The following is a list ofnotable deaths in February 2002.

Entries for each day are listedalphabetically 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.

• Aykut Barka, 50, Turkish earth scientist, traffic collision.
• Sigurd Berge, 72, Norwegian composer.
• Raymond Crapet, 74, French Olympic sprinter (1948).
• Streamline Ewing, 85, Americanjazz trombonist, worked withLouis Armstrong,Lionel Hampton,Jimmie Lunceford,Cab Calloway.^[1]
• James Bruce French, 80, Canadian-American theoretical physicist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), infection following a stroke.^[2]
• Reed Green, 90, American football, basketball and baseball player and coach (Southern Miss Golden Eagles).
• Hildegard Knef, 76, German actress and singer,pneumonia.^[3]
• Sperry Marshall, 71, Australian Olympic sports shooter (1972).
• Irish McCalla, 73, American actress (Sheena, Queen of the Jungle) and artist,stroke and complications frombrain tumor.^[4]
• Betty Moys, 73, English law librarian and indexer.^[5]
• Daniel Pearl, 38, American journalist,decapitation.^[6]
• Artie Pitt, 88, American Olympic gymnast (1936).
• Vladimir Pyankov, 47, Russian phytophysiologist (Ural State University).
• Norm Reidy, 77, Australian rules footballer (Fitzroy).
• James Ripley, 88, Canadian politician.^[7]
• Orlando Sierra Hernández, 42, Colombian columnist and journalist, gunshot to the head.
• Robert Granville Stone, 94, American philatelist.

• Khalid Akhtar, 81-82, Pakistani Urdu-language writer.^[8]
• Henry Aldridge, 78, American dentist and politician, member of theNorth Carolina House of Representatives (1995–1999).^[9]
• Paul Baloff, 41, American vocalist (Exodus), heart failure.
• Claude Brown, 64, American author (Manchild in the Promised Land).^[10]
• Mende Brown, 81, American writer, producer and director, heart attack.
• Gerry Dialungana, 51, Congolese musician (TPOK Jazz).
• Hugo O. Engelmann, 84, Austrian-born American sociologist, anthropologist and general systems theorist.
• Andy Hansen, 77, American baseball player (New York Giants,Philadelphia Phillies).^[11]
• Ian Clark Hutchison, 99, British politician,MP (1941–1959).
• Ed Jucker, 85, American basketball coach (1961 and 1962 NCAA titles atCincinnati) and baseball coach,prostate cancer.^[12]
• Robin Medforth-Mills, 59, English geographer (University of Durham) and United Nations official.
• Ani Pachen, 68, Tibetan freedom fighter, activist and author, known as Tibet's "warrior nun".^[13]
• Chatchai Paiseetong, 28, ThaiMuay Thai fighter, two-timeLumpinee Stadium Super Bantamweight Champion, heart failure.^[14]
• Remo Palmier, 78, Americanjazz guitarist (Coleman Hawkins,Charlie Parker,Billie Holiday).^[15]
• Beatrice Gilman Proske, 102, American art historian.^[16]
• Oscar Reutersvärd, 86, Swedish graphic artist.
• Kermit Scott, 87, American jazz tenor saxophonist.^[17]
• Hans Sebald, 72, German-born American sociologist (Arizona State University).
• Yvon Thébert, 58, French archaeologist and historian.

