For later deaths, see Deaths in 2002 and Deaths in 2003.
- See also: other events of 2001 and Recent deaths.
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January 2001
- 1 - Ray Walston, 86, American actor, lupus
- 12 - Affirmed, 25, American race horse, euthanasia after contracting laminitis
- 12 - William Hewlett, 87, American co-founder of Hewlett-Packard
- 13 - Michael Cuccione, 16, Canadian actor and musician, respiratory failure
- 16 - Laurent-Désiré Kabila, 61, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1997-2001), assassination
- 23 - Moy Yat, 62, Chinese sealmaker and martial artist
- 27 - Mordecai Richler, 69, Canadian author: Jacob Two-Two
- 30 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, 90, French actor, heart attack
- 30 - Joseph Ransohoff, 85, American neurosurgeon
- 31 - Gordon R. Dickson, 77, American science fiction writer, asthma
February 2001
- 4 - Iannis Xenakis, 78, Greek-French composer
- 4 - J. J. Johnson, 77, American jazz trombonist, suicide
- 7 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 94, American author, aviator
- 7 - Dale Evans, 88, actress, singer
- 12 - Kristina Söderbaum, 88, German film actress, producer and photographer
- 14 - Richard Laymon, 54, American horror author
- 14 - Alan Ross, 78, British poet and editor
- 18 - Balthus, 92, French painter
- 18 - Eddie Mathews, 69, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, pneumonia
- 18 - Dale Earnhardt, 49, American NASCAR race car driver, crash during race
- 19 - Stanley Kramer, 87, American film director nad producer, pneumonia
- 19 - Priscilla Davis, 67, former Fort Worth, Texas socialite, breast cancer
- 19 - Charles Trenet, 87, French singer
- 24 - Claude Elwood Shannon, 84, American electrical engineer and mathematician
- 25 - Sir Donald Bradman, 92, Australian cricketer
March 2001
- 4 Harold Stassen, 93, American politician.
- 4 Glenn Hughes, 50, leather dude of the pop group The Village People
- 9 Leopold Page, 87, Polish-American Holocaust survivor
- 12 Robert Ludlum, 73, author of spy novels
- 12 Morton Downey, Jr., 67, American television personality, lung cancer
- 15 Ann Sothern, 92, actress, former wife of the actor Robert Sterling, stroke
- 18 John Phillips, 65, American singer, co-founder of The Mamas & the Papas
- 21 Norma Macmillan, 80, American cartoon voice actress
- 21 Chung Ju-yung,86, Founder of the Hyundai Group
- 22 William Hanna, 90, American animator, co-founder (with Joseph Barbera) of the Hanna-Barbera animation studio.
- 22 Sabiha Gökçen, 88, the first Turkish female aviator and the first female combat pilot of the world
- 25 Willie Horne, 79, British rugby league player.
- 28 Moe Koffman, 72, Canadian flautist and saxophonist, cancer
April 2001
- 7 Beatrice Straight, 86, Academy Award-winning actress (Network, Poltergeist)
- 10 Willie Stargell, 61, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
- 11 Graciela Naranjo, 84, Venezuelan singer and actress; a radio, cinema and television pioneer in her homeland
- 11 Sir Harry Secombe, 79, Welsh actor, comedian, member of The Goon Show, prostate cancer
- 12 Harvey Ball, 79, American inventor of the smiley
- 15 Joey Ramone (b. Jeffry Hyman), 49, American musician, lead singer for The Ramones, lymphoma
- 16 Alec Stock, 84, English footballer and football manager
- 24 Peter Nugent, 63, Australian politician
- 25 Michele Alboreto, 44, Italian racing driver
May 2001
- 1? Chandra Levy, 24, intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C.
- 5 Charles Black, 85, noted constitutional scholar
- 5 Cliff Hillegass, 83, American creator of CliffsNotes, stroke
- 11 Douglas Adams, 49, British author, works included The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the two Dirk Gently novels and serials in the series Doctor Who, heart attack
- 12 Perry Como, 88, American singer.
- 12 Corissa Yasen, 27, professional basketball player, suicide
- 22 Whitman Mayo, 70, actor, heart attack
- 26 Anne Haney, 67, actress, heart failure.
