Deaths in May 2001
The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2001.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
 
May 2001
1
- Happy Hairston, 58, American basketball player (Cincinnati Royals, Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Lakers), prostate cancer.[1]
 - Waldemar Kikolski, 33, Polish paralympic athlete, road accident.
 - Ernie Pomfret, 60, British middle-distance runner.[2]
 - Elsa Prawitz, 69, Swedish film and stage actress.
 - Ernie Wheelwright, 61, American football player.[3]
 
2
- Enrico Bovone, 55, Italian basketball player, suicide by gunshot.[4]
 - Poul Dalsager, 72, Danish politician.
 - Georges Dard, 82, French football player.[5]
 - Vlasta Foltová, 88, Czechoslovak gymnast and Olympic silver medalist.[6]
 - Dick Jamieson, 63, American football player (Baltimore Colts, New York Titans) and coach.[7]
 - Howard Kahane, 73, American professor of philosophy.[8]
 - Gina Mastrogiacomo, 39, American actress (Goodfellas, Harry and the Hendersons, Jungle Fever), myocarditis.
 - Abdul Sattar Khan Niazi, 85, Pakistani religious and political leader.
 - Ted Rogers, 65, British comedian, complications after open-heart surgery.[9]
 - Theodore Roosevelt III, 86, American banker and government official.[10]
 - Klement Steinmetz, 86, Austrian football (soccer) player.[11]
 
3
- Philip George Houthem Gell, 86, British immunologist.[12]
 - Jim Godman, 55, American professional bowler.[13]
 - Billy Higgins, 64, American jazz drummer, hepatitis.[14]
 - Karel Kalaš, 90, Czech operatic bass and actor.
 - Princess Rosemary of Salm-Salm, 97, German noblewoman.
 - Robert Millner Shackleton, 91, British field geologist.
 - Hank Schmulbach, 76, American baseball player.[15]
 
4
- Anne Anastasi, 92, American psychologist.[16]
 - Bonny Lee Bakley, 44, American socialite, shot.[17]
 - Gene Grabosky, 64, American professional football player (Syracuse University, Buffalo Bills).[18]
 - Vaska Ilieva, 78, Macedonian folk singer from Yugoslavia and North Macedonia.
 - Arne Sucksdorff, 84, Swedish film director, pneumonia.[19]
 - Stan Newsham, 69, English footballer, (AFC Bournemouth,Notts County)
 
5
- Charles Black, 85, American constitutional scholar.[20]
 - Boozoo Chavis, 70, American accordion player, singer, songwriter and bandleader (Zydeco).[21]
 - Morris Graves, 90, American expressionist painter, stroke.[22]
 - Cliff Hillegass, 83, American creator of CliffsNotes, stroke.[23]
 - Bill Homeier, 82, American racecar driver (three Indianapolis 500s).[24]
 - David Jamieson, 80, British Army officer, recipient of the Victoria Cross.[25]
 - Aleksandr Petrov, 61, Soviet/Russian basketball player.[26]
 - Hans Rampf, 70, German ice hockey player.[27]
 - Terry Ryan, 78, American screenwriter, congestive heart failure.[28]
 - Wang Yinglai, 93, Chinese biochemist.
 
6
- René Bondoux, 95, French fencer and Olympic champion.[29]
 - Mike Hazlewood, 59, English singer, composer and songwriter, heart attack.
 - Karl Wilhelm Krause, 90, German Waffen-SS officer during World War II.[30]
 - Zoltán Nemere, 59, Hungarian fencer, traffic collision.[31]
 - Cecil Price, 63, American deputy sheriff and Ku Klux Klan member, fall.[32]
 
7
- Malati Bedekar, 96, Indian writer.
 - Jacques de Bourbon-Busset, 89, French novelist, essayist and politician.[33]
 - Prem Dhawan, 77, Indian lyricist, music composer, and actor of Bollywood, cardiac arrest.
 - Edwin Finckel, 83, American jazz pianist, composer (George White's Scandals) and music educator.[34]
 - Joseph Greenberg, 85, American linguist, pancreatic cancer.[35]
 - Dick Kimble, 85, American baseball player.[36]
 - Margaretha Krook, 75, Swedish actress, lung cancer.[37]
 - Boris Ryzhy, 26, Russian poet and geologist, suicide by hanging.[38]
 - Simon Slåttvik, 83, Norwegian Olympic skier (gold medal winner of the Nordic combined at the 1952 Winter Olympics).[39]
 - Al Tucker, 58, American basketball player.[40]
 - Arthur Christopher Watson, 74, British diplomat.
 
