Deaths in 2003 encyclopedia topics

December 2003

31 Sophie Daumier, 69, French actor and comedian
31 Arthur R. von Hippel, 105, German-born scientist and MIT professor who made critical contributions to the development of radar
31 Bríd Dirrane, 109, the oldest person to receive a university degree and write an autobiography (both at 103), last surviving person who knew the leaders of Ireland's 1916 Uprising personally
31 Rein Helme, 49, Estonian war historian
31 Terje Soots, 38, Estonian radio host
30 David Bale, 62, South African activist, brain lymphoma
30 John Gregory Dunne, 71, American novelist and screenwriter, myocardial infarction
30 Anita Mui, 40, Hong Kong pop queen, cervical cancer
29 Archbishop Michael Courtney, 58, Irish-born Papal Nuncio to Burundi who was central to peace negotiations, homicide
29 Earl Hindman, 61, American actor, lung cancer
29 Bob Monkhouse, 75, British comedian and game show host, prostate cancer
28 Benjamin Thurman Hacker, 68, first American Naval Flight Officer to achieve the "Flag" rank, complications from leukemia
28 Isabelle Stevenson, chairman of the board of the American Theatre Wing, presenter of the Tony Awards
28 Dinsdale Landen, 71, British actor, pneumonia
27 Vestal Goodman, 74, American Southern Gospel singer, complications from influenza
27 Iván Calderón, 41, Puerto Rican former major league baseball star, homicide by gunshot
27 Sir Alan Bates, 69, British actor, pancreatic cancer
26 Phil Goldman, 39, American engineer and entrepreneur, heart failure
26 Yoshio Shirai, 80, first Japanese world boxing champion, pneumonia
24 Linda Viiding, 97, Estonian translator
22 Dave Dudley, 75, American country music singer, myocardial infarction
20 John Halfpenny, 68, Australian unionist
19 Ricardo Alfonso Cerna, 47, Guatemalan suicide victim
19 Hope Lange, 70, American actress, ischemic colitis
19 Peter Carter-Ruck, 89, British libel lawyer
17 Ed Devereaux, 78, Australian actor
17 Otto Graham, 82, American professional football and basketball player, heart aneurysm
16 Gary Stewart, 58, American country music singer, suicide
16 Robert Stanfield, 89, Canadian politician
15 Keith Magnuson, 56, Canadian National Hockey League player, road accident
15 George Fisher, 80, American political cartoonist
14 Jeanne Crain, 78, American actress, myocardial infarction
14 Blas Ople, 75, Filipino journalist and politician
13 Elizabeth Bates, 56, Professor of Psychology at University of California, San Diego, pancreatic cancer
13 William V. Roth, Jr., 82, American lawyer and politician
12 Keiko, 27, orca of Reino Aventura and Free Willy fame, pneumonia
12 Heydar Aliyev, 80, former President of Azerbaijan
12 Fadwa Toukan, 86, Palestinian poet
12 Earl Gillespie, 81, sportscaster, voice of the Milwaukee Braves
11 Ahmadou Kourouma, 76, Ivorian novelist
11 John W. Sidgmore, former head of Worldcom and UUNet, acute pancreatitis
11 Paulos Tzadua, Roman Catholic cardinal from Ethiopia
10 Ettore Perazzoli, 29, Italian free software developer
9 Paul Simon, 75, American politician, complications following heart surgery
8 Rubén González, 84, Cuban pianist
8 Johnny Bulla, 89, American golfer
7 Raúl Vale, 59, Venezuelan-Mexican entertainer
7 Carl F. H. Henry, 90, American Evangelical theologian and founder of Christianity Today magazine
7 Azie Taylor Morton, 67, former Treasurer of the United States, complications from a stroke
6 Haddis Alemayehu, 93, Ethiopian Foreign Minister and novelist
6 Jose-Maria Jimenez, 32, professional cyclist
6 Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, 85, President of Guatemala 1970-74
6 Jerry Tuite, 36, American wrestler, myocardial infarction
5 Bert Templeton, 63, Scottish ice hockey coach, kidney cancer

