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

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.

May 2001

1

• Happy Hairston, 58, American basketball player (Cincinnati Royals, Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Lakers), prostate cancer. ^[1]
• Waldemar Kikolski, 33, Polish paralympic athlete, road accident.
• Ernie Pomfret, 60, British middle-distance runner. ^[2]
• Elsa Prawitz, 69, Swedish film and stage actress.
• Ernie Wheelwright, 61, American football player. ^[3]

2

• Enrico Bovone, 55, Italian basketball player, suicide by gunshot. ^[4]
• Poul Dalsager, 72, Danish politician.
• Georges Dard, 82, French football player. ^[5]
• Vlasta Foltová, 88, Czech gymnast and Olympic silver medalist. ^[6]
• Dick Jamieson, 63, American football player (Baltimore Colts, New York Titans) and coach. ^[7]
• Howard Kahane, 73, American professor of philosophy. ^[8]
• Gina Mastrogiacomo, 39, American actress ( Goodfellas , Harry and the Hendersons , Jungle Fever ), myocarditis.
• Abdul Sattar Khan Niazi, 85, Pakistani religious and political leader.
• Ted Rogers, 65, British comedian, complications after open-heart surgery. ^[9]
• Theodore Roosevelt III, 86, American banker and government official. ^[10]
• Klement Steinmetz, 86, Austrian football (soccer) player. ^[11]

3

• Philip George Houthem Gell, 86, British immunologist. ^[12]
• Jim Godman, 55, American professional bowler. ^[13]
• Billy Higgins, 64, American jazz drummer, hepatitis. ^[14]
• Karel Kalaš, 90, Czech operatic bass and actor.
• Princess Rosemary of Salm-Salm, 97, German noblewoman.
• Robert Millner Shackleton, 91, British field geologist.
• Hank Schmulbach, 76, American baseball player. ^[15]

4

• Anne Anastasi, 92, American psychologist. ^[16]
• Bonny Lee Bakley, 44, American socialite, shot. ^[17]
• Gene Grabosky, 64, American professional football player (Syracuse University, Buffalo Bills). ^[18]
• Vaska Ilieva, 78, Macedonian folk singer from Yugoslavia and North Macedonia.
• Arne Sucksdorff, 84, Swedish film director, pneumonia. ^[19]
• Stan Newsham, 69, English footballer, (AFC Bournemouth, Notts County)

5

• Charles Black, 85, American constitutional scholar. ^[20]
• Boozoo Chavis, 70, American accordion player, singer, songwriter and bandleader (Zydeco). ^[21]
• Morris Graves, 90, American expressionist painter, stroke. ^[22]
• Cliff Hillegass, 83, American creator of CliffsNotes, stroke. ^[23]
• Bill Homeier, 82, American racecar driver (three Indianapolis 500s). ^[24]
• David Jamieson, 80, British Army officer, recipient of the Victoria Cross. ^[25]
• Aleksandr Petrov, 61, Soviet/Russian basketball player. ^[26]
• Hans Rampf, 70, German ice hockey player. ^[27]
• Terry Ryan, 78, American screenwriter, congestive heart failure. ^[28]
• Wang Yinglai, 93, Chinese biochemist.

6

• René Bondoux, 95, French fencer and Olympic champion. ^[29]
• Mike Hazlewood, 59, English singer, composer and songwriter, heart attack.
• Karl Wilhelm Krause, 90, German Waffen-SS officer during World War II. ^[30]
• Zoltán Nemere, 59, Hungarian fencer, traffic collision. ^[31]
• Cecil Price, 63, American deputy sheriff and Ku Klux Klan member, fall. ^[32]

7

• Malati Bedekar, 96, Indian writer.
• Jacques de Bourbon-Busset, 89, French novelist, essayist and politician. ^[33]
• Prem Dhawan, 77, Indian lyricist, music composer, and actor of Bollywood, cardiac arrest.
• Edwin Finckel, 83, American jazz pianist, composer ( George White's Scandals ) and music educator. ^[34]
• Joseph Greenberg, 85, American linguist, pancreatic cancer. ^[35]
• Dick Kimble, 85, American baseball player. ^[36]
• Margaretha Krook, 75, Swedish actress, lung cancer. ^[37]
• Boris Ryzhy, 26, Russian poet and geologist, suicide by hanging. ^[38]
• Simon Slåttvik, 83, Norwegian Olympic skier (gold medal winner of the Nordic combined at the 1952 Winter Olympics). ^[39]
• Al Tucker, 58, American basketball player. ^[40]
• Arthur Christopher Watson, 74, British diplomat.

