Deaths in August 2002

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

1

 * Francisco Arcellana, 85, Filipino writer, poet and journalist.
 * Theo Bruce, 79, Australian long jumper (silver medal winner in men's long jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
 * Peter Carter, 37, Australian tennis player and coach, traffic collision.
 * Adolf Glunz, 86, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
 * Sumiko Hidaka, 79, Japanese actress, liver failure.
 * Yuri Korshunov, 68, Russian lepidopterologist.
 * A. P. Lutali, 82, Governor of American Samoa (1985–1989, 1993–1997), stroke.
 * Henry Mazer, 84, American-Taiwanese conductor and recording artist.
 * Don Owen, 90, American professional wrestling promoter.
 * Jack Tighe, 88, American baseball coach.

2

 * Joe Allison, 77, American songwriter, radio and television personality and record producer, lung disease.
 * Roberto Cobo, 72, Mexican actor (Los Olvidados, The Place Without Limits).
 * May Hardcastle, 89, Australian tennis player.
 * Ilona Kolonits, 80, Hungarian documentary film director and news correspondent.
 * Roy Kral, 80, American jazz pianist and vocalist, congestive heart failure.
 * Magda László, 90, Hungarian operatic soprano.
 * Richard Schreder, 86, American naval aviator and sailplane developer.
 * Jean-Pierre Yvaral, 68, French op art and kinetic art artist.

3

 * Edward Brodney, 92, American artist, known for his drawings and paintings of World War II.
 * Peter Miles, 64, American actor, cancer.
 * Danny Sue Nolan, 79, American film actress, stroke.
 * Carmen Silvera, 80, British television and theatre actress (Dad's Army, 'Allo 'Allo!), lung cancer.
 * Ruudi Toomsalu, 89, Estonian sprinter and long jumper.
 * John G. Zimmerman, 74, American photographer, an innovator in sports photojournalism.

4

 * William R. Crawford Jr., 74, American diplomat and ambassador (Yemen, Cyprus).
 * Millard Lang, 89, American soccer and lacrosse player.
 * Mike Payne, 40, American Major League Baseball player (Atlanta Braves), EEE.
 * Salvatore Scianamea, 83, Brazilian fencer.

5

 * Jes Peter Asmussen, 73, Danish iranologist.
 * Francisco Coloane, 92, Chilean novelist and short fiction writer.
 * Josh Ryan Evans, 20, American actor (Passions, How the Grinch Stole Christmas) and stunt performer (Baby Geniuses), complications from a heart condition.
 * Chick Hearn, 85, television and radio announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team since 1960, fall.
 * Willis Hudlin, 96, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, St. Louis Browns, New York Giants).
 * Franco Lucentini, 82, Italian writer (The Sunday Woman), suicide.
 * Shinsuke Mikimoto, 71, Japanese actor, lung cancer.
 * Darrell Porter, 50, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers, Kansas City Royals, St. Louis Cardinals, Texas Rangers), drug overdose.
 * Matt Robinson, 65, American actor, writer and television producer, Parkinson's disease.
 * Winifred Watson, 95, English writer (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day).

6

 * Jim Crawford, 54, Scottish motor racing driver, liver failure.
 * Edsger W. Dijkstra, 72, computer scientist, colorectal cancer.
 * John Donnelly Fage, 81, British historian.
 * Justin Meyer, 63, American vintner and enologist, heart attack.
 * Jean Sauvagnargues, 87, French politician.

7

 * Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne, 100, British aristocrat.
 * Ookie Miller, 92, American gridiron football player.
 * Al Smith, 56, Canadian ice hockey player, pancreatic cancer.

8

 * Bernard Chidzero, 75, Zimbabwean politician, Finance Minister (1983–1995).
 * Reiner Geye, 52, German football player, liver disease.
 * Wilber Morris, 64, American jazz double bass player and bandleader.
 * Mikhail Perlman, 79, Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion.
 * Charles Poletti, 99, American lawyer and politician.
 * Kapitolina Rumiantseva, 76, Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist.
 * Doris Buchanan Smith, 68, American author children's books, ALS.
 * Ronnie Stephenson, 65, English jazz drummer.
 * Willi Ziegler, 73, German paleontologist.

9

 * Don Chastain, 66, American actor and singer (Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Colt .45, The Rockford Files, Hawaii Five-O), colorectal cancer.
 * Pascale de Boysson, 80, French actress.
 * Jake Fendley, 73, American professional basketball player (Northwestern University, Fort Wayne Pistons).
 * Meredith Gardner, 89, American linguist and codebreaker.
 * Bertold Hummel, 76, German composer of modern classical music.
 * Peter Matz, 73, American musician, composer, arranger and conductor, lung cancer.
 * Paul Samson, 49, English guitarist, cancer.
 * Ruud van Feggelen, 78, Dutch water polo player and coach (bronze medal in water polo at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
 * Trần Độ, 78, Vietnamese politician and Lieutenant General of the People's Army.

