Deaths in March 2003 explained
The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.
March 2003
1
- Elaine Barrie, 87, American actress (Midnight), fourth wife of John Barrymore.[1]
- Nadine Conner, 96, American operatic soprano, radio singer and music teacher.[2]
- Gauri Deshpande, 61, Indian novelist, short story writer, and poet.
- Franjo Glaser, 90, Croatian footballer.[3]
- Roger Michael Needham, 68, British computer scientist, pioneered computer password one-way hash functions, cancer.[4]
- Adeyinka Oyekan, 91, Oba of Lagos (1965–2003).
- Countess Viktoria-Luise of Solms-Baruth, 81, German princess.
- Major Sundarrajan, 68, Indian actor and director.
2
- Roger Albertsen, 45, Norwegian footballer, cancer.
- Hank Ballard, 66, American singer (The Midnighters), composer, famous for his hit "The Twist", esophageal cancer.[5]
- William Blezard, 81, English composer and arranger for Noël Coward, Marlene Dietrich, Joyce Grenfell, Honor Blackman.[6]
- Bill Carruthers, 72, American television executive, stroke.[7]
- Joe Decker, 55, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Minnesota Twins, Seattle Mariners), fall.[8]
- George Edwards, 94, British aircraft designer.
- Fred Freiberger, 88, American film and television writer and television producer.[9]
- Malcolm Williamson, 71, Australian composer, Master of the Queen's Music.[10]
- Goffredo Petrassi, 98, Italian composer and conductor of modern classical music.[11]
- Bill Woggon, 87, American cartoonist who created the comic book Katy Keene.[12]
3
- Gilbert Wheeler Beebe, 90, American epidemiologist and statistician, pioneered radiation exposure studies.[13]
- Ann A. Bernatitus, 91, American U.S. Navy nurse, Legion of Merit for heroism during the siege of Bataan and Corregidor.[14]
- Horst Buchholz, 69, German actor (The Magnificent Seven, One, Two, Three, Life Is Beautiful), pneumonia.[15]
- Dick Garrard, 92, Australian Olympic wrestler (silver medal in men's freestyle welterweight at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[16]
- Kenta, 54, Swedish musician, cancer.
- Malcolm Kilduff, 75, American journalist.[17]
- Luis Marden, 90, American photographer, explorer, writer, and filmmaker, Parkinson's disease.[18]
4
- Fedora Barbieri, 82, Italian operatic mezzo-soprano and actress.[19]
- Michel Block, 65, Belgian-French pianist.
- Celly Campello, 60, Brazilian rock singer and performer, breast cancer.
- Jaba Ioseliani, 76, Georgian politician, writer, and 'thief in law', heart attack.
- Sébastien Japrisot, 71, French author, screenwriter and film director.[20]
- Oliver Payne Pearson, 87, American zoologist and ecologist.[21]
5
- Edwin Hardy Amies, 93, English fashion designer, official dressmaker for Queen Elizabeth II.[22]
- Marianne Baudler, 81, German chemist.
- George Miller, 61, American stand-up comedian, leukemia.[23]
- Gerhard Rosenfeld, 72, German composer.
- Dzhabrail Yamadayev, 32, Chechen rebel field commander, killed by a bomb.[24]
6
- Linton Garner, 87, American jazz pianist.[25]
- Ernst B. Haas, 78, German-American political scientist.[26]
- Claus Helberg, 84, Norwegian and mountain guide and resistance member during World War II.[27]
- Ramón Mestre, 65, Argentine politician, hepatitis.
- Luděk Pachman, 78, Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and political activist.[28]
- Maurice Rheims, 93, French art auctioneer, art historian and novelist.[29]
- Sam Scorer, 80, English architect.
- Gábor Mádi Szabó, 80, Hungarian actor.
- Saba Youakim, 88, Lebanses archbishop.
- Alice Martineau, 30, English singer.
