Deaths in April 2003

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

  April 2003

1

• Booker Bradshaw, 61, American record producer, actor, and Motown executive, heart attack.
• Lloyd L. Brown, 89, American writer, activist and labor organizer.
• Richard Caddel, 53, English poet, publisher and editor, a key figure in the British Poetry Revival, leukemia.
• Leslie Cheung, 46, Hong Kong actor and singer, suicide by jumping.
• Marcel Ernzer, 77, Luxembourgish cyclist.
• Jean-Yves Escoffier, 52, French cinematographer, heart attack.
• Sven Holmberg, 85, Swedish actor.
• Robert M. Levine, 62, American historian and academic, cancer.
• Mutsuhiro Watanabe, 85, Japanese war criminal during World War II.
• Adriaan Cornelis Zaanen, 89, Dutch mathematician, known for his books on Riesz spaces.

  2

• Seymour Friedman, 85, American film director.
• Kaveh Golestan, 52, Iranian photojournalist and artist, land mine.
• Terenci Moix, 61, Spanish writer, pulmonary emphysema.
• Joan Phipson, 90, Australian children's writer.
• György Révész, 75, Hungarian screenwriter and film director.
• Harold S. Sawyer, 83, American politician, throat cancer.
• Edwin Starr, 61, American soul singer, heart attack.
• Sékou Touré, 68, Ivorian football player.
• Michael Wayne, 68, American film producer and son of John Wayne, heart failure from complications of lupus.

  3

• Homer Banks, 61, American songwriter and record producer, cancer.
• Arthur Guyton, 83, American physiologist, traffic collision.
• Scott Hain, 32, American convict, execution by lethal injection.
• Gunadasa Kapuge, 57, Sri Lankan musician, fall.

  4

• Anthony Caruso, 86, American actor.
• Fred J. Cook, 92, American investigative journalist.
• Izzat Ghazzawi, 51, Palestinian writer.
• Abdul Kadir, 54, Indonesian footballer, kidney failure.
• Michael Kelly, 46, American journalist, columnist and magazine editor, war-related vehicular accident.
• Helmut Knochen, 93, German Nazi official and commander of the SiPo and SD.
• Billy McPhail, 75, Scottish football player, Alzheimer's disease.
• J. Quigg Newton, 91, American lawyer and politician.
• Resortes, 87, Mexican comedian, emphysema.
• Paul Ray Smith, 33, United States Army sergeant and Medal of Honor recipient, killed in action.

  5

• Kirby Doyle, 70, American poet.
• Seymour Lubetzky, 104, American cataloging theorist and librarian.
• Frédéric Kibassa Maliba, 63, Congolese politician, heart attack.
• Federico Pizarro, 76, Argentine football player.

  6

• David Bloom, 39, American television journalist, pulmonary embolism.
• Anita Borg, 54, American computer scientist, advocate for the advancement of women in computer science, brain cancer.
• José Emeterio Rivas, Colombian radio journalist killed after publicly accusing local officials of corruption, gun shots.
• Gerald Emmett Carter, 91, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Toronto.
• Aleksandr Fatyushin, 52, Russian actor, pneumonia.
• Susan French, 91, American actress.
• Leon Levy, 77, American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist.
• Nicole Loraux, 59, French historian of classical Athens.
• Vic Metcalfe, 81, English football player.
• Babatunde Olatunji, 75, Nigerian drummer, recorded Drums of Passion, diabetes.
• Robert John Pratt, 96, Canadian comedian and politician.
• Princess Tenagnework, 91, Ethiopian royal and eldest child of Emperor Haile Selassie and Empress Menen Asfaw.

  7

• Cecile de Brunhoff, 99, French pianist and teacher, created the children's book character Babar the Elephant.
• David Greene, 82, British television and film director, pancreatic cancer.
• Jutta Hipp, 78, Germen-American jazz pianist and composer, pancreatic cancer.
• Maurice Kouandété, 70, Beninese military officer and politician.
• Julio Anguita Parrado, 32, Spanish journalist and war correspondent, missile strike.
• Robin Winks, 72, American professor, historian, author and diplomat.

  8

• Kathie Browne, 72, American film and television actress.
• Patrick Fani Chakaipa, 70, Zimbabwean prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Harare.
• Charles Douglass, 93, Mexican-American sound engineer, credited as the inventor of the laugh track, pneumonia.
• Dee Gibson, 79, American basketball player.
• Maki Ishii, 66, Japanese composer of contemporary classical music, cancer.
• Spider Martin, 64, American photographer, suicide.
• Franz Rosenthal, 88, German-American professor of Semitic languages.
• Bing Russell, 76, American actor and baseball club owner, cancer.
• Correspondents killed in the Battle of Baghdad:
• *Tareq Ayyoub, 35, Jordanian journalist for Al Jazeera, missile strike.
• *José Couso Permuy, 37, Spanish cameraman, missile strike.
• *Taras Protsyuk, 35, Ukrainian cameraman, tank fire.

