# Deaths in June 2003
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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

## June 2003
### 1

* Marjorie Finlay, 74, American opera singer and television personality.
* Siegfried Freytag, 83, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
* Johnny Hopp, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates).
* Jørgen Kiil, 72, Danish actor.
* Johnny Paul Koroma, 43, Sierra Leonean military officer, Head of state (1997-1998).
* Yevgeny Matveyev, 81, Russian actor and film director, lung cancer.
* Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, 75, Nigerian politician and activist.
* Pete Sivess, 89, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
* Burkard Freiherr von Müllenheim-Rechberg, 92, German diplomat and author.

### 2

* Freddie Blassie, 85, American professional wrestler and NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion, kidney failure.
* Bojčo Brănzov, 57, Bulgarian basketball player (men's basketball at the 1968 Summer Olympics).
* Dick Cusack, 77, American actor (The Fugitive, High Fidelity, Chain Reaction), pancreatic cancer.
* Donald Jack, 78, Canadian playwright and novelist.
* Makoto Kozuru, 80, Japanese baseball player.
* Burke Marshall, 80, American lawyer and head of the Civil Rights Division.

### 3

* Peter Bromley, 74, British sports broadcaster, BBC Radio's voice of horse racing for 40 years (1961–2001), pancreatic cancer.
* Felix de Weldon, 96, Austrian-American sculptor (Marine Corps War Memorial).
* John Jympson, 72, British film editor (A Fish Called Wanda, A Hard Day's Night, Little Shop of Horrors), diabetes.
* Petre Mshveniyeradze, 74, Soviet and Georgian water polo player and Olympic silver medalist.
* Fabrice Salanson, 23, French road cyclist, heart attack.

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* Muhammad Abdul Bari, 72-73, Bangladeshi academic, linguist and Islamic scholar.
* Joan Leigh Fermor, 91, English photographer.
* Serafín Rojo, 77, Spanish cartoonist and painter.
* Nurul Amin Talukdar, 57, Bangladeshi politician.

### 5

* Thomas Speakman Barnett, 93, Canadian politician (member of Parliament of Canada for Comox—Alberni, British Columbia).
* John Fairclough, 72, British computer designer, Government Chief Scientific Adviser.
* Patricia Blomfield Holt, 92, Canadian composer, pianist and music educator.
* Jürgen Möllemann, 57, German minister, suicide by jumping.
* Manuel Rosenthal, 98, French composer and conductor.
* Meir Vilner, 84, Israeli politician and chairman of the Communist Party of Israel.

### 6

* Adalbert Boros, 94, Romanian Roman Catholic prelate.
* Ken Grimwood, 59, American author, heart attack.
* Michael John, 60, Australian politician.
* Georges Pichard, 83, French comics artist.
* Dave Rowberry, 62, English pianist and organist.
* Shivnath Singh, 56, Indian long-distance runner (1976 Olympics men's marathon, 1980 Olympics men's marathon).
* Hilda Sour, 87, Chilean actress and singer.

### 7

* Arne Bonde, 78, Norwegian newspaper editor and radio executive.
* Belle Chrystall, 93, British actress.
* R. W. G. Dennis, 92, British botanist.
* Muhammad Abd El-Ghani El-Gamasy, 81, Egyptian Field Marshal and Commander in Chief of The Armed Forces.
* Greg Garrett, 56, American baseball player (California Angels, Cincinnati Reds).
* Trevor Goddard, 40, British actor (JAG, Mortal Kombat, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl), accidental drug overdose.
* Selahattin Ülkümen, 89, Turkish diplomat.

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* Thomas S. Gettys, 90, American politician.
* Herschel Burke Gilbert, 85, American orchestrator and composer of film and television scores, complications of a stroke.
* Colin Legum, 84, South African journalist and writer.
* Leighton Rees, 63, Welsh darts player, heart attack.

### 9

* Kató Lomb, 94, Hungarian translator and simultaneous interpreter.
* Angelo Palmas, 88, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
* Indradeep Sinha, 88, Indian freedom fighter and communist leader.
* German Sveshnikov, 66, Soviet fencer (Olympic medals: 1960 gold medal, 1964 gold medal, 1968 silver medal).

