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Gregorian Year
2003 (MMIII) was
a common year starting
on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 2003rd year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 3rd year of the 3rd millennium, the 3rd year of
the 21st century,
and the 4th year of the 2000s decade. 2003 was designated the: ·
International
Year of fresh water.[1] Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths · 5New English
words and terms Events[edit] January[edit] ·
January 11 – Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death
sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois's death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.[2][3] ·
January 22 – The last signal from NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft is received, some
12.2 billion kilometers (7.6 billion mi) from Earth.[4] ·
January 30 – Belgium legally
recognizes same-sex marriage, becoming the second country in the
world to do so.[5] February[edit] ·
February 1 – At the conclusion of
the STS-107 mission, the Space
Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentryover Texas, killing all seven astronauts on
board.[6] ·
February 4 – The leaders of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia reconstitute the country into a loose state-union
between Montenegro and
Serbia, marking an end to the 85 year old Yugoslav state.[7] ·
February 15 – Millions of people worldwide
take part in massive anti-war
protests before the United States and its allies invade Iraq.[8] ·
February 26 – The War in Darfur begins after rebel groups
rise up against the Sudanese government.[9] ·
February 27 – Former Bosnian Serb
leader Biljana Plavšić is
sentenced by the U.N. ICTY to 11 years in prison for war
crimes committed during the Bosnian War.[10] March[edit] ·
March 8 – Malta approves joining the European Union in a referendum.[11] ·
March 12 ·
Serbian Prime Minister Zoran
Đinđić is
assassinated in Belgrade by a sniper.[12] ·
The World Health
Organization issues a global alert on severe
acute respiratory syndrome when it spreads to Hong Kong and Vietnam after originating in China.[13] ·
March 20 – The Iraq War begins with the invasion of Iraq by
the U.S. and allied forces.[14] ·
March 23 – Slovenia approves joining the European
Union and NATO in a referendum.[15] April[edit] ·
April 9 – U.S. forces seize control of
Baghdad, ending the regime of Saddam Hussein.[14] ·
April 12 – Hungary approves joining the European
Union in a referendum.[16] ·
April 14 – The Human Genome Project is
completed, with 99% of the human genome sequenced to 99.99% accuracy.[17] ·
April 29 – The United States announces
the withdrawal of troops stationed in Saudi Arabia, and the redeployment of some
at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.[18] May[edit] ·
May 11 ·
Benvenuto Cellini's Cellini Salt Cellar table
sculpture is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches
Museum in Vienna.[19] ·
Lithuania approves joining the European
Union in a referendum.[20] ·
May 12 – In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, over 30 people are
killed in multiple
bombings at a housing compound, mostly foreign expatriates.[21] ·
May 17 – Slovakia approves joining the European
Union in a referendum.[22] ·
May 23 – Dewey, the first deer cloned by scientists
at Texas A&M
University, is born.[23] ·
May 28 – Prometea, the world's first cloned horse, is born.[24] June[edit] ·
June 8 – Poland approves joining the European
Union in a referendum.[25] ·
June 14 – The Czech Republic approves joining the
European Union in a referendum.[26] ·
June 30 – Warring parties in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo sign a peace accord, bringing an end to
the Second Congo War,
which left millions dead.[27] July[edit] ·
July 5 – Severe acute respiratory
syndrome is declared to be contained by the World Health Organization.[28] ·
July 6 – The 70-meter Eupatoria
Planetary Radar sends a METI message Cosmic Call 2 to five stars: Hip 4872,
HD 245409, 55 Cancri, HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris, that will arrive at these
