Famous Deaths for January 2002
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Months in 2002: February March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 37 of 37
1st - Julia Phillips, American film producer (b. 1944)
2nd - Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (b. 1958)
3rd - Juan GarcĂa Esquivel, Mexican band leader (b. 1918)
3rd - Freddy Heineken, Dutch beer executive (b. 1923)
7th - Avery Schreiber, American actor (b. 1935)
7th - Jon Lee, Welsh musician (Feeder) (b. 1968)
8th - Alexander Prochorow, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1916)
8th - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1932)
10th - W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (b. 1909)
11th - Henri Verneuil, French playwright and film director (b. 1920)
11th - Struan Sutherland, Australian medical researcher (b. 1936)
12th - Stanley Unwin, South African comedian (b. 1911)
12th - Cyrus Vance, 57th U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1917)
13th - Ted Demme, American film director (b. 1963)
13th - Gregorio Fuentes, Cuban fisherman, reputed model for Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (b. 1897)
13th - Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (b. 1916)
15th - Steve Gromek, American baseball player (b. 1920)
16th - Robert Hanbury Brown, British-Australian astronomer and physicist (b. 1916)
16th - Michael Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1923)
16th - Bobo Olson, American boxer (b. 1928)
16th - Eddie Meduza, Swedish composer (b. 1948)
16th - Ron Taylor, American actor (b. 1952)
17th - Bishop Karas, Sudanese-born American religious leader (b. 1955)
17th - Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
17th - Queenie Leonard, American actress (b. 1905)
20th - Carrie Hamilton, actress and singer (b. 1963)
21st - Peggy Lee, American singer (b. 1920)
22nd - Stanley Marcus, American business executive (b. 1905)
23rd - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930)
23rd - Paul Aars, American racecar driver (b. 1934)
23rd - Robert Nozick, American philosopher (b. 1938)
24th - Elie Hobeika, Lebanese Forces militia commander (b. 1956)
24th - Peter Gzowski, Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter (b. 1934)
28th - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author (b. 1907)
29th - Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (b. 1928)
29th - Harold Russell, Canadian-born actor (b. 1914)
31st - Francis Gabreski, American fighter pilot (b. 1919)

