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Year '''2001''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MMI]]''') was a [[common year starting on Monday]] according to the ([[Gregorian calendar]]).
 
  
By traditional interpretation of the [[Gregorian Calendar]], 2001 is also the first year of the [[21st century]] and the [[3rd millennium]].  Popular culture, however, views the year [[2000]] as holding this distinction.
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Also see: [[Current events#Past events by month|Wikipedia's almanac]] of events for this year.
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[[Category:Years]]
 
 
==Events of 2001==
 
===[[January 2001|January]]===
 
{{Month3|1|0|0}}
 
* [[January 1]] - the new [[millennium]] - the 21st century (but not as much as the celebrations in 2000) and have a millennium feast.  A black [[The Monolith|monolith]] measuring approximately 9 feet tall appears in [[Seattle, Washington]]'s Magnuson Park, placed by an anonymous artist in reference to the movie ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]''. The [[Management consulting|consulting firm]] formerly known as [[Andersen Consulting]] becomes [[Accenture]].<!-- Is this all that notable? -->
 
* [[January 3]] - The [[107th United States Congress]] is sworn in, including incoming freshmen Senators [[Bill Nelson]] (D-FL), [[Tom Carper]] (D-DE), [[Debbie Stabenow]] (D-MI), [[John Ensign]] (R-NV), [[George Allen]] (R-VA), [[Maria Cantwell]] (D-WA), [[Ben Nelson]] (D-NE), [[Hillary Clinton]] (D-NY), [[Jon Corzine]] (D-NJ), [[Jean Carnahan]] (D-MO), and [[Mark Dayton]] (D-MN).
 
* [[January 7]] - The Wrestling promotion, [[ECW]] Airs its final pay-per-view, Guilty as Charged before declaring Bankruptcy.
 
* [[January 8]] - Noah, a [[gaur]], is born, the first individual of an endangered species to be [[cloning|cloned]].
 
* [[January 11]] - The U.S. [[Federal Trade Commission]] approves the [[merger]] of [[America Online]] and [[Time Warner]] to form [[AOL Time Warner]].
 
* [[January 13]] - A [[2001 El Salvador earthquakes|7.6 magnitude earthquake]] hits all of [[El Salvador]], killing at least 800 people and leaving thousands homeless. (See also February 13.)<!--confirmed here-->.
 
* [[January 15]] - [[Wikipedia]], a [[Wiki]] free content encyclopedia, goes online ({{selfref|[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Day|Wikipedia Day]]|}}).
 
* [[January 16]] - [[US President]] [[Bill Clinton]] awards former US President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] a posthumous [[Medal of Honor]] for his service during the [[Spanish-American War]].  Eleven of Roosevelt's descendants accept the honor on his behalf.
 
* [[January 17]] - [[Impeachment]] proceedings against Philippine President [[Joseph Estrada]] end prematurely after the second envelope, which allegedly holds proof that the accused has committed [[plunder]], remains unopened by majority vote of the [[senator]]-judges. Those [[senators]] who voted for the opening of the envelope walk out of the courtroom along with the people watching inside. This event, covered on several Philippine television channels, and the resulting SMS/text messages encouraging everyone to go to [[EDSA]] and shout for the removal or resignation of Estrada from office, triggers the second [[EDSA Dos|EDSA People Power Revolution]] or [[People Power II]].
 
* [[January 20]] - [[Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo]] is sworn in by Chief Justice [[Hilario Davide]] as the 14th President of the Republic of the Philippines after the [[Armed Forces of the Philippines]] and several cabinet members withdraw their support for [[Joseph Estrada]].
 
* [[January 20]] - [[George W. Bush]] is sworn in as the 43rd [[President of the United States]].
 
* [[January 22]] - Four of the "[[Texas 7]]" are caught at a convenience store in [[Woodland Park, Colorado]], and a fifth kills himself inside a motor home.{{noMention}}
 
* [[January 23]]-[[January 25]] - [[United Nations]] [[war crime]]s prosecutor Del Ponte demands that [[Serbia]] hand over [[Slobodan Milošević]].{{noMention}}
 
* [[January 23]] - [[Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident]]
 
* [[January 24]] - The last 2 of the "[[Texas 7]]" are taken into custody in [[Colorado Springs, Colorado]].{{noMention}}
 
* [[January 24]] - [[Secretary of State for Northern Ireland]] [[Peter Mandelson]] resigns from the [[United Kingdom|British]] cabinet for the second time.
 
* [[January 25]] - A 50-year-old [[Douglas DC-3]] crashes near [[Ciudad Bolivar]], [[Venezuela]], killing 24.<ref>http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20010125-0</ref>
 
* [[January 26]] - An [[earthquake]] hits [[Gujarat]]<!--confirmed here-->, [[India]], causing more than 12,000 deaths.
 
* [[January 28]] - The [[Baltimore Ravens]] defeat the [[New York Giants]] 34-7 in [[Super Bowl XXXV]], played at [[Raymond James Stadium]] in [[Tampa, Florida]].  It is the Ravens first Super Bowl title.
 
 
 
===[[February 2001|February]]===
 
{{Month3|2|3|0}}
 
<!-- Unsourced image removed: [[Image:QM foot and mouth.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon|Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother]] walks over a disinfectant mat at Sandown racecourse, as [[2001 UK foot and mouth crisis|foot and mouth]] hits the UK.]] -->
 
* [[February 6]] - [[Likud Party]] leader [[Ariel Sharon]] wins election as [[Prime Minister of Israel]].
 
* [[February 8]] - [[Disney's California Adventure]] theme park opens to the public.
 
* [[February 9]] - The submarine [[USS Greeneville (SSN-772)|USS ''Greeneville'']] strikes and sinks the [[Japan]]ese fishing vessel ''[[Ehime-Maru]]'' near [[Hawaii]].
 
* [[February 11]] - The East beats the West 111-110 in the 50th NBA All Star Game in [[Washington, DC]].
 
* [[February 11]] - [[Three Rivers Stadium]] in [[Pittsburgh]] is imploded.
 
* [[February 12]] - The [[NEAR Shoemaker]] spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of [[433 Eros]], becoming the first spacecraft to land on an [[asteroid]].
 
* [[February 13]] - A [[2001 El Salvador earthquakes|6.6 magnitude earthquake]] hits [[El Salvador]], killing at least 400.
 
* [[February 16]] - [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: British and U.S. forces carry out bombing raids, attempting to disable [[Iraq]]'s air defense network.
 
