Deaths in May 2002
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[]
- Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh, 94, Bahraini writer and poet.
- , 92, Italian writer.
- Ade Bethune, 88, American Catholic liturgical artist.
- John Nathan-Turner, 54, British television producer (Doctor Who).[1]
- Victor Peirce, 43, Australian criminal, shot.
- Kevin Quinn, 79, Irish cricket and rugby player.
- Tom Sutton, 65, American comic book artist, heart attack.
- Birger Tvedt, 92, Norwegian sports medical and physiotherapist.
2[]
- Peter Thomas Bauer, 86, Hungarian-British economist, known as a Margaret Thatcher spokesman against development aid for the third world.[2]
- Olive Cook, 90, British writer and artist, cancer.
- Alfred Gessow, 79, American helicopter and aerospace engineer.
- Sihung Lung, 72, Taiwanese movie and TV actor, liver failure.[3]
- Edna Mae Robinson, 86, American dancer, actress, and activist.[4]
- Richard Stücklen, 85, German politician, President of the Bundestag.
- Judy Toll, 44, American actress, writer and comedian, melanoma.
- William Thomas Tutte, 84, Bletchley Park cryptographer and British, later Canadian, mathematician.
3[]
- Martin Aronstein, 65, American theatrical lighting designer, five-time nominee for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design.[5]
- Livingston L. Biddle Jr., 83, American author and promoter of funding for the arts (chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts).[6]
- Malcolm Bosse, 75, American author, known for his historical novels set in Asia.[7]
- Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, 91, British Labour politician and female life peer.[8]
- Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal, 73, president of Somaliland and former prime minister of the Somali Republic.[9]
- Mohan Singh Oberoi, 103, Indian hotelier and retailer.[10]
- Mariana Yampolsky, 76, Mexican photographer.[11]
4[]
- Don Allard, 66, American football player (New York Titans, Boston Patriots) and coach.[12]
- Clarence Boston, 85, American college football coach, head coach of New Hampshire Wildcats from 1949 to 1964.[13]
- John Hasted, 81, British physicist and folk musician.[14]
- Elizabeth Russell, 85, American actress.
- Abu Turab al-Zahiri, 79, Saudi Arabian writer of Arab Indian descent.
5[]
- Hugo Banzer, 75, Bolivian politician, Bolivian dictator (1971 to 1978), President of Bolivia (1997 to 2001).[15]
- Howard C. Bratton, 80, American judge (U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico).[16]
- Dick Farman, 85, American professional football player (Washington State, Washington Redskins).[17]
- Earl Shaffer, 83, American outdoorsman and author.[18]
- Sir Clarence Seignoret, 83, president of Dominica (1983–1993).
- Odell Stautzenberger, 77, American football player.[19]
- Mike Todd, Jr., 72, American film producer, introduced short-lived movie format Smell-O-Vision (Scent of Mystery).[20]
- Louis C. Wyman, 85, American politician (U.S. Representative for New Hampshire's 1st congressional district).[21]
6[]
- Murray Adaskin, 96, Canadian violinist, composer, conductor and teacher.[22]
- Otis Blackwell, 71, American songwriter, singer and pianist ("Great Balls of Fire", "Don't Be Cruel", "All Shook Up", "Return to Sender").[23]
- James Lawton Collins Jr., 84, American military historian, brigadier general in the U.S. Army and viticulturist.[24]
- Harry George Drickamer, 83, American chemical engineer, a pioneer in high-pressure studies of condensed matter.[25]
- Pim Fortuyn, 54, Dutch politician, assassinated.[26]
- Bjørn Johansen, 61, Norwegian jazz musician.[27]
7[]
- Kevyn Aucoin, 40, American make-up artist and author (The Art of Makeup, Making Faces, Face Forward).[28]
- Sir Bernard Burrows, 91, British diplomat.[29]
- Sir Ewart Jones, 91, Welsh chemist.[30]
- Robert Kanigher, 86, American comic book writer and editor.
- Masakatsu Miyamoto, 63, Japanese football player and manager, pneumonia.
- Xavier Montsalvatge, 90, Spanish composer and music critic.[31]
- Seattle Slew, 28, last living triple crown winner on 25th anniversary of winning Kentucky Derby.
