Deaths in July 2002

The following is a list of **notable deaths in July 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.

## July 2002
### 1
*Sid Avery, 83, American photographer (Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn).
*John Barr, 83, American professional basketball player (Penn State, St. Louis Bombers) and coach (Susquehanna University).
*John Kenneth Haviland, 81, American pilot.
*Mikhail Krug, 40,  Russian singer, wounds received after robbery.
*William J. Van Ryzin, 88, United States Marine Corps lieutenant general.
*K. Venkatalakshamma, 96, Indian Bharatanatyam dancer.
*Maritta Wolff, 83, American author, novels adapted to film: *Whistle Stop*, *The Man I Love*.

### 2
*Earle Brown, 75, American composer.
*Ray Brown, 75, American jazz bassist, known for working with Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald.
*Robert I. Friedman, 51, American investigative journalist.
*James Lee, 79, American screenwriter, heart failure and emphysema.

### 3
*Henry Cianfrani, 79, American state senator, a fixture of Philadelphia politics who served prison time on corruption charges, stroke.
*Jimmy Edwards, 49, American professional football player (Minnesota Vikings).
*Earl Francis, 66, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals).
*Josef Haiböck, 85, Austrian the  Air Force general.
*Michel Henry, 80, French philosopher, phenomenologist and novelist.

### 4
*Gerald Bales, 83, Canadian organist, choirmaster and composer.
*Benjamin O. Davis Jr., 89, American U.S. Air Force four-star general and commander of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen.
*Kenneth Ross MacKenzie, 90, American physicist.
*Sir Jake Saunders, 84, British banker.
*Winnifred Van Tongerloo, 98, British-American oldest living survivor of the *Titanic*.
*Gene Wilson, 76, American professional football player (SMU, Green Bay Packers).
*Mansoor Hekmat, 51, Iranian theorist.

### 5
*Harold Dejan, 93, American New Orleans jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader, best remembered as leader of the Olympia Brass Band.
*Brett Hill, 57, Australian Olympic swimmer (men's 200 metre butterfly at the 1964 Summer Olympics).
*Katy Jurado, 78, Mexican actress.
*Zdzisław Mrożewski, 93, Polish actor.
*Paul Weiss, 101, American philosopher and author, founded *The Review of Metaphysics* and the Metaphysical Society of America.
*Wallace Wilkinson, 60, American businessman and politician, 57th Governor of Kentucky.
*Ted Williams, 83, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), manager (Washington Senators/Texas Rangers) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.

### 6
*Dhirubhai Ambani, 69, Indian businessman.
*John Frankenheimer, 74, American film and television director (*Birdman of Alcatraz*, *The Manchurian Candidate*, *Seven Days in May*).
*Kenneth Koch, 77, American poet and playwright.
*William B. Ruger, 86, American firearms designer and entrepreneur.
*Stuart Shorter, 33, British homeless activist.
*Monroe Eliot Wall, 85, American chemist, co-discoverer of drugs that fight cancer.

### 7
*Christian Bizot, 73, French winemaker and head of the Bollinger Champagne house.
*Lester Brinkley, 37, American professional football player (University of Mississippi, Dallas Cowboys).
*Kirkor Canbazyan, 90, Turkish Olympic cyclist (men's individual road race, men's team road race at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
*Bison Dele, 33, American professional basketball player (Denver Nuggets, Detroit Pistons), murdered during a voyage on a catamaran.
*C. Henry Glovsky, 84, American attorney and politician.
*Phyllis Litoff, 63, American  singer, impresario, and artistic director, brain cancer.
*Herbie Screaigh, 91, Australian rules footballer.
*Dorle Soria, 101, publicist, music producer and journalist.
*Decherd Turner, 79, American librarian and book collector.
*John Butler Walden, 62, Tanzanian military officer.
*Ray Wood, 71, English professional footballer.

### 8
*Sir Robert Bellinger, 92, British businessman and Lord Mayor of London.
*Ward Kimball, 88, American animator (*Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs*, *Peter Pan*, *Mary Poppins*).
*Lorna Marshall, 103, American anthropologist.
*Patrick Rodger, 81, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Oxford.
*William Sarjeant, 66, British-born Canadian geologist.

