Caskets On Parade ... 2002 Contest - List of "Big Misses"
©2008 C.O.P. Audit Committee - file update generated 11-19-2008 at 08:29 GMT

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violent repeat felon  Jack Henry Abbott   Norman Mailer got him out of jail once (big mistake); his correspondence with Mailer was published in book form as In The Belly of the Beast
expired 2-10-2002 in Alden, New York   age 58   cause: hanged (suicide)

international terrorist  Sbri al-Bana

¤	nom de guerre: Abu Nidal

born on 5--1937 in Jaffa, Palestine
expired 8-16-2002 in Baghdad, Iraq   age 65   cause: "multiple unexplained gunshot wounds to the head"

former college/pro quarterback  Frankie Albert   noted for his success with the T-formation
born on 1-27-1920 in Chicago, Illinois
expired 9-4-2002 in Palo Alto, California   age 82   cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease

"Great White Hunter"  Frank Maurice "Bunny" Allen
expired 1-??-2002 in Lamu Island, Kenya   age 95

Motown drummer  Howard Richard "Pistol" Allen   worked for AC Delco before joining Motown
expired 6-30-2002 in Detroit, Michigan   age 69   cause: cancer

singing voice of Mr. Ed  Sheldon Allman   co-wrote tv themes for George of the Jungle cartoon & Let's Make a Deal game show
born on 6-8-1924 in Chicago, Illinois
expired 1-22-2002 in Culver City, California   age 77   cause: heart failure

artificial intelligence pioneer Dr.  Saul Amarel
expired 12-18-2002 in Princeton, New Jersey   age 74   cause: complications from cancer

historian  Stephen Edward Ambrose   author of D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II (1994) & Band of Brothers (1992)
born on 1-10-1936 in Decatur, Illinois
expired 10-13-2002 in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi   age 66   cause: lung cancer

 Israel Amir   first commander of the Israeli Air Force

¤	born: Israel Zblodovsky

born on --1903 in Russia
expired 11-1-2002 in Tel Aviv, Israel   age 99

World War II Swedish diplomatic attaché (1944-45)  Par Johan Valentin Anger   worked with Raoul Wallenberg to save thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps
born on 12-7-1913 in Goteborg, Sweden
expired 8-25-2002 in Stockholm, Sweden   age 88   cause: stroke

Tibetan "Warrier Nun"  Ani Pachen   fought against the Chinese invasion of Tibet (1950); captured & spent 21 years in prison under extreme duress

¤	born: Pachen Dolma; name (roughly translated) means "Nun Big Courage"

born on --1933
expired 2-2-2002 in Dharmsala, India   age 68   cause: heart failure

 Louise Mudd Arehard   grand-daughter of Dr. Samuel Mudd trying to get him cleared
expired 3-11-2002 in La Plata, Maryland   age 84   cause: complications from stroke

1932 Olympic gold track medalist  Mary Carew Armstrong
expired 7-12-2002 in Framingham, Massachusetts   age 88

former talent agent  Ted Ashley   headed Warner Brothers movie studio (1969-80)
born on 8-3-1922 in New York, New York
expired 8-24-2002 in New York, New York   age 80   cause: acute leukemia

Der Spiegel founder (1947) & publisher  Rudolf Austein
born on 11-5-1923 in Hanover, Germany
expired 11-7-2002 in Berlin, Germany   age 79   cause: pneumonia

interior designer  Frank P. Austin   helped Hef select location of and decor for the L.A. Playboy Mansion
expired 11-20-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 65   cause: cancer

actress  Frances Amelia Bachelor   second model for the Columbia Pictures logo (1936); paid $25 for her work
born on 2-2-1908 in Springfield, Ohio
expired 4-15-2002 in Santa Monica, California   age 94

science fiction writer  Hilary J. Bader   wrote for Star Trek Next Generation & Voyager; wrote Star Trek: Borg video game (1996)
expired 10-7-2002 in Duarte, California   age 50   cause: breast cancer

character actor  Parley E. Baer   played Marshall Dillon's deputy Chester Proudfoot on radio Gunsmoke (1952-61) & next door neighbor Darby on The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (1955-61), Mayberry Mayor Stoner on the Andy Griffith Show and the original Keebler Cookie Elf (Ernie) in tv commercials
born on 8-5-1914 in Salt Lake City, Utah
expired 11-22-2002 in Woodland Hills, California   age 88   cause: complications from stroke

Disney studio mudical director  Norman Dale "Buddy" Baker   musical director on the Mickey Mouse Club
born on 1-4-1918 in Springfield, Illinois
expired 7-19-2002 in Sherman Oaks, California   age 84

geezer  Edward Bankhead   data from turn-of-the-century census records put his year of birth around 1896 or 97
born on 3-11-1897 in Noxubee County, Mississippi
expired 11-26-2002 in Corinth, Mississippi   age 105

 Agatha Barbara   former President of Malta (1982-87)
born on 3-11-1923 in Zabbar, Malta
expired 2-4-2002 in Valletta, Malta   age 78

root beer recipe keeper  William Adolph Barq   grandson of originator of the brew
expired 6-11-2002 in Biloxi, Mississippi   age 79   cause: congestive heart failure

songwriter, former Fabergé fragrances co-owner  George Barrie   created Brut; produced the movies A Touch of Class (1973)
born on 2-9-1912 in New York, New York
expired 11-23-2002 in Aventura, Florida   age 90

Dr.  David W. Barry   co-developer of the AIDS drug AZT
expired 1-28-2002 in Durham, North Carolina   age 58   cause: heart attack

media executive  Peter R. Barton   founding president of Liberty Media Corp. (1991-7)
expired 9-8-2002 in Denver, Colorado   age 51   cause: stomach cancer

LPGA co-founder (1950)  Alice Bauer
expired 3-6-2002   age 74   cause: complications from colon cancer

former US Navy submarine captain  Edward Latimer "Ned" Beach Jr.   as commander of the USS Triton set record for submarine circumnaviation of planet (84 days; 1960); wrote Run Silent, Run Deep (1955)
born on 4-20-1918 in New York, New York
expired 12-1-2002 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 84   cause: cancer

one-time model & aspiring actress  Edith Bouvier Beale   cousin of Jackie O; one of the subjects of documentary Grey Gardens (1975)

¤	nickname: "Little Edie"

born on 11-7-1917 in New York, New York
expired 1-9-2002 in Bal Harbour, Florida   age 84   cause: heart attack or stroke

former UPI president (1972-82)  Roderick Whitney Beaton
born on 4-25-1923 in Escalon, California
expired 7-2-2002 in Sonoma, California   age 79   cause: heart failure

theatrical costume designer/producer  Edith Lutyens Bel Geddes
born on 8-16-1908 in Brussels, Belgium
expired 8-16-2002 in Hudson, New York   age 95

former Peruvian president (1963-68; 1980-85)  Fernando Belaúnde Terry   ousted by coup (1968); restored by ballot (1980)
born on 10-7-1912 in Lima, Peru
expired 6-4-2002 in Lima, Peru   age 89

noted Celtic harpist  George Derek Fleetwood Bell   longtime member of The Chieftans
born on 1-1-1935 in Belfast, Northern Ireland
expired 10-17-2002   age 67

Mad Magazine artist  Dave Berg   known for his Lighter Side of ... strips
born on --1920 in New York, New York
expired 5-16-2002   age 81

jazz saxophonist  Robert "Bob" Berg
born on 4-7-1951 in New York, New York
expired 12-5-2002 in Amagansett, New York   age 51   cause: car struck by cement truck during snow storm

1932 Olympic decathalon gold medalist  Bernard E. "Barney" Berlinger Sr.   won 1931 Sullivan Award
expired 12-2-2002 in Carversville, Pennsylvania   age 94   cause: heart failure

photographer  Morris Berman   as a World War II U.A. Army photographer to picutres of the corpses of Mussolini & his mistress
expired 6-16-2002 in Sun City, Arizona   age 92

artist  Theresa Ferber Bernstein

¤	Mrs. William Meyerowitz

born on 3-1-1890 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
expired 2-13-2002 in New York, New York   age 111

pacifist  Philip Francis Berrigan   brother of Daniel
born on 10-5-1923 in Two Harbors, Minnesota
expired 12-6-2002 in Baltimore, Maryland   age 79   cause: liver & kidney cancer

jazz trumpeter & bandleader  William Richard "Bill" Berry
born on 9-14-1930 in Benton Harbor, Michigan
expired 11-13-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 72   cause: lung cancer

1940s actress  Phyllis Calvert
born on 2-18-1915 in London, England
expired 10-8-2002 in London, England   age 87

Chicago mayor (1977-1979)  Michael Anthony Bilandic   succeeded hizzoner; lost election to Jane Byrne
born on 2-13-1923 in Chicago, Illinois
expired 1-15-2002 in Chicago, Illinois   age 78   cause: cardiac arrest

transplant immunologist Dr.  Rupert Everet Billingham
born on 10-15-1921 in Warminster, England
expired 11-16-2002 in Boston, Massachusetts   age 81   cause: complications from Parkinson's disease

construction company head  Abdulah Awad bin Laden   Usama's uncle
expired 3-21-2002 in Medina, Saudi Arabia   age 75

character actress  Billie Bird   late in her career played lots of old biddies; not related to Larry or Tweetie

¤	real name: Bird Berniece Sellen

born on 2-28-1908 in Pocatello, Idaho
expired 11-27-2002 in Glendale, California   age 94

1960s Weatherman radical  Silas Trim Bissell   grandson of carpet sweeper inventor; attempted to bomb the U of Washington R.O.T.C. center (January 1970); got caught, skipped bail, arrested in 1987

¤	aka: Terrence Peter Jackson

expired 6-22-2002 in Eugene, Oregon   age 60   cause: brain cancer

former Brooklyn Dodgers/Cincinnati Reds/Washington Senators pitcher  Joseph "Joe" Black Sr.   National League rookie of the year (1952)
expired 5-17-2002 in Scottsdale, Arizona   age 78   cause: prostate cancer

noted songwriter  Otis Blackwell Sr.   wrote Don't Be Cruel, Great Balls of Fire, Handy Man, Return to Sender & All Shook Up
born on 2-16-1932 in New York, New York
expired 5-6-2002 in Nashville, Tennessee   age 70   cause: heart attack

gospel singer  James Webre Blackwood   founding member of the Blackwood Brothers gospel quartet (1934)
expired 2-3-2002 in Memphis, Tennessee   age 82   cause: complications from a stroke

former Montgomery, Alabama bus driver  James F. Blake   on December 1, 1955 he had Rosa Parks arrested when she refused to give up her seat for a white man
expired 3-21-2002 in Montogomery, Alabama   age 89   cause: heart attack

actress  Whitney Blake   played Dorothy Baxter on Hazel (1961-65); co-created One Day at a Time series; mother of Meredith Baxter

¤	born: Nancy Baxter

born on 2-20-1925 in Eagle Rock, California
expired 9-28-2002 in Edgartown, Massachusetts   age 76

fashion designer  William Ralph "Bill" Blass
born on 6-22-1922 in Fort Wayne, Indiana
expired 6-12-2002 in New Preston, Connecticut   age 79   cause: throat cancer

former Postmaster general (1969-71)  Winton Malcolm Blount
born on 2-1-1921 in Union Springs, Alabama
expired 10-24-2002 in Highlands, North Carolina   age 81

former Volvo safety engineer  Nils Ivar Bohlin   invented the 3-point lap/shoulder seat belt system (1959)
born on 7-17-1920 in Härnösand, Sweden
expired 9-21-2002 in Tranas, Sweden   age 82   cause: complications of a heart attack & stroke

film editor  Margaret Booth
born on 1-14-1898 in Los Angeles, California
expired 10-28-2002   age 104   cause: complications from stroke

Indiana University professor emeritus of forensic studies  Robert F. Borkenstein   invented the Breathalyzer (1954)
born on 8-31-1912 in Fort Wayne, Indiana
expired 8-10-2002 in Bloomington, Indiana   age 89

nuclear physicist Dr.  Lyle Benjamin Borst   helped build the Brookhaven National Laboratory
born on 11-24-1912 in Chicago, Illinois
expired 7-30-2002 in Williamsville, New York   age 89

actor  Edward Vincent "Eddie" Bracken   played Wally (as in Wally's World) in National Lampoon's Vacation
born on 2-7-1915 in New York, New York
expired 11-14-2002 in New Jersey   age 87

oldest English geezer  Nellie Bradley
born on 9-12-1889 in Frizinghall, England
expired 3-11-2002 in Silsden, England   age 112

Playboy December 1994 Playmate of Month  Elisa Bridges
born on 5-24-1973 in Miami, Florida
expired 2-8-2002   age 28

jazz musician  Nick Brignola   played the baritone saxophone
expired 2-8-2002 in Albany, New York   age 65   cause: cancer

"Queen of Boogie" pianist  Hadda Brooks

¤	born: Hadda Hapgood

born on --1916 in Los Angeles, California
expired 11-21-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 86   cause: complications following open-heart surgery

 Mary Elizabeth Thomas Pearey Brooks   director of the U.S. Mint (1969-77)
expired 2-11-2002 in Twin Falls, Idaho   age 94   cause: congestive heart failure

political matriarch  Bernice Layne Brown   widow of Pat; mother of Jerry
expired 5-9-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 93

author  Claude Brown   wrote Manchild in the Promised Land (1965) & The Children of Ham (1976)
born on --1937 in New York, New York
expired 2-2-2002 in New York, New York   age 64   cause: lung condition

historian  Dorris Alexander "Dee" Brown   wrote Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1971)
born on 2-29-1908 in Alberta, Alabama
expired 12-12-2002 in Little Rock, Arkansas   age 94   cause: heart disease

master tap dancer  James "Buster" Brown
expired 5-7-2002 in New York, New York   age 88

jazz bassist  Ray Brown
expired 7-2-2002 in Indianapolis, Indiana   age 75

engineer Dr.  Robert Hanbury Brown   worked on original pre-World War II British radar systems; co-developer of astronomical optical intensity interferometry
born on 8-31-1916 in Aruvankadu, India
expired 1-16-2002 in Penton, Mewsey, Hampshire, England   age 85   cause: cancer

trumpet player, arranger, composer  Mauro Bruno   wrote music for Barnaby Jones, Streets of San Francisco & Police Woman tv series
expired 10-3-2002 in Burbank, California   age 78   cause: lung cancer

former Florida governor (1961-65)  Cecil Farris Bryant
born on 7-26-1914 in Ocala, Florida
expired 3-1-2002 in Jacksonville, Florida   age 87   cause: stroke

Vietnam War army nurse (1969-70)  Lynda Van Devanter Buckley   served a the 71st Evacuation Hospital (Pleiku); her autobiography, Home Before Morning (1983), inspired the China Beach tv series
expired 11-15-2002 in Hearndon, Virginia   age 55   cause: system collagen vascular disease

oceanographer (1937-79)  Dean Franklin Bumpus   as a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution researcher had hundreds of thousands of bottles dumped into the Atlantic Ocean to track the currents
born on 5-11-1912 in Newburyport, Massachusetts
expired 3-14-2002 in Woods Hole, Massachsuetts   age 89

caffeine-o-phile  George Regan Bunn   Bunn-O-Matic coffee maker inventor (1957)
expired 12-7-2002 in Springfield, Illinois   age 87

auto upholsterer  Angelo Buono Jr.   half of L.A.'s Hillside Strangler serial murder team
born on --1935
expired 9-21-2002 in Calipatria State Penitentiary, California   age 67

securities firm founder  Isaac Wolf Burnham II   headed Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. - later wrecked by junk bond trader Michael Milken
born on 1-7-1909 in Baltimore, Maryland
expired 6-24-2002 in Norfolk, Virginia   age 93   cause: heart attack

securities firm founder  Isaac Wolf Burnham II   headed Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. - later wrecked by junk bond trader Michael Milken
born on 1-7-1909 in Baltimore, Maryland
expired 6-24-2002 in Norfolk, Virginia   age 93   cause: heart attack

