Deaths in October 2001

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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

 * Guy Beaulne, 79, French-Canadian actor and theatre director.
 * Lee Cronbach, 85, American educational psychologist.
 * Surendranath Dwivedy, 88, Indian politician, journalist and social worker.
 * Kenny Greene, 32, American singer-songwriter, AIDS.
 * Gregory Hemingway, 69, American physician and son of Ernest Hemingway, hypertension and cardiovascular disease.
 * Mickey Trotman, 26, Trinidad and Tobago football player, car crash.

2

 * Manny Albam, 79, American jazz baritone saxophone player, composer, and producer.
 * Franz Biebl, 95, German classical music composer.
 * Donald J. Cohen, 61, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, melanoma.
 * Fernando Mendes, 55, Portuguese cyclist, traffic accident.

3

 * Alfie Almario, 38, Filipino basketball player, heart attack.
 * Pat Ast, 59, American actress and model.
 * Ricky Belmonte, 54, Filipino actor, stroke.
 * Kostas Chatzichristos, 80, Greek actor, cancer.
 * Homer Elias, 46, American gridiron football player (Detroit Lions), heart attack.
 * Alessandro Fersen, 89, Polish-Italian dramatist, actor, and theater director.
 * Phillip Goldson, 78, Belizean newspaper editor, activist and politician.
 * Tullio Pane, 71, Italian singer.
 * Gregorio Peralta, 66, Argentine boxer.

4

 * Blaise Alexander, 25, American race car driver, racing crash.
 * Irmgard Farden Aluli, 90, Hawaiian composer.
 * George Claydon, 68, British actor and mascot of the England Football Team in 1966.
 * John Collins, 88, American jazz guitarist, cancer.
 * Arthur Daniels, 79, Welsh rugby league player.
 * Al Ham, 76, American composer and jingle writer.
 * Antonín Máša, 66, Czech film director and screenwriter.
 * Ahron Soloveichik, 84, American torah scholar and rabbi.

5

 * Peter Burge, 69, Australian cricketer.
 * Jim Cain, 74, American gridiron football player.
 * Clyde L. Choate, 81, American politician and decorated soldier.
 * Brian Edgar, 65, British rugby league player.
 * Woody Jensen, 94, American baseball player.
 * Jan Lenica, 73, Polish graphic designer and cartoonist.
 * Mike Mansfield, 98, American politician and diplomat (U.S. Representative from Montana, U.S. Senator from Montana, Senate Majority Leader).
 * Egbert van 't Oever, 74, Dutch speed skater, colon cancer.
 * Emilie Schindler, 93, German wife of Oskar Schindler who helped save the lives of 1,200 Jews during World War II.
 * Zoltán Székely, 97, Hungarian violinist and composer.

6

 * Jacqueline Babbin, 75, American television and theatre writer and producer, cancer.
 * Miguel del Toro, 29, Mexican baseball player, traffic collision.
 * Axel Düberg, 73, Swedish film actor.
 * Arne Harris, 67, American television producer-director (WGN-TV broadcasts of Chicago Cubs).
 * Yuriy Meshcheryakov, 55, Soviet and Ukrainian animator.
 * Milton A. Rothman, 81, American nuclear physicist, complications due to diabetes.

7

 * Chris Adams, 46, English wrestler and judoka, brother of Olympic Judo star Neil Adams, shot.
 * Gaby Basset, 99, French film actress.
 * Roger Gaudry, 87, Canadian chemist, businessman, and university rector.
 * Alf Gover, 93, English test cricketer.
 * Herblock, 91, American editorial cartoonist (The Washington Post).
 * Stewart Imlach, 69, Scottish football player.
 * Jimmie Logsdon, 79, American country and rockabilly singer, songwriter and radio DJ.
 * Reg Matthews, 68, English football player.
 * Polly Rowles, 87, American actress (The Defenders, Sweet Liberty, Power).

8

 * Mongo Beti, 69, Cameroonian writer.
 * Alfred Fyodorov, 66, Soviet football player and coach.
 * Kenneth L. Hale, 67, American linguist.
 * Caryl Parker Haskins, 93, American scientist, author, inventor, philanthropist, and entomologist.
 * Seymour Heller, 87, American talent agent and manager (represented Liberace).
 * Javed Iqbal, 45, Pakistani serial killer, intoxication.
 * Dmitry Polyansky, 83, Soviet statesman.
 * Sankaradi, 77, Indian actor.
 * Angelo Varetto, 90, Italian cyclist.

