2001 deaths

American environmental scientist, teacher, and writer (1941–2001)

Spanish footballer (1952-2001)

Indian stage and film actor (1928-2001)

Muhammad ibn Saleh al-Uthaymin (; 9 March 192910 January 2001), commonly known by his Ibn Uthaymin (), was a Saudi Islamic scholar.

Spanish poet, essayist and critic (1922-2001)

English musician and composer of electronic music (1937–2001)

Soviet-Israeli artistic gymnast (1921–2001)

American actor and playwright (1939-2001)

Ossetian Soviet linguist (1900-2001)

American jazz saxophonist (1937–2001)

American harmonica player (1914-2001)

Mexican writer (1918-2001)

Romanian Christian minister of Jewish descent (1909-2001)

Cypriot politician (1935-2001)

German pilot and sex shop entrepreneur (1919–2001)

Venezuelan intellectual and politician (1907-2001)

film director (1922-2001)

American convicted murderer and claimed serial killer (1936–2001)

Sudetenland-German who helped save lives during the Holocaust (1907-2001)

9/11 hijacker (1978–2001)

Saudi Arabian hijacker-pilot of American Airlines Flight 77

American actress, singer and writer (1912–2001)

American actor (1935–2001)

German actress, producer and photographer

Austrian alpine skier

Vietnamese actress (1973–2001)

American actress (1933–2001)

Norwegian explorer (1899–2001)

athletics competitor (1932–2001)

Italian Royal (1914–2001)

Italian explorer (1897–2001)

American comic actress (1908–2001)

politician

Wife of German chancellor Helmut Kohl (1933–2001)

Japanese film director (1927-2001)

German figure skater (1905–2001)

9/11 hijacker

Soviet film director and screenwriter (1921-2001)

Italian footballer and manager (1911-2001)

Australian tennis player

Czech director and scriptwriter (1935–2001)

French film director and screenwriter (1931–2001)

President of Lebanon from 1964 to 1970

Soviet aerospace engineer (1925-2001)

Polish writer (1914–2001)

holder of many world records in free diving

American astronaut (1944-2001)

Turkish track athlete (1924–2001)

Soviet Speed skater

South African politician (1910-2001)

Uruguayan footballer (1927-2001)

9/11 hijacker (1973–2001)

English footballer and manager (1916–2001)

British chess player

English association football player (1967–2001)

Italian anti-globalization protester (1978-2001)

American ethnobotanist (1915-2001)

Serbian astronomer (1911–2001)

Norwegian Nordic combined skier (1917-2001)

9/11 Hijacker (1976–2001)