Deaths in October 2002

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

  October 2002

1

• Walter Annenberg, 94, American publisher and philanthropist.
• Ilie Ceaușescu, 76, Romanian general and communist politician, pneumonia.
• Consuelo Salgar, 74, Colombian journalist, advertising executive, and politician, liver cancer.
• Edeltraud Schramm, 78, Austrian Olympic gymnast.

  2

• Norman O. Brown, 89, American philosopher and author.
• Al Lerner, 69, American businessman, football team owner, and philanthropist.
• Tiberiu Olah, 74, Romanian-Hungarian composer, teacher and musicologist.
• Alexander Sinclair, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Heinz von Foerster, 90, Austrian-American physicist and philosopher, one of the founders of constructivism.

  3

• Tad Horino, 81, American film and television actor.
• Felix Kracht, 90, German engineer.
• Bruce Paltrow, 58, American television and film director and producer, pneumonia.
• Dalvanius Prime, 54, New Zealand entertainer and songwriter, cancer.
• John Weitz, 79, American fashion designer, novelist and historian.

  4

• Per Bronken, 67, Norwegian poet, novelist, actor, film director and stage producer.
• Alphonse Chapanis, 85, American pioneer in the field of industrial design.
• André Delvaux, 76, Belgian film director, considered the father of the Belgian film industry, heart attack.
• Hans Holmér, 71, Swedish civil servant and author.
• Buddy Lester, 87, American actor and comedian, cancer.
• Ahmad Mahmoud, 70, Iranian novelist.
• Marcel Reymond, 91, Swiss Olympic ski jumper.
• Roy Wilkins, 68, American professional football player.

  5

• Magda B. Arnold, 98, Canadian psychologist.
• Reginald Hibbert, 80, British diplomat.
• Morag Hood, 59, British actress, cancer.
• Ron Horn, 64, American basketball player.
• Tony Mazzocchi, 76, American labor leader, pancreatic cancer.
• Mia Čorak Slavenska, 86, Croatian-American ballerina.
• Jay R. Smith, 87, American child actor and comedian, stabbed.

  6

• Ben Eastman, 91, American runner.
• Wolfgang Mischnick, 81, German liberal politician.
• Prince Claus of the Netherlands, 76, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Dutch diplomat, pneumonia.
• Chuck Rayner, 82, Canadian professional hockey player.
• Nick Whitehead, 69, British sprinter.
• Juan Yustrich, 93, Argentine football goalkeeper.

  7

• Pierangelo Bertoli, 59, Italian singer-songwriter and poet, heart attack.
• Ralph Harry, 85, Australian diplomat and intelligence specialist.
• Cor Kint, 82, Dutch backstroke swimmer and 1938 European Champion.
• Marcel Paille, 69, Canadian ice hockey goaltender, cancer.
• Domenico Paolella, 86, Italian director, screenwriter and journalist.
• Ed Rossbach, 88, American fiber artist.
• Amanda Zhao, 21, Chinese student.

  8

• Jodie Beeler, 80, American baseball player.
• Phyllis Calvert, 87, British actress, kidney failure.
• Jacques Richard, 50, Canadian ice hockey player, car accident.
• Joachim Zahn, 88, German business executive, chairman of Daimler-Benz.

  9

• Sopubek Begaliev, 71, Soviet-Kyrgyz economist and politician.
• Charles Guggenheim, 78, American documentary film director, producer, and screenwriter, pancreatic cancer.
• Anwar Hussain, 82, Pakistani cricketer.
• Oleksandr Liashko, 86, Ukrainian politician.
• Carlo Lievore, 64, Italian Olympic javelin thrower.
• Eric Martin, 33, American racing driver, racing accident.
• Jim Martin, 78, American football player.
• Bruno O'Ya, 69, Estonian-Polish actor.
• Aileen Wuornos, 46, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.

  10

• Strahinja Alagić, 78, Serbian basketball player and coach.
• Mario de las Casas, 101, Peruvian football defender.
• Tom Casey, 78, American professional football player.
• Fate Echols, 63, American professional football player.
• Lawrence H. Fountain, 89, American politician.
• Teresa Graves, 54, American actress and singer, house fire, accidental death.
• Denison Kitchel, 94, American lawyer political advisor.
• Abe Most, 82, Swing clarinetist and alto saxophonist.
• Zara Nelsova, 81, Canadian cellist.
• Tom Sullivan, 52, American gridiron football player, accidental death.
• Erling Sørensen, 81, Danish football player and manager.

  11

• Betty Molesworth Allen, 89, New Zealand botanist.
• Stewart Crawford, 89, British diplomat.
• Werner Eberlein, 82, German socialist politician and party functionary, heart attack.
• Bill Field, 93, British politician.
• Ron Gray, 82, English football player and manager.
• Maxim Levy, 52, Israeli politician.
• Dina Pathak, 80, Indian actor and director, heart attack.
• Emilio García Riera, 70, Spanish-born Mexican actor, writer and cinema critic.
• Christine Stevens, 84, American animal welfare activist and conservationist.
• Fred Troller, 71, Swiss-born graphic designer.
• Stanley Wagner, 94, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Rusty Wailes, 66, American rower.

