Deaths in December 2002

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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.

December 2002[]

1[]

  • Abu Abraham, 78, Indian cartoonist, journalist, and author.
  • Edward L. Beach Jr., 84, American highly decorated United States Navy submarine officer and best-selling author (Run Silent, Run Deep).[1]
  • Omar Blebel, 80, Argentine Olympic wrestler (1948 men's Greco-Roman featherweight, 1952 men's freestyle bantamweight).[2]
  • Alfred Brauner, 92, Austrian-French scholar, author and sociologist.
  • C. Chapin Cutler, 87, American communications engineer, known for inventions in radio, radar, signal coding, imaging and satellite communications.[3]
  • Harry Dick, 82, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).[4]
  • Eugene Turenne Gregorie, 94, American yacht designer and automobile designer.
  • Dave McNally, 60, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Montreal Expos), lung cancer.[5]
  • José Chávez Morado, 93, Mexican artist.
  • Michael Oliver, 65, British classical music broadcaster and writer.
  • Esther E. Wood, 97, American historian, author, and journalist.

2[]

  • Elizabeth B. Andrews, 91, American politician (U.S. Representative for Alabama's 3rd congressional district).[6]
  • Sanford Soverhill Atwood, 89, American scientist, plant cytologist and president of Emory University.[7]
  • Barney Berlinger, 94, American Olympic decathlon athlete (men's decathlon in the 1928 Summer Olympics).[8]
  • Achille Castiglioni, 84, Italian industrial designer.[9]
  • Aileen Fisher, 96, American writer of more than 100 children's books (The Coffee-Pot Face, Runny Days, Sunny Days).[10]
  • Jim Mitchell, 56, Irish politician.
  • Vjenceslav Richter, 85, Croatian architect.
  • Derek Robinson, 61, British nuclear physicist.
  • Edgar Scherick, 78, American television executive and producer.
  • Ben Wade, 80, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates) and scout.[11]
  • Mal Waldron, 77, American jazz pianist and composer (Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane).[12]
  • Fay Gillis Wells, 94, American pioneer aviator.[13]
  • David Whiffen, 80, English physical chemist, known for his work on infrared spectroscopy and electron spin resonance spectroscopy.[14]
  • Fred Zain, 51, American forensic laboratory technician, falsified results to obtain convictions, liver cancer.[15]

3[]

  • Hariharananda Giri, 95, Indian yogi and guru.
  • Pierre Guillaume, 77, officer of the French Navy.
  • Carol Kramer, 59, American archaeologist.
  • Christian Liger, 67, French writer.
  • Emanuel Papper, 87, American anesthesiologist, professor, and author.
  • Glenn Quinn, 32, Irish actor (Roseanne, Angel), heroin overdose.
  • Jug Thesenga, 88, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[16]

4[]

5[]

  • Roone Arledge, 71, American television producer and executive (Monday Night Football, Nightline).[18]
  • Prosper Boulanger, 84, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Mercier, Quebec).[19]
  • Brigitte Massin, 75, French musicologist and journalist.
  • Ne Win, 91, Burmese dictator.[20]
  • Jackie Walker, 52, American football player, complications from AIDS.
  • Ann Welch, 85, British glider pilot (gliding, hang gliding, paragliding, microlight flying).[21]

6[]

7[]

  • R. Orin Cornett, 89, American physicist, university professor and inventor of Cued Speech.[27]
  • John R. Dellenback, 84, American politician (U.S. Representative for Oregon's 4th congressional district), viral pneumonia.[28]
  • Clare Deniz, 91, British jazz pianist.[29]
  • Barbara Howard, 76, Canadian painter, wood engraver, bookbinder and designer, pulmonary embolism.
  • Paddy Tunney, 81, Irish traditional artist.

8[]

  • Gunnar Helén, 84, Swedish politician.
  • Bobby Joe Hill, 59, American basketball player.[30]
  • Arthur Iberall, 84, American physicist and hydrodynamicist, congestive heart failure.
  • Anil Moonesinghe, 75, Sri Lankan revolutionary politician and trade unionist.
  • Charles Rosen, 85, American computer scientist.[31]
  • Dorothy Walker, 73, Irish art critic and historian, active in the development of the Irish Museum of Modern Art.[32]

9[]

  • Shigeru Chiba, 83, Japanese baseball player and manager, perhaps the greatest second baseman in Japanese baseball history.[33]
  • Denawaka Hamine, 96, Sri Lankan actress.
  • Mary Hansen, 36, Australian guitarist and singer, traffic accident.
  • Ian Hornak, 58, American draughtsman, painter and printmaker, aortic aneurysm.[34]
  • Johnny Lazor, 90, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).[35]
  • Stan Rice, 60, painter, educator, poet, husband of author Anne Rice, cancer.
  • Theodore Shackley, 75, American CIA officer known as "the Blond Ghost", cancer.[36]
  • Ezra Solomon, 82, American economist and professor of economics.[37]
  • To Huu, 82, Vietnamese poet and politician.[38]

