Deaths in April 2001

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2001.

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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.

April 2001

1

• Robert Aagaard, 68, British youth movement founder and furniture maker.
• Jean Anderson, 93, English actress (The Brothers, Tenko).[1]
• Olivia Barclay, 81, British astrologer.
• Eugênio German, 70, Brazilian chess master and Brazilian chess champion (1951, 1972).[2]
• Jayant Kothari, 71, Indian literary critic.
• Jo-Jo Moore, 92, American baseball player.[3]
• Brendan O'Reilly, 71, Irish broadcaster.
• Trịnh Công Sơn, 62, Vietnamese musician and composer.[4]
• Larry Tucker, 66, American screenwriter (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice).[5]

2

• Charles Daudelin, 80, French-Canadian sculptor and painter.[6]
• Gary Gearhart, 77, American baseball player.[7]
• Carlos C. Ogden, 83, US Army officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Letty M. Wickliffe, 99, African-American educator.

3

• Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell, 89, British newspaper proprietor.[8]
• Dempster Jackson, 70, American Olympic rower (men's coxless four rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics)(.[9]
• Jason Massey, 28, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Ray Osrin, 72, American comic book artist and cartoonist, complications due to heart disease and diabetes.
• Adela Reta, 79, Uruguyan lawyer and politician.[10]

4

• Frank Broeze, 55, Australia professor of History, died on 4 April 2001 in Perth, Western Australia.
• Beryl Gilroy, 76, British pioneering teacher and novelist, heart attack.
• José M. Dávila Monsanto, 95, Puerto Rican politician and lawyer, died in his home in Guayama.
• Stark Ritchie, 84, American football player and attorney.
• Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, 69, American artist, cartoonist, and custom car designer and builder.[11]
• Maury Van Vliet, 87, Canadian academic.

5

• Benjy Dial, 57, American football player.
• Sir Kingsley Dunham, 91, British geologist.[12]
• David Lloyd Owen, 83, British army general.
• Malcolm Shepherd, 82, British politician who served as Leader of the House of Lords.[13]
• Brother Theodore, 94, German-American actor and comedian.[14]
• John Long Wilson, 87, American physician and academic.

6

• George Bull, 71, British journalist and writer.[15]
• Danny Gaither, 62, American gospel singer (Bill Gaither Trio).[16]
• Esperanza la del Maera, 79, Spanish flamenco singer.
• Charles Pettigrew, 37, American singer, half of R&B duo Charles & Eddie, cancer.

7

• David Graf, 50, American actor (Police Academy, The West Wing, Rules of Engagement).[17]
• Kurt Hohenemser, 95, German-born American aerospace engineer and a pioneer in helicopter design.[18]
• Sir Derek Lang, 87, British army general.
• Beatrice Straight, 86, American actress (Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Network, Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Crucible).[19]

8

• Frank Annunzio, 86, American politician.
• Pedro Depestre, 55, Cuban violinist, arranger and musical director, died on stage.
• Safiya Henderson-Holmes, 50, African-American poet.
• Elsie Locke, 88, New Zealand writer, historian, and feminist.
• Clyde Packer, 65, Australian politician and businessman, heart and lung failure.
• Van Stephenson, 47, American singer-songwriter, melanoma.
• Marguerite Viby, 91, Danish actress.

9

• J. Paul Emerson, 58, American radio personality.
• Colin Radford, 66, English philosopher.
• Shakoor Rana, 65, Pakistani cricket umpire.
• Ken Rattenbury, 80, English jazz trumpeter.
• Willie Stargell, 61, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.[20]

10

• John M. Edmond, 57, Scottish-American MIT professor of marine geochemistry and oceanography.[21]
• Andy Farkas, 84, American footballer.
• Michel Fribourg, 87, Belgian-American billionaire businessman and the chairman and CEO of Continental Grain.[22]
• Nyree Dawn Porter, 65, New Zealand actress.
• Richard Evans Schultes, 86, American ethnobotanist.

11

• Sandy Bull, 60, American folk musician and composer.[23]
• John Harris, Baron Harris of Greenwich, 71, British political aide and politician (Chief Whip in the House of Lords from 1994 to 2001).[24]
• Sir Thaddeus McCarthy, 93, New Zealand jurist.
• Robert Moon, 83, American postal inspector, considered the father of the ZIP Code.[25]
• Graciela Naranjo, 84, Venezuelan singer and actress; a radio, cinema and television pioneer in her homeland.
• Sir Harry Secombe, 79, Welsh actor, comedian, member of The Goon Show, prostate cancer.
• Jack Wilson, 83, American footballer.

12

• Harvey Ball, 79, American inventor of the smiley.
• Nelson Burbrink, 79, American baseball player.[26]
• Harry Hinkel, 97, American Olympic racewalker (men's 10 km walk at the 1924 Summer Olympics, men's 50 km walk at the 1932 Summer Olympics).[27]
• Mahmoud Tounsi, 56, Tunisian author and painter.

13

• Jimmy Logan, 73, Scottish comedian, actor, producer and director.[28]
• Stephen C. O'Connell, 85, American jurist.
• Ken Weston, 53, British sound engineer.

