February 2002
1 Aykut Barka, 50, Turkish earth scientist, traffic collision. Sigurd Berge, 72, Norwegian composer. Raymond Crapet, 74, French Olympic sprinter (1948). Streamline Ewing, 85, American jazz trombonist, worked with Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Jimmie Lunceford, Cab Calloway. James Bruce French, 80, Canadian-American theoretical physicist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), infection following a stroke. Joe Gartner, 90, Australian rugby league footballer. Reed Green, 90, American football, basketball and baseball player and coach (Southern Miss Golden Eagles). Hildegard Knef, 76, German actress and singer, pneumonia. Sperry Marshall, 71, Australian Olympic sports shooter (1972). Irish McCalla, 73, American actress (Sheena, Queen of the Jungle) and artist, stroke and complications from brain tumor. Betty Moys, 73, English law librarian and indexer. Daniel Pearl, 38, American journalist, decapitation. Artie Pitt, 88, American Olympic gymnast (1936). Vladimir Pyankov, 47, Russian phytophysiologist (Ural State University). Norm Reidy, 77, Australian rules footballer (Fitzroy). James Ripley, 88, Canadian politician. Earl Rowe, 81, American actor. Orlando Sierra Hernández, 42, Colombian columnist and journalist, gunshot to the head. Robert Granville Stone, 94, American philatelist. Stathis Tsanaktsis, 67, Greek footballer.
2 Khalid Akhtar, 81-82, Pakistani Urdu-language writer. Henry Aldridge, 78, American dentist and politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives (1995–1999). (longer version of AP obituary article) Paul Baloff, 41, American vocalist (Exodus), heart failure. Claude Brown, 64, American author (Manchild in the Promised Land). Mende Brown, 81, American writer, producer and director, heart attack. Gerry Dialungana, 51, Congolese musician (TPOK Jazz). Hugo O. Engelmann, 84, Austrian-born American sociologist, anthropologist and general systems theorist. Andy Hansen, 77, American baseball player (New York Giants, Philadelphia Phillies). Ian Clark Hutchison, 99, British politician, MP (1941–1959). Ed Jucker, 85, American basketball coach (1961 and 1962 NCAA titles at Cincinnati) and baseball coach, prostate cancer. Robin Medforth-Mills, 59, English geographer (University of Durham) and United Nations official. Ani Pachen, 68, Tibetan freedom fighter, activist and author, known as Tibet's "warrior nun". Chatchai Paiseetong, 28, Thai Muay Thai fighter, two-time Lumpinee Stadium Super Bantamweight Champion, heart failure. Remo Palmier, 78, American jazz guitarist (Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday). Beatrice Gilman Proske, 102, American art historian. Oscar Reutersvärd, 86, Swedish graphic artist. Kermit Scott, 87, American jazz tenor saxophonist."Kermit Scott - sax player and bebop pioneer"San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 25 July 2025. Yvon Thébert, 58, French archaeologist and historian.
3 Mazahir Abasov, 83, Azerbaijani historian and military pilot. Yahya Adl, 95, Iranian surgeon, considered the father of modern Iranian surgery. James Blackwood, 82, American Gospel singer (The Blackwood Brothers). Kay Brownbill, 87, Australian media personality and politician. K. Chakravarthy, 65, Indian music director. Edward Thomas Chapman, 82, Welsh World War II British Army corporal and recipient of the Victoria Cross. Rudolf Fleischmann, 98, German nuclear physicist. Raymond Gérôme, 81, Belgian-French stage and screen actor. Bill Harvey, 82, English football player. Margit Lukács, 87, Hungarian stage and film actress (Dankó Pista, Matthew Arranges Things, A Plane Has Not Returned). André Maes, 84, Belgian Olympic sailor (1960). Mel McGaha, 75, American baseball coach, manager, and basketball player (New York Knicks). Hans Paetsch, 92, German actor. William Poy, 94, Australian-born Canadian civil servant and businessman. Clifford Ladd Prosser, 94, American physiologist (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign).American Physiological Society;Obituaries;C. Ladd Prosser; András Rapcsák, 58, Hungarian engineer and politician, MP (1994–2002) and mayor of Hódmezővásárhely (1990–2002), pulmonary embolism.Meghalt Rapcsák András Origo.hu. Retrieved 2025-07-27. Julien Rassam, 33, French actor, suicide. Charles Reep, 97, English football analyst, creator of the long ball game. Lucien Rivard, 87, Canadian criminal, known for a prison escape with a water hose in 1965. Nelson Royal, 66, American professional wrestler, trainer and promoter, heart attack. Vyacheslav Sazonov, 66, Russian mathematician (Sazonov's theorem).Сазонов Вячеслав Васильевич, letopsis.msu.ru Aglaja Veteranyi, 39, Romanian-Swiss writer, suicide by drowning. Donald Erwin Wilson, 69, American Navy admiral, cancer.