10[]

  • Desmond Keith Carter, 35, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in North Carolina.
  • Warwick Charlton, 84, English journalist, prime mover behind construction and sailing of Mayflower II from the U.K. to the U.S.[39]
  • Les Costello, 74, Canadian professional ice hockey player and Catholic priest (Toronto Maple Leafs).[40]
  • Earl Henry, 85, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).[41]
  • Mike Kosman, 85, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).[42]
  • Andres Küng, 57, Swedish journalist, writer, entrepreneur and politician of Estonian origin.
  • Steve Llewellyn, 78, Welsh rugby league player.
  • Ian MacNaughton, 76, Scottish director of most episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
  • Homer Spragins, 82, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[43]

11[]

  • Dolly Dawn, 86, American big band vocalist and recording star of the 1930s and 1940s.[44]
  • Muzaffer Demirhan, 70, Turkish alpine skier (Winter Olympics: 1948, 1956, 1960, 1964).[45]
  • Bob Loane, 88, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Boston Bees).[46]
  • Arthur Metcalfe, 64, British racing cyclist, cancer.
  • Nanabhoy Palkhivala, 82, Indian jurist and economist.[47]
  • Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, 97, American photojournalist, cinematographer, and philanthropist.
  • Kay Rose, 80, American Oscar-winning sound editor.

12[]

  • Nikolai Amosov, 89, Soviet/Ukrainian heart surgeon and inventor.
  • Dee Brown, 94, American author and historian (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee).[48]
  • Nancy Caroline, 58, American EMS physician and writer (Emergency Care in the Streets).[49]
  • Brad Dexter, 85, American actor and film producer (Run Silent Run Deep, The Magnificent Seven, None but the Brave).[50]
  • Edward Harrison, 92, English cricketer and squash player.
  • Jay Wesley Neill, 37, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Oklahoma.
  • Jabir Novruz, 69, Azerbaijani artist and poet.

13[]

  • Maria Björnson, 53, French theatre designer, two-time Tony Award winner for The Phantom of the Opera (Best Scenic Design, Best Costume Design).[51]
  • Stella Brooks, 92, American jazz singer of the 1940s.[52]
  • Ronald Butt, 82, British journalist, wrote a political column for The Times and was the author of two books on Parliament.[53]
  • Zal Yanovsky, 57, Canadian folk rock musician, lead guitarist and singer for The Lovin' Spoonful.[54]
  • Lucien Zins, 80, French Olympic swimmer (men's 100 metre backstroke: 1948, 1952).[55]
  • Anthony Ler, 35, Singaporean graphic designer and convicted murderer executed by hanging at dawn in Singapore's Changi Prison for manipulating and hiring a minor who, on Ler's orders, murdered his wife Annie Leong.[56]

14[]

  • Hank Arft, 80, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).[57]
  • Jack Bradley, 86, English football player.
  • Sidney Glazier, 86, American film producer.
  • Salman Raduyev, 35, Chechen separatist field commander, 'internal bleeding'.
  • Ray Wietecha, 74, American professional football player (Michigan State, New York Giants) and coach.[58]
  • Antoni Woryna, 61, Polish speedway rider.

15[]

  • John Crosby, 76, American conductor, founded the Santa Fe Opera.[59]
  • Charles E. Fraser, 73, American real estate developer, transformed Hilton Head Island into a world-class resort.[60]
  • Vladimir Haensel, 88, American chemical engineer.
  • Arthur Jeph Parker, 79, American set decorator.
  • Dick Stuart, 70, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies).[61]

16[]

  • Bill Hunter, 82, Canadian ice hockey player, general manager and coach, cancer.[62]
  • Rolston James, 26, Trinidadian international football player, homicide.
  • Licínio Rangel, 66, Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop.
  • Don Vesco, 63, American businessperson and motorcycle racer, prostate cancer.

17[]

18[]

  • Saul Amarel, 74, American computer scientist, known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence.[69]
  • Earl Audet, 81, American professional football player (USC, Washington Redskins, Los Angeles Dons) and actor.[70]
  • Lucy Grealy, 39, Irish-born American poet and memoirist.[71]
  • Ramon John Hnatyshyn, 68, former Governor-General of Canada, pancreatitis.
  • Sir Bert Millichip, 88, British football administrator.
  • Wayne Owens, 65, U.S. Congressman (D-UT), heart attack.[72]

19[]

