Deaths in 2003

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The following is a list of notable people who died in 2003.

January 2003

• 1
  • Joe Foss, politician, fighter pilot, recipient of the Medal of Honor
• 2
  • Bob Chalker, former United States diplomat
  • Sydney Omarr, astrologer, newspaper columnist
• 3
  • Sid Gillman, American football coach
• 4
  • Raymond Aker, scholar and authority on Francis Drake.
  • Conrad Hall, Hollywood cinematographer, a two-time Academy Award-winner
  • Yfrah Neaman, violinist and teacher
• 5
  • Roy Jenkins, 82, British Labour MP and co-founder, first leader of, then Peer for, the Social Democratic Party
• 6
  • Lila Mayoral, former first lady of Puerto Rico, wife of Rafael Hernández Colón
• 8
  • Simeon Aké, Ivorian politician.
  • Ron Goodwin, British film music composer and conductor
• 11
  • Mickey Finn, of T. Rex
  • Sir Anthony Havelock-Allan, 98, British producer and screenwriter
  • Maurice Pialat, French movie director
  • Richard Simmons, actor; TV's Sgt Preston of the Yukon
• 12
  • Estelle Blanc, widow of cartoon voice actor Mel Blanc
  • Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, former dictator of Argentina
  • Maurice Gibb, of the Bee Gees
  • Koloman Sokol (aged 100), Slovak artist
  • Brandon "ripper" Vedas (overdosed on drugs while chatting on IRC)
• 13
  • Norman Panama, screenwriter and director
• 15
  • Gladys Kamakakuokalani Ainoa Brandt, a pioneering Hawaiian educator, fought for native Hawaiian rights
  • Doris Fisher, singer & songwriter
• 16
  • Hans Pietsch, German professional Go player
• 18
  • Richard Crenna, 74, actor
• 19
  • Françoise Giroud, French writer and politician
• 20
  • Al Hirschfeld, caricaturist
  • Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player
• 21
  • Tony O'Malley, Irish artist and painter
  • Seán Malone, retired university professor and pioneer of biological psychiatry in the Republic of Ireland
• 22
  • Bill Mauldin, World War II cartoonist
• 23
  • Nell Carter, singer, actress
  • Aodhagán Brioscú, last surviving founder of Irish cultural organisation Gael Linn
• 24
  • Gianni Agnelli, Italian entrepreneur and president of Fiat
• 25
  • Robert Rockwell, actor; Philip Boynton on TV's Our Miss Brooks
• 26
  • Viscount Younger of Leckie, (George Younger) British politician, Secretary of State for Scotland between 1979 and 1986
  • Valeriy Brumel, track and field athlete
• 27
  • Lord Dacre (Hugh Trevor-Roper), British historian, authenticator of the hoaxed Hitler Diaries
• 29
  • Frank Moss Former Utah Senator
  • Peter Shaw, producer and second husband of actress Angela Lansbury

February 2003

• 1
  • Astronauts Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel B. Clark and Ilan Ramon aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia
  • Mongo Santamaria, percussionist, band leader, Latin jazz musician
• 2
  • Dr. Harold S. Ginsberg, microbiologist
  • Lou Harrison, American composer, noted for his microtonal works
• 3
  • Aino Järvesoo, Estonian philanthropist
• 4
  • Charles McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway, British industrialist and horticulturist.
• 5
  • Helge Boes, CIA operations officer
• 6
  • Robert St. John (aged 100), globetrotting reporter and author
• 7
  • John Reading, Mayor of Oakland, California from 1966 to 1977 who supported the building of the Oakland Coliseum
• 9
  • Vera Hruba Ralston, star of Ice Capades and Republic Pictures B-movies of the 1940s
  • Kerri Yascheshyn Canadian cancer patient whose friendship with Madonna made headlines
• 10
  • Edgar de Evia, American photographer born in Mérida, Yucatán, aged 92
  • Curt Hennig, professional wrestler
  • Clark MacGregor, former U.S. Congressman
  • Al Ruffo, former mayor of San Jose, California who helped form the San Francisco 49ers football team in 1946
  • Ron Ziegler former press secretary for Richard Nixon during the Watergate Scandal
• 13
  • Axel Jensen, Norwegian author
  • Kid Gavilan, world boxing champion and hall of famer
  • Stacy Keach Sr, character actor; father of actors Stacy and James Keach
  • Walt Rostow, political advisor
• 14
  • Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal
  • Johnny Longden, jockey
• 16
  • Eleanor "Sis" Daley, wife of Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley
• 17
  • Steve Bechler, baseball pitcher, Baltimore Orioles
• 18
  • Jack Brodsky, movie producer and publicist
• 19
  • Johnny PayCheck, country music singer
• 20
  • Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and literary theorist
  • Ty Longley, Guitarist for the heavy metal band Great White
  • Harry Jacunski, former NFL player, Green Bay Packers
  • Orville Lothrop Freeman, former Governor of Minnesota and Secretary of Agriculture for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
  • Mushaf Ali Mir, Pakistan Chief of the Air Staff
• 22
  • Jesica Santillan, heart and lung patient whose wrong transplant made headlines
  • 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
• 25
  • Alberto Sordi, Italian comedy film legend
  • Tom O'Higgins, former Irish Chief Justice & twice defeated Irish presidential candidate
• 27
  • Fred Rogers, host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
• 28
  • Roger Needham, computer pioneer
  • Fidel Sánchez Hernández, former President of El Salvador
  • Chris Brasher, athlete