stars in 2036, 2040,
May 2044, September 2044 and 2049 respectively.[29] ·
July 18 – The Convention
on the Future of Europe finishes its work and proposes the
first European Constitution.[30] ·
July 24 – The Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands,
led by Australia, begins
after ethnic violence engulfs the island country.[31] August[edit] ·
The Second Liberian
Civil War comes to an end after President Charles
Taylor resigns and flees the country.[32] ·
NATO
takes over command of the peacekeeping
force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation
outside Europe in its 54-year-history.[33] ·
August 18 – One year old Zachary Turner
is murdered by his
mother in Conception Bay South,
Canada. She had controversially been bailed and granted custody of the
toddler despite facing extradition and trial for the murder of Zachary's
father. The case inspired the movie Dear Zachary and prompted a change in
Canadian law.[34] ·
August 25 – The unmanned Spitzer Space
Telescope is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.[35] ·
Mars makes
its closest approach to
Earth in over 60,000 years.[36] ·
The
first six-party talks,
involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia,
convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns of the North
Korean nuclear weapons program.[37] September[edit] ·
September 4 – Europe's busiest shopping
centre[citation needed], the Bull Ring in Birmingham, is officially opened.[38] ·
September 14 – Estonia approves joining the European
Union in a referendum.[39] ·
September 15 – ELN rebels
kidnap eight foreign tourists at Ciudad Perdida, Colombia, being freed 100 days later
following negotiations with the Colombian government.[40] ·
September 20 – Latvia approves joining the European
Union in a referendum.[41] ·
September 24 – The Hubble Space
Telescope starts the Hubble Ultra-Deep
Field, making 800 exposures, until January 16, 2004.[42] ·
September 27 – SMART-1, an unmanned ESA spaceprobe
and ESA's first mission to the moon, is launched from Kourou, French Guiana.[43] October[edit] ·
October 5 – Israeli warplanes strike alleged
Islamic jihad bases inside Syrian territory, the
first Israeli attack on the country since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.[44] ·
October 15 – China launches Shenzhou 5, their first manned spaceflight.[45] ·
October 24 – Concorde makes its last commercial
flight, bringing the era of airliner supersonic travel to
an end.[46] November[edit] ·
November 12 – A suicide bombing at
an Italian military police headquarters
in Nasiriyah, Iraq,
kills 17 Italian military police officers and nine Iraqi civilians.[47] ·
November 23 – Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze resigns
after widespread protests engulf
the country following a disputed parliamentary
election.[48] ·
November 26 – The supersonic passenger
jet, Concorde, makes its last ever flight
from Heathrow Airport in
London to Bristol Filton
Airport.[49][50] December[edit] ·
December 13 – Saddam Hussein, former President of Iraq, is captured in
the small town of Ad-Dawr by the U.S.
Army.[51] ·
December 19 – Libya agrees to eliminate all of its
materials, equipment, and programs aimed at producing
weapons of mass destruction.[52] ·
The World Tourism
Organization becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations.[53] ·
PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas
field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.[54] ·
December 26 – The 6.6 Mw Bam earthquake shakes
southeastern Iran with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of IX (Violent), killing an estimated 30,000
people.[55] ·
December 29 – The last known speaker of
the Akkala Sami language dies,
rendering it extinct.[56] Births[edit] Catharina-Amalia,
Princess of Orange ·
January 4 – Jaeden Lieberher, American actor ·
January 6 – MattyBRaps, American remixer ·
January 23 – Apollinariia
Panfilova, Russian pair skater ·
March 7 – Polina Kostiukovich,
Russian pair skater ·
March 26 – Danielle Bregoli, American rapper ·
May 1 – Lizzy Greene, American actress ·
