Deaths in October 2003
The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2003.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
October 2003
1
- John Brim, 81, American Chicago blues musician, heart cancer.[1]
- Hardiman Cureton, 69, American football player.
- Lillian DeCambra, 77, American baseball player (AAGPBL)[2]
- Huntington Hardisty, 74, U.S. Navy admiral.
- Joy N. Houck Jr., 61, American actor, screenwriter and film director.
- Khalid Masud, 67, Pakistani muslim scholar.
- Frank Taylor, 95, British politician, MP for Manchester Moss Side.
2
- John Thomas Dunlop, 89, American administrator and Secretary of Labor under Gerald Ford.
- Denis Moore, 93, English cricketer.
- Otto Günsche, 86, German SS Escort for Adolf Hitler, who was tasked to cremate his body on April 30, heart failure.
3
- John Baldock, 87, British politician (Member of Parliament for Harborough).[3]
- Lyall Barry, 77, New Zealand competitive swimmer.
- Greg Biagini, 51, American minor league baseball player and manager, and MLB hitting coach (Baltimore Orioles).[4]
- Tish Daija, 78, Albanian composer.
- Edward Hartman, 39, American convicted murderer.
- Florence Stanley, 79, American voice actress.
- William Steig, 95, American cartoonist and children's author; creator of Shrek.
- Winifred Watkins, 79, British biochemist.[5]
4
- Bill Cayton, 85, American boxing manager, former manager of Edwin Rosario and Mike Tyson.
- John Horace Ragnar Colvin, 81, British intelligence officer.
- Mary Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Lymington, 82, first female Lord Mayor of London.
- Sid McMath, 91, American attorney and politician, 34th governor of Arkansas.[6]
5
- Wil van Beveren, 91, Dutch sprinter (1936 Summer Olympics: men's 100m, men's 200m, men's 4x100m relay).[7]
- Neil Postman, 72, American media critic.
- Elena Slough, 114, oldest recognized person in the United States.
- Denis Quilley, 75, British actor.
- Dan Snyder, 25, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Atlanta Thrashers).[8]
- Timothy Treadwell, 46, American environmentalist and documentary filmmaker.
- Dwain Weston, 30, Australian skydiver and base jumper.[9]
6
- Joe Baker, 63, English footballer.
- Sir Antony Buck, 74, British politician (Member of Parliament for Colchester, Colchester North).[10]
- Sir Michael Livesay, 67, British admiral, Second Sea Lord.
- Mildred O'Neill, 89, widow of former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Tip O'Neill, heart attack.
7
- Izzy Asper, 71, Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate (CanWest Global Communications Corp).[11]
- Arthur Berger, 91, American composer, music critic, teacher and an academic music writer.[12]
- Dame Felicitas Corrigan, 95, Benedictine nun.
- Ryan Halligan, 13, American suicide victim.
- Eleanor Lambert, 100, United States fashion pioneer.
8
- Juan Armenteros, 84, Cuban-American Negro league baseball player, played in the 1953 East-West All-Star Game.[13]
- David Margolis, American mural artist.
- Cyril May, 82, British politician.
- Petter Thomassen, 62, Norwegian politician.
- Junior Wren, 73, American professional football player (Missouri, Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers).[14]
9
- Mervyn Blake, 95, Canadian stage actor, performed at the Stratford Festival of Canada for 42 seasons.[15]
- Adolphe Deledda, 84, Italian professional cyclist.
- Carl Fontana, 75, American jazz trombonist.
- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, 77, American academic and author.
10
- Viola Burnham, 72, Guyanese politician, First Lady (Prime Minister/President Forbes Burnham) and Vice President.[16]
- Eugene Istomin, 77, American pianist.
- Johnny Klippstein, 75, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Redlegs, Minnesota Twins).[17]
- Eve Newman, 88, American music and film editor (Academy Award nominations: Wild in the Streets, Two-Minute Warning).[18]
- Max Rayne, Baron Rayne, 85, British property developer and philanthropist.
- Julia Trevelyan Oman, 73, British set designer.
11
- Vivien Alcock, 79, English children's book writer, television adaptation of novel: Haunting of Cassie Palmer.[19]
- Ivan A. Getting, 91, American physicist and electrical engineer.
- Lila Ram, 72, Indian wrestler.
- Siegfried Schmutzler, 88, German Evangelical Lutheran pastor.
