2003 deaths

Finnish general

American musician (1918–2003)

American politician (1919–2003)

Indian vocalist (1908-2003)

American singer (1940–2003)

Australian painter (1911-2003)

Ethiopian writer and politician (1910-2003)

Swiss film director and screenwriter (1948-2003)

American actress (1935-2003)

American singer (1944–2003)

Puerto Rican politician (1904-2003)

German Turkologist (1920–2003)

British actor (1913–2003)

American German-born mathematician and photographer

swimmer

gymnast (1913–2003)

Czech traveller, photographer and writer

American politician in Arkansas (1933–2003)

American screenwriter (1913-2003)

American jazz musician (1918-2003)

34th governor of Arkansas (1912–2003)

Czech playwright, humorist, publicist, bookwriter, scriptwriter and writer (1911–2003)

Hungarian film director (1927-2003)

American musician (1934-2003)

Turkish mathematician (1926–2003)

Norwegian athletics competitor

French actress (1934–2004)

Brazilian media entrepreneur (1904–2003)

American musician (1928–2003)

gymnast (1912–2003)

Chilean lawyer and politician (1903–2003)

English shot putter (1936-2003)

American computer scientist (1913-2003)

Italian musician (1914–2003)

Palestinian literary scholar and Arabist

Italian racing cyclist (1935–2003)

Slovenian-Belgian botanist and horticulturist (1925-2003)

Canadian actor (1930–2003)

American film director and screenwriter (1914-2003)

British composer of classical and film music (1922–2003)

Indian field hockey player (1920–2003)

Azerbaijani writer

British actor (1911–2003)

chess player (1955-2003)

Ukrainian therapist (1919–2003)

Spanish field hockey player (1958-2003)

Guatemalan politician (1923-2003)

Israeli artist (1913–2003)

Belgian musician (1921–2003)

Gaura Pant (17 October 1923 – 21 March 2003), better known as Shivani, was a Hindi writer of the 20th century and a pioneer in writing Indian women-centric fiction. She was awarded the Padma Shri for her contribution to Hindi literature in 1982.

Argentine politician (1920-2003)

Czechoslovak volleyballist (1933–2003)

Hungarian linguist and systems scientist (1919-2003)

American singer, actress (1906–2003)

American politician (1910-2003)

American labor economist and former United States Secretary of Labor (1975-1976)

Indian cricket player. (1909-2003)

French film producer

German flying ace (1917–2003)

American actress (1915–2003)