Recent celebrity deaths

Famous people who have died recently.

November 2001

29, George Harrison, musician

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 Xue-liang, aged 101 -- important figure in recent Chinese history

12, [Lord Hailsham]? (Quintin Hogg), aged 94 -- British lawyer and politician

September 2001

22, [Isaac Stern]?, aged 81 -- violinist

11, Barbara K. Olson, television commentator

3, [Pauline Kael]?, aged 82 -- American movie critic?

2, Christiaan Barnard, aged 78 -- South African heart? surgeon, first to perform a human-to-human heart transplant

August 2001

25, Aaliyah, aged 22 -- American sing?er and actress

20, Fred Hoyle -- Astronomer and science fiction writer?

6, [Jorge Amado]?, aged 88 -- Brazilian writer

1, Poul Anderson -- fantasy / sci-fi author

July 2001

29, [Henryk Jablonski]? -- president of Poland (1972-1985)

27, [Leon Wilkeson]?, aged 49 -- Bassist for [Lynyrd Skynyrd]?

11, Herman Brood, aged 54 -- Dutch rock musician, painter? and publicity? freak (suicide)

5, [Hannelore Kohl]?, aged 68 -- wife of ex-chancellor of Germany [Helmut Kohl]? (suicide)

June 2001

30, [Chet Atkins]?, aged 77 -- country musician

28, [Joan Sims]?, aged 71 -- actress

28, Jack Lemmon, aged 76 -- actor

21, Carroll O'Connor, aged 76 -- actor

21, John Lee Hooker, aged 83 -- [Blues music]?ian

11, [Timothy McVeigh]?, aged 33 -- terrorist (executed by U.S. government)

3, [Anthony Quinn]?, aged 86 -- actor

1, King Birendra and Queen Aiswarya of Nepal -- (shot?, possibly murdererd)

1, [Hank Ketcham]?, aged 81 -- creator of Dennis the Menace

May 2001

12, [Perry Como]?, aged 87 -- singer

12, Douglas Adams, aged 49 -- author ([heart attack]?)

5, [Cliff Hillegass]?, aged 83 -- creator of Cliff Notes (stroke)

April 2001

15, Joey Ramone -- lead singer for The Ramones

11, Harry Secombe, aged 79 -- actor, member of The Goon Show (prostate? cancer)

10, [Willie Stargell]? -- Baseball Hall of Famer

March 2001

22, [William Hanna]? -- cofounder (with [Joseph Barbera]?) of famous Hanna-Barbera? animation studio?

21, Norma Macmillan -- voice

18, [John Phillips]? -- cofounder of Popular Music group [The Mamas and the Papas]?--[big cock]?

15, [Ann Sothern]? -- actress

12, [Robert Ludlum]? -- author of spy? novels

12, Morton Downey, Jr. -- television personality

February 2001

19, [Stanley Kramer]?, aged 87 -- American [movie director]?

18, Dale Earnhardt -- NASCAR race car driver

18, Balthus?, aged 92 -- French painter

4, [Iannis Xenakis]?, aged 78 -- Greek/French? composer

December 2000

23, Victor Borge, aged 91 -- Danish/American? humorist and pianist

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