8
- Larry Hornung, 55, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.[41]
 - John McMahon, 83, Australian-English cricket player.[42]
 - Piero Natoli, 53, Italian actor and film director, intracranial aneurysm.[43]
 - Luis Rijo, 73, Uruguayan football player.
 - Clay King Smith, 30, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 
9
- Marie Cardinal, 72, French novelist.[44]
 - Antoinette Downing, 96, American architectural historian and preservationist.
 - Saul Elkins, 93, American film producer, writer and director.[45]
 - Andrés Framini, 86, Argentine labor leader and politician.
 - Miroslav Kárný, 81, Czech historian and writer.
 - Nikos Sampson, 65, Cypriot politician, de facto President of Cyprus (1974), cancer.
 - Werner Schuster, 62, German politician.
 - William T. Stearn, 90, British botanist.[46]
 - Kauko Wahlsten, 77, Finnish rower and Olympic medalist.[47]
 - Smokey Yunick, 77, American mechanic and car designer, leukemia.[48]
 
10
- Turi Ferro, 80, Italian actor (Liolà, The Seduction of Mimi, Malizia), heart attack.[49]
 - James E. Myers, 81, American songwriter ("Rock Around the Clock"), actor and director.[50]
 - Sudhakarrao Naik, 66, Indian politician.
 - M. Krishnan Nair, 74, Indian film director.
 - Frank Newby, 75, English structural engineer.
 - Arthur Tange, 86, Australian public servant.[51]
 - Dorothy Burr Thompson, 100, American classical archaeologist and art historian.[52]
 - Deborah Walley, 59, American actress (Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Beach Blanket Bingo, Spinout) and voice-over artist, esophageal cancer.[53]
 
11
- Douglas Adams, 49, British author (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Doctor Who), heart attack.[54]
 - Jesús Aguirre, 66, Spanish intellectual, Jesuit priest, and aristocrat, pulmonary embolism.[55]
 - Michael J. Bird, 72, British writer.[56]
 - Guy Carlton, 47, American Olympic weightlifter (bronze medal winner in heavyweight weightlifting at the 1984 Summer Olympics), suicide by gunshot.[57]
 - Alan William James Cousins, 97, South African astronomer.
 - Nick Lalich, 85, Serbian American basketball player, esophageal cancer.
 - Emmett Watson, 82, American newspaper columnist.
 - Wolfgang Winkler, 60, West German luger and Olympic medalist.[58]
 
12
- John Cliff, 82, American film and television actor.
 - Ollie Cline, 75, American gridiron football player.[59]
 - Perry Como, 88, American singer, actor and television personality, Alzheimer's disease.[60]
 - Didi, 72, Brazilian footballer, pneumonia.[61]
 - Willy Gysi, 83, Swiss field handball player.[62]
 - Norman Kay, 72, British composer and writer, ALS.
 - Paul Morgan, 52, British engineer, plane crash.
 - Jonathan Niva, 58, Kenyan football player.[63]
 - Mel Payton, 74, American basketball player.
 - Fritz Pfenninger, 66, Swiss cyclist.[64]
 - Simon Raven, 73, British writer.[65]
 - Eleanor Sayre, 85, American curator and art historian.[66]
 - Alexei Tupolev, 75, Soviet aircraft designer.[67]
 - Georgie Woodgate, 77, British tennis player.
 - Corissa Yasen, 27, American basketball player, suicide by drug overdose.[68]
 
