Deaths in November 2003

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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.

November 2003

1

• W. Brian Harland, 86, British geologist.
• Colin Hayes, 83, British artist.
• Joe Johnson, 73, American gridiron football player.
• Kent Kennan, 90, American composer, author, and professor.
• Henryk Machalica, 73, Polish film and stage actor, fall from horse.
• Libero Marchini, 89, Italian football player.
• Sonny Senerchia, 72, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates) and college baseball coach (Monmouth University), motorcycle accident.
• Daishiro Yoshimura, 56, Japanese football player and manager, intracranial hemorrhage.

2

• Xela Arias, 41, Spanish Galician-language poet and translator, heart attack.
• Christabel Bielenberg, 94, British writer, (The Past is Myself, Christabel).
• Fernando Vizcaíno Casas, 77, Spanish labour lawyer, journalist and writer.
• Ted Cunningham, 65, Australian politician.
• Nati Kaji, 77, Nepali singer and songwriter.
• Iris Kelso, 76, American journalist.
• Frank McCloskey, 64, Indiana Congressman (Indiana's 8th district) from 1983 to 1995, bladder cancer.
• Jimmy Quillen, 87, American politician (U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 1st congressional district).
• Frederic Vester, 77, German cybernetician.
• Cliff Young, 81, Australian potato farmer and long distance runner, won Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon in 1983 at 61, cancer.

3

• Derk Bodde, 94, American sinologist.
• Aaron Bridgers, 85, American-French jazz pianist, featured in the 1961 Paul Newman film Paris Blues.
• Yuri Falin, 66, Soviet football player.
• Rasul Gamzatov, 80, Avarian/Soviet/Russian poet, called the "People's poet of Dagestan".
• A. James Manchin, 76, American politician, Secretary of State and State Treasurer for West Virginia, heart attack.
• Narendra Prasad, 57, Indian (Malayalam) film actor, professor and writer, cardio-respiratory arrest.

4

• Manadel al-Jamadi, Iraqi extrajudicial prisoner at Abu Ghraib prison, torture.
• Lotte Berk, 90, German-English dancer and teacher, created Barre fitness classes.
• Charles Causley, 86, British poet.
• Rachel de Queiroz, 92, Brazilian writer and journalist.
• Ken Gampu, 74, South African actor.
• 19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche, 86, Buddhist lama.
• Philip Slone, 96, American soccer player.
• R. M. Williams, 95, Australian bushwear manufacturer, known for their handcrafted riding boots.
• Richard Wollheim, 80, British philosopher and an authority on psychoanalysis and art.

5

• David Bar-Ilan, 73, Israeli concert pianist, journalist and political aide (Benjamin Netanyahu).
• Hugh H. Bownes, 83, American judge (Senior Judge of the 1st Cir.) and politician.
• Dorothy Fay, 88, American actress.
• Subrata Guha, 57, Indian cricket player, heart attack.
• Bobby Hatfield, 63, American singer, half of duo the Righteous Brothers, heart attack.
• Hans Heinrich, 92, German film editor, screenwriter and film director.
• Zaim Muzaferija, 80, Bosnian actor and poet.
• Lyman Ray Patterson, 74, American law professor and historian.
• Dernell Stenson, 25, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds), killed during robbery.

6

• Just Betzer, 59, Danish film producer (Babette's Feast: 1988 Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film), heart attack.
• Philip Effiong, 77, Nigerian military officer.
• Crash Holly, 32, American professional wrestler, suicide.
• Zoe Incrocci, 86, Italian actress and voice actress.
• Spider Jorgensen, 84, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants).
• Rie Mastenbroek, 84, Dutch swimmer (1936 Summer Olympics medals: gold:100m, gold:400m, gold:4x100m, silver:100m).
• Eduardo Palomo, 41, Mexican actor, heart attack.

7

• Donald Griffin, 88, American professor of zoology.
• Foo Foo Lammar, 66, British drag queen.
• Juanjo Menéndez, 74, Spanish actor, Alzheimer's disease.

8

• Bob Grant, 71, English actor, comedian and writer, suicide.
• C. Z. Guest, 83, American actress, author, columnist and socialite.
• Ernst Kossmann, 81, Dutch historian.
• Guy Speranza, 47, American singer, pancreatic cancer.
• Richard Swift, 76, American composer and music theorist.
• Abdirahman Ahmed Ali Tuur, 72, Somali politician.

