2001 deaths

German actor (1914-2001)

Indian scientist (1922-2001)

American flight assistant (1956–2001)

American-Israeli mathematician and entrepreneur

Israeli chemist and activist for the human rights (1933–2001)

Canadian boxer (1912-2001)

German physicist (1925–2001)

British Austrian-born psychologist

Lithuanian basketball player (1925–2001)

French actor (1921–2001)

French philosopher and professor, Titanic survivor (1908–2001)

French mathematician (*1928 – †2001)

Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch (1908–2001)

athletics competitor (1932-2001)

Yugoslav historian (1917–2001)

Russian princess (1906–2001)

neurologist (1901-2001)

German politician and minister (1928-2001)

Russian politician (1917-2001)

Lithuanian poet and children's writer (1937-2001)

American bodybuilder (1951–2001)

United States Marine (1923-2001)

English footballer (1924-2001)

Kosovar politician (1916–2001)

German handball player (1913-2001)

Bangladeshi writer, thinker, novelist, poet, and public intellectual (1943–2001)

French lawyer and fencer (1905–2001)

Scottish guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter (1958–2001)

American jazz musician and producer (1918-2001)

Finnish textile designer for Marimekko (1927–2001)

Welsh swimmer, Olympic bronze medallist (1912–2001)

Czech rower (1930–2001)

American recording artist, singer, songwriter (1936-2001)

English solar astronomer (1912-2001)

French cryptozoologist (1916-2001)

English poet (1926-2001)

British tennis player (1912–2001)

racecar driver (1913–2001)

British film director (1922-2001)

Italian philosopher and politician (1924-2001)

Welsh entertainer (1921–2001)

Soviet speed skater (1935–2001)

Egyptian weightlifter

German footballer (1914-2001)

quintuplet girls born 1934 in Ontario, Canada, who survived to adulthood

Yugoslav politician (1914-2001)

racecar driver

American linguist

Italian fencer (1910-2001)

American insurance business executive; died during the September 11, 2001 attack (1955–2001)

athletics competitor (1912–2001)

Russian screenwriter and author (1919–2001)

American film director (1938–2001)

South African tennis player (1939–2001)

9/11 hijacker

Paraguayan footballer (1923-2001)

gymnast

American pianist and bandleader (1903–2001)

104th New York City mayor (1906–2001)

New Zealand yachtsman (1948–2001)