Deaths in December 2003
The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.
December 2003
[edit]1
[edit]- Hamza Alavi, 82, Pakistani-British sociologist and activist (Campaign Against Racial Discrimination).[1]
- Fernando Di Leo, 71, Italian film director and script writer.[2]
- Clark Kerr, 92, American academic, chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1952–58), complications from a fall.[3]
- Eugenio Monti, 75, Italian bobsledder (six Olympic bobsledding medals: 1956 two silver, 1964 two bronze, 1968 two gold), suicide by gunshot.[4]
- Carl Schenkel, 55, Swiss film director, heart attack.[5]
- Uday Singh Taunque, 21, U.S. Army soldier.
2
[edit]- Ruth Nanda Anshen, 103, American philosopher, author and editor.[6]
- Suzanne Cloutier, 80, Canadian film actress, liver cancer.[7]
- Alan Davidson, 79, British food writer and diplomat.[8]
- Vic Gordon, 92, British Australian actor of vaudeville, television and film.
- Ignaz Kiechle, 73, German politician and minister for agriculture (1983–1993).
- Frances Morris, 95, American actress.[9]
- Rudolph A. Peterson, 98, American banker.[10]
3
[edit]- Dulce Chacón, 49, Spanish poet, novelist and playwright, pancreatic cancer.[11]
- Jay Difani, 80, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[12]
- Ellen Drew, 88, American film actress, liver ailment.[13]
- Sita Ram Goel, 82, Indian historian, activist, writer, and publisher.
- David Hemmings, 62, British actor and director, heart attack.[14]
4
[edit]- John H. Hannah, Jr., 64, American judge (U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas), heart attack.[15]
- Dezső Lemhényi, 85, Hungarian water polo player, coach and Olympic champion.[16]
- Jimmy Smith, 92, Scottish football player.
- David Vaughan, 59, English psychedelic artist.[17]
- Jacques Viau, 84, Canadian lawyer and reformist.
5
[edit]- Paul Busby, 85, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[18]
- Bob Gregory, 82, American comics artist and writer.
- Felix Kaspar, 88, Austrian figure skater (bronze medal in men's singles figure skating at the 1936 Winter Olympics).[19]
- Jack Keller, 61, American poker player.
- José Manuel Pesudo, 67, Spanish football goalkeeper and coach.
- Antony Rowe, 79, English rower and Olympian.[20]
- Gregorio García Segura, 74, Spanish composer of film scores.
- Yasuo Tanaka, 71, Japanese voice actor.
6
[edit]- Haddis Alemayehu, 93, Ethiopian Foreign Minister and novelist.
- John Bingham, 61, British classical pianist.[21]
- Hans Hotter, 84, German operatic bass-baritone.[22]
- José María Jiménez, 32, Spanish road bicycle racer, heart attack.[23]
- Barry Long, 77, Australian spiritual teacher and writer.
- P. Madhavan, 75, Indian film director and producer in Tamil cinema.
- Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, 85, Guatemalan military ruler, President of Guatemala.[24]
- Jerry Tuite, 36, American wrestler, heart attack.
7
[edit]- Roland Asselin, 86, Canadian fencer (1948 Olympic fencing, 1952 Olympic fencing, 1956 Olympic fencing).[25]
- Barta Barri, 92, Hungarian-Spanish film actor.
- Robert R. Benton, 79, American set decorator, respiratory failure.
- Carl F. H. Henry, 90, American Evangelical theologian and founder of Christianity Today magazine.[26]
- Azie Taylor Morton, 67, American public servant (Treasurer of the United States), complications from a stroke.[27]
- Joe Skeen, 76, American politician, Parkinson's disease.
