Deaths in 2003

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2003. Names are listed by date of death, not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name.

A typical entry appears in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

January 2003

•   1 - Joe Foss, 87, politician, fighter pilot, recipient of the Medal of Honor
•   2 - Sydney Omarr, 76, astrologer, newspaper columnist, heart attack
•   3 - Sid Gillman, 91, American football coach
•   4 - Raymond Aker, 82, scholar and authority on Francis Drake.
•   4 - Conrad Hall, 76, Hollywood cinematographer, a two-time Academy Award–winner
•   4 - Yfrah Neaman, 79, violinist and teacher
•   5 - Roy Jenkins, 82, British Labour MP and co-founder, first leader of, then Peer for, the Social Democratic Party
•   6 - Sir Gerald Cash, 85, Governor-General of the Bahamas.
•   7 - Montagu Dawson, 83, British World War II bombardier.
•   8 - Simeon Aké, 71, Ivorian politician.
•   8 - Ron Goodwin, 77, British film music composer and conductor
•   8 - Angelo Romani, 69, Italian swimmer.
• 11 - Mickey Finn, 55, band member of T. Rex
• 11 - Sir Anthony Havelock-Allan, 98, British producer and screenwriter
• 11 - Maurice Pialat, 77, French movie director
• 11 - Richard Simmons, 89, actor, Sgt William Preston on TV's Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
• 12 - Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, 76, former dictator of Argentina
• 12 - Maurice Gibb, 53, band member of Bee Gees
• 12 - Alan Nunn May, 91, British physicist and spy
• 12 - Koloman Sokol, 100, Slovak artist
• 13 - Norman Panama, 88, screenwriter and director
• 15 - Doris Fisher, 87, singer & songwriter
• 16 - Hans Pietsch, 34, German professional Go player
• 16 - Alfred Kantor, 79, Czech-born Holocaust survivor, artist and author of The Book of Alfred Kantor [1]
• 18 - Richard Crenna, 74, American actor
• 19 - Françoise Giroud, 86, French writer and politician
• 20 - Al Hirschfeld, 99, American caricaturist
• 20 - Bill Werbeniuk, 56, Canadian snooker player
• 20 - David Battley, 67, British actor, heart attack
• 20 - Tony O'Malley, 89, Irish artist and painter
• 21 - Paul Kuusberg, 86, Estonian writer.
• 22 - Bill Mauldin, 81, World War II cartoonist
• 22 - Peter Russell, 81, British poet
• 23 - Nell Carter, 54, singer, actress
• 24 - Gianni Agnelli, 81, Italian entrepreneur and president of Fiat
• 25 - Diana Gould, Baroness Menuhin, 90, British dancer and widow of Lord Yehudi Menuhin
• 25 - Robert Rockwell, 82, American actor (Our Miss Brooks)
• 26 - 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie (George Younger), 71, British politician, Secretary of State for Scotland between 1979 and 1986
• 26 - Valeriy Brumel, 60, athlete, track and field
• 27 - Maurice Ash, 85, British environmentalist and writer.
• 27 - Lord Dacre (Hugh Trevor-Roper), 89, British historian, authenticator of the hoaxed Hitler Diaries
• 28 - Edward Preston Young, 89, British submariner and publisher.
• 29 – László Kákosy, 70, Hungarian Egyptologist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 29 - Frank Moss, 91, former United States Senator from Utah
• 29 - Peter Shaw, 84, British actor & producer; husband of Angela Lansbury

February 2003

•   1 - Astronauts Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark and Ilan Ramon aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia
•   1 - Mongo Santamaría, 85, percussionist, band leader, Latin jazz musician
•   2 - Lou Harrison, 85, American composer, noted for his microtonal works
•   4 - Charles McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway, 89, British industrialist and horticulturist.
•   5 - Helge Boes, CIA operations officer
•   6 - Sir Peter Saunders, 91, British theatre impresario.
•   7 - John Reading, Mayor of Oakland, California from 1966 to 1977 who supported the building of the Oakland Coliseum
•   8 - John Charles Cutler, 87, American surgeon.
•   9 - Vera Hruba Ralston, star of Ice Capades and Republic Pictures "B" actress in the 1940s
• 10 - Edgar de Evia, 92, American photographer born in Mérida, Yucatán
• 10 - Curt Hennig, 44, professional wrestler
• 10 - Clark MacGregor, former United States Congressman
• 10 - Al Ruffo, former mayor of San Jose, California who helped form the San Francisco 49ers football team in 1946
• 10 - Ron Ziegler, 63, former press secretary for Richard Nixon during the Watergate Scandal
• 12 - Frederick Higginson, 89, British World War II fighter pilot.
• 13 - Axel Jensen, Norwegian author
• 13 - Kid Gavilan, 77, world boxing champion and hall of famer
• 13 - Stacy Keach, Sr., 88, character actor; father of actors Stacy and James Keach
• 13 - Walt Rostow, 86, political advisor
• 14 - Dolly, 6, the world's first cloned mammal, euthanization following a lung disease
• 14 - Philip John Gardner, 88, British recipient of the Victoria Cross.
• 14 - Johnny Longden, 96, jockey
• 16 - Eleanor "Sis" Daley, 95, wife of Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley
• 16 - Rusty Magee, 47, American composer of musicals
• 17 - Steve Bechler, 23, baseball pitcher, Baltimore Orioles
• 19 - Johnny PayCheck, 64, country music singer
• 20 - Maurice Blanchot, 95, French philosopher and literary theorist
• 20 - Ty Longley, 31, Guitarist for the heavy metal band Great White; victim of the Station nightclub fire.
• 20 - Harry Jacunski, former NFL player, Green Bay Packers
• 20 - Orville Lothrop Freeman, 84, former Governor of Minnesota and Secretary of Agriculture for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
• 20 - Mushaf Ali Mir, Pakistan Chief of the Air Staff
• 22 - Jesica Santillan, heart and lung patient whose wrong transplant made headlines
• 22 - Daniel Taradash, former president of AMPAS; Oscar-winning screenwriter of "From Here to Eternity"
• 23 - Howie Epstein, former Bass player for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• 23 - Christopher Hill, 91, British historian
• 25 - Alberto Sordi, Italian comedy actor
• 25 - Tom O'Higgins, former Irish Chief Justice & twice defeated Irish presidential candidate
• 27 - John Lanchbery, 79, British-born Australian musician
• 27 - Fred Rogers, 74, host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
• 28 - Roger Needham, computer pioneer
• 28 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, former President of El Salvador
• 28 - Chris Brasher, 74, athlete

