• Source: Deaths in May 2001

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.




May 2001






= 1

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Happy Hairston, 58, American basketball player (Cincinnati Royals, Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Lakers), prostate cancer.
Waldemar Kikolski, 33, Polish paralympic athlete, road accident.
Ernie Pomfret, 60, British middle-distance runner.
Elsa Prawitz, 69, Swedish film and stage actress.
Ernie Wheelwright, 61, American football player.




= 2

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Enrico Bovone, 55, Italian basketball player, suicide by gunshot.
Poul Dalsager, 72, Danish politician.
Georges Dard, 82, French football player.
Vlasta Foltová, 88, Czechoslovak gymnast and Olympic silver medalist.
Dick Jamieson, 63, American football player (Baltimore Colts, New York Titans) and coach.
Howard Kahane, 73, American professor of philosophy.
Gina Mastrogiacomo, 39, American actress (Goodfellas, Harry and the Hendersons, Jungle Fever), myocarditis.
Abdul Sattar Khan Niazi, 85, Pakistani religious and political leader.
Ted Rogers, 65, British comedian, complications after open-heart surgery.
Theodore Roosevelt III, 86, American banker and government official.
Klement Steinmetz, 86, Austrian football (soccer) player.




= 3

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Philip George Houthem Gell, 86, British immunologist.
Jim Godman, 55, American professional bowler.
Billy Higgins, 64, American jazz drummer, hepatitis.
Karel Kalaš, 90, Czech operatic bass and actor.
Princess Rosemary of Salm-Salm, 97, German noblewoman.
Robert Millner Shackleton, 91, British field geologist.
Hank Schmulbach, 76, American baseball player.




= 4

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Anne Anastasi, 92, American psychologist.
Bonny Lee Bakley, 44, American socialite, shot.
Gene Grabosky, 64, American professional football player (Syracuse University, Buffalo Bills).
Vaska Ilieva, 78, Macedonian folk singer from Yugoslavia and North Macedonia.
Arne Sucksdorff, 84, Swedish film director, pneumonia.




= 5

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Charles Black, 85, American constitutional scholar.
Boozoo Chavis, 70, American accordion player, singer, songwriter and bandleader (Zydeco).
Morris Graves, 90, American expressionist painter, stroke.
Cliff Hillegass, 83, American creator of CliffsNotes, stroke.
Bill Homeier, 82, American racecar driver (three Indianapolis 500s).
David Jamieson, 80, British Army officer, recipient of the Victoria Cross.
Aleksandr Petrov, 61, Soviet/Russian basketball player.
Hans Rampf, 70, German ice hockey player.
Terry Ryan, 78, American screenwriter, congestive heart failure.
Wang Yinglai, 93, Chinese biochemist.




= 6

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René Bondoux, 95, French fencer and Olympic champion.
Mike Hazlewood, 59, English singer, composer and songwriter, heart attack.
Karl Wilhelm Krause, 90, German Waffen-SS officer during World War II.
Zoltán Nemere, 59, Hungarian fencer, traffic collision.
Cecil Price, 63, American deputy sheriff and Ku Klux Klan member, fall.




= 7

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Malati Bedekar, 96, Indian writer.
Jacques de Bourbon-Busset, 89, French novelist, essayist and politician.
Prem Dhawan, 77, Indian lyricist, music composer, and actor of Bollywood, cardiac arrest.
Edwin Finckel, 83, American jazz pianist, composer (George White's Scandals) and music educator.
Joseph Greenberg, 85, American linguist, pancreatic cancer.
Dick Kimble, 85, American baseball player.
Margaretha Krook, 75, Swedish actress, lung cancer.
Boris Ryzhy, 26, Russian poet and geologist, suicide by hanging.
Simon Slåttvik, 83, Norwegian Olympic skier (gold medal winner of the Nordic combined at the 1952 Winter Olympics).
Al Tucker, 58, American basketball player.
Arthur Christopher Watson, 74, British diplomat.




= 8

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Larry Hornung, 55, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
John McMahon, 83, Australian-English cricket player.
Piero Natoli, 53, Italian actor and film director, intracranial aneurysm.
Luis Rijo, 73, Uruguayan football player.
Clay King Smith, 30, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.




