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.
• Huntington Hardisty, 74, U.S. Navy admiral.
• Beate Hasenau, 67, German film and television actress.
• Joy N. Houck, Jr., 61, American actor, screenwriter and film director.
• Chubby Jackson, 84, American jazz double-bassist and band leader.
• 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.
• Otto Günsche, 86, German SS escort of Adolf Hitler, who was tasked to cremate his body on 30 April 1945, heart failure.
• 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.
• Gunther Philipp, 85, Austrian film actor, physician and swimmer.

3

• Joop Bakker, 82, Dutch politician and businessman.
• John Baldock, 87, British politician (Member of Parliament for Harborough).
• Tish Daija, 78, Albanian composer.
• Profira Sadoveanu, 97, Romanian prose writer and poet.
• Gustav Sjöberg, 90, Swedish football goalkeeper.
• Florence Stanley, 79, American actress (Barney Miller, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Dinosaurs), stroke.
• William Steig, 95, American cartoonist and children's author; creator of Shrek.
• Winifred Watkins, 79, British biochemist.

4

• Bill Cayton, 85, American boxing manager, former manager of Edwin Rosario and Mike Tyson.
• John Horace Ragnar Colvin, 81, British intelligence officer.
• Hanadi Jaradat, 28, Palestinian jihadist, suicide by explosive vest.
• Sid McMath, 91, American attorney and politician, 34th governor of Arkansas.
• Freddie Phillips, 84, British musician and composer.
• Elisabeta Rizea, 91, Romanian anti-communist partisan, viral pneumonia.
• Fred Tuttle, 84, American farmer, actor and politician, heart attack.

5

• Wil van Beveren, 91, Dutch sprinter (1936 Summer Olympics: men's 100m, men's 200m, men's 4x100m relay).
• Wally George, 71, American conservative radio and television commentator, pneumonia.
• Neil Postman, 72, American media critic, lung cancer.
• Denis Quilley, 75, British actor, liver cancer.
• Dan Snyder, 25, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Atlanta Thrashers), traffic collision.
• 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.

6

• Joe Baker, 63, English footballer, heart attack.
• Antony Buck, 74, British politician (Member of Parliament for Colchester, Colchester North).
• Armando Crispino, 78, Italian film director and screenwriter.
• William Herrmann, 91, American gymnast and Olympic medalist.
• Charles Millot, 81, Yugoslav-French actor.
• Azam Tariq, 35, Pakistani politician, homicide.

7

• Izzy Asper, 71, Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate (CanWest Global Communications Corp).
• Arthur Berger, 91, American composer, music critic, teacher and an academic music writer.
• Ryan Halligan, 13, American bullying victim, suicide by hanging.
• Eleanor Lambert, 100, American fashion pioneer.
• 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.

8

• Thalia Mara, 92, American ballet dancer and educator.
• Cyril May, 82, British socialist politician.
• Petter Thomassen, 62, Norwegian politician.
• Junior Wren, 73, American professional football player (Missouri, Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers).

9

• Carl Fontana, 75, American jazz trombonist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Ruth Hall, 92, American film actress.
• Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, 77, American academic, suicide by drug overdose.
• Don Lanphere, 75, American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist.

10

• Igor Borisov, 79, Russian rower and Olympic silver medalist.
• Viola Burnham, 72, Guyanese politician, First Lady to Forbes Burnham and Vice President, cancer.
• Eila Hiltunen, 80, Finnish sculptor.
• Victoria Horne, 91, American actress, appearing in 49 films.
• Eugene Istomin, 77, American pianist, liver cancer.
• Johnny Klippstein, 75, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Redlegs, Minnesota Twins).
• Eve Newman, 88, American music and film editor (Academy Award nominations: Wild in the Streets, Two-Minute Warning).
• Julia Trevelyan Oman, 73, British set designer.
• Pastora Peña, 83, Spanish film actress.
• Frank Alois Pitelka, 87, American ornithologist.
• Max Rayne, 85, British property developer and philanthropist.

11

• Vivien Alcock, 79, English children's book writer.
• Sadateru Arikawa, 73, Japanese aikido teacher and shihan.
• Ivan Getting, 91, American physicist and electrical engineer.
• Tommy Hanlon Jr., 80, American-Australian actor, comedian, television host and circus ringmaster, cancer.
• John K. Mahon, 91, American historian.
• Lila Ram, 72, Indian wrestler.

