2001 deaths

Italian anti-globalization protester (1978-2001)

American ethnobotanist (1915-2001)

Serbian astronomer (1911–2001)

Croatian writer (1913–2001)

American actress (1914–2001)

9/11 Hijacker (1976–2001)

American singer (1917–2001)

American recording artist; soul singer and pianist

President of Haiti (1907-2001)

Football referee (1915–2001)

film director (1910-2001)

Brazilian musician (1922–2001)

Japanese judoka (1938–2001)

Turkish archaeologist (1914–2001)

British electrical engineer (1921–2001)

American astronaut (1963–2001)

English footballer and manager (1918-2001)

British botanist (1911-2001)

Italian footballer (1916-2001)

Prime Minister of Afghanistan (1955-2001)

American physician (1915-2001)

Spanish football player and manager (1934–2001)

9/11 hijacker (1978–2001)

British historian of ancient Greece (1907–2001)

Chinese American actor (1927-2001)

Italian racing driver

Dutch musician, painter, actor, poet and media personality (1946-2001)

American jazz drummer (1936–2001)

American gynecologist (1915–2001)

Italian nuclear physicist, paleontologist, and university teacher (1901–2001)

Australian sprinter (1920–2001)

Spanish footballer (1923-2001)

Korean long-distance runner, Olympic bronze medalist

Ukrainian Soviet and Ukrainian computer scientist (1919–2001)

French actress (1925–2001)

Scottish footballer (1922–2001)

Danish author and literary critic (1929–2001)

American film director and screenwriter (1922-2001)

South African child AIDS activist (1989–2001)

racing driver and Formula one team owner (1924-2001)

German journalist (1911–2001)

writer, barrister and advertising executive from England

French chess player (1919–2001)

entrepreneure (1918–2001)

British sprinter (1912-2001)

Iranian military leader and prime minister (1912-2001)

fencer (1906–2001)

Japanese politician (1897-2001)

United States Marine and author (1920–2001)

American businessman (1913-2001)

Pakistani serial killer

American swimmer

Saudi Arabian terrorist and 9/11 hijacker (1976–2001)

athletics competitor (1932-2001)

9/11 hijacker of the American Airlines Flight 77 (1975–2001)

Russian politician (1917-2001)

English actress (1930–2001)

Russian princess (1906–2001)

American flight assistant (1956–2001)

Indian scientist (1922-2001)