Famous Deaths for Year 2002

Months in Year 2002: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 150 of 354

Jan 1st - Julia Phillips, American film producer (b. 1944)
Jan 2nd - Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (b. 1958)
Jan 3rd - Juan García Esquivel, Mexican band leader (b. 1918)
Jan 3rd - Freddy Heineken, Dutch beer executive (b. 1923)
Jan 7th - Avery Schreiber, American actor (b. 1935)
Jan 7th - Jon Lee, Welsh musician (Feeder) (b. 1968)
Jan 8th - Alexander Prochorow, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1916)
Jan 8th - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1932)
Jan 10th - W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (b. 1909)
Jan 11th - Henri Verneuil, French playwright and film director (b. 1920)
Jan 11th - Struan Sutherland, Australian medical researcher (b. 1936)
Jan 12th - Stanley Unwin, South African comedian (b. 1911)
Jan 12th - Cyrus Vance, 57th U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1917)
Jan 13th - Ted Demme, American film director (b. 1963)
Jan 13th - Gregorio Fuentes, Cuban fisherman, reputed model for Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (b. 1897)
Jan 13th - Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (b. 1916)
Jan 15th - Steve Gromek, American baseball player (b. 1920)
Jan 16th - Robert Hanbury Brown, British-Australian astronomer and physicist (b. 1916)
Jan 16th - Michael Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1923)
Jan 16th - Bobo Olson, American boxer (b. 1928)
Jan 16th - Eddie Meduza, Swedish composer (b. 1948)
Jan 16th - Ron Taylor, American actor (b. 1952)
Jan 17th - Bishop Karas, Sudanese-born American religious leader (b. 1955)
Jan 17th - Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
Jan 17th - Queenie Leonard, American actress (b. 1905)
Jan 20th - Carrie Hamilton, actress and singer (b. 1963)
Jan 21st - Peggy Lee, American singer (b. 1920)
Jan 22nd - Stanley Marcus, American business executive (b. 1905)
Jan 23rd - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930)
Jan 23rd - Paul Aars, American racecar driver (b. 1934)
Jan 23rd - Robert Nozick, American philosopher (b. 1938)
Jan 24th - Elie Hobeika, Lebanese Forces militia commander (b. 1956)
Jan 24th - Peter Gzowski, Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter (b. 1934)
Jan 28th - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author (b. 1907)
Jan 29th - Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (b. 1928)
Jan 29th - Harold Russell, Canadian-born actor (b. 1914)
Jan 31st - Francis Gabreski, American fighter pilot (b. 1919)
Feb 1st - Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer, and writer (b. 1925)
Feb 2nd - Paul Baloff, American singer (Exodus) (b. 1960)
Feb 2nd - Claude Brown, American writer (b. 1937)
Feb 4th - George Nader, American film and television actor (b. 1921)
Feb 6th - Max Perutz, Austrian molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1914)
Feb 7th - Jack Fairman, British racing driver (b. 1913)
Feb 8th - Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (b. 1930)
Feb 8th - Ong Teng Cheong, President of Singapore (b. 1936)
Feb 9th - Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (b. 1930)
Feb 9th - Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone (b. 1937)
Feb 10th - Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler's secretary (b. 1920)
Feb 10th - Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer/songwriter (b. 1936)
Feb 11th - Barry Foster, British actor (b. 1931)
Feb 11th - Frank Crosetti, baseball player (b. 1910)
Feb 13th - Waylon Jennings, American musician (b. 1937)
Feb 14th - Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (b. 1922)
Feb 15th - Howard K. Smith, American journalist (b. 1914)
Actor Kevin Smith (Feb 15th) Feb 15th - Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b. 1963)
Feb 16th - Walter Winterbottom, England football manager (b. 1913)
Feb 21st - Harold Furth, Austrian-born physicist (b. 1939)
Feb 21st - John Thaw, English actor (b. 1942)
Feb 22nd - Chuck Jones, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
Feb 22nd - Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel leader (b. 1934)
Feb 22nd - Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat and war hero (b. 1916)
Feb 22nd - Daniel Pearl, American journalist (b. 1963)
Feb 24th - Arthur Lyman, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (b. 1932)
Feb 24th - Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (b. 1912)
Feb 26th - Lawrence Tierney, American actor (b. 1919)
Feb 27th - Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (b. 1918)
Feb 28th - Mary Stuart, American actress (b. 1926)
Feb 28th - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (b. 1920)
Mar 3rd - Harlan Howard, American musician (b. 1927)
Mar 4th - Claire Davenport, English actress (b. 1933)
Mar 4th - Eric Flynn, British actor/singer (b. 1939)
Mar 4th - Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (b. 1913)
Mar 4th - Velibor Vasović, Yugoslavian footballer (b. 1939)
Mar 6th - Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1969)
Mar 11th - James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
Mar 12th - Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot politician (b. 1932)
