Deaths in October 2002

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

October 2002

1

• Walter Annenberg, 94, American publisher (The Philadelphia Inquirer, TV Guide, Daily Racing Form, Seventeen) and philanthropist.
• Ilie Ceaușescu, 76, Romanian general and communist politician, pneumonia.
• Consuelo Salgar, 74, Colombian journalist, advertising executive, and politician, liver cancer.
• Edeltraud Schramm, 78, Austrian Olympic gymnast.

2

• Norman O. Brown, 89, American philosopher and author (Life Against Death, Love's Body).
• Al Lerner, 69, American businessman, football team owner, and philanthropist.
• Tiberiu Olah, 74, Romanian-Hungarian composer, teacher and musicologist.
• Alexander Sinclair, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Heinz von Foerster, 90, Austrian-American physicist and philosopher, one of the founders of constructivism.

3

• Tad Horino, 81, American film and television actor.
• Felix Kracht, 90, German engineer.
• Bruce Paltrow, 58, American television and film director and producer, pneumonia.
• Dalvanius Prime, 54, New Zealand entertainer and songwriter, cancer.
• John Weitz, 79, American fashion designer, novelist and historian.

4

• Per Bronken, 67, Norwegian poet, novelist, actor, film director and stage producer.
• Alphonse Chapanis, 85, American pioneer in the field of industrial design.
• André Delvaux, 76, Belgian film director, considered the father of the Belgian film industry, heart attack.
• Hans Holmér, 71, Swedish civil servant and author.
• Buddy Lester, 87, American actor and comedian, cancer.
• Ahmad Mahmoud, 70, Iranian novelist.
• Marcel Reymond, 91, Swiss Olympic ski jumper.
• Roy Wilkins, 68, American professional football player (University of Georgia, Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins).

5

• Magda B. Arnold, 98, Canadian psychologist.
• Reginald Hibbert, 80, British diplomat.
• Morag Hood, 59, British actress, cancer.
• Ron Horn, 64, American basketball player.
• Tony Mazzocchi, 76, American labor leader, pancreatic cancer.
• Mia Čorak Slavenska, 86, Croatian-American ballerina.
• Jay R. Smith, 87, American child actor and comedian, stabbed.

6

• Ben Eastman, 91, American runner (silver medal in men's 400 metres at the 1932 Summer Olympics).
• Wolfgang Mischnick, 81, German liberal politician (FDP).
• Prince Claus of the Netherlands, 76, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Dutch diplomat, pneumonia.
• Chuck Rayner, 82, Canadian professional hockey player (New York Americans, New York Rangers).
• Nick Whitehead, 69, British (Welsh) sprinter (bronze medal in men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics).
• Juan Yustrich, 93, Argentine football goalkeeper.

7

• Pierangelo Bertoli, 59, Italian singer-songwriter and poet, heart attack.
• Ralph Harry, 85, Australian diplomat and intelligence specialist.
• Cor Kint, 82, Dutch backstroke swimmer and 1938 European Champion.
• Marcel Paille, 69, Canadian ice hockey goaltender, cancer.
• Domenico Paolella, 86, Italian director, screenwriter and journalist.
• Ed Rossbach, 88, American fiber artist.
• Amanda Zhao, 21, Chinese student.

8

• Jodie Beeler, 80, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).
• Phyllis Calvert, 87, British actress (The Man in Grey, Fanny by Gaslight, The Magic Bow, My Own True Love), kidney failure.
• Jacques Richard, 50, Canadian ice hockey player, car accident.
• Joachim Zahn, 88, German business executive, chairman of Daimler-Benz (1971-1979).

9

• Sopubek Begaliev, 71, Soviet-Kyrgyz economist and politician.
• Charles Guggenheim, 78, American documentary film director, producer, and screenwriter, pancreatic cancer.
• Anwar Hussain, 82, Pakistani cricketer.
• Oleksandr Liashko, 86, Ukrainian politician.
• Carlo Lievore, 64, Italian Olympic javelin thrower.
• Eric Martin, 33, American racing driver, racing accident.
• Jim Martin, 78, American football player.
• Bruno O'Ya, 69, Estonian-Polish actor.
• Aileen Wuornos, 46, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.

