Deaths in April 2001

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

1

 * Jean Anderson, 93, English actress (The Brothers, Tenko).
 * Eugênio German, 70, Brazilian chess master and Brazilian chess champion (1951, 1972).
 * Jayant Kothari, 71, Indian literary critic.
 * Ted McCarty, 91, American businessman.
 * Jo-Jo Moore, 92, American baseball player.
 * Brendan O'Reilly, 71, Irish broadcaster.
 * Aleksandar Obradović, 73, Serbian composer and academic.
 * Jim Proudfoot, 67, Canadian sports journalist.
 * Valerie Scott, 83, English tennis player.
 * Russ Smith, 56, American gridiron football player.
 * Trinh Cong Son, 62, Vietnamese musician and composer.
 * Zellio Toppazzini, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Larry Tucker, 66, American screenwriter (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice), multiple sclerosis.
 * Jalil Zandi, 49, Iranian flying ace, car accident.

2

 * Charles Daudelin, 80, French-Canadian sculptor and painter.
 * Gary Gearhart, 77, American baseball player.
 * Andy Guest, 61, American politician.
 * Carlos Carnes Ogden, Sr., 83, US Army officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
 * Jennifer Syme, 28, American actress and record executive, traffic collision.

3

 * Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell, 89, British newspaper proprietor.
 * Big Daddy Kinsey, 74, American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, prostate cancer.
 * Jason Massey, 28, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Kersten Meier, 47, German swimmer, suicide.
 * Butch Moore, 63, Irish singer and a showband icon, heart attack.
 * Paul Peek, 63, American rockabilly pioneer.
 * Adela Reta, 79, Uruguyan lawyer and politician.

4

 * Beryl Gilroy, 76, British pioneering teacher and novelist, heart attack.
 * Wim van der Linden, 60, Dutch photographer and film and television director.
 * Ramón Mendoza, 73, Spanish lawyer and businessman.
 * Mitra Mitrović, 88, Serbian politician, feminist and writer.
 * José M. Dávila Monsanto, 95, Puerto Rican politician and lawyer.
 * Liisi Oterma, 86, Finnish astronomer.
 * Ed Roth, 69, American artist, cartoonist, and custom car designer and builder.

5

 * Benjy Dial, 57, American football player.
 * Kingsley Charles Dunham, 91, British geologist.
 * Sonya Hedenbratt, 70, Swedish singer and actress.
 * Jay Miller, 57, American basketball player, heart attack.
 * John Bertram Oakes, 87, American journalist.
 * Aldo Olivieri, 90, Italian football goalkeeper and manager.
 * David Lloyd Owen, 83, British army general and writer.
 * Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd, 82, British politician who served as Leader of the House of Lords.
 * Brother Theodore, 94, German-American actor and comedian.

6

 * George Bull, 71, British journalist and writer.
 * Danny Gaither, 62, American gospel singer (Bill Gaither Trio).
 * Chaudhary Devi Lal, 85, Indian politician and Deputy Prime Minister of India.
 * Yevgeny Malinin, 70, Soviet and Russian pianist.
 * Charles Pettigrew, 37, American singer, half of R&B duo Charles & Eddie, cancer.

7

 * David Graf, 50, American actor (Police Academy, The West Wing, Rules of Engagement), heart attack.
 * Kurt Hohenemser, 95, German-born American aerospace engineer and a pioneer in helicopter design.
 * Derek Lang, 87, British Army general.
 * G. N. Ramachandran, 78, Indian physicist.
 * Beatrice Straight, 86, American actress (Network, The Crucible, The Nun's Story), Oscar winner (1980), pneumonia.

8

 * Kurt Almqvist, 89, Swedish poet, intellectual and spiritual figure.
 * Frank Annunzio, 86, American politician, Parkinson's disease.
 * Arthur Cantor, 81, American theatrical producer.
 * Vladislav Krishchishin, 54, Ukrainian flyweight weightlifter.
 * Nello Lauredi, 76, French road bicycle racer.
 * Elsie Locke, 88, New Zealand writer, historian, and feminist.
 * Bob Sohl, 73, American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist.
 * Van Stephenson, 47, American singer-songwriter, melanoma.
 * Marguerite Viby, 91, Danish actress.

