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

## January 2003
### 1

* Royce D. Applegate, 63, American actor (seaQuest DSV, Diff'rent Strokes, Dallas, Home Improvement).
* Joe Foss, 87, American politician, fighter pilot, recipient of the Medal of Honor.
* Giorgio Gaber, 63, Italian singer-songwriter and playwright, lung cancer.
* Joel, 71, Brazilian association footballer.
* A. K. Salim, 80, American jazz composer, and arranger.
* Cyril Shaps, 79, British actor (The Pianist, Doctor Who, The Spy Who Loved Me).
* David Young, 72, British politician (Member of Parliament for Bolton East, Bolton South East).

### 2

* Frank Cremeans, 59, American politician, respiratory failure.
* Hiralal Gaekwad, 79, Indian cricket player.
* Peter Harris, 77, British footballer.
* Eric Jupp, 80, British-Australian musician, composer, arranger and conductor.
* Bud Metheny, 87, American baseball player (New York Yankees).
* Sydney Omarr, 76, American astrologer and newspaper columnist, heart attack.
* Bill Shelton, 73, British politician, Alzheimer's disease.
* Leroy Warriner, 83, American midget car racing driver (National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame).

### 3

* Sir James Ainsworth Campden Gabriel Eyre, 72, British Army general.
* Sid Gillman, 91, American football coach (San Diego Chargers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
* José María Gironella, 85, Spanish author, stroke.
* Flóra Kádár, 74, Hungarian actress.
* Eddy Marnay, 82, French songwriter, singer.
* N. P. Mohammed, 73, Indian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter.
* Mohammad Mohsin, 60, Indian actor, director and producer.
* Edmund L. Morris, 79, Canadian politician, broadcaster and university administrator.
* Halima Nosirova, 89, Soviet and Uzbek singer.
* Joe Ostrowski, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, New York Yankees).
* Monique Wittig, 67, French writer, poet and social theorist, heart attack.

### 4

* Hanno Drechsler, 71, German politician and mayor of Marburg.
* Conrad Hall, 76, American cinematographer (American Beauty, Cool Hand Luke, Road to Perdition), Oscar winner (1970, 2000, 2003), bladder cancer.
* Yfrah Neaman, 79, Lebanese-British violinist and teacher.
* Lila Zali, 84, Georgian-American prima ballerina and ballet director.

### 5

* Maurice Boutel, 79, French film director, screenwriter and dialoguist.
* King Biscuit Boy, 58, Canadian blues musician.
* Buzz Busby, 69, American bluegrass mandolinist, songwriter and bandleader.
* Doreen Carwithen, 80, British composer of classical and film music.
* Massimo Girotti, 84, Italian film actor, heart attack.
* Roy Jenkins, 82, British politician and biographer, heart attack.
* Jean Kerr, 80, American author and playwright, pneumonia.
* Félix Loustau, 80, Argentine football player.
* Daphne Oram, 77, British composer and musician.

### 6

* Olle Bexell, 93, Swedish decathlete (1936 Olympic decathlon; Swedish champion: 1935 to 1938 decathlon, 1938 pentathlon).
* Miriam Byrd-Nethery, 73, American actress.
* Gerald Cash, 85, Governor-General of the Bahamas.
* Glyn Davies, 83, Welsh economist.
* Peter de Smet, 58, Dutch comic-strip artist.
* Paula Pöhlsen, 89, German gymnast and Olympic champion.
* Kari Skjønsberg, 76, Norwegian academic, writer and feminist.
* Jarvis Tatum, 56, American baseball player (California Angels).
* Mamie Till, 81, American educator and civil rights activist.
* Philip Ward, 78, British army general.
* Harry Woolf, 79, American historian and academic, director of Institute for Advanced Study.

### 7

* Ed Albosta, 84, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates).
* Ken Biddulph, 70, British cricketer.
* Vance Longden, 72, American thoroughbred horse trainer.
* Gordon Kidd Teal, 95, American electrical engineer.
* Sebastian von Hoerner, 83, German astrophysicist and radio astronomer.
* Beatrice Willard, 77, American botanist, known for her research in alpine tundra ecosystems.

### 8

* Simeon Aké, 71, Ivorian politician.
* Dante "Tex" Gill, 72, American gangster and pimp.
* Ron Goodwin, 77, British film music composer and conductor, asthma.
* Sarah McClendon, 92, American journalist and White House reporter.
* Kir Nesis, 68, Russian marine biologist and malacologist, specialising in cephalopods.
* Reg Revans, 95, British professor, administrator and management consultant.
* Angelo Romani, 69, Italian swimmer.
* Billy Van, 68, Canadian comedian, actor and singer (Nightcap, The Hilarious House of Frightenstein), lung cancer.

