# Deaths in May 2002
## Contents

* 1
* 2
* 3
* 4
* 5
* 6
* 7
* 8
* 9
* 10
* 11
* 12
* 13
* 14
* 15
* 16
* 17
* 18
* 19
* 20
* 21
* 22
* 23
* 24
* 25
* 26
* 27
* 28
* 29
* 30
* 31
The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

## May 2002
### 1

* Ade Bethune, 88, American Catholic liturgical artist.
* Aspy Engineer, 89, Indian Air Force officer.
* John Nathan-Turner, 54, British television producer (Doctor Who), infection.
* Tom Sutton, 65, American comic book artist (Vampirella, Doctor Strange, Ghost Rider), heart attack.
* Roger Teillet, 89, Canadian politician.

### 2

* Rosa García Ascot, 100, Spanish composer and pianist.
* Peter Thomas Bauer, 86, Hungarian-British economist.
* Olive Cook, 90, British writer and artist, cancer.
* Constanța Crăciun, 88, Romanian politician and educator.
* Devika, 59, Indian actress, heart attack.
* Carl Heger, 92, Danish actor.
* Sihung Lung, 72, Taiwanese movie and TV actor, liver failure.
* Izet Sarajlić, 72, Bosnian historian of philosophy, essayist, and poet.
* Ron Soble, 70, American actor in films and television.
* Richard Stücklen, 85, German politician, President of the Bundestag.
* Judy Toll, 44, American actress, writer and comedian, melanoma.
* W. T. Tutte, 84, British-Canadian cryptographer during World War II and mathematician.

### 3

* Livingston L. Biddle, Jr., 83, American author and promoter of funding for the arts.
* Malcolm Bosse, 75, American author, known for his historical novels set in Asia.
* Barbara Castle, 91, British Labour politician and female life peer.
* Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal, 73, president of Somaliland and former prime minister of the Somali Republic.
* Mohan Singh Oberoi, 103, Indian hotelier and retailer.
* Yevgeny Svetlanov, 73, Russian conductor, composer and pianist.
* Mariana Yampolsky, 76, Mexican photographer.

### 4

* Don Allard, 66, American football player (New York Titans, Boston Patriots) and coach.
* Clarence Boston, 85, American college football coach, head coach of New Hampshire Wildcats from 1949 to 1964.
* Ernesto Díaz, 49, Colombian football player.
* John Hasted, 81, British physicist and folk musician.
* John Kohn, 76, American writer and producer, cancer.
* Rolf Friedemann Pauls, 86, German diplomat.
* Elizabeth Russell, 85, American actress.
* Gerónimo Saccardi, 52, Argentine football player and manager, heart attack.
* Abu Turab al-Zahiri, 79, Saudi Arabian writer of Arab Indian descent.

### 5

* Randy Anderson, 42, American wrestling referee, testicular cancer.
* Hugo Banzer, 75, Bolivian politician, Bolivian dictator (1971 to 1978), President of Bolivia (1997 to 2001), lung cancer.
* Dick Farman, 85, American professional football player (Washington State, Washington Redskins).
* Andrei Rostotsky, 45, Soviet and Russian actor, film director, screenwriter, and TV host, fall.
* Clarence Seignoret, 83, president of Dominica (1983–1993).
* George Sidney, 85, American film director (Bye Bye Birdie, Viva Las Vegas, Anchors Aweigh), lymphoma.
* Mike Todd, Jr., 72, American film producer, introduced short-lived movie format Smell-O-Vision (Scent of Mystery), lung cancer.
* Čestmír Vycpálek, 80, Czech football player and manager.
* Louis C. Wyman, 85, American politician (U.S. Representative for New Hampshire's 1st congressional district), cancer.

### 6

* Murray Adaskin, 96, Canadian violinist, composer, conductor and teacher.
* Heinz Arndt, 87, German-Australian economist, traffic collision.
* Otis Blackwell, 71, American songwriter, singer and pianist ("Great Balls of Fire", "Don't Be Cruel", "All Shook Up", "Return to Sender").
* James Lawton Collins Jr., 84, U.S. Army brigadier general and military historian.
* Harry George Drickamer, 83, American chemical engineer, a pioneer in high-pressure studies of condensed matter.
* Pim Fortuyn, 54, Dutch politician, assassinated.
* Shanta Gandhi, 84, Indian theatre director, dancer and playwright.
* Bjørn Johansen, 61, Norwegian jazz musician.
* Bronisław Pawlik, 76, Polish actor, stomach cancer.
* Saleh Selim, 71, Egyptian football player and actor, liver cancer.