9

 * Roberto de Oliveira Campos, 84, Brazilian economist, writer, diplomat, and politician, heart attack.
 * Dagmar, 79, American actress, model, and television personality.
 * Vladimir Danilevich, 77, Soviet and Russian animator.
 * Norris Houghton, 91, American theatre manager and producer.
 * Herbert Ross, 74, American film director (The Turning Point, Footloose) and choreographer (Anyone Can Whistle), heart failure.
 * William A. Ryan, 82, American politician.
 * Károly Simonyi, 84, Hungarian physicist and writer.
 * Judita Čeřovská, 72, Czech pop and chanson singer.

10

 * Pelegrino Adelmo Begliomini, 86, Brazilian football player.
 * Eddie Futch, 90, American boxing trainer (Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes, Trevor Berbick).
 * Cal Gardner, 76, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins).
 * Dave Gerard, 65, American baseball player.
 * Evgeni Kharadze, 93, Georgian astronomer, public figure and statesman.
 * Vasily Mishin, 84, Soviet rocket designer.
 * Luis Antonio García Navarro, 60, Spanish conductor (music director of the Teatro Real).
 * Samuel Ndhlovu, 64, Zambian footballer and coach.
 * Anna Amelia Obermeyer, 94, South African botanist.
 * Chet Ostrowski, 71, American gridiron football player.

11

 * Krzysztof Chamiec, 71, Polish actor, lung cancer.
 * Franco Committeri, 77, Italian film producer.
 * Nada Mamula, 74, Yugoslavian singer.
 * Billy Maxted, 84, American jazz pianist.
 * Beni Montresor, 75, Italian artist, illustrator and set designer, pancreatic cancer.

12

 * Richard Buckle, 85, British ballet critic.
 * Ruth Goetz, 89, American playwright (The Heiress) and screenwriter.
 * Quintin Hogg, 94, British lawyer and politician.
 * John T. Robinson, 78, South African palaeontologist.
 * Eddie Rodriguez, 69, Filipino film actor and director, heart attack.
 * Branko Stinčić, 78, Croatian football player.
 * Witold Szalonek, 74, Polish composer.
 * Otis Young, 69, American actor (The Outcasts, The Last Detail), stroke.
 * Hikmet Şimşek, Turkish orchestra conductor.

13

 * José Capmany, 40, Costa Rican songwriter and guitarist, traffic collision.
 * Jean Daninos, 94, Greek-French constructor of luxury cars Facel Vega.
 * Peter Doyle, 52, Australian pop singer (The New Seekers), esophageal cancer.
 * Ubi Dwyer, 68, Irish anarchist, complications following bicycle accident.
 * Fritz Fromm, 88, German Olympic field handball player (gold medal winner of the men's team handball competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
 * B. L. Graham, 87, American college basketball player and coach (Ole Miss).
 * Glenn Johnson, 79, American gridiron football player (New York Yankees, Green Bay Packers, Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
 * Raoul Kraushaar, 93, American composer.
 * David Neil MacKenzie, 75, British linguist.
 * Jal Minocher Mehta, 100, Indian surgeon, social worker and philanthropist.
 * Pal Mirashi, 75, Albanian football player.
 * Mwanza Mukombo, 55, Congolese football player.
 * Olga Arsenievna Oleinik, 76, Soviet and Russian mathematician.

14

 * Giorgio Cavedon, 70, Italian publisher, cartoonist and screenwriter.
 * Willam Christensen, 99, American ballet dancer, choreographer and founder of the San Francisco Ballet and Ballet West in Salt Lake City, Utah.
 * David V. Erdman, 89, American literary critic, editor, and academic..
 * Eugene Grebenik, 82, British academic and demographer.
 * Vernon Harrison, 89, British photographer and parapsychologist.
 * David Lewis, 60, American philosopher.
 * Bert Rose, 82, American gridiron football player.
 * Ben Sankey, 94, American baseball player.
 * Joseph Allen Stein, 89, American architect.

15

 * Jamie Cann, 55, British Labour Party politician, liver disease.
 * Zhang Xueliang, 100, Chinese warlord and military figure, pneumonia.
 * Ralph Levy, 80, American producer, film and television director.
 * Anne Ridler, 89, British poet and editor.
 * Robert Rutledge, 53, American sound engineer (Back to the Future, Star Wars, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Oscar winner (1986), heart attack.
 * Janet Shaw, 82, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Bent Tomtum, 52, Norwegian ski jumper and Olympian.

