1. April 2003
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2. References

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

April 2003

1

• Leslie Cheung, 46, Hong Kong actor and singer.
• David Horrobin, 63, British medical researcher and entrepreneur.
• Booker Bradshaw, 61, American record producer, film & TV actor; Motown executive, heart attack.

2

• Hilly Flitcraft, 79, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).^[2]
• Paul Freeman, 59, American Bigfoot hunter.
• Edwin Starr, 61, American soul singer.
• Michael Wayne, 68, American film producer; eldest son of John Wayne, heart failure as the result of complications from lupus

3

• Hugh W. Hardy, 78, US Marine Corps Reserves major general.
• Homer Banks, 61, American songwriter, singer and record producer, cancer.
• Arthur Guyton, 83, American physiologist.
• Scott Hain, 32, American convict, execution by lethal injection.
• Hugh W. Hardy, 78, US Marine Corps Reserves major general.
• Gunadasa Kapuge, 57, Sri Lankan musician, fall.
• Michael Kelly, 46, American journalist, columnist and magazine editor, war-related vehicular accident.
• Harold S. Sawyer, 83, American politician (U.S. Representative for Michigan's 5th congressional district from 1977 to 1985), throat cancer .^[3]

4

• Anthony Caruso, 86, American actor.
• Abdul Kadir, 54, Indonesian footballer, kidney failure.
• Helmut Knochen, 93, Nazi official and senior commander of the SiPo and SD.
• Billy McPhail, 75, Scottish football playe.
• José Menéndez Monroig, 85, Puerto Rican politian.
• Resortes, 87, Mexican comedian, emphysema.
• Paul Ray Smith, 33, US Army Sergeant, killed in action.

5

• Seymour Lubetzky, 104, American cataloging theorist and librarian.
• Frédéric Kibassa Maliba, 63, politician in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), heart attack.

6

• David Bloom, 39, an NBC reporter, pulmonary embolism while embedded with the 3rd Infantry Division covering the war in Iraq.
• Gerald Emmett Carter, 91, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Toronto (1978-1990).
• Lance Corporal Ian Malone, 28, Dublin-born soldier in the Irish Guards regiment of the British Army, gunshot (killed in Iraq).
• Babatunde Olatunji, 75, African drummer; recorded Drums of Passion, diabetes.

7

• Cecile de Brunhoff, 99, inspired the Babar the Elephant children's books when she told it to her children as a bedtime story in 1931.
• Ib Eisner, 77, Danish artist.
• David Greene, 82, British television and film director, pancreatic cancer.
• Jutta Hipp, 78, Germen-American jazz pianist and composer, pancreatic cancer.
• Maurice Kouandété, 70, Benin military officer and politician.
• Mohammad Khan Majeedi, 85, Indian poet.
• Robin Winks, 72, American academic, historian, diplomat, and writer.

8

• Anita Borg, 54, American computer scientist, brain tumor.
• Basil Greenhill, 83, British diplomat, museum director and historian.
• Bing Russell, 76, American actor and baseball club owner.

9

• Ken McKenzie, 79, Canadian sports journalist.
• Ray Murray, 85, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Athletics, Baltimore Orioles).^[4]
• James Earl Salisbury, 51, American educator, SARS.^[5]

10

• Abdul-Majid al-Khoei, 40, Shia cleric, stabbed.
• Little Eva (née Eva Narcissus Boyd), 59, who sang the 1962 hit The Loco-Motion.
• Abraham Zabludovsky, 78, Mexican architect.

11

• John Butler, 56, American football general manager.
• Cecil H. Green, 102, Texas Instruments founder.
• Peter Lloyd, 95, British mountaineer and engineer.

12

• Clarence W. Blount, 81, American politician.
• Sir Donald Harrison, 78, British surgeon.
• Sydney Lassick, 80, American film actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), complications of diabetes.
• Chalom Messas, 94, Chief Rabbi of Morocco and of Jerusalem, Israel.

13

• Farouk Afero, 63, Pakistani-born Indonesian film actor, cancer.
• Sean Delaney, 58, American musician.
• Allen Eager, 76, American jazz tenor and alto saxophonist, liver cancer.
• Majid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 64, member of House of Saud.
• Elder Tadej Štrbulović, 88, Serbian Orthodox elder and author.

14

• Al Epperly, 84, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers).^[6]
• Bob Evans, 82, Welsh rugby player.
• Kent Pullen, 60, American politician.

15

• Don Bunce, 54, American football quarterback and orthopedic surgeon, heart attack.
• Reg Bundy, 56, British dancer, actor and television presenter, cancer.
• Roald Åsmund Bye, 74, Norwegian politician.
• Erin Fleming, 61, Canadian actress.