### 10

* Charles Harrison Brown, 82, American politician (U.S. Representative for Missouri's 7th congressional district).
* John Semple Galbraith, 86, British historian.
* Hal Gausman, 85, American set decorator.
* Silvio Pedroni, 85, Italian racing cyclist (men's individual road race, men's team road race at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
* Livio Dante Porta, 81, Argentine steam locomotive engineer.
* Donald Regan, 84, American politician, Chief of Staff and Treasury Secretary, cancer.
* Carlos Roca, 45, Spanish field hockey player and Olympic medalist.
* Boy Rozendal, 74, Curaçao politician and journalist.
* David Towell, 66, American politician, cancer.
* Bernard Williams, 73, British moral philosopher, multiple myeloma.
* Phil Williams, 64, Welsh politician, member of the National Assembly for Wales for South Wales East, heart attack.

### 11

* David Brinkley, 82, American broadcast journalist (The Huntley–Brinkley Report, NBC Nightly News, This Week with David Brinkley).
* Pankaj Charan Das, 78, Indian classical dancer.
* Ilona Madary, 86, Hungarian gymnast and Olympic medalist.
* William Marshall, 78, American actor, director and opera singer, complications from Alzheimer's disease and diabetes.
* Virgil Mărdărescu, 81, Romanian football manager.
* Rudolf Tomsits, 57, Hungarian jazz musician.
* Hanna Veres, 74, Ukrainian folk artist, embroiderer and weaver.
* Guy Willatt, 85, English cricketer.

### 12

* Itamar Assumpção, 53, Brazilian songwriter and composer, colorectal cancer.
* Joseph L. Fleiss, 65, American epidemiologist and professor of biostatistics.
* Gregory Peck, 87, American actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, Roman Holiday, The Boys from Brazil), bronchopneumonia.
* Sam Schulman, 93, American sports businessman (Seattle SuperSonics, San Diego Chargers), blood disease.

### 13

* Harold Ashby, 78, American jazz tenor saxophonist (Duke Ellington Orchestra).
* Robert A. Good, 81, American physician regarded as a founder of modern immunology, esophageal cancer.
* Malik Meraj Khalid, 86, Pakistani advocate, left wing politician and Marxist philosopher.
* Guy Lux, 83, French TV host and producer, heart attack.
* Robin Russell, 14th Duke of Bedford, 63, British peer, stroke.
* Tor Stokke, 74, Norwegian film actor, cancer.
* Hassan ibn Yahya, 95, Yemeni royal and statesman.

### 14

* Nikolai Figurovsky, 79, Soviet film director, screenwriter, writer and professor at VGIK.
* Jimmy Knepper, 75, American jazz trombonist, complications of Parkinson's disease.
* Volker Kriegel, 59, German jazz guitarist and composer.
* Edward F. Moore, 77, American professor of mathematics and computer science, artificial life pioneer.
* Joyce Powell, 81, New Zealand cricketer.
* Günther Schack, 85, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
* John Weld, 98, American newspaper reporter and writer (Don't You Cry for Me, Young Man in Paris, September Song).
* Dale Whittington, 43, American race car driver.

### 15

* Ralph Kilner Brown, 93, British jurist and athlete.
* Hume Cronyn, 91, Canadian-American actor (The Seventh Cross, Cocoon, The Pelican Brief), Emmy winner (1990, 1992, 1994), prostate cancer.
* Albert Demuyser, 82, Belgian artist and racehorse owner, cancer.
* Kaiser Matanzima, 88, Transkei politician, President (1979-1986).
* Johnny Miles, 97, Canadian marathon runner.
* Alberto Pigaiani, 74, Italian heavyweight weightlifter and Olympic medalist.
* Philip Stone, 79, British actor (The Shining, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, A Clockwork Orange).
* René Touzet, 86, Cuban composer, pianist and bandleader.
* Bill Wentworth, 95, Australian politician (member of Australian Parliament for Mackellar).
* James Willis, 79, Australian admiral and Chief of Naval Staff.

