About the day » Saturday March 29, 2003Calender converter

• Marie Elisabeth ZU WIED († 2003)
• Jaimy Joel Jan (Jaimy) Beekelaar

• Barbara Anna Wiggins (88)
• Cornelia Jozefa Antoinette Rurup (88), 's Gravenhage, den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anje Trijntje Havinga (83)
• Albert Baker Bloom (74)
• Aloysius Josephus Joannes Wynants (81), Turnhout, Antwerpen, Belgie
• Alice BOOT (99), Morrison Whiteside County Illinois U.S.A
• Anton Eugen Apponyi (88), Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
• Ad van Mook, Oosterhout
• Catharina Hoogeland (89), Limmen
• Adriana Ronner (75), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1988 » Esther Cremer, German runner
• 1988 » Jesús Molina, Mexican footballer
• 1989 » James Tomkins, English footballer
• 1990 » Carlos Peña, Mexican footballer
• 1990 » Lyle Taylor, English footballer
• 1990 » Teemu Pukki, Finnish footballer
• 1991 » Fabio Borini, Italian footballer
• 1991 » Irene, South Korean idol, actress and television host
• 1991 » N'Golo Kanté, French footballer
• 1993 » Thorgan Hazard, Belgian footballer

• 1999 » Gyula Zsengellér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1915)
• 1999 » Joe Williams, American jazz singer (b. 1918)
• 2001 » Helge Ingstad, Norwegian lawyer, academic, and explorer (b. 1899)
• 2001 » John Lewis, American pianist and composer (b. 1920)
• 2003 » Carlo Urbani, Italian physician and microbiologist (b. 1956)
• 2004 » Joel Feinberg, American philosopher and academic (b. 1926)
• 2004 » Lise de Baissac, Mauritian-born SOE agent, war hero (b. 1905)
• 2005 » Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet and author (b. 1919)
• 2006 » Salvador Elizondo, Mexican author and poet (b. 1932)
• 2007 » Larry L'Estrange, English rugby player and soldier (b. 1934)

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.
• January 16 » The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
• 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 13 » An article in Nature identifies the Ciampate del Diavolo as 350,000-year-old hominid footprints.
• June 10 » The Spirit rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.
• December 17 » The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend, Maxine Carr, is found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
• December 24 » The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50kg of explosives at 3:55p.m. inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station.

The temperature on March 29, 2003 was between 5.2 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.