The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.
April 2002
1
- Albert F. Canwell, 95, American politician and anti-communist.[1]
- Tonino Cervi, 72, Italian film director, screenwriter and producer, heart attack.[2]
- Simo Häyhä, 96, Finnish sniper during World War II.
- James Karales, 71, American photographer and photo-essayist.[3]
- K. V. Narayanaswamy, 78, Indian musician.
- John S. Samuel, 88, American Air Force general.[4]
2
- Levi Celerio, 91, Filipino composer and lyricist, and National Artist of the Philippines.[5]
- Vladimir Cernik, 84, Czechoslovakian tennis player.
- Ike Clarke, 87, English football player and manager.[6]
- Jack Kruschen, 80, Canadian actor (The Apartment, The War of the Worlds, Webster).[7]
- John R. Pierce, 92, American engineer and author who coined the term "transistor", pneumonia.[8]
- Betty Jane Rase, 74, American singer and songwriter, stroke.[9]
- Henry Slesar, 74, American author, playwright, and copywriter.[10]
- Shigeo Sugimoto, 75, Japanese football player.
- Robert Lawson Vaught, 75, American mathematician, and one of the founders of model theory.[11]
3
- Heinz Drache, 79, German film actor, lung cancer.[12]
- Fad Gadget, 45, English singer-songwriter, heart attack.[13]
- Roy Huggins, 87, American novelist and television producer (Maverick, The Fugitive, The Rockford Files).[14]
- Norm Lee, 81, Australian politician.
- Bobby Managoff, 84, Armenian-American professional wrestler, heart failure.
- Roy Nichols, 81, American baseball player (New York Giants).[15]
- Ernst Stojaspal, 77, Austrian football player, heart failure.
- Karl Swanson, 101, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).[16]
4
- Leo Brooks, 54, American gridiron football player (University of Texas, Houston Oilers, St. Louis Cardinals), esophageal cancer.[17]
- Leo Laakso, 83, Finnish Olympic ski jumper.[18]
- Pierre Marchand, 62, French publisher, cancer.[19]
- Joe Massot, 69, American writer and film director.
- Qazi Mujahidul Islam Qasmi, 66, Indian Mufti, Qadhi and Islamic scholar.
- Jack Tanuan, 36, Filipino basketball player, kidney failure.
- Charles Winquist, 57, American theologian.[20]
5
- Herbert A. Cahn, 87, German-Swiss archaeologist, numismatist and antiquities-dealer.[21]
- Paul Erickson, 86, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Giants).[22]
- Bargil Pixner, 81, Italian-American monk, biblical scholar and archaeologist.
- Sheriff Robinson, 80, American baseball player.[23]
- Layne Staley, 34, American singer (Alice in Chains), drug overdose.[24]
- Ben Warley, 65, American professional basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers, Baltimore Bullets, Anaheim Amigos), liver cancer.[25]
- Kim Won-gyun, 85, North Korean composer and politician, heart failure.
6
- Silvia Derbez, 70, Mexican film and television actress, lung cancer.
- Petru Dumitriu, 77, Romanian novelist.[26]
- Oliver Eggimann, 83, Swiss football player.
- Kevin Kelley, 59, American drummer (Rising Sons, The Byrds, Fever Tree).
- Ralph J. Marino, 74, American lawyer and politician from New York.[27]
- Nobu McCarthy, 67, Canadian actress, aortic aneurysm.[28]
- Martin Sperr, 57, German dramatist and actor.[29]
- Tom Sunkel, 89, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers).[30]
- Judith Wood, 95, American film actress.[31]
7
- John Agar, 81, American actor, starred in Western and Sci-Fi movies, first husband of Shirley Temple, pulmonary emphysema.[32]
- Bobby Astyr, 64, American pornographic film actor.
- Bhavanam Venkatarami Reddy, 70, Indian politician, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.
