Deaths in August 2002

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

  August 2002

1

• Francisco Arcellana, 85, Filipino writer, poet and journalist.
• Theo Bruce, 79, Australian long jumper.
• Peter Carter, 37, Australian tennis player and coach, traffic collision.
• Adolf Glunz, 86, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
• Sumiko Hidaka, 79, Japanese actress, liver failure.
• Yuri Korshunov, 68, Russian lepidopterologist.
• A. P. Lutali, 82, Governor of American Samoa, stroke.
• Henry Mazer, 84, American-Taiwanese conductor and recording artist.
• Don Owen, 90, American professional wrestling promoter.
• Jack Tighe, 88, American baseball coach.

  2

• Joe Allison, 77, American songwriter, radio and television personality and record producer, lung disease.
• Roberto Cobo, 72, Mexican actor.
• May Hardcastle, 89, Australian tennis player.
• Ilona Kolonits, 80, Hungarian documentary film director and news correspondent.
• Roy Kral, 80, American jazz pianist and vocalist, congestive heart failure.
• Magda László, 90, Hungarian operatic soprano.
• Richard Schreder, 86, American naval aviator and sailplane developer.
• Jean-Pierre Yvaral, 68, French op art and kinetic art artist.

  3

• Edward Brodney, 92, American artist, known for his drawings and paintings of World War II.
• Peter Miles, 64, American actor, cancer.
• Danny Sue Nolan, 79, American film actress, stroke.
• Carmen Silvera, 80, British television and theatre actress, lung cancer.
• Ruudi Toomsalu, 89, Estonian sprinter and long jumper.
• John G. Zimmerman, 74, American photographer, an innovator in sports photojournalism.

  4

• William R. Crawford Jr., 74, American diplomat and ambassador.
• Millard Lang, 89, American soccer and lacrosse player.
• Mike Payne, 40, American Major League Baseball player, EEE.
• Salvatore Scianamea, 83, Brazilian fencer.

  5

• Jes Peter Asmussen, 73, Danish iranologist.
• Francisco Coloane, 92, Chilean novelist and short fiction writer.
• Josh Ryan Evans, 20, American actor and stunt performer, complications from a heart condition.
• Chick Hearn, 85, television and radio announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team since 1960, fall.
• Willis Hudlin, 96, American baseball player.
• Franco Lucentini, 82, Italian writer, suicide.
• Shinsuke Mikimoto, 71, Japanese actor, lung cancer.
• Darrell Porter, 50, American baseball player, drug overdose.
• Matt Robinson, 65, American actor, writer and television producer, Parkinson's disease.
• Winifred Watson, 95, English writer.

  6

• Jim Crawford, 54, Scottish motor racing driver, liver failure.
• Edsger W. Dijkstra, 72, Dutch computer scientist, colorectal cancer.
• John Donnelly Fage, 81, British historian.
• Justin Meyer, 63, American vintner and enologist, heart attack.
• Jean Sauvagnargues, 87, French politician.

  7

• Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne, 100, British aristocrat.
• Ookie Miller, 92, American gridiron football player.
• Al Smith, 56, Canadian ice hockey player, pancreatic cancer.
• Wan Da, 83, Chinese politician.

  8

• Bernard Chidzero, 75, Zimbabwean politician, Finance Minister.
• Reiner Geye, 52, German football player, liver disease.
• Wilber Morris, 64, American jazz double bass player and bandleader.
• Mikhail Perlman, 79, Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion.
• Charles Poletti, 99, American lawyer and politician.
• Kapitolina Rumiantseva, 76, Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist.
• Doris Buchanan Smith, 68, American author children's books, ALS.
• Ronnie Stephenson, 65, English jazz drummer.
• Willi Ziegler, 73, German paleontologist.

  9

• Don Chastain, 66, American actor and singer, colorectal cancer.
• Pascale de Boysson, 80, French actress.
• Jake Fendley, 73, American professional basketball player.
• Meredith Gardner, 89, American linguist and codebreaker.
• Bertold Hummel, 76, German composer of modern classical music.
• Peter Matz, 73, American musician, composer, arranger and conductor, lung cancer.
• Paul Samson, 49, English guitarist, cancer.
• Ruud van Feggelen, 78, Dutch water polo player and coach.
• Trần Độ, 78, Vietnamese politician and Lieutenant General of the People's Army.

  10

• Colin Eggleston, 60, Australian film and television director and writer.
• Michael Houser, 40, American guitarist, pancreatic cancer.
• Kristen Nygaard, 75, Norwegian computer scientist and politician, heart attack.
• Eugene Odum, 88, American biologist.
• René Queyroux, 74, French fencer and Olympic medalist.
• Mordecai Waxman, 85, American rabbi, prominent conservative, known for confronting Pope John Paul II.
• Doris Wishman, 90, American B movie film director, screenwriter and producer, lymphoma.
• Czesław Łuczak, 80, Polish historian focusing on World War II.

