The following is a list ofnotable deaths in September 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.

• Yuji Ichioka, 66, American historian andcivil rights activist, cancer.^[1]
• B. V. Karanth, 72, Indian actor and director.^[2]
• Turk Van Lake, 84, American arranger, composer andjazz guitarist.^[3]
• Rodney Taylor, 62,Australian Navy officer,lung cancer.

• Leon Campbell, 75, American gridiron football player (University of Arkansas,Chicago Bears,Pittsburgh Steelers).^[4]
• Abe Lemons, 79, American college basketball player and coach, complications fromParkinson's disease.^[5]
• Ken Menke, 79, American basketball player.^[6]
• Rodica Ojog-Brașoveanu, 63, Romanian writer, severe lung problems.^[7]
• Ahmad Rahi, 78, Pakistani poet and writer.
• F.X. Toole, 72, American boxing trainer and short story writers.^[8]
• Robert Wilson, 75, Britishastrophysicist, known for his research in optical andsolarplasmaspectroscopy.^[9]

• Dirk ter Haar, 83, Anglo-Dutch physicist.^[10]
• Kenneth Hare, 83, Canadian scientist.^[11]
• Ted Ross, 68, American actor (The Wiz,Arthur,Police Academy).^[12]
• William Clement Stone, 100, American businessman, philanthropist andself-help book author.^[13]
• Len Wilkinson, 85, British cricketer.^[14]

• Frankie Albert, 82, American professional football player (Stanford,San Francisco 49ers), Alzheimer's disease.^[15]
• Dave Baker, 65, American professional football player (University of Oklahoma,San Francisco 49ers).^[16]
• Jerome Biffle, 74, American Olympic long jumper (gold medalist1952),pulmonary fibrosis.^[17]
• Jim Constable, 69, American baseball player (New York/San Francisco Giants,Cleveland Indians,Washington Senators,Milwaukee Braves).^[18]
• Andrew Forge, 78, American painter, art critic and professor of painting atYale University.^[19]
• Vlado Perlemuter, 98, Lithuanian-Frenchpianist and teacher.^[20]
• Fozia Soomro, 36, Pakistani regional folk singer, kidney failure.

• K. T. Achaya, 78, Indian oil and food scientist and writer.
• Robert W. Brooks, 49, American mathematics professor, known for his work inspectral geometry andfractals.^[21]
• William Cooper, 92, English novelist.^[22]
• Cliff Gorman, 65, American actor (The Boys in the Band,All That Jazz,Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai),Tony winner (1972),leukemia.^[23]
• Frank Hewitt, 66, Americanhard bopjazz pianist.
• Jackie Kelk, 79, American actor and stand-up comedian, lung infection.^[24]
• Amon Nikoi, 72, Ghanaian economist and diplomat.
• Ingeborg Taschner, 72, German film editor.
• David Todd Wilkinson, 67, Americancosmologist, known forthermalcosmic background radiation, cancer.^[25]

• Michael Argyle, 77, British psychologist, a pioneer ofsocial psychology in Britain.^[26]
• Gabriel Camps, 75, Frencharchaeologist andsocial anthropologist.^[27]
• Bobby Clancy, 75, Irish singer and musician,pulmonary fibrosis.
• Rafael Druian, 79, American violinist and conductor (New York Philharmonic,Cleveland Orchestra).^[28]
• Orvan Hess, 96, American physician.^[29]
• Géza Hollósi, 64, Hungarian Olympic wrestler.^[30]
• Philip LaBatte, 91, American ice hockey player.^[31]
• Martin Matsbo, 90, Swedish cross-country skier and Olympic medalist.^[32]
• Janet Young, Baroness Young, 75, British politician (Leader of the House of Lords), cancer.^[33]

• Katrin Cartlidge, 41, English actress (Brookside,Before the Rain,Breaking the Waves), complications frompneumonia andsepsis.^[34]
• Jonathan Charney, 59, American academic, author, and lawyer.
• Eugenio Coșeriu, 81, linguist specialized inRomance languages.^[35]
• Michael Elphick, 55, English actor (Boon,EastEnders,Gorky Park,Private Schulz), heart attack.^[36]
• Cyrinda Foxe, 50, American actress, model and publicist,brain cancer.
• John Paul Frank, 84, American lawyer and scholar, helped shapeU.S. Supreme Court cases (Brown v. Board of Education,Miranda v. Arizona).^[37]
• Erma Franklin, 64, American gospel and soul singer ("Piece of My Heart"), older sister ofAretha Franklin, laryngeal cancer.^[38]
• Uziel Gal, 78, German-Israeli firearm designer who invented theUzi submachine gun, cancer.^[39]

