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.