Deaths in September 2003

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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

 * Rand Brooks, 84, American film actor (Gone with the Wind, Babes in Arms, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin).
 * Pasquale Buonocore, 87, Italian water polo player and Olympic champion.
 * Albert Frey, 90, German SS commander during World War II and author, suicide.
 * Terry Frost, 87, British artist.
 * Eulalio González, 81, Mexican actor, singer-songwriter, screenwriter, film director, and film producer.
 * John Gould, 94, American columnist, humorist and essayist.
 * John Gray, 66, British diplomat.
 * Jayant Pathak, 82, Indian poet and literary critic.
 * Héctor Rodríguez, 83, Cuban baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
 * Jack Smight, 78, American theatre and film director, cancer.
 * Ramón Serrano Suñer, 101, Spanish politician.
 * Mildred Thompson, 67, American artist.

2

 * George Charles Hayter Chubb, 3rd Baron Hayter, 92, British politician and industrialist.
 * Nehemiah Levanon, 88, Israeli intelligence agent and diplomat.
 * Maria Manton, 92, French painter.
 * Ptolemy Reid, 91, Guyanese veterinarian and politician, prime minister (1980-1984).
 * Bruce Waibel, 45, American musician and bass guitar player (FireHouse, Gregg Allman Band, Santana), suicide.
 * Peter West, 83, British BBC presenter and sports commentator, best known for his cricket, tennis and rugby coverage.

3

 * Ray Davis, 88, United States Marine Corps four-star-general, heart attack.
 * Alan Dugan, 80, American poet.
 * Paul Jennings Hill, 49, American anti-abortion activist, execution by lethal injection.
 * Rudolf Leiding, 88, German chairman of the Volkswagen automobile company.
 * Charles Liebman, 68, American political scientist and author on Jewish life and Israel.
 * Andrzej Nartowski, 71, Polish basketball player (basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics).
 * Ilias Petropoulos, 75, Greek author, folklorist and urban historian, cancer.
 * Mohsin Zaidi, 68, Indian Urdu poet.

4

 * Ben Aris, 66, English actor (Hi-de-Hi!, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Stepping Out).
 * Lola Bobesco, 82, Romanian-Belgian violinist.
 * Béla H. Bánáthy, 83, Hungarian-American educator, systems and design scientist and author.
 * Susan Chilcott, 40, English opera singer, breast cancer.
 * Charles A. Gabriel, 75, Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, Alzheimer's disease.
 * David P. Robbins, 61, American mathematician, pancreatic cancer.
 * Tibor Varga, 82, Hungarian violinist, conductor and pedagogue.

5

 * Yūji Aoki, 58, Japanese manga artist, lung cancer.
 * Kir Bulychev, 68, Soviet and Russian science fiction writer, critic and historian, cancer.
 * Harley Grossman, 73, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
 * Richard Harrison, 82, New Zealand politician.
 * Sir Ian Hunter, 84, British classical music impresario and festival organizer.
 * Gisele MacKenzie, 76, Canadian-American singer and entertainer, colorectal cancer].
 * Miloš Minić, 89, Yugoslav and Serbian communist politician.
 * James Rachels, 62, American philosopher, cancer.
 * C. H. Sisson, 89, British writer and poet.

6

 * Charles Edward Bennett, 92, American politician (U.S. Representative for Florida's 2nd and 3rd congressional districts).
 * Marshall Joseph Caifano, 92, Italian-American mobster (Chicago Outfit).
 * Jules Engel, 94, American filmmaker, visual artist, and film director.
 * Marie Foster, 85, American civil rights movement leader.
 * Harry Goz, 71, American musical theater actor (Fiddler on the Roof) and voice actor (Sealab 2021), multiple myeloma.
 * Ari Guðmundsson, 75, Icelandic Olympic swimmer and ski jumper.
 * Mamohato of Lesotho, 62, Lesotho Queen Mother and politician.
 * Maurice Michael Otunga, 80, Kenyan Catholic prelate and cardinal.
 * Louise Platt, 88, American theater, film, and TV actress.

7

 * Great Antonio, 77, Croatian-Canadian strongman, wrestler, actor and eccentric, heart attack.
 * Joe McDonald, 74, Scottish footballer.
 * Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountaineer, avalanche.
 * Robert Weinman, 88, American sculptor and "one of the nation's most accomplished medallic artists".
 * Merv Wellington, 62, New Zealand politician (Member of Parliament for Manurewa, Papakura).
 * Warren Zevon, 56, American singer and songwriter, cancer.

