Deaths in 2003

1 January 2003
2 February 2003
3 March 2003
4 April 2003
5 May 2003
6 June 2003
7 July 2003
8 August 2003
9 September 2003
10 October 2003
11 November 2003
12 December 2003
13 External links and references

See also: Deaths in 2002, 2003, and Deaths in 2004

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.^[1]
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
25 - Alberto Sordi, Italian comedy actor
25 - Tom O'Higgins, former Irish Chief Justice & twice defeated Irish presidential candidate
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 - 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.
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^[2]
22 - Vasil Bykau, Belarusian writer
23 - Maynard Jackson, former Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, the first black mayor of a major southern United States city
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
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
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
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 - 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

External links and references

For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, Deaths in 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995 ...