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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
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July 2003
1
- Berta Ambrož, 58, Yugoslav and Slovene singer.
- John Bissell Carroll, 87, American psychologist.[1]
- Hossein Fekri, 79, Iranian football player and coach.
- Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio, 63, Spanish singer-songwriter.[2]
- Herbie Mann, 73, American crossover jazz and bossa nova flutist, prostate cancer.[3]
- Bill Miller, 75, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles).[4]
- Khieu Ponnary, 83, Cambodian communist and wife of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, cancer.[5]
- George Roper, 69, English comedian, cancer.[6]
2
- Ivan Allen, Jr., 92, American businessman and 52nd mayor of Atlanta.[7]
- Briggs Cunningham, 96, American entrepreneur and sportsman, Alzheimer's disease.
- Franklin Farrel, 95, American ice hockey player (silver medal in men's ice hockey at the 1932 Winter Olympics).[8]
- Antonio Fortich, 89, Filipino Roman Catholic bishop and social activist.
- Najeeb Halaby, 87, American businessman, aviator, and father of Queen Noor of Jordan.[9]
- Erkki Mallenius, 75, Finnish amateur boxer and Olympic medalist.[10]
- James Saxon, 48, English television and theatre actor, heart attack.
3
- Gaetano Alibrandi, 89, Italian papal diplomat and Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland.[11]
- Johannes Andenæs, 90, Norwegian jurist and professor.[12]
- Vince Lloyd, 96, American radio announcer, stomach cancer.
- Jack B. Olson, 82, American businessman, diplomat, and politician.
- Skip Scarborough, 58, American songwriter, cancer.[13]
- Yuri Shchekochikhin, 53, Soviet and Russian investigative journalist, writer, and politician, poisoned.
- Anne Barbara Underhill, 83, Canadian astrophysicist.
- C. C. Wang, 96, Chinese-American artist and art collector.[14]
4
- Manuel Araneta, Jr., 76, Filipino basketball player (basketball at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[15]
- Larry Burkett, 64, American radio personality, heart failure.
- Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr., 61, American politician, heart attack.[16]
- André Claveau, 87, French singer.[17]
- Tyler McVey, 91, American actor, leukemia.
- Armin Mohler, 83, Swiss far-right political philosopher and journalist.[18]
- Tomris Uyar, 62, Turkish writer and translator.
- Barry White, 58, American smooth soul singer ("Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe"), renal failure.[19]
5
- Zhang Aiping, 93, Chinese military leader, defense minister under Deng Xiaoping.[20]
- Fernando Arbex, 62, Spanish musician and songwriter.[21]
- Prodan Gardzhev, 67, Bulgarian middleweight freestyle wrestler and Olympic champion, heart attack.[22]
- Roman Lyashenko, 24, Russian ice hockey player (Dallas Stars, New York Rangers), suicide by hanging.[23]
- Nǃxau, 58, Namibian actor and bush farmer (The Gods Must Be Crazy), tuberculosis.
- Princess Isabelle, 91, French noble and widow of Henri, Count of Paris, pretender to the French throne.[24]
- Nadav Safran, 77, American academic and expert in Arab and Middle East politics, cancer.[25]
- Yoshio Sakurauchi, 91, Japanese politician.
- Hedy Schlunegger, 80, Swiss alpine skier and Olympic champion.[26]
- Sulaiman Ninam Shah, 83, Malaysian businessman and politician.
- Bebu Silvetti, 59, Argentine musician, songwriter and arranger, respiratory failure.
6
- Skip Battin, 69, American bass guitarist, singer and songwriter (The Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers), Alzheimer's disease.[27]
- Willie Buchan, 88, Scottish football player and manager.[28]
- Ed Chandler, 86, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).[29]
- Buddy Ebsen, 95, American actor (The Beverly Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones, Breakfast at Tiffany's), pneumonia.[30]
- Ignacio Antonio Velasco García, 74, Venezuelan Roman Catholic cardinal.[31]
- Çelik Gülersoy, 72, Turkish lawyer, writer and poet, pancreatic cancer.
- Andrew Heiskell, 87, American journalist and chairman and CEO of Time Inc.[32]
- Antal Kotász, 73, Hungarian football player.
- Kathleen Raine, 95, British poet and literary critic.[33]
- Spec Sanders, 84, American football player (University of Texas, New York Yankees, New York Yanks).[34]
7
- Raphael I Bidawid, 81, Iraqi Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church (1989-2003).[35]
- Izhak Graziani, 78, Israeli conductor.[36]
- Shlomo-Ya'akov Gross, 94, Israeli politician.
- Antonio Iranzo, 73, Spanish film actor.[37]
- Charles Poor Kindleberger, 92, American economic historian and author, stroke.[38]
- Mario Pedini, 84, Italian politician.