### 9

* Kurt Andersen, 104, German Luftwaffe general during World War II.
* Ignace Heinrich, 77, French Olympic athlete.
* Elizabeth Irving, 98, British actress.
* Qamar Jalalabadi, 84, Indian poet and lyricist of songs for Hindi movies.
* Don Landrum, 66, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants).
* Will McDonough, 67, American sportswriter for The Boston Globe, heart attack.
* Peter Tinniswood, 66, British writer, esophageal cancer.
* Penny Valentine, 59, British music journalist and critic, cancer.

### 10

* Júlio Botelho, 73, Brazilian football player, heart failure.
* C. Douglas Dillon, 93, American diplomat (U.S. Ambassador to France) and politician (Secretary of the Treasury, National Security Council).
* Wolfgang Kasack, 75, German Slavic studies scholar and translator.
* Jorge "Lobito" Martínez, 50, Paraguayan musician, murdered.
* Ensio Siilasvuo, 81, Finnish general.
* Denis Zanette, 32, Italian professional racing cyclist, heart attack.

### 11

* Mickey Finn, 55, English musician and percussionist of T. Rex.
* Anthony Havelock-Allan, 98, British producer and screenwriter, heart attack.
* Virginia Kidd, 81, American literary agent, writer and editor.
* Arne Månsson, 77, Swedish footballer.
* Maurice Pialat, 77, French movie director, kidney failure.
* Jože Pučnik, 70, Slovenian intellectual, sociologist and politician.
* William Russo, 74, American composer, arranger, and musician.
* Richard Simmons, 89, American actor (Sergeant Preston of the Yukon), Alzheimer's disease.
* Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila, 56, Nigerian politician and administrator.
* Yuri Tishkov, 31, Russian football player, sports agent and commentator, stabbed.

### 12

* Dean Amadon, 90, American ornithologist and an authority on birds of prey.
* Clarence H. Burns, 84, American politician, mayor of Baltimore in 1987.
* Jack Douglas, 72, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player.
* Kinji Fukasaku, 72, Japanese film director and screenwriter, prostate cancer.
* Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, 76, former dictator of Argentina, heart attack, pancreatic cancer.
* Maurice Gibb, 53, British band member of Bee Gees, heart attack.
* W. M. Gorman, 79, Irish economist and academic.
* Valentyn Kravchuk, 58, Ukrainian rower and Olympic medalist.
* Alan Nunn May, 91, British nuclear physicist and convicted Soviet spy.
* Paul Pender, 72, American boxer and world middleweight champion.
* Koloman Sokol, 100, Slovak artist.
* Wang Tieya, 89, Chinese jurist and Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

### 13

* James Bradshaw Adamson, 81, American U.S. Army major general, commander of the Military District of Washington.
* Elisabeth Croft, 95, English actress (Crossroads).
* Norman Panama, 88, screenwriter and director, Parkinson's disease.
* Ernie Rudolph, 93, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).

### 14

* Mirza Babayev, 89, Azerbaijani actor and singer.
* Mel Bourne, 79, American set designer and art director (Annie Hall, Fatal Attraction, Manhunter).
* Alan Edwards, 77, Australian actor.
* Monica Furlong, 72, British author, journalist, and activist, cancer.
* Vahé Katcha, 74, French Armenian author, screenwriter and journalist, heart attack.
* Georg Knepler, 96, Austrian pianist, conductor and musicologist.
* John Mantley, 82, Canadian theatrical actor, screenwriter and producer of television series, Gunsmoke, Alzheimer's disease.
* Paul Monash, 85, American television and film producer and screenwriter, pancreatic cancer.
* Sujit Mukherjee, 72, Indian writer, literary critic and publisher.
* Emilio Villa, 88, Italian poet, visual artist, and biblical scholar.

### 15

* Eduardo Alquinta, 57, Chilean guitarist and vocalist (Los Jaivas), heart attack.
* Robert Bart, 72, French sprinter (men's 4 × 400 metres relay, men's 400 metres hurdles at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
* Linda Braidwood, 93, American archaeologist and pre-historian, influenza.
* Robert John Braidwood, 95, American archaeologist and anthropologist, a leading pioneer in prehistoric archaeology.
* Jeannette Campbell, 86, Scottish-Argentine swimmer (silver medal in women's 100m freestyle at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
* Frank Drea, 69, Canadian journalist, broadcaster, and politician, pneumonia.
* Doris Fisher, 87, American singer and songwriter ("Put the Blame on Mame", "You Always Hurt the One You Love").
* Ernesto Foldats, 77, Venezuelan botanist and orchidologist.
* Shimon Garidi, 90, Israeli politician.
* Vivi-Anne Hultén, 91, Swedish figure skater (Olympic figure skating ladies singles: 1932, 1936 bronze medal), heart failure.
* Přemysl Kočí, 85, Czech operatic baritone, actor, stage director, and theatre manager.
* Eleanore Pettersen, 86, American architect.

