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Eventos del año 2001 en Estados Unidos .

Titulares [ editar ]

Gobierno federal [ editar ]

  • Presidente : Bill Clinton ( D - Arkansas ) (hasta el 20 de enero), George W. Bush ( R - Texas ) (a partir del 20 de enero)
  • Vicepresidente : Al Gore ( D - Tennessee ) (hasta el 20 de enero), Dick Cheney ( R - Wyoming ) (a partir del 20 de enero)
  • Presidente del Tribunal Supremo : William Rehnquist ( Wisconsin ) [1]
  • Presidente de la Cámara de Representantes : Dennis Hastert ( R - Illinois )
  • Líder de la mayoría del Senado :
    • hasta el 3 de enero: Trent Lott ( R - Mississippi )
    • 3 de enero a 20 de enero: Tom Daschle ( D - Dakota del Sur )
    • 20 de enero a 6 de junio: Trent Lott ( R - Mississippi )
    • a partir del 6 de junio: Tom Daschle ( D - Dakota del Sur )
  • Congreso : 106 (hasta el 3 de enero), 107 (a partir del 3 de enero)

Events[edit]

January[edit]

January 20: George W. Bush becomes the 43rd U.S. President
January 20: Dick Cheney becomes the 46th U.S. Vice President
  • January 1 – A black monolith measuring 270 cm (8.9 ft) tall appears in Seattle's Magnuson Park, placed by an anonymous artist in reference to the monolith from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
  • January 2 – Sila Calderón becomes the first female governor of US territory Puerto Rico.
  • January 10 – Nevada County shootings: In Nevada County, California, 40-year-old Scott Harlan Thorpe kills three people in a shooting spree. He is later found incompetent to stand trial and declared not guilty by reason of insanity.
  • January 11 – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission approves the merger of America Online and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner.
  • January 15 – UK children's stop motion animated series Bob the Builder starts its American debut for the first time on Nick Jr..
  • January 16
    • President Bill Clinton awards former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service during the Spanish–American War; 11 of Roosevelt's descendants accept on his behalf.
    • A man drives a semi-trailer truck into the side of the California State Capitol building, killing the driver and damaging the building's interior.[2]
  • January 18 – President Bill Clinton delivers his farewell address to the nation.
  • January 20 – George W. Bush is sworn in as the 43rd President of the United States, and Dick Cheney is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
  • January 22–24 – The "Texas Seven", a group of convicts who escaped from the John B. Connally Unit in Texas, are found in Colorado.
  • January 26 – Lacrosse player and coach Diane Whipple is killed by two Presa Canarios named Bane and Hera, owned by her neighbors and attorneys Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel.
  • 28 de enero - Super Bowl XXXV : Los Baltimore Ravens derrotan a los New York Giants 34–7, ganando su primer título de Super Bowl.

Febrero [ editar ]

  • 9 de febrero : el submarino USS  Greeneville  (SSN-772) golpea accidentalmente y hunde al pesquero japonés Ehime-Maru cerca de Hawai .
  • 16 de febrero - Crisis del desarme de Irak : las fuerzas británicas y estadounidenses llevan a cabo bombardeos para intentar inutilizar la red de defensa aérea de Irak .
  • 18 de febrero
    • La leyenda de NASCAR , Dale Earnhardt, muere en un accidente en la última vuelta en la 43ª edición anual de las 500 Millas de Daytona .
    • El agente del FBI Robert Hanssen es arrestado y acusado de espiar para Rusia durante 15 años.
  • 19 de febrero : se dedica un museo de bombardeos de la ciudad de Oklahoma en el Monumento Nacional de la Ciudad de Oklahoma .
  • 23 de febrero - Masacre de Isla Vista : En Isla Vista, California , David Attias choca con un automóvil contra cinco peatones, matando a cuatro e hiriendo gravemente a uno. Más tarde es declarado culpable de asesinato y declarado legalmente loco.
  • February 28 – The 6.8 Mw Nisqually earthquake shook the Puget Sound region of western Washington with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing 1 death, 400 injuries, and 1 to US$4 billion in losses.

