Deaths in June 2001

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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

 * Peter Corr, 77, Irish footballer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Nkosi Johnson, 12, South African AIDS awareness campaigner, AIDS.
 * Hank Ketcham, 81, American cartoonist (Dennis the Menace), prostate cancer.
 * Abe Silverstein, 92, American aerospace engineer.


 * Victims of the Nepalese royal massacre
 * King Birendra, 55, King of Nepal
 * Queen Aishwarya, 51, Queen of Nepal
 * Prince Nirajan, 22, son of Birendra and Aishwarya
 * Princess Shruti, 24, daughter of Birendra and Aishwarya
 * Prince Dhirendra, 51, brother of King Birendra
 * Princess Shanti, 60, sister of King Birendra
 * Princess Sharada, 59, sister of King Birendra
 * Princess Jayanti, 54, cousin of King Birendra

2

 * Jim Bragan, 72, American baseball player, manager, and scout.
 * Imogene Coca, 92, American actress (Your Show of Shows), Alzheimer's disease.
 * John T. Fesperman, 76, American conductor, organist and author.
 * Kenneth Hayr, 66, British air marshal.
 * Joey Maxim, 79, American light heavyweight boxing champion.
 * Viktor Popkov, 54, Russian dissident, human rights activist and journalist, shot.
 * Pilar Seurat, 62, Filipino American film and television actress, lung cancer.
 * Frank Stagg, 89, American Southern Baptist theologian and author.
 * Adolf Thiel, 86, Austrian-German rocket scientist.
 * Gene Woodling, 78, American baseball player.

3

 * Humayun Abdulali, 87, Indian ornithologist and biologist.
 * Nicholas Albery, 52, British social inventor and author, car accident.
 * J. C. Furnas, 95, American writer and social historian.
 * Otto Hemele, 75, Czech football player.
 * Jamake Highwater, 70, American writer and journalist, heart attack.
 * Andrea Prader, 81, Swiss scientist, physician, and pediatric endocrinologist.
 * Anthony Quinn, 86, Mexican-American actor (The Guns of Navarone, Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia), Oscar winner (1953, 1957), pneumonia.
 * Friedl Rinder, 95, German chess master.
 * Nino Valdez, 76, Cuban heavyweight boxing champion.

4

 * Simone Benmussa, 69, French-Algerian author and theatre director, cancer.
 * John Corriden, 83, American baseball player.
 * John Hartford, 63, American musician and composer ("Gentle on My Mind"), lymphoma.
 * Chenjerai Hunzvi, 51, Zimbabwean politician, AIDS.
 * Dinos Iliopoulos, 85, Greek actor.
 * Lu Jiaxi, 85, Chinese physical chemist.
 * Felicitas Kukuck, 86, German music educator and composer of opera and other works.
 * Dipendra of Nepal, King of Nepal, 29, suicide.
 * Darshan Ranganathan, 60, Indian organic chemist, breast cancer.
 * Ruth Sanger, 82, Australian immunogeneticist, haematologist and serologist.
 * Horst Tüller, 70, German road and track cyclist.
 * Joan Vohs, 73, American model and actress (Fort Ti, Fireside Theater, Maverick, Perry Mason, Family Affair).

5

 * Pedro Laín Entralgo, 93, Spanish medical historian.
 * Dennis Gillespie, 65, Scottish footballer.
 * Aaron Green, 84, American architect.
 * Howard Earl Johnston, 72, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons.
 * L. Fletcher Prouty, 84, American Chief of Special Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

6

 * Alfonso Brescia, 71, Italian film director.
 * Marie Brémont, 115, French supercentenarian and the oldest recognized person in the world.
 * José Manuel Castañón, 81, Spanish writer.
 * Ford Garrison, 85, American baseball player.
 * Douglas Lilburn, 85, New Zealand composer.
 * Ami Priyono, 61, Indonesian film director and actor.
 * Suzanne Schiffman, 71, French film director and screenwriter, cancer.
 * Lyubov Sokolova, 79, Soviet/Russian film actress, heart attack.

7

 * Franco Balducci, 78, Italian film actor.
 * Víctor Paz Estenssoro, 93, Bolivian politician and four-term President of Bolivia.
 * Carole Fredericks, 49, American singer, heart attack.
 * Ken Green, 77, English footballer.
 * Boris Lavrenko, 81, Russian painter.
 * Betty Neels, 91, British novelist.
 * Charles Templeton, 85, Canadian cartoonist, broadcaster and writer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Horace Walker, 64, American NBA Basketball player.

