Deaths in December 2003
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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.
December 2003
1
- Hamza Alavi, 82, Pakistani-British sociologist and activist (Campaign Against Racial Discrimination).[1]
- Fernando Di Leo, 71, Italian film director and script writer.[2]
- Clark Kerr, 92, American academic, chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1952–58), complications from a fall.[3]
- Eugenio Monti, 75, Italian bobsledder and Olympian (1956, 1964, 1968), suicide by gunshot.[4]
- Ken Moore, 86, American football player (New York Giants).[5]
- Carl Schenkel, 55, Swiss film director, heart attack.[6]
- Uday Singh Taunque, 21, U.S. Army soldier.
2
- Ruth Nanda Anshen, 103, American philosopher, author and editor.[7]
- Suzanne Cloutier, 80, Canadian film actress, liver cancer.[8]
- Alan Davidson, 79, British food writer and diplomat.[9]
- Vic Gordon, 92, British Australian actor of vaudeville, television and film.
- Ignaz Kiechle, 73, German politician and minister for agriculture (1983–1993).
- Coy Koopal, 71, Dutch footballer.[10]
- Frances Morris, 95, American actress.[11]
- Rudolph A. Peterson, 98, American banker.[12]
- Jim Sheehan, 90, American baseball player (New York Giants).[13]
3
- Dulce Chacón, 49, Spanish poet, novelist and playwright, pancreatic cancer.[14]
- Jay Difani, 80, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[15]
- Ellen Drew, 88, American film actress, liver ailment.[16]
- Heinrich Enea, 81, Romanian Olympic bobsledder (1956).[17]
- Sita Ram Goel, 82, Indian historian, activist, writer, and publisher.
- David Hemmings, 62, British actor and director, heart attack.[18]
4
- Jace Bugg, 27, American professional golfer.[19]
- Ramón Climent, 74, Chilean footballer.[20]
- John H. Hannah, Jr., 64, American judge (U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas), heart attack.[21]
- John Haley, 72, American attorney, plane crash.[22]
- Iggy Katona, 87, American racing driver.[23]
- Dezső Lemhényi, 85, Hungarian water polo player, coach and Olympic champion (1948, 1952).[24]
- Georges Moreel, 79, French footballer.[25]
- Louis Prahm, 91, Danish Olympic field hockey player (1936).[26]
- Jimmy Smith, 92, Scottish football player.
- David Vaughan, 59, English psychedelic artist.[27]
- Jacques Viau, 84, Canadian lawyer and reformist.
5
- Paul Busby, 85, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[28]
- Vasile Chitaru, 44, Romanian footballer.[29]
- Bob Gregory, 82, American comics artist and writer.[30]
- Felix Kaspar, 88, Austrian figure skater and Olympian (1936).[31]
- Jack Keller, 61, American poker player.
- José Manuel Pesudo, 67, Spanish football goalkeeper and coach.
- Antony Rowe, 79, English rower and Olympian (1948).[32]
- Gregorio García Segura, 74, Spanish composer of film scores.
- Yasuo Tanaka, 71, Japanese voice actor.
6
- Haddis Alemayehu, 93, Ethiopian Foreign Minister and novelist.
- John Bingham, 61, British classical pianist.[33]
- Paul-Louis Halley, 69, French businessman, plane crash.[34]
- Hans Hotter, 84, German operatic bass-baritone.[35]
- José María Jiménez, 32, Spanish road bicycle racer, heart attack.[36]
- Barry Long, 77, Australian spiritual teacher and writer.
- P. Madhavan, 75, Indian film director and producer in Tamil cinema.
- Javier Montez, 74, American Olympic middle-distance runner (1952).[37]
- Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, 85, Guatemalan military ruler, President of Guatemala.[38]
- Jerry Tuite, 36, American wrestler, heart attack.
7
- Roland Asselin, 86, Canadian Olympic fencer (1948, 1952, 1956).[39]
- Barta Barri, 92, Hungarian-Spanish film actor.
