2002 in memoriam

December 2002

• 30 Mary Wesley novelist, author of The Camomile Lawn[?]
• 27 George Roy Hill, film director (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting)
• 26 Herb Ritts, celebrity photographer
• 26 Armand Zildjian, cymbals manufacturer
• 25 William T. Orr[?], Television executive (brought Maverick[?], F-Troop[?] and 77 Sunset Strip[?] to TV)
• 24 Tomas Henriquez[?], Venezuelan actor
• 23 Joe Strummer, former singer for The Clash.
• 22 Kenneth Tobey[?], Prolific character actor (appeared in about 100 films including: 12 OClock High[?], Gunfight at OK Corral[?], The Thing From Another World and Airplane!)
• 22 Desmond Hoyte[?], President of Guyana from 1985 to 1992
• 19 Tony Barr[?], actor and TV executive
• 19 Asif Ramzi[?], Pakistani militant wanted for the murder of reporter Daniel Pearl, blew himself up while making explosives.
• 18 Ramon John Hnatyshyn, former Governor-General of Canada
• 17 Hank Luisetti[?], basketball star and innovator
• 13 Zal Yanofsky[?] member of Lovin' Spoonful music group.
• 12 Dee Brown, author (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee)
• 10 Ian MacNaughton[?], director of most episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
• 9 Stan Rice, painter, educator, poet, husband of author Anne Rice
• 6 Charles Rosen[?], Pioneer in artificial intelligence
• 6 Father Philip Berrigan, priest, political activist
• 5 Roone Arledge, creator of Monday Night Football and Nightline dies at age 71
• 5 Ne Win, Burmese dictator
• 3 Glenn Quinn, actor

November 2002

• 29 Florence Stephenson Mahoney[?] (aged 103), health advocate
• 26 Verne Winchell, founder of Winchell's Donuts[?] and nicknamed "The Donut King"
• 25 Rosa Carrillo[?], Univision news anchor
• 24 John Rawls, political theorist
• 21 Hadda Brooks, U.S. jazz singer, pianist and composer, aged 86
• 19 Prince Alexandre de Merode, International Olympic Committee member
• 18 James Coburn, actor
• 17 Pedro Cabrera[?], Cuban actor and director who was a star in Puerto Rico's television for many years.
• 17 Abba Eban, Israeli foreign affair minister
• 17 Milivi Adams, young cancer victim who became the symbol of the fight of many Vieques citizens to have the military out of there.
• 15 Myra Hindley, the Moors murderess
• 15 Eddie Bracken, actor
• 7 Rudolf Augstein, founder and chief editorialist of the German newsweekly Der Spiegel
• 6 Sid Sackson, board game designer
• 3 Jonathan Harris[?], TV's "Dr. Smith" on Lost in Space
• 3 Lonnie Donegan, skiffle musician
• 2 Charles Sheffield, science fiction author and physicist
• 2 Brian Behan[?], Irish writer, younger brother of Brendan Behan[?]
• 2 Tonio Selwart (aged 106), Bavarian actor and Broadway preformer

October 2002

• 30 Jam Master Jay, DJ of Run DMC assassinated
• 29 Chang-lin Tien, Educator[?]
• 28 Margaret Booth (aged 104), Academy Award-winning film editor
• 25 Richard Harris, Actor
• 25 Paul Wellstone, United States Senator
• 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, American lyricist[?] and playwright
• 22 Richard Helms, former CIA director
• 19 Manuel Alvarez Bravo[?] (aged 100) pre-eminent Mexican photographer
• 18 Roman Tam, canto-pop singer
• 13 Stephen Ambrose, historian
• 10 Christine Stevens[?], founder of the Animal Welfare Institute[?]
• 6 Claus von Amsberg, diplomat and husband of the Dutch Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
• 4 Alphonse Chapanis[?], a founder of ergonomics
• 3 Bruce Paltrow, television and film producer
• 2 Heinz von Foerster, physicist and philosopher, one of the founders of constructivism
• 1 Walter Annenberg, publisher and philanthropist

September 2002

• ?? Brian Williams[?], Basketball star in the NBA.
  • Body not found yet, Tahiti police say it is possibly in the South Pacific. Already declared a murder investigation by the Police and the FBI.
• 22 Joseph Nathan Kane (aged 103), pre-eminent American historical author and factualist
• 22 Jan de Hartog[?], novelist and playwright
• 21 Angelo Buono, Jr., the "Hillside Strangler"
• 21 Robert L. Forward, physicist and science fiction author
• 19 Sergei Bodrov Jr., Russian movie star
• 18 Bob Hayes National Football League Dallas Cowboys star, and Olympic games Hall of Fame member.
• 12 Kim Hunter, actress
• 11 Johnny Unitas National Football League Hall of fame quarterback.
• 8 Alfonso Ramirez[?] Famous Mexican Bullfighter
• 7 John P. Frank[?] Lawyer whose representation of Ernesto Miranda[?] in 1966 helped create the Miranda Rights[?] reading requirement.
• 4 Frankie Albert[?], National Football League star
• 1 Brandon Hall[?], College American football University of Minnesota defensive lineman

August 2002

• 31 Lionel Hampton, jazz musician
• 27 Richard Ricci, Utah, Handyman[?], suspected of the kidnapping of 14 year old Elizabeth Smart
• 25 Dorothy Hewett[?], Australian poet, playwright and novelist
• 24 Wayne Simmons[?], American Football Ex Lions NFL player
• 24 Hoyt Wilhelm, Baseball Hall of Fame member
• 19 Abu Nidal, terrorist
• 19 Sunday Silence[?], thoroughbred race horse, winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes
• 15 Jesse Brown[?], former United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
• 14 Larry Rivers[?], American painter
• 14 Dave Williams, singer of Drowning Pool[?]
• 12 Enos Slaughter, baseball Hall of Famer
• 10 Doris Wishman[?], cult movie[?] director
• 6 Edsger Dijkstra, computer scientist
• 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
• 3 Carmen Silvera[?], UK television and theatre actress. Played Fiona Gray in Dad's Army, Captain Manwaring[?]'s secret love, and Edith in Allo Allo[?]