10

• Strahinja Alagić, 78, Serbian basketball player and coach.
• Mario de las Casas, 101, Peruvian football defender.
• Tom Casey, 78, American professional football player (New York Yankees, Hamilton Wildcats, Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
• Fate Echols, 63, American professional football player (Northwestern University, St. Louis Cardinals).
• Lawrence H. Fountain, 89, American politician (U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 2nd congressional district).
• Teresa Graves, 54, American actress and singer, house fire, accidental death.
• Denison Kitchel, 94, American lawyer political advisor.
• Abe Most, 82, Swing clarinetist and alto saxophonist.
• Zara Nelsova, 81, Canadian cellist.
• Tom Sullivan, 52, American gridiron football player, accidental death.
• Erling Sørensen, 81, Danish football player and manager.

11

• Betty Molesworth Allen, 89, New Zealand botanist.
• Stewart Crawford, 89, British diplomat.
• Werner Eberlein, 82, German socialist politician and party functionary, heart attack.
• Bill Field, 93, British politician.
• Ron Gray, 82, English football player and manager.
• Maxim Levy, 52, Israeli politician.
• Dina Pathak, 80, Indian actor and director, heart attack.
• Emilio García Riera, 70, Spanish-born Mexican actor, writer and cinema critic.
• Christine Stevens, 84, American animal welfare activist and conservationist.
• Fred Troller, 71, Swiss-born graphic designer.
• Stanley Wagner, 94, Canadian ice hockey player (gold medal in ice hockey at the 1932 Winter Olympics).
• Rusty Wailes, 66, American rower (two Olympic gold medals in rowing: 1956 men's eight, 1960 men's coxless four).

12

• Viktor Asmaev, 54, Russian Olympic equestrian (gold medal in equestrian team jumping at the 1980 Summer Olympics).
• Ray Conniff, 85, American bandleader and arranger, fall.
• Carolina Fadic, 28, Chilean actress and television presenter, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Desmond Fitzpatrick, 89, British Army general.
• Audrey Mestre, 28, French world record-setting free diver, drowned.
• Nozomi Momoi, 24, Japanese AV idol, murdered.
• Sidney W. Pink, 86, American movie director and producer.
• William R. Sears, 89, American aeronautical engineer and educator.

13

• Stephen E. Ambrose, 66, American historian and author (Band of Brothers), lung cancer.
• Keene Curtis, 79, American actor (The Rothschilds, Annie, Cheers), Alzheimer's disease.
• Mason Hammond, 99, American educator and scholar.
• Jim Higgins, 71, British politician.
• Billy McAdams, 68, Northern Irish football player and manager.
• Ila Mitra, 76, Indian communist politician and activist.
• Dennis Patrick, 84, American actor, fire.
• Eileen Southern, 82, American musicologist, researcher and author.
• Garfield Todd, 94, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia.
• Herman Fredrik Zeiner-Gundersen, 87, Norwegian Army general.

14

• Bill Green, 72, American politician (U.S. Representative for New York's 18th and 15th congressional districts), liver cancer.
• Timothy Reuter, 55, German-British historian, brain cancer.
• Norbert Schultze, 91, German film score composer and Nazi Party member.
• Arturo Silvestri, 81, Italian football player and manager.

15

• Grace Hamblin, 94, British private secretary to Winston Churchill.
• Jack Lee, 89, British film director.
• Paul Paillole, 96, French intelligence services officer.
• Zeev, 79, Israeli caricaturist and illustrator.

16

• Per Bak, 53, Danish theoretical physicist, known for "self-organized criticality", myelodysplastic syndrome.
• Philip Brett, 64, British-American musicologist, musician and conductor, cancer.
• Harry Ferrier, 82, Scottish football player and manager.
• Allen Walker Read, 96, American etymologist and lexicographer.
• Henri Renaud, 77, French jazz pianist, record producer, and record company executive.

