1. August 2003
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2. References

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

August 2003

1

• Guy Thys, 80, former Belgian national football coach.
• Marie Trintignant, 41, French actress and daughter of actor Jean-Louis Trintignant.
• Gordon Arnaud Winter, 90, Canadian Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland.

2

• Ken Coote, 75, English footballer.
• Don Estelle, 70, British actor.
• Sir Charles Kerruish, 86, Manx politician.
• Mike Levey, 55, American infomercial host.
• Peter Safar, 79, Austrian-born American physician.

3

• Joyce Macdonald, 81, New Zealand backstroke swimmer.
• Joseph Saidu Momoh, 66, President of Sierra Leone.
• Alan Reiher, 76, Australian public servant.
• Roger Voudouris, 48, American singer-songwriter and guitarist, liver disease.

4

• Anthony of Sourozh, 89, longest-ordained hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.
• Chung Mong-hun, 54, Korean businessman.
• James Welch, 62, American writer.

5

• Tite Curet Alonso, 77, Puerto Rican music composer, critic and journalist.
• Samuel J. Tedesco, 88, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut.
• Don Turnbull, 66, UK games magazine editor.
• Robert Joseph Ward, 77, American district judge.

6

• Julius Baker, 87, American flautist.
• Robin Banerjee, 94, Indian environmentalist and wildlife photographer.
• William Bateman Hall, 80, British nuclear engineer.
• Roberto Marinho, 98, Brazilian businessman.

7

• K. D. Arulpragasam, 71, Sri Lankan Tamil academic.
• Charles Jones, 85, Australian politician.
• Grigoriy Lvovitch Bondarevsky, 83, Russian professor, writer, and historian, murdered.
• Melvin DeStigter, 74, American politician, cancer.
• Roxie Collie Laybourne, 92, American ornithologist.
• Mickey McDermott, 74, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics).^[2]

8

• Peter Blunt, 79, British Army officer and businessman.
• Ismail Ahmed Cachalia, 94, South African political activist.
• Martha Chase, 75, American geneticist, pneumonia.
• Sam Gillespie, 32, Australian-born philosopher.
• Lilli Gyldenkilde, 67, Danish politician, cancer.
• Allan McCready, 86, New Zealand politician.
• Giant Ochiai, 30, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist, subdural hematoma.
• Sir Edward Pickering, 81, British newspaper editor.

9

• Ray Harford, 58, English football manager.
• Gregory Hines, 57, American dancer, actor.
• Chester Ludgin, 77, American baritone.
• Billy Rogell, 98, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs).^[3]
• Esmond Wright, 87, British historian.

10

• Constance Chapman, 91, English actor.
• Jacques Deray, 74, French film director and screenwriter.
• Aïcha Fofana, Malian translator and author.
• Carmita Jiménez, 64, Puerto Rican singer.
• Jimmy Kelly, 71, English footballer.
• Bill Perkins, 79, American jazz saxophonist and flutist.
• Cedric Price, 68, English architect and writer.

11

• Armand Borel, 80, notable Swiss mathematician.
• Herb Brooks, 66, coach of 1980 Miracle on Ice US Hockey team.
• Diana Mitford, 93, widow of British Fascist leader Oswald Mosley.
• John Shearman, 72, British art historian.

12

• Sir William Douglas, 81, Barbadian jurist, Chief Justice of Barbados (1965–1986).
• Jackie Hamilton, 65, British stand-up comedian.
• Matt Moffitt, 46, Australian singer, songwriter.
• Albert Lemieux, 87, Canadian politician and businessman.
• Edward Skottowe Northrop, 92, American federal judge.

13

• Charlie Devens, 93, American baseball player (New York Yankees).^[4]
• Lothar Emmerich, 61, German football player.
• Michael Maclagan, 89, British historian.
• Ed Townsend, 74, songwriter and producer.

14

• Chuck Brown, 52, American politician.
• Bishop Donal Lamont, 92, Irish born Rhodesian Roman Catholic bishop and Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
• Helmut Rahn, 73, German footballer, World Champion 1954.
• Robin Thompson, 72, Irish rugby player.

15

• Red Hardy, 80, American baseball player (New York Giants).^[5]
• Enric Llaudet, 86, Spanish businessman and sports executive.
• Mack Magaha, 75, American bluegrass fiddler.
• Eric Nisenson, 57, American author and jazz historian, kidney failure related to leukemia.

16

• Idi Amin, 78, former dictator of Uganda.
• Nándor Balázs, 77, Hungarian-American physicist,.
• Bert Crane, 80, Australian politician.
• Lowell Johnston, 77, Canadian politician and businessman.
• Charles C. Noble, 87, American Major General and engineer.
• Ben Mang Reng Say, 75, Indonesian politician, stroke.
• Gösta Sundqvist, 46, Finnish musician and radio personality, heart attack.
• James Whitehead, 67, American poet and novelist.

17

• Ben Belitt, 92, American poet and translator.
• James Chalker, 90, Canadian politician and businessperson.
• Paolo Massimo Antici, 79, Italian diplomat.
• Margaret Raia, 78, American actress with dwarfism, brain seizure.
• Connie Douglas Reeves, 101, member of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, complications following falling from her horse.

