Deaths in September 2002

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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

 * Yuji Ichioka, 66, American historian and civil rights activist, cancer.
 * B. V. Karanth, 72, Indian actor and director.
 * Turk Van Lake, 84, American arranger, composer and jazz guitarist.
 * Rodney Taylor, 62, Australian Navy officer, lung cancer.

2

 * Leon Campbell, 75, American gridiron football player (University of Arkansas, Chicago Bears, Pittsburgh Steelers).
 * Abe Lemons, 79, American college basketball player and coach, complications from Parkinson's disease.
 * Ken Menke, 79, American basketball player.
 * Rodica Ojog-Brașoveanu, 63, Romanian writer, severe lung problems.
 * Ahmad Rahi, 78, Pakistani poet and writer.
 * F.X. Toole, 72, American boxing trainer and short story writers.
 * Robert Wilson, 75, British astrophysicist, known for his research in optical and solar plasma spectroscopy.

3

 * Dirk ter Haar, 83, Anglo-Dutch physicist.
 * Kenneth Hare, 83, Canadian scientist.
 * Ted Ross, 68, American actor (The Wiz, Arthur, Police Academy).
 * William Clement Stone, 100, American businessman, philanthropist and self-help book author.
 * Len Wilkinson, 85, British cricketer.

4

 * Frankie Albert, 82, American professional football player (Stanford, San Francisco 49ers), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Dave Baker, 65, American professional football player (University of Oklahoma, San Francisco 49ers).
 * Jerome Biffle, 74, American Olympic long jumper (gold medalist 1952), pulmonary fibrosis.
 * Jim Constable, 69, American baseball player (New York/San Francisco Giants, Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, Milwaukee Braves).
 * Andrew Forge, 78, American painter, art critic and professor of painting at Yale University.
 * Vlado Perlemuter, 98, Lithuanian-French pianist and teacher.
 * Fozia Soomro, 36, Pakistani regional folk singer, kidney failure.

5

 * K. T. Achaya, 78, Indian oil and food scientist and writer.
 * Robert W. Brooks, 49, American mathematics professor, known for his work in spectral geometry and fractals.
 * William Cooper, 92, English novelist.
 * Cliff Gorman, 65, American actor (The Boys in the Band, All That Jazz, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai), Tony winner (1972), leukemia.
 * Frank Hewitt, 66, American hard bop jazz pianist.
 * Jackie Kelk, 79, American actor and stand-up comedian, lung infection.
 * Amon Nikoi, 72, Ghanaian economist and diplomat.
 * Ingeborg Taschner, 72, German film editor.
 * David Todd Wilkinson, 67, American cosmologist, known for thermal cosmic background radiation, cancer.

6

 * Michael Argyle, 77, British psychologist, a pioneer of social psychology in Britain.
 * Gabriel Camps, 75, French archaeologist and social anthropologist.
 * Bobby Clancy, 75, Irish singer and musician, pulmonary fibrosis.
 * Rafael Druian, 79, American violinist and conductor (New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra).
 * Orvan Hess, 96, American physician.
 * Géza Hollósi, 64, Hungarian Olympic wrestler.
 * Philip LaBatte, 91, American ice hockey player.
 * Martin Matsbo, 90, Swedish cross-country skier and Olympic medalist.
 * Janet Young, Baroness Young, 75, British politician (Leader of the House of Lords), cancer.

7

 * Katrin Cartlidge, 41, English actress (Brookside, Before the Rain, Breaking the Waves), complications from pneumonia and sepsis.
 * Jonathan Charney, 59, American academic, author, and lawyer.
 * Eugenio Coșeriu, 81, linguist specialized in Romance languages.
 * Michael Elphick, 55, English actor (Boon, EastEnders, Gorky Park, Private Schulz), heart attack.
 * Cyrinda Foxe, 50, American actress, model and publicist, brain cancer.
 * John Paul Frank, 84, American lawyer and scholar, helped shape U.S. Supreme Court cases (Brown v. Board of Education, Miranda v. Arizona).
 * Erma Franklin, 64, American gospel and soul singer ("Piece of My Heart"), older sister of Aretha Franklin, laryngeal cancer.
 * Uziel Gal, 78, German-Israeli firearm designer who invented the Uzi submachine gun, cancer.

