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

## July 2003
### 1

* Berta Ambrož, 58, Yugoslav and Slovene singer.
* John Bissell Carroll, 87, American psychologist.
* Hossein Fekri, 79, Iranian football player and coach.
* Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio, 63, Spanish singer-songwriter.
* Herbie Mann, 73, American crossover jazz and bossa nova flutist, prostate cancer.
* Bill Miller, 75, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles).
* Khieu Ponnary, 83, Cambodian communist and wife of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, cancer.
* George Roper, 69, English comedian, cancer.

### 2

* Ivan Allen, Jr., 92, American businessman and 52nd mayor of Atlanta.
* Briggs Cunningham, 96, American entrepreneur and sportsman, Alzheimer's disease.
* Franklin Farrel, 95, American ice hockey player (silver medal in men's ice hockey at the 1932 Winter Olympics).
* Antonio Fortich, 89, Filipino Roman Catholic bishop and social activist.
* Najeeb Halaby, 87, American businessman, aviator, and father of Queen Noor of Jordan.
* Erkki Mallenius, 75, Finnish amateur boxer and Olympic medalist.
* James Saxon, 48, English television and theatre actor, heart attack.

### 3

* Gaetano Alibrandi, 89, Italian papal diplomat and Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland.
* Johannes Andenæs, 90, Norwegian jurist and professor.
* Vince Lloyd, 96, American radio announcer, stomach cancer.
* Jack B. Olson, 82, American businessman, diplomat, and politician.
* Skip Scarborough, 58, American songwriter, cancer.
* Yuri Shchekochikhin, 53, Soviet and Russian investigative journalist, writer, and politician, poisoned.
* Anne Barbara Underhill, 83, Canadian astrophysicist.
* C. C. Wang, 96, Chinese-American artist and art collector.

### 4

* Manuel Araneta, Jr., 76, Filipino basketball player (basketball at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
* Larry Burkett, 64, American radio personality, heart failure.
* Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr., 61, American politician, heart attack.
* André Claveau, 87, French singer.
* Tyler McVey, 91, American actor, leukemia.
* Armin Mohler, 83, Swiss far-right political philosopher and journalist.
* Tomris Uyar, 62, Turkish writer and translator.
* Barry White, 58, American smooth soul singer ("Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe"), renal failure.

### 5

* Zhang Aiping, 93, Chinese military leader, defense minister under Deng Xiaoping.
* Fernando Arbex, 62, Spanish musician and songwriter.
* Prodan Gardzhev, 67, Bulgarian middleweight freestyle wrestler and Olympic champion, heart attack.
* Roman Lyashenko, 24, Russian ice hockey player (Dallas Stars, New York Rangers), suicide by hanging.
* Nǃxau, 58, Namibian actor and bush farmer (The Gods Must Be Crazy), tuberculosis.
* Princess Isabelle, 91, French noble and widow of Henri, Count of Paris, pretender to the French throne.
* Nadav Safran, 77, American academic and expert in Arab and Middle East politics, cancer.
* Yoshio Sakurauchi, 91, Japanese politician.
* Hedy Schlunegger, 80, Swiss alpine skier and Olympic champion.
* Sulaiman Ninam Shah, 83, Malaysian businessman and politician.
* Bebu Silvetti, 59, Argentine musician, songwriter and arranger, respiratory failure.

### 6

* Skip Battin, 69, American bass guitarist, singer and songwriter (The Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers), Alzheimer's disease.
* Willie Buchan, 88, Scottish football player and manager.
* Ed Chandler, 86, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
* Buddy Ebsen, 95, American actor (The Beverly Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones, Breakfast at Tiffany's), pneumonia.
* Ignacio Antonio Velasco García, 74, Venezuelan Roman Catholic cardinal.
* Çelik Gülersoy, 72, Turkish lawyer, writer and poet, pancreatic cancer.
* Andrew Heiskell, 87, American journalist and chairman and CEO of Time Inc..
* Antal Kotász, 73, Hungarian football player.
* Kathleen Raine, 95, British poet and literary critic.
* Spec Sanders, 84, American football player (University of Texas, New York Yankees, New York Yanks).

### 7

* Raphael I Bidawid, 81, Iraqi Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church (1989-2003).
* Izhak Graziani, 78, Israeli conductor.
* Shlomo-Ya'akov Gross, 94, Israeli politician.
* Antonio Iranzo, 73, Spanish film actor.
* Charles Poor Kindleberger, 92, American economic historian and author, stroke.
* Mario Pedini, 84, Italian politician.
* Fred G. Pollard, 85, American lawyer and politician.
* Tomiko Suzuki, 47, Japanese voice actress, heart attack.

