Deaths in July 2001

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

  July 2001

1

• Nikolay Basov, 78, Soviet physicist and co-winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964.
• Bob Cifers, 80, American professional football player.
• Halina Czerny-Stefańska, 78, Polish pianist.
• Hélène de Beauvoir, 91, French painter and sister of Simone de Beauvoir.
• Tony Leswick, 78, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.

  2

• Ron Forwick, 57, Canadian football player, cancer.
• Jack Gwillim, 91, English character actor.
• Israel Shahak, 68, Israeli organic chemist and civil rights activist, diabetes.
• James P. Vreeland, 91, American Republican Party politician.

  3

• Delia Derbyshire, 64, British musician and composer of electronic music, renal failure.
• Gerald L. Geison, 58, American historian, enlarged heart.
• Lelord Kordel, 92, Polish-American nutritionist and author of books on healthy living.
• Billy Liddell, 79, Scottish footballer.
• Baharuddin Lopa, 65, Indonesian attorney general, heart failure.
• John Marriott, 78, British philatelist.
• Roy Nichols, 68, American guitarist, heart attack.
• Mordecai Richler, 70, Canadian author,, kidney cancer.
• Johnny Russell, 61, American country singer and songwriter.
• Paolo Silveri, 87, Italian baritone.
• Ivan Slamnig, 71, Croatian poet, novelist, and literary theorist.

  4

• Roberto Cabrejas, 48, Spanish Olympic high jumper, traffic collision.
• Omar Ali Juma, 60, Chief Minister of Zanzibar from 25 January 1988 to October 1995.
• Serafim Pinto Ribeiro Júnior, 85, Brazilian football player.
• Charles Neider, 86, American writer.
• Charles Saxton, 88, New Zealand cricketer, rugby player and coach, emphysema.
• Anthony Synnot, 79, officer in the Royal Australian Navy.
• Joan-Josep Tharrats, 83, Spanish painter, art theorist and publisher.
• Anne Yeats, 82, Irish painter, costume and stage designer.

  5

• Ely Callaway Jr., 82, American entrepreneur and golf club maker.
• George Dawson, 103, American author.
• A. D. Flowers, 84, American film special effects artist, Oscar winner, pneumonia.
• Ernie K-Doe, 68, African-American rhythm-and-blues singer, liver cirrhosis.
• Hannelore Kohl, 68, wife of former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, suicide.
• Keenan Milton, 26, American professional skateboarder, drowned.

  6

• Jack Francis, 93, Australian sportsman.
• Derek Freeman, 84, New Zealand anthropologist.
• Enrique Mateos, 66, Spanish footballer.
• Viktor Yakushev, 63, Soviet ice hockey player.

  7

• Dempsey J. Barron, 79, American politician, President of the Florida Senate.
• Molly Lamont, 91, British film actress.
• Surender Kumar Malik, 58, Indian mathematician.
• Fred Neil, 65, American folk singer and songwriter.
• Toni Pagot, 79, Italian comics artist and animator.
• Joseph Stulac, 66, Canadian basketball player.
• John Roland Sweeney, 70, Canadian politician, heart attack.
• Tim Temerario, 95, American football coach and executive, heart failure.

  8

• Rolim Amaro, 58, Brazilian pilot and airline owner, helicopter crash.
• Ernst Baier, 95, German Olympic figure skater.
• Big Ed, 29, American rapper, throat cancer.
• Christl Haas, 57, Austrian skier and Olympic champion, heart attack.
• William Kuhlemeier, 92, American gymnast and 1932 Olympic bronze medalist in Los Angeles.
• Jia Lanpo, 92, Chinese palaeoanthropologist.
• Amiya Bhushan Majumdar, 83, Indian writer.
• Neil Midgley, 58, English football referee, cancer.
• John O'Shea, 81, New Zealand film director.
• Irma Seikkula, 87, Finnish actress.

  9

• Maria Chabot, 87, American advocate of Native American arts and rancher.
• Al Lary, 72, American baseball player, drowned.
• Jorge Novak, 73, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, stomach cancer.
• Thomas F. Schweigert, 83, American politician.
• Willy Sommer, 76, Swiss football striker and manager.
• Arie van Vliet, 85, Dutch Olympic sprint cyclist.

  10

• Humayun Rashid Choudhury, 72, Bangladeshi diplomat and politician.
• Tony Criscola, 86, American baseball player.
• Geoffrey Clarkson, 57, English rugby player.
• Giulio Gerardi, 88, Italian Olympic cross-country skier.
• Jean-Claude Grèt, 70, Swiss racing cyclist.
• Álvaro Magaña, 75, Salvadoran politician, President.

  11

• Herman Brood, 54, Dutch rock musician and painter, suicide by jumping.
• Cândida Branca Flor, 51, Portuguese entertainer and singer, suicide.
• Salamat Ali Khan, 66, Pakistani vocalist and artist, kidney failure.
• Qateel Shifai, 81, Pakistani poet.
• Marco Zanuso, 85, Italian architect and designer.

