Deaths in June 2003

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 2003

1

• Marjorie Finlay, 74, American opera singer and television personality.
• Siegfried Freytag, 83, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
• Johnny Hopp, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates).
• Jørgen Kiil, 72, Danish actor.
• Johnny Paul Koroma, 43, Sierra Leonean military officer, Head of state (1997-1998).
• Yevgeny Matveyev, 81, Russian actor and film director, lung cancer.
• Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, 75, Nigerian politician and activist.
• Pete Sivess, 89, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
• Burkard Freiherr von Müllenheim-Rechberg, 92, German diplomat and author.

2

• Freddie Blassie, 85, American professional wrestler and NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion, kidney failure.
• Bojčo Brănzov, 57, Bulgarian basketball player (men's basketball at the 1968 Summer Olympics).
• Dick Cusack, 77, American actor (The Fugitive, High Fidelity, Chain Reaction), pancreatic cancer.
• Donald Jack, 78, Canadian playwright and novelist.
• Makoto Kozuru, 80, Japanese baseball player.
• Burke Marshall, 80, American lawyer and head of the Civil Rights Division.

3

• Peter Bromley, 74, British sports broadcaster, BBC Radio's voice of horse racing for 40 years (1961–2001), pancreatic cancer.
• Felix de Weldon, 96, Austrian-American sculptor (Marine Corps War Memorial).
• John Jympson, 72, British film editor (A Fish Called Wanda, A Hard Day's Night, Little Shop of Horrors), diabetes.
• Petre Mshveniyeradze, 74, Soviet and Georgian water polo player and Olympic silver medalist.
• Fabrice Salanson, 23, French road cyclist, heart attack.

4

• Muhammad Abdul Bari, 72-73, Bangladeshi academic, linguist and Islamic scholar.
• Joan Leigh Fermor, 91, English photographer.
• Serafín Rojo, 77, Spanish cartoonist and painter.
• Nurul Amin Talukdar, 57, Bangladeshi politician.

5

• Thomas Speakman Barnett, 93, Canadian politician (member of Parliament of Canada for Comox—Alberni, British Columbia).
• John Fairclough, 72, British computer designer, Government Chief Scientific Adviser.
• Patricia Blomfield Holt, 92, Canadian composer, pianist and music educator.
• Jürgen Möllemann, 57, German minister, suicide by jumping.
• Manuel Rosenthal, 98, French composer and conductor.
• Meir Vilner, 84, Israeli politician and chairman of the Communist Party of Israel.

6

• Adalbert Boros, 94, Romanian Roman Catholic prelate.
• Ken Grimwood, 59, American author, heart attack.
• Michael John, 60, Australian politician.
• Georges Pichard, 83, French comics artist.
• Dave Rowberry, 62, English pianist and organist.
• Shivnath Singh, 56, Indian long-distance runner (1976 Olympics men's marathon, 1980 Olympics men's marathon).
• Hilda Sour, 87, Chilean actress and singer.

7

• Arne Bonde, 78, Norwegian newspaper editor and radio executive.
• Belle Chrystall, 93, British actress.
• R. W. G. Dennis, 92, British botanist.
• Muhammad Abd El-Ghani El-Gamasy, 81, Egyptian Field Marshal and Commander in Chief of The Armed Forces.
• Greg Garrett, 56, American baseball player (California Angels, Cincinnati Reds).
• Trevor Goddard, 40, British actor (JAG, Mortal Kombat, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl), accidental drug overdose.
• Selahattin Ülkümen, 89, Turkish diplomat.

8

• Thomas S. Gettys, 90, American politician.
• Herschel Burke Gilbert, 85, American orchestrator and composer of film and television scores, complications of a stroke.
• Colin Legum, 84, South African journalist and writer.
• Leighton Rees, 63, Welsh darts player, heart attack.

9

• Kató Lomb, 94, Hungarian translator and simultaneous interpreter.
• Angelo Palmas, 88, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
• Indradeep Sinha, 88, Indian freedom fighter and communist leader.
• German Sveshnikov, 66, Soviet fencer (Olympic medals: 1960 gold medal, 1964 gold medal, 1968 silver medal).