• Mazahir Abasov, 83, Azerbaijani historian and military pilot.
• Yahya Adl, 95, Iranian surgeon, considered the father of modern Iranian surgery.
• James Blackwood, 82, American Gospel singer (The Blackwood Brothers).^[18]
• Kay Brownbill, 87, Australian media personality and politician.
• K. Chakravarthy, 65, Indian music director.
• Edward Thomas Chapman, 82, Welsh World War IIBritish Armycorporal and recipient of theVictoria Cross.^[19]
• Rudolf Fleischmann, 98, Germannuclear physicist.^[20]
• Raymond Gérôme, 81, Belgian-French stage and screen actor.^[21]
• Bill Harvey, 82, English football player.
• Margit Lukács, 87, Hungarian stage and film actress (Dankó Pista,Matthew Arranges Things,A Plane Has Not Returned).
• Mel McGaha, 75, American baseball coach and manager.
• Hans Paetsch, 92, German actor.
• William Poy, 94, Australian-born Canadian civil servant and businessman.^[22]
• Clifford Ladd Prosser, 94, American physiologist (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign).^[23]
• András Rapcsák, 58, Hungarian engineer and politician,MP (1994–2002) and mayor ofHódmezővásárhely (1990–2002), pulmonary embolism.^[24]
• Julien Rassam, 33, French actor, suicide.^[25]
• Charles Reep, 97, English football analyst, creator of thelong ball game.
• Lucien Rivard, 87, Canadian criminal, known for a prison escape with a water hose in 1965.
• Nelson Royal, 66, American professional wrestler, trainer and promoter, heart attack.
• Vyacheslav Sazonov, 66, Russian mathematician (Sazonov's theorem).^[26]
• Aglaja Veteranyi, 39, Romanian-Swiss writer, suicide by drowning.
• Donald Erwin Wilson, 69, American Navy admiral, cancer.^[27]

• Abie Ames, 83, American blues and jazz pianist.^[28]
• Hugo Baralis, 87, Argentine violinist, conductor, and arranger.^[29]
• Agatha Barbara, 78, Maltese politician.^[30]
• Sigvard Bernadotte, 94, Swedish prince.^[31]
• Frederick J. Clarke, 86,US Armylieutenant General asChief of Engineers.^[32]
• Sarah Clarke, 82, Irish nun andcivil rights campaigner.
• Tom Connors, 67, English cancer research scientist.
• Bhagwan Dada, 88, Indian actor and film director, heart attack.
• Ralph Fritz, 84, American gridiron football player (University of Michigan,Philadelphia Eagles).^[33]
• Wiesław Gąsiorek, 66, Polish tennis player.
• Reg Gross, 91, Australian rules footballer (Geelong).
• Miloslav Hamr, 85, Czechoslovaktable tennis player.
• Bert Head, 85, English football player and manager.
• Inge Konradi, 77, Austrian stage and film actress, cancer.
• Harry David Link, 84, Canadian politician, member of theLegislative Assembly of Saskatchewan (1964–1967).^[34]
• George Nader, 80, American actor (Six Bridges to Cross,Lady Godiva of Coventry,Sins of Jezebel), cardiopulmonary failure.^[35]
• Helen Dodson Prince, 96, Americanastronomer.
• Broderick Thompson, 41, American gridiron football player (Kansas,San Diego Chargers), traffic collision.^[36]
• Eve Titus, 79, American children's writer.
• Gyula Vincze, 88, Hungarian Olympic wrestler (1936 Summer Olympics).
• Baxter Ward, 82, American television news anchor and two-term member ofLos Angeles County Board of Supervisors.^[37]

• Angela du Maurier, 97, English actress and novelist.^[38]
• Yasutake Funakoshi, 89, Japanese sculptor and painter.
• Paul Grabö, 83, Swedish politician,MP (1971–1973).
• André Jacowski, 80, Polish-born French football player (Stade de Reims,French national team).^[39]
• Mushtak Ali Kazi, 84, Pakistani jurist and writer, cardiac arrest.^[40]
• Kauko Lusenius, 83, Finnish Olympic middle-distance runner (1952 Summer Olympics).
• Raymond Martorano, 74, Italian-American mobster (Philadelphia crime family), shot.
• Robert Mather, 87, Australian politician.
• Victor Miadana, 81, Malagasy politician,Vice President of Madagascar (1971–1972).^[41]
• John Spezzaferro, 80, American football player and coach (Heidelberg College).
• Boris Tamm, 71, Estonian cyberneticist, rector of theTallinn University of Technology (1976–1991).^[42]
• Annalee Whitmore Fadiman, 85, American screenwriter (Andy Hardy Meets Debutante,Babes in Arms) and World War II foreign correspondent,euthanasia.^[43]

