Deaths in February 2002

1

 * Aykut Barka, 50, Turkish earth scientist, traffic collision.
 * Streamline Ewing, 85, American jazz trombonist, worked with Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Jimmie Lunceford, Cab Calloway.
 * Hildegard Knef, 76, German actress and singer, pneumonia.
 * Irish McCalla, 73, American actress (Sheena, Queen of the Jungle) and artist, stroke and complications from brain tumor.
 * Daniel Pearl, 38, American journalist, decapitation.

2

 * Paul Baloff, 41, American vocalist (Exodus), heart failure.
 * Claude Brown, 64, American author (Manchild in the Promised Land).
 * Andy Hansen, 77, American baseball player (New York Giants, Philadelphia Phillies).
 * Ed Jucker, 85, American basketball coach (1961 and 1962 NCAA titles at Cincinnati) and baseball coach, prostate cancer.
 * Ani Pachen, 68, Tibetan freedom fighter, activist and author, known as Tibet's "warrior nun".
 * Remo Palmier, 78, American jazz guitarist (Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday).
 * Oscar Reutersvärd, 86, Swedish graphic artist.

3

 * James Blackwood, 82, American Gospel singer (The Blackwood Brothers).
 * Kay Brownbill, 87, Australian media personality and politician.
 * K. Chakravarthy, 65, Indian music director.
 * Edward Thomas Chapman, 82, Welsh World War II British Army corporal and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
 * Rudolf Fleischmann, 98, German nuclear physicist.
 * Raymond Gérôme, 81, Belgian-French stage and screen actor.
 * Bill Harvey, 82, English football player.
 * Mel McGaha, 75, American baseball coach and manager.
 * Hans Paetsch, 92, German actor.
 * Julien Rassam, 33, French actor, suicide.
 * Nelson Royal, 66, American professional wrestler, trainer and promoter, heart attack.
 * Aglaja Veteranyi, 39, Romanian-Swiss writer, suicide.

4

 * Agatha Barbara, 78, Maltese politician.
 * Sigvard Bernadotte, 94, Swedish prince.
 * Frederick J. Clarke, 86, US Army lieutenant General as Chief of Engineers.
 * Sarah Clarke, 82, Irish nun and civil rights campaigner.
 * Bhagwan Dada, 88, Indian actor and film director, heart attack.
 * Ralph Fritz, 84, American gridiron football player (University of Michigan, Philadelphia Eagles).
 * Wiesław Gąsiorek, 66, Polish tennis player.
 * Miloslav Hamr, 85, Czechoslovak table tennis player.
 * Bert Head, 85, English football player and manager.
 * Inge Konradi, 77, Austrian stage and film actress, cancer.
 * George Nader, 80, American actor (Six Bridges to Cross, Lady Godiva of Coventry, Sins of Jezebel), cardiopulmonary failure.
 * Helen Dodson Prince, 96, American astronomer.
 * Broderick Thompson, 41, American gridiron football player (Kansas, San Diego Chargers), motorcycle accident.
 * Eve Titus, 79, American children's writer.
 * Baxter Ward, 82, American television news anchor and two-term member of Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

5

 * Angela du Maurier, 97, English actress and novelist.
 * Yasutake Funakoshi, 89, Japanese sculptor and painter.
 * Raymond Martorano, 74, Italian-American mobster (Philadelphia crime family), shot.
 * Robert Mather, 87, Australian politician.
 * Annalee Whitmore Fadiman, 85, American screenwriter (Andy Hardy Meets Debutante, Babes in Arms) and World War II foreign correspondent, euthanasia.

6

 * Osman Bölükbaşı, Turkish politician and political party leader, respiratory failure.
 * Grietje de Jongh, 77, Dutch Olympic sprinter.
 * Wendell Marshall, 81, American jazz double-bassist.
 * Eken Mine, 66, Japanese voice actor.
 * Max Perutz, 87, Austrian-born British molecular biologist, and co-winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, cancer.
 * Yehoshua Rozin, 83, Israeli basketball coach.
 * Guy Stockwell, 68, American actor (Adventures in Paradise, Beau Geste, The Richard Boone Show), complications from diabetes.

7

 * Elisa Bridges, 28, American actress and model, Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for December 1994, drug overdose.
 * Jack Fairman, 88, British Formula One driver.
 * David Gibson-Watt, Baron Gibson-Watt, 83, British politician.
 * Diane Hart, 75, English actress and political campaigner.
 * Lorne Henderson, 81, Canadian politician.
 * Wilhelm Johnen, 80, German Luftwaffe night fighter ace during World War II.
 * Jerrold Katz, 69, American philosopher and linguist.
 * Tony Pond, 56, British rally driver, pancreatic cancer.

