Deaths in December 2002

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

  December 2002

1

• Abu Abraham, 78, Indian cartoonist, journalist, and author.
• Edward L. Beach, Jr., 84, American highly decorated United States Navy submarine officer and author.
• Cassius Chapin Cutler, 87, American communications engineer.
• John L. McLucas, 82, American politician and U.S. Secretary of the Air Force.
• Dave McNally, 60, American baseball player, lung cancer.
• José Chávez Morado, 93, Mexican artist.
• Boris Schapiro, 93, British international bridge player.

  2

• Elizabeth B. Andrews, 91, American politician.
• Barney Berlinger, 94, American Olympic decathlon athlete.
• Achille Castiglioni, 84, Italian industrial designer.
• Aileen Fisher, 96, American children's writer.
• Ivan Illich, 76, Austrian Roman Catholic priest, theologian, and social critic, brain cancer.
• Boris Ivanov, 82, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.
• György Marx, 75, Hungarian physicist, astrophysicist, and science historian.
• Jim Mitchell, 56, Irish politician, cancer.
• Arno Peters, 86, German historian and filmmaker.
• Vjenceslav Richter, 85, Croatian architect.
• Edgar Scherick, 78, American television executive and producer.
• Mehmet Emin Toprak, 28, Turkish film actor, traffic collision.
• Ben Wade, 80, American baseball player and scout.
• Mal Waldron, 77, American jazz pianist and composer.
• Fay Gillis Wells, 94, American pioneer aviator.

  3

• Adrienne Adams, 96, American children's writer and illustrator.
• Hariharananda Giri, 95, Indian yogi and guru.
• Pierre Guillaume, 77, French Navy officer, cancer.
• Klaus Löwitsch, 66, German actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Glenn Quinn, 32, Irish actor, heroin overdose.
• Jug Thesenga, 88, American baseball player.

  4

• Charles Pierce Davey, 77, American welterweight boxer, complications from paralysis.
• Noémia de Sousa, 76, Mozambican poet.
• Robert Mallet, 87, French writer and academic.
• Hemmo Silvennoinen, 70, Finnish Olympic ski jumper.
• Kacie Woody, 13, American murder victim.

  5

• Roone Arledge, 71, American television producer and executive, prostate cancer.
• Bob Berg, 51, American jazz saxophonist, traffic collision.
• Prosper Boulanger, 84, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament.
• Geoff Coombes, 83, American soccer player.
• Arvell Shaw, 79, American jazz double-bassist.
• Einar Skinnarland, 84, Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II.
• Ann Welch, 85, British glider pilot.
• Ne Win, 91, Burmese politician and dictator.

  6

• Jerzy Adamski, 65, Polish featherweight boxer.
• Clarence Beers, 83, American baseball player.
• Philip Berrigan, 79, American priest and political activist, kidney cancer.
• Antonino Caponnetto, 82, Italian Antimafia magistrate.
• William Henry Gleysteen, 76, American diplomat and ambassador, leukemia.
• Gerhard Löwenthal, 79, German journalist, human rights activist and author.

  7

• R. Orin Cornett, 89, American physicist, university professor and inventor of Cued Speech.
• John R. Dellenback, 84, American politician, viral pneumonia.
• Gunnar Helén, 84, Swedish liberal politician.
• Barbara Howard, 76, Canadian painter, wood engraver, and bookbinder, pulmonary embolism.
• Cal Lepore, 83, American gridiron football referee.
• Paddy Tunney, 81, Irish traditional artist.

  8

• Bobby Joe Hill, 59, American basketball player, heart attack.
• Melvin Lax, 80, American physics professor, cancer.
• Anil Moonesinghe, 75, Sri Lankan revolutionary politician and trade unionist.
• Charles Rosen, 85, American computer scientist.
• Dorothy Walker, 73, Irish art critic and historian.

  9

• Shigeru Chiba, 83, Japanese baseball player and manager.
• Joly Garbi, 90, Greek actress.
• Mary Hansen, 36, Australian guitarist and singer, traffic collision.
• Ian Hornak, 58, American draughtsman, painter and printmaker, aortic aneurysm.
• To Huu, 82, Vietnamese poet and politician.
• Johnny Lazor, 90, American baseball player.
• Stan Rice, 60, American painter, educator, poet, husband of author Anne Rice, cancer.
• Theodore Shackley, 75, American CIA officer known as "the Blond Ghost", cancer.

  10

• Les Costello, 74, Canadian ice hockey player and Catholic priest.
• Kurt Heintel, 78, Austrian film and television actor.
• Earl Henry, 85, American baseball player.
• Átila Iório, 81, Brazilian actor, pulmonary emphysema.
• Andres Küng, 57, Swedish journalist, writer, and politician.
• Ian MacNaughton, 76, Scottish director of most episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
• Julie Schmitt, 89, German gymnast and Olympic champion.
• Homer Spragins, 82, American baseball player.
• Peter Tanner, 88, British film editor.

