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.^[1]
• Lee Cronbach, 85, American educational psychologist.^[2]
• Surendranath Dwivedy, 88, Indian politician, journalist and social worker.
• Kenny Greene, 32, American singer-songwriter, AIDS.
• Gregory Hemingway, 69, American physician and son of Ernest Hemingway, hypertension and cardiovascular disease.^[3]
• Mickey Trotman, 26, Trinidad and Tobago football player, car crash.^[4]

2

• Manny Albam, 79, American jazz baritone saxophone player, composer, and producer.^[5]
• Franz Biebl, 95, German classical music composer.^[6]
• Donald J. Cohen, 61, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, melanoma.^[7]
• Fernando Mendes, 55, Portuguese cyclist, traffic accident.^[8]

3

• Alfie Almario, 38, Filipino basketball player, heart attack.
• Pat Ast, 59, American actress and model.^[9]
• Ricky Belmonte, 54, Filipino actor, stroke.
• Kostas Chatzichristos, 80, Greek actor, cancer.
• Homer Elias, 46, American gridiron football player (Detroit Lions), heart attack.^[10]
• Alessandro Fersen, 89, Polish-Italian dramatist, actor, and theater director.^[11]
• 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.^[12]
• Irmgard Farden Aluli, 90, Hawaiian composer.
• George Claydon, 68, British actor and mascot of the England Football Team in 1966.
• John Collins, 88, American jazz guitarist, cancer.^[13]
• Arthur Daniels, 79, Welsh rugby league player.
• Al Ham, 76, American composer and jingle writer.
• Antonín Máša, 66, Czech film director and screenwriter.^[14]
• Ahron Soloveichik, 84, American torah scholar and rabbi.^[15]

5

• Peter Burge, 69, Australian cricketer.^[16]
• Jim Cain, 74, American gridiron football player.^[17]
• Clyde L. Choate, 81, American politician and decorated soldier.^[18]
• Brian Edgar, 65, British rugby league player.
• Woody Jensen, 94, American baseball player.^[19]
• Jan Lenica, 73, Polish graphic designer and cartoonist.^[20]
• Mike Mansfield, 98, American politician and diplomat (U.S. Representative from Montana, U.S. Senator from Montana, Senate Majority Leader).^[21]
• Egbert van 't Oever, 74, Dutch speed skater, colon cancer.^[22]
• Emilie Schindler, 93, German wife of Oskar Schindler who helped save the lives of 1,200 Jews during World War II.^[23]
• Zoltán Székely, 97, Hungarian violinist and composer.^[24]

6

• Jacqueline Babbin, 75, American television and theatre writer and producer, cancer.^[25]
• Miguel del Toro, 29, Mexican baseball player, traffic collision.^[26]
• Axel Düberg, 73, Swedish film actor.
• Arne Harris, 67, American television producer-director (WGN-TV broadcasts of Chicago Cubs).^[27]
• Yuriy Meshcheryakov, 55, Soviet and Ukrainian animator.
• Milton A. Rothman, 81, American nuclear physicist, complications due to diabetes.^[28]

7

• Chris Adams, 46, English wrestler and judoka, brother of Olympic Judo star Neil Adams, shot.
• Gaby Basset, 99, French film actress.^[29]
• Roger Gaudry, 87, Canadian chemist, businessman, and university rector.
• Alf Gover, 93, English test cricketer.
• Herblock, 91, American editorial cartoonist (The Washington Post).^[30]
• Stewart Imlach, 69, Scottish football player.^[31]
• Jimmie Logsdon, 79, American country and rockabilly singer, songwriter and radio DJ.^[32]
• Reg Matthews, 68, English football player.^[33]
• Polly Rowles, 87, American actress (The Defenders, Sweet Liberty, Power).^[34]

8

• Mongo Beti, 69, Cameroonian writer.^[35]
• Alfred Fyodorov, 66, Soviet football player and coach.
• Kenneth L. Hale, 67, American linguist.^[36]
• Caryl Parker Haskins, 93, American scientist, author, inventor, philanthropist, and entomologist.^[37]
• Seymour Heller, 87, American talent agent and manager (represented Liberace).^[38]
• Javed Iqbal, 45, Pakistani serial killer, intoxication.
• Dmitry Polyansky, 83, Soviet statesman.
• Sankaradi, 77, Indian actor.
• Angelo Varetto, 90, Italian cyclist.^[39]

9

• Roberto de Oliveira Campos, 84, Brazilian economist, writer, diplomat, and politician, heart attack.^[40]
• Dagmar, 79, American actress, model, and television personality.^[41]
• Vladimir Danilevich, 77, Soviet and Russian animator.
• Norris Houghton, 91, American theatre manager and producer.^[42]
• Herbert Ross, 74, American film director (The Turning Point, Footloose) and choreographer (Anyone Can Whistle), heart failure.^[43]
• William A. Ryan, 82, American politician.^[44]
• Károly Simonyi, 84, Hungarian physicist and writer.^[45]
• Judita Čeřovská, 72, Czech pop and chanson singer.

