Deaths in August 2001

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

August 2001

1

• Jay Chamberlain, 77, American racing driver.
• Dwight Eddleman, 78, American basketball player and Olympic athlete.
• Martin Huston, 60, American actor (Take Her, She's Mine, Come Blow Your Horn, A Race of Hairy Men).[1]
• Joe Lynch, 76, Irish actor.
• Korey Stringer, 27, American football player (Ohio State, Minnesota Vikings), complications brought on by heat stroke.[2]

2

• James A. Corbett, 67, American rancher and philosopher.
• Valerie Davies, 89, British Olympic swimmer, bronze medalist (1932).
• Sir Edward Gardner, 89, British politician.[3]
• Ronald Townson, 68, American vocalist (The 5th Dimension).[4]

3

• Henriette Bie Lorentzen, 90, Norwegian activist.
• Louis Chevalier, 90, French historian with interests in geography, demography and sociology.[5]
• Christopher Hewett, 80, British actor (Mr. Belvedere).[6]
• Lars Johan Werle, 75, Swedish composer.

4

• S. K. Bhatnagar, 71, Indian politician and diplomat.
• Joseph Cooper, 88, British pianist and broadcaster.
• Lorenzo Music, 64, American voice actor known for the voice of the cartoon cat Garfield, complications related to lung and bone cancer.[7]

5

• Otema Allimadi, 72, Ugandan Foreign Minister (1979–1980) and Prime Minister of Uganda (1980–1985).[8]
• Iskra Babich, 69, Soviet film director and screenwriter.
• Caro Crawford Brown, 93, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner.[9]
• Roy D. Chapin Jr., 85, American business executive (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American Motors Corporation).[10]
• Bahne Rabe, 37, German rower, Olympic champion (1988).[11]

6

• Jorge Amado, 88, Brazilian writer.[12]
• Hans Gruber, 76, Austrian-Canadian conductor (Victoria Symphony, University of Toronto).[13]
• Vasili Kuznetsov, 69. Russian decathlete.
• Kenneth MacDonald, 50, English actor.
• Jim Mallory, 82, American baseball player and football coach.[14]
• Wilhelm Mohnke, 90, German general during the Nazi era.
• Alan Rafkin, 73, American actor, director and producer.
• Dame Dorothy Tutin, 71, British actress (The Importance of Being Earnest, The Beggar's Opera, A Tale of Two Cities, The Shooting Party).[15]

7

• Dan Edwards, 75, American professional football player (1948–1957) and coach (1958–1961).[16]
• Jack James, 80, American rocket engineer who worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Project Manager for NASA's Mariner program).[17]
• Robert Kraus, 76, American children's author and cartoonist.

8

• John Deacon, 38, British motorcycle racer, motorcycle accident.
• Jean Dorst, 77, French ornithologist, former director of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.[18]
• John A. Hostetler, 82, American scholar.
• George Mann, 83, English cricketer.
• Peter Sinclair, 62, New Zealand radio personality.
• Patrick David Wall, 76, British neuroscientist.

9

• Abe Bonnema, 74, Dutch architect.
• Humphry Bowen, 72, British botanist and chemist.
• Jacky Boxberger, French athlete, killed by an elephant[19]
• Elmer Knutson, 86, Canadian businessman, activist and politician.
• John Gordon Lane, 85, Canadian politician.
• Sir Alec Skempton, 87, British scientist.

10

• Lou Boudreau, 84, American baseball player and manager, seven-time All-Star, 1948 American League Most Valuable Player and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.[20]
• Manfred Eglin, 65, German footballer.
• Edward Gaskin, 83, Panamanian educator and labor leader.
• Bob Johnson, 60, British businessman and philanthropist.[21]
• Ramón Monzant, 68, Venezuelan baseball player.[22]

11

• Paul Cunniffe, 40, Irish singer-songwriter, fall from balcony.
• Edward Thomas Hall, 77, British scientist, known for exposing the Piltdown Man as a fraud.[23]
• James Lechay, 94, American painter.
• Barbara Ruszczyc, 72, Polish Egyptologist and art historian.
• Percy Stallard, 92, British racing cyclist.[24]

12

• Irene Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever, 81, English noblewoman and philanthropist.
• Julian Pitt-Rivers, 82, British social anthropologist ands ethnographer.[25]
• Sir Walter Walker, 88, British army general.

