2001
*
January 1 - Many people celebrate the beginning of the new
millennium - the
21st Century (but not as much as the celebrations in 2000) and have a millennium feast. A black
monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall appears in
Seattle's Magnuson Park, placed by an anonymous artist in reference to the movie
2001: A Space Odyssey.
Guns N' Roses stages a concert at the
House of Blues in
Las Vegas. This is their first concert since 1993.
*
January 4 -
RuneScape Classic is launched on the Internet. By the end of the year it has recorded over 1,000,000 active users.
*
January 6 - The
U.S. Congress, presided over by
Vice President Al Gore as President of the Senate, certifies
George W. Bush's
Electoral College victory and thus as the winner of
2000 presidential election.
*
January 11 - The
Federal Trade Commission approves the
merger of
AOL and
Time Warner to form
AOL Time Warner.
*
January 13 - Major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 hits all
El Salvador.
*
January 15 -
Wikipedia, a
Wiki free content encyclopedia, goes online (
Wikipedia Day).
*
January 17 -
Impeachment proceedings against Philippine
President Joseph E. Estrada ends prematurely after the second envelope, which allegedly holds proof that the accused has committed
plunder, has been voted by the majority of the
senator-judges not to be opened. The
senators who have voted for the opening of the envelope walked out of the courtroom along with the people watching inside. This event, covered on several
Philippine television channels, and the resulting SMS/text messages encouraging everyone to go to
EDSA and shout for the removal or resignation of Estrada from office, triggers the second
EDSA People Power Revolution or
People Power II.
*
January 20 -
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was sworn in by Chief Justice
Hilario Davide as the 14th President of the Republic of the Philippines after the
Armed Forces of the Philippines and several cabinet members withdraw their support for
Joseph Estrada.
*
January 20 -
George W. Bush succeeds
Bill Clinton as
President of the United States, after the U.S. Supreme Court stops the third recounting of ballots in Florida in the disputed and controversial
U.S. presidential election, 2000.
*
January 22 - Four of the "
Texas 7" are caught at a convenience store in
Woodland Park, Colorado, and a fifth kills himself inside a motor home.
*
January 23-
25 -
UN war crimes prosecutor Del Ponte demands that
Serbia hand over
Slobodan Milošević.
*
January 24 - The last two of the "
Texas 7" are taken into custody in
Colorado Springs, Colorado.
*
January 24 -
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland,
Peter Mandelson resigns from the
British cabinet for the second time.
*
January 26 - A 50-year-old
DC-3 crashes near
Ciudad Bolivar,
Venezuela, killing 24.
*
January 26 - An
earthquake hits
Gujarat,
India, causing more than 20,000 deaths and destroying most of the historical city.
*
January 27 - A plane crashes 40 miles east of
Denver, Colorado, killing two players of the
Oklahoma State University basketball team, six team staffers, and the crew of two people.
*
January 28 - The Baltimore Ravens defeat the New York Giants, 34-7, in
Super Bowl XXXV.
*
January 29 - Thousands of student protesters in
Indonesia storm Parliament and demand that President
Abdurrahman Wahid resign, due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
*
January 31 - The
Scottish Court in the Netherlands convicts a
Libyan and acquits another for their part in the bombing of
Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed in
Lockerbie, Scotland in
1988.
* February -
Iraq disarmament crisis: British and U.S. forces carry out bombing raids, attempting to disable
Iraq's air defense network.
*
February 6 -
Likud Party leader
Ariel Sharon wins election as
Prime Minister of Israel.
*
February 9 - American submarine
USS Greeneville strikes and sinks
Japanese fishing vessel
Ehime-Maru.
*
February 11- The East beat the West 111-110 in the 50th NBA All Stars in
Washington, DC.
*
February 12 - The
NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of
433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an
asteroid.
*
February 13 - An
earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 hits
El Salvador, killing at least 400.
*
February 16 - Baghdad suburb bombed by US and UK war planes - 3 people killed.
*
February 18 -
NASCAR driver
Dale Earnhardt is killed instantly in a crash on the last lap of the
Daytona 500 while blocking for his DEI cars driven by his son,
Dale Earnhardt Jr., and
Michael Waltrip, who won the race.
*
February 19 - A
Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the
Oklahoma City National Memorial.
*
February 20 -
FBI agent
Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged with
spying for
Russia for 15 years.