9

 * Behram Contractor, 71, Indian journalist and humorist.
 * Roque Ditro, 64, Argentine football player.
 * Shakoor Rana, 65, Pakistani cricket umpire.
 * Graziella Sciutti, 73, Italian soprano opera singer and producer.
 * Willie Stargell, 61, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, stroke.
 * Hsieh Tung-min, 93, Taiwanese politician and Vice President of the Republic of China.

10

 * Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, 65, French film director.
 * Tadeusz Chciuk-Celt, 84, Polish special forces operative during World War II, journalist and author.
 * Nora Eddington, 77, American actress and socialite, kidney failure.
 * John Marmion Edmond, 57, Scottish-American MIT professor of marine geochemistry and oceanography.
 * Andy Farkas, 84, American footballer.
 * Charles L. Freeman, 92, American sound editor and film editor.
 * Michel Fribourg, 87, Belgian-American billionaire businessman.
 * Derek Lambert, 71, English author.
 * Nyree Dawn Porter, 65, New Zealand actress, leukemia.
 * Richard Evans Schultes, 86, American ethnobotanist.
 * Roger Vale, 58, Australian politician.

11

 * Sandy Bull, 60, American folk musician and composer, lung cancer.
 * John Harris, Baron Harris of Greenwich, 71, British political aide and politician (Chief Whip in the House of Lords from 1994 to 2001).
 * Jerzy Krasówka, 76, Polish football player.
 * Thaddeus McCarthy, 93, New Zealand jurist.
 * Graciela Naranjo, 84, Venezuelan singer and actress.
 * Carolyn R. Payton, 75, American director of the Peace Corps (1977-1978).
 * Harry Secombe, 79, Welsh actor (The Goon Show, Oliver!, The Bed Sitting Room), prostate cancer.
 * Jack Wilson, 83, American footballer.

12

 * Harvey Ball, 79, American inventor of the smiley.
 * Edmund W. Barker, 80, Singaporean politician and lawyer, colon surgery.
 * Nelson Burbrink, 79, American baseball player, cancer.
 * Wang Enmao, 88, Chinese lieutenant general and politician.
 * Harry Hinkel, 97, American racewalker and Olympian.
 * Reidar Hirsti, 76, Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour Party.
 * Ljiljana Krstić, 81, Serbian actress.
 * Shimshon Dovid Pincus, 57, American-Israeli orthodox rabbi, traffic collision.

13

 * Mario David, 70, Argentine film director and screenwriter.
 * Jimmy Logan, 73, Scottish comedian, actor, producer and director, cancer.
 * Stephen C. O'Connell, 85, American jurist.
 * Josephine Premice, 74, Haitian-American actress and singer.
 * Ken Weston, 53, English sound engineer (Gladiator, Evita, Flash Gordon), Oscar winner (2001), kidney cancer.

14

 * Jim Baxter, 61, Scottish football player, pancreatic cancer.
 * Dorothee Metlitzki, 86, German-American author, professor of English and zionist.
 * Haruo Minami, 77, Japanese enka singer and rōkyoku performer, prostate cancer.
 * Bryan Ranft, 83, British historian.
 * Ngan Shing-kwan, 98, Hong Kong transport and property tycoon.
 * Hiroshi Teshigahara, 74, Japanese avant-garde filmmaker (Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another), leukemia.

15

 * Donald Dorfman, 67, American mathematical psychologist and radiologist.
 * Jack Elway, 69, American college football player and coach (Washington State, San Jose State, Stanford), heart attack.
 * Joey Ramone, (b. Jeffrey Hyman), 49, American musician, lead singer for The Ramones, lymphoma.
 * Bo Roberson, 65, American track and field athlete, football player and Olympian.
 * John Verrall, 92, American composer of contemporary classical music.

16

 * Emanuele Clarizio, 89, Italian prelate and diplomat of the Catholic Church.
 * Giacomo Gentilomo, 92, Italian film director and painter.
 * Horace Gwynne, 88, Canadian boxer and Olympic champion.
 * Alfred Horn, 83, American mathematician.
 * Paul Kuroda, 84, Japanese-American chemist and nuclear scientist.
 * Peter Maag, 81, Swiss conductor.
 * John R. McNamara, 73, American naval officer and bishop.
 * Robert Osterloh, 82, American actor.
 * Mohammad Rabbani, Afghani politician and one of the founders of the Taliban, liver cancer.
 * Hank Riebe, 79, American baseball player.
 * Michael Ritchie, 62, American film director (The Bad News Bears, Fletch, Downhill Racer), prostate cancer.
 * Thomas H. Stix, 76, American physicist.
 * Alec Stock, 84, English footballer and football manager.

