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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.
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.[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, traffic collision.[11]
- Chung Mong-hun, 54, Korean businessman, suicide by jumping.
- 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 (If....), 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 by gunshot.
- Notable victims killed in the Canal Hotel bombing in Baghdad, Iraq:[85]
- 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.[86]
- 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.[87]
- 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.[88]
- 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.[89]
- Andrew Ray, 64, British actor, heart attack.[90]
21
- Vasily Borisov, 80, Soviet rifle shooter and Olympic champion.[91]
- Ken Coleman, 78, American radio and television sportscaster.[92]
- John Coplans, 83, British artist, art writer, curator, and museum director.[93]
- Ismail Abu Shanab, 52–53, Palestinian political leader, founder and second in command of Hamas, Israeli helicopter missile strike.[94]
- Kathy Wilkes, 57, English philosopher and education worker in Eastern Europe.[95]
- Wesley Willis, 40, American singer-songwriter and visual artist, leukemia.[96]
22
- Imperio Argentina, 92, Argentine actress and singer.[97]
- Colleen Browning, 85, American painter.[98]
- Arnold Gerschwiler, 89, Swiss figure skating trainer.
- Jindřich Polák, 78, Czech film and television director.[99]
- 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.[100]
23
- Hy Anzell, 79, American actor (Little Shop of Horrors, Checking Out, Bananas, Annie Hall).[101]
- J. Bowyer Bell, 71, American historian, artist and art critic, best known as a terrorism expert, kidney failure.[102]
- Bobby Bonds, 57, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants, California Angels), brain cancer, lung cancer.[103]
- Maurice Buret, 94, French equestrian competitor (gold medal in equestrian team dressage at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[104]
- Mal Colston, 65, Australian politician, biliary tract cancer.
- Jack Dyer, 89, Australian rules football legend.[105]
- John Geoghan, 68, American pedophile priest, blunt trauma.
- Marion Hargrove, 83, American writer.[106]
- Robert N. C. Nix, Jr., 75, American judge, chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1984-1996), Alzheimer's disease.[107]
- A. N. Murthy Rao, 103, Indian writer and activist.
- Michael Kijana Wamalwa, 58, Kenyan politician, eighth Vice-President of Kenya.[108]
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.[109]
- Phuntsho Choden, 92, Queen consort of Bhutan.
- Franklin Green, 70, American Olympic free-pistol sport shooter.[110]
- Theodore Lettvin, 76, American concert pianist and conductor.[111]
- John Jacob Rhodes, 86, American politician (House Minority Leader, U.S. Representative for Arizona's 1st congress. dist.), cancer.[112]
- Amina Rizk, 93, Egyptian actress, heart attack.
- Wilfred Thesiger, 93, British explorer.[113]
- Zena Walker, 69, British actress (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Man at the Top, The Dresser), Tony winner (1968).[114]
- Kent Walton, 86, British sports commentator, known for his wrestling commentary on ITV's World of Sport from 1955 to 1988.[115]
25
- Tom Feelings, 70, American cartoonist, children's book illustrator, and author.[116]
- Hjalmar Pettersson, 96, Swedish cyclist (men's individual road race at the 1928 Summer Olympics).[117]
- Ajit Vachani, 52, Indian film and television actor.
- Waid Vanderpoel, 81, American financier and conservationist.[118]
26
- Wayne Andre, 71, American jazz trombonist and session musician (Liza Minnelli, Bruce Springsteen, Alice Cooper).[119]
- 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.[120]
- Clive Charles, 51, English football player, coach and television announcer, prostate cancer.
- Hans Fränkel, 86, German-American sinologist.[121]
- Peter Harper, 81, British racing driver.
- Bimal Kar, 81, Bengali writer and novelist.[122]
- Keith J. Laidler, 87, English-Canadian Canadian physical chemist.[123]
- Hasan Mammadov, 64, Soviet/Azerbaijani film actor.
- Jim Wacker, American college football coach (Texas Christian University, University of Minnesota), cancer.[124]
27
- Mick Connelly, 87, New Zealand politician.
- Jinx Falkenburg, 84, American actress and model.[125]
- Pierre Poujade, 82, French populist politician.[126]
- William J. Scherle, 80, American politician.[127]
- 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).[128]
28
- William Cochran, 81, British physicist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- Michel Constantin, 79, French film actor, heart attack.[129]
- Peter Hacks, 75, German playwright and author.[130]
- François Missoffe, 83, French politician and diplomat.[131]
- Yury Saulsky, 74, Soviet and Russian composer, author.
- David Truman, 90, American academic.[132]
29
- Herbert Abrams, 82, American portrait artist (Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, William Westmoreland, Arthur Miller).[133]
- 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.[134]
- Anant Balani, 41, Indian film director and screenwriter, heart attack.[135]
- Nguyen Xuan Oanh, 82, Vietnamese economist and politician.
- Patrick Procktor, 67, British painter and printmaker.[136]
- Bruno Sutkus, 79, Lithuanian-German sniper during World War II, credited with 209 kills.
- George Thoms, 76, Australian cricket player.[137]
- Corrado Ursi, 95, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.[138]
- Vladimír Vašíček, 83, Czech painter.[139]
30
- Robert Abplanalp, 81, American inventor and industrialist, confidant of Richard Nixon, lung cancer.[140]
- Webster Anderson, 70, American U.S. Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in the Vietnam War.[141]
- Charles Bronson, 81, American actor (The Magnificent Seven, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Great Escape), pneumonia.[142]
- Donald Davidson, 86, American philosopher.[143]
- Claude Passeau, 94, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs).[144]
31
- Pierre Cahuzac, 76, French football player and manager.[145]
- Jelena de Belder-Kovačič, 78, Slovenian-Belgian botanist and horticulturist.[146]
- Choe In-dok, 85, North Korean army officer and politician.
- John Storrs, 83, American architect in Oregon.[147]
- Pavel Tigrid, 85, Czech writer, publisher, author and politician, suicide.[148]
- Jung Yong-hoon, 24, South Korean footballer, traffic collision.
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