Deaths in August 2001

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

  August 2001

1

• Zuzana Chalupová, 76, Serbian/Yugoslavian naïve painter.
• Jay Chamberlain, 75, American racing driver.
• Dwight Eddleman, 78, American basketball player and Olympic athlete, heart ailment.
• Joe Lynch, 75, Irish actor.
• Begum Aizaz Rasul, 92, Indian politician.
• Robert Rimmer, 84, American writer.
• Korey Stringer, 27, American football player, complications following a heat stroke.
• Dan Towler, 73, American gridiron football player.
• Nicolae Tătaru, 69, Romanian football player.
• Charlie Ward, 89, English golfer.

  2

• Mario Alesini, 69, Italian basketball player.
• Valerie Davies, 89, British Olympic swimmer, bronze medalist.
• Edward Gardner, 89, British politician.
• Lawrence Minard, 51, American journalist and editor, heart attack.
• Ronald Townson, 68, American vocalist, kidney failure.

  3

• Franz-Josef Bach, 84, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
• Louis Chevalier, 90, French historian and academic.
• Christopher Hewett, 80, British actor, diabetes.
• Hans Holt, 91, Austrian film actor.
• Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, 95, British politician and social reformer.
• Jeanne Loriod, 73, French musician, drowned.
• Mario Perazzolo, 90, Italian footballer.
• Eduardo Toba, 78, Spanish football manager.
• Lars Johan Werle, 75, Swedish composer.

  4

• S. K. Bhatnagar, 71, Indian politician and diplomat.
• Claude Bloodgood, 64, American chess player and convicted murderer, cancer.
• Sir Paterson Fraser, 94, British air marshal.
• Jack Maple, 48, American police officer and author, cancer.
• Lorenzo Music, 64, American voice actor and television producer, lung and bone cancer.
• Dan Zehr, 85, American Olympic swimmer.

  5

• Otema Allimadi, 72, Ugandan List of [Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Uganda|Foreign Minister] and Prime Minister of Uganda.
• Iskra Babich, 69, Soviet film director and screenwriter, cancer.
• Mykhailo Bilyi, 78, Soviet and Ukrainian politician.
• Miloš Bojović, 63, Serbian basketball player, sports journalist, and politician.
• Caro Crawford Brown, 93, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner.
• Roy Dikeman Chapin, Jr., 85, American business executive.
• Aaron Flahavan, 25, English football goalkeeper, car accident.
• Bahne Rabe, 37, German rower and Olympic champion, 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's eight|Olympic champion ], anorexia nervosa.
• Christopher Skase, 52, Australian businessman and fraudster, stomach cancer.

  6

• Jorge Amado, 88, Brazilian writer, heart attack.
• Wina Born, 80, Dutch journalist and cooking books author.
• Adhar Kumar Chatterji, 86, Indian navy admiral.
• Robert Dunham, 70, American actor, writer, and racecar driver.
• Vasili Kuznetsov, 69, Russian decathlete.
• Kenneth MacDonald, 50, English actor, heart attack.
• Jim Mallory, 82, American baseball player and football coach.
• Wilhelm Mohnke, 90, German SS general during World War II.
• Ian Ousby, 54, British historian, author and editor, cancer.
• Alan Rafkin, 73, American film and television director |One Day at a Time], Coach.
• [Dorothy Tutin, 71, British actress |The Importance of Being Earnest], The Beggar's Opera, A [Tale of Two Cities, leukemia.
• Duong Van Minh, 85, South Vietnamese politician and ARVN general.

  7

• Larry Adler, 87, American harmonica player, pneumonia.
• Paul Averitt, 78, American soldier and Holocaust photographer.
• Dan Edwards, 75, American gridiron football player and coach.
• Jack James, 80, American rocket engineer.
• Algirdas Lauritėnas, 68, Lithuanian basketball player.
• José Tomás, 66, Spanish classical guitarist and teacher.

  8

• Patrick D. Wall , 76, British neuroscientist.
• Jean Dorst, 77, French ornithologist, former director of the National [Museum of Natural History |National Museum of Natural History] in Paris.
• Harry Julian Fink, 78, American television and film writer.
• Jean-Louis Flandrin, 70, French historian.
• George Mann, 83, English cricket player.
• Maureen Reagan, 60, American political activist and daughter of Ronald Reagan, melanoma.
• Nora Sayre, 68, American film critic and essayist.
• Peter Sinclair, 62, New Zealand radio personality.
• Paul Vaessen, 39, English footballer, accidental drug overdose.
• Noud van Melis, 77, Dutch football player.

