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Deaths in November 2003
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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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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November 2003
1
- W. Brian Harland, 86, British geologist.[1]
- Colin Hayes, 83, British artist.[2]
- Joe Johnson, 73, American gridiron football player.[3]
- Kent Kennan, 90, American composer, author, and professor.[4]
- Henryk Machalica, 73, Polish film and stage actor, fall from horse.[5]
- Libero Marchini, 89, Italian football player.[6]
- Sonny Senerchia, 72, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates) and college baseball coach (Monmouth University), motorcycle accident.[7]
- Daishiro Yoshimura, 56, Japanese football player and manager, intracranial hemorrhage.
2
- Xela Arias, 41, Spanish Galician-language poet and translator, heart attack.
- Christabel Bielenberg, 94, British writer (The Past is Myself, Christabel).[8]
- Fernando Vizcaíno Casas, 77, Spanish labour lawyer, journalist and writer.[9]
- Ted Cunningham, 65, Australian politician.
- Nati Kaji, 77, Nepali singer and songwriter.
- Iris Kelso, 76, American journalist.
- Frank McCloskey, 64, American Congressman (Indiana's 8th district) from 1983 to 1995, bladder cancer.[10]
- Jimmy Quillen, 87, American politician (U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 1st congressional district).[11]
- Frederic Vester, 77, German cybernetician.
- Cliff Young, 81, Australian potato farmer and long distance runner, won Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon in 1983 at 61, cancer.[12]
3
- Derk Bodde, 94, American sinologist.[13]
- Aaron Bridgers, 85, American-French jazz pianist, featured in the 1961 Paul Newman film Paris Blues.[14]
- Yuri Falin, 66, Soviet football player.
- Rasul Gamzatov, 80, Avarian/Soviet/Russian poet, called the "People's poet of Dagestan".[15]
- A. James Manchin, 76, American politician, Secretary of State and State Treasurer for West Virginia, heart attack.
- Narendra Prasad, 57, Indian (Malayalam) film actor, professor and writer, cardio-respiratory arrest.
4
- Manadel al-Jamadi, Iraqi extrajudicial prisoner at Abu Ghraib prison, torture.[16]
- Lotte Berk, 90, German-English dancer and teacher, created Barre fitness classes.[17]
- Charles Causley, 86, British poet.[18]
- Rachel de Queiroz, 92, Brazilian writer and journalist.[19]
- Ken Gampu, 74, South African actor.[20]
- 19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche, 86, Indian buddhist lama.
- Philip Slone, 96, American soccer player.
- R. M. Williams, 95, Australian bush-wear manufacturer, known for their handcrafted riding boots.[21]
- Richard Wollheim, 80, British philosopher and an authority on psychoanalysis and art.[22]
5
- David Bar-Ilan, 73, Israeli concert pianist, journalist and political aide (Benjamin Netanyahu).[23]
- Hugh H. Bownes, 83, American judge (Senior Judge of the 1st Cir.) and politician.[24]
- Dorothy Fay, 88, American actress.
- Subrata Guha, 57, Indian cricket player, heart attack.[25]
- Bobby Hatfield, 63, American singer, half of duo the Righteous Brothers, heart attack.[26]
- Hans Heinrich, 92, German film editor, screenwriter and film director.[27]
- Zaim Muzaferija, 80, Bosnian actor and poet.
- Lyman Ray Patterson, 74, American law professor and historian.[28]
- Dernell Stenson, 25, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds), killed during robbery.[29]
6
- Just Betzer, 59, Danish film producer (Babette's Feast: 1988 Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film), heart attack.[30]
- Philip Effiong, 77, Nigerian military officer.
- Crash Holly, 32, American professional wrestler, suicide by drug overdose.
- Zoe Incrocci, 86, Italian actress and voice actress.
- Spider Jorgensen, 84, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants).[31]
- Rie Mastenbroek, 84, Dutch swimmer (1936 Summer Olympics medals: gold:100m, gold:400m, gold:4x100m, silver:100m).[32]
- Eduardo Palomo, 41, Mexican actor, heart attack.[33]
7
- Jack Durrance, 91, American pioneering rock climber and mountaineer.[34]
- Donald Griffin, 88, American professor of zoology.[35]
- Foo Foo Lammar, 66, British drag queen.[36]
- Juanjo Menéndez, 74, Spanish actor, Alzheimer's disease.[37]
8
- Bob Grant, 71, English actor, comedian and writer, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
- C. Z. Guest, 83, American actress, author, columnist and socialite.[38]
- Ernst Kossmann, 81, Dutch historian.[39]
- Guy Speranza, 47, American singer, pancreatic cancer.
