Deaths in February 2003
The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
February 2003[]
1[]
- Anne Burr, 84, American actress (Native Son, The Hasty Heart, As the World Turns).[1]
- Adalberto Ortiz, 88, Ecuadorian writer.
- Mongo Santamaría, 85, Cuban Latin jazz percussionist.[2]
- Nancy Whiskey, 67, Scottish folk singer ("Freight Train").[3]
- Crew of STS-107 killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster:
- Michael P. Anderson, 43, American, payload commander.[4]
- David M. Brown, 46, American, mission specialist.[5]
- Kalpana Chawla, 40, American, mission specialist.[6]
- Laurel Clark, 41, American, mission specialist.[7]
- Rick Husband, 45, American, commander.[8]
- William C. McCool, 41, American, pilot.[9]
- Ilan Ramon, 48, Israeli, payload specialist.[10]
2[]
- Vincent "Randy" Chin, 65, Jamaican record producer.[11]
- Lou Harrison, 85, American composer, noted for his microtonal works.[12]
- Ronald Lawrence Hughes, 82, infantry officer in the Australian Army.
- Jack Lauterwasser, 98, English racing cyclist and cycling engineer, fall at home.
- Richard C. Lee, 86, American politician, Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut.[13]
- Won Kuk Lee, 95, Korean martial artist, pneumonia.
- David C. Rowe, 53, American psychology professor.[14]
- Marcello Truzzi, 67, American professor of sociology, cancer.[15]
- Emerson Woelffer, 88, American abstract expressionist artist and teacher.[16]
3[]
- Natascha Artin Brunswick, 93, German-American mathematician and economist.
- Lana Clarkson, 40, American actress (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Scarface, Barbarian Queen), shot by record producer Phil Spector.[17]
- Shadito Cruz, 88, Mexican professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease.
- Trevor Morris, 82, Welsh footballer and World War II pilot.
- Peter Schat, 67, Dutch composer.
4[]
- Charles McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway, 89, British industrialist and horticulturalist.[18]
- Benyoucef Benkhedda, 82, Algerian politician, head of Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (1961–1962).[19]
- Charlie Biddle, 76, American-Canadian jazz bassist, played with Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.[20]
- John Biolo, 86, American professional football player (Lake Forest College, Green Bay Packers).[21]
- Jean Brossel, 84, French physicist, a key figure in the development of modern atomic physics and quantum optics.[22]
- Jerome Hines, 81, American operatic bass.[23]
- Jim Mertz, 86, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[24]
- Qalandar Momand, 72, Pakistani poet and writer.[25]
- Jim North, 83, American professional football player (Washington Redskins).[26]
- André Noyelle, 71, Belgian road racing cyclist (1952 Olympic gold medals: individual road race, team road race).[27]
- Dick Shatto, 89, Canadian football player.
5[]
- Helge Boes, 32, American CIA operations officer, accident during live-fire training in Afghanistan.[28]
- Manfred von Brauchitsch, 97, German auto racing driver, winner of three Grand Prix races in the 1930s.[29]
- Guillermo González Calderoni, 54, Mexican Federal Judicial Police official (portrayed in 2018 Netflix drama, Narcos: Mexico).[30]
- Micky Fenton, 89, England football player.
- Larry LeSueur, 93, American journalist, Parkinson's disease.[31]
- Dale Roberts, 46, British football player, cancer.
- Werner Romberg, 93, German mathematician and physicist.
- Robert D. Schuck, 85, American politician.
- Joseph P. Vigorito, 84, American politician (U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 24th congressional district).[32]
6[]
- Eric Ashby, 85, English naturalist and wildlife cameraman.[33]
- José Craveirinha, 80, Mozambican journalist, story writer and poet.
- Arthur Doherty, 71, Irish politician.
- Mark Freeman, 94, Austrian-born American visual artist.
- Robert St. John, 100, American author, broadcaster, and journalist.
