The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 2003
1 Berta Ambrož, 58, Yugoslav and Slovene singer. John Bissell Carroll, 87, American psychologist. Hossein Fekri, 79, Iranian football player and coach. Élie Fruchart, 80, French footballer and manager. Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio, 63, Spanish singer-songwriter. Herbie Mann, 73, American crossover jazz and bossa nova flutist, prostate cancer. Bill Miller, 75, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles). Khieu Ponnary, 83, Cambodian communist and wife of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, cancer. George Roper, 69, English comedian, cancer.
2 Ivan Allen, Jr., 92, American businessman and 52nd mayor of Atlanta. Briggs Cunningham, 96, American entrepreneur and sportsman, Alzheimer's disease. Franklin Farrel, 95, American ice hockey player and Olympian (1932). Antonio Fortich, 89, Filipino Roman Catholic bishop and social activist. Mario Giannelli, 82, American football player (Boston College Eagles, Philadelphia Eagles). Najeeb Halaby, 87, American businessman, aviator, and father of Queen Noor of Jordan. Erkki Mallenius, 75, Finnish amateur boxer and Olympic medalist (1952). James Saxon, 48, English television and theatre actor, heart attack.
3 Gaetano Alibrandi, 89, Italian papal diplomat and Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland. Johannes Andenæs, 90, Norwegian jurist and professor. Hendrik van der Linde, 71, South African Olympic boxer (1952). Vince Lloyd, 96, American radio announcer, stomach cancer. Jack B. Olson, 82, American businessman, diplomat, and politician. Skip Scarborough, 58, American songwriter, cancer. Yuri Shchekochikhin, 53, Soviet and Russian investigative journalist, writer, and politician, poisoned. Anne Barbara Underhill, 83, Canadian astrophysicist. C. C. Wang, 96, Chinese-American artist and art collector.
4 Manuel Araneta, Jr., 76, Filipino basketball player and Olympian (1948). Larry Burkett, 64, American radio personality, heart failure. Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr., 61, American politician, heart attack. André Claveau, 87, French singer. Gusztáv Kettesi, 74, Hungarian Olympic swimmer (1952). Tyler McVey, 91, American actor, leukemia. Armin Mohler, 83, Swiss far-right political philosopher and journalist. Gunnar Petersson, 87, Swedish Olympic javelin thrower (1948). Tomris Uyar, 62, Turkish writer and translator. Barry White, 58, American smooth soul singer ("Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe"), renal failure.
5 Zhang Aiping, 93, Chinese military leader, defense minister under Deng Xiaoping. Fernando Arbex, 62, Spanish musician and songwriter. Jacques Crétaine, 86, French Olympic decathlete (1948). Norbert Dietrich, 72, German Olympic gymnast (1952). Prodan Gardzhev, 67, Bulgarian middleweight freestyle wrestler and Olympic champion (1960, 1964, 1968), heart attack. Roman Lyashenko, 24, Russian ice hockey player (Dallas Stars, New York Rangers), suicide by hanging. Nǃxau, 58, Namibian actor and bush farmer (The Gods Must Be Crazy), tuberculosis. Princess Isabelle, 91, French noble and widow of Henri, Count of Paris, pretender to the French throne. Nadav Safran, 77, American academic and expert in Arab and Middle East politics, cancer. Yoshio Sakurauchi, 91, Japanese politician. Hedy Schlunegger, 80, Swiss alpine skier and Olympic champion (1948). Abrie Schutte, 66, South African Olympic boxer (1960). Sulaiman Ninam Shah, 83, Malaysian businessman and politician. Bebu Silvetti, 59, Argentine musician, songwriter and arranger, respiratory failure.
6 Skip Battin, 69, American bass guitarist, singer and songwriter (The Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers), Alzheimer's disease. Willie Buchan, 88, Scottish football player and manager. Ed Chandler, 86, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). Buddy Ebsen, 95, American actor (The Beverly Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones, Breakfast at Tiffany's), pneumonia. Ignacio Antonio Velasco García, 74, Venezuelan Roman Catholic cardinal. Çelik Gülersoy, 72, Turkish lawyer, writer and poet, pancreatic cancer. Andrew Heiskell, 87, American journalist and chairman and CEO of Time Inc. Antal Kotász, 73, Hungarian football player. Kathleen Raine, 95, British poet and literary critic. Spec Sanders, 84, American football player (University of Texas, New York Yankees, New York Yanks).
