Deaths in 2003

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[edit] January 2003

1 - Joe Foss, 87, politician, fighter pilot, recipient of the Medal of Honor
2 - Sydney Omarr, 76, astrologer, newspaper columnist
3 - Sid Gillman, 91, American football coach
4 - Raymond Aker, 82, scholar and authority on Francis Drake.
4 - Conrad Hall, 76, Hollywood cinematographer, a two-time Academy Award-winner
4 - Yfrah Neaman, 79, violinist and teacher
5 - Roy Jenkins, 82, British Labour MP and co-founder, first leader of, then Peer for, the Social Democratic Party
8 - Simeon Aké, 71, Ivorian politician.
8 - Ron Goodwin, 77, British film music composer and conductor
11 - Mickey Finn, 55, band member of T. Rex
11 - Sir Anthony Havelock-Allan, 98, British producer and screenwriter
11 - Maurice Pialat, 77, French movie director
11 - Richard Simmons, 89, actor, Sgt William Preston on TV's Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
12 - Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, 76, former dictator of Argentina
12 - Maurice Gibb, 53, band member of Bee Gees
12 - Alan Nunn May, 91, British physicist and spy [1]
12 - Koloman Sokol, 100, Slovak artist
12 - Brandon "ripper" Vedas, 21, (overdosed on drugs while chatting on IRC)
13 - Norman Panama, 88, screenwriter and director
15 - Doris Fisher, 87, singer & songwriter
16 - Hans Pietsch, 34, German professional Go player
18 - Richard Crenna, 74, actor
19 - Françoise Giroud, 86, French writer and politician
20 - Al Hirschfeld, 99, caricaturist
20 - Bill Werbeniuk, 56, Canadian snooker player
21 - Tony O'Malley, 89, Irish artist and painter
22 - Bill Mauldin, 81,World War II cartoonist
23 - Nell Carter, 54, singer, actress
24 - Gianni Agnelli, 81, Italian entrepreneur and president of Fiat
25 - Diana Gould, Baroness Menuhin, 90, British dancer and widow of Lord Yehudi Menuhin
25 - Robert Rockwell, 82, actor, Philip Boynton on TV's Our Miss Brooks
26 - 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie (George Younger), 71, British politician, Secretary of State for Scotland between 1979 and 1986
26 - Valeriy Brumel, 60, athlete, track and field
27 - Lord Dacre (Hugh Trevor-Roper), 89, British historian, authenticator of the hoaxed Hitler Diaries
29 - Frank Moss, 91, former Utah Senator
29 - Peter Shaw, 84, actor, producer, second husband of actress Angela Lansbury

[edit] February 2003

1 - Astronauts Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel B. Clark and Ilan Ramon aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia
1 - Mongo Santamaria, percussionist, band leader, Latin jazz musician
2 - Lou Harrison, 85, American composer, noted for his microtonal works
4 - Charles McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway, British industrialist and horticulturist.
5 - Helge Boes, CIA operations officer
7 - John Reading, Mayor of Oakland, California from 1966 to 1977 who supported the building of the Oakland Coliseum
9 - Vera Hruba Ralston, star of Ice Capades and Republic Pictures B-movies of the 1940s
10 - Edgar de Evia, 92, American photographer born in Mérida, Yucatán
10 - Epifanía Díaz, 63, Venezuelan teacher born in Maracaibo, Venezuela
10 - Curt Hennig, professional wrestler
10 - Clark MacGregor, former U.S. Congressman
10 - Al Ruffo, former mayor of San Jose, California who helped form the San Francisco 49ers football team in 1946
10 - Ron Ziegler, 63, former press secretary for Richard Nixon during the Watergate Scandal
13 - Axel Jensen, Norwegian author
13 - Kid Gavilan, world boxing champion and hall of famer
13 - Stacy Keach Sr, 88, character actor; father of actors Stacy and James Keach
13 - Walt Rostow, 86, political advisor
14 - Dolly, 6, the world's first cloned mammal, euthanization following a lung disease
14 - Johnny Longden, 96, jockey
16 - Eleanor "Sis" Daley, 95, wife of Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley
17 - Steve Bechler, baseball pitcher, Baltimore Orioles
19 - Johnny PayCheck, 64, country music singer
20 - Maurice Blanchot, 95,French philosopher and literary theorist
20 - Ty Longley, Guitarist for the heavy metal band Great White
20 - Harry Jacunski, former NFL player, Green Bay Packers
20 - Orville Lothrop Freeman, 84, former Governor of Minnesota and Secretary of Agriculture for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
20 - Mushaf Ali Mir, Pakistan Chief of the Air Staff
22 - Jesica Santillan, heart and lung patient whose wrong transplant made headlines
22 - Daniel Taradash, former president of AMPAS; Oscar-winning screenwriter of "From Here to Eternity"
23 - Howie Epstein, former Bass player for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
25 - Alberto Sordi, Italian comedy actor
25 - Tom O'Higgins, former Irish Chief Justice & twice defeated Irish presidential candidate
27 - Fred Rogers, 74, host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
28 - Roger Needham, computer pioneer
28 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, former President of El Salvador
28 - Chris Brasher, 74, athlete

