Contents
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.
October 2002
1
- Walter Annenberg, 94, American publisher (The Philadelphia Inquirer, TV Guide, Daily Racing Form, Seventeen) and philanthropist.[1]
- Ilie Ceaușescu, 76, Romanian general and communist politician, pneumonia.[2]
- Consuelo Salgar, 74, Colombian journalist, advertising executive, and politician, liver cancer.
- Edeltraud Schramm, 78, Austrian Olympic gymnast (1948, 1952).[3]
2
- Norman O. Brown, 89, American philosopher and author (Life Against Death, Love's Body).[4]
- Al Lerner, 69, American businessman, football team owner, and philanthropist.[5]
- William Logan, 87, American Olympic cyclist (1936).[6]
- Tiberiu Olah, 74, Romanian-Hungarian composer, teacher and musicologist.
- Alexander Sinclair, 91, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympian (1936).[7]
- Heinz von Foerster, 90, Austrian-American physicist and philosopher, one of the founders of constructivism.[8]
3
- Tad Horino, 81, American film and television actor.[9]
- Felix Kracht, 90, German engineer.
- Bruce Paltrow, 58, American television and film director and producer, pneumonia.[10]
- Dalvanius Prime, 54, New Zealand entertainer and songwriter, cancer.
- John Weitz, 79, American fashion designer, novelist and historian.[11]
4
- Per Bronken, 67, Norwegian poet, novelist, actor, film director and stage producer.
- Alphonse Chapanis, 85, American pioneer in the field of industrial design.[12]
- André Delvaux, 76, Belgian film director, considered the father of the Belgian film industry, heart attack.[13]
- Hans Holmér, 71, Swedish civil servant and author.
- Buddy Lester, 87, American actor and comedian, cancer.
- Ahmad Mahmoud, 70, Iranian novelist.
- Russ Ochsenhirt, 90, American basketball player.[14]
- Marcel Reymond, 91, Swiss Olympic ski jumper (1936).[15]
- Arnaldo Salvi, 86, Italian footballer.[16]
- Roy Wilkins, 68, American professional football player (University of Georgia, Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins).[17]
5
- Magda B. Arnold, 98, Canadian psychologist.
- Reginald Hibbert, 80, British diplomat.[18]
- Morag Hood, 59, British actress, cancer.
- Ron Horn, 64, American basketball player.[19]
- Tony Mazzocchi, 76, American labor leader, pancreatic cancer.[20]
- Mia Čorak Slavenska, 86, Croatian-American ballerina.[21]
- Jay R. Smith, 87, American child actor and comedian, stabbed.
6
- Ben Eastman, 91, American Olympic runner (1932).[22]
- Wolfgang Mischnick, 81, German liberal politician (FDP).
- Prince Claus of the Netherlands, 76, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Dutch diplomat, pneumonia.[23]
- Chuck Rayner, 82, Canadian professional hockey player (New York Americans, New York Rangers).[24]
- Nick Whitehead, 69, British (Welsh) sprinter and Olympian (bronze medal in 1960).[25]
- 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.
- Thomas Mack, 88, American rower and Olympian (1928, 1932).[26]
- Marcel Paille, 69, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (New York Rangers), cancer.[27]
- Domenico Paolella, 86, Italian director, screenwriter and journalist.[28]
- Ed Rossbach, 88, American fiber artist.[29]
- Amanda Zhao, 21, Chinese student.
8
- Jodie Beeler, 80, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).[30]
- Phyllis Calvert, 87, British actress (The Man in Grey, Fanny by Gaslight, The Magic Bow, My Own True Love), kidney failure.[31]
- Kirk Grybowski, 64, US Virgin Islands Olympic sailor (1984).[32]
- Jacques Richard, 50, Canadian ice hockey player (Atlanta Flames, Buffalo Sabres, Quebec Nordiques), car accident.[33]
- Joachim Zahn, 88, German business executive, chairman of Daimler-Benz (1971-1979).[34]
9
- Fred Arndt, 85, American basketball player.[35]
- Sopubek Begaliev, 71, Soviet-Kyrgyz economist and politician.
- Charles Guggenheim, 78, American documentary film director, producer, and screenwriter, pancreatic cancer.[36]
- Anwar Hussain, 82, Pakistani cricketer.[37]
- Oleksandr Liashko, 86, Ukrainian politician.
- Carlo Lievore, 64, Italian Olympic javelin thrower (1960, 1964).[38]
- Eric Martin, 33, American racing driver, racing accident.[39]
- Jim Martin, 78, American football player.[40]
- Bruno O'Ya, 69, Estonian-Polish actor.[41]
- Aileen Wuornos, 46, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.[42]
10
- Strahinja Alagić, 78, Serbian basketball player and coach.
