The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
February 2003
1
- Anne Burr, 84, American actress (Native Son, The Hasty Heart, As the World Turns).[1]
- Bodil Kjer, 85, Danish actress.[2]
- Adalberto Ortiz, 88, Ecuadorian writer.
- Mongo Santamaría, 85, Cuban Latin jazz percussionist.[3]
- Nancy Whiskey, 67, Scottish folk singer ("Freight Train").[4]
- Crew of STS-107 killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster:
- Michael P. Anderson, 43, American, payload commander.[5]
- David M. Brown, 46, American, mission specialist.[6]
- Kalpana Chawla, 40, American, mission specialist.[7]
- Laurel Clark, 41, American, mission specialist.[8]
- Rick Husband, 45, American, commander.[9]
- William C. McCool, 41, American, pilot.[10]
- Ilan Ramon, 48, Israeli, payload specialist.[11]
2
- Vincent "Randy" Chin, 65, Jamaican record producer, diabetes.[12]
- Tom Edmunds, 77, Australian politician.
- József Gál, 84, Hungarian Olympic wrestler.[13]
- Lou Harrison, 85, American composer, noted for his microtonal works, heart attack.[14]
- Jack Lauterwasser, 98, English racing cyclist and cycling engineer, fall at home.[15]
- Richard C. Lee, 86, American politician, Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut.[16]
- Marcello Truzzi, 67, American professor of sociology, cancer.[17]
- Emerson Woelffer, 88, American abstract expressionist artist and teacher.[18]
- Eizo Yuguchi, 57, Japanese football player, stomach cancer.[19]
3
- Fulgencio Berdugo, 84, Colombian football player.[20]
- Natascha Artin Brunswick, 93, German-American mathematician and economist.
- Lana Clarkson, 40, American actress (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Scarface, Barbarian Queen), shot by record producer Phil Spector.[21]
- Venanzo Crocetti, 89, Italian sculptor.
- João César Monteiro, 64, Portuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic, lung cancer.[22]
- Trevor Morris, 82, Welsh footballer and World War II pilot.[23]
- Peter Schat, 67, Dutch composer, cancer.[24]
4
- Charles McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway, 89, British industrialist and horticulturalist.[25]
- Benyoucef Benkhedda, 82, Algerian politician, head of Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (1961–1962).[26]
- Charlie Biddle, 76, American-Canadian jazz bassist, played with Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.[27]
- Jean Brossel, 84, French physicist and modern quantum optics pioneer.[28]
- Pierre Carteus, 59, Belgian football player.[29]
- Jerome Hines, 81, American operatic bass.[30]
- Qalandar Momand, 72, Pakistani poet and writer.[31]
- James Needs, 83, British film editor.
- André Noyelle, 71, Belgian road racing cyclist (1952 Olympic gold medals: individual road race, team road race).[32]
- Jaroslav Šajtar, 81, Czech chess master.
5
- Guillermo González Calderoni, 54, Mexican Federal Judicial Police official, murdered.[33]
- René Cardona Jr., 63, Mexican filmmaker and actor.
- Micky Fenton, 89, England football player.[34]
- Larry LeSueur, 93, American journalist, Parkinson's disease.[35]
- Antonina Shuranova, 66, Russian stage, television and film actress.
- Joseph P. Vigorito, 84, American politician (U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 24th congressional district).[36]
- Manfred von Brauchitsch, 97, German auto racing driver, winner of three Grand Prix races in the 1930s.[37]
6
- Eric Ashby, 85, English naturalist and wildlife cameraman.[38]
- José Craveirinha, 80, Mozambican journalist, story writer and poet.[39]
- Arthur Doherty, 71, Irish politician.
- René Haby, 83, French politician.[40]
- Robert William St. John, 100, American author, broadcaster, and journalist.[41]
- Peter Saunders, 91, British theatre impresario.[42]
7
- Augusto Monterroso, 81, Honduran writer, heart failure.[43]
- Amalia Nieto, 95, Uruguayan painter, engraver and sculptor.
