Deaths in July 2003

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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

 * Berta Ambrož, 58, Yugoslav and Slovene singer.
 * John Bissell Carroll, 87, American psychologist.
 * Hossein Fekri, 79, Iranian football player and coach.
 * Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio, 63, Spanish singer-songwriter.
 * Herbie Mann, 73, American crossover jazz and bossa nova flutist, prostate cancer.
 * Bill Miller, 75, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles).
 * Khieu Ponnary, 83, Cambodian communist and wife of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, cancer.
 * George Roper, 69, English comedian, cancer.

2

 * Ivan Allen, Jr., 92, American businessman and 52nd mayor of Atlanta.
 * Briggs Cunningham, 96, American entrepreneur and sportsman, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Franklin Farrel, 95, American ice hockey player (silver medal in men's ice hockey at the 1932 Winter Olympics).
 * Antonio Fortich, 89, Filipino Roman Catholic bishop and social activist.
 * Najeeb Halaby, 87, American businessman, aviator, and father of Queen Noor of Jordan.
 * Erkki Mallenius, 75, Finnish amateur boxer and Olympic medalist.
 * James Saxon, 48, English television and theatre actor, heart attack.

3

 * Gaetano Alibrandi, 89, Italian papal diplomat and Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland.
 * Johannes Andenæs, 90, Norwegian jurist and professor.
 * Vince Lloyd, 96, American radio announcer, stomach cancer.
 * Jack B. Olson, 82, American businessman, diplomat, and politician.
 * Skip Scarborough, 58, American songwriter, cancer.
 * Yuri Shchekochikhin, 53, Soviet and Russian investigative journalist, writer, and politician, poisoned.
 * Anne Barbara Underhill, 83, Canadian astrophysicist.
 * C. C. Wang, 96, Chinese-American artist and art collector.

4

 * Manuel Araneta, Jr., 76, Filipino basketball player (basketball at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
 * Larry Burkett, 64, American radio personality, heart failure.
 * Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr., 61, American politician, heart attack.
 * André Claveau, 87, French singer.
 * Tyler McVey, 91, American actor, leukemia.
 * Armin Mohler, 83, Swiss far-right political philosopher and journalist.
 * Tomris Uyar, 62, Turkish writer and translator.
 * Barry White, 58, American smooth soul singer ("Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe"), renal failure.

5

 * Zhang Aiping, 93, Chinese military leader, defense minister under Deng Xiaoping.
 * Fernando Arbex, 62, Spanish musician and songwriter.
 * Prodan Gardzhev, 67, Bulgarian middleweight freestyle wrestler and Olympic champion, heart attack.
 * Roman Lyashenko, 24, Russian ice hockey player (Dallas Stars, New York Rangers), suicide.
 * Nǃxau, 58, Namibian actor and bush farmer (The Gods Must Be Crazy), tuberculosis.
 * Princess Isabelle, 91, French noble and widow of Henri, Count of Paris, pretender to the French throne.
 * Nadav Safran, 77, American academic and expert in Arab and Middle East politics, cancer.
 * Yoshio Sakurauchi, 91, Japanese politician.
 * Hedy Schlunegger, 80, Swiss alpine skier and Olympic champion.
 * Sulaiman Ninam Shah, 83, Malaysian businessman and politician.
 * Bebu Silvetti, 59, Argentine musician, songwriter and arranger, respiratory failure.

6

 * Skip Battin, 69, American bass guitarist, singer and songwriter (The Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Willie Buchan, 88, Scottish football player and manager.
 * Ed Chandler, 86, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
 * Buddy Ebsen, 95, American actor (The Beverly Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones, Breakfast at Tiffany's), pneumonia.
 * Ignacio Antonio Velasco García, 74, Venezuelan Roman Catholic cardinal.
 * Çelik Gülersoy, 72, Turkish lawyer, writer and poet, pancreatic cancer.
 * Andrew Heiskell, 87, American journalist and chairman and CEO of Time Inc..
 * Antal Kotász, 73, Hungarian football player.
 * Kathleen Raine, 95, British poet and literary critic.
 * Spec Sanders, 84, American football player (University of Texas, New York Yankees, New York Yanks).

7

 * Valentin Bibik, 62, Ukrainian composer, teacher and professor.
 * Raphael I Bidawid, 81, Iraqi Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church (1989-2003).
 * Izhak Graziani, 78, conductor.
 * Shlomo-Ya'akov Gross, 94, Israeli politician.
 * Antonio Iranzo, 73, Spanish film actor.
 * Charles Poor Kindleberger, 92, American economic historian and author, stroke.
 * Mario Pedini, 84, Italian politician.
 * Fred G. Pollard, 85, American lawyer and politician.
 * Tomiko Suzuki, 47, Japanese voice actress, heart attack.

8

 * Ladan and Laleh Bijani, 29, Iranian conjoined twins, complications following separation surgery.
 * Paul Brand, 88, British surgeon, pioneering leprosy research.
 * Duncan Clark, 88, Scottish hammer thrower (1948 Olympic men's hammer throw, 1952 Olympic men's hammer throw).
 * Lewis A. Coser, 89, German-American sociologist.
 * Marjorie Fowler, 82, American film editor.
 * Etsuko Inada, 79, Japanese Olympic figure skater.
 * Subhash Mukhopadhyay, 84, Indian Bengali poets.

9

 * Christopher Black Sr., 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Eberhard Blum, 84, German civil servant, head of the German Federal Intelligence Bureau (BND).
 * Joe Cobbold, 76, English greyhound trainer.
 * Valerie Gearon, 65, British actress.
 * Josephine Jacobsen, 94, American poet, short story writer and essayist.
 * Riley Dobi Noel, 31, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

10

 * Alvin Alcorn, 90, American New Orleans jazz trumpeter.
 * Winston Graham, 95, English novelist.
 * Sheldon Jaffery, 69, American bibliographer.
 * John Purdell, 44, American musician and record producer, cancer.
 * Hartley Shawcross, 101, English barrister, politician and chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.
 * Manuel Vasques, 76, Portuguese footballer.

11

 * Stepan Chervonenko, 87, Soviet diplomat.
 * Mickey Deans, 68, American discoteque manager and (last) husband of actress and singer Judy Garland, heart failure.
 * Henry Gravrand, 81, French Catholic missionary to Africa and an anthropologist.
 * Zahra Kazemi, 55, Iranian-Canadian journalist, blunt trauma to the head.
 * Michèle de Saint Laurent, 76, French carcinologist.
 * Dorothy Canning Miller, 99, American art curator.
 * John Roach, 81, American cleric of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Bhisham Sahni, 87, Indian writer, playwright and an actor.
 * Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 6th Marquess of Salisbury, 86, British aristocrat and politician.
 * Ray Whitrod, 88, Australian police officer and Queensland Police Commissioner.
 * Ken Whyld, 77, British chess author (The Oxford Companion to Chess), historian and columnist.
 * Teddy Yip, 96, Indonesian businessman, race car driver and team owner (Formula One, IndyCar).

12

 * Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed, 71, Bangladeshi lawyer and constitutionalist.
 * Benny Carter, 95, American jazz pioneer, bronchitis.
 * Mark Lovell, 43, British rally driver, motor race accident.
 * Ellis Paul Torrance, 87, American psychologist.
 * Eliot Wald, 57, American comedy writer for theater, television and movies (The Second City, Saturday Night Live, Camp Nowhere).

13

 * Alpha L. Bowser, 92, American U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general (Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Chosin Reservoir).
 * Dildar, 58, Bangladeshi actor.
 * Salamat Hashim, 61, Filipino islamist militant, complications caused by a heart disease and acute ulcer.
 * Eileen Rodgers, 73, American singer and Broadway performer, lung cancer.
 * Compay Segundo, 95, Cuban musician and star of the Buena Vista Social Club, kidney failure.

14

 * Leela Chitnis, 93, Indian actress.
 * Jiří Dolana, 66, Czech ice hockey player.
 * Éva Janikovszky, 77, Hungarian writer.
 * Morrissey Johnson, 70, Canadian politician (MP for Bonavista—Trinity—Conception, NL), motor vehicle collision with a moose.
 * Rubén Marino Navarro, 70, Argentine football player.
 * Louis Robertshaw, 90, American gridiron football player and US Marine Corps officer, cancer.
 * Rajendra Singh, 81, Indian head of Hindu nationalist paramilitary organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

15

 * Roberto Bolaño, 50, Chilean-Spanish writer (The Savage Detectives, 2666), liver failure.
 * Chuck Grigsby, 74, American basketball player.
 * John Richard Hyde, 90, Canadian soldier and politician.
 * Lorraine Krueger, 85, American actress.
 * Judith Hare, Countess of Listowel, 100, Hungarian-British writer and aristocrat.
 * Alfred Preissler, 82, German football player and manager.
 * Tex Schramm, 83, American president and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys football team.
 * Alexander Walker, 73, Northern Irish film critic (London Evening Standard) and author.
 * Elisabeth Welch, 99, American singer and actress.

