Deaths in May 2003

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

  May 2003

1

• Haukur Clausen, 74, Icelandic Olympic athlete.
• István Kelen, 91, Hungarian-Australian sportsman, journalist, author, and playwright.
• Shlomo Levi, 68, Israeli football player.
• Miss Elizabeth, 42, American professional wrestler and wrestling manager, drug and alcohol overdose.
• Paul Moore Jr., 83, American bishop of the Episcopal Church and former US Marine Corps officer.
• Wim van Est, 80, Dutch racing cyclist.

  2

• Mohammed Dib, 82, Algerian writer.
• Blaga Dimitrova, 81, Bulgarian poet and politician, Vice President, cerebrovascular disease.
• James Miller, 34, Welsh filmmaker and cameraman, killed by Israel Defense Forces.
• Henry Wise, Jr., 82, American physician and World War II Tuskegee Airman fighter pilot.
• George Wyle, 87, American musical director and composer, leukemia.

  3

• Queta Claver, 70, Spanish actress, singer, and dancer, cardiovascular disease.
• Glen Culler, 75, American professor of electrical engineering.
• Don Johnson, 62, American bowler, heart attack.
• Suzy Parker, 70, American actress and model, wife of Bradford Dillman, arthritis, diabetes.
• Marcel Roche, 82, French physician and scientist.
• G. Venkateswaran, 55, Indian film producer.

  4

• Alexander Boghossian, 65, Ethiopian-American artist and teacher.
• Sesto Bruscantini, 83, Italian baritone.
• Arthur Oldham, 76, British composer and choirmaster.
• Jean Tricart, 82, French geomorphologist.
• Richard Trowbridge, 83, British admiral and Governor of Western Australia.
• David Woodley, 44, American gridiron football player, complications due to kidney and liver failure.

  5

• Sam Bockarie, 38, Sierra Leonean politician and army commander, shot.
• David Lewin, 69, American music theorist.
• Philip Powell, 82, British architect.
• Sultan Rakhmanov, 52, Soviet weightlifter and Olympic champion, heart attack.
• Waly Salomão, 59, Brazilian poet.
• Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu, 90, South African anti-apartheid activist and ANC member, Parkinson's disease.

  6

• Steve Atkinson, 54, Canadian ice hockey player, heart attack.
• Geoffrey Bardon, 63, Australian artist, teacher and aboriginal art advocate.
• Oleksandr Bilash, 72, Ukrainian composer and author.
• Tito García, 71, Spanish actor.
• Colin Gunton, 62, British theologian and academic.
• Jocelyn Herbert, 86, British stage designer.
• Art Houtteman, 75, American baseball player, heart attack.
• Stanislav Kolář, 91, Czechoslovak and Czech table tennis player.
• Dean L. May, 65, American academic, author and documentary filmmaker, heart attack.

  7

• Johan Andersen, 83, Danish sprint canoer.
• Sisir Kumar Das, 66, Linguist, poet, playwright, translator, comparatist and a scholar of Indian literature.
• Quentin Dean, 58, American actress, cancer.
• Mike Hudock, 68, American gridiron football player.
• Joshua Madaki, 55, Nigerian politician, car crash.
• George Morrow, 69, American computer scientist and pioneer, aplastic anemia.

  8

• Slick Coffman, 92, American baseball player.
• Dorothy Ferguson, 80, Canadian-American baseball player, cancer.
• Sam Lacy, 99, American sportswriter, reporter, and television/radio commentator.
• Elvira Pagá, 82, Brazilian vedette, actress, singer, writer and painter.

  9

• Yves Brouzet, 54, French shot putter.
• Hans Engnestangen, 95, Norwegian Olympic speed skater and world champion.
• Carmen Filpi, 80, American actor, cancer.
• Antonio Ibáñez Freire, 89, Spanish politician and army officer.
• Jack Gelber, 71, American playwright, leukemia.
• Russell B. Long, 84, American politician, heart attack.
• Alexey Medvedev, 75, Soviet-Russian heavyweight weightlifter.
• Elizabeth Neuffer, 46, American journalist, specialized in war crimes and human rights abuses, car accident in Iraq.
• Bernard Spear, 83, English actor.

  10

• Ingo Buding, 61, West German tennis player.
• Leonard Michaels, 70, American writer of short stories, novels, and essays.
• Eleanor C. Pressly, 85, American mathematician and aeronautical engineer at NASA.
• Ambros Speiser, 80, Swiss engineer and scientist.
• Milan Vukcevich, 66, Yugoslav-born American chemist and Grandmaster of Chess Composition.
• Joseph D. Ward, 89, American politician.

  11

• Karl Boyes, 67, American politician.
• Noel Redding, 57, English former bassist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience, liver cirrhosis.
• John H. Rousselot, 75, American politician.
• Ernie Toshack, 88, Australian cricketer.

  12

• Jim Clunie, 69, Scottish football player and manager.
• Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, 70, French civil servant, cancer.
• Stan Lay, 96, New Zealand javelin thrower.
• Renate Riemeck, 82, German historian and Christian peace activist.
• Jeremy Sandford, 72, British screenwriter.