• Osman Bölükbaşı, Turkish politician and political party leader,respiratory failure.
• Angela D'Audney, 57, New Zealand television news anchor and actress, brain tumour.^[44]
• Grietje de Jongh, 77, Dutch Olympic sprinter.^[45]
• Sırrı Erinç, 84, Turkish geographer and lecturer.^[46]
• Leonid Hakobyan, 65, Soviet and Armenian politician and economist.^[47]
• Hazel Hannell, 106, American artist and activist.
• Jack Holden, 80, Australian politician, member of theVictorian Legislative Assembly (1955–1967).^[48]
• Andrée Jacob, 95, French journalist and member of theFrench Resistance.^[49]
• Wendell Marshall, 81, Americanjazz double-bassist.^[50]
• Eken Mine, 66, Japanese voice actor.
• Max Perutz, 87, Austrian-born Britishmolecular biologist, and co-winner of the 1962Nobel Prize for Chemistry, cancer.^[51]
• Yehoshua Rozin, 83, Israeli basketball coach.
• Lowell Schoenfeld, 81, American mathematician.
• Guy Stockwell, 68, American actor (Adventures in Paradise,Beau Geste,The Richard Boone Show), complications fromdiabetes.^[52]
• Samuel Lucien Terrien, 90, French-American theologian and biblical scholar (Union Theological Seminary).^[53]
• Herbert Wieninger, 91, Austrian Olympic composer (1936 Summer Olympics).^[54]
• Lady Viola Wilson, 90, Scottish-born Australian opera singer.^[55]
• Melinda Wortz, 61, American art historian and critic, Alzheimer's disease.^[56]

• Annemarie Auer, 88, German author and literary scholar.^[57]
• Walter Bolden, 76, American jazz drummer^[58]
• Elisa Bridges, 28, American actress and model,Playboy magazine'sPlaymate of the Month for December 1994, drug overdose.^[59]
• Bertrand Croset, 60, French bobsledder (1968 Winter Olympics).
• Lilí del Mónico, Swiss-born Paraguayan artist.
• Ellen Demming, 79, American actress (Guiding Light).
• Jack Fairman, 88, British Formula One driver.^[60]
• David Gibson-Watt, Baron Gibson-Watt, 83, British politician.
• John Groves Gould, 89, Canadian politician,MLA (1949–1952).^[61]
• Diane Hart, 75, English actress and political campaigner.
• Bud Helbig, 82, American painter, illustrator and sculptor.^[62]
• Lorne Henderson, 81, Canadian politician.
• César Jaroslavsky, 73, Argentinian politician,MP (1983–1991).
• Wilhelm Johnen, 80, GermanLuftwaffe nightfighter ace during World War II.
• Jerrold Katz, 69, American philosopher and linguist.^[63]
• Tony Pond, 56, British rally driver,pancreatic cancer.^[64]
• William Rupp, 74, American architect, house fire.^[65]
• John Taylor, Baron Ingrow, 84, English soldier, brewer and politician, Parkinson's disease.^[66]
• Rosemary Woodruff Leary, 66, American model and author, wife ofTimothy Leary, congestive heart failure.^[67]

