Deaths in January 2003

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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

 * Royce D. Applegate, 63, American actor (seaQuest DSV, Diff'rent Strokes, Dallas, Home Improvement).
 * Joe Foss, 87, American politician, fighter pilot, recipient of the Medal of Honor.
 * Giorgio Gaber, 63, Italian singer-songwriter and playwright, lung cancer.
 * Joel, 71, Brazilian association footballer.
 * A. K. Salim, 80, American jazz composer, and arranger.
 * Cyril Shaps, 79, British actor (The Pianist, Doctor Who, The Spy Who Loved Me).
 * David Young, 72, British politician (Member of Parliament for Bolton East, Bolton South East).

2

 * Frank Cremeans, 59, American politician, respiratory failure.
 * Hiralal Gaekwad, 79, Indian cricket player.
 * Peter Harris, 77, British footballer.
 * Eric Jupp, 80, British-Australian musician, composer, arranger and conductor.
 * Bud Metheny, 87, American baseball player (New York Yankees).
 * Sydney Omarr, 76, American astrologer and newspaper columnist, heart attack.
 * Bill Shelton, 73, British politician, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Leroy Warriner, 83, American midget car racing driver (National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame).

3

 * Sir James Ainsworth Campden Gabriel Eyre, 72, British Army general.
 * Sid Gillman, 91, American football coach (San Diego Chargers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
 * José María Gironella, 85, Spanish author, stroke.
 * Flóra Kádár, 74, Hungarian actress.
 * Eddy Marnay, 82, French songwriter, singer.
 * N. P. Mohammed, 73, Indian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter.
 * Mohammad Mohsin, 60, Indian actor, director and producer.
 * Edmund L. Morris, 79, Canadian politician, broadcaster and university administrator.
 * Halima Nosirova, 89, Soviet and Uzbek singer.
 * Joe Ostrowski, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, New York Yankees).
 * Monique Wittig, 67, French writer, poet and social theorist, heart attack.

4

 * Hanno Drechsler, 71, German politician and mayor of Marburg.
 * Conrad Hall, 76, American cinematographer (American Beauty, Cool Hand Luke, Road to Perdition), Oscar winner (1970, 2000, 2003), bladder cancer.
 * Yfrah Neaman, 79, Lebanese-British violinist and teacher.
 * Lila Zali, 84, Georgian-American prima ballerina and ballet director.

5

 * Maurice Boutel, 79, French film director, screenwriter and dialoguist.
 * King Biscuit Boy, 58, Canadian blues musician.
 * Buzz Busby, 69, American bluegrass mandolinist, songwriter and bandleader.
 * Doreen Carwithen, 80, British composer of classical and film music.
 * Massimo Girotti, 84, Italian film actor, heart attack.
 * Roy Jenkins, 82, British politician and biographer, heart attack.
 * Jean Kerr, 80, American author and playwright, pneumonia.
 * Félix Loustau, 80, Argentine football player.
 * Daphne Oram, 77, British composer and musician.

6

 * Olle Bexell, 93, Swedish decathlete (1936 Olympic decathlon; Swedish champion: 1935 to 1938 decathlon, 1938 pentathlon).
 * Miriam Byrd-Nethery, 73, American actress.
 * Gerald Cash, 85, Governor-General of the Bahamas.
 * Glyn Davies, 83, Welsh economist.
 * Peter de Smet, 58, Dutch comic-strip artist.
 * Paula Pöhlsen, 89, German gymnast and Olympic champion.
 * Kari Skjønsberg, 76, Norwegian academic, writer and feminist.
 * Jarvis Tatum, 56, American baseball player (California Angels).
 * Mamie Till, 81, American educator and civil rights activist.
 * Philip Ward, 78, British army general.
 * Harry Woolf, 79, American historian and academic, director of Institute for Advanced Study.

7

 * Ed Albosta, 84, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates).
 * Ken Biddulph, 70, British cricketer.
 * Vance Longden, 72, American thoroughbred horse trainer.
 * Gordon Kidd Teal, 95, American electrical engineer.
 * Sebastian von Hoerner, 83, German astrophysicist and radio astronomer.
 * Beatrice Willard, 77, American botanist, known for her research in alpine tundra ecosystems.

8

 * Simeon Aké, 71, Ivorian politician.
 * Ron Goodwin, 77, British film music composer and conductor, asthma.
 * Sarah McClendon, 92, American journalist and White House reporter.
 * Kir Nesis, 68, Russian marine biologist and malacologist, specialising in cephalopods.
 * Reg Revans, 95, British professor, administrator and management consultant.
 * Angelo Romani, 69, Italian swimmer.
 * Billy Van, 68, Canadian comedian, actor and singer (Nightcap, The Hilarious House of Frightenstein), lung cancer.