13
- Sergey Afanasyev, 82, Russian engineer and politician.
 - Eddra Gale, 79, American actress (8½, What's New Pussycat?, The Graduate, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, Somewhere in Time).[69]
 - Salvador Garmendia Graterón, 72, Venezuelan author.[70]
 - Frank Millar, 76, Northern Irish unionist politician.
 - Jason Miller, 62, American actor (The Exorcist, Rudy) and playwright (That Championship Season), Tony winner (1973), heart attack.[71]
 - Harold Minter, 98, American film editor.
 - R. K. Narayan, 94, Indian writer.[72]
 - Ray Straw, 67, English footballer.[73]
 - Ralph Tabakin, 79, American actor.
 - Susumu Takahashi, 80, Japanese Olympic middle-distance runner.[74]
 
14
- Mauro Bolognini, 78, Italian film and stage director.[75]
 - Eric Bradbury, 80, British comic artist.
 - Paul Bénichou, 92, French-Algerian writer, intellectual, and literary historian.[76]
 - Alex Glasgow, 65, English singer-songwriter (On Your Way, Riley!, When the Boat Comes In).[77]
 - Gil Langley, 81, Australian cricketer and politician.[78]
 - Elisabeth Lennartz, 98, German stage actress.
 - Loften Mitchell, 82, American playwright and theatre historian.[79]
 - Armando Nannuzzi, 75, Italian cinematographer and camera operator.
 - Ettore Puricelli, 84, Uruguayan-Italian football player and manager.[80]
 - Juan Verdaguer, 85, Uruguayan actor, cardiovascular disease.
 
15
- Jean-Philippe Lauer, 99, French architect and Egyptologist.[81]
 - Juracy Magalhães, 95, Brazilian military officer and politician.
 - Ralph Miller, 82, American college basketball coach.[82]
 - Bobby Murdoch, 56, Scottish footballer, stroke.[83]
 - William Oates, 71, English first-class cricketer.[84]
 - Georgy Shakhnazarov, 76, Soviet-Armenian politician and political scientist.
 - Sacha Vierny, 81, French cinematographer.
 
16
- Antonio Flores, 77, Mexican football player.
 - Prince Ital Joe, 38, Dominican-American reggae artist, car accident.
 - Brian Pendleton, 57, British guitarist (The Pretty Things), lung cancer.[85]
 - Witold Stachurski, 54, Polish boxer.[86]
 
17
- Robert Elton Brooker, 95, American business executive at Sears, Roebuck & Co.
 - Ike Brown, 59, American baseball player, cancer.[87]
 - Gerd Buchdahl, 86, German-English philosopher of science.
 - Rahman Dadman, 44-45, Iranian politician, minister of roads and transportation (since 2001), plane crash.[88]
 - Ikuma Dan, 77, Japanese composer.[89]
 - Enid Hattersley, 96, English politician and Lord Mayor of Sheffield.[90]
 - Robert Knapp, 77, American actor (Days of Our Lives, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, The F.B.I.).[91]
 - Jacques-Louis Lions, 73, French mathematician.[92]
 - Murray Murdoch, 96, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.[93]
 - Frank G. Slaughter, 93, American novelist and physician.[94]
 
18
- Rosa Beddington, 45, British biologist, cancer.[95]
 - Ralph Enckell, 88, Finnish diplomat.
 - Irene Hunt, 98, American children's writer.
 - Alexey Maresyev, 84, Russian military pilot, infarction.[96]
 - Stella Mary Newton, 100, British fashion designer and dress historian.[97]
 - Maurice Noble, 90, American animation artist and designer.[98]
 - Seán Mac Stíofáin, 73, English-Irish chief of staff of the Provisional IRA, stroke.
 - Robert F. Woodward, 92, American diplomat.[99]
 
19
- Fred Derby, 61, Surinamese politician and trade unionist.
 - John Joseph Egan, 84, American Roman Catholic priest and social activist.[100]
 - Joe Graydon, 82, American big band vocalist, television host, personal manager and concert producer.[101]
 - Josef Haunzwickel, 86, Austrian Olympic athlete (men's pole vault at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[102]
 - Patricia Hilliard, 85, British stage and film actress.
 - Vidkunn Hveding, 80, Norwegian politician.
 - Joe Lovitto, 50, American baseball player, cancer.[103]
 - Hans Mayer, 94, German literary scholar.[104]
 - Susannah McCorkle, 55, American jazz singer, suicide by jumping.[105]
 - Mike Sammes, 73, English musician and vocal session arranger.[106]
 - Pat Falken Smith, 75, American television writer.
 - Bob Tinning, 75, Australian rower.[107]
 - John Warner, 78, British actor.
 
