Deaths in July 2003

• 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.

20

• Lauri Aus, 32, Estonian Olympic racing cyclist, struck on bicycle by drunk driver.
• Nicolas Freeling, 76, British crime writer.
• Renee Gadd, 95, Argentine-British film actress.
• Juli Gonzalvo, 86, Spanish football player.
• Carol Grace, 78, American actress and author, intracranial aneurysm.
• Vladimir Krantz, 90, Soviet Russian painter.
• Elliot Norton, 100, American theater critic, "The Dean of American Theatre Critics".
• William Woolfolk, 86, American novelist, screen writer, and comic book writer.

21

• John Davies, 65, New Zealand olympian and president of the New Zealand Olympic Committee, melanoma.
• Matt Jefferies, 81, American art director, designer of the Starship Enterprise, heart attack.
• Tim Hemensley, 31, Australian singer and bass guitarist, heroin overdose.
• Shujauddin Siddiqi, 84, Indian first-class cricket player.

22

• Arthur W. Adamson, 83, American chemist, made contributions to inorganic photochemistry.
• Hamer H. Budge, 92, American politician.
• Enzo Faletto, 68, Chilean sociologist and historian.
• Elie Farah, 93, Lebanese Maronite Church archbishop.
• Stanley H. Fuld, 99, American lawyer, judge and politician.
• Qusay Hussein, 37, Iraqi politician and second son of Saddam Hussein, killed by US troops.
• Uday Hussein, 39, Iraqi politician and eldest son of Saddam Hussein, killed by US troops.
• Lee Knorek, 82, American basketball player.
• Norman Lewis, 95, British travel writer.
• Dhimitër Shuteriqi, 87, Albanian scholar, literary historian, and writer.
• Serge Silberman, 86, French film producer.
• Richard L. Walker, 81, American diplomat and professor.

23

• Sheila Bromley, 91 or 95, American television and film actress.
• James E. Davis, 41, American policeman, corrections officer, and politician, homicide.
• Adolphe Deledda, 83, Italian-French road bicycle racer.
• Gary King, 55, American jazz bassist, songwriter, composer, and arranger.
• Jean-Claude Pressac, 59, French chemist, pharmacist and writer.
• Yvonne Sanson, 76, Italian film actress, aneurysm.
• Speedy Thomas, 56, American football player.
• Novak Tomić, 67, Serbian football player.
• Grady Wilson, 80, American baseball player.

24

• Iya Arepina, 73, Soviet/Russian actress.
• Henri Attal, 67, French actor, asthma.
• Samit Bhanja, 59, Indian actor and director.
• Ella Orr Campbell, 92, New Zealand botanist.
• Božidar Drenovac, 81, Serbian football player and manager.
• Warren Kremer, 82, American comics cartoonist.
• Ryōichi Kuroda, 92, Japanese jurist and politician, pneumonia.
• Maurice Pryce, 90, British physicist.
• Dan Smoot, 89, American FBI agent and political activist.

25

• Erik Brann, 52, American Iron Butterfly guitarist, heart attack.
• Ludwig Bölkow, 91, German aeronautical engineer, designed the world's first jet fighter, Nazi Germany's Me 262.
• Hal Herbert, 81, British-Canadian politician.
• Jiří Horák, 79, Czech politician and political analyst.
• Norm McRae, 55, American baseball player.
• Thomas Savage, 88, American novelist.
• John Schlesinger, 77, English film director, Oscar winner, stroke.

26

• Jürgen Brandt, 80, German general and Chief of Federal Armed Forces Staff.
• William Dargie, 91, Australian painter.
• Robert Favart, 92, French actor.
• John Higham, 82, American historian.
• Hilde Levi, 94, German-Danish physicist.
• Harold C. Schonberg, 87, American music critic and journalist.
• Gordon Taylor, 93, Canadian politician, businessman and teacher.

27

• Karin Booth, 87, American film and TV actress.
• Vance Hartke, 84, American politician.
• Henning Holck-Larsen, 96, Danish engineer and entrepreneur.
• Bob Hope, 100, British-American comedian and actor, pneumonia.
• Nguza Karl-i-Bond, 64, Zairean politician.
• Rinty Monahan, 75, American baseball player.
• Alfredo Eduardo Barreto de Freitas Noronha, 84, Brazilian football player and manager.
• Emmanuel Pelaez, 87, Filipino public servant and politician, heart attack.
• Audrius Šlekys, 28, Lithuanian football player, traffic collision.

28

• Gladys Edgerly Bates, 107, American sculptor, member of the Philadelphia Ten, founding member of the Mystic Museum of Art.
• Aaron Bell, 82, American jazz bassist, composer and teacher, bassist for Duke Ellington.
• René Berg, 47, English musician, vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter.
• True Eames Boardman, 93, American actor and scriptwriter, pancreatic cancer.
• Adrian Burk, 75, American gridiron football player.

29

• Sabahudin Bilalović, 43, Bosnian basketball player.
• Rudolf Fischer, 90, German pianist and pedagogue.
• Luther Henderson, 84, American arranger, composer, and pianist.
• Tex McCrary, 92, American journalist and public relations specialist.
• Jim Pruett, 85, American baseball player.
• Foday Sankoh, 65, Sierra Leonean rebel leader, complications following a stroke.
• Gerard Folliott Vaughan, 80, British psychiatrist and politician.
• Johnny Walker, 82, Indian comic actor, appeared in more than 300 films.

30

• Howard Armstrong, 94, American string band fiddler and mandolinist and country blues musician, heart attack.
• Marian Carr, 77, American actress.
• Steve Hislop, 41, Scottish motorcycle racer, helicopter accident.
• Ewa Krzyżewska, 64, Polish actress, traffic collision.
• Alicia Lourteig, 89, Argentine and French botanist, expert in Oxalidaceae.
• Mendel L. Peterson, 85, American archeologist and former curator at the Smithsonian Institution.
• Sam Phillips, 80, American record producer, respiratory failure.
• Ahmed Safwat, 56, Egyptian squash player, heart attack.
• Carlos Lemos Simmonds, 69, Colombian politician, Vice President, lung cancer.

31

• Edward P. Alexander, 96, American historian and author, heart ailment.
• John Aston, Sr., 81, English football player.
• Bigode, 81, Brazilian footballer, respiratory problems.
• Frederick Coffin, 60, American film actor, singer, songwriter, and musician, lung cancer.
• Guido Crepax, 70, Italian comics artist, multiple sclerosis.
• Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic, 66, American professor neuroscience, psychiatry and psychology, struck by a car.
• Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, 88, Pakistani politician, first President of Azad Kashmir.
• Roland Svensson, 93, Swedish painter, writer, and artist.