- Georges van Coningsloo, 61, Belgian racing cyclist.[33]
- Conny Vandenbos, 65, Dutch singer, lung cancer.[34]
8
- Nigel Bagnall, 75, British field marshal, professional head of the British Army (Chief of the General Staff).[35]
- Eloy Fominaya, 76, American composer, music educator, conductor, violinist and luthier (Augusta Symphony).[36]
- María de los Angeles Felix Güereña, 88, Mexican film star, considered "the most beautiful face in the history of Mexican cinema", heart attack.[37]
- Giacomo Mancini, 85, Italian politician.
- Harvey Quaytman, 64, American painter, cancer.[38]
- Francisco Zamora Salinas, 63, El Salvador football player.
- Josef Svoboda, 81, Czech artist and scenic designer.[39]
- Laurel Rose Willson, 60, American author and con artist.
9
- Dorothy Love Coates, 74, American gospel singer, considered one of gospel's great performers.[40]
- Harold Coates, 84, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1965-1976).[41]
- Thomas Dinger, 49, German drummer, singer and songwriter.[42]
- Roy Dwight, 69, English footballer.[43]
- Pat Flaherty, 76, American professional racecar driver, won the Indianapolis 500 in 1956.[44]
- Weldon Irvine, 58, American composer, playwright, poet, and pianist, suicide.[45]
- Kazuo Nakamura, 75, Japanese-Canadian painter and sculptor.[46]
- Leopold Vietoris, 110, Austrian mathematician.
10
- Haim Cohn, 91, Israeli jurist and politician.[47]
- Ed Fleming, 68, American professional basketball player (Niagara University, Rochester Royals, Minneapolis Lakers).[48]
- Géza Hofi, 75, Hungarian humorist.[49]
- Atanda Fatai Williams, 83, Nigerian jurist and Chief Justice of Nigeria (1979-1983).
11
- Elmer Angsman, 76, American gridiron football player (Notre Dame, Chicago Cardinals) and football color commentator, heart attack.[50]
- Branko Bauer, 81, Croatian film director.
- William Brandon, 87, American author, wrote on Native Americans and the American West.[51]
- Bubba Brooks, 79, American jazz tenor saxophonist, a member of Bill Doggett's ensemble.[52]
- Héctor Rojas Herazo, 81, Colombian novelist, poet, journalist and painter.
- Delphi Lawrence, 76, English actress.[53]
- Do Mau, 85, Vietnamese officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN).
- J. William Stanton, 78, American politician (U.S. Representative for Ohio's 11th congressional district).[54]
- Stanley Weston, 82, American publisher, sportswriter, artist and photographer, cancer.[55]
12
- Hans Neurath, 92, Austrian-American biochemist and academic.[56]
- Gabriel Raksi, 63, Romanian football player.[57]
- Yadollah Sahabi, 97, Iranian scholar, writer, reformist and politician.
- Kondapalli Seetharamaiah, 87, Indian communist leader, Parkinson's disease.
- George Shevelov, 93, Ukrainian scholar.[58]
- Safet Zhulali, 59, Albanian Minister of Defence.[59]
13
- Alex Baroni, 35, Italian singer, traffic accident.
- Scipio Colombo, 91, Italian dramatic baritone, and was.[60]
- Ivan Desny, 79, RussianSwiss film actor-, appeared in more than 150 films, pneumonia.[61]
- Franz Krienbühl, 73, Swiss speed skater.[62]
- Oreste Piccioni, 86, Italian-American physicist.[63]
- Álvaro Salvadores, 73, Chilean-Spaniard basketball player.[64]
- Vlajko Stojiljković, 65, Serbian politician, suicide.
- Desmond Titterington, 73, British racing driver from Northern Ireland.
14
- Edmée Abetel, 79, Swiss Olympic alpine skier (1952 Winter Olympics women's slalom).[65]
- Buck Baker, 83, American stock car race driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.[66]
- Gustave Blouin, 89, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament (House of Commons).[67]
- Mark Ermler, 69, Russian conductor (Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra).[68]
- Joop Haex, 90, Dutch politician.[69]
- Michael Kerr, 81, British jurist.
- Monal, 21, Indian film actress, suicide by hanging.
- Fausto Radici, 48, Italian alpine skier, suicide.
15
- Sándor Gáspár, 85, Hungarian communist politician and trade unionist.
- Moe Keale, 62, American musician of Hawaiian music, and actor, heart attack.