10

 * Colin Eggleston, 60, Australian film and television director and writer (Long Weekend, Homicide).
 * Michael Houser, 40, American guitarist, pancreatic cancer.
 * Kristen Nygaard, 75, Norwegian computer scientist and politician, heart attack.
 * Eugene Odum, 88, American biologist.
 * René Queyroux, 74, French fencer and Olympic medalist.
 * Mordecai Waxman, 85, American rabbi, prominent conservative, known for confronting Pope John Paul II.
 * Doris Wishman, 90, American B movie film director, screenwriter and producer, lymphoma.
 * Czesław Łuczak, 80, Polish historian focusing on World War II.

11

 * Nancy Chaffee, 73, American tennis player (1950, 1951, 1952 singles and doubles U.S. Indoor Champion), cancer.
 * Per Cock-Clausen, 89, Danish figure skater (13-time Danish National Champion, figure skating at the Winter Olympics: 1948, 1952).
 * Mick Dunne, 73, Irish sports journalist.
 * Jiří Kolář, 87, Czech poet and writer.
 * Franjo Kukuljević, 92, Croatian tennis player.
 * Hermann Pálsson, 81, Icelandic language scholar and translator.
 * Galen Rowell, 61, wilderness photographer, adventure photojournalist and climber, plane crash.
 * Richard Wood, Baron Holderness, 81, British politician (Member of Parliament for Bridlington).

12

 * Michael De-la-Noy, 68, British journalist and author (The Queen Behind the Throne).
 * Knud Lundberg, 82, Danish sportsperson, journalist and writer.
 * John Shaw Rennie, 85, British diplomat.
 * Enos Slaughter, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, lymphoma.
 * Marjorie Williamson, 89, British educator, physicist and university administrator.

13

 * Jack Creel, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).
 * Hermann Haller, 88, Swiss composer.
 * Józef Daniel Krzeptowski, 81, Polish Olympic skier.
 * Ulises Ramos, 82, Chilean footballer and manager.
 * Al Vande Weghe, 86, American competition swimmer and Olympic silver medalist.

14

 * Mary Heeley, 91, British tennis player.
 * Peter R. Hunt, 77, British film editor (Dr. No, Goldfinger) and director (On Her Majesty's Secret Service), heart failure.
 * Larry Rivers, 78, American painter.
 * Dave Williams, 30, American singer of Drowning Pool, heart failure.

15

 * János Balogh, 89, Hungarian zoologist, ecologist, and academic.
 * Henry Batista, 88, American film and television editor.
 * Heinz Bauer, 74, German mathematician.
 * Alberto Bertuccelli, 78, Italian football player.
 * Jesse Brown, 58, American United States Marine and United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, ALS.
 * George Agbazika Innih, 63, Nigerian army general and politician.
 * Edgardo Madinabeytia, 69, Argentine football goalkeeper.
 * Arnie Moser, 87, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).
 * Kyle Rote, 73, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
 * Jean Stengers, 80, Belgian historian.
 * Haim Yosef Zadok, 88, Israeli jurist and politician, heart attack.

16

 * Janusz Bardach, 83, Polish-American Siberian gulag survivor and renowned plastic surgeon.
 * Allan Bromley, 55, American computer scientist, historian of computing, cancer.
 * Jeff Corey, 88, American actor (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, In Cold Blood, Little Big Man), fall.
 * Martin Deutsch, 85, Austrian-American physicist and professor of physics at MIT, known as the discoverer of positronium.
 * Morgan "Bill" Evans, 92, American horticulturalist and Disney landscape designer.
 * Anton Guadagno, 77, Italian operatic conductor.
 * Paul Michel Gabriel Lévy, 91, Belgian journalist and professor.
 * Abu Nidal, 65, Palestinian terrorist, ballistic trauma.
 * Ola Belle Reed, 85, American singer.
 * John Roseboro, 69, American baseball player (Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, Minnesota Twins, Washington Senators).

17

 * Jimmy Bloodworth, 85, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies), heart attack.
 * Edward Dziewoński, 85, Polish stage and film actor, and theatre director.
 * Alicia Montoya, 82, Mexican actress, the daughter of the stage actress, kidney failure.
 * Valentin Pluchek, 92, Russian theatre director.
 * Rushyendramani, 85, Indian singer, dancer, and actress.
 * Benjamin Thompson, 84, American architect.

18

 * Turpal-Ali Atgeriyev, 33, Chechen rebel leader and top official in the rebel government, leukemia.
 * Carter L. Burgess, 85, American public servant, business executive and diplomat (Assistant Secretary of Defense, Ambassador to Argentina).
 * Bertil Ericsson, 93, Swedish football player.
 * Ričardas Gavelis, 51, Lithuanian writer, playwright, journalist, and theoretical physicist.
 * Dick O'Connell, 87, American front office executive in Major League Baseball.
 * Dean Riesner, 83, American screenwriter (Dirty Harry, Play Misty for Me, The Enforcer).

19

 * Antonio Barrios, 92, Spanish football player and coach.
 * Eduardo Chillida, 78, Spanish Basque sculptor, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Irving Copi, 85, American philosopher, logician and textbook author (Introduction to Logic).
 * Satchidananda Saraswati, 87, Indian yoga guru and religious teacher.
 * Jan Stenbeck, 59, Swedish business leader, media pioneer, sailor and financier.
 * Alastair Gordon, 6th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, 82, British botanical artist and art critic.
 * Sunday Silence, 16, American-bred thoroughbred race horse, winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes.

