Deaths in March 2003
The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2003.
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Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
March 2003
1
- Elaine Barrie, 87, American actress (Midnight), fourth wife of John Barrymore.[1]
- Franjo Glaser, 90, Croatian footballer.
- Roger Needham, 68, British computer scientist, pioneered computer password one-way hash functions.[2]
- Countess Viktoria-Luise of Solms-Baruth, 81, German princess.
2
- Roger Albertsen, 45, Norwegian footballer.
- Hank Ballard, 66, American singer (The Midnighters), composer, famous for his hit "The Twist".[3]
- William Blezard, 81, English composer, accompanist/arranger for Noël Coward, Marlene Dietrich, Joyce Grenfell, Honor Blackman.[4]
- Joe Decker, 55, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Minnesota Twins, Seattle Mariners).[5]
- Sir George Edwards, 94, British aircraft designer.
- Sir Ian Hogg, 91, British admiral.
- Robert B. Ingebretsen, 54, pioneer in the development of digital sound.
- Malcolm Williamson, 71, Australian composer, Master of the Queen's Music.[6]
- Bill Woggon, 87, American cartoonist who created the comic book Katy Keene.[7]
3
- Gilbert Wheeler Beebe, 90, American epidemiologist and statistician, conducted ground-breaking radiation exposure studies.[8]
- Ann A. Bernatitus, 91, American U.S. Navy nurse, Legion of Merit for heroism during the siege of Bataan and Corregidor.[9]
- Sir John Brown, 86, British publisher (Oxford University Press).[10]
- Horst Buchholz, 69, German actor (The Magnificent Seven, One, Two, Three, Life Is Beautiful).[11]
- Jack Dain, 90, British-born Australian Anglican prelate, Asistant Bishop of Sydney.[12]
- Dick Garrard, 92, Australian Olympic wrestler (silver medal in men's freestyle welterweight at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[13]
- John S. Gill, 70, Australian rules footballer.[14]
- Malcolm Kilduff, 75, American journalist.
4
- Fedora Barbieri, 82, Italian operatic mezzo-soprano and actress.[15]
- Sébastien Japrisot, 71, French author, screenwriter and film director.
- Oliver Payne Pearson, 87, American zoologist and ecologist.
- Neil Smith, 53, English cricketer.
5
- Sir Hardy Amies, 93, English fashion designer, official dressmaker for Queen Elizabeth II.[16]
- Séamus de Brún, 91, Irish teacher, member of the Seanad and a promoter of Irish culture and language.[17]
- John Sanford, 98, American screenwriter and author.
- Pete Taylor, 57, American sportscaster.
- Dzhabrail Yamadayev, 32, Chechen rebel field commander, killed by a bomb.
6
- Ernst B. Haas, 78, German-born American political scientist.
- Mickey Kreitner, 80, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).[18]
- Ramón Mestre, 65, Argentine politician.
7
- José Márcio Ayres, 49, Brazilian conservationist and zoologist, founded Brazilian rain forest reserves.[19]
- Monica Hughes, 77, Canadian science fiction author.
- Al Libke, 84, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).[20]
- Sid Scales, 86, New Zealand cartoonist.
8
- Cho Byung-hwa, 81, South Korean poet.
- Adam Faith, 62, British singer and actor.
- Stanisław Fołtyn, 66, Polish Olympic footballer.
- Mickey McGowan, 81, American baseball player (New York Giants).[21]
- Karen Morley, 93, American film actress and political activist; former wife of Charles Vidor.
9
- Stan Brakhage, 70, American filmmaker, bladder cancer.[22]
- Tony Dornhorst, 87, British physician and medical educator.
- Rolf Hagedorn, 83, German theoretical physicist.
- Toni Mendez, 94, American agent for writers and cartoonists.
- Frederick Wood, 76, British businessman and industrialist (Croda International).[23]
10
- Víctor Alba, 86, Spanish writer and anti-communist, anti-capitalist political journalist.[24]
- Gennadi Afanasyev, 60, Russian football player and manager.
- Tom Boardman, Baron Boardman, 84, British businessman and politician (MP for Leicester South West, Leicester South).[25]
- Lionel Frederick Dakers, 79, British cathedral organist.
- Bernard Dowiyogo, 57, President of Nauru, cardiac complications from diabetes.
- Geoffrey Kirk, 81, British classical scholar.
- Barry Sheene, 52, British twice 500cc MotoGP Champion.
- Naftali Temu, 57, Kenyan athlete, prostate cancer.
- Ottorino Volonterio, 85, Swiss Formula One race car driver.[26]
11
- Brian Cleeve, 81, Anglo-Irish writer.
