Deaths in October 2003
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]
- Hardiman Cureton, 69, American football player.
- Lillian DeCambra, 77, American baseball player (AAGPBL)[2]
- Huntington Hardisty, 74, U.S. Navy admiral.
- Joy N. Houck Jr., 61, American actor, screenwriter and film director.
- Khalid Masud, 67, Pakistani muslim scholar.
- 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.
- Otto Günsche, 86, German SS escort of Adolf Hitler, who was tasked to cremate his body on 30 April 1945, heart failure.[3]
- Ahmed Khadr, 55, Egyptian-Canadian Islamist.
- Hasan Mahsum, Turkestani Islamic extremist group leader, shot by the Pakistani Army.
- Denis Moore, 93, English cricketer.
3[]
- John Baldock, 87, British politician (Member of Parliament for Harborough).[4]
- Lyall Barry, 77, New Zealand competitive swimmer.
- Greg Biagini, 51, American minor league baseball player and manager, and MLB hitting coach (Baltimore Orioles).[5]
- Tish Daija, 78, Albanian composer.
- Edward Hartman, 39, American convicted murderer.
- Florence Stanley, 79, American voice actress.
- William Steig, 95, American cartoonist and children's author; creator of Shrek.[6]
- Winifred Watkins, 79, British biochemist.[7]
4[]
- Athar Ali, 40, Pakistani rocket scientist, murdered.
- Bill Cayton, 85, American boxing manager, former manager of Edwin Rosario and Mike Tyson.
- John Horace Ragnar Colvin, 81, British intelligence officer.
- Mary Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Lymington, 82, first female Lord Mayor of London.
- Sid McMath, 91, American attorney and politician, 34th governor of Arkansas.[8]
- Elisabeta Rizea, 91, Romanian anti-communist partisan, viral pneumonia.
5[]
- Wil van Beveren, 91, Dutch sprinter (1936 Summer Olympics: men's 100m, men's 200m, men's 4x100m relay).[9]
- Neil Postman, 72, American media critic.[10]
- Elena Slough, 114, oldest recognized person in the United States.
- Denis Quilley, 75, British actor.
- Dan Snyder, 25, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Atlanta Thrashers).[11]
- Timothy Treadwell, 46, American environmentalist and documentary filmmaker.
- Dwain Weston, 30, Australian skydiver and base jumper.[12]
6[]
- Mary Christine Tan, 72, Filipino missionary, nun, and activist.
- Joe Baker, 63, English footballer.
- Sir Antony Buck, 74, British politician (Member of Parliament for Colchester, Colchester North).[13]
- Sir Michael Livesay, 67, British admiral, Second Sea Lord.
- Charles Millot, 81, Yugoslav-French actor.
- Mary Christine Tan, 72, Filipino missionary, nun, and activist.
7[]
- Izzy Asper, 71, Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate (CanWest Global Communications Corp).[14]
- Arthur Berger, 91, American composer, music critic, teacher and an academic music writer.[15]
- Dame Felicitas Corrigan, 95, Benedictine nun.
- Ryan Halligan, 13, American suicide victim.
- Eleanor Lambert, 100, United States fashion pioneer.[16]
8[]
- Juan Armenteros, 84, Cuban-American Negro league baseball player, played in the 1953 East-West All-Star Game.[17]
- David Margolis, American mural artist.
- Cyril May, 82, British politician.
- Petter Thomassen, 62, Norwegian politician.
- Junior Wren, 73, American professional football player (Missouri, Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers).[18]
9[]
- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, 77, American academic.[19]
- Mervyn Blake, 95, Canadian stage actor, performed at the Stratford Festival of Canada for 42 seasons.[20]
- Adolphe Deledda, 84, Italian professional cyclist.
- Carl Fontana, 75, American jazz trombonist.[21]
- Tommy Hanlon Jr., 80, American-Australian actor, comedian, television host and circus ringmaster, cancer.
- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, 77, American academic and author.
- Alexei Sidorov, 31, Russian journalist and editor, stabbed.
10[]
- Viola Burnham, 72, Guyanese politician, First Lady (Prime Minister/President Forbes Burnham) and Vice President.[22]
- Eugene Istomin, 77, American pianist.[23]
- Johnny Klippstein, 75, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Redlegs, Minnesota Twins).[24]
- Eve Newman, 88, American music and film editor (Academy Award nominations: Wild in the Streets, Two-Minute Warning).[25]
- Max Rayne, Baron Rayne, 85, British property developer and philanthropist.
- Julia Trevelyan Oman, 73, British set designer.
11[]
- Vivien Alcock, 79, English children's book writer, television adaptation of novel: Haunting of Cassie Palmer.[26]
- William J. Dorgan, 81, American Party politician.
- Ivan A. Getting, 91, American physicist and electrical engineer.[27]
- Wally Nanayakkara, 64, Sri Lankan actor.
- Franklyn Perring, 76, British naturalist and botanist.
- Mu Qing, 82, Chinese journalist and politician, lung cancer.
- Lila Ram, 72, Indian wrestler.
- Siegfried Schmutzler, 88, German Evangelical Lutheran pastor.
12[]
- J. B. Banks, 79, American politician (Missouri House of Rep., Missouri Senate, Missouri Senate Majority Leader).[28]
- Jim Cairns, 89, Australian politician (Deputy Prime Minister, Treasurer of Australia).[29]
- Joan Gadsdon, 80, Australian ballet dancer, actor and artist.
- Ram Gopal, 90, Indian dancer and choreographer.[30]
- Fathur Rahman al-Ghozi, 32, Indonesian Islamic terrorist and bomb-maker, shot by police.
- Ion Ioanid, 77, Romanian dissident and writer.
- Joan B. Kroc, 75, philanthropist; widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, brain cancer.[31]
- Pete Morisi, 75, American comic book writer and artist.
- Willie Shoemaker, 72, American Hall of Fame jockey, rode the winners in eleven Triple Crown races.[32]
13[]
- Butch Brickell, 46, American race car driver (24 Hours of Daytona) and stuntman (The Specialist, 2 Fast 2 Furious).[33]
- Bertram Brockhouse, 85, Canadian physicist, 1994 Nobel Prize winner in physics for the development of neutron spectroscopy.[34]
- Gjorgji Kolozov, 55, Macedonian actor.
- Laurence Ryan, 72, Irish bishop and theologian.
- Anne Ziegler, 93, English singer, known for her duets with her husband Webster Booth.[35]
14[]
- Fqih Basri, 75-76, Moroccan activist and opposition leader.[36]
- Ned Breathitt, 78, American politician, 51st governor of Kentucky from 1963 to 1967, ventricular fibrillation.[37]
- Findley Burns Jr., 86, American Foreign Service officer, ambassador (Jordan, Ecuador) and U.N. employee.[38]
- Wil Culmer, 45, Bahamian baseball player (Cleveland Indians).[39]
- Patrick Dalzel-Job, 90, British naval intelligence officer and commando.
- Ben Metcalfe, 83, Greenpeace activist and co-founder, heart attack.[40]
- Moktar Ould Daddah, 78, former president of Mauritania.
- William Redd, 91, American businessman and philanthropist.
- Frances Watt, 81, Scottish singer.
15[]
- Pierre Chanal, 56, Egyptian-French soldier and suspected serial killer, suicide.
- Norman Elder, 64, Canadian writer, artist, and Olympic equestrian., suicide.
- Said Fayad, 82, Lebanese poet and literary journalist.
- , 84, American pilot and businessman.
- Benny Lévy, 58, Egyptian-French philosopher, political activist and author.
- Arthur E. Martell, 86, American chemist.[41]
16[]
- Avni Arbas, Turkish artist, cancer.
