Deaths in October 2001

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

  October 2001

1

• Guy Beaulne, 79, French-Canadian actor and theatre director.
• Lee Cronbach, 85, American educational psychologist.
• Surendranath Dwivedy, 88, Indian politician, journalist and social worker.
• Kenny Greene, 32, American singer-songwriter, AIDS.
• Gloria Hemingway, 69, American physician and daughter of Ernest Hemingway, hypertension and cardiovascular disease.
• Mickey Trotman, 26, Trinidad and Tobago football player, traffic collision.

  2

• Manny Albam, 79, American jazz baritone saxophone player, composer, and producer.
• Franz Biebl, 95, German classical music composer.
• Donald J. Cohen, 61, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, melanoma.
• Fernando Mendes, 55, Portuguese cyclist, traffic accident.

  3

• Alfie Almario, 38, Filipino basketball player, heart attack.
• Pat Ast, 59, American actress and model.
• Ricky Belmonte, 54, Filipino actor, stroke.
• Kostas Chatzichristos, 80, Greek actor, cancer.
• Homer Elias, 46, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
• Alessandro Fersen, 89, Polish-Italian dramatist, actor, and theater director.
• Phillip Goldson, 78, Belizean newspaper editor, activist and politician.
• Tullio Pane, 71, Italian singer.
• Gregorio Peralta, 66, Argentine boxer.

  4

• Blaise Alexander, 25, American race car driver, racing crash.
• Irmgard Farden Aluli, 89, Hawaiian composer.
• George Claydon, 68, British actor and mascot of the England Football Team in 1966.
• John Collins, 88, American jazz guitarist, cancer.
• Arthur Daniels, 79, Welsh rugby league player.
• Al Ham, 76, American composer and jingle writer.
• Antonín Máša, 66, Czech film director and screenwriter.
• Ahron Soloveichik, 84, American torah scholar and rabbi.

  5

• Peter Burge, 69, Australian cricketer.
• Jim Cain, 74, American gridiron football player.
• Clyde L. Choate, 81, American politician and decorated soldier.
• Brian Edgar, 65, British rugby league player.
• Woody Jensen, 94, American baseball player.
• Jan Lenica, 73, Polish graphic designer and cartoonist.
• Mike Mansfield, 98, American politician and diplomat.
• Egbert van 't Oever, 74, Dutch speed skater, colon cancer.
• Emilie Schindler, 93, German wife of Oskar Schindler who helped save the lives of 1,200 Jews during World War II.
• Zoltán Székely, 97, Hungarian violinist and composer.

  6

• Jacqueline Babbin, 75, American television and theatre writer and producer, cancer.
• Miguel del Toro, 29, Mexican baseball player, traffic collision.
• Axel Düberg, 73, Swedish film actor.
• Arne Harris, 67, American television producer-director.
• Yuriy Meshcheryakov, 55, Soviet and Ukrainian animator.
• Milton A. Rothman, 81, American nuclear physicist, complications due to diabetes.

  7

• Chris Adams, 46, English wrestler and judoka, brother of Olympic Judo star Neil Adams, shot.
• Gaby Basset, 99, French film actress.
• Roger Gaudry, 87, Canadian chemist, businessman, and university rector.
• Alf Gover, 93, English test cricketer.
• Herblock, 91, American editorial cartoonist.
• Stewart Imlach, 69, Scottish football player.
• Jimmie Logsdon, 79, American country and rockabilly singer, songwriter and radio DJ.
• Reg Matthews, 68, English football player.
• Polly Rowles, 87, American actress.
• Joann Lee Tiesler, 30, American murder victim.

  8

• Mongo Beti, 69, Cameroonian writer.
• Alfred Fyodorov, 66, Soviet football player and coach.
• Kenneth L. Hale, 67, American linguist.
• Caryl Parker Haskins, 93, American scientist, author, inventor, philanthropist, and entomologist.
• Seymour Heller, 87, American talent agent and manager.
• Javed Iqbal, 45, Pakistani serial killer, intoxication.
• Dmitry Polyansky, 83, Soviet statesman.
• Sankaradi, 77, Indian actor.
• Angelo Varetto, 90, Italian cyclist.

  9

• Roberto de Oliveira Campos, 84, Brazilian economist, writer, diplomat, and politician, heart attack.
• Dagmar, 79, American actress, model, and television personality.
• Vladimir Danilevich, 77, Soviet and Russian animator.
• Norris Houghton, 91, American theatre manager and producer.
• Herbert Ross, 74, American film director and choreographer, heart failure.
• William A. Ryan, 82, American politician.
• Károly Simonyi, 84, Hungarian physicist and writer.
• Judita Čeřovská, 72, Czech pop and chanson singer.

  10

• Pelegrino Adelmo Begliomini, 86, Brazilian football player.
• Eddie Futch, 90, American boxing trainer.
• Cal Gardner, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Dave Gerard, 65, American baseball player.
• Evgeni Kharadze, 93, Georgian astronomer, public figure and statesman.
• Vasily Mishin, 84, Soviet rocket designer.
• Luis Antonio García Navarro, 60, Spanish conductor.
• Samuel Ndhlovu, 64, Zambian footballer and coach.
• Anna Amelia Obermeyer, 94, South African botanist.
• Chet Ostrowski, 71, American gridiron football player.

