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.
October 2001
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. Gloria Hemingway, 69, American physician and daughter of Ernest Hemingway, hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Mickey Trotman, 26, Trinidad and Tobago football player, traffic collision.
2 Manny Albam, 79, American jazz baritone saxophone player, composer, and producer. Franz Biebl, 95, German classical music composer. Jim Carolane, 73, Australian Olympic sailor (1956). 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, 89, 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. Floyd Robert Gibson, 91, American judge. 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 (Chicago Cardinals, Detroit Lions). Clyde L. Choate, 81, American politician and decorated soldier. Brian Edgar, 65, British rugby league player. Woody Jensen, 94, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates). 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 and Olympian (1952, 1956), colon cancer. Emilie Schindler, 93, German wife of Oskar Schindler who helped save the lives of 1,200 Jews during World War II. Ollie Shoaff, 77, American basketball player. 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 (San Francisco Giants), 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. Lenore Carrero Nesbitt, 69, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida). 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). Kurt Svanberg, 88, Swedish Olympic ice hockey player (1948). Joann Lee Tiesler, 30, American murder victim. Caroline Verbraecken-De Loose, 76, Belgian Olympic gymnast (1948).
8 Mongo Beti, 69, Cameroonian writer. Osman Coşgül, 73, Turkish Olympic long-distance runner (1952). 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. Nel Zwier, 65, Dutch high jumper and Olympian (1960).
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. Shirley Doty, 71, American politician. Norris Houghton, 91, American theatre manager and producer. Pietro Righetti, 102, Italian racing cyclist. Herbert Ross, 74, American film director (The Turning Point, Footloose) and choreographer (Anyone Can Whistle), heart failure. William A. Ryan, 82, American politician.The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Ryan Károly Simonyi, 84, Hungarian physicist and writer. Judita Čeřovská, 72, Czech pop and chanson singer.
10 Begliomini, 86, Brazilian footballer. 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 (Chicago Cubs). 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 (Washington Redskins). Gabriele Wülker, 90, German social scientist and civil servant.Gabriele Wülker
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. Paul E. Riley, 59, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois).
12 Richard Buckle, 85, British ballet critic. Ruth Goetz, 89, American playwright (The Heiress) and screenwriter. Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, 94, British lawyer and politician. John T. Robinson, 78, South African palaeontologist. Eddie Rodriguez, 69, Filipino film actor and director, heart attack. Hans Saksvik, 75, Norwegian footballer. 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 (1936). 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, 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. Edgard Derouet, 90, French painter. 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 football executive. Ben Sankey, 94, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates). 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.Robert Rutledge Janet Shaw, 82, American actress, Alzheimer's disease. Bent Tomtum, 52, Norwegian ski jumper and Olympian (1968).
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 (1932). 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 (1948), 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, shot.
18 Ferris Fain, 80, American baseball player, complications from leukemia and diabetes. János Kulka, 71, 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 Charlie Bryant, 60, American footballer player (St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Falcons). 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 (1948, 1952). Jagernath Lachmon, 85, Surinamese politician. Hugh Mulcahy, 88, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates). Joe Murray, 80, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). Digna Ochoa, 37, Mexican human rights lawyer, shot. Franz Raule, 80, Austrian Olympic field hockey player (1948, 1952).
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. Mieczysław Kasprzycki, 90, Polish ice hockey player, coach, and Olympian (1936, 1948). Bertie Mee, 82, English footballer. John H. Plumb, 90, British historian. David Lowell Rich, 81, American film director and producer.
22 Bengt Ahlström, 76, Finnish Olympic rower (1952). Roger Coggio, 67, French actor, film director and screenwriter, cancer.