7 Raphael I Bidawid, 81, Iraqi Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church (1989-2003). Mike Graham, 80, American football player (Los Angeles Dons, Green Bay Packers). Izhak Graziani, 78, Israeli conductor. Shlomo-Ya'akov Gross, 94, Israeli politician. Antonio Iranzo, 73, Spanish film actor. Charles Poor Kindleberger, 92, American economic historian and author, stroke. Zygmunt Konieczny, 76, Polish Olympic bobsledder (1956). Mario Pedini, 84, Italian politician. Fred G. Pollard, 85, American lawyer and politician. Ribs Raney, 80, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns). Tomiko Suzuki, 47, Japanese voice actress, heart attack.
8 Ladan and Laleh Bijani, 29, Iranian conjoined twins, complications following separation surgery. Paul Brand, 88, British surgeon, pioneering leprosy research. Duncan Clark, 88, Scottish hammer thrower and Olympian (1948, 1952). Lewis A. Coser, 89, German-American sociologist. Marjorie Fowler, 82, American film editor. Etsuko Inada, 79, Japanese Olympic figure skater (1936). Egon Johansen, 85, Danish footballer. Subhash Mukhopadhyay, 84, Indian Bengali poets. Eduardo Prieto, 91, Mexican Olympic fencer and sailor (1932, 1964).
9 Christopher Black Sr., 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Eberhard Blum, 84, German civil servant, head of the German Federal Intelligence Bureau (BND). Joe Cobbold, 76, English greyhound trainer. Valerie Gearon, 65, British actress. Josephine Jacobsen, 94, American poet, short story writer and essayist. Bob Morrow, 85, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, New York Giants, New York Yankees). Riley Dobi Noel, 31, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
10 Alvin Alcorn, 90, American New Orleans jazz trumpeter. Winston Graham, 95, English novelist. Sheldon Jaffery, 69, American bibliographer. John Purdell, 44, American musician and record producer, cancer. Hartley Shawcross, 101, English barrister, politician and chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. Manuel Vasques, 76, Portuguese footballer.
11 Humberto Aspitia, 74, Argentine Olympic sports shooter (1964). Stepan Chervonenko, 87, Soviet diplomat. Mickey Deans, 68, American discoteque manager and (last) husband of actress and singer Judy Garland, heart failure. Henry Gravrand, 81, French Catholic missionary to Africa and an anthropologist. Zahra Kazemi, 55, Iranian-Canadian journalist, blunt trauma to the head. Michèle de Saint Laurent, 76, French carcinologist. Dorothy Canning Miller, 99, American art curator. John Roach, 81, American cleric of the Roman Catholic Church. Bhisham Sahni, 87, Indian writer, playwright and an actor. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 6th Marquess of Salisbury, 86, British aristocrat and politician. Ray Whitrod, 88, Australian police officer and Queensland Police Commissioner. Ken Whyld, 77, British chess author (The Oxford Companion to Chess), historian and columnist. Teddy Yip, 96, Indonesian businessman, race car driver and team owner (Formula One, IndyCar).
12 Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed, 71, Bangladeshi lawyer and constitutionalist. Benny Carter, 95, American jazz pioneer, bronchitis. Patricia Courtney, 71, American baseball player. Mark Lovell, 43, British rally driver, motor race accident. Ellis Paul Torrance, 87, American psychologist. Eliot Wald, 57, American comedy writer for theater, television and movies (The Second City, Saturday Night Live, Camp Nowhere).
