List of Famous people who died in 2003

Goffredo Petrassi was an Italian composer of modern classical music, conductor, and teacher. He is considered one of the most influential Italian composers of the twentieth century.

Karen Morley was an American film actress.

Veikko Johannes Hakulinen was a Finnish cross-country skier, triple champion in both the Olympics and World Championships. He also competed in biathlon, orienteering, ski-orienteering, cross-country running and rowing at a national level.

Leonard Michaels was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays.

Rodney Amateau was an American film and television screenwriter, director, and producer.

Sir Gawaine George Hope Baillie, 7th Baronet was a British amateur motor racing driver, engineer, industrialist, stamp collector, and the owner of the estate surrounding Leeds Castle, the ancient fortress in Kent. The castle itself was bequeathed to the nation upon his mother's death in 1974. After his death, it was discovered that he had amassed, almost entirely in secret, one of the greatest collections of stamps of the former British Empire.

Theodore "Teddy" Yip was an Indonesian-Dutch businessman who was instrumental in developing Macau as a tourist destination and who was a Formula One team owner in the 1970s.