*
February 20 -
2001 UK foot and mouth crisis begins.
*
February 24-
27 - Patient Tony Collins spends 77 hours and 30 minutes on a hospital trolley outside the toilets in the
Princess Margaret Hospital,
Swindon, United Kingdom.
*
February 28 - An
earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 hits the Nisqually Valley area of
Washington. There was one reported death, an elderly woman who suffered a heart attack.
*
February 28 - The
Selby rail crash near Selby, North Yorkshire,
England, kills ten people.
*
March 3 - The 23rd
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is held in
Australia.
*
March 4 -
Hintze Ribeiro disaster, a bridge collapses in northern
Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
*
March 23 - The Russian space station
Mir re-enters the atmosphere near
Nadi,
Fiji, and falls into the
Pacific Ocean.
*
March 24 -
Apple Computer's
Mac OS X v10.0 is released.
*
March 26 -
World Championship Wrestling is bought out by the
World Wrestling Federation.
*
April 1 - An
EP-3E U.S.-China Spy Plane Incident: An American spyplane collides with a Chinese fighter jet and is forced to make an emergency landing in
Hainan,
China. The U.S. crew was detained for 10 days and the
F-8 Chinese pilot,
Wang Wei, went missing and was presumed dead.
*
April 1 - Former president of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of
war crimes.
*
April 1 - In the
Netherlands, the
Act on the Opening up of Marriage goes into effect. The Act allows
same-sex couples to legally marry for the first time in the world since the reign of
Nero.
*
April 26 -
Junichiro Koizumi becomes
Prime Minister of Japan.
*
April 27 - Impostor
Christopher Rocancourt arrested in
Oak Bay,
British Columbia*
April 29 -
Census of population in the United Kingdom.
*
April 30 -
Blanche Barton, High Priestess of the
Church of Satan, steps down and gives her position to
Peter H. Gilmore and
Peggy Nadramia.
*
May 1 - The
Japanese cities of Urawa, Omiya, and Yono merge to form the city of
Saitama.
*
May 1 - Police declare the disappearance of
Chandra Levy. Her remains were discovered a year later.
*
May 7 - In
Banja Luka, the second largest city in
Bosnia, an attempt is made to reconstruct the
Ferhadija mosque. However, the ceremony results in mass riots by
Serb nationalists that beat and stone three hundred elderly
Bosnian Muslims.
*
May 10 - In
Ghana, a stampede at a
soccer game kills over 120.
*
May 11 - Comedy sci-fi author
Douglas Adams of
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fame, dies from a
heart attack, aged 49.
*
May 16 -
John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister of United Kingdom, assaults Craig Evans at an election rally in Rhyll, North
Wales.
*
May 22 - Large
trans-Neptunian object 28978 Ixion found during the
Deep Ecliptic Survey.
*
May 22 and
May 23 - Official Opening of the
Bahá'í Terraces on
Mount Carmel in
Haifa, Israel; site of the
Shrine of the Báb and the
Bahá'í World Centre.
*
May 23 -
Bayern München wins the
UEFA Champions League.
*
May 24 - Sherpa
Temba Tsheri, 15, becomes the youngest person to conquer
Mount Everest.
*
June 1 - Crown Prince
Dipendra of Nepal kills his father, the king, his mother and other members of the royal family with an assault rifle and then shoots himself. He dies
June 4. King
Gyanendra acceeds to the throne.
*
June 1 - An
Hamas suicide bomber kills 21, mostly teenagers, in the Dolphinarium disco in
Tel Aviv,
Israel.
*
June 5-
June 9 -
Houston, Texas is devastated by flooding when
Tropical Storm Allison produces 36 inches (900 mm) of
rain. Particularly hard hit are the downtown area and the
Texas Medical Center, which lost years of research and data and thousands of lab animals. Twenty-two people die; damage exceeds five billion
American dollars.
*
June 5 -
Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the
Republican party, an act which changes control of the
United States Senate from the Republican party to the
Democratic party.
*
June 7 -
Tony Blair's
Labour Party elected for second term in UK
General Election.