20

 * Chris Columbus, 100, American jazz drummer.
 * Augustine Geve, Solomon Islands Cabinet Minister, assassinated.
 * Teodor Keko, 43, Albanian writer, journalist, and politician, pancreatic cancer.
 * John Willett, 85, British journalist and translator of the works of Bertolt Brecht into English.

21

 * Mikayil Abdullayev, 80, Soviet and Azerbaijani painter.
 * O. A. Bushnell, 89, American microbiologist, professor and writer.
 * Oscar Plattner, 80, Swiss cyclist.
 * Bror Rexed, 88, Swedish neuroscientist and professor.

22

 * Mark Bucci, 78, American Broadway, film and television composer (The 13 Clocks, Seven in Darkness, Human Experiments).
 * Richard Lippold, 87, American sculptor.
 * Manuel Lora-Tamayo, 98, Spanish politician.
 * Jim McFadden, 82, Irish-Canadian ice hockey player.

23

 * Anthony Stafford Beer, 75, British theorist.
 * Dennis Fimple, 61, American character actor (Petticoat Junction, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Green Acres), traffic collision.
 * Emily Genauer, 91, American art critic.
 * Wayne Simmons, 32, American gridiron football player, single-car crash.
 * Hoyt Wilhelm, 80, American baseball player (New York Giants, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame.

24

 * Ted Ashley, 80, American film studio executive (chairman of Warner Bros) and talent agent, complications following heart surgery.
 * Hugh Cruttwell, 83, English teacher of drama and principal of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
 * Nikolay Guryanov, 93, Russian Orthodox priest.
 * Wilhelm Meise, 100, German ornithologist.
 * Cornelis Johannes van Houten, 82, Dutch astronomer.
 * Johnny Wilson, 86, American professional football player (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Rams).

25

 * Per Anger, 88, Swedish diplomat, known for shielding thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps, stroke.
 * Raúl Chibás, 86, Cuban politician, military officer and close associate of Fidel Castro, defected to U.S. in 1960.
 * Stanley R. Greenberg, 74, American playwright and screenwriter.
 * Dorothy Coade Hewett, 79, Australian poet, playwright and novelist, breast cancer.
 * Karolina Lanckorońska, 104, Polish noble, philanthropist, and historian.
 * Július Pántik, 80, Slovak film actor.
 * William Warfield, 82, American concert bass-baritone singer and actor, complications following a fall.

26

 * Aslambek Abdulkhadzhiev, 40, Chechen warlord, killed in action.
 * Thomas Gordon, 84, American clinical psychologist.
 * Vincent Massey, 75, Australian biochemist and enzymologist.
 * Georg Werner, 98, Swedish swimmer (bronze medal in men's 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay at the 1924 Summer Olympics).

27

 * Bob McKinlay, 69, Scottish football player.
 * George Mitchell, 85, Scottish musician (The Black and White Minstrel Show).
 * Crew Stoneley, 91, English athlete and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Jane Tilden, 91, Austrian actress.
 * John S. Wilson, 89, American music critic for The New York Times for four decades.

28

 * David Bierk, 58, American-Canadian artist, pneumonia.
 * Kay Gardner, 62, American musician, composer, author, and Dianic priestess, heart attack.
 * Else Petersen, 92, Danish film and stage actress.
 * Rudolf Schnackenburg, 88, German Catholic priest and New Testament scholar.

29

 * Lance Macklin, 82, British racing driver.
 * Alan MacNaughtan, 82, Scottish actor, cancer.
 * Paul Tripp, 91, children's musician, author, songwriter, and actor.
 * Anatoliy Yulin, 73, Soviet (Belarusian) Olympic athlete (men's 400 metres hurdles: 1952, 1956, men's 4 × 400 metres relay: 1956).

30

 * Thomas J. Anderson, 91, American publisher and politician.
 * Mariya Bayda, 80, Russian medical orderly during World War II.
 * Dave Dalby, 51, American professional football player (UCLA, Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders), traffic collision.
 * José Sette Câmara Filho, 82, Brazilian lawyer, diplomat, and politician.
 * Andy Johnson, 69, American basketball player.
 * Zaid ibn Shaker, 67, Jordanian politician and soldier (Prime Minister of Jordan).
 * J. Lee Thompson, 88, British film director (The Guns of Navarone, Cape Fear, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes), congestive heart failure.
 * Horst Wendlandt, 80, German film producer.

31

 * Lionel Hampton, 94, American jazz musician, heart failure.
 * Sheldon H. Harris, 74, American historian and academic.
 * Martin Kamen, 89, American scientist.
 * Joe McCluskey, 91, American track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.
 * Farhad Mehrad, 58, Iranian pop, rock, and folk musician, hepatitis C.
 * Wong Pow Nee, 89, Malaysian politician and diplomat.
 * George Porter, 81, British Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.
 * Bunji Sakita, 72, Japanese-American theoretical physicist, cancer.
 * Samson Samsonov, 81, Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter.