- Source: Deaths in June 2001
The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.
June 2001
= 1
=Peter Corr, 77, Irish footballer, Alzheimer's disease.
Nkosi Johnson, 12, South African AIDS awareness campaigner, AIDS.
Hank Ketcham, 81, American cartoonist (Dennis the Menace), prostate cancer.
Abe Silverstein, 92, American aerospace engineer.
Victims of the Nepalese royal massacre
King Birendra, 55, King of Nepal
Queen Aishwarya, 51, Queen of Nepal
Prince Nirajan, 22, son of Birendra and Aishwarya
Princess Shruti, 24, daughter of Birendra and Aishwarya
Prince Dhirendra, 51, brother of King Birendra
Princess Shanti, 60, sister of King Birendra
Princess Sharada, 59, sister of King Birendra
Princess Jayanti, 54, cousin of King Birendra
= 2
=Jim Bragan, 72, American baseball player, manager, and scout.
Imogene Coca, 92, American actress (Your Show of Shows), Alzheimer's disease.
John T. Fesperman, 76, American conductor, organist and author.
Kenneth Hayr, 66, British air marshal.
Joey Maxim, 79, American light heavyweight boxing champion.
Viktor Popkov, 54, Russian dissident, human rights activist and journalist, shot.
Pilar Seurat, 62, Filipino American film and television actress, lung cancer.
Frank Stagg, 89, American Southern Baptist theologian and author.
Adolf Thiel, 86, Austrian-German rocket scientist.
Gene Woodling, 78, American baseball player.
= 3
=Humayun Abdulali, 87, Indian ornithologist and biologist.
Nicholas Albery, 52, British social inventor and author, car accident.
J. C. Furnas, 95, American writer and social historian.
Otto Hemele, 75, Czech football player.
Jamake Highwater, 70, American writer and journalist, heart attack.
Andrea Prader, 81, Swiss scientist, physician, and pediatric endocrinologist.
Anthony Quinn, 86, Mexican-American actor (The Guns of Navarone, Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia), Oscar winner (1953, 1957), pneumonia.
Friedl Rinder, 95, German chess master.
Nino Valdez, 76, Cuban heavyweight boxing champion.
= 4
=Simone Benmussa, 69, French-Algerian author and theatre director, cancer.
John Corriden, 83, American baseball player.
John Hartford, 63, American musician and composer ("Gentle on My Mind"), lymphoma.
Chenjerai Hunzvi, 51, Zimbabwean politician, AIDS.
Dinos Iliopoulos, 85, Greek actor.
Lu Jiaxi, 85, Chinese physical chemist.
Felicitas Kukuck, 86, German music educator and composer of opera and other works.
Dipendra of Nepal, 29, Nepalese monarch and mass murderer, King of Nepal, perpetrator of the Nepalese royal massacre, suicide by gunshot.
Darshan Ranganathan, 60, Indian organic chemist, breast cancer.
Ruth Sanger, 82, Australian immunogeneticist, haematologist and serologist.
Horst Tüller, 70, German road and track cyclist.
Joan Vohs, 73, American model and actress (Fort Ti, Fireside Theater, Maverick, Perry Mason, Family Affair).
= 5
=Pedro Laín Entralgo, 93, Spanish medical historian.
Dennis Gillespie, 65, Scottish footballer.
Aaron Green, 84, American architect.
Howard Earl Johnston, 72, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons.
L. Fletcher Prouty, 84, American Chief of Special Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
= 6
=Alfonso Brescia, 71, Italian film director.
Marie Brémont, 115, French supercentenarian and the oldest recognized person in the world.
José Manuel Castañón, 81, Spanish writer.
Ford Garrison, 85, American baseball player.
Douglas Lilburn, 85, New Zealand composer.
Ami Priyono, 61, Indonesian film director and actor.
Suzanne Schiffman, 71, French film director and screenwriter, cancer.
Lyubov Sokolova, 79, Soviet/Russian film actress, heart attack.
= 7
=Franco Balducci, 78, Italian film actor.
Víctor Paz Estenssoro, 93, Bolivian politician and four-term President of Bolivia.
Carole Fredericks, 49, American singer, heart attack.
Ken Green, 77, English footballer.
Boris Lavrenko, 81, Russian painter.
Betty Neels, 91, British novelist.
Charles Templeton, 85, Canadian cartoonist, broadcaster and writer, Alzheimer's disease.
Horace Walker, 64, American NBA Basketball player.