  13

• Theo Aronson, 73, South African-British royal biographer, cancer.
• John Savage, 70, Canadian politician, former Premier of Nova Scotia, cancer.
• René Voillaume, 97, French Catholic priest and theologian.
• Byron Wolford, 72, American rodeo cowboy and professional poker player.
• Marcos Zucker, 82, Argentine actor and comedian.

  14

• Tranquilo Cappozzo, 85, Argentine rower and Olympic champion.
• Dave DeBusschere, 62, American basketball player, and coach, heart attack.
• Otto Edelmann, 86, Austrian operatic bass.
• Al Fleming, 49, American basketball player, cancer.
• Ingvar Helle, 70, Norwegian politician.
• Wendy Hiller, 91, English actress, Oscar winner.
• Pepper LaBeija, 54, American drag queen and fashion designer, heart attack.
• Minarni, 59, Indonesian badminton player.
• Gennadiy Nikonov, 52, Russian firearm engineer.
• Dante Quinterno, 93, Argentine businessman and comics artist.
• Gordon Salkilld, 76, English actor.
• Robert Stack, 84, American actor and television host, Emmy winner, heart attack.

  15

• June Carter Cash, 73, American musician and wife of Johnny Cash, complications following surgery.
• Pedro Chappé, 57, Cuban basketball player.
• Desmond Dreyer, 93, British Royal Navy admiral.
• Constantin Dăscălescu, 79, Romanian communist politician.
• Stanley B. Kimball, 76, American historian, cancer.
• Rik Van Steenbergen, 78, Belgian cyclist.
• Rune Waldekranz, 91, Swedish film producer.

  16

• William Charles Anderson, 83, American writer and screen writer.
• Mark McCormack, 72, American lawyer, sports agent and writer.
• Stan Rofe, 69, Australian disc jockey and music news reporter, cancer.
• Lazar Tasić, 72, Serbian football player.
• Bogdan Śliwa, 81, Polish chess master.

  17

• Edith Carlmar, 91, Norwegian actress and Norway's first female film director.
• Pop Ivy, 87, American football player and coach.
• Irene Gut Opdyke, 81, Polish nurse, kidney failure, liver failure.
• Luigi Pintor, 77, Italian politician and journalist.
• Gerhard Schöpfel, 90, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.

  18

• Marilyn Bendell, 81, American impressionist painter.
• Peter Lasko, 79, German-British art historian.
• Nick Roman, 55, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
• Mentz Schulerud, 87, Norwegian author, radio personality and theatre director.

  19

• Camoflauge, 21, American rapper.
• Johanna Budwig, 94, German biochemist, alternative cancer treatment advocate and author.
• Kunhiraman Palat Candeth, 86, Indian Army general.
• Paul Hagen, 83, Danish film and television actor.
• Ludwig Lachner, German footballer and manager.
• Aleksandr Miroshnichenko, 39, Kazakhstani boxer and Olympic medalist, fall.
• Ivo Žídek, 76, Czech operatic tenor, known for his roles in the operas of Smetana, Dvořák and Janáček.

  20

• Jim Clough, 86, Australian politician.
• Walter Höllerer, 80, German writer, literary critic, and literature academic.
• Eddie Little, 48, American author and journalist, heart attack.
• Howard Sims, 86, African-American vaudeville tap dancer, Alzheimer's disease.

  21

• Alejandro de Tomaso, 74, Argentinian racing driver and industrialist.
• Yaroslav Golovanov, 70, Russian journalist, writer and science communicator, cerebrovascular disease.
• Hermann A. Haus, 77, Slovene-American scientist.
• Sumitra Mukherjee, 54, Indian Bengali actress.
• Felice Orlandi, 77, Italian-American actor.
• Frank D. White, 69, American politician, banker and banking regulator, heart attack.

  22

• Packiam Arokiaswamy, 82, Indian Roman Catholic prelate.
• Big DS, 31, American hardcore rapper and record producer, lymphatic cancer.
• Grover E. Murray, 86, American geologist and educator.
• Noel Robins, 67, Australian partially quadriplegic sailor, traffic accident.

  23

• Fred W. Berger, 94, American film editor.
• Ray Parry, 67, English football player.
• Michael Pössinger, 84, German Olympic bobsledder.
• Jean Yanne, 69, French actor and director, heart attack.

  24

• François Boyer, 83, French screenwriter.
• Neil Cherry, 56, New Zealand environmental scientist, ALS.
• Don Hanmer, 83, American film actor.
• Rachel Kempson, 92, English actress, stroke.
• Jules Levy, 80, American television and film producer.
• Allan McMahon, 48, Australian rugby footballer and coach, heart attack.
• Arne Skouen, 89, Norwegian journalist, author and film director.

  25

• Almir Chediak, 52, Brazilian musician and entrepreneur, shot.
• Richard Gardner, 72, American child psychiatrist, suicide by stabbing.
• David Hafler, 84, American audio engineer, Parkinson's disease.
• George Edward Lynch, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Raleigh.
• Bill Paschal, 81, American football player.
• Laurette Séjourné, 91, Mexican archeologist and ethnologist.
• Jeremy Ward, 27, American keyboardist and sound technician, heroin overdose.
• Sloan Wilson, 83, American novelist, Alzheimer's disease.