Deaths in January 2002
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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.
January 2002
1
- Rolando Del Bello, 76, Italian tennis player.
- Mohand Arav Bessaoud, 77, Algerian writer and activist.
- Daulat Bikram Bista, 76, Nepali writer and poet.
- Bonnie Mealing, 89, Australian swimmer and Olympian (1928, 1932).[1]
- Eugene Nickerson, 83, American county executive and judge, complications from ulcer surgery.[2]
- Carol Ohmart, 74, American actress (House on Haunted Hill, The Wild Party, The Scarlet Hour) and model.
- Julia Phillips, 57, American film producer (The Sting, Taxi Driver, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) and author, Oscar winner (1974), cancer.[3]
- Patrick Kwame Kusi Quaidoo, 77, Ghanaian politician and businessman.
- Nuchhungi Renthlei, 88, Indian poet and singer.
- Ted Rigg, 88, American basketball player.[4]
- Arne Røgden, 84, Norwegian Olympic bobsledder (1952, 1956).[5]
- Astrid Sampe, 92, Swedish textile designer.
- Catya Sassoon, 33, American actress, singer and model, heart attack after drug overdose.[6]
- Meg Wyllie, 84, American actress (The Twilight Zone, Perry Mason, Star Trek, The Fugitive).[7]
2
- Armi Aavikko, 43, Finnish beauty queen and singer, pneumonia.
- Anil Agarwal, 55, Indian environmentalist and science correspondent.[8]
- Rui Campos, 79, Brazilian football player.
- Roberto Camposeco, 60, Guatemalan footballer and Olympian (1968).[9]
- Pablo Antonio Cuadra, 89, Nicaraguan essayist, playwright, and graphic artist.[10]
- Ahmed Dawood, 96, Pakistani industrialist and philanthropist.
- Ian Grist, 63, British Conservative politician, stroke.[11]
- Heath MacQuarrie, 82, Canadian politician, scholar, and writer.[12]
- Charlie Mitten, 80, English football player and manager.[13]
- Chester Nimitz Jr., 86, American submarine commander.[14]
- Bibi Osterwald, 81, American actress.[15]
- Bob Stevens, 85, American sportswriter.
3
- Donald Martin Carroll, 92, American Roman Catholic priest.
- Satish Dhawan, 81, Indian aerospace engineer.
- Miki Dora, 67, American surfer, stunt double and actor (Beach Blanket Bingo, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini), pancreatic cancer.[16]
- Juan García Esquivel, 83, Mexican bandleader and composer for film and television.[17]
- Freddy Heineken, 78, Dutch beer magnate, pneumonia.[18]
- Martin Ruby, 79, American gridiron football player (Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Yankees, New York Yanks).[19]
- Al Smith, 73, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox).[20]
- Baldur R. Stefansson, 84, Canadian agricultural scientist.
4
- Nathan Chapman, 31, U.S. Army soldier, first American soldier killed in combat in the war in Afghanistan.[21]
- Georg Ericson, 82, Swedish football (soccer) player and coach.[22]
- Ada Falcón, 96, Argentine tango dancer, singer and film actress.
- Michael Howard, 79, English choral conductor, organist and composer.[23]
- Douglas Jung, 74, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament (House of Commons), heart attack.[24]
- Mustafa Krantja, 80, Albanian classical music conductor and composer.
- Grace Mera Molisa, 55, Ni-Vanuatu politician, poet and feminist.
- Jim Sears, 70, American gridiron football player (Chicago Cardinals, Los Angeles Chargers, Denver Broncos).[25]
- Adrián Zabala, 85, Cuban-American baseball player (New York Giants).[26]
5
- Charles J. Bishop, 15, American high school student, suicide by plane crash.[27]
- Igor Cassini, 86, American syndicated gossip columnist (Cholly Knickerbocker) for the Hearst newspaper.[28]
- Valentin Chernikov, 64, Soviet Olympic fencer (1956, 1960).[29]
- Fielding Dawson, 71, American author, poet and artist.[30]
- Alan Dick, 71, British sprinter and Olympian (1952).[31]
- Roger Gyselinck, 81, Belgian racing cyclist.[32]
- Astrid Henning-Jensen, 87, Danish film director, actress, and screenwriter.
