On January 6, 2004, Prime Minister Pierre Charles, who had been suffering from heart problems since 2003, died.

When Doonesbury ran the names of soldiers who had died in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, conservative commentators accused Trudeau of using the American dead to make a profit for himself, and again demanded that the strip be removed from newspapers.

Some 39, 000 people died in 2003 due to gun-related injuries nationwide.

One X-SCID patient died of leukemia following gene therapy treatment in 2003.

Because of this trespass, the king reduced Molteni's and Agricola's combined salaries to a single annual salary of 1, 000 Thalers ( Agricola's annual salary alone had been 1, 500 Thalers ).< ref > Scherer, F. M. < i > Quarter Notes and Bank Notes: The Economics of Music Composition in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries .</ i > Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003 .</ ref > Agricola died in Berlin at age 54.

* Joseph A. Smith ( died 2003 ), American politician ; Sheriff of Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1962 – 1977

Leni Riefenstahl died in her sleep on the late evening of September 8, 2003 at her home in Pöcking, Germany.

In March 2003, Dowiyogo had heart surgery in the United States and died.

Roy Jenkins died in 2003, aged 82.

He died on 5 January 2003, aged 82, after suffering a heart attack at his home at East Hendred, in Oxfordshire.

Abrikosov and Ginzburg were awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for their work ( Landau had received the 1962 Nobel Prize for other work, and died in 1968 ).

Soong died in her sleep in New York City, in her Manhattan apartment on October 23, 2003, at the age of about 105, thus having lived during three generations.

** Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive ( died 2003 )

* April 8 – Franco Corelli, Italian opera singer ( died 2003 )

** Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer ( Flying Purple People Eater ) ( died 2003 )

** Warren Spahn, American baseball player ( died 2003 )

** Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor ( died 2003 )

* July 22 – William Roth, U. S. Senator ( died 2003 )

* August 13 – Barney Liddell, American musician ( The Lawrence Welk Show ) ( died 2003 )

* November 3 – Charles Bronson, American actor ( died 2003 )

* December 6 – Otto Graham, American football player ( died 2003 )

Teller died in Stanford, California on September 9, 2003, at the age of 95.

In 2003, to mark the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the Greater Astoria Historical Society and other community organizations, spearheaded by Paul Maringelli and The Bix Beiderbecke Sunnyside Memorial Committee, erected a plaque in Beiderbecke's honor at the apartment building in which he died in Queens.

Elia Kazan died from natural causes in his home in New York, 28 September 2003 aged 94.

Thurmond died in his sleep on June 26, 2003, at 9: 45 p. m. of heart failure at a hospital in Edgefield, South Carolina.

He died in Los Angeles at the age of ninety-six, and is interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mission Hills, California.

On January 26, 2000, van Vogt died in Los Angeles, USA from Alzheimer's disease, and was survived by his second wife, the former Lydia Bereginsky.

He died in his Century City apartment in Los Angeles from a third heart attack at 4: 50 A. M. on October 20, 1994 at the age of 80.

For nine years after his father died, he worked the night shift wrapping bread at a Los Angeles bakery, attended USC, reviewed some movies, and wrote 88 short stories and six novels that were rejected for publication.

Cleo Trumbo died of natural causes at the age of 93 on October 9, 2009, in the Bay Area city of Los Altos.

Dalton Trumbo died in Los Angeles of a heart attack at the age of 70 on September 10, 1976.

Hopper died at his home in the coastal Los Angeles district of Venice on the morning of May 29, 2010 at the age of 74, due to complications from prostate cancer.

Eve Arden died from colorectal cancer and heart disease at her home in Los Angeles, California at the age of 82 and is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California.

When his wife Josefa died in 1812, he was mentally and emotionally processing the war by painting The Charge of the Mamelukes and The Third of May 1808, and preparing the series of prints later known as The Disasters of War ( Los desastres de la guerra ).

Lang died in 1976 and was interred in the Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.

William Jan Berry ( born in Los Angeles, California April 3, 1941 ; died March 26, 2004 ), was the son of aeronautical engineer William L. Berry ( born December 7, 1909 in The Bronx, NY ; died December 19, 2004 in Camarillo, California ), who had been project manager of the " Spruce Goose " and flew on its only flight with Howard Hughes, and Clara Lorentze Mustad Berry ( born September 2, 1919 in Bergen, Norway ; died July 9, 2009 ).

Dean Ormsby Torrence ( born Los Angeles, California March 10, 1940 ), is the son of Natalie Ormsby Torrence ( born April 10, 1911 in California ; died August 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, California ) and Maurice Dean Torrence ( born December 5, 1907 in South Dakota ; died November 16, 1997 in Los Angeles, California ), a graduate of Stanford University, who was a sales manager at the Wilshire Oil Company.

About a month later he died suddenly in Los Angeles, California, from a stroke due to complications following spinal surgery at the age of 72.

He was born in Los Angeles, California, to Irene Flaugher ( born 1916-died December 26, 1985 ), an unwed woman from Kentucky who became pregnant through a relationship with an army corporal named John Bourgholtzer ( died 1993 ).

The 1932 work, which depicts Picasso's mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter reclining and as a bust, was in the personal collection of Los Angeles philanthropist Frances Lasker Brody, who died in November 2009.

His brother Tony, who was also his business partner in their company Scott Free, died on 19 August 2012 after jumping from the Vincent Thomas Bridge which spans Los Angeles Harbor.

Green died on December 24, 2000, in Los Angeles, California, from complications of a stroke he suffered earlier that year.

Marshall died on August 9, 1969, and Edward Bennett Williams, a minority stockholder who was a Washington resident and one of America's most esteemed attorneys, was chosen to run the franchise while the majority stockholder, Jack Kent Cooke, lived in Los Angeles and ran his basketball team, the Los Angeles Lakers.