Deaths in June 2003

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

  June 2003

1

• Marjorie Finlay, 74, American opera singer and television personality.
• Siegfried Freytag, 83, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
• Johnny Hopp, 86, American baseball player.
• Jørgen Kiil, 72, Danish actor.
• Johnny Paul Koroma, 43, Sierra Leonean military officer, Head of state.
• Yevgeny Matveyev, 81, Russian actor and film director, lung cancer.
• Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, 75, Nigerian politician and activist.
• Pete Sivess, 89, American baseball player.
• Burkard Freiherr von Müllenheim-Rechberg, 92, German diplomat and author.

  2

• Freddie Blassie, 85, American professional wrestler and NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion, kidney failure.
• Bojčo Brănzov, 57, Bulgarian basketball player.
• Dick Cusack, 77, American actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Donald Jack, 78, Canadian playwright and novelist.
• Makoto Kozuru, 80, Japanese baseball player.
• Burke Marshall, 80, American lawyer and head of the Civil Rights Division.

  3

• Peter Bromley, 74, British sports broadcaster, BBC Radio's voice of horse racing for 40 years, pancreatic cancer.
• Felix de Weldon, 96, Austrian-American sculptor.
• John Jympson, 72, British film editor, diabetes.
• Petre Mshveniyeradze, 74, Soviet and Georgian water polo player and Olympic silver medalist.
• Fabrice Salanson, 23, French road cyclist, heart attack.

  4

• Muhammad Abdul Bari, 72-73, Bangladeshi academic, linguist and Islamic scholar.
• Joan Leigh Fermor, 91, English photographer.
• Serafín Rojo, 77, Spanish cartoonist and painter.
• Nurul Amin Talukdar, 57, Bangladeshi politician.

  5

• Thomas Speakman Barnett, 93, Canadian politician.
• John Fairclough, 72, British computer designer, Government Chief Scientific Adviser.
• Patricia Blomfield Holt, 92, Canadian composer, pianist and music educator.
• Jürgen Möllemann, 57, German minister, suicide by jumping.
• Manuel Rosenthal, 98, French composer and conductor.
• Meir Vilner, 84, Israeli politician and chairman of the Communist Party of Israel.

  6

• Adalbert Boros, 94, Romanian Roman Catholic prelate.
• Ken Grimwood, 59, American author, heart attack.
• Michael John, 60, Australian politician.
• Georges Pichard, 83, French comics artist.
• Dave Rowberry, 62, English pianist and organist.
• Shivnath Singh, 56, Indian long-distance runner.
• Hilda Sour, 87, Chilean actress and singer.

  7

• Arne Bonde, 78, Norwegian newspaper editor and radio executive.
• Belle Chrystall, 93, British actress.
• R. W. G. Dennis, 92, British botanist.
• Muhammad Abd El-Ghani El-Gamasy, 81, Egyptian Field Marshal and Commander in Chief of The Armed Forces.
• Greg Garrett, 56, American baseball player.
• Trevor Goddard, 40, British actor, accidental drug overdose.
• Selahattin Ülkümen, 89, Turkish diplomat.

  8

• Thomas S. Gettys, 90, American politician.
• Herschel Burke Gilbert, 85, American orchestrator and composer of film and television scores, complications of a stroke.
• Colin Legum, 84, South African journalist and writer.
• Leighton Rees, 63, Welsh darts player, heart attack.

  9

• Kató Lomb, 94, Hungarian translator and simultaneous interpreter.
• Angelo Palmas, 88, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
• Indradeep Sinha, 88, Indian freedom fighter and communist leader.
• German Sveshnikov, 66, Soviet fencer.

  10

• Charles Harrison Brown, 82, American politician.
• John Semple Galbraith, 86, British historian.
• Hal Gausman, 85, American set decorator.
• Silvio Pedroni, 85, Italian racing cyclist.
• Livio Dante Porta, 81, Argentine steam locomotive engineer.
• Donald Regan, 84, American politician, Chief of Staff and Treasury Secretary, cancer.
• Carlos Roca, 45, Spanish field hockey player and Olympic medalist.
• Boy Rozendal, 74, Curaçao politician and journalist.
• David Towell, 66, American politician, cancer.
• Bernard Williams, 73, British moral philosopher, multiple myeloma.
• Phil Williams, 64, Welsh politician, member of the National Assembly for Wales for South Wales East, heart attack.

  11

• David Brinkley, 82, American broadcast journalist.
• Pankaj Charan Das, 78, Indian classical dancer.
• Ilona Madary, 86, Hungarian gymnast and Olympic medalist.
• William Marshall, 78, American actor, director and opera singer, complications from Alzheimer's disease and diabetes.
• Virgil Mărdărescu, 81, Romanian football manager.
• Rudolf Tomsits, 57, Hungarian jazz musician.
• Hanna Veres, 74, Ukrainian folk artist, embroiderer and weaver.
• Guy Willatt, 85, English cricketer.

