Deaths in December 2003

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2003.

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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.

December 2003

1

• Hamza Alvi, 82, Pakistani-British sociologist and activist (Campaign Against Racial Discrimination).[1]
• Barbara Galdonik, 69, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[2]
• Clark Kerr, 92, first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1952–58) and President of the University of California (1958–67), complications from a fall.
• Eugenio Monti, 75, Italian bobsledder (six Olympic bobsledding medals: 1956 two silver, 1964 two bronze, 1968 two gold).[3]
• Carl Schenkel, 55, Swiss film director.

2

• Ruth Nanda Anshen, 103, American philosopher, author and editor.[4]
• John Brimhall, 75, American composer, music arranger and author of more than 500 music instruction books.[5]
• Alan Davidson, 79, British food writer and diplomat.
• Fernando Di Leo, 71, Italian film director and script writer.
• Ignaz Kiechle, 73, German politician and minister for agriculture (1983–93).
• Rudolph A. Peterson, 98, American banker.
• Jim Sheehan, 90, American baseball player (New York Giants).[6]

3

• Dulce Chacón, 49, Spanish poet, novelist and playwright, Pancreatic cancer.
• Jim Conway, 78, Australian rules football player and coach.
• Jay Difani, 80, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[7]
• Ellen Drew, 88, American film actress, Liver ailment.
• David Hemmings, 62, British actor and director, heart attack.
• John Randal McDonald, 81, American architect.

4

• Jace Bugg, 27, American professional golfer (Nationwide Tour, Canadian Tour).[8]
• John H. Hannah Jr., 64, American judge (U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas), heart attack.[9]
• Iggy Katona, 87, American stock car racer.
• Jonathan Luna, 38, United States Assistant Attorney.
• David Vaughan, 59, English psychedelic artist.[10]
• Jacques Viau, 84, Canadian lawyer.

5

• Paul Busby, 85, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[11]
• Felix Kaspar, 88, Austrian figure skater (bronze medal in men's singles figure skating at the 1936 Winter Olympics).[12]
• Jack Keller, 61, American poker player.
• Bert Templeton, 63, Scottish-born Canadian ice hockey coach, kidney cancer.
• Julius Waring Walker Jr., 76, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Upper Volta.[13]

6

• Haddis Alemayehu, 93, Ethiopian Foreign Minister and novelist.
• Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, 85, Guatemalan military ruler, President of Guatemala who murdered thousands of adversaries.[14]
• John Bingham, 61, British classical pianist.[15]
• Frank J. Breth, 66, American Marine Corps brigadier general.[16]
• John Ronald Henderson, 83, British army officer.
• Barry Long, 77, Australian spiritual teacher and writer.
• Jerry Tuite, 36, American wrestler, heart attack.

7

• Roland Asselin, 86, Canadian fencer (1948 Olympic fencing, 1952 Olympic fencing, 1956 Olympic fencing).[17]
• Johnny Bulla, 89, American golfer.
• Carl F. H. Henry, 90, American Evangelical theologian and founder of Christianity Today magazine.
• Azie Taylor Morton, 67, American public servant (Treasurer of the United States), complications from a stroke.[18]

8

• Lewis M. Allen, 81, American film and Broadway producer, nominated for seven Tony Awards and won three.[19]
• Margaret Jean Anderson, 84, Canadian businesswoman and senator (representing Northumberland--Miramichi, New Brunswick).[20]
• Nikolay Binev, 69, Bulgarian theater and film actor.
• Nelson Bobb, 79, American professional basketball player (Temple University, Philadelphia Warriors).[21]
• Rubén González, 84, Cuban pianist.
• Chuck Noe, 79, American basketball coach (VMI, Virginia Tech, South Carolina, VCU) and broadcaster.[22]
• Sir Stephen Tumim, 73, British lawyer, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons.
• Francine Weisweiller, 87, French socialite and patron of Jean Cocteau.[23]

9

• Margaret Quass, 77, British educationalist.
• Paul Simon, 75, American author and politician, United States Senator from Illinois from 1985 to 1997.[24]
• Norm Sloan, 77, American college basketball player and coach (The Citadel, University of Florida, North Carolina State).[25]
• David P. Weikart, 72, American psychologist and child education expert, his findings are widely cited to promote Head Start.[26]

10

• Robert Bartley, 66, American newspaper editor (Wall Street Journal editorial page), won a Pulitzer Prize.[27]
• Sir Oswald Cheung, 81, Hong Kong lawyer and politician.
• Ettore Perazzoli, 29, Italian free software developer.
• Sir John Watts, 73, British army general.[28]
• Don Wheeler, 81, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).[29]

11

• Shah Ahmad Noorani, 77, Pakistani Islamic scholar, mystic, philosopher, revivalist and an ultra–conservative politician.[30]
• Malcolm Clarke, 60, British composer.
• Ahmadou Kourouma, 76, Ivorian novelist.
• Ram Kishore Shukla, 80, Indian politician.
• John W. Sidgmore, 52, former head of Worldcom and UUNet, acute pancreatitis.

