Deaths in October 2002 explained
The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.
October 2002
1
- Walter Annenberg, 94, American publisher (The Philadelphia Inquirer, TV Guide, Daily Racing Form, Seventeen) and philanthropist.[1]
- Ilie Ceaușescu, 76, Romanian general and communist politician, pneumonia.[2]
- Consuelo Salgar, 74, Colombian journalist, advertising executive, and politician, liver cancer.
- Edeltraud Schramm, 78, Austrian Olympic gymnast.[3]
2
- Norman O. Brown, 89, American philosopher and author (Life Against Death, Love's Body).[4]
- Al Lerner, 69, American businessman, football team owner, and philanthropist.[5]
- Tiberiu Olah, 74, Romanian-Hungarian composer, teacher and musicologist.
- Alexander Sinclair, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.[6]
- Heinz von Foerster, 90, Austrian-American physicist and philosopher, one of the founders of constructivism.[7]
3
- Tad Horino, 81, American film and television actor.[8]
- Felix Kracht, 90, German engineer.
- Bruce Paltrow, 58, American television and film director and producer, pneumonia.[9]
- Dalvanius Prime, 54, New Zealand entertainer and songwriter, cancer.
- John Weitz, 79, American fashion designer, novelist and historian.[10]
4
- Per Bronken, 67, Norwegian poet, novelist, actor, film director and stage producer.
- Alphonse Chapanis, 85, American pioneer in the field of industrial design.[11]
- André Delvaux, 76, Belgian film director, considered the father of the Belgian film industry, heart attack.[12]
- Hans Holmér, 71, Swedish civil servant and author.
- Buddy Lester, 87, American actor and comedian, cancer.
- Ahmad Mahmoud, 70, Iranian novelist.
- Marcel Reymond, 91, Swiss Olympic ski jumper.[13]
- Roy Wilkins, 68, American professional football player (University of Georgia, Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins).[14]
5
- Magda B. Arnold, 98, Canadian psychologist.
- Reginald Hibbert, 80, British diplomat.[15]
- Morag Hood, 59, British actress, cancer.
- Ron Horn, 64, American basketball player.[16]
- Tony Mazzocchi, 76, American labor leader, pancreatic cancer.[17]
- Mia Čorak Slavenska, 86, Croatian-American ballerina.[18]
- Jay R. Smith, 87, American child actor and comedian, stabbed.
6
- Ben Eastman, 91, American runner (silver medal in men's 400 metres at the 1932 Summer Olympics).[19]
- Wolfgang Mischnick, 81, German liberal politician (FDP).
- Prince Claus of the Netherlands, 76, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Dutch diplomat, pneumonia.[20]
- Chuck Rayner, 82, Canadian professional hockey player (New York Americans, New York Rangers).[21]
- Nick Whitehead, 69, British (Welsh) sprinter (bronze medal in men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics).[22]
- Juan Yustrich, 93, Argentine football goalkeeper.
7
- Pierangelo Bertoli, 59, Italian singer-songwriter and poet, heart attack.
- Ralph Harry, 85, Australian diplomat and intelligence specialist.
- Cor Kint, 82, Dutch backstroke swimmer and 1938 European Champion.
- Marcel Paille, 69, Canadian ice hockey goaltender, cancer.[23]
- Domenico Paolella, 86, Italian director, screenwriter and journalist.[24]
- Ed Rossbach, 88, American fiber artist.[25]
8
- Jodie Beeler, 80, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).[26]
- Phyllis Calvert, 87, British actress (The Man in Grey, Fanny by Gaslight, The Magic Bow, My Own True Love), kidney failure.[27]
- Jacques Richard, 50, Canadian ice hockey player, car accident.[28]
- Joachim Zahn, 88, German business executive, chairman of Daimler-Benz (1971-1979).[29]
9
- Sopubek Begaliev, 71, Soviet-era economist and politician.
- Charles Guggenheim, 78, American documentary film director, producer, and screenwriter, pancreatic cancer.[30]
- Anwar Hussain, 82, Pakistani cricketer.[31]
- Oleksandr Liashko, 86, Ukrainian politician.
- Carlo Lievore, 64, Italian Olympic javelin thrower.[32]
- Eric Martin, 33, American racing driver, racing accident.[33]
- Jim Martin, 78, American football player.[34]
- Bruno O'Ya, 69, Estonian-Polish actor.[35]
- Aileen Wuornos, 46, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.[36]
10
- Strahinja Alagić, 78, Serbian basketball player and coach.
