• Source: Deaths in July 2001

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.




July 2001






= 1

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Nikolay Basov, 78, Soviet physicist and co-winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964.
Bob Cifers, 80, American professional football player (Detroit Lions, Pittsburgh Steelers, Green Bay Packers).
Halina Czerny-Stefańska, 78, Polish pianist.
Hélène de Beauvoir, 91, French painter and sister of Simone de Beauvoir.
Tony Leswick, 78, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.




= 2

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Ron Forwick, 57, Canadian football player, cancer.
Jack Gwillim, 91, English character actor (My Fair Lady, Lawrence of Arabia, A Man for All Seasons, Patton).
Israel Shahak, 68, Israeli organic chemist and civil rights activist, diabetes.
James P. Vreeland, 91, American Republican Party politician.




= 3

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Delia Derbyshire, 64, British musician and composer of electronic music (BBC Radiophonic Workshop), renal failure.
Gerald L. Geison, 58, American historian, enlarged heart.
Lelord Kordel, 92, Polish-American nutritionist and author of books on healthy living.
Billy Liddell, 79, Scottish footballer.
Baharuddin Lopa, 65, Indonesian attorney general, heart failure.
John Marriott, 78, British philatelist.
Roy Nichols, 68, American guitarist (lead guitarist for Merle Haggard's band), heart attack.
Mordecai Richler, 69, Canadian author, (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Barney's Version, Jacob Two-Two), kidney cancer.
Johnny Russell, 61, American country singer ("Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer") and songwriter ("Act Naturally").
Paolo Silveri, 87, Italian baritone.
Ivan Slamnig, 71, Croatian poet, novelist, and literary theorist.




= 4

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Roberto Cabrejas, 48, Spanish Olympic high jumper, traffic collision.
Omar Ali Juma, 60, Chief Minister of Zanzibar from 25 January 1988 to October 1995.
Serafim Pinto Ribeiro Júnior, 85, Brazilian football player.
Charles Neider, 86, American writer.
Charles Saxton, 88, New Zealand cricketer, rugby player and coach, emphysema.
Anthony Synnot, 79, officer in the Royal Australian Navy.
Joan-Josep Tharrats, 83, Spanish painter, art theorist and publisher.
Anne Yeats, 82, Irish painter, costume and stage designer.




= 5

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Ely Callaway Jr., 82, American entrepreneur and golf club maker.
George Dawson, 103, American author.
A. D. Flowers, 84, American film special effects artist (Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Poseidon Adventure, Apocalypse Now), Oscar winner (1971, 1973), pneumonia.
Ernie K-Doe, 68, African-American rhythm-and-blues singer ("Mother-in-Law"), liver cirrhosis.
Hannelore Kohl, 68, wife of former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, suicide.
Keenan Milton, 26, American professional skateboarder, drowned.




= 6

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Jack Francis, 93, Australian sportsman.
Derek Freeman, 84, New Zealand anthropologist.
Enrique Mateos, 66, Spanish footballer.
Viktor Yakushev, 63, Soviet ice hockey player.




= 7

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Dempsey J. Barron, 79, American politician, President of the Florida Senate.
Molly Lamont, 91, British film actress.
Surender Kumar Malik, 58, Indian mathematician.
Fred Neil, 65, American folk singer and songwriter ("Everybody's Talkin'").
Toni Pagot, 79, Italian comics artist and animator.
Joseph Stulac, 66, Canadian basketball player.
John Roland Sweeney, 70, Canadian politician, heart attack.
Tim Temerario, 95, American football coach and executive, heart failure.




