Deaths in December 2001

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.

December 2001

1

• Danilo Donati, 75, Italian costume designer and production designer (two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Costume Design).[1]
• Ellis R. Dungan, 92, American film director.
• Lin Haiyin, 83, Taiwanese writer.
• Baltasar Rebelo de Sousa, 80, Portuguese politician.
• Chris Rees, 70, Welsh politician.
• Johnny Stearns, 85, American actor, producer and director.
• Thomas D. Tannenbaum, 69, American producer.

2

• John W. Collins, 89, American chess master, author and teacher.[2]
• Chase Craig, 91, American comic strip and comic book writer and cartoonist.[3]
• Bruce Halford, 70, British racing driver.
• Valorie Jones, The Jones Girls.

3

• Sir John Allen Clark, 75, British businessman.
• Anthony Gigliotti, 79, American clarinetist and music teacher (Philadelphia Orchestra).[4]
• Grady Martin, 72, American country music guitarist (The Nashville A-Team).[5]
• Warren J. Winstead, 74, American academic.
• Harry Winter, 87, Austrian singer.

4

• William Jovanovich, 81, Serbian-American publisher, author and businessman (Harcourt, Brace & World, SeaWorld).[6]
• Eddie Popowski, 88, American baseball coach and manager.
• John Townsend, 85, American basketball player.
• Ed Whalen, 74, Canadian television personality and journalist, heart attack.

5

• Anton Benya, 89, Austrian politician and trade unionist.
• Sir Peter Blake, 53, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist, shot by pirates on the Amazon River.[7]
• Franco Rasetti, 100, Italian physicist.
• Bill Roberts, 89, British athlete.

6

• Thomas William Gould, 86, English Royal Navy submariner and World War II hero (Victoria Cross).[8]
• Clarita Hunsberger, 95, American Olympic diver (women's 10-metre platform diving at the 1928 Summer Olympics).[9]
• Muhamed Kreševljaković, 62, Bosnian politician, Mayor of Sarajevo.
• Charles McClendon, 78, American football player (University of Kentucky) and coach (Louisiana State University).[10]

7

• David Astor, 89, British newspaper proprietor.
• Peter Elias, 78, American information theorist.
• Faith Hubley, 77, American animator (Moonbird, The Hole, Sesame Street, A Doonesbury Special).[11]
• Pauline Moore, 87, American actress (Heidi, The Three Musketeers, Young Mr. Lincoln, Charlie Chan at Treasure Island).[12]
• Sir Raymond Powell, 73, British politician.

8

• Betty Holberton, 84, American computer programmer, one of six original programmers of the first general-purpose electronic digital computer (ENIAC).[13]
• Don Tennant, 79, American advertising executive, inventor of Tony the Tiger and the Marlboro Man.
• George Young, 71, American football executive.

9

• Michael Carver, Baron Carver, 86, British Field Marshal.
• Marina Koshetz, 89, American opera soprano and actress.
• Sir Frederick Stewart, 85, British geologist.
• George Young, 71, American football player, coach and executive.

10

• Mikhail Budyko, 81, Russian climatologist.
• Wilma Z. Davis, 89, American codebreaker during World War II.
• Gus Doerner, 79, American basketball player.
• Ashok Kumar, 90, Indian film actor.

11

• Beverly Hope Atkinson, 66, American actress, cancer.
• Bert Axell, 86, British naturalist and conservationist.
• Clayton Hare, 92, Canadian violinist, teacher, conductor.[14]
• Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar, 92, Indian Indologist and scholar.
• Teguh Karya, 64, Indonesian film director, complications from a stroke.
• Clark Mills, 86, American boatbuilder and designer.
• Sewall Pettingill, 94, American naturalist, author and filmmaker.
• Robert B. Pinter, 64, biomedical engineer.

12

• Berit Granquist, 92, Swedish Olympic fencer (women's foil at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[15]
• Armando Theodoro Hunziker, 82, Argentine botanist (Botanical Museum of the National University of Córdoba).[16]
• Farnham Johnson, 77, American professional football player (Chicago Rockets).[17]
• Jean Richard, 80, French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur.[18]
• Raymond Smith, 67, English cricketer (Leicestershire).
• William Stobie, 51, Northern Irish paramilitary.

13

• Yvan Craipeau, 90, French Trotskyist.
• Jack Hoffman, 71, American professional football player (Xavier University, Chicago Bears).[19]
• Chuck Schuldiner, 34, American death metal guitarist, vocalist and songwriter.

14

• Alfred Byrd Graf, 100, German-American botanist, photographer and author.[20]
• John Guedel, 88, American radio and television producer (You Bet Your Life, People Are Funny, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet).[21]
• Pauline Mills McGibbon, 91, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.
• W. G. Sebald, 57, German writer.

15

• Russ Haas, 27, American professional wrestler.
• Bianca Halstead, 36, American hard rock singer.
• José O'Callaghan Martínez, 79, Spanish Jesuit priest and Biblical scholar.
• Rufus Thomas, 84, American R&B/soul singer.

16

• Stuart Adamson, 43, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist of Big Country and The Raphaels.[22]
• Roy Brocksmith, 56, American actor.
• Stefan Heym, 88, German writer.
• Carwood Lipton, 81, American World War II soldier portrayed by Donnie Wahlberg in Band of Brothers.[23]
• Villy Sørensen, 72, Danish writer, philosopher and literary critic.
• Sir Michael Walker, 85, British diplomat.

17

• Gerald Ashby, 52, English football referee.
• Kenneth Bryden, 85, Canadian politician.
• Sir Fred Chaney, 87, Australian politician.