8

 * Elisabeth Mann Borgese, 83, German-Canadian environmentalist, political scientist and writer, pneumonia.
 * Nick Brignola, 65, American jazz saxophonist.
 * Ong Teng Cheong, 66, Singaporean politician and fifth President of Singapore (1993-1999), lymphoma.
 * William T. Dillard, 87, American retailer (Dillard's Department Stores).
 * Maurice Foley, 76, British politician (Member of Parliament for West Bromwich).
 * Joachim Hoffmann, 71, German historian.
 * John Mark Inienger, 56, Nigerian Army major general, traffic accident.
 * Lloyd Kiva New, 85, American Cherokee artist and designer.
 * Esther Afua Ocloo, 82, Ghanaian entrepreneur and pioneer of microlending, pneumonia.
 * Grigory Okhay, 85, Soviet MiG-15 flying ace during the Korean War.
 * Giannis Pathiakakis, 48, Greek football player, heart attack.
 * Duggie Reid, 84, Scottish football player.
 * Eldon Rudd, 81, American politician.
 * Bob Wooler, 76, British disc jockey, known for introducing The Beatles to future manager, Brian Epstein.
 * Zizinho, 80, Brazilian football player, heart attack.

9

 * Miroslav Adlešič, 94, Slovene physicist.
 * Michael Joseph Begley, 92, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Richard Herbert Foote, 83, American entomologist.
 * Fred Gehrke, 83, American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and executive (Denver Broncos).
 * Isabelle Holland, 81, American children's author.
 * Bill McElhiney, 87, American musician, band leader, and musical director, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Judson Pratt, 85, American character actor.
 * Vesta M. Roy, 76, American politician.
 * Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, 71, British royal and sister of Queen Elizabeth II, stroke.
 * Ale Ahmad Suroor, 90, Indian poet and critic.

10

 * Jack Abbott, 58, American criminal and author (In the Belly of the Beast), suicide.
 * Chet Clemens, 84, American baseball player (Boston Bees/Braves).
 * Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora, 77, Spanish essayist and politician.
 * John Erickson, 72, British historian, a leading authority on the Soviet Union and Russia.
 * Ramón Arellano Félix, 37, Mexican drug lord, ballistic trauma.
 * Traudl Junge, 81, German secretary who took Adolf Hitler's last will and testament (Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary), lung cancer.
 * Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi, 53, Indian Shī'ah scholar, historian, author and poet.
 * Jim Spencer, 54, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics), heart attack.
 * Dan R. Tonkovich, 55, American politician (body discovered on this date).
 * Dave Van Ronk, 65, American folk singer, and an important figure in New York City's Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s, colorectal cancer.
 * Vernon A. Walters, 85, American U.S. Army officer and diplomat (Deputy Director of the C.I.A., U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations).

11

 * Mary Brooks, 94, American director of the United States Mint from 1969 to 1977.
 * Ralph Buchsbaum, 95, American zoologist, ecologist and author (Animals Without Backbones).
 * Frankie Crosetti, 91, American baseball player (New York Yankees) and coach (New York Yankees, Seattle Pilots, Minnesota Twins).
 * Barry Foster, 74, British actor, heart attack.
 * George A. Kasem, 82, American politician (U.S. Representative for California's 25th congressional district), pneumonia.
 * Les Peden, 78, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
 * Victor Posner, 83, American businessman, tycoon and corporate raider, pneumonia.
 * Gaetano Stammati, 93, Italian politician.

12

 * Theresa Bernstein, 111, Polish-American artist and writer.
 * Barbara May Cameron, 47, American human rights activist.
 * William Lee Dwyer, 72, American federal judge (U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington).
 * George Eiferman, 76, American bodybuilder, won Mr.Universe in 1962.
 * John Eriksen, 44, Danish footballer, fall.
 * Idé Oumarou, 65, Nigerien diplomat, government minister, and journalist, heart attack.
 * José Travassos, 75, Portuguese football player.

13

 * George Bray, 83, English footballer.
 * Ramón Grosso, 58, Spanish footballer, cancer.
 * Carlos Aboim Inglez, 72, Portuguese communist intellectual, militant and politician.
 * Waylon Jennings, 64, American country music performer, actor, and disc jockey, diabetes.
 * Dick Kleiner, 80, American entertainment columnist and journalist.
 * Manfred Kuschmann, 51, East German long-distance runner.
 * Edmar Mednis, 64, American chess grandmaster, complications from pneumonia.
 * Thomas J. H. Trapnell, 99, American U.S. Army lieutenant general.
 * Pauline Trigère, 93, French-American fashion designer.
 * Sidney Weighell, 79, British footballer, trade unionist and the General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen.