- Sir Peter Saunders, 91, British theatre impresario.[34]
- Landrum Shettles, 93, American biologist and a pioneer in the field of vitro fertilization.[35]
- Alex Stokes, 83, British physicist.[36]
7[]
- Noriko Sawada Bridges Flynn, 79, American writer and civil rights activist.[37]
- Edward Knapp-Fisher, 88, Anglican bishop and scholar.
- Augusto Monterroso, 81, Honduran writer, heart failure.
- Amalia Nieto, 95, Uruguayan painter, engraver and sculptor.
- John Reading, 85, American Mayor of Oakland, California from 1966 to 1977.[38]
- Malcolm Roberts, 58, English pop singer, heart attack .[39]
- Leader Stirling, 97, English missionary surgeon and Health Minister in Tanzania.
- Stephen Whittaker, 55, British actor and director (Nicholas Nickleby, Sons and Lovers).[40]
8[]
- Hank Blade, 82, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).[41]
- William Louis Culberson, 73, American lichenologist.
- John Charles Cutler, 87, American surgeon.
- Wally Scott, 78, American aviator and author, pneumonia.
- Alice Treff, 96, German film actress.
- Konrad Weichert, 68, German Olympic sailor (bronze medal in 1968 Dragon, silver medal in 1972 Dragon).[42]
- George A. Zentmyer, 89, American plant physiologist, one of the world's foremost authorities on Phytophthora.[43]
9[]
- Tanya Anacleto, 26, Mozambican freestyle swimmer (women's 50 metre freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics).[44]
- Herma Bauma, 88, Austrian javelin thrower (gold medal in women's javelin throw at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[45]
- Ruby Braff, 75, American jazz trumpeter and cornetist.[46]
- Sister Mary Ignatius Davies, 81, Sister of Mercy and inspirational music teacher, heart attack.
- Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda, 76, Turkish mathematician of Japanese ancestry.
- H. Douglas Keith, 75, British physicist and polymer researcher.
- Anthony Luteyn, 85, Dutch officer during World War II.
- Ken McKinlay, 74, British speedway rider.
- Billy Parker, 61, American baseball player (California Angels).[47]
- Vera Ralston, 82, Czech figure skater and actress, star of Ice Capades and "B" actress in the 1940s.
- Russ Ramsay, 74, Canadian politician, Alzheimer's disease.
10[]
- Chuck Aleno, 85, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).[48]
- Ralph Beard, 73, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).[49]
- Edgar de Evia, 92, American photographer born in Mérida, Yucatán.
- Curt Hennig, 44, professional wrestler.
- Clark MacGregor, 80, former 5-term Republican United States Congressman from Minnesota (1961–1970).[50]
- Paul Randles, 37, American game designer.
- Al Ruffo, 94, politician, philanthropist, educator, lawyer, and football coach and former mayor of San Jose, California.
- Jan Veselý, 79, Czechoslovakian cyclist (men's individual road race, men's team road race at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[51]
- Carmen Vidal, 87, Spanish cosmetologist and businesswoman.
- Ron Ziegler, 63, former press secretary for Richard Nixon during the Watergate Scandal.[52]
11[]
- Socorro Avelar, 77, Mexican actress, stomach cancer.
- Arndt Bause, 66, German composer, pulmonary embolism.
- Michael Breheny, 54, English town planner, professor of planning at Reading University.[53]
- Neville Colman, 57, South African-American hematologist and forensic DNA expert, gastric cancer.[54]
- Michel Graillier, 56, French jazz pianist.
- Marc Iliffe, 30, British strongman, suffocation.
- Fern Shumate, 92, American writer of stories and news articles.
- Luke Chia-Liu Yuan, 90, Chinese-American physicist and grandson of Yuan Shikai.[55]
12[]
- Wally Burnette, 73, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics).[56]
- Richard Edwin Fox, 47, American criminal.
- Frederick Higginson, 89, British World War II fighter pilot.
- Vali Myers, 72, Australian artist.
- Sir Brian Stanbridge, 78, British air marshal.
