Deaths in July 2002

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 (Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart, Elizabeth Taylor). John Barr, 83, American professional basketball player (Penn State, St. Louis Bombers) and coach (Susquehanna University). Mikhail Krug, 40, Russian singer, shot. Pedro Maratea, 89, Argentine actor. Meyer Reinhold, 92, American classical scholar. K. Venkatalakshmma, 96, Indian Bharatanatyam dancer. Maritta Wolff, 83, American author, novels adapted to film: Whistle Stop, The Man I Love.

2 Bob Boston, 83, American baseball player. Earle Brown, 75, American composer, cancer. Ray Brown, 75, American jazz bassist, known for working with Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald. Robert I. Friedman, 51, American investigative journalist. Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, 93, French organist and composer. James Lee, 79, American screenwriter, heart failure and emphysema.

3 Henry Cianfrani, 79, American state senator 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). Michel Henry, 80, French philosopher, phenomenologist and novelist. Kenneth Ross MacKenzie, 90, American nuclear physicist.

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, Alzheimer's disease. Mansoor Hekmat, 51, Iranian theorist, cancer. Ivan Moffat, 84, British screenwriter, film producer and socialite. Lutz Moik, 71, German actor. Luigi Prato, 64, Italian Olympic rower (1960). Sten Samuelson, 76, Swedish architect. Laurent Schwartz, 87, French mathematician. Winnifred Van Tongerloo, 98, British-American oldest living survivor of the Titanic. Gene Wilson, 76, American professional football player (SMU, Green Bay Packers).

5 Paul Claudon, 82, French film producer and actor. Harold Dejan, 93, American New Orleans jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader, best remembered as leader of the Olympia Brass Band. Antonio Domenicali, 66, Italian racing cyclist and Olympic champion in track cycling (1956). Brett Hill, 57, Australian Olympic swimmer (1964). Katy Jurado, 78, Mexican actress, kidney failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Zdzisław Mrożewski, 93, Polish actor. José Rua, 90, Puerto Rican sports shooter and Olympian (1952). Paul Weiss, 101, American philosopher and author, founded The Review of Metaphysics and the Metaphysical Society of America. Reinhard Wenskus, 86, German historian. Wallace G. Wilkinson, 60, American businessman and politician, 57th Governor of Kentucky, stroke. Ted Williams, 83, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), manager (Washington Senators/Texas Rangers) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, heart attack.

6 Dhirubhai Ambani, 69, Indian businessman, stroke. Alexandru Dan, 94, Romanian Olympic gymnast (1936). John Frankenheimer, 72, American film and television director (Birdman of Alcatraz, The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May), heart attack, stroke. Cheikh El Hasnaoui, 91, Algerian singer. Kenneth Koch, 77, American poet and playwright, leukemia. Thakur Ram Lal, 72, Indian politician. Ugo Lombardi, 90, Italian cinematographer. Haji Abdul Qadeer, 51, Afghan Northern Alliance leader, shot. William B. Ruger, 86, American firearms designer and entrepreneur. Pietro Valpreda, 69, Italian anarchist, poet, dancer and novelist.

7 Juan Alcántara, 82, Chilean footballer. Lester Brinkley, 37, American football player (Dallas Cowboys). Kirkor Canbazyan, 90, Turkish Olympic cyclist (1936). Jim Cherry, 30, American musician, heart problems. Bison Dele, 33, American basketball player (Denver Nuggets, Detroit Pistons), murdered. Gerard Hallie, 90, Dutch Olympic rower (1936). Apollo Lynge, 62, Danish Olympic cross-country skier (1968). Dorle Soria, 101, American publicist, music producer and journalist. John Butler Walden, 62, Tanzanian military officer. Ray Wood, 71, English professional footballer.

8 Ward Kimball, 88, American animator (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Peter Pan, Mary Poppins), pneumonia. Clarence Lightner, 80, American politician and mortician. Lorna Marshall, 103, American anthropologist. Patrick Rodger, 81, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Oxford. William Sarjeant, 66, British-born Canadian geologist. Earl Shannon, 80, American basketball player (Providence Steamrollers, Boston Celtics), and college coach. Sidney Spivak, 74, Canadian politician.

9 Gerald Campion, 81, English actor (Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School). George Elias, 88, Australian rower (1936). Bruno Freindlich, 92, Soviet and Russian actor. Ron Scarlett, 91, New Zealand paleozoologist. Madron Seligman, 83, British politician. Kenneth Snowman, 82, British jeweller.Kenneth Snowman| Dave Sorenson, 54, American basketball player (Ohio State Buckeyes, Cleveland Cavaliers, Philadelphia 76ers), cancer. Rod Steiger, 77, American actor (In the Heat of the Night, On the Waterfront, Doctor Zhivago), Oscar winner (1968), kidney failure.

10 Mario Cordero, 72, Costa Rican football player and coach, respiratory arrest. Jean-Pierre Côté, 76, Canadian politician (Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, Senator for Kennebec, Quebec). Albertin Disseaux, 87, Belgian racing cyclist. Evangelos Florakis, 59, Greek-Cypriot general, commander of the Cypriot National Guard (since 2000), helicopter crash. Laurence Janifer, 69, American science fiction writer. Walter McCrone, 86, American chemist. Alan Shulman, 85, American composer and cellist. John Wallach, 59, American journalist and author, founder of Seeds of Peace.

11 Bernardas Brazdžionis, 95, Lithuanian poet. Rosco Gordon, 74, American blues singer and songwriter, heart attack. Helen Grindrod, 66, British judge, cancer. John Howse, 88, Australian politician. Garry Kelly, 54, Australian politician, suicide. Sun Li, 89, Chinese writer.

