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

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.

April 2002

1

• Albert F. Canwell, 95, American politician and anti-communist. ^[1]
• Tonino Cervi, 72, Italian film director, screenwriter and producer, heart attack. ^[2]
• Simo Häyhä, 96, Finnish sniper during World War II.
• James Karales, 71, American photographer and photo-essayist. ^[3]
• K. V. Narayanaswamy, 78, Indian musician.
• John S. Samuel, 88, American Air Force general. ^[4]

2

• Levi Celerio, 91, Filipino composer and lyricist, and National Artist of the Philippines. ^[5]
• Vladimir Cernik, 84, Czechoslovakian tennis player.
• Ike Clarke, 87, English football player and manager. ^[6]
• Jack Kruschen, 80, Canadian actor ( The Apartment , The War of the Worlds , Webster ). ^[7]
• John R. Pierce, 92, American engineer and author who coined the term "transistor", pneumonia. ^[8]
• Betty Jane Rase, 74, American singer and songwriter, stroke. ^[9]
• Henry Slesar, 74, American author, playwright, and copywriter. ^[10]
• Shigeo Sugimoto, 75, Japanese football player.
• Robert Lawson Vaught, 75, American mathematician, and one of the founders of model theory. ^[11]

3

• Heinz Drache, 79, German film actor, lung cancer. ^[12]
• Fad Gadget, 45, English singer-songwriter, heart attack. ^[13]
• Roy Huggins, 87, American novelist and television producer ( Maverick , The Fugitive , The Rockford Files ). ^[14]
• Norm Lee, 81, Australian politician.
• Bobby Managoff, 84, Armenian-American professional wrestler, heart failure.
• Roy Nichols, 81, American baseball player (New York Giants). ^[15]
• Ernst Stojaspal, 77, Austrian football player, heart failure.
• Karl Swanson, 101, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox). ^[16]

4

• Leo Brooks, 54, American gridiron football player (University of Texas, Houston Oilers, St. Louis Cardinals), esophageal cancer. ^[17]
• Leo Laakso, 83, Finnish Olympic ski jumper. ^[18]
• Pierre Marchand, 62, French publisher, cancer. ^[19]
• Joe Massot, 69, American writer and film director.
• Qazi Mujahidul Islam Qasmi, 66, Indian Mufti, Qadhi and Islamic scholar.
• Jack Tanuan, 36, Filipino basketball player, kidney failure.
• Charles Winquist, 57, American theologian. ^[20]

5

• Herbert A. Cahn, 87, German-Swiss archaeologist, numismatist and antiquities-dealer. ^[21]
• Paul Erickson, 86, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Giants). ^[22]
• Bargil Pixner, 81, Italian-American monk, biblical scholar and archaeologist.
• Sheriff Robinson, 80, American baseball player. ^[23]
• Layne Staley, 34, American singer (Alice in Chains), drug overdose. ^[24]
• Ben Warley, 65, American professional basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers, Baltimore Bullets, Anaheim Amigos), liver cancer. ^[25]
• Kim Won-gyun, 85, North Korean composer and politician, heart failure.

6

• Silvia Derbez, 70, Mexican film and television actress, lung cancer.
• Petru Dumitriu, 77, Romanian novelist. ^[26]
• Oliver Eggimann, 83, Swiss football player.
• Kevin Kelley, 59, American drummer (Rising Sons, The Byrds, Fever Tree).
• Ralph J. Marino, 74, American lawyer and politician from New York. ^[27]
• Nobu McCarthy, 67, Canadian actress, aortic aneurysm. ^[28]
• Martin Sperr, 57, German dramatist and actor. ^[29]
• Tom Sunkel, 89, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers). ^[30]
• Judith Wood, 95, American film actress. ^[31]

7

• John Agar, 81, American actor, starred in Western and Sci-Fi movies, first husband of Shirley Temple, pulmonary emphysema. ^[32]
• Bobby Astyr, 64, American pornographic film actor.
• Bhavanam Venkatarami Reddy, 70, Indian politician, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.
• Georges van Coningsloo, 61, Belgian racing cyclist. ^[33]
• Conny Vandenbos, 65, Dutch singer, lung cancer. ^[34]

8

• Nigel Bagnall, 75, British field marshal, professional head of the British Army (Chief of the General Staff). ^[35]
• Eloy Fominaya, 76, American composer, music educator, conductor, violinist and luthier (Augusta Symphony). ^[36]
• María de los Angeles Felix Güereña, 88, Mexican film star, considered "the most beautiful face in the history of Mexican cinema", heart attack. ^[37]
• Giacomo Mancini, 85, Italian politician.
• Harvey Quaytman, 64, American painter, cancer. ^[38]
• Francisco Zamora Salinas, 63, El Salvador football player.
• Josef Svoboda, 81, Czech artist and scenic designer. ^[39]
• Laurel Rose Willson, 60, American author and con artist.

