About the day » Saturday July 19, 2003Calender converter

• Boris Williame († 2003)
• Jubei Xavier Treftz, Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States

• Christina Johanna Keereweer (88), Rotterdam
• Dylio Penedo (90)
• Anna Adelheid Maria Eikens (69), Zwartemeer, Drenthe, Nederland
• Emma Maria Catharina Steegmans (83), Hasselt, België
• Ella van der Helm (80)
• Elisabeth Jacoba Maria Arts (81), Heerlen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Bintje Gerhardus Borger (83), Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Avis Jane Rosema (80), Hudsonville (Ottawa), Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Bintje Borger (83), Drachten
• Anna Pietertje TIELEMAN (76), Zwijndrecht, ZH, Nederland

• 1988 » Jakub Kovář, Czech ice hockey player
• 1988 » Kevin Großkreutz, German footballer
• 1988 » Shane Dawson, American comedian and actor
• 1989 » Sam McKendry, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player
• 1991 » Eray İşcan, Turkish footballer
• 1992 » Jake Nicholson, English footballer
• 1994 » Christian Welch, Australian rugby league player
• 1996 » Paul Momirovski, Australian rugby league player
• 1998 » Erin Cuthbert, footballer
• 1998 » Ronaldo Vieira, Bissau-Guinean footballer

• 2002 » Alan Lomax, American historian, scholar, and activist (b. 1915)
• 2002 » Dave Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1952)
• 2003 » Bill Bright, American evangelist and author, founded the Campus Crusade for Christ (b. 1921)
• 2003 » Pierre Graber, Swiss politician, President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1908)
• 2004 » Francis A. Marzen, American priest and journalist (b. 1924)
• 2004 » J. Gordon Edwards, American entomologist, mountaineer, and DDT advocate (b. 1919)
• 2004 » Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor (b. 1902)
• 2004 » Zenkō Suzuki, Japanese politician, 70th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)
• 2005 » Edward Bunker, American author and screenwriter (b. 1933)
• 2006 » Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)

1. Thomas
2. Daan
3. Lucas
4. Max
5. Ruben
6. Lars
7. Sem
8. Mike
9. Jesse
10. Jan
11. Sam
12. Remco
13. Tom
14. Martijn
15. Bram
16. Johannes

1. Emma
2. Isa
3. Maria
4. Lisa
5. Anna
6. Lieke
7. Anne
8. Laura
9. Catharina-amalia
10. Nina
11. Julia
12. Femke
13. Iris
14. Sanne
15. Lotte
16. Amber

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.2 million citizens.
• May 28 » Peter Hollingworth resigns as Governor-General of Australia following criticism of his handling of child sexual abuse allegations during his tenure as Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane.
• August 22 » Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
• October 14 » The Steve Bartman Incident takes place at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois.
• November 12 » Iraq War: In Nasiriyah, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
• November 18 » The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules 4–3 in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and gives the state legislature 180 days to change the law making Massachusetts the first state in the United States to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples.
• December 25 » The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express spacecraft on December 19, stops transmitting shortly before its scheduled landing.

The temperature on July 19, 2003 was between 12.8 °C and 31.1 °C and averaged 23.6 °C. There was 14.2 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.