  • Guy Bordelon, 80, American Korean War flying ace.
  • Claude Crocker, 78, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).[73]
  • Stephen Fleck, 90, American psychiatrist.
  • Jim Flower, 79, British admiral.
  • Robert Evan Kendell, 67, Welsh psychiatrist.
  • Bob Rinker, 81, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[74]
  • Arthur Rowley, 76, English footballer, holder of the record for most career league goals scored.
  • Lewis B. Smedes, 81, American theologian.
  • Roger Webb, 68, British musical director and composer (The Godsend, The Boy in Blue, Death of a Centerfold).[75]
  • George Weller, 95, American World War II journalist, his Nagasaki nuclear bomb blast stories censored by U.S. military.[76]

20[]

  • Leonard Bishop, 80, American novelist, and newspaper columnist.
  • Joanne Campbell, 38, British actress, starred in the 1980s comedy series Me and My Girl, deep-vein thrombosis.[77]
  • Robert "Sonny" Carson, 66, U.S. Army Korean War veteran and civil rights activist.[78]
  • James Richard Ham, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate.
  • John W. Hicks, 81, American agricultural economist and academic administrator.
  • Wheeler J. North, 80, American marine biologist and environmental scientist.
  • Grote Reber, 90, American pioneer of radio astronomy.[79]

21[]

22[]

  • William G. Bennett, 78, American gaming executive and real estate developer (Circus Circus Enterprises).[83]
  • Ian Craib, 57, English sociologist and psychotherapist (The Importance of Disappointment).[84]
  • Susan Fleming, 94, American actress (Million Dollar Legs, The Ziegfeld Follies) and wife of actor Harpo Marx.[85]
  • Julius S. Held, 77, German art historian.
  • Desmond Hoyte, 73, President of Guyana from 1985 to 1992.[86]
  • Joe Morgan, 57, New Zealand rugby union player.
  • Joe Strummer, 50, former singer for The Clash.
  • Kenneth Tobey, 85, American actor (appeared in about 100 films including: Twelve O'Clock High, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Thing from Another World and Airplane!).
  • Gabrielle Wittkop, 82, French writer (The Necrophiliac).[87]

23[]

  • Tatamkhulu Afrika, 82, South African poet and writer.
  • Anthony Besch, 78, British opera and theatre director (English National Opera, Scottish Opera, New Opera Company).[88]
  • George Bullard, 74, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[89]
  • John Henry Kyl, 83, American politician.
  • Jimmy Osborne, 94, Australian soccer player.
  • Ratheesh, 48, Indian film actor, heart attack.

24[]

  • Alan Clodd, 84, Irish publisher, book collector, dealer and bibliographical researcher.[90]
  • Ward Cuff, 89, American professional football player (New York Giants, Chicago Cardinals, Green Bay Packers).[91]
  • Mohammed al Fassi, 50, Saudi Arabian sheik, known for provoking his Beverly Hills neighbors by applying garish paint colors.[92]
  • James Ferman, 72, American-British film censor, secretary/director of British Board of Film Classification.[93]
  • Erroll Fraser, 52, British Virgin Island speed skater (men's 500 metres, men's 1000 metres at the 1984 Winter Olympics).[94]
  • Tita Merello, 98, Argentinian actress and singer.
  • V.K. Ramasamy, 76, Indian actor.
  • Jake Thackray, 64, English singer-songwriter, heart failure.
  • Arch Wilder, 85, Canadian professional hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).[95]

25[]

  • Gabriel Almond, 91, American political scientist.[96]
  • Isabel Mesa Delgado, 89, Spanish trade unionist, feminist, and anarchist.
  • William T. Orr, 85, American television executive producer (Maverick, F-Troop, 77 Sunset Strip).[97]
  • Larry Uteck, 50, Canadian football player and coach, A.L.S.
  • Davina Whitehouse, 90, British-born New Zealand actress (Night Nurse, Sleeping Dogs, Braindead).[98]

26[]

  • Paul P. Douglas Jr., 83, American U.S. Air Force flying ace, one of the most highly decorated combat aces of World War II.[99]
  • Frank Reiber, 93, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[100]
  • Herb Ritts, 50, celebrity photographer.[101]
  • Armand Zildjian, 81, Armenian-American manufacturer of cymbals, chairman of the Avedis Zildjian Company.[102]

27[]

  • Truid Blaisse-Terwindt, 85, Dutch hockey- and tennis player.
  • Bill Chipley, 82, American professional football player (Boston Yanks, New York Bulldogs).[103]
  • Carla Henius, 83, German soprano and mezzo-soprano and librettist.
  • George Roy Hill, 81, American film director (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting).[104]
  • Mallory Evan Wijesinghe, 84, Sri Lankan engineer and entrepreneur.
  • Matsui Yayori, 68, Japanese journalist and women's rights activist.[105]

28[]

29[]

30[]

31[]

  • D. J. Enright, 82, British poet, novelist and critic.[117]
  • Billy Morris, 84, Welsh footballer.
  • Kevin MacMichael, 51, Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter (Cutting Crew), lung cancer.
  • Li Rong, 82, Chinese linguist.
  • Desmond Tester, 83, English film and television actor and television presenter.

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