Famous People Who Died In 2001
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 2001. This list includes people like George Harrison, Aaliyah, Jennifer Syme, R. K. Narayan, Jack Lemmon and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include novelists, poets, political leaders and journalists who died in 2001. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, India & France and many more countries.
Jennifer Syme07 December 1972, American
Actress
George Harrison25 February 1943, British
Aaliyah16 January 1979, American
Singer, Dancer, Actor & Model
Timothy McVeigh23 April 1968, American
Terrorist
R. K. Narayan10 October 1906, Indian
Dale Earnhardt29 April 1951, American
Race car driver
Anthony Quinn21 April 1915, Mexican, American
Actor
Jack Lemmon08 February 1925, American
American actor
Douglas Adams11 March 1952, British, American
Writer
Joey Ramone19 May 1951, American
Lead vocalist of the punk rock band the Ramones
Phoolan Devi10 August 1963, Indian
Politician, Brigand
Lewis Arquette14 December 1935, American
Actor
Berry Berenson14 April 1948, American
Photographer
Thuy Trang14 December 1973, American, Vietnamese
Actress
Bonnie Lee Bakley07 June 1956, American
Actor
Ken Kesey17 September 1935, American
Troy Donahue27 January 1936, American
Actor
Ray Walston02 November 1914, American
Actor & Comedian
Carwood Lipton30 January 1920, American
United States Army Officer
Dieter Dengler22 May 1938, American
Aviator
Dorothy McGuire14 June 1916, American
Actress
Ahmad Shah Massoud02 September 1953, Afghan
Former Afghan Military & Political Leader
Christiaan Barnard08 November 1922, South African
Cardiac Surgeon
David Graf16 April 1950, American
Actor
Tove Jansson09 August 1914, Finnish
Novelist
Jodi Huisentruit05 May 1968, American
News Anchor
Birendra of Nepal28 December 1945, Nepalese
11th King of Nepal
Anne Morrow Lindbergh22 June 1906, American
Renowned Author & Aviator
Anne Haney04 March 1934, American
Actress
Mary Kay Ash12 May 1918, American
Businesswoman
Kathleen Freeman17 February 1919, American
Actress
Matthew Ansara29 August 1965, American
Actor
Rick Rescorla27 May 1939, British
Army Officer
Léopold Sédar Senghor09 October 1906, Senegalese
Senegalese Politician
Stanley Kramer29 September 1913, American
Film Director, Producer
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Isaac Stern21 July 1920, American
American violinist
Sir Donald Bradman27 August 1908, Australian
Greatest Batsmen Ever
Alberto Korda14 September 1928, Cuban
Photographer
Mainza Chona21 January 1930, Zambian
Zambian Politician
A. R. Ammons18 February 1926, American
Poet
Mongo Beti30 June 1932, Cameroonian
Writer
Nikolay Basov14 December 1922, Russian
Physicist
Donald J. Cram22 April 1919, American
Chemist
Clifford Shull23 September 1915, American
Physicist
Herbert Simon15 June 1916, American
Economist, Political scientist, sociologist,
Gilbert Becaud24 October 1927, French
Singer
Carroll O’Connor02 August 1924, American
Actor
Ashok Kumar13 October 1911, British Indian Ocean Territory
Actor
Henry Lee Lucas23 August 1936, American
American serial killer
Mohamed Atta01 September 1968, Egyptian
Hijacker
William Hanna14 July 1910, American
Animator, director, producer, voice actor, cartoon
John Lee Hooker22 August 1917, American
Guitarist, Singer, Singer-songwriter, Musician,
Chet Atkins20 June 1924, American
Guitarist, Jazz musician, Record producer, Jazz
Eugene Sledge04 November 1923, American
Biologist, Soldier, Academic, University teacher,
Claude Shannon30 April 1916, American
Mathematician, Cryptographer, Computer scientist,
Chuck Schuldiner13 May 1967, American
American singer-songwriter
Harshad Mehta29 July 1953, Indian
stockbroker
Nigel Hawthorne05 April 1929, British
Actor
Dale Evans1912 AD
Film Actress, Songwriter, Singer, Television
Arlene Francis20 October 1907, American
Actor, Autobiographer, Television presenter, Radio
Ann Sothern22 January 1909, American
Singer, Stage actor, Film actor, Television actor
Maureen Reagan04 January 1941, American
Actor
Herbert A. Simon15 June 1916, American
Economist, Psychologist, Politician, Sociologist,
Stuart Adamson11 April 1958, British
Singer-songwriter, Musician, Guitarist, Pianist
Byron De La Beckwith1920 AD, American
Murderer
Sabiha Gökçen21 March 1913, Turkish
aviator
Leila Pahlavi27 March 1970
Translator
Josef Bican25 September 1913, Austrian
Association football player, Association football
Robert Ludlum25 May 1927, American
American author
Emilie Schindler22 October 1907, Austrian, German
Writer, Autobiographer
David Angell10 April 1946, American
Producer
Henry Wade11 November 1914, American
Jurist, Lawyer
Todd Beamer24 November 1968, American
Laurent-Désiré Kabila27 November 1939, Congolese
Donald Bradman27 August 1908, Australian
Pauline Kael19 June 1919, American
Film critic, Writer, Journalist
Valentín Elizalde01 February 1977, Mexican
singer
Fred Hoyle24 June 1915, British
Screenwriter, Astronomer, Writer, Physicist,
Wilhelm Mohnke15 March 1911, German
Officer
Lorenzo Music02 May 1937, American
Actor, Voice actor, Writer, Television producer,
Betty Ong05 February 1956, American
Flight attendant
Ed Roth04 March 1932, American
Artist, Automotive designer
Harry Secombe08 September 1921, British
Actor, Comedian, Singer, Stage actor
W. G. Sebald18 May 1944, German
Writer, Poet, Professor
Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf20 April 1962, American
Radio personality
Zhang Xueliang03 June 1901, American
statesman
Barbara Olson27 December 1955, American
Journalist, Lawyer
Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari22 June 1932
Actor
Jean-Pierre Aumont05 January 1911, French
Actor, Screenwriter
Michele Alboreto23 December 1956, Italian
Racing driver
Poul Anderson25 November 1926, American
Author
Balthus29 February 1908, French, Polish
Painter, Artist
G. E. M. Anscombe18 March 1919, British
Isao Inokuma04 February 1938, Japanese
Judoka
Nyree Dawn Porter22 January 1936, New Zealander
Actor
Charles Trenet18 May 1913, French
Composer, Singer, Singer-songwriter, Songwriter