12
- J. B. Banks, 79, American politician (Missouri House of Rep., Missouri Senate, Missouri Senate Majority Leader).[20]
- Jim Cairns, 89, Australian politician (Deputy Prime Minister, Treasurer of Australia).[21]
- Joan B. Kroc, 75, philanthropist; widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, brain cancer.
- Willie Shoemaker, 72, American Hall of Fame jockey, rode the winners in eleven Triple Crown races.[22]
13
- Butch Brickell, 46, American race car driver (24 Hours of Daytona) and stuntman (The Specialist, 2 Fast 2 Furious).[23]
- Bertram Brockhouse, 85, Canadian physicist, 1994 Nobel Prize winner in physics for the development of neutron spectroscopy.[24]
- Gjorgji Kolozov, 55, Macedonian actor.
- Laurence Ryan, 72, Irish bishop and theologian.
- Anne Ziegler, 93, English singer, known for her duets with her husband Webster Booth.[25]
14
- Fqih Basri, 75-76, Moroccan activist and opposition leader.[26]
- Ned Breathitt, 78, American politician, 51st governor of Kentucky from 1963 to 1967, ventricular fibrillation.[27]
- Findley Burns Jr., 86, American Foreign Service officer, ambassador (Jordan, Ecuador) and U.N. employee.[28]
- Wil Culmer, 45, Bahamian baseball player (Cleveland Indians).[29]
- Patrick Dalzel-Job, 90, British naval intelligence officer and commando.
- Ben Metcalfe, 83, Greenpeace activist and co-founder, heart attack.
- Moktar Ould Daddah, 78, former president of Mauritania.
- William Redd, 91, American businessman and philanthropist.
- Frances Watt, 81, Scottish singer.
15
- Said Fayad, 82, Lebanese poet and literary journalist.
- Ray Kuhlman, 84, American pilot and businessman.
- Arthur E. Martell, 86, American chemist.
16
- Avni Arbas, Turkish artist, cancer.
- Lee Bailey, 76, American author and expert on cooking and entertaining.[30]
- Stu Hart, 88, Canadian wrestler; patriarch of Hart wrestling.
- László Papp, 77, Hungarian boxer.
17
- Billy Hughes, 74, Scottish footballer.
- Frank O'Flynn, 84, New Zealand politician.
- Janice Rule, 72, American actress.
- Clare Venables, 60, English theatre director, director of education at the Royal Shakespeare Company.[31]
18
- Joseph R. Applegate, 77, American linguistics expert, professor of African studies and a specialist in the Berber languages.[32]
- Leslie James Bennett, 82/83, British/Canadian counter-intelligence officer.
- Preston Smith, 91, American politician (40th Governor of Texas from 1969 to 1973).[33]
- Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, 64, Spanish novelist (Detective Carvalho saga), journalist and poet.[34]
- R. V. Vernède, 97, British writer and colonial administrator.
19
- Jaime Allende, 79, Spanish field hockey player (field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[35]
- Sir Peter Berger, 78, British admiral (Amethyst Incident).[36]
- Michael Hegstrand, 45, "Road Warrior Hawk".
- Alija Izetbegović, 78, President of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Margaret Murie, 101, "Mother of the Modern Conservationist Movement".
- Georgi Vladimov, 72, Soviet (Ukrainian) dissident writer.[37]
20
- František Balvín, 88, Czechoslovak cross-country skier (Olympic skiing: 1948 50km, 1948 relay, 1952 50km).[38]
- Ernie Calverley, 79, American professional basketball player (Rhode Island, Providence Steamrollers) and coach.[39]
- Miodrag Petrović Čkalja, 79, Serbian actor.
- Jack Elam, 84, American actor.
- Luis A. Ferré, 99, Puerto Rican industrialist and politician.
- Peter Morgan, 83, British sports car manufacturer.
21
- John Walter Baxter, 86, British civil engineer, designer of west London's Westway.[40]
- Bob Beckus, 83, American triple jumper (men's triple jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[41]
- Fred Berry, 52, American actor, known for his role of "Rerun" on the show What's Happening!!.[42]
- Louise Day Hicks, 87, American politician (Boston City Council, U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 9th congress. dist.).[43]
- Elliott Smith, 34, American musician.
22
- Dee Andros, 79, American football player, coach (University of Idaho, Oregon State University) and athletic director.[44]
- Derya Arbaş, 35, Turkish American actress, heart attack.
- Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas, 81, Venezuelan diplomat (Ambassador to the U.S., Foreign Minister of Venezuela).[45]
- Tony Renna, 27, American motor racer and IndyCar driver, killed while racing.
