Deaths in 2003

January 2003

  1 – Joe Foss, 87, politician, fighter pilot, recipient of the Medal of Honor.

  1 – Giorgio Gaber, 63, Italian singer-songwriter and playwright.

  1 – Cyril Shaps, 79, British actor (The Pianist, Doctor Who, The Spy Who Loved Me).

  2 – Peter Harris, 77, British footballer.

  2 – Sydney Omarr, 76, astrologer, newspaper columnist, heart attack.

  2 – Sir Bill Shelton, 73, British politician.

  3 – Sir James Eyre, 72, British army general.

  3 – Sid Gillman, 91, American football coach (San Diego Chargers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

  3 – George Makgill, 13th Viscount of Oxfuird, 68, British aristocrat and politician.

  4 – Raymond Aker, 82, American scholar and authority on Francis Drake.

  4 – Conrad Hall, 76, Hollywood cinematographer (American Beauty, Cool Hand Luke, Road to Perdition).

  4 – Yfrah Neaman, 79, Lebanese-born British violinist and teacher.

  4 – Louis Spector, 84, American judge.

  5 – Roy Jenkins, 82, British Labour MP and co-founder, first leader of, then Peer for, the Social Democratic Party.

  5 – Ray Scott, 75, Australian rules football umpire.

  6 – Sir Gerald Cash, 85, Governor-General of the Bahamas.

  6 – Glyn Davies, 83, Welsh economist.

  6 – Douglas Henson, 73, English cricketer.

  6 – Sir Philip Ward, 78, British army general.

  7 – Ken Biddulph, 70, British cricketer.

  7 – Montagu Dawson, 83, British World War II bombardier.

  7 – Edith Hirsch, 103, German-born American economist.

  7 – Gordon Kidd Teal, 95, American electrical engineer.

  8 – Simeon Aké, 71, Ivorian politician.

  8 – Ron Goodwin, 77, British film music composer and conductor.

  8 – Patrick Pery, 6th Earl of Limerick, 72, Irish aristocrat and public servant.

  8 – Angelo Romani, 69, Italian swimmer. [1]

  9 – Elizabeth Irving, 98, British actress.

  9 – Peter Tinniswood, 66, British writer.

10 – C. Douglas Dillon, 93, American diplomat and politician.

10 – Alex Weir, 86, Scottish football player and manager.

11 – Ruth Feldman, 91, American poet and translator.

11 – Mickey Finn, 55, band member of T. Rex.

11 – Sir Anthony Havelock-Allan, 98, British producer and screenwriter.

11 – Maurice Pialat, 77, French movie director.

11 – Richard Simmons, 89, actor, Sgt William Preston on TV's Sergeant Preston of the Yukon.

12 – Jack Douglas, 72, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player.

12 – Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, 76, former dictator of Argentina.

12 – Maurice Gibb, 53, band British member of Bee Gees.

12 – Alan Nunn May, 91, British physicist and spy.

12 – Paul Pender, 72, American boxer.

12 – Koloman Sokol, 100, Slovak artist.

13 – Andreas Holm, 96, Norwegian politician.

13 – Elisabeth Croft, 95, English actress (Crossroads)

13 – Norman Panama, 88, screenwriter and director.

14 – Mel Bourne, 79, American set designer and art director (Annie Hall, Fatal Attraction, Manhunter).

14 – Earl Lawson, 79, American sportswriter.

15 – Jeannette Campbell, 86, French-born Argentinian Olympic swimmer.

15 – Doris Fisher, 87, singer & songwriter.

16 – Hans Pietsch, 34, German professional Go player.

16 – Alfred Kantor, 79, Czech-born Holocaust survivor, artist and author of The Book of Alfred Kantor. [2]

16 – Daniel Juan Revilla, convicted murderer, executed in Oklahoma.

17 – Alden G. Barber, 83, American Scouter.

18 – Harivansh Rai Bachchan, 95, Indian poet.

18 – Richard Crenna, 74, American actor (First Blood, Summer Rental, The Real McCoys).

19 – Françoise Giroud, 86, French writer and politician.

20 – Al Hirschfeld, 99, American caricaturist.

20 – Bill Werbeniuk, 56, Canadian snooker player.

20 – David Battley, 67, British actor (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Krull, Relative Strangers), heart attack.

20 – Tony O'Malley, 89, Irish artist and painter.

21 – Paul Kuusberg, 86, Estonian writer.

21 – Antonio Domínguez Ortiz, 93, Spanish historian.

22 – George Aitken, 77, Scottish footballer.

22 – Bill Mauldin, 81, American World War II cartoonist.

22 – Peter Russell, 81, British poet.

22 – Tan Qilong, 90, Chinese politician, head of four provinces.

23 – Nell Carter, 54, singer, actress (Gimme a Break!, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, The Grass Harp).

23 – John Clarke, 57, Canadian mountaineer.

23 – David Moore, 75, Australian photojournalist.

24 – Gianni Agnelli, 81, Italian entrepreneur and president of Fiat.

25 – Diana Gould, Baroness Menuhin, 90, British dancer and widow of Yehudi Menuhin.

25 – Scylla Médici, 95, Brazilian First Lady.

25 – Robert Rockwell, 82, American actor (Our Miss Brooks, Growing Pains, Lassie).

26 – John Browning, 69, American pianist.

26 – Valeriy Brumel, 60, athlete, track and field.

26 – George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, 71, British politician, Secretary of State for Scotland 1979–1986.

27 – Maurice Ash, 85, British environmentalist and writer.

27 – Hugh Trevor-Roper, Lord Dacre, 89, British historian, authenticator of the hoaxed Hitler Diaries.

28 – Emília Rotter, 96, Hungarian figure skater.

28 – John Philp Thompson, Sr., 77, American businessman.

28 – Edward Preston Young, 89, British submariner and publisher.

29 – George Dews, 81, English cricketer.

29 – László Kákosy, 70, Hungarian Egyptologist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

29 – Frank Moss, 91, former United States Senator from Utah.

29 – Peter Shaw, 84, British actor & producer; husband of Angela Lansbury.

31 – Peter Guy Ottewill, 87, British World War II RAF officer.

31 – John Westergaard, 71, American investment manager.

February 2003

  1 – Michael Anderson, 43, astronaut aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.

  1 – David Brown, 46, astronaut aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.

  1 – Kalpana Chawla, 41, astronaut aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.

  1 – Laurel Clark, 41, astronaut aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.

  1 – Rick Husband, 45, astronaut aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.

  1 – William McCool, 41, astronaut aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.

  1 – Ilan Ramon, 48, astronaut aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.

  1 – Adalberto Ortiz, 88, Ecuadorean writer.

  1 – Mongo Santamaría, 85, percussionist, band leader, Latin jazz musician.

  2 – Lou Harrison, 85, American composer, noted for his microtonal works.

  2 – Richard C. Lee, 86, American politician, Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut.

  3 – Lana Clarkson, 40, American actress (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Scarface, Barbarian Queen).

  3 – Trevor Morris, 82, Welsh footballer and World War II pilot.

  4 – Charles McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway, 89, British industrialist and horticulturist.

  4 – Dick Shatto, 89, Canadian football player.

  5 – Helge Boes, 32, CIA operations officer, accident during live-fire training in Afghanistan.

  5 – Robert D. Schuck, 85, American politician.

  6 – Sir Peter Saunders, 91, British theatre impresario.

  7 – John Reading, 85, Mayor of Oakland, California from 1966 to 1977 who supported the building of the Oakland Coliseum.

  8 – John Charles Cutler, 87, American surgeon.

  9 – Vera Hruba Ralston, 83, star of Ice Capades and Republic Pictures "B" actress in the 1940s.

10 – Edgar de Evia, 92, American photographer born in Mérida, Yucatán.

