Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 2003

Pierre Chanal was a French soldier and suspected serial killer. He was convicted of the rape and kidnapping of a young man, Balázs Falvay, whom he picked up hitchhiking in 1988. He received a ten-year sentence for the attack, and was released in 1995 on probation. He was accused of murdering three of eight young men who disappeared in northeastern France between 1980 and 1987. One of his alleged victims was Trevor O'Keeffe. Chanal committed suicide in prison in 2003 while on trial.

Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr. was an American politician and attorney from Georgia. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected in 1973 at the age of 35 as the first black mayor of Atlanta, Georgia and of any major city in the South. He served three terms, making him the second longest-serving mayor of Atlanta, after six-term mayor William B. Hartsfield.

Su Buqing, also spelled Su Buchin, was a Chinese mathematician, educator and poet. He was the founder of differential geometry in China, and served as president of Fudan University and honorary chairman of the Chinese Mathematical Society.

William Cameron Willie McCool fue un astronauta estadounidense de la NASA, y comandante de la USN.

Mark Semenovich Pinsker or Mark Shlemovich Pinsker was a noted Russian mathematician in the fields of information theory, probability theory, coding theory, ergodic theory, mathematical statistics, and communication networks.

Élie Fruchart was a French football player who played with US Auchel. He was born in Calonne-Ricouart. He has also managed US Auchel, RC Lens, Stade de Reims, USL Dunkerque and Angers SCO.

Alan Eaton Davidson fue un diplomático e historiador británico, conocido por haber escrito y editado muchas obras sobre la comida y la gastronomía. Fue el autor de su enciclopedia alimentaria de 900-páginas denominada Oxford Companion to Food (1999).

Richard "Rick" Douglas Husband fue un coronel de la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos (USAF) y astronauta de la NASA. Viajó al espacio dos veces: como piloto de STS-96 y comandante de STS-107. Él y el resto de la tripulación del STS-107 murieron cuando Columbia se desintegró durante el reingreso a la atmósfera terrestre. Husband recibió póstumamente la Medalla de Honor Espacial del Congreso.