2003

2003 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	2003; MMIII
Ab urbe condita	2756
Armenian calendar	1452; ԹՎ ՌՆԾԲ
Assyrian calendar	6753
Bahá'í 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	ཆུ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་; (male Water-Horse); 2129 or 1748 or 976; — to —; ཆུ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་; (female Water-Sheep); 2130 or 1749 or 977
Unix time	1041379200 – 1072915199

2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar. It was the 2003rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 3rd year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2000s decade.

Births

January 12 - Farah Jefry, Saudi footballer
February 20 - Olivia Rodrigo, American singer-songwriter and actress

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

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)
March 14 - Recep Tayyip Erdogan is sworn in as prime minsiter of Turkey.

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. 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)

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