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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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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January 2002
1
- Rolando Del Bello, 76, Italian tennis player.
- Mohand Arav Bessaoud, 77, Algerian writer and activist.
- Daulat Bikram Bista, 76, Nepali writer and poet.
- Bonnie Mealing, 89, Australian swimmer (silver medal in women's 100 metre backstroke at the 1932 Summer Olympics).[1]
- Eugene Nickerson, 83, American county executive and judge, complications from ulcer surgery.[2]
- Carol Ohmart, 74, American actress (House on Haunted Hill, The Wild Party, The Scarlet Hour) and model.
- Julia Phillips, 57, American film producer (The Sting, Taxi Driver, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) and author, Oscar winner (1974), cancer.[3]
- Patrick Kwame Kusi Quaidoo, 77, Ghanaian politician and businessman.
- Nuchhungi Renthlei, 88, Indian poet and singer.
- Astrid Sampe, 92, Swedish textile designer.
- Catya Sassoon, 33, American actress, singer and model, heart attack after drug overdose.[4]
- Meg Wyllie, 84, American actress (The Twilight Zone, Perry Mason, Star Trek, The Fugitive).[5]
2
- Armi Aavikko, 43, Finnish beauty queen and singer, pneumonia.
- Anil Agarwal, 55, Indian environmentalist and science correspondent.[6]
- Rui Campos, 79, Brazilian football player.
- Pablo Antonio Cuadra, 89, Nicaraguan essayist, playwright, and graphic artist.[7]
- Ahmed Dawood, 96, Pakistani industrialist and philanthropist.
- Ian Grist, 63, British Conservative politician, stroke.
- Heath MacQuarrie, 82, Canadian politician, scholar, and writer.
- Charlie Mitten, 80, English football player and manager.[8]
- Chester Nimitz Jr., 86, American submarine commander.[9]
- Bibi Osterwald, 81, American actress.[10]
- Bob Stevens, 85, American sportswriter.
3
- Donald Martin Carroll, 92, American Roman Catholic priest.
- Satish Dhawan, 81, Indian aerospace engineer.
- Miki Dora, 67, American surfer, stunt double and actor (Beach Blanket Bingo, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini), pancreatic cancer.[11]
- Juan García Esquivel, 83, Mexican bandleader and composer for film and television.[12]
- Freddy Heineken, 78, Dutch beer magnate, pneumonia.[13]
- Martin Ruby, 79, American gridiron football player.[14]
- Al Smith, 73, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox).[15]
- Baldur R. Stefansson, 84, Canadian agricultural scientist.
4
- Nathan Chapman, 31, U.S. Army soldier, first American soldier killed in combat in the war in Afghanistan.[16]
- Georg Ericson, 82, Swedish football (soccer) player and coach.[17]
- Ada Falcón, 96, Argentine tango dancer, singer and film actress.
- Michael Howard, 79, English choral conductor, organist and composer.[18]
- Douglas Jung, 74, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament (House of Commons), heart attack.[19]
- Mustafa Krantja, 80, Albanian classical music conductor and composer.
- Grace Mera Molisa, 55, Ni-Vanuatu politician, poet and feminist.
- Jim Sears, 70, American gridiron football player.[20]
- Adrián Zabala, 85, Cuban-American baseball player (New York Giants).[21]
5
- Charles J. Bishop, 15, American high school student, suicide by plane crash.[22]
- Igor Cassini, 86, American syndicated gossip columnist (Cholly Knickerbocker) for the Hearst newspaper.[23]
- Valentin Chernikov, 64, Soviet Olympic fencer (1956 men's team épée, bronze medal at 1960 men's team épée).[24]
- Fielding Dawson, 71, American author, poet and artist.[25]
- Roger Gyselinck, 81, Belgian racing cyclist.[26]
- Astrid Henning-Jensen, 87, Danish film director, actress, and screenwriter.
- Kamel Maghur, 67, Libyan lawyer and diplomat.
