The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.
May 2002
1
- Ade Bethune, 88, American Catholic liturgical artist.[1]
- Aspy Engineer, 89, Indian Air Force officer.
- John Nathan-Turner, 54, British television producer (Doctor Who), infection.[2]
- Tom Sutton, 65, American comic book artist (Vampirella, Doctor Strange, Ghost Rider), heart attack.
- Roger Teillet, 89, Canadian politician.
2
- Rosa García Ascot, 100, Spanish composer and pianist.
- Peter Thomas Bauer, 86, Hungarian-British economist.[3]
- Olive Cook, 90, British writer and artist, cancer.[4]
- Constanța Crăciun, 88, Romanian politician and educator.
- Devika, 59, Indian actress, heart attack.
- Carl Heger, 92, Danish actor.
- Sihung Lung, 72, Taiwanese movie and TV actor, liver failure.[5]
- Izet Sarajlić, 72, Bosnian historian of philosophy, essayist, and poet.[6]
- Ron Soble, 70, American actor in films and television.
- Richard Stücklen, 85, German politician, President of the Bundestag.
- Judy Toll, 44, American actress, writer and comedian, melanoma.
- W. T. Tutte, 84, British-Canadian cryptographer during World War II and mathematician.
3
- Livingston L. Biddle, Jr., 83, American author and promoter of funding for the arts.[7]
- Malcolm Bosse, 75, American author, known for his historical novels set in Asia.[8]
- Barbara Castle, 91, British Labour politician and female life peer.[9]
- Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal, 73, president of Somaliland and former prime minister of the Somali Republic.[10]
- Mohan Singh Oberoi, 103, Indian hotelier and retailer.[11]
- Yevgeny Svetlanov, 73, Russian conductor, composer and pianist.[12]
- Mariana Yampolsky, 76, Mexican photographer.[13]
4
- Don Allard, 66, American football player (New York Titans, Boston Patriots) and coach.[14]
- Clarence Boston, 85, American college football coach, head coach of New Hampshire Wildcats from 1949 to 1964.[15]
- Ernesto Díaz, 49, Colombian football player.[16]
- John Hasted, 81, British physicist and folk musician.[17]
- John Kohn, 76, American writer and producer, cancer.[18]
- Rolf Friedemann Pauls, 86, German diplomat.[19]
- Elizabeth Russell, 85, American actress.
- Gerónimo Saccardi, 52, Argentine football player and manager, heart attack.
- Abu Turab al-Zahiri, 79, Saudi Arabian writer of Arab Indian descent.
5
- Randy Anderson, 42, American wrestling referee, testicular cancer.
- Hugo Banzer, 75, Bolivian politician, Bolivian dictator (1971 to 1978), President of Bolivia (1997 to 2001), lung cancer.[20]
- Dick Farman, 85, American professional football player (Washington State, Washington Redskins).[21]
- Andrei Rostotsky, 45, Soviet and Russian actor, film director, screenwriter, and TV host, fall.
- Clarence Seignoret, 83, president of Dominica (1983–1993).
- George Sidney, 85, American film director (Bye Bye Birdie, Viva Las Vegas, Anchors Aweigh), lymphoma.[22]
- Mike Todd, Jr., 72, American film producer, introduced short-lived movie format Smell-O-Vision (Scent of Mystery), lung cancer.[23]
- Čestmír Vycpálek, 80, Czech football player and manager.
- Louis C. Wyman, 85, American politician (U.S. Representative for New Hampshire's 1st congressional district), cancer.[24]
6
- Murray Adaskin, 96, Canadian violinist, composer, conductor and teacher.[25]
- Heinz Arndt, 87, German-Australian economist, traffic collision.[26]
- Otis Blackwell, 71, American songwriter, singer and pianist ("Great Balls of Fire", "Don't Be Cruel", "All Shook Up", "Return to Sender").[27]
- James Lawton Collins Jr., 84, U.S. Army brigadier general and military historian.[28]
- Harry George Drickamer, 83, American chemical engineer, a pioneer in high-pressure studies of condensed matter.[29]
- Pim Fortuyn, 54, Dutch politician, assassinated.[30]
- Shanta Gandhi, 84, Indian theatre director, dancer and playwright.
- Bjørn Johansen, 61, Norwegian jazz musician.[31]
- Bronisław Pawlik, 76, Polish actor, stomach cancer.[32]
- Saleh Selim, 71, Egyptian football player and actor, liver cancer.[33]
7
- Kevyn Aucoin, 40, American make-up artist and author (The Art of Makeup, Making Faces, Face Forward), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.[34]
- Durga Bhagwat, 92, Indian scholar, socialist and writer.
