Deaths in April 2001

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

April 2001

1

• Jean Anderson, 93, English actress (The Brothers, Tenko).
• Eugênio German, 70, Brazilian chess master and Brazilian chess champion (1951, 1972).
• Jayant Kothari, 71, Indian literary critic.
• Ted McCarty, 91, American businessman.
• Jo-Jo Moore, 92, American baseball player.
• Brendan O'Reilly, 71, Irish broadcaster.
• Aleksandar Obradović, 73, Serbian composer and academic.
• Jim Proudfoot, 67, Canadian sports journalist.
• Valerie Scott, 83, English tennis player.
• Russ Smith, 56, American gridiron football player.
• Trinh Cong Son, 62, Vietnamese musician and composer.
• Zellio Toppazzini, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Larry Tucker, 66, American screenwriter (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice), multiple sclerosis.
• Jalil Zandi, 49, Iranian flying ace, car accident.

2

• Charles Daudelin, 80, French-Canadian sculptor and painter.
• Gary Gearhart, 77, American baseball player.
• Andy Guest, 61, American politician.
• Carlos Carnes Ogden, Sr., 83, US Army officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Jennifer Syme, 28, American actress and record executive, traffic collision.

3

• Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell, 89, British newspaper proprietor.
• Big Daddy Kinsey, 74, American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, prostate cancer.
• Jason Massey, 28, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Kersten Meier, 47, German swimmer, suicide by jumping.
• Butch Moore, 63, Irish singer and a showband icon, heart attack.
• Paul Peek, 63, American rockabilly pioneer.
• Adela Reta, 79, Uruguyan lawyer and politician.

4

• Beryl Gilroy, 76, British pioneering teacher and novelist, heart attack.
• Wim van der Linden, 60, Dutch photographer and film and television director.
• Ramón Mendoza, 73, Spanish lawyer and businessman.
• Mitra Mitrović, 88, Serbian politician, feminist and writer.
• José M. Dávila Monsanto, 95, Puerto Rican politician and lawyer.
• Liisi Oterma, 86, Finnish astronomer.
• Ed Roth, 69, American artist, cartoonist, and custom car designer and builder.

5

• Benjy Dial, 57, American football player.
• Kingsley Charles Dunham, 91, British geologist.
• Sonya Hedenbratt, 70, Swedish singer and actress.
• Jay Miller, 57, American basketball player, heart attack.
• John Bertram Oakes, 87, American journalist.
• Aldo Olivieri, 90, Italian football goalkeeper and manager.
• David Lloyd Owen, 83, British army general and writer.
• Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd, 82, British politician who served as Leader of the House of Lords.
• Brother Theodore, 94, German-American actor and comedian.

6

• George Bull, 71, British journalist and writer.
• Danny Gaither, 62, American gospel singer (Bill Gaither Trio).
• Chaudhary Devi Lal, 85, Indian politician and Deputy Prime Minister of India.
• Yevgeny Malinin, 70, Soviet and Russian pianist.
• Charles Pettigrew, 37, American singer, half of R&B duo Charles & Eddie, cancer.

7

• David Graf, 50, American actor (Police Academy, The West Wing, Rules of Engagement), heart attack.
• Kurt Hohenemser, 95, German-born American aerospace engineer and a pioneer in helicopter design.
• Derek Lang, 87, British Army general.
• G. N. Ramachandran, 78, Indian physicist.
• Beatrice Straight, 86, American actress (Network, The Crucible, The Nun's Story), Oscar winner (1980), pneumonia.

8

• Kurt Almqvist, 89, Swedish poet, intellectual and spiritual figure.
• Frank Annunzio, 86, American politician, Parkinson's disease.
• Arthur Cantor, 81, American theatrical producer.
• Vladislav Krishchishin, 54, Ukrainian flyweight weightlifter.
• Nello Lauredi, 76, French road bicycle racer.
• Elsie Locke, 88, New Zealand writer, historian, and feminist.
• Bob Sohl, 73, American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist.
• Van Stephenson, 47, American singer-songwriter, melanoma.
• Marguerite Viby, 91, Danish actress.

