Deaths in 2002
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The following is a list of notable deaths in 2002. Names are listed under the date of death and not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name.
Deaths of notable animals (that is, those with their own Wikipedia articles) are also reported here.
A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.
January 2002
1
- Aykut Barka, 50, Turkish scientist, car accident.
- Bonnie Mealing, 89, Australian swimmer and Olympic silver medalist.
- Carol Ohmart, 74, American actress and model.
- Julia Phillips, 57, American film producer and author, cancer.
- Catya Sassoon, 33, American actress, singer and former model, heart attack after drug overdose.
2
- Armi Aavikko, 43, Finnish beauty queen and singer.
- Zac Foley, 31, bass guitarist for EMF.
- Michael Howe, 61, British psychologist.
3
- Satish Dhawan, 81, Indian aerospace engineer.
- Juan García Esquivel, 83, Mexican bandleader.
- Freddy Heineken, 78, Dutch beer magnate.
- John Gabriel Parkes, 84, British businessman.
4
- Nathan Chapman, 31, U.S. Army soldier, K.I.A.
5
- Christie Harris, 94, Canadian children's writer.
- Astrid Henning-Jensen, 87, Danish film director, actress, and screenwriter.
- Raza Naqvi Wahi, 87, Indian poet.
6
- John W. Reynolds, Jr., 80, American politician and jurist, Governor of Wisconsin (1963–1965).
- Fred Taylor, 77, American basketball coach.
7
- Jon Lee, 33, British drummer (Feeder).
- Mighty Igor, 70, American professional wrestler.
8
- M. S. Bartlett, 91, British statistician.
- Charles "Nish" Bruce, 45, British soldier.
- David McWilliams, 56, Northern Irish singer-songwriter ("Days of Pearly Spencer").
- Alexander Prokhorov, 85, Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics.
- Dave Thomas, 69, American entrepreneur, founder of Wendy's hamburger restaurants.
9
- Mush March, 93, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Bill McCutcheon, 77, American actor.
- K. William Stinson, 71, U.S. Representative.
- Fred Tappert, 61, American physicist.
10
- Cedric Smith, 84, British statistician.
11
- Peggy Antonio, 83, Australian cricketer.
- Gerrit Brokx, 68, Dutch politician.
- Julian Faber, 84, English business executive.
- Christer Strömholm, 83, Swedish photographer.
- Cyrus Vance, 84, United States Secretary of State, international peacemaker.
- Henri Verneuil, 81, French filmmaker and playwright.
12
- Harold B. McSween, 75, American politician and businessman.
- Robert Francis Ruttledge, 102, Irish ornithologist.
- Stanley Unwin, 90, English comedian.
13
- Richard Bolt, 90, American physicist.
- Ted Demme, 38, American film and television director (Blow, The Ref, Yo! MTV Raps).
- Edward Ellis, 83, British naval officer.
- Paul Fannin, 94, American politician and businessman, Governor of Arizona (1959–1965).
- Gregorio Fuentes, 104, Cuban sailor.
- Antonije Isaković, 78, Serbian writer.
- Ferdinand Weiss, 69, Romanian pianist.
14
- Sir Nicolas Cheetham, 91, British diplomat.
- David Hamer, 78, Australian politician.
15
- Jean Dockx, 60, Belgian football player and manager.
- Jeremy Hawk, 83, British actor (Elizabeth).
16
- Robert Hanbury Brown, 85, British astronomer and astrophysicist.
- Bobo Olson, 73, American boxer.
- Michel Poniatowski, 79, French politician.
- Ron Taylor, 49, American actor (The Wiz, The Simpsons, Rover Dangerfield).
- Michael Walford, 86, British sportsman.
17
- Camilo José Cela, 85, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Peter Adamson, 71, British actor (Coronation Street).
- Diana Boddington, 80, British stage manager.
- Brian Simon, 86, British educationalist and historian.
18
- Alex Hannum, 78, pro basketball coach.
19
- Jeff Astle, 59, English footballer.
- Jim Cameron, 71, Australian politician.
- Roy Conrad, 61, American actor (Patch Adams, Casino, Titan A.E.).
20
- Carrie Hamilton, 38, American actress (Cool World, Fame).
- John Jackson, 77, American blues musician.
- Luule Viilma, 51, Estonian doctor, esotericist and practitioner of alternative medicine, died in car crash.
- John Whitehead, 77, American football coach.
21
- Peggy Lee, 81, American singer & actress (Lady and the Tramp, Pete Kelly's Blues, The Jazz Singer).
22
- Sheldon Allman, 77, Canadian-American singer and actor (Hud, In Cold Blood).
- Eric de Maré, 91, British architectural photographer and writer.
- Salomon Tandeng Muna, 89, Cameroonian politician.
- Jack Shea, 91, American speed skater.
23
- Paul Aars, 67, American stock car driver.
- Pierre Bourdieu, 71, French sociologist.
- Robert Nozick, 63, American philosopher.
- Benny Rothman, 90, British political activist.
24
- Nunzio Filogamo, 99, Italian television and radio presenter, actor and singer.
- Peter Gzowski, 67, Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter, emphysema.
- Kurt Schaffenberger, 81, American comics artist.
- Gregorio Walerstein, 88, Mexican film producer and screenwriter.
25
- Winston Place, 87, English cricketer.
26
- Rudolph B. Davila, 85, United States Army officer.
- Kenneth Yasuda, 87, Japanese-American scholar and translator.
27
- John A. D. Cooper, 84, American physician and educator.
- John James, 87, British racing driver.
- Abelardo Raidi, 87, Venezuelan sportswriter and radio broadcaster.
28
- Andrew W. Cooper, 74, African-American activist and journalist, stroke.
- Gustaaf Deloor, 88, Belgian road racing cyclist.
- Andy Kulberg, 57, American musician, lymphoma.
- Astrid Lindgren, 94, Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays.
- Billy O'Rourke, 41, English professional footballer, brain haemorrhage.
- Jack Witikka, 85, Finnish film director and screenwriter.
29
- Erik Dons, 86, Norwegian diplomat.
- R. M. Hare, 82, English moral philosopher.
30
- Inge Morath, 78, Austrian-born American photographer, cancer.
- Louis Salica, 89, American boxer.
31
- Gabby Gabreski, 83, Polish-American career pilot, heart attack.
- Henry Kloss, 72, American audio engineer and entrepreneur.
- Evelyn Scott, 86, American film and television actress.
February 2002
1
- Daniel Pearl, 38, American journalist, beheaded.
2
- Ian Clark Hutchison, 99, British politician.
- Paul Baloff, 41, Exodus vocalist.
3
- James Blackwood, 82, American Gospel singer.
- Edward Thomas Chapman, 82, Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross.
- Rudolf Fleischmann, 98, German nuclear physicist.
4
- Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Wisborg, 94, Swedish royal.
- Broderick Thompson, 41, American football player.
5
- Mushtak Ali Kazi, 84, Pakistani jurist and writer, cardiac arrest.
6
- Max Perutz, 87, Austrian-born British founder of molecular biology.
- Eken Mine, 66, Japanese voice actor.
7
- Elisa Bridges, 28, Playboy model.
- Ellen Demming, 79, American actress.
- Jack Fairman, 88, British Formula One driver.
- David Gibson-Watt, Baron Gibson-Watt, 83, British politician.
