Deaths in 2003

26 Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian marathon runner
23 Sam Snead, golfer
22 (remains discovered; actual death probably took place sometime in 2001), Chandra Levy, U.S. Congressional intern
21 Niki de Saint Phalle, french artist
20 Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist and popular science author
19 John Gorton, 19th Prime Minister of Australia
17 Joe Black, Baseball first Black pitcher to win a World Series game.
16 Edwin Alonzo Boyd noted Canadian bank-robber and prison escaper of the 1950's.
16 Alec Campbell, Australia's last surviving ANZAC died in a nursing home, aged 103.
13 Ruth Cracknell, redoubtable Australian actress most famous for the long-running role of Maggie Beare in the series "Mother and Son", aged 76.
12 Joseph Bonanno, Sicilian, former boss of a Mafia crime family.
07 Seattle Slew last triple crown winner on 25th anniversary of winning Kentucky Derby
06 Pim Fortuyn, controversial politician in the Netherlands, shot.
05 Hugo Banzer Suárez, president of Bolivia, as dictator 1971-1978 and democratic president 1997-2001.
03 Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal, current president of Somaliland and former prime minister of Somalia and British Somaliland.

April 2002

28 Alexander Lebed, Russian general and politician
Ruth Handler, inventor of the Barbie doll
27 Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Industrialist and art collector.
25 Lisa Lopes, Singer with band TLC
25 Maria Felix, Mexican actress.
23 Linda Boreman better known as Linda Lovelace, porn star turned political activist
19 (Body discovered), Layne Staley, Singer with band Alice In Chains
18 Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian anthropologist
16 Franz Krienbühl, Swiss speed skater
16 Robert Urich, Actor cancer
15 Byron White, US athlete and Supreme Court justice
8 Maria Felix, superstar Mexican actress.
7 John Agar, actor in monster movies
5 Layne Staley, Singer with band Alice In Chains

31 Barry Took, UK comedian and writer, also wrote in the US
30 Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen mother, member of the British Royal Family.
27 Milton Berle, Mr. Television, US comedian
27 Dudley Moore, UK actor and writer
25 Kenneth Wolstenholme, British football commentator
20 Ivan Novikoff, Russian premier ballet master

27 Spike Milligan, UK comedian, writer and actor
22 Chuck Jones, US animator
21 John Thaw, British actor, most famous for the detective series,Morse and The Sweeney.
15 Mike Daar Baseball San Diego Padres prospect
15 Howard K. Smith, TV journalist
15 Kevin Smith (actor), played Ares on Xena series
11 Barry Foster, British actor.
9, Princess Margaret, British royal family (sister of Queen Elizabeth II)
6, Max Perutz, founder of molecular biology

28 ,Dick 'Night Train' Lane American Football,NFL Hall of Famer
28, Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's book author
23, Robert Nozick, philosopher
22, Peggy Lee, US Singer, Actress
16, Carl 'Bobo' Olson, boxer, world Middleweight champion in 1953 and member of the International Boxing Hall Of Fame
14, Ted Demme, film and television director
12, Stanley Unwin, comedian
11, Cyrus Vance, US ex-Secretary Of State, international peacemaker.
8, Dave Thomas, US entrepreneur, founder of Wendys hamburger restaurants.
3, Freddy Heineken, beer magnate.

30, Eileen Heckart, US actor, Oscar winner
8, Don Tennant, US advertising executive, invented Tony the Tiger for Kellogg's and the Marlboro Man
5, Sir Peter Blake, British sailor and environmentalist, shot by pirates on the Amazon River.

22, Isaac Stern, aged 81 -- violinist
13, Victor Wong, aged 74 --American Movie Actor/Artist,
11, Barbara K. Olson, US television commentator
9, Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani Northern Alliance military commander.
3, Pauline Kael, aged 82 -- American movie critic
2, Christiaan Barnard, aged 78 -- South African heart surgeon, first to perform a human-to-human heart transplant

For earlier deaths see 20th century 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997 ...