12

• Heydar Aliyev, 80, Azerbaijani politician, served as the third president of Azerbaijan.[31]
• Ross Belsher, 70, Canadian politician (member of Parliament of Canada for Fraser Valley East, British Columbia).[32]
• Michael Casson, 78, British potter.
• Joseph Anthony Ferrario, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Honolulu (1982–1993).
• Earl Gillespie, 81, American sportscaster, voice of the Milwaukee Braves.
• Keiko, 27, orca of Reino Aventura and Free Willy fame, pneumonia.
• Fadwa Toukan, 86, Palestinian poet.

13

• Elizabeth Bates, 56, American professor of cognitive science, pioneering work in child language acquisition, pancreatic cancer.[33]
• Elizabeth Bunce, 88, American geophysicist, oceanographer (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) and author.[34]
• Māris Čaklais, 63, Latvian poet and writer.
• Mollie Hardwick, 87, British writer.
• William V. Roth, Jr., 82, American lawyer and politician United States Senator from Delaware from 1971 to 2001.[35]
• Webster Young, 71, American jazz trumpeter (Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie).[36]

14

• Jeanne Crain, 78, American actress, heart attack.
• Blas Ople, 75, Filipino journalist and politician.
• Frank Sheeran, 83, American labor union leader and mobster, "The Irishman"[37]

15

• Abram Salmon Benenson, 89, American medical doctor and author on preventive medicine, epidemiology and communicable diseases.[38]
• Johnny Cunningham, 46, British folk musician.
• George Fisher, 80, American political cartoonist.
• Jack Gregory, 80, British athlete.
• Garvin Hamner, 79, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[39]
• David S. Lewis, 86, American aerospace engineer.
• Keith Magnuson, 56, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks), road accident.[40]
• Sergio Vergara, 76, Chilean fencer (men's individual épée fencing at the 1964 Summer Olympics).[41]
• Dora Wasserman, 84, Russian-Canadian actress, playwright, theater director.[42]

16

• Willis Adcock, 81, Canadian-American inventor, physicist, electrical engineer and educator.[43]
• Glynn Boyd Harte, 55, English painter, illustrator and author.[44]
• Robert Stanfield, 89, Canadian politician (member of Parliament representing Colchester—Hants and Halifax, Nova Scotia).[45]
• Gary Stewart, 58, American country music singer: "She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)", suicide.[46]

17

• Bonnie Baker, 85, Canadian baseball player (AAGPBL)[47]
• Ed Devereaux, 78, Australian actor.
• Otto Graham, 82, American professional football (Cleveland Browns) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, heart aneurysm.[48]
• David Smith, 69, English cricketer.
• Alan Tilvern, 86, English actor and voice artist (Bhowani Junction, The Lord of the Rings (1978 film), Who Framed Roger Rabbit).[49]
• Lloyd Weier, 65, Australian rugby league player.
• Jim Wolf, 51, American professional football player (Prairie View A&M, Pittsburgh Steelers, Kansas City Chiefs).[50]
• Gordon Wood, 89, American high school football coach, retired in 1985 as the winningest high school football coach in the nation.[51]

18

• Daniel Amneus, 84, American literary scholar.
• Charles Berlitz, 90, American linguist, spoke 32 languages, wrote world-wide language curriculum.[52]
• Jack Dormand, Baron Dormand of Easington, 84, British politician.
• Susan Travers, 94, only English woman to serve in the French Foreign Legion.
• Richard Wahlstrom, 72, American Olympic rower (bronze medal in men's coxed four at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[53]

19

• Peter Carter-Ruck, 89, British libel lawyer.
• Roger Conant, 94, American herpetologist.
• Hope Lange, 72, American actress, ischemic colitis.
• Carmen Mauro, 77, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers, Washington Senators, Philadelphia Athletics).[54]

20

• Denis Barry, 74, American chess player and official, president of the United States Chess Federation.[55]
• Grigore Grigoriu, 62, Moldovan actor, car accident.
• Herbert Kutscha, 86, German Luftwaffe fighter ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II.
• Alan Magee, 84, American World War II airman, survived 22,000 ft. fall.
• Gil Reece, 61, Welsh footballer.

21

• Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 79, Spanish businessman and playboy.[56]
• Antony Allen, 90, English cricketer.
• Gawaine Baillie, 69, British amateur racing driver, engineer, industrialist, stamp collector and estate owner.[57]
• Robert Boutilier, 50, Canadian biologist and professor (Royal Society of Canada).[58]
• M. J. Gopalan, 94, Indian sportsman.
• G. V. Iyer, 86, Indian film director and actor.
• Wanda Włodarczyk, 78, Polish Olympic fencer (women's foil at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[59]

22

• Mikhail Borodulin, 36, Kazakhstani ice hockey player (men's ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics).[60]
• Wah Chang, 86, Chinese-American designer, sculptor, and artist.
• Dave Dudley, 75, American country music singer, heart attack.
• Rose Hill, 89, English actress and operatic soprano.
• Chandu Sarwate, 83, Indian cricketer and fingerprint expert.
• Doris Shadbolt, 85, Canadian art curator and writer.
• Alvan Williams, 71, British footballer and manager.

