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.