1. November 2002
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2. References

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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.

November 2002

1

• David Bartleet, 73, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Tonbridge.
• Edward Brooke, 85, Canadian Olympic fencer (1952 Summer Olympics: men's foil, men's épée).^[2]
• Nicholas John Bua, 77, American judge (United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois).^[3]
• Amadou Cissé Dia, 87, Senegalese politician and playwright.
• Sir Charles Wilson, 93, British political scientist.

2

• Brian Behan, 75, Irish writer and playwright, younger brother of Brendan Behan.^[4]
• Robert Haslam, Baron Haslam, 79, British industrialist and life peer.
• Lo Lieh, 63, Hong Kong actor.
• Dame Felicity Peake, 89, British Director of the Women's Royal Air Force.
• Tonio Selwart, 106, Bavarian actor and Broadway performer.
• Charles Sheffield, 67, science fiction author and physicist.

3

• Mary Bird, 92, American Olympic alpine skier (women's combined alpine skiing at the 1936 Summer Olympics).^[5]
• Lonnie Donegan, 71, British skiffle musician ("Rock Island Line", "John Henry").^[6]
• Sir John Habakkuk, 87, British economic historian.
• Jonathan Harris, 87, American actor, TV's "Dr. Smith" on Lost in Space.
• William Packard, 69, American poet and author.
• Sir Rex Roe, 77, British air force officer.

4

• Antonio Margheriti, 72, Italian filmmaker, heart attack.
• Xing Qiyi, 90, Chinese chemist.
• Malcolm Ross, 91, Canadian literary critic, pneumonia.

5

• Vinnette Justine Carroll, 80, American Broadway director (Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope, Your Arms Too Short to Box with God).^[7]
• Ansley J. Coale, 84, American demographer, senior research demographer at the Office of Population Research at Princeton.^[8]
• Marcel Dheere, 83, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens).^[9]
• Billy Guy, 66, American singer.
• Mushtaq Qadri, 35, Pakistani religious poet.
• Arthur Winfree, 60, American theoretical biologist.

6

• Brian James, 61, English cricketer.
• Sid Sackson, 82, board game designer.
• Gianluca Signorini, 42, Italian footballer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

7

• Rudolf Augstein, 79, German journalist and publisher, founder and chief editorialist of Der Spiegel.^[10]
• Charles Hambro, Baron Hambro, 72, British merchant banker and political fundraiser.
• Dilys Hamlett, 74, British actress.
• Peg Phillips, 84, American actress, pulmonary disease.
• Pedro Juan Soto, 74, Puerto Rican writer, killed by police officers.

8

• Tom Barrington, 58, American professional football player (Ohio State, Washington Redskins, New Orleans Saints).^[11]
• Norma Lee Clark, 75, American actress (Captain Video and His Video Rangers), author and personal assistant to Woody Allen.^[12]
• Jaun Elia, 70, Pakistani Marxist.
• Ivan Kandyba, 72, Ukrainian lawyer and dissident.
• Franjo Kukuljević, 93, Croatian tennis player.
• Dorothy Mackie Low, 86, British novelist under pseudonyms Dorothy Mackie Low, Lois Paxton, and Zoë Cass.
• Querube Makalintal, 91, Philippino Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
• Zoé Oldenbourg, 86, Russian-born French historian and novelist.
• Christopher Parsons, 70, English wildlife film-maker producer.
• Donald Niven Wheeler, 89, American social activist, teacher, and alleged Soviet spy.

9

• Dick Johnson, 85, American test pilot.
• Cliff Patton, 79, American professional football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Cardinals).^[13]
• Merlin Santana, 26, actor, shot.
• William Schutz, 76, American psychologist.

10

• Michel Boisrond, 81, French film director and screenwriter, known for directing Brigitte Bardot in Naughty Girl.^[14]
• Steve Durbano, 50, Canadian ice hockey player, lung cancer.
• Franco Fantasia, 78, Italian actor.
• Émile Ollivier, 62, Haitian-born Canadian writer.
• Ken Raffensberger, 85, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies,Cincinnati Reds/Redlegs).^[15]
• Gert Westphal, 82, German-Swiss actor, recitator and director.

11

• Frances Ames, 82, South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist, leukemia.
• Sir Michael Clapham, 90, British industrialist, president of the Confederation of British Industry from 1972 to 1974.^[16]
• Mary Hamilton, 67, African-American civil rights activist, ovarian cancer.
• Bernard J. Liska, 71, American food scientist.
• Esther Raziel-Naor, 90, Israeli Zionist, Irgun leader and politician.
• Esther Somerfeld-Ziskind, 101, American neurologist and psychiatrist.
• David Steel, 92, Scottish minister.
• Marcia Van Dyke, 80, American violinist and actress.
• Yoo Youngkuk, 86, Korean abstract artist.