March[edit]

  • March – The United States enters the early 2000s recession; the unemployment rate rises to 4.4%.
  • March 25 – The 73rd Academy Awards, hosted by Steve Martin, are held at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, with Ridley Scott's Gladiator winning five awards out of 12 nominations, including Best Picture. Steven Soderbergh is nominated twice for Best Director, winning for Traffic. The telecast garners 42.9 million viewers.
  • March 28 – The Bush administration withdraws U.S. support for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on the reduction of greenhouse gases.[3]
  • 30 de marzo : The Fairly OddParents debuta en Nickelodeon .

Abril [ editar ]

  • 1 de abril : un avión de combate chino choca con un avión de vigilancia EP-3E de EE. UU. , Lo que lo obliga a realizar un aterrizaje de emergencia en Hainan , China. La tripulación estadounidense está detenida durante 10 días, y el piloto chino F-8 desaparece y se presume que ha muerto.
  • 7 de abril : Timothy Thomas , un afroamericano de 19 años, es baleado por un oficial de policía en Cincinnati , lo que provocó disturbios en el centro de Cincinnati del 10 al 12 de abril.
  • 17 de abril : se llevó a cabo el referéndum de la bandera de Mississippi en 2001 , el 64,39% de la población votó para adoptar formalmente la bandera estatal de Estados Unidos de 1894 sobre el nuevo diseño de bandera estatal propuesto en 2001 .
  • 21 de abril : la pequeña ciudad de Hoisington en Kansas es alcanzada por un tornado F4 , que destruye un tercio de la ciudad y mata a uno.
  • 28 de abril : Soyuz TM-32 despega del cosmódromo de Baikonur , llevando al primer turista espacial , el estadounidense Dennis Tito .

Mayo [ editar ]

  • 6 de mayo : el turista espacial Dennis Tito regresa a la Tierra a bordo del Soyuz TM-31 . ( Soyuz TM-32 se deja atracado en la Estación Espacial Internacional como un nuevo bote salvavidas).
  • 18 de mayo : Shrek se estrena en los cines, convirtiéndose en un gran éxito de crítica y taquilla.

Junio [ editar ]

5 de junio de - 9 : inundaciones en Houston de la tormenta tropical Allison
  • June 5 – U.S. 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 5–9 – Tropical Storm Allison produces 36 inches (900 mm) of rain in Houston, Texas, killing 22, damaging the Texas Medical Center, and causing more than US$5 billion of damage.
  • June 7 – The Bush tax cuts are signed into law by U.S. President George W. Bush.
  • June 9 – The Colorado Avalanche wins their second Stanley Cup, and Ray Bourque wins his first Cup after a lengthy career.
  • June 11 – In Terre Haute, Indiana, Timothy McVeigh is executed for the Oklahoma City bombing.
  • June 15 – Walt Disney Pictures' 41st feature film, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, is released. Though reception is mixed and it performs modestly at the box office, it has since become a cult favorite among fans due in part to the visual influence of comics artist Mike Mignola.
  • 19 de junio - Un misil golpea un campo de fútbol en Tal Afar , Irak , matando a 23 e hiriendo a 11. El gobierno iraquí afirma que fue un ataque aéreo estadounidense-británico; Los funcionarios estadounidenses dicen que en realidad fue un misil iraquí el que funcionó mal. [4]
  • 20 de junio : Andrea Yates ahoga a sus cinco hijos en una bañera en Houston , Texas . [5]

Julio [ editar ]

  • 9 de julio - El incendio de Thirty Mile se enciende en el condado de Okanogan, Washington . Cuatro bomberos mueren mientras luchan contra el incendio.
  • July 16 – The FBI arrests Dmitry Sklyarov at a convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, for violating a provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
  • July 18 – In Baltimore, Maryland, a 60-car train derailment occurs in a tunnel, sparking a fire that lasts days and virtually shuts down downtown Baltimore.