- Allison Calder, 42, New Zealand swimmer and Olympian (1976).[43]
- Mario de las Casas, 101, Peruvian football defender.[44]
- Tom Casey, 78, American professional football player (New York Yankees, Hamilton Wildcats, Winnipeg Blue Bombers).[45]
- Fate Echols, 63, American professional football player (Northwestern University, St. Louis Cardinals).[46]
- Lawrence H. Fountain, 89, American politician (U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 2nd congressional district).[47]
- Teresa Graves, 54, American actress and singer, house fire, accidental death.[48]
- Denison Kitchel, 94, American lawyer political advisor.[49]
- Abe Most, 82, Swing clarinetist and alto saxophonist.
- Zara Nelsova, 81, Canadian cellist.[50]
- Tom Sullivan, 52, American gridiron football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Cleveland Browns), accidental death.[51]
- Erling Sørensen, 81, Danish football player, manager, and Olympian (1948).[52]
- Joe Wood, 86, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).[53]
11
- Betty Molesworth Allen, 89, New Zealand botanist.
- Stewart Crawford, 89, British diplomat.[54]
- Werner Eberlein, 82, German socialist politician and party functionary, heart attack.[55]
- Toots Ferrell, 73, American baseball player.[56]
- Bill Field, 93, British politician.[57]
- Ron Gray, 82, English football player and manager.[58]
- Fritz Halmen, 90, Romanian Olympic handball player (1936).[59]
- Maxim Levy, 52, Israeli politician.[60]
- Dina Pathak, 80, Indian actor and director, heart attack.
- Emilio García Riera, 70, Spanish-born Mexican actor, writer and cinema critic.[61]
- Christine Stevens, 84, American animal welfare activist and conservationist.[62]
- Fred Troller, 71, Swiss-born graphic designer.[63]
- Stanley Wagner, 94, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympian (1932).[64]
- Rusty Wailes, 66, American Olympic rower (1956, 1960).[65]
12
- Viktor Asmaev, 54, Russian Olympic equestrian (1980).[66]
- Ray Conniff, 85, American bandleader and arranger, fall.[67]
- Carolina Fadic, 28, Chilean actress and television presenter, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Desmond Fitzpatrick, 89, British Army general.[68]
- 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.[69]
- William R. Sears, 89, American aeronautical engineer and educator.[70]
- Mick Shoebottom, 58, English rugby league footballer.[71]
13
- Stephen E. Ambrose, 66, American historian and author (Band of Brothers), lung cancer.[72]
- Keene Curtis, 79, American actor (The Rothschilds, Annie, Cheers), Alzheimer's disease.[73]
- Mason Hammond, 99, American educator and scholar.[74]
- Jim Higgins, 71, British politician.[75]
- Billy McAdams, 68, Northern Irish football player and manager.
- Ila Mitra, 76, Indian communist politician and activist.
- Dennis Patrick, 84, American actor, fire.[76]
- Eileen Southern, 82, American musicologist, researcher and author.[77]
- Sir Garfield Todd, 94, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia.[78]
- 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.[79]
- Louis Pichon, 86, French Olympic modern pentathlete (1948).[80]
- Timothy Reuter, 55, German-British historian, brain cancer.[81]
- Seikyu Ri, 91, Korean Olympic basketball player (1936).[82]
- Norbert Schultze, 91, German film score composer and Nazi Party member.[83]
- Arturo Silvestri, 81, Italian football player and manager.[84]
- Rostyslav Svanidze, 30, Ukrainian swimmer and Olympian (1996, 2000).[85]
15
- Grace Hamblin, 94, British private secretary to Winston Churchill.[86]
- Jack Lee, 89, British film director.[87]
- Paul Paillole, 96, French intelligence services officer.[88]
- Toivo Räsänen, 77, Finnish Olympic rower (1952).[89]
- Zeev, 79, Israeli caricaturist and illustrator.[90]
16
- Per Bak, 53, Danish theoretical physicist, known for "self-organized criticality", myelodysplastic syndrome.[91]
- Philip Brett, 64, British-American musicologist, musician and conductor, cancer.[92]
- Harry Ferrier, 82, Scottish football player and manager.[93]
- Allen Walker Read, 96, American etymologist and lexicographer.[94]
- Henri Renaud, 77, French jazz pianist, record producer, and record company executive.[95]
17
- Derek Bell, 66, Northern Irish musician and composer (The Chieftains), heart attack.[96]
- Pattie Coldwell, 50, British television broadcaster and journalist (Nationwide, Open Air, Loose Women, You and Yours), brain tumor.[97]
- 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.[98]
- Yitzhak Peretz, 66, Israeli politician.