Klansman & FBI informant  Mitchell Burns   tape recorded conversations with Thomas Blanton Jr. (1960s); testified against him & Bobby Frank Cherry at their trials for the murders of four girls in a 1963 church bombing
expired 11-19-2002 in Birmingham, Alabama   age 75   cause: heart attack

comedy writer  Stan Burns   won 1972 Emmy for writing on the Carol Burnett Show
expired 11-5-2002 in San Fernando Valley, California   age 79   cause: heart failure

former L.A. County Sheriff's deputy  "Rusty" Burrell   baliff at trials of Caryl Chessman, Charles Manson & Patty Hearst; later acted as baliff on The People's Court tv series
expired 4-15-2002 in Rosemead, California   age 76   cause: lung cancer

comic book artist  John Buscema Sr.   drew the Silver Surfer & Conan the Barbarian
born on 12-11-1927 in New York, New York
expired 1-10-2002 in Port Jefferson, New York   age 74   cause: stomach cancer

Swingin' Medallion singer/saxophonist  Steve Caldwell   performed on band's big hit Double Shot (of my baby's love)
expired 1-28-2002 in Atlanta, Georgia   age 55   cause: pancreatic cancer

(probably) last surviving ANZAC Gallipoli veteran  Alec Campbell   also an accomplished sailor
born on 2-26-1899 in Launceston, Australia
expired 5-16-2002 in Hobart, Tasmania   age 103

former Standard Oil New York (Esso)/Exxon chemical engineer  Donald Lewis Campbell   co-developer of the process of fluid catalytic cracking of large hydrocarbon molecules (1942); shared patents with Homer Z. Martin, Eger V. Murphree & Charles W. Tyson
born on 8-5-1904 in Clinton, Iowa
expired 9-14-2002 in Brick, New Jersey   age 98

former Nevada senator (1959-82)  Walter Howard Cannon
born on 1-26-1912 in Saint George, Utah
expired 3-5-2002 in Las Vegas, Nevada   age 90   cause: congestive heart failure

rabid red-bating idealogue  Canwell F. Canwell   as a one-term Washington state rep. (1947-48) needlessly ruined numerous lives and reputations
expired 4-1-2002 in Spokane, Washington   age 95

5-time U.S. billiards champion  James "Jimmy" Caras   won in 1936, 1938, 1939, 1949 & 1967
born on 12-17-1908 in Scranton, Pennsylvania
expired 12-3-2002 in Jacksonville, Florida   age 93

retired doctor  C. James Carrico   a first-year surgical resident, he was the first doctor to examine JFK following his arrival at Dallas' Parkland Hospital emergency room
expired 7-25-2002 in Greenbank, Whidbey Island, Washington   age 67   cause: colon cancer

actress  Katrin Cartlidge
born on 5-15-1961 in London, England
expired 9-7-2002 in London, England   age 41   cause: complications from pneumonia; septicaemia

former Playboy centerfold photographer (1957-96)  Mario Casilli
born on 1-22-1931
expired 4-25-2002 in Altadena, California   age 71   cause: "a long illness"

Oleg's brother  Igor Casini   the red-baiting Hearst newspaper chain society gossip columnist known as "Cholly Knickerbocker" (1945-62)

¤	born: Igor Loiewski

born on 9-15-1915 in Sebastapol, Crimea, Russia
expired 1-4-2002 in New York, New York   age 86

 Carlos Castaneda   publisher emeritus of El Nuevo Herald
born on --1932 in Havana, Cuba
expired 10-10-2002 in Lisbon, Portugal   age 70   cause: leukemia

former BRitish PM & cabinet minister  Barbara Anne Castle

¤	born: Barbara Anne Betts; title: Baroness Castle of Blackburn

born on 10-10-1910 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
expired 5-3-2002 in Buckinghamshire, England   age 91

company co-founder  Theresa Castro   of convertible furniture fame
expired 3-3-2002 in Long Island, New York   age 85   cause: heart ailment; diabetes

former Lawrence Welk Show musical director  George Cates   wrote the post-ABC syndicated show's theme (Champagne Time)
born on 10-19-1911 in New York, New York
expired 5-12-2002 in Santa Monica, California   age 90

writer  Camilo José Cela   1989 Nobel literature laureate
born on 5-11-1916 in Iria Flavia, Coruña Province, Spain
expired 1-17-2002 in Madrid, Spain   age 85

former pro tennis player  Nancy Chaffee
expired 8-11-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 73   cause: complications from cancer

Johns Hopkins professor Dr.  Alphonse Chapanis   1940s ergonomics pioneer; developer of the touch tone telephone keypad
born on 3-17-1917 in Meriden, Connecticut
expired 10-4-2002 in Baltimore, Maryland   age 85   cause: complications following knee surgery

medieval literature scholar  Tobert Lundquist Chapman   editor of the fifth edition of Roget's Thesaurus (1992)
born on 12-28-1920 in Huntington, West Virginia
expired 2-2-2002 in Morristown, New Jersey   age 81

biochemist Dr.  Erwin Chargaff   did pioneering studies of DNA bases (adenine, cytosine, guanine & thymine)
born on 8-11-1905 in Czernnowitz, Austria-Hungary
expired 6-20-2002 in New York, New York   age 96

 Henry Chauncey   founder/first president of Educational Testing Service --- the SAT people
born on 2-9-1905 in New York, New York
expired 12-3-2002 in Shelburne, Vermont   age 97

quack M.D.  Patrick Chavis   his 1973 admission to the UC Davis' Medical School prompted Allan Bakke's affirmative action lawsuit
expired 7-23-2002 in Hawthorne, California   age 50   cause: shot to death during attempted carjacking

The Standard (Harare) edior & publisher  Mark Chavunduka   arrested & tortured by the Zimbabwean government
expired 11-13-2002   age 37   cause: "a prolonged illness"

Chiat/Day ad agency co-founder (1968)  Morton Jay Chiat   created Apple's Orwellian 1984 ad that ran once during the Super Bowl
born on 10-25-1931 in New York, New York
expired 4-22-2002 in Marina del Rey, California   age 70   cause: prostate cancer

former Castro ally  Raúl Chibas
born on 4-25-1916 in Santiago de Cuba
expired 8-25-2002 in Miami, Florida   age 86

former South Korean army general  Choi Hong Hi   founded Tae Kwon Do martial art (1955); Tae (to kick with foot) Kwon (to strike with fist) Do (art)
born on 11-9-1918 in Myong Chun district, Korea
expired 6-15-2002 in Pyongyang, North Korea   age 83   cause: stomach cancer

1960s pro wrassler  Edward "Moose" Cholak
born on 3-17-1930 in Chicago, Illinois
expired 10-31-2002 in Chicago, Illinois   age 72   cause: complications from stroke

frat band leader  Doug Clark   leader of the Hot Nuts
expired 9-16-2002 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina   age 66

 Woodrow Wilson Clements   former chairman of Dr. Pepper

¤	nickname: "foots"

expired 10-3-2002 in Dallas, Texas   age 88

singer  Rosemary Clooney   mother of Miguel Ferrer; aunt of George
born on 5-23-1928 in Maysville, Kentucky
expired 6-29-2002 in Beverly Hills, California   age 74   cause: complications from lung cancer

1920s Our Gang child actor (1923-29)  Joe Cobb
born on 11-7-1917 in Shawnee, Oklahoma
expired 5-21-2002 in Santa Ana, California   age 85   cause: natural causes

oldest Aussie  Christina Cock
born on 12-25-1887
expired 5-22-2002 in Blackburn, Victoria, Australia   age 114

retired IBM research scientist  John Cocke   proponent of RISC processor design; won 1987 Turing Award
born on 5-30-1925 in Charlotte, North Carolina
expired 7-16-2002 in Valhalla, New York   age 77   cause: "a long illness"; strokes

 David Joseph Cogan   co-producer of A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway (1959)
born on 7-24-1923 in Romania
expired 2-7-2002 in New Bedford, New York   age 78   cause: lung cancer

movie producer/writer  Herman Cohen   produced I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) & I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)
born on 8-27-1927 in Detroit, Michigan
expired 6-2-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 76   cause: throat cancer

Christian Men's Network founder (1979)  Edwin Louis Cole   dubbed the "father of the Christian men's movement"
expired 8-27-2002 in Southlake, Texas   age 79   cause: bone marrow cancer

murderer  Alton Coleman   convicted in Illinois, Indiana & Ohio

¤	born: Elton Coleman; nickname: "Pissy"

born on 11--1955 in Waukegan, Illinois
expired 4-26-2002 in Lucasville, Ohio   age 46   cause: lethal injection

 Catherine Uhlmyer Connelly   next-to-last survivor of the 1904 General Slocum excursion boat fire (1,021 fatalities)

¤	born: Catherine Uhlmyer adopted as: Catherine Gallagher

born on 4-4-1893 in New York, New York
expired 10-17-2002 in Wilton, Connecticut   age 109

trombone player/bandleader  Ray Conniff
born on 11-6-1916 in Attleboro, Massachusetts
expired 10-12-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 85   cause: head trauma suffered in fall (a complication from April stroke)

1950s blacklisted actor  Jeff Corey   became a leading Hollywood acting teacher
born on 8-10-1914 in New York, New York
expired 8-16-2002 in Santa Monica, California   age 88   cause: complications from fall

Motown songwriter & saxophonist  Henry "Hank" Cosby

¤	with Stevie Wonder & Sylvia Moy wrote My Cherie Amour & Uptight (Everything's Alright)

expired 23-2002-Royal Oak, Michigan   age    cause: 73

Ratt guitarist  Robbin Crosby
expired 6-6-2002 in San Diego, California   age 42   cause: complications from AIDS

long time N.Y. Yankee shortstop (1932-48)  Frank Peter Joseph Crosetti
born on 10-4-1910 in San Francisco, California
expired 2-11-2002 in Stockton, California   age 91   cause: complications from fall

character actor  Keene Holbrook Curtis   won a best supporting actor Tony for The Rothschilds (1970); best remembered as upstairs restaurant owner John Allen Hill on Cheers (1990-93)
born on 2-15-1923 in Salt Lake City, Utah
expired 10-13-2002 in Salt Lake City, Utah   age 79   cause: Alzheimer's disease

aged Minnesottan  Delvina Morrisette Dahlheimer
born on 12-31-1888 in Otsego Towhship, Minnesota
expired 3-13-2002 in Elk River, Minnesota   age 113

1940s/50s singer  Alan Dale   had hits with Heart of My Heart & Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White; had early network tv program (1948-50 on Dumont; 1951 on CBS)

¤	born: Aldo Sigismondi

expired 4-??-2002   age 75

1940s women's baseball league player (1944-50)  Faye Katherine Dancer   portrayed in A League of Their Own (1992) by Madonna

¤	nickname: "All the Way Faye"

born on 4-24-1925 in Santa Monica, California
expired 5-22-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 77   cause: complications from (cancerous) organ removal surgery

tv producer  William P. D'Angelo
expired 6-8-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 70   cause: pancreatic cancer

lawyer  Aaron Leon danzig   argued/lost Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins Supreme Court case (1938)
born on 9-9-1913 in Newark, New Jersey
expired 9-10-2002 in New York, New York   age 89

 Justin Whitlock Dart Jr.   heir to Rexall Drugstore chain / Dart Industries fortune; driving force behind more extra-constitutional claptrap
expired 6-22-2002 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 71   cause: pneumonia

novelist  Gwen Davenport   wrote Belvedere (1947), basis of Sitting Pretty (1948), Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949), Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell (1951) & the Mr. Belvedere tv series

¤	born: Gwen Farquharson

born on 10-3-1910 in Colon, Canal Zone, Panama
expired 3-23-2002 in Louisville, Kentucky   age 91   cause: congestive heart failure

Olympic sprinter/bobsledder  Willie Davenport
expired 6-17-2002 in Chicago, Illinois   age 59   cause: heart attack

former welterweightboxer  Charles Pierce "Chuck" Davey   once beat Rocky Graziano; went on to be Michigan boxing commissioner & made millions selling insurance
expired 12-4-2002 in Birmingham, Michigan   age 77

former Air Force general  Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr.   during World War II headed the Tuskegee Airmen
born on 12-18-1912 in Washington, District of Columbia
expired 7-4-2002 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 89   cause: Alzheimer's disease

Camelot Music founder  Paul L. Davis
expired 11-7-2002 in Massillon, Ohio   age 79

retired Ford forklift operator (1940-2002)  Matel "Mat" Dawson Jr.   donated over $1.3 million to various schools, charities & non-profit groups
expired 11-2-2002 in Highland Park, Michigan   age 81

novelist & playwright  Jan de Hartog   author of The Fourposter (1944)
born on 4-22-1914 in Haarlem, The Netherlands
expired 9-22-2002 in Houston, Texas   age 88

power tool promulgator  Alonzo Galloway Decker Jr.   son of Black & Decker co-founder
born on 1-18-1908 in Orangeville, Baltimore County, Maryland
expired 3-18-2002 in Cecilton, Maryland   age 94   cause: heart failure

All-American Girls Professional Baseball League pitcher/2nd basewoman  Mildred Eleanor "Millie" Deegan   played for the Rockford Peaches (1943-52)
born on 12-11-1919 in New York, New York
expired 7-21-2002 in Port Richey, Florida   age 82   cause: metastatic breast cancer

religious broadcaster  Richard W. De Haan   created the Day of Discovery program
expired 7-16-2002 in Grand Rapids, Michigan   age 79

jazz alto saxophonist  Harold "Duke" Dejan   revived New Orleans' Olympia Brass Band (1958); the are known for accompanying jazz funeral processions (seen in Live and Let Die; 1973)
expired 7-5-2002   age 93

former Philadelphia Orchestra principle oboist (1954-77)  John de Lancie   director of the Curtis Institute of Music (1977-85); Q's father
born on --1921 in Berkeley, California
expired 5-17-2002 in Walnut Creek, California   age 80   cause: leukemia

former pro basketball player  Bison Dele   with girlfriend (Serena Karlan) disappeared near Tahiti

¤	born: Brian Williams

born on 4-6-1969
expired 7-7-2002 in Tahiti (nearby)   age 33

tv/movie director  Edward "Ted" Demme   directed Beautiful Girls (1996) & Blow (2001); nephew of Jonathan Demme
born on 10-26-1964 in New York, New York
expired 1-13-2002 in Santa Monica, California   age 37   cause: collapsed while playing basketball

Playboy cartoonist (1954-2002)  John Dempsey
expired 5-18-2002 in La Jolla, California   age 83   cause: complications from stroke

pianist/singer/songwriter  Matt Dennis   wrote Angel Eyes
born on 2-11-1914 in Seattle, Washington
expired 6-21-2002 in Riverside, California   age 88   cause: "natural causes"

Holocaust survivor  Lisa Derman   died while relating her experiences at the Illinois Storytelling Festival
born on --1925 in Poland
expired 7-28-2002 in Spring Grove, Illinois   age 75   cause: heart attack

Euro-geezer  Joanna Catharina DeRoover
born on 6-3-1890 in Belgium
expired 12-6-2002 in Belgium   age 112

retired MIT physicist (1941-87)  Martin Deutsch   discovered Positronium (1951)
born on 1-29-1917 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary
expired 8-16-2002 in Cambridge, Massachusetts   age 85

former high school/college/pro football coach  Daniel John Devine Sr.   won 1977 national championship while at Notre Dame (1975-79); also coached Green Bay Packers & East Jordan (MI) High School
born on 12-23-1924 in Augusta, Wisconsin
expired 5-9-2002 in Tempe, Arizona   age 77   cause: complications from heart surgery

actor  Brad Dexter   played Lt.JG Cartwright in Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) & Harry Luck in The Magnificent Seven (1960)

¤	born: Boris Milanovich

born on 4-9-1917 in Goldfield, Nevada
expired 12-12-2002 in Rancho Mirage, California   age 85   cause: emphysema

physicist  Edsger Dijkstra   known for his shortest-path algorithm for finding the shortest route on a graph or map; co-designer of Algol 60
born on 5-11-1930 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
expired 8-5-2002 in Nuenen, The Netherlands   age 72   cause: cancer

department store chain founder (1938)  William T. Dillard Sr.
born on 9-2-1914 in Mineral Springs, Arkansas
expired 2-8-2002 in Little Rock, Arkansas   age 87