7
- Mehmed Alagić, 55, Bosnian Army general .
- José Márcio Ayres, 49, Brazilian conservationist and zoologist, founded Brazilian rain forest reserves, lung cancer.[30]
- Manfred Durniok, 68, German film producer, director and screenwriter, heart attack.[31]
- Monica Hughes, 77, Canadian science fiction author.
8
- Ibrahim al-Makadmeh, 51, Palestinian and Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, targeted killing by Israel.
- Cho Byung-hwa, 81, South Korean poet.[32]
- Adam Faith, 62, British singer and actor, heart attack.[33]
- Wallace M. Greene, 95, United States Marine Corps four-star general.[34]
- Eduard Izotov, 66, Soviet film actor.
- Elliott Jaques, 86, Canadian psychoanalyst and social scientist who coined the term "midlife crisis".[35]
- Karen Morley, 93, American film actress and political activist, pneumonia.[36]
- José Manuel Blecua Teijeiro, 90, Spanish philologist and academic.[37]
9
- Stan Brakhage, 70, American filmmaker, bladder cancer.[38]
- Žarko Dolinar, 82, Croatian biologist and table tennis player.
- Bernard Dowiyogo, 57, President of Nauru, cardiac complications from diabetes.
- Rolf Hagedorn, 83, German theoretical physicist.
- Dzidra Ritenberga, 74, Latvian actress and film director.[39]
10
- Víctor Alba, 86, Spanish communist politician, journalist, writer and academic.[40]
- Tom Boardman, Baron Boardman, 84, British businessman and politician (MP for Leicester South West, Leicester South).[41]
- Geoffrey Kirk, 81, British classical scholar.[42]
- Marina Ladynina, 94, Soviet stage and film actress.
- Barry Sheene, 52, British motorcycle racer and television sports presenter, esophageal cancer.[43]
- Fritz Spengler, 94, German field handball player and Olympic champion.[44]
- Naftali Temu, 57, Kenyan long-distance runner and Olympic champion, prostate cancer.[45]
- Ottorino Volonterio, 85, Swiss Formula One race car driver.[46]
11
- Brian Cleeve, 81, Anglo-Irish writer, heart attack.
- Alta Cohen, 94, American baseball player (Brooklyn Robins/Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies).[47]
- John G. Dow, 97, American politician (U.S. Representative for New York's 27th congressional district).[48]
- Ivar Hansen, 64, Danish politician and speaker of the Folketing.
- Kevin Laffan, 80, British playwright and screenwriter (Emmerdale), pneumonia.[49]
- Sidney Lippman, 89, American composer and songwriter.[50]
- Edson Raff, 95, American Army officer and writer.[51]
- Ludwig Streicher, 82, Austrian contrabassist.[52]
- Wayne D. Wright, 86, American horse racing jockey, winner of all three Triple Crown races.[53]
12
- Alys Faiz, 87, Pakistani writer and human rights activist.
- Howard Fast, 88, American novelist.[54]
- Andrey Kivilev, 29, Kazakhstani road bicycle racer (2001 Route du Sud, 2000 Olympics, 1996 Olympics), fall during Paris–Nice race.[55]
- Slava Stetsko, 82, Ukrainian politician.
- Lynne Thigpen, 54, American actress (The District, The Paper, Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?), Tony winner (1997), cerebral hemorrhage.[56]
- Zoran Đinđić, 50, Serbian politician, Prime Minister (2001–2003), shot.[57]
13
- Abas Ermenji, 89, Albanian politician, historian and nationalist.[58]
- Enriko Josif, 78, Serbian composer, pedagogue and musical writer.
- Roberto Murolo, 91, Italian musician.[59]
- Barry Patten, 75, Australian Olympic alpine skier and architect.[60]
- Ian Samwell, 66, English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer.
- Christiane Schmidtmer, 63, German actress, fashion model and nude model.[61]
- Gus Yatron, 75, American politician (U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district).[62]
14
- Suresh Bhat, 70, India marathi poet.
