• Source: Deaths in June 2002

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.




June 2002






= 1

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Michael Alexander, 65, British diplomat (ambassador to Austria, ambassador to NATO).
Tom Austin, 78, Australian politician.
Hansie Cronje, 32, South African cricketer, plane crash.
Joseph Nanven Garba, 58, Nigerian soldier, diplomat and politician.
James Gathers, 71, American Olympic track and field athlete.
Tibor Scitovsky, 91, Hungarian-American economist.




= 2

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Boyd Bennett, 77, American rockabilly songwriter and singer ("Seventeen", "My Boy, Flat Top"), lung ailment.
Herman Cohen, 76, American film producer (I Was a Teenage Werewolf), esophageal cancer.
Tim Lopes, 51, Brazilian investigative journalist and television producer, tortured.
Hugo van Lawick, 65, Dutch wildlife filmmaker and photographer.
Konrad Wirnhier, 64, German sports shooter (bronze medal in 1968 mixed skeet, gold medal in 1972 mixed skeet).




= 3

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Charles Antrobus, 69, Governor-General of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, leukemia.
Cecil Hankins, 80, American gridiron football player.
Fran Rogel, 74, American football player (Penn State, Pittsburgh Steelers), Parkinson's disease.
Edward Somers, 73, New Zealand jurist and member of the Privy Council.
Lew Wasserman, 89, American talent agent and studio executive(Universal Studios, Decca Records, MCA), complications from a stroke.
Sam Whipple, 41, American actor (Seven Days, The Larry Sanders Show, Open All Night), cancer.
Brian Woledge, 97, English scholar of medieval French language and literature.




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Fernando Belaúnde Terry, 89, Peruvian politician, President of Peru (1963–1968, 1980–1985).
John W. Cunningham, 86, American author.
Ann Henderson, 60, Australian politician.
Pyotr Ivashutin, 92, Soviet Army General and head of the state.
Bob Lackey, 53, American professional basketball player (Marquette University, New York Nets), cancer.




= 5

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Curtis Amy, 72, American jazz saxophonist.
Carlos Berlanga, 42, Spanish musician and painter, liver disease.
Carmelo Bernaola, 72, Spanish composer and clarinetist.
Michel Bernholc, 60, French composer, arranger and producer, suicide by gunshot.
Gaston Geens, 70, Belgian politician, Minister-President of Flanders (1981 -1992).
Aden Abdullahi Nur, Somali politician and army general.
Truck Parham, 91, American jazz double-bassist.
Gwen Plumb, 89, Australian performer and entertainer.
Dee Dee Ramone, 50, American musician, founding member of The Ramones, heroin overdose.
M. Sivasithamparam, 78, Sri Lankan Tamil politician.




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Peter Cowan, 87, Australian writer.
Robbin Crosby, 42, American guitarist (Ratt), AIDS-related complications and heroin overdose.
Bernard Destremau, 85, French tennis player, diplomat and politician.
Yat Malmgren, 86, Swedish dancer and acting teacher.
Shanta Shelke, 79, Indian poet and writer in the Marathi language, cancer.
Holly Solomon, 68, American collector of contemporary art and art dealer, complications from pneumonia.
Betty Winkler, 88, American radio actor.




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Wayne Cody, 65, American sportscaster.
Donald S. Fredrickson, 77, American medical researcher.
Signe Hasso, 86, Swedish actress, writer, and composer, pneumonia.
Rodney Hilton, 85, British medieval historian.
Basappa Danappa Jatti, 89, Indian politician and acting president of India (1977), kidney cancer.
James Luisi, 73, American basketball player and actor, cancer.
Lilian, Princess of Réthy, 85, British-Belgian royal.
Anselmo Sule, 68, Chilean politician.
Edmond Séchan, 82, French cinematographer and film director.




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Ray Alexander, 77, American jazz drummer and vibraphonist, complications from elective surgery.
George Mudie, 86, Jamaican cricketer.
Antonio Oppes, 85, Italian Olympic show jumping rider.
Lino Tonti, 81, Italian motorcycle engineer.




