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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 2001

1

• Happy Hairston, 58, American basketball player (Cincinnati Royals, Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Lakers), prostate cancer.
• Waldemar Kikolski, 33, Polish paralympic athlete, road accident.
• Ernie Pomfret, 60, British middle-distance runner.
• Elsa Prawitz, 69, Swedish film and stage actress.
• Ernie Wheelwright, 61, American football player.

2

• Enrico Bovone, 55, Italian basketball player, suicide by gunshot.
• Poul Dalsager, 72, Danish politician.
• Georges Dard, 82, French football player.
• Vlasta Foltová, 88, Czechoslovak gymnast and Olympic silver medalist.
• Dick Jamieson, 63, American football player (Baltimore Colts, New York Titans) and coach.
• Howard Kahane, 73, American professor of philosophy.
• Gina Mastrogiacomo, 39, American actress (Goodfellas, Harry and the Hendersons, Jungle Fever), myocarditis.
• Abdul Sattar Khan Niazi, 85, Pakistani religious and political leader.
• Ted Rogers, 65, British comedian, complications after open-heart surgery.
• Theodore Roosevelt III, 86, American banker and government official.
• Klement Steinmetz, 86, Austrian football (soccer) player.

3

• Philip George Houthem Gell, 86, British immunologist.
• Jim Godman, 55, American professional bowler.
• Billy Higgins, 64, American jazz drummer, hepatitis.
• Karel Kalaš, 90, Czech operatic bass and actor.
• Princess Rosemary of Salm-Salm, 97, German noblewoman.
• Robert Millner Shackleton, 91, British field geologist.
• Hank Schmulbach, 76, American baseball player.

4

• Anne Anastasi, 92, American psychologist.
• Bonny Lee Bakley, 44, American socialite, shot.
• Gene Grabosky, 64, American professional football player (Syracuse University, Buffalo Bills).
• Vaska Ilieva, 78, Macedonian folk singer from Yugoslavia and North Macedonia.
• Arne Sucksdorff, 84, Swedish film director, pneumonia.
• Stan Newsham, 69, English footballer, (AFC Bournemouth,Notts County)

5

• Charles Black, 85, American constitutional scholar.
• Boozoo Chavis, 70, American accordion player, singer, songwriter and bandleader (Zydeco).
• Morris Graves, 90, American expressionist painter, stroke.
• Cliff Hillegass, 83, American creator of CliffsNotes, stroke.
• Bill Homeier, 82, American racecar driver (three Indianapolis 500s).
• David Jamieson, 80, British Army officer, recipient of the Victoria Cross.
• Aleksandr Petrov, 61, Soviet/Russian basketball player.
• Hans Rampf, 70, German ice hockey player.
• Terry Ryan, 78, American screenwriter, congestive heart failure.
• Wang Yinglai, 93, Chinese biochemist.

6

• René Bondoux, 95, French fencer and Olympic champion.
• Mike Hazlewood, 59, English singer, composer and songwriter, heart attack.
• Karl Wilhelm Krause, 90, German Waffen-SS officer during World War II.
• Zoltán Nemere, 59, Hungarian fencer, traffic collision.
• Cecil Price, 63, American deputy sheriff and Ku Klux Klan member, fall.

7

• Malati Bedekar, 96, Indian writer.
• Jacques de Bourbon-Busset, 89, French novelist, essayist and politician.
• Prem Dhawan, 77, Indian lyricist, music composer, and actor of Bollywood, cardiac arrest.
• Edwin Finckel, 83, American jazz pianist, composer (George White's Scandals) and music educator.
• Joseph Greenberg, 85, American linguist, pancreatic cancer.
• Dick Kimble, 85, American baseball player.
• Margaretha Krook, 75, Swedish actress, lung cancer.
• Boris Ryzhy, 26, Russian poet and geologist, suicide by hanging.
• Simon Slåttvik, 83, Norwegian Olympic skier (gold medal winner of the Nordic combined at the 1952 Winter Olympics).
• Al Tucker, 58, American basketball player.
• Arthur Christopher Watson, 74, British diplomat.

8

• Larry Hornung, 55, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
• John McMahon, 83, Australian-English cricket player.
• Piero Natoli, 53, Italian actor and film director, intracranial aneurysm.
• Luis Rijo, 73, Uruguayan football player.
• Clay King Smith, 30, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

9

• Marie Cardinal, 72, French novelist.
• Antoinette Downing, 96, American architectural historian and preservationist.
• Saul Elkins, 93, American film producer, writer and director.
• Andrés Framini, 86, Argentine labor leader and politician.
• Miroslav Kárný, 81, Czech historian and writer.
• Nikos Sampson, 65, Cypriot politician, de facto President of Cyprus (1974), cancer.
• Werner Schuster, 62, German politician.
• William T. Stearn, 90, British botanist.
• Kauko Wahlsten, 77, Finnish rower and Olympic medalist.
• Smokey Yunick, 77, American mechanic and car designer, leukemia.

