What Happened In August 2002 In History

Historical Events for August, 2002

• 4th » Soham murders: Ten-year-old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
• 19th » Khankala Mi-26 crash: A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechens or Chechen missile outside Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.
• 20th » A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi Diplomatic mission known as Embassy in Berlin, Germany for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.
• 26th » Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Famous Deaths for August 2002

• 3rd » Carmen Silvera, Canadian-English actress and singer (b. 1922)
• 5th » Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b. 1982)
• 5th » Chick Hearn, American sportscaster (b. 1916)
• 5th » Franco Lucentini, Italian journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 5th » Matt Robinson (actor) named Matt Robinson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 6th » Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch physicist, computer scientist, and academic (b. 1930)
• 9th » Paul Samson, English guitarist (Samson (band) named Samson) (b. 1953)
• 10th » Michael Houser, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Widespread Panic and brute.) (b. 1962)
• 10th » Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist and politician (b. 1926)
• 11th » Galen Rowell, American photographer and mountaineer (b. 1940)
• 12th » Enos Slaughter, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• 14th » Dave Williams (musician) e.g Dave Williams, American singer-songwriter (Drowning Pool) (b. 1972)
• 16th » Jeff Corey, American actor and director (b. 1914)
• 16th » Abu Nidal, Palestinian militant leader (b. 1937)
• 16th » John Roseboro, American baseball player and coach (b. 1933)
• 18th » Dean Riesner, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1918)
• 23rd » Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player and coach (b. 1922)
• 24th » Nikolay Guryanov Russian priest and mystic (b. 1909)
• 25th » Giannis Gionakis, Greek actor (b. 1922)
• 25th » Dorothy Hewett, Australian author and poet (b. 1923)
• 27th » Edwin Louis Cole, American religious leader and author (b. 1922)
• 29th » Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b. 1920)
• 31st » Lionel Hampton, American pianist, composer, bandleader, and actor (b. 1908)
• 31st » Farhad Mehrad, Persian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and pianist (b. 1944)
• 31st » George Porter, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)

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