Deaths in February 2001

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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

 * Vinnie Burke, 79, American jazz bassist.
 * Nikolay Devyatkov, 93, Soviet and Russian scientist and inventor.
 * Sam Harshaney, 90, American baseball player.
 * Harry How, 81, Canadian politician.
 * John Jarrard, 47, American country music songwriter, respiratory failure.
 * Amryl Johnson, 56, Trinidadian poet and writer.
 * Harold Maguire, 88, British air marshal and Director-General of Intelligence.
 * Rafael Lapesa Melgar, 92, Spanish philologist and literature historian.
 * John Pierrakos, 79, Greek-American physician and psychiatrist.
 * Leslie Vincent, 91, American actor (Forever Amber, Destry Rides Again, Paris Underground).

2

 * Carol Anne Letheren, 58, Canadian Olympic Association official, brain aneurysm.
 * Lloyd Roberts, 38, American musician, homicide.
 * Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer, 75, French classical pianist.
 * Freddy Wittop, 89, Dutch costume designer (winner of Tony Award for Best Costume Design for Hello Dolly!).

3

 * Helmut Gude, 75, German Olympic middle-distance runner (men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
 * Frederick Lawton, 89, British judge.
 * Teiichi Nishi, 93, Japanese sprinter and Olympian.
 * Gerald Suster, 49, British revisionist historian, occult writer, and novelist.

4

 * Wilhelm Altvater, 80, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
 * Sonia Arova, 73, Bulgarian ballerina, pancreatic cancer.
 * Jean Ausseil, 75, Monegasque politician, Minister of State (1985 and 1991).
 * David Beattie, 76, New Zealand jurist and Governor-General.
 * Barry Cockcroft, 68, British television documentary director and filmmaker (Too Long a Winter).
 * Alyaksandar Dubko, 63, Belarusian politician.
 * Larry Fisher, 93, American real estate developer and philanthropist.
 * J. J. Johnson, 77, American jazz trombonist, suicide.
 * Raimo Kangro, 51, Estonian composer.
 * Alois Lipburger, 44, Austrian ski jumper, car accident.
 * Dragan Maksimović, 51, Serbian actor, beaten to death.
 * Allan Mansley, 54, English football player, heart attack.
 * Ernie McCoy, 79, American racecar driver.
 * Natalia Melmann, 15, Argentinian murder victim.
 * Pankaj Roy, 72, Indian cricketer.
 * Tony Steedman, 73, English actor.
 * Iannis Xenakis, 78, Greek-French composer.

5

 * Jean Davy, 89, French actor.
 * Mark Joseph Hurley, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate, aneurysm.
 * David Iftody, 44, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons for Provencher, Manitoba), snowmobile accident.
 * Elsa Irigoyen, 81, Argentine Olympic fencer (women's fencing foil at the 1948 Summer Olympics and the 1952 Summer Olympics).
 * Jack Shapiro, 93, American gridiron football player.
 * Fernando Viola, 49, Italian football player, traffic collision.
 * Jean Denton, Baroness Denton of Wakefield, 65, British politician and racing driver.
 * Inna Zubkovskaya, 77, Russian ballerina.

6

 * Geoffrey Bibby, 83, English-Danish archaeologist.
 * Kojo Botsio, 84, Ghanaian diplomat and politician.
 * Gus Boulis, 51, Greek-born American businessman and murder victim, homicide.
 * Fulgence Charpentier, 103, French Canadian journalist, editor and publisher, pneumonia.
 * Stephen Halaiko, 92, American Olympic boxer (silver medal winner in lightweight boxing at the 1928 Summer Olympics).
 * Agha Hilaly, 90, Pakistani diplomat.
 * Arthur W. Hummel, 80, American diplomat.
 * Jack Hyles, 74, American Baptist megachurch pastor, heart failure.
 * Filemon Lagman, 47, Filipino revolutionary socialist and workers' leader, homicide.
 * Folke Lind, 87, Swedish football player.
 * R. W. Southern, 88, British medieval historian.
 * Charles Tran Van Lam, 87, South Vietnamese diplomat and politician.
 * Emily Vermeule, 72, American classical scholar and archaeologist, heart disease.