 Susan Dillingham   first wife of Tom Hanks (1978-85); mother of Colin Hanks

¤	stage name: Samantha Lewes

expired 3-13-2002   age 49   cause: bone cancer

character actor/tv director  Lawrence "Larry" Dobkin   played an army physician in Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) & L.A. city engineer in Them! (1954); directed original Star Trek series episode Charlie X (1966)
born on 9-16-1919 in New York, New York
expired 10-28-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 83   cause: heart failure

California geezer  Adelina Engaragiola Domingues    Guinness Book people had her as oldest person in U.S.
born on 2-19-1888 in Brava, Ilhas do Cabo Verde
expired 8-21-2002 in Spring Valley, California   age 114

Skiffle Group leader  Anthony James "Lonnie" Donnegan   had 1950s novelty hit with Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?
born on 4-29-1931 in Glasgow, Scotland
expired 11-3-2002 in Peterboroug, England   age 71   cause: heart attacks

British peer  John David Drummond   Minister of State for Colonial Affairs (1957-62)

¤	titles: (17th) Earl of Perth; Lord Drummond of Cargill

born on 5-13-1907
expired 11-25-2002 in Scotland   age 95

N.Y. Post reporter/editor, UAW organizer & author  William F. Dufty   wrote Billie Holiday biography Lady Sings the Blues; last husband of Gloria Swanson (1976-83)
expired 6-28-2002 in Birmingham, Michigan   age 86   cause: complications from cancer

long-time L.A. tv news anchor  Jerry Dunphy
born on --1920 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
expired 5-20-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 81   cause: heart attack

comic publisher  Charles Dupuis   had the Smurfs created for his magazine Spirou
expired 11-14-2002 in Brussels, Belgium   age 84

Oriental Languages scholar  Abba Eban   Israel's first U.N. Ambassador; former foreign minister

¤	born: Aubrey Solomon Meir

born on 2-2-1915 in Cape Town, South Africa
expired 11-17-2002 in Petach Tikva, Israel   age 87

blues guitarist/singer  Frank Edwards
born on 3-20-1909 in Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia
expired 3-22-2002 in Greenville, South Carolina   age 93   cause: heart attack

 Mohamed Ibrahim Egal   briefly president of the Republic of Somaliland (1960); later prime minister of Somalia (7/1967-10/69); overthrown by Mohamed Siad Barre
expired 5-3-2002 in Pretoria, South Africa   age 73   cause: laceratioin during colonoscopy

Hemmings Motor News editor/publisher  Terry Ehrich
expired 1-17-2002 in Albany, New York   age 60   cause: lung cancer

The Who bassist  John Alec Entwistle
born on 10-9-1944 in Chiswick, England
expired 6-27-2002 in Las Vegas, Nevada   age 57   cause: heart attack

former BBC radio producer  Martin Julius Esslin

¤	born" Julius Pereszlenyi

born on --1918 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary
expired 2-24-2002 in London, England   age 83

3-foot 2-inch soap opera actor  Josh Ryan Evans   played "living doll" Timmy on Passions (1999-2002); his character died in the series the same day he died; suffered from achondroplasia
expired 8-5-2002 in San Diego, California   age 20   cause: complications from congential heart condition

former East German Minister of Sport (1961-88) & Olympic Committee president  Manfred Ewald   joined the Hitler Youth (1938), the Nazi Party in mid-war; convicted (2000) of being an accessory to intentional bodily harm of athletes for his involvement in the "doping" of competitors
born on --1926
expired 10-21-2002 in Damsdorf, Germany   age 76   cause: complications from lung infection

screenwriter & World War II correspondent  Annalee Whitmore Fadiman   co-wrote Thunder Out of China (1944); widow of Clifton Fadiman
born on 5-27-1916 in Price, Utah
expired 2-5-2002 in Captiva, Florida   age 85   cause: suicide; breast cancer; Parkinson's disease

industrialist  Walter Addison Fallon   former Kodak CEO (1972-83)
born on 6-7-1918 in Schenectady, New York
expired 7-24-2002 in Irondequoit, New York   age 84

former Arizona senator (1965-76)  Paul Joseph Fannin
born on 1-29-1907 in Ashland, Kentucky
expired 1-13-2002 in Phoenix, Arizona   age 94

1930s calypso musician  Aldric Farrell

¤	aka: "Lord Pretender"

expired 1-22-2002 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad   age 84

operatic soprano  Eileen Farrell
born on 2-13-1920 in Willimantic, Connecticut
expired 3-16-2002 in Park Ridge, New Jersey   age 82

former Le Monde editor (1969-82)  Jacques Jules Pierre Constant Fauvet
born on 6-9-1914 in Paris, France
expired 6-1-2002 in Paris, France   age 87   cause: complications from fall

movie actress  María Félix

¤	full name: Marí de los Angeles Félix Guereña

born on 5-4-1914 in Alamos, Sonora, Mexico
expired 4-8-2002 in Mexico City, Mexico   age 87   cause: heart attack

Soviet weapons designer  Lev Feoktistov   went on to protest nukes
born on 2-14-1928
expired 2-14-2002 in Moscow, Russia   age 74   cause: heart attack

purveyor of properly brazed bovine flesh  Ruth Usted Fertel   mortgaged her house to buy Chris Steak House (1965); later changed name to Ruth's Chris Steak House

¤	maiden name: Ruth Ann Usted

born on --1927 in New Orleans, Louisiana
expired 4-16-2002   age 75   cause: lung cancer

anthropologist  Raymond William Firth
born on 3-25-1901 in Auckland, New Zealand
expired 2-22-2002   age 100

Spirograph inventor  Denys Fisher
expired 9-17-2002   age 84

former Playboy associate editor  Murray Fisher   edited the Playboy Interviews (1962-74); also started the Sex and the Cinema feature; left Playboy to edit Roots (1974)
expired 5-31-2002 in Santa Monica, California   age 69   cause: Alzheimer's disease; strokes

1956 Indy 500 winner  Pat Flaherty
expired 4-9-2002 in Oxnard, California   age 76   cause: emphysema

physicist  Robert Lull Forward   former Hughes Aircraft research labs employee; after retirement wrote science fiction novels
born on 8-15-1932 in Geneva, New York
expired 9-21-2002 in Westwood, California   age 70   cause: brain cancer

attorney  John P. Frank   Ernesto Miranda's mouthpiece (1963-66); got the perp off without a warning; in 1992 was Anita Hill's legal advisor
born on --1917 in Appleton, Wisconsin
expired 9-7-2002 in Scottsdale, Arizona   age 84

movie director  John Frankenheimer   made Manchurian Candidate (1962), Seven Days in May (1964), Black Sunday (1977) & Ronin (1998)
born on 2-19-1930 in New York, New York
expired 7-6-2002   age 72   cause: stroke following spinal surgery

tv animal trainer  Frank Freeman   trainer of Cleo the Basset Hound (on 1950s People's Choice), Higgins (aka: Benji) on Petticoat Junction (rescued from Burbank animal shelter in 1960), Arnold Ziffel from Green Acres & Tramp on My Three Sons

¤	aka: Frank Inn

expired 7-27-2002 in Sylmar, California   age 86

noted Cuban fisherman  Gregorio Fuentes   captain of Hemingway's boat El Pilar; inspiration for title character in The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
born on 7-11-1897 in Lanzarote, Canary Islands
expired 1-13-2002 in Cojimar, Cuba   age 104   cause: cancer

former AP president (1976-85)  Edwin Keith Fuller
born on 1-19-1923 in Arlington, Kansas
expired 6-7-2002 in Chevy Chase, Maryland   age 79   cause: Alzheimer's disease

astrophysicist  Harold P. Furth   originator of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (1983-97)
expired 2-21-2002 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   age 72   cause: heart ailment

philosopher  Hans-George Gadamer
born on 2-11-1900 in Marburg, Germany
expired 3-13-2002 in Heidelberg, Germany   age 102

9mm submachine gun inventor (1950s)  Uziel Gal
expired 9-7-2002 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   age 79   cause: cancer

middle distance (800 meter) runner  Kimberly Ann Gallagher   two-time Olympic medalist: silver (1984) & bronze (1988)
born on 6-11-1964 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
expired 11-18-2002 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   age 38   cause: strokes; stomach cancer

Johnson H.E.W. secretary (1965-68)  John William Gardner   founded Common Cause (8/18/1970)
born on 10-8-1912 in Los Angeles, California
expired 2-16-2002 in Palo Alto, California   age 89   cause: complications from prostate cancer

crooner  Kenneth A. "Kenny" Gardner   sang for Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians (1940-78); married Guy's daughter Elaine
born on 3-20-1913 in Lakeview, Iowa
expired 7-26-2002 in Manhasset, New York   age 89   cause: heart attack following appendectomy

General Foods chemical engineer (1971-85) Ms.  Torunn Atteraas Garin   helped developed aspartame
expired 4-26-2002 in Bronxville, New York   age 54   cause: lung cancer

pro wrassler  Dick Garza

¤	nom-de-headlock: "The Mighty Igor"

expired 1-7-2002 in Detroit, Michigan   age 60s

third-banana comedian  Jackie Gayle   started in show biz as a drummer; appeared in Broadway Danny Rose (1984), Tin Men (1987) & Bulworth (1998) as well as a bunch of Dean Martin celebrity roasts

¤	born: Jack Potovsky

expired 11-23-2002 in Miami Beach, Florida   age 73   cause: following open heart surgery

Hall-of-Fame former RAMS halfback (1940-49)  Fred Gehrke   came up with idea of painted ram horns on helmets (1947); later managed Denver Broncos
expired 2-12-2002 in Palm Springs, California   age 83

at critic  Emily Genauer   won 1974 Pulitzer prize for art criticism

¤	Mrs. Frederick Gash

born on 7-19-1911 in New York, New York
expired 8-23-2002 in New York, New York   age 91

former Yamaha president (1950-92)  Genichi Kawakami   son of company founder
born on --1912
expired 5-25-2002 in Hamamatsu, Japan   age 90

(briefly) Albanian  Queen Geraldine I   wife of Zog I; mother of Leka I

¤	title: Countess Apponyi von Nagy-Appony

born on 8-6-1915 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary
expired 10-22-2002 in Tirana, Albania   age 87

lyricist/playwright  Leonard Gershe   wrote screenplays for Funny Face (1957) & Silk Stockings (1957); wrote Butterflies Are Free play & screenplay (1968/72) based upon the experiences of Harold Krents
expired 3-9-2002 in Beverly Hills, California   age 79   cause: complications from stroke

oscar-winning film editor  Harry W. Gerstad   won two Academy Awards for Champion (1949) & High Noon (1952); also edited The Five Thousand Fingers of Dr. T (1953), Adventures of Superman tv series (1952; also directing), Highway Patrol (1955; also directing) & Batman tv series
expired 7-17-2002 in Palm Springs, California   age 93

former GM chairman/CEO  Richard C. Gerstenberg
expired 7-11-2002 in Paradise Valley, Arizona   age 92

composer/lyracist  Clark Gesner   wrote You're A Good Man Charlie Brown off-broadway show (opened 3/7/1967); also wrote music for Captain Kangaroo show
expired 7-23-2002 in New York, New York   age 64   cause: heart attack

dissident poet  Aleksandr Ilich Ginzburg
born on 11-21-1936 in Leningrad, Russia, USSR
expired 7-19-2002 in Paris, France   age 65

Contest Selectors
1980	JH	6.3%

The Producers producer  Sidney Glazier   won Best Documentary Feature oscar for his production of The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965)
born on 5-29-1916 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
expired 12-14-2002 in Bennington, Vermont   age 86

Rosewood (Florida) massacre survivor  Arnett Turner Goins   survived 1923 murder/destruction rampage by white mob
expired 3-24-2002 in Saint Petersburg, Florida   age 87

R&B singer/pianist  Rosco Gordon II
expired 7-11-2002 in New York, New York   age 74   cause: heart attack

Broadway/film/tv character actor  Cliff Gorman   won Tony for portraying Lenny Bruce in Broadway play (1971)
born on 10-13-1936 in New York, New York
expired 9-5-2002 in New York, New York   age 65   cause: leukemia

business technologist  William F. Gorog   in 1960s co-founded Data Corporation (it later bacame LexisNexis)
born on 9-2-1925 in Warren, Ohio
expired 7-14-2002 in Falls Church, Virginia   age 76   cause: lung cancer

former Australian prime minister (1968-71) Sir  John Grey Gorton
born on 9-9-1911 in Melbourne, Australia
expired 5-19-2002 in Sydney, Australia   age 90   cause: pneumonia; respiratory failure

Harvard biologist/evolutionist Dr.  Stephen Jay Gould
born on 9-10-1941 in New York, New York
expired 5-20-2002 in New York, New York   age 60   cause: cancer

movie/tv writer/producer  Bert Granet   produced Berlin Express (1948); a writer/producer of The Untouchables; as producer of Desilu Playhouse got Rod Serling script The Time Element produced - it became the "pilot" for the Twighlight Zone
born on 7-10-1910 in New York, New York
expired 11-15-2002 in Santa Monica, California   age 92   cause: injuries suffered in fall

actress  Teresa Graves   appeared on Turn-On (1969) & Laugh-In (1969-70); starred on Get Christie Love (1974-5)
born on 1-10-1949 in Houston, Texas
expired 10-10-2002 in Hyde Park, California   age 54   cause: apartment fire

stage/movie musical actress  Dolores Gray
born on 6-7-1924 in Chicago, Illinois
expired 6-26-2002 in New York, New York   age 78   cause: heart attack

one-armed St. Louis Browns outfielder (1945)  Peter Gray

¤	born: Peter Wyshner

expired 6-30-2002 in Sheatown, Pennsylvania   age 87

playwright  Adolph Green   collaborated with Betty Comden; winner of 5 Tony awards
born on 12-2-1915 in New York, New York
expired 10-23-2002 in New York, New York   age 87

screenwriter  Stanley R. Greenberg   for tv wrote The Missles of Cotober & Pueblo (1973); shared a Nebula Award for his screenplay of Soylent Green (1973)
expired 8-25-2002 in Kensington, California   age 74   cause: brain cancer

astrophysicist  Jesse Leonard Greenstein   did pioneering work on quasars
born on 10-15-1909 in New York, New York
expired 10-21-2002 in Arcadia, California   age 93

former Ford auto designer (1931-43)  Eugene T. Gregorie   designed the Lincoln Zephyr (1936), the Lincoln Continental (1939) & the 1949 Mercury
born on --1908
expired 12-1-2002 in Saint Augustine, Florida   age 94

character actor  James Gregory   played Senator Iselin in The Manchiurian Candidate (1962) & inspector Lugar on Barney Miller tv series
born on 12-23-1911 in New York, New York
expired 9-16-2002 in Sedona, Arizona   age 90

Gross Telecasting founder  Harold F. "Hal" Gross
expired 4-7-2002 in Pleasant Valley, Arizona   age 100

Contest Selectors
1980	MM, RR	12.5%

former Ivory Coast military ruler General  Robert Gueï   in by coup (12-24-1999); lasted until October 2000
expired 9-19-2002 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast   age ??   cause: killed during mutiny/civil war

Dr.  George Howell Guest   organist & choirmaster of St. John's College, Cambridge (1948-93)
born on 2-9-1924 in Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom
expired 11-20-2002   age 78

4-time oscar-winning feature documentary filmmaker  Charles Eli Guggenheim   won award for Nine From Little Rock (1964), Robert Kennedy Remembered (1968), The Johnstown Flood (1989) & A Time for Justice (1994)
born on 3-31-1924 in Cincinnati, Ohio
expired 10-9-2002 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 78   cause: pancreatic cancer

