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

## August 2003
### 1

* Tom Lewis, 78, American politician.
* Guy Thys, 80, Belgian national football coach.
* Marie Trintignant, 41, French actress and daughter of actor Jean-Louis Trintignant, beaten.
* Gordon Arnaud Winter, 90, Canadian Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland.

### 2

* Ken Coote, 75, English footballer.
* Don Estelle, 70, British actor.
* Vladimir Golovanov, 64, Russian weightlifter.
* Charles Kerruish, 86, Manx politician.
* Mike Levey, 55, American infomercial host, cancer.
* Paulinho Nogueira, 75, Brazilian guitarist, singer and composer.
* Mohamad Adnan Robert, 85, Malaysian politician, Governor of Sabah.
* Willem Wilmink, 66, Dutch poet and writer.
* Lesley Woods, 92, American radio, stage and television actress.

### 3

* Norah Isaac, 88, Welsh author, drama producer and campaigner for Welsh-language education.
* Joseph Saidu Momoh, 66, President of Sierra Leone.
* Peter Safar, 79, Austrian-born American physician, cancer.
* Roger Voudouris, 48, American singer-songwriter and guitarist, liver disease.

### 4

* Pål Arne Fagernes, 29, Norwegian javelin thrower and olympian, traffic collision.
* Chung Mong-hun, 54, Korean businessman, suicide by jumping.
* Frederick Chapman Robbins, 86, American pediatrician and virologist.
* Alice Saunier-Seité, 78, French geographer, historian, academic and politician of the Parti Républicain.
* Sarup Singh, 86, Indian academic and politician.
* Anthony of Sourozh, 89, Russian monk, broadcaster, longest-ordained hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.
* Redd Stewart, 80, American country music songwriter and recording artist.
* James Welch, 62, American Blackfeet and Gros Ventre writer and poet (Winter in the Blood, Fools Crow), lung cancer.

### 5

* Tite Curet Alonso, 77, Puerto Rican music composer, critic and journalist, heart attack.
* Dick Fouts, 69, Canadian football player.
* Maurice Mollin, 79, Belgian racing cyclist.
* Manuel Mur Oti, 94, Spanish screenwriter and film director.
* Samuel J. Tedesco, 88, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut.
* Don Turnbull, 66, English journalist and games magazine editor.
* Benjamin Vaughan, 85, Welsh Anglican priest, Bishop of Swansea and Brecon.

### 6

* Julius Baker, 87, American flute player, principal flutist of the New York Philharmonic for 18 years.
* Robin Banerjee, 94, Indian environmentalist and wildlife photographer.
* Louis Lasagna, 80, American physician and professor of medicine, lymphoma.
* Roberto Marinho, 98, Brazilian businessman, lung cancer.
* Grover Mitchell, 73, American jazz trombonist, cancer.
* Christine Noonan, 58, British actress (If....), cancer.
* Wilhelm Schneemelcher, 88, German Protestant theologian
* Larry Taylor, 85, English actor and stuntman.

### 7

* Carlo Felice Bianchi Anderloni, 87, Italian automobile designer.
* Grigory Bondarevsky, 83, Russian professor, writer, and historian, murdered.
* Charles Jones, 85, Australian politician.
* Roxie Collie Laybourne, 92, American ornithologist.
* Mickey McDermott, 74, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, Kansas City Athletics), colorectal cancer.
* F. T. Prince, 90, British poet and academic.
* Pierre Vilar, 97, French historian, authoritative historian of Spain.
* Rajko Žižić, 48, Yugoslavian basketball player (Summer Olympics medals: 1976 silver, 1980 gold, 1984 bronze), heart attack.

### 8

* Martha Chase, 75, American geneticist, pneumonia.
* Robert J. Donovan, 90, American correspondent, author and presidential historian.
* Giant Ochiai, 30, Japanese professional wrestler.
* Lilli Gyldenkilde, 67, Danish politician, cancer.
* Bhupen Khakhar, 69, Indian contemporary artist, cancer.
* Frank Large, 63, English football player.
* Allan McCready, 86, New Zealand politician.
* Jack Noreiga, 67, West Indian cricket player.
* Lenton Parr, 78, Australian sculptor and teacher.
* Antonis Samarakis, 83, Greek writer of the post-war generation, heart attack.
* Edna Skinner, 82, American film and television actress.
* Falaba Issa Traoré, 73, Malian writer, comedian, playwright, and theatre and film director.