- Eugene Boyko, 80, Canadian filmmaker.
- Harmon Craig, 76, American geochemist.
- Amanda Davis, 32, American writer and teacher, plane crash.[63]
- Al Gionfriddo, 81, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Brooklyn Dodgers).[64]
- Jack Goldstein, 57, American artist, suicide by hanging.[65]
- Jean-Luc Lagardère, 75, French businessman, CEO of the Lagardère Group, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis.[66]
- Ivan Rassimov, 64, Serbian-Italian film actor.[67]
15
- John Andru, 70, Canadian Olympic fencer.[68]
- Yevgeny Belyayev, 48, Soviet cross-country skier (Olympic medals: 1976 silver, 1976 bronze, 1980 gold).[69]
- Joseph Coors, 85, American businessman, president of Coors Brewing Company, lymphoma.[70]
- Thora Hird, 91, British actress, comedian, presenter and writer, stroke.[71]
- Bill Robertson, 79, British footballer.
- Li Xuefeng, 96, Chinese politician.
16
- Lawrence H. Aller, 89, American astronomer.[72]
- George Bayer, 77, American golfer, won three PGA Tour events, heart attack.[73]
- Rachel Corrie, 23, American International Solidarity Movement activist, crushed by Israeli Defense Forces bulldozer.
- Ronald Ferguson, 71, father of UK royal divorcée Sarah, Duchess of York, heart attack.
- Davis Hughes, 92, Australian politician.
- Lars Passgård, 62, Swedish actor and theatre director.[74]
- Teemu Raimoranta, 25, Finnish metal musician, fall.[75]
17
- Herbert Aptheker, 87, American historian and political activist.[76]
- Thomas N. Barnes, 72, American Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force, cancer.[77]
- Su Buqing, 100, Chinese mathematician.[78]
- Bill Carlisle, 94, American country music singer, songwriter and comedian.
- Henryk de Kwiatkowski, 79, Polish-Canadian businessman and thoroughbred horse owner and breeder, pneumonia.
- Yvette Etiévant, 80, French actress.[79]
- Alan Keith, 94, British broadcaster.[80]
- Charles Salatka, 85, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Robert Shelton, 73, American clansman, heart attack.[81]
18
- József Balla, 47, Hungarian wrestler (men's Olympic freestyle super-heavyweight wrestling: 1976 silver medal, 1980 silver medal), heart failure.[82]
- Oles Berdnyk, 76, Ukrainian science fiction writer, philosopher and theologian.
- Naomi Chance, 75, English film and television actress.
- Bruno Heim, 92, Swiss ecclesiastical diplomat, Apostolic Nuncio to Britain.[83]
- Karl Kling, 92, German racing driver.
- Viktor Kratasyuk, 54, Soviet and Georgian sprint canoer and Olympic champion.[84]
- Adam Osborne, 64, British-American computer pioneer (Osborne 1).[85]
19
- Joe Buzas, 83, American baseball player (New York Yankees) and minor league baseball team owner.[86]
- Micheline Coulibaly, 53, Ivorian short story writer.[87]
- Hiromichi Fuyuki, 42, Japanese professional wrestler and promoter, cancer.
- Émile Genest, 81, Canadian actor, heart attack.[88]
- Olivier Long, 87, Swiss diplomat and director-general of the GATT.[89]
- Michael Mathias Prechtl, 76, German illustrator.[90]
- Rick Zumwalt, 51, American arm-wrestler and actor, heart attack.
20
- Al Blades, 26, American professional football player (University of Miami, San Francisco 49ers), car accident.[91]
- Krishanu Dey, 41, Indian football player, pulmonary disorder.[92]
- Alberto López, 76, Argentine basketball player.[93]
- Sailor Art Thomas, 79, American professional wrestler, cancer.
