The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.
August 2001
1 Zuzana Chalupová, 76, Serbian/Yugoslavian naïve painter. Jay Chamberlain, 75, American racing driver. Dwight Eddleman, 78, American basketball player (Tri-Cities Blackhawks/Milwaukee Hawks, Fort Wayne Pistons), and Olympic athlete (1948), heart ailment. Joe Lynch, 75, Irish actor. Adalbert Pall, 83, Romanian footballer. Begum Aizaz Rasul, 92, Indian politician. Robert Rimmer, 84, American writer. Korey Stringer, 27, American football player (Ohio State, Minnesota Vikings), complications following a heat stroke. Karol Szenajch, 94, Polish Olympic ice hockey player (1928). Dan Towler, 73, American gridiron football player (Los Angeles Rams). Nicolae Tătaru, 69, Romanian football player. Charlie Ward, 89, English golfer.
2 Mario Alesini, 69, Italian Olympic basketball player (1960). Valerie Davies, 89, British Olympic swimmer, bronze medalist (1932). Edward Gardner, 89, British politician. Lawrence Minard, 51, American journalist and editor, heart attack. Robert Smith, 72, Canadian Olympic canoeist (1956). Ronald Townson, 68, American vocalist (The 5th Dimension), kidney failure.
3 Franz-Josef Bach, 84, German politician and member of the Bundestag. Louis Chevalier, 90, French historian and academic. Christopher Hewett, 80, British actor (Mr. Belvedere, The Producers, Fantasy Island), diabetes. Hans Holt, 91, Austrian film actor. Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, 95, British politician and social reformer. Jeanne Loriod, 73, French musician, drowned. Mario Perazzolo, 90, Italian footballer. Eduardo Toba, 78, Spanish football manager. Lars Johan Werle, 75, Swedish composer.
4 S. K. Bhatnagar, 71, Indian politician and diplomat. Claude Bloodgood, 64, American chess player and convicted murderer, cancer. Sir Paterson Fraser, 94, British air marshal.Air Marshal The Reverend Sir Paterson Fraser (05162) Jack Maple, 48, American police officer and author, cancer. Lorenzo Music, 64, American voice actor (Garfield and Friends, The Real Ghostbusters) and television producer (The Bob Newhart Show), lung and bone cancer. Joyce Racek, 62, American Olympic gymnast (1956). Dan Zehr, 85, American Olympic swimmer (1932).
5 Otema Allimadi, 72, Ugandan Foreign Minister (1979–1980) and Prime Minister of Uganda (1980–1985). Iskra Babich, 69, Soviet film director and screenwriter, cancer. Mykhailo Bilyi, 78, Soviet and Ukrainian politician. Miloš Bojović, 63, Serbian basketball player, sports journalist, and politician. Caro Crawford Brown, 93, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner. Roy Dikeman Chapin, Jr., 85, American business executive (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American Motors Corporation). Aaron Flahavan, 25, English football goalkeeper, car accident. Bahne Rabe, 37, German rower and Olympic champion, (1988, 1992), anorexia nervosa. Christopher Skase, 52, Australian businessman and fraudster, stomach cancer.
6 Larry Adler, 87, American harmonica player, pneumonia. Jorge Amado, 88, Brazilian writer, heart attack. Wina Born, 80, Dutch journalist and cooking books author. Adhar Kumar Chatterji, 86, Indian navy admiral. Robert Dunham, 70, American actor, writer, and racecar driver. Vasili Kuznetsov, 69, Russian decathlete and Olympian (1956, 1960, 1964). Kenneth MacDonald, 50, English actor, heart attack. Jim Mallory, 82, American baseball player (Washington Senators, St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants), and football coach. Duong Van Minh, 85, South Vietnamese politician and ARVN general. Wilhelm Mohnke, 90, German SS general during World War II. Ian Ousby, 54, British historian, author and editor, cancer. Alan Rafkin, 73, American film and television director (One Day at a Time, Coach, The Shakiest Gun in the West). Nils Svärd, 93, Swedish cross-country skier and Olympian (1932). Dorothy Tutin, 71, British actress (The Importance of Being Earnest, The Beggar's Opera, A Tale of Two Cities, The Shooting Party), leukemia.
