Deaths in 2001

See also: other events of 2001, Deaths in 2002 and Recent deaths.

Table of contents

1 December 2001 2 November 2001 3 October 2001 4 September 2001 5 June 2001

December 2001

• 30 Eileen Heckart, US actor, Oscar winner
• 8 Don Tennant, US advertising executive, invented Tony the Tiger for Kellogg's and the Marlboro Man
• 5 Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist, shot by pirates on the Amazon River.

November 2001

• 29 John Knowles, author, "A Separate Peace"
• 29 George Harrison, British musician
• 28 William Kienzle, writer, murder mysters with Catholic priest detective
• 24 Melanie Thornton, aged 34, singer, (plane crash near Zurich)
• 22 Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics.
• 11 Ken Kesey, author, counter-cultural figure.

October 2001

• 15 Zhang Xueliang (aged 100), Chinese warlord and military figure. Important individual in recent Chinese history
• 12 Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone (Quintin Hogg), aged 94 -- British lawyer and politician

September 2001

• 11 Casualties from the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack

June 2001

• 4 Joey Maxim, world Light Heavyweight champion boxer, 79 years old