- Graham Ryder, 52, English geologist and lunar scientist, cancer of the esophagus.[27]
- Vadim Shefner, 86, Soviet and Russian poet and writer.
- Bryan Thurlow, 65, English football player.
6
- Bobby Austin, 68, American country musician ("Apartment No. 9", "For Your Love").[28]
- Per-Arne Berglund, 74, Swedish Olympic javelin thrower (1948 men's javelin throw, 1952 men's javelin throw).[29]
- Serge Brignoni, 98, Swiss avant-garde painter and sculptor.
- Sanya Dharmasakti, 94, Thai jurist, university professor and politician, Prime Minister of Thailand from 1973 to 1975.[30]
- Kunjandi, 82, Indian actor.
- Johnnie Mae Matthews, 79, American blues and R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer, cancer.
- Mario Nascimbene, 88, Italian film soundtrack composer.
- John W. Reynolds, 80, American politician and jurist, Governor of Wisconsin (1963–1965).[31]
- Fred Taylor, 77, American basketball coach (Ohio State University) and baseball player (Washington Senators).[32]
- Marian Wenzel, 69, British artist and art historian, leading authority on the art of medieval Bosnia and Herzegovina, cancer.[33]
- Christa Worthington, 45, American fashion writer (Women's Wear Daily, Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Harper's Bazaar), homicide.[34]
7
- Frank Cave, 59, British trade unionist and political activist (National Union of Mineworkers), brain cancer.[35]
- Geoff Crompton, 46, American basketball player (Denver Nuggets, Portland Trail Blazers, Milwaukee Bucks, San Antonio Spurs, Cleveland Cavaliers), leukemia.[36]
- Geoffrey Crossley, 80, British Formula One race car driver, stroke.[37]
- René Etiemble, 92, French essayist, scholar, and novelist.[38]
- Mighty Igor, 70, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
- Björn Landström, 84, Finnish-Swedish artist, writer, and illustrator.[39]
- Jon Lee, 33, British drummer (Feeder), suicide.[40]
- Bill Lenny, 78, British film editor.[41]
- Hal Marnie, 83, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[42]
- Raúl Mazorra, 73, Cuban sprinter and Olympian.[43]
- Avery Schreiber, 66, American comedian and actor, heart attack.[44]
- Lev Zaykov, 78, Soviet politician and statesman.
8
- M. S. Bartlett, 91, English statistician.[45]
- Romeo Cascarino, 79, American composer of classical music.[46]
- David McWilliams, 56, Northern Irish singer-songwriter ("Days of Pearly Spencer"), heart attack.
- Alexander Prokhorov, 85, Soviet physicist, winner of 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics.[47]
- Dave Thomas, 69, American entrepreneur, founder of Wendy's, liver cancer, liver tumor.[48]
- Glayde Whitney, 62, American behavioral geneticist and psychologist, promoted controversial race based genetics.[49]
- Viggo Widerøe, 97, Norwegian aviator and entrepreneur.
9
- Mush March, 93, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks).[50]
- Bill McCutcheon, 77, American actor (Sesame Street, Anything Goes, Steel Magnolias), Tony winner (1988), Alzheimer's disease.[51]
- Wang Ruoshui, 75, Chinese journalist, political theorists and philosopher, lung cancer.[52]
- K. William Stinson, 71, U.S. Representative from Washington.[53]
10
- Olga Biglieri, 86, Italian futurist painter and aviator.
- John Buscema, 74, American comic book artist (Marvel Comics), cancer.[54]
- Wallie Amos Criswell, 92, American pastor, author and two-term president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1968 to 1970.[55]
- Philip Drazin, 67, British mathematician, university teacher and author, an international expert in fluid dynamics.[56]
- Andrés Hammersley, 82, Chilean tennis player.
- Günther Ortmann, 85, German field handball player.[57]
- Cedric Smith, 84, British statistician.[58]
- Ikkō Tanaka, 71, Japanese graphic designer, heart attack.[59]
- C. R. Vyas, 77, Indian classical singer.
