Deaths in June 2001

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

  June 2001

1

• Peter Corr, 77, Irish footballer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Nkosi Johnson, 12, South African AIDS awareness campaigner, AIDS.
• Hank Ketcham, 81, American cartoonist, prostate cancer.
• Abe Silverstein, 92, American aerospace engineer.
• Victims of the Nepalese royal massacre
• *King Birendra, 55, King of Nepal
• *Queen Aishwarya, 51, Queen of Nepal
• *Prince Nirajan, 22, son of Birendra and Aishwarya
• *Princess Shruti, 24, daughter of Birendra and Aishwarya
• *Prince Dhirendra, 51, brother of King Birendra
• *Princess Shanti, 60, sister of King Birendra
• *Princess Sharada, 59, sister of King Birendra
• *Princess Jayanti, 54, cousin of King Birendra

  2

• Jim Bragan, 72, American baseball player, manager, and scout.
• Imogene Coca, 92, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• John T. Fesperman, 76, American conductor, organist and author.
• Kenneth Hayr, 66, British air marshal.
• Joey Maxim, 79, American light heavyweight boxing champion.
• Viktor Popkov, 54, Russian dissident, human rights activist and journalist, shot.
• Pilar Seurat, 62, Filipino American film and television actress, lung cancer.
• Frank Stagg, 89, American Southern Baptist theologian and author.
• Adolf Thiel, 86, Austrian-German rocket scientist.
• Gene Woodling, 78, American baseball player.

  3

• Humayun Abdulali, 87, Indian ornithologist and biologist.
• Nicholas Albery, 52, British social inventor and author, car accident.
• J. C. Furnas, 95, American writer and social historian.
• Otto Hemele, 75, Czech football player.
• Jamake Highwater, 70, American writer and journalist, heart attack.
• Andrea Prader, 81, Swiss scientist, physician, and pediatric endocrinologist.
• Anthony Quinn, 86, Mexican-American actor, Oscar winner, pneumonia.
• Friedl Rinder, 95, German chess master.
• Nino Valdez, 76, Cuban heavyweight boxing champion.

  4

• Simone Benmussa, 69, French-Algerian author and theatre director, cancer.
• John Corriden, 83, American baseball player.
• John Hartford, 63, American musician and composer, lymphoma.
• Chenjerai Hunzvi, 51, Zimbabwean politician, AIDS.
• Dinos Iliopoulos, 85, Greek actor.
• Lu Jiaxi, 85, Chinese physical chemist.
• Felicitas Kukuck, 86, German music educator and composer of opera and other works.
• Dipendra of Nepal, 29, Nepalese monarch and mass murderer, King of Nepal, perpetrator of the Nepalese royal massacre, suicide by gunshot.
• Darshan Ranganathan, 60, Indian organic chemist, breast cancer.
• Ruth Sanger, 82, Australian immunogeneticist, haematologist and serologist.
• Horst Tüller, 70, German road and track cyclist.
• Joan Vohs, 73, American model and actress.

  5

• Pedro Laín Entralgo, 93, Spanish medical historian.
• Dennis Gillespie, 65, Scottish footballer.
• Aaron Green, 84, American architect.
• Howard Earl Johnston, 72, Canadian member of Parliament.
• L. Fletcher Prouty, 84, American Chief of Special Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

  6

• Alfonso Brescia, 71, Italian film director.
• Marie Brémont, 115, French supercentenarian and the oldest recognized person in the world.
• José Manuel Castañón, 81, Spanish writer.
• Ford Garrison, 85, American baseball player.
• Douglas Lilburn, 85, New Zealand composer.
• Ami Priyono, 61, Indonesian film director and actor.
• Suzanne Schiffman, 71, French film director and screenwriter, cancer.
• Lyubov Sokolova, 79, Soviet/Russian film actress, heart attack.

  7

• Franco Balducci, 78, Italian film actor.
• Víctor Paz Estenssoro, 93, Bolivian politician and four-term President of Bolivia.
• Carole Fredericks, 49, American singer, heart attack.
• Ken Green, 77, English footballer.
• Boris Lavrenko, 81, Russian painter.
• Betty Neels, 91, British novelist.
• Charles Templeton, 85, Canadian cartoonist, broadcaster and writer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Horace Walker, 64, American NBA Basketball player.

  8

• Sam Boyd, 86, American football player and coach.
• Alex de Renzy, 65, American director and producer of pornographic movies, cerebrovascular disease.
• Lucien Lauk, 89, French racing cyclist.
• Duncan MacIntyre, 85, New Zealand politician.
• Kotayya Pratyagatma, 75, Indian film journalist, director and producer.
• Dennis Puleston, 95, British-American environmentalist, adventurer and designer.
• Nathaniel Rochester, 82, American computer scientist.
• Don Roper, 78, English footballer.
• Harry Watson, 79, American child actor and television journalism pioneer.

  9

• Ronnie Allen, 72, English football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
• Malcolm Cooper, 53, British sport shooter, cancer.
• Richard T. Hanna, 87, American politician,.
• Savva Kulish, 64, Soviet film director and screenwriter, cerebrovascular disease.
• Yaltah Menuhin, 79, American-British pianist, artist and poet.
• Deirdre O'Connell, 61, Irish American actress, singer, and theatre director, cancer.
• Branko Pleša, 75, Serbian actor and theatre director.