- John Taylor, Baron Ingrow, 84, British businessman.
8
- Nick Brignola, 65, American jazz saxophonist.
- William T. Dillard, 87, American retailer.
- Joachim Hoffmann, 71, German historian.
- Ong Teng Cheong, 66, former President of Singapore.
- David Pyle, 65, English footballer.
- Bob Wooler, 76, British disc jockey.
9
- Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, 71, British royal.
- Peggy Taylor, 74, American singer and radio announcer.
10
- John Erickson, 72, British historian.
- Ramón Arellano Félix, 37, Mexican drug trafficker.
- Jim Spencer, 54, American baseball player.
11
- Frankie Crosetti, 91, American baseball player.
- Barry Foster, 74, British actor, heart attack.
- Frans Van Coetsem, 82, Belgian linguist.
12
- Theresa Bernstein, 111, American artist.
- William Lee Dwyer, 72, American federal judge.
- George Eiferman, 76, bodybuilder, won Mr.Universe in 1962.
- John Eriksen, 44, Danish footballer.
13
- Waylon Jennings, 64, country music performer, actor, disc jockey, former member of Buddy Holly's band.
14
- Nándor Hidegkuti, 79, Hungarian football player and manager.
- Mick Tucker, 54, English drummer for the glam rock band Sweet.
15
- Mike Darr, 25, American baseball player.
- Howard K. Smith, 87, TV journalist.
- Kevin Smith, 38, played Ares on Xena series.
16
- John W. Gardner, 89, American politician.
- Sir Arthur Hetherington, 90, British businessman.
- Sir Walter Winterbottom, 89, British football manager.
17
- Ross Dowson, 84, Canadian Trotskyist politician.
18
- Gabriel Mariano, 73, Cape Verdean writer.
19
- Billy Hall, 61, American politician.
- Virginia Hamilton, 67, American children's book author.
20
- Branko Stanković, 80, Bosnian Serb footballer and manager.
- Fredric Steinkamp, 73, American film editor.
- Willie Thrower, 71, American football quarterback, heart attack.
21
- A. L. Barker, 83, British author.
- Laudomia Bonanni, 94, Italian writer and journalist.
- Trevor Hampton, 89, British diver.
- John Thaw, 60, British actor, most famous for the detective series Morse and The Sweeney, cancer.
22
- Sir Roden Cutler, 85, Australian diplomat.
- Sir Raymond Firth, 100, British anthropologist.
- David James, 80, Welsh cricketer.
- Chuck Jones, 89, American animator, creator of Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner, heart failure.
- Brendan O'Dowda, 76, Irish tenor.
- Jonas Savimbi, 67, Angolan revolutionary, leader of UNITA, multiple gunshot wounds.
23
- Peaches Jackson, 88, American film actress.
- Gordon Matthews, 65, American inventor and businessman, complications relating to a stroke.
- Prathyusha, 20, Indian film actress, suicide.
24
- Martin Esslin, 83, Hungarian-born British producer, dramatist, and journalist,
- David Hawkins, 88, American philosopher.
- Leo Ornstein, 106, American experimental composer and pianist.
25
- Afaq Hussain, 62, Pakistani cricketer.
26
- Helen Megaw, 94, Irish crystallographer.
- Dinora Pines, 83, British physician and psychoanalyst.
- Lawrence Tierney, 82, American actor, pneumonia.
27
- Spike Milligan, 83, Irish actor, comedian and writer.
28
- Mary Stuart, 75, soap opera actress best known for her 35-year starring role on Search for Tomorrow.
- John Russell Taylor, 84, Canadian politician.
March 2002
1
- David Mann, 85, American songwriter.
- Roger Plumpton Wilson, 96, British Anglican prelate.
2
- Fritz-Rudolf Schultz, 85, German World War II army officer and politician.
3
- G. M. C. Balayogi, 50, Indian lawyer and politician.
- Calvin Carrière, 80, American fiddler.
- Harlan Howard, 74, American country music songwriter.
- Al Pollard, 73, NFL player and broadcaster, lymphoma.
- Roy Porter, 55, British historian.
4
- Bernard Matemera, 56, Zimbabwean sculptor.
- Ernest Mercier, 88, Canadian agronomist and deputy minister.
- Thomas Michael Whalen III, 68, American attorney and politician, car accident.
- Elyne Mitchell, 88, Australian author
- Prunella Ransome, 59, English actress.
- Velibor Vasović, 62, Serbian footballer and manager, heart attack.
5
- Huang Shun-hsing, 78, Taiwanese politician.
6
- Bryan Fogarty, 32, Canadian ice hockey player.
- David Jenkins, 89, Welsh librarian.
- Donald Wilson, 91, British television writer and producer.
7
- Franziska Rochat-Moser, 35, Swiss marathon runner.
8
- Bill Johnson, 85, American football player.
- Ellert Sölvason, 84, Icelandic football player.
9
- Jack Baer, 87, American baseball coach.
- Hamish Henderson, 82, Scottish poet.
- Irene Worth, 85, American actress.
10
- George Fix, 62, American mathematician, cancer.
- Genevieve Fiore, 90, American women's rights and peace activist.
- Shirley Scott, 67, American jazz organist, heart failure.
- Howard Thompson, 82, American journalist and film critic, pneumonia.
11
- Al Cowens, 50, American baseball player.
- Rudolf Hell, 100, German inventor and manufacturer.
12
- Steve Gromek, 82, American baseball player.
13
- Hans-Georg Gadamer, 102, German philosopher.
14
- Cherry Wilder, 71, New Zealand writer.
- Tan Yu, 75, Filipino entrepreneur.
15
- Sylvester Weaver, 93, American advertising executive, father of Sigourney Weaver.
16
- Sir Marcus Fox, 74, British politician.
- Danilo Stojković, 67, Serbian actor.
17
- Rosetta LeNoire, 90, African-American stage and television actress.
- Bill Davis, 60, American football coach.
18
- Reginald Covill, 96, British cricketer.
- Maude Farris-Luse, 115, American supercentenarian.
- Gösta Winbergh, 58, Swedish operatic tenor.
19
- Erkki Salmenhaara, 61, Finnish composer and musicologist.
20
- John E. Gray, 95, American educational administrator, President of Lamar University.
- Ivan Novikoff, 102, Russian premier ballet master.
- Richard Robinson, 51, English cricketer.
21
- James F. Blake, 89, American bus driver, antagonist for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- Thomas Flanagan, 78, American novelist and academic.
22
- Sir Kingsford Dibela, 70, Governor-General of Papua New Guinea.
- Hugh R. Stephen, 88, Canadian politician.
23
- Piara Singh Gill, 90, Inadian nuclear physicist.
- Ben Hollioake, 24, English cricketer.
24
- Dorothy DeLay, 84, American violin instructor.
- César Milstein, 74, Argentinian biochemist.
- Frank G. White, 92, American army general.
25
- Ken Traill, 75, British rugby league player.
- Kenneth Wolstenholme, 81, British football commentator.
26
- Roy Calvert, 88, New Zealand World War II air force officer.
27
- Milton Berle, 93, American comedian dubbed "Mr. Television".
- Sir Louis Matheson, 90, British university administrator, Vice Chancellor of Monash University.
- Dudley Moore, 66, British actor and writer.