March 2003

•   1 - Countess Viktoria-Luise of Solms-Baruth, 81, German princess.
•   2 - Roger Albertsen, Norwegian footballer.
•   2 - Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer, Master of the Queen's Music
•   2 - Robert B. Ingebretsen pioneer in the development of digital sound.
•   2 - Hank Ballard, 66, singer, composer, famous for his hit "The Twist"
•   3 - Horst Buchholz, 69, German actor
•   3 - Sir John Brown, 86, British publisher
•   7 - Monica Hughes, 77, Canadian science fiction author
•   8 - Adam Faith, 62, British singer and actor
•   8 - Karen Morley, 93, American film actress and political activist; former wife of Charles Vidor
•   9 - Stan Brakhage, filmmaker
• 10 - Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru
• 10 - Barry Sheene, 52, twice 500cc MotoGP Champion
• 10 - Naftali Temu, Kenyan athlete
• 11 - Ivar Hansen, Danish politician and speaker of the Folketing
• 12 - Howard Fast, 88, novelist
• 12 - Lynne Thigpen, 54, American television (Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?), and Tony Award-winning stage actress (An American Daughter)
• 12 - Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (assassinated)
• 12 - Andrei Kivilev, 29, professional cyclist (fall during Paris–Nice race)
• 14 - Jack Goldstein, American artist
• 15 - Dame Thora Hird, 91, veteran British actress
• 15 - Bill Robertson, 79, British footballer.
• 16 - Major Ronald Ferguson, 71, father of UK royal divorcée Sarah, Duchess of York
• 16 - Rachel Corrie, International Solidarity Movement activist (crushed to death by an Israeli armoured bulldozer)
• 18 - Adam Osborne, computer pioneer
• 19 - Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator
• 20 - Sailor Art Thomas, professional wrestler
• 21 - Leonard Hokanson, American pianist
• 22 - Terry Lloyd, 50, ITN reporter killed in southern Iraq
• 24 - Hans Hermann Groër, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (1986–1995) who resigned in 1995 after allegations of sexually abusing boys
• 24 - Philip Yordan, 88, Oscar-winning American screenwriter (Broken Lance)
• 26 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 76, former Senator from New York
• 27 - Tauese Sunia, 61, Governor of American Samoa, heart attack
• 29 - Neil Clarke, 45, Australian footballer
• 29 - Maude Storey, 73, British nursing administrator, diabetes.
• 29 - Dr. Carlo Urbani, WHO doctor, discoverer of SARS, of which he died
• 30 - Valentin Pavlov, 65, former Prime Minister of the Soviet Union
• 30 - Gaby Rado, 48, Hungarian-born activist and UK-based journalist
• 30 - Michael Jeter, 50, American actor (Evening Shade, Waterworld, Jurassic Park III)
• 31 - Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, 96, UK/Canadian geometer, academic and author

