The following is a list ofnotable deaths in April 2001.

Entries for each day are listedalphabetically 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.

• Jean Anderson, 93, English actress (The Brothers,Tenko).^[1]
• Eugênio German, 70, Brazilian chess master and Brazilian chess champion (1951, 1972).^[2]
• Jayant Kothari, 71, Indian literary critic.^[3]
• Ted McCarty, 91, American businessman.
• Jo-Jo Moore, 92, American baseball player.^[4]
• Brendan O'Reilly, 71, Irish broadcaster.
• Aleksandar Obradović, 73, Serbian composer and academic.^[5]
• Jim Proudfoot, 67, Canadian sports journalist.
• Valerie Scott, 83, English tennis player.^[6]
• Russ Smith, 56, American gridiron football player.^[7]
• Trinh Cong Son, 62, Vietnamese musician and composer.^[8]
• Zellio Toppazzini, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.^[9]
• Larry Tucker, 66, American screenwriter (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice),multiple sclerosis.^[10]
• Jalil Zandi, 49,Iranianflying ace, car accident.

• Charles Daudelin, 80, French-Canadian sculptor and painter.^[11]
• Gary Gearhart, 77, American baseball player.^[12]
• François Gelhausen, 70, Luxembourgish racing cyclist.
• Andy Guest, 61, American politician.
• Carlos Carnes Ogden, Sr., 83, US Army officer and recipient of theMedal of Honor.^[13]
• Jennifer Syme, 28, American actress and record executive, traffic collision.^[14]

• Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell, 89, British newspaper proprietor.^[15]
• Big Daddy Kinsey, 74, AmericanChicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player,prostate cancer.^[16]
• Jason Massey, 28, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Kersten Meier, 47, German swimmer, suicide by jumping.^[17]
• Butch Moore, 63, Irish singer and a showband icon, heart attack.
• Paul Peek, 63, Americanrockabilly pioneer.
• Adela Reta, 79, Uruguayan lawyer and politician.^[18]

• Beryl Gilroy, 76, British pioneering teacher and novelist, heart attack.^[19]
• Wim van der Linden, 60, Dutch photographer and film and television director.^[20]
• 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.^[21]

• Benjy Dial, 57, American football player.^[22]
• Kingsley Charles Dunham, 91, Britishgeologist.^[23]
• Sonya Hedenbratt, 70, Swedish singer and actress.
• Jay Miller, 57, American basketball player, heart attack.^[24]
• John Bertram Oakes, 87, American journalist.^[25]
• Aldo Olivieri, 90, Italian football goalkeeper and manager.^[26]
• David Lloyd Owen, 83, British army general and writer.^[27]
• Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd, 82, British politician who served asLeader of the House of Lords.^[28]
• Brother Theodore, 94, German-American actor and comedian.^[29]

• George Bull, 71, British journalist and writer.^[30]
• Danny Gaither, 62, American gospel singer (Bill Gaither Trio).^[31]
• Chaudhary Devi Lal, 85, Indian politician andDeputy Prime Minister of India.^[32]
• Yevgeny Malinin, 70, Soviet and Russian pianist.
• Charles Pettigrew, 37, American singer, half of R&B duoCharles & Eddie, cancer.^[33]

• David Graf, 50, American actor (Police Academy,The West Wing,Rules of Engagement), heart attack.^[34]
• Kurt Hohenemser, 95, German-born American aerospace engineer and a pioneer in helicopter design.^[35]
• Derek Lang, 87,British Army general.^[36]
• G. N. Ramachandran, 78, Indian physicist.
• Beatrice Straight, 86, American actress (Network,The Crucible,The Nun's Story),Oscar winner (1980), pneumonia.^[37]

• Kurt Almqvist, 89, Swedish poet, intellectual and spiritual figure.
• Frank Annunzio, 86, American politician,Parkinson's disease.^[38]
• Arthur Cantor, 81, American theatrical producer.^[39]
• Vladislav Krishchishin, 54, Ukrainianflyweightweightlifter.
• Nello Lauredi, 76, French road bicycle racer.^[40]
• Elsie Locke, 88, New Zealand writer, historian, andfeminist.^[41]
• Bob Sohl, 73, American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist.^[42]
• Van Stephenson, 47, American singer-songwriter,melanoma.
• Marguerite Viby, 91, Danish actress.^[43]