7 Roger Andewelt, 55, American judge. Paul Averitt, 78, American soldier and Holocaust photographer. Dan Edwards, 75, American gridiron football player (1948–1957) and coach (1958–1961). Jack James, 80, American rocket engineer. Algirdas Lauritėnas, 68, Soviet Lithuanian basketball player and Olympian (1956). José Tomás, 66, Spanish classical guitarist and teacher.
8 Jean Dorst, 77, French ornithologist, former director of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. Harry Julian Fink, 78, American television and film writer. Jean-Louis Flandrin, 70, French historian. George Mann, 83, English cricket player. Maureen Reagan, 60, American political activist and daughter of Ronald Reagan, melanoma. Nora Sayre, 68, American film critic and essayist. Peter Sinclair, 62, New Zealand radio personality. Paul Vaessen, 39, English footballer, accidental drug overdose. Noud van Melis, 77, Dutch football player and Olympian (1952). Patrick D. Wall, 76, British neuroscientist.
9 Abe Bonnema, 74, Dutch architect. Humphry Bowen, 72, British botanist and chemist. Jacky Boxberger, 52, French athlete and Olympian (1968, 1972, 1976, 1984), killed by an elephant. L. G. Dupree, 68, American gridiron football player (Baltimore Colts, Dallas Cowboys), cancer. Elmer Knutson, 86, Canadian businessman, activist and politician. Alec Skempton, 87, British scientist.
10 Lou Boudreau, 84, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox), and manager, seven-time All-Star and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Vladimir Bougrine, 63, Russian painter. Álvaro Carolino, 50, Portuguese football player and manager, pulmonary complications. Elsa Cavelti, 94, Swiss operatic contralto and mezzo-soprano. Jerry DeFuccio, 76, American comic book writer and editor. Manfred Eglin, 65, German footballer and Olympian (1956). Vasudeo S. Gaitonde, Indian painter. Gianfranco Miglio, 83, Italian jurist, political scientist and politician. Ramón Monzant, 68, Venezuelan baseball player (New York/San Francisco Giants). Dietrich Peltz, 87, German Luftwaffe bomber and Wehrmacht general during World War II. Werner Pirchner, 61, Austrian composer and jazz musician. Louis Purnell, 81, American curator at the National Air and Space Museum. Stanislav Rostotsky, 79, Soviet/Russian film director and screenwriter. Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, 63, Australian Indigenous artist.
11 Eliahu Amiel, 76, Israeli Olympic basketball player (1952). Paul Cunniffe, 40, British-Irish singer-songwriter, fall from balcony. Ángel Famiglietti, 73, Panamanian Olympic weightlifter (1960). Carlos Hank González, 73, Mexican politician and businessman. Edward Thomas Hall, 77, British scientist, known for exposing the Piltdown Man as a fraud. Bob Harris, 57, American jazz pianist and arranger, drug overdose. Isidoro Malmierca, 70, Cuban politician, lung cancer. Percy Stallard, 92, British racing cyclist. Don Williams, 82, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).
12 Irene Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever, 81, English noblewoman and philanthropist. Pierre Klossowski, 96, French writer, translator and artist. Julian Pitt-Rivers, 82, British social anthropologist and ethnographer. Walter Walker, 88, British army general.
13 Manuel Alvar, 78, Spanish linguist, historian, and university professor. Joachim von Bethmann-Hollweg, 89, German ice hockey player and Olympian (1936). René Berthier, 89, French actor. Stephanus du Plessis, 71, South African Olympic discus thrower and shot putter (1956, 1960). John C. Elliott, 82, American politician and 39th Governor of American Samoa. Jim Hughes, 78, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers,Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox). Jimmy Knapp, 60, British trades unionist, cancer. Gabor Peterdi, 85, Hungarian-American painter and printmaker. Miguel Rodriguez Rodriguez, 70, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic] bishop. Richard Shorr, 58, American sound engineer (Die Hard, Predator, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). Alan Skene, 68, South African rugby player. Otto Stuppacher, 54, Austrian race car driver. Stan West, 88, British athlete and Olympian (1936). Antonio Zumel, 69, Filipino journalist, activist, and revolutionary.
