Deaths in April 2002

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

  April 2002

1

• Albert F. Canwell, 95, American politician and anti-communist.
• Tonino Cervi, 72, Italian film director, screenwriter and producer, heart attack.
• Simo Häyhä, 96, Finnish sniper during World War II.
• James Karales, 71, American photographer and photo-essayist.
• K. V. Narayanaswamy, 78, Indian musician.
• John S. Samuel, 88, American Air Force general.

  2

• Levi Celerio, 91, Filipino composer and lyricist, and National Artist of the Philippines.
• Vladimír Černík, 84, Czech-Egyptian tennis player.
• Ike Clarke, 87, English football player and manager.
• Jack Kruschen, 80, Canadian actor.
• John R. Pierce, 92, American engineer and author who coined the term "transistor", pneumonia.
• Betty Jane Rase, 74, American singer and songwriter, stroke.
• Henry Slesar, 74, American author, playwright, and copywriter.
• Shigeo Sugimoto, 75, Japanese football player.
• Robert Lawson Vaught, 75, American mathematician, and one of the founders of model theory.

  3

• Heinz Drache, 79, German film actor, lung cancer.
• Fad Gadget, 45, English singer-songwriter, heart attack.
• Roy Huggins, 87, American novelist and television producer.
• Norm Lee, 81, Australian politician.
• Bobby Managoff, 84, Armenian-American professional wrestler, heart failure.
• Roy Nichols, 81, American baseball player.
• Ernst Stojaspal, 77, Austrian football player, heart failure.
• Karl Swanson, 101, American baseball player.

  4

• Leo Brooks, 54, American gridiron football player, esophageal cancer.
• Leo Laakso, 83, Finnish Olympic ski jumper.
• Pierre Marchand, 62, French publisher, cancer.
• Joe Massot, 69, American writer and film director.
• Qazi Mujahidul Islam Qasmi, 66, Indian Mufti, Qadhi and Islamic scholar.
• Jack Tanuan, 36, Filipino basketball player, kidney failure.
• Charles Winquist, 57, American theologian.

  5

• Herbert A. Cahn, 87, German-Swiss archaeologist, numismatist and antiquities-dealer.
• Paul Erickson, 86, American baseball player.
• Bargil Pixner, 81, Italian-American monk, biblical scholar and archaeologist.
• Sheriff Robinson, 80, American baseball player.
• Layne Staley, 34, American singer, drug overdose.
• Ben Warley, 65, American professional basketball player, liver cancer.
• Kim Won-gyun, 85, North Korean composer and politician, heart failure.

  6

• Silvia Derbez, 70, Mexican film and television actress, lung cancer.
• Petru Dumitriu, 77, Romanian novelist.
• Oliver Eggimann, 83, Swiss football player.
• Kevin Kelley, 59, American drummer.
• Ralph J. Marino, 74, American lawyer and politician from New York.
• Nobu McCarthy, 67, Canadian actress, aortic aneurysm.
• Martin Sperr, 57, German dramatist and actor.
• Tom Sunkel, 89, American baseball player.
• Judith Wood, 95, American film actress.

  7

• John Agar, 81, American actor, starred in Western and Sci-Fi movies, first husband of Shirley Temple, pulmonary emphysema.
• Bobby Astyr, 64, American pornographic film actor.
• Bhavanam Venkatarami Reddy, 70, Indian politician, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.
• Georges van Coningsloo, 61, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Conny Vandenbos, 65, Dutch singer, lung cancer.

  8

• Nigel Bagnall, 75, British field marshal, professional head of the British Army.
• Eloy Fominaya, 76, American composer, music educator, conductor, violinist and luthier.
• María de los Angeles Felix Güereña, 88, Mexican film star, considered "the most beautiful face in the history of Mexican cinema", heart attack.
• Giacomo Mancini, 85, Italian politician.
• Harvey Quaytman, 64, American painter, cancer.
• Francisco Zamora Salinas, 63, El Salvador football player.
• Josef Svoboda, 81, Czech artist and scenic designer.
• Laurel Rose Willson, 60, American author and con artist.

  9

• Dorothy Love Coates, 74, American gospel singer, considered one of gospel's great performers.
• Harold Coates, 84, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
• Thomas Dinger, 49, German drummer, singer and songwriter.
• Roy Dwight, 69, English footballer.
• Pat Flaherty, 76, American professional racecar driver, won the Indianapolis 500 in 1956.
• Weldon Irvine, 58, American composer, playwright, poet, and pianist, suicide by gunshot.
• Kazuo Nakamura, 75, Japanese-Canadian painter and sculptor.
• Leopold Vietoris, 110, Austrian mathematician, World War I veteran, and supercentenarian.

  10

• Haim Cohn, 91, Israeli jurist and politician.
• Ed Fleming, 68, American professional basketball player.
• Géza Hofi, 75, Hungarian humorist.
• Atanda Fatai Williams, 83, Nigerian jurist and Chief Justice of Nigeria.

