Deaths in July 2003

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 2003

1

• John Bissell Carroll, 87, American psychologist.
• Herbie Mann, 73, American crossover jazz and bossa nova flutist.[1]
• Bill Miller, 75, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles).[2]
• Wesley Mouzon, 75, American professional boxer, beat Bob Montgomery.
• N!xau, 58, Namibian actor and bushman (The Gods Must Be Crazy).
• George Roper, 69, English comedian.[3]

2

• Ivan Allen Jr., 92, American businessman and 52nd mayor of Atlanta.[4]
• Franklin Farrell, 95, American ice hockey player (silver medal in men's ice hockey at the 1932 Winter Olympics).[5]
• Antonio Fortich, 89, Catholic bishop and social activist.
• Najeeb Halaby, 87, American businessman, aviator, and the father of Queen Noor of Jordan.
• Julia Montgomery Walsh, 80, American businesswoman and stockbroker.[6]

3

• Gaetano Alibrandi, 89, Italian papal diplomat and Apostolic Nuncio to the Republic of Ireland.[7]
• Harold Creighton, 75, British businessman and magazine editor.
• Vince Lloyd, 96, American radio announcer.
• Sir Charles Tidbury, 77, British brewing executive.
• C. C. Wang, 96, Chinese-American artist and art collector.[8]

4

• Manuel Araneta Jr., 76, Filipino basketball player (basketball at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[9]
• Larry Burkett, 64, founder of Christian Financial Concepts.
• André Claveau, 87, French singer.
• Barry White, 58, American smooth soul singer ("Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe"), renal failure.[10]

5

• George Ibrahim, 38, Pakistani Roman Catholic priest.
• Isabelle, Countess of Paris, 91, widow of Henri, Count of Paris, pretender to the French throne.
• Roman Lyashenko, 24, Russian ice hockey player (Dallas Stars, New York Rangers).[11]
• Yoshio Sakurauchi, 91, Japanese politician.
• Bebu Silvetti, 59, Argentine musician, songwriter and arranger.
• Zhang Aiping, 93, Chinese military leader, defense minister under Deng Xiaoping, managed China's nuclear bomb program.

6

• Skip Battin, 69, American bass guitarist, singer and songwriter, member of The Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers.[12]
• Ed Chandler, 86, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).[13]
• Buddy Ebsen, 95, American actor (The Beverly Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones, Breakfast at Tiffany's).[14]
• Michael Hoban, 81, British headmaster.
• Ćiril Kos, 83, Croatian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Djakovo or Bosna and Srijem (1974–1997)
• Kathleen Raine, 95, British poet and literary critic.
• Spec Sanders, 84, American football player (University of Texas, New York Yankees, New York Yanks).[15]
• Ignacio Velasco, 74, Venezuelan Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Caracas from 1995 to 2003.[16]

7

• Raphael I Bidawid, 81, Iraqi Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1989 to 2003.[17]
• Warren L. Carpenter, 71, American military surgeon.
• Izhak Graziani, 78, conductor.
• Ribs Raney, 80, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).[18]

8

• Ladan and Laleh Bijani, 29, Iranian conjoined twins.[19]
• Paul Brand, 88, British surgeon, pioneering leprosy research.[20]
• Duncan Clark, 88, Scottish hammer thrower (1948 Olympic men's hammer throw, 1952 Olympic men's hammer throw).[21]

9

• Eberhard Blum, 84, German civil servant, head of the German Federal Intelligence Bureau (BND).[22]
• Joe Cobbold, 76, English greyhound trainer.
• Josephine Jacobsen, 94, American poet, short story writer and essayist.
• Gregg Wenzel, 33, American Directorate of Operations officer for the CIA stationed in Ethiopia.[23]

10

• Alvin Alcorn, 90, American New Orleans jazz trumpeter.[24]
• John Purdell, 44, American musician and record producer, cancer.
• Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, 101, Britain's chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.
• Manuel Vasques, 76, Portuguese footballer.

