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[edit] January 2002
- 2 Zac Foley, 31, bass guitarist for EMF
- 3 Freddy Heineken, 78, beer magnate
- 7 Jon Lee, 33, British drummer
- 8 Dave Thomas, 69, US entrepreneur, founder of Wendy's hamburger restaurants
- 11 Cyrus Vance, 87, former United States Secretary of State, international peacemaker
- 12 Stanley Unwin, 90, comedian
- 13 Ted Demme, film and television director
- 16 Bobo Olson, American boxer
- 16 Ron Taylor, American actor
- 17 Camilo José Cela, 85, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature
- 17 Peter Adamson, 71, British actor
- 18 Alex Hannum, 78, pro basketball coach
- 19 Jeff Astle, 59, English footballer
- 21 Peggy Lee, 81, US singer, actress
- 22 Eric de Maré, 91, architectural photographer and writer
- 23 Pierre Bourdieu, sociologist
- 23 Robert Nozick, philosopher
- 28 Dick Lane, 73, American football player
- 28 Astrid Lindgren, 94, Swedish children's book author
- Julian Faber, 84, English business executive
[edit] February 2002
- 6 Max Perutz, founder of molecular biology
- 7 Elisa Bridges, 28, 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, 74, (heart attack), British actor
- 12 Theresa Bernstein, 111, artist
- 12 George Eiferman, 76, bodybuilder, won Mr.Universe in 1962
- 15 Mike Darr baseball player
- 15 Howard K. Smith, TV journalist
- 15 Kevin Smith, 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
- 21 A. L. Barker, British author
- 22 Brendan O'Dowda, 76, Irish tenor
- 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
- 14 Tan Yu, 75, once one of the 10 Richest Man on Earth, Filipino Bussinessman
- 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
- 29 Rico Yan, 27, Philippine TV/movie actor
- 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
- 2 William Thomas Tutte, 84, Bletchley Park cryptographer and British, later Canadian, mathematician.
- 2 Sergio Miguel,13 , Mexican actor
- 3 Barbara Castle, 91, British politician
- 3 Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal, 73, president of Somaliland and formerly prime minister of Somalia and British Somaliland.
- 3 Mohan Singh Oberoi, 103, Indian hotelier and retailer
- 5 Hugo Banzer Suárez, 75, president of Bolivia, as dictator 1971-1978 and democratic president 1997-2001
- 6 Pim Fortuyn, 54, Dutch politician, intellectual and sociologist assassinated by Volkert van der Graaf with political motives
- 7 Seattle Slew, 28, last triple crown winner on 25th anniversary of winning Kentucky Derby
- 11 Joseph Bonanno, 97, Sicilian, former boss of a Mafia crime family
- 13 Ruth Cracknell, 76, redoubtable Australian actress most famous for the long-running role of Maggie Beare in the series "Mother and Son"
- 13 Valery Lobanovsky, 63, former Ukrainian coach
- 15 Nellie Shabalala, 49, South African singer and wife of leader/founder of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Joseph Shabalala.
- 16 Edwin Alonzo Boyd, 88, noted Canadian bank-robber and prison escaper of the 1950s
- 16 Alec Campbell, 103, Australia's last surviving ANZAC died in a nursing home
- 17 Joe Black, 78, Baseball first Black pitcher to win a World Series game
- 18 Davey Boy Smith, 39, 'British Bulldog' professional wrestler
- 19 John Gorton, 90, 19th Prime Minister of Australia
- 20 Stephen Jay Gould, 60, paleontologist and popular science author
- 21 Niki de Saint Phalle, 71, French artist
- 22 (remains discovered; actual death probably took place sometime in 2001), Chandra Levy, 24, U.S. Congressional intern
- 23 Sam Snead, 89, golfer
- 26 Mamo Wolde, 69, 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
- 4 Caroline Knapp, 42, author of Drinking: A Love Story
- 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
- 15 Said Belqola, Moroccan referee of the 1998 FIFA World Cup final
- 17 Fritz Walter, football player, captain of 1954 World Cup winners
- 17 Willie Davenport, Olympic Games champion
- 18 Jack Buck, Major League Baseball announcer
- 18 Nancy Addison, 54, soap actress died of cancer
- 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
- 23 Arnold Weinstock, 77, British businessman
- 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 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
- 22 Chuck Traynor, 64, American pornographer
- 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 Mainwaring'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
- 12 Marjorie Williamson, university administrator
- 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
- 30 Maia Berzina, 91, Russian geographer, cartographer and ethnologer
- 31 Lionel Hampton, 94, jazz musician
- 32 Allan George Bromley, 55, computer scientist, historian of computing
[edit] September 2002
- ?? Bison Dele, basketball star (Detroit Pistons), presumed murdered
- 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
- 6 Gardiner Barstow Dawley, 83, WWII Veteran and historian
- 12 Audrey Mestre, 28, French world record-setting free diver
- 12 Nozomi Momoi, 24, Japanese AV idol
- 13 Stephen Ambrose, 66, historian and author of "Band of Brothers"
- 17 Derek Bell, Member of The Chieftains, harpist
- 17 Henri Renaud, 67, French jazz pianist and record company executive
- 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 Thomas B. Ross, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Carter Administration (1977 to 1981. Special Assistant to the President Clinton, Senior Director for Public Affairs at the National Security Council and Deputy White House Press Secretary. Pancreatic cancer Eastern Long Island Hospital. Senior Vice President of NBC News, Senior Vice President for Corporate Affairs of RCA and Senior Vice President and Worldwide Media Director for Hill and Knowlton.
- 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, 37, 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 Abba Eban, 88, Israeli foreign affair minister
- 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
- 26 Verne Winchell, founder of Winchell's Donuts and nicknamed "The Donut King"
- 30 Tim Woods, 68, professional wrestler who wrestled as Mr. Wrestling
[edit] December 2002
- 3 Glenn Quinn, actor
- 5 Roone Arledge, creator of Monday Night Football and Nightline dies at age 71
- 5 Ne Win, Burmese dictator
- 6 Charles Rosen, Pioneer in artificial intelligence
- 7 Paddy Tunney, Irish traditional artist
- 6 Father Philip Berrigan, priest, political activist
- 9 Stan Rice, painter, educator, poet, husband of author Anne Rice
- 10 Ian MacNaughton, director of most episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus
- 12 Dee Brown, author (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee)
- 13 Zal Yanofsky member of The Lovin' Spoonful music group.
- 17 Hank Luisetti, basketball star and innovator
- 18 Wayne Owens, former U.S. Congressman (D-UT)
- 18 Ramon John Hnatyshyn, former Governor-General of Canada
- 19 Arthur Rowley, English Footballer, holder of the record for most career league goals scored.
- 20 Joanne Campbell, black British actress who starred in the comedy series, Me and My Girl (TV series) in the 1980s
- 22 Kenneth Tobey, 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!)
- 22 Desmond Hoyte, President of Guyana from 1985 to 1992
- 23 Joe Strummer, former singer for The Clash.
- 24 Jake Thackray, English singer-songwriter
- 25 William T. Orr, television executive (brought Maverick, F-Troop and 77 Sunset Strip to TV)
- 26 Herb Ritts, celebrity photographer
- 26 Armand Zildjian, cymbals manufacturer
- 27 George Roy Hill, film director (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting)
- 30 Mary Wesley novelist, author of The Camomile Lawn
[edit] External links
- English language obituaries on the Web
For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2001, Deaths in 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994 ...
