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'''2003''' '''(MMIII)''' is a Common_year_starting_on_Wednesday of the Gregorian_calendar. It was designated the:
* ''International Year of Freshwater''
* ''European Disability Year''
* ''Blog Year''
See also Wikipedia's almanac of events for this year.
==Events==
===January===
* January_1 - Luíz_Inácio_Lula_Da_Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil.
* January_1 - Pascal_Couchepin becomes President of the Confederation in Switzerland.
* January_8 - US_Airways flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas_International_Airport in Charlotte,_North_Carolina killing all 21 people aboard.
* January_15 - The United States Supreme Court hands down its decision in Eldred_v._Ashcroft allowing the extension of copyright terms in the U.S.
* January_24 - The new United_States_Department_of_Homeland_Security officially begins operation.
* January_25 - Central Line train crashes into the tunnel wall at Chancery_Lane station in London, injuring 34 people.
* January_25 - An international group of volunteers left London and headed for Baghdad to act as voluntary Human_shields, hoping to avert a U.S. invasion.
* January_30 - Iraq_disarmament_crisis: The leaders of Britain, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Poland, Denmark, and the Czech_Republic release a statement, The_letter_of_the_eight, demonstrating support for the United_States' plans for an invasion of Iraq.
===February===
Image:AntiWarProtestLondon.jpg, during world-wide protests against war in Iraq.]]
* February_1 - The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas upon reentry, killing all seven Astronauts onboard.
* February_1 - In Northern_Ireland, The Protestant UDA Belfast leader John_Gregg is killed by a loyalist faction.
*February_3 - The worldwide movie premiere of Shanghai_Knights was held at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood.
* February_5 - Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. Secretary of State Colin_Powell addresses the UN_Security_Council on Iraq.{{noMention}}
* February_9 - Cricket World Cup begins in South_Africa.{{noMention}}
* February_15 - Global protests against Iraq war - more than ten million people protest in over 600 cities worldwide, the largest war protest to take place before the war occurred.
* February_17 - Antwerp_Diamond_Center in Belgium opens its vaults after weekend and discovers that unknown burglars had stolen Diamonds worth $100 million - largest diamond theft so far.{{noMention}}
* February_26 - An American businessman is admitted to the Vietnam France Hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam. WHO doctor Carlo_Urbani reports the unusual highly contagious disease to WHO. Both the businessman and Carlo Urbani die of SARS in March.{{noMention}}
===March===
* March_1 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The United_Arab_Emirates calls for Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to step down to avoid war. The sentiment is later echoed by Bahrain and Kuwait
* March_1 - The Turkish parliment vetos the access of the U.S troops to airbases in Turkey in order to attack Iraq from the north. The Bush administration starts working on the ''B Plan'', namely attacking Iraq from the south, through the Persian Gulf.
* March_1 - The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the United_States_Customs_Service, and the United_States_Secret_Service moves to the United_States_Department_of_Homeland_Security
* March_1 - Boxer Roy_Jones_Jr. beats John_Ruiz to become WBA champion
* March_1 - War_on_Terrorism: Authorities in Pakistan capture Khalid_Shaikh_Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September_11,_2001_Terrorist_Attacks along with money man Mustafa_Ahmed_al-Hawsawi.
* March_1 - Ohio celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
* March_5 - The Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States by a 5-4 margin upholds California's "three strikes and you're out" law.
* March_11 - Iraq_disarmament_crisis: Iraqi fighters threaten two U.S. U-2 surveillance planes, flying missions for U.N. weapons inspectors, forcing them to abort their mission and return to base.
* March_12 - Serbian Prime Minister Zoran_Đinđić assassinated in Belgrade
* March_12 - WHO issues a global alert on SARS.
* March_12 - Iraq_disarmament_crisis: British prime minister Tony_Blair proposes an amendment to the possible 18th U.N. resolution, which would call for Iraq to meet certain benchmarks to prove that it was disarming. The amendment is immediately rejected by France, who promises to Veto any new resolution.