### 7

* Kevyn Aucoin, 40, American make-up artist and author (The Art of Makeup, Making Faces, Face Forward), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
* Durga Bhagwat, 92, Indian scholar, socialist and writer.
* Bernard Burrows, 91, British diplomat.
* Ewart Jones, 91, Welsh chemist.
* Robert Kanigher, 86, American comic book writer and editor (Wonder Woman, The Flash, Sgt. Rock).
* Masakatsu Miyamoto, 63, Japanese football player and manager, pneumonia.
* Xavier Montsalvatge, 90, Spanish composer and music critic.
* Seattle Slew, 28, American thoroughbred racehorse champion.
* Monica Sinclair, 77, British operatic contralto.

### 8

* Sylvester Barrett, 75, Irish politician (Minister for the Environment, Minister for Defence, Member of the European Parliament).
* Basil Chubb, 80, English-Irish political scientist and author (The Government and Politics of Ireland).
* Edward Jackson, 76, English diplomat (Ambassador to Cuba, Ambassador to Belgium).
* Tilly Lauenstein, 85, German film and television actress.
* Lou Lombardo, 70, American film editor (The Wild Bunch, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Moonstruck), stroke.
* Ahmad Mazhar, 84, Egyptian actor, pneumonia.
* Boyce McDaniel, 84, American nuclear physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project, heart attack.

### 9

* Dan Devine, 77, American football player and coach (Arizona State, Missouri, Green Bay Packers, Notre Dame).
* Robert Layton, 76, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Lachine and Lachine—Lac-Saint-Louis, Quebec).
* Leon Stein, 91, American composer and music analyst.
* Sam Walton, 59, American gridiron football player (East Texas State, New York Jets, Houston Oilers), heart attack.

### 10

* Philip Edward Archer, 77, Ghanaian lawyer and Chief Justice (1991-1995).
* Kaifi Azmi, 83, Indian Urdu poet.
* Lynda Lyon Block, 54, American convicted murderer, executed by electric chair.
* George Cates, 90, American music arranger, conductor, songwriter and record producer.
* John Cunniff, 57, American hockey player and coach (Hartford Whalers, Boston Bruins, New Jersey Devils), esophageal cancer.
* Austen Kark, 75, British television executive, managing director of the BBC World Service.
* David Riesman, 92, American sociologist, educator, and commentator on American society.
* Yves Robert, 81, French actor, screenwriter, director, and producer, cerebral hemorrhage.

### 11

* Joseph Bonanno, 97, Italian-American mafia boss, heart attack.
* Renaude Lapointe, 90, Canadian journalist and a politician.
* Bill Peet, 87, American animator and screenwriter (Cinderella, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland).
* Steve Rachunok, 85, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
* Abida Sultan, 88, Pakistani princess and daughter of Nawab Hamidullah Khan.
* Jerzy Tabeau, 83, Polish Holocaust survivor.
* Nika Turbina, 27, Soviet and Russian poet, suicide by jumping.

### 12

* Edward M. Carey, 85, American oil industry executive.
* Richard Chorley, 74, English geographer, heart attack.
* Luciano Galesi, 75, Italian Olympic sports shooter.
* Bruce Hansen, 74, New Zealand Olympic equestrian.

### 13

* Clinton Adams, 83, American artist, art historian and head of the Tamarind Institute, liver cancer.
* Alan P. Bell, 70, American psychologist (Kinsey Institute).
* Ruth Cracknell, 76, Australian actress (Mother and Son), pneumonia.
* George Gordienko, 74, Canadian professional wrestler and artist, melanoma.
* Valeriy Lobanovskyi, 63, Ukrainian football coach, stroke.
* Douglas Pike, 77, American historian and scholar on the Vietnam War.
* Morihiro Saito, 74, Japanese aikido teacher, cancer.

### 14

* Derek Birley, 75, British educationist, writer and sports historian.
* Rawshan Jamil, 71, Bangladeshi actress and dancer.
* José Lutzenberger, 75, Brazilian agronomist and environmentalist, heart attack.
* Gordon J. F. MacDonald, 72, American geophysicist.
* Dale Morey, 83, American basketball player.
* Ray Stricklyn, 73, American actor and publicist, emphysema.

### 15

* Kofoworola Ademola, 88, Nigerian educationist.
* Bernard Benjamin, 92, British statistician, a leading figure in the field of demography.
* Darwood Kaye, 72, American child actor (Our Gang), hit and run accident.
* Tatiana Okunevskaya, 88, Soviet and Russian actress.
* Bryan Pringle, 67, British actor.

