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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.

December 2003

1

• Hamza Alavi, 82, Pakistani-British sociologist and activist (Campaign Against Racial Discrimination). ^[1]
• Fernando Di Leo, 71, Italian film director and script writer. ^[2]
• Clark Kerr, 92, American academic, chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1952–58), complications from a fall. ^[3]
• Eugenio Monti, 75, Italian bobsledder (six Olympic bobsledding medals: 1956 two silver, 1964 two bronze, 1968 two gold), suicide by gunshot. ^[4]
• Carl Schenkel, 55, Swiss film director, heart attack. ^[5]

2

• Ruth Nanda Anshen, 103, American philosopher, author and editor. ^[6]
• Suzanne Cloutier, 80, Canadian film actress, liver cancer. ^[7]
• Alan Davidson, 79, British food writer and diplomat. ^[8]
• Vic Gordon, 92, British Australian actor of vaudeville, television and film.
• Ignaz Kiechle, 73, German politician and minister for agriculture (1983–1993).
• Frances Morris, 95, American actress. ^[9]
• Rudolph A. Peterson, 98, American banker. ^[10]

3

• Dulce Chacón, 49, Spanish poet, novelist and playwright, pancreatic cancer. ^[11]
• Jay Difani, 80, American baseball player (Washington Senators). ^[12]
• Ellen Drew, 88, American film actress, liver ailment. ^[13]
• Sita Ram Goel, 82, Indian historian, activist, writer, and publisher.
• David Hemmings, 62, British actor and director, heart attack. ^[14]

4

• John H. Hannah, Jr., 64, American judge (U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas), heart attack. ^[15]
• Dezső Lemhényi, 85, Hungarian water polo player, coach and Olympic champion. ^[16]
• Jimmy Smith, 92, Scottish football player.
• David Vaughan, 59, English psychedelic artist. ^[17]
• Jacques Viau, 84, Canadian lawyer and reformist.

5

• Paul Busby, 85, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). ^[18]
• Bob Gregory, 82, American comics artist and writer.
• Felix Kaspar, 88, Austrian figure skater (bronze medal in men's singles figure skating at the 1936 Winter Olympics). ^[19]
• Jack Keller, 61, American poker player.
• José Manuel Pesudo, 67, Spanish football goalkeeper and coach.
• Antony Rowe, 79, English rower and Olympian. ^[20]
• Gregorio García Segura, 74, Spanish composer of film scores.
• Yasuo Tanaka, 71, Japanese voice actor.

6

• Haddis Alemayehu, 93, Ethiopian Foreign Minister and novelist.
• John Bingham, 61, British classical pianist. ^[21]
• Hans Hotter, 84, German operatic bass-baritone. ^[22]
• José María Jiménez, 32, Spanish road bicycle racer, heart attack. ^[23]
• Barry Long, 77, Australian spiritual teacher and writer.
• P. Madhavan, 75, Indian film director and producer in Tamil cinema.
• Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, 85, Guatemalan military ruler, President of Guatemala. ^[24]
• Jerry Tuite, 36, American wrestler, heart attack.

7

• Roland Asselin, 86, Canadian fencer (1948 Olympic fencing, 1952 Olympic fencing, 1956 Olympic fencing). ^[25]
• Barta Barri, 92, Hungarian-Spanish film actor.
• Robert R. Benton, 79, American set decorator, respiratory failure.
• Carl F. H. Henry, 90, American Evangelical theologian and founder of Christianity Today magazine. ^[26]
• Azie Taylor Morton, 67, American public servant (Treasurer of the United States), complications from a stroke. ^[27]
• Joe Skeen, 76, American politician, Parkinson's disease.