9

• Buddy Arnold, 77, American jazz saxophonist.
• Stephen Benton, 61, American scientist, teacher and artist, inventor of the rainbow hologram.
• Art Carney, 85, American actor (The Honeymooners, Harry and Tonto, The Late Show).
• Bruce Alexander Cook, 71, American journalist and author.
• Pushpalata Das, 88, Indian independence activist and social worker.
• Gordon Onslow Ford, 90, British- American surrealist painter.
• Mario Merz, 78, Italian artist.

10

• Margaret Armen, 82, American television screenwriter (The Rifleman, The Big Valley, Star Trek, Barnaby Jones).
• Canaan Banana, 67, Zimbabwean politician and minister, first president of Zimbabwe, cancer.
• June Beebe, 90, American professional golfer, won the Women's Western Open in 1931 and 1933.
• Edvard Beyer, 83, Norwegian literary historian, literary critic, and professor.
• Hans Hermes, 91, German mathematician and logician.
• Irv Kupcinet, 91, American columnist and television personality, pneumonia.
• Morten Lange, 83, Danish mycologist and politician.
• Czesław Marchewczyk, 91, Polish ice hockey player.
• Jed Williams, 51, Welsh jazz journalist and artistic director of the Brecon Jazz Festival.
• Vasilije Šijaković, 74, Montenegrin football player.

11

• Andrei Bolibrukh, 53, Soviet (Russian) mathematician, known for his work on ordinary differential equations.
• Robert Brown, 82, British actor (spy boss M in four James Bond films), cancer.
• George Wallace, Baron Wallace of Coslany, 97, British politician and life peer (MP for Chislehurst).
• Harold Walker, Baron Walker of Doncaster, 76, British politician (MP for Doncaster and Doncaster Central).
• Paul Janssen, 77, Belgian physician and founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica.
• John Emmett Lyle, Jr., 93, American politician.
• Claës-Henrik Nordenskiöld, 86, Swedish Air Force officer and sailor.
• Lloyd Pettit, 76, American sportscaster.
• Miquel Martí i Pol, 74, Catalan poet, multiple sclerosis.
• Shunsuke Shima, 71, Japanese actor and voice actor.
• Don Taylor, 67, British theatre and television director.

12

• Jonathan Brandis, 27, American actor (seaQuest DSV, It, Sidekicks), suicide by hanging.
• Whitfield Cook, 94, American writer of screenplays, stage plays, short stories and novels.
• Cameron Duncan, 17, New Zealand filmmaker, bone cancer.
• Kay E. Kuter, 78, American actor.
• Penny Singleton, 95, American actress, singer and dancer, stroke.
• John Tartaglione, 82, American comic book artist, esophageal cancer.
• Tony Thompson, 48, American drummer for The Power Station, kidney cancer.

13

• Ray Harris, 76, American rockabilly musician and songwriter.
• Nobuo Okishio, 76, Japanese marxian economist.
• Andrew Vázsonyi, 87, Hungarian-American mathematician, founder of The Institute of Management Sciences.
• Kellie Waymire, 36, American actress (Star Trek: Enterprise, Six Feet Under), cardiac arrest.

14

• Pierre Camonin, 100, French organist and composer.
• Giles Gordon, 63, Scottish literary agent and writer.
• F B J Kuiper, 96, Dutch scholar in Indology.
• Gene Anthony Ray, 41, American actor, dancer, and choreographer, complications of a stroke.
• Tim Vigors, 82, British fighter ace during World War II and biographer.

15

• Earl Battey, 68, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins), cancer.
• Mohamed Choukri, 68, Moroccan author and novelist, cancer.
• Ian Geoghegan, 63, Australian race car driver.
• David Holt, 76, American child actor, heart attack.
• Ray Lewis, 93, Canadian track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.
• Tung-Yen Lin, 91, Chinese-American structural engineer, heart attack.
• Dorothy Loudon, 70, American actress, cancer.
• Mitchell Paige, 85, American-Serbian Marine Corps colonel, heart attack.
• Laurence Tisch, 80, American billionaire, head of Loews Corporation and CBS television network, cancer.
• James D. Weaver, 83, American politician (U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 24th congressional district).
• Speedy West, 79, American pedal steel guitarist and record producer.
• Ned Wulk, 83, American basketball coach (Arizona State University) and baseball coach.

