The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.
December 2003
1
Hamza Alavi , 82, Pakistani-British sociologist and activist (Campaign Against Racial Discrimination ).[ 1]
Fernando Di Leo , 71, Italian film director and script writer.[ 2]
Clark Kerr , 92, American academic, chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1952–58), complications from a fall.[ 3]
Eugenio Monti , 75, Italian bobsledder (six Olympic bobsledding medals: 1956 two silver , 1964 two bronze , 1968 two gold ), suicide by gunshot.[ 4]
Carl Schenkel , 55, Swiss film director, heart attack.[ 5]
Uday Singh Taunque , 21, U.S. Army soldier.
2
Ruth Nanda Anshen , 103, American philosopher, author and editor.[ 6]
Suzanne Cloutier , 80, Canadian film actress, liver cancer.[ 7]
Alan Davidson , 79, British food writer and diplomat.[ 8]
Vic Gordon , 92, British Australian actor of vaudeville, television and film.
Ignaz Kiechle , 73, German politician and minister for agriculture (1983–1993).
Frances Morris , 95, American actress.[ 9]
Rudolph A. Peterson , 98, American banker.[ 10]
3
Dulce Chacón , 49, Spanish poet, novelist and playwright, pancreatic cancer .[ 11]
Jay Difani , 80, American baseball player (Washington Senators ).[ 12]
Ellen Drew , 88, American film actress, liver ailment.[ 13]
Sita Ram Goel , 82, Indian historian, activist, writer, and publisher.
David Hemmings , 62, British actor and director, heart attack.[ 14]
4
John H. Hannah, Jr. , 64, American judge (U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ), heart attack.[ 15]
Dezső Lemhényi , 85, Hungarian water polo player, coach and Olympic champion.[ 16]
Jimmy Smith , 92, Scottish football player.
David Vaughan , 59, English psychedelic artist .[ 17]
Jacques Viau , 84, Canadian lawyer and reformist.
5
Paul Busby , 85, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies ).[ 18]
Bob Gregory , 82, American comics artist and writer.
Felix Kaspar , 88, Austrian figure skater (bronze medal in men's singles figure skating at the 1936 Winter Olympics ).[ 19]
Jack Keller , 61, American poker player.
José Manuel Pesudo , 67, Spanish football goalkeeper and coach.
Antony Rowe , 79, English rower and Olympian.[ 20]
Gregorio García Segura , 74, Spanish composer of film scores.
Yasuo Tanaka , 71, Japanese voice actor.
6
Haddis Alemayehu , 93, Ethiopian Foreign Minister and novelist.
John Bingham , 61, British classical pianist.[ 21]
Hans Hotter , 84, German operatic bass-baritone .[ 22]
José María Jiménez , 32, Spanish road bicycle racer, heart attack.[ 23]
Barry Long , 77, Australian spiritual teacher and writer.
P. Madhavan , 75, Indian film director and producer in Tamil cinema .
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio , 85, Guatemalan military ruler, President of Guatemala .[ 24]
Jerry Tuite , 36, American wrestler, heart attack.
7
Roland Asselin , 86, Canadian fencer (1948 Olympic fencing , 1952 Olympic fencing , 1956 Olympic fencing ).[ 25]
Barta Barri , 92, Hungarian-Spanish film actor.
Robert R. Benton , 79, American set decorator, respiratory failure.
Carl F. H. Henry , 90, American Evangelical theologian and founder of Christianity Today magazine.[ 26]
Azie Taylor Morton , 67, American public servant (Treasurer of the United States ), complications from a stroke.[ 27]
Joe Skeen , 76, American politician, Parkinson's disease .
8
Lewis M. Allen , 81, American film and Broadway producer, nominated for seven Tony Awards , pancreatic cancer .[ 28]
Margaret Jean Anderson , 84, Canadian businesswoman and senator (representing Northumberland--Miramichi , New Brunswick).[ 29]
Nelson Bobb , 79, American professional basketball player (Temple University , Philadelphia Warriors ), cancer.[ 30]
Agnès Delahaie , 83, French actress and film producer.[ 31]
Robert Detweiler , 73, American competition rower and Olympic champion, naval officer, and scientist.[ 32]
Rubén González , 84, Cuban pianist.[ 33]
Pekka Siitoin , 59, Finnish satanist , occultist and neo-Nazi, esophageal cancer .
