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

## November 2003
### 1

* W. Brian Harland, 86, British geologist.
* Colin Hayes, 83, British artist.
* Joe Johnson, 73, American gridiron football player.
* Kent Kennan, 90, American composer, author, and professor.
* Henryk Machalica, 73, Polish film and stage actor, fall from horse.
* Libero Marchini, 89, Italian football player.
* Sonny Senerchia, 72, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates) and college baseball coach (Monmouth University), motorcycle accident.
* Daishiro Yoshimura, 56, Japanese football player and manager, intracranial hemorrhage.

### 2

* Xela Arias, 41, Spanish Galician-language poet and translator, heart attack.
* Christabel Bielenberg, 94, British writer (The Past is Myself, Christabel).
* Fernando Vizcaíno Casas, 77, Spanish labour lawyer, journalist and writer.
* Ted Cunningham, 65, Australian politician.
* Nati Kaji, 77, Nepali singer and songwriter.
* Iris Kelso, 76, American journalist.
* Frank McCloskey, 64, American Congressman (Indiana's 8th district) from 1983 to 1995, bladder cancer.
* Jimmy Quillen, 87, American politician (U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 1st congressional district).
* Frederic Vester, 77, German cybernetician.
* Cliff Young, 81, Australian potato farmer and long distance runner, won Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon in 1983 at 61, cancer.

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* Derk Bodde, 94, American sinologist.
* Aaron Bridgers, 85, American-French jazz pianist, featured in the 1961 Paul Newman film Paris Blues.
* Yuri Falin, 66, Soviet football player.
* Rasul Gamzatov, 80, Avarian/Soviet/Russian poet, called the "People's poet of Dagestan".
* A. James Manchin, 76, American politician, Secretary of State and State Treasurer for West Virginia, heart attack.
* Narendra Prasad, 57, Indian (Malayalam) film actor, professor and writer, cardio-respiratory arrest.

### 4

* Manadel al-Jamadi, Iraqi extrajudicial prisoner at Abu Ghraib prison, torture.
* Lotte Berk, 90, German-English dancer and teacher, created Barre fitness classes.
* Charles Causley, 86, British poet.
* Rachel de Queiroz, 92, Brazilian writer and journalist.
* Ken Gampu, 74, South African actor.
* 19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche, 86, Indian buddhist lama.
* Philip Slone, 96, American soccer player.
* R. M. Williams, 95, Australian bush-wear manufacturer, known for their handcrafted riding boots.
* Richard Wollheim, 80, British philosopher and an authority on psychoanalysis and art.

### 5

* David Bar-Ilan, 73, Israeli concert pianist, journalist and political aide (Benjamin Netanyahu).
* Hugh H. Bownes, 83, American judge (Senior Judge of the 1st Cir.) and politician.
* Dorothy Fay, 88, American actress.
* Subrata Guha, 57, Indian cricket player, heart attack.
* Bobby Hatfield, 63, American singer, half of duo the Righteous Brothers, heart attack.
* Hans Heinrich, 92, German film editor, screenwriter and film director.
* Zaim Muzaferija, 80, Bosnian actor and poet.
* Lyman Ray Patterson, 74, American law professor and historian.
* Dernell Stenson, 25, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds), killed during robbery.

### 6

* Just Betzer, 59, Danish film producer (Babette's Feast: 1988 Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film), heart attack.
* Philip Effiong, 77, Nigerian military officer.
* Crash Holly, 32, American professional wrestler, suicide by drug overdose.
* Zoe Incrocci, 86, Italian actress and voice actress.
* Spider Jorgensen, 84, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants).
* Rie Mastenbroek, 84, Dutch swimmer (1936 Summer Olympics medals: gold:100m, gold:400m, gold:4x100m, silver:100m).
* Eduardo Palomo, 41, Mexican actor, heart attack.

### 7

* Jack Durrance, 91, American pioneering rock climber and mountaineer.
* Donald Griffin, 88, American professor of zoology.
* Foo Foo Lammar, 66, British drag queen.
* Juanjo Menéndez, 74, Spanish actor, Alzheimer's disease.

### 8

* Bob Grant, 71, English actor, comedian and writer, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
* C. Z. Guest, 83, American actress, author, columnist and socialite.
* Ernst Kossmann, 81, Dutch historian.
* Guy Speranza, 47, American singer, pancreatic cancer.
* Richard Swift, 76, American composer and music theorist.
* Abdirahman Ahmed Ali Tuur, 72, Somali politician.

### 9

* Buddy Arnold, 77, American jazz saxophonist.
* Stephen Benton, 61, American scientist, teacher and artist, inventor of the rainbow hologram.
* Art Carney, 85, American actor (The Honeymooners, Harry and Tonto, The Late Show), Oscar winner (1975).
* Bruce Alexander Cook, 71, American journalist and author.
* Pushpalata Das, 88, Indian independence activist and social worker.
* Gordon Onslow Ford, 90, British-American surrealist painter.
* Mario Merz, 78, Italian artist.

### 10

* Margaret Armen, 82, American television screenwriter (The Rifleman, The Big Valley, Star Trek, Barnaby Jones).
* Canaan Banana, 67, Zimbabwean politician and minister, first president of Zimbabwe, cancer.
* June Beebe, 90, American professional golfer, won the Women's Western Open in 1931 and 1933.
* Edvard Beyer, 83, Norwegian literary historian, literary critic, and professor.
* Hans Hermes, 91, German mathematician and logician.
* Irv Kupcinet, 91, American columnist and television personality, pneumonia.
* Morten Lange, 83, Danish mycologist and politician.
* Czesław Marchewczyk, 91, Polish ice hockey player.
* Jed Williams, 51, Welsh jazz journalist and artistic director of the Brecon Jazz Festival.
* Vasilije Šijaković, 74, Montenegrin football player.

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* Andrei Bolibrukh, 53, Soviet (Russian) mathematician, known for his work on ordinary differential equations.
* Robert Brown, 82, British actor (spy boss M in four James Bond films), cancer.
* George Wallace, Baron Wallace of Coslany, 97, British politician and life peer (MP for Chislehurst).
* Harold Walker, Baron Walker of Doncaster, 76, British politician (MP for Doncaster and Doncaster Central).
* Paul Janssen, 77, Belgian physician and founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica.
* John Emmett Lyle, Jr., 93, American politician.
* Claës-Henrik Nordenskiöld, 86, Swedish Air Force officer and sailor.
* Lloyd Pettit, 76, American sportscaster.
* Miquel Martí i Pol, 74, Catalan poet, multiple sclerosis.
* Shunsuke Shima, 71, Japanese actor and voice actor.
* Don Taylor, 67, British theatre and television director.

### 12

* Jonathan Brandis, 27, American actor (seaQuest DSV, It, Sidekicks), suicide by hanging.
* Whitfield Cook, 94, American writer of screenplays, stage plays, short stories and novels.
* Cameron Duncan, 17, New Zealand filmmaker, bone cancer.
* Kay E. Kuter, 78, American actor.
* Penny Singleton, 95, American actress, singer and dancer, stroke.
* John Tartaglione, 82, American comic book artist, esophageal cancer.
* Tony Thompson, 48, American drummer for The Power Station, kidney cancer.

### 13

* Ray Harris, 76, American rockabilly musician and songwriter.
* Nobuo Okishio, 76, Japanese marxian economist.
* Andrew Vázsonyi, 87, Hungarian-American mathematician, founder of The Institute of Management Sciences.
* Kellie Waymire, 36, American actress (Star Trek: Enterprise, Six Feet Under), cardiac arrest.

### 14

* Pierre Camonin, 100, French organist and composer.
* Giles Gordon, 63, Scottish literary agent and writer.
* F. B. J. Kuiper, 96, Dutch scholar in Indology.
* Gene Anthony Ray, 41, American actor, dancer, and choreographer (Fame), complications of a stroke.
* Tim Vigors, 82, British fighter ace during World War II and biographer.

### 15

* Earl Battey, 68, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins), cancer.
* Mohamed Choukri, 68, Moroccan author and novelist, cancer.
* Ian Geoghegan, 63, Australian race car driver.
* David Holt, 76, American child actor, heart attack.
* Ray Lewis, 93, Canadian track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.
* Tung-Yen Lin, 91, Chinese-American structural engineer, heart attack.
* Dorothy Loudon, 78, American actress, cancer.
* Mitchell Paige, 85, American-Serbian Marine Corps colonel, heart attack.
* Laurence Tisch, 80, American billionaire, head of Loews Corporation and CBS television network, cancer.
* James D. Weaver, 83, American politician (U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 24th congressional district).
* Speedy West, 79, American pedal steel guitarist and record producer.
* Ned Wulk, 83, American basketball coach (Arizona State University) and baseball coach.

