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Events from the year2001 in the United States.

• President:

Bill Clinton (D-Arkansas) (until January 20)

George W. Bush (R-Texas) (starting January 20)

• Vice President:

Al Gore (D-Tennessee) (until January 20)

Dick Cheney (R-Wyoming) (starting January 20)

• Chief Justice:William Rehnquist (Virginia)^[1]
• Speaker of the House of Representatives:Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois)
• Senate Majority Leader:

Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) (until January 3)

Tom Daschle (D-South Dakota) (January 3–20)

Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) (January 20 – June 6)

Tom Daschle (D-South Dakota) (starting June 6)

• Congress:106th (until January 3),107th (starting January 3)

• January 1 – A blackmonolith measuring 270 cm (8.9 ft) tall appears inSeattle'sMagnuson Park, placed by an anonymous artist in reference to themonolith from the movie2001: A Space Odyssey.
• January 2 –Sila Calderón becomes the first female governor of US territoryPuerto Rico.
• January 10 –Nevada County shootings: InNevada County, California, 40-year-old Scott Harlan Thorpe kills three people in a shooting spree. He is later found incompetent to stand trial and declared not guilty by reason of insanity.
• January 11 – The U.S.Federal Trade Commission approves the merger ofAmerica Online andTime Warner to formAOL Time Warner.^[2]
• January 15
  • UK children's stop motion animated seriesBob the Builder starts its American debut for the first time onNick Jr.
  • Wikipedia is launched.
• January 16
  • PresidentBill Clinton awards former U.S. PresidentTheodore Roosevelt a posthumousMedal of Honor for his service during theSpanish–American War; 11 of Roosevelt's descendants accept on his behalf.
  • A man drives asemi-trailer truck into the side of theCalifornia State Capitol building, killing the driver and damaging the building's interior.^[3]
• January 18 – PresidentBill Clinton delivers his farewell address to the nation.
• January 20 –George W. Bush is sworn in as the 43rdpresident of the United States, andDick Cheney is sworn in as the 46thvice president.
• January 22–24 – The "Texas Seven", a group of convicts who escaped from theJohn B. Connally Unit in Texas, are found in Colorado.
• January 26 – Lacrosse player and coachDiane Whipple is killed by twoPresa Canarios named Bane and Hera, owned by her neighbors and attorneys Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel.
• January 28 –Super Bowl XXXV: TheBaltimore Ravens defeat theNew York Giants atRaymond James Stadium inTampa 34–7, winning their first Super Bowl title.

• February 9 – The submarineUSS Greeneville (SSN-772) strikes and sinks theJapanese fishing vesselEhime-Maru nearHawaii.
• February 16 –Iraq disarmament crisis: British and U.S. forces carry out bombing raids, attempting to disableIraq's air defense network.
• February 18
  • NASCAR legendDale Earnhardtdies in a last lap crash in the43rd annual Daytona 500.
  • FBI agentRobert Hanssen is arrested and charged with spying forRussia for 15 years.
• February 19 – AnOklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at theOklahoma City National Memorial.
• February 23 –Isla Vista massacre: InIsla Vista, California,David Attias drives a car into five pedestrians, killing four and critically injuring one. He is later convicted of murder and declared legally insane.
• February 27 – President Bushdelivers his first address to the107th Congress.^[4]
• February 28 – The 6.8M_wNisqually earthquake shook thePuget Sound region of western Washington with a maximumMercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing 1 death, 400 injuries, and 1 to US$4 billion in losses.

• March – The United States enters the early 2000s recession; the unemployment rate rises to 4.4%.
• March 24 –Apple Computer releases theMac OS X next-generation operating system, with version10.0. It goes on to be the second-most used desktop operating system with a market share of roughly 10 percent.^[5]
• March 25 – The73rd Academy Awards, hosted bySteve Martin, are held atShrine Auditorium inLos Angeles, withRidley Scott'sGladiator winning five awards out of 12 nominations, includingBest Picture.Steven Soderbergh is nominated twice forBest Director, winning forTraffic. The telecast garners 42.9 million viewers.
• March 28 – The Bush administration withdraws U.S. support for the 1997Kyoto Protocol on the reduction ofgreenhouse gases.^[6]
• March 30 –The Fairly OddParents andInvader Zim debuts onNickelodeon.