9

• Dorothy Love Coates, 74, American gospel singer, considered one of gospel's great performers. ^[40]
• Harold Coates, 84, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1965-1976). ^[41]
• Thomas Dinger, 49, German drummer, singer and songwriter. ^[42]
• Roy Dwight, 69, English footballer. ^[43]
• Pat Flaherty, 76, American professional racecar driver, won the Indianapolis 500 in 1956. ^[44]
• Weldon Irvine, 58, American composer, playwright, poet, and pianist, suicide. ^[45]
• Kazuo Nakamura, 75, Japanese-Canadian painter and sculptor. ^[46]
• Leopold Vietoris, 110, Austrian mathematician.

10

• Haim Cohn, 91, Israeli jurist and politician. ^[47]
• Ed Fleming, 68, American professional basketball player (Niagara University, Rochester Royals, Minneapolis Lakers). ^[48]
• Géza Hofi, 75, Hungarian humorist. ^[49]
• Atanda Fatai Williams, 83, Nigerian jurist and Chief Justice of Nigeria (1979-1983).

11

• Elmer Angsman, 76, American gridiron football player (Notre Dame, Chicago Cardinals) and football color commentator, heart attack. ^[50]
• Branko Bauer, 81, Croatian film director.
• William Brandon, 87, American author, wrote on Native Americans and the American West. ^[51]
• Bubba Brooks, 79, American jazz tenor saxophonist, a member of Bill Doggett's ensemble. ^[52]
• Héctor Rojas Herazo, 81, Colombian novelist, poet, journalist and painter.
• Delphi Lawrence, 76, English actress. ^[53]
• Do Mau, 85, Vietnamese officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN).
• J. William Stanton, 78, American politician (U.S. Representative for Ohio's 11th congressional district). ^[54]
• Stanley Weston, 82, American publisher, sportswriter, artist and photographer, cancer. ^[55]

12

• Hans Neurath, 92, Austrian-American biochemist and academic. ^[56]
• Gabriel Raksi, 63, Romanian football player. ^[57]
• Yadollah Sahabi, 97, Iranian scholar, writer, reformist and politician.
• Kondapalli Seetharamaiah, 87, Indian communist leader, Parkinson's disease.
• George Shevelov, 93, Ukrainian scholar. ^[58]
• Safet Zhulali, 59, Albanian Minister of Defence. ^[59]

13

• Alex Baroni, 35, Italian singer, traffic accident.
• Scipio Colombo, 91, Italian dramatic baritone, and was. ^[60]
• Ivan Desny, 79, RussianSwiss film actor-, appeared in more than 150 films, pneumonia. ^[61]
• Franz Krienbühl, 73, Swiss speed skater. ^[62]
• Oreste Piccioni, 86, Italian-American physicist. ^[63]
• Álvaro Salvadores, 73, Chilean-Spaniard basketball player. ^[64]
• Vlajko Stojiljković, 65, Serbian politician, suicide.
• Desmond Titterington, 73, British racing driver from Northern Ireland.

14

• Edmée Abetel, 79, Swiss Olympic alpine skier (1952 Winter Olympics women's slalom). ^[65]
• Buck Baker, 83, American stock car race driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame. ^[66]
• Gustave Blouin, 89, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament (House of Commons). ^[67]
• Mark Ermler, 69, Russian conductor (Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra). ^[68]
• Joop Haex, 90, Dutch politician. ^[69]
• Michael Kerr, 81, British jurist.
• Monal, 21, Indian film actress, suicide by hanging.
• Fausto Radici, 48, Italian alpine skier, suicide.