4 Jonathan Luna, 38, United States Assistant Attorney, murdered

3 David Hemmings, 62, British actor and director, myocardial infarction
2 Ignaz Kiechle, 73, German politician and minister for agriculture (1983-93)
1 Clark Kerr, 92, first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1952-58) and President of the University of California (1958-67), injuries from a fall

November 2003

2 Frederic Vester, 77, German cybernetician
3

Aaron Bridgers, 85, French jazz pianist
Rasul Gamzatov, 80, Avarian/Soviet/Russian poet, called the "People's poet of Dagestan"
Frank McCloskey, 64, Indiana Congressman from 1983-1995

Angel Chingre, Ecuadorian campesino leader, human rights activist
Mitch Rosario, Puerto Rican hair stylist who worked with Ricky Martin, Paulina Rubio among others
Ken Gampu, South African actor
Richard Wollheim, 80, British philosopher

Bobby Hatfield, 63, half of the singing duet the Righteous Brothers
Dernell Stenson, Cincinnati Reds baseball player

Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (41 years)
Crash Holly, professional wrestler (32 years)
Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer, triple Olympic champion (84 years)

Hava Rexha, oldest woman in Albania, maybe in the world (123 years?)
C. Z. Guest, socialite (83 years)
Haydar Richard Nancy (pregnant) and Jad, Lebanese nationals form Lebanon, killed in terrorist bombing attack on residential compound Al-Muhaya in Saudi Arabia (31, 29 and 1 years)

Gordon Onslow Ford, surrealist painter (90 years)
Mario Merz, Italian artist
Art Carney, The Honeymooners actor (85 years)
Buddy Arnold, jazz saxophonist

Canaan Banana, first president of independent Zimbabwe (67 years)
Irv "Kup" Kupcinet, columnist, television personality (91 years)

11 Robert Brown, British actor (M in 4 James Bond films) (82 years)
12

Tony Thompson, drummer for The Power Station
Penny Singleton, actress (95 years)
David Silvetti, Mexican bullfighter, committed suicide
Jonathan Brandis, actor, reportedly suicide (27 years)

Kellie Waymire, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise) (35 years)
Mitoyo Kawate, oldest recognized person in the world (114 years)

14 Gene Anthony Ray, actor and dancer
15

Ray Lewis, first Canadian-born black Olympic medalist
Mohamed Choukri, writer
Laurence Tisch, billionaire, head of Loews Corporation and CBS television network
Dorothy Loudon, actress

Bettina Goislard, UNHCR relief worker (29 years)
Arihiro Fukuda, Japanese associate professor and author of Sovereignty and the Sword (39 years)

Gerry Adams Sr., IRA member
Arthur Conley, soul singer
Don Gibson, singer-songwriter

18 Michael Kamen, composer
19 Ken Brett, former Major League Baseball player, brother of George Brett (55 years)
20

David Dacko, first president of the Central African Republic (73 years)
Robert Addie, British actor (43 years)
Eugene Kleiner, entrepreneur and co-founder of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers venture capital firm (80 years)
Roger Short, British diplomat, consul-general in Istanbul (58 years)
Kerem Yilmazer, Turkish actor (58 years)
Jim Siedow, American actor (b. 1920)

21 Bohumil Simon, one of the leaders of the Prague Spring (83 years)
24

Hugh Kenner, 80, literary critic
Warren Spahn, 82, baseball pitcher
Floquet de Neu or Copito de Nieve ("Snowflake"), rare albino gorilla, star of the Barcelona zoo
Uma Devi (popularly known as Tuntun), 80, Indian actress

Stefan Wul, 81, French science fiction writer
Soulja Slim, rapper
Anton Burg, 99, USC chemistry professor
William H. Waldren, 79, archaeologist