11
- Gerrit Brokx, 68, Dutch politician.[60]
- Gene Dinwiddie, 65, American blues saxophonist.
- Ajay Mitra Shastri, 67, Indian academic, historian and numismatist.[61]
- Christer Strömholm, 83, Swedish photographer.[62]
- Henri Verneuil, 81, French filmmaker and playwright.[63]
12
- Bernard Bennett, 70, English snooker and billiards player.
- John Berger, 92, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (bronze medal winner in the men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay at the 1936 Winter Olympics).[64]
- Moss Evans, 76, British union leader, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union.[65]
- Edwin M. Martin, 93, American diplomat and ambassador, pneumonia.[66]
- Harold B. McSween, 75, American politician (U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 8th congressional district) and businessman.[67]
- Ernest Pintoff, 70, American film and television director and animator (Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for The Critic), stroke.[68]
- Henry S. Reuss, 89, American politician.[69]
- Neville Sandelson, 78, British politician.[70]
- Stanley Unwin, 90, South African-born English comedian.[71]
- Cyrus Vance, 84, United States Secretary of State, international peacemaker, pneumonia.[72]
13
- Richard Bolt, 90, American physicist, specializing in acoustics, founded Bolt, Beranek and Newman.[73]
- Ted Demme, 38, American film and television director (Blow, The Ref, Yo! MTV Raps, Beautiful Girls), heart attack.[74]
- Samuel Dolin, 84, Canadian composer and music educator.[75]
- Guadalupe Dueñas, Mexican short story writer and essayist.
- Charity Adams Earley, 83, United States Army officer.[76]
- Paul Fannin, 94, American politician and businessman, Governor of Arizona (1959–1965), U.S. Senator from Arizona (1965–1977), cerebrovascular disease.[77]
- Gregorio Fuentes, 104, Cuban sailor and Ernest Hemingway's first mate, fishing companion and confidant.[78]
- Georges Glasser, 94, French tennis player and president of the Tennis Club de Paris.[79]
- Antonije Isaković, 78, Serbian writer.[80]
- Pierre Joubert, 91, French illustrator and comics artist.
- Frank Shuster, 85, Canadian comedian.[81]
- José María Sánchez-Silva, 90, Spanish writer.[82]
- Christian von Bülow, 84, Danish Olympic sailor (silver medal in 1956 Dragon sailing, gold medal in 1964 Dragon sailing).[83]
14
- Edith Bouvier Beale, 84, American socialite, fashion model and cabaret performer, known as "Little Edie", heart attack.[84]
- Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington, 86, British sociologist, social activist and politician, coined the term "meritocracy".[85]
- David John Hamer, 78, Australian politician.
- Rachel Bubar Kelly, 79, American politician for the Prohibition Party.
- Cele Goldsmith Lalli, 68, American editor, accidental death.
- Antonio Sbardella, 76, Italian football player, referee and sports official.[86]
- Olav Selvaag, 89, Norwegian engineer and residential contractor.
15
- Michael Anthony Bilandic, 78, American politician (39th Mayor of Chicago), heart failure.[87]
- Eugène Brands, 89, Dutch painter, an early member of the COBRA avant-garde art movement.[88]
- Jean Dockx, 60, Belgian football player and manager.[89]
- David Epstein, 71, American composer, conductor, and music scientist.
- Miguel Flores, 81, Chilean football player.[90]
- John M. Gaver, Jr., 61, American trainer of thoroughbred racehorses.
- Jeremy Hawk, 83, British actor (Elizabeth).[91]
- Tomislav Kaloperović, 69, Yugoslav and Serbian football player and coach.
- Vithabai Bhau Mang Narayangaonkar, Indian artist.
- Michel Poniatowski, 79, French politician.[92]
16
- John Boulos, 80, Haitian soccer player.
- Robert Hanbury Brown, 85, British astronomer and astrophysicist, pioneered the development of radar and radio astronomy.[93]
- Jean Elleinstein, 74, French historian specializing in communism.[94]
- Henry E. Erwin, 80, American U.S. Army Air Forces airman and recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions in World War II.[95]
- Ivan Foxwell, 87, British film producer and screenwriter (Colditz Story, A Touch of Larceny, The Quiller Memorandum).[96]
- Ralph Jacobi, 73, Australian politician.