• April 1
  • A Chinese fighter jetcollides with a U.S.EP-3E surveillance aircraft, forcing it to make an emergency landing inHainan, China. The U.S. crew is detained for 10 days, and theF-8 Chinese pilot goes missing and is presumed dead.
  • TheWorld Wrestling Federation hostsWrestleMania X-Seven at theReliant Astrodome inHouston, drawing a record crowd of 67,925.
• April 7 –Timothy Thomas, a 19-year-old African-American, is shot by a police officer inCincinnati, sparkingriots in downtown Cincinnati from April 10 to April 12.
• April 17 – The2001 Mississippi flag referendum occurred, 64.39% of the population voted to formally adopt the1894 U.S. state flag over thenew 2001 proposed state flag design.
• April 19 – The multiple Tony Award-winning musicalThe Producers by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, opens on Broadway at the St. James Theatre.
• April 21 – The smallKansas town ofHoisington is hit by anF4 tornado, destroying one-third of the city and killing one.
• April 28 –Soyuz TM-32 lifts off from theBaikonur Cosmodrome, carrying the firstspace tourist, AmericanDennis Tito.

• May 6 – Space touristDennis Tito returns to Earth aboardSoyuz TM-31. (Soyuz TM-32 is left docked at theInternational Space Station as a new lifeboat.)
• May 18 –Shrek is released in theaters.

• June 5 – U.S. SenatorJim Jeffords leaves theRepublican Party, an act which changes control of theUnited States Senate from the Republican Party to theDemocratic Party.
• June 5–9 –Tropical Storm Allison produces 36 inches (900 mm) of rain inHouston, Texas, killing 22, damaging theTexas Medical Center, and causing more than US$5 billion of damage.^[7]
• June 7 – TheEconomic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 is signed into law by U.S. President George W. Bush, the first of a series of acts which becomes known as theBush tax cuts.
• June 9 – TheColorado Avalanche wins their secondStanley Cup, andRay Bourque wins his first Cup after a lengthy career.
• June 11 – InTerre Haute, Indiana,Timothy McVeigh is executed for theOklahoma City bombing.
• June 15
  • Walt Disney Pictures' 41st feature film,Atlantis: The Lost Empire, is released. Though reception is mixed and it performs modestly at the box office, it has since become acult favorite among fans due in part to the visual influence of comics artistMike Mignola.
  • TheLos Angeles Lakers defeat thePhiladelphia 76ers in the2001 NBA Finals in five games for their second consecutive NBA championship.
• June 19 – A missile hits a soccer field inTal Afar,Iraq, killing 23 and wounding 11. The Iraqi government claims it was an American-British airstrike; U.S. officials say it was actually an Iraqi missile that malfunctioned.^[8]
• June 20 –Andrea Yates drowns her five children in a bath tub inHouston,Texas.^[9]

• July 9 – TheThirty Mile Fire ignites inOkanogan County, Washington. Four firefighters die while battling the blaze.
• July 16 – TheFBI arrestsDmitry Sklyarov at a convention inLas Vegas, Nevada, for violating a provision of theDigital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
• July 18 – InBaltimore, Maryland, a60-car train derailment occurs in a tunnel, sparking a fire that lasts days and virtually shuts down downtown Baltimore.

• August 1 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief JusticeRoy Moore has a 2.5-short-ton (2,300 kg) monument of theTen Commandments installed in the Rotunda of the Judiciary Building. He is latersued to have it removed, and is eventually removed from office.
• August 2 – TheHouse of Representatives approves oil exploration in theAlaskanArctic National Wildlife Refuge.^[6]
• August 5 – Having acquired theJim Henson Company's interest in the Odyssey cable network the previous year,Crown Media Holdings rebrands Odyssey as theHallmark Channel, after Crown Media's corporate parentHallmark Cards. The Hallmark Channel branding continues to this day.
• August 9 – President Bush announces his limited support for federal funding of research on embryonicstem cells.
• August 25 – U.S. singerAaliyah dies in aplane crash in the Bahamas.
• August 28 – The U.S. governors ofNew England agree with theQuebec andAtlantic Canadianpremiers to theClimate Change Action Plan 2001.