12

• Wally Barron, 90, American politician (26th governor of West Virginia), indicted and plead guilty to jury tampering.^[17]
• David Francis Clyde, 77, British tropical physician, known for his research on malaria vaccines and chemotherapy.^[18]
• Glenn Dobbs, 82, American professional football player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Los Angeles Dons) and college football coach (University of Tulsa).^[19]
• Johannes Kerkorrel, 42, South African singer-songwriter, journalist and playwright, suicide by hanging.

13

• Frederick Valentine Atkinson, 86, British mathematician (Atkinson's theorem, Atkinson–Wilcox theorem).^[20]
• Bill Berry, 72, American jazz trumpeter (Duke Ellington Orchestra, Bill Berry and the L.A. Band).^[21]
• Tom Caldwell, 81, Northern Ireland politician, unionist and interior designer, member of Parliament of Northern Ireland representing Belfast Willowfield.^[22]
• Edwin Ferdon, 89, American ethnologist.
• Roland Hanna, 70, American jazz pianist, composer, and teacher, viral infection.
• Desmond Norman, 73, aircraft designer and aviation pioneer, heart attack.
• Kaloji Narayana Rao, 88, Indian poet, freedom fighter, and political activist.
• Irv Rubin, 57, Canadian chairman of the Jewish Defence League.
• Juan Alberto Schiaffino, 77, Italian-Uruguayan football player.

14

• Eddie Bracken, 87, American actor (Hail the Conquering Hero, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, National Lampoon's Vacation).^[23]
• Walter Crocker, 100, Australian diplomat, writer and war veteran.^[24]
• James R. Hendrix, 77, US Army sergeant and a recipient of the Medal of Honor, cancer.
• Gourish Kaikini, 90, Indian litterateur, teacher and columnist.
• Rosemary Forbes Kerry, 89, American nurse and social activist.
• Dale E. Saffels, 81, American lawyer, legislator, and District Judge.
• Mir Qazi, 38, Pakistani convicted criminal, executed by lethal injection in Virginia.

15

• Ed Freed, 83, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).^[25]
• Myra Hindley, 60, the Moors murderess.
• Roberta Leighton, 70, American drag racer.
• John Joseph Stewart, 79, New Zealand rugby coach.

16

• Ramli Ahmad, 46, Malaysian Olympic sprinter (1976 Summer Olympics: men's 100 metres, men's 200 metres).^[26]
• George Barrie, 90, American businessman (owner and CEO of Fabergé Inc.) and songwriter (two-time nominee for Academy Award for Best Original Song).^[27]
• Rupert E. Billingham, 81, British biologist, considered by many to have founded the fields of reproductive immunology and organ transplantation.^[28]
• Sir George Gardiner, 67, British politician.
• Alfred Lewis Levitt, 86, American film and television screenwriter, heart failure.
• Frank Smithies, 90, British mathematician.
• Mose Vinson, 85, American boogie-woogie, blues and jazz pianist and singer, diabetes.

17

• Maria Bogner, German fashion designer.
• Robert Brattain, 91, American physicist.
• Abba Eban, 88, Israeli foreign affair minister.
• Frank McCarthy, 78, American artist and painter, lung cancer.
• Marvin Mirisch, 84, American film producer, cancer.

18

• Angus Cameron, 93, American book editor and publisher, known for being blacklisted during McCarthy era.^[29]
• James Coburn, 74,American actor and Oscar-winner, heart attack.^[30]
• Francesco De Martino, 95, Italian jurist and politician, considered to be the conscience of the Italian Socialist Party.^[31]
• Kim Gallagher, 38, American middle-distance runner, stroke.
• Peter Grippe, 90, American sculptor, printmaker, and painter.
• Edith Hirsch Luchins, 80, Polish-American mathematician.
• Francesco De Martino, 95, Italian jurist and politician.
• Pete Orr, 46, American stock car racing driver, cancer.
• Pasquale Vivolo, 74, Italian footballer.
• Juliusz Wyrzykowski, 56, Polish movie and stage actor.

19

• John Bunting, 75, English sculptor and teacher.^[32]
• Vito Ciancimino, 78, Italian politician (mayor of Palermo, Sicily) and Mafia member, made a fortune from bribery and embezzlement.^[33]
• George Fullerton, 79, South African cricketer.
• Prince Alexandre de Merode, 68, Belgian International Olympic Committee member, lung cancer.
• Jean-Claude Renard, 80, French poet.

20

• George Guest, 78, British organist and choirmaster.
• Ben Webb, 45, Canadian journalist.
• Zhang Shuguang, 82, Chinese politician.

