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2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar, the 2001st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 1st year of the 3rd millennium, the 1st year of the 21st century, and the 2nd year of the 2000s decade
Events
January
February
- February 18 – Dale Earnhardt, American racing driver (b. 1951)
- February 25 – Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (b. 1908)
March
- March 12 – Robert Ludlum, American writer (b. 1927)
- March 15 – Ann Sothern, American actress (b. 1909)
- March 22 – William Hanna, American animator and studio founder (b. 1910)
April
- April 15 – Joey Ramone, American musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
May
- May 11 – Douglas Adams, English writer (b. 1952)
June
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- June 1 – King Birendra of Nepal (b. 1945)
- June 2 – Imogene Coca, American comic actress (b. 1908)
- June 3 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor (b. 1915)
- June 4 – King Dipendra of Nepal (b. 1971)
- June 7 – Víctor Paz Estenssoro, 45th President of Bolivia (b. 1907)
- June 11 – Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (b. 1968)
- June 21 - John Lee Hooker, American blues musician (b. 1916)
- June 21 – Carroll O'Connor, American actor (b. 1924)
- June 27 – Jack Lemmon, American actor and movie director (b. 1925)
- June 27 – Tove Jansson, Finnish writer of the Moomin books (b. 1914)
July
- July 5 – Hannelore Kohl, wife of Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl (b. 1933)
- July 10 – Álvaro Magaña, President of El Salvador (b. 1925)
- July 29 – Edward Gierek, 4th First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party (b. 1913)
- July 31 – Poul Anderson, American science fiction writer (b. 1926)
August
- August 6 – Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (b. 1912)
- August 24 – Jane Greer, American actress (b. 1924)
- August 25 – Aaliyah, American singer (b. 1979)
September
- September 2 – Christiaan Barnard, South African cardiac surgeon (b. 1922)
- September 11 – People killed in the September 11 attacks, including:
- David Angell, American sitcom creator (b. 1946)
- Berry Berenson, widow of the actor Anthony Perkins (b. 1948)
- Daniel M. Lewin, American technician (b. 1970)
- Mychal Judge, American priest (b. 1933)
- Garnet Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1948)
- Carolyn Beug, American movie maker (b. 1953)
- Charles Burlingame, American pilot (b. 1949)
- William M. Feeham, American firefighter (b. 1929)
- Peter J. Ganci, American firefighter (b. 1946)
- Timothy Maude, American military officer (b. 1947)
- Barbara Olson, American political commentator (b. 1955)
- Mohamed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (b. 1968)
- Wail al-Shehri, Saudi terrorist (b. 1973)
- Nawaf al-Hazmi, Saudi terrorist (b. 1973)
- Majed Moqed, Saudi terrorist (b. 1977)
- Abdulaziz al-Omari, Saudi terrorist (b. 1979)
- September 29 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, 2nd President of South Vietnam (b. 1923)
October
- October 13 – Olga Oleinik, Russian mathematician of Ukrainian origin (b. 1925)
- October 15 – Chang Hsueh-liang, Ruler of Manchuria (b. 1901)
November
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- November 21 – King Salahuddin of Selangor, Yang di-Pertuan Agong (b. 1926)
- November 29 – George Harrison, English musician (The Beatles) (b. 1943)
December
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- December 10 – Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1911)
- December 20 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1st President of Senegal (b. 1906)
Births
See also: Category:2001 births
- January 2 – Christopher Barrios Jr., American murder victim (d. 2007)
- April 10 – Angelina Mango, Italian singer-songwriter
Deaths
See also: Category:2001 deaths
Nobel prize winners
- Chemistry – William S. Knowles, Ryoji Noyori, K. Barry Sharpless
- Economics – George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence,[1] Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Literature – V. S. Naipaul
- Medicine – Leland H. Hartwell, Tim Hunt, Sir Paul Nurse
- Peace – United Nations, Kofi Annan
- Physics – Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, Carl E. Wieman
Fictional references to the year
- Arthur C. Clarke set the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey in this year, the first year of the 21st century.
2001 Media
Visit of Laurent Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to the EC (cropped2)
Pierre Buyoya and Ange-Félix Patassé collage
Macedonian soldiers during the Battle of Aračinovo
The September 11 attacks were a defining event of the year 2001.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopened in 2001.
Social unrest occurred during the Argentine great depression.
One of the landslides caused by the January 2001 earthquake in El Salvador
Cattle being burned to prevent spread of foot-and-mouth disease: millions of cattle died during the 2001 outbreak
Former Argentine president Fernando de la Rúa leaving the Casa Rosada after resigning on December 21
Anti-globalization activists burning a military vehicle outside of the 27th G8 summit
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Other websites
- 2001 Year-End Google Zeitgeist – Google's Yearly List of Major Events and Top Searches for 2001
- Nisqually Earthquake Clearinghouse Archived 2004-04-28 at the Wayback Machine – Information on the February 28th earthquake from the University of Washington
References
- ↑ "Members of the Economic Advisory Panel - New Climate Economy - Commission on the Economy and Climate". newclimateeconomy.net. Archived from the original on 2015-06-20. Retrieved 2015-06-22.