Stanford U. law professor emeritus  Gerald Gunther   wrote textbook Constitutional Law
born on 5-26-1927 in Usingen, Taunus, Germany
expired 7-20-2002 in Palo Alto, California   age 75   cause: lung cancer

original Coasters tenor  Billy Guy

¤	born: Frank William Phillips

born on 6-20-1936 in Itasca, Texas
expired 11-5-2002 in Las Vegas, Nevada   age 66   cause: heart attack

former CBC Morningside radio host (1982-97)  Peter Gzowski
born on 7-13-1934 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
expired 1-24-2002 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada   age 67   cause: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

 Graham Guilford Haddock Jr.   designed the World War II landing craft (LST)
expired 2-6-2002   age 84   cause: cancer

Harvard classics scholar/professor  Mason Hammond   author of The Augustan Principate (1933), The Menaechmi of Plautus (1933) & The Antonine Monarchy (1959)
born on 2-14-1903 in Boston, Massachusetts
expired 10-13-2002 in Cambridge, Massachusetts   age 99

Mattel co-founder (1942)  Ruth Handler   Barbie Doll creator; named doll after her daughter

¤	born: Ruth Mosko; Mrs. Elliot Handler

born on --1917 in Denver, Colorado
expired 4-27-2002 in Century City, California   age 85   cause: complications from colon cancer surgery

jazz pianist  Roland Pembroke Hanna
born on 2-10-1932 in Detroit, Michigan
expired 11-13-2002 in Hackensack, New Jersey   age 70   cause: viral infection of the heart

former ABA/NBA coach  Alex Hannum
born on 7-19-1923 in Los Angeles, California
expired 1-18-2002 in San Diego, California   age 78

electrical engineer  Siegfried Hansen   his efforts to improve the vacuum tube left to the development of the hard space suit now used in NASA space missions
expired 6-28-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 90

former Cleveland pitcher (1928-47)  Melvin Leroy Harder   also served as Indian's pitching coach (1948-63)
born on 10-15-1909 in Beemer, Nebraska
expired 10-20-2002 in Chardon, Ohio   age 93

former Braniff president/CEO (1965-80)  Lawrence L. Harding
born on 7-15-1920 in Perkins, Oklahoma
expired 1-16-2002 in Mustique, Saint Vincent, West Indies   age 81   cause: pancreatic cancer

retired land surveyor  Warren J. Harding   a pioneering rock climber: first to scale Yosemite's El Capitan (1958)

¤	nickname: "Batso"

expired 2-27-2002 in Happy Valley, Shasta County, California   age 77   cause: liver failure

retired University of Hawaii entomologist Dr.  D. Elmo Hardy   had over 50 species of flies named after him
born on 9-3-1914 in Lehi, Utah
expired 10-17-2002 in Honolulu, Hawaii   age 88

Jolly Rancher Candy Co, co-founder (1949)  Bill Harmsen
born on 6-20-1912 in Saint Paul, Minnesota
expired 4-10-2002 in Wheat Ridge, Colorado   age 89   cause: prostate cancer

actor  Richard Harris   played Professor Dumbledore in two Harry Potter movies
born on 10-1-1930 in Limerick, Ireland
expired 10-25-2002 in London, England   age 72   cause: Hodgkin's disease

Notre Dame end (1946-49)  Leon J. Hart Sr.   winner of the Heisman Trophy (1949)
born on 11-2-1928 in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania
expired 9-24-2002 in South Bend, Indiana   age 73   cause: prostate cancer

German oldster  Rosalia Hasenkampf
born on 10-1-1889
expired 7-10-2002   age 112

actress  Signe Eleanora Cecilia Hasso

¤	born: Signe Eleanora Cecilia Larsson

born on 8-15-1910 in Stockholm, Sweden
expired 6-8-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 91

philosopher  David Hawkins   served as Manhattan Project historian
expired 2-24-2002 in Boulder, Colorado   age 88

social reform advocate  Harry Hay   formed the Mattachine Society (1949)
born on 4-7-1912 in Worthing, England
expired 10-24-2002 in San Francisco, California   age 90   cause: lung cancer

Gaulic geezer  Germaine Haye
born on 10-10-1888
expired 4-18-2002 in Montaigne-au-Perche, France   age

designer/inventor  Edward Early Headrick   as head of research & development for Wham-O made the frisbee more aerodynamic & enhanced flight stability --- the "professional" model (1965); he founded the International Frisbee Association (1967) and created frisbee golf in the early 1970s; he was cremated and his ashes molded into limited edition memorial dics that were distributed to family & friends; made the prophetic quote "We used to say that Frisbee is really a religion --- Frisbyterians, we'd call ourselves. When we die, we don't do to purgatory. We just land up on the roof and lay there." (was this guy a Ferengi?!)
born on 6-28-1924 in South Pasadena, California
expired 8-11-2002 in La Selva Beach, California   age 78   cause: stroke

L.A. Lakers broadcaster  Francis Dayle "Chick" Hearn   coined phrases "slam dunk" & "air ball"
born on 11-27-1916 in Buda, Illinois
expired 8-5-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 85   cause: complications from surgery following fall

songwriter  Donn Hecht   co-wrote Patsy Cline's first hit Walkin' After Midnight (1957)
expired 10-18-2002 in Miami Beach, Florida   age 72   cause: heart attack

1972 Olympic swimmer  Jerry Heidenreich   won 2 gold, 1 silver & 1 bronze medal
expired 4-18-2002 in Paris, Texas   age 52   cause: suicide

brewmaster to the world  Alfred Henry "Freddy" Heineken   had managed family brewery (1971-89)
born on 11-4-1923 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
expired 1-3-2002 in Noordwijk, The Netherlands   age 78   cause: pneumonia

 Rudolph Hell   inventor of facsimile precursor, the "Hellschreiber" (1929)
born on 12-19-1901 in Eggmuehl, Germany
expired 3-14-2002 in Kiel, Germany   age 100

CIA Deputy Director (1965-66) & director (1966-73)  Richard McGarrah Helms
born on 3-30-1913 in Saint David's, Pennsylvania
expired 10-23-2002 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 89

World War II Medal of Honor recipient  James Richard Hendrix
expired 11-14-2002 in Davenport, Florida   age 77   cause: cancer

former Disney animator  Erwin William Henson   made first Chip and Dale-featured cartoon; animator on Song of the South (1947), the Bullwinkle Show, Underdog & Tennessee Tuxedo, animated the Trix rabbit commercials
born on --1924 in Dallas, Texas
expired 12-5-2002 in Dallas, Texas   age 78   cause: head injuries sustained when he stepped off a curb into the path of a truck

Texas death row inmate  Rodolfo "Rudy" Hernandez

¤	aka: number 807

born on 11-18-1949
expired 3-21-2002 in Huntsville, Texas   age 52   cause: lethal injection

Contest Selectors
2000	TEX	14%

obstetrician Dr.  Orvan Walter Hess   developed the fetal heart monitor (1957); involved in first successful clinical use of penicillin (1942)
born on 6-18-1906 in Margaretville, New York
expired 9-6-2002 in New Haven, Connecticut   age 96

movie & tv writer/producer  Louis Heyward   an executive at Barry/Enright Productions when Winky Dink and You was developed; producer of both Dr. Phibes movies (1971 & 72)
expired 3-26-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 81   cause: pneumonia

movie director  George Roy Hill   won Best Director oscar for The Sting (1973); also directed Butch Cassidy ... (1969) and Slap Shot (1977)
born on 12-20-1922 in Minneapolis, Minnesota
expired 12-27-2002 in New York New York   age 80   cause: complications from Parkinson's disease

former Texas Western basketball player  Tyrone Bobby Joe Hill   leader of team that won the 1966 NCAA national championship by beating a segregated Kentucky team
born on 6-12-1943 in Highland Park, Michigan
expired 12-8-2002 in El Paso, Texas   age 59   cause: heart attack

1960s 'Moors Murderer"  Myra Hindley   with boyfriend Ian Brady was convicted of her involvement with several gruesome sexual abuse/torture/murders
born on 7-23-1942 in Manchester, England
expired 11-15-2002 in Bury Saint Edmunds, England   age 60   cause: respiratory failure

 Ramon John "Ray" Hnatyshyn   24^th Governor General of Canada (1990-95)
born on 3-16-1934 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
expired 12-18-2002 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada   age 68   cause: complications from pancreatitis; cancer of bile duct

underground comic artist  Rand Holmes   drew Harold Hedd
expired 3-22-2002 in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada   age 60   cause: complications from lymphoma

last Queen of Afghanistan  Homaira Shah   wife of Mohammad Zahir Shah
expired 6-26-2002   age    cause: Rome, Italy

former Weather Channel meteorologist  John Raymond Hope
born on 5-14-1919 in Stowell, Pennsylvania
expired 6-13-2002 in Marietta, Georgia   age 83   cause: complications following heart surgery

rock singer/guitarist  Michael Houser   with group Widespread Panic

¤	nickname: "Panic"

expired 8-10-2002 in Athens, Georgia   age 40   cause: pancreatic cancer

former CIA employee/defector  Edward Lee Howard
expired 7-12-2002 in Zhukovka, Russia   age 50   cause: "fell down flight of stairs" (pushed?)

songwriter  Harlan Howard   wrote Busted & I Fall to Pieces
born on 9-8-1927 in Detroit, Michigan
expired 3-3-2002 in Nashville, Tennessee   age 74

former STanford electrical engineering professor  Henry Taylor Howard   "the father of the satellite tv industry" (built his own receiver to downlink C-band signals in 1976)
expired 11-13-2002 in San Andreas, California   age 70   cause: plane crash

tv writer/producer  Roy Huggins   co-creator of 77 Sunset Strip; co-produced Maverick (1957-62); writer for The Fugitive (1963-67) & The Rockford Files (1974-80)
born on 7-18-1914 in Litelle, Washington
expired 4-3-2002 in Santa Monica, California   age 87

movie editor/director  Peter Roger Hunt   edited first 5 James Bond movies & Sink the Bismark! (1960); directed On Her Magesty's Secret Service (1969)
born on 3-11-1925 in London, England
expired 8-14-2002 in Santa Monica, California   age 77

actress  Kim Hunter   won Best Supporting Actress oscar for playing Stella in A Streetcar Named Desired (1951); also played Dr. Zira in three Planet of the Apes movies

¤	born: Janet Cole

born on 11-12-1922 in Detroit, Michigan
expired 9-11-2002 in New York, New York   age 79   cause: heart attack

Edmonton Oilers co-founder  William Dickenson "Bill" Hunter   helped launch the NHL rival World Hockey Association (1972)
expired 12-16-2002 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada   age 82   cause: bone cancer

briefly oldest Aussie  Jessie Hurley

¤	born: Jessie Stubbs

born on 6-15-1890 in Riverstone, Australia
expired 8-7-2002 in Erina, Australia   age 112

Playboy cartoonist  Phil Interlandi
expired 6-26-2002 in Laguna Beach, California   age 78   cause: liver disease

minister & 1950s game show contestant  Charles E. "Stoney" Jackson   blew the whistle on several rigged game shows ($64,000 Question and $64,000 Challenge), claiming that he got the answers in advance
expired 3-24-2002 in Denver, Colorado   age 88   cause: renal failure

polygamist sect leader  Rulon Timpson Jeffs   rumored to have from 19 to 75 wives
born on 12-6-1909 in Salt Lake City, Utah
expired 9-8-2002 in Saint George, Utah   age 92

country singer  Waylon Jennings
born on 6-15-1937 in Littlefield, Texas
expired 2-13-2002 in Chandler, Arizona   age 64   cause: complications from diabetes

Contest Selectors
1979	VM	7.7%

World War II pinup model  Adele Jergens   named "Fairest of the Fair" at the 1939 New York World's Fair; danced as a Rockette; 1940s/50s film-noir actress
born on 11-26-1917 in New York, New York
expired 11-22-2002 in Camarillo, California   age 84

tv/movie writer  Norman Jolley   wrote for Space Patrol, Wagon Train & Cimarron City; co-wrote screenplay for Monolith Monsters (1957)
expired 8-13-2002 in Scottsdale, Arizona   age 8   cause: cardiac arrest following cancer surgery

one-armed college/pro football player  Ellis Jones
expired 2-24-2002 in Greeley, Colorado   age 80   cause: complications from broken neck

former U Cincinnati basketball coach  Ed Jucker   won two NCAA championships (1961 & 62)
expired 2-2-2002 in Callawassie Island, South Carolina   age 85

Hitler's personal secretary (1943-45)  Traudl Junge   succeeded Gerda Christian in this coveted position (got to type up his last will and testament --- Oooooh!)
expired 2-10-2002 in Munich, Germany   age 81   cause: cancer

actress  Katy Jurado   once married to Ernest Borgnine

¤	full name: Maria Cristina Jurado Garcia

born on 1-16-1924 in Guadalajara, Mexico
expired 6-28-2002 in Cuernavaca, Mexico   age 78

inventor  Myron Kahn   invented polarized light panels
expired 11-19-2002 in Santa Monica, California   age 85   cause: heart failure

one-time Honolulu police department officer (1946-62)  Kam Fong Chun   appeared in Gidget Goes Hawaiian; played detective Chin Ho Kelly on Hawaii Five-O tv series (1968-78)

¤	stage name: Kam Fong

born on 5-27-1918 in Honolulu, Hawiian Territory
expired 10-18-2002 in Honolulu, Hawaii   age 84   cause: lung cancer

 Martin David Kamen   co-discoverer of the carbon-14 isotope (1940)
born on 8-27-1913 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
expired 8-31-2002 in Montecito, California   age 89

Gnutella pioneer  Gene Kan   helped write Unix version of Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing program
expired 6-29-2002 in San Jose, California   age 25   cause: gunshot to head (suicide)

vice president of India  Kirshnan Kant
born on 2-28-1927 in Punjab, India
expired 7-27-2002 in New Delhi, India   age 75   cause: heart attack

former Look Magazine photographer (1960-72)  James H. Karales
born on 7-15-1930 in Canton, Ohio
expired 4-1-2002 in Croton-on-Hudson, New York   age 71   cause: cancer

photographer  Yousuf Karsh
born on 12-23-1908 in Mardin, Armenia, Turkey
expired 7-14-2002 in Boston, Massachusetts   age 93   cause: following surgery

former Merrill Lynch account executive (1949-87)  Norman Kay   noted contract bridge player; former partner of Edgar Kaplan;voted top U.S. player (1957-77)
expired 1-17-2002 in Narbeth, Pennsylvania   age 74   cause: acute pulmonary embolism

lyricist  Jules Leonard "Buddy" Kaye   co-wrote 'Til the End of Time & the I Dream of Jeanie tv show theme
born on --1918 in New York, New York
expired 11-21-2002 in Rancho Mirage, California   age 84

genocidal Khmer Rouge general (1975-79)  Ke Pauk   led purges that slaughtered 1.7 million people; granted "amnesty" when he defected to the current government
expired 2-15-2002 in Anlong Veng, Cambodia   age 72   cause: liver disease

Joseph  Adreon "Jack" Keller    last head of Mergenthaler Linotype Co. (1958-63); it then became Eltra Corp. which he headed until 1980
expired 12-10-2002 in Vero Beach, Florida   age 84   cause: complications from stroke

former Grumman Aircraft Corp. engineer  Thomas J. Kelly   "father of the lunar module" (Lunary Excursion Module)
expired 3-23-2002 in Cutchogue, New York   age 72   cause: respiratory falure; pulmonary fibrosis

insurance executive  James Scott Kemper Jr.   son of company founder
born on 4-8-1914 in Chicago, Illinois
expired 7-2-2002 in Golf, Illinois   age 88

harpsichord performer/instructor  Silvia Kind
expired 5-30-2002 in Port Angeles, Washington   age 94

harpsichord virtuoso  Igor Kipnis   son of Alexander Kipnis
born on 9-27-1930 in Berlin, Germany
expired 1-23-2002 in Fairfield County, Connecticut   age 71   cause: cancer

dobro/guitar/banjo player  Beecher Pete Kirby   performed with the Smokey Mountain Boys band (1936-1992)

