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).[1]
- Joe Foss, 87, American politician, fighter pilot, recipient of the Medal of Honor.[2]
- 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).[3]
- David Young, 72, British politician (Member of Parliament for Bolton East, Bolton South East).[4]
2
- Frank Cremeans, 59, American politician, respiratory failure.[5]
- Hiralal Gaekwad, 79, Indian cricket player.[6]
- Peter Harris, 77, British footballer.[7]
- Eric Jupp, 80, British-Australian musician, composer, arranger and conductor.[8]
- Bud Metheny, 87, American baseball player (New York Yankees).[9]
- Sydney Omarr, 76, American astrologer and newspaper columnist, heart attack.[10]
- Bill Shelton, 73, British politician, Alzheimer's disease.
- Leroy Warriner, 83, American midget car racing driver (National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame).[11]
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.[12]
- José María Gironella, 85, Spanish author, stroke.[13]
- Flóra Kádár, 74, Hungarian actress.
- Eddy Marnay, 82, French songwriter, singer.[14]
- 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).[15]
- Monique Wittig, 67, French writer, poet and social theorist, heart attack.[16]
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.[17]
- Yfrah Neaman, 79, Lebanese-British violinist and teacher.[18]
- Lila Zali, 84, Georgian-American prima ballerina and ballet director.[19]
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.[20]
- Doreen Carwithen, 80, British composer of classical and film music.
- Massimo Girotti, 84, Italian film actor, heart attack.[21]
- Roy Jenkins, 82, British politician and biographer, heart attack.[22]
- Jean Kerr, 80, American author and playwright, pneumonia.[23]
- Félix Loustau, 80, Argentine football player.
- Daphne Oram, 77, British composer and musician.[24]
6
- Olle Bexell, 93, Swedish decathlete (1936 Olympic decathlon; Swedish champion: 1935 to 1938 decathlon, 1938 pentathlon).[25]
- 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.[26]
- Paula Pöhlsen, 89, German gymnast and Olympic champion.[27]
- Kari Skjønsberg, 76, Norwegian academic, writer and feminist.
- Jarvis Tatum, 56, American baseball player (California Angels).[28]
- Mamie Till, 81, American educator and civil rights activist.[29]
- Philip Ward, 78, British army general.[30]
- Harry Woolf, 79, American historian and academic, director of Institute for Advanced Study.[31]
7
- Ed Albosta, 84, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates).[32]
- Ken Biddulph, 70, British cricketer.[33]
- Vance Longden, 72, American thoroughbred horse trainer.
- Gordon Kidd Teal, 95, American electrical engineer.[34]
- Sebastian von Hoerner, 83, German astrophysicist and radio astronomer.
- Beatrice Willard, 77, American botanist, known for her research in alpine tundra ecosystems.[35]
8
- Simeon Aké, 71, Ivorian politician.
- Ron Goodwin, 77, British film music composer and conductor, asthma.[36]
- Sarah McClendon, 92, American journalist and White House reporter.[37]
- Kir Nesis, 68, Russian marine biologist and malacologist, specialising in cephalopods.[38]
- Reg Revans, 95, British professor, administrator and management consultant.[39]
- Angelo Romani, 69, Italian swimmer.[40]
- Billy Van, 68, Canadian comedian, actor and singer (Nightcap, The Hilarious House of Frightenstein), lung cancer.[41]
9
- Kurt Andersen, 104, German Luftwaffe general during World War II.
- Ignace Heinrich, 77, French Olympic athlete.[42]
- 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).[43]
- 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.[44]
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).[45]
- Wolfgang Kasack, 75, German Slavic studies scholar and translator.
- Jorge "Lobito" Martínez, 50, Paraguan musician, murdered.
