The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.

September 2003

1

• Rand Brooks, 84, American film actor (Gone with the Wind, Babes in Arms, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin).^[1]
• Pasquale Buonocore, 87, Italian water polo player and Olympic champion.^[2]
• Albert Frey, 90, German SS commander during World War II and author, suicide.
• Terry Frost, 87, British artist.^[3]
• Eulalio González, 81, Mexican actor, singer-songwriter, screenwriter, film director, and film producer.
• John Gould, 94, American columnist, humorist and essayist.^[4]
• John Gray, 66, British diplomat.^[5]
• Jayant Pathak, 82, Indian poet and literary critic.
• Héctor Rodríguez, 83, Cuban baseball player (Chicago White Sox).^[6]
• Jack Smight, 78, American theatre and film director, cancer.^[7]
• Ramón Serrano Suñer, 101, Spanish politician.^[8]
• Mildred Thompson, 67, American artist.^[9]

2

• George Charles Hayter Chubb, 3rd Baron Hayter, 92, British politician and industrialist.^[10]
• Nehemiah Levanon, 88, Israeli intelligence agent and diplomat.
• Maria Manton, 92, French painter.^[11]
• Ptolemy Reid, 91, Guyanese veterinarian and politician, prime minister (1980-1984).
• Bruce Waibel, 45, American musician and bass guitar player (FireHouse, Gregg Allman Band, Santana), suicide.^[12]
• Peter West, 83, British BBC presenter and sports commentator, best known for his cricket, tennis and rugby coverage.^[13]

3

• Ray Davis, 88, United States Marine Corps four-star-general, heart attack.^[14]
• Alan Dugan, 80, American poet.^[15]
• Paul Jennings Hill, 49, American anti-abortion activist, execution by lethal injection.^[16]
• Rudolf Leiding, 88, German chairman of the Volkswagen automobile company.
• Charles Liebman, 68, American political scientist and author on Jewish life and Israel.
• Andrzej Nartowski, 71, Polish basketball player (basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics).^[17]
• Ilias Petropoulos, 75, Greek author, folklorist and urban historian, cancer.^[18]
• Mohsin Zaidi, 68, Indian Urdu poet.

4

• Ben Aris, 66, English actor (Hi-de-Hi!, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Stepping Out).^[19]
• Lola Bobesco, 82, Romanian-Belgian violinist.^[20]
• Béla H. Bánáthy, 83, Hungarian-American educator, systems and design scientist and author.^[21]
• Susan Chilcott, 40, English opera singer, breast cancer.^[22]
• Charles A. Gabriel, 75, Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, Alzheimer's disease.^[23]
• David P. Robbins, 61, American mathematician, pancreatic cancer.^[24]
• Tibor Varga, 82, Hungarian violinist, conductor and pedagogue.^[25]

5

• Yūji Aoki, 58, Japanese manga artist, lung cancer.
• Kir Bulychev, 68, Soviet and Russian science fiction writer, critic and historian, cancer.^[26]
• Harley Grossman, 73, American baseball player (Washington Senators).^[27]
• Richard Harrison, 82, New Zealand politician.
• Sir Ian Hunter, 84, British classical music impresario and festival organizer.^[28]
• Gisele MacKenzie, 76, Canadian-American singer and entertainer, colorectal cancer].^[29]
• Miloš Minić, 89, Yugoslav and Serbian communist politician.^[30]
• James Rachels, 62, American philosopher, cancer.^[31]
• C. H. Sisson, 89, British writer and poet.^[32]

6

• Charles Edward Bennett, 92, American politician (U.S. Representative for Florida's 2nd and 3rd congressional districts).^[33]
• Marshall Joseph Caifano, 92, Italian-American mobster (Chicago Outfit).^[34]
• Jules Engel, 94, American filmmaker, visual artist, and film director.^[35]
• Marie Foster, 85, American civil rights movement leader.^[36]
• Harry Goz, 71, American musical theater actor (Fiddler on the Roof) and voice actor (Sealab 2021), multiple myeloma.^[37]
• Ari Guðmundsson, 75, Icelandic Olympic swimmer and ski jumper.^[38]
• Mamohato of Lesotho, 62, Lesotho Queen Mother and politician.
• Maurice Michael Otunga, 80, Kenyan Catholic prelate and cardinal.
• Louise Platt, 88, American theater, film, and TV actress.^[39]

