Deaths in May 2002

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

  May 2002

1

• Ade Bethune, 88, American Catholic liturgical artist.
• Aspy Engineer, 89, Indian Air Force officer.
• John Nathan-Turner, 54, British television producer, infection.
• Tom Sutton, 65, American comic book artist, heart attack.
• Roger Teillet, 89, Canadian politician.

  2

• Rosa García Ascot, 100, Spanish composer and pianist.
• Peter Thomas Bauer, 86, Hungarian-British economist.
• Olive Cook, 90, British writer and artist, cancer.
• Constanța Crăciun, 88, Romanian politician and educator.
• Devika, 59, Indian actress, heart attack.
• Carl Heger, 92, Danish actor.
• Sihung Lung, 72, Taiwanese movie and TV actor, liver failure.
• Izet Sarajlić, 72, Bosnian historian of philosophy, essayist, and poet.
• Ron Soble, 70, American actor in films and television.
• Richard Stücklen, 85, German politician, President of the Bundestag.
• Judy Toll, 44, American actress, writer and comedian, melanoma.
• W. T. Tutte, 84, British-Canadian cryptographer during World War II and mathematician.

  3

• Livingston L. Biddle, Jr., 83, American author and promoter of funding for the arts.
• Malcolm Bosse, 75, American author, known for his historical novels set in Asia.
• Barbara Castle, 91, British Labour politician and female life peer.
• Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal, 73, president of Somaliland and former prime minister of the Somali Republic.
• Mohan Singh Oberoi, 103, Indian hotelier and retailer.
• Yevgeny Svetlanov, 73, Russian conductor, composer and pianist.
• Mariana Yampolsky, 76, Mexican photographer.

  4

• Ishaya Mark Aku, Nigerian politician, Minister of Sports, plane crash.
• Don Allard, 66, American football player and coach.
• Clarence Boston, 85, American college football coach, head coach of New Hampshire Wildcats from 1949 to 1964.
• Ernesto Díaz, 49, Colombian football player.
• John Hasted, 81, British physicist and folk musician.
• John Kohn, 76, American writer and producer, cancer.
• Rolf Friedemann Pauls, 86, German diplomat.
• Elizabeth Russell, 85, American actress.
• Gerónimo Saccardi, 52, Argentine football player and manager, heart attack.
• Abu Turab al-Zahiri, 79, Saudi Arabian writer of Arab Indian descent.

  5

• Randy Anderson, 42, American wrestling referee, testicular cancer.
• Hugo Banzer, 75, Bolivian politician, Bolivian dictator, President of Bolivia, lung cancer.
• Dick Farman, 85, American professional football player.
• Andrei Rostotsky, 45, Soviet and Russian actor, film director, screenwriter, and TV host, fall.
• Clarence Seignoret, 83, president of Dominica.
• George Sidney, 85, American film director, lymphoma.
• Mike Todd, Jr., 72, American film producer, introduced short-lived movie format Smell-O-Vision, lung cancer.
• Čestmír Vycpálek, 80, Czech football player and manager.
• Louis C. Wyman, 85, American politician, cancer.

  6

• Murray Adaskin, 96, Canadian violinist, composer, conductor and teacher.
• Heinz Arndt, 87, German-Australian economist, traffic collision.
• Otis Blackwell, 71, American songwriter, singer and pianist.
• James Lawton Collins Jr., 84, U.S. Army brigadier general and military historian.
• Harry George Drickamer, 83, American chemical engineer, a pioneer in high-pressure studies of condensed matter.
• Pim Fortuyn, 54, Dutch politician, assassinated.
• Shanta Gandhi, 84, Indian theatre director, dancer and playwright.
• Bjørn Johansen, 61, Norwegian jazz musician.
• Bronisław Pawlik, 76, Polish actor, stomach cancer.
• Saleh Selim, 71, Egyptian football player and actor, liver cancer.

  7

• Kevyn Aucoin, 40, American make-up artist and author, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• Durga Bhagwat, 92, Indian scholar, socialist and writer.
• Bernard Burrows, 91, British diplomat.
• Ewart Jones, 91, Welsh chemist.
• Robert Kanigher, 86, American comic book writer and editor.
• Masakatsu Miyamoto, 63, Japanese football player and manager, pneumonia.
• Xavier Montsalvatge, 90, Spanish composer and music critic.
• Seattle Slew, 28, American thoroughbred racehorse champion.
• Monica Sinclair, 77, British operatic contralto.

  8

• Sylvester Barrett, 75, Irish politician.
• Basil Chubb, 80, English-Irish political scientist and author.
• Edward Jackson, 76, English diplomat.
• Tilly Lauenstein, 85, German film and television actress.
• Lou Lombardo, 70, American film editor, stroke.
• Ahmad Mazhar, 84, Egyptian actor, pneumonia.
• Boyce McDaniel, 84, American nuclear physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project, heart attack.

  9

• Dan Devine, 77, American football player and coach.
• Robert Layton, 76, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament.
• Leon Stein, 91, American composer and music analyst.
• Sam Walton, 59, American gridiron football player, heart attack.

