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Revision as of 12:21, 25 November 2009
January 2002
- 2 Zac Foley, 31, bass guitarist for EMF
- 3 Freddy Heineken, 78, beer magnate
- 7 Jon Lee, 33, British drummer
- 8 Dave Thomas, 69, US entrepreneur, founder of Wendy's hamburger restaurants
- 11 Cyrus Vance, 87, former United States Secretary of State, international peacemaker
- 12 Stanley Unwin, 90, comedian
- 13 Ted Demme, film and television director
- 16 Bobo Olson, American boxer
- 16 Ron Taylor, American actor
- 17 Camilo José Cela, 85, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature
- 17 Peter Adamson, 71, British actor
- 18 Alex Hannum, 78, pro basketball coach
- 19 Jeff Astle, 59, English footballer
- 21 Peggy Lee, 81, American singer & actress
- 22 Eric de Maré, 91, architectural photographer and writer
- 23 Pierre Bourdieu, sociologist
- 23 Robert Nozick, philosopher
- 28 Dick Lane, 73, American football player
- 28 Astrid Lindgren, 94, Swedish children's book author
- Julian Faber, 84, English business executive
February 2002
- 6 Max Perutz, founder of molecular biology
- 7 Elisa Bridges, 28, Playboy model
- 7 Jack Fairman, 88, British Formula One driver
- 8 Joachim Hoffmann, German historian
- 9 Princess Margaret, 71, British royal family (sister of Queen Elizabeth II)
- 11 Barry Foster, 74, (heart attack), British actor
- 12 Theresa Bernstein, 111, artist
- 12 William Lee Dwyer, 72, United States federal judge
- 12 George Eiferman, 76, bodybuilder, won Mr.Universe in 1962
- 12 John Eriksen, 44, Danish footballer
- 15 Mike Darr baseball player
- 15 Howard K. Smith, TV journalist
- 15 Kevin Smith, played Ares on Xena series
- 19 Virginia Hamilton, African American, award-winning children's book author
- 21 John Thaw, 60, (cancer), British actor, most famous for the detective series Morse and The Sweeney
- 21 A. L. Barker, British author
- 22 Brendan O'Dowda, 76, Irish tenor
- 22 Sir Raymond Firth, 100, British anthropologist
- 22 Chuck Jones, US animator
- 24 Leo Ornstein, 109, radical composer/pianist
- 27 Spike Milligan, 83, Irish actor, comedian and writer
- 28 Mary Stuart, 75, soap opera actress best known for her 35-year starring role on Search for Tomorrow
March 2002
- 11 Rudolf Hell, 100, German inventor and manufacturer
- 13 Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher
- 14 Tan Yu, 75, Filipino entrepreneur
- 17 Rosetta LeNoire, 90, African-American stage and television actress
- 18 Maude Farris-Luse, 115, supercentenarian & one-time "Oldest Recognized Person in the World"
- 20 Ivan Novikoff, 102, Russian premier ballet master
- 25 Kenneth Wolstenholme, 81, British football commentator
- 27 Milton Berle, American comedian dubbed "Mr. Television"
- 27 Dudley Moore, 66, UK actor and writer
- 27 Billy Wilder, 95, Austrian-born American film director (Double Jeopardy)
- 29 Rico Yan, 27, Filipino movie & TV actor
- 30 Queen Elizabeth (née Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon), 101, Britain's "Queen Mum"; mother of Queen Elizabeth II
- 31 Barry Took, 73, UK comedian and writer
April 2002
- 5 Layne Staley, 34, former Alice in Chains frontman, died after injecting a mixture of heroin and cocaine known as a "speedball"
- 7 John Agar, 82, American actor (as well as the first husband of actress/politician Shirley Temple Black)
- 8 Maria Felix, Mexican film star
- 9 Leopold Vietoris (aged 110), Austrian mathematician
- 15 Byron White, United States Supreme Court justice
- 16 Franz Krienbühl, Swiss speed skater
- 16 Robert Urich, 55, American TV actor
- 18 Thor Heyerdahl, 87, Norwegian anthropologist
- 19 (Body discovered), Layne Staley, singer (Alice in Chains)
- 23 Linda Boreman, formerly known as Linda Lovelace, 53, former porn star turned political activist; killed in a car crash
- 25 Lisa Lopes, American singer; killed in car crash in Honduras
- 25 Indra Devi (aged 102; "Yoga teacher to the stars")
- 27 Ruth Handler, inventor of the Barbie doll
- 27 Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, German Industrialist and art collector
- 28 Alexander Lebed, Russian general and politician
- 28 Lou Thesz, professional wrestler
May 2002
- 2 William Thomas Tutte, 84, Bletchley Park cryptographer and British, later Canadian, mathematician.
