The following is a list ofnotable deaths in March 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.

• John Blume, 92, Americanstructural engineer, known as "the father of earthquake engineering".^[1]
• C. Farris Bryant, 87, American Governor (34th Governor of Florida from 1961 to 1965).^[2]
• John Challens, 86, British scientist and civil servant, helped develop Britain's first atomic bomb.^[3]
• David DiMeglio, 35, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Leigh Gerdine, 85, American musician, composer, and civic leader, heart attack.
• David Mann, 85, American songwriter.^[4]
• Bob Smith, 76, American professional football player (Brooklyn Dodgers,Detroit Lions).^[5]
• Hocine Soltani, 29, Algerian boxer, murdered.
• Doreen Waddell, 36, British soul singer (Soul II Soul), struck by vehicle.^[6]
• John Wieners, 68, American poet.^[7]
• Roger Wilson, 96, British Anglican prelate.^[8]

• Andrés Archila, 88, Guatemalan violinist and music conductor.^[9]
• Alvin Eicoff, 80, American advertising executive, known as a founder ofdirect response television advertising.^[10]
• Pasquale Giannattasio, 61, Italian sprinter.^[11]
• 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.^[12]
• Fritz-Rudolf Schultz, 85, German army officer during World War II and politician.
• Alexei Yegorov, 26, Russian ice hockey player (San Jose Sharks), beating.^[13]

• Henry Nathaniel Andrews, 91, Americanpaleobotanist.^[14]
• 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 theUnited States District Court for the Southern District of New York).^[15]
• Harlan Howard, 74, American country music songwriter ("I Fall to Pieces", "Busted", "Heartaches By The Number", "Why Not Me").^[16]
• Charles H. MacDonald, 87, American Air Force officer and afighter ace during World War II.
• Fran McKee, 75,American NavyRear Admiral.
• Al Pollard, 73, American gridiron football player (Army,New York Yanks,Philadelphia Eagles) and broadcaster, lymphoma.^[17]
• Roy Porter, 55, British historian and writer, heart attack.^[18]
• H. Keith Thompson, 79, Americanneo-Nazi and political writer..

• John A. Chapman, 36,US Air Forcecombat controller who was posthumously awarded theMedal of Honor.
• Eric Flynn, 62, British actor and singer (Ivanhoe,The Caesars,Freewheelers), cancer.^[19]
• Ryō Hanmura, 68, Japanese science fiction, fantasy, and horror author,pneumonia.
• Ugnė Karvelisehebeb, 66, Lithuanian writer and diplomat.^[20]
• Bernard Matemera, 56, Zimbabwean sculptor.
• Stephen McGonagle, 87, Northern Irish and Irish trade unionist.
• Elyne Mitchell, 88, Australian author.^[21]
• Prunella Ransome, 59, English actress,throat cancer.
• K. V. Raghunatha Reddy, 77, Indian politician.
• Shirley Ann Russell, 66, British costume designer, cancer.^[22]
• Velibor Vasović, 62, Serbian footballer and manager, heart attack.
• Jean Elizabeth Geiger Wright, 78, American conservationist, educator, and animal activist.

• Howard Cannon, 90, American politician (U.S. Senator from Nevada from 1959 to 1983).^[23]
• Stanisław Jankowski, 90, PolishSOE 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).^[24]

• Chuck Chapman, 90, Canadian Olympic basketball player (silver medal inbasketball at the 1936 Summer Olympics).^[25]
• Richard Kenneth Dell, 81, New Zealandmalacologist.^[26]
• Bryan Fogarty, 32, Canadian ice hockey player (Quebec Nordiques,Pittsburgh Penguins,Montreal Canadiens), enlarged heart.^[27]
• Walter Goodman, 74, American author and journalist forThe New York Times.^[28]
• David Jenkins, 89, Welsh librarian.
• Johnny Norlander, 81, American basketball player.^[29]
• Bill Radovich, 86, American gridiron football player and film actor.
• Henry Rapoport, 83, American organic chemist and academic.
• Ralph Rumney, 67, English artist, cancer.^[30]
• Dietrich Schmidt, 82, GermanLuftwaffenight fighterace 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).^[31]
• Donald Wilson, 91, British television writer and producer (The Forsyte Saga,Doctor Who).^[32]