  9

• Abe Bonnema, 74, Dutch architect.
• Humphry Bowen, 72, British botanist and chemist.
• Jacky Boxberger, French athlete, killed by an elephant.
• L. G. Dupree, 68, American gridiron football player, cancer.
• Elmer Knutson, 86, Canadian businessman, activist and politician.
• Alec Skempton, 87, British scientist.

  10

• Lou Boudreau, 84, American baseball player and manager, seven-time All-Star Game|All-Star] and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• Vladimir Bougrine, 63, Russian painter.
• Álvaro Carolino, 50, Portuguese football player and manager, pulmonary complications.
• Elsa Cavelti, 94, Swiss operatic contralto and mezzo-soprano.
• Jerry DeFuccio, 76, American comic book writer and editor.
• Manfred Eglin, 65, German footballer.
• Vasudeo S. Gaitonde, Indian painter.
• Gianfranco Miglio, 83, Italian jurist, political scientist and politician.
• Ramón Monzant, 68, Venezuelan baseball player.
• Dietrich Peltz, 87, German Luftwaffe bomber and Wehrmacht general during World War II.
• Werner Pirchner, 61, Austrian composer and jazz musician.
• Louis Purnell, 81, American curator at the National [Air and Space Museum].
• Stanislav Rostotsky, 79, Soviet/Russian film director and screenwriter.
• Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, 63, Australian Indigenous artist.

  11

• Paul Cunniffe, 40, British-Irish singer-songwriter, fall from balcony.
• Carlos Hank González, 73, Mexican politician and businessman.
• Edward Thomas Hall, 77, British scientist, known for exposing the Piltdown Man as a fraud.
• Bob Harris, 57, American jazz pianist and arranger, drug overdose.
• Isidoro Malmierca, 70, Cuban politician, lung cancer.
• Percy Stallard, 92, British racing cyclist.

  12

• Irene Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever, 81, English noblewoman and philanthropist.
• Pierre Klossowski, 96, French writer, translator and artist.
• Julian Pitt-Rivers, 82, British social anthropologist and ethnographer.
• Walter Walker, 88, British army general.

  13

• Manuel Alvar, 78, Spanish linguist, historian, and university professor.
• René Berthier, 89, French actor.
• Stephanus du Plessis, 71, South African Olympic discus thrower and shot putter.
• John C. Elliott, 82, American politician and 39th Governor of American Samoa.
• Jim Hughes, 78, American baseball player.
• Jimmy Knapp, 60, British trades unionist, cancer.
• Gabor Peterdi, 85, Hungarian-American painter and printmaker.
• Miguel Rodriguez Rodriguez, 70, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic] bishop.
• Richard Shorr, 58, American sound engineer |Predator], Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
• [Alan Skene, 68, South African rugby player.
• Otto Stuppacher, 54, Austrian race car driver.
• Antonio Zumel, 69, Filipino journalist, activist, and revolutionary.

  14

• Earl Anthony, 63, American professional bowler, domestic accident.
• Oscar Janiger, 83, American experimental psychiatrist, known for his LSD research.
• Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins, 63, American child actor.
• Ridgway B. Knight, 90, American diplomat and ambassador.
• Pavel Schmidt, 71, Slovak rower and Olympic champion.

  15

• Richard Chelimo, 29, Kenyan Olympic long-distance runner, brain cancer.
• Sheldon Datz, 74, American chemist.
• Raymond Edward Johnson, 90, American radio and stage actor.
• Peter Mazur, 78, Austrian-Dutch physicist.
• Renato Panciera, 66, Italian sprinter.
• Jim Russell, 92, Australian cartoonist.
• Kateryna Yushchenko, 81, Ukrainian computer and information research scientist.
• Yavuz Çetin, 30, Turkish musician, suicide.

