About the day » Monday July 21, 2003Calender converter

• Levi Vince Steentjes
• Irene * Kuiper, Arnhem

• Aalbert van den Broek (87)
• Greta van Gardingen (53), Laren, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Geertruida Gerdina Jannink (87), Hof van Twente
• Cornelis van Rootselaar (91)
• Catharina Antonie Schumann (71), Geleen, Limburg, Nederland
• Doris Joan Waters (81), Keene, Cheshire Co., New Hampshire, Verenigde Staten
• Darcy Wingeter (83), Piracícaba, São Paulo, Brasil
• Cornelia Beijeman (93)
• Barbara Lynn Bergman (Doctor) (43), Aurora, Adams, Colorado, Verenigde Staten
• Aalbert van den Broek (87), Barneveld

• 1988 » KB, American rapper
• 1989 » Juno Temple, English actress
• 1989 » Marco Fabián, Mexican footballer
• 1990 » Chris Martin, English footballer
• 1990 » Erislandy Savón, Cuban amateur heavyweight boxer
• 1990 » Franck Elemba, Congolese athlete
• 1990 » Jason Roy, English cricketer
• 1991 » Sara Sampaio, Portuguese model
• 1992 » Rachael Flatt, American figure skater
• 1996 » Mikael Ingebrigtsen, Norwegian footballer

• 2000 » Marc Reisner, American environmentalist and author (b. 1948)
• 2002 » Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American author and illustrator (b. 1908)
• 2003 » John Davies, English-New Zealand runner and coach (b. 1938)
• 2004 » Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 2004 » Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (b. 1929)
• 2005 » Long John Baldry, English-Canadian singer and actor (b. 1941)
• 2005 » Lord Alfred Hayes, English-American wrestler and manager (b. 1928)
• 2006 » Mako Iwamatsu, Japanese-American actor and singer (b. 1933)
• 2006 » Ta Mok, Cambodian soldier and monk (b. 1926)
• 2007 » Dubravko Škiljan, Croatian linguist and academic (b. 1949)

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

1. Emma
2. Isa
3. Lisa
4. Maria
5. Anna
6. Anne
7. Lieke
8. Laura
9. Catharina-amalia
10. Nina
11. Femke
12. Julia
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.
• January 8 » Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board.
• January 11 » Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois's death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
• February 20 » During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the Station nightclub ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 200 others.
• July 22 » Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year-old son, and a bodyguard.
• September 6 » Mahmoud Abbas resigns from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister.
• November 12 » Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record (501 kilometres per hour (311mph)) for commercial railway systems, which remains the fastest for unmodified commercial rail vehicles.

The temperature on July 21, 2003 was between 11.5 °C and 28.1 °C and averaged 20.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (77%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.