Deaths in February 2003

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

  February 2003

1

• Anne Burr, 84, American actress.
• Bodil Kjer, 85, Danish actress.
• Adalberto Ortiz, 88, Ecuadorian writer.
• Mongo Santamaría, 85, Cuban Latin jazz percussionist.
• Nancy Whiskey, 67, Scottish folk singer.
• Crew of STS-107 killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster:
• *Michael P. Anderson, 43, American, payload commander.
• *David M. Brown, 46, American, mission specialist.
• *Kalpana Chawla, 40, American, mission specialist.
• *Laurel Clark, 41, American, mission specialist.
• *Rick Husband, 45, American, commander.
• *William C. McCool, 41, American, pilot.
• *Ilan Ramon, 48, Israeli, payload specialist.

  2

• Randy Chin, 65, Jamaican record producer, diabetes.
• Tom Edmunds, 77, Australian politician.
• József Gál, 84, Hungarian Olympic wrestler.
• Lou Harrison, 85, American composer, noted for his microtonal works, heart attack.
• Jack Lauterwasser, 98, English racing cyclist and cycling engineer, fall at home.
• Richard C. Lee, 86, American politician, Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut.
• Won-kuk Lee, 95, South Korean martial artist.
• Marcello Truzzi, 67, American professor of sociology, cancer.
• Emerson Woelffer, 88, American abstract expressionist artist and teacher.
• Eizo Yuguchi, 57, Japanese football player, stomach cancer.

  3

• Fulgencio Berdugo, 84, Colombian football player.
• Natascha Artin Brunswick, 93, German-American mathematician and economist.
• Lana Clarkson, 40, American actress, shot by record producer Phil Spector.
• Venanzo Crocetti, 89, Italian sculptor.
• João César Monteiro, 64, Portuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic, lung cancer.
• Trevor Morris, 82, Welsh footballer and World War II pilot.
• Peter Schat, 67, Dutch composer, cancer.

  4

• Charles McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway, 89, British industrialist and horticulturalist.
• Benyoucef Benkhedda, 82, Algerian politician, head of Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic.
• Charlie Biddle, 76, American-Canadian jazz bassist, played with Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.
• Jean Brossel, 84, French physicist and modern quantum optics pioneer.
• Pierre Carteus, 59, Belgian football player.
• Jerome Hines, 81, American operatic bass.
• Qalandar Momand, 72, Pakistani poet and writer.
• James Needs, 83, British film editor.
• André Noyelle, 71, Belgian road racing cyclist.
• Jaroslav Šajtar, 81, Czech chess master.

  5

• Helge Boes, 32, German-American CIA officer and lawyer, explosion.
• Guillermo González Calderoni, 54, Mexican Federal Judicial Police official, murdered.
• René Cardona Jr., 63, Mexican filmmaker and actor.
• Micky Fenton, 89, England football player.
• Larry LeSueur, 93, American journalist, Parkinson's disease.
• Antonina Shuranova, 66, Russian stage, television and film actress.
• Joseph P. Vigorito, 84, American politician.
• Manfred von Brauchitsch, 97, German auto racing driver, winner of three Grand Prix races in the 1930s.

  6

• Eric Ashby, 85, English naturalist and wildlife cameraman.
• José Craveirinha, 80, Mozambican journalist, story writer and poet.
• Arthur Doherty, 71, Irish politician.
• René Haby, 83, French politician.
• Robert William St. John, 100, American author, broadcaster, and journalist.
• Peter Saunders, 91, British theatre impresario.

  7

• Augusto Monterroso, 81, Honduran writer, heart failure.
• Amalia Nieto, 95, Uruguayan painter, engraver and sculptor.
• Malcolm Roberts, 58, English pop singer, heart attack.
• Stephen Whittaker, 55, British actor and director, complications following surgery.

  8

• Alfred Aston, 90, French football winger and manager.
• William Louis Culberson, 73, American lichenologist, cancer.
• John Charles Cutler, 87, American surgeon.
• K. K. Soundar, 78, Tamil film actor.
• Alice Treff, 96, German film actress.
• Konrad Weichert, 68, German Olympic sailor.

  9

• Herma Bauma, 88, Austrian javelin thrower.
• Ruby Braff, 75, American jazz trumpeter and cornetist.
• Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda, 76, Japanese-Turkish mathematician.
• Ken McKinlay, 74, British speedway rider.
• Billy Parker, 61, American baseball player, cancer.
• Vera Ralston, 82, Czech-American figure skater and "B" actress, star of ice capades, cancer.

  10

• Chuck Aleno, 85, American baseball player.
• Ralph Beard, 73, American baseball player.
• Antoni Czubiński, 74, Polish historian.
• Edgar de Evia, 92, American photographer pneumonia.
• Antoinette Feuerwerker, 90, French jurist and member of the French Resistance during World War II.
• Curt Hennig, 44, American professional wrestler, drug overdose.
• Lars-Eric Kjellgren, 84, Swedish screenwriter and film director.
• José Lewgoy, 82, American-Brazilian actor.
• Clark MacGregor, 80, American politician and congressman.
• Robert Rush Miller, 86, American zoologist and ichthyologist.
• Walter Thomas James Morgan, 102, British biochemist.
• Max Pécas, 77, French filmmaker, writer and producer, lung cancer.
• Jan Veselý, 79, Czech cyclist.
• Ron Ziegler, 63, former press secretary for Richard Nixon during the Watergate Scandal, heart attack.

