Deaths in 2001 - August 2001

August 2001

• 1 – Joe Lynch, 76, Irish actor.
• 1 – Korey Stringer, 26, American football player, complications brought on by heat stroke.
• 1 – Poul Anderson, 74, American fantasy and science fiction author, cancer.
• 2 – James A. Corbett, 67, American rancher and philosopher.
• 3 – Henriette Bie Lorentzen, 90, Norwegian activist.
• 3 – Christopher Hewett, 79, British actor.
• 4 - Joseph Cooper, 88, British pianist and broadcaster.
• 4 – Lorenzo Music, 64, American voice actor known for the voice of the cartoon cat Garfield, complications related to lung and bone cancer.
• 6 – Jorge Amado, 88, Brazilian writer.
• 6 – Dame Dorothy Tutin, 71, British actress.
• 8 - John A. Hostetler, 82, American scholar.
• 9 – Humphry Bowen, 72, British botanist and chemist.
• 9 – Sir Alec Skempton, 87, British scientist.
• 10 – Bob Johnson, 60, British businessman.
• 12 – Jim Hughes, 78, American baseball player.
• 13 – John C. Elliott, 82, American politician and 39th Governor of American Samoa.
• 14 – Earl Anthony, 63, American bowler.
• 15 – Jim Russell, 92, Australian cartoonist.
• 16 - Kenneth Reese Cole, Jr., 63, American political aide to Richard Nixon.
• 19 – Donald Woods, 67, South African journalist, newspaper editor, and anti-apartheid activist, made famous by exposing the killing of his friend, Steve Biko, by South African security forces.
• 20 - Walter Reed, 85, American actor.
• 20 – Sir Fred Hoyle, 86, British astronomer and science fiction writer.
• 22 – Bobby Johnstone, 71, Scottish footballer (Hibernian, Manchester City, Oldham Athletic, Scotland).
• 24 – Hank Sauer, 84, American baseball player.
• 25 – Aaliyah, 22, American R&B singer and actress (plane crash).
• 25 – Ken Tyrrell, 75, British motor racing driver and team leader.
• 28 - James Homer Elledge, 58, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Washington.
• 29 – Graeme "Shirley" Strachan, 50, Australian singer and television presenter.
• 30 – Julie Bishop, 87, American actress.
• 31 – Sir Eric Bullus, 94, British politician.