8[]
- Sylvester Barrett, 75, Irish politician (Minister for the Environment, Minister for Defence, Member of the European Parliament).[32]
- Basil Chubb, 80, English-Irish political scientist and author (The Government and Politics of Ireland), one of Ireland's leading political academics.[33]
- Sir Edward Jackson, 76, English diplomat, (Ambassador to Cuba, Ambassador to Belgium).[34]
- Lou Lombardo, 70, American film editor (The Wild Bunch, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Moonstruck).[35]
- Boyce McDaniel, 84, American nuclear physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project, heart attack.[36]
9[]
- St. Clair Balfour, 82, Canadian businessman.
- Bernice Layne Brown, 93, American wife of the 32nd Governor of California Edmund "Pat" Brown and the mother of the 34th and 39th Governor of California, Jerry Brown.[37]
- Dan Devine, 77, American football player and coach (Arizona State, Missouri, Green Bay Packers, Notre Dame).[38]
- Robert Layton, 76, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Lachine and Lachine—Lac-Saint-Louis, Quebec).[39]
- James Simpson, 90, British explorer.
- Sam Walton, 59, American professional football player (East Texas State, New York Jets, Houston Oilers).[40]
10[]
- Lynda Lyon Block, 54, American convicted murderer, executed by electric chair in Alabama.
- George Cates, 90, American music arranger, conductor, songwriter and record producer, known for his work with Lawrence Welk.[41]
- John Cunniff, 57, American professional hockey player and coach (Hartford Whalers, Boston Bruins, New Jersey Devils).[42]
- Henry W. Hofstetter, 87, American optometrist.
- Austen Kark, 75, British television executive, managing director of the BBC World Service.[43]
- Leslie Dale Martin, 35, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Louisiana.
- Tom Moore, 88, American athletics promoter.
- Yves Robert, 81, French actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.[44]
11[]
- Ramblin' Rod Anders, 68, American television presenter, stroke.
- Joseph Bonanno, 97, Sicilian former Mafia boss.[45]
- Patrick Fyffe, 60, English female impersonator, known for playing Dame Hilda Bracket of the duo Hinge and Bracket.[46]
- Hugo Leistner, 99, American hurdler, died in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho in 2002.
- Sharon Monsky, 48, competitive figure skater as a teenager, Scleroderma.[47]
- Bill Peet, 87, American children's book illustrator, story writer and animator (Walt Disney Animation Studios).[48]
- Steve Rachunok, 85, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).[49]
- Nika Turbina, 27, Soviet and Russian poet, fall from window.
12[]
- Richard Chorley, 74, English geographer, heart attack.[50]
- Erich Kulas, 22, American professional wrestler known as "Mass Transit", complications from gastric bypass surgery[51]
- Wilson Matthews, 80, American football coach.
13[]
- Clinton Adams, 83, American artist, art historian and head of the Tamarind Institute at the University of New Mexico.[52]
- Alan P. Bell, 70, American psychologist (Kinsey Institute), known for his study suggesting that homosexuality has a biological basis.[53]
- David Chappe, 54, American screenwriter (Gale Force, Beowulf).[54]
- Ruth Cracknell, 76, Australian actress (Mother and Son).[55]
- Valery Lobanovsky, 63, Ukrainian football coach.
- Bill Rodgers, 79, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).[56]
- Morihiro Saito, 74, Japanese aikido teacher.
14[]
- Sir Derek Birley, 75, British educationist, writer and sports historian.[57]
- Rawshan Jamil, 71, Bangladeshi actress and dancer.
- Gordon J. F. MacDonald, 72, American geophysicist.
- Dale Morey, 83, American basketball player.
- Sir Laurence Sinclair, 93, Royal Air Force officer during WWII.
- Ray Stricklyn, 73, American actor and publicist, emphysema.
15[]
- Bernard Benjamin, 92, British statistician, a leading figure in the field of demography.[58]
- Jeannine Guindon, 82, professor of psychology in Quebec, Canada.
- Darwood Kaye, 72, American child actor (Our Gang), hit and run accident.
- Arthur Peddy, 85, American comics artist.
- Bryan Pringle, 67, British actor.
- Nellie Shabalala, 49, South African singer and wife of leader/founder of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Joseph Shabalala.
- Esko Tie, 73, Finnish ice hockey player.