Talal al-Rasheed, 41, Saudi poet
Will Quadflieg, German actor

Harold von Braunhut, American, creator of Amazing Sea-Monkeys and other comic book kitsch, member of the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Nations
Jim Duffy, 82, Major League Baseball umpire

Barber B. Conable, 81, New York Congressman, president of the World Bank from 1986-1991
Gertrude Ederle, 97, first woman to swim the English Channel

October 2003

John T. Dunlop, briefly Secretary of Labor under Gerald Ford
Gunther Philipp, Austrian actor

3 William Steig, American cartoonist and children's author; creator of Shrek
4

Sid McMath, former governor of Arkansas
James Forlong, former British reporter for Sky News, who was accused of faking a news report during the invasion of Iraq, apparent suicide
Bill Cayton, American boxing manager, owner of (reportedly) largest fight video collection in the world, former manager of Edwin Rosario and Mike Tyson

Matthew Brown, 29, Latin teacher
Neil Postman, media critic
Elena Slough, oldest recognized American, aged 114
Denis Quilley, British actor
Dan Snyder, Atlanta Thrashers hockey player
Timothy Treadwell, environmentalist and bear enthusiast

6 Mildred O'Neill, widow of former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Tip O'Neill
7

Frank Roe, former President of the Irish Circuit Court
Eleanor Lambert, U.S. fashion pioneer
Izzy Asper, Canadian press baron
Felicitas Corrigan, Benedictine nun

9 Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American academic and author
10 Eugene Istomin, American pianist
11 Fredy Knie, Sr., director of Swiss circus Circus Knie
12

Willie Shoemaker, Hall of Fame jockey
Jim Cairns, Australian politician

Bertram Brockhouse, Nobel Prize-winning Canadian physicist
Joan B. Kroc, philanthropist, widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc

14 Ben Metcalfe, Greenpeace activist and co-founder
16

Jim Albrecht, tournament director of the World Series of Poker.
Stu Hart, patriarch of wrestling family, 88 years
László Papp, Hungarian boxer
Avni Arbas, Turkish artist

Preston Smith, governor of Texas
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer

Margaret Murie, "Mother of the Modern Conservationist Movement" 101 years
Faith Fancher, television journalist and breast cancer awareness activist, 53 years
Michael Hegstrand, "Road Warrior Hawk", 45 years
Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia and Herzegovina

20 Jack Elam, American actor, 84 years
21

Louise Day Hicks, US politician
Fred Berry, American actor, "Rerun" on the show What's Happening!!
Susanne Hagenbusch, German actress, 96 years
Elliott Smith, US musician, 34 years
Luis A. Ferré, former governor of Puerto Rico, 99 years

Tony Renna, IndyCar Driver 27 years

Tony Capstick, British actor, comedian, musician and broadcaster
Soong May-ling, widow of the Nationalist Chinese president Chiang Kai-shek, 106 years

24 Rosie Nix Adams, daughter of June Carter Cash
25

Hemu Adhikari, Indian cricketer.

26 Elem Klimov, Russian director
27 Rod Roddy, announcer on The Price is Right
28 Behram Kursunoglu, Turkish physicist, 81 years old
29 Hal Clement, author, 81 years
30

Daphne Hardy Henrion, British sculptor, 86 years old
Franco Corelli, operatic tenor, 82 years old

Mohamed Yazid, Algerian politician, 80 years old
Richard Neustadt, political scholar and historian
Kamato Hongo, oldest recognized person in world at 116 (although disputed)

September 2003

1 Sir Terry Frost, British artist
3 Paul Hill, executed for two anti-abortion murders
4 Tibor Varga, violinist, conductor and pedagogue
5 Gisele MacKenzie, singer
6

Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber, Everest Summiter, died while climbing Gasherbrum I.
Wilbur Snapp, stadium organist kicked out of game by umpire for playing Three Blind Mice