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Elena Burke, 74, Cuban singer of boleros and romantic ballads, cancer.
Paul Chubb, 53, Australian actor (The Coca-Cola Kid, Stan and George's New Life, The Roly Poly Man, Dirty Deeds), post operative cardiomyopathy complications.
Hans Janmaat, 67, Dutch far-right politician, heart failure.
Peter Mokaba, 53, South African politician and political activist, acute pneumonia and respiratory problems.
Alexander Molodchy, 81, Soviet long-range pilot during World War II.
Maxwell M. Rabb, 91, American lawyer and diplomat.
Alexander Vlasov, 70, Soviet/Russian politician.
James Wheaton, 78, American actor, heart attack.




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Dick Brittenden, 82, New Zealand cricket writer.
Louis Carré, 77, Belgian football player and coach.
John Gotti, 61, Italian-American gangster and boss of the Gambino crime family, throat cancer.
Maury Travis, 36, American murderer and serial killer, suicide by hanging.
John Wansbrough, 74, American historian and professor.
Benjamin Ward, 75, first African American New York City Police Commissioner.




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Tahseen Bashir, 77, Egyptian diplomat, spokesman for Gamal Nasser and Anwar Sadat.
Regīna Ezera, 71, Polish-Latvian author.
Bertrand Goldschmidt, 89, French chemist, nuclear physicist and diplomat.
Margaret E. Lynn, 78, American theater director.
Jürgen Kraft, 50, German racing cyclist.
Robert Roswell Palmer, 93, American historian and writer.




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Bill Blass, 79, American fashion designer, esophageal cancer.
Jean de Beaumont, 98, French IOC sports administrator and Olympic sport shooter (men's team shooting at the 1924 Summer Olympics).
John Tileston Edsall, 99, American biochemist.
José Serra Gil, 78, Spanish racing cyclist.
Jeong Seung-hwa, 73, South Korean officer.




= 13

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Guilford Dudley, 94, American businessman and diplomat (U.S. Ambassador to Denmark).
Vincent Fago, 87, American comic-book artist and writer, stomach cancer.
Stanley L. Greigg, 71, American Watergate break-in victim.
John Hope, 83, American meteorologist, complications of an open heart surgery.
R. W. B. Lewis, 84, American literary scholar and critic and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Ante Mladinić, 72, Croatian football manager.
Hideo Murata, 73, Japanese rōkyoku and enka singer.
Ralph Shapey, 81, American composer and conductor.
Maia Wojciechowska, 74, Polish-American writer of children's books (Shadow of a Bull).




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Albert Band, 78, American film director and film producer, frequently collaborated with John Huston.
Rino Benedetti, 73, Italian road bicycle racer.
José Bonilla, 34, Venezuelan boxer, asthma attack.
Lily Carlstedt, 76, Danish Olympic javelin thrower (bronze medal at 1948 women's javelin throw, 1952 women's javelin throw).
George William Coventry, 11th Earl of Coventry, 68, British peer and politician.
W. Nelson Francis, 91, America author, linguist and university professor, scholar of the English language.
June Jordan, 65, Caribbean-American poet, essayist and activist, breast cancer.




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Said Belqola, 45, Moroccan referee of the 1998 FIFA World Cup final, cancer.
Silas Bissell, 60, American activist and member of The Weatherman, brain cancer.
Mutal Burhonov, 86, Soviet/Uzbek composer.
Choi Hong-hi, 83, South Korean Army general and martial artist, purported "father of Taekwon-Do", cancer.
Big Mello, 33, American rapper from Houston, Texas, traffic collision.
Hideo Murota, 64, Japanese actor.
Dick White, 70, English football player.
Robert Whitehead, 86, Canadian theatre producer, winner of four Tony Awards.




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Louis Giguère, 90, Canadian politician.
Barbara Goalen, 81, British model.
Kiço Ngjela, 82, Albanian politician.
Harry Oakman, 96, Australian horticulturalist and writer.




