Deaths in February 2001

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

  February 2001

1

• Vinnie Burke, 79, American jazz bassist.
• Nikolay Devyatkov, 93, Soviet and Russian scientist and inventor.
• Sam Harshaney, 90, American baseball player.
• Harry How, 81, Canadian politician.
• John Jarrard, 47, American country music songwriter, respiratory failure.
• Amryl Johnson, 56, Trinidadian poet and writer.
• Harold Maguire, 88, British air marshal and Director-General of Intelligence.
• Rafael Lapesa Melgar, 92, Spanish philologist and literature historian.
• John Pierrakos, 79, Greek-American physician and psychiatrist.
• Leslie Vincent, 91, American actor.

  2

• June Lazenby Green, 87, American district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
• Carol Anne Letheren, 58, Canadian Olympic Association official, brain aneurysm.
• Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer, 75, French classical pianist.
• Freddy Wittop, 89, Dutch costume designer.

  3

• Helmut Gude, 75, German Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Frederick Lawton, 89, British judge.
• Teiichi Nishi, 93, Japanese sprinter and Olympian.
• Gerald Suster, 49, British revisionist historian, occult writer, and novelist.

  4

• Wilhelm Altvater, 80, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
• Sonia Arova, 73, Bulgarian ballerina, pancreatic cancer.
• Jean Ausseil, 75, Monegasque politician, Minister of State.
• David Beattie, 76, New Zealand jurist and Governor-General.
• Barry Cockcroft, 68, British television documentary director and filmmaker.
• Alyaksandar Dubko, 63, Belarusian politician.
• Larry Fisher, 93, American real estate developer and philanthropist.
• J. J. Johnson, 77, American jazz trombonist, suicide by gunshot.
• Raimo Kangro, 51, Estonian composer.
• Alois Lipburger, 44, Austrian ski jumper, traffic collision.
• Dragan Maksimović, 51, Serbian actor, beaten.
• Allan Mansley, 54, English football player, heart attack.
• Ernie McCoy, 79, American racecar driver.
• Natalia Melmann, 15, Argentinian murder victim.
• Pankaj Roy, 72, Indian cricketer.
• Tony Steedman, 73, English actor.
• Iannis Xenakis, 78, Greek-French composer.

  5

• Jean Davy, 89, French actor.
• Mark Joseph Hurley, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate, aneurysm.
• David Iftody, 44, Canadian member of Parliament, snowmobile accident.
• Elsa Irigoyen, 81, Argentine Olympic fencer.
• Louise Moreau, 80, French politician.
• Jack Shapiro, 93, American gridiron football player.
• Fernando Viola, 49, Italian football player, traffic collision.
• Jean Denton, Baroness Denton of Wakefield, 65, British politician and racing driver.
• Inna Zubkovskaya, 77, Russian ballerina.

  6

• Geoffrey Bibby, 83, English-Danish archaeologist.
• Kojo Botsio, 84, Ghanaian diplomat and politician.
• Gus Boulis, 51, Greek-born American businessman and murder victim, homicide.
• Fulgence Charpentier, 103, French Canadian journalist, editor and publisher, pneumonia.
• Stephen Halaiko, 92, American Olympic boxer.
• Agha Hilaly, 90, Pakistani diplomat.
• Arthur W. Hummel, 80, American diplomat.
• Jack Hyles, 74, American Baptist megachurch pastor, heart failure.
• Filemon Lagman, 47, Filipino revolutionary socialist and workers' leader, homicide.
• Folke Lind, 87, Swedish football player.
• R. W. Southern, 88, British medieval historian.
• Charles Tran Van Lam, 87, South Vietnamese diplomat and politician.
• Emily Vermeule, 72, American classical scholar and archaeologist, heart disease.

  7

• Jean-Paul Beugnot, 69, French basketball player and coach.
• Marianne Breslauer, 91, German photographer and photojournalist.
• Dieter Dengler, 62, German-American aviator and Vietnam War prisoner-of-war escapee, suicide by gunshot.
• Dale Evans, 88, American actress, singer and wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers, heart failure.
• Michael Grylls, 66, British politician.
• Helmut Hentrich, 95, German architect.
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 94, American author, aviator, and wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh, stroke, pneumonia.
• Stanley Lingar, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• King Moody, 71, American actor and comedian.

  8

• Ivo Caprino, 80, Norwegian film director and writer, cancer.
• Roger Delage, 78, French musicologist and conductor.
• Leslie Edwards, 84, British ballet dancer.
• Arlene Eisenberg, 66, American family and parenting writer, breast cancer.
• Walter Generati, 87, Italian road bicycle racer.
• Pauline Koner, 88, American dancer and choreographer.
• Chen Lifu, 100, Chinese politician and anti-communist of the Republic of China.
• Muboraksho Mirzoshoyev, 39, Tajikistani musician and Tajik rock music pioneer, tuberculosis.
• Brian Nissen, 73, British actor and television announcer.
• Rousas John Rushdoony, 84, American historian, theologian and father of Christian Reconstructionism.