*
June 8 - Popular editorial site
suck.com, one of the first original content sites on the Internet, publishes its final article,
"Gone Fishin'."*
June 9 - The
Colorado Avalanche win their second
Stanley Cup Championship 3-1 in Game 7 over the
New Jersey Devils at the
Pepsi Center in
Denver. This series was highly anticipated as longtime
Boston Bruins star traded to become a
Colorado defenseman
Ray Bourque wins the
Stanley Cup for the first time in his illustrious 22 year NHL career, a few days after the team's victory,
Bourque announces his retirement.
*
June 11 - The
United States executes
Timothy James McVeigh for the
Oklahoma City Bombing.
*
June 15- The
Los Angeles Lakers beat the
Philadelphia 76ers 4-1 to win their second straight NBA Title. They also finish with the best overall record in playoff history 15-1.
*
June 19 - Twenty-three people are killed and 11 wounded by an
American missile hitting a
soccer field in northern
Iraq, Tel Afr County.
*
June 20 -
Pervez Musharraf becomes
President of Pakistan after the resignation of
Rafiq Tarar.
*
June 20 -
Andrea Yates drowns her children in a bathtub and confesses to her crime. She would get life in prison for it.
*
June 21 - Total
solar eclipse*
July 1 -
Alliant International University is formed by the merging of United States International University and
California School of Professional Psychology.
*
July 2 - World's first self-contained
artificial heart implanted in
Robert Tools.
*
July 3 - A Vladivostokavia
Tupolev Tu-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at
Irkutsk, Russia killing 145.
*
July 16 - The
People's Republic of China and the
Russian Federation sign the
Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation.
* July 16 - The
FBI arrests
Dmitry Sklyarov at a convention in
Las Vegas for violating a provision of the
DMCA.
*
July 18 - In
Baltimore, Maryland, a 60-car train derailment occurs in a tunnel, sparking a fire that will last days and virtually shut down downtown Baltimore.
*
July 19 -
UK politician and novelist
Jeffrey Archer, sentenced to four years in prison for
perjury and perverting the course of justice.
*
July 20 -
Vanessa Legget is found in contempt by a Federal Court for refusing to release notes made for her book on the
Doris Angleton murder.
*
July 20-
22 - The
27th G8 summit takes place in
Genoa,
Italy. Massive demonstrations against the meeting by
anti-globalisation groups. One demonstrator,
Carlo Giuliani, is shot dead by a
carabiniere and several others are badly injured during an attack by the police on a school which the protesters were using as their headquarters.
*
July 24 -
Tamil Tigers attack
Bandaranaika International Airport in
Sri Lanka, causing estimated $500 million of damages.
*
July 28 -
Alejandro Toledo is sworn as the new president of
Peru, eight months after the vote of no-confidence of former President
Alberto Fujimori.
*
August 1 - Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice
Roy Moore has a 2 1/2 ton monument of the
Ten Commandments surreptitiously installed in the Rotunda of the Judiciary Building. He would later be
sued to have it removed. Later, he would be removed from office.
*
August 2 -
Robert Mueller is confirmed as the new
FBI director.
*
August 5 - The
Cleveland Indians defeat the
Seattle Mariners 15-14 in a record-setting game known as the
Impossible Return.
*
August 6 -
George W. Bush is informed in his President's Daily Brief that
Osama bin Laden is determined to strike targets within the United States, and that the FBI believed activity consistent with preparations for hijacking US airplanes was underway.
*
August 9 - US President
George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic
stem cells.
*
August 9 - In the
Comoros, the "Military Committee" of Major
Mohamad Bacar seizes power in the island of
Anjouan, that had declared independence. They plan to rejoin the Comoros.
*
August 10 - The
Hudson River Way is opened to traffic.
*
August 25 - A
Cessna 402 aircraft carrying 9 people, including
R&B singer
Aaliyah, crashes in the
Bahamas, killing all 9 people aboard.
 |
The World Trade Center ablaze after two airplanes crash into the towers in a terrorist attack |
*
September 1 - Foundation of the
Free State Project.
*
September 4 -
Google is awarded a
patent, number 6,285,999, for the
PageRank search algorithm used in the
Google search engine.
*
September 5 -
Peru's attorney general files
homicide charges against ex-President
Alberto Fujimori.
*
September 5 - Young Left formed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
*
September 6 -
United States v. Microsoft: The
United States Justice Department announces that it was no longer seeking to break-up
software maker
Microsoft, and will instead seek a lesser
antitrust penalty.