- Kamel Maghur, 67, Libyan lawyer and diplomat.
- Federico Mariscal, 91, Mexican Olympic diver (1928, 1932).[33]
- Graham Ryder, 52, English geologist and lunar scientist, cancer of the esophagus.[34]
- Vadim Shefner, 86, Soviet and Russian poet and writer.
- Bryan Thurlow, 65, English football player.
6
- Bobby Austin, 68, American country musician ("Apartment No. 9", "For Your Love").[35]
- Per-Arne Berglund, 74, Swedish Olympic javelin thrower (1948, 1952).[36]
- Serge Brignoni, 98, Swiss avant-garde painter and sculptor.
- Sanya Dharmasakti, 94, Thai jurist, university professor and politician, Prime Minister of Thailand from 1973 to 1975.[37]
- Henryk Jagodziński, 76, Polish Olympic rower (1952, 1956).[38]
- Kunjandi, 82, Indian actor.
- Herbert N. Maletz, 88, American judge.[39]
- Johnnie Mae Matthews, 79, American blues and R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer, cancer.
- Mario Nascimbene, 88, Italian film soundtrack composer.
- John W. Reynolds, 80, American politician and jurist, Governor of Wisconsin (1963–1965).[40]
- Fred Taylor, 77, American basketball coach (Ohio State University) and baseball player (Washington Senators).[41]
- Marian Wenzel, 69, British artist and art historian, leading authority on the art of medieval Bosnia and Herzegovina, cancer.[42]
- Christa Worthington, 45, American fashion writer (Women's Wear Daily, Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Harper's Bazaar), homicide.[43]
7
- Frank Cave, 59, British trade unionist and political activist (National Union of Mineworkers), brain cancer.[44]
- Geoff Crompton, 46, American basketball player (Denver Nuggets, Portland Trail Blazers, Milwaukee Bucks, San Antonio Spurs, Cleveland Cavaliers), leukemia.[45]
- Geoffrey Crossley, 80, British Formula One race car driver, stroke.[46]
- René Etiemble, 92, French essayist, scholar, and novelist.[47]
- Mighty Igor, 70, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
- Björn Landström, 84, Finnish-Swedish artist, writer, and illustrator.[48]
- Jon Lee, 33, British drummer (Feeder), suicide.[49]
- Bill Lenny, 78, British film editor.[50]
- Hal Marnie, 83, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[51]
- Raúl Mazorra, 73, Cuban sprinter and Olympian (1948, 1952).[52]
- Philip Roettinger, 86, American CIA officer and Olympic sports shooter (1948).[53]
- Avery Schreiber, 66, American comedian and actor, heart attack.[54]
- Walter Warning, 84, German footballer.[55]
- Lev Zaykov, 78, Soviet politician and statesman.
8
- M. S. Bartlett, 91, English statistician.[56]
- Romeo Cascarino, 79, American composer of classical music.[57]
- Stanko Despot, 73, Croatian Olympic rower (1952).[58]
- David McWilliams, 56, Northern Irish singer-songwriter ("Days of Pearly Spencer"), heart attack.
- Kitanonada Noboru, 78, Japanese sumo wrestler.[59]
- Alexander Prokhorov, 85, Soviet physicist, winner of 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics.[60]
- Dave Thomas, 69, American entrepreneur, founder of Wendy's, liver cancer, liver tumor.[61]
- Glayde Whitney, 62, American behavioral geneticist and psychologist, promoted controversial race based genetics.[62]
- Viggo Widerøe, 97, Norwegian aviator and entrepreneur.
