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Famous people who have died recently.
November 2001
- 24, [Melanie Thornton]?, aged 34, singer, (plane crash near Zurich)
- 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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