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

## May 2003
### 1

* Haukur Clausen, 74, Icelandic Olympic athlete.
* István Kelen, 91, Hungarian-Australian sportsman, journalist, author, and playwright.
* Shlomo Levi, 68, Israeli football player.
* Miss Elizabeth, 42, American professional wrestler and wrestling manager, drug and alcohol overdose.
* Paul Moore Jr., 83, American bishop of the Episcopal Church and former US Marine Corps officer.
* Wim van Est, 80, Dutch racing cyclist.

### 2

* Mohammed Dib, 82, Algerian writer.
* Blaga Dimitrova, 81, Bulgarian poet and politician, Vice President (1992-1993), cerebrovascular disease.
* James Miller, 34, Welsh filmmaker and cameraman, killed by Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
* Henry Wise, Jr., 82, American physician and World War II Tuskegee Airman fighter pilot.
* George Wyle, 87, American musical director and composer (theme to Gilligan's Island, It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year), leukemia.

### 3

* Queta Claver, 70, Spanish actress, singer, and dancer, cardiovascular disease.
* Glen Culler, 75, American professor of electrical engineering.
* Don Johnson, 62, American bowler, heart attack.
* Suzy Parker, 70, American actress and model, wife of Bradford Dillman, arthritis, diabetes.
* Marcel Roche, 82, French physician and scientist.
* G. Venkateswaran, 55, Indian film producer.

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* Alexander Boghossian, 65, Ethiopian-American artist and teacher.
* Sesto Bruscantini, 83, Italian baritone.
* Arthur Oldham, 76, British composer and choirmaster.
* Jean Tricart, 82, French geomorphologist.
* Richard Trowbridge, 83, British admiral and Governor of Western Australia (1980–1983).
* David Woodley, 44, American gridiron football player (Miami Dolphins), complications due to kidney and liver failure.

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* Sam Bockarie, 38, Sierra Leonean politician and army commander, shot.
* David Lewin, 69, American music theorist.
* Philip Powell, 82, British architect.
* Sultan Rakhmanov, 52, Soviet weightlifter and Olympic champion, heart attack.
* Waly Salomão, 59, Brazilian poet.
* Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu, 90, South African anti-apartheid activist and ANC member, Parkinson's disease.

### 6

* Steve Atkinson, 54, Canadian ice hockey player (Buffalo Sabres, Washington Capitals, Toronto Toros), heart attack.
* Geoffrey Bardon, 63, Australian artist, teacher and aboriginal art advocate.
* Oleksandr Bilash, 72, Ukrainian composer and author.
* Tito García, 71, Spanish actor.
* Colin Gunton, 62, British theologian and academic.
* Jocelyn Herbert, 86, British stage designer.
* Art Houtteman, 75, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles), heart attack.
* Stanislav Kolář, 91, Czechoslovak and Czech table tennis player.
* Dean L. May, 65, American academic, author and documentary filmmaker, heart attack.

### 7

* Johan Andersen, 83, Danish sprint canoer (silver medal in men's K-1 1000 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
* Sisir Kumar Das, 66, Linguist, poet, playwright, translator, comparatist and a scholar of Indian literature.
* Quentin Dean, 58, American actress, cancer.
* Mike Hudock, 68, American gridiron football player.
* Joshua Madaki, 55, Nigerian politician, car crash.
* George Morrow, 69, American computer scientist and pioneer, aplastic anemia.

### 8

* Slick Coffman, 92, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns).
* Dorothy Ferguson, 80, Canadian-American baseball player, cancer.
* Sam Lacy, 99, American sportswriter, reporter, and television/radio commentator.
* Elvira Pagá, 82, Brazilian vedette, actress, singer, writer and painter.

### 9

* Yves Brouzet, 54, French shot putter (four-time French champion; men's Olympic shot put: 1972, 1976).
* Hans Engnestangen, 95, Norwegian Olympic speed skater and world champion.
* Carmen Filpi, 80, American actor (Pee-wee's Big Adventure, The Beverly Hillbillies, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers), cancer.
* Antonio Ibáñez Freire, 89, Spanish politician and army officer.
* Jack Gelber, 71, American playwright (The Connection), leukemia.
* Russell B. Long, 84, American politician (U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1948 to 1987), heart attack.
* Alexey Medvedev, 75, Soviet-Russian heavyweight weightlifter.
* Elizabeth Neuffer, 46, American journalist, specialized in war crimes and human rights abuses, car accident in Iraq.
* Bernard Spear, 83, English actor.

### 10

* Ingo Buding, 61, West German tennis player.
* Leonard Michaels, 70, American writer of short stories, novels, and essays.
* Eleanor C. Pressly, 85, American mathematician and aeronautical engineer at NASA.
* Ambros Speiser, 80, Swiss engineer and scientist.
* Milan Vukcevich, 66, Yugoslav-born American chemist and Grandmaster of Chess Composition.
* Joseph D. Ward, 89, American politician.