April 2003

•   1 - Leslie Cheung, 46, Hong Kong actor and singer
•   1 - Booker Bradshaw, American record producer, film & TV actor; Motown executive
•   2 - Michael Wayne, film producer; eldest son of John Wayne
•   2 - Edwin Starr, 61, soul singer
•   2 - Edward Keating, 89, founder of Ramparts magazine
•   4 - Resortes, legendary Mexican comedian (né Adalberto Martinez Chavez)
•   5 - Seymour Lubetzky, 104, American cataloging theorist and librarian
•   6 - Babatunde Olatunji, African drummer, recorded Drums of Passion
•   6 - Lance Corporal Ian Malone, Dublin-born soldier in the Irish Guards regiment of the British Army, killed in Iraq
•   6 - David Bloom, an NBC reporter, died from a pulmonary embolism while embedded with the 3rd Infantry Division covering the war in Iraq
•   7 - Cecile de Brunhoff, 99, who inspired the Babar the Elephant children's books when she told it to her children as a bedtime story in 1931
•   8 - Anita Borg, computer scientist
•   9 - James Earl Salisbury, educator
• 10 - Abdul Majid al-Khoei, Shia cleric
• 10 - Little Eva (née Eva Narcissus Boyd), 59, who sang the 1962 hit The Loco-Motion
• 12 - Sydney Lassick, American film actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
• 12 - Cecil H. Green, 102, Texas Instruments founder
• 14 - Kent Pullen, American politician
• 16 - Graham Stuart Thomas, horticultural artist, author and garden designer
• 17 - Robert Atkins, 72, American nutritionist
• 17 - Paul Getty, philanthropist
• 17 - Sammy Kean, 85, Scottish football player and manager
• 17 - Earl King, R&B musician/songwriter
• 18 - Edgar F. Codd, computer pioneer
• 19 - Conrad Leonard, 104, British musician and composer
• 20 - Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress
• 20 - Daijiro Kato, 26, Japanese motorcycle rider, after crashing at Suzuka on April 6
• 21 - Robert Blackburn, American artist and printmaker
• 21 - Nina Simone, 70, American jazz singer, long-based in France (known as the "High Priestess of Soul")
• 22 - Berkeley Smith, 84, British broadcaster.
• 22 - Martha Griffiths, 91, Congresswoman; women's rights activist
• 23 - Bernard Katz, American Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist
• 23 - James H. Critchfield, Central Intelligence Agency operative during the Cold War
• 23 - Fernand Fonssagrives, 93, French photographer
• 26 - The Hon. Rosemary Brown, Canadian politician (NDP); first black woman elected to a provincial legislature and first black woman to run for the leadership of a major federal political party
• 26 - Edward Max Nicholson, environmentalist
• 26 - Peter Stone, Oscar and Tony-winning American screenwriter
• 27 - Elaine Steinbeck, former actress; widow of author John Steinbeck
• 30 - Peter 'Possum' Bourne, 3 time Asia-Pacific Rally champion
• 30 - Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist

May 2003

•   1 - Miss Elizabeth, 42, WWE wrestling figure
•   3 - Suzy Parker, 70, actress; top model of the 1950s
•   5 - Walter Sisulu, 90, ANC activist
•   6 - David Woodley, former quarterback of the Miami Dolphins, who started in Super Bowl XVII
•   9 - Russell B. Long, 84, former United States Senator
• 10 - Milan Vukcevich, chemist and chess problem composer
• 11 - Noel Redding, former bassist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• 12 - Prince Sadruddhin Aga Khan, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1965–1977
• 13 - John Savage, Canadian politician; former Premier of Nova Scotia
• 14 - Robert Stack, 84, American film and television actor
• 14 - Dame Wendy Hiller, 91, Oscar-winning British actress of stage and screen (I Know Where I'm Going!)
• 14 - Dave DeBusschere, NBA basketball player
• 15 - Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist
• 15 - George Francis, British suspected mobster
• 15 - June Carter Cash, 73, musician, singer, wife of Johnny Cash
• 16 - William Charles Anderson, 83, American writer
• 16 - Mark McCormack, sports business pioneer, founder of IMG
• 16 - Boris Stavrev, Bulgarian Olympic fencer
• 18 - Anna Santisteban, advisor of Miss Puerto Rico titleholders for the Miss Universe contest
• 18 - Barb Tarbox, Canadian anti-smoking activist
• 21 - Alejandro de Tomaso, 74, a racing driver and industrialist from Argentina.
• 21 - Frank D. White, Former governor of Arkansas
• 26 - Kathleen Winsor, American author (Forever Amber)
• 27 - Luciano Berio, 77, Italian composer
• 28 - Ilya Prigogine, 86, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
• 28 - Martha Scott, 90, American stage, film and television actress
• 28 - Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, cosmonaut
• 29 - David Jefferies, 30, British motorcycle racer.
• 30 - Mickie Most, 64, British music producer
• 31 - Billy Wade, 88, South African cricketer

