Deaths in February 2003

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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2003.

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.

## February 2003

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### 1

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* Anne Burr, 84, American actress (Native Son, The Hasty Heart, As the World Turns).[1]
* Bodil Kjer, 85, Danish actress.[2]
* Adalberto Ortiz, 88, Ecuadorian writer.
* Mongo Santamaría, 85, Cuban Latin jazz percussionist.[3]
* Nancy Whiskey, 67, Scottish folk singer ("Freight Train").[4]
* Crew of STS-107 killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster:
* Michael P. Anderson, 43, American, payload commander.[5]
* David M. Brown, 46, American, mission specialist.[6]
* Kalpana Chawla, 40, American, mission specialist.[7]
* Laurel Clark, 41, American, mission specialist.[8]
* Rick Husband, 45, American, commander.[9]
* William C. McCool, 41, American, pilot.[10]
* Ilan Ramon, 48, Israeli, payload specialist.[11]

### 2

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* Randy Chin, 65, Jamaican record producer, diabetes.[12]
* Tom Edmunds, 77, Australian politician.
* József Gál, 84, Hungarian Olympic wrestler.[13]
* Lou Harrison, 85, American composer, noted for his microtonal works, heart attack.[14]
* Jack Lauterwasser, 98, English racing cyclist and cycling engineer, fall at home.[15]
* Richard C. Lee, 86, American politician, Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut.[16]
* Won-kuk Lee, 95, South Korean martial artist (Chung Do Kwan).
* Marcello Truzzi, 67, American professor of sociology, cancer.[17]
* Emerson Woelffer, 88, American abstract expressionist artist and teacher.[18]
* Eizo Yuguchi, 57, Japanese football player, stomach cancer.[19]

### 3

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* Fulgencio Berdugo, 84, Colombian football player.[20]
* Natascha Artin Brunswick, 93, German-American mathematician and economist.
* Lana Clarkson, 40, American actress (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Scarface, Barbarian Queen), shot by record producer Phil Spector.[21]
* Venanzo Crocetti, 89, Italian sculptor.
* João César Monteiro, 64, Portuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic, lung cancer.[22]
* Trevor Morris, 82, Welsh footballer and World War II pilot.[23]
* Peter Schat, 67, Dutch composer, cancer.[24]

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* Charles McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway, 89, British industrialist and horticulturalist.[25]
* Benyoucef Benkhedda, 82, Algerian politician, head of Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (1961-1962).[26]
* Charlie Biddle, 76, American-Canadian jazz bassist, played with Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.[27]
* Jean Brossel, 84, French physicist and modern quantum optics pioneer.[28]
* Pierre Carteus, 59, Belgian football player.[29]
* Jerome Hines, 81, American operatic bass.[30]
* Qalandar Momand, 72, Pakistani poet and writer.[31]
* James Needs, 83, British film editor.
* André Noyelle, 71, Belgian road racing cyclist (1952 Olympic gold medals: individual road race, team road race).[32]
* Jaroslav Šajtar, 81, Czech chess master.

### 5

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* Guillermo González Calderoni, 54, Mexican Federal Judicial Police official, murdered.[33]
* René Cardona Jr., 63, Mexican filmmaker and actor.
* Micky Fenton, 89, England football player.[34]
* Larry LeSueur, 93, American journalist, Parkinson's disease.[35]
* Antonina Shuranova, 66, Russian stage, television and film actress.
* Joseph P. Vigorito, 84, American politician (U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 24th congressional district).[36]
* Manfred von Brauchitsch, 97, German auto racing driver, winner of three Grand Prix races in the 1930s.[37]

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* Eric Ashby, 85, English naturalist and wildlife cameraman.[38]
* José Craveirinha, 80, Mozambican journalist, story writer and poet.[39]
* Arthur Doherty, 71, Irish politician.
* René Haby, 83, French politician.[40]
* Robert William St. John, 100, American author, broadcaster, and journalist.[41]
* Peter Saunders, 91, British theatre impresario.[42]