Francine Weisweiller , 87, French socialite and patron of Jean Cocteau .[ 34]
9
Carol M. Bundy , 61, American serial killer, heart failure.
Blackie Ko , 50, Taiwanese film director, stuntman, singer and actor, blood poisoning .[ 35]
Keith McCreary , 63, Canadian hockey player, cancer.[ 36]
Thomas M. Rees , 78, American politician.[ 37]
Gladys Shelley , 91, American lyricist and composer.[ 38]
Paul Simon , 75, American author and politician, United States Senator from Illinois (1985-1997), surgical complications.[ 39]
Norm Sloan , 77, American college basketball player and coach (The Citadel , University of Florida , North Carolina State ).[ 40]
10
Begum Abida Ahmed , 80, Indian politician, First Lady of India as wife of Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (974-1977).
Robert L. Bartley , 66, American newspaper editor (The Wall Street Journal editorial page) and Pulitzer Prize winner.[ 41]
Oswald Cheung , 81, Hong Kong lawyer and politician, complications from burns.
Elizabeth Harrower , 85, American actress and television writer, cancer.
Sean McClory , 79, Irish actor.[ 42]
Bill Morey , 83, American actor.
Raúl Armando Savoy , 63, Argentine football player.
Don Wheeler , 81, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox ).[ 43]
11
Malcolm Clarke , 60, British composer.
Ahmadou Kourouma , 76, Ivorian novelist.[ 44]
Shah Ahmad Noorani , 77, Pakistani Islamic scholar , mystic , philosopher , revivalist and an ultra–conservative politician.[ 45]
Ann Petersen , 76, Belgian actress.[ 46]
Ram Kishore Shukla , 80, Indian politician.
Paulos Tzadua , 82, Ethiopian Catholic Archbishop of Addis Abeba .
12
Heydar Aliyev , 80, Azerbaijani politician, served as the third president of Azerbaijan .[ 47]
Ross Belsher , 70, Canadian politician (member of Parliament of Canada for Fraser Valley East , British Columbia).[ 48]
Eva Besnyö , 93, Dutch-Hungarian photographer.[ 49]
Michael Casson , 78, British potter.[ 50]
Joseph Anthony Ferrario , 77, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Honolulu (1982–1993), heart attack.
Earl Gillespie , 81, American sportscaster, voice of the Milwaukee Braves .
Marcello Giombini , 75, Italian composer, well.[ 51]
Keiko , 27, orca famed for Reino Aventura and Free Willy , pneumonia .[ 52]
Rudolf Krause , 76, German football player and coach.
Kurt Magnus , 91, German scientist.
Fadwa Tuqan , 86, Palestinian poet.[ 53]
13
Elizabeth Bates , 56, American professor of cognitive science , pancreatic cancer .[ 54]
Luis González y González , 78, Mexican historian.[ 55]
Mollie Hardwick , 87, British writer.
Alexis Kanner , 61, French-Canadian film and television actor, heart attack.[ 56]
David Perlov , 73, Israeli documentary filmmaker.[ 57]
Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi , 81, Indian neurosurgeon and author.
William Roth , 82, American lawyer and politician United States Senator from Delaware from 1971 to 2001.[ 58]
Xie Tian , 89, Chinese actor and director.[ 59]
Webster Young , 71, American jazz trumpeter (Miles Davis , John Coltrane , Dizzy Gillespie ), brain cancer.[ 60]
Māris Čaklais , 63, Latvian poet and writer.
14
Daniel Arasse , 59, French art historian, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis .[ 61]
Don Concannon , 73, British Labour Party politician.
Jeanne Crain , 78, American actress, heart attack.[ 62]
Blas Ople , 75, Filipino journalist and politician, heart attack.
