Deaths in December 2001
List of notable deaths in a month
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
Danilo Donati , 75, Italian costume designer and production designer (two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Costume Design ).[1]
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.[2]
Chris Rees , 70, Welsh politician.
Pavel Sadyrin , 59, Soviet and Russian football player and manager, cancer.[3]
2
John W. Collins , 89, American chess master, author and teacher.[4]
Chase Craig , 91, American comic strip and comic book writer and cartoonist, fall.[5]
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.[6]
Naomi Schor , 58, American literary critic and theorist, brain hemorrhage.[7]
Manuel Velasco Suárez , 86, Mexican neurologist, scientist and humanist.
Dmitri Voskoboynikov , 60, Russian Olympic volleyball player.[8]
Willie Woodburn , 82, Scottish footballer.[9]
3
Juan José Arreola , 83, Mexican writer, academic, and actor.[10]
Dee Barton , 64, American jazz trombonist, big band drummer and composer.[11]
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 ).[12]
Nebojša M. Krstić , 37, Serbian theologian and sociologist, car accident.
Grady Martin , 72, American country music guitarist (The Nashville A-Team ), heart attack.[13]
Gerhart M Riegner , 90, German philosopher, and the secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress from 1965 to 1983.[14]
Harry Winter , 87, Austrian singer.[15]
4
Silvio Clementelli , 75, Italian film producer.
Pierre de Bénouville , 87, French Army officer, member of the Resistance during World War II, and politician.[16]
Mercedes Matter , 87/88, American painter, draughtswoman, and writer.[17]
Eddie Popowski , 88, American baseball coach and manager.
Princess Maria Francesca of Savoy , 86, Italian royal and daughter of Victor Emmanuel III of Italy .[18]
John Townsend , 85, American basketball player.
Ed Whalen , 74, Canadian television personality and journalist, heart attack.
5
Anton Benya , 89, Austrian politician and trade unionist.
Peter Blake , 53, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist, shot.[19]
Muhamed Kreševljaković , 62, Bosnian politician and Mayor of Sarajevo .
Franco Rasetti , 100, Italian-American physicist.[20]
Bill Roberts , 89, British athlete.[21]
Dharam Singh , 82, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.[22]
Tomás Vio , 80, Argentine basketball player.
6
Colin Buchanan , 94, Scottish town planner.[23]
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 ).[24]
Charles McClendon , 78, American football player (University of Kentucky ) and coach (Louisiana State University ).[25]
Walt Mulconery , 69, American film editor (Flashdance , The Karate Kid , Touch and Go ).[26]
7
David Astor , 89, British newspaper proprietor.[27]
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.[28]
Peter Elias , 78, American information theorist, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease .[29]
Faith Hubley , 77, American animator (Moonbird , The Hole , Sesame Street , A Doonesbury Special ), breast cancer .[30]
Billie Matthews , 71, American gridiron football coach.[31]
Subrata Mitra , 70, Indian cinematographer.
Pauline Moore , 87, American actress (Heidi , The Three Musketeers , Young Mr. Lincoln , Charlie Chan at Treasure Island ), ALS .[32]
Ray Powell , 73, British politician.[33]
8
Agha Shahid Ali , 52, Kashmiri-American poet, brain cancer .[34]
Mirza Delibašić , 47, Bosnian and Yugoslav basketball player and coach.[35]
Maurice Gross , 67, French linguist and scholar.[36]
Betty Holberton , 84, American computer programmer, one of six original programmers of the ENIAC computer.[37]
Pete Perreault , 62, American gridiron football player.[38]
Sergei Suponev , 38, Soviet/Russian television director and children's television presenter, snowmobile accident.
Miroslav Vlach , 66, Czech ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.[39]
George Young , 71, American football executive.[40]
9
Cesina Bermudes , 93, Portuguese obstetrician and feminist.
Michael Carver, Baron Carver , 86, British Field Marshal .[41]
Joseph Mees , 78, Belgian prelate of the Catholic Church .[42]
Frederick Stewart , 85, British geologist.[43]
Lisa Welander , 92, Swedish neurologist .
10
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 .[44]
Ashok Kumar , 90, Indian film actor, heart failure.[45]
Vernon Richards , 86, Anglo-Italian anarchist, author, and photographer.[46]
Heinz Rögner , 72, German conductor.[47]
11
Beverly Hope Atkinson , 66, American actress, cancer.
Andrei Bantikov , 87, Russian and Soviet painter.[48]
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.[49]
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.[50]
12
Friedel Apelt , 99, German political activist and trades union official.
Josef Bican , 88, Austrian-Czech footballer.
Ardito Desio , 104, Italian explorer, geologist, and cartographer.[51]
Berit Granquist , 92, Swedish Olympic fencer (women's foil at the 1936 Summer Olympics ).[52]
Armando Theodoro Hunziker , 82, Argentine botanist (Botanical Museum of the National University of Córdoba ), cancer.[53]
Farnham Johnson , 77, American gridiron football player (Chicago Rockets ).[54]
Lê Phổ , 94, Vietnamese painter.
Giuseppe Prisco , 80, Italian lawyer and sporting director.
