The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 2002
1
- Sid Avery, 83, American photographer (Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart, Elizabeth Taylor).[1]
- John Barr, 83, American professional basketball player (Penn State, St. Louis Bombers) and coach (Susquehanna University).[2]
- Mikhail Krug, 40, Russian singer, wounds received after robbery.[3]
- Pedro Maratea, 89, Argentine film actor.
- Meyer Reinhold, 92, American classical scholar.[4]
- K. Venkatalakshmma, 96, Indian Bharatanatyam dancer.
- Maritta Wolff, 83, American author, novels adapted to film: Whistle Stop, The Man I Love.[5]
2
- Earle Brown, 75, American composer, cancer.[6]
- Ray Brown, 75, American jazz bassist, known for working with Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald.[7]
- Robert I. Friedman, 51, American investigative journalist.[8]
- Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, 93, French organist and composer.
- James Lee, 79, American screenwriter, heart failure and emphysema.[9]
3
- Henry Cianfrani, 79, American state senator who served prison time on corruption charges, stroke.[10]
- Jimmy Edwards, 49, American professional football player (Minnesota Vikings).[11]
- Earl Francis, 66, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals).[12]
- Michel Henry, 80, French philosopher, phenomenologist and novelist.[13]
- Kenneth Ross MacKenzie, 90, American nuclear physicist.[14]
4
- Gerald Bales, 83, Canadian organist, choirmaster and composer.[15]
- Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., 89, American U.S. Air Force four-star general and commander of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen, Alzheimer's disease.[16]
- Mansoor Hekmat, 51, Iranian theorist, cancer.
- Ivan Moffat, 84, British screenwriter, film producer and socialite.[17]
- Lutz Moik, 71, German film and television actor.
- Sten Samuelson, 76, Swedish architect.
- Laurent Schwartz, 87, French mathematician.[18]
- Winnifred Van Tongerloo, 98, British-American oldest living survivor of the Titanic.
- Gene Wilson, 76, American professional football player (SMU, Green Bay Packers).[19]
5
- Paul Claudon, 82, French film producer and actor.[20]
- Harold Dejan, 93, American New Orleans jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader, best remembered as leader of the Olympia Brass Band.[21]
- Antonio Domenicali, 66, Italian racing cyclist and Olympic champion in track cycling.[22]
- Brett Hill, 57, Australian Olympic swimmer (men's 200 metre butterfly at the 1964 Summer Olympics).[23]
- Katy Jurado, 78, Mexican actress, kidney failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.[24]
- Zdzisław Mrożewski, 93, Polish actor.[25]
- Paul Weiss, 101, American philosopher and author, founded The Review of Metaphysics and the Metaphysical Society of America.[26]
- Reinhard Wenskus, 86, German historian.
- Wallace G. Wilkinson, 60, American businessman and politician, 57th Governor of Kentucky, stroke.[27]
- Ted Williams, 83, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), manager (Washington Senators/Texas Rangers) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, heart attack.[28]
6
- Dhirubhai Ambani, 69, Indian businessman, stroke.
- John Frankenheimer, 74, American film and television director (Birdman of Alcatraz, The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May), heart attack, stroke.[29]
- Cheikh El Hasnaoui, 91, Berber singer.[30]
- Kenneth Koch, 77, American poet and playwright, leukemia.[31]
- Thakur Ram Lal, 72, Indian politician.
- Ugo Lombardi, 90, Italian cinematographer.
- Haji Abdul Qadeer, 51, Afghan Northern Alliance leader, homicide.
- William B. Ruger, 86, American firearms designer and entrepreneur.[32]
- Pietro Valpreda, 69, Italian anarchist, poet, dancer and novelist.
7
- Kirkor Canbazyan, 90, Turkish Olympic cyclist (men's individual road race, men's team road race at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[33]
- Jim Cherry, 30, American musician, heart problems.[34]
- Bison Dele, 33, American basketball player (Denver Nuggets, Detroit Pistons), murdered.[35]
- Dorle Soria, 101, publicist, music producer and journalist.[36]
- John Butler Walden, 62, Tanzanian military officer.
- Ray Wood, 71, English professional footballer.[37]
8
- Ward Kimball, 88, American animator (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Peter Pan, Mary Poppins), pneumonia.[38]
- Clarence Lightner, 80, American politician and mortician.
- Lorna Marshall, 103, American anthropologist.
- Patrick Rodger, 81, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Oxford.
- William Sarjeant, 66, British-born Canadian geologist.[39]
- Earl Shannon, 80, American basketball player and college coach.[40]
- Sidney Spivak, 74, Canadian politician.
