Deaths in February 2002


February 2002

1

  • Aykut Barka, 50, Turkish earth scientist, traffic collision.
  • Sigurd Berge, 72, Norwegian composer.
  • Raymond Crapet, 74, French Olympic sprinter.
  • Streamline Ewing, 85, American jazz trombonist, worked with Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Jimmie Lunceford, Cab Calloway.
  • James Bruce French, 80, Canadian-American theoretical physicist, infection following a stroke.
  • Reed Green, 90, American football, basketball and baseball player and coach.
  • Hildegard Knef, 76, German actress and singer, pneumonia.
  • Sperry Marshall, 71, Australian Olympic sports shooter.
  • Irish McCalla, 73, American actress and artist, stroke and complications from brain tumor.
  • Betty Moys, 73, English law librarian and indexer.
  • Daniel Pearl, 38, American journalist, decapitation.
  • Artie Pitt, 88, American Olympic gymnast.
  • Vladimir Pyankov, 47, Russian phytophysiologist.
  • Norm Reidy, 77, Australian rules footballer.
  • James Ripley, 88, Canadian politician.
  • Orlando Sierra Hernández, 42, Colombian columnist and journalist, gunshot to the head.
  • Robert Granville Stone, 94, American philatelist.

    2

  • Khalid Akhtar, 81-82, Pakistani Urdu-language writer.
  • Henry Aldridge, 78, American dentist and politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives.
  • Paul Baloff, 41, American vocalist, heart failure.
  • Claude Brown, 64, American author.
  • Mende Brown, 81, American writer, producer and director, heart attack.
  • Gerry Dialungana, 51, Congolese musician.
  • Hugo O. Engelmann, 84, Austrian-born American sociologist, anthropologist and general systems theorist.
  • Andy Hansen, 77, American baseball player.
  • Ian Clark Hutchison, 99, British politician, MP.
  • Ed Jucker, 85, American basketball coach and baseball coach, prostate cancer.
  • Robin Medforth-Mills, 59, English geographer and United Nations official.
  • Ani Pachen, 68, Tibetan freedom fighter, activist and author, known as Tibet's "warrior nun".
  • Chatchai Paiseetong, 28, Thai Muay Thai fighter, two-time Lumpinee Stadium Super Bantamweight Champion, heart failure.
  • Remo Palmier, 78, American jazz guitarist.
  • Beatrice Gilman Proske, 102, American art historian.
  • Oscar Reutersvärd, 86, Swedish graphic artist.
  • Kermit Scott, 87, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
  • Hans Sebald, 72, German-born American sociologist.
  • Yvon Thébert, 58, French archaeologist and historian.

    3

  • Mazahir Abasov, 83, Azerbaijani historian and military pilot.
  • Yahya Adl, 95, Iranian surgeon, considered the father of modern Iranian surgery.
  • James Blackwood, 82, American Gospel singer.
  • Kay Brownbill, 87, Australian media personality and politician.
  • K. Chakravarthy, 65, Indian music director.
  • Edward Thomas Chapman, 82, Welsh World War II British Army corporal and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
  • Rudolf Fleischmann, 98, German nuclear physicist.
  • Raymond Gérôme, 81, Belgian-French stage and screen actor.
  • Bill Harvey, 82, English football player.
  • Margit Lukács, 87, Hungarian stage and film actress.
  • Mel McGaha, 75, American baseball coach and manager.
  • Hans Paetsch, 92, German actor.
  • William Poy, 94, Australian-born Canadian civil servant and businessman.
  • Clifford Ladd Prosser, 94, American physiologist.
  • András Rapcsák, 58, Hungarian engineer and politician, MP and mayor of Hódmezővásárhely, pulmonary embolism.
  • Julien Rassam, 33, French actor, suicide.
  • Charles Reep, 97, English football analyst, creator of the long ball game.
  • Lucien Rivard, 87, Canadian criminal, known for a prison escape with a water hose in 1965.
  • Nelson Royal, 66, American professional wrestler, trainer and promoter, heart attack.
  • Vyacheslav Sazonov, 66, Russian mathematician.
  • Aglaja Veteranyi, 39, Romanian-Swiss writer, suicide by drowning.
  • Donald Erwin Wilson, 69, American Navy admiral, cancer.

    4

  • Abie Ames, 83, American blues and jazz pianist.
  • Hugo Baralis, 87, Argentine violinist, conductor, and arranger.
  • Agatha Barbara, 78, Maltese politician.
  • Sigvard Bernadotte, 94, Swedish prince.
  • Frederick J. Clarke, 86, US Army lieutenant General as Chief of Engineers.
  • Sarah Clarke, 82, Irish nun and civil rights campaigner.
  • Tom Connors, 67, English cancer research scientist.
  • Bhagwan Dada, 88, Indian actor and film director, heart attack.
  • Ralph Fritz, 84, American gridiron football player.
  • Wiesław Gąsiorek, 66, Polish tennis player.
  • Reg Gross, 91, Australian rules footballer.
  • Miloslav Hamr, 85, Czechoslovak table tennis player.
  • Bert Head, 85, English football player and manager.
  • Inge Konradi, 77, Austrian stage and film actress, cancer.
  • Harry David Link, 84, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.
  • George Nader, 80, American actor, cardiopulmonary failure.
  • Helen Dodson Prince, 96, American astronomer.
  • Broderick Thompson, 41, American gridiron football player, traffic collision.
  • Eve Titus, 79, American children's writer.
  • Gyula Vincze, 88, Hungarian Olympic wrestler.
  • Baxter Ward, 82, American television news anchor and two-term member of Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

