Deaths in December 2002

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2002.

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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.

December 2002

1

• Edward L. Beach Jr., 84, American highly decorated United States Navy submarine officer and best-selling author (Run Silent, Run Deep).[1]
• Omar Blebel, 80, Argentine Olympic wrestler (1948 men's Greco-Roman featherweight, 1952 men's freestyle bantamweight).[2]
• C. Chapin Cutler, 87, American communications engineer, known for inventions in radio, radar, signal coding, imaging and satellite communications.[3]
• Harry Dick, 82, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).[4]
• Dave McNally, 60, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Montreal Expos), lung cancer.[5]
• José Chávez Morado, 93, Mexican artist.
• Michael Oliver, 65, British classical music broadcaster and writer.

2

• Elizabeth B. Andrews, 91, American politician (U.S. Representative for Alabama's 3rd congressional district).[6]
• Sanford Soverhill Atwood, 89, American scientist, plant cytologist and president of Emory University.[7]
• Barney Berlinger, 94, American Olympic decathlon athlete (men's decathlon in the 1928 Summer Olympics).[8]
• Aileen Fisher, 96, American writer of more than 100 children's books (The Coffee-Pot Face, Runny Days, Sunny Days).[9]
• Jim Mitchell, 56, Irish politician.
• Vjenceslav Richter, 85, Croatian architect.
• Derek Robinson, 61, British nuclear physicist.
• Ben Wade, 80, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates) and scout.[10]
• Mal Waldron, 77, American jazz pianist and composer (Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane).[11]
• Fay Gillis Wells, 94, American pioneer aviator.
• David Whiffen, 80, English physical chemist, known for his work on infrared spectroscopy and electron spin resonance spectroscopy.[12]
• Fred Zain, 51, American forensic laboratory technician, falsified results to obtain convictions, liver cancer.[13]

3

• Hariharananda Giri, 95, Indian yogi and guru.
• Pierre Guillaume, 77, officer of the French Navy.
• Christian Liger, 67, French writer.
• Emanuel Papper, 87, American anesthesiologist, professor, and author.
• Glenn Quinn, 32, Irish actor (Roseanne, Angel), heroin overdose.
• Jug Thesenga, 88, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[14]

4

• Charles Pierce Davey, 77, American welterweight boxer, complications from paralysis.[15]
• Habibullah, Afghan US detainee, homicide.
• Dolores Renze, 95, American archivist and administrator.
• Hemmo Silvennoinen, 70, Finnish ski jumper.

5

• Roone Arledge, 71, American television producer and executive (Monday Night Football, Nightline).[16]
• Bob Berg, 51, American jazz saxophonist (Miles Davis, Chick Corea), traffic accident.[17]
• Prosper Boulanger, 84, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Mercier, Quebec).[18]
• Brigitte Massin, 75, French musicologist and journalist.
• Ne Win, 91, Burmese dictator.
• Jackie Walker, 52, American football player, complications from AIDS.
• Ann Welch, 85, British glider pilot (gliding, hang gliding, paragliding, microlight flying).[19]
• Pedro d'aguillon 87, Mexican Actor Mexico City, Mexico

6

• Jerzy Adamski, 65, Polish featherweight boxer (silver medal winner in featherweight boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics).[20]
• Clarence Beers, 83, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).[21]
• Father Philip Berrigan, 79, American priest and political activist.[22]
• Russell Blattner, 94, American pediatrician and founding physician-in-chief of Texas Children's Hospital.[23]
• Leroy M. Zimmerman, 69, American politician.

7

• R. Orin Cornett, 89, American physicist, university professor and inventor of Cued Speech.[24]
• John R. Dellenback, 84, American politician (U.S. Representative for Oregon's 4th congressional district), viral pneumonia.[25]
• Clare Deniz, 91, British jazz pianist.[26]
• Barbara Howard, 76, Canadian painter, wood engraver, bookbinder and designer, pulmonary embolism.
• Paddy Tunney, 81, Irish traditional artist.

