• Source: Deaths in September 2002

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.




September 2002






= 1

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Yuji Ichioka, 66, American historian and civil rights activist, cancer.
B. V. Karanth, 72, Indian actor and director.
Turk Van Lake, 84, American arranger, composer and jazz guitarist.
Rodney Taylor, 62, Australian Navy officer, lung cancer.




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Leon Campbell, 75, American gridiron football player (University of Arkansas, Chicago Bears, Pittsburgh Steelers).
Abe Lemons, 79, American college basketball player and coach, complications from Parkinson's disease.
Ken Menke, 79, American basketball player.
Rodica Ojog-Brașoveanu, 63, Romanian writer, severe lung problems.
Ahmad Rahi, 78, Pakistani poet and writer.
F.X. Toole, 72, American boxing trainer and short story writers.
Robert Wilson, 75, British astrophysicist, known for his research in optical and solar plasma spectroscopy.




= 3

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Dirk ter Haar, 83, Anglo-Dutch physicist.
Kenneth Hare, 83, Canadian scientist.
Ted Ross, 68, American actor (The Wiz, Arthur, Police Academy).
William Clement Stone, 100, American businessman, philanthropist and self-help book author.
Len Wilkinson, 85, British cricketer.




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Frankie Albert, 82, American professional football player (Stanford, San Francisco 49ers), Alzheimer's disease.
Dave Baker, 65, American professional football player (University of Oklahoma, San Francisco 49ers).
Jerome Biffle, 74, American Olympic long jumper (gold medalist 1952), pulmonary fibrosis.
Jim Constable, 69, American baseball player (New York/San Francisco Giants, Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, Milwaukee Braves).
Andrew Forge, 78, American painter, art critic and professor of painting at Yale University.
Vlado Perlemuter, 98, Lithuanian-French pianist and teacher.
Fozia Soomro, 36, Pakistani regional folk singer, kidney failure.




= 5

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K. T. Achaya, 78, Indian oil and food scientist and writer.
Robert W. Brooks, 49, American mathematics professor, known for his work in spectral geometry and fractals.
William Cooper, 92, English novelist.
Cliff Gorman, 65, American actor (The Boys in the Band, All That Jazz, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai), Tony winner (1972), leukemia.
Frank Hewitt, 66, American hard bop jazz pianist.
Jackie Kelk, 79, American actor and stand-up comedian, lung infection.
Amon Nikoi, 72, Ghanaian economist and diplomat.
Ingeborg Taschner, 72, German film editor.
David Todd Wilkinson, 67, American cosmologist, known for thermal cosmic background radiation, cancer.




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Michael Argyle, 77, British psychologist, a pioneer of social psychology in Britain.
Gabriel Camps, 75, French archaeologist and social anthropologist.
Bobby Clancy, 75, Irish singer and musician, pulmonary fibrosis.
Rafael Druian, 79, American violinist and conductor (New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra).
Orvan Hess, 96, American physician.
Géza Hollósi, 64, Hungarian Olympic wrestler.
Philip LaBatte, 91, American ice hockey player.
Martin Matsbo, 90, Swedish cross-country skier and Olympic medalist.
Janet Young, Baroness Young, 75, British politician (Leader of the House of Lords), cancer.




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Katrin Cartlidge, 41, English actress (Brookside, Before the Rain, Breaking the Waves), complications from pneumonia and sepsis.
Jonathan Charney, 59, American academic, author, and lawyer.
Eugenio Coșeriu, 81, linguist specialized in Romance languages.
Michael Elphick, 55, English actor (Boon, EastEnders, Gorky Park, Private Schulz), heart attack.
Cyrinda Foxe, 50, American actress, model and publicist, brain cancer.
John Paul Frank, 84, American lawyer and scholar, helped shape U.S. Supreme Court cases (Brown v. Board of Education, Miranda v. Arizona).
Erma Franklin, 64, American gospel and soul singer ("Piece of My Heart"), older sister of Aretha Franklin, laryngeal cancer.
Uziel Gal, 78, German-Israeli firearm designer who invented the Uzi submachine gun, cancer.




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Georges-André Chevallaz, 87, Swiss historian and politician.
Rulon Jeffs, 92, American polygamist and religious leader.
Lucas Moreira Neves, 76, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate.
Henri Rol-Tanguy, 94, French communist and a leader in the Resistance during World War II.
Marco Siffredi, 23, French snowboarder (last seen on this date).
Laurie Williams, 33, West Indian cricketer, car accident.




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Tom Bradley, 76, British politician (member of Parliament representing Leicester North East and Leicester East).
Geoffrey Dummer, 92, English electronics engineer, built the first prototype of the integrated circuit.
Gerald W. Johnson, 83, US Air Force lieutenant general and flying ace during World War II.
José Luis Massera, 87, Uruguayan mathematician.




= 10

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Augusto Lamo Castillo, 63, Spanish football referee.
René Cousineau, 72, Canadian politician (member of Parliament representing Gatineau, Quebec).
Sandor Elès, 66, Hungarian actor.
Alexander Farrelly, 78, American politician, governor of the United States Virgin Islands from 1987 to 1995.
David Grene, 89, Irish-American professor of classics.
Kuo Pao Kun, 63, Chinese playwright, theatre director, and arts activist, kidney and liver cancer.
Žarana Papić, 53, Serbian social anthropologist and feminist theorist.
T. Viswanathan, 75, Indian musician specializing in the carnatic flute and voice.




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Kim Hunter, 79, American actress (A Streetcar Named Desire, Planet of the Apes, The Edge of Night), Oscar winner (1952), heart attack.
Howard Levi, 85, American mathematician.
Howard T. Odum, 78, American ecologist.
Johnny Unitas, 69, American gridiron football player and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, cardiovascular renal disease.
David Wisniewski, 49, American writer and illustrator of children's books.




= 12

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Lloyd Biggle, Jr., 79, American musician and author, leukemia and cancer.
Mitsuo Ikeda, 67, Japanese freestyle wrestler and Olympic gold medalist.
Sheikh Mohammad Rashid, 87, Pakistani politician.
Neil Shields, 83, British politician and businessman.




= 13

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Sir Douglas Black, 89, British physician, played a key role in the development of the National Health Service.
Richard Foster, 83, American modernist architect.
George Hills, 84, British journalist and historian.
Alexander Kazantsev, 96, Soviet and Russian science fiction writer, ufologist and chess composer.
Charles Herbert Lowe, 82, American biologist.
William Phillips, 94, American editor, writer and public intellectual.
Brooks Richards, 84, British diplomat and SOE operative.
Blanca de Silos, 88, Spanish film actress.
George Stanley, 95, Canadian historian and public servant.




= 14

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Jim "Bad News" Barnes, 61, American basketball player (gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics, Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics), heart problems.
Frederic Bennett, 83, British journalist, barrister politician (member of Parliament for Torbay, Torquay and Reading North).
Roberto Cavanagh, 87, Argentine polo player.
Michael Greer, 64, American actor, comedian and cabaret performer, cancer.
Jim McKee, 55, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), traffic collision.
LaWanda Page, 81, American actress (Sanford and Son), diabetes.
Lolita Torres, 72, Argentine film actress and soprano.
Paul Williams, 87, African American jazz and blues saxophonist, bandleader, and songwriter ("The Huckle-Buck").




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Kay Espenhayn, 34, German paralympic swimmer, complications to lung, kidney and heart disease.
Jenny Maakal, 89, South African freestyle swimmer and Olympic medalist.
James Mitchell, 76, British writer, principally of crime fiction and spy thrillers.
Jean Rousset, 92, Swiss literary critic.




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James Gregory, 90, American actor (Barney Miller, The Manchurian Candidate, The Lawless Years).
Archibald Hall, 78, British criminal known as the "Killer Butler", stroke.
Jiří Javorský, 70, Czech tennis player.
Raymond Reiter, 63, Canadian computer scientist and logician.
Mary Stott, 95, British journalist and feminist.
Nguyen Van Thuan, 74, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, cancer.
Jean Vernette, 73, French Roman Catholic prelate and researcher of cults.




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Eileen Colwell, 98, British author and librarian.
Jack Ferguson, 78, Australian politician (Deputy Premier of New South Wales), mesothelioma.
Denys Fisher, 84, British inventor of the Spirograph.
James Macdonald, 83, Scottish-Australian ornithologist.
Dodo Marmarosa, 76, American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.
Govind Perumal, 76, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.
Edvaldo Alves de Santa Rosa, 68, Brazilian football player and manager, cancer.




= 18

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Hazel Brooks, 78, American actress.
Andreas Burnier, 71, Dutch writer who focussed on homosexuality, transsexuality and discrimination, intracranial hemorrhage.
Boris Carmi, 88, Russian-Israeli photographer.
Bob Hayes, 59, American football player Dallas Cowboys and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, prostate cancer.
Mauro Ramos, 72, Brazilian football player, intestinal cancer.
Shivaji Sawant, 62, Indian novelist in the Marathi language.
Herbert Schmidt, 88, German rower and Olympic medalist.
Margita Stefanović, 43, Serbian musician, complications from HIV.




= 19

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Albert Ando, 72, Japanese-American economist, leukemia.
John Arundel, 74, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).
Robert Guéï, 61, Ivorian politician and its military ruler (1999-2000), murdered along with his family.
Duncan Hallas, 76, British communist politician and Marxist theorist.
Ian Hutchinson, 54, English football player.
Francisco Lojacono, 66, Italian Argentine football player and manager.
Priya Tendulkar, 47, Indian actress, social activist and writer, heart attack.
Carl W. Thompson, 88, American lawyer and Democratic politician.
Tatyana Velikanova, 70, Soviet dissident and mathematician.




= 20

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Les Auge, 49, American professional ice hockey player (Colorado Rockies).
Sergey Bodrov, Jr., 30, Russian movie star, Kolka-Karmadon rock ice slide, accidental death.
Bruce Edwards, 90, American actor and photographer.
Necdet Kent, 91, Turkish diplomat and humanitarian.
Eduardo Gudiño Kieffer, 66, Argentine writer.
Joan Littlewood, 87, English theatre director.
Pat Saward, 74, English football player, Alzheimer's disease.
Bob Wallace, 53, American computer scientist, helped invent "shareware" software marketing.