¤	aka: "Bashful Brother Oswald"

born on 12-11-1911 in Sevierville, Tennessee
expired 10-17-2002 in Nashville, Tennessee   age 90   cause: cancer

ski resort owner  Everett Kircher   owned Boyne Mountain (Michigan), Big Sky (Montana), Crystal Mountain (Washington) & Cypress Mountain (British Columbia) ski resorts
expired 1-16-2002 in Petoskey, Michigan   age 85

businessman  Jules Klapman   former owner of Dad's Root Beer
expired 10-9-2002 in Skokie, Illinois   age 84   cause: cancer

loudspeaker manufacturer  Paul Wilbur Klipsch   founded Klipsch and Associates in Hope, Arkansas (1946)
born on 3-9-1904 in Elkhart, Indiana
expired 5-5-2002 in Hope, Arkansas   age 98

audio equipment engineer/deisgner  Henry E. Kloss   co-founder of Acoustic Research, co-founder of KLH, Kloss Video Corp. (Novatron projection systems), Cambridge Soundworks & Tivolia Audio
born on --1929
expired 1-31-2001 in Cambridge, Massachusetts   age 72   cause: subdural hematoma

actress  Hildegard Frieda Albertina Knef
born on 12-28-1925 in Ulm, Würtemberg, Germany
expired 2-1-2002 in Berlin, Germany   age 76   cause: lung infection

science fiction writer/editor  Damon Knight   wrote short story To Serve Man (1950) which later became a popular episode of The Twilight Zone (1962); Kate Wilhelm was second wife
born on 9-19-1922 in Baker, Oregon
expired 4-15-2002 in Eugene, Oregon   age 79

playwright  Frederick Knott   wrote Dial M for Murder (1952) & Wait Until Dark (1966)
born on 8-28-1916 in China
expired 12-17-2002 in New York, New York   age 86

former Mazda president (1970-77)  Kohei Matsuda   grandson of Toyo Kogyo (later Mazda) founder; owned the Hiroshima Carp baseball team (1970- )
expired 7-10-2002 in Tokyo, Japan   age 80   cause: stomach cancer

storyteller  Kosan Yanagiya   declared a national treasure (1995)
expired 5-16-2002 in Tokyo, Japan   age 87   cause: heart failure

former Skyway Luggage president  Henry L. Kotkins
expired 6-8-2002 in Portugal   age 90

former New York Times obituary writer (1966-2002)  Albin Joseph Krebs
born on 3-5-1929 in Pascagoula, Mississippi
expired 5-31-2002 in Key West, Florida   age 73   cause: cancer

actor  Jack Kruschen
born on 3-20-1922 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
expired 4-2-2002   age 80   cause: natural causes

former Greek Cypriot president (1977-85)  Spyros Achilles Kyprianou
born on 10-28-1932 in Limassol, Cypus
expired 3-12-2002 in Nicosia, Cyprus   age 69   cause: pelvic cancer

sci-fi writer  Rafael Aloysius Lafferty   won 1973 Hugo for his short story Eurema's Damn
born on 11-7-1914 in Neola, Iowa
expired 3-18-2002 in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma   age 87

Detroit Lions cornerback (1952-64)  Richard "Dick" Lane Sr.   husband of Dinah Washington

¤	nickname: "Night Train"

born on 4-16-1928 in Austin, Texas
expired 1-29-2002 in Austin, Texas   age 73   cause: heart attack; diabetes

geezer  Maria Laqua
born on 2-12-1889 in Rheydt-Odenkirchen, Germany
expired 2-9-2002 in Bad Hönningen, Germany   age 112

former CBS network president (1986-89)  Thomas Francis Leahy
expired 3-8-2002 in New York, New York   age 64   cause: cancer

former Russian General  Alexander Ivanovich Lebed   support Yeltsin during 1991 coup; later ran against him for president of Russia; was regional governor of Krasnoyarsk
born on 4-20-1950 in Novocherkassk, Russia
expired 4-28-2002 in Yermakovo, Krasnoyarsk region, Siberia, Russia   age 52   cause: helicopter flew into power lines

advice columnist  Esther Pauline Lederer   wrote under pen name Ann Landers (1955-2002); older sister of Abigail Van Buren (by 17 minutes)

¤	born: Esther Pauline Friedman; nickname: "Eppie"

born on 7-4-1918 in Sioux City, Iowa
expired 6-22-2002 in Chicago, Illinois   age 83   cause: multiple myeloma

CBS News producer  Ernest S. Leiser   hired Dan Rather
expired 11-26-2002 in South Nyack, New York   age 81   cause: congestive heart failure

actress  Rosetta LeNoire   played Grandma Winslow on Family Matters (1989-97)
born on 8-8-1911 in New York, New York
expired 3-17-2002 in Teaneck, New Jersey   age 90

standup comic  "Buddy" Lester   brother of Jerry Lester; opened for Sinatra in Vegas; appeared in the original Ocean's Eleven (1960) & The Nutty Professor (1963)
born on 1-16-1917 in Chicago, Illinois
expired 10-4-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 85   cause: cancer

newspaper foreign affairs columnist  Flora Lewis
born on 7-29-1922 in Los Angeles, California
expired 6-2-2002 in Paris, France   age 79   cause: cancer

critic, biographer & Yale professor (1959-88)  Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis   won Pulitzer prize for his 1976 biography of Edith Wharton
born on 11-1-1917
expired 6-13-2002 in Bethany, Connecticut   age 84

gemologist  Richard Thomas Liddicoat Jr.   developed the standard for diamond grading
born on 3-2-1918 in Kearsarge, Michigan
expired 7-23-2002   age 84

Pippi Långstrump (Pippi Longstocking) creator  Astrid Lindgren   married Mr. Sture Lindgren (1931); created character for her daughter (who named it)

¤	born: Astrid Ericsson

born on 11-14-1907 in Näs, Småland, Sweden (near Vimmerby)
expired 1-28-2002 in Stockholm, Stewden   age 94

author/producer/director  Joan Maud Littlewood   wrote Oh What a Lovely War
born on --1914 in London, England
expired 9-20-2002 in London, England   age 87

Aussie geezer  John Henry "Jack" Lockett
born on 1-22-1891
expired 5-25-2002   age 111

Louisiana Hayride radio show creator  Horace Lee Logan   originated the phrase "Elvis has left the building"
expired 10-13-2002   age 86

second-generation folk musicologist  Alan Lomax   as a teenager accompanying his father made made first recordings of Leadbelly & Muddy Waters
born on 1-31-1915 in Austin, Texas
expired 7-19-2002 in Sarasota, Florida   age 87

TLC singer  Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes   convicted of arson in destruction of boyfriend's home
born on 5-27-1971
expired 4-25-2002 in La Ceiba, Honduras   age 30   cause: skull fracture suffered when car she was driving flipped

former Colorado governor (1963-73)  John Arthur Love   was Nixon's energy czar (1973-74)
born on 11-29-1916 in Gibson City, Illinois
expired 1-21-2002 in Aurora, Colorado   age 85

movie/tv writer/director/producer  John Meredyth Lucas   adopted stepson of Michael Curtiz; (movie) writer of Dark City (1950); write & directed several original series Star Trek episodes
expired 10-19-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 83

 Angelo Enrico "Hank" Luisetti   as a Stanford basketball player in the 1930s revolutionized game by employing the one-hand jump shot
expired 12-17-2002 in San Mateo, California   age 86

actor  James Luisi   played Lt. Chapman on Rockford Files
born on 11-11-1928 in New York, New York
expired 6-7-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 73   cause: cancer

musician  Arthur Lyman   his biggest hit: Yellow Bird

¤	nickname: "King of the Jungle Vibraphone"

born on --1932 in Hawaii
expired 2-24-2002 in Honolulu, Hawii   age 70   cause: throat cancer

former AP Honolulu correspondent & army reserve officer  Hugh Lytle   awakened by Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; sent out first news wire teletype report of event, then reported for duty
expired 8-16-2002 in Novato, California   age 100

former Little Rock, Arkansas, mayor (1956-57)  Woodrow Wilson Mann Sr.   called upon president Eisenhower to send federal troops to protect black students in the local high school (9/23/1957)
born on 11-13-1916 in Little Rock, Arkansas
expired 8-6-2002 in Houston, Texas   age 85

pioneering movie felatrix  Linda Boreman Marchiano   star of 1972 Watergate thriller Deep Throat; taught Monica everything she knows; did April 1973 & February 1975 Playboy pictorials

¤	aka: Linda Lovelace

born on 1-10-1949 in New York, New York
expired 4-22-2002 in Denver, Colorado   age 53   cause: disconnected from life support after brain death caused by injuries sustained in 4/3 car crash

early Bebop pianist  Michael "Dodo" Marmarosa
born on 12-12-1925 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
expired 9-17-2002 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania   age 76   cause: heart attack

1952 Nobel chemistry laureate Dr.  Archer John Porter Martin   co-developed partition chromatography
expired 7-28-2002   age 92   cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease

character actor  Tony Martinez   played ranch hand Pepino Garcia on the Real McCoys tv series (1957-63)
expired 9-16-2002 in Las Vegas, Nevada   age 82

1930s movie actress  Susan Fleming Marx   Harpo's widow
born on 2-19-1909 in New York, New York
expired 12-22-2002   age 93   cause: heart attack

Surrealist painter  Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren
born on 11-11-1911 in Chile
expired 11-23-2002 in Tarquinia, Italy   age 91

voice mail creator (1970s)  Gordon Matthews
expired 2-23-2002 in Austin, Texas   age 65   cause: complications from stroke

McCarthy flunky  Harvey Matusow   testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee against 244 "commies" (1952) but got caught lying about them; spent 4 years in a Federal penitentary for perjury
expired 1-17-2002 in Lebanon, New Hampshire   age 75   cause: injuries suffered in car crash

Grammy/Emmy winner  Peter Matz   worked as a tv composer & musical director
born on 11-6-1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
expired 8-9-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 73   cause: lung cancer

actress  Irish Elizabeth McCalla   played title role in Sheena, Queen of the Jungle tv series (1955)
born on 12-25-1929 in Pawnee City, Nebraska
expired 2-1-2002 in Tucson, Arizona   age 72   cause: complications from brain tumor & stroke

cellular company co-founder  Keith McCaw
expired 12-15-2002 in Seattle, Washington   age 49   cause: hot tub accident

chemicalanalyst  Walter Cox McCrone   a pioneer in chemical microscopy: debunked the Shroud of Turin, Yale's Vinland Map & Napoleon's death by arsenic
born on 6-9-1916 in Wilmington, Delaware
expired 7-10-2002 in Chicago, Illinois   age 86

character actor  William "Bill" McCutcheon   won Best Featured Actor Tony Award for playing Moonface Martin in the 1988 revival of Anything Goes; played Uncle Wally on Sesame Street (1984-92)
born on 5-23-1924 in Russell, Kentucky
expired 1-9-2002 in Ridgewood, New Jersey   age 77

Cornell physicist  Boyce D. McDaniel   gave the Trinity Test bomb its last checkup before kablooie
born on 6-11-1917 in Brevard, North Carolina
expired 5-8-2002 in Ithaca, New York   age 84   cause: heart attack

author  Mark McGarrity   writeer of Irish whodunits

¤	pen name: Bartholomew Gill

expired 7-4-2002   age 58   cause: fell and hit head trying to climb in apartment window

actor  Leo McKern   played Rumpole of the Bailey; Thomas Cromwell in A Man for All Seasons (1966)

¤	born: Reginald McKern

born on 3-16-1920 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
expired 7-23-2002 in Bath, Somerset, England   age 82   cause: complications from diabetes

former Baltimore/Montreal pitcher (1962-75)  Davie Arthur "Dave" McNally   successfully challenged baseball's reserve clause
born on 10-31-1942 in Billings, Montana
expired 12-1-2002 in Billings, Montana   age 60   cause: cancer

Boston College professor  Raymond Thomas McNally   researcher - proposed several explanations for the origins of the Dracula legend; wrote In Search of Dracula: A True History of Dracula and Vampire Legends (1972), Dracula: A Biography of Vlad the Impaler, 1431-1476 (1973) & Dracula Was A woman: In Search of the Blood Countess of Transylvania (1983)
born on 4-15-1931 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio
expired 10-2-2002 in Newton, Massachusetts   age 71   cause: cancer

former New Mexico governor & senator (1962-4)  Edwin Leard Mechem
born on 7-2-1912 in Alamagordo, Otero County, New Mexico
expired 11-27-2002 in Albuquerque, New Mexico   age 90

graphic designer  Philip B. Meggs   wrote definitive history of graphic & advertising design
expired 11-20-2002 in Richmond, Virginia   age 60   cause: leukemia

Wham-O co-founder (1948)  Arthur K. "Spud" Melin   company bought rights to Pipco Flying Saucer (1955), later renamed the Pluto Platter (1957), finally the Frisbee (1958; named for character in 1950s Mr. Frisbie comic strip)
expired 6-28-2002 in Costa Mesa, California   age 77   cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease

animal trainer  Carmine "Bud" Mennella   J. Fred Muggs personal trainer
expired 3-10-2002 in Tampa, Florida   age 80   cause: Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease

radio/tv writer  Howard Merrill   co-creator of the I've Got A Secret game show (1952)
expired 4-20-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 85

free diver  Audrey Mestre   attempted to set new world record (561 ft).
expired 10-12-2002 in La Romana, Dominican Republic   age 28   cause: blacked out & drowned

former CBS News producer  Leslie Grant Midgley
born on 1-18-1915 in Salt Lake City, Utah
expired 6-19-2002 in White Plains, New York   age 87   cause: pneumonia

psychiatrist  James Grier Miller   coined term "behavioral science"
born on 7-17-1916 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
expired 11-7-2002 in La Jolla, California   age 86

original BBC "Goon"  Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan   appeared with Michael Bentine, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe on the Goon Show; knighted ("Sir Goon"???)
born on 4-16-1918 in Ahmadnagar, India
expired 2-27-2002 in Rye, Sussex, England   age 83   cause: kidney failure

Contest Selectors
2001	RR	12½%

educator  Joshua L. Miner   introduced the Outward Bound program to the U.S. (1961)
expired 1-29-2002 in Andover, Massachusetts   age 81   cause: prostate cancer

Hawaiian rep. (1965-2002)  Patsy Takemoto Mink
born on 12-6-1927 in Paia, Maui, Hawaii
expired 9-28-2002 in Honolulu, Hawaii   age 74   cause: viral pneumonia; chickenpox

movie producer  Marvin Elliot Mirisch   with brothers co-founder of the Mirisch Company
born on 3-19-1918 in New York, New York
expired 11-17-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 84   cause: heart attack

former Clovers singer  William Joseph "Billy" Mitchell   had hit with Love Potion No. 9
expired 11-5-2002 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 71   cause: strokes, colon cancer

Run-DMC dj  Jason Mizell Sr.