August[edit]

  • August 1 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a 2.5-short-ton (2,300 kg) monument of the Ten Commandments installed in the Rotunda of the Judiciary Building. He is later sued to have it removed, and is eventually removed from office.
  • August 2 – The House of Representatives approves oil exploration in the Alaskan Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.[3]
  • August 5 – Having acquired the Jim Henson Company's interest in the Odyssey cable network the previous year, Crown Media Holdings rebrands Odyssey as the Hallmark Channel, after Crown Media's corporate parent Hallmark Cards. The Hallmark Channel branding continues to this day.
  • August 9 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces his limited support for federal funding of research on embryonic stem cells.
  • August 25 – U.S. singer Aaliyah dies in a plane crash in the Bahamas.
  • August 28 – The U.S. governors of New England agree with the Quebec and Atlantic Canadian premiers to the Climate Change Action Plan 2001.

September[edit]

September 11: 9/11 attacks
  • September 1 – The libertarian Free State Project is founded at Yale University.
  • September 2– Adult Swim, an adult-oriented programming block, debuts on its Turner sister cable channel Cartoon Network.
  • September 4 – Robert Mueller becomes the FBI's director.
  • 6 de septiembre - Estados Unidos contra Microsoft : El Departamento de Justicia de los Estados Unidos anuncia que ya no busca dividir al fabricante de software Microsoft , sino que buscará una sanción antimonopolio menor .
  • 11 de septiembre - Ataques del 11 de septiembre : Casi 3.000 personas mueren en cuatro ataques suicidas en el World Trade Center en la ciudad de Nueva York ; el Pentágono en Arlington, Virginia ; y en la zona rural de Shanksville, Pensilvania . [3] El ataque lanza la Guerra global contra el terrorismo .
  • September 15 – The Queen Isabella Causeway in Texas collapses after being hit by a tugboat, killing eight.
  • September 18 – A series of 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[edit]

October 7: The War in Afghanistan begins
Play media
October 26: President George W. Bush signs the USA PATRIOT Act
  • October 3 – 2001 Greyhound bus attack: A passenger slits the throat of the driver, causing the bus to crash near Manchester, Tennessee, killing seven people.
  • October 5 – Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks the single season home run record, with his 71st and 72nd home runs of the year.
  • October 7 – The United States invades Afghanistan, accompanied by other nations participating in Operation Enduring Freedom.[3]
  • October 9 – The 2001 anthrax attacks continue as contaminated letters are mailed from Princeton, New Jersey, to U.S. Senators Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont.
  • October 15 – NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles (180 km) of Jupiter's moon Io.
  • October 26 – U.S. President George W. Bush signs the USA PATRIOT Act into law.[6]

November[edit]

  • 1 de noviembre - Los Yankees de Nueva York derrotan a los Diamondbacks de Arizona en el Juego 4 de la Serie Mundial de 2001 para empatar la serie a 2 en el primer juego de Serie Mundial que se jugará en el mes de noviembre . El jonrón de Derek Jeter en la parte baja del décimo le valió el apodo de "Sr. Noviembre".
  • 2 de noviembre : el cuarto largometraje de Pixar Animation Studios , Monsters, Inc. , se estrena en los cines.
  • 4 de noviembre : los Diamondbacks de Arizona derrotan a los Yankees de Nueva York en siete juegos para ganar su primera serie mundial.
  • November 5 – Andrew Bagby is murdered in Keystone State Park, Pennsylvania by his former partner Shirley Jane Turner. While awaiting trial and extraction from Canada, she gained custody of the couple's son who she then also murdered. The deaths later became the basis for the 2008 documentary Dear Zachary.[7]
  • November 12 – In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, headed to the Dominican Republic, crashes in Queens just minutes after takeoff from the John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
  • November 13 – War on Terror: In the first such act since World War II, U.S. 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 16 – Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, directed by Chris Columbus is released in theaters as the first film of the Harry Potter film series.
  • November 18 – Nintendo releases the Nintendo Gamecube in North America.
  • November 29 - English musician, singer, songwriter, music and film producer, and former Beatle George Harrison dies of lung cancer in Los Angeles.

