• Source: Deaths in October 2002

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.




October 2002






= 1

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Walter Annenberg, 94, American publisher (The Philadelphia Inquirer, TV Guide, Daily Racing Form, Seventeen) and philanthropist.
Ilie Ceaușescu, 76, Romanian general and communist politician, pneumonia.
Consuelo Salgar, 74, Colombian journalist, advertising executive, and politician, liver cancer.
Edeltraud Schramm, 78, Austrian Olympic gymnast.




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Norman O. Brown, 89, American philosopher and author (Life Against Death, Love's Body).
Al Lerner, 69, American businessman, football team owner, and philanthropist.
Tiberiu Olah, 74, Romanian-Hungarian composer, teacher and musicologist.
Alexander Sinclair, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.
Heinz von Foerster, 90, Austrian-American physicist and philosopher, one of the founders of constructivism.




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Tad Horino, 81, American film and television actor.
Felix Kracht, 90, German engineer.
Bruce Paltrow, 58, American television and film director and producer, pneumonia.
Dalvanius Prime, 54, New Zealand entertainer and songwriter, cancer.
John Weitz, 79, American fashion designer, novelist and historian.




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Per Bronken, 67, Norwegian poet, novelist, actor, film director and stage producer.
Alphonse Chapanis, 85, American pioneer in the field of industrial design.
André Delvaux, 76, Belgian film director, considered the father of the Belgian film industry, heart attack.
Hans Holmér, 71, Swedish civil servant and author.
Buddy Lester, 87, American actor and comedian, cancer.
Ahmad Mahmoud, 70, Iranian novelist.
Marcel Reymond, 91, Swiss Olympic ski jumper.
Roy Wilkins, 68, American professional football player (University of Georgia, Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins).




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Magda B. Arnold, 98, Canadian psychologist.
Reginald Hibbert, 80, British diplomat.
Morag Hood, 59, British actress, cancer.
Ron Horn, 64, American basketball player.
Tony Mazzocchi, 76, American labor leader, pancreatic cancer.
Mia Čorak Slavenska, 86, Croatian-American ballerina.
Jay R. Smith, 87, American child actor and comedian, stabbed.




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Ben Eastman, 91, American runner (silver medal in men's 400 metres at the 1932 Summer Olympics).
Wolfgang Mischnick, 81, German liberal politician (FDP).
Prince Claus of the Netherlands, 76, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Dutch diplomat, pneumonia.
Chuck Rayner, 82, Canadian professional hockey player (New York Americans, New York Rangers).
Nick Whitehead, 69, British (Welsh) sprinter (bronze medal in men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics).
Juan Yustrich, 93, Argentine football goalkeeper.




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Pierangelo Bertoli, 59, Italian singer-songwriter and poet, heart attack.
Ralph Harry, 85, Australian diplomat and intelligence specialist.
Cor Kint, 82, Dutch backstroke swimmer and 1938 European Champion.
Marcel Paille, 69, Canadian ice hockey goaltender, cancer.
Domenico Paolella, 86, Italian director, screenwriter and journalist.
Ed Rossbach, 88, American fiber artist.




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Jodie Beeler, 80, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).
Phyllis Calvert, 87, British actress (The Man in Grey, Fanny by Gaslight, The Magic Bow, My Own True Love), kidney failure.
Jacques Richard, 50, Canadian ice hockey player, car accident.
Joachim Zahn, 88, German business executive, chairman of Daimler-Benz (1971-1979).




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Sopubek Begaliev, 71, Soviet-era economist and politician.
Charles Guggenheim, 78, American documentary film director, producer, and screenwriter, pancreatic cancer.
Anwar Hussain, 82, Pakistani cricketer.
Oleksandr Liashko, 86, Ukrainian politician.
Carlo Lievore, 64, Italian Olympic javelin thrower.
Eric Martin, 33, American racing driver, racing accident.
Jim Martin, 78, American football player.
Bruno O'Ya, 69, Estonian-Polish actor.
Aileen Wuornos, 46, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.




