Deaths in July 2002

Template:Deaths in month TOC The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2002.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

July 2002

1

• Sid Avery, 83, American photographer (Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn).
• John Barr, 83, American professional basketball player (Penn State, St. Louis Bombers) and coach (Susquehanna University).Reference]] / Basketball-Reference.com|access-date=2019-03-13}}</ref>
• John Kenneth Haviland, 81, American pilot.
• Mikhail Krug, 40, Russian singer, wounds received after robbery.
• William J. Van Ryzin, 88, United States Marine Corps lieutenant general.
• K. Venkatalakshamma, 96, Indian Bharatanatyam dancer.

2

• Earle Brown, 75, American composer.
• Robert I. Friedman, 51, American investigative journalist.
• James Lee, 79, American screenwriter, heart failure and emphysema.

3

• Henry Cianfrani, 79, American state senator, a fixture of Philadelphia politics who served prison time on corruption charges, stroke.
• Jimmy Edwards, 49, American professional football player (Minnesota Vikings).
• Earl Francis, 66, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals).
• Josef Haiböck, 85, Austrian the Air Force general.
• Michel Henry, 80, French philosopher, phenomenologist and novelist.

4

• Gerald Bales, 83, Canadian organist, choirmaster and composer.
• Benjamin O. Davis Jr., 89, American U.S. Air Force four-star general and commander of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen.
• Kenneth Ross MacKenzie, 90, American physicist.
• Sir Jake Saunders, 84, British banker.
• Winnifred Van Tongerloo, 98, British-American oldest living survivor of the Titanic.
• Gene Wilson, 76, American professional football player (SMU, Green Bay Packers).
• Mansoor Hekmat, 51, Iranian theorist.

5

• Harold Dejan, 93, American New Orleans jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader, best remembered as leader of the Olympia Brass Band.
• Brett Hill, 57, Australian Olympic swimmer (men's 200 metre butterfly at the 1964 Summer Olympics).
• Katy Jurado, 78, Mexican actress.
• Zdzisław Mrożewski, 93, Polish actor.
• Paul Weiss, 101, American philosopher and author, founded The Review of Metaphysics and the Metaphysical Society of America.
• Wallace Wilkinson, 60, American businessman and politician, 57th Governor of Kentucky.
• Ted Williams, 83, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), manager (Washington Senators/Texas Rangers) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.

6

• Dhirubhai Ambani, 69, Indian businessman.
• John Frankenheimer, 74, American film and television director (Birdman of Alcatraz, The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May).
• Kenneth Koch, 77, American poet and playwright.
• William B. Ruger, 86, American firearms designer and entrepreneur.
• Stuart Shorter, 33, British homeless activist.
• Monroe Eliot Wall, 85, American chemist, co-discoverer of drugs that fight cancer.

7

• Christian Bizot, 73, French winemaker and head of the Bollinger Champagne house.
• Lester Brinkley, 37, American professional football player (University of Mississippi, Dallas Cowboys).
• Kirkor Canbazyan, 90, Turkish Olympic cyclist (men's individual road race, men's team road race at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
• Bison Dele, 33, American professional basketball player (Denver Nuggets, Detroit Pistons), murdered during a voyage on a catamaran.
• C. Henry Glovsky, 84, American attorney and politician.
• Phyllis Litoff, 63, American singer, impresario, and artistic director, brain cancer.
• Herbie Screaigh, 91, Australian rules footballer.
• Dorle Soria, 101, publicist, music producer and journalist.
• Decherd Turner, 79, American librarian and book collector.
• John Butler Walden, 62, Tanzanian military officer.
• Ray Wood, 71, English professional footballer.

8

• Sir Robert Bellinger, 92, British businessman and Lord Mayor of London.
• Ward Kimball, 88, American animator (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Peter Pan, Mary Poppins).
• Lorna Marshall, 103, American anthropologist.
• Patrick Rodger, 81, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Oxford.
• William Sarjeant, 66, British-born Canadian geologist.