- Lee Bailey, 76, American author and expert on cooking and entertaining.[42]
- Don Evans, 65, American playwright, theater director, and actor, heart attack.[43]
- Stu Hart, 88, Canadian wrestler; patriarch of Hart wrestling.
- László Papp, 77, Hungarian boxer.
- Carl Urbano, 93, American animator and director.
17[]
- Charlie Justice, 79, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins).
- Billy Hughes, 74, Scottish footballer.
- Frank O'Flynn, 84, New Zealand politician.
- Janice Rule, 72, American actress.[44]
- Clare Venables, 60, English theatre director, director of education at the Royal Shakespeare Company.[45]
18[]
- Joseph R. Applegate, 77, American linguistics expert, professor of African studies and a specialist in the Berber languages.[46]
- Leslie James Bennett, 82/83, British/Canadian counter-intelligence officer.
- William C. Cramer, 81, American attorney and politician, heart attack[47]
- Preston Smith, 91, American politician (40th Governor of Texas from 1969 to 1973).[48]
- Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, 64, Spanish novelist (Detective Carvalho saga), journalist and poet.[49]
- R. V. Vernède, 97, British writer and colonial administrator.
19[]
- Jaime Allende, 79, Spanish field hockey player (field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[50]
- Sir Peter Berger, 78, British admiral (Amethyst Incident).[51]
- Michael Hegstrand, 45, "Road Warrior Hawk".
- Alija Izetbegović, 78, Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Margaret Murie, 101, "Mother of the Modern Conservationist Movement".[52]
- Georgi Vladimov, 72, Soviet (Ukrainian) dissident writer.[53]
20[]
- František Balvín, 88, Czechoslovak cross-country skier (Olympic skiing: 1948 50km, 1948 relay, 1952 50km).[54]
- Ernie Calverley, 79, American professional basketball player (Rhode Island, Providence Steamrollers) and coach.[55]
- Miodrag Petrović Čkalja, 79, Serbian actor.
- Jack Elam, 84, American actor.[56]
- Luis A. Ferré, 99, Puerto Rican industrialist and politician.[57]
- Peter Morgan, 83, British sports car manufacturer.
21[]
- John Walter Baxter, 86, British civil engineer, designer of west London's Westway.[58]
- Bob Beckus, 83, American triple jumper (men's triple jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[59]
- Fred Berry, 52, American actor, known for his role of "Rerun" on the show What's Happening!!.[60]
- Louise Day Hicks, 87, American politician (Boston City Council, U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 9th congress. dist.).[61]
- Elliott Smith, 34, American musician.[62]
22[]
- Dee Andros, 79, American football player, coach (University of Idaho, Oregon State University) and athletic director.[63]
- Derya Arbaş, 35, Turkish American actress, heart attack.
- Ron Collier, 73, Canadian jazz trombonist, composer, and arranger.
- Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas, 81, Venezuelan diplomat (Ambassador to the U.S., Foreign Minister of Venezuela).[64]
- Tony Renna, 26, American motor racer and IndyCar driver, killed in an accident during a tire test.
23[]
- Tony Capstick, 59, British actor, comedian, musician and broadcaster.
- Pete Chisman, 63, British cyclist, complications from surgery.[65]
- Al Corwin, 76, American baseball player (New York Giants).[66]
- Madame Chiang Kai-shek, 106, widow of the Nationalist Chinese president Chiang Kai-shek.[67]
- Judah Segal, 91, British linguist.
24[]
- József Apró, 82, Hungarian middle-distance runner (men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[68]
- Bob Bailey, 72, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks).[69]
- Scott Bauer, 49, American senior pastor (The Church On The Way), radio program host and author.[70]
- Veikko Hakulinen, 78, Finnish cross-country skier, triple Olympic- and world champion.
- Rosie Nix Adams, 45, American singer and songwriter, daughter of June Carter Cash.[71]
- Peter Sykes, 80, British chemist.
