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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 ( Broken Lance , Detective Story , Dillinger ), Oscar winner (1955), pancreatic cancer. ^[111]

25

• Masato Furuoya, 45, Japanese actor, suicide by hanging.
• Vernon Hughes, 81, American physicist specializing in subatomic particles. ^[112]
• Michael Kidron, 72, British cartographer and Marxist theorist. ^[113]
• Mikhail Ryzhak, 76, Ukrainian water polo player and Olympic medalist.

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, The Fisher King, The Green Mile ), Emmy winner (1992), 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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