- 3 Barbara Castle, 91, British Labour politician and female life peer
- 3 Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal, 73, president of Somaliland and formerly prime minister of Somalia and British Somaliland.
- 3 Mohan Singh Oberoi, 103, Indian hotelier and retailer
- 5 Hugo Banzer Suárez, 75, president of Bolivia, as dictator 1971-1978 and democratic president 1997-2001
- 6 Pim Fortuyn, 54, assassinated Dutch politician
- 7 Seattle Slew, 28, last triple crown winner on 25th anniversary of winning Kentucky Derby
- 11 Joseph Bonanno, 97, Sicilian former Mafia boss
- 13 Morihiro Saito, 74, a teacher of the Japanese martial art of aikido
- 13 Ruth Cracknell, 76, redoubtable Australian actress most famous for the long-running role of Maggie Beare in the series "Mother and Son"
- 13 Valery Lobanovsky, 63, former Ukrainian coach
- 15 Nellie Shabalala, 49, South African singer and wife of leader/founder of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Joseph Shabalala.
- 16 Edwin Alonzo Boyd, 88, Canadian bank-robber and prison escapee of the 1950s
- 16 Alec Campbell, 103, Australia's last surviving ANZAC died in a nursing home
- 17 Joe Black, 78, Baseball first Black pitcher to win a World Series game
- 18 Davey Boy Smith, 39, 'British Bulldog' professional wrestler
- 19 John Gorton, 90, 19th Prime Minister of Australia
- 20 Stephen Jay Gould, 60, paleontologist and popular science author
- 21 Niki de Saint Phalle, 71, French artist
- 22 (remains discovered; actual death probably took place on or around May 1, 2001), Chandra Levy, 24, U.S. Congressional intern
- 23 Sam Snead, 89, golfer
- 26 Mamo Wolde, 69, Ethiopian marathon runner
June 2002
- 1 Hansie Cronje, 32, (air crash), South African cricketer
- 4 Fernando Belaúnde Terry, democratic president of Peru, 1963-1968 and 1980-1985
- 4 Caroline Knapp, 42, author of Drinking: A Love Story
- 5 Dee Dee Ramone, founding member of The Ramones
- 6 Hans Janmaat, controversial far-right politician in the Netherlands
- 10 John Gotti, imprisoned mobster
- 11 Robbin Crosby, guitarist of rock band Ratt
- 11 Robert Roswell Palmer, historian, writer
- 12 Bill Blass, fashion designer
- 14 Jose Bonilla boxing former world champion, of asthma
- 14 June Jordan, 65, American writer and teacher, of breast cancer
- 15 Said Belqola, Moroccan referee of the 1998 FIFA World Cup final
- 17 Fritz Walter, football player, captain of 1954 World Cup winners
- 17 Willie Davenport, Olympic Games champion
- 18 Jack Buck, Major League Baseball announcer
- 18 Nancy Addison, 54, soap actress died of cancer
- 22 Ann Landers, author & syndicated newspaper columnist
- 22 Darryl Kile, 33, Major League Baseball player
- 23 Pedro "El Rockero" Alcazar, Panamanian boxer; died after losing his world Flyweight championship to Fernando Montiel in Las Vegas the night before
- 23 Arnold Weinstock, 77, British businessman
- 24 Miles Francis Stapleton Fitzalan-Howard, 86, 17th Duke of Norfolk
- 24 Pierre Werner, former Prime Minister of Luxembourg, "father of the Euro"
- 26 Jay Berwanger, college football player, first winner of the Heisman Trophy
- 27 John Entwistle, 57, (heart attack), bassist for The Who
- 28 Arthur "Spud" Melin, responsible for marketing hula-hoop and frisbee
- 29 Rosemary Clooney, 74, singer
July 2002
- 4 Winnifred Van Tongerloo, oldest living survivor of the Titanic
- 4 Benjamin O. Davis Jr., African-American General
- 5 Ted Williams, Baseball Hall of Fame member
- 5 Katy Jurado, 68, Mexican actress who was once married to Ernest Borgnine
- 6 Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (b. 1932)
- 6 John Frankenheimer, 74, film director
- 8 Ward Kimball, Disney animator
- 9 Rod Steiger, 77, (kidney failure), actor
- 9 Laurence Janifer, science fiction writer