March 2003

• 2
  • Roger Albertsen, Norwegian footballer.
  • Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer, Master of the Queen's Music
  • Robert B. Ingebretsen pioneer in the development of digital sound.
  • Hank Ballard, singer, composer, famous for his hit "The Twist"
• 3 Horst Buchholz, German actor
• 6 John Sanford, author
• 8
  • Adam Faith, British singer and actor
  • Karen Morley, blonde star of 1930s movies; ex-wife of Charles Vidor
• 9
  • Stan Brakhage, filmmaker
  • F. William Sunderman (aged 104), physician and scientist
• 10
  • Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru
  • Barry Sheene, twice 500cc MotoGP Champion
  • Naftali Temu, Kenyan athlete
• 11
  • Ivar Hansen, Danish politician and speker of the Folketing
• 12
  • Howard Fast, novelist
  • Lynne Thigpen, actor, co-star of CBS television show "The District", and star of PBS show Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
  • Harry The Kid Matthews, boxer, world title challenger in three divisions
  • Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (assassinated)
  • Andrei Kivilev, professional cyclist (fall during Paris-Nice race)
• 14 Jack Goldstein, artist
• 15 Dame Thora Hird, veteran British actress
• 16
  • Major Ronald Ferguson, father of UK royal divorcée Sarah, Duchess of York, aged 71 [1]
  • 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
• 22 Terry Lloyd, reporter
• 24
  • Hans Hermann Groër, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (1986 - 1995) who resigned in 1995 after allegations of sexually abusing boys
  • Philip Yordan, screenwriter; won Oscar for "Broken Lance"
• 26 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former Senator from New York
• 29 Dr. Carlo Urbani, WHO doctor, discoverer of SARS, of which he died
• 30 Valentin Pavlov, former prime minister of the Soviet Union
• 30 Gaby Rado, UK journalist
• 31
  • H.S.M. Coxeter, noted geometer and author of many books, died at age 96
  • Michael Jeter, actor, friend, as "The Other Mr. Noodle" to Sesame Street's Elmo

