2003

2003 (MMIII) was .
Births
January
January 18 - Bianca Bucur (Bianca Viviana Bucur), Romanian guitarist (Trupa Filmului) (d. 2023)
February
February 18 - Razvan Chiriac, Romanian bassist (Trupa Filmului) (d. 2023)
June
June 20 - Razvan Fanaca (Razvan Mrn), Romanian bassist (Trupa Sportului)
July
July 4 - Gabriel Grigore (Gbr. Grigore), Romanian guitarist (Trupa Muzicii Rock-The Jam Hendrix Experience)
July 15 - Nicoleta Tofaleanu, Romanian drummer (Trupa Filmului) (d. 2023)
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 Bnagladesh 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.
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
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 Dindic, 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
August 16 - Idi Amin, 3rd President of Uganda (b. 1928)
August 19 - Sergio 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 Izetbegovic, 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
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)