June 2003

•   1 - Yevgeny Matveyev, 81, Russian actor and film director
•   2 - Fred Blassie, 85, former professional wrestler
•   2 - Richard Cusack, 77, advertising executive turned actor & screenwriter; father of actors John Cusack and Joan Cusack
•   2 - Jack Frazier, former Saddam Hussein hostage
•   2 - Donald Jack, 78, Canadian playwright and novelist
•   3 - Peter Bromley, 74, British sports broadcaster
•   5 - Meir Vilner, 84, last surviving signatory to Israel's declaration of independence and former chairman of the Communist Party of Israel
•   5 - Jürgen Möllemann, former German minister
•   7 - Tony McAuley, BBC Northern Ireland broadcaster & filmmaker associated with traditional Irish music and arts
•   7 - Trevor Goddard, British actor
• 10 - Donald Regan, Chief of Staff and Treasury Secretary during the Reagan administration
• 10 - Bernard Williams, 73, British philosopher
• 10 - Phil Williams, 64, Welsh politician
• 11 - David Brinkley, 82, American broadcast journalist
• 12 - Gregory Peck, 87, American Oscar-winning actor (To Kill a Mockingbird)
• 15 - Hume Cronyn, 91, Canadian-born American actor; husband of Oscar-winning actress Jessica Tandy
• 15 - Philip Stone, 79, British actor.
• 16 - Peter Redgrove, 71, British poet.
• 18 - Sir Kenneth Cross, 91, British Royal Air Force commander.
• 18 - Larry Doby, 79, baseball Hall of Famer, second Black man to play in the MLB
• 19 - Glen Grant, Hawaiian historian, folklorist and author
• 19 - Laura Sadler, 22, British television actress
• 20 - Bob Stump, American politician; former Arizona congressman
• 21 - Roger Neilson, Canadian hockey coach
• 21 - Sergei Vronsky, Soviet cinematographer
• 22 - Vasil Bykau, Belarusian writer
• 23 - Maynard Jackson, former Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, the first black mayor of a major southern United States city^{[citation needed]}
• 23 - Doug Ring, 84, Australian cricketer
• 24 - Leon Uris, 78, Jewish-American author
• 25 - Walter F. Ehrnfelt, Mayor of Strongsville, Ohio
• 25 - Lester Maddox, 87, segregationist Governor of the State of Georgia
• 25 - Shun Yashiro, 70, Japanese actor and seiyū, stroke
• 26 - Marc-Vivien Foé, 28, Cameroonian footballer collapsed and died on the football pitch in Lyon
• 26 - Sir Denis Thatcher Bt., 88, husband to Baroness Thatcher, former United Kingdom Prime Minister
• 26 - Strom Thurmond, 100, Governor of South Carolina, United States Republican Senator from South Carolina and Presidential candidate (as a Dixiecrat)
• 27 - Magne Aarøen, Norwegian politician
• 28 - Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete
• 29 - Katharine Hepburn, 96, Oscar winning (4) American actress of stage, screen and television
• 30 - Robert McCloskey, 88, children's book writer and illustrator
• 30 - Buddy Hackett, 78, American comedian and actor

July 2003

•   1 - John Bissell Carroll, 87, American psychologist
•   1 - Wesley Mouzon, 75, professional boxer, beat Bob Montgomery
•   1 - Herbie Mann, 73, crossover jazz and bossa nova flutist
•   1 - N!xau, 58, Namibian actor and bushman (The Gods Must Be Crazy)
•   3 - Gaetano Alibrandi, 89, papal diplomat and Apostolic Nuncio to the Republic of Ireland
•   3 - Harold Creighton, 75, British businessman and magazine editor.
•   3 - Najeeb Halaby, chairman of Pan Am from 1969 to 1972; father of Queen Noor (née Lisa Halaby)
•   4 - Larry Burkett, founder of Christian Financial Concepts
•   4 - Barry White, 58, American smooth soul singer, renal failure
•   5 - Roman Lyashenko, New York Rangers hockey player
•   5 - Bebu Silvetti, popular Argentine musician, songwriter and arranger
•   5 - Isabelle, Countess of Paris, widow of Henri, Count of Paris, pretender to the French throne
•   5 - Robert Bardzimashvili,popular Georgian singer
•   6 - Buddy Ebsen, 95, American actor
•   6 - Kathleen Raine, 95, British poet and literary critic
•   7 - Izhak Graziani, conductor
•   8 - Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian conjoined twins
•   9 - Winston Graham, 95, author (Poldark, Marnie)
• 10 - Hartley Shawcross (Lord Shawcross), 101, Britain's chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
• 11 - Zahra Kazemi, Iran-born Canadian journalist
• 11 - Ken Whyld, British chess author
• 12 - Benny Carter, 95, American jazz pioneer
• 12 - Ingeborg de Beausacq, 93, American photographer
• 12 - Roger Freeman, 51, British rally driver, motor race accident
• 12 - Mark Lovell, 43, British rally driver, motor race accident
• 13 - Compay Segundo, 95, Cuban musician and star of the Buena Vista Social Club
• 14 - Ahmed Al-Waeli, Shiite cleric.
• 14 - Tex Schramm, 83, former Dallas Cowboys president and general manager
• 14 - André Claveau, French singer
• 16 - Captain James Kelly, former Irish Army officer cleared of attempting to import arms for the IRA in the Arms Trial in 1970
• 16 - Carol Shields, 68, Canadian author
• 16 - Celia Cruz, 77, Cuban salsa singer
• 17 - Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist and champion of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach
• 17 - Dr. David Kelly, 59 (suicide), former United Nations weapons inspector who was accused of leaking information to the BBC about Britain's dossier on Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction
• 18 - Brad Rone, 35, American boxer, injuries sustained in boxing
• 18 - Jane Barbe, phone company voiceover
• 19 - Pierre Graber, former member of the Swiss Federal Council (1970–1978)
• 19 - Bill Bright, American evangelical Christian and founder of Campus Crusade for Christ
• 20 - Nicolas Freeling, crime writer
• 20 - Lauri Aus, Estonian pro cyclist, he was struck on bicycle by a drunk driver.
• 21 - Walter M. "Matt" Jefferies, American art director (Star Trek series); designer of the Starship Enterprise
• 21 - John Davies, president of the New Zealand Olympic Committee
• 21 - Tim Hemensley, Australian singer & bass guitarist
• 22 - Uday Hussein, 39, eldest son of Saddam Hussein, shot dead by US troops
• 22 - Qusay Hussein, 37, second son of Saddam Hussein, shot dead by US troops
• 23 - James E. Davis, New York City councilman
• 24 - Colin R. McMillan, former nominee for United States Secretary of the Navy
• 25 - Ludwig Bölkow, airplane engineer
• 25 - John Schlesinger, 77, director
• 25 - Erik Brann, 52, Iron Butterfly guitarist
• 26 - Richard Wayne Dirksen, composer, former organist-choirmaster Washington National Cathedral
• 27 - Bob Hope, 100, American comedian and actor, pneumonia
• 27 - Vance Hartke, 84, former United States Senator from Indiana
• 28 - Valerie, Lady Goulding, former Irish Senator & disability rights campaigner
• 29 - Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader
• 30 - Sam Phillips, 80, American record producer
• 31 - Edward P. Alexander, American historian

