Deaths in 2001 - June 2001

June 2001

• 1 – King Birendra, 55, King of Nepal.
• 1 – Queen Aiswarya, 51, Queen of Nepal.
• 1 – Hank Ketcham, 81, American cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace, prostate cancer.
• 1 – Marie Brémont, 115, oldest person in the world and last known person documented as born in 1886.
• 2 - Imogene Coca, 92, American actress.
• 3 – Anthony Quinn, 86, Mexican-American actor.
• 4 - John Hartford, 63, American musician.
• 4 – Joey Maxim, 79, world Light Heavyweight champion boxer.
• 4 – King Dipendra of Nepal, 29.
• 10 - Geoffrey Clarkson, 57, English rugby league player.
• 10 – Princess Leila of Iran, 31.
• 10 - John McKay, 77, American football player and coach.
• 11 – Timothy McVeigh, 33, American convicted terrorist.
• 12 – Thomas Wilson, 73, British composer.
• 15 – Henri Alekan, 92, French cinematographer, leukemia.
• 17 - Ninfa Laurenzo, 77, Houston restaurateur, bone cancer.
• 17 - Mohammad Yunus, 84, Indian diplomat.
• 18 – Dame Rosamund Holland-Martin, 86, head of the NSPCC.
• 19 – Jerry Cornes, 91, British athlete.
• 19 – Col Maxwell, 83, Australian rugby league player.
• 20 – Bob Keegan, 80, baseball player.
• 20 – Delbert Leroy True, 77, American architect.
• 21 – Carroll O'Connor, 76, American actor.
• 21 – John Lee Hooker, 83, American Blues musician.
• 21 – Souad Hosni, 59, Egyptian actress.
• 21 - Vernon Sewell, 97, British film director.
• 24 - William H. Sewell, 91, American sociologist.
• 26 - Robert Smith, 88, American actor.
• 27 - Darrell Huff, 86, American statistician.
• 27 – Tove Jansson, 86, Finnish author.
• 27 – Jack Lemmon, 76, American actor and film director, bladder and colorectal cancer.
• 28 – Mortimer J. Adler, 98, American philosopher.
• 28 - Jim Ellis, 45, American computer scientist .
• 28 – Joan Sims, 71, British actress.
• 29 - Maximos V Hakim, 93, Egyptian patriarch.
• 30 – Chet Atkins, 77, American country musician.