The following is a list ofnotable deaths in August 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.

• Francisco Arcellana, 85, Filipino writer, poet and journalist.
• Theo Bruce, 79, Australianlong jumper (silver medal winner inmen's long jump at the1948 Summer Olympics).^[1]
• Peter Carter, 37, Australian tennis player and coach, traffic collision.^[2]
• Adolf Glunz, 86, GermanLuftwaffeflying ace during World War II.
• Sumiko Hidaka, 79, Japanese actress,liver failure.
• Yuri Korshunov, 68, Russianlepidopterologist.
• A. P. Lutali, 82, Governor ofAmerican Samoa (1985–1989, 1993–1997), stroke.
• Henry Mazer, 84, American-Taiwanese conductor and recording artist.^[3]
• Don Owen, 90, American professional wrestling promoter.
• Jack Tighe, 88, American baseball coach.^[4]

• Joe Allison, 77, American songwriter, radio and television personality and record producer,lung disease.^[5]
• Roberto Cobo, 72, Mexican actor (Los Olvidados,The Place Without Limits).^[6]
• May Hardcastle, 89, Australian tennis player.
• Ilona Kolonits, 80, Hungarian documentary film director and news correspondent.
• Roy Kral, 80, Americanjazz pianist and vocalist, congestive heart failure.^[7]
• Magda László, 90, Hungarian operatic soprano.^[8]
• Richard Schreder, 86, American naval aviator and sailplane developer.
• Jean-Pierre Yvaral, 68, Frenchop art andkinetic art artist.^[9]

• Edward Brodney, 92, American artist, known for his drawings and paintings of World War II.^[10]
• Peter Miles, 64, American actor, cancer.
• Danny Sue Nolan, 79, American film actress, stroke.^[11]
• Carmen Silvera, 80, British television and theatre actress (Dad's Army,'Allo 'Allo!),lung cancer.
• Ruudi Toomsalu, 89, Estonian sprinter and long jumper.^[12]
• John G. Zimmerman, 74, American photographer, an innovator in sportsphotojournalism.^[13]

• William R. Crawford Jr., 74, American diplomat and ambassador (Yemen,Cyprus).
• Millard Lang, 89, American soccer and lacrosse player.
• Mike Payne, 40, AmericanMajor League Baseball player (Atlanta Braves),EEE.^[14]
• Salvatore Scianamea, 83, Brazilian fencer.^[15]

• Jes Peter Asmussen, 73, Danishiranologist.^[16]
• Francisco Coloane, 92, Chilean novelist and short fiction writer.^[17]
• Josh Ryan Evans, 20, American actor (Passions,How the Grinch Stole Christmas) and stunt performer (Baby Geniuses), complications from a heart condition.^[18]
• Chick Hearn, 85, television and radio announcer for theLos Angeles Lakers basketball team since 1960, fall.^[19]
• Willis Hudlin, 96, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians,Washington Senators,St. Louis Browns,New York Giants).^[20]
• Franco Lucentini, 82, Italian writer (The Sunday Woman), suicide.^[21]
• Shinsuke Mikimoto, 71, Japanese actor,lung cancer.
• Darrell Porter, 50, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers,Kansas City Royals,St. Louis Cardinals,Texas Rangers), drug overdose.^[22]
• Matt Robinson, 65, American actor, writer and television producer,Parkinson's disease.^[23]
• Winifred Watson, 95, English writer (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day).^[24]

• Jim Crawford, 54, Scottish motor racing driver,liver failure.^[25]
• Edsger W. Dijkstra, 72, Dutch computer scientist,colorectal cancer.^[26]
• John Donnelly Fage, 81, British historian.^[27]
• Justin Meyer, 63, American vintner and enologist, heart attack.^[28]
• Jean Sauvagnargues, 87, French politician.^[29]

• Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne, 100, British aristocrat.^[30]
• Ookie Miller, 92, American gridiron football player.^[31]
• Al Smith, 56, Canadian ice hockey player,pancreatic cancer.^[32]
• Wan Da, 83, Chinese politician.