August 2003

•   1 - Guy Thys, 80, former Belgian national football coach.
•   1 - Marie Trintignant, French actress and daughter of actor Jean-Louis Trintignant
•   2 - Don Estelle, 70, British actor
•   2 - Mike Levey, famous infomercial host
•   3 - Roger Voudouris, 48, American singer/songwriter/guitarist
•   4 - Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh, longest-ordained hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church
•   4 - Chung Mong-hun, Korean businessman
•   5 - Tite Curet Alonso, well known Puerto Rican music composer, critic, newspaper writer
•   5 - Don Turnbull, 66, UK games magazine editor
•   8 - Sam Gillespie, 32, Australian-born philosopher whose writings and translations introduced the work of Alain Badiou in the English-speaking world
•   9 - Gregory Hines, 57, American dancer, actor
•   9 - Ray Harford, 58, football manager
• 10 - Carmita Jiménez, Puerto Rican singer
• 11 - Kieran Kelly, Irish jump jockey after a racing accident
• 11 - Diana Mitford, 93, widow of British Fascist leader Oswald Mosley
• 11 - Herb Brooks, 66, coach of 1980 Miracle on Ice US Hockey team
• 11 - Armand Borel, notable Swiss mathematician
• 11 - John Shearman, 72, British art historian.
• 12 - Jackie Hamilton, British stand-up comedian
• 13 - Michael Maclagan, 89, British historian
• 13 - Matt Moffitt, 46, Australian singer, songwriter
• 13 - Helmut Rahn, German footballer, World Champion 1954
• 13 - Ed Townsend, 74, songwriter and producer
• 15 - Bishop Donal Lamont, Irish born Rhodesian Roman Catholic bishop and Nobel Peace Prize nominee expelled by Ian Smith's apartheid regime in the 1970s
• 16 - Idi Amin, 78, former dictator of Uganda
• 16 - Connie Douglas Reeves, centenarian member of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame
• 19 - Carlos Roberto Reina, former president of Honduras
• 19 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello, United Nations Special Representative to Iraq
• 21 - Wesley Willis, American schizophrenic musician and artist
• 22 - Arnold Gerschwiler, figure skating trainer in Britain
• 22 - Glenn Stetson, Canadian singer
• 23 - John Geoghan, defrocked pedophile priest
• 23 - Bobby Bonds, former baseball player and father of San Francisco Giants ballplayer Barry Bonds
• 23 - Michael Kijana Wamalwa, Kenyan Vice-President
• 23 - Imperio Argentina, 96, Spanish singer and actress
• 23 - Jack Dyer, Australian rules football legend
• 24 - Harry W. Addison, American author
• 24 - Sir Wilfred Thesiger, 93, British explorer
• 24 - Mal Colston, Australian politician
• 26 - Jim Wacker, American football college coach
• 27 - Pierre Poujade, French politician
• 29 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim
• 29 - Kathy Wilkes, British education worker in Eastern Europe
• 29 - Peter Williams, 88, British American-born actor. (The Bridge on the River Kwai) [2]
• 30 - Steve Eisner, American boxing promoter
• 30 - Charles Bronson, 81, American actor
• 30 - Donald Davidson, 86, American philosopher

