The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.
April 2001
1
- Jean Anderson, 93, English actress (The Brothers, Tenko).[1]
- Eugênio German, 70, Brazilian chess master and Brazilian chess champion (1951, 1972).[2]
- Jayant Kothari, 71, Indian literary critic.[3]
- Ted McCarty, 91, American businessman.
- Jo-Jo Moore, 92, American baseball player.[4]
- Brendan O'Reilly, 71, Irish broadcaster.
- Aleksandar Obradović, 73, Serbian composer and academic.[5]
- Jim Proudfoot, 67, Canadian sports journalist.
- Valerie Scott, 83, English tennis player.[6]
- Russ Smith, 56, American gridiron football player.[7]
- Trinh Cong Son, 62, Vietnamese musician and composer.[8]
- Zellio Toppazzini, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.[9]
- Larry Tucker, 66, American screenwriter (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice), multiple sclerosis.[10]
- Jalil Zandi, 49, Iranian flying ace, car accident.
2
- Charles Daudelin, 80, French-Canadian sculptor and painter.[11]
- Gary Gearhart, 77, American baseball player.[12]
- Andy Guest, 61, American politician.
- Carlos Carnes Ogden, Sr., 83, US Army officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.[13]
- Jennifer Syme, 28, American actress and record executive, traffic collision.[14]
3
- Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell, 89, British newspaper proprietor.[15]
- Big Daddy Kinsey, 74, American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, prostate cancer.[16]
- Jason Massey, 28, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
- Kersten Meier, 47, German swimmer, suicide.[17]
- Butch Moore, 63, Irish singer and a showband icon, heart attack.
- Paul Peek, 63, American rockabilly pioneer.
- Adela Reta, 79, Uruguyan lawyer and politician.[18]
4
- Beryl Gilroy, 76, British pioneering teacher and novelist, heart attack.[19]
- Wim van der Linden, 60, Dutch photographer and film and television director.[20]
- Ramón Mendoza, 73, Spanish lawyer and businessman.
- Mitra Mitrović, 88, Serbian politician, feminist and writer.
- José M. Dávila Monsanto, 95, Puerto Rican politician and lawyer.
- Liisi Oterma, 86, Finnish astronomer.
- Ed Roth, 69, American artist, cartoonist, and custom car designer and builder.[21]
5
- Benjy Dial, 57, American football player.[22]
- Kingsley Charles Dunham, 91, British geologist.[23]
- Sonya Hedenbratt, 70, Swedish singer and actress.
- Jay Miller, 57, American basketball player, heart attack.[24]
- John Bertram Oakes, 87, American journalist.[25]
- Aldo Olivieri, 90, Italian football goalkeeper and manager.[26]
- David Lloyd Owen, 83, British army general and writer.[27]
- Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd, 82, British politician who served as Leader of the House of Lords.[28]
- Brother Theodore, 94, German-American actor and comedian.[29]
6
- George Bull, 71, British journalist and writer.[30]
- Danny Gaither, 62, American gospel singer (Bill Gaither Trio).[31]
- Chaudhary Devi Lal, 85, Indian politician and Deputy Prime Minister of India.[32]
- Yevgeny Malinin, 70, Soviet and Russian pianist.
- Charles Pettigrew, 37, American singer, half of R&B duo Charles & Eddie, cancer.[33]
7
- David Graf, 50, American actor (Police Academy, The West Wing, Rules of Engagement), heart attack.[34]
- Kurt Hohenemser, 95, German-born American aerospace engineer and a pioneer in helicopter design.[35]
- Derek Lang, 87, British Army general.[36]
- G. N. Ramachandran, 78, Indian physicist.
- Beatrice Straight, 86, American actress (Network, The Crucible, The Nun's Story), Oscar winner (1980), pneumonia.[37]
8
- Kurt Almqvist, 89, Swedish poet, intellectual and spiritual figure.
- Frank Annunzio, 86, American politician, Parkinson's disease.[38]
- Arthur Cantor, 81, American theatrical producer.[39]
- Vladislav Krishchishin, 54, Ukrainian flyweight weightlifter.
- Nello Lauredi, 76, French road bicycle racer.[40]
- Elsie Locke, 88, New Zealand writer, historian, and feminist.[41]
- Bob Sohl, 73, American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist.[42]
- Van Stephenson, 47, American singer-songwriter, melanoma.
- Marguerite Viby, 91, Danish actress.[43]
9
- Behram Contractor, 71, Indian journalist and humorist.
