Deaths in October 2003

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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

## October 2003

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### 1

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* John Brim, 81, American Chicago blues musician, heart cancer.[1]
* Huntington Hardisty, 74, U.S. Navy admiral.
* Beate Hasenau, 67, German film and television actress.[2]
* Joy N. Houck, Jr., 61, American actor, screenwriter and film director.[3]
* Chubby Jackson, 84, American jazz double-bassist and band leader.[4]
* Zbigniew Lengren, 84, Polish cartoonist, caricaturist, and illustrator.
* Julie Parrish, 62, American actress, ovarian cancer.
* Frank Taylor, 95, British politician, MP for Manchester Moss Side.

### 2

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* Milan Bjegojević, 75, Serbian basketball player and coach.
* John Thomas Dunlop, 89, American administrator and Secretary of Labor under Gerald Ford.[5]
* Otto Günsche, 86, German SS escort of Adolf Hitler, who was tasked to cremate his body on 30 April 1945, heart failure.[6]
* Ahmed Khadr, 55, Egyptian-Canadian Islamist, shot and killed by Pakistani security forces.
* Hasan Mahsum, Turkestani Islamic extremist group leader, shot by the Pakistani Army.
* Denis Moore, 93, English cricketer.[7]
* Gunther Philipp, 85, Austrian film actor, physician and swimmer.

### 3

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* Joop Bakker, 82, Dutch politician and businessman.[8]
* John Baldock, 87, British politician (Member of Parliament for Harborough).[9]
* Tish Daija, 78, Albanian composer.[10]
* Profira Sadoveanu, 97, Romanian prose writer and poet.[11]
* Gustav Sjöberg, 90, Swedish football goalkeeper.
* Florence Stanley, 79, American actress (Barney Miller, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Dinosaurs), stroke.[12]
* William Steig, 95, American cartoonist and children's author; creator of Shrek.[13]
* Winifred Watkins, 79, British biochemist.[14]

### 4

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* Bill Cayton, 85, American boxing manager, former manager of Edwin Rosario and Mike Tyson.
* John Horace Ragnar Colvin, 81, British intelligence officer.[15]
* Hanadi Jaradat, 28, Palestinian jihadist, suicide by explosive vest.[16]
* Sid McMath, 91, American attorney and politician, 34th governor of Arkansas.[17]
* Freddie Phillips, 84, British musician and composer.
* Elisabeta Rizea, 91, Romanian anti-communist partisan, viral pneumonia.[18]
* Fred Tuttle, 84, American farmer, actor and politician, heart attack.[19]

### 5

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* Wil van Beveren, 91, Dutch sprinter (1936 Summer Olympics: men's 100m, men's 200m, men's 4x100m relay).[20]
* Wally George, 71, American conservative radio and television commentator, pneumonia.[21]
* Neil Postman, 72, American media critic, lung cancer.[22]
* Denis Quilley, 75, British actor, liver cancer.[23]
* Dan Snyder, 25, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Atlanta Thrashers), traffic collision.[24]
* Elena Slough, 114, American supercentenarian and oldest recognized person in the United States.
* Annalena Tonelli, 60, Italian Catholic lay missionary and social activist, homicide.
* Timothy Treadwell, 46, American environmentalist and documentary filmmaker, bear attack.
* František Velecký, 69, Slovak actor and artist.
* Dwain Weston, 30, Australian skydiver and base jumper, accidental death.[25]

### 6

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* Joe Baker, 63, English footballer, heart attack.[26]
* Antony Buck, 74, British politician (Member of Parliament for Colchester, Colchester North).[27]
* Armando Crispino, 78, Italian film director and screenwriter.[28]
* William Herrmann, 91, American gymnast and Olympic medalist.[29]
* Charles Millot, 81, Yugoslav-French actor.[30]
* Azam Tariq, 35, Pakistani politician, homicide.

### 7

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* Izzy Asper, 71, Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate (CanWest Global Communications Corp).[31]
* Arthur Berger, 91, American composer, music critic, teacher and an academic music writer.[32]
* Ryan Halligan, 13, American bullying victim, suicide by hanging.
* Eleanor Lambert, 100, American fashion pioneer.[33]
* Viktor Leonov, 86, Soviet Navy officer and twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
* Norodom Narindrapong, 49, Cambodian prince, heart attack.
* Henry Herbert, 17th Earl of Pembroke, 64, British landowner, politician, film director, and producer.[34]

### 8

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* Thalia Mara, 92, American ballet dancer and educator.[35]
* Cyril May, 82, British socialist politician.[36]
* Petter Thomassen, 62, Norwegian politician.
* Junior Wren, 73, American professional football player (Missouri, Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers).[37]

### 9

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* Carl Fontana, 75, American jazz trombonist, Alzheimer's disease.[38]
* Ruth Hall, 92, American film actress.
* Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, 77, American academic, suicide by drug overdose.[39]
* Don Lanphere, 75, American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist.

