Deaths in November 2003

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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

 * W. Brian Harland, 86, British geologist.
 * Colin Hayes, 83, British artist.
 * Joe Johnson, 73, American gridiron football player.
 * Kent Kennan, 90, American composer, author, and professor.
 * Henryk Machalica, 73, Polish film and stage actor, fall from horse.
 * Libero Marchini, 89, Italian football player.
 * Sonny Senerchia, 72, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates) and college baseball coach (Monmouth University), motorcycle accident.
 * Daishiro Yoshimura, 56, Japanese football player and manager, intracranial hemorrhage.

2

 * Xela Arias, 41, Spanish Galician-language poet and translator, heart attack.
 * Christabel Bielenberg, 94, British writer, (The Past is Myself, Christabel).
 * Fernando Vizcaíno Casas, 77, Spanish labour lawyer, journalist and writer.
 * Ted Cunningham, 65, Australian politician.
 * Nati Kaji, 77, Nepali singer and songwriter.
 * Iris Kelso, 76, American journalist.
 * Frank McCloskey, 64, Indiana Congressman (Indiana's 8th district) from 1983 to 1995, bladder cancer.
 * Jimmy Quillen, 87, American politician (U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 1st congressional district).
 * Frederic Vester, 77, German cybernetician.
 * Cliff Young, 81, Australian potato farmer and long distance runner, won Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon in 1983 at 61, cancer.

3

 * Derk Bodde, 94, American sinologist.
 * Aaron Bridgers, 85, American-French jazz pianist, featured in the 1961 Paul Newman film Paris Blues.
 * Yuri Falin, 66, Soviet football player.
 * Rasul Gamzatov, 80, Avarian/Soviet/Russian poet, called the "People's poet of Dagestan".
 * A. James Manchin, 76, American politician, Secretary of State and State Treasurer for West Virginia, heart attack.
 * Narendra Prasad, 57, Indian (Malayalam) film actor, professor and writer, cardio-respiratory arrest.

4

 * Manadel al-Jamadi, Iraqi extrajudicial prisoner at Abu Ghraib prison, torture.
 * Lotte Berk, 90, German-English dancer and teacher, created Barre fitness classes.
 * Charles Causley, 86, British poet.
 * Rachel de Queiroz, 92, Brazilian writer and journalist.
 * Ken Gampu, 74, South African actor.
 * 19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche, 86, Buddhist lama.
 * Philip Slone, 96, American soccer player.
 * R. M. Williams, 95, Australian bushwear manufacturer, known for their handcrafted riding boots.
 * Richard Wollheim, 80, British philosopher and an authority on psychoanalysis and art.

5

 * David Bar-Ilan, 73, Israeli concert pianist, journalist and political aide (Benjamin Netanyahu).
 * Hugh H. Bownes, 83, American judge (Senior Judge of the 1st Cir.) and politician.
 * Dorothy Fay, 88, American actress.
 * Subrata Guha, 57, Indian cricket player, heart attack.
 * Bobby Hatfield, 63, American singer, half of duo the Righteous Brothers, heart attack.
 * Hans Heinrich, 92, German film editor, screenwriter and film director.
 * Zaim Muzaferija, 80, Bosnian actor and poet.
 * Lyman Ray Patterson, 74, American law professor and historian.
 * Dernell Stenson, 25, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds), killed during robbery.

6

 * Just Betzer, 59, Danish film producer (Babette's Feast: 1988 Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film), heart attack.
 * Philip Effiong, 77, Nigerian military officer.
 * Crash Holly, 32, American professional wrestler, suicide.
 * Zoe Incrocci, 86, Italian actress and voice actress.
 * Spider Jorgensen, 84, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants).
 * Rie Mastenbroek, 84, Dutch swimmer (1936 Summer Olympics medals: gold:100m, gold:400m, gold:4x100m, silver:100m).
 * Eduardo Palomo, 41, Mexican actor, heart attack.

7

 * Donald Griffin, 88, American professor of zoology.
 * Foo Foo Lammar, 66, British drag queen.
 * Juanjo Menéndez, 74, Spanish actor, Alzheimer's disease.

8

 * Bob Grant, 71, English actor, comedian and writer, suicide.
 * C. Z. Guest, 83, American actress, author, columnist and socialite.
 * Ernst Kossmann, 81, Dutch historian.
 * Guy Speranza, 47, American singer, pancreatic cancer.
 * Richard Swift, 76, American composer and music theorist.
 * Abdirahman Ahmed Ali Tuur, 72, Somali politician.