  16

• Dave Barry, 82, American actor and comedian.
• Kenneth Reese Cole, Jr., 63, American political aide to Richard Nixon.
• Ruperto Donoso, 86, Chilean jockey.
• Fred Glover, 73, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
• Anna Mani, 82, Indian physicist and meteorologist, stroke.
• Sizwe Motaung, 31, South African football player, AIDS-related complications.
• Floyd Spence, 73, American attorney and a politician, cerebral thrombosis.
• Sidney Tillim, 76, American artist and art critic.
• Klaus Wagner, 79, German equestrian and Olympic medalist.

  17

• William G. Clark, 77, American politician and jurist.
• Josef Fried, 87, Polish-American organic chemist.
• Herman Goffberg, 80, American Olympic long-distance runner.
• Emil Gorovets, 78, Soviet and Ukrainian singer.
• Živko Nikolić, 59, Yugoslav and Montenegrin film director.
• Charles Palmer, 71, British martial artist.
• Flip Phillips, 86, American jazz tenor saxophone and clarinet player.

  18

• Edmund Cambridge, 80, American actor and director, complications from a fall.
• Roland Cardon, 72, Belgian composer, music teacher, and multi-instrumentalist.
• Philip B. Crosby, 75, American businessman and author.
• Jack Elliott, 74, American film and television music composer.
• Hillel Kook, 86, Russian/American Revisionist Zionist activist and politician.
• David Peakall, 70, British environmental toxicologist and ornithologist.
• Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan, 88, Indian plant pathologist.
• Tom Watson, 69, Scottish actor.

  19

• Betty Everett, 61, American soul singer and pianist |The Shoop Shoop Song]", "Let It Be Me.
• [Felicisimo Fajardo, 87, Filipino basketball player.
• Junichiro Itani, 75, Japanese anthropologist and academic.
• Dean Roper, 62, American stock car racer, heart attack.
• Les Sealey, 43, English footballer, heart attack.
• Inder Singh, 57, Indian Olympic hockey player.
• Willy Vannitsen, 66, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Donald Woods, 67, South African journalist, newspaper editor, and anti-apartheid activist, cancer.

  20

• Richard Cloward, 74, American sociologist and activist.
• Neal Colzie, 48, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
• Fred Hoyle, 86, British astronomer and science fiction writer, stroke.
• Akın Kuloğlu, 29, Georgian-Turkish boxer and Olympian, traffic collision.
• Walter Reed, 85, American stage, film and television actor.
• Sylvia Millecam, 45, Dutch actress and comedian, breast cancer.
• Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala, 85, Indian civil servant and diplomat.
• Eliezer Shostak, 89, Israeli politician.
• Kim Stanley, 76, American actress |The Right Stuff], Emmy Awards|Emmy] winner, uterine cancer.
• Rolla M. Tryon Jr., 84, American botanist.

  21

• Beryl Cooke, 94, British actress.
• Pál Engel, 63, Hungarian historian.
• Steven Izenour, 61, American architect and author.
• John Kerins, 39, Irish Gaelic footballer, cancer.
• Calum MacKay, 74, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Norman Rigby, 78, English footballer and manager.
• Juan Antonio Villacañas, 79, Spanish poet, essayist and critic.

  22

• Johnny Anderson, 71, Scottish football player.
• Tatyana Averina, 51, Soviet Russian Olympic speed skater, stomach cancer.
• Mauro Bicicli, 66, Italian football player and coach.
• Rose Edgcumbe, 67, British psychologist, psychoanalyst, and academic.
• Bernard Heuvelmans, 84, French scientist.
• Bobby Johnstone, 71, Scottish footballer.
• Spiro Koleka, 93, Albanian communist politician and statesman.
• Gita Luka, 79, Israeli actress, comedian and singer, stroke.
• Sharad Talwalkar, 82, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Varro Eugene Tyler, 74, American professor of pharmacognosy and philatelist.

  23

• Eric Allendale, 65, British jazz musician.
• Howard Fletcher, 88, American college football player and head coach.
• Frank Emilio Flynn, 80, Cuban pianist.
• Ray Frederick, 72, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Kathleen Freeman, 78, American actress, lung cancer.
• Herbert Haag, 86, German-Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and biblical scholar.
• Henriette Bie Lorentzen, 90, Norwegian journalist, peace activist, feminist, and publisher.
• Peter Maas, 72, American journalist and author.
• Fukukane Nikaidō, 78, Japanese economist.
• Manolita Saval, 87, Spanish actress and singer, thrombosis.

