Deaths in July 2001

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 2001

1

• Nikolay Basov, 78, Soviet physicist and co-winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964.[1]
• Bob Cifers, 80, American professional football player (Detroit Lions, Pittsburgh Steelers, Green Bay Packers).[2]
• John Maurice Scott, 53, Director General of the Fiji Red Cross.
• Beethaeven Scottland, 26, American boxer.

2

• Ron Forwick, 57, Canadian footballer.
• Jack Gwillim, 91, English character actor (My Fair Lady, Lawrence of Arabia, A Man for All Seasons, Patton).[3]
• Sayed Khalifa, 72/3, Sudanese singer.
• Mordecai Richler, 69, Canadian author, (Jacob Two-Two).[4]
• James P. Vreeland, 91, American Republican Party politician.

3

• Delia Derbyshire, 64, British musician and composer of electronic music (BBC Radiophonic Workshop), renal failure.[5]
• Gerald L. Geison, 58, American historian.[6]
• Sir John Marriott, 78, British philatelist.
• Roy Nichols, 68, American guitarist (lead guitarist for Merle Haggard's band).[7]
• Johnny Russell, 61, American country singer ("Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer") and songwriter ("Act Naturally").[8]

4

• V. Appapillai, 87, Sri Lankan physicist and academic.
• Charles Saxton, 88, New Zealand cricketer, rugby player and coach, emphysema.
• Anthony Synnot, 79, officer in the Royal Australian Navy.
• Fumio Toyoda, 53, Japanese aikido teacher.

5

• George Dawson, 103, American author (Life Is So Good) and "America's favorite poster child for literacy".[9]
• George Ffitch, 72, British radio personality, television correspondent and journalist.[10]
• A. D. Flowers, 84, American film special effects artist (two-time winner of Academy Award for Best Visual Effects: Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Poseidon Adventure).[11]
• Ernie K-Doe, 68, African-American rhythm-and-blues singer ("Mother-in-Law").[12]
• Hannelore Kohl, 68, wife of former German chancellor Helmut Kohl.

6

• Derek Freeman, 84, New Zealand anthropologist.[13]
• Enrique Mateos, 66, Spanish footballer.
• Khem Shahani, 78, Indian microbiologist.
• Paul Tembo, Zambian politician.

7

• Dempsey J. Barron, 79, American politician, President of the Florida Senate.
• Molly Lamont, 91, British film actress.
• Edward Fiennes-Clinton, 18th Earl of Lincoln, 88, Australian engineer.
• Khalil al-Mughrabi, 11, Palestinian victim, shooting.
• Fred Neil, 65, American folk singer and songwriter ("Everybody's Talkin'").[14]
• John Sweeney, 70, Canadian politician, heart attack.
• Tim Temerario, 95, American football coach and executive, heart failure.

8

• Ernst Baier, 95, German Olympic figure skater (gold medal winner in pairs and silver medal winner in men's singles at the 1936 Winter Olympics).[15]
• John Brown, 64, Australian rules footballer.
• Andrew E. Gibson, 79, American shipping executive and politician.
• Christl Haas, 57, Austrian Olympic skier (gold medal winner in the women's downhill at the 1964 Winter Olympics, bronze medal winner in the women's downhill at the 1968 Winter Olympics).[16]
• Amiya Bhushan Majumdar, 83, Indian writer.
• John O'Shea, 81, New Zealand film director (Broken Barrier, Runaway, Don't Let It Get You).[17]

9

• Al Lary, 72, American baseball player.[18]
• Victor George, 46, Indian photographer, landslide.
• Jorge Novak, 73, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate.
• Arie van Vliet, 85, Dutch Olympic sprint cyclist.

10

• Rafael Cañedo Benítez, 59, Mexican businessman and politician.
• Humayun Rashid Choudhury, 72, Bangladeshi diplomat and politician.
• Geoffrey Clarkson, 57, English rugby player.
• Tony Criscola, 86, American baseball player.[19]
• Giulio Gerardi, 88, Italian Olympic cross-country skier (men's 18 kilometre and men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay at the 1936 Winter Olympics).[20]
• Álvaro Magaña, 75, Salvadorean politician, President (1982–1984).

11

• Cândida Branca Flor, 51, Portuguese entertainer and traditional singer.
• Herman Brood, 54, Dutch rock musician, suicide.[21]
• J. I. P. James, 87, British orthopaedic surgeon.
• Qateel Shifai, 81, Pakistani poet.

12

• John H. Holdridge, 76, American diplomat.
• Paul Magloire, 93, Haitian politician, President (1950–1956).
• Evan Williams, 89, Welsh jockey.
• Johnny Wright, 72, British boxer.

13

• Miguel Gila, 82, Spanish comedian and actor.
• David Noyes Jackson, 78, American writer and artist.
• Eleanor Summerfield, 80, English actress (Laughter in Paradise, Odongo, Dentist in the Chair, On the Fiddle, The Running Man).[22]
• Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gryfe, 89, British politician.

14

• Agustín Navarro, Spanish film director, Respiratory disease.
• Jack Sheppard, 92, British cave diver.
• Arthur Worsley, 80, British ventriloquist.

