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Births

Deaths

February 4 - Iannis Xenakis, 78, Greek/French composer
February 18 - Balthus, 92, French painter
February 18 - Dale Earnhardt - NASCAR race car driver
February 19 - Stanley Kramer, 87, American movie director
February 25 - Sir Donald Bradman, cricketer
March 12 - Morton Downey, Jr. - television personality
March 12 - Robert Ludlum, author of spy novels
March 15 - Ann Sothern - actress
March 21 - Norma Macmillan, voice
March 18 - John Phillips, cofounder of Popular Music group The Mamas and the Papas
March 22 - William Hanna, cofounder (with Joseph Barbera) of famous Hanna-Barbera animation studio
April 10 - Willie Stargell - Baseball Hall of Famer
April 11 - Harry Secombe, 79, actor, member of The Goon Show (prostate cancer)
April 15 - Joey Ramone, lead singer for The Ramones
May 5 - Cliff Hillegass, 83, creator of Cliff Notes (stroke)
May 11 - Douglas Adams, 49, author (heart attack)
May 12 - Perry Como, 87, singer
June 1 - Hank Ketcham, 81, creator of Dennis the Menace
June 1, King Birendra and Queen Aiswarya of Nepal, (shot, possibly murdererd)
June 3 - Anthony Quinn, 86, actor
June 11 - Timothy McVeigh, 33, terrorist (executed by U.S. government)
June 21 - John Lee Hooker, 83, Blues musician
June 21 - Carroll O'Connor, 76, actor
June 28 - Jack Lemmon, 76, actor
June 28 - Joan Sims, 71, actress
June 30 - Chet Atkins, 77, country musician
July 5 - Hannelore Kohl, 68, wife of ex-chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl (suicide)
July 11 - Herman Brood, 54, Dutch rock musician, painter and publicity freak (suicide)
July 18 - Fabio Taglioni, automotive engineer
July 27 - Leon Wilkeson, 49, Bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd
July 29 - Henryk Jablonski, president of Poland (1972-1985)
August 1 - Poul Anderson - fantasy / sci-fi author
August 6 - Jorge Amado, 88, Brazilian writer
August 20 - Fred Hoyle, Astronomer and science fiction writer
August 25 - Aaliyah, 22, American singer and actress
September 2 - Christiaan Barnard, 78, South African heart surgeon, first to perform a human-to-human heart transplant
September 3 - Pauline Kael, 82, American movie critic
September 22 - Isaac Stern, 81, violinist
November 10 - Ken Kesey, 66, author.

Events:

September 11 - September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on World Trade Center in New York City and Pentagon
October 4 - First case of anthrax in what will soon be recognized as a coordinated attack is announced by federal officials.
October 7 - 2001 U.S. Attack on Afghanistan begins
George W. Bush succeeds Bill Clinton as President of the United States of America in a controversial, close election. See American Political Scandals.

Film

The annual Academy Awards served out gongs for Best Actor in Gladiator to Russell Crowe.
Ridley Scotts Gladiator took the Best Picture.
Best Supporting Actress and Actor were won by *Marcia Gay Harden for Pollock and Benicio del Toro for *Traffic which also won its director, Steven Soderbergh the Directing statue.

Nobel Prizes