François Rauber , 70, French pianist, composer, arranger and conductor.[ 63]
Frank Sheeran , 83, American labor union leader and mobster, "The Irishman ", cancer.[ 64]
15
Johnny Cunningham , 46, British folk musician, heart attack.[ 65]
Jack Gregory , 80, British athlete and Olympic silver medalist.[ 66]
Garvin Hamner , 79, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies ).[ 67]
Göthe Hedlund , 85, Swedish speed skater and Olympic medalist.[ 68]
David S. Lewis , 86, American aerospace engineer .[ 69]
Keith Magnuson , 56, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks ), road accident.[ 70]
Edward Montagne , 91, American television series producer and film director.[ 71]
Dora Wasserman , 84, Russian-Canadian actress, playwright, and theater director.[ 72]
16
Siegfried Hold , 72, German cinematographer.[ 73]
Alfred Lynch , 72, English actor, cancer.[ 74]
Judd Marmor , 93, American psychoanalyst and psychiatrist.[ 75]
Hugo Moser , 77, Argentine television and film producer and screenwriter, cardiovascular disease.
Madlyn Rhue , 68, American actress (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World , Days of Our Lives , Bracken's World ), pneumonia.
Aglaja Schmid , 77, Austrian stage and film actress.[ 76]
Veikko Sinisalo , 77, Finnish actor.
Robert Stanfield , 89, Canadian politician (member of Parliament representing Colchester—Hants and Halifax , Nova Scotia), pneumonia .[ 77]
Gary Stewart , 58, American country music singer "She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles) ", suicide by gunshot.[ 78]
Peter Hardy, Baron Hardy of Wath , 72, British Labour Party politician.
17
Ed Devereaux , 78, Australian actor, cancer.[ 79]
Otto Graham , 82, American gridiron football (Cleveland Browns ) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame , heart aneurysm .[ 80]
Wally Hedrick , 75, Seminal American artist in the 1950s California counterculture, gallerist, and educator.
Mary Ann Jackson , 80, American child actress, heart attack.
José Richa , 69, Brazilian politician.
David Smith , 69, English cricketer.[ 81]
Alan Tilvern , 86, English actor and voice artist (Bhowani Junction , The Lord of the Rings , Who Framed Roger Rabbit ).[ 82]
Jim Wolf , 51, American gridiron football player (Prairie View A&M , Pittsburgh Steelers , Kansas City Chiefs ), multiple sclerosis .[ 83]
18
Charles Berlitz , 90, American linguist , spoke 32 languages.[ 84]
Glenn Cunningham , 91, American politician.
Jack Dormand , 84, British politician.
Ergilio Hato , 77, Dutch Antillean goalkeeper from Curaçao .[ 85]
Branko Horvat , 75, Croatian economist and politician.
Cresson Kearny , 89, United States Army officer.[ 86]
Susan Travers , 94, only English woman to serve in the French Foreign Legion .[ 87]
Richard Wahlstrom , 72, American Olympic rower (bronze medal in men's coxed four at the 1952 Summer Olympics ).[ 88]
19
Roger Conant , 94, American herpetologist , cancer.
Yan Frid , 95, Soviet screenwriter and film director.
Roy Hughes, Baron Islwyn , 78, British Labour Party politician and trade union organiser.
Hope Lange , 70, American actress, ischemic colitis , infectious disease.[ 89]
Heinz Marquardt , 80, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross .
Carmen Mauro , 77, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs , Brooklyn Dodgers , Washington Senators, Philadelphia Athletics ).[ 90]
Les Tremayne , 90, English actor, heart failure.[ 91]
20
Charles Randolph Grean , 90, American producer and composer.[ 92]
Grigore Grigoriu , 62, Moldovan actor, car accident.[ 93]
Alan Magee , 84, American World War II airman, survived 22,000 ft. fall, stroke, kidney failure .
Gil Reece , 61, Welsh footballer.[ 94]
Kostas Valsamis , 95, Greek sculptor.