- Billy Wilder, 95, Austrian-born American film director (Double Indemnity).
28
- Tikka Khan, 86, Pakistani army general.
29
- Rico Yan, 27, Filipino movie & TV actor.
30
- Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, 101, British consort of King George VI.
31
- Lady Anne Brewis, 91, English botanist.
- Barry Took, 73, British comedian and writer.
April 2002
1
- Umer Rashid, 26, English cricketer, drowning.
- John S. Samuel, 88, American Air Force general.
2
- Ike Clarke, 87, English football player and manager.
- John R. Pierce, 92, American engineer and author.
- Robert Lawson Vaught, 75, American mathematician.
3
- Fad Gadget, 45, English singer-songwriter.
4
- Don Allard, 66, American football player (New York Titans, New England Patriots) and coach.
5
- Arthur Ponsonby, 11th Earl of Bessborough, 89, British aristocrat.
- Layne Staley, 34, former Alice in Chains lead singer.
6
- Nobu McCarthy, 67, Canadian actress.
- William Patterson, 71, British Anglican priest, Dean of Ely.
- Margaret Wingfield, 90, British political activist.
7
- John Agar, 82, American actor.
- Tom Rendall, 68, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Conny Vandenbos, 65, Dutch singer.
8
- Sir Nigel Bagnall, 75, British field marshal.
- María Félix, 88, Mexican film star.
- Helen Gilbert, 80 American artist.
- Giacomo Mancini, 85, Italian politician.
9
- Leopold Vietoris, 110, Austrian mathematician.
10
- Géza Hofi, 75 Hungarian humorist.
11
- J. William Stanton, 78, American politician.
12
- George Shevelov, 93, Ukrainian scholar.
13
- Robert F. Stephens, 74, American politician, lawyer and judge.
14
- Buck Baker, 83, American member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
- John Boda, 79, American composer and music professor.
- Sir Michael Kerr, 81, British jurist.
15
- Hans-Henrik Krause, 84, Danish actor and film director.
- Will Reed, 91, British composer.
- Byron White, 84, United States Supreme Court justice.
16
- Billy Ayre, 49, English footballer, cancer.
- Franz Krienbühl, 73, Swiss speed skater.
- Robert Urich, 55, American TV actor.
17
- Srul Irving Glick, 67, Canadian composer, radio producer, and conductor.
- Stevan Kragujević, 80, Serbian photojournalist and art photographer.
- Tak Shindo, 79, Japanese American musician, composer and arranger.
18
- Thor Heyerdahl, 87, Norwegian anthropologist.
- Cy Laurie, 75, British musician.
- Sir Peter Proby, 90, British landowner, Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire.
19
- William E. Barber, 82, United States Marine Corps colonel, bone marrow cancer.
- Cecil Dennistoun Burney, 79, British-Zambian businessman and politician.
- Carl McIntire, 95, American fundamentalist religious leader and radio broadcaster.
20
- Vlastimil Brodský, 81, Czech actor.
21
- Sebastian Menke, 91, American Roman Catholic priest.
- Red O'Quinn, 76, American football player.
- Harry Tarraway, 76, British Olympic runner.
- Terry Walsh, 62, British stuntman.
22
- Albrecht Becker, 95, German production designer and actor.
- Allen Morris, 92, American historian.
- Linda Lovelace, 53, American porn star turned political activist, car crash.
23
24
- George Langdale, 86, British schoolmaster, cricketer and mathematician.
25
- Michael Bryant, 74, British actor.
- Indra Devi, 102, Russian "yoga teacher to the stars".
- Lisa Lopes, 30, American singer, car crash.
26
- Alton Coleman, 46, convicted spree killer, execution by lethal injection.
- Steve Tshwete, 63, South African politician and activist.
27
- Ruth Handler, 85, inventor of the Barbie doll.
- Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, 81, German Industrialist and art collector.
28
- Robert M. Gagné, 85, American educational psychologist.
- Alexander Lebed, Russian general and politician.
- Sir Peter Parker, 77, British businessman.
- Lou Thesz, American professional wrestler.
- John Wilkinson, 82, American sound engineer.
29
- Ihar Hermianchuk, 41, Belarusian journalist and political activist.
- Liam O'Sullivan, 20, Scottish footballer, drugs overdose.
- Lor Tok, 88, Thai, comedian and actor Thailand National Artist.
30
- Freddie Brown, 61, American singer-songwriter.
- Charles Johnston, Baron Johnston of Rockport, 87, British politician.
May 2002
1
- John Nathan-Turner, 54, British television producer.
2
- William Thomas Tutte, 84, Bletchley Park cryptographer and British, later Canadian, mathematician.
3
- Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, 91, British Labour politician and female life peer.
- Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal, 73, president of Somaliland and formerly prime minister of Somalia and British Somaliland.
- Mohan Singh Oberoi, 103, Indian hotelier and retailer.
4
- Abu Turab al-Zahiri, 79, Saudi Arabian writer of Arab Indian descent.
5
- Sir Clarence Seignoret, 83, president of Dominica (1983–1993).
- Hugo Banzer Suárez, 75, president of Bolivia, as dictator 1971–1978 and democratic president 1997–2001.
- Mike Todd, Jr., 72, American film producer.
6
- Otis Blackwell, 71, American singer-songwriter and pianist.
- Harry George Drickamer, 83, American chemical engineer.
- Pim Fortuyn, 54, Dutch politician, assassinated.
7
- Sir Bernard Burrows, 91, British diplomat.
- Sir Ewart Jones, 91, Welsh chemist.
- Seattle Slew, 28, last living triple crown winner on 25th anniversary of winning Kentucky Derby.
8
- Sir Edward Jackson, 76, English diplomat.
9
- Dan Devine, 77, American football player and coach.
- Robert Layton, 76, Canadian politician.
- James Simpson, 90, British explorer.
10
- Lynda Lyon Block, 54, American convicted murderer, executed by electric chair in Alabama.
- John Cunniff, 57, American hockey player and coach.
- Henry W. Hofstetter, 87, American optometrist.
- Austen Kark, 75, British television executive.
- Leslie Dale Martin, 35, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Louisiana.
- Tom Moore, 88, American athletics promoter.
11
- Joseph Bonanno, 97, Sicilian former Mafia boss.
12
- Richard Chorley, 74, English geographer.
13
- Morihiro Saito, 74, a teacher of the Japanese martial art of aikido.
- Ruth Cracknell, 76, redoubtable Australian actress most famous for the long-running role of Maggie Beare in the series "Mother and Son".
- Valery Lobanovsky, 63, former Ukrainian coach.
14
- Sir Derek Birley, 75, British educationist and writer.
- Gordon J. F. MacDonald, 72, American geophysicist.
15
- Bernard Benjamin, 92, British statistician.
- Bryan Pringle, 67, British actor.
- Nellie Shabalala, 49, South African singer and wife of leader/founder of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Joseph Shabalala.
- Esko Tie, 73, Finnish ice hockey player.
16
- Edwin Alonzo Boyd, 88, Canadian bank-robber and prison escapee of the 1950s.
- Alec Campbell, 103, Australia's last surviving ANZAC.
- Dorothy Van, 74, American actress.
- Sir Gerald Whent, 75, British businessman (Vodafone).
17
- Peter Beck, 92, British schoolmaster.