18

• Alan Green, 71, British local politician.
• Jocelyne Jocya, 61, French singer and songwriter, breast cancer.
• Endre Szász, 77, Hungarian artist.
• Zachary Turner, 1, American boy, murder–suicide.

19

• Lester Mondale, 99, American Unitarian minister and humanist.
• John Munro, 72, Canadian politician.
• Carlos Roberto Reina, 77, former president of Honduras.
• Sérgio Vieira de Mello, 55, United Nations Special Representative to Iraq.

• Notable victims killed in the Canal Hotel bombing in Baghdad, Iraq:
  • Gillian Clark, 47, Canadian aid worker for the Christian Children's Fund
  • Reham Al-Farra, 29, Jordanian diplomat and journalist.
  • Arthur Helton, 54, American Director of peace and conflict studies at the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations.
  • Reza Hosseini, 43, Iranian UNOHCI Humanitarian affairs officer
  • Jean-Sélim Kanaan, 33, Egyptian, Italian and French United Nations diplomat and member of Sérgio Vieira de Mello's staff.
  • Sérgio Vieira de Mello, 55, Brazilian UN diplomat and Secretary-General's Special Representative in Iraq.
  • Fiona Watson, 35, Scottish member of Vieira de Mello's staff, political affairs officer.
  • Nadia Younes, 57, Egyptian Chief of Staff for Vieira de Mello.

20

• Ian MacDonald, 54, British music critic.
• Brianne Murphy, 70, British cinematographer,.
• Nermin Neftçi, Turkish jurist and politician.
• John Ogbu, Nigerian-American anthropologist and professor, post-surgery heart attack.
• Andrew Ray, 64, British actor.

21

• Ken Coleman, 78, American radio and television sportscaster.
• Frank Harlan Freedman, 78, American judge.
• Kathy Wilkes, 57, British education worker in Eastern Europe.
• Wesley Willis, 40, American singer-songwriter and visual artist, leukemia.

22

• Colleen Browning, 85, American painter.
• Julie Dusanko, 81, Canadian baseball player (AAGPBL)^[6]
• Arnold Gerschwiler, 89, Swiss figure skating trainer.
• Glenn Stetson, 62, Canadian singer.

23

• John Geoghan, 68, defrocked American pedophile priest.
• Bobby Bonds, 57, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants, California Angels) and father of San Francisco Giants ballplayer Barry Bonds.^[7]
• Mal Colston, 65, Australian politician.
• Michael Kijana Wamalwa, 58, Kenyan Vice-President.
• Imperio Argentina, 96, Spanish singer and actress.
• Jack Dyer, 89, Australian rules football legend.

24

• Harry W. Addison, 82, American author.
• Robert C. Bruce, 88, American actor.
• John Jacob Rhodes, 86, American politician.
• Sir Wilfred Thesiger, 93, British explorer.
• Zena Walker, 69, British actress.

25

• Clive Barry, 80, Australian novelist .
• Tom Feelings, 70, American cartoonist, children's book illustrator, and author.
• Harold McMaster, 87, American inventor and entrepreneur.
• Hjalmar Pettersson, 96, Swedish cyclist.
• Ajit Vachani, 52, Indian film and television actor.

26

• Sultanah Bahiyah, 73, Malaysian Sultanah and Raja.
• Wilma Burgess, 64, American country music singer, heart attack.
• Clive Charles, 51, English football player, coach and television announcer, prostate cancer.
• Hans Fränkel, 86, German-American sinologist.
• Bimal Kar, 81, Bengali writer and novelist.
• Jim Wacker, American football college coach (Texas Christian University, University of Minnesota).^[8].

27

• Jinx Falkenburg, 84, American actress and model.
• Henry P. Glass, 91, Austrian-born American designer and architect.
• Marc Honegger, 77, French musicologist and choirmaster.
• Kogga Devanna Kamath, 81, India puppeteer.
• Pierre Poujade, 82, French populist politician.

28

• William Cochran, 81, British physicist.
• Peter Hacks, 75, German playwright and author.
• Wilfred Hoare, 93, English cricketer.
• Richard Morris, American author.

29

• Herbert Abrams, 82, American artist.
• Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, 63, Iraqi cleric and politician.
• Horace W. Babcock, 90, American astronomer.

30

• Arthur Edward Blanchette, 82, Canadian diplomat.
• Charles Bronson, 81, American actor (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Death Wish).
• Donald Davidson, 86, American philosopher.
• Steve Eisner, 73-74, American boxing promoter.
• Claude Passeau, 94, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs).^[9]

31

• Jelena de Belder-Kovačič, 78, Slovenian-Belgian botanist and horticulturist.
• Anne Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster, 88, Irish born peeress.
• Warren Rogers, 81, American journalist.
• John Storrs, 83, American architect in Oregon.
• Pavel Tigrid, 85, Czech writer, publisher, author and politician.
• Jung Yong-hoon, 24, South Korean footballer, car accident.

References

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