page_title: 2003
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 2003 / Deaths / October
context_page_description: 2003 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2003rd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 3rd year of the 3rd millennium, the 3rd year of the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2000s decade.
  2003 was designated the International Year of the Fresh Water.
context_section_description: October 2 – Otto Günsche, German adjutant of Adolf Hitler (b. 1917)
  October 5
  Neil Postman, American educator, media theorist, and cultural critic (b. 1931)
  Timothy Treadwell, American environmentalist and filmmaker (b. 1957)
  October 13 – Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian Nobel physicist (b. 1918)
  October 14 – Moktar Ould Daddah, 1st President of Mauritania (b. 1924)
  October 16
  Stu Hart, Canadian wrestling promoter (b. 1915)
  László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)
  October 17 – Janice Rule, American actress (b. 1931)
  October 19
  Alija Izetbegović, 1st President of Bosnia and Herzegovina (b. 1925)
  Road Warrior Hawk, American professional wrestler (b. 1957)
  October 20 – Jack Elam, American actor (b. 1918)
  October 21 – Elliott Smith, American musician (b. 1969)
  October 22 – Tony Renna, American race car driver (b. 1976)
  October 23 – Soong Mei-ling, First Lady of China (b. 1898)
  October 24 – Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish cross-country skier (b. 1925)
  October 27 – Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937)
  October 29
  Hal Clement, American writer (b. 1922)
  Franco Corelli, Italian opera tenor (b. 1921)
caption: Bertram Brockhouse
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