* [[February 16]] - US and UK war planes bomb a Baghdad suburb; 3 people are killed.
 
* [[February 18]] - [[NASCAR]] driver [[Dale Earnhardt]] is killed instantly in a crash on the last lap of the [[Daytona 500]] while his DEI cars driven by his son, [[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]], and [[Michael Waltrip]], finish second and first, respectively.
 
* [[February 18]] - [[Dodge]] returns to [[NASCAR]] with the [[Dodge Intrepid]] at the [[Daytona 500]]. Efforts are led by [[Evernham Motorsports]]. Driver [[Bill Elliot]] started on the pole in the Number 9 Dodge Dealers Dodge Intrepid and finished 5th in the event.
 
* [[February 18]] - [[FBI]] agent [[Robert Hanssen]] is arrested and charged with [[spying]] for [[Russia]] for 15 years.   
 
* [[February 19]] - An [[Oklahoma City bombing]] museum is dedicated at the [[Oklahoma City National Memorial]].
 
* [[February 20]] - The [[2001 UK foot and mouth crisis]] begins.
 
* [[February 23]] - The [[Isla Vista massacre]] where four students are killed and one critically injured by an insane UCSB freshman.
 
* [[February 24]]-[[February 27]] - Patient Tony Collins spends 77 hours and 30 minutes on a hospital trolley outside the toilets in the [[Princess Margaret Hospital]], [[Swindon]], United Kingdom.
 
* [[February 28]] - The [[Selby rail crash]] near Selby, North Yorkshire, [[England]], kills 10 people.
 
* [[February 28]] - The [[Nisqually Earthquake]] strikes [[Seattle, Washington]].
 
 
 
===[[March 2001|March]]===
 
{{Month3|3|3|0}}
 
* [[March 4]] - [[Hintze Ribeiro disaster]]: A bridge collapses in northern [[Portugal]], killing up to 70 people.
 
* [[March 23]] - The Russian space station [[Mir]] re-enters the atmosphere near [[Nadi]], [[Fiji]], and falls into the [[Pacific Ocean]].
 
* [[March 24]] - [[Apple Computer]]'s [[Mac OS X v10.0]] is released.
 
* [[March 25]] - The [[73rd Academy Awards]], hosted by [[Steve Martin]] are held at the [[Shrine Auditorium]] in [[Los Angeles, California]], with ''[[Gladiator (film)|Gladiator]]'' winning [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]].
 
* [[March 26]] - The last edition of [[WCW Monday Nitro]] airs, ending the Monday Night Wars which had captivated audiences since the mid 1990s.
 
* [[March 30]] - The [[Nickelodeon]] series,[[Invader ZIM]] is released.
 
* [[March 30]] - The original [[Nickelodeon]] series,[[The Fairly Oddparents]] is released.
 
* [[March 31]] - [[Universal Studios Japan]] theme park opened water front erea of [[Osaka]], Japan.
 
 
 
===[[April 2001|April]]===
 
{{Month3|4|6|0}}
 
* [[April 1]] - [[U.S.-China Spy Plane Incident]]: A Chinese fighter jet bumps into a U.S. [[EP-3E]] surveillance aircraft which is forced to make an emergency landing in [[Hainan]], [[People's Republic of China|China]]. The U.S. crew is detained for 10 days and the [[Shenyang J-8|F-8]] Chinese pilot, [[Wang Wei (pilot)|Wang Wei]], goes missing and is presumed dead.
 
* [[April 1]] - Former [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] President [[Slobodan Milošević]] surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of [[war crime]]s.
 
* [[April 1]] - In the [[Netherlands]], the [[Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands|Act on the Opening up of Marriage]] goes into effect. The Act allows [[Same-sex marriage|same-sex couples]] to legally marry for the first time in the world since the reign of [[Nero]].
 
* [[April 7]] - [[Timothy Thomas]], a 19-year-old African-American, is shot by a police officer in Cincinnati, sparking riots in downtown Cincinnati from [[April 10]] to [[April 12]].
 
* [[April 9]] - The [[Cincinnati Reds]] defeat the [[Pittsburgh Pirates]] 8-2 in the first game at [[PNC Park]], the first two-deck stadium built in the U.S. since [[Milwaukee County Stadium]] opened in [[1953]].
 
* [[April 26]] - [[Junichiro Koizumi]] becomes [[Prime Minister of Japan]].
 
* [[April 27]] - Impostor [[Christopher Rocancourt]] is arrested in [[Oak Bay]], [[British Columbia]].
 
* [[April 28]] - ''[[Soyuz TM-32]]'' lifts off from the [[Baikonur]] Cosmodrome, carrying the first space tourist, American [[Dennis Tito]].
 
* [[April 29]] - The [[UK Census]] is conducted in the United Kingdom.
 
* [[April 30]] - [[Blanche Barton]], High Priestess of the [[Church of Satan]], steps down and gives her position to [[Peter H. Gilmore]] and [[Peggy Nadramia]].
 
 
 
===[[May 2001|May]]===
 
{{Month3|5|1|0}}
 
* [[May 1]] - The [[Japan]]ese cities of Urawa, Omiya, and Yono merge to form the city of [[Saitama, Saitama|Saitama]].
 
* [[May 1]] - [[Washington, DC]] police declare [[Chandra Levy]] missing (her remains are discovered a year later).
 
* [[May 6]] - Space tourist [[Dennis Tito]] returns to Earth aboard ''[[Soyuz TM-31]]''. (''[[Soyuz TM-32]]'' is left docked at the [[International Space Station]] as a new lifeboat.)
 
* [[May 7]] - In [[Banja Luka]], [[Bosnia-Herzegovina]], an attempt is made to reconstruct the [[Ferhadija mosque]]. However, the ceremony results in mass riots by [[Serb]] nationalists that beat and stone 300 elderly [[Bosnian Muslims]]. 
 
* [[May 10]] - A [[soccer]] game stampede in [[Ghana]] kills over 120.
 
* [[May 13]] - [[Silvio Berlusconi]] and the [[Italy|Italian]] House of the Liberties coalition win [[Italian general election, 2001|general elections]].
 
* [[May 20]] - Arianna, Queen of Persia announces her engagement
 
* [[May 22]] - A large [[trans-Neptunian object]] ([[28978 Ixion]]) is found during the [[Deep Ecliptic Survey]].
 
