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
[edit]1
[edit]- Booker Bradshaw, 61, American record producer, actor, and Motown executive, heart attack.
- Lloyd L. Brown, 89, American writer, activist and labor organizer.[1]
- Richard Caddel, 53, English poet, publisher and editor, a key figure in the British Poetry Revival, leukemia.[2]
- Leslie Cheung, 46, Hong Kong actor and singer, suicide by jumping.[3]
- Marcel Ernzer, 77, Luxembourgian cyclist.[4]
- Jean-Yves Escoffier, 52, French cinematographer (Good Will Hunting, Rounders, Nurse Betty), heart attack.[5]
- Sven Holmberg, 85, Swedish actor.
- Robert M. Levine, 62, American historian and academic, cancer.[6]
- Mutsuhiro Watanabe, 85, Japanese war criminal during World War II.
- Adriaan Cornelis Zaanen, 89, Dutch mathematician, known for his books on Riesz spaces.[7]
2
[edit]- Seymour Friedman, 85, American film director.
- Kaveh Golestan, 52, Iranian photojournalist and artist, land mine.[8]
- Terenci Moix, 61, Spanish writer, pulmonary emphysema.[9]
- Joan Phipson, 90, Australian children's writer.
- György Révész, 75, Hungarian screenwriter and film director.
- Harold S. Sawyer, 83, American politician (U.S. Representative for Michigan's 5th congressional district), throat cancer .[10]
- Edwin Starr, 61, American soul singer, heart attack.
- Sékou Touré, 68, Ivorian football player.
- Michael Wayne, 68, American film producer and son of John Wayne, heart failure from complications of lupus.[11]
3
[edit]- Homer Banks, 61, American songwriter and record producer ("(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right"), cancer.[12]
- Arthur Guyton, 83, American physiologist, traffic collision.[13]
- Scott Hain, 32, American convict, execution by lethal injection.
- Gunadasa Kapuge, 57, Sri Lankan musician, fall.
4
[edit]- Anthony Caruso, 86, American actor.[14]
- Fred J. Cook, 92, American investigative journalist.[15]
- Izzat Ghazzawi, 51, Palestinian writer.
- Abdul Kadir, 54, Indonesian footballer, kidney failure.
- Michael Kelly, 46, American journalist, columnist and magazine editor, war-related vehicular accident.[16]
- Helmut Knochen, 93, German Nazi official and commander of the SiPo and SD.[17]
- Billy McPhail, 75, Scottish football player, Alzheimer's disease.
- J. Quigg Newton, 91, American lawyer and politician.[18]
- Resortes, 87, Mexican comedian, emphysema.
- Paul Ray Smith, 33, United States Army sergeant and Medal of Honor recipient, killed in action.
5
[edit]- Kirby Doyle, 70, American poet.[19]
- Seymour Lubetzky, 104, American cataloging theorist and librarian.[20]
- Frédéric Kibassa Maliba, 63, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) politician, heart attack.
- Federico Pizarro, 76, Argentine football player.
6
[edit]- David Bloom, 39, American television journalist (NBC News, Weekend Today), pulmonary embolism.[21]
- Anita Borg, 54, American computer scientist, advocate for the advancement of women in computer science, brain cancer.[22]
- José Emeterio Rivas, Colombian radio journalist killed after publicly accusing local officials of corruption, gun shots.[23]
- Gerald Emmett Carter, 91, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Toronto (1978-1990).
- Aleksandr Fatyushin, 52, Russian actor, pneumonia.[24]
- Susan French, 91, American actress.[25]
- Leon Levy, 77, American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist.[26]
- Nicole Loraux, 59, French historian of classical Athens.[27]
- Vic Metcalfe, 81, English football player.[28]
- Babatunde Olatunji, 75, African drummer; recorded Drums of Passion, diabetes.[29]
- Robert John Pratt, 96, Canada comedian and politician.
- Princess Tenagnework, 91, Ethiopian royal and eldest child of Emperor Haile Selassie and Empress Menen Asfaw.
7
[edit]- Cecile de Brunhoff, 99, French pianist and teacher, created the children's book character Babar the Elephant.[30]
- David Greene, 82, British television and film director, pancreatic cancer.[31]
- Jutta Hipp, 78, Germen-American jazz pianist and composer, pancreatic cancer.[32]
- Maurice Kouandété, 70, Benin military officer and politician.
- Julio Anguita Parrado, 32, Spanish journalist and war correspondent (El Mundo), missile strike.[33]
- Robin Winks, 72, American professor, historian, author and diplomat.[34]
8
[edit]- Kathie Browne, 72, American film and television actress (Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, Star Trek, The Love Boat).[35]
- Patrick Fani Chakaipa, 70, Zimbabwean prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Harare (1976-2003).[36]
- Charles Douglass, 93, Mexican-American sound engineer, credited as the inventor of the laugh track, pneumonia.