10

• Turi Ferro, 80, Italian actor (Liolà, The Seduction of Mimi, Malizia), heart attack.
• James E. Myers, 81, American songwriter ("Rock Around the Clock"), actor and director.
• Sudhakarrao Naik, 66, Indian politician.
• M. Krishnan Nair, 74, Indian film director.
• Frank Newby, 75, English structural engineer.
• Arthur Tange, 86, Australian public servant.
• Dorothy Burr Thompson, 100, American classical archaeologist and art historian.
• Deborah Walley, 57, American actress (Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Beach Blanket Bingo, Spinout) and voice-over artist, esophageal cancer.

11

• Douglas Adams, 49, British author (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Doctor Who), heart attack.
• Jesús Aguirre, 66, Spanish intellectual, Jesuit priest, and aristocrat, pulmonary embolism.
• Michael J. Bird, 72, British writer.
• Guy Carlton, 47, American Olympic weightlifter (bronze medal winner in heavyweight weightlifting at the 1984 Summer Olympics), suicide by gunshot.
• Alan William James Cousins, 97, South African astronomer.
• Nick Lalich, 85, Serbian American basketball player, esophageal cancer.
• Emmett Watson, 82, American newspaper columnist.
• Wolfgang Winkler, 60, West German luger and Olympic medalist.

12

• John Cliff, 82, American film and television actor.
• Ollie Cline, 75, American gridiron football player.
• Perry Como, 88, American singer, actor and television personality, Alzheimer's disease.
• Didi, 72, Brazilian footballer, pneumonia.
• Willy Gysi, 83, Swiss field handball player.
• Norman Kay, 72, British composer and writer, ALS.
• Paul Morgan, 52, British engineer, plane crash.
• Jonathan Niva, 58, Kenyan football player.
• Mel Payton, 74, American basketball player.
• Fritz Pfenninger, 66, Swiss cyclist.
• Simon Raven, 73, British writer.
• Eleanor Sayre, 85, American curator and art historian.
• Alexei Tupolev, 75, Soviet aircraft designer.
• Georgie Woodgate, 77, British tennis player.
• Corissa Yasen, 27, American basketball player, suicide by drug overdose.

13

• Sergey Afanasyev, 82, Russian engineer and politician.
• Eddra Gale, 79, American actress (8½, What's New Pussycat?, The Graduate, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, Somewhere in Time).
• Salvador Garmendia Graterón, 72, Venezuelan author,.
• Frank Millar, 76, Northern Irish unionist politician.
• Jason Miller, 62, American actor (The Exorcist, Rudy) and playwright (That Championship Season), Tony winner (1973), heart attack.
• Harold Minter, 98, American film editor.
• R. K. Narayan, 94, Indian writer.
• Ray Straw, 67, English footballer.
• Ralph Tabakin, 79, American actor.
• Susumu Takahashi, 80, Japanese Olympic middle-distance runner.

14

• Mauro Bolognini, 78, Italian film and stage director.
• Eric Bradbury, 80, British comic artist.
• Paul Bénichou, 92, French-Algerian writer, intellectual, and literary historian.
• Alex Glasgow, 65, English singer-songwriter (On Your Way, Riley!, When the Boat Comes In).
• Gil Langley, 81, Australian cricketer and politician.
• Elisabeth Lennartz, 98, German stage actress.
• Loften Mitchell, 82, American playwright and theatre historian.
• Armando Nannuzzi, 75, Italian cinematographer and camera operator.
• Ettore Puricelli, 84, Uruguayan-Italian football player and manager.
• Juan Verdaguer, 85, Uruguayan actor, cardiovascular disease.

15

• Jean-Philippe Lauer, 99, French architect and Egyptologist.
• Juracy Magalhães, 95, Brazilian military officer and politician.
• Ralph Miller, 82, American college basketball coach.
• Bobby Murdoch, 56, Scottish footballer, stroke.
• William Oates, 71, English first-class cricketer.
• Georgy Shakhnazarov, 76, Soviet-Armenian politician and political scientist.
• Sacha Vierny, 81, French cinematographer.