- Fred G. Pollard, 85, American lawyer and politician.[39]
- Tomiko Suzuki, 47, Japanese voice actress, heart attack.
8
- Ladan and Laleh Bijani, 29, Iranian conjoined twins, complications following separation surgery.[40]
- Paul Brand, 88, British surgeon, pioneering leprosy research.[41]
- Duncan Clark, 88, Scottish hammer thrower (1948 Olympic men's hammer throw, 1952 Olympic men's hammer throw).[42]
- Lewis A. Coser, 89, German-American sociologist.
- Marjorie Fowler, 82, American film editor.
- Etsuko Inada, 79, Japanese Olympic figure skater.[43]
- Subhash Mukhopadhyay, 84, Indian Bengali poets.
9
- Christopher Black Sr., 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
- Eberhard Blum, 84, German civil servant, head of the German Federal Intelligence Bureau (BND).[44]
- Joe Cobbold, 76, English greyhound trainer.
- Valerie Gearon, 65, British actress.
- Josephine Jacobsen, 94, American poet, short story writer and essayist.[45]
- Riley Dobi Noel, 31, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[46]
10
- Alvin Alcorn, 90, American New Orleans jazz trumpeter.[47]
- Winston Graham, 95, English novelist.[48]
- Sheldon Jaffery, 69, American bibliographer.[49]
- John Purdell, 44, American musician and record producer, cancer.
- Hartley Shawcross, 101, English barrister, politician and chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.[50]
- Manuel Vasques, 76, Portuguese footballer.
11
- Stepan Chervonenko, 87, Soviet diplomat.
- Mickey Deans, 68, American discoteque manager and (last) husband of actress and singer Judy Garland, heart failure.
- Henry Gravrand, 81, French Catholic missionary to Africa and an anthropologist.[51]
- Zahra Kazemi, 55, Iranian-Canadian journalist, blunt trauma to the head.[52]
- Michèle de Saint Laurent, 76, French carcinologist.
- Dorothy Canning Miller, 99, American art curator.[53]
- John Roach, 81, American cleric of the Roman Catholic Church.[54]
- Bhisham Sahni, 87, Indian writer, playwright and an actor.[55]
- Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 6th Marquess of Salisbury, 86, British aristocrat and politician.
- Ray Whitrod, 88, Australian police officer and Queensland Police Commissioner.[56]
- Ken Whyld, 77, British chess author (The Oxford Companion to Chess), historian and columnist.[57]
- Teddy Yip, 96, Indonesian businessman, race car driver and team owner (Formula One, IndyCar).[58]
12
- Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed, 71, Bangladeshi lawyer and constitutionalist.
- Benny Carter, 95, American jazz pioneer, bronchitis.[59]
- Mark Lovell, 43, British rally driver, motor race accident.
- Ellis Paul Torrance, 87, American psychologist.[60]
- Eliot Wald, 57, American comedy writer for theater, television and movies (The Second City, Saturday Night Live, Camp Nowhere).[61]
13
- Alpha L. Bowser, 92, American U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general (Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Chosin Reservoir).[62]
- Dildar, 58, Bangladeshi actor.
- Salamat Hashim, 61, Filipino islamist militant, complications caused by a heart disease and acute ulcer.
- Eileen Rodgers, 73, American singer and Broadway performer, lung cancer.[63]
- Compay Segundo, 95, Cuban musician and star of the Buena Vista Social Club, kidney failure.[64]
14
- Leela Chitnis, 93, Indian actress.[65]
- Jiří Dolana, 66, Czech ice hockey player.[66]
- Éva Janikovszky, 77, Hungarian writer.[67]
- Morrissey Johnson, 70, Canadian politician (MP for Bonavista—Trinity—Conception, NL), motor vehicle collision with a moose.[68]
- Rubén Marino Navarro, 70, Argentine football player.
- Louis Robertshaw, 90, American gridiron football player and US Marine Corps officer, cancer.
- Rajendra Singh, 81, Indian head of Hindu nationalist paramilitary organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
15
- Roberto Bolaño, 50, Chilean-Spanish writer (The Savage Detectives, 2666), liver failure.[69]
- Chuck Grigsby, 74, American basketball player.[70]
- John Richard Hyde, 90, Canadian soldier and politician.
- Lorraine Krueger, 85, American actress.
- Judith Hare, Countess of Listowel, 100, Hungarian-British writer and aristocrat.[71]
- Alfred Preissler, 82, German football player and manager.
- Tex Schramm, 83, American president and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys football team.[72]
- Alexander Walker, 73, Northern Irish film critic (London Evening Standard) and author.[73]
- Elisabeth Welch, 99, American singer and actress.[74]
16
- K. P. A. C. Azeez, 55, Indian actor in Malayalam cinema.