11

• Zahra Kazemi, 55, Iran-born Canadian journalist, death by torture.
• Dorothy Canning Miller, 99, American art curator.
• Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 6th Marquess of Salisbury, 86, British aristocrat and politician.
• Ray Whitrod, 88, Australian police officer and Queensland Police Commissioner.[25]
• Ken Whyld, 77, British chess author (The Oxford Companion to Chess), historian and columnist.[26]
• Teddy Yip, 96, Indonesian businessman and race car driver and team owner (Formula One, IndyCar).[27]

12

• Ingeborg de Beausacq, 93, American photographer.
• Benny Carter, 95, American jazz pioneer.
• Patricia Courtney, 71, American baseball player (AAGPBL)[28]
• Roger Freeman, 51, British rally driver, motor race accident.
• Mark Lovell, 43, British rally driver, motor race accident.
• Eliot Wald, 57, American comedy writer for theater, television and movies (The Second City, Saturday Night Live, Camp Nowhere).[29]

13

• Alpha L. Bowser, 92, American U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general (Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Chosin Reservoir).[30]
• Kadawedduwe Jinavamsa Mahathera, 96, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk.
• Jim Quinlan, 81, American professional basketball player (Rochester Royals).[31]
• Eileen Rodgers, 73, American singer and Broadway performer.
• Compay Segundo, 95, Cuban musician and star of the Buena Vista Social Club, kidney failure.

14

• K Bhogishayana, 77, Indian educator.
• Leela Chitnis, 93, Indian actress.
• Morrissey Johnson, 70, Canadian politician (MP for Bonavista—Trinity—Conception, NL), motor vehicle collision with a moose.[32]
• Rubén Marino Navarro, 70, Argentine football player.
• Louis Robertshaw, 90, American football player and lieutenant general in the US Marine Corps, cancer.
• John Scholes, 53, Australian cricketer and coach, heart attack.
• Rajendra Singh, 81, fourth head of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

15

• Roberto Bolaño, 50, Chilean-Spanish writer (The Savage Detectives, 2666).[33]
• John Richard Hyde, 90, Canadian soldier and politician.
• Judith Hare, Countess of Listowel, 100, Hungarian-born British writer and aristocrat.
• Tex Schramm, 83, American president and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys professional football team.[34]
• Alexander Walker, 73, Northern Irish film critic (London Evening Standard) and author.[35]
• Elisabeth Welch, 99, American singer and actress.[36]

16

• Alida van den Bos, 101, Dutch gymnast (gold medal in women's team gymnastics at the 1928 Summer Olympics).[37]
• Celia Cruz, 77, Cuban salsa singer.
• Captain James Kelly, 73, Irish Army officer.
• Carol Shields, 68, Canadian author.
• Reetika Vazirani, 40, Indian-American prize-winning poet and educator.[38]

17

• Pat Fillingham, 89, English test pilot for the de Havilland company.
• Ferenc Gömbös, 59, Hungarian politician, car accident.
• Dr. David Kelly, 59, British scientist and weapons expert, suicide.
• Rosalyn Tureck, 89, American pianist and harpsichordist.
• Walter Zapp, 97, Baltic German inventor (Minox subminiature camera).[39]

18

• Jane Barbe, 74, American voice actress (phone company "Time Lady") and singer, cancer.[40]
• Luther L. Bohanon, 100, American judge (U.S. Dist. Judge of the U.S. Dist. Court of Eastern, Northern, Western Districts of Oklahoma).[41]
• Marc Camoletti, 79, French playwright.
• Norman Rasmussen, 75, American physicist.
• Brad Rone, 35, American boxer, injuries sustained in boxing.

19

• Bill Bright, 81, American evangelical Christian and founder of Campus Crusade for Christ.[42]
• Pierre Graber, 94, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1970–1978).
• Vic Vargas, 64, Filipino actor.
• Jessica Grace Wing, 31, American theatrical composer and filmmaker.[43]

20

• Lauri Aus, 32, Estonian Olympic racing cyclist (1992, 1996, 2000, 2000), struck on bicycle by drunk driver.[44]
• Nicolas Freeling, 76, British crime writer.
• Elliot Norton, 100, American Boston-based theater critic, "The Dean of American Theatre Critics".[45]
• Ángel Felicísimo Rojas, 93, Ecuadorian writer.
• William Woolfolk, 86, American writer, wrote novels, non-fiction, television scripts, comic books.[46]

21

• Walter M. "Matt" Jefferies, 81, American art director (Star Trek series); designer of the Starship Enterprise.
• John Davies, 65, president of the New Zealand Olympic Committee.
• Tim Hemensley, 31, Australian singer & bass guitarist, heroin overdose.

