The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 2003

1

• Berta Ambrož, 58, Yugoslav and Slovene singer.
• John Bissell Carroll, 87, American psychologist.^[1]
• Hossein Fekri, 79, Iranian football player and coach.
• Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio, 63, Spanish singer-songwriter.^[2]
• Herbie Mann, 73, American crossover jazz and bossa nova flutist, prostate cancer.^[3]
• Bill Miller, 75, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles).^[4]
• Khieu Ponnary, 83, Cambodian communist and wife of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, cancer.^[5]
• George Roper, 69, English comedian, cancer.^[6]

2

• Ivan Allen, Jr., 92, American businessman and 52nd mayor of Atlanta.^[7]
• Briggs Cunningham, 96, American entrepreneur and sportsman, Alzheimer's disease.
• Franklin Farrel, 95, American ice hockey player (silver medal in men's ice hockey at the 1932 Winter Olympics).^[8]
• Antonio Fortich, 89, Filipino Roman Catholic bishop and social activist.
• Najeeb Halaby, 87, American businessman, aviator, and father of Queen Noor of Jordan.^[9]
• Erkki Mallenius, 75, Finnish amateur boxer and Olympic medalist.^[10]
• James Saxon, 48, English television and theatre actor, heart attack.

3

• Gaetano Alibrandi, 89, Italian papal diplomat and Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland.^[11]
• Johannes Andenæs, 90, Norwegian jurist and professor.^[12]
• Vince Lloyd, 96, American radio announcer, stomach cancer.
• Jack B. Olson, 82, American businessman, diplomat, and politician.
• Skip Scarborough, 58, American songwriter, cancer.^[13]
• Yuri Shchekochikhin, 53, Soviet and Russian investigative journalist, writer, and politician, poisoned.
• Anne Barbara Underhill, 83, Canadian astrophysicist.
• C. C. Wang, 96, Chinese-American artist and art collector.^[14]

4

• Manuel Araneta, Jr., 76, Filipino basketball player (basketball at the 1948 Summer Olympics).^[15]
• Larry Burkett, 64, American radio personality, heart failure.
• Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr., 61, American politician, heart attack.^[16]
• André Claveau, 87, French singer.^[17]
• Tyler McVey, 91, American actor, leukemia.
• Armin Mohler, 83, Swiss far-right political philosopher and journalist.^[18]
• Tomris Uyar, 62, Turkish writer and translator.
• Barry White, 58, American smooth soul singer ("Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe"), renal failure.^[19]

5

• Zhang Aiping, 93, Chinese military leader, defense minister under Deng Xiaoping.^[20]
• Fernando Arbex, 62, Spanish musician and songwriter.^[21]
• Prodan Gardzhev, 67, Bulgarian middleweight freestyle wrestler and Olympic champion, heart attack.^[22]
• Roman Lyashenko, 24, Russian ice hockey player (Dallas Stars, New York Rangers), suicide.^[23]
• Nǃxau, 58, Namibian actor and bush farmer (The Gods Must Be Crazy), tuberculosis.
• Princess Isabelle, 91, French noble and widow of Henri, Count of Paris, pretender to the French throne.^[24]
• Nadav Safran, 77, American academic and expert in Arab and Middle East politics, cancer.^[25]
• Yoshio Sakurauchi, 91, Japanese politician.
• Hedy Schlunegger, 80, Swiss alpine skier and Olympic champion.^[26]
• Sulaiman Ninam Shah, 83, Malaysian businessman and politician.
• Bebu Silvetti, 59, Argentine musician, songwriter and arranger, respiratory failure.

