Deaths in October 2002

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.

1

 * Walter Annenberg, 94, American publisher (The Philadelphia Inquirer, TV Guide, Daily Racing Form, Seventeen) and philanthropist.
 * Ilie Ceaușescu, 76, Romanian general and communist politician, pneumonia.
 * Consuelo Salgar, 74, Colombian journalist, advertising executive, and politician, liver cancer.
 * Edeltraud Schramm, 78, Austrian Olympic gymnast.

2

 * Norman O. Brown, 89, American philosopher and author (Life Against Death, Love's Body).
 * Al Lerner, 69, American businessman, football team owner, and philanthropist.
 * Tiberiu Olah, 74, Romanian-Hungarian composer, teacher and musicologist.
 * Alexander Sinclair, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Heinz von Foerster, 90, Austrian-American physicist and philosopher, one of the founders of constructivism.

3

 * Tad Horino, 81, American film and television actor.
 * Felix Kracht, 90, German engineer.
 * Bruce Paltrow, 58, American television and film director and producer, pneumonia.
 * Dalvanius Prime, 54, New Zealand entertainer and songwriter, cancer.
 * John Weitz, 79, American fashion designer, novelist and historian.

4

 * Per Bronken, 67, Norwegian poet, novelist, actor, film director and stage producer.
 * Alphonse Chapanis, 85, American pioneer in the field of industrial design.
 * André Delvaux, 76, Belgian film director, considered the father of the Belgian film industry, heart attack.
 * 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.
 * Roy Wilkins, 68, American professional football player (University of Georgia, Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins).

5

 * Magda B. Arnold, 98, Canadian psychologist.
 * Reginald Hibbert, 80, British diplomat.
 * Morag Hood, 59, British actress, cancer.
 * Ron Horn, 64, American basketball player.
 * Tony Mazzocchi, 76, American labor leader, pancreatic cancer.
 * Mia Čorak Slavenska, 86, Croatian-American ballerina.
 * 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).
 * Wolfgang Mischnick, 81, German liberal politician (FDP).
 * Prince Claus of the Netherlands, 76, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Dutch diplomat, pneumonia.
 * Chuck Rayner, 82, Canadian professional hockey player (New York Americans, New York Rangers).
 * Nick Whitehead, 69, British (Welsh) sprinter (bronze medal in men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics).
 * 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.
 * Domenico Paolella, 86, Italian director, screenwriter and journalist.
 * Ed Rossbach, 88, American fiber artist.

8

 * Jodie Beeler, 80, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).
 * Phyllis Calvert, 87, British actress (The Man in Grey, Fanny by Gaslight, The Magic Bow, My Own True Love), kidney failure.
 * Jacques Richard, 50, Canadian ice hockey player, car accident.
 * Joachim Zahn, 88, German business executive, chairman of Daimler-Benz (1971-1979).

9

 * Sopubek Begaliev, 71, Soviet-era economist and politician.
 * Charles Guggenheim, 78, American documentary film director, producer, and screenwriter, pancreatic cancer.
 * Anwar Hussain, 82, Pakistani cricketer.
 * Oleksandr Liashko, 86, Ukrainian politician.
 * Carlo Lievore, 64, Italian Olympic javelin thrower.
 * Eric Martin, 33, American racing driver, racing accident.
 * Jim Martin, 78, American football player.
 * Bruno O'Ya, 69, Estonian-Polish actor.
 * Aileen Wuornos, 46, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.

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).
 * Fate Echols, 63, American professional football player (Northwestern University, St. Louis Cardinals).
 * Lawrence H. Fountain, 89, American politician (U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 2nd congressional district).
 * Teresa Graves, 54, American actress and singer, house fire, accidental death.
 * Denison Kitchel, 94, American lawyer political advisor.
 * Abe Most, 82, Swing clarinetist and alto saxophonist.
 * Zara Nelsova, 81, Canadian cellist.
 * Tom Sullivan, 52, American gridiron football player, accidental death.
 * Erling Sørensen, 81, Danish football player and manager.