December[edit]

  • December – The unemployment rate rises to 5.7%, the highest since January 1996; the early 2000s recession ends.
  • December 2 – Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection five days after Dynegy cancels a US$8.4 billion buyout bid. Enron's bankruptcy becomes the largest in U.S. history.[3]
  • 3 de diciembre : las autoridades anuncian que uno de los prisioneros talibanes capturados después del levantamiento de la prisión en Mazari Sharif , Afganistán , es John Walker Lindh , un ciudadano estadounidense.
  • 11 de diciembre : el gobierno de Estados Unidos acusa a Zacarias Moussaoui por su participación en los ataques del 11 de septiembre .
  • 13 de diciembre : el presidente de los Estados Unidos, George W. Bush, anuncia la retirada de los Estados Unidos del Tratado de misiles antibalísticos de 1972 .
  • December 19 – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, directed by Peter Jackson, is released in theaters as the first film of the The Lord of the Rings film series.
  • December 22 – A flight from Paris, France to Miami, Florida is diverted to Boston, Massachusetts after passenger Richard Reid attempts to detonate explosives hidden in his shoes.
  • December 27 – The People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade status with the United States.

Ongoing[edit]

  • Iraqi no-fly zones (1991–2003)
  • Guerra en Afganistán (2001-presente)

Nacimientos [ editar ]

Enero [ editar ]

  • 6 de enero - Kenyon Martin Jr. , jugador de baloncesto
  • 12 de enero - Jena Rose , cantante pop
  • 13 de enero - Emily Grace Reaves , actriz
  • 18 de enero - Claire Engler , actriz
  • 21 de enero - Jackson Brundage , actor.
  • 26 de enero - Isaac Okoro , jugador de baloncesto

Febrero [ editar ]

  • 2 de febrero : Connor Gibbs , actor.
  • 6 de febrero - Mackenzie Smith , actriz y modelo
  • 19 de febrero - David Mazouz , actor.
  • 21 de febrero
    • Isabella Acres , actriz
    • Jagger Eaton , patinador

Marzo [ editar ]

  • 6 de Marzo
    • Milo Manheim , actor
    • Zhavia Ward , cantautora
  • 31 de marzo - James Wiseman , jugador de baloncesto

Abril [ editar ]

  • 2 de abril - Wyatt Herkamp , estudiante
  • 3 de abril - Ashima Shiraishi , escaladora
  • 5 de abril - Robbie Tucker , actor.
  • 20 de abril - Ian Alexander , actor.
  • 30 de abril - Lil Tjay , rapero

Mayo [ editar ]

  • 22 de mayo : Judah Lewis , actor.
  • 23 de mayo - Matthew Lintz , actor.
  • 27 de mayo - Izabela Vidovic , actriz

Junio [ editar ]

  • 12 de junio - John Bigelow IV , golfista
  • 19 de junio - Ava Cantrell , actriz y bailarina.
  • 24 de junio - Mo'ne Davis , atleta

Julio [ editar ]

  • 1 de julio : Jacobs elegido , actor, cantante y músico.
  • 10 de julio - Isabela Moner , actriz y cantante
  • 18 de julio : Hailie Deegan , piloto de carreras de stock car [8]

Agosto [ editar ]

  • 5 de agosto - Josie Totah , actriz
  • 6 de agosto : Ty Simpkins , actor.
  • 11 de agosto - Parker Bolek , actor.
  • 30 de agosto - Emily Bear , pianista y compositora

Septiembre [ editar ]

  • 4 de septiembre - Talitha Bateman , actriz
  • 6 de septiembre : Terrence Clarke , jugador de baloncesto (fallecido en 2021 )
  • 11 de septiembre - Mackenzie Aladjem , actriz
  • 15 de septiembre - Emma Fuhrmann , actriz
  • 25 de septiembre - Cade Cunningham , jugador de baloncesto

Octubre [ editar ]