• Doris Twitchell Allen, 100, Americanchild psychologist.^[33]
• Geoff Charles, 93, Welsh photojournalist.^[34]
• Daaf Drok, 87, Dutch football player.^[35]
• John Goodyear, 81, American gridiron football player.^[36]
• Troy Graham, 52, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Mickey Haslin, 92, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies,Boston Bees,New York Giants).^[37]
• Ian Vernon Hogg, 75, British author of books and biographies on military subjects.^[38]
• Mati Klarwein, 69, German painter, cancer.^[39]
• Franziska Rochat-Moser, 35, Swiss Olympicmarathon runner, avalanche .^[40]
• Charles H. Wright, 83, American physician, founder of theCharles H. Wright Museum of African American History.^[41]

• Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin, 85, Beninese politician.^[42]
• Robin Anderson, 53, Australian documentary filmmaker, cancer.^[43]
• Al Bonniwell, 90, American basketball player (Akron Firestone Non-Skids).^[44]
• George F. Carrier, 83, American mathematician,esophageal cancer.^[45]
• Marțian Dan, 66, Romanian politician and university professor.
• Yury Gusov, 61, Russian Olympic welterweight freestyle wrestler.^[46]
• Sanji Hase, 66, Japanese voice actor,lung cancer.
• Peter Holmes, 69, British businessman.^[47]
• Bill Johnson, 85, American football player (University of Minnesota,Green Bay Packers).^[48]
• Jansug Kakhidze, 66, Georgian musician, composer, singer and conductor.^[49]
• Winnie Markus, 80, Czechoslovakia-German actress,pneumonia.^[50]
• Ted Sepkowski, 78, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians,New York Yankees).^[51]
• Ellert Sölvason, 84, Icelandic football player.

• Denise Bosc, 85, French film actress.^[52]
• Carlos Casares, 60, SpanishGalician language writer, cardiac arrest.^[53]
• Mary Elmes, 93, Irish aid worker credited who saved over 200 Jewish children during World War II.^[54]
• Leonard Gershe, 79, American playwright, screenwriter, and lyricist, cerebrovascular disease.^[55]
• Hamish Henderson, 82, Scottish poet.
• Bora Spužić Kvaka, 67, Serbian vocalist and recording artist.
• Normand Lockwood, 95, American composer.^[56]
• Mohammad Paziraei, 72, Iranian Greco-Roman flyweight wrestler and Olympic medalist.
• Oleg Trubachyov, 71, Soviet and Russian linguist.

• Elguja Amashukeli, 73, Georgian sculptor and painter.
• Louise Carletti, 80, French film actress.^[57]
• Irán Eory, 64, Iranian-Mexican actress, stroke.
• Genevieve Fiore, 90, American women's rights and peace activist.
• George Fix, 62, American mathematician, cancer.^[58]
• 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.^[59]
• Shirley Scott, 67, Americanjazz organist, heart failure.^[60]
• Howard Thompson, 82, American journalist and film critic,pneumonia.^[61]
• Irene Worth, 85, American actress (Tiny Alice,Sweet Bird of Youth,Lost in Yonkers),Tony winner (1965,1976,1991), stroke.^[62]

• Al Cowens, 50, American baseball player (Kansas City Royals,California Angels,Detroit Tigers,Seattle Mariners), heart attack.^[63]
• Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, 92, German journalist and publisher ofDie Zeit, known for opposingHitler.^[64]
• George Joseph Gottwald, 87, American prelate of theRoman Catholic Church.
• Rudolf Hell, 100, German inventor and manufacturer.
• Willibald Jentschke, 90, Austrian-German nuclear physicist.
• Franjo Kuharić, 82, CroatianCatholic cardinal, cardiac arrest.^[65]
• Albert Ritserveldt, 86, Belgian racing cyclist.^[66]
• Herbert Spencer, 77, British designer, writer and photographer.^[67]
• Nicholas Gilman Thacher, 86, American diplomat,pulmonary fibrosis.
• James Tobin, 84, American economist, cerebrovascular disease.^[68]

