Deaths in 2002

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See also: Deaths in 2001, other events of 2002, and Deaths in 2003.

1 January 2002
2 February 2002
3 March 2002
4 April 2002
5 May 2002
6 June 2002
7 July 2002
8 August 2002
9 September 2002
10 October 2002
11 November 2002
12 December 2002

[edit] January 2002

3 Freddy Heineken, beer magnate.
7 Naughtia Childs, 22, Porn star
7 Jon Lee, British drummer.
8 Dave Thomas, US entrepreneur, founder of Wendy's hamburger restaurants.
11 Cyrus Vance, 87, former United States Secretary of State, international peacemaker.
12 Stanley Unwin, comedian
13 Ted Demme, film and television director
16 Bobo Olson, American boxer
16 Ron Taylor, American actor
18 Alex Hannum, 78, pro basketball coach
19 Jeff Astle, 59, English footballer
21 Peggy Lee, 81, US Singer, Actress
23 Pierre Bourdieu, sociologist
23 Robert Nozick, philosopher
28 Dick 'Night Train' Lane American Football, NFL Hall of Famer
28 Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's book author
Julian Faber, 84, English business executive

[edit] February 2002

6 Max Perutz, founder of molecular biology
7 Elisa Bridges, Playboy model
7 Jack Fairman, 88, British Formula One driver
8 Joachim Hoffmann, German historian
9 Princess Margaret, 71, British royal family (sister of Queen Elizabeth II)
11 Barry Foster, 62, (heart attack), British actor.
12 Theresa Bernstein, 111, artist
15 Mike Darr baseball player
15 Howard K. Smith, TV journalist
15 Kevin Smith (actor), played Ares on Xena series
19 Virginia Hamilton, Indian writer
21 John Thaw, 60, (cancer), British actor, most famous for the detective series,Morse and The Sweeney.
22 Sir Raymond Firth, 100, British anthropologist
22 Chuck Jones, US animator
24 Leo Ornstein, 109, radical composer/pianist
27 Spike Milligan, 83, UK comedian, writer and actor
28 Mary Stuart, 75, soap opera actress best known for her 35-year starring role on Search for Tomorrow

[edit] March 2002

11 Rudolf Hell,100, German inventor and manufacturer
13 Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher
17 Rosetta Lenoire, 90, actress, died by complications from diabetes.
18 Maude Farris-Luse,115, Oldest Recognized Person in the World
20 Ivan Novikoff,102, Russian premier ballet master
21 Amanda Dowler,13, British Murder Victim
25 Kenneth Wolstenholme, 81, British football commentator
27 Milton Berle, 93, Mr. Television, US comedian
27 Dudley Moore, 66, (brain disease), UK actor and writer
27 Billy Wilder, 95, US film director
30 Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, 101, the Queen Mother, member of the British Royal Family.
31 Barry Took, 73, UK comedian and writer, also wrote in the US

[edit] April 2002

5 Layne Staley, 34, former Alice in Chains frontman, died after injecting a mixture of heroin and cocaine known as a "speedball"
7 John Agar, 82, actor in monster movies who was once married to Shirley Temple
8 Maria Felix, Mexican film star
9 Leopold Vietoris (aged 110), Austrian mathematician
15 Byron White, US athlete and Supreme Court justice
16 Franz Krienbühl, Swiss speed skater
16 Robert Urich, 55, Actor cancer
18 Thor Heyerdahl, 87, Norwegian anthropologist
19 (Body discovered), Layne Staley, Singer with band Alice in Chains
23 Linda Boreman better known as Linda Lovelace, 53, porn star turned political activist who was killed in a car crash
25 Lisa Lopes, Singer with band TLC
25 Indra Devi (aged 102), "Yoga teacher to the stars"
26 Lou Thesz, professional wrestler
27 Ruth Handler, inventor of the Barbie doll
27 Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Industrialist and art collector
28 Alexander Lebed, Russian general and politician
28 Lou Thesz, professional wrestler

