Deaths in 2001 - December 2001

December 2001

• 2 – John W. Collins, 89, American chess teacher.
• 2 – Valorie Jones, The Jones Girls.
• 4 – Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj, 75, Sultan of Selangor and Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
• 5 – Sir Peter Blake, 53, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist, shot by pirates on the Amazon River.
• 5 – Franco Rasetti, 100, Italian physicist.
• 7 – David Astor, 89, British newspaper proprietor.
• 7 – Sir Raymond Powell, 73, British politician.
• 8 – Don Tennant, 79, American advertising executive, inventor of Tony the Tiger and the Marlboro Man.
• 8 - George Young, 71, American football executive.
• 9 – Michael Carver, Baron Carver, 86, British Field Marshal.
• 11 – Clark Mills, 86, American boatbuilder and designer.
• 13 – Yvan Craipeau, 90, French Trotskyist.
• 13 – Chuck Schuldiner, 34, death metal guitarist and vocalist.
• 15 – Rufus Thomas, 84, R&B/soul singer.
• 16 - Stuart Adamson, 43, singer, songwriter, guitarist of Big Country and The Raphaels.
• 16 - Carwood Lipton, 81, American soldier.
• 18 - Marcel Mule, 100, French saxophonist.
• 20 - Sir Peter Horsley, 80, British air marshal.
• 20 – Léopold Senghor, 95, first President of Senegal; also a world-renowned poet and writer.
• 21 – George Smith, 82, British footballer.
• 26 – Tom McBride, 87, American baseball player.
• 27 – Ian Hamilton, 63, British critic, poet, magazine publisher.
• 27 - Paul Hogarth, 84, British artist.
• 28 – William X. Kienzle, 73, author of murder mysteries with Catholic priest detective.
• 29 – Takashi Asahina, 93, Japanese conductor.
• 30 – Eileen Heckart, 82, Oscar-winning American actor.
• 30 – Dame Sheila Sherlock, 83, British physician.
• 31 - Edward Lee, 87, British scientist and civil servant.