16

 * Jean Danet, 77, French actor.
 * Gotthold Gloger, 77, German writer and painter.
 * Etta Jones, 72, American jazz singer, cancer.
 * Yuri Ozerov, 80, Soviet film director and screenwriter.
 * Reid Smith, 52, American film and television actor.

17

 * Frank Anscombe, 83, English statistician.
 * Frances Claudet, 90, Canadian Olympic pair skater.
 * Jay Livingston, 86, American composer (Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Buttons and Bows", "Mona Lisa" and "Que Sera, Sera").
 * Micheline Ostermeyer, 78, French Olympic champion at the 1948 Summer Olympics and concert pianist.
 * Jack Smith, 77, American NASCAR driver, congestive heart failure.
 * Gyula Szilágyi, 78, Hungarian football player.
 * Rehavam Ze'evi, 75, Israeli army general and politician, homicide.

18

 * Ferris Fain, 80, American baseball player, complications from leukemia and diabetes.
 * János Kulka, 80, Hungarian conductor and composer.
 * Ray Lovejoy, 62, British film editor (2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Aliens), heart attack.
 * Dan Nugent, 48, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins), leukemia.
 * A. T. Ummer, 68, Indian music composer.

19

 * Araquem de Melo, 57, Brazilian football player, suicide.
 * Kay Dick, 86, English journalist, novelist and autobiographer.
 * Woody Dumart, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).
 * Yang Jingren, 83, Chinese politician.
 * Leslie Johnston, 81, Scottish football player.
 * Niaz Khan, 84, Pakistani Olympic field hockey player.
 * Jagernath Lachmon, 85, Surinamese politician.
 * Hugh Mulcahy, 88, American baseball player.
 * Joe Murray, 80, American baseball player.
 * Digna Ochoa, 37, Mexican human rights lawyer, homicide.

20

 * Philippe Agostini, 91, French cinematographer, director and screenwriter.
 * Marko Hirsma, 36, Finnish musician, outlaw biker and gangster, shot.
 * Frank Hodgkinson, 82, Australian painter and graphic artist.
 * Patricia Locke, 73, Native American educator-activist, heart-failure.
 * Henri Pellizza, 81, French badminton and tennis player.
 * Nebojša Popović, 78, Serbian basketball player and coach.
 * John H. Terry, 76, American lawyer and politician.

21

 * Thomas G. Barnes, 90, American creationist.
 * George Feyer, 92, Hungarian-American cafe pianist and entertainer.
 * William J. Healy, 62, American politician.
 * Bertie Mee, 82, English footballer.
 * John H. Plumb, 90, British historian.
 * David Lowell Rich, 81, American film director and producer.

22

 * Roger Coggio, 67, French actor, film director and screenwriter, cancer.
 * Howard Finster, 84, American artist and baptist minister.
 * Ernest Hilgard, 97, American psychologist and professor at Stanford University.
 * Bill James, 75, New Zealand rower.
 * Samuel Khachikian, 78, Iranian film director, author, and film editor.
 * Norman Lessing, 90, American television screenwriter, playwright, and chess master, Parkinson's disease.
 * Katsuo Nishida, 72, Japanese long-distance runner.
 * Ramakrishna, 62, Indian actor.
 * Jan Glastra van Loon, 81, Dutch politician.
 * Ed Vijent, 38, Dutch football player, stabbed.
 * Georgy Vitsin, 84, Soviet and Russian actor, cardiovascular disease.
 * Diana Van der Vlis, 66, Canadian-American actress, cardiac arrest.

23

 * Ken Aston, 86, British football referee.
 * Thomas N. Downing, 82, American lawyer and politician.
 * Josh Kirby, 72, British artist.
 * Ismat T. Kittani, 72, Iraqi politician.
 * Kenneth P. MacLeod, 78, American politician.
 * Linden Travers, 88, British actress (The Lady Vanishes, No Orchids for Miss Blandish).
 * Stanisław Urbańczyk, 92, Polish linguist and academic.
 * Daniel Wildenstein, 84, French art dealer, historian and owner of thoroughbred race horses.

