Deaths in April 2003
The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.
April 2003
1
- Booker Bradshaw, 61, American record producer, film & TV actor; Motown executive, heart attack.
- Lloyd L. Brown, 89, American writer, activist and labor organizer, co-wrote Paul Robeson biography Here I Stand.[1]
- Richard Caddel, 53, English poet, publisher and editor, a key figure in the British Poetry Revival.[2]
- Leslie Cheung, 46, Hong Kong actor and singer.
- Sven Holmberg, 85, Swedish actor.
- David Horrobin, 63, British medical researcher and entrepreneur.
- Adriaan Cornelis Zaanen, 89, Dutch mathematician, known for his books on Riesz spaces.[3]
2
- Hilly Flitcraft, 79, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[4]
- Paul Freeman, 59, American Bigfoot hunter.
- Terenci Moix, 61, Spanish writer.
- Ron Sceney, 85, Australian rules footballer.
- Edwin Starr, 61, American soul singer.
- Michael Wayne, 68, American film producer, eldest son of John Wayne, heart failure from complications of lupus.[5]
3
- Walter Ashbaugh, 84, American Olympic triple jumper (men's triple jump at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[6]
- Homer Banks, 61, American songwriter and record producer ("(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right"), cancer.[7]
- Arthur Guyton, 83, American physiologist.
- Scott Hain, 32, American convict, execution by lethal injection.
- Hugh W. Hardy, 78, US Marine Corps Reserves major general.
- Gunadasa Kapuge, 57, Sri Lankan musician, fall.
- Michael Kelly, 46, American journalist, columnist and magazine editor, war-related vehicular accident.
- Harold S. Sawyer, 83, American politician (U.S. Representative for Michigan's 5th congressional district from 1977 to 1985), throat cancer .[8]
4
- Anthony Caruso, 86, American actor.
- Abdul Kadir, 54, Indonesian footballer, kidney failure.
- Helmut Knochen, 93, Nazi official and senior commander of the SiPo and SD.
- Billy McPhail, 75, Scottish football playe.
- José Menéndez Monroig, 85, Puerto Rican politician.
- J. Quigg Newton, 91, American lawyer and politician, mayor of Denver from 1947 to 1955.[9]
- Resortes, 87, Mexican comedian, emphysema.
- Paul Ray Smith, 33, US Army Sergeant, killed in action.
5
- Seymour Lubetzky, 104, American cataloging theorist and librarian.
- Frédéric Kibassa Maliba, 63, politician in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), heart attack.
- Beti Rhys, 96, Welsh bookseller and author.
6
- David Bloom, 39, American television journalist (NBC News, Weekend Today), pulmonary embolism.[10]
- Anita Borg, 54, American computer scientist, advocate for the advancement of women in computer science.[11]
- Gerald Emmett Carter, 91, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Toronto (1978-1990).
- Lance Corporal Ian Malone, 28, Irish soldier in the British Army, killed in action.
- Babatunde Olatunji, 75, African drummer; recorded Drums of Passion, diabetes.
- Dino Yannopoulos, 83, Greek-American stage director, (Metropolitan Opera, Academy of Vocal Arts, Athens Music Festival).[12]
7
- Julio Anguita Parrado, 32, Spanish journalist and war correspondent (El Mundo).[13]
- Cécile de Brunhoff, 99, French pianist and teacher, created the children's book character Babar the Elephant.[14]
- Ib Eisner, 77, Danish artist.
- David Greene, 82, British television and film director, pancreatic cancer.
- Jutta Hipp, 78, Germen-American jazz pianist and composer, pancreatic cancer.
- Maurice Kouandété, 70, Benin military officer and politician.
- Mohammad Khan Majeedi, 85, Indian poet.
- Robin Winks, 72, American professor, historian, prolific author and diplomat.[15]
8
- Tareq Ayyoub, 35, Jordanian journalist, an Al Jazeera reporter covering the war in Iraq.[16]
- Pamela Bowden, 77, English contralto, teacher and administrator.[17]
- Kathie Browne, 72, American film and television actress (Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, Star Trek, The Love Boat).[18]
- Basil Greenhill, 83, British diplomat, museum director and historian.
- Bing Russell, 76, American actor and baseball club owner.
9
- Jerry Bittle, 53, American editorial cartoonist and comic strip writer (Geech, Shirley and Son).[19]
- Alfred Campanelli, 77, American Chicago-area home builder.[20]
- Ken McKenzie, 79, Canadian sports journalist.
- Ray Murray, 85, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Athletics, Baltimore Orioles).[21]
- James Earl Salisbury, 51, American educator, SARS.[22]
- Robert Wallace Wilkins, 96, American medical researcher, made contributions in the research of hypertension and cardiovascular disease.[23]
- Vera Zorina, 86, Norwegian ballerina, actress and choreographer (The Goldwyn Follies, Star Spangled Rhythm).[24]
10
- Abdul-Majid al-Khoei, 40, Shia cleric, stabbed.