• Louis-Marie Billé, 64, FrenchRoman Catholic cardinal, cancer.^[69]
• Peter Blau, 84, American sociologist.^[70]
• Steve Gromek, 82, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians,Detroit Tigers).^[71]
• Abdul Kadir, 57, Pakistani cricket player.^[72]
• John "Speedy" Keene, 56, English songwriter, vocalist, and drummer, heart failure.
• Spiros Kyprianou, 69, 2ndPresident of Cyprus, cancer.^[73]
• 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.^[74]

• Ivano Blason, 78, Italian football player.^[75]
• Hans-Georg Gadamer, 102, German philosopher.^[76]
• Abd al-Wahhab Hawmad, 87, Syrian politician, lawyer, and academic.^[77]
• Nasir Hussain, 75, Indian film producer, director, and screenwriter, cardiovascular disease.
• Jacques Jansen, 88, Frenchbaryton-martin singer.^[78]
• Lou Kahn, 86, American baseball player, manager, scout and coach.^[79]
• Bayliss Levrett, 88, American racecar driver from Jacksonville, Florida,Alzheimer's disease.
• Nick Mickoski, 74, Canadian ice hockey forward.^[80]
• 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 the1968 Summer Olympics), traffic collision.^[81]

• Smail Balić, 81, Bosnian-Austrian historian,culturologist and scholar.^[82]
• Nelson Estupiñán Bass, 89, Ecuadorian writer,pneumonia.^[83]
• Kevin Danaher, 89, Irishfolklorist and author on Irish traditional customs and beliefs.^[84]
• Karl Gratz, 83, Austrian-GermanLuftwaffefighter ace during World War II.
• Leon L. Van Autreve, 82,American ArmySergeant Major.
• Cherry Wilder, 71, New Zealand writer, cancer.
• Thomas Winship, 81, American newspaper editor of theBoston Globe from 1965 until 1984.^[85]

• Tamala Krishna Goswami, 55, AmericanHare Krishna, car accident.^[86]
• Rand Holmes, 60, Canadian artist and illustrator,Hodgkin's lymphoma.
• Oscar Pérez, 79, Argentine basketball player.
• Werner Unger, 70, German football player.^[87]
• Sylvester Weaver, 93, American television executive, credited with creatingToday,Tonight,Home,Wide Wide World.^[88]
• Jairo Zulbarán, 32, Colombian football player, murdered.

• Kid Azteca, 88, Mexican boxer.
• Carmelo Bene, 64, Italian actor, director and screenwriter, cancer.^[89]
• Isaías Duarte Cancino, 63, ColombianRoman Catholic archbishop, killed by theFARC.
• Marcus Fox, 74, British politician (Member of Parliament forShipley).^[90]
• Salah-Hassan Hanifes, 89, Israeli politician.
• Umar Kayam, 69, Indonesiansociologist and writer, intestinal bleeding.
• Ernst Künnecke, 64, German football player and football coach.^[91]
• Danilo Stojković, 67, Serbian actor,lung cancer.

• Arthur Altschul, 81, American banker.^[92]
• Bill Davis, 60, American football coach.
• Ernest E. Debs, 98, American politician,California State Assembly (1942–1947),L.A. County Supervisor (1958–1974).^[93]
• Rajammal P. Devadas, 82, Indian nutritionist and educator.
• Van Tien Dung, 84, Vietnamese general in thePeople's Army of Vietnam (PAVN).
• Georges Gorse, 87, French politician and diplomat.^[94]
• Rosetta LeNoire, 90, American actress (Family Matters,The Sunshine Boys,Brewster's Millions), diabetes.^[95]
• Vasil Mitkov, 58, Bulgarian football player.
• Luise Rinser, 90, German writer.^[96]
• Paul Runyan, 93, American golfer (two-timePGA Championship winner and a member of theWorld Golf Hall of Fame).^[97]
• Christian Graf von Krockow, 74, German writer and political scientist.
• William Witney, 86, American film and television director, known as a"B" movieaction director.^[98]

• Dalton Camp, 81, Canadian journalist, political strategist, and commentator.^[99]
• Marcel Denis, 79, Belgian comic artist (Tif et Tondu).^[100]
• Maude Farris-Luse, 115, American supercentenarian,pneumonia.^[101]
• Denis Forest, 41, Canadian actor, stroke.
• Mario Gariazzo, 71, Italian screenwriter and film director.
• R. A. Lafferty, 87, American science fiction writer.^[102]
• Van Leo, 80, Armenian-Egyptian photographer.
• Johnny Lombardi, 86, Canadian media tycoon and television producer/host.
• Gösta Winbergh, 58, Swedish operatic tenor, heart attack.^[103]