### 9
*Antoine-Roger Bolamba, 88, Congolese journalist, writer and politician.
*Gerald Campion, 81, English actor, starred in 1950s television series *Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School*.
*George Elias, 88, Australian rower (men's eight rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
*William Robinson, 85, Canadian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Ottawa.
*Ron Scarlett, 91, New Zealand paleozoologist.
*Madron Seligman, 83, British politician.
*Kenneth Snowman, 82, British jeweller.
*Dave Sorenson, 54, American NBA and Ohio State University basketball player.
*Rod Steiger, 77, American actor (*In the Heat of the Night*, *On the Waterfront*, *Doctor Zhivago*), Oscar winner (1968), kidney failure.

### 10
*Jean-Pierre Côté, 76, Canadian politician (Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, Senator for Kennebec, Quebec, member of Parliament representing Longueuil, Quebec).
*Laurence Janifer, 69, American science fiction writer.
*Alan Shulman, 85, American composer and cellist.
*Mariya Smirnova, 82, Soviet Air Forces officer during the Second World War.
*John Wallach, 59, American journalist and author, founder of Seeds of Peace.

### 11
*Rosco Gordon, 74, American blues singer and songwriter, heart attack.
*Garry Kelly, 54, Australian politician, suicide.
*Sun Li, 89, Chinese writer from Hebei Province.
*Finnis D. McCleery, 74, US Army soldier and a recipient of the Medal of Honor.
*Roy Orrock, 81, British World War II pilot.
*Tissa Wijeyeratne, 79, Sri Lankan politician, diplomat and barrister.

### 12
*Imad Abu Zahra, 35, Palestinian freelance photo journalist, shot and killed during the Second Intifada.
*Mary Carew, 88, American Olympic sprinter (women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1932 Summer Olympics).
*Edward Lee Howard, 51, American CIA agent who defected to the Soviet Union, broken neck after a fall.
*Mani Krishnaswami, 72, Indian vocalist, cardiac arrest.
*Ghanshyam Oza, 90, Indian Chief Minister.
*Jorge Zaffino, 43, Argentine comic book artist (*Punisher*, *Batman Black and White*, *Hellraiser*), heart attack.

### 13
*Mervyn Bessen, 88, Australian cricketer.
*Yousuf Karsh, 93, Canadian portrait photographer, cancer
*Eric Price, 83, English cricketer.
*Elisabeth Targ, 40, American psychiatrist specializing in psychic phenomena, glioblastoma.
*Percy Yutar, 90, South African attorney general, prosecuted Nelson Mandela resulting in a sentence of life imprisonment.

### 14
*Igor Ansoff, 83, Russian-American economist, educator and author, known for his visionary theories on strategic business management.
*David Asseo, 88, Turkish Chief Rabbi and spiritual leader of the Republic of Turkey from 1960 to 2002.
*Joaquín Balaguer, 95, President of the Dominican Republic (1960 to 1962, 1966 to 1978, 1986 to 1996).
*Nelson Barrera, 44, Mexican professional baseball player, led the Mexican League in career home runs (455) and RBIs (1,927).
*Nabakanta Barua, 75, Assamese novelist and poet.
*Alex Fraser, 78, British-American scientist, recognized as a pioneer in evolutionary computation.
*Fayge Ilanit, 93, Zionist activist and Israeli politician.
*Walter Sheffer, 83, American photographer and teacher.
*Michael Stern, 80, British educator.

### 15
*Charles R. Burton, 59, English explorer, known for being a member of the Transglobe Expedition.
*Gavin Muir, 50, British actor and musician.
*Camillus Perera, 64, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.
*Barbara Randolph, 60, American singer and actress, cancer.
*Pete Seibert, 77, American skier, esophageal cancer.
*Svetlana Zylin, 54, Canadian playwright and director.

### 16
*Alan Charles Clark, 82, British Roman Catholic prelate.
*John Cocke, 77, American computer scientist.
*George Edmund Lindsay, 85, American botanist, naturalist, and museum director.
*Cletus Madsen, 96, American Roman Catholic priest.
*Jack Olsen, 77, American "True crime" writer.

