Deaths in July 2001

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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

 * Nikolay Basov, 78, Soviet physicist and co-winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964.
 * Bob Cifers, 80, American professional football player (Detroit Lions, Pittsburgh Steelers, Green Bay Packers).
 * Halina Czerny-Stefańska, 78, Polish pianist.
 * Hélène de Beauvoir, 91, French painter and sister of Simone de Beauvoir.
 * Tony Leswick, 78, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.

2

 * Ron Forwick, 57, Canadian football player, cancer.
 * Jack Gwillim, 91, English character actor (My Fair Lady, Lawrence of Arabia, A Man for All Seasons, Patton).
 * Israel Shahak, 68, Israeli organic chemist and civil rights activist, diabetes.
 * James P. Vreeland, 91, American Republican Party politician.

3

 * Delia Derbyshire, 64, British musician and composer of electronic music (BBC Radiophonic Workshop), renal failure.
 * Gerald L. Geison, 58, American historian, enlarged heart.
 * Lelord Kordel, 92, Polish-American nutritionist and author of books on healthy living.
 * Billy Liddell, 79, Scottish footballer.
 * Baharuddin Lopa, 65, Indonesian attorney general, heart failure.
 * John Marriott, 78, British philatelist.
 * Roy Nichols, 68, American guitarist (lead guitarist for Merle Haggard's band), heart attack.
 * Mordecai Richler, 69, Canadian author, (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Barney's Version, Jacob Two-Two), kidney cancer.
 * Johnny Russell, 61, American country singer ("Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer") and songwriter ("Act Naturally").
 * Paolo Silveri, 87, Italian baritone.
 * Ivan Slamnig, 71, Croatian poet, novelist, and literary theorist.

4

 * Roberto Cabrejas, 48, Spanish Olympic high jumper, traffic collision.
 * Omar Ali Juma, 60, Chief Minister of Zanzibar from 25 January 1988 to October 1995.
 * Serafim Pinto Ribeiro Júnior, 85, Brazilian football player.
 * Charles Neider, 86, American writer.
 * Charles Saxton, 88, New Zealand cricketer, rugby player and coach, emphysema.
 * Anthony Synnot, 79, officer in the Royal Australian Navy.
 * Joan-Josep Tharrats, 83, Spanish painter, art theorist and publisher.
 * Anne Yeats, 82, Irish painter, costume and stage designer.

5

 * Ely Callaway Jr., 82, American entrepreneur and golf club maker.
 * George Dawson, 103, American author.
 * A. D. Flowers, 84, American film special effects artist (Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Poseidon Adventure, Apocalypse Now), Oscar winner (1971, 1973), pneumonia.
 * Ernie K-Doe, 68, African-American rhythm-and-blues singer ("Mother-in-Law"), liver cirrhosis.
 * Hannelore Kohl, 68, wife of former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, suicide.
 * Keenan Milton, 26, American professional skateboarder, drowned.

6

 * Derek Freeman, 84, New Zealand anthropologist.
 * Enrique Mateos, 66, Spanish footballer.
 * Viktor Yakushev, 63, Soviet ice hockey player.

7

 * Dempsey J. Barron, 79, American politician, President of the Florida Senate.
 * Molly Lamont, 91, British film actress.
 * Surender Kumar Malik, 58, Indian mathematician.
 * Fred Neil, 65, American folk singer and songwriter ("Everybody's Talkin'").
 * Toni Pagot, 79, Italian comics artist and animator.
 * Joseph Stulac, 66, Canadian basketball player.
 * John Roland Sweeney, 70, Canadian politician, heart attack.
 * Tim Temerario, 95, American football coach and executive, heart failure.

8

 * Rolim Amaro, 58, Brazilian pilot and airline owner, helicopter crash.
 * Ernst Baier, 95, German Olympic figure skater (gold medal winner in pairs and silver medal winner in men's singles at the 1936 Winter Olympics).
 * Big Ed, 29, American rapper, throat cancer.
 * Christl Haas, 57, Austrian skier and Olympic champion, heart attack.
 * William Kuhlemeier, 92, American gymnast and 1932 Olympic bronze medalist in Los Angeles.
 * Jia Lanpo, 92, Chinese palaeoanthropologist.
 * Amiya Bhushan Majumdar, 83, Indian writer.
 * Neil Midgley, 58, English football referee, cancer.
 * John O'Shea, 81, New Zealand film director (Broken Barrier, Runaway, Don't Let It Get You).
 * Irma Seikkula, 87, Finnish actress.