  12

• Itamar Assumpção, 53, Brazilian songwriter and composer, colorectal cancer.
• Joseph L. Fleiss, 65, American epidemiologist and professor of biostatistics.
• Gregory Peck, 87, American actor, bronchopneumonia.
• Sam Schulman, 93, American sports businessman, blood disease.

  13

• Harold Ashby, 78, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
• Robert A. Good, 81, American physician regarded as a founder of modern immunology, esophageal cancer.
• Malik Meraj Khalid, 86, Pakistani advocate, left wing politician and Marxist philosopher.
• Guy Lux, 83, French TV host and producer, heart attack.
• Robin Russell, 14th Duke of Bedford, 63, British peer, stroke.
• Tor Stokke, 74, Norwegian film actor, cancer.
• Hassan ibn Yahya, 95, Yemeni royal and statesman.

  14

• Nikolai Figurovsky, 79, Soviet film director, screenwriter, writer and professor at VGIK.
• Jimmy Knepper, 75, American jazz trombonist, complications of Parkinson's disease.
• Volker Kriegel, 59, German jazz guitarist and composer.
• Edward F. Moore, 77, American professor of mathematics and computer science, artificial life pioneer.
• Joyce Powell, 81, New Zealand cricketer.
• Günther Schack, 85, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
• John Weld, 98, American newspaper reporter and writer.
• Dale Whittington, 43, American race car driver.

  15

• Ralph Kilner Brown, 93, British jurist and athlete.
• Hume Cronyn, 91, Canadian-American actor, Emmy winner, prostate cancer.
• Albert Demuyser, 82, Belgian artist and racehorse owner, cancer.
• Kaiser Matanzima, 88, Transkei politician, President.
• Johnny Miles, 97, Canadian marathon runner.
• Alberto Pigaiani, 74, Italian heavyweight weightlifter and Olympic medalist.
• Philip Stone, 79, British actor.
• René Touzet, 86, Cuban composer, pianist and bandleader.
• Bill Wentworth, 95, Australian politician.
• James Willis, 79, Australian admiral and Chief of Naval Staff.

  16

• Asa Baber, 66, American writer and magazine columnist for Playboy, ALS.
• Enrico Baj, 78, Italian artist and writer on art.
• Les Benjamin, 78, Canadian politician.
• Pierre Bourgault, 69, Canadian politician, essayist, actor and journalist, lung cancer.
• Peter Redgrove, 71, British poet.
• Carlos Rivas, 78, American actor, prostate cancer.
• Georg Henrik von Wright, 87, Finnish philosopher, professor and writer.
• René Walschot, 87, Belgian racing cyclist.

  17

• Frank M. Clark, 87, American politician.
• Wilhelm Deist, 71, German historian and author.
• Elsa Grave, 85, Swedish novelist, poet and artist.
• Paul Hirst, 57, British sociologist and political theorist.
• Marcella Pobbe, 81, Italian operatic soprano.
• Jean-Jacques Vierne, 82, French film director.

  18

• Guy Bara, 79, Belgian comic strip writer and artist.
• Kenneth Cross, 91, British Royal Air Force commander.
• Paul Daisley, 45, British politician, colorectal cancer.
• Larry Doby, 79, American baseball player and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, bone cancer.
• Jankidas, 93, Indian actor of Hindi cinema, cyclist, production designer, and writer.
• Ernest Martin, 42, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.

  19

• Jack Butterworth, Baron Butterworth, 85, British lawyer, academic and life peer.
• Mel Ferber, 80, American television director and producer, heart attack.
• Peanuts Hucko, 85, American big band musician.
• Rafael Ileto, 82, Filipino army general and politician, heart attack.
• Ethan James, 57, American musician, record producer, and recording engineer, liver cancer.
• Mahfoud Nahnah, 61, Algerian politician, leukemia.
• Laura Sadler, 22, British television actress, accidental fall.
• Belding Hibbard Scribner, 82, American physician and pioneering kidney dialysis researcher.

  20

• LaMar Baker, 87, American politician.
• I. Bernard Cohen, 89, American professor of the history of science and author.
• Fielder Cook, 80, American television and film director, producer, and writer, complications from a stroke.
• André Grillon, 81, French football player and football manager.
• Moshe Kupferman, 76, Israeli artist.
• Raymond Serra, 66, American actor.
• Bob Stump, 76, American politician, myelodysplasia.

  21

• George Axelrod, 81, American screenwriter.
• Piet Dankert, 69, Dutch politician, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and President of the European Parliament.
• Charles Dédéyan, 93, French literary historian.
• Anita Felguth, 94, German champion table tennis player.
• Jules Marchal, 78, Belgian diplomat and historian.
• Hiroko Matsumoto, 66, Japanese fashion model.
• Jason Moran, 35, Australian criminal, murdered.
• Roger Neilson, 69, Canadian ice hockey coach, skin cancer.
• Leon Uris, 78, American author, kidney failure.
• Magnus von Braun, 84, German chemical engineer, rocket scientist and business executive.
• Sergei Vronsky, 67, Soviet cinematographer.
• Alvise Zichichi, 64, Italian chess master.