Deaths in March 2001
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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.
March 2001
1
- Joseph Cyril Bamford, 84, British businessman.[1]
- Ray Dorr, 59, American college football player (West Virginia Wesleyan) and coach (Southern Illinois, Kentucky, Texas A&M), ALS.[2]
- Albert Heschong, 82, American television, film and theater production designer (winner of Emmy Award for Art Direction for Requiem for a Heavyweight).[3]
- John Painter, 112, American supercentarian, world's oldest man.[4]
- Orlando Pantera, 33, Cape Verdean singer and composer, acute pancreatitis.
- Hannie Termeulen, 72, Dutch Olympic freestyle swimmer (bronze medal winner in the 1948 Summer Olympics and two-time silver medal winner in the 1952 Summer Olympics).[5]
- Henry Wade, 86, American lawyer and district attorney of Dallas County, Parkinson's disease.
- Colin Webster, 68, Welsh international footballer, cancer.[6]
2
- John Diamond, 48, British Journalist, esophageal cancer.[7]
- George F. D. Duff, 74, Canadian mathematician.
- Louis Faurer, 84, American street photographer.[8]
- Lonnie Glosson, 93, American country musician, songwriter, and radio personality.[9]
- Wallace D. Hayes, 82, American engineer and one of the world's leading theoretical aerodynamicists.[10]
- Mildred Brown Schrumpf, 98, American economist, food educator, and author.
- William Grant Stratton, 87, American politician, governor of Illinois (1953-1961).
3
- Louis Edmonds, 77, American actor (Dark Shadows, All My Children), respiratory failure.[11]
- A. Maitland Emmet, 92, British amateur entomologist and schoolmaster.
- Maija Isola, 73, Finnish designer of printed textiles.
- Gabriel Lisette, 81, Chadian politician.
- Jay T. Robbins, 81, Career officer in the American Air Force.[12]
- Ruhi Sarıalp, 76, Turkish track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.[13]
- Eugene Sledge, 77, American Marine and professor, stomach cancer.[14]
4
- Gerardo Barbero, 39, Argentine chess grandmaster, cancer.
- Jean René Bazaine, 96, French painter, designer of stained glass windows and writer.[15]
- Clyde Coffman, 89, American decathlon athlete and Olympian.[16]
- Glenn Hughes, 50, American singer and member of pop group The Village People, lung cancer.[17]
- Brian Jones, 72, British motorcycle designer.[18]
- Fred Lasswell, 84, American cartoonist (Barney Google and Snuffy Smith).[19]
- Jim Rhodes, 91, American politician (61st and 63rd Governor of the State of Ohio).[20]
- Harold Stassen, 93, American politician (25th Governor of Minnesota).[21]
- Kalle Tuulos, 70, Finnish figure skater and Olympian.[22]
- Shammai Zahn, 80, Polish-born British rabbi.[23]
5
- Rankin Britt, 85, American football player (Texas A&M, Philadelphia Eagles).[24]
- Frans De Mulder, 63, Belgian road racing cyclist.[25]
- Ian McHarg, 80, Scottish architect.[26]
- Leo Thomas, 77, American baseball player.[27]
6
- Mário Covas, 70, Brazilian engineer and politician, bladder cancer.[28]
- Luce d'Eramo, 75, Italian author and critic.[29]
- Nane Germon, 91, French actress.[30]
- Balla Moussa Keïta, Malian actor and comedian, pulmonary emphysema.[31]
- Ngọc Lan, 44, Vietnamese singer-lyricist, multiple sclerosis.
- Portia Nelson, 80, American cabaret singer, songwriter, actress (The Sound of Music, Doctor Dolittle, All My Children), and author, cancer.[32]
- Darrell A. Posey, 53, American anthropologist and biologist, brain tumor.[33]
- Jim Taylor, 83, English footballer.[34]
- Kim Walker, 32, American actress (Heathers, Say Anything..., The Outsiders), brain tumor.