  11

• Elmer Angsman, 76, American gridiron football player and football color commentator, heart attack.
• Branko Bauer, 81, Croatian film director.
• William Brandon, 87, American author, wrote on Native Americans and the American West.
• Bubba Brooks, 79, American jazz tenor saxophonist, a member of Bill Doggett's ensemble.
• Héctor Rojas Herazo, 81, Colombian novelist, poet, journalist and painter.
• Delphi Lawrence, 76, English actress.
• Do Mau, 85, Vietnamese officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam.
• J. William Stanton, 78, American politician.
• Stanley Weston, 82, American publisher, sportswriter, artist and photographer, cancer.

  12

• Hans Neurath, 92, Austrian-American biochemist and academic.
• Gabriel Raksi, 63, Romanian football player.
• Yadollah Sahabi, 97, Iranian scholar, writer, reformist and politician.
• Kondapalli Seetharamaiah, 87, Indian communist leader, Parkinson's disease.
• George Shevelov, 93, Ukrainian scholar.
• Safet Zhulali, 59, Albanian Minister of Defence.

  13

• Alex Baroni, 35, Italian singer, traffic accident.
• Scipio Colombo, 91, Italian dramatic baritone.
• Ivan Desny, 79, Russian-Swiss film actor-, appeared in more than 150 films, pneumonia.
• Franz Krienbühl, 73, Swiss speed skater.
• Oreste Piccioni, 86, Italian-American physicist.
• Álvaro Salvadores, 73, Chilean-Spanish basketball player.
• Vlajko Stojiljković, 65, Serbian politician, suicide by gunshot.
• Desmond Titterington, 73, British racing driver from Northern Ireland.

  14

• Edmée Abetel, 79, Swiss Olympic alpine skier.
• Buck Baker, 83, American stock car race driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
• Gustave Blouin, 89, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament.
• Mark Ermler, 69, Russian conductor.
• Joop Haex, 90, Dutch politician.
• Michael Kerr, 81, British jurist.
• Monal, 21, Indian actress, suicide by hanging.
• Fausto Radici, 48, Italian alpine skier, suicide by gunshot.

  15

• Sándor Gáspár, 85, Hungarian communist politician and trade unionist.
• Moe Keale, 62, American musician of Hawaiian music, and actor, heart attack.
• Dave King, 72, English comedian, actor and singer.
• Damon Knight, 79, American science fiction author, editor and critic.
• Hans-Henrik Krause, 84, Danish actor and film director.
• Ram Singh Thakur, 87, Indian freedom fighter, musician and composer.
• Byron White, 84, American lawyer and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, pneumonia.

  16

• Billy Ayre, 49, English footballer, cancer.
• Ramiro de León Carpio, 60, Guatemalan politician, diabetic coma.
• Janusz Kasperczak, 74, Polish Olympic boxer.
• Claudio Slon, 58, Brazilian jazz drummer, lung cancer.
• Marcel Stern, 80, Swiss competitive sailor and Olympic medalist.
• Robert Urich, 55, American actor, cancer.
• Hugh Franklin Waters, 69, American judge.
• Herbert Wernicke, 56, German opera director and set and costume designer.

  17

• James Copeland, 83, Scottish actor.
• Betsy Curtis, 84, American science fiction and fantasy writer.
• Srul Irving Glick, 67, Canadian composer, radio producer, and conductor.
• Saeed Hanaei, 39-40, Iranian serial killer, hanged.
• Stevan Kragujević, 80, Serbian photojournalist and art photographer.

  18

• Mitsos Dimitriou, 54, Greek football player.
• Jerry Heidenreich, 52, American competition swimmer and Olympic champion, suicide by drug overdose.
• Thor Heyerdahl, 87, Norwegian anthropologist, brain cancer.
• Wayne Hightower, 62, American basketball player, heart attack.
• Cy Laurie, 75, British musician.
• Wahoo McDaniel, 63, American gridiron football player and wrestler, complications from diabetes and kidney failure.

  19

• William E. Barber, 82, U.S. Marine Corps colonel and Medal of Honor recipient, bone marrow cancer.
• Alberto Beltrán, 79, Mexican painter, engraver and political cartoonist.
• Jean-Pierre Destrumelle, 61, French football player and manager.
• Reginald Rose, 81, American film and television writer, complications of heart failure.
• Ross Whicher, 84, Canadian politician and businessman.

  20

• Vlastimil Brodský, 81, Czech actor, suicide by gunshot.
• Alan Dale, 76, American singer.
• Joe Geri, 77, American gridiron football player.
• Sarvepalli Gopal, 78, Indian historian, renal failure.
• Stig-Göran Johansson, 58, Swedish ice hockey player.
• Pierre Rapsat, 53, Belgian singer-songwriter, cancer.

  21

• Sam Dente, 79, American baseball player.
• Thomas Joseph Grady, 87, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Verné Lesche, 84, Finnish speed skater.
• Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi, 65, Afghan politician and mujahideen leader.
• Red O'Quinn, 76, American professional football player.
• Ogden Phipps, 93, American stockbroker, thoroughbred horse racing owner/breeder and philanthropist.
• Terry Walsh, 62, British stuntman.