Deaths in December 2002
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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.
December 2002[edit]
1[edit]
- Abu Abraham, 78, Indian cartoonist, journalist, and author.
- Edward L. Beach Jr., 84, American highly decorated United States Navy submarine officer and best-selling author (Run Silent, Run Deep).[1]
- Omar Blebel, 80, Argentine Olympic wrestler (1948 men's Greco-Roman featherweight, 1952 men's freestyle bantamweight).[2]
- Alfred Brauner, 92, Austrian-French scholar, author and sociologist.
- C. Chapin Cutler, 87, American communications engineer, known for inventions in radio, radar, signal coding, imaging and satellite communications.[3]
- Harry Dick, 82, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).[4]
- Eugene Turenne Gregorie, 94, American yacht designer and automobile designer.
- Dave McNally, 60, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Montreal Expos), lung cancer.[5]
- José Chávez Morado, 93, Mexican artist.
- Michael Oliver, 65, British classical music broadcaster and writer.
- Esther E. Wood, 97, American historian, author, and journalist.
2[edit]
- Elizabeth B. Andrews, 91, American politician (U.S. Representative for Alabama's 3rd congressional district).[6]
- Sanford Soverhill Atwood, 89, American scientist, plant cytologist and president of Emory University.[7]
- Barney Berlinger, 94, American Olympic decathlon athlete (men's decathlon in the 1928 Summer Olympics).[8]
- Achille Castiglioni, 84, Italian industrial designer.[9]
- Aileen Fisher, 96, American writer of more than 100 children's books (The Coffee-Pot Face, Runny Days, Sunny Days).[10]
- Jim Mitchell, 56, Irish politician.
- Vjenceslav Richter, 85, Croatian architect.
- Derek Robinson, 61, British nuclear physicist.
- Edgar Scherick, 78, American television executive and producer.
- Ben Wade, 80, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates) and scout.[11]
- Mal Waldron, 77, American jazz pianist and composer (Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane).[12]
- Fay Gillis Wells, 94, American pioneer aviator.[13]
- David Whiffen, 80, English physical chemist, known for his work on infrared spectroscopy and electron spin resonance spectroscopy.[14]
- Fred Zain, 51, American forensic laboratory technician, falsified results to obtain convictions, liver cancer.[15]
3[edit]
- Hariharananda Giri, 95, Indian yogi and guru.
- Pierre Guillaume, 77, officer of the French Navy.
- Carol Kramer, 59, American archaeologist.
- Christian Liger, 67, French writer.
- Emanuel Papper, 87, American anesthesiologist, professor, and author.
- Glenn Quinn, 32, Irish actor (Roseanne, Angel), heroin overdose.
- Jug Thesenga, 88, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[16]
4[edit]
- Charles Pierce Davey, 77, American welterweight boxer, complications from paralysis.[17]
- Freda Diesing, 77, Canadian carving artist.
- Habibullah, Afghan US detainee, homicide.
- Robert Mallet, 87, French writer and academic.
- Dolores Renze, 95, American archivist and administrator.
- Hemmo Silvennoinen, 70, Finnish ski jumper.
5[edit]
- Roone Arledge, 71, American television producer and executive (Monday Night Football, Nightline).[18]
- Prosper Boulanger, 84, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Mercier, Quebec).[19]
- Brigitte Massin, 75, French musicologist and journalist.
- Ne Win, 91, Burmese dictator.[20]
- Jackie Walker, 52, American football player, complications from AIDS.
- Ann Welch, 85, British glider pilot (gliding, hang gliding, paragliding, microlight flying).[21]
6[edit]
- Jerzy Adamski, 65, Polish featherweight boxer (silver medal winner in featherweight boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics).[22]
- Clarence Beers, 83, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).[23]
- Father Philip Berrigan, 79, American priest and political activist.[24]
- Russell Blattner, 94, American pediatrician and founding physician-in-chief of Texas Children's Hospital.[25]
- William H. Gleysteen, 76, American diplomat and ambassador.[26]
- Leroy M. Zimmerman, 69, American politician.
7[edit]
- R. Orin Cornett, 89, American physicist, university professor and inventor of Cued Speech.[27]
- John R. Dellenback, 84, American politician (U.S. Representative for Oregon's 4th congressional district), viral pneumonia.[28]
- Clare Deniz, 91, British jazz pianist.[29]
- Barbara Howard, 76, Canadian painter, wood engraver, bookbinder and designer, pulmonary embolism.
- Paddy Tunney, 81, Irish traditional artist.
