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

March 2002

1
John Blume, 92, American structural engineer, known as "the father of earthquake engineering".
C. Farris Bryant, 87, American Governor (34th Governor of Florida from 1961 to 1965).
John Challens, 86, British scientist and civil servant, helped develop Britain's first atomic bomb.
David DiMeglio, 35, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
Leigh Gerdine, 85, American musician, composer, and civic leader, heart attack.
David Mann, 85, American songwriter.
Bob Smith, 76, American professional football player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Detroit Lions).
Hocine Soltani, 29, Algerian boxer, murdered.
Doreen Waddell, 36, British soul singer (Soul II Soul), struck by vehicle.
John Wieners, 68, American poet.
Roger Wilson, 96, British Anglican prelate.

2
Andrés Archila, 88, Guatemalan violinist and music conductor.
Alvin Eicoff, 80, American advertising executive, known as a founder of direct response television advertising.
Pasquale Giannattasio, 61, Italian sprinter.
Friedrich Gorenstein, 69, Russian-Jewish author and screenwriter.
Don Haig, 68, Canadian filmmaker, editor, and producer.
Jason Mayélé, 26, Congolese football player, traffic collision.
Halfdan Rasmussen, 87, Danish poet.
Fritz-Rudolf Schultz, 85, German army officer during World War II and politician.
Alexei Yegorov, 26, Russian ice hockey player (San Jose Sharks), beating.

3
Henry Nathaniel Andrews, 91, American paleobotanist.
G. M. C. Balayogi, 50, Indian lawyer and politician, helicopter crash.
Vijaya Bhaskar, 71, Indian music director and composer, heart attack.
Marvin E. Frankel, 81, American judge (US district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York).
Harlan Howard, 74, American country music songwriter ("I Fall to Pieces", "Busted", "Heartaches By The Number", "Why Not Me").
Charles H. MacDonald, 87, American Air Force officer and a fighter ace during World War II.
Fran McKee, 75, American Navy Rear Admiral.
Al Pollard, 73, American gridiron football player (Army, New York Yanks, Philadelphia Eagles) and broadcaster, lymphoma.
Roy Porter, 55, British historian and writer, heart attack.
H. Keith Thompson, 79, American neo-Nazi and political writer..

4
John A. Chapman, 36, US Air Force combat controller who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
Eric Flynn, 62, British actor and singer (Ivanhoe, The Caesars, Freewheelers), cancer.
Ryō Hanmura, 68, Japanese science fiction, fantasy, and horror author, pneumonia.
Ugnė Karvelisehebeb, 66, Lithuanian writer and diplomat.
Bernard Matemera, 56, Zimbabwean sculptor.
Stephen McGonagle, 87, Northern Irish and Irish trade unionist.
Elyne Mitchell, 88, Australian author.
Prunella Ransome, 59, English actress, throat cancer.
K. V. Raghunatha Reddy, 77, Indian politician.
Shirley Ann Russell, 66, British costume designer, cancer.
Velibor Vasović, 62, Serbian footballer and manager, heart attack.
Jean Elizabeth Geiger Wright, 78, American conservationist, educator, and animal activist.

5
Howard Cannon, 90, American politician (U.S. Senator from Nevada from 1959 to 1983).
Stanisław Jankowski, 90, Polish SOE agent and resistance fighter during World War II.
Surendra Jha 'Suman', 91, Indian poet, writer, publisher and politician, heart failure.
Frances Macdonald, 87, English painter.
Clay Smith, 87, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers).

6
Chuck Chapman, 90, Canadian Olympic basketball player (silver medal in basketball at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
Richard Kenneth Dell, 81, New Zealand malacologist.
Bryan Fogarty, 32, Canadian ice hockey player (Quebec Nordiques, Pittsburgh Penguins, Montreal Canadiens), enlarged heart.
Walter Goodman, 74, American author and journalist for The New York Times.
David Jenkins, 89, Welsh librarian.
Johnny Norlander, 81, American basketball player.
Bill Radovich, 86, American gridiron football player and film actor.
Henry Rapoport, 83, American organic chemist and academic.
Ralph Rumney, 67, English artist, cancer.
Dietrich Schmidt, 82, German Luftwaffe night fighter ace during World War II.
Elizabeth W. Stone, 83, American librarian and educator.
Ernie Williamson, 79, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins, New York Giants, Los Angeles Dons).
Donald Wilson, 91, British television writer and producer (The Forsyte Saga, Doctor Who).