10

• Pelegrino Adelmo Begliomini, 86, Brazilian football player.
• Eddie Futch, 90, American boxing trainer (Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes, Trevor Berbick).^[46]
• Cal Gardner, 76, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins).^[47]
• Dave Gerard, 65, American baseball player.^[48]
• Evgeni Kharadze, 93, Georgian astronomer, public figure and statesman.
• Vasily Mishin, 84, Soviet rocket designer.^[49]
• Luis Antonio García Navarro, 60, Spanish conductor (music director of the Teatro Real).^[50]
• Samuel Ndhlovu, 64, Zambian footballer and coach.
• Anna Amelia Obermeyer, 94, South African botanist.
• Chet Ostrowski, 71, American gridiron football player.^[51]

11

• Krzysztof Chamiec, 71, Polish actor, lung cancer.^[52]
• Franco Committeri, 77, Italian film producer.
• Nada Mamula, 74, Yugoslavian singer.^[53]
• Billy Maxted, 84, American jazz pianist.^[54]
• Beni Montresor, 75, Italian artist, illustrator and set designer, pancreatic cancer.^[55]

12

• Richard Buckle, 85, British ballet critic.^[56]
• Ruth Goetz, 89, American playwright (The Heiress) and screenwriter.^[57]
• Quintin Hogg, 94, British lawyer and politician.^[58]
• John T. Robinson, 78, South African palaeontologist.
• Eddie Rodriguez, 69, Filipino film actor and director, heart attack.
• Branko Stinčić, 78, Croatian football player.
• Witold Szalonek, 74, Polish composer.
• Otis Young, 69, American actor (The Outcasts, The Last Detail), stroke.^[59]
• 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.^[60]
• Peter Doyle, 52, Australian pop singer (The New Seekers), esophageal cancer.^[61]
• Ubi Dwyer, 68, Irish anarchist, complications following bicycle accident.
• Fritz Fromm, 88, German Olympic field handball player (gold medal winner of the men's team handball competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics).^[62]
• B. L. Graham, 87, American college basketball player and coach (Ole Miss).^[63]
• Glenn Johnson, 79, American gridiron football player (New York Yankees, Green Bay Packers, Winnipeg Blue Bombers).^[64]
• Raoul Kraushaar, 93, American composer.
• David Neil MacKenzie, 75, British linguist.^[65]
• Jal Minocher Mehta, 100, Indian surgeon, social worker and philanthropist.
• Pal Mirashi, 75, Albanian football player.^[66]
• Mwanza Mukombo, 55, Congolese football player.
• Olga Arsenievna Oleinik, 76, Soviet and Russian mathematician.

14

• Giorgio Cavedon, 70, Italian publisher, cartoonist and screenwriter.^[67]
• Willam Christensen, 99, American ballet dancer, choreographer and founder of the San Francisco Ballet and Ballet West in Salt Lake City, Utah.^[68]
• David V. Erdman, 89, American literary critic, editor, and academic..^[69]
• Eugene Grebenik, 82, British academic and demographer.^[70]
• Vernon Harrison, 89, British photographer and parapsychologist.
• David Lewis, 60, American philosopher.^[71]
• Bert Rose, 82, American gridiron football player.
• Ben Sankey, 94, American baseball player.^[72]
• Joseph Allen Stein, 89, American architect.^[73]

15

• Jamie Cann, 55, British Labour Party politician, liver disease.
• Chang Hsüeh-liang, 100, Chinese warlord and military figure, pneumonia.^[74]
• Ralph Levy, 80, American producer, film and television director.^[75]
• Anne Ridler, 89, British poet and editor.^[76]
• Robert Rutledge, 53, American sound engineer (Back to the Future, Star Wars, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Oscar winner (1986), heart attack.^[77]
• Janet Shaw, 82, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• Bent Tomtum, 52, Norwegian ski jumper and Olympian.^[78]

16

• Jean Danet, 77, French actor.^[79]
• Gotthold Gloger, 77, German writer and painter.
• Etta Jones, 72, American jazz singer, cancer.^[80]
• Yuri Ozerov, 80, Soviet film director and screenwriter.
• Reid Smith, 52, American film and television actor.