9
- Gerald Campion, 81, English actor (Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School).[41]
- George Elias, 88, Australian rower (men's eight rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[42]
- Bruno Freindlich, 92, Soviet and Russian actor.
- Ron Scarlett, 91, New Zealand paleozoologist.
- Madron Seligman, 83, British politician.
- Kenneth Snowman, 82, British jeweller.[43]
- Dave Sorenson, 54, American NBA and Ohio State University basketball player, cancer.[44]
- Rod Steiger, 77, American actor (In the Heat of the Night, On the Waterfront, Doctor Zhivago), Oscar winner (1968), kidney failure.[45]
10
- Mario Cordero, 72, Costa Rican football player and coach; he is still.
- Jean-Pierre Côté, 76, Canadian politician (Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, Senator for Kennebec, Quebec).[46]
- Albertin Disseaux, 87, Belgian racing cyclist.[47]
- Laurence Janifer, 69, American science fiction writer.[48]
- Walter McCrone, 86, American chemist.
- Alan Shulman, 85, American composer and cellist.[49]
- John Wallach, 59, American journalist and author, founder of Seeds of Peace.[50]
11
- Bernardas Brazdžionis, 95, Lithuanian poet.[51]
- Rosco Gordon, 74, American blues singer and songwriter, heart attack.[52]
- John Howse, 88, Australian politician.
- Garry Kelly, 54, Australian politician, suicide.
- Sun Li, 89, Chinese writer..[53]
12
- Mary Carew, 88, American Olympic sprinter (women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1932 Summer Olympics).[54]
- Guillermo Larco Cox, 70, Peruvian politician.
- Josefina de la Torre, 94, Spanish novelist, opera singer, and actress.[55]
- Edward Lee Howard, 51, American CIA agent and defector, fall.[56]
- Mani Krishnaswami, 72, Indian vocalist, cardiac arrest.
- Ghanshyambhai C. Oza, 90, Indian politician.
- Guglielmo Pesenti, 68, Italian racing cyclist.[57]
- Tim Rathbone, 69, English politician, cancer.
- Ece Ayhan Çağlar, 70, Turkish poet.[58]
13
- Carey Blyton, 70, British composer and writer.[59]
- Yousuf Karsh, 93, Canadian portrait photographer, cancer.[60]
- Benny Peled, 74, Israeli Air Force commander, pulmonary emphysema.[61]
- Eric Price, 83, English cricketer.[62]
- Herbert Vesely, 71, Austrian film director and screenwriter.[63]
- Percy Yutar, 90, South African attorney general, prosecuted Nelson Mandela.[64]
14
- Igor Ansoff, 83, Russian-American economist and author, father of strategic business management, pneumonia.[65]
- David Asseo, 88, Turkish Chief Rabbi and spiritual leader of the Republic of Turkey from 1960 to 2002.[66]
- Juaqín Balaguey, 95, President of the Dominican Republic (1960 to 1962, 1966 to 1978, 1986 to 1996), peptic ulcer disease.[67]
- Nelson Barrera, 44, Mexican baseball player, led the Mexican League in career home runs (455) and RBIs (1,927), electrocution.[68]
- Nabakanta Barua, 75, Indian novelist and poet.
- Alex Fraser, 78, British-American scientist, recognized as a pioneer in evolutionary computation.[69]
- Fritz Glatz, 58, Austrian racing driver, car collision.
- Cosetta Greco, 71, Italian film actress.[70]
- Hwang Kee, 87, Korean martial artist.
- Dick Ploog, 65, Australian cyclist.[71]
15
- Charles R. Burton, 59, English explorer, known for being a member of the Transglobe Expedition, heart attack.[72]
- György Fehér, 63, Hungarian film director and screenwriter.
- Lauri Honko, 70, Finnish professor of folklore studies and comparative religion.[73]
- Camillus Perera, 64, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.[74]
- Barbara Randolph, 60, American singer and actress, cancer.
- Philip Roth, 72, American television and film actor.[75]
- Pete Seibert, 77, American skier, esophageal cancer.[76]
16
- John Cocke, 77, American computer scientist.[77]
- Aleksandr Kolchinsky, 47, Soviet Ukrainian heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion, heart failure.[78]
- George Edmund Lindsay, 85, American botanist, naturalist, and museum director.[79]
- Jack Olsen, 77, American journalist and author .[80]
- Antonella Della Porta, 74, Italian actress.
- Floyd James Thompson, 69, United States Army colonel.[81]
17
- Harry W. Gerstad, 93, American film editor.
- Valentina Kamenyok-Vinogradova, 59, Soviet/Russian Olympic volleyball player.[82]
- Joseph Luns, 90, Dutch politician, diplomat and Secretary General of NATO (1971-1984).[83]
- Ubiratan Pereira Maciel, 58, Brazilian basketball player.