Mar 12th - Jean-Paul Riopelle, Quebec painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
Mar 13th - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900)
Mar 14th - Cherry Wilder, New Zealand-born author (b. 1930)
Mar 17th - Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (b. 1911)
Mar 17th - Pat Weaver, American broadcast executive (b. 1908)
Mar 18th - R.A. Lafferty, American science fiction writer (b. 1914)
Mar 18th - Gösta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (b. 1943)
Mar 21st - Herman Talmadge, American politician (b. 1913)
Mar 23rd - Eileen Farrell, American soprano (b. 1920)
Mar 23rd - Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (b. 1977)
Mar 24th - César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1927)
Mar 25th - Kenneth Wolstenholme, English football commentator (b. 1920)
Mar 26th - Randy Castillo, American drummer (Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe) (b. 1950)
Mar 27th - Milton Berle, American actor and comedian (b. 1908)
Actor Dudley Moore (Mar 27th) Mar 27th - Dudley Moore, British actor (b. 1935)
Mar 27th - Billy Wilder, American director (b. 1906)
Mar 29th - Rico Yan, Philippine Young Movie & TV Actor (b. 1975)
Mar 29th - Rachel Levy and Ayat al-Akhras, Israeli and Palestinian children
Mar 30th - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom, dies at 101
Mar 31st - Barry Took, British comedian (b. 1928)
Apr 1st - Simo Hayha, Finnish marksman (b. 1905)
Apr 3rd - Fad Gadget, English singer and musician (b. 1956)
Apr 4th - Harry L. O'Connor, Czech film stuntman
Apr 5th - Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (b. 1967)
Apr 7th - John Agar, American actor (b. 1921)
Apr 8th - María Félix, Mexican actress (b. 1914)
Apr 9th - Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b. 1891)
Apr 9th - Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (b. 1926)
Apr 13th - Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racecar driver (b. 1928)
Consort of George VI & mother of Queen Elizabeth II Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (Mar 30th) Apr 15th - Damon Knight, American author (b. 1922)
Apr 15th - Byron "Whizzer" White, American football player and U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1917)
Apr 16th - Ruth Fertel, American restaurateur (b. 1927)
Apr 16th - Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946)
Apr 18th - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (b. 1914)
Apr 18th - Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
Apr 20th - Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925)
Apr 22nd - Linda Lovelace, American adult actress (b. 1949)
Apr 25th - Indra Devi, yoga teacher (b. 1899)
Apr 25th - Lisa Lopes, American rapper (TLC) (b. 1971)
Apr 26th - Robert Steinhäuser German spree killer (b.1983)
Apr 27th - George Alec Effinger, American author (b. 1947)
Apr 27th - Ruth Handler, American toy manufacturer (b. 1916)
Apr 27th - Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Swiss industrialist and art collector (b. 1921)
Apr 28th - Alexander Lebed, Russian general (b. 1950)
Apr 28th - Lou Thesz, American wrestler (b. 1916)
Apr 29th - Bob Akin, American industrialist and race car driver (b. 1936)
Apr 29th - Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor (b. 1914)
Apr 30th - Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, founder of the Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin-Mahlsdorf. (b. 1928)
May 2nd - John Nathan-Turner, English television producer (b. 1947)
May 2nd - W. T. Tutte, English-born codebreaker (b. 1917)
May 3rd - Barbara Castle, British politician (b. 1910)
May 3rd - Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1928)
May 5th - Hugo Banzer, Bolivian dictator (b. 1926)
May 5th - Paul Klipsch, American engineer, noted for his loudspeaker designs. (b. 1904)
May 5th - George Sidney, American film director (b. 1916)
May 6th - Otis Blackwell, American pianist, singer and songwriter (b. 1932)
May 6th - Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (b. 1948)
May 7th - Seattle Slew, American racehorse (b. 1974)
May 7th - Kevyn Aucoin, Makeup Artist and Photographer (b. 1962)
May 9th - Dan Devine, American football coach (b. 1924)
May 10th - Lynda Lyon Block, convicted murderer (b. 1948)
May 10th - Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1920)
May 11th - Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (b. 1905)
May 11th - Renaude Lapointe, French Canadian journalist and senator (b. 1912)
May 12th - Erich Kulas, ECW Wrestler (Mass Transit)
May 13th - Valeri Lobanovsky, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
May 13th - Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (b. 1925)
May 16th - Alec Campbell, the last surviving ANZAC (b. 1899)
May 16th - Big Dick Dudley, American professional wrestler (b. 1968)
May 17th - Dave Berg, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
May 17th - Sharon Sheeley, American songwriter (b. 1940)
May 17th - Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian-Spanish footballer (b. 1927)
May 18th - Davey Boy Smith, English professional wrestler (b. 1962)
May 19th - John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911)