May 19 – JoJo Siwa, American dancer ·
June 15 – Breanna Yde, American actress ·
July 4 – Polina Bogusevich,
Russian singer ·
July 13 – Wyatt Oleff, American actor ·
August 19 – Steele Stebbins, American actor ·
August 20 – Prince Gabriel
of Belgium ·
August 24 – Alena Kostornaia, Russian figure skater ·
August 28 – Quvenzhané Wallis,
American actress ·
November 8 – Lady Louise Windsor,
British royalty ·
December 1 – Robert
Irwin, Australian television personality ·
December 7 – Catharina-Amalia,
Princess of Orange Deaths[edit]
Main article: Deaths in 2003 January[edit] ·
January 11 – Maurice Pialat, French actor and director
(b. 1925) ·
Maurice Gibb, British musician (b. 1949) ·
Leopoldo Galtieri,
44th President of Argentina (b. 1926) ·
January 15 – Doris Fisher,
American singer and songwriter (b. 1915) ·
January 17 – Richard Crenna, American actor (b. 1926) ·
January 24 – Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive
(b. 1921) ·
January 26 – Valeriy Brumel, Soviet Olympic athlete
(b. 1942) ·
January 27 – Henryk
Jabłoński, 5th President of the Polish People's Republic
(b. 1909) February[edit] ·
Michael P. Anderson,
American astronaut (b. 1959) ·
David M. Brown, American astronaut (b. 1956) ·
Kalpana Chawla, American astronaut (b. 1962) ·
Laurel Clark, American astronaut (b. 1961) ·
Rick Husband, American astronaut (b. 1957) ·
William McCool, American astronaut (b. 1961) ·
Ilan Ramon, Israeli fighter pilot and
astronaut (b. 1954) ·
February 2 – Lou Harrison, American composer (b. 1917) ·
February 7 – Luigi Ferrando,
Italian racing cyclist (b. 1911) ·
February 10 – Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler
(b. 1958) ·
February 15 – Francisque Ravony,
7th Prime Minister of Madagascar (b. 1942) ·
February 20 – Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and
writer (b. 1907) ·
February 21 – Julie Mitchum, American actress (b. 1914) ·
February 23 – Howie Epstein, American musician and
producer (b. 1955) ·
Wolfgang Larrazábal,
Venezuelan naval officer and politician, 52nd President of Venezuela
(b. 1911) ·
Fred Rogers, American television personality
(b. 1928) ·
Yō Inoue, Japanese voice actress
(b. 1946) ·
Fidel Sánchez
Hernández, 45th President of El Salvador (b. 1917) March[edit] ·
March 9 – Bernard Dowiyogo, 7-Time President of Nauru
(b. 1946) ·
March 12 ·
Zoran
Đinđić, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1952) ·
Howard Fast, American novelist (b. 1914) ·
Lynne Thigpen, American actress (b. 1948) ·
March 14 – Amanda Davis, American writer and teacher
(b. 1971) ·
March 22 – Milton George
Henschel, American Jehovah's Witnesses leader (b. 1920) ·
March 29 – Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (b. 1956) ·
March 30 – Michael Jeter, American actor (b. 1952) April[edit] ·
April 1 – Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor
(b. 1956) ·
April 2 – Edwin Starr, American soul singer (b. 1942) ·
April 8 – Bing Russell, American actor (b. 1926) ·
April 9 – Jorge Oteiza, Spanish painter (b. 1908) ·
April 11 – Cecil Howard Green,
British-American geophysicist and businessman (b. 1900) ·
April 20 ·
Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer
(b. 1976) ·
Bernard Katz, German-British Nobel
biophysicist (b. 1911) ·
April 21 – Nina Simone, American singer (b. 1933) ·
April 22 – Mike Larrabee, American Olympic athlete
(b. 1933) ·
April 30 ·
Possum Bourne, New Zealand rally car driver
(b. 1956) ·
Lionel Wilson,
American voice actor (b. 1924) May[edit] ·
May 1 – Miss Elizabeth, American professional
wrestling valet (b. 1960) ·
May 11 – Noel Redding, English musician (b. 1946) ·
May 14 ·
Dame Wendy Hiller, English actress (b. 1912) ·
Robert Stack, American actor (b. 1919) ·
May 15 ·
June Carter Cash, American singer (b. 1929) ·
Constantin
Dăscălescu, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1923) ·
Rik Van Steenbergen,
Belgian cyclist (b. 1924) ·
May 24 – Rachel Kempson, English actress (b. 1910) ·
May 27 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer (b. 1925) ·
May 28 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian Nobel
physicist and chemist (b. 1917) June[edit] ·