- Haywood Sullivan, 72, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Kansas City Athletics), manager (Kansas City Athletics) and owner (Boston Red Sox).[57]
- Dick Whitman, 82, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies).[58]
- Kemmons Wilson, 90, American businessman, founder of Holiday Inn.[59]
13[]
- James Thomas Flexner, 95, American historian and biographer.[60]
- Kid Gavilán, 77, world boxing champion and hall of famer.[61]
- Robert Ivers, 68, American actor.
- Axel Jensen, 71, Norwegian author, ALS.
- Stacy Keach, Sr., 88, actor (Pretty Woman, Teen Wolf, The Parallax View).[62]
- Stuart Keith, 71, British-born American ornithologist.[63]
- Leonor Llausás, 73, Mexican actress.
- Walt Rostow, 86, American political advisor.[64]
14[]
- Dolly, 6, the world's first cloned mammal, euthanization following a lung disease.
- Joseph Peter Kinneary, 97, American district judge.
- Johnny Longden, 96, American jockey.[65]
- Paul E. Meehl, 83, American clinical psychologist.[66]
- Sundaram Ramakrishnan, 80, Indian freedom fighter and social activist, heart attack.
- Sir John Smith, 81, British legal scholar.
15[]
- Aldo Albera, 80, Italian sprint canoer (men's 10000 metres K-1 single-man sprint kayak at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[67]
- Vincent Apap, 93, Maltese sculptor.
- Alexander Bennett, 73, British ballet dancer, teacher and ballet master, principal dancer with the Royal Ballet.[68]
- Vlastimil Koubek, 75, Czech American architect, cancer.
- Ted Kress, 71, American football player and businessman.
- Aleksandar Tišma, 79, Serbian novelist.
- Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce, 95, British judge.[69]
16[]
- Philip John Gardner, 88, British recipient of the Victoria Cross.
- Jim Gordon, 76, American television and radio newscaster, cancer.[70]
- Eileen Letchworth, 80, American actress.
- Rusty Magee, 47, American composer of musicals.[71]
- Frances Freeborn Pauley, 97, American civil rights activist.
17[]
- Steve Bechler, 23, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).[72]
- Julian Bigelow, 89, American computer engineer, built one of the first digital computers (IAS machine).[73]
- Allen Britton, 88, American music educator, contributed to the history of music pedagogy (Journal of Research in Music Education).[74]
- Donald James Porter, 81, American judge (U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota).[75]
- Frank Thistlethwaite, 87, British academic, first Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia.
- Harry Warner Jr., 80, American journalist.
18[]
- Tony Altomare, 74, American professional wrestler and trainer.
- Quentin Anderson, 90, American literary critic and cultural historian (Henry James, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman).[76]
- Ittla Frodi, 72, Swedish actress, writer and producer.
- Len Garrison, 59, British educationalist and historian.
- Isser Harel, 90/91, Israeli spymaster and director of the Mossad.
- Keith Ross, 75, British consultant cardiac surgeon, aneurysm.
19[]
- Dan Anderson, 81, American clinical psychologist and educator, president of the Hazelden Foundation.[77]
- Washington Beltrán, 88, Uruguayan politician, President (1965–1966).
- James Hardy, 84, American pioneer surgeon.[78]
- Johnny Paycheck, 64, American country music singer.[79]
- Josef Wüst, 77, Austrian journalist, editor-in-chief and publisher.
20[]
- Maurice Blanchot, 95, French writer, philosopher and literary theorist.[80]
- Orville Freeman, 84, American politician.[81]
- Ty Longley, 31, American guitarist for the heavy metal band Great White; victim of the Station nightclub fire.
- Harry Jacunski, 87, American NFL player, Green Bay Packers.[82]
- Orville Lothrop Freeman, 84, American Governor of Minnesota and Secretary of Agriculture for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
- Mushaf Ali Mir, 55, Pakistan Chief of the Air Staff, air crash.
- Frederick Thomas, 85, Scottish cricketer.
21[]
- Barry Bucknell, 91, English BBC television presenter who popularized Do It Yourself (DIY).[83]
- Edwin Bustillos, 38, Mexican human rights activist and environmentalist.[84]
- Jim Courtright, 88, Canadian track and field athlete.
