Deaths in 2001 - April 2001

April 2001

• 3 – Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell, 89, British newspaper proprietor.
• 5 - Sir Kingsley Charles Dunham, 91, British geologist
• 7 – Sir Derek Lang, 87, British army general.
• 7 – Beatrice Straight, 86, Academy Award-winning actress (Network, Poltergeist)
• 10 – John M. Edmond, 67, British geochemist.
• 10 – Nyree Dawn Porter, 65, New Zealand actress.
• 10 – Richard Evans Schultes, 86, American ethnobotanist.
• 10 – Willie Stargell, 61, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• 11 – Graciela Naranjo, 84, Venezuelan singer and actress; a radio, cinema and television pioneer in her homeland.
• 11 – Sir Harry Secombe, 79, Welsh actor, comedian, member of The Goon Show, prostate cancer.
• 11 – Jack Wilson, 83, American footballer.
• 12 – Harvey Ball, 79, American inventor of the smiley.
• 13 - Stephen C. O'Connell, 85, American jurist.
• 13 - Ken Weston, 53, British sound engineer.
• 14 – Bryan Ranft, 83, British historian.
• 15 – Joey Ramone (b. Jeffry Hyman), 49, American musician, lead singer for The Ramones, lymphoma.
• 16 – Alec Stock, 84, English footballer and football manager.
• 20 - Bert Sutcliffe, 77, New Zealand cricketer.
• 22 - John F. Allen, 92, Canadian physicist.
• 23 - David M. Walker, 56, American astronaut.
• 24 – Peter Nugent, 63, Australian politician.
• 25 – Michele Alboreto, 44, Italian racing driver.