### 16

* Shoichi Arai, 36, Japanese professional wrestling promoter, suicide by hanging.
* Alec Campbell, 103, Australian World War I veteran, nation's last surviving ANZAC at the Gallipoli campaign.
* Jim Dewar, 59, Scottish musician, stroke.
* Big Dick Dudley, 34, American professional wrestler (ECW), kidney failure.
* Kenneth Fung, 90, Hong Kong politician and businessman.
* Salcia Landmann, 90, Jewish Ukrainian writer.
* José Reis, 94, Brazilian scientist, journalist, and science writer.
* José Riesgo, 82, Spanish actor.
* Gavril Serfőző, 75, Romanian football player.

### 17

* Dave Berg, 81, American cartoonist (Mad, The Lighter Side of...), cancer.
* Joe Black, 78, American first Black baseball pitcher to win a World Series game (Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Redlegs, Washington Senators), prostate cancer.
* Edwin Alonzo Boyd, 88, Canadian bank robber and prison escapee of the 1950s (Citizen Gangster).
* James Chichester-Clark, 79, Northern Ireland politician, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1969 to 1971.
* John de Lancie, 80, American oboist, principal oboist of the Philadelphia Orchestra and director of the Curtis Institute of Music.
* László Kubala, 74, Hungarian and Slovak football player.
* Sharon Sheeley, 62, American songwriter.
* Little Johnny Taylor, 59, American singer.
* Aşık Mahzuni Şerif, 61, Turkish folk musician, composer, poet, and author, heart failure.
* Norman Vaughan, 79, English comedian.

### 18

* Sergio Andreoli, 80, Italian football player.
* Song Hye-rim, 65, North Korean actress, best, breast cancer.
* Wolfgang Schneiderhan, 86, Austrian classical violinist.
* Davey Boy Smith, 39, British professional wrestler, myocardial infarction, heart attack.
* Zypora Spaisman, 86, Polish-American actress and Yiddish theatre empresaria.
* Gordon Wharmby, 68, British actor (Last of the Summer Wine), cancer.

### 19

* René de Chambrun, 95, French-American aristocrat, lawyer, businessman and author.
* Raymond Durgnat, 69, British film critic (Films and Filming, Film Comment, Monthly Film Bulletin) and author.
* Herbert Familton, 74, New Zealand alpine skier (men's downhill, men's giant slalom at the 1952 Winter Olympics).
* John Gorton, 90, 19th Prime Minister of Australia.
* Earl Hammond, 80, American voice actor (Thundercats).
* Walter Lord, 84, American historian, Parkinson's disease.
* Otar Lordkipanidze, 72, Georgian archaeologist, heart attack.
* Giuseppe Maria Scotese, 86, Italian screenwriter and film director.
* Bryant Tuckerman, 86, American mathematician.

### 20

* David Abrahamsen, 98, Norwegian forensic psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author.
* Renzo Barbera, 82, Italian businessman and soccer executive.
* Jerry Dunphy, 80, American Los Angeles television news anchor, heart attack.
* Stephen Jay Gould, 60, American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author, cancer.
* Sándor Kónya, 78, Hungarian tenor.
* Eberle Hynson Schultz, 84, American football player.

### 21

* Rogers Albritton, 78, American philosopher, pulmonary emphysema.
* Joe Cobb, 86, American child actor, appeared as the original "fat boy" in the Our Gang comedies.
* Michel Grosclaude, 75, French linguist, and author of works on grammar and lexicography.
* Andrzej Herder, 64, Polish film and theatre actor.
* Roy Paul, 82, Welsh footballer.
* Niki de Saint Phalle, 71, French artist, pulmonary emphysema.
* Bob Poser, 92, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Browns).

### 22

* Fritz Ackley, 65, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
* Christina Cock, 114, oldest verified supercentenarian in Australian history.
* Sultan Ahmed, 64, Indian film director and producer.
* Joe Cascarella, 94, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, Cincinnati Reds).
* Paul Giel, 69, American baseball player (New York/San Francisco Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, Minnesota Twins).
* Warren Hacker, 77, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Redlegs, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox).
* Dick Hern, 81, British racehorse trainer.
* Fritz Hippler, 92, German filmmaker.
* Creighton Miller, 79, American football player and attorney, heart attack.
* Alexandru Todea, 89, Romanian Greek-Catholic cardinal.
* Patrick Wolrige-Gordon, 66, British (Scottish) politician (Member of Parliament for East Aberdeenshire).

