Deaths in April 2003
The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.
April 2003
1
Booker Bradshaw , 61, American record producer, actor, and Motown executive, heart attack.
Lloyd L. Brown , 89, American writer, activist and labor organizer.[ 1]
Richard Caddel , 53, English poet, publisher and editor, a key figure in the British Poetry Revival , leukemia .[ 2]
Leslie Cheung , 46, Hong Kong actor and singer, suicide by jumping.[ 3]
Marcel Ernzer , 77, Luxembourgian cyclist.[ 4]
Jean-Yves Escoffier , 52, French cinematographer (Good Will Hunting , Rounders , Nurse Betty ), heart attack.[ 5]
Sven Holmberg , 85, Swedish actor.
Robert M. Levine , 62, American historian and academic, cancer.[ 6]
Mutsuhiro Watanabe , 85, Japanese war criminal during World War II.
Adriaan Cornelis Zaanen , 89, Dutch mathematician, known for his books on Riesz spaces .[ 7]
2
Seymour Friedman , 85, American film director.
Kaveh Golestan , 52, Iranian photojournalist and artist, land mine.[ 8]
Terenci Moix , 61, Spanish writer, pulmonary emphysema .[ 9]
Joan Phipson , 90, Australian children's writer.
György Révész , 75, Hungarian screenwriter and film director.
Harold S. Sawyer , 83, American politician (U.S. Representative for Michigan's 5th congressional district ), throat cancer .[ 10]
Edwin Starr , 61, American soul singer, heart attack.
Sékou Touré , 68, Ivorian football player.
Michael Wayne , 68, American film producer and son of John Wayne , heart failure from complications of lupus .[ 11]
3
Homer Banks , 61, American songwriter and record producer ("(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right "), cancer.[ 12]
Arthur Guyton , 83, American physiologist, traffic collision.[ 13]
Scott Hain , 32, American convict, execution by lethal injection .
Gunadasa Kapuge , 57, Sri Lankan musician, fall.
4
Anthony Caruso , 86, American actor.[ 14]
Fred J. Cook , 92, American investigative journalist .[ 15]
Izzat Ghazzawi , 51, Palestinian writer.
Abdul Kadir , 54, Indonesian footballer, kidney failure.
Michael Kelly , 46, American journalist, columnist and magazine editor, war-related vehicular accident.[ 16]
Helmut Knochen , 93, German Nazi official and commander of the SiPo and SD .[ 17]
Billy McPhail , 75, Scottish football player, Alzheimer's disease .
J. Quigg Newton , 91, American lawyer and politician.[ 18]
Resortes , 87, Mexican comedian, emphysema .
Paul Ray Smith , 33, United States Army sergeant and Medal of Honor recipient, killed in action .
5
6
David Bloom , 39, American television journalist (NBC News , Weekend Today ), pulmonary embolism .[ 21]
Anita Borg , 54, American computer scientist , advocate for the advancement of women in computer science, brain cancer .[ 22]
José Emeterio Rivas , Colombian radio journalist killed after publicly accusing local officials of corruption, gun shots.[ 23]
Gerald Emmett Carter , 91, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Toronto (1978-1990).
Aleksandr Fatyushin , 52, Russian actor, pneumonia .[ 24]
Susan French , 91, American actress.[ 25]
Leon Levy , 77, American investor, fund manager , and philanthropist.[ 26]
Nicole Loraux , 59, French historian of classical Athens .[ 27]
Vic Metcalfe , 81, English football player.[ 28]
Babatunde Olatunji , 75, African drummer; recorded Drums of Passion , diabetes .[ 29]
Robert John Pratt , 96, Canada comedian and politician.
Princess Tenagnework , 91, Ethiopian royal and eldest child of Emperor Haile Selassie and Empress Menen Asfaw .
7
Cecile de Brunhoff , 99, French pianist and teacher, created the children's book character Babar the Elephant .[ 30]
David Greene , 82, British television and film director, pancreatic cancer .[ 31]
Jutta Hipp , 78, Germen-American jazz pianist and composer, pancreatic cancer .[ 32]
Maurice Kouandété , 70, Benin military officer and politician.
Julio Anguita Parrado , 32, Spanish journalist and war correspondent (El Mundo ), missile strike.[ 33]
Robin Winks , 72, American professor, historian, author and diplomat.[ 34]
8
Kathie Browne , 72, American film and television actress (Perry Mason , Gunsmoke , Star Trek , The Love Boat ).[ 35]
Patrick Fani Chakaipa , 70, Zimbabwean prelate of the Roman Catholic Church , Archbishop of Harare (1976-2003).[ 36]
Charles Douglass , 93, Mexican-American sound engineer , credited as the inventor of the laugh track , pneumonia .
