Contents
The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
February 2002
1
- Aykut Barka, 50, Turkish earth scientist, traffic collision.
- Streamline Ewing, 85, American jazz trombonist, worked with Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Jimmie Lunceford, Cab Calloway.
- Hildegard Knef, 76, German actress and singer, pneumonia.
- Irish McCalla, 73, American actress (Sheena, Queen of the Jungle) and artist, stroke and complications from brain tumor.
- Daniel Pearl, 38, American journalist, decapitation.
2
- Paul Baloff, 41, American vocalist (Exodus) , heart failure.
- Claude Brown, 64, American author (Manchild in the Promised Land).
- Andy Hansen, 77, American baseball player (New York Giants, Philadelphia Phillies).
- Ed Jucker, 85, American basketball coach (1961 and 1962 NCAA titles at Cincinnati) and baseball coach, prostate cancer.
- Ani Pachen, 68, Tibetan freedom fighter, activist and author, known as Tibet's "warrior nun".
- Remo Palmier, 78, American jazz guitarist (Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday).
- Oscar Reutersvärd, 86, Swedish graphic artist.
3
- James Blackwood, 82, American Gospel singer (The Blackwood Brothers).
- Kay Brownbill, 87, Australian media personality and politician.
- K. Chakravarthy, 65, Indian music director.
- Edward Thomas Chapman, 82, Welsh World War II British Army corporal and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
- Rudolf Fleischmann, 98, German nuclear physicist.
- Raymond Gérôme, 81, Belgian-French stage and screen actor.
- Bill Harvey, 82, English football player.
- Mel McGaha, 75, American baseball coach and manager.
- Hans Paetsch, 92, German actor.
- Julien Rassam, 33, French actor, suicide.
- Nelson Royal, 66, American professional wrestler, trainer and promoter, heart attack.
- Aglaja Veteranyi, 39, Romanian-Swiss writer, suicide by drowning.
4
- Agatha Barbara, 78, Maltese politician.
- Sigvard Bernadotte, 94, Swedish prince.
- Frederick J. Clarke, 86, US Army lieutenant General as Chief of Engineers.
- Sarah Clarke, 82, Irish nun and civil rights campaigner.
- Bhagwan Dada, 88, Indian actor and film director, heart attack.
- Ralph Fritz, 84, American gridiron football player (University of Michigan, Philadelphia Eagles).
- Wiesław Gąsiorek, 66, Polish tennis player.
- Miloslav Hamr, 85, Czechoslovak table tennis player.
- Bert Head, 85, English football player and manager.
- Inge Konradi, 77, Austrian stage and film actress, cancer.
- George Nader, 80, American actor (Six Bridges to Cross, Lady Godiva of Coventry, Sins of Jezebel), cardiopulmonary failure.
- Helen Dodson Prince, 96, American astronomer.
- Broderick Thompson, 41, American gridiron football player (Kansas, San Diego Chargers), traffic collision.
- Eve Titus, 79, American children's writer.
- Baxter Ward, 82, American television news anchor and two-term member of Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
5
- Angela du Maurier, 97, English actress and novelist.
- Yasutake Funakoshi, 89, Japanese sculptor and painter.
- Raymond Martorano, 74, Italian-American mobster (Philadelphia crime family), shot.
- Robert Mather, 87, Australian politician.
- Annalee Whitmore Fadiman, 85, American screenwriter (Andy Hardy Meets Debutante, Babes in Arms) and World War II foreign correspondent, euthanasia.
6
- Osman Bölükbaşı, Turkish politician and political party leader, respiratory failure.
- Grietje de Jongh, 77, Dutch Olympic sprinter.
- Wendell Marshall, 81, American jazz double-bassist.
- Eken Mine, 66, Japanese voice actor.
- Max Perutz, 87, Austrian-born British molecular biologist, and co-winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, cancer.
- Yehoshua Rozin, 83, Israeli basketball coach.
- Guy Stockwell, 68, American actor (Adventures in Paradise, Beau Geste, The Richard Boone Show), complications from diabetes.
7
- Elisa Bridges, 28, American actress and model, Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for December 1994, drug overdose.
- Jack Fairman, 88, British Formula One driver.
- David Gibson-Watt, Baron Gibson-Watt, 83, British politician.
- Diane Hart, 75, English actress and political campaigner.
- Lorne Henderson, 81, Canadian politician.
- Wilhelm Johnen, 80, German Luftwaffe night fighter ace during World War II.
- Jerrold Katz, 69, American philosopher and linguist.
