Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 2002

Claude Berge fue un matemático francés, reconocido como uno de los fundadores modernos de la combinatoria y teoría de grafos.

Alexandru Todea, fue arzobispo de Făgăraş y Alba Iulia y cardenal.

Rosetta LeNoire was an American stage, movie, and television actress as well as a Broadway producer and casting agent. LeNoire is known to contemporary audiences for her work in television. She had regular roles on the series Gimme a Break! and Amen, and is best known for her role as Estelle "Mother Winslow" on Family Matters, which ran from 1989 to 1998. In 1999, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts.

Vlado Perlemuter fue un pianista francés de origen lituano.

The Erfurt massacre was a school shooting that occurred on 26 April 2002 at the Gutenberg-Gymnasium, a secondary school, in the Thuringia State capital Erfurt, Germany. 19-year-old expelled student Robert Steinhäuser shot and killed 16 people, including 13 staff members, two students, and one police officer, before committing suicide. One person was also wounded by a bullet fragment. According to students, he ignored them and aimed only for the teachers and administrators, although two students were unintentionally killed by shots fired through a locked door.

Carmelo Pompilio Realino Antonio Bene, known as Carmelo Bene was an Italian actor, poet, film director and screenwriter. He was an important exponent of the Italian avant-garde theatre and cinema. He died of a heart ailment in 2002.

Shirley Scott fue una organista y cantante norteamericana de jazz.

Ole-Johan Dahl fue un científico de la computación noruego considerado uno de los padres del lenguaje de programación Simula, y de la programación orientada a objetos, junto con Kristen Nygaard.

Normand Lockwood was an American composer born in New York, New York. He studied composition at the University of Michigan from 1921–1924, and then traveled to Rome and studied composition under Ottorino Respighi from 1925 to 1926, and during this time he also had composition lessons with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He won a Prix de Rome in 1929 that allowed him to continue his work in Rome. He was a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity.

Earle Brown fue un compositor estadounidense relacionado con la vanguardia y las técnicas de improvisación.