9
- Benjamín Casado, 73, Puerto Rican Olympic high jumper (1948).[63]
- Esko Kaonpää, 59, Finnish Olympic ice hockey player (1964).[64]
- Mush March, 93, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks).[65]
- Bill McCutcheon, 77, American actor (Sesame Street, Anything Goes, Steel Magnolias), Tony winner (1988), Alzheimer's disease.[66]
- Wang Ruoshui, 75, Chinese journalist, political theorists and philosopher, lung cancer.[67]
- K. William Stinson, 71, U.S. Representative from Washington.[68]
10
- Olga Biglieri, 86, Italian futurist painter and aviator.
- Andrew Boyd, 91, American Olympic fencer (1936, 1948).[69]
- John Buscema, 74, American comic book artist (Marvel Comics), cancer.[70]
- Wallie Amos Criswell, 92, American pastor, author and two-term president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1968 to 1970.[71]
- Philip Drazin, 67, British mathematician, university teacher and author, an international expert in fluid dynamics.[72]
- Andrés Hammersley, 82, Chilean tennis player.
- Günther Ortmann, 85, German Olympic field handball player (1936).[73]
- Cedric Smith, 84, British statistician.[74]
- Ikkō Tanaka, 71, Japanese graphic designer, heart attack.[75]
- C. R. Vyas, 77, Indian classical singer.
11
- Gerrit Brokx, 68, Dutch politician.[76]
- Gene Dinwiddie, 65, American blues saxophonist.
- Fred Gantt, 79, American basketball player.[77]
- Shanti S. Gupta, 76, Indian-American statistician.[78]
- Walter Heinzel, 94, Czech Olympic bobsledder (1936).[79]
- Henry Pearcy, 79, American basketball player.[80]
- Ajay Mitra Shastri, 67, Indian academic, historian and numismatist.[81]
- Christer Strömholm, 83, Swedish photographer.[82]
- Henri Verneuil, 81, French filmmaker and playwright.[83]
12
- Bernard Bennett, 70, English snooker and billiards player.
- John Berger, 92, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (1936).[84]
- Moss Evans, 76, British union leader, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union.[85]
- Edwin M. Martin, 93, American diplomat and ambassador, pneumonia.[86]
- Harold B. McSween, 75, American politician (U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 8th congressional district) and businessman.[87]
- Max Ordman, 75, South African wrestler and Olympian (1960).[88]
- Ernest Pintoff, 70, American film and television director and animator (Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for The Critic), stroke.[89]
- Henry S. Reuss, 89, American politician.[90]
- Neville Sandelson, 78, British politician.[91]
- Stanley Unwin, 90, South African-born English comedian.[92]
- Cyrus Vance, 84, United States Secretary of State, international peacemaker, pneumonia.[93]
13
- Richard Bolt, 90, American physicist, specializing in acoustics, founded Bolt, Beranek and Newman.[94]
- Ted Demme, 38, American film and television director (Blow, The Ref, Yo! MTV Raps, Beautiful Girls), heart attack.[95]
- Samuel Dolin, 84, Canadian composer and music educator.[96]
- Guadalupe Dueñas, Mexican short story writer and essayist.
- Charity Adams Earley, 83, United States Army officer.[97]
- Paul Fannin, 94, American politician and businessman, Governor of Arizona (1959–1965), U.S. Senator from Arizona (1965–1977), cerebrovascular disease.[98]
- Gregorio Fuentes, 104, Cuban sailor and Ernest Hemingway's first mate, fishing companion and confidant.[99]
- Georges Glasser, 94, French tennis player and president of the Tennis Club de Paris.[100]
- Antonije Isaković, 78, Serbian writer.[101]
- Pierre Joubert, 91, French illustrator and comics artist.