- Alina Pienkowska, 50, Polish free trade union activist and politician, cancer.[99]
- Aileen Riggin, 96, American Olympic swimmer and diver (1920, 1924).[100]
- Fred Scolari, 80, American basketball player and coach.[101]
18
- Richard Bernstein, 62, American artist, member of the circle of Andy Warhol, complications of AIDS.[102]
- Cecil Blacker, 86, British Army general, Adjutant-General to the Forces.[103]
- Kam Fong Chun, 84, American police officer and actor (Hawaii Five-O), lung cancer.[104]
- John D. Ferry, 90, Canadian-American biochemist, made important contributions to polymer science.[105]
- Roman Tam, 57, Hong Kong cantopop singer, liver cancer.
- Miroslav Vymazal, 50, Czech Olympic cyclist (1976).[106]
19
- Peter Bergmann, 87, German-American physicist, known for his work with Albert Einstein.[107]
- Manuel Álvarez Bravo, 100, Mexican photographer.[108]
- John Meredyth Lucas, 83, American writer, director and producer, leukemia.[109]
- Mehli Mehta, 94, Indian conductor and violinist.[110]
- Hans Jürgen Press, 76, German children's writer and illustrator.
- Nikolay Rukavishnikov, 70, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 10, Soyuz 16, Soyuz 33), heart attack.[111]
- 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.[112]
- Les Douglas, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).[113]
- Hans Eisele, 62, German football player.[114]
- Bernard Fresson, 71, French actor (French Connection II, The Tenant, Street of No Return), cancer.[115]
- Mel Harder, 93, American baseball player, coach, and manager (Cleveland Indians).[116]
21
- Aldo Canazza, 94, Italian racing cyclist.[117]
- Alejandro Díaz, 77, Cuban Olympic gymnast (1948).[118]
- Bernardino Pérez Elizarán, 77, Spanish football player and manager.
- Manfred Ewald, 76, East German Olympic committee president, pneumonia.[119]
- Jesse L. Greenstein, 93, American astronomer.[120]
- George Hall, 85, Canadian theatre, television, and film actor.[121]
- Kemal Kurt, 54, Turkish-German author, translator and photographer.[122]
- Bernhard Neumann, 93, British-Australian mathematician.
- Kaisa Parviainen, 87, Finnish Olympic athlete (1948, 1952).[123]
- Marquita Rivera, 80, Puerto Rican actress, singer and dancer, stroke.
- Ed Ryan, 76, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).[124]
- Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota, 83, British politician.[125]
- 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.[126]
- Marian Bergeron, 84, American beauty pageant winner (Miss America 1933) and big band singer, leukemia.[127]
- Anna Cattaneo, 91, Italian Olympic figure skater (1936).[128]
- Igor Irodov, 78, Soviet Russian physicist and World War II veteran.
- Robert Nixon, 63, British cartoonist.[129]
23
- Lucille Carroll, 96, American Broadway actress and MGM studio executive.[130]
- Adolph Green, 87, American lyricist and playwright.[131]
- Nathan Görling, 97, Swedish composer of film scores.
- Richard Helms, 89, American diplomat and CIA director, multiple myeloma.[132]
- Marianne Hoppe, 93, German theatre and film actress.[133]
- Nathan H. Juran, 95, Austrian-American film and television director.[134]
- David Lewis, 85, New Zealand sailor and adventurer.[135]
- Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, 96, British historian.[136]
- Janos Nyiri, 69, Hungarian-British theatre director, journalist and writer, cancer.[137]
- 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.[138]
- Ralph Budelman, 84, American water polo player and Olympian (1948).[139]
- Hernando Casanova, 57, Colombian actor, director, singer, and presenter, heart attack.
- Hernán Gaviria, 32, Colombian football player and Olympian (1992), lightning strike.[140]
- Harry Hay, 90, American gay rights activist and Mattachine Society founder, lung cancer.[141]
- Roy Hord Jr., 67, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Philadelphia Eagles, New York Jets).[142]
- 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.
- José Antonio Rodríguez Vega, 44, Spanish serial killer and rapist, stabbed.[143]
- Lotte Tarp, 57, Danish actress, lung cancer.[144]
25
- Ian Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford, 85, British peer and writer.[145]
- Micheline Cheirel, 85, French actress.[146]
- Herbert Duffus, 94, Jamaican politician and judge.[147]
- Richard Harris, 72, Irish actor (Camelot, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, This Sporting Life), Hodgkin lymphoma.[148]
- Kōki Ishii, 61, Japanese politician, stab wound.