- Malcolm Roberts, 58, English pop singer, heart attack .[44]
- Stephen Whittaker, 55, British actor and director (Nicholas Nickleby, Sons and Lovers), complications following surgery.[45]
8
- Alfred Aston, 90, French football winger and manager.[46]
- William Louis Culberson, 73, American lichenologist, cancer.
- John Charles Cutler, 87, American surgeon.
- K. K. Soundar, 78, Tamil film actor.
- Alice Treff, 96, German film actress.[47]
- Konrad Weichert, 68, German Olympic sailor (bronze medal in 1968 Dragon, silver medal in 1972 Dragon).[48]
9
- Herma Bauma, 88, Austrian javelin thrower (gold medal in women's javelin throw at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[49]
- Ruby Braff, 75, American jazz trumpeter and cornetist.[50]
- Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda, 76, Japanese-Turkish mathematician.
- Ken McKinlay, 74, British speedway rider.
- Billy Parker, 61, American baseball player (California Angels), cancer.[51]
- Vera Ralston, 82, Czechoslovakian-American figure skater and "B" actress, star of ice capades, cancer.
10
- Chuck Aleno, 85, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).[52]
- Ralph Beard, 73, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).[53]
- Antoni Czubiński, 74, Polish historian.
- Edgar de Evia, 92, American photographer pneumonia.
- Antoinette Feuerwerker, 90, French jurist and member of the French Resistance during World War II.
- Curt Hennig, 44, American professional wrestler, drug overdose.
- Lars-Eric Kjellgren, 84, Swedish screenwriter and film director.
- José Lewgoy, 82, American-Brazilian actor.[54]
- Clark MacGregor, 80, American politician and congressman (1961–1970).[55]
- Robert Rush Miller, 86, American zoologist and ichthyologist.[56]
- Walter Thomas James Morgan, 102, British biochemist.[57]
- Max Pécas, 77, French filmmaker, writer and producer, lung cancer.[58]
- Jan Veselý, 79, Czechoslovakian cyclist (men's individual road race, men's team road race at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[59]
- Ron Ziegler, 63, former press secretary for Richard Nixon during the Watergate Scandal, heart attack.[60]
11
- Socorro Avelar, 77, Mexican actress, stomach cancer.
- Arndt Bause, 66, German composer, pulmonary embolism.[61]
- Marc Iliffe, 30, British strongman, suicide.[62]
- Daniel Toscan du Plantier, 61, French film producer, heart attack.[63]
- Moses Hogan, 45, American composer and arranger of choral music, brain cancer.
- Luke Chia-Liu Yuan, 90, Chinese-American physicist and grandson of Yuan Shikai.[64]
12
- Wally Burnette, 73, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics).[65]
- Michel Graillier, 56, French jazz pianist.[66]
- Vali Myers, 72, Australian artist, cancer.[67]
- Devendra Satyarthi, 94, Indian folklorist and writer.[68]
- Jeanne Stuart, 94, British stage and film actress.[69]
- Haywood Sullivan, 72, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Kansas City Athletics) and owner (Boston Red Sox), stroke.[70]
- Dick Whitman, 82, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies).[71]
- Kemmons Wilson, 90, American businessman, founder of Holiday Inn.[72]
13
- Joe Connelly, 85, American television and radio scriptwriter.[73]
- James Thomas Flexner, 95, American historian and biographer.[74]
- Kid Gavilán, 77, Cuban world boxing champion, heart attack.[75]
- Robert Ivers, 68, American actor.[76]
- Axel Jensen, 71, Norwegian author, ALS.[77]
- Stacy Keach, Sr., 88, actor (Pretty Woman, Teen Wolf, The Parallax View).[78]
- Stuart Keith, 71, British-American ornithologist.[79]
- Leonor Llausás, 73, Mexican actress, heart attack.
- Walt Whitman Rostow, 86, American political advisor.[80]
14
- Dolly, 6, the world's first cloned mammal, euthanization following a lung disease.