- Tony Pond, 56, British rally driver, pancreatic cancer.
8
- Elisabeth Mann Borgese, 83, German-Canadian environmentalist, political scientist and writer, pneumonia.
- Nick Brignola, 65, American jazz saxophonist.
- Ong Teng Cheong, 66, Singaporean politician and fifth President of Singapore (1993-1999), lymphoma.
- William T. Dillard, 87, American retailer (Dillard's Department Stores).
- Maurice Foley, 76, British politician (Member of Parliament for West Bromwich).
- Joachim Hoffmann, 71, German historian.
- John Mark Inienger, 56, Nigerian Army major general, traffic collision.
- Lloyd Kiva New, 85, American Cherokee artist and designer.
- Esther Afua Ocloo, 82, Ghanaian entrepreneur and pioneer of microlending, pneumonia.
- Grigory Okhay, 85, Soviet MiG-15 flying ace during the Korean War.
- Giannis Pathiakakis, 48, Greek football player, heart attack.
- Duggie Reid, 84, Scottish football player.
- Eldon Rudd, 81, American politician.
- Bob Wooler, 76, British disc jockey, known for introducing The Beatles to future manager, Brian Epstein.
- Zizinho, 80, Brazilian football player, heart attack.
9
- Miroslav Adlešič, 94, Slovene physicist.
- Michael Joseph Begley, 92, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Richard Herbert Foote, 83, American entomologist.
- Fred Gehrke, 83, American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and executive (Denver Broncos).
- Isabelle Holland, 81, American children's author.
- Bill McElhiney, 87, American musician, band leader, and musical director, Alzheimer's disease.
- Judson Pratt, 85, American character actor.
- Vesta M. Roy, 76, American politician.
- Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, 71, British royal and sister of Queen Elizabeth II, stroke.
- Ale Ahmad Suroor, 90, Indian poet and critic.
10
- Jack Abbott, 58, American criminal and author (In the Belly of the Beast), suicide by hanging.
- Chet Clemens, 84, American baseball player (Boston Bees/Braves).
- Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora, 77, Spanish essayist and politician.
- John Erickson, 72, British historian, a leading authority on the Soviet Union and Russia.
- Ramón Arellano Félix, 37, Mexican drug lord, shot.
- Traudl Junge, 81, German secretary who took Adolf Hitler's last will and testament (Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary), lung cancer.
- Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi, 53, Indian Shī'ah scholar, historian, author and poet.
- Jim Spencer, 54, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics), heart attack.
- Dan R. Tonkovich, 55, American politician. (body discovered on this date)
- Dave Van Ronk, 65, American folk singer, and an important figure in New York City's Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s, colorectal cancer.
- Vernon A. Walters, 85, American U.S. Army officer and diplomat (Deputy Director of the C.I.A., U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations).
11
- Mary Brooks, 94, American director of the United States Mint from 1969 to 1977.
- Ralph Buchsbaum, 95, American zoologist, ecologist and author (Animals Without Backbones).
- Frankie Crosetti, 91, American baseball player (New York Yankees) and coach (New York Yankees, Seattle Pilots, Minnesota Twins).
- Barry Foster, 74, British actor, heart attack.
- George A. Kasem, 82, American politician (U.S. Representative for California's 25th congressional district), pneumonia.
- Les Peden, 78, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
- Victor Posner, 83, American businessman, tycoon and corporate raider, pneumonia.
- Gaetano Stammati, 93, Italian politician.
12
- Theresa Bernstein, 111, Polish-American artist and writer.
- Barbara May Cameron, 47, American human rights activist.
- William Lee Dwyer, 72, American federal judge (U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington).
- George Eiferman, 76, American bodybuilder, won Mr.Universe in 1962.
- John Eriksen, 44, Danish footballer, fall.
- Idé Oumarou, 65, Nigerien diplomat, government minister, and journalist, heart attack.
- José Travassos, 75, Portuguese football player.
13
- George Bray, 83, English footballer.
- Ramón Grosso, 58, Spanish footballer, cancer.
- Carlos Aboim Inglez, 72, Portuguese communist intellectual, militant and politician.
- Waylon Jennings, 64, American country music performer, actor, and disc jockey, diabetes.
- Dick Kleiner, 80, American entertainment columnist and journalist.
- Manfred Kuschmann, 51, East German long-distance runner.
- Edmar Mednis, 64, American chess grandmaster, complications from pneumonia.
- Thomas J. H. Trapnell, 99, American U.S. Army lieutenant general.
