✦ History

Explore March 21, 2003 – April 6, 2003

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Events

Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Second Congo War 1998-08-02 - 2003-07-18
Second Chechen War 1999-08-26 - 2009-04-16
Second Intifada 2000-09-28 - 2005-02-08
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30
2002–2004 SARS outbreak 2002-11 - 2004-05
War in Darfur 2003-02-26 - 2020-08-31
Iraq War 2003-03-20 - 2011-12-18
Battle of Basra (2003) 2003-03-21 - 2003-04-06
Battle of Umm Qasr 2003-03-21 - 2003-03-25
Battle of Nasiriyah 2003-03-23 - 2003-03-29
Battle of Karbala (2003) 2003-03-23 - 2003-04-06
Battle of Najaf (2003) 2003-03-24 - 2003-04-04
Operation Northern Delay 2003-03-26 - 2003-03-26
Battle of Baghdad (2003) 2003-04-03 - 2003-04-12

People

Vladimir Putin age 50
President - Russia
George W. Bush age 56
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 76
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 76
President - Cuba
Saddam Hussein age 65
President - Iraq
Ali Khamenei age 63
Supreme Leader - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 70
President - France
Bashar al-Assad age 37
President - Syria
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 57
President - Brazil
Hosni Mubarak age 74
President - Egypt
Akihito age 69
Emperor - Japan
Hu Jintao age 60
President - People's Republic of China
Mohammad Khatami age 59
President - Iran
Albert II of Belgium age 68
King - Belgium
Johannes Rau age 72
President - Germany
Vicente Fox age 60
President - Mexico
Chen Shui-bian age 52
President - Republic of China
Trần Đức Lương age 65
President - Vietnam
Alfonso Portillo age 51
President - Guatemala
Kim Jong-il age 62
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Kofi Annan age 64
Secretary-General - United Nations
Silvio Berlusconi age 66
Prime Minister - Italy
Tony Blair age 49
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Gerhard Schröder age 58
Chancellor - Germany
Ariel Sharon age 75
Prime Minister - Israel
Jiang Zemin age 76
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
Romano Prodi age 63
President - European Commission
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 63
Director-General - World Health Organization
Junichiro Koizumi age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Wen Jiabao age 60
Premier - People's Republic of China
Jacques Rogge age 60
President - International Olympic Committee
Bertie Ahern age 51
Taoiseach - Ireland
Bounnhang Vorachit age 65
Prime Minister - Laos
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 54
Prime Minister - France
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 56
Secretary General - NATO
Leszek Miller age 56
Prime Minister - Poland
Phan Văn Khải age 69
Prime Minister - Vietnam
James Wolfensohn age 69
President - World Bank
Atef Ebeid age 70
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hong Song-nam age 73
Premier - North Korea
Yu Shyi-kun age 54
Premier - Republic of China
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 62
Prime Minister - Syria
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 78
Prime Minister - India
William Rehnquist age 78
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Dick Cheney age 62
Vice President - United States
Zeng Qinghong age 63
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Richard Myers age 61
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Gordon Brown age 52
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Donald Rumsfeld age 70
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Colin Powell age 66
Secretary Of State - United States
John Ashcroft age 60
Attorney General - United States
David Blunkett age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John W. Snow age 63
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Eric Shinseki age 60
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Robert Mueller age 58
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Thabo Mbeki age 60
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 70
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 67
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Clarence Thomas age 54
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 64
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 66
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 82
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 63
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lien Chan age 66
Chairman - Kuomintang
Sandra Day O'Connor age 73
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Iain Duncan Smith age 48
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Gerry Adams age 54
President - Sinn Féin
Joe Biden age 60
Senate - United States
Hillary Clinton age 55
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 59
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 78
Senate - United States
Mike Pence age 43
House of Representatives - United States
John Lewis age 63
House of Representatives - United States
John Paul II age 82
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 48
President - Venezuela
Alexander Lukashenko age 48
President - Belarus
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 75
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 79
President - Zimbabwe
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 65
King - Spain
Pervez Musharraf age 59
President - Pakistan
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 62
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 41
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 62
Queen - Denmark
Harald V of Norway age 66
King - Norway
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 66
President - Algeria
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 39
King - Morocco
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 56
King - Sweden
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 71
