Deaths in 2002 - August 2002

August 2002

• 1 Theo Bruce, 79, Australian long jumper.
• 1 Jack Tighe, 88, American baseball coach.
• 3 Carmen Silvera, 80, UK television and theatre actress (Dad's Army, 'Allo 'Allo!).
• 3 (approx date) Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman child- murder victims.
• 5 Josh Ryan Evans, 20, American actor ("Timmy" on Passions).
• 5 Chick Hearn, 85, television and radio announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team since 1960.
• 5 Franco Lucentini, 82, Italian writer (The Sunday Woman).
• 6 Edsger Dijkstra, 72, computer scientist.
• 9 George Alfred Barnard, 86, British statistician.
• 10 Doris Wishman, 90, cult movie director.
• 12 Enos Slaughter, 86, baseball Hall of Famer.
• 12 Marjorie Williamson, 89, university administrator.
• 14 Larry Rivers, 78, American painter.
• 14 Dave Williams, 30, singer of Drowning Pool.
• 15 Jesse Brown, 58, former United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
• 16 Ola Belle Reed, 85, American singer.
• 18 David Keynes Hill, 87, British biophysicist.
• 19 Abu Nidal, terrorist.
• 19 Sunday Silence, thoroughbred race horse, winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes.
• 20 Augustine Geve, Solomon Islands Cabinet Minister, assassinated.
• 22 Allan George Bromley, 55, computer scientist, historian of computing.
• 24 Wayne Simmons, American Football player.
• 24 Hoyt Wilhelm, Baseball Hall of Fame member.
• 25 Dorothy Hewett, Australian poet, playwright and novelist.
• 27 Edwin Sill Fussell, 80, American scholar of English literature.
• 27 Richard Ricci, Utah handyman suspected of the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart.
• 27 John S. Wilson, 89, American music critic.
• 30 Thomas J. Anderson, 91, American publisher and politician.
• 30 Maia Berzina, 91, Russian geographer, cartographer and ethnologer.
• 31 Lionel Hampton, 94, jazz musician.
• 31 George Porter, 81, British Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.