17

• Derek Bell, 66, Northern Irish musician and composer (The Chieftains), heart attack.
• Pattie Coldwell, 50, British television broadcaster and journalist (Nationwide, Open Air, Loose Women, You and Yours), brain tumor.
• Yara Cortes, 81, Brazilian actress.
• Chuck Domanico, 58, American jazz bassist, lung cancer.
• D. Elmo Hardy, 88, American entomologist.
• Bashful Brother Oswald, 90, American country musician, a frequent Grand Ole Opry performer.
• Yitzhak Peretz, 66, Israeli politician.
• Alina Pienkowska, 50, Polish free trade union activist and politician, cancer.
• Aileen Riggin, 96, American Olympic swimmer and diver.
• Fred Scolari, 80, American basketball player and coach.

18

• Richard Bernstein, 62, American artist, member of the circle of Andy Warhol, complications of AIDS.
• Cecil Blacker, 86, British Army general, Adjutant-General to the Forces.
• Kam Fong Chun, 84, American police officer and actor (Hawaii Five-O), lung cancer.
• John D. Ferry, 90, Canadian-American biochemist, made important contributions to polymer science.
• Roman Tam, 57, Hong Kong cantopop singer, liver cancer.

19

• Peter Bergmann, 87, German-American physicist, known for his work with Albert Einstein.
• Manuel Álvarez Bravo, 100, Mexican photographer.
• John Meredyth Lucas, 83, American writer, director and producer, leukemia.
• Mehli Mehta, 94, Indian conductor and violinist.
• Hans Jürgen Press, 76, German children's writer and illustrator.
• Nikolay Rukavishnikov, 70, Soviet cosmonaut, heart attack.
• Hank Smith, 68, Canadian country music singer.
• Héctor Trujillo, 94, Dominican general and political figure.

20

• Barbara Berjer, 82, American actress (As the World Turns, Another World), pneumonia.
• Hans Eisele, 62, German football player.
• Bernard Fresson, 71, French actor (French Connection II, The Tenant, Street of No Return), cancer.
• Mel Harder, 93, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), coach and manager (Cleveland Indians).

21

• Aldo Canazza, 94, Italian racing cyclist.
• Bernardino Pérez Elizarán, 77, Spanish football player and manager.
• Manfred Ewald, 76, East German Olympic committee president, pneumonia.
• Jesse L. Greenstein, 93, American astronomer.
• George Hall, 85, Canadian theatre, television, and film actor.
• Kemal Kurt, 54, Turkish-German author, translator and photographer.
• Bernhard Neumann, 93, British-Australian mathematician.
• Kaisa Parviainen, 87, Finnish athlete.
• Marquita Rivera, 80, Puerto Rican actress, singer and dancer, stroke.
• Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota, 83, British politician.
• Harbhajan Singh, 82, Indian poet, critic, and cultural commentator.
• Y. R. Swamy, Indian film director and screenwriter.

22

• Queen Geraldine of Albania, 87, Queen consort of King Zog I of Albania.
• George Bellak, 83, American television writer.
• Marian Bergeron, 84, American beauty pageant winner (Miss America 1933) and big band singer, leukemia.
• Igor Irodov, 78, Soviet Russian physicist and World War II veteran.
• Robert Nixon, 63, British cartoonist.

23

• Lucille Carroll, 96, American Broadway actress and MGM studio executive.
• Adolph Green, 87, American lyricist and playwright.
• Nathan Görling, 97, Swedish composer of film scores.
• Richard Helms, 89, American diplomat and CIA director, multiple myeloma.
• Marianne Hoppe, 93, German theatre and film actress.
• Nathan H. Juran, 95, Austrian-American film and television director.
• David Lewis, 85, New Zealand sailor and adventurer.
• Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, 96, British historian.
• Janos Nyiri, 69, Hungarian-British theatre director, journalist and writer, cancer.
• Danijel Popović, 20, Croatian football player, traffic collision.
• Beulah Quo, 79, Chinese-American actress and activist.

24

• Winton M. Blount, 81, American public servant, business executive and philanthropist.
• Hernando Casanova, 57, Colombian actor, director, singer, and presenter, heart attack.
• Hernán Gaviria, 32, Colombian football player, lightning strike.
• Harry Hay, 90, American gay rights activist and Mattachine Society founder, lung cancer.
• Jose Sebastian Laboa, 79, Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church.
• Charmian May, 65, English actress (You're Only Young Twice, Weirdsister College, Bridget Jones's Diary), cancer.
• Peggy Moran, 84, American film actress, complications from a car accident.
• Scott Plank, 43, American actor, traffic collision.
• Lotte Tarp, 57, Danish actress, lung cancer.

