In the year 2002
694 Notable deaths
Chuck Rayner
Canadian ice hockey player.
Born August 11th, 1920 in Saskatoon.
Died October 5th, 2002 at 82 years old in Langley.
Aleksandar Sarievski
Macedonian musician.
Born June 20th, 1922 in Galičnik.
Died December 19th, 2002 at 80 years old in Skopje.
Conny Vandenbos
Dutch singer (1937–2002).
Born January 16th, 1937 in The Hague.
Died April 7th, 2002 at 65 years old in Amsterdam (lung cancer).
Judith Wood
American film actress (1906-2002).
Born August 1st, 1906 in New York City.
Died April 6th, 2002 at 95 years old in Los Angeles.
Mariya Smirnova
Squadron commander in the "night witches", hero of the soviet union.
Born March 31st, 1920 in Tver Oblast.
Died June 10th, 2002 at 82 years old in Tver.
Samuel Warren Carey
Australian geologist (1911-2002).
Born November 1st, 1911 in Campbelltown.
Died March 20th, 2002 at 90 years old in Hobart.
Per Anger
Righteous among the nations (1913–2002).
Born December 7th, 1913 in Gothenburg.
Died November 1st, 2002 at 88 years old in Stockholm (stroke). [ref]
Wolfgang Schneiderhan
Austrian classical violinist.
Born May 25th, 1915 in Vienna.
Died May 18th, 2002 at 86 years old in Vienna. [ref]
Eugenio Coșeriu
Romanian linguist (1921-2002).
Born July 27th, 1921 in Mihăileni. [ref]
Died September 7th, 2002 at 81 years old in Tübingen. [ref]
George Shevelov
Ukrainian writer, slavist philologist, literary historian, critic, member of the national academy of sciences of ukraine (1908-2002).
Born December 17th, 1908 in Kharkiv.
Died April 12th, 2002 at 93 years old in New York City.
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Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived. Jet Black