### 8

* Ladan and Laleh Bijani, 29, Iranian conjoined twins, complications following separation surgery.
* Paul Brand, 88, British surgeon, pioneering leprosy research.
* Duncan Clark, 88, Scottish hammer thrower (1948 Olympic men's hammer throw, 1952 Olympic men's hammer throw).
* Lewis A. Coser, 89, German-American sociologist.
* Marjorie Fowler, 82, American film editor.
* Etsuko Inada, 79, Japanese Olympic figure skater.
* Subhash Mukhopadhyay, 84, Indian Bengali poets.

### 9

* Christopher Black Sr., 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Eberhard Blum, 84, German civil servant, head of the German Federal Intelligence Bureau (BND).
* Joe Cobbold, 76, English greyhound trainer.
* Valerie Gearon, 65, British actress.
* Josephine Jacobsen, 94, American poet, short story writer and essayist.
* Riley Dobi Noel, 31, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

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* Alvin Alcorn, 90, American New Orleans jazz trumpeter.
* Winston Graham, 95, English novelist.
* Sheldon Jaffery, 69, American bibliographer.
* John Purdell, 44, American musician and record producer, cancer.
* Hartley Shawcross, 101, English barrister, politician and chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.
* Manuel Vasques, 76, Portuguese footballer.

### 11

* Stepan Chervonenko, 87, Soviet diplomat.
* Mickey Deans, 68, American discoteque manager and (last) husband of actress and singer Judy Garland, heart failure.
* Henry Gravrand, 81, French Catholic missionary to Africa and an anthropologist.
* Zahra Kazemi, 55, Iranian-Canadian journalist, blunt trauma to the head.
* Michèle de Saint Laurent, 76, French carcinologist.
* Dorothy Canning Miller, 99, American art curator.
* John Roach, 81, American cleric of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Bhisham Sahni, 87, Indian writer, playwright and an actor.
* Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 6th Marquess of Salisbury, 86, British aristocrat and politician.
* Ray Whitrod, 88, Australian police officer and Queensland Police Commissioner.
* Ken Whyld, 77, British chess author (The Oxford Companion to Chess), historian and columnist.
* Teddy Yip, 96, Indonesian businessman, race car driver and team owner (Formula One, IndyCar).

### 12

* Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed, 71, Bangladeshi lawyer and constitutionalist.
* Benny Carter, 95, American jazz pioneer, bronchitis.
* Mark Lovell, 43, British rally driver, motor race accident.
* Ellis Paul Torrance, 87, American psychologist.
* Eliot Wald, 57, American comedy writer for theater, television and movies (The Second City, Saturday Night Live, Camp Nowhere).

### 13

* Alpha L. Bowser, 92, American U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general (Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Chosin Reservoir).
* Dildar, 58, Bangladeshi actor.
* Salamat Hashim, 61, Filipino islamist militant, complications caused by a heart disease and acute ulcer.
* Eileen Rodgers, 73, American singer and Broadway performer, lung cancer.
* Compay Segundo, 95, Cuban musician and star of the Buena Vista Social Club, kidney failure.

### 14

* Leela Chitnis, 93, Indian actress.
* Jiří Dolana, 66, Czech ice hockey player.
* Éva Janikovszky, 77, Hungarian writer.
* Morrissey Johnson, 70, Canadian politician (MP for Bonavista—Trinity—Conception, NL), motor vehicle collision with a moose.
* Rubén Marino Navarro, 70, Argentine football player.
* Louis Robertshaw, 90, American gridiron football player and US Marine Corps officer, cancer.
* Rajendra Singh, 81, Indian head of Hindu nationalist paramilitary organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

### 15

* Roberto Bolaño, 50, Chilean-Spanish writer (The Savage Detectives, 2666), liver failure.
* Chuck Grigsby, 74, American basketball player.
* John Richard Hyde, 90, Canadian soldier and politician.
* Lorraine Krueger, 85, American actress.
* Judith Hare, Countess of Listowel, 100, Hungarian-British writer and aristocrat.
* Alfred Preissler, 82, German football player and manager.
* Tex Schramm, 83, American president and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys football team.
* Alexander Walker, 73, Northern Irish film critic (London Evening Standard) and author.
* Elisabeth Welch, 99, American singer and actress.