- Mario de las Casas, 101, Peruvian football defender.
- Tom Casey, 78, American professional football player (New York Yankees, Hamilton Wildcats, Winnipeg Blue Bombers).[37]
- Fate Echols, 63, American professional football player (Northwestern University, St. Louis Cardinals).[38]
- Lawrence H. Fountain, 89, American politician (U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 2nd congressional district).[39]
- Teresa Graves, 54, American actress and singer, house fire, accidental death.[40]
- Denison Kitchel, 94, American lawyer political advisor.[41]
- Abe Most, 82, Swing clarinetist and alto saxophonist.
- Zara Nelsova, 81, Canadian cellist.[42]
- Tom Sullivan, 52, American gridiron football player, accidental death.[43]
- Erling Sørensen, 81, Danish football player and manager.
11
- Betty Molesworth Allen, 89, New Zealand botanist.
- Stewart Crawford, 89, British diplomat.[44]
- Werner Eberlein, 82, German socialist politician and party functionary, heart attack.[45]
- Bill Field, 93, British politician.[46]
- Ron Gray, 82, English football player and manager.[47]
- Maxim Levy, 52, Israeli politician.
- Dina Pathak, 80, Indian actor and director, heart attack.
- Emilio García Riera, 70, Spanish-born Mexican actor, writer and cinema critic.[48]
- Christine Stevens, 84, American animal welfare activist and conservationist.[49]
- Fred Troller, 71, Swiss-born graphic designer.[50]
- Stanley Wagner, 94, Canadian ice hockey player (gold medal in ice hockey at the 1932 Winter Olympics).[51]
- Rusty Wailes, 66, American rower (two Olympic gold medals in rowing: 1956 men's eight, 1960 men's coxless four).[52]
12
- Viktor Asmaev, 54, Russian Olympic equestrian (gold medal in equestrian team jumping at the 1980 Summer Olympics).[53]
- Ray Conniff, 85, American bandleader and arranger, fall.[54]
- Carolina Fadic, 28, Chilean actress and television presenter, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Desmond Fitzpatrick, 89, British Army general.[55]
- Audrey Mestre, 28, French world record-setting free diver, drowned.
- Nozomi Momoi, 24, Japanese AV idol, murdered.
- Sidney W. Pink, 86, American movie director and producer.[56]
- William R. Sears, 89, American aeronautical engineer and educator.[57]
13
- Stephen E. Ambrose, 66, American historian and author (Band of Brothers), lung cancer.[58]
- Keene Curtis, 79, American actor (The Rothschilds, Annie, Cheers), Alzheimer's disease.[59]
- Mason Hammond, 99, American educator and scholar.[60]
- Jim Higgins, 71, British politician.[61]
- Billy McAdams, 68, Northern Irish football player and manager.
- Ila Mitra, 76, Indian communist politician and activist.
- Dennis Patrick, 84, American actor, fire.[62]
- Eileen Southern, 82, American musicologist, researcher and author.[63]
- Garfield Todd, 94, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia.[64]
- Herman Fredrik Zeiner-Gundersen, 87, Norwegian Army general.
14
- Bill Green, 72, American politician (U.S. Representative for New York's 18th and 15th congressional districts), liver cancer.[65]
- Timothy Reuter, 55, German-British historian, brain cancer.[66]
- Norbert Schultze, 91, German film score composer and Nazi Party member.[67]
- Arturo Silvestri, 81, Italian football player and manager.[68]
15
16
- Per Bak, 53, Danish theoretical physicist, known for "self-organized criticality", myelodysplastic syndrome.[73]
- Philip Brett, 64, British-American musicologist, musician and conductor, cancer.[74]
- Harry Ferrier, 82, Scottish football player and manager.[75]
- Allen Walker Read, 96, American etymologist and lexicographer.[76]
- Henri Renaud, 77, French jazz pianist, record producer, and record company executive.[77]
17
- Derek Bell, 66, Northern Irish musician and composer (The Chieftains), heart attack.[78]
- Pattie Coldwell, 50, British television broadcaster and journalist (Nationwide, Open Air, Loose Women, You and Yours), brain tumor.[79]
- Yara Cortes, 81, Brazilian actress.
- Chuck Domanico, 58, American jazz bassist, lung cancer.
- D. Elmo Hardy, 88, American entomologist.
