2001 in memoriam

2001 in memoriam

See also: other events of 2001, 2002 in memoriam and Recent deaths.

Table of contents
1 December 2001
2 November 2001
3 October 2001
4 September 2001

December 2001

30 Eileen Heckart, US actor, Oscar winner
8 Don Tennant, US advertising executive, invented Tony the Tiger for Kellogg's and the Marlboro Man
5 Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist, shot by pirates on the Amazon River.

November 2001

29 John Knowles[?], author, "A Separate Peace"
29 George Harrison, British musician
28 William Kienzle[?], writer, murder mysters with Catholic priest detective
24 Melanie Thornton[?], aged 34, singer, (plane crash near Zurich)
22 Mary Kay Ash[?], American businesswoman, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics.
11 Ken Kesey, author, counter-cultural figure.

October 2001

15 Zhang Xue-liang (aged 100), Chinese warlord and military figure. Important individual in recent Chinese history
12 Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone (Quintin Hogg), aged 94 -- British lawyer and politician

September 2001

11 Casualties from the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack