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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.
January 2002
= 1
=Rolando Del Bello, 76, Italian tennis player.
Mohand Arav Bessaoud, 77, Algerian writer and activist.
Daulat Bikram Bista, 76, Nepali writer and poet.
Bonnie Mealing, 89, Australian swimmer (silver medal in women's 100 metre backstroke at the 1932 Summer Olympics).
Eugene Nickerson, 83, American county executive and judge, complications from ulcer surgery.
Carol Ohmart, 74, American actress (House on Haunted Hill, The Wild Party, The Scarlet Hour) and model.
Julia Phillips, 57, American film producer (The Sting, Taxi Driver, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) and author, Oscar winner (1974), cancer.
Patrick Kwame Kusi Quaidoo, 77, Ghanaian politician and businessman.
Nuchhungi Renthlei, 88, Indian poet and singer.
Astrid Sampe, 92, Swedish textile designer.
Catya Sassoon, 33, American actress, singer and model, heart attack after drug overdose.
Meg Wyllie, 84, American actress (The Twilight Zone, Perry Mason, Star Trek, The Fugitive).
= 2
=Armi Aavikko, 43, Finnish beauty queen and singer, pneumonia.
Anil Agarwal, 55, Indian environmentalist and science correspondent.
Rui Campos, 79, Brazilian football player.
Pablo Antonio Cuadra, 89, Nicaraguan essayist, playwright, and graphic artist.
Ahmed Dawood, 96, Pakistani industrialist and philanthropist.
Ian Grist, 63, British Conservative politician, stroke.
Heath MacQuarrie, 82, Canadian politician, scholar, and writer.
Charlie Mitten, 80, English football player and manager.
Chester Nimitz Jr., 86, American submarine commander.
Bibi Osterwald, 81, American actress.
Bob Stevens, 85, American sportswriter.
= 3
=Donald Martin Carroll, 92, American Roman Catholic priest.
Satish Dhawan, 81, Indian aerospace engineer.
Miki Dora, 67, American surfer, stunt double and actor (Beach Blanket Bingo, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini), pancreatic cancer.
Juan García Esquivel, 83, Mexican bandleader and composer for film and television.
Freddy Heineken, 78, Dutch beer magnate, pneumonia.
Martin Ruby, 79, American gridiron football player.
Al Smith, 73, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox).
Baldur R. Stefansson, 84, Canadian agricultural scientist.
= 4
=Nathan Chapman, 31, U.S. Army soldier, first American soldier killed in combat in the war in Afghanistan.
Georg Ericson, 82, Swedish football (soccer) player and coach.
Ada Falcón, 96, Argentine tango dancer, singer and film actress.
Michael Howard, 79, English choral conductor, organist and composer.
Douglas Jung, 74, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament (House of Commons), heart attack.
Mustafa Krantja, 80, Albanian classical music conductor and composer.
Grace Mera Molisa, 55, Ni-Vanuatu politician, poet and feminist.
Jim Sears, 70, American gridiron football player.
Adrián Zabala, 85, Cuban-American baseball player (New York Giants).
= 5
=Charles J. Bishop, 15, American high school student, suicide by plane crash.
Igor Cassini, 86, American syndicated gossip columnist (Cholly Knickerbocker) for the Hearst newspaper.
Valentin Chernikov, 64, Soviet Olympic fencer (1956 men's team épée, bronze medal at 1960 men's team épée).
Fielding Dawson, 71, American author, poet and artist.
Roger Gyselinck, 81, Belgian racing cyclist.
Astrid Henning-Jensen, 87, Danish film director, actress, and screenwriter.
Kamel Maghur, 67, Libyan lawyer and diplomat.
Graham Ryder, 52, English geologist and lunar scientist, cancer of the esophagus.
Vadim Shefner, 86, Soviet and Russian poet and writer.
Bryan Thurlow, 65, English football player.
= 6
=Bobby Austin, 68, American country musician ("Apartment No. 9", "For Your Love").
Per-Arne Berglund, 74, Swedish Olympic javelin thrower (1948 men's javelin throw, 1952 men's javelin throw).
Serge Brignoni, 98, Swiss avant-garde painter and sculptor.
Sanya Dharmasakti, 94, Thai jurist, university professor and politician, Prime Minister of Thailand from 1973 to 1975.
Kunjandi, 82, Indian actor.
Johnnie Mae Matthews, 79, American blues and R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer, cancer.
Mario Nascimbene, 88, Italian film soundtrack composer.
John W. Reynolds, 80, American politician and jurist, Governor of Wisconsin (1963–1965).
Fred Taylor, 77, American basketball coach (Ohio State University) and baseball player (Washington Senators).
Marian Wenzel, 69, British artist and art historian, leading authority on the art of medieval Bosnia and Herzegovina, cancer.
Christa Worthington, 45, American fashion writer (Women's Wear Daily, Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Harper's Bazaar), homicide.
= 7
=Frank Cave, 59, British trade unionist and political activist (National Union of Mineworkers), brain cancer.
Geoff Crompton, 46, American basketball player (Denver Nuggets, Portland Trail Blazers, Milwaukee Bucks, San Antonio Spurs, Cleveland Cavaliers), leukemia.
Geoffrey Crossley, 80, British Formula One race car driver, stroke.
René Etiemble, 92, French essayist, scholar, and novelist.
Mighty Igor, 70, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
Björn Landström, 84, Finnish-Swedish artist, writer, and illustrator.
Jon Lee, 33, British drummer (Feeder), suicide.
Bill Lenny, 78, British film editor.
Hal Marnie, 83, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
Raúl Mazorra, 73, Cuban sprinter and Olympian.
Avery Schreiber, 66, American comedian and actor, heart attack.
Lev Zaykov, 78, Soviet politician and statesman.
= 8
=M. S. Bartlett, 91, English statistician.
Romeo Cascarino, 79, American composer of classical music.
David McWilliams, 56, Northern Irish singer-songwriter ("Days of Pearly Spencer"), heart attack.
Alexander Prokhorov, 85, Soviet physicist, winner of 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Dave Thomas, 69, American entrepreneur, founder of Wendy's, liver cancer, liver tumor.
Glayde Whitney, 62, American behavioral geneticist and psychologist, promoted controversial race based genetics.
Viggo Widerøe, 97, Norwegian aviator and entrepreneur.
= 9
=Mush March, 93, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks).
Bill McCutcheon, 77, American actor (Sesame Street, Anything Goes, Steel Magnolias), Tony winner (1988), Alzheimer's disease.
Wang Ruoshui, 75, Chinese journalist, political theorists and philosopher, lung cancer.
K. William Stinson, 71, U.S. Representative from Washington.
= 10
=Olga Biglieri, 86, Italian futurist painter and aviator.
John Buscema, 74, American comic book artist (Marvel Comics), cancer.
Wallie Amos Criswell, 92, American pastor, author and two-term president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1968 to 1970.
Philip Drazin, 67, British mathematician, university teacher and author, an international expert in fluid dynamics.
Andrés Hammersley, 82, Chilean tennis player.
Günther Ortmann, 85, German field handball player.
Cedric Smith, 84, British statistician.
Ikkō Tanaka, 71, Japanese graphic designer, heart attack.
C. R. Vyas, 77, Indian classical singer.
= 11
=Gerrit Brokx, 68, Dutch politician.
Gene Dinwiddie, 65, American blues saxophonist.
Ajay Mitra Shastri, 67, Indian academic, historian and numismatist.
Christer Strömholm, 83, Swedish photographer.
Henri Verneuil, 81, French filmmaker and playwright.
= 12
=Bernard Bennett, 70, English snooker and billiards player.
John Berger, 92, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (bronze medal winner in the men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay at the 1936 Winter Olympics).
Moss Evans, 76, British union leader, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union.
Edwin M. Martin, 93, American diplomat and ambassador, pneumonia.
Harold B. McSween, 75, American politician (U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 8th congressional district) and businessman.
Ernest Pintoff, 70, American film and television director and animator (Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for The Critic), stroke.
Henry S. Reuss, 89, American politician.
Neville Sandelson, 78, British politician.
Stanley Unwin, 90, South African-born English comedian.
Cyrus Vance, 84, United States Secretary of State, international peacemaker, pneumonia.
= 13
=Richard Bolt, 90, American physicist, specializing in acoustics, founded Bolt, Beranek and Newman.
Ted Demme, 38, American film and television director (Blow, The Ref, Yo! MTV Raps, Beautiful Girls), heart attack.
Samuel Dolin, 84, Canadian composer and music educator.
Guadalupe Dueñas, Mexican short story writer and essayist.
Charity Adams Earley, 83, United States Army officer.
Paul Fannin, 94, American politician and businessman, Governor of Arizona (1959–1965), U.S. Senator from Arizona (1965–1977), cerebrovascular disease.
Gregorio Fuentes, 104, Cuban sailor and Ernest Hemingway's first mate, fishing companion and confidant.
Georges Glasser, 94, French tennis player and president of the Tennis Club de Paris.
Antonije Isaković, 78, Serbian writer.
Pierre Joubert, 91, French illustrator and comics artist.
Frank Shuster, 85, Canadian comedian.
José María Sánchez-Silva, 90, Spanish writer.
Christian von Bülow, 84, Danish Olympic sailor (silver medal in 1956 Dragon sailing, gold medal in 1964 Dragon sailing).
= 14
=Edith Bouvier Beale, 84, American socialite, fashion model and cabaret performer, known as "Little Edie", heart attack.
Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington, 86, British sociologist, social activist and politician, coined the term "meritocracy".
David John Hamer, 78, Australian politician.
Rachel Bubar Kelly, 79, American politician for the Prohibition Party.
Cele Goldsmith Lalli, 68, American editor, accidental death.
Antonio Sbardella, 76, Italian football player, referee and sports official.
Olav Selvaag, 89, Norwegian engineer and residential contractor.
= 15
=Michael Anthony Bilandic, 78, American politician (39th Mayor of Chicago), heart failure.
Eugène Brands, 89, Dutch painter, an early member of the COBRA avant-garde art movement.
Jean Dockx, 60, Belgian football player and manager.
David Epstein, 71, American composer, conductor, and music scientist.
Miguel Flores, 81, Chilean football player.
John M. Gaver, Jr., 61, American trainer of thoroughbred racehorses.
Jeremy Hawk, 83, British actor (Elizabeth).
Tomislav Kaloperović, 69, Yugoslav and Serbian football player and coach.
Vithabai Bhau Mang Narayangaonkar, Indian artist.
Michel Poniatowski, 79, French politician.
= 16
=John Boulos, 80, Haitian soccer player.
Robert Hanbury Brown, 85, British astronomer and astrophysicist, pioneered the development of radar and radio astronomy.
Jean Elleinstein, 74, French historian specializing in communism.
Henry E. Erwin, 80, American U.S. Army Air Forces airman and recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions in World War II.
Ivan Foxwell, 87, British film producer and screenwriter (Colditz Story, A Touch of Larceny, The Quiller Memorandum).
Ralph Jacobi, 73, Australian politician.
Milutin Kukanjac, 67, Yugoslav military officer.
Bobo Olson, 73, American boxer, Alzheimer's disease.
Ron Taylor, 49, American actor (The Wiz, The Simpsons, Rover Dangerfield), heart attack.
Jim Tunney, 78, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
Michael Walford, 86, British field hockey, rugby and cricket player (silver medal in field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
= 17
=Peter Adamson, 71, British actor (Coronation Street), stomach cancer.
Camilo José Cela, 85, Spanish novelist, poet, and essayist, 1989 Nobel Prize in Literature, cardiovascular disease.
Queenie Leonard, 96, British character actress and singer.
Harvey Matusow, 75, American artist, communist and Federal Bureau of Investigation informer, car accident.
Eddie Meduza, 53, Swedish rockabilly composer and musician, heart attack.
Bus Mertes, 80, American gridiron football player and coach, stroke.
Brian Simon, 86, British educationalist and historian.
Héctor Tosar, 78, Uruguayan pianist and classical composer.
= 18
=Celso Daniel, 50, Brazilian politician and mayor, murdered.
Michel Fleury, 78, French historian, archivist and archaeologist, specialising in the history and archaeology of Paris.
Jovdat Hajiyev, 84, Azerbaijani composers of the Soviet period.
Alex Hannum, 78, American basketball coach.
Yasmeen Ismail, 51, Pakistani television actress and theater director.
Jorma Karhunen, 88, Finnish Air Force ace.
= 19
=Jeff Astle, 59, English footballer, degenerative brain disease.
Jim Cameron, 71, Australian politician (Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly).
Martti Miettunen, 94, Finnish politician.
Vavá, 67, Brazilian football player, heart attack.
Ricky Womack, 40, American professional boxer (1982 U.S. amateur heavyweight champion), suicide.
= 20
=John Aveni, 66, American gridiron football player (Indiana University, Chicago Bears, Washington Redskins).
Walter Carter, 72, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament (House of Commons).
Jean-Toussaint Desanti, 87, French educator and philosopher.
Moti Lal Dhar, 87, India drug chemist and academic.
Carrie Hamilton, 38, American actress (Cool World, Fame), lung cancer.
John Jackson, 77, American blues musician, liver cancer.
R. N. Kao, 83, Indian spy and the first chief of India's intelligence agency.
Ivan Karabyts, 57, Ukrainian composer and conductor.
Harold Kasket, 75, English actor.
Rudolf Staffel, 90, American ceramic artist and educator.
Luule Viilma, 51, Estonian doctor, esotericist and practitioner of alternative medicine, car crash.
= 21
=Max Angst, 80, Swiss Olympic bobsledder (1956 Winter Olympics: two-man bobsleigh bronze medal, four-man bobsleigh).
Rolando Barral, 62, Cuban actor and talk show host (El Show de Rolando Barral), often called "the Latino Johnny Carson", stroke.
Peggy Lee, 81, American singer & actress (Lady and the Tramp, Pete Kelly's Blues, The Jazz Singer), diabetes, heart attack.
John Arthur Love, 85, American attorney and Republican politician (36th Governor of Colorado, first "Energy Czar").
Adolfo Marsillach, 73, Spanish actor, playwright and theatre director, prostate cancer.
Charlie Puckett, 90, Australian sportsman.
Zenon Snylyk, 68, Ukrainian-American soccer player.
George Trapp, 53, American basketball player (Atlanta Hawks, Detroit Pistons), stabbed.
= 22
=Sheldon Allman, 77, Canadian-American singer, actor (Hud, In Cold Blood), songwriter and voice actor.
Kenneth Armitage, 85, British sculptor.
Peter Bardens, 57, English keyboardist and a founding member of the British progressive rock group Camel, lung cancer.
Guido Bernardi, 80, Italian cyclist (silver medal in men's team pursuit cycling at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
Henry Cosby, 73, American songwriter ("My Cherie Amour", "The Tears of a Clown", "Uptight (Everything's Alright)").
Eric de Maré, 91, British architectural photographer and writer.
George W. Dickerson, 88, American college football coach, interim head coach at UCLA for three games in 1958.
Stanley Marcus, 96, American businessman.
John McGrath, 66, British playwright and theatre theorist.
Jean Patchett, 75, American fashion model.
Salomon Tandeng Muna, 89, Cameroonian politician.
Jack Shea, 91, American speed skater (gold medalist: 500 metres and 1500 metres at the 1932 Winter Olympics), traffic collision.
A. H. Weiler, 93, American writer, editor and film critic for The New York Times.
John Andrew Young, 85, American politician (U.S. Representative for Texas's 14th congressional district).
= 23
=Louis T. Benezet, 86, American educator and president of multiple colleges.
Pierre Bourdieu, 71, French sociologist and philosopher (Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste), cancer.
Charlie Bradshaw, 65, American gridiron football player (Baylor, Los Angeles Rams, Pittsburgh Steelers, Detroit Lions), cancer.
Thomas Carey, 70, American operatic baritone, pancreatic cancer.
Domingo Drummond, 44, Honduran football player, heart attack.
Igor Kipnis, 71, American harpsichordist, pianist and conductor, cancer.
Vittorio Mero, 27, Italian football player, traffic collision.
Robert Nozick, 63, American philosopher, lung cancer.
Pier Giorgio Perotto, 71, Italian electrical engineer and inventor.
Gerhard Prokop, 62, German football player and manager.
John Symank, 66, American gridiron football player.
Johannes E. Vecchi, 70, Argentine Roman Catholic priest, Rector Major of the Salesians.
Phil Warren, 63, New Zealand music promoter and politician, chairman of Auckland Regional Council.
= 24
=Stuart Burge, 84, British film director, producer and actor (Nottingham Playhouse, Royal Court Theatre).
Paul B. Carpenter, 73, American politician (California State Assembly, California State Senate), convicted of corruption.
Nunzio Filogamo, 99, Italian television and radio presenter, actor and singer.
Peter Gzowski, 67, Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter, emphysema.
Elie Hobeika, 45, Lebanese militia commander and politician, murdered.
Upendra Kumar, 60, Indian composer.
Andrei Mercea, 76, Romanian football player.
Edgar Ritchie, 85, Canadian diplomat.
Kurt Schaffenberger, 81, American comic book artist (Captain Marvel, Superman, Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane).