10 – Curt Hennig, 44, professional wrestler.

10 – Clark MacGregor, 80, former 5-term Republican United States Congressman from Minnesota (1961–1970).

10 – Paul Randles, 37, American game designer.

10 – Al Ruffo, 94, politician, philanthropist, educator, lawyer, and football coach, former mayor of San Jose, California who helped form the San Francisco 49ers football team in 1946.

10 – Ron Ziegler, 63, former press secretary for Richard Nixon during the Watergate Scandal.

12 – Richard Edwin Fox, 47, American criminal.

12 – Frederick Higginson, 89, British World War II fighter pilot.

12 – Vali Myers, 72, Australian artist.

12 – Sir Brian Stanbridge, 78, British air marshal.

13 – Kid Gavilan, 77, world boxing champion and hall of famer.

13 – Axel Jensen, 71, Norwegian author, ALS.

13 – Stacy Keach, Sr., 88, actor (Pretty Woman, Teen Wolf, The Parallax View).

13 – Stuart Keith, 71, British-born American ornithologist.

13 – Walt Rostow, 86, American political advisor.

14 – Dolly, 6, the world's first cloned mammal, euthanization following a lung disease.

14 – Philip John Gardner, 88, British recipient of the Victoria Cross.

14 – Johnny Longden, 96, American jockey.

14 – Sir John Smith, 81, British legal scholar.

16 – Eleanor "Sis" Daley, 95, wife of Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley.

16 – Rusty Magee, 47, American composer of musicals.

17 – Steve Bechler, 23, baseball pitcher, Baltimore Orioles.

19 – Washington Beltrán, 88, Uruguayan politician, President (1965–1966).

19 – Johnny Paycheck, 64, American country music singer.

20 – Maurice Blanchot, 95, French philosopher and literary theorist.

20 – Ty Longley, 31, American guitarist for the heavy metal band Great White; victim of the Station nightclub fire.

20 – Harry Jacunski, 87, American NFL player, Green Bay Packers.

20 – Orville Lothrop Freeman, 84, American Governor of Minnesota and Secretary of Agriculture for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

20 – Mushaf Ali Mir, 55, Pakistan Chief of the Air Staff, air crash.

20 – Frederick Thomas, 85, Scottish cricketer.

21 – Eddie Thomson, 55, Scottish football player and coach.

22 – Jesica Santillan, 17, heart and lung patient whose wrong transplant made headlines.

22 – Daniel Taradash, 90, former president of AMPAS; Oscar-winning screenwriter of "From Here to Eternity".

23 – Howie Epstein, 47, American former bass player for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

23 – Christopher Hill, 91, British historian.

23 – Sir Bernard Miller, 98, British businessman, chairman of John Lewis Partnership.

24 – John Shaw, 78, Australian opera singer.

25 – Alberto Sordi, 82, Italian comedy actor.

25 – Tom O'Higgins, 86, former Irish Chief Justice and presidential candidate.

27 – John Lanchbery, 79, British-born Australian musician.

27 – Fred Rogers, 74, host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.

27 – Scotty, 52/3, Jamaican reggae vocalist.

28 – Fidel Sánchez Hernández, 85, former President of El Salvador, heart attack.

28 – Chris Brasher, 74, athlete.

March 2003

  1 – Franjo Glaser, 90, Croatian footballer.

  1 – Roger Needham, 68, British computer scientist.

  1 – Countess Viktoria-Luise of Solms-Baruth, 81, German princess.

  2 – Roger Albertsen, 45, Norwegian footballer.

  2 – Hank Ballard, 66, singer, composer, famous for his hit "The Twist".

  2 – Sir George Edwards, 94, British aircraft designer.

  2 – Sir Ian Hogg, 91, British admiral.

  2 – Robert B. Ingebretsen, 54, pioneer in the development of digital sound.

  2 – Malcolm Williamson, 71, Australian composer, Master of the Queen's Music.

  3 – Horst Buchholz, 69, German actor.

  3 – Sir John Brown, 86, British publisher.

  3 – John S. Gill, 70, Australian rules footballer.

  3 – Malcolm Kilduff, 75, American journalist.

  4 – Oliver Payne Pearson, 87, American zoologist and ecologist.

  4 – Neil Smith, 53, English cricketer.

  5 – Pete Taylor, 57, American sportscaster.

  6 – Mark Freeman, 94, Austrian-born American artist.

  6 – Ramón Mestre, 65, Argentine politician.

  7 – Monica Hughes, 77, Canadian science fiction author.

  8 – Adam Faith, 62, British singer and actor.

  8 – Karen Morley, 93, American film actress and political activist; former wife of Charles Vidor.

  9 – Stan Brakhage, 70, filmmaker, bladder cancer.

10 – Tom Boardman, Baron Boardman, 84, British businessman and politician.

10 – Bernard Dowiyogo, 57, President of Nauru, cardiac complications from diabetes.

10 – Geoffrey Kirk, 81, British classical scholar.

10 – Barry Sheene, 52, twice 500cc MotoGP Champion.

10 – Naftali Temu, 57, Kenyan athlete, prostate cancer.

11 – Brian Cleeve, 81, Anglo-Irish writer.

11 – John G. Dow, 97, American politician.

11 – Ivar Hansen, 64, Danish politician and speaker of the Folketing.

11 – Alec Harper, 92, British soldier and polo player.

11 – Kenneth G. Wilson, 79, American author and academic.

12 – Howard Fast, 88, American novelist.

12 – Lynne Thigpen, 54, American television (Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?), and Tony Award-winning stage actress (An American Daughter).

12 – Zoran Đinđić, 50, Prime Minister of Serbia, gunshot (assassination).

12 – Andrei Kivilev, 29, professional cyclist, fall during Paris–Nice race.

13 - Lois Tobío Fernández, 96, Galician writer, translator and philologist.

14 – Harmon Craig, 76, American geochemist.

14 – Amanda Davis, 32, American writer and teacher.

14 – Jack Goldstein, 57, American artist, suicide.

15 – Dame Thora Hird, 91, veteran British actress.

15 – Bill Robertson, 79, British footballer.

16 – Major Ronald Ferguson, 71, father of UK royal divorcée Sarah, Duchess of York.

16 – Rachel Corrie, 23, International Solidarity Movement activist, crushed by bulldozer.

17 – Alan Keith, 84, British broadcaster.

17 – Beatrice Wright, 92, British politician.

18 – Bruno Heim, 92, Swiss ecclesiastical diplomat, Apostolic Nuncio to Britain.

18 – Karl Kling, 92, German racing driver.

18 – Adam Osborne, 64, computer pioneer.

19 – Michael Mathias Prechtl, 76, German illustrator.

20 – Krishanu Dey, 41, Indian football player.

20 – Sailor Art Thomas, 79, professional wrestler, cancer.

21 – Leonard Hokanson, 71, American pianist, pancreatic cancer.

21 – Shivani, 79, Indian writer.

22 – Jim Anderson, 59, Australian politician.

22 – Terry Lloyd, 50, British ITN reporter, killed in southern Iraq.

22 – Paul Moran, 39, Australian photojournalist, killed by suicide bomb in Northern Iraq.

24 – Hans Hermann Groër, 83, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (1986–1995), pneumonia.

24 – Philip Yordan, 88, Oscar-winning American screenwriter (Broken Lance).

26 – Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 76, American senator from New York.

27 – Tauese Sunia, 61, Governor of American Samoa, heart attack.

27 – Paul Zindel, 66, American writer.

28 – Sir Kenneth Porter, 90, British air marshal.

29 – Neil Clarke, 45, Australian footballer.

29 – Matthew J. Ryan, 70, American politician.

29 – Maude Storey, 73, British nursing administrator, diabetes.

29 – Dr. Carlo Urbani, 46, World Health Organization doctor who discovered SARS, of which he died.

