# Deaths in December 2002
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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.

## December 2002
### 1

* Abu Abraham, 78, Indian cartoonist, journalist, and author.
* Edward L. Beach, Jr., 84, American highly decorated United States Navy submarine officer and author (Run Silent, Run Deep).
* Cassius Chapin Cutler, 87, American communications engineer.
* John L. McLucas, 82, American politician and U.S. Secretary of the Air Force.
* Dave McNally, 60, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Montreal Expos), lung cancer.
* José Chávez Morado, 93, Mexican artist.
* Boris Schapiro, 93, British international bridge player.

### 2

* Elizabeth B. Andrews, 91, American politician (U.S. Representative for Alabama's 3rd congressional district).
* Barney Berlinger, 94, American Olympic decathlon athlete (men's decathlon in the 1928 Summer Olympics).
* Achille Castiglioni, 84, Italian industrial designer.
* Aileen Fisher, 96, American children's writer (The Coffee-Pot Face, Runny Days, Sunny Days).
* Ivan Illich, 76, Austrian Roman Catholic priest, theologian, and social critic, brain cancer.
* Boris Ivanov, 82, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.
* György Marx, 75, Hungarian physicist, astrophysicist, and science historian.
* Jim Mitchell, 56, Irish politician, cancer.
* Arno Peters, 86, German historian and filmmaker.
* Vjenceslav Richter, 85, Croatian architect.
* Edgar Scherick, 78, American television executive and producer.
* Mehmet Emin Toprak, 28, Turkish film actor, traffic collision.
* Ben Wade, 80, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates) and scout.
* Mal Waldron, 77, American jazz pianist and composer (Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane).
* Fay Gillis Wells, 94, American pioneer aviator.

### 3

* Adrienne Adams, 96, American children's writer and illustrator.
* Hariharananda Giri, 95, Indian yogi and guru.
* Pierre Guillaume, 77, French Navy officer, cancer.
* Klaus Löwitsch, 66, German actor, pancreatic cancer.
* Glenn Quinn, 32, Irish actor (Roseanne, Angel), heroin overdose.
* Jug Thesenga, 88, American baseball player (Washington Senators).

### 4

* Charles Pierce Davey, 77, American welterweight boxer, complications from paralysis.
* Noémia de Sousa, 76, Mozambican poet.
* Robert Mallet, 87, French writer and academic.
* Hemmo Silvennoinen, 70, Finnish Olympic ski jumper.
* Kacie Woody, 13, American murder victim.

### 5

* Roone Arledge, 71, American television producer and executive (Monday Night Football, Nightline), prostate cancer.
* Bob Berg, 51, American jazz saxophonist, traffic collision.
* Prosper Boulanger, 84, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Mercier, Quebec).
* Geoff Coombes, 83, American soccer player.
* Arvell Shaw, 79, American jazz double-bassist.
* Einar Skinnarland, 84, Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II.
* Ann Welch, 85, British glider pilot (gliding, hang gliding, paragliding, microlight flying).
* Ne Win, 91, Burmese politician and dictator.

### 6

* Jerzy Adamski, 65, Polish featherweight boxer (silver medal winner in featherweight boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics).
* Clarence Beers, 83, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).
* Philip Berrigan, 79, American priest and political activist, kidney cancer.
* Antonino Caponnetto, 82, Italian Antimafia magistrate.
* William Henry Gleysteen, 76, American diplomat and ambassador, leukemia.
* Gerhard Löwenthal, 79, German journalist, human rights activist and author.

### 7

* R. Orin Cornett, 89, American physicist, university professor and inventor of Cued Speech.
* John R. Dellenback, 84, American politician (U.S. Representative for Oregon's 4th congressional district), viral pneumonia.
* Gunnar Helén, 84, Swedish liberal politician.
* Barbara Howard, 76, Canadian painter, wood engraver, and bookbinder, pulmonary embolism.
* Cal Lepore, 83, American gridiron football referee.
* Paddy Tunney, 81, Irish traditional artist.

### 8

* Bobby Joe Hill, 59, American basketball player, heart attack.
* Melvin Lax, 80, American physics professor, cancer.
* Anil Moonesinghe, 75, Sri Lankan revolutionary politician and trade unionist.
* Charles Rosen, 85, American computer scientist.
* Dorothy Walker, 73, Irish art critic and historian.

