2001 deaths

Italian racecar driver

Queen Consort of Italy (1906–2001)

Balthasar Klossowski (; February 29, 1908 – February 18, 2001), also known as Balthus (), was a Polish-French modern artist. He is known for his erotically charged images of young girls, and the dreamlike quality of his imagery.

American actress (1934–2001)

South Vietnamese commander (1916-2001)

American actress (1925–2001)

Russian astronomer

American actor (1914–2001)

American film critic (1919-2001)

Soviet film director and screenwriter (1921-2001)

Brazilian triple jumper (1927–2001)

German writer (1913-2001)

Austrian British dancer and choreographer (1905-2001)

president of Venezuela (1952-1958)

Austrian SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator (1912–2001)

American writer (1930-2001)

Iranian princess (1970-2001)

American anthropologist (1927-2001)

American musician (1935–2001)

Portuguese military officer and politician (1914–2001)

American aviator and writer (1906–2001)

Indian actor (1911–2001)

First democratically elected President of the Dominican Republic (1909-2001)

British dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet

militant (1901–2001)

Czech tennis and ice hockey player (1921–2001)

American actress (1909–2001)

American politician (1913–2001)

Bosnian basketball player and coach (1954-2001)

American actress (1924–2001)

American computer scientist (1936-2001)

American computer programmer (1917–2001)

Russian-Soviet writer (1924-2001)

John Carroll O'Connor was an American actor whose television career spanned over four decades. He found widespread fame as Archie Bunker, the main character in the CBS television sitcoms All in the Family (1971–1979) and its continuation, Archie Bunker's Place (1979–1983). He later starred in the NBC/CBS television crime drama In the Heat of the Night (1988–1995), where he played the role of police chief William "Bill" Gillespie. In the late 1990s, he played Gus Stemple, the father of Jamie Buchman on Mad About You. In 1996, O'Connor was ranked number 38 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time. He won five Emmys and one Golden Globe Award.

Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1920–2001)

Chilean biologist (1946-2001)

Northern Sámi writer, artist and musician (1943–2001)

Cameroonian writer

Italian footballer and manager (1910-2001)

Canadian writer (1931–2001)

Egyptian actress (1943–2001)

Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1918-2001)

Italian conductor and composer

American actor (1950–2001)

American singer (1967–2001)

French actor (1911–2001)

American philosopher (1941–2001)

English footballer and manager (1921-2001)

French athlete and piano concertist (1922–2001)

American racing driver (1951-2001)

Soviet aviator (1916–2001)

American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger (1924–2001)

South Korean businessman (1915–2001)

Lebanese terrorist and 9/11 hijacker (1975–2001)

Georgian footballer (1951-2001)

Belgian politician (1919–2001)

Berinthia "Berry" Berenson-Perkins was an American actress, model and photographer. She was the wife of actor Anthony Perkins.

American jazz pianist, composer and arranger (1920–2001)

Argentinian footballer (1917–2001)

Canadian-American science fiction writer (1923-2001)