Deaths in February 2002

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2002.

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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.

February 2002

1

• Raymond Crapet, 75, French Olympic sprinter (men's 400 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[1]
• Streamline Ewing, 85, American jazz trombonist, worked with Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Jimmie Lunceford, Cab Calloway.[2]
• Orlando Sierra Hernández, Colombian columnist, shot.
• Hildegard Knef, 76, German actress and singer.[3]
• Irish McCalla, 73, American actress (Sheena, Queen of the Jungle) and artist, stroke and complications from brain tumor.[4]
• Daniel Pearl, 38, American journalist, beheaded.
• Robert Granville Stone, 94, American philatelic scholar.[5]

2

• Paul Baloff, 41, Exodus vocalist, heart failure.
• Claude Brown, 64, American author, known for his 1965 Harlem memoir Manchild in the Promised Land.[6]
• Gerry Dialungana, 51, Musician from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
• Hugo O. Engelmann, 84, American sociologist and anthropologist.
• Andy Hansen, 77, American baseball player (New York Giants, Philadelphia Phillies).[7]
• Ian Clark Hutchison, 99, British politician.
• Ed Jucker, 85, American basketball coach (1961 and 1962 NCAA titles at Cincinnati) and baseball coach, prostate cancer.[8]
• Robin Medforth-Mills, 59, British professor of geography.
• Ani Pachen, 68, Tibetan freedom fighter, activist and author, known as Tibet's "warrior nun".[9]
• Remo Palmier, 78, American jazz guitarist (Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday).[10]
• Oscar Reutersvärd, 86, Swedish graphic artist.

3

• James Blackwood, 82, American Gospel singer (The Blackwood Brothers), nominated for thirty-one and won nine Grammy Awards.[11]
• Edward Thomas Chapman, 82, Welsh World War II British Army corporal and recipient of the Victoria Cross.[12]
• Bill Epton, 70, American Maoist activist, first person convicted of criminal anarchy since the Red Scare of 1919.[13]
• Rudolf Fleischmann, 98, German nuclear physicist.
• András Rapcsák, 58, Hungarian engineer and politician.
• Donald Erwin Wilson, 69, American United States Navy rear admiral.[14]

4

• Abie Ames, 83, American blues and jazz pianist.[15]
• Agatha Barbara, 78, Maltese politician, having served as a Labour House of Representatives of Member of Parliament and Minister.[16]
• Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Wisborg, 94, Swedish prince.[17]
• Frederick J. Clarke, 86, military engineer with the US Army Corps of Engineers.
• Tom Connors, 67, British cancer research scientist, known as one of the world's leading authorities on cancer research.[18]
• Bhagwan Dada, 88, Indian actor and film director, heart attack.
• Ralph Fritz, 84, American professional football player (University of Michigan, Philadelphia Eagles).[19]
• Bert Head, 85, English football player and manager.
• George Nader, 80, American actor (Six Bridges to Cross, Lady Godiva of Coventry, Sins of Jezebel), cardiopulmonary failure, pneumonia, and multiple cerebral infarctions.[20]
• Broderick Thompson, 41, American football player (Kansas, San Diego Chargers), motorcycle accident.[21]
• Baxter Ward, 82, American television news anchor and two-term member of Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.[22]

5

• Mushtak Ali Kazi, 84, Pakistani jurist and writer, cardiac arrest.
• Kauko Lusenius, 83, Finnish Olympic middle-distance runner (men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[23]
• Annalee Whitmore Fadiman, 85, American screenwriter (Andy Hardy Meets Debutante, Babes in Arms) and World War II foreign correspondent.[24]
• Evelyn Witthoff, 89, American missionary.

6

• Osman Bölükbaşı, Turkish politician and political party leader, respiratory failure.
• Angela D'Audney, 57, New Zealand television news anchor and actress, brain tumor.[25]
• Eken Mine, 66, Japanese voice actor.
• Max Perutz, 87, Austrian-born British molecular biologist, and co-winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.[26]
• Guy Stockwell, 68, American actor (Adventures in Paradise, Beau Geste, The Richard Boone Show), complications from diabetes.[27]
• Samuel Lucien Terrien, 90, French-American Protestant theologian and biblical scholar.