= 9

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Marie Cardinal, 72, French novelist.
Antoinette Downing, 96, American architectural historian and preservationist.
Saul Elkins, 93, American film producer, writer and director.
Andrés Framini, 86, Argentine labor leader and politician.
Miroslav Kárný, 81, Czech historian and writer.
Nikos Sampson, 65, Cypriot politician, de facto President of Cyprus (1974), cancer.
Werner Schuster, 62, German politician.
William T. Stearn, 90, British botanist.
Kauko Wahlsten, 77, Finnish rower and Olympic medalist.
Smokey Yunick, 77, American mechanic and car designer, leukemia.




= 10

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Turi Ferro, 80, Italian actor (Liolà, The Seduction of Mimi, Malizia), heart attack.
James E. Myers, 81, American songwriter ("Rock Around the Clock"), actor and director.
Sudhakarrao Naik, 66, Indian politician.
M. Krishnan Nair, 74, Indian film director.
Frank Newby, 75, English structural engineer.
Arthur Tange, 86, Australian public servant.
Dorothy Burr Thompson, 100, American classical archaeologist and art historian.
Deborah Walley, 57, American actress (Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Beach Blanket Bingo, Spinout) and voice-over artist, esophageal cancer.




= 11

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Douglas Adams, 49, British author (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Doctor Who), heart attack.
Jesús Aguirre, 66, Spanish intellectual, Jesuit priest, and aristocrat, pulmonary embolism.
Michael J. Bird, 72, British writer.
Guy Carlton, 47, American Olympic weightlifter (bronze medal winner in heavyweight weightlifting at the 1984 Summer Olympics), suicide by gunshot.
Alan William James Cousins, 97, South African astronomer.
Nick Lalich, 85, Serbian American basketball player, esophageal cancer.
Emmett Watson, 82, American newspaper columnist.
Wolfgang Winkler, 60, West German luger and Olympic medalist.




= 12

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John Cliff, 82, American film and television actor.
Ollie Cline, 75, American gridiron football player.
Perry Como, 88, American singer, actor and television personality, Alzheimer's disease.
Didi, 72, Brazilian footballer, pneumonia.
Willy Gysi, 83, Swiss field handball player.
Norman Kay, 72, British composer and writer, ALS.
Paul Morgan, 52, British engineer, plane crash.
Jonathan Niva, 58, Kenyan football player.
Mel Payton, 74, American basketball player.
Fritz Pfenninger, 66, Swiss cyclist.
Simon Raven, 73, British writer.
Eleanor Sayre, 85, American curator and art historian.
Alexei Tupolev, 75, Soviet aircraft designer.
Georgie Woodgate, 77, British tennis player.
Corissa Yasen, 27, American basketball player, suicide by drug overdose.




= 13

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Sergey Afanasyev, 82, Russian engineer and politician.
Eddra Gale, 79, American actress (8½, What's New Pussycat?, The Graduate, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, Somewhere in Time).
Salvador Garmendia Graterón, 72, Venezuelan author,.
Frank Millar, 76, Northern Irish unionist politician.
Jason Miller, 62, American actor (The Exorcist, Rudy) and playwright (That Championship Season), Tony winner (1973), heart attack.
Harold Minter, 98, American film editor.
R. K. Narayan, 94, Indian writer.
Ray Straw, 67, English footballer.
Ralph Tabakin, 79, American actor.
Susumu Takahashi, 80, Japanese Olympic middle-distance runner.




= 14

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Mauro Bolognini, 78, Italian film and stage director.
Eric Bradbury, 80, British comic artist.
Paul Bénichou, 92, French-Algerian writer, intellectual, and literary historian.
Alex Glasgow, 65, English singer-songwriter (On Your Way, Riley!, When the Boat Comes In).
Gil Langley, 81, Australian cricketer and politician.
Elisabeth Lennartz, 98, German stage actress.
Loften Mitchell, 82, American playwright and theatre historian.
Armando Nannuzzi, 75, Italian cinematographer and camera operator.
Ettore Puricelli, 84, Uruguayan-Italian football player and manager.
Juan Verdaguer, 85, Uruguayan actor, cardiovascular disease.




= 15

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Jean-Philippe Lauer, 99, French architect and Egyptologist.
Juracy Magalhães, 95, Brazilian military officer and politician.
Ralph Miller, 82, American college basketball coach.
Bobby Murdoch, 56, Scottish footballer, stroke.
William Oates, 71, English first-class cricketer.
Georgy Shakhnazarov, 76, Soviet-Armenian politician and political scientist.
Sacha Vierny, 81, French cinematographer.




