Deaths in 2002 - May 2002

May 2002

• 1 John Nathan-Turner, 54, British television producer.
• 2 William Thomas Tutte, 84, Bletchley Park cryptographer and British, later Canadian, mathematician.
• 3 Barbara Castle, 91, British Labour politician and female life peer.
• 3 Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal, 73, president of Somaliland and formerly prime minister of Somalia and British Somaliland.
• 3 Mohan Singh Oberoi, 103, Indian hotelier and retailer.
• 5 Sir Clarence Seignoret 83, president of Dominica (1983–1993).
• 5 Hugo Banzer Suárez, 75, president of Bolivia, as dictator 1971-1978 and democratic president 1997-2001.
• 6 Pim Fortuyn, 54, assassinated Dutch politician.
• 7 Sir Ewart Jones, 91, Welsh chemist.
• 7 Seattle Slew, 28, last triple crown winner on 25th anniversary of winning Kentucky Derby.
• 8 Sir Edward Jackson, 76, English diplomat.
• 9 James Simpson, 90, British explorer.
• 10 Lynda Lyon Block, 54, convicted murderer, executed by electric chair in Alabama.
• 10 Leslie Dale Martin, 35, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Louisiana.
• 11 Joseph Bonanno, 97, Sicilian former Mafia boss.
• 13 Morihiro Saito, 74, a teacher of the Japanese martial art of aikido.
• 13 Ruth Cracknell, 76, redoubtable Australian actress most famous for the long-running role of Maggie Beare in the series "Mother and Son".
• 13 Valery Lobanovsky, 63, former Ukrainian coach.
• 15 Bernard Benjamin, 92, British statistician.
• 15 Bryan Pringle, 67, British actor.
• 15 Nellie Shabalala, 49, South African singer and wife of leader/founder of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Joseph Shabalala.
• 16 Edwin Alonzo Boyd, 88, Canadian bank-robber and prison escapee of the 1950s.
• 16 Alec Campbell, 103, Australia's last surviving ANZAC died in a nursing home.
• 17 Earl Hammond, 80, American voice actor best known for voicing Mumm Ra and Jaga in the television series Thundercats.
• 17 Joe Black, 78, Baseball first Black pitcher to win a World Series game.
• 17 Little Johnny Taylor, 59, American singer.
• 18 Davey Boy Smith, 39, 'British Bulldog' professional wrestler.
• 19 John Gorton, 90, 19th Prime Minister of Australia.
• 20 Stephen Jay Gould, 60, paleontologist and popular science author.
• 21 Niki de Saint Phalle, 71, French artist.
• 21 Roy Paul, 82, Welsh footballer.
• 22 (remains discovered; actual death probably took place on or around May 1, 2001), Chandra Levy, 24, U.S. Congressional intern.
• 23 Sam Snead, 89, golfer.
• 26 John Alexander Moore, 86, American biologist.
• 26 Mamo Wolde, 69, Ethiopian marathon runner.
• 28 Napoleon Beazley, 25, convicted juvenile offender, executed by lethal injection in Texas.