8

 * Sam Boyd, 86, American football player and coach.
 * Alex de Renzy, 65, American director and producer of pornographic movies, cerebrovascular disease.
 * Lucien Lauk, 89, French racing cyclist.
 * Duncan MacIntyre, 85, New Zealand politician.
 * Kotayya Pratyagatma, 75, Indian film journalist, director and producer.
 * Dennis Puleston, 95, British-American environmentalist, adventurer and designer.
 * Nathaniel Rochester, 82, American computer scientist.
 * Don Roper, 78, English footballer.
 * Harry Watson, 79, American child actor and television journalism pioneer.

9

 * Ronnie Allen, 72, English football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Malcolm Cooper, 53, British sport shooter, cancer.
 * Richard T. Hanna, 87, American politician (U.S. Representative for California's 34th congressional district), (Koreagate).
 * Savva Kulish, 64, Soviet film director and screenwriter, cerebrovascular disease.
 * Yaltah Menuhin, 79, American-British pianist, artist and poet.
 * Deirdre O'Connell, 61, Irish American actress, singer, and theatre director, cancer.
 * Branko Pleša, 75, Serbian actor and theatre director.

10

 * Joyce King, 80, Australian sprinter and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Jochen Liedtke, 48, German computer scientist.
 * John McKay, 77, American football assistant coach (Oregon Ducks) and head coach (USC Trojans, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), diabetes.
 * Mike Mentzer, 49, American bodybuilder, complications from IgA nephropathy.
 * Leila Pahlavi, 31, Iranian Princess and daughter of the Shah of Iran, suicide.
 * Alexander Zuyev, 39, Soviet pilot who defected to the US, plane crash.

11

 * Lincoln Constance, 92, American botanist.
 * Pierre Eyt, 67, French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, cancer.
 * Lou Lombardo, 72, American baseball player.
 * Trevor Madondo, 24, Zimbabwean cricket player, malaria.
 * Timothy McVeigh, 33, American convicted terrorist (Oklahoma City bombing), execution by lethal injection.
 * Amalia Mendoza, 77, Mexican singer ("Échame a mi la culpa", "Amarga navidad"), lung disease.
 * John Elvin Shaffner, 90, Canadian businessman and political figure.

12

 * Carl-Axel Acking, 91, Swedish architect, author and furniture designer.
 * Joseph Brady, 72, Scottish actor.
 * Owen Bush, 79, American television announcer and actor.
 * Peggy Cartwright, 88, Canadian silent film actress.
 * W. D. Davies, 89-90, Welsh congregationalist minister and theologian.
 * Viktor Hamburger, 100, German embryologist.
 * Ray Mentzer, 47, American bodybuilder.
 * Nkem Nwankwo, 65, Nigerian novelist and poet.
 * Jim Seminoff, 78, American basketball player.
 * Joseph W. Twinam, 66, American diplomat.
 * Paula Wiesinger, 94, Italian Olympic alpine skier and mountain climber.
 * Thomas Wilson, 73, Scottish composer.

13

 * Gordon Christie, 86, New Zealand politician.
 * Marcelo Fromer, 39, Brazilian rock musician, traffic accident.
 * Luise Krüger, 86, German athlete and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Makanda Ken McIntyre, 69, American jazz musician and composer.
 * Yoshishige Saitō, 97, Japanese visual artist and art educator.
 * Rajzel Zychlinski, 90, Polish poet.

14

 * Paul Carey, 38, American civil servant, endocrine cancer.
 * Oleg Fedoseyev, 65, Soviet Olympic long jump and triple jump athlete (silver medal winner in men's triple jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics).
 * Miroslav Marcovich, 82, Serbian-American philologist.
 * Gerry Melnyk, 66, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Jay D. Scott, 48, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Horace M. Wade, 85, American Air Force general.

15

 * Henri Alekan, 92, French cinematographer, leukemia.
 * Mikhail Gluzsky, 82, Soviet/Russian actor, heart attack.
 * Leif Kayser, 82, Danish composer and organist.
 * Jay Moriarity, 22, American surfer, drowned.
 * Thomas S. Noonan, 63, American historian and anthropologist, cancer.
 * Marcelino Solis, 70, Mexican baseball player.

16

 * Joe Darion, 84, American musical theatre lyricist (two-time Tony Award winner for Man of La Mancha: Tony Award for Best Musical, Tony Award for Best Original Score).
 * Alessandro Faedo, 87, Italian mathematician and politician.
 * Marta Hillers, 90, German journalist and author.
 * Wally Hood, 75, American baseball player.
 * Sam Jethroe, 84, American baseball player, heart attack.
 * Jay Rabinowitz, 74, American lawyer and jurist, complications of leukemia.
 * Jean-Maurice Simard, 69, Canadian Chartered Accountant and politician.
 * Sava Vuković, 71, Serbian Orthodox bishop.
 * Arthur Wheeler, 85, British motorcyclist.