• Elisabeth Mann Borgese, 83, German-Canadian environmentalist, political scientist and writer,pneumonia.^[68]
• Nick Brignola, 65, Americanjazz saxophonist.^[69]
• Ong Teng Cheong, 66, Singaporean politician and fifthPresident of Singapore (1993-1999),lymphoma.^[70]
• Puck de Leeuw, 48, Dutch documentary director, lung cancer.
• William T. Dillard, 87, American retailer (Dillard's Department Stores).^[71]
• Maurice Foley, 76, British politician (Member of Parliament forWest Bromwich).^[72]
• AG Fronzoni, 78, Italian graphic designer, publisher, industrial designer, architect, and educator.
• Joachim Hoffmann, 71, German historian.^[73]
• John Mark Inienger, 56, Nigerian Army major general, traffic collision.
• Lloyd Kiva New, 85, AmericanCherokee artist and designer.^[74]
• Jacob Lofman, 90, Polish-born American photojournalist.
• Esther Afua Ocloo, 82, Ghanaian entrepreneur and pioneer ofmicrolending,pneumonia.^[75]
• Grigory Okhay, 85, SovietMiG-15flying ace during theKorean War.
• Giannis Pathiakakis, 48, Greek football player, heart attack.
• Stan Pavko, 85, American football player and coach (Modesto Pirates).^[76]
• David Pyle, 65, English football player (Bristol Rovers,Bristol City,Trowbridge Town).
• Mu'nis Razzaz, 51, Jordanian writer, brother of Jordanian prime ministerOmar Razzaz.
• Duggie Reid, 84, Scottish football player.^[77]
• Steve Roser, 84, American baseball player (New York Yankees,Boston Braves).
• Eldon Rudd, 81, American politician.
• Heinz Traimer, 80, German-born Austrian graphic designer.
• Henry Williams Jr., 85, American golfer.^[78]
• Bob Wooler, 76, British disc jockey, known for introducingThe Beatles to future manager,Brian Epstein.^[79]
• Zizinho, 80, Brazilian football player, heart attack.^[80]
• Antar Zouabri, 31, Algerian islamist, shot.^[81]

• Miroslav Adlešič, 94, Slovene physicist.
• Michael Joseph Begley, 92, American prelate of theRoman Catholic Church.
• Hung Wai Ching, 96, Chinese-American businessman (Aloha Airlines), cancer.^[82]
• Paul Cornely, 95, American physician, public health pioneer, and civil rights activist, first African American to earn a doctoral degree in public health.^[83]
• John Dowling, 70, Irish Gaelic football and hurling referee,President of the Gaelic Athletic Association (1988–1991).^[84]
• Richard Herbert Foote, 83, Americanentomologist.
• Sarah Fraser Robbins, 90, American writer, educator and environmentalist.
• Fred Gehrke, 83, American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and executive (Denver Broncos).^[85]
• Birkin Haward, 89, English architect, antiquarian, author and artist.^[86]
• Isabelle Holland, 81, American children's author.^[87]
• Arne Jensen, 87, Norwegian banker.^[88]
• Maria Laqua, 112, German supercentenarian, at the time oldest verified person ever in Germany.^[89]
• John Ingvar Lövgren, 71, Swedish serial killer, cancer.
• Bill McElhiney, 87, American musician, band leader, and musical director,Alzheimer's disease.
• Elisabeth Luce Moore, 98, American philanthropist, educator, and volunteer, sister ofHenry R. Luce.^[90]
• Joanna Nickrenz, 65, American record producer, lung cancer.^[91]
• Walter Orlinsky, 63, American politician, president of theBaltimore City Council (1971–1982), cancer.^[92]
• Judson Pratt, 85, American character actor.^[93]
• Vesta M. Roy, 76, American politician.
• Vicente Sardinero, 65, Spanish operatic baritone singer.
• Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, 71, British royal and sister ofQueen Elizabeth II, stroke.^[94]
• Ale Ahmad Suroor, 90, Indian poet and critic.
• Peggy Taylor, 74, American singer and television announcer.^[95]
• Clyde E. Wood, 83, American politician, member of theMississippi House of Representatives (1968–1976).^[96]
• Oleg Zhukov, 28, Russian singer and rapper, brain tumor.^[97]

