The following is a list of notable people who died in 2003.
January 2003
February 2003
March 2003
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- 3 Horst Buchholz, German actor
- 6 John Sanford, author
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- 14 Jack Goldstein, artist
- 15 Dame Thora Hird, 91, veteran British actress
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- 18 Adam Osborne, computer pioneer
- 19 Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator
- 20 Sailor Art Thomas, professional wrestler
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- 22 Terry Lloyd, 50, ITN reporter killed in southern Iraq
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- 26 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former Senator from New York
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- 29 Dr. Carlo Urbani, WHO doctor, discoverer of SARS, of which he died
- 30 Valentin Pavlov, former prime minister of the Soviet Union
- 30 Gaby Rado, UK journalist
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April 2003
- 1 Leslie Cheung, actor and singer, one of the superstars in Hong Kong during late 1980s, committed suicide
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- 4 Resortes, legendary Mexican comedian, real name Adalberto Martinez Chavez
- 5 Seymour Lubetzky (aged 104), cataloging theorist and librarian
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- 7 Cecile de Brunhoff (aged 99), who inspired the Babar the Elephant children's books when she told it to her children as a bedtime story in 1931 (it was then illustrated by her husband)
- 8 Anita Borg, computer scientist
- 9 James Earl Salisbury educator
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- 14 Kent Pullen, US politician
- 16 Graham Stuart Thomas, horticultural artist, author and garden designer
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- 18 Edgar F. Codd, computer pioneer
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- 22 Martha Griffiths, Congresswoman, women's rights proponent
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- 25 Hidefumi Minorikawa, a Diet of Japan member of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party
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- The Honourable Rosemary Brown, Canadian politician (NDP), first black woman elected to a provincial legislature and first black woman to run for the leadership of a major federal political party
- Caroline Newhouse, arts patron; widow of Theodore Newhouse
- Max Nicholson, environmentalist
- Peter Stone, Oscar-and-(3-time)Tony-winning writer
- 27 Elaine Steinbeck, former actress; widow of author John Steinbeck
- 29 Etti Plesch, who married three counts, an American heir, and a Hungarian Lawyer
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May 2003
- 1 Miss Elizabeth, 42, WWE wrestling figure
- 3 Suzy Parker, actress; top model of the 1950s
- 5 Walter Sisulu, ANC activist
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- 9 Russell B. Long, former U.S. Senator
- 10 Milan Vukcevich, chemist and chess problem composer
- 11 Noel Redding, former bassist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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- 13 John Savage, former Premier of Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist
- George Francis, British suspected mobster
- June Carter Cash, musician, singer, wife of Johnny Cash
- David O. Ives, public broadcasting pioneer, longtime executive at WGBH, Boston, which introduced such television programs as "Nova," "Frontline," "Masterpiece Theatre," and "This Old House"
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- 26 Kathleen Winsor, author of Forever Amber
- 27 Luciano Berio, composer
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- 29 Basil Langton, theatre/screen actor from the 30s to the 90s
- 30 Mickie Most, 64, music producer, produced acts such as Lulu, Donovan, The Animals, Hot Chocolate, Suzi Quatro and Kim Wilde
June 2003
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- 3 Fabrice Salanson, a French pro-cyclist
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- 11 David Brinkley, broadcast journalist
- 12 Gregory Peck, 87, actor
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- 18 Larry Doby, baseball Hall of Famer, second Black man to play in the MLB
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- Glen Grant, Hawaiian historian, folklorist and author
- Laura Sadler, 22, British television actress, after falling 40 feet from a building
- 20 Bob Stump, Arizona Congressman
- 21 Roger Neilson, legendary Canadian hockey coach
- 22 Alexander Vetoux, Ukrainian boxing prospect. Was 22-1 with 18 knockouts as a professional; body found in river on June 27th
- 23 Vasil Bykau, Belarusian writer
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- 25 Lester Maddox, segregationist Governor of the State of Georgia
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- 28 Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete
- 29 Katharine Hepburn, actress
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July 2003
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- 6 Buddy Ebsen, American actor
- 7 Izhak Graziani, conductor
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- 9 Winston Graham, 95, author of Poldark and Marnie
- 10 Hartley Shawcross (Lord Shawcross), Britain's chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
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- 12 Benny Carter, American jazz pioneer
- 13 Compay Segundo, Cuban musician and star of the Buena Vista Social Club
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- 24 Colin R. McMillan, nominee for United States Secretary of the Navy
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- 29 Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader
- 30 Sam Phillips, 80, record producer
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August 2003
September 2003
- 1 Sir Terry Frost, British artist
- 3 Paul Hill, executed for two anti-abortion murders
- 4 Tibor Varga, violinist, conductor and pedagogue
- 5 Gisele MacKenzie, singer
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- 10 Harry Goz, cartoon voice actor
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- 13 Frank O'Bannon, Governor of Indiana
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- 18 Valve Janov, Estonian painter
- 19 Slim Dusty, Australian country music singer
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- 21 Robert H. Lochner, John F. Kennedy's interpreter
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- 26 Robert Palmer, 54, singer
- 27 Donald O'Connor, entertainer, actor
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October 2003
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- 3 William Steig, American cartoonist and children's author; creator of Shrek
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- 6 Mildred O'Neill, widow of former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Tip O'Neill
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- 9 Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American academic and author
- 10 Eugene Istomin, American pianist
- 11 Fredy Knie, Sr., director of Swiss circus Circus Knie
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- 14 Ben Metcalfe, Greenpeace activist and co-founder
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- 20 Jack Elam, American actor, 84 years
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- 24 Rosie Nix Adams, daughter of June Carter Cash
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- 26 Elem Klimov, Russian director
- 27 Rod Roddy, booth announcer on The Price is Right
- 28 Behram Kursunoglu, Turkish physicist, 81 years old
- 29 Hal Clement, author, 81 years
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November 2003
December 2003
- 1 Clark Kerr, 92, first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, 1952-58, and President of the University of California, 1958-67
- 2 Ignaz Kiechle, German politician, minister for agriculture 1983-93
- 3 David Hemmings, 62, actor
- 5 Bert Templeton, 63, ice hockey coach
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- 9 Paul Simon, 75, former U.S. Senator from Illinois
- 10 Ettore Perazzoli, 29, free software developer
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