Jean Richard , 80, French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur, cancer.[55]
Roger Scotti , 76, French football player.[56]
U. S. Grant Sharp, Jr. , 95, United States Navy admiral.[57]
William Stobie , 51, Northern Irish paramilitary, shot.
13
Michael Bradshaw , 68, English actor.[58]
Larry Costello , 70, American basketball player and coach, cancer.[59]
Yvan Craipeau , 90, French Trotskyist .[60]
Jack Hoffman , 71, American gridiron football player (Xavier University , Chicago Bears ).[61]
György Kőszegi , 51, Hungarian weightlifter and Olympic silver medalist.[62]
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.
14
Conte Candoli , 74, American jazz trumpeter, prostate cancer .[63]
Arghiri Emmanuel , 90, French marxian economist .[64]
Alfred Byrd Graf , 100, German-American botanist , photographer and author.[65]
John Guedel , 88, American radio and television producer (You Bet Your Life , People Are Funny , The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet ).[66]
Pauline Mills McGibbon , 91, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario .
Claude Santelli , 78, French film director and screenwriter.[67]
W. G. Sebald , 57, German writer, car collision.[68]
Eoin Ryan, Snr , 81, Irish politician and senator.
15
Wilkie Cooper , 90, British cinematographer (Jason and the Argonaut ).[69]
Russ Haas , 27, American professional wrestler, heart failure .[70]
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.[71]
16
Stuart Adamson , 43, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist of Big Country and The Raphaels , suicide by hanging.[72]
Roy Brocksmith , 56, American actor, diabetes .[73]
Stefan Heym , 88, German writer, heart failure.[74]
Martin Isaksson , 80, Finnish politician and diplomat.
Carwood Lipton , 81, American soldier during World War II and member of the Band of Brothers .[75]
Lester Persky , 76, American film, television, and theatre producer, complications following heart surgery.[76]
Villy Sørensen , 72, Danish writer, philosopher and literary critic.[77]
Lincoln Tate , 67, American actor and marine .
17
Mohammad al-Husayni al-Shirazi , 73, Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja' and political theorist.
Gerald Ashby , 52, English football referee, heart attack.[78]
Luigi Bertoldi , 81, Italian socialist politician.
Fred Chaney, Sr. , 87, Australian politician.
Nelson Chelle , 70, Uruguayan basketball player.[79]
Frédéric de Pasquale , 70, French actor.[80]
Martin Glaberman , 83, American marxist writer , historian, and academic.[81]
Martha Mödl , 89, German soprano , and later mezzo-soprano .[82]
Wale Ogunyemi , 62, Nigerian dramatist, film actor, and playwright.[83]
Aleksandr Volodin , 82, Soviet and Russian playwright, screenwriter and poet.
Alf Wood , 86, English football goalkeeper and manager.
18
Gilbert Bécaud , 74, French singer, composer ("What Now My Love "), pianist and actor, lung cancer .[84]
Dan DeCarlo , 82, American cartoonist (Sabrina the Teenage Witch , Josie and the Pussycats , Cheryl Blossom ), pneumonia .[85]
Dimitris Dragatakis , 87, Greek classical music composer.[86]
Mary Hardwick , 88, English tennis player.
Bill Howerton , 80, American baseball player.[87]
Kira Ivanova , 38, Soviet Olympic figure skater (bronze medal winner in women's figure skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics ), homicide.[88]
Jim Letherer , 67, American civil rights activist.
Marcel Mule , 100, French saxophonist.[89]
Tolomush Okeyev , 66, Kyrgyz screenwriter and film director.
Amal Kumar Sarkar , 100, Indian judge and Chief Justice .
Fyodor Shutkov , 77, Russian sailor.[90]
Marcelle Tassencourt , 87, French actress and theatre director.[91]
Cecil Waidyaratne , 63, Sri Lankan general.
Clifford T. Ward , 57, English singer-songwriter, pneumonia .[92]
19
Susheela Gopalan , 71, Indian communist leader and politician.
Christine Kittrell , 72, American R&B singer, emphysema .[93]
Wang Ruowang , 83, Chinese author and dissident, lung cancer.
Julia Sánchez , 71, Peruvian track and field sprinter.
Hans Warren , 80, Dutch writer, liver problems.[94]
Dale Waters , 92, American football player.[95]
Jakob Weidemann , 78, Norwegian artist.[96]
Arkie Whiteley , 37, Australian actress (A Town Like Alice , Mad Max 2 , Princess Caraboo ), adrenal cancer .[97]
Kiyoji Ōtsuji , 78, Japanese photographer, photography theorist, and educator.[98]
20
Manuhuia Bennett , 85, New Zealand anglican prelate.
Foster Brooks , 89, American actor and comedian, heart failure.[99]
Edward Evans , 87, English film and television actor (The Grove Family , Coronation Street , Z-Cars ).[100]
Kōji Nanbara , 74, Japanese actor, heart attack.[101]
Léopold Sédar Senghor , 95, Senegalese politician and poet, President (1960 -1980).[102]
Joan Wheeler , 88, American actress.[103]
21
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.[104]
Ed Salem , 73, American gridiron football player, complications from diabetes .
