Deaths in October 2003
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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]
- Huntington Hardisty, 74, U.S. Navy admiral.
- Beate Hasenau, 67, German film and television actress.[2]
- Joy N. Houck, Jr., 61, American actor, screenwriter and film director.[3]
- Chubby Jackson, 84, American jazz double-bassist and band leader.[4]
- Zbigniew Lengren, 84, Polish cartoonist, caricaturist, and illustrator.
- Julie Parrish, 62, American actress, ovarian cancer.
- Frank Taylor, 95, British politician, MP for Manchester Moss Side.
2
- Milan Bjegojević, 75, Serbian basketball player and coach.
- John Thomas Dunlop, 89, American administrator and Secretary of Labor under Gerald Ford.[5]
- Ion Ferenz, 71, Romanian Olympic ice hockey player (1964).[6]
- Otto Günsche, 86, German SS escort of Adolf Hitler, who was tasked to cremate his body on 30 April 1945, heart failure.[7]
- Ahmed Khadr, 55, Egyptian-Canadian Islamist, shot and killed by Pakistani security forces.
- Hasan Mahsum, Turkestani Islamic extremist group leader, shot by the Pakistani Army.
- Denis Moore, 93, English cricketer.[8]
- Gunther Philipp, 85, Austrian film actor, physician and swimmer.
3
- Roxana Cannon Arsht, 88, American judge.[9]
- Joop Bakker, 82, Dutch politician and businessman.[10]
- John Baldock, 87, British politician (MP for Harborough).[11]
- Greg Biagini, 51, American baseball player and coach (Baltimore Orioles).[12]
- Tish Daija, 78, Albanian composer.[13]
- Profira Sadoveanu, 97, Romanian prose writer and poet.[14]
- Gustav Sjöberg, 90, Swedish football goalkeeper and Olympian (1936).[15]
- Florence Stanley, 79, American actress (Barney Miller, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Dinosaurs), stroke.[16]
- William Steig, 95, American cartoonist and children's author; creator of Shrek.[17]
- Heinz Vroomen, 84, Dutch footballer.[18]
- Winifred Watkins, 79, British biochemist.[19]
4
- Byomkesh Bose, 75-76, Indian footballer and Olympian (1952).[20]
- Bill Cayton, 85, American boxing manager, former manager of Edwin Rosario and Mike Tyson.
- John Horace Ragnar Colvin, 81, British intelligence officer.[21]
- Hanadi Jaradat, 28, Palestinian jihadist, suicide by explosive vest.[22]
- Sid McMath, 91, American attorney and politician, 34th governor of Arkansas.[23]
- Freddie Phillips, 84, British musician and composer.
- Elisabeta Rizea, 91, Romanian anti-communist partisan, viral pneumonia.[24]
- Fred Tuttle, 84, American farmer, actor and politician, heart attack.[25]
5
- Wil van Beveren, 91, Dutch sprinter and Olympian (1936).[26]
- Wally George, 71, American conservative radio and television commentator, pneumonia.[27]
- Neil Postman, 72, American media critic, lung cancer.[28]
- Denis Quilley, 75, British actor, liver cancer.[29]
- Dan Snyder, 25, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Atlanta Thrashers), traffic collision.[30]
- Elena Slough, 114, American supercentenarian and oldest recognized person in the United States.
- Annalena Tonelli, 60, Italian Catholic lay missionary and social activist, homicide.
- Timothy Treadwell, 46, American environmentalist and documentary filmmaker, bear attack.
- František Velecký, 69, Slovak actor and artist.
- Dwain Weston, 30, Australian skydiver and base jumper, accidental death.[31]
6
- Joe Baker, 63, English footballer, heart attack.[32]
- Antony Buck, 74, British politician (Member of Parliament for Colchester, Colchester North).[33]
- Armando Crispino, 78, Italian film director and screenwriter.[34]
- William Herrmann, 91, American gymnast and Olympic medalist (1932).[35]
- Charles Millot, 81, Yugoslav-French actor.[36]
- Azam Tariq, 35, Pakistani politician, homicide.
7
- Izzy Asper, 71, Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate (CanWest Global Communications Corp).[37]
- Arthur Berger, 91, American composer, music critic, teacher and an academic music writer.[38]
- Ryan Halligan, 13, American bullying victim, suicide by hanging.