9

 * Maria Chabot, 87, American advocate of Native American arts and rancher.
 * Al Lary, 72, American baseball player, drowned.
 * Jorge Novak, 73, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, stomach cancer.
 * Thomas F. Schweigert, 83, American politician.
 * Willy Sommer, 76, Swiss football striker and manager.
 * Arie van Vliet, 85, Dutch Olympic sprint cyclist.

10

 * Humayun Rashid Choudhury, 72, Bangladeshi diplomat and politician.
 * Tony Criscola, 86, American baseball player.
 * Geoffrey Clarkson, 57, English rugby player.
 * Giulio Gerardi, 88, Italian Olympic cross-country skier (men's 18 kilometre and men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay at the 1936 Winter Olympics).
 * Jean-Claude Grèt, 70, Swiss racing cyclist.
 * Álvaro Magaña, 75, Salvadorean politician, President (1982–1984).

11

 * Herman Brood, 54, Dutch rock musician and painter, suicide.
 * Cândida Branca Flor, 51, Portuguese entertainer and singer, suicide.
 * Salamat Ali Khan, 66, Pakistani vocalist and artist, kidney failure.
 * Qateel Shifai, 81, Pakistani poet.
 * Marco Zanuso, 85, Italian architect and designer.

12

 * James Bernard, 75, English film composer (The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula) and screenwriter (Seven Days to Noon), Oscar winner (1952).
 * Bill Crabtree, 86, Australian politician.
 * Juan Nepomuceno Guerra Cárdenas, 85, Mexican crime lord, bootlegger, and smuggler, respiratory disease.
 * Vlado Dapčević, 84, Yugoslav-Montenegrin communist and revolutionary.
 * Mirvarid Dilbazi, 88, Azerbaijani poet.
 * John H. Holdridge, 76, American diplomat, pulmonary fibrosis.
 * Ron Kroon, 58, Dutch Olympic freestyle swimmer.
 * Paul Magloire, 93, Haitian politician, President (1950–1956).
 * Fred Marcellino, 61, American illustrator and children's author, colorectal cancer.
 * Alioune Sarr, 92, Senegalese historian, author and politician.
 * Charleszetta Waddles, 88, American activist and church minister.
 * Johnny Wright, 72, British boxer and Olympic silver medalist.

13

 * Miguel Gila Cuesta, 82, Spanish comedian and actor, respiratory disease.
 * Bill Fogarty, 79, Australian politician.
 * César López Fretes, 78, Paraguayan football player.
 * Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gryfe, 89, British politician.
 * David Noyes Jackson, 78, American writer and artist.
 * Åse-Marie Nesse, 67, Norwegian philologist, translator and poet, cancer.
 * Eleanor Summerfield, 80, English actress (Laughter in Paradise, Odongo, Dentist in the Chair, On the Fiddle, The Running Man).
 * Juan José Timón, 63, Uruguayan cyclist.
 * Mohamed Zafzaf, 56, Morrocon novelist and poet, cancer.

14

 * John Lax, 89, American ice hockey player.
 * Agustín Navarro, Spanish film director, respiratory disease.
 * Jack Sheppard, 92, British cave diver.

15

 * Anthony Ian Berkeley, 36, American rapper and producer, colon cancer.
 * Ted Berman, 81, American film director, animator, and screenwriter (Bambi, Fantasia, The Black Cauldron).
 * Tom Chantrell, 84, British film poster artist (The King and I, One Million Years B.C., Far From The Madding Crowd).
 * Helge Rognlien, 81, Norwegian politician.
 * Marina Știrbei, 89, Romanian aviator.

