Deaths in 2001 - February 2001

February 2001

• 4 - Sir David Beattie, 76, New Zealand jurist and Governor-General.
• 4 - Pankaj Roy, 72, Indian cricketer.
• 4 – Iannis Xenakis, 78, Greek-French composer.
• 4 – J. J. Johnson, 77, American jazz trombonist, suicide.
• 5 - Jean Davy, 89, French actor.
• 7 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 94, American author, aviator.
• 7 – Dale Evans, 88, actress, singer.
• 7 – Sir Michael Grylls, 66, British politician.
• 8 – Leslie Edwards, 84, British ballet dancer.
• 12 – Kristina Söderbaum, 88, German film actress, producer and photographer.
• 14 – Richard Laymon, 54, American horror author, heart attack.
• 14 – Alan Ross, 78, British poet and editor.
• 18 – Balthus, 92, French painter.
• 18 - Claude Davey, 92, Welsh rugby union player.
• 18 – Eddie Mathews, 69, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, pneumonia.
• 18 – Dale Earnhardt, 49, American NASCAR race car driver, crash during 2001 Daytona 500 race.
• 19 – Stanley Kramer, 87, American film director and producer, pneumonia.
• 19 – Priscilla Davis, 67, former Fort Worth, Texas socialite, breast cancer.
• 19 – Charles Trenet, 87, French singer.
• 20 – Sir Colin Cole, 78, British officer of arms.
• 20 - Rosemary DeCamp, 90 American actor, pneumonia.
• 21 – John MacKay, Baron MacKay of Ardbrecknish, 62, British politician.
• 22 – Les Medley, 80, England international footballer, natural causes.
• 24 – Claude Elwood Shannon, 84, American electrical engineer and mathematician.
• 25 – Sir Donald Bradman, 92, Australian cricketer.