List of Famous people who died in 2003
François Guérin
François Guérin (1927–2003) was a French film and television actor.
Amédée Domenech
Amédée Domenech was a French rugby union prop. He played for RC Vichy between 1954 and 1955. After one year he moved to CA Brive and helped the club to gain promotion to the first division. He earned his first cap with the French national team on 27 March 1954 against Wales at Cardiff. He was nicknamed Le Duc. The Stade Amédée-Domenech in Brive-la-Gaillarde was named in his honour.
Alfred Preissler
Alfred Preissler was a German footballer and manager who played as a forward for Borussia Dortmund.
Vladimir Bogomolov
Vladimir Osipovich Bogomolov was a Soviet writer.
Ulrich Roski
Ulrich Roski was a German singer-songwriter who achieved his greatest successes in the 1970s. His songs describe the little quirks hidden in everyone's everyday life, mixing laconic humour with linguistic skill. He produced more than 20 LP's and music CDs since 1970, and some of his songs from this time even made the German TopTen, allowing him to perform at the Berliner Philharmonie. He almost exclusively performed alone.
Joanna Lee
Joanna Lee was an American writer, producer, director and actress.
Martha Scott
Martha Ellen Scott was an American actress. She was featured in major films such as Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956), and William Wyler's Ben-Hur (1959), playing the mother of Charlton Heston's character in both films. She originated the role of Emily Webb in Thornton Wilder's Our Town on Broadway in 1938 and later recreated the role in the 1940 film version, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Yoshio Shirai
Yoshio Shirai was a professional boxer from Tokyo, Japan. He won the world flyweight title in 1952, becoming the first Japanese boxer to win a world title.
Fritz G. A. Kraemer
Fritz Gustav Anton Kraemer was an American military educator and advisor.
Edward Teller
Edward Teller was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb", although he did not care for the title, considering it poor taste. Throughout his life, Teller was known both for his scientific ability and for his difficult interpersonal relations and volatile personality.