Celebrity Deaths in 2002

NOTED DEATHS 2022

JANUARY
Richard Leakey - paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician.
Bob Halloran – sportscaster on CBS.
Jay Wolpert – TV producer and screenwriter.
Sidney Poitier – award-winning actor, director and activist. (“In the Heat of the Night”, “Guess Who's Coming to Dinner”, “The Blackboard Jungle”, “Lillies of the Field”).
Peter Bogdanovich – movie director (“The Last Picture Show”, “What's Up, Doc?”, “Paper Moon”).
Bob Saget – actor and comedian.
Dwayne Hickman – actor. Best known for his portrayal of clean teen in the TV series “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis”.
Don Maynard – Hall of Fame football player.
Ralph Emery – Hall of Fame disc jockey and TV host.
Yvette Mimieux – actress.
Meat Loaf – singer and actor.
Louie Anderson – Emmy winning comic, actor, author and game show host.
Sheldon Silver – New York, member and speaker of the New York State Assembly.
Ozzie – west African lowland gorilla, oldest gorilla in captivity.
Howard Hesseman – actor.
Carleton Carpenter – actor.
Jimmy Johnson – blues singer and guitarist.

FEBRUARY
Sally Kellerman – actress.

MARCH
Conrad Janis – actor and musician.
Alan Ladd, Jr. - Academy Award-winning movie producer. Son of actor Alan Ladd.
Tim Considine – actor. Played Mike Douglas on “My Three Sons”.
Go For Gin – racehorse. 1994 Kentucky Derby winner.
Charles Entenmann – businessman. Founder of Entenmann's baked goods.
Bobbie Lee Nelson – singer and pianist. Older sister of Willie Nelson.
William Hurt – actor.
Ralph Terry – baseball player for Yankees, Mets and Athletics. World Series champion in 1961 & 62.
Pepper Martin – NWA wrestler and actor.
Maggie Fox – British actress. Known for “Coronation Street” and “The Forsyte Saga”.
Grindstone – race horse. Kentucky Derby winner in 1996.
Madeleine Albright – politician. UN Ambassador (1993-97), Secretary of State (1997-2001).
Rocky King – professional wrestler.
Paul Herman – actor.

APRIL
Tommy Davis – baseball player and coach. World Series champion in 1963.
Bobby Rydell – actor and singer.
Nehemiah Persoff – actor.
Gilbert Gottfried – actor and comic.
Sid Mark – radio host. Best known for his weekly program “Sunday with Sinatra”.
Robert Morse – Tony Award-winning movie and stage actor.
Ann Davies – actress.
David Birney – actor.
Joanna Barnes – actress.
Naomi Judd – country singer and songwriter.

MAY
Jewell – R&B singer.
Mickey Gilley – country singer
Maggie Peterson – actress.
Vangelis – Academy-award winning composer (“Chariots of Fire”, “Blade Runner”).
Ray Liotta – Emmy-winning actor.
Bo Hopkins – actor.
Paul Vance – songwriter (“Catch a Falling Star”, “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini”) and record producer.

JUNE
Dave Wickersham – baseball player. Detroit Tigers, Pittsburgh Pirates.
Janet De Gore – actress.

JULY
James Caan – actor.
Larry Storch – actor and comic.
Tony Sirico – actor.
Ivana Trump – author, model, former wife of Donald Trump.
Mickey Rooney, Jr. - actor. Eldest son of actor Mickey Rooney.
Dwight Smith – baseball player. 1995 World Series champion.
Paul Coker – artist and animation designer. Worked on “Mad” magazine and many Rankin Bass animated shows.
David Warner – Emmy-winning British actor.
Paul Sorvino – actor.
Bert Metcalfe – actor , director, screenwriter and producer. Best known for his work on the “M*A*S*H” TV series.
Tony Dow – actor.
Nichelle Nichols – actress. Best known for her portrayal of Lt. Uhura on “Star Trek”.
Pat Carroll – Emmy winning actress and comedienne.

AUGUST
Vin Scully – Hall of Fame sportscaster.
Pat M. Casale – area politician. Former Assemblyman and Rensselaer County clerk.
Clu Gulagher – actor.
Roger Earl Mosley – actor.
Olivia Newton-John – actress and Grammy-winning singer.
Anne Heche – Emmy-winning actress.
William Reynolds – actor.
Len Dawson - Hall of Fame football player.
Mikhail Gorbachev – former Russian Prime Minister. Nobel Prize laureate.

SEPTEMBER
Queen Elizabeth II - Britain's longest reigning monarch.
Jack Ging – actor.
Ramsey Lewis – jazz pianist, composer and Grammy winner.
Ken Starr – attorney, prominent figure during the Whitewater scandal.
Henry Silva – actor.
Irene Pappas -Greek acrtess.
Louise Fletcher – actress.
Bill Plante – journalist.
Coolio – Grammy-winning rapper.

OCTOBER
Loretta Lynn – Grammy-winning country singer and songwriter.
Tommy Boggs – baseball player and coach.
Eileen Ryan – actress.
Anita Kerr – Grammy-wining singer.
Angela Lansbury – Tony award-winning actress.
James McDivitt – astronaut. Part of Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 missions.
Robbie Coltrane – actor and comedian.
Leslie Jordan – Emmy-winning actor and comic.
Jules Bass – animator and producer. Co-founder of Rankin/Bass Productions. “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”, “Frosty the Snowman”, “Santa Claus is Comin' to Town” and many more.
Jerry Lee Lewis – Hall of Fame singer and pianist.

NOVEMBER
Gallagher – comedian.
Brent Moss – football player.
Robert Clary – actor.
Irene Cara – singer, dancer and Oscar winning actress.
Christine McVie – songwriter and drummer for Fleetwood Mac.

DECEMBER
Bob McGrath – actor and singer, perhaps best know for his work on “Sesame Street”.
June Blair – actress and model.
Kirstie Alley – actress.
Stuart Margolin – actor.
Curt Simmons – World Serioes champion baseball player.
Stephen “tWitch” Boss – dancer and actor.
Sonya Eddy – actress.
Franco Harris – Hall of Fame football player and four-time Super Bowl champion.
Ronnie Hillman – football player and 2106 Super Bowl champion.
Pelé – legendary world champion soccer player.
Barbara Walters – news journalist and talk show host.
Benedict XVI – Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Munich and Freising (1977–1982), Pope (2005–2013).
Anita Pointer – singer. Member of The Pointer Sisters.
 


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