8

• Lewis M. Allen, 81, American film and Broadway producer, nominated for seven Tony Awards, pancreatic cancer. ^[28]
• Margaret Jean Anderson, 84, Canadian businesswoman and senator (representing Northumberland--Miramichi, New Brunswick). ^[29]
• Nelson Bobb, 79, American professional basketball player (Temple University, Philadelphia Warriors), cancer. ^[30]
• Agnès Delahaie, 83, French actress and film producer. ^[31]
• Robert Detweiler, 73, American competition rower and Olympic champion, naval officer, and scientist. ^[32]
• Rubén González, 84, Cuban pianist. ^[33]
• Pekka Siitoin, 59, Finnish satanist, occultist and neo-Nazi, esophageal cancer.
• Francine Weisweiller, 87, French socialite and patron of Jean Cocteau. ^[34]

9

• Carol M. Bundy, 61, American serial killer, heart failure.
• Blackie Ko, 50, Taiwanese film director, stuntman, singer and actor, blood poisoning. ^[35]
• Keith McCreary, 63, Canadian hockey player, cancer. ^[36]
• Thomas M. Rees, 78, American politician. ^[37]
• Gladys Shelley, 91, American lyricist and composer. ^[38]
• Paul Simon, 75, American author and politician, United States Senator from Illinois (1985-1997), surgical complications. ^[39]
• Norm Sloan, 77, American college basketball player and coach (The Citadel, University of Florida, North Carolina State). ^[40]

10

• Begum Abida Ahmed, 80, Indian politician, First Lady of India as wife of Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (974-1977).
• Robert L. Bartley, 66, American newspaper editor (The Wall Street Journal editorial page) and Pulitzer Prize winner. ^[41]
• Oswald Cheung, 81, Hong Kong lawyer and politician, complications from burns.
• Elizabeth Harrower, 85, American actress and television writer, cancer.
• Sean McClory, 79, Irish actor. ^[42]
• Bill Morey, 83, American actor.
• Raúl Armando Savoy, 63, Argentine football player.
• Don Wheeler, 81, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox). ^[43]

11

• Malcolm Clarke, 60, British composer.
• Ahmadou Kourouma, 76, Ivorian novelist. ^[44]
• Shah Ahmad Noorani, 77, Pakistani Islamic scholar, mystic, philosopher, revivalist and an ultra–conservative politician. ^[45]
• Ann Petersen, 76, Belgian actress. ^[46]
• Ram Kishore Shukla, 80, Indian politician.
• Paulos Tzadua, 82, Ethiopian Catholic Archbishop of Addis Abeba.

12

• Heydar Aliyev, 80, Azerbaijani politician, served as the third president of Azerbaijan. ^[47]
• Ross Belsher, 70, Canadian politician (member of Parliament of Canada for Fraser Valley East, British Columbia). ^[48]
• Eva Besnyö, 93, Dutch-Hungarian photographer. ^[49]
• Michael Casson, 78, British potter. ^[50]
• Joseph Anthony Ferrario, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Honolulu (1982–1993), heart attack.
• Earl Gillespie, 81, American sportscaster, voice of the Milwaukee Braves.
• Marcello Giombini, 75, Italian composer, well. ^[51]
• Keiko, 27, orca famed for Reino Aventura and Free Willy , pneumonia. ^[52]
• Rudolf Krause, 76, German football player and coach.
• Kurt Magnus, 91, German scientist.
• Fadwa Tuqan, 86, Palestinian poet. ^[53]

13

• Elizabeth Bates, 56, American professor of cognitive science, pancreatic cancer. ^[54]
• Luis González y González, 78, Mexican historian. ^[55]
• Mollie Hardwick, 87, British writer.
• Alexis Kanner, 61, French-Canadian film and television actor, heart attack. ^[56]
• David Perlov, 73, Israeli documentary filmmaker. ^[57]
• Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi, 81, Indian neurosurgeon and author.
• William Roth, 82, American lawyer and politician United States Senator from Delaware from 1971 to 2001. ^[58]
• Xie Tian, 89, Chinese actor and director. ^[59]
• Webster Young, 71, American jazz trumpeter (Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie), brain cancer. ^[60]
• Māris Čaklais, 63, Latvian poet and writer.