- Celia Cruz, 77, Cuban salsa singer, brain cancer.[75]
- Ralph A. Foote, 80, American attorney and politician.[76]
- Lu Gambino, 79, American gridiron football player.[77]
- Shmuel Safrai, 84, Israeli writer, academic and historian.[78]
- Kurt Semm, 76, German gynecologist and pioneer in minimally invasive surgery.[79]
- Carol Shields, 68, Canadian author, breast cancer.[80]
- Chesterfield Smith, 85, American lawyer.
- Alida van den Bos, 101, Dutch gymnast (gold medal in women's team gymnastics at the 1928 Summer Olympics).[81]
- Dmitry Vasilyev, 58, Soviet-Russian actor, monarchist, antisemite, and ultranationalist, heart attack.
- Reetika Vazirani, 40, Indian-American poet and educator, suicide by stabbing.[82]
17
- Hans Abich, 84, German film producer.[83]
- Manuel Franklin da Costa, 81, Angolan Roman Catholic archbishop.
- Erland Herkenrath, 90, Swiss field handball player.[84]
- David Kelly, 59, British scientist and weapons expert, suicide by drug overdose.
- Walter Perry, 82, Scottish academic.[85]
- Rosalyn Tureck, 89, American pianist and harpsichordist.[86]
- Abdullah Yaqta, 89, Afghan politician, Prime Minister (1967).
- Walter Zapp, 97, Baltic German inventor (Minox subminiature camera).[87]
18
- Jane Barbe, 74, American voice actress (phone company "Time Lady") and singer, cancer.[88]
- Marc Camoletti, 79, French playwright.[89]
- César Ramírez, 74, Filipino actor, heart attack.
- Norman Rasmussen, 75, American physicist.[90]
19
- Bill Bright, 81, American evangelical Christian and founder of Campus Crusade for Christ.[91]
- Elena Caffarena, 100, Chilean lawyer and politician.
- Maruchi Fresno, 87, Spanish film actress, heart attack.[92]
- Pierre Graber, 94, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1970–1978).
- Jude Milhon, 64, American civil rights advocate, writer, hacker and feminista, cancer.[93]
- Vic Vargas, 64, Filipino actor.
20
- Lauri Aus, 32, Estonian Olympic racing cyclist (1992, 1996, 2000, 2000), struck on bicycle by drunk driver.[94]
- Nicolas Freeling, 76, British crime writer.[95]
- Renee Gadd, 95, Argentine-British film actress.
- Juli Gonzalvo, 86, Spanish football player.
- Carol Grace, 78, American actress and author, intracranial aneurysm.[96]
- Vladimir Krantz, 90, Soviet Russian painter.[97]
- Elliot Norton, 100, American theater critic, "The Dean of American Theatre Critics".[98]
- William Woolfolk, 86, American novelist, screen writer, and comic book writer.[99]
21
- John Davies, 65, New Zealand olympian (track) and president of the New Zealand Olympic Committee, melanoma.[100]
- Matt Jefferies, 81, American art director (Star Trek series), designer of the Starship Enterprise, heart attack.
- Tim Hemensley, 31, Australian singer and bass guitarist, heroin overdose.[101]
- Shujauddin Siddiqi, 84, Indian first-class cricket player.[102]
22
- Arthur W. Adamson, 83, American chemist, made contributions to inorganic photochemistry.[103]
- Hamer H. Budge, 92, American politician (16th Chairman of the SEC, U.S. Representative for Idaho's 2nd congressional district).[104]
- Enzo Faletto, 68, Chilean sociologist and historian.[105]
- Elie Farah, 93, Lebanese Maronite Church archbishop.
- Stanley H. Fuld, 99, American lawyer, judge and politician.[106]
- Qusay Hussein, 37, Iraqi politician and second son of Saddam Hussein, killed by US troops.
- Uday Hussein, 39, Iraqi politician and eldest son of Saddam Hussein, killed by US troops.
- Lee Knorek, 82, American basketball player.[107]
- Norman Lewis, 95, British travel writer.[108]
- Dhimitër Shuteriqi, 87, Albanian scholar, literary historian, and writer.
- Serge Silberman, 86, French film producer.[109]
- Richard L. Walker, 81, American diplomat (U.S. Ambassador to South Korea) and professor.[110]
23
- Sheila Bromley, 91 or 95, American television and film actress (Westward Ho, Lawless Range, Perry Mason).[111]
- James E. Davis, 41, American policeman, corrections officer, and politician, homicide.
- Adolphe Deledda, 83, Italian-French road bicycle racer.[112]
- Gary King, 55, American jazz bassist, songwriter, composer, and arranger.
- Jean-Claude Pressac, 59, French chemist, pharmacist and writer.[113]
- Yvonne Sanson, 76, Italian film actress, aneurysm.[114]
- Speedy Thomas, 56, American football player.[115]
- Novak Tomić, 67, Serbian football player.