16

• Fernanda Bullano, 89, Italian sprinter (women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
• Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, 83, American dermatologist.
• Richard Lam, 56, Hong Kong songwriter, lyricist and columnist, lymphoma.
• Bettina Goislard, 29, French UNHCR relief worker, killed by Taliban militants.
• Albert Nozaki, 91, Japanese-American art director (The War of the Worlds, The Ten Commandments).

17

• Gerry Adams, Sr, 77, Irish Republican Army volunteer, father of Gerry Adams.
• Surjit Bindrakhia, 41, Indian singer, cardiac arrest, heart attack.
• Arthur Conley, 58, American soul singer, intestinal cancer.
• Maurice A. Dionne, 67, Canadian educator and politician .
• Don Gibson, 75, American singer-songwriter.
• Bertrand Hallward, 102, British educationalist.
• Colin Harrison, 77, English ornithologist.
• Claude Nicot, 78, French film actor.
• Pete Taylor, 75, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).

18

• Vivian Bonnell, 79, Antiguan actress (House of Flowers, For Pete's Sake, Ghost, Sanford and Son), diabetes.
• Ken Brett, 55, American baseball player, brother of George Brett, brain cancer.
• Patricia Broderick, 78, American playwright (Infinity) and painter, mother of Matthew Broderick, cancer.
• Bob Carmichael, 63, Australian tennis player and coach.
• Michael Kamen, 55, American composer (Die Hard, Band of Brothers, 101 Dalmatians), heart attack.

19

• Gillian Barge, 63, English actress (The Cherry Orchard, Measure For Measure, The Winter's Tale), cancer.
• Harry Buffington, 84, American professional football player (Oklahoma State, New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers).
• William B. Macomber, Jr., American diplomat and president of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Života Panić, 70, Yugoslav military officer.
• Greg Ridley, 56, English rock artist, complications following pneumonia.
• Hans Tabor, 81, Danish diplomat and politician.
• Bill Young, 86, Australian politician (Tasmanian House of Assembly for Franklin).
• Shi Zhecun, 97, Chinese essayist, poet, and short story writer.

20

• Robert Addie, 43, English actor (Excalibur, Robin of Sherwood, Another Country, Dutch Girls, Merlin), lung cancer.
• Pedro Adigue, 60, Filipino boxer and light welterweight world champion .
• Loris Azzaro, 70, French-Italian fashion designer, cancer.
• David Dacko, 73, first president of the Central African Republic, asthma.
• Eugene Kleiner, 80, Austrian-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist.
• Mary Jane Russell, 77, American photographic fashion model, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Roger Short, 58, British diplomat, consul-general in Istanbul, homicide.
• Jim Siedow, 83, American actor, pulmonary emphysema.
• Ferry Sonneville, 72, Indonesian badminton player.
• Pedro L. Yap, 85, Filipino judge and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
• Kerem Yılmazer, 58, Turkish actor, homicide.

21

• Eşfak Aykaç, 85, Turkish football player and coach.
• Bill Haarlow, 90, American basketball player.
• Emil Pažický, 76, Slovak football player.
• Armand Putzeys, 86, Belgian cyclist andOlympic medalist.
• Teddy Randazzo, 68, American singer-songwriter.

22

• Mario Beccaria, 83, Italian politician.
• Iosif Budahazi, 56, Romanian fencer (men's individual sabre, men's team sabre at the 1972 Summer Olympics).
• Joe Just, 87, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).
• Yuri Khukhrov, 71, Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist.
• George Peoples, 43, American football player (Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots, Tampa Bay Buccaneers).
• Al Richardson, 61, British Trotskyist historian and activist.
• Dick Thomas, 88, American singing cowboy, songwriter, and musician.

