1. March 2003
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2. References

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.

March 2003

1

• Elaine Barrie, 87, American actress.
• Franjo Glaser, 90, Croatian footballer.
• Roger Needham, 68, British computer scientist.
• Countess Viktoria-Luise of Solms-Baruth, 81, German princess.

2

• Roger Albertsen, 45, Norwegian footballer.
• Hank Ballard, 66, singer, composer, famous for his hit "The Twist".^[2]
• Joe Decker, 55, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Minnesota Twins, Seattle Mariners).^[3]
• Sir George Edwards, 94, British aircraft designer.
• Sir Ian Hogg, 91, British admiral.
• Robert B. Ingebretsen, 54, pioneer in the development of digital sound.
• Malcolm Williamson, 71, Australian composer, Master of the Queen's Music.

3

• Horst Buchholz, 69, German actor.
• Sir John Brown, 86, British publisher.
• Dick Garrard, 92, Australian Olympic wrestler.
• John S. Gill, 70, Australian rules footballer.
• Malcolm Kilduff, 75, American journalist.

4

• Sébastien Japrisot, 71, French author, screenwriter and film director.
• Oliver Payne Pearson, 87, American zoologist and ecologist.
• Neil Smith, 53, English cricketer.

5

• John Sanford, 98, American screenwriter and author.
• Pete Taylor, 57, American sportscaster.
• Dzhabrail Yamadayev, 32, Chechen rebel field commander, killed by a bomb.

6

• Ernst B. Haas, 78, German-born American political scientist.
• Mickey Kreitner, 80, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).^[4]
• Ramón Mestre, 65, Argentine politician.

7

• Monica Hughes, 77, Canadian science fiction author.
• Al Libke, 84, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).^[5]
• Sid Scales, 86, New Zealand cartoonist.

8

• Cho Byung-hwa, 81, South Korean poet.
• Adam Faith, 62, British singer and actor.
• Mickey McGowan, 81, American baseball player (New York Giants).^[6]
• Karen Morley, 93, American film actress and political activist; former wife of Charles Vidor.

9

• Stan Brakhage, 70, American filmmaker, bladder cancer.
• Tony Dornhorst, 87, British physician and medical educator.
• Rolf Hagedorn, 83, German theoretical physicist.
• Toni Mendez, 94, American agent for writers and cartoonists.

10

• Gennadi Afanasyev, 60, Russian football player and manager.
• Tom Boardman, Baron Boardman, 84, British businessman and politician.
• Lionel Frederick Dakers, 79, British cathedral organist.
• Bernard Dowiyogo, 57, President of Nauru, cardiac complications from diabetes.
• Geoffrey Kirk, 81, British classical scholar.
• Barry Sheene, 52, British twice 500cc MotoGP Champion.
• Naftali Temu, 57, Kenyan athlete, prostate cancer.

11

• Brian Cleeve, 81, Anglo-Irish writer.
• Alta Cohen, 94, American baseball player (Brooklyn Robins/Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies).^[7]
• John G. Dow, 97, American politician.
• Ivar Hansen, 64, Danish politician and speaker of the Folketing.
• Alec Harper, 92, British soldier and polo player.
• Kenneth G. Wilson, 79, American author and academic.

12

• Alys Faiz, 87, Pakistani writer and human rights activist.
• Howard Fast, 88, American novelist.
• Lynne Thigpen, 54, American television and Tony Award-winning stage actress (An American Daughter).
• Zoran Đinđić, 50, Prime Minister of Serbia, gunshot (assassination).
• Andrei Kivilev, 29, professional cyclist, fall during Paris–Nice race.

13

• Lois Tobío Fernández, 96, Galician writer, translator and philologist.
• Enriko Josif, 78, Serbian composer.
• Gus Yatron, 75, American politician.

14

• Harmon Craig, 76, American geochemist.
• Amanda Davis, 32, American writer and teacher.
• Al Gionfriddo, 81, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Brooklyn Dodgers).^[8]
• Jack Goldstein, 57, American artist, suicide.
• Ron Shoop, 71, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).^[9]

15

• Mari Bicknell, 89, English choreographer and ballet teacher.
• Dame Thora Hird, 91, British actress.
• Bill Robertson, 79, British footballer.

16

• Rachel Corrie, 23, American International Solidarity Movement activist, crushed by bulldozer.
• Major Ronald Ferguson, 71, father of UK royal divorcée Sarah, Duchess of York.
• Sir Davis Hughes, 92, Australian politician.