30 – David Cook, 73/4, British literary critic.

30 – Michael Jeter, 50, American actor (Evening Shade, Waterworld, Jurassic Park III).

30 – Sir Gregor MacGregor, 6th Baronet, 77, Scottish clan chief and army officer.

30 – Valentin Pavlov, 65, former Prime Minister of the Soviet Union.

30 – Gaby Rado, 48, Hungarian-born activist and UK-based journalist.

31 – Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, 96, UK/Canadian geometer, academic and author.

31 – George Connor, 78, American football player (Chicago Bears) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

April 2003

  1 – Leslie Cheung, 46, Hong Kong actor and singer.

  1 – David Horrobin, 63, British medical researcher and entrepreneur.

  1 – Booker Bradshaw, 61, American record producer, film & TV actor; Motown executive, heart attack.

  2 – Paul Freeman, 59, American Bigfoot hunter.

  2 – Edward Keating, 89, founder of Ramparts magazine.

  2 – Edwin Starr, 61, soul singer.

  2 – Michael Wayne, 68, film producer; eldest son of John Wayne, heart failure as the result of complications from lupus

  3 – Scott Hain, 32, last person to be executed in the U.S. for a crime committed while still a juvenile.

  4 – Resortes, 87, Mexican comedian, emphysema.

  5 – Seymour Lubetzky, 104, American cataloging theorist and librarian.

  6 – David Bloom, 39, an NBC reporter, died from a pulmonary embolism while embedded with the 3rd Infantry Division covering the war in Iraq.

  6 – Gerald Emmett Carter, 91, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Toronto (1978-1990).

  6 – Lance Corporal Ian Malone, 28, Dublin-born soldier in the Irish Guards regiment of the British Army, gunshot (killed in Iraq).

  6 – Babatunde Olatunji, 75, African drummer; recorded Drums of Passion, diabetes.

  7 – Cecile de Brunhoff, 99, inspired the Babar the Elephant children's books when she told it to her children as a bedtime story in 1931.

  7 – Ib Eisner, 77, Danish artist.

  8 – Anita Borg, 54, computer scientist, brain tumor.

  8 – Bing Russell, 76, American actor and baseball club owner.

  9 – Ken McKenzie, 79, Canadian sports journalist.

  9 – James Earl Salisbury, 51, educator, SARS.

10 – Abdul-Majid al-Khoei, 40, Shia cleric, stabbed.

10 – Little Eva (née Eva Narcissus Boyd), 59, who sang the 1962 hit The Loco-Motion.

10 – Abraham Zabludovsky, 78, Mexican architect.

11 – John Butler, 56, American football general manager.

11 – Cecil H. Green, 102, Texas Instruments founder.

11 – Peter Lloyd, 95, British mountaineer and engineer.

12 – Sir Donald Harrison, 78, British surgeon.

12 – Sydney Lassick, 80, American film actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), complications of diabetes.

13 – Sean Delaney, 58, American musician.

14 – Bob Evans, 82, Welsh rugby player.

14 – Kent Pullen, 60, American politician.

16 – Danny O'Dea, 92, British actor

16 – Graham Stuart Thomas, 94, horticultural artist, author and garden designer.

17 – Robert Atkins, 72, American nutritionist.

17 – John Paul Getty, Jr., 70, philanthropist, chest infection.

17 – Sammy Kean, 85, Scottish football player and manager.

17 – Earl King, 69, R&B musician/songwriter, complications of diabetes.

17 – Jozef Schell, 67, Belgian biologist.

18 – Edgar F. Codd, 79, computer pioneer, heart failure.

19 – Mirza Tahir Ahmad, 74, Pakistani Khalifatul Masih IV.

19 – Conrad Leonard, 104, British musician and composer.

20 – Johnny Douglas, 82, English musician.

20 – Ruth Hale, 94, American playwright and actress.

20 – Daijiro Kato, 26, Japanese motorcycle rider, after crashing at Suzuka on April 6.

20 – Bernard Katz, 92, American Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist.

21 – Robert Blackburn, 82, American artist and printmaker.

21 – Nina Simone, 70, American jazz singer, long-based in France (known as the "High Priestess of Soul").

22 – Berkeley Smith, 84, British broadcaster.

22 – Martha Griffiths, 91, Congresswoman; women's rights activist.

23 – James H. Critchfield, 86, Central Intelligence Agency operative during the Cold War, pancreatic cancer.

23 – Fernand Fonssagrives, 93, French photographer.

23 – Ian Marshall, 60, Scottish-born New Zealand football coach.

24 – Colin Bell, 61, British sociologist and university administrator.

25 – Dick Moore, 87, British recipient of the George Cross.

26 – The Hon. Rosemary Brown, 72, Canadian politician (NDP); first black woman elected to a provincial legislature and first black woman to run for the leadership of a major federal political party, myocardial infarction.

26 – Edward Max Nicholson, 98, British environmentalist.

26 – Peter Stone, 73, Oscar and Tony-winning American screenwriter, pulmonary fibrosis.

27 – Mick Rogers, British wildlife warden.

27 – Elaine Anderson Steinbeck, 88, former actress; widow of author John Steinbeck.

29 – Ron Barclay, 88, New Zealand politician.

30 – Peter 'Possum' Bourne, 47, New Zealand 3-time Asia-Pacific Rally champion, head injuries sustained in a car crash.

30 – Wim van Est, 80, Dutch cyclist.

May 2003

  1 – Miss Elizabeth, 42, WWE wrestling figure.

  2 – Mohammed Dib, 82, Algerian writer.

  2 – Konstantin Buteyko, 80, Russian physician.

  2 – Laurence O'Keeffe, 71, British diplomat.

  3 – Suzy Parker, 70, actress; top model of the 1950s.

  3 – Jozef Feranec, 93, Slovak Roman Catholic bishop, Diocese of Banská Bystrica (1973−1990).

  4 – Sir Richard Trowbridge, 83, British admiral and Governor of Western Australia (1980–1983).

  4 – David Woodley, 44, former quarterback of the Miami Dolphins, who started in Super Bowl XVII.

  5 – David Lewin, 69, American music theorist.

  5 – Sir Philip Powell, 82, British architect.

  5 – Walter Sisulu, 90, ANC activist.

  6 – Colin Gunton, 62, British theologian.

  7 – John A. Collins, 71, United States Air Force chaplain.

  9 – Sir George Grenfell-Baines, 95, British architect and town planner.

  9 – Antonio Ibáñez Freire, 89, Spanish politician and army officer.

  9 – Russell B. Long, 84, United States Senator.

10 – Milan Vukcevich, 66, chemist and chess problem composer.

11 – Noel Redding, 57, former bassist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

12 – Prince Sadruddhin Aga Khan, 70, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1965–1977.

12 – Stan Lay, 96, New Zealand javelin thrower.

12 – Edward McCombie McGirr, 86, Scottish medical academic.

12 – Sir Michael Richardson, 78, British investment banker.

12 – Jeremy Sandford, 72, British screenwriter.

13 – John Savage, 70, Canadian politician; former Premier of Nova Scotia.

14 – Robert Stack, 84, American film and television actor.

14 – Dame Wendy Hiller, 91, Oscar-winning British actress of stage and screen (I Know Where I'm Going!).

14 – Dave DeBusschere, 62, NBA basketball player.

15 – June Carter Cash, 73, American musician, singer, wife of Johnny Cash.

15 – Gaby Robert, 83, French football player.

15 – Rik Van Steenbergen, 78, Belgian cyclist.

16 – William Charles Anderson, 83, American writer.

16 – Mark McCormack, 72, sports business pioneer, founder of IMG.

16 – Boris Stavrev, 68, Bulgarian Olympic fencer.

18 – Anna Santisteban, 88, advisor of Miss Puerto Rico titleholders for the Miss Universe contest.