Dee Gibson , 79, American basketball player.[ 37]
Maki Ishii , 66, Japanese composer of contemporary classical music, cancer.[ 38]
Spider Martin , 64, American photographer, suicide.
Franz Rosenthal , 88, German-American professor of Semitic languages .[ 39]
Bing Russell , 76, American actor and baseball club owner, cancer.[ 40]
Correspondents killed in the Battle of Baghdad :[ 41]
9
Earl Bramblett , 61, American mass murderer, execution by electrocution .[ 45]
Ray Murray , 85, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians , Philadelphia Athletics , Baltimore Orioles ).[ 46]
Rod Navarro , 67, Filipino actor.
Jorge Oteiza , 94, Basque Spanish sculptor, painter, and writer.[ 47]
Robert Wallace Wilkins , 96, American medical researcher.[ 48]
Abraham Zabludovsky , 78, Mexican modernist architect (Rufino Tamayo Museum , National Auditorium ).[ 49]
Vera Zorina , 86, Norwegian ballerina, actress and choreographer (The Goldwyn Follies , Star Spangled Rhythm ), stroke.[ 50]
Wu Zuguang , 85, Chinese playwright, film director and social critic, stroke.
10
Abdul-Majid al-Khoei , 40, Iraqi Shia cleric, stabbed.[ 51]
Chumy Chúmez , 75, Spanish cartoon humorist, writer and film director, liver cancer .[ 52]
Little Eva , 59, American pop singer (The Loco-Motion ), cervical uterine cancer.[ 53]
Jack Fincher , 72, American screenwriter and journalist.
Aatos Fred , 85, Finnish chess player, two-time Finnish Chess Championship winner (1947, 1955).
Aubrey Jones , 91, British politician.
Franco Valle , 63, Italian boxer (bronze medal in middleweight boxing at the 1964 Summer Olympics ).[ 54]
11
Vasyl Barka , 94, Ukrainian-American poet, writer, and literary critic.[ 55]
John Nevill Eliot , 90, English entomologist .
Cecil Howard Green , 102, American businessman and founder of Texas Instruments .[ 56]
Siddiq Manzul , 71, Sudanese football player.
Brian Nelson , 55, Northern Irish paramilitary intelligence chief, brain haemorrhage .[ 57]
Lucy Saroyan , 57, American actress and photographer, liver cirrhosis .
12
Clarence W. Blount , 81, American politician.[ 58]
Charles Janeway , 60, American immunologist .[ 59]
Sydney Lassick , 80, American film actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ), complications of diabetes .[ 60]
Štefan Matlák , 69, Slovak football player.[ 61]
Chalom Messas , 94, Moroccan rabbi and writer.
13
Farouk Afero , 63, Pakistani-Indonesian film actor, cancer.
Majid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud , 64, Saudi prince and member of the House of Saud .
Sean Delaney , 58, American musician, complications following strokes.
Allen Eager , 76, American jazz tenor and alto saxophonist, liver cancer .[ 62]
D. Gale Johnson , 86, American economist and an expert on Russia and China.[ 63]
Lucy Shoe Meritt , 96, American classical archaeologist .[ 64]
Elder Tadej Štrbulović , 88, Serbian Orthodox elder and author.
14
Pierre Blondiaux , 81, French rower (silver medal in men's coxless four at the 1952 Summer Olympics ).[ 65]
Al Epperly , 84, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs , Brooklyn Dodgers ).[ 66]
Addie McPhail , 97, American film actress.
Jyrki Otila , 61, Finnish quiz show judge and member of the European Parliament .
Milla Sannoner , 64, Italian film and television actress.[ 67]
15
Betty Baskcomb , 88, British actress (Everything in the Garden , Afternoon of a Nymph , Doctor on the Go ).[ 68]
Don Bunce , 54, American football quarterback (Stanford , 1972 Rose Bowl MVP ) and orthopedic surgeon, heart attack.[ 69]
Erin Fleming , 61, Canadian actress, suicide by gunshot.
Robert Helmick , 66, American president of the US Olympic Committee , cardiac failure.[ 70]
Rebeca Iturbide , 78, Mexican-American actress, gastrointestinal perforation.
Maurice Rapf , 88, American screenwriter and professor of film studies.[ 71]
Franco Scandurra , 91, Italian actor.
Leonard Tose , 88, American sports executive, owner of the Philadelphia Eagles (1969-1985).[ 72]
Keith Walwyn , 47, Kittitian footballer , complications during heart surgery.
Theodore Weiss , 86, American poet, professor and literary magazine editor.[ 73]
16
Jack Donohue , 71, American-Canadian basketball coach.
Isao Iwabuchi , 69, Japanese football player.