10

• Charles Harrison Brown, 82, American politician (U.S. Representative for Missouri's 7th congressional district).
• John Semple Galbraith, 86, British historian.
• Hal Gausman, 85, American set decorator.
• Silvio Pedroni, 85, Italian racing cyclist (men's individual road race, men's team road race at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
• Livio Dante Porta, 81, Argentine steam locomotive engineer.
• Donald Regan, 84, American politician, Chief of Staff and Treasury Secretary, cancer.
• Carlos Roca, 45, Spanish field hockey player and Olympic medalist.
• Boy Rozendal, 74, Curaçao politician and journalist.
• David Towell, 66, American politician, cancer.
• Bernard Williams, 73, British moral philosopher, multiple myeloma.
• Phil Williams, 64, Welsh politician, member of the National Assembly for Wales for South Wales East, heart attack.

11

• David Brinkley, 82, American broadcast journalist (The Huntley–Brinkley Report, NBC Nightly News, This Week with David Brinkley).
• Pankaj Charan Das, 78, Indian classical dancer.
• Ilona Madary, 86, Hungarian gymnastand Olympic medalist.
• William Marshall, 78, American actor, director and opera singer, complications from Alzheimer's disease and diabetes.
• Virgil Mărdărescu, 81, Romanian football manager.
• Rudolf Tomsits, 57, Hungarian jazz musician.
• Hanna Veres, 74, Ukrainian folk artist, embroiderer and weaver.
• Guy Willatt, 85, English cricketer.

12

• Itamar Assumpção, 53, Brazilian songwriter and composer, colorectal cancer.
• Joseph L. Fleiss, 65, American epidemiologist and professor of biostatistics.
• Gregory Peck, 87, American actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, Roman Holiday, The Boys from Brazil), bronchopneumonia.
• Sam Schulman, 93, American sports businessman (Seattle SuperSonics, San Diego Chargers), blood disease.

13

• Harold Ashby, 78, American jazz tenor saxophonist (Duke Ellington Orchestra).
• Robert A. Good, 81, American physician regarded as a founder of modern immunology, esophageal cancer.
• Malik Meraj Khalid, 86, Pakistani advocate, left wing politician and Marxist philosopher.
• Guy Lux, 83, French TV host and producer, heart attack.
• Robin Russell, 14th Duke of Bedford, 63, British peer, stroke.
• Tor Stokke, 74, Norwegian film actor, cancer.
• Hassan ibn Yahya, 95, Yemeni royal and statesman.

14

• Nikolai Figurovsky, 79, Soviet film director, screenwriter, writer and professor at VGIK.
• Jimmy Knepper, 75, American jazz trombonist, complications of Parkinson's disease.
• Volker Kriegel, 59, German jazz guitarist and composer.
• Edward F. Moore, 77, American professor of mathematics and computer science, artificial life pioneer.
• Joyce Powell, 81, New Zealand cricketer.
• Günther Schack, 85, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
• John Weld, 98, American newspaper reporter and writer (Don't You Cry for Me, Young Man in Paris, September Song).
• Dale Whittington, 43, American race car driver.

15

• Ralph Kilner Brown, 93, British jurist and athlete.
• Hume Cronyn, 91, Canadian-American actor (The Seventh Cross, Cocoon, The Pelican Brief), Emmy winner (1990, 1992, 1994), prostate cancer.
• Albert Demuyser, 82, Belgian artist and racehorse owner, cancer.
• Kaiser Matanzima, 88, Transkei politician, President (1979-1986).
• Johnny Miles, 97, Canadian marathon runner.
• Alberto Pigaiani, 74, Italian heavyweight weightlifter and Olympic medalist.
• Philip Stone, 79, British actor (The Shining, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, A Clockwork Orange).
• René Touzet, 86, Cuban composer, pianist and bandleader.
• Bill Wentworth, 95, Australian politician (member of Australian Parliament for Mackellar).
• James Willis, 79, Australian admiral and Chief of Naval Staff.