9

 * Buddy Arnold, 77, American jazz saxophonist.
 * Stephen Benton, 61, American scientist, teacher and artist, inventor of the rainbow hologram.
 * Art Carney, 85, American actor (The Honeymooners, Harry and Tonto, The Late Show).
 * Bruce Alexander Cook, 71, American journalist and author.
 * Pushpalata Das, 88, Indian independence activist and social worker.
 * Gordon Onslow Ford, 90, British- American surrealist painter.
 * Mario Merz, 78, Italian artist.

10

 * Margaret Armen, 82, American television screenwriter (The Rifleman, The Big Valley, Star Trek, Barnaby Jones).
 * Canaan Banana, 67, Zimbabwean politician and minister, first president of Zimbabwe, cancer.
 * June Beebe, 90, American professional golfer, won the Women's Western Open in 1931 and 1933.
 * Edvard Beyer, 83, Norwegian literary historian, literary critic, and professor.
 * Hans Hermes, 91, German mathematician and logician.
 * Irv Kupcinet, 91, American columnist and television personality, pneumonia.
 * Morten Lange, 83, Danish mycologist and politician.
 * Czesław Marchewczyk, 91, Polish ice hockey player.
 * Jed Williams, 51, Welsh jazz journalist and artistic director of the Brecon Jazz Festival.
 * Vasilije Šijaković, 74, Montenegrin football player.

11

 * Andrei Bolibrukh, 53, Soviet (Russian) mathematician, known for his work on ordinary differential equations.
 * Robert Brown, 82, British actor (spy boss M in four James Bond films), cancer.
 * George Wallace, Baron Wallace of Coslany, 97, British politician and life peer (MP for Chislehurst).
 * Harold Walker, Baron Walker of Doncaster, 76, British politician (MP for Doncaster and Doncaster Central).
 * Paul Janssen, 77, Belgian physician and founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica.
 * John Emmett Lyle, Jr., 93, American politician.
 * Claës-Henrik Nordenskiöld, 86, Swedish Air Force officer and sailor.
 * Lloyd Pettit, 76, American sportscaster.
 * Miquel Martí i Pol, 74, Catalan poet, multiple sclerosis.
 * Shunsuke Shima, 71, Japanese actor and voice actor.
 * Don Taylor, 67, British theatre and television director.

12

 * Jonathan Brandis, 27, American actor (seaQuest DSV, It, Sidekicks), suicide by hanging.
 * Whitfield Cook, 94, American writer of screenplays, stage plays, short stories and novels.
 * Cameron Duncan, 17, New Zealand filmmaker, bone cancer.
 * Kay E. Kuter, 78, American actor.
 * Penny Singleton, 95, American actress, singer and dancer, stroke.
 * John Tartaglione, 82, American comic book artist, esophageal cancer.
 * Tony Thompson, 48, American drummer for The Power Station, kidney cancer.

13

 * Ray Harris, 76, American rockabilly musician and songwriter.
 * Nobuo Okishio, 76, Japanese marxian economist.
 * Andrew Vázsonyi, 87, Hungarian-American mathematician, founder of The Institute of Management Sciences.
 * Kellie Waymire, 36, American actress (Star Trek: Enterprise, Six Feet Under), cardiac arrest.

14

 * Pierre Camonin, 100, French organist and composer.
 * Giles Gordon, 63, Scottish literary agent and writer.
 * F B J Kuiper, 96, Dutch scholar in Indology.
 * Gene Anthony Ray, 41, American actor, dancer, and choreographer, complications of a stroke.
 * Tim Vigors, 82, British fighter ace during World War II and biographer.

15

 * Earl Battey, 68, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins), cancer.
 * Mohamed Choukri, 68, Moroccan author and novelist, cancer.
 * Ian Geoghegan, 63, Australian race car driver.
 * David Holt, 76, American child actor, heart attack.
 * Ray Lewis, 93, Canadian track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.
 * Tung-Yen Lin, 91, Chinese-American structural engineer, heart attack.
 * Dorothy Loudon, 70, American actress, cancer.
 * Mitchell Paige, 85, American-Serbian Marine Corps colonel, heart attack.
 * Laurence Tisch, 80, American billionaire, head of Loews Corporation and CBS television network, cancer.
 * James D. Weaver, 83, American politician (U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 24th congressional district).
 * Speedy West, 79, American pedal steel guitarist and record producer.
 * Ned Wulk, 83, American basketball coach (Arizona State University) and baseball coach.

