Deaths in March 2003

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

  March 2003

1

• Elaine Barrie, 87, American actress, fourth wife of John Barrymore.
• Nadine Conner, 96, American operatic soprano, radio singer and music teacher.
• Gauri Deshpande, 61, Indian novelist, short story writer, and poet.
• Franjo Glaser, 90, Croatian footballer.
• Roger Michael Needham, 68, British computer scientist, pioneered computer password one-way hash functions, cancer.
• Adeyinka Oyekan, 91, Oba of Lagos.
• Countess Viktoria-Luise of Solms-Baruth, 81, German princess.
• Major Sundarrajan, 68, Indian actor and director.

  2

• Roger Albertsen, 45, Norwegian footballer, cancer.
• Hank Ballard, 75, American singer, composer, famous for his hit "The Twist", esophageal cancer.
• William Blezard, 81, English composer and arranger for Noël Coward, Marlene Dietrich, Joyce Grenfell, Honor Blackman.
• Bill Carruthers, 72, American television executive, stroke.
• Joe Decker, 55, American baseball player, fall.
• George Edwards, 94, British aircraft designer.
• Fred Freiberger, 88, American film and television writer and television producer.
• Malcolm Williamson, 71, Australian composer, Master of the Queen's Music.
• Goffredo Petrassi, 98, Italian composer and conductor of modern classical music.
• Bill Woggon, 92, American cartoonist who created the comic book Katy Keene.

  3

• Gilbert Wheeler Beebe, 90, American epidemiologist and statistician, pioneered radiation exposure studies.
• Ann A. Bernatitus, 91, American U.S. Navy nurse, Legion of Merit for heroism during the siege of Bataan and Corregidor.
• Horst Buchholz, 69, German actor, pneumonia.
• Dick Garrard, 92, Australian Olympic wrestler.
• Kenta, 54, Swedish musician, cancer.
• Malcolm Kilduff, 75, American journalist.
• Luis Marden, 90, American photographer, explorer, writer, and filmmaker, Parkinson's disease.
• Frances North, 83, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives, Parkinson's disease.

  4

• Fedora Barbieri, 82, Italian operatic mezzo-soprano and actress.
• Michel Block, 65, Belgian-French pianist.
• Celly Campello, 60, Brazilian rock singer and performer, breast cancer.
• Jaba Ioseliani, 76, Georgian politician, writer, and 'thief in law', heart attack.
• Sébastien Japrisot, 71, French author, screenwriter and film director.
• Oliver Payne Pearson, 87, American zoologist and ecologist.

  5

• Edwin Hardy Amies, 93, English fashion designer, official dressmaker for Queen Elizabeth II.
• Marianne Baudler, 81, German chemist.
• George Miller, 61, American stand-up comedian, leukemia.
• Gerhard Rosenfeld, 72, German composer.
• Dzhabrail Yamadayev, 32, Chechen rebel field commander, killed by a bomb.

  6

• Linton Garner, 87, American jazz pianist.
• Ernst B. Haas, 78, German-American political scientist.
• Claus Helberg, 84, Norwegian and mountain guide and resistance member during World War II.
• Ramón Mestre, 65, Argentine politician, hepatitis.
• Luděk Pachman, 78, Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and political activist.
• Maurice Rheims, 93, French art auctioneer, art historian and novelist.
• Sam Scorer, 80, English architect.
• Gábor Mádi Szabó, 80, Hungarian actor.
• Saba Youakim, 88, Lebanses archbishop.
• Alice Martineau, 30, English singer.

  7

• Mehmed Alagić, 55, Bosnian Army general.
• José Márcio Ayres, 49, Brazilian conservationist and zoologist, founded Brazilian rain forest reserves, lung cancer.
• Manfred Durniok, 68, German film producer, director and screenwriter, heart attack.
• Klaus Henkes, 73, East German air force general, Director General of Interflug.
• Monica Hughes, 77, Canadian science fiction author.
• Winifred Langton, 93, British communist and activist.

  8

• Ibrahim al-Makadmeh, 51, Palestinian Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, air strike.
• Cho Byung-hwa, 81, South Korean poet.
• Adam Faith, 62, British singer and actor, heart attack.
• Wallace M. Greene, 95, United States Marine Corps four-star general.
• Eduard Izotov, 66, Soviet film actor.
• Elliott Jaques, 86, Canadian psychoanalyst and social scientist who coined the term "midlife crisis".
• Karen Morley, 93, American film actress and political activist, pneumonia.
• José Manuel Blecua Teijeiro, 90, Spanish philologist and academic.

  9

• Stan Brakhage, 70, American filmmaker, bladder cancer.
• Žarko Dolinar, 82, Croatian biologist and table tennis player.
• Bernard Dowiyogo, 57, President of Nauru, cardiac complications from diabetes.
• Rolf Hagedorn, 83, German theoretical physicist.
• Dzidra Ritenberga, 74, Latvian actress and film director.