• September 1 – The libertarianFree State Project is founded atYale University.
• September 2 –Adult Swim, an adult-oriented programming block, debuts on itsTurner sister cable channelCartoon Network.
• September 4 –Robert Mueller becomes the FBI's director.
• September 5 – The pieceAs Slow as Possible, composed byJohn Cage, begins. It will last 639 years, finishing in the year2640.^[10]
• September 6 –United States v. Microsoft Corp.: TheUnited States Justice Department announces that it no longer seeks to break up software makerMicrosoft, and will instead seek a lesserantitrust penalty.
• September 10 –Donald Rumsfeld gives a speech regarding $2.3 trillion inPentagon spending that cannot be accounted for, identifying the bureaucratic processes of the Pentagon as the biggest threat to America.^[11]

• September 11 –September 11 attacks: Almost 3,000 people are killed in four suicide attacks at theWorld Trade Center (WTC) inNew York City (NYC);the Pentagon inArlington, Virginia; and in ruralShanksville, Pennsylvania.^[6] The attack launches the globalwar on terrorism.
• September 15 – TheQueen Isabella Causeway inTexas collapses after being hit by a tugboat, killing eight.
• September 17 – TheNew York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after theSeptember 11 attacks, the longest closure since theGreat Depression.
• September 18 – The2001 anthrax attacks commence as letters containing anthrax spores are mailed fromPrinceton, New Jersey, toABC News,CBS News,NBC News, theNew York Post, and theNational Enquirer. Twenty-two people in total are exposed, with five resulting fatalities.^[12]
• September 20 –President Bushdelivers a speech to ajoint session of Congress, announcing the investigation into theSeptember 11 attacks.^[13]
• September 21 –America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of theSeptember 11 attacks.

• October 3 –2001 Greyhound bus attack: A passenger slits the throat of the driver, causing the bus to crash nearManchester,Tennessee, killing seven people.
• October 5 –Barry Bonds of theSan Francisco Giants breaks the single season home run record, with his 71st and 72nd home runs of the year.
• October 7 – The United States invadesAfghanistan, accompanied by other nations participating inOperation Enduring Freedom.^[6]
• October 8 – U.S. PresidentGeorge W. Bush announces the establishment of theOffice of Homeland Security.
• October 9 – The2001 anthrax attacks continue as contaminated letters are mailed fromPrinceton, New Jersey, to U.S. SenatorsTom Daschle ofSouth Dakota andPatrick Leahy ofVermont.
• October 15 –NASA'sGalileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles (180 km) ofJupiter's moonIo.
• October 23 – Apple releases the firstiPod in the United States, revolutionizing the way people listen to music.
• October 25 – Microsoft releasesWindows XP to the public.
• October 26 – U.S. President George W. Bush signs theUSA PATRIOT Act into law.^[14]

• November 1 – TheNew York Yankees defeat theArizona Diamondbacks in Game 4 of the2001 World Series to tie the series at 2 in the firstWorld Series game to be played in the month ofNovember.Derek Jeter's walk-off home run in the bottom of the 10th earns him the nickname "Mr. November".
• November 2 –Pixar Animation Studios' fourth feature film,Monsters, Inc., is released in theaters.
• November 4 – TheArizona Diamondbacks defeat theNew York Yankees in seven games to win their first World Series in franchise history.
• November 5 –Andrew Bagby is murdered inKeystone State Park,Pennsylvania by his former partner Shirley Jane Turner. While awaiting trial and extraction from Canada, she gained custody of the couple's son who she then also murdered. The deaths later became the basis for the 2008 documentaryDear Zachary.^[15]
• November 9 –Kellie Pickler andAaron Tippin in a state inUnited States of America.
• November 12 – InNew York City,American Airlines Flight 587, headed to theDominican Republic, crashes inQueens just minutes after takeoff from theJohn F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
• November 13 –War on terror: In the first such act sinceWorld War II, U.S. President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowingmilitary tribunals against any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts against the United States.
• November 16 –Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, directed byChris Columbus is released in theaters as the first film of theHarry Potter film series.
• November 18 – Nintendo releases theNintendo GameCube in North America.
• November 29 – English musician, singer, songwriter, music and film producer, and formerThe Beatles memberGeorge Harrison dies oflung cancer inLos Angeles.
• November 30 –Gary Ridgway, a.k.a. The Green River Killer, is arrested outside the truck factory where he had worked in Renton, Washington. His arrest marks the end of one of the longest running homicide investigations in US history.