* March_13 - Human_evolution: The journal ''Nature'' reports that 350,000-year-old upright-walking Human footprints had been found in Italy
* March_15 - Hu_Jintao becomes President_of_the_People's_Republic_of_China, replacing Jiang_Zemin.
* March_16 - Iraq_disarmament_crisis: The leaders of the United_States, Britain, Portugal, and Spain meet at a summit in the Azores_Islands. U.S. President Bush calls Monday, March 17th, the "moment of Truth", meaning that the "Coalition_of_the_willing" would make its final effort to extract a resolution from the U.N._Security_Council that would give Iraq an ultimatum to disarm immediately or to be disarmed by force.
* March_17 - Iraq_disarmament_crisis: U.S. President George W. Bush gives an ultimatum: Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and his sons must either leave Iraq, or face military action at a time of the U.S.'s choosing
* March_19 - First American bombs dropped on Baghdad,_Iraq. President Saddam_Hussein and his sons do not comply with President Bush's 48 hour mandate demanding their exit from Iraq.
* March_20 - 2003 Iraq war: Land troops from United States, United_Kingdom, Australia and Poland invade Iraq.
* March_22 - The United States and the United Kingdom begin their Shock_and_awe campaign with a massive air strike on military targets in Baghdad.
* March_23 - Cricket World Cup ends as Australia wins over India in Centurion, South_Africa.
* March_29 - WHO doctor Carlo_Urbani, who first identified SARS, dies of the disease.
* March_30 - The Undertaker defeated the Big Show and A-Train in a handicap match, boosting his Wrestlemania record to 11-0.
===April===
Image:Saddamstatue.jpg is toppled by American forces as they capture Baghdad.]]
* April_3 - Passenger bus hits remote-controlled land mine in the Chechen capital, killing at least 8.
* April_9 - U.S. forces seize control of Baghdad, apparently ending the regime of Saddam Hussein.
* April_14 - Human_Genome_Project successfully completed with 99% of the human Genome sequenced to 99.99% accuracy.
* April_17 - The Stevens_Report concludes that members of the RUC and British Army cooperated with the UDA in the killings of Catholics in Northern_Ireland
* April_21 - Retired U.S. Army General Jay_Garner becomes Interim Civil Administrator of Iraq.
* April_30 - The last American owned vehicle frame manufacturer, Midland Steel Products goes out of business after almost 110 years in business, laying off almost 250 people.
===May===
* May_1 - George W. Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS ''Abraham Lincoln'', in a Lockheed S-3_Viking, where he gave a speech announcing end of major combat in the Iraq war.
* May_2 - Monkeyman_superhero_hoax begins in Tunbridge_Wells, Kent, UK
* May_3 - Old_Man_of_the_Mountain, rock formation in New_Hampshire, crumbles after heavy rain
* May_4-10 - A major severe weather outbreak spawned more tornadoes than any week in U.S. history. 393 tornadoes were reported in 19 states.
* May_11 - Benvenuto_Cellini's Saliera is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches_Museum in Vienna.
* May_12 - Suicide truck-bomb attack kills at least 60 at a government compound in northern Chechnya.
* May_12 - In Riyadh, Saudi_Arabia, 26 people are killed in the Riyadh_Compound_Bombings.
* May_14 - Female Suicide_bomber blows up Explosives strapped to her waist in crowd of thousands of Muslim Pilgrims, killing at least 18 people in Chechnya.
* May_16 - In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.
* May_19 - Pen_Hadow becomes the first man to walk alone, without any outside help, from Canada to the North_Pole
* May_23 - The birth of Dewey, the first cloned Deer by scientists at Texas_A&M;_University
* May_26 - A draft of the proposed European_constitution is unveiled.
* May_28 - The birth of Prometea, the first cloned Horse by Italian scientists.
* May_31 - Eric_Rudolph, the suspected person to have carried out the Centennial_Olympic_Park_bombing is captured in North_Carolina behind a ''Save-A-Lot'' store.
===June===
* June_1 - The People's_Republic_of_China begins filling the reservoir behind the massive Three_Gorges_Dam, raising the water level near the dam over 100 metres.