### 11

* Karl Boyes, 67, American politician (Pennsylvania House of Representatives).
* Noel Redding, 57, English former bassist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience, liver cirrhosis.
* John H. Rousselot, 75, American politician (U.S. Representative from California).
* Ernie Toshack, 88, Australian cricketer.

### 12

* Jim Clunie, 69, Scottish football player and manager.
* Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, 70, French civil servant (U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees 1965–1977), cancer.
* Stan Lay, 96, New Zealand javelin thrower (men's javelin throw at the 1928 Summer Olympics).
* Renate Riemeck, 82, German historian and Christian peace activist.
* Jeremy Sandford, 72, British screenwriter.

### 13

* Theo Aronson, 73, South African-British royal biographer (Princess Alice, Queen Mother, Princess Margaret), cancer.
* John Savage, 70, Canadian politician, former Premier of Nova Scotia, cancer.
* René Voillaume, 97, French Catholic priest and theologian.
* Byron Wolford, 72, American rodeo cowboy and professional poker player.
* Marcos Zucker, 82, Argentine actor and comedian.

### 14

* Tranquilo Cappozzo, 85, Argentine rower and Olympic champion.
* Dave DeBusschere, 62, American basketball player (Detroit Pistons, New York Knicks), and coach (Detroit Pistons), heart attack.
* Otto Edelmann, 86, Austrian operatic bass.
* Al Fleming, 49, American basketball player, cancer.
* Ingvar Helle, 70, Norwegian politician.
* Wendy Hiller, 91, English actress (Separate Tables, Pygmalion, A Man for All Seasons), Oscar winner (1959).
* Pepper LaBeija, 54, American drag queen and fashion designer, heart attack.
* Minarni, 59, Indonesian badminton player.
* Gennadiy Nikonov, 52, Russian firearm engineer.
* Dante Quinterno, 93, Argentine businessman and comics artist.
* Gordon Salkilld, 76, English actor.
* Robert Stack, 84, American actor (The Untouchables, Written on the Wind) and television host (Unsolved Mysteries), Emmy winner (1960), heart attack.

### 15

* June Carter Cash, 73, American musician and wife of Johnny Cash, complications following surgery.
* Pedro Chappé, 57, Cuban basketball player.
* Desmond Dreyer, 93, British Royal Navy admiral.
* Constantin Dăscălescu, 79, Romanian communist politician.
* Stanley B. Kimball, 76, American historian, cancer.
* Rik Van Steenbergen, 78, Belgian cyclist.
* Rune Waldekranz, 91, Swedish film producer.

### 16

* William Charles Anderson, 83, American writer and screen writer (Bat*21).
* Mark McCormack, 72, American lawyer, sports agent and writer.
* Stan Rofe, 69, Australian disc jockey and music news reporter, cancer.
* Lazar Tasić, 72, Serbian football player.
* Bogdan Śliwa, 81, Polish chess master.

### 17

* Edith Carlmar, 91, Norwegian actress and Norway's first female film director.
* Pop Ivy, 87, American football player and coach.
* Irene Gut Opdyke, 81, Polish nurse, kidney failure, liver failure.
* Luigi Pintor, 77, Italian politician and journalist.
* Gerhard Schöpfel, 90, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.

### 18

* Marilyn Bendell, 81, American impressionist painter.
* Peter Lasko, 79, German-British art historian.
* Nick Roman, 55, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
* Mentz Schulerud, 87, Norwegian author, radio personality and theatre director.

### 19

* Camoflauge, 21, American rapper.
* Johanna Budwig, 94, German biochemist, alternative cancer treatment advocate and author.
* Kunhiraman Palat Candeth, 86, Indian Army general.
* Paul Hagen, 83, Danish film and television actor.
* Ludwig Lachner, German footballer and manager.
* Aleksandr Miroshnichenko, 39, Kazakhstani boxer and Olympic medalist, fall.
* Ivo Žídek, 76, Czech operatic tenor, known for his roles in the operas of Smetana, Dvořák and Janáček.

### 20

* Jim Clough, 86, Australian politician.
* Walter Höllerer, 80, German writer, literary critic, and literature academic.
* Eddie Little, 48, American author and journalist, heart attack.
* Howard Sims, 86, African-American vaudeville tap dancer, Alzheimer's disease.

### 21

* Alejandro de Tomaso, 74, Argentinian racing driver and industrialist.
* Yaroslav Golovanov, 70, Russian journalist, writer and science communicator, cerebrovascular disease.
* Hermann A. Haus, 77, Slovene-American scientist.
* Sumitra Mukherjee, 54, Indian Bengali actress.
* Felice Orlandi, 77, Italian-American actor.
* Frank D. White, 69, American politician (41st Governor of Arkansas), banker and banking regulator, heart attack.