- Bashful Brother Oswald, 90, American country musician, a frequent Grand Ole Opry performer.[80]
- Yitzhak Peretz, 66, Israeli politician.
- Alina Pienkowska, 50, Polish free trade union activist and politician, cancer.[81]
- Aileen Riggin, 96, American Olympic swimmer and diver.[82]
- Fred Scolari, 80, American basketball player and coach.[83]
18
- Richard Bernstein, 62, American artist, member of the circle of Andy Warhol, complications of AIDS.[84]
- Cecil Blacker, 86, British Army general, Adjutant-General to the Forces.[85]
- Kam Fong Chun, 84, American police officer and actor (Hawaii Five-O), lung cancer.[86]
- John D. Ferry, 90, Canadian-American biochemist, made important contributions to polymer science.[87]
- Roman Tam, 52, Hong Kong cantopop singer, liver cancer.
19
- Peter Bergmann, 87, German-American physicist, known for his work with Albert Einstein.[88]
- Manuel Álvarez Bravo, 100, Mexican photographer.[89]
- John Meredyth Lucas, 83, American writer, director and producer, leukemia.[90]
- Mehli Mehta, 94, Indian conductor and violinist.[91]
- Hans Jürgen Press, 76, German children's writer and illustrator.
- Nikolay Rukavishnikov, 70, Soviet cosmonaut, heart attack.
- Hank Smith, 68, Canadian country music singer.
- Héctor Trujillo, 94, Dominican general and political figure.
20
- Barbara Berjer, 82, American actress (As the World Turns, Another World), pneumonia.[92]
- Hans Eisele, 62, German football player.[93]
- Bernard Fresson, 71, French actor (French Connection II, The Tenant, Street of No Return), cancer.[94]
- Mel Harder, 93, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), coach and manager (Cleveland Indians).[95]
21
- Aldo Canazza, 94, Italian racing cyclist.[96]
- Bernardino Pérez Elizarán, 77, Spanish football player and manager.
- Manfred Ewald, 76, East German Olympic committee president, pneumonia.[97]
- Jesse L. Greenstein, 93, American astronomer.[98]
- George Hall, 85, Canadian theatre, television, and film actor.[99]
- Kemal Kurt, 54, Turkish-German author, translator and photographer.[100]
- Bernhard Neumann, 93, British-Australian mathematician.
- Kaisa Parviainen, 87, Finnish athlete.[101]
- Marquita Rivera, 80, Puerto Rican actress, singer and dancer, stroke.
- Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota, 83, British politician.[102]
- Harbhajan Singh, 82, Indian poet, critic, and cultural commentator.
- Y. R. Swamy, Indian film director and screenwriter.
22
- Queen Geraldine of Albania, 87, Queen consort of King Zog I of Albania.
- George Bellak, 83, American television writer.[103]
- Marian Bergeron, 84, American beauty pageant winner (Miss America 1933) and big band singer, leukemia.[104]
- Igor Irodov, 78, Soviet Russian physicist and World War II veteran.
- Robert Nixon, 63, British cartoonist.[105]
23
- Lucille Carroll, 96, American Broadway actress and MGM studio executive.[106]
- Adolph Green, 87, American lyricist and playwright.[107]
- Nathan Görling, 97, Swedish composer of film scores.
- Richard Helms, 89, American diplomat and CIA director, multiple myeloma.[108]
- Marianne Hoppe, 93, German theatre and film actress.[109]
- Nathan H. Juran, 95, Austrian-American film and television director.[110]
- David Lewis, 85, New Zealand sailor and adventurer.[111]
- Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, 96, British historian.[112]
- Janos Nyiri, 69, Hungarian-British theatre director, journalist and writer, cancer.[113]
- Danijel Popović, 20, Croatian football player, traffic collision.
- Beulah Quo, 79, Chinese-American actress and activist.
24
- Winton M. Blount, 81, American public servant, business executive and philanthropist.[114]
- Hernando Casanova, 57, Colombian actor, director, singer, and presenter, heart attack.
- Hernán Gaviria, 32, Colombian football player, lightning strike.[115]
- Harry Hay, 90, American gay rights activist and Mattachine Society founder, lung cancer.[116]
- Jose Sebastian Laboa, 79, Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church.
- Charmian May, 65, English actress (You're Only Young Twice, Weirdsister College, Bridget Jones's Diary), cancer.
- Peggy Moran, 84, American film actress, complications from a car accident.