Warren Zevon, singer and songwriter
The Great Antonio, strongman and eccentric

Leni Riefenstahl, German filmmaker
Jaclyn Linetsky, 17, Canadian voice actress, road accident

Larry Hovis, actor, played Carter on Hogan's Heroes
Edward Teller, American physicist, "Father of the H-Bomb"

10 Harry Goz, 71, American musical theater actor and voice actor, multiple myeloma
11

Ben Bril, Dutch boxer
John Ritter, 54, American actor and comedian, aortic dissection
Anna Lindh, 46, Swedish foreign minister

Johnny Cash, 71, American country singer, diabetes mellitus
Rev Prof Norman Walker Porteous, theologian and writer on Old Testament issues

13 Frank O'Bannon, Governor of Indiana
15

Jack Brymer, British clarinettist
Yetunde Price, sister of American tennis players Venus and Serena Williams

Erich Hallhuber, Bavarian actor
Sheb Wooley, actor, singer of 1958 pop hit Purple People Eater
Tommy Rawson, boxer, referee

18 Valve Janov, Estonian painter
19 Slim Dusty, Australian country music singer
20

Lord Williams of Mostyn, British Cabinet minister, Leader of the House of Lords
Liam Tobin, longtime Árd Rúnaí Roinn na Gaeltachta (Secretary to the Irish Department of the Gaeltacht) and Irish language campaigner
Simon Vengai Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician, vice president of the Republic since 1987

21 Robert H. Lochner, John F. Kennedy's interpreter
22

Hugo Young, British political commentator
Gordon Jump, American actor
Johan Stekelenburg, Dutch union leader and politician

Derek Prince, 88, author, biblical scholar and spiritual patriarch
Tomás MacGabhann, Irish Trade Unionist and Irish language activist
Edward Said, Palestinian scholar

George Plimpton, author, editor
Franco Modigliani, Nobel Prize-winning economist
Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician, member of the Governing Council

26 Robert Palmer, 54, singer
27 Donald O'Connor, entertainer, actor
28

Yukichi Chuganji, 114 years
Elia Kazan, director
Althea Gibson, tennis player

Gilbert Ortega, jewelry tycoon, country singer
Robert Kardashian, criminal defense lawyer

August 2003

Guy Thys, 80, former Belgian national football coach.
Marie Trintignant, French actress and daughter of actor Jean-Louis Trintignant

Don Estelle, 70, actor who played 'Lofty' in the BBC's It Ain't Half Hot Mum
Mike Levey, famous infomercial host

Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh, longest-ordained hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church
Chung Mong-hun, Korean businessman

Tite Curet Alonso, well known Puerto Rican music composer, critic, newspaper writer
Lee Muñoz, former first son of Puerto Rico (son of Luis Muñoz Marín), foundation leader

Gregory Hines, actor, dancer
Ray Harford, 58, football manager

10 Carmita Jimenez, Puerto Rican singer
11

Kieran Kelly, Irish jump jockey after a racing accident
Diana Mitford, widow of British Fascist leader Oswald Mosley
Herb Brooks, coach of 1980 Miracle on Ice US Hockey team
Armand Borel, notable Swiss mathematician

Helmut Rahn, German soccer player, World Champion 1954
Ed Townsend, songwriter and producer
Matt Moffitt, Australian singer, guitarist and songwriter from rock band Matt Finish

15 Bishop Donal Lamont, Irish born Rhodesian Roman Catholic bishop and Nobel Peace Prize nominee expelled by Ian Smith's apartheid regime in the 1970s
16

Idi Amin, former dictator of Uganda
Connie Douglas Reeves, centenarian member of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame

Hermann Withalm, Austrian politician
Carlos Roberto Reina, former president of Honduras
Sérgio Vieira de Mello, United Nations Special Representative to Iraq