  9

• Earl Bramblett, 61, American mass murderer, execution by electrocution.
• Ray Murray, 85, American baseball player.
• Rod Navarro, 67, Filipino actor.
• Jorge Oteiza, 94, Basque Spanish sculptor, painter, and writer.
• Robert Wallace Wilkins, 96, American medical researcher.
• Abraham Zabludovsky, 78, Mexican modernist architect.
• Vera Zorina, 86, Norwegian ballerina, actress and choreographer, stroke.
• Wu Zuguang, 85, Chinese playwright, film director and social critic, stroke.

  10

• Abdul-Majid al-Khoei, 40, Iraqi Shia cleric, stabbed.
• Chumy Chúmez, 75, Spanish cartoon humorist, writer and film director, liver cancer.
• Little Eva, 59, American pop singer, cervical uterine cancer.
• Jack Fincher, 72, American screenwriter and journalist.
• Aatos Fred, 85, Finnish chess player, two-time Finnish Chess Championship winner.
• Aubrey Jones, 91, British politician.
• Franco Valle, 63, Italian boxer.

  11

• Vasyl Barka, 94, Ukrainian-American poet, writer, and literary critic.
• John Nevill Eliot, 90, English entomologist.
• Cecil Howard Green, 102, American businessman and founder of Texas Instruments.
• Siddiq Manzul, 71, Sudanese football player.
• Brian Nelson, 55, Northern Irish paramilitary intelligence chief, brain haemorrhage.
• Lucy Saroyan, 57, American actress and photographer, liver cirrhosis.

  12

• Clarence W. Blount, 81, American politician.
• Charles Janeway, 60, American immunologist.
• Sydney Lassick, 80, American film actor, complications of diabetes.
• Štefan Matlák, 69, Slovak football player.
• Chalom Messas, 94, Moroccan rabbi and writer.

  13

• Farouk Afero, 63, Pakistani-Indonesian film actor, cancer.
• Majid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 64, Saudi prince and member of the House of Saud.
• Sean Delaney, 58, American musician, complications following strokes.
• Allen Eager, 76, American jazz tenor and alto saxophonist, liver cancer.
• D. Gale Johnson, 86, American economist and an expert on Russia and China.
• Lucy Shoe Meritt, 96, American classical archaeologist.
• Elder Tadej Štrbulović, 88, Serbian Orthodox elder and author.

  14

• Pierre Blondiaux, 81, French rower.
• Al Epperly, 84, American baseball player.
• Addie McPhail, 97, American film actress.
• Jyrki Otila, 61, Finnish quiz show judge and member of the European Parliament.
• Milla Sannoner, 64, Italian film and television actress.

  15

• Betty Baskcomb, 88, British actress.
• Don Bunce, 54, American football quarterback and orthopedic surgeon, heart attack.
• Erin Fleming, 61, Canadian actress, suicide by gunshot.
• Robert Helmick, 66, American president of the US Olympic Committee, cardiac failure.
• Rebeca Iturbide, 78, Mexican-American actress, gastrointestinal perforation.
• Maurice Rapf, 88, American screenwriter and professor of film studies.
• Franco Scandurra, 91, Italian actor.
• Leonard Tose, 88, American sports executive, owner of the Philadelphia Eagles.
• Keith Walwyn, 47, Kittitian footballer, complications during heart surgery.
• Theodore Weiss, 86, American poet, professor and literary magazine editor.

  16

• Jack Donohue, 71, American-Canadian basketball coach.
• Isao Iwabuchi, 69, Japanese football player.
• Graham Jarvis, 72, Canadian actor, multiple myeloma.
• Samuel J. LeFrak, 85, American real estate tycoon.
• Ray Mendoza, 73, Mexican professional wrestler, kidney failure.
• Lili Muráti, 88, Hungarian film and stage actress.
• Danny O'Dea, 91, British actor.
• Jewell Young, 90, American basketball player.

  17

• Mario Sandoval Alarcón, 79, Guatemalan politician.
• Robert Atkins, 72, American nutritionist, accident.
• H. B. Bailey, 66, American NASCAR driver, heart attack.
• Jean-Pierre Dogliani, 60, French football player.
• John Paul Getty Jr., 70, British philanthropist and book collector, chest infection.
• Earl King, 69, American Blues musician/songwriter, complications of diabetes.
• Koji Kondo, 30, Japanese football player.
• Yiannis Latsis, 92, Greek shipping tycoon.
• Ong Poh Lim, 81, Malayan/Singaporean badminton player.
• Jozef Schell, 67, Belgian biologist.
• Hilde Sessak, 87, German actress.
• Graham Stuart Thomas, 94, British horticultural artist, author and garden designer.
• Peter Cathcart Wason, 78, British cognitive psychologist, founded the study of the psychology of reasoning.
• Sergei Yushenkov, 52, Russian politician, member of Russian Parliament and critic of President Vladimir Putin, homicide.

  18

• Rudolf Brunnenmeier, 62, German football player, alcohol-related issues.
• Edgar F. Codd, 79, English computer pioneer, heart failure.
• Jean Drucker, 61, French television executive, heart attack.
• Kiril Gospodinov, 68, Bulgarian stage and film actor.
• Toni Hagen, 85, Swiss geologist.
• Emil Loteanu, 66, Soviet and Moldovan film director.
• Diego Ronchini, 67, Italian road racing cyclist.
• Nguyễn Đình Thi, 78, Vietnamese writer, poet and composer.
• Juan Bautista Villalba, 78, Paraguayan football player.