Deaths in March 2002 explained
The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2002.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
March 2002
1
- John Blume, 92, American structural engineer, known as "the father of earthquake engineering".[1]
- C. Farris Bryant, 87, American Governor (34th Governor of Florida from 1961 to 1965).[2]
- John Challens, 86, British scientist and civil servant, helped develop Britain's first atomic bomb.[3]
- David DiMeglio, 35, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
- Leigh Gerdine, 85, American musician, composer, and civic leader, heart attack.
- David Mann, 85, American songwriter.[4]
- Bob Smith, 76, American professional football player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Detroit Lions).[5]
- Hocine Soltani, 29, Algerian boxer, murdered.
- Doreen Waddell, 36, British soul singer (Soul II Soul), struck by vehicle.[6]
- John Wieners, 68, American poet.[7]
- Roger Wilson, 96, British Anglican prelate.[8]
2
- Andrés Archila, 88, Guatemalan violinist and music conductor.[9]
- Alvin Eicoff, 80, American advertising executive, known as a founder of direct response television advertising.[10]
- Pasquale Giannattasio, 61, Italian sprinter.[11]
- Friedrich Gorenstein, 69, Russian-Jewish author and screenwriter.
- Don Haig, 68, Canadian filmmaker, editor, and producer.
- Jason Mayélé, 26, Congolese football player, traffic collision.
- Halfdan Rasmussen, 87, Danish poet.[12]
- Fritz-Rudolf Schultz, 85, German army officer during World War II and politician.
- Alexei Yegorov, 26, Russian ice hockey player (San Jose Sharks), beating.[13]
3
- Henry Nathaniel Andrews, 91, American paleobotanist.[14]
- G. M. C. Balayogi, 50, Indian lawyer and politician, helicopter crash.
- Vijaya Bhaskar, 71, Indian music director and composer, heart attack.
- Marvin E. Frankel, 81, American judge (US district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York).[15]
- Harlan Howard, 74, American country music songwriter ("I Fall to Pieces", "Busted", "Heartaches By The Number", "Why Not Me").[16]
- Charles H. MacDonald, 87, American Air Force officer and a fighter ace during World War II.
- Fran McKee, 75, American Navy Rear Admiral.
- Al Pollard, 73, American gridiron football player (Army, New York Yanks, Philadelphia Eagles) and broadcaster, lymphoma.[17]
- Roy Porter, 55, British historian and writer, heart attack.[18]
- H. Keith Thompson, 79, American neo-Nazi and political writer..
4
- John A. Chapman, 36, US Air Force combat controller who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
- Eric Flynn, 62, British actor and singer (Ivanhoe, The Caesars, Freewheelers), cancer.[19]
- Ryō Hanmura, 68, Japanese science fiction, fantasy, and horror author, pneumonia.
- Ugnė Karvelisehebeb, 66, Lithuanian writer and diplomat.[20]
- Bernard Matemera, 56, Zimbabwean sculptor.
- Stephen McGonagle, 87, Northern Irish and Irish trade unionist.
- Elyne Mitchell, 88, Australian author.[21]
- Prunella Ransome, 59, English actress, throat cancer.
- K. V. Raghunatha Reddy, 77, Indian politician.
- Shirley Ann Russell, 66, British costume designer, cancer.[22]
- Velibor Vasović, 62, Serbian footballer and manager, heart attack.
- Jean Elizabeth Geiger Wright, 78, American conservationist, educator, and animal activist.
5
- Howard Cannon, 90, American politician (U.S. Senator from Nevada from 1959 to 1983).[23]
- Stanisław Jankowski, 90, Polish SOE agent and resistance fighter during World War II.
- Surendra Jha 'Suman', 91, Indian poet, writer, publisher and politician, heart failure.
- Frances Macdonald, 87, English painter.
- Clay Smith, 87, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers).[24]
6
- Chuck Chapman, 90, Canadian Olympic basketball player (silver medal in basketball at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[25]
- Richard Kenneth Dell, 81, New Zealand malacologist.[26]
- Bryan Fogarty, 32, Canadian ice hockey player (Quebec Nordiques, Pittsburgh Penguins, Montreal Canadiens), enlarged heart.[27]
- Walter Goodman, 74, American author and journalist for The New York Times.[28]
- David Jenkins, 89, Welsh librarian.
- Johnny Norlander, 81, American basketball player.[29]
- Bill Radovich, 86, American gridiron football player and film actor.