- Alta Cohen, 94, American baseball player (Brooklyn Robins/Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies).[27]
- John G. Dow, 97, American politician (U.S. Representative for New York's 27th congressional district).[28]
- Ivar Hansen, 64, Danish politician and speaker of the Folketing.
- Alec Harper, 92, British soldier and polo player.
- Kevin Laffan, 80, British playwright and screenwriter (Emmerdale), pneumonia.[29]
- Kenneth G. Wilson, 79, American author (The Columbia Guide to Standard American English) and academic.[30]
- Wayne D. Wright, 86, American horse racing jockey, winner of all three Triple Crown races in different years.[31]
12
- Herb Banet, 89, American professional football player (Manchester University, Green Bay Packers).[32]
- Zoran Đinđić, 50, Prime Minister of Serbia, gunshot (assassination).
- Alys Faiz, 87, Pakistani writer and human rights activist.
- Howard Fast, 88, American novelist.
- Andrey Kivilev, 29, Kazakhstani road bicycle racer (2001 Route du Sud, 2000 Olympics, 1996 Olympics), fall during Paris–Nice race.[33]
- Lynne Thigpen, 54, American television and Tony Award-winning stage actress (An American Daughter).
13
- Lois Tobío Fernández, 96, Galician writer, translator and philologist.
- Enriko Josif, 78, Serbian composer.
- Gus Yatron, 75, American politician (U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district).[34]
14
- Harmon Craig, 76, American geochemist.
- Amanda Davis, 32, American writer and teacher.
- Al Gionfriddo, 81, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Brooklyn Dodgers).[35]
- Jack Goldstein, 57, American artist, suicide.
- Ron Shoop, 71, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[36]
15
- Yevgeny Belyayev, 48, Soviet cross-country skier (Olympic medals: 1976 silver, 1976 bronze, 1980 gold).[37]
- Mari Bicknell, 89, English choreographer and ballet teacher.[38]
- Dame Thora Hird, 91, British actress.
- Bill Robertson, 79, British footballer.
16
- Lawrence H. Aller, 89, American astronomer, studied the chemical composition of stars and nebulae.[39]
- George Bayer, 77, American professional golfer, won three PGA Tour events, known for his long drives.[40]
- Rachel Corrie, 23, American International Solidarity Movement activist, crushed by bulldozer.
- Major Ronald Ferguson, 71, father of UK royal divorcée Sarah, Duchess of York.
- Sir Davis Hughes, 92, Australian politician.
17
- Herbert Aptheker, 87, American historian and political activist.[41]
- Terje Baalsrud, 88, Norwegian newspaper editor.
- Thomas N. Barnes, 72, American Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force.[42]
- Bill Carlisle, 94, American country music singer, songwriter and comedian.
- Yvette Etiévant, 80, French actress.
- Alan Keith, 84, British broadcaster.
- Klaus Oldendorff, German Olympic sailor
- Robert Shelton, 73, American clansman.
- Su Buqing, 100, Chinese mathematician.
- Beatrice Wright, 92, American-British politician (Member of Parliament of the U.K. for Bodmin).[43]
18
- József Balla, 47, Hungarian wrestler (men's Olympic freestyle super-heavyweight wrestling: 1976 silver medal, 1980 silver medal).[44]
- Bruno Heim, 92, Swiss ecclesiastical diplomat, Apostolic Nuncio to Britain.
- Karl Kling, 92, German racing driver.
- Adam Osborne, 64, computer pioneer (Osborne 1).[45]
- Monk Williams, 58, American professional football player (Cincinnati Bengals).[46]
19
- Joe Buzas, 83, American baseball player (New York Yankees) and minor league baseball team owner.[47]
- Hiromichi Fuyuki, 42, Japanese professional wrestler and promoter.
- Émile Genest, 81, Canadian actor, heart attack.
- Olivier Long, 87, Swiss Ambassador and the director-general of the GATT.
- Emily Muir, 99, American painter, architect and philanthropist.
- Michael Mathias Prechtl, 76, German illustrator.
- Nancy Farley Wood, 99, American physicist and business owner, member of the Manhattan Project.[48]
20
- Al Blades, 26, American professional football player (University of Miami, San Francisco 49ers), car accident.[49]
- Krishanu Dey, 41, Indian football player, pulmonary disorder.
- Sailor Art Thomas, 79, American professional wrestler, cancer.
- Richard W. Vollmer Jr., 77, American judge (U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama).[50]
21
- Wesley Balk, 70, American opera artistic director (Minnesota Opera), professor of theater arts and writer.[51]
- Harry Eisenstat, 87, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians).[52]
- Leonard Hokanson, 71, American pianist, pancreatic cancer.
