• Source: Deaths in October 2003

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






= 1

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John Brim, 81, American Chicago blues musician, heart cancer.
Huntington Hardisty, 74, U.S. Navy admiral.
Beate Hasenau, 67, German film and television actress.
Joy N. Houck, Jr., 61, American actor, screenwriter and film director.
Chubby Jackson, 84, American jazz double-bassist and band leader.
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.




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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.
Otto Günsche, 86, German SS escort of Adolf Hitler, who was tasked to cremate his body on 30 April 1945, heart failure.
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.
Gunther Philipp, 85, Austrian film actor, physician and swimmer.




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




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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.
Hanadi Jaradat, 28, Palestinian jihadist, suicide by explosive vest.
Sid McMath, 91, American attorney and politician, 34th governor of Arkansas.
Freddie Phillips, 84, British musician and composer.
Elisabeta Rizea, 91, Romanian anti-communist partisan, viral pneumonia.
Fred Tuttle, 84, American farmer, actor and politician, heart attack.




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Wil van Beveren, 91, Dutch sprinter (1936 Summer Olympics: men's 100m, men's 200m, men's 4x100m relay).
Wally George, 71, American conservative radio and television commentator, pneumonia.
Neil Postman, 72, American media critic, lung cancer.
Denis Quilley, 75, British actor, liver cancer.
Dan Snyder, 25, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Atlanta Thrashers), traffic collision.
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.




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




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Izzy Asper, 71, Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate (CanWest Global Communications Corp).
Arthur Berger, 91, American composer, music critic, teacher and an academic music writer.
Ryan Halligan, 13, American bullying victim, suicide by hanging.
Eleanor Lambert, 100, American fashion pioneer.
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.




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




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




= 10

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




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




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Jim Cairns, 89, Australian politician (Deputy Prime Minister, Treasurer of Australia).
Ram Gopal, 90, Indian dancer and choreographer.
Ruth Halbsguth, 86, German swimmer and Olympic silver medalist.
Ion Ioanid, 77, Romanian dissident and writer.
Arthur Kaye, 70, English football player.
Joan Kroc, 75, American philanthropist; widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, brain cancer.
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.




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




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




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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.
Antonín Liška, 79, Czech Catholic theologist.
Benny Lévy, 58, Egyptian-French philosopher, political activist and author.




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




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




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




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Jaime Allende, 79, Spanish field hockey player (field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
Sir Peter Berger, 78, British admiral (Amethyst Incident).
Road Warrior Hawk, 45, 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.
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.




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František Balvín, 88, Czechoslovak cross-country skier (Olympic skiing: 1948 50km, 1948 relay, 1952 50km).
Ernie Calverley, 79, American basketball player (Rhode Island, Providence Steamrollers) and coach.
Jack Elam, 84, American actor (Once Upon a Time in the West, The Cannonball Run, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid), heart attack.
Donald G. Jackson, 60, American filmmaker, leukemia.
Miodrag Petrović Čkalja, 79, Serbian actor.




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Fred Berry, 52, American actor, stroke.
Luis A. Ferré, 99, Puerto Rican industrialist and politician, respiratory failure.
Louise Day Hicks, 87, American politician (Boston City Council, U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 9th congress. dist.).
Tomáš Pospíchal, 67, Czech football player.
Alfred Rose, 71, Indian Konkani singer, composer, and actor.
Elliott Smith, 34, American musician, suicide by stabbing.
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.
Ron Collier, 73, Canadian jazz trombonist, composer, and arranger.
Willem Meijer, 80, Dutch botanist and plant collector.
Philippe Ragueneau, 85, French journalist and writer.
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.




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




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Rosie Nix Adams, 45, American singer and songwriter, daughter of June Carter Cash, carbon monoxide poisoning.
Bob Bailey, 72, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks).
Veikko Hakulinen, 78, Finnish cross-country skier, triple Olympic- and world champion, traffic collision.
Joanna Lee, 72, American writer, producer, director and actress, bone cancer.
Half a Mill, 30, American rapper, homicide.
Carmen Pujals, 87, Argentine botanist.




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




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Johnny Boyd, 77, American racecar driver, twelve Indianapolis 500-mile races from 1955 to 1966.
Steve Death, 54, English football goalkeeper, cancer.
Leonid Filatov, 56, Soviet and Russian actor, director and poet, pneumonia.
François Guérin, 75, French film and television actor.
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.
Roberto García Morillo, 92, Argentine composer, musicologist, music professor and music critic.
Heinz Piontek, 77, German writer.
Jürgen Simon, 65, German cyclist.
Viguen, 73, Iranian pop music singer ("Sultan of pop") and actor, cancer.




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John William Atkinson, 79, American psychologist.
Hank Beenders, 87, Dutch-American basketball player (Providence Steamrollers, Philadelphia Warriors, Boston Celtics).
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.
Fred Whittingham, 64, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, New Orleans Saints), complications from back surgery.




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




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




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Lynn S. Beedle, 85, American structural engineer.
Carl Berner, 90, Danish rower (men's coxed pairs, men's eights at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
Franco Bonisolli, 65, Italian operatic tenor.
Ron Davies, 57, American songwriter and musician, heart attack.
Abel Ehrlich, 88, Israeli composer.
Aidyn Guseinov, 47, Azerbaijani chess player.
Subhadra Joshi, 84, Indian freedom activist and politician.
Börje Leander, 85, Swedish football player.
Steve O'Rourke, 63, English music manager and racing driver, stroke.
Richard Taylor, 83, American philosopher.




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




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