= 8
=Sam Boyd, 86, American football player and coach.
Alex de Renzy, 65, American director and producer of pornographic movies, cerebrovascular disease.
Lucien Lauk, 89, French racing cyclist.
Duncan MacIntyre, 85, New Zealand politician.
Kotayya Pratyagatma, 75, Indian film journalist, director and producer.
Dennis Puleston, 95, British-American environmentalist, adventurer and designer.
Nathaniel Rochester, 82, American computer scientist.
Don Roper, 78, English footballer.
Harry Watson, 79, American child actor and television journalism pioneer.
= 9
=Ronnie Allen, 72, English football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
Malcolm Cooper, 53, British sport shooter, cancer.
Richard T. Hanna, 87, American politician (U.S. Representative for California's 34th congressional district), (Koreagate).
Savva Kulish, 64, Soviet film director and screenwriter, cerebrovascular disease.
Yaltah Menuhin, 79, American-British pianist, artist and poet.
Deirdre O'Connell, 61, Irish American actress, singer, and theatre director, cancer.
Branko Pleša, 75, Serbian actor and theatre director.
= 10
=Joyce King, 80, Australian sprinter and Olympic silver medalist.
Jochen Liedtke, 48, German computer scientist.
John McKay, 77, American football assistant coach (Oregon Ducks) and head coach (USC Trojans, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), diabetes.
Mike Mentzer, 49, American bodybuilder, complications from IgA nephropathy.
Leila Pahlavi, 31, Iranian Princess and daughter of the Shah of Iran, suicide.
Alexander Zuyev, 39, Soviet pilot who defected to the US, plane crash.
= 11
=Lincoln Constance, 92, American botanist.
Pierre Eyt, 67, French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, cancer.
Lou Lombardo, 72, American baseball player.
Trevor Madondo, 24, Zimbabwean cricket player, malaria.
Timothy McVeigh, 33, American convicted terrorist (Oklahoma City bombing), execution by lethal injection.
Amalia Mendoza, 77, Mexican singer ("Échame a mi la culpa", "Amarga navidad"), lung disease.
John Elvin Shaffner, 90, Canadian businessman and political figure.
= 12
=Carl-Axel Acking, 91, Swedish architect, author and furniture designer.
Joseph Brady, 72, Scottish actor.
Owen Bush, 79, American television announcer and actor.
Peggy Cartwright, 88, Canadian silent film actress.
W. D. Davies, 89-90, Welsh congregationalist minister and theologian.
Viktor Hamburger, 100, German embryologist.
Ray Mentzer, 47, American bodybuilder.
Nkem Nwankwo, 65, Nigerian novelist and poet.
Jim Seminoff, 78, American basketball player.
Joseph W. Twinam, 66, American diplomat.
Paula Wiesinger, 94, Italian Olympic alpine skier and mountain climber.
Thomas Wilson, 73, Scottish composer.
= 13
=Gordon Christie, 86, New Zealand politician.
Marcelo Fromer, 39, Brazilian rock musician, traffic accident.
Luise Krüger, 86, German athlete and Olympic silver medalist.
Makanda Ken McIntyre, 69, American jazz musician and composer.
Yoshishige Saitō, 97, Japanese visual artist and art educator.
Rajzel Zychlinski, 90, Polish poet.
= 14
=Paul Carey, 38, American civil servant, endocrine cancer.
Oleg Fedoseyev, 65, Soviet Olympic long jump and triple jump athlete (silver medal winner in men's triple jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics).
Miroslav Marcovich, 82, Serbian-American philologist.
Gerry Melnyk, 66, Canadian ice hockey player.
Jay D. Scott, 48, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
Horace M. Wade, 85, American Air Force general.
= 15
=Henri Alekan, 92, French cinematographer, leukemia.
Mikhail Gluzsky, 82, Soviet/Russian actor, heart attack.
Leif Kayser, 82, Danish composer and organist.
Jay Moriarity, 22, American surfer, drowned.
Thomas S. Noonan, 63, American historian and anthropologist, cancer.
Marcelino Solis, 70, Mexican baseball player.
= 16
=Joe Darion, 84, American musical theatre lyricist (two-time Tony Award winner for Man of La Mancha: Tony Award for Best Musical, Tony Award for Best Original Score).
Alessandro Faedo, 87, Italian mathematician and politician.
Marta Hillers, 90, German journalist and author.
Wally Hood, 75, American baseball player.
Sam Jethroe, 84, American baseball player, heart attack.
