• Source: Deaths in February 2001

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.




February 2001






= 1

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Vinnie Burke, 79, American jazz bassist.
Nikolay Devyatkov, 93, Soviet and Russian scientist and inventor.
Sam Harshaney, 90, American baseball player.
Harry How, 81, Canadian politician.
John Jarrard, 47, American country music songwriter, respiratory failure.
Amryl Johnson, 56, Trinidadian poet and writer.
Harold Maguire, 88, British air marshal and Director-General of Intelligence.
Rafael Lapesa Melgar, 92, Spanish philologist and literature historian.
John Pierrakos, 79, Greek-American physician and psychiatrist.
Leslie Vincent, 91, American actor (Forever Amber, Destry Rides Again, Paris Underground).




= 2

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June Lazenby Green, 87, American district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Carol Anne Letheren, 58, Canadian Olympic Association official, brain aneurysm.
Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer, 75, French classical pianist.
Freddy Wittop, 89, Dutch costume designer (winner of Tony Award for Best Costume Design for Hello Dolly!).




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Helmut Gude, 75, German Olympic middle-distance runner (men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
Frederick Lawton, 89, British judge.
Teiichi Nishi, 93, Japanese sprinter and Olympian.
Gerald Suster, 49, British revisionist historian, occult writer, and novelist.




= 4

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Wilhelm Altvater, 80, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
Sonia Arova, 73, Bulgarian ballerina, pancreatic cancer.
Jean Ausseil, 75, Monegasque politician, Minister of State (1985 and 1991).
David Beattie, 76, New Zealand jurist and Governor-General.
Barry Cockcroft, 68, British television documentary director and filmmaker (Too Long a Winter).
Alyaksandar Dubko, 63, Belarusian politician.
Larry Fisher, 93, American real estate developer and philanthropist.
J. J. Johnson, 77, American jazz trombonist, suicide by gunshot.
Raimo Kangro, 51, Estonian composer.
Alois Lipburger, 44, Austrian ski jumper, traffic collision.
Dragan Maksimović, 51, Serbian actor, beaten.
Allan Mansley, 54, English football player, heart attack.
Ernie McCoy, 79, American racecar driver.
Natalia Melmann, 15, Argentinian murder victim.
Pankaj Roy, 72, Indian cricketer.
Tony Steedman, 73, English actor.
Iannis Xenakis, 78, Greek-French composer.




= 5

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Jean Davy, 89, French actor.
Mark Joseph Hurley, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate, aneurysm.
David Iftody, 44, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons for Provencher, Manitoba), snowmobile accident.
Elsa Irigoyen, 81, Argentine Olympic fencer (women's fencing foil at the 1948 Summer Olympics and the 1952 Summer Olympics).
Jack Shapiro, 93, American gridiron football player.
Fernando Viola, 49, Italian football player, traffic collision.
Jean Denton, Baroness Denton of Wakefield, 65, British politician and racing driver.
Inna Zubkovskaya, 77, Russian ballerina.




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Geoffrey Bibby, 83, English-Danish archaeologist.
Kojo Botsio, 84, Ghanaian diplomat and politician.
Gus Boulis, 51, Greek-born American businessman and murder victim, homicide.
Fulgence Charpentier, 103, French Canadian journalist, editor and publisher, pneumonia.
Stephen Halaiko, 92, American Olympic boxer (silver medal winner in lightweight boxing at the 1928 Summer Olympics).
Agha Hilaly, 90, Pakistani diplomat.
Arthur W. Hummel, 80, American diplomat.
Jack Hyles, 74, American Baptist megachurch pastor, heart failure.
Filemon Lagman, 47, Filipino revolutionary socialist and workers' leader, homicide.
Folke Lind, 87, Swedish football player.
R. W. Southern, 88, British medieval historian.
Charles Tran Van Lam, 87, South Vietnamese diplomat and politician.
Emily Vermeule, 72, American classical scholar and archaeologist, heart disease.