* June_4 - Martha_Stewart and her broker are Indicted for using privileged investment information and then obstructing a federal investigation. Stewart also resigned as chairperson and chief executive officer of Martha_Stewart_Living.
* June_5 - Female Suicide_bomber detonates Bomb near a bus carrying soldiers and civilians to a military airfield in Mozdok, a major staging point for Russian troops in Chechnya, killing at least 16 people.
* June_15 - 2003 NBA Finals end. The San_Antonio_Spurs defeat the New_Jersey_Nets, 4 games to 2.
* June_22 - The largest Hailstone ever recorded falls in Aurora,_Nebraska, USA.
* June_23 - U.S. Supreme Court upholds Affirmative_action in university admissions in ''Grutter_v._Bollinger''
* June_26 - U.S. Supreme Court rules Sodomy_laws unconstitutional in ''Lawrence_v._Texas''
===July===
* July_1 - 500,000 Hong Kong people march to protest Hong_Kong_Basic_Law_Article_23, which redefined Treason controversially.
* July_2 - International_Olympic_Committee session in Prague. Vancouver ,Canada is declared the Host City for the XXI Olympic Winter Games in 2010.
* July_5 - SARS is declared to be contained by WHO.
* July_5 - Double Suicide_bombing at a Moscow rock concert kills the female attackers and 15 other people.
* July_6 - Residents of Corsica reject a referendum for increased autonomy for the region from France by a very narrow margin.
* July_7 - Canon Jeffrey_John, first would-be gay bishop in the Church of England, withdraws his acceptance of the post of The Bishop of Reading after discussions with the church leaders
* July_10 - Russian security agent dies in Moscow while trying to defuse a bomb a woman had tried to carry into a cafe on central Moscow's Main_street.
* July_14 - U.S. columnist Robert_Novak publishes the name of Valerie_Plame, blowing her cover as a CIA operative. CIA_leak_scandal begins.
* July_18 - Convention_on_the_Future_of_Europe finishes its work and proposes the first European constitution
* July_18 - The body of Dr. David Kelly, a scientist at the Ministry of Defence, is found a few miles from his home, leading to the Hutton_inquiry
* July_23 - Operation_Warrior_Sweep is the first major military deployment of the Afghan_National_Army
* July_24 - The Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands, Operation_Helpem_Fren, led by Australia, begins in the Solomon_Islands
* July_30 - The last old-style Volkswagen_Beetle rolls off its production line in Puebla,_Puebla, Mexico.
===August===
* August_1 - Suicide_bomber rams truck filled with Explosives into a military hospital near Chechnya, killing 50 people, including Russian troops wounded in Chechnya.
* August_2 - The United_Nations authorizes an international peacekeeping force for Liberia.
* August_10 - The highest temperature ever recorded in the UK - 38.1°C (100.6°F) at Gravesend in Kent and Kew Botanic Gardens, London. It is the first time the UK has recorded a temperature over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
* August_11 - NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
* August_11 - Jemaah_Islamiah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
* August_14 - Widespread power outage affects northeast United States and Canada.
* August_14 - 6.4 Richter_scale Earthquake near the Greek Ionian island of Lefkada - 24 injured
* August_22 - 21 killed at the Brazilian rocket complex in Alcântara due to a premature ignition of a Solid_rocket_booster.
* August_25 - 52 killed in two bomb blasts in Mumbai, India.
* August_27 - Perigee of Mars
===September===
* September_5 - Roller_coaster accident at Disneyland injures 10 and kills one.
* September_10 - Swedish foreign minister Anna_Lindh is stabbed in a Stockholm department store and dies the next day.
* September_14 - Sweden rejects adopting the Euro in a referendum. (Results.)
* September_14 - Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
* September_15 - ELN kidnaps 8 foreign tourists in the Ciudad_Perdida - they demand a human rights investigation and release last of the hostages three months later
* September_16 - Two Suicide_bombers drive a truck laden with explosives into a government security services building near Chechnya, killing three people and injuring 25.
* September_27 - Smart_1 is launched.
* September_27 - The Uniterran_Church was founded in Victor, NY
* September_28 - a power failure affected all of Italy except Sardinia, cutting service to more than 56 million people.
