Deaths in July 2002

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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

 * Sid Avery, 83, American photographer (Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart, Elizabeth Taylor).
 * John Barr, 83, American professional basketball player (Penn State, St. Louis Bombers) and coach (Susquehanna University).
 * Mikhail Krug, 40, Russian singer, wounds received after robbery.
 * Pedro Maratea, 89, Argentine film actor.
 * Meyer Reinhold, 92, American classical scholar.
 * K. Venkatalakshmma, 96, Indian Bharatanatyam dancer.
 * Maritta Wolff, 83, American author, novels adapted to film: Whistle Stop, The Man I Love.

2

 * Earle Brown, 75, American composer, cancer.
 * Ray Brown, 75, American jazz bassist, known for working with Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald.
 * Robert I. Friedman, 51, American investigative journalist.
 * Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, 93, French organist and composer.
 * James Lee, 79, American screenwriter, heart failure and emphysema.

3

 * Henry Cianfrani, 79, American state senator who served prison time on corruption charges, stroke.
 * Jimmy Edwards, 49, American professional football player (Minnesota Vikings).
 * Earl Francis, 66, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals).
 * Michel Henry, 80, French philosopher, phenomenologist and novelist.
 * Kenneth Ross MacKenzie, 90, American nuclear physicist.

4

 * Gerald Bales, 83, Canadian organist, choirmaster and composer.
 * Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., 89, American U.S. Air Force four-star general and commander of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Mansoor Hekmat, 51, Iranian theorist, cancer.
 * Ivan Moffat, 84, British screenwriter, film producer and socialite.
 * Lutz Moik, 71, German film and television actor.
 * Sten Samuelson, 76, Swedish architect.
 * Laurent Schwartz, 87, French mathematician.
 * Winnifred Van Tongerloo, 98, British-American oldest living survivor of the Titanic.
 * Gene Wilson, 76, American professional football player (SMU, Green Bay Packers).

5

 * Paul Claudon, 82, French film producer and actor.
 * Harold Dejan, 93, American New Orleans jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader, best remembered as leader of the Olympia Brass Band.
 * Antonio Domenicali, 66, Italian racing cyclist and Olympic champion in track cycling.
 * Brett Hill, 57, Australian Olympic swimmer (men's 200 metre butterfly at the 1964 Summer Olympics).
 * Katy Jurado, 78, Mexican actress, kidney failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
 * Zdzisław Mrożewski, 93, Polish actor.
 * Paul Weiss, 101, American philosopher and author, founded The Review of Metaphysics and the Metaphysical Society of America.
 * Reinhard Wenskus, 86, German historian.
 * Wallace G. Wilkinson, 60, American businessman and politician, 57th Governor of Kentucky, stroke.
 * Ted Williams, 83, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), manager (Washington Senators/Texas Rangers) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, heart attack.

6

 * Dhirubhai Ambani, 69, Indian businessman, stroke.
 * John Frankenheimer, 74, American film and television director (Birdman of Alcatraz, The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May), heart attack, stroke.
 * Cheikh El Hasnaoui, 91, Berber singer.
 * Kenneth Koch, 77, American poet and playwright, leukemia.
 * Thakur Ram Lal, 72, Indian politician.
 * Ugo Lombardi, 90, Italian cinematographer.
 * Haji Abdul Qadeer, 51, Afghan Northern Alliance leader, homicide.
 * William B. Ruger, 86, American firearms designer and entrepreneur.
 * Pietro Valpreda, 69, Italian anarchist, poet, dancer and novelist.

7

 * Kirkor Canbazyan, 90, Turkish Olympic cyclist (men's individual road race, men's team road race at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
 * Jim Cherry, 30, American musician, heart problems.
 * Bison Dele, 33, American basketball player (Denver Nuggets, Detroit Pistons), murdered.
 * Dorle Soria, 101, publicist, music producer and journalist.
 * John Butler Walden, 62, Tanzanian military officer.
 * Ray Wood, 71, English professional footballer.

8

 * Ward Kimball, 88, American animator (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Peter Pan, Mary Poppins), pneumonia.
 * Clarence Lightner, 80, American politician and mortician.
 * Lorna Marshall, 103, American anthropologist.
 * Patrick Rodger, 81, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Oxford.
 * William Sarjeant, 66, British-born Canadian geologist.
 * Earl Shannon, 80, American basketball player and college coach.
 * Sidney Spivak, 74, Canadian politician.

