Deaths in 2003 - July 2003

July 2003

• 1 - John Bissell Carroll, 87, American psychologist.
• 1 - Wesley Mouzon, 75, professional boxer, beat Bob Montgomery.
• 1 - Herbie Mann, 73, crossover jazz and bossa nova flutist.
• 1 - N!xau, 58, Namibian actor and bushman (The Gods Must Be Crazy).
• 3 - Gaetano Alibrandi, 89, papal diplomat and Apostolic Nuncio to the Republic of Ireland.
• 3 - Harold Creighton, 75, British businessman and magazine editor.
• 3 - Najeeb Halaby, 87, chairman of Pan Am from 1969 to 1972; father of Queen Noor (née Lisa Halaby).
• 4 - Larry Burkett, 64, founder of Christian Financial Concepts.
• 4 - Barry White, 58, American smooth soul singer, renal failure.
• 5 - George Ibrahim, 38, Pakistani Roman Catholic priest.
• 5 - Roman Lyashenko, 24, New York Rangers hockey player.
• 5 - Bebu Silvetti, 59, popular Argentine musician, songwriter and arranger.
• 5 - Isabelle, Countess of Paris, 91, widow of Henri, Count of Paris, pretender to the French throne.
• 5 - Robert Bardzimashvili, popular Georgian singer.
• 6 - Buddy Ebsen, 95, American actor.
• 6 - Michael Hoban, 81, British headmaster.
• 6 - Kathleen Raine, 95, British poet and literary critic.
• 7 - Izhak Graziani, 78, conductor.
• 8 - Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian conjoined twins.
• 8 - Duncan Clark, 88, Scottish hammer thrower.
• 9 - Winston Graham, 95, author (Poldark, Marnie).
• 10 - Hartley Shawcross (Lord Shawcross), 101, Britain's chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.
• 11 - Zahra Kazemi, Iran-born Canadian journalist.
• 11 - Dorothy Canning Miller, 99, American art curator.
• 11 - Ken Whyld, 77, British chess author.
• 12 - Benny Carter, 95, American jazz pioneer.
• 12 - Ingeborg de Beausacq, 93, American photographer.
• 12 - Roger Freeman, 51, British rally driver, motor race accident.
• 12 - Mark Lovell, 43, British rally driver, motor race accident.
• 13 - Compay Segundo, 95, Cuban musician and star of the Buena Vista Social Club.
• 14 - Ahmed Al-Waeli, Shiite cleric.
• 14 - Tex Schramm, 83, former Dallas Cowboys president and general manager.
• 14 - André Claveau, 87, French singer.
• 15 - Alexander Walker, 73, British film critic.
• 16 - Captain James Kelly, former Irish Army officer cleared of attempting to import arms for the IRA in the Arms Trial in 1970.
• 16 - Carol Shields, 68, Canadian author.
• 16 - Celia Cruz, 77, Cuban salsa singer.
• 17 - Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist and champion of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
• 17 - Dr. David Kelly, 59 (suicide), former United Nations weapons inspector who was accused of leaking information to the BBC about Britain's dossier on Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction.
• 18 - Brad Rone, 35, American boxer, injuries sustained in boxing.
• 18 - Jane Barbe, phone company voiceover.
• 19 - Bill Bright, American evangelical Christian and founder of Campus Crusade for Christ.
• 19 - Pierre Graber, former member of the Swiss Federal Council (1970–1978).
• 19 - Vic Vargas, 64, Filipino actor.
• 20 - Nicolas Freeling, crime writer.
• 20 - Lauri Aus, Estonian pro cyclist, he was struck on bicycle by a drunk driver.
• 21 - Walter M. "Matt" Jefferies, American art director (Star Trek series); designer of the Starship Enterprise.
• 21 - John Davies, president of the New Zealand Olympic Committee.
• 21 - Tim Hemensley, Australian singer & bass guitarist.
• 22 - Uday Hussein, 39, eldest son of Saddam Hussein, shot dead by US troops.
• 22 - Qusay Hussein, 37, second son of Saddam Hussein, shot dead by US troops.
• 23 - James E. Davis, New York City councilman.
• 23 - Tom Nugent, 92, American football coach.
• 24 - Colin R. McMillan, former nominee for United States Secretary of the Navy.
• 25 - Ludwig Bölkow, airplane engineer.
• 25 - John Schlesinger, 77, director.
• 25 - Erik Brann, 52, Iron Butterfly guitarist.
• 26 - Richard Wayne Dirksen, composer, former organist-choirmaster Washington National Cathedral.
• 27 - Bob Hope, 100, American comedian and actor, pneumonia.
• 27 - Vance Hartke, 84, former United States Senator from Indiana.
• 28 - Valerie, Lady Goulding, former Irish Senator & disability rights campaigner.
• 29 - Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader.
• 29 - Sir Gerard Vaughan, 80, British politician.
• 30 - Sam Phillips, 80, American record producer.
• 31 - Edward P. Alexander, American historian.