• Source: Deaths in December 2003

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.




December 2003






= 1

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Hamza Alavi, 82, Pakistani-British sociologist and activist (Campaign Against Racial Discrimination).
Fernando Di Leo, 71, Italian film director and script writer.
Clark Kerr, 92, American academic, chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1952–58), complications from a fall.
Eugenio Monti, 75, Italian bobsledder (six Olympic bobsledding medals: 1956 two silver, 1964 two bronze, 1968 two gold), suicide by gunshot.
Carl Schenkel, 55, Swiss film director, heart attack.




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Ruth Nanda Anshen, 103, American philosopher, author and editor.
Suzanne Cloutier, 80, Canadian film actress, liver cancer.
Alan Davidson, 79, British food writer and diplomat.
Vic Gordon, 92, British Australian actor of vaudeville, television and film.
Ignaz Kiechle, 73, German politician and minister for agriculture (1983–1993).
Frances Morris, 95, American actress.
Rudolph A. Peterson, 98, American banker.




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Dulce Chacón, 49, Spanish poet, novelist and playwright, pancreatic cancer.
Jay Difani, 80, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
Ellen Drew, 88, American film actress, liver ailment.
Sita Ram Goel, 82, Indian historian, activist, writer, and publisher.
David Hemmings, 62, British actor and director, heart attack.




= 4

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John H. Hannah, Jr., 64, American judge (U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas), heart attack.
Dezső Lemhényi, 85, Hungarian water polo player, coach and Olympic champion.
Jimmy Smith, 92, Scottish football player.
David Vaughan, 59, English psychedelic artist.
Jacques Viau, 84, Canadian lawyer and reformist.




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Paul Busby, 85, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
Bob Gregory, 82, American comics artist and writer.
Felix Kaspar, 88, Austrian figure skater (bronze medal in men's singles figure skating at the 1936 Winter Olympics).
Jack Keller, 61, American poker player.
José Manuel Pesudo, 67, Spanish football goalkeeper and coach.
Antony Rowe, 79, English rower and Olympian.
Gregorio García Segura, 74, Spanish composer of film scores.
Yasuo Tanaka, 71, Japanese voice actor.




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Haddis Alemayehu, 93, Ethiopian Foreign Minister and novelist.
John Bingham, 61, British classical pianist.
Hans Hotter, 84, German operatic bass-baritone.
José María Jiménez, 32, Spanish road bicycle racer, heart attack.
Barry Long, 77, Australian spiritual teacher and writer.
P. Madhavan, 75, Indian film director and producer in Tamil cinema.
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, 85, Guatemalan military ruler, President of Guatemala.
Jerry Tuite, 36, American wrestler, heart attack.




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Roland Asselin, 86, Canadian fencer (1948 Olympic fencing, 1952 Olympic fencing, 1956 Olympic fencing).
Barta Barri, 92, Hungarian-Spanish film actor.
Robert R. Benton, 79, American set decorator, respiratory failure.
Carl F. H. Henry, 90, American Evangelical theologian and founder of Christianity Today magazine.
Azie Taylor Morton, 67, American public servant (Treasurer of the United States), complications from a stroke.
Joe Skeen, 76, American politician, Parkinson's disease.




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Lewis M. Allen, 81, American film and Broadway producer, nominated for seven Tony Awards, pancreatic cancer.
Margaret Jean Anderson, 84, Canadian businesswoman and senator (representing Northumberland--Miramichi, New Brunswick).
Nelson Bobb, 79, American professional basketball player (Temple University, Philadelphia Warriors), cancer.
Agnès Delahaie, 83, French actress and film producer.
Robert Detweiler, 73, American competition rower and Olympic champion, naval officer, and scientist.
Rubén González, 84, Cuban pianist.
Pekka Siitoin, 59, Finnish satanist, occultist and neo-Nazi, esophageal cancer.
Francine Weisweiller, 87, French socialite and patron of Jean Cocteau.




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Carol M. Bundy, 61, American serial killer, heart failure.
Blackie Ko, 50, Taiwanese film director, stuntman, singer and actor, blood poisoning.
Keith McCreary, 63, Canadian hockey player, cancer.
Thomas M. Rees, 78, American politician.
Gladys Shelley, 91, American lyricist and composer.
Paul Simon, 75, American author and politician, United States Senator from Illinois (1985-1997), surgical complications.
Norm Sloan, 77, American college basketball player and coach (The Citadel, University of Florida, North Carolina State).




