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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.
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August 2002
1
- Francisco Arcellana, 85, Filipino writer, poet and journalist.
- Theo Bruce, 79, Australian long jumper (silver medal winner in men's long jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[1]
- Peter Carter, 37, Australian tennis player and coach, traffic collision.[2]
- Adolf Glunz, 86, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
- Sumiko Hidaka, 79, Japanese actress, liver failure.
- Yuri Korshunov, 68, Russian lepidopterologist.
- A. P. Lutali, 82, Governor of American Samoa (1985–1989, 1993–1997), stroke.
- Henry Mazer, 84, American-Taiwanese conductor and recording artist.[3]
- Don Owen, 90, American professional wrestling promoter.
- Jack Tighe, 88, American baseball coach.[4]
2
- Joe Allison, 77, American songwriter, radio and television personality and record producer, lung disease.[5]
- Roberto Cobo, 72, Mexican actor (Los Olvidados, The Place Without Limits).[6]
- May Hardcastle, 89, Australian tennis player.
- Ilona Kolonits, 80, Hungarian documentary film director and news correspondent.
- Roy Kral, 80, American jazz pianist and vocalist, congestive heart failure.[7]
- Magda László, 90, Hungarian operatic soprano.[8]
- Richard Schreder, 86, American naval aviator and sailplane developer.
- Jean-Pierre Yvaral, 68, French op art and kinetic art artist.[9]
3
- Edward Brodney, 92, American artist, known for his drawings and paintings of World War II.[10]
- Peter Miles, 64, American actor, cancer.
- Danny Sue Nolan, 79, American film actress, stroke.[11]
- Carmen Silvera, 80, British television and theatre actress (Dad's Army, 'Allo 'Allo!), lung cancer.
- Ruudi Toomsalu, 89, Estonian sprinter and long jumper.[12]
- John G. Zimmerman, 74, American photographer, an innovator in sports photojournalism.[13]
4
- William R. Crawford Jr., 74, American diplomat and ambassador (Yemen, Cyprus).
- Millard Lang, 89, American soccer and lacrosse player.
- Mike Payne, 40, American Major League Baseball player (Atlanta Braves), EEE.[14]
- Salvatore Scianamea, 83, Brazilian fencer.[15]
5
- Jes Peter Asmussen, 73, Danish iranologist.[16]
- Francisco Coloane, 92, Chilean novelist and short fiction writer.[17]
- Josh Ryan Evans, 20, American actor (Passions, How the Grinch Stole Christmas) and stunt performer (Baby Geniuses), complications from a heart condition.[18]
- Chick Hearn, 85, television and radio announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team since 1960, fall.[19]
- Willis Hudlin, 96, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, St. Louis Browns, New York Giants).[20]
- Franco Lucentini, 82, Italian writer (The Sunday Woman), suicide.[21]
- Shinsuke Mikimoto, 71, Japanese actor, lung cancer.
- Darrell Porter, 50, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers, Kansas City Royals, St. Louis Cardinals, Texas Rangers), drug overdose.[22]
- Matt Robinson, 65, American actor, writer and television producer, Parkinson's disease.[23]
- Winifred Watson, 95, English writer (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day).[24]
6
- Jim Crawford, 54, Scottish motor racing driver, liver failure.[25]
- Edsger W. Dijkstra, 72, Dutch computer scientist, colorectal cancer.[26]
- John Donnelly Fage, 81, British historian.[27]
- Justin Meyer, 63, American vintner and enologist, heart attack.[28]
- Jean Sauvagnargues, 87, French politician.[29]
7
- Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne, 100, British aristocrat.[30]
- Ookie Miller, 92, American gridiron football player.[31]
- Al Smith, 56, Canadian ice hockey player, pancreatic cancer.[32]
- Wan Da, 83, Chinese politician.
8
- Bernard Chidzero, 75, Zimbabwean politician, Finance Minister (1983–1995).[33]
- Reiner Geye, 52, German football player, liver disease.[34]
- Wilber Morris, 64, American jazz double bass player and bandleader.[35]
- Mikhail Perlman, 79, Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion.[36]
- Charles Poletti, 99, American lawyer and politician.[37]
- Kapitolina Rumiantseva, 76, Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist.