8

 * Herbert Gentry, 84, American expressionist painter.
 * Marc Honegger, 77, French musicologist and choirmaster.
 * Jaclyn Linetsky, 17, Canadian voice actress (Caillou, 15/Love, What's with Andy?), road accident.
 * Doris Ogilvie, 91, Canadian diver and Olympian.
 * Gulabrai Ramchand, 76, Indian cricketer.
 * Leni Riefenstahl, 101, German film director, producer, screenwriter, and photographer.

9

 * Thomas Allibone, 99, English physicist, focused on nuclear fusion and particle physics.
 * David Applebaum, 51, American-Israeli physician, suicide bomb victim.
 * Reginald Smith Brindle, 86, British composer and writer.
 * Andrei Folbert, 72, Romanian basketball player.
 * Joaquim Homs, 97, Spanish composer.
 * Larry Hovis, 67, American actor (Hogan's Heroes), esophageal cancer].
 * Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan, 50, Pakistani musician.
 * Aleksandr Moiseyev, 76, Russian basketball player and Olympic medalist.
 * Edward Teller, 95, Hungarian-American theoretical physicist, "Father of the H-Bomb".
 * Marthe Vogt, 100, German neuroscientist.
 * Don Willesee, 87, Australian politician, member of the Australian Senate representing Western Australia.

10

 * Larry Allen Hayes, 54, American spree killer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Lee Kyung-hae, South Korean farmer and activist, suicide.
 * Boris Meissner, 88, German lawyer and social scientist.
 * Martin Page, 65, British writer and journalist, heart problems.

11

 * Ben Bril, 91, Dutch boxer (men's flyweight boxing at the 1928 Summer Olympics) and referee.
 * Nicholas DiOrio, 82, Italian-American association football player, colorectal cancer.
 * Anna Lindh, 46, Swedish foreign minister, stabbed.
 * Antti Nurmesniemi, 76, Finnish designer.
 * John Ritter, 54, American actor (Three's Company, Clifford The Big Red Dog, 8 Simple Rules), Emmy winner (1984), aortic dissection.

12

 * Jack Burkitt, 77, English football player.
 * Johnny Cash, 71, American Hall of Fame country singer ("Folsom Prison Blues", "I Walk the Line", "Ring of Fire"), diabetes.
 * Chappie Fox, 90, American circus historian.
 * Freddy Turner, 89, South African rugby player.

13

 * George Boothman, 86, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).
 * Ron Burton, 67, American professional football player (Northwestern, Boston Patriots), bone cancer.
 * Vítor Damas, 55, Portuguese football player, cancer.
 * Howard D. Graves, 64, United States Army officer, cancer.
 * Reza Beyk Imanverdi, 67, Iranian actor and director, lung cancer.
 * Kaino Lempinen, 82, Finnish gymnast and Olympic medalist.
 * Frank O'Bannon, 73, American politician, Governor of Indiana (since 1997), stroke.
 * Arthur Rowe, 67, English Olympic track and field athlete.
 * Johnny Welaj, 89, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Philadelphia Athletics).

14

 * Donald O. Clifton, 79, American psychologist, author, researcher, and entrepreneur.
 * Garrett Hardin, 88, American ecologist and philosopher, suicide.
 * John Serry Sr., 88, Italian American musician composer and arranger.
 * Yetunde Price, 31, American half-sister of Venus and Serena Williams, murdered in a shooting.
 * Kurt Heinrich Wolff, 91, German-American sociologist.

15

 * Garner Ted Armstrong, 73, American television evangelist, pneumonia.
 * Paul Granlund, 77, American sculptor.
 * Errol Hill, 82, Trinidad and Tobago writer, playwright, actor.
 * Josef Hiršal, 83, Czech author, poet and novelist.

16

 * Jack Brymer, 88, British clarinetist (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra).
 * Donald Deacon, 83, Canadian politician, leukemia.
 * John Orrell, 68, British author, theatre historian and academic, cancer.
 * Sergio Ortega, 65, Chilean composer, pianist, poet, and politician, cancer.
 * Sheb Wooley, 82, American actor (High Noon, Rawhide) and singer (The Purple People Eater), leukemia.

