# Deaths in December 2003
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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

* 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.
* Uday Singh Taunque, 21, U.S. Army soldier.

### 2

* 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.

### 3

* 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

* 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.

### 5

* 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.

### 6

* 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.

### 7

* 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.

### 8

* 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.

### 9

* 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).

### 10

* 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).

### 11

* 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.

### 12

* 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.
* 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.

### 13

* 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.

### 14

* 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.

### 15

* 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.

### 16

* 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.

### 17

* 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.

### 18

* 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).

### 19

* 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, 70, 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.

### 20

* 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.

### 21

* 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, Italian film and television actor.
* Oleg Troyanovsky, 84, Soviet ambassador to Japan and China and representative to the United Nations (1976-1986).

### 22

* 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.

### 23

* 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.

### 24

* 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.

### 25

* 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.

### 26

* 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.

### 27

* 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.

### 28

* 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.

### 29

* 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

### 30

* 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.

### 31

* 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.