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.