September 2003

•   1 - Sir Terry Frost, British artist
•   3 - Paul Hill, American anti-abortion activist; executed for a double murder
•   4 - Susan Chilcott, English opera singer, breast cancer
•   4 - Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist, conductor and pedagogue
•   5 - Gisele MacKenzie, 76, Canadian-born singer and entertainer
•   6 - Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber, Mount Everest Summiter, died while climbing Gasherbrum I.
•   6 - Wilbur Snapp, American musician, stadium organist for the Clearwater Phillies and the Philadelphia Phillies; notably expelled from a game by an umpire for playing Three Blind Mice
•   7 - Warren Zevon, 56, American singer and songwriter
•   7 - Great Antonio, strongman and eccentric
•   7 - Maureen Kelly, American singer
•   8 - Leni Riefenstahl, 101, German filmmaker
•   8 - Jaclyn Linetsky, 17, Canadian voice actress, road accident
•   9 - Larry Hovis, American actor (Hogan's Heroes)
•   9 - Gulabrai Ramchand, 76, Indian cricketer
•   9 - Edward Teller, 95, American physicist, "Father of the H-Bomb"
• 10 - Harry Goz, 71, American musical theater actor (Fiddler on the Roof) and voice actor (Sealab 2021)
• 11 - Ben Bril, Dutch boxer
• 11 - John Ritter, 54, American actor and comedian, aortic dissection
• 11 - Anna Lindh, 46, Swedish foreign minister
• 12 - Johnny Cash, 71, American country singer
• 12 - Rev. Prof. Norman Walker Porteous, theologian and writer on Old Testament issues
• 13 - Kenneth Walter, 63, South African cricketer
• 13 - Frank O'Bannon, 73, Governor of Indiana
• 14 - Ken Kifer, 57, American cyclist and writer
• 15 - Jack Brymer, British clarinettist
• 15 - Yetunde Price, 30, sister of American tennis players Venus and Serena Williams
• 16 - Erich Hallhuber, Bavarian actor
• 16 - Sheb Wooley, 82, American actor, singer ("Purple People Eater")
• 19 - Slim Dusty, 76, Australian country music singer
• 20 - Lord Williams of Mostyn, British Cabinet minister, Leader of the House of Lords
• 20 - Liam Tobin, longtime Árd Rúnaí Roinn na Gaeltachta (Secretary to the Irish Department of the Gaeltacht) and Irish language campaigner
• 20 - Simon Vengai Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician, vice president of the Republic since 1987
• 21 - Robert H. Lochner, John F. Kennedy's interpreter
• 22 - Hugo Young, British political commentator
• 22 - Gordon Jump, 71, American actor
• 24 - Derek Prince, 88, biblical scholar, author
• 24 - Edward Said, Palestinian scholar
• 25 - Alastair Borthwick, 90, British author and broadcaster
• 25 - Dai Davies, 78, Welsh rugby player
• 25 - George Plimpton, 76, American author, editor, socialite & actor
• 25 - Franco Modigliani, Nobel Prize-winning economist
• 25 - Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician, member of the Governing Council
• 26 - Robert Palmer, 54, British singer
• 26 - Shawn Lane, 40, American guitarist and composer
• 27 - Donald O'Connor, 78, American actor, dancer
• 28 - Yukichi Chuganji, 114 year-old Japanese supercentenarian
• 28 - Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris, 86, British Air Chief Marshal
• 28 - Elia Kazan, 94, American film director
• 28 - Althea Gibson, 76, African-American tennis player
• 30 - Robert Kardashian, 59, American criminal defense lawyer

October 2003

•   2 - John Thomas Dunlop, 89, briefly Secretary of Labor under Gerald Ford
•   3 - William Steig, 95, American cartoonist and children's author; creator of Shrek
•   3 - Florence Stanley, 79, American voice actress
•   4 - Sid McMath, 91, former governor of Arkansas
•   4 - Bill Cayton, American boxing manager, owner of (reportedly) largest fight video collection in the world, former manager of Edwin Rosario and Mike Tyson
•   5 - Neil Postman, 72 media critic
•   5 - Elena Slough, 114, oldest recognized person in New Jersey
•   5 - Denis Quilley, British actor
•   5 - Dan Snyder, American hockey player (Atlanta Thrashers)
•   5 - Timothy Treadwell, environmentalist
•   6 - Joe Baker, 63, English footballer
•   6 - Mildred O'Neill, 89, widow of former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Tip O'Neill heart attack
•   6 - Ryan Halligan, 13 American suicide victim
•   7 - Eleanor Lambert, United States fashion pioneer
•   7 - Izzy Asper, Canadian press baron
•   7 - Dame Felicitas Corrigan, Benedictine nun
•   9 - Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American academic and author
• 10 - Eugene Istomin, American pianist
• 12 - Willie Shoemaker, 72, Hall of Fame jockey
• 12 - Jim Cairns, Australian politician
• 13 - Bertram Brockhouse, Nobel Prize-winning Canadian physicist
• 13 - Joan B. Kroc, 75, philanthropist; widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, brain cancer
• 14 - Ben Metcalfe,83 Greenpeace activist and co-founder, heart attack
• 14 - Frances Watt, 81, Scottish singer
• 16 - Jim Albrecht, tournament director of the World Series of Poker.
• 16 - Stu Hart, 88, Canadian wrestler; patriarch of Hart wrestling
• 16 - László Papp, Hungarian boxer
• 16 - Avni Arbas, Turkish artist, cancer
• 18 - Preston Smith, 91, governor of Texas
• 18 - Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer
• 19 - Margaret Murie, 101, "Mother of the Modern Conservationist Movement"
• 19 - Michael Hegstrand, 45, "Road Warrior Hawk"
• 19 - Alija Izetbegović, 78, President of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 20 - Jack Elam, 84, American actor
• 20 - Miodrag Petrović Čkalja, 79, Serbian actor
• 21 - Louise Day Hicks, 87, US politician
• 21 - Fred Berry, 52, American actor, "Rerun" on the show What's Happening!!
• 21 - Elliott Smith, 34, US musician
• 21 - Luis A. Ferré, 99, former governor of Puerto Rico
• 22 - Tony Renna, 27, motor racer; IndyCar driver
• 23 - Tony Capstick, 59 British actor, comedian, musician and broadcaster
• 23 - Pete Chisman, 63, British cyclist, complications from surgery [3]
• 23 - Madame Chiang Kai-shek, 106, widow of the Nationalist Chinese president Chiang Kai-shek
• 24 - Rosie Nix Adams, daughter of June Carter Cash
• 24 - Peter Sykes, 80, British chemist.
• 25 - Hemu Adhikari, Indian cricketer.
• 26 - Elem Klimov, Russian director
• 27 - Rod Roddy, 66, announcer on The Price Is Right
• 28 - Behram Kursunoglu, 81, Turkish physicist
• 29 - Hal Clement, 81, author
• 30 - Franco Corelli, 81, operatic tenor
• 31 - Richard Neustadt, political scholar and historian
• 31 - Kamato Hongo, 116?, oldest recognized person in world
• 31 - Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, 95, Indian Classical (Carnatic) musician