20 António Pedro Ferreira, Portugal President of Portuguese Custom Broker Association
21

Wesley Willis, American schizophrenic musician and artist

22 Arnold Gerschwiler, figure skating trainer in Britain
23

Amram Ducovny, novelist, former columnist for Boston magazine and father of actor David Duchovny
John Geoghan, defrocked pedophile priest
Bobby Bonds, former baseball player and father of San Francisco Giants ballplayer Barry Bonds
Michael Kijana Wamalwa, Kenyan Vice-President
Imperio Argentina, Spanish singer and actress
Jack Dyer, Australian rules football legend

26 Jim Wacker, American football college coach
27 Pierre Poujade, French politician
28

Patrick William Feeney, United States college basketball player
Barry Voorhies, Arena football player

29 Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim

Kathy Wilkes, Oxford philosopher and education worker in Eastern Europe

July 2003

Wesley Mouzon, former professional boxer, 76 years old, beat Bob Montgomery
Herbie Mann, crossover jazz and bossa nova flutist
N!xau, Namibian actor

Gaetano Alibrandi, papal diplomat and Apostolic Nuncio to the Republic of Ireland
Najeeb Halaby, chairman of Pan Am from 1969 to 1972, father of Queen Noor

Larry Burkett, founder of Christian Financial Concepts
Barry White, 58, American smooth soul singer, renal failure

Roman Lyashenko, New York Rangers hockey player
Bebu Silvetti, popular Argentine musician, songwriter and arranger
Isabelle, Countess of Paris, widow of Henri, Count of Paris, pretender to the French throne

6 Buddy Ebsen, American actor
7 Izhak Graziani, conductor
8

Dr. William Boyd, former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian conjoined twins

9 Winston Graham, 95, author of Poldark and Marnie
10 Hartley Shawcross (Lord Shawcross), Britain's chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
11

Zahra Kazemi, Iranian-born Canadian journalist
Ken Whyld, British chess author

12 Benny Carter, American jazz pioneer
13 Compay Segundo, Cuban musician and star of the Buena Vista Social Club
14

Ahmed Al-Waeli, Shiite cleric.
Tex Schramm, former Dallas Cowboys president and general manager
André Claveau, French singer

Captain James Kelly, former Irish Army officer cleared of attempting to import arms for the IRA in the Arms Trial in 1970
Carol Shields, Canadian author
Celia Cruz, Cuban legendary salsa singer

Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist and champion of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach
Dr. David Kelly, former UN weapons inspector who was accused of leaking information to the BBC about the UK's dossier on Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction
Eamonn Leahy, 46 year old top Irish barrister and husband of government Chief Whip Mary Hanafin

Brad Rone, 35, American boxer, injuries sustained in boxing
Jane Barbe, phone company voiceover

Pierre Graber, former member of the Swiss Federal Council (1970-1978)
Bill Bright, evangelist, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ

Nicolas Freeling, crime writer
Lauri Aus, Estonian pro cyclist

Walter M. "Matt" Jefferies, art director for the original Star Trek series and designer of the Starship Enterprise
John Davies, president of the New Zealand Olympic Committee
Tim Hemensley Australian Singer/Bass Guitarist

Uday Hussein, 39, eldest son of Saddam Hussein, homicide by firearm
Qusay Hussein, 37, second son of Saddam Hussein, homicide by firearm
Noel Picarda, satirist and broadcaster

Othniel Askew, killer of James E. Davis
James E. Davis, New York City councilman

24 Colin R. McMillan, nominee for United States Secretary of the Navy
25

Ludwig Bölkow, airplane engineer
John Schlesinger, director

Richard Wayne Dirksen, composer, former organist-choirmaster Washington National Cathedral
Trevor Ettinger, 23, Professional Hockey Player (AHL), suicide

Bob Hope, 100, American comedian and actor, pneumonia
Vance Hartke, former U.S. Senator from Indiana

Erik Braunn, Iron Butterfly guitarist
Lady Valerie Goulding, former Irish Senator and campaigner for the disabled

29 Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader
30 Sam Phillips, 80, record producer
31