7

• Elisa Bridges, 28, American actress and model, Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for December 1994.[28]
• Ellen Demming, 79, American actress (The Guiding Light).
• Jack Fairman, 88, British Formula One driver.[29]
• David Gibson-Watt, Baron Gibson-Watt, 83, British politician.
• John Taylor, Baron Ingrow, 84, British businessman.

8

• Nick Brignola, 65, American jazz saxophonist.[30]
• William T. Dillard, 87, American retailer (Dillard's Department Stores).[31]
• Maurice Foley, 76, British politician (Member of Parliament for West Bromwich).[32]
• Joachim Hoffmann, 71, German historian.
• Elisabeth Mann Borgese, 83, German-Canadian environmentalist, political scientist and writer.[33]
• Lloyd Kiva New, 85, American Cherokee artist and designer, and a co-founder of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.[34]
• Ong Teng Cheong, 66, Singaporean politician and fifth President of Singapore (Singapore's first directly elected president) from 1993 to 1999.[35]
• David Pyle, 65, English footballer.
• Steve Roser, 84, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Boston Braves).[36]
• Eldon Rudd, 81, American politician.
• Henry Williams Jr., 85, American professional golfer, played on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s.[37]
• Bob Wooler, 76, British disc jockey, known for being instrumental in introducing The Beatles to their future manager, Brian Epstein.[38]

9

• Fred Gehrke, 83, American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and executive (Denver Broncos).[39]
• John Ingvar Lövgren, 71, Swedish serial killer and rapist.
• Judson Pratt, 85, American character actor.
• Vesta M. Roy, 76, American politician.
• Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, 71, British royal and sister of Queen Elizabeth II.[40]
• Ale Ahmad Suroor, 90, Indian poet and critic.
• Peggy Taylor, 74, American singer and radio announcer.[41]
• Bulelani Vukwana, South African spree killer.
• Barron Winchester, 69, American actor.

10

• Jack Abbott, 58, American criminal and author (In the Belly of the Beast).[42]
• Chet Clemens, 84, American baseball player (Boston Bees/Braves).[43]
• John Erickson, 72, British historian, a leading authority on the Soviet Union and Russia.[44]
• Ramón Arellano Félix, 37, Mexican drug trafficker.
• Traudl Junge, 81, German secretary who took Adolf Hitler's last will and testament (Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary).[45]
• Jim Spencer, 54, American baseball player (California Angels, Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics).[46]
• Dave Van Ronk, 65, American folk singer, and an important figure in New York City's Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s.[47]
• Vernon A. Walters, 85, American U.S. Army officer and diplomat (Deputy Director of the C.I.A., U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations).[48]

11

• Mary Brooks, 94, American director of the United States Mint from 1969 to 1977.[49]
• Ralph Buchsbaum, 95, American zoologist, invertebrate biologist, ecologist and author (Animals Without Backbones).[50]
• Frankie Crosetti, 91, American baseball player (New York Yankees) and coach (New York Yankees, Seattle Pilots, Minnesota Twins).[51]
• Barry Foster, 74, British actor, heart attack.[52]
• George A. Kasem, 82, American politician (U.S. Representative for California's 25th congressional district).[53]
• Les Peden, 78, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[54]
• Victor Posner, 83, American businessman, tycoon and corporate raider, known as a pioneer of the leveraged buyout.[55]
• Gaetano Stammati, 93, Italian politician.
• Frans Van Coetsem, 82, Belgian linguist.

12

• Barbara May Cameron, 47, American human rights activist in the fields of gay women, women's rights and Native American rights.[56]
• William Lee Dwyer, 72, American federal judge (U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington).[57]
• George Eiferman, 76, American bodybuilder, won Mr.Universe in 1962.[58]
• John Eriksen, 44, Danish footballer.

13

• Theresa Bernstein, 111, Polish-American artist.[59]
• George Bray, 83, English footballer.
• Isabella Cannon, 97, Scottish-American mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina.[60]
• Ramón Grosso, 58, Spanish footballer, cancer.
• Waylon Jennings, 64, American country music performer, actor, disc jockey, former member of Buddy Holly's band.[61]
• Dick Kleiner, 80, American Broadway and Hollywood columnist, his column appeared in hundreds of papers.[62]
• Edmar Mednis, 64, American chess grandmaster, complications from pneumonia.[63]
• Nikolay Soltys, 27, Ukrainian fugitive, wanted by the FBI, suicide by hanging.
• Thomas J. H. Trapnell, 99, American U.S. Army lieutenant general (survived Bataan Death March).[64]
• Pauline Trigère, 93, French-born American fashion designer, her award-winning styles reached their height of popularity during the 1950s and 1960s.[65]
• Sidney Weighell, 79, British footballer, trade unionist and the General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen.[66]

