List of Famous people who died in 2002
Robert Wierinckx
Robert Wierinckx was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. In 1936, he was the winner of the second stage in the Tour de France.
Wladimiro Panizza
Wladimiro Panizza was an Italian professional road bicycle racer. Panizza came from a Communist family and was named after Lenin. During his long career (1967–1985), he helped Felice Gimondi and Franco Bitossi. His best grand tour was the 1980 Giro d'Italia, where he placed second in the overall classification. He holds the record for participation in the Giro, completing the race 16 times out of 18 starts.
Arthur Metcalfe
Arthur Metcalfe was a British racing cyclist who twice rode the Tour de France and, as an amateur remains the only male rider to win the British road race championship and the British Best All-Rounder (BBAR) time trial competition in the same year.
Raimund Gensel
Thakur Ram Lal
Thakur Ram Lal was an Indian politician and a leader of the Indian National Congress in Himachal Pradesh. He was born in a family of Rajput caste.
Rosemarie Fuchs
Indra Devi
Eugenie Peterson, known as Indra Devi, was a pioneering teacher of yoga as exercise and an early disciple of the "father of modern yoga", Tirumalai Krishnamacharya.
Jozef Maria Heusschen
Zoran Janković
Zoran Janković was Yugoslavian water polo player notable for winning a silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, and a gold medal in Mexico City in 1968, with the Yugoslavian men's water polo team.
Sam Whipple
Sampson E. Whipple was an American actor best remembered for his role as Dr. John Ballard on the TV series Seven Days.