Deaths in 2001 - January 2001

January 2001

• 1 – Ray Walston, 86, American actor, lupus.
• 5 - G. E. M. Anscombe, 81, British philosopher.
• 7 - Johan van der Keuken, 62, Dutch documentary filmmaker, author, and photographer.
• 9 - Paul Vanden Boeynants, 81, Belgian politician and Prime Minister.
• 11 - Oliver Gurney, 89, British Assyriologist.
• 11 – Dorothy M. Horstmann, 89, American virologist who made important discoveries about polio, Alzheimer's disease.
• 11 - Sir Denys Lasdun, 86, British architect.
• 12 – Affirmed, 25, American race horse, euthanasia after contracting laminitis.
• 12 – William Hewlett, 87, American co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, heart failure.
• 13 – Michael Cuccione, 16, Canadian actor and musician, respiratory failure.
• 16 – Laurent-Désiré Kabila, 61, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1997–2001), assassination.
• 16 – Leonard Woodcock, 89, American trade unionist and diplomat.
• 17 - Tom Kilburn, 79, British computer scientist.
• 19 - Maxine Mesinger, 75, American newspaper columnist, complications of multiple sclerosis.
• 19 - Ian Taylor, 56, British sociologist.
• 25 - Don Morrison, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.
• 27 – Mordecai Richler, 69, Canadian author: Jacob Two-Two.
• 27 - Marie José of Belgium, 94, the last Queen of Italy.
• 27 - Sir Colin Woods, 80, British police officer.
• 30 – Jean-Pierre Aumont, 90, French actor, heart attack.
• 30 - Johnnie Johnson, 85, British World War II fighter pilot.
• 30 - Rodolfo Morales 75, Mexican painter.
• 30 – Joseph Ransohoff, 85, American neurosurgeon.
• 30 – John Vernon Taylor, 86, British Anglican bishop.
• 31 – Gordon R. Dickson, 77, American science fiction writer, asthma.