- Robert R. Benton, 79, American set decorator, respiratory failure.
- Carl F. H. Henry, 90, American Evangelical theologian and founder of Christianity Today magazine.[40]
- Esko Karu, 57, Canadian cross-country skier (1968).[41]
- Azie Taylor Morton, 67, American public servant (Treasurer of the United States), complications from a stroke.[42]
- Joe Skeen, 76, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1981-2003), Parkinson's disease.[43]
8
- Lewis M. Allen, 81, American film and Broadway producer, nominated for seven Tony Awards, pancreatic cancer.[44]
- Margaret Jean Anderson, 84, Canadian businesswoman and senator (representing Northumberland--Miramichi, New Brunswick).[45]
- Nelson Bobb, 79, American professional basketball player (Temple University, Philadelphia Warriors), cancer.[46]
- Agnès Delahaie, 83, French actress and film producer.[47]
- Robert Detweiler, 73, American competition rower and Olympic champion (1952), naval officer, and scientist.[48]
- Timothy Feruka, 49, Zambian Olympic boxer (1972).[49]
- Rubén González, 84, Cuban pianist.[50]
- Pekka Siitoin, 59, Finnish satanist, occultist and neo-Nazi, esophageal cancer.
- Francine Weisweiller, 87, French socialite and patron of Jean Cocteau.[51]
9
- Carol M. Bundy, 61, American serial killer, heart failure.
- Blackie Ko, 50, Taiwanese film director, stuntman, singer and actor, blood poisoning.[52]
- Keith McCreary, 63, Canadian hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, Pittsburgh Penguins, Atlanta Flames), cancer.[53]
- Thomas M. Rees, 78, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1965-1977).[54]
- Bill Schroeder, 80, American basketball and football player (Wisconsin Badgers, Chicago Rockets, Sheboygan Red Skins).[55]
- Gladys Shelley, 91, American lyricist and composer.[56]
- Paul Simon, 75, American author and politician, United States Senator from Illinois (1985-1997), surgical complications.[57]
- Norm Sloan, 77, American college basketball player and coach (The Citadel, University of Florida, North Carolina State).[58]
10
- Abida Ahmed, 80, Indian politician, First Lady of India as wife of Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1974-1977).
- Robert L. Bartley, 66, American newspaper editor (The Wall Street Journal editorial page) and Pulitzer Prize winner.[59]
- Oswald Cheung, 81, Hong Kong lawyer and politician, complications from burns.
- Elizabeth Harrower, 85, American actress and television writer, cancer.
- László Jeszenszky, 76, Hungarian Olympic middle-distance runner (1952, 1952).[60]
- Sean McClory, 79, Irish actor.[61]
- Bill Morey, 83, American actor.
- Bob Ross, 69, American publisher (Bay Area Reporter) and gay rights activist, complications from diabetes.[62]
- Raúl Armando Savoy, 63, Argentine football player.[63]
- Don Wheeler, 81, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).[64]
11
- Malcolm Clarke, 60, British composer.
- Ahmadou Kourouma, 76, Ivorian novelist.[65]
- Shah Ahmad Noorani, 77, Pakistani Islamic scholar, mystic, philosopher, revivalist and an ultra–conservative politician.[66]
- Ann Petersen, 76, Belgian actress.[67]
- Paschoal Rapuano, 93, Brazilian Olympic rower (1936).[68]
- Ram Kishore Shukla, 80, Indian politician.
- Paulos Tzadua, 82, Ethiopian Catholic Archbishop of Addis Ababa.
12
- Heydar Aliyev, 80, Azerbaijani politician, served as the third president of Azerbaijan.[69]
- Ross Belsher, 70, Canadian politician (member of Parliament of Canada for Fraser Valley East, British Columbia).[70]
- Eva Besnyö, 93, Dutch-Hungarian photographer.[71]
- Michael Casson, 78, British potter.[72]
- Howard Edward Crosby, 70, Canadian politician and lawyer, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1978-1993).[73]
- Joseph Anthony Ferrario, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Honolulu (1982–1993), heart attack.