Graham Jarvis , 72, Canadian actor (Misery , Fame , 7th Heaven ), multiple myeloma.[ 74]
Samuel J. LeFrak , 85, American real estate tycoon.[ 75]
Ray Mendoza , 73, Mexican professional wrestler, kidney failure .
Lili Muráti , 88, Hungarian film and stage actress.
Danny O'Dea , 91, British actor.
Jewell Young , 90, American basketball player (Purdue University , Indianapolis Kautskys , Oshkosh All-Stars ).[ 76]
17
Mario Sandoval Alarcón , 79, Guatemalan politician.
Robert Atkins , 72, American nutritionist (Atkins Diet ), accident.[ 77]
H. B. Bailey , 66, American NASCAR driver, heart attack.[ 78]
Jean-Pierre Dogliani , 60, French football player.[ 79]
John Paul Getty Jr. , 70, British philanthropist and book collector, chest infection .
Earl King , 69, American Blues musician/songwriter, complications of diabetes .[ 80]
Koji Kondo , 30, Japanese football player.
Yiannis Latsis , 92, Greek shipping tycoon.
Ong Poh Lim , 81, Malayan/Singaporean badminton player.
Jozef Schell , 67, Belgian biologist.[ 81]
Hilde Sessak , 87, German actress.[ 82]
Graham Stuart Thomas , 94, British horticultural artist, author and garden designer.
Peter Cathcart Wason , 78, British cognitive psychologist , founded the study of the psychology of reasoning .[ 83]
Sergei Yushenkov , 52, Russian politician, member of Russian Parliament and critic of President Vladimir Putin , homicide.[ 84]
18
Rudolf Brunnenmeier , 62, German football player, alcohol-related issues.[ 85]
Edgar F. Codd , 79, English computer pioneer, heart failure .[ 86]
Jean Drucker , 61, French television executive, heart attack.[ 87]
Kiril Gospodinov , 68, Bulgarian stage and film actor.
Toni Hagen , 85, Swiss geologist .
Emil Loteanu , 66, Soviet and Moldovan film director.[ 88]
Diego Ronchini , 67, Italian road racing cyclist.[ 89]
Nguyễn Đình Thi , 78, Vietnamese writer, poet and composer.
Juan Bautista Villalba , 78, Paraguayan football player.
19
Mirza Tahir Ahmad , 74, Pakistani spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim movement .[ 90]
Cholly Atkins , 89, American dancer and choreographer, pancreatic cancer .[ 91]
Nazeh Darwazi , Palestinian freelance cameraman, shot by Israeli soldier.[ 92]
Denise Ramsden , 51, English Olympian sprint athlete.
Aurelio Sabattani , 90, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .[ 93]
Chris Zachary , 59, American baseball player (Houston Colt .45s / Astros , St. Louis Cardinals , Detroit Tigers ), cancer.[ 94]
20
Debbie Barham , 26, English comedy writer, anorexia nervosa .[ 95]
Johnny Douglas , 82, English musician.[ 96]
Len Duquemin , 78, British football player.[ 97]
Teddy Edwards , 78, American jazz tenor saxophonist, prostate cancer .[ 98]
Daijiro Kato , 26, Japanese Grand Prix motorcycle road racer , racing accident.
Bernard Katz , 92, German-British Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist .[ 99]
Henri Lemaître , 81, Belgian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church .
Richard Proenneke , 86, American naturalist, conservationist, and writer, cerebral hemorrhage.[ 100]
Bertram Ross , 82, American dancer and choreographer.[ 101]
Cole Weston , 84, American photographer.[ 102]
21
Robert Blackburn , 82, American artist and printmaker , one of America's foremost fine art lithographers .[ 103]
Balwant Gargi , 86, Indian dramatist, theatre director, and short story writer.[ 104]
Ivan Hausen , 75, Brazilian Olympic track and field athlete.[ 105]
Nina Simone , 70, American jazz singer, known as the "High Priestess of Soul", breast cancer .[ 106]
22
Felice Bryant , 77, American songwriter ("Bye Bye Love ", "Wake Up Little Susie ", "Raining in My Heart ").[ 107]
James H. Critchfield , 86, American CIA operative during the Cold War, pancreatic cancer .[ 108]
Martha Griffiths , 91, American congresswoman and women's rights activist.[ 109]
Andrea King , 84, American actress.[ 110]
Ola H. Kveli , 81, Norwegian politician.
Mike Larrabee , 69, American athlete, two gold medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics , pancreatic cancer .[ 111]
Len Reid , 86, Australian fighter pilot and politician.
Fred Schaub , 42, German football player, car accident.[ 112]
Yuriy Voynov , 71, Soviet and Ukrainian football player and manager.[ 113]
Maria Wine , 90, Swedish-Danish poet and writer.