17

• Frank Anscombe, 83, English statistician.^[81]
• Frances Claudet, 90, Canadian Olympic pair skater.^[82]
• Jay Livingston, 86, American composer (Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Buttons and Bows", "Mona Lisa" and "Que Sera, Sera").^[83]
• Micheline Ostermeyer, 78, French Olympic champion at the 1948 Summer Olympics and concert pianist.^[84]
• Jack Smith, 77, American NASCAR driver, congestive heart failure.
• Gyula Szilágyi, 78, Hungarian football player.
• Rehavam Ze'evi, 75, Israeli army general and politician, homicide.^[85]

18

• Ferris Fain, 80, American baseball player, complications from leukemia and diabetes.^[86]
• János Kulka, 80, 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.^[87]
• A. T. Ummer, 68, Indian music composer.

19

• Araquem de Melo, 57, Brazilian football player, suicide.
• Kay Dick, 86, English journalist, novelist and autobiographer.^[88]
• Woody Dumart, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).
• Yang Jingren, 83, Chinese politician.
• Leslie Johnston, 81, Scottish football player.^[89]
• Niaz Khan, 84, Pakistani Olympic field hockey player.^[90]
• Jagernath Lachmon, 85, Surinamese politician.^[91]
• Hugh Mulcahy, 88, American baseball player.^[92]
• Joe Murray, 80, American baseball player.^[93]
• Digna Ochoa, 37, Mexican human rights lawyer, homicide.

20

• Philippe Agostini, 91, French cinematographer, director and screenwriter.^[94]
• Marko Hirsma, 36, Finnish musician, outlaw biker and gangster, shot.
• Frank Hodgkinson, 82, Australian painter and graphic artist.^[95]
• Patricia Locke, 73, Native American educator-activist, heart-failure.^[96]
• Henri Pellizza, 81, French badminton and tennis player.^[97]
• 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.^[98]
• William J. Healy, 62, American politician.^[99]
• Bertie Mee, 82, English footballer.
• John H. Plumb, 90, British historian.^[100]
• David Lowell Rich, 81, American film director and producer.

22

• Roger Coggio, 67, French actor, film director and screenwriter, cancer.^[101]
• Howard Finster, 84, American artist and baptist minister.^[102]
• Ernest Hilgard, 97, American psychologist and professor at Stanford University.^[103]
• Bill James, 75, New Zealand rower.
• Samuel Khachikian, 78, Iranian film director, author, and film editor.
• Norman Lessing, 90, American television screenwriter, playwright, and chess master, Parkinson's disease.^[104]
• Katsuo Nishida, 72, Japanese long-distance runner.^[105]
• Ramakrishna, 62, Indian actor.
• Jan Glastra van Loon, 81, Dutch politician.
• Ed Vijent, 38, Dutch football player, stabbed.^[106]
• Georgy Vitsin, 84, Soviet and Russian actor, cardiovascular disease.
• Diana Van der Vlis, 66, Canadian-American actress, cardiac arrest.^[107]

23

• Ken Aston, 86, British football referee.^[108]
• Thomas N. Downing, 82, American lawyer and politician.^[109]
• Josh Kirby, 72, British artist.^[110]
• Ismat T. Kittani, 72, Iraqi politician.^[111]
• Kenneth P. MacLeod, 78, American politician.
• Linden Travers, 88, British actress (The Lady Vanishes, No Orchids for Miss Blandish).^[112]
• Stanisław Urbańczyk, 92, Polish linguist and academic.^[113]
• Daniel Wildenstein, 84, French art dealer, historian and owner of thoroughbred race horses.^[114]

24

• Kathleen Ankers, 82, American theatrical and television set and costume designer (Late Night with David Letterman, The Rosie O'Donnell Show).^[115]
• Kim Gardner, 53, English musician (Badger, Ashton, Gardner & Dyke, The Birds, The Creation), cancer.^[116]
• Eugenio Granell, 88, Spanish painter (often described as "the last Spanish surrealist painter").^[117]
• Jaromil Jireš, 65, Czechoslovak filmmaker.^[118]
• Bill Mueller, 80, American baseball player.^[119]
• Seishiro Shimatani, 62, Japanese football player and manager, cirrhosis.
• Stephen Wurm, 79, Hungarian-Australian linguist.^[120]

