Portuguese obstetrician and feminist.
Michael Carver, Baron Carver, 86, British Field Marshal.
Joseph Mees, 78, Belgian prelate of the Catholic Church.
Frederick Stewart, 85, British geologist.
Lisa Welander, 92, Swedish neurologist.




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Mikhail Budyko, 81, Russian climatologist.
Gus Doerner, 79, American basketball player.
Alan Fennell, 65, British writer and editor.
Knut Fægri, 92, Norwegian botanist and palaeoecologist.
Ashok Kumar, 90, Indian film actor, heart failure.
Vernon Richards, 86, Anglo-Italian anarchist, author, and photographer.
Heinz Rögner, 72, German conductor.




= 11

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Beverly Hope Atkinson, 66, American actress, cancer.
Andrei Bantikov, 87, Russian and Soviet painter.
Graham Billing, 65, New Zealand novelist, journalist and poet.
Mainza Chona, 71, Zambian politician and diplomat, kidney failure.
Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar, 92, Indian indologist and scholar.
Zdeněk Dítě, 81, Czechoslovak film actor.
Teguh Karya, 64, Indonesian film director, complications from a stroke.
Clark Mills, 86, American boatbuilder and designer.
John Wilkinson Taylor, 95, American academic and UNESCO director-general.




= 12

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Friedel Apelt, 99, German political activist and trades union official.
Josef Bican, 88, Austrian-Czech footballer.
Ardito Desio, 104, Italian explorer, geologist, and cartographer.
Berit Granquist, 92, Swedish Olympic fencer (women's foil at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
Armando Theodoro Hunziker, 82, Argentine botanist (Botanical Museum of the National University of Córdoba), cancer.
Farnham Johnson, 77, American gridiron football player (Chicago Rockets).
Lê Phổ, 94, Vietnamese painter.
Giuseppe Prisco, 80, Italian lawyer and sporting director.
Jean Richard, 80, French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur, cancer.
Roger Scotti, 76, French football player.
U. S. Grant Sharp, Jr., 95, United States Navy admiral.
William Stobie, 51, Northern Irish paramilitary, shot.




= 13

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Michael Bradshaw, 68, English actor.
Larry Costello, 70, American basketball player and coach, cancer.
Yvan Craipeau, 90, French Trotskyist.
Jack Hoffman, 71, American gridiron football player (Xavier University, Chicago Bears).
György Kőszegi, 51, Hungarian weightlifter and Olympic silver medalist.
Nigel Lovell, 85, Australian actor and opera director.
Beatrice Macola, 36, Italian actress, cerebral infarction.
Vidadi Narimanbekov, 75, Azerbaijani painter.
Chuck Schuldiner, 34, American death metal guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, brain cancer.
Dušan Slobodník, 74, Slovak literary theoretician, translator and politician.




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Conte Candoli, 74, American jazz trumpeter, prostate cancer.
Arghiri Emmanuel, 90, French marxian economist.
Alfred Byrd Graf, 100, German-American botanist, photographer and author.
John Guedel, 88, American radio and television producer (You Bet Your Life, People Are Funny, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet).
Pauline Mills McGibbon, 91, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.
Claude Santelli, 78, French film director and screenwriter.
W. G. Sebald, 57, German writer, car collision.
Eoin Ryan, Snr, 81, Irish politician and senator.




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Wilkie Cooper, 90, British cinematographer (Jason and the Argonaut).
Russ Haas, 27, American professional wrestler, heart failure.
Bianca Halstead, 36, American hard rock singer, traffic collision.
Franciszek Kępka, 61, Polish glider pilot and European champion.
José O'Callaghan Martínez, 79, Spanish Jesuit priest and biblical scholar.
Rufus Thomas, 84, American R&B/soul singer, heart failure.




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Stuart Adamson, 43, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist of Big Country and The Raphaels, suicide by hanging.
Roy Brocksmith, 56, American actor, diabetes.
Stefan Heym, 88, German writer, heart failure.
Martin Isaksson, 80, Finnish politician and diplomat.
Carwood Lipton, 81, American soldier during World War II and member of the Band of Brothers.
Lester Persky, 76, American film, television, and theatre producer, complications following heart surgery.
Villy Sørensen, 72, Danish writer, philosopher and literary critic.
Lincoln Tate, 67, American actor and marine.