- Joe Black, 78, American first Black baseball pitcher to win a World Series game.
- Bobby Robinson, 98, American baseball player.
- Little Johnny Taylor, 59, American singer.
18
- Davey Boy Smith, 39, 'British Bulldog' professional wrestler.
- Gordon Wharmby, 68, British actor (Last of the Summer Wine).
19
- Sir John Gorton, 90, 19th Prime Minister of Australia.
- Earl Hammond, 80, American voice actor best known for voicing Mumm Ra and Jaga in the television series Thundercats.
- Joseph Limprecht, 71/2, American diplomat.
- Walter Lord, 84, American historian.
- Otar Lordkipanidze, 72, Georgian archaeologist.
20
- Stephen Jay Gould, 60, paleontologist and popular science author.
21
- Niki de Saint Phalle, 71, French artist.
- Roy Paul, 82, Welsh footballer.
22
- Paul Giel, 69, American football player.
- Dick Hern, 81, British racehorse trainer.
- Chandra Levy, 24, U.S. Congressional intern (body discovered on this date)
- Creighton Miller, 79, American football player and attorney.
- Patrick Wolrige-Gordon, 66, British politician.
23
- Sam Snead, 89, American golfer, complications from a stroke.
24
- Joseph Bau, 81, Polish/Israeli artist, philosopher, animator, comedian, and poet, pneumonia.
- Susie Garrett, 72, African American actress and jazz vocalist, cancer.
- Toshihito Ito, 40, Japanese actor, Subarachnoid hemorrhage.
- Xi Zhongxun, 88, Chinese communist revolutionary.
25
- Pat Coombs, 75, English actress.
- Zoran Janković, 62, Yugoslavian Olympic water polo player.
- Jack Pollard, 75, Australian sports journalist.
26
- John Alexander Moore, 86, American biologist.
- Mamo Wolde, 69, Ethiopian marathon runner.
27
- Vitaly Solomin, 60, Russian actor.
28
- Napoleon Beazley, 25, convicted juvenile offender, executed by lethal injection in Texas.
- Mildred Benson, 96, American children's author.
29
- Stan Bentham, 87, English footballer, Alzheimer's disease.
- Bernice Thurman Hunter, 79, Canadian children's author.
- Elémire Zolla, 75, Italian essayist, philosopher and historian.
30
- Kenny Craddock, 52, British instrumentalist, composer and producer, car crash.
- John B. Keane, 73, Irish playwright, novelist and essayist.
- Takhir Sabirov, 72, Tajik film director, actor, screenwriter, and art director.
31
- Subhash Gupte, 72, Indian cricket player.
- Eleanor D. Wilson, 93, American actress and artist.
June 2002
1
- Sir Michael Alexander, 65, British diplomat.
- Hansie Cronje, 32, South African cricketer, air crash.
- Joseph Nanven Garba, 58, Nigerian soldier, diplomat and politician.
2
- Sidney Armus, 77, American actor, cancer.
- Boyd Bennett, 77, American rockabilly songwriter and singer, lung ailment.
- Hugo van Lawick, 65, Dutch wildlife filmmaker and photographer.
- Flora Lewis, 79, American journalist, cancer.
3
- Pearl Dunlevy, 92, Irish physician and epidemiologist.
- Fran Rogel, 74, American football player, Parkinson's disease.
- Alice Stewart, 95, British physician and epidemiologist.
- Lew Wasserman, 89, American talent agent and studio executive, complications from a stroke.
- Sam Whipple, 41, American actor, cancer.
4
- Fernando Belaúnde Terry, 89, democratic president of Peru, 1963–1968 and 1980–1985.
- John W. Cunningham, 86, American author.
- Caroline Knapp, 42, author of Drinking: A Love Story.
5
- Carmelo Bernaola, 72, Spanish composer and clarinetist.
- Aden Abdullahi Nur, Somali politician and army general.
- Dee Dee Ramone, 50, founding member of The Ramones.
- Alex Watson, 70, Australian rugby league player.
6
- Peter Cowan, 87, Australian writer.
7
- Wayne Cody, 65, American sportscaster.
- Rodney Hilton, 85, British historian.
- Lilian, Princess of Réthy, 85, British-born Belgian royal.
8
- George Mudie, 86, Jamaican cricketer.
9
- Hans Janmaat, 67, controversial far-right politician in the Netherlands.
- Paul Chubb, 53, Australian actor.
- Bryan Martyn, 71, Australian rules footballer.
- Peter Mokaba, 53, South African political activist.
10
- John Gotti, 61, imprisoned mobster.
11
- Robbin Crosby, 42, American guitarist of rock band Ratt.
- Margaret E. Lynn, 78, American theater director.
- Robert Roswell Palmer, 93, American historian and writer.
- Peter John Stephens, 89, British children's author.
12
- Bill Blass, 79, American fashion designer.
- Jean de Beaumont, 98, French sports administrator and sport shooter.
- John Tileston Edsall, 99, American biochemist.
13
- John Hope, 83, American meteorologist.
14
- Jose Bonilla, 34, former world boxing champion.
- June Jordan, 65, American writer and teacher.
15
- Said Belqola, 45, Moroccan referee of the 1998 FIFA World Cup final.
16
- Louis Giguère, 90, Canadian politician.
- Barbara Goalen, 81, British model.
- Harry Oakman, 96, Australian horticulturalist and writer.
17
- Willie Davenport, 59, American gold medal-winning Olympic hurdler.
- John C. Davies II, 82, American politician.
- Fritz Walter, 81, German football player, captain of 1954 World Cup winners.
18
- Nancy Addison, 54, soap actress, cancer.
- Jack Buck, 77, Major League Baseball announcer.
- Michael Coulson, 74, British lawyer and politician.
19
- Count Flemming Valdemar of Rosenborg, 80, Danish prince.
- William H. Summers, 71, British Crown Jeweller.
20
- Enrique Regüeiferos, 53, Cuban Olympic boxer.
21
- Henry Keith, Baron Keith of Kinkel, 80, British jurist.
- Patrick Kelly, 73, English cricketer.
- Abu Sabaya, 39, Filipino militant.
22
- David O. Cooke, 81, American Department of Defense official.
- Darryl Kile, 33, Major League Baseball player.
- Ann Landers, 83, author & syndicated newspaper columnist.
23
- Pedro "El Rockero" Alcazar, 26, Panamanian boxer; died after losing his world Flyweight championship to Fernando Montiel in Las Vegas the night before.
24
- Lorna Lloyd-Green, 92, Australian gynaecologist.
- Miles Francis Stapleton Fitzalan-Howard, 86, 17th Duke of Norfolk.
- Pierre Werner, 88, former Prime Minister of Luxembourg, "father of the Euro".
25
- Gordon Park Baker, 64, Anglo-American philosopher.
- Jean Corbeil, 68, Canadian politician.
- Volodymyr Nemoshkalenko, 69, Ukrainian physicist.
26
- Barbara G. Adams, 57, British Egyptologist.
- Clarence D. Bell, 88, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania State Senate.
- Jay Berwanger, 88, American college football player, first winner of the Heisman Trophy.
- Arnold Brown, 88, British General of the Salvation Army.
- James Morgan, 63, British journalist.
- Tinus Osendarp, 86, Dutch Olympic sprinter.
27
- Sir Charles Carter, 82, British economist and academic administrator.
