Deaths in December 2001

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

  December 2001

1

• Danilo Donati, 75, Italian costume designer and production designer.
• 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.
• Lin Haiyin, 83, Taiwanese writer, organ dysfunction.
• Celia M. Hunter, 82, American environmentalist and conservationist.
• Chris Rees, 70, Welsh politician.
• Pavel Sadyrin, 59, Soviet and Russian football player and manager, cancer.

  2

• John W. Collins, 89, American chess master, author and teacher.
• Chase Craig, 91, American comic strip and comic book writer and cartoonist, fall.
• 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.
• Naomi Schor, 58, American literary critic and theorist, brain hemorrhage.
• Manuel Velasco Suárez, 86, Mexican neurologist, scientist and humanist, Governor of Chiapas.
• Dmitri Voskoboynikov, 60, Russian Olympic volleyball player.
• Willie Woodburn, 82, Scottish footballer.

  3

• Juan José Arreola, 83, Mexican writer, academic, and actor.
• Dee Barton, 64, American jazz trombonist, big band drummer and composer.
• 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.
• Nebojša M. Krstić, 37, Serbian theologian and sociologist, car accident.
• Grady Martin, 72, American country music guitarist, heart attack.
• Gerhart M Riegner, 90, German philosopher, and the secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress from 1965 to 1983.
• Harry Winter, 87, Austrian singer.

  4

• Silvio Clementelli, 75, Italian film producer.
• Pierre de Bénouville, 87, French Army officer, member of the Resistance during World War II, and politician.
• Mercedes Matter, 87/88, American painter, draughtswoman, and writer.
• Eddie Popowski, 88, American baseball coach and manager.
• Princess Maria Francesca of Savoy, 86, Italian royal and daughter of Victor Emmanuel III of Italy.
• 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.
• Muhamed Kreševljaković, 62, Bosnian politician and Mayor of Sarajevo.
• Moya Lear, 86, American businesswoman and philanthropist.
• Franco Rasetti, 100, Italian-American physicist.
• Bill Roberts, 89, British athlete.
• Dharam Singh, 82, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.
• Tomás Vio, 80, Argentine basketball player.

  6

• Colin Buchanan, 94, Scottish town planner.
• Robert W. Camac, 61, American thoroughbred horse racing trainer and breeder, shot.
• Thomas William Gould, 86, English Royal Navy submariner and World War II hero.
• Charles McClendon, 78, American football player and coach.
• Walt Mulconery, 69, American film editor.

  7

• David Astor, 89, British newspaper proprietor.
• 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.
• Peter Elias, 78, American information theorist, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
• Faith Hubley, 77, American animator, breast cancer.
• Billie Matthews, 71, American gridiron football coach.
• Subrata Mitra, 70, Indian cinematographer.
• Pauline Moore, 87, American actress, ALS.
• Ray Powell, 73, British politician.

  8

• Agha Shahid Ali, 52, Kashmiri-American poet, brain cancer.
• Mirza Delibašić, 47, Bosnian and Yugoslav basketball player and coach.
• Maurice Gross, 67, French linguist and scholar.
• Betty Holberton, 84, American computer programmer, one of six original programmers of the ENIAC computer.
• Pete Perreault, 62, American gridiron football player.
• Sergei Suponev, 38, Soviet/Russian television director and children's television presenter, snowmobile accident.
• Miroslav Vlach, 66, Czech ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.
• George Young, 71, American football executive.

  9

• Cesina Bermudes, 93, Portuguese obstetrician and feminist.
• Michael Carver, Baron Carver, 86, British Field Marshal.
• Joseph Mees, 78, Belgian prelate of the Catholic Church.
• Frederick Stewart, 85, British geologist.
• 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.
• Ashok Kumar, 90, Indian film actor, heart failure.
• Vernon Richards, 86, Anglo-Italian anarchist, author, and photographer.
• Heinz Rögner, 72, German conductor.

  11

• Beverly Hope Atkinson, 66, American actress, cancer.
• Andrei Bantikov, 87, Russian and Soviet painter.
• 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.
• 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.

  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.
• Berit Granquist, 92, Swedish Olympic fencer.
• Armando Theodoro Hunziker, 82, Argentine botanist, cancer.
• Farnham Johnson, 77, American gridiron football player.
• Lê Phổ, 94, Vietnamese painter.
• Giuseppe Prisco, 80, Italian lawyer and sporting director.
• Jean Richard, 80, French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur, cancer.
• Roger Scotti, 76, French football player.
• U. S. Grant Sharp, Jr., 95, United States Navy admiral.
• William Stobie, 51, Northern Irish paramilitary, shot.

  13

• Michael Bradshaw, 68, English actor.
• Larry Costello, 70, American basketball player and coach, cancer.
• Yvan Craipeau, 90, French Trotskyist.
• Jack Hoffman, 71, American gridiron football player.
• György Kőszegi, 51, Hungarian weightlifter and Olympic silver medalist.
• 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.
• Arghiri Emmanuel, 90, French marxian economist.
• Alfred Byrd Graf, 100, German-American botanist, photographer and author.
• John Guedel, 88, American radio and television producer.
• Pauline Mills McGibbon, 91, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.
• Claude Santelli, 78, French film director and screenwriter.
• W. G. Sebald, 57, German writer, car collision.
• Eoin Ryan, Snr, 81, Irish politician and senator.

  15

• Wilkie Cooper, 90, British cinematographer.
• Russ Haas, 27, American professional wrestler, heart failure.
• 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.

  16

• Stuart Adamson, 43, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist of Big Country and The Raphaels, suicide by hanging.
• Roy Brocksmith, 56, American actor, diabetes.
• Stefan Heym, 88, German writer, heart failure.
• Martin Isaksson, 80, Finnish politician and diplomat.
• Carwood Lipton, 81, American soldier during World War II and member of the Band of Brothers.
• Lester Persky, 76, American film, television, and theatre producer, complications following heart surgery.
• Villy Sørensen, 72, Danish writer, philosopher and literary critic.
• 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.
• Luigi Bertoldi, 81, Italian socialist politician.
• Fred Chaney, Sr., 87, Australian politician.
• Nelson Chelle, 70, Uruguayan basketball player.
• Frédéric de Pasquale, 70, French actor.
• Martin Glaberman, 83, American marxist writer, historian, and academic.
• Vladimir Kazantsev, 48, Russian Airborne Forces major general, fall.
• Martha Mödl, 89, German soprano, and later mezzo-soprano.
• Wale Ogunyemi, 62, Nigerian dramatist, film actor, and playwright.
• 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, pianist and actor, lung cancer.
• Dan DeCarlo, 82, American cartoonist, pneumonia.
• Dimitris Dragatakis, 87, Greek classical music composer.
• Mary Hardwick, 88, English tennis player.
• Bill Howerton, 80, American baseball player.
• Kira Ivanova, 38, Soviet Olympic figure skater, homicide.
• Jim Letherer, 67, American civil rights activist.
• Marcel Mule, 100, French saxophonist.
• Tolomush Okeyev, 66, Kyrgyz screenwriter and film director.
• Amal Kumar Sarkar, 100, Indian judge and Chief Justice.
• Fyodor Shutkov, 77, Russian sailor.
• Marcelle Tassencourt, 87, French actress and theatre director.
• Cecil Waidyaratne, 63, Sri Lankan general.
• Clifford T. Ward, 57, English singer-songwriter, pneumonia.