• Bernard Chidzero, 75, Zimbabwean politician,Finance Minister (1983–1995).^[33]
• Reiner Geye, 52, German football player,liver disease.^[34]
• Wilber Morris, 64, Americanjazzdouble bass player and bandleader.^[35]
• Mikhail Perlman, 79, Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion.^[36]
• Charles Poletti, 99, American lawyer and politician.^[37]
• Kapitolina Rumiantseva, 76, Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist.
• Doris Buchanan Smith, 68, American author children's books,ALS.^[38]
• Ronnie Stephenson, 65, Englishjazz drummer.
• Willi Ziegler, 73, Germanpaleontologist.

• Don Chastain, 66, American actor and singer (Alfred Hitchcock Hour,Colt .45,The Rockford Files,Hawaii Five-O), colorectal cancer.^[39]
• Pascale de Boysson, 80, French actress.^[40]
• Jake Fendley, 73, American professional basketball player (Northwestern University,Fort Wayne Pistons).^[41]
• Meredith Gardner, 89, American linguist and codebreaker.
• Bertold Hummel, 76, German composer of modern classical music.^[42]
• Peter Matz, 73, American musician, composer, arranger and conductor,lung cancer.^[43]
• Paul Samson, 49, English guitarist, cancer.
• Ruud van Feggelen, 78, Dutchwater polo player and coach (bronze medal inwater polo at the 1948 Summer Olympics).^[44]
• Trần Độ, 78, Vietnamese politician and Lieutenant General of thePeople's Army.

• Colin Eggleston, 60, Australian film and television director and writer (Long Weekend,Homicide).^[45]
• Michael Houser, 40, American guitarist,pancreatic cancer.^[46]
• Kristen Nygaard, 75, Norwegiancomputer scientist and politician, heart attack.^[47]
• Eugene Odum, 88, American biologist.^[48]
• René Queyroux, 74, French fencer and Olympic medalist.^[49]
• Mordecai Waxman, 85, American rabbi, prominentconservative, known for confrontingPope John Paul II.^[50]
• Doris Wishman, 90, AmericanB movie film director, screenwriter and producer,lymphoma.^[51]
• Czesław Łuczak, 80, Polish historian focusing onWorld War II.

• Nancy Chaffee, 73, American tennis player (1950, 1951, 1952 singles and doublesU.S. Indoor Champion), cancer.^[52]
• Per Cock-Clausen, 89, Danish figure skater (13-timeDanish National Champion, figure skating at the Winter Olympics:1948,1952).^[53]
• Mick Dunne, 73, Irish sports journalist.^[54]
• Jiří Kolář, 87, Czech poet and writer.^[55]
• Franjo Kukuljević, 92, Croatian tennis player.
• Hermann Pálsson, 81, Icelandic language scholar and translator.
• Galen Rowell, 61, American wilderness photographer, photojournalist and climber, plane crash.^[56]
• Richard Wood, Baron Holderness, 81, British politician (Member of Parliament forBridlington).^[57]

• John H. Leith, 82, Americanpresbyterian theologian and minister.^[58]
• Michael De-la-Noy, 68, British journalist and author (The Queen Behind the Throne).^[59]
• Knud Lundberg, 82, Danish sportsperson, journalist and writer.^[60]
• John Shaw Rennie, 85, British diplomat.^[61]
• Enos Slaughter, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals,New York Yankees,Kansas City Athletics) and member of theMLB Hall of Fame, lymphoma.^[62]
• Marjorie Williamson, 89, British educator, physicist and university administrator.^[63]

• Jack Creel, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).^[64]
• Hermann Haller, 88, Swiss composer.^[65]
• Józef Daniel Krzeptowski, 81, Polish Olympic skier.^[66]
• Ulises Ramos, 82, Chilean footballer and manager.^[67]
• Al Vande Weghe, 86, American competition swimmer and Olympic silver medalist.^[68]

• Mary Heeley, 91, British tennis player.
• Peter R. Hunt, 77, British film editor (Dr. No,Goldfinger) and director (On Her Majesty's Secret Service), heart failure.^[69]
• Larry Rivers, 78, American painter.^[70]
• Dave Williams, 30, American singer ofDrowning Pool, heart failure.^[71]

• János Balogh, 89, Hungarianzoologist, ecologist, and academic.
• Henry Batista, 88, American film and television editor.
• Heinz Bauer, 74, German mathematician.^[72]
• Alberto Bertuccelli, 78, Italian football player.^[73]
• Jesse Brown, 58, AmericanUnited States Marine andUnited States Secretary of Veterans Affairs,ALS.^[74]
• George Agbazika Innih, 63, Nigerian army general and politician.
• Edgardo Madinabeytia, 69, Argentine football goalkeeper.
• Arnie Moser, 87, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).^[75]
• Kyle Rote, 73, American gridiron football player, heart attack.^[76]
• Jean Stengers, 80, Belgian historian.^[77]
• Haim Yosef Zadok, 88, Israeli jurist and politician, heart attack.^[78]