    5

  • Angela du Maurier, 97, English actress and novelist.
  • Yasutake Funakoshi, 89, Japanese sculptor and painter.
  • Paul Grabö, 83, Swedish politician, MP.
  • André Jacowski, 80, Polish-born French football player.
  • Mushtak Ali Kazi, 84, Pakistani jurist and writer, cardiac arrest.
  • Kauko Lusenius, 83, Finnish Olympic middle-distance runner.
  • Raymond Martorano, 74, Italian-American mobster, shot.
  • Robert Mather, 87, Australian politician.
  • Victor Miadana, 81, Malagasy politician, Vice President of Madagascar.
  • John Spezzaferro, 80, American football player and coach.
  • Boris Tamm, 71, Estonian cyberneticist, rector of the Tallinn University of Technology.
  • Annalee Whitmore Fadiman, 85, American screenwriter and World War II foreign correspondent, euthanasia.

    6

  • Osman Bölükbaşı, Turkish politician and political party leader, respiratory failure.
  • Angela D'Audney, 57, New Zealand television news anchor and actress, brain tumour.
  • Grietje de Jongh, 77, Dutch Olympic sprinter.
  • Sırrı Erinç, 84, Turkish geographer and lecturer.
  • Leonid Hakobyan, 65, Soviet and Armenian politician and economist.
  • Hazel Hannell, 106, American artist and activist.
  • Jack Holden, 80, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.
  • Andrée Jacob, 95, French journalist and member of the French Resistance.
  • Wendell Marshall, 81, American jazz double-bassist.
  • Eken Mine, 66, Japanese voice actor.
  • Max Perutz, 87, Austrian-born British molecular biologist, and co-winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, cancer.
  • Yehoshua Rozin, 83, Israeli basketball coach.
  • Lowell Schoenfeld, 81, American mathematician.
  • Guy Stockwell, 68, American actor, complications from diabetes.
  • Samuel Lucien Terrien, 90, French-American theologian and biblical scholar.
  • Herbert Wieninger, 91, Austrian Olympic composer.
  • Lady Viola Wilson, 90, Scottish-born Australian opera singer.
  • Melinda Wortz, 61, American art historian and critic, Alzheimer's disease.

    7

  • Annemarie Auer, 88, German author and literary scholar.
  • Walter Bolden, 76, American jazz drummer
  • Elisa Bridges, 28, American actress and model, Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for December 1994, drug overdose.
  • Bertrand Croset, 60, French bobsledder.
  • Lilí del Mónico, Swiss-born Paraguayan artist.
  • Ellen Demming, 79, American actress.
  • Jack Fairman, 88, British Formula One driver.
  • David Gibson-Watt, Baron Gibson-Watt, 83, British politician.
  • John Groves Gould, 89, Canadian politician, MLA.
  • Diane Hart, 75, English actress and political campaigner.
  • Bud Helbig, 82, American painter, illustrator and sculptor.
  • Lorne Henderson, 81, Canadian politician.
  • César Jaroslavsky, 73, Argentinian politician, MP.
  • Wilhelm Johnen, 80, German Luftwaffe night fighter ace during World War II.
  • Jerrold Katz, 69, American philosopher and linguist.
  • Tony Pond, 56, British rally driver, pancreatic cancer.
  • William Rupp, 74, American architect, house fire.
  • John Taylor, Baron Ingrow, 84, English soldier, brewer and politician, Parkinson's disease.
  • Rosemary Woodruff Leary, 66, American model and author, wife of Timothy Leary, congestive heart failure.

    8

  • Elisabeth Mann Borgese, 83, German-Canadian environmentalist, political scientist and writer, pneumonia.
  • Nick Brignola, 65, American jazz saxophonist.
  • Ong Teng Cheong, 66, Singaporean politician and fifth President of Singapore, lymphoma.
  • Puck de Leeuw, 48, Dutch documentary director, lung cancer.
  • William T. Dillard, 87, American retailer.
  • Maurice Foley, 76, British politician.
  • AG Fronzoni, 78, Italian graphic designer, publisher, industrial designer, architect, and educator.
  • Joachim Hoffmann, 71, German historian.
  • John Mark Inienger, 56, Nigerian Army major general, traffic collision.
  • Lloyd Kiva New, 85, American Cherokee artist and designer.
  • Jacob Lofman, 90, Polish-born American photojournalist.
  • Esther Afua Ocloo, 82, Ghanaian entrepreneur and pioneer of microlending, pneumonia.
  • Grigory Okhay, 85, Soviet MiG-15 flying ace during the Korean War.
  • Giannis Pathiakakis, 48, Greek football player, heart attack.
  • Stan Pavko, 85, American football player and coach.
  • David Pyle, 65, English football player.
  • Mu'nis Razzaz, 51, Jordanian writer, brother of Jordanian prime minister Omar Razzaz.
  • Duggie Reid, 84, Scottish football player.
  • Steve Roser, 84, American baseball player.
  • Eldon Rudd, 81, American politician.
  • Heinz Traimer, 80, German-born Austrian graphic designer.
  • Henry Williams Jr., 85, American golfer.
  • Bob Wooler, 76, British disc jockey, known for introducing The Beatles to future manager, Brian Epstein.
  • Zizinho, 80, Brazilian football player, heart attack.
  • Antar Zouabri, 31, Algerian islamist, shot.