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

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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).[1]
  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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

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  • 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.

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  • 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).[2]
  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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).[7]
  • Hal Spindel, 89, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, Philadelphia Phillies).
  • Gerhard Wessel, 88, German intelligence officer, President of the Federal Intelligence Bureau.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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
  1. "Jimmy Edwards". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  2. Martin, Douglas (28 July 2002). "Millie Deegan, 82, Pioneer In Women's Baseball League". The New York Times. p. 1 33. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
  3. Anatoly Bashashkin, Sports-Reference / Olympic Sports. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  4. "Ron Brown". The Telegraph, London. 2002-07-31. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  5. Dick Cleveland, Sports-Reference / Olympic Sports. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  6. Martin, Douglas (4 August 2002). "Frank Inn, Who Trained Lassie and Benji, Is Dead at 86". The New York Times. p. 1 36. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  7. Sargent, Jim. "Bud Souchock". Society for American Baseball Research. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
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