Deaths in August 2003

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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

 * Tom Lewis, 78, American politician.
 * Guy Thys, 80, Belgian national football coach.
 * Marie Trintignant, 41, French actress and daughter of actor Jean-Louis Trintignant, beaten to death by singer Bertrand Cantat.
 * Gordon Arnaud Winter, 90, Canadian Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland.

2

 * Ken Coote, 75, English footballer.
 * Don Estelle, 70, British actor.
 * Vladimir Golovanov, 64, Russian weightlifter.
 * Charles Kerruish, 86, Manx politician.
 * Mike Levey, 55, American infomercial host, cancer.
 * Paulinho Nogueira, 75, Brazilian guitarist, singer and composer.
 * Mohamad Adnan Robert, 85, Malaysian politician, Governor of Sabah.
 * Willem Wilmink, 66, Dutch poet and writer.
 * Lesley Woods, 92, American radio, stage and television actress.

3

 * Norah Isaac, 88, Welsh author, drama producer and campaigner for Welsh-language education.
 * Joseph Saidu Momoh, 66, President of Sierra Leone.
 * Peter Safar, 79, Austrian-born American physician, cancer.
 * Roger Voudouris, 48, American singer-songwriter and guitarist, liver disease.

4

 * Pål Arne Fagernes, 29, Norwegian javelin thrower and olympian, car accident.
 * Chung Mong-hun, 54, Korean businessman, suicide.
 * Frederick Chapman Robbins, 86, American pediatrician and virologist.
 * Alice Saunier-Seité, 78, French geographer, historian, academic and politician of the Parti Républicain.
 * Sarup Singh, 86, Indian academic and politician.
 * Anthony of Sourozh, 89, Russian monk, broadcaster, longest-ordained hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.
 * Redd Stewart, 80, American country music songwriter and recording artist.
 * James Welch, 62, American Blackfeet and Gros Ventre writer and poet (Winter in the Blood, Fools Crow), lung cancer.

5

 * Tite Curet Alonso, 77, Puerto Rican music composer, critic and journalist, heart attack.
 * Dick Fouts, 69, Canadian football player.
 * Maurice Mollin, 79, Belgian racing cyclist.
 * Manuel Mur Oti, 94, Spanish screenwriter and film director.
 * Samuel J. Tedesco, 88, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut.
 * Don Turnbull, 66, English journalist and games magazine editor.
 * Benjamin Vaughan, 85, Welsh Anglican priest, Bishop of Swansea and Brecon.

6

 * Julius Baker, 87, American flute player, principal flutist of the New York Philharmonic for 18 years.
 * Robin Banerjee, 94, Indian environmentalist and wildlife photographer.
 * Louis Lasagna, 80, American physician and professor of medicine, lymphoma.
 * Roberto Marinho, 98, Brazilian businessman, lung cancer.
 * Grover Mitchell, 73, American jazz trombonist, cancer.
 * Christine Noonan, 58, British actress, cancer.
 * Wilhelm Schneemelcher, 88, German Protestant theologian
 * Larry Taylor, 85, English actor and stuntman.

7

 * Carlo Felice Bianchi Anderloni, 87, Italian automobile designer.
 * Grigory Bondarevsky, 83, Russian professor, writer, and historian, murdered.
 * Charles Jones, 85, Australian politician.
 * Roxie Collie Laybourne, 92, American ornithologist.
 * Mickey McDermott, 74, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, Kansas City Athletics), colorectal cancer.
 * F. T. Prince, 90, British poet and academic.
 * Pierre Vilar, 97, French historian, authoritative historian of Spain.
 * Rajko Žižić, 48, Yugoslavian basketball player (Summer Olympics medals: 1976 silver, 1980 gold, 1984 bronze), heart attack.

8

 * Martha Chase, 75, American geneticist, pneumonia.
 * Robert J. Donovan, 90, American correspondent, author and presidential historian.
 * Lilli Gyldenkilde, 67, Danish politician, cancer.
 * Bhupen Khakhar, 69, Indian contemporary artist, cancer.
 * Frank Large, 63, English football player.
 * Allan McCready, 86, New Zealand politician.
 * Jack Noreiga, 67, West Indian cricket player.
 * Lenton Parr, 78, Australian sculptor and teacher.
 * Antonis Samarakis, 83, Greek writer of the post-war generation, heart attack.
 * Edna Skinner, 82, American film and television actress.
 * Falaba Issa Traoré, 73, Malian writer, comedian, playwright, and theatre and film director.

