Deaths in 2003 - April 2003

April 2003

• 1 - Leslie Cheung, 46, Hong Kong actor and singer.
• 1 - David Horrobin, 63, British medical researcher and entrepreneur.
• 1 - Booker Bradshaw, 61, American record producer, film & TV actor; Motown executive, heart attack.
• 2 - Michael Wayne (Michael Morrison), 68, film producer; eldest son of John Wayne, heart failure as the result of complications from lupus
• 2 - Edwin Starr, 61, soul singer.
• 2 - Edward Keating, 89, founder of Ramparts magazine.
• 3 - Scott Hain, 32, last person to be executed in the U.S. for a crime committed while still a juvenile.
• 4 - Resortes (né Adalberto Martinez Chavez), 87, legendary Mexican comedian, emphysema.
• 5 - Seymour Lubetzky, 104, American cataloging theorist and librarian.
• 6 - David Bloom, 39, an NBC reporter, died from a pulmonary embolism while embedded with the 3rd Infantry Division covering the war in Iraq.
• 6 - Gerald Emmett Carter, 89, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Toronto (1978-1990).
• 6 - Lance Corporal Ian Malone, 28, Dublin-born soldier in the Irish Guards regiment of the British Army, gunshot (killed in Iraq).
• 6 - Babatunde Olatunji, 75, African drummer; recorded Drums of Passion, diabetes.
• 7 - Cecile de Brunhoff, 99, inspired the Babar the Elephant children's books when she told it to her children as a bedtime story in 1931.
• 7 - Ib Eisner, 77, Danish artist.
• 8 - Anita Borg, 54, computer scientist, brain tumor.
• 9 - James Earl Salisbury, 51, educator, SARS.
• 10 - Abdul-Majid al-Khoei, 40, Shia cleric, stabbed.
• 10 - Little Eva (née Eva Narcissus Boyd), 59, who sang the 1962 hit The Loco-Motion.
• 12 - Sydney Lassick, 80, American film actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), complications of diabetes.
• 12 - Cecil H. Green, 102, Texas Instruments founder.
• 13 - Sean Delaney, 58, American musician.
• 14 - Kent Pullen, 60, American politician.
• 16 - Graham Stuart Thomas, 94, horticultural artist, author and garden designer.
• 17 - Robert Atkins, 72, American nutritionist.
• 17 - John Paul Getty, Jr., 70, philanthropist, chest infection.
• 17 - Sammy Kean, 85, Scottish football player and manager.
• 17 - Earl King, 69, R&B musician/songwriter, complications of diabetes.
• 18 - Edgar F. Codd, 79, computer pioneer, heart failure.
• 19 - Conrad Leonard, 104, British musician and composer.
• 20 - Ruth Hale, 94, American playwright and actress.
• 20 - Daijiro Kato, 26, Japanese motorcycle rider, after crashing at Suzuka on April 6.
• 21 - Robert Blackburn, 82, American artist and printmaker.
• 21 - Nina Simone, 70, American jazz singer, long-based in France (known as the "High Priestess of Soul").
• 22 - Berkeley Smith, 84, British broadcaster.
• 22 - Martha Griffiths, 91, Congresswoman; women's rights activist.
• 23 - Bernard Katz, 92, American Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist.
• 23 - James H. Critchfield, 86, Central Intelligence Agency operative during the Cold War, pancreatic cancer.
• 23 - Fernand Fonssagrives, 93, French photographer.
• 26 - The Hon. Rosemary Brown, 72, Canadian politician (NDP); first black woman elected to a provincial legislature and first black woman to run for the leadership of a major federal political party, myocardial infarction.
• 26 - Edward Max Nicholson, 98, environmentalist.
• 26 - Peter Stone, 73, Oscar and Tony-winning American screenwriter, pulmonary fibrosis.
• 27 - Elaine Anderson Steinbeck, 88, former actress; widow of author John Steinbeck.
• 30 - Peter 'Possum' Bourne, 47, 3-time Asia-Pacific Rally champion, head injuries sustained in a car crash.
• 30 - Wim van Est, 80, Dutch cyclist.