16

 * Tom Askwith, 90, British Olympic rower (1932 Summer Olympics, 1936 Summer Olympics) and a colonial administrator.
 * Terry Gordy, 40, pro wrestler (Fabulous Freebirds), heart attack.
 * Christina Cruickshank Miller, 101, Scottish chemist.
 * Morris, 77, Belgian cartoonist (Lucky Luke), embolism.
 * Beate Uhse-Rotermund, 81, German female stunt pilot, Luftwaffe pilot during World War II and sex shop owner, pneumonia.

17

 * Timur Apakidze, 47, Russian fighter pilot and navy officer, aviation accident.
 * Sara Ashurbeyli, 95, Azerbaijani historian, orientalist and scholar.
 * Abel Carlevaro, 84, Uruguay classical guitar composer, performer and teacher.
 * Yehiel De-Nur, 92, Israeli writer and Holocaust survivor, cancer.
 * Val Feld, 53, Welsh politician, cancer.
 * Katharine Graham, 84, American publisher (The Washington Post), horse fall.
 * Elon Hogsett, 97, American baseball player.
 * Wilhelm Simetsreiter, 86, German football player.
 * Ziya Taner, 77, Macedonian-Turkish football manager.

18

 * Roderic Bowen, 87, Welsh lawyer and Liberal Party politician.
 * Phillip Alexander Clancey, 83, British ornithologist.
 * Mimi Fariña, 56, American singer-songwriter and activist, neuroendocrine cancer.
 * Roy Gilchrist, 67, West Indian cricket player, Parkinson's disease.
 * Alex Jany, 72, French Olympic swimmer (two-time bronze medal winner in men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle swimming relay at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics).
 * Ritchie Johnston, 70, New Zealand Olympic track cyclist (men's 2000 metre tandem sprint cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics).
 * Ika Panajotovic, 69, Serbian-American film producer and tennis player, cardiac arrest during surgery, heart attack.
 * Barry Shetrone, 63, American baseball player.
 * Fabio Taglioni, 80, Italian automotive engineer.

19

 * Erik Barnouw, 93, American historian of radio and television broadcasting.
 * Paul Beeson, 79, British cinematographer.
 * Judy Clay, 62, American soul and gospel singer.
 * Gunther Gebel-Williams, 83, Polish-American animal trainer (Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus), cancer.
 * Neil Carmichael, Baron Carmichael of Kelvingrove, 79, British politician.
 * Charles King, 89, British cyclist and Olympic medalist.
 * Peter Lucas, 68, New Zealand Olympic rower.

20

 * Oscar Arredondo, 83, Cuban paleontologist and ornithologist.
 * Thomas Fantl, 72, German film director and screenwriter.
 * Milt Gabler, 90, American record producer.
 * Carlo Giuliani, 23, Italian anti-globalization demonstrator, shot.

21

 * Muqbil bin Haadi al-Waadi'ee, Islamic scholar, liver disease.
 * Steve Barton, 47, American actor (The Phantom of the Opera, The Red Shoes), suicide.
 * Carlo Bo, 90, Italian poet and literary critic.
 * Antal Bánkuti, 78, Hungarian basketball player.
 * Krste Crvenkovski, 80, Yugoslav communist politician.
 * Sivaji Ganesan, 74, Indian actor.
 * Einar Schleef, 57, German dramatist, director, writer, painter, and actor, heart disease.

22

 * Bertie Felstead, 106, British World War I soldier and the last witness of the Christmas truce of 1914.
 * Fanny Brennan, 80, French-American surrealist artist and painter.
 * Bob Ferguson, 73, American country music songwriter and record producer, cancer.
 * Maria Gorokhovskaya, 79, Soviet Olympic gymnast (two gold medals and five silver medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
 * Frances Horwich, 94, American educator, television personality and television executive, heart failure.
 * Herbert L. Ley, Jr., 77, American physician and head of the U.S. F.D.A., cardiovascular disease.
 * Indro Montanelli, 92, Italian journalist and historian, urinary tract infection.
 * Stanley Jedidiah Samartha, 80, Indian theologian.

