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]