= 8

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Rolim Amaro, 58, Brazilian pilot and airline owner, helicopter crash.
Ernst Baier, 95, German Olympic figure skater (gold medal winner in pairs and silver medal winner in men's singles at the 1936 Winter Olympics).
Big Ed, 29, American rapper, throat cancer.
Christl Haas, 57, Austrian skier and Olympic champion, heart attack.
William Kuhlemeier, 92, American gymnast and 1932 Olympic bronze medalist in Los Angeles.
Jia Lanpo, 92, Chinese palaeoanthropologist.
Amiya Bhushan Majumdar, 83, Indian writer.
Neil Midgley, 58, English football referee, cancer.
John O'Shea, 81, New Zealand film director (Broken Barrier, Runaway, Don't Let It Get You).
Irma Seikkula, 87, Finnish actress.




= 9

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Maria Chabot, 87, American advocate of Native American arts and rancher.
Al Lary, 72, American baseball player, drowned.
Jorge Novak, 73, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, stomach cancer.
Thomas F. Schweigert, 83, American politician.
Willy Sommer, 76, Swiss football striker and manager.
Arie van Vliet, 85, Dutch Olympic sprint cyclist.




= 10

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Humayun Rashid Choudhury, 72, Bangladeshi diplomat and politician.
Tony Criscola, 86, American baseball player.
Geoffrey Clarkson, 57, English rugby player.
Giulio Gerardi, 88, Italian Olympic cross-country skier (men's 18 kilometre and men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay at the 1936 Winter Olympics).
Jean-Claude Grèt, 70, Swiss racing cyclist.
Álvaro Magaña, 75, Salvadorean politician, President (1982–1984).




= 11

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Herman Brood, 54, Dutch rock musician and painter, suicide by jumping.
Cândida Branca Flor, 51, Portuguese entertainer and singer, suicide.
Salamat Ali Khan, 66, Pakistani vocalist and artist, kidney failure.
Qateel Shifai, 81, Pakistani poet.
Marco Zanuso, 85, Italian architect and designer.




= 12

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James Bernard, 75, English film composer (The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula) and screenwriter (Seven Days to Noon), Oscar winner (1952).
Bill Crabtree, 86, Australian politician.
Juan Nepomuceno Guerra Cárdenas, 85, Mexican crime lord, bootlegger, and smuggler, respiratory disease.
Vlado Dapčević, 84, Yugoslav-Montenegrin communist and revolutionary.
Mirvarid Dilbazi, 88, Azerbaijani poet.
John H. Holdridge, 76, American diplomat, pulmonary fibrosis.
Ron Kroon, 58, Dutch Olympic freestyle swimmer.
Paul Magloire, 93, Haitian politician, President (1950–1956).
Fred Marcellino, 61, American illustrator and children's author, colorectal cancer.
Alioune Sarr, 92, Senegalese historian, author and politician.
Charleszetta Waddles, 88, American activist and church minister.
Johnny Wright, 72, British boxer and Olympic silver medalist.




= 13

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Miguel Gila Cuesta, 82, Spanish comedian and actor, respiratory disease.
Bill Fogarty, 79, Australian politician.
César López Fretes, 78, Paraguayan football player.
Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gryfe, 89, British politician.
David Noyes Jackson, 78, American writer and artist.
Åse-Marie Nesse, 67, Norwegian philologist, translator and poet, cancer.
Eleanor Summerfield, 80, English actress (Laughter in Paradise, Odongo, Dentist in the Chair, On the Fiddle, The Running Man).
Juan José Timón, 63, Uruguayan cyclist.
Mohamed Zafzaf, 56, Morrocon novelist and poet, cancer.




= 14

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John Lax, 89, American ice hockey player.
Agustín Navarro, Spanish film director, respiratory disease.
Jack Sheppard, 92, British cave diver.
Karen-Sofie Styrmoe, 70, Norwegian Olympic alpine skier.




= 15

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Anthony Ian Berkeley, 36, American rapper and producer, colon cancer.
Ted Berman, 81, American film director, animator, and screenwriter (Bambi, Fantasia, The Black Cauldron).
Tom Chantrell, 84, British film poster artist (The King and I, One Million Years B.C., Far From The Madding Crowd).
Helge Rognlien, 81, Norwegian politician.
Marina Știrbei, 89, Romanian aviator.