  • 1 de octubre - Luna Blaise , actriz y cantante
  • 12 de octubre - Raymond Ochoa , actor.
  • 13 de octubre - Caleb McLaughlin , actor [9]
  • 14 de octubre - Rowan Blanchard , actriz [10]
  • October 20 – Paige Bueckers, basketball player
  • October 27 – Autumn de Forest, artist

November[edit]

  • November 21 – Samantha Bailey, actress

December[edit]

  • December 8 – Tylen Jacob Williams, actor
  • December 14 – Joshua Rush, actor
  • December 18 – Billie Eilish, singer
  • December 28 – Madison De La Garza, actress

Full date unknown[edit]

  • Eliza Jane Scovill, murder victim (d. 2005)
  • Zoe Yin , artista y escritora

Muertes [ editar ]

Enero [ editar ]

Virginia O'Brien
  • 1 de enero : Ray Walston , actor (n. 1914 )
  • 2 de enero : William P. Rogers , político (n. 1913 )
  • 4 de enero - Les Brown , músico de jazz (n. 1912 )
  • 5 de enero - Nancy Parsons , actriz (n. 1942 )
  • 6 de enero : Gene Taylor , personalidad de los medios (n. 1947 )
  • January 8 – Edwin Etherington, writer, lawyer, and civil rights advocate (b. 1924)
  • January 10 – John G. Schmitz, politician (b. 1930)
  • January 11
    • Dorothy M. Horstmann, virologist who made important discoveries about polio (b. 1911)
    • Louis Krages, German-American racing driver and businessman (b. 1949)
  • January 12
    • Affirmed, race horse (b. 1975)
    • William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard (b. 1913)
  • January 14 – John S. Hunt, II, politician (b. 1928)
  • January 15 – Bob Braun, actor (b. 1929)
  • January 16
    • Virginia O'Brien, actress (b. 1919)
    • Leonard Woodcock, trade unionist and diplomat (b. 1911)
  • January 17 – Gregory Corso, poet (b. 1930)
  • January 19 – Maxine Mesinger, newspaper columnist (b. 1925)
  • January 21
    • Sandy Baron, actor (b. 1936)
    • Byron De La Beckwith, white supremacist and murderer (b. 1920)
  • January 22 – Roy Brown, clown (b. 1932)
  • 23 de enero : Jack McDuff , organista de jazz y director de orquesta (n. 1926 )
  • 26 de enero
    • Murray Edelman , politólogo (n. 1919 )
    • Diane Whipple , jugadora de lacrosse y entrenadora y víctima de mutilaciones de perros (n. 1968 )
  • 28 de enero
    • Curt Blefary , jugador de béisbol (n. 1943 )
    • Sally Mansfield , actriz (n. 1920 )
  • 29 de enero - Frances Bible , mezzosoprano de ópera estadounidense (n. 1919 )
  • 30 de enero - Joseph Ransohoff , neurocirujano (n. 1915 )
  • January 31 – Gordon R. Dickson, science fiction writer (b. 1923)

February[edit]

Dale Earnhardt
Stanley Kramer
  • February 4 – J. J. Johnson, jazz musician (b. 1924)
  • February 6 – Arthur W. Hummel Jr., diplomat (b. 1920)
  • February 7 – Dale Evans, actress, wife of Roy Rogers (b. 1912)
  • February 8 – Arlene Eisenberg, author (b. 1934)
  • February 9 – Herbert A. Simon, Nobel award-winning economist (b. 1916)
  • 10 de febrero : Abraham Beame , alcalde de la ciudad de Nueva York. (n. 1906 )
  • 13 de febrero : Victor Veysey , político estadounidense (n. 1915 )
  • 15 de febrero : Jack McGowan , golfista profesional estadounidense. (n. 1930 )
  • 17 de febrero - Debbie Dean , cantante estadounidense (n. 1928 )
  • 18 de febrero : Dale Earnhardt , piloto de carreras (n. 1951 )
  • 19 de febrero : Stanley Kramer , director (n. 1913 )
  • 20 de febrero : Rosemary DeCamp , actriz (n. 1910 )
  • 23 de febrero : Anthony Giacalone , figura del crimen organizado (n. 1919 )
  • 24 de febrero : Phil Collier , escritor deportivo (n. 1925 )

