Deaths in 2001 - March 2001

March 2001

• 1 - Hannie Termeulen, 72, Dutch freestyle swimmer.
• 4 - Brian Jones, 72, British motorcycle designer.
• 4 – Harold Stassen, 93, American politician.
• 4 – Glenn Hughes, 50, leather dude of the pop group The Village People, lung cancer.
• 8 – Dame Ninette de Valois, 101, British ballet cancer and teacher.
• 9 – Leopold Page, 87, Polish-American Holocaust survivor.
• 12 – Robert Ludlum, 73, author of spy novels.
• 12 – Morton Downey, Jr., 67, American television personality, lung cancer.
• 12 - Victor Westhoff, 84, Dutch botanist.
• 13 - Henry Lee Lucas, 64, American convicted criminal, natural causes.
• 15 - Fern Battaglia, 70, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
• 15 – Ann Sothern, 92, actress, former wife of actor Robert Sterling, stroke.
• 16 – Dame Marjorie Bean, 91, Bermudian politician.
• 18 – John Phillips, 65, American singer, co-founder of The Mamas & the Papas, heart failure.
• 18 – Dirk Polder, 81, Dutch physicist.
• 19 – Ian Johnston, 71, Australian pioneer of reproductive medicine.
• 21 – Norma MacMillan, 79, Canadian cartoon voice actress.
• 21 – Chung Ju-yung, 86, Founder of the Hyundai Group, natural causes.
• 21 – Leonard Rotherham, 87, British metallurgist.
• 22 – Stepas Butautas, 75, Lithuanian basketball player.
• 22 – Sabiha Gökçen, 88, the first Turkish female aviator and the first female combat pilot of the world.
• 22 – William Hanna, 90, American animator, co-founder (with Joseph Barbera) of the Hanna-Barbera animation studio, throat cancer.
• 22 – Edward Samuel Smith, 81, American federal judge.
• 23 – Tommy Eyre, 51, British keyboardist.
• 25 – Willie Horne, 79, British rugby league player.
• 25 – Brian Trubshaw, 77, British test pilot.
• 28 – Moe Koffman, 72, Canadian flautist and saxophonist, cancer.