17

 * Merton Davies, 83, American astronomer and space exploration pioneer.
 * John Ferraro, 76, American politician (Los Angeles City Council) and college football player (USC).
 * Alfred M. Moen, 84, American inventor and founder of Moen Incorporated.
 * Richard McGee Morse, 78, American Latin Americanist scholar and academic, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Leonid Alfonsovich Ostrovski, 65, Soviet football player and manager.
 * Terry Scully, 68, British theatre and television actor.
 * Danica Seleskovitch, 79, French interpreter and academic writer.

18

 * Khursheed Bano, 87, Indian singer and actress.
 * Tony Bartley, 82, British film and television executive, and fighter pilot during World War II.
 * Billy Mitchell, 74, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
 * Robert Paparemborde, 52, French rugby player, pancreatic cancer.
 * John Yonakor, 79, American football player.

19

 * Lionel Abel, 90, American playwright ("Absalom"), essayist and theater critic.
 * André du Bouchet, 77, French poet.
 * Kurt Ott, 88, Cyclist from Switzerland.
 * Edith Picht-Axenfeld, 87, German pianist and harpsichordist.
 * Egor Popov, 88, Russian-American civil engineer.
 * Hal Haig Prieste, 104, Armenian-American athlete.
 * Meldrim Thomson, Jr., 89, American politician, Governor of New Hampshire (1973–1979), Parkinson's disease.
 * Pierre Versins, 78, French science fiction collector and scholar.

20

 * Richard H. Austin, 87, American politician, Michigan Secretary of State (1971–1994), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Steven Blaisse, 60, Dutch rower and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Cino Cinelli, 85, Italian racing cyclist.
 * Kenneth Colby, American psychiatrist and computer technology pioneer.
 * David Gilbarg, 82, American professor emeritus of mathematics at Stanford University.
 * Irène Joachim, 88, French soprano, and vocal teacher.
 * Maria Karnilova, 80, American ballet dancer and actress (Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Fiddler on the Roof).
 * Va'ai Kolone, 89, Prime Minister of Samoa.
 * Maurice Lauré, 83, French civil servant.
 * Avigdor Miller, 92, American Haredi rabbi and author.
 * Giuseppe Sinopoli, 54, Italian conductor and composer, heart attack.
 * Bert Sutcliffe, 77, New Zealand cricketer.

21

 * Isaac Kobina Abban, 68, Ghanaian judge and Chief Justice.
 * Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll, 63, British aristocrat.
 * Claude Clark, 85, American painter and printmaker.
 * Jack Haley Jr., 67, American film producer, director (That's Entertainment!) and documentarian.
 * Edmund Malecki, 86, German international footballer.
 * Ulla Poulsen Skou, 96, Danish ballerina and actress.
 * Sandy Ullrich, 79, Cuban baseball player.
 * Hal White, 82, American baseball player.

22

 * Habis al-Majali, 87, Jordanian general and politician.
 * John F. Allen, 92, Canadian physicist.
 * Ike Cole, 73, American jazz pianist and composer, cancer.
 * Trevor de Cleene, 68, New Zealand politician and lawyer, cancer.
 * George R. Hill III, 79, American chemist, cancer.
 * Fadil Hoxha, 85, Kosovar politician.
 * Edward Muhl, 94, American motion picture executive.
 * Heiko Oberman, 70, Dutch historian and theologian.
 * Wesley C. Salmon, 75, American philosopher of science, car crash.
 * Robert Starer, 77, Austrian-American composer, pianist and educator.

23

 * Lennart Atterwall, 90, Swedish Olympic javelin thrower.
 * Alfredo Gottardi, 86, Brazilian football player.
 * Sir Charles Madden, 2nd Baronet, 94, British admiral.
 * Electra Waggoner Biggs, 88, American heiress, socialite and sculptor.
 * Guglielmo Biraghi, 73, Italian film critic and film festival director.
 * Robert J. Huber, 78, American politician (U.S. Representative for Michigan's 18th congressional district from 1973 to 1975).
 * R. A. C. Parker, 73, British historian.
 * Jayant Shridhar Tilak, 79, Indian politician and newspaper editor.
 * David M. Walker, 56, American astronaut, stroke.