- 10 John Wallach, journalist
- 13 Yousuf Karsh, 93, celebrity portrait photographer as "Karsh of Ottawa"
- 14 Joaquín Balaguer, 95, former President of the Dominican Republic
- 15 Samantha Runnion, 5, child who was kidnapped, sexually abuse and murdered by Alejandro Avila
- 16 John Cocke, key figure in the development of RISC architecture
- 16 Jack Olsen, "True crime" writer
- 19 Alexander Ginzburg, leading Soviet dissident (alternatively Aleksandr Ginzburg)
- 19 Alan Lomax, documenter of blues and folk songs
- 22 Prince Ahmed bin Salman, member of the Saudi Arabian royal family, owner of Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner War Emblem
- 22 Chuck Traynor, 64, American pornographer
- 23 Leo McKern, 82, Australian actor best known for playing Rumpole of the Bailey and one of the Number Twos in The Prisoner
- 23 William Pierce, rocket scientist, neo-Nazi, author of "The Turner Diaries"
- 23 Chaim Potok, 73, US author
- 24 Maurice Denham, 92, British actor
- 24 Mike Clark, 61, former NFL kicker
- 25 Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher
- 29 Peter Bayliss, 80, British actor
August 2002
- 3 Carmen Silvera, 80, UK television and theatre actress (Dad's Army, 'Allo 'Allo!)
- 3 (approx date) Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman child- murder victims
- 5 Josh Ryan Evans, American actor ("Timmy" on Passions)
- 5 Chick Hearn, television and radio announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team since 1960
- 5 Franco Lucentini, 82, Italian writer (The Sunday Woman)
- 6 Edsger Dijkstra, computer scientist
- 10 Doris Wishman, cult movie director
- 12 Enos Slaughter, baseball Hall of Famer
- 12 Marjorie Williamson, university administrator
- 14 Larry Rivers, American painter
- 14 Dave Williams, singer of Drowning Pool
- 15 Jesse Brown, former United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- 19 Abu Nidal, terrorist
- 19 Sunday Silence, thoroughbred race horse, winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes
- 24 Wayne Simmons, American Football player
- 24 Hoyt Wilhelm, Baseball Hall of Fame member
- 25 Dorothy Hewett, Australian poet, playwright and novelist
- 27 Richard Ricci, Utah handyman suspected of the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart
- 30 Maia Berzina, 91, Russian geographer, cartographer and ethnologer
- 31 Lionel Hampton, 94, jazz musician
- 32 Allan George Bromley, 55, computer scientist, historian of computing
September 2002
- 4 Frankie Albert, National Football League star
- 8 Alfonso Ramirez famous Mexican bullfighter
- 11 Johnny Unitas, National Football League Hall of fame quarterback
- 12 Kim Hunter, 79, American stage, television and Oscar-winning film actress (played "Stella Kowalski" in the original Broadway and film versions of A Streetcar Named Desire)
- 18 Bob Hayes, National Football League Dallas Cowboys star, and Olympic games Hall of Fame member
- 19 Sergei Bodrov Jr., Russian movie star
- 21 Angelo Buono, Jr., the "Hillside Strangler"
- 21 Robert L. Forward, physicist and science fiction author
- 22 Joseph Nathan Kane, 103, American historian and author
- 22 Jan de Hartog, novelist and playwright
October 2002
- 1 Walter Annenberg, publisher and philanthropist
- 2 Heinz von Foerster, physicist and philosopher, one of the founders of constructivism
- 3 Bruce Paltrow, television and film producer, father of actress Gwyneth Paltrow with Blythe Danner
- 4 Alphonse Chapanis, a founder of ergonomics
- 6 Claus von Amsberg, diplomat; husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
- 12 Audrey Mestre, 28, French world record-setting free diver
- 12 Nozomi Momoi, 24, Japanese AV idol
- 13 Stephen Ambrose, 66, historian and author of "Band of Brothers"