### 17
*Clare Fell, 89, British archaeologist, known for her study of the Langdale axe industry.
*Charles I. Krause, 90, American labor leader.
*Joseph Luns, 90, Dutch politician.
*Ubiratan Pereira Maciel, 58, Brazilian basketball player.
*Lee Maye, 67, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves, Houston Astros, Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators).
*George Rickey, 95, American kinetic sculptor.
*Bobby Worth, 89, American songwriter, his songs were recorded by Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Della Reese.

### 18
*Lee Siew Choh, 84, Singaporean politician and medical doctor, lung cancer.
*Vince Howard, 72, American film and television actor.
*Qiu Huizuo, 88, Chinese Army lieutenant general.
*Metin Toker, 78, Turkish journalist and one time politician.
*Joseph Toland, 73, American Olympic rower at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
*Del Wilber, 83, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox) and manager (Texas Rangers).

### 19
*Dave Carter, 49, American singer-songwriter.
*Bill Craig, 72, Scottish television scriptwriter (*The Vital Spark*, *The Borderers*, *Sunset Song*, *Cloud Howe*, *Grey Granite*).
*Alexander Ginzburg, 65, Soviet dissident.
*Alan Lomax, 87, American documenter of blues and folk songs.
*Spec Shea, 81, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Washington Senators).
*Frank Taylor, 81. English sports journalist.

### 20
*Pedro Alberto Cano Arenas, 33, Spanish footballer, cerebral hemorrhage.
*Carol Haerer, 70, American artist.
*Jan Komski, 87, Polish painter.
*Michalis Kritikopoulos, 56, Greek footballer, cardiac arrest.
*Eagle Pennell, 49, American independent filmmaker.

### 21
*John Cunningham, 84, British World War II nightfighter pilot.
*Millie Deegan, 82, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
*Gus Dudgeon, 59, English record producer ("Space Oddity", "Your Song", "Rocket Man", "Daniel"), car accident.
*Peter Elstob, 86, British soldier, adventurer, novelist and entrepreneur.
*Esphyr Slobodkina, 93, Russian-American artist, author, and illustrator.

### 22
*Joyce Cooper, 93, British Olympic swimmer (one silver medal: 1928, three bronze medals: 1928, 1928, 1932).
*Giuseppe Corradi, 70, Italian footballer.
*James Doolin, 70, American painter and muralist, known for his moody paintings of Los Angeles, Las Vegas and the desert Southwest.
*Marion Montgomery, 67, American jazz singer.
*Prince Ahmed bin Salman, member of the Saudi Arabian royal family.
*Chuck Traynor, 64, American pornographer.

### 23
*Mirza Muzaffar Ahmad, 89, Pakistani civil servant and banker.
*Alan Burrough, 85, British businessman and rower, chairman of James Burrough Ltd, the distiller of Beefeater Gin.
*Alberto Castillo, 87, Argentine tango singer and actor.
*Clark Gesner, 64, American composer, songwriter, author, and actor, heart attack.
*Hermann Lindemann, 91, German football player and manager.
*Ned Martin, 78, American sportscaster, heart attack.
*Leo McKern, 82, Australian actor.
*William Pierce, American neo-Nazi, author of *The Turner Diaries*.
*Chaim Potok, 73, American author.
*Arnold Weinstock, 77, British industrialist and businessman, managing director of the General Electric Company.

### 24
*Edward James Boyle Sr., 88, American judge (United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana).
*Mike Clark, 61, American professional football placekicker (Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Cowboys).
*Pete Coscarart, 89, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates).
*Maurice Denham, 92, British character actor (*The Purple Plain*, *Sink the Bismarck!*, *The Day of the Jackal*).
*Al Silvera, 66, American baseball player (Cincinnati Redlegs).
*Barney White, 79, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).