- Dee Gibson, 79, American basketball player.[37]
- Maki Ishii, 66, Japanese composer of contemporary classical music, cancer.[38]
- Spider Martin, 64, American photographer, suicide.
- Franz Rosenthal, 88, German-American professor of Semitic languages.[39]
- Bing Russell, 76, American actor and baseball club owner, cancer.[40]
- Correspondents killed in the Battle of Baghdad:[41]
- Tareq Ayyoub, 35, Jordanian journalist for Al Jazeera, missile strike.[42]
- José Couso Permuy, 37, Spanish cameraman, missile strike.[43]
- Taras Protsyuk, 35, Ukrainian cameraman, tank fire.[44]
9
[edit]- Earl Bramblett, 61, American mass murderer, execution by electrocution.[45]
- Ray Murray, 85, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Athletics, Baltimore Orioles).[46]
- Rod Navarro, 67, Filipino actor.
- Jorge Oteiza, 94, Basque Spanish sculptor, painter, and writer.[47]
- Robert Wallace Wilkins, 96, American medical researcher.[48]
- Abraham Zabludovsky, 78, Mexican modernist architect (Rufino Tamayo Museum, National Auditorium).[49]
- Vera Zorina, 86, Norwegian ballerina, actress and choreographer (The Goldwyn Follies, Star Spangled Rhythm), stroke.[50]
- Wu Zuguang, 85, Chinese playwright, film director and social critic, stroke.
10
[edit]- Abdul-Majid al-Khoei, 40, Iraqi Shia cleric, stabbed.[51]
- Chumy Chúmez, 75, Spanish cartoon humorist, writer and film director, liver cancer.[52]
- Little Eva, 59, American pop singer (The Loco-Motion), cervical uterine cancer.[53]
- Jack Fincher, 72, American screenwriter and journalist.
- Aatos Fred, 85, Finnish chess player, two-time Finnish Chess Championship winner (1947, 1955).
- Aubrey Jones, 91, British politician.
- Franco Valle, 63, Italian boxer (bronze medal in middleweight boxing at the 1964 Summer Olympics).[54]
11
[edit]- Vasyl Barka, 94, Ukrainian-American poet, writer, and literary critic.[55]
- John Nevill Eliot, 90, English entomologist.
- Cecil Howard Green, 102, American businessman and founder of Texas Instruments.[56]
- Siddiq Manzul, 71, Sudanese football player.
- Brian Nelson, 55, Northern Irish paramilitary intelligence chief, brain haemorrhage.[57]
- Lucy Saroyan, 57, American actress and photographer, liver cirrhosis.
12
[edit]- Clarence W. Blount, 81, American politician.[58]
- Charles Janeway, 60, American immunologist.[59]
- Sydney Lassick, 80, American film actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), complications of diabetes.[60]
- Štefan Matlák, 69, Slovak football player.[61]
- Chalom Messas, 94, Moroccan rabbi and writer.
13
[edit]- Farouk Afero, 63, Pakistani-Indonesian film actor, cancer.
- Majid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 64, Saudi prince and member of the House of Saud.
- Sean Delaney, 58, American musician, complications following strokes.
- Allen Eager, 76, American jazz tenor and alto saxophonist, liver cancer.[62]
- D. Gale Johnson, 86, American economist and an expert on Russia and China.[63]
- Lucy Shoe Meritt, 96, American classical archaeologist.[64]
- Elder Tadej Štrbulović, 88, Serbian Orthodox elder and author.
14
[edit]- Pierre Blondiaux, 81, French rower (silver medal in men's coxless four at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[65]
- Al Epperly, 84, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers).[66]
- Addie McPhail, 97, American film actress.
- Jyrki Otila, 61, Finnish quiz show judge and member of the European Parliament.
- Milla Sannoner, 64, Italian film and television actress.[67]
15
[edit]- Betty Baskcomb, 88, British actress (Everything in the Garden, Afternoon of a Nymph, Doctor on the Go).[68]
- Don Bunce, 54, American football quarterback (Stanford, 1972 Rose Bowl MVP) and orthopedic surgeon, heart attack.[69]
- Erin Fleming, 61, Canadian actress, suicide by gunshot.
- Robert Helmick, 66, American president of the US Olympic Committee, cardiac failure.[70]
- Rebeca Iturbide, 78, Mexican-American actress, gastrointestinal perforation.
- Maurice Rapf, 88, American screenwriter and professor of film studies.[71]
- Franco Scandurra, 91, Italian actor.
- Leonard Tose, 88, American sports executive, owner of the Philadelphia Eagles (1969-1985).[72]
- Keith Walwyn, 47, Kittitian footballer, complications during heart surgery.