Edward P. Alexander, author and historian

June 2003

Fred Blassie, 85, former professional wrestler
Richard Cusack, 77, ad executive turned actor/screenwriter, father of actors John Cusack and Joan Cusack, dies of pancreatic cancer in Evanston, Illinois
Jack Frazier, former Saddam Hussein hostage

3 Fabrice Salanson, a French pro-cyclist
5

Meir Vilner, last surviving signatory to Israel's declaration of independence and former chairman of the Communist Party of Israel
Jürgen Möllemann, former German minister

Tony McAuley BBC Northern Ireland broadcaster & film-maker associated with traditional Irish music and arts
Trevor Goddard, actor

Donald Regan, Chief of Staff and Treasury Secretary during the Reagan administration
Bernard Williams, British philosopher
Phil Williams, highly-respected Welsh politician, in a Cardiff massage parlour

11 David Brinkley, broadcast journalist
12 Gregory Peck, 87, actor
15

Hume Cronyn, actor
William Wentworth, Australian politician, first federal Minister of Aboriginal Affairs

18 Larry Doby, baseball Hall of Famer, second Black man to play in the MLB
19

Glen Grant, Hawaiian historian, folklorist and author
Laura Sadler, 22, British television actress, after falling 40 feet from a building

20 Bob Stump, Arizona Congressman
21 Roger Neilson, legendary Canadian hockey coach
22 Alexander Vetoux, Ukrainian boxing prospect. Was 22-1 with 18 knockouts as a professional; body found in river on June 27
23 Vasil Bykau, Belarusian writer
24

Maynard Jackson, former Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, first black mayor of a major southern U.S. city
Leon Uris, author
Renato Cayetano, Philippine senator

Lester Maddox, segregationist Governor of the State of Georgia
Shun Yashiro, 70, Japanese actor and seiyū, stroke

Marc-Vivien Foé, 28, Cameroonian football player collapsed and died on the football pitch in Lyon
Sir Denis Thatcher Bt., 88, husband to Baroness Thatcher, former UK Prime Minister
Strom Thurmond, Former South Carolina Governor, United States Senator, and Presidential candidate

Magne Aarøen, Norwegian politician
Dáithí P. Hanly, former Dublin city architect and conservationist

28 Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete
29 Katharine Hepburn, actress
30

Robert McCloskey, children's book writer and illustrator
Buddy Hackett, 78, American comedian and actor, diabetes mellitus

May 2003

1 Miss Elizabeth, 42, WWE wrestling figure
3 Suzy Parker, actress; top model of the 1950s
5 Walter Sisulu, ANC activist
6

Evelio Lopez Falcon, alleged Mexican drug trafficker
David Woodley, former quarterback of the Miami Dolphins, who started in Super Bowl XVII

9 Russell B. Long, former U.S. Senator
10 Milan Vukcevich, chemist and chess problem composer
11 Noel Redding, former bassist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience
12

Prince Sadruddhin Aga Khan, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1965 - 1977
Paulo Flores, Brazilian voice actor

13 John Savage, former Premier of Nova Scotia, Canada
14

Robert Stack, Hollywood actor, host of Unsolved Mysteries, 84 years old
Dame Wendy Hiller, British actress (August 15, 1912 - May 14, 2003)
Dave DeBusschere, NBA basketball player

Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist
George Francis, British suspected mobster
June Carter Cash, musician, singer, wife of Johnny Cash
David O. Ives, public broadcasting pioneer, longtime executive at WGBH, Boston, which introduced such television programs as "Nova," "Frontline," "Masterpiece Theatre," and "This Old House"

Mal Florence, longtime sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times
William E. Day, broadcaster and preservationist, early proponent of the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act
Mark McCormack, sports business pioneer, founder of IMG

Anna Santisteban, advisor of Miss Puerto Rico titleholders for the Miss Universe contest
Barb Tarbox, Canadian anti-smoking activist