• Georges-André Chevallaz, 87, Swiss historian and politician.
• Rulon Jeffs, 92, Americanpolygamist and religious leader.
• Lucas Moreira Neves, 76, BrazilianRoman Catholic prelate.^[40]
• Henri Rol-Tanguy, 94, French communist and a leader in the Resistance during World War II.^[41]
• Marco Siffredi, 23, Frenchsnowboarder (last seen on this date).
• Laurie Williams, 33, West Indian cricketer, car accident.^[42]

• Tom Bradley, 76, British politician (member of Parliament representingLeicester North East andLeicester East).^[43]
• Geoffrey Dummer, 92, English electronics engineer, built the first prototype of theintegrated circuit.^[44]
• Gerald W. Johnson, 83,US Air Force lieutenant general andflying ace during World War II.
• José Luis Massera, 87, Uruguayan mathematician.^[45]

• Augusto Lamo Castillo, 63, Spanish football referee.
• René Cousineau, 72, Canadian politician (member ofParliament representingGatineau, Quebec).^[46]
• Sandor Elès, 66, Hungarian actor.
• Alexander Farrelly, 78, American politician, governor of theUnited States Virgin Islands from 1987 to 1995.^[47]
• David Grene, 89, Irish-American professor ofclassics.^[48]
• Kuo Pao Kun, 63, Chinese playwright, theatre director, and arts activist, kidney and liver cancer.
• Žarana Papić, 53, Serbiansocial anthropologist and feminist theorist.
• T. Viswanathan, 75, Indian musician specializing in thecarnatic flute and voice.^[49]

• Kim Hunter, 79, American actress (A Streetcar Named Desire,Planet of the Apes,The Edge of Night),Oscar winner (1952), heart attack.^[50]
• Howard Levi, 85, American mathematician.
• Howard T. Odum, 78, Americanecologist.^[51]
• Johnny Unitas, 69, American gridiron football player and a member of thePro Football Hall of Fame, cardiovascular renal disease.^[52]
• David Wisniewski, 49, American writer and illustrator of children's books.^[53]

• Lloyd Biggle, Jr., 79, American musician and author,leukemia and cancer.^[54]
• Mitsuo Ikeda, 67, Japanese freestyle wrestler and Olympic gold medalist.^[55]
• Sheikh Mohammad Rashid, 87, Pakistani politician.
• Neil Shields, 83, British politician and businessman.^[56]

• Sir Douglas Black, 89, British physician, played a key role in the development of theNational Health Service.^[57]
• Richard Foster, 83, Americanmodernistarchitect.^[58]
• George Hills, 84, British journalist and historian.
• Alexander Kazantsev, 96, Soviet and Russianscience fiction writer,ufologist and chess composer.
• Charles Herbert Lowe, 82, American biologist.^[59]
• William Phillips, 94, American editor, writer and public intellectual.^[60]
• Brooks Richards, 84, British diplomat andSOE operative.^[61]
• Blanca de Silos, 88, Spanish film actress.
• George Stanley, 95, Canadian historian and public servant.^[62]

• Jim "Bad News" Barnes, 61, American basketball player (gold medal at the1964 Summer Olympics,Los Angeles Lakers,Boston Celtics), heart problems.^[63]
• Frederic Bennett, 83, British journalist, barrister politician (member of Parliament forTorbay,Torquay andReading North).^[64]
• Roberto Cavanagh, 87, Argentine polo player.^[65]
• Michael Greer, 64, American actor, comedian and cabaret performer, cancer.
• Jim McKee, 55, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), traffic collision.^[66]
• LaWanda Page, 81, American actress (Sanford and Son), diabetes.^[67]
• Lolita Torres, 72, Argentine film actress andsoprano.^[68]
• Paul Williams, 87, African Americanjazz andblues saxophonist, bandleader, and songwriter ("The Huckle-Buck").^[69]

• Kay Espenhayn, 34, Germanparalympic swimmer, complications tolung,kidney andheart disease.
• Jenny Maakal, 89, South African freestyle swimmer and Olympic medalist.^[70]
• James Mitchell, 76, British writer, principally of crime fiction and spy thrillers.^[71]
• Jean Rousset, 92, Swiss literary critic.^[72]