24

 * Hilda Cameron, 88, Canadian sprinter and Olympic medalist.
 * Lindsay Daen, 78, New Zealand sculptor and artist.
 * Al Hibbler, 85, American singer (Duke Ellington Orchestra).
 * Shailesh Matiyani, 69, India hindi writer, poet and essayist.
 * Peter Nugent, 63, Australian politician, heart attack.
 * Josef Peters, 87, German racing driver.
 * Leon Sullivan, 78, American civil rights leader, social activist and Baptist minister, leukemia.
 * Paul Thieme, 96, German indologist.
 * Johnny Valentine, 72, American professional wrestler.
 * Li Yuqin, 72, Chinese noble and fourth wife of emperor Puyi, liver cirrhosis.

25

 * Michele Alboreto, 44, Italian race car driver, car crash.
 * Kow Nkensen Arkaah, 73, Ghanaian politician, Vice-President (1993–1997).
 * Viktor Bannikov, 62, Soviet/Ukrainian football player and official.
 * Chaya Devi, Indian film actress.
 * Gwen Frostic, 94, American artist, entrepreneur and author.
 * Majda Potokar, 71, Slovenian actress.

26

 * Henry Boltinoff, 87, American cartoonist.
 * Guy Butler, 83, South African poet, academic and writer.
 * Ruth Hellberg, 94, German actress.
 * Lili Massaferro, 74, Argentine actress and Montoneros militant, thrombophlebitis.
 * Amrit Nahata, 72, Indian politician and film maker.
 * André Pascal, 69, French songwriter and composer.
 * Sverre Walter Rostoft, 88, Norwegian businessperson and politician.
 * Rudolf Trenkel, 83, German fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II.
 * Elisabeth Tschermak-Woess, 84, Austrian cytologist and phycologist.
 * Renzo Vespignani, 77, Italian painter, engraver and writer.

27

 * Charlie Applewhite, 68, American singer and radio host.
 * Ernie Graham, 54, Northern Irish singer, guitarist and songwriter.
 * Jack Murdock, 78, American actor (Rain Man, Altered States, Any Which Way You Can), emphysema.
 * Piero Regnoli, 79, Italian screenwriter and film director.
 * Richard M. Scammon, 85, American political scientist and author, Alzheimer's disease.
 * John Winton, 69, British navy officer and writer.

28

 * António Araújo, 77, Portuguese football player.
 * Paul Daneman, 75, British actor (Not in Front of the Children, The Professionals, How I Won the War).
 * Border Gezi, 36, Zimbabwean politician, traffic collision.
 * Erica Green, 3, American child abuse victim, murdered.
 * Ken Hughes, 79, English film director, writer and producer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang).
 * Marie Jahoda, 94 Austrian-British social psychologist.
 * Evelyn Künneke, 79, German singer and actress, lung cancer.
 * Yoshio Okita, 98, Japanese Olympic track and field athlete.
 * James Still, 94, American poet, novelist and folklorist.
 * Guy Texereau, 65, French Olympic long-distance runner.
 * Bako Touré, 61, Malian football player.

29

 * Barend Biesheuvel, 81, Dutch politician, Prime Minister (1971-1973), cardiovascular disease.
 * Diana Brebner, 44, Canadian poet.
 * Babu Chiri Sherpa, 35, Nepal sherpa mountaineer, fall when climbing Mount Everest.
 * Dubai Millennium, 5, British thoroughbred racehorse, grass sickness.
 * Walter Hannemann, 88, American film editor.
 * Rita Hunter, 67, British operatic dramatic soprano.
 * Andy Phillip, 79, American basketball player.
 * Allan Sloane, 86, American writer for radio and television.
 * Gordon Watson, 87, English football player.

30

 * Andreas Kupfer, 86, German football player.
 * Maladi, 88, Indonesian athlete, songwriter, and politician.
 * Brian Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris, 70, British poet, academic and politician, leukemia.
 * Frank Stewart, 94, American baseball player.