* [[May 22]]-[[May 23]] - The Bahá'í Terraces officially open on [[Mount Carmel, Israel|Mount Carmel]] in [[Haifa]], Israel (site of the [[Shrine of the Báb]] and the [[Bahá'í World Centre]]).
 
* [[May 23]] - [[Bayern München]] wins the [[UEFA Champions League]].
 
* [[May 24]] - Sherpa [[Temba Tsheri]], 16, becomes the youngest person to conquer [[Mount Everest]].
 
 
 
===[[June 2001|June]]===
 
{{Month3|6|4|0}}
 
* [[June 1]] - Crown Prince [[Dipendra of Nepal]] kills his father, the king, his mother and other members of the royal family with an assault rifle and then shoots himself in the [[Nepalese royal massacre]]. He dies [[June 4]]. King [[Gyanendra]] accedes to the throne.
 
* [[June 1]] - A [[Hamas]] suicide bomber kills 21, mostly teenagers, in the Dolphinarium disco in [[Tel Aviv]], [[Israel]].
 
* [[June 5]]-[[June 9]] - [[Houston, Texas]] is devastated by flooding when [[Tropical Storm Allison]] produces 36 inches (900 mm) of [[rain]]. Particularly hard hit are the downtown area and the [[Texas Medical Center]], which loses years of research and data and thousands of lab animals. Twenty-two people die; damage exceeds 5 billion [[United States dollar|American dollars]].
 
* [[June 5]] - U.S. Senator [[Jim Jeffords]] leaves the [[United States Republican Party|Republican party]], an act which changes control of the [[United States Senate]] from the Republican party to the [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic party]].
 
* [[June 7]] - [[Tony Blair]]'s [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] wins the [[United Kingdom general election, 2001]].
 
* [[June 8]] - The popular editorial site [[suck.com]], one of the first original content websites, publishes its final article, "[[Gone Fishin']]."
 
* [[June 8]] - [[Mamoru Takuma]] murdered 8 first and second grade students and wounded 15 others in [[Osaka]].
 
* [[June 9]] - The [[Colorado Avalanche]] win their second [[Stanley Cup]] Championship with a 3-1 victory in Game 7 of the 2001 Stanley Cup Finals over the defending champion [[New Jersey Devils]] at [[Pepsi Center]] in [[Denver, Colorado]].
 
* [[June 11]] - In [[Terre Haute]], [[Indiana]], [[Timothy McVeigh]] is executed for the [[Oklahoma City Bombing]].
 
* [[June 15]] - The [[Los Angeles Lakers]] beat the [[Philadelphia 76ers]] 4-1 to win their second straight NBA Title. They also finish with the best overall record in playoff history 15-1.
 
* [[June 17]] - A.S.Roma win the scudetto (Italian championship)
 
* [[June 19]] - An American [[missile]] hits a [[soccer]] field in northern [[Iraq]] (Tel Afr County), killing 23 and wounding 11.
 
* [[June 20]] - [[Pervez Musharraf]] becomes [[President of Pakistan]] after the resignation of [[Muhammad Rafiq Tarar]].
 
* [[June 20]] - [[Andrea Yates]] drowns her children in a bathtub and confesses to her crime. She is sentenced to life in prison.
 
* [[June 21]] - A total [[solar eclipse]] occurs.
 
* [[June 23]] - An earthquake with 7.9 on the [[Richter magnitude scale|Richter scale]], hits the south of [[Peru]].
 
 
 
===[[July 2001|July]]===
 
{{Month3|7|6|0}}
 
*[[July 2]] - The world's first self-contained [[artificial heart]] is implanted in [[Robert Tools]].
 
*[[July 3]] - A Vladivostokavia [[Tupolev Tu-154]] jetliner crashes on approach to landing at [[Irkutsk, Russia]], killing 145.
 
*[[July 3]] - [[The White Stripes]] release their 3rd album "[[White Blood Cells]]" which became the 15th greatest album 2000-2005
 
*[[July 13]] - [[Beijing]] wins the bid to host the [[2008 Summer Olympics]]
 
*[[July 16]] - The [[People's Republic of China]] and the [[Russia|Russian Federation]] sign the [[2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship|Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation]].
 
*[[July 16]] - The [[FBI]] arrests [[Dmitry Sklyarov]] at a convention in [[Las Vegas, Nevada]], for violating a provision of the [[DMCA]].
 
*[[July 17]] - Inauguration of the [[Altamira (cave)|Altamira caves]]'s replica created by [[Manuel Franquelo]] and Sven Nebel.
 
*[[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.
 
*[[July 19]] - [[United Kingdom|UK]] politician and novelist [[Jeffrey Archer]], is sentenced to 4 years in prison for [[perjury]] and perverting the course of justice.
 
*[[July 20]] - Vanessa Legget is found in contempt by a Federal Court for refusing to release notes made for her book on the [[Doris Angleton]] murder.
 
*[[July 20]]-[[July 22]] - The [[27th G8 summit]] takes place in [[Genoa]], [[Italy]]. Massive demonstrations are held against the meeting by [[anti-globalisation]] groups. One demonstrator, [[Carlo Giuliani]], is shot dead by a [[carabinieri|carabiniere]] and several others are badly injured, during a police attack on a school used by the protesters as their headquarters.
 
*[[July 24]] - [[Tamil Tigers]] attack Bandaranaika International Airport in [[Sri Lanka]], causing an estimated $500 million of damages.
 
*[[July 28]] - [[Alejandro Toledo]] is sworn in as the new president of [[Peru]], 8 months after a vote of no-confidence in former President [[Alberto Fujimori]].
 
 
 
===[[August 2001|August]]===
 
{{Month3|8|2|0}}
 
*[[August 1]] - Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice [[Roy Moore]] has a 2½ ton monument of the [[Ten Commandments]] (dubbed by both detractors and the media as 'Roy's Rock') surreptitiously installed in the Rotunda of the Judiciary Building.  He is later [[Glassroth v. Moore|sued]] to have it removed, and eventually removed from office.
 
* [[August 2]] - [[Robert Mueller]] is confirmed as the new [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] director.
 
* [[August 5]] - The [[Cleveland Indians]] defeat the [[Seattle Mariners]] 15-14 in a record-setting game known as the [[The Impossible Return|Impossible Return]].
 
* [[August 9]] - U.S. President [[George W. Bush]] announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic [[stem cell]]s.
 
* [[August 9]] - In the [[Comoros]], the "Military Committee" of Major Mohamad Bacar seizes power in the island of [[Anjouan]], that had declared independence. They plan to rejoin the Comoros.
 
* [[August 10]] - The [[Hudson River Way]] is opened to traffic.
 
* [[August 11]] - British television channel ITV rebrands as [[ITV1]], replacing the former ITV regional companies.
 
* [[August 24]] - The [[Heino murders]] in [[Finland]]: four teenagers assassinate businessman Martti Heino and his wife Elise Heino.
 
* [[August 25]] - A [[Cessna 402]] aircraft carrying 9 people, including [[R&B]] singer [[Aaliyah]], crashes in the [[Bahamas]], killing all aboard.
 
 
 
===[[September 2001|September]]===
 
{{Month3|9|5|0}}
 
* [[September 1]] - The libertarian [[Free State Project]] is founded at [[Yale University]].
 
* [[September 4]] - [[Google]] is awarded a [[United States Patent and Trademark Office|patent]], number 6,285,999, for the [[PageRank]] [[search algorithm]] used in the [[Google]] [[search engine]].
 
* [[September 5]] - [[Peru]]'s attorney general files [[homicide]] charges against ex-President [[Alberto Fujimori]].
 
* [[September 6]] - [[United States v. Microsoft]]: The [[United States Justice Department]] announces that it no longer seeks to break-up [[software]] maker [[Microsoft]], and will instead seek a lesser [[antitrust]] penalty.
 
* [[September 9]] - 68 people die in [[Estonia]] after drinking bootleg alcohol that contained [[methanol]].
 
* [[September 9]] - A suicide bomber kills [[Ahmed Shah Massoud]], military commander of the [[Afghan Northern Alliance]].
 
* [[September 10]] - [[Norwegian parliamentary election, 2001]]: [[Kjell Magne Bondevik]] returns to power as head of a conservative coalition.
 
[[Image:National Park Service 9-11 Statue of Liberty and WTC fire.jpg|thumb|250px|September 11, 2001 attacks]]
 
* [[September 11]] - Almost 3,000 people are killed in the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] at the [[World Trade Center]] in [[New York City]], [[The Pentagon]] in [[Arlington, Virginia]], and in rural [[Shanksville, Pennsylvania]].
 
* [[September 11]] - [[Ansett Australia]], One of the oldest airlines in the world and the second largest in [[Australia]] goes under administration with [[KordaMentha]] due to major financial struggles.
 
* [[September 15]] - President [[George W. Bush]] says that the [[United States of America]] is at [[War on Terrorism|war against terror.]]
 
* [[September 15]] - The [[Queen Isabella Causeway]] in [[Texas]] collapses after being hit by a tugboat, killing 8.
 
* [[September 17]] - The [[New York Stock Exchange]] reopens following the terrorist attacks in New York.
 
* [[September 18]] - The [[2001 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]]''.
 
*[[September 21]] - Sports return to New York for the first time since the terrorist attacks with the [[New York Mets]]/[[Atlanta Braves]] game at [[Shea Stadium]]. The two teams shook hands before the game. Then in the game [[Mike Piazza]] hit a 2 run home run in the 8th inning off [[Steve Karsay]] to win the game 3-2.
 
*[[September 21]] - [[America: A Tribute to Heroes]] benefit concert for victims of the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks and their families, airs uninterrupted and commercial-free, featuring artists such as U2, Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen.
 
 
 
===[[October 2001|October]]===
 
{{Month3|10|0|0}}
 
* [[October 2]] - [[Swissair]] goes bankrupt.
 
* [[October 4]] - The first case of anthrax in the U.S. ([[2001 anthrax attacks|attack]]) is announced by federal officials.
 
* [[October 4]] - [[Siberia Airlines Flight 1812]] crashes over the Black Sea en route from [[Tel Aviv]], [[Israel]] to [[Novosibirsk]], [[Russia]]; 78 are killed.
 
* [[October 5]] - [[Tom Ridge]] resigns as [[Governor of Pennsylvania]] to become the first director of the newly created [[United States Office of Homeland Security]].
 
* [[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. Both are off [[Chan Ho Park]] of the [[Los Angeles Dodgers]].
 
* [[October 5]] - The [[Seattle Mariners]] break the AL record for wins in a season set by the 1998 New York Yankees, winning their 115th game, defeating the [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]] at [[Safeco Field]]. The Mariners finish the season 116-46.
 
* [[October 7]] - The [[United States]] invades [[Afghanistan]], with participation from the [[UK|United Kingdom]].
 
* [[October 8]] - [[Linate Airport disaster|Flight SK686]] of [[Scandinavian Airline Systems|SAS]] collides first with a private plane and then a building in [[Milano]] Airport; 100 are killed.
 
* [[October 8]] - The first [[Tsunami Channel]] comic goes online. It later becomes the #1 comic of [[Comic Genesis|Keenspace]] (in terms of page views) until moving to its own server.
 
* [[October 9]] - The [[2001 anthrax attacks]] continue as anthrax letters are mailed from [[Princeton, New Jersey]], to U.S. Senators [[Tom Daschle]] of [[South Dakota]] and [[Patrick Leahy]] of [[Vermont]].
 
* [[October 10]] - [[War on Terrorism]]: U.S. President [[George W. Bush]] presents a list of [[FBI Most Wanted Terrorists|22 most wanted terrorists]].
 
* [[October 12]] -  [[War on Terrorism]]: Prompted by a request from U.S. President [[George W. Bush]], an episode of ''[[America's Most Wanted]]'' features the 22 most wanted terrorists.
 
* [[October 14]] - [[Michael Schumacher]] wins the 52nd [[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile|FIA]] [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|Formula One World championship]], with a record margin of 58 points.
 
* [[October 15]] - [[NASA]]'s [[Galileo spacecraft]] passes within 112 miles of [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]'s moon [[Io (moon)|Io]].
 
* [[October 19]] - [[SIEV-X]] sinks en route to [[Christmas Island]].
 
* [[October 20]] - [[The Concert for New York City]], "a celebration of the strength, resilience, and pride of New York and America" is held, featuring performances by [[The Who]], [[Paul McCartney]], [[David Bowie]], [[Backstreet Boys]], [[Billy Joel]], [[Destiny's Child]], [[Eric Clapton]], [[Adam Sandler]], [[Bon Jovi]], [[Elton John]] and many more.
 
* [[October 21]] - [[United We Stand: What More Can I Give]] benefit concert held in [[Washington D.C.]], featuring performances by [[Michael Jackson]], [[Aerosmith]], [[Mariah Carey]], [[James Brown]], [[Al Green]], [[Carole King]], the [[Backstreet Boys]], [['N Sync]], [[P!nk]], and others.
 
* [[October 23]] - [[Apple Computer]] releases the [[Apple iPod|iPod]].
 
* [[October 23]] - [[Principal Financial Group]] files its [[IPO|initial public offering]] on the [[NYSE|New York Stock Exchange]].
 
* [[October 25]] - [[Microsoft]] releases [[Windows XP]].
 
* [[October 26]] - The [[USA PATRIOT Act]] becomes law.
 
 
 
===[[November 2001|November]]===
 
{{Month3|11|3|0}}
 
[[Image:US 10th Mountain Division soldiers in Afghanistan.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Soldiers board a Chinook helicopter.]]
 
* November - [[The Doha Declaration]] relaxes the grip of international [[intellectual property]] law.
 
* [[November 1]] - Derek Jeter hits the [[MLB|MLB's]] first [[November]] [[home run]] at the [[2001 World Series#Game 4|World Series]].
 
* [[November 2]] - The [[Glocal Forum]], leading international organization in the field of city-to-city cooperation, is established by Ambassador [[Uri Savir]].
 
 
 
* [[November 4]] - [[Hurricane Michelle]] hits [[Cuba]], destroying crops and thousands of homes.
 
* [[November 4]] - The [[Police Service of Northern Ireland]] is established, replacing the controversial [[Royal Ulster Constabulary]].
 
* [[November 4]] - The [[Arizona Diamondbacks]] beat the 3 time defending [[World Series]] Champions [[New York Yankees]] in 7 games to win their first ever World Series Championship.
 
* [[November 7]] - [[Belgium]]'s [[SABENA]] Airlines goes bankrupt.
 
* [[November 7]] - The super-sonic commercial aircraft [[Concorde]] resumes flying after a 15-month break.
 
* [[November 10]] - The [[People's Republic of China]] is admitted to the [[World Trade Organization]] after 15 years of negotiations.
 
* [[November 10]] - [[Australia]]n Prime Minister [[John Howard]] is elected to a third term.
 
* [[November 10]] - Heavy rains and [[mudflow|mudslides]] in [[Algeria]] kill more than 900 people.
 
* [[November 12]] - In [[New York City]], [[American Airlines Flight 587]] headed to the [[Dominican Republic]] crashes in [[Queens, New York]] minutes after takeoff from [[John F. Kennedy International Airport]], killing all 260 on board.
 
* [[November 12]] - [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|2001 Attack on Afghanistan]]: [[Taliban]] forces abandon [[Kabul]], the capital of [[Afghanistan]], ahead of advancing [[Afghan Northern Alliance]] troops, which take the city on [[November 14]].
 
* [[November 13]] - [[Doha Round]]: The [[World Trade Organization]] ends a 4-day ministerial conference in [[Doha]], [[Qatar]].
 
* [[November 13]] - [[Symbionese Liberation Army]] member [[Kathleen Soliah]] (Sara Jane Olsen) withdraws her previous guilty plea.
 
* [[November 13]] - [[War on Terrorism]]: In the first such act since [[World War II]], U.S. President [[George W. Bush]] signs an executive order allowing [[military tribunal]]s against any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts against the [[United States]].
 
* [[November 15]] - [[Microsoft]] releases the [[Xbox]] in North America.
 
* [[November 18]] - [[Nintendo]] releases the [[Nintendo Gamecube|Gamecube]] in North America.
 
* [[November 22]] - [[Pope John Paul II]] sends the first papal e-mail from a laptop in his office.
 
* [[November 25]] - The [[Calgary Stampeders]] win the CFL Championship for the first time since 1998, defeating the [[Winnipeg Blue Bombers]] 27-19 in the [[89th Grey Cup]] at [[Olympic Stadium (Montreal)|Olympic Stadium]] in [[Montreal, Quebec]].
 
* [[November 29]] - [[Beatle]] [[George Harrison]] dies of [[cancer]].
 
 
 
===[[December 2001|December]]===
 
{{Month3|12|5|0}}
 
* [[December 2]] - [[Enron]] files for [[Chapter 11 bankruptcy]] protection 5 days after [[Dynegy]] cancels a US$8.4 billion buyout bid. At the time this is the largest [[bankruptcy]] in U.S. history.
 
* [[December 3]] - Officials announce that one of the [[Taliban]] prisoners captured after the prison uprising at [[Mazari Sharif]], [[Afghanistan]] is [[John Walker Lindh]], an American citizen.
 
* [[December 11]] - The United States government indicts [[Zacarias Moussaoui]] for involvement in the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]].
 
* [[December 11]] - Law enforcement raided members of [[DrinkOrDie]] in [[Operation Buccaneer]].
 
* [[December 11]] - Decision to build a new [[Ocean City High School]] is approved.
 
* [[December 12]] - [[Roy Whiting]] is found guilty of murdering [[Sarah Payne]] at [[Lewes]] Crown Court. The trial judge recommends that Whiting, 42 and already a convicted child abuser, should never be released. Sarah's murder was the catalyst for the [[News of the World]]'s campaign to allow parents to know whether a convicted paedophile is living in their area.
 
* [[December 13]] - The [[Parliament of India]] is attacked by terrorists, killing 14 people. This brings India and Pakistan to the brink of war.
 
* [[December 13]] - U.S. President [[George W. Bush]] announces the United States' withdrawal from the 1972 [[Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty]].
 
* [[December 14]] - An annular [[solar eclipse]] occurs.
 
* [[December 19]] - A new world-record high [[barometric pressure]] of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded in [[Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl|Tosontsengel]], [[Khövsgöl Province]], [[Mongolia]].
 
* [[December 22]] - [[Hamid Karzai]] is sworn in as head of the interim government in [[Afghanistan]].
 
* [[December 22]] - A [[Paris]]-[[Miami, Florida]] flight is diverted to [[Boston, Massachusetts]] after passenger [[Richard Reid (terrorist)|Richard Reid]] attempts to set his shoe, filled with explosives, on fire.
 
* [[December 27]] - The [[People's Republic of China]] is granted permanent [[Most favoured nation|normal trade]] status with the [[United States]].
 
* [[December 27]] - [[Typhoon Vamei]] forms within 1.5 degrees of the equator. No other [[tropical cyclone]] in recorded history has come as close to the equator.
 
 
 
===Undated===
 
* [[India]] becomes the second nation in the world to register 1,000,000,000 people in its population. The first was [[China]] in [[1979]].
 
 
 
===Ongoing===
 
{{Events by month}}
 
{{Year in other calendars}}
 
 
 
==Births==
 
* [[October 7]] - [[Princess Senate Seeiso]], daughter of King [[Letsie III of Lesotho]]
 
* [[October 18]] - [[Annelise Manojlovic]], English actress
 
* [[October 25]] - [[Princess Elisabeth of Belgium]], daughter of [[Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant]]
 
* [[December 1]] - [[Aiko, Princess Toshi]] of [[Japan]]
 
 
 
==Deaths==
 
'''For more deaths see: [[Deaths in 2001]]'''
 
===January-June===
 
*[[January 1]] - [[Ray Walston]], American actor (b. [[1914]])
 
*[[January 2]] - [[Teri Diver]], American actress (b. [[1971]])
 
*[[January 3]] - [[José Greco]], Italian-born flamenco dancer (b. [[1918]])
 
*[[January 5]] - [[Nancy Parsons]], American actress (b. [[1942]])
 
*[[January 9]] - [[Maurice Prather]], American motion picture and still photographer (b. [[1926]])
 
*[[January 12]] - [[William Reddington Hewlett|William Hewlett]], American businessman (b. [[1913]])
 
*[[January 12]] - [[Vladimir Semichastny]], former [[Soviet]] head of [[KGB]] in the [[1960]]'s (b. [[1924]])
 
*[[January 16]] - [[Laurent-Désiré Kabila]], president of the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] (b. [[1939]])
 
*[[January 19]] - [[Dario Vittori]], Argentinean actor (b. [[1921]])
 
*[[January 27]] - [[Marie-José of Belgium]], Last Queen of Italy (b. [[1906]])
 
*[[January 28]] - [[Curt Blefary]], baseball player (b. [[1943]])
 
*[[January 30]] - [[Jean-Pierre Aumont]], French actor (b. [[1911]])
 
*[[January 30]] - [[Johnnie Johnson (pilot)|Johnnie Johnson]], English pilot (b. [[1915]])
 
*[[January 31]] - [[Gordon R. Dickson]], Canadian writer (b. [[1923]])
 
*[[February 4]] -  [[Iannis Xenakis]], Greek composer (b. [[1922]])
 
*[[February 6]] - [[Filemon Lagman]], Filipino Communist revolutionary (b. [[1953]])
 
*[[February 7]] - [[Dale Evans]], American actress and singer (b. [[1912]])
 
*[[February 7]] - [[Anne Morrow Lindbergh]], American author and aviator (b. [[1906]])
 
*[[February 9]] - [[Herbert Simon]], American economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1916]])
 
*[[February 10]] - [[Abraham Beame]],[[mayor of New York City]] from 1974 to 1977 (b.[[1906]])
 
*[[February 12]] - [[Kristina Söderbaum]], German actress and photographer (b. [[1912]])
 
*[[February 16]] - [[Bob Buhl]], baseball player (b. [[1928]])
 
*[[february 17]] - [[Khalid Abdul Muhammad]], an ex-felon and a controversial figure in the [[Black Nationalist]],[[Pan Africanist]] movement
 
*[[February 18]] - [[Balthus]], French painter (b. [[1908]])
 
*[[February 18]] - [[Dale Earnhardt]], American race car driver (b. [[1951]])
 
*[[February 18]] - [[Eddie Mathews]], baseball player (b. [[1931]])
 
*[[February 19]] - [[Priscilla Davis]], American socialite (b. [[1942]])
 
*[[February 19]] - [[Stanley Kramer]], American film director (b. [[1913]])
 
*[[February 19]] - [[Charles Trenet]], French singer (b. [[1913]])
 
*[[February 24]] - [[Claude Elwood Shannon]], American mathematician (b. [[1916]])
 
*[[February 25]] - Sir [[Donald Bradman]], Australian cricketer (b. [[1908]])
 
*[[February 26]] - [[Stan Cullis]], English footballer and manager (b. [[1915]])
 
*[[March 4]] - [[Harold Stassen]], American politician (b. [[1907]])
 
*[[March 4]] - [[Fred Lasswell]], American cartoonist (b. [[1916]])
 
*[[March 4]] - [[Glenn Hughes (singer)|Glenn Hughes]], American singer (b. [[1950]])
 
*[[March 12]] - [[Morton Downey Jr.]], American television personality (b. [[1933]])
 
*[[March 12]] - [[Robert Ludlum]], American author (b. [[1927]])
 
*[[March 12]] - [[Ann Sothern]], American actress (b. [[1909]])
 
*[[March 18]] - [[John Phillips (musician)|John Phillips]], American singer (b. [[1935]])
 
*[[March 21]] - [[Norma Macmillan]], Canadian voice actress (b. [[1921]])
 
*[[March 22]] - [[William Hanna]], American animation studio executive (b. [[1910]])
 
*[[March 23]] - [[Sully Boyar]], American actor (b. [[1923]])
 
*[[March 28]] - [[Vulo Radev]], Bulgarian film director (b. [[1923]])
 
*[[March 31]] - [[Clifford Shull]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1915]])
 
*[[March 31]] - [[David Rocastle]], English footballer (b. [[1967]])
 
*[[April 7]] - [[David Graf]], American actor (b. [[1950]])
 
*[[April 7]] - [[Beatrice Straight]], American actress (b. [[1914]])
 
*[[April 10]] - [[Willie Stargell]], baseball player (b. [[1940]])
 
*[[April 11]] - [[Graciela Naranjo]], Venezuelan singer and actress (b. [[1916]])
 
*[[April 11]] - [[Harry Secombe]], Welsh entertainer (b. [[1921]])
 
*[[April 12]] - [[Harvey Ball]], American designer (b. [[1921]])
 
*[[April 14]] - [[Hiroshi Teshigahara]], Japanese director (b. [[1927]])
 
*[[April 15]] - [[Joey Ramone]], American musician and singer ([[The Ramones]]) (b. [[1951]])
 
*[[April 20]] - [[Giuseppe Sinopoli]], Italian conductor and composer (b. [[1946]])
 
*[[April 20]] - [[Bert Sutcliffe]], New Zealand cricketer (b. [[1923]])
 
*[[May 2]] - [[Ted Rogers]], British comedian (b. [[1935]])
 
*[[May 2]] - [[Gina Mastrogiacomo]], American actress (b. [[1961]])
 
*[[May 5]] - [[Clifton Hillegass]], American author and creator of Cliff Notes (b. [[1918]])
 
*[[May 9]] - [[James E. Myers]], American songwriter (b. [[1919]])
 
*[[May 11]] - [[Douglas Adams]], English author (heart attack) (b. [[1952]])
 
*[[May 12]] - [[Perry Como]], American singer (b. [[1912]])
 
*[[May 13]] - [[R.K. Narayan]], Indian novelist (b. [[1906]])
 
*[[May 20]] - [[Renato Carosone]], Italian musician and singer (b. [[1920]])
 
*[[May 24]] - [[Javier Urruticoechea]], Spanish footballer (b. [[1952]])
 
*[[May 27]] - [[Ramon Bieri]], American actor (b. [[1929]])
 
*[[May 28]] - [[Francisco Varela]], Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. [[1946]])
 
*[[June 1]] - [[Hank Ketcham]], American cartoonist (b. [[1920]])
 
*[[June 1]] - Queen [[Aiswarya]] of Nepal (assassinated) (b. [[1949]])
 
*[[June 1]] - King [[Birendra of Nepal]] (assassinated) (b. [[1945]])
 
*[[June 2]] - [[Imogene Coca]], American actress (b. [[1908]])
 
*[[June 2]] - [[Joey Maxim]], American boxer (b. [[1922]])
 
*[[June 3]] - [[Anthony Quinn]], Mexican actor (b. [[1915]])
 
*[[June 4]] - Prince [[Dipendra of Nepal]] (b. [[1971]])
 
*[[June 4]] - [[John Hartford]], American musician and composer (b. [[1937]])
 
*[[June 7]] - [[Víctor Paz Estenssoro]], President of Bolivia (b. [[1907]])
 
*[[June 10]] - [[Princess Leila of Iran]] (b. [[1970]])
 
*[[June 11]] - [[Timothy McVeigh]], American terrorist (executed) (b. [[1968]])
 
*[[June 13]] - [[Marcelo Fromer]], guitarist of Brazilian band [[Titãs]] (b. [[1961]])
 
*[[June 17]] - [[Donald J. Cram]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1919]])
 
*[[June 17]] - [[Thomas Winning]], Scottish cardinal (b. [[1925]])
 
*[[June 19]] - [[Steve Broadie]], voice actor in [[Sonic Adventure]], [[Sonic Shuffle]] and [[Sonic Adventure 2]]
 
*[[June 19]] - [[John Heyer]], Australian documentary filmmaker (b. [[1916]])
 
*[[June 21]] - [[John Lee Hooker]], American musician (b. [[1917]])
 
*[[June 21]] - [[Carroll O'Connor]], American actor (b. [[1924]])
 
*[[June 26]] - [[Peter von Zahn]], German journalist (b. [[1913]])
 
*[[June 27]] - [[Tove Jansson]], Finnish author (b. [[1914]])
 
*[[June 27]] - [[Jack Lemmon]], American actor and director (b. [[1925]])
 
*[[June 28]] - [[Mortimer Adler]], American philosopher (b. [[1902]])
 
*[[June 28]] - [[Joan Sims]], British actress (b. [[1930]])
 
*[[June 30]] - [[Chet Atkins]], American country guitar player and producer (b. [[1924]])
 
 
 
===July-December===
 
*[[July 1]] - [[Nikolay Basov]], Russian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1922]])
 
*[[July 5]] - [[Hannelore Kohl]], wife of chancellor of Germany [[Helmut Kohl]] (suicide) (b. [[1933]])
 
*[[July 5]] - [[Keenan Milton]]pro skater for chocolate , dvs and many others
 
*[[July 7]] - [[Fred Neil]], American singer-songwriter (b. [[1936]])
 
*[[July 11]] - [[Herman Brood]], Dutch musician and painter (suicide) (b. [[1946]])
 
*[[July 12]] - [[Paul Magloire]], President of Haiti (b. [[1907]])
 
*[[July 18]] - [[Fabio Taglioni]], Italian automotive engineer (b. [[1920]])
 
*[[July 20]] - [[Milt Gabler]], American record producer (b. [[1911]])
 
*[[July 22]] - Frances Rappaport Horwich ([[Miss Frances]]), children's show host (b. [[1907]])
 
*[[July 27]] - [[Leon Wilkeson]], American musician (b. [[1952]])
 
*[[July 29]] - [[Edward Gierek]], Polish politician (b. [[1913]])
 
*[[July 29]] - [[Wau Holland]], German hacker (b. [[1951]])
 
*[[August 1]] - [[Poul Anderson]], American author (b. [[1926]])
 
*[[August 1]] - [[Korey Stringer]], American football player (b. [[1974]])
 
*[[August 3]] - [[Christopher Hewett]], British actor (b. [[1922]])
 
*[[August 6]] - [[Jorge Amado]], Brazilian writer (b. [[1912]])
 
*[[August 15]] - [[Richard Chelimo]], Kenyan athlete (b. [[1972]])
 
*[[August 19]] - [[Les Sealey]], English footballer (b. [[1957]])
 
*[[August 20]] - [[Fred Hoyle]], British astronomer and science fiction writer (b. [[1915]])
 
*[[August 21]] - [[Calum MacKay]], Canadian hockey player (b. [[1927]])
 
*[[August 25]] - [[Aaliyah]], American singer and actress (plane crash) (b. [[1979]])
 
*[[August 30]] - [[Ivor Spencer-Thomas]], English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor (b. [[1907]])
 
*[[September 1]] - [[Bobby Evans]], Scottish football player (b. [[1927]])
 
*[[September 2]] - [[Christiaan Barnard]], South African heart surgeon (b. [[1922]])
 
*[[September 3]] - [[Pauline Kael]], American film critic (b. [[1919]])
 
*[[September 3]] - [[Thuy Trang]], Vietnamese-born actress from [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]] (b. [[1973]])
 
*[[September 4]] - [[Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf]], American radio personality and actor (b. [[1962]])
 
*[[September 7]] - [[Spede Pasanen]], Finnish television personality (b. [[1930]])
 
*[[September 9]]  - [[Ahmed Shah Massoud]], Afghani military commander (b. [[1953]])
 
*[[September 11]] - [[September 11, 2001 attacks#Fatalities|Casualties of the September 11, 2001 attacks]] - 2749 die at World Trade Center, 125 at Pentagon, 40 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, 19 hijackers and 24 still missing.
 
**[[David Angell]], American television producer (b. [[1946]])
 
**[[Garnet Bailey]], Canadian ice hockey player and scout (b. [[1948]])
 
**[[Berry Berenson]], American actress and photographer (b. [[1948]])
 
**[[Barbara Olson]], American television commentator (b. [[1955]])
 
**Passengers of [[United Airlines Flight 93]], coordinated efforts to thwart the terrorist hijacking of Flight 93 and were likely responsible for saving the U.S. Capitol Building or similar target in Washington, DC.
 
***[[Todd Beamer]], Flight 93 Passenger of note - encouraged other passengers with phrase "Let's roll"
 
***[[Tom Burnett]], Flight 93 Passenger of note - quoted during the event "Don't worry. We're going to do something."
 
***[[Jeremy Glick]], Flight 93 Passenger of note - former collegiate judo champion, participated "in the charge (up the aisle to the cockpit)".
 
***[[Mark Bingham]], Flight 93 Passenger of note.
 
* [[September 11]] - [[Alice Stewart Trillin]], American author and film producer (b. [[1938]])
 
*[[September 12]] - [[Victor Wong]], American actor (b. [[1927]])
 
*[[September 22]] - [[Isaac Stern]], Ukrainian violinist (b. [[1920]])
 
*[[October 7]] - [[Chris Adams (wrestler)|Chris Adams]], American judoka and professional wrestler (b. [[1955]])
 
*[[October 12]] - [[Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone]], British lawyer and politician (b. [[1907]])
 
*[[October 15]] - [[Zhang Xueliang]], Chinese military figure (b. [[1901]])
 
*[[October 26]] - [[Josh Kirby]], British artist (b. [[1928]])
 
*[[October 26]] - [[Charlie van Gelderen]], South African politician (b. [[1913]])
 
* [[November 2]] - The [[Glocal Forum]], leading international organization in the field of city-to-city cooperation, is established by Ambassador [[Uri Savir]].
 
* [[November 7]] - [[Nida Blanca]], prolific Philippine actress (b. [[1936]])
 
*[[November 9]] - [[Niels Jannasch]], Canadian historian and museum curator (b. [[1924]])
 
* [[November 10]] - [[Ken Kesey]], American author (b. [[1935]])
 
* [[November 12]] - [[Tony Miles]], English chess player (b. [[1955]])
 
* [[November 12]] - [[Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami]], American-born Hindu guru who spearheaded a global Hindu renaissance and founder of Kauai's Hindu Monastery (b. [[1927]])
 
* [[November 17]] - [[Michael Karoli]], German guitarist ([[Can (band)|Can]]) (b. [[1948]])
 
* [[November 18]] - [[Malcolm McFee]], British actor (''[[Please Sir!]]'' and ''The Fenn Street Gang'') (b. [[1949]])
 
* [[November 21]] - [[Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj]], King of Malaysia (b. [[1926]])
 
* [[November 24]] - [[Melanie Thornton]], American-born singer (b. [[1967]])
 
*[[November 25]] - [[Gohar Shahi]], Internationally renowned Spiritual Leader and Founder of [[International Spiritual Movement Anjuman Serfroshan-e-Islam]](b. [[1941]])
 
* [[November 28]] - [[William Kienzle]], American author (b. [[1928]])
 
* [[November 29]] - [[George Harrison]], English musician ([[The Beatles]]) (b. [[1943]])
 
* [[November 29]] - [[John Knowles]], American author (b. [[1926]])
 
* [[December 5]] - Sir [[Peter Blake (yachtsman)|Peter Blake]], New Zealand sailor and environmentalist (b. [[1948]])
 
* [[December 5]] - [[Franco Rasetti]], Italian physicist (b. [[1901]])
 
* [[December 6]] - [[Charles McClendon]], Hall of Fame college football coach (b. [[1923]])
 
* [[December 8]] - [[Don Tennant]], American advertising executive (b. [[1922]])
 
* [[December 8]] - [[Betty Holberton]], American programmer ([[ENIAC]]) (b. [[1917]])
 
* [[December 12]] - [[Josef Bican]], Austrian [[football]]er (b. [[1913]]
 
* [[December 13]] - [[Chuck Schuldiner]], American singer and guitarist (b. [[1967]])
 
* [[December 15]] - [[Rufus Thomas]], American singer (b. [[1917]])
 
* [[December 15]] - [[Russ Haas]], American professional wrestler (b. [[1974]])
 
* [[December 16]] - [[Stuart Adamson]], British musician (b. [[1958]])
 
* [[December 20]] - [[Foster Brooks]], American actor and comedian (b. [[1912]])
 
* [[December 20]] - [[Léopold Sédar Senghor]], First president of Senegal (b. [[1906]])
 
* [[December 26]] - [[Nigel Hawthorne]], British actor (b. [[1929]])
 
* [[December 29]] - [[Takashi Asahina]], Japanese conductor (b. [[1908]])
 
* [[December 29]] - [[Florian Fricke]], German musician (b. [[1944]])
 
* [[December 29]] - [[Cassia Eller]], Brazilian singer (b. [[1962]])
 
* [[December 30]] - [[Eileen Heckart]], American actress (b. [[1919]])
 
 
 
===Date unknown===
 
* [[Norma Phillips Thornworth]], president of [[Mothers Against Drunk Driving]]
 
 
 
==Nobel prizes==
 
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Eric Allin Cornell]], [[Wolfgang Ketterle]], [[Carl Edwin Wieman]]
 
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[William S. Knowles]], [[Ryoji Noyori]], [[K. Barry Sharpless]]
 
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] - [[Leland H. Hartwell]], [[R. Timothy Hunt]], [[Paul M. Nurse]]
 
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[V.S. Naipaul]]
 
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[United Nations]], [[Kofi Annan]]
 
* [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel]] - [[George A. Akerlof]], [[Michael Spence]], [[Joseph E. Stiglitz]]
 
 
 
==[[Templeton Prize]]==
 
* [[Arthur Peacocke|Rev. Canon Dr. Arthur Peacocke]]
 
 
 
==See also==
 
* [[21st century]]
 
* [[2001: A Space Odyssey]]
 
 
 
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