Deaths in August 2001

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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

 * Zuzana Chalupová, 76, Serbian/Yugoslavian naïve painter.
 * Jay Chamberlain, 77, American racing driver.
 * Dwight Eddleman, 78, American basketball player and Olympic athlete, heart ailment.
 * Joe Lynch, 76, Irish actor.
 * Begum Aizaz Rasul, 92, Indian politician.
 * Robert Rimmer, 84, American writer.
 * Korey Stringer, 27, American football player (Ohio State, Minnesota Vikings), complications following a heat stroke.
 * Dan Towler, 73, American gridiron football player.
 * Nicolae Tătaru, 69, Romanian football player.
 * Charlie Ward, 89, English golfer.

2

 * Mario Alesini, 69, Italian basketball player.
 * Valerie Davies, 89, British Olympic swimmer, bronze medalist (1932).
 * Edward Gardner, 89, British politician.
 * Lawrence Minard, 51, American journalist and editor, heart attack.
 * Ronald Townson, 68, American vocalist (The 5th Dimension), kidney failure.

3

 * Franz-Josef Bach, 84, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
 * Louis Chevalier, 90, French historian and academic.
 * Christopher Hewett, 80, British actor (Mr. Belvedere, The Producers, Fantasy Island), diabetes.
 * Hans Holt, 91, Austrian film actor.
 * Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, 95, British politician and social reformer.
 * Jeanne Loriod, 73, French musician, drowned.
 * Mario Perazzolo, 90, Italian footballer.
 * Eduardo Toba, 78, Spanish football manager.
 * Lars Johan Werle, 75, Swedish composer.

4

 * S. K. Bhatnagar, 71, Indian politician and diplomat.
 * Claude Bloodgood, 64, American chess player and convicted murderer, cancer.
 * Jack Maple, 48, American police officer and author, cancer.
 * Lorenzo Music, 64, American voice actor (Garfield and Friends, The Real Ghostbusters) and television producer (The Bob Newhart Show), lung and bone cancer.
 * Dan Zehr, 85, American swimmer and Olympian.

5

 * Otema Allimadi, 72, Ugandan Foreign Minister (1979–1980) and Prime Minister of Uganda (1980–1985).
 * Iskra Babich, 69, Soviet film director and screenwriter, cancer.
 * Mykhailo Bilyi, 78, Soviet and Ukrainian politician.
 * Miloš Bojović, 63, Serbian basketball player, sports journalist, and politician.
 * Caro Crawford Brown, 93, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner.
 * Roy Dikeman Chapin, Jr., 85, American business executive (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American Motors Corporation).
 * Aaron Flahavan, 25, English football goalkeeper, car accident.
 * Bahne Rabe, 37, German rower and Olympic champion, Olympic champion (1988), anorexia nervosa.
 * Christopher Skase, 52, Australian businessman and fraudster, stomach cancer.

6

 * Jorge Amado, 88, Brazilian writer, heart attack.
 * Wina Born, 80, Dutch journalist and cooking books author.
 * Adhar Kumar Chatterji, 86, Indian navy admiral.
 * Robert Dunham, 70, American actor, writer, and racecar driver.
 * Vasili Kuznetsov, 69, Russian decathlete.
 * Kenneth MacDonald, 50, English actor, heart attack.
 * Jim Mallory, 82, American baseball player and football coach.
 * Wilhelm Mohnke, 90, German SS general during World War II.
 * Ian Ousby, 54, British historian, author and editor, cancer.
 * Alan Rafkin, 73, American film and television director (One Day at a Time, Coach, The Shakiest Gun in the West).
 * Dorothy Tutin, 71, British actress (The Importance of Being Earnest, The Beggar's Opera, A Tale of Two Cities, The Shooting Party), leukemia.
 * Duong Van Minh, 85, South Vietnamese politician and ARVN general.

7

 * Larry Adler, 87, American harmonica player, pneumonia.
 * Paul Averitt, 78, American soldier and Holocaust photographer.
 * Dan Edwards, 75, American gridiron football player (1948–1957) and coach (1958–1961).
 * Jack James, 80, American rocket engineer.
 * Algirdas Lauritėnas, 68, Lithuanian basketball player.
 * José Tomás, 66, Spanish classical guitarist and teacher.

8

 * Patrick D. Wall (scientist), 76, British neuroscientist.
 * Jean Dorst, 77, French ornithologist, former director of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.
 * Harry Julian Fink, 78, American television and film writer.
 * Jean-Louis Flandrin, 70, French historian.
 * George Mann, 83, English cricket player.
 * Maureen Reagan, 60, American political activist and daughter of Ronald Reagan, melanoma.
 * Nora Sayre, 68, American film critic and essayist.
 * Peter Sinclair, 62, New Zealand radio personality.
 * Paul Vaessen, 39, English footballer, accidental drug overdose.
 * Noud van Melis, 77, Dutch football player.

