The following is a list ofnotable deaths in September 2003.

Entries for each day are listedalphabetically 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.

• Rand Brooks, 84, American film actor (Gone with the Wind,Babes in Arms,The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin).^[1]
• Pasquale Buonocore, 87, Italian water polo player and Olympic champion.^[2]
• Albert Frey, 90, GermanSS commander during World War II and author, suicide by gunshot.
• Terry Frost, 87, British artist.^[3]
• Eulalio González, 81, Mexican actor, singer-songwriter, screenwriter, film director, and film producer.
• John Gould, 94, American columnist, humorist and essayist.^[4]
• John Gray, 66, British diplomat.^[5]
• Jayant Pathak, 82, Indian poet and literary critic.
• Héctor Rodríguez, 83, Cuban baseball player (Chicago White Sox).^[6]
• Jack Smight, 78, American theatre and film director, cancer.^[7]
• Ramón Serrano Suñer, 101, Spanish politician.^[8]
• Mildred Thompson, 67, American artist.^[9]

• George Charles Hayter Chubb, 3rd Baron Hayter, 92, British politician and industrialist.^[10]
• Nehemiah Levanon, 88, Israeli intelligence agent and diplomat.
• Maria Manton, 92, French painter.^[11]
• Ptolemy Reid, 91, Guyanese veterinarian and politician,prime minister (1980-1984).
• Bruce Waibel, 45, American musician and bass guitar player (FireHouse,Gregg Allman Band,Santana), suicide.^[12]
• Peter West, 83, BritishBBC presenter and sports commentator, best known for his cricket, tennis and rugby coverage.^[13]

• Ray Davis, 88,United States Marine Corps four-star-general, heart attack.^[14]
• Alan Dugan, 80, American poet.^[15]
• Paul Jennings Hill, 49, Americananti-abortion activist, execution by lethal injection.^[16]
• Rudolf Leiding, 88, German chairman of theVolkswagen automobile company.
• Charles Liebman, 68, American political scientist and author on Jewish life andIsrael.
• Andrzej Nartowski, 71, Polish basketball player (basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics).^[17]
• Ilias Petropoulos, 75, Greek author,folklorist and urban historian, cancer.^[18]
• Mohsin Zaidi, 68, IndianUrdu poet.

• Ben Aris, 66, English actor (Hi-de-Hi!,The Charge of the Light Brigade,Stepping Out).^[19]
• Lola Bobesco, 82, Romanian-Belgianviolinist.^[20]
• Béla H. Bánáthy, 83, Hungarian-American educator, systems and design scientist and author.^[21]
• Susan Chilcott, 40, English opera singer,breast cancer.^[22]
• Charles A. Gabriel, 75,Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force,Alzheimer's disease.^[23]
• David P. Robbins, 61, American mathematician,pancreatic cancer.^[24]
• Tibor Varga, 82, Hungarian violinist, conductor and pedagogue.^[25]

• Yūji Aoki, 58, Japanesemanga artist,lung cancer.
• Kir Bulychev, 68, Soviet and Russianscience fiction writer, critic and historian, cancer.^[26]
• Harley Grossman, 73, American baseball player (Washington Senators).^[27]
• Richard Harrison, 82, New Zealand politician.
• Sir Ian Hunter, 84, British classical music impresario andfestival organizer.^[28]
• Gisele MacKenzie, 76, Canadian-American singer and entertainer,colorectal cancer.^[29]
• Miloš Minić, 89, Yugoslav and Serbiancommunist politician.^[30]
• James Rachels, 62, American philosopher, cancer.^[31]
• C. H. Sisson, 89, British writer and poet.^[32]

• Charles Edward Bennett, 92, American politician (U.S. Representative for Florida's2nd and3rd congressional districts).^[33]
• Marshall Joseph Caifano, 92, Italian-American mobster (Chicago Outfit).^[34]
• Jules Engel, 94, American filmmaker, visual artist, and film director.^[35]
• Marie Foster, 85, Americancivil rights movement leader.^[36]
• Harry Goz, 71, American musical theater actor (Fiddler on the Roof) and voice actor (Sealab 2021),multiple myeloma.^[37]
• Ari Guðmundsson, 75, Icelandic Olympic swimmer and ski jumper.^[38]
• Mamohato of Lesotho, 62, LesothoQueen Mother and politician.
• Maurice Michael Otunga, 80, Kenyan Catholic prelate and cardinal.
• Louise Platt, 88, American theater, film, and TV actress.^[39]

• Great Antonio, 77, Croatian-Canadian strongman, wrestler, actor and eccentric, heart attack.^[40]
• Joe McDonald, 74, Scottish footballer.^[41]
• Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountaineer, avalanche.
• Robert Weinman, 88, American sculptor and "one of the nation's most accomplishedmedallic artists".^[42]
• Merv Wellington, 62, New Zealand politician (Member of Parliament forManurewa,Papakura).^[43]
• Warren Zevon, 56, American singer and songwriter ("Werewolves of London", "Lawyers, Guns and Money", "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner"), cancer.^[44]