- Pauline Trigère, 93, French-American fashion designer.
- Sidney Weighell, 79, British footballer, trade unionist and the General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen.
14
- Domènec Balmanya, 87, Spanish football midfielder and manager.
- J. Desmond Clark, 85, British-American archeologist, anthropologist and author, pneumonia.
- Gene Cook, 70, American professional football player (Detroit Lions), minor league baseball executive and elected official in Toledo, Ohio.
- Norman Davidson, 85, American molecular biologist, a major figure in advancing genome research.
- Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz, 81, French member of the resistance during WW II.
- Nándor Hidegkuti, 79, Hungarian football player and manager (gold medal winner in Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
- A. J. Kardar, 75, Pakistani film director, producer and screenwriter.
- Grover Krantz, 70, American anthropologist and cryptozoologist, known as a Bigfoot researcher, pancreatic cancer.
- Bud Olson, 76, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta.
- John Stevens, 80, English musicologist, literary scholar and historian.
- Mick Tucker, 54, English drummer for the glam rock band Sweet, leukemia.
- Günter Wand, 90, German orchestra conductor.
15
- Doug Cash, 82, Australian politician.
- Mike Darr, 25, American baseball player (San Diego Padres), traffic collision.
- Munro S. Edmonson, 77, American linguist and anthropologist.
- Lucille Lund, 88, American film actress (The Black Cat).
- Ke Pauk, 68, Cambodian leader of the Khmer Rouge.
- Jacques Roulot, 68, French fencer.
- Howard K. Smith, 87, American television anchorman and political commentator, pneumonia.
- Kevin Smith, 38, New Zealand actor, (Xena: Warrior Princess, Young Hercules), fall.
- Garry Weston, 74, Canadian businessman (Associated British Foods).
16
- Tommy Crutcher, 60, American professional football player (TCU, Green Bay Packers).
- John W. Gardner, 89, American public servant, U.S. Secretary of H.E.W., cancer.
- Peter Voulkos, 78, American ceramist, heart attack.
- Walter Winterbottom, 88, British football manager, first full-time manager of the England football team, surgical complications.
17
- Anthony Benjamin, 70, English painter and sculptor.
- Ross Dowson, 84, Canadian Trotskyist politician.
- Ehtesham, 74, Bangladeshi and Pakistani film director.
- Paterson Ewen, 76, Canadian painter and sculptor, known for his cosmological images.
- Lev Kulidzhanov, 77, Soviet film director and screenwriter, stroke.
18
- Giustino Durano, 78, Italian actor (Life Is Beautiful).
- Jack Lambert, 81, American actor.
- Mohammed Dabo Lere, Nigerian politician.
- Gabriel Mariano, 73, Cape Verdean writer.
- Byrne Piven, 72, American actor (Being John Malkovich, Miracle on 34th Street, Very Bad Things), lung cancer.
- José Ortega Spottorno, 85, Spanish journalist and publisher.
19
- Sal Bartolo, 84, American boxer and WBA featherweight champion.
- Lila De Nobili, 85, Italian stage designer, costume designer, and fashion illustrator.
- Otto Eisenmann, 88, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
- Virginia Hamilton, 67, American children's book author, breast cancer.
- Swede Hanson, 68, American professional wrestler, sepsis.
- Rashid Ahmad Ludhianvi, 79, Pakistani Islamic scholar and faqīh.
- Sylvia Rivera, 50, American gay liberation and transgender activist, liver cancer.
- Gene Ruggiero, 91, American film editor.
- Arne Selmosson, 70, Swedish football player and manager.
- William Davis Taylor, 93, American newspaper executive and publisher of The Boston Globe.
20
- Laura duPont, 52, American tennis player, 1977 U.S. Clay Court Champion, breast cancer.
- Dennis Kelleher, 83, Irish football player.
- Stephen Longstreet, 94, American writer and artist.
- Edwin H. May, Jr., 77, American businessman and politician.
- Jean Oser, 94, German-American film editor.
- Branko Stanković, 80, Bosnian Serb footballer and manager.
- Fredric Steinkamp, 73, American film editor (Grand Prix, Tootsie, Out of Africa), Oscar winner (1967).
- Willie Thrower, 71, American gridiron football player (Michigan State, Chicago Bears), heart attack.
21
- A. L. Barker, 83, British author.
- Laudomia Bonanni, 94, Italian writer and journalist.
- Roden Cutler, 85, Australian diplomat and Governor of New South Wales.
