List of Famous people who died in 2001

Irène Joachim was a French soprano, and later a vocal teacher.

Tambi Larsen was a Dane born in Bangalore, India. He emigrated to the United States at the age of 20, where he attended Yale Drama School. He married Barbara Dole in 1941 and became an American citizen in 1943. Tambi struggled to make a living as a set designer for Broadway shows. During World War II, Larsen worked for the Office of War Information, first broadcasting the news in Danish, and after V-E Day, designing exhibits in Denmark as Assistant Cultural Relations Officer.

Hilde Boman-Behram was an expressionist dancer, choreographer and dance teacher whose pioneering work in integrated dance transformed modern dance.

Donald James Cram was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity." They were the founders of the field of host–guest chemistry.

Clifford Glenwood Shull was a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist.

Ranko Marinković was a Croatian novelist and dramatist.