2003

Millennium:
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2003 by topic:
News by month
Jan – Feb – Mar – Apr – May – Jun Jul – Aug – Sep – Oct – Nov – Dec
Arts
Architecture – Art – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television
Politics
Elections – Int'l leaders – Politics – State leaders – Sovereign states
Science and technology
Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Science – Spaceflight
Sports
Sport – Athletics (Track and Field) – Australian Football League – Baseball – Football (soccer) – Cricket – Ice Hockey – Motorsport – Tennis – Rugby league
By place
Algeria – Argentina – Australia – Canada – People's Republic of China – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – European Union – France – Germany – India – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Zimbabwe
Other topics
Awards – Games – Law – Religious leaders – Video gaming
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Works and introductions categories
Works – Introductions [[\|v]] · [[\|d]] · e

2003 (MMIII) was a common year that started on a Wednesday, according to the Gregorian calendar. It was the 2003rd year of the Common Era or the Anno Domini designation; the 3rd year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 4th of the 2000s decade.

2003 was designated as:

International Year of Freshwater.
European Disability Year.

January

January 8 – Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (b. 1925)
January 11 – Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (b. 1925)
January 11 – Richard Simmons, American actor (b. 1913)
January 12 – Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (b. 1912)
January 12 – Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (b. 1926)
January 12 – Maurice Gibb, British rock musician (Bee Gees) (b. 1949)
January 15 – Doris Fisher, American singer-songwriter (b. 1915)
January 17 – Richard Crenna, American actor (Marooned) (b. 1926)
January 20 – Al Hirschfeld, American cartoonist (b. 1903)
January 23 – Nell Carter, African-American singer and actress (b. 1948)
January 24 – Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (b. 1921)
January 26 – Valeriy Brumel, Russian athlete (b. 1942)
January 26 – Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (b. 1917)
January 27 – Henryk Jablonski, former President of Poland (b. 1909)
January 29 – Frank Moss, American politician (b. 1911)

February

February 1 – Michael P. Anderson, American astronaut (b. 1959)
February 1 – David M. Brown, American astronaut (b. 1956)
February 1 – Kalpana Chawla, American astronaut (b. 1961)
February 1 – Laurel Clark, American astronaut (b. 1961)
February 1 – Rick Husband, American astronaut (b. 1957)
February 1 – William McCool, American astronaut (b. 1961)
February 2 – Lou Harrison, American composer (b. 1917)
February 10 – Edgar de Evia, American photographer (b. 1910)
February 10 – Ron Ziegler, American White House Press Secretary (b. 1939)
February 10 – Curt Hennig, American wrestler (b. 1959)
February 19 – Johnny Paycheck, American singer (b. 1938)
February 20 – Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and writer (b. 1907)
February 20 – Orville Freeman, American politician (b. 1918)
February 27 – Fred Rogers, American children's television host (b. 1928)
February 28 – Fidel Sánchez Hernández, President of El Salvador (b. 1917)
February 28 – Rudolf Kingslake, British lens designer and engineer (b. 1903)

March

March 2 – Evgeniy Matveyev, Russian actor and film director (b. 1922)
March 2 – Hank Ballard, American musician (b. 1927)
March 9 – Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru (b. 1946)
March 12 – Zoran Đinđić, Serbian prime minister (b. 1952)
March 12 – Howard Fast, American novelist (b. 1914)
March 22 – Milton G. Henschel, American Jehovah's Witnesses leader (b. 1920)
March 26 – Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American politician (b. 1926)
March 29 – Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (b. 1956)
March 30 – Michael Jeter, American actor (b. 1952)