4 Abie Ames, 83, American blues and jazz pianist. Hugo Baralis, 87, Argentine violinist, conductor, and arranger. Agatha Barbara, 78, Maltese politician. Sigvard Bernadotte, 94, Swedish prince. Frederick J. Clarke, 86, US Army lieutenant General as Chief of Engineers. Sarah Clarke, 82, Irish nun and civil rights campaigner. Tom Connors, 67, English cancer research scientist. Bhagwan Dada, 88, Indian actor and film director, heart attack. Ralph Fritz, 84, American gridiron football player (University of Michigan, Philadelphia Eagles). Wiesław Gąsiorek, 66, Polish tennis player. Reg Gross, 91, Australian rules footballer (Geelong). Miloslav Hamr, 85, Czechoslovak table tennis player. Bert Head, 85, English football player and manager. Inge Konradi, 77, Austrian stage and film actress, cancer. Harry David Link, 84, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan (1964–1967). George Nader, 80, American actor (Six Bridges to Cross, Lady Godiva of Coventry, Sins of Jezebel), cardiopulmonary failure. Helen Dodson Prince, 96, American astronomer. Carlos Roque, 78, Portuguese Olympic rower (1948). Broderick Thompson, 41, American gridiron football player (Kansas, San Diego Chargers), traffic collision. Eve Titus, 79, American children's writer. Gyula Vincze, 88, Hungarian Olympic wrestler (1936). Baxter Ward, 82, American television news anchor and two-term member of Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
5 Angela du Maurier, 97, English actress and novelist. Yasutake Funakoshi, 89, Japanese sculptor and painter. Paul Grabö, 83, Swedish politician, MP (1971–1973). André Jacowski, 80, Polish-born French football player (Stade de Reims, French national team). Mushtak Ali Kazi, 84, Pakistani jurist and writer, cardiac arrest. News Report in the Daily Dawn of 6 February 2002 Kauko Lusenius, 83, Finnish Olympic middle-distance runner (1952). Raymond Martorano, 74, Italian-American mobster (Philadelphia crime family), shot. Robert Mather, 87, Australian politician. Victor Miadana, 81, Malagasy politician, Vice President of Madagascar (1971–1972). John Spezzaferro, 80, American football player and coach (Heidelberg College). Boris Tamm, 71, Estonian cyberneticist, rector of the Tallinn University of Technology (1976–1991). Annalee Whitmore Fadiman, 85, American screenwriter (Andy Hardy Meets Debutante, Babes in Arms) and World War II foreign correspondent, euthanasia.
6 Osman Bölükbaşı, Turkish politician and political party leader, respiratory failure. Angela D'Audney, 57, New Zealand television news anchor and actress, brain tumour.Obituary - Angela D'Audney New Zealand Herald. Retrieved on 27 July 2025 Grietje de Jongh, 77, Dutch Olympic sprinter (1948, 1952). Sırrı Erinç, 84, Turkish geographer and lecturer. Leonid Hakobyan, 65, Soviet and Armenian politician and economist. Hazel Hannell, 106, American artist and activist. Jack Holden, 80, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1955–1967). Andrée Jacob, 95, French journalist and member of the French Resistance. Wendell Marshall, 81, American jazz double-bassist. Eken Mine, 66, Japanese voice actor. Max Perutz, 87, Austrian-born British molecular biologist, and co-winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, cancer. Yehoshua Rozin, 83, Israeli basketball coach. Lowell Schoenfeld, 81, American mathematician. Guy Stockwell, 68, American actor (Adventures in Paradise, Beau Geste, The Richard Boone Show), complications from diabetes. Samuel Lucien Terrien, 90, French-American theologian and biblical scholar (Union Theological Seminary). Herbert Wieninger, 91, Austrian Olympic composer (1936 Summer Olympics). Lady Viola Wilson, 90, Scottish-born Australian opera singer. Melinda Wortz, 61, American art historian and critic, Alzheimer's disease.