- Doris Buchanan Smith, 68, American author children's books, ALS.[38]
- Ronnie Stephenson, 65, English jazz drummer.
- Willi Ziegler, 73, German paleontologist.
9
- Don Chastain, 66, American actor and singer (Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Colt .45, The Rockford Files, Hawaii Five-O), colorectal cancer.[39]
- Pascale de Boysson, 80, French actress.[40]
- Jake Fendley, 73, American professional basketball player (Northwestern University, Fort Wayne Pistons).[41]
- Meredith Gardner, 89, American linguist and codebreaker.
- Bertold Hummel, 76, German composer of modern classical music.[42]
- Peter Matz, 73, American musician, composer, arranger and conductor, lung cancer.[43]
- Paul Samson, 49, English guitarist, cancer.
- Ruud van Feggelen, 78, Dutch water polo player and coach (bronze medal in water polo at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[44]
- Trần Độ, 78, Vietnamese politician and Lieutenant General of the People's Army.
10
- Colin Eggleston, 60, Australian film and television director and writer (Long Weekend, Homicide).[45]
- Michael Houser, 40, American guitarist, pancreatic cancer.[46]
- Kristen Nygaard, 75, Norwegian computer scientist and politician, heart attack.[47]
- Eugene Odum, 88, American biologist.[48]
- René Queyroux, 74, French fencer and Olympic medalist.[49]
- Mordecai Waxman, 85, American rabbi, prominent conservative, known for confronting Pope John Paul II.[50]
- Doris Wishman, 90, American B movie film director, screenwriter and producer, lymphoma.[51]
- Czesław Łuczak, 80, Polish historian focusing on World War II.
11
- Nancy Chaffee, 73, American tennis player (1950, 1951, 1952 singles and doubles U.S. Indoor Champion), cancer.[52]
- Per Cock-Clausen, 89, Danish figure skater (13-time Danish National Champion, figure skating at the Winter Olympics: 1948, 1952).[53]
- Mick Dunne, 73, Irish sports journalist.[54]
- Jiří Kolář, 87, Czech poet and writer.[55]
- Franjo Kukuljević, 92, Croatian tennis player.
- Hermann Pálsson, 81, Icelandic language scholar and translator.
- Galen Rowell, 61, American wilderness photographer, photojournalist and climber, plane crash.[56]
- Richard Wood, Baron Holderness, 81, British politician (Member of Parliament for Bridlington).[57]
12
- John H. Leith, 82, American presbyterian theologian and minister.[58]
- Michael De-la-Noy, 68, British journalist and author (The Queen Behind the Throne).[59]
- Knud Lundberg, 82, Danish sportsperson, journalist and writer.[60]
- John Shaw Rennie, 85, British diplomat.[61]
- Enos Slaughter, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, lymphoma.[62]
- Marjorie Williamson, 89, British educator, physicist and university administrator.[63]
13
- Jack Creel, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).[64]
- Hermann Haller, 88, Swiss composer.[65]
- Józef Daniel Krzeptowski, 81, Polish Olympic skier.[66]
- Ulises Ramos, 82, Chilean footballer and manager.[67]
- Al Vande Weghe, 86, American competition swimmer and Olympic silver medalist.[68]
14
- Mary Heeley, 91, British tennis player.
- Peter R. Hunt, 77, British film editor (Dr. No, Goldfinger) and director (On Her Majesty's Secret Service), heart failure.[69]
- Larry Rivers, 78, American painter.[70]
- Dave Williams, 30, American singer of Drowning Pool, heart failure.[71]
15
- János Balogh, 89, Hungarian zoologist, ecologist, and academic.
- Henry Batista, 88, American film and television editor.
- Heinz Bauer, 74, German mathematician.[72]
- Alberto Bertuccelli, 78, Italian football player.[73]
- Jesse Brown, 58, American United States Marine and United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, ALS.[74]
- George Agbazika Innih, 63, Nigerian army general and politician.