9

 * Kurt Andersen, 104, German Luftwaffe general during World War II.
 * Ignace Heinrich, 77, French Olympic athlete.
 * Elizabeth Irving, 98, British actress.
 * Qamar Jalalabadi, 84, Indian poet and lyricist of songs for Hindi movies.
 * Don Landrum, 66, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants).
 * Will McDonough, 67, American sportswriter for The Boston Globe, heart attack.
 * Peter Tinniswood, 66, British writer, esophageal cancer.
 * Penny Valentine, 59, British music journalist and critic, cancer.

10

 * Júlio Botelho, 73, Brazilian football player, heart failure.
 * C. Douglas Dillon, 93, American diplomat (U.S. Ambassador to France) and politician (Secretary of the Treasury, National Security Council).
 * Wolfgang Kasack, 75, German Slavic studies scholar and translator.
 * Jorge "Lobito" Martínez, 50, Paraguan musician, murdered.
 * Ensio Siilasvuo, 81, Finnish general.
 * Denis Zanette, 32, Italian professional racing cyclist, heart attack.

11

 * Mickey Finn, 55, English musician and percussionist of T. Rex.
 * Anthony Havelock-Allan, 98, British producer and screenwriter, heart attack.
 * Virginia Kidd, 81, American literary agent, writer and editor.
 * Arne Månsson, 77, Swedish footballer.
 * Maurice Pialat, 77, French movie director, kidney failure.
 * Jože Pučnik, 70, Slovenian intellectual, sociologist and politician.
 * William Russo, 74, American composer, arranger, and musician.
 * Richard Simmons, 89, American actor, Sgt William Preston on TV's Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila, 56, Nigerian politician and administrator.
 * Yuri Tishkov, 31, Russian football player, sports agent and commentator, stabbed.

12

 * Dean Amadon, 90, American ornithologist and an authority on birds of prey.
 * Clarence H. Burns, 84, American politician, mayor of Baltimore in 1987.
 * Jack Douglas, 72, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player.
 * Kinji Fukasaku, 72, Japanese film director and screenwriter, [[prostate cancer].
 * Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, 76, former dictator of Argentina, heart attack, pancreatic cancer.
 * Maurice Gibb, 53, British band member of Bee Gees, heart attack.
 * W. M. Gorman, 79, Irish economist and academic.
 * Valentyn Kravchuk, 58, Ukrainian rower and Olympic medalist.
 * Alan Nunn May, 91, British nuclear physicist and convicted Soviet spy.
 * Paul Pender, 72, American boxer and world middleweight champion.
 * Koloman Sokol, 100, Slovak artist.
 * Wang Tieya, 89, Chinese jurist and Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

13

 * James Bradshaw Adamson, 81, American U.S. Army major general, commander of the Military District of Washington.
 * Elisabeth Croft, 95, English actress (Crossroads).
 * Norman Panama, 88, screenwriter and director, Parkinson's disease.
 * Ernie Rudolph, 93, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).

14

 * Mirza Babayev, 89, Azerbaijani actor and singer.
 * Mel Bourne, 79, American set designer and art director (Annie Hall, Fatal Attraction, Manhunter).
 * Alan Edwards, 77, Australian actor.
 * Monica Furlong, 72, British author, journalist, and activist, cancer.
 * Vahé Katcha, 74, French Armenian author, screenwriter and journalist, heart attack.
 * Georg Knepler, 96, Austrian pianist, conductor and musicologist.
 * John Mantley, 82, Canadian theatrical actor, screenwriter and producer of television series, Gunsmoke, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Paul Monash, 85, American television and film producer and screenwriter, pancreatic cancer.
 * Sujit Mukherjee, 72, Indian writer, literary critic and publisher.
 * Emilio Villa, 88, Italian poet, visual artist, and biblical scholar.

15

 * Eduardo Alquinta, 57, Chilean guitarist and vocalist (Los Jaivas), heart attack.
 * Robert Bart, 72, French sprinter (men's 4 × 400 metres relay, men's 400 metres hurdles at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
 * Linda Braidwood, 93, American archaeologist and pre-historian, influenza.
 * Robert John Braidwood, 95, American archaeologist and anthropologist, a leading pioneer in prehistoric archaeology.
 * Jeannette Campbell, 86, Scottish-Argentine swimmer (silver medal in women's 100m freestyle at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
 * Frank Drea, 69, Canadian journalist, broadcaster, and politician, pneumonia.
 * Doris Fisher, 87, American singer and songwriter ("Put the Blame on Mame", "You Always Hurt the One You Love").
 * Ernesto Foldats, 77, Venezuelan botanist and orchidologist.
 * Shimon Garidi, 90, Israeli politician.
 * Vivi-Anne Hultén, 91, Swedish figure skater (Olympic figure skating ladies singles: 1932, 1936 bronze medal), heart failure.
 * Přemysl Kočí, 85, Czech operatic baritone, actor, stage director, and theatre manager.
 * Eleanore Pettersen, 86, American architect.

16

 * Shōtarō Akiyama, 82, Japanese photographer.
 * Henryk Czyż, 79, Polish musician with a high reputation for conducting and teaching.
 * Bruce Juddery, 61, Australian journalist.
 * Phil McCullough, 85, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
 * Chris Mead, 62, British ornithologist, author and broadcaster.
 * Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri, Australian indigenous artist.
 * Ray Owen, 97, Australian agricultural scientist and politician.
 * Hans Pietsch, 34, German professional Go player, shot during robbery.
 * Richard Wainwright, 84, British politician (Member of Parliament for Colne Valley).

17

 * Hylo Brown, 80, American bluegrass and country music singer, guitarist and bass player.
 * Fritzi Burr, 78, American actress (Once Upon a Mattress, Funny Girl, Fiddler on the Roof).
 * Bernice Claire, 96, American singer and actress, pneumonia.
 * Richard Crenna, 74, American actor (First Blood, Summer Rental, The Real McCoys), heart failure.
 * Herbert Crüger, 91, German communist and political activist.
 * Goronwy Daniel, 88, Welsh academic and civil servant.
 * George Haimsohn, 77, American writer and photographer, aneurysm.
 * Alfredo Hernández, 67, Mexican footballer.
 * Sao Nang Hearn Kham, 86, First Lady of Myanmar as wife of Sao Shwe Thaik.

18

 * Harivansh Rai Bachchan, 95, Indian poet.
 * Ed Farhat, 76, Lebanese-American wrestler, heart failure.
 * Virginia Heinlein, 86, American chemist, biochemist and engineer.
 * Gavin Lyall, 70, English author of espionage thrillers, cancer.

19

 * Milton Flores, 28, Honduran football player, shot.
 * Françoise Giroud, 86, French journalist, screenwriter, writer and politician, heart attack.
 * Joy Hodges, 87, American singer and actress.
 * Morris Kight, 83, American gay rights pioneer and peace activist.
 * L. D. Meyer, 87, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians) and manager.
 * Russell A. Rourke, 71, American lawyer and public official.
 * Alfredo Zalce, 95, Mexican artist and muralist.

20

 * Eldar Muhtarovics Azim-Zagye, 68, Soviet-Azerbaijani football referee.
 * David Battley, 67, British actor (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Krull, Relative Strangers), heart attack.
 * Sir Stanley Fingland, 83, British diplomat.
 * Al Hirschfeld, 99, American [caricaturist]].
 * Gusztáv Juhász, 91, Hungarian -Romanian football player and coach.
 * Craig Kelly, 36, American snowboarder, avalanche.
 * Abraham Klein, 76, American theoretical physicist.
 * Edith Lefel, 39, French singer, infarction.
 * Sadatsugu Matsuda, 96, Japanese film director, senility.
 * Nedra Volz, 94, American actress (Diff'rent Strokes, The Dukes of Hazzard, Filthy Rich, The Fall Guy), cancer.
 * Bill Werbeniuk, 56, Canadian snooker player, heart failure.

21

 * Irene Diamond, 92, American Hollywood talent scout and philanthropist.
 * Paul Haines, 70, American poet and jazz lyricist.
 * Paul Kuusberg, 86, Estonian writer.
 * Obert Logan, 61, American football player (Trinity University, Dallas Cowboys, New Orleans Saints), colon cancer.
 * Antonio Domínguez Ortiz, 93, Spanish historian.
 * Tommy Wood, 90, British Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
 * Khin Hnin Yu, 77, Burmese writer, spokesperson for Prime Minister U Nu.

22

 * Marvin Bower, 99, American management consultant, considered the father of modern management consulting.
 * Richard Buchanan, 90, British politician (Member of Parliament for Glasgow Springburn).
 * Gopal Chhotray, 86, Indian dramatist and playwright.
 * Werner Dissel, 90, German actor, director, and resistance fighter during World War II.
 * Lonny Kellner, 72, German singer and actress, cancer.
 * Ernst Kitzinger, 90, German-American art historian.
 * Bill Mauldin, 81, American cartoonist during World War II, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Tan Qilong, 90, Chinese politician.
 * Peter Russell, 81, British poet.
 * Jean-François Zevaco, 86, French-Moroccan architect.

