Deaths in October 2003

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

  October 2003

1

• John Brim, 81, American Chicago blues musician, heart cancer.
• Huntington Hardisty, 74, U.S. Navy admiral.
• Beate Hasenau, 67, German film and television actress.
• Joy N. Houck, Jr., 61, American actor, screenwriter and film director.
• Chubby Jackson, 84, American jazz double-bassist and band leader.
• Zbigniew Lengren, 84, Polish cartoonist, caricaturist, and illustrator.
• Julie Parrish, 62, American actress, ovarian cancer.
• Frank Taylor, 95, British politician, MP for Manchester Moss Side.

  2

• Milan Bjegojević, 75, Serbian basketball player and coach.
• John Thomas Dunlop, 89, American administrator and Secretary of Labor under Gerald Ford.
• Otto Günsche, 86, German SS escort of Adolf Hitler, who was tasked to cremate his body on 30 April 1945, heart failure.
• Ahmed Khadr, 55, Egyptian-Canadian Islamist, shot and killed by Pakistani security forces.
• Hasan Mahsum, Turkestani Islamic extremist group leader, shot by the Pakistani Army.
• Denis Moore, 93, English cricketer.
• Gunther Philipp, 85, Austrian film actor, physician and swimmer.

  3

• Joop Bakker, 82, Dutch politician and businessman.
• John Baldock, 87, British politician.
• Tish Daija, 78, Albanian composer.
• Profira Sadoveanu, 97, Romanian prose writer and poet.
• Gustav Sjöberg, 90, Swedish football goalkeeper.
• Florence Stanley, 79, American actress, stroke.
• William Steig, 95, American cartoonist and children's author; creator of Shrek.
• Winifred Watkins, 79, British biochemist.

  4

• Bill Cayton, 85, American boxing manager, former manager of Edwin Rosario and Mike Tyson.
• John Horace Ragnar Colvin, 81, British intelligence officer.
• Hanadi Jaradat, 28, Palestinian jihadist, suicide by explosive vest.
• Sid McMath, 91, American attorney and politician, 34th governor of Arkansas.
• Freddie Phillips, 84, British musician and composer.
• Elisabeta Rizea, 91, Romanian anti-communist partisan, viral pneumonia.
• Fred Tuttle, 84, American farmer, actor and politician, heart attack.

  5

• Wil van Beveren, 91, Dutch sprinter.
• Wally George, 71, American conservative radio and television commentator, pneumonia.
• Neil Postman, 72, American media critic, lung cancer.
• Denis Quilley, 75, British actor, liver cancer.
• Dan Snyder, 25, Canadian professional ice hockey player, traffic collision.
• Elena Slough, 114, American supercentenarian and oldest recognized person in the United States.
• Annalena Tonelli, 60, Italian Catholic lay missionary and social activist, homicide.
• Timothy Treadwell, 46, American environmentalist and documentary filmmaker, bear attack.
• František Velecký, 69, Slovak actor and artist.
• Dwain Weston, 30, Australian skydiver and base jumper, accidental death.

  6

• Joe Baker, 63, English footballer, heart attack.
• Antony Buck, 74, British politician.
• Armando Crispino, 78, Italian film director and screenwriter.
• William Herrmann, 91, American gymnast and Olympic medalist.
• Charles Millot, 81, Yugoslav-French actor.
• Azam Tariq, 35, Pakistani politician, homicide.

  7

• Izzy Asper, 71, Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate.
• Arthur Berger, 91, American composer, music critic, teacher and an academic music writer.
• Ryan Halligan, 13, American bullying victim, suicide by hanging.
• Eleanor Lambert, 100, American fashion pioneer.
• Viktor Leonov, 86, Soviet Navy officer and twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
• Norodom Narindrapong, 49, Cambodian prince, heart attack.
• Henry Herbert, 17th Earl of Pembroke, 64, British landowner, politician, film director, and producer.

  8

• Thalia Mara, 92, American ballet dancer and educator.
• Cyril May, 82, British socialist politician.
• Petter Thomassen, 62, Norwegian politician.
• Junior Wren, 73, American professional football player.

  9

• Carl Fontana, 75, American jazz trombonist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Ruth Hall, 92, American film actress.
• Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, 77, American academic, suicide by drug overdose.
• Don Lanphere, 75, American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist.

  10

• Igor Borisov, 79, Russian rower and Olympic silver medalist.
• Viola Burnham, 72, Guyanese politician, First Lady to Forbes Burnham and Vice President, cancer.
• Eila Hiltunen, 80, Finnish sculptor.
• Victoria Horne, 91, American actress, appearing in 49 films.
• Eugene Istomin, 77, American pianist, liver cancer.
• Johnny Klippstein, 75, American baseball player.
• Eve Newman, 88, American music and film editor.
• Julia Trevelyan Oman, 73, British set designer.
• Pastora Peña, 83, Spanish film actress.
• Frank Alois Pitelka, 87, American ornithologist.
• Max Rayne, 85, British property developer and philanthropist.