• James Gregory, 90, American actor (Barney Miller,The Manchurian Candidate,The Lawless Years).^[73]
• Archibald Hall, 78, British criminal known as the "Killer Butler", stroke.
• Jiří Javorský, 70, Czech tennis player.
• Raymond Reiter, 63, Canadian computer scientist andlogician.
• Mary Stott, 95, British journalist and feminist.^[74]
• Nguyen Van Thuan, 74, VietnameseRoman Catholic prelate, cancer.^[75]
• Jean Vernette, 73, FrenchRoman Catholic prelate and researcher ofcults.^[76]

• Eileen Colwell, 98, British author and librarian.^[77]
• Jack Ferguson, 78, Australian politician (Deputy Premier of New South Wales),mesothelioma.^[78]
• Denys Fisher, 84, British inventor of theSpirograph.
• James Macdonald, 83, Scottish-Australianornithologist.^[79]
• Dodo Marmarosa, 76, Americanjazz pianist, composer, and arranger.^[80]
• Govind Perumal, 76, Indian field hockey player and Olympic champion.^[81]
• Edvaldo Alves de Santa Rosa, 68, Brazilian football player and manager, cancer.

• Hazel Brooks, 78, American actress.^[82]
• Andreas Burnier, 71, Dutch writer who focussed onhomosexuality,transsexuality anddiscrimination, intracranial hemorrhage.^[83]
• Boris Carmi, 88, Russian-Israeli photographer.
• Bob Hayes, 59, American football playerDallas Cowboys and a member of thePro Football Hall of Fame,prostate cancer.^[84]
• Mauro Ramos, 72, Brazilian football player,intestinal cancer.^[85]
• Shivaji Sawant, 62, Indian novelist in theMarathi language.
• Herbert Schmidt, 88, German rower and Olympic medalist.^[86]
• Margita Stefanović, 43, Serbian musician, complications fromHIV.

• Albert Ando, 72, Japanese-American economist,leukemia.^[87]
• John Arundel, 74, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).^[88]
• Robert Guéï, 61, Ivorian politician and its military ruler (1999-2000), murdered along with his family.^[89]
• Duncan Hallas, 76, British communist politician andMarxist theorist.^[90]
• Ian Hutchinson, 54, English football player.^[91]
• Francisco Lojacono, 66, Italian Argentine football player and manager.
• Priya Tendulkar, 47, Indian actress,social activist and writer, heart attack.
• Carl W. Thompson, 88, American lawyer and Democratic politician.
• Tatyana Velikanova, 70, Soviet dissident andmathematician.

• Les Auge, 49, American professional ice hockey player (Colorado Rockies).^[92]
• Sergey Bodrov, Jr., 30, Russian movie star,Kolka-Karmadon rock ice slide, accidental death.^[93]
• Bruce Edwards, 90, American actor and photographer.
• Necdet Kent, 91, Turkish diplomat and humanitarian.
• Eduardo Gudiño Kieffer, 66, Argentine writer.
• Joan Littlewood, 87, English theatre director.^[94]
• Pat Saward, 74, English football player,Alzheimer's disease.^[95]
• Bob Wallace, 53, American computer scientist, helped invent "shareware" software marketing.^[96]

• Henry Pybus Bell-Irving, 89, Canadian World War II commander andLieutenant Governor of British Columbia.^[97]
• Angelo Buono, 67, American serial killer, kidnapper and rapist (the "Hillside Strangler"), heart attack.^[98]
• Robert L. Forward, 70, American physicist and science fiction author, foundedTethers Unlimited to manufacturetethers forNASA.^[99]
• Peter Kowald, 58, Germanfree jazzdouble bassist and tubist, heart attack.^[100]
• Maurice Manson, 89, Canadian actor.^[101]
• Rocco Rock, 49, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Robert White, 81, American sculptor, professor and poet.^[102]

• Don Carlsen, 75, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs,Pittsburgh Pirates).^[103]
• Jan de Hartog, 88, Dutch-Americannovelist and playwright.^[104]
• Anthony Lancelot Dias, 92, Indian politician.
• Harry Glancy, 98, American competition swimmer and Olympic champion.^[105]
• Antonio Haro, 91, Mexican Olympicépée andsabrefencer.^[106]
• Pierre Jacquinot, 92, French physicist.^[107]
• Joseph Nathan Kane, 103, American historian and author.^[108]
• Anthony Milner, 77, British musician,multiple sclerosis.^[109]
• Marga Petersen, 83, German athlete.^[110]
• Julio Pérez, 76, Uruguayan football player.
• William Rosenberg, 86, American entrepreneur,bladder cancer.^[111]
• Anel Sudakevich, 95, Sovietsilent film actress.