11

 * Betty Molesworth Allen, 89, New Zealand botanist.
 * Stewart Crawford, 89, British diplomat.
 * Werner Eberlein, 82, German socialist politician and party functionary, heart attack.
 * Bill Field, 93, British politician.
 * Ron Gray, 82, English football player and manager.
 * 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.
 * Christine Stevens, 84, American animal welfare activist and conservationist.
 * Fred Troller, 71, Swiss-born graphic designer.
 * Stanley Wagner, 94, Canadian ice hockey player (gold medal in ice hockey at the 1932 Winter Olympics).
 * Rusty Wailes, 66, American rower (two Olympic gold medals in rowing: 1956 men's eight, 1960 men's coxless four).

12

 * Viktor Asmaev, 54, Russian Olympic equestrian (gold medal in equestrian team jumping at the 1980 Summer Olympics).
 * Ray Conniff, 85, American bandleader and arranger, fall.
 * Carolina Fadic, 28, Chilean actress and television presenter, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Desmond Fitzpatrick, 89, British Army general.
 * 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.
 * William R. Sears, 89, American aeronautical engineer and educator.

13

 * Stephen E. Ambrose, 66, American historian and author (Band of Brothers), lung cancer.
 * Keene Curtis, 79, American actor (The Rothschilds, Annie, Cheers), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Mason Hammond, 99, American educator and scholar.
 * Jim Higgins, 71, British politician.
 * Billy McAdams, 68, Northern Irish football player and manager.
 * Ila Mitra, 76, Indian communist politician and activist.
 * Dennis Patrick, 84, American actor, fire.
 * Eileen Southern, 82, American musicologist, researcher and author.
 * Garfield Todd, 94, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia.
 * 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.
 * Timothy Reuter, 55, German-British historian, brain cancer.
 * Norbert Schultze, 91, German film score composer and Nazi Party member.
 * Arturo Silvestri, 81, Italian football player and manager.

15

 * Grace Hamblin, 94, British private secretary to Winston Churchill.
 * Jack Lee, 89, British film director.
 * Paul Paillole, 96, French intelligence services officer.
 * Zeev, 79, Israeli caricaturist and illustrator.

16

 * Per Bak, 53, Danish theoretical physicist, known for "self-organized criticality", myelodysplastic syndrome.
 * Philip Brett, 64, British-American musicologist, musician and conductor, cancer.
 * Harry Ferrier, 82, Scottish football player and manager.
 * Allen Walker Read, 96, American etymologist and lexicographer.
 * Henri Renaud, 77, French jazz pianist, record producer, and record company executive.

17

 * Derek Bell, 66, Northern Irish musician and composer (The Chieftains), heart attack.
 * Pattie Coldwell, 50, British television broadcaster and journalist (Nationwide, Open Air, Loose Women, You and Yours), brain tumor.
 * 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.
 * Yitzhak Peretz, 66, Israeli politician.
 * Alina Pienkowska, 50, Polish free trade union activist and politician, cancer.
 * Aileen Riggin, 96, American Olympic swimmer and diver.
 * Fred Scolari, 80, American basketball player and coach.

18

 * Richard Bernstein, 62, American artist, member of the circle of Andy Warhol, complications of AIDS.
 * Cecil Blacker, 86, British Army general, Adjutant-General to the Forces.
 * Kam Fong Chun, 84, American police officer and actor (Hawaii Five-O), lung cancer.
 * John D. Ferry, 90, Canadian-American biochemist, made important contributions to polymer science.
 * Roman Tam, 52, Hong Kong cantopop singer, liver cancer.

19

 * Peter Bergmann, 87, German-American physicist, known for his work with Albert Einstein.
 * Manuel Álvarez Bravo, 100, Mexican photographer.
 * John Meredyth Lucas, 83, American writer, director and producer, leukemia.
 * Mehli Mehta, 94, Indian conductor and violinist.
 * 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.
 * Hans Eisele, 62, German football player.
 * Bernard Fresson, 71, French actor (French Connection II, The Tenant, Street of No Return), cancer.
 * Mel Harder, 93, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), coach and manager (Cleveland Indians).

21

 * Aldo Canazza, 94, Italian racing cyclist.
 * Bernardino Pérez Elizarán, 77, Spanish football player and manager.
 * Manfred Ewald, 76, East German Olympic committee president, pneumonia.
 * Jesse L. Greenstein, 93, American astronomer.
 * George Hall, 85, Canadian theatre, television, and film actor.
 * Kemal Kurt, 54, Turkish-German author, translator and photographer.
 * Bernhard Neumann, 93, British-Australian mathematician.
 * Kaisa Parviainen, 87, Finnish athlete.
 * Marquita Rivera, 80, Puerto Rican actress, singer and dancer, stroke.
 * Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota, 83, British politician.
 * 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.
 * Marian Bergeron, 84, American beauty pageant winner (Miss America 1933) and big band singer, leukemia.
 * Igor Irodov, 78, Soviet Russian physicist and World War II veteran.
 * Robert Nixon, 63, British cartoonist.