  10

• Joyce King, 80, Australian sprinter and Olympic silver medalist.
• Jochen Liedtke, 48, German computer scientist.
• John McKay, 77, American football assistant coach and head coach, diabetes.
• Mike Mentzer, 49, American bodybuilder, complications from IgA nephropathy.
• Leila Pahlavi, 31, Iranian Princess and daughter of the Shah of Iran, suicide.
• Alexander Zuyev, 39, Soviet pilot who defected to the US, plane crash.

  11

• Lincoln Constance, 92, American botanist.
• Pierre Eyt, 67, French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, cancer.
• Lou Lombardo, 72, American baseball player.
• Trevor Madondo, 24, Zimbabwean cricket player, malaria.
• Timothy McVeigh, 33, American convicted terrorist, execution by lethal injection.
• Amalia Mendoza, 77, Mexican singer, lung disease.
• John Elvin Shaffner, 90, Canadian businessman and political figure.

  12

• Carl-Axel Acking, 91, Swedish architect, author and furniture designer.
• Joseph Brady, 72, Scottish actor.
• Owen Bush, 79, American television announcer and actor.
• Peggy Cartwright, 88, Canadian silent film actress.
• W. D. Davies, 89-90, Welsh congregationalist minister and theologian.
• Viktor Hamburger, 100, German embryologist.
• Ray Mentzer, 47, American bodybuilder.
• Nkem Nwankwo, 65, Nigerian novelist and poet.
• Jim Seminoff, 78, American basketball player.
• Joseph W. Twinam, 66, American diplomat.
• Paula Wiesinger, 94, Italian Olympic alpine skier and mountain climber.
• Thomas Wilson, 73, Scottish composer.

  13

• Gordon Christie, 86, New Zealand politician.
• Marcelo Fromer, 39, Brazilian rock musician, traffic accident.
• Luise Krüger, 86, German athlete and Olympic silver medalist.
• Makanda Ken McIntyre, 69, American jazz musician and composer.
• Yoshishige Saitō, 97, Japanese visual artist and art educator.
• Rajzel Zychlinski, 90, Polish poet.

  14

• Paul Carey, 38, American civil servant, endocrine cancer.
• Oleg Fedoseyev, 65, Soviet Olympic long jump and triple jump athlete.
• Miroslav Marcovich, 82, Serbian-American philologist.
• Gerry Melnyk, 66, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Jay D. Scott, 48, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Horace M. Wade, 85, American Air Force general.

  15

• Henri Alekan, 92, French cinematographer, leukemia.
• Mikhail Gluzsky, 82, Soviet/Russian actor, heart attack.
• Leif Kayser, 82, Danish composer and organist.
• Jay Moriarity, 22, American surfer, drowned.
• Thomas S. Noonan, 63, American historian and anthropologist, cancer.
• Marcelino Solis, 70, Mexican baseball player.

  16

• Joe Darion, 84, American musical theatre lyricist.
• Alessandro Faedo, 87, Italian mathematician and politician.
• Marta Hillers, 90, German journalist and author.
• Wally Hood, 75, American baseball player.
• Sam Jethroe, 84, American baseball player, heart attack.
• Jay Rabinowitz, 74, American lawyer and jurist, complications of leukemia.
• Jean-Maurice Simard, 69, Canadian Chartered Accountant and politician.
• Sava Vuković, 71, Serbian Orthodox bishop.
• Arthur Wheeler, 85, British motorcyclist.

  17

• Diana Bellamy, 57, American actress, cancer.
• John Broderick, 58, American film director, producer and screenwriter, kidney failure.
• Donald J. Cram, 82, American chemist and co-winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987, cancer.
• Ninfa Laurenzo, 77, American restaurateur, bone cancer.
• Thomas Winning, 76, Scottish Roman Catholic cardinal, heart attack.
• Mohammad Yunus, 84, Indian diplomat.

  18

• Allan Burdon, 86, Australian politician.
• Janine Crispin, 89, French film and television actress.
• René Dumont, 97, French engineer, sociologist, and politician.
• Dame Rosamund Holland-Martin, 86, British social welfare official and head of the NSPCC.
• Gao Kelin, 94, Chinese politician.
• Davorin Popović, 54, Bosnian singer-songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
• Paolo Emilio Taviani, 88, Italian politician, economist and historian.
• Karl Friedrich Titho, 90, German SS officer and war criminal during WorldWar II.

  19

• Sargis Baghdasaryan, 77, Soviet Armenian sculptor.
• Lindsay L. Cooper, 61, Scottish musician.
• Jerry Cornes, 91, British athlete and Olympic silver medalist.
• William Austin Forsyth, 83, Canadian politician.
• Juan Garza, 44, American murderer and drug trafficker, execution by lethal injection.
• John Heyer, 84, Australian documentary filmmaker.
• Ludwig Hörmann, 82, German cyclist.
• Tom Keane, 74, American gridiron football player.
• Robert Klippel, 81, Australian sculptor.
• Sergio Litvak, 100, Chilean football goalkeeper.
• Col Maxwell, 83, Australian rugby league player.
• Lee Mishkin, 74, American animator and director, heart failure.
• Stanley Mosk, 88, American jurist, politician, and attorney.
• Brian O'Shaughnessy, 70, British-South African film actor.
• C. R. Pattabhiraman, 94, Indian lawyer and politician.
• Jandhyala Subramanya Sastry, 50, Indian screenwriter, director and actor, heart attack.
• David Sylvester, 76, British art critic.
• Eddie Vartan, 63, French musician, bandleader, arranger, and record producer, cerebral hemorrhage.