- Eddie Dodson, 54, American criminal and socialite, complications from Hepatitis C.
- John E. Fryer, 65, American psychiatrist and gay rights activist.[85]
- Tom Glazer, 88, American folk singer and songwriter.[86]
- Fei Hsi-ping, Taiwanese politician, heart failure.
- Karel Kosík, 76, Czech Marxist philosopher.
- Rusty Peters, 88, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns).[87]
- Galeazzo Ruspoli, 80, Italian nobleman.
- Eddie Thomson, 55, Scottish football player and coach.
22[]
- Sir Frank Callaway, 83, Australian music educator and administrator.
- Jilani Kamran, 76, Pakistani poet, critic, and teacher, brain haemorrhage.
- Jean-Pierre Miquel, 66, French actor and theatre director.
- Jesica Santillan, 17, Mexican heart and lung patient whose wrong transplant made headlines.
- Daniel Taradash, 90, American former president of AMPAS; Oscar-winning screenwriter of "From Here to Eternity", pancreatic cancer.
23[]
- Shlomo Argov, 73, Israeli diplomat, Ambassador of Israel to the United Kingdom.[88]
- Howie Epstein, 47, American former bass player for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
- Helle-Reet Helenurm, 59, Estonian actress.
- Christopher Hill, 91, British historian.[89]
- Robert K. Merton, 92, American sociologist.[90]
- Sir Bernard Miller, 98, British businessman, chairman of John Lewis Partnership.
- Titos Vandis, 85, Greek actor (The Exorcist, Baretta, The A-Team, M*A*S*H, Kojak, Newhart).[91]
24[]
- Alex Cameron, 65, American English professor and official pronouncer of the Scripps National Spelling Bee from 1981 to 2002.[92]
- Albert Hibbs, 78, American mathematician and physicist known as "The Voice of JPL".[93]
- Bernard Loiseau, 52, French chef, suicide by gunshot.
- Walter Scharf, 92, American film composer, heart failure.[94]
- John Shaw, 78, Australian opera singer.
- Alberto Sordi, 82, Italian comedy actor.
- Antoni Torres, 59, Spanish footballer, cancer.
25[]
- Kate Atkinson Bell, 95, American educator.
- Alexander Kemurdzhian, 81, Armenian scientist.
- Lee Mun-ku, 61, South Korean novelist.
- Tom O'Higgins, 86, Irish Fine Gael politician, barrister and judge.
26[]
- Harold Amos, 84, American microbiologist and professor, chairman of Harvard Medical School bacteriology department.[95]
- Brian Evans, 60, Welsh football player, cancer.
- Earl Forest, 76, American musician, cancer.[96]
- Christian Goethals, 74, Belgian racing driver.
- Jaime Ramírez, 71, Chilean football player.
27[]
- Doris Grant, 98, British nutritionist and food writer.[97]
- John Lanchbery, 79, British-born Australian musician.[98]
- James D. Nichols, 74, American horse racing jockey, rode in seven U.S. Triple Crown races.[99]
- Fred Rogers, 74, American television personality, host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.[100]
- Scotty, 52/53, Jamaican reggae vocalist, prostate cancer.
28[]
- Alfred Bernstein, 92, American civil rights, civil liberties and union activist.[101]
- Göte Blomqvist, 75, Swedish ice hockey player (bronze medal in ice hockey at the 1952 Winter Olympics).[102]
- Chris Brasher, 74, British track and field athlete (gold medal in men's 3000m steeplechase at the 1956 Summer Olympics).[103]
- Dinos Dimopoulos, 81, Greek film director.
- Jim Fridley, 78, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Redlegs).[104]
- Fidel Sánchez Hernández, 85, former President of El Salvador, heart attack.
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- ^ "Göte Blomqvist". Sports-Reference / Olympic Sports. Archived from the original on December 2, 2016. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
- ^ "Chris Brasher". Sports-Reference / Olympic Sports. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
- ^ "Jim Fridley". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
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