The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2002.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
August 2002
1
Hector Abdelnour, 80, Venezuelan Navy officer. Francisco Arcellana, 85, Filipino writer, poet and journalist. Navin Chandra Barot, 78, Indian politician. Theo Bruce, 79, Australian long jumper (silver medal winner in men's long jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics). Adolf Glunz, 86, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II. Henry Mazer, 84, American / Taiwanese conductor and recording artist. Moutlakgola P.K. Nwako, 79, Botswana politician and diplomat. Don Owen, 90, American professional wrestling promoter. Russ Rebholz, 93, American football player. Jack Tighe, 88, American baseball coach. Geoffrey Paulson Townsend, 91, English architect.
2
Joe Allison, 77, American songwriter, radio and television personality and record producer. Roberto Cobo, 72, Mexican actor (Los Olvidados, The Place Without Limits). Avraham Givelber, 92, Israeli politician. Kevin Hardiman, 87, Australian rules footballer. Ilona Kolonits, 80, Hungarian documentary film director and news correspondent. Roy Kral, 80, American jazz pianist and vocalist, congestive heart failure. Magda László, 90, Hungarian operatic soprano. Sammy Onyango, 41, Kenyan soccer player, traffic accident.
3
Edward Brodney, 92, American artist, known for his drawings and paintings of World War II. Kathleen Hughes-Hallett, 84, Canadian Olympic fencer. Peter Miles, 64, American actor. Carmen Silvera, 80, British television and theatre actress (Dad's Army, 'Allo 'Allo!). John G. Zimmerman, 74, American photographer, an innovator in sports photojournalism.
4
William R. Crawford Jr., 74, American diplomat and ambassador (Yemen, Cyprus). Millard Lang, 89, American soccer and lacrosse player. Mike Payne, 40, American Major League Baseball pitcher (Atlanta Braves), EEE. Friedel Sellschop, 72, South African scientist.
5
Jes Peter Asmussen, 73, Danish Iranologist, his research focused on the religions of Iran. Peter Costigan, 67, Australian journalist and Lord Mayor of Melbourne from 1999 to 2001. Josh Ryan Evans, 20, American actor (Passions, How the Grinch Stole Christmas) and stunt performer (Baby Geniuses), complications from a heart condition. Chick Hearn, 85, television and radio announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team since 1960. Willis Hudlin, 96, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, St. Louis Browns, New York Giants). Franco Lucentini, 82, Italian writer (The Sunday Woman). Darrell Porter, 50, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers, Kansas City Royals, St. Louis Cardinals, Texas Rangers). Junius Scales, 85, American activist and leader of the Communist Party of the United States of America. Winifred Watson, 95, English writer (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day).
6
Jim Crawford, 54, Scottish motor racing driver, liver failure. Edsger Dijkstra, 72, computer scientist. John Fage, 81, British historian. Justin Meyer, 63, American vintner and enologist, heart attack. Christopher Speer, 28, U.S. Army combat medic and an armed member of, K.I.A.
7
Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne, 100, British aristocrat. Molly Harrison, 92, English museum curator and author, hypertension. Roy LoPresti, 73, American aeronautical engineer. Al Smith, 56, Canadian ice hockey player, pancreatic cancer.
8
Bernard Chidzero, 75, Zimbabwean politician, Finance Minister (1983–1995). Bruce Johnston, 63, American criminal, cancer. Chen Junsheng, 74, Chinese politician. John N. McLaughlin, 83, American lieutenant general, heart attack. Charles Poletti, 99, American lawyer and politician. Kapitolina Rumiantseva, 76, Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist. Doris Buchanan Smith, 68, American author children's books, ALS.