21
- Harry Eisenstat, 87, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians).[94]
- Leonard Hokanson, 71, American pianist, pancreatic cancer.[95]
- Shivani, 79, Indian writer.
- Umar Wirahadikusumah, 78, Indonesian fourth Vice President (1983–1988).[96]
22
- Jim Anderson, 59, Australian politician.[97]
- Fernando Carcupino, 80, Italian painter, illustrator and comics artist.
- Amado Cortez, 75, Filipino actor and diplomat.
- Milton George Henschel, 82, American Jehovah's Witnesses executive and president of the Watch Tower Society.[98]
- Tadashi Kitta, 68, Japanese golfer.
- Terry Lloyd, 50, British ITN reporter, shot by US forces in crossfire near Basra, Iraq.[99]
- Paul Moran, 39, Australian photojournalist, killed by suicide bomber.[100]
- Ali Akbar Navis, 78, Indonesian author, poet, and humorist.[101]
23
- Hideyo Amamoto, 77, Japanese actor, complications from pneumonia.
- Violet Cliff, 86, British Olympic pair skater.[102]
- Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak, 73, Polish track and field athlete, winner of the 3000 metre steeplechase at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
- Tage Nielsen, 74, Danish composer, teacher and music administrator.[103]
- Mohsen Nourbakhsh, 54, Iranian economist, heart attack.
- Lori Piestewa, 23, United States Army soldier, killed in action.[104]
- Pier Luigi Romita, 78, Italian politician.
- Fritz Spiegl, 77, Austrian-English musician, journalist, and broadcaster.[105]
24
- Jan Just Bos, 63, Dutch rower (bronze medal in men's coxed pair rowing at the 1964 Summer Olympics).[106]
- Hans Hermann Groër, 83, Austrian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (1986–1995), pneumonia.
- Murray Hill, 79, Australian realtor and politician.
- Hussein Kamal, 70, Egyptian television, film and theatre director.[107]
- Yevgeny Klevtsov, 74, Russian cyclist and Olympic medalist.[108]
- Don Raffell, 83, American musician and educator.[109]
- Artie Shapiro, 87, American jazz bassist.[110]
- Philip Yordan, 88, American screenwriter, Academy Award for Best Story for Broken Lance, pancreatic cancer.[111]
25
26
- Chuck Hansen, 55, American historian and U.S. nuclear program documents collector, cancer.[114]
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 76, American politician, sociologist, and diplomat, complications following appendectomy.[115]
- Babatunji Olowofoyeku, 85, Nigerian politician, educationist and lawyer.
- Tauese Sunia, 61, Governor of American Samoa, heart attack.
- José Tamayo, 82, Spanish theatre director and producer.
- Rolf Thomsen, 87, German U-boat commander during World War II.
- Nino Vingelli, 90, Italian film actor.
- Dorothy Clarke Wilson, 98, American writer (Prince of Egypt).[116]
- Herbert Zangs, 78, German artist.[117]
27
- Edwin Carr, 76, New Zealand composer of classical music.[118]
- Daniel Ceccaldi, 75, French actor, liver cancer.[119]
- Jeremiah Duggan, 22, British student, traffic accident.
- Fiorenzo Fiorentini, 82, Italian actor, author, screenwriter and radio personality, cerebral hemorrhage.[120]
- Frederic Lawrence Holmes, 71, American historian of science.[121]
- Dušan Spasojević, 34, Serbian criminal, killed by police.
- Paul Zindel, 66, American playwright (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds), lung cancer.[122]
28
- Kadri Aytaç, 71, Turkish football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
- Sam Bowens, 65, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Washington Senators).[123]
- Robert Craddock, 79, American soccer player.
- Rusty Draper, 80, American country and pop singer, pneumonia.[124]
- Ludwig Elsbett, 89, German mechanical engineer.
- Aleksey Kuznetsov, 73, Soviet cross-country skier and Olympic medalist.[125]
- Bob Matz, 90, American animator.
