Deaths
- 8 January - Mahadeva Subramania Mani, entomologist (born 1908).
- 14 July - Leela Chitnis, actress (born 1909).
- 27 July - Henning Holck-Larsen, engenner, co-founder of Larsen & Toubro (born 1907
- 25 October - Pandurang Shastri Athavale, philosopher, spiritual leader, social reformer, who founded the Swadhyay Movement (born 1920).
- 3 November - Narendra Prasad, actor, playwright, teacher and literary critic (born 1946).
- 9 November - Binod Bihari Verma, writer (born 1937).
- 21 December - G. V. Iyer, film director (born 1917).
Read more about this topic: 2003 In India
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)