Dick Schaap , 67, American sportswriter, broadcaster, and author.[105]
Thomas Sebeok , 81, Hungarian-American polymath , semiotician , and linguist .[106]
Leonid Smirnov , 85, Soviet statesman.
Namık Kemal Yolga , 87, Turkish diplomat and statesman.
Vladimir Zherikhin , 56, Soviet/Russian paleoentomologist and coleopterist .
22
Grzegorz Ciechowski , 44, Polish rock musician (Republika ) and film music composer, heart attack after surgery.[107]
Bob Davis , 68, American baseball player.[108]
Angèle Durand , 76, Belgian singer and actress.[109]
Lance Fuller , 73, American actor.[110]
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.[111]
Lance Loud , 50, American television personality and magazine columnist, liver failure as a result of hepatitis C .[112]
Jacques Mayol , 74, French diver and holder of many records in free diving, suicide by hanging.[113]
Gene Taylor , 72, American jazz double bassist .[114]
Liu Zihou , 92, Chinese politician, governor of Hubei and Hebei .
23
Mark Clinton , 86, Irish Fine Gael politician.
Vicente Gómez , 90, Spanish guitarist and composer.[115]
Bola Ige , 71, Nigerian lawyer and politician (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Nigeria), shot.[116]
Dimitri Obolensky , 83, Russian-born British historian.[117]
Pedro Richards , 45, English footballer, pneumonia .[118]
Donald C. Spencer , 89, American mathematician,.[119]
Jelle Zijlstra , 83, Dutch politician and economist, Prime Minister (1966-1967), dementia .[120]
24
Doug Adam , 78, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.[121]
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 .[122]
Hank Soar , 87, American gridiron football player.[123]
Gareth Williams , 48, British musician (This Heat ), cancer.
25
Mike Davis , 45, American professional wrestler, heart attack.[124]
Bryan Drake , 76, New Zealand operatic baritone.[125]
Andrew J. Evans Jr. , 83, American air force officer and flying ace .[126]
Ramón García , 77, Cuban baseball player.[127]
Alfred A. Tomatis , 81, French otolaryngologist and inventor.[128]
Billy Wells , 70, American football player.[129]
26
Jacques Cauvin , French archaeologist.[130]
Edward Downes , 90, American musicologist, radio personality, and music critic.[131]
Nigel Hawthorne , 72, British actor (The Madness of King George , Yes Minister , Tarzan ), pancreatic cancer, heart attack.[132]
Paul Landres , 89, American film and television editor and director, cancer.[133]
Tom McBride , 87, American baseball player.[134]
George Rochester , 93, British physicist, heart failure.[135]
27
Momčilo Cemović , 73, Montenegrin politician.
Pete D'Alonzo , 72, American gridiron football player.[136]
Robert Fowler , 70, South African cyclist (silver medal winner of the men's cycling team pursuit at the 1952 Summer Olympics ).[137]
Ian Hamilton , 63, British critic, poet, magazine publisher, cancer.[138]
John Hoffman , 58, American baseball player.[139]
Paul Hogarth , 84, British artist.[140]
Boris Rybakov , 83, Russian historian.
Helen Rodríguez Trías , 72, American pediatrician and women's rights activist , cancer.
28
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.[141]
Arne Rettedal , 75, Norwegian politician.
Anthony Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond , 74, British politician and businessman.[142]
Sam Solon , 70, American politician, malignant melanoma .
Gerard van Leijenhorst , 73, Dutch politician and chemist.[143]
29
Tom Bourke , 83, Australian rugby player.
Cássia Eller , 39, Brazilian singer and musician, heart attack.[144]
Florian Fricke , 57, German musician, stroke.[145]
György Kepes , 95, Hungarian-American painter, photographer, designer, and art theorist.[146]
Anatoly Kubatsky , 93, Soviet/Russian actor.
Clinton D. McKinnon , 95, American politician and journalist.
Josef Věntus , 70, Czech rower ad Olympic medalist.[147]
Louis Waltniel , 76, Belgian politician and industrialist.
30
Eric Cheney , 77, British motorcycle designer.
Chaim Kreiswirth , 83, Belgian orthodox rabbi.
Samuel Mockbee , 57, American architect, leukemia .[148]
Ray Patterson , 90, American animator (The Smurfs , Dumbo , Challenge of the GoBots ).[149]
Sheila Sherlock , 83, British physician, pulmonary fibrosis .[150]
Ralph Sutton , 79, American jazz pianist, stroke.[151]
Vladislav Čáp , 75, Czech figure skater.
31
Mathew H. Ahmann , 70, American Catholic layman and civil rights activist, cancer.
John Grigg, 2nd Baron Altrincham , 77, British writer, historian and politician.[152]
Guido di Tella , 70, Argentine businessman, academic and diplomat, cerebral hemorrhage.[153]
Eileen Heckart , 82, American actress (Butterflies Are Free , The Bad Seed , The First Wives Club ), Oscar winner (1973 ), lung cancer.[154]
Paul Hubschmid , 84, Swiss actor (Funeral in Berlin , My Fair Lady , The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms ), pulmonary embolism.[155]
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.[156]
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