8
[edit]- Lewis M. Allen, 81, American film and Broadway producer, nominated for seven Tony Awards, pancreatic cancer.[28]
- Margaret Jean Anderson, 84, Canadian businesswoman and senator (representing Northumberland--Miramichi, New Brunswick).[29]
- Nelson Bobb, 79, American professional basketball player (Temple University, Philadelphia Warriors), cancer.[30]
- Agnès Delahaie, 83, French actress and film producer.[31]
- Robert Detweiler, 73, American competition rower and Olympic champion, naval officer, and scientist.[32]
- Rubén González, 84, Cuban pianist.[33]
- Pekka Siitoin, 59, Finnish satanist, occultist and neo-Nazi, esophageal cancer.
- Francine Weisweiller, 87, French socialite and patron of Jean Cocteau.[34]
9
[edit]- Carol M. Bundy, 61, American serial killer, heart failure.
- Blackie Ko, 50, Taiwanese film director, stuntman, singer and actor, blood poisoning.[35]
- Keith McCreary, 63, Canadian hockey player, cancer.[36]
- Thomas M. Rees, 78, American politician.[37]
- Gladys Shelley, 91, American lyricist and composer.[38]
- Paul Simon, 75, American author and politician, United States Senator from Illinois (1985-1997), surgical complications.[39]
- Norm Sloan, 77, American college basketball player and coach (The Citadel, University of Florida, North Carolina State).[40]
10
[edit]- Begum Abida Ahmed, 80, Indian politician, First Lady of India as wife of Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (974-1977).
- Robert L. Bartley, 66, American newspaper editor (The Wall Street Journal editorial page) and Pulitzer Prize winner.[41]
- Oswald Cheung, 81, Hong Kong lawyer and politician, complications from burns.
- Elizabeth Harrower, 85, American actress and television writer, cancer.
- Sean McClory, 79, Irish actor.[42]
- Bill Morey, 83, American actor.
- Raúl Armando Savoy, 63, Argentine football player.
- Don Wheeler, 81, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).[43]
11
[edit]- Malcolm Clarke, 60, British composer.
- Ahmadou Kourouma, 76, Ivorian novelist.[44]
- Shah Ahmad Noorani, 77, Pakistani Islamic scholar, mystic, philosopher, revivalist and an ultra–conservative politician.[45]
- Ann Petersen, 76, Belgian actress.[46]
- Ram Kishore Shukla, 80, Indian politician.
- Paulos Tzadua, 82, Ethiopian Catholic Archbishop of Addis Abeba.
12
[edit]- Heydar Aliyev, 80, Azerbaijani politician, served as the third president of Azerbaijan.[47]
- Ross Belsher, 70, Canadian politician (member of Parliament of Canada for Fraser Valley East, British Columbia).[48]
- Eva Besnyö, 93, Dutch-Hungarian photographer.[49]
- Michael Casson, 78, British potter.[50]
- Joseph Anthony Ferrario, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Honolulu (1982–1993), heart attack.
- Earl Gillespie, 81, American sportscaster, voice of the Milwaukee Braves.
- Marcello Giombini, 75, Italian composer, well.[51]
- Keiko, 27, orca famed for Reino Aventura and Free Willy, pneumonia.[52]
- Rudolf Krause, 76, German football player and coach.
- Kurt Magnus, 91, German scientist.
- Fadwa Tuqan, 86, Palestinian poet.[53]
13
[edit]- Elizabeth Bates, 56, American professor of cognitive science, pancreatic cancer.[54]
- Luis González y González, 78, Mexican historian.[55]
- Mollie Hardwick, 87, British writer.
- Alexis Kanner, 61, French-Canadian film and television actor, heart attack.[56]
- David Perlov, 73, Israeli documentary filmmaker.[57]
- Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi, 81, Indian neurosurgeon and author.
- William Roth, 82, American lawyer and politician United States Senator from Delaware from 1971 to 2001.[58]
- Xie Tian, 89, Chinese actor and director.[59]
- Webster Young, 71, American jazz trumpeter (Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie), brain cancer.[60]
- Māris Čaklais, 63, Latvian poet and writer.
14
[edit]- Daniel Arasse, 59, French art historian, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[61]
- Don Concannon, 73, British Labour Party politician.
