# Deaths in October 2003
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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

* 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.

### 2

* 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.

### 3

* 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.

### 5

* 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.

### 6

* 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.

### 7

* 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.

### 8

* 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).

### 9

* 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

* 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.

### 11

* 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.

### 12

* 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.

### 13

* 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.

### 14

* 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.

### 15

* 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.

### 16

* 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.

### 17

* 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.

### 18

* 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).

### 19

* 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, 46, 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.

### 20

* 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, 82, 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.

### 21

* 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.

### 22

* 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.

### 23

* 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.

### 24

* 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, suicide by gunshot.
* Carmen Pujals, 87, Argentine botanist.

### 25

* 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.

### 26

* 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.

### 27

* 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.

### 28

* 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.

### 29

* 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.

### 30

* 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, 46, 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.

### 31

* 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.