• James Scarlett, 8th Baron Abinger, 87, British peer.^[112]
• Vernon Corea, 75, Sri Lankan-born British radio broadcaster.^[113]
• George Georges, 82, Australian politician.^[114]
• Eduard Gufeld, 66, Soviet/RussianInternational Grandmaster ofchess and chess author, heart attack.^[115]
• Erich Oberdorfer, 97, German biologist specializing inphytosociology andphytogeography.
• John Wu, 77, Hong KongRoman Catholiccardinal,diabetes.^[116]

• Hobbs Adams, 99, American football player and coach (USC,Kansas State).^[117]
• Tetsuya Ayukawa, 83, Japanese literary critic and novelist.
• Sergio Bergonzelli, 78, Italian director, screenwriter, producer and actor.^[118]
• Robert Anthony Buell, 62, American serial killer, child murderer and serial rapist, execution by lethal injection.^[119]
• Leon Hart, 73, American football player.^[120]
• Tim Rose, 62, American singer and songwriter, heart attack.
• Mike Webster, 50, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers) and a member of thePro Football Hall of Fame, heart attack.^[121]

• Jacques Borel, 76, French author.^[122]
• Ray Hayworth, 98, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers,Brooklyn Dodgers,New York Giants,St. Louis Browns).^[123]
• Wesley Liebeler, 71, American law professor, plane crash.^[124]
• Roman Pucinski, 83, American Democratic politician.^[125]
• Arnold Ross, 96, American mathematician.
• Naeem Siddiqui, 86, Pakistani Islamic scholar, writer and politician.

• Enzo Andronico, 78, Italian actor and comedian.
• Eleonore Bjartveit, 78, Norwegian politician.
• Nils Bohlin, 82, Swedish mechanical engineer, invented thethree-point car safety belt.^[126]
• Ricardo Calvo, 58, Spanish chess master and historian and author on chess,esophageal cancer.^[127]
• Henry Larsen, 86, Danish rower.^[128]
• Thomas Sidney Smith, 84, American politician, member of theNew Jersey General Assembly.
• Philippe Tailliez, 97, French diving pioneer,underwater photographer and colleague ofJacques Cousteau.^[129]

• Lidia Chmielnicka-Żmuda, 63, Polish volleyball player (bronze medal in women's volleyball at the1968 Summer Olympics).^[130]
• Wally Dreyer, 79, American gridiron football player (Chicago Bears,Green Bay Packers) and college football coach.^[131]
• Charles Henri Ford, 94, American poet, novelist, and filmmaker.^[132]
• David Granger, 99, American Olympic bobsledder and businessman.^[133]
• Attila Keresztes, 74, Hungarian fencer and Olympic champion.^[134]
• Per Axel Lundgren, 91, Swedishart director.
• Anna Murià, 98, SpanishCatalan narrator, literary critic, and journalist.
• Bill Pearson, 80, New Zealand writer.
• Glen Rounds, 96, American author andillustrator.^[135]

• Alicia Barrié, 86, Chilean actress.
• Whitney Blake, 76, American actress (Hazel), director and producer (One Day at a Time),esophageal cancer.^[136]
• John Cannady, 79, American gridiron football player (Indiana University,New York Giants).^[137]
• Patsy Mink, 74, American lawyer and politician,viral pneumonia.^[138]
• Hartland Molson, 95, Canadian statesman, senator and businessman.
• Maurice Novarina, 95, French architect.^[139]

• Bob Cobbing, 82, British poet.^[140]
• Zvi Kolitz, 89, Lithuanian-American writer and film and theatrical producer.^[141]
• Ellis Larkins, 79, Americanjazz pianist,pneumonia.^[142]
• Mickey Newbury, 62, American songwriter and recording artist,emphysema.^[143]
• Giuliana Tesoro, 81, Americanorganic chemist.

• Robert Battersby, 77, British businessman and politician,member of the European Parliament.^[144]
• Ron Duhamel, 64, Canadian politician (member ofParliament representingSaint Boniface, Manitoba,Senator for Manitoba).^[145]
• Göran Kropp, 35, Swedish adventurer andmountaineer, fall.
• Miloš Macourek, 75, Czech poet, playwright, author and screenwriter.^[146]
• Germana Malabarba, 88, Italian gymnast and Olympic medalist.^[147]
• Meinhard Michael Moser, 78, Swissmycologist, heart attack.
• Ewart Oakeshott, 86, British illustrator.
• Hans-Peter Tschudi, 88, Swiss politician and minister.

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