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Strahinja Alagić, 78, Serbian basketball player and coach.
Mario de las Casas, 101, Peruvian football defender.
Tom Casey, 78, American professional football player (New York Yankees, Hamilton Wildcats, Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
Fate Echols, 63, American professional football player (Northwestern University, St. Louis Cardinals).
Lawrence H. Fountain, 89, American politician (U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 2nd congressional district).
Teresa Graves, 54, American actress and singer, house fire, accidental death.
Denison Kitchel, 94, American lawyer political advisor.
Abe Most, 82, Swing clarinetist and alto saxophonist.
Zara Nelsova, 81, Canadian cellist.
Tom Sullivan, 52, American gridiron football player, accidental death.
Erling Sørensen, 81, Danish football player and manager.




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Betty Molesworth Allen, 89, New Zealand botanist.
Stewart Crawford, 89, British diplomat.
Werner Eberlein, 82, German socialist politician and party functionary, heart attack.
Bill Field, 93, British politician.
Ron Gray, 82, English football player and manager.
Maxim Levy, 52, Israeli politician.
Dina Pathak, 80, Indian actor and director, heart attack.
Emilio García Riera, 70, Spanish-born Mexican actor, writer and cinema critic.
Christine Stevens, 84, American animal welfare activist and conservationist.
Fred Troller, 71, Swiss-born graphic designer.
Stanley Wagner, 94, Canadian ice hockey player (gold medal in ice hockey at the 1932 Winter Olympics).
Rusty Wailes, 66, American rower (two Olympic gold medals in rowing: 1956 men's eight, 1960 men's coxless four).




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Viktor Asmaev, 54, Russian Olympic equestrian (gold medal in equestrian team jumping at the 1980 Summer Olympics).
Ray Conniff, 85, American bandleader and arranger, fall.
Carolina Fadic, 28, Chilean actress and television presenter, cerebral hemorrhage.
Desmond Fitzpatrick, 89, British Army general.
Audrey Mestre, 28, French world record-setting free diver, drowned.
Nozomi Momoi, 24, Japanese AV idol, murdered.
Sidney W. Pink, 86, American movie director and producer.
William R. Sears, 89, American aeronautical engineer and educator.




= 13

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Stephen E. Ambrose, 66, American historian and author (Band of Brothers), lung cancer.
Keene Curtis, 79, American actor (The Rothschilds, Annie, Cheers), Alzheimer's disease.
Mason Hammond, 99, American educator and scholar.
Jim Higgins, 71, British politician.
Billy McAdams, 68, Northern Irish football player and manager.
Ila Mitra, 76, Indian communist politician and activist.
Dennis Patrick, 84, American actor, fire.
Eileen Southern, 82, American musicologist, researcher and author.
Garfield Todd, 94, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia.
Herman Fredrik Zeiner-Gundersen, 87, Norwegian Army general.




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Bill Green, 72, American politician (U.S. Representative for New York's 18th and 15th congressional districts), liver cancer.
Timothy Reuter, 55, German-British historian, brain cancer.
Norbert Schultze, 91, German film score composer and Nazi Party member.
Arturo Silvestri, 81, Italian football player and manager.




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Grace Hamblin, 94, British private secretary to Winston Churchill.
Jack Lee, 89, British film director.
Paul Paillole, 96, French intelligence services officer.
Zeev, 79, Israeli caricaturist and illustrator.




= 16

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Per Bak, 53, Danish theoretical physicist, known for "self-organized criticality", myelodysplastic syndrome.
Philip Brett, 64, British-American musicologist, musician and conductor, cancer.
Harry Ferrier, 82, Scottish football player and manager.
Allen Walker Read, 96, American etymologist and lexicographer.
Henri Renaud, 77, French jazz pianist, record producer, and record company executive.