- Earl Gillespie, 81, American sportscaster, voice of the Milwaukee Braves.
- Marcello Giombini, 75, Italian composer.[74]
- Keiko, 27, orca famed for Reino Aventura and Free Willy, pneumonia.[75]
- Rudolf Krause, 76, German football player and coach.[76]
- Kurt Magnus, 91, German scientist.
- George Pastushok, 81, American basketball player (St. John's Red Storm, Providence Steamrollers).[77]
- Fadwa Tuqan, 86, Palestinian poet.[78]
13
- Elizabeth Bates, 56, American professor of cognitive science, pancreatic cancer.[79]
- Luis González y González, 78, Mexican historian.[80]
- Mollie Hardwick, 87, British writer.
- Alexis Kanner, 61, French-Canadian film and television actor, heart attack.[81]
- Yuriy Kutenko, 71, Soviet Ukrainian decathlete and Olympian (1956, 1960).[82]
- David Perlov, 73, Israeli documentary filmmaker.[83]
- Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi, 81, Indian neurosurgeon and author.
- William Roth, 82, American lawyer and politician United States Senator from Delaware from 1971 to 2001.[84]
- Xie Tian, 89, Chinese actor and director.[85]
- Webster Young, 71, American jazz trumpeter (Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie), brain cancer.[86]
- Māris Čaklais, 63, Latvian poet and writer.
14
- Daniel Arasse, 59, French art historian, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[87]
- Don Concannon, 73, British Labour Party politician.
- Jeanne Crain, 78, American actress, heart attack.[88]
- Vladimir Kotyrev, 72, Soviet Russian Olympic canoeist (1952).[89]
- Blas Ople, 75, Filipino journalist and politician, heart attack.
- François Rauber, 70, French pianist, composer, arranger and conductor.[90]
- Frank Sheeran, 83, American labor union leader and mobster, "The Irishman", cancer.[91]
15
- Valerio Bonini, 79, Italian racing cyclist.[92]
- Johnny Cunningham, 46, British folk musician, heart attack.[93]
- Jack Gregory, 80, British athlete and Olympic silver medalist (1948, 1952).[94]
- Garvin Hamner, 79, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[95]
- Göthe Hedlund, 85, Swedish speed skater and Olympic medalist (1948, 1952).[96]
- David S. Lewis, 86, American aerospace engineer.[97]
- Keith Magnuson, 56, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks), road accident.[98]
- Edward Montagne, 91, American television series producer and film director.[99]
- Dora Wasserman, 84, Russian-Canadian actress, playwright, and theater director.[100]
16
- Siegfried Hold, 72, German cinematographer.[101]
- Alfred Lynch, 72, English actor, cancer.[102]
- Judd Marmor, 93, American psychoanalyst and psychiatrist.[103]
- Hugo Moser, 77, Argentine television and film producer and screenwriter, cardiovascular disease.
- Madlyn Rhue, 68, American actress (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Days of Our Lives, Bracken's World), pneumonia.[104]
- Aglaja Schmid, 77, Austrian stage and film actress.[105]
- Veikko Sinisalo, 77, Finnish actor.
- Robert Stanfield, 89, Canadian politician (member of Parliament representing Colchester—Hants and Halifax, Nova Scotia), pneumonia.[106]
- Gary Stewart, 58, American country music singer "She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)", suicide by gunshot.[107]
- Peter Hardy, Baron Hardy of Wath, 72, British Labour Party politician.