14

• Daniel Arasse, 59, French art historian, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. ^[61]
• Don Concannon, 73, British Labour Party politician.
• Jeanne Crain, 78, American actress, heart attack. ^[62]
• Blas Ople, 75, Filipino journalist and politician, heart attack.
• François Rauber, 70, French pianist, composer, arranger and conductor. ^[63]
• Frank Sheeran, 83, American labor union leader and mobster, " The Irishman ", cancer. ^[64]

15

• Johnny Cunningham, 46, British folk musician, heart attack. ^[65]
• Jack Gregory, 80, British athlete and Olympic silver medalist. ^[66]
• Garvin Hamner, 79, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). ^[67]
• Göthe Hedlund, 85, Swedish speed skater and Olympic medalist. ^[68]
• David S. Lewis, 86, American aerospace engineer. ^[69]
• Keith Magnuson, 56, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks), road accident. ^[70]
• Edward Montagne, 91, American television series producer and film director. ^[71]
• Dora Wasserman, 84, Russian-Canadian actress, playwright, and theater director. ^[72]

16

• Siegfried Hold, 72, German cinematographer. ^[73]
• Alfred Lynch, 72, English actor, cancer. ^[74]
• Judd Marmor, 93, American psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. ^[75]
• Hugo Moser, 77, Argentine television and film producer and screenwriter, cardiovascular disease.
• Madlyn Rhue, 68, American actress ( It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World , Days of Our Lives , Bracken's World ), pneumonia.
• Aglaja Schmid, 77, Austrian stage and film actress. ^[76]
• Veikko Sinisalo, 77, Finnish actor.
• Robert Stanfield, 89, Canadian politician (member of Parliament representing Colchester—Hants and Halifax, Nova Scotia), pneumonia. ^[77]
• Gary Stewart, 58, American country music singer "She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)", suicide by gunshot. ^[78]
• Peter Hardy, Baron Hardy of Wath, 72, British Labour Party politician.

17

• Ed Devereaux, 78, Australian actor, cancer. ^[79]
• Otto Graham, 82, American gridiron football (Cleveland Browns) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, heart aneurysm. ^[80]
• Wally Hedrick, 75, Seminal American artist in the 1950s California counterculture, gallerist, and educator.
• Mary Ann Jackson, 80, American child actress, heart attack.
• José Richa, 69, Brazilian politician.
• David Smith, 69, English cricketer. ^[81]
• Alan Tilvern, 86, English actor and voice artist (Bhowani Junction , The Lord of the Rings , Who Framed Roger Rabbit ). ^[82]
• Jim Wolf, 51, American gridiron football player (Prairie View A&M, Pittsburgh Steelers, Kansas City Chiefs), multiple sclerosis. ^[83]

18

• Charles Berlitz, 90, American linguist, spoke 32 languages. ^[84]
• Glenn Cunningham, 91, American politician.
• Jack Dormand, 84, British politician.
• Ergilio Hato, 77, Dutch Antillean goalkeeper from Curaçao. ^[85]
• Branko Horvat, 75, Croatian economist and politician.
• Cresson Kearny, 89, United States Army officer. ^[86]
• Susan Travers, 94, only English woman to serve in the French Foreign Legion. ^[87]
• Richard Wahlstrom, 72, American Olympic rower (bronze medal in men's coxed four at the 1952 Summer Olympics). ^[88]

19

• Roger Conant, 94, American herpetologist, cancer.
• Yan Frid, 95, Soviet screenwriter and film director.
• Roy Hughes, Baron Islwyn, 78, British Labour Party politician and trade union organiser.
• Hope Lange, 72, American actress, ischemic colitis, infectious disease. ^[89]
• Heinz Marquardt, 80, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
• Carmen Mauro, 77, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers, Washington Senators, Philadelphia Athletics). ^[90]
• Les Tremayne, 90, English actor, heart failure. ^[91]

20

• Charles Randolph Grean, 90, American producer and composer. ^[92]
• Grigore Grigoriu, 62, Moldovan actor, car accident. ^[93]
• Alan Magee, 84, American World War II airman, survived 22,000 ft. fall, stroke, kidney failure.
• Gil Reece, 61, Welsh footballer. ^[94]
• Kostas Valsamis, 95, Greek sculptor.

