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oldest retrievable version Revision as of 04:52, 20 May 2003:

See also: 2001 in memoriam, other events of 2002, and Recent deaths.

December 2002

 * 30 Mary Wesley novelist, author of The Camomile Lawn
 * 27 George Roy Hill, film director (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting)
 * 26 Herb Ritts, celebrity photographer
 * 26 Armand Zildjian, cymbals manufacturer
 * 25 William T. Orr, Television executive (brought Maverick, F-Troop and 77 Sunset Strip to TV)
 * 24 Tomas Henriquez, Venezuelan actor
 * 23 Joe Strummer, former singer for The Clash.
 * 22 Kenneth Tobey, Prolific character actor (appeared in about 100 films including: 12 OClock High, Gunfight at OK Corral, The Thing From Another World and Airplane!)
 * 22 Desmond Hoyte, President of Guyana from 1985 to 1992
 * 19 Tony Barr, actor and TV executive
 * 19 Asif Ramzi, Pakistani militant wanted for the murder of reporter Daniel Pearl, blew himself up while making explosives.
 * 18 Ramon John Hnatyshyn, former Governor-General of Canada
 * 17 Hank Luisetti, basketball star and innovator
 * 13 Zal Yanofsky member of Lovin' Spoonful music group.
 * 12 Dee Brown, author (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee)
 * 10 Ian MacNaughton, director of most episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
 * 9 Stan Rice, painter, educator, poet, husband of author Anne Rice
 * 6 Charles Rosen, Pioneer in artificial intelligence
 * 6 Father Philip Berrigan, priest, political activist
 * 5 Roone Arledge, creator of Monday Night Football and Nightline dies at age 71
 * 5 Ne Win, Burmese dictator
 * 3 Glenn Quinn, actor

November 2002

 * 29 Florence Stephenson Mahoney (aged 103), health advocate
 * 26 Verne Winchell, founder of Winchell's Donuts and nicknamed "The Donut King"
 * 25 Rosa Carrillo, Univision news anchor
 * 24 John Rawls, political theorist
 * 21 Hadda Brooks, U.S. jazz singer, pianist and composer, aged 86
 * 19 Prince Alexandre de Merode, International Olympic Committee member
 * 18 James Coburn, actor
 * 17 Pedro Cabrera, Cuban actor and director who was a star in Puerto Rico's television for many years.
 * 17 Abba Eban, Israeli foreign affair minister
 * 17 Milivi Adams, young cancer victim who became the symbol of the fight of many Vieques citizens to have the military out of there.
 * 15 Myra Hindley, the Moors murderess
 * 15 Eddie Bracken, actor
 * 7 Rudolf Augstein, founder and chief editorialist of the German newsweekly Der Spiegel
 * 6 Sid Sackson, board game designer
 * 3 Jonathan Harris, TV's "Dr. Smith" on Lost in Space
 * 3 Lonnie Donegan, skiffle musician
 * 2 Charles Sheffield, science fiction author and physicist
 * 2 Brian Behan, Irish writer, younger brother of Brendan Behan
 * 2 Tonio Selwart (aged 106), Bavarian actor and Broadway preformer

October 2002

 * 30 Jam Master Jay, DJ of Run DMC assassinated
 * 29 Chang-lin Tien, Educator
 * 28 Margaret Booth (aged 104), Academy Award-winning film editor
 * 25 Richard Harris, Actor
 * 25 Paul Wellstone, United States Senator
 * 24 Winton M. Blount last Postmaster General to have served in a Presidential Cabinet
 * 24 Harry Hay, US gay rights activist and Mattachine Society founder
 * 24 Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright
 * 22 Richard Helms, former CIA director
 * 19 Manuel Alvarez Bravo (aged 100) pre-eminent Mexican photographer
 * 18 Roman Tam, canto-pop singer
 * 13 Stephen Ambrose, historian
 * 10 Christine Stevens, founder of the Animal Welfare Institute
 * 6 Claus von Amsberg, diplomat and husband of the Dutch Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
 * 4 Alphonse Chapanis, a founder of ergonomics
 * 3 Bruce Paltrow, television and film producer
 * 2 Heinz von Foerster, physicist and philosopher, one of the founders of constructivism
 * 1 Walter Annenberg, publisher and philanthropist