8

• Gunnar Helén, 84, Swedish politician.
• Bobby Joe Hill, 59, American basketball player.
• Charles Rosen, 85, American computer scientist.
• Dorothy Walker, 73, Irish art critic and historian, active in the development of the Irish Museum of Modern Art.[27]

9

• Shigeru Chiba, 83, Japanese baseball player and manager, perhaps the greatest second baseman in Japanese baseball history.[28]
• Johnny Lazor, 90, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).[29]
• Stan Rice, 60, painter, educator, poet, husband of author Anne Rice, cancer.
• To Huu, 82, Vietnamese poet and politician.

10

• Desmond Keith Carter, 35, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in North Carolina.
• Warwick Charlton, 84, English journalist, prime mover behind construction and sailing of Mayflower II from the U.K. to the U.S.[30]
• Les Costello, 74, Canadian professional ice hockey player and Catholic priest (Toronto Maple Leafs).[31]
• Earl Henry, 85, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).[32]
• Mike Kosman, 85, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).[33]
• Andres Küng, 57, Swedish journalist, writer, entrepreneur and politician of Estonian origin.
• Steve Llewellyn, 78, Welsh rugby league player.
• Ian MacNaughton, 76, Scottish director of most episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
• Homer Spragins, 82, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[34]

11

• Dolly Dawn, 86, American big band vocalist and recording star of the 1930s and 1940s.[35]
• Muzaffer Demirhan, 70, Turkish alpine skier (Winter Olympics: 1948, 1956, 1960, 1964).[36]
• Bob Loane, 88, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Boston Bees).[37]
• Arthur Metcalfe, 64, British racing cyclist, cancer.
• Nanabhoy Palkhivala, 82, Indian jurist and economist.
• Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, 97, American photojournalist, cinematographer, and philanthropist.
• Kay Rose, 80, American Oscar-winning sound editor.

12

• Dee Brown, 94, American author and historian (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee).[38]
• Nancy Caroline, 58, American EMS physician and writer (Emergency Care in the Streets).[39]
• Brad Dexter, 85, American actor and film producer (Run Silent Run Deep, The Magnificent Seven, None but the Brave).[40]
• Edward Harrison, 92, English cricketer and squash player.
• Jay Wesley Neill, 37, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Oklahoma.

13

• Maria Björnson, 53, French theatre designer, two-time Tony Award winner for The Phantom of the Opera (Best Scenic Design, Best Costume Design).[41]
• Stella Brooks, 92, American jazz singer of the 1940s.[42]
• Ronald Butt, 82, British journalist, wrote a political column for The Times and was the author of two books on Parliament.[43]
• Zal Yanovsky, 57, Canadian folk rock musician, lead guitarist and singer for The Lovin' Spoonful.[44]
• Lucien Zins, 80, French Olympic swimmer (men's 100 metre backstroke: 1948, 1952).[45]

14

• Hank Arft, 80, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).[46]
• Jack Bradley, 86, English footballer.
• Ray Wietecha, 74, American professional football player (Michigan State, New York Giants) and coach.[47]
• Antoni Woryna, 61, Polish speedway rider.

15

• John Crosby, 76, American conductor, founded the Santa Fe Opera.[48]
• Charles E. Fraser, 73, American real estate developer, transformed Hilton Head Island into a world-class resort.[49]
• Vladimir Haensel, 88, American chemical engineer.
• Arthur Jeph Parker, 79, American set decorator.
• Dick Stuart, 70, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies).[50]

16

• Bill Hunter, 82, Canadian ice hockey player, general manager and coach, cancer.
• Rolston James, 26, Trinidadian international football player, homicide.
• Don Vesco, 63, American businessperson and motorcycle racer, prostate cancer.

