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Events on Friday 25 October 2002 1
1930 – 2002Richard Harris (1930-2002)Died 25 October 2002, aged 72The Irish actor Richard Harris earned an Oscar nomination for This Sporting Life in 1963 and later for The Field, and had a hit single with the song 'MacArthur Park'. Known for a hard-living reputation, he revived his career with a role in Unforgiven and, at the end of his life, as Albus Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films.