Deaths in September 2002

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

  September 2002

1

• Yuji Ichioka, 66, American historian and civil rights activist, cancer.
• B. V. Karanth, 72, Indian actor and director.
• Turk Van Lake, 84, American arranger, composer and jazz guitarist.
• Rodney Taylor, 62, Australian Navy officer, lung cancer.

  2

• Leon Campbell, 75, American gridiron football player.
• Abe Lemons, 79, American college basketball player and coach, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Ken Menke, 79, American basketball player.
• Rodica Ojog-Brașoveanu, 63, Romanian writer, severe lung problems.
• Ahmad Rahi, 78, Pakistani poet and writer.
• F.X. Toole, 72, American boxing trainer and short story writers.
• Robert Wilson, 75, British astrophysicist, known for his research in optical and solar plasma spectroscopy.

  3

• Dirk ter Haar, 83, Anglo-Dutch physicist.
• Kenneth Hare, 83, Canadian scientist.
• Ted Ross, 68, American actor.
• William Clement Stone, 100, American businessman, philanthropist and self-help book author.
• Len Wilkinson, 85, British cricketer.

  4

• Frankie Albert, 82, American professional football player, Alzheimer's disease.
• Dave Baker, 65, American professional football player.
• Jerome Biffle, 74, American Olympic long jumper, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Jim Constable, 69, American baseball player.
• Andrew Forge, 78, American painter, art critic and professor of painting at Yale University.
• Vlado Perlemuter, 98, Lithuanian-French pianist and teacher.
• Fozia Soomro, 36, Pakistani regional folk singer, kidney failure.

  5

• K. T. Achaya, 78, Indian oil and food scientist and writer.
• Robert W. Brooks, 49, American mathematics professor, known for his work in spectral geometry and fractals.
• William Cooper, 92, English novelist.
• Cliff Gorman, 65, American actor, Tony winner, leukemia.
• Frank Hewitt, 66, American hard bop jazz pianist.
• Jackie Kelk, 79, American actor and stand-up comedian, lung infection.
• Amon Nikoi, 72, Ghanaian economist and diplomat.
• Ingeborg Taschner, 72, German film editor.
• David Todd Wilkinson, 67, American cosmologist, known for thermal cosmic background radiation, cancer.

  6

• Michael Argyle, 77, British psychologist, a pioneer of social psychology in Britain.
• Gabriel Camps, 75, French archaeologist and social anthropologist.
• Bobby Clancy, 75, Irish singer and musician, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Rafael Druian, 79, American violinist and conductor.
• Orvan Hess, 96, American physician.
• Géza Hollósi, 64, Hungarian Olympic wrestler.
• Philip LaBatte, 91, American ice hockey player.
• Martin Matsbo, 90, Swedish cross-country skier and Olympic medalist.
• Janet Young, Baroness Young, 75, British politician, cancer.

  7

• Katrin Cartlidge, 41, English actress, complications from pneumonia and sepsis.
• Jonathan Charney, 59, American academic, author, and lawyer.
• Eugenio Coșeriu, 81, linguist specialized in Romance languages.
• Michael Elphick, 55, English actor, heart attack.
• Cyrinda Foxe, 50, American actress, model and publicist, brain cancer.
• John Paul Frank, 84, American lawyer and scholar, helped shape U.S. Supreme Court cases.
• Erma Franklin, 64, American gospel and soul singer, older sister of Aretha Franklin, laryngeal cancer.
• Uziel Gal, 78, German-Israeli firearm designer who invented the Uzi submachine gun, cancer.

  8

• Georges-André Chevallaz, 87, Swiss historian and politician.
• Rulon Jeffs, 92, American polygamist and religious leader.
• Lucas Moreira Neves, 76, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate.
• Henri Rol-Tanguy, 94, French communist and a leader in the Resistance during World War II.
• Marco Siffredi, 23, French snowboarder.
• Laurie Williams, 33, West Indian cricketer, car accident.

  9

• Tom Bradley, 76, British politician.
• Geoffrey Dummer, 92, English electronics engineer, built the first prototype of the integrated circuit.
• Gerald W. Johnson, 83, US Air Force lieutenant general and flying ace during World War II.
• José Luis Massera, 87, Uruguayan mathematician.

  10

• Augusto Lamo Castillo, 63, Spanish football referee.
• René Cousineau, 72, Canadian politician.
• Sandor Elès, 66, Hungarian actor.
• Alexander Farrelly, 78, American politician, governor of the United States Virgin Islands from 1987 to 1995.
• David Grene, 89, Irish-American professor of classics.
• Kuo Pao Kun, 63, Chinese playwright, theatre director, and arts activist, kidney and liver cancer.
• Žarana Papić, 53, Serbian social anthropologist and feminist theorist.
• T. Viswanathan, 75, Indian musician specializing in the carnatic flute and voice.

  11

• Kim Hunter, 79, American actress, Oscar winner, heart attack.
• Howard Levi, 85, American mathematician.
• Howard T. Odum, 78, American ecologist.
• Johnny Unitas, 69, American gridiron football player and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, cardiovascular renal disease.
• David Wisniewski, 49, American writer and illustrator of children's books.

