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
- Sidney Bloom, 82, British restaurateur, founded the famous Bloom's kosher restaurant in London.
- Johnny Hopp, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates).
- Yevgeny Matveyev, 81, Russian actor and film director.
- Pete Sivess, 89, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
- Eero Virtanen, 87, Finnish wrestler (men's lightweight wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
- Peter Yarranton, 78, English rugby player and administrator, Rugby Football Union president.
2
- Fred Blassie, 85, American professional wrestler, renowned as "The Hollywood Fashion Plate".
- Boycho Branzov, 57, Bulgarian basketball player (men's basketball at the 1968 Summer Olympics).
- Richard Cusack, 77, American actor (The Fugitive, High Fidelity, Chain Reaction).
- John Gerrard, 82, British police officer.
- Donald Jack, 78, Canadian playwright and novelist.
- Burke Marshall, 80, American lawyer and head of the Civil Rights Division.
- Caryl Micklem, 79, British nonconformist minister and broadcaster.
- John Robin Stephenson, 72, British army officer and cricket administrator, Secretary of MCC.
- Ray Wehba, 86, American professional football player (USC, Brooklyn Dodgers, Green Bay Packers).
- James White, 89, Irish art expert and Director of the National Gallery of Ireland.
- J. R. Worsley, 79, British acupuncturist.
3
- Sir Anthony Barrowclough, 78, British lawyer and public servant, Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration.
- Ginaw Bilog, 50, Filipino poet, lingering illness.
- Peter Bromley, 74, British sports broadcaster, BBC Radio's voice of horse racing for 40 years (1961–2001).
- John Jympson, 72, British film editor.
- Fabrice Salanson, 23, French road cyclist, heart attack.
- Felix de Weldon, 96, Austrian-American sculptor (Marine Corps War Memorial).
4
- Muhammad Abdul Bari, 72-73, Bangladeshi academic, linguist and Islamic scholar.
- Serafín Rojo, 77, Spanish cartoonist and painter.
- Nurul Amin Talukdar, 57, Bangladeshi politician.
- Shooby Taylor, 73, African American jazz vocalist.
5
- Thomas Speakman Barnett, 93, Canadian politician (member of Parliament of Canada for Comox—Alberni, British Columbia).
- Sir John Fairclough, 72, British computer designer, Government Chief Scientific Adviser.
- Jürgen Möllemann, 57, German minister.
- Keijo Vanhala, 62, Finnish modern pentathlete (individual pentathlon, team pentathlon at the 1964 Summer Olympics).
- Meir Vilner, 84, Israeli politician, last surviving signatory to Israeli Declaration of Independence and chairman of the Communist Party of Israel.
6
- Ken Grimwood, 59, American author, heart attack.
- Douglas Henson, 73, English cricketer.
- Thomas Jackson, 78, British trade unionist.
- Ray Medeiros, 77, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).
- Spurgeon Neel, 83, American U.S. Army physician, pioneered the development of battlefield casualty evacuation.
- Dave Rowberry, 62, English pianist and organist.
- Shivnath Singh, 56, Indian long-distance runner (1976 Olympics men's marathon, 1980 Olympics men's marathon).
- Keith Winning, 75, Australian rugby player.
7
- Stanley Betts, 91, English Anglican bishop (Dean of Rochester).
- R. W. G. Dennis, 92, British botanist.
- 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.
- Tony McAuley, 63, BBC Northern Ireland broadcaster & filmmaker.
- Roger Nelson, 47, American skydiver, founder of Skydive Chicago, skydiving accident.
8
- Alun Davies, 80, British Anglican priest, Dean of Llandaff.
- 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.
9
- Wilkie D. Ferguson, 65, American lawyer and judge (U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida), leukemia.
- David Grayden, 79, Australian politician.
- 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).
- Sid Williams, 83, English footballer.
10
- Charles Harrison Brown, 82, American politician (U.S. Representative for Missouri's 7th congressional district).
- Donald Regan, 84, Chief of Staff and Treasury Secretary during the Reagan administration.
- Sir Bernard Williams, 73, British moral philosopher.
- Phil Williams, 64, Welsh politician, member of the National Assembly for Wales for South Wales East.
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.
- William Marshall, 78, American actor, director and opera singer, complications from Alzheimer's disease and diabetes.
- Guy Willatt, 85, English cricket player.
12
- Itamar Assumpção, 53, Brazilian songwriter and composer.
- Joseph L. Fleiss, 65, American professor of biostatistics.
- Anna M. Louw, 89, South African author.
- Gregory Peck, 87, American actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, Roman Holiday, The Yearling), 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).
- Robin Russell, 14th Duke of Bedford, 63, British peer.
- Lucile Bluford, 91, American civil rights activist, editor and publisher (Kansas City Call).
- Gene Hayden, 68, American baseball player (Cincinnati Redlegs).
- Silvio Pedroni, 85, Italian racing cyclist (men's individual road race, men's team road race at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
14
- James Cameron, 73, British professor of forensic medicine (FINA) and forensic scientist (A Cry in the Dark).
- Jimmy Knepper, 75, American jazz trombonist, complications of Parkinson's disease.
- Anna Larsson, 81, Swedish athlete.
- 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.
- Pete Wysocki, 54, American professional football player (Western Michigan, Washington Redskins).
15
- Enrico Baj, 78, Italian artist and art writer.
- Hume Cronyn, 91, Canadian-born American actor (The Seventh Cross, Cocoon, The Pelican Brief).
- Sir Ralph Kilner Brown, 93, British jurist and athlete.
