2002 deaths

Armenian-Canadian photographer (1908–2002)

American comedian and actor (1908–2002)

Australian politician, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (1911–2002)

Mexican actress (1914-2002)

Russian actor (1971-2002)

British actor (1918-2002)

English musician; bassist for The Who (1944–2002)

Norwegian computer scientist (1931–2002)

American jazz musician (1908–2002)

President of Bolivia from 1971 to 1978 and 1997 to 2001

film and television actor (1914-2002)

Thomaz Soares da Silva, also known as Zizinho (; 14 September 1921 – 8 February 2002), was a Brazilian footballer who played as an attacking midfielder for the Brazil national football team. He came to international prominence at the 1950 World Cup, where he scored two goals. He was lauded as a complete player, with an array of offensive skills such as his dribbling, passing, and shooting ability with both feet, as well as his accuracy from dead ball situations and extraordinary vision. He was Pelé's idol, and is often considered one of the best Brazilian men's footballers of the pre-Pel

President of the Dominican Republic (1906-2002)

Saudi Arabian militant (1969-2002)

French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker (1920-2002)

American bassist (1951–2002)

Computer scientist, Mathematician (1926-2002)

Ukrainian-born biochemist who emigrated to the United States (1905–2002)

Brazilian footballer (1930-2002)

American journalist (1963–2002)

American pioneer of radio astronomy (1911–2002)

Dutch astronomer (1920–2002)

Ukrainian soviet and Ukrainian surgeon (1913–2002)

Luxembourgish politician (1913-2002), Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1959-1974, 1979-1984)

Italian actor (1916-2002)

Palestinian militant, founder of Fatah (1937–2002)

Czech-born British director, producer, film theorist, theatre director (1926-2002)

American football player (1933–2002)

American singer and rapper (1971–2002)

Chinese politician (1913-2002)

Dutch politician and diplomat (1911–2002)

Ivorian politician (1941-2002)

Finnish politician (1907–2002)

British film director (1914-2002)

American musicologist (1915–2002)

American baseball player and fighter pilot

2nd President of the Republic of Cyprus (1977-1988)

Spanish film director and screenwriter (1922–2002)

American LGBT activist, transgender rights activist, and community worker (1951–2002)

American jazz musician (1926–2002)

Ethiopian marathon runner (1932–2002)

5th President of Singapore (1936–2002)

American actor (1982-2002)

South Korean marathon runner (1912–2002)

American computer scientist (1925-2002)

British Italian actress (1924-2002)

American historian and writer (1936–2002)

American actor (1921-2002)

Greek politician, former president of the Hellenic Republic (1903–2002)

Serbian footballer (1939-2002)

British moral philosopher (1919–2002)

Soviet cosmonaut (1932–2002)

Queen Consort of Albania

American science fiction writer, editor and critic (1922–2002)

actor (1946-2002)

French director (1920-2002)

Korean army general and martial artist (1918–2002)

American bandleader and arranger best known for his Ray Conniff Singers during the 1960s (1916-2002)

English footballer and manager (1913–2002)

British actor (1942–2002)