[edit] March 2003

2 - Roger Albertsen, Norwegian footballer.
2 - Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer, Master of the Queen's Music
2 - Robert B. Ingebretsen pioneer in the development of digital sound.
2 - Hank Ballard, 66, singer, composer, famous for his hit "The Twist"
3 - Horst Buchholz, 69, German actor
6 - John Sanford, author
8 - Adam Faith, 62, British singer and actor
8 - Karen Morley, 93, blonde star of 1930s movies; ex-wife of Charles Vidor
9 - Stan Brakhage, filmmaker
10 - Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru
10 - Barry Sheene, 52, twice 500cc MotoGP Champion
10 - Naftali Temu, Kenyan athlete
11 - Ivar Hansen, Danish politician and speaker of the Folketing
12 - Howard Fast, 88, novelist
12 - 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
12 - Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (assassinated)
12 - 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 [2]
16 - 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
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
24 - Philip Yordan, 88, screenwriter; won Oscar for "Broken Lance"
26 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 76, former Senator from New York
27 - Tauese Sunia, 61, Governor of American Samoa, heart attack [3]
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, 96, noted geometer and author of many books
31 - Michael Jeter, actor, friend, as "The Other Mr. Noodle" to Sesame Street's Elmo

[edit] April 2003

1 - Leslie Cheung, 46, actor and singer, one of the superstars in Hong Kong during late 1980s, committed suicide
1 - Booker Bradshaw, record producer, film & TV actor, Motown executive
2 - Michael Wayne, film producer; eldest son of John Wayne
2 - Edwin Starr, 61, soul singer
2 - 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
6 - 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
6 - 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, 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
10 - Little Eva (Eva Narcissus Boyd), who sang the 1962 hit The Loco-Motion
12 - Sydney Lassick, actor, best known playing asylum resident Cheswick in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
12 - Cecil H. Green, 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
17 - Paul Getty, philanthropist
17 - Robert Atkins, 72,diet doctor
18 - Edgar F. Codd, computer pioneer
19 - Conrad Leonard, 104, British musician and composer
20 - Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress
20 - Daijiro Kato, 26, Japanese motorcycle rider, after crashing into a Suzuka wall on April 6
21 - Robert Blackburn, American artist and printmaker
21 - Nina Simone, 70, jazz singer, "High Priestess of Soul"
22 - Martha Griffiths, 91, Congresswoman, women's rights proponent
23 - Bernard Katz biophysicist, Nobel Prize winner
23 - James H. Critchfield, CIA Cold Warrior
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
26 - Max Nicholson, environmentalist
26 - 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
30 - Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist

[edit] May 2003

1 - Miss Elizabeth, 42, WWE wrestling figure
3 - Suzy Parker, 70, actress; top model of the 1950s
5 - Walter Sisulu, 90, ANC activist
6 - David Woodley, former quarterback of the Miami Dolphins, who started in Super Bowl XVII
9 - Russell B. Long, 84, 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
13 - John Savage, former Premier of Nova Scotia, Canada
14 - Robert Stack, 84, Hollywood actor, host of Unsolved Mysteries
14 - Dame Wendy Hiller, 91, British actress (August 15, 1912 - May 14, 2003)
14 - Dave DeBusschere, NBA basketball player
15 - Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist
15 - George Francis, British suspected mobster
15 - June Carter Cash, 73, musician, singer, wife of Johnny Cash
16 - Mark McCormack, sports business pioneer, founder of IMG
18 - Anna Santisteban, advisor of Miss Puerto Rico titleholders for the Miss Universe contest
18 - Barb Tarbox, Canadian anti-smoking activist
21 - Alejandro de Tomaso, 74, a racing driver and industrialist from Argentina.
21 - Frank D. White, Former governor of Arkansas
26 - Kathleen Winsor, author of Forever Amber
27 - Luciano Berio, composer
28 - Ilya Prigogine, 86, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
28 - Martha Scott, 90, actress
28 - Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut
30 - Mickie Most, 64, music producer, produced acts such as Lulu, Donovan, The Animals, Hot Chocolate, Suzi Quatro and Kim Wilde

[edit] June 2003

2 - Fred Blassie, 85, former professional wrestler
2 - Richard Cusack, 77, ad executive turned actor/screenwriter, father of actors John Cusack and Joan Cusack, dies of pancreatic cancer in Evanston, Illinois
2 - Jack Frazier, former Saddam Hussein hostage
5 - Meir Vilner, 84, last surviving signatory to Israel's declaration of independence and former chairman of the Communist Party of Israel
5 - Jürgen Möllemann, former German minister
5 - Tony McAuley BBC Northern Ireland broadcaster & film-maker associated with traditional Irish music and arts
5 - Trevor Goddard, actor
10 - Donald Regan, Chief of Staff and Treasury Secretary during the Reagan administration
10 - Bernard Williams, British philosopher
10 - Phil Williams, highly-respected Welsh politician, in a Cardiff massage parlour
11 - David Brinkley, 82, broadcast journalist
12 - Gregory Peck, 87, actor
15 - Hume Cronyn, 91,actor
18 - Larry Doby, 79, baseball Hall of Famer, second Black man to play in the MLB
19 - Glen Grant, Hawaiian historian, folklorist and author
19 - 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
23 - Vasil Bykau, Belarusian writer
24 - Maynard Jackson, former Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, first black mayor of a major southern U.S. city
24 - Leon Uris, 78, author
25 - Lester Maddox, 87, segregationist Governor of the State of Georgia
25 - Shun Yashiro, 70, Japanese actor and seiyū, stroke
26 - Marc-Vivien Foé, 28, Cameroonian football player collapsed and died on the football pitch in Lyon
26 - Sir Denis Thatcher Bt., 88, husband to Baroness Thatcher, former UK Prime Minister
26 - Strom Thurmond, 101, Former South Carolina Governor, United States Senator, and Presidential candidate
27 - Magne Aarøen, Norwegian politician
28 - Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete
29 - Katharine Hepburn, 96, actress
30 - Robert McCloskey, 88, children's book writer and illustrator
30 - Buddy Hackett, 78, American comedian and actor, diabetes mellitus