16

• Antonio Flores, 77, Mexican football player.
• Prince Ital Joe, 38, Dominican-American reggae artist, car accident.
• Brian Pendleton, 57, British guitarist (The Pretty Things), lung cancer.
• Witold Stachurski, 54, Polish boxer.

17

• Robert Elton Brooker, 95, American business executive at Sears, Roebuck & Co.
• Ike Brown, 59, American baseball player, cancer.
• Gerd Buchdahl, 86, German-English philosopher of science.
• Ikuma Dan, 77, Japanese composer.
• Enid Hattersley, 96, English politician and Lord Mayor of Sheffield.
• Robert Knapp, 77, American actor (Days of Our Lives, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, The F.B.I.).
• Jacques-Louis Lions, 73, French mathematician.
• Murray Murdoch, 96, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
• Frank G. Slaughter, 93, American novelist and physician.

18

• Rosa Beddington, 45, British biologist, cancer.
• Ralph Enckell, 88, Finnish diplomat.
• Irene Hunt, 99, American children's writer.
• Alexey Maresyev, 84, Russian military pilot, infarction.
• Stella Mary Newton, 100, British fashion designer and dress historian.
• Maurice Noble, 90, American animation artist and designer.
• Seán Mac Stíofáin, 73, English-Irish chief of staff of the Provisional IRA, stroke.
• Robert F. Woodward, 92, American diplomat.

19

• Fred Derby, 61, Surinamese politician and trade unionist.
• John Joseph Egan, 84, American Roman Catholic priest and social activist.
• Joe Graydon, 82, American big band vocalist, television host, personal manager and concert producer.
• Josef Haunzwickel, 86, Austrian Olympic athlete (men's pole vault at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
• Patricia Hilliard, 85, British stage and film actress.
• Vidkunn Hveding, 80, Norwegian politician.
• Joe Lovitto, 50, American baseball player, cancer.
• Hans Mayer, 94, German literary scholar.
• Susannah McCorkle, 55, American jazz singer, suicide by jumping.
• Mike Sammes, 73, English musician and vocal session arranger.
• Pat Falken Smith, 75, American television writer.
• Bob Tinning, 75, Australian rower.
• John Warner, 78, British actor.

20

• Carl Eric Almgren, 88, Swedish Army general.
• Renato Carosone, 81, Italian musician.
• Bob Keely, 91, American baseball coach, scout and player.
• Art Mergenthal, 80, American gridiron football player.
• Bud Thomas, 90, American baseball player.

21

• Philip W. Buchen, 85, American attorney and White House Counsel.
• Mel Hoderlein, 77, American baseball player.
• Mario Martinelli, 95, Italian resistance member during World War II and politician.
• Cecil G. Murgatroyd, 42, Australian politician, musician, and comedian, cancer.
• Johnny Rainford, 70, English footballer.
• Gabriele Rumi, 61, Italian Formula One team owner, cancer.
• Tad Szulc, 74, Polish-American journalist, cancer.
• Fritz Uhl, 73, Austrian operatic tenor.
• Graham Webster, 87, British archaeologist.
• Hu Xieqing, 95, Contemporary Chinese painter.

22

• Lorez Alexandria, 71, American jazz singer.
• Katharine Bartlett, 93, American physical anthropologist.
• Jenő Fock, 85, Hungarian communist politician, prime minister (1967-1975).
• Ralph Hamner, 84, American baseball player.
• Jean Hougron, 77, French novelist.
• Leamon King, 65, American sprinter and Olympic champion.
• Whitman Mayo, 70, American actor (Sanford and Son, Boyz n the Hood, Hell Town), heart attack.
• Jack Watling, 78, British actor (The Plane Makers, The Power Game, Pathfinders), cancer.

23

• Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, 72, Palestinian-American academic.
• Liu Anyuan, 73, Chinese lieutenant general.
• Harald Bergström, 93, a Swedish mathematician.
• Jean Champion, 84, French film actor.
• Lita Chevret, 92, American actress.
• Charles D. Cook, 66, American politician.
• Tommy Eyre, 51, British keyboardist, cancer.
• Walter Eytan, 90, Israeli diplomat.
• Bob Gaona, 70, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles).
• Chuck Gelatka, 87, American professional football player (Mississippi State, New York Giants).
• Boris Gyuderov, 74, Bulgarian Olympic volleyball player (1964).
• Lee Chiaw Meng, 64, Singaporean politician, cancer.
• Arno Mohr, 90, German painter and graphic artist.
• Alessandro Natta, 83, Italian communist politician.
• P. Ramachandran, 79, Indian politician, Governor of Kerala.
• Jamileh Sheykhi, 71, Iranian actress, heart attack.
• Harry Townes, 86, American actor (Finian's Rainbow, Gunsmoke, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek) and an Episcopalian priest.
• Arseny Vorozheykin, 88, Soviet/Russian fighter ace during World War II.