- Gunnar Johansson, 78, Swedish football player and manager.[81]
- Johnny Longden, 96, American jockey.[82]
- Paul E. Meehl, 83, American clinical psychologist.[83]
- Grigory Mkrtychan, 78, Soviet and Russian ice hockey goalkeeper.[84]
- Fritz Pollard, 87, American athlete and Olympic medalist.[85]
- Archie Savage, 88, American dancer, choreographer, and film and theatre actor.
15
- Vincent Apap, 93, Maltese sculptor.
- Alexander Bennett, 73, British ballet dancer, teacher and ballet master, principal dancer with the Royal Ballet.[86]
- Miroslav Horníček, 84, Czech actor, writer, director, and artist.[87]
- Vlastimil Koubek, 75, Czech-American architect, cancer.
- Roberto Leydi, 74, Italian ethnomusicologist.[88]
- Francisque Ravony, 60, Malagasy lawyer and politician, heart attack.
- Joaquín Solano, 89, Mexican Olympic medalist in equestrianism.[89]
- Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce, 95, British judge.[90]
16
- Philip John Gardner, 88, British recipient of the Victoria Cross.
- Jim Gordon, 76, American television and radio newscaster, cancer.[91]
- Abu Ishaque, 76, Bangladeshi novelist.
- Rusty Magee, 47, American composer of musicals, cancer.[92]
- Aleksandar Tišma, 79, Serbian novelist.[93]
17
- Steve Bechler, 23, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles), ephedra overdose.[94]
- Julian Bigelow, 89, American computer engineer, built one of the first digital computers (IAS machine).[95]
- Allen Britton, 88, American music educator, contributed to the history of music pedagogy.[96]
- Pete Schrum, 68, American actor.[97]
18
- Quentin Anderson, 90, American literary critic and cultural historian (Henry James, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman), heart attack.[98]
- Ittla Frodi, 72, Swedish actress, writer and producer.
- Isser Harel, 90/91, Israeli spymaster and director of the Mossad.[99]
- Beth Marion, 90, American B-movie actress, stroke.
19
- Washington Beltrán, 88, Uruguayan politician, President (1965–1966).
- Buck Divecha, 75, Indian cricket player.[100]
- Igor Gorbachyov, 75, Soviet and Russian actor, theater director and pedagogue.
- James Hardy, 84, American pioneer surgeon.[101]
- Tanya Moiseiwitsch, 88, English theatre designer.[102]
- Johnny Paycheck, 64, American country music singer, pulmonary emphysema.[103]
20
- Maurice Blanchot, 95, French writer, philosopher and literary theorist.[104]
- Orville Freeman, 84, American politician, Governor of Minnesota and Secretary of Agriculture, Alzheimer's disease.[105]
- Harry Jacunski, 87, American gridiron football player (Green Bay Packers).[106]
- Ty Longley, 31, American guitarist for the heavy metal band Great White; victim in the Station nightclub fire.
- Mushaf Ali Mir, 55, Pakistan statesman and air force general, plane crash.
- Golam Mustafa, 67, Bangladeshi actor and reciter.
- Jerzy Passendorfer, 79, Polish film director and member of parliament.[107]
- Robert Grier Stephens, Jr., 89, American politician.[108]
- Peter Tewksbury, 79, American film and television director.[109]
21
- Virginia Biddle, 92, American revue performer, showgirl, and nude model, complications following car accident.
- Jim Courtright, 88, Canadian Olympic track and field athlete.[110]
- John E. Fryer, 65, American psychiatrist and gay rights activist, pneumonia.[111]
- Tom Glazer, 88, American folk singer and songwriter.[112]
- Karel Kosik, 76, Czech marxist philosopher.[113]
- Nelly Mazloum, 73, Egyptian actress, dancer, and choreographer.
- Nora Ney, 96, Polish film actress.
- Kevin O'Shea, 77, American basketball player.[114]
- Rusty Peters, 88, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns).[115]
- Eddie Thomson, 55, Scottish football player and coach, lymphoma.