14

 * Domènec Balmanya, 87, Spanish football midfielder and manager.
 * J. Desmond Clark, 85, British-American archeologist, anthropologist and author, pneumonia.
 * Gene Cook, 70, American professional football player (Detroit Lions), minor league baseball executive and elected official in Toledo, Ohio.
 * Norman Davidson, 85, American molecular biologist, a major figure in advancing genome research.
 * Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz, 81, French member of the resistance during WW II.
 * Nándor Hidegkuti, 79, Hungarian football player and manager (gold medal winner in Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
 * A. J. Kardar, 75, Pakistani film director, producer and screenwriter.
 * Grover Krantz, 70, American anthropologist and cryptozoologist, known as a Bigfoot researcher, pancreatic cancer.
 * Bud Olson, 76, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta.
 * John Stevens, 80, English musicologist, literary scholar and historian.
 * Mick Tucker, 54, English drummer for the glam rock band Sweet, leukemia.
 * Günter Wand, 90, German orchestra conductor.

15

 * Doug Cash, 82, Australian politician.
 * Mike Darr, 25, American baseball player (San Diego Padres), car accident.
 * Munro S. Edmonson, 77, American linguist and anthropologist.
 * Lucille Lund, 88, American film actress (The Black Cat).
 * Ke Pauk, 68, Cambodian leaderof the Khmer Rouge.
 * Jacques Roulot, 68, French fencer.
 * Howard K. Smith, 87, American television anchorman and political commentator, pneumonia.
 * Kevin Smith, 38, New Zealand actor, (Xena: Warrior Princess, Young Hercules), fall.
 * Garry Weston, 74, Canadian businessman (Associated British Foods).

16

 * Tommy Crutcher, 60, American professional football player (TCU, Green Bay Packers).
 * John W. Gardner, 89, American public servant, U.S. Secretary of H.E.W., cancer.
 * Peter Voulkos, 78, American ceramist, heart attack.
 * Walter Winterbottom, 88, British football manager, first full-time manager of the England football team, surgical complications.

17

 * Anthony Benjamin, 70, English painter and sculptor.
 * Ross Dowson, 84, Canadian Trotskyist politician.
 * Ehtesham, 74, Bangladeshi and Pakistani film director.
 * Paterson Ewen, 76, Canadian painter and sculptor, known for his cosmological images.
 * Lev Kulidzhanov, 77, Soviet film director and screenwriter, stroke.

18

 * Giustino Durano, 78, Italian actor (Life Is Beautiful).
 * Jack Lambert, 81, American actor.
 * Mohammed Dabo Lere, Nigerian politician.
 * Gabriel Mariano, 73, Cape Verdean writer.
 * Byrne Piven, 72, American actor (Being John Malkovich, Miracle on 34th Street, Very Bad Things), lung cancer.
 * José Ortega Spottorno, 85, Spanish journalist and publisher.

19

 * Sal Bartolo, 84, American boxer and WBA featherweight champion.
 * Lila De Nobili, 85, Italian stage designer, costume designer, and fashion illustrator.
 * Otto Eisenmann, 88, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
 * Virginia Hamilton, 67, American children's book author, breast cancer.
 * Swede Hanson, 68, American professional wrestler, sepsis.
 * Rashid Ahmad Ludhianvi, 79, Pakistani Islamic scholar and faqīh.
 * Sylvia Rivera, 50, American gay liberation and transgender activist, liver cancer.
 * Gene Ruggiero, 91, American film editor.
 * Arne Selmosson, 70, Swedish football player and manager.
 * William Davis Taylor, 93, American newspaper executive and publisher of The Boston Globe.

20

 * Laura duPont, 52, American tennis player, 1977 U.S. Clay Court Champion, breast cancer.
 * Dennis Kelleher, 83, Irish football player.
 * Stephen Longstreet, 94, American writer and artist.
 * Edwin H. May, Jr., 77, American businessman and politician.
 * Jean Oser, 94, German-American film editor.
 * Branko Stanković, 80, Bosnian Serb footballer and manager.
 * Fredric Steinkamp, 73, American film editor (Grand Prix, Tootsie, Out of Africa), Oscar winner (1967).
 * Willie Thrower, 71, American gridiron football player (Michigan State, Chicago Bears), heart attack.