25

• Ian Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford, 85, British peer and writer.
• Micheline Cheirel, 85, French actress.
• Herbert Duffus, 94, Jamaican politician and judge.
• Richard Harris, 72, Irish actor (Camelot, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, This Sporting Life), Hodgkin lymphoma.
• Kōki Ishii, 61, Japanese politician, stab wound.
• Ernest Mancoba, 98, South African avant-garde artist.
• Doug McGibbon, 83, English football player.
• Rainbeaux Smith, 47, American actress and musician, hepatitis.
• René Thom, 79, French mathematician.
• Paul Wellstone, 58, American professor, author and politician (U.S. Senator from Minnesota), aviation accident.

26

• Movsar Barayev, 23, Chechen Islamist militia leader, killed during the Moscow theater hostage crisis.
• Zura Barayeva, Chechen Islamist, killed during the Moscow theater hostage crisis.
• Jacques Massu, 94, French general.
• Stuart Townend, 93, British military officer, athlete, and politician.

27

• André de Toth, 89, Hungarian-American film director (The Gunfighter, House of Wax, The Indian Fighter), aneurysm.
• Tom Dowd, 77, American recording engineer and producer, a pioneer in stereo and multitrack tape recording, emphysema.
• Mohammad Isnaeni, 83, Indonesian politician.
• Michel Macquet, 70, French Olympic javelin thrower and handball player.
• Maurice J. Murphy Jr., 75, American politician and lawyer.
• Valve Pormeister, 80, Estonian landscape architect.
• Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy, 62, Indian trade unionist and politician.
• Baby Lloyd Stallworth, 61, American entertainer, musician, and recording artist, complications of diabetes.
• Walter Volle, 89, German rower, coach and Olympic champion.
• Charles Orville Whitley, 75, American politician (U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 3rd congressional district).

28

• Margaret Booth, 104, American film editor (Mutiny on the Bounty, The Way We Were, Annie), stroke.
• Morris Curotta, 73, Australian Olympic sprinter (1948 Summer Olympics, 1952 Summer Olympics).
• Sugathapala de Silva, 74, Sri Lankan dramatist and novelist.
• Lawrence Dobkin, 83, American television director and character actor (The Ten Commandments, The Defiant Ones, North by Northwest, Patton).
• Laurence Foley, 60, American diplomat and employee of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), homicide.
• Erling Persson, 85, Swedish businessman, founder of H&M.
• Annada Shankar Ray, 97, Indian Bengali poet and essayist.

29

• Marina Berti, 78, Italian film actress, cancer.
• Marion Carpenter, 82, American press photographer, covered President Harry Truman, pulmonary emphysema.
• Glenn McQueen, 41, Canadian animator (Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., A Bug's Life), melanoma.
• Raymond Savignac, 94, French graphic artist.
• Dragan Malešević Tapi, 53, Serbian painter.
• Chang-Lin Tien, 67, Chinese-American educator, 7th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.

30

• Pierre Aigrain, 78, French physicist.
• Alfred Atherton, 80, American Foreign Service Officer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Egypt (1979-1983).
• Juan Antonio Bardem, 80, Spanish film director and screenwriter, heart attack.
• Rudolf Brucci, 85, Croatian composer.
• Jam Master Jay, 37, American musician (Run DMC), shot.
• Lee H. Katzin, 67, American film director, cancer.

31

• Yuri Ahronovitch, 70, Russian conductor.
• Edward "Moose" Cholak, 72, American professional wrestler, pneumonia.
• Napier Crookenden, 87, British Army general.
• Jean-Marie Fortier, 82, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate.
• Audrey Hylton-Foster, Baroness Hylton-Foster, 94, British peer.
• Lionel Poilâne, 57, French baker and entrepreneur, helicopter crash.
• Gene Rock, 80, American basketball player, cancer.
• Michael Stasinopoulos, 99, Greek jurist and politician.
• Raf Vallone, 86, Italian actor (A View from the Bridge, Bitter Rice, The Godfather Part III) and journalist.

References

External links

• List of October 2002 deaths at IMDb