9

• Antoine-Roger Bolamba, 88, Congolese journalist, writer and politician.
• Gerald Campion, 81, English actor, starred in 1950s television series Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School.
• George Elias, 88, Australian rower (men's eight rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
• William Robinson, 85, Canadian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Ottawa.
• Ron Scarlett, 91, New Zealand paleozoologist.
• Madron Seligman, 83, British politician.
• Kenneth Snowman, 82, British jeweller.
• Dave Sorenson, 54, American NBA and Ohio State University basketball player.
• Rod Steiger, 77, American actor (In the Heat of the Night, On the Waterfront, Doctor Zhivago), Oscar winner (1968), kidney failure.

10

• Jean-Pierre Côté, 76, Canadian politician (Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, Senator for Kennebec, Quebec, member of Parliament representing Longueuil, Quebec).
• Laurence Janifer, 69, American science fiction writer.
• Alan Shulman, 85, American composer and cellist.
• Mariya Smirnova, 82, Soviet Air Forces officer during the Second World War.
• John Wallach, 59, American journalist and author, founder of Seeds of Peace.

11

• Rosco Gordon, 74, American blues singer and songwriter, heart attack.
• Garry Kelly, 54, Australian politician, suicide.
• Sun Li, 89, Chinese writer from Hebei Province.
• Finnis D. McCleery, 74, US Army soldier and a recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Roy Orrock, 81, British World War II pilot.
• Tissa Wijeyeratne, 79, Sri Lankan politician, diplomat and barrister.

12

• Imad Abu Zahra, 35, Palestinian freelance photo journalist, shot and killed during the Second Intifada.
• Mary Carew, 88, American Olympic sprinter (women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1932 Summer Olympics).
• Edward Lee Howard, 51, American CIA agent who defected to the Soviet Union, broken neck after a fall.
• Mani Krishnaswami, 72, Indian vocalist, cardiac arrest.
• Ghanshyam Oza, 90, Indian Chief Minister.
• Jorge Zaffino, 43, Argentine comic book artist (Punisher, Batman Black and White, Hellraiser), heart attack.

13

• Mervyn Bessen, 88, Australian cricketer.
• Yousuf Karsh, 93, Canadian portrait photographer, cancer
• Eric Price, 83, English cricketer.
• Elisabeth Targ, 40, American psychiatrist specializing in psychic phenomena, glioblastoma.
• Percy Yutar, 90, South African attorney general, prosecuted Nelson Mandela resulting in a sentence of life imprisonment

14

• Igor Ansoff, 83, Russian-American economist, educator and author, known for his visionary theories on strategic business management.
• David Asseo, 88, Turkish Chief Rabbi and spiritual leader of the Republic of Turkey from 1960 to 2002.
• Joaquín Balaguer, 95, President of the Dominican Republic (1960 to 1962, 1966 to 1978, 1986 to 1996).
• Nelson Barrera, 44, Mexican professional baseball player, led the Mexican League in career home runs (455) and RBIs (1,927).
• Nabakanta Barua, 75, Assamese novelist and poet.
• Alex Fraser, 78, British-American scientist, recognized as a pioneer in evolutionary computation.
• Fayge Ilanit, 93, Zionist activist and Israeli politician.
• Walter Sheffer, 83, American photographer and teacher.
• Michael Stern, 80, British educator.

15

• Charles R. Burton, 59, English explorer, known for being a member of the Transglobe Expedition.
• Gavin Muir, 50, British actor and musician.
• Camillus Perera, 64, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.
• Barbara Randolph, 60, American singer and actress, cancer.
• Pete Seibert, 77, American skier, esophageal cancer.
• Svetlana Zylin, 54, Canadian playwright and director.

16

• Alan Charles Clark, 82, British Roman Catholic prelate.
• John Cocke, 77, American computer scientist.
• George Edmund Lindsay, 85, American botanist, naturalist, and museum director.
• Cletus Madsen, 96, American Roman Catholic priest.
• Jack Olsen, 77, American "True crime" writer.