- Ensio Siilasvuo, 81, Finnish general.[46]
- Denis Zanette, 32, Italian professional racing cyclist, heart attack.[47]
11
- Mickey Finn, 55, English musician and percussionist of T. Rex.[48]
- Anthony Havelock-Allan, 98, British producer and screenwriter, heart attack.[49]
- Virginia Kidd, 81, American literary agent, writer and editor.
- Arne Månsson, 77, Swedish footballer.
- Maurice Pialat, 77, French movie director, kidney failure.[50]
- Jože Pučnik, 70, Slovenian intellectual, sociologist and politician.
- William Russo, 74, American composer, arranger, and musician.[51]
- Richard Simmons, 89, American actor, Sgt William Preston on TV's Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, Alzheimer's disease.[52]
- Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila, 56, Nigerian politician and administrator.
- Yuri Tishkov, 31, Russian football player, sports agent and commentator, stabbed.[53]
12
- Dean Amadon, 90, American ornithologist and an authority on birds of prey.[54]
- Clarence H. Burns, 84, American politician, mayor of Baltimore in 1987.[55]
- Jack Douglas, 72, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player.[56]
- Kinji Fukasaku, 72, Japanese film director and screenwriter, [[prostate cancer].[57]
- Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, 76, former dictator of Argentina, heart attack, pancreatic cancer.
- Maurice Gibb, 53, British band member of Bee Gees, heart attack.[58]
- W. M. Gorman, 79, Irish economist and academic.[59]
- Valentyn Kravchuk, 58, Ukrainian rower and Olympic medalist.[60]
- Alan Nunn May, 91, British nuclear physicist and convicted Soviet spy.[61]
- Paul Pender, 72, American boxer and world middleweight champion.
- Koloman Sokol, 100, Slovak artist.[62]
- Wang Tieya, 89, Chinese jurist and Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.[63]
13
- James Bradshaw Adamson, 81, American U.S. Army major general, commander of the Military District of Washington.[64]
- Elisabeth Croft, 95, English actress (Crossroads).
- Norman Panama, 88, screenwriter and director, Parkinson's disease.[65]
- Ernie Rudolph, 93, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).[66]
14
- Mirza Babayev, 89, Azerbaijani actor and singer.
- Mel Bourne, 79, American set designer and art director (Annie Hall, Fatal Attraction, Manhunter).[67]
- Alan Edwards, 77, Australian actor.
- Monica Furlong, 72, British author, journalist, and activist, cancer.[68]
- Vahé Katcha, 74, French Armenian author, screenwriter and journalist, heart attack.[69]
- Georg Knepler, 96, Austrian pianist, conductor and musicologist.[70]
- John Mantley, 82, Canadian theatrical actor, screenwriter and producer of television series, Gunsmoke, Alzheimer's disease.[71]
- Paul Monash, 85, American television and film producer and screenwriter, pancreatic cancer.[72]
- Sujit Mukherjee, 72, Indian writer, literary critic and publisher.
- Emilio Villa, 88, Italian poet, visual artist, and biblical scholar.[73]
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).[74]
- Linda Braidwood, 93, American archaeologist and pre-historian, influenza.[75]
- Robert John Braidwood, 95, American archaeologist and anthropologist, a leading pioneer in prehistoric archaeology.[76]
- Jeannette Campbell, 86, Scottish-Argentine swimmer (silver medal in women's 100m freestyle at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[77]
- 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").[78]
- 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.[79]
- Přemysl Kočí, 85, Czech operatic baritone, actor, stage director, and theatre manager.
- Eleanore Pettersen, 86, American architect.[80]
16
- Shōtarō Akiyama, 82, Japanese photographer.
- Henryk Czyż, 79, Polish musician with a high reputation for conducting and teaching.[81]
- Bruce Juddery, 61, Australian journalist.