- John Herring, 68, British athlete and Olympian (1964).[39]
- Eleanor Lambert, 100, American fashion pioneer.[40]
- Viktor Leonov, 86, Soviet Navy officer and twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Norodom Narindrapong, 49, Cambodian prince, heart attack.
- Henry Herbert, 17th Earl of Pembroke, 64, British landowner, politician, film director, and producer.[41]
8
- Bob Alwin, 83, American basketball player.[42]
- Juan Armenteros, 75, Cuban baseball player.[43]
- Thalia Mara, 92, American ballet dancer and educator.[44]
- Cyril May, 82, British socialist politician.[45]
- Petter Thomassen, 62, Norwegian politician.
- Junior Wren, 73, American professional football player (Missouri, Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers).[46]
9
- Carl Fontana, 75, American jazz trombonist, Alzheimer's disease.[47]
- Ruth Hall, 92, American film actress.[48]
- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, 77, American academic, suicide by drug overdose.[49]
- Don Lanphere, 75, American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist.
- Judith Pierce, 72, English operatic soprano.[50]
10
- Igor Borisov, 79, Russian rower and Olympic silver medalist (1952).[51]
- Viola Burnham, 72, Guyanese politician, First Lady to Forbes Burnham and Vice President, cancer.[52]
- Lillian DeCambra, 77, American baseball player.[53]
- Eila Hiltunen, 80, Finnish sculptor.
- Victoria Horne, 91, American actress, appearing in 49 films.[54]
- Eugene Istomin, 77, American pianist, liver cancer.[55]
- Johnny Klippstein, 75, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Redlegs, Minnesota Twins).[56]
- Eve Newman, 88, American music and film editor (Academy Award nominations: Wild in the Streets, Two-Minute Warning).[57]
- Julia Trevelyan Oman, 73, British set designer.[58]
- Pastora Peña, 83, Spanish film actress.
- Frank Alois Pitelka, 87, American ornithologist.[59]
- Max Rayne, 85, British property developer and philanthropist.
- Jorge Schneider, 69, Argentine Olympic rower (1952).[60]
- Charles Simms, 75, American Olympic gymnast (1952, 1956).[61]
11
- Vivien Alcock, 79, English children's book writer.[62]
- Sadateru Arikawa, 73, Japanese aikido teacher and shihan.[63]
- Ivan Getting, 91, American physicist and electrical engineer.[64]
- Tommy Hanlon Jr., 80, American-Australian actor, comedian, television host and circus ringmaster, cancer.[65]
- John K. Mahon, 91, American historian.[66]
- Jacques Mazoyer, 93, French Olympic sports shooter (1936, 1948, 1952, 1956).[67]
- Lila Ram, 72, Indian wrestler and Olympian (1956).[68]
- Peter Salmon, 74, Canadian swimmer and Olympian (1948, 1952).[69]
12
- Jim Cairns, 89, Australian politician (Deputy Prime Minister, Treasurer of Australia).[70]
- Ram Gopal, 90, Indian dancer and choreographer.[71]
- Ruth Halbsguth, 86, German swimmer and Olympic silver medalist (1936).[72]
- Elbert Bertram Haltom Jr., 80, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama).[73]
- Ion Ioanid, 77, Romanian dissident and writer.
- Arthur Kaye, 70, English football player.[74]
- Joan Kroc, 75, American philanthropist, widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, brain cancer.[75]
- Pete Morisi, 75, American comic book writer and artist.[76]
- Fathur Rahman al-Ghozi, 32, Indonesian Islamic terrorist and bomb-maker, shot by police.
- Bill Shoemaker, 72, American Hall of Fame jockey, rode the winners in eleven Triple Crown races.[77]
13
- Butch Brickell, 46, American race car driver (24 Hours of Daytona) and stuntman (The Specialist, 2 Fast 2 Furious).[78]
- Bertram Brockhouse, 85, Canadian physicist, 1994 Nobel Prize winner in physics for the development of neutron spectroscopy.[79]
- Gheorghe Constantinide, 74, Romanian Olympic basketball player (1952).[80]
- Clarita Heath, 87, American Olympic alpine skier (1936).[81]
- Eino Lahti, 88, Finnish footballer and Olympian (1936).[82]
- Eduard Prugovečki, 66, Romanian-Canadian physicist and mathematician.