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Jean-Paul Beugnot, 69, French basketball player and coach.
Marianne Breslauer, 91, German photographer and photojournalist.
Dieter Dengler, 62, German-American aviator and Vietnam War prisoner-of-war escapee (Little Dieter Needs to Fly), suicide by gunshot.
Dale Evans, 88, American actress, singer and wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers, heart failure.
Michael Grylls, 66, British politician.
Helmut Hentrich, 95, German architect.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 94, American author, aviator, and wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh, stroke, pneumonia.
Stanley Lingar, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
King Moody, 71, American actor (Get Smart) and comedian.




= 8

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Ivo Caprino, 80, Norwegian film director and writer, cancer.
Roger Delage, 78, French musicologist and conductor.
Leslie Edwards, 84, British ballet dancer.
Arlene Eisenberg, 66, American family and parenting writer (What to Expect When You're Expecting), breast cancer.
Walter Generati, 87, Italian road bicycle racer.
Pauline Koner, 88, American dancer and choreographer.
Chen Lifu, 100, Chinese politician and anti-communist of the Republic of China.
Muboraksho Mirzoshoyev, 39, Tajikistani musician and Tajik rock music pioneer, tuberculosis.
Brian Nissen, 73, British actor and television announcer.
Rousas John Rushdoony, 84, American historian, theologian and father of Christian Reconstructionism.




= 9

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Agustín Cárdenas, 73, Cuban sculptor.
Vicente Dauder, 76, Spanish football goalkeeper and manager.
William Epstein, 88, Canadian civil servant and United Nations disarmament official.
Leonard Mandel, 73, American physicist.
Reginald Marsh, 74, English actor.
Gunnar Seidenfaden, 92, Danish diplomat and botanist].
Herbert Simon, 84, American economist (Nobel Prize in Economics, Turing Award).
Dilbagh Singh, 74, Indian air marshal.




= 10

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Ramzan Akhmadov, 31, Chechen general, killed in action.
Lewis Arquette, 65, American actor (The Waltons, Tango & Cash, Scream 2), heart failure.
Abraham Beame, 94, American politician, 104th Mayor of New York City (1974–1977).
Kenneth E. BeLieu, 87, American government official.
Helge Bengtsson, 84, Swedish football player.
K. Thavamani Devi, Sri Lankan actress.
Niccolò Galli, 17, Italian promising footballer, traffic accident.
Johnny Hatley, 70, American football player (Chicago Bears, Chicago Cardinals, Denver Broncos), coach, executive, and rodeo performer.
Mogubai Kurdikar, 96, Indian classical vocalist.
Robert H. Lounsberry, 82, American politician.
Miné Okubo, 88, American artist and writer.
Buddy Tate, 87, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (Count Basie Orchestra).




= 11

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José Luis Borbolla, 81, Mexican footballer.
Edward E. Fitzgerald, 81, American sports author and editor (Book of the Month Club).
Sy Gomberg, 82, American screenwriter (When Willie Comes Marching Home), heart attack.
Olle Håkansson, 73, Swedish football player.
Jaiganesh, Indian Tamil film actor, cancer.
Raymond Lewis, 48, American basketball and streetball player, complications following leg amputation.
Masao Ono, 77, Japanese football player.
Charles C. Price, 87, American chemist.
Donald Sellers, 26, American gridiron football player, traffic accident.
Judita Vaičiūnaitė, 63, Lithuanian writer.
Maurice Zermatten, 90, French-speaking Swiss writer.




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Bhakti Barve, 52, Indian actress, traffic collision.
Rosalie Gwathmey, 92, American painter and photographer.
Tiberio Mitri, 74, Italian boxer, railway accident.
Franco Pedroni, 74, Italian football player and manager.
Herbert Robbins, 86, American mathematician, statistician and co-author of What is Mathematics?.
Ralph Smart, 92, Australian film and television producer.
Kristina Söderbaum, 88, Swedish-German film actress, producer and photographer.




= 13

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Ugo Fano, 88, Italian-American physicist, Alzheimer's disease.
Manuela, 57, German singer, cancer.
Moses Taiwa Molelekwa, 27, South African jazz pianist, murdered.
George T. Simon, 88, American jazz writer and drummer.
Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington, 83, British politician.
Owen Torrey, 75, American sailor and Olympic medalist.
Victor Veysey, 85, American politician.




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Charles B. Fitzsimons, 76, Irish-American actor, film producer and director, liver disease.
Guy Grosso, 67, French actor and humorist.
Richard Laymon, 54, American horror author, heart attack.
Maurice Levitas, 84, Irish-born British sociologist.
Alan Ross, 78, Indian-British poet and editor.
Ploutis Servas, 93, Cypriot politician, journalist, and author.
Piero Umiliani, 74, Italian composer of film scores.
Helmut Wielandt, 90, German mathematician.
Jim Winkler, 73, American football player.




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Boris Goldovsky, 92, Russian-American conductor and broadcaster.
Dulal Guha, 72, Indian film director of Bollywood films in the 1960s and '70s.
Burt Kennedy, 78, American screenwriter and director (The War Wagon, Support Your Local Sheriff!, The Virginian, Combat!).
Ken Kiff, 65, English figurative artist.
Ricardo Otxoa, 26, Spanish cyclist, bicycle accident.
Edwin Plowden, Baron Plowden of Plowden, 94, British industrialist and public servant.
Folke K. Skoog, 92, Swedish-American plant physiologist.




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Ali Artuner, 56, Turkish footballer.
Bob Buhl, 72, American baseball player.
Jerry Frei, 76, American football player (Wisconsin) and coach (Oregon, Denver Broncos, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Chicago Bears).
Howard W. Koch, 84, American film and television director and producer (The Manchurian Candidate, Maverick), Alzheimer's disease.
William H. Masters, 85, American gynaecologist (Masters and Johnson), Parkinson's disease.
Bobby Scarr, 74, Canadian basketball player.
Helen Vita, 72, Swiss chanson singer, actress, and comedian, cancer.




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Debbie Dean, 73, American singer.
Gilly Flower, 92, English actress and model.
Bob Geary, 67, Canadian football player and manager in the Canadian Football League (CFL).
Juan Liscano, 86, Venezuelan poet, folklorist, writer and critic.
Matild Manukyan, 87, Turkish businesswoman of Armenian descent.
Khalid Abdul Muhammad, 53, American black nationalist leader (Nation of Islam, New Black Panther Party), brain aneurysm.
John Sutherland, 90, American film producer.
Richard Wurmbrand, 91, Romanian Lutheran priest and academic.
Zvonimir Červenko, 74, Croatian general.




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Balthus, 92, French painter.
Roger A. Caras, 72, American wildlife photographer, writer, and television personality, heart attack.
Sir Colin Cole, 78, British officer of arms.
Claude Davey, 92, Welsh rugby union player.
Dale Earnhardt, 49, American NASCAR race car driver, racing accident.
Francisco Espinosa, 54, Argentine racing driver.
Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr., 89, American journalist and author (Cheaper by the Dozen, Belles on Their Toes).
Franso Hariri, 64, Iraqi Kurdish politician.
Eddie Mathews, 69, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, pneumonia.
Georgi Minchev, 57, Bulgarian rock musician and TV presenter, cancer.
Panos Papadopulos, 80, German-Greek actor 1920-2001.
Butch Wensloff, 85, American baseball player.




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Theophilus Beckford, 65, Jamaican pianist and vocalist.
Stanley Kramer, 87, American film director and producer (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Defiant Ones, Judgment at Nuremberg), pneumonia.
Guy Rodgers, 65, American basketball player, heart attack.
Roland Stoltz, 69, Swedish ice hockey player.
Charles Trenet, 87, French singer-songwriter, stroke.




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Harry Boykoff, 78, American basketball player, lung cancer.
Irina Bugrimova, 90, Russian lion tamer, heart attack.
Rob Dawber, 45, British railwayman and writer (The Navigators), lung cancer caused by asbestos.
Rosemary DeCamp, 90, American actress (Yankee Doodle Dandy, That Girl), pneumonia.
Indrajit Gupta, 81, Indian politician.
Donella Meadows, 59, American environmental scientist, and writer, cerebral meningitis.
Yogi Ramsuratkumar, 82, Indian saint and mystic.
Bill Rigney, 83, American baseball player and manager.
Nam Sung-yong, 88, Korean long-distance runner and Olympic medalist.
Bob Weiskopf, 86, American screenwriter and producer for television.