- John Entwistle, 57, English bassist (The Who), heart attack.
- Russ Freeman, 76, American pianist.
- Robert L. J. Long, 82, American admiral.
- Jack Webster, 78, Canadian police officer.
28
- Alf Brown, 88, Australian rules football writer.
- Arthur "Spud" Melin, American businessman responsible for marketing hula-hoop and frisbee.
29
- Rosemary Clooney, 74, American singer.
- Henry Henne, 81, Norwegian linguist.
- Jan Tomasz Zamoyski, 90, Polish politician.
30
- Pete Gray, 87, American one-armed baseball player.
- Dave Wilson, 70, American television director.
July 2002
1
- John Kenneth Haviland, 81, American pilot
- Mikhail Krug, 40, Russian singer, wounds received after robbery.
- William J. Van Ryzin, 88, American lieutenant general.
- Maritta Wolff, 83, American author.
2
- Earle Brown, 75, American composer.
- Ray Brown, 75, American bassist.
3
- Michel Henry, 80, French philosopher.
4
- Kenneth Ross MacKenzie, 90, American physicist.
- Sir Jake Saunders, 84, British banker.
- Winnifred Van Tongerloo, 98, oldest living survivor of the Titanic.
- Benjamin O. Davis Jr., 89, African-American General.
5
- Brett Hill, 57, Australian Olympic swimmer.
- Katy Jurado, 78, Mexican actress.
- Zdzisław Mrożewski, 93, Polish actor.
- Ted Williams, 83, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.
6
- Dhirubhai Ambani, 69, Indian businessman.
- John Frankenheimer, 74, American film director.
- Kenneth Koch, 77, American poet and playwright.
- Stuart Shorter, 33, British homeless activist.
7
- Decherd Turner, 79, American librarian and book collector.
8
- Sir Robert Bellinger, 92, British businessman and Lord Mayor of London.
- Ward Kimball, 88, American Disney animator.
- Lorna Marshall, 103, American anthropologist.
- Patrick Rodger, 81, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Oxford.
- William Sarjeant, 66, British-born Canadian geologist.
9
- Gerald Campion, 81, English actor.
- Laurence Janifer, 69, American science fiction writer.
- William Robinson, 85, Canadian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Ottawa.
- Ron Scarlett, 91, New Zealand paleozoologist.
- Madron Seligman, 83, British politician.
- Dave Sorenson, 54, American NBA and Ohio State University basketball player.
- Rod Steiger, 77, American actor, kidney failure.
10
- John Wallach, 59, journalist and philanthropist.
11
- Roy Orrock, 81, British World War II pilot.
12
- Edward Lee Howard, 51, American CIA agent who defected to the Soviet Union.
- Mani Krishnaswami, 72, Indian vocalist.
13
- Yousuf Karsh, 93, celebrity portrait photographer as "Karsh of Ottawa".
- Eric Price, 83, English cricketer.
14
- Joaquín Balaguer, 95, President of the Dominican Republic.
- Michael Stern, 80, British educator.
15
- Gavin Muir, 50. British actor and musician.
- Camillus Perera, 64, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.
16
- Alan Charles Clark, 82, British Roman Catholic prelate.
- John Cocke, 77, American computer scientist, key figure in the development of RISC architecture.
- Cletus Madsen, 96, American Roman Catholic priest.
- Jack Olsen, 77, American "True crime" writer.
17
- Charles I. Krause, 90, American labor leader.
- Joseph Luns, 90, Dutch politician.
18
- Metin Toker, 78, Turkish journalist and one time politician.
19
- Dave Carter, 49, American singer-songwriter.
- Alexander Ginzburg, 65, leading Soviet dissident.
- Alan Lomax, 87, American documenter of blues and folk songs.
20
- Pedro Alberto Cano Arenas, 33, Spanish footballer, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Michalis Kritikopoulos, 56, Greek footballer, cardiac arrest.
- Eagle Pennell, 49, American independent filmmaker.
21
- John Cunningham, 84, British World War II fighter pilot.
- Antti Koivumäki, 25, Finnish poet and keyboardist (Aavikko).
22
- Joyce Cooper, 93, British Olympic swimmer.
- Marion Montgomery, 67, American jazz singer.
- Giuseppe Corradi, 70, Italian footballer.
- Prince Ahmed bin Salman, member of the Saudi Arabian royal family.
- Chuck Traynor, 64, American pornographer.
23
- Bill Bell, 70, New Zealand cricketer.
- Alberto Castillo, 87, Argentine tango singer and actor.
- Leo McKern, 82, Australian actor.
- William Pierce, American neo-Nazi, author of The Turner Diaries.
- Chaim Potok, 73, American author.
- Arnold Weinstock, 77, British businessman.
24
- Maurice Denham, 92, British actor.
- Mike Clark, 61, former NFL kicker.
25
- Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher.
26
- Sir John Gunn, 85, British mathematician and physicist.
27
- Krishan Kant, 75, Indian politician, Vice-President (1997–2002).
28
- Anatol Fejgin, 91, Polish communist and political police commander
- Jack Karnehm, 85, British snooker commentator, heat stroke.
- Ernest Manheim, 102, American sociologist, anthropologist and composer.
- Archer Martin, 92, British chemist.
- Steve Souchock, 83, Major League baseball player.
29
- Peter Bayliss, 80, British actor.
30
- Fred Jordan, 80, British folk singer.
31
- Sir Peter Ashmore, 81, British admiral.
- Pauline Chan Bo-Lin, 29, Hong Kong actress, suicide.
- Sir Maldwyn Thomas, 84, Welsh businessman and politician.
August 2002
1
- Theo Bruce, 79, Australian long jumper.
- Jack Tighe, 88, American baseball coach.
2
- Joe Allison, 77, American songwriter, radio and television personality and record producer.
- Avraham Givelber, 92, Israeli politician.
- Kevin Hardiman, 87, Australian rules footballer.
- Roy Kral, 80, American jazz pianist and vocalist, congestive heart failure.
- Magda László, 90, Hungarian operatic soprano.
- Sammy Onyango, 41, Kenyan soccer player, traffic accident.
3
- Kathleen Hughes-Hallett, 84, Canadian Olympic fencer.
- Peter Miles, 64, American actor.
- Carmen Silvera, 80, UK television and theatre actress (Dad's Army, 'Allo 'Allo!).
4
- Millard Lang, 89, American soccer and lacrosse player.
- Mike Payne, 40, American Major League Baseball pitcher, EEE.
5
- Josh Ryan Evans, 20, American actor ("Timmy" on Passions).
- Chick Hearn, 85, television and radio announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team since 1960.
- Franco Lucentini, 82, Italian writer (The Sunday Woman).
- Darrell Porter, 50, American baseball player.
6
- Jim Crawford, 54, Scottish motor racing driver.
- Edsger Dijkstra, 72, computer scientist.
7
- Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne, 100, British aristocrat.
8
- Doris Buchanan Smith, 68, American author children's books, ALS.
- Bruce Johnston, 63, American criminal, cancer.
- Chen Junsheng, 74, Chinese politician.
- John N. McLaughlin, 83, American lieutenant general, heart attack.
- Charles Poletti, 99, American lawyer and politician.
- Kapitolina Rumiantseva, 76, Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist.