23

• Patricia Burke, 86, English singer and actress (Lisbon Story, The Day the Fish Came Out, The Clitheroe Kid).
• Nick Carter, 79, New Zealand racing cyclist (men's individual road race at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
• Richard Dogbeh, 70, Beninese novelist and educator.
• Jhalak Man Gandarbha, 68, Nepali folk singer.
• Patrick Jansen, 82, Indian field hockey player (gold medal in field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
• Johny Lahure, 61, Luxembourgish politician.
• Murasoli Maran, 69, Indian politician.
• Margaret Singer, 82, American clinical psychologist and researcher, pneumonia.
• Bill Strutton, 85, Australian screenwriter and novelist, heart attack.
• Grigori Tokaty, 90, Soviet rocket scientist and politician.

24

• Luai al-Atassi, 76/7, Syrian army commander and politician, President (1963).
• Sheikh Niamat Ali, 63, Bangladeshi film director.
• Saifuddin Azizi, 88, Chinese politician.
• Hesba Fay Brinsmead, 81, Australian author of books for children and young adults (Pastures of the Blue Crane).
• Reiko Dan, 68, Japanese actress.
• Dick Hutton, 80, American amateur and professional wrestler.
• Hugh Kenner, 80, Canadian literary critic.
• Michael Small, 64, American film score composer, prostate cancer.
• Floquet de Neu, 38-40, Spanish albino western lowland gorilla.
• Warren Spahn, 82, American baseball pitcher (Milwaukee Braves) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.
• Tun Tun, 80, Indian playback singer and actress-comedienne.

25

• Bernard Cohn, 75, American anthropologist and academic.
• Jacques François, 83, French actor.
• Shulamith Hareven, 73, Israeli writer and essayist.
• Zhang Honggen, 67, Chinese football player and coach.
• Mary Queeny, 90, Lebanese-Egyptian actress and film producer.

26

• Andrea Bonomi, 80, Italian football player.
• `Alí-Akbar Furútan, 98, Iranian Baháʼí educator and author.
• Sadegh Khalkhali, 77, Iranian Shia cleric and ayatollah, cancer.
• Meyer Kupferman, 77, American composer and clarinetist, heart failure.
• Lionel Ngakane, 75, South African filmmaker and actor (The Mark of the Hawk, The Squeeze).
• Gordon Reid, 64, Scottish actor.
• Soulja Slim, 26, American rapper, homicide.
• Lise Thomsen, 88, Danish film actress.
• Stefan Wul, 81, French science fiction writer (Oms en série).

27

• Satyendra Dubey, 30, Indian Engineering Service officer, assassinated.
• Arthur Greenslade, 80, British conductor and arranger for films and television.
• Riccardo Malipiero, 89, Italian composer, pianist, critic, and music educator.
• Will Quadflieg, 89, German actor, pulmonary embolism.
• Marjorie Reeves, 98, British historian and educationalist.
• Kurt von Fischer, 90, Swiss musicologist and classical pianist.

28

• Ted Bates, 85, British footballer and manager.
• Harold Von Braunhut, 77, American marketer and creator of Amazing Sea-Monkeys, suicide.
• Edmund Hartmann, 92, American film and television writer and producer.
• Terry Lester, 53, American actor, heart attack.
• Thekra, 45, Tunisian singer, shot.

29

• Norman Burton, 79, American actor (Diamonds Are Forever, The Towering Inferno, The New Adventures of Wonder Woman), traffic collision.
• Tony Canadeo, 84, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
• Jim Carlin, 85, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
• Jesse Carver, 92, English football player and manager.
• Jan-Magnus Jansson, 81, Finnish politician. chairman of the Swedish People's Party of Finland.
• Larry Latham, 51, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Robert Y. Thornton, 93, American attorney, politician, and jurist.
• Rudi Martinus van Dijk, 71, Dutch composer.

30

• Earl Bellamy, 86, American film and television director (Leave It to Beaver, The Lone Ranger, I Spy, M*A*S*H), heart attack.
• Jack Brewer, 85, American baseball player (New York Giants).
• Barber Conable, 81, American politician, president of the World Bank (1986–1991), infectious disease.
• António Jesus Correia, 79, Portuguese football and roller hockey (quad) player.
• Gertrude Ederle, 98, American swimmer and first woman to swim the English Channel (1926).
• Hans Kuschke, 89, German rower and Olympic medalist.
• Kin Platt, 91, American writer, artist, painter, sculptor, caricaturist, and comics artist.

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