16

 * Azeez, 55, Indian actor in Malayalam cinema.
 * Celia Cruz, 77, Cuban salsa singer, brain cancer.
 * Ralph A. Foote, 80, American attorney ans politician.
 * Lu Gambino, 79, American gridiron football player.
 * Shmuel Safrai, 84, Israeli writer, academic and historian.
 * Kurt Semm, 76, German gynecologist and pioneer in minimally invasive surgery.
 * Carol Shields, 68, Canadian author, breast cancer.
 * Chesterfield Smith, 85, American lawyer.
 * Alida van den Bos, 101, Dutch gymnast (gold medal in women's team gymnastics at the 1928 Summer Olympics).
 * Dmitry Vasilyev, 58, Soviet-Russian actor, monarchist, antisemite, and ultranationalist, heart attack.
 * Reetika Vazirani, 40, Indian-American poet and educator, suicide.

17

 * Hans Abich, 84, German film producer.
 * Manuel Franklin da Costa, 81, Angolan Roman Catholic archbishop.
 * Erland Herkenrath, 90, Swiss field handball player.
 * David Kelly, 59, British scientist and weapons expert, suicide.
 * Walter Perry, 82, Scottish academic.
 * Rosalyn Tureck, 89, American pianist and harpsichordist.
 * Abdullah Yaqta, 89, Afghan politician, Prime Minister (1967).
 * Walter Zapp, 97, Baltic German inventor (Minox subminiature camera).

18

 * Jane Barbe, 74, American voice actress (phone company "Time Lady") and singer, cancer.
 * Marc Camoletti, 79, French playwright.
 * César Ramírez, 74, Filipino actor, heart attack.
 * Norman Rasmussen, 75, American physicist.

19

 * Bill Bright, 81, American evangelical Christian and founder of Campus Crusade for Christ.
 * Elena Caffarena, 100, Chilean lawyer and politician.
 * Maruchi Fresno, 87, Spanish film actress, heart attack.
 * Pierre Graber, 94, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1970–1978).
 * Jude Milhon, 64, American civil rights advocate, writer, hacker and feminista, cancer.
 * Vic Vargas, 64, Filipino actor.

20

 * Lauri Aus, 32, Estonian Olympic racing cyclist (1992, 1996, 2000, 2000), struck on bicycle by drunk driver.
 * Nicolas Freeling, 76, British crime writer.
 * Renee Gadd, 95, Argentine-British film actress.
 * Juli Gonzalvo, 86, Spanish football player.
 * Carol Grace, 78, American actress and author, intracranial aneurysm.
 * Vladimir Krantz, 90, Soviet Russian painter.
 * Elliot Norton, 100, American theater critic, "The Dean of American Theatre Critics".
 * William Woolfolk, 86, American novelist, screen writer, and comic book writer.

21

 * John Davies, 65, New Zealand olympian (track) and president of the New Zealand Olympic Committee, melanoma.
 * Matt Jefferies, 81, American art director (Star Trek series); designer of the Starship Enterprise, heart attack.
 * Tim Hemensley, 31, Australian singer and bass guitarist, heroin overdose.
 * Shujauddin Siddiqi, 84, Indian first-class cricket player.

22

 * Arthur W. Adamson, 83, American chemist, made contributions to inorganic photochemistry.
 * Hamer H. Budge, 92, American politician (16th Chairman of the SEC, U.S. Representative for Idaho's 2nd congressional district).
 * Elie Farah, 93, Lebanese Maronite Church archbishop.
 * Stanley H. Fuld, 99, American lawyer, judge and politician.
 * Qusay Hussein, 37, Iraqi politician and second son of Saddam Hussein, killed by US troops.
 * Uday Hussein, 39, Iraqi politician and eldest son of Saddam Hussein, killed by US troops.
 * Lee Knorek, 82, American basketball player.
 * Norman Lewis, 95, British travel writer.
 * Dhimitër Shuteriqi, 87, Albanian scholar, literary historian, and writer.
 * Serge Silberman, 86, French film producer.
 * Richard L. Walker, 81, American diplomat (U.S. Ambassador to South Korea) and professor.

23

 * Sheila Bromley, 91 or 95, American television and film actress (Westward Ho, Lawless Range, Perry Mason).
 * James E. Davis, 41, American policeman, corrections officer, and politician, homicide.
 * Adolphe Deledda, 83, Italian-French road bicycle racer.
 * Gary King, 55, American jazz bassist, songwriter, composer, and arranger.
 * Jean-Claude Pressac, 59, French chemist, pharmacist and writer.
 * Yvonne Sanson, 76, Italian film actress, aneurysm.
 * Speedy Thomas, 56, American football player.
 * Novak Tomić, 67, Serbian football player.
 * Grady Wilson, 80, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).

