Deaths in 2003 - March 2003

March 2003

• 1 - Franjo Glaser, 90, Croatian footballer.
• 1 - Countess Viktoria-Luise of Solms-Baruth, 81, German princess.
• 2 - Roger Albertsen, 45, Norwegian footballer.
• 2 - Hank Ballard, 66, singer, composer, famous for his hit "The Twist".
• 2 - Sir George Edwards, 94, British aircraft designer.
• 2 - Robert B. Ingebretsen, 54, pioneer in the development of digital sound.
• 2 - Malcolm Williamson, 71, Australian composer, Master of the Queen's Music.
• 3 - Horst Buchholz, 69, German actor.
• 3 - Sir John Brown, 86, British publisher.
• 3 - John S. Gill, 70, Australian rules footballer.
• 4 - Neil Smith, 53, English cricketer.
• 7 - Monica Hughes, 77, Canadian science fiction author.
• 8 - Adam Faith, 62, British singer and actor.
• 8 - Karen Morley, 93, American film actress and political activist; former wife of Charles Vidor.
• 9 - Stan Brakhage, 70, filmmaker, bladder cancer
• 10 - Bernard Dowiyogo, 57, President of Nauru, cardiac complications from diabetes
• 10 - Barry Sheene, 52, twice 500cc MotoGP Champion.
• 10 - Naftali Temu, 57, Kenyan athlete, prostate cancer
• 11 - Brian Cleeve, 81, Anglo-Irish writer.
• 11 - Ivar Hansen, 64, Danish politician and speaker of the Folketing.
• 12 - Howard Fast, 88, novelist.
• 12 - Lynne Thigpen, 54, American television (Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?), and Tony Award-winning stage actress (An American Daughter).
• 12 - Zoran Đinđić, 50, Prime Minister of Serbia, gunshot (assassination)
• 12 - Andrei Kivilev, 29, professional cyclist, fall during Paris–Nice race
• 14 - Jack Goldstein, 57, American artist, suicide
• 15 - Dame Thora Hird, 91, veteran British actress.
• 15 - Bill Robertson, 79, British footballer.
• 16 - Major Ronald Ferguson, 71, father of UK royal divorcée Sarah, Duchess of York.
• 16 - Rachel Corrie, International Solidarity Movement activist, crushed by bulldozer
• 17 - Beatrice Wright, 92, British politician.
• 18 - Bruno Heim, 92, Swiss ecclesiastical diplomat, Apostolic Nuncio to Britain.
• 18 - Adam Osborne, 64, computer pioneer.
• 19 - Michael Mathias Prechtl, 76, German illustrator.
• 20 - Sailor Art Thomas, 79, professional wrestler, cancer
• 21 - Leonard Hokanson, 71, American pianist, pancreatic cancer
• 22 - Jim Anderson, 59, Australian politician.
• 22 - Terry Lloyd, 50, ITN reporter, killed in southern Iraq.
• 24 - Hans Hermann Groër, 83, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (1986–1995), pneumonia
• 24 - Philip Yordan, 88, Oscar-winning American screenwriter (Broken Lance).
• 26 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 76, former Senator from New York.
• 27 - Tauese Sunia, 61, Governor of American Samoa, heart attack.
• 27 - Paul Zindel, 66, American writer
• 29 - Neil Clarke, 45, Australian footballer.
• 29 - Maude Storey, 73, British nursing administrator, diabetes.
• 29 - Dr. Carlo Urbani, 46, World Health Organization doctor who discovered SARS, of which he died.
• 30 - Valentin Pavlov, 65, former Prime Minister of the Soviet Union.
• 30 - Gaby Rado, 48, Hungarian-born activist and UK-based journalist.
• 30 - Michael Jeter, 50, American actor (Evening Shade, Waterworld, Jurassic Park III).
• 31 - Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, 96, UK/Canadian geometer, academic and author.