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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.
April 2002
[edit]1
[edit]- Russell Awkard, 84, American baseball player.[1]
- Carlos da Benta, 74, Portuguese Olympic rower (1948, 1952).[2]
- Albert F. Canwell, 95, American politician and anti-communist.[3]
- Tonino Cervi, 72, Italian film director, screenwriter and producer, heart attack.[4]
- Simo Häyhä, 96, Finnish sniper during World War II.
- James Karales, 71, American photographer and photo-essayist.[5]
- Étienne Martinetti, 61, Swiss Olympic wrestler (1972).[6]
- K. V. Narayanaswamy, 78, Indian musician.
- John S. Samuel, 88, American Air Force general.[7]
2
[edit]- Levi Celerio, 91, Filipino composer and lyricist, and National Artist of the Philippines.[8]
- Vladimír Černík, 84, Czech-Egyptian tennis player.
- Ike Clarke, 87, English football player and manager.[9]
- Casey Jones, 86, American politician and basketball player.[10]
- Jack Kruschen, 80, Canadian actor (The Apartment, The War of the Worlds, Webster).[11]
- Bill Marsh, 72, Australian rugby league footballer.[12]
- Ron Nery, 67, American football player (Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers, Denver Broncos, Houston Oilers).[13]
- John R. Pierce, 92, American engineer and author who coined the term "transistor", pneumonia.[14]
- Betty Jane Rase, 74, American singer and songwriter, stroke.[15]
- Henry Slesar, 74, American author, playwright, and copywriter.[16]
- Shigeo Sugimoto, 75, Japanese football player.[17]
- Robert Lawson Vaught, 75, American mathematician, and one of the founders of model theory.[18]
3
[edit]- Heinz Drache, 79, German film actor, lung cancer.[19]
- Fad Gadget, 45, English singer-songwriter, heart attack.[20]
- Roy Huggins, 87, American novelist and television producer (Maverick, The Fugitive, The Rockford Files).[21]
- Norm Lee, 81, Australian politician.
- Bobby Managoff, 84, Armenian-American professional wrestler, heart failure.
- Roy Nichols, 81, American baseball player (New York Giants).[22]
- Ernst Stojaspal, 77, Austrian football player and Olympian (1948), heart failure.[23]
- Karl Swanson, 101, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).[24]
4
[edit]- Leo Brooks, 54, American gridiron football player (University of Texas, Houston Oilers, St. Louis Cardinals), esophageal cancer.[25]
- Endel Edasi, 72, Soviet Estonian Olympic swimmer (1952).[26]
- Leo Laakso, 83, Finnish Olympic ski jumper (1948).[27]
- Pierre Marchand, 62, French publisher, cancer.[28]
- Joe Massot, 69, American writer and film director.
- Qazi Mujahidul Islam Qasmi, 66, Indian Mufti, Qadhi and Islamic scholar.
- Ken Stewart, 90, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks).[29]
- Jack Tanuan, 36, Filipino basketball player, kidney failure.
- Hiram Hamilton Ward, 78, American district judge (United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina).[30]
- Charles Winquist, 57, American theologian.[31]
5
[edit]- Herbert A. Cahn, 87, German-Swiss archaeologist, numismatist and antiquities-dealer.[32]
- Paul Erickson, 86, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Giants).[33]
- Tore Johansson, 81, Swedish rower and Olympian (1952).[34]
- Bargil Pixner, 81, Italian-American monk, biblical scholar and archaeologist.
- Sheriff Robinson, 80, American baseball player.[35]
- Layne Staley, 34, American singer (Alice in Chains), drug overdose.[36]
- Ben Warley, 65, American professional basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers, Baltimore Bullets, Anaheim Amigos), liver cancer.[37]
- Kim Won-gyun, 85, North Korean composer and politician, heart failure.
6
[edit]- Silvia Derbez, 70, Mexican film and television actress, lung cancer.
- Petru Dumitriu, 77, Romanian novelist.[38]
- Oliver Eggimann, 83, Swiss football player.
- Børge Gissel, 86, Danish Olympic cyclist (1948).[39]
- Kevin Kelley, 59, American drummer (Rising Sons, The Byrds, Fever Tree).