12

• Jim Cairns, 89, Australian politician (Deputy Prime Minister, Treasurer of Australia).
• Ram Gopal, 90, Indian dancer and choreographer.
• Ruth Halbsguth, 86, German swimmer and Olympic silver medalist.
• Ion Ioanid, 77, Romanian dissident and writer.
• Arthur Kaye, 70, English football player.
• Joan Kroc, 75, American philanthropist, widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, brain cancer.
• 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.

13

• Butch Brickell, 46, American race car driver (24 Hours of Daytona) and stuntman (The Specialist, 2 Fast 2 Furious).
• Bertram Brockhouse, 85, Canadian physicist, 1994 Nobel Prize winner in physics for the development of neutron spectroscopy.
• Eduard Prugovečki, 66, Romanian-Canadian physicist and mathematician.
• Anne Ziegler, 93, English singer, known for her duets with her husband Webster Booth.

14

• Mohamed Basri, 75-76, Moroccan activist and opposition leader, heart attack.
• Edward T. Breathitt, 78, American politician, 51st governor of Kentucky, ventricular fibrillation.
• Zoltan Crișan, 48, Romanian football player, tuberculosis.
• Wil Culmer, 45, Bahamian baseball player (Cleveland Indians).
• Moktar Ould Daddah, 78, President of Mauritania.
• Patrick Dalzel-Job, 90, British naval intelligence officer and commando.
• Ben Metcalfe, 83, Greenpeace activist and co-founder, heart attack.
• Javier Portales, 66, Argentine actor, heart attack.
• Miloš Sádlo, 91, Czech cellist and music teacher.
• Knud Leif Thomsen, 79, Danish film director and screenwriter.

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.
• Antonín Liška, 79, Czech Catholic theologist.
• Benny Lévy, 58, Egyptian-French philosopher, political activist and author.

16

• Avni Arbaş, Turkish artist, cancer.
• Lorraine Dunn, 61, Panamanian Olympic sprinter and hurdler.
• Don Evans, 65, American playwright, theater director, and actor, heart attack.
• James M. Hanley, 83, American businessman and politician.
• Mark Hanna, 86, American screenwriter and actor.
• Stu Hart, 88, Canadian professional wrestler, stroke.
• László Papp, 77, Hungarian boxer.
• 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).
• Frank O'Flynn, 84, New Zealand politician.
• Janice Rule, 72, American actress, cerebral hemorrhage.
• António Dias Teixeira, 73, Portuguese football player and manager.

18

• William C. Cramer, 81, American attorney and politician, heart attack.
• Rodolfo Freude, 83, Argentine politician and close advisor of president Juan Perón.
• David Lodge, 82, English actor, cancer.
• Ralph Moffitt, 71, English golfer.
• Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, 64, Spanish novelist (Detective Carvalho saga), journalist and poet.
• Preston Smith, 91, American politician (40th governor of Texas from 1969 to 1973).

19

• Jaime Allende, 79, Spanish field hockey player (field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
• Misha Asherov, 79, Israeli actor (The Hour of Truth) and theatre director.
• Sir Peter Berger, 78, British admiral (Amethyst Incident).
• 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.
• 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.

20

• František Balvín, 88, Czechoslovak cross-country skier (Olympic skiing: 1948 50km, 1948 relay, 1952 50km).
• Ernie Calverley, 79, American basketball player (Rhode Island, Providence Steamrollers) and coach.
• Jack Elam, 82, American actor (Once Upon a Time in the West, The Cannonball Run, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid), heart attack.
• Donald G. Jackson, 60, American filmmaker, leukemia.
• Miodrag Petrović Čkalja, 79, Serbian actor.

21

• Fred Berry, 52, American actor, stroke.
• Luis A. Ferré, 99, Puerto Rican industrialist and politician, respiratory failure.
• Louise Day Hicks, 87, American politician (Boston City Council, U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 9th congress. dist.).
• Tomáš Pospíchal, 67, Czech football player.
• Alfred Rose, 71, Indian Konkani singer, composer, and actor.
• Elliott Smith, 34, American musician, suicide by stabbing.
• 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.
• Ron Collier, 73, Canadian jazz trombonist, composer, and arranger.
• Willem Meijer, 80, Dutch botanist and plant collector.
• Philippe Ragueneau, 85, French journalist and writer.
• 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.