### 10

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* Igor Borisov, 79, Russian rower and Olympic silver medalist.[40]
* Viola Burnham, 72, Guyanese politician, First Lady to Forbes Burnham and Vice President, cancer.[41]
* Eila Hiltunen, 80, Finnish sculptor.
* Victoria Horne, 91, American actress, appearing in 49 films.[42]
* Eugene Istomin, 77, American pianist, liver cancer.[43]
* Johnny Klippstein, 75, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Redlegs, Minnesota Twins).[44]
* Eve Newman, 88, American music and film editor (Academy Award nominations: Wild in the Streets, Two-Minute Warning).[45]
* Julia Trevelyan Oman, 73, British set designer.[46]
* Pastora Peña, 83, Spanish film actress.
* Frank Alois Pitelka, 87, American ornithologist.[47]
* Max Rayne, 85, British property developer and philanthropist.

### 11

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* Vivien Alcock, 79, English children's book writer.[48]
* Sadateru Arikawa, 73, Japanese aikido teacher and shihan.[49]
* Ivan Getting, 91, American physicist and electrical engineer.[50]
* Tommy Hanlon Jr., 80, American-Australian actor, comedian, television host and circus ringmaster, cancer.[51]
* John K. Mahon, 91, American historian.[52]
* Lila Ram, 72, Indian wrestler.[53]

### 12

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* Jim Cairns, 89, Australian politician (Deputy Prime Minister, Treasurer of Australia).[54]
* Ram Gopal, 90, Indian dancer and choreographer.[55]
* Ruth Halbsguth, 86, German swimmer and Olympic silver medalist.[56]
* Ion Ioanid, 77, Romanian dissident and writer.
* Arthur Kaye, 70, English football player.[57]
* Joan Kroc, 75, American philanthropist, widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, brain cancer.[58]
* Pete Morisi, 75, American comic book writer and artist.
* Fathur Rahman al-Ghozi, 32, Indonesian Islamic terrorist and bomb-maker, shot by police.
* Bill Shoemaker, 72, American Hall of Fame jockey, rode the winners in eleven Triple Crown races.[59]

### 13

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* Butch Brickell, 46, American race car driver (24 Hours of Daytona) and stuntman (The Specialist, 2 Fast 2 Furious).[60]
* Bertram Brockhouse, 85, Canadian physicist, 1994 Nobel Prize winner in physics for the development of neutron spectroscopy.[61]
* Eduard Prugovečki, 66, Romanian-Canadian physicist and mathematician.
* Anne Ziegler, 93, English singer, known for her duets with her husband Webster Booth.[62]

### 14

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* Mohamed Basri, 75-76, Moroccan activist and opposition leader, heart attack.[63]
* Edward T. Breathitt, 78, American politician, 51st governor of Kentucky, ventricular fibrillation.[64]
* Zoltan Crișan, 48, Romanian football player, tuberculosis.
* Wil Culmer, 45, Bahamian baseball player (Cleveland Indians).[65]
* Moktar Ould Daddah, 78, President of Mauritania.[66]
* Patrick Dalzel-Job, 90, British naval intelligence officer and commando.[67]
* Ben Metcalfe, 83, Greenpeace activist and co-founder, heart attack.[68]
* Javier Portales, 66, Argentine actor, heart attack.
* Miloš Sádlo, 91, Czech cellist and music teacher.[69]
* Knud Leif Thomsen, 79, Danish film director and screenwriter.[70]

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* Pierre Chanal, 56, Egyptian-French soldier and suspected serial killer, suicide by exsanguination.
* Norman Elder, 64, Canadian writer, artist, and Olympic equestrian, suicide by hanging.[71]
* Antonín Liška, 79, Czech Catholic theologist.
* Benny Lévy, 58, Egyptian-French philosopher, political activist and author.[72]

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* Avni Arbaş, Turkish artist, cancer.
* Lorraine Dunn, 61, Panamanian Olympic sprinter and hurdler.[73]
* Don Evans, 65, American playwright, theater director, and actor, heart attack.[74]
* James M. Hanley, 83, American businessman and politician.[75]
* Mark Hanna, 86, American screenwriter and actor.[76]
* Stu Hart, 88, Canadian professional wrestler, stroke.
* László Papp, 77, Hungarian boxer.[77]
* Ignatius Jerome Strecker, 85, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Carl Urbano, 93, American animator and director.