- Ralph J. Marino, 74, American lawyer and politician from New York.[40]
- Nobu McCarthy, 67, Canadian actress, aortic aneurysm.[41]
- Martin Sperr, 57, German dramatist and actor.[42]
- Tom Sunkel, 89, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers).[43]
- Judith Wood, 95, American film actress.[44]
7
[edit]- John Agar, 81, American actor, starred in Western and Sci-Fi movies, first husband of Shirley Temple, pulmonary emphysema.[45]
- Bobby Astyr, 64, American pornographic film actor.
- Margit Leskinen, 87, Finnish Olympic swimmer (1948).[46]
- Bhavanam Venkatarami Reddy, 70, Indian politician, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.
- Georges van Coningsloo, 61, Belgian racing cyclist.[47]
- Conny Vandenbos, 65, Dutch singer, lung cancer.[48]
- Tony Zuzzio, 85, American football player (Detroit Lions).[49]
8
[edit]- Nigel Bagnall, 75, British field marshal, professional head of the British Army (Chief of the General Staff).[50]
- John Borton, 69, American football player (Ohio State Buckeyes, Cleveland Browns).[51]
- María Félix, 88, Mexican film star, considered "the most beautiful face in the history of Mexican cinema", heart attack.[52]
- Eloy Fominaya, 76, American composer, music educator, conductor, violinist and luthier (Augusta Symphony).[53]
- Giacomo Mancini, 85, Italian politician.
- Harvey Quaytman, 64, American painter, cancer.[54]
- Francisco Zamora Salinas, 63, El Salvador football player.
- Josef Svoboda, 81, Czech artist and scenic designer.[55]
- Laurel Rose Willson, 60, American author and con artist.
9
[edit]- Dorothy Love Coates, 74, American gospel singer, considered one of gospel's great performers.[56]
- Harold Coates, 84, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1965–1976).[57]
- Thomas Dinger, 49, German drummer, singer and songwriter.[58]
- Roy Dwight, 69, English footballer.[59]
- Pat Flaherty, 76, American professional racecar driver, won the Indianapolis 500 in 1956.[60]
- Weldon Irvine, 58, American composer, playwright, poet, and pianist, suicide by gunshot.[61]
- Kazuo Nakamura, 75, Japanese-Canadian painter and sculptor.[62]
- Leopold Vietoris, 110, Austrian mathematician, World War I veteran, and supercentenarian.
10
[edit]- Haim Cohn, 91, Israeli jurist and politician.[63]
- Ed Fleming, 68, American professional basketball player (Niagara University, Rochester Royals, Minneapolis Lakers).[64]
- Géza Hofi, 75, Hungarian humorist.[65]
- Andrew Hogan, 78, Canadian politician and priest, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1974-1980).[66]
- Þorsteinn Löve, 78, Icelandic Olympic discus thrower (1952).[67]
- Atanda Fatai Williams, 83, Nigerian jurist and Chief Justice of Nigeria (1979–1983).
11
[edit]- Elmer Angsman, 76, American gridiron football player (Notre Dame, Chicago Cardinals) and football color commentator, heart attack.[68]
- Branko Bauer, 81, Croatian film director.
- William Brandon, 87, American author, wrote on Native Americans and the American West.[69]
- Bubba Brooks, 79, American jazz tenor saxophonist, a member of Bill Doggett's ensemble.[70]
- Héctor Rojas Herazo, 81, Colombian novelist, poet, journalist and painter.
- Delphi Lawrence, 76, English actress.[71]
- Do Mau, 85, Vietnamese officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN).
- Lidia Barbieri Sacconaghi, 57, Italian Olympic alpine skier (1964).[72]
- J. William Stanton, 78, American politician (U.S. Representative for Ohio's 11th congressional district).[73]
- Stanley Weston, 82, American publisher, sportswriter, artist and photographer, cancer.[74]
12
[edit]- Hans Neurath, 92, Austrian-American biochemist and academic.[75]
- Gabriel Raksi, 63, Romanian football player.[76]
- Yadollah Sahabi, 97, Iranian scholar, writer, reformist and politician.
- Kondapalli Seetharamaiah, 87, Indian communist leader, Parkinson's disease.