  12

• James Bernard, 75, English film composer and screenwriter, Oscar winner.
• Bill Crabtree, 86, Australian politician.
• Juan Nepomuceno Guerra Cárdenas, 85, Mexican crime lord, bootlegger, and smuggler, respiratory disease.
• Vlado Dapčević, 84, Yugoslav-Montenegrin communist and revolutionary.
• Mirvarid Dilbazi, 88, Azerbaijani poet.
• John H. Holdridge, 76, American diplomat, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Ron Kroon, 58, Dutch Olympic freestyle swimmer.
• Paul Magloire, 93, Haitian politician, President.
• Fred Marcellino, 61, American illustrator and children's author, colorectal cancer.
• Alioune Sarr, 92, Senegalese historian, author and politician.
• Charleszetta Waddles, 88, American activist and church minister.
• Johnny Wright, 72, British boxer and Olympic silver medalist.

  13

• Miguel Gila Cuesta, 82, Spanish comedian and actor, respiratory disease.
• Bill Fogarty, 79, Australian politician.
• César López Fretes, 78, Paraguayan football player.
• Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gryfe, 89, British politician.
• David Noyes Jackson, 78, American writer and artist.
• Åse-Marie Nesse, 67, Norwegian philologist, translator and poet, cancer.
• Eleanor Summerfield, 80, English actress.
• Juan José Timón, 63, Uruguayan cyclist.
• Mohamed Zafzaf, 56, Moroccan novelist and poet, cancer.

  14

• John Lax, 89, American ice hockey player.
• Agustín Navarro, Spanish film director, respiratory disease.
• Jack Sheppard, 92, British cave diver.
• Karen-Sofie Styrmoe, 70, Norwegian Olympic alpine skier.

  15

• Anthony Ian Berkeley, 36, American rapper and producer, colon cancer.
• Ted Berman, 81, American film director, animator, and screenwriter.
• Tom Chantrell, 84, British film poster artist.
• Helge Rognlien, 81, Norwegian politician.
• Marina Știrbei, 89, Romanian aviator.

  16

• Tom Askwith, 90, British Olympic rower and a colonial administrator.
• Terry Gordy, 40, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Christina Cruickshank Miller, 101, Scottish chemist.
• Morris, 77, Belgian cartoonist, embolism.
• Beate Uhse-Rotermund, 81, German female stunt pilot, Luftwaffe pilot during World War II and sex shop owner, pneumonia.

  17

• Timur Apakidze, 47, Russian fighter pilot and navy officer, aviation accident.
• Sara Ashurbeyli, 95, Azerbaijani historian, orientalist and scholar.
• Abel Carlevaro, 84, Uruguayan classical guitar composer, performer and teacher.
• Yehiel De-Nur, 92, Israeli writer and Holocaust survivor, cancer.
• Val Feld, 53, Welsh politician, cancer.
• Katharine Graham, 84, American publisher, horse fall.
• Elon Hogsett, 97, American baseball player.
• Wilhelm Simetsreiter, 86, German football player.
• Ziya Taner, 77, Macedonian-Turkish football manager.

  18

• Roderic Bowen, 87, Welsh lawyer and Liberal Party politician.
• Phillip Alexander Clancey, 83, British ornithologist.
• Mimi Fariña, 56, American singer-songwriter and activist, neuroendocrine cancer.
• Roy Gilchrist, 67, West Indian cricket player, Parkinson's disease.
• Alex Jany, 72, French Olympic swimmer.
• Ritchie Johnston, 70, New Zealand Olympic track cyclist.
• Ika Panajotovic, 69, Serbian-American film producer and tennis player, cardiac arrest during surgery, heart attack.
• Barry Shetrone, 63, American baseball player.
• Fabio Taglioni, 80, Italian automotive engineer.

  19

• Erik Barnouw, 93, American historian of radio and television broadcasting.
• Paul Beeson, 79, British cinematographer.
• Judy Clay, 62, American soul and gospel singer.
• Gunther Gebel-Williams, 66, Polish-American animal trainer, cancer.
• Neil Carmichael, Baron Carmichael of Kelvingrove, 79, British politician.
• Charles King, 89, British cyclist and Olympic medalist.
• Peter Lucas, 68, New Zealand Olympic rower.

  20

• Oscar Arredondo, 83, Cuban paleontologist and ornithologist.
• Thomas Fantl, 72, German film director and screenwriter.
• Milt Gabler, 90, American record producer.
• Carlo Giuliani, 23, Italian anti-globalization demonstrator, shot.

  21

• Muqbil bin Haadi al-Waadi'ee, Yemeni Islamic scholar, liver disease.
• Steve Barton, 47, American actor, suicide.
• Carlo Bo, 90, Italian poet and literary critic.
• Antal Bánkuti, 78, Hungarian basketball player.
• Krste Crvenkovski, 80, Yugoslav communist politician.
• Sivaji Ganesan, 74, Indian actor.
• Einar Schleef, 57, German dramatist, director, writer, painter, and actor, heart disease.

  22

• Bertie Felstead, 106, British World War I soldier and the last witness of the Christmas truce of 1914.
• Fanny Brennan, 80, French-American surrealist artist and painter.
• Bob Ferguson, 73, American country music songwriter and record producer, cancer.
• Maria Gorokhovskaya, 79, Soviet Olympic gymnast.
• Frances Horwich, 94, American educator, television personality and television executive, heart failure.
• Herbert L. Ley, Jr., 77, American physician and head of the U.S. F.D.A., cardiovascular disease.
• Indro Montanelli, 92, Italian journalist and historian, urinary tract infection.
• David Nelson, 38, English rugby league footballer, shot.
• Stanley Jedidiah Samartha, 80, Indian theologian.