### 7

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* Augusto Monterroso, 81, Honduran writer, heart failure.[43]
* Amalia Nieto, 95, Uruguayan painter, engraver and sculptor.
* Malcolm Roberts, 58, English pop singer, heart attack .[44]
* Stephen Whittaker, 55, British actor and director (Nicholas Nickleby, Sons and Lovers), complications following surgery.[45]

### 8

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* Alfred Aston, 90, French football winger and manager.[46]
* William Louis Culberson, 73, American lichenologist, cancer.
* John Charles Cutler, 87, American surgeon.
* K. K. Soundar, 78, Tamil film actor.
* Alice Treff, 96, German film actress.[47]
* Konrad Weichert, 68, German Olympic sailor (bronze medal in 1968 Dragon, silver medal in 1972 Dragon).[48]

### 9

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* Herma Bauma, 88, Austrian javelin thrower (gold medal in women's javelin throw at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[49]
* Ruby Braff, 75, American jazz trumpeter and cornetist.[50]
* Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda, 76, Japanese-Turkish mathematician.
* Ken McKinlay, 74, British speedway rider.
* Billy Parker, 61, American baseball player (California Angels), cancer.[51]
* Vera Ralston, 82, Czech-American figure skater and "B" actress, star of ice capades, cancer.

### 10

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* Chuck Aleno, 85, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).[52]
* Ralph Beard, 73, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).[53]
* Antoni Czubiński, 74, Polish historian.
* Edgar de Evia, 92, American photographer pneumonia.
* Antoinette Feuerwerker, 90, French jurist and member of the French Resistance during World War II.
* Curt Hennig, 44, American professional wrestler, drug overdose.
* Lars-Eric Kjellgren, 84, Swedish screenwriter and film director.
* José Lewgoy, 82, American-Brazilian actor.[54]
* Clark MacGregor, 80, American politician and congressman (1961–1970).[55]
* Robert Rush Miller, 86, American zoologist and ichthyologist.[56]
* Walter Thomas James Morgan, 102, British biochemist.[57]
* Max Pécas, 77, French filmmaker, writer and producer, lung cancer.[58]
* Jan Veselý, 79, Czech cyclist (men's individual road race, men's team road race at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[59]
* Ron Ziegler, 63, former press secretary for Richard Nixon during the Watergate Scandal, heart attack.[60]

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* Socorro Avelar, 77, Mexican actress, stomach cancer.
* Arndt Bause, 66, German composer, pulmonary embolism.[61]
* Marc Iliffe, 30, British strongman, suicide by hanging.[62]
* Daniel Toscan du Plantier, 61, French film producer, heart attack.[63]
* Moses Hogan, 45, American composer and arranger of choral music, brain cancer.
* Luke Chia-Liu Yuan, 90, Chinese-American physicist and grandson of Yuan Shikai.[64]

### 12

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* Wally Burnette, 73, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics).[65]
* Michel Graillier, 56, French jazz pianist.[66]
* Vali Myers, 72, Australian artist, cancer.[67]
* Devendra Satyarthi, 94, Indian folklorist and writer.[68]
* Jeanne Stuart, 94, British stage and film actress.[69]
* Haywood Sullivan, 72, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Kansas City Athletics) and owner (Boston Red Sox), stroke.[70]
* Dick Whitman, 82, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies).[71]
* Kemmons Wilson, 90, American businessman, founder of Holiday Inn.[72]

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* Joe Connelly, 85, American television and radio scriptwriter.[73]
* James Thomas Flexner, 95, American historian and biographer.[74]
* Kid Gavilán, 77, Cuban world boxing champion, heart attack.[75]
* Robert Ivers, 68, American actor.[76]
* Axel Jensen, 71, Norwegian author, ALS.[77]
* Stacy Keach, Sr., 88, American actor (Pretty Woman, Teen Wolf, The Parallax View).[78]
* Stuart Keith, 71, British-American ornithologist.[79]
* Leonor Llausás, 73, Mexican actress, heart attack.
* Walt Whitman Rostow, 86, American political advisor.[80]

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* Dolly, 6, the world's first cloned mammal, euthanization following a lung disease.
* Gunnar Johansson, 78, Swedish football player and manager.[81]
* Johnny Longden, 96, American jockey.[82]
* Paul E. Meehl, 83, American clinical psychologist.[83]
* Grigory Mkrtychan, 78, Soviet and Russian ice hockey goalkeeper.[84]
* Archie Savage, 88, American dancer, choreographer, and film and theatre actor.