- Jeanne Crain, 78, American actress, heart attack.[62]
- Blas Ople, 75, Filipino journalist and politician, heart attack.
- François Rauber, 70, French pianist, composer, arranger and conductor.[63]
- Frank Sheeran, 83, American labor union leader and mobster, "The Irishman", cancer.[64]
15
[edit]- Johnny Cunningham, 46, British folk musician, heart attack.[65]
- Jack Gregory, 80, British athlete and Olympic silver medalist.[66]
- Garvin Hamner, 79, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[67]
- Göthe Hedlund, 85, Swedish speed skater and Olympic medalist.[68]
- David S. Lewis, 86, American aerospace engineer.[69]
- Keith Magnuson, 56, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks), road accident.[70]
- Edward Montagne, 91, American television series producer and film director.[71]
- Dora Wasserman, 84, Russian-Canadian actress, playwright, and theater director.[72]
16
[edit]- Siegfried Hold, 72, German cinematographer.[73]
- Alfred Lynch, 72, English actor, cancer.[74]
- Judd Marmor, 93, American psychoanalyst and psychiatrist.[75]
- Hugo Moser, 77, Argentine television and film producer and screenwriter, cardiovascular disease.
- Madlyn Rhue, 68, American actress (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Days of Our Lives, Bracken's World), pneumonia.
- Aglaja Schmid, 77, Austrian stage and film actress.[76]
- Veikko Sinisalo, 77, Finnish actor.
- Robert Stanfield, 89, Canadian politician (member of Parliament representing Colchester—Hants and Halifax, Nova Scotia), pneumonia.[77]
- Gary Stewart, 58, American country music singer "She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)", suicide by gunshot.[78]
- Peter Hardy, Baron Hardy of Wath, 72, British Labour Party politician.
17
[edit]- Ed Devereaux, 78, Australian actor, cancer.[79]
- Otto Graham, 82, American gridiron football (Cleveland Browns) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, heart aneurysm.[80]
- Wally Hedrick, 75, Seminal American artist in the 1950s California counterculture, gallerist, and educator.
- Mary Ann Jackson, 80, American child actress, heart attack.
- José Richa, 69, Brazilian politician.
- David Smith, 69, English cricketer.[81]
- Alan Tilvern, 86, English actor and voice artist (Bhowani Junction, The Lord of the Rings, Who Framed Roger Rabbit).[82]
- Jim Wolf, 51, American gridiron football player (Prairie View A&M, Pittsburgh Steelers, Kansas City Chiefs), multiple sclerosis.[83]
18
[edit]- Charles Berlitz, 90, American linguist, spoke 32 languages.[84]
- Glenn Cunningham, 91, American politician.
- Jack Dormand, 84, British politician.
- Ergilio Hato, 77, Dutch Antillean goalkeeper from Curaçao.[85]
- Branko Horvat, 75, Croatian economist and politician.
- Cresson Kearny, 89, United States Army officer.[86]
- Susan Travers, 94, only English woman to serve in the French Foreign Legion.[87]
- Richard Wahlstrom, 72, American Olympic rower (bronze medal in men's coxed four at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[88]
19
[edit]- Roger Conant, 94, American herpetologist, cancer.
- Yan Frid, 95, Soviet screenwriter and film director.
- Roy Hughes, Baron Islwyn, 78, British Labour Party politician and trade union organiser.
- Hope Lange, 70, American actress, ischemic colitis, infectious disease.[89]
- Heinz Marquardt, 80, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
- Carmen Mauro, 77, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers, Washington Senators, Philadelphia Athletics).[90]
- Les Tremayne, 90, English actor, heart failure.[91]
20
[edit]- Charles Randolph Grean, 90, American producer and composer.[92]
- Grigore Grigoriu, 62, Moldovan actor, car accident.[93]
- Alan Magee, 84, American World War II airman, survived 22,000 ft. fall, stroke, kidney failure.
- Gil Reece, 61, Welsh footballer.[94]
- Kostas Valsamis, 95, Greek sculptor.
