The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2003.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
February 2003
1
- Anne Burr, 84, American actress (Native Son, The Hasty Heart, As the World Turns).
- Bodil Kjer, 85, Danish actress.
- Adalberto Ortiz, 88, Ecuadorian writer.
- Mongo Santamaría, 85, Cuban Latin jazz percussionist.
- Nancy Whiskey, 67, Scottish folk singer ("Freight Train").
- Crew of STS-107 killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster:
- Michael P. Anderson, 43, American, payload commander.
- David M. Brown, 46, American, mission specialist.
- Kalpana Chawla, 40, American, mission specialist.
- Laurel Clark, 41, American, mission specialist.
- Rick Husband, 45, American, commander.
- William C. McCool, 41, American, pilot.
- Ilan Ramon, 48, Israeli, payload specialist.
2
- Vincent "Randy" Chin, 65, Jamaican record producer, diabetes.
- Tom Edmunds, 77, Australian politician.
- József Gál, 84, Hungarian Olympic wrestler.
- Lou Harrison, 85, American composer, noted for his microtonal works, heart attack.
- Jack Lauterwasser, 98, English racing cyclist and cycling engineer, fall at home.
- Richard C. Lee, 86, American politician, Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut.
- Marcello Truzzi, 67, American professor of sociology, cancer.
- Emerson Woelffer, 88, American abstract expressionist artist and teacher.
- Eizo Yuguchi, 57, Japanese football player, stomach cancer.
3
- Fulgencio Berdugo, 84, Colombian football player.
- Natascha Artin Brunswick, 93, German-American mathematician and economist.
- Lana Clarkson, 40, American actress (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Scarface, Barbarian Queen), shot by record producer Phil Spector.
- Venanzo Crocetti, 89, Italian sculptor.
- João César Monteiro, 64, Portuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic, lung cancer.
- Trevor Morris, 82, Welsh footballer and World War II pilot.
- Peter Schat, 67, Dutch composer, cancer.
4
- Charles McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway, 89, British industrialist and horticulturalist.
- Benyoucef Benkhedda, 82, Algerian politician, head of Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (1961–1962).
- Charlie Biddle, 76, American-Canadian jazz bassist, played with Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.
- Jean Brossel, 84, French physicist and modern quantum optics pioneer.
- Pierre Carteus, 59, Belgian football player.
- Jerome Hines, 81, American operatic bass.
- Qalandar Momand, 72, Pakistani poet and writer.
- James Needs, 83, British film editor.
- André Noyelle, 71, Belgian road racing cyclist (1952 Olympic gold medals: individual road race, team road race).
- Jaroslav Šajtar, 81, Czech chess master.
5
- Guillermo González Calderoni, 54, Mexican Federal Judicial Police official, murdered.
- René Cardona Jr., 63, Mexican filmmaker and actor.
- Micky Fenton, 89, England football player.
- Larry LeSueur, 93, American journalist, Parkinson's disease.
- Antonina Shuranova, 66, Russian stage, television and film actress.
- Joseph P. Vigorito, 84, American politician (U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 24th congressional district).
- Manfred von Brauchitsch, 97, German auto racing driver, winner of three Grand Prix races in the 1930s.
6
- Eric Ashby, 85, English naturalist and wildlife cameraman.
- José Craveirinha, 80, Mozambican journalist, story writer and poet.
- Arthur Doherty, 71, Irish politician.
- René Haby, 83, French politician.
- Robert William St. John, 100, American author, broadcaster, and journalist.
- Peter Saunders, 91, British theatre impresario.
7
- Augusto Monterroso, 81, Honduran writer, heart failure.
- Amalia Nieto, 95, Uruguayan painter, engraver and sculptor.
- Malcolm Roberts, 58, English pop singer, heart attack .
- Stephen Whittaker, 55, British actor and director (Nicholas Nickleby, Sons and Lovers), complications following surgery.
8
- Alfred Aston, 90, French football winger and manager.
- William Louis Culberson, 73, American lichenologist, cancer.
- John Charles Cutler, 87, American surgeon.
- K. K. Soundar, 78, Tamil film actor.
- Alice Treff, 96, German film actress.
- Konrad Weichert, 68, German Olympic sailor (bronze medal in 1968 Dragon, silver medal in 1972 Dragon).
9
- Herma Bauma, 88, Austrian javelin thrower (gold medal in women's javelin throw at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
- Ruby Braff, 75, American jazz trumpeter and cornetist.
- Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda, 76, Japanese-Turkish mathematician.
- Ken McKinlay, 74, British speedway rider.
- Billy Parker, 61, American baseball player (California Angels), cancer.
- Vera Ralston, 82, Czechoslovakian-American figure skater and "B" actress, star of ice capades, cancer.
10
- Chuck Aleno, 85, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).
- Ralph Beard, 73, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).
- Antoni Czubiński, 74, Polish historian.
- Edgar de Evia, 92, American photographer pneumonia.