- George Shevelov, 93, Ukrainian scholar.[77]
- Safet Zhulali, 59, Albanian Minister of Defence.[78]
13
[edit]- Alex Baroni, 35, Italian singer, traffic accident.
- Scipio Colombo, 91, Italian dramatic baritone.[79]
- Ivan Desny, 79, Russian-Swiss film actor-, appeared in more than 150 films, pneumonia.[80]
- Joe Fisher, 85, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).[81]
- Franz Krienbühl, 73, Swiss Olympic speed skater (1968, 1976).[82]
- Oreste Piccioni, 86, Italian-American physicist.[83]
- Hal Picketts, 92, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Americans).[84]
- Álvaro Salvadores, 73, Chilean-Spanish basketball player and Olympian (1952).[85]
- Vlajko Stojiljković, 65, Serbian politician, suicide by gunshot.
- Desmond Titterington, 73, British racing driver from Northern Ireland.
14
[edit]- Edmée Abetel, 79, Swiss Olympic alpine skier (1952).[86]
- Buck Baker, 83, American stock car race driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.[87]
- Gustave Blouin, 89, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament (House of Commons).[88]
- Zdeněk Chlup, 79, Czech Olympic basketball player (1948).[89]
- Mark Ermler, 69, Russian conductor (Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra).[90]
- Joop Haex, 90, Dutch politician.[91]
- Bobby Holm, 83, American basketball player.[92]
- Michael Kerr, 81, British jurist.
- Monal, 21, Indian actress, suicide by hanging.[93]
- Fausto Radici, 48, Italian alpine skier and Olympian (1976), suicide by gunshot.[94]
15
[edit]- Sándor Gáspár, 85, Hungarian communist politician and trade unionist.
- Moe Keale, 62, American musician of Hawaiian music, and actor, heart attack.
- Dave King, 72, English comedian, actor and singer.[95]
- Damon Knight, 79, American science fiction author, editor and critic.[96]
- Hans-Henrik Krause, 84, Danish actor and film director.
- Clare Raglan, 74, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks).[97]
- Ram Singh Thakur, 87, Indian freedom fighter, musician and composer.
- Byron White, 84, American lawyer and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, pneumonia.[98]
16
[edit]- Billy Ayre, 49, English footballer, cancer.[99]
- Ramiro de León Carpio, 60, Guatemalan politician, diabetic coma.
- Friðrik Guðmundsson, 76, Icelandic Olympic discus thrower (1952).[100]
- Janusz Kasperczak, 74, Polish Olympic boxer (1948).[101]
- Yevgeny Rasskazov, 60, Soviet Russian Olympic sports shooter (1964).[102]
- Claudio Slon, 58, Brazilian jazz drummer, lung cancer.
- Marcel Stern, 80, Swiss competitive sailor and Olympic medalist (1948, 1952, 1968).[103]
- Zoltán Turcsányi, 87, Hungarian Olympic field hockey player (1936).[104]
- Robert Urich, 55, American actor (Vega$, Spenser: For Hire, Lonesome Dove, S.W.A.T.), cancer.[105]
- Hugh Franklin Waters, 69, American judge (U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas).[106]
- Herbert Wernicke, 56, German opera director and set and costume designer.[107]
17
[edit]- Urs-Ulrich Bucher, 75, Swiss Olympic sailor (1960, 1964).[108]
- James Copeland, 83, Scottish actor (The 39 Steps, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes).[109]
- Betsy Curtis, 84, American science fiction and fantasy writer.[110]
- Srul Irving Glick, 67, Canadian composer, radio producer, and conductor.[111]
- Saeed Hanaei, 39-40, Iranian serial killer, hanged.[112]
- Stevan Kragujević, 80, Serbian photojournalist and art photographer.
- Rune Öberg, 79, Swedish Olympic water polo player (1948).[113]
18
[edit]- Mitsos Dimitriou, 54, Greek football player.
- Jerry Heidenreich, 52, American competition swimmer and Olympic champion (1972), suicide by drug overdose.[114]
- Thor Heyerdahl, 87, Norwegian anthropologist, brain cancer.[115]
- Wayne Hightower, 62, American basketball player, heart attack.[116]
- Cy Laurie, 75, British musician.