April 2003

• 1 Leslie Cheung, actor and singer, one of the superstars in Hong Kong during late 1980s, committed suicide
  • Booker Bradshaw, record producer, film & TV actor, Motown executive
• 2
  • Michael Wayne, film producer; eldest son of John Wayne
  • Edwin Starr, soul singer
  • Pat Leavy, Irish actress who played Hannah Finnegan in the Radio Telifís Éireann soap opera Fair City, died after being taken ill on set
  • Edward Keating, founder of Ramparts magazine
• 4 Resortes, legendary Mexican comedian, real name Adalberto Martinez Chavez
• 5 Seymour Lubetzky (aged 104), cataloging theorist and librarian
• 6
  • Babatunde Olatunji, African drummer, recorded Drums of Passion
  • Lance Corporal Ian Malone Dublin-born soldier in the Irish Guards regiment of the British Army, who featured in a Radio Telifís Éireann documentary on Irish-born British soldiers, killed in Iraq
  • 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 (aged 99), who inspired the Babar the Elephant children's books when she told it to her children as a bedtime story in 1931 (it was then illustrated by her husband)
• 8 Anita Borg, computer scientist
• 9 James Earl Salisbury educator
• 10
  • Abdul Majid al-Khoei, Shia cleric
  • Little Eva (Eva Narcissus Boyd), who sang the 1962 hit The Loco-Motion
  • Noel Fox, former singer of gospel band The Oak Ridge Boys
• 12
  • Sydney Lassick, actor, best known playing asylum resident Cheswick in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Cecil H. Green (aged 102), Texas Instruments founder
• 16 Graham Stuart Thomas, horticultural artist, author and garden designer
• 17
  • Earl King, R&B musician/songwriter
  • Paul Getty, philanthropist
  • Robert Atkins, diet doctor
• 18
  • Daijiro Kato, Japanese 500cc MotoGP Star, former 250cc Champion
  • Edgar F. Codd, computer pioneer
• 19
  • Conrad Leonard (aged 104), British musician and composer
  • Norberto Longo, Telemundo sportscaster
• 20
  • Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress
  • Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle rider, after crashing into a Suzuka wall on April 6 (b. 1976)
• 21
  • Robert Blackburn, American artist and printmaker
  • Rocco Theunissen, Rally Driver
  • Nina Simone, jazz singer, "High Priestess of Soul"
• 22 Martha Griffiths, Congresswoman, women's rights proponent
• 23
  • Bernard Katz biophysicist, Nobel Prize winner
  • James H. Critchfield, CIA Cold Warrior
• 25 Hidefumi Minorikawa, a Diet of Japan member of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party
• 26
  • The Honourable 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
  • Caroline Newhouse, arts patron; widow of Theodore Newhouse
  • Max Nicholson, environmentalist
  • Peter Stone, Oscar-and-(3-time)Tony-winning writer
• 27 Elaine Steinbeck, former actress; widow of author John Steinbeck
• 29 Etti Plesch, who married three counts, an American heir, and a Hungarian Lawyer
• 30
  • Peter 'Possum' Bourne, 3 Times Asia-Pacific Rally Champion
  • Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist

May 2003

• 1 Miss Elizabeth, WWE wrestling figure
• 3 Suzy Parker, actress; top model of the 1950s
• 5 Walter Sisulu, ANC activist
• 6
  • Evelio Lopez Falcon, alleged Mexican drug trafficker
  • David Woodley, former quarterback of the Miami Dolphins, who started in Super Bowl XVII
• 9 Russell B. Long, former U.S. 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
  • Paulo Flores, Brazilian voice actor
• 13 John Savage, former Premier of Nova Scotia, Canada
• 14
  • Robert Stack, Hollywood actor, host of Unsolved Mysteries, 84 years old
  • Dame Wendy Hiller, British actress (August 15, 1912 - May 14, 2003)
  • Dave DeBusschere, NBA basketball player
• 15
  • Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist
  • George Francis, British suspected mobster
  • June Carter Cash, musician, singer, wife of Johnny Cash
  • David O. Ives, public broadcasting pioneer, longtime executive at WGBH, Boston, which introduced such television programs as "Nova," "Frontline," "Masterpiece Theatre," and "This Old House"
• 16
  • Mal Florence, longtime sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times
  • William E. Day, broadcaster and preservationist, early proponent of the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act
  • Mark McCormack, sports business pioneer, founder of IMG
• 18
  • Anna Santisteban, legendary figure in the Miss Universe contests
  • Barb Tarbox, Canadian anti-smoking activist
• 21
  • Elfren Bernier, Puerto Rican Olympic athlete and lawyer
  • Frank D. White, Former governor of Arkansas
• 26 Kathleen Winsor, author of Forever Amber
• 27 Luciano Berio, composer
• 28
  • Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
  • Martha Scott, actress
  • Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut
• 29 Basil Langton, theatre/screen actor from the 30s to the 90s
• 30 Mickie Most, music producer, produced acts such as Lulu, Donovan, The Animals, Hot Chocolate, Suzi Quatro and Kim Wilde