Jay Rabinowitz, 74, American lawyer and jurist, complications of leukemia.
Jean-Maurice Simard, 69, Canadian Chartered Accountant and politician.
Sava Vuković, 71, Serbian Orthodox bishop.
Arthur Wheeler, 85, British motorcyclist.
= 17
=Diana Bellamy, 57, American actress (Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad, Outbreak, Popular), cancer.
John Broderick, 58, American film director, producer and screenwriter, kidney failure.
Donald J. Cram, 82, American chemist and co-winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987, cancer.
Ninfa Laurenzo, 77, American restaurateur, bone cancer.
Thomas Winning, 76, Scottish Roman Catholic cardinal, heart attack.
Mohammad Yunus, 84, Indian diplomat.
= 18
=Allan Burdon, 86, Australian politician.
Janine Crispin, 89, French film and television actress.
René Dumont, 97, French engineer, sociologist, and politician.
Dame Rosamund Holland-Martin, 86, British social welfare official and head of the NSPCC.
Gao Kelin, 94, Chinese politician.
Davorin Popović, 54, Bosnian singer-songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
Paolo Emilio Taviani, 88, Italian politician, economist and historian.
Karl Friedrich Titho, 90, German SS officer and war criminal during WorldWar II.
= 19
=Sargis Baghdasaryan, 77, Soviet Armenian sculptor.
Lindsay L. Cooper, 61, Scottish musician.
Jerry Cornes, 91, British athlete and Olympic silver medalist.
William Austin Forsyth, 83, Canadian politician.
Juan Garza, 44, American murderer and drug trafficker, execution by lethal injection.
John Heyer, 84, Australian documentary filmmaker (The Back of Beyond).
Ludwig Hörmann, 82, German cyclist.
Tom Keane, 74, American gridiron football player.
Robert Klippel, 81, Australian sculptor.
Sergio Litvak, 100, Chilean football goalkeeper.
Col Maxwell, 83, Australian rugby league player.
Lee Mishkin, 74, American animator and director, heart failure.
Stanley Mosk, 88, American jurist, politician, and attorney.
Brian O'Shaughnessy, 70, British-South African film actor.
C. R. Pattabhiraman, 94, Indian lawyer and politician.
Jandhyala Subramanya Sastry, 50, Indian screenwriter, director and actor, heart attack.
David Sylvester, 76, British art critic.
Eddie Vartan, 63, French musician, bandleader, arranger, and record producer, cerebral hemorrhage.
= 20
=Ernest Bour, 88, French conductor.
Geoff Brown, 77, Australian tennis player.
Angela Browne, 63, British actress (Ghost Squad, The Avengers, The Prisoner, Upstairs, Downstairs, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes).
Tom Burns, 88, English sociologist and author.
Bob Keegan, 80, American baseball player.
Bert Kramer, 66, American actor (Kojak, The Bionic Woman, The Rockford Files, Dallas, Dynasty, Matlock).
Patrick F. McDonough, Irish-American police officer, attorney, and politician.
Zygmunt Pawlas, 70, Polish fencer and Olympic silver medalist.
Massimo Pirri, 55, Italian film director and screenwriter.
Frederick Russell, 77, Canadian businessman and lieutenant governor of Newfoundland.
= 21
=John Lee Hooker, 83, American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist ("Boogie Chillen'", "Boom Boom", "Dimples").
Soad Hosny, 58, Egyptian actress ("Cinderella of Egyptian cinema"), fall.
Károly Janza, 87, Hungarian military officer and politician.
François Lesure, 78, French librarian and musicologist.
K. V. Mahadevan, 83, Indian singer-songwriter, music producer, and musician.
Carroll O'Connor, 76, American actor (All in the Family, In the Heat of the Night, Cleopatra), five-time Emmy winner, heart attack.
Vernon Sewell, 97, British film director.
= 22
=Mario Agüero, 77, Cuban basketball player.
Arbi Barayev, 27, Chechen warlord and terrorist, killed in action.
Luis Carniglia, 83, Argentine footballer and manager.
George Evans, 81, American comic book and comic strip cartoonist and illustrator.
John Herbert, 74, Canadian playwright (Fortune and Men's Eyes).
Manuel Ledesma, 80, Chilean basketball player.
Wendell L. Minckley, 65, American ichthyologist and academic.
George Westwell, 70, Maltese anglican priest.
Lika Yanko, 73, Bulgarian artist, pneumonia.