### 16

* Asa Baber, 66, American writer and magazine columnist for Playboy, ALS.
* Enrico Baj, 78, Italian artist and writer on art.
* Les Benjamin, 78, Canadian politician (MP for Regina—Lake Centre, Regina West, Regina—Lumsden, Saskatchewan).
* Pierre Bourgault, 69, Canadian politician, essayist, actor and journalist, lung cancer.
* Peter Redgrove, 71, British poet.
* Carlos Rivas, 78, American actor, prostate cancer.
* Georg Henrik von Wright, 87, Finnish philosopher, professor and writer.
* René Walschot, 87, Belgian racing cyclist.

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* Frank M. Clark, 87, American politician (U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 25th congressional district).
* Wilhelm Deist, 71, German historian and author.
* Elsa Grave, 85, Swedish novelist, poet and artist.
* Paul Hirst, 57, British sociologist and political theorist.
* Marcella Pobbe, 81, Italian operatic soprano.
* Jean-Jacques Vierne, 82, French film director.

### 18

* Guy Bara, 79, Belgian comic strip writer and artist (Max l'explorateur).
* Kenneth Cross, 91, British Royal Air Force commander.
* Paul Daisley, 45, British politician, colorectal cancer.
* Larry Doby, 79, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, bone cancer.
* Jankidas, 93, Indian actor of Hindi cinema, cyclist, production designer, and writer.
* Ernest Martin, 42, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.

### 19

* Jack Butterworth, Baron Butterworth, 85, British lawyer, academic and life peer (House of Lords 1985–2003).
* Mel Ferber, 80, American television director and producer, heart attack.
* Peanuts Hucko, 85, American big band musician.
* Rafael Ileto, 82, Filipino army general and politician, heart attack.
* Ethan James, 57, American musician, record producer, and recording engineer, liver cancer.
* Mahfoud Nahnah, 61, Algerian politician, leukemia.
* Laura Sadler, 22, British television actress, accidental fall.
* Belding Hibbard Scribner, 82, American physician and pioneering kidney dialysis researcher.

### 20

* LaMar Baker, 87, American politician (U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 3rd congressional district).
* I. Bernard Cohen, 89, American professor of the history of science and author.
* Fielder Cook, 80, American television and film director, producer, and writer, complications from a stroke.
* André Grillon, 81, French football player and football manager.
* Moshe Kupferman, 76, Israeli artist.
* Raymond Serra, 66, American actor (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Prizzi's Honor, The Edge of Night).
* Bob Stump, 76, American politician (U.S. Representative for Arizona's 3rd congressional district), myelodysplasia.

### 21

* George Axelrod, 81, American screenwriter (Bus Stop, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Manchurian Candidate).
* Piet Dankert, 69, Dutch politician, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and President of the European Parliament.
* Charles Dédéyan, 93, French literary historian.
* Anita Felguth, 94, German champion table tennis player.
* Jules Marchal, 78, Belgian diplomat and historian.
* Hiroko Matsumoto, 66, Japanese fashion model.
* Jason Moran, 35, Australian criminal, murdered.
* Roger Neilson, 69, Canadian ice hockey coach, skin cancer.
* Leon Uris, 78, American author, kidney failure.
* Magnus von Braun, 84, German chemical engineer, rocket scientist and business executive.
* Sergei Vronsky, 67, Soviet cinematographer .
* Alvise Zichichi, 64, Italian chess master.

### 22

* Sergio Bruni, 81, Popular Italian singer, guitarist, and songwriter.
* Vasil Bykaŭ, 79, Belarusian writer.
* Joseph Chaikin, 67, American theatre director, actor, and playwright.
* Gladys Heldman, 81, American tennis player, manager and magazine publisher, suicide by gunshot.
* Harry Kinzy, 92, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
* Leonard Koppett, 79, Soviet-American sportswriter and author, heart attack.
* John Mandic, 83, American basketball player.
* Shelby Starner, 19, American singer-songwriter and musician, complications from bulimia nervosa.

### 23

* Sven Fahlman, 88, Swedish fencer.
* Maynard Jackson, 65, American politician and the first Afro American mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, heart attack.
* Doug Ring, 84, Australian cricketer.
* Fred Sandback, American minimalist sculptor, suicide.
* Aleksandr Sidelnikov, 52, Soviet ice hockey player, heart failure.