7
Doris Twitchell Allen, 100, American child psychologist.
Geoff Charles, 93, Welsh photojournalist.
Daaf Drok, 87, Dutch football player.
John Goodyear, 81, American gridiron football player.
Troy Graham, 52, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
Mickey Haslin, 92, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Bees, New York Giants).
Ian Vernon Hogg, 75, British author of books and biographies on military subjects.
Mati Klarwein, 69, German painter, cancer.
Franziska Rochat-Moser, 35, Swiss Olympic marathon runner, avalanche .
Charles H. Wright, 83, American physician, founder of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.

8
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin, 85, Beninese politician.
Robin Anderson, 53, Australian documentary filmmaker, cancer.
Al Bonniwell, 90, American basketball player (Akron Firestone Non-Skids).
George F. Carrier, 83, American mathematician, esophageal cancer.
Marțian Dan, 66, Romanian politician and university professor.
Yury Gusov, 61, Russian Olympic welterweight freestyle wrestler.
Sanji Hase, 66, Japanese voice actor, lung cancer.
Peter Holmes, 69, British businessman.
Bill Johnson, 85, American football player (University of Minnesota, Green Bay Packers).
Jansug Kakhidze, 66, Georgian musician, composer, singer and conductor.
Winnie Markus, 80, Czechoslovakia-German actress, pneumonia.
Ted Sepkowski, 78, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees).
Ellert Sölvason, 84, Icelandic football player.

9
Denise Bosc, 85, French film actress.
Carlos Casares, 60, Spanish Galician language writer, cardiac arrest.
Mary Elmes, 93, Irish aid worker credited who saved over 200 Jewish children during World War II.
Leonard Gershe, 79, American playwright, screenwriter, and lyricist, cerebrovascular disease.
Hamish Henderson, 82, Scottish poet.
Bora Spužić Kvaka, 67, Serbian vocalist and recording artist.
Normand Lockwood, 95, American composer.
Mohammad Paziraei, 72, Iranian Greco-Roman flyweight wrestler and Olympic medalist.
Oleg Trubachyov, 71, Soviet and Russian linguist.

10
Elguja Amashukeli, 73, Georgian sculptor and painter.
Louise Carletti, 80, French film actress.
Irán Eory, 64, Iranian-Mexican actress, stroke.
Genevieve Fiore, 90, American women's rights and peace activist.
George Fix, 62, American mathematician, cancer.
Erik Lönnroth, 91, Swedish historian.
George Mungwa, Zambian football coach.
Vladimir Nakhabtsev, 63, Soviet cinematographer and actor.
Gilmore Schjeldahl, 89, American businessman, Alzheimer's disease.
Shirley Scott, 67, American jazz organist, heart failure.
Howard Thompson, 82, American journalist and film critic, pneumonia.
Irene Worth, 85, American actress (Tiny Alice, Sweet Bird of Youth, Lost in Yonkers), Tony winner (1965, 1976, 1991), stroke.

11
Al Cowens, 50, American baseball player (Kansas City Royals, California Angels, Detroit Tigers, Seattle Mariners), heart attack.
Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, 92, German journalist and publisher of Die Zeit, known for opposing Hitler.
George Joseph Gottwald, 87, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
Rudolf Hell, 100, German inventor and manufacturer.
Willibald Jentschke, 90, Austrian-German nuclear physicist.
Franjo Kuharić, 82, Croatian Catholic cardinal, cardiac arrest.
Albert Ritserveldt, 86, Belgian racing cyclist.
Herbert Spencer, 77, British designer, writer and photographer.
Nicholas Gilman Thacher, 86, American diplomat, pulmonary fibrosis.
James Tobin, 84, American economist, cerebrovascular disease.