  10

• Víctor Alba, 86, Spanish communist politician, journalist, writer and academic.
• Tom Boardman, Baron Boardman, 84, British businessman and politician.
• Geoffrey Kirk, 81, British classical scholar.
• Marina Ladynina, 94, Soviet stage and film actress.
• Barry Sheene, 52, British motorcycle racer and television sports presenter, esophageal cancer.
• Fritz Spengler, 94, German field handball player and Olympic champion.
• Naftali Temu, 57, Kenyan long-distance runner and Olympic champion, prostate cancer.
• Ottorino Volonterio, 85, Swiss Formula One race car driver.

  11

• Brian Cleeve, 81, Anglo-Irish writer, heart attack.
• Alta Cohen, 94, American baseball player.
• John G. Dow, 97, American politician.
• Ivar Hansen, 64, Danish politician and speaker of the Folketing.
• Kevin Laffan, 80, British playwright and screenwriter, pneumonia.
• Sidney Lippman, 89, American composer and songwriter.
• Edson Raff, 95, American Army officer and writer.
• Ludwig Streicher, 82, Austrian contrabassist.
• Wayne D. Wright, 86, American horse racing jockey, winner of all three Triple Crown races.

  12

• Alys Faiz, 87, Pakistani writer and human rights activist.
• Howard Fast, 88, American novelist.
• Andrey Kivilev, 29, Kazakhstani road bicycle racer, fall during Paris–Nice race.
• Slava Stetsko, 82, Ukrainian politician.
• Lynne Thigpen, 54, American actress, Tony winner, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Zoran Đinđić, 50, Serbian politician, Prime Minister, shot.

  13

• Abas Ermenji, 89, Albanian politician, historian and nationalist.
• Enriko Josif, 78, Serbian composer, pedagogue and musical writer.
• Roberto Murolo, 91, Italian musician.
• Barry Patten, 75, Australian Olympic alpine skier and architect.
• Ian Samwell, 66, English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer.
• Christiane Schmidtmer, 63, German actress, fashion model and nude model.
• Gus Yatron, 75, American politician.

  14

• Suresh Bhat, 70, India marathi poet.
• Eugene Boyko, 80, Canadian filmmaker.
• Harmon Craig, 76, American geochemist.
• Amanda Davis, 32, American writer and teacher, plane crash.
• Al Gionfriddo, 81, American baseball player.
• Jack Goldstein, 57, American artist, suicide by hanging.
• Jean-Luc Lagardère, 75, French businessman, CEO of the Lagardère Group, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis.
• Ivan Rassimov, 64, Serbian-Italian film actor.

  15

• John Andru, 70, Canadian Olympic fencer.
• Yevgeny Belyayev, 48, Soviet cross-country skier.
• Joseph Coors, 85, American businessman, president of Coors Brewing Company, lymphoma.
• Thora Hird, 91, British actress, comedian, presenter and writer, stroke.
• Bill Robertson, 79, British footballer.
• Li Xuefeng, 96, Chinese politician.

  16

• Lawrence H. Aller, 89, American astronomer.
• George Bayer, 77, American golfer, won three PGA Tour events, heart attack.
• Rachel Corrie, 23, American International Solidarity Movement activist, crushed by Israeli Defense Forces bulldozer.
• Ronald Ferguson, 71, father of UK royal divorcée Sarah, Duchess of York, heart attack.
• Davis Hughes, 92, Australian politician.
• Lars Passgård, 62, Swedish actor and theatre director.
• Teemu Raimoranta, 25, Finnish metal musician, fall.

  17

• Herbert Aptheker, 87, American historian and political activist.
• Thomas N. Barnes, 72, American Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force, cancer.
• Su Buqing, 100, Chinese mathematician.
• Bill Carlisle, 94, American country music singer, songwriter and comedian.
• Henryk de Kwiatkowski, 79, Polish-Canadian businessman and thoroughbred horse owner and breeder, pneumonia.
• Yvette Etiévant, 80, French actress.
• Alan Keith, 94, British broadcaster.
• Charles Salatka, 85, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Robert Shelton, 73, American clansman, heart attack.

  18

• József Balla, 47, Hungarian wrestler, heart failure.
• Oles Berdnyk, 76, Ukrainian science fiction writer, philosopher and theologian.
• Naomi Chance, 75, English film and television actress.
• Bruno Heim, 92, Swiss ecclesiastical diplomat, Apostolic Nuncio to Britain.
• Karl Kling, 92, German racing driver.
• Viktor Kratasyuk, 54, Soviet and Georgian sprint canoer and Olympic champion.
• Adam Osborne, 64, British-American computer pioneer.

  19

• Joe Buzas, 83, American baseball player and minor league baseball team owner.
• Micheline Coulibaly, 53, Ivorian short story writer.
• Hiromichi Fuyuki, 42, Japanese professional wrestler and promoter, cancer.
• Émile Genest, 81, Canadian actor, heart attack.
• Olivier Long, 87, Swiss diplomat and director-general of the GATT.
• Michael Mathias Prechtl, 76, German illustrator.
• Rick Zumwalt, 51, American arm-wrestler and actor, heart attack.

  20

• Al Blades, 26, American professional football player, car accident.
• Krishanu Dey, 41, Indian football player, pulmonary disorder.
• Alberto López, 76, Argentine basketball player.
• Sailor Art Thomas, 79, American professional wrestler, cancer.