18 – Barb Tarbox, 42, Canadian anti-smoking activist.

20 – Howard Sims, 86, American tap dancer.

21 – Alejandro de Tomaso, 74, Argentinian racing driver and industrialist.

21 – Hermann A. Haus, 77, Slovene-born American scientist.

21 – Frank D. White, 69, Governor of Arkansas.

22 – Grover E. Murray, 86, American geologist and educator.

23 – Dame Diana Collins, 95, British human rights activist, widow of Canon John Collins.

24 – Rachel Kempson, 92, British actress.

24 – Sir Robert Williams, 86, Welsh pathologist.

25 – George Edward Lynch, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Raleigh

25 – Joseph A. Smith, 91, American politician.

26 – Kathleen Winsor, 83, American author (Forever Amber).

27 – Luciano Berio, 77, Italian composer.

27 – Mac Colville, 87, Canadian ice hockey player.

28 – Janet Collins, 86, American ballerina.

28 – Ilya Prigogine, 86, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.

28 – Martha Scott, 90, American stage, film and television actress.

28 – Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, 70, cosmonaut.

29 – Tas Bull, 71, Australian trade unionist.

29 – Trevor Ford, 79, Welsh international footballer.

29 – Jack Freeman, 84, American football coach.

29 – David Jefferies, 30, British motorcycle racer.

29 – Wallace Terry, 65, American journalist and oral historian.

30 – Mickie Most, 64, British music producer.

30 – John Roberts, 75, British historian and broadcaster.

31 – Anthony Stodart, Baron Stodart of Leaston, 86, Scottish politician and life peer.

31 – Billy Wade, 88, South African cricketer.

June 2003

  1 – Yevgeny Matveyev, 81, Russian actor and film director.

  2 – Fred Blassie, 85, former professional wrestler.

  2 – Richard Cusack, 77, advertising executive turned actor & screenwriter; father of actors John Cusack and Joan Cusack.

  2 – Jack Frazier, former Saddam Hussein hostage.

  2 – Donald Jack, 78, Canadian playwright and novelist.

  2 – Caryl Micklem, 79, British nonconformist minister and broadcaster.

  2 – J. R. Worsley, 79, British acupuncturist.

  3 – Sir Anthony Barrowclough, 79, British lawyer and public servant, Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration.

  3 – Peter Bromley, 74, British sports broadcaster.

  3 – Felix de Weldon, 96, Austrian-American sculptor.

  5 – Thomas Speakman Barnett, 93, Canadian politician.

  5 – Sir John Fairclough, 72, British computer designer, Government Chief Scientific Adviser.

  5 – Jürgen Möllemann, 57, German minister.

  5 – Meir Vilner, 84, last surviving signatory to Israel's declaration of independence and former chairman of the Communist Party of Israel.

  6 – Thomas Jackson, 78, British trade unionist.

  7 – R. W. G. Dennis, 92, British botanist.

  7 – Trevor Goddard, 40, British actor.

  7 – Tony McAuley, 63, BBC Northern Ireland broadcaster & filmmaker associated with traditional Irish music and arts.

  8 – Alun Davies, 80, British Anglican priest, Dean of Llandaff.

  8 – Herschel Burke Gilbert, 85, American composer.

  8 – Leighton Rees, 63, Welsh darts player.

10 – Donald Regan, 84, Chief of Staff and Treasury Secretary during the Reagan administration.

10 – Bernard Williams, 73, British philosopher.

10 – Phil Williams, 64, Welsh politician.

11 – David Brinkley, 82, American broadcast journalist.

11 – Guy Willatt, 85, English cricketer.

12 – Gregory Peck, 87, American Oscar-winning actor (To Kill a Mockingbird).

13 – Robin Russell, 14th Duke of Bedford, 63, British aristocrat.

14 – Anna Larsson, 81, Swedish athlete.

15 – Hume Cronyn, 91, Canadian-born American actor; husband of Oscar-winning actress Jessica Tandy.

15 – Sir Ralph Kilner Brown, 93, British jurist and athlete.

15 – Philip Stone, 79, British actor.

16 – John L. Grove, 82, American inventor and industrialist.

16 – Peter Redgrove, 71, British poet.

17 – Frank M. Clark, 87, American politician.

17 – Paul Hirst, 57, British sociologist and political theorist.

18 – Sir Kenneth Cross, 91, British Royal Air Force commander.

18 – Larry Doby, 79, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, second black man to play in the MLB.

19 – Jack Butterworth, Baron Butterworth, 85, British lawyer and academic.

19 – Glen Grant, 56, Hawaiian historian, folklorist and author.

19 – Laura Sadler, 22, British television actress.

19 – Belding Hibbard Scribner, 82, American physician.

20 – Bob Stump, 76, American politician; former Arizona congressman.

21 – Jason Moran, 35, Australian criminal, murdered.

21 – Roger Neilson, 69, Canadian hockey coach.

21 – Sergei Vronsky, 67, Soviet cinematographer [3] (Russian).

22 – Vasil Bykau, 79, Belarusian writer.

23 – Maynard Jackson, 65, first African-American Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia.

23 – Doug Ring, 84, Australian cricketer.

24 – Leon Uris, 78, Jewish-American author.

25 – Walter F. Ehrnfelt, 70, Mayor of Strongsville, Ohio.

25 – Lester Maddox, 87, segregationist Governor of the State of Georgia.

25 – Shun Yashiro, 70, Japanese actor and voice actor, stroke.

26 – John G. Adams, 91, American lawyer, counsel in the Army–McCarthy hearings.

26 – Marc-Vivien Foé, 28, Cameroonian footballer collapsed and died on the football pitch in Lyon.

26 – Sir Denis Thatcher, Bt., 88, husband to Baroness Thatcher, former United Kingdom Prime Minister.

26 – Strom Thurmond, 100, Governor of South Carolina, United States Republican Senator from South Carolina and Presidential candidate (as a Dixiecrat).

27 – Magne Aarøen, 59, Norwegian politician.

27 – Gerald Balfour, 4th Earl of Balfour, 77, British aristocrat.

27 – Ken Smith, 64, British poet.

28 – Wim Slijkhuis, 80, Dutch athlete.

29 - Rod Amateau, 79, American screenwriter and director, cerebral hemorrhage

29 – Katharine Hepburn, 96, Oscar winning (4) American actress of stage, screen and television

30 – Robert McCloskey, 88, children's book writer and illustrator.

30 – William J. J. Gordon, 83, American psychologist and inventor.

30 – Buddy Hackett, 78, American comedian and actor.

30 – Constance Smith, 75, Irish actress.

July 2003

  1 – John Bissell Carroll, 87, American psychologist.

  1 – Herbie Mann, 73, crossover jazz and bossa nova flutist.

  1 – Wesley Mouzon, 75, professional boxer, beat Bob Montgomery.

  1 – N!xau, 58, Namibian actor and bushman (The Gods Must Be Crazy).

  1 – George Roper, 69, English comedian.

  3 – Gaetano Alibrandi, 89, papal diplomat and Apostolic Nuncio to the Republic of Ireland.

  3 – Harold Creighton, 75, British businessman and magazine editor.

  3 – Najeeb Halaby, 87, chairman of Pan Am from 1969 to 1972; father of Queen Noor (née Lisa Halaby).

  3 – Vince Lloyd, 96, American radio announcer.

  4 – Larry Burkett, 64, founder of Christian Financial Concepts.

  4 – Barry White, 58, American smooth soul singer, renal failure.

  5 – George Ibrahim, 38, Pakistani Roman Catholic priest.

  5 – Roman Lyashenko, 24, New York Rangers hockey player.

  5 – Bebu Silvetti, 59, popular Argentine musician, songwriter and arranger.

  5 – Isabelle, Countess of Paris, 91, widow of Henri, Count of Paris, pretender to the French throne.

