Deaths in September 2003
The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.
September 2003
1
- Rand Brooks, 84, American film actor (Gone with the Wind, Babes in Arms, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin).[1]
- Sir Terry Frost, 87, British artist.
- John Gould, 94, American columnist, humorist and essayist, published in most major American newspapers and magazines.[2]
- Sir John Gray, 66, British diplomat.
- Héctor Rodríguez, 83, Cuban baseball player (Chicago White Sox).[3]
- Ramón Serrano Suñer, 101, Spanish politician.
2
- Thomas Neville Bonner, 80, American medical historian, institution president: New Hampshire, Union College, Wayne State[4]
- Katherine Sui Fun Cheung, 98, Chinese aviator.
- Hroar Dege, 82/83, Norwegian restaurateur.
- George Chubb, 3rd Baron Hayter, 92, British politician and industrialist.
- Nehemiah Levanon, 88, Israeli intelligence agent and diplomat.
- Bruce Waibel, 45, American musician and bass guitar player (FireHouse, Gregg Allman Band, Santana).[5]
- Peter West, 83, British BBC presenter and sports commentator, best known for his cricket, tennis and rugby coverage.[6]
3
- Jack Daniels, 79, American politician.
- Paul Hill, 49, American anti-abortion activist; executed for a double murder.
- Andrzej Nartowski, 71, Polish basketball player (basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics).[7]
- Norman Porteous, 104, theologian and writer on Old Testament issues.
4
- Ben Aris, 66, English actor (Hi-de-Hi!, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Stepping Out).[8]
- Béla H. Bánáthy, 83, Hungarian-American educator, systems and design scientist and author.[9]
- Susan Chilcott, 40, English opera singer, breast cancer.
- Penny Dwyer, 49, English comedian.
- David P. Robbins, 61, American mathematician.
- Tibor Varga, 82, Hungarian violinist, conductor and pedagogue.[10]
- Evangelos Yannopoulos, 85, Greek lawyer and politician (Minister of Justice).[11]
5
- Gordon Binkerd, 87, American composer, pianist and professor.[12]
- Harley Grossman, 73, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[13]
- Sir Richard Harrison, 82, New Zealand politician.
- Sir Ian Hunter, 84, British classical music impresario.
- Gisele MacKenzie, 76, Canadian-born singer and entertainer.
6
- Charles E. Bennett, 92, American politician (U.S. Representative for Florida's 2nd and 3rd congressional districts).[14]
- Marshall Joseph Caifano, 92, Italian-American Chicago Outfit and Las Vegas mobster.[15]
- Harry Goz, 71, American musical theater actor (Fiddler on the Roof) and voice actor (Sealab 2021).
- Kevin Morgan, 82, Australian politician.
- John Ross, 62, Australian politician.
- Wilbur Snapp, 83, American musician, stadium organist for the Clearwater Phillies and the Philadelphia Phillies.
7
- Great Antonio, 77, Croatian-Canadian strongman, wrestler, actor and eccentric.[16]
- Basant Kumar Biswal, 67, Indian politician.
- Lloyd Humphreys, 89, American psychologist and methodologist.
- Joe McDonald, 74, Scottish footballer.
- Rudy Mobley, 81, American football player.
- Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountaineer, avalanche.
- Robert Weinman, 88, American sculptor and "one of the nation's most accomplished medallic artists".[17]
- Merv Wellington, 62, New Zealand politician (Member of Parliament for Manurewa, Papakura).[18]
- Warren Zevon, 56, American singer and songwriter, cancer.[19]
8
- Jaclyn Linetsky, 17, Canadian voice actress (Caillou, 15/Love, What's with Andy?), road accident.
- Doris Ogilvie, 91, Canadian Olympic diver
- Gulabrai Ramchand, 76, Indian cricketer.
- Leni Riefenstahl, 101, German filmmaker.
- Caroline St John-Brooks, 56, Anglo-Irish education journalist.
9
- Thomas Allibone, 99, English physicist, focused on high voltage phenomena, nuclear fusion and particle physics.[20]
- David Applebaum, 51, American-born Israeli physician, suicide bomb victim.[21]
- Larry Hovis, 67, American actor (Hogan's Heroes).[22]
- Sir Francis Purchas, 84, British jurist.
- Edward Teller, 95, American physicist, "Father of the H-Bomb".
- Marthe Vogt, 100, German neuroscientist, contributed to the understanding of neurotransmitters in the brain.[23]
- Don Willesee, 87, Australian politician, member of the Australian Senate representing Western Australia.[24]
10
- Tata Esteban, 48, Filipino film producer and director, heart attack.
- Ruth Hill Useem, 88, American sociologist and anthropologist.
