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**2003**
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**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 , the 3rd year of the , and the 4th year of the decade.

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2003 was designated the International Year of the Fresh water.

In 2003, a United States-led coalition invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War.

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## Events

### January

* January 5 – Tel Aviv central bus station: Two Palestinian suicide bombers attack a neighborhood in Tel Aviv, killing at least 23 people and injuring 103.
* January 8 – Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashed into a hangar upon takeoff in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 passengers and crew.
* January 10 – North Korea announces its withdrawal from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
* January 22
	+ The last signal from NASA's *Pioneer 10* spacecraft is received, some 12.2 billion kilometers (7.6 billion mi) from Earth.
* January 29 – Riots break out in Phnom Penh, Cambodia targeting Thai nationals after false reports that a Thai actress made comments about a temple. Thailand severs diplomatic relations with Cambodia in response.
* January 30 – Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage, becoming the second country in the world to do so.

### February

* February 1 – At the conclusion of the *STS-107* mission, the Space Shuttle *Columbia* disintegrates during reentry over Texas, killing all 7 astronauts on board.
* 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.
* February 15 – Millions of people worldwide take part in massive anti-war protests before the United States and its allies invade Iraq.
* February 20 – The Station nightclub fire in West Warwick, Rhode Island kills 100 people and injures 230.
* February 26 – The War in Darfur begins after rebel groups rise up against the Sudanese government.
* 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.

### March

* March 8 – Malta approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
* March 12
	+ Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić is assassinated in Belgrade by a sniper.
	+ 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.
* March 20 – The Iraq War begins with the invasion of Iraq by the U.S. and allied forces.
* March 23 – Slovenia approves joining the European Union and NATO in a referendum.

### April

* April 9 – Iraq War: U.S. forces seize control of Baghdad, ending the regime of Saddam Hussein.
* April 12 – Hungary approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
* April 14 – The Human Genome Project is completed, with 99% of the human genome sequenced to 99.99% accuracy.
* 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.

### May

* May 1 – U.S President George W. Bush gives a speech announcing the end of major combat operations in the Iraq War.
* May 11
	+ Benvenuto Cellini's *Cellini Salt Cellar* table sculpture is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
	+ Lithuania approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
* May 12 – In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, over 30 people are killed in multiple bombings at a housing compound, mostly foreign expatriates.
* May 17 – Slovakia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
* May 19 – Insurgency in Aceh: The Indonesian military begins a massive military operation in Aceh against Free Aceh Movement separatists.
* May 21 – A 6.8 magnitude earthquake strikes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (*Extreme*). The shock generated a destructive tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea and left over a thousand people dead and 7,000 more injured.
* May 23 – Dewey, the first deer cloned by scientists at Texas A&M University, is born.
* May 28 – Prometea, the first horse cloned by Italian scientists, is born.

### June

* June 8 – Poland approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
* June 14 – The Czech Republic approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
* June 26 – The Supreme Court of the United States, in a landmark ruling, strikes down sodomy laws and rules them to be unconstitutional, effectively legalizing homosexual sodomy nationwide.
* 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.

### July

* July 1 – 500,000 people in Hong Kong march to protest Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23, which controversially redefines treason.
* July 5 – Severe acute respiratory syndrome is declared to be contained by the World Health Organization.
* July 6 – The 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message Cosmic Call 2 to 5 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.[*citation needed*]
* July 8 – Sudan Airways Flight 139, with 117 people on board, crashes in Sudan; the only survivor is a 2-year-old child.
* July 18 – The Convention on the Future of Europe finishes its work and proposes the first European Constitution.
* July 22 – Uday and Qusay Hussein, sons of Saddam Hussein, are killed by the U.S. military in a shootout at a house in Mosul.
* July 24 – The Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands, led by Australia, begins after ethnic violence engulfs the island country.

### August

* August 11
	+ The Second Liberian Civil War comes to end after President Charles Taylor resigns and flees the country.
	+ NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
* August 25 – The Spitzer Space Telescope is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
* August 27
	+ Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in over 60,000 years.
	+ 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.