• Herbert Gentry, 84, Americanexpressionist painter.^[45]
• Marc Honegger, 77, Frenchmusicologist and choirmaster.^[46]
• Jaclyn Linetsky, 17, Canadian voice actress (Caillou,15/Love,What's with Andy?), road accident.
• Doris Ogilvie, 91, Canadian diver and Olympian.^[47]
• Gulabrai Ramchand, 76, Indian cricketer.^[48]
• Leni Riefenstahl, 101, German film director, producer, screenwriter, and photographer.^[49]

• Thomas Allibone, 99, English physicist, focused onnuclear fusion andparticle physics.^[50]
• David Applebaum, 51, American-Israeli physician,suicide bomb victim.^[51]
• Reginald Smith Brindle, 86, British composer and writer.^[52]
• Andrei Folbert, 72, Romanian basketball player.^[53]
• Joaquim Homs, 97, Spanish composer.^[54]
• Larry Hovis, 67, American actor (Hogan's Heroes),esophageal cancer.^[55]
• Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan, 50, Pakistani musician.^[56]
• Aleksandr Moiseyev, 76, Russian basketball player and Olympic medalist.^[57]
• Edward Teller, 95, Hungarian-Americantheoretical physicist, "Father of theH-Bomb".^[58]
• Marthe Vogt, 100, Germanneuroscientist.^[59]
• Don Willesee, 87, Australian politician, member of theAustralian Senate representingWestern Australia.^[60]

• Larry Allen Hayes, 54, American spree killer,execution by lethal injection.
• Lee Kyung-hae, South Korean farmer and activist, suicide by stabbing.^[61]
• Boris Meissner, 88, German lawyer and social scientist.
• Martin Page, 65, British writer and journalist, heart problems.^[62]

• Shafilea Ahmed, 17, British-Pakistani girl, suffocation.
• Ben Bril, 91, Dutch boxer (men's flyweight boxing at the1928 Summer Olympics) and referee.^[63]
• Nicholas DiOrio, 82, Italian-Americanassociation football player,colorectal cancer.
• Anna Lindh, 46, Swedish foreign minister, stabbed.^[64]
• Antti Nurmesniemi, 76, Finnish designer.^[65]
• John Ritter, 54, American actor (Three's Company,Clifford The Big Red Dog,8 Simple Rules),Emmy winner (1984),aortic dissection.^[66]

• Jack Burkitt, 77, English football player.^[67]
• Johnny Cash, 71, AmericanHall of Fame country singer ("Folsom Prison Blues", "I Walk the Line", "Ring of Fire"),diabetes.^[68]
• Chappie Fox, 90, Americancircus historian.^[69]
• Freddy Turner, 89, South African rugby player.

• George Boothman, 86, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).^[70]
• Ron Burton, 67, American professional football player (Northwestern,Boston Patriots),bone cancer.^[71]
• Vítor Damas, 55, Portuguese football player, cancer.
• Howard D. Graves, 64,United States Army officer, cancer.^[72]
• Reza Beyk Imanverdi, 67, Iranian actor and director,lung cancer.
• Kaino Lempinen, 82, Finnish gymnast and Olympic medalist.^[73]
• Frank O'Bannon, 73, American politician,Governor of Indiana (since 1997), stroke.
• Arthur Rowe, 67, English Olympictrack and field athlete.^[74]
• Johnny Welaj, 89, American baseball player (Washington Senators,Philadelphia Athletics).^[75]

• Donald O. Clifton, 79, American psychologist, author, researcher, and entrepreneur.^[76]
• Garrett Hardin, 88, American ecologist and philosopher, suicide.^[77]
• John Serry Sr., 88, Italian American musician composer and arranger.
• Yetunde Price, 31, American half-sister ofVenus and Serena Williams, murdered in a shooting.^[78]
• Kurt Heinrich Wolff, 91, German-American sociologist.^[79]

• Garner Ted Armstrong, 73, Americantelevision evangelist,pneumonia.^[80]
• Paul Granlund, 77, American sculptor.^[81]
• Errol Hill, 82, Trinidad and Tobago writer, playwright, actor.^[82]
• Josef Hiršal, 83, Czech author, poet and novelist.^[83]

• Jack Brymer, 88, British clarinetist (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,BBC Symphony Orchestra,London Symphony Orchestra).^[84]
• Donald Deacon, 83, Canadian politician, leukemia.
• John Orrell, 68, British author, theatre historian and academic, cancer.^[85]
• Sergio Ortega, 65, Chilean composer, pianist, poet, and politician, cancer.^[86]
• Sheb Wooley, 82, American actor (High Noon,Rawhide) and singer ("The Purple People Eater"), leukemia.^[87]