16

• Timothy I. Ahern, 78, Major General in the US Air Force.
• Jock Hamilton-Baillie, 84, British Royal Engineers officer.
• Graham Jarvis, 72, Canadian actor in American films and television, multiple myeloma.
• Samuel J. LeFrak, 85, American real estate tycoon.
• Ray Mendoza, 73, Mexican professional wrestler.
• Danny O'Dea, 92, British actor.

17

• Robert Atkins, 72, American nutritionist.
• John Paul Getty, Jr., 70, philanthropist, chest infection.
• Sammy Kean, 85, Scottish football player and manager.
• Earl King, 69, R&B musician/songwriter, complications of diabetes.
• Jozef Schell, 67, Belgian biologist.
• Graham Stuart Thomas, 94, British horticultural artist, author and garden designer.

18

• Rudolf Brunnenmeier, 62, German football player, alcohol-related issues.
• Edgar F. Codd, 79, English computer pioneer, heart failure.
• Jean Drucker, 61, French Television executive, heart attack.
• Toni Hagen, 85, Swiss geologist.
• Toby MacDiarmid, 77, Australian politician.
• Lefty Sloat, 84, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Cubs).^[7]
• Evlynn Smith, 40, Scottish artist, designer and furniture maker, brain aneurysm.

19

• Mirza Tahir Ahmad, 74, Pakistani Khalifatul Masih IV.
• Conrad Leonard, 104, British musician and composer.
• Chris Zachary, 59, American baseball player (Houston Colt .45s / Astros, Kansas City Royals, St. Louis Cardinals, Detroit Tigers, Pittsburgh Pirates).^[8]

20

• Johnny Douglas, 82, English musician.
• Ruth Hale, 94, American playwright and actress.
• Daijiro Kato, 26, Japanese motorcycle rider, after crashing at Suzuka on April 6.
• Bernard Katz, 92, American Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist.

21

• Robert Blackburn, 82, American artist and printmaker.
• Robert Elmer Kleason, 68, American convict, heart failure.
• Nina Simone, 70, American jazz singer, long-based in France (known as the "High Priestess of Soul").

22

• James H. Critchfield, 86, American CIA operative during the Cold War, pancreatic cancer.
• Martha Griffiths, 91, Congresswoman; women's rights activist.^[9]
• Berkeley Smith, 84, British broadcaster.

23

• Abram Bergson, 89, American economist.
• Fernand Fonssagrives, 93, French photographer.
• Ian Marshall, 60, Scottish-born New Zealand football coach.

24

• Colin Bell, 61, British sociologist and university administrator.
• Harold Levitt, 81, American architect.
• Willie Moore, 71, Irish hurler.
• Guy Mountfort, 97, British advertising executive and ornithologist.
• Gino Orlando, 73, Brazilian footballer, cardiac arrest.
• Belus Smawley, 85, American basketball player and coach.
• Fuzz White, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, New York Giants).^[10]

25

• Lynn Chadwick, 88, English sculptor and artist.
• Bastiampillai Deogupillai, 86, Ceylon Tamil priest and Roman Catholic Bishop.
• Dick Moore, 87, British Royal Naval officer and recipient of the George Cross.
• Jaime Silva Gómez, 67, Colombian footballer.
• André Perraudin, 88, Swiss Catholic clergyman.
• Francis Alexander Shields, 61, American businessman, prostate cancer.

26

• Rosemary Brown, 72, Canadian politician (NDP); first black woman elected to a provincial legislature, myocardial infarction.
• David Lavender, 93, American historian and writer.
• Danny Napoleon, 61, American baseball player (New York Mets).^[11]
• Edward Max Nicholson, 98, British environmentalist.
• Peter Stone, 73, Oscar and Tony-winning American screenwriter, pulmonary fibrosis.

27

• Edward Gaylord, 83, American businessman, media mogul and philanthropist, cancer.
• Charles A. Marvin, 73, American district attorney and judge.
• Dorothee Sölle, 73, German liberation theologian.
• Elaine Anderson Steinbeck, 88, former actress; widow of author John Steinbeck.

28

• Johnny Griffith, 78, American football player and coach.
• Barry Harper, 64, Australian sportsman, cancer.
• Ciccio Ingrassia, 80, Italian actor, comedian and film director.
• Etti Plesch, 89, Austro-Hungarian countess and socialite.

29

• Ron Barclay, 88, New Zealand politician.
• Janko Bobetko, 84, Croatian general.
• David M. Brewer, 44, American convict, execution by lethal injection.
• Angus Campbell-Gray, 71, British hereditary peer.

30

• Gbenga Adeboye, 43, Nigerian singer, comedian and radio host, kidney-related diseases.
• Ferdinand P. Beer, 87, French mechanical engineer and university professor.
• Peter 'Possum' Bourne, 47, New Zealand 3-time Asia-Pacific Rally champion, head injuries sustained in a car crash.
• Lionel Wilson, 79, American actor, reader of audiobooks, and author of children's books, pneumonia.

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