• Jack Abbott, 58, American criminal and author (In the Belly of the Beast), suicide by hanging.^[98]
• Leslie Barnett, 81, British microbiologist.
• Dominique Barthélemy, 80, French Dominican priest and biblical scholar.
• Chet Clemens, 84, American baseball player (Boston Bees/Braves).^[99]
• Bob Davids, 75, American baseball researcher and writer, bladder cancer.^[100]
• Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora, 77, Spanish essayist and politician.^[101]
• John Erickson, 72, British historian, a leading authority on the Soviet Union and Russia.^[102]
• Ramón Arellano Félix, 37, Mexicandrug lord, shot.
• Joseph W. H. Humphrey, 71, American politician, member of theFlorida House of Representatives (1966–1968).^[103]
• Akira Ishikawa, 67, Japanese jazz drummer and bandleader, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Traudl Junge, 81, German secretary who tookAdolf Hitler's last will and testament (Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary), lung cancer.^[104]
• Jagdish Mandal, 84, Indian politician,MP (1971–1977).
• Ragnar Margeirsson, 39, Icelandic football player (Keflavik,KR Reykjavik,Sturm Graz).^[105]
• Else Poulsson, 92, Norwegian painter and textile artist.^[106]
• Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi, 53, IndianShī'ah scholar, historian, author and poet.
• Ray Smith, 82, Australian politician,MLA (1957–1969).^[107]
• Lotte Specht, 90, German football player, founder of the first women's football club in Germany.
• Jim Spencer, 54, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox,New York Yankees,Oakland Athletics), heart attack.^[108]
• Dan R. Tonkovich, 55, American politician. (body discovered on this date)
• Dave Van Ronk, 65, American folk singer, and an important figure in New York City'sGreenwich Village scene in the 1960s, colorectal cancer.^[109]
• Vernon A. Walters, 85, AmericanU.S. Army officer and diplomat (Deputy Director of the C.I.A.,U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations).^[110]

• Ronnie Abeysinghe, 65, Sri Lankan civil servant,Serjeant-at-Arms of the Sri Lankan Parliament (1970–1996).^[111]
• Boriss Berziņš, 71, Latvian artist.^[112]
• Mary Brooks, 94, American director of theUnited States Mint from 1969 to 1977.^[113]
• Ralph Buchsbaum, 95, Americanzoologist, ecologist and author (Animals Without Backbones).^[114]
• Frankie Crosetti, 91, American baseball player (New York Yankees) and coach (New York Yankees,Seattle Pilots,Minnesota Twins).^[115]
• Barry Foster, 74, British actor, heart attack.^[116]
• Govinda Harishankar, 43, Indian kanjira player, lung cancer.^[117]
• George A. Kasem, 82, American politician (U.S. Representative forCalifornia's 25th congressional district),pneumonia.^[118]
• Leif Larsson, 73, Swedish Olympic sports shooter (1960 Summer Olympics,1964 Summer Olympics,1968 Summer Olympics).
• Mikhail Leitman, 65, Soviet-born Israeli scientist and IT specialist.^[119]
• Karen Marie Løwert, 88, Danish actress (Life on the Hegn Farm,Onkel Bill fra New York,Once There Was a War)^[120]
• Les Peden, 78, American baseball player (Washington Senators).^[121]
• Victor Posner, 83, American businessman, tycoon and corporate raider,pneumonia.^[122]
• Cliff Schmautz, 62, Canadian hockey player (Philadelphia Flyers,Buffalo Sabres,Portland Buckaroos), complications from heart surgery.^[123]
• Gaetano Stammati, 93, Italian politician.
• Frans Van Coetsem, 82, Belgian-born American linguist, cancer.^[124]