- Dave King, 72, English comedian, actor and singer.
- Damon Knight, 79, American science fiction author, editor and critic.[70]
- Hans-Henrik Krause, 84, Danish actor and film director.
- Ram Singh Thakur, 87, Indian freedom fighter, musician and composer.
- Byron White, 84, American lawyer and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, pneumonia.[71]
16
- Billy Ayre, 49, English footballer, cancer.[72]
- Ramiro de León Carpio, 60, Guatemalan politician, diabetic coma.
- Janusz Kasperczak, 74, Polish Olympic boxer.[73]
- Claudio Slon, 58, Brazilian jazz drummer, lung cancer.
- Marcel Stern, 80, Swiss competitive sailor and Olympic medalist.[74]
- Robert Urich, 55, American actor (Vega$, Spenser: For Hire, Lonesome Dove, S.W.A.T.), cancer.[75]
- Hugh Franklin Waters, 69, American judge (U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas).[76]
- Herbert Wernicke, 56, German opera director and set and costume designer.[77]
17
- James Copeland, 83, Scottish actor (The 39 Steps, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes).[78]
- Betsy Curtis, 84, American science fiction and fantasy writer.[79]
- Srul Irving Glick, 67, Canadian composer, radio producer, and conductor.[80]
- Stevan Kragujević, 80, Serbian photojournalist and art photographer.
18
- Mitsos Dimitriou, 54, Greek football player.
- Jerry Heidenreich, 52, American competition swimmer and Olympic champion, suicide.[81]
- Thor Heyerdahl, 87, Norwegian anthropologist, brain cancer.[82]
- Wayne Hightower, 62, American basketball player, heart attack.
- Cy Laurie, 75, British musician.
- Wahoo McDaniel, 63, American gridiron football player and wrestler, complications from diabetes and kidney failure.[83]
19
- William E. Barber, 82, U.S. Marine Corps colonel and Medal of Honor recipient, bone marrow cancer.[84]
- Alberto Beltrán, 79, Mexican painter, engraver and political cartoonist.[85]
- Jean-Pierre Destrumelle, 61, French football player and manager.[86]
- Reginald Rose, 81, American film and television writer, complications of heart failure.[87]
- Ross Whicher, 84, Canadian politician and businessman (member of Parliament representing Bruce, Ontario).[88]
20
- Vlastimil Brodský, 81, Czech actor, suicide.[89]
- Alan Dale, 76, American singer ("Heart of My Heart", "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White").[90]
- Joe Geri, 77, American gridiron football player.[91]
- Sarvepalli Gopal, 78, Indian historian, renal failure.[92]
- Stig-Göran Johansson, 58, Swedish ice hockey player.[93]
- Pierre Rapsat, 53, Belgian singer-songwriter, cancer.[94]
21
- Sam Dente, 79, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians).[95]
- Thomas Joseph Grady, 87, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Verné Lesche, 84, Finnish speed skater.
- Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi, 65, Afghan politician and mujahideen leader.
- Red O'Quinn, 76, American professional football player (Wake Forest, Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles).[96]
- Ogden Phipps, 93, American stockbroker, thoroughbred horse racing owner/breeder and philanthropist.[97]
- Terry Walsh, 62, British stuntman.
22
- Albrecht Becker, 95, German production designer and actor.
- Janet Fox, 89, American actress (Stage Door, Dinner at Eight).[98]
- Soja Jovanović, 80, Serbian and Yugoslav film director.
- Linda Lovelace, 53, American porn star turned political activist, car crash.[99]
- Fran Minkoff, 87, American lyricist.
- Allen Morris, 92, American historian.[100]
- Christopher Price, 34, English journalist and presenter, meningoencephalitis.
- Victor Weisskopf, 93, Austrian-American theoretical physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project.[101]
23
- Bob Baker, 75, American heavyweight boxer.[102]
- Bob Faught, 82, American professional basketball player (University of Notre Dame, Cleveland Rebels).[103]
- Sam Francis, 88, American football player (Nebraska, Chicago Bears, Brooklyn Dodgers) and coach, and Olympic shot putter.[104]
- Ted Kroll, 82, American professional golfer, won eight PGA Tour events, Parkinson's disease.[105]
- Tibor Simon, 36, Hungarian football player and manager, blunt trauma.[106]
24
- Gloria Escoffery, 78, Jamaican artist, poet, teacher, art critic and journalist.[107]
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, 67, American journalist, essayist and memoirist, COPD.[108]
- Eric McKitrick, 82, American historian.