¤	aka: "Jam Master Jay"

born on 1-21-1965 in New York, New York
expired 10-30-2002 in New York, New York   age 37   cause: shot in head (assassinated)

screen writer  Ivan Moffat   wrote screenplays for Giant (1956) & Black Sunday (1977)
expired 7-4-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 84   cause: stroke

beer baron  Hartland de Montarville Molson   former owner of the Montreal Canadiens hockey team; also a former Canadian senator
born on --1907 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
expired 9-28-2002 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada   age 95

musician's muse  NEllie Monk   widow of Thelonious

¤	maiden name: Smith

born on --1921 in Saint Petersburg, Florida
expired 6-25-2002 in New York, New York   age 80   cause: cerebral hemorrhage

World War II Medal of Honor recipient  Jack Cleveland Montgomery
born on 7-23-1917 in Long, Oklahoma
expired 6-11-2002 in Muskogee, Oklahoma   age 84

jazz singer  Marion Montgomery
expired 7-22-2002 in Bray, Berkshire, England   age 67   cause: lung cancer

composer/music critic  Xavier Montsalvatge
born on 3-11-1912 in Gerona, Spain
expired 5-7-2002 in Barcelona, Spain   age 90

1930s/40s movie scream queen  Marie Jeanette "Peggy" Moran   appeared in The Mummies Hand (1940), One Night in the Tropics (1940) & Hello, Sucker (1941)
born on 10-23-1918 in Clinton, Iowa
expired 10-25-2002   age 84   cause: complications from injuries suffered in 8-26 car accident

former Miami-Dade judge (1971-91)  Ellen J. "Maximum" Morphonios   one-time model & beauty contest winner; before elevation to the bench prosecuted Jim Morrison for indecent exposure
expired 12-22-2002 in Miami, Florida   age 73   cause: stomach cancer

 Gene Moss   co-wrote the Roger Ramjet cartoon series (1965); provided voice for Smokey the Bear (1979-88)

¤	born: Eugene Harold Moshontz

born on --1926 in Cleveland, Ohio
expired 7-15-2002 in Rancho Mirage, California   age 75   cause: cancer

former Miller brewery president (1972-84)  John Arthur Murphy Sr.   helped introduce Miller Lite beer (1975)
born on 12-15-1929 in New York, New York
expired 6-16-2002 in Glen Cove, New York   age 72   cause: complications following surgery for a ruptured aortic aneurysm

actor  George Nader
born on 10-19-1921 in Pasadena, California
expired 2-4-2002 in Woodland Hills, California   age 80   cause: cardiac pulmonary failure; pneumonia; mulitple cerebral infarctions

geezer  Jassmine "Jessie" Nicholls   was oldest person in Great Britain
born on 1-25-1892
expired 10-30-2002 in Chichester, West Sussex, England   age 110

World War II submarine commander  Chester William Nimitz Jr.
expired 1-2-2002 in Wellfleet, Massachusetts   age 86   cause: sleeping pill overdose (suicide)

off-Broadway's Fantasticks producer  Lore Note   it ran from 5/3/1960-1/13/2002
born on 6-9-1923 in New York, New York
expired 7-8-2002 in New York, New York   age 79   cause: cancer

object-oriented programming pioneer  Kristen Nygaard   created first O.O. programming language, Simula (1965); winner of 2001 Turing prize
born on --1926 in Oslo, Norway
expired 8-10-2002 in Oslo, Norway   age 75   cause: heart attack

U of Georgia zoology professor  Eugene Pleasants Odum   author of "Fundamentals of Ecology" (1953)

¤	"father of modern ecology"

born on 9-17-1913 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
expired 8-9-2002 in Athens, Georgia   age 88   cause: heart attack

environmental sciences professor  Howard Thomas Odum   with brother founded the science of ecology
expired 9-11-2002 in Gainesville, Florida   age 78   cause: cancer

Broadway producer/director  Phillip Oesterman   had 1970s hit with the raunchy musical Let My People Come; also directed Yoko Ono's "musical" New York Rock (1994)
expired 7-30-2002 in Fort Myers, Florida   age 64   cause: heart failure

Saudi Arabian billionaire  Suliman Saleh Olayan
born on 11-5-1918 in Unayzah, Arabia
expired 7-4-2002 in New York, New York   age 83

1950's middleweight boxer  Carl "Bobo" Olson Sr.   lost four times to Sugar Ray Robinson
born on --1928 in Honolulu, Hawaii
expired 1-16-2002 in Honolulu, Hawaii   age 73   cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease

piano prodigy  Leo Ornstein
born on 12-11-1892 in Krementchug, Russia
expired 2-24-2002 in Green Bay, Wisconsin   age 109

actress  Margaret "Bibi" Osterwald
born on 2-3-1918 in New Brunswick, New Jersey
expired 1-2-2002 in Burbank, California   age 83

actress  LaWanda Page   played Esther Anderson on Sanford & Son tv series
born on 10-19-1920 in Cleveland, Ohio
expired 9-14-2002 in Inglewood, California   age 81   cause: complications from diabetes

jazz bassist  Charles Valdez "Truck" Parham
born on 1-25-1911 in Chicago, Illinois
expired 6-5-2002 in Chicago, Illinois   age 91

Sleep-Eze inventor  Allen Parkinson   founded the Movieland Wax Museum (1962)
expired 8-19-2002 in Warwick, Rhode Island   age 83   cause: cancer

geezer  Mary L. Parr   at time of death was oldest person in U.S. & second oldest in world
born on 2-1-1889 in Mishawaka, Indiana
expired 10-29-2002 in Saint Petersburg, Florida   age 113

character actor  Dennis Patrick
born on 3-14-1918 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
expired 10-13-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 84   cause: smoke inhalation (apartment fire)

kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter  Daniel Pearl
born on --1963 in Princeton, New Jersey
expired 1-29-2002 in Pakistan   age 38   cause: throat slit; beheaded

 Bill Austin "Billy" Pearson   jockey, art expert & game show contestant ($64,000 Question & $64,000 Challenge)
born on --1920 in Chicago, Illinois
expired 11-28-2002 in Kingston, New York   age 82   cause: pneumonia

former Disney cartoonist  William Bartlett "Bill" Peet Sr.   drew Dumbo; wrote screenplay for 101 Dalmatians (1961)

¤	born: W.B. Peed

born on --1915 in Grandview, Indiana
expired 5-11-2002 in Studio City, California   age 87   cause: pneumonia; cancer; heart problems

former Israeli Air Force commander  Benny Peled   lead 1976 hostage rescue raid on Entebbe (Uganda)
expired 7-13-2002   age 74   cause: emphysema

pianist  Vladislas "Vlado" Perlemuter   collaborted with Ravel
born on 5-26-1904 in Kovno, Russia (now Kaunas, Lithuania)
expired 9-4-2002 in Paris, France   age 98

1962 Nobel chemisty laureate  Max Ferdinand Perutz   pioneer in field of molecular biology, researching the structure of hemoglobin
born on 5-19-1914 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary
expired 2-6-2002 in Cambridge, England   age 87

automaker  Pierre Peugeot
born on 6-11-1932
expired 12-1-2002 in Paris, France   age 70

prolific tv director  John Peyser
born on 8-10-1916 in New York, New York
expired 8-16-2002   age 86

electrical engineer Dr.  John Robinson Pierce   headed the Bell Labs teams that invented the transistor (he gave it it's name) & the first communications satellite, Echo I
born on 3-27-1910 in Des Moines, Iowa
expired 4-2-2002 in Sunnyvale, California   age 92

white supremecist Dr.  William Pierce   wrote The Turner Diaries under pen name Andrew Macdonald (1978)
expired 7-23-2002 in Mill Point, West Virginia   age 68   cause: cancer

awful movie writer/director/producer  Sidney W. Pink   associate producer of Bwana Devil (1952) & The Twonky (1953); co-wrote & produced Angry Red Planet (1959) & Man from O.R.G.Y. (1970); "discovered" Dustin Hoffman
born on --1916 in Pittsburgh
expired 10-12-2002 in Pompano Beach, Florida   age 86   cause: "a long illness"

World War II flier  Desmond Plunkett   an organizer of the "Greaat Escape" from Stalag Luft III (3/24/1944)
expired 2-14-2002 in Storrington, England   age 86

vulture capitalist  Victor Posner   strip-mined corporate assets & threw away the empty husks; his decades of unrepentant rapaciousness contributed to the ongoing attractiveness of Marxist/socialist/communist claptrap
born on 9-18-1918 in Baltimore, Maryland
expired 2-11-2002 in Miami, Florida   age 83   cause: pneumonia

rabbi, author  Herman Harold Chaim Potok   wrote The Chosen (1967)
born on 2-17-1929 in New York, New York
expired 7-23-2002 in Merion, Pennsylvania   age 73   cause: brain cancer

former Army Air Corps Col.  Henry A. Potter   navigator aboard Jimmie Doolittle's bomber on first Tokyo raid (4/18/1942)
born on --1918 in Pierre, South Dakota
expired 5-30-2002 in Austin, Texas   age 83

character actor  Wolfgang Preiss   specialized in playing Nazi officers: Major von Klemment in Von Ryan's Express (1965), Ebernach in Is Paris Burning? (1966), Field Marshall von Runstedt in A Bridge Too Far (1977) & Lofquist in The Boys From Brazil (1978)
born on 2-24-1910 in Nuremburg, Germany
expired 11-27-2002 in Bühl, Germany   age 92

1964 Nobel physics laureate  Aleksandr M. Prokhorov   his research lead to the development of the MASER & LASER
born on --1916 in Atherton, Australia
expired 1-8-2002 in Moscow, Russia   age 85

former Illinois rep. (1959-72)  Roman Conrad Pucinski   also served as a Chicago alderman (1973-91)
born on 5-13-1919 in Buffalo, New York
expired 9-25-2002 in Chicago, Illinois   age 83   cause: pneumonia

engineer & contractor  Morris S. Pynoos   invented the nail gun for Howard Hughes during construction of the Spruce Goose
expired 7-5-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 84   cause: congestive heart failure

former Iranian hostage  Richard I. Queen
expired 8-14-2002 in Falls Church, Virginia   age 51   cause: complications from multiple sclerosis

astor  Glenn Quinn   appeared on the Roseanne (1990-97) & Angel (1999) tv series
born on 5-28-1970 in Dublin, Ireland
expired 12-3-2002 in North Hollywood, California   age 32   cause: possible O.D.

former RCA Records executive  Norman Racusin   instrumental in the development of the 8-Track Tape
born on --1920 in Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania
expired 4-29-2002 in Carlsbad, New Mexico   age 82   cause: stroke

former Neshoba County (Mississippi) sheriff (1963-67)  Andrew Lawrence Rainey Sr.   acquitted of involvement in the 1964 murders of civil rights workers Chaney, Goodman & Schwerner
expired 11-8-2002 in Meridian, Mississippi   age 79   cause: throat cancer

rock musician  Dee Dee Ramone

¤	real name: Douglas Glenn Colvin

born on 9-18-1952 in Fort Lee, Virginia
expired 6-5-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 50   cause: possible drug overdose

Contest Selectors
1979	SB	7.7%

Columbia U. English professor  Allen Walker Read   researched the origins of common words & phrases (like "O.K.", "Dixie", "blizzard" & "podunk"); wrote Lexical Evidence of Epigraphy in Western North America: A Glossarial Study of the Low Element in the English Vocabulary (1935)
born on 6-2-1906 in Winnebago, Minnesota
expired 10-16-2002 in New York, New York   age 96

radio engineer  Grote Reber   following up on Karl Jansky's work built backyard antenna to map the sky (1937); his mother was Edwin Hubble's 7th grade teacher
born on 12-22-1911 in Wheaton, Illinois
expired 12-20-2002 in Bothwell, Tasmania, Australia   age 90

trial lawyer  Barry C. Reed   wrote The Verdict
expired 7-19-2002 in Norwood, Massachusetts   age

litigant  Mary Maxine "Sally" Reed   initiate suit resulting in 1971 Supreme Court ruling (9-0) that voided laws giving arbitrary preference to men over women

¤	adopted as: Mary Kelso

born on --1909 in Nebraska
expired 9-26-2002 in Boise, Idaho   age 93

songwriter  Noel Regney   co-wrote Do You Hear What I Hear? (1962; with wife Gloria Shayne); translated song Dominique into English (1963)
expired 11-??-2002 in Danbury, Connecticut   age 80   cause: Pick's disease

"Free Cinema" movement director  Karel Reisz   made Morgan (1966), Isadora (1968), The Gambler (1974), Who'll Stop the Rain (1978), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) & Sweet Dreams (1985)
born on 7-21-1926 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
expired 11-25-2002 in London, England   age 76

former Riviera Beach, Florida police chief  Burton Leon Reynolds Sr.   father of actor
born on 7-9-1906 in Aurelius, Michigan
expired 4-20-2002 in Jupiter Beach, Florida   age 95   cause: heart failure

Groups Danone Sa founder  Antoine Riboud   maker of (Dannon) Yogurt & Evian Water
expired 5-5-2002 in Paris, France   age

screenwriter & "script doctor"  Dean Riesner   wrote Coogan's Bluff (1968) & The Enforcer (1976); co-wrote Play Misty For Me & Dirty Harry (1971; with Harry Julian Fink & Rita M. Fink, "Harry's creators)

¤	as a child actor performed under pseudonym Dinky Dean

born on 11-3-1918 in New York, New York
expired 8-18-2002   age 83

geezer  Harriet Azzie Riggins-McGee   of Albany, Georgia

¤	alternate surname spelling: McGhee

born on 3-14-1884
expired 11-6-2002 in Albany, Georgia   age 118

jazz trombonist  Adolphus "Snooks" Riley
expired 5-3-2002 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 77   cause: hypertension

celebrity photographer  Herbert Ritts   shot a number of Playboy covers
born on --1952 in Los Angeles, California
expired 12-26-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 50   cause: complications from pneumonia

"edgy" artist  Larry Rivers

¤	born: Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg

born on 8-17-1923 in New York, New York
expired 8-14-2002 in Southampton, New York   age 78   cause: liver cancer

Hawaiian Island matriarch  Helen Marion Matthew Robinson   head of family that privately owns the island of Niihau
born on 8-2-1910 in Washington, District of Columbia
expired 7-31-2002 in Makaweli, Kauai, Hawaii   age 91

 Matthew Thomas Robinson Jr.   first actor to play Gordon on Sesame Street (1969-71); also a writer on Sanford and Son, Eight is Enough & the Cosby Show; father of actress Holly Robinson Peete
born on --1937 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
expired 8-5-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 65   cause: complications from Parkinson's disease

sub-atomic physicist Dr.  George Dixon Rochester   co-discovered the K-meson (kaon) (1946/7)
born on 2-4-1908
expired 12-26-2001 in Durham, England   age 93

World War II French resistance leader  Henri Rol-Tanguy

¤	born: Henri Tanguy

born on 6-12-1908 in Morlaix, Britanny, France
expired 9-9-2002   age    cause: 94

tv/movie writer  Reginald Rose   wrote Twelve Angry Men tv script (1956) & movie screenplay (1957); wrote pilot for The Defenders tv series
born on 12-10-1920 in New York, New York
expired 4-19-2002 in Norwalk, Connecticut   age 81

movie producer  Frank P. Rosenberg   produced One-Eyed Jacks (1961) & Madigan (1968)
born on 11-22-1913 in New York, New York
expired 10-18-2002 in Thousands Oaks, California   age 88

master gastronaut  William "Bill" Rosenberg   pioneered the canteen truck (roach coach/maggot wagon); founded the Open Kettle (1948), later renamed Dunkin Donuts (1950)
expired 9-20-2002 in Mashpee, Massachusetts   age 86   cause: bladder cancer

former CIA spook  Heinrich August "Harry" Rositzke   headed Soviet covert operations unit
born on 2-25-1911 in New York, New York
expired 11-4-2002 in Warrenton, Virigina   age 91   cause: pneumonia

actor  ted Ross   won a Tony Award for playing the Cowardly Lion in The Wiz

¤	real name: Theodore Ross Roberts

expired 9-3-2002 in Dayton, Ohio   age 68   cause: complications from stroke

former N.Y. Giants football player  William Kyle Rote Sr.
expired 8-14-2002 in Baltimore, Maryland   age 74   cause: pneumonia following hernia surgery; emphysema

character actor  Philip Roth   played the Doctor in Catch-22 (1970) & Woolsey in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975)
expired 7-15-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 74   cause: colon cancer

former New Hampshire state senator  Vesta M. Roy   for seven days served as governor (1982)
born on 3-26-1925
expired 2-9-2002 in Kenmore, New York   age 76

