2003
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| Millennium: | 3rd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 20th century – 21st century – 22nd century |
| Decades: | 1970s 1980s 1990s – 2000s – 2010s 2020s 2030s |
| Years: | 2000 2001 2002 – 2003 – 2004 2005 2006 |
Births
January
- January 12 - Farah Jefry, Saudi footballer
Events
- January 1 – Pascal Couchepin becomes President of the Confederation in Switzerland.
- February 1 – Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed during re-entry. All seven astronauts on board died.
- February 4 the Hindu minority of Bangladesh declare the sovereign state of Bangabhumi, recognised by UNPO.
- March 20 – The US-led invasion of Iraq begins.
- May 1 – US President George W. Bush announced the end of the invasion of Iraq.
- July 10 – Wikibooks, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, was created.
- October 30 – Wicked has its first show at the Gershwin Theatre in Broadway.
- October 31 – Mahathir Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia after 22 years in power.
Nobel prize winners
- Chemistry – Peter Agre
- Chemistry – Roderick MacKinnon
- Economics – Robert F. Engle III
- Economics – Clive W.J. Granger
- Literature – J. M. Coetzee
- Medicine – Paul C. Lauterbur
- Medicine – Sir Peter Mansfield
- Peace – Shirin Ebadi
- Physics – Alexei A. Abrikosov
- Physics – Vitaly L. Ginzburg
- Physics – Anthony J. Leggett
Deaths
January
- January 12 – Maurice Gibb, British musician (Bee Gees) (b. 1949)
- January 12 – Leopoldo Galtieri, 44th President of Argentina (b. 1926)
- January 17 – Richard Crenna, American actor (b. 1926)
- January 20 – Al Hirschfeld, American cartoonist (b. 1903)
February
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- February 1 – Crew of Space Shuttle Columbia: Rick D. Husband, William C. McCool, Michael P. Anderson, Ilan Ramon, Kalpana Chawla, David M. Brown, Laurel Clark
- February 14 – Dolly the Sheep, cloned mammal (b. 1996)
- February 27 – Fred Rogers, American children's television host (b. 1928)
March
- March 2 – Hank Ballard, American R&B recording artist; singer and songwriter (b. 1927)
- March 8 – Adam Faith, English singer, actor and financial journalist (b. 1940)
- March 12 – Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1952)
April
- April 21 – Nina Simone, American singer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1933)
May
- May 14 – Wendy Hiller, British actress (b. 1912)
- May 14 – Robert Stack, American actor (b. 1919)
- May 15 – June Carter Cash, American singer, songwriter and actress (b. 1929)
- January 28 – Ilya Prigogine, Belgian chemist (b. 1917)
June
- June 12 – Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
- June 21 – Piet Dankert, 13th President of the European Parliament (b. 1934)
- June 26 – Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator (b. 1902)
- June 29 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
July
- July 4 – Barry White, American singer (b. 1944)
- July 16 – Celia Cruz, Cuban-American singer (b. 1925)
- July 25 – John Schlesinger, English movie director (b. 1926)
- July 27 – Bob Hope, American comedian, actor, singer and dancer (b. 1903)
August
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- August 16 – Idi Amin, 3rd President of Uganda (b. 1925)
- August 19 – Sérgio Vieira de Mello, East Timor United Nations diplomat (b. 1948)
- August 30 – Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)
September
- September 11 – John Ritter, American actor (b. 1948)
- September 12 – Johnny Cash, American singer and guitarist (b. 1932)
- September 26 – Shawn Lane, American musician (b. 1963)
- September 28 – Elia Kazan, American film and theatre director (b. 1909)
October
- October 13 – Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist (b. 1918)
- October 14 – Moktar Ould Daddah, 1st President of Mauritania (b. 1924)
- October 19 – Alija Izetbegović, 1st and 4th Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (b. 1925)
November
- November 10 – Canaan Banana, 1st President of Zimbabwe (b. 1936)
- November 12 – Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976)
- November 12 – Penny Singleton, American actress (b. 1908)
- November 22 – Mario Beccaria, Italian politician (b. 1920)
- November 24 – Snowflake the Gorilla, Western lowland gorilla (b. 1964)
December
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- December 12 – Heydar Aliyev, 3rd President of Azerbaijan (b. 1923)
- December 12 – Keiko the Killer Whale, male orca (killer whale) (b. 1976)
- December 23 – Kriangsak Chomanan, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1917)
2003 Media
Clockwise:* * Space Shuttle Columbia disaster * SARS * MySpace * Protests against the Iraq War * 2003 European heatwave * 2003 Bam earthquake * Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse * Iraq War