• Behram Contractor, 71, Indian journalist and humorist.
• Roque Ditro, 64, Argentine football player.^[44]
• Shakoor Rana, 65, Pakistanicricket umpire.
• Graziella Sciutti, 73, Italian soprano opera singer and producer.^[45]
• Willie Stargell, 61, American baseball player, member of theBaseball Hall of Fame, stroke.^[46]
• Hsieh Tung-min, 93, Taiwanese politician andVice President of the Republic of China.

• Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, 65, French film director.^[47]
• Tadeusz Chciuk-Celt, 84, Polish special forces operative during World War II, journalist and author.^[48]
• Nora Eddington, 77, American actress and socialite, kidney failure.
• John Marmion Edmond, 57, Scottish-AmericanMIT professor of marinegeochemistry andoceanography.^[49]
• Andy Farkas, 84, American footballer.^[50]
• Charles L. Freeman, 92, American sound editor and film editor.
• Michel Fribourg, 87, Belgian-American billionaire businessman.^[51]
• Derek Lambert, 71, English author.^[52]
• Nyree Dawn Porter, 65, New Zealand actress,leukemia.^[53]
• Richard Evans Schultes, 86, Americanethnobotanist.^[54]
• Roger Vale, 58, Australian politician.

• Sandy Bull, 60, American folk musician and composer,lung cancer.^[55]
• John Harris, Baron Harris of Greenwich, 71, British political aide and politician (Chief Whip in theHouse of Lords from 1994 to 2001).^[56]
• Jerzy Krasówka, 76, Polish football player.^[57]
• Thaddeus McCarthy, 93, New Zealand jurist.
• Graciela Naranjo, 84, Venezuelan singer and actress.
• Carolyn R. Payton, 75, American director of thePeace Corps (1977-1978).^[58]
• Harry Secombe, 79, Welsh actor (The Goon Show,Oliver!,The Bed Sitting Room), prostate cancer.^[59]
• Jack Wilson, 83, American footballer.^[60]

• Harvey Ball, 79, American inventor of thesmiley.^[61]
• Edmund W. Barker, 80, Singaporean politician and lawyer, colon surgery.
• Nelson Burbrink, 79, American baseball player, cancer.^[62]
• Wang Enmao, 88, Chinese lieutenant general and politician.^[63]
• Harry Hinkel, 97, American racewalker and Olympian.^[64]
• 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.

• Mario David, 70, Argentine film director and screenwriter.^[65]
• Jimmy Logan, 73, Scottish comedian, actor, producer and director, cancer.^[66]
• Stephen C. O'Connell, 85, American jurist.
• Josephine Premice, 74, Haitian-American actress and singer.^[67]
• Ken Weston, 53, English sound engineer (Gladiator,Evita,Flash Gordon),Oscar winner (2001),kidney cancer.^[68]

• Jim Baxter, 61, Scottish football player,pancreatic cancer.^[69]
• Dorothee Metlitzki, 86, German-American author, professor of English andzionist.^[70]
• Haruo Minami, 77, Japaneseenka singer andrōkyoku performer,prostate cancer.
• Bryan Ranft, 83, British historian.
• Ngan Shing-kwan, 98, Hong Kong transport and property tycoon.
• Hiroshi Teshigahara, 74, Japaneseavant-garde filmmaker (Woman in the Dunes,The Face of Another), leukemia.^[71]

• Donald Dorfman, 67, Americanmathematical psychologist andradiologist.^[72]
• Jack Elway, 69, American college football player and coach (Washington State,San Jose State,Stanford), heart attack.^[73]
• Joey Ramone, 49, American musician, lead singer forThe Ramones,lymphoma.^[74]
• Bo Roberson, 65, Americantrack and field athlete, football player and Olympian.^[75]
• John Verrall, 92, American composer of contemporary classical music.^[76]

