1. January 2003
    1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  31 

2. References

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.

January 2003

1

• Pat Daly, 75, Irish football player.
• Joe Foss, 87, American politician, fighter pilot, recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Giorgio Gaber, 63, Italian singer-songwriter and playwright.
• Cyril Shaps, 79, British actor (The Pianist, Doctor Who, The Spy Who Loved Me).^[2]

2

• Peter Harris, 77, British footballer.
• Bud Metheny, 87, American baseball player (New York Yankees).^[3]
• Sydney Omarr, 76, American astrologer and newspaper columnist, heart attack.
• Sir Bill Shelton, 73, British politician.

3

• Sir James Eyre, 72, British army general.
• Sid Gillman, 91, American football coach (San Diego Chargers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
• George Makgill, 13th Viscount of Oxfuird, 68, British aristocrat and politician.
• Joe Ostrowski, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, New York Yankees).^[4]
• Jim Westlake, 72, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).^[5]
• Claude Wharton, 88, Australian politician.

4

• Raymond Aker, 82, American scholar and authority on Francis Drake.
• Conrad Hall, 76, American cinematographer (American Beauty, Cool Hand Luke, Road to Perdition).
• Yfrah Neaman, 79, Lebanese-born British violinist and teacher.
• Louis Spector, 84, American judge.

5

• King Biscuit Boy, 58, Canadian blues musician.
• Massimo Girotti, 84, Italian film actor, heart attack.
• Roy Jenkins, 82, British politician and biographer.
• Jean Kerr, 80, American author and playwright, pneumonia.
• Daphne Oram, 77, British composer and musician.
• Ray Scott, 75, Australian football player and umpire.

6

• Sir Gerald Cash, 85, Governor-General of the Bahamas.
• Glyn Davies, 83, Welsh economist.
• Jarvis Tatum, 56, American baseball player (California Angels).^[6]
• Sir Philip Ward, 78, British army general.

7

• Ed Albosta, 84, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates).^[7]
• Ken Biddulph, 70, British cricketer.
• Montagu Dawson, 83, British World War II bombardier.
• Edith Hirsch, 103, German-born American economist.
• Gordon Kidd Teal, 95, American electrical engineer.

8

• Simeon Aké, 71, Ivorian politician.
• Ron Goodwin, 77, British film music composer and conductor.
• Patrick Pery, 6th Earl of Limerick, 72, Irish aristocrat and public servant.
• Angelo Romani, 69, Italian swimmer.^[8]

9

• Elizabeth Irving, 98, British actress.
• Don Landrum, 66, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants).^[9]
• Peter Tinniswood, 66, British writer.

10

• Knut Albrigt Andersen, 70, Norwegian pianist.
• C. Douglas Dillon, 93, American diplomat and politician.
• Jorge "Lobito" Martínez, 50, Paraguan musician, murdered.
• Donald Nestor, 64, British suffragan bishop in Lesotho.
• O. Arthur Stiennon, 83, American clinical radiologist and radiation treatment pioneer.
• Alex Weir, 86, Scottish football player and manager.

11

• Ruth Feldman, 91, American poet and translator.
• Mickey Finn, 55, band member of T. Rex.
• Sir Anthony Havelock-Allan, 98, British producer and screenwriter.
• Maurice Pialat, 77, French movie director.
• Richard Simmons, 89, actor, Sgt William Preston on TV's Sergeant Preston of the Yukon.^[10]

12

• Jack Douglas, 72, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player.
• Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, 76, former dictator of Argentina.
• Maurice Gibb, 53, British band member of Bee Gees.
• Alan Nunn May, 91, British physicist and spy.
• Paul Pender, 72, American boxer.

13

• Andreas Holm, 96, Norwegian politician.
• Elisabeth Croft, 95, English actress (Crossroads)
• Norman Panama, 88, screenwriter and director.
• Ernie Rudolph, 93, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).^[11]
• Koloman Sokol, 100, Slovak artist.

14

• Mirza Babayev, 89, Azerbaijani actor and singer.
• Mel Bourne, 79, American set designer and art director (Annie Hall, Fatal Attraction, Manhunter).
• Alan Edwards, 77, Australian actor.
• Monica Furlong, 72, British author, journalist, and activist.
• Earl Lawson, 79, American sportswriter, cancer.
• Paul Monash, 85, American television and film producer and screenwriter, pancreatic cancer.
• Sujit Mukherjee, 72, Indian writer, literary critic and publisher.
• Stephen Oake, 40, English police officer with Greater Manchester Police, murdered while attempting to arrest an Islamic terrorist.^[12]
• Johnny Ritchey, 80, American baseball player.

15

• Robert John Braidwood, 95, American archaeologist and anthropologist.
• Linda Braidwood, 93, American archaeologist and pre-historian.
• Jeannette Campbell, 86, French-born Argentinian Olympic swimmer.
• Frank Drea, 69, Canadian journalist, broadcaster, and politician, pneumonia.
• Doris Fisher, 87, American singer and songwriter.
• Vivi-Anne Hultén, 91, Swedish figure skater, heart failure.
• Russell Pepperell, 84, English rugby player.
• Eleanore Pettersen, 86, American architect.
• John Harry Robertson, British crystallographer.