• Yitzhak Artzi, 82, Israeli politician.
• Leendert Ginjaar, 75, Dutch politician.^[88]
• Erich Hallhuber, 52, German actor, epileptic seizure.^[89]
• Ljubica Marić, 94, Yugoslav/Serbian classical composer.^[90]
• Raymond Milton, 91, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympic silver medalist.^[91]
• George Sawaya, 80, American actor and stuntman.
• Neal Wood, 81, American-Britishpolitical theorist and author.^[92]

• Robert G. Bartle, 75, American mathematician, specialized inreal analysis,lymphoma.^[93]
• Erich Bäumler, 73, German football player and manager.
• Jean Dieuzaide, 82, French photographer.^[94]
• Richard Alden Howard, 86, American botanist andplant taxonomist.^[95]
• Bob Mitchell, 76, British politician.
• Don Reese, 52, American gridiron football player (Miami Dolphins,New Orleans Saints),liver cancer.^[96]
• Sergey Smirnov, 43, Russian Olympictrack and field athlete.

• Johnny Best, 89, Americanjazz trumpeter.^[97]
• Anatoly Bogatyrev, 90, Soviet and Belarusian composer and music teacher.
• Slim Dusty, 76, Australiancountry music singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer,lung cancer.^[98]
• Emil Fackenheim, 87, GermanJewishphilosopher and Reformrabbi.^[99]
• Alfred Grislawski, 83, German fighter pilot during World War II.
• Kenneth Erwin Hagin, 86, American preacher.^[100]
• Ellen Idelson, 42, American television producer, television writer and actress, complications from cancer andCrohn's disease.
• Arthur Kinoy, 82, American attorney andcivil rights leader.^[101]
• Frank Lowe, 60, Americanjazz saxophonist,lung cancer.^[102]
• Jim Thompson, 67, British Anglican bishop.

• Robert Blake, Baron Blake, 86, English historian andlife peer, known for his biography ofBenjamin Disraeli.^[103]
• Tom Busby, 66, Canadian actor (The War Lover,The Dirty Dozen,Heavenly Pursuits), heart attack.^[104]
• Lorenzo Calonga, 74, Paraguayan football player.
• Stanley Fafara, 54, American child actor, complications fromhernia surgery.
• Ken Khouri, 86, Jamaican record producer.
• Gordon Mitchell, 80, American actor and bodybuilder, heart attack.^[105]
• Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, 62, British Cabinet minister, Leader of the House of Lords.^[106]
• Simon Muzenda, 80, Zimbabwean politician and vice-President of Zimbabwe, diabetes.^[107]
• Maurizio Romano, 37, Italian voice actor, traffic collision.^[108]
• Vernon Singer, 84, Canadian politician.
• Sonora Webster Carver, 99, American entertainer.

• Amédée Domenech, 70, French rugby player,hepatitis.
• Pamela Gordon, 66, American actress (Weird Science,Stealing Harvard,Subspecies).^[109]
• Robert Lochner, 84, American journalist, pulmonary embolism.^[110]
• Lu Ann Simms, 71, American singer.^[111]
• Otis A. Singletary, 81, American historian.^[112]

• Arturo Ardao, 90, Uruguayan philosopher and historian.
• Howard Austen, 74, American confidant and companion of writerGore Vidal, brain cancer.^[113]
• Maxime Brunfaut, 94, Belgian architect.
• Gordon Jump, 71, American actor (WKRP in Cincinnati,Soap,Growing Pains), respiratory failure.^[114]
• Richard Lankford, 89, American politician.
• Wolfgang Peters, 74, German football player.^[115]
• Lee Robinson, 80, Australian producer, director and screenwriter.^[116]
• Hugo Young, 64, British journalist and political commentator (The Guardian,The Observer), colorectal cancer.^[117]

• Rosalie Allen, 79, American country musician and television and radio host, known as Queen of the Yodelers.^[118]
• Earl Brown, 87, American football and basketball player and coach (Auburn).^[119]
• Henri Cogan, 89, French actor and stuntman.^[120]
• Simcha Dinitz, 74, Israeli statesman and politician.
• John E. Flynn, 91, American politician.
• Theodore R. Kupferman, 83, American politician.^[121]
• Rex Robbins, 68, American actor (1776,Shaft,The Royal Tenenbaums), stroke.^[122]
• Bernie Williams, 57, American basketball player,colorectal cancer.^[123]