17

 * Diana Bellamy, 57, American actress (Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad, Outbreak, Popular), cancer.
 * John Broderick, 58, American film director, producer and screenwriter, kidney failure.
 * Donald J. Cram, 82, American chemist and co-winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987, cancer.
 * Ninfa Laurenzo, 77, American restaurateur, bone cancer.
 * Thomas Winning, 76, Scottish Roman Catholic cardinal, heart attack.
 * Mohammad Yunus, 84, Indian diplomat.

18

 * Allan Burdon, 86, Australian politician.
 * Janine Crispin, 89, French film and television actress.
 * René Dumont, 97, French engineer, sociologist, and politician.
 * Dame Rosamund Holland-Martin, 86, British social welfare official and head of the NSPCC.
 * Gao Kelin, 94, Chinese politician.
 * Davorin Popović, 54, Bosnian singer-songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
 * Paolo Emilio Taviani, 88, Italian politician, economist and historian.
 * Karl Friedrich Titho, 90, German SS officer and war criminal during WorldWar II.

19

 * Sargis Baghdasaryan, 77, Soviet Armenian sculptor.
 * Lindsay L. Cooper, 61, Scottish musician.
 * Jerry Cornes, 91, British athlete and Olympic silver medalist.
 * William Austin Forsyth, 83, Canadian politician.
 * Juan Garza, 44, American murderer and drug trafficker, execution by lethal injection.
 * John Heyer, 84, Australian documentary filmmaker (The Back of Beyond).
 * Ludwig Hörmann, 82, German cyclist.
 * Tom Keane, 74, American gridiron football player.
 * Robert Klippel, 81, Australian sculptor.
 * Sergio Litvak, 100, Chilean football goalkeeper.
 * Col Maxwell, 83, Australian rugby league player.
 * Lee Mishkin, 74, American animator and director, heart failure.
 * Stanley Mosk, 88, American jurist, politician, and attorney.
 * Brian O'Shaughnessy, 70, British-South African film actor.
 * C. R. Pattabhiraman, 94, Indian lawyer and politician.
 * Jandhyala Subramanya Sastry, 50, Indian screenwriter, director and actor, heart attack.
 * David Sylvester, 76, British art critic.
 * Eddie Vartan, 63, French musician, bandleader, arranger, and record producer, cerebral hemorrhage.

20

 * Ernest Bour, 88, French conductor.
 * Geoff Brown, 77, Australian tennis player.
 * Angela Browne, 63, British actress (Ghost Squad, The Avengers, The Prisoner, Upstairs, Downstairs, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes).
 * Tom Burns, 88, English sociologist and author.
 * Bob Keegan, 80, American baseball player.
 * Bert Kramer, 66, American actor (Kojak, The Bionic Woman, The Rockford Files, Dallas, Dynasty, Matlock).
 * Patrick F. McDonough, Irish-American police officer, attorney, and politician.
 * Zygmunt Pawlas, 70, Polish fencer and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Massimo Pirri, 55, Italian film director and screenwriter.
 * Frederick Russell, 77, Canadian businessman and lieutenant governor of Newfoundland.

21

 * John Lee Hooker, 83, American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist ("Boogie Chillen'", "Boom Boom", "Dimples").
 * Soad Hosny, 58, Egyptian actress ("Cinderella of Egyptian cinema"), fall.
 * Károly Janza, 87, Hungarian military officer and politician.
 * François Lesure, 78, French librarian and musicologist.
 * K. V. Mahadevan, 83, Indian singer-songwriter, music producer, and musician.
 * Carroll O'Connor, 76, American actor (All in the Family, In the Heat of the Night, Cleopatra), five-time Emmy winner, heart attack.
 * Vernon Sewell, 97, British film director.

22

 * Mario Agüero, 77, Cuban basketball player.
 * Arbi Barayev, 27, Chechen warlord and terrorist, killed in action.
 * Luis Carniglia, 83, Argentine footballer and manager.
 * George Evans, 81, American comic book and comic strip cartoonist and illustrator.
 * John Herbert, 74, Canadian playwright (Fortune and Men's Eyes).
 * Manuel Ledesma, 80, Chilean basketball player.
 * Wendell L. Minckley, 65, American ichthyologist and academic.
 * George Westwell, 70, Maltese anglican priest.
 * Lika Yanko, 73, Bulgarian artist, pneumonia.

