Deaths in January 2001

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

  January 2001

1

• Madeleine Barbulée, 90, French actress.
• Sir Michael Hanley, 82, British intelligence officer, Director-General of MI5.
• Fabijan Šovagović, 68, Croatian actor and writer.
• John Steadman, 73, American sportswriter.
• Heriberto Urán, 46, Colombian racing cyclist.
• Ray Walston, 86, American actor, Emmy winner.

  2

• Sir Ewart Bell, 76, Northern Irish rugby player and civil servant.
• George Carman, 71, English barrister, prostate cancer.
• William P. Rogers, 87, American politician, diplomat and lawyer, congestive heart failure.
• Alison de Vere, 73, British animator, director.
• Jimmy Zámbó, 42, Hungarian pop singer, accidental gunshot.

  3

• George H. Brown, 87, British film producer.
• Kwang-chih Chang, 69–70, Taiwanese-American archaeologist and sinologist, Parkinson's disease.
• Jack Fleming, 77, American sports announcer.
• Kung Fu, 49, Mexican Luchador, arterial hypertension.
• Marty Glickman, 83, American radio announcer.
• John F. Hayes, 85, American politician.
• Sushila Nayyar, 86, Indian politician and physician.

  4

• Alexandra Adler, 99, Austrian neurologist, daughter of psychoanalyst Alfred Adler.
• Les Brown, 88, American swing bandleader, lung cancer.
• Pierre Leyris, 93, French translator.
• Tadeusz Olechowski, 74, Polish communist politician and diplomat.
• John Rhoden, 82, American sculptor.
• Perry Schwartz, 85, American gridiron football player.
• Bob Snyder, 87, American football player and coach.
• André Thirion, 93, French writer and political activist.
• Villaño I, 50, Mexican professional wrestler, heart attack following a cerebral haemorrhage.

  5

• G. E. M. Anscombe, 81, British analytic philosopher.
• Milan Hlavsa, 49, Czech songwriter and bass guitarist, lung cancer.
• Raj Kumar Mehra, 82, Indian racing cyclist and Olympian.
• Nancy Parsons, 58, American actress, congestive heart failure.
• James Phiri, 32, Zambian footballer, cancer.
• Geoffrey Virgo, 82, Australian politician.

  6

• Victor Braun, 65, Canadian baritone, Shy–Drager syndrome, multiple system atrophy.
• Nadezhda Grigoryevna Grekova, 90, Soviet/Belarusian politician.
• Peter Lovell-Davis, Baron Lovell-Davis, 76, British publisher and politician.
• Scott Marlowe, 68, American actor, heart attack.
• Tom Poholsky, 71, American baseball player.
• Bob Pratt, 88, Australian rules footballer.
• Tot Pressnell, 94, American baseball player.
• Pretaap Radhakishun, 66, Surinamese politician.

  7

• James Carr, 58, American rhythm and blues singer, lung cancer.
• Jenő Csaknády, 76, Hungarian football manager.
• Ken Durrett, 52, American basketball player.
• Quin Epperly, 87, American racing car constructor.
• Charles Helou, 87, Lebanese politician, President, heart attack.
• František Hájek, 85, Czech Olympic basketball player.
• Johan van der Keuken, 62, Dutch documentary filmmaker, author, and photographer.
• Joseph L. Melnick, 86, American epidemiologist and virologist.
• Lowell Perry, 69, American gridiron football player and coach, businessman, and broadcaster.

  8

• Philip A. Barker, 80, British archaeologist.
• Don Brodie, 96, American actor and director.
• Edwin Etherington, 76, American writer, lawyer, civil rights advocate, and president of the American Stock Exchange.
• Chris Evert, 30, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Alfred Neumann, 91, East German politician.
• Néstor Scotta, 52, Argentine football striker, car accident.
• Catherine Storr, 87, English children's writer, suicide.
• Paul Winterton, 92, English journalist and crime novelist.

  9

• Paul Vanden Boeynants, 81, Belgian politician, Prime Minister, pneumonia.
• Peter Düttmann, 77, German World War II Luftwaffe flying ace.
• Judith Trim, 57, English studio potter, breast cancer.
• Carol Voges, 75, Dutch illustrator and comics artist.

  10

• Necati Cumalı, 79, Turkish writer and poet, liver cancer.
• John Ditlev-Simonsen, 102, Norwegian sailor and Olympic silver medalist.
• Matthias Duan, 92, Chinese Roman Catholic bishop.
• Bryan Gregory, 49, American rock musician, heart failure.
• G. Lakshmanan, 76, Indian politician.
• Jacques Marin, 81, French actor, heart attack.
• John G. Schmitz, 70, American politician, prostate cancer.
• Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymin, 75, Saudi Salafi scholar.
• Esteban Vicente, 97, American painter.