• Theresa Bernstein, 111, Polish-American artist and writer.^[125]
• Barbara May Cameron, 47, Americanhuman rights activist.^[126]
• John Dubetz, 85, Canadian politician,MLA (1959–1963).
• William Lee Dwyer, 72, American federal judge (U.S. District Judge of theU.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington).^[127]
• George Eiferman, 76, American bodybuilder, won Mr.Universe in 1962.^[128]
• John Eriksen, 44, Danish footballer, fall.^[129]
• Marie Gibeau, 51, Canadian politician,MP (1988–1993).
• Jim Higgins, 83, American basketball and baseball player.^[130]
• Clarrie Hindson, 94, Australian rules footballer (St Kilda).^[131]
• Ossie Johnson, 95, New Zealand athlete (1930 British Empire Games).
• Erna Low, 92, Austrian-born British businesswoman.^[132]
• Flip McDonald, 81, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles,Brooklyn Tigers,New York Yankees).
• Reg Morgan, 82, Australian rules footballer (Carlton).
• Idé Oumarou, 65, Nigerien diplomat, government minister, and journalist, heart attack.^[133]
• Michele Pantaleone, 90, Italian journalist, politician and mafia expert.^[134]
• Atowar Rahman, 74, Bangladeshi writer, researcher and multilingualist.^[135]
• Mátyás Tóth, 83, Hungarian football player (Újpest,Vasas,Hungary national team).^[136]
• José Travassos, 75, Portuguese football player.
• Margaret Traxler, 77, American religious sister and activist.^[137]

• George Bray, 83, English footballer.^[138]
• Ramón Grosso, 58, Spanish footballer, cancer.
• Carlos Aboim Inglez, 72, Portuguesecommunist intellectual, militant and politician.
• Waylon Jennings, 64, Americancountry music performer, actor, and disc jockey,diabetes.^[139]
• Dick Kleiner, 80, American entertainment columnist and journalist.^[140]
• Manfred Kuschmann, 51, East German long-distance runner.
• Edmar Mednis, 64, American chess grandmaster, complications from pneumonia.^[141]
• Thomas J. H. Trapnell, 99, AmericanU.S. Army lieutenant general.^[142]
• Pauline Trigère, 93, French-Americanfashion designer.^[143]
• Sidney Weighell, 79, British footballer,trade unionist and the General Secretary of theNational Union of Railwaymen.^[144]

• Domènec Balmanya, 87, Spanish football midfielder and manager.
• J. Desmond Clark, 85, British-American archeologist,anthropologist and author,pneumonia.^[145]
• Gene Cook, 70, American professional football player (Detroit Lions), minor league baseball executive and elected official inToledo, Ohio.^[146]
• Norman Davidson, 85, Americanmolecular biologist, a major figure in advancing genome research.^[147]
• Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz, 81, French member of theresistance during WW II.^[148]
• Nándor Hidegkuti, 79, Hungarian football player and manager (gold medal winner inFootball at the 1952 Summer Olympics).^[149]
• A. J. Kardar, 75, Pakistani film director, producer and screenwriter.
• Grover Krantz, 70, Americananthropologist andcryptozoologist, known as aBigfoot researcher,pancreatic cancer.^[150]
• Bud Olson, 76, Canadian politician,Lieutenant Governor of Alberta.^[151]
• John Stevens, 80, English musicologist, literary scholar and historian.^[152]
• Mick Tucker, 54, English drummer for theglam rock bandSweet,leukemia.
• Günter Wand, 90, German orchestra conductor.^[153]

• Doug Cash, 82, Australian politician.
• Mike Darr, 25, American baseball player (San Diego Padres), traffic collision.^[154]
• Munro S. Edmonson, 77, American linguist andanthropologist.
• Lucille Lund, 88, American film actress (The Black Cat).^[155]
• Ke Pauk, 68, Cambodian leader of theKhmer Rouge.
• Jacques Roulot, 68, French fencer.^[156]
• Howard K. Smith, 87, American television anchorman and political commentator,pneumonia.^[157]
• Kevin Smith, 38, New Zealand actor, (Xena: Warrior Princess,Young Hercules), fall.^[158]
• Garry Weston, 74, Canadian businessman (Associated British Foods).^[159]

• Tommy Joe Crutcher, 60, American professional football player (TCU,Green Bay Packers).^[160]
• John W. Gardner, 89, American public servant,U.S. Secretary of H.E.W., cancer.^[161]
• Peter Voulkos, 78, Americanceramist, heart attack.^[162]
• Walter Winterbottom, 88, British football manager, first full-time manager of theEngland football team, surgical complications.^[163]

• Anthony Benjamin, 70, English painter and sculptor.^[164]
• Ross Dowson, 84, CanadianTrotskyist politician.^[165]
• Ehtesham, 74, Bangladeshi and Pakistani film director.
• Paterson Ewen, 76, Canadian painter and sculptor, known for hiscosmological images.^[166]
• Lev Kulidzhanov, 77, Soviet film director and screenwriter, stroke.