* September_29 - Hurricane Juan makes landfall at Halifax, Nova_Scotia, Canada as a category 2 storm. Two were killed directly and 5 indirectly.
===October===
Image:Sz5insignia.png, the first Chinese manned space mission.]]
* October_7 - 2003_California_recall: Voters recall Governor Gray_Davis from office and elect Arnold_Schwarzenegger to succeed him.
* October_10 - Facing an investigation surrounding allegations of illegal drug use, American Right_Wing radio host Rush_Limbaugh publically admits that he is addicted to prescription pain killers and will seek treatment.
*October_14 - The Florida_Marlins defeat the Chicago_Cubs in Game 6 of Major_League_Baseball's National_League_Championship_Series; the game is remembered for Cubs fan Steve_Bartman interfering with a foul ball which could have helped Chicago win the game and the series.
*October_15 - China launches Shenzhou_5, their first Manned_space_mission.
*October_16 - The Boston_Red_Sox lose to their hated rivals, the New_York_Yankees in Game 7 of Major_League_Baseball's American_League_Championship_Series, blowing a three-run, eighth-inning lead.
* October_23 - Luis_A._Ferre, the third Democratically Elected Governor_of_Puerto_Rico, dies at age 99.
* October_24 - Concorde makes its last commercial flight, bringing the era of airliner Supersonic_travel to a close, at least for the time being.
* October_25 - The Florida_Marlins defeat the New_York_Yankees 4 games to 2 to win the 2003_World_Series, behind a complete-game shutout by ace pitcher, Josh_Beckett.
* October_25 - Cedar_Fire begins in San_Diego_County burning 280,000 acres (1,100 km²), 2,232 homes and killing 14
* October_31 - Mahathir_Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia after 22 years in power.
===November===
* November_5 - Gary_Ridgway, The "Green River Killer", confesses murders of 48 women
* November_9 - Lunar_eclipse (The_Americas, Europe, Africa, Central_Asia)
* November_12 - Occupation_of_Iraq: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
* November_15 - Two Car_bombs explode simultaneously in Istanbul, Turkey targeting two synagogues, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than 300; Al-Qaida claims responsibility.
* November_18 - US President George_W._Bush makes a state visit to London in the midst of massive protests.
* November_18 - Goodridge_v._Department_of_Public_Health rules anti-Same-sex_marriage laws unconstitutional in Massachusetts
* November_20 - Several bombs explode in Istanbul, Turkey destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Holdings and the British consulate.
* November_20 - Michael_Jackson is arrested by police on charges of child molestation, a charge that can carry an 8 year jail term.
* November_22 - England wins the Rugby_Union_World_Cup defeating Australia 20-17 after extra time.
* November_23 - Georgian Rose_Revolution ends with overwhelming victory - president Eduard_Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over fraudulent elections.
* November_23 - Total Solar_eclipse (Antarctica)
* November_24 - The High Court in Glasgow imposes a minimum sentence of 27 years for Al Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of bombing Pan_Am_Flight_103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
===December===
Image:Saddamcapture.jpg is investigated by US military doctors.]]
* December_1 - The use of hand-held mobile phones while driving is made illegal in the United_Kingdom.
* December_1 - Boeing Chairman and CEO Phil_Condit resigns unexpectedly. He is replaced by Lewis_Platt as non-executive chairman and Harry_Stonecipher as president and CEO.
* December_5 - Suicide_bombing on commuter train in southern Russia kills 44 people. President Vladimir_Putin condemns attack as bid to destabilize the country two days before parliamentary elections.
* December_7 - Parliamentary election in Russia.
* December_9 - Female suicide bomber blows herself up outside Moscow's National Hotel, across from The_Kremlin and Red_Square, killing five bystanders.
* December_12 - Paul_Martin becomes the 21st Prime_Minister_of_Canada
* December_12 - Olympic_Airlines, Greece's new flag carrier is launched.
* December_13 - Saddam_Hussein, former President_of_Iraq, is captured in Tikrit by the U.S._4th_Infantry_Division.