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Tom Askwith, 90, British Olympic rower (1932 Summer Olympics, 1936 Summer Olympics) and a colonial administrator.
Terry Gordy, 40, pro wrestler (Fabulous Freebirds), heart attack.
Christina Cruickshank Miller, 101, Scottish chemist.
Morris, 77, Belgian cartoonist (Lucky Luke), embolism.
Beate Uhse-Rotermund, 81, German female stunt pilot, Luftwaffe pilot during World War II and sex shop owner, pneumonia.




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Timur Apakidze, 47, Russian fighter pilot and navy officer, aviation accident.
Sara Ashurbeyli, 95, Azerbaijani historian, orientalist and scholar.
Abel Carlevaro, 84, Uruguay classical guitar composer, performer and teacher.
Yehiel De-Nur, 92, Israeli writer and Holocaust survivor, cancer.
Val Feld, 53, Welsh politician, cancer.
Katharine Graham, 84, American publisher (The Washington Post), horse fall.
Elon Hogsett, 97, American baseball player.
Wilhelm Simetsreiter, 86, German football player.
Ziya Taner, 77, Macedonian-Turkish football manager.




= 18

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Roderic Bowen, 87, Welsh lawyer and Liberal Party politician.
Phillip Alexander Clancey, 83, British ornithologist.
Mimi Fariña, 56, American singer-songwriter and activist, neuroendocrine cancer.
Roy Gilchrist, 67, West Indian cricket player, Parkinson's disease.
Alex Jany, 72, French Olympic swimmer (two-time bronze medal winner in men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle swimming relay at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics).
Ritchie Johnston, 70, New Zealand Olympic track cyclist (men's 2000 metre tandem sprint cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics).
Ika Panajotovic, 69, Serbian-American film producer and tennis player, cardiac arrest during surgery, heart attack.
Barry Shetrone, 63, American baseball player.
Fabio Taglioni, 80, Italian automotive engineer.




= 19

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Erik Barnouw, 93, American historian of radio and television broadcasting.
Paul Beeson, 79, British cinematographer.
Judy Clay, 62, American soul and gospel singer.
Gunther Gebel-Williams, 83, Polish-American animal trainer (Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus), cancer.
Neil Carmichael, Baron Carmichael of Kelvingrove, 79, British politician.
Charles King, 89, British cyclist and Olympic medalist.
Peter Lucas, 68, New Zealand Olympic rower.




= 20

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Oscar Arredondo, 83, Cuban paleontologist and ornithologist.
Thomas Fantl, 72, German film director and screenwriter.
Milt Gabler, 90, American record producer.
Carlo Giuliani, 23, Italian anti-globalization demonstrator, shot.




= 21

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Muqbil bin Haadi al-Waadi'ee, Islamic scholar, liver disease.
Steve Barton, 47, American actor (The Phantom of the Opera, The Red Shoes), suicide.
Carlo Bo, 90, Italian poet and literary critic.
Antal Bánkuti, 78, Hungarian basketball player.
Krste Crvenkovski, 80, Yugoslav communist politician.
Sivaji Ganesan, 74, Indian actor.
Einar Schleef, 57, German dramatist, director, writer, painter, and actor, heart disease.




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Bertie Felstead, 106, British World War I soldier and the last witness of the Christmas truce of 1914.
Fanny Brennan, 80, French-American surrealist artist and painter.
Bob Ferguson, 73, American country music songwriter and record producer, cancer.
Maria Gorokhovskaya, 79, Soviet Olympic gymnast (two gold medals and five silver medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
Frances Horwich, 94, American educator, television personality and television executive, heart failure.
Herbert L. Ley, Jr., 77, American physician and head of the U.S. F.D.A., cardiovascular disease.
Indro Montanelli, 92, Italian journalist and historian, urinary tract infection.
Stanley Jedidiah Samartha, 80, Indian theologian.