9
- George Alfred Barnard, 86, British statistician.
10
- Kristen Nygaard, 75, Norwegian computer scientist.
- Doris Wishman, 90, American film director, producer and screenwriter.
11
- Richard Wood, Baron Holderness, 81, British politician.
12
- Sir John Rennie, 85, British diplomat.
- Enos Slaughter, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.
- Dame Marjorie Williamson, 89, British university administrator.
13
- Jack Creel, 86, Major League Baseball pitcher.
- Ulises Ramos, 82, Chilean footballer and manager.
- Al Vande Weghe, 86, American competition swimmer and Olympic silver medalist.
14
- Peter R. Hunt, 77, British film editor.
- Larry Rivers, 78, American painter.
- Neal Travis, 62, New Zealand journalist and novelist.
- Dave Williams, 30, singer of Drowning Pool.
15
- Heinz Bauer, 74, German mathematician.
- Jesse Brown, 58, United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
- George Agbazika Innih, 63, Nigerian army general and politician.
- Haim Yosef Zadok, 88, Israeli jurist and politician.
16
- Abu Nidal, 65, Palestinian terrorist.
- Sergey Perets, 32, Russian police officer.
- Ola Belle Reed, 85, American singer.
- Johnny Roseboro, 69, American baseball player.
17
- Ben Belitt, 92, American poet and translator.
- Jimmy Bloodworth, 85, American basebaal player, heart attack.
18
- Dame Elizabeth Chesterton, 86, British architect and town planner.
- Edward Crew, 84, British air marshal.
- David Keynes Hill, 87, British biophysicist.
19
- Sunday Silence, 16, thoroughbred race horse, winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes.
20
- Robert H. Dedman Sr., 76, American businessman and philanthropist.
- Augustine Geve, Solomon Islands Cabinet Minister, assassinated.
21
- Ken Coleman, 78, American radio and television sportscaster.
- Wesley Willis, 40, American singer-songwriter and visual artist, leukemia.
22
- Allan George Bromley, 55, American computer scientist, historian of computing.
- Bruce Duncan Guimaraens, 66, Portuguese wine maker.
23
- Emily Genauer, 91, American art critic.
- Hoyt Wilhelm, 80, American baseball player who played for nine different teams and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame.
24
- Wayne Simmons, 32, American Football player.
25
- Per Anger, 88, Swedish diplomat.
- Dorothy Hewett, 79, Australian poet, playwright and novelist.
26
- Bea Barrett, 85, American golfer.
27
- Lawrence Batley, 91, English businessman and philanthropist.
- Edwin Sill Fussell, 80, American scholar of English literature.
- George Mitchell, 85, Scottish musician (The Black and White Minstrel Show).
- John S. Wilson, 89, American music critic.
28
- Wilfred Hoare, 93, English cricketer,.
- Fernando Lizzi, 89, Italian civil engineer.
29
- Betty Forbes, 85, New Zealand athlete.
- Paul Tripp, 91, American musician and TV host.
30
- Thomas J. Anderson, 91, American publisher and politician.
- Maia Berzina, 91, Russian geographer, cartographer and ethnologer.
- Roy Wright, 73, Austrian rules football player.
31
- Lionel Hampton, 94, American jazz musician.
- Martin Kamen, 89, American scientist.
- George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, 81, British Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.
September 2002
1
- Peter Ramsden, 68, British rugby league player.
2
- Sir Robert Wilson, 75, British astronomer.
3
- Kenneth Hare, 83, Canadian scientist.
- Ted Ross, 68, American actor.
- Len Wilkinson, 85, British cricketer.
4
- Frankie Albert, 82, American National Football League star.
- Jerome Biffle, 74, American Olympic long jumper.
5
- Robert W. Brooks, 49, American mathematician.
- William Cooper, 92, English novelist.
- Cliff Gorman, 65, American actor.
- David Todd Wilkinson, 67, American cosmologist.
6
- Roxy Atkins, 90, Canadian track and field athlete.
- Bobby Clancy, 75, Irish singer and musician.
- Orvan Hess, 96, American physician.
7
- Eugenio Coșeriu, 81, linguist specialized in Romance languages.
- Uziel Gal, 78, designer of the Uzi submachine gun.
- Don Smith, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.
8
- Carmen Garayalde, 89, Uruguayan exiled political activist and artist.
- Marco Siffredi, 23, French snowboarder (last seen on this date).
- Laurie Williams, 33, West Indian cricketer, car accident.
9
- Geoffrey Dummer, 92, British engineer.
10
- René Cousineau, 72, Canadian politician.
- Alexander Farrelly, 78, American politician.
- Kuo Pao Kun, 63, Chinese playwright, theatre director, and arts activist, kidney and liver cancer.
- Žarana Papić, 53, Serbian social anthropologist and feminist theorist.
11
- Johnny Unitas, 69, American football player (Baltimore Colts) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
- Kim Hunter, 79, American stage, television and Oscar-winning film actress (played "Stella Kowalski" in the original Broadway and film versions of A Streetcar Named Desire).
12
- Mitsuo Ikeda, 67, Japanese freestyle wrestler and Olympic gold medalist.
- Neil Shields, 83, British politician and businessman.
13
- Sir Douglas Black, 89, British physician.
- Charles Herbert Lowe, 82, American biologist.
- Sir Brooks Richards, 84, British diplomat and SOE operative.
- George Stanley, 95, Canadian historian and public servant.
14
- Paul Williams, 87, American saxophonist.
15
- Robert William Pope, 86, British Anglican prelate, Dean of Gibraltar.
16
- Archibald Hall, 78, British criminal.
- Nguyễn Văn Thuận, 74, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate.
17
- Denys Fisher, 84, British inventor of the Spirograph.
18
- Bob Hayes, 59, American football player Dallas Cowboys and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
19
- Sergei Bodrov Jr., 30, Russian movie star, Kolka-Karmadon rock ice slide.
- James Macdonald, 83, Scottish-born Australian ornithologist.
20
- Necdet Kent, 91, Turkish diplomat and humanitarian.
- Joan Littlewood, 87, English theatre director.
- Bob Wallace, 53, American computer scientist.
21
- Henry Pybus Bell-Irving, 89, Canadian Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.
- Angelo Buono, Jr., 67, American serial killer, kidnapper and rapist (the "Hillside Strangler").
- Robert L. Forward, 70, physicist and science fiction author.
22
- Joseph Nathan Kane, 103, American historian and author.
- Jan de Hartog, 88, Dutch novelist and playwright.
- Anthony Milner, 77, British musician.
23
- Vernon Corea, 75, Sri Lankan-born British radio broadcaster.
- George Georges, 82, Australian politician.
24
- Mike Webster, 50, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame).
- George Wilson, 86, British cricketer.
25
- Ray Hayworth, 98, American baseball player.
- Arnold Ross, 96, American mathematician.
26
- Thomas S. Smith, 84, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly.
27
- Lidia Chmielnicka-Żmuda, 63, Polish volleyball player.
- David Granger, 99, American bobsledder.
- Bill Pearson, 80, New Zealand writer.
28
- Alicia Barrié, 86, Chilean actress.
- Patsy Mink, 74, American lawyer and politician, viral pneumonia.
- Harvey Silbert, 90, American entertainment lawyer, casino executive and philanthropist.
29
- Ine ter Laak-Spijk, 71, Dutch short and middle distance runner.
- Mickey Newbury, 62, American songwriter and recording artist, emphysema.
- Giuliana Tesoro, 81, American organic chemist.
30
- Robert Battersby, 77, British soldier and politician.
- Arthur Hazlerigg, 2nd Baron Hazlerigg, 92, British cricketer and soldier.
- Meinhard Michael Moser, 78, Swiss mycologist.
- Ewart Oakeshott, 86, British illustrator.
- Sir Jock Taylor, 78, British diplomat.
October 2002
1
- Walter Annenberg, 94, American publisher and philanthropist.
- Ted Serong, 86, Australian soldier.
2
- Norman O. Brown, 89, American classicist.
- Heinz von Foerster, 90, Austrian-born American physicist and philosopher, one of the founders of constructivism.
- Alexander Sinclair, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.
3
- John Erritt, 71, British civil servant.
- Bruce Paltrow, 58, American television and film producer.
4
- Alphonse Chapanis, a founder of ergonomics.
- Barbara Fawkes, 87, British nurse.
- Ahmad Mahmoud, 70, Iranian novelist.
5
- Sir Reginald Hibbert, 80, British diplomat.
- Morag Hood, 59, Scottish actress.
6
- Chuck Rayner, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Claus von Amsberg, 76, Dutch diplomat; husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
- Nick Whitehead, 69, Welsh sprinter.
7
- Pierangelo Bertoli, 59, Italian singer-songwriter and poet, heart attack.
- Oran K. Gragson, 91, American businessman and longest-serving mayor of Las Vegas.
- Marcel Paille, 69, Canadian ice hockey goaltender, cancer.
- Ed Rossbach, 88, American fiber artist.
8
- Jodie Beeler, 80, American baseball player.
- Phyllis Calvert, 87, British actress.
9
- Anwar Hussain, 82, Pakistani cricketer.
- Oleksandr Liashko, 86, Ukrainian politician.
- Jim Martin, 78, American football player.
- Aileen Wuornos, 46, convicted of killing six men, lethal injection.
10
- Joe Wood, 86, American baseball player.
11
- William J. Field, 93, British politician.
12
- Viktor Asmaev, 54, Russian equestrian, Olympic champion (1980).
- Sir Desmond Fitzpatrick, 89. British general.
- Audrey Mestre, 28, French world record-setting free diver.
- Nozomi Momoi, 24, Japanese AV idol, murdered.
- Sidney W. Pink, 86, American movie director and producer.
- Mick Shoebottom, 57, English rugby league player.
13
- Stephen Ambrose, 66, historian and author of "Band of Brothers".
- Keene Curtis, 79, American actor.
- Jim Higgins, 71, British politician.
14
- Oluf Reed-Olsen, 84, Norwegian pilot.
- S. William Green, 72, American politician.
- Arturo Silvestri, 81, Italian football player and manager.
15
16
- William Macmillan, 75, Scottish minister, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
17
- Derek Bell, 66, member of The Chieftains, harpist.
- Henri Renaud, 67, French jazz pianist and record company executive.
18
- Sir Cecil Blacker, 86, British army general.
- Roman Tam, 52, Hong Kong canto-pop singer.
19
- Manuel Alvarez Bravo, 100, Mexican photographer.
20
- Barbara Berjer, 82, American actress.
- Elisabeth Furse, 92, German-born British war-time agent.
- Mel Harder, 93, American baseball player.
21
- Sir Roger Cork, 55, British accountant and Lord Mayor of London.
- Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota, 83, British politician.
22
- Sir Herbert Duffus, 94, Jamaican jurist.
- Richard Helms, 89, American former CIA director.
23
- David Henry Lewis, 85, New Zealand sailor and adventurer.
- Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, 96, British historian.
24
- Winton M. Blount, 81, last United States Postmaster General to have served in a Presidential Cabinet.
- Adolph Green, 87, American lyricist and playwright.
- Harry Hay, 90, American gay rights activist and Mattachine Society founder.
- Lotte Tarp, 57, Danish actress.
25
- Richard Harris, 72, Irish actor.
- René Thom, 79, French mathematician.
- Paul Wellstone, 58, United States Senator (D-MN).
26
- Zura Barayeva, Chechen terrorist, killed during the Moscow theater hostage crisis.
- George Serdula, 82, American football player, coach, and university professor.
27
- Andre DeToth, 89, Hungarian-American film director, aneurysm.
- Tom Dowd, 77, American recording engineer and producer, emphysema.
- Edor Hjukström, 86, Swedish military officer and Olympic skier.
- Baby Lloyd Stallworth, 61, American singer, dancer, songwriter, musician, choreographer, and recording artist, complications of diabetes.
28
- Margaret Booth, 104, American Academy Award-winning film editor.
- Erling Persson, 85, Swedish businessman, founder of H&M.
- Sir Patrick Russell, 76, British jurist.
29
- Chang-Lin Tien, educator, 7th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.
- Richard Jenkin, 77, Cornish nationalist politician.
- Glenn McQueen, 41, Canadian film animator.
30
- Jam Master Jay, 37, DJ of Run DMC, murdered.
- Sir William Mitchell, 77, British physicist.
31
- Yuri Ahronovitch, 70, Russian conductor.
- Sir Napier Crookenden, 87, British Army general.
- Baroness Hylton-Foster, 94, British peer.
November 2002
1
- David Bartleet, 73, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Tonbridge.
- Edward Brooke, 85, Canadian Olympic fencer.
- Amadou Cissé Dia, 87, Senegalese politician and playwright.
- Sir Charles Wilson, 93, British political scientist.
2
- Brian Behan, 75, Irish writer, younger brother of Brendan Behan.
- Robert Haslam, Baron Haslam, 79, British industrialist and life peer.
- Lo Lieh, 63, Hong Kong actor.
- Dame Felicity Peake, 89, British Director of the Women's Royal Air Force.
- Tonio Selwart, 106, Bavarian actor and Broadway performer.
- Charles Sheffield, 67, science fiction author and physicist.
3
- Lonnie Donegan, 71, British skiffle musician.
- Sir John Habakkuk, 87, British economic historian.
- Jonathan Harris, 87, American actor, TV's "Dr. Smith" on Lost in Space.
- William Packard, 69, American poet and author.
- Sir Rex Roe, 77, British air force officer.
4
- Antonio Margheriti, 72, Italian filmmaker, heart attack.
- Xing Qiyi, 90, Chinese chemist.
5
- Billy Guy, 66, American singer.
- Mushtaq Qadri, 35, Pakistani religious poet.
6
- Brian James, 61, English cricketer.
- Sid Sackson, 82, board game designer.
7
- Rudolf Augstein, 79, founder and chief editorialist of the German newsweekly Der Spiegel.
8
- Ivan Kandyba, 72, Ukrainian lawyer and dissident.
- Dorothy Mackie Low, 86, British novelist.
- Kenneth Yablonski, 68, American attorney.
9
- Dick Johnson, 85, American test pilot.
- Merlin Santana, 26, actor.
- William Schutz, 76, American psychologist.
10
- Steve Durbano, 50, Canadian ice hockey player, lung cancer.
- Franco Fantasia, 78, Italian actor.
- Émile Ollivier, 62, Haitian-born Canadian writer.