8[edit]
- Gunnar Helén, 84, Swedish politician.
- Bobby Joe Hill, 59, American basketball player.[30]
- Arthur Iberall, 84, American physicist and hydrodynamicist, congestive heart failure.
- Anil Moonesinghe, 75, Sri Lankan revolutionary politician and trade unionist.
- Charles Rosen, 85, American computer scientist.[31]
- Dorothy Walker, 73, Irish art critic and historian, active in the development of the Irish Museum of Modern Art.[32]
9[edit]
- Shigeru Chiba, 83, Japanese baseball player and manager, perhaps the greatest second baseman in Japanese baseball history.[33]
- Denawaka Hamine, 96, Sri Lankan actress.
- Mary Hansen, 36, Australian guitarist and singer, traffic accident.
- Ian Hornak, 58, American draughtsman, painter and printmaker, aortic aneurysm.[34]
- Johnny Lazor, 90, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).[35]
- Stan Rice, 60, painter, educator, poet, husband of author Anne Rice, cancer.
- Theodore Shackley, 75, American CIA officer known as "the Blond Ghost", cancer.[36]
- Ezra Solomon, 82, American economist and professor of economics.[37]
- To Huu, 82, Vietnamese poet and politician.[38]
10[edit]
- Desmond Keith Carter, 35, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in North Carolina.
- Warwick Charlton, 84, English journalist, prime mover behind construction and sailing of Mayflower II from the U.K. to the U.S.[39]
- Les Costello, 74, Canadian professional ice hockey player and Catholic priest (Toronto Maple Leafs).[40]
- Earl Henry, 85, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).[41]
- Mike Kosman, 85, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).[42]
- Andres Küng, 57, Swedish journalist, writer, entrepreneur and politician of Estonian origin.
- Steve Llewellyn, 78, Welsh rugby league player.
- Ian MacNaughton, 76, Scottish director of most episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
- Homer Spragins, 82, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[43]
11[edit]
- Dolly Dawn, 86, American big band vocalist and recording star of the 1930s and 1940s.[44]
- Muzaffer Demirhan, 70, Turkish alpine skier (Winter Olympics: 1948, 1956, 1960, 1964).[45]
- Bob Loane, 88, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Boston Bees).[46]
- Arthur Metcalfe, 64, British racing cyclist, cancer.
- Nanabhoy Palkhivala, 82, Indian jurist and economist.[47]
- Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, 97, American photojournalist, cinematographer, and philanthropist.
- Kay Rose, 80, American Oscar-winning sound editor.
12[edit]
- Nikolai Amosov, 89, Soviet/Ukrainian heart surgeon and inventor.
- Dee Brown, 94, American author and historian (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee).[48]
- Nancy Caroline, 58, American EMS physician and writer (Emergency Care in the Streets).[49]
- Brad Dexter, 85, American actor and film producer (Run Silent Run Deep, The Magnificent Seven, None but the Brave).[50]
- Edward Harrison, 92, English cricketer and squash player.
- Jay Wesley Neill, 37, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Oklahoma.
- Jabir Novruz, 69, Azerbaijani artist and poet.
13[edit]
- Maria Björnson, 53, French theatre designer, two-time Tony Award winner for The Phantom of the Opera (Best Scenic Design, Best Costume Design).[51]
- Stella Brooks, 92, American jazz singer of the 1940s.[52]
- Ronald Butt, 82, British journalist, wrote a political column for The Times and was the author of two books on Parliament.[53]
- Zal Yanovsky, 57, Canadian folk rock musician, lead guitarist and singer for The Lovin' Spoonful.[54]
- Lucien Zins, 80, French Olympic swimmer (men's 100 metre backstroke: 1948, 1952).[55]
- Anthony Ler, 35, Singaporean graphic designer and convicted murderer executed by hanging at dawn in Singapore's Changi Prison for manipulating and hiring a minor who, on Ler's orders, murdered his wife Annie Leong.[56]
14[edit]
- Hank Arft, 80, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).[57]
- Jack Bradley, 86, English football player.
- Sidney Glazier, 86, American film producer.
- Salman Raduyev, 35, Chechen separatist field commander, 'internal bleeding'.
- Ray Wietecha, 74, American professional football player (Michigan State, New York Giants) and coach.[58]
- Antoni Woryna, 61, Polish speedway rider.
15[edit]
- John Crosby, 76, American conductor, founded the Santa Fe Opera.[59]
- Charles E. Fraser, 73, American real estate developer, transformed Hilton Head Island into a world-class resort.[60]
- Vladimir Haensel, 88, American chemical engineer.