- Lee Kyung-hae, South Korean farmer and activist, suicide.
- Martin Page, 65, British writer and journalist, heart problems.
11
- Ben Bril, 91, Dutch boxer (men's flyweight boxing at the 1928 Summer Olympics).[25]
- James Edward Fitzgerald, 64, American Roman Catholic prelate.
- Stuart Golland, 58, English actor (Heartbeat).[26]
- Anna Lindh, 46, Swedish foreign minister.
- John Ritter, 54, American actor (Three's Company, Clifford The Big Red Dog, It), aortic dissection.[27]
12
- Garner Ted Armstrong, 73, American evangelist.
- Johnny Cash, 71, American country singer ("Folsom Prison Blues", "I Walk the Line", "Ring of Fire", "Man in Black").[28]
- David Dahlin, 86, American physician and pathologist.
- Chappie Fox, 90, American circus historian.
- Brian Plummer, 67, British writer and dog breeder.
- Patrick Wilson, 75, American librarian, philosopher, professor and author.[29]
13
- Inam Ahmed, 71, Bangladeshi actor.
- George Boothman, 86, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).[30]
- Ron Burton, 67, American professional football player (Northwestern, Boston Patriots).[31]
- Alexander Gläser, 89, German World War II Luftwaffe pilot.
- Frank O'Bannon, 73, American politician, Governor of Indiana (since 1997).
- Kenneth Walter, 63, South African cricketer.
- Johnny Welaj, 89, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Philadelphia Athletics).[32]
14
- Donald O. Clifton, 79, American psychologist, author, researcher, and entrepreneur.
- Garrett Hardin, 88, American ecologist and philosopher.
- Ken Kifer, 57, American cyclist and writer.
- Yetunde Price, 31, half-sister of Venus and Serena Williams, murdered in a shooting.
- John Serry Sr., 88, Italian American musician composer and arranger.
- Taya Zinkin, 84, English journalist and author.[33]
15
- Garner Ted Armstrong, 73, American television evangelist.[34]
- Jack Brymer, 88, British clarinetist (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra).[35]
- Donald Cameron, 75, Scottish rugby union player.
16
- Donald Deacon, 83, Canadian politician, leukemia.
- John Orrell, 68, British author, theatre historian and English professor, cancer.[36]
- Sheb Wooley, 82, American actor (High Noon, Rawhide) and singer ("The Purple People Eater").[37]
17
- Yitzhak Artzi, 82, Israeli politician.
- Derek Bryan, 92, British diplomat, sinologist and teacher.[38]
- Lewis Clark, 79, Canadian politician.
- George Gale, 74, British cartoonist.
- Leendert Ginjaar, 75, Dutch politician.
- Erich Hallhuber, 52, German actor.
- Ray Harvey, 74, Australian rules footballer.
- Neal Wood, 81, American-British political theorist and author.[39]
18
- Robert G. Bartle, 75, American mathematician, specialized in real analysis, known for writing popular mathematics textbooks.[40]
- Harry Birrell, 75, South African cricketer and schoolmaster.
- Samuel Delbert Clark, 93, Canadian sociologist.
- Pauline Crawley, 79, American baseball player (AAGPBL)[41]
- Richard A. Howard, 86, American botanist and plant taxonomist.
- Don Reese, 52, American professional football player (Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints), liver cancer.[42]
19
- Slim Dusty, 76, Australian country music singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer.
- Alfred Grislawski, 83, German fighter pilot during World War II.
- Ellen Idelson, 42, American television producer, television writer and actress, complications from cancer and Crohn's disease.
- Frank Lowe, 60, American jazz saxophonist, lung cancer.
- Adrian Shelford, 39, New Zealand rugby footballer, heart attack.
- Jim Thompson, 67, British Anglican bishop.
20
- Ghulam Ahmad, 80, Pakistani forestry official.
- Robert Blake, Baron Blake, 86, English historian and life peer, known for his biography of Benjamin Disraeli.[43]
- Tom Busby, 66, Canadian actor (The War Lover, The Dirty Dozen, Heavenly Pursuits).[44]
- Lorenzo Calonga, 74, Paraguayan footballplayer.
- Sonora Webster Carver, 99, American entertainer.
- Gordon Mitchell, 80, American actor and bodybuilder.
- Simon Muzenda, 80, Zimbabwean politician and vice-President of Zimbabwe.
- Maurizio Romano, 37, Italian voice actor, traffic collision.[45]
- Vernon Singer, 84, politician in Ontario, Canada.
- Russell L. De Valois, 76, American psychological and cognitive scientist, pioneering research on spatial and color vision.[46]
- Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, 62, British Cabinet minister, Leader of the House of Lords.[47]
21
- Robert H. Lochner, 84, American journalist and interpreter of John F. Kennedy with the "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech.