14 Earl Anthony, 63, American professional bowler, domestic accident. Oscar Janiger, 83, American experimental psychiatrist, known for his LSD research. Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins, 63, American child actor. Ridgway B. Knight, 90, American diplomat and ambassador. Pavel Schmidt, 71, Slovak rower and Olympian (1960).
15 Richard Chelimo, 29, Kenyan Olympic long-distance runner (1992), brain cancer. Sheldon Datz, 74, American chemist. Raymond Edward Johnson, 90, American radio and stage actor (Inner Sanctum Mysteries). Peter Mazur, 78, Austrian-Dutch physicist. Renato Panciera, 66, Italian Olympic sprinter (1960). Jim Russell, 92, Australian cartoonist. Kateryna Yushchenko, 81, Ukrainian computer and information research scientist. Yavuz Çetin, 30, Turkish musician, suicide.
16 Dave Barry, 82, American actor and comedian. Kenneth Reese Cole, Jr., 63, American political aide to Richard Nixon. Ruperto Donoso, 86, Chilean jockey. Fred Glover, 73, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings, Cleveland Barons) and coach (Oakland Seals, Los Angeles Kings). Anna Mani, 82, Indian physicist and meteorologist, stroke. Sizwe Motaung, 31, South African football player, AIDS-related complications. James Rønvang, 76, Danish footballer. Floyd Spence, 73, American attorney and a politician, cerebral thrombosis. Sidney Tillim, 76, American artist and art critic. Klaus Wagner, 79, German equestrian and Olympic medalist (1952, 1956, 1960, 1968).
17 William G. Clark, 77, American politician and jurist. Josef Fried, 87, Polish-American organic chemist. Herman Goffberg, 80, American Olympic long-distance runner (1948). Emil Gorovets, 78, Soviet and Ukrainian singer. Živko Nikolić, 59, Yugoslav and Montenegrin film director. Charles Palmer, 71, British martial artist. Flip Phillips, 86, American jazz tenor saxophone and clarinet player.
18 Edmund Cambridge, 80, American actor and director, complications from a fall. Roland Cardon, 72, Belgian composer, music teacher, and multi-instrumentalist. Philip B. Crosby, 75, American businessman and author. Jack Elliott, 74, American film and television music composer (Charlie's Angels, Night Court, The Jerk). Hillel Kook, 86, Russian/American Revisionist Zionist activist and politician. David Peakall, 70, British environmental toxicologist and ornithologist. Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan, 88, Indian plant pathologist. Tom Watson, 69, Scottish actor.
19 Betty Everett, 61, American soul singer and pianist ("The Shoop Shoop Song", "Let It Be Me"). Felicisimo Fajardo, 87, Filipino basketball player and Olympian (1948). Junichiro Itani, 75, Japanese anthropologist and academic. Dean Roper, 62, American stock car racer, heart attack. Les Sealey, 43, English footballer, heart attack. Inder Singh, 57, Indian Olympic hockey player (1968). Willy Vannitsen, 66, Belgian racing cyclist. Donald Woods, 67, South African journalist, newspaper editor, and anti-apartheid activist, cancer.
20 Robert Cayman, 82, Belgian Olympic field hockey player (1948). Richard Cloward, 74, American sociologist and activist (National Voter Registration Act of 1993). Neal Colzie, 48, American gridiron football player (Oakland Raiders, Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), heart attack. Hazzard Dill, 82, Bermudian sprinter and Olympian (1948). Sir Fred Hoyle, 86, British astronomer and science fiction writer, stroke. Akın Kuloğlu, 29, Georgian-Turkish boxer and Olympian (1996, 2000), traffic collision. Walter Reed, 85, American stage, film and television actor.