*
September 9 - Suicide bomber wounds
Ahmed Shah Massoud, military commander of
Northern Alliance in
Afghanistan. He dies
September 14.
*
September 10 -
Norwegian parliamentary election, 2001*
September 10 -
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld holds a press conference to disclose that over $2,000,000,000,000 in Pentagon funds cannot be accounted for. Rumsfeld states: "According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions."
*
September 11 - Almost 3,000 are killed in the
September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on the
World Trade Center in
New York City,
The Pentagon in
Arlington, Virginia, and rural
Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
*
September 17 - The
New York Stock Exchange reopens following the
terrorist attacks in New York.
*
September 18 - The
2001 anthrax attacks commence as anthrax letters are mailed from
Princeton, New Jersey to
ABC News,
CBS News,
NBC News, the
New York Post, and the
National Enquirer.
*
October 2 - Bankruptcy of
Swissair.
*
October 4 - First
case of anthrax in the US (
attack) is announced by federal officials.
*
October 4 -
Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes over the Black Sea en route from Tel Aviv Israel to Novosibirsk Russia - 78 dead.
*
October 5 -
Tom Ridge resigns as
Governor of Pennsylvania to become the first director of the newly created
United States Office of Homeland Security.
*
October 7 -
The United States invades Afghanistan, with some participation from the .
*
October 8 -
MD-87 of
SAS collides first with a private plane and then a building in
Milano Airport - 100 dead.
*
October 8 - The first comic of
Tsunami Channel goes online. It would later go on to be the #1 comic of
Keenspace (in terms of page views) until moving to its own server.
*
October 9 - The
2001 anthrax attacks continue as anthrax letters are mailed from
Princeton, New Jersey, to
Senators Tom Daschle of
South Dakota and
Patrick Leahy of
Vermont.
*
October 10 -
War on Terrorism: US President
George W. Bush presents a list of
22 most wanted terrorists.
*
October 12 - War on Terrorism: Prompted by a request by US President
George W. Bush, an episode of
America's Most Wanted aired featuring the 22 most wanted terrorists.
*
October 15 -
NASA's
Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of
Jupiter's moon
Io.
*
October 19 -
SIEV-X sinks en route to
Christmas Island.
*
October 20 -
The Concert for New York City, "a celebration of the strength, resilience, and pride of New York and America" is held featuring performances by
The Who,
Paul McCartney,
David Bowie,
Backstreet Boys,
Billy Joel,
Destiny's Child,
Eric Clapton,
Adam Sandler,
Bon Jovi,
Elton John and many more.
*
October 23 -
Apple Computer releases the
iPod.
*
October 23 -
Principal Financial Group files its on the
New York Stock Exchange.
*
October 25 - Microsoft releases
Windows XP.
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Soldiers board a Chinook helicopter. |
* November -
The Doha Declaration relaxes the grip of international
intellectual property law by a bit.
*
November 4 -
Hurricane Michelle hits
Cuba, destroying crops and thousands of homes.
*
November 4 - The
Police Service of Northern Ireland is established, replacing the discredited
Royal Ulster Constabulary.
*
November 4- The
Arizona Diamondbacks beat the 3 time defending
World Series Champions
New York Yankees in 7 games to win their first ever World Series Championship.
*
November 7 - Bankruptcy of
Belgium's
SABENA Airlines.
*
November 7 - The super-sonic commercial aircraft
Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month break.
*
November 10 - The
People's Republic of China is admitted to the
World Trade Organization after 15 years of negotiations.
*
November 10 -
John Howard, prime minister of
Australia, is elected to a third term.
*
November 11 -
Mark McGwire announces his retirement from professional baseball.
*
November 12 - In
New York City,
American Airlines Flight 587 crashes minutes after takeoff from
John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on-board
*
November 12 -
2001 Attack on Afghanistan:
Taliban forces abandon
Kabul, the capital of
Afghanistan, ahead of advancing
Northern Alliance troops (Northern Alliance fighters took Kabul on
November 14)
*
November 13 -
Doha Round: The
World Trade Organization ends a four-day ministerial conference in
Doha,
Qatar.
*
November 13 -
Symbionese Liberation Army member
Kathleen Soliah (Sara Jane Olsen) withdraws her previous guilty plea.
*
November 13 -
War on Terrorism: In the first such act since
World War II, US President
George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing
military tribunals against any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts against the
United States.