June 2003

• 2
  • Fred Blassie, 85, former professional wrestler
  • Richard Cusack, 77, ad executive turned actor/screenwriter, father of actors John Cusack and Joan Cusack, dies of pancreatic cancer in Evanston, Illinois
  • Jack Frazier, former Saddam Hussein hostage
• 3 Fabrice Salanson, a French pro-cyclist
• 5
  • Meir Vilner, last surviving signatory to Israel's declaration of independence and former chairman of the Communist Party of Israel
  • Jürgen Möllemann, former German minister
• 7
  • Tony McAuley BBC Northern Ireland broadcaster & film-maker associated with traditional Irish music and arts
  • Trevor Goddard, actor
• 10
  • Donald Regan, Chief of Staff and Treasury Secretary during the Reagan administration
  • Bernard Williams, British philosopher
  • Phil Williams, highly-respected Welsh politician, in a Cardiff massage parlour
• 11 David Brinkley, broadcast journalist
• 12 Gregory Peck, actor
• 15
  • Hume Cronyn, actor
  • William Wentworth, Australian politician, first federal Minister of Aboriginal Affairs
• 18 Larry Doby, baseball Hall of Famer, second Black man to play in the MLB
• 19
  • Glen Grant, Hawaiian historian, folklorist and author
  • Laura Sadler, British television actress, after falling 40 feet from a building
• 20 Bob Stump, Arizona Congressman
• 21 Roger Neilson, legendary Canadian hockey coach
• 22 Alexander Vetoux, Ukrainian boxing prospect. Was 22-1 with 18 knockouts as a professional; body found in river on June 27th
• 23 Vasil Bykau, Belarusian writer
• 24
  • Maynard Jackson, former Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, first black mayor of a major southern U.S. city
  • Leon Uris, author
  • Renato Cayetano, Philippine senator
• 25 Lester Maddox, segregationist Governor of the State of Georgia
• 26
  • Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian football player
  • Sir Denis Thatcher Bt., husband to Baroness Thatcher, former UK Prime Minister
  • Strom Thurmond, Former South Carolina Governor, United States Senator, and Presidential candidate
• 27
  • Magne Aarøen, Norwegian politician
  • Dáithí P. Hanly, former Dublin city architect and conservationist
• 28 Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete
• 29 Katharine Hepburn, actress
• 30
  • Robert McCloskey, children's book writer and illustrator
  • Buddy Hackett, comic

July 2003

• 1
  • Wesley Mouzon, former professional boxer, 76 years old, beat Bob Montgomery
  • Herbie Mann, crossover jazz and bossa nova flutist
  • N!xau, Namibian actor
• 3
  • Gaetano Alibrandi, papal diplomat and Apostolic Nuncio to the Republic of Ireland
  • Najeeb Halaby, chairman of Pan Am from 1969 to 1972, father of Queen Noor
• 4
  • Larry Burkett, founder of Christian Financial Concepts
  • Barry White, smooth soul singer
• 5
  • Roman Lyashenko, New York Rangers hockey player
  • Bebu Silvetti, popular Argentine musician, songwriter and arranger
  • Isabelle, Countess of Paris, widow of Henri, Count of Paris, pretender to the French throne
• 6 Buddy Ebsen, American actor
• 7 Izhak Graziani, conductor
• 8
  • Dr. William Boyd, former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
  • Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian conjoined twins
• 9 Winston Graham, author of Poldark and Marnie
• 10 Hartley Shawcross (Lord Shawcross), Britain's chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
• 11
  • Zahra Kazemi, Iranian-born Canadian journalist
  • Ken Whyld, British chess author
• 12 Benny Carter, American jazz pioneer
• 13 Compay Segundo, Cuban musician and star of the Buena Vista Social Club
• 14
  • Ahmed Al-Waeli, Shiite cleric.
  • Tex Schramm, former Dallas Cowboys president and general manager
  • 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
  • Carol Shields, Canadian author
  • Celia Cruz, Cuban legendary salsa singer
• 17
  • Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist and champion of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Dr. David Kelly, former UN weapons inspector who was accused of leaking information to the BBC about the UK's dossier on Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction
  • Eamonn Leahy, 46 year old top Irish barrister and husband of government Chief Whip Mary Hanafin
• 18
  • Brad Rone, boxer, became famous after death
  • Jane Barbe, phone company voiceover
• 19
  • Pierre Graber, former member of the Swiss Federal Council (1970-1978)
  • Bill Bright, evangelist, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ
• 20
  • Nicolas Freeling, crime writer
  • Lauri Aus, Estonian pro cyclist
• 21
  • Walter M. "Matt" Jefferies, art director for the original Star Trek series and designer of the Starship Enterprise
  • John Davies, president of the New Zealand Olympic Committee
• 22
  • Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein
  • Qusay Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein
  • Noel Picarda, satirist and broadcaster
• 23
  • Othniel Askew, killer of James E. Davis
  • James E. Davis, New York City councilman
• 24 Colin R. McMillan, nominee for United States Secretary of the Navy
• 25
  • Ludwig Bölkow, airplane engineer
  • John Schlesinger, director
• 26
  • Richard Wayne Dirksen, composer, former organist-choirmaster Washington National Cathedral
• 27
  • Bob Hope, comedian and actor
  • Vance Hartke, former U.S. Senator from Indiana
• 28
  • Erik Braunn, Iron Butterfly guitarist
  • Lady Valerie Goulding, former Irish Senator and campaigner for the disabled
• 29 Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader
• 30 Sam Phillips, record producer
• 31
  • Edward P. Alexander, author and historian.