### September

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* September 3 – The Hubble Space Telescope starts the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field, making 800 exposures, until January 16, 2004.
* September 4 – Europe's busiest shopping centre, the Bull Ring in Birmingham, is officially opened.
* September 14 – Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
* September 15 – ELN rebels kidnap eight foreign tourists at Ciudad Perdida, Colombia, being freed 100 days later following negotiations with the Colombian government.
* September 20 – Latvia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
* September 27 – SMART-1, a European Space Agency satellite and Europe's first mission to the moon, is launched.

### October

* 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.
* October 15 – China launches Shenzhou 5, their first manned spaceflight.
* October 24 – The Concorde makes its last commercial flight, bringing the era of airliner supersonic travel to a close.

### November

* November 12 – A suicide bombing at an Italian military police headquarters in Nasiriyah, Iraq, kills 17 Italian military police officers and nine Iraqi civilians.
* November 18 – The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court declares in a landmark ruling that only opposite-sex couples having the right to marry is unconstitutional, paving the way for Massachusetts to become the first U.S. State to legalize same-sex marriage.
* November 23 – Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze resigns after widespread protests engulf the country following a disputed parliamentary election.

### December

* December 13 – Saddam Hussein, former President of Iraq, is captured in the small town of Ad-Dawr by the U.S. Army.
* December 19 – Libya agrees to eliminate all of its materials, equipment, and programs aimed at producing weapons of mass destruction.
* December 23 – The World Tourism Organization becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations.
* December 26 – A 6.6 magnitude earthquake shakes southeastern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (*Violent*), killing tens of thousands of people.

## Births

* January 6 – MattyBRaps, American rapper
* August 18 – Max Charles, American child actor
* August 20 – Prince Gabriel of Belgium
* August 28 – Quvenzhané Wallis, American child actress
* November 8 – Lady Louise Windsor, daughter of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Sophie, Countess of Wessex
* December 7 – Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands, daughter of Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and Queen Maxima

### January

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* January 11 – Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (b. 1925)
* January 12
	+ Leopoldo Galtieri, 44th President of Argentina (b. 1926)
	+ Maurice Gibb, Australian musician (*Bee Gees*) (b. 1949)
* January 17 – Richard Crenna, American actor (b. 1926)
* 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)
	+ Hugh Trevor-Roper, English historian (b. 1914)
* January 27 – Henryk Jabłoński, 5th President of the Polish People's Republic (b. 1909)

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### February

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* February 1
	+ 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 10 – Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
* February 20 – Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and writer (b. 1907)
* February 27
	+ Fred Rogers, American children's television host (b. 1928)
	+ Wolfgang Larrazábal, President of Venezuela (b. 1911)
* February 28 – Fidel Sánchez Hernández, 45th President of El Salvador (b. 1917)

### March

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* March 2 – Hank Ballard, American musician (b. 1927)
* March 9 – Bernard Dowiyogo, 2nd President of Nauru (b. 1946)
* March 12
	+ Zoran Đinđić, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1952)
	+ Howard Fast, American novelist (b. 1914)
* March 22 – Milton George Henschel, American Jehovah's Witnesses leader (b. 1920)
* March 26 – Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American politician (b. 1927)
* March 29 – Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (b. 1956)
* March 30 – Michael Jeter, American actor (b. 1952)

### April

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* April 1 – Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor (b. 1956)
* April 2 – Edwin Starr, American soul singer (b. 1942)
* April 9 – Jorge Oteiza, Spanish painter (b. 1908)
* April 17 – Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (b. 1930)
* April 20
	+ Bernard Katz, German-British biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
	+ Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
* April 21 – Nina Simone, American singer (b. 1933)

### May

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* May 11 – Noel Redding, English musician (b. 1946)
* May 12 – Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (b. 1933)
* May 14
	+ Wendy Hiller, English actress (b. 1912)
	+ Robert Stack, American actor (b. 1919)
* May 15
	+ June Carter Cash, American singer (b. 1929)
	+ 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 physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
	+ Martha Scott, American actress (b. 1912)