23
- Tony Capstick, 59, British actor, comedian, musician and broadcaster.
- Pete Chisman, 63, British cyclist, complications from surgery.[46]
- Al Corwin, 76, American baseball player (New York Giants).[47]
- Madame Chiang Kai-shek, 106, widow of the Nationalist Chinese president Chiang Kai-shek.
- Judah Segal, 91, British linguist.
24
- József Apró, 82, Hungarian middle-distance runner (men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[48]
- Bob Bailey, 72, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks).[49]
- Scott Bauer, 49, American senior pastor (The Church On The Way), radio program host and author.[50]
- Rosie Nix Adams, 45, American singer and songwriter, daughter of June Carter Cash.[51]
- Peter Sykes, 80, British chemist.
25
- Hemu Adhikari, 84, Indian cricketer.
- Pandurang Shastri Athavale, 83, Indian philosopher and social activist.
- Noreen Branson, 93, British political activist and historian of the Communist Party of Great Britain.[52]
- John Hart Ely, 64, American legal scholar.
- Behram Kursunoglu, 81, Turkish physicist.
26
- Steve Death, 54, English football goalkeeper, cancer.
- Emory Ellis, 96, American biochemist.
- Leonid Filatov, 56, Soviet and Russian actor, director and poet.
- Hans-Joachim Jabs, 85, German Luftwaffe officer in World War II.
- Elem Klimov, 70, Soviet Russian film director, brain hypoxia.
- Alec Linwood, 83, Scottish football player.
- Arthur McIntyre, 57, Australian artist and art critic.
- Viguen, 73, Iranian pop music singer ("Sultan of pop") and actor.[53]
27
- Hank Beenders, 87, Dutch-American professional basketball player (Providence Steamrollers, Philadelphia Warriors, Boston Celtics).[54]
- Johnny Boyd, 77, American racecar driver, twelve Indianapolis 500-mile races from 1955 to 1966.[55]
- Pete Gudauskas, 87, American professional football player (Murray State, Cleveland Rams, Chicago Bears).[56]
- Manoj Khanderia, 60, Indian poet writer.
- Virginia Lanier, 72, American writer and author.
- Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz, 88, British food writer.
- Rod Roddy, 66, American radio and television announcer.
- Walter Washington, 88, American civil servant and politician, first Mayor of the District of Columbia.[57]
- Buzz Westfall, 59, American lawyer and politician (St. Louis County Executive), meningitis staph infection.[58]
- Fred Whittingham, 64, American professional football player (Philadelphia Eagles, New Orleans Saints), complications from back surgery.[59]
28
- Sally Baldwin, 62, British social scientist.
- Ruth Batson, 82, American educator and civil rights activist, an outspoken advocate of equal education.[60]
- Jean Carbonnier, 95, French jurist.
- Marie Maynard Daly, 82, American biochemist.
- Edward Hartwig, 94, Polish photographer.
- Alexander Raichev, 81, Bulgarian composer.
- Oliver Sain, 71, American musician and record producer, cancer.
29
- Hal Clement, 81, American author.
- Gerrie Deijkers, 56, Dutch football player, heart attack.
- A. Carl Helmholz, 88, American nuclear physicist.
30
- Lynn S. Beedle, 85, American structural engineer, founder of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.[61]
- Carl Berner, 90, Danish rower (men's coxed pairs, men's eights at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[62]
- Franco Bonisolli, 65, Italian operatic tenor.[63]
- Franco Corelli, 81, operatic tenor.
- Lillian Jackson, 84, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[64]
- John M. Lovett, 60, Australian government officer and former President of the ICSD.
- Gil Nickel, 64, American Napa Valley vintner.[65]
- Richard Taylor, 83, American philosopher.
- Mike Yaconelli, 61, American youth minister, magazine editor (The Door) and writer, co-founder of Youth Specialties.[66]
31
- Robert Guenette, 68, American film/television producer, screenwriter, and film/television director, brain tumor.
- Daphne Hardy Henrion, 86, British sculptor.
- Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, 95, Indian Classical (Carnatic) musician.
- José Juncosa, 81, Spanish football player and manager.
- Richard Neustadt, 84, American professor, a leading presidential scholar and an advisor to several presidents.[67]
- A. S. Rao, 89, Indian scientist.
- Yechiel Shemi, Israeli sculptor.
- Lindsay Weir, 95, New Zealand cricketer.
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