Gregorio Walerstein, 88, Mexican film producer and screenwriter.
= 25
=J. Clifford Baxter, 43, American executive (Enron Corporation), suicide by gunshot.
Willard Estey, 82, Canadian justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Chris Perry, 73, Indian musician, composer, songwriter and film producer.
Winston Place, 87, English cricketer.
= 26
=Phyllis Bartholomew, 87, English track and field athlete.
Francisco Cabañas, 90, Mexican Olympic flyweight boxer (silver medal winner in flyweight boxing at the 1932 Summer Olympics).
Dorothy Carrington, 91, British writer, one of the leading scholars on Corsican culture and history.
Rudolph B. Davila, 85, United States Army officer, World War II Medal of Honor recipient.
Loonis McGlohon, 80, American songwriter and jazz pianist.
Ray Yochim, 79, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).
= 27
=Robert L. Chapman, 81, American professor, dictionary editor and thesaurus editor (Roget's Thesaurus).
Yelena Gorchakova, 68, Russian javelin thrower and Olympic medalist.
John James, 87, British racing driver.
Edgar Manske, 89, American gridiron football player.
Franz Meyers, 93, German politician and Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Reggie Sanders, 52, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
Alain Vanzo, 73, French opera singer and composer, stroke.
= 28
=Hilda Carrero, 50, Venezuelan model and actress, cancer.
Andrew W. Cooper, 74, American activist, journalist, and editor-in-chief of The City Sun, stroke.
Gustaaf Deloor, 88, Belgian road racing cyclist.
Herbert Hirche, 91, German architect and furniture and product designer.
Hennie Keetelaar, 75, Dutch Olympic water polo player.
Andy Kulberg, 57, American musician, lymphoma.
Astrid Lindgren, 94, Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays, viral infection.
Jack Witikka, 85, Finnish film director and screenwriter.
Ayşenur Zarakolu, 55, Turkish publisher and human rights activist, cancer.
= 29
=Stephen Wayne Anderson, 48, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
Suzanne Bloch, 94, Swiss-American musician, teacher and early music specialist.
Florian Côté, 72, Canadian politician (member of Parliament representing Nicolet—Yamaska, Quebec and Richelieu, Quebec).
Daniel De Luce, 90, American journalist for Associated Press from 1929 to 1976.
Richard Grenier, 68, American columnist and film critic, heart attack.
Sarla Grewal, 74, Indian State Governor.
Haim Haberfeld, 70, Israeli trade union leader and the chairman of the Israel Football Association.
R. M. Hare, 82, English moral philosopher, series of strokes.
Heinz Hennig, 74, German choral conductor and an academic teacher.
Stratford Johns, 76, South African-born British actor (Z Cars, Softly, Softly, Cromwell), heart disease.
Dick Lane, 73, American football player, heart attack.
Phil McCall, 76, British actor.
John R. McGann, 77, American prelate of the Catholic Church.
Berto Pisano, 73, Italian composer, conductor, arranger and jazz musician.
Harold Russell, 88, Canadian-American actor (The Best Years of Our Lives), Oscar winner (1947), heart attack.
= 30
=Carlo Karges, 50, German musician, liver disease.
Inge Morath, 78, Austrian-born American photographer, cancer.
Jeanne Robert, 91, French historian and epigrapher.
Louis Salica, 89, American boxer (bronze medal in flyweight boxing at the 1932 Summer Olympics, 1935 and 1940 world bantamweight title).
= 31
=Francis Acharya, 82, Belgian Roman Catholic monk.
Ernest Butler, 82, English football player.
Jim Camp, 77, American gridiron football player (Brooklyn Dodgers) and college football head coach (George Washington University).
Harry Chiti, 69, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Kansas City Athletics, Detroit Tigers, New York Mets).
Gabby Gabreski, 83, Polish-American World War II and Korean War fighter pilot, heart attack.
Ad Hermes, 72, Dutch politician.
Henry Kloss, 72, American audio engineer and entrepreneur.
Jim Letsinger, 90, American gridiron football player.
Evelyn Scott, 86, American film and television actress (The Untouchables, Bonanza, Bachelor Father, Peyton Place).
Ger Stroker, 85, Dutch football player.
Karel Voous, 81, Dutch ornithologist and author.
Predrag Vranicki, 80, Yugoslav and Croatian philosopher and Marxist humanist.
References
External links
List of January 2002 deaths at IMDb