18

• Gilbert Bécaud, 74, French singer, composer ("What Now My Love"), pianist and actor.[24]
• Dan DeCarlo, 82, American cartoonist (Archie Comics, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Josie and the Pussycats).[25]
• Dimitris Dragatakis, 87, Greek classical music composer.[26]
• Bill Howerton, 80, American baseball player.[27]
• Kira Ivanova, 38, Soviet Olympic figure skater (bronze medal winner in women's figure skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics).[28]
• Marcel Mule, 100, French saxophonist.
• Sietske Pasveer, 86, Dutch speed skater.[29]
• Michael Scaife, 53, British development psychologist.[30]

19

• Alfredo Vázquez Carrizosa, 92, Colombian lawyer, politician and diplomat.
• Christine Kittrell, 72, American R&B singer, emphysema.[31]
• A. C. de la Mare, 69, English paleographer.
• Wang Ruowang, 83, Chinese author and dissident.
• Hans Warren, 80, Dutch writer, liver problems.
• Dale Waters, 92, American football player.
• Arkie Whiteley, 37, Australian actress (A Town Like Alice, Mad Max 2, Princess Caraboo), adrenal cancer.[32]

20

• Manuhuia Bennett, 85, New Zealand Anglican prelate.
• Foster Brooks, 89, American actor and comedian.[33]
• Edward Evans, 87, English film and television actor (The Grove Family, Coronation Street, Z-Cars).[34]
• Sir Peter Horsley, 80, British air marshal.
• Léopold Senghor, 95, first President of Senegal; also a world-renowned poet and writer.
• Dame Miraka Szászy, 80. New Zealand Maori leader.[35]
• Joan Wheeler, 88, American actress.[36]

21

• Harry Bain, 80, Canadian pediatrician.
• James M. Burns, 77, American jurist.[37]
• Dick Schaap, 67, American sportswriter, broadcaster, and author.[38]
• George Smith, 82, British footballer.

22

• Grzegorz Ciechowski, 44, Polish rock musician, film music composer, frontman of the band Republika.
• Bob Davis, 68, American baseball player.[39]
• Shidzue Katō, 104, Japanese feminist and politician.
• Liu Zihou, 92, Chinese politician, governor of Hubei and Hebei.
• Edwin F. Russell, 87, American newspaper publisher.[40]

23

• Bola Ige, 71, Nigerian lawyer and politician (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Nigeria).[41]
• Jan Kott, 87, Polish theatre critic and political activist.
• Sir Dimitri Obolensky, 83, Russian-born British historian.

24

• Annie Altschul, 81, Austrian-born British nursing academic.
• Frances Macgregor, 95, American photographer, author, sociologist and anthropologist.[42]
• Harvey Martin, 51, American football player.
• Gareth Williams, 48, British musician (This Heat).

25

• Bryan Drake, 76, New Zealand operatic baritone.
• Ramón García, 77, Cuban baseball player.[43]
• Sir Dennis Mitchell, 83, British Royal Air Force officer.
• Billy Wells, 70, American football player.

26

• Jacques Cauvin, French archaeologist.
• Nigel Hawthorne, 72, British actor (The Madness of King George, Yes Minister, Yes Prime Minister).[44]
• Tom McBride, 87, American baseball player.[45]

27

• Robert Fowler, 70, South African Olympic cyclist (silver medal winner of the men's cycling team pursuit at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[46]
• Ian Hamilton, 63, British critic, poet, magazine publisher.
• John Hoffman, 58, American baseball player.[47]
• Paul Hogarth, 84, British artist.
• Boris Rybakov, 83, Russian historian.

28

• Samuel Abraham Goldblith, 82, American food scientist.[48]
• William X. Kienzle, 73, author of murder mysteries with Catholic priest detective.
• Hovie Lister, 75, American gospel singer and manager of The Statesmen Quartet.
• Arne Rettedal, 75, Norwegian politician.
• Anthony Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond, 74, British politician and businessman.

29

• Takashi Asahina, 93, Japanese conductor.
• Brian Bansgrove, 60, New Zealand gaffer.
• Don Boll, 70, American professional football offensive lineman (Washington Redskins, New York Giants).[49]
• Tom Bourke, 83, Australian rugby player.
• Cássia Eller, 39, Brazilian singer and musician, heart attack.[50]
• Thomas S. Estes, 88, American diplomat, congestive heart failure.
• Florian Fricke, 57, German musician, stroke.
• Eldon Arthur Johnson, 82, Canadian politician.
• Anatoly Kubatsky, 93, Sovietactor.
• Clinton D. McKinnon, 95, American politician and journalist.
• Louis Waltniel, 76, Belgian politician and industrialist.

30

• Eric Cheney, 77, British motorcycle designer.
• Frankie Gaye, 60, American soul musician and brother of Marvin Gaye, complications following a heart attack.
• James Melvin Scott, 90, American inventor and Senior Olympian.
• Dame Sheila Sherlock, 83, British physician.[51]

31

• Guido di Tella, 70, Argentine businessman, diplomat and politician.
• John Grigg, 77, British writer, historian and politician.[52]
• Eileen Heckart, 82, American actress (Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Butterflies Are Free).[53]
• Paul Hubschmid, 84, Swiss actor (Funeral in Berlin, My Fair Lady, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms).[54]
• Edward Lee, 87, British scientist and civil servant.

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2. McClain, Dylan Loeb (December 4, 2001). "John W. Collins, 89, Dies; Was Fischer's Chess Tutor". The New York Times. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
3. "Chase Craig (29 October 1910 – 2 December 2001, USA)". Lambiek. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
4. Wakin, Daniel J. (December 19, 2001). "Anthony Gigliotti, 79, Philadelphia Clarinetist and Teacher". The New York Times. Retrieved January 26, 2019.
5. "Grady Martin". Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
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