- Edgardo Madinabeytia, 69, Argentine football goalkeeper.
- Arnie Moser, 87, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).[75]
- Kyle Rote, 73, American gridiron football player, heart attack.[76]
- Jean Stengers, 80, Belgian historian.[77]
- Haim Yosef Zadok, 88, Israeli jurist and politician, heart attack.[78]
16
- Janusz Bardach, 83, Polish-American Siberian gulag survivor and renowned plastic surgeon.[79]
- Allan Bromley, 55, American computer scientist, historian of computing, cancer.[80]
- Jeff Corey, 88, American actor (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, In Cold Blood, Little Big Man), fall.[81]
- Martin Deutsch, 85, Austrian-American physicist and professor of physics at MIT, known as the discoverer of positronium.[82]
- Morgan "Bill" Evans, 92, American horticulturalist and Disney landscape designer.[83]
- Anton Guadagno, 77, Italian operatic conductor.[84]
- Paul Michel Gabriel Lévy, 91, Belgian journalist and professor.[85]
- Abu Nidal, 65, Palestinian terrorist, ballistic trauma.[86][87]
- Ola Belle Reed, 85, American singer.[88]
- John Roseboro, 69, American baseball player (Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, Minnesota Twins, Washington Senators).[89]
17
- Jimmy Bloodworth, 85, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies), heart attack.[90]
- Edward Dziewoński, 85, Polish stage and film actor, and theatre director.[91]
- Alicia Montoya, 82, Mexican actress, the daughter of the stage actress, kidney failure.
- Valentin Pluchek, 92, Russian theatre director.
- Rushyendramani, 85, Indian singer, dancer, and actress.
- Benjamin Thompson, 84, American architect.[92]
18
- Turpal-Ali Atgeriyev, 33, Chechen rebel leader and top official in the rebel government, leukemia.[93]
- Carter L. Burgess, 85, American public servant, business executive and diplomat (Assistant Secretary of Defense, Ambassador to Argentina).[94]
- Bertil Ericsson, 93, Swedish football player.
- Ričardas Gavelis, 51, Lithuanian writer, playwright, journalist, and theoretical physicist.[95]
- Dick O'Connell, 87, American front office executive in Major League Baseball.
- Dean Riesner, 83, American screenwriter (Dirty Harry, Play Misty for Me, The Enforcer).[96]
19
- Antonio Barrios, 92, Spanish football player and coach.
- Eduardo Chillida, 78, Spanish Basque sculptor, Alzheimer's disease.[97]
- Irving Copi, 85, American philosopher, logician and textbook author (Introduction to Logic).[98]
- Satchidananda Saraswati, 87, Indian yoga guru and religious teacher.[99]
- Jan Stenbeck, 59, Swedish business leader, media pioneer, sailor and financier.[100]
- Alastair Gordon, 6th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, 82, British botanical artist and art critic.[101]
- Sunday Silence, 16, American-bred thoroughbred race horse, winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes.
20
- Chris Columbus, 100, American jazz drummer.[102]
- Augustine Geve, Solomon Islands Cabinet Minister, assassinated.
- Teodor Keko, 43, Albanian writer, journalist, and politician, pancreatic cancer.
- John Willett, 85, British journalist and translator of the works of Bertolt Brecht into English.[103]
21
- Mikayil Abdullayev, 80, Soviet and Azerbaijani painter.[104]
- O. A. Bushnell, 89, American microbiologist, professor and writer.[105]
- Oscar Plattner, 80, Swiss cyclist.[106]
- Bror Rexed, 88, Swedish neuroscientist and professor.
22
- Mark Bucci, 78, American Broadway, film and television composer (The 13 Clocks, Seven in Darkness, Human Experiments).[107]
- Richard Lippold, 87, American sculptor.[108]
- Manuel Lora-Tamayo, 98, Spanish politician.[109]
- Jim McFadden, 82, Irish-Canadian ice hockey player.
