Deaths in October 2002

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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

## October 2002

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### 1

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* Walter Annenberg, 94, American publisher (The Philadelphia Inquirer, TV Guide, Daily Racing Form, Seventeen) and philanthropist.[1]
* Ilie Ceaușescu, 76, Romanian general and communist politician, pneumonia.[2]
* Consuelo Salgar, 74, Colombian journalist, advertising executive, and politician, liver cancer.
* Edeltraud Schramm, 78, Austrian Olympic gymnast.[3]

### 2

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* Norman O. Brown, 89, American philosopher and author (Life Against Death, Love's Body).[4]
* Al Lerner, 69, American businessman, football team owner, and philanthropist.[5]
* Tiberiu Olah, 74, Romanian-Hungarian composer, teacher and musicologist.
* Alexander Sinclair, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.[6]
* Heinz von Foerster, 90, Austrian-American physicist and philosopher, one of the founders of constructivism.[7]

### 3

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* Tad Horino, 81, American film and television actor.[8]
* Felix Kracht, 90, German engineer.
* Bruce Paltrow, 58, American television and film director and producer, pneumonia.[9]
* Dalvanius Prime, 54, New Zealand entertainer and songwriter, cancer.
* John Weitz, 79, American fashion designer, novelist and historian.[10]

### 4

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* Per Bronken, 67, Norwegian poet, novelist, actor, film director and stage producer.
* Alphonse Chapanis, 85, American pioneer in the field of industrial design.[11]
* André Delvaux, 76, Belgian film director, considered the father of the Belgian film industry, heart attack.[12]
* Hans Holmér, 71, Swedish civil servant and author.
* Buddy Lester, 87, American actor and comedian, cancer.
* Ahmad Mahmoud, 70, Iranian novelist.
* Marcel Reymond, 91, Swiss Olympic ski jumper.[13]
* Roy Wilkins, 68, American professional football player (University of Georgia, Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins).[14]

### 5

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* Magda B. Arnold, 98, Canadian psychologist.
* Reginald Hibbert, 80, British diplomat.[15]
* Morag Hood, 59, British actress, cancer.
* Ron Horn, 64, American basketball player.[16]
* Tony Mazzocchi, 76, American labor leader, pancreatic cancer.[17]
* Mia Čorak Slavenska, 86, Croatian-American ballerina.[18]
* Jay R. Smith, 87, American child actor and comedian, stabbed.

### 6

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* Ben Eastman, 91, American runner (silver medal in men's 400 metres at the 1932 Summer Olympics).[19]
* Wolfgang Mischnick, 81, German liberal politician (FDP).
* Prince Claus of the Netherlands, 76, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Dutch diplomat, pneumonia.[20]
* Chuck Rayner, 82, Canadian professional hockey player (New York Americans, New York Rangers).[21]
* Nick Whitehead, 69, British (Welsh) sprinter (bronze medal in men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics).[22]
* Juan Yustrich, 93, Argentine football goalkeeper.

### 7

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* Pierangelo Bertoli, 59, Italian singer-songwriter and poet, heart attack.
* Ralph Harry, 85, Australian diplomat and intelligence specialist.
* Cor Kint, 82, Dutch backstroke swimmer and 1938 European Champion.
* Marcel Paille, 69, Canadian ice hockey goaltender, cancer.[23]
* Domenico Paolella, 86, Italian director, screenwriter and journalist.[24]
* Ed Rossbach, 88, American fiber artist.[25]
* Amanda Zhao, 21, Chinese student.

### 8

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* Jodie Beeler, 80, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).[26]
* Phyllis Calvert, 87, British actress (The Man in Grey, Fanny by Gaslight, The Magic Bow, My Own True Love), kidney failure.[27]
* Jacques Richard, 50, Canadian ice hockey player, car accident.[28]
* Joachim Zahn, 88, German business executive, chairman of Daimler-Benz (1971-1979).[29]

### 9

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* Sopubek Begaliev, 71, Soviet-Kyrgyz economist and politician.
* Charles Guggenheim, 78, American documentary film director, producer, and screenwriter, pancreatic cancer.[30]
* Anwar Hussain, 82, Pakistani cricketer.[31]
* Oleksandr Liashko, 86, Ukrainian politician.
* Carlo Lievore, 64, Italian Olympic javelin thrower.[32]
* Eric Martin, 33, American racing driver, racing accident.[33]
* Jim Martin, 78, American football player.[34]
* Bruno O'Ya, 69, Estonian-Polish actor.[35]
* Aileen Wuornos, 46, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.[36]

