2003 deaths

American actress (1907–2003)

American country singer (1932–2003)

President of Uganda (1971-1979)

American actor (1921–2003)

American actor (1916–2003)

3rd President of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1923–2003)

German filmmaker (1902–2003)

Palestinian-American professor (1935–2003)

Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)

American singer, songwriter and pianist and civil rights activist (1933–2003)

American director and actor (1909–2003)

South Korean poet, writer and LGBT activist

American entertainer (1903–2003)

Russian-Belgian physical chemist (1917–2003)

Bosnian politician, lawyer, philosopher and author (1925–2003)

American television personality (1928–2003)

American astronaut

Italian actor (1920–2003)

Canadian physicist

Serbian politician (1952−2003)

German-British biophysicist (1911–2003)

Italian-American economist (1918–2003)

Cuban singer (1925–2003)

American actor (1952–2003)

Chiang Kai-shek's wife, First Lady of the Republic of China (1898–2003)

American doctor

Swedish politician (1957-2003)

Avar poet (1923-2003)

military, dictator and de facto president of Argentina from 1981 until 1982

American soul singer (1944–2003)

Japanese association football player (1945–2003)

American actor and comedian (1918–2003)

American sociologist (1910–2003)

Chilean author

Israeli fighter pilot and later the first Israeli astronaut

American actor and dancer (1946–2003)

Hong Kong singer and actor (1956–2003)

Japanese and South Korean association football player (1911-2003)

French writer (1935-2003)

English computer scientist (1923–2003)

American anti-war and human rights activist

Japanese association football player (1972–2003)

Italian composer (1925–2003)

NASA astronaut, medical doctor, United States Navy Captain, and Space Shuttle mission specialist (1961-2003)

American tennis player (1927-2003)

1st President of Zimbabwe (1936-2003)

American musician (1969–2003)

English film and stage director (1926–2003)

French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist (1907–2003)

German association football player (1929–2003)

former President of the Central African Republic (1960–1966) and (1979-1981), lived (1930–2003)

English film and stage actress (1912-2003)

Italian statesman (1920-2003)

American singer (1929–2003)

American dancer, singer, and actor (1925-2003)

American actress (1925–2003)

Belarusian writer (1924–2003)

American writer and academic (1931-2003)

British musician (1949–2003)

American computer scientist (1949-2003)