• Marco Biagi, 51, Italian jurist, homicide.^[104]
• Laura Bohannan, 80, American cultural anthropologist, heart attack.
• John Patton, 66, Americanjazz,blues andR&B musician, complications fromdiabetes.^[105]
• David Beers Quinn, 92, Irish historian.^[106]
• Erkki Salmenhaara, 61, Finnish composer and musicologist.^[107]
• Bachtiar Siagian, 79, Indonesian film director and scriptwriter.
• Naren Tamhane, 70, Indian cricket player.^[108]
• Eduard Meine van Zinderen-Bakker, 94, Dutch-South Africanpalynologist, stroke.

• Andra Akers, 58, American actress andphilanthropist, complications following surgery.^[109]
• Ibn al-Khattab, 32, Saudi Arabian Saudimujahidemir and terrorist,nerve agent poisoning.
• Giulio Alfieri, 77, Italian racing and production cars engineer, affiliated withMaserati .
• Samuel Warren Carey, 90, Australiangeologist, an early advocate ofcontinental drift.^[110]
• Eugene Figg, 65, American structural engineer, award-winning designer of dozens of bridges (Sunshine Skyway Bridge).^[111]
• George Macovescu, 88, Romanian writer andcommunist politician.
• Aleksei Yeskov, 57, Soviet football player and coach.

• David E. Blackmer, 75, American audio engineer, known as the inventor of theDBX noise reduction system and founder ofdbx.^[112]
• James F. Blake, 89, American bus driver, antagonist for theMontgomery bus boycott, heart attack.^[113]
• Thomas Flanagan, 78, American professor and novelist.^[114]
• Horst Hauthal, 88, German ambassador.
• Renée Massip, 94, French writer and journalist.^[115]
• Nikos Pangalos, 87, Greek football manager.
• Eugene G. Rochow, 92, Americaninorganic chemist.^[116]
• Boris Sichkin, 79, Soviet and American film actor, dancer, choreographer, and entertainer.
• Herman Talmadge, 88, American politician.^[117]
• Ernest van den Haag, 87, Dutch-American sociologist, social critic, and author.

• Rudolf Baumgartner, 84, Swiss conductor, violinist, and music educator.^[118]
• Jaroslav Cejp, 77, Czechoslovak football player.^[119]
• Kingsford Dibela, 70, Governor-General of Papua New Guinea.
• Marcel Hansenne, 85, French middle distance runner and Olympic medalist.^[120]
• Hugh R. Stephen, 88, Canadian politician.

• Enzo Barboni, 79, Italian film director, cinematographer and screenwriter.^[121]
• John Biby, 90, American Olympic sailor (gold medal winner in8 metre sailing at the1932 Summer Olympics).^[122]
• Richard Bradford, 69, American novelist (Red Sky at Morning,So Far from Heaven).^[123]
• Antonio Calebotta, 71, Italian Olympic basketball player (men's basketball at the1960 Summer Olympics).^[124]
• Jack Doolan, 82, American professional football player (Georgetown,New York Giants,Chicago Cardinals).^[125]
• Lloyd L. Duxbury, 80, American politician and member of theMinnesota House of Representatives.
• Eileen Farrell, 82, American soprano, performed both classical and popular music.^[126]
• Piara Singh Gill, 90, Indian nuclear physicist.
• Ben Hollioake, 24, English cricketer, car crash.^[127]
• Marcel Kint, 87, Belgian bicycle racer.^[128]
• Neal E. Miller, 92, American psychologist.^[129]
• Minnie Rojas, 68, Cuban-American baseball player (California Angels).^[130]
• Richard Sylbert, 73, American film production designer and art director (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,Dick Tracy,Chinatown),Oscar winner (1967,1991), cancer.^[131]
• Leif Wager, 80, Finnish actor.