September 2002

 * ?? Brian Williams, Basketball star in the NBA.
 * Body not found yet, Tahiti police say it is possibly in the South Pacific. Already declared a murder investigation by the Police and the FBI.
 * 22 Joseph Nathan Kane (aged 103), pre-eminent American historical author and factualist
 * 22 Jan de Hartog, novelist and playwright
 * 21 Angelo Buono, Jr., the "Hillside Strangler"
 * 21 Robert L. Forward, physicist and science fiction author
 * 19 Sergei Bodrov Jr., Russian movie star
 * 18 Bob Hayes National Football League Dallas Cowboys star, and Olympic games Hall of Fame member.
 * 12 Kim Hunter, actress
 * 11 Johnny Unitas National Football League Hall of fame quarterback.
 * 8 Alfonso Ramirez Famous Mexican Bullfighter
 * 7 John P. Frank Lawyer whose representation of Ernesto Miranda in 1966 helped create the Miranda Rights reading requirement.
 * 4 Frankie Albert, National Football League star
 * 1 Brandon Hall, College American football University of Minnesota defensive lineman

August 2002

 * 31 Lionel Hampton, jazz musician
 * 27 Richard Ricci, Utah, Handyman, suspected of the kidnapping of 14 year old Elizabeth Smart
 * 25 Dorothy Hewett, Australian poet, playwright and novelist
 * 24 Wayne Simmons, American Football Ex Lions NFL player
 * 24 Hoyt Wilhelm, Baseball Hall of Fame member
 * 19 Abu Nidal, terrorist
 * 19 Sunday Silence, thoroughbred race horse, winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes
 * 15 Jesse Brown, former United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
 * 14 Larry Rivers, American painter
 * 14 Dave Williams, singer of Drowning Pool
 * 12 Enos Slaughter, baseball Hall of Famer
 * 10 Doris Wishman, cult movie director
 * 6 Edsger Dijkstra, computer scientist
 * 5 Josh Ryan Evans, Actor, played Timmy on Passions
 * 5 Chick Hearn, television and radio announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team since 1960
 * 3 Carmen Silvera, UK television and theatre actress. Played Fiona Gray in Dad's Army, Captain Manwaring's secret love, and Edith in Allo Allo

July 2002

 * 23 Leo McKern, actor best known for playing Rumpole of the Bailey and one of the Number Twos in The Prisoner
 * 23 William Pierce, rocket scientist, neo-Nazi, author of "The Turner Diaries"
 * 23 Chaim Potok, author
 * 22 Prince Ahmed bin Salman, member of the Saudi Arabian royal family, owner of Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner War Emblem
 * 19 Alexander Ginzburg, leading Soviet dissident (alternatively Aleksandr Ginzburg)
 * 19 Alan Lomax, documenter of blues and folk songs
 * 16 John Cocke, key figure in the development of RISC architecture
 * 16 Jack Olsen, "True crime" writer
 * 14 Joaquin Balaguer, former President of the Dominican Republic
 * 13 Yousuf Karsh, celebrity portrait photographer
 * 10 John Wallach, journalist
 * 9 Rod Steiger, actor
 * 9 Laurence Janifer, Science Fiction writer
 * 8 Anthony Swithin, fantasy writer, paleontologist
 * 8 Ward Kimball, Disney animator
 * 6 John Frankenheimer, film director
 * 5 Ted Williams, Baseball Hall of Fame member
 * 5 Katy Jurado, actress
 * 4 Winnifred Van Tongerloo, oldest living survivor of the Titanic
 * 4 Benjamin O. Davis Jr., African-American General

June 2002

 * 29 Rosemary Clooney, singer
 * 28 Arthur "Spud" Melin, responsible for marketting hula-hoop and frisbee.
 * 27 John Entwistle, bassist for The Who
 * 26 Jay Berwanger, college football player, first winner of the Heisman Trophy
 * 24 Miles Francis Stapleton Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk
 * 24 Pierre Werner, former Prime Minister of Luxembourg, "father of the Euro"
 * 23 Pedro 'El Rockero' Alcazar, Panama boxer died after losing his world Flyweight championship to Fernando Montiel in Las Vegas the night before
 * 22 Esther Pauline Friedman, author of the Ann Landers column
 * 22 Darryl Kile, Major League Baseball player, age 33
 * 18 Jack Buck, Major League Baseball announcer
 * 17 Fritz Walter, footballer, captain of 1954 World Cup winners.
 * 17 Willie Davenport, Olympic Games champion
 * 14 Jose Bonilla boxing former world champion, of asthma
 * 12 Bill Blass, fashion designer.
 * 10 John Gotti, imprisoned mobster.
 * 11 Robin Crosby, guitarist of rock band Ratt.
 * 6 Hans Janmaat, controversial far-right politician in the Netherlands.
 * 5 Dee Dee Ramone, founding member of The Ramones
 * 4 Fernando Belaunde Terry, democratic president of Peru, 1963-1968 and 1980-1985.
 * 1 Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer

May 2002

 * 26 Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian marathon runner
 * 23 Sam Snead, golfer
 * 22 (remains discovered; actual death probably took place sometime in 2001), Chandra Levy, U.S. Congressional intern
 * 21 Niki de Saint Phalle, french artist
 * 20 Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist and popular science author
 * 19 John Gorton, 19th Prime Minister of Australia
 * 17 Joe Black, Baseball first Black pitcher to win a World Series game.
 * 16 Edwin Alonzo Boyd noted Canadian bank-robber and prison escaper of the 1950s.
 * 16 Alec Campbell, Australia's last surviving ANZAC died in a nursing home, aged 103.
 * 13 Ruth Cracknell, redoubtable Australian actress most famous for the long-running role of Maggie Beare in the series "Mother and Son", aged 76.
 * 12 Joseph Bonanno, Sicilian, former boss of a Mafia crime family.
 * 7 Seattle Slew last triple crown winner on 25th anniversary of winning Kentucky Derby
 * 6 Pim Fortuyn, controversial politician in the Netherlands, shot.
 * 5 Hugo Banzer Suárez, president of Bolivia, as dictator 1971-1978 and democratic president 1997-2001.
 * 3 Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal, current president of Somaliland and former prime minister of Somalia and British Somaliland.
 * 3 Mohan Singh Oberoi (aged 103), Indian hotelier and retailer

April 2002

 * 28 Alexander Lebed, Russian general and politician
 * Ruth Handler, inventor of the Barbie doll
 * 27 Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Industrialist and art collector.
 * 25 Lisa Lopes, Singer with band TLC
 * 25 Indra Devi (aged 102), "Yoga teacher to the stars"
 * 23 Linda Boreman better known as Linda Lovelace, porn star turned political activist
 * 19 (Body discovered), Layne Staley, Singer with band Alice In Chains
 * 18 Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian anthropologist
 * 16 Franz Krienb&uuml;hl, Swiss speed skater
 * 16 Robert Urich, Actor cancer
 * 15 Byron White, US athlete and Supreme Court justice
 * 8 Maria Felix, superstar Mexican actress.
 * 9 Leopold Vietoris (aged 110), Austrian mathematician
 * 7 John Agar, actor in monster movies
 * 5 Layne Staley, Singer with band Alice In Chains

March 2002

 * 31 Barry Took, UK comedian and writer, also wrote in the US
 * 30 Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (aged 101), the Queen mother, member of the British Royal Family.
 * 27 Milton Berle, Mr. Television, US comedian
 * 27 Dudley Moore, UK actor and writer
 * 25 Kenneth Wolstenholme, British football commentator
 * 20 Ivan Novikoff (aged 102), Russian premier ballet master


 * 11 Rudolf Hell (aged 100), German inventor and manufacturer

February 2002

 * 27 Spike Milligan, UK comedian, writer and actor
 * 24 Leo Ornstein (aged 109), radical composer/pianist
 * 22 Sir Raymond Firth (aged 100), British anthropologist
 * 22 Chuck Jones, US animator
 * 21 John Thaw, British actor, most famous for the detective series,Morse and The Sweeney.
 * 15 Mike Daar Baseball San Diego Padres prospect
 * 15 Howard K. Smith, TV journalist
 * 15 Kevin Smith (actor), played Ares on Xena series
 * 12 Theresa Ferber Bernstein (aged 111), artist
 * 11 Barry Foster, British actor.
 * 9 Princess Margaret, British royal family (sister of Queen Elizabeth II)
 * 6 Max Perutz, founder of molecular biology

January 2002

 * 28 Dick 'Night Train' Lane American Football,NFL Hall of Famer
 * 28 Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's book author
 * 23 Robert Nozick, philosopher
 * 22 Peggy Lee, US Singer, Actress
 * 16 Carl Bobo Olson, boxer, world Middleweight champion in 1953 and member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame
 * 14 Ted Demme, film and television director
 * 12 Stanley Unwin, comedian
 * 11 Cyrus Vance, former US Secretary of State, international peacemaker.
 * 8 Dave Thomas, US entrepreneur, founder of Wendy's hamburger restaurants.
 * 3 Freddy Heineken, beer magnate.