- Theodore Weiss, 86, American poet, professor and literary magazine editor.[73]
16
[edit]- Jack Donohue, 71, American-Canadian basketball coach.
- Isao Iwabuchi, 69, Japanese football player.
- Graham Jarvis, 72, Canadian actor (Misery, Fame, 7th Heaven), multiple myeloma.[74]
- Samuel J. LeFrak, 85, American real estate tycoon.[75]
- Ray Mendoza, 73, Mexican professional wrestler, kidney failure.
- Lili Muráti, 88, Hungarian film and stage actress.
- Danny O'Dea, 91, British actor.
- Jewell Young, 90, American basketball player (Purdue University, Indianapolis Kautskys, Oshkosh All-Stars).[76]
17
[edit]- Mario Sandoval Alarcón, 79, Guatemalan politician.
- Robert Atkins, 72, American nutritionist (Atkins Diet), accident.[77]
- H. B. Bailey, 66, American NASCAR driver, heart attack.[78]
- Jean-Pierre Dogliani, 60, French football player.[79]
- John Paul Getty Jr., 70, British philanthropist and book collector, chest infection.
- Earl King, 69, American Blues musician/songwriter, complications of diabetes.[80]
- Koji Kondo, 30, Japanese football player.
- Yiannis Latsis, 92, Greek shipping tycoon.
- Ong Poh Lim, 81, Malayan/Singaporean badminton player.
- Jozef Schell, 67, Belgian biologist.[81]
- Hilde Sessak, 87, German actress.[82]
- Graham Stuart Thomas, 94, British horticultural artist, author and garden designer.
- Peter Cathcart Wason, 78, British cognitive psychologist, founded the study of the psychology of reasoning.[83]
- Sergei Yushenkov, 52, Russian politician, member of Russian Parliament and critic of President Vladimir Putin, homicide.[84]
18
[edit]- Rudolf Brunnenmeier, 62, German football player, alcohol-related issues.[85]
- Edgar F. Codd, 79, English computer pioneer, heart failure.[86]
- Jean Drucker, 61, French television executive, heart attack.[87]
- Kiril Gospodinov, 68, Bulgarian stage and film actor.
- Toni Hagen, 85, Swiss geologist.
- Emil Loteanu, 66, Soviet and Moldovan film director.[88]
- Diego Ronchini, 67, Italian road racing cyclist.[89]
- Nguyễn Đình Thi, 78, Vietnamese writer, poet and composer.
- Juan Bautista Villalba, 78, Paraguayan football player.
19
[edit]- Mirza Tahir Ahmad, 74, Pakistani spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim movement.[90]
- Cholly Atkins, 89, American dancer and choreographer, pancreatic cancer.[91]
- Nazeh Darwazi, Palestinian freelance cameraman, shot by Israeli soldier.[92]
- Denise Ramsden, 51, English Olympian sprint athlete.
- Aurelio Sabattani, 90, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.[93]
- Chris Zachary, 59, American baseball player (Houston Colt .45s / Astros, St. Louis Cardinals, Detroit Tigers), cancer.[94]
20
[edit]- Debbie Barham, 26, English comedy writer, anorexia nervosa.[95]
- Johnny Douglas, 82, English musician.[96]
- Len Duquemin, 78, British football player.[97]
- Teddy Edwards, 78, American jazz tenor saxophonist, prostate cancer.[98]
- Daijiro Kato, 26, Japanese Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, racing accident.
- Bernard Katz, 92, German-British Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist.[99]
- Henri Lemaître, 81, Belgian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Richard Proenneke, 86, American naturalist, conservationist, and writer, cerebral hemorrhage.[100]
- Bertram Ross, 82, American dancer and choreographer.[101]
- Cole Weston, 84, American photographer.[102]
21
[edit]- Robert Blackburn, 82, American artist and printmaker, one of America's foremost fine art lithographers.[103]
- Balwant Gargi, 86, Indian dramatist, theatre director, and short story writer.[104]
- Nina Simone, 70, American jazz singer, known as the "High Priestess of Soul", breast cancer.[105]
22
[edit]- Felice Bryant, 77, American songwriter ("Bye Bye Love", "Wake Up Little Susie", "Raining in My Heart").[106]
- James H. Critchfield, 86, American CIA operative during the Cold War, pancreatic cancer.[107]
- Martha Griffiths, 91, American congresswoman and women's rights activist.[108]
- Andrea King, 84, American actress.[109]
- Ola H. Kveli, 81, Norwegian politician.
- Mike Larrabee, 69, American athlete, two gold medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics, pancreatic cancer.[110]
- Len Reid, 86, Australian fighter pilot and politician.