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Begum Abida Ahmed, 80, Indian politician, First Lady of India as wife of Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (974-1977).
Robert L. Bartley, 66, American newspaper editor (The Wall Street Journal editorial page) and Pulitzer Prize winner.
Oswald Cheung, 81, Hong Kong lawyer and politician, complications from burns.
Elizabeth Harrower, 85, American actress and television writer, cancer.
Sean McClory, 79, Irish actor.
Bill Morey, 83, American actor.
Raúl Armando Savoy, 63, Argentine football player.
Don Wheeler, 81, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).




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Malcolm Clarke, 60, British composer.
Ahmadou Kourouma, 76, Ivorian novelist.
Shah Ahmad Noorani, 77, Pakistani Islamic scholar, mystic, philosopher, revivalist and an ultra–conservative politician.
Ann Petersen, 76, Belgian actress.
Ram Kishore Shukla, 80, Indian politician.
Paulos Tzadua, 82, Ethiopian Catholic Archbishop of Addis Abeba.




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Heydar Aliyev, 80, Azerbaijani politician, served as the third president of Azerbaijan.
Ross Belsher, 70, Canadian politician (member of Parliament of Canada for Fraser Valley East, British Columbia).
Eva Besnyö, 93, Dutch-Hungarian photographer.
Michael Casson, 78, British potter.
Joseph Anthony Ferrario, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Honolulu (1982–1993), heart attack.
Earl Gillespie, 81, American sportscaster, voice of the Milwaukee Braves.
Marcello Giombini, 75, Italian composer, well.
Keiko, 27, orca famed for Reino Aventura and Free Willy, pneumonia.
Rudolf Krause, 76, German football player and coach.
Kurt Magnus, 91, German scientist.
Fadwa Tuqan, 86, Palestinian poet.




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Elizabeth Bates, 56, American professor of cognitive science, pancreatic cancer.
Luis González y González, 78, Mexican historian.
Mollie Hardwick, 87, British writer.
Alexis Kanner, 61, French-Canadian film and television actor, heart attack.
David Perlov, 73, Israeli documentary filmmaker.
Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi, 81, Indian neurosurgeon and author.
William Roth, 82, American lawyer and politician United States Senator from Delaware from 1971 to 2001.
Xie Tian, 89, Chinese actor and director.
Webster Young, 71, American jazz trumpeter (Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie), brain cancer.
Māris Čaklais, 63, Latvian poet and writer.




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Daniel Arasse, 59, French art historian, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Don Concannon, 73, British Labour Party politician.
Jeanne Crain, 78, American actress, heart attack.
Blas Ople, 75, Filipino journalist and politician, heart attack.
François Rauber, 70, French pianist, composer, arranger and conductor.
Frank Sheeran, 83, American labor union leader and mobster, "The Irishman", cancer.




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Johnny Cunningham, 46, British folk musician, heart attack.
Jack Gregory, 80, British athlete and Olympic silver medalist.
Garvin Hamner, 79, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
Göthe Hedlund, 85, Swedish speed skater and Olympic medalist.
David S. Lewis, 86, American aerospace engineer.
Keith Magnuson, 56, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks), road accident.
Edward Montagne, 91, American television series producer and film director.
Dora Wasserman, 84, Russian-Canadian actress, playwright, and theater director.




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Siegfried Hold, 72, German cinematographer.
Alfred Lynch, 72, English actor, cancer.
Judd Marmor, 93, American psychoanalyst and psychiatrist.
Hugo Moser, 77, Argentine television and film producer and screenwriter, cardiovascular disease.
Madlyn Rhue, 68, American actress (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Days of Our Lives, Bracken's World), pneumonia.
Aglaja Schmid, 77, Austrian stage and film actress.
Veikko Sinisalo, 77, Finnish actor.
Robert Stanfield, 89, Canadian politician (member of Parliament representing Colchester—Hants and Halifax, Nova Scotia), pneumonia.
Gary Stewart, 58, American country music singer "She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)", suicide by gunshot.
Peter Hardy, Baron Hardy of Wath, 72, British Labour Party politician.




