Deaths in December 2003

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

December 2003

1

• Hamza Alavi, 82, Pakistani-British sociologist and activist.
• Fernando Di Leo, 71, Italian film director and script writer.
• Clark Kerr, 92, American academic, chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, complications from a fall.
• Eugenio Monti, 75, Italian bobsledder, suicide by gunshot.
• Carl Schenkel, 55, Swiss film director, heart attack.
• Uday Singh Taunque, 21, U.S. Army soldier.

2

• Ruth Nanda Anshen, 103, American philosopher, author and editor.
• Suzanne Cloutier, 80, Canadian film actress, liver cancer.
• Alan Davidson, 79, British food writer and diplomat.
• Vic Gordon, 92, British Australian actor of vaudeville, television and film.
• Ignaz Kiechle, 73, German politician and minister for agriculture.
• Frances Morris, 95, American actress.
• Rudolph A. Peterson, 98, American banker.

3

• Dulce Chacón, 49, Spanish poet, novelist and playwright, pancreatic cancer.
• Jay Difani, 80, American baseball player.
• Ellen Drew, 88, American film actress, liver ailment.
• Sita Ram Goel, 82, Indian historian, activist, writer, and publisher.
• David Hemmings, 62, British actor and director, heart attack.

4

• John H. Hannah, Jr., 64, American judge, heart attack.
• John Haley, 72, American attorney, plane crash.
• Dezső Lemhényi, 85, Hungarian water polo player, coach and Olympic champion.
• Georges Moreel, 79, French footballer
• Jimmy Smith, 92, Scottish football player.
• David Vaughan, 59, English psychedelic artist.
• Jacques Viau, 84, Canadian lawyer and reformist.

5

• Paul Busby, 85, American baseball player.
• Bob Gregory, 82, American comics artist and writer.
• Felix Kaspar, 88, Austrian figure skater.
• Jack Keller, 61, American poker player.
• José Manuel Pesudo, 67, Spanish football goalkeeper and coach.
• Antony Rowe, 79, English rower and Olympian.
• Gregorio García Segura, 74, Spanish composer of film scores.
• Yasuo Tanaka, 71, Japanese voice actor.

6

• Haddis Alemayehu, 93, Ethiopian Foreign Minister and novelist.
• John Bingham, 61, British classical pianist.
• Paul-Louis Halley, 69, French businessman, plane crash.
• Hans Hotter, 84, German operatic bass-baritone.
• José María Jiménez, 32, Spanish road bicycle racer, heart attack.
• 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.
• Jerry Tuite, 36, American wrestler, heart attack.

7

• Roland Asselin, 86, Canadian fencer.
• 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.
• Azie Taylor Morton, 67, American public servant, complications from a stroke.
• Joe Skeen, 76, American politician, Parkinson's disease.

8

• Lewis M. Allen, 81, American film and Broadway producer, nominated for seven Tony Awards, pancreatic cancer.
• Margaret Jean Anderson, 84, Canadian businesswoman and senator.
• Nelson Bobb, 79, American professional basketball player, cancer.
• Agnès Delahaie, 83, French actress and film producer.
• Robert Detweiler, 73, American competition rower and Olympic champion, naval officer, and scientist.
• Rubén González, 84, Cuban pianist.
• Pekka Siitoin, 59, Finnish satanist, occultist and neo-Nazi, esophageal cancer.
• Francine Weisweiller, 87, French socialite and patron of Jean Cocteau.

9

• Carol M. Bundy, 61, American serial killer, heart failure.
• Blackie Ko, 50, Taiwanese film director, stuntman, singer and actor, blood poisoning.
• Keith McCreary, 63, Canadian hockey player, cancer.
• Thomas M. Rees, 78, American politician.
• Gladys Shelley, 91, American lyricist and composer.
• Paul Simon, 75, American author and politician, United States Senator from Illinois, surgical complications.
• Norm Sloan, 77, American college basketball player and coach.

10

• Abida Ahmed, 80, Indian politician, First Lady of India as wife of Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed.
• Robert L. Bartley, 66, American newspaper editor and Pulitzer Prize winner.
• 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.
• Bill Morey, 83, American actor.
• Raúl Armando Savoy, 63, Argentine football player.
• Don Wheeler, 81, American baseball player.

11

• Malcolm Clarke, 60, British composer.
• Ahmadou Kourouma, 76, Ivorian novelist.
• Shah Ahmad Noorani, 77, Pakistani Islamic scholar, mystic, philosopher, revivalist and an ultra–conservative politician.
• Ann Petersen, 76, Belgian actress.
• Ram Kishore Shukla, 80, Indian politician.
• Paulos Tzadua, 82, Ethiopian Catholic Archbishop of Addis Ababa.