20
- Carl Eric Almgren, 88, Swedish Army general.
 - Renato Carosone, 81, Italian musician.[108]
 - Bob Keely, 91, American baseball coach, scout and player.[109]
 - Art Mergenthal, 80, American gridiron football player.[110]
 - Bud Thomas, 90, American baseball player.[111]
 
21
- Philip W. Buchen, 85, American attorney and White House Counsel.[112]
 - Mel Hoderlein, 77, American baseball player.[113]
 - Mario Martinelli, 95, Italian resistance member during World War II and politician.
 - Cecil G. Murgatroyd, 42, Australian politician, musician, and comedian, cancer.
 - Johnny Rainford, 70, English footballer.[114]
 - Gabriele Rumi, 61, Italian Formula One team owner, cancer.
 - Tad Szulc, 74, Polish-American journalist, cancer.[115]
 - Fritz Uhl, 73, Austrian operatic tenor.
 - Graham Webster, 87, British archaeologist.
 - Hu Xieqing, 95, Contemporary Chinese painter.
 
22
- Lorez Alexandria, 71, American jazz singer.[116]
 - Katharine Bartlett, 93, American physical anthropologist.[117]
 - Jenő Fock, 85, Hungarian communist politician, prime minister (1967-1975).
 - Ralph Hamner, 84, American baseball player.[118]
 - Jean Hougron, 77, French novelist.[119]
 - Leamon King, 65, American sprinter and Olympic champion.[120]
 - Whitman Mayo, 70, American actor (Sanford and Son, Boyz n the Hood, Hell Town), heart attack.[121]
 - Jack Watling, 78, British actor (The Plane Makers, The Power Game, Pathfinders), cancer.[122]
 
23
- Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, 72, Palestinian-American academic.
 - Liu Anyuan, 73, Chinese lieutenant general.
 - Harald Bergström, 93, Swedish mathematician.[123]
 - Jean Champion, 84, French film actor.
 - Lita Chevret, 92, American actress.
 - Charles D. Cook, 66, American politician.
 - Tommy Eyre, 51, British keyboardist, cancer.[124]
 - Walter Eytan, 90, Israeli diplomat.[125]
 - Bob Gaona, 70, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles).[126]
 - Chuck Gelatka, 87, American professional football player (Mississippi State, New York Giants).[127]
 - Boris Gyuderov, 74, Bulgarian Olympic volleyball player (1964).[128]
 - Lee Chiaw Meng, 64, Singaporean politician, cancer.
 - Arno Mohr, 90, German painter and graphic artist.[129]
 - Alessandro Natta, 83, Italian communist politician.[130]
 - P. Ramachandran, 79, Indian politician, Governor of Kerala.[131]
 - Jamileh Sheykhi, 71, Iranian actress, heart attack.
 - Harry Townes, 86, American actor (Finian's Rainbow, Gunsmoke, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek) and an Episcopalian priest.[132]
 - Arseny Vorozheykin, 88, Soviet/Russian fighter ace during World War II.
 
24
- Lucy Boscana, 85, Puerto Rico actress.
 - Jo Ann Greer, 74, American singer.[133]
 - Tor Jevne, 72, Norwegian football player.
 - Paul Kor, 74, Israeli painter and children's writer, lung cancer.[134]
 - Ridvan Qazimi, 37, Kosovar Albanian insurgent nationalist, K.I.A.
 - Patricia Robertson, 38, American physician and NASA astronaut, plane crash.[135]
 - Javier Urruticoechea, 49, Spanish footballer, car crash.
 