7

• Great Antonio, 77, Croatian-Canadian strongman, wrestler, actor and eccentric, heart attack.^[40]
• Joe McDonald, 74, Scottish footballer.^[41]
• Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountaineer, avalanche.
• Robert Weinman, 88, American sculptor and "one of the nation's most accomplished medallic artists".^[42]
• Merv Wellington, 62, New Zealand politician (Member of Parliament for Manurewa, Papakura).^[43]
• Warren Zevon, 56, American singer and songwriter, cancer.^[44]

8

• Herbert Gentry, 84, American expressionist painter.^[45]
• Marc Honegger, 77, French musicologist and choirmaster.^[46]
• Jaclyn Linetsky, 17, Canadian voice actress (Caillou, 15/Love, What's with Andy?), road accident.
• Doris Ogilvie, 91, Canadian diver and Olympian.^[47]
• Gulabrai Ramchand, 76, Indian cricketer.^[48]
• Leni Riefenstahl, 101, German film director, producer, screenwriter, and photographer.^[49]

9

• Thomas Allibone, 99, English physicist, focused on nuclear fusion and particle physics.^[50]
• David Applebaum, 51, American-Israeli physician, suicide bomb victim.^[51]
• Reginald Smith Brindle, 86, British composer and writer.^[52]
• Andrei Folbert, 72, Romanian basketball player.^[53]
• Joaquim Homs, 97, Spanish composer.^[54]
• Larry Hovis, 67, American actor (Hogan's Heroes), esophageal cancer].^[55]
• Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan, 50, Pakistani musician.^[56]
• Aleksandr Moiseyev, 76, Russian basketball player and Olympic medalist.^[57]
• Edward Teller, 95, Hungarian-American theoretical physicist, "Father of the H-Bomb".^[58]
• Marthe Vogt, 100, German neuroscientist.^[59]
• Don Willesee, 87, Australian politician, member of the Australian Senate representing Western Australia.^[60]

10

• Larry Allen Hayes, 54, American spree killer, execution by lethal injection.
• Lee Kyung-hae, South Korean farmer and activist, suicide.^[61]
• Boris Meissner, 88, German lawyer and social scientist.
• Martin Page, 65, British writer and journalist, heart problems.^[62]

11

• Ben Bril, 91, Dutch boxer (men's flyweight boxing at the 1928 Summer Olympics) and referee.^[63]
• Nicholas DiOrio, 82, Italian-American association football player, colorectal cancer.
• Anna Lindh, 46, Swedish foreign minister, stabbed.^[64]
• Antti Nurmesniemi, 76, Finnish designer.^[65]
• John Ritter, 54, American actor (Three's Company, Clifford The Big Red Dog, 8 Simple Rules), Emmy winner (1984), aortic dissection.^[66]

12

• Jack Burkitt, 77, English football player.^[67]
• Johnny Cash, 71, American Hall of Fame country singer ("Folsom Prison Blues", "I Walk the Line", "Ring of Fire"), diabetes.^[68]
• Chappie Fox, 90, American circus historian.^[69]
• Freddy Turner, 89, South African rugby player.

13

• George Boothman, 86, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).^[70]
• Ron Burton, 67, American professional football player (Northwestern, Boston Patriots), bone cancer.^[71]
• Vítor Damas, 55, Portuguese football player, cancer.
• Howard D. Graves, 64, United States Army officer, cancer.^[72]
• Reza Beyk Imanverdi, 67, Iranian actor and director, lung cancer.
• Kaino Lempinen, 82, Finnish gymnast and Olympic medalist.^[73]
• Frank O'Bannon, 73, American politician, Governor of Indiana (since 1997), stroke.
• Arthur Rowe, 67, English Olympic track and field athlete.^[74]
• Johnny Welaj, 89, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Philadelphia Athletics).^[75]

14

• Donald O. Clifton, 79, American psychologist, author, researcher, and entrepreneur.^[76]
• Garrett Hardin, 88, American ecologist and philosopher, suicide.^[77]
• John Serry Sr., 88, Italian American musician composer and arranger.
• Yetunde Price, 31, American half-sister of Venus and Serena Williams, murdered in a shooting.^[78]
• Kurt Heinrich Wolff, 91, German-American sociologist.^[79]

15

• Garner Ted Armstrong, 73, American television evangelist, pneumonia.^[80]
• Paul Granlund, 77, American sculptor.^[81]
• Errol Hill, 82, Trinidad and Tobago writers, playwright, actor.^[82]
• Josef Hiršal, 83, Czech author, poet and novelist.^[83]

16

• Jack Brymer, 88, British clarinetist (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra).^[84]
• Donald Deacon, 83, Canadian politician, leukemia.
• John Orrell, 68, British author, theatre historian and academic, cancer.^[85]
• Sergio Ortega, 65, Chilean composer, pianist, poet, and politician, cancer.^[86]
• Sheb Wooley, 82, American actor (High Noon, Rawhide) and singer (The Purple People Eater), leukemia.^[87]