- Phil McCullough, 85, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[82]
- Chris Mead, 62, British ornithologist, author and broadcaster.[83]
- 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).[84]
17
- Hylo Brown, 80, American bluegrass and country music singer, guitarist and bass player.[85]
- Fritzi Burr, 78, American actress (Once Upon a Mattress, Funny Girl, Fiddler on the Roof).[86]
- Bernice Claire, 96, American singer and actress, pneumonia.[87]
- Richard Crenna, 74, American actor (First Blood, Summer Rental, The Real McCoys), heart failure.[88]
- Herbert Crüger, 91, German communist and political activist.[89]
- Goronwy Daniel, 88, Welsh academic and civil servant.[90]
- George Haimsohn, 77, American writer and photographer, aneurysm.[91]
- 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.[92]
- Ed Farhat, 76, Lebanese-American wrestler, heart failure.[93]
- Virginia Heinlein, 86, American chemist, biochemist and engineer.
- Gavin Lyall, 70, English author of espionage thrillers, cancer.[94]
19
- Milton Flores, 28, Honduran football player, shot.[95]
- Françoise Giroud, 86, French journalist, screenwriter, writer and politician, heart attack.[96]
- Joy Hodges, 87, American singer and actress.[97]
- Morris Kight, 83, American gay rights pioneer and peace activist.[98]
- L. D. Meyer, 87, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians) and manager.[99]
- Russell A. Rourke, 71, American lawyer and public official.
- Alfredo Zalce, 95, Mexican artist and muralist.[100]
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.[101]
- Al Hirschfeld, 99, American [caricaturist]].[102]
- Gusztáv Juhász, 91, Hungarian -Romanian football player and coach.
- Craig Kelly, 36, American snowboarder, avalanche.[103]
- Abraham Klein, 76, American theoretical physicist.
- Edith Lefel, 39, French singer, infarction.[104]
- 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.[105]
- Bill Werbeniuk, 56, Canadian snooker player, heart failure.[106]
21
- Irene Diamond, 92, American Hollywood talent scout and philanthropist.[107]
- Paul Haines, 70, American poet and jazz lyricist.[108]
- Paul Kuusberg, 86, Estonian writer.
- Obert Logan, 61, American football player (Trinity University, Dallas Cowboys, New Orleans Saints), colon cancer.[109]
- Antonio Domínguez Ortiz, 93, Spanish historian.[110]
- Tommy Wood, 90, British Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
- Khin Hnin Yu, 77, Burmese writer, spokesperson for Prime Minister U Nu.[111]
22
- Marvin Bower, 99, American management consultant, considered the father of modern management consulting.[112]
- Richard Buchanan, 90, British politician (Member of Parliament for Glasgow Springburn).[113]
- Gopal Chhotray, 86, Indian dramatist and playwright.
- Werner Dissel, 90, German actor, director, and resistance fighter during World War II.[114]
- Lonny Kellner, 72, German singer and actress, cancer.[115]
- Ernst Kitzinger, 90, German-American art historian.[116]
- Bill Mauldin, 81, American cartoonist during World War II, Alzheimer's disease.[117]
- Tan Qilong, 90, Chinese politician.
- Peter Russell, 81, British poet.[118]
- Jean-François Zevaco, 86, French-Moroccan architect.[119]
23
- Anne Meredith Barry, 70, Canadian artist, known for her landscapes of Newfoundland and Labrador.[120]
- Nell Carter, 54, singer, actress (Gimme a Break!, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, The Grass Harp), diabetes.[121]
- Stanley J. Davis, 94, American politician.[122]
- Johnny Mauro, 92, American racecar driver.
- David Moore, 75, Australian photojournalist.[123]
24
- Gianni Agnelli, 81, Italian entrepreneur and president of Fiat, prostate cancer.[124]
- Lucien E. Blackwell, 71, American politician (U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district).[125]
- Ivor Broom, 82, British air marshal and bomber pilot during World War II.[126]
- 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).[127]
- Sabotage, 29, Brazilian rapper and songwriter, homicide.