### 9

* Jimmy Davis, 21, English football player, traffic collision.
* Jacques Deray, 74, French film director and screenwriter, cancer.
* Ray Harford, 58, English football manager, lung cancer.
* Gregory Hines, 57, American dancer, actor, liver cancer.
* Chester Ludgin, 77, American baritone, cancer.
* Lesley Manyathela, 21, South African soccer player, traffic collision.
* Bill Perkins, 79, American cool jazz saxophonist and flutist.
* William "Billy" George Rogell, 98, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs).
* Bhabesh Chandra Sanyal, 102, Indian painter, sculptor and art teacher.
* Trevor Smith, 67, English football player, lung cancer.
* Herbie Steward, 77, American jazz saxophonist.
* Esmond Wright, 87, British historian, media personality and politician (Member of Parliament for Glasgow Pollok).

### 10

* Kimal Akishev, 79, Kazakhstani scientist, archeologist, and historian.
* Constance Chapman, 91, English actor.
* Carmita Jiménez, 64, Puerto Rican singer.
* Cedric Price, 68, English architect and writer.

### 11

* Roger Antoine, 81, French basketball player (1956 Olympic basketball, 1960 Olympic basketball).
* Armand Borel, 80, Swiss mathematician.
* Herb Brooks, 66, American hockey player and coach (1980 Olympic gold medal winning "Miracle on Ice" hockey team), traffic collision.
* Jean Courteaux, 76, French football player.
* Jean Dréjac, 82, French singer and composer.
* Basil Kelly, 73, Bahamian Olympic sailor.
* Diana Mosley, 93, English socialite, one of the Mitford sisters and widow of fascist leader Oswald Mosley, stroke.
* John K. G. Shearman, 72, British art historian.
* Joseph Ventaja, 73, French boxer (bronze medal in featherweight boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
* Dennis Walker, 58, English football player.
* Sigmund Widmer, 84, Swiss historian, writer and politician.

### 12

* Christian Boussus, 95, French tennis player.
* Sir William Douglas, 81, Barbadian jurist, Chief Justice of Barbados (1965–1986).
* Håkon Kyllingmark, 88, Norwegian military officer and businessman.
* Walter J. Ong, 90, American Jesuit priest, professor of English literature, historian, and philosopher.

### 13

* Ward Bennett, 85, American designer and artist.
* Charlie Devens, 93, American baseball player (New York Yankees).
* Lothar Emmerich, 61, German football player, lung cancer.
* Michael Maclagan, 89, British historian.
* Ed Townsend, 74, American songwriter and producer, heart attack.

### 14

* Moshe Carmel, 92, Israeli Major General and politician.
* Viktor Ivanov, 72, Russian rower and Olympic silver medalist.
* Lev Kerbel, 85, Soviet and Russian sculptor of socialist realist works.
* Donal Lamont, 92, Irish-Rhodesian Roman Catholic bishop and Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
* Helmut Rahn, 73, German footballer.
* Robin Thompson, 72, Irish rugby player.
* Kirk Varnedoe, 57, American art historian, chief curator at the Museum of Modern Art, cancer.

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* Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper, 86, Dutch nurse, Nazi resister and last known person to see Anne Frank.
* Red Hardy, 80, American baseball player (New York Giants).
* Nehemia Levtzion, 67, Israeli scholar of African history.
* Enric Llaudet, 86, Spanish businessman and sports executive.
* Gerhard Mauz, 77, German journalist and correspondent for judicial processes.
* Eric Nisenson, 57, American author and jazz historian, kidney failure related to leukemia.

### 16

* Idi Amin, 78, Ugandan military officer, President of Uganda (1971-1979).
* Ali Bakar, 55, Malaysian footballer, heart attack.
* Nandor Balazs, 77, Hungarian-American physicist.
* Bert Crane, 80, Australian politician.
* Manuel Peçanha, 85, Brazilian football player.
* Gösta Sundqvist, 46, Finnish musician and radio personality, heart attack.
* James Whitehead, 67, American poet and novelist (Joiner).

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* Ben Belitt, 92, American poet and translator.
* Mazen Dana, 43, Palestinian journalist, shot by US Army.
* Haroldo de Campos, 73, Brazilian poet, critic, professor and translator.
* Connie Douglas Reeves, 101, member of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, complications following a fall.