- Roque Ditro, 64, Argentine football player.[44]
- Shakoor Rana, 65, Pakistani cricket umpire.
- Graziella Sciutti, 73, Italian soprano opera singer and producer.[45]
- Willie Stargell, 61, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, stroke.[46]
- Hsieh Tung-min, 93, Taiwanese politician and Vice President of the Republic of China.
10
- Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, 65, French film director.[47]
- Tadeusz Chciuk-Celt, 84, Polish special forces operative during World War II, journalist and author.[48]
- Nora Eddington, 77, American actress and socialite, kidney failure.
- John Marmion Edmond, 57, Scottish-American MIT professor of marine geochemistry and oceanography.[49]
- Andy Farkas, 84, American footballer.[50]
- Charles L. Freeman, 92, American sound editor and film editor.
- Michel Fribourg, 87, Belgian-American billionaire businessman.[51]
- Derek Lambert, 71, English author.[52]
- Nyree Dawn Porter, 65, New Zealand actress, leukemia.[53]
- Richard Evans Schultes, 86, American ethnobotanist.[54]
- Roger Vale, 58, Australian politician.
11
- Sandy Bull, 60, American folk musician and composer, lung cancer.[55]
- John Harris, Baron Harris of Greenwich, 71, British political aide and politician (Chief Whip in the House of Lords from 1994 to 2001).[56]
- Jerzy Krasówka, 76, Polish football player.[57]
- Thaddeus McCarthy, 93, New Zealand jurist.
- Graciela Naranjo, 84, Venezuelan singer and actress.
- Carolyn R. Payton, 75, American director of the Peace Corps (1977-1978).[58]
- Harry Secombe, 79, Welsh actor (The Goon Show, Oliver!, The Bed Sitting Room), prostate cancer.[59]
- Jack Wilson, 83, American footballer.[60]
12
- Harvey Ball, 79, American inventor of the smiley.[61]
- Edmund W. Barker, 80, Singaporean politician and lawyer, colon surgery.
- Nelson Burbrink, 79, American baseball player, cancer.[62]
- Wang Enmao, 88, Chinese lieutenant general and politician.[63]
- Harry Hinkel, 97, American racewalker and Olympian.[64]
- Reidar Hirsti, 76, Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour Party.
- Ljiljana Krstić, 81, Serbian actress.
- Shimshon Dovid Pincus, 57, American-Israeli orthodox rabbi, traffic collision.
13
- Mario David, 70, Argentine film director and screenwriter.[65]
- Jimmy Logan, 73, Scottish comedian, actor, producer and director, cancer.[66]
- Stephen C. O'Connell, 85, American jurist.
- Josephine Premice, 74, Haitian-American actress and singer.[67]
- Ken Weston, 53, English sound engineer (Gladiator, Evita, Flash Gordon), Oscar winner (2001), kidney cancer.[68]
14
- Jim Baxter, 61, Scottish football player, pancreatic cancer.[69]
- Dorothee Metlitzki, 86, German-American author, professor of English and zionist.[70]
- Haruo Minami, 77, Japanese enka singer and rōkyoku performer, prostate cancer.
- Bryan Ranft, 83, British historian.
- Ngan Shing-kwan, 98, Hong Kong transport and property tycoon.
- Hiroshi Teshigahara, 74, Japanese avant-garde filmmaker (Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another), leukemia.[71]
15
- Donald Dorfman, 67, American mathematical psychologist and radiologist.[72]
- Jack Elway, 69, American college football player and coach (Washington State, San Jose State, Stanford), heart attack.[73]
- Joey Ramone, (b. Jeffrey Hyman), 49, American musician, lead singer for The Ramones, lymphoma.[74]
- Bo Roberson, 65, American track and field athlete, football player and Olympian.[75]
- John Verrall, 92, American composer of contemporary classical music.[76]
16
- Emanuele Clarizio, 89, Italian prelate and diplomat of the Catholic Church.
- Giacomo Gentilomo, 92, Italian film director and painter.[77]
- Horace Gwynne, 88, Canadian boxer and Olympic champion.[78]
- Alfred Horn, 83, American mathematician.
- Paul Kuroda, 84, Japanese-American chemist and nuclear scientist.
- Peter Maag, 81, Swiss conductor.[79]
- John R. McNamara, 73, American naval officer and bishop.[80]
- Robert Osterloh, 82, American actor.
