About the day » Wednesday May 7, 2003Calender converter

• Noëlle Michil, Utrecht († 2003)

• Aaltje Post (70), Erica, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Arie KAPPETIJN (81), Den Haag
• Catharina Johanna TEDING VAN BERKHOUT (91)
• Anna Augusta Maria van Iersel (90), Loon op Zand
• Antoinette Vitale (93), Burlington County, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Abraham van Dam (86)
• Celia Graaf de (92), Kampen
• Byrtle Bernice Fowler (97), Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten
• Ad Mahieu (73)
• Blanca Celina Anna Maria 'Blanche' BOODTS (92), Berchem (Antwerpen), 2600, Antwerpen, Belgique

• 1987 » Asami Konno, Japanese singer
• 1987 » Mark Reynolds, Scottish footballer
• 1987 » Michael Maidens, English footballer († 2007)
• 1988 » Eino Puri, Estonian footballer
• 1988 » Sander Puri, Estonian footballer
• 1989 » Earl Thomas, American football player
• 1995 » Seko Fofana, French born Ivorian international footballer
• 1997 » Daria Kasatkina, Russian tennis player
• 1998 » Jesse Puljujärvi, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1998 » Maryna Piddubna, Ukrainian Paralympic swimmer

• 2000 » Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American captain, actor, and producer (b. 1909)
• 2001 » Jacques de Bourbon-Busset, French author and politician (b. 1912)
• 2004 » Waldemar Milewicz, Polish journalist (b. 1956)
• 2005 » Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1980)
• 2005 » Peter Rodino, American captain and politician (b. 1909)
• 2005 » Tristan Egolf, American author and activist (b. 1971)
• 2006 » Joan C. Edwards, American singer and philanthropist (b. 1918)
• 2006 » Richard Carleton, Australian journalist (b. 1943)
• 2007 » Diego Corrales, American boxer (b. 1977)
• 2007 » Isabella Blow, English magazine editor (b. 1958)

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.
• March 1 » Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
• March 1 » The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
• August 29 » Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
• October 26 » The Cedar Fire, the third-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000km), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.
• 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 » UTAGE Flight 141, a Boeing 727-223, crashes at the Cotonou Airport in Benin, killing 141 people.

The temperature on May 7, 2003 was between 2.3 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.