Deaths in June 2001

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 2001

1

• King Birendra, 55, King of Nepal.[1]
• Queen Aiswarya, 51, Queen of Nepal.[1]
• Hank Ketcham, 81, American cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace, prostate cancer.[2]
• Nkosi Johnson, 12, South African AIDS awareness campaigner, AIDS.[3]

2

• Imogene Coca, 92, American actress (Your Show of Shows).[4]
• John T. Fesperman, 76, American conductor, organist and author (Division of Musical Instruments at the National Museum of History and Technology).[5]
• Sir Kenneth Hayr, 66, British air marshal.
• Joey Maxim, 79, American professional boxer (World Light Heavyweight Champion).[6]
• Frank Stagg, 89, American Southern Baptist theologian and author.[7]
• Gene Woodling, 78, American baseball player.[8]

3

• J. C. Furnas, 95, American writer and social historian.[9]
• Jamake Highwater, 70, American writer.[10]
• Anthony Quinn, 86, Mexican-American actor (The Guns of Navarone, Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia) (two-time winner of Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor).[11]

4

• John Corriden, 83, American baseball player.[12]
• Dipendra, King of Nepal, 29, suicide.[13]
• John Hartford, 63, American musician and composer ("Gentle on My Mind").[14]
• Chenjerai Hunzvi, 51, Zimbabwean politician.[15]
• Pierre Lamaison, 52, French anthropologist.
• Lu Jiaxi, 85, Chinese physical chemist.
• Joan Vohs, 73, American model and actress (Fort Ti, Fireside Theater, Maverick, Perry Mason, Family Affair).[16]

5

• Pedro Laín Entralgo, 93, Spanish medical historian.[17]
• Aaron Green, 84, American architect and protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright.[18]
• Howard Earl Johnston, 72, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Okanagan—Kootenay and Okanagan—Revelstoke, British Columbia).[19]

6

• Joe Darion, 84, American musical theatre lyricist (two-time Tony Award winner for Man of La Mancha: Tony Award for Best Musical, Tony Award for Best Original Score).[20]
• Ford Garrison, 85, American baseball player.[21]
• Douglas Lilburn, 85, New Zealand composer.

7

• Víctor Paz Estenssoro, 93, Bolivian politician and four-term President of Bolivia.[22]
• Boris Lavrenko, 81, Russian painter.
• Charles Templeton, 85, Canadian cartoonist, broadcaster and writer.
• Leonard Tepper, 61, American actor and comedian.

8

• Aviva Gileadi, 83, Israeli nuclear scientist.
• Duncan MacIntyre, 85, New Zealand politician.
• Kotayya Pratyagatma, 75, Indian film journalist, director and producer.
• Nathaniel Rochester, 82, American computer scientist.
• Don Roper, 78, English footballer.
• Lanette Scheeline, 90, American artist and designer.

9

• Carol Bernstein Ferry, 76, American social change philanthropist.[23]
• Richard T. Hanna, 87, American politician (U.S. Representative for California's 34th congressional district), convicted of receiving illegals payments (Koreagate).[24]
• Harold A. Jerry Jr., 81, American lawyer and politician, known for environmental preservation of the Adirondacks.[25]

10

• Joyce King, 80, Australian Olympic sprinter.
• John McKay, 77, American football assistant coach (Oregon Ducks) and head coach (USC Trojans, Tampa Bay Buccaneers).[26]
• Mike Mentzer, 49, American bodybuilder.[27]
• Princess Leila Pahlavi of Iran, 31, Iranian Princess and daughter of the Shah of Iran.[28]

11

• Lou Fant, 69, American teacher, author, expert on American Sign Language, and actor (Ace Hardware's "helpful hardware man").[29]
• Lou Lombardo, 72, American baseball player.[30]
• Timothy McVeigh, 33, American convicted terrorist (Oklahoma City bombing).[31]
• Amalia Mendoza, 77, Mexican singer ("Échame a mi la culpa", "Amarga navidad").[32]

12

• W. D. Davies, 89/90, Welsh congregationalist minister and theologian.
• Viktor Hamburger, 100, German embryologist.[33]
• Thomas Wilson, 73, Scottish composer.[34]

13

• Gordon Christie, 86, New Zealand politician.
• Marcelo Fromer, 39, Brazilian rock musician, traffic accident.
• Robert Heyssel, 72, American health-service executive (President of Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1982 to 1992).[35]
• Digish Mehta, 66, Indian essayist, novelist and critic.
• Rajzel Żychlińsky, 90, Polish poet.

14

• Paul Carey, 38, American civil servant, endocrine cancer.
• Oleg Fedoseyev, 65, Soviet Olympic long jump and triple jump athlete (silver medal winner in men's triple jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics).[36]
• Miroslav Marcovich, 82, Serbian-American philologist.
• Jay D. Scott, 48, American convicted murderer.
• Horace M. Wade, 85, general in the US Air Force.

15

• Henri Alekan, 92, French cinematographer, leukemia.[37]
• Mikhail Gluzsky, 82, Russian actor.
• John Harper, 71, American politician, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives.
• Marcelino Solis, 70, Mexican baseball player.[38]

16

• Alessandro Faedo, 87, Italian mathematician and politician.
• Wally Hood, 75, American baseball player.[39]
• Sam Jethroe, 84, American baseball player, heart attack.[40]
• Ragheb Moftah, 102, Egyptian Coptic musicologist.
• Duchess Altburg of Oldenburg, 98, German noblewoman.
• Jay Rabinowitz, 74, American lawyer and jurist, complications of leukemia.
• Arthur Wheeler (motorcyclist), 85, British motorcyclist

17

• Diana Bellamy, 57, American character actress (Air Force One, Outrageous Fortune, Popular).[41]
• Donald J. Cram, 82, American chemist and co-winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987.[42]
• Ninfa Laurenzo, 77, Houston restaurateur, bone cancer.
• Thomas Winning, 76, Scottish Roman Catholic cardinal, heart attack.[43]
• Mohammad Yunus, 84, Indian diplomat.