16

 * Fernanda Bullano, 89, Italian sprinter (women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
 * Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, 83, American dermatologist.
 * Richard Lam, 56, Hong Kong songwriter, lyricist and columnist, lymphoma.
 * Bettina Goislard, 29, French UNHCR relief worker, killed by Taliban militants.
 * Albert Nozaki, 91, Japanese-American art director (The War of the Worlds, The Ten Commandments).

17

 * Gerry Adams, Sr, 77, Irish Republican Army volunteer, father of Gerry Adams.
 * Surjit Bindrakhia, 41, Indian singer, cardiac arrest, heart attack.
 * Arthur Conley, 58, American soul singer, intestinal cancer.
 * Maurice A. Dionne, 67, Canadian educator and politician.
 * Don Gibson, 75, American singer-songwriter.
 * Bertrand Hallward, 102, British educationalist.
 * Colin Harrison, 77, English ornithologist.
 * Claude Nicot, 78, French film actor.
 * Pete Taylor, 75, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).

18

 * Vivian Bonnell, 79, Antiguan actress (House of Flowers, For Pete's Sake, Ghost, Sanford and Son), diabetes.
 * Ken Brett, 55, American baseball player, brother of George Brett, brain cancer.
 * Patricia Broderick, 78, American playwright (Infinity) and painter, mother of Matthew Broderick, cancer.
 * Bob Carmichael, 63, Australian tennis player and coach.
 * Michael Kamen, 55, American composer (Die Hard, Band of Brothers, 101 Dalmatians), heart attack.

19

 * Gillian Barge, 63, English actress (The Cherry Orchard, Measure For Measure, The Winter's Tale), cancer.
 * Harry Buffington, 84, American professional football player (Oklahoma State, New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers).
 * William B. Macomber, Jr., American diplomat and president of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
 * Života Panić, 70, Yugoslav military officer.
 * Greg Ridley, 56, English rock artist, complications following pneumonia.
 * Hans Tabor, 81, Danish diplomat and politician.
 * Bill Young, 86, Australian politician (Tasmanian House of Assembly for Franklin).
 * Shi Zhecun, 97, Chinese essayist, poet, and short story writer.

20

 * Robert Addie, 43, English actor (Excalibur, Robin of Sherwood, Another Country, Dutch Girls, Merlin), lung cancer.
 * Pedro Adigue, 60, Filipino boxer and light welterweight world champion.
 * Loris Azzaro, 70, French-Italian fashion designer, cancer.
 * David Dacko, 73, first president of the Central African Republic, asthma.
 * Eugene Kleiner, 80, Austrian-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist.
 * Mary Jane Russell, 77, American photographic fashion model, pulmonary fibrosis.
 * Roger Short, 58, British diplomat, consul-general in Istanbul, homicide.
 * Jim Siedow, 83, American actor, pulmonary emphysema.
 * Ferry Sonneville, 72, Indonesian badminton player.
 * Pedro L. Yap, 85, Filipino judge and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
 * Kerem Yılmazer, 58, Turkish actor, homicide.

21

 * Eşfak Aykaç, 85, Turkish football player and coach.
 * Bill Haarlow, 90, American basketball player.
 * Emil Pažický, 76, Slovak football player.
 * Armand Putzeys, 86, Belgian cyclist andOlympic medalist.
 * Teddy Randazzo, 68, American singer-songwriter.

22

 * Mario Beccaria, 83, Italian politician.
 * Iosif Budahazi, 56, Romanian fencer (men's individual sabre, men's team sabre at the 1972 Summer Olympics).
 * Joe Just, 87, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).
 * Yuri Khukhrov, 71, Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist.
 * George Peoples, 43, American football player (Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots, Tampa Bay Buccaneers).
 * Al Richardson, 61, British Trotskyist historian and activist.
 * Dick Thomas, 88, American singing cowboy, songwriter, and musician.