9

 * Gerald Campion, 81, English actor (Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School).
 * George Elias, 88, Australian rower (men's eight rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
 * Bruno Freindlich, 92, Soviet and Russian actor.
 * Ron Scarlett, 91, New Zealand paleozoologist.
 * Madron Seligman, 83, British politician.
 * Kenneth Snowman, 82, British jeweller.
 * Dave Sorenson, 54, American NBA and Ohio State University basketball player, cancer.
 * Rod Steiger, 77, American actor (In the Heat of the Night, On the Waterfront, Doctor Zhivago), Oscar winner (1968), kidney failure.

10

 * Mario Cordero, 72, Costa Rican football player and coach; he is still.
 * Jean-Pierre Côté, 76, Canadian politician (Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, Senator for Kennebec, Quebec).
 * Albertin Disseaux, 87, Belgian racing cyclist.
 * Laurence Janifer, 69, American science fiction writer.
 * Walter McCrone, 86, American chemist.
 * Alan Shulman, 85, American composer and cellist.
 * John Wallach, 59, American journalist and author, founder of Seeds of Peace.

11

 * Bernardas Brazdžionis, 95, Lithuanian poet.
 * Rosco Gordon, 74, American blues singer and songwriter, heart attack.
 * John Howse, 88, Australian politician.
 * Garry Kelly, 54, Australian politician, suicide.
 * Sun Li, 89, Chinese writer..

12

 * Mary Carew, 88, American Olympic sprinter (women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1932 Summer Olympics).
 * Guillermo Larco Cox, 70, Peruvian politician.
 * Josefina de la Torre, 94, Spanish novelist, opera singer, and actress.
 * Edward Lee Howard, 51, American CIA agent and defector, fall.
 * Mani Krishnaswami, 72, Indian vocalist, cardiac arrest.
 * Ghanshyambhai C. Oza, 90, Indian politician.
 * Guglielmo Pesenti, 68, Italian racing cyclist.
 * Tim Rathbone, 69, English politician, cancer.
 * Ece Ayhan Çağlar, 70, Turkish poet.

13

 * Carey Blyton, 70, British composer and writer.
 * Yousuf Karsh, 93, Canadian portrait photographer, cancer.
 * Benny Peled, 74, Israeli Air Force commander, pulmonary emphysema.
 * Eric Price, 83, English cricketer.
 * Herbert Vesely, 71, Austrian film director and screenwriter.
 * Percy Yutar, 90, South African attorney general, prosecuted Nelson Mandela.

14

 * Igor Ansoff, 83, Russian-American economist and author, father of strategic business management, pneumonia.
 * David Asseo, 88, Turkish Chief Rabbi and spiritual leader of the Republic of Turkey from 1960 to 2002.
 * Juaqín Balaguey, 95, President of the Dominican Republic (1960 to 1962, 1966 to 1978, 1986 to 1996), peptic ulcer disease.
 * Nelson Barrera, 44, Mexican baseball player, led the Mexican League in career home runs (455) and RBIs (1,927), electrocution.
 * Nabakanta Barua, 75, Indian novelist and poet.
 * Alex Fraser, 78, British-American scientist, recognized as a pioneer in evolutionary computation.
 * Fritz Glatz, 58, Austrian racing driver, car collision.
 * Cosetta Greco, 71, Italian film actress.
 * Hwang Kee, 87, Korean martial artist.
 * Dick Ploog, 65, Australian cyclist.

15

 * Charles R. Burton, 59, English explorer, known for being a member of the Transglobe Expedition, heart attack.
 * György Fehér, 63, Hungarian film director and screenwriter.
 * Lauri Honko, 70, Finnish professor of folklore studies and comparative religion.
 * Camillus Perera, 64, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.
 * Barbara Randolph, 60, American singer and actress, cancer.
 * Philip Roth, 72, American television and film actor.
 * Pete Seibert, 77, American skier, esophageal cancer.

16

 * John Cocke, 77, American computer scientist.
 * Aleksandr Kolchinsky, 47, Soviet Ukrainian heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion, heart failure.
 * George Edmund Lindsay, 85, American botanist, naturalist, and museum director.
 * Jack Olsen, 77, American journalist and author.
 * Antonella Della Porta, 74, Italian actress.
 * Floyd James Thompson, 69, United States Army colonel.