23

 * Anne Meredith Barry, 70, Canadian artist, known for her landscapes of Newfoundland and Labrador.
 * Nell Carter, 54, singer, actress (Gimme a Break!, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, The Grass Harp), diabetes.
 * Stanley J. Davis, 94, American politician.
 * Johnny Mauro, 92, American racecar driver.
 * David Moore, 75, Australian photojournalist.

24

 * Gianni Agnelli, 81, Italian entrepreneur and president of Fiat, prostate cancer.
 * Lucien E. Blackwell, 71, American politician (U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district).
 * Ivor Broom, 82, British air marshal and bomber pilot during World War II.
 * Rolf Kirkvaag, 82, Norwegian journalist, and a radio- and TV personality.
 * Henri Krasucki, 78, French trade-unionist, secretary general of General Confederation of Labour (1982-1992).
 * Sabotage, 29, Brazilian rapper and songwriter, homicide.
 * Cy Touff, 75, American jazz bass trumpeter.
 * Bobbi Trout, 97, American pioneer aviator, cardiovascular disease.
 * Cor van Hout, 45, Dutch criminal known for the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, homicide.

25

 * Toby Atwell, 78, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, Milwaukee Braves).
 * Diana Gould, 90, British dancer and widow of Yehudi Menuhin.
 * Frank L. Hays, 81, American politician.
 * Cliff Norton, 84, American actor (The Ed Sullivan Show, Caesar's Hour, Harry and Tonto, Funny Lady).
 * Sheldon Reynolds, 79, American television producer.
 * Robert Rockwell, 82, American actor (Our Miss Brooks, Growing Pains, Lassie), cancer.
 * Leopoldo Trieste, 85, Italian actor, film director and script writer, heart attack.
 * Joseph A. Walker, 67, American director, actor, and playwright (Tony Award for Best Play for The River Niger).

26

 * John Browning, 69, American pianist, winner of two Grammy Awards: 1991, 1993.
 * Valeriy Brumel, 60, Soviet high jumper (men's Olympic high jump medals: 1960 silver, 1964 gold).
 * Jeffrey K. Hadden, 66, American professor of sociology, pancreatic cancer.
 * George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, 71, British politician, Secretary of State for Scotland 1979–1986, cancer.
 * Don Lurio, 73, American-Italian dancer, choreographer and TV presenter.
 * Jim McConnon, 80, English cricket player.
 * Vladimir Mulyavin, 62, Belarusian and Russian rock musician, complications after car accident.
 * Fred Russell, 96, American sports writer.
 * Annemarie Schimmel, 80, German orientalist and scholar.
 * Hugh Trevor-Roper, 89, English historian, esophageal cancer.

27

 * Louis Archambault, 87, Canadian sculptor.
 * Maurice Ash, 85, British environmentalist, writer and administrator.
 * Henryk Jabłoński, 93, Polish historian and politician.
 * Lajoš Jakovetić, 80, Serbian and Yugoslavia football player and manager.
 * Bob Kammeyer, 52, American baseball player (New York Yankees), pulmonary embolism.

28

 * Miloš Milutinović, 69, Serbian footballer and manager.
 * Mieke Pullen, 45, Dutch long-distance runner, traffic collision.
 * Emília Rotter, 96, Hungarian figure skater.
 * Vladimir Vasilyev, 67, Soviet Olympic sailor.
 * Edward Preston Young, 89, British graphic designer, submariner, writer (One Of Our Submarines).

29

 * Ihsan Abbas, 82, Palestinian professor.
 * Douglas Allanbrook, 81, American composer, pianist and harpsichordist.
 * Pandari Bai, 73, Indian actress.
 * Silvio Confortola, 93, Italian Olympic cross-country skier.
 * George Dews, 81, English cricketer.
 * Natalia Dudinskaya, 90, Soviet prima ballerina.
 * Anthony Eisley, 78, American actor, heart attack.
 * Leslie Fiedler, 85, American literary critic.
 * Harold Kelley, 81, American social psychologist and academic.
 * Frank Moss, 91, American lawyer and politician, US Senator from Utah.
 * Peter Shaw, 84, British actor and producer; husband of Angela Lansbury, heart attack.
 * Yevgeniya Sidorova, 72, Russian alpine skier and Olympic medalist.
 * Alan Walker, 91, Australian theologian.
 * Lee Yoo-hyung, 92, Korean football player and manager.

30

 * Mary Ellis, 105, American actress and singer (Rose-Marie, Music in the Air).
 * Cary Leeds, 45, American tennis player.
 * Paul-André Meyer, 68, French mathematician.
 * Joan Franks Williams, 72, American composer, complications from Parkinson's disease.

31

 * Horace Hahn, 87, American actor.
 * William Marlowe, 72, British actor.
 * Werenfried van Straaten, 90, Dutch Roman Catholic priest and social activist.
 * John Westergaard, 71, American investment manager.