[edit] July 2003

1 - Wesley Mouzon, 75, former professional boxer, beat Bob Montgomery
1 - Herbie Mann, 73, crossover jazz and bossa nova flutist
1 - N!xau, Namibian actor
3 - Gaetano Alibrandi, 89, papal diplomat and Apostolic Nuncio to the Republic of Ireland
3 - Najeeb Halaby, chairman of Pan Am from 1969 to 1972, father of Queen Noor
4 - Larry Burkett, founder of Christian Financial Concepts
4 - Barry White, 58, American smooth soul singer, renal failure
5 - Roman Lyashenko, New York Rangers hockey player
5 - Bebu Silvetti, popular Argentine musician, songwriter and arranger
5 - Isabelle, Countess of Paris, widow of Henri, Count of Paris, pretender to the French throne
6 - Buddy Ebsen, 95, American actor
7 - Izhak Graziani, conductor
8 - Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian conjoined twins
9 - Winston Graham, 95, author of Poldark and Marnie
10 - Hartley Shawcross (Lord Shawcross), 101, Britain's chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
11 - Zahra Kazemi, Iranian-born Canadian journalist
11 - Ken Whyld, British chess author
12 - Benny Carter, 95, American jazz pioneer
13 - Compay Segundo, 95, Cuban musician and star of the Buena Vista Social Club
14 - Ahmed Al-Waeli, Shiite cleric.
14 - Tex Schramm, 83, former Dallas Cowboys president and general manager
14 - André Claveau, French singer
16 - Captain James Kelly, former Irish Army officer cleared of attempting to import arms for the IRA in the Arms Trial in 1970
16 - Carol Shields, 68, Canadian author
16 - Celia Cruz, 77, Cuban legendary salsa singer
17 - Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist and champion of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach
17 - 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
18 - Brad Rone, 35, American boxer, injuries sustained in boxing
18 - Jane Barbe, phone company voiceover
19 - Pierre Graber, former member of the Swiss Federal Council (1970-1978)
19 - Bill Bright, evangelist, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ
20 - Nicolas Freeling, crime writer
20 - Lauri Aus, Estonian pro cyclist
21 - Walter M. "Matt" Jefferies, art director for the original Star Trek series and designer of the Starship Enterprise
21 - John Davies, president of the New Zealand Olympic Committee
21 - Tim Hemensley Australian Singer/Bass Guitarist
22 - Uday Hussein, 39, eldest son of Saddam Hussein, homicide by firearm
22 - Qusay Hussein, 37, second son of Saddam Hussein, homicide by firearm
23 - Othniel Askew, killer of James E. Davis
23 - James E. Davis, New York City councilman
24 - Colin R. McMillan, nominee for United States Secretary of the Navy
25 - Ludwig Bölkow, airplane engineer
25 - John Schlesinger, 77, director
26 - Richard Wayne Dirksen, composer, former organist-choirmaster Washington National Cathedral
27 - Bob Hope, 100, American comedian and actor, pneumonia
27 - Vance Hartke, 84, former U.S. Senator from Indiana
28 - Erik Braunn, Iron Butterfly guitarist
28 - 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

[edit] August 2003

1 - Guy Thys, 80, former Belgian national football coach.
1 - Marie Trintignant, French actress and daughter of actor Jean-Louis Trintignant
2 - Don Estelle, 70, actor who played 'Lofty' in the BBC's It Ain't Half Hot Mum
2 - Mike Levey, famous infomercial host
4 - Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh, longest-ordained hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church
4 - Chung Mong-hun, Korean businessman
5 - Tite Curet Alonso, well known Puerto Rican music composer, critic, newspaper writer
9 - Gregory Hines, 57, actor, dancer
9 - Ray Harford, 58, football manager
10 - Carmita Jimenez, Puerto Rican singer
11 - Kieran Kelly, Irish jump jockey after a racing accident
11 - Diana Mitford, 93, widow of British Fascist leader Oswald Mosley
11 - Herb Brooks, 66, coach of 1980 Miracle on Ice US Hockey team
11 - Armand Borel, notable Swiss mathematician
12 - Jackie Hamilton, British stand-up comedian
13 - Helmut Rahn, German soccer player, World Champion 1954
13 - Ed Townsend, 74, songwriter and producer
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, 78, former dictator of Uganda
16 - Connie Douglas Reeves, centenarian member of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame
19 - Carlos Roberto Reina, former president of Honduras
19 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello, United Nations Special Representative to Iraq
21 - Wesley Willis, American schizophrenic musician and artist
22 - Arnold Gerschwiler, figure skating trainer in Britain
22 - Glenn Stetson, Canadian singer
23 - John Geoghan, defrocked pedophile priest
23 - Bobby Bonds, former baseball player and father of San Francisco Giants ballplayer Barry Bonds
23 - Michael Kijana Wamalwa, Kenyan Vice-President
23 - Imperio Argentina, 96, Spanish singer and actress
23 - Jack Dyer, Australian rules football legend
24 - Harry W. Addison, American author
24 - Sir Wilfred Thesiger, 93, British explorer
24 - Mal Colston, Australian politician
26 - Jim Wacker, American football college coach
27 - Pierre Poujade, French politician
29 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim
29 - Kathy Wilkes, Oxford philosopher and education worker in Eastern Europe
30 - Steve Eisner, boxing promoter
30 - Charles Bronson, 81, actor
30 - Donald Davidson (philosopher)