23

 * Lucille Carroll, 96, American Broadway actress and MGM studio executive.
 * Adolph Green, 87, American lyricist and playwright.
 * Nathan Görling, 97, Swedish composer of film scores.
 * Richard Helms, 89, American diplomat and CIA director, multiple myeloma.
 * Marianne Hoppe, 93, German theatre and film actress.
 * Nathan H. Juran, 95, Austrian-American film and television director.
 * David Lewis, 85, New Zealand sailor and adventurer.
 * Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, 96, British historian.
 * Janos Nyiri, 69, Hungarian-British theatre director, journalist and writer, cancer.
 * 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.
 * Hernando Casanova, 57, Colombian actor, director, singer, and presenter, heart attack.
 * Hernán Gaviria, 32, Colombian football player, lightning strike.
 * Harry Hay, 90, American gay rights activist and Mattachine Society founder, lung cancer.
 * 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.

25

 * Ian Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford, 85, British peer and writer.
 * Micheline Cheirel, 85, French actress.
 * Herbert Duffus, 94, Jamaican politician and judge.
 * Richard Harris, 72, Irish actor (Camelot, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, This Sporting Life), Hodgkins lymphoma.
 * Kōki Ishii, 61, Japanese politician, stab wound.
 * Ernest Mancoba, 98, South African avant-garde artist.
 * Doug McGibbon, 83, English football player.
 * Rainbeaux Smith, 47, American actress and musician, hepatitis.
 * René Thom, 79, French mathematician.
 * Paul Wellstone, 58, American professor, author and politician (U.S. Senator from Minnesota), aviation accident.

26

 * Movsar Barayev, 23, Chechen Islamist militia leader, killed during the Moscow theater hostage crisis.
 * Zura Barayeva, Chechen Islamist, killed during the Moscow theater hostage crisis.
 * Jacques Massu, 94, French general.
 * 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.
 * Tom Dowd, 77, American recording engineer and producer, a pioneer in stereo and multitrack tape recording, emphysema.
 * Mohammad Isnaeni, 83, Indonesian politician.
 * Michel Macquet, 70, French Olympic javelin thrower and handball player.
 * 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.
 * Charles Orville Whitley, 75, American politician (U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 3rd congressional district).

28

 * Margaret Booth, 104, American film editor (Mutiny on the Bounty, The Way We Were, Annie), stroke.
 * Morris Curotta, 73, Australian Olympic sprinter (1948 Summer Olympics, 1952 Summer Olympics).
 * 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).
 * Laurence Foley, 60, American diplomat and employee of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), homicide.
 * 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.
 * Marion Carpenter, 82, American press photographer, covered President Harry Truman, pulmonary emphysema.
 * Glenn McQueen, 41, Canadian animator (Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., A Bug's Life), melanoma.
 * Raymond Savignac, 94, French graphic artist.
 * Dragan Malešević Tapi, 53, Serbian painter.
 * Chang-Lin Tien, 67, Chinese-American educator, 7th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.

30

 * Pierre Aigrain, 78, French physicist.
 * Alfred Atherton, 80, American Foreign Service Officer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Egypt (1979-1983).
 * Juan Antonio Bardem, 80, Spanish film director and screenwriter, heart attack.
 * Rudolf Brucci, 85, Croatian composer.
 * Jam Master Jay, 37, American musician (Run DMC), shot.
 * Lee H. Katzin, 67, American film director, cancer.

31

 * Yuri Ahronovitch, 70, Russian conductor.
 * Edward "Moose" Cholak, 72, American professional wrestler, pneumonia.
 * Napier Crookenden, 87, British Army general.
 * Jean-Marie Fortier, 82, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Audrey Hylton-Foster, Baroness Hylton-Foster, 94, British peer.
 * Lionel Poilâne, 57, French baker and entrepreneur, helicopter crash.
 * Gene Rock, 80, American basketball player, cancer.
 * 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.