The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

August 2003

1

• Tom Lewis, 78, American politician.
• Guy Thys, 80, Belgian national football coach.^[1]
• Marie Trintignant, 41, French actress and daughter of actor Jean-Louis Trintignant, beaten to death by singer Bertrand Cantat.^[2]
• Gordon Arnaud Winter, 90, Canadian Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland.^[3]

2

• Ken Coote, 75, English footballer.
• Don Estelle, 70, British actor.
• Vladimir Golovanov, 64, Russian weightlifter.^[4]
• Charles Kerruish, 86, Manx politician.
• Mike Levey, 55, American infomercial host, cancer.
• Paulinho Nogueira, 75, Brazilian guitarist, singer and composer.^[5]
• Mohamad Adnan Robert, 85, Malaysian politician, Governor of Sabah.
• Willem Wilmink, 66, Dutch poet and writer.^[6]
• Lesley Woods, 92, American radio, stage and television actress.^[7]

3

• Norah Isaac, 88, Welsh author, drama producer and campaigner for Welsh-language education.
• Joseph Saidu Momoh, 66, President of Sierra Leone.^[8]
• Peter Safar, 79, Austrian-born American physician, cancer.^[9]
• Roger Voudouris, 48, American singer-songwriter and guitarist, liver disease.^[10]

4

• Pål Arne Fagernes, 29, Norwegian javelin thrower and olympian, car accident.^[11]
• Chung Mong-hun, 54, Korean businessman, suicide.
• Frederick Chapman Robbins, 86, American pediatrician and virologist.^[12]
• Alice Saunier-Seité, 78, French geographer, historian, academic and politician of the Parti Républicain.^[13]
• Sarup Singh, 86, Indian academic and politician.
• Anthony of Sourozh, 89, Russian monk, broadcaster, longest-ordained hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.^[14]
• Redd Stewart, 80, American country music songwriter and recording artist.^[15]
• James Welch, 62, American Blackfeet and Gros Ventre writer and poet (Winter in the Blood, Fools Crow), lung cancer.^[16]

5

• Tite Curet Alonso, 77, Puerto Rican music composer, critic and journalist, heart attack.
• Dick Fouts, 69, Canadian football player.
• Maurice Mollin, 79, Belgian racing cyclist.^[17]
• Manuel Mur Oti, 94, Spanish screenwriter and film director.^[18]
• Samuel J. Tedesco, 88, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut.
• Don Turnbull, 66, English journalist and games magazine editor.
• Benjamin Vaughan, 85, Welsh Anglican priest, Bishop of Swansea and Brecon.^[19]

6

• Julius Baker, 87, American flute player, principal flutist of the New York Philharmonic for 18 years.^[20]
• Robin Banerjee, 94, Indian environmentalist and wildlife photographer.^[21]
• Louis Lasagna, 80, American physician and professor of medicine, lymphoma.^[22]
• Roberto Marinho, 98, Brazilian businessman, lung cancer.^[23]
• Grover Mitchell, 73, American jazz trombonist, cancer.^[24]
• Christine Noonan, 58, British actress, cancer.
• Wilhelm Schneemelcher, 88, German Protestant theologian^[25]
• Larry Taylor, 85, English actor and stuntman.

7

• Carlo Felice Bianchi Anderloni, 87, Italian automobile designer.
• Grigory Bondarevsky, 83, Russian professor, writer, and historian, murdered.^[26]
• Charles Jones, 85, Australian politician.
• Roxie Collie Laybourne, 92, American ornithologist.^[27]
• Mickey McDermott, 74, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, Kansas City Athletics), colorectal cancer.^[28]
• F. T. Prince, 90, British poet and academic.^[29]
• Pierre Vilar, 97, French historian, authoritative historian of Spain.^[30]
• Rajko Žižić, 48, Yugoslavian basketball player (Summer Olympics medals: 1976 silver, 1980 gold, 1984 bronze), heart attack.^[31]

8

• Martha Chase, 75, American geneticist, pneumonia.^[32]
• Robert J. Donovan, 90, American correspondent, author and presidential historian.^[33]
• Lilli Gyldenkilde, 67, Danish politician, cancer.
• Bhupen Khakhar, 69, Indian contemporary artist, cancer.^[34]
• Frank Large, 63, English football player.^[35]
• Allan McCready, 86, New Zealand politician.
• Jack Noreiga, 67, West Indian cricket player.^[36]
• Lenton Parr, 78, Australian sculptor and teacher.^[37]
• Antonis Samarakis, 83, Greek writer of the post-war generation, heart attack.^[38]
• Edna Skinner, 82, American film and television actress.^[39]
• Falaba Issa Traoré, 73, Malian writer, comedian, playwright, and theatre and film director.