- Anne Ziegler, 93, English singer, known for her duets with her husband Webster Booth.[83]
14
- Mohamed Basri, 75-76, Moroccan activist and opposition leader, heart attack.[84]
- Edward T. Breathitt, 78, American politician, 51st governor of Kentucky, ventricular fibrillation.[85]
- Zoltan Crișan, 48, Romanian football player, tuberculosis.
- Wil Culmer, 45, Bahamian baseball player (Cleveland Indians).[86]
- Moktar Ould Daddah, 78, President of Mauritania.[87]
- Patrick Dalzel-Job, 90, British naval intelligence officer and commando.[88]
- Jack McLean, 80, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).[89]
- Ben Metcalfe, 83, Greenpeace activist and co-founder, heart attack.[90]
- Ramón Porcel, 81, Argentine Olympic rower (1948).[91]
- Javier Portales, 66, Argentine actor, heart attack.
- Miloš Sádlo, 91, Czech cellist and music teacher.[92]
- Knud Leif Thomsen, 79, Danish film director and screenwriter.[93]
15
- Pierre Chanal, 56, Egyptian-French soldier and suspected serial killer, suicide by exsanguination.
- Norman Elder, 64, Canadian writer, artist, and Olympic equestrian (1960, 1968), suicide by hanging.[94]
- Antonín Liška, 79, Czech Catholic theologist.
- Benny Lévy, 58, Egyptian-French philosopher, political activist and author.[95]
16
- Avni Arbaş, Turkish artist, cancer.
- Lorraine Dunn, 61, Panamanian sprinter, hurdler, and Olympian (1960, 1964).[96]
- Don Evans, 65, American playwright, theater director, and actor, heart attack.[97]
- James M. Hanley, 83, American businessman and politician.[98]
- Mark Hanna, 86, American screenwriter and actor.[99]
- Stu Hart, 88, Canadian professional wrestler, stroke.
- László Papp, 77, Hungarian boxer and Olympian (1948, 1952, 1956).[100]
- Ignatius Jerome Strecker, 85, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Carl Urbano, 93, American animator and director.
17
- Bob Chow, 95, American Olympic sports shooter (1948).[101]
- Rene Fortaleza, 48, Filipino boxer, executive and Olympian (1972).[102]
- Nils Hjelmström, 88, Swedish Olympic ski jumper (1936).[103]
- Charlie Justice, 79, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins).[104]
- Frank O'Flynn, 84, New Zealand politician.
- Janice Rule, 72, American actress, cerebral hemorrhage.[105]
- António Dias Teixeira, 73, Portuguese football player and manager.
18
- William C. Cramer, 81, American attorney and politician, heart attack.[106]
- Rodolfo Freude, 83, Argentine politician and close advisor of president Juan Perón.
- David Lodge, 82, English actor, cancer.[107]
- Ralph Moffitt, 71, English golfer.
- Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, 64, Spanish novelist (Detective Carvalho saga), journalist and poet.[108]
- Preston Smith, 91, American politician (40th governor of Texas from 1969 to 1973).[109]
19
- Jaime Allende, 79, Spanish Olympic field hockey player (1948).[110]
- Misha Asherov, 79, Israeli actor (The Hour of Truth) and theatre director.[111]
- Sir Peter Berger, 78, British admiral (Amethyst Incident).[112]
- Road Warrior Hawk, 46, American professional wrestler (WWF), heart attack.
- Harun bin Idris, 77, Malaysian politician and 8th Menteri Besar of Selangor.
- Alija Izetbegović, 78, Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, cardiovascular disease.
- Margaret Elizabeth Murie, 101, American naturalist, writer, adventurer, and conservationist.[113]
- Nello Pagani, 92, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Formula One driver.
- Guy Rolfe, 91, British actor.
- Georgi Vladimov, 72, Soviet and Ukrainian dissident writer.[114]
20
- František Balvín, 88, Czechoslovak Olympic cross-country skier (1948, 1952).[115]
- Ernie Calverley, 79, American basketball player (Rhode Island, Providence Steamrollers) and coach.[116]
- Jack Elam, 82, American actor (Once Upon a Time in the West, The Cannonball Run, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid), heart attack.[117]
- Donald G. Jackson, 60, American filmmaker, leukemia.
- Hal Lahar, 84, American football player (Chicago Bears, Buffalo Bisons/Bills) and coach.[118]
- Ferry Mesman, 78, Dutch footballer.[119]
- Miodrag Petrović Čkalja, 79, Serbian actor.