• Janusz Bardach, 83, Polish-American Siberiangulag survivor and renownedplastic surgeon.^[79]
• Allan Bromley, 55, American computer scientist, historian of computing, cancer.^[80]
• Jeff Corey, 88, American actor (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,In Cold Blood,Little Big Man), fall.^[81]
• Martin Deutsch, 85, Austrian-American physicist and professor of physics atMIT, known as the discoverer ofpositronium.^[82]
• Morgan "Bill" Evans, 92, Americanhorticulturalist andDisney landscape designer.^[83]
• Anton Guadagno, 77, Italian operatic conductor.^[84]
• Paul Michel Gabriel Lévy, 91, Belgian journalist and professor.^[85]
• Abu Nidal, 65, Palestinian terrorist, ballistic trauma.^[86][87]
• Ola Belle Reed, 85, American singer.^[88]
• John Roseboro, 69, American baseball player (Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers,Minnesota Twins,Washington Senators).^[89]

• Jimmy Bloodworth, 85, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers,Pittsburgh Pirates,Cincinnati Reds,Philadelphia Phillies), heart attack.^[90]
• Edward Dziewoński, 85, Polish stage and film actor, and theatre director.^[91]
• Alicia Montoya, 82, Mexican actress, the daughter of the stage actress,kidney failure.
• Valentin Pluchek, 92, Russian theatre director.
• Rushyendramani, 85, Indian singer, dancer, and actress.
• Benjamin Thompson, 84, American architect.^[92]

• Turpal-Ali Atgeriyev, 33, Chechen rebel leader and top official in the rebel government,leukemia.^[93]
• Carter L. Burgess, 85, American public servant, business executive and diplomat (Assistant Secretary of Defense,Ambassador to Argentina).^[94]
• Bertil Ericsson, 93, Swedish football player.
• Ričardas Gavelis, 51, Lithuanian writer, playwright, journalist, and theoretical physicist.^[95]
• Dick O'Connell, 87, American front office executive in Major League Baseball.
• Dean Riesner, 83, American screenwriter (Dirty Harry,Play Misty for Me,The Enforcer).^[96]

• Antonio Barrios, 92, Spanish football player and coach.
• Eduardo Chillida, 78, SpanishBasque sculptor,Alzheimer's disease.^[97]
• Irving Copi, 85, American philosopher, logician and textbook author (Introduction to Logic).^[98]
• Satchidananda Saraswati, 87, Indianyoga guru and religious teacher.^[99]
• Jan Stenbeck, 59, Swedish business leader, media pioneer, sailor and financier.^[100]
• Alastair Gordon, 6th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, 82, British botanical artist and art critic.^[101]
• Sunday Silence, 16, American-bredthoroughbred race horse, winner of theKentucky Derby and thePreakness Stakes.

• Chris Columbus, 100, American jazz drummer.^[102]
• Augustine Geve, Solomon Islands Cabinet Minister, assassinated.
• Teodor Keko, 43, Albanian writer, journalist, and politician,pancreatic cancer.
• John Willett, 85, British journalist and translator of the works ofBertolt Brecht into English.^[103]

• Mikayil Abdullayev, 80, Soviet and Azerbaijani painter.^[104]
• O. A. Bushnell, 89, American microbiologist, professor and writer.^[105]
• Oscar Plattner, 80, Swiss cyclist.^[106]
• Bror Rexed, 88, Swedish neuroscientist and professor.

• Mark Bucci, 78, AmericanBroadway, film and television composer (The 13 Clocks,Seven in Darkness,Human Experiments).^[107]
• Richard Lippold, 87, American sculptor.^[108]
• Manuel Lora-Tamayo, 98, Spanish politician.^[109]
• Jim McFadden, 82, Irish-Canadian ice hockey player.