Marzo [ editar ]

Ann Sothern
John Phillips
  • marzo 1
    • John Painter , supercentenario estadounidense (n. 1888 )
    • Henry Wade , soldado y abogado (n. 1914 )
  • 2 de marzo : Lonnie Glosson , músico (n. 1908 )
  • 4 de marzo
    • Glenn Hughes , músico (n. 1950 )
    • Jim Rhodes , político (n. 1909 )
    • Harold Stassen , político (n. 1907 )
  • March 8 – Edward Winter, actor (b. 1937)
  • March 10 – Michael Elkins, broadcaster and journalist (b. 1917)
  • March 12 – Robert Ludlum, writer (b. 1927)
  • March 12 – John Anderson, canoeist (b. 1915)
  • March 13 – Walter Dukes, basketball player (b. 1930)
  • March 15
    • Durward Gorham Hall, politician, (b. 1910)
    • Ann Sothern, actress (b. 1909)
  • March 18 – John Phillips, American singer, guitarist, songwriter and promoter (b. 1935)
  • March 21 – Billy Ray Smith, Sr., football player (b. 1934)
  • March 22 – William Hanna, animator (b. 1910)
  • March 26 – Brenda Helser, Olympic swimmer (b. 1924)
  • March 28
    • Jim Benton, footballer (b. 1916)
    • George Connor, American racecar driver (b. 1906)
  • March 31 – Clifford Shull, Nobel physicist (b. 1915)

April[edit]

Joey Ramone
  • April 1 – Jo-Jo Moore, baseball player (b. 1908)
  • April 2 – Jennifer Syme, murder victim (b. 1972)
  • April 4 – Ed Roth, artist, cartoonist, illustrator, pinstriper and custom car designer and builder (b. 1932)
  • April 6 – Charles Pettigrew, singer (b. 1963)
  • April 7
    • David Graf, American actor (b. 1950)
    • Beatrice Straight, American actress (b. 1914)
  • April 8
    • Safiya Henderson-Holmes, poet (b. 1950)
    • Van Stephenson, singer-songwriter (b. 1953)
  • April 10
    • Richard Evans Schultes, American ethnobotanist (b. 1915)
    • Willie Stargell, American baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1939)
  • April 11 – Sandy Bull, folk musician and composer (b. 1941)
  • April 15 – Joey Ramone, musician (b. 1951)
  • April 19 – Egor Popov, Russian-born American civil engineer. (b. 1912)
  • April 21 – Jack Haley Jr., director, producer and writer (b. 1933)
  • April 24 – Leon Sullivan, minister and activist (b. 1922)
  • April 27 – Charlie Applewhite, singer and radio host (b. 1932)
  • April 28 – Precious Doe, murder victim (b. 1997)

May[edit]

  • May 5
    • Charles Black, constitutional scholar. (b. 1915)
    • Morris Graves, expressionist painter (b. 1910)
    • Cliff Hillegass, creator of CliffsNotes (b. 1917)
  • May 6 – Weldon B. Gibson, economist (b. 1916)
  • May 12 – Perry Como, singer (b. 1912)
  • May 23 – Harry Townes, American actor. (b. 1914)
  • May 26 – Anne Haney, American actress (b. 1934)
  • May 31 – Arlene Francis, American actress and game show panelist (b. 1907)

June[edit]

