Deaths in 2003 - December 2003

December 2003

• 1 - Clark Kerr, 92, first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1952–58) and President of the University of California (1958–67).
• 2 - Ignaz Kiechle, 73, German politician and minister for agriculture (1983–93).
• 3 - David Hemmings, 62, British actor and director, heart attack.
• 4 - Jonathan Luna, 38, United States Assistant Attorney, murdered.
• 5 - Felix Kaspar, 88, Austrian figure skater.
• 5 - Jack Keller, 61, American poker player.
• 5 - Bert Templeton, 63, Scottish ice hockey coach, kidney cancer.
• 6 - Haddis Alemayehu, 93, Ethiopian Foreign Minister and novelist.
• 6 - Barry Long, 77, Australian spiritual teacher and writer.
• 6 - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, 85, President of Guatemala 1970-74.
• 6 - Jerry Tuite, 36, American wrestler, heart attack.
• 7 - Carl F. H. Henry, 90, American Evangelical theologian and founder of Christianity Today magazine.
• 7 - Azie Taylor Morton, 67, former Treasurer of the United States, complications from a stroke.
• 8 - Johnny Bulla, 89, American golfer.
• 8 - Rubén González, 84, Cuban pianist.
• 9 - Margaret Quass, 77, British educationalist.
• 9 - Paul Simon, 75, United States Senator from Illinois.
• 10 - Ettore Perazzoli, 29, Italian free software developer.
• 10 - Sir John Watts, 73, British army general.
• 11 - Ahmadou Kourouma, 76, Ivorian novelist.
• 11 - John W. Sidgmore, 52, former head of Worldcom and UUNet, acute pancreatitis.
• 11 - Ram Kishore Shukla, 80, Indian politician.
• 12 - Heydar Aliyev, 80, former President of Azerbaijan.
• 12 - Michael Casson, 78, British potter.
• 12 - Earl Gillespie, 81, sportscaster, voice of the Milwaukee Braves.
• 12 - Keiko, 27, orca of Reino Aventura and Free Willy fame, pneumonia.
• 12 - Fadwa Toukan, 86, Palestinian poet.
• 13 - Elizabeth Bates, 56, Professor of Psychology at University of California, San Diego, pancreatic cancer.
• 13 - Mollie Hardwick, 87, British writer.
• 13 - William V. Roth, Jr., 82, American lawyer and politician.
• 14 - Jeanne Crain, 78, American actress, heart attack.
• 14 - Blas Ople, 75, Filipino journalist and politician.
• 15 - Johnny Cunningham, 46, British folk musician.
• 15 - George Fisher, 80, American political cartoonist.
• 15 - Jack Gregory, 80, British athlete.
• 15 - David S. Lewis, 86, American aerospace engineer.
• 15 - Keith Magnuson, 56, Canadian National Hockey League player, road accident.
• 16 - Gary Stewart, 58, American country music singer, suicide.
• 16 - Robert Stanfield, 89, Canadian politician.
• 17 - Ed Devereaux, 78, Australian actor.
• 17 - Otto Graham, 82, American professional football and basketball player, heart aneurysm.
• 17 - David Smith, 69, English cricketer.
• 17 - Alan Tilvern, 86, actor and voice artist (Bhowani Junction, the 1978 Lord of the Rings cartoon film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit).
• 19 - Ricardo Alfonso Cerna, 47, Guatemalan suicide victim.
• 19 - Peter Carter-Ruck, 89, British libel lawyer.
• 19 - Hope Lange, 72, American actress, ischemic colitis.
• 21 - Antony Allen, 90, English cricketer.
• 22 - Dave Dudley, 75, American country music singer, heart attack.
• 23 - John Sanders, 70, British organist, pneumonia.
• 23 - Chandu Sarwate, 83, Indian cricketer.
• 23 - Basil Wells, 91, American writer.
• 26 - Hugh Bean, 74, British violinist.
• 26 - Phil Goldman, 39, American engineer and entrepreneur, heart failure.
• 26 - Yoshio Shirai, 80, first Japanese world boxing champion, pneumonia.
• 27 - Vestal Goodman, 74, American Southern Gospel singer, complications from influenza.
• 27 - Iván Calderón, 41, Puerto Rican former major league baseball star, homicide by gunshot.
• 27 - Sir Alan Bates, 69, British actor, pancreatic cancer.
• 27 - Polly Rosenbaum, 104, American politician and teacher.
• 28 - Dinsdale Landen, 71, British actor, pneumonia.
• 28 - Benjamin Thurman Hacker, 68, first American Naval Flight Officer to achieve the "Flag" rank.
• 28 - Frank Parr, 85, British chess player.
• 29 - Richard Davis, 37, English cricketer, brain cancer.
• 29 - Earl Hindman, 61, American actor (Home Improvement), lung cancer.
• 29 - Don Lawrence, 75, British comic book artist.
• 29 - Bob Monkhouse, 75, British comedian and game show host, prostate cancer.
• 30 - David Bale, 62, South African businessman and activist; husband of Gloria Steinem.
• 30 - John Gregory Dunne, 71, American novelist and screenwriter, heart attack.
• 30 - Anita Mui, 40, Hong Kong pop queen.
• 31 - Sophie Daumier, 69, French actress, comedienne, Huntington's disease.
• 31 - Arthur R. von Hippel, 105, German-born scientist and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who made critical contributions to the development of radar.