12
Louis-Marie Billé, 64, French Roman Catholic cardinal, cancer.
Peter Blau, 84, American sociologist.
Steve Gromek, 82, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers).
Abdul Kadir, 57, Pakistani cricket player.
John "Speedy" Keene, 56, English songwriter, vocalist, and drummer, heart failure.
Spiros Kyprianou, 69, 2nd President of Cyprus, cancer.
Jacqueline Patorni, 84, French tennis player.
Heinz Pehlke, 79, Freelance German cinematographer in film and television.
Vitaly Peskov, 57, Russian cartoonist.
Jean Paul Riopelle, 78, Canadian painter and sculptor.

13
Ivano Blason, 78, Italian football player.
Hans-Georg Gadamer, 102, German philosopher.
Abd al-Wahhab Hawmad, 87, Syrian politician, lawyer, and academic.
Nasir Hussain, 75, Indian film producer, director, and screenwriter, cardiovascular disease.
Jacques Jansen, 88, French baryton-martin singer.
Lou Kahn, 86, American baseball player, manager, scout and coach.
Bayliss Levrett, 88, American racecar driver from Jacksonville, Florida, Alzheimer's disease.
Nick Mickoski, 74, Canadian ice hockey forward.
Alice du Pont Mills, 89, American aviator.
Marc Moreland, 44, American rock musician, kidney failure.
Polly Riley, 75, American amateur golfer, cancer.
Ri Tu-ik, 81, North Korean Army officer and politician.
Hubert Wagner, 61, Polish volleyball player and coach (men's volleyball at the 1968 Summer Olympics), traffic collision.

14
Smail Balić, 81, Bosnian-Austrian historian, culturologist and scholar.
Nelson Estupiñán Bass, 89, Ecuadorian writer, pneumonia.
Kevin Danaher, 89, Irish folklorist and author on Irish traditional customs and beliefs.
Karl Gratz, 83, Austrian-German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
Leon L. Van Autreve, 82, American Army Sergeant Major.
Cherry Wilder, 71, New Zealand writer, cancer.
Thomas Winship, 81, American newspaper editor of the Boston Globe from 1965 until 1984.

15
Tamala Krishna Goswami, 55, American Hare Krishna, car accident.
Rand Holmes, 60, Canadian artist and illustrator, Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Oscar Pérez, 79, Argentine basketball player.
Werner Unger, 70, German football player.
Sylvester Weaver, 93, American television executive, credited with creating Today, Tonight, Home, Wide Wide World.
Jairo Zulbarán, 32, Colombian football player, murdered.

16
Kid Azteca, 88, Mexican boxer.
Carmelo Bene, 64, Italian actor, director and screenwriter, cancer.
Isaías Duarte Cancino, 63, Colombian Roman Catholic archbishop, killed by the FARC.
Marcus Fox, 74, British politician (Member of Parliament for Shipley).
Salah-Hassan Hanifes, 89, Israeli politician.
Umar Kayam, 69, Indonesian sociologist and writer, intestinal bleeding.
Ernst Künnecke, 64, German football player and football coach.
Danilo Stojković, 67, Serbian actor, lung cancer.

17
Arthur Altschul, 81, American banker.
Bill Davis, 60, American football coach.
Ernest E. Debs, 98, American politician, California State Assembly (1942–1947), L.A. County Supervisor (1958–1974).
Rajammal P. Devadas, 82, Indian nutritionist and educator.
Van Tien Dung, 84, Vietnamese general in the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN).
Georges Gorse, 87, French politician and diplomat.
Rosetta LeNoire, 90, American actress (Family Matters, The Sunshine Boys, Brewster's Millions), diabetes.
Vasil Mitkov, 58, Bulgarian football player.
Luise Rinser, 90, German writer.
Paul Runyan, 93, American golfer (two-time PGA Championship winner and a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame).
Christian Graf von Krockow, 74, German writer and political scientist.
William Witney, 86, American film and television director, known as a "B" movie action director.

