Deaths in 2003 - January 2003

January 2003

• 1 - Giorgio Gaber, 63, Italian singer-songwriter and playwright.
• 1 - Joe Foss, 87, politician, fighter pilot, recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• 2 - Sydney Omarr, 76, astrologer, newspaper columnist, heart attack.
• 3 - Sid Gillman, 91, American football coach.
• 4 - Raymond Aker, 82, scholar and authority on Francis Drake.
• 4 - Conrad Hall, 76, Hollywood cinematographer, a two-time Academy Award–winner.
• 4 - Yfrah Neaman, 79, violinist and teacher.
• 5 - Roy Jenkins, 82, British Labour MP and co-founder, first leader of, then Peer for, the Social Democratic Party.
• 5 - Ray Scott, 75, Australian rules football umpire.
• 6 - Sir Gerald Cash, 85, Governor-General of the Bahamas.
• 6 - Glyn Davies, 83, Welsh economist.
• 7 - Ken Biddulph, 70. British cricketer.
• 7 - Montagu Dawson, 83, British World War II bombardier.
• 8 - Simeon Aké, 71, Ivorian politician.
• 8 - Ron Goodwin, 77, British film music composer and conductor.
• 8 - Angelo Romani, 69, Italian swimmer.
• 9 - Elizabeth Irving, 98, British actress.
• 10 - C. Douglas Dillon, 93, American diplomat and politician.
• 11 - Mickey Finn, 55, band member of T. Rex.
• 11 - Sir Anthony Havelock-Allan, 98, British producer and screenwriter.
• 11 - Maurice Pialat, 77, French movie director.
• 11 - Richard Simmons, 89, actor, Sgt William Preston on TV's Sergeant Preston of the Yukon.
• 12 - Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, 76, former dictator of Argentina.
• 12 - Maurice Gibb, 53, band member of Bee Gees.
• 12 - Alan Nunn May, 91, British physicist and spy.
• 12 - Koloman Sokol, 100, Slovak artist.
• 13 - Andreas Holm, 96, Norwegian politician.
• 13 - Elisabeth Croft, 95, Actress (Crossroads)
• 13 - Norman Panama, 88, screenwriter and director.
• 15 - Doris Fisher, 87, singer & songwriter.
• 16 - Hans Pietsch, 34, German professional Go player.
• 16 - Alfred Kantor, 79, Czech-born Holocaust survivor, artist and author of The Book of Alfred Kantor.
• 17 - Alden G. Barber, 83, American Scouter.
• 18 - Richard Crenna, 74, American actor.
• 19 - Françoise Giroud, 86, French writer and politician.
• 20 - Al Hirschfeld, 99, American caricaturist.
• 20 - Bill Werbeniuk, 56, Canadian snooker player.
• 20 - David Battley, 67, British actor, heart attack.
• 20 - Tony O'Malley, 89, Irish artist and painter.
• 21 - Paul Kuusberg, 86, Estonian writer.
• 21 - Antonio Domínguez Ortiz, 93, Spanish historian.
• 22 - George Aitken, 77, Scottish footballer.
• 22 - Bill Mauldin, 81, World War II cartoonist.
• 22 - Peter Russell, 81, British poet.
• 23 - Nell Carter, 54, singer, actress.
• 24 - Gianni Agnelli, 81, Italian entrepreneur and president of Fiat.
• 25 - Diana Gould, Baroness Menuhin, 90, British dancer and widow of Yehudi Menuhin.
• 25 - Robert Rockwell, 82, American actor (Our Miss Brooks).
• 26 - George Younger, the 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, 71, British politician, Secretary of State for Scotland 1979–1986.
• 26 - Valeriy Brumel, 60, athlete, track and field.
• 27 - Maurice Ash, 85, British environmentalist and writer.
• 27 - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Lord Dacre, 89, British historian, authenticator of the hoaxed Hitler Diaries.
• 28 - Edward Preston Young, 89, British submariner and publisher.
• 29 – László Kákosy, 70, Hungarian Egyptologist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
• 29 - Frank Moss, 91, former United States Senator from Utah.
• 29 - Peter Shaw, 84, British actor & producer; husband of Angela Lansbury.
• 31 - Peter Guy Ottewill, 87, British World War II RAF officer.