- Bernard Burrows, 91, British diplomat.[35]
- Ewart Jones, 91, Welsh chemist.[36]
- Robert Kanigher, 86, American comic book writer and editor (Wonder Woman, The Flash, Sgt. Rock).
- Masakatsu Miyamoto, 63, Japanese football player and manager, pneumonia.[37]
- Xavier Montsalvatge, 90, Spanish composer and music critic.[38]
- Seattle Slew, 28, American thoroughbred racehorse champion.
- Monica Sinclair, 77, British operatic contralto.[39]
8
- Sylvester Barrett, 75, Irish politician (Minister for the Environment, Minister for Defence, Member of the European Parliament).[40]
- Basil Chubb, 80, English-Irish political scientist and author (The Government and Politics of Ireland).[41]
- Edward Jackson, 76, English diplomat, (Ambassador to Cuba, Ambassador to Belgium).[42]
- Tilly Lauenstein, 85, German film and television actress.
- Lou Lombardo, 70, American film editor (The Wild Bunch, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Moonstruck), stroke.[43]
- Ahmad Mazhar, 84, Egyptian actor, pneumonia.[44]
- Boyce McDaniel, 84, American nuclear physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project, heart attack.[45]
9
- Dan Devine, 77, American football player and coach (Arizona State, Missouri, Green Bay Packers, Notre Dame).[46]
- Robert Layton, 76, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Lachine and Lachine—Lac-Saint-Louis, Quebec).[47]
- Leon Stein, 91, American composer and music analyst.[48]
- Sam Walton, 59, American gridiron football player (East Texas State, New York Jets, Houston Oilers), heart attack.[49]
10
- Philip Edward Archer, 77, Ghanese lawyer and Chief Justice (1991-1995).
- Kaifi Azmi, 83, Indian Urdu poet.[50]
- Lynda Lyon Block, 54, American convicted murderer, executed by electric chair.
- George Cates, 90, American music arranger, conductor, songwriter and record producer.[51]
- John Cunniff, 57, American hockey player and coach (Hartford Whalers, Boston Bruins, New Jersey Devils), esophageal cancer.[52]
- Austen Kark, 75, British television executive, managing director of the BBC World Service.[53]
- David Riesman, 92, American sociologist, educator, and commentator on American society.[54]
- Yves Robert, 81, French actor, screenwriter, director, and producer, cerebral hemorrhage.[55]
11
- Joseph Bonanno, 97, Italian-American mafia boss, heart attack.[56]
- Renaude Lapointe, 90, Canadian journalist and a politician.
- Bill Peet, 87, American animator and screenwriter (Cinderella, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland).[57]
- Steve Rachunok, 85, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).[58]
- Abida Sultan, 88, Pakistani princess and daughter of Nawab Hamidullah Khan.
- Jerzy Tabeau, 83, Polish Holocaust survivor.
- Nika Turbina, 27, Soviet and Russian poet, suicide.[59]
12
- Edward M. Carey, 85, American oil industry executive.[60]
- Richard Chorley, 74, English geographer, heart attack.[61]
- Luciano Galesi, 75, Italian Olympic sports shooter.[62]
- Bruce Hansen, 74, New Zealand Olympic equestrian.[63]
13
- Clinton Adams, 83, American artist, art historian and head of the Tamarind Institute, liver cancer.[64]
- Alan P. Bell, 70, American psychologist (Kinsey Institute).[65]
- Ruth Cracknell, 76, Australian actress (Mother and Son), pneumonia.[66]
- George Gordienko, 74, Canadian professional wrestler and artist, melanoma.
- Valeriy Lobanovskyi, 63, Ukrainian football coach, stroke.
- Douglas Pike, 77, American historian and scholar on the Vietnam War.[67]
- Morihiro Saito, 74, Japanese aikido teacher, cancer.
14
- Derek Birley, 75, British educationist, writer and sports historian.[68]
- Rawshan Jamil, 71, Bangladeshi actress and dancer.
- José Lutzenberger, 75, Brazilian agronomist and environmentalist, heart attack.[69]
- Gordon J. F. MacDonald, 72, American geophysicist.[70]
- Dale Morey, 83, American basketball player.
- Ray Stricklyn, 73, American actor and publicist, emphysema.[71]
15
- Kofoworola Ademola, 88, Nigerian educationist.
- Bernard Benjamin, 92, British statistician, a leading figure in the field of demography.[72]
- Darwood Kaye, 72, American child actor (Our Gang), hit and run accident.[73]
- Tatiana Okunevskaya, 88, Soviet and Russian actress.