• December – The unemployment rate rises to 5.7%, the highest since January 1996; the early 2000s recession ends.
• December 1 – The lastTrans World Airlines flight lands atSt. Louis International Airport, following TWA's purchase byAmerican Airlines.
• December 2 –Enron files forChapter 11 bankruptcy protection five days afterDynegy cancels a US$8.4 billion buyout bid. Enron'sbankruptcy becomes the largest in U.S. history.^[6]
• December 3 – Officials announce that one of theTaliban prisoners captured after the prison uprising atMazari Sharif,Afghanistan isJohn Walker Lindh, an American citizen.
• December 11
  • The United States government indictsZacarias Moussaoui for involvement in theSeptember 11 attacks.
  • TheUnited States Customs Service raids members of international software piracy groupDrinkOrDie inOperation Buccaneer.^[16]
• December 13 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the United States' withdrawal from the 1972Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
• December 16 –Cleveland Browns fans riot bythrowing bottles after the team's 15–10 loss to theJacksonville Jaguars following a controversial call by the referees regarding a fourth-down pass fromTim Couch.^[17]
• December 19 –The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, directed byPeter Jackson, is released in theaters as the first film ofThe Lord of the Rings film series.
• December 22 – A flight fromParis, France toMiami, Florida is diverted toBoston, Massachusetts after passengerRichard Reid attempts to detonate explosives hidden in his shoes.
• December 27 – The People's Republic ofChina is granted permanentnormal trade status with the United States.

• Iraqi no-fly zones (1991–2003)^[18]
• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)

• January 6 –Kenyon Martin Jr., basketball player
• January 8 –Kaash Paige, singer
• January 12 –Jena Rose, pop singer
• January 13 –Emily Grace Reaves, actress
• January 14 –Cora Jade, professional wrestler
• January 18 –Claire Engler, actress
• January 21 –Jackson Brundage, actor
• January 26 –Isaac Okoro, basketball player
• January 30 –Alex Wind, activist

• February 2 –Connor Gibbs, actor
• February 8 –Jaden Hossler, singer
• February 15 –Haley Tju, actress^[19]
• February 16 –Chloe East, actress
• February 19 –David Mazouz, actor
• February 21
  • Isabella Acres, actress^[20]
  • Jagger Eaton, skateboarder

• March 6
  • Milo Manheim, actor
  • Zhavia Ward, singer-songwriter
• March 10 –Alyssa Carson, space enthusiast and undergraduate student^[21]
• March 11 –Kaylee Bryson, race car driver
• March 22 –Aalayah Eastmond, activist
• March 31
  • Noah Urrea singer, actor, and model
  • James Wiseman, basketball player

• April 3 –Ashima Shiraishi, rock climber
• April 5 –Robbie Tucker, actor
• April 15 –Jordan Chiles, artistic gymnast
• April 20 –Ian Alexander, actor
• April 30 –Lil Tjay, rapper

• May 3 –Rachel Zegler, actress^[22]
• May 4 –Noah Beck, social media influencer
• May 14 –Jack Hughes, ice hockey player^[23]
• May 17 –AJ Mitchell, singer-songwriter and musician^[24]
• May 20 –Kyle Kashuv, conservative activist
• May 22
  • Emma Chamberlain, YouTuber^[25]
  • Judah Lewis, actor
• May 23 –Matthew Lintz, actor
• May 24 –Emily Austin, media personality
• May 27 –Izabela Vidovic, actress

• June 1 –ppcocaine, rapper and online personality
• June 3 –Zoe LaVerne, internet personality
• June 9 –Xolo Maridueña, actor
• June 10 –Sasha Obama, daughter ofBarack Obama
• June 12 –John Bigelow IV, golfer
• June 19 –Ava Cantrell, actress and dancer
• June 21 –Sofie Dossi, contortionist and YouTuber
• June 24 –Mo'ne Davis, athlete

• July 1 –Chosen Jacobs, actor, singer, and musician
• July 7 –Paul Juda, artistic gymnast
• July 8 –Marshawn Kneeland, American football player (d. 2025)
• July 10 –Isabela Merced, actress and singer
• July 12 –Niles Fitch, actor
• July 16 –Island Boys, musical duo
• July 18 –Hailie Deegan, stock car racing driver^[26]