• Giustino Durano, 78, Italian actor (Life Is Beautiful).^[167]
• Jack Lambert, 81, American actor.^[168]
• Mohammed Dabo Lere, Nigerian politician.
• Gabriel Mariano, 73, Cape Verdean writer.^[169]
• Warren A. Morton, 77, American politician.^[170]
• Byrne Piven, 72, American actor (Being John Malkovich,Miracle on 34th Street,Very Bad Things),lung cancer.^[171]
• José Ortega Spottorno, 85, Spanish journalist and publisher.^[172]

• Sal Bartolo, 84, American boxer andWBAfeatherweight champion.^[173]
• Lila De Nobili, 85, Italian stage designer, costume designer, and fashion illustrator.^[174]
• Otto Eisenmann, 88, German politician and member of theBundestag.
• Virginia Hamilton, 67, American children's book author,breast cancer.^[175]
• Swede Hanson, 68, American professional wrestler,sepsis.
• Rashid Ahmad Ludhianvi, 79, Pakistani Islamic scholar andfaqīh.
• Sylvia Rivera, 50, American gay liberation and transgender activist,liver cancer.^[176]
• Gene Ruggiero, 91, American film editor.
• Arne Selmosson, 70, Swedish football player and manager.^[177]
• William Davis Taylor, 93, American newspaper executive and publisher ofThe Boston Globe.^[178]

• Laura duPont, 52, American tennis player, 1977U.S. Clay Court Champion,breast cancer.^[179]
• Dennis Kelleher, 83, Irish football player.
• Stephen Longstreet, 94, American writer and artist.^[180]
• Edwin H. May, Jr., 77, American businessman and politician.
• Jean Oser, 94, German-American film editor.
• Branko Stanković, 80, Bosnian Serb footballer and manager.^[181]
• Fredric Steinkamp, 73, American film editor (Grand Prix,Tootsie,Out of Africa),Oscar winner (1967).
• Willie Thrower, 71, American gridiron football player (Michigan State,Chicago Bears), heart attack.^[182]

• A. L. Barker, 83, British author.^[183]
• Laudomia Bonanni, 94, Italian writer and journalist.^[184]
• Roden Cutler, 85, Australian diplomat andGovernor of New South Wales.^[185]
• Bill Faul, 61, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers,Chicago Cubs,San Francisco Giants).^[186]
• Harold Furth, 72, Austrian-Americanphysicist and a leader incontrolled fusion research, heart attack.^[187]
• Pietro Grossi, 84, Italian computer music pioneer, visual artist and hacker.^[188]
• Trevor Hampton, 89, British diver.
• Leroy Milton Kelly, 87, American mathematician.^[189]
• Harold Pruett, 32, American actor (The Outsiders), accidental drug overdose.
• John Thaw, 60, British actor (Inspector Morse,The Sweeney,Kavanagh QC), cancer.^[190]
• Georges Vedel, 91, French public law professor.^[191]
• Harold Weisberg, 88, American civil servant, investigative reporter and author.^[192]