- Bryan Pringle, 67, British actor.[74]
16
- Shoichi Arai, 36, Japanese professional wrestling promoter, suicide.
- Alec Campbell, 103, Australia's last surviving ANZAC at the Gallipoli campaign during World War I.[75]
- Jim Dewar, 59, Scottish musician, stroke.[76]
- Big Dick Dudley, 34, American professional wrestler (ECW), kidney failure.
- Kenneth Fung, 90, Hong Kong politician and businessman.[77]
- Salcia Landmann, 90, Jewish Ukrainian writer.[78]
- José Reis, 94, Brazilian scientist, journalist, and science writer.
- José Riesgo, 82, Spanish actor.
- Gavril Serfőző, 75, Romanian football player.
17
- Dave Berg, 81, American cartoonist (Mad, The Lighter Side of...), cancer.[79]
- Joe Black, 78, American first Black baseball pitcher to win a World Series game (Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Redlegs, Washington Senators), prostate cancer.[80]
- Edwin Alonzo Boyd, 88, Canadian bank robber and prison escapee of the 1950s (Citizen Gangster).[81]
- James Chichester-Clark, 79, Northern Ireland politician, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1969 to 1971.[82]
- John de Lancie, 80, American oboist, principal oboist of the Philadelphia Orchestra and director of the Curtis Institute of Music.[83]
- László Kubala, 74, Hungarian and Slovak football player.
- Sharon Sheeley, 62, American songwriter.
- Little Johnny Taylor, 59, American singer.[84]
- Aşık Mahzuni Şerif, 61, Turkish folk musician, composer, poet, and author, heart failure.[85]
- Norman Vaughan, 79, English comedian.
18
- Sergio Andreoli, 80, Italian football player.[86]
- Song Hye-rim, 65, North Korean actress, best, breast cancer.
- Wolfgang Schneiderhan, 86, Austrian classical violinist.[87]
- Davey Boy Smith, 39, British professional wrestler, myocardial infarction, heart attack.
- Zypora Spaisman, 86, Polish-American actress and Yiddish] theatre empresaria.[88]
- Gordon Wharmby, 68, British actor (Last of the Summer Wine), cancer.[89]
19
- René de Chambrun, 95, French-American aristocrat, lawyer, businessman and author.[90]
- Raymond Durgnat, 69, British film critic (Films and Filming, Film Comment, Monthly Film Bulletin) and author.[91]
- Herbert Familton, 74, New Zealand alpine skier (men's downhill, men's giant slalom at the 1952 Winter Olympics).[92]
- John Gorton, 90, 19th Prime Minister of Australia.[93]
- Earl Hammond, 80, American voice actor (Thundercats).
- Walter Lord, 84, American historian, Parkinson's disease.[94]
- Otar Lordkipanidze, 72, Georgian archaeologist, heart attack.
- Giuseppe Maria Scotese, 86, Italian screenwriter and film director.
- Bryant Tuckerman, 86, American mathematician.
20
- David Abrahamsen, 98, Norwegian forensic psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author.[95]
- Renzo Barbera, 82, Italian businessman and soccer executive.
- Jerry Dunphy, 80, American Los Angeles television news anchor, heart attack.[96]
- Stephen Jay Gould, 60, American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author, cancer.[97]
- Sándor Kónya, 78, Hungarian tenor.[98]
- Eberle Hynson Schultz, 84, American football player.[99]
21
- Rogers Albritton, 78, American philosopher, pulmonary emphysema.[100]
- Joe Cobb, 86, American child actor, appeared as the original "fat boy" in the Our Gang comedies.[101]
- Michel Grosclaude, 75, French linguist, and author of works on grammar and lexicography.[102]
- Andrzej Herder, 64, Polish film and theatre actor.
- Roy Paul, 82, Welsh footballer.
- Niki de Saint Phalle, 71, French artist, pulmonary emphysema.[103]
- Bob Poser, 92, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Browns).[104]
22
- Fritz Ackley, 65, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).[105]
- Sultan Ahmed, 64, Indian film director and producer.
- Joe Cascarella, 94, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, Cincinnati Reds).[106]
- Paul Giel, 69, American baseball player (New York/San Francisco Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, Minnesota Twins).[107]
- Warren Hacker, 77, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Redlegs, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox).[108]
- Dick Hern, 81, British racehorse trainer.
- Fritz Hippler, 92, German filmmaker.[109]
- Creighton Miller, 79, American football player and attorney, heart attack.[110]
- Alexandru Todea, 89, Romanian Greek-Catholic cardinal.