  11

• Vivien Alcock, 79, English children's book writer.
• Sadateru Arikawa, 73, Japanese aikido teacher and shihan.
• Ivan Getting, 91, American physicist and electrical engineer.
• Tommy Hanlon Jr., 80, American-Australian actor, comedian, television host and circus ringmaster, cancer.
• John K. Mahon, 91, American historian.
• Lila Ram, 72, Indian wrestler.

  12

• Jim Cairns, 89, Australian politician.
• Ram Gopal, 90, Indian dancer and choreographer.
• Ruth Halbsguth, 86, German swimmer and Olympic silver medalist.
• Ion Ioanid, 77, Romanian dissident and writer.
• Arthur Kaye, 70, English football player.
• Joan Kroc, 75, American philanthropist, widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, brain cancer.
• Pete Morisi, 75, American comic book writer and artist.
• Fathur Rahman al-Ghozi, 32, Indonesian Islamic terrorist and bomb-maker, shot by police.
• Bill Shoemaker, 72, American Hall of Fame jockey, rode the winners in eleven Triple Crown races.

  13

• Butch Brickell, 46, American race car driver and stuntman.
• Bertram Brockhouse, 85, Canadian physicist, 1994 Nobel Prize winner in physics for the development of neutron spectroscopy.
• Eduard Prugovečki, 66, Romanian-Canadian physicist and mathematician.
• Anne Ziegler, 93, English singer, known for her duets with her husband Webster Booth.

  14

• Mohamed Basri, 75-76, Moroccan activist and opposition leader, heart attack.
• Edward T. Breathitt, 78, American politician, 51st governor of Kentucky, ventricular fibrillation.
• Zoltan Crișan, 48, Romanian football player, tuberculosis.
• Wil Culmer, 45, Bahamian baseball player.
• Moktar Ould Daddah, 78, President of Mauritania.
• Patrick Dalzel-Job, 90, British naval intelligence officer and commando.
• Ben Metcalfe, 83, Greenpeace activist and co-founder, heart attack.
• Javier Portales, 66, Argentine actor, heart attack.
• Miloš Sádlo, 91, Czech cellist and music teacher.
• Knud Leif Thomsen, 79, Danish film director and screenwriter.

  15

• Pierre Chanal, 56, Egyptian-French soldier and suspected serial killer, suicide by exsanguination.
• Norman Elder, 64, Canadian writer, artist, and Olympic equestrian, suicide by hanging.
• Antonín Liška, 79, Czech Catholic theologist.
• Benny Lévy, 58, Egyptian-French philosopher, political activist and author.

  16

• Avni Arbaş, Turkish artist, cancer.
• Lorraine Dunn, 61, Panamanian Olympic sprinter and hurdler.
• Don Evans, 65, American playwright, theater director, and actor, heart attack.
• James M. Hanley, 83, American businessman and politician.
• Mark Hanna, 86, American screenwriter and actor.
• Stu Hart, 88, Canadian professional wrestler, stroke.
• László Papp, 77, Hungarian boxer.
• Ignatius Jerome Strecker, 85, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Carl Urbano, 93, American animator and director.

  17

• Charlie Justice, 79, American gridiron football player.
• Frank O'Flynn, 84, New Zealand politician.
• Janice Rule, 72, American actress, cerebral hemorrhage.
• António Dias Teixeira, 73, Portuguese football player and manager.

  18

• William C. Cramer, 81, American attorney and politician, heart attack.
• Rodolfo Freude, 83, Argentine politician and close advisor of president Juan Perón.
• David Lodge, 82, English actor, cancer.
• Ralph Moffitt, 71, English golfer.
• Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, 64, Spanish novelist, journalist and poet.
• Preston Smith, 91, American politician.

  19

• Jaime Allende, 79, Spanish field hockey player.
• Sir Peter Berger, 78, British admiral.
• Road Warrior Hawk, 46, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Harun bin Idris, 77, Malaysian politician and 8th Menteri Besar of Selangor.
• Alija Izetbegović, 78, Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, cardiovascular disease.
• Margaret Elizabeth Murie, 101, American naturalist, writer, adventurer, and conservationist.
• Nello Pagani, 92, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Formula One driver.
• Guy Rolfe, 91, British actor.
• Georgi Vladimov, 72, Soviet and Ukrainian dissident writer.

  20

• František Balvín, 88, Czechoslovak cross-country skier.
• Ernie Calverley, 79, American basketball player and coach.
• Jack Elam, 82, American actor, heart attack.
• Donald G. Jackson, 60, American filmmaker, leukemia.
• Miodrag Petrović Čkalja, 79, Serbian actor.

  21

• Fred Berry, 52, American actor, stroke.
• Luis A. Ferré, 99, Puerto Rican industrialist and politician, respiratory failure.
• Louise Day Hicks, 87, American politician.
• Tomáš Pospíchal, 67, Czech football player.
• Alfred Rose, 71, Indian Konkani singer, composer, and actor.
• Elliott Smith, 34, American musician, suicide by stabbing.
• Arturo Warman, 66, Mexican anthropologist, author, and politician.