23

• Tony Capstick, 59, British actor, comedian, musician and broadcaster, aneurysm.
• Al Corwin, 76, American baseball player (New York Giants).
• Vlasta Depetrisová, 82, Czech table tennis player.
• Kevin Magee, 44, American basketball player, traffic collision.
• Soong Mei-ling, 105, Chinese political figure and wife of president Chiang Kai-shek.
• Judah Segal, 91, British linguist.
• 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.
• Bob Bailey, 72, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks).
• Veikko Hakulinen, 78, Finnish cross-country skier, triple Olympic- and world champion, traffic collision.
• Joanna Lee, 72, American writer, producer, director and actress, bone cancer.
• Half a Mill, 30, American rapper, suicide by gunshot.
• Carmen Pujals, 87, Argentine botanist.
• Richard H. Wasai, 70, American politician.

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.
• John Hart Ely, 64, American legal scholar, cancer.
• Behram Kurşunoğlu, 81, Turkish physicist, heart attack.
• Richard Leibler, 89, American mathematician and cryptanalyst.
• Robert Strassburg, 88, American conductor, composer, and musicologist.
• Mario Vitale, 75, Italian film actor.

26

• Johnny Boyd, 77, American racecar driver, twelve Indianapolis 500-mile races from 1955 to 1966.
• Steve Death, 54, English football goalkeeper, cancer.
• Leonid Filatov, 56, Soviet and Russian actor, director and poet, pneumonia.
• François Guérin, 75, French film and television actor.
• 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.
• Roberto García Morillo, 92, Argentine composer, musicologist, music professor and music critic.
• Heinz Piontek, 77, German writer.
• Jürgen Simon, 65, German cyclist.
• Viguen, 73, Iranian pop music singer ("Sultan of pop") and actor, cancer.

27

• John William Atkinson, 79, American psychologist.
• Hank Beenders, 87, Dutch-American basketball player (Providence Steamrollers, Philadelphia Warriors, Boston Celtics).
• 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.
• Fred Whittingham, 64, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, New Orleans Saints), complications from back surgery.

28

• Jean Carbonnier, 95, French jurist.
• Marie Maynard Daly, 82, American biochemist.
• Edward Hartwig, 94, Polish photographer.
• Nora Ney, 81, Brazilian singer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Joan Perucho, 82, Spanish novelist, poet, art critic, and judge.
• Alexander Raichev, 81, Bulgarian composer.
• Oliver Sain, 71, American musician and record producer, cancer.

29

• Gino Armano, 76, Italian football player.
• Hal Clement, 81, American author, diabetes.
• Franco Corelli, 82, Italian tenor, heart attack.
• Gerrie Deijkers, 56, Dutch football player, heart attack.
• Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, 93, American science fiction fan, publisher, writer, and minister.
• A. Carl Helmholz, 88, American nuclear physicist.
• Jaime Castillo Velasco, 89, Chilean politician, pneumonia.

30

• Lynn S. Beedle, 85, American structural engineer.
• Carl Berner, 90, Danish rower (men's coxed pairs, men's eights at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
• Franco Bonisolli, 65, Italian operatic tenor.
• Ron Davies, 57, American songwriter and musician, heart attack.
• Abel Ehrlich, 88, Israeli composer.
• Aidyn Guseinov, 46, Azerbaijani chess player.
• Subhadra Joshi, 84, Indian freedom activist and politician.
• Börje Leander, 85, Swedish football player.
• Steve O'Rourke, 63, English music manager and racing driver, stroke.
• Richard Clyde Taylor, 83, American philosopher.

31

• Robert Guenette, 68, American screenwriter and film/television producer and director, brain tumor.
• Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, 95, Indian carnatic musician.
• José Juncosa, 81, Spanish football player and manager.
• Antonio Medina, 84, Spanish chess master.
• Richard Neustadt, 84, American academic and advisor to several presidents.
• Karel Paulus, 70, Czech volleyball player.
• Yechiel Shemi, Israeli sculptor.
• Lindsay Weir, 95, New Zealand cricketer.

Sources

• Liebman, Roy (2000). The Wampas Baby Stars: A Biographical Dictionary, 1922–1934. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0756-5.

External links

• List of October 2003 deaths at IMDb