9

 * Jimmy Davis, 21, English football player, traffic collision.
 * Jacques Deray, 74, French film director and screenwriter, cancer.
 * Ray Harford, 58, English football manager, lung cancer.
 * Gregory Hines, 57, American dancer, actor, liver cancer.
 * Chester Ludgin, 77, American baritone, cancer.
 * Lesley Manyathela, 21, South African soccer player, traffic collision.
 * Bill Perkins, 79, American cool jazz saxophonist and flutist.
 * William "Billy" George Rogell, 98, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs).
 * Bhabesh Chandra Sanyal, 102, Indian painter, sculptor and art teacher.
 * Trevor Smith, 67, English football player, lung cancer.
 * Herbie Steward, 77, American jazz saxophonist.
 * Esmond Wright, 87, British historian, media personality and politician (Member of Parliament for Glasgow Pollok).

10

 * Kimal Akishev, 79, Scientist, archeologist, and historian.
 * Constance Chapman, 91, English actor.
 * Carmita Jiménez, 64, Puerto Rican singer.
 * Cedric Price, 68, English architect and writer.

11

 * Roger Antoine, 81, French basketball player (1956 Olympic basketball, 1960 Olympic basketball).
 * Armand Borel, 80, Swiss mathematician.
 * Herb Brooks, 66, American hockey player and coach (1980 Olympic gold medal winning "Miracle on Ice" hockey team), traffic collision.
 * Jean Courteaux, 76, French football player.
 * Jean Dréjac, 82, French singer and composer.
 * Basil Kelly, 73, Bahamian Olympic sailor.
 * Diana Mosley, 93, English socialite, one of the Mitford sisters and widow of fascist leader Oswald Mosley, stroke.
 * John K. G. Shearman, 72, British art historian.
 * Joseph Ventaja, 73, French boxer (bronze medal in featherweight boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
 * Dennis Walker, 58, English football player.
 * Sigmund Widmer, 84, Swiss historian, writer and politician.

12

 * Christian Boussus, 95, French tennis player.
 * Sir William Douglas, 81, Barbadian jurist, Chief Justice of Barbados (1965–1986).
 * Håkon Kyllingmark, 88, Norwegian military officer and businessman.
 * Walter J. Ong, 90, American Jesuit priest, professor of English literature, historian, and philosopher.

13

 * Ward Bennett, 85, American designer and artist.
 * Charlie Devens, 93, American baseball player (New York Yankees).
 * Lothar Emmerich, 61, German football player, lung cancer.
 * Michael Maclagan, 89, British historian.
 * Ed Townsend, 74, American songwriter and producer, heart attack.

14

 * Moshe Carmel, 92, Israeli Major General and politician.
 * Viktor Ivanov, 72, Russian rower and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Lev Kerbel, 85, Soviet and Russian sculptor of socialist realist works.
 * Donal Lamont, 92, Irish-Rhodesian Roman Catholic bishop and Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
 * Helmut Rahn, 73, German footballer.
 * Robin Thompson, 72, Irish rugby player.
 * Kirk Varnedoe, 57, American art historian, chief curator at the Museum of Modern Art, cancer.

15

 * Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper, 86, Dutch nurse, Nazi resister and last known person to see Anne Frank.
 * Red Hardy, 80, American baseball player (New York Giants).
 * Nehemia Levtzion, 67, Israeli scholar of African history.
 * Enric Llaudet, 86, Spanish businessman and sports executive.
 * Gerhard Mauz, 77, German journalist and correspondent for judicial processes.
 * Eric Nisenson, 57, American author and jazz historian, kidney failure related to leukemia.

16

 * Idi Amin, 78, Ugandan military officer, President of Uganda (1971-1979).
 * Ali Bakar, 55, Malaysian footballer, heart attack.
 * Nandor Balazs, 77, Hungarian-American physicist.
 * Bert Crane, 80, Australian politician.
 * Manuel Peçanha, 85, Brazilian football player.
 * Gösta Sundqvist, 46, Finnish musician and radio personality, heart attack.
 * James Whitehead, 67, American poet and novelist (Joiner).