21
Gawaine Baillie , 69, British amateur racing driver, industrialist, and stamp collector.[ 95]
M. J. Gopalan , 94, Indian sportsman, among which cricket.[ 96]
Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg , 79, Spanish businessman and playboy, prostate cancer .[ 97]
G. V. Iyer , 86, Indian film director and actor.[ 98]
Hans Koller , 82, Austrian jazz tenor saxophonist and bandleader.[ 99]
Andrea Scotti , 72, Mainly active in genre films.
Oleg Troyanovsky , 84, Soviet ambassador to Japan and China and representative to the United Nations (1976-1986).[ 100]
22
Mikhail Borodulin , 36, Kazakhstani ice hockey player (men's ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics ), lung cancer.[ 101]
Wah Chang , 86, Chinese-American designer, sculptor, and artist.
Dave Dudley , 75, American country music singer, heart attack.[ 102]
Rose Hill , 89, English actress and operatic soprano.[ 103]
George Patterson , 64, American basketball player.[ 104]
Doris Shadbolt , 85, Canadian art curator and writer.[ 105]
Andreas Tietze , 89, Austrian scholar of Turkish lexicography and language.[ 106]
23
Charlie Bowles , 86, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics ).[ 107]
Kriangsak Chamanan , 86, Prime minister of Thailand .
Valentin Gavrilov , 57, Russian high jumper and Olympic medalist.[ 108]
Don Lamond , 83, American jazz drummer, brain tumor .[ 109]
John Newlove , 65, Canadian poet and editor.[ 110]
John Sanders , 70, British organist, pneumonia .
Chandu Sarwate , 83, Indian cricketer and fingerprint expert.[ 111]
Guglielmo Trevisan , 85, Italian football manager and football player.[ 112]
24
Herman Keiser , 89, American golfer, Alzheimer's disease .[ 113]
James Kitching , 81, South African vertebrate palaeontologist , cancer.[ 114]
Gunnar Alf Larsen , 83, Norwegian Labour Party politician.
Eugene Maltsev , 74, Soviet Russian painter.
Noel Toy , 84, American burlesque performer.[ 115]
25
Charles Concordia , 95, American electrical engineer and computer pioneer.
Ulf Isaksson , 49, Swedish ice hockey player.[ 116]
Nicholas Mavroules , 74, American politician.
Nicola Paone , 88, American singer, songwriter, and restaurateur.[ 117]
26
Hugh Bean , 74, English violinist, teacher and leader of the Philharmonia Orchestra .[ 118]
Gale Bishop , 81, American professional basketball player (Washington State , Philadelphia Warriors).[ 119]
Redfern Froggatt , 79, English footballer.[ 120]
Phil Goldman , 39, American engineer and entrepreneur, heart failure.[ 121]
Chauncy Harris , 89, American geographer .[ 122]
Clifton McNeely , 84, American basketball player and coach.
Paul Owens , 79, American Major League Baseball manager, and scout.
Ivan Petrov , 83, Soviet and Russian bass opera singer.
Yoshio Shirai , 80, first Japanese world boxing champion, pneumonia .
Milan Vasić , 75, Serbian historian.
27
Pete Alvarado , 83, American animation and comic book artist (Disney Studios , Warner Bros. Animation , Western Publishing ), heart attack.[ 123]
Alan Bates , 69, British actor (The Fixer , Zorba the Greek , Women in Love ), pancreatic cancer .[ 124]
Iván Calderón , 41, Puerto Rican baseball player (Seattle Mariners , Chicago White Sox , Montreal Expos ), homicide by gunshot.[ 125]
Ingeborg Cook , 88, Norwegian actress and singer.
Lawrence Cook , 73, American actor.[ 126]
Gerhard Doerfer , 83, German philologist .[ 127]
Vestal Goodman , 74, American Southern Gospel singer, complications from influenza .[ 128]
Heinz Kiessling , 77, German musician, conductor, composer and music producer.[ 129]
Nagavally R. S. Kurup , 86, Indian writer and broadcaster.