16[]
- Alec Campbell, 103, Australia's last surviving ANZAC at the Gallipoli campaign during World War I.[59]
- James Dewar, 59, Scottish musician, known as the bassist and vocalist for Robin Trower and Stone the Crows.[60]
- Kenneth Fung, 90, Hong Kong prominent politician and businessman.[61]
- Dorothy Van, 74, American actress.
- Sir Gerald Whent, 75, British businessman (Vodafone).[62]
17[]
- Peter Beck, 92, British schoolmaster.
- Dave Berg, 81, American cartoonist (Mad, The Lighter Side of...).[63]
- Joe Black, 78, American first Black baseball pitcher to win a World Series game (Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Redlegs, Washington Senators).[64]
- Edwin Alonzo Boyd, 88, Canadian bank robber and prison escapee of the 1950s (Citizen Gangster).[65]
- James Chichester-Clark, 79, Northern Ireland politician, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1969 to 1971.[66]
- John de Lancie, 80, American oboist, principal oboist of the Philadelphia Orchestra and director of the Curtis Institute of Music.[67]
- Bobby Robinson, 98, American baseball player.
- Little Johnny Taylor, 59, American singer.
- Norman Vaughan (comedian), 79, English comedian who had a long and successful career in television and theatre.
18[]
- Charles Brooks, 75, English cricketer.
- Song Hye-rim, 65, North Korean actress, best.
- Davey Boy Smith, 39, British professional wrestler, myocardial infarction.
- Zypora Spaisman, 86, Polish-American actress and Yiddish theatre empresaria.[68]
- Gene Arden Vance Jr., 38, American soldier and member of a US Special Forces Airborne Reserve Unit, K.I.A.
- Gordon Wharmby, 68, British actor (Last of the Summer Wine), cancer.[69]
19[]
- Sir Ralph Anstruther, 80, British army officer and courtier.
- Raymond Durgnat, 69, British film critic (Films and Filming, Film Comment, Monthly Film Bulletin) and author.[70]
- ,76, Indian army officer.
- Herbert Familton, 74, New Zealand alpine skier (men's downhill, men's giant slalom at the 1952 Winter Olympics).[71]
- Sir John Gorton, 90, 19th Prime Minister of Australia.[72]
- Earl Hammond, 80, American voice actor best known for voicing Mumm Ra and Jaga in the television series Thundercats.
- Walter Lord, 84, American historian.[73]
- Otar Lordkipanidze, 72, Georgian archaeologist.
20[]
- David Abrahamsen, 98, Norwegian forensic psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author (Confessions of Son of Sam, Nixon vs. Nixon: An Emotional Tragedy).[74]
- Anastasios Christodoulou, 70, British-Greek university administrator, founding father of The Open University.[75]
- Jerry Dunphy, 80, American Los Angeles television news anchor for over four decades.[76]
- Stephen Jay Gould, 60, American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author, cancer.[77]
- Ramzi Irani, 35, Lebanese student activist, murdered.
- Conrad L. Raiford, 94, American athlete.
- Eberle Schultz, 84, American football player.
21[]
- Rogers Albritton, 78, American philosopher.[78]
- Joe Cobb, 86, American child actor, appeared as the original "fat boy" in the Our Gang comedies from 1922 to 1929.[79]
- Roy Paul, 82, Welsh footballer.
- Bob Poser, 92, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Browns).[80]
- Niki de Saint Phalle, 71, French artist.
22[]
- Fritz Ackley, 65, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).[81]
- Joe Cascarella, 94, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, Cincinnati Reds).[82]
- Faye Dancer, 77, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[83]
- Paul Giel, 69, American baseball player (New York/San Francisco Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, Minnesota Twins) and college football player (Minnesota).[84]
- Warren Hacker, 77, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Redlegs, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox).[85]
- Dick Hern, 81, British racehorse trainer.
- Chandra Levy, 24, U.S. Congressional intern (body discovered on this date)
- Creighton Miller, 79, American football player and attorney.
- Patrick Wolrige-Gordon, 66, British (Scottish) politician (Member of Parliament for East Aberdeenshire).[86]
23[]
- Umberto Bindi, 70, Italian singer-songwriter, heart disease.
- Wally Fromhart, 89, American football player and coach.
- Ali Imam, Pakistani painter, heart attack.