6

• Skip Battin, 69, American bass guitarist, singer and songwriter (The Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers), Alzheimer's disease.^[27]
• Willie Buchan, 88, Scottish football player and manager.^[28]
• Ed Chandler, 86, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).^[29]
• Buddy Ebsen, 95, American actor (The Beverly Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones, Breakfast at Tiffany's), pneumonia.^[30]
• Ignacio Antonio Velasco García, 74, Venezuelan Roman Catholic cardinal.^[31]
• Çelik Gülersoy, 72, Turkish lawyer, writer and poet, pancreatic cancer.
• Andrew Heiskell, 87, American journalist and chairman and CEO of Time Inc..^[32]
• Antal Kotász, 73, Hungarian football player.
• Kathleen Raine, 95, British poet and literary critic.^[33]
• Spec Sanders, 84, American football player (University of Texas, New York Yankees, New York Yanks).^[34]

7

• Valentin Bibik, 62, Ukrainian composer, teacher and professor.
• Raphael I Bidawid, 81, Iraqi Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church (1989-2003).^[35]
• Izhak Graziani, 78, conductor.^[36]
• Shlomo-Ya'akov Gross, 94, Israeli politician.
• Antonio Iranzo, 73, Spanish film actor.^[37]
• Charles Poor Kindleberger, 92, American economic historian and author, stroke.^[38]
• Mario Pedini, 84, Italian politician.
• Fred G. Pollard, 85, American lawyer and politician.^[39]
• Tomiko Suzuki, 47, Japanese voice actress, heart attack.

8

• Ladan and Laleh Bijani, 29, Iranian conjoined twins, complications following separation surgery.^[40]
• Paul Brand, 88, British surgeon, pioneering leprosy research.^[41]
• Duncan Clark, 88, Scottish hammer thrower (1948 Olympic men's hammer throw, 1952 Olympic men's hammer throw).^[42]
• Lewis A. Coser, 89, German-American sociologist.
• Marjorie Fowler, 82, American film editor.
• Etsuko Inada, 79, Japanese Olympic figure skater.^[43]
• Subhash Mukhopadhyay, 84, Indian Bengali poets.

9

• Christopher Black Sr., 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Eberhard Blum, 84, German civil servant, head of the German Federal Intelligence Bureau (BND).^[44]
• Joe Cobbold, 76, English greyhound trainer.
• Valerie Gearon, 65, British actress.
• Josephine Jacobsen, 94, American poet, short story writer and essayist.^[45]
• Riley Dobi Noel, 31, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[46]

10

• Alvin Alcorn, 90, American New Orleans jazz trumpeter.^[47]
• Winston Graham, 95, English novelist.^[48]
• Sheldon Jaffery, 69, American bibliographer.^[49]
• John Purdell, 44, American musician and record producer, cancer.
• Hartley Shawcross, 101, English barrister, politician and chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.^[50]
• Manuel Vasques, 76, Portuguese footballer.

11

• Stepan Chervonenko, 87, Soviet diplomat.
• Mickey Deans, 68, American discoteque manager and (last) husband of actress and singer Judy Garland, heart failure.
• Henry Gravrand, 81, French Catholic missionary to Africa and an anthropologist.^[51]
• Zahra Kazemi, 55, Iranian-Canadian journalist, blunt trauma to the head.^[52]
• Michèle de Saint Laurent, 76, French carcinologist.
• Dorothy Canning Miller, 99, American art curator.^[53]
• John Roach, 81, American cleric of the Roman Catholic Church.^[54]
• Bhisham Sahni, 87, Indian writer, playwright and an actor.^[55]
• Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 6th Marquess of Salisbury, 86, British aristocrat and politician.
• Ray Whitrod, 88, Australian police officer and Queensland Police Commissioner.^[56]
• Ken Whyld, 77, British chess author (The Oxford Companion to Chess), historian and columnist.^[57]
• Teddy Yip, 96, Indonesian businessman, race car driver and team owner (Formula One, IndyCar).^[58]

12

• Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed, 71, Bangladeshi lawyer and constitutionalist.
• Benny Carter, 95, American jazz pioneer, bronchitis.^[59]
• Mark Lovell, 43, British rally driver, motor race accident.
• Ellis Paul Torrance, 87, American psychologist.^[60]
• Eliot Wald, 57, American comedy writer for theater, television and movies (The Second City, Saturday Night Live, Camp Nowhere).^[61]