= 23
=Odd Abrahamsen, 77, Norwegian poet.
Corinne Calvet, 76, French actress (What Price Glory?, Sailor Beware, So This Is Paris, On the Riviera).
Panteley Dimitrov, 60, Bulgarian footballer.
Yvonne Dionne, 67, Canadian quintuplet (first known quintuplets to have survived their infancy).
= 24
=Muhammad Bashir, 66, Pakistani wrestler.
Antonio Ber Ciani, 93, Argentine actor and film director.
Robert M. McKinney, 90, American news editor and diplomat.
Avadhanam Sita Raman, 82, Indian writer and journalist.
Nicola Ann Raphael, 15, Scottish schoolgirl and bullying victim, suicide by drug overdose.
Milton Santos, 75, Brazilian geographer, prostate cancer.
William H. Sewell, 91, American sociologist.
= 25
=Hans Dürst, 79, Swiss ice hockey player.
Hasan Gemici, 74, Turkish sports wrestler and trainer and Olympic champion.
Gabriel Hernández, 27, Dominican Olympic boxer (light heavyweight boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics), suicide by hanging.
Kurt Hoffmann, 90, German film director and son of Carl Hoffmann.
Frederick C. Langone, American politician.
John LeRoy, 26, American baseball player, brain aneurysm.
George Senesky, 79, American basketball player and coach, cancer.
Charles Sheldon Whitehouse, 79, American career diplomat, cancer.
= 26
=Paul Berry, 40, American animator (The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, Monkeybone), brain tumor.
William Bryant, 77, American character actor (Escape from San Quentin, Experiment in Terror, How to Murder Your Wife, The Great Race).
Gina Cigna, 101, French-Italian dramatic soprano.
Günter Kaslowski, 66, German Olympic cyclist.
Margaret Kilgallen, 33, American visual artist, complications from breast cancer.
Louis Klemantaski, 89, British photographer.
Gopala Ramanujam, 86, Indian politician.
Lalla Romano, 94, Italian novelist, poet, artist and journalist.
Robert Smith, 88, American actor.
Soccer, 13, American dog actor.
Annika Tammela, 21, Estonian football player, bicycle accident.
= 27
=Sidney Buckwold, 84, Canadian politician and businessman.
Hal Goldman, 81, American screenwriter, three Primetime Emmy Awards: The Jack Benny Program (1959, 1960), An Evening with Carol Channing (1966).
Darrell Huff, 86, American statistician.
Tove Jansson, 86, Finnish author, painter and comic strip artist, lung cancer.
Jack Lemmon, 76, American actor (The Apartment, Some Like It Hot, Save the Tiger), Oscar winner (1956, 1974), bladder and colorectal cancer.
Michael Moynihan, 84, Irish Labour Party politician.
Chico O'Farrill, 79, Cuban composer, arranger, and conductor.
Udo Proksch, 67, Austrian industrialist and criminal, complications during heart surgery.
Joan Sims, 71, British actress (Carry On Nurse, Carry On Cleo, Carry On Camping, On the Up, As Time Goes By), gastrointestinal system disease.
Jukka Wuolio, 74, Finnish ice hockey player.
= 28
=Mortimer Jerome Adler, 98, American philosopher and author.
Ira Eisenstein, 94, American rabbi.
Jim Ellis, 45, American computer scientist (Usenet), lymphoma.
David Freeman, 80, American badminton player (multi-year U.S. Champion).
Herbert McCabe, 74, English-Irish Dominican priest, theologian and philosopher.
Thomas Ernst Josef Wiedemann, 51, German-British historian, cancer.
= 29
=Mary Barnes, 86, English artist and writer.
Manuel Echauri, 86, Mexican artist.
Maurice Estève, 97, French painter.
Maximos V Hakim, 93, Egyptian patriarch.
Minoru Kawabata, 90, Japanese artist.
Karen Lamm, 49, American film actress and producer, heart failure.
Silvio Oddi, 90, Italian cardinal and Vatican diplomat.
Thomas E. Sparks, 89, American politician.
= 30
=Stephen Ailes, 89, American lawyer and government official, stroke.
Chet Atkins, 77, American country musician (14 Grammy Awards, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame), colorectal cancer.
Giancarlo Brusati, 91, Italian fencer and Olympic champion.
Joe Fagan, 80, English football manager, cancer.
Joe Henderson, 64, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
Lou Kusserow, 73, Canadian football player, complications from prostate cancer.
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