- Richard Swift, 76, American composer and music theorist.[40]
- Abdirahman Ahmed Ali Tuur, 72, Somali politician.
9
- Buddy Arnold, 77, American jazz saxophonist.[41]
- Stephen Benton, 61, American scientist, teacher and artist, inventor of the rainbow hologram.[42]
- Art Carney, 85, American actor (The Honeymooners, Harry and Tonto, The Late Show), Oscar winner (1975).[43]
- Bruce Alexander Cook, 71, American journalist and author.[44]
- Pushpalata Das, 88, Indian independence activist and social worker.
- Gordon Onslow Ford, 90, British-American surrealist painter.[45]
- Mario Merz, 78, Italian artist.[46]
10
- Margaret Armen, 82, American television screenwriter (The Rifleman, The Big Valley, Star Trek, Barnaby Jones).[47]
- Canaan Banana, 67, Zimbabwean politician and minister, first president of Zimbabwe, cancer.[48]
- June Beebe, 90, American professional golfer, won the Women's Western Open in 1931 and 1933.[49]
- Edvard Beyer, 83, Norwegian literary historian, literary critic, and professor.
- Hans Hermes, 91, German mathematician and logician.
- Irv Kupcinet, 91, American columnist and television personality, pneumonia.[50]
- Morten Lange, 83, Danish mycologist and politician.
- Czesław Marchewczyk, 91, Polish ice hockey player.[51]
- Jed Williams, 51, Welsh jazz journalist and artistic director of the Brecon Jazz Festival.[52]
- Vasilije Šijaković, 74, Montenegrin football player.
11
- Andrei Bolibrukh, 53, Soviet (Russian) mathematician, known for his work on ordinary differential equations.[53]
- Robert Brown, 82, British actor (spy boss M in four James Bond films), cancer.[54]
- George Wallace, Baron Wallace of Coslany, 97, British politician and life peer (MP for Chislehurst).[55]
- Harold Walker, Baron Walker of Doncaster, 76, British politician (MP for Doncaster and Doncaster Central).[56]
- Paul Janssen, 77, Belgian physician and founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica.[57]
- John Emmett Lyle, Jr., 93, American politician.[58]
- Claës-Henrik Nordenskiöld, 86, Swedish Air Force officer and sailor.
- Lloyd Pettit, 76, American sportscaster.
- Miquel Martí i Pol, 74, Catalan poet, multiple sclerosis.[59]
- Shunsuke Shima, 71, Japanese actor and voice actor.
- Don Taylor, 67, British theatre and television director.[60]
12
- Jonathan Brandis, 27, American actor (seaQuest DSV, It, Sidekicks), suicide by hanging.[61]
- Whitfield Cook, 94, American writer of screenplays, stage plays, short stories and novels.
- Cameron Duncan, 17, New Zealand filmmaker, bone cancer.[62]
- Kay E. Kuter, 78, American actor.
- Penny Singleton, 95, American actress, singer and dancer, stroke.[63]
- John Tartaglione, 82, American comic book artist, esophageal cancer.
- Tony Thompson, 48, American drummer for The Power Station, kidney cancer.[64]
13
- Ray Harris, 76, American rockabilly musician and songwriter.[65]
- Nobuo Okishio, 76, Japanese marxian economist.
- Andrew Vázsonyi, 87, Hungarian-American mathematician, founder of The Institute of Management Sciences.[66]
- Kellie Waymire, 36, American actress (Star Trek: Enterprise, Six Feet Under), cardiac arrest.[67]
14
- Pierre Camonin, 100, French organist and composer.[68]
- Giles Gordon, 63, Scottish literary agent and writer.[69]
- F. B. J. Kuiper, 96, Dutch scholar in Indology.[70]
- Gene Anthony Ray, 41, American actor, dancer, and choreographer (Fame), complications of a stroke.[71]
- Tim Vigors, 82, British fighter ace during World War II and biographer.[72]
15
- Earl Battey, 68, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins), cancer.[73]
- Mohamed Choukri, 68, Moroccan author and novelist, cancer.[74]
- Ian Geoghegan, 63, Australian race car driver.[75]
- David Holt, 76, American child actor, heart attack.[76]
- Ray Lewis, 93, Canadian track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.[77]
- Tung-Yen Lin, 91, Chinese-American structural engineer, heart attack.
- Dorothy Loudon, 78, American actress, cancer.[78]
- Mitchell Paige, 85, American-Serbian Marine Corps colonel, heart attack.