16

• Hans Pietsch, 34, German professional Go player.
• Alfred Kantor, 79, Czech-born Holocaust survivor, artist and author of The Book of Alfred Kantor. [https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/26/nyregion/alfred-kantor-dies-at-79-depicted-life-in-nazi-camps.html]
• Phil McCullough, 85, American baseball player (Washington Senators).^[13]

17

• Alden G. Barber, 83, American Scouter.
• Hylo Brown, 80, American bluegrass and country musician.
• Fritzi Burr, 78, American actress.
• Richard Crenna, 74, American actor (First Blood, Summer Rental, The Real McCoys), heart failure.
• Herbert Crüger, 91, German communist and political activist.
• George Haimsohn, 77, American writer and photographer.

18

• Harivansh Rai Bachchan, 95, Indian poet.
• Ed Farhat, 76, Lebanese-American wrestler, dheart failure.
• Virginia Heinlein, 86, American chemist, biochemist and engineer.
• Gavin Lyall, 70, English author of espionage thrillers, cancer.
• Renée Short, 83, British Labour Party politician.
• Boris Struminsky, 63, Russian and Ukrainian physicist.

19

• Milton Flores, 28, Honduran football player, killed by automatic weapons fire.
• Eric Frodsham, 79, English rugby league footballer.
• Françoise Giroud, 86, French journalist, screenwriter, writer and politician.
• Joy Hodges, 87, American singer and actress.
• Morris Kight, 83, American gay rights pioneer and peace activist.
• L. D. Meyer, 87, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians) and manager.^[14]
• Russell A. Rourke, 71, American lawyer and public official.

20

• David Battley, 67, British actor (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Krull, Relative Strangers), heart attack.
• Sir Stanley Fingland, 83, British diplomat.
• Al Hirschfeld, 99, American caricaturist.
• Marcel Jovine, 81, Italian-born American sculptor.
• Bill Werbeniuk, 56, Canadian snooker player.
• Tony O'Malley, 89, Irish artist and painter.

21

• William Cronk Elmore, 93, American physicist, educator, and author.
• Paul Kuusberg, 86, Estonian writer.
• Obert Logan, 61, American football player, colon cancer.
• Antonio Domínguez Ortiz, 93, Spanish historian.
• Khin Hnin Yu, 77, Burmese writer.

22

• George Aitken, 77, Scottish footballer.
• Bill Mauldin, 81, American World War II cartoonist.^[15]
• Peter Russell, 81, British poet.
• Tan Qilong, 90, Chinese politician, head of four provinces.

23

• Nell Carter, 54, singer, actress (Gimme a Break!, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, The Grass Harp).
• John Clarke, 57, Canadian mountaineer.
• David Moore, 75, Australian photojournalist.

24

• Gianni Agnelli, 81, Italian entrepreneur and president of Fiat.
• Lucien Blackwell, 71, United States Congressman.
• Sir Ivor Broom, 82, British air marshal and bomber pilot during WWII.
• Ingeborg Kattinger, 92, Austrian chess player.
• Bobbi Trout, 97, American pioneer aviator,.

25

• Toby Atwell, 78, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, Milwaukee Braves).^[16]
• Diana Gould, Baroness Menuhin, 90, British dancer and widow of Yehudi Menuhin.^[17]
• Sidney Hatfield, 73, American baseball player.
• Scylla Médici, 95, Brazilian First Lady.
• Robert Rockwell, 82, American actor (Our Miss Brooks, Growing Pains, Lassie).^[18]
• Samuel Weems, 66, American writer and disbarred lawyer.

26

• John Browning, 69, American pianist.
• Valeriy Brumel, 60, Soviet athlete, track and field.
• Annemarie Schimmel, 80, German orientalist.
• George Younger, 71, British politician, Secretary of State for Scotland 1979–1986.^[19]

27

• Maurice Ash, 85, British environmentalist and writer.
• Lord Dacre of Glanton, 89, British historian, authenticator of the hoaxed Hitler Diaries.
• Bob Kammeyer, 52, American baseball player (New York Yankees).^[20]

28

• Emília Rotter, 96, Hungarian figure skater.
• John Philp Thompson, Sr., 77, American businessman (7-Eleven).^[21]
• Edward Preston Young, 89, British submariner and publisher.

29

• George Dews, 81, English cricketer.
• László Kákosy, 70, Hungarian Egyptologist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
• Frank Moss, 91, former United States Senator from Utah.^[22]
• Peter Shaw, 84, British actor and producer; husband of Angela Lansbury.^[23]
• Sir Alan Walker, 91, Australian theologian.

30

• Mary Ellis, 105, American actress and singer (Rose-Marie, Music in the Air).^[24]
• Paul-André Meyer, 68, French mathematician.

31

• Julie Alexander, 64, British model and actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• Horace Hahn, 87, American actor.
• Peter Guy Ottewill, 87, British World War II RAF officer.
• Meka Rangaiah Appa Rao, 87, Indin Raja freedom activist.
• John Westergaard, 71, American investment manager.^[25]

References

• Arcade Games
• Arcade (genre)
• Arcade genre
• Arcade Hoange
• Arcade Hoops
• Arcade Hoops Basketball
• Arcade Hotel
• Arcade Hotel (disambiguation)
• Arcade Hotel (Springfield, Oho)
• Arcade Huang
• Arcade huang
• Arcade Legends Sega Genesis
• Arcade Middle School
• Arcade Perfect (album)
• Arcade Pinball (Atari 2600)
• Arcade pool
• Arcade racer
• Arcade racing game
• Arcade racing video game
• Arcade Records
• Arcade ride
• Arcades du Cinquantenaire
• Arcade's Greatest Hits
• Arcade Smash Hits
• Arcades (Milton)