Explore notable deaths.

Dean L. May

1938–2003

priest, historian

Official cause

myocardial infarction

Art Houtteman

1927–2003

baseball player

Official cause

myocardial infarction

Walter Sisulu

1912–2003

politician

Official cause

Parkinson's disease

Sultan Rakhmanov

1950–2003

weightlifter

Official cause

myocardial infarction

Colin Bell

1942–2003

sociologist, university teacher

Official cause

myocardial infarction

Ian Marshall

1942–2003

association football player, association football coach

Official cause

cancer

James H. Critchfield

1917–2003

military officer

Official cause

pancreatic cancer

Mike Larrabee

1933–2003

sprinter, athletics competitor

Official cause

pancreatic cancer

Nina Simone

1933–2003

singer-songwriter, jazz pianist, singer

Official cause

breast cancer

Robert Elmer Kleason

1934–2003

Official cause

myocardial infarction

Jim Bartels

1945–2003

curator

Official cause

multiple myeloma

Debbie Barham

1976–2003

writer

Official cause

anorexia nervosa

Richard Proenneke

1916–2003

naturalist

Official cause

cerebral hemorrhage

Chris Zachary

1944–2003

baseball player

Official cause

cancer

Margaret Formby

1929–2003

teacher, journalist, curator

Official cause

falling from height

Chumy Chúmez

1927–2003

film director, screenwriter, comics artist

Official cause

liver cancer

Earl Bramblett

1942–2003

Official cause

electrocution

Vera Zorina

1917–2003

actor, choreographer, ballet dancer

Official cause

stroke

Charles Douglass

1910–2003

audio engineer, engineer, inventor

Official cause

pneumonia

Maki Ishii

1936–2003

composer, choreographer, conductor

Official cause

cancer

Bing Russell

1926–2003

television actor, film actor, screenwriter

Official cause

cancer

Charles Hollenberg

1930–2003

physician

Official cause

prostate cancer

Willis E. McNelly

1920–2003

science fiction writer

Official cause

cancer

Masato Yamanouchi

1929–2003

actor, seiyū

Official cause

lung cancer