- Antoinette Feuerwerker, 90, French jurist and member of the French Resistance during World War II.
- Curt Hennig, 44, American professional wrestler, drug overdose.
- Lars-Eric Kjellgren, 84, Swedish screenwriter and film director.
- José Lewgoy, 82, American-Brazilian actor.
- Clark MacGregor, 80, American politician and congressman (1961–1970).
- Robert Rush Miller, 86, American zoologist and ichthyologist.
- Walter Thomas James Morgan, 102, British biochemist.
- Max Pécas, 77, French filmmaker, writer and producer, lung cancer.
- Jan Veselý, 79, Czechoslovakian cyclist (men's individual road race, men's team road race at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
- Ron Ziegler, 63, former press secretary for Richard Nixon during the Watergate Scandal, heart attack.
11
- Socorro Avelar, 77, Mexican actress, stomach cancer.
- Arndt Bause, 66, German composer, pulmonary embolism.
- Marc Iliffe, 30, British strongman, suicide.
- Daniel Toscan du Plantier, 61, French film producer, heart attack.
- Moses Hogan, 45, American composer and arranger of choral music, brain cancer.
- Luke Chia-Liu Yuan, 90, Chinese-American physicist and grandson of Yuan Shikai.
12
- Wally Burnette, 73, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics).
- Michel Graillier, 56, French jazz pianist.
- Vali Myers, 72, Australian artist, cancer.
- Devendra Satyarthi, 94, Indian folklorist and writer.
- Jeanne Stuart, 94, British stage and film actress.
- Haywood Sullivan, 72, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Kansas City Athletics) and owner (Boston Red Sox), stroke.
- Dick Whitman, 82, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies).
- Kemmons Wilson, 90, American businessman, founder of Holiday Inn.
13
- Joe Connelly, 85, American television and radio scriptwriter.
- James Thomas Flexner, 95, American historian and biographer.
- Kid Gavilán, 77, Cuban world boxing champion, heart attack.
- Robert Ivers, 68, American actor.
- Axel Jensen, 71, Norwegian author, ALS.
- Stacy Keach, Sr., 88, actor (Pretty Woman, Teen Wolf, The Parallax View).
- Stuart Keith, 71, British-American ornithologist.
- Leonor Llausás, 73, Mexican actress, heart attack.
- Walt Whitman Rostow, 86, American political advisor.
14
- Dolly, 6, the world's first cloned mammal, euthanization following a lung disease.
- Gunnar Johansson, 78, Swedish football player and manager.
- Johnny Longden, 96, American jockey.
- Paul E. Meehl, 83, American clinical psychologist.
- Grigory Mkrtychan, 78, Soviet and Russian ice hockey goalkeeper.
- Fritz Pollard, 87, American athlete and Olympic medalist.
- Archie Savage, 88, American dancer, choreographer, and film and theatre actor.
15
- Vincent Apap, 93, Maltese sculptor.
- Alexander Bennett, 73, British ballet dancer, teacher and ballet master, principal dancer with the Royal Ballet.
- Miroslav Horníček, 84, Czech actor, writer, director, and artist.
- Vlastimil Koubek, 75, Czech-American architect, cancer.
- Roberto Leydi, 74, Italian ethnomusicologist.
- Francisque Ravony, 60, Malagasy lawyer and politician, heart attack.
- Joaquín Solano, 89, Mexican Olympic medalist in equestrianism.
- Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce, 95, British judge.
16
- Philip John Gardner, 88, British recipient of the Victoria Cross.
- Jim Gordon, 76, American television and radio newscaster, cancer.
- Abu Ishaque, 76, Bangladeshi novelist.
- Rusty Magee, 47, American composer of musicals, cancer.
- Aleksandar Tišma, 79, Serbian novelist.
17
- Steve Bechler, 23, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles), ephedra overdose.
- Julian Bigelow, 89, American computer engineer, built one of the first digital computers (IAS machine).
- Allen Britton, 88, American music educator, contributed to the history of music pedagogy.
- Pete Schrum, 68, American actor.
18
- Quentin Anderson, 90, American literary critic and cultural historian (Henry James, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman), heart attack.
- Ittla Frodi, 72, Swedish actress, writer and producer.
- Isser Harel, 90/91, Israeli spymaster and director of the Mossad.
- Beth Marion, 90, American B-movie actress, stroke.
19
- Washington Beltrán, 88, Uruguayan politician, President (1965–1966).
- Buck Divecha, 75, Indian cricket player.
- Igor Gorbachyov, 75, Soviet and Russian actor, theater director and pedagogue.
- James Hardy, 84, American pioneer surgeon.
- Tanya Moiseiwitsch, 88, English theatre designer.
- Johnny Paycheck, 64, American country music singer, pulmonary emphysema.
20
- Maurice Blanchot, 95, French writer, philosopher and literary theorist.