15

• Sándor Gáspár, 85, Hungarian communist politician and trade unionist.
• Moe Keale, 62, American musician of Hawaiian music, and actor, heart attack.
• Dave King, 72, English comedian, actor and singer.
• Damon Knight, 79, American science fiction author, editor and critic. ^[70]
• Hans-Henrik Krause, 84, Danish actor and film director.
• Ram Singh Thakur, 87, Indian freedom fighter, musician and composer.
• Byron White, 84, American lawyer and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, pneumonia. ^[71]

16

• Billy Ayre, 49, English footballer, cancer. ^[72]
• Ramiro de León Carpio, 60, Guatemalan politician, diabetic coma.
• Janusz Kasperczak, 74, Polish Olympic boxer. ^[73]
• Claudio Slon, 58, Brazilian jazz drummer, lung cancer.
• Marcel Stern, 80, Swiss competitive sailor and Olympic medalist. ^[74]
• Robert Urich, 55, American actor ( Vega$ , Spenser: For Hire , Lonesome Dove , S.W.A.T. ), cancer. ^[75]
• Hugh Franklin Waters, 69, American judge (U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas). ^[76]
• Herbert Wernicke, 56, German opera director and set and costume designer. ^[77]

17

• James Copeland, 83, Scottish actor ( The 39 Steps , The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes ). ^[78]
• Betsy Curtis, 84, American science fiction and fantasy writer. ^[79]
• Srul Irving Glick, 67, Canadian composer, radio producer, and conductor. ^[80]
• Stevan Kragujević, 80, Serbian photojournalist and art photographer.

18

• Mitsos Dimitriou, 54, Greek football player.
• Jerry Heidenreich, 52, American competition swimmer and Olympic champion, suicide. ^[81]
• Thor Heyerdahl, 87, Norwegian anthropologist, brain cancer. ^[82]
• Wayne Hightower, 62, American basketball player, heart attack.
• Cy Laurie, 75, British musician.
• Wahoo McDaniel, 63, American gridiron football player and wrestler, complications from diabetes and kidney failure. ^[83]

19

• William E. Barber, 82, U.S. Marine Corps colonel and Medal of Honor recipient, bone marrow cancer. ^[84]
• Alberto Beltrán, 79, Mexican painter, engraver and political cartoonist. ^[85]
• Jean-Pierre Destrumelle, 61, French football player and manager. ^[86]
• Reginald Rose, 81, American film and television writer, complications of heart failure. ^[87]
• Ross Whicher, 84, Canadian politician and businessman (member of Parliament representing Bruce, Ontario). ^[88]

20

• Vlastimil Brodský, 81, Czech actor, suicide. ^[89]
• Alan Dale, 76, American singer ("Heart of My Heart", "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White"). ^[90]
• Joe Geri, 77, American gridiron football player. ^[91]
• Sarvepalli Gopal, 78, Indian historian, renal failure. ^[92]
• Stig-Göran Johansson, 58, Swedish ice hockey player. ^[93]
• Pierre Rapsat, 53, Belgian singer-songwriter, cancer. ^[94]

21

• Sam Dente, 79, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians). ^[95]
• Thomas Joseph Grady, 87, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Verné Lesche, 84, Finnish speed skater.
• Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi, 65, Afghan politician and mujahideen leader.
• Red O'Quinn, 76, American professional football player (Wake Forest, Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles). ^[96]
• Ogden Phipps, 93, American stockbroker, thoroughbred horse racing owner/breeder and philanthropist. ^[97]
• Terry Walsh, 62, British stuntman.

22

• Albrecht Becker, 95, German production designer and actor.
• Janet Fox, 89, American actress ( Stage Door , Dinner at Eight ). ^[98]
• Soja Jovanović, 80, Serbian and Yugoslav film director.
• Linda Lovelace, 53, American porn star turned political activist, car crash. ^[99]
• Fran Minkoff, 87, American lyricist.
• Allen Morris, 92, American historian. ^[100]
• Christopher Price, 34, English journalist and presenter, meningoencephalitis.
• Victor Weisskopf, 93, Austrian-American theoretical physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project. ^[101]

23

• Bob Baker, 75, American heavyweight boxer. ^[102]
• Bob Faught, 82, American professional basketball player (University of Notre Dame, Cleveland Rebels). ^[103]
• Sam Francis, 88, American football player (Nebraska, Chicago Bears, Brooklyn Dodgers) and coach, and Olympic shot putter. ^[104]
• Ted Kroll, 82, American professional golfer, won eight PGA Tour events, Parkinson's disease. ^[105]
• Tibor Simon, 36, Hungarian football player and manager, blunt trauma. ^[106]

24

• Gloria Escoffery, 78, Jamaican artist, poet, teacher, art critic and journalist. ^[107]
• Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, 67, American journalist, essayist and memoirist, COPD. ^[108]
• Eric McKitrick, 82, American historian.
• Robert McQueeney, 83, American actor. ^[109]
• Lucien Wercollier, 93, Luxembourg sculptor. ^[110]
• Nadezhda Zhurkina, 81, Russian radio operator and gunner during World War II.