- Frank Shuster, 85, Canadian comedian.[102]
- José María Sánchez-Silva, 90, Spanish writer.[103]
- Christian von Bülow, 84, Danish Olympic sailor (1956, 1964).[104]
14
- Edith Bouvier Beale, 84, American socialite, fashion model and cabaret performer, known as "Little Edie", heart attack.[105]
- Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington, 86, British sociologist, social activist and politician, coined the term "meritocracy".[106]
- David John Hamer, 78, Australian politician.
- Rachel Bubar Kelly, 79, American politician for the Prohibition Party.
- Cele Goldsmith Lalli, 68, American editor, accidental death.
- Bob Prittie, 82, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1962-1968).[107]
- Darrell Robison, 70, American Olympic alpine skier (1952).[108]
- Antonio Sbardella, 76, Italian football player, referee and sports official.[109]
- Olav Selvaag, 89, Norwegian engineer and residential contractor.
15
- Michael Anthony Bilandic, 78, American politician (39th Mayor of Chicago), heart failure.[110]
- Eugène Brands, 89, Dutch painter, an early member of the COBRA avant-garde art movement.[111]
- Jean Dockx, 60, Belgian football player and manager.[112]
- David Epstein, 71, American composer, conductor, and music scientist.
- Miguel Flores, 81, Chilean football player.[113]
- John M. Gaver, Jr., 61, American trainer of thoroughbred racehorses.
- Jeremy Hawk, 83, British actor (Elizabeth).[114]
- Tomislav Kaloperović, 69, Yugoslav and Serbian football player and coach.[115]
- Erhard Minder, 76, Swiss handball player and Olympic modern pentathlete (1952, 1956).[116]
- Vithabai Bhau Mang Narayangaonkar, Indian artist.
- Sakari Olkkonen, 71, Finnish Olympic gymnast (1960).[117]
- Michel Poniatowski, 79, French politician.[118]
- Jozef Smits, 71, Belgian Olympic water polo player (1952, 1960).[119]
16
- John Boulos, 80, Haitian soccer player.
- Robert Hanbury Brown, 85, British astronomer and astrophysicist, pioneered the development of radar and radio astronomy.[120]
- Jean Elleinstein, 74, French historian specializing in communism.[121]
- Henry E. Erwin, 80, American U.S. Army Air Forces airman and recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions in World War II.[122]
- Ivan Foxwell, 87, British film producer and screenwriter (Colditz Story, A Touch of Larceny, The Quiller Memorandum).[123]
- Hipolito Frank Garcia, 76, American district judge (United States District Court for the Western District of Texas).[124]
- Ralph Jacobi, 73, Australian politician.
- Milutin Kukanjac, 67, Yugoslav military officer.
- Bobo Olson, 73, American boxer, Alzheimer's disease.[125]
- Ron Taylor, 49, American actor (The Wiz, The Simpsons, Rover Dangerfield), heart attack.[126]
- Jim Tunney, 78, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
- Michael Walford, 86, British field hockey, rugby, cricket player, and Olympian (1948).[127]
17
- Peter Adamson, 71, British actor (Coronation Street), stomach cancer.[128]
- Camilo José Cela, 85, Spanish novelist, poet, and essayist, 1989 Nobel Prize in Literature, cardiovascular disease.[129]
- Queenie Leonard, 96, British character actress and singer.[130]
- Harvey Matusow, 75, American artist, communist and Federal Bureau of Investigation informer, car accident.[131]
- Eddie Meduza, 53, Swedish rockabilly composer and musician, heart attack.
- Bus Mertes, 80, American gridiron football player and coach, stroke.[132]
- Brian Simon, 86, British educationalist and historian.[133]
- Héctor Tosar, 78, Uruguayan pianist and classical composer.
18
- Raimondo Carnera, 86, Danish Olympic fencer (1952).[134]
- Celso Daniel, 50, Brazilian politician and mayor, murdered.[135]
- Michel Fleury, 78, French historian, archivist and archaeologist, specialising in the history and archaeology of Paris.[136]
- Jovdat Hajiyev, 84, Azerbaijani composers of the Soviet period.