= 23

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Douglas Boyle, 77, Canadian navy officer.
André Fouché, 92, French actor.
Zhang Pinghua, 93, Chinese politician.
Eudora Welty, 92, American short story writer and novelist (Pulitzer Prize for The Optimist's Daughter, pneumonia.




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Carrie Best, 98, Canadian journalist and social activist.
Georges Dor, 70, Canadian singer and songwriter ("Le Manic"), playwright and theatrical producer.
Nathan Isgur, 54, American-Canadian theoretical physicist, multiple myeloma.
Hiroshi Tsuburaya, 37, Japanese actor, liver cancer.




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Jenner Armour, 68, Dominica politician and barrister.
Phoolan Devi, 37, Indian dacoit and politician, assassinated.
Josef Klaus, 90, Austrian politician, chancellor (1964-1970).
Carmen Portinho, 98, Brazilian civil engineer, urbanist, and feminist.
Fahd bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 46, member of the House of Saud, heart failure.




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Rex T. Barber, 84, American fighter pilot during World War II.
Jacques Bens, 70, French writer and poet.
Henry Coston, 90, French far-right journalist, collaborationist and conspiracy theorist.
H. Rex Lee, 91, American government diplomat and governor.
Rudolf Nussgruber, 83, Austrian film director.
Giorgi Sanaia, 26, Georgian television journalist, homicide.
Giuseppe Sensi, 94, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Peter von Zahn, 88, German author, film maker, and journalist.




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Harold Beeley, 92, British diplomat.
Piet Bromberg, 84, Dutch field hockey player and Olympic medalist.
Harold Land, 72, American hard bop and post-bop tenor saxophonist, stroke.
Rhonda Sing, 40, Canadian professional wrestler, heart attack.
Leon Wilkeson, 49, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd).




= 28

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Eric Bedford, 91, British architect.
Joan Finney, 76, American politician and 42nd governor of Kansas (1991–1995), liver cancer.
Eldon Grier, 84, Canadian poet and artist.
Siddiq Khan Kanju, 100, Pakistani politician.
Baby LeRoy, 69, American child actor.
Ahmed Sofa, 58, Bangladeshi writer, novelist, and poet, cardiac arrest.
Martin Stern, Jr., 84, American architect.
Fūtarō Yamada, 79, Japanese author.




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Edward Gierek, 88, Polish communist politician, First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party (1970-1980), lung cancer.
Wau Holland, 49, German computer hacker, stroke.
Tommy Millar, 62, Scottish football player.
Alex Nicol, 85, American actor (South Pacific, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits).
Edward Roberts, 93, British Anglican prelate.
Elizabeth Yates, 95, American children's author.




= 30

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Dennis Coralluzzo, 48, American professional wrestling promoter, brain hemorrhage.
Ekkehard Gries, 64, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
Joseph-Philippe Guay, 85, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons).
Bill Schelter, 54, American professor of mathematics and developer of Lisp, heart attack.
Anton Schwarzkopf, 77, German roller coaster manufacturer, Parkinson's disease.
Petar B. Vasilev, 83, Bulgarian film director and screenwriter.
John Walters, 62, British radio producer, presenter and musician, heart attack.
Irina Zaritskaya, 62, Ukrainian pianist.




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Poul Anderson, 74, American science fiction author (seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards), cancer.
Bill Borthwick, 76, Australian politician.
Pelageya Danilova, 83, Russian artistic gymnast and Olympian.
Arthur Geoffrey Dickens, 91, British historian.
Philip Gaskell, 75, British bibliographer and librarian.
Francisco da Costa Gomes, 87, Portuguese military officer and politician, president (1974-1976).
Satur Grech, 87, Spanish football player and manager.
Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 91, German heir and Waffen-SS officer during World War II.
Joris Tjebbes, 71, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympian.
Miklós Vásárhelyi, 83, Hungarian journalist and politician, member of the National Assembly (1990–1994).




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