• Emanuele Clarizio, 89, Italian prelate and diplomat of theCatholic Church.
• Giacomo Gentilomo, 92, Italian film director and painter.^[77]
• Horace Gwynne, 88, Canadian boxer andOlympic champion.^[78]
• Alfred Horn, 83, American mathematician.
• Paul Kuroda, 84, Japanese-American chemist and nuclear scientist.
• Peter Maag, 81, Swiss conductor.^[79]
• John R. McNamara, 73, American naval officer and bishop.^[80]
• Robert Osterloh, 82, American actor.
• Mohammad Rabbani, Afghani politician and one of the founders of theTaliban,liver cancer.^[81]
• Hank Riebe, 79, American baseball player.^[82]
• Michael Ritchie, 62, American film director (The Bad News Bears,Fletch,Downhill Racer),prostate cancer.^[83]
• Thomas H. Stix, 76, American physicist.^[84]
• Alec Stock, 84, English footballer and football manager.^[85]

• Merton Davies, 83, Americanastronomer and space exploration pioneer.^[86]
• John Ferraro, 76, American politician (Los Angeles City Council) and college football player (USC).^[87]
• Alfred M. Moen, 84, American inventor and founder ofMoen Incorporated.
• Richard McGee Morse, 78, AmericanLatin Americanistscholar and academic,Alzheimer's disease.^[88]
• Leonid Alfonsovich Ostrovski, 65, Soviet football player and manager.
• Terry Scully, 68, British theatre and television actor.^[89]
• Danica Seleskovitch, 79, French interpreter and academic writer.^[90]

• Khursheed Bano, 87, Indian singer and actress.
• Tony Bartley, 82, British film and television executive, and fighter pilot during World War II.^[91]
• Billy Mitchell, 74, Americanjazztenor saxophonist.^[92]
• Robert Paparemborde, 52, French rugby player,pancreatic cancer.^[93]
• John Yonakor, 79, American football player.^[94]

• Lionel Abel, 90, American playwright ("Absalom"), essayist and theater critic.^[95]
• André du Bouchet, 77, French poet.^[96]
• Kurt Ott, 88, Swiss cyclist.^[97]
• Edith Picht-Axenfeld, 87, German pianist andharpsichordist.^[98]
• 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.^[99]
• Pierre Versins, 78, Frenchscience fiction collector and scholar.^[100]

• Richard H. Austin, 87, American politician, Michigan Secretary of State (1971–1994),Alzheimer's disease.^[101]
• Steven Blaisse, 60, Dutch rower and Olympic silver medalist.^[102]
• Cino Cinelli, 85, Italian racing cyclist.^[103]
• Kenneth Colby, American psychiatrist and computer technology pioneer.^[104]
• David Gilbarg, 82, American professor emeritus of mathematics atStanford University.^[105]
• Irène Joachim, 88, French soprano, and vocal teacher.^[106]
• Maria Karnilova, 80, American ballet dancer and actress (Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical forFiddler on the Roof).^[107]
• Va'ai Kolone, 89,Prime Minister of Samoa.
• Maurice Lauré, 83, French civil servant.^[108]
• Avigdor Miller, 92, AmericanHaredirabbi and author.
• Giuseppe Sinopoli, 54, Italian conductor and composer, heart attack.^[109]
• Bert Sutcliffe, 77, New Zealand cricketer.^[110]

• Isaac Kobina Abban, 68, Ghanaian judge andChief Justice.
• Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll, 63, British aristocrat.^[111]
• Claude Clark, 85, American painter and printmaker.
• Jack Haley Jr., 67, American film producer, director (That's Entertainment!) and documentarian.^[112]
• Edmund Malecki, 86, German international footballer.^[113]
• Ulla Poulsen Skou, 96, Danish ballerina and actress.
• Sandy Ullrich, 79, Cuban baseball player.^[114]
• Hal White, 82, American baseball player.^[115]

• Habis al-Majali, 87, Jordanian general and politician.
• John F. Allen, 92, Canadian physicist.
• Ike Cole, 73, Americanjazz pianist and composer, cancer.^[116]
• 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 andtheologian.^[117]
• Wesley C. Salmon, 75, American philosopher of science, car crash.^[118]
• Robert Starer, 77, Austrian-American composer, pianist and educator.^[119]