8

• Larry Hornung, 55, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer. ^[41]
• John McMahon, 83, Australian-English cricket player. ^[42]
• Piero Natoli, 53, Italian actor and film director, intracranial aneurysm. ^[43]
• Dera Natung, 36, Indian politician, member of the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly (since 1989), helicopter crash. ^[44]
• Luis Rijo, 73, Uruguayan football player.
• Clay King Smith, 30, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

9

• Marie Cardinal, 72, French novelist. ^[45]
• Antoinette Downing, 96, American architectural historian and preservationist.
• Saul Elkins, 93, American film producer, writer and director. ^[46]
• Andrés Framini, 86, Argentine labor leader and politician.
• Miroslav Kárný, 81, Czech historian and writer.
• Nikos Sampson, 65, Cypriot politician, de facto President of Cyprus (1974), cancer.
• Werner Schuster, 62, German politician.
• William T. Stearn, 90, British botanist. ^[47]
• Kauko Wahlsten, 77, Finnish rower and Olympic medalist. ^[48]
• Smokey Yunick, 77, American mechanic and car designer, leukemia. ^[49]

10

• Turi Ferro, 80, Italian actor ( Liolà , The Seduction of Mimi , Malizia ), heart attack. ^[50]
• James E. Myers, 81, American songwriter ("Rock Around the Clock"), actor and director. ^[51]
• Sudhakarrao Naik, 66, Indian politician.
• M. Krishnan Nair, 74, Indian film director.
• Frank Newby, 75, English structural engineer.
• Arthur Tange, 86, Australian public servant. ^[52]
• Dorothy Burr Thompson, 100, American classical archaeologist and art historian. ^[53]
• Deborah Walley, 59, American actress ( Gidget Goes Hawaiian , Beach Blanket Bingo , Spinout ) and voice-over artist, esophageal cancer. ^[54]

11

• Douglas Adams, 49, British author ( The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , Doctor Who ), heart attack. ^[55]
• Jesús Aguirre, 66, Spanish intellectual, Jesuit priest, and aristocrat, pulmonary embolism. ^[56]
• Michael J. Bird, 72, British writer. ^[57]
• Guy Carlton, 47, American Olympic weightlifter (bronze medal winner in heavyweight weightlifting at the 1984 Summer Olympics), suicide by gunshot. ^[58]
• Alan William James Cousins, 97, South African astronomer.
• Nick Lalich, 85, Serbian American basketball player, esophageal cancer.
• Emmett Watson, 82, American newspaper columnist.
• Wolfgang Winkler, 60, West German luger and Olympic medalist. ^[59]

12

• John Cliff, 82, American film and television actor.
• Ollie Cline, 75, American gridiron football player. ^[60]
• Perry Como, 88, American singer, actor and television personality, Alzheimer's disease. ^[61]
• Didi, 72, Brazilian footballer, pneumonia. ^[62]
• Willy Gysi, 83, Swiss field handball player. ^[63]
• Norman Kay, 72, British composer and writer, ALS.
• Paul Morgan, 52, British engineer, co-founder of Ilmor, plane crash. ^[64]
• Jonathan Niva, 58, Kenyan football player. ^[65]
• Mel Payton, 74, American basketball player.
• Fritz Pfenninger, 66, Swiss cyclist. ^[66]
• Simon Raven, 73, British writer. ^[67]
• Eleanor Sayre, 85, American curator and art historian. ^[68]
• Alexei Tupolev, 75, Soviet aircraft designer. ^[69]
• Georgie Woodgate, 77, British tennis player.
• Corissa Yasen, 27, American basketball player, suicide by drug overdose. ^[70]