### 25
*Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher.
*Bob Barr, 94, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
*George Bruce, 93, Scottish poet and BBC producer.
*Frank Connell, 92, American Olympic cyclist (men's individual road race, men's team road race at the 1932 Summer Olympics).
*Rudi Dornbusch, 60, German macroeconomist, made fundamental contributions to international economics.
*Walter A. Fallon, 84, American chemist and business executive, chief executive of the Eastman Kodak Company.
*Izzy León, 91, Cuban-American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
*Angus Montagu, 12th Duke of Manchester, 63, British hereditary peer, heart attack.
*Sadako Moriguchi, 94, American businesswoman (Uwajimaya), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
*Meg Patterson, 79, Scottish surgeon and medical missionary.
*Alexander Ratiu, 86, Romanian-American priest of the Greek-Catholic Church.
*Gearld Wright, 69, American politician.

### 26
*Tony Anholt, 61, British television actor (''Howards' Way*), brain tumor.
*Buddy Baker, 84, American film composer (*The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh*, *The Apple Dumpling Gang*, *The Fox and the Hound'').
*Pat Douthwaite, 67, Scottish artist.
*Kenny Gardner, 89, American singer for Guy Lombardo's band, the Royal Canadians.
*John Currie Gunn, 85, British mathematician and physicist, pneumonia and heart failure.
*Doug Heywood, 77, Australian rules footballer.
*Kōbun Chino Otogawa, 64, Japanese Sōtō Zen priest, drowned.

### 27
*Anatoli Bashashkin, 78, Russian footballer and coach (gold medal winner at the 1956 Summer Olympics).
*Ronald Brown, 80, British politician (member of Parliament representing Shoreditch and Finsbury and Hackney South and Shoreditch).
*Dick Cleveland, 72, American Olympic swimmer (men's 100 metre freestyle at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
*Frank Inn, 86, American animal trainer.
*Billy McCann, 82, American college basketball coach.
*Roscoe Shelton, 70, American blues and R&B singer, cancer.
*Krishan Kant, 75, Indian Politician, Vice President (1997 -2002), Governor of Tamil Nadu (1996 - 1997) and Governor of Andhra Pradesh (1990 -1997), Heart Attack .

### 28
*Anatol Fejgin, 91, Polish communist and political police commander.
*Jack Karnehm, 85, British snooker commentator, heat stroke.
*Ernest Manheim, 102, American sociologist, anthropologist and composer.
*Archer Martin, 92, British chemist.
*Steve Souchock, 83, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers).
*Hal Spindel, 89, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, Philadelphia Phillies).
*Gerhard Wessel, 88, German intelligence officer, President of the Federal Intelligence Bureau.

### 29
*Peter Bayliss, 80, British actor (*The Red Shoes*, *Darling*, *The Sweeney*, *Coronation Street*, *Lovejoy*).
*Elmar Frings, 63, German Olympic pentathlete (1964 pentathlon: team and individual, 1968 pentathlon: team and individual).
*W. W. Law, 79, American  civil rights leader.
*Sudhir Phadke, 83, accomplished Marathi singer-composer from India, brain haemorrhage.
*Phil Smith, 50, American professional basketball player, complications from multiple myeloma cancer.
*Ron Walotsky, 58, American science fiction and fantasy artist, his art appeared on about 500 book and magazine covers.
*Charles Wysocki, 73, American painter.

### 30
*Lyle Benjamin Borst, 89, American nuclear physicist and inventor, worked on the Manhattan Project.
*Ed Bruneteau, 82, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).
*Lucy Herndon Crockett, 88, American novelist (*The Magnificent Bastards*) and artist.
*A. E. Dyson, 73, British literary critic, activist and gay rights campaigner, leukemia.
*Gerald Gunther, 75, German born American constitutional law scholar.
*Fred Jordan, 80, British folk singer.
*Roy Wright, 73, Austrian rules football player.

### 31
*Boris Alexandrov, 46, Soviet and Kazakh ice hockey player (USSR champion team for CSKA Moscow, gold medal winner at 1976 Winter Olympics).
*Erik Andersson, 80, Swedish Olympic athlete (men's decathlon at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
*Sir Peter Ashmore, 81, British admiral and Master of the Household to the Sovereign.
*Raymond Brookes, Baron Brookes, 93, British industrialist and a life peer.
*Pauline Chan Bo-Lin, 29, Hong Kong actress, suicide.
*Gordon Chown, 79, Canadian politician, lawyer and barrister, member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Winnipeg South, Manitoba).
*Sir Maldwyn Thomas, 84, Welsh businessman and politician.

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