13

• John C. Elliott, 82, American politician and 39th Governor of American Samoa.
• Sir John Hoddinott, British police officer.
• Jim Hughes, 78, American baseball player.[26]
• R.S. Jones, 47, American novelist and editor (HarperCollins Publishers).[27]
• Otto Stuppacher, 54, Austrian race car driver.[28]

14

• Earl Anthony, 63, American professional bowler.[29]
• Missy Cleveland, 41, Playboy Playmate.
• Oscar Janiger, 83, American experimental psychiatrist, known for his LSD research.[30]

15

• Richard Chelimo, 29, Kenyan Olympic long-distance runner (silver medal winner of the men's 10,000 metres at the 1992 Summer Olympics).[31]
• Raymond Edward Johnson, 90, American radio and stage actor (Inner Sanctum Mysteries).[32]
• Jim Russell, 92, Australian cartoonist.
• Sir Roderick Sarell, 88, British diplomat.

16

• Dave Barry, 82, American actor and comedian.
• Kenneth Reese Cole Jr., 63, American political aide to Richard Nixon.
• Fred Glover, 73, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings, Cleveland Barons) and coach (Oakland Seals, Los Angeles Kings).[33]
• Kaadsiddheshwar, 96, Indian Hindu guru.
• Anna Mani, 82, Indian physicist and meteorologist.
• Floyd Spence, 73, American attorney and a politician, cerebral thrombosis.
• Sidney Tillim, 76, American artist and art critic.

17

• Josef Fried, 87, Polish-American organic chemist, member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[34]
• Herman Goffberg, 80, American Olympic long-distance runner (men's 10,000 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[35]
• Emil Gorovets, 78, Soviet Ukrainian singer.
• Živko Nikolić, 59, Yugoslav and Montenegrin film director.
• Flip Phillips, 86, American jazz tenor saxophone and clarinet player.[36]
• Sir Ralph Verney, 5th Baronet, 86, British army officer and conservationist.

18

• Jack Elliott, 74, American film and television music composer, conductor and arranger (Barney Miller, Charlie's Angels, The Love Boat, The Jerk, Oh God!).[37]
• David Peakall, 70, British environmental toxicologist and ornithologist.[38]
• Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan, 88, Indian plant pathologist.

19

• Betty Everett, 61, American soul singer and pianist ("The Shoop Shoop Song", "Let It Be Me").[39]
• Les Sealey, 43, English footballer, heart attack.
• Inder Singh, 57, Indian Olympic hockey player.
• Willy Vannitsen, 66, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Donald Woods, 67, South African journalist, newspaper editor, and anti-apartheid activist, made famous by exposing the killing of his friend, Steve Biko.[40]

20

• S. K. Balakrishnan, 66, Indian politician, Mayor of Madurai.
• Richard Cloward, 74, American sociologist and activist (National Voter Registration Act of 1993).[41]
• Hazzard Dill, 82, Bermudian Olympic sprinter (1948 Summer Olympics).[42]
• Sir Fred Hoyle, 86, British astronomer and science fiction writer.[43]
• Walter Reed, 85, American stage, film and television actor.[44]
• Kim Stanley, 76, American actress (two nominations for a Tony Award, two nominations for an Academy Award, winner of a Primetime Emmy Award).[45]

21

• Beryl Cooke, 94, British actress.
• Pál Engel, 63, Hungarian historian.
• Steven Izenour, 61, American architect and author (Learning from Las Vegas).[46]
• Calum MacKay, 74, Canadian professional ice hockey player.[47]
• Norman Rigby, 78, English footballer.

22

• Tatyana Averina, 51, Soviet Russian Olympic speed skater (won two gold medals and two bronze medals at the 1976 Winter Olympics).[48]
• Rose Edgcumbe, 67, British psychologist, psychoanalyst, and academic.[49]
• Bernard Heuvelmans, 84, French scientist.
• Bobby Johnstone, 71, Scottish footballer (Hibernian, Manchester City, Oldham Athletic, Scotland).
• Tage Jönsson, 81, Swedish Olympic racewalker (men's 50 kilometres walk at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[50]
• Gita Luka, 79, Israeli actress, singer and comedian, stroke.[51]