16

• Asa Baber, 66, American writer and magazine columnist for Playboy, ALS.
• Enrico Baj, 78, Italian artist and writer on art.
• Les Benjamin, 78, Canadian politician (MP for Regina—Lake Centre, Regina West, Regina—Lumsden, Saskatchewan).
• Pierre Bourgault, 69, Canadian politician, essayist, actor and journalist, lung cancer.
• Peter Redgrove, 71, British poet.
• Carlos Rivas, 78, American actor, prostate cancer.
• Georg Henrik von Wright, 87, Finnish philosopher, professor and writer.
• René Walschot, 87, Belgian racing cyclist.

17

• Frank M. Clark, 87, American politician (U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 25th congressional district).
• Wilhelm Deist, 71, German historian and author.
• Elsa Grave, 85, Swedish novelist, poet and artist.
• Paul Hirst, 57, British sociologist and political theorist.
• Marcella Pobbe, 81, Italian operatic soprano.
• Jean-Jacques Vierne, 82, French film director.

18

• Guy Bara, 79, Belgian comic strip writer and artist (Max l'explorateur).
• Kenneth Cross, 91, British Royal Air Force commander.
• Paul Daisley, 45, British politician, colorectal cancer.
• Larry Doby, 79, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, bone cancer.
• Jankidas, 93, Indian actor of Hindi cinema, cyclist, production designer, and writer.
• Ernest Martin, 42, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.

19

• Jack Butterworth, Baron Butterworth, 85, British lawyer, academic and life peer (House of Lords 1985–2003).
• Mel Ferber, 80, American television director and producer, heart attack.
• Peanuts Hucko, 85, American big band musician.
• Rafael Ileto, 82, Filipino army general and politician, heart attack.
• Ethan James, 57, American musician, record producer, and recording engineer, liver cancer.
• Mahfoud Nahnah, 61, Algerian politician, leukemia.
• Laura Sadler, 22, British television actress, accidental fall.
• Belding Hibbard Scribner, 82, American physician and pioneering kidney dialysis researcher.

20

• LaMar Baker, 87, American politician (U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 3rd congressional district).
• I. Bernard Cohen, 89, American professor of the history of science and author.
• Fielder Cook, 80, American television and film director, producer, and writer, complications from a stroke.
• André Grillon, 81, French football player and football manager.
• Moshe Kupferman, 76, Israeli artist.
• Raymond Serra, 66, American actor (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Prizzi's Honor, The Edge of Night).
• Bob Stump, 76, American politician (U.S. Representative for Arizona's 3rd congressional district), myelodysplasia.

21

• George Axelrod, 81, American screenwriter (Bus Stop, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Manchurian Candidate).
• Piet Dankert, 69, Dutch politician, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and President of the European Parliament.
• Charles Dédéyan, 93, French literary historian.
• Anita Felguth, 94, German champion table tennis player.
• Jules Marchal, 78, Belgian diplomat and historian.
• Hiroko Matsumoto, 66, Japanese fashion model.
• Jason Moran, 35, Australian criminal, murdered.
• Roger Neilson, 69, Canadian ice hockey coach, skin cancer.
• Leon Uris, 78, American author, kidney failure.
• Magnus von Braun, 84, German chemical engineer, rocket scientist and business executive.
• Sergei Vronsky, 67, Soviet cinematographer .
• Alvise Zichichi, 64, Italian chess master.

22

• Sergio Bruni, 81, Popular Italian singer, guitarist, and songwriter.
• Vasil Bykaŭ, 79, Belarusian writer.
• Joseph Chaikin, 67, American theatre director, actor, and playwright.
• Gladys Heldman, 81, American tennis player, manager and magazine publisher, suicide by gunshot.
• Harry Kinzy, 92, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
• Leonard Koppett, 79, Soviet-American sportswriter and author, heart attack.
• John Mandic, 83, American basketball player.
• Shelby Starner, 19, American singer-songwriter and musician, complications from bulimia nervosa.

23

• Sven Fahlman, 88, Swedish fencer.
• Maynard Jackson, 65, American politician and the first Afro American mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, heart attack.
• Doug Ring, 84, Australian cricketer.
• Fred Sandback, American minimalist sculptor, suicide.
• Aleksandr Sidelnikov, 52, Soviet ice hockey player, heart failure.