- Patrick Wolrige-Gordon, 66, British (Scottish) politician (Member of Parliament for East Aberdeenshire).[111]
23
- Umberto Bindi, 70, Italian singer-songwriter, heart disease.[112]
- Wally Fromhart, 89, American football player and coach.
- Timur Novikov, 43, Russian visual artist, designer, art theorist, philosopher, and musician, pneumonia.[113]
- Sam Snead, 89, American golfer, complications from a stroke.[114]
- Dorothy Spencer, 93, American film editor (Stagecoach, Cleopatra, Earthquake).[115]
24
- Joseph Bau, 81, Polish-Israeli artist, philosopher, animator, comedian, and poet, pneumonia.[116]
- Susie Garrett, 72, American actress (Punky Brewster) and jazz vocalist, cancer.[117]
- Antonia Pantoja, 79, Puerto Rican educator, feminist, and civil rights leader, cancer.[118]
- Itō Toshihito, 40, Japanese actor, subarachnoid hemorrhage.
- Xi Zhongxun, 88, Chinese communist revolutionary.
25
- Pat Coombs, 75, English actress (Till Death Us Do Part, EastEnders, Ooh... You Are Awful), pulmonary emphysema.[119]
- Bart de Graaff, 35, Dutch television presenter/producer and founder of broadcasting network BNN, kidney failure.[120]
- Ștefan Augustin Doinaș, 80, Romanian neoclassical poet, heart failure.[121]
- Zoran Janković, 62, Yugoslavian Olympic water polo player (1964 silver medal, 1968 gold medal, 1972), liver cancer.[122]
- Michel Jobert, 80, French politician, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Pål-Nils Nilsson, 72, Swedish photographer and filmmaker.
- Nathan Mantel, 83, American biostatistician, heart attack.[123]
- Jack Pollard, 75, Australian sports journalist, stroke.[124]
26
- Jon Bannenberg, English-Australian yacht designer, brain cancer.
- Flora Lewis, 84, American journalist (The Washington Post, The New York Times), cancer.[125]
- Ivo Maček, 88, Croatian pianist, composer and academian.
- John Alexander Moore, 86, American biologist.[126]
- Vicente Nebrada, 72, Venezuelan dancer and choreographer, cancer.[127]
- Jean-Jacques Petter, 74, French primatologist.
- Mamo Wolde, 69, Ethiopian Olympic long-distance runner (1968 gold medal, 1968 silver medal, 1972 bronze medal), liver cancer.[128]
27
- Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson, 93, Scottish historian and paleographer.[129]
- Barbara Hamilton, 14th Baroness Dudley, 95, British noblewoman, member of the House of Lords.[130]
- Ray Mathew, 73, Australian author.[131]
- Vitaly Solomin, 60, Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter, stroke.[132]
28
- Ibrahim al-Urayyid, 94, Bahraini writer and poet.[133]
- Napoleon Beazley, 25, American juvenile offender, executed by lethal injection.
- Mildred Benson, 96, American journalist and author of children's books (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories), lung cancer.[134]
- Jean Berger, 92, German-American composer and conductor.[135]
- Ruby Bradley, 94, US Army colonel and one of the most decorated women in its military history.[136]
- Norman King, 87, New Zealand politician and cabinet minister.
- David Parker Ray, 62, American serial killer, heart attack.
- Wes Westrum, 79, American baseball player (New York Giants) and manager (New York Mets, San Francisco Giants), cancer.[137]
- Rostislav Yurenev, 90, Soviet and Russian film critic and teacher.
29
- Stan Bentham, 87, English footballer, Alzheimer's disease.[138]
- Gunnar Jarring, 94, Swedish diplomat and Turkologist.[139]
- Sándor Mátrai, 69, Hungarian football player.[140]
- Sher Ali Khan Pataudi, 89, Pakistani politician and diplomat.
- Elémire Zolla, 75, Italian essayist, philosopher and historian.[141]
30
- Kees Boertien, 74, Dutch politician (Christian Democratic Appeal) and jurist.[142]
- Kenny Craddock, 52, British instrumentalist (Ringo Starr, Ginger Baker, Gerry Rafferty), composer and producer, car crash.[143]
- John B. Keane, 73, Irish playwright, novelist and essayist, prostate cancer.[144]
- Mario Lago, 90, Brazilian lawyer, poet, composer and actor, pneumonia.[145]
- Walter Laird, 81, British ballroom dancer.
31
- Jeremy Bray, 71, British politician (member of Parliament representing Middlesbrough West, Motherwell and Wishaw and Motherwell South).[146]
- Subhash Gupte, 72, Indian cricket player.[147]
- Eleanor D. Wilson, 93, American actress (Weekend, Alice's Restaurant, Reds) and artist.[148]
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