The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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.
November 2002
1 Ekrem Akurgal, 91, Turkish archaeologist. Yisrael Amir, 99, Israeli Air Force commander. Edward Brooke, 85, Canadian Olympic fencer (1952). Nicholas John Bua, 77, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois). Eduardo Decena, 76, Filipino Olympic basketball player (1948). Amadou Cissé Dia, 87, Senegalese politician and playwright. Käte Jaenicke, 79, German theater and film actress. Benjamin Keen, 89, American historian specialising in the history of colonial Latin America. Lester Morgan, 26, Costa Rican professional football goalkeeper, suicide. Keith A. Wester, 62, American sound engineer (The Rock, Air Force One, Armageddon).
2 Brian Behan, 75, Irish writer and playwright, younger brother of Brendan Behan. Paul Gordon, 75, American basketball player (Baltimore Bullets). Robert Haslam, Baron Haslam, 79, British industrialist and life peer. Annelisa Kilbourn, 35, British conservationist and veterinarian, plane crash. Lo Lieh, 63, Hong Kong actor, heart attack. Felicity Peake, 89, British Director of the Women's Royal Air Force. Tonio Selwart, 106, Bavarian actor and Broadway performer. Charles Sheffield, 67, English-born American science fiction author and physicist.
3 Ulrika Babiaková, 26, Slovak astronomer and discoverer of minor planets, accident. Mary Bird, 92, American Olympic alpine skier (1936). Lonnie Donegan, 71, British skiffle musician ("Rock Island Line", "John Henry"), heart attack. John Habakkuk, 87, British economic historian. Jonathan Harris, 87, American actor (Lost in Space, A Bug's Life, The Third Man), heart failure. Torsten Lindqvist, 76, Swedish modern pentathlete and Olympian (1952). William M. Packard, 69, American poet and author. Warren Peace, 81, American baseball player.
4 Raoul Diagne, 91, French football player. Antonio Margheriti, 72, Italian filmmaker, heart attack. Juan Araújo Pino, 81, Spanish football player. Marvin Porter, 78, American racing driver. Malcolm Ross, 91, Canadian literary critic, pneumonia. Jerry Sohl, 88, American television scriptwriter and science fiction author. Jack Thornton, 92, American baseball player. Ross Wilson, 83, Canadian ice hockey trainer (Detroit Red Wings).
5 Vinnette Justine Carroll, 80, American Broadway director (Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope, Your Arms Too Short to Box with God). Ansley J. Coale, 84, American demographer. Marcel Dheere, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens). Billy Guy, 66, American singer. Bunjaku Han, 54, Taiwanese actress, complications of cancer. Joaquín Navarro Perona, 81, Spanish football player.Joaquín Navarro, el primer español en lucir la camiseta de la FIFA (Joaquín Navarro, first Spaniard to don FIFA shirt); El País, 7 November 2002 , Retrieved 3 December 2023 Arthur Winfree, 60, American theoretical biologist, known for his studies of biological oscillations. Jaroslav Zajíček, 82, Czech Olympic cross-country skier (1948).
6 Alfonso Martínez Domínguez, 80, Mexican governor. Folke Frölén, 94, Swedish Olympic equestrian (1952). René Kremer, 77, Luxembourgian Olympic decathlete (1948). Roy Leaper, 96, Australian rules footballer.Leaper, Frank Roy Michel Majerus, 35, Luxembourgish artist, killed aboard Luxair Flight 9642. Bruno Petronio, 66, Italian Olympic sailor (1964). Sid Sackson, 82, American board game designer. Gianluca Signorini, 42, Italian footballer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Joginder Singh, 62, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion (1960, 1964). Ed Smallwood, 65, American college basketball player (Evansville Purple Aces). Stefan Wagner, 89, Austrian football player.
7 Rudolf Augstein, 79, German journalist and publisher, founder of Der Spiegel, pneumonia. Charles Hambro, Baron Hambro, 72, British merchant banker and political fundraiser. Dilys Hamlett, 74, British actress. James Grier Miller, 86, American biologist, a pioneer of systems science. Peg Phillips, 84, American actress (Northern Exposure), pulmonary disease. Tino Sabbadini, 74, French road bicycle racer. Pedro Juan Soto, 74, Puerto Rican writer, killed by police officers.