### 16

* Fernanda Bullano, 89, Italian sprinter (women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
* Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, 83, American dermatologist.
* Richard Lam, 56, Hong Kong songwriter, lyricist and columnist, lymphoma.
* Bettina Goislard, 29, French UNHCR relief worker, killed by Taliban militants.
* Albert Nozaki, 91, Japanese-American art director (The War of the Worlds, The Ten Commandments).

### 17

* Gerry Adams, Sr, 77, Irish Republican Army volunteer, father of Gerry Adams.
* Surjit Bindrakhia, 41, Indian singer, cardiac arrest, heart attack.
* Arthur Conley, 57, American soul singer, intestinal cancer.
* Maurice A. Dionne, 67, Canadian educator and politician .
* Don Gibson, 75, American singer-songwriter.
* Bertrand Hallward, 102, British educationalist.
* Colin Harrison, 77, English ornithologist.
* Claude Nicot, 78, French film actor.
* Pete Taylor, 75, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).

### 18

* Vivian Bonnell, 79, Antiguan actress (House of Flowers, For Pete's Sake, Ghost, Sanford and Son), diabetes.
* Ken Brett, 55, American baseball player, brother of George Brett, brain cancer.
* Patricia Broderick, 78, American playwright (Infinity) and painter, mother of Matthew Broderick, cancer.
* Bob Carmichael, 63, Australian tennis player and coach.
* Michael Kamen, 55, American composer (Die Hard, Band of Brothers, 101 Dalmatians), heart attack.

### 19

* Gillian Barge, 63, English actress (The Cherry Orchard, Measure For Measure, The Winter's Tale), cancer.
* Harry Buffington, 84, American professional football player (Oklahoma State, New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers).
* William B. Macomber, Jr., American diplomat and president of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
* Života Panić, 70, Yugoslav military officer.
* Greg Ridley, 56, English rock artist, complications following pneumonia.
* Hans Tabor, 81, Danish diplomat and politician.
* Bill Young, 86, Australian politician (Tasmanian House of Assembly for Franklin).
* Shi Zhecun, 97, Chinese essayist, poet, and short story writer.

### 20

* Robert Addie, 43, English actor (Excalibur, Robin of Sherwood, Another Country, Dutch Girls, Merlin), lung cancer.
* Pedro Adigue, 60, Filipino boxer and light welterweight world champion .
* Loris Azzaro, 70, French-Italian fashion designer, cancer.
* David Dacko, 73, first president of the Central African Republic, asthma.
* Eugene Kleiner, 80, Austrian-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist.
* Mary Jane Russell, 77, American photographic fashion model, pulmonary fibrosis.
* Roger Short, 58, British diplomat, consul-general in Istanbul, homicide.
* Jim Siedow, 83, American actor, pulmonary emphysema.
* Ferry Sonneville, 72, Indonesian badminton player.
* Pedro L. Yap, 85, Filipino judge and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
* Kerem Yılmazer, 58, Turkish actor, homicide.

### 21

* Eşfak Aykaç, 85, Turkish football player and coach.
* Bill Haarlow, 90, American basketball player.
* Emil Pažický, 76, Slovak football player.
* Armand Putzeys, 86, Belgian cyclist and Olympic medalist.
* Teddy Randazzo, 68, American singer-songwriter.

### 22

* Mario Beccaria, 83, Italian politician.
* Iosif Budahazi, 56, Romanian fencer (men's individual sabre, men's team sabre at the 1972 Summer Olympics).
* Joe Just, 87, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).
* Yuri Khukhrov, 71, Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist.
* George Peoples, 43, American football player (Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots, Tampa Bay Buccaneers).
* Al Richardson, 61, British Trotskyist historian and activist.
* Dick Thomas, 88, American singing cowboy, songwriter, and musician.

### 23

* Patricia Burke, 86, English singer and actress (Lisbon Story, The Day the Fish Came Out, The Clitheroe Kid).
* Nick Carter, 79, New Zealand racing cyclist (men's individual road race at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
* Richard Dogbeh, 70, Beninese novelist and educator.
* Jhalak Man Gandarbha, 68, Nepali folk singer.
* Patrick Jansen, 82, Indian field hockey player (gold medal in field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
* Johny Lahure, 61, Luxembourgish politician.
* Murasoli Maran, 69, Indian politician.
* Margaret Singer, 82, American clinical psychologist and researcher, pneumonia.
* Bill Strutton, 85, Australian screenwriter and novelist, heart attack.
* Grigori Tokaty, 90, Soviet rocket scientist and politician.