- Bill Faul, 61, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants).
- Harold Furth, 72, Austrian-American physicist and a leader in controlled fusion research, heart attack.
- Pietro Grossi, 84, Italian computer music pioneer, visual artist and hacker.
- Trevor Hampton, 89, British diver.
- Leroy Milton Kelly, 87, American mathematician.
- Harold Pruett, 32, American actor (The Outsiders), accidental drug overdose.
- John Thaw, 60, British actor (Inspector Morse, The Sweeney, Kavanagh QC), cancer.
- Georges Vedel, 91, French public law professor.
- Harold Weisberg, 88, American civil servant, investigative reporter and author.
22
- Paddy Ambrose, 73, Irish football player and coach.
- Maria Corti, 86, Italian philologist, literary critic, and novelist.
- Vyacheslav Dryagin, 61, Soviet Olympic skier (Winter Olympics men's Nordic combined: 1964, 1968, 1972).
- Raymond Firth, 100, British anthropologist.
- Chuck Jones, 89, American animator, creator of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, heart failure.
- Francisco Mora, 79, Mexican artist of the "Mexican School" of mural painters.
- Joaquim Olmos, 86, Spanish racing cyclist.
- Poncke Princen, 76, Dutch anti-Nazi fighter during World War II and activist.
- Jonas Malheiro Savimbi, 67, Angolan revolutionary, leader of UNITA, shot.
- Barbara Valentin, 61, Austrian actress, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Ronnie Verrell, 76, English jazz drummer.
23
- Franz Elbern, 91, German footballer.
- Bernd Hartstein, 54, German Olympic sport shooter and trainer, leukemia.
- Peaches Jackson, 88, American film actress.
- Gordon Matthews, 65, American inventor and businessman, considered the father of "voice mail", stroke.
- Prathyusha, 20, Indian actress, suicide by poisoning.
- Ryszard Przybysz, 52, Polish Olympic handball player.
24
- Martin Esslin, 83, Hungarian-British producer, dramatist, and journalist, Parkinson's disease.
- David Hawkins, 88, American philosopher and historian of the Manhattan Project.
- Stanislav Libenský, 80, Czech contemporary artist.
- Arthur Lyman, 70, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player ("Yellow Bird"), esophageal cancer.
- Leo Ornstein, 106, Russian-born American experimental composer and pianist.
- Mel Stewart, 72, American actor, television director, and musician, Alzheimer's disease.
- Robert Strausz-Hupé, 98, American diplomat (U.S. Ambassador to: Sri Lanka, Belgium, Sweden, NATO, Turkey).
- Hela Yungst, 52, Israeli-American actress (Guiding Light, All My Children) and beauty pageant winner, cancer.
25
- Clint Alberta, 32, Canadian filmmaker, suicide by jumping.
- Claire Davenport, 68, English actress, kidney failure.
- António Dembo, 57, Angolan anti-communist revolutionary, leader of UNITA, killed in action.
- Clive L. DuVal II, 89, American politician and lawyer, cancer.
- Afaq Hussain, 62, Pakistani cricketer.
26
- L. Balaraman, 70, Indian politician, MP (1984–1991, 1996–1998).
- Werner Grothmann, 86, German Waffen-SS officer during World War II and aide-de-camp to Heinrich Himmler.
- Helen Megaw, 94, Irish crystallographer.
- Oskar Sala, 91, German physicist, composer and a pioneer of electronic music (The Birds).
- Lawrence Tierney, 82, American actor (Dillinger, The Greatest Show on Earth, Reservoir Dogs), pneumonia.
- Tony Young, 64, American actor (Gunslinger, General Hospital, Star Trek), lung cancer.
27
- Georges Beaucourt, 89, French football player.
- Tord Godal, 92, Norwegian theologian and bishop for the Diocese of Nidaros.
- Warren Harding, 77, American rock climber.
- Spike Milligan, 83, Irish actor, comedian and writer (The Goon Show), kidney failure.
- Dykes Potter, 91, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
- Kosta Angeli Radovani, 85, Croatian sculptor and member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
- Surajit Chandra Sinha, Indian anthropologist.
28
- Janice Cooper, 62, Australian Olympic high jumper (women's high jump at the 1956 Summer Olympics).
- Ehsan Jafri, Indian politician, killed by a mob.
- Mary Stuart, 75, American actress (Search for Tomorrow), bone cancer, stroke.
- Helmut Zacharias, 82, German violinist and composer, Alzheimer's disease.
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