  9

• Agustín Cárdenas, 73, Cuban sculptor.
• Vicente Dauder, 76, Spanish football goalkeeper and manager.
• William Epstein, 88, Canadian civil servant and United Nations disarmament official.
• Leonard Mandel, 73, American physicist.
• Reginald Marsh, 74, English actor.
• Gunnar Seidenfaden, 92, Danish diplomat and botanist.
• Herbert Simon, 84, American economist.
• Dilbagh Singh, 74, Indian air marshal.

  10

• Ramzan Akhmadov, 31, Chechen general, killed in action.
• Lewis Arquette, 65, American actor, heart failure.
• Abraham Beame, 94, American politician, 104th Mayor of New York City.
• Kenneth E. BeLieu, 87, American government official.
• Helge Bengtsson, 84, Swedish football player.
• K. Thavamani Devi, Sri Lankan actress.
• Niccolò Galli, 17, Italian promising footballer, traffic accident.
• Johnny Hatley, 70, American football player, coach, executive, and rodeo performer.
• Mogubai Kurdikar, 96, Indian classical vocalist.
• Robert H. Lounsberry, 82, American politician.
• Miné Okubo, 88, American artist and writer.
• Buddy Tate, 87, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.

  11

• José Luis Borbolla, 81, Mexican footballer.
• Edward E. Fitzgerald, 81, American sports author and editor.
• Sy Gomberg, 82, American screenwriter, heart attack.
• Olle Håkansson, 73, Swedish football player.
• Jaiganesh, Indian Tamil film actor, cancer.
• Raymond Lewis, 48, American basketball and streetball player, complications following leg amputation.
• Masao Ono, 77, Japanese football player.
• Charles C. Price, 87, American chemist.
• Jordan Lovett, 19, ARCA race car driver.
• Donald Sellers, 26, American gridiron football player, traffic accident.
• Judita Vaičiūnaitė, 63, Lithuanian writer.
• Maurice Zermatten, 90, French-speaking Swiss writer.

  12

• Bhakti Barve, 52, Indian actress, traffic collision.
• Rosalie Gwathmey, 92, American painter and photographer.
• Tiberio Mitri, 74, Italian boxer, railway accident.
• Franco Pedroni, 74, Italian football player and manager.
• Herbert Robbins, 86, American mathematician, statistician and co-author of What is Mathematics?.
• Ralph Smart, 92, Australian film and television producer.
• Kristina Söderbaum, 88, Swedish-German film actress, producer and photographer.

  13

• Ugo Fano, 88, Italian-American physicist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Manuela, 57, German singer, cancer.
• Moses Taiwa Molelekwa, 27, South African jazz pianist, murdered.
• George T. Simon, 88, American jazz writer and drummer.
• Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington, 83, British politician.
• Owen Torrey, 75, American sailor and Olympic medalist.
• Victor Veysey, 85, American politician.

  14

• Charles B. Fitzsimons, 76, Irish-American actor, film producer and director, liver disease.
• Guy Grosso, 67, French actor and humorist.
• Richard Laymon, 54, American horror author, heart attack.
• Maurice Levitas, 84, Irish-born British sociologist.
• Alan Ross, 78, Indian-British poet and editor.
• Ploutis Servas, 93, Cypriot politician, journalist, and author.
• Piero Umiliani, 74, Italian composer of film scores.
• Helmut Wielandt, 90, German mathematician.
• Jim Winkler, 73, American football player.

  15

• Boris Goldovsky, 92, Russian-American conductor and broadcaster.
• Dulal Guha, 72, Indian film director of Bollywood films in the 1960s and '70s.
• Burt Kennedy, 78, American screenwriter and director.
• Ken Kiff, 65, English figurative artist.
• Ricardo Otxoa, 26, Spanish cyclist, bicycle accident.
• Edwin Plowden, Baron Plowden of Plowden, 94, British industrialist and public servant.
• Folke K. Skoog, 92, Swedish-American plant physiologist.

  16

• Ali Artuner, 56, Turkish footballer.
• Bob Buhl, 72, American baseball player.
• Jerry Frei, 76, American football player and coach.
• Howard W. Koch, 84, American film and television director and producer, Alzheimer's disease.
• William H. Masters, 85, American gynaecologist, Parkinson's disease.
• Bobby Scarr, 74, Canadian basketball player.
• Helen Vita, 72, Swiss chanson singer, actress, and comedian, cancer.

  17

• Debbie Dean, 73, American singer.
• Gilly Flower, 92, English actress and model.
• Bob Geary, 67, Canadian football player and manager in the Canadian Football League.
• Juan Liscano, 86, Venezuelan poet, folklorist, writer and critic.
• Matild Manukyan, 87, Turkish businesswoman of Armenian descent.
• Khalid Abdul Muhammad, 53, American black nationalist leader, brain aneurysm.
• John Sutherland, 90, American film producer.
• Richard Wurmbrand, 91, Romanian Lutheran priest and academic.
• Zvonimir Červenko, 74, Croatian general.