  12

• Lloyd Biggle, Jr., 79, American musician and author, leukemia and cancer.
• Mitsuo Ikeda, 67, Japanese freestyle wrestler and Olympic gold medalist.
• Sheikh Mohammad Rashid, 87, Pakistani politician.
• Neil Shields, 83, British politician and businessman.

  13

• Sir Douglas Black, 89, British physician, played a key role in the development of the National Health Service.
• Richard Foster, 83, American modernist architect.
• George Hills, 84, British journalist and historian.
• Alexander Kazantsev, 96, Soviet and Russian science fiction writer, ufologist and chess composer.
• Charles Herbert Lowe, 82, American biologist.
• William Phillips, 94, American editor, writer and public intellectual.
• Brooks Richards, 84, British diplomat and SOE operative.
• Blanca de Silos, 88, Spanish film actress.
• George Stanley, 95, Canadian historian and public servant.

  14

• Jim "Bad News" Barnes, 61, American basketball player, heart problems.
• Frederic Bennett, 83, British journalist, barrister politician.
• Roberto Cavanagh, 87, Argentine polo player.
• Michael Greer, 64, American actor, comedian and cabaret performer, cancer.
• Jim McKee, 55, American baseball player, traffic collision.
• LaWanda Page, 81, American actress, diabetes.
• Lolita Torres, 72, Argentine film actress and soprano.
• Paul Williams, 87, African American jazz and blues saxophonist, bandleader, and songwriter.

  15

• Kay Espenhayn, 34, German paralympic swimmer, complications to lung, kidney and heart disease.
• Jenny Maakal, 89, South African freestyle swimmer and Olympic medalist.
• James Mitchell, 76, British writer, principally of crime fiction and spy thrillers.
• Jean Rousset, 92, Swiss literary critic.

  16

• James Gregory, 90, American actor.
• Archibald Hall, 78, British criminal known as the "Killer Butler", stroke.
• Jiří Javorský, 70, Czech tennis player.
• Raymond Reiter, 63, Canadian computer scientist and logician.
• Mary Stott, 95, British journalist and feminist.
• Nguyen Van Thuan, 74, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, cancer.
• Jean Vernette, 73, French Roman Catholic prelate and researcher of cults.

  17

• Eileen Colwell, 98, British author and librarian.
• Jack Ferguson, 78, Australian politician, mesothelioma.
• Denys Fisher, 84, British inventor of the Spirograph.
• James Macdonald, 83, Scottish-Australian ornithologist.
• Dodo Marmarosa, 76, American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.
• Govind Perumal, 76, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.
• Edvaldo Alves de Santa Rosa, 68, Brazilian football player and manager, cancer.

  18

• Hazel Brooks, 78, American actress.
• Andreas Burnier, 71, Dutch writer who focussed on homosexuality, transsexuality and discrimination, intracranial hemorrhage.
• Boris Carmi, 88, Russian-Israeli photographer.
• Bob Hayes, 59, American football player Dallas Cowboys and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, prostate cancer.
• Mauro Ramos, 72, Brazilian football player, intestinal cancer.
• Shivaji Sawant, 62, Indian novelist in the Marathi language.
• Herbert Schmidt, 88, German rower and Olympic medalist.
• Margita Stefanović, 43, Serbian musician, complications from HIV.

  19

• Albert Ando, 72, Japanese-American economist, leukemia.
• John Arundel, 74, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Robert Guéï, 61, Ivorian politician and its military ruler, murdered along with his family.
• Duncan Hallas, 76, British communist politician and Marxist theorist.
• Ian Hutchinson, 54, English football player.
• Francisco Lojacono, 66, Italian Argentine football player and manager.
• Priya Tendulkar, 47, Indian actress, social activist and writer, heart attack.
• Carl W. Thompson, 88, American lawyer and Democratic politician.
• Tatyana Velikanova, 70, Soviet dissident and mathematician.

  20

• Les Auge, 49, American professional ice hockey player.
• Sergey Bodrov, Jr., 30, Russian movie star, Kolka-Karmadon rock ice slide, accidental death.
• Bruce Edwards, 90, American actor and photographer.
• Necdet Kent, 91, Turkish diplomat and humanitarian.
• Eduardo Gudiño Kieffer, 66, Argentine writer.
• Joan Littlewood, 87, English theatre director.
• Pat Saward, 74, English football player, Alzheimer's disease.
• Bob Wallace, 53, American computer scientist, helped invent "shareware" software marketing.

  21

• Henry Pybus Bell-Irving, 89, Canadian World War II commander and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.
• Angelo Buono, 67, American serial killer, kidnapper and rapist, heart attack.
• Robert L. Forward, 70, American physicist and science fiction author, founded Tethers Unlimited to manufacture tethers for NASA.
• Peter Kowald, 58, German free jazz double bassist and tubist, heart attack.
• Maurice Manson, 89, Canadian actor.
• Rocco Rock, 49, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Robert White, 81, American sculptor, professor and poet.