- Henry Rapoport, 83, American organic chemist and academic.
- Ralph Rumney, 67, English artist, cancer.[30]
- Dietrich Schmidt, 82, German Luftwaffe night fighter ace during World War II.
- Elizabeth W. Stone, 83, American librarian and educator.
- Ernie Williamson, 79, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins, New York Giants, Los Angeles Dons).[31]
- Donald Wilson, 91, British television writer and producer (The Forsyte Saga, Doctor Who).[32]
7
- Doris Twitchell Allen, 100, American child psychologist.[33]
- Geoff Charles, 93, Welsh photojournalist.[34]
- Daaf Drok, 87, Dutch football player.[35]
- John Goodyear, 81, American gridiron football player.[36]
- Troy Graham, 52, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
- Mickey Haslin, 92, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Bees, New York Giants).[37]
- Ian Vernon Hogg, 75, British author of books and biographies on military subjects.[38]
- Mati Klarwein, 69, German painter, cancer.[39]
- Franziska Rochat-Moser, 35, Swiss Olympic marathon runner, avalanche .[40]
- Charles H. Wright, 83, American physician, founder of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.[41]
8
- Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin, 85, Beninese politician.[42]
- Robin Anderson, 53, Australian documentary filmmaker, cancer.[43]
- Al Bonniwell, 90, American basketball player (Akron Firestone Non-Skids).[44]
- George F. Carrier, 83, American mathematician, esophageal cancer.[45]
- Marțian Dan, 66, Romanian politician and university professor.
- Yury Gusov, 61, Russian Olympic welterweight freestyle wrestler.[46]
- Sanji Hase, 66, Japanese voice actor, lung cancer.
- Peter Holmes, 69, British businessman.[47]
- Bill Johnson, 85, American football player (University of Minnesota, Green Bay Packers).[48]
- Jansug Kakhidze, 66, Georgian musician, composer, singer and conductor.[49]
- Winnie Markus, 80, Czechoslovakia-German actress, pneumonia.[50]
- Ted Sepkowski, 78, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees).[51]
- Ellert Sölvason, 84, Icelandic football player.
9
- Denise Bosc, 85, French film actress.[52]
- Carlos Casares, 60, Spanish Galician language writer, cardiac arrest.[53]
- Mary Elmes, 93, Irish aid worker credited who saved over 200 Jewish children during World War II.[54]
- Leonard Gershe, 79, American playwright, screenwriter, and lyricist, cerebrovascular disease.[55]
- Hamish Henderson, 82, Scottish poet.
- Bora Spužić Kvaka, 67, Serbian vocalist and recording artist.
- Normand Lockwood, 95, American composer.[56]
- Mohammad Paziraei, 72, Iranian Greco-Roman flyweight wrestler and Olympic medalist.
- Oleg Trubachyov, 71, Soviet and Russian linguist.
10
- Elguja Amashukeli, 73, Georgian sculptor and painter.
- Louise Carletti, 80, French film actress.[57]
- Irán Eory, 64, Iranian-Mexican actress, stroke.
- Genevieve Fiore, 90, American women's rights and peace activist.
- George Fix, 62, American mathematician, cancer.[58]
- Erik Lönnroth, 91, Swedish historian.
- George Mungwa, Zambian football coach.
- Vladimir Nakhabtsev, 63, Soviet cinematographer and actor.
- Gilmore Schjeldahl, 89, American businessman, Alzheimer's disease.[59]
- Shirley Scott, 67, American jazz organist, heart failure.[60]
- Howard Thompson, 82, American journalist and film critic, pneumonia.[61]
- Irene Worth, 85, American actress (Tiny Alice, Sweet Bird of Youth, Lost in Yonkers), Tony winner (1965, 1976, 1991), stroke.[62]
11
- Al Cowens, 50, American baseball player (Kansas City Royals, California Angels, Detroit Tigers, Seattle Mariners), heart attack.[63]
- Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, 92, German journalist and publisher of Die Zeit, known for opposing Hitler.[64]
- George Joseph Gottwald, 87, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Rudolf Hell, 100, German inventor and manufacturer.
- Willibald Jentschke, 90, Austrian-German nuclear physicist.
- Franjo Kuharić, 82, Croatian Catholic cardinal, cardiac arrest.[65]
- Albert Ritserveldt, 86, Belgian racing cyclist.[66]
- Herbert Spencer, 77, British designer, writer and photographer.[67]
- Nicholas Gilman Thacher, 86, American diplomat, pulmonary fibrosis.
