List of Famous people who died in 1903

Gerlof van Vloten (1866–1903), was a Dutch orientalist, writer and translator. He was the editor of the 1895 edition of the Arabic encyclopedia Mafātīḥ al-ʿulūm.

Draginja "Draga" Obrenović, formerly Mašin (Машин), was the Queen consort of King Aleksandar Obrenović of the Kingdom of Serbia. She was formerly a lady-in-waiting to Aleksandar's mother, Queen Natalija.

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He was one of the greatest classicists of the 19th century. His work regarding Roman history is still of fundamental importance for contemporary research. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902 for being "the greatest living master of the art of historical writing, with special reference to his monumental work, A History of Rome", after having been nominated by 18 members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. He was also a prominent German politician, as a member of the Prussian and German parliaments. His works on Roman law and on the law of obligations had a significant impact on the German civil code.

Domenico Menotti Garibaldi was an Italian politician, general, and the first son of Giuseppe Garibaldi and Anita Garibaldi. Garibaldi organized the Garibaldi Legion, a unit of Italian volunteers who fought for Polish independence during the January Uprising of 1863. It was led by General Francesco Nullo.

Henry Van Brunt FAIA was a 19th-century American architect and architectural writer.

Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox, and 1st Duke of Gordon,, styled Lord Settrington until 1819 and Earl of March between 1819 and 1860, was a British Conservative politician.

Carl Frederik Bricka was a Danish archivist, historian, and biographer.

Samuel Augustus Ward was an American organist and composer. Born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of a shoemaker, he studied under several teachers in New York and became an organist at Grace Episcopal Church in his home town in 1880. He married Virginia Ward in 1871, with whom he had four daughters.

Alfred Gatty was a Church of England vicar and author.