Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 2002

Leonhard Deininger was a German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria.

Professor Joachim Zahn was the chairman of Daimler Benz AG between 1971 and 1979.

Kristen Nygaard fue un político, matemático noruego y pionero de la informática. Nació en Oslo y murió de un infarto de miocardio en 2002.

Rudolf Fleischmann was a German experimental nuclear physicist from Erlangen, Bavaria. He worked for Walther Bothe at the Physics Institute of the University of Heidelberg and then at the Institute for Physics of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research. Through his association with Bothe, he became involved in the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranium Club; one of Fleischmann’s areas of interest was isotope separation techniques. In 1941 he was appointed associate professor of experimental physics at the newly established Reichsuniversität Straßburg, in France. Late in 1944, he was arrested under the American Operation Alsos and sent to the United States. After he returned to Germany 1946, he became Director of the State Physical Institute at the University of Hamburg and developed it as a center of nuclear research. In 1953, he took a position at the University of Erlangen and achieved emeritus status in 1969. He was a signatory of the Göttingen Manifesto in 1957.

Gabriel Almond fue un politólogo estadounidense muy reconocido por su trabajo pionero sobre la política comparada, el desarrollo y la cultura política.

Leon Joseph Hart was an American football end. He won the Heisman Trophy and the Maxwell Award while at the University of Notre Dame in 1949 and played in the National Football League (NFL) for eight seasons, from 1950 to 1957, with the Detroit Lions.

Tom Dowd fue un influyente ingeniero y productor discográfico estadounidense cuyo nombre está estrechamente relacionado con la discográfica Atlantic Records y con la historia de la grabación multipista y en estéreo.

Nikolai Nikolayevich Rukavishnikov (Ruso: Николай Николаевич Рукавишников; fue un cosmonauta soviético que participó de tres misiones del programa espacial soviético programa Soyuz, las Soyuz 10, Soyuz 16 y Soyuz 33.