Deaths in 2003 - October 2003

October 2003

• 2 - John Thomas Dunlop, 89, briefly Secretary of Labor under Gerald Ford.
• 3 - Florence Stanley, 79, American voice actress.
• 3 - William Steig, 95, American cartoonist and children's author; creator of Shrek.
• 3 - Winifred Watkins, 79, British biochemist.
• 4 - Bill Cayton, 85, American boxing manager, owner of (reportedly) largest fight video collection in the world, former manager of Edwin Rosario and Mike Tyson.
• 4 - John Horace Ragnar Colvin, 81, British intelligence officer.
• 4 - Mary Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Lymington, 82, first female Lord Mayor of London.
• 4 - Sid McMath, 91, former governor of Arkansas.
• 5 - Neil Postman, 72 media critic.
• 5 - Elena Slough, 114, oldest recognized person in New Jersey.
• 5 - Denis Quilley, 75, British actor.
• 5 - Dan Snyder, 25, American ice hockey player (Atlanta Thrashers).
• 5 - Timothy Treadwell, 46, environmentalist.
• 6 - Joe Baker, 63, English footballer.
• 6 - Mildred O'Neill, 89, widow of former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Tip O'Neill heart attack.
• 6 - Ryan Halligan, 13 American suicide victim.
• 7 - Eleanor Lambert, 100, United States fashion pioneer.
• 7 - Izzy Asper, 71, Canadian press baron.
• 7 - Dame Felicitas Corrigan, 95, Benedictine nun.
• 9 - Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, 77, American academic and author.
• 10 - Eugene Istomin, 77, American pianist.
• 10 - Max Rayne, Baron Rayne, 85. British property developer and philanthropist.
• 12 - Willie Shoemaker, 72, Hall of Fame jockey.
• 12 - Jim Cairns, Australian politician.
• 13 - Bertram Brockhouse, Nobel Prize-winning Canadian physicist.
• 13 - Joan B. Kroc, 75, philanthropist; widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, brain cancer.
• 14 - Ben Metcalfe, 83, Greenpeace activist and co-founder, heart attack.
• 14 - Frances Watt, 81, Scottish singer.
• 16 - Jim Albrecht, tournament director of the World Series of Poker.
• 16 - Stu Hart, 88, Canadian wrestler; patriarch of Hart wrestling.
• 16 - László Papp, Hungarian boxer.
• 16 - Avni Arbas, Turkish artist, cancer.
• 18 - Preston Smith, 91, governor of Texas.
• 18 - Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer.
• 18 - R. V. Vernède, 97, British writer and colonial administrator.
• 19 - Margaret Murie, 101, "Mother of the Modern Conservationist Movement".
• 19 - Michael Hegstrand, 45, "Road Warrior Hawk".
• 19 - Alija Izetbegović, 78, President of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• 20 - Jack Elam, 84, American actor.
• 20 - Miodrag Petrović Čkalja, 79, Serbian actor.
• 21 - Louise Day Hicks, 87, US politician.
• 21 - Fred Berry, 52, American actor, "Rerun" on the show What's Happening!!.
• 21 - Elliott Smith, 34, US musician.
• 21 - Luis A. Ferré, 99, former governor of Puerto Rico.
• 22 - Tony Renna, 27, motor racer; IndyCar driver.
• 23 - Tony Capstick, 59 British actor, comedian, musician and broadcaster.
• 23 - Pete Chisman, 63, British cyclist, complications from surgery. .
• 23 - Madame Chiang Kai-shek, 106, widow of the Nationalist Chinese president Chiang Kai-shek.
• 24 - Rosie Nix Adams, daughter of June Carter Cash.
• 24 - Bob Bailey, 72, Canadian ice hockey player.
• 24 - Peter Sykes, 80, British chemist.
• 25 - Hemu Adhikari, Indian cricketer.
• 26 - Elem Klimov, Russian director.
• 27 - Rod Roddy, 66, announcer on The Price Is Right.
• 28 - Behram Kursunoglu, 81, Turkish physicist.
• 29 - Hal Clement, 81, author.
• 30 - Franco Corelli, 81, operatic tenor.
• 31 - Richard Neustadt, political scholar and historian.
• 31 - Kamato Hongo, 116?, oldest recognized person in world.
• 31 - Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, 95, Indian Classical (Carnatic) musician.