• Paddy Ambrose, 73, Irish football player and coach.
• Maria Corti, 86, Italian philologist, literary critic, and novelist.^[193]
• Vyacheslav Dryagin, 61, Soviet Olympic skier (Winter Olympics men'sNordic combined:1964,1968,1972).^[194]
• Raymond Firth, 100, Britishanthropologist.^[195]
• Chuck Jones, 89, American animator, creator ofWile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, heart failure.^[196]
• Francisco Mora, 79, Mexican artist of the "Mexican School" of mural painters.
• Joaquim Olmos, 86, Spanish racing cyclist.^[197]
• Poncke Princen, 76, Dutchanti-Nazi fighter during World War II and activist.^[198]
• Jonas Malheiro Savimbi, 67, Angolan revolutionary, leader ofUNITA, shot.^[199]
• Barbara Valentin, 61, Austrian actress, cerebral hemorrhage.^[200]
• Ronnie Verrell, 76, Englishjazz drummer.^[201]

• Franz Elbern, 91, German footballer.^[202]
• Bernd Hartstein, 54, German Olympic sport shooter and trainer,leukemia.^[203]
• Peaches Jackson, 88, American film actress.
• Gordon Matthews, 65, American inventor and businessman, considered the father of "voice mail", stroke.^[204]
• Prathyusha, 20, Indian actress, suicide by poisoning.^[205]
• Ryszard Przybysz, 52, Polish Olympic handball player.^[206]

• Martin Esslin, 83, Hungarian-British producer, dramatist, and journalist,Parkinson's disease.^[207]
• David Hawkins, 88, American philosopher and historian of theManhattan Project.^[208]
• Stanislav Libenský, 80, Czech contemporary artist.^[209]
• Arthur Lyman, 70, Americanjazzvibraphone andmarimba player ("Yellow Bird"),esophageal cancer.^[210]
• Leo Ornstein, 106, Russian-born American experimental composer and pianist.^[211]
• Mel Stewart, 72, American actor, television director, and musician,Alzheimer's disease.^[212]
• Robert Strausz-Hupé, 98, American diplomat (U.S. Ambassador to:Sri Lanka,Belgium,Sweden,NATO,Turkey).^[213]
• Hela Yungst, 52, Israeli-American actress (Guiding Light,All My Children) and beauty pageant winner, cancer.^[214]

• Clint Alberta, 32, Canadian filmmaker, suicide by jumping.^[215]
• Claire Davenport, 68, English actress,kidney failure.
• António Dembo, 57, Angolan anti-communist revolutionary, leader ofUNITA,killed in action.^[216]
• Clive L. DuVal II, 89, American politician and lawyer, cancer.
• Afaq Hussain, 62, Pakistani cricketer.^[217]

• L. Balaraman, 70, Indian politician,MP (1984–1991, 1996–1998).^[218]
• Werner Grothmann, 86, GermanWaffen-SS officer during World War II andaide-de-camp toHeinrich Himmler.
• Helen Megaw, 94, Irishcrystallographer.
• Oskar Sala, 91, German physicist, composer and a pioneer of electronic music (The Birds).^[219]
• Lawrence Tierney, 82, American actor (Dillinger,The Greatest Show on Earth,Reservoir Dogs), pneumonia.^[220]
• Tony Young, 64, American actor (Gunslinger,General Hospital,Star Trek), lung cancer.^[221]

• Georges Beaucourt, 89, French football player.^[222]
• Tord Godal, 92, Norwegian theologian and bishop for the Diocese of Nidaros.
• Warren Harding, 77, American rock climber.^[223]
• Spike Milligan, 83, Irish actor, comedian and writer (The Goon Show), kidney failure.^[224]
• Dykes Potter, 91, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).^[225]
• Kosta Angeli Radovani, 85, Croatian sculptor and member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
• Robert W. Rosenthal, 57, American economist (Boston University), heart attack.^[226]
• Surajit Chandra Sinha, Indian anthropologist.^[227]

• Janice Cooper, 62, Australian Olympic high jumper (women's high jump at the1956 Summer Olympics).^[228]
• Ehsan Jafri, Indian politician, killed by a mob.
• Mary Stuart, 75, American actress (Search for Tomorrow), bone cancer, stroke.^[229]
• Helmut Zacharias, 82, German violinist and composer,Alzheimer's disease.^[230]

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