June 2 – Dick Cusack, American actor, filmmaker and
humorist (b. 1925) ·
June 7 – Trevor Goddard, English actor (b. 1962) ·
June 10 – Bernard Williams, English philosopher
(b. 1929) ·
June 12 – Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916) ·
June 15 ·
Hume Cronyn, Canadian-American actor
(b. 1911) ·
Kaiser Matanzima, 1st President of Transkei
(b. 1915) ·
June 21 ·
Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924) ·
Piet Dankert, Dutch politician (b. 1934) ·
June 22 – Vasil Bykaŭ, Belarusian novelist
(b. 1924) ·
June 23 – Maynard Jackson, American politician
(b. 1938) ·
June 26 ·
Denis Thatcher, British businessman; husband
of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915) ·
Marc-Vivien Foé,
Cameroonian footballer (b. 1975) ·
Strom Thurmond, American politician
(b. 1902) ·
June 29 – Katharine Hepburn,
American actress (b. 1907) ·
June 30 − Buddy Hackett, American comedian and actor
(b. 1924) July[edit] ·
July 1 – Nǃxau ǂToma, Namibian actor
(b. 1944) ·
July 4 – Barry White, American singer (b. 1944) ·
July 6 – Buddy Ebsen, American actor and dancer
(b. 1908) ·
July 7 – Tomiko Suzuki, Japanese voice actress
(b. 1956) ·
July 12 – Benny Carter, American musician (b. 1907) ·
July 13 – Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (b. 1907) ·
July 15 – Roberto Bolańo,
Chilean writer (b. 1953) ·
July 16 ·
Celia Cruz, Cuban-American singer (b. 1925) ·
Carol Shields, American-Canadian writer
(b. 1935) ·
July 17 – Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and
harpsichordist (b. 1914) ·
July 22 ·
Uday Hussein, Iraqi paramilitary leader
(b. 1964) ·
Qusay Hussein, Iraqi politician (b. 1966) ·
July 25 ·
Erik Brann, American musician (b. 1950) ·
John Schlesinger, English film director
(b. 1926) ·
July 27 ·
Bob Hope, English-American comedian and
actor (b. 1903) ·
Jean Nguza
Karl-i-Bond, Zairian politician (b. 1938) ·
July 28 – Greg Guidry, American singer-songwriter
(b. 1954) ·
July 30 – Sam Phillips, American record producer
(b. 1923) August[edit] ·
August 1 – Marie Trintignant,
French actress (b. 1962) ·
August 3 – Roger Voudouris, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (b. 1954) ·
August 4 – Frederick
Chapman Robbins, American Nobel pediatrician and virologist
(b. 1916) ·
August 9 – Gregory Hines, American dancer and actor
(b. 1946) ·
August 14 – Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929) ·
August 16 – Idi Amin, 3rd President of Uganda
(b. c. 1923–28) ·
Sérgio Vieira de
Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948) ·
Carlos Roberto Reina,
60th President of Honduras (b. 1926) ·
August 21 – Wesley Willis, American musician (b. 1963) ·
August 23 – Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1946) ·
August 29 – Vladimír
Vašíček, Czech painter (b. 1919) ·
August 30 – Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921) September[edit] ·
September 2 – Ptolemy Reid, 2nd Prime Minister of Guyana
(b. 1912) ·
September 7 – Warren Zevon, American singer (b. 1947) ·
Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress and voice
actress (b. 1986) ·
Leni Riefenstahl, German film director
(b. 1902) ·
September 9 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist
(b. 1908) ·
Anna Lindh, Swedish Minister of Foreign
Affairs (b. 1957) ·
John Ritter, American actor (b. 1948) ·
September 12 – Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter and
actor (b. 1932) ·
September 14 - John Serry Sr., Italian-American concert
accordionist, organist, composer and arranger (b. 1915) ·
September 17 – Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951) ·
September 19 – Slim Dusty, Australian country singer
(b. 1927) ·
September 22 − Gordon Jump, American actor (b. 1932) ·
Franco Modigliani,
Italian-American Nobel economist (b. 1918) ·
Edward Said, Palestinian-American literary
critic (b. 1935) ·
Shawn Lane, American musician (b. 1963) ·
Robert Palmer,
English singer (b. 1949) ·
September 27 – Donald O'Connor, American actor, singer, and
dancer (b. 1925) ·
Althea Gibson, American tennis player
(b. 1927) ·
Elia Kazan, Greek-American director
(b. 1909) ·