8 Tom Barrington, 58, American gridiron football player (Ohio State, Washington Redskins, New Orleans Saints). Jon Elia, 70, Pakistani Marxist. Querube Makalintal, 91, Filipino Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Tove Nielsen, 85, Danish Olympic swimmer (1936). Rudolf Noelte, 81, German film director, theater director and opera director. Zoé Oldenbourg, 86, Russian-born French historian and novelist. Christopher Parsons, 70, English wildlife film-maker and producer. Antonín Šponar, 82, Czech Olympic alpine skier (1948). Ke Zhao, 92, Chinese mathematician.
9 Adrian Aeschbacher, 90, Swiss classical pianist. Bill Baxter, 78, Scottish footballer. Jan Hulsker, 95, Dutch art historian. Richard Jeffrey, 76, American philosopher, logician, and probability theorist, lung cancer. Cliff Patton, 79, American professional football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Cardinals). Merlin Santana, 26, American actor (The Steve Harvey Show, Getting By, The Cosby Show), shot. William Schutz, 76, American psychologist. Eusebio Tejera, 80, Uruguayan footballer.
10 Michel Boisrond, 81, French film director and screenwriter, known for directing Brigitte Bardot in Naughty Girl. Anne-Marie Brunius, 86, Swedish film actress. Franco Fantasia, 78, Italian actor. Johnny Griffith, 66, American musician, heart attack. Émile Ollivier, 62, Haitian-Canadian writer. Ken Raffensberger, 85, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds/Redlegs). Yevgeni Skomorokhov, 57, Russian football coach and player. Gert Westphal, 82, German-Swiss actor, recitator and director, cancer.
11 Frances Ames, 82, South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist, leukemia. Sir Michael Clapham, 90, British industrialist. Zoe Ducós, 74, Argentine actress. Pietro Giudici, 81, Italian racing cyclist. Mary Hamilton, 67, American civil rights activist (Hamilton v. Alabama).Obituaries Esther Raziel-Naor, 90, Israeli Zionist, Irgun leader and politician. Marcia Van Dyke, 80, American violinist and actress. Yoo Youngkuk, 86, Korean abstract artist.
12 William Wallace Barron, 90, American politician (26th governor of West Virginia), indicted and pleaded guilty to jury tampering. Glenn Dobbs, 82, American gridiron football player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Los Angeles Dons) and college football coach (University of Tulsa). Lester Holtzman, 89, American jurist and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1953-1961). Johannes Kerkorrel, 42, South African singer-songwriter, journalist and playwright, suicide by hanging. Nicholas Mukomberanwa, 62, Zimbabwean sculptor. John Westbergh, 87, Swedish skier.
13 Frederick Valentine Atkinson, 86, British mathematician (Atkinson's theorem, Atkinson–Wilcox theorem). Bill Berry, 72, American jazz trumpeter (Duke Ellington Orchestra, Bill Berry and the L.A. Band). Alexandru Dragomir, 86, Romanian philosopher. Roland Hanna, 70, American jazz pianist, composer, and teacher, viral infection. Taylor Howard, 70, American scientist and radio engineer, plane crash.Memorial Resolution – H. Taylor Howard Kaloji Narayana Rao, 88, Indian poet, freedom fighter, and political activist. Siri Rom, 84, Norwegian actress. Irv Rubin, 57, Canadian chairman of the Jewish Defence League, fall. Juan Alberto Schiaffino, 77, Italian-Uruguayan football player. Rishikesh Shah, 77, Nepalese writer, politician and human rights activist. Michael Stewart, 57, American musician, songwriter, and producer, suicide. Ken Thomas, 42, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs).