- Arthur Jeph Parker, 79, American set decorator.
- Dick Stuart, 70, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies).[61]
16[edit]
- Bill Hunter, 82, Canadian ice hockey player, general manager and coach, cancer.[62]
- Rolston James, 26, Trinidadian international football player, homicide.
- Licínio Rangel, 66, Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop.
- Don Vesco, 63, American businessperson and motorcycle racer, prostate cancer.
17[edit]
- Colin Clark, 70, British film director and writer (My Week with Marilyn).[63]
- John Aubrey Davis, Sr., 90, American civil rights activist.[64]
- Mahmoud Fayad, 77, Egyptian weightlifter (gold medal in featherweight weightlifting at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[65]
- Aideu Handique, 87, Indian actress.
- Frederick Knott, 86, English playwright and screenwriter.[66]
- Hank Luisetti, 86, American basketball star and innovator.[67]
- Dame Mona Mitchell, 64, British courtier.
18[edit]
- Saul Amarel, 74, American computer scientist, known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence.[68]
- Earl Audet, 81, American professional football player (USC, Washington Redskins, Los Angeles Dons) and actor.[69]
- Lucy Grealy, 39, Irish-born American poet and memoirist.[70]
- Ramon John Hnatyshyn, 68, former Governor-General of Canada, pancreatitis.
- Sir Bert Millichip, 88, British football administrator.
- Wayne Owens, 65, U.S. Congressman (D-UT), heart attack.[71]
19[edit]
- Guy Bordelon, 80, American Korean War flying ace.
- Claude Crocker, 78, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).[72]
- Stephen Fleck, 90, American psychiatrist.
- Jim Flower, 79, British admiral.
- Robert Evan Kendell, 67, Welsh psychiatrist.
- Bob Rinker, 81, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[73]
- Arthur Rowley, 76, English footballer, holder of the record for most career league goals scored.
- Lewis B. Smedes, 81, American theologian.
- Roger Webb, 68, British musical director and composer (The Godsend, The Boy in Blue, Death of a Centerfold).[74]
- George Weller, 95, American World War II journalist, his Nagasaki nuclear bomb blast stories censored by U.S. military.[75]
20[edit]
- Leonard Bishop, 80, American novelist, and newspaper columnist.
- Joanne Campbell, 38, British actress, starred in the 1980s comedy series Me and My Girl, deep-vein thrombosis.[76]
- Robert "Sonny" Carson, 66, U.S. Army Korean War veteran and civil rights activist.[77]
- James Richard Ham, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate.
- John W. Hicks, 81, American agricultural economist and academic administrator.
- Wheeler J. North, 80, American marine biologist and environmental scientist.
- Grote Reber, 90, American pioneer of radio astronomy.[78]
21[edit]
- Jeu van Bun, 84, Dutch football player (football at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[79]
- Jules Fejer, 88, Hungarian physicist, made fundamental contributions in research on the Earth's ionosphere.[80]
- José Hierro, 80, Spanish poet.
- Glen Seator, 46, American visual artist and conceptual sculptor, accidental fall.[81]
- Victor Watts, 64, British toponymist, medievalist, translator, and academic, heart attack.
22[edit]
- William G. Bennett, 78, American gaming executive and real estate developer (Circus Circus Enterprises).[82]
- Ian Craib, 57, English sociologist and psychotherapist (The Importance of Disappointment).[83]
- Susan Fleming, 94, American actress (Million Dollar Legs, The Ziegfeld Follies) and wife of actor Harpo Marx.[84]
- Julius S. Held, 77, German art historian.
- Desmond Hoyte, 73, President of Guyana from 1985 to 1992.[85]
- Joe Morgan, 57, New Zealand rugby union player.
- Joe Strummer, 50, former singer for The Clash.
- Kenneth Tobey, 85, American actor (appeared in about 100 films including: Twelve O'Clock High, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Thing from Another World and Airplane!).
- Gabrielle Wittkop, 82, French writer (The Necrophiliac).[86]
23[edit]
- Tatamkhulu Afrika, 82, South African poet and writer.
- Anthony Besch, 78, British opera and theatre director (English National Opera, Scottish Opera, New Opera Company).[87]
- George Bullard, 74, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[88]
- John Henry Kyl, 83, American politician.
- Jimmy Osborne, 94, Australian soccer player.
- Ratheesh, 48, Indian film actor, heart attack.
