2003 deaths

The list 2003 deaths includes Johnny Cash, Barry White, Robert Kardashian, Katharine Hepburn and Jonathan Brandis. The list consists of 7,652 members and 5 sublists.

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2003

Calendar year

Deaths from the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak
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- Carlo Urbani
- Joanna Tse
Murder in 2003
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People killed in the Canal Hotel bombing
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2003 suicides
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Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 2003
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- Steve Hislop
- Mushaf Ali Mir

1.

Johnny Cash

Singer and songwriter

Overview: John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Much of Cash's music contained themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and ...

Date of birth: 26 February 1932

Date of death: 12 September 2003

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Country Musician

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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Guitarists from Arkansas 59T

Guitarists from Tennessee 196T

Rock and roll musicians 36T
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Barry White

American, Singer

Overview: Barry Eugene Carter (September 12, 1944 – July 4, 2003), better known by his stage name Barry White, was an American singer and songwriter. A two-time Grammy Award winner known for his bass voice and ...

Date of birth: 12 September 1944

Date of death: 4 July 2003

Age: 58 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 4" (193 cm)

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Deaths from kidney failure in California 100T

Deaths from kidney failure in the United States 356T

Musicians from Galveston, Texas 20T
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Robert Kardashian

Attorney

Overview: Robert George Kardashian (February 22, 1944 – September 30, 2003) was an American attorney and businessman. He gained national recognition as O. J. Simpson's friend and defense attorney during Simpson's ...

Date of birth: 22 February 1944

Date of death: 30 September 2003

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Attorney

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Susan Miller Dorsey High School alumni 72T

Ethnic Armenian lawyers 7T

Businesspeople from Los Angeles, California 561T
4.

Katharine Hepburn

American actress (1907–2003)

Overview: Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress of film, stage, and television. Known for her headstrong independence and spirited personality, Hepburn's career as a ...

Date of birth: 12 May 1907

Date of death: 29 June 2003

Age: 96 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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People from Turtle Bay, Manhattan 11T

20th-century American memoirists 507T

Childfree 46T
5.

Jonathan Brandis

American, Actor

Overview: Jonathan Gregory Brandis (April 13, 1976 – November 12, 2003) was an American actor. Beginning his career as a child model, Brandis moved on to acting in commercials and subsequently won television and ...

Date of birth: 13 April 1976

Date of death: 12 November 2003

Age: 27 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Brighton Hall School alumni 33T

2003 suicides 50T

20th-century American screenwriters 2,442T
6.

Quentin Dean

Actress

Overview: Quentin Dean (July 27, 1944 – May 7, 2003) was an American actress of the 1960s.

Date of birth: 27 July 1944

Date of death: 8 May 2003

Age: 58 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Actresses from California 904T

20th-century American actresses 6,858T

American film actresses 8,979T
7.

Madlyn Rhue

American actor

Overview: Madlyn Soloman Rhue (née Madeline Roche, October 3, 1935 – December 16, 2003) was an American film and television actress.

Date of birth: 3 October 1935

Date of death: 16 December 2003

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Deaths from pneumonia in California 468T

21st-century American Jews 3,204T

20th-century American Jews 3,239T
8.

Robert Palmer

British musician

Overview: Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003) was an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. He was known for his powerful, distinctive, gritty and soulful voice, sartorial ...

Date of birth: 19 January 1949

Date of death: 26 September 2003

Age: 54 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Songwriter

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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People educated at Scarborough High School for Boys 21T

The Alan Bown Set members 5T

Robert Palmer (singer) 2T
9.

Nina Simone

American singer-songwriter (1933–2003)

Overview: Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), known professionally as Nina Simone (), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist. Her music spanned styles in ...

Date of birth: 21 February 1933

Date of death: 21 April 2003

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Colpix Records artists 19T

Bethlehem Records artists 9T

CTI Records artists 69T
10.

Lana Clarkson

American actress and fashion model (1962–2003)

Overview: Lana Jean Clarkson (April 5, 1962 – February 3, 2003) was an American actress and fashion model. During the 1980s, she rose to prominence in several sword-and-sorcery films. In 2003, she was shot and killed ...