• Lennart Atterwall, 90, Swedish Olympic javelin thrower.^[120]
• Alfredo Gottardi, 86, Brazilian football player.
• Sir Charles Madden, 2nd Baronet, 94, British admiral.^[121]
• Electra Waggoner Biggs, 88, American heiress, socialite and sculptor.
• Guglielmo Biraghi, 73, Italian film critic and film festival director.^[122]
• Robert J. Huber, 78, American politician (U.S. Representative forMichigan's 18th congressional district from 1973 to 1975).^[123]
• R. A. C. Parker, 73, British historian.^[124]
• Jayant Shridhar Tilak, 79, Indian politician and newspaper editor.
• David M. Walker, 56, American astronaut, stroke.

• Hilda Cameron, 88, Canadian sprinter and Olympic medalist.^[125]
• Lindsay Daen, 78, New Zealand sculptor and artist.^[126]
• Al Hibbler, 85, American singer (Duke Ellington Orchestra).^[127]
• Shailesh Matiyani, 69, Indiahindi writer, poet and essayist.^[128]
• Peter Nugent, 63, Australian politician, heart attack.
• Josef Peters, 87, German racing driver.
• Leon Sullivan, 78, Americancivil rights leader,social activist andBaptist minister,leukemia.^[129]
• Paul Thieme, 96, Germanindologist.
• Johnny Valentine, 72, Americanprofessional wrestler.
• Li Yuqin, 72, Chinese noble and fourth wife of emperorPuyi,liver cirrhosis.

• Michele Alboreto, 44, Italian race car driver, car crash.^[130]
• 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.^[131]
• Majda Potokar, 71, Slovenian actress.

• Henry Boltinoff, 87, American cartoonist.^[132]
• Guy Butler, 83, South African poet, academic and writer.^[133]
• Ruth Hellberg, 94, German actress.^[134]
• Lili Massaferro, 74, Argentine actress andMontoneros militant,thrombophlebitis.
• Amrit Nahata, 72, Indian politician and film maker.
• André Pascal, 69, French songwriter and composer.^[135]
• Sverre Walter Rostoft, 88, Norwegian businessperson and politician.
• Rudolf Trenkel, 83, German fighter pilot andflying ace during World War II.
• Elisabeth Tschermak-Woess, 84, Austriancytologist andphycologist.^[136]
• Renzo Vespignani, 77, Italian painter,engraver and writer.^[137]

• 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.^[138]
• Richard M. Scammon, 85, American political scientist and author,Alzheimer's disease.^[139]
• John Winton, 69, British navy officer and writer.^[140]

• António Araújo, 77, Portuguese football player.
• Paul Daneman, 75, British actor (Not in Front of the Children,The Professionals,How I Won the War).^[141]
• 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).^[142]
• Marie Jahoda, 94, Austrian-Britishsocial psychologist.^[143]
• Evelyn Künneke, 79, German singer and actress,lung cancer.^[144]
• Yoshio Okita, 98, Japanese Olympictrack and field athlete.^[145]
• James Still, 94, American poet, novelist and folklorist.^[146]
• Guy Texereau, 65, French Olympic long-distance runner.^[147]
• Bako Touré, 61, Malian football player.

• Barend Biesheuvel, 81, Dutch politician,Prime Minister (1971-1973),cardiovascular disease.^[148]
• Diana Brebner, 44, Canadian poet.
• Babu Chiri Sherpa, 35, Nepalese sherpa mountaineer, fall when climbingMount Everest.
• Dubai Millennium, 5, Britishthoroughbred racehorse,grass sickness.
• Walter Hannemann, 88, American film editor.
• Rita Hunter, 67, Britishoperaticdramatic soprano.^[149]
• Andy Phillip, 79, American basketball player.^[150]
• Allan Sloane, 86, American writer for radio and television.^[151]
• Gordon Watson, 87, English football player.

• Andreas Kupfer, 86, German football player.^[152]
• Maladi, 88, Indonesian athlete, songwriter, and politician.
• Brian Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris, 70, British poet, academic and politician,leukemia.^[153]
• Frank Stewart, 94, American baseball player.^[154]

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