Deaths in January 2002

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

January 2002

1

• Rolando Del Bello, 76, Italian tennis player.
• Mohand Arav Bessaoud, 77, Algerian writer and activist.
• Daulat Bikram Bista, 76, Nepali writer and poet.
• Bonnie Mealing, 89, Australian swimmer.
• Eugene Nickerson, 83, American county executive and judge, complications from ulcer surgery.
• Carol Ohmart, 74, American actress and model.
• Julia Phillips, 57, American film producer and author, Oscar winner, cancer.
• Patrick Kwame Kusi Quaidoo, 77, Ghanaian politician and businessman.
• Nuchhungi Renthlei, 88, Indian poet and singer.
• Astrid Sampe, 92, Swedish textile designer.
• Catya Sassoon, 33, American actress, singer and model, heart attack after drug overdose.
• Meg Wyllie, 84, American actress.

2

• Armi Aavikko, 43, Finnish beauty queen and singer, pneumonia.
• Anil Agarwal, 55, Indian environmentalist and science correspondent.
• Rui Campos, 79, Brazilian football player.
• Pablo Antonio Cuadra, 89, Nicaraguan essayist, playwright, and graphic artist.
• Ahmed Dawood, 96, Pakistani industrialist and philanthropist.
• Ian Grist, 63, British Conservative politician, stroke.
• Heath MacQuarrie, 82, Canadian politician, scholar, and writer.
• Charlie Mitten, 80, English football player and manager.
• Chester Nimitz Jr., 86, American submarine commander.
• Bibi Osterwald, 81, American actress.
• Bob Stevens, 85, American sportswriter.

3

• Donald Martin Carroll, 92, American Roman Catholic priest.
• Satish Dhawan, 81, Indian aerospace engineer.
• Miki Dora, 67, American surfer, stunt double and actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Juan García Esquivel, 83, Mexican bandleader and composer for film and television.
• Freddy Heineken, 78, Dutch beer magnate, pneumonia.
• Martin Ruby, 79, American gridiron football player.
• Al Smith, 73, American baseball player.
• Baldur R. Stefansson, 84, Canadian agricultural scientist.

4

• Nathan Chapman, 31, U.S. Army soldier, first American soldier killed in combat in the war in Afghanistan.
• Georg Ericson, 82, Swedish football player and coach.
• Ada Falcón, 96, Argentine tango dancer, singer and film actress.
• Michael Howard, 79, English choral conductor, organist and composer.
• Douglas Jung, 74, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament, heart attack.
• Mustafa Krantja, 80, Albanian classical music conductor and composer.
• Grace Mera Molisa, 55, Ni-Vanuatu politician, poet and feminist.
• Jim Sears, 70, American gridiron football player.
• Adrián Zabala, 85, Cuban-American baseball player.

5

• Charles J. Bishop, 15, American high school student, suicide by plane crash.
• Igor Cassini, 86, American syndicated gossip columnist for the Hearst newspaper.
• Valentin Chernikov, 64, Soviet Olympic fencer.
• Fielding Dawson, 71, American author, poet and artist.
• Roger Gyselinck, 81, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Astrid Henning-Jensen, 87, Danish film director, actress, and screenwriter.
• Kamel Maghur, 67, Libyan lawyer and diplomat.
• Graham Ryder, 52, English geologist and lunar scientist, cancer of the esophagus.
• Vadim Shefner, 86, Soviet and Russian poet and writer.
• Bryan Thurlow, 65, English football player.

6

• Bobby Austin, 68, American country musician.
• Per-Arne Berglund, 74, Swedish Olympic javelin thrower.
• Serge Brignoni, 98, Swiss avant-garde painter and sculptor.
• Sanya Dharmasakti, 94, Thai jurist, university professor and politician, Prime Minister of Thailand from 1973 to 1975.
• Kunjandi, 82, Indian actor.
• Johnnie Mae Matthews, 79, American blues and R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer, cancer.
• Mario Nascimbene, 88, Italian film soundtrack composer.
• John W. Reynolds, 80, American politician and jurist, Governor of Wisconsin.
• Fred Taylor, 77, American basketball coach and baseball player.
• Marian Wenzel, 69, British artist and art historian, leading authority on the art of medieval Bosnia and Herzegovina, cancer.
• Christa Worthington, 45, American fashion writer, homicide.