= 16

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Antonio Flores, 77, Mexican football player.
Prince Ital Joe, 38, Dominican-American reggae artist, car accident.
Brian Pendleton, 57, British guitarist (The Pretty Things), lung cancer.
Witold Stachurski, 54, Polish boxer.




= 17

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Robert Elton Brooker, 95, American business executive at Sears, Roebuck & Co.
Ike Brown, 59, American baseball player, cancer.
Gerd Buchdahl, 86, German-English philosopher of science.
Ikuma Dan, 77, Japanese composer.
Enid Hattersley, 96, English politician and Lord Mayor of Sheffield.
Robert Knapp, 77, American actor (Days of Our Lives, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, The F.B.I.).
Jacques-Louis Lions, 73, French mathematician.
Murray Murdoch, 96, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
Frank G. Slaughter, 93, American novelist and physician.




= 18

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Rosa Beddington, 45, British biologist, cancer.
Ralph Enckell, 88, Finnish diplomat.
Irene Hunt, 99, American children's writer.
Alexey Maresyev, 84, Russian military pilot, infarction.
Stella Mary Newton, 100, British fashion designer and dress historian.
Maurice Noble, 90, American animation artist and designer.
Seán Mac Stíofáin, 73, English-Irish chief of staff of the Provisional IRA, stroke.
Robert F. Woodward, 92, American diplomat.




= 19

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Fred Derby, 61, Surinamese politician and trade unionist.
John Joseph Egan, 84, American Roman Catholic priest and social activist.
Joe Graydon, 82, American big band vocalist, television host, personal manager and concert producer.
Josef Haunzwickel, 86, Austrian Olympic athlete (men's pole vault at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
Patricia Hilliard, 85, British stage and film actress.
Vidkunn Hveding, 80, Norwegian politician.
Joe Lovitto, 50, American baseball player, cancer.
Hans Mayer, 94, German literary scholar.
Susannah McCorkle, 55, American jazz singer, suicide by jumping.
Mike Sammes, 73, English musician and vocal session arranger.
Pat Falken Smith, 75, American television writer.
Bob Tinning, 75, Australian rower.
John Warner, 78, British actor.




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Carl Eric Almgren, 88, Swedish Army general.
Renato Carosone, 81, Italian musician.
Bob Keely, 91, American baseball coach, scout and player.
Art Mergenthal, 80, American gridiron football player.
Bud Thomas, 90, American baseball player.




= 21

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Philip W. Buchen, 85, American attorney and White House Counsel.
Mel Hoderlein, 77, American baseball player.
Mario Martinelli, 95, Italian resistance member during World War II and politician.
Cecil G. Murgatroyd, 42, Australian politician, musician, and comedian, cancer.
Johnny Rainford, 70, English footballer.
Gabriele Rumi, 61, Italian Formula One team owner, cancer.
Tad Szulc, 74, Polish-American journalist, cancer.
Fritz Uhl, 73, Austrian operatic tenor.
Graham Webster, 87, British archaeologist.
Hu Xieqing, 95, Contemporary Chinese painter.




= 22

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Lorez Alexandria, 71, American jazz singer.
Katharine Bartlett, 93, American physical anthropologist.
Jenő Fock, 85, Hungarian communist politician, prime minister (1967-1975).
Ralph Hamner, 84, American baseball player.
Jean Hougron, 77, French novelist.
Leamon King, 65, American sprinter and Olympic champion.
Whitman Mayo, 70, American actor (Sanford and Son, Boyz n the Hood, Hell Town), heart attack.
Jack Watling, 78, British actor (The Plane Makers, The Power Game, Pathfinders), cancer.




= 23

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Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, 72, Palestinian-American academic.
Liu Anyuan, 73, Chinese lieutenant general.
Harald Bergström, 93, a Swedish mathematician.
Jean Champion, 84, French film actor.
Lita Chevret, 92, American actress.
Charles D. Cook, 66, American politician.
Tommy Eyre, 51, British keyboardist, cancer.
Walter Eytan, 90, Israeli diplomat.
Bob Gaona, 70, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles).
Chuck Gelatka, 87, American professional football player (Mississippi State, New York Giants).
Boris Gyuderov, 74, Bulgarian Olympic volleyball player (1964).
Lee Chiaw Meng, 64, Singaporean politician, cancer.
Arno Mohr, 90, German painter and graphic artist.
Alessandro Natta, 83, Italian communist politician.
P. Ramachandran, 79, Indian politician, Governor of Kerala.
Jamileh Sheykhi, 71, Iranian actress, heart attack.
Harry Townes, 86, American actor (Finian's Rainbow, Gunsmoke, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek) and an Episcopalian priest.
Arseny Vorozheykin, 88, Soviet/Russian fighter ace during World War II.