7
- Frankie Carle, 97, American pianist, bandleader and composer ("Sunrise Serenade").[35]
- Inge Edler, 89, Swedish cardiologist.
- Hank Foldberg, 77, American gridiron football player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Hornets) and coach.[36]
- Ebbe Nielsen, 50, Danish entomologist and lepidoptera researcher, heart attack.
- Marian Norkowski, 65, Polish football player.[37]
- Al Palladini, 57, Canadian politician, heart attack.
8
- Frances Adaskin, 100, Canadian pianist.[38]
- Abe Cohen, 67, American gridiron football player.[39]
- Ninette de Valois, 102, British ballet dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet.[40]
- Robert Ealey, 75, American electric blues singer.
- Bent Hansen, 67, Danish Olympic football player (silver medal winner in men's football at the 1960 Summer Olympics).[41]
- Hugh Malone, 57, American surveyor and politician, accidental death.
- Luís Rocha, 63, Brazilian politician and lawyer, diabetes.
- Bazaryn Shirendev, 88, Mongolian historian and politician.
- Edward Winter, 63, American actor (Cabaret, Promises, Promises, M*A*S*H), Parkinson's disease.[42]
9
- Vincent Alo, 96, American mobster (Genovese crime family).
- Spencer Bernard, 83, American politician.
- Soemitro Djojohadikoesoemo, 83, Indonesian economist and politician and the father of Prabowo Subianto, heart failure.[43]
- Henry Jonsson, 88, Swedish Olympic runner (bronze medal winner in men's 500 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[44]
- Hermann Kugelstadt, 89, German screenwriter and film director.
- Poldek Pfefferberg, 87, Polish-American Holocaust survivor.[45]
- Giancarlo Prete, 58, Italian actor, brain cancer.
- Diane Sommerfield, 51, American actress (Days of Our Lives).
- Richard Stone, 47, American composer and songwriter (Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Freakazoid!), pancreatic cancer.[46]
10
- Arturo Alcaraz, 84, Filipino volcanologist.
- Algodão, 76, Brazilian basketball player and Olympic medalist.[47]
- Michael Elkins, 84, American broadcaster and journalist (CBS, Newsweek, BBC).[48]
- Nikos Georgiadis, 77, Greek-British set designer for ballet, stage and film.[49]
- Frank Marsh, 76, American politician.
- Massimo Morsello, 42, Italian fascist and political singer-songwriter, cancer.
- Jorge Recalde, 49, Argentine rally driver, heart attack while racing.
- Vladimir Voroshilov, 70, Soviet and Russian author, producer and television anchorman, heart attack.
- Michael Woodruff, 89, British surgeon and scientist, and a pioneer in organ transplant surgery.[50]
11
- Finn Ferner, 81, Norwegian Olympic sailor (silver medal winner in 6 metre sailing at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[51]
- Rafaela Chacón Nardi, 75, Cuban poet and educator.[52]
- Jørn Ording, 85, Norwegian actor and screenwriter.
- Ted Schmitt, 84, American gridiron football player.
12
- Morton Downey Jr., 67, American television personality (The Morton Downey Jr. Show) and actor (Predator 2), lung cancer.[53]
- Dave Dunaway, 56, American NFL football player.[54]
- Alan Greene, 89, American Olympic diver (bronze medal winner in men's 3 metre springboard diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[55]
- Sai Gwa-Pau, 82, Hong Kong film actor, diabetes.[56]
- Sir Lancelot, 98, Trinidadian-American singer ("Rum and Coca-Cola") and actor.[57]
- Henry Lee Lucas, 64, American convicted killer, natural causes, heart failure.[58]
- Robert Ludlum, 73, American author of spy novels (The Bourne Identity), burn.[59]
- Sidney Dillon Ripley, 87, American ornithologist and conservationist.[60]
- Victor Westhoff, 84, Dutch botanist.[61]
13
- John A. Alonzo, 66, American cinematographer (Chinatown, Scarface, Norma Rae).[62]
- Encarnacion Alzona, 105, Filipino historian, and suffragist.[63]
- Bill Bland, 84, British communist.[64]
- Jean Bretonnière, 76, French actor and singer.[65]
- Vincent Dantzer, 77, Canadian politician (member of the House of Commons of Canada, mayor of Edmonton, Alberta), heart attack.[66]
- Walter Dukes, 70, American professional basketball player (New York Knicks, Minneapolis Lakers, Detroit Pistons).[67]
- Benny Martin, 72, American bluegrass fiddler.