17
- Fujinishiki Akira, 66, Japanese sumo wrestler.[108]
- Bonnie Baker, 85, Canadian baseball player.[109]
- Thomas Coulter, 92, Canadian-American ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks).[110]
- Ed Devereaux, 78, Australian actor, cancer.[111]
- Otto Graham, 82, American gridiron football (Cleveland Browns) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, heart aneurysm.[112]
- Wally Hedrick, 75, Seminal American artist in the 1950s California counterculture, gallerist, and educator.
- Mary Ann Jackson, 80, American child actress, heart attack.
- Franz Offenberger, 72, Austrian Olympian speed skater (1952, 1956, 1960).[113]
- José Richa, 69, Brazilian politician.
- David Smith, 69, English cricketer.[114]
- Alan Tilvern, 86, English actor and voice artist (Bhowani Junction, The Lord of the Rings, Who Framed Roger Rabbit).[115]
- Jim Wolf, 51, American gridiron football player (Prairie View A&M, Pittsburgh Steelers, Kansas City Chiefs), multiple sclerosis.[116]
18
- Charles Berlitz, 90, American linguist, spoke 32 languages.[117]
- Glenn Cunningham, 91, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1957-1971).[118]
- Jack Dormand, 84, British politician.
- Ergilio Hato, 77, Dutch Antillean goalkeeper from Curaçao and Olympian (1952).[119]
- Branko Horvat, 75, Croatian economist and politician.
- Cresson Kearny, 89, United States Army officer.[120]
- Susan Travers, 94, only English woman to serve in the French Foreign Legion.[121]
- Richard Wahlstrom, 72, American Olympic rower (bronze medal in men's coxed four at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[122]
19
- Roger Conant, 94, American herpetologist, cancer.
- Yan Frid, 95, Soviet screenwriter and film director.
- Roy Hughes, Baron Islwyn, 78, British Labour Party politician and trade union organiser.
- Klaus Lahti, 94, Finnish Olympic sports shooter (1948, 1952).[123]
- Hope Lange, 70, American actress, ischemic colitis, infectious disease.[124]
- Heinz Marquardt, 80, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
- Carmen Mauro, 77, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers, Washington Senators, Philadelphia Athletics).[125]
- Les Tremayne, 90, English actor, heart failure.[126]
20
- Charles Randolph Grean, 90, American producer and composer.[127]
- Grigore Grigoriu, 62, Moldovan actor, car accident.[128]
- Rudy Houtsch, 87, Luxembourger Olympic cyclist (1936).[129]
- Alan Magee, 84, American World War II airman, survived 22,000 ft. fall, stroke, kidney failure.
- Gil Reece, 61, Welsh footballer.[130]
- Kostas Valsamis, 95, Greek sculptor.
21
- Gawaine Baillie, 69, British amateur racing driver, industrialist, and stamp collector.[131]
- Lucio Figueirêdo, 76, Brazilian Olympic water polo player (1952).[132]
- M. J. Gopalan, 94, Indian sportsman, among which cricket.[133]
- Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 79, Spanish businessman and playboy, prostate cancer.[134]
- G. V. Iyer, 86, Indian film director and actor.[135]
- Judit Kiss-Gerhardt, 62, Hungarian Olympic volleyball player (1972).[136]
- Hans Koller, 82, Austrian jazz tenor saxophonist and bandleader.[137]
- Andrea Scotti, 72, Italian film and television actor.
- Oleg Troyanovsky, 84, Soviet ambassador to Japan and China and representative to the United Nations (1976-1986).[138]
22
- Mikhail Borodulin, 36, Kazakhstani ice hockey player and Olympian (1998), lung cancer.[139]
- Wah Chang, 86, Chinese-American designer, sculptor, and artist.
- Dave Dudley, 75, American country music singer, heart attack.[140]
- Mohamed Ali Ahmed El-Rashidy, 80, Eygptian basketball player and Olympian (1952).[141]
- Rose Hill, 89, English actress and operatic soprano.[142]
- George Patterson, 64, American basketball player (Toledo Rockets, Detroit Pistons).[143]
- Doris Shadbolt, 85, Canadian art curator and writer.[144]
- Andreas Tietze, 89, Austrian scholar of Turkish lexicography and language.[145]
23
- Charlie Bowles, 86, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[146]
- Kriangsak Chamanan, 86, Prime minister of Thailand.