13

• Sergey Afanasyev, 82, Russian engineer and politician.
• Eddra Gale, 79, American actress ( 8½ , What's New Pussycat? , The Graduate , I Love You, Alice B. Toklas , Somewhere in Time ). ^[71]
• Salvador Garmendia Graterón, 72, Venezuelan author. ^[72]
• Frank Millar, 76, Northern Irish unionist politician.
• Jason Miller, 62, American actor ( The Exorcist , Rudy ) and playwright ( That Championship Season ), Tony winner (1973), heart attack. ^[73]
• Harold Minter, 98, American film editor.
• R. K. Narayan, 94, Indian writer. ^[74]
• Ray Straw, 67, English footballer. ^[75]
• Ralph Tabakin, 79, American actor.
• Susumu Takahashi, 80, Japanese Olympic middle-distance runner. ^[76]

14

• Mauro Bolognini, 78, Italian film and stage director. ^[77]
• Eric Bradbury, 80, British comic artist.
• Paul Bénichou, 92, French-Algerian writer, intellectual, and literary historian. ^[78]
• Alex Glasgow, 65, English singer-songwriter ( On Your Way, Riley! , When the Boat Comes In ). ^[79]
• Gil Langley, 81, Australian cricketer and politician. ^[80]
• Elisabeth Lennartz, 98, German stage actress.
• Loften Mitchell, 82, American playwright and theatre historian. ^[81]
• Armando Nannuzzi, 75, Italian cinematographer and camera operator.
• Ettore Puricelli, 84, Uruguayan-Italian football player and manager. ^[82]
• Juan Verdaguer, 85, Uruguayan actor, cardiovascular disease.

15

• Jean-Philippe Lauer, 99, French architect and Egyptologist. ^[83]
• Juracy Magalhães, 95, Brazilian military officer and politician.
• Ralph Miller, 82, American college basketball coach. ^[84]
• Bobby Murdoch, 56, Scottish footballer, stroke. ^[85]
• William Oates, 71, English first-class cricketer. ^[86]
• Georgy Shakhnazarov, 76, Soviet-Armenian politician and political scientist.
• Sacha Vierny, 81, French cinematographer.

16

• Antonio Flores, 77, Mexican football player.
• Prince Ital Joe, 38, Dominican-American reggae artist, car accident.
• Brian Pendleton, 57, British guitarist (The Pretty Things), lung cancer. ^[87]
• Witold Stachurski, 54, Polish boxer. ^[88]

17

• Robert Elton Brooker, 95, American business executive at Sears, Roebuck & Co.
• Ike Brown, 59, American baseball player, cancer. ^[89]
• Gerd Buchdahl, 86, German-English philosopher of science.
• Rahman Dadman, 44-45, Iranian politician, minister of roads and transportation (since 2001), plane crash. ^[90]
• Ikuma Dan, 77, Japanese composer. ^[91]
• Enid Hattersley, 96, English politician and Lord Mayor of Sheffield. ^[92]
• Robert Knapp, 77, American actor ( Days of Our Lives , Dragnet , Gunsmoke , The F.B.I. ). ^[93]
• Jacques-Louis Lions, 73, French mathematician. ^[94]
• Murray Murdoch, 96, Canadian ice hockey player and coach. ^[95]
• Frank G. Slaughter, 93, American novelist and physician. ^[96]

18

• Rosa Beddington, 45, British biologist, cancer. ^[97]
• Ralph Enckell, 88, Finnish diplomat.
• Irene Hunt, 98, American children's writer.
• Alexey Maresyev, 84, Russian military pilot, infarction. ^[98]
• Stella Mary Newton, 100, British fashion designer and dress historian. ^[99]
• Maurice Noble, 90, American animation artist and designer. ^[100]
• Seán Mac Stíofáin, 73, English-Irish chief of staff of the Provisional IRA, stroke.
• Robert F. Woodward, 92, American diplomat. ^[101]

19

• Fred Derby, 61, Surinamese politician and trade unionist.
• John Joseph Egan, 84, American Roman Catholic priest and social activist. ^[102]
• Joe Graydon, 82, American big band vocalist, television host, personal manager and concert producer. ^[103]
• Josef Haunzwickel, 86, Austrian Olympic athlete (men's pole vault at the 1936 Summer Olympics). ^[104]
• Patricia Hilliard, 85, British stage and film actress.
• Vidkunn Hveding, 80, Norwegian politician.
• Joe Lovitto, 50, American baseball player, cancer. ^[105]
• Hans Mayer, 94, German literary scholar. ^[106]
• Susannah McCorkle, 55, American jazz singer, suicide by jumping. ^[107]
• Mike Sammes, 73, English musician and vocal session arranger. ^[108]
• Pat Falken Smith, 75, American television writer.
• Bob Tinning, 75, Australian rower. ^[109]
• John Warner, 78, British actor.