9

 * Abe Bonnema, 74, Dutch architect.
 * Humphry Bowen, 72, British botanist and chemist.
 * Jacky Boxberger, French athlete, killed by an elephant.
 * L. G. Dupree, 68, American gridiron football player, cancer.
 * Elmer Knutson, 86, Canadian businessman, activist and politician.
 * Alec Skempton, 87, British scientist.

10

 * Lou Boudreau, 84, American baseball player and manager, seven-time All-Star and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
 * Vladimir Bougrine, 63, Russian painter.
 * Álvaro Carolino, 50, Portuguese football player and manager, pulmonary complications.
 * Elsa Cavelti, 94, Swiss operatic contralto and mezzo-soprano.
 * Jerry DeFuccio, 76, American comic book writer and editor.
 * Manfred Eglin, 65, German footballer.
 * Vasudeo S. Gaitonde, Indian painter.
 * Gianfranco Miglio, 83, Italian jurist, political scientist and politician.
 * Ramón Monzant, 68, Venezuelan baseball player.
 * Dietrich Peltz, 87, German Luftwaffe bomber and Wehrmacht general during World War II.
 * Werner Pirchner, 61, Austrian composer and jazz musician.
 * Louis Purnell, 81, American curator at the National Air and Space Museum.
 * Stanislav Rostotsky, 79, Soviet/Russian film director and screenwriter.
 * Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, 63, Australian Indigenous artist.

11

 * Paul Cunniffe, 40, British-Irish singer-songwriter, fall from balcony.
 * Carlos Hank González, 73, Mexican politician and businessman.
 * Edward Thomas Hall, 77, British scientist, known for exposing the Piltdown Man as a fraud.
 * Bob Harris, 57, American jazz pianist and arranger, drug overdose.
 * Isidoro Malmierca, 70, Cuban politician, lung cancer.
 * Percy Stallard, 92, British racing cyclist.

12

 * Pierre Klossowski, 96, French writer, translator and artist.
 * Julian Pitt-Rivers, 82, British social anthropologist and ethnographer.
 * Walter Walker, 88, British army general.

13

 * Manuel Alvar, 78, Spanish linguist, historian, and university professor.
 * René Berthier, 89, French actor.
 * Stephanus du Plessis, 71, South African Olympic discus thrower and shot putter.
 * John C. Elliott, 82, American politician and 39th Governor of American Samoa.
 * Jim Hughes, 78, American baseball player.
 * Jimmy Knapp, 60, British trades unionist, cancer.
 * Gabor Peterdi, 85, Hungarian-American painter and printmaker.
 * Miguel Rodriguez Rodriguez, 70, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic] bishop.
 * Richard Shorr, 58, American sound engineer (Die Hard, Predator, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles).
 * Alan Skene, 68, South African rugby player.
 * Otto Stuppacher, 54, Austrian race car driver.
 * Antonio Zumel, 69, Filipino journalist, activist, and revolutionary.

14

 * Earl Anthony, 63, American professional bowler, domestic accident.
 * Oscar Janiger, 83, American experimental psychiatrist, known for his LSD research.
 * Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins, 63, American child actor.
 * Ridgway B. Knight, 90, American diplomat and ambassador.
 * Pavel Schmidt, 71, Slovak rower and Olympic champion.

15

 * Richard Chelimo, 29, Kenyan Olympic long-distance runner (silver medal winner of the men's 10,000 metres at the 1992 Summer Olympics), brain cancer.
 * Sheldon Datz, 74, American chemist.
 * Raymond Edward Johnson, 90, American radio and stage actor (Inner Sanctum Mysteries).
 * Peter Mazur, 78, Austrian-Dutch physicist.
 * Renato Panciera, 66, Italian sprinter.
 * Jim Russell, 92, Australian cartoonist.
 * Kateryna Yushchenko, 81, Ukrainian computer and information research scientist.
 * Yavuz Çetin, 30, Turkish musician, suicide.

16

 * Dave Barry, 82, American actor and comedian.
 * Kenneth Reese Cole, Jr., 63, American political aide to Richard Nixon.
 * Ruperto Donoso, 86, Chilean jockey.
 * Fred Glover, 73, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings, Cleveland Barons) and coach (Oakland Seals, Los Angeles Kings).
 * Anna Mani, 82, Indian physicist and meteorologist, stroke.
 * Sizwe Motaung, 31, South African football player, AIDS-related complications.
 * Floyd Spence, 73, American attorney and a politician, cerebral thrombosis.
 * Sidney Tillim, 76, American artist and art critic.
 * Klaus Wagner, 79, German equestrian and Olympic medalist.