- Wahoo McDaniel, 63, American gridiron football player and wrestler, complications from diabetes and kidney failure.[117]
19
[edit]- William E. Barber, 82, U.S. Marine Corps colonel and Medal of Honor recipient, bone marrow cancer.[118]
- Alberto Beltrán, 79, Mexican painter, engraver and political cartoonist.[119]
- Jean-Pierre Destrumelle, 61, French football player and manager.[120]
- Lennart Hemming, 69, Swedish footballer.[121]
- Ruud Knuppe, 63, Dutch Olympic canoeist (1960).[122]
- Reginald Rose, 81, American film and television writer, complications of heart failure.[123]
- Ross Whicher, 84, Canadian politician and businessman (member of Parliament representing Bruce, Ontario).[124]
20
[edit]- Phillip Baldwin, 77, American judge.[125]
- Vlastimil Brodský, 81, Czech actor, suicide by gunshot.[126]
- Alan Dale, 76, American singer ("Heart of My Heart", "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White").[127]
- Joe Geri, 77, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Chicago Cardinals).[128]
- Sarvepalli Gopal, 78, Indian historian, renal failure.[129]
- Stig-Göran Johansson, 58, Swedish ice hockey player and Olympian (1972).[130]
- Pierre Rapsat, 53, Belgian singer-songwriter, cancer.[131]
21
[edit]- Romana Calligaris, 77, Italian swimmer and Olympian (1952).[132]
- Sam Dente, 79, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians).[133]
- Thomas Joseph Grady, 87, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Willie Holman, 57, American football player (Chicago Bears, Washington Redskins).[134]
- Verné Lesche, 84, Finnish speed skater.
- Juan Carlos Mesías, 68, Uruguayan footballer.[135]
- Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi, 65, Afghan politician and mujahideen leader.
- Red O'Quinn, 76, American professional football player (Wake Forest, Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles).[136]
- Ogden Phipps, 93, American stockbroker, thoroughbred horse racing owner/breeder and philanthropist.[137]
- Józef Reszpondek, 51, Polish Olympic boxer (1972).[138]
- Leo Roininen, 73, Canadian Olympic athlete (1948).[139]
- Walter Siegfried, 83, Swiss Olympic boxer (1936).[140]
- Harry Tarraway, 76, British Olympic middle-distance runner (1948).[141]
- Terry Walsh, 62, British stuntman.
22
[edit]- Albrecht Becker, 95, German production designer and actor.
- Janet Fox, 89, American actress (Stage Door, Dinner at Eight).[142]
- Soja Jovanović, 80, Serbian and Yugoslav film director.
- Linda Lovelace, 53, American porn star turned political activist, car crash.[143]
- Fran Minkoff, 87, American lyricist.
- Allen Morris, 92, American historian.[144]
- Christopher Price, 34, English journalist and presenter, meningoencephalitis.
- Victor Weisskopf, 93, Austrian-American theoretical physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project.[145]
23
[edit]- Bob Baker, 75, American heavyweight boxer.[146]
- Doris Batter, 73, English sprinter and Olympian (1948).[147]
- Jim Cohen, 83, American baseball player.[148]
- Bob Faught, 82, American professional basketball player (University of Notre Dame, Cleveland Rebels).[149]
- Sam Francis, 88, American football player (Nebraska, Chicago Bears, Brooklyn Dodgers) and coach, and Olympic shot putter (1936).[150]
- Pee Wee Jenkins, 79, American baseball player.[151]
- Ted Kroll, 82, American professional golfer, won eight PGA Tour events, Parkinson's disease.[152]
- Tibor Simon, 36, Hungarian football player and manager, blunt trauma.[153]
24
[edit]- Gloria Escoffery, 78, Jamaican artist, poet, teacher, art critic and journalist.[154]
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, 67, American journalist, essayist and memoirist, COPD.[155]
- Jack Johnson, 77, Danish footballer.[156]
- Douglas Mast, 58, US Virgin Island Olympic sports shooter (1972).[157]
- Eric McKitrick, 82, American historian.
- Robert McQueeney, 83, American actor.[158]
- Lucien Wercollier, 93, Luxembourgish sculptor.[159]
- Nadezhda Zhurkina, 81, Russian radio operator and gunner during World War II.