17

• Clare Fell, 89, British archaeologist, known for her study of the Langdale axe industry.
• Charles I. Krause, 90, American labor leader.
• Joseph Luns, 90, Dutch politician.
• Ubiratan Pereira Maciel, 58, Brazilian basketball player.
• Lee Maye, 67, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves, Houston Astros, Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators).
• Bobby Worth, 89, American songwriter, his songs were recorded by Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Della Reese.

18

• Lee Siew Choh, 84, Singaporean politician and medical doctor, lung cancer.
• Vince Howard, 72, American film and television actor.
• Qiu Huizuo, 88, Chinese Army lieutenant general.
• Metin Toker, 78, Turkish journalist and one time politician.
• Joseph Toland, 73, American Olympic rower at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
• Del Wilber, 83, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox) and manager (Texas Rangers).

19

• Dave Carter, 49, American singer-songwriter.
• Bill Craig, 72, Scottish television scriptwriter (The Vital Spark, The Borderers, Sunset Song, Cloud Howe, Grey Granite).
• Alexander Ginzburg, 65, Soviet dissident.
• Alan Lomax, 87, American documenter of blues and folk songs.
• Spec Shea, 81, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Washington Senators).
• Frank Taylor, 81. English sports journalist.

20

• Pedro Alberto Cano Arenas, 33, Spanish footballer, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Carol Haerer, 70, American artist.
• Jan Komski, 87, Polish painter.
• Michalis Kritikopoulos, 56, Greek footballer, cardiac arrest.
• Eagle Pennell, 49, American independent filmmaker.

21

• John Cunningham, 84, British World War II nightfighter pilot.
• Millie Deegan, 82, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
• Gus Dudgeon, 59, English record producer ("Space Oddity", "Your Song", "Rocket Man", "Daniel"), car accident.
• Peter Elstob, 86, British soldier, adventurer, novelist and entrepreneur.
• Esphyr Slobodkina, 93, Russian-American artist, author, and illustrator.

22

• Joyce Cooper, 93, British Olympic swimmer (one silver medal: 1928, three bronze medals: 1928, 1928, 1932).
• Giuseppe Corradi, 70, Italian footballer.
• James Doolin, 70, American painter and muralist, known for his moody paintings of Los Angeles, Las Vegas and the desert Southwest.
• Marion Montgomery, 67, American jazz singer.
• Prince Ahmed bin Salman, member of the Saudi Arabian royal family.
• Chuck Traynor, 64, American pornographer.

23

• Mirza Muzaffar Ahmad, 89, Pakistani civil servant and banker.
• Alan Burrough, 85, British businessman and rower, chairman of James Burrough Ltd, the distiller of Beefeater Gin.
• Alberto Castillo, 87, Argentine tango singer and actor.
• Clark Gesner, 64, American composer, songwriter, author, and actor, heart attack.
• Hermann Lindemann, 91, German football player and manager.
• Ned Martin, 78, American sportscaster, heart attack.
• Leo McKern, 82, Australian actor.
• William Pierce, American neo-Nazi, author of The Turner Diaries.
• Chaim Potok, 73, American author.
• Arnold Weinstock, 77, British industrialist and businessman, managing director of the General Electric Company.

24

• Edward James Boyle Sr., 88, American judge (United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana).
• Mike Clark, 61, American professional football placekicker (Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Cowboys).
• Pete Coscarart, 89, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates).
• Maurice Denham, 92, British character actor (The Purple Plain, Sink the Bismarck!, The Day of the Jackal).
• Al Silvera, 66, American baseball player (Cincinnati Redlegs).<

25

• Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher.
• Bob Barr, 94, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
• George Bruce, 93, Scottish poet and BBC producer.
• Frank Connell, 92, American Olympic cyclist (men's individual road race, men's team road race at the 1932 Summer Olympics).
• Rudi Dornbusch, 60, German macroeconomist, made fundamental contributions to international economics.
• Walter A. Fallon, 84, American chemist and business executive, chief executive of the Eastman Kodak Company.
• Izzy León, 91, Cuban-American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
• Angus Montagu, 12th Duke of Manchester, 63, British hereditary peer, heart attack.
• Sadako Moriguchi, 94, American businesswoman (Uwajimaya), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Meg Patterson, 79, Scottish surgeon and medical missionary.
• Alexander Ratiu, 86, Romanian-American priest of the Greek-Catholic Church.
• Gearld Wright, 69, American politician.