* December_16 - The United_Kingdom announces plans to build a new runway at Stansted Airport in Essex and a short-haul runway at Heathrow_Airport sparking anger from environmental groups.
* December_17 - The film ''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' released, effectively completing the Lord of the Rings Trilogy directed by Peter_Jackson.
* December_18 - The Soham Murder Trial ends at the Old_Bailey in London with Ian_Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend, Maxine Carr is found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
* December_20 - Libya admits that it was building a Nuclear_bomb.
* December_22 - An Earthquake shakes up California, killing two people.
* December_22 - Parmalat is first accused of falsifying accounts to the tune of USD $5 billion, later admitted by founder Calisto Tanzi; observers call it "Europe's Enron".
* December_24 - A BSE outbreak in Washington State is announced. Several countries including Brazil, Australia and Taiwan place a ban on the import of beef from the United States of America.
* December_24 - At the request of the US Embassy in Paris, the French Government orders Air_France to cancel several flights between France and the US in response to terrorist concerns.
* December_24 - The Spanish police thwarts an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of Explosives at 3:55 PM on Christmas_Eve inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station.
* December_25 - Queen Elizabeth II broadcasts a Christmas message to the British_Commonwealth paying tribute to British troops in Iraq. Pope_John_Paul_II's Christmas message calls for peace in the Middle_East.
* December_25 - Beagle 2 is scheduled to land on Mars, but nothing is heard from the lander.
* December_25 - The President Pervez_Musharraf of Pakistan, escapes the second assassination attempt in two weeks.
* December_26 - A massive Earthquake devastates southeastern Iran. Over 40,000 people are reported to have been killed in the city of Bam.
* December_31 - The world's largest Hogmanay party in the Scottish capital Edinburgh is cancelled twenty minutes before midnight due to bad weather.
==Births==
* April_29 - Maud_Angelica_Behn, daughter of Ari_Behn and Princess_Märtha_Louise_of_Norway
* August_24 - Alexandre_Coste, son of Albert_II,_Prince_of_Monaco
* November_8 - Lady_Louise_Windsor, daughter of Earl and Countess of Wessex
* December_7 - Princess_Catharina-Amalia_of_the_Netherlands, daughter of Prince_Willem-Alexander_of_the_Netherlands
==Deaths==
'''For more deaths, see: Deaths_in_2003'''
===January===
*January_3 - Sid_Gillman, American football coach (b. 1911)
*January_4 - Conrad_Hall, Tahitian-born cinematographer (b. 1926)
*January_4 - Yfrah_Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (b. 1923)
*January_8 - Ron_Goodwin, English composer and conductor (b. 1925)
*January_11 - Maurice_Pialat, French actor and director (b. 1925)
*January_11 - Richard Simmons, American actor (b. 1913)
*January_12 - Leopoldo_Galtieri, Argentine dictator (b. 1926)
*January_12 - Maurice_Gibb, Australian musician (Bee_Gees) (b. 1949)
*January_15 - Doris_Fisher, American singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
*January_17 - Richard_Crenna, American actor (b. 1926)
*January_20 - Al_Hirschfeld, American cartoonist (b. 1903)
*January_23 - Nell_Carter, American singer and actress (b. 1948)
*January_24 - Gianni_Agnelli, Italian auto executive (b. 1921)
*January_26 - Valeriy_Brumel, Russian athlete (b. 1942)
*January_26 - Hugh_Trevor-Roper,_Baron_Dacre_of_Glanton, English historian (b. 1917)
*January_29 - Frank_Moss, U.S. Senator from Utah (b. 1911)
===February===
*February_1 - Crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia
**Michael_P._Anderson (b. 1959)
**David_M._Brown (b. 1956)
**Kalpana_Chawla (b. 1961)
**Laurel_Clark (b. 1961)
**Rick Husband (b. 1957)
**William_McCool (b. 1961)
**Ilan_Ramon (b. 1954)
*February_2 - Lou_Harrison, American composer (b. 1917)