17

• Yitzhak Artzi, 82, Israeli politician.
• Leendert Ginjaar, 75, Dutch politician.^[88]
• Erich Hallhuber, 52, German actor, epileptic seizure.^[89]
• Ljubica Marić, 94, Yugoslav/Serbian classical composer.^[90]
• Raymond Milton, 91, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympic silver medalist.^[91]
• George Sawaya, 80, American actor and stuntman.
• Neal Wood, 81, American-British political theorist and author.^[92]

18

• Robert G. Bartle, 75, American mathematician, specialized in real analysis, lymphoma.^[93]
• Erich Bäumler, 73, German football player and manager.
• Jean Dieuzaide, 82, French photographer.^[94]
• Richard Alden Howard, 86, American botanist and plant taxonomist.^[95]
• Bob Mitchell, 76, British politician.
• Don Reese, 52, American gridiron football player (Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints), liver cancer.^[96]
• Sergey Smirnov, 43, Russian Olympic track and field athlete.

19

• Johnny Best, 89, American jazz trumpeter.^[97]
• Anatoly Bogatyrev, 90, Soviet and Belarusian composer and music teacher.
• Slim Dusty, 76, Australian country music singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer, lung cancer.^[98]
• Emil Fackenheim, 87, German Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi.^[99]
• Alfred Grislawski, 83, German fighter pilot during World War II.
• Kenneth Erwin Hagin, 86, American preacher.^[100]
• Ellen Idelson, 42, American television producer, television writer and actress, complications from cancer and Crohn's disease.
• Arthur Kinoy, 82, American attorney and civil rights leader.^[101]
• Frank Lowe, 60, American jazz saxophonist, lung cancer.^[102]
• Jim Thompson, 67, British Anglican bishop.

20

• Robert Blake, Baron Blake, 86, English historian and life peer, known for his biography of Benjamin Disraeli.^[103]
• Tom Busby, 66, Canadian actor (The War Lover, The Dirty Dozen, Heavenly Pursuits), heart attack.^[104]
• Lorenzo Calonga, 74, Paraguayan football player.
• Stanley Fafara, 54, American child actor, complications from hernia surgery.
• Ken Khouri, 86, Jamaican record producer.
• Gordon Mitchell, 80, American actor and bodybuilder, heart attack.^[105]
• Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, 62, British Cabinet minister, Leader of the House of Lords.^[106]
• Simon Muzenda, 80, Zimbabwean politician and vice-President of Zimbabwe, diabetes.^[107]
• Vernon Singer, 84, Canadian politician.
• Sonora Webster Carver, 99, American entertainer.

21

• Amédée Domenech, 70, French rugby player, hepatitis.
• Pamela Gordon, 66, American actress.^[108]
• Robert Lochner, 84, American journalist, pulmonary embolism.^[109]
• Lu Ann Simms, 71, American singer.^[110]
• Otis A. Singletary, 81, American historian.^[111]

22

• Arturo Ardao, 90, Uruguayan philosopher and historian.
• Howard Austen, 74, American confidant and companion of writer Gore Vidal, brain cancer.^[112]
• Maxime Brunfaut, 94, Belgian architect.
• Gordon Jump, 71, American actor (WKRP in Cincinnati).^[113]
• Richard Lankford, 89, American politician.
• Wolfgang Peters, 74, German football player.^[114]
• Lee Robinson, 80, Australian producer, director and screenwriter.^[115]
• Hugo Young, 64, British journalist and political commentator (The Guardian, The Observer), colorectal cancer.^[116]

23

• Rosalie Allen, 79, American country musician and television and radio host, known as Queen of the Yodelers.^[117]
• Earl Brown, 87, American football and basketball player and coach (Auburn).^[118]
• Henri Cogan, 89, French actor and stuntman.^[119]
• Simcha Dinitz, 74, Israeli statesman and politician.
• John E. Flynn, 91, American politician.
• Theodore R. Kupferman, 83, American politician.^[120]
• Rex Robbins, 68, American Broadway actor, stroke.^[121]
• Bernie Williams, 57, American basketball player, colorectal cancer.^[122]