### 22

* Packiam Arokiaswamy, 82, Indian Roman Catholic prelate.
* Big DS, 31, American hardcore rapper and record producer, lymphatic cancer.
* Grover E. Murray, 86, American geologist and educator.
* Noel Robins, 67, Australian partially quadriplegic sailor, traffic accident.

### 23

* Fred W. Berger, 94, American film editor.
* Ray Parry, 67, English football player.
* Michael Pössinger, 84, German Olympic bobsledder.
* Jean Yanne, 69, French actor and director (Weekend, This Man Must Die), heart attack.

### 24

* François Boyer, 83, French screenwriter.
* Neil Cherry, 56, New Zealand environmental scientist, ALS.
* Don Hanmer, 83, American film actor.
* Rachel Kempson, 92, English actress, stroke.
* Jules Levy, 80, American television and film producer.
* Allan McMahon, 48, Australian rugby footballer and coach, heart attack.
* Arne Skouen, 89, Norwegian journalist, author and film director.

### 25

* Almir Chediak, 52, Brazilian musician and entrepreneur, shot.
* Richard Gardner, 72, American child psychiatrist, suicide by stabbing.
* David Hafler, 84, American audio engineer, Parkinson's disease.
* George Edward Lynch, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Raleigh.
* Bill Paschal, 81, American football player (Georgia Tech, New York Giants, Boston Yanks).
* Laurette Séjourné, 91, Mexican archeologist and ethnologist.
* Jeremy Ward, 27, American keyboardist and sound technician, heroin overdose.
* Sloan Wilson, 83, American novelist (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, A Summer Place), Alzheimer's disease.

### 26

* Alfredo Bravo, 78, Argentine politician and trade unionist, heart attack.
* Melitta Brunner, 96, Austrian figure skater (ladies singles skating, bronze medal in pairs skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics).
* Burr DeBenning, 66, American actor.
* Gerald Hawkins, 75, British-American astronomer and author, heart attack.
* Thomas Risley Odhiambo, 72, Kenyan entomologist and environmental activist.
* Jim Root, 71, American football player (Miami University, Chicago Cardinals) and coach (New Hampshire, William & Mary).
* Kathleen Winsor, 83, American author (Forever Amber).

### 27

* Geoffrey Bawa, 83, Sri Lankan architect.
* Luciano Berio, 77, Italian composer (Sinfonia).
* François Bondy, 88, Swiss journalist and novelist.
* Mac Colville, 87, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers).
* Al Hartley, 81, American comic book writer and -artist.
* Stellan Nilsson, 81, Swedish football player.

### 28

* Janet Collins, 86, American ballerina.
* Phil Holloway, 86, New Zealand politician.
* Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, 70, Soviet cosmonaut and rocket scientist, heart attack.
* Dorothy Nelkin, 69, American sociologist of science and author.
* James Plunkett, 83, Irish writer.
* Ilya Prigogine, 86, Russian-Belgian physical chemist, 1977 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.
* Martha Scott, 90, American actress.
* Momir Talić, 60, Bosnian Serb general in the Yugoslav People's Army and the VRS.
* Marc Zuber, 59, English actor, heart attack.

### 29

* W. R. Alford, 65, American mathematician, worked in the field of number theory, brain cancer.
* Savita Ambedkar, 94, Indian social activist and doctor.
* Trevor Ford, 79, Welsh international footballer, pneumonia.
* Anthony Frederick, 38, American basketball player, heart attack.
* David Jefferies, 30, British motorcycle racer, motorcycle crash.
* Basil Langton, 91, English actor, director and photographer.
* Joanna Paul, 57, New Zealand visual artist, poet and film maker.
* Pierre Restany, 72, French art critic and cultural philosopher.
* Wallace Terry, 65, American journalist and oral historian.

### 30

* Zagir Ismagilov, 86, Soviet Bashkir composer and pedagogue.
* Minoru Mochizuki, 96, Japanese martial artist.
* Mickie Most, 64, English record producer, peritoneal mesothelioma.
* Günter Pfitzmann, 79, German film actor, heart attack.
* Lars T. Platou, 82, Norwegian politician.
* John Morris Roberts, 75, British historian and broadcaster.
* Silvester Sabolčki, 23, Croatian footballer, car crash.
* Jason Sweeney, 16, American construction worker, beaten.

### 31

* Nicolas Barone, 72, French road bicycle racer.
* Janine Bazin, 80, French film and television producer.
* Anil Biswas, 88, Indian film music director.
* Francesco Colasuonno, 78, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
* Hal Haskins, 78, American basketball player and coach.
* Anthony Stodart, Baron Stodart of Leaston, 86, Scottish politician and life peer.
* Li Lin, 79, Chinese physicist.
* Billy Wade, 88, South African cricketer.