  11

• Wanda Jean Allen, 41, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Ken Brown, 55, American professional football player.
• Emilio Foriscot, 96, Spanish cinematographer.
• Gerald Glatzmayer, 32, Austrian football player, traffic collision.
• Oliver Gurney, 89, British Assyriologist.
• James Hill, 84, American film producer and screenwriter.
• Dorothy M. Horstmann, 89, American epidemiologist, virologist and pediatrician, Alzheimer's disease.
• Álvaro Jordan, 39, Colombian tennis player, severe shock.
• Louis Krages, 51, German racing driver and businessman, suicide by gunshot.
• Denys Lasdun, 86, British architect.
• Ignacy Machowski, 80, Polish actor.
• Claude V. Palisca, 79, American musicologist.
• Victor Pickard, 97, Canadian track and field athlete and Olympian.
• Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia, 94, Russian noblewoman and monarchist.
• Lorna Sage, 57, British literary critic and writer, pulmonary emphysema.
• Michael Williams, 65, British actor, lung cancer.

  12

• Affirmed, 25, American racehorse, euthanasia after contracting laminitis.
• Gianluigi Bonelli, 92, Italian comic book author and publisher.
• Luiz Bonfá, 78, Brazilian guitarist and composer, prostate cancer.
• József Csermák, 68, Hungarian hammer thrower and Olympic champion.
• Adhemar da Silva, 73, Brazilian triple jumper and Olympic champion.
• William Redington Hewlett, 87, American co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, heart failure.
• Mariano Juaristi, 96, Spanish Basque pelota player.
• Vladimir Semichastny, 76, Soviet politician, stroke.
• Elizabeth Sewell, 81, British-American critic, poet, and novelist.
• Ibnu Sutowo, 86, Indonesian army officer, politician and businessman.
• Charles Malcolm Watkins, 89, American historian, archaeologist, and curator.

  13

• Michael Cuccione, 16, Canadian actor and musician, respiratory failure.
• Bill Fraser, 76, New Zealand politician.
• Stan Freeman, 80, American musician, pulmonary emphysema.
• Amando de Ossorio Rodríguez, 82, Spanish film director.

  14

• Luigi Broglio, 89, Italian aerospace engineer.
• Jim Coleman, 89, Canadian sports journalist and writer.
• Dennis Fitzgerald, 64, American freestyle wrestler and football player and coach.
• Burkhard Heim, 75, German theoretical physicist.
• George McCabe, 78, English football referee.
• Kostas Rigopoulos, 70, Greek actor, stroke.
• Vic Wilson, 69, British racing driver, traffic collision.
• Joe Zapustas, 93, Latvian-American baseball player.

  15

• Alex Blignaut, 68, South African racing driver and racing team owner, domestic accident.
• Bob Braun, 71, American local television personality and actor.
• Bert Corona, 82, American labor and civil rights leader.
• David Lapsley, 76, Scottish footballer.
• Ted Mann, 84, American businessman and film producer.
• Leo Marks, 80, British World War II cryptographer, cancer.
• Margit Nagy-Sándor, 79, Hungarian gymnast and Olympic silver medalist.
• Kaija Siren, 80, Finnish architect.
• Riaz ud-Din, 58, Pakistani field hockey player and Olympic champion.

  16

• Laurent-Désiré Kabila, 61, Congolese politician and President, shot.
• Richard MacNeish, 82, American archaeologist.
• Melvin McQuaid, 89, Canadian politician.
• Virginia O'Brien, 81, American actress.
• Wanda Piłsudska, 82, Polish psychiatrist.
• Jitendra Prasada, 62, Indian politician and Vice-President of the Indian National Congress, cerebral haemorrhage.
• Ibrahim Shams, 84, Egyptian weightlifter and Olympic champion.
• Jules Vuillemin, 80, French philosopher.
• Auberon Waugh, 61, British journalist and author, heart failure.
• Leonard Woodcock, 89, American trade unionist and diplomat.

  17

• Gregory Corso, 70, American poet, prostate cancer.
• Homero Cárpena, 90, Argentine film actor.
• John B. Hayes, 76, American coast guard admiral, traffic collision.
• Tom Kilburn, 79, British computer scientist.
• Sergej Kraigher, 86, Yugoslav politician, President of Slovenia.
• Robert Robertson, 70, British actor, heart failure.
• Rito Romero, 73, Mexican professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Wakabayama Sadao, 78, Japanese sumo wrestler, cerebral thrombosis.
• Norris Turney, 79, American jazz flautist and saxophonist, kidney failure.
• Sigurd Vestad, 93, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympian.

  18

• Mordechai Gifter, 85, American orthodox rabbi.
• Peter Haigh, 75, English BBC Television announcer.
• Abdul Rahim Ishak, 75, Singaporean politician and journalist.
• Morris Lapidus, 98, Russian-American architect, heart failure.
• Evald Mahl, 85, Estonian basketball player and Olympian.
• Reg Prentice, Baron Prentice, 77, British politician and government minister.
• Imre Sinkovits, 72, Hungarian actor.
• Boris Stenin, 66, Soviet speed skater and speed skating coach.
• Al Waxman, 65, Canadian actor.

  19

• Johnny Babich, 87, American baseball player.
• Alberto Gallardo, 60, Peruvian football player and manager.
• Maxine Mesinger, 75, American newspaper columnist, complications of multiple sclerosis.
• Paul Olum, 82, American mathematician.
• Harry Oster, 77, American folklorist and musicologist.
• Mubarak Shah, 70, Pakistani long-distance runner and Olympian.
• Gustave Thibon, 97, French philosopher and author.