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 (Green Bay Packers, Boston Patriots). 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 and Olympian (1936). 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, American 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). Vincent Rakabaele, 55, Lesotho Olympic long-distance runner (1980, 1984). 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.Charles Causley Rachel de Queiroz, 92, Brazilian writer and journalist.Morre no Rio a escritora Rachel de Queiroz Ken Gampu, 74, South African actor. Jim Purnell, 61, American football player (Wisconsin Badgers, Chicago Bears, Los Angeles Rams). 19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche, 86, Indian buddhist lama. Philip Slone, 96, American soccer player. R. M. Williams, 95, Australian bush-wear 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. Jack Gregory, 88, American football player (Cleveland Rams). 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. Miguel Casas, 83, Spanish cyclist. Franci Čop, 88, Slovenian Olympic alpine skier (1936, 1948). Philip Effiong, 77, Nigerian military officer. Crash Holly, 32, American professional wrestler, suicide by drug overdose. Zoe Incrocci, 86, Italian actress and voice actress. Spider Jorgensen, 84, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants). Rie Mastenbroek, 84, Dutch swimmer and Olympian (1936). Eduardo Palomo, 41, Mexican actor, heart attack. Rudolf Schönbeck, 84, German footballer and Olympian (1952).
7 Jack Durrance, 91, American rock climber and mountaineer. Donald Griffin, 88, American professor of zoology. Foo Foo Lammar, 66, British drag queen."Frank Pearson - Obituary." The Times (London, England), November 18, 2003: 37. NewsBank: Access Global NewsBank. https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AWGLNB&docref=news/0FEEBEB43628E919. Juanjo Menéndez, 74, Spanish actor, Alzheimer's disease. Vincenzo Rubolotta, 89, Italian Olympic rower (1956). Pierre Sprécher, 81, French Olympic athlete (1948).
8 Bob Grant, 71, English actor, comedian and writer, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. 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), Oscar winner (1975). 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 and Olympian (1932, 1936, 1948). 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). Peter Gallagher, 66, Australian rugby league footballer. Paul Janssen, 77, Belgian physician and founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica. John Emmett Lyle, Jr., 93, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1945-1955). Claës-Henrik Nordenskiöld, 86, Swedish Air Force officer and sailor. Lloyd Pettit, 76, American sportscaster. Miquel Martí i Pol, 74, Catalan poet, multiple sclerosis. Lidija Rupnik, 88, Slovenian gymnast and Olympian (1936). 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. Enrique Fernández, 59, Argentine footballer. Kay E. Kuter, 78, American actor. Andrés Molina, 59, Cuban boxer and Olympian (1968, 1972). 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. Halldór Halldórsson, 72, Icelandic footballer. Hans Hansson, 84, Swedish Olympic alpine skier (1948). F. B. J. Kuiper, 96, Dutch scholar in Indology. Gene Anthony Ray, 41, American actor, dancer, and choreographer (Fame), 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. Vyacheslav Lampeyev, 51, Soviet Russian Olympic field hockey player (1980). Ray Lewis, 93, Canadian track and field athlete and Olympic medalist (1932). Tung-Yen Lin, 91, Chinese-American structural engineer, heart attack. Dorothy Loudon, 78, American actress, cancer. Mitchell Paige, 85, American-Serbian Marine Corps colonel, heart attack. Stavru Teodorov, 72, Romanian Olympic canoeist (1956, 1960). 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 and Olympian (1936). Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, 83, American dermatologist. Elena Lagorara, 64, Italian Olympic gymnast (1956, 1960). 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, 57, 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. Howard David Hermansdorfer, 72, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky). Claude Nicot, 78, French film actor. Raymond James Pettine, 91, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island). 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. Joseph Ssali, 35, Ugandan Olympic sprinter (1988).
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. Claude Roques, 91, French Olympic field hockey player (1936). Hans Tabor, 81, Danish diplomat and politician.