7

• Frank Cave, 59, British trade unionist and political activist, brain cancer.
• Geoff Crompton, 46, American basketball player, leukemia.
• Geoffrey Crossley, 80, British Formula One race car driver, stroke.
• René Etiemble, 92, French essayist, scholar, and novelist.
• Mighty Igor, 70, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Björn Landström, 84, Finnish-Swedish artist, writer, and illustrator.
• Jon Lee, 33, British drummer, suicide.
• Bill Lenny, 78, British film editor.
• Hal Marnie, 83, American baseball player.
• Raúl Mazorra, 73, Cuban sprinter and Olympian.
• Avery Schreiber, 66, American comedian and actor, heart attack.
• Lev Zaykov, 78, Soviet politician and statesman.

8

• M. S. Bartlett, 91, English statistician.
• Romeo Cascarino, 79, American composer of classical music.
• David McWilliams, 56, Northern Irish singer-songwriter, heart attack.
• Alexander Prokhorov, 85, Soviet physicist, winner of 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics.
• Dave Thomas, 69, American entrepreneur, founder of Wendy's, liver cancer, liver tumor.
• Glayde Whitney, 62, American behavioral geneticist and psychologist, promoted controversial race based genetics.
• Viggo Widerøe, 97, Norwegian aviator and entrepreneur.

9

• Mush March, 93, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Bill McCutcheon, 77, American actor, Tony winner, Alzheimer's disease.
• Wang Ruoshui, 75, Chinese journalist, political theorists and philosopher, lung cancer.
• K. William Stinson, 71, U.S. Representative from Washington.

10

• Olga Biglieri, 86, Italian futurist painter and aviator.
• John Buscema, 74, American comic book artist, cancer.
• Wallie Amos Criswell, 92, American pastor, author and two-term president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1968 to 1970.
• Philip Drazin, 67, British mathematician, university teacher and author, an international expert in fluid dynamics.
• Andrés Hammersley, 82, Chilean tennis player.
• Günther Ortmann, 85, German field handball player.
• Cedric Smith, 84, British statistician.
• Ikkō Tanaka, 71, Japanese graphic designer, heart attack.
• C. R. Vyas, 77, Indian classical singer.

11

• Gerrit Brokx, 68, Dutch politician.
• Gene Dinwiddie, 65, American blues saxophonist.
• Ajay Mitra Shastri, 67, Indian academic, historian and numismatist.
• Christer Strömholm, 83, Swedish photographer.
• Henri Verneuil, 81, French filmmaker and playwright.

12

• Bernard Bennett, 70, English snooker and billiards player.
• John Berger, 92, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier.
• Moss Evans, 76, British union leader, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union.
• Edwin M. Martin, 93, American diplomat and ambassador, pneumonia.
• Harold B. McSween, 75, American politician and businessman.
• Ernest Pintoff, 70, American film and television director and animator, stroke.
• Henry S. Reuss, 89, American politician.
• Neville Sandelson, 78, British politician.
• Stanley Unwin, 90, South African-born English comedian.
• Cyrus Vance, 84, United States Secretary of State, international peacemaker, pneumonia.