  5 – Robert Bardzimashvili, popular Georgian singer.

  6 – Buddy Ebsen, 95, American actor.

  6 – Michael Hoban, 81, British headmaster.

  6 – Kathleen Raine, 95, British poet and literary critic.

  7 – Warren L. Carpenter, 71, American military surgeon.

  7 – Izhak Graziani, 78, conductor.

  8 – Ladan and Laleh Bijani, 29, Iranian conjoined twins.

  8 – Paul Brand, 88, British surgeon.

  8 – Duncan Clark, 88, Scottish hammer thrower.

  9 – Winston Graham, 95, author (Poldark, Marnie).

10 – Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, 101, Britain's chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.

11 – Zahra Kazemi, Iran-born Canadian journalist.

11 – Dorothy Canning Miller, 99, American art curator.

11 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 6th Marquess of Salisbury, 86, British aristocrat and politician.

11 – Ken Whyld, 77, British chess author.

12 – Benny Carter, 95, American jazz pioneer.

12 – Ingeborg de Beausacq, 93, American photographer.

12 – Roger Freeman, 51, British rally driver, motor race accident.

12 – Mark Lovell, 43, British rally driver, motor race accident.

13 – Compay Segundo, 95, Cuban musician and star of the Buena Vista Social Club.

14 – Ahmed Al-Waeli, 74, Shiite cleric.

14 – Tex Schramm, 83, former Dallas Cowboys president and general manager.

14 – André Claveau, 87, French singer.

15 – Judith Hare, Countess of Listowel, 100, Hungarian-born British writer and aristocrat.

15 – John Richard Hyde, 90, Canadian soldier and politician.

15 – Alexander Walker, 73, British film critic.

16 – Captain James Kelly, 73, former Irish Army officer cleared of attempting to import arms for the IRA in the Arms Trial in 1970.

16 – Carol Shields, 68, Canadian author.

16 – Celia Cruz, 77, Cuban salsa singer.

17 – Rosalyn Tureck, 89, American pianist and harpsichordist and champion of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

17 – Dr. David Kelly, 59, British scientist and weapons expert, source of critical BBC reports about the accuracy of the British government's September Dossier on Iraq, suicide.

18 – Brad Rone, 35, American boxer, injuries sustained in boxing.

18 – Jane Barbe, 74, phone company voiceover.

19 – Bill Bright, 81, American evangelical Christian and founder of Campus Crusade for Christ.

19 – Pierre Graber, former member of the Swiss Federal Council (1970–1978).

19 – Vic Vargas, 64, Filipino actor.

20 – Nicolas Freeling, crime writer.

20 – Lauri Aus, Estonian pro cyclist, he was struck on bicycle by a drunk driver.

21 – Walter M. "Matt" Jefferies, American art director (Star Trek series); designer of the Starship Enterprise.

21 – John Davies, president of the New Zealand Olympic Committee.

21 – Tim Hemensley, Australian singer & bass guitarist.

22 – Uday Hussein, 39, eldest son of Saddam Hussein, shot dead by US troops.

22 – Qusay Hussein, 37, second son of Saddam Hussein, shot dead by US troops.

22 – Norman Lewis, 95, British travel writer.

22 – Serge Silberman, 86, French film producer.

23 – James E. Davis, New York City councilman.

24 – Colin R. McMillan, former nominee for United States Secretary of the Navy.

25 – Ludwig Bölkow, airplane engineer.

25 – John Schlesinger, 77, English film director.

25 – Erik Brann, 52, Iron Butterfly guitarist.

26 – Richard Wayne Dirksen, 82, composer, former organist-choirmaster Washington National Cathedral.

26 – John Higham, 82, American historian.

27 – Lajos von Sipeki-von Balás, 89, Hungarian Olympic modern pentathlete.

27 – Vance Hartke, 84, former United States Senator from Indiana.

27 – Henning Holck-Larsen, 96, Danish engineer and entrepreneur.

27 – Bob Hope, 100, British-born American comedian and actor, pneumonia.

27 – Benjamin Munson, 87, American physician.

28 – Valerie, Lady Goulding, former Irish Senator & disability rights campaigner.

29 – Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader.

29 – Sir Gerard Vaughan, 80, British politician.

30 – Sam Phillips, 80, American record producer.

31 – Edward P. Alexander, American historian.

31 – Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, 88, Pakistani politician, first President of Azad Kashmir.

August 2003

  1 – Guy Thys, 80, former Belgian national football coach.

  1 – Marie Trintignant, 41, French actress and daughter of actor Jean-Louis Trintignant.

  1 – Gordon Arnaud Winter, 90, Canadian Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland.

  2 – Ken Coote, 75, English footballer.

  2 – Don Estelle, 70, British actor.

  2 – Sir Charles Kerruish, 86, Manx politician.

  2 – Mike Levey, 55, famous infomercial host.

  3 – Roger Voudouris, 48, American singer/songwriter/guitarist.

  4 – Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh, 89, longest-ordained hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.

  4 – Chung Mong-hun, 54, Korean businessman.

  4 – James Welch, 62, American writer.

  5 – Tite Curet Alonso, 77, well known Puerto Rican music composer, critic, newspaper writer.

  5 – Don Turnbull, 66, UK games magazine editor.

  6 – Julius Baker, 87, American flautist.

  6 – Robin Banerjee, 94, Indian environmentalist and wildlife photographer.

  6 – William Bateman Hall, 80, British nuclear engineer.

  8 – Sam Gillespie, 32, Australian-born philosopher whose writings and translations introduced the work of Alain Badiou in the English-speaking world.

  8 – Sir Edward Pickering, 81, British newspaper editor.

  9 – Ray Harford, 58, football manager.

  9 – Gregory Hines, 57, American dancer, actor.

  9 – Chester Ludgin, 77, American baritone.

  9 – Esmond Wright, 87, British historian.

10 – Jimmy Kelly, 71, English footballer.

10 – Carmita Jiménez, Puerto Rican singer.

11 – Armand Borel, 80, notable Swiss mathematician.

11 – Herb Brooks, 66, coach of 1980 Miracle on Ice US Hockey team.

11 – Kieran Kelly, 25, Irish jump jockey after a racing accident.

11 – Diana Mitford, 93, widow of British Fascist leader Oswald Mosley.

11 – John Shearman, 72, British art historian.

12 – Jackie Hamilton, 65, British stand-up comedian.

13 – Michael Maclagan, 89, British historian.

13 – Matt Moffitt, 46, Australian singer, songwriter.

13 – Helmut Rahn, 73, German footballer, World Champion 1954.

13 – Ed Townsend, 74, songwriter and producer.

14 – Chuck Brown, 52, American politician.

14 – Robin Thompson, 72, Irish rugby player.

15 – Bishop Donal Lamont, 92, Irish born Rhodesian Roman Catholic bishop and Nobel Peace Prize nominee expelled by Ian Smith's apartheid regime in the 1970s.

16 – Idi Amin, 78, former dictator of Uganda.

16 – Connie Douglas Reeves, 101, centenarian member of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame.

18 – Alan Green, 71, British local politician.

18 – Endre Szász, 77, Hungarian artist.

19 – Lester Mondale, 99, American Unitarian minister and humanist.

19 – John Munro, 72, Canadian politician.

19 – Carlos Roberto Reina, 77, former president of Honduras.

19 – Sérgio Vieira de Mello, 55, United Nations Special Representative to Iraq.

20 – Ian MacDonald, 54, British music critic.

20 – Andrew Ray, 64, British actor.

21 – Wesley Willis, 40, American schizophrenic musician and artist.

22 – Colleen Browning, 85, American painter.

22 – Arnold Gerschwiler, 89, figure skating trainer in Britain.

22 – Glenn Stetson, 62, Canadian singer.