7 Annemarie Auer, 88, German author and literary scholar. Walter Bolden, 76, American jazz drummer Elisa Bridges, 28, American actress and model, Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for December 1994, drug overdose. Bertrand Croset, 60, French Olympic bobsledder (1968). Lilí del Mónico, Swiss-born Paraguayan artist. Ellen Demming, 79, American actress (Guiding Light). Jack Fairman, 88, British Formula One driver. David Gibson-Watt, Baron Gibson-Watt, 83, British politician. John Groves Gould, 89, Canadian politician, MLA (1949–1952). Diane Hart, 75, English actress and political campaigner. Bud Helbig, 82, American painter, illustrator and sculptor. Lorne Henderson, 81, Canadian politician. César Jaroslavsky, 73, Argentinian politician, MP (1983–1991). Wilhelm Johnen, 80, German Luftwaffe night fighter ace during World War II. Jerrold Katz, 69, American philosopher and linguist. Tony Pond, 56, British rally driver, pancreatic cancer. William Rupp, 74, American architect, house fire. John Taylor, Baron Ingrow, 84, English soldier, brewer and politician, Parkinson's disease. Rosemary Woodruff Leary, 66, American model and author, wife of Timothy Leary, congestive heart failure.
8 Elisabeth Mann Borgese, 83, German-Canadian environmentalist, political scientist and writer, pneumonia. Nick Brignola, 65, American jazz saxophonist. Ong Teng Cheong, 66, Singaporean politician and fifth President of Singapore (1993-1999), lymphoma. Puck de Leeuw, 48, Dutch documentary director, lung cancer. William T. Dillard, 87, American retailer (Dillard's Department Stores). Maurice Foley, 76, British politician (Member of Parliament for West Bromwich). AG Fronzoni, 78, Italian graphic designer, publisher, industrial designer, architect, and educator. Joachim Hoffmann, 71, German historian. John Mark Inienger, 56, Nigerian Army major general, traffic collision. Lloyd Kiva New, 85, American Cherokee artist and designer. Jacob Lofman, 90, Polish-born American photojournalist. Esther Afua Ocloo, 82, Ghanaian entrepreneur and pioneer of microlending, pneumonia. Grigory Okhay, 85, Soviet MiG-15 flying ace during the Korean War. Giannis Pathiakakis, 48, Greek football player, heart attack. Stan Pavko, 85, American football player and coach (Modesto Pirates). David Pyle, 65, English football player (Bristol Rovers, Bristol City, Trowbridge Town). Mu'nis Razzaz, 51, Jordanian writer, brother of Jordanian prime minister Omar Razzaz. Duggie Reid, 84, Scottish football player. Steve Roser, 84, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Boston Braves). Eldon Rudd, 81, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1977-1987). Heinz Traimer, 80, German-born Austrian graphic designer. Henry Williams Jr., 85, American golfer. Bob Wooler, 76, British disc jockey, known for introducing The Beatles to future manager, Brian Epstein. Zizinho, 80, Brazilian football player, heart attack. Antar Zouabri, 31, Algerian islamist, shot.
9 Miroslav Adlešič, 94, Slovene physicist. Michael Joseph Begley, 92, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Hung Wai Ching, 96, Chinese-American businessman (Aloha Airlines), cancer. Paul Cornely, 95, American physician, public health pioneer, and civil rights activist, first African American to earn a doctoral degree in public health. John Dowling, 70, Irish Gaelic football and hurling referee, President of the Gaelic Athletic Association (1988–1991).