17

 * Yitzhak Artzi, 82, Israeli politician.
 * Leendert Ginjaar, 75, Dutch politician.
 * Erich Hallhuber, 52, German actor, epileptic seizure.
 * Ljubica Marić, 94, Yugoslav/Serbian classical composer.
 * Raymond Milton, 91, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympic silver medalist.
 * George Sawaya, 80, American actor and stuntman.
 * Neal Wood, 81, American-British political theorist and author.

18

 * Robert G. Bartle, 75, American mathematician, specialized in real analysis, lymphoma.
 * Erich Bäumler, 73, German football player and manager.
 * Jean Dieuzaide, 82, French photographer.
 * Richard Alden Howard, 86, American botanist and plant taxonomist.
 * Bob Mitchell, 76, British politician.
 * Don Reese, 52, American gridiron football player (Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints), liver cancer.
 * Sergey Smirnov, 43, Russian Olympic track and field athlete.

19

 * Johnny Best, 89, American jazz trumpeter.
 * Anatoly Bogatyrev, 90, Soviet and Belarusian composer and music teacher.
 * Slim Dusty, 76, Australian country music singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer, lung cancer.
 * Emil Fackenheim, 87, German Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi.
 * Alfred Grislawski, 83, German fighter pilot during World War II.
 * Kenneth Erwin Hagin, 86, American preacher.
 * Ellen Idelson, 42, American television producer, television writer and actress, complications from cancer and Crohn's disease.
 * Arthur Kinoy, 82, American attorney and civil rights leader.
 * Frank Lowe, 60, American jazz saxophonist, lung cancer.
 * Jim Thompson, 67, British Anglican bishop.

20

 * Robert Blake, Baron Blake, 86, English historian and life peer, known for his biography of Benjamin Disraeli.
 * Tom Busby, 66, Canadian actor (The War Lover, The Dirty Dozen, Heavenly Pursuits), heart attack.
 * Lorenzo Calonga, 74, Paraguayan football player.
 * Stanley Fafara, 54, American child actor, complications from hernia surgery.
 * Ken Khouri, 86, Jamaican record producer.
 * Gordon Mitchell, 80, American actor and bodybuilder, heart attack.
 * Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, 62, British Cabinet minister, Leader of the House of Lords.
 * Simon Muzenda, 80, Zimbabwean politician and vice-President of Zimbabwe, diabetes.
 * Vernon Singer, 84, Canadian politician.
 * Sonora Webster Carver, 99, American entertainer.

21

 * Amédée Domenech, 70, French rugby player, hepatitis.
 * Pamela Gordon, 66, American actress.
 * Robert Lochner, 84, American journalist, pulmonary embolism.
 * Lu Ann Simms, 71, American singer.
 * Otis A. Singletary, 81, American historian.

22

 * Arturo Ardao, 90, Uruguayan philosopher and historian.
 * Howard Austen, 74, American confidant and companion of writer Gore Vidal, brain cancer.
 * Maxime Brunfaut, 94, Belgian architect.
 * Gordon Jump, 71, American actor (WKRP in Cincinnati).
 * Richard Lankford, 89, American politician.
 * Wolfgang Peters, 74, German football player.
 * Lee Robinson, 80, Australian producer, director and screenwriter.
 * Hugo Young, 64, British journalist and political commentator (The Guardian, The Observer), colorectal cancer.

23

 * Rosalie Allen, 79, American country musician and television and radio host, known as Queen of the Yodelers.
 * Earl Brown, 87, American football and basketball player and coach (Auburn).
 * Henri Cogan, 89, French actor and stuntman.
 * Simcha Dinitz, 74, Israeli statesman and politician.
 * John E. Flynn, 91, American politician.
 * Theodore R. Kupferman, 83, American politician.
 * Rex Robbins, 68, American Broadway actor, stroke.
 * Bernie Williams, 57, American basketball player, colorectal cancer.