  12

• Viktor Asmaev, 54, Russian Olympic equestrian.
• Ray Conniff, 85, American bandleader and arranger, fall.
• Carolina Fadic, 28, Chilean actress and television presenter, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Desmond Fitzpatrick, 89, British Army general.
• Audrey Mestre, 28, French world record-setting free diver, drowned.
• Nozomi Momoi, 24, Japanese AV idol, murdered.
• Sidney W. Pink, 86, American movie director and producer.
• William R. Sears, 89, American aeronautical engineer and educator.

  13

• Stephen E. Ambrose, 66, American historian and author, lung cancer.
• Keene Curtis, 79, American actor, Alzheimer's disease.
• Mason Hammond, 99, American educator and scholar.
• Jim Higgins, 71, British politician.
• Billy McAdams, 68, Northern Irish football player and manager.
• Ila Mitra, 76, Indian communist politician and activist.
• Dennis Patrick, 84, American actor, fire.
• Eileen Southern, 82, American musicologist, researcher and author.
• Sir Garfield Todd, 94, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia.
• Herman Fredrik Zeiner-Gundersen, 87, Norwegian Army general.

  14

• Bill Green, 72, American politician, liver cancer.
• Timothy Reuter, 55, German-British historian, brain cancer.
• Norbert Schultze, 91, German film score composer and Nazi Party member.
• Arturo Silvestri, 81, Italian football player and manager.

  15

• Grace Hamblin, 94, British private secretary to Winston Churchill.
• Jack Lee, 89, British film director.
• Paul Paillole, 96, French intelligence services officer.
• Zeev, 79, Israeli caricaturist and illustrator.

  16

• Per Bak, 53, Danish theoretical physicist, known for "self-organized criticality", myelodysplastic syndrome.
• Philip Brett, 64, British-American musicologist, musician and conductor, cancer.
• Harry Ferrier, 82, Scottish football player and manager.
• Allen Walker Read, 96, American etymologist and lexicographer.
• Henri Renaud, 77, French jazz pianist, record producer, and record company executive.

  17

• Derek Bell, 66, Northern Irish musician and composer, heart attack.
• Pattie Coldwell, 50, British television broadcaster and journalist, brain tumor.
• Yara Cortes, 81, Brazilian actress.
• Chuck Domanico, 58, American jazz bassist, lung cancer.
• D. Elmo Hardy, 88, American entomologist.
• Bashful Brother Oswald, 90, American country musician, a frequent Grand Ole Opry performer.
• Yitzhak Peretz, 66, Israeli politician.
• Alina Pienkowska, 50, Polish free trade union activist and politician, cancer.
• Aileen Riggin, 96, American Olympic swimmer and diver.
• Fred Scolari, 80, American basketball player and coach.

  18

• Richard Bernstein, 62, American artist, member of the circle of Andy Warhol, complications of AIDS.
• Cecil Blacker, 86, British Army general, Adjutant-General to the Forces.
• Kam Fong Chun, 84, American police officer and actor, lung cancer.
• John D. Ferry, 90, Canadian-American biochemist, made important contributions to polymer science.
• Roman Tam, 57, Hong Kong cantopop singer, liver cancer.

  19

• Peter Bergmann, 87, German-American physicist, known for his work with Albert Einstein.
• Manuel Álvarez Bravo, 100, Mexican photographer.
• John Meredyth Lucas, 83, American writer, director and producer, leukemia.
• Mehli Mehta, 94, Indian conductor and violinist.
• Hans Jürgen Press, 76, German children's writer and illustrator.
• Nikolay Rukavishnikov, 70, Soviet cosmonaut, heart attack.
• Hank Smith, 68, Canadian country music singer.
• Héctor Trujillo, 94, Dominican general and political figure.

  20

• Barbara Berjer, 82, American actress, pneumonia.
• Hans Eisele, 62, German football player.
• Bernard Fresson, 71, French actor, cancer.
• Mel Harder, 93, American baseball player, coach and manager.

  21

• Aldo Canazza, 94, Italian racing cyclist.
• Bernardino Pérez Elizarán, 77, Spanish football player and manager.
• Manfred Ewald, 76, East German Olympic committee president, pneumonia.
• Jesse L. Greenstein, 93, American astronomer.
• George Hall, 85, Canadian theatre, television, and film actor.
• Kemal Kurt, 54, Turkish-German author, translator and photographer.
• Bernhard Neumann, 93, British-Australian mathematician.
• Kaisa Parviainen, 87, Finnish athlete.
• Marquita Rivera, 80, Puerto Rican actress, singer and dancer, stroke.
• Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota, 83, British politician.
• Harbhajan Singh, 82, Indian poet, critic, and cultural commentator.
• Y. R. Swamy, Indian film director and screenwriter.