22
- Kurt Gscheidle, 78, German politician.
- Donald Haldeman, 55, American sport shooter and Olympic gold medalist.[116]
- Jean-Pierre Miquel, 66, French actor and theatre director, cancer.[117]
- Daniel Taradash, 90, American screenwriter and winner of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for From Here to Eternity, pancreatic cancer.[118]
23
- Shlomo Argov, 73, Israeli diplomat, Ambassador of Israel to the United Kingdom.[119]
- Howie Epstein, 47, American bass player for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, drug overdose.
- Christopher Hill, 91, British historian.[120]
- Pavel Lebeshev, 63, Soviet and Russian cinematographer.
- Robert K. Merton, 92, American sociologist.[121]
- Marcel Prawy, 91, Austrian dramaturg and opera critic.[122]
- Hasanagha Turabov, 64, Azerbaijani and Soviet actor.
- Titos Vandis, 85, Greek actor (The Exorcist, Baretta, The A-Team, M*A*S*H, Kojak, Newhart), cancer.[123]
24
- Alex Cameron, 65, American English professor and pronouncer of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.[124]
- Al Hibbs, 78, American mathematician and physicist known as "The Voice of JPL".[125]
- Susan Johnson, 75, American actor and singer, pulmonary emphysema.[126]
- Sam King, 91, English golfer.
- Bernard Loiseau, 52, French chef, suicide by gunshot.[127]
- Walter Scharf, 92, American film composer, heart failure.[128]
- Alberto Sordi, 82, Italian comedy actor, heart attack.
- Antoni Torres, 59, Spanish footballer, cancer.[129]
- Güven Önüt, 63, Turkish football player.
25
- Alexander Kemurdzhian, 81, Armenian scientist and aerospace engineer.
- John Lecky, 62, Canadian sport rower.[130]
- Eric Marsh, 82, English cricket player.[131]
- Tom O'Higgins, 86, Irish Fine Gael politician, barrister and judge.
- René Römer, 73, Dutch academic and Governor of the Netherlands Antilles (1983-1990).
26
- Harold Amos, 84, American microbiologist and professor, chairman of Harvard Medical School bacteriology department.[132]
- Brian Evans, 60, Welsh football player, cancer.[133]
- Akira Fujiwara, 80, Japanese historian.
- Christian Goethals, 74, Belgian racing driver.
- Jaime Ramírez, 71, Chilean football player.[134]
27
- Johnny Carpenter, 88, American film actor, screenwriter and producer, cancer.
- Charles Knott, 88, English cricket player.[135]
- John Lanchbery, 79, British-Australian musician.[136]
- Wolfgang Larrazábal, 91, Venezuelan naval officer and politician.
- James D. Nichols, 74, American horse racing jockey, rode in seven U.S. Triple Crown races.[137]
- Peter Petroff, 83, Bulgarian-American inventor, engineer, NASA scientist, and adventurer.
- Fred Rogers, 74, American television personality, host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.[138]
- Othar Turner, 95, American fife player.[139]
28
- Albert Batteux, 83, French football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.[140]
- Alfred Bernstein, 92, American civil rights, civil liberties and union activist.[141]
- Göte Blomqvist, 75, Swedish ice hockey player (bronze medal in ice hockey at the 1952 Winter Olympics).[142]
- Chris Brasher, 74, British track and field athlete (gold medal in men's 3000m steeplechase at the 1956 Summer Olympics).[143]
- Jacob E. Davis, 97, American politician.
- Dinos Dimopoulos, 81, Greek film director.[144]
- Jim Fridley, 78, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Redlegs).[145]
- Fidel Sánchez Hernández, 85, former President of El Salvador, heart attack.
- Yō Inoue, 56, Japanese voice actress, lung cancer.
- Rudolf Kingslake, 99, English academic, lens designer, and engineer.[146]
- Major Sundarrajan, 67, Indian actor and director.
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