List of Famous people who died in 2003

Yury Sergeevitch Saulsky was a Soviet and Russian composer, author. His works as a film composer include the score for A Glass of Water.

Jacques Deray was a French film director and screenwriter. Deray is prominently known for directing many crime and thriller films.

Derya Arbaş was a Turkish American actress.

Hiroko Matsumoto was a Japanese model.

José Couso Permuy was a Spanish cameraman who was one of the April 8, 2003 journalist deaths by U.S. fire after a U.S. tank fired at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq during the 2003 Iraq invasion.

Lonny Kellner was a German singer and actress. She was married to Peter Frankenfeld.

Emil Vladimirovich Loteanu was a Soviet film director born in what is now Moldova. He moved to Moscow in his early life. His best known films are Lăutarii, Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven, A Hunting Accident and Anna Pavlova.

Albert Hirschfeld was an American caricaturist best known for his black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars.

Hugo Moser was an Argentine television/film producer and screenwriter. In 1977 he directed Basta de mujeres.

Sayyid Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, also known as Shaheed al-Mehraab, was a senior Iraqi Shia cleric and the leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). Al-Hakim spent more than 20 years in exile in Iran and returned to Iraq on 12 May 2003. Al-Hakim was a contemporary of Ayatollah Khomeini, and The Guardian compared the two in terms of their times in exile and their support in their respective homelands. After his return to Iraq, al-Hakim's life was in danger because of his work to encourage Shiite resistance to Saddam Hussein and from a rivalry with Muqtada al-Sadr, the son of the late Ayatollah Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr, who had himself been assassinated in Najaf in 1999. Al-Hakim was assassinated in a bomb attack in Najaf in 2003 when aged 63 years old. At least 75 others in the vicinity also died in the bombing.