*
November 15 Halo: Combat Evolved, a popular video game by
Bungie Studios which is owned by
Microsoft, was released on this date
*
November 22 -
Pope John Paul II sends the first papal email from a laptop in his office.
*
November 22 - JPop artist
Kumi Koda makes her debut with the single "
Take Back" in America.
*
December 2 -
Enron files for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection five days after
Dynegy canceled a US$8.4 billion buyout bid. At the time this was the largest
bankruptcy in the
history of the United States.
*
December 3 - Officials announce that one of the
Taliban prisoners captured after the prison uprising at
Mazar-e Sharif is
John Walker Lindh, an American citizen.
*
December 4 - Lisa Beamer, wife of
Todd Beamer, through the Todd M. Beamer Foundation, registers [
1] the trademark "
Let's Roll" with the
United States Patent and Trademark Office less than three months after his death in the
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the
United States.
*
December 11 - The United States government indicts
Zacarias Moussaoui for involvement in the
attacks on September 11th.
*
December 13 - The
Indian Parliament is attacked by terrorists, killing 14 people. This brings India and Pakistan to the brink of war.
*
December 13 - U.S. President
George W. Bush announces the United States' withdrawal from the 1972
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
*
December 14 - Annular
solar eclipse.
*
December 19 - A new world-record high
barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) was recorded in
Tosontsengel,
Hövsgöl Province,
Mongolia.
*
December 19 -
Peter Jackson's
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was released into theaters.
*
December 21 -
Japanese television performer
Masashi Tashiro got No. 1 temporarily in the
Internet vote of
Time's
Person of the Year.
*
December 22 -
Hamid Karzai is sworn in as head of the interim government in
Afghanistan.
*
December 22 - A
Paris-
Miami flight is diverted to
Boston after passenger
Richard Reid attempts to set his shoe, filled with explosives, on fire.
*
December 27 - The
People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade status with the
United States.
*
December 27 -
Typhoon Vamei forms within 1.5 degrees of the equator. No other
tropical cyclone in recorded history has come as close to the equator.
*
December 29 -
Amol Waishampayan celebrates his birthday.
*
December 31 - Microsoft ends support for
Windows 1.0,
Windows 2.x,
Windows 3.x and
Windows 95*
December 1 -
Aiko, Princess Toshi of
JapanFor more deaths see: Deaths in 2001January-February
*
January 1 -
Ray Walston, American actor (b.
1914)
*
January 2 -
Teri Diver, American actress (b.
1971)
*
January 3 -
José Greco, Italian-born flamenco dancer (b.
1918)
*
January 5 -
Nancy Parsons, American actress (b.
1942)
*
January 9 -
Maurice Prather, American motion picture and still photographer (b.
1926)
*
January 12 -
William Hewlett, American businessman (b.
1913)
*
January 27 -
Marie-José of Belgium, Last Queen of Italy (b.
1906)
*
January 28 -
Curt Blefary, baseball player (b.
1943)
*
January 30,
Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (b.
1911)
*
January 30 -
Johnnie Johnson, English pilot (b.
1915)
*
January 31,
Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian writer (b.
1923)
*
February 4 -
Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer (b.
1922)
*
February 6 -
Filemon Lagman, Filipino Communist revolutionary (b.
1953)
*
February 7 -
Dale Evans, American actress and singer (b.
1912)
*
February 7 -
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (b.
1906)
*
February 9 -
Herbert Simon, American economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1916)
*
February 12 -
Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (b.
1912)
*
February 16 -
Bob Buhl, baseball player (b.
1928)
*
February 18 -
Balthus, French painter (b.
1908)
*
February 18 -
Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (b.
1951)
*
February 18 -
Eddie Mathews, Baseball player (b.
1931)
*
February 19 -
Priscilla Davis, American socialite (b.
1942)
*
February 19 -
Stanley Kramer, American film director (b.
1913)
*
February 19 -
Charles Trenet, French singer (b.
1913)
*
February 24 -
Claude Elwood Shannon, American mathematician (b.
1916)
*
February 25 - Sir
Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (b.
1908)
*
February 26 -
Stan Cullis, English footballer and manager (b.
1915)
March-April
*
March 3 -
A. Maitland Emmet, British entomologist (b.
1908)
*
March 4 -
Harold Stassen, American politician (b.