21

• Robert Brentano, 76, American history professor, prize-winnning author and historian of medieval England and Italy.^[34]
• Hadda Brooks, 86, American jazz singer, pianist and composer, known as the "Queen of the Boogie".^[35]
• Amílcar de Castro, 82, Brazilian sculptor, known for works in iron.^[36]
• Arturo Guzman Decena founder of Los Zetas.
• J. Roger Pichette, 81, Canadian politician.
• Prince Takamado, 47, Japanese prince.

22

• Parley Baer, 88, American radio, television and film actor (The Andy Griffith Show, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Addams Family, Dave).^[37]
• Joan Barclay, 88, American actress.
• Norman Clarke, 86, British physicist and politician.
• Christine Marion Fraser, 64, Scottish novelist.

23

• Erna Bogen-Bogáti, 95, Hungarian Olympic fencer (1928 women's foil, 1932 bronze medal women's foil, 1936 women's foil).^[38]
• Boudewijn Büch, 53, Dutch writer, poet and television presenter.^[39]
• Roberto Matta, 91 Chilean artist.
• Billy Travis, 41, American professional wrestler.

24

• Branko Dangubić, 80, Yugoslavian (Serbian) Olympic javelin thrower (men's javelin throw at the 1952 Summer Olympics).^[40]
• Noel Davis, 75, English film and television actor and casting director (Merlin, Reds).^[41]
• Mikhail Devyatayev, 85, Soviet fighter pilot who escaped from a Nazi concentration camp.^[42]
• Harriet Doerr, 92, American author.^[43]
• Cecil Dowdy, 57, American college football player (University of Alabama) and businessman, hunting accident.^[44]
• Kazım Ergin, 87, Turkish geophysicist.
• Philip B. Meggs, 60, American graphic designer.
• John Rawls, 81, American moral and political philosopher.
• Baba Sidhaye, 70, Indian cricketer.
• Sidney S. Wade, 93, US Marine Corps officer.

25

• Ed Bliss, 90, American broadcast journalist, news editor and educator (Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite).^[45]
• Charles E. Chamberlain, 85, American politician (U.S. Representative for Michigan's 6th congressional district).^[46]
• Gordon Davidson, 87, Australian politician (member of Australian Senate representing South Australia).^[47]
• David Drummond, 8th Earl of Perth, 95, British politician and aristocrat.
• Vladimír Janda, 74, Czech physician and physical therapist.
• Karel Reisz, 76, British filmmaker.
• Eugene V. Rostow, 89, American legal scholar and public servant.

26

• Frank Allaun, 89, British politician (member of Parliament for Salford East from 1955 to 1983).^[48]
• Jim Butterfield, 74, American head football coach at Ithaca College from 1967 to 1994 (three NCAA Division III Football Championships).^[49]
• Ruzha Delcheva, 87, Bulgarian actress.
• Ralph Engelstad, 72, American casino executive.
• Raymond Gafner, 87, ice hockey player and referee.
• Ernest Leiser, 81, American television producer.
• Raymond L. Wallace, 84, American amateur Bigfoot hoaxer.
• Verne Winchell, 87, founder of Winchell's Donuts (nicknamed "The Donut King").

27

• Billie Bird, 94, American actress (Sixteen Candles, Ernest Saves Christmas, Home Alone, Dennis the Menace).^[50]
• Stanley Black, 89, English bandleader, composer, conductor and pianist.^[51]
• Laurence J. Burton, 76, American politician (U.S. Representative for Utah's 1st congressional district).^[52]
• George Christian, 75, American journalist, White House press secretary for President Lyndon B. Johnson.^[53]
• Ronald Gerard Connors, 87, American Roman Catholic bishop in the Dominican Republic.
• Bob deLauer, 82, American professional football player (USC, Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams).^[54]
• Edwin L. Mechem, 90, American politician.
• Yeruham Meshel, 90, Israeli union leader and politician.
• Robert W. Straub, 82, American politician, Alzheimer's disease.
• Shivmangal Singh Suman, 87, Indian poet, heart attack.

28

• Mahicon Librelato, 21, Brazilian footballer, traffic accident.
• Russell Arthur Missin, 80, British organist.
• Lennaert Nijgh, 57, Dutch lyricist, gastrointestinal bleeding.
• Billy Pearson, American jockey, film actor, and an art dealer.
• Dave "Snaker" Ray, 59, American blues singer and guitarist, lung cancer.

29

• Melih Cevdet Anday, 87, Turkish author.
• Damien Covington, 29, American professional football player (Buffalo Bills), killed in an attempted robbery.^[55]
• Saburō Ienaga, 89, Japanese historian.
• John Justin, 85, British stage and film actor.
• David Weiss, 93, American novelist.

30

• Alan Ashman, 74, English footballer player.
• Minuetta Kessler, 88, Russian-born American concert pianist and composer.
• Bill Sparks, 80, British Royal Marine Commando in World War II.
• Tim Woods, 68, professional wrestler who wrestled as Mr. Wrestling, heart attack.

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