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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

2003 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2003 MMIII
Ab urbe condita	2756
Armenian calendar	1452 ?? ????
Assyrian calendar	6753
Baha'i calendar	159?160
Balinese saka calendar	1924?1925
Bengali calendar	1410
Berber calendar	2953
British Regnal year	51  Eliz. 2  ? 52  Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2547
Burmese calendar	1365
Byzantine calendar	7511?7512
Chinese calendar	壬午 年 (Water  Horse ) 4699 or 4639      ? to ? 癸未年 (Water  Goat ) 4700 or 4640
Coptic calendar	1719?1720
Discordian calendar	3169
Ethiopian calendar	1995?1996
Hebrew calendar	5763?5764
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2059?2060
- Shaka Samvat	1924?1925
- Kali Yuga	5103?5104
Holocene calendar	12003
Igbo calendar	1003?1004
Iranian calendar	1381?1382
Islamic calendar	1423?1424
Japanese calendar	Heisei 15 (平成１５年)
Javanese calendar	1935?1936
Juche calendar	92
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4336
Minguo calendar	ROC 92 民國92年
Nanakshahi calendar	535
Thai solar calendar	2546
Tibetan calendar	?水?年 (male Water- Horse ) 2129 or 1748 or 976      ? to ? ?水羊年 (female Water- Goat ) 2130 or 1749 or 977
Unix time	1041379200 ? 1072915199

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.

Births [ change | change source ]

January

• January 12 - Farah Jefry , Saudi footballer
• January 18 - Bianca Bucur (Bianca Viviana Bucur) , Romanian guitarist ( Trupa Filmului ) (d. 2023 )

February

• February 18 - R?zvan Chiriac , Romanian bassist ( Trupa Filmului ) (d. 2023 )

June

• June 20 - R?zvan Fanaca (R?zvan Mrn), Romanian bassist ( Trupa Sportului )
• June 30 - Petronela Costea , Romanian guitarist ( Trupa Sportului )

July

• July 4 - Gabriel Grigore (Gbr. Grigore), Romanian guitarist (Trupa Muzicii Rock-The Jam Hendrix Experience) (d. 2024)
• July 15 - Nicoleta Tof?leanu, Romanian drummer (Trupa Filmului) (d. 2023 )
• August 20 - Vlad Bu?il?, Romanian guitarist ( Trupa Muzicii Rock - Fecal Matter )

September

• September 1
  • Drago? Leonte , Romanian keyboardist & guitarist (Trupa Filmului) (d. 2023 )
• September 9 - Cristian Gabriel Dima, Romanian football player & bassist (Trupa Muzicii Rock- Fecal Matter )

November

• November 17 - Luca Raicu, Romanian keyboardist (Trupa Muzicii Rock-The Jam Hendrix Experience)

Events [ change | change source ]

• 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 .
• October 31 ? Mahathir Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia after 22 years in power.

Nobel prize winners [ change | change source ]

• 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 [ change | change source ]

January [ change | change source ]

• 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 [ change | change source ]

• 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 [ change | change source ]

• 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 đinđi? , Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1952 )

April [ change | change source ]

• April 21 ? Nina Simone , American singer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1933 )

May [ change | change source ]

• 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 [ change | change source ]

• 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 [ change | change source ]

• 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 [ change | change source ]

• August 16 ? Idi Amin , 3rd President of Uganda (b. 1925 )
• August 19 ? Sergio Vieira de Mello , East Timor United Nations diplomat (b. 1948 )
• August 30 ? Charles Bronson , American actor (b. 1921 )

September [ change | change source ]

• 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 [ change | change source ]

• October 13 ? Bertram Brockhouse , Canadian physicist (b. 1918 )
• October 14 ? Moktar Ould Daddah , 1st President of Mauritania (b. 1924 )
• October 19 ? Alija Izetbegovi? , 1st and 4th Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (b. 1925 )

November [ change | change source ]

• 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 [ change | change source ]

• 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 )