- 17 Derek Bell, Member of The Chieftains, harpist
- 17 Henri Renaud, 67, French jazz pianist and record company executive
- 18 Roman Tam, Hong Kong canto-pop singer
- 19 Manuel Alvarez Bravo, 100, pre-eminent Mexican photographer
- 20 Barbara Berjer, soap opera actress for over thirty years
- 22 Richard Helms, former CIA director
- 24 Winton M. Blount last United States Postmaster General to have served in a Presidential Cabinet
- 24 Harry Hay, US gay rights activist and Mattachine Society founder
- 24 Adolph Green, 87, American lyricist and playwright
- 25 Richard Harris, 72, (Hodgkin's disease), Irish actor & singer
- 25 Paul Wellstone, United States Senator
- 28 Margaret Booth, 104, Academy Award-winning film editor
- 29 Chang-Lin Tien, educator, 7th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley
- 30 Jam Master Jay, 37, DJ of Run DMC, murdered
- 31 Yuri Ahronovitch, Russian conductor
- 31 Baroness Hylton-Foster, 94, British peer
November 2002
- 2 Charles Sheffield, science fiction author and physicist
- 2 Brian Behan, Irish writer, younger brother of Brendan Behan
- 2 Tonio Selwart, 106, Bavarian actor and Broadway performer
- 3 Jonathan Harris, TV's "Dr. Smith" on Lost in Space
- 3 Lonnie Donegan, 71, skiffle musician
- 4 Antonio Margheriti, 72, Italian filmmaker, heart attack
- 6 Sid Sackson, board game designer
- 7 Rudolf Augstein, founder and chief editorialist of the German newsweekly Der Spiegel
- 9 Merlin Santana, 26, actor
- 15 Myra Hindley, 60, the Moors murderess
- 15 Eddie Bracken, 82, actor
- 17 Abba Eban, 88, Israeli foreign affair minister
- 18 James Coburn, 74, Oscar-winning actor
- 19 Prince Alexandre de Merode, International Olympic Committee member
- 21 Hadda Brooks, 86, American jazz singer, pianist and composer
- 23 Roberto Matta, Chilean artist
- 24 John Rawls, political theorist
- 26 Verne Winchell, founder of Winchell's Donuts (nicknamed "The Donut King")
- 30 Tim Woods, 68, professional wrestler who wrestled as Mr. Wrestling
December 2002
- 3 Glenn Quinn, Irish actor
- 5 Roone Arledge, 71, Creator of Monday Night Football and Nightline
- 5 Ne Win, Burmese dictator
- 6 Charles Rosen, Pioneer in artificial intelligence
- 7 Paddy Tunney, Irish traditional artist
- 6 Father Philip Berrigan, priest, political activist
- 9 Stan Rice, painter, educator, poet, husband of author Anne Rice
- 10 Ian MacNaughton, director of most episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus
- 12 Dee Brown, author (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee)
- 13 Zal Yanofsky member of The Lovin' Spoonful music group.
- 17 Hank Luisetti, basketball star and innovator
- 18 Bert Millichip, British football administrator
- 18 Wayne Owens, former U.S. Congressman (D-UT)
- 18 Ramon John Hnatyshyn, former Governor-General of Canada
- 19 Arthur Rowley, English Footballer, holder of the record for most career league goals scored.
- 20 Joanne Campbell, British actress who starred in the comedy series, Me and My Girl (1980s)
- 22 Kenneth Tobey, prolific character actor (appeared in about 100 films including: Twelve O'Clock High, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Thing from Another World and Airplane!)
- 22 Desmond Hoyte, President of Guyana from 1985 to 1992
- 23 Joe Strummer, former singer for The Clash.
- 24 Jake Thackray, English singer-songwriter
- 25 William T. Orr, television executive (brought Maverick, F-Troop and 77 Sunset Strip to TV)
- 26 Herb Ritts, celebrity photographer
- 26 Armand Zildjian, cymbals manufacturer
- 27 George Roy Hill, film director (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting)
- 30 Mary Wesley novelist, author of The Camomile Lawn
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