### 16

* Shōtarō Akiyama, 82, Japanese photographer.
* Henryk Czyż, 79, Polish musician with a high reputation for conducting and teaching.
* Bruce Juddery, 61, Australian journalist.
* Phil McCullough, 85, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
* Chris Mead, 62, British ornithologist, author and broadcaster.
* Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri, Australian indigenous artist.
* Ray Owen, 97, Australian agricultural scientist and politician.
* Hans Pietsch, 34, German professional Go player, shot during robbery.
* Richard Wainwright, 84, British politician (Member of Parliament for Colne Valley).

### 17

* Hylo Brown, 80, American bluegrass and country music singer, guitarist and bass player.
* Fritzi Burr, 78, American actress (Once Upon a Mattress, Funny Girl, Fiddler on the Roof).
* Bernice Claire, 96, American singer and actress, pneumonia.
* Richard Crenna, 76, American actor (First Blood, Summer Rental, The Real McCoys), Emmy winner (1985), heart failure.
* Herbert Crüger, 91, German communist and political activist.
* Goronwy Daniel, 88, Welsh academic and civil servant.
* George Haimsohn, 77, American writer and photographer, aneurysm.
* Alfredo Hernández, 67, Mexican footballer.
* Sao Nang Hearn Kham, 86, First Lady of Myanmar as wife of Sao Shwe Thaik.

### 18

* Harivansh Rai Bachchan, 95, Indian poet.
* Ed Farhat, 76, Lebanese-American wrestler, heart failure.
* Virginia Heinlein, 86, American chemist, biochemist and engineer.
* Gavin Lyall, 70, English author of espionage thrillers, cancer.

### 19

* Milton Flores, 28, Honduran football player, shot.
* Françoise Giroud, 86, French journalist, screenwriter, writer and politician, heart attack.
* Joy Hodges, 87, American singer and actress.
* Morris Kight, 83, American gay rights pioneer and peace activist.
* L. D. Meyer, 87, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians) and manager.
* Russell A. Rourke, 71, American lawyer and public official.
* Alfredo Zalce, 95, Mexican artist and muralist.

### 20

* Eldar Muhtarovics Azim-Zagye, 68, Soviet-Azerbaijani football referee.
* David Battley, 67, British actor (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Krull, Relative Strangers), heart attack.
* Sir Stanley Fingland, 83, British diplomat.
* Al Hirschfeld, 99, American caricaturist.
* Gusztáv Juhász, 91, Hungarian -Romanian football player and coach.
* Craig Kelly, 36, American snowboarder, avalanche.
* Abraham Klein, 76, American theoretical physicist.
* Edith Lefel, 39, French singer, infarction.
* Sadatsugu Matsuda, 96, Japanese film director, senility.
* Nedra Volz, 94, American actress (Diff'rent Strokes, The Dukes of Hazzard, Filthy Rich, The Fall Guy), cancer.
* Bill Werbeniuk, 56, Canadian snooker player, heart failure.

### 21

* Irene Diamond, 92, American Hollywood talent scout and philanthropist.
* Paul Haines, 70, American poet and jazz lyricist.
* Paul Kuusberg, 86, Estonian writer.
* Obert Logan, 61, American football player (Trinity University, Dallas Cowboys, New Orleans Saints), colon cancer.
* Antonio Domínguez Ortiz, 93, Spanish historian.
* Tommy Wood, 90, British Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
* Khin Hnin Yu, 77, Burmese writer, spokesperson for Prime Minister U Nu.

### 22

* Marvin Bower, 99, American management consultant, considered the father of modern management consulting.
* Richard Buchanan, 90, British politician (Member of Parliament for Glasgow Springburn).
* Gopal Chhotray, 86, Indian dramatist and playwright.
* Werner Dissel, 90, German actor, director, and resistance fighter during World War II.
* Lonny Kellner, 72, German singer and actress, cancer.
* Ernst Kitzinger, 90, German-American art historian.
* Bill Mauldin, 81, American cartoonist during World War II, Alzheimer's disease.
* Tan Qilong, 90, Chinese politician.
* Peter Russell, 81, British poet.
* Jean-François Zevaco, 86, French-Moroccan architect.