1907)
*
March 4 -
Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (b.
1916)
*
March 4 -
Glenn Hughes, American singer (b.
1950)
*
March 12 -
Morton Downey Jr., American television personality (b.
1933)
*
March 12 -
Robert Ludlum, American author (b.
1927)
*
March 12 -
Ann Sothern, American actress (b.
1909)
*
March 18 -
John Phillips, American singer (b.
1935)
*
March 21 -
Norma Macmillan, Canadian voice actress (b.
1921)
*
March 22 -
William Hanna, American animation studio executive (b.
1910)
*
March 23 -
Sully Boyar, American actor (b.
1923)
*
March 28 -
Vulo Radev,
Bulgarian film director (b.
1923)
*
March 31 -
Clifford Shull, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1915)
*
March 31 -
David Rocastle, English fotballer (b. 1967)
*
April 7 -
David Graf, American actor (b.
1950)
*
April 7 -
Beatrice Straight, American actress (b.
1914)
*
April 10 -
Willie Stargell, baseball player (b.
1940)
*
April 11 -
Harry Secombe, Welsh entertainer (b.
1921)
*
April 12 -
Harvey Ball, American designer (b.
1921)
*
April 14 -
Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (b.
1927)
*
April 15 -
Joey Ramone, American musician and singer (
The Ramones) (b.
1951)
*
April 20 -
Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b.
1946)
*
April 20 -
Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer (b.
1923)
May-June
*
May 2 -
Ted Rogers, British comedian (b.
1935)
*May 2 -
Gina Mastrogiacomo, American actress (b.
1961)
*
May 5 -
Clifton Hillegass, American author and creator of Cliff Notes (b.
1918)
*
May 9 -
James E. Myers, American songwriter (b.
1919)
*
May 11 -
Douglas Adams, English author (heart attack) (b.
1952)
*
May 12 -
Perry Como, American singer (b.
1912)
*
May 13 -
R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b.
1906)
*
May 20 -
Renato Carosone, Italian musician and singer (b.
1920)
*
May 27 -
Ramon Bieri, American actor (b.
1929)
*
May 28 -
Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher (b.
1946)
*
June 1 -
Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (b.
1920)
*
June 1 - Queen
Aiswarya of Nepal (assassinated (b.
1949)
*
June 1 - King
Birendra of Nepal (assassinated) (b.
1945)
*
June 2 -
Imogene Coca, American actress (b.
1908)
*
June 2 -
Joey Maxim, American boxer (b.
1922)
*
June 3 -
Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (b.
1915)
*
June 4 - Prince
Dipendra of Nepal (b.
1971)
*
June 4 -
John Hartford, American musician and composer (b.
1937)
*
June 10 -
Princess Leila of Iran (b.
1970)
*
June 11 -
Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (executed) (b.
1968)
*
June 17 -
Donald J. Cram, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1919)
*
June 21 -
John Lee Hooker, American musician (b.
1917)
*
June 21 -
Carroll O'Connor, American actor (b.
1924)
*
June 26 -
Peter von Zahn, German journalist (b.
1913)
*
June 27 -
Tove Jansson, Finnish author (b.
1914)
*
June 27 -
Jack Lemmon, American actor and director (b.
1925)
*
June 28 -
Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (b.
1902)
*
June 28 -
Joan Sims, British actress (b.
1930)
*
June 30 -
Chet Atkins, American musician (b.
1924)
July-August
*
July 1 -
Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1922)
*
July 5 -
Hannelore Kohl, wife of chancellor of Germany
Helmut Kohl (suicide) (b.
1933)
*
July 7 -
Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter (b.
1936)
*
July 11 -
Herman Brood, Dutch musician and painter (suicide) (b.
1946)
*
July 18 -
Fabio Taglioni, Italian automotive engineer (b.
1920)
*
July 20 -
Milt Gabler, American record producer (b.
1911)
*
July 27 -
Leon Wilkeson, American musician (b.
1952)
*
July 29 -
Edward Gierek, Polish politician (b.
1913)
*
July 29 -
Wau Holland, German hacker (b.
1951)
*
August 1 -
Poul Anderson, American author (b.
1926)
*
August 1 -
Korey Stringer, American football player (b.
1974)
*
August 3 -
Christopher Hewett, British actor (b.