24

• Lucy Boscana, 85, Puerto Rico actress.
• Jo Ann Greer, 74, American singer.
• Tor Jevne, 72, Norwegian football player.
• Paul Kor, 74, Israeli painter and children's writer, lung cancer.
• Ridvan Qazimi, 37, Kosovar Albanian insurgent nationalist, K.I.A.
• Patricia Robertson, 38, American physician and NASA astronaut, plane crash.
• Javier Urruticoechea, 49, Spanish footballer, car crash.

25

• Delme Bryn-Jones, 67, Welsh baritone.
• John W. Holmes, 84, American film editor.
• Alberto Korda, 72, Cuban photographer, heart attack.
• Arturo Maly, 61, Argentine actor, heart attack.
• Malcom McLean, 87, American businessman and shipper.
• Harold Ridley, 94, British ophthalmologist.

26

• Vittorio Brambilla, 63, Italian Formula One race car driver, heart attack.
• Roman Codreanu, 48, Romanian Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic medalist.
• Johnny Gordon, 69, English football player.
• Anne Haney, 67, American actress (Mrs. Doubtfire, The American President, Liar Liar), heart failure.
• Moven Mahachi, 53, Zimbabwean Minister of Defence of the Republic of Zimbabwe, traffic collision.
• Hal Moe, 91, American gridiron football player and coach.
• William Molloy, Baron Molloy, 82, British politician.
• Dea Trier Mørch, 59, Danish artist and writer, cancer.

27

• Ramon Bieri, 71, American actor (Sarge, Room 222, Daniel Boone, Gunsmoke), cancer.
• Helen Oakley Dance, 88, Canadian-American jazz journalist, record producer, and music historian.
• Victor Kiam, 74, American entrepreneur and owner of the New England Patriots football team.
• Agda Rössel, 90, Swedish politician.
• Nikolay Yeryomenko, 52, Soviet/Russian actor and film director, stroke.

28

• Tony Ashton, 55, English rock pianist, music producer and artist, cancer.
• Francis Bebey, 71, Cameroonian writer and composer.
• Joe Moakley, 74, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives, leukemia.
• Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, 79, Indian medical scientist.
• Rockets Redglare, 52, American character actor and comedian (After Hours, Desperately Seeking Susan), hepatitis and liver cirrhosis.
• Elizabeth S. Russell, 88, American geneticist.
• Francisco Varela, 54, Chilean biologist, philosopher and neuroscientist, heart attack.

29

• John Fleming, 81, British art historian.
• Eddie Forrest, 79, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).
• Akira Fujita, 93, Japanese Olympic water polo player (men's water polo at the 1932 Summer Olympics).
• Charley Pell, 60, American college football player and coach, lung cancer.
• Vytautas Sakalauskas, 68, Soviet and Lithuanian politician.
• Hédi Temessy, 76, Hungarian actress.

30

• Werner Fricker, 65, German-American soccer player and official.
• Terry Gathercole, 65, Australian Olympic swimmer (silver medal winner of the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics).
• Inderjit Singh Gill, 79, Indian Army officer.
• Adrian Hastings, 71, British Roman Catholic priest and historian.
• Nikolai Korndorf, 54, Russian-Canadian composer and conductor.
• John Pickering, 56, English footballer.
• Jaime Benítez Rexach, 92, Puerto Rican author, academic and politician.
• Renée Schuurman, 61, South African tennis player.
• Rajko Tomović, 81, Serbian and Yugoslav scientist.
• Denis Whitaker, 86, Canadian athlete, soldier, and author.

31

• Santos Amaro, 93, Cuban baseball player.
• Arlene Francis, 93, American actress, talk show host, and game show panelist (What's My Line?), Alzheimer's disease and cancer.
• Faisal Husseini, 60, Palestinian politician, heart attack.
• Tony Johnson, 76, Australian politician.
• Jagannath Kaushal, 86, Indian politician.
• Kwoh-Ting Li, 91, Taiwanese economist and politician.
• Tex McKenzie, 70, American professional wrestler, abdominal aortic aneurysm.
• Walter E. Rogers, 92, American politician.
• German Ugryumov, 52, Soviet and Russian navy and security services official, heart attack.
• Rosemary Verey, 82, English garden designer.

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External links

• List of May 2001 deaths at IMDb

• May 2001 events
• 2001 deaths
• Lists of deaths in 2001