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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.
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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]
- Otto Günsche, 86, German SS escort of Adolf Hitler, who was tasked to cremate his body on 30 April 1945, heart failure.[6]
- 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.[7]
- Gunther Philipp, 85, Austrian film actor, physician and swimmer.
3
- Joop Bakker, 82, Dutch politician and businessman.[8]
- John Baldock, 87, British politician (Member of Parliament for Harborough).[9]
- Tish Daija, 78, Albanian composer.[10]
- Profira Sadoveanu, 97, Romanian prose writer and poet.[11]
- Gustav Sjöberg, 90, Swedish football goalkeeper.
- Florence Stanley, 79, American actress (Barney Miller, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Dinosaurs), stroke.[12]
- William Steig, 95, American cartoonist and children's author; creator of Shrek.[13]
- Winifred Watkins, 79, British biochemist.[14]
4
- Bill Cayton, 85, American boxing manager, former manager of Edwin Rosario and Mike Tyson.
- John Horace Ragnar Colvin, 81, British intelligence officer.[15]
- Hanadi Jaradat, 28, Palestinian jihadist, suicide by explosive vest.[16]
- Sid McMath, 91, American attorney and politician, 34th governor of Arkansas.[17]
- Freddie Phillips, 84, British musician and composer.
- Elisabeta Rizea, 91, Romanian anti-communist partisan, viral pneumonia.[18]
- Fred Tuttle, 84, American farmer, actor and politician, heart attack.[19]
5
- Wil van Beveren, 91, Dutch sprinter (1936 Summer Olympics: men's 100m, men's 200m, men's 4x100m relay).[20]
- Wally George, 71, American conservative radio and television commentator, pneumonia.[21]
- Neil Postman, 72, American media critic, lung cancer.[22]
- Denis Quilley, 75, British actor, liver cancer.[23]
- Dan Snyder, 25, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Atlanta Thrashers), traffic collision.[24]
- 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.[25]
6
- Joe Baker, 63, English footballer, heart attack.[26]
- Antony Buck, 74, British politician (Member of Parliament for Colchester, Colchester North).[27]
- Armando Crispino, 78, Italian film director and screenwriter.[28]
- William Herrmann, 91, American gymnast and Olympic medalist.[29]
- Charles Millot, 81, Yugoslav-French actor.[30]
- Azam Tariq, 35, Pakistani politician, homicide.
7
- Izzy Asper, 71, Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate (CanWest Global Communications Corp).[31]
- Arthur Berger, 91, American composer, music critic, teacher and an academic music writer.[32]
- Ryan Halligan, 13, American bullying victim, suicide by hanging.
- Eleanor Lambert, 100, American fashion pioneer.[33]
- 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.[34]
8
- Thalia Mara, 92, American ballet dancer and educator.[35]
- Cyril May, 82, British socialist politician.[36]
- Petter Thomassen, 62, Norwegian politician.
- Junior Wren, 73, American professional football player (Missouri, Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers).[37]
9
- Carl Fontana, 75, American jazz trombonist, Alzheimer's disease.[38]
- Ruth Hall, 92, American film actress.
- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, 77, American academic, suicide by drug overdose.[39]
- Don Lanphere, 75, American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist.
10
- Igor Borisov, 79, Russian rower and Olympic silver medalist.[40]
- Viola Burnham, 72, Guyanese politician, First Lady to Forbes Burnham and Vice President, cancer.[41]
- Eila Hiltunen, 80, Finnish sculptor.
- Victoria Horne, 91, American actress, appearing in 49 films.[42]
- Eugene Istomin, 77, American pianist, liver cancer.[43]
- Johnny Klippstein, 75, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Redlegs, Minnesota Twins).[44]
- Eve Newman, 88, American music and film editor (Academy Award nominations: Wild in the Streets, Two-Minute Warning).[45]
- Julia Trevelyan Oman, 73, British set designer.[46]
- Pastora Peña, 83, Spanish film actress.
- Frank Alois Pitelka, 87, American ornithologist.[47]
- Max Rayne, 85, British property developer and philanthropist.
11
- Vivien Alcock, 79, English children's book writer.[48]
- Sadateru Arikawa, 73, Japanese aikido teacher and shihan.[49]
- Ivan Getting, 91, American physicist and electrical engineer.[50]
- Tommy Hanlon Jr., 80, American-Australian actor, comedian, television host and circus ringmaster, cancer.[51]
- John K. Mahon, 91, American historian.[52]
- Lila Ram, 72, Indian wrestler.[53]
12
- Jim Cairns, 89, Australian politician (Deputy Prime Minister, Treasurer of Australia).[54]
- Ram Gopal, 90, Indian dancer and choreographer.[55]
- Ruth Halbsguth, 86, German swimmer and Olympic silver medalist.[56]
- Ion Ioanid, 77, Romanian dissident and writer.