August 2003

• 1
  • Guy Thys, former Belgian national football coach.
  • Marie Trintignant, French actress and daughter of actor Jean-Louis Trintignant
• 2
  • Don Estelle, actor who played 'Lofty' in the BBC's It Ain't Half Hot Mum
  • Mike Levey, famous infomercial host
• 4
  • Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh, longest-ordained hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church
  • Chung Mong-hun, Korean businessman
• 5
  • Tite Curet Alonso, well known Puerto Rican music composer, critic, newspaper writer
  • Lee Muñoz, former first son of Puerto Rico (son of Luis Muñoz Marín), foundation leader
• 9
  • Gregory Hines, actor, dancer
  • Ray Harford, football manager
• 10 Carmita Jimenez, Puerto Rican singer
• 11
  • Kieran Kelly, Irish jump jockey after a racing accident
  • Diana Mitford, widow of British Fascist leader Oswald Mosley
  • Herb Brooks, coach of 1980 Miracle on Ice US Hockey team
  • Armand Borel, notable Swiss mathematician
• 13
  • Helmut Rahn, German soccer player, World Champion 1954
  • Ed Townsend, 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, former dictator of Uganda
  • Connie Douglas Reeves, centenarian member of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame
• 19
  • Hermann Withalm, Austrian politician
  • Carlos Roberto Reina, former president of Honduras
  • Sérgio Vieira de Mello, United Nations Special Representative to Iraq
• 20 António Pedro Ferreira, Portugal President of Portuguese Custom Broker Association
• 21
  • Wesley Willis, American schizophrenic musician and artist
• 22 Arnold Gerschwiler, figure skating trainer in Britain
• 23
  • Amram Ducovny, novelist, former columnist for Boston magazine and father of actor David Duchovny
  • John Geoghan, defrocked pedophile priest
  • Bobby Bonds, former baseball player and father of San Francisco Giants ballplayer Barry Bonds
  • Michael Kijana Wamalwa, Kenyan Vice-President
  • Imperio Argentina, Spanish singer and actress
  • Jack Dyer, Australian rules football legend
• 24
  • Harry W. Addison, American author
  • Sir Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer
  • Mal Colston, Australian politician
• 26 Jim Wacker, American football college coach
• 27 Pierre Poujade, French politician
• 28
  • Patrick William Feeney, United States college basketball player
  • Barry Voorhies, Arena football player
• 29 Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim
  • Kathy Wilkes, Oxford philosopher and education worker in Eastern Europe
• 30
  • Steve Eisner, boxing promoter
  • Charles Bronson, actor
  • Donald Davidson (philosopher)