- Fred Schaub, 42, German football player, car accident.[111]
- Yuriy Voynov, 71, Soviet and Ukrainian football player and manager.[112]
- Maria Wine, 90, Swedish-Danish poet and writer.
23
[edit]- Abram Bergson, 89, American economist.[113]
- Jim Browne, 72, American basketball player (Chicago Stags, Denver Nuggets).[114]
- Hansgeorg Bätcher, 89, German decorated Luftwaffe bomber ace during World War II.
- Fernand Fonssagrives, 93, French photographer.[115]
- Raymond Galle, 89, French stage and film actor.[116]
- Guy Mountfort, 97, British advertising executive and ornithologist.[117]
- Austin Wright, 80, American novelist, literary critic and academic.
24
[edit]- Bob Dunn, 56, British Conservative Party politician.[118]
- Nüzhet Gökdoğan, 92, Turkish astronomer, mathematician and academic.
- Yuri Kholopov, 70, Russian musicologist and educator.
- Gino Orlando, 73, Brazilian footballer, cardiac arrest.
- Belus Smawley, 85, American basketball player (Appalachian State, St. Louis Bombers, Baltimore Bullets) and coach.[119]
- Fuzz White, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, New York Giants).[120]
25
[edit]- Viktor Bushuev, 69, Soviet weightlifter (gold medal in men's lightweight weightlifting at the 1960 Summer Olympics).[121]
- Lynn Chadwick, 88, English sculptor and artist.[122]
- Jaime Silva Gómez, 67, Colombian footballer.[123]
- Ted Joans, 74, American jazz poet, trumpeter, and painter, diabetes.[124]
- Samson Kitur, 37, Kenyan athlete and an Olympic medalist.[125]
- André Perraudin, 88, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate.[126]
- Borislav Đurović, 51, Montenegrin football player.
26
[edit]- Bernhard Baier, 90, German water polo player (silver medal in men's water polo at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[127]
- Rosemary Brown, 72, Canadian politician (NDP), first black woman elected to a provincial legislature, myocardial infarction, heart attack.[128]
- Mohammed Ghazali, 78, Pakistan Air Force officer and cricket player.[129]
- Yun Hyon-seok, 18, South Korean LGBT poet, writer, and activist, suicide by hanging.
- David Lavender, 93, American historian and writer.[130]
- Danny Napoleon, 61, American baseball player (New York Mets).[131]
- Edward Max Nicholson, 98, British environmentalist, a founder of the World Wildlife Fund.[132]
- Peter Stone, 73, American screenwriter (Charade, Father Goose, 1776), Oscar and Tony-winner, pulmonary fibrosis.[133]
27
[edit]- Peter M. Bowers, 84, Aeronautical engineer, journalist and aviation historian.
- Edward Gaylord, 83, American businessman, media mogul and philanthropist, cancer.
- Edward Loyden, 79, British politician.
- Piet Roozenburg, 78, Dutch draughts player.
- Elaine Anderson Steinbeck, 88, American actress and Broadway stage manager, wife of John Steinbeck.[134]
- Dorothee Sölle, 73, German liberation theologian, heart attack.[135]
- Juha Tiainen, 47, Finnish hammer thrower and Olympic champion, pneumonia.[136]
28
[edit]- Ira Herskowitz, 56, American phage and yeast geneticist, pancreatic cancer.[137]
- Ciccio Ingrassia, 80, Italian actor, comedian and film director, heart attack.[138]
- Carmelo Morales, 72, Spanish racing cyclist.[139]
- André Muhirwa, Burundian politician and Prime Minister.[140]
- Charlie Tolar, 65, American gridiron football player.[141]
29
[edit]- Ron Barclay, 88, New Zealand politician (member of New Zealand Parliament for New Plymouth).[142]
- Janko Bobetko, 84, Croatian general, hailed as a hero of Croatia but charged with war crimes by the U.N.[143]
- John Gilbert Hurst, 75, British archaeologist and pioneer of mediaeval archaeology.
- Etti Plesch, 89, Austro-Hungarian countess, huntress, racehorse owner, and socialite.
- Vasily Tolstikov, 85, Soviet diplomat and Communist Party official.
- Jerry Williams, 79, American radio host, a pioneer of talk radio.[144]
30
[edit]- Gbenga Adeboye, 43, Nigerian singer, comedian and radio host, kidney-related disease.[145]
- Ferdinand P. Beer, 87, French-American mechanical engineer and university professor.[146]
- Possum Bourne, 47, New Zealand rally car driver, racing accident.[147]
- Aureliano Chaves, 74, Brazilian politician.
- Chris Crowe, 63, English football player.[148]
- Vasile Deheleanu, 92, Romanian football player.
- Lionel Wilson, 79, American voice actor (Courage the Cowardly Dog), pneumonia.[149]
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