### 23

* Anne Meredith Barry, 70, Canadian artist, known for her landscapes of Newfoundland and Labrador.
* Nell Carter, 54, American singer, actress (Gimme a Break!, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, The Grass Harp), diabetes.
* Stanley J. Davis, 94, American politician.
* Yaroslav Krestovsky, 78, Soviet Russian painter.
* Johnny Mauro, 92, American racecar driver.
* David Moore, 75, Australian photojournalist.

### 24

* Gianni Agnelli, 81, Italian entrepreneur and president of Fiat, prostate cancer.
* Lucien E. Blackwell, 71, American politician (U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district).
* Ivor Broom, 82, British air marshal and bomber pilot during World War II.
* Rolf Kirkvaag, 82, Norwegian journalist, and a radio- and TV personality.
* Henri Krasucki, 78, French trade-unionist, secretary general of General Confederation of Labour (1982-1992).
* Sabotage, 29, Brazilian rapper and songwriter, homicide.
* Cy Touff, 75, American jazz bass trumpeter.
* Bobbi Trout, 97, American pioneer aviator, cardiovascular disease.
* Cor van Hout, 45, Dutch criminal known for the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, homicide.

### 25

* Toby Atwell, 78, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, Milwaukee Braves).
* Diana Gould, 90, British dancer and widow of Yehudi Menuhin.
* Frank L. Hays, 81, American politician.
* Cliff Norton, 84, American actor (The Ed Sullivan Show, Caesar's Hour, Harry and Tonto, Funny Lady).
* Sheldon Reynolds, 79, American television producer.
* Robert Rockwell, 82, American actor (Our Miss Brooks, Growing Pains, Lassie), cancer.
* Leopoldo Trieste, 85, Italian actor, film director and script writer, heart attack.
* Joseph A. Walker, 67, American director, actor, and playwright (Tony Award for Best Play for The River Niger).

### 26

* John Browning, 69, American pianist, winner of two Grammy Awards: 1991, 1993.
* Valeriy Brumel, 60, Soviet high jumper (men's Olympic high jump medals: 1960 silver, 1964 gold).
* Jeffrey K. Hadden, 66, American professor of sociology, pancreatic cancer.
* George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, 71, British politician, Secretary of State for Scotland 1979–1986, cancer.
* Don Lurio, 73, American-Italian dancer, choreographer and TV presenter.
* Jim McConnon, 80, English cricket player.
* Vladimir Mulyavin, 62, Belarusian and Russian rock musician, complications after car accident.
* Fred Russell, 96, American sports writer.
* Annemarie Schimmel, 80, German orientalist and scholar.
* Hugh Trevor-Roper, 89, English historian, esophageal cancer.

### 27

* Louis Archambault, 87, Canadian sculptor.
* Maurice Ash, 85, British environmentalist, writer and administrator.
* Henryk Jabłoński, 93, Polish historian and politician.
* Lajoš Jakovetić, 80, Serbian and Yugoslavia football player and manager.
* Bob Kammeyer, 52, American baseball player (New York Yankees), pulmonary embolism.

### 28

* Miloš Milutinović, 69, Serbian footballer and manager.
* Mieke Pullen, 45, Dutch long-distance runner, traffic collision.
* Emília Rotter, 96, Hungarian figure skater.
* Vladimir Vasilyev, 67, Soviet Olympic sailor.
* Edward Preston Young, 89, British graphic designer, submariner, writer (One Of Our Submarines).

### 29

* Ihsan Abbas, 82, Palestinian professor.
* Douglas Allanbrook, 81, American composer, pianist and harpsichordist.
* Pandari Bai, 73, Indian actress.
* Silvio Confortola, 93, Italian Olympic cross-country skier.
* George Dews, 81, English cricketer.
* Natalia Dudinskaya, 90, Soviet prima ballerina.
* Anthony Eisley, 78, American actor, heart attack.
* Leslie Fiedler, 85, American literary critic.
* Harold Kelley, 81, American social psychologist and academic.
* Frank Moss, 91, American lawyer and politician, US Senator from Utah.
* Peter Shaw, 84, British actor and producer; husband of Angela Lansbury, heart attack.
* Yevgeniya Sidorova, 72, Russian alpine skier and Olympic medalist.
* Alan Walker, 91, Australian theologian.
* Lee Yoo-hyung, 92, Korean football player and manager.

### 30

* Mary Ellis, 105, American actress and singer (Rose-Marie, Music in the Air).
* Cary Leeds, 45, American tennis player.
* Paul-André Meyer, 68, French mathematician.
* Joan Franks Williams, 72, American composer, complications from Parkinson's disease.

### 31

* Horace Hahn, 87, American actor.
* William Marlowe, 72, British actor.
* Werenfried van Straaten, 90, Dutch Roman Catholic priest and social activist.
* John Westergaard, 71, American investment manager.