September 2003

• 1 Sir Terry Frost, British artist
• 3 Paul Hill, executed for two anti-abortion murders
• 4 Tibor Varga, violinist, conductor and pedagogue
• 5 Gisele MacKenzie, singer
• 6 Wilbur Snapp, stadium organist kicked out of game by umpire for playing Three Blind Mice
• 7
  • Warren Zevon, singer and songwriter
  • The Great Antonio, strongman and eccentric
• 8
  • Leni Riefenstahl, German filmmaker
  • Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian voice actor, provided voice of cartoon character Caillou
• 9
  • Larry Hovis, actor, played Carter on Hogan's Heroes
  • Edward Teller, American physicist, "Father of the H-Bomb"
• 10 Harry Goz, cartoon voice actor
• 11
  • Ben Bril, Dutch boxer
  • John Ritter, American actor, played Jack Tripper on Three's Company
  • Anna Lindh, Swedish foreign minister
• 12
  • Johnny Cash, American country singer
  • Rev Prof Norman Walker Porteous, theologian and writer on Old Testament issues
• 13 Frank O'Bannon, Governor of Indiana
• 15
  • Jack Brymer, British clarinettist
  • Yetunde Price, sister of American tennis players Venus and Serena Williams
• 16
  • Erich Hallhuber, Bavarian actor
  • Sheb Wooley, actor, singer of 1958 pop hit Purple People Eater
  • Tommy Rawson, boxer, referee
• 18 Valve Janov, Estonian painter
• 19 Slim Dusty, Australian country music singer
• 20
  • Lord Williams of Mostyn, British Cabinet minister, Leader of the House of Lords
  • Liam Tobin, longtime Árd Rúnaí Roinn na Gaeltachta (Secretary to the Irish Department of the Gaeltacht) and Irish language campaigner
  • 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
  • Gordon Jump, American actor
  • Johan Stekelenburg, Dutch union leader and politician
• 24
  • Derek Prince, author, biblical scholar and spiritual patriarch, 88 years
  • Tomás MacGabhann, Irish Trade Unionist and Irish language activist
  • Edward Said, Palestinian scholar
• 25
  • George Plimpton, author, editor
  • Franco Modigliani, Nobel Prize-winning economist
  • Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician, member of the Governing Council
• 26 Robert Palmer, singer
• 27 Donald O'Connor, entertainer, actor
• 28
  • Yukichi Chuganji, 114 years
  • Elia Kazan, director
  • Althea Gibson, tennis player
• 30
  • Gilbert Ortega, jewelry tycoon, country singer
  • Robert Kardashian, criminal defense lawyer

October 2003

• 2
  • John T. Dunlop, briefly Secretary of Labor under Gerald Ford
  • Gunther Philipp, Austrian actor
• 3 William Steig, American cartoonist and children's author; creator of Shrek
• 4
  • Sid McMath, former governor of Arkansas
  • James Forlong, former British reporter for Sky News, who was accused of faking a news report during the invasion of Iraq, in an apparent suicide
  • Bill Cayton, American boxing manager, owner of (reportedly) largest fight video collection in the world, former manager of Edwin Rosario and Mike Tyson
• 5
  • Matthew Brown, 29, Latin Teacher
  • Neil Postman, media critic
  • Elena Slough, oldest recognized American, aged 114
  • Denis Quilley, British actor
  • Dan Snyder, Atlanta Thrashers hockey player
  • Timothy Treadwell, environmentalist and bear enthusiast
• 6 Mildred O'Neill, widow of former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Tip O'Neill
• 7
  • Frank Roe, former President of the Irish Circuit Court
  • Eleanor Lambert, U.S. fashion pioneer
  • Izzy Asper, Canadian press baron [2]
  • Felicitas Corrigan, Benedictine nun
• 9 Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American academic and author
• 10 Eugene Istomin, American pianist
• 11 Fredy Knie, Sr., Swiss circus director
• 12
  • Willie Shoemaker, Hall of Fame jockey
  • Jim Cairns, Australian politician
• 13
  • Bertram Brockhouse, Nobel Prize-winning Canadian physicist [3]
  • Joan B. Kroc, philanthropist, widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc
• 14 Ben Metcalfe, Greenpeace activist and co-founder
• 16
  • Jim Albrecht, tournament director of the World Series of Poker.
  • Stu Hart, patriarch of wrestling family, 88 years
  • László Papp, Hungarian boxer
  • Avni Arbas, Turkish artist
• 18
  • Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
  • Preston Smith, governor of Texas
  • Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer
• 19
  • Margaret Murie, "Mother of the Modern Conservationist Movement" 101 years
  • Faith Fancher, television journalist and breast cancer awareness activist, 53 years
  • Michael Hegstrand, "Road Warrior Hawk", 46 years
  • Alija Izetbegovic, President of Bosnia Herzegovina
• 20 Jack Elam, American actor, 84 years
• 21
  • Louise Day Hicks, US politician
  • Fred Berry, American actor, "Rerun" on the show What's Happening!!
  • Elliott Smith, US musician, 34 years
  • Luis A. Ferré, former governor of Puerto Rico, 99 years
• 23
  • Tony Capstick, British actor, comedian, musician and broadcaster
  • Soong May-ling, widow of the Nationalist Chinese president Chiang Kai-shek, 106 years
• 24 Rosie Nix Adams, daughter of June Carter Cash
• 25
  • Hemu Adhikari, Indian cricketer.
• 26 Elem Klimov, Russian director
• 27 Rod Roddy, booth announcer on The Price is Right
• 28 Behram Kursunoglu, Turkish physicist, 81 years old
• 29 Hal Clement, author, 81 years
• 30
  • Daphne Hardy Henrion, British sculptor, 86 years old
  • Franco Corelli, operatic tenor, 82 years old
• 31
  • Mohamed Yazid, Algerian politician, 80 years old
  • Richard Neustadt, political scholar and historian
  • Kamato Hongo, oldest recognized person in world at 116

