List of Famous people who died in 2002

Guila Bustabo was a prominent American concert and recital violinist.

Martin Sperr was a German dramatist and actor. He was born in Steinberg near Marklkofen and died in Landshut.

Klaus Croissant was a lawyer of the Red Army Faction, later an East German spy and a political activist for Berlin's Alternativen Liste für Demokratie und Umweltschutz and, after 1990, the PDS.

David Kenneth Ritz Van Ronk was an American folk singer. An important figure in the American folk music revival and New York City's Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s, he was nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street".

Baltasar Leite Rebelo de Sousa, GCIH was a Portuguese politician and a former minister and member of parliament and medicine professor.

José Antonio Rodríguez Vega, nicknamed El Mataviejas, was a Spanish serial killer who raped and killed at least 16 elderly women, ranging in age from 61 to 93 years old, in and around Santander, Cantabria, between August 1987 and April 1988.

Sir Michael Robert Emanuel Kerr was a German-born British jurist, author lawyer and high court judge. He had been told, he said, that he was England's first "foreign-born judge" in eight hundred years, though he himself was careful neither to confirm nor refute the suggestion.

Erwin Chargaff was an Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist, writer, Bucovinian Jew, who emigrated to the United States during the Nazi era and was a professor of biochemistry at Columbia University medical school. Through careful experimentation, Chargaff discovered two rules, called Chargaff's rules, that helped lead to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.

Friedrich Gorenstein was a Ukrainian Jewish author and screenwriter. His works primarily deal with Stalinism, anti-Semitism, and the philosophical-religious view of a peaceful coexistence between Jews and Christians.

László Kubala Stecz, also referred to as Ladislav Kubala or Ladislao Kubala, was a professional footballer. He played as a forward for Ferencváros, Slovan Bratislava, Barcelona, and Espanyol, among other clubs. Regarded as one of the best players in history, Kubala is considered a hero of FC Barcelona. A Hungarian national by birth, he also held Czechoslovak and Spanish citizenship, and played for the national teams of all three countries.