20

• Carl Eric Almgren, 88, Swedish Army general.
• Renato Carosone, 81, Italian musician. ^[110]
• Bob Keely, 91, American baseball coach, scout and player. ^[111]
• Art Mergenthal, 80, American gridiron football player. ^[112]
• Bud Thomas, 90, American baseball player. ^[113]

21

• Philip W. Buchen, 85, American attorney and White House Counsel. ^[114]
• Mel Hoderlein, 77, American baseball player. ^[115]
• Mario Martinelli, 95, Italian resistance member during World War II and politician.
• Cecil G. Murgatroyd, 42, Australian politician, musician, and comedian, cancer.
• Johnny Rainford, 70, English footballer. ^[116]
• Gabriele Rumi, 61, Italian Formula One team owner, cancer.
• Tad Szulc, 74, Polish-American journalist, cancer. ^[117]
• Fritz Uhl, 73, Austrian operatic tenor.
• Graham Webster, 87, British archaeologist.
• Hu Xieqing, 95, Contemporary Chinese painter.

22

• Lorez Alexandria, 71, American jazz singer. ^[118]
• Katharine Bartlett, 93, American physical anthropologist. ^[119]
• Jenő Fock, 85, Hungarian communist politician, prime minister (1967-1975).
• Ralph Hamner, 84, American baseball player. ^[120]
• Jean Hougron, 77, French novelist. ^[121]
• Leamon King, 65, American sprinter and Olympic champion. ^[122]
• Whitman Mayo, 70, American actor ( Sanford and Son , Boyz n the Hood , Hell Town ), heart attack. ^[123]
• Jack Watling, 78, British actor ( The Plane Makers , The Power Game , Pathfinders ), cancer. ^[124]

23

• Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, 72, Palestinian-American academic.
• Liu Anyuan, 73, Chinese lieutenant general.
• Harald Bergström, 93, Swedish mathematician. ^[125]
• Jean Champion, 84, French film actor.
• Lita Chevret, 92, American actress.
• Charles D. Cook, 66, American politician.
• Tommy Eyre, 51, British keyboardist, cancer. ^[126]
• Walter Eytan, 90, Israeli diplomat. ^[127]
• Bob Gaona, 70, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles). ^[128]
• Chuck Gelatka, 87, American professional football player (Mississippi State, New York Giants). ^[129]
• Boris Gyuderov, 74, Bulgarian Olympic volleyball player (1964). ^[130]
• Lee Chiaw Meng, 64, Singaporean politician, cancer.
• Arno Mohr, 90, German painter and graphic artist. ^[131]
• Alessandro Natta, 83, Italian communist politician. ^[132]
• P. Ramachandran, 79, Indian politician, Governor of Kerala. ^[133]
• Jamileh Sheykhi, 71, Iranian actress, heart attack.
• Harry Townes, 86, American actor ( Finian's Rainbow , Gunsmoke , The Twilight Zone , Star Trek ) and an Episcopalian priest. ^[134]
• Arseny Vorozheykin, 88, Soviet/Russian fighter ace during World War II.

24

• Lucy Boscana, 85, Puerto Rico actress.
• Jo Ann Greer, 74, American singer. ^[135]
• Tor Jevne, 72, Norwegian football player.
• Paul Kor, 74, Israeli painter and children's writer, lung cancer. ^[136]
• Ridvan Qazimi, 37, Kosovar Albanian insurgent nationalist, K.I.A.
• Patricia Robertson, 38, American physician and NASA astronaut, plane crash. ^[137]
• Javier Urruticoechea, 49, Spanish footballer, car crash.