### 9

* Shigeru Chiba, 83, Japanese baseball player and manager.
* Joly Garbi, 90, Greek actress.
* Mary Hansen, 36, Australian guitarist and singer, traffic collision.
* Ian Hornak, 58, American draughtsman, painter and printmaker, aortic aneurysm.
* To Huu, 82, Vietnamese poet and politician.
* Johnny Lazor, 90, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).
* Stan Rice, 60, American painter, educator, poet, husband of author Anne Rice, cancer.
* Theodore Shackley, 75, American CIA officer known as "the Blond Ghost", cancer.

### 10

* Les Costello, 74, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs) and Catholic priest.
* Kurt Heintel, 78, Austrian film and television actor.
* Earl Henry, 85, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).
* Átila Iório, 81, Brazilian actor, pulmonary emphysema.
* Andres Küng, 57, Swedish journalist, writer, and politician.
* Ian MacNaughton, 76, Scottish director of most episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
* Julie Schmitt, 89, German gymnast and Olympic champion.
* Homer Spragins, 82, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
* Peter Tanner, 88, British film editor.

### 11

* Domocao Alonto, 88, Filipino lawyer, author, and Islamic figure.
* Luis Ciges, 81, Spanish film actor, heart attack.
* Dolly Dawn, 86, American big band vocalist and recording star of the 1930s and 1940s.
* Muzaffer Demirhan, 70, Turkish alpine skier (Winter Olympics: 1948, 1956, 1960, 1964).
* Arthur Metcalfe, 64, British racing cyclist, cancer.
* Nanabhoy Palkhivala, 82, Indian jurist, economist and civil rights leader.
* Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, 97, American photojournalist, cinematographer, and philanthropist.
* Kay Rose, 80, American Oscar-winning sound editor, organ dysfunction.
* Lou Stein, 80, American jazz pianist.

### 12

* Mykola Amosov, 89, Soviet/Ukrainian heart surgeon and inventor.
* Dee Brown, 94, American author and historian (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee), heart failure.
* Nancy Caroline, 58, American EMS physician and writer (Emergency Care in the Streets), multiple myeloma.
* Brad Dexter, 85, American actor and film producer (Run Silent Run Deep, The Magnificent Seven, None but the Brave), pulmonary emphysema.
* Kazuo Kasahara, 75, Japanese screenwriter.
* Jabir Novruz, 69, Azerbaijani artist and poet.

### 13

* Carlos Agostí, 80, Spanish-Mexican film actor.
* Ronald Barnes, 61, Brazilian tennis player, cancer.
* Maria Björnson, 53, French theatre designer, two-time Tony Award winner for The Phantom of the Opera (Best Scenic Design, Best Costume Design).
* Stella Brooks, 92, American jazz singer of the 1940s.
* Ronald Butt, 82, British journalist, political columnist and writer.
* Ksenia Kepping, 65, Russian linguist and tangutologist.
* Anthony Ler, 35, Singaporean graphic designer and convicted murderer, execution by hanging.
* Shirley O'Hara, 78, American actress, diabetes.
* Zal Yanovsky, 57, Canadian folk rock musician, lead guitarist and singer for The Lovin' Spoonful, heart attack.

### 14

* Hank Arft, 80, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).
* Jack Bradley, 86, English football player.
* Sidney Glazier, 86, American film producer.
* Ken Higgs, 72, Canadian football player.
* Ruth Kobart, 78, American performer, pancreatic cancer.
* Salman Raduyev, 35, Chechen separatist field commander, internal bleeding.
* Enrique Tarigo, 75, Uruguayan jurist and political figure, lung cancer.
* Frank Warren, 43, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
* Ray Wietecha, 74, American gridiron football player (Michigan State, New York Giants) and coach.

### 15

* John Crosby, 76, American conductor, founded the Santa Fe Opera.
* Charles E. Fraser, 73, American real estate developer, transformed Hilton Head Island into a world-class resort.
* Vladimir Haensel, 88, American chemical engineer.
* Jan Mikołajczak, 95, Polish rower and Olympic medalist.
* Dick Stuart, 70, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies), cancer.

### 16

* Bill Hunter, 82, Canadian ice hockey player, general manager and coach, cancer.
* Licínio Rangel, 66, Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop.
* Nighat Sultana, 67, Pakistani actress.
* Don Vesco, 63, American businessperson and motorcycle racer, prostate cancer.

### 17

* Colin Clark, 70, British film director and writer (My Week with Marilyn).
* Muhammad Hamidullah, 94, Indian Hadith scholar and academic author.
* Aideu Handique, 87, Indian actress.
* James Hazeldine, 55, English actor and director, aortic dissection.
* Frederick Knott, 86, English playwright and screenwriter (Dial M for Murder).
* Hank Luisetti, 86, American basketball player and innovator.
* Aleksei Pogorelov, 83, Soviet mathematician.
* Boris Tokarev, 75, Soviet sprinter and Olympic silver medalist.