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Bill Adair, 89, American baseball manager and coach (Milwaukee Braves, Atlanta Braves, Chicago White Sox, Montreal Expos).
Louis George Alexander, 70, British teacher and author (New Concept English), a prolific writer of English-language text books.
Stein Ove Berg, 53, Norwegian singer, songwriter, and journalist.
J. Carter Brown, 67, American director of the National Gallery of Art from 1969 to 1992, multiple myeloma.
Willie Davenport, 59, American Olympic hurdler (1968 gold medal, 1976 bronze medal), heart attack.
John C. Davies II, 82, American politician (U.S. Representative for New York's 35th congressional district).
Dobri Dzhurov, 86, Bulgarian politician and military leader.
Francisco Escudero, 89, Basque composer.
Zora Kolínska, 60, Slovak actress, singer, and presenter.
Yuri Korneev, 65, Russian basketball player.
Roger Mackay, 46, Australian golfer, lymphoma.
Antony C. Sutton, 77, British-American writer, economist, and academic.
Fritz Walter, 81, German football player, captain of 1954 World Cup winners.




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Nancy Addison, 54, American soap actress, cancer.
Naseem Banu, 85, Indian actress.
Jack Buck, 77, American sportscaster, best known for announcing MLB games of the St. Louis Cardinals, Parkinson's disease.
Nilima Ibrahim, 81, Bangladeshi writer.
Jack Jenkins, 59, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Los Angeles Dodgers).
Walter Villa, 58, Italian four-time Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world champion, heart attack.




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Ross Carter, 88, American gridiron football player (University of Oregon, Chicago Cardinals).
Margaret Johnston, 87, Australian-British actress.
Robert W. Lenski, 76, American screenwriter.
Pascal Mazzotti, 78, French actor (The King and the Mockingbird).
Dmitry Oboznenko, 71, Soviet Russian painter and graphic artist.
Count Flemming of Rosenborg, 80, Danish prince.
Johnny Strzykalski, 80, American gridiron football player.
N. F. Varghese, 53, Indian actor.




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Carlos Badion, 66, Filipino basketball player (basketball at the 1956 Summer Olympics, basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics), heart attack.
Heinz Bigler, 76, Swiss football player.
Erwin Chargaff, 96, Austro-Hungarian biochemist.
Fred Drake, 44, American musician, lung cancer.
Timothy Findley, 71, Canadian author (The Wars, Headhunter, Pilgrim, Elizabeth Rex).
Irene MacDonald, 68, Canadian athlete, sports executive and broadcaster.
Tinus Osendarp, 86, Dutch sprinter (two-time bronze medal at 1936 Summer Olympics: men's 100 metres, men's 200 metres).
Enrique Regüeiferos, 53, Cuban boxer (silver medal in light welterweight boxing at the 1968 Summer Olympics).
Sa'id Akhtar Rizvi, 75, Indian scholar.
Stanisław Trepczyński, 78, Polish diplomat.
John Wirth, 66, American professor and historian of Latin American studies.




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Sidney Armus, 77, American actor, cancer.
Matt Dennis, 88, American singer, pianist and composer ("Angel Eyes", "Everything Happens to Me", "Violets for Your Furs").
Henry Keith, Baron Keith of Kinkel, 80, British jurist.
Wladimiro Panizza, 57, Italian road bicycle racer.
Kurt Seibt, 94, East German politician.
Berl Senofsky, 76, American classical violinist and teacher, lung disease.
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, 70, Australian painter.




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Chang Cheh, 79, Hong Kong film director, pneumonia.
David O. Cooke, 81, American civil servant, Director of Administration and Management at the U.S. Department of Defense.
Justin Whitlock Dart, Jr., 71, American activist and advocate for people with disabilities.
Conrad Hansen, 95, German pianist and a piano teacher.
Darryl Kile, 33, Major League Baseball player (Houston Astros, Colorado Rockies, St. Louis Cardinals), heart attack.
Ron Kline, 70, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tigers, Washington Senators).
Eppie Lederer, 83, American media celebrity and advice columnist known by her pen name Ann Landers, multiple myeloma.
Helen Nielsen, 83, American author and screen writer (Perry Mason, Alfred Hitchcock Presents).
Yoshio Okada, 75, Japanese football player.
Cho Yoon-ok, 62, South Korean football player and manager.




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Lionel Bernstein, 82, South African anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner.
Fadzil Noor, 63, Malaysian politician and religious teacher, complications following heart bypass surgery.
Carlo Savina, 82, Italian composer and conductor.
Alice Stewart, 95, British physician and epidemiologist.




