Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 2002

Cecil Geoffrey Howard was an English cricketer and cricket administrator.

Ong Teng Cheong, fue un político y arquitecto de Singapur, que fue el quinto presidente de Singapur entre 1993 y 1999. Ong fue el primer presidente electo por voto popular de Singapur, desempeñándose por seis años entre el 1 de septiembre de 1993 al 31 de agosto de 1999, luego de vencer en las elecciones presidenciales de Singapur de 1993 con el 58.69% de los votos válidos. Ong fue juramentado en el cargo el 1 de septiembre de ese año.

Karel Reisz fue un director de cine británico de origen checoslovaco.

Salah Mustafa Muhammad Shehade fue un militante palestino, líder de las brigadas de Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, sección militar de Hamás, hasta su asesinato por Israel en 2002.

Bruce Weigert Paltrow was an American television and film director and producer.

Basappa Danappa Jatti was the fifth Vice President of India, serving from 1974 to 1979. He was Acting President of India from 11 February to 25 July 1977. The soft-spoken Jatti rose from a humble beginning as a Municipality member to India's second-highest office during a five-decade-long chequered political career.

Chester Milton Southam was an immunologist and oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Cornell University Medical College; he went to Thomas Jefferson University in 1971 and worked there until the end of his career. He ran many experiments involving the injection of live cancer cells into human subjects, without disclosing that they were cancer cells, and using subjects with questionable ability to consent, such as incarcerated people and senile patients in long-term care at a hospital. The New York State Attorney General encouraged the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York to take away Southam's medical license. Regardless, he went on to be president of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Ted Ross fue un actor estadounidense nacido el 30 de junio de 1934 en Zanesville, Ohio, y fallecido el 3 de septiembre del año 2002 en Dayton (Ohio).

Kaloji Narayana Rao was an Indian poet, freedom fighter, anti-fascist and political activist of Telangana. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1992. The Telangana government honored Kaloji's birthday as Telangana Language Day.

Qiu Huizuo was a lieutenant general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), best known as one of the "four guardian warriors" of Vice Chairman Lin Biao during the Cultural Revolution. Qiu rose through the ranks of the PLA during the civil war between the Communists and the Kuomintang. He took charge as the PLA logistics chief in 1959, and was persecuted at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. He was later rehabilitated owing to the blessing of Zhou Enlai and Lin Biao, and elevated to the Politburo in 1969. In return, he helped to persecute Lin's enemies and consolidate Lin's power in the PLA. After Lin's flight and death in 1971, Qiu was purged and sentenced to 16 years in prison.