21

 * A. L. Barker, 83, British author.
 * Laudomia Bonanni, 94, Italian writer and journalist.
 * Roden Cutler, 85, Australian diplomat and Governor of New South Wales.
 * Bill Faul, 61, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants).
 * Harold Furth, 72, Austrian-American physicist and a leader in controlled fusion research, heart attack.
 * Pietro Grossi, 84, Italian computer music pioneer, visual artist and hacker.
 * Trevor Hampton, 89, British diver.
 * Leroy Milton Kelly, 87, American mathematician.
 * Harold Pruett, 32, American actor (The Outsiders), accidental drug overdose.
 * John Thaw, 60, British actor (Inspector Morse, The Sweeney, Kavanagh QC), cancer.
 * Georges Vedel, 91, French public law professor.
 * Harold Weisberg, 88, American civil servant, investigative reporter and author.

22

 * Paddy Ambrose, 73, football player and coach from Dublin, Ireland.
 * Maria Corti, 86, Italian philologist, literary critic, and novelist.
 * Vyacheslav Dryagin, 61, Soviet Olympic skier (Winter Olympics men's Nordic combined: 1964, 1968, 1972).
 * Raymond Firth, 100, British anthropologist.
 * Chuck Jones, 89, American animator, creator of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, heart failure.
 * Francisco Mora, 79, Mexican artist of the "Mexican School" of mural painters.
 * Joaquim Olmos, 86, Spanish racing cyclist.
 * Poncke Princen, 76, Dutch anti-Nazi fighter during World War II and activist.
 * Jonas Malheiro Savimbi, 67, Angolan revolutionary, leader of UNITA, multiple gunshot wounds.
 * Barbara Valentin, 61, Austrian actress, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Ronnie Verrell, 76, English jazz drummer.

23

 * Franz Elbern, 91, German footballer.
 * Bernd Hartstein, 54, German Olympic sport shooter and trainer, leukemia.
 * Peaches Jackson, 88, American film actress.
 * Gordon Matthews, 65, American inventor and businessman, considered the father of "voice mail", stroke.
 * Prathyusha, 20, Indian actress, suicide.
 * Ryszard Przybysz, 52, Polish Olympic handball player.

24

 * Martin Esslin, 83, Hungarian-British producer, dramatist, and journalist, Parkinson's disease.
 * David Hawkins, 88, American philosopher and historian of the Manhattan Project.
 * Stanislav Libenský, 80, Czech contemporary artist.
 * Arthur Lyman, 70, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player ("Yellow Bird"), esophageal cancer.
 * Leo Ornstein, 106, Russian-born American experimental composer and pianist.
 * Mel Stewart, 72, American actor, television director, and musician, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Robert Strausz-Hupé, 98, American diplomat (U.S. Ambassador to: Sri Lanka, Belgium, Sweden, NATO, Turkey).
 * Hela Yungst, 52, Israeli-American actress (Guiding Light, All My Children) and beauty pageant winner, cancer.

25

 * Clint Alberta, 32, Canadian filmmaker, suicide.
 * Claire Davenport, 68, English actress, kidney failure.
 * António Dembo, 57, Angolan anti-communist revolutionary, leader of UNITA, killed in action.
 * Clive L. DuVal II, 89, American politician and lawyer, cancer.
 * Afaq Hussain, 62, Pakistani cricketer.

26

 * L. Balaraman, 70, Indian politician, MP (1984–1991, 1996–1998).
 * Werner Grothmann, 86, German Waffen-SS officer during World War II and aide-de-camp to Heinrich Himmler.
 * Helen Megaw, 94, Irish crystallographer.
 * Oskar Sala, 91, German physicist, composer and a pioneer of electronic music (The Birds).
 * Lawrence Tierney, 82, American actor (Dillinger, The Greatest Show on Earth, Reservoir Dogs), pneumonia.
 * Tony Young, 64, American actor (Gunslinger, General Hospital, Star Trek), lung cancer.

27

 * Georges Beaucourt, 89, French football player.
 * Tord Godal, 92, Norwegian theologian and bishop for the Diocese of Nidaros.
 * Warren Harding, 77, American rock climber.
 * Spike Milligan, 83, Irish actor, comedian and writer (The Goon Show), kidney failure.
 * Dykes Potter, 91, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
 * Kosta Angeli Radovani, 85, Croatian sculptor and member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
 * Surajit Chandra Sinha, Indian anthropologist.

28

 * Janice Cooper, 62, Australian Olympic high jumper (women's high jump at the 1956 Summer Olympics).
 * Ehsan Jafri, Indian politician, killed by a mob.
 * Mary Stuart, 75, American actress (Search for Tomorrow), bone cancer, stroke.
 * Helmut Zacharias, 82, German violinist and composer, Alzheimer's disease.