25
[edit]- Michael Bryant, 74, British actor (Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly, The Stone Tape, The Ruling Class, Gandhi).[160]
- Mario Casilli, 71, American photographer.
- Indra Devi, 102, Russian "yoga teacher to the stars".[161]
- Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, 30, American singer and member of girl group TLC, car crash.[162]
- Athanasios Papoulis, 81, Greek-American engineer and applied mathematician.
26
[edit]- Vincenzo Caianiello, 69, Italian jurist.
- Alton Coleman, 46, American convicted spree killer, execution by lethal injection.[163]
- John Davis, 86, American baseball player (New York Giants).[164]
- Alastair MacLeod, 77, British Olympic rower (1952).[165]
- Jaroslav Papiernik, 50, Slovak Olympic handball player (1976).[166]
- Del Sharbutt, 90, American radio announcer.[167]
- Tore Svensson, 74, Swedish football goalkeeper and Olympian (1952).[168]
- Steve Tshwete, 63, South African politician and activist, pneumonia and liver failure.[169]
27
[edit]- Guila Bustabo, 86, American concert violinist.[170]
- George Alec Effinger, 55, American science fiction writer (When Gravity Fails, "Schrödinger's Kitten").[171]
- Ruth Handler, 85, American businesswoman and inventor of the Barbie doll, colorectal cancer.[172]
- Robert L. Joseph, 79, American theatre producer, playwright, and screenwriter.[173]
- Arthur Owen, 87, British racing driver.
- Joseph Rego-Costa, 82, American soccer player and Olympian (1948).[174]
- Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, 81, German Industrialist and art collector, cardiovascular disease.
- Felix Villars, 81, Swiss-American emeritus professor of physics at MIT.[175]
- Jerry Witte, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).[176]
28
[edit]- Albert Béchard, 79, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament (House of Commons for Bonaventure, Quebec).[177]
- Robert M. Gagné, 85, American educational psychologist.
- Konrad Grilec, 92, Slovenian Olympic gymnast (1936, 1948).[178]
- Alexander Lebed, 52, Russian general and politician, aviation accident.[179]
- Alex Obeysekere, 84, Sri Lankan boxer and Olympian (1948).[180]
- Ken Panfil, 71, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Chicago/St. Louis Cardinals).[181]
- Peter Parker, 77, British businessman.[182]
- Liu Qiong, 88, Chinese film director and actor, liver cancer.[183]
- Lou Thesz, 86, American professional wrestler, complications caused by triple bypass surgery.[184]
- John Wilkinson, 82, American sound mixer (Platoon, Saturday Night Fever, Days of Heaven), Oscar winner (1987).[185]
- Gordon Willey, 89, American anthropologist, known for creation of the field of "settlement pattern studies".[186]
29
[edit]- Bob Akin, 66, American businessman and professional race car driver (two-time Sebring winner).[187]
- Sune Andersson, 81, Swedish football player, manager, and Olympian (1948).[188]
- Sverre Bratland, 84, Norwegian military leader and commander during the invasion of Normandy during World War II.[189]
- Michael Camille, 44, English art historian, specializing in art of the European Middle Ages, brain tumor.[190]
- Henri Caron, 77, French Olympic racewalker (1948).[191]
- Noel DaCosta, 72, Nigerian-Jamaican composer, jazz violinist, and choral conductor.[192]
- Santiago Álvarez Gómez, 89, Spanish communist politician.[193]
- Ihar Hermianchuk, 41, Belarusian journalist and political activist, cancer.
- Pete Jacobsen, 51, English jazz pianist.[194]
- Stan Lynn, 73, English football player.[195]
- Lor Tok, 88, Thai comedian and actor.
30
[edit]- Kathryn Albertson, 93, American philanthropist.[196]
- Howard Alvin Crum, 79, American botanist, expert on North American bryoflora.
- Ida Engel, 98, American actress, television commercial star in her 90s.[197]
- Leslie Melville, 100, Australian economist, academic and public servant.
- Robert Mosley, 74 or 75, American bass-baritone.
- Nitsa Tsaganea, 100, Greek actress of theatre and film.
- Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, 74, German LGBT writer and museum director, heart attack.[198]
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