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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.
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 by gunshot.
- 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 ("Werewolves of London", "Lawyers, Guns and Money", "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner"), 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 by stabbing.[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 writer, 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]
- Maurizio Romano, 37, Italian voice actor, traffic collision.[108]
- Vernon Singer, 84, Canadian politician.
- Sonora Webster Carver, 99, American entertainer.
21
- Amédée Domenech, 70, French rugby player, hepatitis.
- Pamela Gordon, 66, American actress (Weird Science, Stealing Harvard, Subspecies).[109]
- Robert Lochner, 84, American journalist, pulmonary embolism.[110]
- Lu Ann Simms, 71, American singer.[111]
- Otis A. Singletary, 81, American historian.[112]
22
- Arturo Ardao, 90, Uruguayan philosopher and historian.
- Howard Austen, 74, American confidant and companion of writer Gore Vidal, brain cancer.[113]
- Maxime Brunfaut, 94, Belgian architect.
- Gordon Jump, 71, American actor (WKRP in Cincinnati, Soap, Growing Pains), respiratory failure.[114]
- Richard Lankford, 89, American politician.
- Wolfgang Peters, 74, German football player.[115]
- Lee Robinson, 80, Australian producer, director and screenwriter.[116]
- Hugo Young, 64, British journalist and political commentator (The Guardian, The Observer), colorectal cancer.[117]
23
- Rosalie Allen, 79, American country musician and television and radio host, known as Queen of the Yodelers.[118]
- Earl Brown, 87, American football and basketball player and coach (Auburn).[119]
- Henri Cogan, 89, French actor and stuntman.[120]
- Simcha Dinitz, 74, Israeli statesman and politician.
- John E. Flynn, 91, American politician.
- Theodore R. Kupferman, 83, American politician.[121]
- Rex Robbins, 68, American actor (1776, Shaft, The Royal Tenenbaums), stroke.[122]
- Bernie Williams, 57, American basketball player, colorectal cancer.[123]
24
- Yoshinobu Ashihara, 85, Japanese architect.[124]
- Lyle Bettger, 88, American actor (The Greatest Show on Earth, Nevada Smith, Hawaii Five-O).[125]
- Herb Gardner, 68, American commercial artist, cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter.[126]
- Hugh Gregg, 85, American politician, Governor of New Hampshire (1953-1955).[127]
- 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.[128]
- Robert D. Richtmyer, 92, American physicist, author, and musician.
- Edward Said, 67, Palestinian-American academic, literary critic and political activist, leukemia.[129]
25
- Thomas Casey, 82, Australian politician.
- John Clayton, 63, Australian actor, cancer.[130]
- Anthony Durante, 36, American professional wrestler, drug overdose.
- Birgit Jürgenssen, 54, Austrian photographer, painter, curator and teacher.[131]
- Franco Modigliani, 85, Italian Nobel Prize-winning economist.[132]
- Donald Nicol, 80, English Byzantine scholar.[133]
- Chuba Okadigbo, 61, Nigerian politician, philosopher, academic, writer and political scientist.
- George Plimpton, 76, American author, actor, and socialite, heart attack.[134]
- Yuri Senkevich, 66, Soviet doctor and scientist, heart failure.
- Josef Wagner, 87, Swiss cyclist.[135]
26
- Olle Anderberg, 84, Swedish wrestler (1948 Olympic silver medal, 1952 Olympic gold medal).[136]
- 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.[137]
- Robert Palmer, 54, British singer ("Addicted to Love"), heart attack.[138]
- Robert Raymond, 81, Australian television pioneer.[139]
- David Williams, 77, Welsh advertising executive and crime writer.[140]
27
- Tom Bateman, 80, Australian politician.
- Tom Brennan, 81, American ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).[141]
- Paul Burlison, 74, American rockabilly guitarist and a founding member of The Rock and Roll Trio, cancer.[142]
- 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.[143]
- Donald J. Mitchell, 80, American politician and member of the United States House of Representatives for New York.[144]
- Donald O'Connor, 78, American actor (Singin' in the Rain, Yes Sir, That's My Baby), singer and dancer, Emmy winner (1954), heart attack.[145]
- Wendy Wyland, 38, American Olympic diver (bronze medal in women's 10 metre platform at the 1984 Summer Olympics).[146]
- Masahiro Yoshimura, 66, Japanese Olympic swimmer (silver medal in 200 metre breaststroke at the 1956 Summer Olympics).[147]
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.[148]
- Christopher Foxley-Norris, 86, British Air Chief Marshal.
- Althea Gibson, 76, African-American tennis player, respiratory failure.[149]
- Cork Hubbert, 51, American film and television actor, diabetes.[150]
- Elia Kazan, 94, American film director (A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, East of Eden), Oscar winner (1948, 1955).[151]
- George Odlum, 69, Saint Lucian politician, pancreatic cancer.
- Ephraim Oshry, 94-95, Lithuanian-American Orthodox rabbi, author and Holocaust-survivor.[152]
- Marshall Rosenbluth, 76, American academic and plasma physicist.[153]
29
- Lubor Tokoš, 80, Czech actor.
- Wesley Tuttle, 85, American country music singer.[154]
- Raoul Gregory Vitale, 75, Syrian musicologist .
- Beatrice Blyth Whiting, 89, American anthropologist, a pioneer in the comparative study of child development.[155]
30
- Yusuf Bey, 67, American Black Muslim activist and leader, cancer.[156]
- Ronnie Dawson, 64, American rockabilly singer, guitarist and drummer, esophageal cancer.[157]
- Oreste Del Buono, 80, Italian author, journalist, translator, literary critic and screenwriter.[158]
- Eddie Gladden, 65, American jazz drummer.[159]
- John Hawkesworth, 82, English television/film producer and writer.[160]
- Robert Kardashian, 59, American criminal defense lawyer, father of Kim, Khloé and Kourtney Kardashian, esophageal cancer.[161]
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