9

• Jimmy Davis, 21, English football player, traffic collision.^[40]
• Jacques Deray, 74, French film director and screenwriter, cancer.^[41]
• Ray Harford, 58, English football manager, lung cancer.^[42]
• Gregory Hines, 57, American dancer, actor, liver cancer.^[43]
• Chester Ludgin, 77, American baritone, cancer.^[44]
• Lesley Manyathela, 21, South African soccer player, traffic collision.
• Bill Perkins, 79, American cool jazz saxophonist and flutist.^[45]
• William "Billy" George Rogell, 98, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs).^[46]
• Bhabesh Chandra Sanyal, 102, Indian painter, sculptor and art teacher.
• Trevor Smith, 67, English football player, lung cancer.^[47]
• Herbie Steward, 77, American jazz saxophonist.
• Esmond Wright, 87, British historian, media personality and politician (Member of Parliament for Glasgow Pollok).^[48]

10

• Kimal Akishev, 79, Scientist, archeologist, and historian.^[49]
• Constance Chapman, 91, English actor.^[50]
• Carmita Jiménez, 64, Puerto Rican singer.
• Cedric Price, 68, English architect and writer.^[51]

11

• Roger Antoine, 81, French basketball player (1956 Olympic basketball, 1960 Olympic basketball).^[52]
• Armand Borel, 80, Swiss mathematician.^[53]
• Herb Brooks, 66, American hockey player and coach (1980 Olympic gold medal winning "Miracle on Ice" hockey team), traffic collision.^[54]
• Jean Courteaux, 76, French football player.^[55]
• Jean Dréjac, 82, French singer and composer.
• Basil Kelly, 73, Bahamian Olympic sailor.^[56]
• Diana Mosley, 93, English socialite, one of the Mitford sisters and widow of fascist leader Oswald Mosley, stroke.^[57]
• John K. G. Shearman, 72, British art historian.^[58]
• Joseph Ventaja, 73, French boxer (bronze medal in featherweight boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics).^[59]
• Dennis Walker, 58, English football player.
• Sigmund Widmer, 84, Swiss historian, writer and politician.

12

• Christian Boussus, 95, French tennis player.^[60]
• Sir William Douglas, 81, Barbadian jurist, Chief Justice of Barbados (1965–1986).
• Håkon Kyllingmark, 88, Norwegian military officer and businessman.
• Walter J. Ong, 90, American Jesuit priest, professor of English literature, historian, and philosopher.^[61]

13

• Ward Bennett, 85, American designer and artist.^[62]
• Charlie Devens, 93, American baseball player (New York Yankees).^[63]
• Lothar Emmerich, 61, German football player, lung cancer.^[64]
• Michael Maclagan, 89, British historian.
• Ed Townsend, 74, American songwriter and producer, heart attack.^[65]

14

• Moshe Carmel, 92, Israeli Major General and politician.
• Viktor Ivanov, 72, Russian rower and Olympic silver medalist.^[66]
• Lev Kerbel, 85, Soviet and Russian sculptor of socialist realist works.
• Donal Lamont, 92, Irish-Rhodesian Roman Catholic bishop and Nobel Peace Prize nominee.^[67]
• Helmut Rahn, 73, German footballer.^[68]
• Robin Thompson, 72, Irish rugby player.
• Kirk Varnedoe, 57, American art historian, chief curator at the Museum of Modern Art, cancer.^[69]

15

• Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper, 86, Dutch nurse, Nazi resister and last known person to see Anne Frank.^[70]
• Red Hardy, 80, American baseball player (New York Giants).^[71]
• Nehemia Levtzion, 67, Israeli scholar of African history.^[72]
• Enric Llaudet, 86, Spanish businessman and sports executive.
• Gerhard Mauz, 77, German journalist and correspondent for judicial processes.
• Eric Nisenson, 57, American author and jazz historian, kidney failure related to leukemia.^[73]

16

• Idi Amin, 78, Ugandan military officer, President of Uganda (1971-1979).^[74]
• Ali Bakar, 55, Malaysian footballer, heart attack.
• Nandor Balazs, 77, Hungarian-American physicist.^[75]
• Bert Crane, 80, Australian politician.
• Manuel Peçanha, 85, Brazilian football player.
• Gösta Sundqvist, 46, Finnish musician and radio personality, heart attack.
• James Whitehead, 67, American poet and novelist (Joiner).^[76]

17

• Ben Belitt, 92, American poet and translator.^[77]
• Mazen Dana, 43, Palestinian journalist, shot by US Army.^[78]
• Haroldo de Campos, 73, Brazilian poet, critic, professor and translator.^[79]
• Connie Douglas Reeves, 101, member of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, complications following a fall.