- James Tobin, 84, American economist, cerebrovascular disease.[68]
12
- Louis-Marie Billé, 64, French Roman Catholic cardinal, cancer.[69]
- Peter Blau, 84, American sociologist.[70]
- Steve Gromek, 82, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers).[71]
- Abdul Kadir, 57, Pakistani cricket player.[72]
- John "Speedy" Keene, 56, English songwriter, vocalist, and drummer, heart failure.
- Spiros Kyprianou, 69, 2nd President of Cyprus, cancer.[73]
- Jacqueline Patorni, 84, French tennis player.
- Heinz Pehlke, 79, Freelance German cinematographer in film and television.
- Vitaly Peskov, 57, Russian cartoonist.
- Jean Paul Riopelle, 78, Canadian painter and sculptor.[74]
13
- Ivano Blason, 78, Italian football player.[75]
- Hans-Georg Gadamer, 102, German philosopher.[76]
- Abd al-Wahhab Hawmad, 87, Syrian politician, lawyer, and academic.[77]
- Nasir Hussain, 75, Indian film producer, director, and screenwriter, cardiovascular disease.
- Jacques Jansen, 88, French baryton-martin singer.[78]
- Lou Kahn, 86, American baseball player, manager, scout and coach.[79]
- Bayliss Levrett, 88, American racecar driver from Jacksonville, Florida, Alzheimer's disease.
- Nick Mickoski, 74, Canadian ice hockey forward.[80]
- Alice du Pont Mills, 89, American aviator.
- Marc Moreland, 44, American rock musician, kidney failure.
- Polly Riley, 75, American amateur golfer, cancer.
- Ri Tu-ik, 81, North Korean Army officer and politician.
- Hubert Wagner, 61, Polish volleyball player and coach (men's volleyball at the 1968 Summer Olympics), traffic collision.[81]
14
- Smail Balić, 81, Bosnian-Austrian historian, culturologist and scholar.[82]
- Nelson Estupiñán Bass, 89, Ecuadorian writer, pneumonia.[83]
- Kevin Danaher, 89, Irish folklorist and author on Irish traditional customs and beliefs.[84]
- Karl Gratz, 83, Austrian-German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
- Leon L. Van Autreve, 82, American Army Sergeant Major.
- Cherry Wilder, 71, New Zealand writer, cancer.
- Thomas Winship, 81, American newspaper editor of the Boston Globe from 1965 until 1984.[85]
15
- Tamala Krishna Goswami, 55, American Hare Krishna, car accident.[86]
- Rand Holmes, 60, Canadian artist and illustrator, Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- Oscar Pérez, 79, Argentine basketball player.
- Werner Unger, 70, German football player.[87]
- Sylvester Weaver, 93, American television executive, credited with creating Today, Tonight, Home, Wide Wide World.[88]
- Jairo Zulbarán, 32, Colombian football player, murdered.
16
- Kid Azteca, 88, Mexican boxer.
- Carmelo Bene, 64, Italian actor, director and screenwriter, cancer.[89]
- Isaías Duarte Cancino, 63, Colombian Roman Catholic archbishop, killed by the FARC.
- Marcus Fox, 74, British politician (Member of Parliament for Shipley).[90]
- Salah-Hassan Hanifes, 89, Israeli politician.
- Umar Kayam, 69, Indonesian sociologist and writer, intestinal bleeding.
- Ernst Künnecke, 64, German football player and football coach.[91]
- Danilo Stojković, 67, Serbian actor, lung cancer.
17
- Arthur Altschul, 81, American banker.[92]
- Bill Davis, 60, American football coach.
- Ernest E. Debs, 98, American politician, California State Assembly (1942–1947), L.A. County Supervisor (1958–1974).[93]
- Rajammal P. Devadas, 82, Indian nutritionist and educator.
- Van Tien Dung, 84, Vietnamese general in the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN).
- Georges Gorse, 87, French politician and diplomat.[94]
- Rosetta LeNoire, 90, American actress (Family Matters, The Sunshine Boys, Brewster's Millions), diabetes.[95]
- Vasil Mitkov, 58, Bulgarian football player.
- Luise Rinser, 90, German writer.[96]
- Paul Runyan, 93, American golfer (two-time PGA Championship winner and a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame).[97]
- Christian Graf von Krockow, 74, German writer and political scientist.