  11

• Socorro Avelar, 77, Mexican actress, stomach cancer.
• Arndt Bause, 66, German composer, pulmonary embolism.
• Marc Iliffe, 30, British strongman, suicide by hanging.
• Daniel Toscan du Plantier, 61, French film producer, heart attack.
• Moses Hogan, 45, American composer and arranger of choral music, brain cancer.
• Luke Chia-Liu Yuan, 90, Chinese-American physicist and grandson of Yuan Shikai.

  12

• Wally Burnette, 73, American baseball player.
• Michel Graillier, 56, French jazz pianist.
• Vali Myers, 72, Australian artist, cancer.
• Devendra Satyarthi, 94, Indian folklorist and writer.
• Jeanne Stuart, 94, British stage and film actress.
• Haywood Sullivan, 72, American baseball player and owner, stroke.
• Dick Whitman, 82, American baseball player.
• Kemmons Wilson, 90, American businessman, founder of Holiday Inn.

  13

• Joe Connelly, 85, American television and radio scriptwriter.
• James Thomas Flexner, 95, American historian and biographer.
• Kid Gavilán, 77, Cuban world boxing champion, heart attack.
• Robert Ivers, 68, American actor.
• Axel Jensen, 71, Norwegian author, ALS.
• Stacy Keach, Sr., 88, American actor.
• Stuart Keith, 71, British-American ornithologist.
• Leonor Llausás, 73, Mexican actress, heart attack.
• Walt Whitman Rostow, 86, American political advisor.

  14

• Dolly, 6, the world's first cloned mammal, euthanization following a lung disease.
• Gunnar Johansson, 78, Swedish football player and manager.
• Johnny Longden, 96, American jockey.
• Paul E. Meehl, 83, American clinical psychologist.
• Grigory Mkrtychan, 78, Soviet and Russian ice hockey goalkeeper.
• Archie Savage, 88, American dancer, choreographer, and film and theatre actor.

  15

• Vincent Apap, 93, Maltese sculptor.
• Alexander Bennett, 73, British ballet dancer, teacher and ballet master, principal dancer with the Royal Ballet.
• Miroslav Horníček, 84, Czech actor, writer, director, and artist.
• H. Dale Jackson, 72, American Baptist minister.
• Vlastimil Koubek, 75, Czech-American architect, cancer.
• Roberto Leydi, 74, Italian ethnomusicologist.
• Fritz Pollard, 87, American athlete and Olympic medalist.
• Francisque Ravony, 60, Malagasy lawyer and politician, heart attack.
• Joaquín Solano, 89, Mexican Olympic medalist in equestrianism.
• Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce, 95, British judge.

  16

• Philip John Gardner, 88, British recipient of the Victoria Cross.
• Jim Gordon, 76, American television and radio newscaster, cancer.
• Abu Ishaque, 76, Bangladeshi novelist.
• Rusty Magee, 47, American composer of musicals, cancer.
• Aleksandar Tišma, 79, Serbian novelist.

  17

• Steve Bechler, 23, American baseball player, ephedra overdose.
• Julian Bigelow, 89, American computer engineer, built one of the first digital computers.
• Allen Britton, 88, American music educator, contributed to the history of music pedagogy.
• Pete Schrum, 68, American actor.

  18

• Quentin Anderson, 90, American literary critic and cultural historian, heart attack.
• Ittla Frodi, 72, Swedish actress, writer and producer.
• Isser Harel, 90/91, Israeli spymaster and director of the Mossad.
• Beth Marion, 90, American B-movie actress, stroke.

  19

• Washington Beltrán, 88, Uruguayan politician, President.
• Buck Divecha, 75, Indian cricket player.
• Igor Gorbachyov, 75, Soviet and Russian actor, theater director and pedagogue.
• James Hardy, 84, American pioneer surgeon.
• Tanya Moiseiwitsch, 88, English theatre designer.
• Johnny Paycheck, 64, American country music singer, pulmonary emphysema.

  20

• Maurice Blanchot, 95, French writer, philosopher and literary theorist.
• Orville Freeman, 84, American politician, Governor of Minnesota and Secretary of Agriculture, Alzheimer's disease.
• Harry Jacunski, 87, American gridiron football player.
• Ty Longley, 31, American guitarist for the heavy metal band Great White; victim in the Station nightclub fire.
• Mushaf Ali Mir, 55, Pakistan statesman and air force general, Chief of Air Staff, plane crash.
• Golam Mustafa, 67, Bangladeshi actor and reciter.
• Jerzy Passendorfer, 79, Polish film director and member of parliament.
• Abdul Razzaq Anjum, 50, Pakistani air force officer, Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, plane crash.
• Robert Grier Stephens, Jr., 89, American politician.
• Peter Tewksbury, 79, American film and television director.
• Rizwan Ullah Khan, 45, Pakistani air force officer, plane crash.