15

• Anthony Ian Berkeley, 36, American rapper and producer, colon cancer.
• Ted Berman, 81, American film director, animator, and screenwriter (Bambi, Fantasia, The Black Cauldron).[23]
• Tom Chantrell, 84, British film poster artist (The King and I, One Million Years B.C., Far From The Madding Crowd).[24]

16

• Tom Askwith, 90, British Olympic rower (1932 Summer Olympics, 1936 Summer Olympics) and a colonial administrator.[25]
• John Dagenhard, 84, American baseball player.[26]
• George Goodyear, 85, English footballer.[27]
• Terry Gordy, 40, pro wrestler (Fabulous Freebirds).[28]
• Morris (Maurice De Bevere), 77, Belgian cartoonist (Lucky Luke).[29]

17

• Kay Daniels, 60, Australian historian and writer.[30]
• Kenneth Boyd Fraser, 84, British virologist and World War II hero (Military Cross).[31]
• Katharine Graham, 84, American publisher (The Washington Post).[32]
• Chief Hogsett, 97, American baseball player.[33]
• Erik Welle-Strand, 86, Norwegian World War II Resistance member and engineer.

18

• Alexandre Jany, 72, French Olympic swimmer (two-time bronze medal winner in men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle swimming relay at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics).[34]
• Ritchie Johnston, 70, New Zealand Olympic track cyclist (men's 2000 metre tandem sprint cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics).[35]
• Boisfeuillet Jones, 88, American educator and administrator of several philanthropic organizations.[36]
• Barry Shetrone, 63, American baseball player.[37]
• Fabio Taglioni, 80, Italian automotive engineer.[38]

19

• Erik Barnouw, 93, American historian of radio and television broadcasting.[39]
• Neil Carmichael, Baron Carmichael of Kelvingrove, 79, British politician.
• Judy Clay, 62, American soul and gospel singer.[40]
• Gunther Gebel-Williams, 83, Polish-American animal trainer (Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus).[41]
• Charles King, 89, British Olympic cyclist.
• Howard Taylor, 82, Australian painter.

20

• Milt Gabler, 90, American record producer.[42]
• James A. O'Flaherty, 58, Irish folk musician, complications from pneumonia.
• Skeeter Werner Walker, 67, American alpine ski racer, cancer.

21

• Steve Barton, 47, American actor (The Phantom of the Opera, The Red Shoes).[43]
• Sivaji Ganesan, 74, Indian actor.[44]
• John Hughes, 93, British Anglican prelate.

22

• Bertie Felstead, 106, British World War I soldier and the last surviving soldier to have taken part in the Christmas truce of 1914.[45]
• Maria Gorokhovskaya, 79, Soviet Olympic gymnast (two gold medals and five silver medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[46]
• Frances Horwich, 94, American educator and television host (Ding Dong School).[47]
• Ron Hull, 61, American college football player (UCLA Bruins football) and coach (Cal State Los Angeles).[48]
• William Llewellyn, 93, British Anglican prelate.
• Indro Montanelli, 92, Italian journalist and historian.[49]

23

• Douglas Boyle, 77, Canadian Forces officer.
• Sir Allan Trewby, 84, British admiral.
• Eudora Welty, 92, American writer (Pulitzer Prize for The Optimist's Daughter, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Order of the South).[50]

24

• Carrie Best, 98, Canadian journalist and social activist.[51]
• Georges Dor, 70, Canadian singer and songwriter ("Le Manic"), author, playwright and theatrical producer.[52]
• May Hyman Lesser, American medical illustrator.
• Hiroshi Tsuburaya, 37, Japanese actor, liver cancer.

25

• Fahd bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 46, member of the House of Saud, heart failure.
• Phoolan Devi, 37, Indian dacoit and politician.
• Emma Clara Schweer, 105, America's oldest elected politician.

26

• Rex T. Barber, 84, World War II fighter pilot.[53]
• H. Rex Lee, 91, American government diplomat and governor.
• Charles Rob, 88, British surgeon.
• Peter von Zahn, 88, German author, film maker, and journalist.[54]

27

• Sir Harold Beeley, 92, British diplomat.
• Thomas Pitt Cholmondeley-Tapper, 90, first New Zealand auto racing driver.
• Jan Falkowski, 89, Polish WWII fighter pilot.
• Rhonda Sing, 40, Canadian professional wrestler.[55]
• Leon Wilkeson, 49, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd).[56]

28

• Eric Bedford, 91, British architect.
• John Easton, 68, American baseball player.[57]
• Joan Finney, 76, American politician and 42nd governor of Kansas (1991–1995).[58]
• Futaro Yamada, 79, Japanese author.

29

• Edward Gierek, 88, Polish politician.[59]
• Wau Holland, 49, German computer hacker, co-founder of the Chaos Computer Club.[60]
• Alex Nicol, 85, American actor (South Pacific, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits).[61]
• Edward Roberts, 93, British prelate.

30

• Ervín Černý, 87, Czech doctor and scientist.
• Harry Gersh, 88, American writer and historian (oldest known student to enroll as a freshman at Harvard College).[62]
• Wilford Gibson, 76, British police officer.
• Thelma Grambo, 77, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).[63]
• Joseph-Philippe Guay, 85, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons representing St. Boniface, Senate of Canada representing St. Boniface).[64]
• Anton Schwarzkopf, 77, German roller coaster manufacturer.

31

• Poul Anderson, 74, American science fiction author (seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards).[65]
• A. G. Dickens, 91, British historian.
• Francisco da Costa Gomes, 87, Portuguese military officer and politician (15th President of the Portuguese Republic).[66]
• Miklós Vásárhelyi, 83, Hungarian journalist and politician, member of the National Assembly (1990–1994)[67]

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