18

• Don Eliason, 85, American gridiron football player.^[80]
• Álvaro Gaxiola, 66, Mexican Olympic diver.^[81]
• Tony Jackson, 65, English singer and bass-guitar player, alcoholism, liver cirrhosis.
• Jocelyne Jocya, 61, French singer and songwriter, breast cancer.^[82]

19

• Al Bansavage, 65, American professional football player (USC, Los Angeles Chargers, Oakland Raiders).^[83]
• Dennis Flynn, 79, Canadian politician, heart attack.
• Lester Mondale, 99, American Unitarian minister and humanist.
• John Munro, 72, Canadian politician (member of Parliament of Canada representing Hamilton East, Ontario).^[84]
• Carlos Roberto Reina, 77, Honduran politician, lawyer and diplomat, president (1994-1998), suicide.
• Notable victims killed in the Canal Hotel bombing in Baghdad, Iraq:
  • Gillian Clark, 47, Canadian aid worker for the Christian Children's Fund
  • Reham Al-Farra, 29, Jordanian diplomat and journalist.
  • Arthur Helton, 54, American Director of peace and conflict studies at the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations.
  • Reza Hosseini, 43, Iranian UNOHCI humanitarian affairs officer
  • Jean-Sélim Kanaan, 33, Egyptian, Italian and French United Nations diplomat and member of Sérgio Vieira de Mello's staff.
  • Sérgio Vieira de Mello, 55, Brazilian UN diplomat and Secretary-General's Special Representative in Iraq.^[85]
  • Fiona Watson, 35, Scottish member of Vieira de Mello's staff, political affairs officer.
  • Nadia Younes, 57, Egyptian United Nations aide, chief of staff for Vieira de Mello.

20

• Igor Farkhutdinov, 53, Russian politician, Governor of Sakhalin Oblast (1995–2003).
• John Harvey, 63, English cricket player.^[86]
• Ian MacDonald, 54, British music critic, suicide.
• Hayriye Ayşe Nermin Neftçi, 78/79, Turkish jurist and politician.
• John Ogbu, 64, Nigerian-American anthropologist and professor, post-surgery heart attack.^[87]
• Andrew Ray, 64, British actor, heart attack.^[88]

21

• Vasily Borisov, 80, Soviet rifle shooter and Olympic champion.^[89]
• Ken Coleman, 78, American radio and television sportscaster.^[90]
• John Coplans, 83, British artist, art writer, curator, and museum director.^[91]
• Ismail Abu Shanab, 52–53, Palestinian political leader, founder and second in command of Hamas, Israeli helicopter missile strike.^[92]
• Kathy Wilkes, 57, English philosopher and education worker in Eastern Europe.^[93]
• Wesley Willis, 40, American singer-songwriter and visual artist, leukemia.^[94]

22

• Imperio Argentina, 92, Argentine actress and singer.^[95]
• Colleen Browning, 85, American painter.^[96]
• Arnold Gerschwiler, 89, Swiss figure skating trainer.
• Jindřich Polák, 78, Czech film and television director.^[97]
• Tony Rudd, 80, British engineer involved in aero engine design and motor racing.
• V. Somashekhar, 66, Indian film director, producer and screenwriter, kidney failure.
• Floyd Tillman, 88, American country musician and honky tonk pioneer.^[98]

23

• Hy Anzell, 79, American actor (Little Shop of Horrors, Checking Out, Bananas, Annie Hall).^[99]
• J. Bowyer Bell, 71, American historian, artist and art critic, best known as a terrorism expert, kidney failure.^[100]
• Bobby Bonds, 57, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants, California Angels), brain cancer, lung cancer.^[101]
• Maurice Buret, 94, French equestrian competitor (gold medal in equestrian team dressage at the 1948 Summer Olympics).^[102]
• Mal Colston, 65, Australian politician, biliary tract cancer.
• Jack Dyer, 89, Australian rules football legend.^[103]
• John Geoghan, 68, American pedophile priest, blunt trauma.
• Marion Hargrove, 83, American writer.^[104]
• Robert N. C. Nix, Jr., 75, American judge, chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1984-1996), Alzheimer's disease.^[105]
• A. N. Murthy Rao, 103, Indian writer and activist.
• Michael Kijana Wamalwa, 58, Kenyan politician, eighth Vice-President of Kenya.^[106]