25
- Delme Bryn-Jones, 67, Welsh baritone.
 - John W. Holmes, 84, American film editor.
 - Alberto Korda, 72, Cuban photographer, heart attack.[136]
 - Arturo Maly, 61, Argentine actor, heart attack.
 - Malcom McLean, 87, American businessman and shipper.[137]
 - Harold Ridley, 94, British ophthalmologist.
 
26
- Vittorio Brambilla, 63, Italian Formula One race car driver, heart attack.[138]
 - Roman Codreanu, 48, Romanian Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic medalist.[139]
 - Johnny Gordon, 69, English football player.[140]
 - Anne Haney, 67, American actress (Mrs. Doubtfire, The American President, Liar Liar), heart failure.[141]
 - Moven Mahachi, 53, Zimbabwean Minister of Defence of the Republic of Zimbabwe, traffic collision.[142]
 - Hal Moe, 91, American gridiron football player and coach.[143]
 - William Molloy, Baron Molloy, 82, British politician.
 - Dea Trier Mørch, 59, Danish artist and writer, cancer.
 
27
- Ramon Bieri, 71, American actor (Sarge, Room 222, Daniel Boone, Gunsmoke), cancer.[144]
 - Helen Oakley Dance, 88, Canadian-American jazz journalist, record producer, and music historian.[145]
 - Victor Kiam, 74, American entrepreneur and owner of the New England Patriots football team.[146]
 - Agda Rössel, 90, Swedish politician.
 - Nikolay Yeryomenko, 52, Soviet/Russian actor and film director, stroke.[147]
 
28
- Tony Ashton, 55, English rock pianist, music producer and artist, cancer.[148]
 - Francis Bebey, 71, Cameroonian writer and composer.[149]
 - Joe Moakley, 74, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives, leukemia.[150]
 - Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, 79, Indian medical scientist.
 - Rockets Redglare, 52, American character actor and comedian (After Hours, Desperately Seeking Susan), hepatitis and liver cirrhosis.[151]
 - Elizabeth S. Russell, 88, American geneticist.[152]
 - Francisco Varela, 54, Chilean biologist, philosopher and neuroscientist, heart attack.[153]
 
29
- John Fleming, 81, British art historian.[154]
 - Eddie Forrest, 79, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).[155]
 - Akira Fujita, 93, Japanese Olympic water polo player (men's water polo at the 1932 Summer Olympics).[156]
 - Charley Pell, 60, American college football player and coach, lung cancer.[157]
 - Vytautas Sakalauskas, 68, Soviet and Lithuanian politician.
 - Hédi Temessy, 76, Hungarian actress.[158]
 
30
- Werner Fricker, 65, German-American soccer player and official.
 - Terry Gathercole, 65, Australian Olympic swimmer (silver medal winner of the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics).[159]
 - Inderjit Singh Gill, 79, Indian Army officer.
 - Adrian Hastings, 71, British Roman Catholic priest and historian.[160]
 - Nikolai Korndorf, 54, Russian-Canadian composer and conductor.
 - John Pickering, 56, English footballer.[161]
 - Jaime Benítez Rexach, 92, Puerto Rican author, academic and politician.[162]
 - Renée Schuurman, 61, South African tennis player.
 - Rajko Tomović, 81, Serbian and Yugoslav scientist.
 - Denis Whitaker, 86, Canadian athlete, soldier, and author.[163]
 
31
- Santos Amaro, 93, Cuban baseball player.[164]
 - Arlene Francis, 93, American actress, talk show host, and game show panelist (What's My Line?), Alzheimer's disease and cancer.[165]
 - Faisal Husseini, 60, Palestinian politician, heart attack.[166]
 - Tony Johnson, 76, Australian politician.
 - Jagannath Kaushal, 86, Indian politician.
 - Kwoh-Ting Li, 91, Taiwanese economist and politician.[167]
 - Tex McKenzie, 70, American professional wrestler, abdominal aortic aneurysm.
 - Walter E. Rogers, 92, American politician.[168]
 - German Ugryumov, 52, Soviet and Russian navy and security services official, heart attack.
 - Rosemary Verey, 82, English garden designer.[169]
 
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