21
[edit]- Gawaine Baillie, 69, British amateur racing driver, industrialist, and stamp collector.[95]
- M. J. Gopalan, 94, Indian sportsman, among which cricket.[96]
- Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 79, Spanish businessman and playboy, prostate cancer.[97]
- G. V. Iyer, 86, Indian film director and actor.[98]
- Hans Koller, 82, Austrian jazz tenor saxophonist and bandleader.[99]
- Andrea Scotti, 72, Mainly active in genre films.
- Oleg Troyanovsky, 84, Soviet ambassador to Japan and China and representative to the United Nations (1976-1986).[100]
22
[edit]- Mikhail Borodulin, 36, Kazakhstani ice hockey player (men's ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics), lung cancer.[101]
- Wah Chang, 86, Chinese-American designer, sculptor, and artist.
- Dave Dudley, 75, American country music singer, heart attack.[102]
- Rose Hill, 89, English actress and operatic soprano.[103]
- George Patterson, 64, American basketball player.[104]
- Doris Shadbolt, 85, Canadian art curator and writer.[105]
- Andreas Tietze, 89, Austrian scholar of Turkish lexicography and language.[106]
23
[edit]- Charlie Bowles, 86, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[107]
- Kriangsak Chamanan, 86, Prime minister of Thailand.
- Valentin Gavrilov, 57, Russian high jumper and Olympic medalist.[108]
- Don Lamond, 83, American jazz drummer, brain tumor.[109]
- John Newlove, 65, Canadian poet and editor.[110]
- John Sanders, 70, British organist, pneumonia.
- Chandu Sarwate, 83, Indian cricketer and fingerprint expert.[111]
- Guglielmo Trevisan, 85, Italian football manager and football player.[112]
24
[edit]- Herman Keiser, 89, American golfer, Alzheimer's disease.[113]
- James Kitching, 81, South African vertebrate palaeontologist, cancer.[114]
- Gunnar Alf Larsen, 83, Norwegian Labour Party politician.
- Eugene Maltsev, 74, Soviet Russian painter.
- Noel Toy, 84, American burlesque performer.[115]
25
[edit]- Charles Concordia, 95, American electrical engineer and computer pioneer.
- Ulf Isaksson, 49, Swedish ice hockey player.[116]
- Nicholas Mavroules, 74, American politician.
- Nicola Paone, 88, American singer, songwriter, and restaurateur.[117]
26
[edit]- Hugh Bean, 74, English violinist, teacher and leader of the Philharmonia Orchestra.[118]
- Gale Bishop, 81, American professional basketball player (Washington State, Philadelphia Warriors).[119]
- Redfern Froggatt, 79, English footballer.[120]
- Phil Goldman, 39, American engineer and entrepreneur, heart failure.[121]
- Chauncy Harris, 89, American geographer.[122]
- Clifton McNeely, 84, American basketball player and coach.
- Paul Owens, 79, American Major League Baseball manager, and scout.
- Ivan Petrov, 83, Soviet and Russian bass opera singer.
- Yoshio Shirai, 80, first Japanese world boxing champion, pneumonia.
- Milan Vasić, 75, Serbian historian.
27
[edit]- Pete Alvarado, 83, American animation and comic book artist (Disney Studios, Warner Bros. Animation, Western Publishing), heart attack.[123]
- Alan Bates, 69, British actor (The Fixer, Zorba the Greek, Women in Love), pancreatic cancer.[124]
- Iván Calderón, 41, Puerto Rican baseball player (Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox, Montreal Expos), homicide by gunshot.[125]
- Ingeborg Cook, 88, Norwegian actress and singer.
- Lawrence Cook, 73, American actor.[126]
- Gerhard Doerfer, 83, German philologist.[127]
- Vestal Goodman, 74, American Southern Gospel singer, complications from influenza.[128]
- Heinz Kiessling, 77, German musician, conductor, composer and music producer.[129]
- Nagavally R. S. Kurup, 86, Indian writer and broadcaster.
