Deaths in March 2002

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

March 2002

1

• John A. Blume, 92, American structural engineer, known as "the father of earthquake engineering".
• C. Farris Bryant, 87, American Governor.
• John Challens, 86, British scientist and civil servant, helped develop Britain's first atomic bomb.
• David DiMeglio, 35, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Leigh Gerdine, 85, American musician, composer, and civic leader, heart attack.
• David Mann, 85, American songwriter.
• Bob Smith, 76, American professional football player.
• Hocine Soltani, 29, Algerian boxer, murdered.
• Doreen Waddell, 36, British soul singer, struck by vehicle.
• John Wieners, 68, American poet.
• Roger Wilson, 96, British Anglican prelate.

2

• Andrés Archila, 88, Guatemalan violinist and music conductor.
• Alvin Eicoff, 80, American advertising executive, known as a founder of direct response television advertising.
• Pasquale Giannattasio, 61, Italian sprinter.
• Friedrich Gorenstein, 69, Russian-Jewish author and screenwriter.
• Don Haig, 68, Canadian filmmaker, editor, and producer.
• Jason Mayélé, 26, Congolese football player, traffic collision.
• Halfdan Rasmussen, 87, Danish poet.
• Fritz-Rudolf Schultz, 85, German army officer during World War II and politician.
• Alexei Yegorov, 26, Russian ice hockey player, beating.

3

• Henry Nathaniel Andrews, 91, American paleobotanist.
• G. M. C. Balayogi, 50, Indian lawyer and politician, helicopter crash.
• Vijaya Bhaskar, 71, Indian music director and composer, heart attack.
• Marvin E. Frankel, 81, American judge.
• Harlan Howard, 74, American country music songwriter.
• Charles H. MacDonald, 87, American Air Force officer and a fighter ace during World War II.
• Fran McKee, 75, American Navy Rear Admiral.
• Al Pollard, 73, American gridiron football player and broadcaster, lymphoma.
• Roy Porter, 55, British historian and writer, heart attack.
• H. Keith Thompson, 79, American neo-Nazi and political writer..

4

• John A. Chapman, 36, US Air Force combat controller who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
• Eric Flynn, 62, British actor and singer, cancer.
• Ryō Hanmura, 68, Japanese science fiction, fantasy, and horror author, pneumonia.
• Ugnė Karvelisehebeb, 66, Lithuanian writer and diplomat.
• Bernard Matemera, 56, Zimbabwean sculptor.
• Stephen McGonagle, 87, Northern Irish and Irish trade unionist.
• Elyne Mitchell, 88, Australian author.
• Prunella Ransome, 59, English actress, throat cancer.
• K. V. Raghunatha Reddy, 77, Indian politician.
• Shirley Ann Russell, 66, British costume designer, cancer.
• Velibor Vasović, 62, Serbian footballer and manager, heart attack.
• Jean Elizabeth Geiger Wright, 78, American conservationist, educator, and animal activist.

5

• Howard Cannon, 90, American politician.
• Stanisław Jankowski, 90, Polish SOE agent and resistance fighter during World War II.
• Surendra Jha 'Suman', 91, Indian poet, writer, publisher and politician, heart failure.
• Pauline Elfriede Leps-Estam, 98, Estonian printmaker.
• Frances Macdonald, 87, English painter.
• Clay Smith, 87, American baseball player.

6

• Chuck Chapman, 90, Canadian Olympic basketball player.
• Richard Kenneth Dell, 81, New Zealand malacologist.
• Bryan Fogarty, 32, Canadian ice hockey player, enlarged heart.
• Walter Goodman, 74, American author and journalist for The New York Times.
• David Jenkins, 89, Welsh librarian.
• Johnny Norlander, 81, American basketball player.
• Bill Radovich, 86, American gridiron football player and film actor.
• Henry Rapoport, 83, American organic chemist and academic.
• Ralph Rumney, 67, English artist, cancer.
• Dietrich Schmidt, 82, German Luftwaffe night fighter ace during World War II.
• Elizabeth W. Stone, 83, American librarian and educator.
• Ernie Williamson, 79, American gridiron football player.
• Donald Wilson, 91, British television writer and producer.

7

• Doris Twitchell Allen, 100, American child psychologist.
• Geoff Charles, 93, Welsh photojournalist.
• Daaf Drok, 87, Dutch football player.
• John Goodyear, 81, American gridiron football player.
• Troy Graham, 52, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Mickey Haslin, 92, American baseball player.
• Ian Vernon Hogg, 75, British author of books and biographies on military subjects.
• Mati Klarwein, 69, German painter, cancer.
• Franziska Rochat-Moser, 35, Swiss Olympic marathon runner, avalanche.
• Charles H. Wright, 83, American physician, founder of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.