17

 * William G. Clark, 77, American politician and jurist.
 * Josef Fried, 87, Polish-American organic chemist.
 * Herman Goffberg, 80, American Olympic long-distance runner (men's 10,000 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
 * Emil Gorovets, 78, Soviet and Ukrainian singer.
 * Živko Nikolić, 59, Yugoslav and Montenegrin film director.
 * Charles Palmer, 71, British martial artist.
 * Flip Phillips, 86, American jazz tenor saxophone and clarinet player.

18

 * Edmund Cambridge, 80, American actor and director, complications from a fall.
 * Roland Cardon, 72, Belgian composer, music teacher, and multi-instrumentalist.
 * Philip B. Crosby, 75, American businessman and author.
 * Jack Elliott, 74, American film and television music composer (Charlie's Angels, Night Court, The Jerk).
 * Hillel Kook, 86, Russian/American Revisionist Zionist activist and politician.
 * David Peakall, 70, British environmental toxicologist and ornithologist.
 * Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan, 88, Indian plant pathologist.
 * Tom Watson, 69, Scottish actor.

19

 * Betty Everett, 61, American soul singer and pianist ("The Shoop Shoop Song", "Let It Be Me").
 * Felicisimo Fajardo, 87, Filipino basketball player.
 * Junichiro Itani, 75, Japanese anthropologist and academic.
 * Dean Roper, 62, American stock car racer, heart attack.
 * Les Sealey, 43, English footballer, heart attack.
 * Inder Singh, 57, Indian Olympic hockey player.
 * Willy Vannitsen, 66, Belgian racing cyclist.
 * Donald Woods, 67, South African journalist, newspaper editor, and anti-apartheid activist, cancer.

20

 * Richard Cloward, 74, American sociologist and activist (National Voter Registration Act of 1993).
 * Neal Colzie, 48, American gridiron football player (Oakland Raiders, Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), heart attack.
 * Fred Hoyle, 86, British astronomer and science fiction writer, stroke.
 * Akın Kuloğlu, 29, Georgian-Turkish boxer and Olympian, traffic collision.
 * Walter Reed, 85, American stage, film and television actor.
 * Sylvia Millecam, 45, Dutch actress and comedian, breast cancer.
 * Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala, 85, Indian civil servant and diplomat.
 * Eliezer Shostak, 89, Israeli politician.
 * Kim Stanley, 76, American actress (Séance on a Wet Afternoon, The Right Stuff, Frances), Emmy winner (1963, 1985), uterine cancer.
 * Rolla M. Tryon Jr., 84, American botanist.

21

 * Beryl Cooke, 94, British actress.
 * Pál Engel, 63, Hungarian historian.
 * Steven Izenour, 61, American architect and author (Learning from Las Vegas).
 * John Kerins, 39, Irish Gaelic footballer, cancer.
 * Calum MacKay, 74, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Norman Rigby, 78, English footballer and manager.
 * Juan Antonio Villacañas, 79, Spanish poet, essayist and critic.

22

 * Johnny Anderson, 71, Scottish football player.
 * Tatyana Averina, 51, Soviet Russian Olympic speed skater (won two gold medals and two bronze medals at the 1976 Winter Olympics), stomach cancer.
 * Mauro Bicicli, 66, Italian football player and coach.
 * Rose Edgcumbe, 67, British psychologist, psychoanalyst, and academic.
 * Bernard Heuvelmans, 84, French scientist.
 * Bobby Johnstone, 71, Scottish footballer (Hibernian, Manchester City, Oldham Athletic, Scotland).
 * Spiro Koleka, 93, Albanian communist politician and statesman.
 * Gita Luka, 79, Israeli actress, comedian and singer, stroke.
 * Sharad Talwalkar, 82, Indian actor, heart attack.
 * Varro Eugene Tyler, 74, American professor of pharmacognosy and philatelist.

23

 * Eric Allendale, 65, British jazz musician.
 * Howard Fletcher, 88, American college football player and head coach (Northern Illinois University).
 * Frank Emilio Flynn, 80, Cuban pianist.
 * Ray Frederick, 72, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks).
 * Kathleen Freeman, 78, American actress (Wagon Train, North to Alaska, The Nutty Professor), lung cancer.
 * Herbert Haag, 86, German-Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and biblical scholar (known for challenging the Vatican).
 * Henriette Bie Lorentzen, 90, Norwegian journalist, peace activist, feminist, and publisher.
 * Peter Maas, 72, American journalist and author (Serpico, The Valachi Papers).
 * Fukukane Nikaidō, 78, Japanese economist.
 * Manolita Saval, 87, Spanish actress and singer, thrombosis.