Elfren Bernier, Puerto Rican Olympic athlete and lawyer
Frank D. White, Former governor of Arkansas

26 Kathleen Winsor, author of Forever Amber
27 Luciano Berio, composer
28

Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
Martha Scott, actress
Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut

29 Basil Langton, theatre/screen actor from the 30s to the 90s
30 Mickie Most, 64, music producer, produced acts such as Lulu, Donovan, The Animals, Hot Chocolate, Suzi Quatro and Kim Wilde

April 2003

1 Leslie Cheung, actor and singer, one of the superstars in Hong Kong during late 1980s, committed suicide

Booker Bradshaw, record producer, film & TV actor, Motown executive

Michael Wayne, film producer; eldest son of John Wayne
Edwin Starr, soul singer
Pat Leavy, Irish actress who played Hannah Finnegan in the Radio Telifís Éireann soap opera Fair City, died after being taken ill on set
Edward Keating, founder of Ramparts magazine

4 Resortes, legendary Mexican comedian, real name Adalberto Martinez Chavez
5 Seymour Lubetzky (aged 104), cataloging theorist and librarian
6

Babatunde Olatunji, African drummer, recorded Drums of Passion
Lance Corporal Ian Malone Dublin-born soldier in the Irish Guards regiment of the British Army, who featured in a Radio Telifís Éireann documentary on Irish-born British soldiers, killed in Iraq
David Bloom, an NBC reporter, died from a pulmonary embolism while embedded with the 3rd Infantry Division covering the war in Iraq

7 Cecile de Brunhoff (aged 99), who inspired the Babar the Elephant children's books when she told it to her children as a bedtime story in 1931 (it was then illustrated by her husband)
8 Anita Borg, computer scientist
9 James Earl Salisbury educator
10

Abdul Majid al-Khoei, Shia cleric
Little Eva (Eva Narcissus Boyd), who sang the 1962 hit The Loco-Motion
Noel Fox, former singer of gospel band The Oak Ridge Boys

Sydney Lassick, actor, best known playing asylum resident Cheswick in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Cecil H. Green (aged 102), Texas Instruments founder

14 Kent Pullen, US politician
16 Graham Stuart Thomas, horticultural artist, author and garden designer
17

Earl King, R&B musician/songwriter
Paul Getty, philanthropist
Robert Atkins, diet doctor

18 Edgar F. Codd, computer pioneer
19

Conrad Leonard (aged 104), British musician and composer
Norberto Longo, Telemundo sportscaster

Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress
Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle rider, after crashing into a Suzuka wall on April 6 (b. 1976)

Robert Blackburn, American artist and printmaker
Rocco Theunissen, Rally Driver
Nina Simone, 70, jazz singer, "High Priestess of Soul"

22 Martha Griffiths, Congresswoman, women's rights proponent
23

Bernard Katz biophysicist, Nobel Prize winner
James H. Critchfield, CIA Cold Warrior

25 Hidefumi Minorikawa, a Diet of Japan member of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party
26

The Honourable Rosemary Brown, Canadian politician (NDP), first black woman elected to a provincial legislature and first black woman to run for the leadership of a major federal political party
Caroline Newhouse, arts patron; widow of Theodore Newhouse
Max Nicholson, environmentalist
Peter Stone, Oscar-and-(3-time)Tony-winning writer

27 Elaine Steinbeck, former actress; widow of author John Steinbeck
29 Etti Plesch, who married three counts, an American heir, and a Hungarian Lawyer
30

Peter 'Possum' Bourne, 3 Times Asia-Pacific Rally Champion
Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist

March 2003

Roger Albertsen, Norwegian footballer.
Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer, Master of the Queen's Music
Robert B. Ingebretsen pioneer in the development of digital sound.
Hank Ballard, singer, composer, famous for his hit "The Twist"

3 Horst Buchholz, German actor
6 John Sanford, author
8

Adam Faith, 62, British singer and actor
Karen Morley, blonde star of 1930s movies; ex-wife of Charles Vidor

