* September 7 – Francisco Varela ( died 2001 ), biologist and philosopher

In 2001, a group of activists collected thousands of signatures for the Varela Project, a petition requesting a referendum on the island's political process was openly supported by former US president Jimmy Carter during his historic 2002 visit to Cuba.

** Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist ( d. 2001 )

* Francisco Varela ( 1946 – 2001 ) Chilean philosopher and biologist.

Francisco Javier Varela García ( September 7, 1946 – May 28, 2001 ) was a Chilean biologist, philosopher, and neuroscientist who, together with his teacher Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology, and for co-founding the Mind and Life Institute to promote dialog between science and Buddhism.

* Allende Luis M, Rubio I, Ruíz-del-Valle V, Guillén J, Martínez-Laso J, Ernesto L, Varela P, Zamora J, Arnaiz-Villena A ( 2001 ).

* Arnaiz-Villena, A .; Guillén, J .; Ruiz-del-Valle, V .; Lowy, E .; Zamora, J .; Varela, P .; Stefani, D. & Allende, L. M. ( 2001 ).

* Francisco Varela ( 1946 – 2001 ), Chilean biologist

* Arnaiz-Villena A .; Alvarez-Tejado M .; Ruiz-del-Valle V .; García-de-la-Torre C .; Varela P .; Recio M. J .; Ferre S .; Martinez-Laso J.

* Arnaiz-Villena, A .; Álvarez-Tejado, M .; Ruiz-del-Valle, V .; García-de-la-Torre, C .; Varela, P .; Recio, M. J .; Ferre.

* " En el extranjero " ( C. Varela ), guaracha, 12-16-1951

* Arnaiz-Villena, A .; Álvarez-Tejado, M .; Ruiz-del-Valle, V .; García-de-la-Torre, C .; Varela, P .; Recio, M. J .; Ferre.

The year after, he starred opposite Timothy Dalton, Bruce Payne, Sean Pertwee and Leonor Varela ( who became his fiance after shooting ended ) in a TV-movie about Cleopatra.

The Varela Project ( Proyecto Varela in Spanish ) is a project that was started in 1998 by Oswaldo Payá of the Christian Liberation Movement ( CLM ) and named after Felix Varela, a Cuban religious leader.

The Tigres were at first only locally popular, but took off after Jorge and Art Walker heard a Los Angeles mariachi singer perform a song in the early 1971 about a couple of drug runners, Emilio Varela and Camelia la Texana.

The design of the current Chilean flag is commonly attributed to Bernardo O ' Higgins's Minister of War, José Ignacio Zenteno, having been designed by the Spanish soldier Antonio Arcos, although historians argue that is was Gregorio de Andía y Varela who drew it.

Others who have written about the embodied mind include philosopher Andy Clark ( See his Being There ), philosopher and neurobiologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela and his student Evan Thompson ( See Varela, Thompson & Rosch's " The Embodied Mind "), roboticists such as Rodney Brooks, Rolf Pfeifer and Tom Ziemke, the physicist David Bohm ( see his Thought As A System ), Ray Gibbs ( see his " Embodiment and Cognitive Science "), John Grinder and Richard Bandler in their neuro-linguistic programming, and Julian Jaynes.

The Varela Project started in 1998.

The current Principal is Mrs. Nery Fins ( 2011-present ). Varela was built as an overcrowding relief school for G. Holmes Braddock High School and Miami Sunset High School ; construction began in 1998 but due to delays during construction ( mainly concerning funding and local area politics ) the school's opening was pushed back several times.

Leading national figures in these years included Félix Varela and Cuba's first revolutionary poet, José María Heredia.

He later joined the faculty of the Royal Conservatory where his notable students included Michel van der Aa, Richard Ayres, Richard Baker, Michael Fiday, Jeff Hamburg, Michael Zev Gordon, Rozalie Hirs, Ivana Kiš, Yannis Kyriakides, Juan Sebastian Lach, Steve Martland, Nathan Michel, Koji Nakano, Damien Ricketson, Patrick Saint-Denis, Víctor Varela, Jasna Veličković, and Sinta Wullur.

Theorists who both complement and contrast Hassan include Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Bruno Latour, N. Katherine Hayles, Peter Sloterdijk, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, Evan Thompson, Francisco Varela and Douglas Kellner.

The theories of autopoiesis of Francisco Varela and Humberto Maturana are a further development in this field.