*February_10 - Edgar_de_Evia, American photographer (b. 1910)
*February_10 - Ron_Ziegler, Richard_Nixon's White House Press Secretary (b. 1939)
*February_19 - Johnny_PayCheck, American singer (b. 1938)
*February_20 - Maurice_Blanchot, French philosopher and writer (b. 1907)
*February_20 - Orville_Freeman, American politician (b. 1918)
*February_27 - Fred_Rogers, American television host (b. 1928)
*February_28 - Fidel_Sánchez_Hernández, President_of_El_Salvador (heart attack) (b. 1917)
===March===
*March_2 - Hank_Ballard, American musician (b. 1927)
*March_9 - Bernard_Dowiyogo, President_of_Nauru (diabetes) (b. 1946)
*March_12 - Zoran_Đinđić, Prime_Minister_of_Serbia (assassinated) (b. 1952)
*March_12 - Lynne_Thigpen, American actress (b.1948)
*March_26 - Daniel_Patrick_Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York (b. 1926)
*March_29 - Carlo_Urbani, Italian physician (SARS) (b. 1956)
===April===
*April_1 - Leslie_Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor (b.1961)
*April_7 - Cecile_de_Brunhoff, French storyteller (b. 1903)
*April_11 - Cecil_Howard_Green, British-born geophysicist and businessman (b. 1900)
*April_17 - Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (b. 1930)
*April_17 - Paul_Getty, American-born philanthropist (b. 1932)
*April_17 - Earl_King, American musician (b. 1934)
*April_20 - Ruth_Hale, American playwright and actress (b. 1908)
*April_20 - Bernard_Katz, German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine (b. 1911)
*April_21 - Nina_Simone, American singer (b. 1933)
*April_23 - Fernand_Fonssagrives, French photographer (b. 1910)
*April_26 - Peter_Stone, American writer (b. 1930)
*April_30 - Wim_van_Est, Dutch cyclist (b. 1923)
===May===
*May_3 - Suzy_Parker, American actress (b. 1932)
*May_9 - Russell_B._Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (b. 1933)
*May_12 - Sadruddhin_Aga_Khan, French UN High Commissioner for Refugees (b. 1933)
*May_14 - Wendy_Hiller, English actress (b. 1912)
*May_14 - Robert_Stack, American actor (b. 1919)
*May_15 - June_Carter_Cash, American singer (b. 1929)
*May_15 - Rik_Van_Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (b. 1924)
*May_26 - Kathleen_Winsor, American writer (b. 1919)
*May_27 - Luciano_Berio, Italian composer (b. 1925)
*May_28 - Ilya_Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistry (b. 1917)
*May_28 - Martha_Scott, American actress (b. 1912)
===June===
*June_2 - Burke_Marshall, American lawyer and politician (b. 1922)
*June_10 - Donald_Regan, U.S. Treasury Secretary (b. 1918)
*June_10 - Bernard_Williams, English philosopher (b. 1929)
*June_11 - David_Brinkley, American television reporter (b. 1920)
*June_12 - Gregory_Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
*June_15 - Hume_Cronyn, Canadian actor (b. 1911)
*June_18 - Larry_Doby, baseball player (b. 1923)
*June_21 - Leon_Uris, American writer (b. 1924)
*June_23 - Maynard_Jackson, Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia (b. 1938)
*June_25 - Lester_Maddox, Governor of Georgia (b. 1915)
*June_26 - Denis_Thatcher, husband of Margaret_Thatcher (b. 1915)
*June_26 - Strom_Thurmond, U.S. Senator (b. 1902)
*June_29 - Katharine_Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
*June_30 - Buddy_Hackett, American comedian and actor (b. 1924)
===July===
*July_1 - Herbie_Mann, American jazz flutist (b. 1930)
*July_4 - Barry_White, American singer (b. 1944)
*July_5 - Roman_Lyashenko, Russian hockey player (b. 1979)
*July_7 - Buddy_Ebsen, American actor (b. 1908)
*July_10 - Winston_Graham, English writer (b. 1908)
*July_10 - Hartley_Shawcross, British chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials (b. 1902)
*July_12 - Benny_Carter, American musician (b. 1907)
*July_13 - Compay_Segundo, Cuban musician (Buena_Vista_Social_Club) (b. 1907)
*July_15 - Roberto_Bolaño, Chilean writer (b. 1953)
