Recent deaths

The following is a list of notable figures who have died recently.

Table of contents

1 January 2004
2 December 2003
3 External links and references

January 2004

29 Janet Frame, 79, writer
28 Elroy Hirsch, 80, NFL player
27 Jack Paar, 85, Tonight Show host
25 Miklós Fehér, 24, Hungarian football player
25 Fanny Blankers-Koen, 85, Dutch athlete
24 Leonidas da Silva, Football player [1].
23 Bob Keeshan, 76, US actor, starred as "Captain Kangaroo"
23 Helmut Newton, 83, photographer
22 George Woodbridge, 73, illustrator
22 Carl D. Atwood, 73, Hoosier lottery television show contestant in Indiana, died hours after winning the show.
22 Billy May, 87, US big band and pop music arranger
22 Ann Miller, 81, US dancer
21 Bernard Punsley, 80 physician, actor
19 Jerry Nachman, 57, MSNBC editor-in-chief.
19 David Hookes, 48, Australian cricketer and Victorian coach
19 Antonious Seram, 20, Indonesian professional boxer
18 Noble Willingham, actor, former candidate for the United States Congress, 72
17 Tom Rowe, 53, Musician, member of Schooner Fare.
17 Rafael Cordero, 61, mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
17 Ray Stark, 88, publicist, actor's agent; produced Funny Girl (1968)
17 Harry Breechen, 89, former baseball player, won three games in the 1946 World Series for the St. Louis Cardinals
16 Kalevi Sorsa, 73, former Finnish prime minister
15 Olivia Goldsmith, 54, author
15 Alex Barris, 81, Canadian actor and writer
15 Gus Suhr, 98, former baseball player, Pittsburgh Pirates
14 Uta Hagen, 84, actress, acting teacher, wife of José Ferrer and Herbert Berghof
14 Ron O'Neal, 66, actor, starred in Superfly (1972)
14 Jack Cady, science fiction writer
13 Philip Crosby, 69, member of Crosby Boys band, son of legendary crooner Bing Crosby
13 Arne Næss Jr, 66, Norwegian mountaineer and businessman, former husband of Diana Ross
13 Harold Shipman, 54, British serial killer
12 Randy VanWarmer, 48, American Singer and Songwriter
11 Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen, 53, New Orleans jazz musician
10 Yinka Dare, 32, Nigerian former NBA basketball player for the New Jersey Nets
10 Jerry Boyd, 59, Mesa, Arizona councilman, pushed for a Martin Luther King Jr day in Mesa
10 Alexandra Ripley, author, Scarlett
9 Norberto Bobbio, 94, Italian senator and jurist
8 John A. Gambling, 73, American radio host, second in WOR Radio's "Rambling with Gambling" dynasty, from 1959 to 1991
7 Ingrid Thulin, 76, Swedish actress, "Cries and Whispers"
6 Pierre Charles, 49, Prime Minister of Dominica
6 Francesco Scavullo, fashion photographer
5 Tug McGraw, 59, baseball pitcher
5 David Lipschultz, 33, American journalist (USA Today, New York Times, Smart Money and Red Herring)
4 Brian Gibson, 59, film director, "What's Love Got to Do With It"
4 Jake Hess, 76, Southern Gospel singing legend
4 Jeff Nuttall - poet, publisher, actor, painter, sculptor, jazz trumpeter, social commentator and author of Bomb Culture.
4 Joan Aiken, 79, author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
4 John Toland, American author and historian
2 Jessica Pacheco Calvente, 10, Puerto Rican stray bullet victim
2 Lynn Cartwright, 76, American actress
2 Etta Moten Barnett, 102, actress
1 Frederick Redlich, 93, former dean of the Yale University School of Medicine

December 2003

31 Arthur R. von Hippel, 105, German-born scientist and MIT professor who made critical contributions to the development of radar.
31 Bríd Durrane, 109, the oldest person to receive a university degree and write an autobiography (both at 103), last surviving person who knew the leaders of Ireland's 1916 Uprising personally [1]
31 Yoshio Shirai, 80, first Japanese world boxing champion
30 David Bale, 62, activist
30 John Gregory Dunne, 71, American novelist and screenwriter
30 Anita Mui, 40, Hong Kong pop queen
30 Archbishop Michael Courtney, the Irish-born Papal Nuncio to Burundi who was central to peace negotiations, 58 assassinated
29 Earl Hindman, 61, U.S. actor, played "Wilson" on Home Improvement TV series
29 Bob Monkhouse, 75, British comedian and game show host
28 Dinsdale Landen, 71, British actor
28 Isabelle Stevenson, chairman of the board of the American Theatre Wing, presenters of the Tony Awards. [1]
27 Vestal Goodman, 74, Queen of Southern Gospel music
27 Ivan Calderon, (41 years) Puerto Rican former major league baseball star
27 Sir Alan Bates, British actor
26 Phil Goldman, 39, WebTV founder
22 Dave Dudley, 75, Country music singer
20 John Halfpenny Australian unionist (68 years)
19 Hope Lange, actress in Peyton Place
19 Peter Carter-Ruck UK libel lawyer (89 years)
17 Ed Devereaux, Australian actor
17 Otto Graham, Cleveland Browns football quarterback during the 1950s (82 years)
16 Gary Stewart, Country music singer (suicide, age 58)
16 Robert Stanfield, Canadian politician
15 Keith Magnuson, former National Hockey League player (car accident, 56 years)
15 George Fisher, U.S. political cartoonist
14 Jeanne Crain, Oscar-nominated actress (78 years)
14 Blas Ople, foreign minister of the Philippines (75 years)
13 William V. Roth, Jr, former U.S. Senator, known for Kemp-Roth Tax Cut and Roth IRA.
13 Elizabeth Bates, Professor of Psychology at University of California, San Diego (56 years).
12 Keiko, orca of Reino Aventura and Free Willy fame (27 years)
12 Heydar Aliyev, former President of Azerbaijan (80 years)
12 Fadwa Toukan, Palestinian poet (86 years)
12 Earl Gillespie, sportscaster, voice of the Milwaukee Braves (81 years)
11 Ahmadou Kourouma, author from Côte d'Ivoire
11 John W. Sidgmore, former head of Worldcom and UUNet
11 Paulos Tzadua, Roman Catholic cardinal from Ethiopia
9 Paul Simon, former U.S. Senator from Illinois (75 years)
8 Rubén González, Cuban pianist, member of the Buena Vista Social Club (84 years)
8 Johnny Bulla, golfer (89 years)
7 Raúl Vale, Venezuelan-Mexican entertainer (59 years)
7 Carl F. H. Henry, American Evangelical theologian, founder of Christianity Today magazine (90 years)
7 Azie Taylor Morton, former Treasurer of the United States (67 years)
6 Jose-Maria Jimenez, professional cyclist (32 years)
6 Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala 1970-74 (85 years)
6 Jerry Tuite, professional wrestler (36 years)
5 Bert Templeton, ice hockey coach (63 years)
3 David Hemmings, actor
2 Ignaz Kiechle, German politician, minister for agriculture 1983-93
1 Clark Kerr, first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, 1952-58, and President of the University of California, 1958-67 (92 years)

External links and references

For earlier deaths see Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, ...