- Valentin Gavrilov, 57, Russian high jumper and Olympic medalist (1968).[147]
- Don Lamond, 83, American jazz drummer, brain tumor.[148]
- John Newlove, 65, Canadian poet and editor.[149]
- John Sanders, 70, British organist, pneumonia.
- Chandu Sarwate, 83, Indian cricketer and fingerprint expert.[150]
- Guglielmo Trevisan, 85, Italian football manager and football player.[151]
24
- Manfred Ebert, 68, German footballer.[152]
- Juan García, 77, Cuban Olympic basketball player (1948, 1952).[153]
- Fernando Gazapo, 83, Spanish Olympic equestrian (1948).[154]
- Herman Keiser, 89, American golfer, Alzheimer's disease.[155]
- James Kitching, 81, South African vertebrate palaeontologist, cancer.[156]
- Gunnar Alf Larsen, 83, Norwegian Labour Party politician.
- Eugene Maltsev, 74, Soviet Russian painter.
- Noel Toy, 84, American burlesque performer.[157]
25
- Charles Concordia, 95, American electrical engineer and computer pioneer.
- Ulf Isaksson, 49, Swedish ice hockey player (AIK IF, Los Angeles Kings).[158]
- Nicholas Mavroules, 74, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1979-1993).[159]
- Nicola Paone, 88, American singer, songwriter, and restaurateur.[160]
26
- Hugh Bean, 74, English violinist, teacher and leader of the Philharmonia Orchestra.[161]
- Gale Bishop, 81, American professional basketball player (Washington State, Philadelphia Warriors).[162]
- Redfern Froggatt, 79, English footballer.[163]
- Phil Goldman, 39, American engineer and entrepreneur, heart failure.[164]
- Chauncy Harris, 89, American geographer.[165]
- Alain-François Lehoerff, 62, French Olympic sailor (1964).[166]
- Clifton McNeely, 84, American basketball player and coach.[167]
- Poul Otto, 90, Danish Olympic high jumper (1936).[168]
- Paul Owens, 79, American Major League Baseball manager, and scout (Philadelphia Phillies).[169]
- Ivan Petrov, 83, Soviet and Russian bass opera singer.
- Yoshio Shirai, 80, first Japanese world boxing champion, pneumonia.
- Milan Vasić, 75, Serbian historian.
27
- Pete Alvarado, 83, American animation and comic book artist (Disney Studios, Warner Bros. Animation, Western Publishing), heart attack.[170]
- Alan Bates, 69, British actor (The Fixer, Zorba the Greek, Women in Love), pancreatic cancer.[171]
- Iván Calderón, 41, Puerto Rican baseball player (Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox, Montreal Expos), homicide by gunshot.[172]
- Ingeborg Cook, 88, Norwegian actress and singer.
- Lawrence Cook, 73, American actor.[173]
- Gerhard Doerfer, 83, German philologist.[174]
- Vestal Goodman, 74, American Southern Gospel singer, complications from influenza.[175]
- Elmo Bolton Hunter, 88, American district judge (United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri).[176]
- Heinz Kiessling, 77, German musician, conductor, composer and music producer.[177]
- Nagavally R. S. Kurup, 86, Indian writer and broadcaster.
- E. Arsenio Manuel, 94, Filipino academic, historian, and anthropologist.
- K. S. Narasimhaswamy, 88, Indian poet.
- Richie Niemiera, 82, American basketball player and coach (Notre Dame, Fort Wayne Pistons, Anderson Packers).[178]
- Juan García Ponce, 71, Mexican novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and art critic.
- Patrick J. Reynolds, 83, Irish politician.