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John MacKay, Baron MacKay of Ardbrecknish, 62, British politician.
Alfred Embarrato, 91, American mobster (Bonanno crime family).
Ileana Espinel, 67, Ecuadorian journalist, poet and writer.
Ronnie Hilton, 75, English singer ("No Other Love", "A Windmill in Old Amsterdam") and radio presenter (Sounds of the Fifties).
Desmond Leslie, 79, British pilot, film maker, writer, and musician, pulmonary emphysema.
José Lebrún Moratinos, 81, Venezuelan Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Caracas.
Fido Purpur, 86, American ice hockey player.
Philip Sandblom, 97, Swedish academic and sailor.
Malcolm Yelvington, 82, American rockabilly and country musician.




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Dennis Cox, 75, British cricketer.
John Fahey, 61, American guitarist and composer.
Radie Harris, 96, American journalist and newspaper columnist (The Hollywood Reporter).
Evelyn Holt, 92, German actress.
Les Medley, 80, England international footballer, natural causes.
Christopher Mitchell, 53, British actor, liver cancer.
Michel Oksenberg, 62, Belgian-American political scientist and China watcher, cancer.
Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos, 84, British politician.
André Pieters, 78, Belgian racing cyclist.
Lloyd Roberts, 38, American musician, homicide.




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Robert Enrico, 69, French film director and screenwriter, lung cancer.
Anthony Giacalone, 82, American organized crime figure in Detroit.
Sergio Mantovani, 71, Italian racing driver.
Caupolicán Ovalles, 64, Venezuelan avant-garde writer.
Dame Ruth Railton, 85, British music director and conductor.
Guy Wood, 89, English musician and songwriter.
Tincho Zabala, 78, Uruguayan actor.




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Phil Collier, 75, American sportswriter (1990 winner of J. G. Taylor Spink Award), prostate cancer.
Charles Fletcher-Cooke, 86, British politician.
Hans Holtedahl, 83, Norwegian geologist.
Andy Mulligan, 65, Irish rugby player.
Claude Shannon, 84, American electrical engineer and mathematician, Alzheimer's disease.




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Archie Randolph Ammons, 75, American poet and professor of English.
Édouard Artigas, 94, French fencer and Olympic champion.
Nuhu Bamalli, 84, Nigerian politician.
Helen Bennett, 89, American actress.
Don Bradman, 92, Australian cricketer, pneumonia.
Norbert Glanzberg, 90, French composer.
Giovanni Grimaldi, 84, Italian screenwriter, journalist and film director.
Bitsy Mott, 82, American baseball player.
Sigurd Raschèr, 93, German-American saxophonist.
John J. Tammaro Jr., 75, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer.
L. R. Wright, 61, Canadian writer and novelist, breast cancer.




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Dragoslav Avramović, 81, Serbian economist.
Georg Brauer, 92, German chemist.
Leif Haugen, 83, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier (men's 50 kilometre cross-country skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics).
Frances Lincoln, 55, English independent publisher, pneumonia.
Dee Mackey, 66, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
Duke Nalon, 87, American racing driver.
Arturo Uslar Pietri, 94, Venezuelan writer, television producer and politician, heart attack.
Yaakov Rechter, 76, Israeli architect.
Jean-Louis Ricci, 57, French racing driver.
Jale İnan, 87, Turkish archaeologist.




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Milton Barnes, 69, Canadian composer, conductor, and jazz drummer, heart attack.
Ralf D. Bode, 59, German-American cinematographer (Coal Miner's Daughter, Saturday Night Fever, Uncle Buck), lung cancer.
José García Nieto, 86, Spanish poet and writer.
Doyle Schick, 62, American gridiron football player.
Selwyn Toogood, 84, New Zealand radio and television personality.




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Stan Cullis, 84, British footballer and manager.
Gildas Molgat, 74, Canadian politician.
Raúl Planas, 80, Cuban singer and songwriter.
Charles Pozzi, 91, French racing driver.
K Sankunni, Indian film editor.




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