- Cy Touff, 75, American jazz bass trumpeter.[128]
- Bobbi Trout, 97, American pioneer aviator, cardiovascular disease.[129]
- 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).[130]
- Diana Gould, 90, British dancer and widow of Yehudi Menuhin.[131]
- Frank L. Hays, 81, American politician.
- Cliff Norton, 84, American actor (The Ed Sullivan Show, Caesar's Hour, Harry and Tonto, Funny Lady).[132]
- Sheldon Reynolds, 79, American television producer.[133]
- Robert Rockwell, 82, American actor (Our Miss Brooks, Growing Pains, Lassie), cancer.[134]
- Leopoldo Trieste, 85, Italian actor, film director and script writer, heart attack.[135]
- Joseph A. Walker, 67, American director, actor, and playwright (Tony Award for Best Play for The River Niger).[136]
26
- John Browning, 69, American pianist, winner of two Grammy Awards: 1991, 1993.[137]
- Valeriy Brumel, 60, Soviet high jumper (men's Olympic high jump medals: 1960 silver, 1964 gold).[138]
- Jeffrey K. Hadden, 66, American professor of sociology, pancreatic cancer.[139]
- George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, 71, British politician, Secretary of State for Scotland 1979–1986, cancer.[140]
- Don Lurio, 73, American-Italian dancer, choreographer and TV presenter.
- Jim McConnon, 80, English cricket player.[141]
- Vladimir Mulyavin, 62, Belarusian and Russian rock musician, complications after car accident.[142]
- Fred Russell, 96, American sports writer.[143]
- Annemarie Schimmel, 80, German orientalist and scholar.[144]
- Hugh Trevor-Roper, 89, English historian, esophageal cancer.[145]
27
- Louis Archambault, 87, Canadian sculptor.[146]
- Maurice Ash, 85, British environmentalist, writer and administrator.[147]
- Henryk Jabłoński, 93, Polish historian and politician.[148]
- Lajoš Jakovetić, 80, Serbian and Yugoslavia football player and manager.
- Bob Kammeyer, 52, American baseball player (New York Yankees), pulmonary embolism.[149]
28
- Miloš Milutinović, 69, Serbian footballer and manager.
- Mieke Pullen, 45, Dutch long-distance runner, traffic collision.[150]
- Emília Rotter, 96, Hungarian figure skater.
- Vladimir Vasilyev, 67, Soviet Olympic sailor [1].[151]
- Edward Preston Young, 89, British graphic designer, submariner, writer (One Of Our Submarines).[152]
29
- Ihsan Abbas, 82, Palestinian professor.
- Douglas Allanbrook, 81, American composer, pianist and harpsichordist.[153]
- Pandari Bai, 73, Indian actress.[154]
- Silvio Confortola, 93, Italian Olympic cross-country skier.[155]
- George Dews, 81, English cricketer.[156]
- Natalia Dudinskaya, 90, Soviet prima ballerina.[157]
- Anthony Eisley, 78, American actor, heart attack.
- Leslie Fiedler, 85, American literary critic.[158]
- Harold Kelley, 81, American social psychologist and academic.[159]
- Frank Moss, 91, American lawyer and politician, US Senator from Utah.[160]
- Peter Shaw, 84, British actor and producer; husband of Angela Lansbury, heart attack.[161]
- Yevgeniya Sidorova, 72, Russian alpine skier and Olympic medalist.[162]
- Alan Walker, 91, Australian theologian.[163]
- Lee Yoo-hyung, 92, Korean football player and manager.
30
- Mary Ellis, 105, American actress and singer (Rose-Marie, Music in the Air).[164]
- Cary Leeds, 45, American tennis player.
- Paul-André Meyer, 68, French mathematician.[165]
- Joan Franks Williams, 72, American composer, complications from Parkinson's disease.[166]
31
- Horace Hahn, 87, American actor.
- William Marlowe, 72, British actor.
- Werenfried van Straaten, 90, Dutch Roman Catholic priest and social activist.[167]
- John Westergaard, 71, American investment manager.[168]
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