13

• Richard Bolt, 90, American physicist, specializing in acoustics, founded Bolt, Beranek and Newman.
• Ted Demme, 38, American film and television director, heart attack.
• Samuel Dolin, 84, Canadian composer and music educator.
• Guadalupe Dueñas, Mexican short story writer and essayist.
• Charity Adams Earley, 83, United States Army officer.
• Paul Fannin, 94, American politician and businessman, Governor of Arizona, U.S. Senator from Arizona, cerebrovascular disease.
• Gregorio Fuentes, 104, Cuban sailor and Ernest Hemingway's first mate, fishing companion and confidant.
• Georges Glasser, 94, French tennis player and president of the Tennis Club de Paris.
• Antonije Isaković, 78, Serbian writer.
• Pierre Joubert, 91, French illustrator and comics artist.
• Frank Shuster, 85, Canadian comedian.
• José María Sánchez-Silva, 90, Spanish writer.
• Christian von Bülow, 84, Danish Olympic sailor.

14

• Edith Bouvier Beale, 84, American socialite, fashion model and cabaret performer, known as "Little Edie", heart attack.
• Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington, 86, British sociologist, social activist and politician, coined the term "meritocracy".
• David John Hamer, 78, Australian politician.
• Rachel Bubar Kelly, 79, American politician for the Prohibition Party.
• Cele Goldsmith Lalli, 68, American editor, accidental death.
• Antonio Sbardella, 76, Italian football player, referee and sports official.
• Olav Selvaag, 89, Norwegian engineer and residential contractor.

15

• Michael Anthony Bilandic, 78, American politician, heart failure.
• Eugène Brands, 89, Dutch painter, an early member of the COBRA avant-garde art movement.
• Jean Dockx, 60, Belgian football player and manager.
• David Epstein, 71, American composer, conductor, and music scientist.
• Miguel Flores, 81, Chilean football player.
• John M. Gaver, Jr., 61, American trainer of thoroughbred racehorses.
• Jeremy Hawk, 83, British actor.
• Tomislav Kaloperović, 69, Yugoslav and Serbian football player and coach.
• Vithabai Bhau Mang Narayangaonkar, Indian artist.
• Michel Poniatowski, 79, French politician.

16

• John Boulos, 80, Haitian soccer player.
• Robert Hanbury Brown, 85, British astronomer and astrophysicist, pioneered the development of radar and radio astronomy.
• Jean Elleinstein, 74, French historian specializing in communism.
• Henry E. Erwin, 80, American U.S. Army Air Forces airman and recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions in World War II.
• Ivan Foxwell, 87, British film producer and screenwriter.
• Ralph Jacobi, 73, Australian politician.
• Milutin Kukanjac, 67, Yugoslav military officer.
• Bobo Olson, 73, American boxer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Ron Taylor, 49, American actor, heart attack.
• Jim Tunney, 78, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
• Michael Walford, 86, British field hockey, rugby and cricket player.

17

• Peter Adamson, 71, British actor, stomach cancer.
• Camilo José Cela, 85, Spanish novelist, poet, and essayist, 1989 Nobel Prize in Literature, cardiovascular disease.
• Queenie Leonard, 96, British character actress and singer.
• Harvey Matusow, 75, American artist, communist and Federal Bureau of Investigation informer, car accident.
• Eddie Meduza, 53, Swedish rockabilly composer and musician, heart attack.
• Bus Mertes, 80, American gridiron football player and coach, stroke.
• Brian Simon, 86, British educationalist and historian.
• Héctor Tosar, 78, Uruguayan pianist and classical composer.

18

• Celso Daniel, 50, Brazilian politician and mayor, murdered.
• Michel Fleury, 78, French historian, archivist and archaeologist, specialising in the history and archaeology of Paris.
• Jovdat Hajiyev, 84, Azerbaijani composers of the Soviet period.
• Alex Hannum, 78, American basketball coach.
• Yasmeen Ismail, 51, Pakistani television actress and theater director.
• Jorma Karhunen, 88, Finnish Air Force ace.

19

• Jeff Astle, 59, English footballer, degenerative brain disease.
• Jim Cameron, 71, Australian politician.
• Martti Miettunen, 94, Finnish politician, prime minister.
• Vavá, 67, Brazilian football player, heart attack.
• Ricky Womack, 40, American professional boxer, suicide.