  10

• Philip Edward Archer, 77, Ghanaian lawyer and Chief Justice.
• Kaifi Azmi, 83, Indian Urdu poet.
• Lynda Lyon Block, 54, American convicted murderer, executed by electric chair.
• George Cates, 90, American music arranger, conductor, songwriter and record producer.
• John Cunniff, 57, American hockey player and coach, esophageal cancer.
• Austen Kark, 75, British television executive, managing director of the BBC World Service.
• David Riesman, 92, American sociologist, educator, and commentator on American society.
• Yves Robert, 81, French actor, screenwriter, director, and producer, cerebral hemorrhage.

  11

• Joseph Bonanno, 97, Italian-American mafia boss, heart attack.
• Renaude Lapointe, 90, Canadian journalist and a politician.
• Bill Peet, 87, American animator and screenwriter.
• Steve Rachunok, 85, American baseball player.
• Abida Sultan, 88, Pakistani princess and daughter of Nawab Hamidullah Khan.
• Jerzy Tabeau, 83, Polish Holocaust survivor.
• Nika Turbina, 27, Soviet and Russian poet, suicide by jumping.

  12

• Edward M. Carey, 85, American oil industry executive.
• Richard Chorley, 74, English geographer, heart attack.
• Luciano Galesi, 75, Italian Olympic sports shooter.
• Bruce Hansen, 74, New Zealand Olympic equestrian.

  13

• Clinton Adams, 83, American artist, art historian and head of the Tamarind Institute, liver cancer.
• Alan P. Bell, 70, American psychologist.
• Ruth Cracknell, 76, Australian actress, pneumonia.
• George Gordienko, 74, Canadian professional wrestler and artist, melanoma.
• Valeriy Lobanovskyi, 63, Ukrainian football coach, stroke.
• Douglas Pike, 77, American historian and scholar on the Vietnam War.
• Morihiro Saito, 74, Japanese aikido teacher, cancer.

  14

• Derek Birley, 75, British educationist, writer and sports historian.
• Rawshan Jamil, 71, Bangladeshi actress and dancer.
• José Lutzenberger, 75, Brazilian agronomist and environmentalist, heart attack.
• Gordon J. F. MacDonald, 72, American geophysicist.
• Dale Morey, 83, American basketball player.
• Ray Stricklyn, 73, American actor and publicist, emphysema.

  15

• Kofoworola Ademola, 88, Nigerian educationist.
• Bernard Benjamin, 92, British statistician, a leading figure in the field of demography.
• Darwood Kaye, 72, American child actor, hit and run accident.
• Tatiana Okunevskaya, 88, Soviet and Russian actress.
• Bryan Pringle, 67, British actor.

  16

• Shoichi Arai, 36, Japanese professional wrestling promoter, suicide by hanging.
• Alec Campbell, 103, Australian World War I veteran, nation's last surviving ANZAC at the Gallipoli campaign.
• Jim Dewar, 59, Scottish musician, stroke.
• Big Dick Dudley, 34, American professional wrestler, kidney failure.
• Kenneth Fung, 90, Hong Kong politician and businessman.
• Salcia Landmann, 90, Jewish Ukrainian writer.
• José Reis, 94, Brazilian scientist, journalist, and science writer.
• José Riesgo, 82, Spanish actor.
• Gavril Serfőző, 75, Romanian football player.

  17

• Dave Berg, 81, American cartoonist, cancer.
• Joe Black, 78, American first Black baseball pitcher to win a World Series game, prostate cancer.
• Edwin Alonzo Boyd, 88, Canadian bank robber and prison escapee of the 1950s.
• James Chichester-Clark, 79, Northern Ireland politician, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1969 to 1971.
• John de Lancie, 80, American oboist, principal oboist of the Philadelphia Orchestra and director of the Curtis Institute of Music.
• László Kubala, 74, Hungarian and Slovak football player.
• Sharon Sheeley, 62, American songwriter.
• Little Johnny Taylor, 59, American singer.
• Aşık Mahzuni Şerif, 61, Turkish folk musician, composer, poet, and author, heart failure.
• Norman Vaughan, 79, English comedian.

  18

• Sergio Andreoli, 80, Italian football player.
• Song Hye-rim, 65, North Korean actress, best, breast cancer.
• Wolfgang Schneiderhan, 86, Austrian classical violinist.
• Davey Boy Smith, 39, British professional wrestler, myocardial infarction, heart attack.
• Zypora Spaisman, 86, Polish-American actress and Yiddish theatre empresaria.
• Gordon Wharmby, 68, British actor, cancer.

  19

• René de Chambrun, 95, French-American aristocrat, lawyer, businessman and author.
• Raymond Durgnat, 69, British film critic and author.
• Herbert Familton, 74, New Zealand alpine skier.
• John Gorton, 90, 19th Prime Minister of Australia.
• Earl Hammond, 80, American voice actor.
• Walter Lord, 84, American historian, Parkinson's disease.
• Otar Lordkipanidze, 72, Georgian archaeologist, heart attack.
• Giuseppe Maria Scotese, 86, Italian screenwriter and film director.
• Bryant Tuckerman, 86, American mathematician.