17

 * Harry W. Gerstad, 93, American film editor.
 * Valentina Kamenyok-Vinogradova, 59, Soviet/Russian Olympic volleyball player.
 * Joseph Luns, 90, Dutch politician, diplomat and Secretary General of NATO (1971–1984).
 * Ubiratan Pereira Maciel, 58, Brazilian basketball player.
 * Lee Maye, 67, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves, Houston Astros, Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators), cancer.
 * George Rickey, 95, American kinetic sculptor.
 * André Simonyi, 88, Hungarian-French football player.
 * Bobby Worth, 89, American songwriter, recorded by Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Ella Fitzgerald.

18

 * Victor Emery, 68, English physicist, ALS.
 * Howard Ensign Evans, 83, American entomologist.
 * Qiu Huizuo, 88, Chinese Army lieutenant general.
 * Andy Kirby, 40, American stock car racing driver, motorcycle accident.
 * Györgyi Marvalics-Székely, 77, Hungarian fencer and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Lee Siew-Choh, 84, Singaporean politician and medical doctor, lung cancer.
 * Owsei Temkin, 99, Russian-American medical historian.
 * Metin Toker, 78, Turkish journalist and politician, prostate cancer.
 * Del Wilber, 83, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox) and manager (Texas Rangers).

19

 * Jack Backman, 80, American politician.
 * Dave Carter, 49, American singer-songwriter, heart attack.
 * Alexander Ginzburg, 65, Soviet dissident.
 * Alan Lomax, 87, American documenter of blues and folk songs.
 * Evdokia Petrova, 86, Soviet spy in Australia in the 1950s.
 * Barry Reed, 75, American trial lawyer and author.
 * Spec Shea, 81, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Washington Senators).
 * Frank Taylor, 81, English sports journalist.
 * Vladimir Vasyutin, 50, Soviet cosmonaut, cancer.

20

 * Pedro Alberto Cano Arenas, 33, Spanish footballer, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Michalis Kritikopoulos, 56, Greek footballer, cardiac arrest.
 * Jan Komski, 87, Polish painter.
 * Jimmy Maxwell, 85, American swing jazz trumpeter.
 * Roland E. Murphy, 85, American Catholic prelate and biblical scholar.

21

 * John Cunningham, 84, British World War II nightfighter pilot.
 * Millie Deegan, 82, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
 * Gus Dudgeon, 59, English record producer ("Space Oddity", "Your Song", "Rocket Man", "Daniel"), car accident.
 * Peter Elstob, 86, British soldier, adventurer, novelist and entrepreneur.
 * Jeffrey Harborne, 73, British chemist and professor of botany.
 * Esphyr Slobodkina, 93, Russian-American artist, author, and illustrator.

22

 * Fernando Schwalb López Aldana, 85, Peruvian politician, Prime Minister (1963–1965, 1983–1984).
 * Joyce Cooper, 93, British Olympic swimmer (one silver medal: 1928, three bronze medals: 1928, 1928, 1932).
 * Giuseppe Corradi, 70, Italian footballer.
 * Viktor Mineyev, 65, Soviet-Azerbaijani modern pentathlete and Olympic Champion.
 * Marion Montgomery, 67, American jazz singer, lung cancer.
 * Prince Ahmed bin Salman, member of the Saudi Arabian royal family.
 * Salah Shehade, 49, Palestinian politician and one of the founders of Islamist movement Hamas, targeted killing by Israel.
 * Chuck Traynor, 64, American pornographer, heart attack.

23

 * Gunnar Andreassen, 89, Norwegian football player and manager.
 * Alberto Castillo, 87, Argentine tango singer and actor.
 * Clark Gesner, 64, American composer, songwriter, author, and actor, heart attack.
 * Olof Lagercrantz, 91, Swedish writer, critic, and literary scholar.
 * Hermann Lindemann, 91, German football player and manager.
 * Ned Martin, 78, American sportscaster, heart attack.
 * Leo McKern, 82, Australian actor, diabetes.
 * Katya Paskaleva, 56, Bulgarian film and stage actress, pancreatic cancer.
 * William Luther Pierce, American neo-Nazi, author of The Turner Diaries, cancer.
 * Chaim Potok, 73, American author, brain cancer.
 * Idrees Sulieman, 78, American bop and hard bop trumpeter, bladder cancer.
 * Arnold Weinstock, 77, British industrialist and businessman, managing director of the General Electric Company.

24

 * Mike Clark, 61, American gridiron football player(Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Cowboys), heart attack.
 * Pete Coscarart, 89, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates).
 * Maurice Denham, 92, British character actor (The Purple Plain, Sink the Bismarck!, The Day of the Jackal).
 * Mustafa Mansour, 87, Egyptian football player.
 * Al Silvera, 66, American baseball player (Cincinnati Redlegs).
 * Gaynell Tinsley, 87, American football player and coach.
 * Barney White, 79, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).