- William Witney, 86, American film and television director, known as a "B" movie action director.[98]
18
- Dalton Camp, 81, Canadian journalist, political strategist, and commentator.[99]
- Marcel Denis, 79, Belgian comic artist (Tif et Tondu).[100]
- Maude Farris-Luse, 115, American supercentenarian, pneumonia.[101]
- Denis Forest, 41, Canadian actor, stroke.
- Mario Gariazzo, 71, Italian screenwriter and film director.
- R. A. Lafferty, 87, American science fiction writer.[102]
- Van Leo, 80, Armenian-Egyptian photographer.
- Johnny Lombardi, 86, Canadian media tycoon and television producer/host.
- Gösta Winbergh, 58, Swedish operatic tenor, heart attack.[103]
19
- Marco Biagi, 51, Italian jurist, homicide.[104]
- Laura Bohannan, 80, American cultural anthropologist, heart attack.
- John Patton, 66, American jazz, blues and R&B musician, complications from diabetes.[105]
- David Beers Quinn, 92, Irish historian.[106]
- Erkki Salmenhaara, 61, Finnish composer and musicologist.[107]
- Bachtiar Siagian, 79, Indonesian film director and scriptwriter.
- Naren Tamhane, 70, Indian cricket player.[108]
- Eduard Meine van Zinderen-Bakker, 94, Dutch-South African palynologist, stroke.
20
- Andra Akers, 58, American actress and philanthropist, complications following surgery.[109]
- Ibn al-Khattab, 32, Saudi Arabian Saudi mujahid emir and terrorist, nerve agent poisoning.
- Giulio Alfieri, 77, Italian racing and production cars engineer, affiliated with Maserati .
- Samuel Warren Carey, 90, Australian geologist, an early advocate of continental drift.[110]
- Eugene Figg, 65, American structural engineer, award-winning designer of dozens of bridges (Sunshine Skyway Bridge).[111]
- George Macovescu, 88, Romanian writer and communist politician.
- Aleksei Yeskov, 57, Soviet football player and coach.
21
- David E. Blackmer, 75, American audio engineer, known as the inventor of the DBX noise reduction system and founder of dbx.[112]
- James F. Blake, 89, American bus driver, antagonist for the Montgomery bus boycott, heart attack.[113]
- Thomas Flanagan, 78, American professor and novelist.[114]
- Horst Hauthal, 88, German ambassador.
- Renée Massip, 94, French writer and journalist.[115]
- Nikos Pangalos, 87, Greek football manager.
- Eugene G. Rochow, 92, American inorganic chemist.[116]
- Boris Sichkin, 79, Soviet and American film actor, dancer, choreographer, and entertainer.
- Herman Talmadge, 88, American politician.[117]
- Ernest van den Haag, 87, Dutch-American sociologist, social critic, and author.
22
- Rudolf Baumgartner, 84, Swiss conductor, violinist, and music educator.[118]
- Jaroslav Cejp, 77, Czechoslovak football player.[119]
- Kingsford Dibela, 70, Governor-General of Papua New Guinea.
- Marcel Hansenne, 85, French middle distance runner and Olympic medalist.[120]
- Hugh R. Stephen, 88, Canadian politician.
23
- Enzo Barboni, 79, Italian film director, cinematographer and screenwriter.[121]
- John Biby, 90, American Olympic sailor (gold medal winner in 8 metre sailing at the 1932 Summer Olympics).[122]
- Richard Bradford, 69, American novelist (Red Sky at Morning, So Far from Heaven).[123]
- Antonio Calebotta, 71, Italian Olympic basketball player (men's basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics).[124]
- Jack Doolan, 82, American professional football player (Georgetown, New York Giants, Chicago Cardinals).[125]
- Lloyd L. Duxbury, 80, American politician and member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
- Eileen Farrell, 82, American soprano, performed both classical and popular music.[126]
- Piara Singh Gill, 90, Indian nuclear physicist.
- Ben Hollioake, 24, English cricketer, car crash.[127]
- Marcel Kint, 87, Belgian bicycle racer.[128]
- Neal E. Miller, 92, American psychologist.[129]
- Minnie Rojas, 68, Cuban-American baseball player (California Angels).[130]
- Richard Sylbert, 73, American film production designer and art director (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Dick Tracy, Chinatown), Oscar winner (1967, 1991), cancer.[131]
- Leif Wager, 80, Finnish actor.