### 18

* Saul Amarel, 74, American computer scientist and artificial intelligence pioneer.
* Earl Audet, 81, American professional football player (USC, Washington Redskins, Los Angeles Dons) and actor.
* Mahmoud Fayad, 77, Egyptian weightlifter (gold medal in featherweight weightlifting at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
* Henry Gibson, 60, American percussionist.
* Lucy Grealy, 39, Irish-American poet and memoirist, drug overdose.
* Necip Hablemitoğlu, 48, Turkish historian and intellectual, shot.
* Ray Hnatyshyn, 68, Canadian politician and Governor-General of Canada, pancreatitis.
* Bert Millichip, 88, British football player and administrator.
* Edward Norris, 91, American film actor.
* Wayne Owens, 65, American politician and a member of Congress, heart attack.
* Jan Łomnicki, 73, Polish film director and screenwriter.

### 19

* Claude Crocker, 78, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
* Will Hoy, 49, British racing driver.
* Barbara Lott, 82, British actress.
* Kote Makharadze, 76, Soviet and Georgian actor and sports commentator, stroke.
* Hrant Matevosyan, 67, Armenian writer and screenwriter.
* Babubhai J. Patel, 91, India politician and chief minister.
* Arthur Rowley, 76, English footballer, holder of the record for most career league goals.
* Aleksandar Sarievski, 80, Macedonian singer-songwriter.
* Roger Webb, 68, British musical director and composer (The Godsend, The Boy in Blue, Death of a Centerfold).
* George Weller, 95, American World War II journalist.

### 20

* Joanne Campbell, 38, British actress, starred in the 1980s comedy series Me and My Girl, deep-vein thrombosis.
* James Richard Ham, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate.
* Gordon McCarter, 71, American gridiron football official.
* Keith Pavitt, 65, English academic.
* Grote Reber, 90, American pioneer of radio astronomy.
* Fritz Røed, 74, Norwegian sculptor.
* Tore Tønne, 54, Norwegian politician, suicide.

### 21

* Jeu van Bun, 84, Dutch football player (football at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
* Duke Callaghan, 88, American cinematographer (Conan the Barbarian, Jeremiah Johnson, Miami Vice).
* José Hierro, 80, Spanish poet, pulmonary emphysema.
* Giò Pomodoro, 72, Italian sculptor, printmaker, and stage designer.
* Victor Watts, 64, British toponymist, medievalist, and academic, heart attack.

### 22

* Mario Ruiz Armengol, 88, Mexican pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor.
* Ian Craib, 57, English sociologist and psychotherapist (The Importance of Disappointment).
* William G. Bennett, 78, American gaming executive and real estate developer (Circus Circus Enterprises).
* Susan Fleming, 94, American actress (Million Dollar Legs, The Ziegfeld Follies) and wife of actor Harpo Marx, heart attack.
* Sanaa Gamil, 72, Egyptian actress, stomach cancer.
* Julius S. Held, 77, German art historian.
* Desmond Hoyte, 73, President of Guyana from 1985 to 1992.
* Wilhelm Kment, 88, Austrian football player and manager.
* Srboljub Krivokuća, 74, Yugoslav and Serbian football manager and player.
* Joe Strummer, 50, former singer for The Clash, heart attack.
* Clay Tanner, 71, American actor.
* Kenneth Tobey, 85, American actor (Twelve O'Clock High, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Thing from Another World).
* Gabrielle Wittkop, 82, French writer (The Necrophiliac), suicide.

### 23

* Tatamkhulu Afrika, 82, South African poet and writer, struck by vehicle.
* Anthony Besch, 78, British opera and theatre director (English National Opera, Scottish Opera, New Opera Company).
* George Bullard, 74, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
* John Henry Kyl, 83, American politician.
* Ratheesh, 48, Indian film actor, heart attack.

### 24

* Kjell Aukrust, 82, Norwegian author, poet, artist and humorist.
* Miguel Busquets, 82, Chilean footballer.
* Luciano Chailly, 82, French-Italian composer and arts administrator.
* Ward Cuff, 89, American football player (New York Giants, Chicago Cardinals, Green Bay Packers).
* James Ferman, 72, American-British film censor and director of British Board of Film Classification.
* Erroll Fraser, 52, British Virgin Island speed skater (men's 500 metres, men's 1000 metres at the 1984 Winter Olympics).
* Tita Merello, 98, Argentinian actress and singer.
* V. K. Ramasamy, 76, Indian actor.
* Richie Regan, 72, American basketball player and coach, heart failure.
* Jake Thackray, 64, English singer-songwriter, heart failure.
* Mihai Țurcaș, 60, Romanian sprint canoeist and Olympic medalist.

