2003 deaths

American actor, director and producer (1926–2003)

Cameroonian and French footballer

English actor (1934–2003)

American politician (1902–2003)

Cuban musician (1907-2003)

American composer (1948–2003)

French recording artist; singer (1911–2003)

U.S. Navy Commander, NASA astronaut and the pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia which was destroyed during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere in 2003

American astronaut (1957-2003)

astronaut, scientist (1959-2003)

American astronaut (1956–2003)

American actress (1933-2003)

American actress (1912–2003)

Iraqi politician and son of Saddam Hussein (1964–2003)

American novelist (1914–2003)

President of Mauritania from 1960 to 1978

American swimmer (1905–2003)

Hungarian boxer (1926–2003)

American actor (1919–2003)

American author (1924–2003)

Soviet official and Russian banker (1937-2003)

Italian businessman; grandson of FIAT's founder (1921-2003)

Jonathan Gregory Brandis was an American actor. Beginning his career as a child model, Brandis moved on to acting in commercials and subsequently won television and film roles. Brandis made his acting debut in 1982 as Kevin Buchanan on the soap opera One Life to Live. In 1990, he portrayed Bill Denbrough in the television miniseries It, and starred as Bastian Bux in The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter. In 1993, at the age of 17, he was cast in the role of teen prodigy Lucas Wolenczak on the NBC series seaQuest DSV. The character was popular among teenage viewers, and Brandis regularly appeared in teen magazines. He died by suicide in 2003.

American philosopher (1917–2003)

French actress (1962–2003)

Spanish writer (1939-2003)

Palestinien Poet (1917-2003)

German actor (1933–2003)

British politician (1920–2003)

American economist, political theorist and government official (1916–2003)

British historian (1912–2003)

French filmmaker (1925-2003)

Iraqi politician (1966–2003)

English moral philosopher (1929–2003)

Bush farmer, actor

American geneticist

South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress (1912-2003)

Italian operatic tenor (1921-2003)

American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader (1907-2003)

Hong Kong singer and actress (1963–2003)

American actor and comedian (1924–2003)

American politician (1927-2003)

American actor (1948–2003)

American businessman, record executive, record producer and DJ (1923–2003)

English actor and director (1941–2003)

French writer and politician (1916–2003)

American attorney and businessman (1944–2003)

American cartoonist, children's illustrator and writer (1907–2003)

Brazilian UN diplomat and humanitarian aid officer (1948–2003)

Brazilian writer and journalist (1910-2003)

Soviet cosmonaut (1933–2003)

German scholar of Islam (1922-2003)

American author (1922–2003)

Ivorian writer (1927-2003)

Finland Swedish philosopher, professor and member of the Academy of Finland (1916–2003)

Israeli politician (1912-2003)

Soviet Russian science fiction writer and historian (1934–2003)

English musician (1949–2003)

American actor and dancer (1908-2003)

American/Canadian author