- Arthur Kaye, 70, English football player.[57]
- Joan Kroc, 75, American philanthropist, widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, brain cancer.[58]
- Pete Morisi, 75, American comic book writer and artist.
- 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.[59]
13
- Butch Brickell, 46, American race car driver (24 Hours of Daytona) and stuntman (The Specialist, 2 Fast 2 Furious).[60]
- Bertram Brockhouse, 85, Canadian physicist, 1994 Nobel Prize winner in physics for the development of neutron spectroscopy.[61]
- Eduard Prugovečki, 66, Romanian-Canadian physicist and mathematician.
- Anne Ziegler, 93, English singer, known for her duets with her husband Webster Booth.[62]
14
- Mohamed Basri, 75-76, Moroccan activist and opposition leader, heart attack.[63]
- Edward T. Breathitt, 78, American politician, 51st governor of Kentucky, ventricular fibrillation.[64]
- Zoltan Crișan, 48, Romanian football player, tuberculosis.
- Wil Culmer, 45, Bahamian baseball player (Cleveland Indians).[65]
- Moktar Ould Daddah, 78, President of Mauritania.[66]
- Patrick Dalzel-Job, 90, British naval intelligence officer and commando.[67]
- Ben Metcalfe, 83, Greenpeace activist and co-founder, heart attack.[68]
- Javier Portales, 66, Argentine actor, heart attack.
- Miloš Sádlo, 91, Czech cellist and music teacher.[69]
- Knud Leif Thomsen, 79, Danish film director and screenwriter.[70]
15
- Pierre Chanal, 56, Egyptian-French soldier and suspected serial killer, suicide by exsanguination.
- Norman Elder, 64, Canadian writer, artist, and Olympic equestrian, suicide by hanging.[71]
- Antonín Liška, 79, Czech Catholic theologist.
- Benny Lévy, 58, Egyptian-French philosopher, political activist and author.[72]
16
- Avni Arbaş, Turkish artist, cancer.
- Lorraine Dunn, 61, Panamanian Olympic sprinter and hurdler.[73]
- Don Evans, 65, American playwright, theater director, and actor, heart attack.[74]
- James M. Hanley, 83, American businessman and politician.[75]
- Mark Hanna, 86, American screenwriter and actor.[76]
- Stu Hart, 88, Canadian professional wrestler, stroke.
- László Papp, 77, Hungarian boxer.[77]
- Ignatius Jerome Strecker, 85, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Carl Urbano, 93, American animator and director.
17
- Charlie Justice, 79, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins).[78]
- Frank O'Flynn, 84, New Zealand politician.
- Janice Rule, 72, American actress, cerebral hemorrhage.[79]
- António Dias Teixeira, 73, Portuguese football player and manager.
18
- William C. Cramer, 81, American attorney and politician, heart attack.[80]
- Rodolfo Freude, 83, Argentine politician and close advisor of president Juan Perón.
- David Lodge, 82, English actor, cancer.[81]
- Ralph Moffitt, 71, English golfer.
- Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, 64, Spanish novelist (Detective Carvalho saga), journalist and poet.[82]
- Preston Smith, 91, American politician (40th Governor of Texas from 1969 to 1973).[83]
19
- Jaime Allende, 79, Spanish field hockey player (field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[84]
- Sir Peter Berger, 78, British admiral (Amethyst Incident).[85]
- 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.[86]
- 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.[87]
20
- František Balvín, 88, Czechoslovak cross-country skier (Olympic skiing: 1948 50km, 1948 relay, 1952 50km).[88]
- Ernie Calverley, 79, American basketball player (Rhode Island, Providence Steamrollers) and coach.[89]
- Jack Elam, 82, American actor (Once Upon a Time in the West, The Cannonball Run, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid), heart attack.[90]
- Donald G. Jackson, 60, American filmmaker, leukemia.
- Miodrag Petrović Čkalja, 79, Serbian actor.
21
- Fred Berry, 52, American actor, stroke.[91]
- Luis A. Ferré, 99, Puerto Rican industrialist and politician, respiratory failure.[92]
- Louise Day Hicks, 87, American politician (Boston City Council, U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 9th congress. dist.).[93]
- Tomáš Pospíchal, 67, Czech football player.
- Alfred Rose, 71, Indian Konkani singer, composer, and actor.
- Elliott Smith, 34, American musician, suicide by stabbing.[94]
- 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.[95]
- Ron Collier, 73, Canadian jazz trombonist, composer, and arranger.[96]
- Willem Meijer, 80, Dutch botanist and plant collector.[97]
- Philippe Ragueneau, 85, French journalist and writer.[98]
- 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.[99]
23
- Tony Capstick, 59, British actor, comedian, musician and broadcaster, aneurysm.