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Ed Devereaux, 78, Australian actor, cancer.
Otto Graham, 82, American gridiron football (Cleveland Browns) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, heart aneurysm.
Wally Hedrick, 75, Seminal American artist in the 1950s California counterculture, gallerist, and educator.
Mary Ann Jackson, 80, American child actress, heart attack.
José Richa, 69, Brazilian politician.
David Smith, 69, English cricketer.
Alan Tilvern, 86, English actor and voice artist (Bhowani Junction, The Lord of the Rings, Who Framed Roger Rabbit).
Jim Wolf, 51, American gridiron football player (Prairie View A&M, Pittsburgh Steelers, Kansas City Chiefs), multiple sclerosis.




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Charles Berlitz, 90, American linguist, spoke 32 languages.
Glenn Cunningham, 91, American politician.
Jack Dormand, 84, British politician.
Ergilio Hato, 77, Dutch Antillean goalkeeper from Curaçao.
Branko Horvat, 75, Croatian economist and politician.
Cresson Kearny, 89, United States Army officer.
Susan Travers, 94, only English woman to serve in the French Foreign Legion.
Richard Wahlstrom, 72, American Olympic rower (bronze medal in men's coxed four at the 1952 Summer Olympics).




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Roger Conant, 94, American herpetologist, cancer.
Yan Frid, 95, Soviet screenwriter and film director.
Roy Hughes, Baron Islwyn, 78, British Labour Party politician and trade union organiser.
Hope Lange, 72, American actress, ischemic colitis, infectious disease.
Heinz Marquardt, 80, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
Carmen Mauro, 77, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers, Washington Senators, Philadelphia Athletics).
Les Tremayne, 90, English actor, heart failure.




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Charles Randolph Grean, 90, American producer and composer.
Grigore Grigoriu, 62, Moldovan actor, car accident.
Alan Magee, 84, American World War II airman, survived 22,000 ft. fall, stroke, kidney failure.
Gil Reece, 61, Welsh footballer.
Kostas Valsamis, 95, Greek sculptor.




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Gawaine Baillie, 69, British amateur racing driver, industrialist, and stamp collector.
M. J. Gopalan, 94, Indian sportsman, among which cricket.
Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 79, Spanish businessman and playboy, prostate cancer.
G. V. Iyer, 86, Indian film director and actor.
Hans Koller, 82, Austrian jazz tenor saxophonist and bandleader.
Andrea Scotti, 72, Mainly active in genre films.
Oleg Troyanovsky, 84, Soviet ambassador to Japan and China and representative to the United Nations (1976-1986).




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Mikhail Borodulin, 36, Kazakhstani ice hockey player (men's ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics), lung cancer.
Wah Chang, 86, Chinese-American designer, sculptor, and artist.
Dave Dudley, 75, American country music singer, heart attack.
Rose Hill, 89, English actress and operatic soprano.
George Patterson, 64, American basketball player.
Doris Shadbolt, 85, Canadian art curator and writer.
Andreas Tietze, 89, Austrian scholar of Turkish lexicography and language.




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Charlie Bowles, 86, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).
Kriangsak Chamanan, 86, Prime minister of Thailand.
Valentin Gavrilov, 57, Russian high jumper and Olympic medalist.
Don Lamond, 83, American jazz drummer, brain tumor.
John Newlove, 65, Canadian poet and editor.
John Sanders, 70, British organist, pneumonia.
Chandu Sarwate, 83, Indian cricketer and fingerprint expert.
Guglielmo Trevisan, 85, Italian football manager and football player.




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Herman Keiser, 89, American golfer, Alzheimer's disease.
James Kitching, 81, South African vertebrate palaeontologist, cancer.
Gunnar Alf Larsen, 83, Norwegian Labour Party politician.
Eugene Maltsev, 74, Soviet Russian painter.
Noel Toy, 84, American burlesque performer.




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Charles Concordia, 95, American electrical engineer and computer pioneer.
Ulf Isaksson, 49, Swedish ice hockey player.
Nicholas Mavroules, 74, American politician.
Nicola Paone, 88, American singer, songwriter, and restaurateur.




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Hugh Bean, 74, English violinist, teacher and leader of the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Gale Bishop, 81, American professional basketball player (Washington State, Philadelphia Warriors).
Redfern Froggatt, 79, English footballer.
Phil Goldman, 39, American engineer and entrepreneur, heart failure.
Chauncy Harris, 89, American geographer.
Clifton McNeely, 84, American basketball player and coach.
Paul Owens, 79, American Major League Baseball manager, and scout.
Ivan Petrov, 83, Soviet and Russian bass opera singer.
Yoshio Shirai, 80, first Japanese world boxing champion, pneumonia.
Milan Vasić, 75, Serbian historian.