24

 * Iya Arepina, 73, Soviet/Russian actress.
 * Henri Attal, 67, French actor, asthma.
 * Samit Bhanja, 59, Indian actor and director.
 * Ella Orr Campbell, 92, New Zealand botanist.
 * Božidar Drenovac, 81, Serbian football player and manager.
 * Warren Kremer, 82, American comics cartoonist.
 * Ryōichi Kuroda, 92, Japanese jurist and politician, pneumonia.
 * Maurice Pryce, 90, British physicist.
 * Dan Smoot, 89, American FBI agent and political activist.

25

 * Erik Brann, 52, American Iron Butterfly guitarist, heart attack.
 * Ludwig Bölkow, 91, German aeronautical engineer, designed the world's first jet fighter, Nazi Germany's Me 262.
 * Hal Herbert, 81, British-Canadian politician.
 * Jiří Horák, 79, Czech politician and political analyst.
 * Norm McRae, 55, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
 * Thomas Savage, 88, American novelist.
 * John Schlesinger, 77, English film director (Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man, Sunday Bloody Sunday), stroke.

26

 * Jürgen Brandt, 80, German general and Chief of Federal Armed Forces Staff (1978-1983).
 * William Dargie, 91, Australian painter.
 * Robert Favart, 92, French actor.
 * John Higham, 82, American historian.
 * Hilde Levi, 94, German-Danish physicist.
 * Harold C. Schonberg, 87, American music critic and journalist.
 * Gordon Taylor, 93, Canadian politician, businessman and teacher.

27

 * Karin Booth, 87, American film and TV actress.
 * Vance Hartke, 84, American politician (United States Senator from Indiana from 1959 to 1977).
 * Henning Holck-Larsen, 96, Danish engineer and entrepreneur.
 * Bob Hope, 100, British-American comedian and actor (series of seven "Road" musical comedy movies with Bing Crosby), pneumonia.
 * Nguza Karl-i-Bond, 64, Zairian politician.
 * Rinty Monahan, 75, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).
 * Alfredo Eduardo Barreto de Freitas Noronha, 84, Brazilian football player and manager.
 * Emmanuel Pelaez, 87, Filipino public servant and politician, heart attack.
 * Audrius Šlekys, 28, Lithuanian football player, traffic collision.

28

 * Gladys Edgerly Bates, 107, American sculptor, member of the Philadelphia Ten, founding member of the Mystic Museum of Art.
 * Aaron Bell, 82, American jazz bassist, composer and teacher, bassist for Duke Ellington.
 * René Berg, 47, English musician, vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter.
 * True Eames Boardman, 93, American actor and scriptwriter (Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, The Virginian, Bonanza), pancreatic cancer.
 * Adrian Burk, 75, American gridiron football player (Baylor, Baltimore Colts, Philadelphia Eagles).

29

 * Sabahudin Bilalović, 43, Bosnian basketball player.
 * Rudolf Fischer, 90, German pianist and pedagogue.
 * Luther Henderson, 84, American arranger, composer, and pianist.
 * Tex McCrary, 92, American journalist and public relations specialist.
 * Jim Pruett, 85, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).
 * Foday Sankoh, 65, Sierra Leonean rebel leader, complications following a stroke.
 * Gerard Folliott Vaughan, 80, British psychiatrist and politician.
 * Johnny Walker, 82, Indian comic actor, appeared in more than 300 films.

30

 * Howard Armstrong, 94, American string band fiddler and mandolinist and country blues musician, heart attack.
 * Marian Carr, 77, American actress.
 * Steve Hislop, 41, Scottish motorcycle racer, helicopter accident.
 * Ewa Krzyżewska, 64, Polish actress, traffic collision.
 * Alicia Lourteig, 89, Argentine and French botanist, expert in Oxalidaceae.
 * Mendel L. Peterson, 85, American archeologist and former curator at the Smithsonian Institution.
 * Sam Phillips, 80, American record producer, respiratory failure.
 * Ahmed Safwat, 56, Egyptian squash player, heart attack.
 * Carlos Lemos Simmonds, 69, Colombian politician, Vice President (1996-1998), lung cancer.

31

 * Edward P. Alexander, 96, American historian and author, heart ailment.
 * John Aston, Sr., 81, English football player.
 * Bigode, 81, Brazilian footballer, respiratory problems.
 * Frederick Coffin, 60, American film actor, singer, songwriter, and musician, lung cancer.
 * Guido Crepax, 70, Italian comics artist, multiple sclerosis.
 * Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic, 66, American professor neuroscience, psychiatry and psychology, struck by a car.
 * Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, 88, Pakistani politician, first President of Azad Kashmir.
 * Roland Svensson, 93, Swedish painter, writer, and artist.