  11

• Nancy Chaffee, 73, American tennis player, cancer.
• Per Cock-Clausen, 89, Danish figure skater.
• Mick Dunne, 73, Irish sports journalist.
• Jiří Kolář, 87, Czech poet and writer.
• Franjo Kukuljević, 92, Croatian tennis player.
• Hermann Pálsson, 81, Icelandic language scholar and translator.
• Galen Rowell, 61, American wilderness photographer, photojournalist and climber, plane crash.
• Richard Wood, Baron Holderness, 81, British politician.

  12

• John H. Leith, 82, American presbyterian theologian and minister.
• Michael De-la-Noy, 68, British journalist and author.
• Knud Lundberg, 82, Danish sportsperson, journalist and writer.
• John Shaw Rennie, 85, British diplomat.
• Enos Slaughter, 86, American baseball player and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, lymphoma.
• Marjorie Williamson, 89, British educator, physicist and university administrator.

  13

• Jack Creel, 86, American baseball player.
• Hermann Haller, 88, Swiss composer.
• Józef Daniel Krzeptowski, 81, Polish Olympic skier.
• Ulises Ramos, 82, Chilean footballer and manager.
• Al Vande Weghe, 86, American competition swimmer and Olympic silver medalist.

  14

• Mary Heeley, 91, British tennis player.
• Peter R. Hunt, 77, British film editor and director, heart failure.
• Larry Rivers, 78, American painter.
• Dave Williams, 30, American singer of Drowning Pool, heart failure.

  15

• János Balogh, 89, Hungarian zoologist, ecologist, and academic.
• Henry Batista, 88, American film and television editor.
• Heinz Bauer, 74, German mathematician.
• Alberto Bertuccelli, 78, Italian football player.
• Jesse Brown, 58, American United States Marine and United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, ALS.
• George Agbazika Innih, 63, Nigerian army general and politician.
• Edgardo Madinabeytia, 69, Argentine football goalkeeper.
• Arnie Moser, 87, American baseball player.
• Kyle Rote, 73, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
• Jean Stengers, 80, Belgian historian.
• Haim Yosef Zadok, 88, Israeli jurist and politician, heart attack.

  16

• Janusz Bardach, 83, Polish-American Siberian gulag survivor and renowned plastic surgeon.
• Allan Bromley, 55, American computer scientist, historian of computing, cancer.
• Jeff Corey, 88, American actor, fall.
• Martin Deutsch, 85, Austrian-American physicist and professor of physics at MIT, known as the discoverer of positronium.
• Morgan "Bill" Evans, 92, American horticulturalist and Disney landscape designer.
• Anton Guadagno, 77, Italian operatic conductor.
• Paul Michel Gabriel Lévy, 91, Belgian journalist and professor.
• Abu Nidal, 65, Palestinian terrorist, ballistic trauma.
• Ola Belle Reed, 85, American singer.
• John Roseboro, 69, American baseball player.

  17

• Jimmy Bloodworth, 85, American baseball player, heart attack.
• Edward Dziewoński, 85, Polish stage and film actor, and theatre director.
• Alicia Montoya, 82, Mexican actress, the daughter of the stage actress, kidney failure.
• Valentin Pluchek, 92, Russian theatre director.
• Rushyendramani, 85, Indian singer, dancer, and actress.
• Benjamin Thompson, 84, American architect.

  18

• Turpal-Ali Atgeriyev, 33, Chechen rebel leader and top official in the rebel government, leukemia.
• Carter L. Burgess, 85, American public servant, business executive and diplomat.
• Bertil Ericsson, 93, Swedish football player.
• Ričardas Gavelis, 51, Lithuanian writer, playwright, journalist, and theoretical physicist.
• Dick O'Connell, 87, American front office executive in Major League Baseball.
• Dean Riesner, 83, American screenwriter.

  19

• Antonio Barrios, 92, Spanish football player and coach.
• Eduardo Chillida, 78, Spanish Basque sculptor, Alzheimer's disease.
• Irving Copi, 85, American philosopher, logician and textbook author.
• Satchidananda Saraswati, 87, Indian yoga guru and religious teacher.
• Jan Stenbeck, 59, Swedish business leader, media pioneer, sailor and financier.
• Alastair Gordon, 6th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, 82, British botanical artist and art critic.
• Sunday Silence, 16, American-bred thoroughbred race horse, winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes.

  20

• Chris Columbus, 100, American jazz drummer.
• Augustine Geve, Solomon Islands Cabinet Minister, assassinated.
• Teodor Keko, 43, Albanian writer, journalist, and politician, pancreatic cancer.
• John Willett, 85, British journalist and translator of the works of Bertolt Brecht into English.

  21

• Mikayil Abdullayev, 80, Soviet and Azerbaijani painter.
• O. A. Bushnell, 89, American microbiologist, professor and writer.
• Oscar Plattner, 80, Swiss cyclist.
• Bror Rexed, 88, Swedish neuroscientist and professor.