9

• Behram Contractor, 71, Indian journalist and humorist.
• Roque Ditro, 64, Argentine football player.
• Shakoor Rana, 65, Pakistani cricket umpire.
• Graziella Sciutti, 73, Italian soprano opera singer and producer.
• Willie Stargell, 61, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, stroke.
• Hsieh Tung-min, 93, Taiwanese politician and Vice President of the Republic of China.

10

• Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, 65, French film director.
• Tadeusz Chciuk-Celt, 84, Polish special forces operative during World War II, journalist and author.
• Nora Eddington, 77, American actress and socialite, kidney failure.
• John Marmion Edmond, 57, Scottish-American MIT professor of marine geochemistry and oceanography.
• Andy Farkas, 84, American footballer.
• Charles L. Freeman, 92, American sound editor and film editor.
• Michel Fribourg, 87, Belgian-American billionaire businessman.
• Derek Lambert, 71, English author.
• Nyree Dawn Porter, 65, New Zealand actress, leukemia.
• Richard Evans Schultes, 86, American ethnobotanist.
• Roger Vale, 58, Australian politician.

11

• Sandy Bull, 60, American folk musician and composer, lung cancer.
• John Harris, Baron Harris of Greenwich, 71, British political aide and politician (Chief Whip in the House of Lords from 1994 to 2001).
• Jerzy Krasówka, 76, Polish football player.
• Thaddeus McCarthy, 93, New Zealand jurist.
• Graciela Naranjo, 84, Venezuelan singer and actress.
• Carolyn R. Payton, 75, American director of the Peace Corps (1977-1978).
• Harry Secombe, 79, Welsh actor (The Goon Show, Oliver!, The Bed Sitting Room), prostate cancer.
• Jack Wilson, 83, American footballer.

12

• Harvey Ball, 79, American inventor of the smiley.
• Edmund W. Barker, 80, Singaporean politician and lawyer, colon surgery.
• Nelson Burbrink, 79, American baseball player, cancer.
• Wang Enmao, 88, Chinese lieutenant general and politician.
• Harry Hinkel, 97, American racewalker and Olympian.
• Reidar Hirsti, 76, Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour Party.
• Ljiljana Krstić, 81, Serbian actress.
• Shimshon Dovid Pincus, 57, American-Israeli orthodox rabbi, traffic collision.

13

• Mario David, 70, Argentine film director and screenwriter.
• Jimmy Logan, 73, Scottish comedian, actor, producer and director, cancer.
• Stephen C. O'Connell, 85, American jurist.
• Josephine Premice, 74, Haitian-American actress and singer.
• Ken Weston, 53, English sound engineer (Gladiator, Evita, Flash Gordon), Oscar winner (2001), kidney cancer.

14

• Jim Baxter, 61, Scottish football player, pancreatic cancer.
• Dorothee Metlitzki, 86, German-American author, professor of English and zionist.
• Haruo Minami, 77, Japanese enka singer and rōkyoku performer, prostate cancer.
• Bryan Ranft, 83, British historian.
• Ngan Shing-kwan, 98, Hong Kong transport and property tycoon.
• Hiroshi Teshigahara, 74, Japanese avant-garde filmmaker (Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another), leukemia.

15

• Donald Dorfman, 67, American mathematical psychologist and radiologist.
• Jack Elway, 69, American college football player and coach (Washington State, San Jose State, Stanford), heart attack.
• Joey Ramone, (b. Jeffrey Hyman), 49, American musician, lead singer for The Ramones, lymphoma.
• Bo Roberson, 65, American track and field athlete, football player and Olympian.
• John Verrall, 92, American composer of contemporary classical music.

16

• Emanuele Clarizio, 89, Italian prelate and diplomat of the Catholic Church.
• Giacomo Gentilomo, 92, Italian film director and painter.
• Horace Gwynne, 88, Canadian boxer and Olympic champion.
• Alfred Horn, 83, American mathematician.
• Paul Kuroda, 84, Japanese-American chemist and nuclear scientist.
• Peter Maag, 81, Swiss conductor.
• John R. McNamara, 73, American naval officer and bishop.
• Robert Osterloh, 82, American actor.
• Mohammad Rabbani, Afghani politician and one of the founders of the Taliban, liver cancer.
• Hank Riebe, 79, American baseball player.
• Michael Ritchie, 62, American film director (The Bad News Bears, Fletch, Downhill Racer), prostate cancer.
• Thomas H. Stix, 76, American physicist.
• Alec Stock, 84, English footballer and football manager.