### 10

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* Strahinja Alagić, 78, Serbian basketball player and coach.
* Mario de las Casas, 101, Peruvian football defender.
* Tom Casey, 78, American professional football player (New York Yankees, Hamilton Wildcats, Winnipeg Blue Bombers).[37]
* Fate Echols, 63, American professional football player (Northwestern University, St. Louis Cardinals).[38]
* Lawrence H. Fountain, 89, American politician (U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 2nd congressional district).[39]
* Teresa Graves, 54, American actress and singer, house fire, accidental death.[40]
* Denison Kitchel, 94, American lawyer political advisor.[41]
* Abe Most, 82, Swing clarinetist and alto saxophonist.
* Zara Nelsova, 81, Canadian cellist.[42]
* Tom Sullivan, 52, American gridiron football player, accidental death.[43]
* Erling Sørensen, 81, Danish football player and manager.

### 11

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* Betty Molesworth Allen, 89, New Zealand botanist.
* Stewart Crawford, 89, British diplomat.[44]
* Werner Eberlein, 82, German socialist politician and party functionary, heart attack.[45]
* Bill Field, 93, British politician.[46]
* Ron Gray, 82, English football player and manager.[47]
* Maxim Levy, 52, Israeli politician.
* Dina Pathak, 80, Indian actor and director, heart attack.
* Emilio García Riera, 70, Spanish-born Mexican actor, writer and cinema critic.[48]
* Christine Stevens, 84, American animal welfare activist and conservationist.[49]
* Fred Troller, 71, Swiss-born graphic designer.[50]
* Stanley Wagner, 94, Canadian ice hockey player (gold medal in ice hockey at the 1932 Winter Olympics).[51]
* Rusty Wailes, 66, American rower (two Olympic gold medals in rowing: 1956 men's eight, 1960 men's coxless four).[52]

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* Viktor Asmaev, 54, Russian Olympic equestrian (gold medal in equestrian team jumping at the 1980 Summer Olympics).[53]
* Ray Conniff, 85, American bandleader and arranger, fall.[54]
* Carolina Fadic, 28, Chilean actress and television presenter, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Desmond Fitzpatrick, 89, British Army general.[55]
* Audrey Mestre, 28, French world record-setting free diver, drowned.
* Nozomi Momoi, 24, Japanese AV idol, murdered.
* Sidney W. Pink, 86, American movie director and producer.[56]
* William R. Sears, 89, American aeronautical engineer and educator.[57]

### 13

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* Stephen E. Ambrose, 66, American historian and author (Band of Brothers), lung cancer.[58]
* Keene Curtis, 79, American actor (The Rothschilds, Annie, Cheers), Alzheimer's disease.[59]
* Mason Hammond, 99, American educator and scholar.[60]
* Jim Higgins, 71, British politician.[61]
* Billy McAdams, 68, Northern Irish football player and manager.
* Ila Mitra, 76, Indian communist politician and activist.
* Dennis Patrick, 84, American actor, fire.[62]
* Eileen Southern, 82, American musicologist, researcher and author.[63]
* Garfield Todd, 94, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia.[64]
* Herman Fredrik Zeiner-Gundersen, 87, Norwegian Army general.

### 14

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* Bill Green, 72, American politician (U.S. Representative for New York's 18th and 15th congressional districts), liver cancer.[65]
* Timothy Reuter, 55, German-British historian, brain cancer.[66]
* Norbert Schultze, 91, German film score composer and Nazi Party member.[67]
* Arturo Silvestri, 81, Italian football player and manager.[68]

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* Grace Hamblin, 94, British private secretary to Winston Churchill.[69]
* Jack Lee, 89, British film director.[70]
* Paul Paillole, 96, French intelligence services officer.[71]
* Zeev, 79, Israeli caricaturist and illustrator.[72]

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* Per Bak, 53, Danish theoretical physicist, known for "self-organized criticality", myelodysplastic syndrome.[73]
* Philip Brett, 64, British-American musicologist, musician and conductor, cancer.[74]
* Harry Ferrier, 82, Scottish football player and manager.[75]
* Allen Walker Read, 96, American etymologist and lexicographer.[76]
* Henri Renaud, 77, French jazz pianist, record producer, and record company executive.[77]