24

 * Yoshinobu Ashihara, 85, Japanese architect.
 * Lyle Bettger, 88, American actor (The Greatest Show on Earth, Nevada Smith, Hawaii Five-O).
 * Herb Gardner, 68, American commercial artist, cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter.
 * Hugh Gregg, 85, American politician, Governor of New Hampshire (1953-1955).
 * Benson Masya, 33, Kenyan long-distance runner, illness.
 * Derek Prince, 88, English biblical scholar and author.
 * Jean Pélégri, 83, French writer and professor of literature.
 * Robert D. Richtmyer, 92, American physicist, author, and musician.
 * Edward Said, 67, Palestinian-American academic, literary critic and political activist, leukemia.

25

 * Thomas Casey, 82, Australian politician.
 * John Clayton, 63, Australian actor, cancer.
 * Anthony Durante, 36, American professional wrestler, drug overdose.
 * Birgit Jürgenssen, 54, Austrian photographer, painter, curator and teacher.
 * Franco Modigliani, 85, Italian Nobel Prize-winning economist.
 * Donald Nicol, 80, English Byzantine scholar.
 * Chuba Okadigbo, 61, Nigerian politician, philosopher, academic, writer and political scientist.
 * George Plimpton, 76, American author, actor, and socialite, heart attack.
 * Yuri Senkevich, 66, Soviet doctor and scientist, heart failure.
 * Josef Wagner, 87, Swiss cyclist.

26

 * Olle Anderberg, 84, Swedish wrestler (1948 Olympic silver medal, 1952 Olympic gold medal).
 * Inday Badiday, 59, Filipino TV host and journalist, multiple organ failure.
 * Władysław Kozaczuk, 79, Polish Army colonel and intelligence historian.
 * Shawn Lane, 40, American guitarist and composer, lung disease.
 * Robert Palmer, 54, British singer, heart attack.
 * Robert Raymond, 81, Australian television pioneer.
 * David Williams, 77, Welsh advertising executive and crime writer.

27

 * Tom Bateman, 80, Australian politician.
 * Tom Brennan, 81, American ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).
 * Paul Burlison, 74, American rockabilly guitarist and a founding member of The Rock and Roll Trio, cancer.
 * Olive Cotton, 92, Australian modernist photographer.
 * Fay Helm, 94, American film actress.
 * Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, 86, Pakistani politician, heart attack.
 * Jean Lucas, 86, French racing driver.
 * Donald J. Mitchell, 80, American politician and member of the United States House of Representatives for New York.
 * Donald O'Connor, 78, American actor, singer and dancer (Singin' in the Rain, Yes Sir, That's My Baby), cardioplegia, heart attack.
 * Wendy Wyland, 38, American Olympic diver (bronze medal in women's 10 metre platform at the 1984 Summer Olympics).
 * Masahiro Yoshimura, 66, Japanese Olympic swimmer (silver medal in 200 metre breaststroke at the 1956 Summer Olympics).

28

 * Proinsias Mac Aonghusa, 70, Irish journalist, writer, andTV presenter.
 * Dany Bébel-Gisler, 68, Guadeloupean sociolinguist, ethnologist and author, preservationist of Creole languages, heart attack.
 * Christopher Foxley-Norris, 86, British Air Chief Marshal.
 * Althea Gibson, 76, African-American tennis player, respiratory failure.
 * Cork Hubbert, 51, American film and television actor, diabetes.
 * Elia Kazan, 94, American film director (A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, East of Eden), Oscar winner (1948, 1955).
 * George Odlum, 69, Saint Lucian politician, pancreatic cancer.
 * Ephraim Oshry, 94-95, Lithuanian-American Orthodox rabbi, author and Holocaust-survivor.
 * Marshall Rosenbluth, 76, American academic and plasma physicist.

29

 * Lubor Tokoš, 80, Czech actor.
 * Wesley Tuttle, 85, American country music singer.
 * Raoul Gregory Vitale, 75, Syrian musicologist.
 * Beatrice Blyth Whiting, 89, American anthropologist, a pioneer in the comparative study of child development.

30

 * Yusuf Bey, 67, American Black Muslim activist and leader, cancer.
 * Ronnie Dawson, 64, American rockabilly singer, guitarist and drummer, esophageal cancer.
 * Oreste Del Buono, 80, Italian author, journalist, translator, literary critic and screenwriter.
 * Eddie Gladden, 65, American jazz drummer.
 * John Hawkesworth, 82, English television/film producer and writer.
 * Robert Kardashian, 59, American criminal defense lawyer, father of Kim, Khloé and Kourtney Kardashian, esophageal cancer.