29
- Placide Adams, 73, American string bass player, drummer and vocalist.[126]
- Keinosuke Enoeda, 67, Japanese master of Shotokan karate.
- Kurt Gimmi, 67, Swiss road bicycle racer.[127]
- Tadao Horie, 89, Japanese football player, pneumonia.[128]
- Kerim Kerimov, 85, Soviet and Russian astrophysicist and aerospace engineer.
- Vladimir Pikalov, 78, Soviet general.
- Carl Ridd, 73, Canadian scholar of religion, basketball player, and activist.[129]
- Matthew J. Ryan, 70, American politician.
- Herbjørn Sørebø, 69, Norwegian journalist and broadcasting personality.
- Carlo Urbani, 46, Italian WHO physician and microbiologist who discovered SARS, SARS.
30
- Bruno Boni, 87, Italian rower (bronze medal in men's coxless pair at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[130]
- Vincent DePaul Breen, 66, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Nick Enright, 52, Australian dramatist, playwright and theatre director, melanoma.
- Michael Jeter, 50, American actor (Evening Shade, Waterworld, Jurassic Park III), epilepsy.[131]
- Valentin Pavlov, 65, Soviet official, Prime Minister (1991), stroke.
- Teno Roncalio, 87, American politician and writer, heart attack.[132]
- Patricia Vinnicombe, 71, South African-Australian archaeologist and art preservationist.[133]
31
- Lucian Adams, 80, American U.S. Army World War II soldier and Medal of Honor recipient.[134]
- Charly Bouvy, 60, Belgian bobsledder and field hockey player (1964 bobsleigh, 1968 field hockey, 1972 field hockey).[135]
- George Connor, 78, American football player (Notre Dame, Chicago Bears), member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[136]
- Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, 96, British-Canadian geometer, academic and author.[137]
- Anne Gwynne, 84, American actress, stroke.[138]
- Semyon Lipkin, 91, Russian writer, poet, and literary translator.
- Tommy Seebach, 53, Danish singer, composer, pianist and producer, heart attack.
- Fermín Vélez, 43, Spanish sports car racing driver, cancer.[139]
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- Web site: Fred Freiberger . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 28 December 2023 . fr .
- News: Malcolm Williamson: Controversial composer out of tune with the establishment. McDonald. Tim. The Guardian. 2003-03-04. 2019-04-27.
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- News: Bill Woggon: (1 January 1911 - 2 March 2003, USA). Lambiek. 2019-04-27.
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- Web site: Malcolm Kilduff - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 28 December 2023 .
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- Web site: Thora Hird - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 28 December 2023 .
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- Web site: Lars Passgård . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 28 December 2023 . fr .
- Web site: Teemu Raimoranta - Encyclopaedia Metallum . metal-archives.com . 28 December 2023.
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- Web site: Su Buqing . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 28 December 2023 . fr .
- Web site: matchID - Yvette Etiévant . . 28 December 2023 . fr .
- Web site: Alan Keith - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 28 December 2023 .
- News: Robert Shelton, 73, Leader of Big Klan Faction . subscription . 16 August 2021 . . 20 March 2003 . B 8.
- Web site: Olympedia – József Balla . olympedia.org . . 28 December 2023 .
- Web site: Bruno Heim . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 28 December 2023 . fr .
- Web site: Olympedia - Vikt'or K'rat'asiuk'i . olympedia.org . . 28 December 2023.
- News: John Markoff . John Markoff . Adam Osborne, 64, Dies; Was Pioneer of Portable PC . subscription . 10 January 2019 . . 26 March 2003 . C 13.
- News: Joe Buzas. Aaron. Marc Z.. Society for American Baseball Research. 2019-02-20.
- Web site: Micheline Coulibaly . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 28 December 2023 . fr .
- Web site: Émile Genest . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 28 December 2023 . fr .
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