24[edit]
- Alan Clodd, 84, Irish publisher, book collector, dealer and bibliographical researcher.[89]
- Ward Cuff, 89, American professional football player (New York Giants, Chicago Cardinals, Green Bay Packers).[90]
- Mohammed al Fassi, 50, Saudi Arabian sheik, known for provoking his Beverly Hills neighbors by applying garish paint colors.[91]
- James Ferman, 72, American-British film censor, secretary/director of British Board of Film Classification.[92]
- Erroll Fraser, 52, British Virgin Island speed skater (men's 500 metres, men's 1000 metres at the 1984 Winter Olympics).[93]
- Tita Merello, 98, Argentinian actress and singer.
- V.K. Ramasamy, 76, Indian actor.
- Jake Thackray, 64, English singer-songwriter, heart failure.
- Arch Wilder, 85, Canadian professional hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).[94]
25[edit]
- Gabriel Almond, 91, American political scientist.[95]
- Isabel Mesa Delgado, 89, Spanish trade unionist, feminist, and anarchist.
- William T. Orr, 85, American television executive producer (Maverick, F-Troop, 77 Sunset Strip).[96]
- Larry Uteck, 50, Canadian football player and coach, A.L.S..
- Davina Whitehouse, 90, British-born New Zealand actress (Night Nurse, Sleeping Dogs, Braindead).[97]
26[edit]
- Paul P. Douglas Jr., 83, American U.S. Air Force flying ace, one of the most highly decorated combat aces of World War II.[98]
- Frank Reiber, 93, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[99]
- Herb Ritts, 50, celebrity photographer.[100]
- Armand Zildjian, 81, Armenian-American manufacturer of cymbals, chairman of the Avedis Zildjian Company.[101]
27[edit]
- Truid Blaisse-Terwindt, 85, Dutch hockey- and tennis player.
- Bill Chipley, 82, American professional football player (Boston Yanks, New York Bulldogs).[102]
- Carla Henius, 83, German soprano and mezzo-soprano and librettist.
- George Roy Hill, 81, American film director (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting).[103]
- Mallory Evan Wijesinghe, 84, Sri Lankan engineer and entrepreneur.
- Matsui Yayori, 68, Japanese journalist and women's rights activist.[104]
28[edit]
- Baba Raúl Cañizares, 47, American Santerían priest and writer.
- Maria Carbone, 94, Italian operatic soprano.
- Vladimir Chuyan, 62, Soviet sports shooter (men's 50 metre rifle three positions, men's 50 metre rifle prone at the 1964 Summer Olympics).[105]
- Koreyoshi Kurahara, 75, Japanese screenwriter and director.
- Albert Stubbins, 83, English footballer.
- Joseph Vadakkan, 83, Indian political activist priest and freedom fighter.
- Meri Wilson, 53, American model and singer-songwriter ("Telephone Man"), car accident.[106]
29[edit]
- Al Babartsky, 87, American professional football player (Fordham University, Chicago Cardinals, Chicago Bears).[107]
- Billy Brown, 84, American triple jumper and long jumper (1941 world long jump leader, 1936 Summer Olympics men's triple jump).[108]
- Don Clarke, 69, New Zealand rugby player.
- John Dreyfus, 84, British typographer and printing historian, his writings investigated and celebrated the evolution of type.[109]
- Sir Paul Hawkins, 90, British politician.
- Victoria Lederberg, 65, Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court (1993–2002).
- Július Satinský, 61, Slovak actor and comedian.
- Foster Watkins, 85, American professional football player (West Texas A&M, Philadelphia Eagles).[110]
30[edit]
- Mary Brian, 96, American actress, silent and sound film star (Peter Pan, The Virginian, Charlie Chan in Paris, Man on the Flying Trapeze).[111]
- Barbara Durham, 60, American judge, first female chief justice of the Washington Supreme Court.[112]
- Eleanor J. Gibson, 92, American psychologist.[113]
- Antony Ponzini, 69, American actor.
- Wang Fanxi, 95, Chinese Trotskyist revolutionary.[114]
- Mary Wesley, 90, English novelist (Jumping the Queue, The Camomile Lawn, Part of the Furniture).[115]
31[edit]
- D. J. Enright, 82, British poet, novelist and critic.[116]
- Billy Morris, 84, Welsh footballer.
- Kevin MacMichael, 51, Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter (Cutting Crew), lung cancer.
- Li Rong, 82, Chinese linguist.
- Desmond Tester, 83, English film and television actor and television presenter.
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