- Sam Snead, 89, American professional golfer, complications from a stroke.[87]
- Dorothy Spencer, 93, American film editor (four nominations for Academy Award for Best Film Editing).[88]
24[]
- Joseph Bau, 81, Polish-Israeli artist, philosopher, animator, comedian, and poet, pneumonia.[89]
- Susie Garrett, 72, African American actress and jazz vocalist, cancer.
- Toshihito Ito, 40, Japanese actor, Subarachnoid hemorrhage.
- Euphemia McNaught, 100, Canadian impressionist painter.
- Antonia Pantoja, 79, Puerto Rican educator, feminist, and civil rights leader, cancer.[90]
- Xi Zhongxun, 88, Chinese communist revolutionary.
25[]
- Josephine Abady, 52, American theater director who staged plays on and off Broadway.[91]
- Pat Coombs, 75, English actress (Till Death Us Do Part, EastEnders, Ooh... You Are Awful).[92]
- Zoran Janković, 62, Yugoslavian Olympic water polo player (1964 silver medal, 1968 gold medal, 1972), liver cancer.[93]
- Nathan Mantel, 83, American biostatistician, heart attack.[94]
- Jack Pollard, 75, Australian sports journalist.
- Nancy White, 85, American editor (Harper's Bazaar).[95]
26[]
- Jon Bannenberg, English-Australian yacht designer, brain tumour.
- Carmen Beltrán, 97, Mexican American writer, breast cancer.
- Lionel Cantú, 36, assistant professor of sociology, Santa Cruz, cardiac arrest.
- Orlando Carrió, 46, Argentine-Mexican actor, lung cancer.
- Ivo Maček, 88, Croatian pianist, composer and academian.
- John Alexander Moore, 86, American biologist.[96]
- Neil Naismith, 66, Australian pharmacist.
- Vicente Nebrada, 72, Venezuelan dancer and choreographer.[97]
- 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.[98]
27[]
- Ray Mathew, 73, Australian author.
- Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson, 93, Scottish historian and paleographer.
- Shabtai Konorti, 58, Israeli actor, traffic collision.[99]
- Santhananda, 81, Hindu spiritual leader and teacher.
- Krishna Sen, 45, journalist of Nepal, murdered.
- Vitaly Solomin, 60, Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter.[100]
28[]
- Charles J. Adams, 80, brigadier general in the US Air Force.
- 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).[101]
- Jean Berger, 92, German-American composer and conductor.[102]
- Ruby Bradley, 94, colonel in the US Army and of the most decorated women in United States military history.[103]
- Alfred Fleishman, 96, American businessman, co-founded Fleishman–Hillard, one of the world's largest public relations firms.[104]
- David Parker Ray, 62, suspected American serial killer.
- Wes Westrum, 79, American baseball player (New York Giants) and manager (New York Mets, San Francisco Giants), cancer.[105]
29[]
- Stan Bentham, 87, English footballer, Alzheimer's disease.
- Charles Ede, 80, English founder of the Folio Society, publisher of quality editions of classic literature affordable to "everyman".[106]
- Bernice Thurman Hunter, 79, Canadian children's author.
- Sam Page, 86, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[107]
- Elémire Zolla, 75, Italian essayist, philosopher and historian.
30[]
- Phyllis Pray Bober, 81, American art historian, scholar, and author.
- Kees Boertien, 74, Dutch politician (Christian Democratic Appeal) and jurist.
- Kenny Craddock, 52, British instrumentalist (Ringo Starr, Ginger Baker, Billy Bragg, Gerry Rafferty, Alan White), composer and producer, car crash.[108]
- John B. Keane, 73, Irish playwright, novelist and essayist.[109]
- Mário Lago, 90, Brazilian lawyer, poet, composer and actor.
- Sándor Mátrai, 69, Hungarian footballer.
- Takhir Sabirov, 72, Tajik film director, actor, screenwriter, and art director.
31[]
- Jeremy Bray, 71, British politician (member of Parliament representing Middlesbrough West, Motherwell and Wishaw and Motherwell South).[110]
- Subhash Gupte, 72, Indian cricket player.
- Eleanor D. Wilson, 93, American actress (Weekend, Alice's Restaurant, Reds) and artist.[111]
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- ^ נפטר השחקן שבתאי קונורטי (in Hebrew)
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