* August 2 – Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer ( b. 1917 )

* Elena Gil Iberoamerican Award on Ethics, June 1995 Felix Varela Centre, Cuba.

In 2002 supporters of a movement known as the Varela Project submitted a citizen proposal of law with 11, 000 signatures calling for a national referendum on political and economic reforms.

Natalie Depraz, Francisco Varela, Pierre Vermersch, On Becoming Aware: A Pragmatics of Experiencing ( Amsterdam: John Benjamins 2003 )-searches for the sources and the means for a disciplined practical approach to exploring human experience.

Varela was born in 1946 in Santiago in Chile, the son of Corina María Elena García-Tapia and Raúl Andrés Varela-Rodríguez.

Like his mentor Humberto Maturana, Varela first studied medicine then biology at the University of Chile, then did a Ph. D. in biology at Harvard University.

After the 1973 military coup led by Augusto Pinochet, Varela and his family spent 7 years in exile in the USA before returning to Chile to become a Professor of biology.

Varela became a Tibetan Buddhist in the 1970s, initially studying, together with Keun-Tshen Goba, with the meditation master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, founder of Vajradhatu and Shambhala Training, and later with Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, a Nepalese meditation master of higher tantras.

In 1987, Varela, along with R. Adam Engle, founded the Mind and Life Institute, initially to sponsor a series of dialogues between scientists and His Holiness The Dalai Lama about the relationship between modern science and Buddhism.

Varela had four children, including the actress, environmental spokesperson, and model Leonor Varela.

Ernest Pletch pled guilty and was sentenced to life in prison, where he died in June 2001.

In the summer of 2001, age 54, he died suddenly of a heart attack while traveling in Russia.

He died on June 30, 2001 at his home in Nashville.

While driving in the 2001 Daytona 500, Earnhardt died of basilar skull fracture in a last-lap crash at Daytona International Speedway on February 18, 2001.

Roughly half of these advisors have since died, including some of the Outline's chief architects: Rene Dubos ( d. 1982 ), Loren Eiseley ( d. 1977 ), Harold D. Lasswell ( d. 1978 ), Mark Van Doren ( d. 1972 ), Peter Ritchie Calder ( d. 1982 ) and Mortimer J. Adler ( d. 2001 ).

He died in Bologna in 2001.

Hengeveld died in 2001 at the age of 90, in Bergen.

* 2001 — Joseph Costello ( Douglas Adams was originally scheduled to speak but died two days before the ceremony )

He died in 2001, having outlived its inventor, the surgeon, and 26 pacemakers.

After their mother died suddenly six months later, the couple became intimately close, and had their first child together in 2001.

He died in 2001 from cancer.

Lemmon died of colon cancer and metastatic cancer of the bladder on June 27, 2001.

Headstone for Joey Ramone with fan tributesJoey Ramone died of lymphoma at New York-Presbyterian Hospital on April 15, 2001, after a seven-year battle.

In 2001, when Joey Ramone died, the Ramones were named as inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, prior to the actual ceremony held early the following year.

* 2001 – Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos, all died in this attack.

John died on 17 June 1985 in Sunningdale, Berkshire, and Roy on 5 November 2001.

Greenberg continued to work on this project after he was diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer until he died in May 2001.

The album was re-released in an expanded single-CD version by Rhino in 2001, featuring alternate mixes, outtakes and the group's 1968 single, " Your Mind and We Belong Together "/" Laughing Stock ", the last tracks that featured the " Forever Changes " line-up of Johnny Echols, Ken Forssi, Michael Stuart and Bryan MacLean ( Forssi and MacLean both died in 1998 ).

They also wore patches in 1999 for assistant coach Chip Myers who died in the offseason and in 2001 for Korey Stringer.

IRIN reported that the Ministry of Defence had admitted that two Namibian soldiers died fighting suspected UNITA rebels in southern Angola in July 2001.

Husseini died a few years later in May 2001.

Poul Anderson died of cancer on July 31, 2001, after a month in the hospital.

In 2001 glaciologist Charles R. Bentley estimated that the tent with the bodies was under about 75 feet ( 23 m ) of ice and about 30 miles ( 48 km ) from the point where they died ; he speculated that in about 275 years the bodies would reach the Ross Sea, and perhaps float away inside an iceberg.

Hosny died in London, England in 2001.