- Cord Meyer, 80, American Central Intelligence Agency official, lymphoma.[68]
- Cranley Onslow, 74, British politician.[69]
- Antonia Palacios, 96, Venezuelan poet, novelist and essayist.
- Norman Rodway, 72, Irish actor (Royal Shakespeare Company).[70]
- Jutta Rüdiger, 90, German psychologist and head of the Nazi Party League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Mädel) during World War II.
14
- Rosine Deréan, 91, French actress.[71]
- Anne George, 73, American author and poet, complications during heart surgery.
- Lawrence Clark Powell, 94, American librarian, literary critic, and author.[72]
- Paul Rémy, 78, French tennis player.[73]
- Della Sehorn, 73, American competition swimmer and Olympian.[74]
15
- Gaetano Cozzi, 78, Italian historian.[75]
- Durward Gorham Hall, 90, American politician (U.S. Representative for Missouri's 7th congressional district from 1961 to 1973).[76]
- Ryszard Koncewicz, 89, Polish soccer player and coach.[77]
- Henrik Schildt, 86, Finnish-Swedish film actor.[78]
- Ann Sothern, 92, American actress (The Ann Sothern Show, Maisie, The Whales of August), stroke.[79]
16
- Johannes Benzing, 88, German nazi diplomat and linguist during World War II.[80]
- Otfried Deubner, 92, German classical archaeologist and diplomat.
- Juliette Huot, 89, Canadian actress (The Plouffe Family, 14, rue de Galais, Amanita Pestilens, The Luck of Ginger Coffey), cancer.[81]
- Norma MacMillan, 79, Canadian cartoon voice actress (The New Casper Cartoon Show, The Gumby Show, Davey and Goliath).[82]
- Isao Okawa, 74, Japanese businessman and chairman of Sega, heart disease.[83]
- Maria von Tasnady, 89, Hungarian singer and stage and film actress.[84]
- Bob Wollek, 57, French race car driver, bicycle accident.[85]
17
- Michiyo Aratama, 71, Japanese actress, heart attack.[86]
- Ingrid Borthen, 87, Norwegian-Swedish stage and film actress.
- Arthur Covington, 87, Canadian physicist and radio astronomer.[87]
- Viktor Krivulin, 56, Russian poet, novelist and essayist.[88]
- Maynard Mack, 91, American literary critic and English professor.[89]
- Sherwin Rosen, 62, American labor economist.[90]
- Anthony Storr, 80, English psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author.[91]
- Ralph Thomas, 85, English film director.[92]
- Zinaida Voronina, 53, Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion.[93]
18
- Vasily Abaev, 100, Ethnically Ossetian Soviet linguist specializing in Iranian.[94]
- John Ardoin, 66, American music critic and author.[95]
- Teófilo Borunda, 89, Mexican politician.
- John Phillips, 65, American singer, promoter and co-founder of The Mamas & the Papas, heart failure.[96]
- Dirk Polder, 81, Dutch physicist.[97]
- Gyula Tóth, 73, Hungarian wrestler.[98]
19
- Gordon Brown, 53, Scottish rugby union player, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[99]
- Boris Gregorka, 94, Yugoslavian Olympic gymnast (bronze medal winner at the 1928 Summer Olympics, 1936 Summer Olympics).[100]
- Charles K. Johnson, 76, American flat-earther (President of the International Flat Earth Research Society).[101]
- Walter Ian Harewood Johnston, 71, Australian pioneer of reproductive medicine, laryngeal cancer.[102]
- Herbie Jones, 75, American jazz trumpeter and arranger.[103]
- Jacob Kainen, 91, American painter and printmaker.[104]
- Norman Mitchell, 82, English actor (It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Oliver!, Beryl's Lot).[105]
20
- Luis Alvarado, 52, Puerto Rican baseball player, heart attack.[106]
- Jay Cameron, 72, American jazz musician.
- Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes, 81, British author, bronchial pneumonia.[107]
- Doreen Gorsky, 88, British politician, feminist and television producer and executive (BBC Television).[108]
- John J. Hennessey, 79, United States Army general, stroke.
- Frank Reynolds, 83, British and English field hockey player and Olympian.[109]
- Ilie Verdeț, 75, Romanian communist politician, heart attack.[110]
21
- Dora Alonso, 90, Cuban journalist and writer.
- Maurice Arreckx, 83, French politician, cancer.[111]
- Claus Bork Hansen, 37, Danish organized crime figure, shot.
- Virgil Hnat, 65, Romanian handball player and coach, heart failure.
- Bill Johansen, 72, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).[112]
- Jeong Ju-yung, 85, South Korean entrepreneur, businessman and founder of the Hyundai Group, pneumonia.[113]
- Wim van der Kroft, 84, Dutch canoeist and Olympic medalist.[114]
- Billy Ray Smith, Sr., 66, American football player.[115]
- Anthony Steel, 80, British actor and singer (The Wooden Horse, Malta Story, West of Zanzibar, Checkpoint), heart failure.[116]
- Joe Winkler, 79, American gridiron football player.[117]
22
- Stepas Butautas, 75, Lithuanian basketball player.[118]
- Sabiha Gökçen, 88, Turkish female aviator and the first female combat pilot of the world.[119]
- William Hanna, 90, American animator (Tom & Jerry, The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo), co-founder of Hanna-Barbera, throat cancer.[120]
- Newt Kimball, 85, American baseball player.[121]
- Barry Maxwell, 12th Baron Farnham, 69, British aristocrat.[122]
- Rolf Birger Pedersen, 61, Norwegian footballer and football coach.[123]
- Edward Samuel Smith, 81, American federal judge.[124]
- Toby Wing, 85, American actress and pin-up star (Palmy Days, True Confession).[125]
23
- Anthony Bevins, 58, British journalist, pneumonia.[126]
- Sully Boyar, 77, American actor (Dog Day Afternoon, Car Wash, Fort Apache, The Bronx, Prizzi's Honor).[127]
- Louis Dudek, 83, Canadian poet, academic, and publisher.[128]
- Rowland Evans, 79, American journalist and television host (Evans, Novak, Hunt, & Shields), esophageal cancer.[129]
- Arthur D. Hasler, 93, American ecologist, known for explaining salmon's homing instinct.[130]
- Willie Horne, 79, British rugby league player.
- Margaret Ursula Jones, 84, British archaeologist, known for directing excavations at Mucking, Essex.[131]
- Robert Laxalt, Basque-American writer.[132]
- David McTaggart, 68, Canadian environmentalist and co-founder of Greenpeace International, car accident.
- Karlis Ozols, 88, Latvian SS officer during World War II and chess champion.
- Mischa Richter, 91, American cartoonist and illustrator.[133]
24
- Debabrata Basu, 76, Indian statistician.[134]
- Boris Berlin, 93, Russian-Canadian pianist, teacher and composer.[135]
- N. G. L. Hammond, 93, British classical scholar.[136]
- Tambi Larsen, 86, Danish-American set designer.
- Kazuyoshi Oimatsu, 89, Japanese figure skater, coach and Olympian.[137]
- Karl Schönböck, 92, Austrian actor, stroke.
