List of Famous people who died in 2003

Yevgeny Semyonovich Matveyev was a Soviet and Russian actor and film director who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1974. He is best known as Nagulnov in Podniataya Tselina, based on Mikhail Sholokhov's novel; and Nekhludov in Resurrection, based on Leo Tolstoy's novel.

Rasul Gamzatovich Gamzatov was a popular Avar poet. Among his poems was Zhuravli, which became a well-known Soviet song.

Nell Carter was an American singer and actress.

Richard Lee Zumwalt Jr. was an American professional arm-wrestler and actor. He is known for playing the character of Bob "Bull" Hurley in the 1987 Sylvester Stallone movie Over the Top.

Qusay Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti was an Iraqi politician and the second son of Saddam Hussein. He was appointed as his father's heir apparent in 2000. He was also in charge of the Republican Guard.

Umar Wirahadikusumah was an Indonesian politician and retired army general who served as the country's fourth vice president, serving from 1983 to 1988.

Amanda Davis was an American writer and teacher who died in a plane accident.

William McDonough was an American sportswriter for The Boston Globe who also worked as an on-air football reporter for CBS and NBC.

Cherlynne Theresa "Lynne" Thigpen was an American actress who voiced "Luna" on the Playhouse Disney children's series Bear in the Big Blue House and portrayed "The Chief" of ACME in various Carmen Sandiego television series and computer games from 1991 to 1997. For her varied television work, Thigpen was nominated for six Daytime Emmy Awards; she won a Tony Award in 1997 for portraying Dr. Judith Kaufman in An American Daughter.

Axel Buchardt Jensen was a Norwegian author. From 1957 until 2002, he published both fiction and non-fiction texts which include novels, poems, essays, a biography, and manuscripts for cartoons and animated films.