### 17

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* Charlie Justice, 79, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins).[78]
* Frank O'Flynn, 84, New Zealand politician.
* Janice Rule, 72, American actress, cerebral hemorrhage.[79]
* António Dias Teixeira, 73, Portuguese football player and manager.

### 18

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* William C. Cramer, 81, American attorney and politician, heart attack.[80]
* Rodolfo Freude, 83, Argentine politician and close advisor of president Juan Perón.
* David Lodge, 82, English actor, cancer.[81]
* Ralph Moffitt, 71, English golfer.
* Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, 64, Spanish novelist (Detective Carvalho saga), journalist and poet.[82]
* Preston Smith, 91, American politician (40th Governor of Texas from 1969 to 1973).[83]

### 19

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* Jaime Allende, 79, Spanish field hockey player (field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[84]
* Sir Peter Berger, 78, British admiral (Amethyst Incident).[85]
* Road Warrior Hawk, 46, American professional wrestler (WWF), heart attack.
* Harun bin Idris, 77, Malaysian politician and 8th Menteri Besar of Selangor.
* Alija Izetbegović, 78, Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, cardiovascular disease.
* Margaret Elizabeth Murie, 101, American naturalist, writer, adventurer, and conservationist.[86]
* Nello Pagani, 92, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Formula One driver.
* Guy Rolfe, 91, British actor.
* Georgi Vladimov, 72, Soviet and Ukrainian dissident writer.[87]

### 20

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* František Balvín, 88, Czechoslovak cross-country skier (Olympic skiing: 1948 50km, 1948 relay, 1952 50km).[88]
* Ernie Calverley, 79, American basketball player (Rhode Island, Providence Steamrollers) and coach.[89]
* Jack Elam, 82, American actor (Once Upon a Time in the West, The Cannonball Run, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid), heart attack.[90]
* Donald G. Jackson, 60, American filmmaker, leukemia.
* Miodrag Petrović Čkalja, 79, Serbian actor.

### 21

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* Fred Berry, 52, American actor, stroke.[91]
* Luis A. Ferré, 99, Puerto Rican industrialist and politician, respiratory failure.[92]
* Louise Day Hicks, 87, American politician (Boston City Council, U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 9th congress. dist.).[93]
* Tomáš Pospíchal, 67, Czech football player.
* Alfred Rose, 71, Indian Konkani singer, composer, and actor.
* Elliott Smith, 34, American musician, suicide by stabbing.[94]
* Arturo Warman, 66, Mexican anthropologist, author, and politician.

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* Dee Andros, 79, American football player, coach (University of Idaho, Oregon State University) and athletic director.[95]
* Ron Collier, 73, Canadian jazz trombonist, composer, and arranger.[96]
* Willem Meijer, 80, Dutch botanist and plant collector.[97]
* Philippe Ragueneau, 85, French journalist and writer.[98]
* Hans Ras, 77, Dutch linguist and professor of Javanese language and literature.
* Tony Renna, 26, American motor racer and IndyCar driver, racing accident.
* Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas, 81, Venezuelan diplomat (Ambassador to the U.S., Foreign Minister of Venezuela), lung cancer.[99]

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* Tony Capstick, 59, British actor, comedian, musician and broadcaster, aneurysm.
* Al Corwin, 76, American baseball player (New York Giants).[100]
* Vlasta Depetrisová, 82, Czech table tennis player.
* Kevin Magee, 44, American basketball player, traffic collision.[101]
* Soong Mei-ling, 105, Chinese political figure and wife of president Chiang Kai-shek.[102]
* Judah Segal, 91, British linguist.[103]
* Hiroshi Yoshimura, 63, Japanese musician and composer, skin cancer.