11
- Sir Michael Clapham, 90, British industrialist.
- David Steel, 92, Scottish minister.
12
- Glenn Dobbs, 82, American football player.
13
- Kaloji Narayana Rao, 88, Indian poet and political activist.
- Irv Rubin, 57, Canadian chairman of the Jewish Defence League.
14
- Eddie Bracken, 87, actor.
- Mir Qazi, 38, Pakistani convicted criminal, executed by lethal injection in Virginia.
15
- Myra Hindley, 60, the Moors murderess.
- John Joseph Stewart,79, New Zealand rugby coach.
16
- Rupert E. Billingham, 81, British biologist.
- Sir George Gardiner, 67, British politician.
17
- Abba Eban, 88, Israeli foreign affair minister.
18
- James Coburn, 74, Oscar-winning actor, heart attack.
- Pasquale Vivolo, 74, Italian footballer.
19
- Prince Alexandre de Merode, 68, Belgian International Olympic Committee member, lung cancer.
- George Fullerton, 79, South African cricketer.
- Jean-Claude Renard, 80, French poet.
20
- George Guest, 78, British organist and choirmaster.
- Ben Webb, 45, Canadian journalist.
- Zhang Shuguang, 82, Chinese politician.
21
- Prince Takamado, 47, Japanese prince.
- Hadda Brooks, 86, American jazz singer, pianist and composer.
- Arturo Guzman Decena founder of Los Zetas.
- J. Roger Pichette, 81, Canadian politician.
22
- Joan Barclay, 88, American actress.
- Norman Clarke, 86, British physicist and politician.
- Christine Marion Fraser, 64, Scottish novelist.
23
- Roberto Matta, 91 Chilean artist.
24
- Philip B. Meggs, 60, American graphic designer.
- John Rawls, 81, American political theorist.
25
- Gordon Davidson, 87, Australian politician.
- David Drummond, 8th Earl of Perth, 95, British politician and aristocrat.
26
- Verne Winchell, 87, founder of Winchell's Donuts (nicknamed "The Donut King").
27
- Stanley Black, 89, British musician.
- Ronald Gerard Connors, 87, American Roman Catholic bishop in the Dominican Republic.
28
- Russell Arthur Missin, 80, British organist.
- Billy Pearson, 82, American jockey.
29
- David Weiss, 93, American novelist.
30
- Tim Woods, 68, professional wrestler who wrestled as Mr. Wrestling, heart attack.
December 2002
1
- Dave McNally, 60, American baseball player.
- José Chávez Morado, 93, Mexican artist.
- Michael Oliver, 65, British classical music broadcaster and writer.
2
- Jim Mitchell, 56, Irish politician.
- Vjenceslav Richter, 85, Croatian architect.
- Derek Robinson, 61, British nuclear physicist.
- Ben Wade, 80, American baseball player and scout.
- Fay Gillis Wells, 94, American pioneer aviator.
- Fred Zain, 51, American forensic laboratory technician who falsified results to obtain convictions, liver cancer.
3
- Glenn Quinn, 32, Irish actor (Roseanne, Angel).
4
- Hemmo Silvennoinen, 70, Finnish ski jumper.
5
- Roone Arledge, 71, American television producer and executive (Monday Night Football and Nightline).
- Ne Win, 91, Burmese dictator.
6
- Father Philip Berrigan, 79, American priest and political activist.
7
- Barbara Howard, 76, Canadian artist.
- Paddy Tunney, 81, Irish traditional artist.
8
- Gunnar Helén, 84, Swedish politician.
- Bobby Joe Hill, 59, American basketball player.
- Charles Rosen, 85, American computer scientist.
9
10
- Desmond Keith Carter, 35, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in North Carolina.
- Earl Henry, 85, American baseball player.
- Andres Küng, 57, Swedish journalist, writer, entrepreneur and politician of Estonian origin.
- Steve Llewellyn, 78, Welsh rugby league player.
- Ian MacNaughton, 76, Scottish director of most episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
11
12
- Dee Brown, 94, author (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee).
- Edward Harrison, 92, English cricketer and squash player.
- Jay Wesley Neill, 37. convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Oklahoma.
13
- Maria Björnson, 53, French theatre designer.
- Ronald Butt, 82, British journalist.
- Zal Yanofsky, 57, Canadian member of The Lovin' Spoonful music group.
14
- Jack Bradley, 86, English footballer.
- Antoni Woryna, 61, Polish speedway rider.
15
- Arthur Jeph Parker, 79, American set decorator.
- Dick Stuart, 70, American baseball player.
16
- Rolston James, 26, Trinidadian international football player, homicide.
17
- Aideu Handique, 87, Indian actress.
- John Aubrey Davis, Sr., 90, American civil rights activist.
- Mahmoud Fayad, 76, Egyptian Olympic weightlifter.
- Hank Luisetti, 86, American basketball star and innovator.
18
- Lucy Grealy, 39, Irish-born American poet and memoirist.
- Ramon John Hnatyshyn, 68, former Governor-General of Canada, pancreatitis.
- Sir Bert Millichip, 88, British football administrator.
- Wayne Owens, 65, U.S. Congressman (D-UT), heart attack.
19
- Guy Bordelon, 80, American Korean War flying ace.
- Stephen Fleck, 90, American psychiatrist.
- Jim Flower, 79, British admiral.
- Robert Evan Kendell, 67, Welsh psychiatrist.
- Arthur Rowley, 76, English footballer, holder of the record for most career league goals scored.
- Lewis B. Smedes, 81, American theologian.
20
- Joanne Campbell, 38, British actress who starred in the comedy series, Me and My Girl (1980s).
- James Richard Ham, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate.
21
- José Hierro, 80, Spanish poet.
22
- Susan Fleming, 94, American actress.
- Julius S. Held, 77, German art historian.
- Desmond Hoyte, 73, President of Guyana from 1985 to 1992.
- Joe Morgan, 57, New Zealand rugby union player.
- Joe Strummer, 50, former singer for The Clash.
- Kenneth Tobey, 85, prolific character actor (appeared in about 100 films including: Twelve O'Clock High, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Thing from Another World and Airplane!).
23
- Jimmy Osborne, 94, Australian soccer player.
24
- James Ferman, 72, American film censor.
- Tita Merello, 98, Argentinian actress and singer.
- V.K. Ramasamy, 76, Indian actor.
- Jake Thackray, 64, English singer-songwriter, heart failure.
25
- Gabriel Almond, 91, American political scientist.
- William T. Orr, 85, television executive (brought Maverick, F-Troop and 77 Sunset Strip to TV).
- Davina Whitehouse, 90, British-born New Zealand actress.
26
- Herb Ritts, 50, celebrity photographer.
- Armand Zildjian, 81, cymbals manufacturer.
27
- George Roy Hill, 81, American film director (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting).
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- Meri Wilson, 53, American singer.
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- Don Clarke, 69, New Zealand rugby player.
- Sir Paul Hawkins, 90, British politician.
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- Mary Wesley, 90, novelist, author of The Camomile Lawn.
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- D. J. Enright, 82, British poet, novelist and critic.
- Billy Morris, 84, Welsh footballer.
- Kevin MacMichael, 51, Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter (Cutting Crew).
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- Catmando, 7, British Cat and Politician and joint Leader of the Monster Raving Looney Party.
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