Date of birth: 5 April 1962

Date of death: 3 February 2003

Age: 40 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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American women record producers 217T

Murdered American actors 46T

Phil Spector 12T
11.

Janice Rule

Actress

Overview: Mary Janice Rule (August 15, 1931 – October 17, 2003) was an American actress "at her most convincing playing embittered, neurotic socialites". She studied psychoanalysis in her later life, earning a PhD ...

Date of birth: 15 August 1931

Date of death: 17 October 2003

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Actresses of Irish descent 597T

People from Norwood, Ohio 20T

Actresses from Ohio 122T
12.

Suzy Parker

actress and model

Overview: Suzy Parker (born Cecilia Ann Renee Parker; October 28, 1932 – May 3, 2003) was an American model and actress active from 1947 into the early 1960s. Her modeling career reached its zenith during the 1950s ...

Date of birth: 28 October 1932

Date of death: 3 May 2003

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Model

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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People from Long Island City, Queens 51T

Burials at Santa Barbara Cemetery 44T

Actresses from San Antonio, Texas 39T
13.

Jeanne Crain

American actor

Overview: Jeanne Elizabeth Crain (May 25, 1925 – December 14, 2003) was an American actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for playing the title role in the film Pinky (1949). She also ...

Date of birth: 25 May 1925

Date of death: 14 December 2003

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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Actresses of Irish descent 598T

Burials at Santa Barbara Cemetery 44T

Catholics from California 279T
14.

Elizabeth Hulette

American professional wrestler

Overview: Elizabeth Ann Hulette (November 19, 1960 – May 1, 2003), best known in professional wrestling circles as Miss Elizabeth, was an American professional wrestling manager, occasional professional wrestler ...

Date of birth: 19 November 1960

Date of death: 1 May 2003

Age: 42 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Wrestling

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Kentucky women athletes 36T

20th-century American women 4,137T

The Four Horsemen (professional wrestling) members 30T
15.

Bob Hope

American entertainer

Overview: Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope KBE (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was a British-American stand-up comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, and author. With a career that spanned nearly 80 years, Hope ...

Date of birth: 29 May 1903

Date of death: 27 July 2003

Age: 100 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Entertainer

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Recipients of the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award 12T

USO Entertainer 75T

20th-century British male singers 334T
16.

Hope Lange

American actress

Overview: Hope Elise Ross Lange (November 28, 1933 – December 19, 2003) was an American film, stage, and television actress.

Date of birth: 28 November 1933

Date of death: 19 December 2003

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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People from Redding, Connecticut 47T

Female models from Connecticut 20T

Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Primetime Emmy Award winners 39T
17.

June Carter Cash

Singer

Overview: June Carter Cash (born Valerie June Carter; June 23, 1929 – May 15, 2003) was a five-time Grammy award-winning American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, comedian, and author who was a member of the ...

Date of birth: 23 June 1929

Date of death: 15 May 2003

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Country Musician

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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20th-century American women guitarists 83T

21st-century American women singers 2,630T

20th-century American women singers 2,001T
18.

John Ritter

American actor (1948–2003)

Overview: Johnathan Southworth Ritter (September 17, 1948 – September 11, 2003) was an American actor. Ritter was a son of the singing cowboy star Tex Ritter and the father of actors Jason and Tyler Ritter. He is ...

Date of birth: 17 September 1948

Date of death: 11 September 2003

Age: 54 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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American male comedy actors 154T

Hollywood Walk of Fame 371T

21st-century American comedians 2,219T
19.

Gregory Peck

American actor (1916–2003)

Overview: Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor. He was one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck among ...

Date of birth: 5 April 1916

Date of death: 12 June 2003

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 3" (190 cm)

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Deaths from pneumonia in California 477T

Male actors of Scottish descent 224T

Male actors of Irish descent 682T
20.

Charles Bronson

American actor (1921–2003)

Overview: Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky; November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor who was often cast in roles of police officers, gunfighters, or vigilantes in revenge-oriented ...

Date of birth: 3 November 1921

Date of death: 30 August 2003

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 45T

Deaths from lung cancer in California 82T

Deaths from cardiomyopathy 32T