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Henry Pybus Bell-Irving, 89, Canadian World War II commander and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.
Angelo Buono, 67, American serial killer, kidnapper and rapist (the "Hillside Strangler"), heart attack.
Robert L. Forward, 70, American physicist and science fiction author, founded Tethers Unlimited to manufacture tethers for NASA.
Peter Kowald, 58, German free jazz double bassist and tubist, heart attack.
Maurice Manson, 89, Canadian actor.
Rocco Rock, 49, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
Robert White, 81, American sculptor, professor and poet.




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Don Carlsen, 75, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates).
Jan de Hartog, 88, Dutch-American novelist and playwright.
Anthony Lancelot Dias, 92, Indian politician.
Harry Glancy, 98, American competition swimmer and Olympic champion.
Antonio Haro, 91, Mexican Olympic épée and sabre fencer.
Pierre Jacquinot, 92, French physicist.
Joseph Nathan Kane, 103, American historian and author.
Anthony Milner, 77, British musician, multiple sclerosis.
Marga Petersen, 83, German athlete.
Julio Pérez, 76, Uruguayan football player.
William Rosenberg, 86, American entrepreneur, bladder cancer.
Anel Sudakevich, 95, Soviet silent film actress.




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James Scarlett, 8th Baron Abinger, 87, British peer.
Vernon Corea, 75, Sri Lankan-born British radio broadcaster.
George Georges, 82, Australian politician.
Eduard Gufeld, 66, Soviet/Russian International Grandmaster of chess and chess author, heart attack.
Erich Oberdorfer, 97, German biologist specializing in phytosociology and phytogeography.
John Wu, 77, Hong Kong Roman Catholic cardinal, diabetes.




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Hobbs Adams, 99, American football player and coach (USC, Kansas State).
Tetsuya Ayukawa, 83, Japanese literary critic and novelist.
Sergio Bergonzelli, 78, Italian director, screenwriter, producer and actor.
Robert Anthony Buell, 62, American serial killer, child murderer and serial rapist, execution by lethal injection.
Leon Hart, 73, American football player.
Tim Rose, 62, American singer and songwriter, heart attack.
Mike Webster, 50, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, heart attack.




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Jacques Borel, 76, French author.
Ray Hayworth, 98, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, St. Louis Browns).
Roman Pucinski, 83, American Democratic politician.
Arnold Ross, 96, American mathematician.
Naeem Siddiqui, 86, Pakistani Islamic scholar, writer and politician.




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Enzo Andronico, 78, Italian actor and comedian.
Eleonore Bjartveit, 78, Norwegian politician.
Nils Bohlin, 82, Swedish mechanical engineer, invented the three-point car safety belt.
Ricardo Calvo, 58, Spanish chess master and historian and author on chess, esophageal cancer.
Henry Larsen, 86, Danish rower.
Thomas Sidney Smith, 84, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly.
Philippe Tailliez, 97, French diving pioneer, underwater photographer and colleague of Jacques Cousteau.




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Lidia Chmielnicka-Żmuda, 63, Polish volleyball player (bronze medal in women's volleyball at the 1968 Summer Olympics).
Wally Dreyer, 79, American gridiron football player (Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers) and college football coach.
Charles Henri Ford, 94, American poet, novelist, and filmmaker.
David Granger, 99, American Olympic bobsledder and businessman.
Attila Keresztes, 74, Hungarian fencer and Olympic champion.
Per Axel Lundgren, 91, Swedish art director.
Anna Murià, 98, Spanish Catalan narrator, literary critic, and journalist.
Bill Pearson, 80, New Zealand writer.
Glen Rounds, 96, American author and illustrator.




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Alicia Barrié, 86, Chilean actress.
Whitney Blake, 76, American actress (Hazel), director and producer (One Day at a Time), esophageal cancer.
John Cannady, 79, American gridiron football player (Indiana University, New York Giants).
Patsy Mink, 74, American lawyer and politician, viral pneumonia.
Hartland Molson, 95, Canadian statesman, senator and businessman.
Maurice Novarina, 95, French architect;.




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Bob Cobbing, 82, British poet.
Zvi Kolitz, 89, Lithuanian-American writer and film and theatrical producer.
Ellis Larkins, 79, American jazz pianist, pneumonia.
Mickey Newbury, 62, American songwriter and recording artist, emphysema.
Giuliana Tesoro, 81, American organic chemist.




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Robert Battersby, 77, British businessman and politician, member of the European Parliament.
Ron Duhamel, 64, Canadian politician (member of Parliament representing Saint Boniface, Manitoba, Senator for Manitoba).
Göran Kropp, 35, Swedish adventurer and mountaineer, fall.
Miloš Macourek, 75, Czech poet, playwright, author and screenwriter.
Germana Malabarba, 88, Italian gymnast and Olympic medalist.
Meinhard Michael Moser, 78, Swiss mycologist, heart attack.
Ewart Oakeshott, 86, British illustrator.
Hans-Peter Tschudi, 88, Swiss politician and minister.




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