25

• Delme Bryn-Jones, 67, Welsh baritone.
• John W. Holmes, 84, American film editor.
• Alberto Korda, 72, Cuban photographer, heart attack. ^[138]
• Arturo Maly, 61, Argentine actor, heart attack.
• Malcom McLean, 87, American businessman and shipper. ^[139]
• Harold Ridley, 94, British ophthalmologist.

26

• Vittorio Brambilla, 63, Italian Formula One race car driver, heart attack. ^[140]
• Roman Codreanu, 48, Romanian Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic medalist. ^[141]
• Johnny Gordon, 69, English football player. ^[142]
• Anne Haney, 67, American actress ( Mrs. Doubtfire , The American President , Liar Liar ), heart failure. ^[143]
• Moven Mahachi, 53, Zimbabwean Minister of Defence of the Republic of Zimbabwe, traffic collision. ^[144]
• Hal Moe, 91, American gridiron football player and coach. ^[145]
• William Molloy, Baron Molloy, 82, British politician.
• Dea Trier Mørch, 59, Danish artist and writer, cancer.

27

• Ramon Bieri, 71, American actor ( Sarge , Room 222 , Daniel Boone , Gunsmoke ), cancer. ^[146]
• Helen Oakley Dance, 88, Canadian-American jazz journalist, record producer, and music historian. ^[147]
• Victor Kiam, 74, American entrepreneur and owner of the New England Patriots football team. ^[148]
• Agda Rössel, 90, Swedish politician.
• Nikolay Yeryomenko, 52, Soviet/Russian actor and film director, stroke. ^[149]

28

• Tony Ashton, 55, English rock pianist, music producer and artist, cancer. ^[150]
• Francis Bebey, 71, Cameroonian writer and composer. ^[151]
• Joe Moakley, 74, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives, leukemia. ^[152]
• Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, 79, Indian medical scientist.
• Rockets Redglare, 52, American character actor and comedian ( After Hours , Desperately Seeking Susan ), hepatitis and liver cirrhosis. ^[153]
• Elizabeth S. Russell, 88, American geneticist. ^[154]
• Francisco Varela, 54, Chilean biologist, philosopher and neuroscientist, heart attack. ^[155]

29

• John Fleming, 81, British art historian. ^[156]
• Eddie Forrest, 79, American football player (San Francisco 49ers). ^[157]
• Akira Fujita, 93, Japanese Olympic water polo player (men's water polo at the 1932 Summer Olympics). ^[158]
• Charley Pell, 60, American college football player and coach, lung cancer. ^[159]
• Vytautas Sakalauskas, 68, Soviet and Lithuanian politician.
• Hédi Temessy, 76, Hungarian actress. ^[160]

30

• Werner Fricker, 65, German-American soccer player and official.
• Terry Gathercole, 65, Australian Olympic swimmer (silver medal winner of the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics). ^[161]
• Inderjit Singh Gill, 79, Indian Army officer.
• Adrian Hastings, 71, British Roman Catholic priest and historian. ^[162]
• Nikolai Korndorf, 54, Russian-Canadian composer and conductor.
• John Pickering, 56, English footballer. ^[163]
• Jaime Benítez Rexach, 92, Puerto Rican author, academic and politician. ^[164]
• Renée Schuurman, 61, South African tennis player.
• Rajko Tomović, 81, Serbian and Yugoslav scientist.
• Denis Whitaker, 86, Canadian athlete, soldier, and author. ^[165]

31

• Santos Amaro, 93, Cuban baseball player. ^[166]
• Arlene Francis, 93, American actress, talk show host, and game show panelist ( What's My Line? ), Alzheimer's disease and cancer. ^[167]
• Faisal Husseini, 60, Palestinian politician, heart attack. ^[168]
• Tony Johnson, 76, Australian politician.
• Jagannath Kaushal, 86, Indian politician.
• Kwoh-Ting Li, 91, Taiwanese economist and politician. ^[169]
• Tex McKenzie, 70, American professional wrestler, abdominal aortic aneurysm.
• Walter E. Rogers, 92, American politician. ^[170]
• German Ugryumov, 52, Soviet and Russian navy and security services official, heart attack.
• Rosemary Verey, 82, English garden designer. ^[171]

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External links

• List of May 2001 deaths at IMDb