23

 * Douglas Boyle, 77, Canadian navy officer.
 * André Fouché, 92, French actor.
 * Zhang Pinghua, 93, Chinese politician.
 * Eudora Welty, 92, American short story writer and novelist (Pulitzer Prize for The Optimist's Daughter, pneumonia.

24

 * Carrie Best, 98, Canadian journalist and social activist.
 * Georges Dor, 70, Canadian singer and songwriter ("Le Manic"), playwright and theatrical producer.
 * Nathan Isgur, 54, American-Canadian theoretical physicist, multiple myeloma.
 * Hiroshi Tsuburaya, 37, Japanese actor, liver cancer.

25

 * Jenner Armour, 68, Dominica politician and barrister.
 * Phoolan Devi, 37, Indian dacoit and politician, assassinated.
 * Josef Klaus, 90, Austrian politician, chancellor (1964-1970).
 * Carmen Portinho, 98, Brazilian civil engineer, urbanist, and feminist.
 * Fahd bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 46, member of the House of Saud, heart failure.

26

 * Rex T. Barber, 84, American fighter pilot during World War II.
 * Jacques Bens, 70, French writer and poet.
 * Henry Coston, 90, French far-right journalist, collaborationist and conspiracy theorist.
 * H. Rex Lee, 91, American government diplomat and governor.
 * Rudolf Nussgruber, 83, Austrian film director.
 * Giorgi Sanaia, 26, Georgian television journalist, homicide.
 * Giuseppe Sensi, 94, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Peter von Zahn, 88, German author, film maker, and journalist.

27

 * Harold Beeley, 92, British diplomat.
 * Piet Bromberg, 84, Dutch field hockey player and Olympic medalist.
 * Harold Land, 72, American hard bop and post-bop tenor saxophonist, stroke.
 * Rhonda Sing, 40, Canadian professional wrestler, heart attack.
 * Leon Wilkeson, 49, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd).

28

 * Eric Bedford, 91, British architect.
 * Joan Finney, 76, American politician and 42nd governor of Kansas (1991–1995), liver cancer.
 * Eldon Grier, 84, Canadian poet and artist.
 * Siddiq Khan Kanju, 100, Pakistani politician.
 * Baby LeRoy, 69, American child actor.
 * Ahmed Sofa, 58, Bangladeshi writer, novelist, and poet, cardiac arrest.
 * Martin Stern, Jr., 84, American architect.
 * Fūtarō Yamada, 79, Japanese author.

29

 * Edward Gierek, 88, Polish communist politician, First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party (1970-1980), lung cancer.
 * Wau Holland, 49, German computer hacker, stroke.
 * Tommy Millar, 62, Scottish football player.
 * Alex Nicol, 85, American actor (South Pacific, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits).
 * Edward Roberts, 93, British Anglican prelate.
 * Elizabeth Yates, 95, American children's author.

30

 * Dennis Coralluzzo, 48, American professional wrestling promoter, brain hemorrhage.
 * Ekkehard Gries, 64, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
 * Joseph-Philippe Guay, 85, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons).
 * Bill Schelter, 54, American professor of mathematics and developer of Lisp, heart attack.
 * Anton Schwarzkopf, 77, German roller coaster manufacturer, Parkinson's disease.
 * Petar B. Vasilev, 83, Bulgarian film director and screenwriter.
 * John Walters, 62, British radio producer, presenter and musician, heart attack.
 * Irina Zaritskaya, 62, Ukrainian pianist.

31

 * Poul Anderson, 74, American science fiction author (seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards), cancer.
 * Bill Borthwick, 76, Australian politician.
 * Pelageya Danilova, 83, Russian artistic gymnast and Olympian.
 * Arthur Geoffrey Dickens, 91, British historian.
 * Philip Gaskell, 75, British bibliographer and librarian.
 * Francisco da Costa Gomes, 87, Portuguese military officer and politician, president (1974-1976).
 * Satur Grech, 87, Spanish football player and manager.
 * Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 91, German heir and Waffen-SS officer during World War II.
 * Joris Tjebbes, 71, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympian.
 * Miklós Vásárhelyi, 83, Hungarian journalist and politician, member of the National Assembly (1990–1994).