About the day » Sunday August 10, 2003Calender converter

• Auke de Jong (74)
• Adrianus Leendert Hubertus Walpot (79), Sint Philipsland gem. Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland NED
• Aristide Albert Paul DELEPLACE (69), Cambrai, 59122, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
• Anthony James Labarba (81), Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States
• Bessie Eliza Cook (89), Lawton (Van Buren, Michigan, USA)
• Beatriz Diaz Hernandez (75), San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, Verenigde Staten
• Alvin Lester Heetland (84), somewhere in SD
• Aagje de Ree (97), Fijnaart en Heijningen
• Antonius Hendricus van den Berg (87), Maassluis
• Annigje van Dijk (78)

• 1991 » Marcus Foligno, American-Canadian ice hockey player
• 1992 » Chanel Simmonds, South African tennis player
• 1992 » Go Ah-sung, South Korean actress
• 1992 » Oliver Rowland, English race car driver
• 1993 » Andre Drummond, American basketball player
• 1993 » Shin Hye-jeong, South Korean singer
• 1993 » Yuto Nakajima, Japanese actor, dancer, model, singer, and idol
• 1994 » Bernardo Silva, Portuguese footballer
• 1996 » Lauren Tait, Scottish netball player
• 1997 » Kylie Jenner, American television personality and model

• 1999 » Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Indian historian, scholar, and critic (b. 1899)
• 1999 » Jennifer Paterson, English chef and television presenter (b. 1928)
• 2000 » Gilbert Parkhouse, Welsh cricketer and rugby player (b. 1925)
• 2001 » Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
• 2002 » Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist and politician (b. 1926)
• 2002 » Michael Houser, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1962)
• 2007 » Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1925)
• 2007 » James E. Faust, American lawyer and religious leader (b. 1920)
• 2007 » Jean Rédélé, French race car driver and pilot, founded Alpine (b. 1922)
• 2007 » Tony Wilson, English journalist, producer, and manager, co-founded Factory Records (b. 1950)

• 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 » Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of the 75 passengers.
• February 4 » The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia adopts a new constitution, becoming a loose confederacy between Montenegro and Serbia.
• April 14 » U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the MSAchille Lauro in 1985.
• July 8 » Sudan Airways Flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan Airport during an emergency landing attempt, killing 116 of the 117 people on board.
• 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.
• December 7 » The Conservative Party of Canada is officially registered, following the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

The temperature on August 10, 2003 was between 16.3 °C and 30.4 °C and averaged 22.2 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.