### 18

* Don Eliason, 85, American gridiron football player.
* Álvaro Gaxiola, 66, Mexican Olympic diver.
* Tony Jackson, 65, English singer and bass-guitar player, alcoholism, liver cirrhosis.
* Jocelyne Jocya, 61, French singer and songwriter, breast cancer.

### 19

* Al Bansavage, 65, American professional football player (USC, Los Angeles Chargers, Oakland Raiders).
* Dennis Flynn, 79, Canadian politician, heart attack.
* Lester Mondale, 99, American Unitarian minister and humanist.
* John Munro, 72, Canadian politician (member of Parliament of Canada representing Hamilton East, Ontario).
* Carlos Roberto Reina, 77, Honduran politician, lawyer and diplomat, president (1994-1998), suicide by gunshot.
* Notable victims killed in the Canal Hotel bombing in Baghdad, Iraq:
** Gillian Clark, 47, Canadian aid worker for the Christian Children's Fund
** Reham Al-Farra, 29, Jordanian diplomat and journalist.
** Arthur Helton, 54, American Director of peace and conflict studies at the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations.
** Reza Hosseini, 43, Iranian UNOHCI humanitarian affairs officer
** Jean-Sélim Kanaan, 33, Egyptian, Italian and French United Nations diplomat and member of Sérgio Vieira de Mello's staff.
** Sérgio Vieira de Mello, 55, Brazilian UN diplomat and Secretary-General's Special Representative in Iraq.
** Fiona Watson, 35, Scottish member of Vieira de Mello's staff, political affairs officer.
** Nadia Younes, 57, Egyptian United Nations aide, chief of staff for Vieira de Mello.

### 20

* Igor Farkhutdinov, 53, Russian politician, Governor of Sakhalin Oblast (1995–2003).
* John Harvey, 63, English cricket player.
* Ian MacDonald, 54, British music critic, suicide.
* Hayriye Ayşe Nermin Neftçi, 78/79, Turkish jurist and politician.
* John Ogbu, 64, Nigerian-American anthropologist and professor, post-surgery heart attack.
* Andrew Ray, 64, British actor, heart attack.

### 21

* Vasily Borisov, 80, Soviet rifle shooter and Olympic champion.
* Ken Coleman, 78, American radio and television sportscaster.
* John Coplans, 83, British artist, art writer, curator, and museum director.
* Ismail Abu Shanab, 52–53, Palestinian political leader, founder and second in command of Hamas, Israeli helicopter missile strike.
* Kathy Wilkes, 57, English philosopher and education worker in Eastern Europe.
* Wesley Willis, 40, American singer-songwriter and visual artist, leukemia.

### 22

* Imperio Argentina, 92, Argentine actress and singer.
* Colleen Browning, 85, American painter.
* Arnold Gerschwiler, 89, Swiss figure skating trainer.
* Jindřich Polák, 78, Czech film and television director.
* Tony Rudd, 80, British engineer involved in aero engine design and motor racing.
* V. Somashekhar, 66, Indian film director, producer and screenwriter, kidney failure.
* Floyd Tillman, 88, American country musician and honky tonk pioneer.

### 23

* Hy Anzell, 79, American actor (Little Shop of Horrors, Checking Out, Bananas, Annie Hall).
* J. Bowyer Bell, 71, American historian, artist and art critic, best known as a terrorism expert, kidney failure.
* Bobby Bonds, 57, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants, California Angels), brain cancer, lung cancer.
* Maurice Buret, 94, French equestrian competitor (gold medal in equestrian team dressage at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
* Mal Colston, 65, Australian politician, biliary tract cancer.
* Jack Dyer, 89, Australian rules football legend.
* John Geoghan, 68, American pedophile priest, blunt trauma.
* Marion Hargrove, 83, American writer.
* Robert N. C. Nix, Jr., 75, American judge, chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1984-1996), Alzheimer's disease.
* A. N. Murthy Rao, 103, Indian writer and activist.
* Michael Kijana Wamalwa, 58, Kenyan politician, eighth Vice-President of Kenya.

