Death year 2003 celebrities
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Melitta Kreckow Brunner (née Brunner, 28 January 1907 – 26 May 2003) was an Austrian figure skater. As a single skater, she won the bronze medal at the 1929 World Championships. As a pair skater, she skated with Ludwig Wrede and won the bronze at
Basil Cedric Langton (9 January 1912–29 May 2003) was an English actor, director and photographer, who made a career on both sides of the Atlantic. He was an authority on the plays of George Bernard Shaw and compiled an archive of more than 400,000
Won Kuk Lee (Hangul: 이원국, Hanja: 李元國) (April 13, 1907 – February 2, 2002) was a martial artist, black belt in Japanese karate and pupil of Gichin Funakoshi. He introduced karate in the Republic of Korea (1944), creating his own style of
Aleksandr (“Alex”) Viktorovich Miroshnichenko (Russian: Александр Викторович Мирошниченко) (April 26, 1964 in Kostanai, Soviet Union – May 19, 2003) won a Super Heavyweight Bronze medal at 1988 Summer Olympics in Seou
Ramón “Mongo” Santamaría Rodríguez (April 7, 1917 – February 1, 2003) was a rumba quinto master and an Afro-Cuban Latin jazz percussionist. He is most famous for being the composer of the jazz standard “Afro Blue”, recorded by John Coltrane amon
John Richard Schlesinger, CBE (/ˈʃlɛsɪndʒər/; 16 February 1926 – 25 July 2003) was an English film and stage director, and actor. He won an Academy Award for Best Director for Midnight Cowboy, and was nominated for two other films (Darling an
Andrew Heiskell (September 13, 1915, Naples – July 6, 2003 Darien, Connecticut) was chairman and CEO of Time Inc. (1960–1980), and also known for his philanthropy, including for the New York Public Library. He was President of the Inter American Pr
Dernell Renauld Stenson (June 17, 1978 – November 5, 2003) was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball. He batted and threw left-handed. He was 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) tall and weighed 230 lbs.
Leon Schwartzenberg was born in Paris, but, being Jewish, in 1942 he and his family fled to Toulouse to avoid the Nazi occupation. Despite this escape to freedom, his medical studies were halted by L`Ordre des Medecins on account of his race. He join
Sylvi Inkeri Salonen (1 March 1920 – 23 December 2003) was a Finnish actress. Most of her career, 1949−1985, she worked for Tampereen Työväen Teatteri while also appearing on television and in films. The term “diva” was often attached to her na
Yun Hyon-seok (hangul: 윤현석 尹賢碩, August 7, 1984 – April 26, 2003) was a South Korean LGBT poet, writer and LGBT activist. He committed suicide in protest against discrimination against homosexuals in South Korea. During his life, he foug