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Derek Bell, 66, Northern Irish musician and composer (The Chieftains), heart attack.
Pattie Coldwell, 50, British television broadcaster and journalist (Nationwide, Open Air, Loose Women, You and Yours), brain tumor.
Yara Cortes, 81, Brazilian actress.
Chuck Domanico, 58, American jazz bassist, lung cancer.
D. Elmo Hardy, 88, American entomologist.
Bashful Brother Oswald, 90, American country musician, a frequent Grand Ole Opry performer.
Yitzhak Peretz, 66, Israeli politician.
Alina Pienkowska, 50, Polish free trade union activist and politician, cancer.
Aileen Riggin, 96, American Olympic swimmer and diver.
Fred Scolari, 80, American basketball player and coach.




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Richard Bernstein, 62, American artist, member of the circle of Andy Warhol, complications of AIDS.
Cecil Blacker, 86, British Army general, Adjutant-General to the Forces.
Kam Fong Chun, 84, American police officer and actor (Hawaii Five-O), lung cancer.
John D. Ferry, 90, Canadian-American biochemist, made important contributions to polymer science.
Roman Tam, 52, Hong Kong cantopop singer, liver cancer.




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Peter Bergmann, 87, German-American physicist, known for his work with Albert Einstein.
Manuel Álvarez Bravo, 100, Mexican photographer.
John Meredyth Lucas, 83, American writer, director and producer, leukemia.
Mehli Mehta, 94, Indian conductor and violinist.
Hans Jürgen Press, 76, German children's writer and illustrator.
Nikolay Rukavishnikov, 70, Soviet cosmonaut, heart attack.
Hank Smith, 68, Canadian country music singer.
Héctor Trujillo, 94, Dominican general and political figure.




= 20

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Barbara Berjer, 82, American actress (As the World Turns, Another World), pneumonia.
Hans Eisele, 62, German football player.
Bernard Fresson, 71, French actor (French Connection II, The Tenant, Street of No Return), cancer.
Mel Harder, 93, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), coach and manager (Cleveland Indians).




= 21

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Aldo Canazza, 94, Italian racing cyclist.
Bernardino Pérez Elizarán, 77, Spanish football player and manager.
Manfred Ewald, 76, East German Olympic committee president, pneumonia.
Jesse L. Greenstein, 93, American astronomer.
George Hall, 85, Canadian theatre, television, and film actor.
Kemal Kurt, 54, Turkish-German author, translator and photographer.
Bernhard Neumann, 93, British-Australian mathematician.
Kaisa Parviainen, 87, Finnish athlete.
Marquita Rivera, 80, Puerto Rican actress, singer and dancer, stroke.
Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota, 83, British politician.
Harbhajan Singh, 82, Indian poet, critic, and cultural commentator.
Y. R. Swamy, Indian film director and screenwriter.




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Queen Geraldine of Albania, 87, Queen consort of King Zog I of Albania.
George Bellak, 83, American television writer.
Marian Bergeron, 84, American beauty pageant winner (Miss America 1933) and big band singer, leukemia.
Igor Irodov, 78, Soviet Russian physicist and World War II veteran.
Robert Nixon, 63, British cartoonist.




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Lucille Carroll, 96, American Broadway actress and MGM studio executive.
Adolph Green, 87, American lyricist and playwright.
Nathan Görling, 97, Swedish composer of film scores.
Richard Helms, 89, American diplomat and CIA director, multiple myeloma.
Marianne Hoppe, 93, German theatre and film actress.
Nathan H. Juran, 95, Austrian-American film and television director.
David Lewis, 85, New Zealand sailor and adventurer.
Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, 96, British historian.
Janos Nyiri, 69, Hungarian-British theatre director, journalist and writer, cancer.
Danijel Popović, 20, Croatian football player, traffic collision.
Beulah Quo, 79, Chinese-American actress and activist.




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Winton M. Blount, 81, American public servant, business executive and philanthropist.
Hernando Casanova, 57, Colombian actor, director, singer, and presenter, heart attack.
Hernán Gaviria, 32, Colombian football player, lightning strike.
Harry Hay, 90, American gay rights activist and Mattachine Society founder, lung cancer.
Jose Sebastian Laboa, 79, Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church.
Charmian May, 65, English actress (You're Only Young Twice, Weirdsister College, Bridget Jones's Diary), cancer.
Peggy Moran, 84, American film actress, complications from a car accident.
Scott Plank, 43, American actor, traffic collision.
Lotte Tarp, 57, Danish actress, lung cancer.