17

 * Ben Belitt, 92, American poet and translator.
 * Mazen Dana, 43, Palestinian journalist, shot by US Army.
 * Haroldo de Campos, 73, Brazilian poet, critic, professor and translator.
 * Connie Douglas Reeves, 101, member of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, complications following a fall.

18

 * Don Eliason, 85, American gridiron football player.
 * Álvaro Gaxiola, 66, Mexican Olympic diver.
 * Tony Jackson, 65, English singer and bass-guitar player, alcoholism, liver cirrhosis.
 * Jocelyne Jocya, 61, French singer and songwriter, breast cancer.

19

 * Al Bansavage, 65, American professional football player (USC, Los Angeles Chargers, Oakland Raiders).
 * Dennis Flynn, 79, Canadian politician, heart attack.
 * Lester Mondale, 99, American Unitarian minister and humanist.
 * John Munro, 72, Canadian politician (member of Parliament of Canada representing Hamilton East, Ontario).
 * Carlos Roberto Reina, 77, Honduran politician, lawyer and diplomat, president (1994-1998), suicide.
 * Notable victims killed in the Canal Hotel bombing in Baghdad, Iraq:
 * Gillian Clark, 47, Canadian aid worker for the Christian Children's Fund
 * Reham Al-Farra, 29, Jordanian diplomat and journalist.
 * Arthur Helton, 54, American Director of peace and conflict studies at the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations.
 * Reza Hosseini, 43, Iranian UNOHCI humanitarian affairs officer
 * Jean-Sélim Kanaan, 33, Egyptian, Italian and French United Nations diplomat and member of Sérgio Vieira de Mello's staff.
 * Sérgio Vieira de Mello, 55, Brazilian UN diplomat and Secretary-General's Special Representative in Iraq.
 * Fiona Watson, 35, Scottish member of Vieira de Mello's staff, political affairs officer.
 * Nadia Younes, 57, Egyptian United Nations aide, chief of staff for Vieira de Mello.

20

 * Igor Farkhutdinov, 53, Russian politician, Governor of Sakhalin Oblast (1995–2003).
 * John Harvey, 63, English cricket player.
 * Ian MacDonald, 54, British music critic, suicide.
 * Hayriye Ayşe Nermin Neftçi, 78/79, Turkish jurist and politician.
 * John Ogbu, 64, Nigerian-American anthropologist and professor, post-surgery heart attack.
 * Andrew Ray, 64, British actor, heart attack.

21

 * Vasily Borisov, 80, Soviet rifle shooter and Olympic champion.
 * Ken Coleman, 78, American radio and television sportscaster.
 * John Coplans, 83, British artist, art writer, curator, and museum director.
 * Ismail Abu Shanab, 52–53, Palestinian political leader, founder and second in command of Hamas, Israeli helicopter missile strike.
 * Kathy Wilkes, 57, English philosopher and education worker in Eastern Europe.
 * Wesley Willis, 40, American singer-songwriter and visual artist, leukemia.

22

 * Imperio Argentina, 92, Argentine actress and singer.
 * Colleen Browning, 85, American painter.
 * Arnold Gerschwiler, 89, Swiss figure skating trainer.
 * Jindřich Polák, 78, Czech film and television director.
 * Tony Rudd, 80, British engineer involved in aero engine design and motor racing.
 * V. Somashekhar, 66, Indian film director, producer and screenwriter, kidney failure.
 * Floyd Tillman, 88, American country musician and honky tonk pioneer.

23

 * Hy Anzell, 79, American actor (Little Shop of Horrors, Checking Out, Bananas, Annie Hall).
 * J. Bowyer Bell, 71, American historian, artist and art critic, best known as a terrorism expert, kidney failure.
 * Bobby Bonds, 57, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants, California Angels), brain cancer, lung cancer.
 * Maurice Buret, 94, French equestrian competitor (gold medal in equestrian team dressage at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
 * Mal Colston, 65, Australian politician, biliary tract cancer.
 * Jack Dyer, 89, Australian rules football legend.
 * John Geoghan, 68, American pedophile priest, blunt trauma.
 * Marion Hargrove, 83, American writer.
 * Robert N. C. Nix, Jr., 75, American judge, chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1984-1996), Alzheimer's disease.
 * A. N. Murthy Rao, 103, Indian writer and activist.
 * Michael Kijana Wamalwa, 58, Kenyan politician, eighth Vice-President of Kenya.

