Deaths in April 2001

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

  April 2001

1

• Jean Anderson, 93, English actress.
• Eugênio German, 70, Brazilian chess master and Brazilian chess champion.
• Jayant Kothari, 71, Indian literary critic.
• Ted McCarty, 91, American businessman.
• Jo-Jo Moore, 92, American baseball player.
• Brendan O'Reilly, 71, Irish broadcaster.
• Aleksandar Obradović, 73, Serbian composer and academic.
• Jim Proudfoot, 67, Canadian sports journalist.
• Valerie Scott, 83, English tennis player.
• Russ Smith, 56, American gridiron football player.
• Trinh Cong Son, 62, Vietnamese musician and composer.
• Zellio Toppazzini, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Larry Tucker, 66, American screenwriter, multiple sclerosis.
• Jalil Zandi, 49, Iranian flying ace, car accident.

  2

• Charles Daudelin, 80, French-Canadian sculptor and painter.
• Gary Gearhart, 77, American baseball player.
• François Gelhausen, 70, Luxembourgish racing cyclist.
• Andy Guest, 61, American politician.
• Carlos Carnes Ogden, Sr., 83, US Army officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Jennifer Syme, 28, American actress and record executive, traffic collision.

  3

• Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell, 89, British newspaper proprietor.
• Big Daddy Kinsey, 74, American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, prostate cancer.
• Jason Massey, 28, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Kersten Meier, 47, German swimmer, suicide by jumping.
• Butch Moore, 63, Irish singer and a showband icon, heart attack.
• Paul Peek, 63, American rockabilly pioneer.
• Adela Reta, 79, Uruguayan lawyer and politician.

  4

• Beryl Gilroy, 76, British pioneering teacher and novelist, heart attack.
• Wim van der Linden, 60, Dutch photographer and film and television director.
• 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.

  5

• Benjy Dial, 57, American football player.
• Kingsley Charles Dunham, 91, British geologist.
• Sonya Hedenbratt, 70, Swedish singer and actress.
• Jay Miller, 57, American basketball player, heart attack.
• John Bertram Oakes, 87, American journalist.
• Aldo Olivieri, 90, Italian football goalkeeper and manager.
• David Lloyd Owen, 83, British army general and writer.
• Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd, 82, British politician who served as Leader of the House of Lords.
• Brother Theodore, 94, German-American actor and comedian.

  6

• George Bull, 71, British journalist and writer.
• Danny Gaither, 62, American gospel singer.
• Chaudhary Devi Lal, 85, Indian politician and Deputy Prime Minister of India.
• Yevgeny Malinin, 70, Soviet and Russian pianist.
• Eddie Melo, 40, Portuguese-born Canadian boxer and gangster, shot.
• Charles Pettigrew, 37, American singer, half of R&B duo Charles & Eddie, cancer.

  7

• David Graf, 50, American actor, heart attack.
• Kurt Hohenemser, 95, German-born American aerospace engineer and a pioneer in helicopter design.
• Derek Lang, 87, British Army general.
• G. N. Ramachandran, 78, Indian physicist.
• Beatrice Straight, 86, American actress, Oscar winner, pneumonia.

  8

• Kurt Almqvist, 89, Swedish poet, intellectual and spiritual figure.
• Frank Annunzio, 86, American politician, Parkinson's disease.
• Arthur Cantor, 81, American theatrical producer.
• Vladislav Krishchishin, 54, Ukrainian flyweight weightlifter.
• Nello Lauredi, 76, French road bicycle racer.
• Elsie Locke, 88, New Zealand writer, historian, and feminist.
• Bob Sohl, 73, American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist.
• Van Stephenson, 47, American singer-songwriter, melanoma.
• Marguerite Viby, 91, Danish actress.

  9

• Behram Contractor, 71, Indian journalist and humorist.
• Roque Ditro, 64, Argentine football player.
• Shakoor Rana, 65, Pakistani cricket umpire.
• Graziella Sciutti, 73, Italian soprano opera singer and producer.
• Willie Stargell, 61, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, stroke.
• Hsieh Tung-min, 93, Taiwanese politician and Vice President of the Republic of China.

  10

• Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, 65, French film director.
• Tadeusz Chciuk-Celt, 84, Polish special forces operative during World War II, journalist and author.
• Nora Eddington, 77, American actress and socialite, kidney failure.
• John Marmion Edmond, 57, Scottish-American MIT professor of marine geochemistry and oceanography.
• Andy Farkas, 84, American footballer.
• Charles L. Freeman, 92, American sound editor and film editor.
• Michel Fribourg, 87, Belgian-American billionaire businessman.
• Derek Lambert, 71, English author.
• Nyree Dawn Porter, 65, New Zealand actress, leukemia.
• Richard Evans Schultes, 86, American ethnobotanist.
• Roger Vale, 58, Australian politician.