12 Mary Carew, 88, American Olympic sprinter (1932). Guillermo Larco Cox, 70, Peruvian politician. Josefina de la Torre, 94, Spanish novelist, opera singer, and actress. Edward Lee Howard, 51, American CIA agent and defector, fall. Mani Krishnaswami, 72, Indian vocalist, cardiac arrest. Ghanshyambhai C. Oza, 90, Indian politician. Guglielmo Pesenti, 68, Italian Olympic racing cyclist (1956). Tim Rathbone, 69, English politician, cancer. Ece Ayhan Çağlar, 70, Turkish poet.

13 Carey Blyton, 70, British composer and writer. Yousuf Karsh, 93, Canadian portrait photographer, cancer. Benny Peled, 74, Israeli Air Force commander, pulmonary emphysema. Eric Price, 83, English cricketer. Herbert Vesely, 71, Austrian film director and screenwriter. Percy Yutar, 90, South African attorney general, prosecuted Nelson Mandela.

14 Igor Ansoff, 83, Russian-American economist and author, father of strategic business management, pneumonia. 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), peptic ulcer disease. Nelson Barrera, 44, Mexican baseball player, led the Mexican League in career home runs (455) and RBIs (1,927), electrocution. Nabakanta Barua, 75, Indian novelist and poet. Alex Fraser, 78, British-American scientist, recognized as a pioneer in evolutionary computation. Alphonso Gerard, 85, American baseball player. Fritz Glatz, 58, Austrian racing driver, traffic collision. Cosetta Greco, 71, Italian film actress. Hwang Kee, 87, Korean martial artist. Dick Ploog, 65, Australian Olympic cyclist (1956). Herm Rohrig, 84, American football player (Green Bay Packers).

15 Charles R. Burton, 59, English explorer, known for being a member of the Transglobe Expedition, heart attack. György Fehér, 63, Hungarian film director and screenwriter. Lauri Honko, 70, Finnish professor of folklore studies and comparative religion. Camillus Perera, 64, Sri Lankan cricket umpire. Barbara Randolph, 60, American singer and actress, cancer. Philip Roth, 72, American actor. Pete Seibert, 77, American skier, esophageal cancer.

16 John Cocke, 77, American computer scientist. Aleksandr Kolchinsky, 47, Soviet Ukrainian heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion (1976, 1980), heart failure. George Edmund Lindsay, 85, American botanist, naturalist, and museum director. Jack Olsen, 77, American journalist and author . Antonella Della Porta, 74, Italian actress. Floyd James Thompson, 69, United States Army colonel.

17 Harry W. Gerstad, 93, American film editor. Romuald Halm, 84, Austrian Olympic equestrian (1956). Valentina Kamenyok-Vinogradova, 59, Soviet/Russian Olympic volleyball player (1964, 1968). Joseph Luns, 90, Dutch politician, diplomat and Secretary General of NATO (1971–1984). Ubiratan Pereira Maciel, 58, Brazilian basketball player and Olympian (1964). Lee Maye, 67, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves, Houston Astros, Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators), cancer. George Rickey, 95, American kinetic sculptor. André Simonyi, 88, Hungarian-French football player. Bobby Worth, 89, American songwriter, recorded by Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Ella Fitzgerald.

18 Victor Emery, 68, English physicist, ALS. Howard Ensign Evans, 83, American entomologist. Qiu Huizuo, 88, Chinese Army lieutenant general. Raúl Ibarra, 94, Mexican Olympic sports shooter (1952, 1956, 1960, 1964). Andy Kirby, 40, American stock car racing driver, traffic collision. Györgyi Marvalics-Székely, 77, Hungarian fencer and Olympic silver medalist (1960). Lee Siew-Choh, 84, Singaporean politician and medical doctor, lung cancer. Gerhardt Sørensen, 81, Danish Olympic rower (1948). Owsei Temkin, 99, Russian-American medical historian. Metin Toker, 78, Turkish journalist and politician, prostate cancer. Joseph Toland, 73, American Olympic rower (1948). Del Wilber, 83, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox) and manager (Texas Rangers). Alexandra Zapp, 30, American murder victim.

19 Jack Backman, 80, American politician. Dave Carter, 49, American singer-songwriter, heart attack. Alexander Ginzburg, 65, Soviet dissident. Tony Leon, 85, American football player (Washington Redskins, Brooklyn Tigers, Boston Yanks). Alan Lomax, 87, American documenter of blues and folk songs. Evdokia Petrova, 86, Soviet spy in Australia in the 1950s. Barry Reed, 75, American trial lawyer and author. Spec Shea, 81, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Washington Senators). Frank Taylor, 81, English sports journalist. Vladimir Vasyutin, 50, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz T-14), cancer.

20 Pedro Alberto Cano Arenas, 33, Spanish footballer, cerebral hemorrhage. Michalis Kritikopoulos, 56, Greek footballer, cardiac arrest. Jan Komski, 87, Polish painter. Jimmy Maxwell, 85, American swing jazz trumpeter. Roland E. Murphy, 85, American Catholic prelate and biblical scholar.

21 Giuseppe Corradi, 70, Italian footballer and Olympian (1952). 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"), traffic collision. Peter Elstob, 86, British soldier, adventurer, novelist and entrepreneur. Jeffrey Harborne, 73, British chemist and professor of botany. Alfred Knoll, 74, Austrian Olympic field hockey player (1952). Esphyr Slobodkina, 93, Russian-American artist, author, and illustrator.

22 Fernando Schwalb López Aldana, 85, Peruvian politician, Prime Minister (1963–1965, 1983–1984). Joyce Cooper, 93, British Olympic swimmer (1928, 1932).