- 28 Francisco Varela, 54, Chilean biologist and philosopher
June 2001
- 1 King Birendra, 55, King of Nepal
- 1 Queen Aiswarya, 51, Queen of Nepal
- 1 Hank Ketcham, 81, American cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace (prostate cancer)
- 1 Marie Brémont, 115, Oldest Person in the World
- 3 Anthony Quinn, 86, Mexican-American actor
- 4 Joey Maxim, 79, world Light Heavyweight champion boxer
- 4 King Dipendra of Nepal, 29
- 10 Princess Leila of Iran, 31
- 11 Timothy McVeigh, 33, American convicted murderer
- 15 Henri Alekan, 92, French cinematographer
- 20 Bob Keegan, 80, baseball player
- 21 Carroll O'Connor, 76 American actor
- 21 John Lee Hooker, 83, American Blues musician
- 21 Souad Hosni, 59, Egyptian actress
- 27 Tove Jansson, 86, Finnish author
- 27 Jack Lemmon, 76, American actor and film director (bladder and colorectal cancer)
- 28 Joan Sims, 71, British actress
- 30 Chet Atkins, 77, American country musician
July 2001
- 3 Delia Derbyshire, 64, British musician (renal failure)
- 5 Hannelore Kohl, 68, wife of ex-chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl (suicide)
- 11 Herman Brood, 54, Dutch rock musician (suicide)
- 16 Terry Gordy, 40, pro wrestler; founding member of the Fabulous Freebirds (heart attack)
- 16 Jackson Maddog, 35, karate master, dojo leader
- 18 Fabio Taglioni, 80, automotive engineer
- 20 Carlo Giuliani, 19, Italian anarchist (murder)
- 21 Sivaji Ganesan, 74, famous Indian actor (respiratory problems)
- 21 Hiroshi Tsuburaya, 37, famous Japanese actor (liver cancer)
- 27 Leon Wilkeson, 49, American musician, bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd
- 27 Thomas Pitt Cholmondeley-Tapper, 90, first New Zealand auto racing driver
- 29 Wau Holland, 49, German hacker, founder of the CCC (heart attack)
- 29 Edward Gierek, 88, Polish politician
- 31 A. G. Dickens, 91, British historian
August 2001
- 1 Korey Stringer, 26, American football player, complications brought on by heat stroke
- 1 Poul Anderson, 74, American fantasy and Science Fiction author
- 3 Christopher Hewett, 79, British actor
- 4 Lorenzo Music, 64, American voice actor known for the voice of the cartoon cat Garfield, complications related to lung and bone cancer
- 6 Jorge Amado, 88, Brazilian writer
- 9 Humphry Bowen, 72, British botanist and chemist
- 19 Donald Woods, 67, South African journalist, newspaper editor, and anti-apartheid activist, made famous by exposing the killing of his friend, Steve Biko of the Black Consciousness Movement, by South African security forces
- 20 Fred Hoyle, 86, British astronomer and science fiction writer
- 25 Aaliyah, 22, American singer and actress
- 29 Graham "Shirley" Strachan, 50, Australian singer and television presenter
September 2001
- 1 Bobby Evans, 74, Scottish football player
- 2 Christiaan Barnard. 78, South African heart surgeon, first to perform a human-to-human heart transplant
- 3 Thuy Trang, 27, Vietnamese American actress, played a role as Trini Kwan from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
- 3 Pauline Kael. 82, American movie critic
- 5 Justin Wilson, 87, Cajun chef and humorist
- 6 Megan Connolly, 27, Australian actress, heroin overdose
- 7 Spede Pasanen, 71, Finnish television star
- 9 Ahmed Shah Massoud, 48, Afghan Northern Alliance military commander
- 11 David Angell, 55, American television producer (b. 1946)
- 11 Garnet Bailey, 53, Canadian ice hockey player and scout (b. 1948)
- 11 Todd Beamer, 32, American airline passenger (b. 1968)
- 11 Berry Berenson, 53, American actress and photographer (b. 1948)
- 11 Mark Bingham, 31, American airline passenger (b. 1970)
- 11 Tom Burnett, 38, American airline passenger (b. 1963)
- 11 Jeremy Glick, 31, American airline passenger (b. 1970)
- 11 Barbara Olson, 45, American television commentator (b. 1955)
- 11 Alice Stewart Trillin, 63, American author and film producer
- 13 Victor Wong, 74, American movie actor and artist
- 18 Ernie Coombs, 73, American born actor. Long time host of Canadian children's show Mr. Dressup on CBC
- 29 Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, 78, former President of South Vietnam
- 22 Isaac Stern, 81, Ukrainian violinist
October 2001
- 4 Blaise Alexander, 25, American race car driver, race crash
- 7 Christopher Adams, 46, pro wrestler and judoka, brother of Olympic Judo star Neil Adams
- 11 Nada Mamula, 74, Yugoslavian sevdalinka singer
- 12 Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone (Quintin Hogg), 94, British lawyer and politician
- 15 Zhang Xueliang, 100, Chinese warlord and military figure. Important individual in recent Chinese history
- 26 John Platts-Mills, 95, British politician and lawyer
- 31 Angus MacVicar, 93, British author.
November 2001
- 10 Ken Kesey, 66, American author, counter-cultural figure
- 12 Tony Miles, 46, English chess player
- 18 Malcolm McFee, 52, Actor
- 22 Mary Kay Ash, 83, American businesswoman, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics
- 24 Melanie Thornton, 34, singer, plane crash near Zürich
- 25 Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani author, Spiritual Leader and founder of International Spiritual Movement Anjuman Serfaroshan-e-Islam
- 28 William Kienzle, 73, author of murder mysteries with Catholic priest detective
- 29 John Knowles, 75, author, A Separate Peace
- 29 George Harrison, 58, British musician and former member of The Beatles
- 30 Robert Tools, 59, first recipient of a self-contained artificial heart
December 2001
- 2 Valorie Jones, The Jones Girls
- 4 Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj, 75, Sultan of Selangor and Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
- 5 Sir Peter Blake, 53, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist, shot by pirates on the Amazon River
- 5 Franco Rasetti, 100, Italian physicist
- 8 Don Tennant, 79, American advertising executive, inventor of Tony the Tiger and the Marlboro Man
- 13 Yvan Craipeau, 90, French Trotskyist
- 13 Chuck Schuldiner, 33, death metal guitarist and vocalist
- 15 Rufus Thomas, 84, R&B/soul singer
- 20 Léopold Senghor, 95, first President of Senegal; also a world-renowned poet and writer
- 27 Ian Hamilton, 63, British critic, poet, magazine publisher
- 29 Takashi Asahina, 93, Japanese conductor
- 30 Eileen Heckart, 82, Oscar-winning American actor
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