- Mohammad Rabbani, Afghani politician and one of the founders of the Taliban, liver cancer.[81]
- Hank Riebe, 79, American baseball player.[82]
- Michael Ritchie, 62, American film director (The Bad News Bears, Fletch, Downhill Racer), prostate cancer.[83]
- Thomas H. Stix, 76, American physicist.[84]
- Alec Stock, 84, English footballer and football manager.[85]
17
- Merton Davies, 83, American astronomer and space exploration pioneer.[86]
- John Ferraro, 76, American politician (Los Angeles City Council) and college football player (USC).[87]
- Alfred M. Moen, 84, American inventor and founder of Moen Incorporated.
- Richard McGee Morse, 78, American Latin Americanist scholar and academic, Alzheimer's disease.[88]
- Leonid Alfonsovich Ostrovski, 65, Soviet football player and manager.
- Terry Scully, 68, British theatre and television actor.[89]
- Danica Seleskovitch, 79, French interpreter and academic writer.[90]
18
- Khursheed Bano, 87, Indian singer and actress.
- Tony Bartley, 82, British film and television executive, and fighter pilot during World War II.[91]
- Billy Mitchell, 74, American jazz tenor saxophonist.[92]
- Robert Paparemborde, 52, French rugby player, pancreatic cancer.[93]
- John Yonakor, 79, American football player.[94]
19
- Lionel Abel, 90, American playwright ("Absalom"), essayist and theater critic.[95]
- André du Bouchet, 77, French poet.[96]
- Kurt Ott, 88, Cyclist from Switzerland.[97]
- Edith Picht-Axenfeld, 87, German pianist and harpsichordist.[98]
- Egor Popov, 88, Russian-American civil engineer.
- Hal Haig Prieste, 104, Armenian-American athlete.
- Meldrim Thomson, Jr., 89, American politician, Governor of New Hampshire (1973–1979), Parkinson's disease.[99]
- Pierre Versins, 78, French science fiction collector and scholar.[100]
20
- Richard H. Austin, 87, American politician, Michigan Secretary of State (1971–1994), Alzheimer's disease.[101]
- Steven Blaisse, 60, Dutch rower and Olympic silver medalist.[102]
- Cino Cinelli, 85, Italian racing cyclist.[103]
- Kenneth Colby, American psychiatrist and computer technology pioneer.[104]
- David Gilbarg, 82, American professor emeritus of mathematics at Stanford University.[105]
- Irène Joachim, 88, French soprano, and vocal teacher.[106]
- Maria Karnilova, 80, American ballet dancer and actress (Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Fiddler on the Roof).[107]
- Va'ai Kolone, 89, Prime Minister of Samoa.
- Maurice Lauré, 83, French civil servant.[108]
- Avigdor Miller, 92, American Haredi rabbi and author.
- Giuseppe Sinopoli, 54, Italian conductor and composer, heart attack.[109]
- Bert Sutcliffe, 77, New Zealand cricketer.[110]
21
- Isaac Kobina Abban, 68, Ghanaian judge and Chief Justice.
- Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll, 63, British aristocrat.[111]
- Claude Clark, 85, American painter and printmaker.
- Jack Haley Jr., 67, American film producer, director (That's Entertainment!) and documentarian.[112]
- Edmund Malecki, 86, German international footballer.[113]
- Ulla Poulsen Skou, 96, Danish ballerina and actress.
- Sandy Ullrich, 79, Cuban baseball player.[114]
- Hal White, 82, American baseball player.[115]
22
- Habis al-Majali, 87, Jordanian general and politician.
- John F. Allen, 92, Canadian physicist.
- Ike Cole, 73, American jazz pianist and composer, cancer.[116]
- Trevor de Cleene, 68, New Zealand politician and lawyer, cancer.
- George R. Hill III, 79, American chemist, cancer.
- Fadil Hoxha, 85, Kosovar politician.
- Edward Muhl, 94, American motion picture executive.
- Heiko Oberman, 70, Dutch historian and theologian.[117]
- Wesley C. Salmon, 75, American philosopher of science, car crash.[118]
- Robert Starer, 77, Austrian-American composer, pianist and educator.[119]
23
- Lennart Atterwall, 90, Swedish Olympic javelin thrower.[120]
- Alfredo Gottardi, 86, Brazilian football player.
- Sir Charles Madden, 2nd Baronet, 94, British admiral.[121]
- Electra Waggoner Biggs, 88, American heiress, socialite and sculptor.