- Alex Hannum, 78, American basketball coach.[137]
- Yasmeen Ismail, 51, Pakistani television actress and theater director.
- Jorma Karhunen, 88, Finnish Air Force ace.
- Charles William Kraft Jr., 98, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania).[138]
- Quincy Smith, 83, American baseball player.[139]
19
- Jeff Astle, 59, English footballer, degenerative brain disease.[140]
- Stanisław Bukowski, 79, Polish Olympic cross-country skier (1948, 1956).[141]
- Jim Cameron, 71, Australian politician (Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly).[142]
- Martti Miettunen, 94, Finnish politician, prime minister.
- Vavá, 67, Brazilian football player and Olympian (1952), heart attack.[143]
- Ricky Womack, 40, American professional boxer (1982 U.S. amateur heavyweight champion), suicide.[144]
20
- John Aveni, 66, American gridiron football player (Indiana University, Chicago Bears, Washington Redskins).[145]
- Walter Carter, 72, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament (House of Commons).[146]
- Jean-Toussaint Desanti, 87, French educator and philosopher.[147]
- Moti Lal Dhar, 87, India drug chemist and academic.
- Carrie Hamilton, 38, American actress (Cool World, Fame), lung cancer.[148]
- John Jackson, 77, American blues musician, liver cancer.[149]
- R. N. Kao, 83, Indian spy and the first chief of India's intelligence agency.
- Ivan Karabyts, 57, Ukrainian composer and conductor.
- Harold Kasket, 75, English actor.
- Rudolf Staffel, 90, American ceramic artist and educator.
- Luule Viilma, 51, Estonian doctor, esotericist and practitioner of alternative medicine, car crash.
21
- Max Angst, 80, Swiss Olympic bobsledder (1956).[150]
- Rolando Barral, 62, Cuban actor and talk show host (El Show de Rolando Barral), often called "the Latino Johnny Carson", stroke.[151]
- Peggy Lee, 81, American singer & actress (Lady and the Tramp, Pete Kelly's Blues, The Jazz Singer), diabetes, heart attack.[152]
- John Arthur Love, 85, American attorney and Republican politician (36th governor of Colorado, first "Energy Czar").[153]
- Adolfo Marsillach, 73, Spanish actor, playwright and theatre director, prostate cancer.[154]
- Charlie Puckett, 90, Australian sportsman.[155]
- Makhan Singh, 63, Indian sprinter and Olympian (1964).[156]
- Zenon Snylyk, 68, Ukrainian-American soccer player and Olympian (1956).[157]
- George Trapp, 53, American basketball player (Atlanta Hawks, Detroit Pistons), stabbed.[158]
22
- Sheldon Allman, 77, Canadian-American singer, actor (Hud, In Cold Blood), songwriter and voice actor.[159]
- Kenneth Armitage, 85, British sculptor.[160]
- Peter Bardens, 56, English keyboardist and a founding member of the British progressive rock group Camel, lung cancer.[161]
- Guido Bernardi, 80, Italian cyclist and Olympian (1948).[162]
- Henry Cosby, 73, American songwriter ("My Cherie Amour", "The Tears of a Clown", "Uptight (Everything's Alright)").[163]
- Eric de Maré, 91, British architectural photographer and writer.[164]
- George W. Dickerson, 88, American college football coach, interim head coach at UCLA for three games in 1958.[165]
- Stanley Marcus, 96, American businessman.[166]
- John McGrath, 66, British playwright and theatre theorist.[167]
- Jean Patchett, 75, American fashion model.[168]
- Salomon Tandeng Muna, 89, Cameroonian politician.