[edit] May 2002

3 Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal, current president of Somaliland and former prime minister of Somalia and British Somaliland.
3 Mohan Singh Oberoi (aged 103), Indian hotelier and retailer
5 Hugo Banzer Suárez, president of Bolivia, as dictator 1971-1978 and democratic president 1997-2001.
6 Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician, intellectual and sociologist murdered by Volkert van der Graaf with political motives.
7 Seattle Slew, last triple crown winner on 25th anniversary of winning Kentucky Derby
11 Joseph Bonanno, Sicilian, former boss of a Mafia crime family.
13 Ruth Cracknell, redoubtable Australian actress most famous for the long-running role of Maggie Beare in the series "Mother and Son", aged 76.
16 Edwin Alonzo Boyd, noted Canadian bank-robber and prison escaper of the 1950s.
16 Alec Campbell, Australia's last surviving ANZAC died in a nursing home, aged 103.
17 Joe Black, Baseball first Black pitcher to win a World Series game.
18 Davey Boy Smith, professional wrestler.
19 Marthe Errolle, Opera Soprano, performed at Carnegie Hall and The Metropolitan Opera
19 John Gorton, 19th Prime Minister of Australia
20 Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist and popular science author
21 Niki de Saint Phalle, French artist
22 (remains discovered; actual death probably took place sometime in 2001), Chandra Levy, U.S. Congressional intern
23 Sam Snead, golfer
26 Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian marathon runner

[edit] June 2002

1 Hansie Cronje, 32, (air crash), South African cricketer
4 Fernando Belaúnde Terry, democratic president of Peru, 1963-1968 and 1980-1985.
5 Dee Dee Ramone, founding member of The Ramones
6 Hans Janmaat, controversial far-right politician in the Netherlands.
10 John Gotti, imprisoned mobster.
11 Robbin Crosby, guitarist of rock band Ratt.
11 Robert Roswell Palmer, Historian, writer
12 Bill Blass, fashion designer.
14 Jose Bonilla boxing former world champion, of asthma
14 June Jordan, 65, American writer and teacher, of breast cancer
17 Fritz Walter, football player, captain of 1954 World Cup winners.
17 Willie Davenport, Olympic Games champion
18 Jack Buck, Major League Baseball announcer
22 Esther Pauline Friedman, author of the Ann Landers column
22 Darryl Kile, Major League Baseball player, age 33
23 Pedro 'El Rockero' Alcazar, Panama boxer died after losing his world Flyweight championship to Fernando Montiel in Las Vegas the night before
24 Miles Francis Stapleton Fitzalan-Howard, 86, 17th Duke of Norfolk
24 Pierre Werner, former Prime Minister of Luxembourg, "father of the Euro"
26 Jay Berwanger, college football player, first winner of the Heisman Trophy
27 John Entwistle, 57, (heart attack), bassist for The Who
28 Arthur "Spud" Melin, responsible for marketing hula-hoop and frisbee.
29 Rosemary Clooney, 74, singer

[edit] July 2002

4 Winnifred Van Tongerloo, oldest living survivor of the Titanic
4 Benjamin O. Davis Jr., African-American General
5 Ted Williams, Baseball Hall of Fame member
5 Katy Jurado, 68, Mexican actress who was once married to Ernest Borgnine
6 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian Businessman (b. 1932)
6 John Frankenheimer, 74, film director
8 Gethin Rhys Williams, Actor, "Rownd a Rownd"
8 Anthony Swithin, fantasy writer, paleontologist
8 Ward Kimball, Disney animator
9 Rod Steiger, 77, (kidney failure), actor
9 Laurence Janifer, Science Fiction writer
10 John Wallach, journalist
13 Yousuf Karsh, 93, celebrity portrait photographer as "Karsh of Ottawa"
14 Joaquín Balaguer, 95, former President of the Dominican Republic
15 Samantha Runnion, 5, child who was kidnapped, sexually abuse and murdered by Alejandro Avila.
16 John Cocke, key figure in the development of RISC architecture
16 Jack Olsen, "True crime" writer
19 Alexander Ginzburg, leading Soviet dissident (alternatively Aleksandr Ginzburg)
19 Alan Lomax, documenter of blues and folk songs
22 Prince Ahmed bin Salman, member of the Saudi Arabian royal family, owner of Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner War Emblem
23 Leo McKern, 82, Australian actor best known for playing Rumpole of the Bailey and one of the Number Twos in The Prisoner
23 William Pierce, rocket scientist, neo-Nazi, author of "The Turner Diaries"
23 Chaim Potok, 73, US author
24 Mike Clark, 61, former NFL kicker
25 Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher

[edit] August 2002

3 Carmen Silvera, 80, (lung cancer), UK television and theatre actress. Played Fiona Gray in Dad's Army, Captain Manwaring's secret love, and Edith in 'Allo 'Allo!
3 (approx date) Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman child- murder victims
5 Josh Ryan Evans, Actor, played Timmy on Passions
5 Chick Hearn, television and radio announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team since 1960
5 Franco Lucentini, 82, Italian writer, author of The Sunday Woman
6 Edsger Dijkstra, computer scientist
10 Doris Wishman, cult movie director
12 Enos Slaughter, baseball Hall of Famer
14 Larry Rivers, American painter
14 Dave Williams, singer of Drowning Pool
15 Jesse Brown, former United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
19 Abu Nidal, terrorist
19 Sunday Silence, thoroughbred race horse, winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes
24 Wayne Simmons, American Football player
24 Hoyt Wilhelm, Baseball Hall of Fame member
25 Dorothy Hewett, Australian poet, playwright and novelist
27 Richard Ricci, Utah, Handyman, suspected of the kidnapping of 14 year old Elizabeth Smart
31 Lionel Hampton, 94, jazz musician