Jewish Defense League leader  Irv Rubin
expired 11-13-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 57   cause: slashed neck with razor (suicide)

firearm company co-founder  William Batterman Ruger Sr.   co-founded Sturm, Ruger & Company (1949)
born on 6-21-1916 in New York, New York
expired 7-6-2002 in Prescott, Arizona   age 86

cosmonaut  Nikolai Nikolaevich Rukavishnikov   flew aboard Soyuz 10, 16 & 33
born on 9-19-1932 in Tomsk, Siberia
expired 10-19-2002   age 70   cause: heart attack

former American League umpire (1954-70)  Edward Paul Runge
born on 5-12-1915 in Buffalo, New York
expired 7-26-2002 in San Diego, California   age 87

former pro golfer  Paul Runyan   two-time winner of PGA championship

¤	nickname: "Little Poison"

expired 3-17-2002   age 93   cause: pneumonia

former Montgomery, Alabama police chief  Goodwyn Jones Ruppenthal   following bus driver complaint had Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white
expired 4-8-2002   age 93

historian  Saburo Ienaga   fought the government bureaucracy's attempts to suppress information about wartime atrocities
expired 12-1-2002 in Tokyo, Japan   age 89

game designer  Sid Sackson   gave us Acquire, Focus, Venture, Sleuth, Metropolis, ...
expired 11-6-2002   age 82

Swami  Satchidananda   "opened" the Woodstock music festival; founded Yogaville, Virginia

¤	given name: Ramaswamy

born on 12-22-1914 in Chettipalayamm, India
expired 8-19-2002 in Madras, India   age 87

Angolan rebel leader  Jonas Malheiro Savimbi   founded the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Portugese acronym: UNITA) in 1966
born on 8-3-1934 in Munhango, Bie Province Angola
expired 2-22-2002 in Moxico Province, Angola   age 67   cause: attack by government forces

Contest Selectors
2000	IVY	14%

political prisoner  Junius Irving Scales   only American sent to prison for being a member of the American Communist Party (1940 Smith Act); spent 15 months in the Federal slammer (1961-62); JFK commuted his sentence
born on 3-26-1920 in Greensboro, North Carolina
expired 8-5-2002 in New York, New York   age 82   cause: heart failure; stroke

comics artist  Kurt Schaffenberger   drew Lois Lane comics in 1960s
born on 12-15-1920 in Germany
expired 1-24-2002 in Brick, New Jersey   age 81   cause: complications from diabetes

former ABC tv programming executive  Edgar J. Scherick   executive producer of Take the Money and Run
born on 10-10-1924 in New York, New York
expired 12-2-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 78   cause: complications from leukemia

Three Dog Night bassist  Joseph "Joe" Schermie
born on 2-12-1948
expired 3-25-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 54

inventor  Gilmore Tilmen Schjeldahl   made Echo I, the first (passive) communications satellite (a 100 foot aluminized mylar balloon), launched by NASA in August 1960 (it stayed up for 8 years)
expired 3-9-2002 in Lenox, Massachusetts   age 89

estranged mom  Yolanda Schlessinger   last seen in late September her body was discovered December 16, 2002 in a bad state of decomposition with hints of homicide; hadn't spoken with daughter in over a decade

¤	neé: Ceccovini

expired 10-??-2002 in Beverly Hills, California   age 77   cause: currently under investigation

classical violinist  Wolfgang Schneiderhan
expired 5-18-2002 in Vienna, Austria   age 86

foot care product manufacturer  William Scholl
born on 9-24-1920 in London, England
expired 3-15-2002 in Douglas, Isle of Man, England   age 81   cause: pneumonia

comedian & former Doritos pitchman  Avery Schreiber   played Captain Cornelius Butt in Galaxina (1980)
born on 4-9-1935 in Chicago, Illinois
expired 1-7-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 66   cause: complications from hip surgery

composer  Norbert Schultze   composed Lili Marleen (1938), based upon the obscure World War I poem The Song of a Young Sentry
expired 10-14-2002 in Bad Tölz, Bavaria, Germany   age 91

UPI Hollywood reporter  Vernon Scott III
expired 11-18-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 79   cause: pancreatitis

attorney  John Norman Seaman   worked as a code breaker at Bletchley Park
born on 2-19-1914 in Battle Creek, Michigan
expired 9-9-2002 in Lansing, Michigan   age 88

teenage songwriter  Charon Seeley   girlfriend of Eddie Cochran; wrote Poor Little Fool (1958)
expired 5-7-2002 in Sherman Oaks, California   age 62   cause: complications following cerebral hemorrhage

developer  Peter Werner Seibert Sr.   built Vail Ski Resort
born on 8-7-1924 in Sharon, Massachusetts
expired 7-15-2002 in Edwards, Colorado   age 77   cause: cancer

personal computer writer  Rogers James "Jim" Seymour   founding editor in chief of PC Computing magazine (1988)
expired 10-8-2002 in Austin, Texas   age 60   cause: complications from gall bladder surgery

jazz bassist  Arvell James Shaw   played with Louis Armstrong's Orchestra and later with his septet
born on 9-15-1923 in Saint Louis, Missouri
expired 12-5-2002 in Roosevelt, New York   age 79   cause: heart attack

1932 Olympic gold medal speedskater  John Amos "Jack" Shea    9
born on 7-1910-Lake Placid, New York in 1
expired 22-2002-Saranac Lake, New York in car hit by drunk driver   age    cause: 91

SeaWorld co-founder  Milton C. Shedd
born on --1922 in El Paso, Texas
expired 5-24-2002 in Newport Beach, California   age 79   cause: cancer

ill-fated sailor  Christopher Barrows Sheldon   his twin-masted sailing vessel, the Albatross, was sunk in a freak storm west of Key West (5-2-1961) - the story became the basis of the movie White Squall (1996)
born on 10-12-1926 in New York, New York
expired 10-5-2002 in Stamford, Connecticut   age 76   cause: pancreatic cancer

taller half of legendary Canadian comic duo  Frank Shuster   cousin of Superman's co-creator; one-time father-in-law of Lorne Michaels
born on 9-5-1916 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
expired 1-13-2002 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada   age 85   cause: pneumonia

movie musical director  George Sidney   directed Annie Get Your Gun (1950), Show Boat (1951), Kiss Me Kate (1953), Anchors Aweigh, Pal Joey, Bye, Bye Birdie & Viva Las Vegas
born on 10-4-1916 in Long Island City, New York
expired 5-5-2002 in complications from lymphoma   age 85   cause: Las Vegas, Nevada

actor  Sihung Lung   appeared in Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)

¤	born: Hsiung Lang

born on --1930 in China
expired 5-2-2002 in Taipei, Taiwan   age 72   cause: liver faliure

longtime CBS announcer (1948-72)  Hal Simms
expired 7-2-2002 in Brookline, Massachusetts   age 83

minerologist/gemologist/lapidary/author  John Sinkankas
born on 5-15-1915 in Paterson, New Jersey
expired 5-17-2002 in San Diego, California   age 87

Hall of Fame baseball player  Enos Bradsher Slaughter
born on 4-27-1916 in Roxboro, North Carolina
expired 8-12-2002 in Durham, North Carolina   age 86   cause: complications from surgery; non-Hodgkins lymphoma

Contest Selectors
2000	ANG	14%
2001	ANG	12½%

former baseball outfielder  Albert Smith   mainly known for being drenched by spilled beer in 1959 World Series
expired 1-3-2002 in Hammond, Indiana   age 73   cause: cardiac arrest

grade-Z movie actress  Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith   appeared in Caged Heat (1974), The Pom Pom Girls (1976), Up In Smoke (1978), Melvin and Howard (1980), Nice Dreams (1981), & The Swinging Cheerleaders (1985)
born on 6-6-1955 in Los Angeles, California
expired 10-25-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 47   cause: comlications from hepatitis

Our Gang child actor 1937-40)  Darwood Kenneth Smith   later was an assisting pastor for the La Sierra University church

¤	aka: "Waldo"; screen name: Darwood Kaye

born on 9-8-1929 in Fort Collins, Colorado
expired 5-15-2002 in Riverside, California   age 72   cause: struck in head by assailant

former Chris-Craft executive  Harsen Alfred Smith   grandson of company founder; on cover of May 18, 1959 Time Magazine
born on --1908
expired 12-7-2002 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida   age 94

newsman  Howard Kingsbury Smith   with CBS and ABC News
born on 5-12-1914 in Ferriday, Louisiana
expired 2-15-2002 in Bethesda, Maryland   age 87   cause: pneumonia; congesive heart failure

1920s Our Gang kid actor  Jay R. Smith   murdered

¤	aka: "Pinky"

born on 8-29-1915
expired 10-1-2002 in Las Vegas, Nevada   age 87   cause: murdered

actor  Kevin Smith   played Ares on Hercules/Xena syndicated tv series
born on 3-16-1963 in Auckland, New Zealand
expired 2-16-2002 in Beijing, China   age 38   cause: removed from life support; head injuries suffered in Feb. 6th six-story fall

pro golfer  Samuel Jackson Snead Sr.

¤	nickname: "Slammin' Sammy"

born on 5-27-1912 in Hot Springs, Virginia
expired 5-23-2002 in Hot Springs, Virginia   age 89

Contest Selectors
1979	SB	7.7%

tv/science fiction writer  Gerald Allan "Jerry" Sohl Sr.   for original Star Trek series wrote The Corbomite Maneuver & provided story for Whom Gods Destroy

¤	pseudonyms: Nathan Butler, Sean Mei Sullivan, Roberta Jean Mountjoy

born on --1913 in Los Angeles, California
expired 11-4-2002 in Thousand Oaks, California   age 88

Vanguard Records co-founder (1950)  Seymour Solomon
expired 7-18-2002 in Lennox, Massachusetts   age 80

Thai entrepeneur  Somporn Saekow   founded Thailand's first monkey training school, pioneering in using monkeys to do commercial cocoanut picking
expired 8-20-2002   age 62

 Dorle Jarmel Soria   co-founded Angel Records with husband (1953)
born on --1900
expired 7-7-2002 in New York, New York   age 101

Olympic gold medal diver  Aileen Riggin Soule   medaled in the 1920 (Antwerp) & 1924 (Paris) games; only woman to medal in both swiming & diving (silver in springboard, bronze in 100-meter breaststroke)
born on 5-2-1906 in Newport, Rhode Island
expired 10-17-2002 in Honolulu, Hawaii   age 96

World War II British marine  William Edward "Bill" Sparks   last surviving "Cockleshell Hero"
expired 11-30-2002 in Alfriston, England   age 80

typographer  Herbert Spencer   an editor/contributor to the defunct graphic design journal Typographica (1949-63)
born on 6-22-1924 in London, England
expired 3-11-2002 in Falmouth, England   age 77   cause: bronchopneumonia

 Chaike Belchatowska Spiegel   one of the last surviving Warsaw Ghetto ZOB combatants
born on 11-11-1920 in Warsaw, Poland
expired 3-26-2002 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada   age 81

Alice in Chains lead singer  Layne Thomas Staley
born on 8-22-1967 in Kirkland, Washington
expired 4-12-2002 in Seattle, Washington   age 34   cause: drug overdose ??
body found 4/19, badly decomposed - assumption of death 1 week prior, subject to coroner's report

former Greek president (1974-5)  Michalis Dimitriou Stasinopoulos
born on --1903 in Kalamata, Messinia, Greece
expired 10-31-2002 in Athens, Greece   age 99

actor  Rodney Stephen Steiger   played Marty in 1953 tv broadcast
born on 4-14-1925 in Westhampton, New York
expired 7-9-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 77   cause: penumonia; kidney failure

Contest Selectors
1980	DR, HP	12.5%

Kenner co-founder  Joseph Lowenbach Steiner   with brothers Philip & Albert + nephew Robert launched toy company (1946)
expired 5-11-2002 in Cincinnati, Ohio   age 95

character actor  Milton "Mel" Stewart   played Henry Jefferson (George's brother) on All in the Family & Dr. Graves in Bride of Re-Animator (1990); also an accomplished jazz saxophonist
born on 9-19-1929 in Cleveland, Ohio
expired 2-24-2002 in Pacifica, California   age 72   cause: Alzheimer's disease

forgetable actor  Guy Stockwell   brother of Dean
born on 11-16-1934 in New York, New York
expired 2-7-2002 in Prescott, Arizona   age 69

insurance mogul  William Clement Stone   founded Combined International Corp. (now Aon Corp.)
born on 5-4-1902 in Chicago, Illinois
expired 9-3-2002 in Evanston, Illinois   age 100   cause: pnemonia

former Oregon governor (1975-9)  Robert William Straub
born on 5-6-1920 in San Francisco, California
expired 11-27-2002 in Springfield, Oregon   age 82   cause: Alzheimer's disease

actor/publicist  Ray Stricklyn
expired 5-14-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 73   cause: chronic emphysema

former brewery executive  Peter W. Stroh
expired 9-17-2002 in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan   age 74   cause: brain cancer

punk rocker  Joe Strummer   singer/guitarist for The Clash

¤	born: John Graham Mellor

born on 8-24-1952 in Ankara, Turkey
expired 12-22-2002 in Somerset, England   age 50   cause: heart attack

soap opera actress  Mary Stuart   appeared on Search for Tomorrow & Guiding Light

¤	born: Mary Stuart Houchins

born on 7-4-1926 in Miami, Florida
expired 2-28-2002 in New York, New York   age 75   cause: complications from stroke

former baseball infielder  Richard Lee "Dick" Stuart Sr.

¤	aka: "Dr. Strangeglove"

born on 11-7-1932 in San Francisco, California
expired 12-15-2002 in Redwood City, California   age 70   cause: cancer

orchestra conductor  Yevgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov   noted interpreter of Borodin's music
born on 9-6-1928 in Moscow, Russia, USSR
expired 5-3-2002 in Moscow, Russia   age 73

oscar-winning movie production designer/art director  Richard Sylbert   did production design for Manchurian Candidate (1962), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966), Rosemary's Baby (1968; oscar), Chinatown (1974) & Dick Tracey (1990; oscar), ; twin brother of Paul Sylbert
born on --1928 in New York, New York
expired 3-23-2002 in Woodland Hills, California   age 73   cause: cancer

World War II interment camp detainee  Fumiko Emily Takei   mother of actor George
expired 6-1-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 89

politician  Herman Eugene Talmadge   Georgia governor (1948-55) & senator (1957-80)
born on 8-9-1913 in McRae, Georgia
expired 3-21-2002 in Hampton, Georgia   age 88

former Ohio State basketball coach  Fred Taylor   won 1960 NCAA basketball championship
expired 1-6-2002 in Hilliard, Ohio   age 77

blues singer  Ron Taylor
expired 1-15-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 49   cause: heart failure

former Boston Globe publisher (1955-77)  William Davis Taylor   grandson of newspaper founder
born on 4-2-1908 in Boston, Massachusetts
expired 2-19-2002 in Brookline, Massachusetts   age 93

former pro wrassler  Aloysius Martin "Lou" Thesz
born on 4-24-1916 in Banat, Michigan
expired 4-28-2002 in Orlando, Florida   age 86   cause: complications following triple bypass & aortic valve replacement

mathematician & topologist  René Frédéric Thom   inventor of catastrophe theory; author of "Structural Stability and Morphogenesis"
expired 10-25-2002 in Bures-sur-Yvette, France   age 79   cause: severe arterial inflamation

Wendy's hamburger founder  Rex David "Dave" Thomas
born on 7-2-1932 in Atlantic, City, New Jersey
expired 1-8-2002 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida   age 69   cause: heart attack; liver cancer

film director  John Lee Thompson   made Guns of Navarone (1961) and King Solomon's Mines (1985)
born on --1914 in Bristol, Avon, England
expired 8-30-2002 in Sooke, British Columbia, Canada   age 88   cause: congestive heart failure

pioneering black quarterback  Willie Thrower   first black quarterback in Big Ten Conference & member of 1952 National Championship Michigan State team; first (modern era) black quarterback in NFL (1 game: October 18, 1953), playing for da Bears against San Francisco at Soldier Field (he didn't start, but replaced George Blanda)
expired 2-20-2002 in New Kensington, Pennsylvania   age 71   cause: heart attack

