Deaths in July 2003


The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

    July 2003

1

  • Berta Ambrož, 58, Yugoslav and Slovene singer.
  • John Bissell Carroll, 87, American psychologist.
  • Hossein Fekri, 79, Iranian football player and coach.
  • Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio, 63, Spanish singer-songwriter.
  • Herbie Mann, 73, American crossover jazz and bossa nova flutist, prostate cancer.
  • Bill Miller, 75, American baseball player.
  • Khieu Ponnary, 83, Cambodian communist and wife of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, cancer.
  • George Roper, 69, English comedian, cancer.

    2

  • Ivan Allen, Jr., 92, American businessman and 52nd mayor of Atlanta.
  • Briggs Cunningham, 96, American entrepreneur and sportsman, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Franklin Farrel, 95, American ice hockey player.
  • Antonio Fortich, 89, Filipino Roman Catholic bishop and social activist.
  • Najeeb Halaby, 87, American businessman, aviator, and father of Queen Noor of Jordan.
  • Erkki Mallenius, 75, Finnish amateur boxer and Olympic medalist.
  • James Saxon, 48, English television and theatre actor, heart attack.

    3

  • Gaetano Alibrandi, 89, Italian papal diplomat and Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland.
  • Johannes Andenæs, 90, Norwegian jurist and professor.
  • Vince Lloyd, 96, American radio announcer, stomach cancer.
  • Jack B. Olson, 82, American businessman, diplomat, and politician.
  • Skip Scarborough, 58, American songwriter, cancer.
  • Yuri Shchekochikhin, 53, Soviet and Russian investigative journalist, writer, and politician, poisoned.
  • Anne Barbara Underhill, 83, Canadian astrophysicist.
  • C. C. Wang, 96, Chinese-American artist and art collector.

    4

  • Manuel Araneta, Jr., 76, Filipino basketball player.
  • Larry Burkett, 64, American radio personality, heart failure.
  • Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr., 61, American politician, heart attack.
  • André Claveau, 87, French singer.
  • Tyler McVey, 91, American actor, leukemia.
  • Armin Mohler, 83, Swiss far-right political philosopher and journalist.
  • Tomris Uyar, 62, Turkish writer and translator.
  • Barry White, 58, American smooth soul singer, renal failure.

    5

  • Zhang Aiping, 93, Chinese military leader, defense minister under Deng Xiaoping.
  • Fernando Arbex, 62, Spanish musician and songwriter.
  • Prodan Gardzhev, 67, Bulgarian middleweight freestyle wrestler and Olympic champion, heart attack.
  • Roman Lyashenko, 24, Russian ice hockey player, suicide by hanging.
  • Nǃxau, 58, Namibian actor and bush farmer, tuberculosis.
  • Princess Isabelle, 91, French noble and widow of Henri, Count of Paris, pretender to the French throne.
  • Nadav Safran, 77, American academic and expert in Arab and Middle East politics, cancer.
  • Yoshio Sakurauchi, 91, Japanese politician.
  • Hedy Schlunegger, 80, Swiss alpine skier and Olympic champion.
  • Sulaiman Ninam Shah, 83, Malaysian businessman and politician.
  • Bebu Silvetti, 59, Argentine musician, songwriter and arranger, respiratory failure.

    6

  • Skip Battin, 69, American bass guitarist, singer and songwriter, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Willie Buchan, 88, Scottish football player and manager.
  • Ed Chandler, 86, American baseball player.
  • Buddy Ebsen, 95, American actor, pneumonia.
  • Ignacio Antonio Velasco García, 74, Venezuelan Roman Catholic cardinal.
  • Çelik Gülersoy, 72, Turkish lawyer, writer and poet, pancreatic cancer.
  • Andrew Heiskell, 87, American journalist and chairman and CEO of Time Inc.
  • Antal Kotász, 73, Hungarian football player.
  • Kathleen Raine, 95, British poet and literary critic.
  • Spec Sanders, 84, American football player.

    7

  • Raphael I Bidawid, 81, Iraqi Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
  • Izhak Graziani, 78, Israeli conductor.
  • Shlomo-Ya'akov Gross, 94, Israeli politician.
  • Antonio Iranzo, 73, Spanish film actor.
  • Charles Poor Kindleberger, 92, American economic historian and author, stroke.
  • Mario Pedini, 84, Italian politician.
  • Fred G. Pollard, 85, American lawyer and politician.
  • Tomiko Suzuki, 47, Japanese voice actress, heart attack.

    8

  • Ladan and Laleh Bijani, 29, Iranian conjoined twins, complications following separation surgery.
  • Paul Brand, 88, British surgeon, pioneering leprosy research.
  • Duncan Clark, 88, Scottish hammer thrower.
  • Lewis A. Coser, 89, German-American sociologist.
  • Marjorie Fowler, 82, American film editor.
  • Etsuko Inada, 79, Japanese Olympic figure skater.
  • Subhash Mukhopadhyay, 84, Indian Bengali poets.