8

• Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin, 85, Beninese politician.
• Robin Anderson, 53, Australian documentary filmmaker, cancer.
• Al Bonniwell, 90, American basketball player.
• George F. Carrier, 83, American mathematician, esophageal cancer.
• Marțian Dan, 66, Romanian politician and university professor.
• Yury Gusov, 61, Russian Olympic welterweight freestyle wrestler.
• Sanji Hase, 66, Japanese voice actor, lung cancer.
• Peter Holmes, 69, British businessman.
• Bill Johnson, 85, American football player.
• Jansug Kakhidze, 66, Georgian musician, composer, singer and conductor.
• Winnie Markus, 80, Czechoslovakia-German actress, pneumonia.
• Ted Sepkowski, 78, American baseball player.
• Ellert Sölvason, 84, Icelandic football player.

9

• Denise Bosc, 85, French film actress.
• Carlos Casares, 60, Spanish Galician language writer, cardiac arrest.
• Mary Elmes, 93, Irish aid worker credited who saved over 200 Jewish children during World War II.
• Leonard Gershe, 79, American playwright, screenwriter, and lyricist, cerebrovascular disease.
• Hamish Henderson, 82, Scottish poet.
• Bora Spužić Kvaka, 67, Serbian vocalist and recording artist.
• Normand Lockwood, 95, American composer.
• Mohammad Paziraei, 72, Iranian Greco-Roman flyweight wrestler and Olympic medalist.
• Oleg Trubachyov, 71, Soviet and Russian linguist.

10

• Elguja Amashukeli, 73, Georgian sculptor and painter.
• Louise Carletti, 80, French film actress.
• Irán Eory, 64, Iranian-Mexican actress, stroke.
• Genevieve Fiore, 90, American women's rights and peace activist.
• George Fix, 62, American mathematician, cancer.
• Erik Lönnroth, 91, Swedish historian.
• George Mungwa, Zambian football coach.
• Vladimir Nakhabtsev, 63, Soviet cinematographer and actor.
• Gilmore Schjeldahl, 89, American businessman, Alzheimer's disease.
• Shirley Scott, 67, American jazz organist, heart failure.
• Howard Thompson, 82, American journalist and film critic, pneumonia.
• Irene Worth, 85, American actress, Tony winner, stroke.

11

• Al Cowens, 50, American baseball player, heart attack.
• Marion Dönhoff, 92, German journalist and publisher of Die Zeit, known for opposing Hitler.
• George Joseph Gottwald, 87, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Rudolf Hell, 100, German inventor and manufacturer.
• Willibald Jentschke, 90, Austrian-German nuclear physicist.
• Franjo Kuharić, 82, Croatian Catholic cardinal, cardiac arrest.
• Albert Ritserveldt, 86, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Herbert Spencer, 77, British designer, writer and photographer.
• Nicholas Gilman Thacher, 86, American diplomat, pulmonary fibrosis.
• James Tobin, 84, American economist, cerebrovascular disease.

12

• Louis-Marie Billé, 64, French Roman Catholic cardinal, cancer.
• Peter Blau, 84, American sociologist.
• Steve Gromek, 82, American baseball player.
• Abdul Kadir, 57, Pakistani cricket player.
• John "Speedy" Keene, 56, English songwriter, vocalist, and drummer, heart failure.
• Spiros Kyprianou, 69, 2nd President of Cyprus, cancer.
• Jacqueline Patorni, 84, French tennis player.
• Heinz Pehlke, 79, Freelance German cinematographer in film and television.
• Vitaly Peskov, 57, Russian cartoonist.
• Jean Paul Riopelle, 78, Canadian painter and sculptor.

13

• Ivano Blason, 78, Italian football player.
• Hans-Georg Gadamer, 102, German philosopher.
• Abd al-Wahhab Hawmad, 87, Syrian politician, lawyer, and academic.
• Nasir Hussain, 75, Indian film producer, director, and screenwriter, cardiovascular disease.
• Jacques Jansen, 88, French baryton-martin singer.
• Lou Kahn, 86, American baseball player, manager, scout and coach.
• Bayliss Levrett, 88, American racecar driver from Jacksonville, Florida, Alzheimer's disease.
• Nick Mickoski, 74, Canadian ice hockey forward.
• Alice du Pont Mills, 89, American aviator.
• Marc Moreland, 44, American rock musician, kidney failure.
• Polly Riley, 75, American amateur golfer, cancer.
• Ri Tu-ik, 81, North Korean Army officer and politician.
• Hubert Wagner, 61, Polish volleyball player and coach, traffic collision.