July 2002

• 23 Leo McKern, 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, author
• 22 Prince Ahmed bin Salman[?], member of the Saudi Arabian royal family, owner of Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner War Emblem[?]
• 19 Alexander Ginzburg[?], leading Soviet dissident (alternatively Aleksandr Ginzburg[?])
• 19 Alan Lomax, documenter of blues and folk songs
• 16 John Cocke[?], key figure in the development of RISC architecture
• 16 Jack Olsen[?], "True crime" writer
• 14 Joaquin Balaguer, former President of the Dominican Republic
• 13 Yousuf Karsh, celebrity portrait photographer
• 10 John Wallach[?], journalist
• 9 Rod Steiger, actor
• 9 Laurence Janifer, Science Fiction writer
• 8 Anthony Swithin[?], fantasy writer, paleontologist
• 8 Ward Kimball, Disney animator
• 6 John Frankenheimer, film director
• 5 Ted Williams, Baseball Hall of Fame member
• 5 Katy Jurado, actress
• 4 Winnifred Van Tongerloo[?], oldest living survivor of the Titanic
• 4 Benjamin O. Davis Jr., African-American General

June 2002

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

May 2002

• 26 Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian marathon runner
• 23 Sam Snead, golfer
• 22 (remains discovered; actual death probably took place sometime in 2001), Chandra Levy, U.S. Congressional intern
• 21 Niki de Saint Phalle[?], french artist
• 20 Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist and popular science author
• 19 John Gorton, 19th Prime Minister of Australia
• 17 Joe Black[?], Baseball first Black pitcher to win a World Series game.
• 16 Edwin Alonzo Boyd[?] noted Canadian bank-robber and prison escaper of the 1950s.
• 16 Alec Campbell[?], Australia's last surviving ANZAC died in a nursing home, aged 103.
• 13 Ruth Cracknell[?], redoubtable Australian actress most famous for the long-running role of Maggie Beare in the series "Mother and Son", aged 76.
• 12 Joseph Bonanno, Sicilian, former boss of a Mafia crime family.
• 7 Seattle Slew[?] last triple crown winner on 25th anniversary of winning Kentucky Derby
• 6 Pim Fortuyn, controversial politician in the Netherlands, shot.
• 5 Hugo Banzer Su�rez[?], president of Bolivia, as dictator 1971-1978 and democratic president 1997-2001.
• 3 Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal[?], current president of Somaliland and former prime minister of Somalia and British Somaliland.
• 3 Mohan Singh Oberoi[?] (aged 103), Indian hotelier and retailer

April 2002

• 28 Alexander Lebed[?], Russian general and politician
• Ruth Handler, inventor of the Barbie doll
• 27 Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Industrialist and art collector.
• 25 Lisa Lopes, Singer with band TLC
• 25 Indra Devi[?] (aged 102), "Yoga teacher to the stars"
• 23 Linda Boreman better known as Linda Lovelace, porn star turned political activist
• 19 (Body discovered), Layne Staley, Singer with band Alice In Chains
• 18 Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian anthropologist
• 16 Franz Krienbühl, Swiss speed skater
• 16 Robert Urich, Actor cancer
• 15 Byron White, US athlete and Supreme Court justice
• 8 Maria Felix, superstar Mexican actress.
• 9 Leopold Vietoris (aged 110), Austrian mathematician
• 7 John Agar[?], actor in monster movies
• 5 Layne Staley, Singer with band Alice In Chains

March 2002

• 31 Barry Took, UK comedian and writer, also wrote in the US
• 30 Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (aged 101), the Queen mother, member of the British Royal Family.
• 27 Milton Berle, Mr. Television, US comedian
• 27 Dudley Moore, UK actor and writer
• 25 Kenneth Wolstenholme, British football commentator
• 20 Ivan Novikoff (aged 102), Russian premier ballet master

• 11 Rudolf Hell (aged 100), German inventor and manufacturer

• 27 Spike Milligan, UK comedian, writer and actor
• 24 Leo Ornstein (aged 109), radical composer/pianist
• 22 Sir Raymond Firth[?] (aged 100), British anthropologist
• 22 Chuck Jones, US animator
• 21 John Thaw, British actor, most famous for the detective series,Morse and The Sweeney[?].
• 15 Mike Daar[?] Baseball San Diego Padres prospect
• 15 Howard K. Smith, TV journalist
• 15 Kevin Smith (actor), played Ares on Xena series
• 12 Theresa Ferber Bernstein[?] (aged 111), artist
• 11 Barry Foster[?], British actor.
• 9 Princess Margaret, British royal family (sister of Queen Elizabeth II)
• 6 Max Perutz, founder of molecular biology

January 2002

• 28 Dick 'Night Train' Lane[?] American Football,NFL Hall of Famer
• 28 Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's book author
• 23 Robert Nozick, philosopher
• 22 Peggy Lee, US Singer, Actress
• 16 Carl Bobo Olson[?], boxer, world Middleweight champion in 1953 and member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame
• 14 Ted Demme, film and television director
• 12 Stanley Unwin, comedian
• 11 Cyrus Vance, former United States Secretary of State, international peacemaker.
• 8 Dave Thomas, US entrepreneur, founder of Wendy's hamburger restaurants.
• 3 Freddy Heineken, beer magnate.