25

• Michael Bryant, 74, British actor ( Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly , The Stone Tape , The Ruling Class , Gandhi ). ^[111]
• Mario Casilli, 71, American photographer.
• Indra Devi, 102, Russian "yoga teacher to the stars". ^[112]
• Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, 30, American singer and member of girl group TLC, car crash. ^[113]
• Athanasios Papoulis, 81, Greek-American engineer and applied mathematician.

26

• Vincenzo Caianiello, 69, Italian jurist.
• Alton Coleman, 46, American convicted spree killer, execution by lethal injection. ^[114]
• John Davis, 86, American baseball player (New York Giants). ^[115]
• Del Sharbutt, 90, American radio announcer. ^[116]
• Tore Svensson, 74, Swedish football goalkeeper.
• Steve Tshwete, 63, South African politician and activist, pneumonia and liver failure. ^[117]

27

• Guila Bustabo, 86, American concert violinist. ^[118]
• George Alec Effinger, 55, American science fiction writer ( When Gravity Fails , "Schrödinger's Kitten"). ^[119]
• Ruth Handler, 85, inventor of the Barbie doll, colorectal cancer. ^[120]
• Robert L. Joseph, 79, American theatre producer, playwright, and screenwriter. ^[121]
• Arthur Owen, 87, British racing driver (born 1915).
• Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, 81, German Industrialist and art collector, cardiovascular disease.
• Felix Villars, 81, Swiss-American emeritus professor of physics at MIT. ^[122]
• Jerry Witte, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns). ^[123]

28

• Albert Béchard, 79, Canadian politician and a member of Parliament (House of Commons for Bonaventure, Quebec). ^[124]
• Robert M. Gagné, 85, American educational psychologist.
• Alexander Lebed, 52, Russian general and politician, aviation accident. ^[125]
• Peter Parker, 77, British businessman. ^[126]
• Liu Qiong, 88, Chinese film director and actor, liver cancer. ^[127]
• Lou Thesz, 86, American professional wrestler, complications caused by triple bypass surgery. ^[128]
• John Wilkinson, 82, American sound mixer ( Platoon , Saturday Night Fever , Days of Heaven ), Oscar winner (1987). ^[129]
• Gordon Willey, 89, American anthropologist, known for creation of the field of "settlement pattern studies". ^[130]

29

• Bob Akin, 66, American businessman and professional race car driver (two-time Sebring winner). ^[131]
• Sune Andersson, 81, Swedish football player and manager (gold medal winner in football at the 1948 Summer Olympics). ^[132]
• Sverre Bratland, 84, Norwegian military leader and commander during the invasion of Normandy during World War II. ^[133]
• Michael Camille, 44, English art historian, specializing in art of the European Middle Ages, brain tumor. ^[134]
• Noel DaCosta, 72, Nigerian-Jamaican composer, jazz violinist, and choral conductor. ^[135]
• Santiago Álvarez Gómez, 89, Spanish communist politician. ^[136]
• Ihar Hermianchuk, 41, Belarusian journalist and political activist, cancer.
• Pete Jacobsen, 51, English jazz pianist. ^[137]
• Stan Lynn, 73, English football player. ^[138]
• Lor Tok, 88, Thai, comedian and actor Thailand National Artist.

30

• Kathryn Albertson, 93, American philanthropist. ^[139]
• Howard Alvin Crum, 79, American botanist, expert on North American bryoflora.
• Ida Engel, 98, American actress, television commercial star in her 90s. ^[140]
• Leslie Melville, 100, Australian economist, academic and public servant.
• Robert Mosley, 74 or 75, American bass-baritone.
• Nitsa Tsaganea, 100, Greek actress of theatre and film.
• Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, 74, German LGBT writer and museum director, heart attack. ^[141]

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