22

• Arthur W. Adamson, 83, American chemist, made contributions to inorganic photochemistry.[47]
• Norma Elaine Brown, 77, American U.S. Air Force major general.[48]
• Hamer H. Budge, 92, American politician (16th Chairman of the SEC, U.S. Representative for Idaho's 2nd congressional district).[49]
• Uday Hussein, 39, eldest son of Saddam Hussein, shot dead by US troops.
• Qusay Hussein, 37, second son of Saddam Hussein, shot dead by US troops.
• Norman Lewis, 95, British travel writer.
• Serge Silberman, 86, French film producer.
• Richard L. Walker, 81, American diplomat (U.S. Ambassador to South Korea) and professor.[50]

23

• Sheila Bromley, 91 or 95, American television and film actress (Westward Ho, Lawless Range, Perry Mason).[51]
• James E. Davis, 42, New York City councilman, shot.
• Juan Delis, 75, Cuban baseball player (Washington Senators).[52]
• Speedy Thomas, 56, American football player.
• Florence Vale, 94, Canadian visual artist.
• Grady Wilson, 80, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).[53]

24

• James Henry Alesia, 89, American judge (U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois).[54]
• Dame Ella Campbell, 92, New Zealand botanist.[55]
• Božidar Drenovac, 81, Serbian football player and manager.
• Colin R. McMillan, 67, nominee for United States Secretary of the Navy.

25

• Ludwig Bölkow, 91, German aeronautical engineer, designed the world's first jet fighter, Nazi Germany's Me262.[56]
• Erik Brann, 52, American Iron Butterfly guitarist.[57]
• Ken Ellis, 75, Welsh footballer.[58]
• Norm McRae, 55, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[59]
• John Schlesinger, 77, English film director (Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man, Sunday Bloody Sunday).[60]

26

• William Dargie, 91, Australian painter.
• Richard Wayne Dirksen, 82, composer, former organist-choirmaster Washington National Cathedral.
• John Higham, 82, American historian.

27

• Lajos von Sipeki-von Balás, 89, Hungarian Olympic modern pentathlete (modern pentathlon at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[61]
• Vance Hartke, 84, American politician (United States Senator from Indiana from 1959 to 1977).[62]
• Henning Holck-Larsen, 96, Danish engineer and entrepreneur.
• Bob Hope, 100, British-born American comedian and actor (series of seven "Road" musical comedy movies with Bing Crosby), pneumonia.[63]
• Rinty Monahan, 75, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[64]
• Benjamin Munson, 87, American physician.

28

• Gladys Edgerly Bates, 107, American sculptor, member of the Philadelphia Ten, founding member of the Mystic Museum of Art.[65]
• Emily Bavar, 88, American journalist, broke the story that Walt Disney was buying land near Orlando for Disney World.[66]
• Aaron Bell, 82, American jazz bassist, composer and teacher, bassist for Duke Ellington.[67]
• True Eames Boardman, 93, American actor and scriptwriter (Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, The Virginian, Bonanza).[68]
• Adrian Burk, 75, American professional football player (Baylor, Baltimore Colts, Philadelphia Eagles).[69]
• Valerie, Lady Goulding, 84, Irish Senator & disability rights campaigner.
• Greg Guidry, 49, American singer-songwriter, suicide.
• Noite Ilustrada, 75, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist.
• Samuel Oschin, 89, Los Angeles entrepreneur and philanthropist.

29

• E.B. Cox, 89, Canadian sculptor.
• 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).[70]
• Foday Sankoh, 65, Sierra Leonean rebel leader, complications following a stroke.
• Sir Gerard Vaughan, 80, British psychiatrist and politician.[71]
• Johnny Walker, 82, Indian comic actor, appeared in more than 300 films.[72]

30

• Howard Armstrong, 94, American string band fiddler and mandolinist and country blues musician.[73]
• Will Atkinson, 95, English shepherd and musician, known for playing the accordion and harmonica.[74]
• Fred Cherry, 77, American activist.
• Gene Hasson, 88, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[75]
• Steve Hislop, 41, Scottish motorcycle racer, helicopter accident.
• Mendel L. Peterson, 85, American archeologist and former curator at the Smithsonian Institution.
• Sam Phillips, 80, American record producer.

31

• Edward P. Alexander, 96, American historian and author, an authority on museums, heart ailment.[76]
• Bigode, 81, Brazilian footballer, respiratory problems.
• Guido Crepax, 70, Italian comics artist.
• Cyril Foray, 69, Sierra Leonean educator, politician, diplomat and historian.
• Patricia Goldman-Rakic, 66, American professor neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry and psychology at Yale University School of Medicine, struck by a car.
• Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, 88, Pakistani politician, first President of Azad Kashmir.
• Vernon Prins, 79, Sri Lankan cricketer.
• Fergie Semple, 81, British Army officer.
• Roland Svensson, 93, Swedish painter, writer, and artist.

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