23

 * Odd Abrahamsen, 77, Norwegian poet.
 * Corinne Calvet, 76, French actress (What Price Glory?, Sailor Beware, So This Is Paris, On the Riviera).
 * Panteley Dimitrov, 60, Bulgarian footballer.
 * Yvonne Dionne, 67, Canadian quintuplet (first known quintuplets to have survived their infancy).

24

 * Muhammad Bashir, 66, Pakistani wrestler.
 * Antonio Ber Ciani, 93, Argentine actor and film director.
 * Robert M. McKinney, 90, American news editor and diplomat.
 * Avadhanam Sita Raman, 82, Indian writer and journalist.
 * Nicola Ann Raphael, 15, Scottish schoolgirl, suicide.
 * Milton Santos, 75, Brazilian geographer, prostate cancer.
 * William H. Sewell, 91, American sociologist.

25

 * Hans Dürst, 79, Swiss ice hockey player.
 * Hasan Gemici, 74, Turkish sports wrestler and trainer and Olympic champion.
 * Gabriel Hernández, 27, Dominican Olympic boxer (light heavyweight boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics), suicide.
 * Kurt Hoffmann, 90, German film director and son of Carl Hoffmann.
 * Frederick C. Langone, American politician.
 * John LeRoy, 26, American baseball player, brain aneurysm.
 * George Senesky, 79, American basketball player and coach, cancer.
 * Charles Sheldon Whitehouse, 79, American career diplomat, cancer.

26

 * Paul Berry, 40, American animator (The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, Monkeybone), brain tumor.
 * William Bryant, 77, American character actor (Escape from San Quentin, Experiment in Terror, How to Murder Your Wife, The Great Race).
 * Gina Cigna, 101, French-Italian dramatic soprano.
 * Günter Kaslowski, 66, German Olympic cyclist.
 * Margaret Kilgallen, 33, American visual artist, complications from breast cancer.
 * Louis Klemantaski, 89, British photographer.
 * Gopala Ramanujam, 86, Indian politician.
 * Lalla Romano, 94, Italian novelist, poet, artist and journalist.
 * Robert Smith, 88, American actor.
 * Soccer, 13, American dog actor.
 * Annika Tammela, 21, Estonian football player, bicycle accident.

27

 * Sidney Buckwold, 84, Canadian politician and businessman.
 * Hal Goldman, 81, American screenwriter, three Primetime Emmy Awards: The Jack Benny Program (1959, 1960), An Evening with Carol Channing (1966).
 * Darrell Huff, 86, American statistician.
 * Tove Jansson, 86, Finnish author, painter and comic strip artist, lung cancer.
 * Jack Lemmon, 76, American actor (The Apartment, Some Like It Hot, Save the Tiger), Oscar winner (1956, 1974), bladder and colorectal cancer.
 * Michael Moynihan, 84, Irish Labour Party politician.
 * Chico O'Farrill, 79, Cuban composer, arranger, and conductor.
 * Udo Proksch, 67, Austrian industrialist and criminal, complications during heart surgery.
 * Joan Sims, 71, British actress (Carry On Nurse, Carry On Cleo, Carry On Camping, On the Up, As Time Goes By), gastrointestinal system disease.
 * Jukka Wuolio, 74, Finnish ice hockey player.

28

 * Mortimer Jerome Adler, 98, American philosopher and author.
 * Ira Eisenstein, 94, American rabbi.
 * Jim Ellis, 45, American computer scientist (Usenet), lymphoma.
 * David Freeman, 80, American badminton player (multi-year U.S. Champion).
 * Herbert McCabe, 74, English-Irish Dominican priest, theologian and philosopher.
 * Thomas Ernst Josef Wiedemann, 51, German-British historian, cancer.

29

 * Mary Barnes, 86, English artist and writer.
 * Manuel Echauri, 86, Mexican artist.
 * Maurice Estève, 97, French painter.
 * Maximos V Hakim, 93, Egyptian patriarch.
 * Minoru Kawabata, 90, Japanese artist.
 * Karen Lamm, 49, American film actress and producer, heart failure.
 * Silvio Oddi, 90, Italian cardinal and Vatican diplomat.
 * Thomas E. Sparks, 89, American politician.

30

 * Stephen Ailes, 89, American lawyer and government official, stroke.
 * Chet Atkins, 77, American country musician (14 Grammy Awards, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame), colorectal cancer.
 * Giancarlo Brusati, 91, Italian fencer and Olympic champion.
 * Joe Fagan, 80, English football manager, cancer.
 * Joe Henderson, 64, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
 * Lou Kusserow, 73, Canadian football player, complications from prostate cancer.