[edit] 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, 76, singer
6 - Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber, Everest Summiter, died while climbing Gasherbrum I. [4]
6 - Wilbur Snapp, stadium organist kicked out of game by umpire for playing Three Blind Mice
7 - Warren Zevon, 56, singer and songwriter
7 - The Great Antonio, strongman and eccentric
8 - Leni Riefenstahl, 101, German filmmaker
8 - Jaclyn Linetsky, 17, Canadian voice actress, road accident
9 - Larry Hovis, actor, played Carter on Hogan's Heroes
9 - Edward Teller, 95, 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
11 - John Ritter, 54, American actor and comedian, aortic dissection
11 - Anna Lindh, 46, Swedish foreign minister
12 - Johnny Cash, 71, American country singer, diabetes mellitus
12 - Rev Prof Norman Walker Porteous, theologian and writer on Old Testament issues
13 - Frank O'Bannon, 73Governor of Indiana
15 - Jack Brymer, British clarinettist
15 - Yetunde Price, 30, sister of American tennis players Venus and Serena Williams
16 - Erich Hallhuber, Bavarian actor
16 - Sheb Wooley, 82, actor, singer of 1958 pop hit Purple People Eater
19 - Slim Dusty, 76, Australian country music singer
20 - Lord Williams of Mostyn, British Cabinet minister, Leader of the House of Lords
20 - Liam Tobin, longtime Árd Rúnaí Roinn na Gaeltachta (Secretary to the Irish Department of the Gaeltacht) and Irish language campaigner
20 - 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
22 - Gordon Jump, 71, American actor
24 - Derek Prince, 88, author, biblical scholar and spiritual patriarch
24 - Edward Said, Palestinian scholar
25 - George Plimpton, 76, author, editor
25 - Franco Modigliani, Nobel Prize-winning economist
25 - Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician, member of the Governing Council
26 - Robert Palmer, 54, singer
27 - Donald O'Connor, 78, entertainer, actor
28 - Yukichi Chuganji, 114 years
28 - Elia Kazan, 94, director
28 - Althea Gibson, 76, tennis player
30 - Robert Kardashian, criminal defense lawyer

[edit] October 2003

2 - John T. Dunlop, 89, briefly Secretary of Labor under Gerald Ford
3 - William Steig, 95, American cartoonist and children's author; creator of Shrek
4 - Sid McMath, 91, former governor of Arkansas
4 - James Forlong, former British reporter for Sky News, who was accused of faking a news report during the invasion of Iraq, apparent suicide
4 - Bill Cayton, American boxing manager, owner of (reportedly) largest fight video collection in the world, former manager of Edwin Rosario and Mike Tyson
5 - Neil Postman, media critic
5 - Elena Slough, 114, oldest recognized American
5 - Denis Quilley, British actor
5 - Dan Snyder, Atlanta Thrashers hockey player
5 - Timothy Treadwell, environmentalist and bear enthusiast
6 - Mildred O'Neill, widow of former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Tip O'Neill
7 - Eleanor Lambert, U.S. fashion pioneer
7 - Izzy Asper, Canadian press baron [5]
7 - Felicitas Corrigan, Benedictine nun
9 - Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American academic and author
10 - Eugene Istomin, American pianist
12 - Willie Shoemaker, 72, Hall of Fame jockey
12 - Jim Cairns, Australian politician
13 - Bertram Brockhouse, Nobel Prize-winning Canadian physicist [6]
13 - Joan B. Kroc, 75, 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.
16 - Stu Hart, 88, patriarch of wrestling family
16 - László Papp, Hungarian boxer
16 - Avni Arbas, Turkish artist
18 - Preston Smith, 91, governor of Texas
18 - Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer
19 - Margaret Murie, 101, "Mother of the Modern Conservationist Movement"
19 - Michael Hegstrand, 45, "Road Warrior Hawk"
19 - Alija Izetbegović, 78, President of Bosnia and Herzegovina
20 - Jack Elam, 84, American actor
21 - Louise Day Hicks, 87, US politician
21 - Fred Berry, 52, American actor, "Rerun" on the show What's Happening!!
21 - Elliott Smith, 34, US musician
21 - Luis A. Ferré, 99, former governor of Puerto Rico
22 - Tony Renna, 27, IndyCar Driver
23 - Tony Capstick, British actor, comedian, musician and broadcaster
23 - Pete Chisman, British cyclist, 63 years, complications from surgery [7]
23 - Soong May-ling, 106, 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, 66, announcer on The Price is Right
28 - Behram Kursunoglu, 81, Turkish physicist
29 - Hal Clement, 81, author
30 - Franco Corelli, 81, operatic tenor
31 - Richard Neustadt, political scholar and historian
31 - Kamato Hongo, 116?, oldest recognized person in world