8

 * Georges-André Chevallaz, 87, Swiss historian and politician.
 * Rulon Jeffs, 92, American polygamist and religious leader.
 * Lucas Moreira Neves, 76, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Henri Rol-Tanguy, 94, French communist and a leader in the Resistance during World War II.
 * Marco Siffredi, 23, French snowboarder (last seen on this date).
 * Laurie Williams, 33, West Indian cricketer, car accident.

9

 * Tom Bradley, 76, British politician (member of Parliament representing Leicester North East and Leicester East).
 * Geoffrey Dummer, 92, English electronics engineer, built the first prototype of the integrated circuit.
 * Gerald W. Johnson, 83, US Air Force lieutenant general and flying ace during World War II.
 * José Luis Massera, 87, Uruguayan mathematician.

10

 * Augusto Lamo Castillo, 63, Spanish football referee.
 * René Cousineau, 72, Canadian politician (member of Parliament representing Gatineau, Quebec).
 * Sandor Elès, 66, Hungarian actor.
 * Alexander Farrelly, 78, American politician, governor of the United States Virgin Islands from 1987 to 1995.
 * David Grene, 89, Irish-American professor of classics.
 * Kuo Pao Kun, 63, Chinese playwright, theatre director, and arts activist, kidney and liver cancer.
 * Žarana Papić, 53, Serbian social anthropologist and feminist theorist.
 * T. Viswanathan, 75, Indian musician specializing in the carnatic flute and voice.

11

 * Kim Hunter, 79, American actress (A Streetcar Named Desire, Planet of the Apes, The Edge of Night), Oscar winner (1952), heart attack.
 * Howard Levi, 85, American mathematician.
 * Howard T. Odum, 78, American ecologist.
 * Johnny Unitas, 69, American gridiron football player and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, cardiovascular renal disease.
 * David Wisniewski, 49, American writer and illustrator of children's books.

12

 * Lloyd Biggle, Jr., 79, American musician and author, leukemia and cancer.
 * Mitsuo Ikeda, 67, Japanese freestyle wrestler and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Neil Shields, 83, British politician and businessman.

13

 * Sir Douglas Black, 89, British physician, played a key role in the development of the National Health Service.
 * Richard Foster, 83, American modernist architect.
 * George Hills, 84, British journalist and historian.
 * Alexander Kazantsev, 96, Soviet and Russian science fiction writer, ufologist and chess composer.
 * Charles Herbert Lowe, 82, American biologist.
 * William Phillips, 94, American editor, writer and public intellectual.
 * Brooks Richards, 84, British diplomat and SOE operative.
 * Blanca de Silos, 88, Spanish film actress.
 * George Stanley, 95, Canadian historian and public servant.

14

 * Jim "Bad News" Barnes, 61, American basketball player (gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics, Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics), heart problems.
 * Frederic Bennett, 83, British journalist, barrister politician (member of Parliament for Torbay, Torquay and Reading North).
 * Roberto Cavanagh, 87, Argentine polo player.
 * Michael Greer, 64, American actor, comedian and cabaret performer, cancer.
 * Jim McKee, 55, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), traffic collision.
 * LaWanda Page, 81, American actress (Sanford and Son), diabetes.
 * Lolita Torres, 72, Argentine film actress and soprano.
 * Paul Williams, 87, African American jazz and blues saxophonist, bandleader, and songwriter ("The Huckle-Buck").

15

 * Jenny Maakal, 89, South African freestyle swimmer and Olympic medalist.
 * James Mitchell, 76, British writer, principally of crime fiction and spy thrillers.
 * Jean Rousset, 92, Swiss literary critic.