18

• Dame Rosamund Holland-Martin, 86, British head of the NSPCC.[44]
• Ivan Neill, 88, British Anglican priest and Army officer.
• Davorin Popović, 54, Bosnian singer-songwriter.
• Paolo Emilio Taviani, 88, Italian politician, economist and historian.
• Karl Friedrich Titho, 90, German nazi criminal.

19

• Lindsay L. Cooper, 61, Scottish musician.
• Jerry Cornes, 91, British athlete.
• John Heyer, 84, Australian documentary filmmaker (The Back of Beyond).[45]
• Col Maxwell, 83, Australian rugby league player.
• David Sylvester, 76, British art critic.

20

• Angela Browne, 63, British actress (Ghost Squad, The Avengers, The Prisoner, Upstairs, Downstairs, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes).[46]
• Bob Keegan, 80, American baseball player.[47]
• Bert Kramer, 66, American actor (Kojak, The Bionic Woman, The Rockford Files, Dallas, Dynasty, Matlock).[48]
• Delbert Leroy True, 77, American architect.

21

• John Lee Hooker, 83, American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist (appeared in The Blues Brothers).[49]
• Soad Hosny, 58, Egyptian actress ("Cinderella of Egyptian cinema").[50]
• Carroll O'Connor, 76, American actor (All in the Family).[51]
• Vernon Sewell, 97, British film director.[52]

22

• Arbi Barayev, 27, Chechen warlord, killed during a raid by the Russian military special forces.
• Luis Carniglia, 83, Argentine footballer and manager.
• George Evans, 81, American comic book and comic strip cartoonist and illustrator.[53]
• John Herbert, 74, Canadian playwright (Fortune and Men's Eyes).[54]
• Lika Yanko, 73, Bulgarian artist.

23

• Corinne Calvet, 76, French actress (What Price Glory?, Sailor Beware, So This Is Paris, On the Riviera).[55]
• Panteley Dimitrov, 60, Bulgarian footballer.
• Yvonne Dionne, 67, Canadian quintuplet (first known quintuplets to have survived their infancy).[56]

24

• Sergey Cherny, 24, Russian serial killer, pneumonia.
• Onni Hynninen, 90, Finnish Olympic shooter (men's shooting 50 metre rifle prone at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[57]
• Robinson McIlvaine, 87, US diplomat.
• Avadhanam Sita Raman, 82, Indian writer and journalist.
• Nicola Ann Raphael, 15, Scottish schoolgirl, suicide.
• Milton Santos, 75, Brazilian geographer.
• William H. Sewell, 91, American sociologist.[58]

25

• Ken La Grange, 78, South African Olympic boxer (middleweight boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[59]
• Gabriel Hernández, 27, Dominican Olympic boxer (light heavyweight boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics).[60]
• Kurt Hoffmann, 90, German film director and son of Carl Hoffmann.
• Frederick C. Langone, American politician.
• John LeRoy, 26, American baseball player.[61]
• Paxton Mills, 52, American radio broadcaster and announcer, heart disease.
• George Senesky, 79, American professional basketball player and coach, cancer.
• Charles S. Whitehouse, 79, American career diplomat, cancer.

26

• William Bryant, 77, American character actor (Escape from San Quentin, Experiment in Terror, How to Murder Your Wife, The Great Race).[62]
• Gina Cigna, 101, French-Italian dramatic soprano.[63]
• Oluf C. Müller, 80, Norwegian civil servant.
• Gopala Ramanujam, 86, Indian politician.
• Robert Smith, 88, American actor.
• Soccer, 13, American dog actor.

27

• Hal Goldman, 81, American screenwriter, three Primetime Emmy Awards: The Jack Benny Program (1959, 1960), An Evening with Carol Channing (1966).[64]
• Darrell Huff, 86, American statistician.
• Tove Jansson, 86, Finnish author, painter and comic strip artist.[65]
• Jack Lemmon, 76, American actor (Days of Wine and Roses, The Odd Couple) and film director, bladder and colorectal cancer.[66]
• Udo Proksch, 67, Austrian industrialist.
• Joan Sims, 71, British actress (Carry On Nurse, Carry On Cleo, Carry On Camping, On the Up, As Time Goes By).[67]
• Jukka Wuolio, 74, Finnish ice hockey player.

28

• Mortimer J. Adler, 98, American philosopher and author.[68]
• Jim Ellis, 45, American computer scientist (Usenet).[69]
• David G. Freeman, 80, American badminton player (multi-year U.S. Champion).[70]
• Caroline R. Jones, 59, American advertising pioneer.[71]

29

• Mary Barnes, 86, English artist and writer.[72]
• Maximos V Hakim, 93, Egyptian patriarch.
• Silvio Oddi, 90, Italian cardinal and Vatican diplomat.

30

• Chet Atkins, 77, American country musician (14 Grammy Awards, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum).[73]
• Joe Fagan, 80, English football manager.
• Joe Henderson, 64, American jazz tenor saxophonist.[74]

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