- Ying Ruocheng, 74, Chinese actor (Marco Polo, The Last Emperor, Little Buddha), director, and China's vice-minister of culture.[179]
- Melvin Storer, 82, American shipfitter and navy diver[180]
28
- Harald Feller, 90, Swiss diplomat and Righteous Among the Nations for his efforts during World War II.
- Guy Héraud, 83, French politician and lawyer.[181]
- Helen Kleeb, 96, American film and television actress.[182]
- Michael Melle, 73, South African cricket player.[183]
- Frank Parr, 85, British chess player.[184]
- Thomas Pearsall, 83, Australian politician.
- Polly Rosenbaum, 104, American politician and teacher.[185]
- Johannes Schmitt, 60, German athlete and Olympian (1964).[186]
- Murray Smith, 63, British television writer and producer.
- A. William Sweeney, 83, American soldier and lawyer.
- John Terraine, 82, British military historian.
- Kushabhau Thakre, 81, Indian politician and a Member of parliament.
29
- Charles E. Beatley, 87, American politician, mayor of Alexandria, Virginia.[187]
- Michael Courtney, 58, Irish prelate of the Catholic Church, homicide.
- Jaime de Piniés, 86, Spanish diplomat.[188]
- Gerald Gutierrez, 53, American Tony Award-winning stage director, respiratory failure.[189]
- Earl Hindman, 61, American actor (Home Improvement, The Parallax View, Taps), lung cancer.[190]
- Dinsdale Landen, 71, British actor, pneumonia.[191]
- Don Lawrence, 75, British comic book artist, pulmonary emphysema.[192]
- Bob Monkhouse, 75, British comedian and game show host, prostate cancer.
- Veikko Räsänen, 75, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympian (1956, 1960).[193]
- Tino Schwierzina, 76, German lawyer and politician.
- Miko Sotto, 21, Filipino matinee idol.
- Michel Zanoli, 35, Dutch road cyclist (men's individual road race, men's team time trial at 1988 Summer Olympics), heart failure.[194]
- Ersa Siregar, 52, Indonesian journalist, murdered
30
- David Bale, 62, South African businessman and activist, lymphoma.[195]
- Vladimir Bogomolov, 77, Soviet writer (The Moment of Truth, 1973).[196]
- John Gregory Dunne, 71, American novelist and screenwriter, heart attack.[197]
- Bobby Freeman, 71, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia Eagles).[198]
- Nora Heysen, 92, Australian artist.[199]
- Dick Holmberg, 72, US Virgin Islander Olympic sailor (1972).[200]
- John Koniszewski, 82, American football player (Washington Redskins).[201]
- Ibram Lassaw, 90, Russian-American sculptor.[202]
- Anita Mui, 40, Hong Kong pop queen, cervix uterine cancer.[203]
- Patricia Roc, 88, English film actress, kidney failure.
- Johnny Sands, 75, American film and television actor.
- Salma Sobhan, 66, Bangladeshi lawyer, academic, and human rights activist.
- Hukwe Zawose, 65, Tanzanian musician.[204]
31
- German Apukhtin, 67, Soviet Russian football player.
- Geoffrey Thomas Sandford Baylis, 90, New Zealand botanist and academic.
- John A. Franks, 78, American businessman and a thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder.
- Dora Gad, 91, Israeli interior designer.[205]
- Gerald Goldberg, 91, Irish lawyer and politician.
- Béla Julesz, 75, Hungarian-American visual neuroscientist and experimental psychologist.
- Béla Kárpáti, 74, Hungarian football player.
- John Prchlik, 78, American football player (Detroit Lions).[206]
- Paula Raymond, 79, American model and actress, respiratory failure.[207]
- David Scott-Barrett, 81, British army general.[208]
- Sieglinde Wagner, 82, Austrian operatic contralto.[209]
- Max West, 87, American baseball player (Boston Bees/Braves, Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates), brain cancer.[210]