- Milutin Kukanjac, 67, Yugoslav military officer.
- Bobo Olson, 73, American boxer, Alzheimer's disease.[97]
- Ron Taylor, 49, American actor (The Wiz, The Simpsons, Rover Dangerfield), heart attack.[98]
- Jim Tunney, 78, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
- Michael Walford, 86, British field hockey, rugby and cricket player (silver medal in field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[99]
17
- Peter Adamson, 71, British actor (Coronation Street), stomach cancer.[100]
- Camilo José Cela, 85, Spanish novelist, poet, and essayist, 1989 Nobel Prize in Literature, cardiovascular disease.[101]
- Queenie Leonard, 96, British character actress and singer.[102]
- Harvey Matusow, 75, American artist, communist and Federal Bureau of Investigation informer, car accident.[103]
- Eddie Meduza, 53, Swedish rockabilly composer and musician, heart attack.
- Bus Mertes, 80, American gridiron football player and coach, stroke.[104]
- Brian Simon, 86, British educationalist and historian.[105]
- Héctor Tosar, 78, Uruguayan pianist and classical composer.
18
- Celso Daniel, 50, Brazilian politician and mayor, murdered.[106]
- Michel Fleury, 78, French historian, archivist and archaeologist, specialising in the history and archaeology of Paris.[107]
- Jovdat Hajiyev, 84, Azerbaijani composers of the Soviet period.
- Alex Hannum, 78, American basketball coach.[108]
- Yasmeen Ismail, 51, Pakistani television actress and theater director.
- Jorma Karhunen, 88, Finnish Air Force ace.
19
- Jeff Astle, 59, English footballer, degenerative brain disease.[109]
- Jim Cameron, 71, Australian politician (Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly).[110]
- Martti Miettunen, 94, Finnish politician.
- Vavá, 67, Brazilian football player, heart attack.
- Ricky Womack, 40, American professional boxer (1982 U.S. amateur heavyweight champion), suicide.[111]
20
- John Aveni, 66, American gridiron football player (Indiana University, Chicago Bears, Washington Redskins).[112]
- Walter Carter, 72, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament (House of Commons).[113]
- Jean-Toussaint Desanti, 87, French educator and philosopher.[114]
- Moti Lal Dhar, 87, India drug chemist and academic.
- Carrie Hamilton, 38, American actress (Cool World, Fame), lung cancer.[115]
- John Jackson, 77, American blues musician, liver cancer.[116]
- R. N. Kao, 83, Indian spy and the first chief of India's intelligence agency.
- Ivan Karabyts, 57, Ukrainian composer and conductor.
- Harold Kasket, 75, English actor.
- Rudolf Staffel, 90, American ceramic artist and educator.
- Luule Viilma, 51, Estonian doctor, esotericist and practitioner of alternative medicine, car crash.