### 25

* Gabriel Almond, 91, American political scientist.
* Íñigo Cavero, 73, Spanish aristocrat, lawyer and politician.
* Attilio Lambertini, 82, Italian racing cyclist.
* Tine Logar, 86, Slovenian historical linguist, dialectologist, and academic.
* William T. Orr, 85, American television executive producer (Maverick, F-Troop, 77 Sunset Strip).
* Davina Whitehouse, 90, British-New Zealand actress (Night Nurse, Sleeping Dogs, Braindead), stroke.

### 26

* Louis Laurie, 85, American boxer.
* Åke Lindström, 74, Swedish actor and film director.
* Al Lujack, 82, American basketball player.
* Heinz Raack, 85, German field hockey player and Olympic silver medalist.
* Frank Reiber, 93, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
* Herb Ritts, 50, American celebrity and fashion photographer, pneumonia.
* Armand Zildjian, 81, Armenian-American entrepreneur and manufacturer of cymbals.

### 27

* Truid Blaisse-Terwindt, 85, Dutch field hockey- and tennis player.
* Bill Chipley, 82, American professional football player (Boston Yanks, New York Bulldogs).
* Judy Clark, 81, American film and television actress and singer.
* Daniel Deffayet, 80, French classical saxophonist.
* Youssef Fakhr Eddine, 67, Egyptian actor.
* Carla Henius, 83, German soprano, mezzo-soprano and librettist.
* George Roy Hill, 81, American film director (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, Slap Shot), Parkinson's disease.
* Olli Lounasmaa, 72, Finnish experimental physicist and neuroscientist, drowned.
* Yayori Matsui, 68, Japanese journalist and women's rights activist, cancer.
* Pratima Barua Pandey, 68, Indian folk singer.
* Ruth Svedberg, 99, Swedish track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.
* María Luisa Zea, 89, Mexican actress and singer.

### 28

* Maria Carbone, 94, Italian operatic soprano.
* José Cibrián, 86, Argentine actor.
* Fadia of Egypt, 59, Egyptian princess.
* Clyde Goodnight, 78, American gridiron football player.
* Achyut Kanvinde, 86, Indian architect.
* Koreyoshi Kurahara, 75, Japanese screenwriter and director, pneumonia.
* Albert Stubbins, 83, English footballer.
* Per Voksø, 79, Norwegian newspaper editor and Christian leader.
* Meri Wilson, 53, American model and singer-songwriter ("Telephone Man"), traffic collision.

### 29

* Al Babartsky, 87, American gridiron football player (Fordham University, Chicago Cardinals, Chicago Bears).
* Lloyd Barbee, 77, American lawyer and politician.
* Billy Brown, 84, American triple jumper and long jumper (1941 world long jump leader, 1936 Summer Olympics men's triple jump).
* Ralph Clanton, 88, American actor of film, stage, and television.
* Don Clarke, 69, New Zealand rugby player.
* John G. Dreyfus, 84, British typographer and printing historian.
* Paul Hawkins, 90, British politician.
* Lorenzo Miguel, 75, Argentine labor leader, kidney failure.
* Július Satinský, 61, Slovak actor and comedian.
* Robert Wierinckx, 87, Belgian road bicycle racer.

### 30

* Mary Brian, 96, American actress, silent and sound film star (Peter Pan, The Virginian, Charlie Chan in Paris, Man on the Flying Trapeze), cardiovascular disease.
* Barbara Durham, 60, American judge, first female chief justice of the Washington Supreme Court.
* Wang Fanxi, 95, Chinese Trotskyist revolutionary.
* Eleanor J. Gibson, 92, American psychologist.
* Stan Javie, 83, American gridiron football player.
* Antony Ponzini, 69, American actor.
* Carl Schwende, 82, Canadian fencer and Olympian.
* Mary Wesley, 90, English novelist (Jumping the Queue, The Camomile Lawn, Part of the Furniture).

### 31

* Kazimierz Dejmek, 78, Polish actor, theatre and film director, and politician.
* D. J. Enright, 82, British poet, novelist and critic.
* Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz, 81, American physicist, cancer.
* Kaare Meland, 87, Norwegian politician.
* Hanni Ossott, 56, Venezuelan poet, translator and critic.
* Li Rong, 82, Chinese linguist.
* Desmond Tester, 83, English film and television actor and television presenter.
* Flaviano Vicentini, 60, Italian road race cyclist.