List of Famous people who died in 2003

Robert Rockwell was an American stage, film, radio and television actor. He is best known for playing the handsome, but awkward biology teacher Philip Boynton in the radio and television sitcom Our Miss Brooks opposite Eve Arden.

Jon Lyng was a Norwegian lawyer and politician for the Conservative Party.

Dr. Adalbert (Béla) Boros was a Romanian Roman Catholic prelate of Hungarian ethnicity, Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Timișoara. Born in a Hungarian family in Pădureni, now part of Chişineu-Criş, he graduated from the Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum in Rome and was ordained a priest in 1932. He taught philosophy and dogma at the theological seminary in Timișoara before becoming rector. In 1948, following the advent of the communist regime, he was named auxiliary bishop of Timișoara and was secretly consecrated in Bucharest. Together with Bishop Augustin Pacha and other prominent Catholics, he was arrested, given a show trial and sentenced to life imprisonment. Released in 1964, he was not allowed to perform the duties of a bishop until the fall of the regime, instead having to work as a chaplain in Timișoara. In 1990, Pope John Paul II named him titular archbishop of Ressiana. He died in 2003.

Joshua Gibson Jr. was a former African-American baseball infielder in the Negro leagues. He played in 1949 and 1950 for the Homestead Grays. He also played with the Farnham Pirates in the Provincial League in 1951. His father, Josh Gibson Sr., played in the Negro leagues, and is considered one of the greatest power hitters in baseball history.

Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce was a British physicist.

William Harold Strutton was an Australian screenwriter and novelist. He worked on some of the best-remembered 1960s television shows including Ivanhoe, The Saint, The Avengers, Riptide and Doctor Who.