  11

• Krzysztof Chamiec, 71, Polish actor, lung cancer.
• Franco Committeri, 77, Italian film producer.
• Nada Mamula, 74, Yugoslavian singer.
• Billy Maxted, 84, American jazz pianist.
• Beni Montresor, 75, Italian artist, illustrator and set designer, pancreatic cancer.

  12

• Richard Buckle, 85, British ballet critic.
• Ruth Goetz, 89, American playwright and screenwriter.
• Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, 94, British lawyer and politician.
• John T. Robinson, 78, South African palaeontologist.
• Eddie Rodriguez, 69, Filipino film actor and director, heart attack.
• Branko Stinčić, 78, Croatian football player.
• Witold Szalonek, 74, Polish composer.
• Otis Young, 69, American actor, stroke.
• Hikmet Şimşek, Turkish orchestra conductor.

  13

• José Capmany, 40, Costa Rican songwriter and guitarist, traffic collision.
• Jean Daninos, 94, Greek-French constructor of luxury cars Facel Vega.
• Peter Doyle, 52, Australian pop singer, esophageal cancer.
• Ubi Dwyer, 68, Irish anarchist, complications following bicycle accident.
• Fritz Fromm, 88, German Olympic field handball player.
• B. L. Graham, 87, American college basketball player and coach.
• Glenn Johnson, 79, American gridiron football player.
• Raoul Kraushaar, 93, American composer.
• David Neil MacKenzie, 75, British linguist.
• Jal Minocher Mehta, 100, Indian surgeon, social worker and philanthropist.
• Pal Mirashi, 75, Albanian football player.
• Mwanza Mukombo, 55, Congolese football player.
• Olga Arsenievna Oleinik, 76, Soviet and Russian mathematician.

  14

• Giorgio Cavedon, 70, Italian publisher, cartoonist and screenwriter.
• Willam Christensen, 99, American ballet dancer, choreographer and founder of the San Francisco Ballet and Ballet West in Salt Lake City, Utah.
• David V. Erdman, 89, American literary critic, editor, and academic.
• Eugene Grebenik, 82, British academic and demographer.
• Vernon Harrison, 89, British photographer and parapsychologist.
• David Lewis, 60, American philosopher.
• Bert Rose, 82, American gridiron football player.
• Ben Sankey, 94, American baseball player.
• Joseph Allen Stein, 89, American architect.

  15

• Jamie Cann, 55, British Labour Party politician, liver disease.
• Zhang Xueliang, 100, Chinese warlord and military figure, pneumonia.
• Ralph Levy, 80, American producer, film and television director.
• Anne Ridler, 89, British poet and editor.
• Robert Rutledge, 53, American sound engineer, Oscar winner, heart attack.
• Janet Shaw, 82, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• Bent Tomtum, 52, Norwegian ski jumper and Olympian.

  16

• Jean Danet, 77, French actor.
• Gotthold Gloger, 77, German writer and painter.
• Etta Jones, 72, American jazz singer, cancer.
• Yuri Ozerov, 80, Soviet film director and screenwriter.
• Reid Smith, 52, American film and television actor.

  17

• Frank Anscombe, 83, English statistician.
• Frances Claudet, 90, Canadian Olympic pair skater.
• Jay Livingston, 86, American composer.
• Micheline Ostermeyer, 78, French Olympic champion at the 1948 Summer Olympics and concert pianist.
• Jack Smith, 77, American NASCAR driver, congestive heart failure.
• Gyula Szilágyi, 78, Hungarian football player.
• Rehavam Ze'evi, 75, Israeli army general and politician, shot.

  18

• Ferris Fain, 80, American baseball player, complications from leukemia and diabetes.
• János Kulka, 71, Hungarian conductor and composer.
• Ray Lovejoy, 62, British film editor, heart attack.
• Dan Nugent, 48, American gridiron football player, leukemia.
• A. T. Ummer, 68, Indian music composer.

  19

• Araquem de Melo, 57, Brazilian football player, suicide.
• Kay Dick, 86, English journalist, novelist and autobiographer.
• Woody Dumart, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Yang Jingren, 83, Chinese politician.
• Leslie Johnston, 81, Scottish football player.
• Niaz Khan, 84, Pakistani Olympic field hockey player.
• Jagernath Lachmon, 85, Surinamese politician.
• Hugh Mulcahy, 88, American baseball player.
• Joe Murray, 80, American baseball player.
• Digna Ochoa, 37, Mexican human rights lawyer, shot.

  20

• Philippe Agostini, 91, French cinematographer, director and screenwriter.
• Marko Hirsma, 36, Finnish musician, outlaw biker and gangster, shot.
• Frank Hodgkinson, 82, Australian painter and graphic artist.
• Patricia Locke, 73, Native American educator-activist, heart failure.
• Henri Pellizza, 81, French badminton and tennis player.
• Nebojša Popović, 78, Serbian basketball player and coach.
• John H. Terry, 76, American lawyer and politician.