Vietnamese Cardinal in exile  François Xavier Nguyen van Thuan   nephew of Ngo Dinh Diem
born on 4-17-1928 in Vietnam
expired 9-16-2002 in Rome, Italy   age 74   cause: cancer

industrialist Baron  Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza   nephew of Fritz Thyssen
born on 4-13-1921 in Holland
expired 4-27-2002 in Madrid,Spain   age 81   cause: heart attack

former Lipton Tea executive (1972-88)  Hubert Merrill Tibbetts   helped introduce Cup-a-Soup (1970)
born on 8-24-1924 in Hallowell, Maine
expired 6-2-2002 in Armonk, New York   age 77   cause: heart attack while bicycling

tough-guy actor  Lawrence Tierney   brother of actors Scott Brady & Ed Tracy; mobster Cyrus Redblock on Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The Big Goodbye (1988), the Regent of Palamar on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode Business as Usual (1997) & Aldon Benes (Elaine's father) on Seinfeld
born on 3-15-1919 in New York, New York
expired 2-26-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 82

character actor  Kenneth Tobey   played helicopter pilot Chuck Martin on Whirlybirds syndicated tv series (1957-59)
born on 3-23-1919 in Oakland, California
expired 12-22-2002   age 83

former Yale economist  James Tobin   1981 Nobel economics laureate
born on 3-5-1918 in Champaign, Illinois
expired 3-11-2002 in New Haven, Connecticut   age 84   cause: stroke

Smell-O-Vision movie producer  Michael Todd Jr.   stank up theaters with Scent of Mystery (1960)
born on 10-8-1929 in Los Angeles, California
expired 5-5-2002 in County Carlow, Ireland   age 72   cause: lung cancer

former missionary Sir  Reginald Garfield Todd   prime minister of Southern Rhodesia (1953-58)
born on 7-13-1908 in New Zealand
expired 10-13-2002 in Harare, Zimbabwe   age 94

comedian/writer  Barry Took   co-creator/producer of Monty Python's Flying Circus; also worked on Laugh-In
expired 3-31-2002 in London, England   age 73   cause: cancer

activist  Helen Travis   in 1967 the Supreme Court overturned her conviction of traveling to Cuba without a passport stamp valid for that destination (1962)
expired 11-14-2002 in San Pedro, California   age 86

pornographer  Charles "Chuck" Traynor   "discovered" Linda Lovelace - taught her the proper "technique"; married to her (1971-74) & Marilyn Chambers (1975-85)
expired 7-22-2002 in Chatsworth, California   age 68   cause: heart attack

former kids show host  Paul Tripp   was Mr. I. Magination on CBS (1949-52); created Tubby the Tuba (1945)
born on 2-20-1911 in New York, New York
expired 8-29-2002 in New York, New York   age 91

geologist & spelunker  Bruce Randall "Randy" Tufts   co-discoverer of Arizona's Kartchner Caverns (1974)
born on 8-17-1948 in Tucson, Arizona
expired 4-1-2002 in Tucson, Arizona   age 53   cause: myelodysplastic syndrome

physicist Dr.  Anthony Leonid Turkevich   his alpha scattering probe aboard Surveyor 5 determined that the moon was made of high-titanium basalt (1967); he adapted his probe for a 1997 Mars mission
born on 7-23-1916 in New York, New York
expired 9-7-2002 in Lexington, Virginia   age 86

former CNN bigwig  Ed Sims Turner   helped launch the cable news operation
expired 3-30-2002 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 66   cause: liver cancer

retired University of Waterloo mathematician  William Thomas Tutte   World War II Bletchley Park ENIGMA code breaker
born on 5-14-1917 in Newmarket, Suffolk, England
expired 5-2-2002 in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada   age 84   cause: congestive heart failure; spleen cancer

former Burmese military dictator (1958-60)  U Ne Win   hallmarks of his rule: businesss expropriation, cronyism, corruption - all in the name of socialist egalitarianism

¤	born: Shu Maung

born on 5-14-1911 in Paungbe, British Colonial Burma
expired 12-5-2002 in Rangoon, Burma   age 91

USC Information Science Institute founcer  Keith W. Uncapher   did pioneering work on Internet packet-switching & high level domain naming (.com, .edu, .gov, .mil, .net, .org)
born on 4-1-1922 in Denver, Colorado
expired 10-10-2002 in Playa del Rey, California   age 80   cause: heart attack

former NFL quarterback  John Constantine "Johnny" Unitas
born on 5-7-1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
expired 9-11-2002 in Timonium, Maryland   age 69   cause: heart attack

former NFL quarterback  John Constantine "Johnny" Unitas
born on 5-7-1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
expired 9-11-2002 in Timonium, Maryland   age 69   cause: heart attack

actor  Raf Vallone   played Cardinal Lamberto in The Godfather III
born on 2-17-1916 in Tropea, Calabria, Italy
expired 10-31-2002 in Rome, Italy   age 86

tv writer/producer  Robert Elseworth van Scoyk Sr.   produced/wrote Murder, She Wrote episodes
expired 8-23-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 74   cause: complications from diabetes

folk singer  Dave Van Ronk   mentor of Bob Dylan; went Romping Through the Swamp with the Hudson Dusters (1968)
born on 6-30-1936 in New York, New York
expired 2-10-2002 in New York, New York   age 65   cause: cardio-pulmonary failure; colon cancer

former AP photographer  Paul Vathis   won a Pulitzer Prize for 1961 picture of Eisenhower & Kennedy at Camp David
expired 12-10-2002 in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania   age 77

mathematician  Leopold Vietoris
born on 6-4-1891
expired 4-9-2002   age 110

explorer  Orlando Villas-Boas   with his brothers explored the interior of Brazil's rain forest (1940s); they advocated protected the indiginous peoples from exploitation
born on 1-12-1914 in Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, Brazil
expired 12-12-2002 in São Paulo, Brazil   age 88   cause: multiple organ failure; intestinal infection

movie/tv sound editor  Josef Erich von Stroheim   son of movie director; worked on The Amazing Colossal Man (1957) & So Fine (1981)
born on --1922 in Los Angeles, California
expired 3-22-2002 in Van Nuys, California   age 79   cause: complications from lung cancer

physicist  Heinz von Foerster   founder of he Biological Computer Laboratory (1958); did early work on parallel computing - built the Numa-Rete for the Office of Naval Research
born on --1911 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary
expired 10-2-2002 in Pescadero, California   age 90

jazz pianist  Malcolm Earl Waldron
born on 8-16-1925 in New York, New York
expired 12-2-2002 in Brussels, Belgium   age 77   cause: complications from cancer

chemist Dr.  Monroe Eliot Wall   co-discoverer of anti-cancer tumor drugs Taxol (paclitaxel) & camptothecin
born on --1916 in Newark, New Jersey
expired 7-6-2002 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina   age 85   cause: heart & kidney failure

Micro Soft's ninth employee (1978)  Bob Wallace   left in 1983 to form Quicksoft which marketed his shareware word processing program PC-Write; in 1960s worked on the Fress (file retrieval and editng system) hypertext editing system under Ted Nelson & Andries can Dam
born on --1949 in Washington, District of Columbia
expired 9-20-2002 in San Rafael, California   age 53

former lumberjack  Ray Wallace   prankster: responsible for many of the 1950s & 1960s Bigfoot "sightings"
expired 11-26-2002 in Toledo, Washington   age 84   cause: heart failure

former Deputy Director of the CIA General  Vernon Anthony Walters   also U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. (1985-89)
born on 1-3-1917 in New York, New York
expired 2-12-2002 in West Palm Beach, Florida   age 85

orchestra conductor  Gunter Wand
expired 2-14-2002 in Ulmiz, Switzerland   age 90

bass-baritone singer  William Warfield   known for portraying Porgy; had been married to Leontyne Price (1952-72)
expired 8-25-2002 in Chicago, Illinois   age 82   cause: complications from a broken neck

former City College forward  Edward Warner Sr.   member of only team to win both the NCAA & NIT championships in same year (1950); later convicted in point shaving scandal
expired 9-7-2002 in New York, New York   age 73

Dow Corning chemist Dr.  Earl L. Warrick   a claimant for co-inventor of Silly Putty
born on 9-23-1911 in Butler, Pennsylvania
expired 11-15-2002 in Loma Linda, California   age 91

former MCA president (1946-95)  Lewis Robert Wasserman
born on 3-15-1913 in Cleveland, Ohio
expired 6-3-2002 in Beverely Hills, California   age 89   cause: complications from stroke

former NBC honcho  Sylvester Laflin "Pat" Weaver Jr.   son of Sylvester Sr.; father of Sigourney; created the Today, Tonight and Tomorrow shows for the network
born on 12-21-1908 in Los Angeles, California
expired 3-15-2002 in Santa Barbara, California   age 93   cause: pneumonia

aeronatuical engineer  Everette Webb   co-designer of the Boeing 747
expired 7-2-2002 in Seattle, Washington   age 80   cause: heart failure

former Steelers hall-of-fame center (1974-88)  Michael L. "Mike" Webster   suffered too many blows to the head
born on 3-18-1952 in Tomahawk, Wisconsin
expired 9-24-2002 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania   age 50   cause: heart attack

 Fern V. Welk   widow of Lawrence
born on 8-26-1903 in Saint Anthony, North Dakota
expired 2-13-2002 in Santa Monica, California   age 98

aviatrix & journalist  Helen Fay Gillis Wells
born on 10-15-1908 in Minneapolis, Minnesota
expired 12-2-2002 in Fairfax, Virginia   age 94

former Carleton College political science professor (1969-90)  Paul David Wellstone   senator from Minnesota (1991-2002)
born on 7-21-1944 in Washington, District of Columbia
expired 10-25-2002 in Eveleth, Minnesota   age 58   cause: plane crash

tv character actor  Sam Whipple   played naer-do-well son Terry Feester on Open All Night (1981) & time travel sphere inventor Dr. Ballard on Seven Days tv series
expired 6-3-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 41   cause: cancer

Billboard magazine editor in chief  Timothy White
expired 6-27-2002 in New York, New York   age 50   cause: heart attack

Broadway producer  Robert Whitehead
born on --1916
expired 6-15-2002 in Pound Ridge, New York   age 86   cause: cancer

Hall of Fame relief pitcher  James Hoyt Wilhelm Sr.
born on 7-26-1922 in Huntersville, North Carolina
expired 8-23-2002 in Sarasota, Florida   age 80   cause: heart failure

Princeton physicist Dr.  David T. Wilkinson   Big Bang researcher
born on 5-13-1935 in Hillsdale, Michigan
expired 9-5-2002 in Princeton, New Jersey   age 67   cause: cancer

Princeton physicist Dr.  David T. Wilkinson   Big Bang researcher
born on 5-13-1935 in Hillsdale, Michigan
expired 9-5-2002 in Princeton, New Jersey   age 67   cause: cancer

former Kentucky governor (1987-91)  Wallace G. Wilkinson   dogged by allegations of corruption during his administration
born on 12-12-1941 in Casey County, Kentucky
expired 7-5-2002 in Lexington, Kentucky   age 60   cause: stroke; lymphoma

CenturyTel chairman  Clarke M. Williams Sr.   his parents started rural Oak Ridge Telephone Company; later gave it to him; incorporated as Century Telephone and Electronics (1968) it changed name to Century Telephone Enterprises (1971)
expired 6-5-2002 in Monroe, Louisiana   age 80   cause: kidney failure

Drowning Pool lead singer  David Wayne Williams
expired 8-14-2002 in Manassas, Virginia   age 30

saxophonist/bandleader  Paul Williams   had 1949 hit with The Huckle-buck
born on 7-13-1915 in Lewisburg, Tennessee
expired 9-14-2002 in New York, New York   age 87

Palm Beach socialite  Mollie Wilmot   Rose Kennedy's next door neighbor; best remembered for the Venezuelan freighter (the Mercedes) that went aground in her back yard (Thanksgiving 1984)

¤	born: Mollie Netcher formerly Mrs: Eddie Bragno, Albert Bostwick & Paul Wilmot

expired 9-17-2002 in New York, New York   age 78 ???

BBC writer/producer  Donald Boyd Wilson   adapted The Forsyte Sagafor tv (1967)
expired 3-6-2002 in Gloucestershire, England   age 91

astrophysicist Sir  Robert Wilson   got the International Ultraviolet Explorer launched by NASA (1978)
born on 4-16-1927 in County Durham, England
expired 9-2-2002 in Chelmsford, England   age 75

Winchell Doughnuts founder (1948)  Verne H. Winchell   sold out to Denny's (1968); took stock; became Denny's chairman (1970)
born on 10-30-1915 in Bloomington, Indiana
expired 11-26-2002 in Las Vegas, Nevada   age 87   cause: cardiac arrest

exploitation movie producer/director  Doris Wishman   directed Deadly Weapons (1973) & Double Agent 73 (1974), amongst others
born on --1925
expired 8-10-2002 in Miami, Florida   age 77   cause: complications from lymphoma

prolific movie/tv director  William Nuelson Witney   directed several Lone Ranger serials (1938/39) & the 1940 Adventures of Red Ryder serial

¤	aka: William Whitney

born on 5-15-1915 in Lawton, Oklahoma
expired 3-17-2002 in Pioneer, California   age 86   cause: complications from stroke

1968 Olympic marathon gold medalist  Mamo Wolde   spent most of the 1990s in prison for murder

¤	given name: Degaga

expired 5-26-2002 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia   age 71   cause: bronchitis; liver problems

novelist  Maritta Martin Wolff   wrote Whistle Stop (1941)
born on 12-25-1918 in Grass Lake, Michigan
expired 7-1-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 83

former Weather Underground "activist"  Rosemary Sarah Woodruff   Tim Leary's third wife
expired 1-7-2002 in Aptos, California   age 66   cause: congestive heart failure

actress  Irene Worth   3-time Tony winner (1965/76/91)

¤	born: Harriet Elizabeth Abrams

born on 6-23-1916 in lincoln, Nebraska
expired 3-10-2002 in New York, New York   age 85   cause: stroke

serial killer  Aileen Wuornos
expired 10-9-2002 in Starke, Florida   age 46   cause: lethal injection

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2000	ANG	14%

former CBS broadcasting technician/executive (1939-85)  Gilbert P. Wyland   produced first Rose Parade telecast (1939); oversaw construction of CBS Television City (1953); head of technical operations for CBS' coverage of Squaw Valley Olympics (1960; garnered him an Emmy)
expired 12-2-2002 in Valencia, Californiaheart problems   age    cause: 87

character actress  Meg Wyllie   played The Keeper in the original Star Trek pilot The Cage, Matilda, one of Dan Fielding's elderly "dates" on Night Court (1984) & Aunt Lolly on Mad About You (1992)
expired 1-1-2002 in Glendale, California   age 84

original Lovin' Spoonful guitarist  Zalman Yanovsky   co-owner of Chez Piggy/Pan Chancho restaurant/bakery
born on 12-19-1944 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
expired 12-15-2002 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada   age 57   cause: heart attack

former UAW president (1995-2002)  Stephen P. Yokich
born on 8-20-1935 in Detroit, Michigan
expired 8-16-2002 in Detroit, Michigan   age 66   cause: stroke

socialist welfare statist  Michael Dunlop Young   coined word meritocracy (1958)
born on 8-9-1915 in Manchester, England
expired 1-14-2002 in London, England   age 86

low-powered astronomer  Yuji Hyakutake   discovered 1996 comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) using ony binoculars
expired 4-10-2002 in Kokubu, Japan   age 51   cause: heart attack following rupture of aorta during surgery

UCLA historian  Yuji Ichioka   coined term "Asian-American" (1969)
expired 9-1-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 66   cause: cancer

UCLA historian  Yuji Ichioka   coined term "Asian-American" (1969)
expired 9-1-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 66   cause: cancer

retired kindergarden teacher  Yun Tau Chee   first Miss Hawaii (1948); first contestant of Asian ethnicity to compete in the Miss America pageant (named Miss Congeniality)

¤	born: Yun Tau Zane

expired 2-21-2002 in Kailua, Hawaii   age 73   cause: cancer of duodenum

former South African prosecutor  Percy Yutar   convicted Nelson Mandela of "sabotage" against the white state at 1964 Rivonia trial
born on 7-29-1911 in Cape Town, South Africa
expired 7-13-2002   age 90

innovative Sports Illustrated photographer  John G. Zimmerman
born on 10-30-1927 in Los Angeles, California
expired 8-3-2002 in Monterey, California   age 74   cause: lymphoma

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