- Jack Shea, 91, American speed skater and Olympian (1932), traffic collision.[169]
- A. H. Weiler, 93, American writer, editor and film critic for The New York Times.[170]
- John Andrew Young, 85, American politician (U.S. Representative for Texas's 14th congressional district).[171]
23
- Paul Aars, 67, American racing driver.[172]
- Louis T. Benezet, 86, American educator and president of multiple colleges.[173]
- Pierre Bourdieu, 71, French sociologist and philosopher (Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste), cancer.[174]
- Charlie Bradshaw, 65, American gridiron football player (Baylor, Los Angeles Rams, Pittsburgh Steelers, Detroit Lions), cancer.[175]
- Thomas Carey, 70, American operatic baritone, pancreatic cancer.[176]
- Domingo Drummond, 44, Honduran football player, heart attack.
- Chet Francis, 83, American basketball player.[177]
- Igor Kipnis, 71, American harpsichordist, pianist and conductor, cancer.[178]
- Vittorio Mero, 27, Italian football player, traffic collision.[179]
- Robert Nozick, 63, American philosopher, lung cancer.[180]
- Pier Giorgio Perotto, 71, Italian electrical engineer and inventor.
- Gerhard Prokop, 62, German football player and manager.[181]
- John Symank, 66, American gridiron football player (Green Bay Packers, St. Louis Cardinals).[182]
- Johannes E. Vecchi, 70, Argentine Roman Catholic priest, Rector Major of the Salesians.
- Phil Warren, 63, New Zealand music promoter and politician, chairman of Auckland Regional Council.[183]
24
- Stuart Burge, 84, British film director, producer and actor (Nottingham Playhouse, Royal Court Theatre).[184]
- Paul B. Carpenter, 73, American politician (California State Assembly, California State Senate), convicted of corruption.[185]
- Nunzio Filogamo, 99, Italian television and radio presenter, actor and singer.
- Peter Gzowski, 67, Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter, emphysema.[186]
- Elie Hobeika, 45, Lebanese militia commander and politician, murdered.[187]
- Irene Kotowicz, 82, American baseball player.[188]
- Upendra Kumar, 60, Indian composer.
- Andrei Mercea, 76, Romanian football player and Olympian (1952).[189]
- Bernie Price, 86, American basketball player.[190]
- Edgar Ritchie, 85, Canadian diplomat.
- Tommy Sampson, 89, American baseball player.[191]
- Kurt Schaffenberger, 81, American comic book artist (Captain Marvel, Superman, Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane).[192]
- Gregorio Walerstein, 88, Mexican film producer and screenwriter.[193]
25
- J. Clifford Baxter, 43, American executive (Enron Corporation), suicide by gunshot.[194]
- Willard Estey, 82, Canadian justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.[195]
- Chris Perry, 73, Indian musician, composer, songwriter and film producer.
- Melvin Perry, 76, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada (1999-2000).[196]
- Winston Place, 87, English cricketer.[197]
26
- Phyllis Bartholomew, 87, English track and field athlete.
- Francisco Cabañas, 90, Mexican Olympic flyweight boxer (1932).[198]
- Dorothy Carrington, 91, British writer, one of the leading scholars on Corsican culture and history.[199]
- Rudolph B. Davila, 85, United States Army officer, World War II Medal of Honor recipient.[200]
- Loonis McGlohon, 80, American songwriter and jazz pianist.[201]
- Harmon Rowe, 78, American football player (New York Yankees, New York Giants).[202]
- Milt Ticco, 79, American basketball player.[203]
- Ray Yochim, 79, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).[204]
27
- Robert L. Chapman, 81, American professor, dictionary editor and thesaurus editor (Roget's Thesaurus).[205]
- Yelena Gorchakova, 68, Russian javelin thrower and Olympic medalist (1952, 1964).[206]
- John James, 87, British racing driver.