12

• Heydar Aliyev, 80, Azerbaijani politician, served as the third president of Azerbaijan.
• Ross Belsher, 70, Canadian politician.
• Eva Besnyö, 93, Dutch-Hungarian photographer.
• Michael Casson, 78, British potter.
• Joseph Anthony Ferrario, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Honolulu, heart attack.
• Earl Gillespie, 81, American sportscaster, voice of the Milwaukee Braves.
• Marcello Giombini, 75, Italian composer.
• Keiko, 27, orca famed for Reino Aventura and Free Willy, pneumonia.
• Rudolf Krause, 76, German football player and coach.
• Kurt Magnus, 91, German scientist.
• Fadwa Tuqan, 86, Palestinian poet.

13

• Elizabeth Bates, 56, American professor of cognitive science, pancreatic cancer.
• Luis González y González, 78, Mexican historian.
• Mollie Hardwick, 87, British writer.
• Alexis Kanner, 61, French-Canadian film and television actor, heart attack.
• David Perlov, 73, Israeli documentary filmmaker.
• Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi, 81, Indian neurosurgeon and author.
• William Roth, 82, American lawyer and politician United States Senator from Delaware from 1971 to 2001.
• Xie Tian, 89, Chinese actor and director.
• Webster Young, 71, American jazz trumpeter, brain cancer.
• Māris Čaklais, 63, Latvian poet and writer.

14

• Daniel Arasse, 59, French art historian, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Don Concannon, 73, British Labour Party politician.
• Jeanne Crain, 78, American actress, heart attack.
• Blas Ople, 75, Filipino journalist and politician, heart attack.
• François Rauber, 70, French pianist, composer, arranger and conductor.
• Frank Sheeran, 83, American labor union leader and mobster, "The Irishman", cancer.

15

• Johnny Cunningham, 46, British folk musician, heart attack.
• Jack Gregory, 80, British athlete and Olympic silver medalist.
• Garvin Hamner, 79, American baseball player.
• Göthe Hedlund, 85, Swedish speed skater and Olympic medalist.
• David S. Lewis, 86, American aerospace engineer.
• Keith Magnuson, 56, Canadian ice hockey player, road accident.
• Edward Montagne, 91, American television series producer and film director.
• Dora Wasserman, 84, Russian-Canadian actress, playwright, and theater director.

16

• Siegfried Hold, 72, German cinematographer.
• Alfred Lynch, 72, English actor, cancer.
• Judd Marmor, 93, American psychoanalyst and psychiatrist.
• Hugo Moser, 77, Argentine television and film producer and screenwriter, cardiovascular disease.
• Madlyn Rhue, 68, American actress, pneumonia.
• Aglaja Schmid, 77, Austrian stage and film actress.
• Veikko Sinisalo, 77, Finnish actor.
• Robert Stanfield, 89, Canadian politician, pneumonia.
• Gary Stewart, 58, American country music singer "She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)", suicide by gunshot.
• Peter Hardy, Baron Hardy of Wath, 72, British Labour Party politician.

17

• Ed Devereaux, 78, Australian actor, cancer.
• Otto Graham, 82, American gridiron football and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, heart aneurysm.
• 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.
• Alan Tilvern, 86, English actor and voice artist ''.
• Jim Wolf, 51, American gridiron football player, multiple sclerosis.

18

• Charles Berlitz, 90, American linguist, spoke 32 languages.
• Glenn Cunningham, 91, American politician.
• Jack Dormand, 84, British politician.
• Ergilio Hato, 77, Dutch Antillean goalkeeper from Curaçao.
• Branko Horvat, 75, Croatian economist and politician.
• Cresson Kearny, 89, United States Army officer.
• Susan Travers, 94, only English woman to serve in the French Foreign Legion.
• Richard Wahlstrom, 72, American Olympic rower.

19

• 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.
• 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.
• Les Tremayne, 90, English actor, heart failure.

20

• Charles Randolph Grean, 90, American producer and composer.
• Grigore Grigoriu, 62, Moldovan actor, car accident.
• Alan Magee, 84, American World War II airman, survived 22,000 ft. fall, stroke, kidney failure.
• Gil Reece, 61, Welsh footballer.
• Kostas Valsamis, 95, Greek sculptor.

21

• Gawaine Baillie, 69, British amateur racing driver, industrialist, and stamp collector.
• M. J. Gopalan, 94, Indian sportsman, among which cricket.
• Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 79, Spanish businessman and playboy, prostate cancer.
• G. V. Iyer, 86, Indian film director and actor.
• Hans Koller, 82, Austrian jazz tenor saxophonist and bandleader.
• Andrea Scotti, 72, Italian film and television actor.
• Oleg Troyanovsky, 84, Soviet ambassador to Japan and China and representative to the United Nations.