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Pete Alvarado, 83, American animation and comic book artist (Disney Studios, Warner Bros. Animation, Western Publishing), heart attack.
Alan Bates, 69, British actor (The Fixer, Zorba the Greek, Women in Love), pancreatic cancer.
Iván Calderón, 41, Puerto Rican baseball player (Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox, Montreal Expos), homicide by gunshot.
Ingeborg Cook, 88, Norwegian actress and singer.
Lawrence Cook, 73, American actor.
Gerhard Doerfer, 83, German philologist.
Vestal Goodman, 74, American Southern Gospel singer, complications from influenza.
Heinz Kiessling, 77, German musician, conductor, composer and music producer.
Nagavally R. S. Kurup, 86, Indian writer and broadcaster.
E. Arsenio Manuel, 94, Filipino academic, historian, and anthropologist.
K. S. Narasimhaswamy, 88, Indian poet.
Richie Niemiera, 82, American basketball player and coach (Notre Dame, Fort Wayne Pistons, Anderson Packers).
Juan García Ponce, 71, Mexican novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and art critic.
Patrick J. Reynolds, 83, Irish politician.
Ying Ruocheng, 74, Chinese actor (Marco Polo, The Last Emperor, Little Buddha), director, and China's vice-minister of culture.




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Harald Feller, 90, Swiss diplomat and Righteous Among the Nations for his efforts during World War II.
Guy Héraud, 83, French politician and lawyer.
Helen Kleeb, 96, American film and television actress.
Michael Melle, 73, South African cricket player.
Frank Parr, 85, British chess player.
Thomas Pearsall, 83, Australian politician.
Polly Rosenbaum, 104, American politician and teacher.
Johannes Schmitt, 60, German athlete and Olympian.
Murray Smith, 63, British television writer and producer.
A. William Sweeney, 83, American soldier and lawyer.
John Terraine, 82, British military historian.
Kushabhau Thakre, 81, Indian politician and a Member of parliament.




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Charles E. Beatley, 87, American politician, mayor of Alexandria, Virginia.
Michael Courtney, 58, Irish prelate of the Catholic Church, homicide.
Jaime de Piniés, 86, Spanish diplomat.
Gerald Gutierrez, 53, American Tony Award-winning stage director, respiratory failure.
Earl Hindman, 61, American actor (Home Improvement, The Parallax View, Taps), lung cancer.
Dinsdale Landen, 71, British actor, pneumonia.
Don Lawrence, 75, British comic book artist, pulmonary emphysema.
Bob Monkhouse, 75, British comedian and game show host, prostate cancer.
Tino Schwierzina, 76, German lawyer and politician.
Miko Sotto, 21, Filipino matinee idol.
Michel Zanoli, 35, Dutch road cyclist (men's individual road race, men's team time trial at 1988 Summer Olympics), heart failure.
Ersa Siregar, 52, Indonesian journalist, murdered




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David Bale, 62, South African businessman and activist, lymphoma.
Vladimir Bogomolov, 77, Soviet writer (The Moment of Truth, 1973).
John Gregory Dunne, 71, American novelist and screenwriter, heart attack.
Nora Heysen, 92, Australian artist.
Ibram Lassaw, 90, Russian-American sculptor.
Anita Mui, 40, Hong Kong pop queen, cervix uterine cancer.
Patricia Roc, 88, English film actress, kidney failure.
Johnny Sands, 75, American film and television actor.
Salma Sobhan, 66, Bangladeshi lawyer, academic, and human rights activist.
Hukwe Zawose, 65, Tanzanian musician.




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German Apukhtin, 67, Soviet Russian football player.
Geoffrey Thomas Sandford Baylis, 90, New Zealand botanist and academic.
John A. Franks, 78, American businessman and a thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder.
Dora Gad, 91, Israeli interior designer.
Gerald Goldberg, 91, Irish lawyer and politician.
Béla Julesz, 75, Hungarian-American visual neuroscientist and experimental psychologist.
Béla Kárpáti, 74, Hungarian football player.
Paula Raymond, 79, American model and actress, respiratory failure.
David Scott-Barrett, 81, British army general.
Arthur R. von Hippel, 105, German-American scientist and MIT professor.
Sieglinde Wagner, 82, Austrian operatic contralto.
Max West, 87, American baseball player (Boston Bees/Braves, Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates), brain cancer.




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