21
- Bob Beckus, 83, American Olympic triple jumper (1948).[120]
- Fred Berry, 52, American actor, stroke.[121]
- Ron Crews, 47, American football player (Cleveland Browns).[122]
- Luis A. Ferré, 99, Puerto Rican industrialist and politician, respiratory failure.[123]
- Louise Day Hicks, 87, American politician (Boston City Council, U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 9th congress. dist.).[124]
- André Lonlas, 93, French Olympic long-distance runner (1936).[125]
- Sandy MacDonald, 99, Canadian Olympic sailor (1960, 1964).[126]
- Tomáš Pospíchal, 67, Czech football player.
- Alfred Rose, 71, Indian Konkani singer, composer, and actor.
- Elliott Smith, 34, American musician, suicide by stabbing.[127]
- Ismael Torres, 51, Argentine Olympic cyclist (1972).[128]
- Arturo Warman, 66, Mexican anthropologist, author, and politician.
22
- Dee Andros, 79, American football player, coach (University of Idaho, Oregon State University) and athletic director.[129]
- Ron Collier, 73, Canadian jazz trombonist, composer, and arranger.[130]
- Santiago Massini, 89, Argentine fencer and Olympian (1952, 1956).[131]
- Willem Meijer, 80, Dutch botanist and plant collector.[132]
- Philippe Ragueneau, 85, French journalist and writer.[133]
- Hans Ras, 77, Dutch linguist and professor of Javanese language and literature.
- Tony Renna, 26, American motor racer and IndyCar driver, racing accident.
- Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas, 81, Venezuelan diplomat (Ambassador to the U.S., Foreign Minister of Venezuela), lung cancer.[134]
- Lilia Torriani, 82, Italian Olympic gymnast (1948).[135]
23
- Tony Capstick, 59, British actor, comedian, musician and broadcaster, aneurysm.
- Al Corwin, 76, American baseball player (New York Giants).[136]
- Vlasta Depetrisová, 82, Czech table tennis player.
- Kevin Magee, 44, American basketball player (UC Irvine Anteaters, CB Zaragoza, Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C.), traffic collision.[137]
- Soong Mei-ling, 105, Chinese political figure and wife of president Chiang Kai-shek.[138]
- Sadao Sato, 54, Japanese Olympic wrestler (1972, 1976).[139]
- Judah Segal, 91, British linguist.[140]
- Hiroshi Yoshimura, 63, Japanese musician and composer, skin cancer.
24
- Rosie Nix Adams, 45, American singer and songwriter, daughter of June Carter Cash, carbon monoxide poisoning.[141]
- József Apró, 82, Hungarian Olympic middle-distance runner (1952).[142]
- Bob Bailey, 72, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks).[143]
- Franklin Green, 70, American sports shooter and Olympian (1964).[144]
- Veikko Hakulinen, 78, Finnish cross-country skier, triple Olympic- and world champion (1952, 1956, 1960, 1964), traffic collision.[145]
- Joanna Lee, 72, American writer, producer, director and actress, bone cancer.[146]
- Half a Mill, 30, American rapper, suicide by gunshot.
- Carmen Pujals, 87, Argentine botanist.
- Richard H. Wasai, 70, American politician.[147]
25
- Hemu Adhikari, 84, Indian cricketer.[148]
- Pandurang Shastri Athavale, 83, Indian philosopher and social activist.
- Noreen Branson, 93, British political activist and historian of the Communist Party of Great Britain.[149]
- John Hart Ely, 64, American legal scholar, cancer.[150]
- Behram Kurşunoğlu, 81, Turkish physicist, heart attack.[151]
- Richard Leibler, 89, American mathematician and cryptanalyst.
- Tadeusz Radwan, 58, Polish luger and Olympian (1968).[152]
- Robert Strassburg, 88, American conductor, composer, and musicologist.[153]
- Mario Vitale, 75, Italian film actor.
26
- Johnny Boyd, 77, American racecar driver, twelve Indianapolis 500-mile races from 1955 to 1966.[154]
- Steve Death, 54, English football goalkeeper, cancer.
- Leonid Filatov, 56, Soviet and Russian actor, director and poet, pneumonia.[155]
- François Guérin, 75, French film and television actor.[156]
- Roy Harte, 79, American jazz drummer and record producer.