### 17

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* Derek Bell, 66, Northern Irish musician and composer (The Chieftains), heart attack.[78]
* Pattie Coldwell, 50, British television broadcaster and journalist (Nationwide, Open Air, Loose Women, You and Yours), brain tumor.[79]
* Yara Cortes, 81, Brazilian actress.
* Chuck Domanico, 58, American jazz bassist, lung cancer.
* D. Elmo Hardy, 88, American entomologist.
* Bashful Brother Oswald, 90, American country musician, a frequent Grand Ole Opry performer.[80]
* Yitzhak Peretz, 66, Israeli politician.
* Alina Pienkowska, 50, Polish free trade union activist and politician, cancer.[81]
* Aileen Riggin, 96, American Olympic swimmer and diver.[82]
* Fred Scolari, 80, American basketball player and coach.[83]

### 18

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* Richard Bernstein, 62, American artist, member of the circle of Andy Warhol, complications of AIDS.[84]
* Cecil Blacker, 86, British Army general, Adjutant-General to the Forces.[85]
* Kam Fong Chun, 84, American police officer and actor (Hawaii Five-O), lung cancer.[86]
* John D. Ferry, 90, Canadian-American biochemist, made important contributions to polymer science.[87]
* Roman Tam, 57, Hong Kong cantopop singer, liver cancer.

### 19

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* Peter Bergmann, 87, German-American physicist, known for his work with Albert Einstein.[88]
* Manuel Álvarez Bravo, 100, Mexican photographer.[89]
* John Meredyth Lucas, 83, American writer, director and producer, leukemia.[90]
* Mehli Mehta, 94, Indian conductor and violinist.[91]
* Hans Jürgen Press, 76, German children's writer and illustrator.
* Nikolay Rukavishnikov, 70, Soviet cosmonaut, heart attack.
* Hank Smith, 68, Canadian country music singer.
* Héctor Trujillo, 94, Dominican general and political figure.

### 20

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* Barbara Berjer, 82, American actress (As the World Turns, Another World), pneumonia.[92]
* Hans Eisele, 62, German football player.[93]
* Bernard Fresson, 71, French actor (French Connection II, The Tenant, Street of No Return), cancer.[94]
* Mel Harder, 93, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), coach and manager (Cleveland Indians).[95]

### 21

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* Aldo Canazza, 94, Italian racing cyclist.[96]
* Bernardino Pérez Elizarán, 77, Spanish football player and manager.
* Manfred Ewald, 76, East German Olympic committee president, pneumonia.[97]
* Jesse L. Greenstein, 93, American astronomer.[98]
* George Hall, 85, Canadian theatre, television, and film actor.[99]
* Kemal Kurt, 54, Turkish-German author, translator and photographer.[100]
* Bernhard Neumann, 93, British-Australian mathematician.
* Kaisa Parviainen, 87, Finnish athlete.[101]
* Marquita Rivera, 80, Puerto Rican actress, singer and dancer, stroke.
* Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota, 83, British politician.[102]
* Harbhajan Singh, 82, Indian poet, critic, and cultural commentator.
* Y. R. Swamy, Indian film director and screenwriter.

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* Queen Geraldine of Albania, 87, Queen consort of King Zog I of Albania.
* George Bellak, 83, American television writer.[103]
* Marian Bergeron, 84, American beauty pageant winner (Miss America 1933) and big band singer, leukemia.[104]
* Igor Irodov, 78, Soviet Russian physicist and World War II veteran.
* Robert Nixon, 63, British cartoonist.[105]

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* Lucille Carroll, 96, American Broadway actress and MGM studio executive.[106]
* Adolph Green, 87, American lyricist and playwright.[107]
* Nathan Görling, 97, Swedish composer of film scores.
* Richard Helms, 89, American diplomat and CIA director, multiple myeloma.[108]
* Marianne Hoppe, 93, German theatre and film actress.[109]
* Nathan H. Juran, 95, Austrian-American film and television director.[110]
* David Lewis, 85, New Zealand sailor and adventurer.[111]
* Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, 96, British historian.[112]
* Janos Nyiri, 69, Hungarian-British theatre director, journalist and writer, cancer.[113]
* Danijel Popović, 20, Croatian football player, traffic collision.
* Beulah Quo, 79, Chinese-American actress and activist.