November 2003

•   2 - Frederic Vester, 77, German cybernetician
•   3 - Aaron Bridgers, 85, French jazz pianist
•   3 - Rasul Gamzatov, 80, Avarian/Soviet/Russian poet, called the "People's poet of Dagestan"
•   3 - Frank McCloskey, 64, Indiana Congressman from 1983–1995, bladder cancer
•   4 - Charles Causley, 86, British poet
•   4 - Ken Gampu, South African actor
•   5 - Richard Wollheim, 80, British philosopher
•   5 - Bobby Hatfield, 63, half of the singing duet the Righteous Brothers
•   5 - Dernell Stenson, Cincinnati Reds baseball player
•   6 - Eduardo Palomo, 41, Mexican actor, heart attack
•   6 - Crash Holly, 32, professional wrestler
•   6 - Rie Mastenbroek, 84, Dutch swimmer, triple Olympic champion
•   8 - Hava Rexha, 123?, oldest woman in Albania, maybe in the world
•   8 - C. Z. Guest, 83, socialite
•   9 - Gordon Onslow Ford, 90, surrealist painter
•   9 - Mario Merz, Italian artist
•   9 - Art Carney, 85, The Honeymooners actor, natural causes
•   9 - Buddy Arnold, jazz saxophonist
• 10 - Canaan Banana, 67, first president of independent Zimbabwe
• 10 - Irv Kupcinet, 91, American columnist, television personality
• 11 - Robert Brown, 82, British actor (M in 4 James Bond films)
• 11 - Miquel Martí i Pol, 74, Catalan Poet
• 11 - George Wallace, Baron Wallace of Coslany, 97, British politician
• 12 - Tony Thompson, drummer for The Power Station
• 12 - Penny Singleton, 95, American actress
• 12 - Jonathan Brandis, 27, actor, reportedly suicide
• 13 - Kellie Waymire, 35, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise)
• 13 - Mitoyo Kawate, 114, oldest recognized person in the world
• 14 - Gene Anthony Ray, 41, American dancer
• 15 - Ray Lewis, first Canadian-born black Olympic medalist
• 15 - Mohamed Choukri, writer
• 15 - John Stamper, 77, British aeronautical engineer
• 15 - Laurence Tisch, 80, American billionaire, head of Loews Corporation and CBS television network
• 15 - Dorothy Loudon, 70, American actress
• 16 - Bettina Goislard, 29, UNHCR relief worker
• 16 - Arihiro Fukuda, 39, Japanese associate professor and author of Sovereignty and the Sword
• 17 - Gerry Adams, Sr, 77, IRA volunteer, father of Gerry Adams.
• 17 - Arthur Conley, soul singer
• 17 - Don Gibson, 75, singer-songwriter
• 18 - Michael Kamen, 55, American composer
• 19 - Ken Brett, 55, former Major League Baseball player, brother of George Brett
• 20 - David Dacko, 73, first president of the Central African Republic
• 20 - Robert Addie, 43, British actor
• 20 - Eugene Kleiner, entrepreneur and co-founder of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers venture capital firm
• 20 - Roger Short, 58, British diplomat, consul-general in Istanbul
• 20 - Kerem Yilmazer, 58, Turkish actor
• 20 - Jim Siedow, 83, American actor
• 20 - Theo Berger, 62, German criminal
• 23 - Nick Carter, 79, New Zealand cyclist
• 24 - Hugh Kenner, 80, literary critic
• 24 - Warren Spahn, 82, baseball pitcher
• 26 - Stefan Wul, 81, French science fiction writer
• 26 - Soulja Slim, 26, American rapper
• 26 - Anton Burg, 99, USC chemistry professor
• 27 - Will Quadflieg, German actor
• 28 - Harold von Braunhut, American creator of Amazing Sea-Monkeys
• 28 - Ted Bates, 85, British footballer and manager.
• 28 - Mihkel Mathiesen, 85, Estonian politician.
• 30 - Barber B. Conable, 81, New York Congressman, president of the World Bank from 1986–1991
• 30 - Gertrude Ederle, 98, first woman to swim the English Channel