25

• Jack Blackwell, 91, English footballer.^[121]
• Alvan Feinstein, 75, American clinician, researcher and an epidemiologist.^[122]
• Marvin Harris, 74, American anthropologist.^[123]
• Richard Kirby, 97, Australian judge and arbitrator.
• René Philombe, 70, Cameroonian writer, journalist, poet, and playwright.^[124]

26

• Larry Aldrich, 95, American fashion designer and art collector.^[125]
• Maragatham Chandrasekar, 84, Indian politician and Member of Parliament.
• Soraya Esfandiari-Bakhtiari, 69, queen consort of Iran as wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, stroke.^[126]
• Laszlo Halasz, 96, Hungarian-American music director (New York City Opera).^[127]
• Abdul Haq, 43, Afghan mujahideen commander, executed by the Taliban, homicide.^[128]
• Hüseyin Hilmi Işık, 90, Turkish, Sunni Islamic scholar.
• Eugene Jackson, 84, American child actor (Our Gang, The Big Town, Shootin' Injuns, Little Annie Rooney, The Addams Family), heart attack.^[129]
• Elizabeth Jennings, 75, English poet.^[130]
• Kris Kovick, 50, California-based writer, cartoonist, and printer, breast cancer.^[131]
• Olga Lehmann, 89, Chilean-British visual artist.
• John Platts-Mills, 95, British politician and lawyer.
• Richard Seifert, 90, Swiss-British architect.
• Gerald B. H. Solomon, 71, American businessman and politician.^[132]
• Barbara Tropp, 53, American orientalist, chef, and food writer, ovarian cancer.^[133]
• Audrey Withers, 96, English journalist.

27

• Seán Condon, 78, Irish hurler.
• John P. Roberts, 56, American businessman, promoter of the Woodstock Festival, cancer.^[134]
• Sophie Tatischeff, 55, French film editor and director, lung cancer.^[135]
• Dirk Willem van Krevelen, 86, Dutch chemical engineer.

28

• Fulvio Balatti, 63, Italian rower.
• Richard Halsey Best, 91, United States Navy dive bomber pilot during World War II.
• Grigori Chukhrai, 80, Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter, heart failure.
• Jallouli Fares, 92, Tunisian politician.^[136]
• Gerard Hengeveld, 90, Dutch pianist, composer and educator.^[137]
• Leonard Melfi, 69, American playwright and actor, congestive heart failure.
• John Mogg, 88, British army general.^[138]
• Czesław Mordowicz, 82, Polish Holocaust survivor during World War II.

29

• Angelo Ippolito, 78, Italian-American painter (Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art).^[139]
• Milorad B. Protić, 90, Serbian astronomer.
• Spike Robinson, 71, American jazz tenor saxophonist.^[140]
• Freddie Silva, 63, Sri Lankan actor, singer.
• K. P. Ummer, 67, Indian film actor.

30

• Carlos Alberto Zolim Filho, 79, Brazilian football player and manager.
• Marga Legal, 93, German actress, traffic collision.^[141]
• Johnny Lucadello, 82, American baseball player.^[142]
• Yoritsune Matsudaira, 94, Japanese composer of contemporary classical music.^[143]
• Maurice Miller, 81, British politician.
• Jack Scott, 85, New Zealand politician.

31

• Colin Campbell, 59, Canadian video artist, cancer.^[144]
• Régine Cavagnoud, 31, French Olympic and World Cup alpine ski racer (2001 World Champion in Super G), fall.^[145]
• Yutaka Fujimoto, 50, Japanese Olympic basketball player.^[146]
• Warren Elliot Henry, 92, American physicist.^[147]
• Jenny Laird, 89, British actress.^[148]
• Bill Le Sage, 74, British musician.^[149]
• Angus MacVicar, 93, British author.^[150]
• Vijaya Narasimha, 74, Indian lyricist.
• Braj Kumar Nehru, 90, Indian diplomat and ambassador.^[151]
• Richard Martin Stern, 86, American novelist.^[152]
• Art Wall, Jr., 77, American golfer (1959 winner of the Masters Tournament).^[153]
• Paul Warnke, 81, American diplomat.^[154]