### 24

* Robert C. Bruce, 88, American actor.
* John Melville Burgess, 94, American bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, first African-American to head an Episcopal diocese.
* Phuntsho Choden, 92, Queen consort of Bhutan.
* Franklin Green, 70, American Olympic free-pistol sport shooter.
* Theodore Lettvin, 76, American concert pianist and conductor.
* Bárbara Plaza, 26, Spanish rhythmic gymnast.
* John Jacob Rhodes, 86, American politician (House Minority Leader, U.S. Representative for Arizona's 1st congress. dist.), cancer.
* Amina Rizk, 93, Egyptian actress, heart attack.
* Wilfred Thesiger, 93, British explorer.
* Zena Walker, 69, British actress (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Man at the Top, The Dresser), Tony winner (1968).
* Kent Walton, 86, British sports commentator, known for his wrestling commentary on ITV's World of Sport from 1955 to 1988.

### 25

* Tom Feelings, 70, American cartoonist, children's book illustrator, and author.
* Hjalmar Pettersson, 96, Swedish cyclist (men's individual road race at the 1928 Summer Olympics).
* Ajit Vachani, 52, Indian film and television actor.
* Waid Vanderpoel, 81, American financier and conservationist.

### 26

* Wayne Andre, 71, American jazz trombonist and session musician (Liza Minnelli, Bruce Springsteen, Alice Cooper).
* Tuanku Bahiyah, 73, Malaysian sultanah and raja, cancer.
* Lucius Burckhardt, 78, Swiss sociologist and economist.
* Wilma Burgess, 64, American country music singer ("Misty Blue", "Baby", "Don't Touch Me"), heart attack.
* Clive Charles, 51, English football player, coach and television announcer, prostate cancer.
* Hans Fränkel, 86, German-American sinologist.
* Peter Harper, 81, British racing driver.
* Bimal Kar, 81, Bengali writer and novelist.
* Keith J. Laidler, 87, English-Canadian Canadian physical chemist.
* Hasan Mammadov, 64, Soviet/Azerbaijani film actor.
* Jim Wacker, American college football coach (Texas Christian University, University of Minnesota), cancer.

### 27

* Mick Connelly, 87, New Zealand politician.
* Jinx Falkenburg, 84, American actress and model.
* Pierre Poujade, 82, French populist politician.
* William J. Scherle, 80, American politician.
* Nikolai Todorov, 82, Bulgarian historian and politician, acting President (1990).
* Charles Van Horne, 82, Canadian politician (member of Parliament of Canada representing Restigouche—Madawaska, New Brunswick).

### 28

* William Cochran, 81, British physicist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Michel Constantin, 79, French film actor, heart attack.
* Peter Hacks, 75, German playwright and author.
* François Missoffe, 83, French politician and diplomat.
* Yury Saulsky, 74, Soviet and Russian composer, author.
* David Truman, 90, American academic.

### 29

* Herbert Abrams, 82, American portrait artist (Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, William Westmoreland, Arthur Miller).
* Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, 63, Iraqi cleric and politician, bombing.
* Horace W. Babcock, 90, American astronomer, director of the Palomar Observatory from 1964 to 1978.
* Anant Balani, 41, Indian film director and screenwriter, heart attack.
* Nguyen Xuan Oanh, 82, Vietnamese economist and politician.
* Patrick Procktor, 67, British painter and printmaker.
* Bruno Sutkus, 79, Lithuanian-German sniper during World War II, credited with 209 kills.
* George Thoms, 76, Australian cricket player.
* Corrado Ursi, 95, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Vladimír Vašíček, 83, Czech painter.

### 30

* Robert Abplanalp, 81, American inventor and industrialist, confidant of Richard Nixon, lung cancer.
* Webster Anderson, 70, American U.S. Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in the Vietnam War.
* Charles Bronson, 81, American actor (The Magnificent Seven, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Great Escape), pneumonia.
* Donald Davidson, 86, American philosopher.
* Claude Passeau, 94, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs).

### 31

* Pierre Cahuzac, 76, French football player and manager.
* Jelena de Belder-Kovačič, 78, Slovenian-Belgian botanist and horticulturist.
* Choe In-dok, 85, North Korean army officer and politician.
* John Storrs, 83, American architect in Oregon.
* Pavel Tigrid, 85, Czech writer, publisher, author and politician, suicide.
* Jung Yong-hoon, 24, South Korean footballer, traffic collision.