- Guglielmo Biraghi, 73, Italian film critic and film festival director.[122]
- Robert J. Huber, 78, American politician (U.S. Representative for Michigan's 18th congressional district from 1973 to 1975).[123]
- R. A. C. Parker, 73, British historian.[124]
- Jayant Shridhar Tilak, 79, Indian politician and newspaper editor.
- David M. Walker, 56, American astronaut, stroke.
24
- Hilda Cameron, 88, Canadian sprinter and Olympic medalist.[125]
- Lindsay Daen, 78, New Zealand sculptor and artist.[126]
- Al Hibbler, 85, American singer (Duke Ellington Orchestra).[127]
- Shailesh Matiyani, 69, India hindi writer, poet and essayist.[128]
- Peter Nugent, 63, Australian politician, heart attack.
- Josef Peters, 87, German racing driver.
- Leon Sullivan, 78, American civil rights leader, social activist and Baptist minister, leukemia.[129]
- Paul Thieme, 96, German indologist.
- Johnny Valentine, 72, American professional wrestler.
- Li Yuqin, 72, Chinese noble and fourth wife of emperor Puyi, liver cirrhosis.
25
- Michele Alboreto, 44, Italian race car driver, car crash.[130]
- Kow Nkensen Arkaah, 73, Ghanaian politician, Vice-President (1993–1997).
- Viktor Bannikov, 62, Soviet/Ukrainian football player and official.
- Chaya Devi, Indian film actress.
- Gwen Frostic, 94, American artist, entrepreneur and author.[131]
- Majda Potokar, 71, Slovenian actress.
26
- Henry Boltinoff, 87, American cartoonist.[132]
- Guy Butler, 83, South African poet, academic and writer.[133]
- Ruth Hellberg, 94, German actress.[134]
- Lili Massaferro, 74, Argentine actress and Montoneros militant, thrombophlebitis.
- Amrit Nahata, 72, Indian politician and film maker.
- André Pascal, 69, French songwriter and composer.[135]
- Sverre Walter Rostoft, 88, Norwegian businessperson and politician.
- Rudolf Trenkel, 83, German fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II.
- Elisabeth Tschermak-Woess, 84, Austrian cytologist and phycologist.[136]
- Renzo Vespignani, 77, Italian painter, engraver and writer.[137]
27
- Charlie Applewhite, 68, American singer and radio host.
- Ernie Graham, 54, Northern Irish singer, guitarist and songwriter.
- Jack Murdock, 78, American actor (Rain Man, Altered States, Any Which Way You Can), emphysema.
- Piero Regnoli, 79, Italian screenwriter and film director.[138]
- Richard M. Scammon, 85, American political scientist and author, Alzheimer's disease.[139]
- John Winton, 69, British navy officer and writer.[140]
28
- António Araújo, 77, Portuguese football player.
- Paul Daneman, 75, British actor (Not in Front of the Children, The Professionals, How I Won the War).[141]
- Border Gezi, 36, Zimbabwean politician, traffic collision.
- Erica Green, 3, American child abuse victim, murdered.
- Ken Hughes, 79, English film director, writer and producer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang).[142]
- Marie Jahoda, 94 Austrian-British social psychologist.[143]
- Evelyn Künneke, 79, German singer and actress, lung cancer.[144]
- Yoshio Okita, 98, Japanese Olympic track and field athlete.[145]
- James Still, 94, American poet, novelist and folklorist.[146]
- Guy Texereau, 65, French Olympic long-distance runner.[147]
- Bako Touré, 61, Malian football player.
29
- Barend Biesheuvel, 81, Dutch politician, Prime Minister (1971-1973), cardiovascular disease.[148]
- Diana Brebner, 44, Canadian poet.
- Babu Chiri Sherpa, 35, Nepal sherpa mountaineer, fall when climbing Mount Everest.
- Dubai Millennium, 5, British thoroughbred racehorse, grass sickness.
- Walter Hannemann, 88, American film editor.
- Rita Hunter, 67, British operatic dramatic soprano.[149]
- Andy Phillip, 79, American basketball player.[150]
- Allan Sloane, 86, American writer for radio and television.[151]
- Gordon Watson, 87, English football player.
30
- Andreas Kupfer, 86, German football player.[152]
- Maladi, 88, Indonesian athlete, songwriter, and politician.
- Brian Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris, 70, British poet, academic and politician, leukemia.[153]
- Frank Stewart, 94, American baseball player.[154]
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