7

 * Jean-Paul Beugnot, 69, French basketball player and coach.
 * Marianne Breslauer, 91, German photographer and photojournalist.
 * Dieter Dengler, 62, German-American aviator and Vietnam War prisoner-of-war escapee (Little Dieter Needs to Fly), suicide.
 * Dale Evans, 88, American actress, singer and wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers, heart failure.
 * Michael Grylls, 66, British politician.
 * Helmut Hentrich, 95, German architect.
 * Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 94, American author, aviator, and wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh, stroke, pneumonia.
 * Stanley Lingar, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * King Moody, 71, American actor (Get Smart) and comedian.

8

 * Ivo Caprino, 80, Norwegian film director and writer, cancer.
 * Roger Delage, 78, French musicologist and conductor.
 * Leslie Edwards, 84, British ballet dancer.
 * Arlene Eisenberg, 66, American family and parenting writer (What to Expect When You're Expecting), breast cancer.
 * Walter Generati, 87, Italian road bicycle racer.
 * Pauline Koner, 88, American dancer and choreographer.
 * Chen Lifu, 100, Chinese politician and anti-communist of the Republic of China.
 * Muboraksho Mirzoshoyev, 39, Tajikistani musician and Tajik rock music pioneer, tuberculosis.
 * Brian Nissen, 73, British actor and television announcer.
 * Rousas John Rushdoony, 84, American historian, theologian and father of Christian Reconstructionism.

9

 * Agustín Cárdenas, 73, Cuban sculptor.
 * Vicente Dauder, 76, Spanish football goalkeeper and manager.
 * William Epstein, 88, Canadian civil servant and United Nations disarmament official.
 * Leonard Mandel, 73, American physicist.
 * Reginald Marsh, 74, English actor.
 * Gunnar Seidenfaden, 92, Danish diplomat and botanist].
 * Herbert Simon, 84, American economist (Nobel Prize in Economics, Turing Award).
 * Dilbagh Singh, 74, Indian air marshal.

10

 * Ramzan Akhmadov, 31, Chechen general, killed in action.
 * Lewis Arquette, 65, American actor (The Waltons, Tango & Cash, Scream 2), heart failure.
 * Abraham Beame, 94, American politician, 104th Mayor of New York City (1974–1977).
 * Kenneth E. BeLieu, 87, American government official.
 * Helge Bengtsson, 84, Swedish football player.
 * K. Thavamani Devi, Sri Lankan actress.
 * Niccolò Galli, 17, Italian promising footballer, traffic accident.
 * Johnny Hatley, 70, American football player (Chicago Bears, Chicago Cardinals, Denver Broncos), coach, executive, and rodeo performer.
 * Mogubai Kurdikar, 96, Indian classical vocalist.
 * Robert H. Lounsberry, 82, American politician.
 * Miné Okubo, 88, American artist and writer.
 * Buddy Tate, 87, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (Count Basie Orchestra).

11

 * José Luis Borbolla, 81, Mexican footballer.
 * Edward E. Fitzgerald, 81, American sports author and editor (Book of the Month Club).
 * Sy Gomberg, 82, American screenwriter (When Willie Comes Marching Home), heart attack.
 * Olle Håkansson, 73, Swedish football player.
 * Jaiganesh, Indian Tamil film actor, cancer.
 * Raymond Lewis, 48, American basketball and streetball player, complications following leg amputation.
 * Masao Ono, 77, Japanese football player.
 * Charles C. Price, 87, American chemist.
 * Donald Sellers, 26, American gridiron football player, traffic accident.
 * Judita Vaičiūnaitė, 63, Lithuanian writer.
 * Maurice Zermatten, 90, French-speaking Swiss writer.

12

 * Bhakti Barve, 52, Indian actress, traffic collision.
 * Rosalie Gwathmey, 92, American painter and photographer.
 * Tiberio Mitri, 74, Italian boxer, railway accident.
 * Franco Pedroni, 74, Italian football player and manager.
 * Herbert Robbins, 86, American mathematician, statistician and co-author of What is Mathematics?.
 * Ralph Smart, 92, Australian film and television producer.
 * Kristina Söderbaum, 88, Swedish-German film actress, producer and photographer.

13

 * Ugo Fano, 88, Italian-American physicist, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Manuela, 57, German singer, cancer.
 * Moses Taiwa Molelekwa, 27, South African jazz pianist, murdered.
 * George T. Simon, 88, American jazz writer and drummer.
 * Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington, 83, British politician.
 * Owen Torrey, 75, American sailor and Olympic medalist.
 * Victor Veysey, 85, American politician.