23

• Charlie Bowles, 86, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[61]
• John Newlove, 65, Canadian poet and editor.[62]
• John Sanders, 70, British organist, pneumonia.
• Chandu Sarwate, 83, Indian cricketer.
• Basil Wells, 91, American writer.

24

• David Hobman, 76, English social activist.
• Herman Keiser, 89, American golfer.[63]
• Eugene Maltsev, 74, Soviet Russian painter.
• Nigel Moore, 73, English cricketer.
• Lois Barclay Murphy, 101, American developmental psychologist, congestive heart failure.
• Noel Toy, 84, American burlesque performer.

25

• Frédéric Berthet, 49, French writer.
• Charles Concordia, 95, American electrical engineer and computer pioneer.
• Foggy Lyttle, 59, Irish guitarist.
• Nicola Paone, 88, American singer, songwriter, and restaurateur.
• George Zambelli, 79, American businessman, long-time president and manager of Zambelli Fireworks.[64]

26

• Hugh Bean, 74, English violinist, teacher and leader of the Philharmonia Orchestra.[65]
• Gale Bishop, 81, American professional basketball player (Washington State, Philadelphia Warriors).[66]
• Redfern Froggatt, 79, English footballer.
• Phil Goldman, 39, American engineer and entrepreneur, heart failure.
• Yoshio Shirai, 80, first Japanese world boxing champion, pneumonia.

27

• Pete Alvarado, 83, American animation and comic book artist (Disney Studios, Warner Bros. Animation, Western Publishing).[67]
• Sir Alan Bates, 69, British actor (The Fixer, Zorba the Greek, Georgy Girl, Women in Love), pancreatic cancer.[68]
• Enric Bernat, 80, Spanish businessman, founder of Chupa Chups.[69]
• Iván Calderón, 41, Puerto Rican baseball player (Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox, Montreal Expos), homicide by gunshot.[70]
• Gerhard Doerfer, 83, German philologist.
• Vestal Goodman, 74, American Southern Gospel singer, complications from influenza.
• Nagavally R. S. Kurup, 86, Indian writer and broadcaster.
• Richie Niemiera, 82, American professional basketball player and coach (Notre Dame, Fort Wayne Pistons, Anderson Packers).[71]
• Patrick J. Reynolds, 83, Irish politician.
• Polly Rosenbaum, 104, American politician and teacher.
• Ying Ruocheng, 74, Chinese actor (Marco Polo, The Last Emperor, Little Buddha), director, translator and China's vice-minister of culture.[72]
• Alex Sakula, 86, British respiratory physician.

28

• Lawrence Bogorad, 82, Soviet-American botanist, a pioneer in photosynthesis and chloroplast biology.[73]
• Benjamin Thurman Hacker, 68, first American Naval Flight Officer to achieve the "Flag" rank.
• Frank Parr, 85, British chess player.[74]
• Thomas Pearsall, 83, Australian politician.
• John Terraine, 82, British military historian.

29

• Charles E. Beatley, 87, American politician, mayor of Alexandria, Virginia.[75]
• Dickie Davis, 37, English cricketer, brain cancer.
• Earl Hindman, 61, American actor (Home Improvement), lung cancer.
• Dinsdale Landen, 71, British actor, pneumonia.[76]
• Don Lawrence, 75, British comic book artist.
• Bob Monkhouse, 75, British comedian and game show host, prostate cancer.
• Ersa Siregar, 52, Indonesian reporter and journalist, shot dead in a shootout between TNI and GAM.
• Michel Zanoli, 35, Dutch road cyclist (men's individual road race, men's team time trial at 1988 Summer Olympics).[77]

30

• David Bale, 62, South African businessman and activist, husband of Gloria Steinem.[78]
• Vladimir Bogomolov, 77, Soviet writer (The Moment of Truth, 1973).[79]
• John Gregory Dunne, 71, American novelist and screenwriter, heart attack.[80]
• Anita Mui, 40, Hong Kong pop queen.
• Samuel M. Nabrit, 98, American marine biologist and educator, president of Texas Southern University.[81]
• Hukwe Zawose, 65, Tanzanian musician.[82]

31

• Renata Babak, 69, Ukrainian-American mezzo-soprano who defected from the Bolshoi Opera in 1973.[83]
• Sophie Daumier, 69, French actress, comedian, Huntington's disease.
• Sir David Scott-Barrett, 81, British army general.
• Arthur R. von Hippel, 105, German-American scientist and MIT professor who made critical contributions to the development of radar.[84]
• Valentin Vdovichenko, 75, Soviet fencer (men's team épée fencing at the 1956 Summer Olympics).[85]
• Sieglinde Wagner, 82, Austrian operatic contralto.[86]
• Max West, 87, American baseball player (Boston Bees/Braves, Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates).[87]

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