President - India
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 65
Queen - Netherlands
Eduard Shevardnadze age 75
President - Georgia
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 56
President - Indonesia
Tarja Halonen age 59
President - Finland
Islam Karimov age 65
President - Uzbekistan
Paul Kagame age 45
President - Rwanda
Omar al-Bashir age 59
President - Sudan
Heydar Aliyev age 79
President - Azerbaijan
Norodom Sihanouk age 80
King - Cambodia
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 62
Sultan - Oman
Emomali Rahmon age 50
President - Tajikistan
Saparmurat Niyazov age 63
President - Turkmenistan
Yoweri Museveni age 58
President - Uganda
Leonid Kuchma age 64
President - Ukraine
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 55
President - Philippines
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 66
President - Tunisia
Václav Klaus age 61
President - Czech Republic
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 56
President - Yemen
Roh Moo-hyun age 56
President - South Korea
José Eduardo dos Santos age 60
President - Angola
Idriss Déby age 50
President - Chad
Joseph Kabila age 31
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mswati III age 34
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 70
President - Cameroon
Teodoro Obiang age 60
President - Equatorial Guinea
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 82
President - Italy
Hamad II of Bahrain age 53
King - Bahrain
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 59
President - Republic of the Congo
Aleksander Kwaśniewski age 48
President - Poland
Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 47
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 61
President - Turkey
Robert Kocharyan age 48
President - Armenia
Laurent Gbagbo age 57
President - Ivory Coast
Stjepan Mesić age 68
President - Croatia
Letsie III of Lesotho age 39
King - Lesotho
Isaias Afwerki age 57
President - Eritrea
Filip Vujanović age 48
President - Montenegro
Ion Iliescu age 73
President - Romania
Olusegun Obasanjo age 66
President - Nigeria
Yahya Jammeh age 37
President - The Gambia
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 59
President - Iceland
Mary McAleese age 51
President - Ireland
Blaise Compaoré age 52
President - Burkina Faso
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 57
President - Sri Lanka
Georgi Parvanov age 45
President - Bulgaria
Mwai Kibaki age 71
President - Kenya
John Kufuor age 64
President - Ghana
Janez Drnovšek age 52
President - Slovenia
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 79
Prince - Monaco
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 51
Emir - Qatar
Mathieu Kérékou age 69
President - Benin
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 55
President - Djibouti
Arnold Rüütel age 74
President - Estonia
Moshe Katsav age 57
President - Israel
Ibrahim Rugova age 58
President - Kosovo
Amadou Toumani Touré age 54
President - Mali
Xanana Gusmão age 56
President - Timor-Leste
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 47
King - Bhutan
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 50
President - Colombia
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 65
President - Latvia
Joaquim Chissano age 63
President - Mozambique
Sam Nujoma age 73
President - Namibia
Abdoulaye Wade age 76
President - Senegal
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 84
President - United Arab Emirates
Thomas Klestil age 70
President - Austria
Tassos Papadopoulos age 69
President - Cyprus
Askar Akayev age 58
President - Kyrgyzstan
Festus Mogae age 63
President - Botswana
Charles Taylor age 55
President - Liberia
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 65
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 67
President - Togo
Alfred Moisiu age 73
President - Albania
François Bozizé age 56
President - Central African Republic
Than Shwe age 70
President - Myanmar
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 78
President - Ethiopia
Lansana Conté age 68
President - Guinea
Vladimir Voronin age 61
President - Moldova
Jorge Sampaio age 63
President - Portugal
Eduardo Duhalde age 61
President - Argentina
Ricardo Lagos age 65
President - Chile
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos age 76
President - Greece
Levy Mwanawasa age 54
President - Zambia
Jean-Bertrand Aristide age 49
President - Haiti
Ferenc Mádl age 72
President - Hungary
Alejandro Toledo age 58
President - Peru
Iajuddin Ahmed age 72
President - Bangladesh
Émile Lahoud age 67
President - Lebanon
Marc Ravalomanana age 53
President - Madagascar
Benjamin Mkapa age 64
President - Tanzania
Mamadou Tandja age 64
President - Niger
S. R. Nathan age 78
President - Singapore
Azali Assoumani age 44
President - Comoros
Boris Trajkovski age 46
President - North Macedonia
Pedro Pires age 68
President - Cape Verde
Rolandas Paksas age 46
President - Lithuania
Ronald Venetiaan age 66
President - Suriname
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 47
President - Palau
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 76
Emir - Kuwait
Rudolf Schuster age 69
President - Slovakia
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez age 75
President - Uruguay
Mireya Moscoso age 56
President - Panama
Bharrat Jagdeo age 39
President - Guyana
Pascal Couchepin age 61
President - Switzerland
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 84
King - Tonga
Josefa Iloilo age 82
President - Fiji
Bakili Muluzi age 60
President - Malawi
France-Albert René age 67
President - Seychelles
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 71
President - Sierra Leone
Fradique de Menezes age 61
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
George Maxwell Richards age 71
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Pierre Buyoya age 53
President - Burundi
Guido de Marco age 71
President - Malta