Jack Lemmon
  • June 1 – Hank Ketcham, cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace (b. 1920)
  • June 2 – Imogene Coca, actress (b. 1908)
  • June 3 – Anthony Quinn, actor (b. 1915 in Mexico)
  • June 4 – John Hartford, musician and composer (b. 1937)
  • June 11 – Timothy McVeigh, murderer (b. 1968)
  • June 17 – Donald J. Cram, Nobel chemist (b. 1919)
  • June 21
    • John Lee Hooker, musician (b. 1917)
    • Carroll O'Connor, actor (b. 1924)
  • June 22 – George Evans, cartoonist and illustrator (b. 1920)
  • June 24 – William H. Sewell, sociologist (b. 1909)
  • June 26 – John F. Yardley, aeronautical engineer (b. 1925)
  • June 27 – Jack Lemmon, actor (b. 1925)
  • June 28 – Mortimer J. Adler, philosopher (b. 1902)
  • June 30
    • Chet Atkins, guitarist and record producer (b. 1924)
    • Joe Henderson, jazz tenor saxophonist (b. 1937)

July[edit]

  • July 3
    • Roy Nichols, guitarist (b. 1932)
    • Johnny Russell, country singer (b. 1940)
  • July 4 – Keenan Milton, skateboarder (b. 1974)
  • July 22 – Bob Ferguson, American country music songwriter and record producer (b. 1927)
  • July 28 – John Easton, American professional baseball player (b. 1933)
  • July 31 – Poul Anderson, writer (b. 1926)

August[edit]

  • August 8 – Big Ed, rapper (b. 1971)
  • August 24 – George Benson (b. 1919)
  • August 25
    • Aaliyah, singer and actress, died in Marsh Harbour, Abaco Islands, The Bahamas (b. 1979)
    • John Chambers, American make-up artist (b. 1922)
    • John L. Nelson, American jazz musician (b. 1916)
    • Diana Golden, American disabled ski racer (b. 1963)
  • August 30 – Julie Bishop, film and television actress (b. 1914)
  • August 31 – Crash Davis, American professional baseball player (b. 1919)

September[edit]

  • September 4 – Pete Brown, footballer (b. 1930)
  • September 5 – Cawood Ledford, American radio announcer (Kentucky Wildcats) (b. 1926)
  • September 7 – Glenn Thompson, American book publisher and activist (b. 1940)
  • September 11
    • Alice Stewart Trillin, author and film producer (b. 1938)

At least 3,000 people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, including but not limited to:

    • Todd Beamer, American airline passenger, United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1969)
    • Berry Berenson, actress and photographer. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1947)
    • Carolyn Beug, American filmmaker and video producer. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1952)
    • Bill Biggart, photojournalist (b. 1947)
    • Mark Bingham, American airline passenger, United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1970)
    • Ronald Paul Bucca, American fire marshal (b. 1953)
    • Charles Burlingame, airline pilot, American Airlines Flight 77 (b. 1949)
    • Tom Burnett, American airline passenger, United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1963)
    • William E. Caswell, American physicist. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 77 (b. 1947)
    • Kevin Cosgrove, business executive (b. 1955)
    • Welles Crowther, investment banker (b. 1977)
    • William M. Feehan, Deputy fire commissioner (b. 1929)
    • Wilson Flagg, Rear Admiral (b. 1938)
    • Peter J. Ganci Jr., Chief of the Fire Department of New York (b. 1946)
    • Barbara Olson, lawyer and media personality (b. 1955)
    • Christopher Amoroso, police officer (b. 1972)
    • David Angell, producer (b. 1946)
    • Jeremy Glick, American airline passenger, United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1970)
    • Lauren Grandcolas, American author. Passenger of United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1962)
    • Nezam Hafiz, American cricketer (b. 1969)
    • Mohammad Salman Hamdani, American research technician (b. 1977)
    • LeRoy Homer Jr., American airline pilot, United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1965)
    • Charles Edward Jones, American astronaut. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1953)
    • Mychal Judge, Chaplain of the Fire Department of New York (b. 1933)
    • Neil David Levin, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (b. 1954)
    • Daniel M. Lewin, co-founder of Akamai Technologies. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1970)
    • Eamon McEneaney, American lacrosse player (b. 1954)
    • Timothy Maude, Lieutenant General, U.S. Army (b. 1947)
    • John Ogonowski, American pilot, American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1948)
    • John P. O'Neill, Counterterrorism expert (b. 1952)
    • Betty Ong, American flight attendant, American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1956)
    • Orio Palmer, American firefighter (b. 1956)
    • Dominick Pezzulo, American police officer (b. 1965)
    • Sneha Anne Philip, American physician, presumed to have been a victim of the attacks (b. 1970)
    • Rick Rescorla, World Trade Center security chief for Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter (b. 1939)
    • Michael Richards, Jamaican-born American sculptor (b. 1963)
    • Victor Saracini, American pilot, United Airlines Flight 175 (b. 1978)
    • Abraham Zelmanowitz, American computer programmer (b. 1945)
    • Madeline Amy Sweeney, flight attendant, American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1965)
  • September 15 – Richard Fegley, professional photographer (b. 1936)
  • September 25 – John Powers, American professional baseball player (born 1929)
  • September 29 – Gloria Foster, American actress (born 1933)[11]