16

 * James Gregory, 90, American actor (Barney Miller, The Manchurian Candidate, The Lawless Years).
 * Archibald Hall, 78, British criminal known as the "Killer Butler", stroke.
 * Jiří Javorský, 70, Czech tennis player.
 * Raymond Reiter, 63, Canadian computer scientist and logician.
 * Mary Stott, 95, British journalist and feminist.
 * Nguyen Van Thuan, 74, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, cancer.
 * Jean Vernette, 73, French Roman Catholic prelate and researcher of cults.

17

 * Eileen Colwell, 98, British author and librarian.
 * Jack Ferguson, 78, Australian politician (Deputy Premier of New South Wales), mesothelioma.
 * Denys Fisher, 84, British inventor of the Spirograph.
 * James Macdonald, 83, Scottish-Australian ornithologist.
 * Dodo Marmarosa, 76, American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.
 * Govind Perumal, 76, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.
 * Edvaldo Alves de Santa Rosa, 68, Brazilian football player and manager, cancer.

18

 * Hazel Brooks, 78, American actress.
 * Andreas Burnier, 71, Dutch writer who focussed on homosexuality, transsexuality and discrimination, intracranial hemorrhage.
 * Boris Carmi, 88, Russian-Israeli photographer.
 * Bob Hayes, 59, American football player Dallas Cowboys and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, prostate cancer.
 * Mauro Ramos, 72, Brazilian football player, intestinal cancer.
 * Shivaji Sawant, 62, Indian novelist in the Marathi language.
 * Herbert Schmidt, 88, German rower and Olympic medalist.
 * Margita Stefanović, 43, Serbian musician, complications from HIV.

19

 * Albert Ando, 72, Japanese-American economist, leukemia.
 * John Arundel, 74, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).
 * Robert Guéï, 61, Ivorian politician and its military ruler (1999-2000), murdered along with his family.
 * Duncan Hallas, 76, British communist politician and Marxist theorist.
 * Ian Hutchinson, 54, English football player.
 * Francisco Lojacono, 66, Italian Argentine football player and manager.
 * Priya Tendulkar, 47, Indian actress, social activist and writer, heart attack.
 * Carl W. Thompson, 88, American lawyer and Democratic politician.
 * Tatyana Velikanova, 70, Soviet dissident and mathematician.

20

 * Les Auge, 49, American professional ice hockey player (Colorado Rockies).
 * Sergey Bodrov, Jr., 30, Russian movie star, Kolka-Karmadon rock ice slide, accidental death.
 * Bruce Edwards, 90, American actor and photographer.
 * Necdet Kent, 91, Turkish diplomat and humanitarian.
 * Eduardo Gudiño Kieffer, 66, Argentine writer.
 * Joan Littlewood, 87, English theatre director.
 * Pat Saward, 74, English football player, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Bob Wallace, 53, American computer scientist, helped invent "shareware" software marketing.

21

 * Henry Pybus Bell-Irving, 89, Canadian World War II commander and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.
 * Angelo Buono, 67, American serial killer, kidnapper and rapist (the "Hillside Strangler"), heart attack.
 * Robert L. Forward, 70, American physicist and science fiction author, founded Tethers Unlimited to manufacture tethers for NASA.
 * Peter Kowald, 58, German free jazz double bassist and tubist, heart attack.
 * Maurice Manson, 89, Canadian actor.
 * Rocco Rock, 49, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
 * Robert White, 81, American sculptor, professor and poet.

22

 * Don Carlsen, 75, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates).
 * Jan de Hartog, 88, Dutch-American novelist and playwright.
 * Anthony Lancelot Dias, 92, Indian politician.
 * Harry Glancy, 98, American competition swimmer and Olympic champion.
 * Antonio Haro, 91, Mexican Olympic épée and sabre fencer.
 * Pierre Jacquinot, 92, French physicist.
 * Joseph Nathan Kane, 103, American historian and author.
 * Anthony Milner, 77, British musician, multiple sclerosis.
 * Marga Petersen, 83, German athlete.
 * Julio Pérez, 76, Uruguayan football player.
 * William Rosenberg, 86, American entrepreneur, bladder cancer.
 * Anel Sudakevich, 95, Soviet silent film actress.