25

 * Abdel Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher.
 * Bob Barr, 94, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
 * Frank Connell, 92, American Olympic cyclist (men's individual road race, men's team road race at the 1932 Summer Olympics).
 * Johannes Joachim Degenhardt, 76, German Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Hans Dorjee, 60, Dutch football player and manager, cardiac arrest.
 * Rudi Dornbusch, 60, German macroeconomist, made fundamental contributions to international economics, cancer.
 * Cliff Lewis, 79, American gridiron football player.
 * Izzy León, 91, Cuban-American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
 * Angus Montagu, 12th Duke of Manchester, 63, British hereditary peer, heart attack.
 * Louis Owens, 54, American novelist and scholar, suicide.
 * Alexander Ratiu, 86, Romanian-American priest of the Greek-Catholic Church.
 * Mel Triplett, 71, American gridiron football player.

26

 * Tony Anholt, 61, British television actor (Howards' Way), brain tumor.
 * Buddy Baker, 84, American film composer (The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Fox and the Hound).
 * Kenny Gardner, 89, American singer for Guy Lombardo's band, the Royal Canadians.
 * Dolores Olmedo, 93, Mexican businesswoman, philanthropist and musician.
 * Kobun Chino Otogawa, 64, Japanese Sōtō Zen priest, drowned.

27

 * Anatoli Bashashkin, 78, Russian footballer and coach (gold medal winner at the 1956 Summer Olympics).
 * Ronald Brown, 80, British politician (member of Parliament representing Shoreditch and Finsbury and Hackney South and Shoreditch).
 * Dick Cleveland, 72, American Olympic swimmer (men's 100 metre freestyle at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
 * Frank Inn, 86, American animal trainer.
 * Krishan Kant, 75, Indian politician, Vice President (1997 -2002), Governor of Tamil Nadu (1996–1997) and Governor of Andhra Pradesh (1990 -1997), heart attack.
 * Roscoe Shelton, 70, American blues and R&B singer, cancer.

28

 * Svetomir Belić, 55, Serbian Olympic boxer.
 * Anatol Fejgin, 91, Polish communist and political police commander.
 * Jack Karnehm, 85, British snooker commentator, heat stroke.
 * Archer John Porter Martin, 92, British chemist.
 * Donald J. Pease, 70, American politician.
 * Steve Souchock, 83, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers).
 * Gerhard Wessel, 88, German intelligence officer, President of the Federal Intelligence Bureau.

29

 * Peter Bayliss, 80, British actor (The Red Shoes, Darling, The Sweeney, Coronation Street, Lovejoy).
 * Ad Dekkers, 48, Dutch cyclist.
 * Elmar Frings, 63, German Olympic pentathlete (1964 pentathlon: team and individual, 1968 pentathlon: team and individual).
 * Sudhir Phadke, 83, India Marathi singer-composer, brain haemorrhage.
 * Renato Pirocchi, 69, Italian racing driver.
 * Phil Smith, 50, American basketball player, complications from multiple myeloma cancer.
 * Ron Walotsky, 58, American science fiction and fantasy artist.

30

 * George Alfred Barnard, 86, British statistician.
 * Lyle Benjamin Borst, 89, American nuclear physicist and inventor, worked on the Manhattan Project.
 * Ed Bruneteau, 82, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).
 * A. E. Dyson, 73, British literary critic, activist and gay rights campaigner, leukemia.
 * Gerald Gunther, 75, German-American constitutional law scholar.
 * Steven Lysak, 89, American sprint canoeist and Olympic champion at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
 * Atef Salem, 75, Egyptian film director.
 * Reginald Schroeter, 80, Canadian ice hockey player.

31

 * Boris Aleksandrov, 46, Soviet and Kazakh ice hockey player (USSR champion team for CSKA Moscow, gold medal winner at 1976 Winter Olympics), traffic collision.
 * Sir Peter Ashmore, 81, British admiral and Master of the Household to the Sovereign.
 * Raymond Brookes, Baron Brookes, 93, British industrialist and life peer.
 * Slávka Budínová, 78, Czechoslovak film actress.
 * Pauline Chan, 29, Hong Kong actress, suicide.
 * Gordon Chown, 79, Canadian lawyer and politician, member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Winnipeg South, Manitoba).
 * Francis Searle, 93, English film director, writer and producer.