- Johnny Miles, 97, Canadian marathon runner.
- Philip Stone, 79, British actor (The Shining, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, A Clockwork Orange).
- Bill Wentworth, 95, Australian politician (member of Australian Parliament for Mackellar).
- Sir James Willis, 79, Australian admiral and Chief of Naval Staff.
16
- Asa Baber, 66, American writer and magazine columnist for Playboy.
- Les Benjamin, 78, Canadian politician (MP for Regina—Lake Centre, Regina West, Regina—Lumsden, Saskatchewan).
- Sir William Crawford, 85, British admiral.
- John L. Grove, 82, American inventor and industrialist.
- Marjorie Pyles Honzik, 95, American developmental psychologist.
- Peter Redgrove, 71, British poet.
- Carlos Rivas, 78, American actor, prostate cancer.
- Georg Henrik von Wright, 87, Finnish philosopher, professor and writer.
17
- Cheryl Byron, 56, Trinidad visual artist, dancer and singer.
- Frank M. Clark, 87, American politician (U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 25th congressional district).
- Paul Hirst, 57, British sociologist and political theorist.
- Robert M. Ricketts, 83, American orthodontist.
- Grover C. Stephens, 78, American marine biologist and comparative physiologist.
18
- Guy Bara, 79, Belgian comic strip writer and artist (Max l'explorateur).
- Sir 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, second black man to play in MLB.
- 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).
- Glen Grant, 56, Hawaiian historian, folklorist and author, cancer.
- Peanuts Hucko, 85, American big band musician.
- Rafael Ileto, 82, Filipino army general and politician.
- Laura Sadler, 22, British television actress, accidental fall.
- Belding Hibbard Scribner, 82, American physician.
20
- LaMar Baker, 87, American politician (U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 3rd congressional district).
- Fielder Cook, 80, American television and film director, producer, and writer, complications from a stroke.
- Raymond Serra, 66, American actor.
- Bob Stump, 76, American politician (U.S. Representative for Arizona's 3rd congressional district), myelodysplasia.
- Vic Vasicek, 77, American football player (Buffalo Bills, Los Angeles Rams).
- Peter Wright, 83, British potter and sculptor.
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.
- Hiroko Matsumoto, 66, Japanese fashion model.
- Jason Moran, 35, Australian criminal, murdered.
- Roger Neilson, 69, Canadian ice hockey coach, head coach for eight different NHL teams from 1977 to 2002.
- Leon Uris, 78, Jewish-American author.
- Sergei Vronsky, 67, Soviet cinematographer
22
- Vasil Bykau, 79, Belarusian writer.
- Joseph Chaikin, 67, American theatre director, actor, and playwright.
- Brian Dillon, 77, British lawyer and judge.
- Harry Kinzy, 92, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
- Shelby Starner, 19, American singer-songwriter and musician, complications from bulimia nervosa.
23
- Maynard Jackson, 65, first African-American Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia.
- Doug Ring, 84, Australian cricketer.
- Fred Sandback, American minimalist sculptor, suicide.
- Alexander Sidelnikov, 52, Soviet ice hockey player.
- Bob Smith, 75, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians).
24
- Jack Bruner, 78, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Browns).
- Wataru Kubo, 74, Japanese politician.
- Barbara Weeks, 89, American actress (Ziegfeld Follies, Now I'll Tell).
- Dee Wells, 78, American broadcaster, journalist and novelist.
25
- Rene Cayetano, 68, Filipino lawyer, television presenter, journalist and politician, abdominal cancer.
- Johnny Dauwe, 37, Belgian Olympic cyclist, suicide.
- Lester Maddox, 87, segregationist Governor of the State of Georgia, complications from pneumonia and prostate cancer.
- Warnasena Rasaputra, 75, Sri Lankan economist.
- Preston Washington, 54, American minister in Harlem, known for opening his church to tourists.
- 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 collapsed and died on the football pitch in Lyon.
- Sir Denis Thatcher, 1st Baronet, 88, British businessman, Spouse of the Prime Minister (1979–1990).
- Strom Thurmond, 100, Governor of South Carolina, United States Republican Senator from South Carolina, Presidential candidate (as a Dixiecrat), and the only centenarian to serve in the U.S. Congress.
- Peter Waters, 73, British bookbinder and one of the world's leading authorities on book conservation.
- Philip Weekes, 83, Welsh mining engineer.
27
- Magne Aarøen, 59, Norwegian politician.
- Gerald Balfour, 4th Earl of Balfour, 77, British hereditary peer (House of Lords 1968–1999), businessman and politician.
- Prince Carl Bernadotte, 92, Swedish prince.
- David Newman, 66, American screenwriter (Bonnie and Clyde, There Was a Crooked Man..., What's Up, Doc?).
- Ken Smith, 64, British poet.
- Sir John 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.
- Kevin Belcher, 42, American professional football player (University of Texas at El Paso, New York Giants).
- 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.
- Wim 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.
- Diane Geppi-Aikens, 40, American lacrosse coach, brain tumor.
- Katharine Hepburn, 96, American actress (The African Queen, The Lion in Winter, On Golden Pond).
- James Kelly, 89, American abstract expressionist artist.
- Gregor MacGregor, 69, Scottish Anglican prelate, Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness.
- 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).
- William J. J. Gordon, 83, American psychologist and inventor.
- Buddy Hackett, 78, American comedian and actor (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Little Mermaid, The Love Bug).
- Robert McCloskey, 88, children's book writer and illustrator.
- Constance Smith, 75, Irish actress.