List of Famous people who died in 2002

Käte Jaenicke was a German theater and film actress. She appeared in more than ninety films from 1954 to 1975.

Marion Hedda Ilse Gräfin von Dönhoff was a German journalist and publisher who participated in the resistance against Nazism, along with Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. After the war, she became one of Germany's leading journalists and intellectuals, working for over 55 years as an editor and later publisher of the Hamburg-based weekly newspaper Die Zeit.

Heinz Kaminski was a German chemical engineer and space researcher.

Pierre Guillaume was an officer of the French Navy. He took part in the Algiers putsch of 1961 and in the Organisation armée secrète right- wing terrorist group, which opposed what it regarded as De Gaulle's treacherous abandonment of Algeria to the FLN terrorists.

Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn,, was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Blackburn from 1945 to 1979, making her the longest-serving female MP in the history of the House of Commons until that record was broken in 2007 by Gwyneth Dunwoody. She later became the Member of the European Parliament for Greater Manchester from 1979 to 1989 and subsequently a member of the House of Lords, having been granted a life peerage in 1990. She was the only woman to hold the position of First Secretary of State.

Enrique Sarasola Lerchundi was a Spanish industrialist, a major figure in his country's transition to democracy, and an owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses.

Yousuf Karsh, was an Armenian-Canadian photographer known for his portraits of notable individuals. He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century.

Luis Ciges Martínez was a Spanish film actor. He appeared in 140 films between 1958 and 2002. His father was Manuel Ciges.

Jiří Kolář Czech pronunciation (help·info) was a Czech poet, writer, painter and translator. His work included both literary and visual art.

Sasazawa Saho was a Japanese author, known as the creator of the Kogarashi Monjirō novels, which became a hit televised drama series.