- Csaba Kovács, 69, Hungarian rower and Olympian (1952, 1956, 1960).[207]
- Edgar Manske, 89, American gridiron football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Bears, Pittsburgh Pirates).[208]
- Franz Meyers, 93, German politician and Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- Reggie Sanders, 52, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[209]
- Pierre Vago, 91, French architect.[210]
- Alain Vanzo, 73, French opera singer and composer, stroke.[211]
28
- Hilda Carrero, 50, Venezuelan model and actress, cancer.
- Andrew W. Cooper, 74, American activist, journalist, and editor-in-chief of The City Sun, stroke.[212]
- Gustaaf Deloor, 88, Belgian road racing cyclist.[213]
- Herbert Hirche, 91, German architect and furniture and product designer.
- Hennie Keetelaar, 75, Dutch Olympic water polo player (1948).[214]
- Andy Kulberg, 57, American musician, lymphoma.[215]
- Astrid Lindgren, 94, Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays, viral infection.[216]
- Erhard Neumann, 69, American Olympic cyclist (1956).[217]
- Jack Witikka, 85, Finnish film director and screenwriter.
- Ayşenur Zarakolu, 55, Turkish publisher and human rights activist, cancer.[218]
29
- Stephen Wayne Anderson, 48, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
- Suzanne Bloch, 94, Swiss-American musician, teacher and early music specialist.[219]
- Florian Côté, 72, Canadian politician (member of Parliament representing Nicolet—Yamaska, Quebec and Richelieu, Quebec).[220]
- Daniel De Luce, 90, American journalist for Associated Press from 1929 to 1976.
- Richard Grenier, 68, American columnist and film critic, heart attack.[221]
- Sarla Grewal, 74, Indian State Governor.
- Haim Haberfeld, 70, Israeli trade union leader and the chairman of the Israel Football Association.
- R. M. Hare, 82, English moral philosopher, series of strokes.[222]
- Heinz Hennig, 74, German choral conductor and an academic teacher.[223]
- Stratford Johns, 76, South African-born British actor (Z Cars, Softly, Softly, Cromwell), heart disease.[224]
- Dick Lane, 73, American Hall of Fame football player (Los Angeles Rams, Chicago Cardinals, Detroit Lions), heart attack.[225]
- Phil McCall, 76, British actor.
- John R. McGann, 77, American prelate of the Catholic Church.
- Berto Pisano, 73, Italian composer, conductor, arranger and jazz musician.[226]
- Harold Russell, 88, Canadian-American actor (The Best Years of Our Lives), Oscar winner (1947), heart attack.[227]
30
- Carlo Karges, 50, German musician, liver disease.
- Inge Morath, 78, Austrian-born American photographer, cancer.[228]
- Jeanne Robert, 91, French historian and epigrapher.[229]
- Louis Salica, 89, American boxer (1935 and 1940 world bantamweight title), and Olympian (1932).[230]
31
- Ruslan Abdullayev, 57, Azerbaijani football player and manager.[231]
- Francis Acharya, 90, Belgian Roman Catholic monk.[232]
- Ernest Butler, 82, English football player.
- Jim Camp, 77, American gridiron football player (Brooklyn Dodgers) and college football head coach (George Washington University).[233]
- Harry Chiti, 69, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Kansas City Athletics, Detroit Tigers, New York Mets).[234]
- Bettie du Toit, 91, South African trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist.[235]
- Gabby Gabreski, 83, Polish-American World War II and Korean War fighter pilot, heart attack.[236]
- Nelson Guarda, 68, Brazilian Olympic rower (1956).[237]
- Ad Hermes, 72, Dutch politician.[238]
- Henry Kloss, 72, American audio engineer and entrepreneur.[239]
- Jim Letsinger, 90, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Pirates).[240]
- Evelyn Scott, 86, American film and television actress (The Untouchables, Bonanza, Bachelor Father, Peyton Place).[241]
- Ger Stroker, 85, Dutch football player.[242]
- Karel Voous, 81, Dutch ornithologist and author.
- Predrag Vranicki, 80, Yugoslav and Croatian philosopher and Marxist humanist.[243]