E. Arsenio Manuel , 94, Filipino academic, historian, and anthropologist .
K. S. Narasimhaswamy , 88, Indian poet.
Richie Niemiera , 82, American basketball player and coach (Notre Dame , Fort Wayne Pistons , Anderson Packers ).[ 130]
Juan García Ponce , 71, Mexican novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and art critic.
Patrick J. Reynolds , 83, Irish politician.
Ying Ruocheng , 74, Chinese actor (Marco Polo , The Last Emperor , Little Buddha ), director, and China's vice-minister of culture .[ 131]
28
Harald Feller , 90, Swiss diplomat and Righteous Among the Nations for his efforts during World War II.
Guy Héraud , 83, French politician and lawyer.[ 132]
Helen Kleeb , 96, American film and television actress.[ 133]
Michael Melle , 73, South African cricket player.[ 134]
Frank Parr , 85, British chess player.[ 135]
Thomas Pearsall , 83, Australian politician.
Polly Rosenbaum , 104, American politician and teacher.[ 136]
Johannes Schmitt , 60, German athlete and Olympian.[ 137]
Murray Smith , 63, British television writer and producer.
A. William Sweeney , 83, American soldier and lawyer.
John Terraine , 82, British military historian.
Kushabhau Thakre , 81, Indian politician and a Member of parliament.
29
Charles E. Beatley , 87, American politician, mayor of Alexandria, Virginia .[ 138]
Michael Courtney , 58, Irish prelate of the Catholic Church , homicide.
Jaime de Piniés , 86, Spanish diplomat.[ 139]
Gerald Gutierrez , 53, American Tony Award-winning stage director, respiratory failure.[ 140]
Earl Hindman , 61, American actor (Home Improvement , The Parallax View , Taps ), lung cancer .[ 141]
Dinsdale Landen , 71, British actor, pneumonia .[ 142]
Don Lawrence , 75, British comic book artist, pulmonary emphysema.[ 143]
Bob Monkhouse , 75, British comedian and game show host, prostate cancer .
Tino Schwierzina , 76, German lawyer and politician.
Miko Sotto , 21, Filipino matinee idol.
Michel Zanoli , 35, Dutch road cyclist (men's individual road race , men's team time trial at 1988 Summer Olympics ), heart failure.[ 144]
Ersa Siregar , 52, Indonesian journalist, murdered
30
David Bale , 62, South African businessman and activist, lymphoma .[ 145]
Vladimir Bogomolov , 77, Soviet writer (The Moment of Truth , 1973).[ 146]
John Gregory Dunne , 71, American novelist and screenwriter, heart attack.[ 147]
Nora Heysen , 92, Australian artist.[ 148]
Ibram Lassaw , 90, Russian-American sculptor.[ 149]
Anita Mui , 40, Hong Kong pop queen, cervix uterine cancer.[ 150]
Patricia Roc , 88, English film actress, kidney failure .
Johnny Sands , 75, American film and television actor.
Salma Sobhan , 66, Bangladeshi lawyer, academic, and human rights activist.
Hukwe Zawose , 65, Tanzanian musician.[ 151]
31
German Apukhtin , 67, Soviet Russian football player.
Geoffrey Thomas Sandford Baylis , 90, New Zealand botanist and academic.
John A. Franks , 78, American businessman and a thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder.
Dora Gad , 91, Israeli interior designer.[ 152]
Gerald Goldberg , 91, Irish lawyer and politician.
Béla Julesz , 75, Hungarian-American visual neuroscientist and experimental psychologist.
Béla Kárpáti , 74, Hungarian football player.
Paula Raymond , 79, American model and actress, respiratory failure.[ 153]
David Scott-Barrett , 81, British army general.[ 154]
Arthur R. von Hippel , 105, German-American scientist and MIT professor.[ 155]
Sieglinde Wagner , 82, Austrian operatic contralto .[ 156]
Max West , 87, American baseball player (Boston Bees /Braves , Cincinnati Reds , Pittsburgh Pirates ), brain cancer.[ 157]
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