21

• Gawaine Baillie, 69, British amateur racing driver, industrialist, and stamp collector. ^[95]
• M. J. Gopalan, 94, Indian sportsman, among which cricket. ^[96]
• Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 79, Spanish businessman and playboy, prostate cancer. ^[97]
• G. V. Iyer, 86, Indian film director and actor. ^[98]
• Hans Koller, 82, Austrian jazz tenor saxophonist and bandleader. ^[99]
• Andrea Scotti, 72, Mainly active in genre films.
• Oleg Troyanovsky, 84, Soviet ambassador to Japan and China and representative to the United Nations (1976-1986). ^[100]

22

• Mikhail Borodulin, 36, Kazakhstani ice hockey player (men's ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics), lung cancer. ^[101]
• Wah Chang, 86, Chinese-American designer, sculptor, and artist.
• Dave Dudley, 75, American country music singer, heart attack. ^[102]
• Rose Hill, 89, English actress and operatic soprano. ^[103]
• George Patterson, 64, American basketball player. ^[104]
• Doris Shadbolt, 85, Canadian art curator and writer. ^[105]
• Andreas Tietze, 89, Austrian scholar of Turkish lexicography and language. ^[106]

23

• Charlie Bowles, 86, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). ^[107]
• Kriangsak Chamanan, 86, Prime minister of Thailand.
• Valentin Gavrilov, 57, Russian high jumper and Olympic medalist. ^[108]
• Don Lamond, 83, American jazz drummer, brain tumor. ^[109]
• John Newlove, 65, Canadian poet and editor. ^[110]
• John Sanders, 70, British organist, pneumonia.
• Chandu Sarwate, 83, Indian cricketer and fingerprint expert. ^[111]
• Guglielmo Trevisan, 85, Italian football manager and football player. ^[112]

24

• Herman Keiser, 89, American golfer, Alzheimer's disease. ^[113]
• James Kitching, 81, South African vertebrate palaeontologist, cancer. ^[114]
• Gunnar Alf Larsen, 83, Norwegian Labour Party politician.
• Eugene Maltsev, 74, Soviet Russian painter.
• Noel Toy, 84, American burlesque performer. ^[115]

25

• Charles Concordia, 95, American electrical engineer and computer pioneer.
• Ulf Isaksson, 49, Swedish ice hockey player. ^[116]
• Nicholas Mavroules, 74, American politician.
• Nicola Paone, 88, American singer, songwriter, and restaurateur. ^[117]

26

• Hugh Bean, 74, English violinist, teacher and leader of the Philharmonia Orchestra. ^[118]
• Gale Bishop, 81, American professional basketball player (Washington State, Philadelphia Warriors). ^[119]
• Redfern Froggatt, 79, English footballer. ^[120]
• Phil Goldman, 39, American engineer and entrepreneur, heart failure. ^[121]
• Chauncy Harris, 89, American geographer. ^[122]
• Clifton McNeely, 84, American basketball player and coach.
• Paul Owens, 79, American Major League Baseball manager, and scout.
• Ivan Petrov, 83, Soviet and Russian bass opera singer.
• Yoshio Shirai, 80, first Japanese world boxing champion, pneumonia.
• Milan Vasić, 75, Serbian historian.

27

• Pete Alvarado, 83, American animation and comic book artist (Disney Studios, Warner Bros. Animation, Western Publishing), heart attack. ^[123]
• Alan Bates, 69, British actor ( The Fixer , Zorba the Greek , Women in Love ), pancreatic cancer. ^[124]
• Iván Calderón, 41, Puerto Rican baseball player (Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox, Montreal Expos), homicide by gunshot. ^[125]
• Ingeborg Cook, 88, Norwegian actress and singer.
• Lawrence Cook, 73, American actor. ^[126]
• Gerhard Doerfer, 83, German philologist. ^[127]
• Vestal Goodman, 74, American Southern Gospel singer, complications from influenza. ^[128]
• Heinz Kiessling, 77, German musician, conductor, composer and music producer. ^[129]
• Nagavally R. S. Kurup, 86, Indian writer and broadcaster.
• E. Arsenio Manuel, 94, Filipino academic, historian, and anthropologist.
• K. S. Narasimhaswamy, 88, Indian poet.
• Richie Niemiera, 82, American basketball player and coach (Notre Dame, Fort Wayne Pistons, Anderson Packers). ^[130]
• Juan García Ponce, 71, Mexican novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and art critic.
• Patrick J. Reynolds, 83, Irish politician.
• Ying Ruocheng, 74, Chinese actor ( Marco Polo , The Last Emperor , Little Buddha ), director, and China's vice-minister of culture. ^[131]