November 2003

• 2 Frederic Vester, German cybernetician (77 years)
• 3
  • Rasul Gamzatov, Avarian/Soviet/Russian poet, called the "People's poet of Dagestan" (80 years)
  • Frank McCloskey, Indiana Congressman from 1983-1995 (64 years)
• 4
  • Angel Chingre, Ecuadorian campesino leader, human rights activist
  • Mitch Rosario, Puerto Rican hair stylist who worked with Ricky Martin, Paulina Rubio among others
  • Ken Gampu, South African actor
  • Richard Wollheim, British philosopher (80 years)
• 5
  • Bobby Hatfield, half of the singing duet, the Righteous Brothers (63 years)
  • Dernell Stenson, Cincinnati Reds baseball player
• 6
  • Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (41 years)
  • Crash Holly, professional wrestler (32 years)
  • Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer, triple Olympic champion (84 years)
• 8
  • Hava Rexha, oldest woman in Albania, maybe in the world (123 years?)
  • C. Z. Guest, socialite (83 years)
  • Haydar Richard Nancy (pregnant) and Jad, Lebanese nationals form Lebanon, killed in terrorist bombing attack on residential compound Al-Muhaya in Saudi Arabia (31, 29 and 1 years)
• 9
  • Gordon Onslow Ford, surrealist painter (90 years)
  • Mario Merz, Italian artist
  • Art Carney, The Honeymooners actor (85 years)
  • Buddy Arnold, jazz saxophonist
• 10
  • Canaan Banana, first president of independent Zimbabwe (67 years)
  • Irv "Kup" Kupcinet, columnist, television personality (91 years)
• 11 Robert Brown, British actor (M in 4 James Bond films) (82 years)
• 12
  • Tony Thompson, drummer for The Power Station
  • Penny Singleton, actress (95 years)
  • David Silvetti, Mexican bullfighter, committed suicide
  • Jonathan Brandis, actor, reportedly suicide (27 years)
• 13
  • Kellie Waymire, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise) (35 years)
  • Mitoyo Kawate, oldest recognized person in the world (114 years)
• 14 Gene Anthony Ray, actor and dancer
• 15
  • Ray Lewis, first Canadian-born black Olympic medalist
  • Mohamed Choukri, writer
  • Laurence Tisch, billionaire, head of Loews Corporation and CBS television network
  • Dorothy Loudon, actress
• 16
  • Bettina Goislard, UNHCR relief worker (29 years)
  • Fukuda, Arihiro, Japanese associate professor and author of Sovereignty and the Sword (39 years)
• 17
  • Gerry Adams Sr., IRA member
  • Arthur Conley, soul singer
  • Don Gibson, singer-songwriter
• 18 Michael Kamen, composer
• 19 Ken Brett, former Major League Baseball player, brother of George Brett (55 years)
• 20
  • David Dacko, first president of the Central African Republic (73 years)
  • Robert Addie, British actor (43 years)
  • Eugene Kleiner, entrepreneur and co-founder of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers venture capital firm (80 years)
  • Roger Short, British diplomat, consul-general in Istanbul (58 years)
  • Kerem Yilmazer, Turkish actor (58 years)
  • Jim Siedow, American actor (b. 1920)
• 21 Bohumil Simon, one of the leaders of the Prague Spring (83 years)
• 24
  • Hugh Kenner, literary critic (80 years)
  • Warren Spahn, baseball pitcher (82 years)
  • Floquet de Neu or Copito de Nieve ("Snowflake"), rare albino gorilla, star of the Barcelona zoo [4]
  • Uma Devi, popularly known as Tuntun, Indian actress (80 years)
• 26
  • Stefan Wul, French science fiction writer (81 years)
  • Soulja Slim, rapper
  • Anton Burg, USC chemistry professor (99 years)
  • William H. Waldren, archaeologist (79 years)
• 27
  • Talal al-Rasheed, Saudi poet (41 years?)
  • Will Quadflieg, German actor
• 28
  • Harold von Braunhut, American, creator of Amazing Sea-Monkeys and other comic book kitsch, member of the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Nations
  • Jim Duffy, Major League Baseball umpire (82 Years)
• 30
  • Barber B. Conable, New York Congressman, president of the World Bank from 1986-1991 (81 years)
  • Gertrude Ederle, first woman to swim the English Channel (97 years)