13

• Alpha L. Bowser, 92, American U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general (Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Chosin Reservoir).^[62]
• Dildar, 58, Bangladeshi actor.
• Salamat Hashim, 61, Filipino islamist militant, complications caused by a heart disease and acute ulcer.
• Eileen Rodgers, 73, American singer and Broadway performer, lung cancer.^[63]
• Compay Segundo, 95, Cuban musician and star of the Buena Vista Social Club, kidney failure.^[64]

14

• Leela Chitnis, 93, Indian actress.^[65]
• Jiří Dolana, 66, Czech ice hockey player.^[66]
• Éva Janikovszky, 77, Hungarian writer.^[67]
• Morrissey Johnson, 70, Canadian politician (MP for Bonavista—Trinity—Conception, NL), motor vehicle collision with a moose.^[68]
• Rubén Marino Navarro, 70, Argentine football player.
• Louis Robertshaw, 90, American gridiron football player and US Marine Corps officer, cancer.
• Rajendra Singh, 81, Indian head of Hindu nationalist paramilitary organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

15

• Roberto Bolaño, 50, Chilean-Spanish writer (The Savage Detectives, 2666), liver failure.^[69]
• Chuck Grigsby, 74, American basketball player.^[70]
• John Richard Hyde, 90, Canadian soldier and politician.
• Lorraine Krueger, 85, American actress.
• Judith Hare, Countess of Listowel, 100, Hungarian-British writer and aristocrat.^[71]
• Alfred Preissler, 82, German football player and manager.
• Tex Schramm, 83, American president and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys football team.^[72]
• Alexander Walker, 73, Northern Irish film critic (London Evening Standard) and author.^[73]
• Elisabeth Welch, 99, American singer and actress.^[74]

16

• Azeez, 55, Indian actor in Malayalam cinema.
• Celia Cruz, 77, Cuban salsa singer, brain cancer.^[75]
• Ralph A. Foote, 80, American attorney ans politician.^[76]
• Lu Gambino, 79, American gridiron football player.^[77]
• Shmuel Safrai, 84, Israeli writer, academic and historian.^[78]
• Kurt Semm, 76, German gynecologist and pioneer in minimally invasive surgery.^[79]
• Carol Shields, 68, Canadian author, breast cancer.^[80]
• Chesterfield Smith, 85, American lawyer.
• Alida van den Bos, 101, Dutch gymnast (gold medal in women's team gymnastics at the 1928 Summer Olympics).^[81]
• Dmitry Vasilyev, 58, Soviet-Russian actor, monarchist, antisemite, and ultranationalist, heart attack.
• Reetika Vazirani, 40, Indian-American poet and educator, suicide.^[82]

17

• Hans Abich, 84, German film producer.^[83]
• Manuel Franklin da Costa, 81, Angolan Roman Catholic archbishop.
• Erland Herkenrath, 90, Swiss field handball player.^[84]
• David Kelly, 59, British scientist and weapons expert, suicide.
• Walter Perry, 82, Scottish academic.^[85]
• Rosalyn Tureck, 89, American pianist and harpsichordist.^[86]
• Abdullah Yaqta, 89, Afghan politician, Prime Minister (1967).
• Walter Zapp, 97, Baltic German inventor (Minox subminiature camera).^[87]

18

• Jane Barbe, 74, American voice actress (phone company "Time Lady") and singer, cancer.^[88]
• Marc Camoletti, 79, French playwright.^[89]
• César Ramírez, 74, Filipino actor, heart attack.
• Norman Rasmussen, 75, American physicist.^[90]

19

• Bill Bright, 81, American evangelical Christian and founder of Campus Crusade for Christ.^[91]
• Elena Caffarena, 100, Chilean lawyer and politician.
• Maruchi Fresno, 87, Spanish film actress, heart attack.^[92]
• Pierre Graber, 94, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1970–1978).
• Jude Milhon, 64, American civil rights advocate, writer, hacker and feminista, cancer.^[93]
• Vic Vargas, 64, Filipino actor.