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Mohammad al-Husayni al-Shirazi, 73, Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja' and political theorist.
Gerald Ashby, 52, English football referee, heart attack.
Luigi Bertoldi, 81, Italian socialist politician.
Fred Chaney, Sr., 87, Australian politician.
Nelson Chelle, 70, Uruguayan basketball player.
Frédéric de Pasquale, 70, French actor.
Martin Glaberman, 83, American marxist writer , historian, and academic.
Martha Mödl, 89, German soprano, and later mezzo-soprano.
Wale Ogunyemi, 62, Nigerian dramatist, film actor, and playwright.
Aleksandr Volodin, 82, Soviet and Russian playwright, screenwriter and poet.
Alf Wood, 86, English football goalkeeper and manager.




= 18

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Gilbert Bécaud, 74, French singer, composer ("What Now My Love"), pianist and actor, lung cancer.
Dan DeCarlo, 82, American cartoonist (Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Josie and the Pussycats, Cheryl Blossom), pneumonia.
Dimitris Dragatakis, 87, Greek classical music composer.
Mary Hardwick, 88, English tennis player.
Bill Howerton, 80, American baseball player.
Kira Ivanova, 38, Soviet Olympic figure skater (bronze medal winner in women's figure skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics), homicide.
Jim Letherer, 67, American civil rights activist.
Marcel Mule, 100, French saxophonist.
Tolomush Okeyev, 66, Kyrgyz screenwriter and film director.
Amal Kumar Sarkar, 100, Indian judge and Chief Justice.
Fyodor Shutkov, 77, Russian sailor.
Marcelle Tassencourt, 87, French actress and theatre director.
Cecil Waidyaratne, 63, Sri Lankan general.
Clifford T. Ward, 57, English singer-songwriter, pneumonia.




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Susheela Gopalan, 71, Indian communist leader and politician.
Christine Kittrell, 72, American R&B singer, emphysema.
Wang Ruowang, 83, Chinese author and dissident, lung cancer.
Julia Sánchez, 71, Peruvian track and field sprinter.
Hans Warren, 80, Dutch writer, liver problems.
Dale Waters, 92, American football player.
Jakob Weidemann, 78, Norwegian artist.
Arkie Whiteley, 37, Australian actress (A Town Like Alice, Mad Max 2, Princess Caraboo), adrenal cancer.
Kiyoji Ōtsuji, 78, Japanese photographer, photography theorist, and educator.




= 20

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Manuhuia Bennett, 85, New Zealand anglican prelate.
Foster Brooks, 89, American actor and comedian, heart failure.
Edward Evans, 87, English film and television actor (The Grove Family, Coronation Street, Z-Cars).
Kōji Nanbara, 74, Japanese actor, heart attack.
Léopold Sédar Senghor, 95, Senegalese politician and poet, President (1960 -1980).
Joan Wheeler, 88, American actress.




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Heinz Macher, 81, German Waffen-SS member and Nazi official during World War II.
Kevin Manser, 72, Australian actor, cancer.
Jacques Mauclair, 82, French film actor.
Ed Salem, 73, American gridiron football player, complications from diabetes.
Dick Schaap, 67, American sportswriter, broadcaster, and author.
Thomas Sebeok, 81, Hungarian-American polymath, semiotician, and linguist.
Leonid Smirnov, 85, Soviet statesman.
Namık Kemal Yolga, 87, Turkish diplomat and statesman.
Vladimir Zherikhin, 56, Soviet/Russian paleoentomologist and coleopterist.




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Grzegorz Ciechowski, 44, Polish rock musician (Republika) and film music composer, heart attack after surgery.
Bob Davis, 68, American baseball player.
Angèle Durand, 76, Belgian singer and actress.
Lance Fuller, 73, American actor.
Jovan Gojković, 26, Serbian football player, traffic collision.
Shidzue Katō, 104, Japanese feminist and politician.
Jan Kott, 87, Polish theatre critic and political activist, heart attack.
Lance Loud, 50, American television personality and magazine columnist, liver failure as a result of hepatitis C.
Jacques Mayol, 74, French diver and holder of many records in free diving, suicide by hanging.
Gene Taylor, 72, American jazz double bassist.
Liu Zihou, 92, Chinese politician, governor of Hubei and Hebei.