24

 * George Benson, 82, American gridiron football player.
 * Jane Greer, 76, American film and television actress (Out of the Past), cancer.
 * Milan Kadlec, 42, Czechoslovakian Olympic pentathlete (team and individual modern pentathlon at the 1980 Summer Olympics and 1988 Summer Olympics), suicide.
 * Roman Matsov, 84, Soviet and Estonian violinist, pianist, and conductor.
 * Hank Sauer, 84, American baseball player (1952 Most Valuable Player) ("The Mayor of Wrigley Field").
 * Raymond Wilding-White, 78, American composer.

25

 * Aaliyah, 22, American R&B singer (Are You That Somebody?, Try Again) and actress (Romeo Must Die, Queen of the Damned), plane crash.
 * Madge Adam, 89, English astronomer.
 * Mary Barnard, 91, American poet, biographer and translator.
 * Carl Brewer, 62, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * John Chambers, 78, American make-up artist and first civilian to receive the Intelligence Medal of Merit.
 * Üzeyir Garih, 72, Turkish engineer, businessman, writer and investor.
 * Diana Golden, 38, American disabled ski racer, cancer.
 * Philippe Léotard, 60, French actor and singer, respiratory failure.
 * Ginzō Matsuo, 50, Japanese voice actor, subarachnoid hemorrhage.
 * John L. Nelson, 85, American jazz musician, songwriter and father of Prince.
 * Asit Sen, 78, Bengali Indian film director, cinematographer and screenwriter.
 * Ken Tyrrell, 75, British motor racing driver and team leader, pancreatic cancer.

26

 * John Horn, 69, British tennis player.
 * Louis Muhlstock, 97, Canadian painter.
 * Marita Petersen, 60, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands and first female speaker of the House, cancer.
 * Al Pittman, 61, Canadian poet and playwright.

27

 * Cal Collins, 68, American jazz guitarist.
 * Michalis Dertouzos, 64, Greek-American professor and computer scientist.
 * John Joe Landers, 94, Irish Gaelic footballer.
 * James D. Ford, 70, American clergyman, ex-Chaplain of the United States House, suicide
 * Abu Ali Mustafa, 63, Palestinian leader and Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), homicide.
 * Juan Lechín Oquendo, 87, Bolivian politician, Vice President (1960–1964).
 * Karl Ulrich Schnabel, 92, Austrian pianist.

28

 * Bert Gardiner, 88, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins, New York Rangers).
 * Käthe Grasegger, 84, German Olympic alpine skier (silver medal winner in women's combined alpine skiing at the 1936 Winter Olympics).
 * David P. Harmon, 82, American scenarist and producer.
 * Johan Frederik Holleman, 85, Dutch-South African ethnologist and legal scholar.
 * Kenneth Maddocks, 94, British colonial official and Governor of Fiji (1958-1963).
 * Lawrence B. Marcus, 84, American screenwriter.
 * Juan Muñoz, 48, Spanish sculptor, cardiac arrest caused by an aneurysm.
 * Serhiy Perkhun, 23, Ukrainian footballer, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Remy Presas, 64, Filipino martial artist and founder of Modern Arnis, brain cancer.
 * Ernst Stettler, 80, Swiss racing cyclist.

29

 * Harold Chestnut, 83, American electrical engineer at General Electric and author.
 * Roger Daley, 58, British meteorologist.
 * Victor Jörgensen, 77, Danish Olympic boxer (bronze medal winner in welterweight boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
 * Manubhai Pancholi, 86, Indian novelist, author, and politician.
 * Francisco Rabal, 75, Spanish actor, pulmonary emphysema.
 * Dick Selma, 57, American baseball player, liver cancer.
 * Graeme Strachan, 50, Australian singer (Skyhooks) and television presenter.
 * Eric Tipton, 86, American baseball player.
 * Sabahattin Özbek, 86, Turkish politician and academic.

30

 * Juan Acuña, 78, Spanish football goalkeeper.
 * Julie Bishop, 87, American actress (Sands of Iwo Jima, Princess O'Rourke, Northern Pursuit, The High and the Mighty), pneumonia.
 * A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury, 86, 9th President of Bangladesh.
 * Stan Harland, 61, English football player.
 * Govan Mbeki, 91, South African politician, leader of the ANC and SACP.
 * G. K. Moopanar, 70, Indian politician.
 * Dilli Raman Regmi, 87, Nepali historian and politician.
 * Kothamangalam Seenu, 91, Tamil actor and singer.
 * Kwee Kiat Sek, 67, Indonesian football player.
 * Agus Wirahadikusumah, 49, Indonesian military officer.

31

 * Crash Davis, 82, American baseball player, stomach cancer.
 * Julio Antonio Elícegui, 90, Spanish football player.
 * Paul Hamlyn, 75, British publisher and philanthropist.
 * Odd Steinar Holøs, 79, Norwegian politician.