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* Vincent Apap, 93, Maltese sculptor.
* Alexander Bennett, 73, British ballet dancer, teacher and ballet master, principal dancer with the Royal Ballet.[85]
* Miroslav Horníček, 84, Czech actor, writer, director, and artist.[86]
* H. Dale Jackson, 72, American Baptist minister.
* Vlastimil Koubek, 75, Czech-American architect, cancer.
* Roberto Leydi, 74, Italian ethnomusicologist.[87]
* Fritz Pollard, 87, American athlete and Olympic medalist.[88]
* Francisque Ravony, 60, Malagasy lawyer and politician, heart attack.
* Joaquín Solano, 89, Mexican Olympic medalist in equestrianism.[89]
* Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce, 95, British judge.[90]

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* Philip John Gardner, 88, British recipient of the Victoria Cross.
* Jim Gordon, 76, American television and radio newscaster, cancer.[91]
* Abu Ishaque, 76, Bangladeshi novelist.
* Rusty Magee, 47, American composer of musicals, cancer.[92]
* Aleksandar Tišma, 79, Serbian novelist.[93]

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* Steve Bechler, 23, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles), ephedra overdose.[94]
* Julian Bigelow, 89, American computer engineer, built one of the first digital computers (IAS machine).[95]
* Allen Britton, 88, American music educator, contributed to the history of music pedagogy.[96]
* Pete Schrum, 68, American actor.[97]

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* Quentin Anderson, 90, American literary critic and cultural historian (Henry James, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman), heart attack.[98]
* Ittla Frodi, 72, Swedish actress, writer and producer.
* Isser Harel, 90/91, Israeli spymaster and director of the Mossad.[99]
* Beth Marion, 90, American B-movie actress, stroke.

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* Washington Beltrán, 88, Uruguayan politician, President (1965-1966).
* Buck Divecha, 75, Indian cricket player.[100]
* Igor Gorbachyov, 75, Soviet and Russian actor, theater director and pedagogue.
* James Hardy, 84, American pioneer surgeon.[101]
* Tanya Moiseiwitsch, 88, English theatre designer.[102]
* Johnny Paycheck, 64, American country music singer, pulmonary emphysema.[103]

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* Maurice Blanchot, 95, French writer, philosopher and literary theorist.[104]
* Orville Freeman, 84, American politician, Governor of Minnesota and Secretary of Agriculture, Alzheimer's disease.[105]
* Harry Jacunski, 87, American gridiron football player (Green Bay Packers).[106]
* Ty Longley, 31, American guitarist for the heavy metal band Great White; victim in the Station nightclub fire.
* Mushaf Ali Mir, 55, Pakistan statesman and air force general, Chief of Air Staff (since 2000), plane crash.[107]
* Golam Mustafa, 67, Bangladeshi actor and reciter.
* Jerzy Passendorfer, 79, Polish film director and member of parliament.[108]
* Abdul Razzaq Anjum, 50, Pakistani air force officer, Deputy Chief of the Air Staff (since 2000), plane crash.[109]
* Robert Grier Stephens, Jr., 89, American politician.[110]
* Peter Tewksbury, 79, American film and television director.[111]
* Rizwan Ullah Khan, 45, Pakistani air force officer, plane crash.[112]

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* Virginia Biddle, 92, American revue performer, showgirl, and nude model, complications following car accident.
* Jim Courtright, 88, Canadian Olympic track and field athlete.[113]
* John E. Fryer, 65, American psychiatrist and gay rights activist, pneumonia.[114]
* Tom Glazer, 88, American folk singer and songwriter.[115]
* Karel Kosik, 76, Czech marxist philosopher.[116]
* Nelly Mazloum, 73, Egyptian actress, dancer, and choreographer.
* Nora Ney, 96, Polish film actress.
* Kevin O'Shea, 77, American basketball player.[117]
* Rusty Peters, 88, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns).[118]
* Eddie Thomson, 55, Scottish football player and coach, lymphoma.