- Fritz Kominek, 75, Austrian footballer and manager.[149]
- Mike Lind, 62, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Pittsburgh Steelers).[150]
- Ernest Mancoba, 98, South African avant-garde artist.[151]
- Doug McGibbon, 83, English football player.
- Rainbeaux Smith, 47, American actress and musician, hepatitis.
- René Thom, 79, French mathematician.[152]
- Paul Wellstone, 58, American professor, author, and U.S. Senator from Minnesota (since 1991), plane crash.[153]
- Sheila Wellstone, 58, American politician, plane crash.[154]
26
- Movsar Barayev, 23, Chechen Islamist militia leader, killed during the Moscow theater hostage crisis.[155]
- Zura Barayeva, Chechen Islamist, killed during the Moscow theater hostage crisis.
- Jacques Massu, 94, French general.[156]
- Stuart Townend, 93, British military officer, athlete, and politician.
27
- Giovanni Córdoba, 24, Colombian footballer.[157]
- André de Toth, 89, Hungarian-American film director (The Gunfighter, House of Wax, The Indian Fighter), aneurysm.[158]
- Tom Dowd, 77, American recording engineer and producer, a pioneer in stereo and multitrack tape recording, emphysema.[159]
- Mohammad Isnaeni, 83, Indonesian politician.
- Michel Macquet, 70, French Olympic javelin thrower (1956, 1960, 1964), and handball player.[160]
- Maurice J. Murphy Jr., 75, American politician and lawyer.[161]
- Enrique Perales, 88, Peruvian footballer.[162]
- 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 (1936).[163]
- Charles Orville Whitley, 75, American politician (U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 3rd congressional district).[164]
28
- Joan Archibald, 89, Canadian Olympic fencer (1932).[165]
- Margaret Booth, 104, American film editor (Mutiny on the Bounty, The Way We Were, Annie), stroke.[166]
- Morris Curotta, 73, Australian Olympic sprinter (1948, 1952).[167]
- 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).[168]
- Laurence Foley, 60, American diplomat and employee of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), homicide.[169]
- Erling Persson, 85, Swedish businessman, founder of H&M.
- Annada Shankar Ray, 97, Indian Bengali poet and essayist.
- John Wastall, 74, British Olympic sailor (1972).[170]
29
- Marina Berti, 78, Italian film actress, cancer.[171]
- Muriel Bevis, 74, American baseball player.[172]
- Marion Carpenter, 82, American press photographer, covered President Harry Truman, pulmonary emphysema.[173]
- Glenn McQueen, 41, Canadian animator (Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., A Bug's Life), melanoma.
- Raymond Savignac, 94, French graphic artist.[174]
- Dragan Malešević Tapi, 53, Serbian painter.
- Chang-Lin Tien, 67, Chinese-American educator, 7th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.[175]
30
- Pierre Aigrain, 78, French physicist.[176]
- Alfred Atherton, 80, American Foreign Service Officer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Egypt (1979-1983).[177]
- Juan Antonio Bardem, 80, Spanish film director and screenwriter, heart attack.[178]
- Rudolf Brucci, 85, Croatian composer.
- Jam Master Jay, 37, American musician (Run DMC), shot.[179]
- Lee H. Katzin, 67, American film director, cancer.[180]
31
- Yuri Ahronovitch, 70, Russian conductor.[181]
- Edward "Moose" Cholak, 72, American professional wrestler, pneumonia.[182]
- Napier Crookenden, 87, British Army general.[183]
- Rodolfo Dávila, 73, Mexican Olympic wrestler (1952).[184]
- Jean-Marie Fortier, 82, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate.[185]
- George Hasenohrl, 51, American football player (Ohio State Buckeyes, New York Giants).[186]
- Bill Hegarty, 71, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Washington Redskins).[187]
- Audrey Hylton-Foster, Baroness Hylton-Foster, 94, British peer.
- Lionel Poilâne, 57, French baker and entrepreneur, helicopter crash.[188]
- Anton Reinartz, 75, German Olympic rower (1952).[189]
- Gene Rock, 80, American basketball player, cancer.[190]
- Michael Stasinopoulos, 99, Greek jurist and politician.
- Gonzalo Rodríguez, 77, Mexican Olympic sprinter (1948).[191]
- Raf Vallone, 86, Italian actor (A View from the Bridge, Bitter Rice, The Godfather Part III) and journalist.[192]
- Eckart Wagner, 64, German Olympic sailor (1960, 1964, 1968).[193]
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