### 24

* Jack Bruner, 78, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Browns).
* Alex Gordon, 80, British film producer and screenwriter.
* Wataru Kubo, 74, Japanese politician.
* José Trías Monge, 83, Puerto Rican lawyer and judge.
* Akira Nagoya, 72, Japanese actor and seiyū.
* Barbara Weeks, 89, American actress (Ziegfeld Follies, Now I'll Tell).

### 25

* Rene Cayetano, 68, Filipino television presenter, journalist and politician, abdominal cancer.
* Johnny Dauwe, 37, Belgian Olympic cyclist, suicide.
* Archibald D. Johnston, 63, Canadian politician.
* Lester Maddox, 87, American politician and segregationist , Governor of Georgia (1967-1971), complications from pneumonia and prostate cancer.
* Theodore Cressy Skeat, 96, British academic and librarian at the British Museum.
* André Théard, 97, Haitian Olympic sprinter.
* Shun Yashiro, 70, Japanese actor and voice actor, stroke.

### 26

* John G. Adams, 91, American lawyer, counsel in the Army–McCarthy hearings.
* Marc-Vivien Foé, 28, Cameroonian footballer, heart attack.
* Daniel G. Hill, 79, American-Canadian sociologist, civil servant, and human rights specialist.
* Isaac Schapera, 98, British social anthropologist.
* Denis Thatcher, 88, British businessman, Spouse of the Prime Minister (1979–1990), pancreatic cancer.
* Strom Thurmond, 100, American politician, Governor of South Carolina, and the only centenarian to serve in the U.S. Congress, heart failure.

### 27

* Gerald Balfour, 4th Earl of Balfour, 77, British hereditary peer (House of Lords 1968–1999), businessman and politician.
* Prince Carl Bernadotte, 92, Swedish prince.
* Floyd Fithian, 74, American educator and politician.
* Walter Hugo Khouri, 73, Brazilian film director, screenwriter, and producer.
* Gary Lane, 60, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
* David Newman, 66, American screenwriter (Bonnie and Clyde, There Was a Crooked Man..., What's Up, Doc?), stroke.
* Giuseppe Pontiggia, 68, Italian writer and literary critic, stroke.
* Anthony Poshepny, 78, American CIA Paramilitary Operations Officer and model for Colonel Kurtz in the movie Apocalypse Now.
* Ken Smith, 64, British poet.
* John Heydon Stokes, 85, British politician (Member of Parliament for Oldbury and Halesowen, Halesowen and Stourbridge).

### 28

* George Baxt, 80, American screenwriter and author (Circus of Horrors, The City of the Dead), complication from heart surgery.
* Clem Christesen, 91, Australian literary critic and editor.
* Russell Endean, 79, South African cricket player.
* Pauline Flanagan, 77, Irish-American actress, heart attack, lung cancer.
* Robert Muir Graves, 72, American golf course architect, cancer.
* Rio Kishida, 57, Japanese playwright and director.
* Joan Lowery Nixon, 76, American journalist and author, pancreatic cancer.
* George E. Shipley, 76, American politician.
* Willem Slijkhuis, 80, Dutch athlete (two-time bronze medal winner at 1948 Summer Olympics: 1500 metres, 5000 metres).

### 29

* Rod Amateau, 79, American screenwriter and director (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show), cerebral hemorrhage.
* Semion Braude, 92, Soviet and Ukrainian physicist and radio astronomer.
* Katharine Hepburn, 96, American actress (The African Queen, The Lion in Winter, On Golden Pond), four-time Oscar winner, heart attack.
* Mordechai Hod, 76, Israeli Air Force general.
* James Kelly, 89, American abstract expressionist artist.
* Norman O'Connor, 81, American priest and jazz musician.

### 30

* Noor Alam, 73, Pakistani field hockey player (Olympic field hockey: 1956 silver medal, 1960 gold medal).
* Buddy Hackett, 78, American comedian and actor (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Little Mermaid, The Love Bug), diabetes.
* Robert McCloskey, 88, American children's book writer and illustrator.
* Constance Smith, 74, Irish actress.