Deaths in 2003 - June 2003

June 2003

• 1 - Yevgeny Matveyev, 81, Russian actor and film director.
• 2 - Fred Blassie, 85, former professional wrestler.
• 2 - Richard Cusack, 77, advertising executive turned actor & screenwriter; father of actors John Cusack and Joan Cusack.
• 2 - Jack Frazier, former Saddam Hussein hostage.
• 2 - Donald Jack, 78, Canadian playwright and novelist.
• 3 - Peter Bromley, 74, British sports broadcaster.
• 3 - Felix de Weldon, 96, Austrian-American sculptor.
• 5 - Meir Vilner, 84, last surviving signatory to Israel's declaration of independence and former chairman of the Communist Party of Israel.
• 5 - Jürgen Möllemann, 57, former German minister.
• 7 - Tony McAuley, 63, BBC Northern Ireland broadcaster & filmmaker associated with traditional Irish music and arts.
• 7 - Trevor Goddard, 40, British actor.
• 8 - Leighton Rees, 63, Welsh darts player.
• 10 - Donald Regan, 84, Chief of Staff and Treasury Secretary during the Reagan administration.
• 10 - Bernard Williams, 73, British philosopher.
• 10 - Phil Williams, 64, Welsh politician.
• 11 - David Brinkley, 82, American broadcast journalist.
• 12 - Gregory Peck, 87, American Oscar-winning actor (To Kill a Mockingbird).
• 13 - Robin Russell, 14th Duke of Bedford, 63, British aristocrat.
• 15 - Hume Cronyn, 91, Canadian-born American actor; husband of Oscar-winning actress Jessica Tandy.
• 15 - Philip Stone, 79, British actor.
• 16 - Peter Redgrove, 71, British poet.
• 17 - Frank M. Clark, 87, American politician.
• 18 - Sir Kenneth Cross, 91, British Royal Air Force commander.
• 18 - Larry Doby, 79, baseball Hall of Famer, second Black man to play in the MLB.
• 19 - Glen Grant, 56, Hawaiian historian, folklorist and author.
• 19 - Laura Sadler, 22, British television actress.
• 20 - Bob Stump, 76, American politician; former Arizona congressman.
• 21 - Roger Neilson, 69, Canadian hockey coach.
• 21 - Sergei Vronsky, 67, Soviet cinematographer (Russian).
• 22 - Vasil Bykau, 79, Belarusian writer.
• 23 - Maynard Jackson, first African-American Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia.
• 23 - Doug Ring, 84, Australian cricketer.
• 24 - Leon Uris, 78, Jewish-American author.
• 25 - Walter F. Ehrnfelt, Mayor of Strongsville, Ohio.
• 25 - Lester Maddox, 87, segregationist Governor of the State of Georgia.
• 25 - Shun Yashiro, 70, Japanese actor and voice actor, stroke.
• 26 - Marc-Vivien Foé, 28, Cameroonian footballer collapsed and died on the football pitch in Lyon.
• 26 - Sir Denis Thatcher, Bt., 88, husband to Baroness Thatcher, former United Kingdom Prime Minister.
• 26 - Strom Thurmond, 100, Governor of South Carolina, United States Republican Senator from South Carolina and Presidential candidate (as a Dixiecrat).
• 27 - Magne Aarøen, Norwegian politician.
• 27 - Gerald Balfour, 4th Earl of Balfour, 77, British aristocrat.
• 27 - Ken Smith, 64, British poet.
• 28 - Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete.
• 29 - Katharine Hepburn, 96, Oscar winning (4) American actress of stage, screen and television.
• 30 - Robert McCloskey, 88, children's book writer and illustrator.
• 30 - Buddy Hackett, 78, American comedian and actor.
• 30 - William J. J. Gordon, 83, American psychologist and inventor.