20

• Lauri Aus, 32, Estonian Olympic racing cyclist (1992, 1996, 2000, 2000), struck on bicycle by drunk driver.^[94]
• Nicolas Freeling, 76, British crime writer.^[95]
• Renee Gadd, 95, Argentine-British film actress.
• Juli Gonzalvo, 86, Spanish football player.
• Carol Grace, 78, American actress and author, intracranial aneurysm. ^[96]
• Vladimir Krantz, 90, Soviet Russian painter.^[97]
• Elliot Norton, 100, American theater critic, "The Dean of American Theatre Critics".^[98]
• William Woolfolk, 86, American novelist, screen writer, and comic book writer.^[99]

21

• John Davies, 65, New Zealand olympian (track) and president of the New Zealand Olympic Committee, melanoma.^[100]
• Matt Jefferies, 81, American art director (Star Trek series); designer of the Starship Enterprise, heart attack.
• Tim Hemensley, 31, Australian singer and bass guitarist, heroin overdose.^[101]
• Shujauddin Siddiqi, 84, Indian first-class cricket player.^[102]

22

• Arthur W. Adamson, 83, American chemist, made contributions to inorganic photochemistry.^[103]
• Hamer H. Budge, 92, American politician (16th Chairman of the SEC, U.S. Representative for Idaho's 2nd congressional district).^[104]
• Elie Farah, 93, Lebanese Maronite Church archbishop.
• Stanley H. Fuld, 99, American lawyer, judge and politician.^[105]
• Qusay Hussein, 37, Iraqi politician and second son of Saddam Hussein, killed by US troops.
• Uday Hussein, 39, Iraqi politician and eldest son of Saddam Hussein, killed by US troops.
• Lee Knorek, 82, American basketball player.^[106]
• Norman Lewis, 95, British travel writer.^[107]
• Dhimitër Shuteriqi, 87, Albanian scholar, literary historian, and writer.
• Serge Silberman, 86, French film producer.^[108]
• Richard L. Walker, 81, American diplomat (U.S. Ambassador to South Korea) and professor.^[109]

23

• Sheila Bromley, 91 or 95, American television and film actress (Westward Ho, Lawless Range, Perry Mason).^[110]
• James E. Davis, 41, American policeman, corrections officer, and politician, homicide.
• Adolphe Deledda, 83, Italian-French road bicycle racer.^[111]
• Gary King, 55, American jazz bassist, songwriter, composer, and arranger.
• Jean-Claude Pressac, 59, French chemist, pharmacist and writer.^[112]
• Yvonne Sanson, 76, Italian film actress, aneurysm.^[113]
• Speedy Thomas, 56, American football player.^[114]
• Novak Tomić, 67, Serbian football player.
• Grady Wilson, 80, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).^[115]

24

• Iya Arepina, 73, Soviet/Russian actress.
• Henri Attal, 67, French actor, asthma.^[116]
• Samit Bhanja, 59, Indian actor and director.
• Ella Orr Campbell, 92, New Zealand botanist.^[117]
• Božidar Drenovac, 81, Serbian football player and manager.
• Warren Kremer, 82, American comics cartoonist.^[118]
• Ryōichi Kuroda, 92, Japanese jurist and politician, pneumonia.
• Maurice Pryce, 90, British physicist.^[119]
• Dan Smoot, 89, American FBI agent and political activist.^[120]

25

• Erik Brann, 52, American Iron Butterfly guitarist, heart attack.^[121]
• Ludwig Bölkow, 91, German aeronautical engineer, designed the world's first jet fighter, Nazi Germany's Me 262.^[122]
• Hal Herbert, 81, British-Canadian politician.
• Jiří Horák, 79, Czech politician and political analyst.^[123]
• Norm McRae, 55, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).^[124]
• Thomas Savage, 88, American novelist.^[125]
• John Schlesinger, 77, English film director (Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man, Sunday Bloody Sunday), stroke.^[126]