- Brian Trubshaw, 77, British test pilot (Concorde).[138]
- Muriel Young, 77, British television announcer, presenter and producer.[139]
- Birgit Åkesson, 93, Swedish choreographer, dancer and dance researcher.
25
- Dominick Basso, 63, American mobster (Chicago Outfit) and bookmaker.
- Terry C. Johnston, 54, American writer of the Old West, colorectal cancer.[140]
- Larry Lansburgh, 89, American producer, director, and screenwriter.
- Tiger Prabhakar, 53, Indian film actor, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
- Mattheus Pronk, 53, Dutch racing cyclist.[141]
- Roy Staley, 85, American hurdler.[142]
26
- Mary Grace Baloyo, 27, Filipino military pilot, plane crash.[143]
- Michael Cocks, 71, British politician.[144]
- Brenda Helser, 76, American Olympic swimmer (gold medal winner in women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle swimming relay at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[145]
- Llazar Siliqi, 77, Albanian poet.
- Piotr Sobociński, 43, Polish cinematographer (Three Colours: Red, Ransom, Marvin's Room), heart attack.
- Bill Yates, 79, American cartoonist and comic strip editor, complications from pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease.[146]
27
- Sir Kenneth Alexander, 79, Scottish economist.[147]
- Anthony Dexter, 88, American actor (Valentino, Captain John Smith and Pocahontas, The Black Pirates, The Story of Mankind), stroke.[148]
- Robert Lee Massie, 59, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[149]
- Boris Rauschenbach, 86, Soviet physicist and rocket engineer.
- Giorgio Zuccoli, 43, Italian yacht racer and Olympian.[150]
- Tereza Štadler, 64, Serbian and Yugoslav chess player.
28
- Jim Benton, 84, American football player, cancer.[151]
- George Connor, 94, American racecar driver.
- Moe Koffman, 72, Canadian flautist and saxophonist, cancer.[152]
- Constantin von Liechtenstein, 89, Liechtenstein prince and alpine skier.
- Lillian Palmer, 87, Canadian athlete and Olympic silver medalist.[153]
- Vulo Radev, 78, Bulgarian film director, writer, and cinematographer.[154]
- Jørgen Skov, 75, Danish cinematographer.
- James Warren, 88, American film actor and artist.
29
- Edward Frederick Anderson, 69, American botanist.
- Malani Bulathsinhala, 51, Sri Lankan singer.
- Gordon Hahn, 81, American politician (Los Angeles City Council, California State Assembly).[155]
- Rolando Hernández, 86, Mexican professional wrestler and wrestling trainer, heart attack.
- Helge Ingstad, 101, Norwegian writer and explorer, and discoverer of a North American Viking landing site.[156]
- John Lewis, 80, American jazz pianist (Modern Jazz Quartet), cancer.[157]
- Hollis Sigler, 53, American artist and painter, breast cancer.[158]
- Norman Sisisky, 73, American politician, lung cancer.[159]
- Kōji Yamamoto, 48, Japanese basketball player and Olympian.[160]
30
- Fatiu Ademola Akesode, 61, Nigerian professor of paediatrics.
- Cyrus Herzl Gordon, 92, American scholar.[161]
- Jeffrey Mass, 60, American academic, historian, author and japanologist.[162]
- George Mutch, 88, Scottish football player.[163]
31
- Jean-Marc Bory, 67, Swiss actor.[164]
- Brian Cole, 22, American baseball player.
- Diego García, 39, Spanish long-distance runner and Olympian, heart attack.[165]
- Edward Jewesbury, 83, English actor (Henry V, Crown Court, Dungeons & Dragons).
- Naum Meiman, 88, Soviet mathematician, and dissident.
- David Rocastle, 33, English professional footballer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.[166]
- Clifford Shull, 85, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist.[167]
- Colette Thomas, 72, French swimmer and Olympian.[168]
- Nakamura Utaemon VI, 84, Japanese kabuki performer.
- Arthur Geoffrey Walker, 91, British mathematician.[169]
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