24

 * Robert C. Bruce, 88, American actor.
 * John Melville Burgess, 94, American bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, first African-American to head an Episcopal diocese.
 * Phuntsho Choden, 92, Queen consort of Bhutan.
 * Franklin Green, 70, American Olympic free-pistol sport shooter.
 * Theodore Lettvin, 76, American concert pianist and conductor.
 * John Jacob Rhodes, 86, American politician (House Minority Leader, U.S. Representative for Arizona's 1st congress. dist.), cancer.
 * Amina Rizk, 93, Egyptian actress, heart attack.
 * Wilfred Thesiger, 93, British explorer.
 * Zena Walker, 69, British actress (Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for A Day in the Death of Joe Egg).
 * Kent Walton, 86, British sports commentator, known for his wrestling commentary on ITV's World of Sport from 1955 to 1988.

25

 * Tom Feelings, 70, American cartoonist, children's book illustrator, and author.
 * Hjalmar Pettersson, 96, Swedish cyclist (men's individual road race at the 1928 Summer Olympics).
 * Ajit Vachani, 52, Indian film and television actor.
 * Waid Vanderpoel, 81, American financier and conservationist.

26

 * Wayne Andre, 71, American jazz trombonist and session musician (Liza Minnelli, Bruce Springsteen, Alice Cooper).
 * Tuanku Bahiyah, 73, Malaysian sultanah and raja, cancer.
 * Lucius Burckhardt, 78, Swiss sociologist and economist.
 * Wilma Burgess, 64, American country music singer ("Misty Blue", "Baby", "Don't Touch Me"), heart attack.
 * Clive Charles, 51, English football player, coach and television announcer, prostate cancer.
 * Hans Fränkel, 86, German-American sinologist.
 * Peter Harper, 81, British racing driver.
 * Bimal Kar, 81, Bengali writer and novelist.
 * Keith J. Laidler, 87, English-Canadian Canadian physical chemist.
 * Hasan Mammadov, 64, Soviet/Azerbaijani film actor.
 * Jim Wacker, American college football coach (Texas Christian University, University of Minnesota), cancer.

27

 * Mick Connelly, 87, New Zealand politician.
 * Jinx Falkenburg, 84, American actress and model.
 * Pierre Poujade, 82, French populist politician.
 * William J. Scherle, 80, American politician.
 * Nikolai Todorov, 82, Bulgarian historian and politician, acting President (1990).
 * Charles Van Horne, 82, Canadian politician (member of Parliament of Canada representing Restigouche—Madawaska, New Brunswick).

28

 * William Cochran, 81, British physicist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Michel Constantin, 79, French film actor, heart attack.
 * Peter Hacks, 75, German playwright and author.
 * François Missoffe, 83, French politician and diplomat.
 * Yury Saulsky, 74, Soviet and Russian composer, author.
 * David Truman, 90, American academic.

29

 * Herbert Abrams, 82, American portrait artist (Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, William Westmoreland, Arthur Miller).
 * Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, 63, Iraqi cleric and politician, bombing.
 * Horace W. Babcock, 90, American astronomer, director of the Palomar Observatory from 1964 to 1978.
 * Anant Balani, 41, Indian film director and screenwriter, heart attack.
 * Nguyen Xuan Oanh, 82, Vietnamese economist and politician.
 * Patrick Procktor, 67, British painter and printmaker.
 * Bruno Sutkus, 79, Lithuanian-German sniper during World War II, credited with 209 kills.
 * George Thoms, 76, Australian cricket player.
 * Corrado Ursi, 95, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Vladimír Vašíček, 83, Czech painter.

30

 * Robert Abplanalp, 81, American inventor and industrialist, confidant of Richard Nixon, lung cancer.
 * Webster Anderson, 70, American U.S. Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in the Vietnam War.
 * Charles Bronson, 81, American actor (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Death Wish), pneumonia.
 * Donald Davidson, 86, American philosopher.
 * Claude Passeau, 94, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs).

31

 * Pierre Cahuzac, 76, French football player and manager.
 * Jelena de Belder-Kovačič, 78, Slovenian-Belgian botanist and horticulturist.
 * Choe In-dok, 85, North Korean army officer and politician.
 * John Storrs, 83, American architect in Oregon.
 * Pavel Tigrid, 85, Czech writer, publisher, author and politician, suicide.
 * Jung Yong-hoon, 24, South Korean footballer, car accident.