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Some of the famous and not-so famous people that died in 2002. Add to the list with those you are missing.

 

LINDA LOVELACE: Famous for starring in the 1972 porn film Deep Throat. Lovelace later denounced porn. She was killed in a car crash on April 22, aged 53.

 

CHUCK JONES: Taken by heart failure on February 22, aged 89. The famous animator started as a child extra in silent movies before creating cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Wile E Coyote.

 

ALFRED “FREDDY” HEINEKEN: The billionaire ex-chairman of the Dutch brewery giant passed away on January 3 after contracting pneumonia, aged 78.

 

JEFF ASTLE: The brain disease which killed the former England and West Brom centre forward on January 20, at the age of 59, was caused by heading heavy leather balls, a coroner ruled.

 

DUDLEY MOORE: Comedian and musician Dudley succumbed to a brain disease on March 27, aged 66. He found fame with satirist Peter Cook and later became a Hollywood sex symbol despite being just 5ft 2½in.

 

THOR HEYERDAHL: Starved himself to death on April 18, aged 87, after being diagnosed with a brain tumour. The Norwegian explorer sailed a balsawood raft, Kon-Tiki, from South America to Polynesia to prove that ancient natives could have made the journey.

 

LISA “LEFT EYE” LOPES: The singer found huge US success in girl group TLC but she was also killed in a car crash on April 26, aged 30.

 

JAM MASTER JAY: Of RUN DMC fame, a tragic loss for hiphop, shot in his studio in Queens, NYC.

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Merlin Santana, who played "Romeo" on The Steve Harvey show was shot at point-blank range in the head in South Central Los Angeles in November. Not too many people know about that. Rest in peace to him as well. God bless the dead.

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