  24

• George Benson, 82, American gridiron football player.
• Jane Greer, 76, American film and television actress, cancer.
• Milan Kadlec, 42, Czech Olympic pentathlete, suicide by hanging.
• Roman Matsov, 84, Soviet and Estonian violinist, pianist, and conductor.
• Hank Sauer, 84, American baseball player .
• Raymond Wilding-White, 78, American composer.

  25

• Aaliyah, 22, American alternative R&B singer and actress, plane crash.
• Madge Adam, 89, English astronomer.
• Mary Barnard, 91, American poet, biographer and translator.
• Carl Brewer, 62, Canadian ice hockey player.
• John Chambers, 78, American make-up artist and first civilian to receive the Intelligence Medal of Merit.
• Üzeyir Garih, 72, Turkish engineer, businessman, writer and investor.
• Diana Golden, 38, American disabled ski racer, cancer.
• Philippe Léotard, 60, French actor and singer, respiratory failure.
• Ginzō Matsuo, 50, Japanese voice actor, subarachnoid hemorrhage.
• John L. Nelson, 85, American jazz musician, songwriter and father of Prince.
• Asit Sen, 78, Bengali Indian film director, cinematographer and screenwriter.
• Ken Tyrrell, 75, British motor racing driver and team leader, pancreatic cancer.

  26

• John Horn, 69, British tennis player.
• Louis Muhlstock, 97, Canadian painter.
• Marita Petersen, 60, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands and first female speaker of the House, cancer.
• Al Pittman, 61, Canadian poet and playwright.

  27

• Cal Collins, 68, American jazz guitarist.
• Michalis Dertouzos, 64, Greek-American professor and computer scientist.
• John Joe Landers, 94, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• James D. Ford, 70, American clergyman, Chaplain of [the United States House of Representatives], suicide by gunshot.
• Abu Ali Mustafa, 63, Palestinian leader and Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine , airstrike.
• Juan Lechín Oquendo, 87, Bolivian politician, Vice President.
• Karl Ulrich Schnabel, 92, Austrian pianist.

  28

• Bert Gardiner, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Käthe Grasegger, 84, German Olympic alpine skier.
• David P. Harmon, 82, American scenarist and producer.
• Johan Frederik Holleman, 85, Dutch-South African ethnologist and legal scholar.
• Kenneth Maddocks, 94, British colonial official and Governor of Fiji.
• Lawrence B. Marcus, 84, American screenwriter.
• Juan Muñoz, 48, Spanish sculptor, cardiac arrest caused by an aneurysm.
• Serhiy Perkhun, 23, Ukrainian footballer, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Remy Presas, 64, Filipino martial artist and founder of Modern Arnis, brain cancer.
• Ernst Stettler, 80, Swiss racing cyclist.

  29

• Harold Chestnut, 83, American electrical engineer at General Electric and author.
• Roger Daley, 58, British meteorologist.
• Victor Jörgensen, 77, Danish Olympic boxer.
• Manubhai Pancholi, 86, Indian novelist, author, and politician.
• Francisco Rabal, 75, Spanish actor, pulmonary emphysema.
• Dick Selma, 57, American baseball player, liver cancer.
• Graeme Strachan, 49, Australian singer and television presenter.
• Eric Tipton, 86, American baseball player.
• Sabahattin Özbek, 86, Turkish politician and academic.

  30

• Juan Acuña, 78, Spanish football goalkeeper.
• Julie Bishop, 87, American actress, pneumonia.
• A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury, 86, 9th President of Bangladesh.
• Stan Harland, 61, English football player.
• Govan Mbeki, 91, South African politician, leader of the ANC and SACP.
• G. K. Moopanar, 70, Indian politician.
• Dilli Raman Regmi, 87, Nepali historian and politician.
• Kothamangalam Seenu, 91, Tamil actor and singer.
• Kwee Kiat Sek, 67, Indonesian football player.
• Agus Wirahadikusumah, 49, Indonesian military officer.

  31

• Crash Davis, 82, American baseball player, stomach cancer.
• Julio Antonio Elícegui, 90, Spanish football player.
• Paul Hamlyn, 75, British publisher and philanthropist.
• Odd Steinar Holøs, 79, Norwegian politician.