- Orville Freeman, 84, American politician, Governor of Minnesota and Secretary of Agriculture, Alzheimer's disease.
- Harry Jacunski, 87, American gridiron football player (Green Bay Packers).
- Ty Longley, 31, American guitarist for the heavy metal band Great White; victim in the Station nightclub fire.
- Mushaf Ali Mir, 55, Pakistan statesman and air force general, plane crash.
- Golam Mustafa, 67, Bangladeshi actor and reciter.
- Jerzy Passendorfer, 79, Polish film director and member of parliament.
- Robert Grier Stephens, Jr., 89, American politician.
- Peter Tewksbury, 79, American film and television director.
21
- Virginia Biddle, 92, American revue performer, showgirl, and nude model, complications following car accident.
- Jim Courtright, 88, Canadian Olympic track and field athlete.
- John E. Fryer, 65, American psychiatrist and gay rights activist, pneumonia.
- Tom Glazer, 88, American folk singer and songwriter.
- Karel Kosik, 76, Czech marxist philosopher.
- Nelly Mazloum, 73, Egyptian actress, dancer, and choreographer.
- Nora Ney, 96, Polish film actress.
- Kevin O'Shea, 77, American basketball player.
- Rusty Peters, 88, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns).
- Eddie Thomson, 55, Scottish football player and coach, lymphoma.
22
- Kurt Gscheidle, 78, German politician.
- Donald Haldeman, 55, American sport shooter and Olympic gold medalist.
- Jean-Pierre Miquel, 66, French actor and theatre director, cancer.
- Daniel Taradash, 90, American screenwriter and winner of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for From Here to Eternity, pancreatic cancer.
23
- Shlomo Argov, 73, Israeli diplomat, Ambassador of Israel to the United Kingdom.
- Howie Epstein, 47, American bass player for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, drug overdose.
- Christopher Hill, 91, British historian.
- Pavel Lebeshev, 63, Soviet and Russian cinematographer.
- Robert K. Merton, 92, American sociologist.
- Marcel Prawy, 91, Austrian dramaturg and opera critic.
- Hasanagha Turabov, 64, Azerbaijani and Soviet actor.
- Titos Vandis, 85, Greek actor (The Exorcist, Baretta, The A-Team, M*A*S*H, Kojak, Newhart), cancer.
24
- Alex Cameron, 65, American English professor and pronouncer of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
- Al Hibbs, 78, American mathematician and physicist known as "The Voice of JPL".
- Susan Johnson, 75, American actor and singer, pulmonary emphysema.
- Sam King, 91, English golfer.
- Bernard Loiseau, 52, French chef, suicide by gunshot.
- Walter Scharf, 92, American film composer, heart failure.
- Alberto Sordi, 82, Italian comedy actor, heart attack.
- Antoni Torres, 59, Spanish footballer, cancer.
- Güven Önüt, 63, Turkish football player.
25
- Alexander Kemurdzhian, 81, Armenian scientist and aerospace engineer.
- John Lecky, 62, Canadian sport rower.
- Eric Marsh, 82, English cricket player.
- Tom O'Higgins, 86, Irish Fine Gael politician, barrister and judge.
- René Römer, 73, Dutch academic and Governor of the Netherlands Antilles (1983-1990).
26
- Harold Amos, 84, American microbiologist and professor, chairman of Harvard Medical School bacteriology department.
- Brian Evans, 60, Welsh football player, cancer.
- Akira Fujiwara, 80, Japanese historian.
- Christian Goethals, 74, Belgian racing driver.
- Jaime Ramírez, 71, Chilean football player.
27
- Johnny Carpenter, 88, American film actor, screenwriter and producer, cancer.
- Charles Knott, 88, English cricket player.
- John Lanchbery, 79, British-Australian musician.
- Wolfgang Larrazábal, 91, Venezuelan naval officer and politician.
- James D. Nichols, 74, American horse racing jockey, rode in seven U.S. Triple Crown races.
- Peter Petroff, 83, Bulgarian-American inventor, engineer, NASA scientist, and adventurer.
- Fred Rogers, 74, American television personality, host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
- Othar Turner, 95, American fife player.
28
- Albert Batteux, 83, French football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
- Alfred Bernstein, 92, American civil rights, civil liberties and union activist.
- Göte Blomqvist, 75, Swedish ice hockey player (bronze medal in ice hockey at the 1952 Winter Olympics).
- Chris Brasher, 74, British track and field athlete (gold medal in men's 3000m steeplechase at the 1956 Summer Olympics).
- Jacob E. Davis, 97, American politician.
- Dinos Dimopoulos, 81, Greek film director.
- Jim Fridley, 78, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Redlegs).
- Fidel Sánchez Hernández, 85, former President of El Salvador, heart attack.
- Yō Inoue, 56, Japanese voice actress, lung cancer.
- Rudolf Kingslake, 99, English academic, lens designer, and engineer.
- Major Sundarrajan, 67, Indian actor and director.
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