Deaths in July 2002

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

  July 2002

1

• Sid Avery, 83, American photographer.
• John Barr, 83, American professional basketball player and coach.
• Mikhail Krug, 40, Russian singer, shot.
• Pedro Maratea, 89, Argentine actor.
• Meyer Reinhold, 92, American classical scholar.
• K. Venkatalakshmma, 96, Indian Bharatanatyam dancer.
• Maritta Wolff, 83, American author, novels adapted to film: Whistle Stop, The Man I Love.

  2

• Earle Brown, 75, American composer, cancer.
• Ray Brown, 75, American jazz bassist, known for working with Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald.
• Robert I. Friedman, 51, American investigative journalist.
• Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, 93, French organist and composer.
• James Lee, 79, American screenwriter, heart failure and emphysema.

  3

• Henry Cianfrani, 79, American state senator who served prison time on corruption charges, stroke.
• Jimmy Edwards, 49, American professional football player.
• Earl Francis, 66, American baseball player.
• Michel Henry, 80, French philosopher, phenomenologist and novelist.
• Kenneth Ross MacKenzie, 90, American nuclear physicist.

  4

• Gerald Bales, 83, Canadian organist, choirmaster and composer.
• Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., 89, American U.S. Air Force four-star general and commander of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen, Alzheimer's disease.
• Mansoor Hekmat, 51, Iranian theorist, cancer.
• Ivan Moffat, 84, British screenwriter, film producer and socialite.
• Lutz Moik, 71, German actor.
• Sten Samuelson, 76, Swedish architect.
• Laurent Schwartz, 87, French mathematician.
• Winnifred Van Tongerloo, 98, British-American oldest living survivor of the Titanic.
• Gene Wilson, 76, American professional football player.

  5

• Paul Claudon, 82, French film producer and actor.
• Harold Dejan, 93, American New Orleans jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader, best remembered as leader of the Olympia Brass Band.
• Antonio Domenicali, 66, Italian racing cyclist and Olympic champion in track cycling.
• Brett Hill, 57, Australian Olympic swimmer.
• Katy Jurado, 78, Mexican actress, kidney failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Zdzisław Mrożewski, 93, Polish actor.
• Paul Weiss, 101, American philosopher and author, founded The Review of Metaphysics and the Metaphysical Society of America.
• Reinhard Wenskus, 86, German historian.
• Wallace G. Wilkinson, 60, American businessman and politician, 57th Governor of Kentucky, stroke.
• Ted Williams, 83, American baseball player, manager and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, heart attack.

  6

• Dhirubhai Ambani, 69, Indian businessman, stroke.
• John Frankenheimer, 72, American film and television director, heart attack, stroke.
• Cheikh El Hasnaoui, 91, Algerian singer.
• Kenneth Koch, 77, American poet and playwright, leukemia.
• Thakur Ram Lal, 72, Indian politician.
• Ugo Lombardi, 90, Italian cinematographer.
• Haji Abdul Qadeer, 51, Afghan Northern Alliance leader, shot.
• William B. Ruger, 86, American firearms designer and entrepreneur.
• Pietro Valpreda, 69, Italian anarchist, poet, dancer and novelist.

  7

• Kirkor Canbazyan, 90, Turkish Olympic cyclist.
• Jim Cherry, 30, American musician, heart problems.
• Bison Dele, 33, American basketball player, murdered.
• Dorle Soria, 101, American publicist, music producer and journalist.
• John Butler Walden, 62, Tanzanian military officer.
• Ray Wood, 71, English professional footballer.

  8

• Ward Kimball, 88, American animator, pneumonia.
• Clarence Lightner, 80, American politician and mortician.
• Lorna Marshall, 103, American anthropologist.
• Patrick Rodger, 81, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Oxford.
• William Sarjeant, 66, British-born Canadian geologist.
• Earl Shannon, 80, American basketball player and college coach.
• Sidney Spivak, 74, Canadian politician.

  9

• Gerald Campion, 81, English actor.
• George Elias, 88, Australian rower.
• Bruno Freindlich, 92, Soviet and Russian actor.
• Ron Scarlett, 91, New Zealand paleozoologist.
• Madron Seligman, 83, British politician.
• Kenneth Snowman, 82, British jeweller.
• Dave Sorenson, 54, American NBA and Ohio State University basketball player, cancer.
• Rod Steiger, 77, American actor, Oscar winner, kidney failure.

  10

• Mario Cordero, 72, Costa Rican football player and coach, respiratory arrest.
• Jean-Pierre Côté, 76, Canadian politician.
• Albertin Disseaux, 87, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Evangelos Florakis, 59, Greek-Cypriot general, commander of the Cypriot National Guard, helicopter crash.
• Laurence Janifer, 69, American science fiction writer.
• Walter McCrone, 86, American chemist.
• Alan Shulman, 85, American composer and cellist.
• John Wallach, 59, American journalist and author, founder of Seeds of Peace.