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Mark Clinton, 86, Irish Fine Gael politician.
Vicente Gómez, 90, Spanish guitarist and composer.
Bola Ige, 71, Nigerian lawyer and politician (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Nigeria), shot.
Dimitri Obolensky, 83, Russian-born British historian.
Pedro Richards, 45, English footballer, pneumonia.
Donald C. Spencer, 89, American mathematician,.
Jelle Zijlstra, 83, Dutch politician and economist, Prime Minister (1966-1967), dementia.




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Doug Adam, 78, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
Hiroshi Kuroki, 94, Japanese politician and governor of Miyazaki Prefecture, pneumonia.
Robert Leckie, 81, United States Marine and author, Alzheimer's disease.
Harvey Martin, 51, American gridiron football player, pancreatic cancer.
Hank Soar, 87, American gridiron football player.
Gareth Williams, 48, British musician (This Heat), cancer.




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Mike Davis, 45, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
Bryan Drake, 76, New Zealand operatic baritone.
Andrew J. Evans Jr., 83, American air force officer and flying ace.
Ramón García, 77, Cuban baseball player.
Alfred A. Tomatis, 81, French otolaryngologist and inventor.
Billy Wells, 70, American football player.




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Jacques Cauvin, French archaeologist.
Edward Downes, 90, American musicologist, radio personality, and music critic.
Nigel Hawthorne, 72, British actor (The Madness of King George, Yes Minister, Tarzan), pancreatic cancer, heart attack.
Paul Landres, 89, American film and television editor and director, cancer.
Tom McBride, 87, American baseball player.
George Rochester, 93, British physicist, heart failure.




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Momčilo Cemović, 73, Montenegrin politician.
Pete D'Alonzo, 72, American gridiron football player.
Robert Fowler, 70, South African cyclist (silver medal winner of the men's cycling team pursuit at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
Ian Hamilton, 63, British critic, poet, magazine publisher, cancer.
John Hoffman, 58, American baseball player.
Paul Hogarth, 84, British artist.
Boris Rybakov, 83, Russian historian.
Helen Rodríguez Trías, 72, American pediatrician and women's rights activist, cancer.




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Frankie Gaye, 60, American soul musician and brother of Marvin Gaye, heart attack.
T. R. Govindachari, 86, Indian chemist and academic.
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.
Sam Solon, 70, American politician, malignant melanoma.
Gerard van Leijenhorst, 73, Dutch politician and chemist.




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Tom Bourke, 83, Australian rugby player.
Cássia Eller, 39, Brazilian singer and musician, heart attack.
Florian Fricke, 57, German musician, stroke.
György Kepes, 95, Hungarian-American painter, photographer, designer, and art theorist.
Anatoly Kubatsky, 93, Soviet/Russian actor.
Clinton D. McKinnon, 95, American politician and journalist.
Josef Věntus, 70, Czech rower ad Olympic medalist.
Louis Waltniel, 76, Belgian politician and industrialist.




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Eric Cheney, 77, British motorcycle designer.
Chaim Kreiswirth, 83, Belgian orthodox rabbi.
Samuel Mockbee, 57, American architect, leukemia.
Ray Patterson, 90, American animator (The Smurfs, Dumbo, Challenge of the GoBots).
Sheila Sherlock, 83, British physician, pulmonary fibrosis.
Ralph Sutton, 79, American jazz pianist, stroke.
Vladislav Čáp, 75, Czech figure skater.




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Mathew H. Ahmann, 70, American Catholic layman and civil rights activist, cancer.
John Grigg, 2nd Baron Altrincham, 77, British writer, historian and politician.
Guido di Tella, 70, Argentine businessman, academic and diplomat, cerebral hemorrhage.
Eileen Heckart, 82, American actress (Butterflies Are Free, The Bad Seed, The First Wives Club), Oscar winner (1973), lung cancer.
Paul Hubschmid, 84, Swiss actor (Funeral in Berlin, My Fair Lady, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms), pulmonary embolism.
Harshad Mehta, 47, Indian stockbroker and fraudster.
Bernie Purcell, 73, Australian rugby player and coach.
T. M. Chidambara Ragunathan, 78, Tamil, writer, journalist and literary critic.
David Swift, 82, American screenwriter and film director (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Parent Trap, Pollyanna), heart failure.




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