[edit] November 2003

2 - Frederic Vester, 77, German cybernetician
3 - Aaron Bridgers, 85, French jazz pianist
3 - Rasul Gamzatov, 80, Avarian/Soviet/Russian poet, called the "People's poet of Dagestan"
3 - Frank McCloskey, 64, Indiana Congressman from 1983-1995
4 - Ken Gampu, South African actor
5 - Richard Wollheim, 80, British philosopher
5 - Bobby Hatfield, 63, half of the singing duet the Righteous Brothers
5 - Dernell Stenson, Cincinnati Reds baseball player
6 - Eduardo Palomo, 41, Mexican actor
6 - Crash Holly, 32, professional wrestler
6 - Rie Mastenbroek, 84, Dutch swimmer, triple Olympic champion
8 - Hava Rexha, 123?, oldest woman in Albania, maybe in the world
8 - C. Z. Guest, 83, socialite
9 - Gordon Onslow Ford, 90, surrealist painter
9 - Mario Merz, Italian artist
9 - Art Carney, 85, The Honeymooners actor
9 - Buddy Arnold, jazz saxophonist
10 - Canaan Banana, 67, first president of independent Zimbabwe
10 - Irv "Kup" Kupcinet, 91, columnist, television personality
11 - Robert Brown, 82, British actor (M in 4 James Bond films)
12 - Tony Thompson, drummer for The Power Station
12 - Penny Singleton, 95, American actress
12 - Jonathan Brandis, 27, actor, reportedly suicide
13 - Kellie Waymire, 35, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise)
13 - Mitoyo Kawate, 114, oldest recognized person in the world
14 - Gene Anthony Ray, 41, actor and dancer
15 - Ray Lewis, first Canadian-born black Olympic medalist
15 - Mohamed Choukri, writer
15 - Laurence Tisch, 80, billionaire, head of Loews Corporation and CBS television network
15 - Dorothy Loudon, 70, actress
16 - Bettina Goislard, 29, UNHCR relief worker
16 - Arihiro Fukuda, 39, Japanese associate professor and author of Sovereignty and the Sword
17 - Gerry Adams Sr., 77, IRA member
17 - Arthur Conley, soul singer
17 - Don Gibson, 75, singer-songwriter
18 - Michael Kamen, composer
19 - Ken Brett, 55, former Major League Baseball player, brother of George Brett
20 - David Dacko, 73, first president of the Central African Republic
20 - Robert Addie, 43, British actor
20 - Eugene Kleiner, entrepreneur and co-founder of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers venture capital firm
20 - Roger Short, 58, British diplomat, consul-general in Istanbul
20 - Kerem Yilmazer, 58, Turkish actor
20 - Jim Siedow, 83, American actor
24 - Hugh Kenner, 80, literary critic
24 - Warren Spahn, 82, baseball pitcher
24 - Floquet de Neu or Copito de Nieve ("Snowflake"), rare albino gorilla, star of the Barcelona zoo [8]
24 - Uma Devi (popularly known as Tuntun), 80, Indian actress
26 - Stefan Wul, 81, French science fiction writer
26 - Soulja Slim, rapper
26 - Anton Burg, 99, USC chemistry professor
27 - Will Quadflieg, German actor
28 - Harold von Braunhut, American, creator of Amazing Sea-Monkeys and other comic book kitsch, member of the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Nations
30 - Barber B. Conable, 81, New York Congressman, president of the World Bank from 1986-1991
30 - Gertrude Ederle, 97, first woman to swim the English Channel