14

• J. Desmond Clark, 85, British-American archeologist, anthropologist and author, known as an expert on the prehistory of Africa.[67]
• Gene Cook, 70, American professional football player (Detroit Lions), minor league baseball executive and elected official in Toledo, Ohio.[68]
• Norman Davidson, 85, American molecular biologist, a major figure in advancing genome research.[69]
• Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz, 81, member of the French Resistance during WW II.[70]
• Nándor Hidegkuti, 79, Hungarian football player and manager (gold medal winner in Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[71]
• A. J. Kardar, 75, Pakistani film director, producer and screenwriter.
• Grover Krantz, 70, American anthropologist and cryptozoologist, known as a Bigfoot researcher, pancreatic cancer.[72]
• Bud Olson, 76, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta.[73]
• Mick Tucker, 54, English drummer for the glam rock band Sweet.
• Günter Wand, 90, German orchestra conductor, directed orchestras in Hamburg and Cologne and appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.[74]

15

• Mike Darr, 25, American baseball player (San Diego Padres), car accident.[75]
• Lucille Lund, 88, American film actress, known for her role in The Black Cat, a 1934 horror classic starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.[76]
• Howard K. Smith, 87, American television anchorman and political commentator, and one of the war correspondents known as the Murrow Boys.[77]
• Kevin Smith, 38, New Zealand actor, played Ares on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess and Young Hercules.[78]
• Garry Weston, 74, Canadian businessman (Associated British Foods).[79]

16

• Tommy Crutcher, 60, American professional football player (TCU, Green Bay Packers).[80]
• Sidney De Haan, 83, British businessman (Saga), transformed the tourist industry by catering to people 50 and over.[81]
• Carol Fenner, 72, American children's book author (Yolonda's Genius).[82]
• John W. Gardner, 89, American public servant, U.S. Secretary of H.E.W. and founder of Common Cause, known as "the father of campaign finance reform".[83]
• Sir Arthur Hetherington, 90, British businessman.
• Walter Winterbottom, 88, British football manager, first full-time manager of the England football team.[84]

17

• Anthony Benjamin, 70, English painter and sculptor.[85]
• Ross Dowson, 84, Canadian Trotskyist politician.[86]
• Paterson Ewen, 76, Canadian painter and sculptor, known for his cosmological images.[87]
• C. H. Prahlada Rao, 79, Indian writer and journalist.

18

• Giustino Durano, 78, Italian actor (Life Is Beautiful).[88]
• Lev Kulidzhanov, 77, Soviet film director and screenwriter.
• Jack Lambert, 81, American actor.
• Mohammed Dabo Lere, Nigerian politician.
• Gabriel Mariano, 73, Cape Verdean writer.
• Byrne Piven, 72, American stage actor, acting teacher and director, and co-founder of the Playwrights Theatre Club, lung cancer.[89]

19

• Sal Bartolo, 84, American boxer and WBA featherweight champion from March 1944 through May 1946.[90]
• Michael Anthony Crisfield, 59, British mathematician, a leading figure in applying non-linear computational mechanics to predict structural performance.[91]
• Virginia Hamilton, 67, American children's book author.[92]
• Swede Hanson, 68, American professional wrestler.
• Vivien Law, 47, British linguist and academic, cancer.
• Sylvia Rivera, 50, American gay liberation and transgender activist, liver cancer.
• Gene Ruggiero, 91, American film editor.
• William Davis Taylor, 93, American newspaper executive and publisher of The Boston Globe from 1955 to 1978.[93]

20

• Laura duPont, 52, American tennis player, 1977 U.S. Clay Court Champion.[94]
• Stephen Longstreet, 94, American author and screenwriter (The Jolson Story, Stallion Road, The Helen Morgan Story, Playhouse 90).[95]
• Branko Stanković, 80, Bosnian Serb footballer and manager.[96]
• Fredric Steinkamp, 73, American film editor.
• Willie Thrower, 71, American football quarterback (Michigan State, Chicago Bears), heart attack.[97]

