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 )

The European Commission, in its 2002 country report, recognised Bulgaria as a functioning market economy, acknowledging the progress made by Prime Minister Ivan Kostov's government toward market-oriented reforms.

Caribbean governments have been coming under increased pressure from their electorates to devise ways to override previous rulings by the JCPC such as: Earl Pratt and Ivan Morgan v The Attorney General for Jamaica ( 1993 ) Jeffrey Joseph v The Queen for Barbados ( 2002 ), and Charles Matthews v The State of Trinidad & Tobago ( 2004 ), all of which are Privy Council judgments concerning the death penalty in the Caribbean region.

Ivan Novikoff ( August 26, 1899 – March 20, 2002 ) was a ballet master.

Ivan Fallon, on the board since 1995 and once a key figure at the Sunday Times, replaced Hopkins as head of Independent News & Media in July 2002.

On July 18, 2002, Zakayev also met with the former Secretary of Security Council of Russia Ivan Rybkin in Zürich, Switzerland.

Ivan Png ( Managerial Economics, 2nd edition, 2002 ) suggests an alternative taxonomy:

In 2002, Ivan Massow, the Chairman of the Institute of Contemporary Arts branded conceptual art " pretentious, self-indulgent, craftless tat " and in " danger of disappearing up its own arse ... led by cultural tsars such as the Tate's Sir Nicholas Serota.

Ivan Illich (; Vienna, 4 September 1926 – Bremen, 2 December 2002 ) was an Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest, and " maverick social critic " of the institutions of contemporary western culture and their effects on the provenance and practice of education, medicine, work, energy use, transportation, and economic development.

; Ivan Illich: Ivan Illich ( 1926 – 2002 ) was a libertarian-socialist social thinker, with roots in the Catholic Church, who wrote critiques of technology, energy use and compulsory education.

His father, Ivan Hastings, died September 12, 2002 at age 89.

Their first child, Ivan Reginald Ian, was born on 8 April 2002 in Hammersmith and Fulham, London, with a rare combination of cerebral palsy and a form of severe epilepsy called Ohtahara syndrome, requiring round-the-clock care.

In 2002, the then ICA Chairman Ivan Massow criticised what he described as ' concept art ', leading to his resignation.

Ivan R. Dee, 2002.

* The Survival of Culture: Permanent Values in a Virtual Age, edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball ; Ivan R. Dee, 256 pages ( 2002 ).

* Ivan Filipović Award 2002 — Croatian Ministry of Education

In 1996 he beat Vasily Smyslov 5-1, in 1997 lost to Viktor Korchnoi 4-2, in 1998 defeated Robert Hübner 3. 5-2. 5, in 1999 lost to Alexander Beliavsky 3. 5-2. 5, in 2000 lost to Nigel Short 4-2, in 2001 tied 3-3 with Emil Sutovsky, in 2002 beat Boris Gelfand 3. 5-2. 5, and in 2004 won against Ivan Sokolov 3. 5-2. 5 ( there was no match in 2003 ).

For his writing abilities, Ivan Klíma was awarded Franz Kafka Prize in 2002 as a second recipient.

His awards include two Obie Awards in 1965 for Best Performance in the play The Old Glory by Robert Lowell and for Distinguished Performance in John Webster's play The White Devil that same year, a Tony in 2002 for Best Supporting Actor in Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool, and Tonys for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 1975 for Edward Albee's Seascape and in 2007 for Peter Morgan's Frost / Nixon.

* Icons: Vision # 1-4 ( with Ivan Reis, 2002 ) collected as The Vision: Yesterday and Tomorrow ( tpb, 120 pages, 2005, ISBN 0-7851-1912-4 )

There were three favorites in 2004: the 2003 World Champion Ivan Tsikhan ( BLR ), the 2002 European Champion Adrián Annus ( HUN ), and Japan ’ s Koji Murofushi, bronze medalist at the 2003 Worlds, who had the third-longest throw ever – 84. 86 metres ( 278-5 ) in 2003.

He is one of only six players who have concluded a 30-homer season with more homers than walks ( 31 HR, 29 BB ), the others being Alfonso Soriano ( 39-23 in 2002 ), Garret Anderson ( 35-24 in 2000 ), Ivan Rodriguez ( 35-24 in 1999 ), Joe Crede ( 30-28 in 2006 ), and Ryan Braun ( 34-24 in 2007 ).

* 2002 Doctor Honoris Causa of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv

** Ruiz, Dayanara ( 2002 -), Honorable ciudadana Mexico-Americana, hermana major Jennifer y hermano Ivan.