14

 * Charles B. Fitzsimons, 76, Irish-American actor, film producer and director, liver disease.
 * Guy Grosso, 67, French actor and humorist.
 * Richard Laymon, 54, American horror author, heart attack.
 * Maurice Levitas, 84, Irish-born British sociologist.
 * Alan Ross, 78, Indian-British poet and editor.
 * Ploutis Servas, 93, Cypriot politician, journalist, and author.
 * Piero Umiliani, 74, Italian composer of film scores.
 * Helmut Wielandt, 90, German mathematician.
 * Jim Winkler, 73, American football player.

15

 * Boris Goldovsky, 92, Russian-American conductor and broadcaster.
 * Dulal Guha, 72, Indian film director of Bollywood films in the 1960s and '70s.
 * Burt Kennedy, 78, American screenwriter and director (The War Wagon, Support Your Local Sheriff!, The Virginian, Combat!).
 * Ken Kiff, 65, English figurative artist.
 * Ricardo Otxoa, 26, Spanish cyclist, bicycle accident.
 * Edwin Plowden, Baron Plowden of Plowden, 94, British industrialist and public servant.
 * Folke K. Skoog, 92, Swedish-American plant physiologist.

16

 * Ali Artuner, 56, Turkish footballer.
 * Bob Buhl, 72, American baseball player.
 * Jerry Frei, 76, American football player (Wisconsin) and coach (Oregon, Denver Broncos, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Chicago Bears).
 * Howard W. Koch, 84, American film and television director and producer (The Manchurian Candidate, Maverick), Alzheimer's disease.
 * William H. Masters, 85, American gynaecologist (Masters and Johnson), Parkinson's disease.
 * Bobby Scarr, 74, Canadian basketball player.
 * Helen Vita, 72, Swiss chanson singer, actress, and comedian, cancer.

17

 * Debbie Dean, 73, American singer.
 * Gilly Flower, 92, English actress and model.
 * Bob Geary, 67, Canadian football player and manager in the Canadian Football League (CFL).
 * Juan Liscano, 86, Venezuelan poet, folklorist, writer and critic.
 * Matild Manukyan, 87, Turkish businesswoman of Armenian descent.
 * Khalid Abdul Muhammad, 53, American black nationalist leader (Nation of Islam, New Black Panther Party), brain aneurysm.
 * John Sutherland, 90, American film producer.
 * Richard Wurmbrand, 91, Romanian Lutheran priest and academic.
 * Zvonimir Červenko, 74, Croatian general.

18

 * Balthus, 92, French painter.
 * Roger A. Caras, 72, American wildlife photographer, writer, and television personality, heart attack.
 * Sir Colin Cole, 78, British officer of arms.
 * Claude Davey, 92, Welsh rugby union player.
 * Dale Earnhardt, 49, American NASCAR race car driver, racing accident.
 * Francisco Espinosa, 54, Argentine racing driver.
 * Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr., 89, American journalist and author (Cheaper by the Dozen, Belles on Their Toes).
 * Franso Hariri, 64, Iraqi Kurdish politician.
 * Eddie Mathews, 69, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, pneumonia.
 * Georgi Minchev, 57, Bulgarian rock musician and TV presenter, cancer.
 * Panos Papadopulos, 80, German-Greek actor 1920-2001.
 * Butch Wensloff, 85, American baseball player.

19

 * Theophilus Beckford, 65, Jamaican pianist and vocalist.
 * Stanley Kramer, 87, American film director and producer (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Defiant Ones, Judgment at Nuremberg), pneumonia.
 * Guy Rodgers, 65, American basketball player, heart attack.
 * Roland Stoltz, 69, Swedish ice hockey player.
 * Charles Trenet, 87, French singer-songwriter, stroke.

20

 * Harry Boykoff, 78, American basketball player, lung cancer.
 * Irina Bugrimova, 90, Russian lion tamer, heart attack.
 * Rob Dawber, 45, British railwayman and writer (The Navigators), lung cancer caused by asbestos.
 * Rosemary DeCamp, 90, American actress (Yankee Doodle Dandy, That Girl), pneumonia.
 * Indrajit Gupta, 81, Indian politician.
 * Donella Meadows, 59, American environmental scientist, and writer, cerebral meningitis.
 * Yogi Ramsuratkumar, 82, Indian saint and mystic.
 * Bill Rigney, 83, American baseball player and manager.
 * Nam Sung-yong, 88, Korean long-distance runner and Olympic medalist.
 * Bob Weiskopf, 86, American screenwriter and producer for television.