Stan Brakhage, filmmaker
F. William Sunderman (aged 104), physician and scientist

Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru
Barry Sheene, 52, twice 500cc MotoGP Champion
Naftali Temu, Kenyan athlete

Ivar Hansen, Danish politician and speaker of the Folketing

Howard Fast, novelist
Lynne Thigpen, actor, star of the long-running PBS game show Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, and a Tony Award-winner of the Wendy Wasserstein play An American Daughter
Harry The Kid Matthews, boxer, world title challenger in three divisions
Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (assassinated)
Andrei Kivilev, professional cyclist (fall during Paris-Nice race)

14 Jack Goldstein, artist
15 Dame Thora Hird, 91, veteran British actress
16

Major Ronald Ferguson, father of UK royal divorcée Sarah, Duchess of York, aged 71
Rachel Corrie, International Solidarity Movement activist, crushed to death by an Israeli armoured bulldozer

18 Adam Osborne, computer pioneer
19 Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator
20 Sailor Art Thomas, professional wrestler
21

22 Terry Lloyd, 50, ITN reporter killed in southern Iraq
24

Hans Hermann Groër, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (1986 - 1995) who resigned in 1995 after allegations of sexually abusing boys
Philip Yordan, screenwriter; won Oscar for "Broken Lance"

26 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former Senator from New York
27

Tauese Sunia, 61, Governor of American Samoa, heart attack

29 Dr. Carlo Urbani, WHO doctor, discoverer of SARS, of which he died
30 Valentin Pavlov, former prime minister of the Soviet Union
30 Gaby Rado, UK journalist
31

H.S.M. Coxeter, noted geometer and author of many books, died at age 96
Michael Jeter, actor, friend, as "The Other Mr. Noodle" to Sesame Street's Elmo

February 2003

Astronauts Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel B. Clark and Ilan Ramon aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia
Mongo Santamaria, percussionist, band leader, Latin jazz musician

Dr. Harold S. Ginsberg, microbiologist
Lou Harrison, American composer, noted for his microtonal works

Aino Järvesoo, Estonian philanthropist

Charles McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway, British industrialist and horticulturist.

Helge Boes, CIA operations officer

Robert St. John (aged 100), globetrotting reporter and author

John Reading, Mayor of Oakland, California from 1966 to 1977 who supported the building of the Oakland Coliseum

Vera Hruba Ralston, star of Ice Capades and Republic Pictures B-movies of the 1940s
Kerri Yascheshyn Canadian cancer patient whose friendship with Madonna made headlines

Edgar de Evia, American photographer born in Mérida, Yucatán, aged 92
Curt Hennig, professional wrestler
Clark MacGregor, former U.S. Congressman
Al Ruffo, former mayor of San Jose, California who helped form the San Francisco 49ers football team in 1946
Ron Ziegler former press secretary for Richard Nixon during the Watergate Scandal

Axel Jensen, Norwegian author
Kid Gavilan, world boxing champion and hall of famer
Stacy Keach Sr, character actor; father of actors Stacy and James Keach
Walt Rostow, political advisor

Dolly, 6, the world's first cloned mammal, euthanization following a lung disease
Johnny Longden, jockey

Eleanor "Sis" Daley, wife of Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley

Steve Bechler, baseball pitcher, Baltimore Orioles

Jack Brodsky, movie producer and publicist

Johnny PayCheck, country music singer

Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and literary theorist
Ty Longley, Guitarist for the heavy metal band Great White
Harry Jacunski, former NFL player, Green Bay Packers
Orville Lothrop Freeman, former Governor of Minnesota and Secretary of Agriculture for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
Mushaf Ali Mir, Pakistan Chief of the Air Staff

Jesica Santillan, heart and lung patient whose wrong transplant made headlines
Daniel Taradash, former president of AMPAS; Oscar-winning screenwriter of "From Here to Eternity"