- Pamela Gordon, 66, American actress.[48]
- Otis A. Singletary, 81, American historian.
22
- Howard Austen, 74, American companion, long-time confidant and companion of Gore Vidal.[49]
- Gordon Jump, 71, American actor (WKRP in Cincinnati).
- Tony Shryane, 84, British radio producer.
- Hugo Young, 64, British journalist and political commentator (The Guardian, The Observer).[50]
23
- Rosalie Allen, 79, American country musician and television and radio host, known as Queen of the Yodelers.[51]
- Earl Brown, 87, American football and basketball player and coach (Auburn).[52]
- Zofia Chądzyńska, 91, Polish writer and translator.
- Simcha Dinitz, 74, Israeli statesman and politician.
- Donald Nicol, 80, English Byzantinist.
- Sarah Parkinson, 41, British producer and writer, breast cancer.
- Mirta Plá, 63, Cuban dancer.
- Zubayr Al-Rimi, 29, militant in al-Qaeda's Saudi wing, killed by Saudi security forces.
- Rex Robbins, 68, American actor of stage and screen, stroke.
- Yuri Senkevich, 66, Soviet doctor and scientist, heart failure.
24
- Yoshinobu Ashihara, 85, Japanese architect.
- Lyle Bettger, 88, American actor (The Greatest Show on Earth, Nevada Smith, Hawaii Five-O).[53]
- Hugh Gregg, 85, American politician, Governor of New Hampshire (1953-1955)
- Derek Prince, 88, English biblical scholar and author.
- Edward Said, 67, Palestinian scholar, leukemia.
25
- Alastair Borthwick, 90, Scottish author and broadcaster.[54]
- John Clayton, 63, Australian actor.
- Dai Davies, 78, Welsh rugby player.
- Herb Gardner, 68, American artist and writer.
- Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician, member of the Governing Council.
- Franco Modigliani, 85, Italian Nobel Prize-winning economist.
- Donald Nicol, 80, English Byzantine scholar.[55]
- George Plimpton, 76, American author, editor, socialite & actor.
- Bill Wolfgramm, 77, Tongan musician, specialized in lap steel guitar and Hawaiian music.[56]
26
- Olle Anderberg, 84, Swedish wrestler (1948 Olympic silver medal, 1952 Olympic gold medal).[57]
- Glyn Gilbert, 83, British Army general.
- Shawn Lane, 40, American guitarist and composer.
- Robert Palmer, 54, British singer.
- Robert Raymond, 81, Australian television pioneer.
- David Williams, 77, Welsh advertising executive and crime writer.[58]
27
- Red Barbary, 83, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[59]
- Robert Albert Bauer, 93, Austrian-American U.S. Foreign Service officer, Voice of America announcer, editor and author.[60]
- Tom Brennan, 81, American ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).[61]
- Paul Burlison, 74, American rockabilly guitarist and a founding member of The Rock and Roll Trio.[62]
- Donald O'Connor, 78, American actor, singer and dancer (Singin' in the Rain, Yes Sir, That's My Baby).[63]
- Wendy Wyland, 38, American Olympic diver (bronze medal in women's 10 metre platform at the 1984 Summer Olympics).[64]
- Masahiro Yoshimura, 66, Japanese Olympic swimmer (silver medal in 200 metre breaststroke at the 1956 Summer Olympics).[65]
28
- Knud Albjerg, 73, Danish sprint canoer (men's 1000 metres K-1 single-man sprint kayaks at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[66]
- Dany Bébel-Gisler, 68, Guadeloupean sociolinguist, ethnologist and author, preservationist of Creole languages.[67]
- Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris, 86, British Air Chief Marshal.
- Elia Kazan, 94, American film director (A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, East of Eden).
- Althea Gibson, 76, African-American tennis player.
29
- Wesley Tuttle, 85, American country music singer.
- Raoul Gregory Vitale, 75, Syrian musicologist .
- Jack Wedley, 85–86, Canadian football player.
- Beatrice Blyth Whiting, 89, American anthropologist, a pioneer in the comparative study of child development.[68]
30
- Yusuf Bey, 67, American Black Muslim activist and leader, cancer.[69]
- Ronnie Dawson, 64, American rockabilly singer, guitarist and drummer.
- Ashley Greenwood, 91, British soldier, lawyer, and judge.
- John Hawkesworth, 82, English television/film producer and writer.
- Robert Kardashian, 59, American criminal defense lawyer, esophageal cancer.
- John Rosenbaum, 70, American kinetic sculptor.
- Edouard Wah, Haitian painter.
- Helen Van Pelt Wilson, 101, American garden writer.
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