21

 * John MacKay, Baron MacKay of Ardbrecknish, 62, British politician.
 * Alfred Embarrato, 91, American mobster (Bonanno crime family).
 * Ileana Espinel, 67, Ecuadorian journalist, poet and writer.
 * Ronnie Hilton, 75, English singer ("No Other Love", "A Windmill in Old Amsterdam") and radio presenter (Sounds of the Fifties).
 * Desmond Leslie, 79, British pilot, film maker, writer, and musician, pulmonary emphysema.
 * José Lebrún Moratinos, 81, Venezuelan Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Caracas.
 * Fido Purpur, 86, American ice hockey player.
 * Philip Sandblom, 97, Swedish academic and sailor.
 * Malcolm Yelvington, 82, American rockabilly and country musician.

22

 * Dennis Cox, 75, British cricketer.
 * John Fahey, 61, American guitarist and composer.
 * Radie Harris, 96, American journalist and newspaper columnist (The Hollywood Reporter).
 * Evelyn Holt, 92, German actress.
 * Les Medley, 80, England international footballer, natural causes.
 * Christopher Mitchell, 53, British actor, liver cancer.
 * Michel Oksenberg, 62, Belgian-American political scientist and China watcher, cancer.
 * Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos, 84, British politician.
 * André Pieters, 78, Belgian racing cyclist.

23

 * Robert Enrico, 69, French film director and screenwriter, lung cancer.
 * Anthony Giacalone, 82, American organized crime figure in Detroit.
 * Sergio Mantovani, 71, Italian racing driver.
 * Caupolicán Ovalles, 64, Venezuelan avant-garde writer.
 * Dame Ruth Railton, 85, British music director and conductor.
 * Guy Wood, 89, English musician and songwriter.
 * Tincho Zabala, 78, Uruguayan actor.

24

 * Phil Collier, 75, American sportswriter (1990 winner of J. G. Taylor Spink Award), prostate cancer.
 * Charles Fletcher-Cooke, 86, British politician.
 * Hans Holtedahl, 83, Norwegian geologist.
 * Andy Mulligan, 65, Irish rugby player.
 * Claude Shannon, 84, American electrical engineer and mathematician, Alzheimer's disease.

25

 * Archie Randolph Ammons, 75, American poet and professor of English.
 * Édouard Artigas, 94, French fencer and Olympic champion.
 * Nuhu Bamalli, 84, Nigerian politician.
 * Helen Bennett, 89, American actress.
 * Don Bradman, 92, Australian cricketer, pneumonia.
 * Norbert Glanzberg, 90, French composer.
 * Giovanni Grimaldi, 84, Italian screenwriter, journalist and film director.
 * Bitsy Mott, 82, American baseball player.
 * Sigurd Raschèr, 93, German-American saxophonist.
 * John J. Tammaro Jr., 75, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer.
 * L. R. Wright, 61, Canadian writer and novelist, breast cancer.

26

 * Dragoslav Avramović, 81, Serbian economist.
 * Georg Brauer, 92, German chemist.
 * Leif Haugen, 83, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier (men's 50 kilometre cross-country skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics).
 * Frances Lincoln, 55, English independent publisher, pneumonia.
 * Dee Mackey, 66, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
 * Duke Nalon, 87, American racing driver.
 * Arturo Uslar Pietri, 94, Venezuelan writer, television producer and politician, heart attack.
 * Yaakov Rechter, 76, Israeli architect.
 * Jean-Louis Ricci, 57, French racing driver.
 * Jale İnan, 87, Turkish archaeologist.

27

 * Milton Barnes, 69, Canadian composer, conductor, and jazz drummer, heart attack.
 * Ralf D. Bode, 59, German-American cinematographer (Coal Miner's Daughter, Saturday Night Fever, Uncle Buck), lung cancer.
 * José García Nieto, 86, Spanish poet and writer.
 * Doyle Schick, 62, American gridiron football player.
 * Selwyn Toogood, 84, New Zealand radio and television personality.

28

 * Stan Cullis, 84, British footballer and manager.
 * Gildas Molgat, 74, Canadian politician.
 * Raúl Planas, 80, Cuban singer and songwriter.
 * Charles Pozzi, 91, French racing driver.
 * K Sankunni, Indian film editor.