December 2003

•   1 - Clark Kerr, 92, first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1952–58) and President of the University of California (1958–67)
•   2 - Ignaz Kiechle, 73, German politician and minister for agriculture (1983–93)
•   3 - David Hemmings, 62, British actor and director, myocardial infarction
•   4 - Jonathan Luna, 38, United States Assistant Attorney, murdered
•   5 - Bert Templeton, 63, Scottish ice hockey coach, kidney cancer
•   6 - Haddis Alemayehu, 93, Ethiopian Foreign Minister and novelist
•   6 - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, 85, President of Guatemala 1970-74
•   6 - Jerry Tuite, 36, American wrestler, myocardial infarction
•   7 - Carl F. H. Henry, 90, American Evangelical theologian and founder of Christianity Today magazine
•   7 - Azie Taylor Morton, 67, former Treasurer of the United States, complications from a stroke
•   8 - Johnny Bulla, 89, American golfer
•   8 - Rubén González, 84, Cuban pianist
•   9 - Paul Simon, 75, United States Senator from Illinois
• 10 - Ettore Perazzoli, 29, Italian free software developer
• 11 - Ahmadou Kourouma, 76, Ivorian novelist
• 11 - John W. Sidgmore, former head of Worldcom and UUNet, acute pancreatitis
• 12 - Heydar Aliyev, 80, former President of Azerbaijan
• 12 - Michael Casson, 78, British potter
• 12 - Earl Gillespie, 81, sportscaster, voice of the Milwaukee Braves
• 12 - Keiko, 27, orca of Reino Aventura and Free Willy fame, pneumonia
• 12 - Fadwa Toukan, 86, Palestinian poet
• 13 - Elizabeth Bates, 56, Professor of Psychology at University of California, San Diego, pancreatic cancer
• 13 - Mollie Hardwick, 87, British writer
• 13 - William V. Roth, Jr., 82, American lawyer and politician
• 14 - Jeanne Crain, 78, American actress, myocardial infarction
• 14 - Blas Ople, 75, Filipino journalist and politician
• 15 - Johnny Cunningham, 46, British folk musician.
• 15 - George Fisher, 80, American political cartoonist
• 15 - Jack Gregory, 80, British athlete.
• 15 - David S. Lewis, 86, American aerospace engineer.
• 15 - Keith Magnuson, 56, Canadian National Hockey League player, road accident
• 16 - Gary Stewart, 58, American country music singer, suicide
• 16 - Robert Stanfield, 89, Canadian politician
• 17 - Ed Devereaux, 78, Australian actor
• 17 - Otto Graham, 82, American professional football and basketball player, heart aneurysm
• 17 - Alan Tilvern, 86, actor and voice artist (Bhowani Junction, the 1978 Lord of the Rings cartoon film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
• 19 - Ricardo Alfonso Cerna, 47, Guatemalan suicide victim
• 19 - Peter Carter-Ruck, 89, British libel lawyer
• 19 - Hope Lange, 72, American actress, ischemic colitis
• 21 - Antony Allen, 90, English cricketer
• 22 - Dave Dudley, 75, American country music singer, myocardial infarction
• 23 - John Sanders, 70, British organist, pneumonia
• 23 - Chandu Sarwate, 83, Indian cricketer
• 26 - Hugh Bean, 74, British violinist
• 26 - Phil Goldman, 39, American engineer and entrepreneur, heart failure
• 26 - Yoshio Shirai, 80, first Japanese world boxing champion, pneumonia
• 27 - Vestal Goodman, 74, American Southern Gospel singer, complications from influenza
• 27 - Iván Calderón, 41, Puerto Rican former major league baseball star, homicide by gunshot
• 27 - Sir Alan Bates, 69, British actor, pancreatic cancer
• 28 - Dinsdale Landen, 71, British actor, pneumonia
• 28 - Benjamin Thurman Hacker, 68, first American Naval Flight Officer to achieve the "Flag" rank
• 29 - Earl Hindman, 61, American actor (Home Improvement), lung cancer
• 29 - Bob Monkhouse, 75, British comedian and game show host, prostate cancer
• 29 - Richard Davis, 37, English cricketer, brain cancer
• 30 - David Bale, 62, South African businessman and activist; husband of Gloria Steinem
• 30 - John Gregory Dunne, 71, American novelist and screenwriter, myocardial infarction
• 30 - Anita Mui, 40, Hong Kong pop queen
• 31 - Sophie Daumier, 69, French actress, comedienne, Huntington's disease
• 31 - Arthur R. von Hippel, 105, German-born scientist and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who made critical contributions to the development of radar

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