21
- Max Angst, 80, Swiss Olympic bobsledder (1956 Winter Olympics: two-man bobsleigh bronze medal, four-man bobsleigh).[117]
- Rolando Barral, 62, Cuban actor and talk show host (El Show de Rolando Barral), often called "the Latino Johnny Carson", stroke.[118]
- Peggy Lee, 81, American singer & actress (Lady and the Tramp, Pete Kelly's Blues, The Jazz Singer), diabetes, heart attack.[119]
- John Arthur Love, 85, American attorney and Republican politician (36th Governor of Colorado, first "Energy Czar").[120]
- Adolfo Marsillach, 73, Spanish actor, playwright and theatre director, prostate cancer.[121]
- Charlie Puckett, 90, Australian sportsman.[122]
- Zenon Snylyk, 68, Ukrainian-American soccer player.[123]
- George Trapp, 53, American basketball player (Atlanta Hawks, Detroit Pistons), stabbed.[124]
22
- Sheldon Allman, 77, Canadian-American singer, actor (Hud, In Cold Blood), songwriter and voice actor.[125]
- Kenneth Armitage, 85, British sculptor.[126]
- Peter Bardens, 56, English keyboardist and a founding member of the British progressive rock group Camel, lung cancer.[127]
- Guido Bernardi, 80, Italian cyclist (silver medal in men's team pursuit cycling at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[128]
- Henry Cosby, 73, American songwriter ("My Cherie Amour", "The Tears of a Clown", "Uptight (Everything's Alright)").[129]
- Eric de Maré, 91, British architectural photographer and writer.[130]
- George W. Dickerson, 88, American college football coach, interim head coach at UCLA for three games in 1958.[131]
- Stanley Marcus, 96, American businessman.[132]
- John McGrath, 66, British playwright and theatre theorist.[133]
- Jean Patchett, 75, American fashion model.[134]
- Salomon Tandeng Muna, 89, Cameroonian politician.
- Jack Shea, 91, American speed skater (gold medalist: 500 metres and 1500 metres at the 1932 Winter Olympics), traffic collision.[135]
- A. H. Weiler, 93, American writer, editor and film critic for The New York Times.[136]
- John Andrew Young, 85, American politician (U.S. Representative for Texas's 14th congressional district).[137]
23
- Louis T. Benezet, 86, American educator and president of multiple colleges.[138]
- Pierre Bourdieu, 71, French sociologist and philosopher (Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste), cancer.[139]
- Charlie Bradshaw, 65, American gridiron football player (Baylor, Los Angeles Rams, Pittsburgh Steelers, Detroit Lions), cancer.[140]
- Thomas Carey, 70, American operatic baritone, pancreatic cancer.[141]
- Domingo Drummond, 44, Honduran football player, heart attack.
- Igor Kipnis, 71, American harpsichordist, pianist and conductor, cancer.[142]
- Vittorio Mero, 27, Italian football player, traffic collision.[143]
- Robert Nozick, 63, American philosopher, lung cancer.[144]
- Pier Giorgio Perotto, 71, Italian electrical engineer and inventor.
- Gerhard Prokop, 62, German football player and manager.[145]
- John Symank, 66, American gridiron football player.[146]
- Johannes E. Vecchi, 70, Argentine Roman Catholic priest, Rector Major of the Salesians.
- Phil Warren, 63, New Zealand music promoter and politician, chairman of Auckland Regional Council.[147]
24
- Stuart Burge, 84, British film director, producer and actor (Nottingham Playhouse, Royal Court Theatre).[148]
- Paul B. Carpenter, 73, American politician (California State Assembly, California State Senate), convicted of corruption.[149]
- Nunzio Filogamo, 99, Italian television and radio presenter, actor and singer.
- Peter Gzowski, 67, Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter, emphysema.[150]
- Elie Hobeika, 45, Lebanese militia commander and politician, murdered.[151]
- Upendra Kumar, 60, Indian composer.
- Andrei Mercea, 76, Romanian football player.
- Edgar Ritchie, 85, Canadian diplomat.
- Kurt Schaffenberger, 81, American comic book artist (Captain Marvel, Superman, Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane).[152]
- Gregorio Walerstein, 88, Mexican film producer and screenwriter.[153]
25
- J. Clifford Baxter, 43, American executive (Enron Corporation), suicide by gunshot.[154]
- Willard Estey, 82, Canadian justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.[155]
- Chris Perry, 73, Indian musician, composer, songwriter and film producer.
- Winston Place, 87, English cricketer.[156]
26
- Phyllis Bartholomew, 87, English track and field athlete.