  11

• Domocao Alonto, 88, Filipino lawyer, author, and Islamic figure.
• Luis Ciges, 81, Spanish film actor, heart attack.
• Dolly Dawn, 86, American big band vocalist and recording star of the 1930s and 1940s.
• Muzaffer Demirhan, 70, Turkish alpine skier.
• Arthur Metcalfe, 64, British racing cyclist, cancer.
• Nanabhoy Palkhivala, 82, Indian jurist, economist and civil rights leader.
• Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, 97, American photojournalist, cinematographer, and philanthropist.
• Kay Rose, 80, American Oscar-winning sound editor, organ dysfunction.
• Lou Stein, 80, American jazz pianist.

  12

• Mykola Amosov, 89, Soviet/Ukrainian heart surgeon and inventor.
• Dee Brown, 94, American author and historian, heart failure.
• Nancy Caroline, 58, American EMS physician and writer, multiple myeloma.
• Brad Dexter, 85, American actor and film producer, pulmonary emphysema.
• Kazuo Kasahara, 75, Japanese screenwriter.
• Jabir Novruz, 69, Azerbaijani artist and poet.
• Orlando Villas-Bôas, 88, Brazilian explorer and anthropologist.

  13

• Carlos Agostí, 80, Spanish-Mexican film actor.
• Ronald Barnes, 61, Brazilian tennis player, cancer.
• Maria Björnson, 53, French theatre designer, two-time Tony Award winner for The Phantom of the Opera.
• Stella Brooks, 92, American jazz singer of the 1940s.
• Ronald Butt, 82, British journalist, political columnist and writer.
• Ksenia Kepping, 65, Russian linguist and tangutologist.
• Anthony Ler, 35, Singaporean graphic designer and convicted murderer, execution by hanging.
• Shirley O'Hara, 78, American actress, diabetes.
• Zal Yanovsky, 57, Canadian folk rock musician, lead guitarist and singer for The Lovin' Spoonful, heart attack.

  14

• Hank Arft, 80, American baseball player.
• Jack Bradley, 86, English football player.
• Sidney Glazier, 86, American film producer.
• Ken Higgs, 72, Canadian football player.
• Ruth Kobart, 78, American performer, pancreatic cancer.
• Salman Raduyev, 35, Chechen separatist field commander, internal bleeding.
• Enrique Tarigo, 75, Uruguayan jurist and political figure, lung cancer.
• Frank Warren, 43, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
• Ray Wietecha, 74, American gridiron football player and coach.

  15

• John Crosby, 76, American conductor, founded the Santa Fe Opera.
• Charles E. Fraser, 73, American real estate developer, transformed Hilton Head Island into a world-class resort.
• Vladimir Haensel, 88, American chemical engineer.
• Jan Mikołajczak, 95, Polish rower and Olympic medalist.
• Dick Stuart, 70, American baseball player, cancer.

  16

• Manuel E. Buadas, 77, Uruguayan air force general, Commander-in-Chief of the Uruguayan Air Force.
• Bill Hunter, 82, Canadian ice hockey player, general manager and coach, cancer.
• Licínio Rangel, 66, Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop.
• Nighat Sultana, 67, Pakistani actress.
• Don Vesco, 63, American businessperson and motorcycle racer, prostate cancer.

  17

• Colin Clark, 70, British film director and writer.
• Muhammad Hamidullah, 94, Indian Hadith scholar and academic author.
• Aideu Handique, 87, Indian actress.
• James Hazeldine, 55, English actor and director, aortic dissection.
• Frederick Knott, 86, English playwright and screenwriter.
• Hank Luisetti, 86, American basketball player and innovator.
• Aleksei Pogorelov, 83, Soviet mathematician.
• Boris Tokarev, 75, Soviet sprinter and Olympic silver medalist.

  18

• Saul Amarel, 74, American computer scientist and artificial intelligence pioneer.
• Earl Audet, 81, American professional football player and actor.
• Mahmoud Fayad, 77, Egyptian weightlifter.
• Henry Gibson, 60, American percussionist.
• Lucy Grealy, 39, Irish-American poet and memoirist, drug overdose.
• Necip Hablemitoğlu, 48, Turkish historian and intellectual, shot.
• Ray Hnatyshyn, 68, Canadian politician and Governor-General of Canada, pancreatitis.
• Bert Millichip, 88, British football player and administrator.
• Edward Norris, 91, American film actor.
• Wayne Owens, 65, American politician and a member of Congress, heart attack.
• Jan Łomnicki, 73, Polish film director and screenwriter.

  19

• Claude Crocker, 78, American baseball player.
• Will Hoy, 49, British racing driver.
• Barbara Lott, 82, British actress.
• Kote Makharadze, 76, Soviet and Georgian actor and sports commentator, stroke.
• Hrant Matevosyan, 67, Armenian writer and screenwriter.
• Babubhai J. Patel, 91, India politician and chief minister.
• Arthur Rowley, 76, English footballer, holder of the record for most career league goals.
• Aleksandar Sarievski, 80, Macedonian singer-songwriter.
• Roger Webb, 68, British musical director and composer.
• George Weller, 95, American World War II journalist.