24

• Yoshinobu Ashihara, 85, Japanese architect.^[123]
• Lyle Bettger, 88, American actor (The Greatest Show on Earth, Nevada Smith, Hawaii Five-O).^[124]
• Herb Gardner, 68, American commercial artist, cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter.^[125]
• Hugh Gregg, 85, American politician, Governor of New Hampshire (1953-1955).^[126]
• Benson Masya, 33, Kenyan long-distance runner, illness.
• Derek Prince, 88, English biblical scholar and author.
• Jean Pélégri, 83, French writer and professor of literature.^[127]
• Robert D. Richtmyer, 92, American physicist, author, and musician.
• Edward Said, 67, Palestinian-American academic, literary critic and political activist, leukemia.^[128]

25

• Thomas Casey, 82, Australian politician.
• John Clayton, 63, Australian actor, cancer.^[129]
• Anthony Durante, 36, American professional wrestler, drug overdose.
• Birgit Jürgenssen, 54, Austrian photographer, painter, curator and teacher.^[130]
• Franco Modigliani, 85, Italian Nobel Prize-winning economist.^[131]
• Donald Nicol, 80, English Byzantine scholar.^[132]
• Chuba Okadigbo, 61, Nigerian politician, philosopher, academic, writer and political scientist.
• George Plimpton, 76, American author, actor, and socialite, heart attack.^[133]
• Yuri Senkevich, 66, Soviet doctor and scientist, heart failure.
• Josef Wagner, 87, Swiss cyclist.^[134]

26

• Olle Anderberg, 84, Swedish wrestler (1948 Olympic silver medal, 1952 Olympic gold medal).^[135]
• Inday Badiday, 59, Filipino TV host and journalist, multiple organ failure.
• Władysław Kozaczuk, 79, Polish Army colonel and intelligence historian.
• Shawn Lane, 40, American guitarist and composer, lung disease.^[136]
• Robert Palmer, 54, British singer, heart attack.^[137]
• Robert Raymond, 81, Australian television pioneer.^[138]
• David Williams, 77, Welsh advertising executive and crime writer.^[139]

27

• Tom Bateman, 80, Australian politician.
• Tom Brennan, 81, American ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).^[140]
• Paul Burlison, 74, American rockabilly guitarist and a founding member of The Rock and Roll Trio, cancer.^[141]
• Olive Cotton, 92, Australian modernist photographer.
• Fay Helm, 94, American film actress.
• Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, 86, Pakistani politician, heart attack.
• Jean Lucas, 86, French racing driver.^[142]
• Donald J. Mitchell, 80, American politician and member of the United States House of Representatives for New York.^[143]
• Donald O'Connor, 78, American actor, singer and dancer (Singin' in the Rain, Yes Sir, That's My Baby), cardioplegia, heart attack.^[144]
• Wendy Wyland, 38, American Olympic diver (bronze medal in women's 10 metre platform at the 1984 Summer Olympics).^[145]
• Masahiro Yoshimura, 66, Japanese Olympic swimmer (silver medal in 200 metre breaststroke at the 1956 Summer Olympics).^[146]

28

• Proinsias Mac Aonghusa, 70, Irish journalist, writer, andTV presenter.
• Dany Bébel-Gisler, 68, Guadeloupean sociolinguist, ethnologist and author, preservationist of Creole languages, heart attack.^[147]
• Christopher Foxley-Norris, 86, British Air Chief Marshal.
• Althea Gibson, 76, African-American tennis player, respiratory failure.^[148]
• Cork Hubbert, 51, American film and television actor, diabetes.^[149]
• Elia Kazan, 94, American film director (A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, East of Eden), Oscar winner (1948, 1955).^[150]
• George Odlum, 69, Saint Lucian politician, pancreatic cancer.
• Ephraim Oshry, 94-95, Lithuanian-American Orthodox rabbi, author and Holocaust-survivor.^[151]
• Marshall Rosenbluth, 76, American academic and plasma physicist.^[152]

29

• Lubor Tokoš, 80, Czech actor.
• Wesley Tuttle, 85, American country music singer.^[153]
• Raoul Gregory Vitale, 75, Syrian musicologist .
• Beatrice Blyth Whiting, 89, American anthropologist, a pioneer in the comparative study of child development.^[154]

30

• Yusuf Bey, 67, American Black Muslim activist and leader, cancer.^[155]
• Ronnie Dawson, 64, American rockabilly singer, guitarist and drummer, esophageal cancer.^[156]
• Oreste Del Buono, 80, Italian author, journalist, translator, literary critic and screenwriter.^[157]
• Eddie Gladden, 65, American jazz drummer.^[158]
• John Hawkesworth, 82, English television/film producer and writer.^[159]
• Robert Kardashian, 59, American criminal defense lawyer, father of Kim, Khloé and Kourtney Kardashian, esophageal cancer.^[160]