  11

• Sandy Bull, 60, American folk musician and composer, lung cancer.
• John Harris, Baron Harris of Greenwich, 71, British political aide and politician.
• Jerzy Krasówka, 76, Polish football player.
• Thaddeus McCarthy, 93, New Zealand jurist.
• Graciela Naranjo, 84, Venezuelan singer and actress.
• Carolyn R. Payton, 75, American director of the Peace Corps.
• Harry Secombe, 79, Welsh actor, prostate cancer.
• Jack Wilson, 83, American footballer.

  12

• Harvey Ball, 79, American inventor of the smiley.
• E. W. Barker, 80, Singaporean politician and lawyer, colon surgery.
• Nelson Burbrink, 79, American baseball player, cancer.
• Wang Enmao, 88, Chinese lieutenant general and politician.
• Harry Hinkel, 97, American racewalker and Olympian.
• 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.
• Jimmy Logan, 73, Scottish comedian, actor, producer and director, cancer.
• Stephen C. O'Connell, 85, American jurist.
• Josephine Premice, 74, Haitian-American actress and singer.
• Ken Weston, 53, English sound engineer, Oscar winner, kidney cancer.

  14

• Jim Baxter, 61, Scottish football player, pancreatic cancer.
• Dorothee Metlitzki, 86, German-American author, professor of English and zionist.
• 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, leukemia.

  15

• Donald Dorfman, 67, American mathematical psychologist and radiologist.
• Jack Elway, 69, American college football player and coach, heart attack.
• Joey Ramone, 49, American musician, lead singer for The Ramones, lymphoma.
• Bo Roberson, 65, American track and field athlete, football player and Olympian.
• John Verrall, 92, American composer of contemporary classical music.

  16

• Emanuele Clarizio, 89, Italian prelate and diplomat of the Catholic Church.
• Giacomo Gentilomo, 92, Italian film director and painter.
• Horace Gwynne, 88, Canadian boxer and Olympic champion.
• Alfred Horn, 83, American mathematician.
• Paul Kuroda, 84, Japanese-American chemist and nuclear scientist.
• Peter Maag, 81, Swiss conductor.
• John R. McNamara, 73, American naval officer and bishop.
• Robert Osterloh, 82, American actor.
• Mohammad Rabbani, Afghani politician and one of the founders of the Taliban, liver cancer.
• Hank Riebe, 79, American baseball player.
• Michael Ritchie, 62, American film director, prostate cancer.
• Thomas H. Stix, 76, American physicist.
• Alec Stock, 84, English footballer and football manager.

  17

• Merton Davies, 83, American astronomer and space exploration pioneer.
• John Ferraro, 76, American politician and college football player.
• Alfred M. Moen, 84, American inventor and founder of Moen Incorporated.
• Richard McGee Morse, 78, American Latin Americanist scholar and academic, Alzheimer's disease.
• Leonid Alfonsovich Ostrovski, 65, Soviet football player and manager.
• Terry Scully, 68, British theatre and television actor.
• Danica Seleskovitch, 79, French interpreter and academic writer.

  18

• Khursheed Bano, 87, Indian singer and actress.
• Tony Bartley, 82, British film and television executive, and fighter pilot during World War II.
• Billy Mitchell, 74, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
• Robert Paparemborde, 52, French rugby player, pancreatic cancer.
• John Yonakor, 79, American football player.

  19

• Lionel Abel, 90, American playwright, essayist and theater critic.
• André du Bouchet, 77, French poet.
• Kurt Ott, 88, Swiss cyclist.
• Edith Picht-Axenfeld, 87, German pianist and harpsichordist.
• Egor Popov, 88, Russian-American civil engineer.
• Hal Haig Prieste, 104, Armenian-American athlete.
• Meldrim Thomson, Jr., 89, American politician, Governor of New Hampshire, Parkinson's disease.
• Pierre Versins, 78, French science fiction collector and scholar.

  20

• Antonio Asensio, 53, Spanish mass media entrepreneur, founder of Grupo Zeta, brain tumor.
• Richard H. Austin, 87, American politician, Michigan Secretary of State, Alzheimer's disease.
• Steven Blaisse, 60, Dutch rower and Olympic silver medalist.
• Cino Cinelli, 85, Italian racing cyclist.
• Kenneth Colby, American psychiatrist and computer technology pioneer.
• David Gilbarg, 82, American professor emeritus of mathematics at Stanford University.
• Irène Joachim, 88, French soprano, and vocal teacher.
• Maria Karnilova, 80, American ballet dancer and actress.
• Va'ai Kolone, 89, Prime Minister of Samoa.
• Maurice Lauré, 83, French civil servant.
• Avigdor Miller, 92, American Haredi rabbi and author.
• Giuseppe Sinopoli, 54, Italian conductor and composer, heart attack.
• Bert Sutcliffe, 77, New Zealand cricketer.