17

• Merton Davies, 83, American astronomer and space exploration pioneer.
• John Ferraro, 76, American politician (Los Angeles City Council) and college football player (USC).
• Alfred M. Moen, 84, American inventor and founder of Moen Incorporated.
• Richard McGee Morse, 78, American Latin Americanist scholar and academic, Alzheimer's disease.
• Leonid Alfonsovich Ostrovski, 65, Soviet football player and manager.
• Terry Scully, 68, British theatre and television actor.
• Danica Seleskovitch, 79, French interpreter and academic writer.

18

• Khursheed Bano, 87, Indian singer and actress.
• Tony Bartley, 82, British film and television executive, and fighter pilot during World War II.
• Billy Mitchell, 74, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
• Robert Paparemborde, 52, French rugby player, pancreatic cancer.
• John Yonakor, 79, American football player.

19

• Lionel Abel, 90, American playwright ("Absalom"), essayist and theater critic.
• André du Bouchet, 77, French poet.
• Kurt Ott, 88, Cyclist from Switzerland.
• Edith Picht-Axenfeld, 87, German pianist and harpsichordist.
• Egor Popov, 88, Russian-American civil engineer.
• Hal Haig Prieste, 104, Armenian-American athlete.
• Meldrim Thomson, Jr., 89, American politician, Governor of New Hampshire (1973–1979), Parkinson's disease.
• Pierre Versins, 78, French science fiction collector and scholar.

20

• Richard H. Austin, 87, American politician, Michigan Secretary of State (1971–1994), Alzheimer's disease.
• Steven Blaisse, 60, Dutch rower and Olympic silver medalist.
• Cino Cinelli, 85, Italian racing cyclist.
• Kenneth Colby, American psychiatrist and computer technology pioneer.
• David Gilbarg, 82, American professor emeritus of mathematics at Stanford University.
• Irène Joachim, 88, French soprano, and vocal teacher.
• Maria Karnilova, 80, American ballet dancer and actress (Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Fiddler on the Roof).
• Va'ai Kolone, 89, Prime Minister of Samoa.
• Maurice Lauré, 83, French civil servant.
• Avigdor Miller, 92, American Haredi rabbi and author.
• Giuseppe Sinopoli, 54, Italian conductor and composer, heart attack.
• Bert Sutcliffe, 77, New Zealand cricketer.

21

• Isaac Kobina Abban, 68, Ghanaian judge and Chief Justice.
• Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll, 63, British aristocrat.
• Claude Clark, 85, American painter and printmaker.
• Jack Haley Jr., 67, American film producer, director (That's Entertainment!) and documentarian.
• Edmund Malecki, 86, German international footballer.
• Ulla Poulsen Skou, 96, Danish ballerina and actress.
• Sandy Ullrich, 79, Cuban baseball player.
• Hal White, 82, American baseball player.

22

• Habis al-Majali, 87, Jordanian general and politician.
• John F. Allen, 92, Canadian physicist.
• Ike Cole, 73, American jazz pianist and composer, cancer.
• Trevor de Cleene, 68, New Zealand politician and lawyer, cancer.
• George R. Hill III, 79, American chemist, cancer.
• Fadil Hoxha, 85, Kosovar politician.
• Edward Muhl, 94, American motion picture executive.
• Heiko Oberman, 70, Dutch historian and theologian.
• Wesley C. Salmon, 75, American philosopher of science, car crash.
• Robert Starer, 77, Austrian-American composer, pianist and educator.

23

• Lennart Atterwall, 90, Swedish Olympic javelin thrower.
• Alfredo Gottardi, 86, Brazilian football player.
• Sir Charles Madden, 2nd Baronet, 94, British admiral.
• Electra Waggoner Biggs, 88, American heiress, socialite and sculptor.
• Guglielmo Biraghi, 73, Italian film critic and film festival director.
• Robert J. Huber, 78, American politician (U.S. Representative for Michigan's 18th congressional district from 1973 to 1975).
• R. A. C. Parker, 73, British historian.
• Jayant Shridhar Tilak, 79, Indian politician and newspaper editor.
• David M. Walker, 56, American astronaut, stroke.