September 30 – Robert Kardashian,
American attorney and businessman (b. 1944) October[edit] ·
October 2 – Otto Günsche, German adjutant of Adolf
Hitler (b. 1917) ·
Dan Snyder,
Canadian hockey player (b. 1978) ·
Neil Postman, American educator, media
theorist, and cultural critic (b. 1931) ·
Timothy Treadwell,
American environmentalist and filmmaker (b. 1957) ·
October 12 – Jim Cairns, Australian politician (b. 1914) ·
October 13 – Bertram Brockhouse,
Canadian Nobel physicist (b. 1918) ·
October 14 – Moktar Ould Daddah,
1st President of
Mauritania (b. 1924) ·
Stu Hart, Canadian wrestling promoter
(b. 1915) ·
László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926) ·
October 17 – Janice Rule, American actress (b. 1931) ·
Alija
Izetbegović, 1st President of Bosnia and Herzegovina
(b. 1925) ·
Road Warrior Hawk,
American professional wrestler (b. 1957) ·
October 20 – Jack Elam, American actor (b. 1918) ·
October 21 – Elliott Smith, American musician (b. 1969) ·
October 22 – Tony Renna, American race car driver
(b. 1976) ·
October 23 – Soong Mei-ling, First Lady of China
(b. 1898) ·
October 24 – Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish cross-country
skier (b. 1925) ·
October 27 – Rod Roddy, American television announcer
(b. 1937) ·
Hal Clement, American writer (b. 1922) ·
Franco Corelli, Italian opera tenor
(b. 1921) November[edit] ·
November 3 – Rasul Gamzatov, poet (b. 1923) ·
November 5 – Bobby Hatfield, American singer (b. 1940) ·
Crash Holly, American wrestler (b. 1971) ·
Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (b. 1962) ·
November 9 – Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918) ·
November 10 – Canaan Banana, 1st President of Zimbabwe
(b. 1936) ·
Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976) ·
Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director and
writer (b. 1986) ·
Penny Singleton, American actress (b. 1908) ·
November 14 – Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (b. 1962) ·
Patricia Broderick,
American playwright and painter (b. 1925) ·
Michael Kamen, American composer (b. 1948) ·
November 20 – David Dacko, 1st President of the Central
African Republic (b. 1930) ·
November 24 – Warren Spahn, American baseball player
(b. 1921) ·
November 26 – Soulja Slim, American rapper (b. 1977) ·
November 27 – Marjorie Reeves, British historian,
educationalist (b. 1905) ·
November 30 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1905) December[edit] ·
Sita Ram Goel, Indian historian, publisher
and author (b. 1921) ·
David Hemmings, English actor (b. 1941) ·
December 6 – Carlos Manuel Arana
Osorio, 30th President of Guatemala (b. 1918) ·
December 8 – Rubén González,
Cuban pianist (b. 1919) ·
December 11 – Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (b. 1927) ·
December 12 – Heydar Aliyev, 3rd President of Azerbaijan
(b. 1923) ·
December 14 – Jeanne Crain, American actress (b. 1925) ·
December 19 – Hope Lange, American actress (b. 1933) ·
December 23 – Kriangsak Chamanan,
15th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1917) ·
Alan Bates, English actor (b. 1934) ·
Iván Calderón,
Puerto Rican-American baseball player (b. 1962) ·
Pete Alvarado, American animator and comic
book artist (b. 1920) ·
Earl Hindman, American actor (b. 1942) ·
Bob Monkhouse, English comedian (b.1928) ·
December 30 – Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer (b. 1963) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Chemistry – Peter Agre, Roderick MacKinnon ·
Economics – Robert F. Engle, Clive W. J. Granger ·
Literature – John Maxwell Coetzee ·
Peace – Shirin Ebadi ·
Physics – Alexei
Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Vitaly
Lazarevich Ginzburg, Anthony James
Leggett ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Paul Lauterbur, Peter Mansfield New English words and terms[edit] ·
anti-cultural ·
baby
bump ·
Big
Rip ·
binge-watch ·
botnet ·
darmstadtium ·
electronic
cigarette ·
flash
mob ·
iraimbilanja ·
manscaping ·
MERS ·
muffin
top ·
net
neutrality ·
netroots ·
SARS ·
severe
acute respiratory syndrome ·
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