2001

Centuries: Year in Review 21st Century

20th century - 21st century - 22nd century

Decades: 1990s - 2000s - 2010s? - 2020s? - 2030s? - 2040s? - 2050s? - 2060s? - 2070s? - 2080s? - 2090s? - 2100s?

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

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The International Year of the Volunteer

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Births

Deaths

• February 4 - [Iannis Xenakis]?, 78, Greek/French? composer
• February 18 - Balthus?, 92, French painter
• February 18 - Dale Earnhardt - NASCAR race car driver
• February 19 - [Stanley Kramer]?, 87, American movie director
• February 25 - Sir Donald Bradman, cricketer
• March 12 - Morton Downey, Jr. - television personality
• March 12 - [Robert Ludlum]?, author of spy novels
• March 15 - [Ann Sothern]? - actress
• March 21 - Norma Macmillan, voice
• March 18 - [John Phillips]?, cofounder of Popular Music group [The Mamas and the Papas]?
• March 22 - [William Hanna]?, cofounder (with [Joseph Barbera]?) of famous Hanna-Barbera? animation studio
• April 10 - [Willie Stargell]? - Baseball Hall of Famer
• April 11 - Harry Secombe, 79, actor, member of The Goon Show (prostate cancer)
• April 15 - Joey Ramone, lead singer for The Ramones
• May 5 - [Cliff Hillegass]?, 83, creator of Cliff Notes (stroke)
• May 11 - Douglas Adams, 49, author (heart attack)
• May 12 - [Perry Como]?, 87, singer
• June 1 - [Hank Ketcham]?, 81, creator of Dennis the Menace
• June 1, King Birendra and Queen Aiswarya of Nepal, (shot, possibly murdererd)
• June 3 - [Anthony Quinn]?, 86, actor
• June 11 - [Timothy McVeigh]?, 33, terrorist (executed by U.S. government)
• June 21 - John Lee Hooker, 83, Blues musician
• June 21 - Carroll O'Connor, 76, actor
• June 28 - Jack Lemmon, 76, actor
• June 28 - [Joan Sims]?, 71, actress
• June 30 - [Chet Atkins]?, 77, country musician
• July 5 - [Hannelore Kohl]?, 68, wife of ex-chancellor of Germany [Helmut Kohl]? (suicide)
• July 11 - Herman Brood, 54, Dutch rock musician, painter and publicity freak (suicide)
• July 18 - Fabio Taglioni, automotive engineer
• July 27 - [Leon Wilkeson]?, 49, Bassist for [Lynyrd Skynyrd]?
• July 29 - [Henryk Jablonski]?, president of Poland (1972-1985)
• August 1 - Poul Anderson - fantasy / sci-fi author
• August 6 - [Jorge Amado]?, 88, Brazilian writer
• August 20 - Fred Hoyle, Astronomer and science fiction writer
• August 25 - Aaliyah, 22, American singer and actress
• September 2 - Christiaan Barnard, 78, South African heart surgeon, first to perform a human-to-human heart transplant
• September 3 - [Pauline Kael]?, 82, American movie critic
• September 22 - [Isaac Stern]?, 81, violinist
• November 10 - Ken Kesey, 66, author.

Events:

• September 11 - September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on World Trade Center in New York City and Pentagon
• October 4 - First case of anthrax in what will soon be recognized as a coordinated attack is announced by federal officials.
• October 7 - 2001 U.S. Attack on Afghanistan begins
• George W. Bush succeeds Bill Clinton as President of the United States of America in a controversial, close election. See American Political Scandals.

Sport

• January 28 - Super Bowl XXXV Baltimore Ravens (34) def. New York Giants (7)

Film

• The annual Academy Awards served out gongs for Best Actor in Gladiator to Russell Crowe.
• Ridley Scotts Gladiator took the Best Picture.
• Best Supporting Actress and Actor were won by *[Marcia Gay Harden]? for Pollock? and [Benicio del Toro]? for *Traffic? which also won its director, Steven Soderbergh the Directing statue.

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - [Eric A Cornell]?, [Wolfgang Ketterle]?, [Carl E Wieman]?
• Chemistry - [William S. Knowles]?, [Ryoji Noyori]?, [K. Barry Sharpless]?
• Medicine [Leland H. Hartwell]?, [R. Timothy Hunt]?, [Paul M. Nurse]?
• Literature - V.S. Naipaul
• Peace - United Nations, Kofi Annan
• Economics- [George A. Akerlof]?, [A. Michael Spence]?, [Joseph E. Stiglitz]?