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Ian Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford, 85, British peer and writer.
Micheline Cheirel, 85, French actress.
Herbert Duffus, 94, Jamaican politician and judge.
Richard Harris, 72, Irish actor (Camelot, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, This Sporting Life), Hodgkins lymphoma.
Kōki Ishii, 61, Japanese politician, stab wound.
Ernest Mancoba, 98, South African avant-garde artist.
Doug McGibbon, 83, English football player.
Rainbeaux Smith, 47, American actress and musician, hepatitis.
René Thom, 79, French mathematician.
Paul Wellstone, 58, American professor, author and politician (U.S. Senator from Minnesota), aviation accident.




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Movsar Barayev, 23, Chechen Islamist militia leader, killed during the Moscow theater hostage crisis.
Zura Barayeva, Chechen Islamist, killed during the Moscow theater hostage crisis.
Jacques Massu, 94, French general.
Stuart Townend, 93, British military officer, athlete, and politician.




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André de Toth, 89, Hungarian-American film director (The Gunfighter, House of Wax, The Indian Fighter), aneurysm.
Tom Dowd, 77, American recording engineer and producer, a pioneer in stereo and multitrack tape recording, emphysema.
Mohammad Isnaeni, 83, Indonesian politician.
Michel Macquet, 70, French Olympic javelin thrower and handball player.
Maurice J. Murphy Jr., 75, American politician and lawyer.
Valve Pormeister, 80, Estonian landscape architect.
Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy, 62, Indian trade unionist and politician.
Baby Lloyd Stallworth, 61, American entertainer, musician, and recording artist, complications of diabetes.
Walter Volle, 89, German rower, coach and Olympic champion.
Charles Orville Whitley, 75, American politician (U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 3rd congressional district).




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Margaret Booth, 104, American film editor (Mutiny on the Bounty, The Way We Were, Annie), stroke.
Morris Curotta, 73, Australian Olympic sprinter (1948 Summer Olympics, 1952 Summer Olympics).
Sugathapala de Silva, 74, Sri Lankan dramatist and novelist.
Lawrence Dobkin, 83, American television director and character actor (The Ten Commandments, The Defiant Ones, North by Northwest, Patton).
Laurence Foley, 60, American diplomat and employee of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), homicide.
Erling Persson, 85, Swedish businessman, founder of H&M.
Annada Shankar Ray, 97, Indian Bengali poet and essayist.




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Marina Berti, 78, Italian film actress, cancer.
Marion Carpenter, 82, American press photographer, covered President Harry Truman, pulmonary emphysema.
Glenn McQueen, 41, Canadian animator (Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., A Bug's Life), melanoma.
Raymond Savignac, 94, French graphic artist.
Dragan Malešević Tapi, 53, Serbian painter.
Chang-Lin Tien, 67, Chinese-American educator, 7th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.




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Pierre Aigrain, 78, French physicist.
Alfred Atherton, 80, American Foreign Service Officer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Egypt (1979-1983).
Juan Antonio Bardem, 80, Spanish film director and screenwriter, heart attack.
Rudolf Brucci, 85, Croatian composer.
Jam Master Jay, 37, American musician (Run DMC), shot.
Lee H. Katzin, 67, American film director, cancer.




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Yuri Ahronovitch, 70, Russian conductor.
Edward "Moose" Cholak, 72, American professional wrestler, pneumonia.
Napier Crookenden, 87, British Army general.
Jean-Marie Fortier, 82, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate.
Audrey Hylton-Foster, Baroness Hylton-Foster, 94, British peer.
Lionel Poilâne, 57, French baker and entrepreneur, helicopter crash.
Gene Rock, 80, American basketball player, cancer.
Michael Stasinopoulos, 99, Greek jurist and politician.
Raf Vallone, 86, Italian actor (A View from the Bridge, Bitter Rice, The Godfather Part III) and journalist.




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