28

• Harald Feller, 90, Swiss diplomat and Righteous Among the Nations for his efforts during World War II.
• Guy Héraud, 83, French politician and lawyer. ^[132]
• Helen Kleeb, 96, American film and television actress. ^[133]
• Michael Melle, 73, South African cricket player. ^[134]
• Frank Parr, 85, British chess player. ^[135]
• Thomas Pearsall, 83, Australian politician.
• Polly Rosenbaum, 104, American politician and teacher. ^[136]
• Johannes Schmitt, 60, German athlete and Olympian. ^[137]
• Murray Smith, 63, British television writer and producer.
• A. William Sweeney, 83, American soldier and lawyer.
• John Terraine, 82, British military historian.
• Kushabhau Thakre, 81, Indian politician and a Member of parliament.

29

• Charles E. Beatley, 87, American politician, mayor of Alexandria, Virginia. ^[138]
• Michael Courtney, 58, Irish prelate of the Catholic Church, homicide.
• Jaime de Piniés, 86, Spanish diplomat. ^[139]
• Gerald Gutierrez, 53, American Tony Award-winning stage director, respiratory failure. ^[140]
• Earl Hindman, 61, American actor ( Home Improvement , The Parallax View , Taps ), lung cancer. ^[141]
• Dinsdale Landen, 71, British actor, pneumonia. ^[142]
• Don Lawrence, 75, British comic book artist, pulmonary emphysema. ^[143]
• Bob Monkhouse, 75, British comedian and game show host, prostate cancer.
• Tino Schwierzina, 76, German lawyer and politician.
• Michel Zanoli, 35, Dutch road cyclist (men's individual road race, men's team time trial at 1988 Summer Olympics), heart failure. ^[144]
• Ersa Siregar, 52, Indonesian journalist, murdered

30

• David Bale, 62, South African businessman and activist, lymphoma. ^[145]
• Vladimir Bogomolov, 77, Soviet writer (The Moment of Truth, 1973). ^[146]
• John Gregory Dunne, 71, American novelist and screenwriter, heart attack. ^[147]
• Nora Heysen, 92, Australian artist. ^[148]
• Ibram Lassaw, 90, Russian-American sculptor. ^[149]
• Anita Mui, 40, Hong Kong pop queen, cervix uterine cancer. ^[150]
• Patricia Roc, 88, English film actress, kidney failure.
• Johnny Sands, 75, American film and television actor.
• Salma Sobhan, 66, Bangladeshi lawyer, academic, and human rights activist.
• Hukwe Zawose, 65, Tanzanian musician. ^[151]

31

• German Apukhtin, 67, Soviet Russian football player.
• Geoffrey Thomas Sandford Baylis, 90, New Zealand botanist and academic.
• John A. Franks, 78, American businessman and a thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder.
• Dora Gad, 91, Israeli interior designer. ^[152]
• Gerald Goldberg, 91, Irish lawyer and politician.
• Béla Julesz, 75, Hungarian-American visual neuroscientist and experimental psychologist.
• Béla Kárpáti, 74, Hungarian football player.
• Paula Raymond, 79, American model and actress, respiratory failure. ^[153]
• David Scott-Barrett, 81, British army general. ^[154]
• Arthur R. von Hippel, 105, German-American scientist and MIT professor. ^[155]
• Sieglinde Wagner, 82, Austrian operatic contralto. ^[156]
• Max West, 87, American baseball player (Boston Bees/Braves, Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates), brain cancer. ^[157]

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