- Al Corwin, 76, American baseball player (New York Giants).[100]
- Vlasta Depetrisová, 82, Czech table tennis player.
- Kevin Magee, 44, American basketball player, traffic collision.[101]
- Soong Mei-ling, 105, Chinese political figure and wife of president Chiang Kai-shek.[102]
- Judah Segal, 91, British linguist.[103]
- 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.[104]
- Bob Bailey, 72, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks).[105]
- Veikko Hakulinen, 78, Finnish cross-country skier, triple Olympic- and world champion, traffic collision.[106]
- Joanna Lee, 72, American writer, producer, director and actress, bone cancer.[107]
- Half a Mill, 30, American rapper, suicide by gunshot.
- Carmen Pujals, 87, Argentine botanist.
- Richard H. Wasai, 70, American politician.[108]
25
- Hemu Adhikari, 84, Indian cricketer.[109]
- Pandurang Shastri Athavale, 83, Indian philosopher and social activist.
- Noreen Branson, 93, British political activist and historian of the Communist Party of Great Britain.[110]
- John Hart Ely, 64, American legal scholar, cancer.[111]
- Behram Kurşunoğlu, 81, Turkish physicist, heart attack.[112]
- Richard Leibler, 89, American mathematician and cryptanalyst.
- Robert Strassburg, 88, American conductor, composer, and musicologist.[113]
- Mario Vitale, 75, Italian film actor.
26
- Johnny Boyd, 77, American racecar driver, twelve Indianapolis 500-mile races from 1955 to 1966.[114]
- Steve Death, 54, English football goalkeeper, cancer.
- Leonid Filatov, 56, Soviet and Russian actor, director and poet, pneumonia.[115]
- François Guérin, 75, French film and television actor.[116]
- 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.[117]
- Roberto García Morillo, 92, Argentine composer, musicologist, music professor and music critic.[118]
- Heinz Piontek, 77, German writer.[119]
- Jürgen Simon, 65, German cyclist.[120]
- Viguen, 73, Iranian pop music singer ("Sultan of pop") and actor, cancer.[121]
27
- John William Atkinson, 79, American psychologist.
- Hank Beenders, 87, Dutch-American basketball player (Providence Steamrollers, Philadelphia Warriors, Boston Celtics).[122]
- Manoj Khanderia, 60, Indian poet and writer.
- Tarun Kumar, 72, Indian actor.
- K. R. Malkani, 81, Indian journalist, historian and politician.
- 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.[123]
- Fred Whittingham, 64, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, New Orleans Saints), complications from back surgery.[124]
28
- Jean Carbonnier, 95, French jurist.[125]
- Marie Maynard Daly, 82, American biochemist.
- Edward Hartwig, 94, Polish photographer.[126]
- Nora Ney, 81, Brazilian singer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Joan Perucho, 82, Spanish novelist, poet, art critic, and judge.[127]
- Alexander Raichev, 81, Bulgarian composer.
- Oliver Sain, 71, American musician and record producer, cancer.
29
- Gino Armano, 76, Italian football player.[128]
- Hal Clement, 81, American author, diabetes.[129]
- Franco Corelli, 82, Italian tenor, heart attack.[130]
- Gerrie Deijkers, 56, Dutch football player, heart attack.[131]
- Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, 93, American science fiction fan, publisher, writer, and minister.[132]
- A. Carl Helmholz, 88, American nuclear physicist.[133]
- Jaime Castillo Velasco, 89, Chilean politician, pneumonia.
30
- Lynn S. Beedle, 85, American structural engineer.[134]
- Carl Berner, 90, Danish rower (men's coxed pairs, men's eights at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[135]
- Franco Bonisolli, 65, Italian operatic tenor.[136]
- Ron Davies, 57, American songwriter and musician, heart attack.[137]
- Abel Ehrlich, 88, Israeli composer.[138]
- Aidyn Guseinov, 46, Azerbaijani chess player.
- Subhadra Joshi, 84, Indian freedom activist and politician.
- Börje Leander, 85, Swedish football player.[139]
- Steve O'Rourke, 63, English music manager and racing driver, stroke.
- Richard Clyde Taylor, 83, American philosopher.[140]
31
- Robert Guenette, 68, American screenwriter and film/television producer and director, brain tumor.[141]
- Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, 95, Indian carnatic musician.[142]
- José Juncosa, 81, Spanish football player and manager.
- Antonio Medina, 84, Spanish chess master.[143]
- Richard Neustadt, 84, American academic and advisor to several presidents.[144]
- Karel Paulus, 70, Czech volleyball player.[145]
- Yechiel Shemi, Israeli sculptor.[146]
- Lindsay Weir, 95, New Zealand cricketer.[147]
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