    9

  • Christopher Black Sr., 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
  • Eberhard Blum, 84, German civil servant, head of the German Federal Intelligence Bureau.
  • Joe Cobbold, 76, English greyhound trainer.
  • Valerie Gearon, 65, British actress.
  • Josephine Jacobsen, 94, American poet, short story writer and essayist.
  • Riley Dobi Noel, 31, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

    10

  • Alvin Alcorn, 90, American New Orleans jazz trumpeter.
  • Winston Graham, 95, English novelist.
  • Sheldon Jaffery, 69, American bibliographer.
  • John Purdell, 44, American musician and record producer, cancer.
  • Hartley Shawcross, 101, English barrister, politician and chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.
  • Manuel Vasques, 76, Portuguese footballer.

    11

  • Stepan Chervonenko, 87, Soviet diplomat.
  • Mickey Deans, 68, American discoteque manager and husband of actress and singer Judy Garland, heart failure.
  • Henry Gravrand, 81, French Catholic missionary to Africa and an anthropologist.
  • Zahra Kazemi, 55, Iranian-Canadian journalist, blunt trauma to the head.
  • Michèle de Saint Laurent, 76, French carcinologist.
  • Dorothy Canning Miller, 99, American art curator.
  • John Roach, 81, American cleric of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • Bhisham Sahni, 87, Indian writer, playwright and an actor.
  • Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 6th Marquess of Salisbury, 86, British aristocrat and politician.
  • Ray Whitrod, 88, Australian police officer and Queensland Police Commissioner.
  • Ken Whyld, 77, British chess author, historian and columnist.
  • Teddy Yip, 96, Indonesian businessman, race car driver and team owner.

    12

  • Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed, 71, Bangladeshi lawyer and constitutionalist.
  • Benny Carter, 95, American jazz pioneer, bronchitis.
  • Mark Lovell, 43, British rally driver, motor race accident.
  • Ellis Paul Torrance, 87, American psychologist.
  • Eliot Wald, 57, American comedy writer for theater, television and movies.

    13

  • Alpha L. Bowser, 92, American U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general.
  • Dildar, 58, Bangladeshi actor.
  • Salamat Hashim, 61, Filipino islamist militant, complications caused by a heart disease and acute ulcer.
  • Eileen Rodgers, 73, American singer and Broadway performer, lung cancer.
  • Compay Segundo, 95, Cuban musician and star of the Buena Vista Social Club, kidney failure.

    14

  • Leela Chitnis, 93, Indian actress.
  • Jiří Dolana, 66, Czech ice hockey player.
  • Éva Janikovszky, 77, Hungarian writer.
  • Morrissey Johnson, 70, Canadian politician, motor vehicle collision with a moose.
  • Rubén Marino Navarro, 70, Argentine football player.
  • Louis Robertshaw, 90, American gridiron football player and US Marine Corps officer, cancer.
  • Rajendra Singh, 81, Indian head of Hindu nationalist paramilitary organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

    15

  • Roberto Bolaño, 50, Chilean-Spanish writer, liver failure.
  • Chuck Grigsby, 74, American basketball player.
  • John Richard Hyde, 90, Canadian soldier and politician.
  • Lorraine Krueger, 85, American actress.
  • Judith Hare, Countess of Listowel, 100, Hungarian-British writer and aristocrat.
  • Alfred Preissler, 82, German football player and manager.
  • Tex Schramm, 83, American president and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys football team.
  • Alexander Walker, 73, Northern Irish film critic and author.
  • Elisabeth Welch, 99, American singer and actress.

    16

  • K. P. A. C. Azeez, 55, Indian actor in Malayalam cinema.
  • Celia Cruz, 77, Cuban salsa singer, brain cancer.
  • Ralph A. Foote, 80, American attorney and politician.
  • Lu Gambino, 79, American gridiron football player.
  • Shmuel Safrai, 84, Israeli writer, academic and historian.
  • Kurt Semm, 76, German gynecologist and pioneer in minimally invasive surgery.
  • Carol Shields, 68, Canadian author, breast cancer.
  • Chesterfield Smith, 85, American lawyer.
  • Alida van den Bos, 101, Dutch gymnast.
  • Dmitry Vasilyev, 58, Soviet-Russian actor, monarchist, antisemite, and ultranationalist, heart attack.
  • Reetika Vazirani, 40, Indian-American poet and educator, suicide by stabbing.

    17

  • Hans Abich, 84, German film producer.
  • Manuel Franklin da Costa, 81, Angolan Roman Catholic archbishop.
  • Erland Herkenrath, 90, Swiss field handball player.
  • David Kelly, 59, British scientist and weapons expert, suicide by drug overdose.
  • Walter Perry, 82, Scottish academic.
  • Rosalyn Tureck, 89, American pianist and harpsichordist.
  • Abdullah Yaqta, 89, Afghan politician, Prime Minister.
  • Walter Zapp, 97, Baltic German inventor.

    18

  • Jane Barbe, 74, American voice actress and singer, cancer.
  • Marc Camoletti, 79, French playwright.
  • César Ramírez, 74, Filipino actor, heart attack.
  • Norman Rasmussen, 75, American physicist.

    19

  • Bill Bright, 81, American evangelical Christian and founder of Campus Crusade for Christ.
  • Elena Caffarena, 100, Chilean lawyer and politician.
  • Maruchi Fresno, 87, Spanish film actress, heart attack.
  • Pierre Graber, 94, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council.
  • Jude Milhon, 64, American civil rights advocate, writer, hacker and feminista, cancer.
  • Vic Vargas, 64, Filipino actor.