13 Alpha L. Bowser, 92, American U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general (Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Chosin Reservoir). Dildar, 58, Bangladeshi actor. Salamat Hashim, 61, Filipino islamist militant, complications caused by a heart disease and acute ulcer. Jim Quinlan, 81, American basketball player (Rochester Royals). Eileen Rodgers, 73, American singer and Broadway performer, lung cancer. Compay Segundo, 95, Cuban musician and star of the Buena Vista Social Club, kidney failure. Alton Terry, 90, American javelin thrower and Olympian (1936).
14 Leela Chitnis, 93, Indian actress. Jiří Dolana, 66, Czech Olympic ice hockey player (1964). Éva Janikovszky, 77, Hungarian writer. Morrissey Johnson, 70, Canadian politician (MP for Bonavista—Trinity—Conception, NL), motor vehicle collision with a moose. Rubén Marino Navarro, 70, Argentine football player. Louis Robertshaw, 90, American gridiron football player and US Marine Corps officer, cancer. Rajendra Singh, 81, Indian head of Hindu nationalist paramilitary organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
15 Roberto Bolaño, 50, Chilean-Spanish writer (The Savage Detectives, 2666), liver failure. Chuck Grigsby, 74, American basketball player (New York Knicks). John Richard Hyde, 90, Canadian soldier and politician. Lorraine Krueger, 85, American actress. Judith Hare, Countess of Listowel, 100, Hungarian-British writer and aristocrat. Alfred Preissler, 82, German football player and manager. Tex Schramm, 83, American president and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys football team. Alexander Walker, 73, Northern Irish film critic (London Evening Standard) and author. Elisabeth Welch, 99, American singer and actress.
16 K. P. A. C. Azeez, 55, Indian actor in Malayalam cinema. Celia Cruz, 77, Cuban salsa singer, brain cancer. Ralph A. Foote, 80, American attorney and politician. Lu Gambino, 79, American gridiron football player (Indiana Hoosiers, Maryland Terrapins, Baltimore Colts). Shmuel Safrai, 84, Israeli writer, academic and historian. Kurt Semm, 76, German gynecologist and pioneer in minimally invasive surgery. Carol Shields, 68, Canadian author, breast cancer. Chesterfield Smith, 85, American lawyer. Alida van den Bos, 101, Dutch gymnast and Olympian (1928). Dmitry Vasilyev, 58, Soviet-Russian actor, monarchist, antisemite, and ultranationalist, heart attack. Reetika Vazirani, 40, Indian-American poet and educator, suicide by stabbing.
17 Hans Abich, 84, German film producer. Manuel Franklin da Costa, 81, Angolan Roman Catholic archbishop. Erland Herkenrath, 90, Swiss field handball player and Olympian (1936). David Kelly, 59, British scientist and weapons expert, suicide by drug overdose. Walter Perry, 82, Scottish academic. Rosalyn Tureck, 89, American pianist and harpsichordist. Abdullah Yaqta, 89, Afghan politician, Prime Minister (1967). Walter Zapp, 97, Baltic German inventor (Minox subminiature camera).
18 Jane Barbe, 74, American voice actress (phone company "Time Lady") and singer, cancer. Luther L. Bohanon, 100, American district judge. Marc Camoletti, 79, French playwright. Alfredo Faget, 80, Cuban Olympic basketball player (1948, 1952). Antoni Gołaś, 83, Polish Olympic wrestler (1952). Luis Pratsmasó, 86, Spanish Olympic field hockey player (1948). César Ramírez, 74, Filipino actor, heart attack. Norman Rasmussen, 75, American physicist.
19 Bill Bright, 81, American evangelical Christian and founder of Campus Crusade for Christ. Elena Caffarena, 100, Chilean lawyer and politician. Maruchi Fresno, 87, Spanish film actress, heart attack. Pierre Graber, 94, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1970–1978). Maldwyn James, 90, Welsh rugby union player.Former Wales hooker dies Jude Milhon, 64, American civil rights advocate, writer, hacker and feminista, cancer. Dorothy Stolze, 80, American baseball player. Vic Vargas, 64, Filipino actor.
20 Lauri Aus, 32, Estonian Olympic racing cyclist (1992, 1996, 2000), struck on bicycle by drunk driver. Nicolas Freeling, 76, British crime writer.