24

• Hilda Cameron, 88, Canadian sprinter and Olympic medalist.
• Lindsay Daen, 78, New Zealand sculptor and artist.
• Al Hibbler, 85, American singer (Duke Ellington Orchestra).
• Shailesh Matiyani, 69, India hindi writer, poet and essayist.
• Peter Nugent, 63, Australian politician, heart attack.
• Josef Peters, 87, German racing driver.
• Leon Sullivan, 78, American civil rights leader, social activist and Baptist minister, leukemia.
• Paul Thieme, 96, German indologist.
• Johnny Valentine, 72, American professional wrestler.
• Li Yuqin, 72, Chinese noble and fourth wife of emperor Puyi, liver cirrhosis.

25

• Michele Alboreto, 44, Italian race car driver, car crash.
• Kow Nkensen Arkaah, 73, Ghanaian politician, Vice-President (1993–1997).
• Viktor Bannikov, 62, Soviet/Ukrainian football player and official.
• Chaya Devi, Indian film actress.
• Gwen Frostic, 94, American artist, entrepreneur and author.
• Majda Potokar, 71, Slovenian actress.

26

• Henry Boltinoff, 87, American cartoonist.
• Guy Butler, 83, South African poet, academic and writer.
• Ruth Hellberg, 94, German actress.
• Lili Massaferro, 74, Argentine actress and Montoneros militant, thrombophlebitis.
• Amrit Nahata, 72, Indian politician and film maker.
• André Pascal, 69, French songwriter and composer.
• Sverre Walter Rostoft, 88, Norwegian businessperson and politician.
• Rudolf Trenkel, 83, German fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II.
• Elisabeth Tschermak-Woess, 84, Austrian cytologist and phycologist.
• Renzo Vespignani, 77, Italian painter, engraver and writer.

27

• Charlie Applewhite, 68, American singer and radio host.
• Ernie Graham, 54, Northern Irish singer, guitarist and songwriter.
• Jack Murdock, 78, American actor (Rain Man, Altered States, Any Which Way You Can), emphysema.
• Piero Regnoli, 79, Italian screenwriter and film director.
• Richard M. Scammon, 85, American political scientist and author, Alzheimer's disease.
• John Winton, 69, British navy officer and writer.

28

• António Araújo, 77, Portuguese football player.
• Paul Daneman, 75, British actor (Not in Front of the Children, The Professionals, How I Won the War).
• Border Gezi, 36, Zimbabwean politician, traffic collision.
• Erica Green, 3, American child abuse victim, murdered.
• Ken Hughes, 79, English film director, writer and producer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang).
• Marie Jahoda, 94 Austrian-British social psychologist.
• Evelyn Künneke, 79, German singer and actress, lung cancer.
• Yoshio Okita, 98, Japanese Olympic track and field athlete.
• James Still, 94, American poet, novelist and folklorist.
• Guy Texereau, 65, French Olympic long-distance runner.
• Bako Touré, 61, Malian football player.

29

• Barend Biesheuvel, 81, Dutch politician, Prime Minister (1971-1973), cardiovascular disease.
• Diana Brebner, 44, Canadian poet.
• Babu Chiri Sherpa, 35, Nepal sherpa mountaineer, fall when climbing Mount Everest.
• Dubai Millennium, 5, British thoroughbred racehorse, grass sickness.
• Walter Hannemann, 88, American film editor.
• Rita Hunter, 67, British operatic dramatic soprano.
• Andy Phillip, 79, American basketball player.
• Allan Sloane, 86, American writer for radio and television.
• Gordon Watson, 87, English football player.

30

• Andreas Kupfer, 86, German football player.
• Maladi, 88, Indonesian athlete, songwriter, and politician.
• Brian Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris, 70, British poet, academic and politician, leukemia.
• Frank Stewart, 94, American baseball player.