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, German politician, minister for agriculture 1983-93
• 3 David Hemmings, actor
• 5 Bert Templeton, 63, ice hockey coach
• 6
  • Haddis Alemayehu, Foreign Minister and novelist from Ethiopia.
  • Jose-Maria Jimenez, 32, professional cyclist
  • Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, 85, President of Guatemala 1970-74
  • Jerry Tuite, 36, professional wrestler
• 7
  • Raúl Vale, 59, Venezuelan-Mexican entertainer
  • Carl F. H. Henry, 90, American Evangelical theologian, founder of Christianity Today magazine
  • Azie Taylor Morton, 67, former Treasurer of the United States
• 8
  • Rubén González, 84, Cuban pianist, member of the Buena Vista Social Club
  • Johnny Bulla, 89, golfer
• 9 Paul Simon, 75, former U.S. Senator from Illinois
• 10 Ettore Perazzoli, 29, free software developer
• 11
  • Ahmadou Kourouma, author from Côte d'Ivoire
  • John W. Sidgmore, former head of Worldcom and UUNet
  • Paulos Tzadua, Roman Catholic cardinal from Ethiopia
• 12
  • Keiko, 27, orca of Reino Aventura and Free Willy fame
  • Heydar Aliyev, 80, former President of Azerbaijan
  • Fadwa Toukan, 86, Palestinian poet
  • Earl Gillespie, 81, sportscaster, voice of the Milwaukee Braves
• 13
  • Elizabeth Bates, 56, Professor of Psychology at University of California, San Diego
  • William V. Roth, Jr., former U.S. Senator, known for Kemp-Roth Tax Cut and Roth IRA
• 14
  • Jeanne Crain, 78, Oscar-nominated actress
  • Blas Ople, 75, foreign minister of the Philippines
• 15
  • Keith Magnuson, 56, former National Hockey League player (car accident)
  • George Fisher, U.S. political cartoonist
• 16
  • Gary Stewart, 58, Country music singer (suicide)
  • Robert Stanfield, Canadian politician
• 17
  • Ed Devereaux, Australian actor
  • Otto Graham, 82, Cleveland Browns football quarterback during the 1950s
• 19
  • Hope Lange, actress in Peyton Place
  • Peter Carter-Ruck, 89, UK libel lawyer
• 20 John Halfpenny, 68, Australian unionist
• 22 Dave Dudley, 75, Country music singer
• 24 Linda Viiding, 97, Estonian translator
• 26
  • Phil Goldman, 39, WebTV founder
  • Yoshio Shirai, 80, first Japanese world boxing champion
• 27
  • Vestal Goodman, 74, Queen of Southern Gospel music
  • Ivan Calderon, 41, Puerto Rican former major league baseball star
  • Sir Alan Bates, British actor
• 28
  • Benjamin Hacker, 68, First U.S. Naval Flight Officer (NFO) to achieve Flag rank.
  • Isabelle Stevenson, chairman of the board of the American Theatre Wing, presenters of the Tony Awards [5]
  • Dinsdale Landen, 71, British actor
• 29
  • Archbishop Michael Courtney, 58, Irish-born Papal Nuncio to Burundi who was central to peace negotiations, assassinated
  • Earl Hindman, 61, U.S. actor, played "Wilson" on Home Improvement TV series
  • Bob Monkhouse, 75, British comedian and game show host
• 30
  • David Bale, 62, activist
  • John Gregory Dunne, 71, American novelist and screenwriter
  • Anita Mui, 40, Hong Kong pop queen
• 31
  • Arthur R. von Hippel, 105, German-born scientist and MIT professor who made critical contributions to the development of radar
  • Bríd Durrane, 109, the oldest person to receive a university degree and write an autobiography (both at 103), last surviving person who knew the leaders of Ireland's 1916 Uprising personally [6]
  • Rein Helme, 49, Estonian war historian
  • Terje Soots, 38, Estonian radio host