23
- Anthony Stafford Beer, 75, British theorist.[110]
- Dennis Fimple, 61, American character actor (Petticoat Junction, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Green Acres), traffic collision.[111]
- Emily Genauer, 91, American art critic.[112]
- Wayne Simmons, 32, American gridiron football player, single-car crash.[113]
- Hoyt Wilhelm, 80, American baseball player (New York Giants, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame.[114]
24
- Ted Ashley, 80, American film studio executive (chairman of Warner Bros) and talent agent, complications following heart surgery.[115]
- Hugh Cruttwell, 83, English teacher of drama and principal of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.[116]
- Nikolay Guryanov, 93, Russian Orthodox priest.
- Wilhelm Meise, 100, German ornithologist.
- Cornelis Johannes van Houten, 82, Dutch astronomer.[117]
- Johnny Wilson, 86, American professional football player (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Rams).[118]
25
- Per Anger, 88, Swedish diplomat, known for shielding thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps, stroke.[119]
- Raúl Chibás, 86, Cuban politician, military officer and close associate of Fidel Castro, defected to U.S. in 1960.[120]
- Stanley R. Greenberg, 74, American playwright and screenwriter.[121]
- Dorothy Coade Hewett, 79, Australian poet, playwright and novelist, breast cancer.[122]
- Karolina Lanckorońska, 104, Polish noble, philanthropist, and historian.
- Július Pántik, 80, Slovak film actor.
- William Warfield, 82, American concert bass-baritone singer and actor, complications following a fall.[123]
26
- Aslambek Abdulkhadzhiev, 40, Chechen warlord, killed in action.
- Thomas Gordon, 84, American clinical psychologist.[124]
- Vincent Massey, 75, Australian biochemist and enzymologist.
- Georg Werner, 98, Swedish swimmer (bronze medal in men's 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay at the 1924 Summer Olympics).[125]
27
- Bob McKinlay, 69, Scottish football player.[126]
- George Mitchell, 85, Scottish musician (The Black and White Minstrel Show).
- Crew Stoneley, 91, English athlete and Olympic silver medalist.[127]
- Jane Tilden, 91, Austrian actress.[128]
- John S. Wilson, 89, American music critic for The New York Times for four decades.[129]
28
- David Bierk, 58, American-Canadian artist, pneumonia.[130]
- Kay Gardner, 62, American musician, composer, author, and Dianic priestess, heart attack.[131]
- Else Petersen, 92, Danish film and stage actress.
- Rudolf Schnackenburg, 88, German Catholic priest and New Testament scholar.
29
- Lance Macklin, 82, British racing driver.
- Alan MacNaughtan, 82, Scottish actor, cancer.[132]
- Paul Tripp, 91, American children's musician, author, songwriter, and actor.[133]
- Anatoliy Yulin, 73, Soviet (Belarusian) Olympic athlete (men's 400 metres hurdles: 1952, 1956, men's 4 × 400 metres relay: 1956).[134]
30
- Thomas J. Anderson, 91, American publisher and politician.[135]
- Mariya Bayda, 80, Russian medical orderly during World War II.
- Dave Dalby, 51, American professional football player (UCLA, Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders), traffic collision.[136]
- José Sette Câmara Filho, 82, Brazilian lawyer, diplomat, and politician.
- Andy Johnson, 69, American basketball player.[137]
- Zaid ibn Shaker, 67, Jordanian politician and soldier (Prime Minister of Jordan).[138]
- J. Lee Thompson, 88, British film director (The Guns of Navarone, Cape Fear, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes), congestive heart failure.[139]
- Horst Wendlandt, 80, German film producer.[140]
31
- Lionel Hampton, 94, American jazz musician, heart failure.[141]
- Sheldon H. Harris, 74, American historian and academic.[142]
- Martin Kamen, 89, American scientist.[143]
- Joe McCluskey, 91, American track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.[144]
- Farhad Mehrad, 58, Iranian pop, rock, and folk musician, hepatitis C.
- Wong Pow Nee, 89, Malaysian politician and diplomat.
- George Porter, 81, British Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.[145]
- Bunji Sakita, 72, Japanese-American theoretical physicist, cancer.
- Samson Samsonov, 81, Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter.[146]
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