23

 * James Scarlett, 8th Baron Abinger, 87, British peer.
 * Vernon Corea, 75, Sri Lankan-born British radio broadcaster.
 * George Georges, 82, Australian politician.
 * Eduard Gufeld, 66, Soviet/Russian International Grandmaster of chess and chess author, heart attack.
 * Erich Oberdorfer, 97, German biologist specializing in phytosociology and phytogeography.
 * John Wu, 77, Hong Kong Roman Catholic cardinal, diabetes.

24

 * Hobbs Adams, 99, American football player and coach (USC, Kansas State).
 * Tetsuya Ayukawa, 83, Japanese literary critic and novelist.
 * Sergio Bergonzelli, 78, Italian director, screenwriter, producer and actor.
 * Robert Anthony Buell, 62, American serial killer, child murderer and serial rapist, execution by lethal injection.
 * Leon Hart, 73, American football player.
 * Tim Rose, 62, American singer and songwriter, heart attack.
 * Mike Webster, 50, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, heart attack.

25

 * Jacques Borel, 76, French author.
 * Ray Hayworth, 98, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, St. Louis Browns).
 * Roman Pucinski, 83, American Democratic politician.
 * Arnold Ross, 96, American mathematician.
 * Naeem Siddiqui, 86, Pakistani Islamic scholar, writer and politician.

26

 * Enzo Andronico, 78, Italian actor and comedian.
 * Eleonore Bjartveit, 78, Norwegian politician.
 * Nils Bohlin, 82, Swedish mechanical engineer, invented the three-point car safety belt.
 * Ricardo Calvo, 58, Spanish chess master and historian and author on chess, esophageal cancer.
 * Henry Larsen, 86, Danish rower.
 * Thomas Sidney Smith, 84, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly.
 * Philippe Tailliez, 97, French diving pioneer, underwater photographer and colleague of Jacques Cousteau.

27

 * Lidia Chmielnicka-Żmuda, 63, Polish volleyball player (bronze medal in women's volleyball at the 1968 Summer Olympics).
 * Wally Dreyer, 79, American gridiron football player (Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers) and college football coach.
 * Charles Henri Ford, 94, American poet, novelist, and filmmaker.
 * David Granger, 99, American Olympic bobsledder and businessman.
 * Attila Keresztes, 74, Hungarian fencer and Olympic champion.
 * Per Axel Lundgren, 91, Swedish art director.
 * Anna Murià, 98, Spanish Catalan narrator, literary critic, and journalist.
 * Bill Pearson, 80, New Zealand writer.
 * Glen Rounds, 96, American author and illustrator.

28

 * Alicia Barrié, 86, Chilean actress.
 * Whitney Blake, 76, American actress (Hazel), director and producer (One Day at a Time), esophageal cancer.
 * John Cannady, 79, American gridiron football player (Indiana University, New York Giants).
 * Patsy Mink, 74, American lawyer and politician, viral pneumonia.
 * Hartland Molson, 95, Canadian statesman, senator and businessman.
 * Maurice Novarina, 95, French architect;.

29

 * Bob Cobbing, 82, British poet.
 * Zvi Kolitz, 89, Lithuanian-American writer and film and theatrical producer.
 * Ellis Larkins, 79, American jazz pianist, pneumonia.
 * Mickey Newbury, 62, American songwriter and recording artist, emphysema.
 * Giuliana Tesoro, 81, American organic chemist.

30

 * Robert Battersby, 77, British businessman and politician, member of the European Parliament.
 * Ron Duhamel, 64, Canadian politician (member of Parliament representing Saint Boniface, Manitoba, Senator for Manitoba).
 * Göran Kropp, 35, Swedish adventurer and mountaineer, fall.
 * Miloš Macourek, 75, Czech poet, playwright, author and screenwriter.
 * Germana Malabarba, 88, Italian gymnast and Olympic medalist.
 * Meinhard Michael Moser, 78, Swiss mycologist, heart attack.
 * Ewart Oakeshott, 86, British illustrator.
 * Hans-Peter Tschudi, 88, Swiss politician and minister.