About the day » Friday May 9, 2003Calender converter

• Dulcie Sophia BERWICK (85), Prospect, Tasmania, Australia
• Elisa BURSENS (69), Bornem
• Augusta Louise (Loesje) Van Blijenburgh (83)
• Caradog (Creddy) PRICE (69), Meadowyrthe Nursing Home
• Elisabeth Dobbelaere (89), Hove
• Clara Maria van 't Pad (90), Nijmegen
• Anthony van Daalen (83), Oud-Vossemeer, Zeeland (Nederland)
• Filip Guido De Kock (37), Roeselare, België
• Cornelis Machielsen (90), Tilburg,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catherine Monette Barber (92), Oregon, Dane, Wisconsin, United States of America

• 1985 » Jake Long, American football player
• 1987 » Kevin Gameiro, French footballer
• 1987 » Scott Bolton, Australian rugby league player
• 1987 » Vitaliy Pushkar, Ukrainian race car driver
• 1988 » J. R. Fitzpatrick, Canadian race car driver
• 1989 » Ellen White, English footballer
• 1991 » Majlinda Kelmendi, Kosovar judoka
• 1992 » Dan Burn, English footballer
• 1996 » Grace Reid, Scottish diver
• 1996 » Saron Läänmäe, Estonian footballer

• 1998 » Alice Faye, American actress and singer (b. 1915)
• 1998 » Talat Mahmood, Indian singer and actor (b. 1924)
• 2003 » Russell B. Long, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1918)
• 2004 » Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen cleric and politician, 1st President of the Chechen Republic (b. 1951)
• 2004 » Alan King, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
• 2004 » Brenda Fassie, South African singer (b. 1964)
• 2007 » Dwight Wilson, Canadian soldier (b. 1901)
• 2008 » Baptiste Manzini, American football player (b. 1920)
• 2008 » Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1929)
• 2008 » Nuala O'Faolain, Irish journalist and producer (b. 1942)

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

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

• 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.
• January 25 » Invasion of Iraq: A group of people leave London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields, intending to prevent the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.
• March 5 » In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing.
• August 27 » Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005km) distant.
• October 18 » Bolivian gas conflict: Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
• 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.
• 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 May 9, 2003 was between 7.3 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.