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.
June 2001
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. Nancy Warren, 79, American baseball player.
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. Maurice Breton, 91, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1950-1958). 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-born 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 Warren Alfson, 86, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers). Simone Benmussa, 69, French-Algerian author and theatre director, cancer. John Corriden, 83, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). 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, 29, Nepalese monarch and mass murderer, King of Nepal, perpetrator of the Nepalese royal massacre, suicide by gunshot. Darshan Ranganathan, 60, Indian organic chemist, breast cancer. Ruth Sanger, 82, Australian immunogeneticist, haematologist and serologist. Horst Tüller, 70, German Olympic road and track cyclist (1956). 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). Anders Melin, 79, Swedish Olympic long-distance runner (1948). 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. Louis Desmet, 71, Belgian Olympic middle-distance runner (1952). Ford Garrison, 85, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Athletics). Douglas Lilburn, 85, New Zealand composer. Juan Parker, 83, Argentine Olympic rower (1948). Ami Priyono, 61, Indonesian film director and actor. Emmy Putzinger, 80, Austrian figure skater and Olympian (1936). 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. Athol Stewart, 82, Australian rugby league footballer. Charles Templeton, 85, Canadian cartoonist, broadcaster and writer, Alzheimer's disease. Horace Walker, 64, American NBA Basketball player (Chicago Packers).
8 Toy Bolton, 74, American racing driver. Sam Boyd, 86, American football player (Pittsburgh Pirates/Steelers) 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. Arnold Thomsen, 88, Danish Olympic gymnast (1948). 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 and Olympian (1972, 1976, 1984, 1988), 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 Kristinn Gunnlaugsson, 66, Icelandic footballer. Joyce King, 80, Australian sprinter and Olympic silver medalist (1948). 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. Cootje van Kampen-Tonneman, 79, Dutch Olympic gymnast (1948, 1952). Lou Lombardo, 72, American baseball player (New York Giants). 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. Antoine Latorre, 85, French cyclist. Ray Mentzer, 47, American bodybuilder. Nkem Nwankwo, 65, Nigerian novelist and poet. Jim Seminoff, 78, American basketball player (Chicago Stags, Boston Celtics). Joseph W. Twinam, 66, American diplomat. Paula Wiesinger, 94, Italian Olympic alpine skier (1936), and mountain climber. Thomas Wilson, 73, Scottish composer.
13 Gordon Christie, 86, New Zealand politician. Felle Delgado, 87, American baseball player. Marcelo Fromer, 39, Brazilian rock musician, traffic accident. Luise Krüger, 86, German athlete and Olympic silver medalist (1936). Makanda Ken McIntyre, 69, American jazz musician and composer. Juan Poll, 74, Spanish Olympic alpine skier (1948, 1956). Yoshishige Saitō, 97, Japanese visual artist and art educator. David Spedding, 58, British intelligence officer, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (1994–1999), lung cancer.Sir David Spedding 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 (1956, 1964). Miroslav Marcovich, 82, Serbian-American philologist. Gerry Melnyk, 66, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks, St. Louis Blues). 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, leukaemia. 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 (Chicago Cubs). Joe Taylor, 61, American football player (Chicago Bears).
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 (New York Yankees). Sam Jethroe, 84, American baseball player (Boston Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates), 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 medallist (1932, 1936). 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, 73, Chilean football goalkeeper and Olympian (1952). 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.