- Laurence Tisch, 80, American billionaire, head of Loews Corporation and CBS television network, cancer.[79]
- James D. Weaver, 83, American politician (U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 24th congressional district).[80]
- Speedy West, 79, American pedal steel guitarist and record producer.[81]
- Ned Wulk, 83, American basketball coach (Arizona State University) and baseball coach.[82]
16
- Fernanda Bullano, 89, Italian sprinter (women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[83]
- Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, 83, American dermatologist.
- Richard Lam, 56, Hong Kong songwriter, lyricist and columnist, lymphoma.
- Bettina Goislard, 29, French UNHCR relief worker, killed by Taliban militants.[84]
- Albert Nozaki, 91, Japanese-American art director (The War of the Worlds, The Ten Commandments).[85]
17
- Gerry Adams, Sr, 77, Irish Republican Army volunteer, father of Gerry Adams.[86]
- Surjit Bindrakhia, 41, Indian singer, cardiac arrest, heart attack.
- Arthur Conley, 57, American soul singer, intestinal cancer.[87]
- Maurice A. Dionne, 67, Canadian educator and politician .
- Don Gibson, 75, American singer-songwriter.[88]
- Bertrand Hallward, 102, British educationalist.
- Colin Harrison, 77, English ornithologist.
- Claude Nicot, 78, French film actor.[89]
- Pete Taylor, 75, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).[90]
18
- Vivian Bonnell, 79, Antiguan actress (House of Flowers, For Pete's Sake, Ghost, Sanford and Son), diabetes.[91]
- Ken Brett, 55, American baseball player, brother of George Brett, brain cancer.[92]
- Patricia Broderick, 78, American playwright (Infinity) and painter, mother of Matthew Broderick, cancer.[93]
- Bob Carmichael, 63, Australian tennis player and coach.
- Michael Kamen, 55, American composer (Die Hard, Band of Brothers, 101 Dalmatians), heart attack.[94]
19
- Gillian Barge, 63, English actress (The Cherry Orchard, Measure For Measure, The Winter's Tale), cancer.[95]
- Harry Buffington, 84, American professional football player (Oklahoma State, New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers).[96]
- William B. Macomber, Jr., American diplomat and president of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.[97]
- Života Panić, 70, Yugoslav military officer.
- Greg Ridley, 56, English rock artist, complications following pneumonia.[98]
- Hans Tabor, 81, Danish diplomat and politician.
- Bill Young, 86, Australian politician (Tasmanian House of Assembly for Franklin).[99]
- Shi Zhecun, 97, Chinese essayist, poet, and short story writer.
20
- Robert Addie, 43, English actor (Excalibur, Robin of Sherwood, Another Country, Dutch Girls, Merlin), lung cancer.[100]
- Pedro Adigue, 60, Filipino boxer and light welterweight world champion .
- Loris Azzaro, 70, French-Italian fashion designer, cancer.[101]
- David Dacko, 73, first president of the Central African Republic, asthma.[102]
- Eugene Kleiner, 80, Austrian-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist.[103]
- Mary Jane Russell, 77, American photographic fashion model, pulmonary fibrosis.[104]
- Roger Short, 58, British diplomat, consul-general in Istanbul, homicide.
- Jim Siedow, 83, American actor, pulmonary emphysema.[105]
- Ferry Sonneville, 72, Indonesian badminton player.
- Pedro L. Yap, 85, Filipino judge and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
- Kerem Yılmazer, 58, Turkish actor, homicide.
21
- Eşfak Aykaç, 85, Turkish football player and coach.
- Bill Haarlow, 90, American basketball player.[106]
- Emil Pažický, 76, Slovak football player.
- Armand Putzeys, 86, Belgian cyclist and Olympic medalist.[107]
- Teddy Randazzo, 68, American singer-songwriter.[108]
22
- Mario Beccaria, 83, Italian politician.
- Iosif Budahazi, 56, Romanian fencer (men's individual sabre, men's team sabre at the 1972 Summer Olympics).[109]
- Joe Just, 87, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).[110]
- Yuri Khukhrov, 71, Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist.
- George Peoples, 43, American football player (Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots, Tampa Bay Buccaneers).[111]
- Al Richardson, 61, British Trotskyist historian and activist.
- Dick Thomas, 88, American singing cowboy, songwriter, and musician.
23
- Patricia Burke, 86, English singer and actress (Lisbon Story, The Day the Fish Came Out, The Clitheroe Kid).[112]
- Nick Carter, 79, New Zealand racing cyclist (men's individual road race at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[113]
- Richard Dogbeh, 70, Beninese novelist and educator.[114]
- Jhalak Man Gandarbha, 68, Nepali folk singer.