17

• Colin Clark, 70, British film director and writer (My Week with Marilyn).[51]
• John Aubrey Davis, Sr., 90, American civil rights activist.[52]
• Mahmoud Fayad, 77, Egyptian weightlifter (gold medal in featherweight weightlifting at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[53]
• Aideu Handique, 87, Indian actress.
• Hank Luisetti, 86, American basketball star and innovator.
• Dame Mona Mitchell, 64, British courtier.

18

• Saul Amarel, 74, American computer scientist, known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence.[54]
• Earl Audet, 81, American professional football player (USC, Washington Redskins, Los Angeles Dons) and actor.[55]
• Lucy Grealy, 39, Irish-born American poet and memoirist.
• Ramon John Hnatyshyn, 68, former Governor-General of Canada, pancreatitis.
• Sir Bert Millichip, 88, British football administrator.
• Wayne Owens, 65, U.S. Congressman (D-UT), heart attack.[56]

19

• Guy Bordelon, 80, American Korean War flying ace.
• Claude Crocker, 78, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).[57]
• Stephen Fleck, 90, American psychiatrist.
• Jim Flower, 79, British admiral.
• Robert Evan Kendell, 67, Welsh psychiatrist.
• Bob Rinker, 81, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[58]
• Arthur Rowley, 76, English footballer, holder of the record for most career league goals scored.
• Lewis B. Smedes, 81, American theologian.
• Roger Webb, 68, British musical director and composer (The Godsend, The Boy in Blue, Death of a Centerfold).[59]
• George Weller, 95, American World War II journalist, his Nagasaki nuclear bomb blast stories censored by U.S. military.[60]

20

• Leonard Bishop, 80, American novelist, and newspaper columnist.
• Joanne Campbell, 38, British actress, starred in the 1980s comedy series Me and My Girl, deep-vein thrombosis.[61]
• Robert "Sonny" Carson, 66, U.S. Army Korean War veteran and civil rights activist.[62]
• James Richard Ham, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• John W. Hicks, 81, American agricultural economist and academic administrator.
• Wheeler J. North, 80, American marine biologist and environmental scientist.
• Grote Reber, 90, American pioneer of radio astronomy.

21

• Jeu van Bun, 84, Dutch football player (football at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[63]
• Jules Fejer, 88, Hungarian physicist, made fundamental contributions in research on the Earth's ionosphere.[64]
• José Hierro, 80, Spanish poet.
• Glen Seator, 46, American visual artist and conceptual sculptor, accidental fall.
• Victor Watts, 64, British toponymist, medievalist, translator, and academic, heart attack.

22

• William G. Bennett, 78, American gaming executive and real estate developer (Circus Circus Enterprises).[65]
• Ian Craib, 57, English sociologist and psychotherapist (The Importance of Disappointment).[66]
• Susan Fleming, 94, American actress (Million Dollar Legs, The Ziegfeld Follies) and wife of actor Harpo Marx.[67]
• Julius S. Held, 77, German art historian.
• Desmond Hoyte, 73, President of Guyana from 1985 to 1992.
• Joe Morgan, 57, New Zealand rugby union player.
• Joe Strummer, 50, former singer for The Clash.
• Kenneth Tobey, 85, American actor (appeared in about 100 films including: Twelve O'Clock High, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Thing from Another World and Airplane!).
• Gabrielle Wittkop, 82, French writer (The Necrophiliac).[68]

23

• Tatamkhulu Afrika, 82, South African poet and writer.
• Anthony Besch, 78, British opera and theatre director (English National Opera, Scottish Opera, New Opera Company).[69]
• George Bullard, 74, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[70]
• John Henry Kyl, 83, American politician.
• Jimmy Osborne, 94, Australian soccer player.