• Anthony Stafford Beer, 75, British theorist.^[110]
• Dennis Fimple, 61, American character actor (Petticoat Junction,Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.,Green Acres), traffic collision.^[111]
• Emily Genauer, 91, American art critic.^[112]
• Wayne Simmons, 32, American gridiron football player, single-car crash.^[113]
• Hoyt Wilhelm, 80, American baseball player (New York Giants,Baltimore Orioles,Chicago White Sox) and a member of theMLB Hall of Fame.^[114]

• Ted Ashley, 80, American film studio executive (chairman ofWarner Bros) and talent agent, complications following heart surgery.^[115]
• Hugh Cruttwell, 83, English teacher of drama and principal of theRoyal Academy of Dramatic Art.^[116]
• Nikolay Guryanov, 93, Russian Orthodox priest.
• Wilhelm Meise, 100, Germanornithologist.
• Cornelis Johannes van Houten, 82, Dutchastronomer.^[117]
• Johnny Wilson, 86, American professional football player (Case Western Reserve University,Cleveland Rams).^[118]

• Per Anger, 88, Swedish diplomat, known for shielding thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps, stroke.^[119]
• Raúl Chibás, 86, Cuban politician, military officer and close associate ofFidel Castro, defected toU.S. in 1960.^[120]
• Stanley R. Greenberg, 74, American playwright and screenwriter.^[121]
• Dorothy Coade Hewett, 79, Australian poet, playwright and novelist, breast cancer.^[122]
• Karolina Lanckorońska, 104, Polish noble, philanthropist, and historian.
• Július Pántik, 80, Slovak film actor.
• William Warfield, 82, American concert bass-baritone singer and actor, complications following a fall.^[123]

• Aslambek Abdulkhadzhiev, 40,Chechen warlord,killed in action.
• Thomas Gordon, 84, Americanclinical psychologist.^[124]
• Vincent Massey, 75, Australianbiochemist andenzymologist.
• Georg Werner, 98, Swedish swimmer (bronze medal inmen's 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay at the1924 Summer Olympics).^[125]

• Bob McKinlay, 69, Scottish football player.^[126]
• George Mitchell, 85, Scottish musician (The Black and White Minstrel Show).
• Crew Stoneley, 91, English athlete and Olympic silver medalist.^[127]
• Jane Tilden, 91, Austrian actress.^[128]
• John S. Wilson, 89, American music critic forThe New York Times for four decades.^[129]

• David Bierk, 58, American-Canadian artist,pneumonia.^[130]
• Kay Gardner, 62, American musician, composer, author, and Dianic priestess, heart attack.^[131]
• Else Petersen, 92, Danish film and stage actress.
• Rudolf Schnackenburg, 88, German Catholic priest andNew Testament scholar.

• Lance Macklin, 82, British racing driver.
• Alan MacNaughtan, 82, Scottish actor, cancer.^[132]
• Paul Tripp, 91, American children's musician, author, songwriter, and actor.^[133]
• Anatoliy Yulin, 73, Soviet (Belarusian) Olympic athlete (men's 400 metres hurdles:1952,1956, men's 4 × 400 metres relay:1956).^[134]

• Thomas J. Anderson, 91, American publisher and politician.^[135]
• Mariya Bayda, 80, Russian medical orderly during World War II.
• Dave Dalby, 51, American professional football player (UCLA,Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders), traffic collision.^[136]
• José Sette Câmara Filho, 82, Brazilian lawyer, diplomat, and politician.
• Andy Johnson, 69, American basketball player.^[137]
• Zaid ibn Shaker, 67, Jordanian politician and soldier (Prime Minister of Jordan).^[138]
• J. Lee Thompson, 88, British film director (The Guns of Navarone,Cape Fear,Conquest of the Planet of the Apes), congestive heart failure.^[139]
• Horst Wendlandt, 80, German film producer.^[140]

• Lionel Hampton, 94, American jazz musician, heart failure.^[141]
• Sheldon H. Harris, 74, American historian and academic.^[142]
• Martin Kamen, 89, American scientist.^[143]
• Joe McCluskey, 91, Americantrack and field athlete and Olympic medalist.^[144]
• Farhad Mehrad, 58, Iranian pop, rock, and folk musician,hepatitis C.
• Wong Pow Nee, 89, Malaysian politician and diplomat.
• George Porter, 81, BritishNobel Prize winner in chemistry.^[145]
• Bunji Sakita, 72, Japanese-Americantheoretical physicist, cancer.
• Samson Samsonov, 81, Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter.^[146]

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