### 24

* Luai al-Atassi, 76/7, Syrian army commander and politician, President (1963).
* Sheikh Niamat Ali, 63, Bangladeshi film director.
* Saifuddin Azizi, 88, Chinese politician.
* Hesba Fay Brinsmead, 81, Australian author of books for children and young adults (Pastures of the Blue Crane).
* Reiko Dan, 68, Japanese actress.
* Dick Hutton, 80, American amateur and professional wrestler.
* Hugh Kenner, 80, Canadian literary critic.
* Michael Small, 64, American film composer (Marathon Man, Klute, The Parallax View), prostate cancer.
* Floquet de Neu, 38-40, Spanish albino western lowland gorilla.
* Warren Spahn, 82, American baseball pitcher (Milwaukee Braves) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.
* Tun Tun, 80, Indian playback singer and actress-comedienne.

### 25

* Bernard Cohn, 75, American anthropologist and academic.
* Jacques François, 83, French actor.
* Shulamith Hareven, 73, Israeli writer and essayist.
* Zhang Honggen, 67, Chinese football player and coach.
* Mary Queeny, 90, Lebanese-Egyptian actress and film producer.

### 26

* Andrea Bonomi, 80, Italian football player.
* `Alí-Akbar Furútan, 98, Iranian Baháʼí educator and author.
* Sadegh Khalkhali, 77, Iranian Shia cleric and ayatollah, cancer.
* Meyer Kupferman, 77, American composer and clarinetist, heart failure.
* Lionel Ngakane, 75, South African filmmaker and actor (The Mark of the Hawk, The Squeeze).
* Gordon Reid, 64, Scottish actor.
* Soulja Slim, 26, American rapper, homicide.
* Lise Thomsen, 88, Danish film actress.
* Stefan Wul, 81, French science fiction writer (Oms en série).

### 27

* Satyendra Dubey, 30, Indian Engineering Service officer, assassinated.
* Arthur Greenslade, 80, British conductor and arranger for films and television.
* Riccardo Malipiero, 89, Italian composer, pianist, critic, and music educator.
* Will Quadflieg, 89, German actor, pulmonary embolism.
* Marjorie Reeves, 98, British historian and educationalist.
* Kurt von Fischer, 90, Swiss musicologist and classical pianist.

### 28

* Ted Bates, 85, British footballer and manager.
* Harold Von Braunhut, 77, American marketer and creator of Amazing Sea-Monkeys, suicide.
* Edmund Hartmann, 92, American film and television writer and producer.
* Terry Lester, 53, American actor (The Young and the Restless, Santa Barbara, As the World Turns), heart attack.
* Thekra, 37, Tunisian singer, shot.

### 29

* Norman Burton, 79, American actor (Diamonds Are Forever, The Towering Inferno, The New Adventures of Wonder Woman), traffic collision.
* Tony Canadeo, 84, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
* Jim Carlin, 85, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
* Jesse Carver, 92, English football player and manager.
* Jan-Magnus Jansson, 81, Finnish politician. chairman of the Swedish People's Party of Finland.
* Larry Latham, 51, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
* Robert Y. Thornton, 93, American attorney, politician, and jurist.
* Rudi Martinus van Dijk, 71, Dutch composer.

### 30

* Earl Bellamy, 86, American film and television director (Leave It to Beaver, The Lone Ranger, I Spy, M*A*S*H), heart attack.
* Jack Brewer, 85, American baseball player (New York Giants).
* Barber Conable, 81, American politician, president of the World Bank (1986–1991), infectious disease.
* António Jesus Correia, 79, Portuguese football and roller hockey (quad) player.
* Gertrude Ederle, 98, American swimmer and first woman to swim the English Channel (1926).
* Hans Kuschke, 89, German rower and Olympic medalist.
* Kin Platt, 91, American writer, artist, painter, sculptor, caricaturist, and comics artist.
* Thanjavur K. P. Sivanandam, Carnatic veena player and a descendant of the Tanjore Quartet (b. 1917)