• Beverly Bower, 76, American operatic soprano (New York City Opera,Metropolitan Opera), cancer.^[132]
• Mace Brown, 92, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates,Brooklyn Dodgers,Boston Red Sox).^[133]
• Dorothy DeLay, 84, American violin instructor, cancer.^[134]
• César Milstein, 74, Argentinianbiochemist.^[135]
• Wayne Molis, 58, American basketball player, stroke.^[136]
• Erik Møller, 92, Danish architect.
• Bob Said, 69, American racing driver.^[137]

• Ronald Verlin Cassill, 82, American writer, editor, painter and lithographer.^[138]
• Eduardo Lim, 71, Filipino Olympic basketball player.^[139]
• Ken Traill, 75, British rugby league player.
• Kenneth Wolstenholme, 81, British football commentator.^[140]
• Hilde Zimmermann, 81, member of the Austrian Resistance during WWII.

• Randy Castillo, 51, American musician,Ozzy Osbourne andMötley Crüe drummer,skin cancer.^[141]
• Hugh Davis Graham, 65, American historian, sociologist, civil rights scholar and author.^[142]
• Louis M. Heyward, 81, American producer and film and television writer (The Ernie Kovacs Show,Winky Dink and You),pneumonia.^[143]
• Gerald Hylkema, 56, Dutch footballer.
• Eugen Meier, 71, Swiss footballer.^[144]
• Joe Schermie, 56, American musician, heart attack.
• Taisto Sinisalo, 75, Finnishcommunist politician, leader of theCommunist Party of Finland.^[145]
• Heinz Welzel, 90, German actor.
• Whitey Wietelmann, 83, American baseball player (Boston Bees/Braves,Pittsburgh Pirates) and coach.^[146]

• Milton Berle, 93, American comedian dubbed "Uncle Miltie" and "Mr. Television" (Texaco Star Theater,The Milton Berle Show),colorectal cancer.^[147]
• Giorgi Melikishvili, 83, Georgian historian.
• Dudley Moore, 66, British actor and writer (Foul Play,10,Arthur),pneumonia.^[148]
• Cecil Pearce, 87, Australian Olympic rower.^[149]
• Glen Robinson, 87, Americanspecial andvisual effects artist, six-timeAcademy Award winner.
• Tadeusz Rut, 70, Polish Olympic hammer thrower.^[150]
• 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 andOlympic champion.^[151]
• Lotte Ulbricht, 98,East Germany official and second wife ofWalter Ulbricht, fall.^[152]
• Billy Wilder, 95, Austrian-American film director and screenwriter (Double Indemnity,The Apartment,Some Like It Hot), six-timeOscar winner,pneumonia.^[153]

• Tofail Ahmed, 83, Bangladeshi researcher of Folk Art.
• Clarence B. Craft, 80, U.S. Army soldier and a recipient of theMedal of Honor.^[154]
• Klaus Croissant, 70, East German lawyer of theRed Army Faction and later spy and a political activist.
• Tikka Khan, 86, Pakistani army general.
• Francis Newton Souza, 77, British artist.^[155]
• Albert Whitford, 96, American physicist and astronomer, dean of modernphotoelectric photometry.^[156]

• Henning Bahs, 74, Danish screenwriter and special effects designer.
• John Cameron, 84, Australian baritone opera singer.^[157]
• James T. Cushing, 65, American professor of physics, philosophy, and the history and philosophy of science.^[158]
• Franklin S. Forsberg, 96, American publisher and diplomat (U.S. Ambassador to Sweden).^[159]
• Eberhard Mehl, 66, German fencer and Olympic medalist.^[160]
• Rico Yan, 27, Filipino model and actor, acute pancreatitis.^[161]

• Anand Bakshi, 71, Indian poet and lyricist.
• Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, 101, British consort ofKing George VI,pneumonia.^[162]
• Jean Pictet, 87, Swiss jurist and legal practitioner.
• Bjørn Spydevold, 83, Norwegian football player and football manager.^[163]
• Alfie Stokes, 69, British footballer.^[164]

• Yara Bernette, 82, Brazilian classical pianist, heart attack.^[165]
• Lady Anne Brewis, 91, English botanist.
• Edgardo Madinabeytia, 69, Argentine football goalkeeper.^[166]
• Lucio D. San Pedro, 89, Filipino composer and teacher,cardiac arrest.
• Barry Took, 73, English writer, television presenter and comedian, cancer.^[167]

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