According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.

* Markus Weimer, The Peace Dividend: Analysis of a Decade of Angolan Indicators, 2002 – 2012

** Atlas V ( 2002 – Present )

The Turkic-Mongolic-Tungusic and Korean-Japanese-Ainu groupings were also posited by Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 – 2002 ) who, however, treated them as independent members of a larger family, which he termed Eurasiatic.

This would make it a language family about as old as Indo-European ( 4000 to 7, 000 BC according to several hypotheses cited in Mallory 1997: 106 ) but considerably younger than Afroasiatic ( c. 10, 000 BC according to Diakonoff 1988: 33n, 11, 000 to 16, 000 BC according to Ehret 2002: 35 – 36 ).

* Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 – 2002 ).

* " The Nobels in Baku " in Azerbaijan International, Vol 10. 2 ( Summer 2002 ), 56 – 59.

* 1969 – Bison Dele, American basketball player ( d. 2002 )

* 2002 – A female suicide bomber detonated at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market, killing 7 and wounding 104.

* 1910 – Levi Celerio, Filipino composer and lyricist ( d. 2002 )

* 2002 – Miguel Urdangarín y de Borbón

* 1926 – Pat Coombs, English actress ( d. 2002 )

* 1926 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist ( d. 2002 )

* 1947 – Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer ( d. 2002 )

* 1952 – Dave Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer ) ( d. 2002 )

* 1952 – Herb Ritts, American photographer ( d. 2002 )

After re-establishing its credibility in 1989, Australia underlined its superiority with victories in the 1990 – 91, 1993, 1994 – 95, 1997, 1998 – 99, 2001 and 2002 – 03 series, all by convincing margins.

* 2002 – Simo Häyhä, Finnish sniper ( b. 1905 )

* 2002 – Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer ( b. 1947 )

" History and Theory 41, Theme Issue 41 ( December 2002 ), 90 – 103

* 1914 – J. Lee Thompson, English director ( d. 2002 )

* 1930 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist ( d. 2002 )

* 1921 – Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza ( d. 2002 )

* Baron Davis, G, 1999 – 2002

André, Baron Delvaux ( 21 March 1926 – 4 October 2002 ) was a Belgian film director and widely regarded as the founder of the Belgian national cinema.

Ali G Indahouse is a 2002 British-American comedy film directed by Mark Mylod and starring the fictional character Ali G, who is written and performed by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.

* Baron Silkin, by Christopher Silkin, since 2002

Paul Yaw Boateng, Baron Boateng ( born 14 June 1951 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Brent South from 1987 to 2005, becoming the UK's first black Cabinet Minister in May 2002, when he was appointed as Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

James Dawson Chichester-Clark, Baron Moyola, PC, DL ( 12 February 1923 – 17 May 2002 ) was the penultimate Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and eighth leader of the Ulster Unionist Party between 1969 and March 1971.

the title is held by the latter's eldest son, the eleventh Baron, who succeeded in 2002.

* John Hugh Philip Gilbey, 10th Baron Vaux of Harrowden ( 1915 – 2002 )

He was appointed a CBE in 2002, and in June 2004 he was given a life peerage, as Baron Rowlands, of Merthyr Tydfil and of Rhymney in the County of Mid-Glamorgan.

* David John Seyfried-Herbert, 19th Baron Herbert ( b. 1952 ) ( abeyance terminated 2002 )

the title is held by his grandson, the fifteenth Baron, who succeeded his mother in 2002 ( who in her turn had succeeded her younger brother ).

* Miles Stapleton Fitzalan-Howard, 4th Baron Howard of Glossop ( 1915 – 2002 ) ( succeeded as 17th Duke of Norfolk in 1975 )

the title is held by his son, the tenth Baron, Timothy Evelyn Graves, who succeeded in 2002, and who, like his father, also lives in Australia.

* Evelyn Paget Graves, 9th Baron Graves ( 1926 – 2002 )

* Dominick Geoffrey Edward Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne ( 1901 – 2002 )

Freeman has appeared in several films, including Sacha Baron Cohen's Ali G Indahouse ( 2002 ) and Richard Curtis ' Love Actually ( 2003 ).

the titles are held by his grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 2002.

* Arthur Grey Hazlerigg, 2nd Baron Hazlerigg ( 1910 – 2002 )

the title is held by the latter's grandson, the ninth Baron, who succeeded his father in 2002.

* James Richard Scarlett, 8th Baron Abinger ( 1914 – 2002 )

the title is held by the latter's great-great-grandson, the seventh Baron, who succeeded his uncle in 2002.

* Gerald John Ponsonby, 6th Baron de Mauley ( 1921 – 2002 )

the title is held by the latter's great-grandson, the sixth Baron, who succeeded his father in 2002.