14

• Smail Balić, 81, Bosnian-Austrian historian, culturologist and scholar.
• Nelson Estupiñán Bass, 89, Ecuadorian writer, pneumonia.
• Kevin Danaher, 89, Irish folklorist and author on Irish traditional customs and beliefs.
• Karl Gratz, 83, Austrian-German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
• Leon L. Van Autreve, 82, American Army Sergeant Major.
• Cherry Wilder, 71, New Zealand writer, cancer.
• Thomas Winship, 81, American newspaper editor of the Boston Globe from 1965 until 1984.

15

• Tamala Krishna Goswami, 55, American Hare Krishna, car accident.
• Rand Holmes, 60, Canadian artist and illustrator, Hodgkin's lymphoma.
• Oscar Pérez, 79, Argentine basketball player.
• Werner Unger, 70, German football player.
• Sylvester Weaver, 93, American television executive, credited with creating Today, Tonight, Home, Wide Wide World.
• Jairo Zulbarán, 32, Colombian football player, murdered.

16

• Kid Azteca, 88, Mexican boxer.
• Carmelo Bene, 64, Italian actor, director and screenwriter, cancer.
• Isaías Duarte Cancino, 63, Colombian Roman Catholic archbishop, killed by the FARC.
• Marcus Fox, 74, British politician.
• Salah-Hassan Hanifes, 89, Israeli politician.
• Umar Kayam, 69, Indonesian sociologist and writer, intestinal bleeding.
• Ernst Künnecke, 64, German football player and football coach.
• Danilo Stojković, 67, Serbian actor, lung cancer.

17

• Arthur Altschul, 81, American banker.
• Bill Davis, 60, American football coach.
• Ernest E. Debs, 98, American politician, California State Assembly, L.A. County Supervisor.
• Rajammal P. Devadas, 82, Indian nutritionist and educator.
• Van Tien Dung, 84, Vietnamese general in the Army of Vietnam.
• Georges Gorse, 87, French politician and diplomat.
• Rosetta LeNoire, 90, American actress, diabetes.
• Vasil Mitkov, 58, Bulgarian football player.
• Luise Rinser, 90, German writer.
• Paul Runyan, 93, American golfer.
• Christian Graf von Krockow, 74, German writer and political scientist.
• William Witney, 86, American film and television director, known as a "B" movie action director.

18

• Dalton Camp, 81, Canadian journalist, political strategist, and commentator.
• Marcel Denis, 79, Belgian comic artist.
• Denis Forest, 41, Canadian actor, stroke.
• Mario Gariazzo, 71, Italian screenwriter and film director.
• R. A. Lafferty, 87, American science fiction writer.
• Van Leo, 80, Armenian-Egyptian photographer.
• Johnny Lombardi, 86, Canadian media tycoon and television producer/host.
• Gösta Winbergh, 58, Swedish operatic tenor, heart attack.

19

• Marco Biagi, 51, Italian jurist, homicide.
• Laura Bohannan, 80, American cultural anthropologist, heart attack.
• John Patton, 66, American jazz, blues and R&B musician, complications from diabetes.
• David Beers Quinn, 92, Irish historian.
• Erkki Salmenhaara, 61, Finnish composer and musicologist.
• Bachtiar Siagian, 79, Indonesian film director and scriptwriter.
• Naren Tamhane, 70, Indian cricket player.
• Eduard Meine van Zinderen-Bakker, 94, Dutch-South African palynologist, stroke.

20

• Andra Akers, 58, American actress and philanthropist, complications following surgery.
• Ibn al-Khattab, 32, Saudi Arabian Saudi mujahid emir and terrorist, nerve agent poisoning.
• Giulio Alfieri, 77, Italian racing and production cars engineer, affiliated with Maserati.
• Samuel Warren Carey, 90, Australian geologist, an early advocate of continental drift.
• Eugene Figg, 65, American structural engineer, award-winning designer of dozens of bridges.
• George Macovescu, 88, Romanian writer and communist politician.
• Aleksei Yeskov, 57, Soviet football player and coach.

21

• David E. Blackmer, 75, American audio engineer, known as the inventor of the DBX noise reduction system and founder of dbx.
• James F. Blake, 89, American bus driver, antagonist for the Montgomery bus boycott, heart attack.
• Thomas Flanagan, 78, American professor and novelist.
• Horst Hauthal, 88, German ambassador.
• Renée Massip, 94, French writer and journalist.
• Nikos Pangalos, 87, Greek football manager.
• Eugene G. Rochow, 92, American inorganic chemist.
• Boris Sichkin, 79, Soviet and American film actor, dancer, choreographer, and entertainer.
• Herman Talmadge, 88, American politician.
• Ernest van den Haag, 87, Dutch-American sociologist, social critic, and author.

22

• Rudolf Baumgartner, 84, Swiss conductor, violinist, and music educator.
• Jaroslav Cejp, 77, Czechoslovak football player.
• Kingsford Dibela, 70, Governor-General of Papua New Guinea.
• Marcel Hansenne, 85, French middle distance runner and Olympic medalist.
• Hugh R. Stephen, 88, Canadian politician.