### June

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* June 10
	+ Donald Regan, American Treasury Secretary (b. 1918)
	+ Bernard Williams, English philosopher (b. 1929)
* June 12 – Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
* June 15
	+ Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor (b. 1911)
	+ Kaiser Matanzima, 1st President of Transkei (b. 1915)
* June 21 – Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924)
* June 22 – Vasil Bykaŭ, Belarusian novelist (b. 1924)
* June 26
	+ Denis Thatcher, British businessman, husband of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915)
	+ Strom Thurmond, American politician (b. 1902)
	+ Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1975)
* June 29 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
* June 30 – Buddy Hackett, American comedian and actor (b. 1924)

### July

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* July 1
	+ Herbie Mann, American jazz flautist (b. 1930)
	+ Nǃxau ǂToma, Namibian actor (b. 1944)
* July 4 – Barry White, American singer (b. 1944)
* July 6 – Buddy Ebsen, American actor (b. 1908)
* 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 16
	+ Celia Cruz, Cuban 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, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1964)
	+ Qusay Hussein, Iraqi politician, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1966)
* July 25 – John Schlesinger, English film director (b. 1926)
* July 27 – Bob Hope, English-American comedian and actor (b. 1903)
* July 30 – Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)

### August

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* August 1 – Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
* August 4 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
* August 9 – Gregory Hines, American dancer and actor (b. 1946)
* August 11 – Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1923)
* August 14 – Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)
* August 16 – Idi Amin, 3rd President of Uganda (b. c. 1923–28)
* August 19
	+ Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948)
	+ Carlos Roberto Reina, 60th President of Honduras (b. 1926)
* August 29 – Vladimír Vašíček, Czech painter (b. 1919)
* August 30 – Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)

### September

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* September 7 – Warren Zevon, American singer (b. 1947)
* September 8 – Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (b. 1902)
* September 9 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist (b. 1908)
* September 11
	+ 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 24 – Edward Said, Palestinian-American literary critic (b. 1935)
* September 25 – Franco Modigliani, Italian-American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
* September 26
	+ Robert Palmer, English singer (b. 1949)
	+ Shawn Lane, American musician (b. 1963)
* September 27 – Donald O'Connor, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1925)
* September 28
	+ Althea Gibson, American tennis player (b. 1927)
	+ Elia Kazan, Greek-American director (b. 1909)
* September 30 – Robert Kardashian, Armenian-American attorney and businessman (b. 1944)

### October

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* October 2 – Otto Günsche, German adjutant of Adolf Hitler (b. 1917)
* October 3 – William Steig, American cartoonist (b. 1907)
* October 5
	+ Timothy Treadwell, American environmentalist and filmmaker (b. 1957)
	+ Neil Postman, American educator, media theorist, and cultural critic (b. 1931)
* October 10 – Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
* October 13 – Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
* October 16
	+ László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)
	+ Stu Hart, Canadian wrestling promoter (b. 1915)
* October 19
	+ Alija Izetbegović, 1st President of Bosnia and Herzegovina (b. 1925)
	+ Michael Hegstrand American wrestler (b. 1957)
* October 20 – Jack Elam, American actor (b. 1918)
* October 21 – Elliott Smith, American musician (b. 1969)
* October 23 – Soong Mei-ling, Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1897)
* October 24 – Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish cross-country skier (b. 1925)
* October 27 – Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937)
* October 29
	+ Hal Clement, American writer (b. 1922)
	+ Franco Corelli, Italian opera tenor (b. 1921)

### November

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* November 6
	+ Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (b. 1919)
	+ Mike Lockwood, American wrestler (b. 1971)
* November 9 – Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
* November 10 – Canaan Banana, 1st President of Zimbabwe (b. 1936)
* November 12 – Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976)
* November 18 – 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 30 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1905)

### December

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* December 3 – David Hemmings, English actor (b. 1941)
* December 6
	+ Hans Hotter, German opera and *Lieder* bass-baritone singer (b. 1909)
	+ Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, 30th President of Guatemala (b. 1918)
* December 8 – Rubén González, Cuban pianist (Buena Vista Social Club) (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 27 – Alan Bates, English actor (b. 1934)
* December 30 – Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer (b. 1963)

## Nobel Prize winners

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* 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

## In fiction

Main article: Works of fiction set in 2003
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## 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