1922)
*
August 6 -
Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (b.
1912)
*
August 15 -
Richard Chelimo, Kenyan athlete (b.
1972)
*
August 19 -
Les Sealey, English footballer (b. 1957)
*
August 20 -
Fred Hoyle, British astronomer and science fiction writer (b.
1915)
*
August 25 -
Aaliyah, American singer and actress (plane crash) (b.
1979)
September-October
*
September 2 -
Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (b.
1922)
*
September 3 -
Pauline Kael, American film critic (b.
1919)
*
September 3 -
Thuy Trang, Vietnamese-born actress (b.
1973)
*
September 7 -
Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (b.
1930)
*
September 9 -
Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani military commander (b.
1953)
*
September 11 -
Casualties of the September 11, 2001 attacks - almost 3,000 people, including:
**
David Angell, American television producer (b.
1946)
**
Berry Berenson, American actress and photographer (b.
1948)
**
Barbara Olson, American television commentator (b.
1955)
*
September 12 -
Victor Wong, American actor (b.
1927)
*
September 22 -
Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (b.
1920)
*
October 7 -
Chris Adams, American judoka and professional wrestler (murdered) (b.
1955)
*
October 12 -
Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, British lawyer and politician (b.
1907)
*
October 15 -
Zhang Xueliang, Chinese military figure (b.
1901)
*
October 26 -
Josh Kirby, British artist (b.
1928)
*
October 26 -
Charlie van Gelderen, South African politician (b.
1913)
November-December
*
November 5 -
Roy Boulting, English film director and producer (b.
1913)
*
November 7 -
Nida Blanca, prolific Philippine actress (b.
1936)
*
November 10 -
Ken Kesey, American author (b.
1935)
*
November 12 -
Tony Miles, English chess player (b.
1955)
*
November 17 -
Michael Karoli, German guitarist (
Can) (b.
1948)
*
November 21 -
Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj, King of Malaysia (b.
1926)
*
November 24 -
Melanie Thornton, American-born singer (b.
1967)
*
November 28 -
William Kienzle, American author (b.
1928)
*
November 29 -
George Harrison, English musician (
The Beatles) (b.
1943)
*
November 29 -
John Knowles, American author (b.
1926)
*
December 5 - Sir
Peter Blake, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist (shot) (b.
1948)
*
December 5 -
Franco Rasetti, Italian physicist (b.
1901)
*
December 8 -
Don Tennant, American advertising executive (b.
1922)
*
December 13 -
Chuck Schuldiner, American guitarist (b.
1967)
*
December 15 -
Rufus Thomas, American singer (b.
1917)
*
December 15 -
Russ Haas, American Professional Wrestler (b.
1974)
*
December 20 -
Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (b.
1912)
*
December 26 -
Nigel Hawthorne, British actor (b.
1929)
*
December 30 -
Eileen Heckart, American actress (b.
1919)
Date unknown
*
Norma Phillips Thornworth, president of
Mothers Against Drunk Driving*
Steve Broadie, voice actor in
Sonic Adventure,
Sonic Shuffle and
Sonic Adventure 2*
Physics -
Eric Allin Cornell,
Wolfgang Ketterle,
Carl Edwin Wieman*
Chemistry -
William S. Knowles,
Ryoji Noyori,
K. Barry Sharpless*
Medicine -
Leland H. Hartwell,
R. Timothy Hunt,
Paul M. Nurse*
Literature -
V.S. Naipaul*
Peace -
United Nations,
Kofi Annan*
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel -
George A. Akerlof,
Michael Spence,
Joseph E. Stiglitz*
Rev. Canon Dr. Arthur Peacocke*
Arthur C. Clarke and
Stanley Kubrick set the
1968 book and film
2001: A Space Odyssey in this year, the first year of the 21st century.
*In the
Japanese
anime Neon Genesis Evangelion, the main characters
Shinji Ikari,
Asuka Langley Soryu,
Toji Suzuhara and most of their classmates are born.
*
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear takes place in 2001. Much of the eastern world is at war and terrorism is on the rise.
* In
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the murder that led to the DL-6 case happened on
December 28.
*
2001 Year-End Google Zeitgeist - Google's Yearly List of Major Events and Top Searches for 2001
*
Nisqually Earthquake Clearinghouse - Information on the February 28th earthquake from the University of Washington
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