26

• Tony Anholt, 61, British television actor (Howards' Way), brain tumor.
• Buddy Baker, 84, American film composer (The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Fox and the Hound).
• Pat Douthwaite, 67, Scottish artist.
• Kenny Gardner, 89, American singer for Guy Lombardo's band, the Royal Canadians.
• John Currie Gunn, 85, British mathematician and physicist, pneumonia and heart failure.
• Doug Heywood, 77, Australian rules footballer.
• Kōbun Chino Otogawa, 64, Japanese Sōtō Zen priest, drowned.

27

• Anatoli Bashashkin, 78, Russian footballer and coach (gold medal winner at the 1956 Summer Olympics).
• Ronald Brown, 80, British politician (member of Parliament representing Shoreditch and Finsbury and Hackney South and Shoreditch).
• Dick Cleveland, 72, American Olympic swimmer (men's 100 metre freestyle at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
• Frank Inn, 86, American animal trainer.
• Billy McCann, 82, American college basketball coach.
• Roscoe Shelton, 70, American blues and R&B singer, cancer.
• Krishan Kant, 75, Indian Politician, Vice President (1997 -2002), Governor of Tamil Nadu (1996 - 1997) and Governor of Andhra Pradesh (1990 -1997), Heart Attack .

28

• Anatol Fejgin, 91, Polish communist and political police commander.
• Jack Karnehm, 85, British snooker commentator, heat stroke.
• Ernest Manheim, 102, American sociologist, anthropologist and composer.
• Archer Martin, 92, British chemist.
• Steve Souchock, 83, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers).
• Hal Spindel, 89, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, Philadelphia Phillies).
• Gerhard Wessel, 88, German intelligence officer, President of the Federal Intelligence Bureau.

29

• Peter Bayliss, 80, British actor (The Red Shoes, Darling, The Sweeney, Coronation Street, Lovejoy).
• Elmar Frings, 63, German Olympic pentathlete (1964 pentathlon: team and individual, 1968 pentathlon: team and individual).
• W. W. Law, 79, American civil rights leader.
• Sudhir Phadke, 83, accomplished Marathi singer-composer from India, brain haemorrhage.
• Phil Smith, 50, American professional basketball player, complications from multiple myeloma cancer.
• Ron Walotsky, 58, American science fiction and fantasy artist, his art appeared on about 500 book and magazine covers.
• Charles Wysocki, 73, American painter.

30

• Lyle Benjamin Borst, 89, American nuclear physicist and inventor, worked on the Manhattan Project.
• Ed Bruneteau, 82, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).
• Lucy Herndon Crockett, 88, American novelist (The Magnificent Bastards) and artist.
• A. E. Dyson, 73, British literary critic, activist and gay rights campaigner, leukemia.
• Gerald Gunther, 75, German born American constitutional law scholar.
• Fred Jordan, 80, British folk singer.
• Roy Wright, 73, Austrian rules football player.

31

• Boris Alexandrov, 46, Soviet and Kazakh ice hockey player (USSR champion team for CSKA Moscow, gold medal winner at 1976 Winter Olympics).
• Erik Andersson, 80, Swedish Olympic athlete (men's decathlon at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
• Sir Peter Ashmore, 81, British admiral and Master of the Household to the Sovereign.
• Raymond Brookes, Baron Brookes, 93, British industrialist and a life peer.
• Pauline Chan Bo-Lin, 29, Hong Kong actress, suicide.
• Gordon Chown, 79, Canadian politician, lawyer and barrister, member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Winnipeg South, Manitoba).
• Sir Maldwyn Thomas, 84, Welsh businessman and politician.

References

Preceded by Deaths in 2001

Deaths by year

Succeeded by Deaths in 2003