October[edit]

  • October 5 – Mike Mansfield, American politician and diplomat. (b. 1903)
  • October 9 – Dagmar, American actress, model and television personality (b. 1921)
  • October 14 – Zhang Xueliang, Chinese ruler of Manchuria, died in Honolulu, Hawaii (b. 1901)
  • October 19 – Joe Murray, American baseball player (b. 1921)

November[edit]

George Harrison
  • November 5 – Milton William Cooper, American author and radio host (b. 1943)
  • November 6 – John Simon White, Austrian-born American opera director. (b. 1940)
  • November 7 – Bobby Bass, stunt performer (b. 1936)
  • November 10 – Ken Kesey, American author (b. 1935)
  • November 11 – Frederick Allen, politician (b. 1914)
  • November 13 – Panama Francis, American swing jazz drummer (b. 1918)
  • November 17
    • John M. Dawson, computational physicist (b. 1930)
    • Harrison A. Williams, politician (b. 1920)
  • November 21 – Fritz Herzog, German-born American mathematician (b. 1903)
  • November 22 – Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman (b. 1918)
  • November 29 – George Harrison, English guitarist, lead guitarist of the Beatles (b. 1943)

December[edit]

  • December 13
    • Chuck Schuldiner, singer and guitarist (born 1967)
    • Rufus Thomas, singer (born 1917)
  • December 30
    • Ray Patterson, animator, producer, and director (born 1911)
    • Frankie Gaye, soul musician (born 1941)
    • Eileen Heckart, Oscar-winning actor (born 1919)

See also[edit]

  • 2001 in Afghanistan
  • 2001 in American soccer
  • 2001 in American television
  • List of American films of 2001
  • Timeline of United States history (1990–2009)

References[edit]

  1. ^ "William Rehnquist Biography". biography.com. A&E Television Networks. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
  2. ^ "Truck Rams California Capitol". CBS News. January 17, 2001. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
  3. ^ a b c d e Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 650–652. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  4. ^ "23 Iraqis Reported Killed". The New York Times. 2001-06-21.
  5. ^ Remembering the sad, shocking Andrea Yates case, 16 years later - HoustonChronicle.com
  6. ^ eMediaMillWorks (October 2001). "Text: Bush Signs Anti-Terrorism Legislation". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. Archived from the original on 2001-11-06. Retrieved November 6, 2001.
  7. ^ Tara Mullowney (11 December 2008). "Dear Zachary hits chord with viewers". The Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland). Archived from the original on 2013-02-04. Retrieved 2014-05-24.
  8. ^ "Hailie Deegan: #19 Mobil 1/NAPA Power Premium Plus Toyota Camry". Bill McAnally Racing. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
  9. ^ "Sean Hayes/Stranger Things Kids/Sheryl Crow". The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Season 15. Episode 37. 25 October 2017.
  10. ^ "Rowan Blanchard: "Riley Matthews"". Disney Channel Medianet. Archived from the original on August 12, 2014. Retrieved July 2, 2019.
  11. ^ McKinley, Jesse (October 5, 2001). "Gloria Foster, Stage Actress, Is Dead at 64". The New York Times.

External links[edit]

  • Media related to 2001 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons