Obituary Events in September 2001
Sept. 2:
Dr. Christiaan Barnard (78), pioneering South African surgeon who made medical history in 1967 with the world's first heart transplant, in Cyprus.
Sept. 11:
Mr. Samar Choudhary, (71), former Tripura Home Minister and a Lok Sabha MP, at the AIIMS, New Delhi.
Sept. 20:
Gen. Marcos Perez Jimenez (86), Venezuelan ex-dictator, who ruled the country with an iron first between 1948-58, in Spain.
Sept. 23:
Mr. Issac Stern (81), considered the supreme violin virtuoso of the 20th Century, in New York.
Sept. 27:
Mr. Kotla Vijayabhaskara Reddy (81), Congress stalwart and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, in Hyderabad.
Sept. 29:
Mr. Nguyen Van Thieu (78), the former South Vietnamese President, who led his nation in the war that tore apart Vietnam, at a hospital, in Boston, the U.S.