- Grady Wilson, 80, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).[116]
24
- Iya Arepina, 73, Soviet/Russian actress.
- Henri Attal, 67, French actor, asthma.[117]
- Samit Bhanja, 59, Indian actor and director.
- Ella Orr Campbell, 92, New Zealand botanist.[118]
- Božidar Drenovac, 81, Serbian football player and manager.
- Warren Kremer, 82, American comics cartoonist.[119]
- Ryōichi Kuroda, 92, Japanese jurist and politician, pneumonia.
- Maurice Pryce, 90, British physicist.[120]
- Dan Smoot, 89, American FBI agent and political activist.[121]
25
- Erik Brann, 52, American Iron Butterfly guitarist, heart attack.[122]
- Ludwig Bölkow, 91, German aeronautical engineer, designed the world's first jet fighter, Nazi Germany's Me 262.[123]
- Hal Herbert, 81, British-Canadian politician.
- Jiří Horák, 79, Czech politician and political analyst.[124]
- Norm McRae, 55, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[125]
- Thomas Savage, 88, American novelist.[126]
- John Schlesinger, 77, English film director (Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man, Sunday Bloody Sunday), Oscar winner (1970), stroke.[127]
26
- Jürgen Brandt, 80, German general and Chief of Federal Armed Forces Staff (1978-1983).
- William Dargie, 91, Australian painter.[128]
- Robert Favart, 92, French actor.[129]
- John Higham, 82, American historian.[130]
- Hilde Levi, 94, German-Danish physicist.
- Harold C. Schonberg, 87, American music critic and journalist.[131]
- Gordon Taylor, 93, Canadian politician, businessman and teacher.
27
- Karin Booth, 87, American film and TV actress.
- Vance Hartke, 84, American politician (United States Senator from Indiana from 1959 to 1977).[132]
- Henning Holck-Larsen, 96, Danish engineer and entrepreneur.
- Bob Hope, 100, British-American comedian and actor (Road to ...), pneumonia.[133]
- Nguza Karl-i-Bond, 64, Zairean politician.
- Rinty Monahan, 75, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[134]
- Alfredo Eduardo Barreto de Freitas Noronha, 84, Brazilian football player and manager.
- Emmanuel Pelaez, 87, Filipino public servant and politician, heart attack.
- Audrius Šlekys, 28, Lithuanian football player, traffic collision.[135]
28
- Gladys Edgerly Bates, 107, American sculptor, member of the Philadelphia Ten, founding member of the Mystic Museum of Art.[136]
- Aaron Bell, 82, American jazz bassist, composer and teacher, bassist for Duke Ellington.[137]
- René Berg, 47, English musician, vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter.
- True Eames Boardman, 93, American actor and scriptwriter (Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, The Virginian, Bonanza), pancreatic cancer.[138]
- Adrian Burk, 75, American gridiron football player (Baylor, Baltimore Colts, Philadelphia Eagles).[139]
29
- Sabahudin Bilalović, 43, Bosnian basketball player.
- Rudolf Fischer, 90, German pianist and pedagogue.[140]
- Luther Henderson, 84, American arranger, composer, and pianist.[141]
- Tex McCrary, 92, American journalist and public relations specialist.[142]
- Jim Pruett, 85, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[143]
- Foday Sankoh, 65, Sierra Leonean rebel leader, complications following a stroke.
- Gerard Folliott Vaughan, 80, British psychiatrist and politician.[144]
- Johnny Walker, 82, Indian comic actor, appeared in more than 300 films.[145]
30
- Howard Armstrong, 94, American string band fiddler and mandolinist and country blues musician, heart attack.[146]
- Marian Carr, 77, American actress.[147]
- Steve Hislop, 41, Scottish motorcycle racer, helicopter accident.[148]
- Ewa Krzyżewska, 64, Polish actress, traffic collision.
- Alicia Lourteig, 89, Argentine and French botanist, expert in Oxalidaceae.
- Mendel L. Peterson, 85, American archeologist and former curator at the Smithsonian Institution.
- Sam Phillips, 80, American record producer, respiratory failure.[149]
- Ahmed Safwat, 56, Egyptian squash player, heart attack.
- Carlos Lemos Simmonds, 69, Colombian politician, Vice President (1996-1998), lung cancer.
31
- Edward P. Alexander, 96, American historian and author, heart ailment.[150]
- John Aston, Sr., 81, English football player.
- Bigode, 81, Brazilian footballer, respiratory problems.[151]
- Frederick Coffin, 60, American film actor, singer, songwriter, and musician, lung cancer.[152]
- Guido Crepax, 70, Italian comics artist, multiple sclerosis.
- Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic, 66, American professor neuroscience, psychiatry and psychology, struck by a car.[153]
- Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, 88, Pakistani politician, first President of Azad Kashmir.
- Roland Svensson, 93, Swedish painter, writer, and artist.
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