23

 * Patricia Burke, 86, English singer and actress (Lisbon Story, The Day the Fish Came Out, The Clitheroe Kid).
 * Nick Carter, 79, New Zealand racing cyclist (men's individual road race at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
 * Richard Dogbeh, 70, Beninese novelist and educator.
 * Jhalak Man Gandarbha, 68, Nepali folk singer.
 * Patrick Jansen, 82, Indian field hockey player (gold medal in field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
 * Johny Lahure, 61, Luxembourgish politician.
 * Murasoli Maran, 69, Indian politician.
 * Margaret Singer, 82, American clinical psychologist and researcher, pneumonia.
 * Bill Strutton, 85, Australian screenwriter and novelist, heart attack.
 * Grigori Tokaty, 90, Soviet rocket scientist and politician.

24

 * Luai al-Atassi, 76/7, Syrian army commander and politician, President (1963).
 * Sheikh Niamat Ali, 63, Bangladeshi film director.
 * Saifuddin Azizi, 88, Chinese politician.
 * Hesba Fay Brinsmead, 81, Australian author of books for children and young adults (Pastures of the Blue Crane).
 * Reiko Dan, 68, Japanese actress.
 * Dick Hutton, 80, American amateur and professional wrestler.
 * Hugh Kenner, 80, Canadian literary critic.
 * Michael Small, 64, American film score composer, prostate cancer.
 * Floquet de Neu, 38-40, Spanish albino western lowland gorilla.
 * Warren Spahn, 82, American baseball pitcher (Milwaukee Braves) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.
 * Tun Tun, 80, Indian playback singer and actress-comedienne.

25

 * Bernard Cohn, 75, American anthropologist and academic.
 * Jacques François, 83, French actor.
 * Shulamith Hareven, 73, Israeli writer and essayist.
 * Zhang Honggen, 67, Chinese football player and coach.
 * Mary Queeny, 90, Lebanese-Egyptian actress and film producer.

26

 * Andrea Bonomi, 80, Italian football player.
 * `Alí-Akbar Furútan, 98, Iranian Baháʼí educator and author.
 * Sadegh Khalkhali, 77, Iranian Shia cleric and ayatollah, cancer.
 * Meyer Kupferman, 77, American composer and clarinetist, heart failure.
 * Lionel Ngakane, 75, South African filmmaker and actor (The Mark of the Hawk, The Squeeze).
 * Gordon Reid, 64, Scottish actor.
 * Soulja Slim, 26, American rapper, homicide.
 * Lise Thomsen, 88, Danish film actress.
 * Stefan Wul, 81, French science fiction writer (Oms en série).

27

 * Satyendra Dubey, 30, Indian Engineering Service officer, assassinated.
 * Arthur Greenslade, 80, British conductor and arranger for films and television.
 * Riccardo Malipiero, 89, Italian composer, pianist, critic, and music educator.
 * Will Quadflieg, 89, German actor, pulmonary embolism.
 * Marjorie Reeves, 98, British historian and educationalist.
 * Kurt von Fischer, 90, Swiss musicologist and classical pianist.

28

 * Ted Bates, 85, British footballer and manager.
 * Harold Von Braunhut, 77, American marketer and creator of Amazing Sea-Monkeys, suicide.
 * Edmund Hartmann, 92, American film and television writer and producer.
 * Terry Lester, 53, American actor, heart attack.
 * Thekra, 45, Tunisian singer, shot.

29

 * Norman Burton, 79, American actor (Diamonds Are Forever, The Towering Inferno, The New Adventures of Wonder Woman), traffic collision.
 * Tony Canadeo, 84, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
 * Jim Carlin, 85, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
 * Jesse Carver, 92, English football player and manager.
 * Jan-Magnus Jansson, 81, Finnish politician. chairman of the Swedish People's Party of Finland.
 * Larry Latham, 51, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
 * Robert Y. Thornton, 93, American attorney, politician, and jurist.
 * Rudi Martinus van Dijk, 71, Dutch composer.

30

 * Earl Bellamy, 86, American film and television director (Leave It to Beaver, The Lone Ranger, I Spy, M*A*S*H), heart attack.
 * Jack Brewer, 85, American baseball player (New York Giants).
 * Barber Conable, 81, American politician, president of the World Bank (1986–1991), infectious disease.
 * António Jesus Correia, 79, Portuguese football and roller hockey (quad) player.
 * Gertrude Ederle, 98, American swimmer and first woman to swim the English Channel (1926).
 * Hans Kuschke, 89, German rower and Olympic medalist.
 * Kin Platt, 91, American writer, artist, painter, sculptor, caricaturist, and comics artist.