Deaths in January 2003

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

  January 2003

1

• Royce D. Applegate, 63, American actor.
• Joe Foss, 87, American politician, fighter pilot, recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Giorgio Gaber, 63, Italian singer-songwriter and playwright, lung cancer.
• Joel, 71, Brazilian association footballer.
• A. K. Salim, 80, American jazz composer, and arranger.
• Cyril Shaps, 79, British actor.
• David Young, 72, British politician.

  2

• Frank Cremeans, 59, American politician, respiratory failure.
• Hiralal Gaekwad, 79, Indian cricket player.
• Peter Harris, 77, British footballer.
• Eric Jupp, 80, British-Australian musician, composer, arranger and conductor.
• Bud Metheny, 87, American baseball player.
• Sydney Omarr, 76, American astrologer and newspaper columnist, heart attack.
• Bill Shelton, 73, British politician, Alzheimer's disease.
• Leroy Warriner, 83, American midget car racing driver.

  3

• Sir James Ainsworth Campden Gabriel Eyre, 72, British Army general.
• Sid Gillman, 91, American football coach and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
• José María Gironella, 85, Spanish author, stroke.
• Flóra Kádár, 74, Hungarian actress.
• Eddy Marnay, 82, French songwriter, singer.
• N. P. Mohammed, 74, Indian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter.
• Mohammad Mohsin, 60, Indian actor, director and producer.
• Edmund L. Morris, 79, Canadian politician, broadcaster and university administrator.
• Halima Nosirova, 89, Soviet and Uzbek singer.
• Joe Ostrowski, 86, American baseball player.
• Monique Wittig, 67, French writer, poet and social theorist, heart attack.

  4

• Hanno Drechsler, 71, German politician and mayor of Marburg.
• Conrad Hall, 76, American cinematographer, Oscar winner, bladder cancer.
• Yfrah Neaman, 79, Lebanese-British violinist and teacher.
• Lila Zali, 84, Georgian-American prima ballerina and ballet director.

  5

• Maurice Boutel, 79, French film director, screenwriter and dialoguist.
• King Biscuit Boy, 58, Canadian blues musician.
• Buzz Busby, 69, American bluegrass mandolinist, songwriter and bandleader.
• Doreen Carwithen, 80, British composer of classical and film music.
• Massimo Girotti, 84, Italian film actor, heart attack.
• Roy Jenkins, 82, British politician and biographer, heart attack.
• Jean Kerr, 80, American author and playwright, pneumonia.
• Félix Loustau, 80, Argentine football player.
• Daphne Oram, 77, British composer and musician.

  6

• Olle Bexell, 93, Swedish decathlete.
• Miriam Byrd-Nethery, 73, American actress.
• Gerald Cash, 85, Governor-General of the Bahamas.
• Glyn Davies, 83, Welsh economist.
• Peter de Smet, 58, Dutch comic-strip artist.
• Paula Pöhlsen, 89, German gymnast and Olympic champion.
• Kari Skjønsberg, 76, Norwegian academic, writer and feminist.
• Jarvis Tatum, 56, American baseball player.
• Mamie Till, 81, American educator and civil rights activist.
• Philip Ward, 78, British army general.
• Harry Woolf, 79, American historian and academic, director of Institute for Advanced Study.

  7

• Ed Albosta, 84, American baseball player.
• Ken Biddulph, 70, British cricketer.
• Vance Longden, 72, American thoroughbred horse trainer.
• Gordon Kidd Teal, 95, American electrical engineer.
• Sebastian von Hoerner, 83, German astrophysicist and radio astronomer.
• Beatrice Willard, 77, American botanist, known for her research in alpine tundra ecosystems.

  8

• Simeon Aké, 71, Ivorian politician.
• Dante "Tex" Gill, 72, American gangster and pimp.
• Ron Goodwin, 77, British film music composer and conductor, asthma.
• Sarah McClendon, 92, American journalist and White House reporter.
• Kir Nesis, 68, Russian marine biologist and malacologist, specialising in cephalopods.
• Reg Revans, 95, British professor, administrator and management consultant.
• Angelo Romani, 68, Italian swimmer.
• Billy Van, 68, Canadian comedian, actor and singer, lung cancer.

  9

• Kurt Andersen, 104, German Luftwaffe general during World War II.
• Ignace Heinrich, 77, French Olympic athlete.
• Elizabeth Irving, 98, British actress.
• Qamar Jalalabadi, 84, Indian poet and lyricist of songs for Hindi movies.
• Don Landrum, 66, American baseball player.
• Will McDonough, 67, American sportswriter for The Boston Globe, heart attack.
• Peter Tinniswood, 66, British writer, esophageal cancer.
• Penny Valentine, 59, British music journalist and critic, cancer.

  10

• Júlio Botelho, 73, Brazilian football player, heart failure.
• C. Douglas Dillon, 93, American diplomat and politician.
• Wolfgang Kasack, 75, German Slavic studies scholar and translator.
• Jorge "Lobito" Martínez, 50, Paraguayan musician, murdered.
• Ensio Siilasvuo, 81, Finnish general.
• Denis Zanette, 32, Italian professional racing cyclist, heart attack.

