List of Famous people who died in 2001

Eigo Kawashima was a Japanese singer-songwriter and actor.

Indro Alessandro Raffaello Schizogene Montanelli Knight Grand Cross OMRI was an Italian journalist, historian and writer. He was one of the 50 World Press Freedom Heroes according to the International Press Institute.

Lyubov Sergeevna Sokolova was a Soviet and Russian cinema actress, named a People's Artist of the USSR. She played in the movie more than 300 roles.

Barbara Dittus was a German film actress. She appeared in more than ninety films from 1959 to 2001.

Jane Greer was an American film and television actress best known for her role as femme fatale Kathie Moffat in the 1947 film noir Out of the Past.

Chaudhary Devi Lal was an Indian politician who served as 6th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1991 in the governments of V. P. Singh and Chandra Shekhar. Also popularly known as Tau (uncle), Lal emerged as farmer leader from the state of Haryana, and served as the Chief Minister of Haryana first in 1977-79 and then in 1987-89.

Herwart Holland-Moritz, known as Wau Holland, was a German computer security activist and journalist who in 1981 cofounded the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), one of the world's oldest hacking clubs.

Jitendra Prasada was an Indian politician and a former vice-president of the Indian National Congress. He was also the political advisor to two prime ministers of India, Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 and P V Narasimha Rao in 1994.

Paul Hubschmid was a Swiss actor. He was most notable for his role as Henry Higgins in a production of My Fair Lady. In some of his Hollywood films he used the name Paul Christian. He appeared in dozens of films and television series between 1938 and 1991. Many of these were German and International productions.

Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist. He is known for his erotically charged images of pubescent girls, but also for the refined, dreamlike quality of his imagery.