• August 1 –Sarah Chadwick, activist
• August 5 –Josie Totah, actress
• August 6 –Ty Simpkins, actor
• August 8 –Bebe Wood, actress and singer
• August 12 –Dixie D'Amelio, social media influencer
• August 21 –Brooks Jensen, pro wrestler
• August 30 –Emily Bear, pianist and composer
• August 31 –Garrett Wareing, actor

• September 4 –Talitha Bateman, actress
• September 6
  • Aidan Laprete, singer and actor
  • Terrence Clarke, basketball player (died2021)
• September 11 –Mackenzie Aladjem, actress
• September 15 –Emma Fuhrmann, actress
• September 23 –J.I., musician
• September 25 –Cade Cunningham, basketball player

• October 1
  • Luna Blaise, actress and singer
  • Tylee Craft, college football player (d. 2024)^[27]
• October 3
  • C. J. Stroud, American football player^[28]
  • SoFaygo, American rapper
• October 5 –Dalila Bela, Canadian-American actress
• October 10
  • Alfonso Calderon, activist
  • Blake Cooper, actor
• October 12
  • Brett Cooper, conservative commentator
  • Raymond Ochoa, actor
• October 13 –Caleb McLaughlin, actor^[29]
• October 14 –Rowan Blanchard, actress^[30]
• October 19 –SpotemGottem, rapper
• October 20 –Paige Bueckers, basketball player
• October 27 –Autumn de Forest, artist

• November 5 –Roxanne Perez, pro wrestler
• November 8 –Julia Hart, pro wrestler
• November 21 –Samantha Bailey, actress

• December 3 –Eliza Jane Scovill, murder victim (d.2005)
• December 8 –Tylen Jacob Williams, actor
• December 14 –Joshua Rush, actor^[31]
• December 16 –Kai Cenat, YouTuber
• December 18 –Billie Eilish, singer
• December 24 –Emma Weyant, swimmer
• December 28 –Madison De La Garza, actress
• December 31 –Cameron Brink, basketball player

• Jack Teixeira, airman alleged to be behind the2023 Pentagon document leaks
• Zoe Yin, artist and writer

• January 1 –Ray Walston, actor (b.1914)
• January 2 –William P. Rogers, politician (b.1913)
• January 4 –Les Brown, jazz musician (b.1912)
• January 5 –Nancy Parsons, actress (b.1942)
• January 6 –Gene Taylor, media personality (b.1947)
• January 8 –Edwin Etherington, writer, lawyer, and civil rights advocate (b.1924)
• January 10 –John G. Schmitz, politician (b.1930)
• January 11
  • Dorothy M. Horstmann, virologist who made important discoveries about polio (b.1911)
  • Louis Krages, German-American racing driver and businessman (b.1949)
• January 12
  • Affirmed, race horse (b.1975)
  • William Hewlett, co-founder ofHewlett-Packard (b.1913)
• January 15 –Bob Braun, actor (b.1929)
• January 16
  • Virginia O'Brien, actress (b.1919)
  • Leonard Woodcock, trade unionist and diplomat (b.1911)
• January 17 –Gregory Corso, poet (b.1930)
• January 19 –Maxine Mesinger, newspaper columnist (b.1925)
• January 21
  • Sandy Baron, actor (b.1936)
  • Byron De La Beckwith, white supremacist and murderer (b.1920)
• January 22
  • Tommie Agee, baseball player (b.1942)
  • Roy Brown, clown (b.1932)
• January 23 –Jack McDuff, jazz organist and bandleader (b.1926)
• January 26
  • Murray Edelman, political scientist (b.1919)
  • Diane Whipple, lacrosse player and coach and dog mauling victim (b.1968)
• January 28
  • Curt Blefary, baseball player (b.1943)
  • Sally Mansfield, actress (b.1920)
• January 29 –Frances Bible, American operatic mezzo-soprano (b.1919)
• January 30 –Joseph Ransohoff, neurosurgeon (b.1915)
• January 31 –Gordon R. Dickson, science fiction writer (b.1923)

• February 4 –J. J. Johnson, jazz musician (b.1924)
• February 6 –Arthur W. Hummel Jr., diplomat (b.1920)
• February 7 –Dale Evans, actress, wife ofRoy Rogers (b.1912)
• February 8 –Arlene Eisenberg, author (b.1934)
• February 9 –Herbert A. Simon, Nobel award-winning economist (b.1916)
• February 10
  • Lewis Arquette, actor (b.1935)
  • Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City. (b.1906)
• February 13 –Victor Veysey, American politician (b.1915)
• February 15
  • Burt Kennedy, screenwriter and director (b.1922)
  • Jack McGowan, American professional golfer (b.1930)
• February 16
  • Howard W. Koch, producer and director (b.1916)
  • William Masters, gynecologist (b.1915)
• February 17
  • Debbie Dean, American singer (b.1928)
  • Khalid Muhammad, black supremacist (b.1948)
• February 18
  • Dale Earnhardt, race car driver (b.1951)
  • Eddie Mathews, baseball player (b.1931)
• February 19 –Stanley Kramer, director (b.1913)
• February 20 –Rosemary DeCamp, actress (b.1910)
• February 22 –John Fahey, finger-style guitarist (b.1939)
• February 23 –Anthony Giacalone, organized crime figure (b.1919)
• February 24 –Phil Collier, sports writer (b.1925)

• March 1
  • John Painter, American supercentenarian (b.1888)
  • Henry Wade, soldier and lawyer (b.1914)
• March 2 –Lonnie Glosson, musician (b.1908)
• March 4
  • Glenn Hughes, musician (b.1950)
  • Jim Rhodes, politician (b.1909)
  • Harold Stassen, politician (b.1907)
• March 8 –Edward Winter, actor (b.1937)
• March 10 –Michael Elkins, broadcaster and journalist (b.1917)
• March 12
  • John Anderson, canoeist (b.1915)
  • Morton Downey Jr., television talk show host and actor (b.1932)
  • Henry Lee Lucas, serial killer (b.1936)^[32]
  • Robert Ludlum, writer (b.1927)^[33]
• March 13 –Walter Dukes, basketball player (b.1930)
• March 15
  • Durward Gorham Hall, politician, (b.1910)
  • Ann Sothern, actress (b.1909)
• March 18 –John Phillips, American singer, guitarist, songwriter and promoter (b.1935)
• March 21 –Billy Ray Smith, Sr., football player (b.1934)
• March 22 –William Hanna, animator (b.1910)
• March 26 –Brenda Helser, Olympic swimmer (b.1924)
• March 28
  • Jim Benton, footballer (b.1916)
  • George Connor, American racecar driver (b.1906)
• March 31 –Clifford Shull, Nobel physicist (b.1915)

• April 1 –Jo-Jo Moore, baseball player (b.1908)
• April 2 –Jennifer Syme, murder victim (b.1972)
• April 4 –Ed Roth, artist, cartoonist, illustrator, pinstriper and custom car designer and builder (b.1932)
• April 6 –Charles Pettigrew, singer (b.1963)
• April 7
  • David Graf, American actor (b.1950)
  • Beatrice Straight, American actress (b.1914)
• April 8
  • Safiya Henderson-Holmes, poet (b.1950)
  • Van Stephenson, singer-songwriter (b.1953)
• April 9 –Willie Stargell, American baseball player, member of theBaseball Hall of Fame (b.1940)
• April 10 –Richard Evans Schultes, American ethnobotanist (b.1915)
• April 11 –Sandy Bull, folk musician and composer (b.1941)
• April 15 –Joey Ramone, musician (b.1951)
• April 16 –Michael Ritchie, filmmaker (b.1938)
• April 19 –Egor Popov, Russian-born American civil engineer. (b.1912)
• April 21 –Jack Haley Jr., director, producer and writer (b.1933)
• April 24 –Leon Sullivan, minister and activist (b.1922)
• April 27 –Charlie Applewhite, singer and radio host (b.1932)
• April 28
  • Erica Green, murder victim (b.1997)
  • James Still, poet, novelist and folklorist (b.1906)

• May 4 –Eleanor Lausch Dietrich, operatic soprano (b.1912)^[34]
• May 5
  • Charles Black, constitutional scholar (b.1915)
  • Morris Graves, expressionist painter (b.1910)
  • Cliff Hillegass, creator ofCliffsNotes (b.1917)
• May 6 –Weldon B. Gibson, economist (b.1916)
• May 11 –Douglas Adams, English author and humorist (b.1952)
• May 12 –Perry Como, singer (b.1912)
• May 13 –Jason Miller, playwright and actor (b.1939)
• May 22 –Whitman Mayo, American actor (b.1930)
• May 23 –Harry Townes, American actor (b.1914)
• May 26 –Anne Haney, American actress (b.1934)
• May 27 –Victor Kiam, businessman and American football owner (b.1926)
• May 31 –Arlene Francis, American actress and game show panelist (b.1907)