- Patrick Jansen, 82, Indian field hockey player (gold medal in field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[115]
- Johny Lahure, 61, Luxembourgish politician.
- Murasoli Maran, 69, Indian politician.
- Margaret Singer, 82, American clinical psychologist and researcher, pneumonia.[116]
- Bill Strutton, 85, Australian screenwriter and novelist, heart attack.[117]
- Grigori Tokaty, 90, Soviet rocket scientist and politician.
24
- Luai al-Atassi, 76/7, Syrian army commander and politician, President (1963).
- Sheikh Niamat Ali, 63, Bangladeshi film director.
- Saifuddin Azizi, 88, Chinese politician.
- Hesba Fay Brinsmead, 81, Australian author of books for children and young adults (Pastures of the Blue Crane).[118]
- Reiko Dan, 68, Japanese actress.
- Dick Hutton, 80, American amateur and professional wrestler.
- Hugh Kenner, 80, Canadian literary critic.[119]
- Michael Small, 64, American film composer (Marathon Man, Klute, The Parallax View), prostate cancer.[120]
- Floquet de Neu, 38-40, Spanish albino western lowland gorilla.
- Warren Spahn, 82, American baseball pitcher (Milwaukee Braves) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.[121]
- Tun Tun, 80, Indian playback singer and actress-comedienne.
25
- Bernard Cohn, 75, American anthropologist and academic.[122]
- Jacques François, 83, French actor.[123]
- Shulamith Hareven, 73, Israeli writer and essayist.[124]
- Zhang Honggen, 67, Chinese football player and coach.
- Mary Queeny, 90, Lebanese-Egyptian actress and film producer.
26
- Andrea Bonomi, 80, Italian football player.[125]
- `Alí-Akbar Furútan, 98, Iranian Baháʼí educator and author.
- Sadegh Khalkhali, 77, Iranian Shia cleric and ayatollah, cancer.[126]
- Meyer Kupferman, 77, American composer and clarinetist, heart failure.[127]
- Lionel Ngakane, 75, South African filmmaker and actor (The Mark of the Hawk, The Squeeze).[128]
- Gordon Reid, 64, Scottish actor.
- Soulja Slim, 26, American rapper, homicide.
- Lise Thomsen, 88, Danish film actress.
- Stefan Wul, 81, French science fiction writer (Oms en série).[129]
27
- Satyendra Dubey, 30, Indian Engineering Service officer, assassinated.
- Arthur Greenslade, 80, British conductor and arranger for films and television.[130]
- Riccardo Malipiero, 89, Italian composer, pianist, critic, and music educator.[131]
- Will Quadflieg, 89, German actor, pulmonary embolism.[132]
- Marjorie Reeves, 98, British historian and educationalist.[133]
- Kurt von Fischer, 90, Swiss musicologist and classical pianist.[134]
28
- Ted Bates, 85, British footballer and manager.[135]
- Harold Von Braunhut, 77, American marketer and creator of Amazing Sea-Monkeys, suicide.[136]
- Edmund Hartmann, 92, American film and television writer and producer.[137]
- Terry Lester, 53, American actor (The Young and the Restless, Santa Barbara, As the World Turns), heart attack.
- Thekra, 37, Tunisian singer, shot.
29
- Norman Burton, 79, American actor (Diamonds Are Forever, The Towering Inferno, The New Adventures of Wonder Woman), traffic collision.[138]
- Tony Canadeo, 84, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[139]
- Jim Carlin, 85, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[140]
- Jesse Carver, 92, English football player and manager.
- Jan-Magnus Jansson, 81, Finnish politician. chairman of the Swedish People's Party of Finland.[141]
- Larry Latham, 51, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
- Robert Y. Thornton, 93, American attorney, politician, and jurist.
- Rudi Martinus van Dijk, 71, Dutch composer.[142]
30
- Earl Bellamy, 86, American film and television director (Leave It to Beaver, The Lone Ranger, I Spy, M*A*S*H), heart attack.[143]
- Jack Brewer, 85, American baseball player (New York Giants).[144]
- Barber Conable, 81, American politician, president of the World Bank (1986–1991), infectious disease.[145]
- António Jesus Correia, 79, Portuguese football and roller hockey (quad) player.
- Gertrude Ederle, 98, American swimmer and first woman to swim the English Channel (1926).[146]
- Hans Kuschke, 89, German rower and Olympic medalist.[147]
- Kin Platt, 91, American writer, artist, painter, sculptor, caricaturist, and comics artist.
- Thanjavur K. P. Sivanandam, Carnatic veena player and a descendant of the Tanjore Quartet (b. 1917)
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