- E. Arsenio Manuel, 94, Filipino academic, historian, and anthropologist.
- K. S. Narasimhaswamy, 88, Indian poet.
- Richie Niemiera, 82, American basketball player and coach (Notre Dame, Fort Wayne Pistons, Anderson Packers).[130]
- Juan García Ponce, 71, Mexican novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and art critic.
- Patrick J. Reynolds, 83, Irish politician.
- Ying Ruocheng, 74, Chinese actor (Marco Polo, The Last Emperor, Little Buddha), director, and China's vice-minister of culture.[131]
28
[edit]- Harald Feller, 90, Swiss diplomat and Righteous Among the Nations for his efforts during World War II.
- Guy Héraud, 83, French politician and lawyer.[132]
- Helen Kleeb, 96, American film and television actress.[133]
- Michael Melle, 73, South African cricket player.[134]
- Frank Parr, 85, British chess player.[135]
- Thomas Pearsall, 83, Australian politician.
- Polly Rosenbaum, 104, American politician and teacher.[136]
- Johannes Schmitt, 60, German athlete and Olympian.[137]
- Murray Smith, 63, British television writer and producer.
- A. William Sweeney, 83, American soldier and lawyer.
- John Terraine, 82, British military historian.
- Kushabhau Thakre, 81, Indian politician and a Member of parliament.
29
[edit]- Charles E. Beatley, 87, American politician, mayor of Alexandria, Virginia.[138]
- Michael Courtney, 58, Irish prelate of the Catholic Church, homicide.
- Jaime de Piniés, 86, Spanish diplomat.[139]
- Gerald Gutierrez, 53, American Tony Award-winning stage director, respiratory failure.[140]
- Earl Hindman, 61, American actor (Home Improvement, The Parallax View, Taps), lung cancer.[141]
- Dinsdale Landen, 71, British actor, pneumonia.[142]
- Don Lawrence, 75, British comic book artist, pulmonary emphysema.[143]
- Bob Monkhouse, 75, British comedian and game show host, prostate cancer.
- Tino Schwierzina, 76, German lawyer and politician.
- Miko Sotto, 21, Filipino matinee idol.
- Michel Zanoli, 35, Dutch road cyclist (men's individual road race, men's team time trial at 1988 Summer Olympics), heart failure.[144]
- Ersa Siregar, 52, Indonesian journalist, murdered
30
[edit]- David Bale, 62, South African businessman and activist, lymphoma.[145]
- Vladimir Bogomolov, 77, Soviet writer (The Moment of Truth, 1973).[146]
- John Gregory Dunne, 71, American novelist and screenwriter, heart attack.[147]
- Nora Heysen, 92, Australian artist.[148]
- Ibram Lassaw, 90, Russian-American sculptor.[149]
- Anita Mui, 40, Hong Kong pop queen, cervix uterine cancer.[150]
- Patricia Roc, 88, English film actress, kidney failure.
- Johnny Sands, 75, American film and television actor.
- Salma Sobhan, 66, Bangladeshi lawyer, academic, and human rights activist.
- Hukwe Zawose, 65, Tanzanian musician.[151]
31
[edit]- German Apukhtin, 67, Soviet Russian football player.
- Geoffrey Thomas Sandford Baylis, 90, New Zealand botanist and academic.
- John A. Franks, 78, American businessman and a thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder.
- Dora Gad, 91, Israeli interior designer.[152]
- Gerald Goldberg, 91, Irish lawyer and politician.
- Béla Julesz, 75, Hungarian-American visual neuroscientist and experimental psychologist.
- Béla Kárpáti, 74, Hungarian football player.
- Paula Raymond, 79, American model and actress, respiratory failure.[153]
- David Scott-Barrett, 81, British army general.[154]
- Arthur R. von Hippel, 105, German-American scientist and MIT professor.[155]
- Sieglinde Wagner, 82, Austrian operatic contralto.[156]
- Max West, 87, American baseball player (Boston Bees/Braves, Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates), brain cancer.[157]
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