- Little Eva (née Eva Narcissus Boyd), 59, American pop singer (The Loco-Motion).[25]
- Maurice F. Neufeld, 92, American academic, author, union organizer and labor relations consultant.[26]
- Franco Valle, 63, Italian boxer (bronze medal in middleweight boxing at the 1964 Summer Olympics).[27]
- Abraham Zabludovsky, 78, Mexican modernist architect (Rufino Tamayo Museum, National Auditorium).[28]
11
- Vasyl Barka, 94, Ukrainian-American poet, writer, literary critic and translator.[29]
- John Butler, 56, American professional football general manager (Buffalo Bills, San Diego Chargers).[30]
- Cecil H. Green, 102, Texas Instruments founder.
- Peter Lloyd, 95, British mountaineer and engineer.
- Brian Nelson, 55, Northern Irish paramilitary intelligence chief and clandestine agent, implicated in sectarian murders.[31]
12
- Clarence W. Blount, 81, American educator and politician, 31 years in Maryland State Senate.[32]
- John Robert Boker Jr., 90, American philatelist, named the outstanding philatelist of the last half of the twentieth century.[33]
- Sir Donald Harrison, 78, British surgeon.
- Sydney Lassick, 80, American film actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), complications of diabetes.
- Chalom Messas, 94, Chief Rabbi of Morocco and of Jerusalem, Israel.
13
- Farouk Afero, 63, Pakistani-born Indonesian film actor, cancer.
- Sean Delaney, 58, American musician.
- Allen Eager, 76, American jazz tenor and alto saxophonist, liver cancer.
- Majid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 64, member of House of Saud.
- Elder Tadej Štrbulović, 88, Serbian Orthodox elder and author.
14
- G. Duncan Bauman, 91, American newspaper publisher (St. Louis Globe-Democrat from 1967 to 1984).[34]
- Pierre Blondiaux, 81, French rower (silver medal in men's coxless four at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[35]
- Al Epperly, 84, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers).[36]
- Bob Evans, 82, Welsh rugby player.
- Kent Pullen, 60, American politician.
15
- Betty Baskcomb, 88, British actress (Everything in the Garden, Afternoon of a Nymph, Doctor on the Go).[37]
- Sherwood Brewer, 79, American Negro league baseball player, four-time East-West All-Star: 1949, 1950, 1951, 1953.[38]
- Don Bunce, 54, American football quarterback (Stanford, 1972 Rose Bowl MVP) and orthopedic surgeon, heart attack.[39]
- Reg Bundy, 56, British dancer, actor and television presenter, cancer.
- Roald Åsmund Bye, 74, Norwegian politician.
- Erin Fleming, 61, Canadian actress.
- Theodore Weiss, 86, American poet, professor and literary magazine editor.[40]
16
- Timothy I. Ahern, 78, American U.S. Air Force major general.[41]
- Jock Hamilton-Baillie, 84, British Royal Engineers officer.
- Graham Jarvis, 72, Canadian actor in American films and television, multiple myeloma.
- Samuel J. LeFrak, 85, American real estate tycoon.
- Ray Mendoza, 73, Mexican professional wrestler.
- Danny O'Dea, 91, British actor.
- Richard B. Sewall, 95, American professor of English and writer.
- Jewell Young, 90, American professional basketball player (Purdue University, Indianapolis Kautskys, Oshkosh All-Stars).[42]
17
- Robert Atkins, 72, American nutritionist (Atkins Diet).[43]
- H. B. Bailey, 66, American NASCAR driver.[44]
- John Paul Getty, Jr., 70, philanthropist, chest infection.
- Sammy Kean, 85, Scottish football player and manager.
- Earl King, 69, R&B musician/songwriter, complications of diabetes.
- Jozef Schell, 67, Belgian biologist.
- Graham Stuart Thomas, 94, British horticultural artist, author and garden designer.
- Peter Cathcart Wason, 78, British cognitive psychologist, credited with founding the study of the psychology of reasoning.[45]
- Sergei Yushenkov, 52, Russian politician, member of Russian Parliament and outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin.[46]
18
- Rudolf Brunnenmeier, 62, German football player, alcohol-related issues.
- Edgar F. Codd, 79, English computer pioneer, heart failure.
- Jean Drucker, 61, French Television executive, heart attack.
- Toni Hagen, 85, Swiss geologist.
- Toby MacDiarmid, 77, Australian politician.
- Lefty Sloat, 84, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Cubs).[47]
- Evlynn Smith, 40, Scottish artist, designer and furniture maker, brain aneurysm.
19
- Mirza Tahir Ahmad, 74, Pakistani spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim movement, Khalifatul Masih IV.[48]
- Cholly Atkins, 89, American dancer and choreographer, partnered with Charles Coles at Cotton Club and Apollo Theater.[49]
- Conrad Leonard, 104, British musician and composer.
- Chris Zachary, 59, American baseball player (Houston Colt .45s / Astros, St. Louis Cardinals, Detroit Tigers).[50]
20
- Debbie Barham, 26, English comedy writer, wrote for comedians: Clive Anderson, Rory Bremner, Angus Deayton.[51]
- Jim Bartels, 57, American Hawaiian historian and museum curator, managing director of 'Iolani Palace.[52]
- Johnny Douglas, 82, English musician.
- Ruth Hale, 94, American playwright and actress.