### 22

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* Kurt Gscheidle, 78, German politician.
* Donald Haldeman, 55, American sport shooter and Olympic gold medalist.[119]
* Jean-Pierre Miquel, 66, French actor and theatre director, cancer.[120]
* Daniel Taradash, 90, American screenwriter (From Here to Eternity, Hawaii, Storm Center), Oscar winner (1955), pancreatic cancer.[121]

### 23

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* Shlomo Argov, 73, Israeli diplomat, Ambassador of Israel to the United Kingdom.[122]
* Howie Epstein, 47, American bass player for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, drug overdose.
* Christopher Hill, 91, British historian.[123]
* Pavel Lebeshev, 63, Soviet and Russian cinematographer.
* Robert K. Merton, 92, American sociologist.[124]
* Marcel Prawy, 91, Austrian dramaturg and opera critic.[125]
* Hasanagha Turabov, 64, Azerbaijani and Soviet actor.
* Titos Vandis, 85, Greek actor (The Exorcist, Fletch Lives, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman), cancer.[126]

### 24

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* Alex Cameron, 65, American English professor and pronouncer of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.[127]
* Al Hibbs, 78, American mathematician and physicist known as "The Voice of JPL".[128]
* Susan Johnson, 75, American actor and singer, pulmonary emphysema.[129]
* Sam King, 91, English golfer.
* Bernard Loiseau, 52, French chef, suicide by gunshot.[130]
* Jum'a-Mohammad Mohammadi, Afghan politician, minister of mines and industries, plane crash.[131]
* Walter Scharf, 92, American film composer, heart failure.[132]
* Alberto Sordi, 82, Italian comedy actor, heart attack.
* Antoni Torres, 59, Spanish footballer, cancer.[133]
* Güven Önüt, 63, Turkish football player.

### 25

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* Alexander Kemurdzhian, 81, Armenian scientist and aerospace engineer.
* John Lecky, 62, Canadian sport rower.[134]
* Eric Marsh, 82, English cricket player.[135]
* Tom O'Higgins, 86, Irish Fine Gael politician, barrister and judge.
* René Römer, 73, Dutch academic and Governor of the Netherlands Antilles (1983-1990).

### 26

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* Harold Amos, 84, American microbiologist and professor, chairman of Harvard Medical School bacteriology department.[136]
* Brian Evans, 60, Welsh football player, cancer.[137]
* Akira Fujiwara, 80, Japanese historian.
* Christian Goethals, 74, Belgian racing driver.
* Jaime Ramírez, 71, Chilean football player.[138]

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* Johnny Carpenter, 88, American film actor, screenwriter and producer, cancer.
* Charles Knott, 88, English cricket player.[139]
* John Lanchbery, 79, British-Australian musician.[140]
* Wolfgang Larrazábal, 91, Venezuelan naval officer and politician.
* James D. Nichols, 74, American horse racing jockey, rode in seven U.S. Triple Crown races.[141]
* Peter Petroff, 83, Bulgarian-American inventor, engineer, NASA scientist, and adventurer.
* Fred Rogers, 74, American television (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood).[142]
* Othar Turner, 95, American fife player.[143]

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* Albert Batteux, 83, French football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.[144]
* Alfred Bernstein, 92, American civil rights, civil liberties and union activist.[145]
* Göte Blomqvist, 75, Swedish ice hockey player (bronze medal in ice hockey at the 1952 Winter Olympics).[146]
* Chris Brasher, 74, British track and field athlete (gold medal in men's 3000m steeplechase at the 1956 Summer Olympics).[147]
* Jacob E. Davis, 97, American politician.
* Dinos Dimopoulos, 81, Greek film director.[148]
* Jim Fridley, 78, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Redlegs).[149]
* Fidel Sánchez Hernández, 85, former President of El Salvador, heart attack.
* Yō Inoue, 56, Japanese voice actress (Mobile Suit Gundam, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Gordian Warrior), lung cancer.
* Rudolf Kingslake, 99, English academic, lens designer, and engineer.[150]
* Major Sundarrajan, 67, Indian actor and director.

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