20

• John Aveni, 66, American gridiron football player.
• Walter Carter, 72, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament.
• Jean-Toussaint Desanti, 87, French educator and philosopher.
• Moti Lal Dhar, 87, India drug chemist and academic.
• Carrie Hamilton, 38, American actress, lung cancer.
• John Jackson, 77, American blues musician, liver cancer.
• R. N. Kao, 83, Indian spy and the first chief of India's intelligence agency.
• Ivan Karabyts, 57, Ukrainian composer and conductor.
• Harold Kasket, 75, English actor.
• Rudolf Staffel, 90, American ceramic artist and educator.
• Luule Viilma, 51, Estonian doctor, esotericist and practitioner of alternative medicine, car crash.

21

• Max Angst, 80, Swiss Olympic bobsledder.
• Rolando Barral, 62, Cuban actor and talk show host, often called "the Latino Johnny Carson", stroke.
• Peggy Lee, 81, American singer & actress, diabetes, heart attack.
• John Arthur Love, 85, American attorney and Republican politician.
• Adolfo Marsillach, 73, Spanish actor, playwright and theatre director, prostate cancer.
• Charlie Puckett, 90, Australian sportsman.
• Zenon Snylyk, 68, Ukrainian-American soccer player.
• George Trapp, 53, American basketball player, stabbed.

22

• Sheldon Allman, 77, Canadian-American singer, actor, songwriter and voice actor.
• Kenneth Armitage, 85, British sculptor.
• Peter Bardens, 56, English keyboardist and a founding member of the British progressive rock group Camel, lung cancer.
• Guido Bernardi, 80, Italian cyclist.
• Henry Cosby, 73, American songwriter.
• Eric de Maré, 91, British architectural photographer and writer.
• George W. Dickerson, 88, American college football coach, interim head coach at UCLA for three games in 1958.
• Stanley Marcus, 96, American businessman.
• John McGrath, 66, British playwright and theatre theorist.
• Jean Patchett, 75, American fashion model.
• Salomon Tandeng Muna, 89, Cameroonian politician.
• Jack Shea, 91, American speed skater, traffic collision.
• A. H. Weiler, 93, American writer, editor and film critic for The New York Times.
• John Andrew Young, 85, American politician.

23

• Louis T. Benezet, 86, American educator and president of multiple colleges.
• Pierre Bourdieu, 71, French sociologist and philosopher, cancer.
• Charlie Bradshaw, 65, American gridiron football player, cancer.
• Thomas Carey, 70, American operatic baritone, pancreatic cancer.
• Domingo Drummond, 44, Honduran football player, heart attack.
• Igor Kipnis, 71, American harpsichordist, pianist and conductor, cancer.
• Vittorio Mero, 27, Italian football player, traffic collision.
• Robert Nozick, 63, American philosopher, lung cancer.
• Pier Giorgio Perotto, 71, Italian electrical engineer and inventor.
• Gerhard Prokop, 62, German football player and manager.
• John Symank, 66, American gridiron football player.
• Johannes E. Vecchi, 70, Argentine Roman Catholic priest, Rector Major of the Salesians.
• Phil Warren, 63, New Zealand music promoter and politician, chairman of Auckland Regional Council.

24

• Stuart Burge, 84, British film director, producer and actor.
• Paul B. Carpenter, 73, American politician, convicted of corruption.
• Nunzio Filogamo, 99, Italian television and radio presenter, actor and singer.
• Peter Gzowski, 67, Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter, emphysema.
• Elie Hobeika, 45, Lebanese militia commander and politician, murdered.
• Upendra Kumar, 60, Indian composer.
• Andrei Mercea, 76, Romanian football player.
• Edgar Ritchie, 85, Canadian diplomat.
• Kurt Schaffenberger, 81, American comic book artist.
• Gregorio Walerstein, 88, Mexican film producer and screenwriter.