14 Eddie Bracken, 87, American actor (Hail the Conquering Hero, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, National Lampoon's Vacation), surgical complications. René Meléndez Brito, 73, Chilean football player, cancer. Sir Walter Crocker, 100, Australian diplomat, writer and war veteran. James R. Hendrix, 77, US Army sergeant and a recipient of the Medal of Honor, cancer. Jim Hester, 57, American football player (New Orleans Saints, Chicago Bears). Gourish Kaikini, 90, Indian litterateur, teacher and columnist. Elena Nikolaidi, 93, Greek-American opera singer and teacher. Gedong Bagus Oka, 81, Indonesian Hindu reformer and philosopher.Ibu Gedong Bagoes Oka: 1921 – 2002 Bali Loses its Philosopher-Stateswoman . balidiscovery.com. November 18, 2002 Mir Qazi, 38, Pakistani convicted criminal, executed by lethal injection. Dale Emerson Saffels, 81, American lawyer, legislator, and District Judge. Manohar Singh, 64, Indian film and theatre actor and director, lung cancer.
15 W. J. Burley, 88, British crime writer. André Clot, 93, French historian and essayist. Ed Freed, 83, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). Bert Granet, 92, American writer and television producer. Myra Hindley, 60, British serial killer, cardiovascular disease. Sohn Kee-chung, 90, Korean Olympic athlete (1936), and long-distance runner, pneumonia. Terry Kendall, 55, New Zealand golfer, car fire. Reijo Kiiskilä, 38, Finnish Olympic weightlifter (1988). Nils Landgren, 79, Swedish bobsledder and Olympian (1952). Mary Meigs, 85, American painter and writer. Ihor Shcherbak, 59, Soviet Ukrainian runner and Olympian (1972). John Joseph Stewart, 79, New Zealand rugby coach, cancer.
16 Ramli Ahmad, 46, Malaysian Olympic sprinter (1976), stroke. George Barrie, 90, American businessman (owner and CEO of Fabergé Inc.) and songwriter (two-time nominee for Academy Award for Best Original Song). Steve Durbano, 50, Canadian ice hockey player (Pittsburgh Penguins, St. Louis Blues), lung cancer.Steve Durbano, Sports-Reference / Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved 2019-04-08. Tom Farris, 82, American professional football player (University of Wisconsin, Chicago Bears, Chicago Rockets). George Gardiner, 67, British politician. Alfred Lewis Levitt, 86, American film and television screenwriter, heart failure. Sima Milovanov, 79, Serbian football player and manager. Frank Smithies, 90, British mathematician. Dick Snoek, 76, Dutch footballer. Zdeněk Žára, 70, Czech rower and Olympian (1956).
17 Abba Eban, 88, Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister, ambassador to the U.S., ambassador to the U.N. Frank McCarthy, 78, American artist and painter, lung cancer. Marvin Mirisch, 84, American film producer, cancer. Akshaya Mohanty, 65, Indian singer, musician and writer. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, 72, Tibetan teacher of Vajrayana Tibetan Buddhism.
18 Alberto Barenghi, 72, Argentine Olympic boxer (1952). Bolot Beishenaliev, 65, Soviet cinematographer, film and theater actor. Angus Cameron, 93, American book editor and publisher, known for being blacklisted during McCarthy era. James Coburn, 74, American actor (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Affliction), Oscar winner (1999), heart attack. Francesco De Martino, 95, Italian jurist and politician, considered to be the conscience of the Italian Socialist Party. Kim Gallagher, 38, American middle-distance runner and Olympian (1984, 1988), stroke. Edith Hirsch Luchins, 80, Polish-American mathematician. Pete Orr, 46, American racing driver. Ulysses Redd, 88, American baseball player. Pasquale Vivolo, 74, Italian footballer and Olympian (1952). Juliusz Wyrzykowski, 56, Polish movie and stage actor. Zaldy Zshornack, 64, Filipino actor.
19 Vito Ciancimino, 78, Italian politician (mayor of Palermo, Sicily) and Mafia member, heart attack. George Fullerton, 79, South African cricketer. K. M. George, 88, Indian writer and educator. Max Reinhardt, 86, British publisher. Jean-Claude Renard, 80, French poet.