Deaths in September 2003

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

  September 2003

1

• Rand Brooks, 84, American film actor.
• Pasquale Buonocore, 87, Italian water polo player and Olympic champion.
• Albert Frey, 90, German SS commander during World War II and author, suicide by gunshot.
• Terry Frost, 87, British artist.
• Eulalio González, 81, Mexican actor, singer-songwriter, screenwriter, film director, and film producer.
• John Gould, 94, American columnist, humorist and essayist.
• John Gray, 66, British diplomat.
• Jayant Pathak, 82, Indian poet and literary critic.
• Héctor Rodríguez, 83, Cuban baseball player.
• Jack Smight, 78, American theatre and film director, cancer.
• Ramón Serrano Suñer, 101, Spanish politician.
• Mildred Thompson, 67, American artist.

  2

• George Charles Hayter Chubb, 3rd Baron Hayter, 92, British politician and industrialist.
• Nehemiah Levanon, 88, Israeli intelligence agent and diplomat.
• Maria Manton, 92, French painter.
• Ptolemy Reid, 91, Guyanese veterinarian and politician, prime minister.
• Bruce Waibel, 45, American musician and bass guitar player, suicide.
• Peter West, 83, British BBC presenter and sports commentator, best known for his cricket, tennis and rugby coverage.

  3

• Ray Davis, 88, United States Marine Corps four-star-general, heart attack.
• Alan Dugan, 80, American poet.
• Paul Jennings Hill, 49, American anti-abortion activist, execution by lethal injection.
• Rudolf Leiding, 88, German chairman of the Volkswagen automobile company.
• Charles Liebman, 68, American political scientist and author on Jewish life and Israel.
• Andrzej Nartowski, 71, Polish basketball player.
• Ilias Petropoulos, 75, Greek author, folklorist and urban historian, cancer.
• Mohsin Zaidi, 68, Indian Urdu poet.

  4

• Ben Aris, 66, English actor.
• Lola Bobesco, 82, Romanian-Belgian violinist.
• Béla H. Bánáthy, 83, Hungarian-American educator, systems and design scientist and author.
• Susan Chilcott, 40, English opera singer, breast cancer.
• Charles A. Gabriel, 75, Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, Alzheimer's disease.
• David P. Robbins, 61, American mathematician, pancreatic cancer.
• Tibor Varga, 82, Hungarian violinist, conductor and pedagogue.

  5

• Yūji Aoki, 58, Japanese manga artist, lung cancer.
• Kir Bulychev, 68, Soviet and Russian science fiction writer, critic and historian, cancer.
• Harley Grossman, 73, American baseball player.
• Richard Harrison, 82, New Zealand politician.
• Sir Ian Hunter, 84, British classical music impresario and festival organizer.
• Gisele MacKenzie, 76, Canadian-American singer and entertainer, colorectal cancer.
• Miloš Minić, 89, Yugoslav and Serbian communist politician.
• James Rachels, 62, American philosopher, cancer.
• C. H. Sisson, 89, British writer and poet.

  6

• Charles Edward Bennett, 92, American politician.
• Marshall Joseph Caifano, 92, Italian-American mobster.
• Jules Engel, 94, American filmmaker, visual artist, and film director.
• Marie Foster, 85, American civil rights movement leader.
• Harry Goz, 71, American musical theater actor and voice actor, multiple myeloma.
• Ari Guðmundsson, 75, Icelandic Olympic swimmer and ski jumper.
• Mamohato of Lesotho, 62, Lesotho Queen Mother and politician.
• Maurice Michael Otunga, 80, Kenyan Catholic prelate and cardinal.
• Louise Platt, 88, American theater, film, and TV actress.

  7

• Great Antonio, 77, Croatian-Canadian strongman, wrestler, actor and eccentric, heart attack.
• Joe McDonald, 74, Scottish footballer.
• Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountaineer, avalanche.
• Robert Weinman, 88, American sculptor and "one of the nation's most accomplished medallic artists".
• Merv Wellington, 62, New Zealand politician.
• Warren Zevon, 56, American singer and songwriter, cancer.

  8

• Herbert Gentry, 84, American expressionist painter.
• Marc Honegger, 77, French musicologist and choirmaster.
• Jaclyn Linetsky, 17, Canadian voice actress, road accident.
• Doris Ogilvie, 91, Canadian diver and Olympian.
• Gulabrai Ramchand, 76, Indian cricketer.
• Leni Riefenstahl, 101, German film director, producer, screenwriter, and photographer.

  9

• Thomas Allibone, 99, English physicist, focused on nuclear fusion and particle physics.
• David Applebaum, 51, American-Israeli physician, suicide bomb victim.
• Reginald Smith Brindle, 86, British composer and writer.
• Andrei Folbert, 72, Romanian basketball player.
• Joaquim Homs, 97, Spanish composer.
• Larry Hovis, 67, American actor, esophageal cancer.
• Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan, 50, Pakistani musician.
• Aleksandr Moiseyev, 76, Russian basketball player and Olympic medalist.
• Edward Teller, 95, Hungarian-American theoretical physicist, "Father of the H-Bomb".
• Marthe Vogt, 100, German neuroscientist.
• Don Willesee, 87, Australian politician, member of the Australian Senate representing Western Australia.