- Shivani, 79, Indian writer.
- Umar Wirahadikusumah, 78, Indonesian fourth Vice President, served from 1983 to 1988.[53]
22
- Jim Anderson, 59, Australian politician.
- Terry Lloyd, 50, British ITN reporter, killed in southern Iraq.
- Paul Moran, 39, Australian photojournalist, killed by suicide bomb in Northern Iraq.
23
- Hideyo Amamoto, 77, Japanese actor, complications from pneumonia.
- Dave Dallwitz, 88, Australian jazz musician and painter.
- Tage Nielsen, 74, Danish composer, teacher and music administrator.[54]
- Lori Piestewa, 23, United States Army soldier, head wounds received during ambush.
24
- Jan-Just Bos, 63, Dutch rower (bronze medal in men's coxed pair rowing at the 1964 Summer Olympics).[55]
- John Cavanagh, 88, Irish couturier.
- Hans Hermann Groër, 83, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (1986–1995), pneumonia.
- Don Raffell, 83, American musician and educator.
- Brandi Wells, 47, American singer, songwriter and entertainer, breast cancer.
- Philip Yordan, 88, American screenwriter, won Academy Award for Best Story for Broken Lance in 1954.[56]
25
- Robert W. Allard, 83, American plant geneticist, founded the field of plant population genetics.[57]
- Christopher French, 77, British barrister and judge.
- Masato Furuoya, 45, Japanese actor, suicide by hanging.
- Michael Kidron, 72, revolutionary thinker and cartographer.
26
- Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky, 81, second rebbe of Jerusalem, Israel.
- Marcus Kaufman, 73, American politician, renal failure.
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 76, American politician, sociologist, and diplomat, complications following an appendectomy.
- Babatunji Olowofoyeku, 85, Nigerian politician, educationist and lawyer.
- Tauese Sunia, 61, Governor of American Samoa, heart attack.
- Rolf Thomsen, 87, U-boat commander in the Kriegsmarine during World War II.
- Dorothy Clarke Wilson, 98, American writer, wrote Prince of Egypt, which was primary source for The Ten Commandments.[58]
27
- Jeremiah Duggan, 22, British student, traffic accident.
- Edouard Masengo, Congolese guitarist.
- Chris Michie, 55, guitarist and composer and best known for his work with Van Morrison, malignant melanoma.
- Elisa Mújica, 85, Colombian writer.
- Paul Zindel, 66, American playwright (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds), lung cancer.[59]
28
- Kadri Aytaç, 71, Turkish football player and then manager, Alzheimer's disease.
- Sam Bowens, 65, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Washington Senators).[60]
- Rusty Draper, 80, American country and pop singer, pneumonia.
- Pat Kelly, 37, American football player, died of cancer on March 28, 2003.
- Sir Kenneth Porter, 90, British air marshal.
- L. B. G. Rao, 81, Indian politician.
29
- Placide Adams, 73, American string bass player, drummer and vocalist.[61]
- Neil Clarke, 45, Australian footballer.
- Matthew J. Ryan, 70, American politician.
- Maude Storey, 73, British nursing administrator, diabetes.
- Dr. Carlo Urbani, 46, World Health Organization doctor who discovered SARS, of which he died.
30
- Andy Barr, 89, Northern Irish trade unionist (chairman of Communist Party of Ireland, president of Irish Congress of Trade Unions).[62]
- Bruno Boni, 87, Italian rower (bronze medal in men's coxless pair at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[63]
- David Cook, 73/4, British literary critic.
- Michael Jeter, 50, American actor (Evening Shade, Waterworld, Jurassic Park III).
- Sir Gregor MacGregor, 6th Baronet, 77, Scottish clan chief and army officer.
- Valentin Pavlov, 65, former Prime Minister of the Soviet Union.
- Gaby Rado, 48, Hungarian-born activist and UK-based journalist.
- Patricia Vinnicombe, 71, South African-Australian archaeologist and art preservationist (San rock art, Australian Aboriginal art).[64]
31
- Lucian Adams, 80, American U.S. Army World War II soldier who received the Medal of Honor.[65]
- Charly Bouvy, 60, Belgian bobsledder and field hockey player (1964 bobsleigh, 1968 field hockey, 1972 field hockey).[66]
- George Connor, 78, American football player (Notre Dame, Chicago Bears), member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[67]
- Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, 96, UK/Canadian geometer, academic and author.
- Sidney Greenberg, 85, American rabbi and author.
- Fermín Vélez, 43, Spanish sports car racing driver, two-time 12 Hours of Sebring winner, two-time Group C2 champion.[68]
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