Deaths in June 2002

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

  June 2002

1

• Michael Alexander, 65, British diplomat.
• Tom Austin, 78, Australian politician.
• Hansie Cronje, 32, South African cricketer, plane crash.
• Joseph Nanven Garba, 58, Nigerian soldier, diplomat and politician.
• James Gathers, 71, American Olympic track and field athlete.
• Tibor Scitovsky, 91, Hungarian-American economist.

  2

• Boyd Bennett, 77, American rockabilly songwriter and singer, lung ailment.
• Herman Cohen, 76, American film producer, esophageal cancer.
• Tim Lopes, 51, Brazilian investigative journalist and television producer, tortured.
• Hugo van Lawick, 65, Dutch wildlife filmmaker and photographer.
• Konrad Wirnhier, 64, German sports shooter.

  3

• Charles Antrobus, 69, Governor-General of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, leukemia.
• Cecil Hankins, 80, American gridiron football player.
• Fran Rogel, 74, American football player, Parkinson's disease.
• Edward Somers, 73, New Zealand jurist and member of the Privy Council.
• Lew Wasserman, 89, American talent agent and studio executive, complications from a stroke.
• Sam Whipple, 41, American actor, cancer.
• Brian Woledge, 97, English scholar of medieval French language and literature.

  4

• Fernando Belaúnde Terry, 89, Peruvian politician, President of Peru.
• John W. Cunningham, 86, American author.
• Ann Henderson, 60, Australian politician.
• Pyotr Ivashutin, 92, Soviet Army General and head of the state.
• Bob Lackey, 53, American professional basketball player, cancer.

  5

• Curtis Amy, 74, American jazz saxophonist.
• Carlos Berlanga, 42, Spanish musician and painter, liver disease.
• Carmelo Bernaola, 72, Spanish composer and clarinetist.
• Michel Bernholc, 60, French composer, arranger and producer, suicide by gunshot.
• Gaston Geens, 70, Belgian politician, Minister-President of Flanders.
• Aden Abdullahi Nur, Somali politician and army general.
• Truck Parham, 91, American jazz double-bassist.
• Gwen Plumb, 89, Australian performer and entertainer.
• Dee Dee Ramone, 50, American musician, founding member of The Ramones, heroin overdose.
• M. Sivasithamparam, 78, Sri Lankan Tamil politician.

  6

• Peter Cowan, 87, Australian writer.
• Robbin Crosby, 42, American guitarist, AIDS-related complications and heroin overdose.
• Bernard Destremau, 85, French tennis player, diplomat and politician.
• Yat Malmgren, 86, Swedish dancer and acting teacher.
• Shanta Shelke, 79, Indian poet and writer in the Marathi language, cancer.
• Holly Solomon, 68, American collector of contemporary art and art dealer, complications from pneumonia.
• Betty Winkler, 88, American radio actor.

  7

• Wayne Cody, 65, American sportscaster.
• Donald S. Fredrickson, 77, American medical researcher.
• Signe Hasso, 86, Swedish actress, writer, and composer, pneumonia.
• Rodney Hilton, 85, British medieval historian.
• Basappa Danappa Jatti, 89, Indian politician and acting president of India, kidney cancer.
• James Luisi, 73, American basketball player and actor, cancer.
• Lilian, Princess of Réthy, 85, British-Belgian royal.
• Anselmo Sule, 68, Chilean politician.
• Edmond Séchan, 82, French cinematographer and film director.

  8

• Ray Alexander, 77, American jazz drummer and vibraphonist, complications from elective surgery.
• George Mudie, 86, Jamaican cricketer.
• Antonio Oppes, 85, Italian Olympic show jumping rider.
• Lino Tonti, 81, Italian motorcycle engineer.

  9

• Elena Burke, 74, Cuban singer of boleros and romantic ballads, cancer.
• Paul Chubb, 53, Australian actor, post operative cardiomyopathy complications.
• Hans Janmaat, 67, Dutch far-right politician, heart failure.
• Peter Mokaba, 53, South African politician and political activist, acute pneumonia and respiratory problems.
• Alexander Molodchy, 81, Soviet long-range pilot during World War II.
• Maxwell M. Rabb, 91, American lawyer and diplomat.
• Alexander Vlasov, 70, Soviet/Russian politician.
• James Wheaton, 78, American actor, heart attack.

  10

• Dick Brittenden, 82, New Zealand cricket writer.
• Louis Carré, 77, Belgian football player and coach.
• John Gotti, 61, Italian-American gangster and boss of the Gambino crime family, throat cancer.
• Maury Travis, 36, American murderer and serial killer, suicide by hanging.
• John Wansbrough, 74, American historian and professor.
• Benjamin Ward, 75, first African American New York City Police Commissioner.

  11

• Tahseen Bashir, 77, Egyptian diplomat, spokesman for Gamal Nasser and Anwar Sadat.
• Regīna Ezera, 71, Polish-Latvian author.
• Bertrand Goldschmidt, 89, French chemist, nuclear physicist and diplomat.
• Margaret E. Lynn, 78, American theater director.
• Jürgen Kraft, 50, German racing cyclist.
• Robert Roswell Palmer, 93, American historian and writer.