  10

• Larry Allen Hayes, 54, American spree killer, execution by lethal injection.
• Lee Kyung-hae, South Korean farmer and activist, suicide by stabbing.
• Boris Meissner, 88, German lawyer and social scientist.
• Martin Page, 65, British writer and journalist, heart problems.

  11

• Shafilea Ahmed, 17, British-Pakistani girl, suffocation.
• Ben Bril, 91, Dutch boxer and referee.
• Nicholas DiOrio, 82, Italian-American association football player, colorectal cancer.
• Anna Lindh, 46, Swedish foreign minister, stabbed.
• Antti Nurmesniemi, 76, Finnish designer.
• John Ritter, 54, American actor, Emmy winner, aortic dissection.

  12

• Jack Burkitt, 77, English football player.
• Johnny Cash, 71, American Hall of Fame country singer, diabetes.
• Chappie Fox, 90, American circus historian.
• Freddy Turner, 89, South African rugby player.

  13

• George Boothman, 86, Canadian professional ice hockey player.
• Ron Burton, 67, American professional football player, bone cancer.
• Vítor Damas, 55, Portuguese football player, cancer.
• Howard D. Graves, 64, United States Army officer, cancer.
• Reza Beyk Imanverdi, 67, Iranian actor and director, lung cancer.
• Kaino Lempinen, 82, Finnish gymnast and Olympic medalist.
• Frank O'Bannon, 73, American politician, Governor of Indiana, stroke.
• Arthur Rowe, 67, English Olympic track and field athlete.
• Johnny Welaj, 89, American baseball player.

  14

• Donald O. Clifton, 79, American psychologist, author, researcher, and entrepreneur.
• Garrett Hardin, 88, American ecologist and philosopher, suicide.
• John Serry Sr., 88, Italian American musician composer and arranger.
• Yetunde Price, 31, American half-sister of Venus and Serena Williams, murdered in a shooting.
• Kurt Heinrich Wolff, 91, German-American sociologist.

  15

• Garner Ted Armstrong, 73, American television evangelist, pneumonia.
• Paul Granlund, 77, American sculptor.
• Errol Hill, 82, Trinidad and Tobago writer, playwright, actor.
• Josef Hiršal, 83, Czech author, poet and novelist.

  16

• Jack Brymer, 88, British clarinetist.
• Donald Deacon, 83, Canadian politician, leukemia.
• John Orrell, 68, British author, theatre historian and academic, cancer.
• Sergio Ortega, 65, Chilean composer, pianist, poet, and politician, cancer.
• Sheb Wooley, 82, American actor and singer, leukemia.

  17

• Yitzhak Artzi, 82, Israeli politician.
• Leendert Ginjaar, 75, Dutch politician.
• Erich Hallhuber, 52, German actor, epileptic seizure.
• Ljubica Marić, 94, Yugoslav/Serbian classical composer.
• Raymond Milton, 91, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympic silver medalist.
• George Sawaya, 80, American actor and stuntman.
• Neal Wood, 81, American-British political theorist and author.

  18

• Robert G. Bartle, 75, American mathematician, specialized in real analysis, lymphoma.
• Erich Bäumler, 73, German football player and manager.
• Jean Dieuzaide, 82, French photographer.
• Richard Alden Howard, 86, American botanist and plant taxonomist.
• Bob Mitchell, 76, British politician.
• Don Reese, 52, American gridiron football player, liver cancer.
• Sergey Smirnov, 43, Russian Olympic track and field athlete.

  19

• Johnny Best, 89, American jazz trumpeter.
• Anatoly Bogatyrev, 90, Soviet and Belarusian composer and music teacher.
• Slim Dusty, 76, Australian country music singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer, lung cancer.
• Emil Fackenheim, 87, German Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi.
• Alfred Grislawski, 83, German fighter pilot during World War II.
• Kenneth Erwin Hagin, 86, American preacher.
• Ellen Idelson, 42, American television producer, television writer and actress, complications from cancer and Crohn's disease.
• Arthur Kinoy, 82, American attorney and civil rights leader.
• Frank Lowe, 60, American jazz saxophonist, lung cancer.
• Jim Thompson, 67, British Anglican bishop.

  20

• Robert Blake, Baron Blake, 86, English historian and life peer, known for his biography of Benjamin Disraeli.
• Tom Busby, 66, Canadian actor, heart attack.
• Lorenzo Calonga, 74, Paraguayan football player.
• Stanley Fafara, 54, American child actor, complications from hernia surgery.
• Ken Khouri, 86, Jamaican record producer.
• Gordon Mitchell, 80, American actor and bodybuilder, heart attack.
• Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, 62, British Cabinet minister, Leader of the House of Lords.
• Simon Muzenda, 80, Zimbabwean politician and vice-President of Zimbabwe, diabetes.
• Maurizio Romano, 37, Italian voice actor, traffic collision.
• Vernon Singer, 84, Canadian politician.
• Sonora Webster Carver, 99, American entertainer.