24
- Beverly Bower, 76, American operatic soprano (New York City Opera, Metropolitan Opera), cancer.[132]
- Mace Brown, 92, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Red Sox).[133]
- Dorothy DeLay, 84, American violin instructor, cancer.[134]
- César Milstein, 74, Argentinian biochemist.[135]
- Wayne Molis, 58, American basketball player, stroke.[136]
- Erik Møller, 92, Danish architect.
- Bob Said, 69, American racing driver.[137]
25
- Ronald Verlin Cassill, 82, American writer, editor, painter and lithographer.[138]
- Eduardo Lim, 71, Filipino Olympic basketball player.[139]
- Ken Traill, 75, British rugby league player.
- Kenneth Wolstenholme, 81, British football commentator.[140]
- Hilde Zimmermann, 81, member of the Austrian Resistance during WWII.
26
- Randy Castillo, 51, American musician, Ozzy Osbourne and Mötley Crüe drummer, skin cancer.[141]
- Hugh Davis Graham, 65, American historian, sociologist, civil rights scholar and author.[142]
- Louis M. Heyward, 81, American producer and film and television writer (The Ernie Kovacs Show, Winky Dink and You), pneumonia.[143]
- Gerald Hylkema, 56, Dutch footballer.
- Eugen Meier, 71, Swiss footballer.[144]
- Joe Schermie, 56, American musician, heart attack.
- Taisto Sinisalo, 75, Finnish communist politician, leader of the Communist Party of Finland.[145]
- Heinz Welzel, 90, German actor.
- Whitey Wietelmann, 83, American baseball player (Boston Bees/Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates) and coach.[146]
27
- Milton Berle, 93, American comedian dubbed "Uncle Miltie" and "Mr. Television" (Texaco Star Theater, The Milton Berle Show), colorectal cancer.[147]
- Giorgi Melikishvili, 83, Georgian historian.
- Dudley Moore, 66, British actor and writer (Foul Play, 10, Arthur), pneumonia.[148]
- Cecil Pearce, 87, Australian Olympic rower.[149]
- Glen Robinson, 87, American special and visual effects artist, six-time Academy Award winner.
- Tadeusz Rut, 70, Polish Olympic hammer thrower.[150]
- Geoffrey Sim, 90, New Zealand politician.
- Jess Stearn, 87, American journalist and author of more than thirty books, nine of which were bestsellers, heart failure.
- Sture Stork, 71, Swedish sailor and Olympic champion.[151]
- Lotte Ulbricht, 98, East Germany official and second wife of Walter Ulbricht, fall.[152]
- Billy Wilder, 95, Austrian-American film director and screenwriter (Double Indemnity, The Apartment, Some Like It Hot), six-time Oscar winner, pneumonia.[153]
28
- Tofail Ahmed, 83, Bangladeshi researcher of Folk Art.
- Clarence B. Craft, 80, U.S. Army soldier and a recipient of the Medal of Honor.[154]
- Klaus Croissant, 70, East German lawyer of the Red Army Faction and later spy and a political activist.
- Tikka Khan, 86, Pakistani army general.
- Francis Newton Souza, 77, British artist.[155]
- Albert Whitford, 96, American physicist and astronomer, dean of modern photoelectric photometry.[156]
29
- Henning Bahs, 74, Danish screenwriter and special effects designer.
- John Cameron, 84, Australian baritone opera singer.[157]
- James T. Cushing, 65, American professor of physics, philosophy, and the history and philosophy of science.[158]
- Franklin S. Forsberg, 96, American publisher and diplomat (U.S. Ambassador to Sweden).[159]
- Eberhard Mehl, 66, German fencer and Olympic medalist.[160]
- Rico Yan, 27, Filipino model and actor, acute pancreatitis.[161]
30
- Anand Bakshi, 71, Indian poet and lyricist.
- Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, 101, British consort of King George VI, pneumonia.[162]
- Jean Pictet, 87, Swiss jurist and legal practitioner.
- Bjørn Spydevold, 83, Norwegian football player and football manager.[163]
- Alfie Stokes, 69, British footballer.[164]
31
- Yara Bernette, 82, Brazilian classical pianist, heart attack.[165]
- Lady Anne Brewis, 91, English botanist.
- Edgardo Madinabeytia, 69, Argentine football goalkeeper.[166]
- Lucio D. San Pedro, 89, Filipino composer and teacher, cardiac arrest.
- Barry Took, 73, English writer, television presenter and comedian, cancer.[167]
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