Timeline Thursday 21 June 2001

Events on Thursday 21 June 2001 3

• 1912 – 2001 John Lee Hooker Blues singer and guitarist Mississippi-born bluesman whose hypnotic, one-chord boogie from Detroit made him a hero to British rock bands and a star again in his seventies.
• 1924 – 2001 Carroll O'Connor (1924-2001) Died 21 June 2001, aged 76 O'Connor played the bigoted working-class Archie Bunker in the sitcom All in the Family, one of the most watched and debated US television shows of the 1970s. He later starred in the drama In the Heat of the Night. He won four Emmy Awards.
• 2001 John Lee Hooker dies Los Altos, California Dies in his sleep, aged 88.