23

• Eric Allandale, 65, British jazz musician.
• Howard Fletcher, 88, American college football player and head coach (Northern Illinois University).[52]
• Frank Emilio Flynn, 80, Cuban pianist.[53]
• Ray Frederick, 72, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks).[54]
• Kathleen Freeman, 82, American actress (Wagon Train, North to Alaska, The Nutty Professor, Support Your Local Sheriff!, The Blues Brothers, The Golden Girls).[55]
• Herbert Haag, 86, German-Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and biblical scholar (known for challenging the Vatican).[56]
• Shirley Kleinhans, 72, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).[57]
• Peter Maas, 72, American journalist and author (Serpico, The Valachi Papers).[58]
• Gordon Ogden, 92, Australian rules footballer.

24

• Jane Greer, 76, American film and television actress (Out of the Past).[59]
• Milan Kadlec, 42, Czechoslovakian Olympic pentathlete (team and individual modern pentathlon at the 1980 Summer Olympics and 1988 Summer Olympics).[60]
• Helen McGrath, 59, Scottish trade unionist.
• Hank Sauer, 84, American baseball player (1952 Most Valuable Player) ("The Mayor of Wrigley Field").[61]
• Raymond Wilding-White, 78, American composer.[62]

25

• Aaliyah, 22, American R&B singer and actress (Romeo Must Die), plane crash.[63]
• Raymond Abescat, 109, French veteran of World War I.
• Mary Barnard, 91, American poet, biographer and translator.
• Carl Brewer, 62, Canadian ice hockey player.[64]
• John Chambers, 78, American make-up artist and first civilian to receive the Intelligence Medal of Merit.
• Diana Golden, 38, American disabled ski racer, cancer.
• Philippe Léotard, 60, French actor and singer, respiratory failure.[65]
• Ginzō Matsuo, 50, Japanese voice actor, subarachnoid hemorrhage.
• John L. Nelson, 85, American jazz musician, songwriter and father of Prince.
• Asit Sen, 78, Bengali Indian film director, cinematographer and screenwriter.
• Ken Tyrrell, 75, British motor racing driver and team leader, pancreatic cancer.[66]

26

• Louis Muhlstock, 97, Canadian painter.[67]
• Cecil Null, 74, American songwriter, cancer.
• Marita Petersen, 60, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands and first female speaker of the House, cancer.
• Al Pittman, 61, Canadian poet and playwright.

27

• Michael Dertouzos, 64, Greek-American professor, computer scientist and Director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) from 1974 to 2001.[68]
• Juan Lechín Oquendo, 87, Bolivian politician, Vice President (1960–1964).
• Abu Ali Mustafa, 63, Palestinian leader and Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).[69]

28

• James Homer Elledge, 58, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Washington.
• Bert Gardiner, 88, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins, New York Rangers).[70]
• Käthe Grasegger, 84, German Olympic alpine skier (silver medal winner in women's combined alpine skiing at the 1936 Winter Olympics).[71]
• Juan Muñoz, 48, Spanish sculptor.
• Serhiy Perkhun, 23, Ukrainian footballer.
• Sir Reo Stakis, 88, Cypriot-born British hotelier.

29

• Roger Daley, 58, British meteorologist.[72]
• Victor Jörgensen, 77, Danish Olympic boxer (bronze medal winner in welterweight boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[73]
• Sid Peterson, 83, American baseball player.[74]
• Francisco Rabal, 75, Spanish actor.[75]
• Dick Selma, 57, American baseball player.[76]
• Graeme "Shirley" Strachan, 50, Australian singer (Skyhooks) and television presenter.[77]
• Eric Tipton, 86, American baseball player.[78]
• Dame Olga Uvarov, 91, Russian-born British veterinarian.

30

• A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury, 86, 9th President of Bangladesh.
• Julie Bishop, 87, American actress (Sands of Iwo Jima, Princess O'Rourke, Northern Pursuit, The High and the Mighty).[79]
• Stan Harland, 61, English football player.
• Govan Mbeki, 91, South African politician, leader of the ANC and SACP.

31

• Sir Eric Bullus, 94, British politician.
• Crash Davis, 82, American baseball player.[80]
• Rex Forrester, 72, New Zealand hunting and fishing specialist and outdoor sports author.[81]
• Paul Hamlyn, Baron Hamlyn, 75, British publisher and philanthropist.
• James Petrie, 59, British pharmacologist.

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