24

• Alan Clodd, 84, Irish publisher, book collector, dealer and bibliographical researcher.[71]
• Ward Cuff, 89, American professional football player (New York Giants, Chicago Cardinals, Green Bay Packers).[72]
• Mohammed al Fassi, 50, Saudi Arabian sheik, known for provoking his Beverly Hills neighbors by applying garish paint colors.[73]
• James Ferman, 72, American-British film censor, secretary/director of British Board of Film Classification.[74]
• Erroll Fraser, 52, British Virgin Island speed skater (men's 500 metres, men's 1000 metres at the 1984 Winter Olympics).[75]
• Tita Merello, 98, Argentinian actress and singer.
• V.K. Ramasamy, 76, Indian actor.
• Jake Thackray, 64, English singer-songwriter, heart failure.
• Arch Wilder, 85, Canadian professional hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).[76]

25

• Gabriel Almond, 91, American political scientist.[77]
• William T. Orr, 85, American television executive producer (Maverick, F-Troop, 77 Sunset Strip).[78]
• Davina Whitehouse, 90, British-born New Zealand actress (Night Nurse, Sleeping Dogs, Braindead).[79]

26

• Paul P. Douglas Jr., 83, American U.S. Air Force flying ace, one of the most highly decorated combat aces of World War II.[80]
• Frank Reiber, 93, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[81]
• Herb Ritts, 50, celebrity photographer.
• Armand Zildjian, 81, Armenian-American manufacturer of cymbals, chairman of the Avedis Zildjian Company.[82]

27

• Truid Blaisse-Terwindt, 85, Dutch hockey- and tennis player.
• Bill Chipley, 82, American professional football player (Boston Yanks, New York Bulldogs).[83]
• Carla Henius, 83, German soprano and mezzo-soprano and librettist.
• George Roy Hill, 81, American film director (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting).[84]
• Mallory Evan Wijesinghe, 84, Sri Lankan engineer and entrepreneur.
• Matsui Yayori, 68, Japanese journalist and women's rights activist.

28

• Baba Raúl Cañizares, 47, American Santerían priest and writer.
• Maria Carbone, 94, Italian operatic soprano.
• Vladimir Chuyan, 62, Soviet sports shooter (men's 50 metre rifle three positions, men's 50 metre rifle prone at the 1964 Summer Olympics).[85]
• Koreyoshi Kurahara, 75, Japanese screenwriter and director.
• Albert Stubbins, 83, English footballer.
• Joseph Vadakkan, 83, Indian political activist priest and freedom fighter.
• Meri Wilson, 53, American model and singer-songwriter ("Telephone Man"), car accident.[86]

29

• Al Babartsky, 87, American professional football player (Fordham University, Chicago Cardinals, Chicago Bears).[87]
• Billy Brown, 84, American triple jumper and long jumper (1941 world long jump leader, 1936 Summer Olympics men's triple jump).[88]
• Don Clarke, 69, New Zealand rugby player.
• John Dreyfus, 84, British typographer and printing historian, his writings investigated and celebrated the evolution of type.[89]
• Sir Paul Hawkins, 90, British politician.
• Victoria Lederberg, 65, Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court (1993–2002).
• Július Satinský, 61, Slovak actor and comedian.
• Foster Watkins, 85, American professional football player (West Texas A&M, Philadelphia Eagles).[90]

30

• Mary Brian, 96, American actress, silent and sound film star (Peter Pan, The Virginian, Charlie Chan in Paris, Man on the Flying Trapeze).[91]
• Barbara Durham, 60, American judge, first female chief justice of the Washington Supreme Court.[92]
• Eleanor J. Gibson, 92, American psychologist.
• Antony Ponzini, 69, American actor.
• Wang Fanxi, 95, Chinese Trotskyist revolutionary.[93]
• Mary Wesley, 90, English novelist (Jumping the Queue, The Camomile Lawn, Part of the Furniture).[94]

31

• D. J. Enright, 82, British poet, novelist and critic.[95]
• Billy Morris, 84, Welsh footballer.
• Kevin MacMichael, 51, Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter (Cutting Crew).

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