18
Dalton Camp, 81, Canadian journalist, political strategist, and commentator.
Marcel Denis, 79, Belgian comic artist (Tif et Tondu).
Maude Farris-Luse, 115, American supercentenarian, pneumonia.
Denis Forest, 41, Canadian actor, stroke.
Mario Gariazzo, 71, Italian screenwriter and film director.
R. A. Lafferty, 87, American science fiction writer.
Van Leo, 80, Armenian-Egyptian photographer.
Johnny Lombardi, 86, Canadian media tycoon and television producer/host.
Gösta Winbergh, 58, Swedish operatic tenor, heart attack.

19
Marco Biagi, 51, Italian jurist, homicide.
Laura Bohannan, 80, American cultural anthropologist, heart attack.
John Patton, 66, American jazz, blues and R&B musician, complications from diabetes.
David Beers Quinn, 92, Irish historian.
Erkki Salmenhaara, 61, Finnish composer and musicologist.
Bachtiar Siagian, 79, Indonesian film director and scriptwriter.
Naren Tamhane, 70, Indian cricket player.
Eduard Meine van Zinderen-Bakker, 94, Dutch-South African palynologist, stroke.

20
Andra Akers, 58, American actress and philanthropist, complications following surgery.
Ibn al-Khattab, 32, Saudi Arabian Saudi mujahid emir and terrorist, nerve agent poisoning.
Giulio Alfieri, 77, Italian racing and production cars engineer, affiliated with Maserati .
Samuel Warren Carey, 90, Australian geologist, an early advocate of continental drift.
Eugene Figg, 65, American structural engineer, award-winning designer of dozens of bridges (Sunshine Skyway Bridge).
George Macovescu, 88, Romanian writer and communist politician.
Aleksei Yeskov, 57, Soviet football player and coach.

21
David E. Blackmer, 75, American audio engineer, known as the inventor of the DBX noise reduction system and founder of dbx.
James F. Blake, 89, American bus driver, antagonist for the Montgomery bus boycott, heart attack.
Thomas Flanagan, 78, American professor and novelist.
Horst Hauthal, 88, German ambassador.
Renée Massip, 94, French writer and journalist.
Nikos Pangalos, 87, Greek football manager.
Eugene G. Rochow, 92, American inorganic chemist.
Boris Sichkin, 79, Soviet and American film actor, dancer, choreographer, and entertainer.
Herman Talmadge, 88, American politician.
Ernest van den Haag, 87, Dutch-American sociologist, social critic, and author.

22
Rudolf Baumgartner, 84, Swiss conductor, violinist, and music educator.
Jaroslav Cejp, 77, Czechoslovak football player.
Kingsford Dibela, 70, Governor-General of Papua New Guinea.
Marcel Hansenne, 85, French middle distance runner and Olympic medalist.
Hugh R. Stephen, 88, Canadian politician.

23
Enzo Barboni, 79, Italian film director, cinematographer and screenwriter.
John Biby, 90, American Olympic sailor (gold medal winner in 8 metre sailing at the 1932 Summer Olympics).
Richard Bradford, 69, American novelist (Red Sky at Morning, So Far from Heaven).
Antonio Calebotta, 71, Italian Olympic basketball player (men's basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics).
Jack Doolan, 82, American professional football player (Georgetown, New York Giants, Chicago Cardinals).
Lloyd L. Duxbury, 80, American politician and member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
Eileen Farrell, 82, American soprano, performed both classical and popular music.
Piara Singh Gill, 90, Indian nuclear physicist.
Ben Hollioake, 24, English cricketer, car crash.
Marcel Kint, 87, Belgian bicycle racer.
Neal E. Miller, 92, American psychologist.
Minnie Rojas, 68, Cuban-American baseball player (California Angels).
Richard Sylbert, 73, American film production designer and art director (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Dick Tracy, Chinatown), Oscar winner (1967, 1991), cancer.
Leif Wager, 80, Finnish actor.