23
Abram Bergson , 89, American economist.[ 114]
Jim Browne , 72, American basketball player (Chicago Stags , Denver Nuggets ).[ 115]
Hansgeorg Bätcher , 89, German decorated Luftwaffe bomber ace during World War II.
Fernand Fonssagrives , 93, French photographer.[ 116]
Raymond Galle , 89, French stage and film actor.[ 117]
Guy Mountfort , 97, British advertising executive and ornithologist .[ 118]
Austin Wright , 80, American novelist, literary critic and academic.
24
Bob Dunn , 56, British Conservative Party politician.[ 119]
Nüzhet Gökdoğan , 92, Turkish astronomer , mathematician and academic.
Yuri Kholopov , 70, Russian musicologist and educator.
Gino Orlando , 73, Brazilian footballer, cardiac arrest.
Belus Smawley , 85, American basketball player (Appalachian State , St. Louis Bombers , Baltimore Bullets ) and coach.[ 120]
Fuzz White , 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns , New York Giants ).[ 121]
25
Viktor Bushuev , 69, Soviet weightlifter (gold medal in men's lightweight weightlifting at the 1960 Summer Olympics ).[ 122]
Lynn Chadwick , 88, English sculptor and artist.[ 123]
Jaime Silva Gómez , 67, Colombian footballer.[ 124]
Ted Joans , 74, American jazz poet , trumpeter, and painter, diabetes .[ 125]
Samson Kitur , 37, Kenyan athlete and an Olympic medalist.[ 126]
André Perraudin , 88, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate.[ 127]
Borislav Đurović , 51, Montenegrin football player.
26
Bernhard Baier , 90, German water polo player (silver medal in men's water polo at the 1936 Summer Olympics ).[ 128]
Rosemary Brown , 72, Canadian politician (NDP ), first black woman elected to a provincial legislature, myocardial infarction , heart attack.[ 129]
Mohammed Ghazali , 78, Pakistan Air Force officer and cricket player.[ 130]
Yun Hyon-seok , 18, South Korean LGBT poet, writer, and activist, suicide by hanging.
David Lavender , 93, American historian and writer.[ 131]
Danny Napoleon , 61, American baseball player (New York Mets ).[ 132]
Edward Max Nicholson , 98, British environmentalist, a founder of the World Wildlife Fund .[ 133]
Peter Stone , 73, American screenwriter (Charade , Father Goose , 1776 ), Oscar and Tony-winner, pulmonary fibrosis .[ 134]
27
Peter M. Bowers , 84, Aeronautical engineer, journalist and aviation historian.
Edward Gaylord , 83, American businessman, media mogul and philanthropist , cancer.
Edward Loyden , 79, British politician.
Piet Roozenburg , 78, Dutch draughts player.
Elaine Anderson Steinbeck , 88, American actress and Broadway stage manager, wife of John Steinbeck .[ 135]
Dorothee Sölle , 73, German liberation theologian , heart attack.[ 136]
Juha Tiainen , 47, Finnish hammer thrower and Olympic champion, pneumonia .[ 137]
28
Ira Herskowitz , 56, American phage and yeast geneticist , pancreatic cancer .[ 138]
Ciccio Ingrassia , 80, Italian actor, comedian and film director, heart attack.[ 139]
Carmelo Morales , 72, Spanish racing cyclist.[ 140]
André Muhirwa , Burundian politician and Prime Minister .[ 141]
Charlie Tolar , 65, American gridiron football player.[ 142]
29
Ron Barclay , 88, New Zealand politician (member of New Zealand Parliament for New Plymouth ).[ 143]
Janko Bobetko , 84, Croatian general, hailed as a hero of Croatia but charged with war crimes by the U.N. [ 144]
John Gilbert Hurst , 75, British archaeologist and pioneer of mediaeval archaeology.
Etti Plesch , 89, Austro-Hungarian countess, huntress, racehorse owner, and socialite.
Vasily Tolstikov , 85, Soviet diplomat and Communist Party official.
Jerry Williams , 79, American radio host, a pioneer of talk radio.[ 145]
30
Gbenga Adeboye , 43, Nigerian singer, comedian and radio host, kidney-related disease.[ 146]
Ferdinand P. Beer , 87, French-American mechanical engineer and university professor.[ 147]
Possum Bourne , 47, New Zealand rally car driver, racing accident.[ 148]
Aureliano Chaves , 74, Brazilian politician.
Chris Crowe , 63, English football player.[ 149]
Vasile Deheleanu , 92, Romanian football player.
Lionel Wilson , 79, American voice actor (Courage the Cowardly Dog ), pneumonia.[ 150]
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