### 23

* Umberto Bindi, 70, Italian singer-songwriter, heart disease.
* Wally Fromhart, 89, American football player and coach.
* Timur Novikov, 43, Russian visual artist, designer, art theorist, philosopher, and musician, pneumonia.
* Sam Snead, 89, American golfer, complications from a stroke.
* Dorothy Spencer, 93, American film editor (Stagecoach, Cleopatra, Earthquake).

### 24

* Joseph Bau, 81, Polish-Israeli artist, philosopher, animator, comedian, and poet, pneumonia.
* Susie Garrett, 72, American actress (Punky Brewster) and jazz vocalist, cancer.
* Antonia Pantoja, 79, Puerto Rican educator, feminist, and civil rights leader, cancer.
* Itō Toshihito, 40, Japanese actor, subarachnoid hemorrhage.
* Xi Zhongxun, 88, Chinese communist revolutionary.

### 25

* Pat Coombs, 75, English actress (Till Death Us Do Part, EastEnders, Ooh... You Are Awful), pulmonary emphysema.
* Bart de Graaff, 35, Dutch television presenter/producer and founder of broadcasting network BNN, kidney failure.
* Ștefan Augustin Doinaș, 80, Romanian neoclassical poet, heart failure.
* Zoran Janković, 62, Yugoslavian Olympic water polo player (1964 silver medal, 1968 gold medal, 1972), liver cancer.
* Michel Jobert, 80, French politician, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Pål-Nils Nilsson, 72, Swedish photographer and filmmaker.
* Nathan Mantel, 83, American biostatistician, heart attack.
* Jack Pollard, 75, Australian sports journalist, stroke.

### 26

* Jon Bannenberg, English-Australian yacht designer, brain cancer.
* Flora Lewis, 84, American journalist (The Washington Post, The New York Times), cancer.
* Ivo Maček, 88, Croatian pianist, composer and academian.
* John Alexander Moore, 86, American biologist.
* Vicente Nebrada, 72, Venezuelan dancer and choreographer, cancer.
* Jean-Jacques Petter, 74, French primatologist.
* Mamo Wolde, 69, Ethiopian Olympic long-distance runner (1968 gold medal, 1968 silver medal, 1972 bronze medal), liver cancer.

### 27

* Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson, 93, Scottish historian and paleographer.
* Barbara Hamilton, 14th Baroness Dudley, 95, British noblewoman, member of the House of Lords.
* Shabtai Konorti, 58, Israeli actor (Schindler's List), traffic collision.
* Ray Mathew, 73, Australian author.
* Vitaly Solomin, 60, Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter, stroke.

### 28

* Ibrahim al-Urayyid, 94, Bahraini writer and poet.
* Napoleon Beazley, 25, American juvenile offender, executed by lethal injection.
* Mildred Benson, 96, American journalist and author of children's books (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories), lung cancer.
* Jean Berger, 92, German-American composer and conductor.
* Ruby Bradley, 94, US Army colonel and one of the most decorated women in its military history.
* Norman King, 87, New Zealand politician and cabinet minister.
* David Parker Ray, 62, American serial killer, heart attack.
* Wes Westrum, 79, American baseball player (New York Giants) and manager (New York Mets, San Francisco Giants), cancer.
* Rostislav Yurenev, 90, Soviet and Russian film critic and teacher.

### 29

* Stan Bentham, 87, English footballer, Alzheimer's disease.
* Gunnar Jarring, 94, Swedish diplomat and Turkologist.
* Sándor Mátrai, 69, Hungarian football player.
* Sher Ali Khan Pataudi, 89, Pakistani politician and diplomat.
* Elémire Zolla, 75, Italian essayist, philosopher and historian.

### 30

* Kees Boertien, 74, Dutch politician (Christian Democratic Appeal) and jurist.
* Kenny Craddock, 52, British instrumentalist (Ringo Starr, Ginger Baker, Gerry Rafferty), composer and producer, car crash.
* John B. Keane, 73, Irish playwright, novelist and essayist, prostate cancer.
* Mario Lago, 90, Brazilian lawyer, poet, composer and actor, pneumonia.
* Walter Laird, 81, British ballroom dancer.

### 31

* Jeremy Bray, 71, British politician (member of Parliament representing Middlesbrough West, Motherwell and Wishaw and Motherwell South).
* Subhash Gupte, 72, Indian cricket player.
* Takhir Sabirov, 72, Soviet and Tajik film actor, director and screenwriter.
* Eleanor D. Wilson, 93, American actress (Weekend, Alice's Restaurant, Reds) and artist.