24

 * Kathleen Ankers, 82, American theatrical and television set and costume designer (Late Night with David Letterman, The Rosie O'Donnell Show).
 * Kim Gardner, 53, English musician (Badger, Ashton, Gardner & Dyke, The Birds, The Creation), cancer.
 * Eugenio Granell, 88, Spanish painter (often described as "the last Spanish surrealist painter").
 * Jaromil Jireš, 65, Czechoslovak filmmaker.
 * Bill Mueller, 80, American baseball player.
 * Seishiro Shimatani, 62, Japanese football player and manager, cirrhosis.
 * Stephen Wurm, 79, Hungarian-Australian linguist.

25

 * Jack Blackwell, 91, English footballer.
 * Alvan Feinstein, 75, American clinician, researcher and an epidemiologist.
 * Marvin Harris, 74, American anthropologist.
 * Richard Kirby, 97, Australian judge and arbitrator.
 * René Philombe, 70, Cameroonian writer, journalist, poet, and playwright.

26

 * Larry Aldrich, 95, American fashion designer and art collector.
 * Maragatham Chandrasekar, 84, Indian politician and Member of Parliament.
 * Soraya Esfandiari-Bakhtiari, 69, queen consort of Iran as wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, stroke.
 * Laszlo Halasz, 96, Hungarian-American music director (New York City Opera).
 * Abdul Haq, 43, Afghan mujahideen commander, executed by the Taliban, homicide.
 * Hüseyin Hilmi Işık, 90, Turkish, Sunni Islamic scholar.
 * Eugene Jackson, 84, American child actor (Our Gang, The Big Town, Shootin' Injuns, Little Annie Rooney, The Addams Family), heart attack.
 * Elizabeth Jennings, 75, English poet.
 * Kris Kovick, 50, California-based writer, cartoonist, and printer, breast cancer.
 * Olga Lehmann, 89, Chilean-British visual artist.
 * John Platts-Mills, 95, British politician and lawyer.
 * Richard Seifert, 90, Swiss-British architect.
 * Gerald B. H. Solomon, 71, American businessman and politician.
 * Barbara Tropp, 53, American orientalist, chef, and food writer, ovarian cancer.
 * Audrey Withers, 96, English journalist.

27

 * Seán Condon, 78, Irish hurler.
 * John P. Roberts, 56, American businessman, promoter of the Woodstock Festival, cancer.
 * Sophie Tatischeff, 55, French film editor and director, lung cancer.
 * Dirk Willem van Krevelen, 86, Dutch chemical engineer.

28

 * Fulvio Balatti, 63, Italian rower.
 * Richard Halsey Best, 91, United States Navy dive bomber pilot during World War II.
 * Grigori Chukhrai, 80, Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter, heart failure.
 * Jallouli Fares, 92, Tunisian politician.
 * Gerard Hengeveld, 90, Dutch pianist, composer and educator.
 * Leonard Melfi, 69, American playwright and actor, congestive heart failure.
 * John Mogg, 88, British army general.
 * Czesław Mordowicz, 82, Polish Holocaust survivor during World War II.

29

 * Angelo Ippolito, 78, Italian-American painter (Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art).
 * Milorad B. Protić, 90, Serbian astronomer.
 * Spike Robinson, 71, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
 * Freddie Silva, 63, Sri Lankan actor, singer.
 * K. P. Ummer, 71, Indian film actor.

30

 * Carlos Alberto Zolim Filho, 79, Brazilian football player and manager.
 * Marga Legal, 93, German actress, traffic collision.
 * Johnny Lucadello, 82, American baseball player.
 * Yoritsune Matsudaira, 94, Japanese composer of contemporary classical music.
 * Maurice Miller, 81, British politician.
 * Jack Scott, 85, New Zealand politician.

31

 * Colin Campbell, 59, Canadian video artist, cancer.
 * Régine Cavagnoud, 31, French Olympic and World Cup alpine ski racer (2001 World Champion in Super G), fall.
 * Yutaka Fujimoto, 50, Japanese Olympic basketball player.
 * Warren Elliot Henry, 92, American physicist.
 * Jenny Laird, 89, British actress.
 * Bill Le Sage, 74, British musician.
 * Angus MacVicar, 93, British author.
 * Vijaya Narasimha, 74, Indian lyricist.
 * Braj Kumar Nehru, 90, Indian diplomat and ambassador.
 * Richard Martin Stern, 86, American novelist.
 * Art Wall, Jr., 77, American golfer (1959 winner of the Masters Tournament).
 * Paul Warnke, 81, American diplomat.