• Yoshinobu Ashihara, 85, Japanese architect.^[124]
• Lyle Bettger, 88, American actor (The Greatest Show on Earth,Nevada Smith,Hawaii Five-O).^[125]
• Herb Gardner, 68, American commercial artist, cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter.^[126]
• Hugh Gregg, 85, American politician,Governor of New Hampshire (1953-1955).^[127]
• Benson Masya, 33, Kenyan long-distance runner, illness.
• Derek Prince, 88, English biblical scholar and author.
• Jean Pélégri, 83, French writer and professor of literature.^[128]
• Robert D. Richtmyer, 92, American physicist, author, and musician.
• Edward Said, 67, Palestinian-American academic, literary critic and political activist,leukemia.^[129]

• Thomas Casey, 82, Australian politician.
• John Clayton, 63, Australian actor, cancer.^[130]
• Anthony Durante, 36, American professional wrestler, drug overdose.
• Aqila al-Hashimi, 50, Iraqi politician, member of theIraqi Governing Council (since 2003), complications from gunshot wounds.^[131]
• Birgit Jürgenssen, 54, Austrian photographer, painter, curator and teacher.^[132]
• Franco Modigliani, 85, ItalianNobel Prize-winning economist.^[133]
• Donald Nicol, 80, EnglishByzantine scholar.^[134]
• Chuba Okadigbo, 61, Nigerian politician, philosopher, academic, writer and political scientist.
• George Plimpton, 76, American author, actor, and socialite, heart attack.^[135]
• Yuri Senkevich, 66, Soviet doctor and scientist, heart failure.
• Josef Wagner, 87, Swiss cyclist.^[136]

• Olle Anderberg, 84, Swedish wrestler (1948 Olympic silver medal,1952 Olympic gold medal).^[137]
• Inday Badiday, 59, Filipino TV host and journalist, multiple organ failure.
• Władysław Kozaczuk, 79, Polish Army colonel and intelligence historian.
• Shawn Lane, 40, American guitarist and composer,lung disease.^[138]
• Robert Palmer, 54, British singer ("Addicted to Love"), heart attack.^[139]
• Robert Raymond, 81, Australian television pioneer.^[140]
• David Williams, 77, Welsh advertising executive and crime writer.^[141]

• Tom Bateman, 80, Australian politician.
• Tom Brennan, 81, American ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).^[142]
• Paul Burlison, 74, Americanrockabilly guitarist and a founding member ofThe Rock and Roll Trio, cancer.^[143]
• Olive Cotton, 92, Australian modernist photographer.
• Fay Helm, 94, American film actress.
• Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, 86, Pakistani politician, heart attack.
• Jean Lucas, 86, French racing driver.^[144]
• Donald J. Mitchell, 80, American politician and member of theUnited States House of Representatives for New York.^[145]
• Donald O'Connor, 78, American actor (Singin' in the Rain,Yes Sir, That's My Baby), singer and dancer,Emmy winner (1954), heart attack.^[146]
• Wendy Wyland, 38, American Olympic diver (bronze medal inwomen's 10 metre platform at the1984 Summer Olympics).^[147]
• Masahiro Yoshimura, 66, Japanese Olympic swimmer (silver medal in200 metre breaststroke at the1956 Summer Olympics).^[148]

• Proinsias Mac Aonghusa, 70, Irish journalist, writer, and TV presenter.
• Dany Bébel-Gisler, 68,Guadeloupeansociolinguist,ethnologist and author, preservationist ofCreole languages, heart attack.^[149]
• Christopher Foxley-Norris, 86, British Air Chief Marshal.
• Althea Gibson, 76, African-American tennis player, respiratory failure.^[150]
• Cork Hubbert, 51, American film and television actor,diabetes.^[151]
• Elia Kazan, 94, Turkish-born American film director (A Streetcar Named Desire,On the Waterfront,East of Eden),Oscar winner (1948,1955).^[152]
• George Odlum, 69, Saint Lucian politician,pancreatic cancer.
• Ephraim Oshry, 94-95, Lithuanian-AmericanOrthodoxrabbi, author andHolocaust-survivor.^[153]
• Marshall Rosenbluth, 76, American academic andplasma physicist.^[154]

• Lubor Tokoš, 80, Czech actor.
• Wesley Tuttle, 85, Americancountry music singer.^[155]
• Raoul Gregory Vitale, 75, Syrian musicologist .
• Beatrice Blyth Whiting, 89, Americananthropologist, a pioneer in the comparative study ofchild development.^[156]

• Yusuf Bey, 67, AmericanBlack Muslim activist and leader, cancer.^[157]
• Ronnie Dawson, 64, American rockabilly singer, guitarist and drummer, esophageal cancer.^[158]
• Oreste Del Buono, 80, Italian author, journalist, translator, literary critic and screenwriter.^[159]
• Eddie Gladden, 65, Americanjazz drummer.^[160]
• John Hawkesworth, 82, English television/film producer and writer.^[161]
• Robert Kardashian, 59, American criminal defense lawyer, father ofKim,Khloé andKourtney Kardashian,esophageal cancer.^[162]

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