24
Beverly Bower, 76, American operatic soprano (New York City Opera, Metropolitan Opera), cancer.
Mace Brown, 92, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Red Sox).
Dorothy DeLay, 84, American violin instructor, cancer.
César Milstein, 74, Argentinian biochemist.
Wayne Molis, 58, American basketball player, stroke.
Erik Møller, 92, Danish architect.
Bob Said, 69, American racing driver.

25
Ronald Verlin Cassill, 82, American writer, editor, painter and lithographer.
Eduardo Lim, 71, Filipino Olympic basketball player.
Ken Traill, 75, British rugby league player.
Kenneth Wolstenholme, 81, British football commentator.
Hilde Zimmermann, 81, member of the Austrian Resistance during WWII.

26
Randy Castillo, 51, American musician, Ozzy Osbourne and Mötley Crüe drummer, skin cancer.
Hugh Davis Graham, 65, American historian, sociologist, civil rights scholar and author.
Louis M. Heyward, 81, American producer and film and television writer (The Ernie Kovacs Show, Winky Dink and You), pneumonia.
Gerald Hylkema, 56, Dutch footballer.
Eugen Meier, 71, Swiss footballer.
Joe Schermie, 56, American musician, heart attack.
Taisto Sinisalo, 75, Finnish communist politician, leader of the Communist Party of Finland.
Heinz Welzel, 90, German actor.
Whitey Wietelmann, 83, American baseball player (Boston Bees/Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates) and coach.

27
Milton Berle, 93, American comedian dubbed "Uncle Miltie" and "Mr. Television" (Texaco Star Theater, The Milton Berle Show), colorectal cancer.
Giorgi Melikishvili, 83, Georgian historian.
Dudley Moore, 66, British actor and writer (Foul Play, 10, Arthur), pneumonia.
Cecil Pearce, 87, Australian Olympic rower.
Glen Robinson, 87, American special and visual effects artist, six-time Academy Award winner.
Tadeusz Rut, 70, Polish Olympic hammer thrower.
Geoffrey Sim, 90, New Zealand politician.
Jess Stearn, 87, American journalist and author of more than thirty books, nine of which were bestsellers, heart failure.
Sture Stork, 71, Swedish sailor and Olympic champion.
Lotte Ulbricht, 98, East Germany official and second wife of Walter Ulbricht, fall.
Billy Wilder, 95, Austrian-American film director and screenwriter (Double Indemnity, The Apartment, Some Like It Hot), six-time Oscar winner, pneumonia.

28
Tofail Ahmed, 83, Bangladeshi researcher of Folk Art.
Clarence B. Craft, 80, U.S. Army soldier and a recipient of the Medal of Honor.
Klaus Croissant, 70, East German lawyer of the Red Army Faction and later spy and a political activist.
Tikka Khan, 86, Pakistani army general.
Francis Newton Souza, 77, British artist.
Albert Whitford, 96, American physicist and astronomer, dean of modern photoelectric photometry.

29
Henning Bahs, 74, Danish screenwriter and special effects designer.
John Cameron, 84, Australian baritone opera singer.
James T. Cushing, 65, American professor of physics, philosophy, and the history and philosophy of science.
Franklin S. Forsberg, 96, American publisher and diplomat (U.S. Ambassador to Sweden).
Eberhard Mehl, 66, German fencer and Olympic medalist.
Rico Yan, 27, Filipino model and actor, acute pancreatitis.

30
Anand Bakshi, 71, Indian poet and lyricist.
Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, 101, British consort of King George VI, pneumonia.
Jean Pictet, 87, Swiss jurist and legal practitioner.
Bjørn Spydevold, 83, Norwegian football player and football manager.
Alfie Stokes, 69, British footballer.

31
Yara Bernette, 82, Brazilian classical pianist, heart attack.
Lady Anne Brewis, 91, English botanist.
Edgardo Madinabeytia, 69, Argentine football goalkeeper.
Lucio D. San Pedro, 89, Filipino composer and teacher, cardiac arrest.
Barry Took, 73, English writer, television presenter and comedian, cancer.

References

External links
 List of March 2002 deaths at IMDb

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