  11

• Bernardas Brazdžionis, 95, Lithuanian poet.
• Rosco Gordon, 74, American blues singer and songwriter, heart attack.
• John Howse, 88, Australian politician.
• Garry Kelly, 54, Australian politician, suicide.
• Sun Li, 89, Chinese writer.

  12

• Mary Carew, 88, American Olympic sprinter.
• Guillermo Larco Cox, 70, Peruvian politician.
• Josefina de la Torre, 94, Spanish novelist, opera singer, and actress.
• Edward Lee Howard, 51, American CIA agent and defector, fall.
• Mani Krishnaswami, 72, Indian vocalist, cardiac arrest.
• Ghanshyambhai C. Oza, 90, Indian politician.
• Guglielmo Pesenti, 68, Italian racing cyclist.
• Tim Rathbone, 69, English politician, cancer.
• Ece Ayhan Çağlar, 70, Turkish poet.

  13

• Carey Blyton, 70, British composer and writer.
• Yousuf Karsh, 93, Canadian portrait photographer, cancer.
• Benny Peled, 74, Israeli Air Force commander, pulmonary emphysema.
• Eric Price, 83, English cricketer.
• Herbert Vesely, 71, Austrian film director and screenwriter.
• Percy Yutar, 90, South African attorney general, prosecuted Nelson Mandela.

  14

• Igor Ansoff, 83, Russian-American economist and author, father of strategic business management, pneumonia.
• David Asseo, 88, Turkish Chief Rabbi and spiritual leader of the Republic of Turkey from 1960 to 2002.
• Joaquín Balaguer, 95, President of the Dominican Republic, peptic ulcer disease.
• Nelson Barrera, 44, Mexican baseball player, led the Mexican League in career home runs and RBIs, electrocution.
• Nabakanta Barua, 75, Indian novelist and poet.
• Alex Fraser, 78, British-American scientist, recognized as a pioneer in evolutionary computation.
• Fritz Glatz, 58, Austrian racing driver, traffic collision.
• Cosetta Greco, 71, Italian film actress.
• Hwang Kee, 87, Korean martial artist.
• Dick Ploog, 65, Australian cyclist.

  15

• Charles R. Burton, 59, English explorer, known for being a member of the Transglobe Expedition, heart attack.
• György Fehér, 63, Hungarian film director and screenwriter.
• Lauri Honko, 70, Finnish professor of folklore studies and comparative religion.
• Camillus Perera, 64, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.
• Barbara Randolph, 60, American singer and actress, cancer.
• Philip Roth, 72, American actor.
• Pete Seibert, 77, American skier, esophageal cancer.

  16

• John Cocke, 77, American computer scientist.
• Aleksandr Kolchinsky, 47, Soviet Ukrainian heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion, heart failure.
• George Edmund Lindsay, 85, American botanist, naturalist, and museum director.
• Jack Olsen, 77, American journalist and author.
• Antonella Della Porta, 74, Italian actress.
• Floyd James Thompson, 69, United States Army colonel.

  17

• Harry W. Gerstad, 93, American film editor.
• Valentina Kamenyok-Vinogradova, 59, Soviet/Russian Olympic volleyball player.
• Joseph Luns, 90, Dutch politician, diplomat and Secretary General of NATO.
• Ubiratan Pereira Maciel, 58, Brazilian basketball player.
• Lee Maye, 67, American baseball player, cancer.
• George Rickey, 95, American kinetic sculptor.
• André Simonyi, 88, Hungarian-French football player.
• Bobby Worth, 89, American songwriter, recorded by Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Ella Fitzgerald.

  18

• Victor Emery, 68, English physicist, ALS.
• Howard Ensign Evans, 83, American entomologist.
• Qiu Huizuo, 88, Chinese Army lieutenant general.
• Andy Kirby, 40, American stock car racing driver, traffic collision.
• Györgyi Marvalics-Székely, 77, Hungarian fencer and Olympic silver medalist.
• Lee Siew-Choh, 84, Singaporean politician and medical doctor, lung cancer.
• Owsei Temkin, 99, Russian-American medical historian.
• Metin Toker, 78, Turkish journalist and politician, prostate cancer.
• Del Wilber, 83, American baseball player and manager.
• Alexandra Zapp, 30, American murder victim.

  19

• Jack Backman, 80, American politician.
• Dave Carter, 49, American singer-songwriter, heart attack.
• Alexander Ginzburg, 65, Soviet dissident.
• Alan Lomax, 87, American documenter of blues and folk songs.
• Evdokia Petrova, 86, Soviet spy in Australia in the 1950s.
• Barry Reed, 75, American trial lawyer and author.
• Spec Shea, 81, American baseball player.
• Frank Taylor, 81, English sports journalist.
• Vladimir Vasyutin, 50, Soviet cosmonaut, cancer.

  20

• Pedro Alberto Cano Arenas, 33, Spanish footballer, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Michalis Kritikopoulos, 56, Greek footballer, cardiac arrest.
• Jan Komski, 87, Polish painter.
• Jimmy Maxwell, 85, American swing jazz trumpeter.
• Roland E. Murphy, 85, American Catholic prelate and biblical scholar.