23 – John Geoghan, 68, defrocked pedophile priest.

23 – Bobby Bonds, 57, former baseball player and father of San Francisco Giants ballplayer Barry Bonds.

23 – Michael Kijana Wamalwa, Kenyan Vice-President.

23 – Imperio Argentina, 96, Spanish singer and actress.

23 – Jack Dyer, Australian rules football legend.

24 – Harry W. Addison, 82, American author.

24 – Robert C. Bruce, 88, American actor.

24 – Mal Colston, 65, Australian politician.

24 – John Jacob Rhodes, 86, American politician.

24 – Sir Wilfred Thesiger, 93, British explorer.

24 – Zena Walker, 69, British actress.

26 – Jim Wacker, American football college coach.

27 – Pierre Poujade, French politician.

28 – Peter Hacks, 75, German playwright and author.

28 – Richard Morris, American author.

29 – Herbert Abrams, 82, American artist.

29 – Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim.

29 – Kathy Wilkes, British education worker in Eastern Europe.

30 – Steve Eisner, American boxing promoter.

30 – Charles Bronson, 81, American actor; husband of Jill Ireland.

30 – Donald Davidson, 86, American philosopher.

31 – Jung Yong-hoon, 24, South Korean footballer.

31 – Warren Rogers, 81, American journalist.

September 2003

  1 – Sir Terry Frost, 87, British artist.

  1 – John Gould, 94, American columnist.

  1 – Sir John Gray, 66, British diplomat.

  2 – George Charles Hayter Chubb, 3rd Baron Hayter, 92, British politician and industrialist.

  3 – Jack Daniels, 79, American politician.

  3 – Paul Hill, 49, American anti-abortion activist; executed for a double murder.

  4 – Susan Chilcott, 40, English opera singer, breast cancer.

  4 – David P. Robbins, 61, American mathematician.

  4 – Tibor Varga, 82, Hungarian violinist, conductor and pedagogue.

  5 – Sir Richard Harrison, 82, New Zealand politician.

  5 – Sir Ian Hunter, 84, British classical music impresario.

  5 – Gisele MacKenzie, 76, Canadian-born singer and entertainer.

  6 – Kevin Morgan, 82, Australian politician.

  6 – Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber, Mount Everest Summiter, died while climbing Gasherbrum I.

  6 – John Ross, 62, Australian politician.

  6 – Wilbur Snapp, 83, American musician, stadium organist for the Clearwater Phillies and the Philadelphia Phillies; notably expelled from a game by an umpire for playing Three Blind Mice.

  7 – Warren Zevon, 56, American singer and songwriter.

  7 – Great Antonio, 77, strongman and eccentric.

  8 – Jaclyn Linetsky, 17, Canadian voice actress, road accident.

  8 – Leni Riefenstahl, 101, German filmmaker.

  8 – Caroline St John-Brooks, 56, Anglo-Irish education journalist.

  9 – Larry Hovis, 67, American actor (Hogan's Heroes).

  9 – Gulabrai Ramchand, 76, Indian cricketer.

  9 – Edward Teller, 95, American physicist, "Father of the H-Bomb".

  9 – Marthe Vogt, 100, German neuroscientist.

10 – Harry Goz, 71, American musical theater actor (Fiddler on the Roof) and voice actor (Sealab 2021).

11 – Ben Bril, 91, Dutch boxer.

11 – James Edward Fitzgerald, 64, American Roman Catholic prelate.

11 – Anna Lindh, 46, Swedish foreign minister.

11 – John Ritter, 54, American actor and comedian, aortic dissection.

12 – Garner Ted Armstrong, 73, American evangelist.

12 – Johnny Cash, 71, American country singer.

12 – Chappie Fox, 90, American circus historian.

12 – Norman Porteous, 104, theologian and writer on Old Testament issues.

13 – Ron Burton, 67, American football player.

13 – Alexander Gläser, 89, German World War II Luftwaffe pilot.

13 – Frank O'Bannon, 73, Governor of Indiana.

13 – Kenneth Walter, 63, South African cricketer.

14 – Ken Kifer, 57, American cyclist and writer.

14 - John Serry Sr. 88, Italian American musician composer and arranger.

15 – Jack Brymer, 88, British clarinettist.

15 – Donald Cameron, 75, Scottish rugby union player.

15 – Yetunde Price, 30, sister of American tennis players Venus and Serena Williams.

16 – Erich Hallhuber, 52, Bavarian actor.

16 – Sheb Wooley, 82, American actor, singer ("Purple People Eater").

17 – George Gale, 74, British cartoonist.

18 – Samuel Delbert Clark, 93, Canadian sociologist.

19 – Slim Dusty, 76, Australian country music singer.

19 – Frank Lowe, 60, American jazz saxophonist.

20 – Liam Tobin, longtime Árd Rúnaí Roinn na Gaeltachta (Secretary to the Irish Department of the Gaeltacht) and Irish language campaigner.

20 – Simon Vengai Muzenda, 80, Zimbabwean politician, vice president of the Republic since 1987.

20 – Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, 62, British Cabinet minister, Leader of the House of Lords.

21 – Robert H. Lochner, 84, John F. Kennedy's interpreter.

22 – Gordon Jump, 71, American actor.

22 – Tony Shryane, 84, British radio producer.

22 – Hugo Young, 64, British political commentator.

24 – Hugh Gregg, 85, American politician, Governor of New Hampshire (1953-1955)

24 – Derek Prince, 88, biblical scholar, author.

24 – Edward Said, 67, Palestinian scholar.

25 – Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician, member of the Governing Council.

25 – Alastair Borthwick, 90, British author and broadcaster.

25 – John Clayton, 63, Australian actor.

25 – Dai Davies, 78, Welsh rugby player.

25 – Franco Modigliani, 85, Italian Nobel Prize-winning economist.

25 – Donald Nicol, 80, British Byzantine scholar.

25 – George Plimpton, 76, American author, editor, socialite & actor.

26 – Glyn Gilbert, 83, British Army general.

26 – Shawn Lane, 40, American guitarist and composer.

26 – Robert Palmer, 54, British singer.

27 – Red Barbary, 83, American baseball player.

27 – Tom Brennan, 81, American ice hockey player.

27 – Donald O'Connor, 78, American actor, dancer.

28 – Yukichi Chuganji, 114-year-old Japanese supercentenarian.

28 – Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris, 86, British Air Chief Marshal.

28 – Elia Kazan, 94, American film director.

28 – Althea Gibson, 76, African-American tennis player.

30 – Robert Kardashian, 59, American criminal defense lawyer.

30 – John Rosenbaum, 70, American kinetic sculptor.

October 2003

  1 – Frank Taylor, 95, British politician, MP for Manchester Moss Side.

  2 – John Thomas Dunlop, 89, briefly Secretary of Labor under Gerald Ford.

  2 – Denis Moore, 93, English cricketer.

  3 – Edward Hartman, 39, American convicted murderer.

  3 – Florence Stanley, 79, American voice actress.

  3 – William Steig, 95, American cartoonist and children's author; creator of Shrek.

  3 – Winifred Watkins, 79, British biochemist.

  4 – Bill Cayton, 85, American boxing manager, owner of (reportedly) largest fight video collection in the world, former manager of Edwin Rosario and Mike Tyson.

  4 – John Horace Ragnar Colvin, 81, British intelligence officer.

  4 – Mary Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Lymington, 82, first female Lord Mayor of London.

  4 – Sid McMath, 91, former governor of Arkansas.

  5 – Neil Postman, 72 media critic.

  5 – Elena Slough, 114, oldest recognized person in the United States.

  5 – Denis Quilley, 75, British actor.

  5 – Dan Snyder, 25, American ice hockey player (Atlanta Thrashers).

  5 – Timothy Treadwell, 46, environmentalist.

