Deaths in 2002 - December 2002

December 2002

• 3 Glenn Quinn, 32, Irish actor.
• 5 Roone Arledge, 71, Creator of Monday Night Football and Nightline.
• 5 Ne Win, 91, Burmese dictator.
• 6 Ernest West Basden, 50, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in North Carolina.
• 6 Father Philip Berrigan, 79, priest, political activist, cancer.
• 6 Charles Rosen, 85, pioneer in artificial intelligence.
• 7 Barbara Howard, 76, Canadian artist.
• 7 Paddy Tunney, 81, Irish traditional artist.
• 9 Stan Rice, 60, painter, educator, poet, husband of author Anne Rice, cancer.
• 9 To Huu, 82, Vietnamese poet and politician.
• 10 Desmond Keith Carter, 35, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in North Carolina.
• 10 Andres Küng, 57, Swedish journalist, writer, entrepreneur and politician of Estonian origin.
• 10 Ian MacNaughton, 76, director of most episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
• 12 Dee Brown, 94, author (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee).
• 12 Edward Harrison, 92, English cricketer and squash player.
• 13 Zal Yanofsky, 57, member of The Lovin' Spoonful music group.
• 14 Jack Bradley, 86, English footballer.
• 17 John Aubrey Davis, Sr., 90, American civil rights activist.
• 17 Hank Luisetti, 86, basketball star and innovator.
• 18 Bert Millichip, British football administrator.
• 18 Wayne Owens, 65, former U.S. Congressman (D-UT), heart attack.
• 18 Ramon John Hnatyshyn, 68, former Governor-General of Canada, pancreatitis.
• 19 Arthur Rowley, English Footballer, holder of the record for most career league goals scored.
• 20 Joanne Campbell, British actress who starred in the comedy series, Me and My Girl (1980s).
• 20 James Richard Ham, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• 22 Kenneth Tobey, prolific character actor (appeared in about 100 films including: Twelve O'Clock High, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Thing from Another World and Airplane!), natural causes.
• 22 Desmond Hoyte, President of Guyana from 1985 to 1992.
• 23 Joe Strummer, former singer for The Clash.
• 24 Tita Merello, Argentinian actress and singer.
• 24 James Ferman, 72, American film censor.
• 24 Jake Thackray, English singer-songwriter, heart failure.
• 25 William T. Orr, television executive (brought Maverick, F-Troop and 77 Sunset Strip to TV).
• 26 Herb Ritts, celebrity photographer.
• 26 Armand Zildjian, cymbals manufacturer.
• 27 George Roy Hill, film director (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting).
• 28 Meri Wilson, 53, American singer.
• 30 Mary Wesley, 90, novelist, author of The Camomile Lawn.