*July_15 - Tex_Schramm, American football team president and general manager (b. 1920)
*July_16 - Celia_Cruz, Cuban singer (b. 1924)
*July_16 - Carol_Shields, American-born writer (b. 1935)
*July_17 - Rosalyn_Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (b. 1914)
*July_25 - Ludwig_Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (b. 1912)
*July_25 - John_Schlesinger, English film director (b. 1926)
*July_27 - Bob_Hope, English-born comedian (b. 1902)
*July_30 - Sam_Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)
===August===
*August_1 - Marie_Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
*August_4 - Frederick_Chapman_Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, recipient of the Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine (b. 1916)
*August_9 - Gregory_Hines, American dancer and actor (cancer) (b. 1946)
*August_11 - Armand_Borel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1923)
*August_14 - Helmut_Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)
*August_16 - Idi_Amin, Ugandan dictator
*August_19 - Sérgio_Vieira_de_Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948)
*August_19 - Carlos_Roberto_Reina, President_of_Honduras (b. 1926)
*August_23 - Bobby_Bonds, baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
*August_30 - Charles_Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)
===September===
*September_1 - Terry_Frost, English artist (b. 1915)
*September_6 - Harry_Goz, American actor (b. 1932)
*September_8 - Jaclyn_Linetsky, Canadian actress (b. 1986)
*September_8 - Leni_Riefenstahl, German film director (b. 1902)
*September_8 - Vadim_Schneider, French actor (automobile accident) (b. 1986)
*September_9 - Larry_Hovis, American actor (b. 1936)
*September_9 - Edward_Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1908)
*September_11 - Anna_Lindh, Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs (assassinated) (b. 1957)
*September_11 - John_Ritter, American actor (b. 1948)
*September_12 - Johnny_Cash, American singer and guitarist (b. 1932)
*September_14 - Yetunde_Price, American sister of Venus and Serena_Williams (murdered)
*September_17 - Erich_Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)
*September_17 - Sheb_Wooley, American actor and singer (b. 1921)
*September_22 - Gordon_Jump, American actor (b. 1932)
*September_24 - Edward_Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (b. 1935)
*September_25 - Franco_Modigliani, Italian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
*September_25 - George_Plimpton, American writer and actor (b. 1927)
*September_26 - Robert Palmer, English singer (b. 1949)
*September_27 - Donald_O'Connor, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1925)
*September_28 - Althea_Gibson, American tennis player (b. 1927)
*September_28 - Elia_Kazan, Hungarian-born director (b. 1909)
===October===
*October_3 - William_Steig, American cartoonist (b. 1907)
*October_5 - Denis_Quilley, British actor (b. 1927)
*October_5 - Dan_Snyder, Canadian hockey player (b. 1978)
*October_10 - Eugene_Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
*October_12 - Jim_Cairns, Australian politician (b. 1914)
*October_12 - Willie_Shoemaker, American jockey (b. 1931)
*October_13 - Bertram_Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
*October_16 - László_Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)
*October_19 - Alija_Izetbegović, Presidency_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina (b. 1925)
*October_20 - Jack_Elam, American actor (b. 1918)
*October_21 - Fred_Berry, American actor (b. 1951)
*October_21 - Elliott_Smith, American musician (b. 1969)
*October_23 - Tony_Capstick, English comedian, actor, and musician (b. 1944)
*October_23 - Soong_May-ling, Chinese wife of Chiang_Kai-shek (b. 1898)
*October_29 - Hal_Clement, American writer (b. 1922)
*October_29 - Franco_Corelli, Italian tenor (b. 1921)
*October_31 - Richard_Neustadt, American political historian (b. 1919)