22

• Mikhail Borodulin, 36, Kazakhstani ice hockey player, lung cancer.
• Wah Chang, 86, Chinese-American designer, sculptor, and artist.
• Dave Dudley, 75, American country music singer, heart attack.
• Rose Hill, 89, English actress and operatic soprano.
• George Patterson, 64, American basketball player.
• Doris Shadbolt, 85, Canadian art curator and writer.
• Andreas Tietze, 89, Austrian scholar of Turkish lexicography and language.

23

• Charlie Bowles, 86, American baseball player.
• Kriangsak Chamanan, 86, Prime minister of Thailand.
• Valentin Gavrilov, 57, Russian high jumper and Olympic medalist.
• Don Lamond, 83, American jazz drummer, brain tumor.
• John Newlove, 65, Canadian poet and editor.
• John Sanders, 70, British organist, pneumonia.
• Chandu Sarwate, 83, Indian cricketer and fingerprint expert.
• Guglielmo Trevisan, 85, Italian football manager and football player.

24

• Herman Keiser, 89, American golfer, Alzheimer's disease.
• James Kitching, 81, South African vertebrate palaeontologist, cancer.
• Gunnar Alf Larsen, 83, Norwegian Labour Party politician.
• Eugene Maltsev, 74, Soviet Russian painter.
• Noel Toy, 84, American burlesque performer.

25

• Charles Concordia, 95, American electrical engineer and computer pioneer.
• Ulf Isaksson, 49, Swedish ice hockey player.
• Nicholas Mavroules, 74, American politician.
• Nicola Paone, 88, American singer, songwriter, and restaurateur.

26

• Hugh Bean, 74, English violinist, teacher and leader of the Philharmonia Orchestra.
• Gale Bishop, 81, American professional basketball player.
• Redfern Froggatt, 79, English footballer.
• Phil Goldman, 39, American engineer and entrepreneur, heart failure.
• Chauncy Harris, 89, American geographer.
• 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

• Pete Alvarado, 83, American animation and comic book artist, heart attack.
• Alan Bates, 69, British actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Iván Calderón, 41, Puerto Rican baseball player, homicide by gunshot.
• Ingeborg Cook, 88, Norwegian actress and singer.
• Lawrence Cook, 73, American actor.
• Gerhard Doerfer, 83, German philologist.
• Vestal Goodman, 74, American Southern Gospel singer, complications from influenza.
• Heinz Kiessling, 77, German musician, conductor, composer and music producer.
• 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.
• Juan García Ponce, 71, Mexican novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and art critic.
• Patrick J. Reynolds, 83, Irish politician.
• Ying Ruocheng, 74, Chinese actor, director, and China's vice-minister of culture.
• Melvin Storer, 82, American shipfitter and navy diver

28

• Harald Feller, 90, Swiss diplomat and Righteous Among the Nations for his efforts during World War II.
• Guy Héraud, 83, French politician and lawyer.
• Helen Kleeb, 96, American film and television actress.
• Michael Melle, 73, South African cricket player.
• Frank Parr, 85, British chess player.
• Thomas Pearsall, 83, Australian politician.
• Polly Rosenbaum, 104, American politician and teacher.
• Johannes Schmitt, 60, German athlete and Olympian.
• 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

• Charles E. Beatley, 87, American politician, mayor of Alexandria, Virginia.
• Michael Courtney, 58, Irish prelate of the Catholic Church, homicide.
• Jaime de Piniés, 86, Spanish diplomat.
• Gerald Gutierrez, 53, American Tony Award-winning stage director, respiratory failure.
• Earl Hindman, 61, American actor, lung cancer.
• Dinsdale Landen, 71, British actor, pneumonia.
• Don Lawrence, 75, British comic book artist, pulmonary emphysema.
• 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, heart failure.
• Ersa Siregar, 52, Indonesian journalist, murdered

30

• David Bale, 62, South African businessman and activist, lymphoma.
• Vladimir Bogomolov, 77, Soviet writer.
• John Gregory Dunne, 71, American novelist and screenwriter, heart attack.
• Nora Heysen, 92, Australian artist.
• Ibram Lassaw, 90, Russian-American sculptor.
• Anita Mui, 40, Hong Kong pop queen, cervix uterine cancer.
• 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.

31

• 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.
• 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.
• David Scott-Barrett, 81, British army general.
• Sieglinde Wagner, 82, Austrian operatic contralto.
• Max West, 87, American baseball player, brain cancer.