21

• A. L. Barker, 83, British author, winner of the 1947 Somerset Maugham Prize, with her collection of short stories titled Innocents.[98]
• Laudomia Bonanni, 94, Italian writer and journalist.
• Roden Cutler, 85, Australian diplomat and Governor of New South Wales.[99]
• Bill Faul, 61, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants).[100]
• Harold Fürth, 72, Austrian-American physicist and a leader in controlled fusion research.[101]
• Trevor Hampton, 89, British diver.
• John Thaw, 60, British actor, including television series such as Inspector Morse, The Sweeney and Kavanagh QC, cancer.[102]
• Harold Weisberg, 88, American civil servant, investigative reporter and author, known for his prolific writings on the murders of JFK and MLK.[103]
• William H. Wynn, 70, American union leader, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Int'l and Retail Clerks Int'l.[104]

22

• Sir Roden Cutler, 85, Australian diplomat.
• Vyacheslav Dryagin, 61, Soviet Olympic skier (Winter Olympics men's Nordic combined: 1964, 1968, 1972).[105]
• Sir Raymond Firth, 100, British anthropologist.[106]
• Edwin F. Hunter, 91, American judge (United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana).[107]
• David James, 80, Welsh cricketer.
• Chuck Jones, 89, American animator, creator of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, heart failure.[108]
• Brendan O'Dowda, 76, Irish tenor.
• Jonas Savimbi, 67, Angolan revolutionary, leader of UNITA, multiple gunshot wounds.

23

• Antonio Calebotta, 71, Italian Olympic basketball player (men's basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics).[109]
• Peaches Jackson, 88, American film actress.
• Gordon Matthews, 65, American inventor and businessman, considered the father of "voice mail", complications relating to a stroke.[110]
• Prathyusha, 20, Indian film actress, suicide.

24

• Martin Esslin, 83, Hungarian-born British producer, dramatist, and journalist, wrote The Theatre of the Absurd in 1962.[111]
• David Hawkins, 88, American philosopher and historian of the Manhattan Project.[112]
• Arthur Lyman, 70, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player ("Yellow Bird").[113]
• Leo Ornstein, 106, American experimental composer and pianist.[114]
• Robert Strausz-Hupé, 98, American diplomat (U.S. Ambassador to: Sri Lanka, Belgium, Sweden, NATO, Turkey).[115]
• Hela Yungst, 52, Israeli-American actress (Guiding Light, All My Children) and beauty pageant winner (Miss New Jersey 1970).[116]

25

• Clint Alberta, 32, Canadian filmmaker, suicide.[117]
• Clive L. DuVal II, 89, American politician and lawyer, cancer.
• Albert Huffstickler, 74, American poet.
• Afaq Hussain, 62, Pakistani cricketer.
• Don Robesky, 95, American football guard.
• Ken Simmons, 72, British ornithologist.

26

• L. Balaraman, 70, Indian politician, MP (1984–1991, 1996–1998).[118]
• Helen Megaw, 94, Irish crystallographer.
• Dinora Pines, 83, British physician and psychoanalyst.
• Oskar Sala, 91, German physicist, composer and a pioneer of electronic music (The Birds).[119]
• Lawrence Tierney, 82, American actor (Dillinger, The Greatest Show on Earth, Reservoir Dogs), pneumonia.[120]
• Tony Young, 64, American actor (Gunslinger, General Hospital, Star Trek).[121]

27

• Warren Harding, 77, American rock climber.
• Thomas Kallampally, 48, Indian politician and educator.
• Spike Milligan, 83, Irish actor, comedian and writer (The Goon Show).[122]
• Dykes Potter, 91, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).[123]
• Surajit Chandra Sinha, Indian anthropologist.

28

• Janice Cooper, 62, Australian Olympic high jumper (women's high jump at the 1956 Summer Olympics).[124]
• Ehsan Jafri, Indian politician, killed by a mob.
• Gabriel Mariano, 73, Cape Verdean poet, novelist, and an essayist.
• Stanford Morse, 75, American lawyer and politician.
• Mary Stuart, 75, American soap opera actress best known for her 35-year starring role on Search for Tomorrow.[125]
• John Russell Taylor, 84, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Vancouver—Burrard, British Columbia).[126]
• Helmut Zacharias, 82, German violinist and composer.[127]

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