  12

• Bill Blass, 79, American fashion designer, esophageal cancer.
• Jean de Beaumont, 98, French IOC sports administrator and Olympic sport shooter.
• John Tileston Edsall, 99, American biochemist.
• José Serra Gil, 78, Spanish racing cyclist.
• Richard A. Henson, 91–92, American test pilot and flight school operator, founder of Henson Airlines.
• Jeong Seung-hwa, 73, South Korean officer.

  13

• Guilford Dudley, 94, American businessman and diplomat.
• Vincent Fago, 87, American comic-book artist and writer, stomach cancer.
• Stanley L. Greigg, 71, American Watergate break-in victim.
• John Hope, 83, American meteorologist, complications of an open heart surgery.
• R. W. B. Lewis, 84, American literary scholar and critic and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
• Ante Mladinić, 72, Croatian football manager.
• Hideo Murata, 73, Japanese rōkyoku and enka singer.
• Ralph Shapey, 81, American composer and conductor.
• Maia Wojciechowska, 74, Polish-American writer of children's books.

  14

• Albert Band, 78, American film director and film producer, frequently collaborated with John Huston.
• Rino Benedetti, 73, Italian road bicycle racer.
• José Bonilla, 34, Venezuelan boxer, asthma attack.
• Lily Carlstedt, 76, Danish Olympic javelin thrower.
• George William Coventry, 11th Earl of Coventry, 68, British peer and politician.
• W. Nelson Francis, 91, American author, linguist and university professor, scholar of the English language.
• June Jordan, 65, Caribbean-American poet, essayist and activist, breast cancer.

  15

• Said Belqola, 45, Moroccan referee of the 1998 FIFA World Cup final, cancer.
• Silas Bissell, 60, American activist and member of The Weatherman, brain cancer.
• Mutal Burhonov, 86, Soviet/Uzbek composer.
• Choi Hong-hi, 83, South Korean Army general and martial artist, purported "father of Taekwon-Do", cancer.
• Big Mello, 33, American rapper from Houston, Texas, traffic collision.
• Hideo Murota, 64, Japanese actor.
• Dick White, 70, English football player.
• Robert Whitehead, 86, Canadian theatre producer, winner of four Tony Awards.

  16

• Louis Giguère, 90, Canadian politician.
• Barbara Goalen, 81, British model.
• Kiço Ngjela, 82, Albanian politician.
• Harry Oakman, 96, Australian horticulturalist and writer.

  17

• Bill Adair, 89, American baseball manager and coach.
• Louis George Alexander, 70, British teacher and author, a prolific writer of English-language text books.
• Stein Ove Berg, 53, Norwegian singer, songwriter, and journalist.
• J. Carter Brown, 67, American director of the National Gallery of Art from 1969 to 1992, multiple myeloma.
• Willie Davenport, 59, American Olympic hurdler, heart attack.
• John C. Davies II, 82, American politician.
• Dobri Dzhurov, 86, Bulgarian politician and military leader.
• Francisco Escudero, 89, Basque composer.
• Zora Kolínska, 60, Slovak actress, singer, and presenter.
• Yuri Korneev, 65, Russian basketball player.
• Roger Mackay, 46, Australian golfer, lymphoma.
• Antony C. Sutton, 77, British-American writer, economist, and academic.
• Fritz Walter, 81, German football player, captain of 1954 World Cup winners.

  18

• Nancy Addison, 54, American soap actress, cancer.
• Naseem Banu, 85, Indian actress.
• Jack Buck, 77, American sportscaster, best known for announcing MLB games of the St. Louis Cardinals, Parkinson's disease.
• Nilima Ibrahim, 81, Bangladeshi writer.
• Jack Jenkins, 59, American baseball player.
• Walter Villa, 58, Italian four-time Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world champion, heart attack.

  19

• Ross Carter, 88, American gridiron football player.
• Cavin Councilor, 38, American stock car racing driver, plane crash.
• Margaret Johnston, 87, Australian-British actress.
• Robert W. Lenski, 76, American screenwriter.
• Pascal Mazzotti, 78, French actor.
• Dmitry Oboznenko, 71, Soviet Russian painter and graphic artist.
• Count Flemming of Rosenborg, 80, Danish prince.
• Johnny Strzykalski, 80, American gridiron football player.
• N. F. Varghese, 53, Indian actor.

  20

• Carlos Badion, 66, Filipino basketball player, heart attack.
• Heinz Bigler, 76, Swiss football player.
• Erwin Chargaff, 96, Austro-Hungarian biochemist.
• Fred Drake, 44, American musician, lung cancer.
• Timothy Findley, 71, Canadian author.
• Irene MacDonald, 68, Canadian athlete, sports executive and broadcaster.
• Tinus Osendarp, 86, Dutch sprinter.
• Enrique Regüeiferos, 53, Cuban boxer.
• Sa'id Akhtar Rizvi, 75, Indian scholar.
• Stanisław Trepczyński, 78, Polish diplomat.
• John Wirth, 66, American professor and historian of Latin American studies.