24

• Jack Bruner, 78, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Browns).
• Alex Gordon, 80, British film producer and screenwriter.
• Wataru Kubo, 74, Japanese politician.
• José Trías Monge, 83, Puerto Rican lawyer and judge.
• Akira Nagoya, 72, Japanese actor and seiyū.
• Barbara Weeks, 89, American actress (Ziegfeld Follies, Now I'll Tell).

25

• Rene Cayetano, 68, Filipino television presenter, journalist and politician, abdominal cancer.
• Johnny Dauwe, 37, Belgian Olympic cyclist, suicide.
• Archibald D. Johnston, 63, Canadian politician.
• Lester Maddox, 87, American politician and segregationist , Governor of Georgia (1967-1971), complications from pneumonia and prostate cancer.
• Theodore Cressy Skeat, 96, British academic and librarian at the British Museum.
• André Théard, 97, Haitian Olympic sprinter.
• Shun Yashiro, 70, Japanese actor and voice actor, stroke.

26

• John G. Adams, 91, American lawyer, counsel in the Army–McCarthy hearings.
• Marc-Vivien Foé, 28, Cameroonian footballer, heart attack.
• Daniel G. Hill, 79, American-Canadian sociologist, civil servant, and human rights specialist.
• Isaac Schapera, 98, British social anthropologist.
• Denis Thatcher, 88, British businessman, Spouse of the Prime Minister (1979–1990), pancreatic cancer.
• Strom Thurmond, 100, American politician, Governor of South Carolina, and the only centenarian to serve in the U.S. Congress, heart failure.

27

• Gerald Balfour, 4th Earl of Balfour, 77, British hereditary peer (House of Lords 1968–1999), businessman and politician.
• Prince Carl Bernadotte, 92, Swedish prince.
• Floyd Fithian, 74, American educator and politician.
• Walter Hugo Khouri, 73, Brazilian film director, screenwriter, and producer.
• Gary Lane, 60, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
• David Newman, 66, American screenwriter (Bonnie and Clyde, There Was a Crooked Man..., What's Up, Doc?), stroke.
• Giuseppe Pontiggia, 68, Italian writer and literary critic, stroke.
• Anthony Poshepny, 78, American CIA Paramilitary Operations Officer and model for Colonel Kurtz in the movie Apocalypse Now.
• Ken Smith, 64, British poet.
• John Heydon Stokes, 85, British politician (Member of Parliament for Oldbury and Halesowen, Halesowen and Stourbridge).

28

• George Baxt, 80, American screenwriter and author (Circus of Horrors, The City of the Dead), complication from heart surgery.
• Clem Christesen, 91, Australian literary critic and editor.
• Russell Endean, 79, South African cricket player.
• Pauline Flanagan, 77, Irish-American actress, heart attack, lung cancer.
• Robert Muir Graves, 72, American golf course architect, cancer.
• Rio Kishida, 57, Japanese playwright and director.
• Joan Lowery Nixon, 76, American journalist and author, pancreatic cancer.
• George E. Shipley, 76, American politician.
• Willem Slijkhuis, 80, Dutch athlete (two-time bronze medal winner at 1948 Summer Olympics: 1500 metres, 5000 metres).

29

• Rod Amateau, 79, American screenwriter and director (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show), cerebral hemorrhage.
• Semion Braude, 92, Soviet and Ukrainian physicist and radio astronomer.
• Katharine Hepburn, 96, American actress (The African Queen, The Lion in Winter, On Golden Pond), four-time Oscar winner, heart attack.
• Mordechai Hod, 76, Israeli Air Force general.
• James Kelly, 89, American abstract expressionist artist.
• Norman O'Connor, 81, American priest and jazz musician.

30

• Noor Alam, 73, Pakistani field hockey player (Olympic field hockey: 1956 silver medal, 1960 gold medal).
• Buddy Hackett, 78, American comedian and actor (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Little Mermaid, The Love Bug), diabetes.
• Robert McCloskey, 88, American children's book writer and illustrator.
• Constance Smith, 74, Irish actress.