Deaths in 2003 - September 2003

September 2003

• 1 - Sir Terry Frost, 87, British artist.
• 1 - John Gould, 94, American columnist.
• 3 - Paul Hill, 49, American anti-abortion activist; executed for a double murder.
• 4 - Susan Chilcott, 40, English opera singer, breast cancer.
• 4 - David P. Robbins, 61, American mathematician.
• 4 - Tibor Varga, 82, Hungarian violinist, conductor and pedagogue.
• 5 - Sir Richard Harrison, 82, New Zealand politician.
• 5 - Gisele MacKenzie, 76, Canadian-born singer and entertainer.
• 6 - Kevin Morgan, 82, Australian politician.
• 6 - Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber, Mount Everest Summiter, died while climbing Gasherbrum I.
• 6 - Wilbur Snapp, 83, American musician, stadium organist for the Clearwater Phillies and the Philadelphia Phillies; notably expelled from a game by an umpire for playing Three Blind Mice.
• 7 - Warren Zevon, 56, American singer and songwriter.
• 7 - Great Antonio, 77, strongman and eccentric.
• 8 - Leni Riefenstahl, 101, German filmmaker.
• 8 - Jaclyn Linetsky, 17, Canadian voice actress, road accident.
• 9 - Larry Hovis, 67, American actor (Hogan's Heroes).
• 9 - Gulabrai Ramchand, 76, Indian cricketer.
• 9 - Edward Teller, 95, American physicist, "Father of the H-Bomb".
• 9 - Marthe Vogt, 100, German neuroscientist.
• 10 - Harry Goz, 71, American musical theater actor (Fiddler on the Roof) and voice actor (Sealab 2021).
• 11 - Ben Bril, 91, Dutch boxer.
• 11 - John Ritter, 54, American actor and comedian, aortic dissection.
• 11 - Anna Lindh, 46, Swedish foreign minister.
• 12 - Garner Ted Armstrong, 73, American evangelist.
• 12 - Johnny Cash, 71, American country singer.
• 12 - Chappie Fox, 90, American circus historian.
• 12 - Norman Porteous, 104, theologian and writer on Old Testament issues.
• 13 - Kenneth Walter, 63, South African cricketer.
• 13 - Frank O'Bannon, 73, Governor of Indiana.
• 14 - Ken Kifer, 57, American cyclist and writer.
• 15 - Jack Brymer, 88, British clarinettist.
• 15 - Yetunde Price, 30, sister of American tennis players Venus and Serena Williams.
• 16 - Erich Hallhuber, 52, Bavarian actor.
• 16 - Sheb Wooley, 82, American actor, singer ("Purple People Eater").
• 18 - Samuel Delbert Clark, 93, Canadian sociologist.
• 19 - Slim Dusty, 76, Australian country music singer.
• 20 - Liam Tobin, longtime Árd Rúnaí Roinn na Gaeltachta (Secretary to the Irish Department of the Gaeltacht) and Irish language campaigner.
• 20 - Simon Vengai Muzenda, 80, Zimbabwean politician, vice president of the Republic since 1987.
• 20 - Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, 62, British Cabinet minister, Leader of the House of Lords.
• 21 - Robert H. Lochner, 84, John F. Kennedy's interpreter.
• 22 - Hugo Young, 64, British political commentator.
• 22 - Gordon Jump, 71, American actor.
• 24 - Derek Prince, 88, biblical scholar, author.
• 24 - Edward Said, 67, Palestinian scholar.
• 25 - Alastair Borthwick, 90, British author and broadcaster.
• 25 - Dai Davies, 78, Welsh rugby player.
• 25 - George Plimpton, 76, American author, editor, socialite & actor.
• 25 - Franco Modigliani, 85, Nobel Prize-winning economist.
• 25 - Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician, member of the Governing Council.
• 25 - Donald Nicol, 80, British Byzantine scholar.
• 26 - Glyn Gilbert, 83, British Army general.
• 26 - Shawn Lane, 40, American guitarist and composer.
• 26 - Robert Palmer, 54, British singer.
• 27 - Tom Brennan, 81, American ice hockey player.
• 27 - Donald O'Connor, 78, American actor, dancer.
• 28 - Yukichi Chuganji, 114 year-old Japanese supercentenarian.
• 28 - Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris, 86, British Air Chief Marshal.
• 28 - Elia Kazan, 94, American film director.
• 28 - Althea Gibson, 76, African-American tennis player.
• 30 - Robert Kardashian, 59, American criminal defense lawyer.
• 30 - John Rosenbaum, 70, American kinetic sculptor