  5 – Dwain Weston, 30, Australian skydiver.

  6 – Joe Baker, 63, English footballer.

  6 – Sir Anthony Buck, 81, British politician.

  6 – Ryan Halligan, 13 American suicide victim.

  6 – Sir Michael Livesay, 67, British admiral, Second Sea Lord.

  6 – Mildred O'Neill, 89, widow of former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Tip O'Neill heart attack.

  7 – Eleanor Lambert, 100, United States fashion pioneer.

  7 – Izzy Asper, 71, Canadian press baron.

  7 – Dame Felicitas Corrigan, 95, Benedictine nun.

  8 – David Margolis, American mural artist.

  9 – Carl Fontana, 75, American jazz trombonist.

  9 – Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, 77, American academic and author.

10 – Eugene Istomin, 77, American pianist.

10 – Max Rayne, Baron Rayne, 85. British property developer and philanthropist.

10 – Julia Trevelyan Oman, 73, British set designer.

12 – Willie Shoemaker, 72, Hall of Fame jockey.

12 – Jim Cairns, 89, Australian politician.

13 – Bertram Brockhouse, 85, Nobel Prize-winning Canadian physicist.

13 – Joan B. Kroc, 75, philanthropist; widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, brain cancer.

14 – Elizabeth Israel, 128?, Dominican longevity claimant.

14 – Ben Metcalfe, 83, Greenpeace activist and co-founder, heart attack.

14 – Frances Watt, 81, Scottish singer.

16 – Jim Albrecht, 53, tournament director of the World Series of Poker.

16 – Stu Hart, 88, Canadian wrestler; patriarch of Hart wrestling.

16 – László Papp, 77, Hungarian boxer.

16 – Avni Arbas, Turkish artist, cancer.

17 – Billy Hughes, 74, Scottish footballer.

17 – Janice Rule, 72, American actress.

18 – Preston Smith, 91, governor of Texas.

18 – Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, 64, Spanish writer.

18 – R. V. Vernède, 97, British writer and colonial administrator.

19 – Margaret Murie, 101, "Mother of the Modern Conservationist Movement".

19 – Michael Hegstrand, 45, "Road Warrior Hawk".

19 – Alija Izetbegović, 78, President of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

20 – Miodrag Petrović Čkalja, 79, Serbian actor.

20 – Jack Elam, 84, American actor.

20 – Peter Morgan, 83, British sport car manufacturer.

21 – Louise Day Hicks, 87, American politician.

21 – Fred Berry, 52, American actor, "Rerun" on the show What's Happening!!.

21 – Elliott Smith, 34, American musician.

21 – Luis A. Ferré, 99, former governor of Puerto Rico.

22 – Tony Renna, 27, motor racer; IndyCar driver.

23 – Tony Capstick, 59, British actor, comedian, musician and broadcaster.

23 – Pete Chisman, 63, British cyclist, complications from surgery. [4].

23 – Madame Chiang Kai-shek, 106, widow of the Nationalist Chinese president Chiang Kai-shek.

23 – Judah Segal, 91, British linguist.

24 – Rosie Nix Adams, 45, daughter of June Carter Cash.

24 – Bob Bailey, 72, Canadian ice hockey player.

24 – Peter Sykes, 80, British chemist.

25 – Hemu Adhikari, 84, Indian cricketer.

25 – Pandurang Shastri Athavale, 83, Indian philosopher and social activist.

25 – John Hart Ely, 64, American legal scholar.

26 – Elem Klimov, 70, Russian director.

27 – Rod Roddy, 66, announcer on The Price Is Right.

28 – Sally Baldwin, 62, British social scientist.

28 – Behram Kursunoglu, 81, Turkish physicist.

29 – Hal Clement, 81, author.

30 – Franco Corelli, 81, operatic tenor.

30 – Richard Taylor, 83, American philosopher.

31 – Richard Neustadt, 84, political scholar and historian.

31 – Kamato Hongo, 116?, oldest recognized person in world.

31 – Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, 95, Indian Classical (Carnatic) musician.

November 2003

  2 – Frederic Vester, 77, German cybernetician.

  3 – Aaron Bridgers, 85, French jazz pianist.

  3 – Rasul Gamzatov, 80, Avarian/Soviet/Russian poet, called the "People's poet of Dagestan".

  3 – A. James Manchin, 76, American politician, Secretary of State and State Treasurer for West Virginia.

  3 – Frank McCloskey, 64, Indiana Congressman from 1983–1995, bladder cancer.

  4 – R. M. Williams, 95, Australian bushman and entrepreneur

  4 – Charles Causley, 86, British poet.

  4 – Ken Gampu, 74, South African actor.

  5 – Richard Wollheim, 80, British philosopher.

  5 – Bobby Hatfield, 63, half of the singing duet the Righteous Brothers.

  5 – Dernell Stenson, 25, Cincinnati Reds baseball player.

  6 – Eduardo Palomo, 41, Mexican actor, heart attack.

  6 – Crash Holly, 32, American professional wrestler.

  6 – Rie Mastenbroek, 84, Dutch swimmer, triple Olympic champion.

  6 – Rudolf Schönbeck, 84, German football player.

  7 – James L. Bentley, 76, American politician, Comptroller General of Georgia.

  8 – C. Z. Guest, 83, American socialite.

  8 – Malcolm Douglas-Pennant, 6th Baron Penrhyn, 95, British soldier and aristocrat.

  8 – Michael Pollock, 82, American opera singer.

  8 – T. A. Venkitasubramanian, 79, Indian biochemist.

  9 – Buddy Arnold, 77, American jazz saxophonist.

  9 – Art Carney, 85, American actor in The Honeymooners.

  9 – David Gray, 81, English cricketer.

  9 – Mario Merz, 78, Italian artist.

  9 – Gordon Onslow Ford, 90, British-born American surrealist painter.

10 – Canaan Banana, 67, first president of independent Zimbabwe.

10 – Irv Kupcinet, 91, American columnist, television personality.

10 – Morten Lange, 83, Danish mycologist and politician.

11 – Heinz von Allmen, 90, Swiss Alpine skier.

11 – Lloyd Pettit, 76, American sportscaster.

11 – Robert Brown, 82, British actor (M in 4 James Bond films).

11 – Miquel Martí i Pol, 74, Catalan poet.

11 – Don Taylor, 67, British theatre and television director.

11 – Harold Walker, Baron Walker of Doncaster, 76, British politician.

11 – George Wallace, Baron Wallace of Coslany, 97, British politician.

12 – Tony Thompson, 48, drummer for The Power Station.

12 – Penny Singleton, 95, American actress.

12 – Jonathan Brandis, 27, actor, suicide by hanging.

13 – Ray Harris, 76, American rockability musician and songwriter.

13 – Kellie Waymire, 35, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise).

14 – Gene Anthony Ray, 41, American dancer.

15 – Ray Lewis, 93, first Canadian-born black Olympic medalist.

15 – Mohamed Choukri, 68, writer.

15 – Earl Battey, 68, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins).

15 – John Stamper, 77, British aeronautical engineer.

15 – Laurence Tisch, 80, American billionaire, head of Loews Corporation and CBS television network.

15 – Dorothy Loudon, 70, American actress.

16 – Bettina Goislard, 29, UNHCR relief worker.

16 – Arihiro Fukuda, 39, Japanese associate professor and author of Sovereignty and the Sword.

17 – Gerry Adams, Sr, 77, Irish Republican Army volunteer, father of Gerry Adams.

17 – Arthur Conley, 58, American soul singer.

17 – Don Gibson, 75, American singer-songwriter.

18 – Michael Kamen, 55, American composer (Die Hard, Band of Brothers, 101 Dalmatians).

19 – Ken Brett, 55, former Major League Baseball player, brother of George Brett.