23

• Enzo Barboni, 79, Italian film director, cinematographer and screenwriter.
• John Biby, 90, American Olympic sailor.
• Richard Bradford, 69, American novelist.
• Antonio Calebotta, 71, Italian Olympic basketball player.
• Jack Doolan, 82, American professional football player.
• Lloyd L. Duxbury, 80, American politician and member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
• Eileen Farrell, 82, American soprano, performed both classical and popular music.
• Piara Singh Gill, 90, Indian nuclear physicist.
• Ben Hollioake, 24, English cricketer, car crash.
• Marcel Kint, 87, Belgian bicycle racer.
• Neal E. Miller, 92, American psychologist.
• Minnie Rojas, 68, Cuban-American baseball player.
• Richard Sylbert, 73, American film production designer and art director, Oscar winner, cancer.
• Leif Wager, 80, Finnish actor.

24

• Beverly Bower, 76, American operatic soprano, cancer.
• Mace Brown, 92, American baseball player.
• Dorothy DeLay, 84, American violin instructor, cancer.
• César Milstein, 74, Argentinian biochemist.
• Wayne Molis, 58, American basketball player, stroke.
• Erik Møller, 92, Danish architect.
• Bob Said, 69, American racing driver.

25

• Ronald Verlin Cassill, 82, American writer, editor, painter and lithographer.
• Eduardo Lim, 71, Filipino Olympic basketball player.
• Ken Traill, 75, British rugby league player.
• Kenneth Wolstenholme, 81, British football commentator.
• Hilde Zimmermann, 81, member of the Austrian Resistance during WWII.

26

• Randy Castillo, 51, American musician, Ozzy Osbourne and Mötley Crüe drummer, skin cancer.
• Hugh Davis Graham, 65, American historian, sociologist, civil rights scholar and author.
• Louis M. Heyward, 81, American producer and film and television writer, pneumonia.
• Gerald Hylkema, 56, Dutch footballer.
• Eugen Meier, 71, Swiss footballer.
• Taisto Sinisalo, 75, Finnish communist politician, leader of the Communist Party of Finland.
• Heinz Welzel, 90, German actor.
• Whitey Wietelmann, 83, American baseball player and coach.

27

• Milton Berle, 93, American comedian dubbed "Uncle Miltie" and "Mr. Television", colorectal cancer.
• Giorgi Melikishvili, 83, Georgian historian.
• Dudley Moore, 66, British actor and writer, pneumonia.
• Cecil Pearce, 87, Australian Olympic rower.
• Glen Robinson, 87, American special and visual effects artist, six-time Academy Award winner.
• Tadeusz Rut, 70, Polish Olympic hammer thrower.
• Geoffrey Sim, 90, New Zealand politician.
• Jess Stearn, 87, American journalist and author of more than thirty books, nine of which were bestsellers, heart failure.
• Sture Stork, 71, Swedish sailor and Olympic champion.
• Lotte Ulbricht, 98, East Germany official and second wife of Walter Ulbricht, fall.
• Billy Wilder, 95, Austrian-American film director and screenwriter, six-time Oscar winner, pneumonia.

28

• Tofail Ahmed, 83, Bangladeshi researcher of Folk Art.
• Clarence B. Craft, 80, U.S. Army soldier and a recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Klaus Croissant, 70, East German lawyer of the Red Army Faction and later spy and a political activist.
• Tikka Khan, 86, Pakistani army general.
• Francis Newton Souza, 77, British artist.
• Albert Whitford, 96, American physicist and astronomer, dean of modern photoelectric photometry.

29

• Henning Bahs, 74, Danish screenwriter and special effects designer.
• John Cameron, 84, Australian baritone opera singer.
• James T. Cushing, 65, American professor of physics, philosophy, and the history and philosophy of science.
• Franklin S. Forsberg, 96, American publisher and diplomat.
• Eberhard Mehl, 66, German fencer and Olympic medalist.
• Rico Yan, 27, Filipino model and actor, acute pancreatitis.

30

• Anand Bakshi, 71, Indian poet and lyricist.
• Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, 101, British consort of King George VI, pneumonia.
• Jean Pictet, 87, Swiss jurist and legal practitioner.
• Bjørn Spydevold, 83, Norwegian football player and football manager.
• Alfie Stokes, 69, British footballer.

31

• Yara Bernette, 82, Brazilian classical pianist, heart attack.
• Lady Anne Brewis, 91, English botanist.
• Edgardo Madinabeytia, 69, Argentine football goalkeeper.
• Lucio D. San Pedro, 89, Filipino composer and teacher, cardiac arrest.
• Barry Took, 73, English writer, television presenter and comedian, cancer.