[edit] September 2002

?? Bison Dele, Basketball star in the NBA.
- Body not found yet, Tahiti police say it is possibly in the South Pacific. Already declared a murder investigation by the Police and the FBI.
4 Frankie Albert, National Football League star
7 John P. Frank Lawyer whose representation of Ernesto Miranda in 1966 helped create the Miranda Rights reading requirement.
8 Alfonso Ramirez Famous Mexican Bullfighter
11 Johnny Unitas, National Football League Hall of fame quarterback.
12 Kim Hunter, 79, (heart attack), stage and film actress best known for her role as Stella in the original Broadway and film versions of A Streetcar Named Desire
18 Bob Hayes, National Football League Dallas Cowboys star, and Olympic games Hall of Fame member.
19 Sergei Bodrov Jr., Russian movie star
21 Angelo Buono, Jr., the "Hillside Strangler"
21 Robert L. Forward, physicist and science fiction author
22 Joseph Nathan Kane (aged 103), pre-eminent American historical author and factualist
22 Jan de Hartog, novelist and playwright

[edit] October 2002

1 Walter Annenberg, publisher and philanthropist
2 Heinz von Foerster, physicist and philosopher, one of the founders of constructivism
3 Bruce Paltrow, television and film producer, father of actress Gwyneth Paltrow with Blythe Danner.
4 Alphonse Chapanis, a founder of ergonomics
6 Claus von Amsberg, diplomat and husband of the Dutch Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
7 Pierangelo Bertoli, 59, italian singer and songwriter
10 Christine Stevens, founder of the Animal Welfare Institute
13 Stephen Ambrose, historian and author of "Band of Brothers"
17 Derek Bell, Member of The Chieftans, harpist
18 Roman Tam, Hong Kong canto-pop singer
19 Michelle Parma, 27, actress
19 Manuel Alvarez Bravo, 100, pre-eminent Mexican photographer
20 Barbara Berjer, soap opera actress for over thirty years
22 Richard Helms, former CIA director
24 Winton M. Blount last United States Postmaster General to have served in a Presidential Cabinet
24 Harry Hay, US gay rights activist and Mattachine Society founder
24 Adolph Green, 87, American lyricist and playwright
25 Richard Harris, 72, (Hodgkin's disease), Actor
25 Paul Wellstone, United States Senator
28 Margaret Booth, 104, Academy Award-winning film editor
29 Chang-Lin Tien, educator, 7th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley
30 Jam Master Jay, DJ of Run DMC, murdered
31 Yuri Ahronovitch, Russian conductor
31 Baroness Hylton-Foster, 94, British peer

[edit] November 2002

2 Charles Sheffield, science fiction author and physicist
2 Brian Behan, Irish writer, younger brother of Brendan Behan
2 Tonio Selwart, 106, Bavarian actor and Broadway performer
3 Jonathan Harris, TV's "Dr. Smith" on Lost in Space
3 Lonnie Donegan, 71, skiffle musician
4 Antonio Margheriti, 72, Italian filmmaker, heart attack
6 Sid Sackson, board game designer
7 Rudolf Augstein, founder and chief editorialist of the German newsweekly Der Spiegel
9 Merlin Santana, 26, actor
15 Myra Hindley, 60, the Moors murderess
15 Eddie Bracken, 82, actor
17 Pedro Cabrera, Cuban actor and director who was a star in Puerto Rico's television for many years.
17 Abba Eban, 88, Israeli foreign affair minister
17 Milivi Adams, 5, young cancer victim who became the symbol of the fight of many Vieques citizens to have the military out of there.
18 James Coburn, 74, actor
19 Prince Alexandre de Merode, International Olympic Committee member
21 Hadda Brooks, 86, U.S. jazz singer, pianist and composer
23 Roberto Matta, Chilean Artist
24 John Rawls, political theorist
25 Rosa Carrillo, Univision news anchor
26 Verne Winchell, founder of Winchell's Donuts and nicknamed "The Donut King"
29 Florence Stephenson Mahoney, 103, health advocate
30 Tim Woods, 68, professional wrestler who wrestled as Mr. Wrestling