### 24

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* Rosie Nix Adams, 45, American singer and songwriter, daughter of June Carter Cash, carbon monoxide poisoning.[104]
* Bob Bailey, 72, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks).[105]
* Veikko Hakulinen, 78, Finnish cross-country skier, triple Olympic- and world champion, traffic collision.[106]
* Joanna Lee, 72, American writer, producer, director and actress, bone cancer.[107]
* Half a Mill, 30, American rapper, suicide by gunshot.
* Carmen Pujals, 87, Argentine botanist.
* Richard H. Wasai, 70, American politician.[108]

### 25

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* Hemu Adhikari, 84, Indian cricketer.[109]
* Pandurang Shastri Athavale, 83, Indian philosopher and social activist.
* Noreen Branson, 93, British political activist and historian of the Communist Party of Great Britain.[110]
* John Hart Ely, 64, American legal scholar, cancer.[111]
* Behram Kurşunoğlu, 81, Turkish physicist, heart attack.[112]
* Richard Leibler, 89, American mathematician and cryptanalyst.
* Robert Strassburg, 88, American conductor, composer, and musicologist.[113]
* Mario Vitale, 75, Italian film actor.

### 26

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* Johnny Boyd, 77, American racecar driver, twelve Indianapolis 500-mile races from 1955 to 1966.[114]
* Steve Death, 54, English football goalkeeper, cancer.
* Leonid Filatov, 56, Soviet and Russian actor, director and poet, pneumonia.[115]
* François Guérin, 75, French film and television actor.[116]
* Roy Harte, 79, American jazz drummer and record producer.
* Hans-Joachim Jabs, 85, German Luftwaffe officer during World War II.
* Elem Klimov, 70, Soviet and Russian film director, brain hypoxia.[117]
* Roberto García Morillo, 92, Argentine composer, musicologist, music professor and music critic.[118]
* Heinz Piontek, 77, German writer.[119]
* Jürgen Simon, 65, German cyclist.[120]
* Viguen, 73, Iranian pop music singer ("Sultan of pop") and actor, cancer.[121]

### 27

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* John William Atkinson, 79, American psychologist.
* Hank Beenders, 87, Dutch-American basketball player (Providence Steamrollers, Philadelphia Warriors, Boston Celtics).[122]
* Manoj Khanderia, 60, Indian poet and writer.
* Tarun Kumar, 72, Indian actor.
* K. R. Malkani, 81, Indian journalist, historian and politician.
* Rod Roddy, 66, American radio and television announcer, cancer.
* Walter Washington, 88, American civil servant and politician, first Mayor of the District of Columbia, kidney failure.[123]
* Fred Whittingham, 64, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, New Orleans Saints), complications from back surgery.[124]

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* Jean Carbonnier, 95, French jurist.[125]
* Marie Maynard Daly, 82, American biochemist.
* Edward Hartwig, 94, Polish photographer.[126]
* Nora Ney, 81, Brazilian singer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
* Joan Perucho, 82, Spanish novelist, poet, art critic, and judge.[127]
* Alexander Raichev, 81, Bulgarian composer.
* Oliver Sain, 71, American musician and record producer, cancer.

### 29

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* Gino Armano, 76, Italian football player.[128]
* Hal Clement, 81, American author, diabetes.[129]
* Franco Corelli, 82, Italian tenor, heart attack.[130]
* Gerrie Deijkers, 56, Dutch football player, heart attack.[131]
* Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, 93, American science fiction fan, publisher, writer, and minister.[132]
* A. Carl Helmholz, 88, American nuclear physicist.[133]
* Jaime Castillo Velasco, 89, Chilean politician, pneumonia.

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* Lynn S. Beedle, 85, American structural engineer.[134]
* Carl Berner, 90, Danish rower (men's coxed pairs, men's eights at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[135]
* Franco Bonisolli, 65, Italian operatic tenor.[136]
* Ron Davies, 57, American songwriter and musician, heart attack.[137]
* Abel Ehrlich, 88, Israeli composer.[138]
* Aidyn Guseinov, 46, Azerbaijani chess player.
* Subhadra Joshi, 84, Indian freedom activist and politician.
* Börje Leander, 85, Swedish football player.[139]
* Steve O'Rourke, 63, English music manager and racing driver, stroke.
* Richard Clyde Taylor, 83, American philosopher.[140]

### 31

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* Robert Guenette, 68, American screenwriter and film/television producer and director, brain tumor.[141]
* Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, 95, Indian carnatic musician.[142]
* José Juncosa, 81, Spanish football player and manager.
* Antonio Medina, 84, Spanish chess master.[143]
* Richard Neustadt, 84, American academic and advisor to several presidents.[144]
* Karel Paulus, 70, Czech volleyball player.[145]
* Yechiel Shemi, Israeli sculptor.[146]
* Lindsay Weir, 95, New Zealand cricketer.[147]

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