- Hans-Joachim Jabs, 85, German Luftwaffe officer during World War II.
- Elem Klimov, 70, Soviet and Russian film director, brain hypoxia.[157]
- Roberto García Morillo, 92, Argentine composer, musicologist, music professor and music critic.[158]
- Heinz Piontek, 77, German writer.[159]
- Jürgen Simon, 65, German Olympic cyclist (1960).[160]
- Viguen, 73, Iranian pop music singer ("Sultan of pop") and actor, cancer.[161]
- Eli Williams, 86, American baseball player.[162]
27
- John William Atkinson, 79, American psychologist.
- Hank Beenders, 87, Dutch-American basketball player (Providence Steamrollers, Philadelphia Warriors, Boston Celtics).[163]
- Pete Gudauskas, 87, American football player (Cleveland Rams, Chicago Bears).[164]
- Manoj Khanderia, 60, Indian poet and writer.
- Tarun Kumar, 72, Indian actor.
- K. R. Malkani, 81, Indian journalist, historian and politician.
- François Mautin, 96, French Olympic ice hockey player (1928).[165]
- Rod Roddy, 66, American radio and television announcer, cancer.
- Walter Washington, 88, American civil servant and politician, first Mayor of the District of Columbia, kidney failure.[166]
- Fred Whittingham, 64, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, New Orleans Saints), complications from back surgery.[167]
28
- Jean Carbonnier, 95, French jurist.[168]
- Marie Maynard Daly, 82, American biochemist.
- Edward Hartwig, 94, Polish photographer.[169]
- Pier Angelo Conti Manzini, 57, Italian Olympic rower (1968, 1972).[170]
- Nora Ney, 81, Brazilian singer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Joan Perucho, 82, Spanish novelist, poet, art critic, and judge.[171]
- Alexander Raichev, 81, Bulgarian composer.
- Oliver Sain, 71, American musician and record producer, cancer.
29
- Gino Armano, 76, Italian football player.[172]
- Hal Clement, 81, American author, diabetes.[173]
- Franco Corelli, 82, Italian tenor, heart attack.[174]
- Gerrie Deijkers, 56, Dutch football player, heart attack.[175]
- Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, 93, American science fiction fan, publisher, writer, and minister.[176]
- A. Carl Helmholz, 88, American nuclear physicist.[177]
- Vern Pettigrew, 95, Canadian Olympic wrestler (1936).[178]
- Jaime Castillo Velasco, 89, Chilean politician, pneumonia.
30
- Lynn S. Beedle, 85, American structural engineer.[179]
- Carl Berner, 90, Danish rower and Olympian (1936).[180]
- Franco Bonisolli, 65, Italian operatic tenor.[181]
- Peter Buehning Sr., 73, German-born American handball player and coach.[182]
- Ron Davies, 57, American songwriter and musician, heart attack.[183]
- Abel Ehrlich, 88, Israeli composer.[184]
- Aidyn Guseinov, 46, Azerbaijani chess player.
- Khosro Haghgosha, 55, Iranian Olympic cyclist (1972, 1976).[185]
- Lillian Jackson, 84, American baseball player.[186]
- Subhadra Joshi, 84, Indian freedom activist and politician.
- Börje Leander, 85, Swedish football player and Olympian (1948).[187]
- Steve O'Rourke, 63, English music manager and racing driver, stroke.
- Stan Szukala, 85, American basketball player (DePaul Blue Demons, Chicago American Gears).[188]
- Richard Clyde Taylor, 83, American philosopher.[189]
- Michiel Dudok van Heel, 79, Dutch Olympic sailor (1952).[190]
31
- Yorrie Evans, 80, Walsh weightlifter and Olympian (1952).[191]
- Robert Guenette, 68, American screenwriter and film/television producer and director, brain tumor.[192]
- August Hollenstein, 83, Swiss Olympic sports shooter (1952, 1960, 1964).[193]
- Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, 95, Indian carnatic musician.[194]
- José Juncosa, 81, Spanish football player and manager.[195]
- Antonio Medina, 84, Spanish chess master.[196]
- Richard Neustadt, 84, American academic and advisor to several presidents.[197]
- Karel Paulus, 70, Czech Olympic volleyball player (1964).[198]
- Yechiel Shemi, Israeli sculptor.[199]
- Lindsay Weir, 95, New Zealand cricketer.[200]