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Larry Alcala, 75, Filipino editorial cartoonist and illustrator.
Pedro Alcázar, 26, Panamanian boxer, injuries sustained during title fight.
Robert Dorfman, 85, American economist.
Doreen Fernandez, 67, Filipino writer, teacher, cultural historian, food critic and scholar.
Bernard Longpré, 65, Canadian director and animator.
Miles Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk, 86, 17th Duke of Norfolk.
Frank Ripploh, 52, German actor, film director, and author, cancer.
Pierre Werner, 88, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1959–1974, 1979–1984), considered the "father of the euro".




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Syed Ali Ahsan, 82, Bangladeshi poet, writer and academic.
Joe Antolick, 86, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
Gordon Park Baker, 64, American philosopher, focussing on the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Turhan Baytop, 82, Turkish botanist and pharmacist.
Jean Corbeil, 68, Canadian politician (Minister of Labour, Minister of Transport, member of Parliament).
Derrek Dickey, 51, American basketball player and sportscaster (Cincinnati, Golden State Warriors, Chicago Bulls), heart attack.




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Barbara G. Adams, 57, British egyptologist, cancer.
Humaira Begum, 83, Afghan royal as the last queen consort of Afghanistan, heart failure.
Arnold Brown, 88, British General of the Salvation Army.
Donald A. Bullough, 74, British historian and author.
Dolores Gray, 78, American actress and singer, heart attack.
Martti Ketelä, 57, Finnish modern pentathlete.
Henry Jepson Latham, 93, American attorney, politician, and jurist.
Raoul Rémy, 82, French road bicycle racer.
Dermot Walsh, 77, Irish actor (Richard the Lionheart, Sea of Sand, The Challenge).
Philip Whalen, 78, American Beat generation poet and Zen Buddhist priest.
Turgut Özatay, 74, Turkish film actor, lung cancer.




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Qu Bo, 79, Chinese novelist.
Charles Frederick Carter, 82, British economist and academic administrator.
John Entwistle, 57, English bassist (The Who), heart attack.
Ralph Erickson, 100, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
Richard Evonitz, 38, American serial killer, kidnapper, and rapist, suicide by gunshot.
Muharram Fouad, 68, Egyptian actor and singer, starred in Hassan and Nayima with co-star Soad Hosny.
Russ Freeman, 76, American bebop and jazz pianist and songwriter.
Robert L. J. Long, 82, American admiral.
Georgi Sokolov, 60, Bulgarian football player.
Timothy White, 50, American rock music journalist and editor (Crawdaddy!, Rolling Stone, Billboard), heart attack.




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Anatoly Akimov, 54, Soviet Olympic water polo player (gold medal winner in water polo at the 1972 Summer Olympics).
William Dufty, 86, American writer, musician, and activist (Lady Sings the Blues, Sugar Blues), cancer.
Doug Elmore, 62, American professional football player (Ole Miss, Washington Redskins).
François Périer, 82, French actor, heart attack.




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Terry Bourke, 62, Australian screenwriter, producer and director (Spyforce, Night of Fear, The Tourist).
Rosemary Clooney, 74, American singer and actress ("Come On-a My House", "Hey There", "This Ole House"), lung cancer.
Ole-Johan Dahl, 70, Norwegian computer scientist, considered one of the fathers of object-oriented programming.
Alfred Dregger, 81, German politician and a leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Obby Kapita, 47, Zambian football player and coach, colorectal cancer.
Roger Lévêque, 81, French road racing cyclist from 1946 to 1953.
William Edward Ozzard, 87, American politician.
Jaime Brocal Remohi, 66, Spanish comic book artist.
Jan Tomasz Zamoyski, 90, Polish political activist, aristocrat and member of anti-Nazi underground resistance.




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Claude Berge, 76, French mathematician.
Josef Buršík, 90, Czech resistance fighter, dissident, and political prisoner.
W. Maxwell Cowan, 70, South African neurobiologist.
Pete Gray, 87, American one-armed baseball player (St. Louis Browns).
Nikolay Haytov, 82, Bulgarian fiction writer, playwright, and publicist, cancer.
Raúl Sánchez, 71, Cuban-American baseball player (Washington Senators, Cincinnati Redlegs/Reds).
Roberto Villa, 86, Italian actor (The Fornaretto of Venice), pancreatitis.
Dave Wilson, 69, American television director (Saturday Night Live), aortic aneurysm.
Chico Xavier, 92, Brazilian spiritual medium and author, acute heart attack.




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