List of Famous people who died in 1903

Joshua Gaskill Newbold was the tenth Governor of Iowa.

Sir Joseph Sebag-Montefiore was a British banker, stockbroker and politician.

Vsevolod Sergeyevich Solovyov was a Russian historical novelist. His most famous work is Chronicle of Four Generations, an account of the fictional Gorbatov family from the time of Catherine the Great to the mid-nineteenth century. Solovyov's "atmosphere of nostalgia for the vanished age of the nobility" helps explain his "posthumous popularity among Russian émigrés."

John Callcott Horsley RA was an English academic painter of genre and historical scenes, illustrator, and designer of the first Christmas card. He was a member of the artist's colony in Cranbrook.

Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, KCMG, PC, was an Irish nationalist, journalist, poet and politician; a Young Irelander who, following emigration to Australia, was to become the 8th Premier of Victoria and one of the commanding figures in Victorian political history.

Queen Hyojeong also known as Empress Dowager Myeongheon was the Queen Consort of King Heonjong of Joseon, the 24th monarch of the Joseon Dynasty. She was of the Namyang Hong clan.