19 – Robert E. Thompson, 82, American political journalist.

20 – David Dacko, 73, first president of the Central African Republic.

20 – Robert Addie, 43, British actor.

20 – Eugene Kleiner, 80, entrepreneur and co-founder of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers venture capital firm.

20 – Roger Short, 58, British diplomat, consul-general in Istanbul.

20 – Kerem Yilmazer, 58, Turkish actor.

20 – Jim Siedow, 83, American actor.

20 – Theo Berger, 62, German criminal.

23 – Nick Carter, 79, New Zealand cyclist.

23 – Jack Fitzgerald, 73, Irish footballer.

23 – W. Fred Turner, 81, American attorney.

24 – George Dunlap, 94, American golfer.

24 – Hugh Kenner, 80, Canadian literary critic.

24 – Michael Small, 64, American film score composer.

24 – Warren Spahn, 82, American baseball pitcher (Milwaukee Braves) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.

25 – Frank B. Colton, 80, American chemist.

26 – Anton Burg, 99, University of Southern California chemistry professor.

26 – Gordon Reid, 64, Scottish actor.

26 – Soulja Slim, 26, American rapper.

26 – Stefan Wul, 81, French science fiction writer.

27 – Will Quadflieg, 89, German actor.

28 – Ted Bates, 85, British footballer and manager.

28 – Harold von Braunhut, 77, American creator of Amazing Sea-Monkeys.

28 – Mihkel Mathiesen, 85, Estonian politician.

29 – Tony Canadeo, 84, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

29 – Jesse Carver, 92, English football player and manager.

29 – Len Lawson, Australian comic book creator and convicted murderer.

30 – Barber B. Conable, 81, New York Congressman, president of the World Bank from 1986–1991.

30 – Gertrude Ederle, 98, first woman to swim the English Channel (1926).

December 2003

  1 – Clark Kerr, 92, first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1952–58) and President of the University of California (1958–67).

  2 – Ignaz Kiechle, 73, German politician and minister for agriculture (1983–93).

  3 – David Hemmings, 62, British actor and director, heart attack.

  3 – John Randal McDonald, 81, American architect.

  4 – Jonathan Luna, 38, United States Assistant Attorney, murdered.

  5 – Felix Kaspar, 88, Austrian figure skater.

  5 – Jack Keller, 61, American poker player.

  5 – Bert Templeton, 63, Scottish-born Canadian ice hockey coach, kidney cancer.

  6 – Haddis Alemayehu, 93, Ethiopian Foreign Minister and novelist.

  6 – Frank J. Breth, 66, American Marine Corps general.

  6 – Barry Long, 77, Australian spiritual teacher and writer.

  6 – Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, 85, President of Guatemala 1970-74.

  6 – Jerry Tuite, 36, American wrestler, heart attack.

  7 – Carl F. H. Henry, 90, American Evangelical theologian and founder of Christianity Today magazine.

  7 – Azie Taylor Morton, 67, former Treasurer of the United States, complications from a stroke.

  8 – Johnny Bulla, 89, American golfer.

  8 – Rubén González, 84, Cuban pianist.

  9 – Margaret Quass, 77, British educationalist.

  9 – Paul Simon, 75, United States Senator from Illinois.

  9 – Norm Sloan, 77, American basketball player and coach.

10 – Ettore Perazzoli, 29, Italian free software developer.

10 – Sir John Watts, 73, British army general.

11 – Malcolm Clarke, 60, British composer.

11 – Ahmadou Kourouma, 76, Ivorian novelist.

11 – Ram Kishore Shukla, 80, Indian politician.

11 – John W. Sidgmore, 52, former head of Worldcom and UUNet, acute pancreatitis.

12 – Heydar Aliyev, 80, former President of Azerbaijan.

12 – Michael Casson, 78, British potter.

12 – Earl Gillespie, 81, sportscaster, voice of the Milwaukee Braves.

12 – Keiko, 27, orca of Reino Aventura and Free Willy fame, pneumonia.

12 – Fadwa Toukan, 86, Palestinian poet.

13 – Elizabeth Bates, 56, Professor of Psychology at University of California, San Diego, pancreatic cancer.

13 – Mollie Hardwick, 87, British writer.

13 – William V. Roth, Jr., 82, American lawyer and politician.

14 – Jeanne Crain, 78, American actress, heart attack.

14 – Blas Ople, 75, Filipino journalist and politician.

15 – Johnny Cunningham, 46, British folk musician.

15 – George Fisher, 80, American political cartoonist.

15 – Jack Gregory, 80, British athlete.

15 – David S. Lewis, 86, American aerospace engineer.

15 – Keith Magnuson, 56, Canadian National Hockey League player, road accident.

16 – Willis Adcock, 81, American scientist.

16 – Robert Stanfield, 89, Canadian politician.

16 – Gary Stewart, 58, American country music singer, suicide.

17 – Ed Devereaux, 78, Australian actor.

17 – Otto Graham, 82, American professional football (Cleveland Browns) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, heart aneurysm.

17 – David Smith, 69, English cricketer.

17 – Alan Tilvern, 86, actor and voice artist (Bhowani Junction, the 1978 Lord of the Rings cartoon film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit).

18 – Jack Dormand, Baron Dormand of Easington, 84, British politician.

18 – Susan Travers, 94, only English woman to serve in the French Foreign Legion.

19 – Peter Carter-Ruck, 89, British libel lawyer.

19 – Roger Conant, 94, American herpetologist.

19 – Hope Lange, 72, American actress, ischemic colitis.

20 – Denis Barry, 74, American chess player and official.

20 – Alan Magee, 84, American World War II airman, survived 22,000 ft. fall.

21 – Antony Allen, 90, English cricketer.

22 – Dave Dudley, 75, American country music singer, heart attack.

22 – Rose Hill, 89, British actress.

23 – John Sanders, 70, British organist, pneumonia.

23 – Chandu Sarwate, 83, Indian cricketer.

23 – Basil Wells, 91, American writer.

26 – Hugh Bean, 74, British violinist.

26 – Redfern Froggatt, 79, English footballer.

26 – Phil Goldman, 39, American engineer and entrepreneur, heart failure.

26 – Yoshio Shirai, 80, first Japanese world boxing champion, pneumonia.

27 – Sir Alan Bates, 69, British actor, pancreatic cancer.

27 – Iván Calderón, 41, Puerto Rican former major league baseball star, homicide by gunshot.

27 – Vestal Goodman, 74, American Southern Gospel singer, complications from influenza.

27 – Patrick J. Reynolds, 83, Irish politician.

27 – Polly Rosenbaum, 104, American politician and teacher.

28 – Dinsdale Landen, 71, British actor, pneumonia.

28 – Benjamin Thurman Hacker, 68, first American Naval Flight Officer to achieve the "Flag" rank.

28 – Frank Parr, 85, British chess player.

28 – Thomas Pearsall, 83, Australian politician.

28 – John Terraine, 82, British military historian.

29 – Richard Davis, 37, English cricketer, brain cancer.

29 – Earl Hindman, 61, American actor (Home Improvement), lung cancer.

29 – Don Lawrence, 75, British comic book artist.

29 – Bob Monkhouse, 75, British comedian and game show host, prostate cancer.

29 – Ersa Siregar, 78, Reporters and Journalists Indonesia, was shot dead when a shootout between TNI and GAM in Aceh, December 29, 52

30 – David Bale, 62, South African businessman and activist; husband of Gloria Steinem.

30 – John Gregory Dunne, 71, American novelist and screenwriter, heart attack.

30 – Anita Mui, 40, Hong Kong pop queen.

30 – Antony Ponzini, 69, American actor.

31 – Sophie Daumier, 69, French actress, comedian, Huntington's disease.

31 – Arthur R. von Hippel, 105, German-born scientist and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who made critical contributions to the development of radar.