- Robert McQueeney, 83, American actor.[109]
- Lucien Wercollier, 93, Luxembourg sculptor.[110]
- Nadezhda Zhurkina, 81, Russian radio operator and gunner during World War II.
25
- Michael Bryant, 74, British actor (Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly, The Stone Tape, The Ruling Class, Gandhi).[111]
- Mario Casilli, 71, American photographer.
- Indra Devi, 102, Russian "yoga teacher to the stars".[112]
- Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, 30, American singer and member of girl group TLC, car crash.[113]
- Athanasios Papoulis, 81, Greek-American engineer and applied mathematician.
26
- Vincenzo Caianiello, 69, Italian jurist.
- Alton Coleman, 46, American convicted spree killer, execution by lethal injection.[114]
- John Davis, 86, American baseball player (New York Giants).[115]
- Del Sharbutt, 90, American radio announcer.[116]
- Tore Svensson, 74, Swedish football goalkeeper.
- Steve Tshwete, 63, South African politician and activist, pneumonia and liver failure.[117]
27
- Guila Bustabo, 86, American concert violinist.[118]
- George Alec Effinger, 55, American science fiction writer (When Gravity Fails, "Schrödinger's Kitten").[119]
- Ruth Handler, 85, inventor of the Barbie doll, colorectal cancer.[120]
- Robert L. Joseph, 79, American theatre producer, playwright, and screenwriter.[121]
- Arthur Owen, 87, British racing driver (born 1915).
- Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, 81, German Industrialist and art collector, cardiovascular disease.
- Felix Villars, 81, Swiss-American emeritus professor of physics at MIT.[122]
- Jerry Witte, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).[123]
28
- Albert Béchard, 79, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament (House of Commons for Bonaventure, Quebec).[124]
- Robert M. Gagné, 85, American educational psychologist.
- Alexander Lebed, 52, Russian general and politician, aviation accident.[125]
- Peter Parker, 77, British businessman.[126]
- Liu Qiong, 88, Chinese film director and actor, liver cancer.[127]
- Lou Thesz, 86, American professional wrestler, complications caused by triple bypass surgery.[128]
- John Wilkinson, 82, American sound mixer (Platoon, Saturday Night Fever, Days of Heaven), Oscar winner (1987).[129]
- Gordon Willey, 89, American anthropologist, known for creation of the field of "settlement pattern studies".[130]
29
- Bob Akin, 66, American businessman and professional race car driver (two-time Sebring winner).[131]
- Sune Andersson, 81, Swedish football player and manager (gold medal winner in football at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[132]
- Sverre Bratland, 84, Norwegian military leader and commander during the invasion of Normandy during World War II.[133]
- Michael Camille, 44, English art historian, specializing in art of the European Middle Ages, brain tumor.[134]
- Noel DaCosta, 72, Nigerian-Jamaican composer, jazz violinist, and choral conductor.[135]
- Santiago Álvarez Gómez, 89, Spanish communist politician.[136]
- Ihar Hermianchuk, 41, Belarusian journalist and political activist, cancer.
- Pete Jacobsen, 51, English jazz pianist.[137]
- Stan Lynn, 73, English football player.[138]
- Lor Tok, 88, Thai, comedian and actor Thailand National Artist.
30
- Kathryn Albertson, 93, American philanthropist.[139]
- Howard Alvin Crum, 79, American botanist, expert on North American bryoflora.
- Ida Engel, 98, American actress, television commercial star in her 90s.[140]
- Leslie Melville, 100, Australian economist, academic and public servant.
- Robert Mosley, 74 or 75, American bass-baritone.
- Nitsa Tsaganea, 100, Greek actress of theatre and film.
- Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, 74, German LGBT writer and museum director, heart attack.[141]
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