- Daijiro Kato, 26, Japanese motorcycle rider, after crashing at Suzuka on April 6.
- Bernard Katz, 92, American Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist.
- Cole Weston, 84, American photographer.[53]
21
- Robert Blackburn, 82, American artist and printmaker, one of America's foremost fine art lithographers.[54]
- Robert Elmer Kleason, 68, American convict, heart failure.
- Nina Simone, 70, American jazz singer, long-based in France (known as the "High Priestess of Soul").
- Raymond Henry Weill, 89, American philatelic dealer, one of the world's most famous stamp dealers.[55]
22
- Felice Bryant, 77, American songwriter ("Bye Bye Love", "Wake Up Little Susie", "Raining in My Heart").[56]
- James H. Critchfield, 86, American CIA operative during the Cold War, pancreatic cancer.
- Omana Gopalakrishnan, 66, Indian translator.
- Martha Griffiths, 91, Congresswoman; women's rights activist.[57]
- Berkeley Smith, 84, British broadcaster.
23
- Abram Bergson, 89, American economist, known as the dean of Soviet economic studies.[58]
- Jim Browne, 72, American professional basketball player (Chicago Stags, Denver Nuggets).[59]
- Fernand Fonssagrives, 93, French photographer.
- Ian Marshall, 60, Scottish-born New Zealand football coach.
24
- Colin Bell, 61, English sociologist and university administrator.[60]
- Harold Levitt, 81, American architect.
- Willie Moore, 71, Irish hurler.
- Guy Mountfort, 97, British advertising executive and ornithologist.
- Gino Orlando, 73, Brazilian footballer, cardiac arrest.
- Belus Smawley, 85, American basketball player (Appalachian State, St. Louis Bombers, Baltimore Bullets) and coach.[61]
- Fuzz White, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, New York Giants).[62]
25
- Viktor Bushuev, 69, Soviet weightlifter (gold medal in men's lightweight weightlifting at the 1960 Summer Olympics).[63]
- Lynn Chadwick, 88, English sculptor and artist.
- Bastiampillai Deogupillai, 86, Ceylon Tamil priest and Roman Catholic Bishop.
- Dick Moore, 87, British Royal Naval officer and recipient of the George Cross.
- Jaime Silva Gómez, 67, Colombian footballer.
- André Perraudin, 88, Swiss Catholic clergyman.
- Francis Alexander Shields, 61, American businessman, prostate cancer.
- Frank Wright, 64, American historian of southern Nevada.[64]
26
- Bernhard Baier, 90, German water polo player (silver medal in men's water polo at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[65]
- Rosemary Brown, 72, Canadian politician (NDP); first black woman elected to a provincial legislature, myocardial infarction.[66]
- David Lavender, 93, American historian and writer.
- Danny Napoleon, 61, American baseball player (New York Mets).[67]
- Edward Max Nicholson, 98, British environmentalist, a founder of the World Wildlife Fund.[68]
- Peter Stone, 73, American screenwriter (Charade, Father Goose, 1776), Oscar and Tony-winner, pulmonary fibrosis.[69]
- Anne Von Bertouch, 84, Australian author, gallery director and art supporter.[70]
27
- Elaine Anderson Steinbeck, 88, American actress and Broadway stage manager, wife of John Steinbeck.[71]
- Edward Gaylord, 83, American businessman, media mogul and philanthropist, cancer.
- Eddie Loyden, 79, British politician.
- Charles A. Marvin, 73, American district attorney and judge.
- Dorothee Sölle, 73, German liberation theologian.
- Wenzu Vella, 79, Maltese sports shooter (men's trap at the 1960 Summer Olympics).[72]
28
- Johnny Griffith, 78, American football player and coach (University of Georgia).[73]
- Barry Harper, 64, Australian sportsman, cancer.
- Ciccio Ingrassia, 80, Italian actor, comedian and film director.
- Etti Plesch, 89, Austro-Hungarian countess and socialite.
29
- Ron Barclay, 88, New Zealand politician (member of New Zealand Parliament for New Plymouth).[74]
- Janko Bobetko, 84, Croatian general, hailed as a hero of Croatia but charged with war crimes by the U.N.[75]
- David M. Brewer, 44, American convict, execution by lethal injection.
- Angus Campbell-Gray, 71, British hereditary peer (House of Lords 1946–1999).[76]
- Frank Weston, 67, British Bishop of Knaresborough.[77]
- Jerry Williams, 79, American radio host, a pioneer of talk radio.[78]
30
- Jennifer d'Abo, 57, British entrepreneur (Ryman).[79]
- Gbenga Adeboye, 43, Nigerian singer, comedian and radio host, kidney-related diseases.
- Ferdinand P. Beer, 87, French-American mechanical engineer and university professor, wrote widely-used mechanics textbooks.[80]
- Mark Berger, 47, American economist, professor and researcher (Center for Business and Economic Research).[81]
- Peter 'Possum' Bourne, 47, New Zealand 3-time Asia-Pacific Rally champion, head injuries sustained in a car crash.[82]
- Lionel Wilson, 79, American voice actor, audiobook reader and children's book author, pneumonia.[83]
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