25[]
- Hemu Adhikari, 84, Indian cricketer.
- Pandurang Shastri Athavale, 83, Indian philosopher and social activist.
- Noreen Branson, 93, British political activist and historian of the Communist Party of Great Britain.[72]
- John Hart Ely, 64, American legal scholar.[73]
- Behram Kursunoglu, 81, Turkish physicist.[74]
26[]
- Steve Death, 54, English football goalkeeper, cancer.
- Emory Ellis, 96, American biochemist.
- Leonid Filatov, 56, Soviet and Russian actor, director and poet.
- Hans-Joachim Jabs, 85, German Luftwaffe officer in World War II.
- Elem Klimov, 70, Soviet Russian film director, brain hypoxia.
- Alec Linwood, 83, Scottish football player.
- Arthur McIntyre, 57, Australian artist and art critic.
- Viguen, 73, Iranian pop music singer ("Sultan of pop") and actor.[75]
27[]
- Hank Beenders, 87, Dutch-American professional basketball player (Providence Steamrollers, Philadelphia Warriors, Boston Celtics).[76]
- Johnny Boyd, 77, American racecar driver, twelve Indianapolis 500-mile races from 1955 to 1966.[77]
- Pete Gudauskas, 87, American professional football player (Murray State, Cleveland Rams, Chicago Bears).[78]
- Manoj Khanderia, 60, Indian poet writer.
- Virginia Lanier, 72, American writer and author.
- Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz, 88, British food writer.
- Rod Roddy, 66, American radio and television announcer.
- Walter Washington, 88, American civil servant and politician, first Mayor of the District of Columbia.[79]
- Buzz Westfall, 59, American lawyer and politician (St. Louis County Executive), meningitis staph infection.[80]
- Fred Whittingham, 64, American professional football player (Philadelphia Eagles, New Orleans Saints), complications from back surgery.[81]
28[]
- Sally Baldwin, 62, British social scientist.
- Ruth Batson, 82, American educator and civil rights activist, an outspoken advocate of equal education.[82]
- Jean Carbonnier, 95, French jurist.
- Marie Maynard Daly, 82, American biochemist.
- Edward Hartwig, 94, Polish photographer.
- Joan Perucho, 82, Spanish novelist, poet and art critic, and judge.
- Alexander Raichev, 81, Bulgarian composer.
- Oliver Sain, 71, American musician and record producer, cancer.
- Walter Trohan, 100, 20th-century American journalist (Chicago Tribune).
29[]
- Hal Clement, 81, American author.[83]
- Gerrie Deijkers, 56, Dutch football player, heart attack.
- A. Carl Helmholz, 88, American nuclear physicist.
30[]
- Lynn S. Beedle, 85, American structural engineer, founder of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.[84]
- Carl Berner, 90, Danish rower (men's coxed pairs, men's eights at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[85]
- Franco Bonisolli, 65, Italian operatic tenor.[86]
- Franco Corelli, 81, operatic tenor.[87]
- Lillian Jackson, 84, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[88]
- John M. Lovett, 60, Australian government officer and former President of the ICSD.
- Gil Nickel, 64, American Napa Valley vintner.[89]
- Richard Taylor, 83, American philosopher.
- Mike Yaconelli, 61, American youth minister, magazine editor (The Door) and writer, co-founder of Youth Specialties.[90]
31[]
- Robert Guenette, 68, American film/television producer, screenwriter, and film/television director, brain tumor.
- Daphne Hardy Henrion, 86, British sculptor.
- Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, 95, Indian Classical (Carnatic) musician.
- José Juncosa, 81, Spanish football player and manager.
- Richard Neustadt, 84, American professor, a leading presidential scholar and an advisor to several presidents.[91]
- A. S. Rao, 89, Indian scientist.
- Yechiel Shemi, Israeli sculptor.
- Lindsay Weir, 95, New Zealand cricketer.
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