25

• J. Clifford Baxter, 43, American executive, suicide by gunshot.
• Willard Estey, 82, Canadian justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
• Chris Perry, 73, Indian musician, composer, songwriter and film producer.
• Winston Place, 87, English cricketer.

26

• Phyllis Bartholomew, 87, English track and field athlete.
• Francisco Cabañas, 90, Mexican Olympic flyweight boxer.
• Dorothy Carrington, 91, British writer, one of the leading scholars on Corsican culture and history.
• Rudolph B. Davila, 85, United States Army officer, World War II Medal of Honor recipient.
• Loonis McGlohon, 80, American songwriter and jazz pianist.
• Ray Yochim, 79, American baseball player.

27

• Robert L. Chapman, 81, American professor, dictionary editor and thesaurus editor.
• Yelena Gorchakova, 68, Russian javelin thrower and Olympic medalist.
• John James, 87, British racing driver.
• Edgar Manske, 89, American gridiron football player.
• Franz Meyers, 93, German politician and Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia.
• Reggie Sanders, 52, American baseball player.
• Pierre Vago, 91, French architect.
• Alain Vanzo, 73, French opera singer and composer, stroke.

28

• Hilda Carrero, 50, Venezuelan model and actress, cancer.
• Andrew W. Cooper, 74, American activist, journalist, and editor-in-chief of The City Sun, stroke.
• Gustaaf Deloor, 88, Belgian road racing cyclist.
• Herbert Hirche, 91, German architect and furniture and product designer.
• Hennie Keetelaar, 75, Dutch Olympic water polo player.
• Andy Kulberg, 57, American musician, lymphoma.
• Astrid Lindgren, 94, Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays, viral infection.
• Jack Witikka, 85, Finnish film director and screenwriter.
• Ayşenur Zarakolu, 55, Turkish publisher and human rights activist, cancer.

29

• Stephen Wayne Anderson, 48, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Suzanne Bloch, 94, Swiss-American musician, teacher and early music specialist.
• Florian Côté, 72, Canadian politician.
• Daniel De Luce, 90, American journalist for Associated Press from 1929 to 1976.
• Richard Grenier, 68, American columnist and film critic, heart attack.
• Sarla Grewal, 74, Indian State Governor.
• Haim Haberfeld, 70, Israeli trade union leader and the chairman of the Israel Football Association.
• R. M. Hare, 82, English moral philosopher, series of strokes.
• Heinz Hennig, 74, German choral conductor and an academic teacher.
• Stratford Johns, 76, South African-born British actor, heart disease.
• Dick Lane, 73, American football player, heart attack.
• Phil McCall, 76, British actor.
• John R. McGann, 77, American prelate of the Catholic Church.
• Berto Pisano, 73, Italian composer, conductor, arranger and jazz musician.
• Harold Russell, 88, Canadian-American actor, Oscar winner, heart attack.

30

• Carlo Karges, 50, German musician, liver disease.
• Inge Morath, 78, Austrian-born American photographer, cancer.
• Jeanne Robert, 91, French historian and epigrapher.
• Louis Salica, 89, American boxer.

31

• Francis Acharya, 82, Belgian Roman Catholic monk.
• Ernest Butler, 82, English football player.
• Jim Camp, 77, American gridiron football player and college football head coach.
• Harry Chiti, 69, American baseball player.
• Gabby Gabreski, 83, Polish-American World War II and Korean War fighter pilot, heart attack.
• Ad Hermes, 72, Dutch politician.
• Henry Kloss, 72, American audio engineer and entrepreneur.
• Jim Letsinger, 90, American gridiron football player.
• Evelyn Scott, 86, American film and television actress.
• Ger Stroker, 85, Dutch football player.
• Karel Voous, 81, Dutch ornithologist and author.
• Predrag Vranicki, 80, Yugoslav and Croatian philosopher and Marxist humanist.