• June 1 –Hank Ketcham, cartoonist, creator ofDennis the Menace (b.1920)
• June 2 –Imogene Coca, actress (b.1908)
• June 3 –Anthony Quinn, actor (b.1915)
• June 4 –John Hartford, musician and composer (b.1937)^[35]
• June 10 –Mike Mentzer, bodybuilder (b.1951)^[36]
• June 11 –Timothy McVeigh, domestic terrorist (b.1968)^[37]
• June 17 –Donald J. Cram, Nobel chemist (b.1919)^[38]
• June 21
  • John Lee Hooker, musician (b.1917)^[39]
  • Carroll O'Connor, actor (b.1924)
• June 22 –George Evans, cartoonist and illustrator (b.1920)
• June 24 –William H. Sewell, sociologist (b.1909)
• June 26 –John F. Yardley, aeronautical engineer (b.1925)
• June 27 –Jack Lemmon, actor (b.1925)
• June 28 –Mortimer J. Adler, philosopher (b.1902)
• June 30
  • Chet Atkins, guitarist and record producer (b.1924)
  • Joe Henderson, jazz tenor saxophonist (b.1937)

• July 3
  • Roy Nichols, guitarist (b.1932)
  • Johnny Russell, country singer (b.1940)
• July 4 –Keenan Milton, skateboarder (b.1974)
• July 16 –Terry Gordy, American professional wrestler (b.1961)
• July 17 –Katharine Graham, American publisher (b.1917)^[40]
• July 19 –Gunther Gebel-Williams, animal trainer (b.1934)
• July 22 –Bob Ferguson, American country music songwriter and record producer (b.1927)
• July 28 –John Easton, American professional baseball player (b.1933)
• July 31 –Poul Anderson, writer (b.1926)

• August 3 –Christopher Hewett, English actor (b.1921)
• August 4 –Lorenzo Music, writer, producer, and voice actor (b.1937)
• August 8
  • Big Ed, rapper (b.1971)
  • Maureen Reagan, political activist and daughter of Ronald Reagan (b.1941)
• August 10 –Lou Boudreau, baseball player (b.1917)
• August 14 –Earl Anthony, professional bowler (b.1938)
• August 19 –Betty Everett, R&B and soul singer (b.1939)
• August 23 –Kathleen Freeman, actress (b.1919)^[41]
• August 24 –George Benson (b.1919)
• August 25
  • Aaliyah, singer and actress, died in plane crash inMarsh Harbour,Abaco Islands,The Bahamas (b.1979)
  • John Chambers, American make-up artist (b.1922)
  • John L. Nelson, American jazz musician (b.1916)
  • Diana Golden, American disabled ski racer (b.1963)
• August 30 –Julie Bishop, film and television actress (b.1914)
• August 31 –Crash Davis, American professional baseball player (b.1919)