===November===
*November_4 - Richard_Wollheim, British philosopher (b. 1923)
*November_5 - Bobby_Hatfield, American singer (Righteous_Brothers) (b. 1940)
*November_6 - Rie_Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (b. 1919)
*November_6 - Eduardo_Palomo, Mexican actor (b. 1962)
*November_9 - Art_Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
*November_10 - Canaan_Banana, first President_of_Zimbabwe (b. 1936)
*November_10 - Irv_Kupcinet, American columnist and television personality (murdered) (b. 1912)
*November_12 - Jonathan_Brandis, American actor (suicide) (b. 1976)
*November_12 - Penny_Singleton, American actress (b. 1908)
*November_13 - Kellie_Waymire, American actress (b. 1967)
*November_14 - Gene_Anthony_Ray, American actor (b. 1962)
*November_15 - Ray Lewis, Canadian runner (b. 1910)
*November_15 - T._Y._Lin, Chinese-born civil engineer (b. 1912)
*November_15 - Dorothy_Loudon, American actress (b. 1933)
*November_18 - Michael_Kamen, American composer (b. 1948)
*November_20 - Robert_Addie, British actor (cancer) (b. 1960)
*November_20 - David_Dacko, first President_of_the_Central_African_Republic (b. 1930)
*November_20 - Jim_Siedow, American actor (b. 1920)
*November_24 - Hugh_Kenner, Canadian literary critic (b. 1922)
*November_24 - Warren_Spahn, baseball player (b. 1921)
*November_26 - Abed_Hamed_Mowhoush, Iraqi general
*November_26 - Stefan_Wul, French writer (b. 1922)
*November_30 - Gertrude_Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1906)
===December===
*December_3 - David_Hemmings, English actor (b. 1941}
*December_6 - Carlos_Manuel_Arana_Osorio, President_of_Guatemala (b. 1918)
*December_7 - Carl_F._H._Henry, American theologian and publisher (b. 1913)
*December_7 - Azie_Taylor_Morton, U.S. Treasurer (b. 1936)
*December_8 - Rubén_González, Cuban pianist (Buena_Vista_Social_Club) (b. 1919)
*December_9 - Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (b. 1928)
*December_11 - Ahmadou_Kourouma, Ivorian writer (b. 1927)
*December_12 - Geidar_Aliev, President_of_Azerbaijan
*December_13 - William_Roth, U.S. Senator from Delaware (b. 1921)
*December_14 - Jeanne_Crain, American actress (b. 1925)
*December_15 - George Fisher, American political cartoonist (b. 1923)
*December_16 - Robert_Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1914)
*December_16 - Gary Stewart, American singer (suicide) (b. 1945)
*December_17 - Ed_Devereaux, Australian actor (b. 1925)
*December_17 - Otto_Graham, American football player (b. 1921)
*December_19 - Hope_Lange, American actress (b. 1941)
*December_22 - Dave_Dudley, American singer (b. 1928)
*December_27 - Alan_Bates, English actor (b. 1934)
*December_27 - Ivan Calderon, Puerto Rican baseball player (murdered) (b. 1962)
*December_29 - Earl_Hindman, American actor (lung cancer) (b. 1942)
*December_29 - Dinsdale_Landen, English actor (cancer) (b. 1932)
*December_29 - Bob_Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host (b. 1928)
*December_30 - David_Bale, South African-born activist (cancer) (b. 1941)
*December_30 - John_Gregory_Dunne, American writer (b. 1932)
*December_30 - Anita_Mui, Hong Kong singer (b. 1963)
*December_31 - Arthur_R._von_Hippel, German-born physicist (b. 1898)
== Nobel Prizes ==
* Physics - Alexei_Alexeevich_Abrikosov, Vitaly_Lazarevich_Ginzburg, Anthony_James_Leggett
* Chemistry - Peter_Agre, Roderick_MacKinnon
* Physiology or Medicine - Paul_Lauterbur, Sir Peter_Mansfield
* Literature - John_Maxwell_Coetzee
* Peace - Shirin_Ebadi
*Bank_of_Sweden_Prize_in_Economic_Sciences_in_Memory_of_Alfred_Nobel - Robert_F._Engle, Clive_W._J._Granger
== External links ==
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*2003 Year in Review - comprehensive listing of 2003 reviews and lists
*2003 Year-End Google Zeitgeist - Google's Yearly List of Major Events and Top Searches for 2003
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