17

• Yvette Etiévant, 80, French actress.
• Herbert Aptheker, 87, American historian and political activist.
• Bill Carlisle, 94, American country music singer, songwriter and comedian.
• Yvette Etiévant, 80, French actress.
• Alan Keith, 84, British broadcaster.
• Robert Shelton, 73, American clansman.
• Su Buqing, 100, Chinese mathematician.
• Beatrice Wright, 92, British politician.

18

• Bruno Heim, 92, Swiss ecclesiastical diplomat, Apostolic Nuncio to Britain.
• Karl Kling, 92, German racing driver.
• Adam Osborne, 64, computer pioneer (Osborne 1).^[10]

19

• Joe Buzas, 83, American baseball player (New York Yankees) and minor league baseball team owner.^[11]
• Hiromichi Fuyuki, 42, Japanese professional wrestler and promoter.
• Émile Genest, 81, Canadian actor, heart attack.
• Olivier Long, 87, Swiss Ambassador and the director-general of the GATT.
• Emily Muir, 99, American painter, architect and philanthropist.
• Michael Mathias Prechtl, 76, German illustrator.

20

• Al Blades, 26, American football player, car accident.
• Krishanu Dey, 41, Indian football player, pulmonary disorder.
• Sailor Art Thomas, 79, American professional wrestler, cancer.

21

• Harry Eisenstat, 87, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians).^[12]
• Leonard Hokanson, 71, American pianist, pancreatic cancer.
• Shivani, 79, Indian writer.

22

• Jim Anderson, 59, Australian politician.
• Terry Lloyd, 50, British ITN reporter, killed in southern Iraq.
• Paul Moran, 39, Australian photojournalist, killed by suicide bomb in Northern Iraq.

23

• Hideyo Amamoto, 77, Japanese actor, complications from pneumonia.
• Dave Dallwitz, 88, Australian jazz musician and painter.
• Lori Piestewa, 23, United States Army soldier, head wounds received during ambush.

24

• John Cavanagh, 88, Irish couturier.
• Hans Hermann Groër, 83, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (1986–1995), pneumonia.
• Don Raffell, 83, American musician and educator.
• Brandi Wells, 47, American singer, songwriter and entertainer, breast cancer.
• Philip Yordan, 88, Oscar-winning American screenwriter (Broken Lance).

25

• Robert W. Allard, 83, American plant Geneticist.
• Christopher French, 77, British barrister and judge.
• Masato Furuoya, 45, Japanese actor, suicide by hanging.
• Michael Kidron, 72, revolutionary thinker and cartographer.

26

• Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky, 81, second rebbe of Jerusalem, Israel.
• Marcus Kaufman, 73, American politician, renal failure.
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 76, American politician, sociologist, and diplomat, complications following an appendectomy.
• Babatunji Olowofoyeku, 85, Nigerian politician, educationist and lawyer.
• Tauese Sunia, 61, Governor of American Samoa, heart attack.
• Rolf Thomsen, 87, U-boat commander in the Kriegsmarine during World War II.
• Dorothy Clarke Wilson, 98, American writer.

27

• Jeremiah Duggan, 22, British student, traffic accident.
• Edouard Masengo, Congolese guitarist.
• Chris Michie, 55, guitarist and composer and best known for his work with Van Morrison, malignant melanoma.
• Elisa Mújica, 85, Colombian writer.
• Paul Zindel, 66, American playwright, novelist, and educator, lung cancer.

28

• Kadri Aytaç, 71, Turkish football player and then manager, Alzheimer's disease.
• Sam Bowens, 65, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Washington Senators).^[13]
• Rusty Draper, 80, American country and pop singer, pneumonia.
• Pat Kelly, 37, American football player, died of cancer on March 28, 2003.
• Sir Kenneth Porter, 90, British air marshal.
• L. B. G. Rao, 81, Indian politician.

29

• Neil Clarke, 45, Australian footballer.
• Matthew J. Ryan, 70, American politician.
• Maude Storey, 73, British nursing administrator, diabetes.
• Dr. Carlo Urbani, 46, World Health Organization doctor who discovered SARS, of which he died.

30

• David Cook, 73/4, British literary critic.
• Michael Jeter, 50, American actor (Evening Shade, Waterworld, Jurassic Park III).
• Sir Gregor MacGregor, 6th Baronet, 77, Scottish clan chief and army officer.
• Valentin Pavlov, 65, former Prime Minister of the Soviet Union.
• Gaby Rado, 48, Hungarian-born activist and UK-based journalist.

31

• Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, 96, UK/Canadian geometer, academic and author.
• George Connor, 78, American football player (Chicago Bears) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
• Sidney Greenberg, 85, American rabbi and author.

References

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