About the day » Sunday April 27, 2003Calender converter

• Audrey Marceille Smitherman (83), Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas
• Cornelia Adriana Vreugdenhil (61), Usquert (Groningen)
• Dirkje Elisabeth Bloem (99), Terschelling
• Cristobal Edmundo Luna (72), San Marcos, Hays, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Dirk Klaver (87), Sexbierum
• Alice B Bos (82)
• Cora Louise Eisenhauer (86), Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
• Arthur W Pratt (94), New Iberia, Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United States of America
• Alysia Nicole Giesing (22)
• Anna Lim (83)

• 1989 » Lars Bender, German footballer
• 1989 » Sven Bender, German footballer
• 1990 » Trude Raad, Norwegian deaf track and field athlete
• 1991 » Eric Fukusaki, Peruvian singer
• 1991 » Isaac Cuenca, Spanish footballer
• 1991 » Lara Gut, Swiss skier
• 1992 » Keenan Allen, American football player
• 1994 » Corey Seager, American baseball player
• 1995 » Nick Kyrgios, Australian tennis player
• 1997 » Josh Onomah, English footballer

• 1998 » Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-American anthropologist and author (b. 1925)
• 1998 » John Bassett, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1915)
• 1999 » Al Hirt, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1922)
• 1999 » Cyril Washbrook, English cricketer (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Dale C. Thomson, Canadian historian, author, and academic (b. 1923)
• 2002 » George Alec Effinger, American author (b. 1947)
• 2002 » Ruth Handler, American inventor and businesswoman, created the Barbie doll (b. 1916)
• 2005 » Red Horner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1909)
• 2006 » Julia Thorne, American author (b. 1944)
• 2007 » Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927)

• 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.
• March 23 » Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the invasion of Iraq.
• August 27 » The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.
• October 18 » Bolivian gas conflict: Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
• December 13 » Iraq War: Operation Red Dawn: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit.
• 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.
• December 29 » The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.

The temperature on April 27, 2003 was between 9.3 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.