2002 deaths

Dutch art historian (1907-2002)

Uruguayan footballer (1921-2002)

American rower (1936–2002)

American director (1915-2002)

American film director

Lebanese weightlifter (1950–2002)

Swiss football midfielder (1925-2002)

basketball player (1925–2002)

American politician (1944-2002)

Swedish freestyle swimmer (1904–2002)

German historian and filmmaker (1916–2002)

American jazz pianist and composer (1925–2002)

Brazilian footballer (1922–2002)

American film editor (1898–2002)

American film director (1907-2002)

German economist (1942–2002)

American basketball player (1969–2002)

American politician (1912-2002)

British theatre director and actress (1914-2002)

American swimmer (1904–2002)

Dutch footballer (1914-2002)

Swedish writer, critic, and literary scholar (1911–2002)

British racing driver (1915-2002)

Italian footballer (1932-2002)

French writer and novelist (1920–2002)

British politician (1915-2002)

Italian film director (1922–2002)

Hong-Kong actress (1973-2002)

German film director (1909–2002)

German founder of the Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin-Mahlsdorf and famous transgender

Colombian footballer (1952–2002)

Italian film director (1930–2002)

Indian film director (1931–2002)

American politician (1913–2002)

American pianist (1932–2002)

Italian architect and designer (1918–2002)

Italian film director and producer (1929–2002)

American composer (1926–2002)

Canadian politician of Ukrainian descent (1934-2002)

American heavy metal vocalist (1960–2002)

American singer (1972–2002)

Italian film composer (1913-2002)

American actor (1933-2002)

American psychologist and academic (1910–2002)

Chechen militia leader (1979-2002)

Polish World War II resistance fighter, historian and art historian (1898-2002)

Ukrainian writer, Slavist philologist, literary historian, critic, member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1908-2002)

art collector (1921-2002)

Swedish cross-country skier

equestrian (1908–2002)

Hong Kong actor (1939–2002)

Israeli rabbi and politician (1906–2002)

fencer (1928–2002)

British murderer (1942–2002)

Turkish archaeologist (1911–2002)

Lithuanian-born French pianist and teacher

Indian singer and dancer

Czech poet, playwright, scriptwriter and writer (1926-2002)

athletics competitor (1964–2002)

French freediver (1974–2002)