= 24

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Lucy Boscana, 85, Puerto Rico actress.
Jo Ann Greer, 74, American singer.
Tor Jevne, 72, Norwegian football player.
Paul Kor, 74, Israeli painter and children's writer, lung cancer.
Ridvan Qazimi, 37, Kosovar Albanian insurgent nationalist, K.I.A.
Patricia Robertson, 38, American physician and NASA astronaut, plane crash.
Javier Urruticoechea, 49, Spanish footballer, car crash.




= 25

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Delme Bryn-Jones, 67, Welsh baritone.
John W. Holmes, 84, American film editor.
Alberto Korda, 72, Cuban photographer, heart attack.
Arturo Maly, 61, Argentine actor, heart attack.
Malcom McLean, 87, American businessman and shipper.
Harold Ridley, 94, British ophthalmologist.




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Vittorio Brambilla, 63, Italian Formula One race car driver, heart attack.
Roman Codreanu, 48, Romanian Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic medalist.
Johnny Gordon, 69, English football player.
Anne Haney, 67, American actress (Mrs. Doubtfire, The American President, Liar Liar), heart failure.
Moven Mahachi, 53, Zimbabwean Minister of Defence of the Republic of Zimbabwe, traffic collision.
Hal Moe, 91, American gridiron football player and coach.
William Molloy, Baron Molloy, 82, British politician.
Dea Trier Mørch, 59, Danish artist and writer, cancer.




= 27

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Ramon Bieri, 71, American actor (Sarge, Room 222, Daniel Boone, Gunsmoke), cancer.
Helen Oakley Dance, 88, Canadian-American jazz journalist, record producer, and music historian.
Victor Kiam, 74, American entrepreneur and owner of the New England Patriots football team.
Agda Rössel, 90, Swedish politician.
Nikolay Yeryomenko, 52, Soviet/Russian actor and film director, stroke.




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Tony Ashton, 55, English rock pianist, music producer and artist, cancer.
Francis Bebey, 71, Cameroonian writer and composer.
Joe Moakley, 74, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives, leukemia.
Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, 79, Indian medical scientist.
Rockets Redglare, 52, American character actor and comedian (After Hours, Desperately Seeking Susan), hepatitis and liver cirrhosis.
Elizabeth S. Russell, 88, American geneticist.
Francisco Varela, 54, Chilean biologist, philosopher and neuroscientist, heart attack.




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John Fleming, 81, British art historian.
Eddie Forrest, 79, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).
Akira Fujita, 93, Japanese Olympic water polo player (men's water polo at the 1932 Summer Olympics).
Charley Pell, 60, American college football player and coach, lung cancer.
Vytautas Sakalauskas, 68, Soviet and Lithuanian politician.
Hédi Temessy, 76, Hungarian actress.




= 30

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Werner Fricker, 65, German-American soccer player and official.
Terry Gathercole, 65, Australian Olympic swimmer (silver medal winner of the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics).
Inderjit Singh Gill, 79, Indian Army officer.
Adrian Hastings, 71, British Roman Catholic priest and historian.
Nikolai Korndorf, 54, Russian-Canadian composer and conductor.
John Pickering, 56, English footballer.
Jaime Benítez Rexach, 92, Puerto Rican author, academic and politician.
Renée Schuurman, 61, South African tennis player.
Rajko Tomović, 81, Serbian and Yugoslav scientist.
Denis Whitaker, 86, Canadian athlete, soldier, and author.




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Santos Amaro, 93, Cuban baseball player.
Arlene Francis, 93, American actress, talk show host, and game show panelist (What's My Line?), Alzheimer's disease and cancer.
Faisal Husseini, 60, Palestinian politician, heart attack.
Tony Johnson, 76, Australian politician.
Jagannath Kaushal, 86, Indian politician.
Kwoh-Ting Li, 91, Taiwanese economist and politician.
Tex McKenzie, 70, American professional wrestler, abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Walter E. Rogers, 92, American politician.
German Ugryumov, 52, Soviet and Russian navy and security services official, heart attack.
Rosemary Verey, 82, English garden designer.




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