• September 2 –Troy Donahue, actor (b.1936)
• September 3 –Thuy Trang, actress (b.1973)^[42]
• September 4
  • Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, entertainer and radio personality (b.1962)
  • Pete Brown, footballer (b.1930)
• September 5 –Cawood Ledford, American radio announcer (Kentucky Wildcats) (b.1926)
• September 7 –Glenn Thompson, American book publisher and activist (b.1940)
• September 11
  • Alice Stewart Trillin, author and film producer (b.1938)
  • At least 3,000 people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, including but not limited to:
    • Todd Beamer, American airline passenger,United Airlines Flight 93 (b.1969)
    • Berry Berenson, actress and photographer. Passenger ofAmerican Airlines Flight 11 (b.1947)
    • Carolyn Beug, American filmmaker and video producer. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11 (b.1952)
    • Bill Biggart, photojournalist (b.1947)
    • Mark Bingham, American airline passenger, United Airlines Flight 93 (b.1970)
    • Ronald Paul Bucca, American fire marshal (b.1953)
    • Charles Burlingame, airline pilot,American Airlines Flight 77 (b.1949)
    • Tom Burnett, American airline passenger, United Airlines Flight 93 (b.1963)
    • William E. Caswell, American physicist. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 77 (b.1947)
    • Kevin Cosgrove, business executive (b.1955)
    • Welles Crowther, investment banker (b.1977)
    • William M. Feehan, Deputy fire commissioner (b.1929)
    • Wilson Flagg, Rear Admiral (b.1938)
    • Peter J. Ganci Jr., Chief of the Fire Department of New York (b.1946)
    • Barbara Olson, lawyer and media personality (b.1955)
    • David Angell, producer (b.1946)
    • Jeremy Glick, American airline passenger, United Airlines Flight 93 (b.1970)
    • Lauren Grandcolas, American author. Passenger of United Airlines Flight 93 (b.1962)
    • Nezam Hafiz, American cricketer (b.1969)
    • Mohammad Salman Hamdani, American research technician (b.1977)
    • LeRoy Homer Jr., American airline pilot, United Airlines Flight 93 (b.1965)
    • Charles Edward Jones, American astronaut. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11 (b.1953)
    • Mychal Judge, Chaplain of the Fire Department of New York (b.1933)
    • Neil David Levin, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (b.1954)
    • Daniel M. Lewin, co-founder of Akamai Technologies. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11 (b.1970)
    • Eamon McEneaney, American lacrosse player (b.1954)
    • Timothy Maude, Lieutenant General, U.S. Army (b.1947)
    • John Ogonowski, American pilot, American Airlines Flight 11 (b.1948)
    • John P. O'Neill, Counterterrorism expert (b.1952)
    • Betty Ong, American flight attendant, American Airlines Flight 11 (b.1956)
    • Orio Palmer, American firefighter (b. 1956)
    • Dominick Pezzulo, American police officer (b.1965)
    • Sneha Anne Philip, American physician, presumed to have been a victim of the attacks (b.1970)
    • Rick Rescorla, World Trade Center security chief for Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter (b.1939)
    • Michael Richards, Jamaican-born American sculptor (b. 1963)
    • Victor Saracini, American pilot,United Airlines Flight 175 (b.1978)
    • Abraham Zelmanowitz, American computer programmer (b.1945)
    • Madeline Amy Sweeney, flight attendant, American Airlines Flight 11 (b.1965)
• September 13 –Dorothy McGuire, actress (b.1916)
• September 15
  • Fred de Cordova, director and producer (b.1910)
  • Richard Fegley, professional photographer (b.1936)
• September 22 –Isaac Stern, violinist (b.1920)
• September 25
  • John Powers, American professional baseball player (b.1929)
  • Lani O’Grady, American actress (b.1954)
• September 29 –Gloria Foster, American actress (b.1933)^[43]

• October 5 –Mike Mansfield, American politician and diplomat. (b.1903)
• October 7 –Chris Adams, English professional wrestler (b.1955)
• October 9 –Dagmar, American actress, model and television personality (b.1921)
• October 14 –Zhang Xueliang, Chinese ruler of Manchuria, died inHonolulu,Hawaii (b.1901)
• October 19 –Joe Murray, American baseball player (b. 1921)

• November 5 –Milton William Cooper, American author and radio host (b.1943)
• November 6 –John Simon White, Austrian-born American opera director. (b. 1940)
• November 7 –Bobby Bass, stunt performer (b.1936)
• November 10 –Ken Kesey, American author (b.1935)
• November 11 –Frederick Allen, politician (b.1914)
• November 13 –Panama Francis, American swing jazz drummer (b.1918)
• November 17
  • John M. Dawson, computational physicist (b.1930)
  • Harrison A. Williams, politician (b.1920)
• November 21 –Fritz Herzog, German-born American mathematician (b. 1903)
• November 22 –Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman (b.1918)
• November 29 –George Harrison, English guitarist, lead guitarist ofThe Beatles (b.1943)

• December 13
  • Chuck Schuldiner, singer and guitarist (born1967)
  • Rufus Thomas, singer (born1917)
• December 16 –Stuart Adamson, British guitarist and singer (born 1958)
• December 20 –Foster Brooks, actor and comedian (b.1912)
• December 21 –Dick Schaap, sportswriter and broadcaster (b.1934)
• December 22 –Lance Loud, personality, columnist, and performer (born1951)
• December 28 –Frankie Gaye, soul musician (born1941)
• December 30
  • Ray Patterson, animator, producer, and director (born1911)
  • Eileen Heckart, Oscar-winning actor (born1919)

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