### 24

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* Winton M. Blount, 81, American public servant, business executive and philanthropist.[114]
* Hernando Casanova, 57, Colombian actor, director, singer, and presenter, heart attack.
* Hernán Gaviria, 32, Colombian football player, lightning strike.[115]
* Harry Hay, 90, American gay rights activist and Mattachine Society founder, lung cancer.[116]
* Jose Sebastian Laboa, 79, Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church.
* Charmian May, 65, English actress (You're Only Young Twice, Weirdsister College, Bridget Jones's Diary), cancer.
* Peggy Moran, 84, American film actress, complications from a car accident.
* Scott Plank, 43, American actor, traffic collision.
* Lotte Tarp, 57, Danish actress, lung cancer.[117]

### 25

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* Ian Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford, 85, British peer and writer.[118]
* Micheline Cheirel, 85, French actress.[119]
* Herbert Duffus, 94, Jamaican politician and judge.[120]
* Richard Harris, 72, Irish actor (Camelot, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, This Sporting Life), Hodgkin lymphoma.[121]
* Kōki Ishii, 61, Japanese politician, stab wound.
* Ernest Mancoba, 98, South African avant-garde artist.[122]
* Doug McGibbon, 83, English football player.
* Rainbeaux Smith, 47, American actress and musician, hepatitis.
* René Thom, 79, French mathematician.[123]
* Paul Wellstone, 58, American professor, author and politician (U.S. Senator from Minnesota), aviation accident.[124]

### 26

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* Movsar Barayev, 23, Chechen Islamist militia leader, killed during the Moscow theater hostage crisis.[125]
* Zura Barayeva, Chechen Islamist, killed during the Moscow theater hostage crisis.
* Jacques Massu, 94, French general.[126]
* Stuart Townend, 93, British military officer, athlete, and politician.

### 27

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* André de Toth, 89, Hungarian-American film director (The Gunfighter, House of Wax, The Indian Fighter), aneurysm.[127]
* Tom Dowd, 77, American recording engineer and producer, a pioneer in stereo and multitrack tape recording, emphysema.[128]
* Mohammad Isnaeni, 83, Indonesian politician.
* Michel Macquet, 70, French Olympic javelin thrower and handball player.[129]
* Maurice J. Murphy Jr., 75, American politician and lawyer.
* Valve Pormeister, 80, Estonian landscape architect.
* Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy, 62, Indian trade unionist and politician.
* Baby Lloyd Stallworth, 61, American entertainer, musician, and recording artist, complications of diabetes.
* Walter Volle, 89, German rower, coach and Olympic champion.[130]
* Charles Orville Whitley, 75, American politician (U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 3rd congressional district).[131]

### 28

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* Margaret Booth, 104, American film editor (Mutiny on the Bounty, The Way We Were, Annie), stroke.[132]
* Morris Curotta, 73, Australian Olympic sprinter (1948 Summer Olympics, 1952 Summer Olympics).[133]
* Sugathapala de Silva, 74, Sri Lankan dramatist and novelist.
* Lawrence Dobkin, 83, American television director and character actor (The Ten Commandments, The Defiant Ones, North by Northwest, Patton).[134]
* Laurence Foley, 60, American diplomat and employee of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), homicide.[135]
* Erling Persson, 85, Swedish businessman, founder of H&M.
* Annada Shankar Ray, 97, Indian Bengali poet and essayist.

### 29

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* Marina Berti, 78, Italian film actress, cancer.[136]
* Marion Carpenter, 82, American press photographer, covered President Harry Truman, pulmonary emphysema.[137]
* Glenn McQueen, 41, Canadian animator (Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., A Bug's Life), melanoma.
* Raymond Savignac, 94, French graphic artist.[138]
* Dragan Malešević Tapi, 53, Serbian painter.
* Chang-Lin Tien, 67, Chinese-American educator, 7th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.[139]

### 30

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* Pierre Aigrain, 78, French physicist.[140]
* Alfred Atherton, 80, American Foreign Service Officer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Egypt (1979-1983).[141]
* Juan Antonio Bardem, 80, Spanish film director and screenwriter, heart attack.[142]
* Rudolf Brucci, 85, Croatian composer.
* Jam Master Jay, 37, American musician (Run DMC), shot.[143]
* Lee H. Katzin, 67, American film director, cancer.[144]

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* Yuri Ahronovitch, 70, Russian conductor.[145]
* Edward "Moose" Cholak, 72, American professional wrestler, pneumonia.[146]
* Napier Crookenden, 87, British Army general.[147]
* Jean-Marie Fortier, 82, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate.[148]
* Audrey Hylton-Foster, Baroness Hylton-Foster, 94, British peer.
* Lionel Poilâne, 57, French baker and entrepreneur, helicopter crash.[149]
* Gene Rock, 80, American basketball player, cancer.[150]
* Michael Stasinopoulos, 99, Greek jurist and politician.
* Raf Vallone, 86, Italian actor (A View from the Bridge, Bitter Rice, The Godfather Part III) and journalist.[151]

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