- Lee Maye, 67, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves, Houston Astros, Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators), cancer.[84]
- George Rickey, 95, American kinetic sculptor.[85]
- André Simonyi, 88, Hungarian-French football player.[86]
- Bobby Worth, 89, American songwriter, recorded by Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Ella Fitzgerald.[87]
18
- Victor Emery, 68, English physicist, ALS.
- Howard Ensign Evans, 83, American entomologist.[88]
- Qiu Huizuo, 88, Chinese Army lieutenant general.
- Andy Kirby, 40, American stock car racing driver, motorcycle accident.
- Györgyi Marvalics-Székely, 77, Hungarian fencer and Olympic silver medalist.[89]
- Lee Siew-Choh, 84, Singaporean politician and medical doctor, lung cancer.
- Owsei Temkin, 99, Russian-American medical historian.[90]
- Metin Toker, 78, Turkish journalist and politician, prostate cancer.
- Del Wilber, 83, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox) and manager (Texas Rangers).[91]
19
- Jack Backman, 80, American politician.
- Dave Carter, 49, American singer-songwriter, heart attack.[92]
- Alexander Ginzburg, 65, Soviet dissident.[93]
- Alan Lomax, 87, American documenter of blues and folk songs.[94]
- Evdokia Petrova, 86, Soviet spy in Australia in the 1950s.
- Barry Reed, 75, American trial lawyer and author.[95]
- Spec Shea, 81, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Washington Senators).[96]
- Frank Taylor, 81, English sports journalist.
- Vladimir Vasyutin, 50, Soviet cosmonaut, cancer.
20
- Pedro Alberto Cano Arenas, 33, Spanish footballer, cerebral hemorrhage.[97]
- Michalis Kritikopoulos, 56, Greek footballer, cardiac arrest.
- Jan Komski, 87, Polish painter.
- Jimmy Maxwell, 85, American swing jazz trumpeter.[98]
- Roland E. Murphy, 85, American Catholic prelate and biblical scholar.[99]
21
- John Cunningham, 84, British World War II nightfighter pilot.[100]
- Millie Deegan, 82, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[101]
- Gus Dudgeon, 59, English record producer ("Space Oddity", "Your Song", "Rocket Man", "Daniel"), car accident.[102]
- Peter Elstob, 86, British soldier, adventurer, novelist and entrepreneur.[103]
- Jeffrey Harborne, 73, British chemist and professor of botany.[104]
- Esphyr Slobodkina, 93, Russian-American artist, author, and illustrator.[105]
22
- Fernando Schwalb López Aldana, 85, Peruvian politician, Prime Minister (1963–1965, 1983–1984).
- Joyce Cooper, 93, British Olympic swimmer (one silver medal: 1928, three bronze medals: 1928, 1928, 1932).[106]
- Giuseppe Corradi, 70, Italian footballer.
- Viktor Mineyev, 65, Soviet-Azerbaijani modern pentathlete and Olympic Champion.[107]
- Marion Montgomery, 67, American jazz singer, lung cancer.[108]
- Prince Ahmed bin Salman, member of the Saudi Arabian royal family.[109]
- Salah Shehade, 49, Palestinian politician and one of the founders of Islamist movement Hamas, targeted killing by Israel.
- Chuck Traynor, 64, American pornographer, heart attack.
23
- Gunnar Andreassen, 89, Norwegian football player and manager.[110]
- Alberto Castillo, 87, Argentine tango singer and actor.[111]
- Clark Gesner, 64, American composer, songwriter, author, and actor, heart attack.[112]
- Olof Lagercrantz, 91, Swedish writer, critic, and literary scholar .
- Hermann Lindemann, 91, German football player and manager.
- Ned Martin, 78, American sportscaster, heart attack.[113]
- Leo McKern, 82, Australian actor, diabetes.[114]
- Katya Paskaleva, 56, Bulgarian film and stage actress, pancreatic cancer.
- William Luther Pierce, American neo-Nazi, author of The Turner Diaries, cancer.[115]
- Chaim Potok, 73, American author, brain cancer.[116]
- Idrees Sulieman, 78, American bop and hard bop trumpeter, bladder cancer.
- Arnold Weinstock, 77, British industrialist and businessman, managing director of the General Electric Company.[117]
24
- Mike Clark, 61, American gridiron football player(Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Cowboys), heart attack.[118]
- Pete Coscarart, 89, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates).[119]
- Maurice Denham, 92, British character actor (The Purple Plain, Sink the Bismarck!, The Day of the Jackal).[120]
- Mustafa Mansour, 87, Egyptian football player.
- Al Silvera, 66, American baseball player (Cincinnati Redlegs).[121]
- Gaynell Tinsley, 87, American football player and coach.[122]
- Barney White, 79, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).[123]
25
- Abdel Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher.[124]
- Bob Barr, 94, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).[125]
- Frank Connell, 92, American Olympic cyclist (men's individual road race, men's team road race at the 1932 Summer Olympics).[126]
- Johannes Joachim Degenhardt, 76, German Roman Catholic prelate.[127]
- Hans Dorjee, 60, Dutch football player and manager, cardiac arrest.[128]
- Rudi Dornbusch, 60, German macroeconomist, made fundamental contributions to international economics, cancer.[129]
- Cliff Lewis, 79, American gridiron football player.[130]
- Izzy León, 91, Cuban-American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[131]
- Angus Montagu, 12th Duke of Manchester, 63, British hereditary peer, heart attack.
- Louis Owens, 54, American novelist and scholar, suicide.[132]
- Alexander Ratiu, 86, Romanian-American priest of the Greek-Catholic Church.
- Mel Triplett, 71, American gridiron football player.[133]
26
- Tony Anholt, 61, British television actor (Howards' Way), brain tumor.[134]
- Buddy Baker, 84, American film composer (The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Fox and the Hound).[135]
- Kenny Gardner, 89, American singer for Guy Lombardo's band, the Royal Canadians.[136]
- Dolores Olmedo, 93, Mexican businesswoman, philanthropist and musician.
- Kobun Chino Otogawa, 64, Japanese Sōtō Zen priest, drowned.
27
- Anatoli Bashashkin, 78, Russian footballer and coach (gold medal winner at the 1956 Summer Olympics).[137]
- Ronald Brown, 80, British politician (member of Parliament representing Shoreditch and Finsbury and Hackney South and Shoreditch).[138]
- Dick Cleveland, 72, American Olympic swimmer (men's 100 metre freestyle at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[139]
- Frank Inn, 86, American animal trainer.[140]
- Krishan Kant, 75, Indian politician, Vice President (1997 -2002), Governor of Tamil Nadu (1996 - 1997) and Governor of Andhra Pradesh (1990 -1997), heart attack.[141]
- Roscoe Shelton, 70, American blues and R&B singer, cancer.
28
- Svetomir Belić, 55, Serbian Olympic boxer.[142]
- Anatol Fejgin, 91, Polish communist and political police commander.
- Jack Karnehm, 85, British snooker commentator, heat stroke.
- Archer John Porter Martin, 92, British chemist.[143]
- Donald J. Pease, 70, American politician.
- Steve Souchock, 83, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers).[144]
- Gerhard Wessel, 88, German intelligence officer, President of the Federal Intelligence Bureau.[145]
29
- Peter Bayliss, 80, British actor (The Red Shoes, Darling, The Sweeney, Coronation Street, Lovejoy).[146]
- Ad Dekkers, 48, Dutch cyclist.[147]
- Elmar Frings, 63, German Olympic pentathlete (1964 pentathlon: team and individual, 1968 pentathlon: team and individual).[148]
- Sudhir Phadke, 83, India Marathi singer-composer, brain haemorrhage.
- Renato Pirocchi, 69, Italian racing driver.
- Phil Smith, 50, American basketball player, complications from multiple myeloma cancer.[149]
- Ron Walotsky, 58, American science fiction and fantasy artist.[150]
30
- George Alfred Barnard, 86, British statistician.[151]
- Lyle Benjamin Borst, 89, American nuclear physicist and inventor, worked on the Manhattan Project.[152]
- Ed Bruneteau, 82, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).[153]
- A. E. Dyson, 73, British literary critic, activist and gay rights campaigner, leukemia.[154]
- Gerald Gunther, 75, German-American constitutional law scholar.[155]
- Steven Lysak, 89, American sprint canoeist and Olympic champion at the 1948 Summer Olympics.[156]
- Atef Salem, 75, Egyptian film director.
- Reginald Schroeter, 80, Canadian ice hockey player.[157]
31
- Boris Aleksandrov, 46, Soviet and Kazakh ice hockey player (USSR champion team for CSKA Moscow, gold medal winner at 1976 Winter Olympics), traffic collision.[158]
- Sir Peter Ashmore, 81, British admiral and Master of the Household to the Sovereign.[159]
- Raymond Brookes, Baron Brookes, 93, British industrialist and life peer.[160]
- Slávka Budínová, 78, Czechoslovak film actress.
- Pauline Chan, 29, Hong Kong actress, suicide.[161]
- Gordon Chown, 79, Canadian lawyer and politician, member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Winnipeg South, Manitoba).[162]
- Francis Searle, 93, English film director, writer and producer.
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