14

• Jim Baxter, 61, Scottish football player.[29]
• János Holup, 78, Hungarian Olympic shooter (men's 50 metre rifle three positions at the 1960 Summer Olympics).[30]
• Bryan Ranft, 83, British historian.
• Hideo Takubo, 73, Japanese writer.
• Hiroshi Teshigahara, 74, Japanese avant-garde filmmaker (Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another).[31]

15

• Donald Dorfman, 67, American mathematical psychologist and radiologist known for his research on signal detection theory.[32]
• Jack Elway, 69, American college football player and coach (Washington State, San Jose State, Stanford).[33]
• Joey Ramone (b. Jeffrey Hyman), 49, American musician, lead singer for The Ramones, lymphoma.[34]

16

• Horace Gwynne, 88, Canadian Olympic boxer (gold medal winner in bantamweight boxing at the 1932 Summer Olympics).[35]
• Alfred Horn, 83, American mathematician.
• Henry Lloyd, 89, British Anglican priest, Dean of Truro (1960–1981).[36]
• John R. McNamara, 73, American naval officer and bishop.[37]
• Hank Riebe, 79, American baseball player.[38]
• Michael Ritchie, 62, American film director.
• Alec Stock, 84, English footballer and football manager.[39]

17

• John Ferraro, 76, American politician (Los Angeles City Council) and college football player (USC).[40]
• Sri Sadiq Ali, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
• Arthur A. Seeligson Jr., 80, American oilman and rancher.
• Danica Seleskovitch, 79, French interpreter and academic writer.

18

• Khursheed Bano, 87, Indian singer and actress.
• Tony Bartley, 82, British film and television executive, and fighter pilot.
• John Yonakor, 79, American football player.

19

• Lionel Abel, 90, American playwright ("Absalom"), essayist and theater critic.[41]
• Egor Popov, 88, Russian-born American civil engineer.
• Meldrim Thomson, Jr., 89, American politician, Governor of New Hampshire (1973–1979).[42]

20

• David Gilbarg, 82, American professor emeritus of mathematics at Stanford University.[43]
• Herbert Hamel, 96, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).[44]
• Maria Karnilova, 80, American ballet dancer and actress (Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Fiddler on the Roof).[45]
• Giuseppe Sinopoli, 54, Italian conductor and composer.[46]
• Bert Sutcliffe, 77, New Zealand cricketer.

21

• Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll, 63, British aristocrat.[47]
• Jack Haley Jr., 67, American film producer, director (That's Entertainment!) and documentarian (two-time winner of Emmy Award: 1968, 1979).[48]
• Doug Jamerson, 53, American politician and education commissioner, cancer.[49]
• Edmund Malecki, 86, German international footballer.
• Sandy Ullrich, 79, Cuban baseball player.[50]
• Hal White, 82, American baseball player.[51]

22

• John F. Allen, 92, Canadian physicist.
• Trevor de Cleene, 68, New Zealand politician and lawyer, cancer.
• Shane Clements, 42, Australian cricketer, suicide.
• Ike Cole, 73, American jazz pianist and composer, cancer.
• George R. Hill III, 79, American chemist, cancer.
• Sir Paul Holder, 89, British air marshal.
• Fadil Hoxha, 85, Kosovar politician.
• Edward Muhl, 94, Motion picture executive.
• Charles Schreiner III, 74, American rancher, author, publisher and historian, heart attack.

23

• Guglielmo Biraghi, 73, Italian film festival director.
• Robert J. Huber, 78, American politician (U.S. Representative for Michigan's 18th congressional district from 1973 to 1975).[52]
• Sir Charles Madden, 94, British admiral.
• David M. Walker, 56, American astronaut.

24

• Al Hibbler, 85, American singer (Duke Ellington Orchestra).[53]
• Peter Nugent, 63, Australian politician.
• Josef Peters, 87, German racing driver.
• Leon Sullivan, 78, American civil rights leader, social activist and Baptist minister.[54]

25

• Michele Alboreto, 44, Italian race car driver, car crash.[55]
• Kow Nkensen Arkaah, 73, Ghanaian politician, Vice-President (1993–1997)
• Majda Potokar, 71, Slovenian actress.

26

• Marjorie Arnfield, 70, British artist.
• Henry Boltinoff, 87, American cartoonist.
• Guy Butler, 83, South African poet, academic and writer.[56]
• Allan Hall, 71, British journalist.[57]
• John Howe, 81, Scottish Anglican prelate, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane (1955–1969).
• Lili Massaferro, 74, Argentine actress and Montoneros militant, thrombophlebitis.
• Amrit Nahata, 72, Indian politician and film maker.
• Edward F. Rector, 84, United States Air Force officer and flying ace during World War II, heart attack.
• Rudolf Trenkel, 83, German fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II.
• Jim Ward, 53, American football coach, heart attack.

27

• Charlie Applewhite, 68, American singer and radio host.
• Chhaya Devi, Indian film actress.
• Ernie Graham, 54, Northern Irish singer, guitarist and songwriter.

28

• Paul Daneman, 75, British actor (Not in Front of the Children, The Professionals, How I Won the War).[58]
• Ken Hughes, 79, English film director, writer and producer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang).[59]
• Yaakov Rechter, 76, Israeli architect.
• James Still, 94, American poet, novelist and folklorist.

29

• Alexander Baldin, 75, Russian physicist.
• Barend Biesheuvel, 81, Dutch politician, cardiovascular disease.
• Dubai Millennium, 5, Thoroughbred racehorse, grass sickness.
• Rita Hunter, 67, British operatic dramatic soprano.[60]
• Andy Phillip, 79, American basketball player.
• Babu Chiri Sherpa, 35, Nepal sherpa mountaineer, fall when climbing Mount Everest.
• Carlos Spaht, 94, American judge.
• Gordon Watson, 87, English football player.

30

• Maladi, 88, Indonesian athlete, songwriter, and politician.
• Brian Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris, 70, British poet, academic and politician.
• Laura Russo, 86, Brazilian librarian.
• Frank Stewart, 94, American baseball player.[61]

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