### 16

* K. P. A. C. Azeez, 55, Indian actor in Malayalam cinema.
* Celia Cruz, 77, Cuban salsa singer, brain cancer.
* Ralph A. Foote, 80, American attorney and politician.
* Lu Gambino, 79, American gridiron football player.
* Shmuel Safrai, 84, Israeli writer, academic and historian.
* Kurt Semm, 76, German gynecologist and pioneer in minimally invasive surgery.
* Carol Shields, 68, Canadian author, breast cancer.
* Chesterfield Smith, 85, American lawyer.
* Alida van den Bos, 101, Dutch gymnast (gold medal in women's team gymnastics at the 1928 Summer Olympics).
* Dmitry Vasilyev, 58, Soviet-Russian actor, monarchist, antisemite, and ultranationalist, heart attack.
* Reetika Vazirani, 40, Indian-American poet and educator, suicide by stabbing.

### 17

* Hans Abich, 84, German film producer.
* Manuel Franklin da Costa, 81, Angolan Roman Catholic archbishop.
* Erland Herkenrath, 90, Swiss field handball player.
* David Kelly, 59, British scientist and weapons expert, suicide by drug overdose.
* Walter Perry, 82, Scottish academic.
* Rosalyn Tureck, 89, American pianist and harpsichordist.
* Abdullah Yaqta, 89, Afghan politician, Prime Minister (1967).
* Walter Zapp, 97, Baltic German inventor (Minox subminiature camera).

### 18

* Jane Barbe, 74, American voice actress (phone company "Time Lady") and singer, cancer.
* Marc Camoletti, 79, French playwright.
* César Ramírez, 74, Filipino actor, heart attack.
* Norman Rasmussen, 75, American physicist.

### 19

* Bill Bright, 81, American evangelical Christian and founder of Campus Crusade for Christ.
* Elena Caffarena, 100, Chilean lawyer and politician.
* Maruchi Fresno, 87, Spanish film actress, heart attack.
* Pierre Graber, 94, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1970–1978).
* Jude Milhon, 64, American civil rights advocate, writer, hacker and feminista, cancer.
* Vic Vargas, 64, Filipino actor.

### 20

* Lauri Aus, 32, Estonian Olympic racing cyclist (1992, 1996, 2000, 2000), struck on bicycle by drunk driver.
* Nicolas Freeling, 76, British crime writer.
* Renee Gadd, 95, Argentine-British film actress.
* Juli Gonzalvo, 86, Spanish football player.
* Carol Grace, 78, American actress and author, intracranial aneurysm.
* Vladimir Krantz, 90, Soviet Russian painter.
* Elliot Norton, 100, American theater critic, "The Dean of American Theatre Critics".
* William Woolfolk, 86, American novelist, screen writer, and comic book writer.

### 21

* John Davies, 65, New Zealand olympian (track) and president of the New Zealand Olympic Committee, melanoma.
* Matt Jefferies, 81, American art director (Star Trek series), designer of the Starship Enterprise, heart attack.
* Tim Hemensley, 31, Australian singer and bass guitarist, heroin overdose.
* Shujauddin Siddiqi, 84, Indian first-class cricket player.

### 22

* Arthur W. Adamson, 83, American chemist, made contributions to inorganic photochemistry.
* Hamer H. Budge, 92, American politician (16th Chairman of the SEC, U.S. Representative for Idaho's 2nd congressional district).
* Enzo Faletto, 68, Chilean sociologist and historian.
* Elie Farah, 93, Lebanese Maronite Church archbishop.
* Stanley H. Fuld, 99, American lawyer, judge and politician.
* Qusay Hussein, 37, Iraqi politician and second son of Saddam Hussein, killed by US troops.
* Uday Hussein, 39, Iraqi politician and eldest son of Saddam Hussein, killed by US troops.
* Lee Knorek, 82, American basketball player.
* Norman Lewis, 95, British travel writer.
* Dhimitër Shuteriqi, 87, Albanian scholar, literary historian, and writer.
* Serge Silberman, 86, French film producer.
* Richard L. Walker, 81, American diplomat (U.S. Ambassador to South Korea) and professor.

### 23

* Sheila Bromley, 91 or 95, American television and film actress (Westward Ho, Lawless Range, Perry Mason).
* James E. Davis, 41, American policeman, corrections officer, and politician, homicide.
* Adolphe Deledda, 83, Italian-French road bicycle racer.
* Gary King, 55, American jazz bassist, songwriter, composer, and arranger.
* Jean-Claude Pressac, 59, French chemist, pharmacist and writer.
* Yvonne Sanson, 76, Italian film actress, aneurysm.
* Speedy Thomas, 56, American football player.
* Novak Tomić, 67, Serbian football player.
* Grady Wilson, 80, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).