- Scott Plank, 43, American actor, traffic collision.
- Lotte Tarp, 57, Danish actress, lung cancer.[117]
25
- Ian Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford, 85, British peer and writer.[118]
- Micheline Cheirel, 85, French actress.[119]
- Herbert Duffus, 94, Jamaican politician and judge.[120]
- Richard Harris, 72, Irish actor (Camelot, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, This Sporting Life), Hodgkins lymphoma.[121]
- Kōki Ishii, 61, Japanese politician, stab wound.
- Ernest Mancoba, 98, South African avant-garde artist.[122]
- Doug McGibbon, 83, English football player.
- Rainbeaux Smith, 47, American actress and musician, hepatitis.
- René Thom, 79, French mathematician.[123]
- Paul Wellstone, 58, American professor, author and politician (U.S. Senator from Minnesota), aviation accident.[124]
26
- Movsar Barayev, 23, Chechen Islamist militia leader, killed during the Moscow theater hostage crisis.[125]
- Zura Barayeva, Chechen Islamist, killed during the Moscow theater hostage crisis.
- Jacques Massu, 94, French general.[126]
- Stuart Townend, 93, British military officer, athlete, and politician.
27
- André de Toth, 89, Hungarian-American film director (The Gunfighter, House of Wax, The Indian Fighter), aneurysm.[127]
- Tom Dowd, 77, American recording engineer and producer, a pioneer in stereo and multitrack tape recording, emphysema.[128]
- Mohammad Isnaeni, 83, Indonesian politician.
- Michel Macquet, 70, French Olympic javelin thrower and handball player.[129]
- Maurice J. Murphy Jr., 75, American politician and lawyer.
- Valve Pormeister, 80, Estonian landscape architect.
- Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy, 62, Indian trade unionist and politician.
- Baby Lloyd Stallworth, 61, American entertainer, musician, and recording artist, complications of diabetes.
- Walter Volle, 89, German rower, coach and Olympic champion.[130]
- Charles Orville Whitley, 75, American politician (U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 3rd congressional district).[131]
28
- Margaret Booth, 104, American film editor (Mutiny on the Bounty, The Way We Were, Annie), stroke.[132]
- Morris Curotta, 73, Australian Olympic sprinter (1948 Summer Olympics, 1952 Summer Olympics).[133]
- Sugathapala de Silva, 74, Sri Lankan dramatist and novelist.
- Lawrence Dobkin, 83, American television director and character actor (The Ten Commandments, The Defiant Ones, North by Northwest, Patton).[134]
- Laurence Foley, 60, American diplomat and employee of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), homicide.[135]
- Erling Persson, 85, Swedish businessman, founder of H&M.
- Annada Shankar Ray, 97, Indian Bengali poet and essayist.
29
- Marina Berti, 78, Italian film actress, cancer.[136]
- Marion Carpenter, 82, American press photographer, covered President Harry Truman, pulmonary emphysema.[137]
- Glenn McQueen, 41, Canadian animator (Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., A Bug's Life), melanoma.
- Raymond Savignac, 94, French graphic artist.[138]
- Dragan Malešević Tapi, 53, Serbian painter.
- Chang-Lin Tien, 67, Chinese-American educator, 7th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.[139]
30
- Pierre Aigrain, 78, French physicist.[140]
- Alfred Atherton, 80, American Foreign Service Officer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Egypt (1979-1983).[141]
- Juan Antonio Bardem, 80, Spanish film director and screenwriter, heart attack.[142]
- Rudolf Brucci, 85, Croatian composer.
- Jam Master Jay, 37, American musician (Run DMC), shot.[143]
- Lee H. Katzin, 67, American film director, cancer.[144]
31
- Yuri Ahronovitch, 70, Russian conductor.[145]
- Edward "Moose" Cholak, 72, American professional wrestler, pneumonia.[146]
- Napier Crookenden, 87, British Army general.[147]
- Jean-Marie Fortier, 82, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate.[148]
- Audrey Hylton-Foster, Baroness Hylton-Foster, 94, British peer.
- Lionel Poilâne, 57, French baker and entrepreneur, helicopter crash.[149]
- Gene Rock, 80, American basketball player, cancer.[150]
- Michael Stasinopoulos, 99, Greek jurist and politician.
- Raf Vallone, 86, Italian actor (A View from the Bridge, Bitter Rice, The Godfather Part III) and journalist.[151]
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