24

• Robert C. Bruce, 88, American actor.
• John Melville Burgess, 94, American bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, first African-American to head an Episcopal diocese.^[107]
• Phuntsho Choden, 92, Queen consort of Bhutan.
• Franklin Green, 70, American Olympic free-pistol sport shooter.^[108]
• Theodore Lettvin, 76, American concert pianist and conductor.^[109]
• John Jacob Rhodes, 86, American politician (House Minority Leader, U.S. Representative for Arizona's 1st congress. dist.), cancer.^[110]
• Amina Rizk, 93, Egyptian actress, heart attack.
• Wilfred Thesiger, 93, British explorer.^[111]
• Zena Walker, 69, British actress (Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for A Day in the Death of Joe Egg).^[112]
• Kent Walton, 86, British sports commentator, known for his wrestling commentary on ITV's World of Sport from 1955 to 1988.^[113]

25

• Tom Feelings, 70, American cartoonist, children's book illustrator, and author.^[114]
• Hjalmar Pettersson, 96, Swedish cyclist (men's individual road race at the 1928 Summer Olympics).^[115]
• Ajit Vachani, 52, Indian film and television actor.
• Waid Vanderpoel, 81, American financier and conservationist.^[116]

26

• Wayne Andre, 71, American jazz trombonist and session musician (Liza Minnelli, Bruce Springsteen, Alice Cooper).^[117]
• Tuanku Bahiyah, 73, Malaysian sultanah and raja, cancer.
• Lucius Burckhardt, 78, Swiss sociologist and economist.
• Wilma Burgess, 64, American country music singer ("Misty Blue", "Baby", "Don't Touch Me"), heart attack.^[118]
• Clive Charles, 51, English football player, coach and television announcer, prostate cancer.
• Hans Fränkel, 86, German-American sinologist.^[119]
• Peter Harper, 81, British racing driver.
• Bimal Kar, 81, Bengali writer and novelist.^[120]
• Keith J. Laidler, 87, English-Canadian Canadian physical chemist.^[121]
• Hasan Mammadov, 64, Soviet/Azerbaijani film actor.
• Jim Wacker, American college football coach (Texas Christian University, University of Minnesota), cancer.^[122]

27

• Mick Connelly, 87, New Zealand politician.
• Jinx Falkenburg, 84, American actress and model.^[123]
• Pierre Poujade, 82, French populist politician.^[124]
• William J. Scherle, 80, American politician.^[125]
• Nikolai Todorov, 82, Bulgarian historian and politician, acting President (1990).
• Charles Van Horne, 82, Canadian politician (member of Parliament of Canada representing Restigouche—Madawaska, New Brunswick).^[126]

28

• William Cochran, 81, British physicist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Michel Constantin, 79, French film actor, heart attack.^[127]
• Peter Hacks, 75, German playwright and author.^[128]
• François Missoffe, 83, French politician and diplomat.^[129]
• Yury Saulsky, 74, Soviet and Russian composer, author.
• David Truman, 90, American academic.^[130]

29

• Herbert Abrams, 82, American portrait artist (Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, William Westmoreland, Arthur Miller).^[131]
• Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, 63, Iraqi cleric and politician, bombing.
• Horace W. Babcock, 90, American astronomer, director of the Palomar Observatory from 1964 to 1978.^[132]
• Anant Balani, 41, Indian film director and screenwriter, heart attack.^[133]
• Nguyen Xuan Oanh, 82, Vietnamese economist and politician.
• Patrick Procktor, 67, British painter and printmaker.^[134]
• Bruno Sutkus, 79, Lithuanian-German sniper during World War II, credited with 209 kills.
• George Thoms, 76, Australian cricket player.^[135]
• Corrado Ursi, 95, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.^[136]
• Vladimír Vašíček, 83, Czech painter.^[137]

30

• Robert Abplanalp, 81, American inventor and industrialist, confidant of Richard Nixon, lung cancer.^[138]
• Webster Anderson, 70, American U.S. Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in the Vietnam War.^[139]
• Charles Bronson, 81, American actor (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Death Wish), pneumonia.^[140]
• Donald Davidson, 86, American philosopher.^[141]
• Claude Passeau, 94, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs).^[142]

31

• Pierre Cahuzac, 76, French football player and manager.^[143]
• Jelena de Belder-Kovačič, 78, Slovenian-Belgian botanist and horticulturist.^[144]
• Choe In-dok, 85, North Korean army officer and politician.
• John Storrs, 83, American architect in Oregon.^[145]
• Pavel Tigrid, 85, Czech writer, publisher, author and politician, suicide.^[146]
• Jung Yong-hoon, 24, South Korean footballer, car accident.