- Francisco Cabañas, 90, Mexican Olympic flyweight boxer (silver medal winner in flyweight boxing at the 1932 Summer Olympics).[157]
- Dorothy Carrington, 91, British writer, one of the leading scholars on Corsican culture and history.[158]
- Rudolph B. Davila, 85, United States Army officer, World War II Medal of Honor recipient.[159]
- Loonis McGlohon, 80, American songwriter and jazz pianist.[160]
- Ray Yochim, 79, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).[161]
27
- Robert L. Chapman, 81, American professor, dictionary editor and thesaurus editor (Roget's Thesaurus).[162]
- Yelena Gorchakova, 68, Russian javelin thrower and Olympic medalist.[163]
- John James, 87, British racing driver.
- Edgar Manske, 89, American gridiron football player.[164]
- Franz Meyers, 93, German politician and Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- Reggie Sanders, 52, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[165]
- Pierre Vago, 91, French architect.[166]
- Alain Vanzo, 73, French opera singer and composer, stroke.[167]
28
- Hilda Carrero, 50, Venezuelan model and actress, cancer.
- Andrew W. Cooper, 74, American activist, journalist, and editor-in-chief of The City Sun, stroke.[168]
- Gustaaf Deloor, 88, Belgian road racing cyclist.[169]
- Herbert Hirche, 91, German architect and furniture and product designer.
- Hennie Keetelaar, 75, Dutch Olympic water polo player.[170]
- Andy Kulberg, 57, American musician, lymphoma.[171]
- Astrid Lindgren, 94, Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays, viral infection.[172]
- Jack Witikka, 85, Finnish film director and screenwriter.
- Ayşenur Zarakolu, 55, Turkish publisher and human rights activist, cancer.[173]
29
- Stephen Wayne Anderson, 48, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
- Suzanne Bloch, 94, Swiss-American musician, teacher and early music specialist.[174]
- Florian Côté, 72, Canadian politician (member of Parliament representing Nicolet—Yamaska, Quebec and Richelieu, Quebec).[175]
- Daniel De Luce, 90, American journalist for Associated Press from 1929 to 1976.
- Richard Grenier, 68, American columnist and film critic, heart attack.[176]
- Sarla Grewal, 74, Indian State Governor.
- Haim Haberfeld, 70, Israeli trade union leader and the chairman of the Israel Football Association.
- R. M. Hare, 82, English moral philosopher, series of strokes.[177]
- Heinz Hennig, 74, German choral conductor and an academic teacher.[178]
- Stratford Johns, 76, South African-born British actor (Z Cars, Softly, Softly, Cromwell), heart disease.[179]
- Dick Lane, 73, American football player, heart attack.[180]
- Phil McCall, 76, British actor.
- John R. McGann, 77, American prelate of the Catholic Church.
- Berto Pisano, 73, Italian composer, conductor, arranger and jazz musician.[181]
- Harold Russell, 88, Canadian-American actor (The Best Years of Our Lives), Oscar winner (1947), heart attack.[182]
30
- Carlo Karges, 50, German musician, liver disease.
- Inge Morath, 78, Austrian-born American photographer, cancer.[183]
- Jeanne Robert, 91, French historian and epigrapher.[184]
- Louis Salica, 89, American boxer (bronze medal in flyweight boxing at the 1932 Summer Olympics, 1935 and 1940 world bantamweight title).[185]
31
- Francis Acharya, 82, Belgian Roman Catholic monk.[186]
- Ernest Butler, 82, English football player.
- Jim Camp, 77, American gridiron football player (Brooklyn Dodgers) and college football head coach (George Washington University).[187]
- Harry Chiti, 69, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Kansas City Athletics, Detroit Tigers, New York Mets).[188]
- Gabby Gabreski, 83, Polish-American World War II and Korean War fighter pilot, heart attack.[189]
- Ad Hermes, 72, Dutch politician.[190]
- Henry Kloss, 72, American audio engineer and entrepreneur.[191]
- Jim Letsinger, 90, American gridiron football player.[192]
- Evelyn Scott, 86, American film and television actress (The Untouchables, Bonanza, Bachelor Father, Peyton Place).[193]
- Ger Stroker, 85, Dutch football player.
- Karel Voous, 81, Dutch ornithologist and author.
- Predrag Vranicki, 80, Yugoslav and Croatian philosopher and Marxist humanist.[194]
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