  11

• Mickey Finn, 55, English musician and percussionist of T. Rex.
• Anthony Havelock-Allan, 98, British producer and screenwriter, heart attack.
• Virginia Kidd, 81, American literary agent, writer and editor.
• Arne Månsson, 77, Swedish footballer.
• Maurice Pialat, 77, French movie director, kidney failure.
• Jože Pučnik, 70, Slovenian intellectual, sociologist and politician.
• William Russo, 74, American composer, arranger, and musician.
• Richard Simmons, 89, American actor, Alzheimer's disease.
• Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila, 56, Nigerian politician and administrator.
• Yuri Tishkov, 31, Russian football player, sports agent and commentator, stabbed.

  12

• Dean Amadon, 90, American ornithologist and an authority on birds of prey.
• Clarence H. Burns, 84, American politician, mayor of Baltimore in 1987.
• Jack Douglas, 72, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player.
• Kinji Fukasaku, 72, Japanese film director and screenwriter, prostate cancer.
• Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, 76, former dictator of Argentina, heart attack, pancreatic cancer.
• Maurice Gibb, 53, British band member of Bee Gees, heart attack.
• W. M. Gorman, 79, Irish economist and academic.
• Valentyn Kravchuk, 58, Ukrainian rower and Olympic medalist.
• Alan Nunn May, 91, British nuclear physicist and convicted Soviet spy.
• Paul Pender, 72, American boxer and world middleweight champion.
• Koloman Sokol, 100, Slovak artist.
• Wang Tieya, 89, Chinese jurist and Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

  13

• James Bradshaw Adamson, 81, American U.S. Army major general, commander of the Military District of Washington.
• Elisabeth Croft, 95, English actress.
• Hertha Guthmar, 98, German film actress.
• Norman Panama, 88, screenwriter and director, Parkinson's disease.
• Ernie Rudolph, 93, American baseball player.

  14

• Mirza Babayev, 89, Azerbaijani actor and singer.
• Mel Bourne, 79, American set designer and art director.
• Alan Edwards, 77, Australian actor.
• Monica Furlong, 72, British author, journalist, and activist, cancer.
• Vahé Katcha, 74, French Armenian author, screenwriter and journalist, heart attack.
• Georg Knepler, 96, Austrian pianist, conductor and musicologist.
• John Mantley, 82, Canadian theatrical actor, screenwriter and producer of television series, Gunsmoke, Alzheimer's disease.
• Paul Monash, 85, American television and film producer and screenwriter, pancreatic cancer.
• Sujit Mukherjee, 72, Indian writer, literary critic and publisher.
• Emilio Villa, 88, Italian poet, visual artist, and biblical scholar.

  15

• Eduardo Alquinta, 57, Chilean guitarist and vocalist, heart attack.
• Robert Bart, 72, French sprinter.
• Linda Braidwood, 93, American archaeologist and pre-historian, influenza.
• Robert John Braidwood, 95, American archaeologist and anthropologist, a leading pioneer in prehistoric archaeology.
• Jeannette Campbell, 86, Scottish-Argentine swimmer.
• Frank Drea, 69, Canadian journalist, broadcaster, and politician, pneumonia.
• Doris Fisher, 87, American singer and songwriter.
• Ernesto Foldats, 77, Venezuelan botanist and orchidologist.
• Shimon Garidi, 90, Israeli politician.
• Vivi-Anne Hultén, 91, Swedish figure skater, heart failure.
• Přemysl Kočí, 85, Czech operatic baritone, actor, stage director, and theatre manager.
• Eleanore Pettersen, 86, American architect.

  16

• Shōtarō Akiyama, 82, Japanese photographer.
• Henryk Czyż, 79, Polish musician with a high reputation for conducting and teaching.
• Bruce Juddery, 61, Australian journalist.
• Phil McCullough, 85, American baseball player.
• Chris Mead, 62, British ornithologist, author and broadcaster.
• Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri, Australian indigenous artist.
• Ray Owen, 97, Australian agricultural scientist and politician.
• Hans Pietsch, 34, German professional Go player, shot during robbery.
• Richard Wainwright, 84, British politician.

  17

• Hylo Brown, 80, American bluegrass and country music singer, guitarist and bass player.
• Fritzi Burr, 78, American actress.
• Bernice Claire, 96, American singer and actress, pneumonia.
• Richard Crenna, 76, American actor, Emmy winner, heart failure.
• Herbert Crüger, 91, German communist and political activist.
• Goronwy Daniel, 88, Welsh academic and civil servant.
• George Haimsohn, 77, American writer and photographer, aneurysm.
• Alfredo Hernández, 67, Mexican footballer.
• Sao Nang Hearn Kham, 86, First Lady of Myanmar as wife of Sao Shwe Thaik.

  18

• Harivansh Rai Bachchan, 95, Indian poet.
• Ed Farhat, 76, Lebanese-American wrestler, heart failure.
• Virginia Heinlein, 86, American chemist, biochemist and engineer.
• Gavin Lyall, 70, English author of espionage thrillers, cancer.