26

• Jürgen Brandt, 80, German general and Chief of Federal Armed Forces Staff (1978-1983).
• William Dargie, 91, Australian painter.^[127]
• Robert Favart, 92, French actor.^[128]
• John Higham, 82, American historian.^[129]
• Hilde Levi, 94, German-Danish physicist.
• Harold C. Schonberg, 87, American music critic and journalist.^[130]
• Gordon Taylor, 93, Canadian politician, businessman and teacher.

27

• Karin Booth, 87, American film and TV actress.
• Vance Hartke, 84, American politician (United States Senator from Indiana from 1959 to 1977).^[131]
• Henning Holck-Larsen, 96, Danish engineer and entrepreneur.
• Bob Hope, 100, British-American comedian and actor (series of seven "Road" musical comedy movies with Bing Crosby), pneumonia.^[132]
• Nguza Karl-i-Bond, 64, Zairian politician.
• Rinty Monahan, 75, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).^[133]
• Alfredo Eduardo Barreto de Freitas Noronha, 84, Brazilian football player and manager.
• Emmanuel Pelaez, 87, Filipino public servant and politician, heart attack.
• Audrius Šlekys, 28, Lithuanian football player, traffic collision.^[134]

28

• Gladys Edgerly Bates, 107, American sculptor, member of the Philadelphia Ten, founding member of the Mystic Museum of Art.^[135]
• Aaron Bell, 82, American jazz bassist, composer and teacher, bassist for Duke Ellington.^[136]
• René Berg, 47, English musician, vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter.
• True Eames Boardman, 93, American actor and scriptwriter (Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, The Virginian, Bonanza), pancreatic cancer.^[137]
• Adrian Burk, 75, American gridiron football player (Baylor, Baltimore Colts, Philadelphia Eagles).^[138]

29

• Sabahudin Bilalović, 43, Bosnian basketball player.
• Rudolf Fischer, 90, German pianist and pedagogue.^[139]
• Luther Henderson, 84, American arranger, composer, and pianist.^[140]
• Tex McCrary, 92, American journalist and public relations specialist.^[141]
• Jim Pruett, 85, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).^[142]
• Foday Sankoh, 65, Sierra Leonean rebel leader, complications following a stroke.
• Gerard Folliott Vaughan, 80, British psychiatrist and politician.^[143]
• Johnny Walker, 82, Indian comic actor, appeared in more than 300 films.^[144]

30

• Howard Armstrong, 94, American string band fiddler and mandolinist and country blues musician, heart attack.^[145]
• Marian Carr, 77, American actress.^[146]
• Steve Hislop, 41, Scottish motorcycle racer, helicopter accident.^[147]
• Ewa Krzyżewska, 64, Polish actress, traffic collision.
• Alicia Lourteig, 89, Argentine and French botanist, expert in Oxalidaceae.
• Mendel L. Peterson, 85, American archeologist and former curator at the Smithsonian Institution.
• Sam Phillips, 80, American record producer, respiratory failure.^[148]
• Ahmed Safwat, 56, Egyptian squash player, heart attack.
• Carlos Lemos Simmonds, 69, Colombian politician, Vice President (1996-1998), lung cancer.

31

• Edward P. Alexander, 96, American historian and author, heart ailment.^[149]
• John Aston, Sr., 81, English football player.
• Bigode, 81, Brazilian footballer, respiratory problems.^[150]
• Frederick Coffin, 60, American film actor, singer, songwriter, and musician, lung cancer.^[151]
• Guido Crepax, 70, Italian comics artist, multiple sclerosis.
• Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic, 66, American professor neuroscience, psychiatry and psychology, struck by a car.^[152]
• Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, 88, Pakistani politician, first President of Azad Kashmir.
• Roland Svensson, 93, Swedish painter, writer, and artist.