### 24

* Iya Arepina, 73, Soviet/Russian actress.
* Henri Attal, 67, French actor, asthma.
* Samit Bhanja, 59, Indian actor and director.
* Ella Orr Campbell, 92, New Zealand botanist.
* Božidar Drenovac, 81, Serbian football player and manager.
* Warren Kremer, 82, American comics cartoonist.
* Ryōichi Kuroda, 92, Japanese jurist and politician, pneumonia.
* Maurice Pryce, 90, British physicist.
* Dan Smoot, 89, American FBI agent and political activist.

### 25

* Erik Brann, 52, American Iron Butterfly guitarist, heart attack.
* Ludwig Bölkow, 91, German aeronautical engineer, designed the world's first jet fighter, Nazi Germany's Me 262.
* Hal Herbert, 81, British-Canadian politician.
* Jiří Horák, 79, Czech politician and political analyst.
* Norm McRae, 55, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
* Thomas Savage, 88, American novelist.
* John Schlesinger, 77, English film director (Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man, Sunday Bloody Sunday), Oscar winner (1970), stroke.

### 26

* Jürgen Brandt, 80, German general and Chief of Federal Armed Forces Staff (1978-1983).
* William Dargie, 91, Australian painter.
* Robert Favart, 92, French actor.
* John Higham, 82, American historian.
* Hilde Levi, 94, German-Danish physicist.
* Harold C. Schonberg, 87, American music critic and journalist.
* Gordon Taylor, 93, Canadian politician, businessman and teacher.

### 27

* Karin Booth, 87, American film and TV actress.
* Vance Hartke, 84, American politician (United States Senator from Indiana from 1959 to 1977).
* Henning Holck-Larsen, 96, Danish engineer and entrepreneur.
* Bob Hope, 100, British-American comedian and actor (Road to ...), pneumonia.
* Nguza Karl-i-Bond, 64, Zairean politician.
* Rinty Monahan, 75, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).
* Alfredo Eduardo Barreto de Freitas Noronha, 84, Brazilian football player and manager.
* Emmanuel Pelaez, 87, Filipino public servant and politician, heart attack.
* Audrius Šlekys, 28, Lithuanian football player, traffic collision.

### 28

* Gladys Edgerly Bates, 107, American sculptor, member of the Philadelphia Ten, founding member of the Mystic Museum of Art.
* Aaron Bell, 82, American jazz bassist, composer and teacher, bassist for Duke Ellington.
* René Berg, 47, English musician, vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter.
* True Eames Boardman, 93, American actor and scriptwriter (Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, The Virginian, Bonanza), pancreatic cancer.
* Adrian Burk, 75, American gridiron football player (Baylor, Baltimore Colts, Philadelphia Eagles).

### 29

* Sabahudin Bilalović, 43, Bosnian basketball player.
* Rudolf Fischer, 90, German pianist and pedagogue.
* Luther Henderson, 84, American arranger, composer, and pianist.
* Tex McCrary, 92, American journalist and public relations specialist.
* Jim Pruett, 85, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).
* Foday Sankoh, 65, Sierra Leonean rebel leader, complications following a stroke.
* Gerard Folliott Vaughan, 80, British psychiatrist and politician.
* Johnny Walker, 82, Indian comic actor, appeared in more than 300 films.

### 30

* Howard Armstrong, 94, American string band fiddler and mandolinist and country blues musician, heart attack.
* Marian Carr, 77, American actress.
* Steve Hislop, 41, Scottish motorcycle racer, helicopter accident.
* Ewa Krzyżewska, 64, Polish actress, traffic collision.
* Alicia Lourteig, 89, Argentine and French botanist, expert in Oxalidaceae.
* Mendel L. Peterson, 85, American archeologist and former curator at the Smithsonian Institution.
* Sam Phillips, 80, American record producer, respiratory failure.
* Ahmed Safwat, 56, Egyptian squash player, heart attack.
* Carlos Lemos Simmonds, 69, Colombian politician, Vice President (1996-1998), lung cancer.

### 31

* Edward P. Alexander, 96, American historian and author, heart ailment.
* John Aston, Sr., 81, English football player.
* Bigode, 81, Brazilian footballer, respiratory problems.
* Frederick Coffin, 60, American film actor, singer, songwriter, and musician, lung cancer.
* Guido Crepax, 70, Italian comics artist, multiple sclerosis.
* Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic, 66, American professor neuroscience, psychiatry and psychology, struck by a car.
* Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, 88, Pakistani politician, first President of Azad Kashmir.
* Roland Svensson, 93, Swedish painter, writer, and artist.